Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:00 am
Casper College hosts environmental workshop
CASPER - Casper College will host an environmental education workshop next month for teachers, mentors and tutors, according to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
The workshop will begin at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 7, and end at noon on Sunday, Nov. 9.
The environmental education workshop will offer teacher certification credit and will feature a joint program of study developed by Project WILD, Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) and Project Learning Tree.
The three courses - PLT, WET and WILD - are resource and environmental education curricula appropriate for K-12 education, and instructors from all disciplines are welcome to attend, according to Lucy Wold with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
For more information contact Evert Brown at Casper College by phone at 268-2407, or by e-mail at: ebrown@caspercollege.edu.
Jackson pub lands 3 medals for brews
JACKSON (AP) - An international panel of 127 brewing experts has awarded three medals to Snake River Brewing Co. in Jackson.
Judges at the Great American Beer Festival last weekend in Denver gave a gold medal to the brewery's Rolling Thunder Dortmunder and bronze medals to Guido's Kolnerbrau and OB-1.
The three concoctions were up against almost 3,000 other entries from 472 breweries nationwide. Judges awarded medals in 75 categories.
Snake River head brewer Cory Buenning said the recognition shows that the Jackson Hole has world-class beers.
5 percent of registered voters have voted
CHEYENNE (AP) - The Wyoming Secretary of State's Office says more than 12,300 people have cast absentee ballots so far in the general election.
That's about 5.3 percent of the state's roughly 233,000 registered voters. Absentee voting began Sept. 25 and continues through Nov. 3, the day before Election Day.
Officials in the state's most populous counties say absentee voting has been typical of a presidential election year, and possibly a little heavier than 2004.
Laramie County Clerk Debbye Lathrop says about 2,650 people have cast absentee ballots in her county so far. She says absentee voting has been busy at the county's absentee polling place.
Chris Lindsey, the deputy county clerk for elections in Natrona County, says nearly 1,140 people have already voted absentee in Natrona County.
Plan calls for additional cell service in Yellowstone
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - The new wireless communications plan for Yellowstone National Park would bring additional cellular service to park users and would leave the door open for placing webcams in the back country.
Critics say the plan will destroy solitude for the sake of technology.
Bill Boteler is with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. He says Yellowstone now aspires to be an amusement park. He says people don't go into the backcountry to be surrounded by cell phone towers and gadgets.
Park spokesman Al Nash says Yellowstone is trying to balance visitor demands for solitude with the connectivity people have come to expect in daily life.
The communications plan will be up for debate through Oct. 31, when the public comment period closes.