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THE WEATHER OUTSIDE...: Members of the Worland Middle School Choir try to stay warm as the perform during the annual Christmas concert Tuesday night. From left are Morgan Muller, Samantha Sanchez, Randi Townsend, Mikaylynn Salinas and Madison Ramos.


City installs new stop signs

By Jeanette Johnson
Staff Writer

WORLAND — It didn’t take long for the city crew to react to approval by the Worland City Council to install stop signs on either side of Big Horn Avenue. The council made the unanimous decision during the regular Monday night meeting.

By Tuesday, Jeff Taylor and Ruben Garcia had already rounded up the equipment and headed for four intersections along Robertson Avenue and the corners on Coburn and South 12th Street.

Armed with shovels, level, poles and a mixture of cement, the two set to work doing the preparation work before the signs can be attached, signaling the motorists they have to stop for north and south traffic at those particular corners.

The decision was made following several years of inspection and continuing concerns over traffic safety issues. Councilman Jerry Alexander was a strong proponent for the project.

Following Monday night’s decision, Mayor Sonny Shearer turned to Alexander and said, “You got your signs.” Alexander responded with a wide smile and said, “It took long enough!”

At the site, Taylor said the weather has been a big factor in allowing the crew to get the work done at this time of the year. The unusually warm temperatures and lack of snow aided the project.

“Once the frost sets in, we can’t dig,” he said.

So the project is well ahead of the time line, thanks to the mild temperatures in a Wyoming December.

Taylor explained the holes have to be dug deep enough to support the poles that are inserted two or three feet before the cement is poured. Once the concrete sets up, the remainder of the pole and the familiar red and white octagonal signs are screwed into place.

Taylor expects the signs to be up by next week if not before.


Hartman seeks change in youth drinking laws

CHEYENNE (AP) — Gov. Dave Freudenthal’s adviser on juvenile justice, Gary Hartman, says Wyoming needs to change its underage drinking law and keep better track of youths who get in trouble.

Hartman planned to update the Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee on Thursday on the progress Wyoming is making toward juvenile justice reform. The committee was scheduled to meet in Casper.

In the 2008 legislative session, the committee helped to pass a law that encourages communities to set up their own programs for juveniles who get in trouble. A goal was to provide alternatives to jail for such youths.

However, the committee isn’t planning to sponsor any juvenile justice bills for this winter’s legislative session, according to Rep. Ed Buchanan, R-Torrington and a committee co-chairman.

Currently in Wyoming, youths under 18 who are caught drinking are charged as adults. Hartman said they ought to be charged as juveniles. That way, their cases would be heard in juvenile court, where a juvenile judge would be more likely to arrange help for substance abuse or other problems they might have — and less likely to lock youths up.

Hartman said he disagrees with jailing juveniles for drinking, but senses prosecutors like having the option of trying to scare kids straight.

“There’s still a lot of belief out there that some time in jail is good for a kid,” he said. “That’s just totally contrary to any of the evidence that I’ve seen.”

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DAILY NEWS photo by Susan Lockhart
INCOMING AND OUTGOING WASHAKIE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION BOARD: Washakie Development Association Board members are, in the front row, from left, Todd Scheuerman (Scheuerman Hospitality), WDA president; Le Ann Baker, WDA executive director; Becky Dooley (RT Communications), retiring director; Ivy Sinn, new director; Brent Miller (Security State Bank), retiring director and WDA vice president. In the back row, from left, are Ron Harvey, incoming as the Washakie County Commissioner’s voting member; Bill Glanz, retiring as the county commissioner’s voting member; Kent Lamm (Pinnacle Bank), new director; Tom McKinnon (McKinnon Flooring), new director; Martha Lawley, retiring director; and Matt Schneider (Security State Bank) new director. Scheuerman and Baker thanked the retiring WDA directors and welcomed the new directors. The elections took place at the WDA Annual Meeting earlier this fall.


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THIS MONTH IN
WYOMING HISTORY

December
- Seven buildings burn in downtown Cody (Dec. 1, 1907)

- Drillers strike oil gusher at Lovell (Dec. 3, 1924)

- First homestead entry filed in Wyoming (Dec. 5, 1870)

- Japanese balloon bomb explodes near Thermopolis (Dec. 5, 1944)

- Bills for admission of Idaho and Wyoming as states introduced in U.S. Senate (Dec. 9, 1889)

- Cheyenne approved as state capital (Dec. 10, 1869)

- Governor John A. Campbell signs Suffrage Bill (Dec. 10, 1869)

- Prisoners transferred from Laramie to new Rawlins penitentiary (Dec. 13, 1901)

- Carbon, Albany counties created (Dec. 16, 1868)

- Fetterman fight, 82 men killed by Indians near Fort Phil Kearny (Dec. 21, 1866)

- Sherman Tunnel on UP railroad completed (Dec. 22, 1900)

- Daily mail and passenger service began over Cheyenne and Northern Railroad (Dec. 22, 1890)

- Gebo mine closed (Dec. 27, 1909)

- Meeting held to establish State fair at Douglas (Dec. 27, 1904)

- Two Worland banks merge (Dec. 29, 1924)

- Camp Brown renamed Fort Washakie (Dec. 30, 1878)

 

 

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