DAVID MIRHADI Star-Tribune staff writer | Posted: Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:00 am
Two yellow Labrador retrievers left behind after the death of Civil Air Patrol member Patricia Larson have found new lives in sunny Southern California.
Larson was one of two Sheridan residents who died while aboard a Civil Air Patrol flight that was searching for a missing hiker last Aug. 20. The Sheridan Press reported in its Feb. 21 edition of a bittersweet ending for two dogs left without a master in the wake of the plane crash.
The dogs live in Palm Springs, Calif., with a schoolteacher and a businessman, the paper reported. The dogs were made adoptable by a Saratoga firm, Rescue Me Dogs.
Larson adopted "Lady" when she was a year old and pregnant with "Moose" nearly eight years ago.
"She really loved those dogs," friend Cathy Orr told the paper.
"They are two very, very special dogs, and I was delighted to be able to help," said Rescue Me Dogs employee Cheryl O'Leary told the paper.
It's snow joke to help get them out of a jam
Delcy J. Moulder of Rawlins presumably has seen many a Carbon County winter. It's almost a foregone conclusion that Interstate 80 will be closed for some part of each winter in Wyoming, most often between Rawlins and Laramie, or even to Cheyenne. This year has certainly been no exception.
In town, the pages of Carbon County's daily have been festooned with pictures of cars seemingly stuck forever in drifts, or a snowboarder taking a tumble on a slick sheet of ice.
So it was with apparent amazement and disbelief that Moulder discovered that one Rawlins business, Skyline Motors, has taken it upon itself to help out a snowbound town by offering free snow removal.
"Yeah, right, I thought, when it's so cold and windy, and piles of high snow, as Rawlins has had the most snow in years," she notes in a letter forwarded to The Whole Town's Talking.
So she called Skyline Motors' bluff. She phoned the business and asked them to shovel her driveway.
They arrived, shovels in tow.
"I was very impressed with their great enthusiasm that I cooked them a hot lunch next noon. …It's a true meaning of helping even if it's so cold outside and snowing and windy," she wrote. "Thanks from someone especially thankful."
From 'Our House' to Cody's
You've seen the guy hawk everything from diabetic testing supplies to hot oatmeal. With his bushy mustache and grandfatherly-like speech and spectacles, Wilford Brimley seems to be the grandpa straight out of central casting.
And now, the man who brought the '80s serial "Our House" is coming to Cody's house.
The Cody Enterprise reported in its Feb. 13 edition that Brimley, a part-time Greybull resident, would be leading the Stampede Parades this summer.
The paper notes that Brimley is an avid user of Cody's rec center.
"He said he'd love (to be involved)," Cody mayor Roger Sedam told the paper.
The theme of this year's July 3-4 parades is "We Built This City on Boots, Buckles and Broncs."
It's not rush hour, it's the witching hour
In towns across Wyoming, the state Department of Transportation has a nice obvious reminder that one day has ended and another has begun.
Streetlights suddenly blink a bright yellow. That's good when there's no one around, but in rush hour, even in Wyoming, it's a problem.
Three main intersections in Gillette blinked yellow during rush hour in Gillette, the Gillette News-Record reported in its Feb. 20 edition.
The problem? Apparently WYDOT's master clock couldn't tell time, the paper reported. That is, the master controller time clock locked up and switched the lights at 5 p.m. to midnight protocol, the paper reported.
Seems that a global-positioning system malfunctioned, making parts of the city resort to 1930s-era traffic cops.
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