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This year she took her horse Niko, and last year
she had Bud,a boarder’s horse.
As to the advantages of having a mounted pa-
trol officer in town, Byrd said at events like the
upcoming demolition derby mounted officers have
a significant height advantage and can see more
than officers on the ground. It also provides good
PR for the department, showing folks they are do-
ing things other than just routine patrol.
Of course she won’t be on the horse all the time,
though she added with a laugh, “that wouldn’t
bother me.” She noted they can maneuver through
alleyways a little easier on horseback, and ac-
knowledged having a horse would be useful in
finding fugitives hiding out in the county.
Byrd’s parents, when they lived here, had hors-
es. “I’ve pretty much grown up around horses,”
she said. After her parents divorced her father got
rid of the horses. At 13, she moved to Tennessee
and got back big into horses, starting with the
pleasure animals and then into rodeo with team
roping and breakaway.
Since she was 17, she’s been hauling and com-
peting throughout the years. She has 13 horses
including colts, broodmares and a stud. “Way too
many,” she said, laughing.

HSSP
if they are, we’ll select the right need to be renovated to meet the
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Though one of the vendors has

one,” Westby said.
Hypothetically, the state
could forge its own vision for
the park by buying out all four
vendors in the park and paying
a management company – like
Xanterra, which operates facili-
ties in the national parks – to
maintain facilities for the parks
department.
That solution, however, is un-
likely. Combined, all four facili-
ties have a combined appraised
value of roughly $10 million and,
even then, the facilities would
standards the parks department
is currently pursuing.
“$10 million is a lot of money,
if that’s even the dollar figure,
to go in front of the Legislature
and ask for,” said Westby. “Then
it’s the infrastructure improve-
ments – if we’re going to tear
something down and build up,
or just rebuild what we have.
There’s a large dollar figure at-
tached to that as well. I don’t
know what the governor’s office
or the legislative body perspec-
tive is on that.”
a potential buyer waiting in the
wings, Westby acknowledged
that any transaction has to be
handled carefully. The business-
es have been a visible part of the
Thermopolis business communi-
ty for years in many cases, and
several lawmakers warned that
a heavy hand was not something
they hoped to apply.
“There’s a lot of passion in
Hot Springs County,” said West-
by. “These companies have been
there for a really long time, and
we want to be very cognizant and

Council
on strategic ideas for accommodating what has Camp Postcard, noting it was very successful as an
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been lost from Shopko closings.
Kathy La Plante, Senior Program Officer and
Director of Coordinating Program Services, has
been working with the local Main Street board to
enhance what’s being done here.
The visit from Frey on July 9 will include a tour
of the historic downtown district, and Samelson
extended an invitation to council to join them. The
tour will begin at the Main Street office at 1 p.m.
Council member Bill Malloy said he heard high
praise at the recent Wyoming Association of Mu-
Holy hail stones nicipalities (WAM), for what the Main Street pro-
gram is doing here.
A substantial amount of property damage was done when a hail storm hit town Police Chief Julie Mathews spoke of the recent
Monday afternoon. The hail stones pictured came down near Lane 7 south of town.
officer and a child from the community were able to
attend. “I think we made a pretty good difference
in that child’s life,” Mathews said, and she wanted
to re-iterate the importance of the program. Camp
Postcard provides kids with few opportunities the
chance to attend several activities and demonstra-
tions at Casper Mountain, and Mathews said it is
a great self-esteem builder.
Director of Public Works Slagle said the chip
sealing has been advertised and he’s hoping for
bids on it. Planned areas include a double chip
seal on Amoretti from 14th to 12th, then from
14th to Ninth on the street between Broadway
and Arapahoe.

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The
will be okay. Kent Hessenthaler reported that any place
In watching the storm as it came on, Gordon where his corn was hit by the big hail, about

said it was coming right for Thermopolis from
the west but when it reached the intersection
of highways 120 and 170 it turned slightly to
the right, resulting in the area south of town
getting the brunt.
The round hailstones were estimated at
about 2.25-2.5 inches, but some may have ap-
peared larger because they were two or more
stones frozen together.
Churches
20-25 percent of the crop, was a total loss.
Much of the remainder is shredded though
he expects it will still come in, but may be a
few weeks late. Also impacting the corn, he
said, was the cooler spring that resulted in
of
Thermopolis
only 40-50 percent germination. Hessentha-
ler also noted he had five windows broken out
and the metal siding at his home looks like a
hammer was taken to it.

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