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8 The Sheridan Press, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Legislature on Tuesday CHEYENNE (AP) — Developments on the seventh day of the budget session of the Wyoming Legislature: BUDGET: The House gave preliminary approval to the general government appropriations bill. The Senate is will working through the bill on first reading. CLOSED ROADS: The House gave preliminary Legislative Roundup approval to a bill that would increase the fines for motorists who ignore road closures. ANIMAL ABUSE: The House gave preliminary approval to a bill that would make dog fighting and similar animal abuse a felony upon first conviction. GUN CONTROL: The House for the second time approved a bill that would prohibit state officials from trying to confiscate guns from law-abiding citizens during natural disasters or other emergencies. STREET GANGS: The House gave preliminary approval to a bill that would specify increased penalties for people who commit crimes as members of organized street gangs. ENCAMPMENT STUDY: A bill that would call on the state to study watersheds in the Encampment area before any proposed energy development there was sent to the House Appropriations Committee. GAME WARDENS: A bill that would allow state game wardens to enforce state littering laws received preliminary approval in the House. COURT SECURITY: The Senate placed a House bill that calls for increases in security at state courts on the general file for consideration. MENTOR HUNTING PROGRAM: The Senate gave final approval to a bill that would establish a mentor hunting program. T EAM U P W ITH U S & W ATCH Y OUR A DVERTISING W ORK F OR Y OU ! Beth Smith Advertising Manager County Fences Exhibit Open Breanna Fortman checks out images submitted for the “Fences of Sheridan County” photography exhibit with her grandparents Anne and Kent Chivers at a Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library reception Tuesday. The photographs are on display in the library’s Inner Circle through March 15. The Sheridan Press/Michael Sullivan House approves dogfighting felony CHEYENNE (AP) — Legislators are attempting to make dog- and cockfighting a felony in Wyoming after Gov. Dave Freudenthal said national media scrutinized the state for lax dog fighting penalties. The issue was raised when Atlanta Falcons’ quarterback Michael Vick was indicted on federal dogfighting charges. He was suspended indefinitely by the NFL, pleaded guilty this summer and has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison. The Wyoming House gave preliminary approval to the bill Tuesday. The bill would need two more approvals from the House before Sheri McHugh Advertising Consultant going to the Senate. Bill sponsor Rep. Rosie Berger, R-Big Horn, said passage of the bill would send a message to dog fighting offenders that Wyoming doesn’t want them here. ‘‘In my community this is an issue,’’ Berger said. ‘‘We just feel very good about this one.’’ If the bill passes, Wyoming would be among 48 states with felony animal fighting statutes. Wyoming law currently lists dog- and cockfighting as a high misdemeanor punishable by less than a year in jail and a $5,000 fine. The bill would increase the penalty to as much as two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Annalee Schott Advertising Consultant Advertising your business in the Sheridan Press is the most economical way to reach all of Sheridan County’s Consumers. In print and online we are your best investment. Contact the Sheridan Press Advertising Team Today. (307) 672-2431 Rosie Berger State Rep., R-Big Horn Josie Burton Advertising Consultant Around Wyoming Rawlins finding more volunteers for fire department RAWLINS (AP) — Rawlins Fire Chief Scott Hannum says a more aggressive recruiting effort to find volunteer firefighters is paying off. Hannum said the Rawlins Fire Department’s six-month training program should produce a four-person class in April. The fire department currently has about 25 volunteers. Hannum said he’d like to have 30 volunteer firefighters on the Rawlins Fire Department force by the end of the year. He says volunteer firefighters are essential to the department. DEQ groundwater cleanup continues in Powell POWELL (AP) — Efforts to clean up groundwater pollution caused by leaking underground fuel storage tanks in the area continue although progress has been made since work began nearly a decade ago. ‘‘We’ve got the bulk of the contamination in most of these places contained,’’ said Paul Wollenzien, manager of the Powell project for the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. But work continues at several sites in an effort to bring the groundwater up to EPA drinking water standards, he said. ‘‘A lot of these sites are just over the limit.’’ The project began in the late 1990s with 19 sites where underground contamination ‘‘plumes’’ were found through soil testing. The testing was spurred by complaints from residents who reported gasoline fumes in their homes in several Powell neighborhoods. Many of the sites were linked to underground storage tanks that already had been removed. DEQ officials were careful to specify that although plumes were found near some currently operating businesses, they were not linked to practices of those businesses. Wollenzien said clean up efforts are still under way at five of the 19 original contaminated sites. The clean up effort is paid for by funds generated by Wyoming’s fuel tax. Highway Patrol to graduate 16 CODY (AP) — The Wyoming Highway Patrol expects to fill 16 trooper vacancies around the state after graduating a new class of recruits this week. Graduation ceremonies for trooper certification training are planned this Friday in Cheyenne. To become a trooper, recruits need to pass written exams and oral interviews, as well as agility tests, psychological reviews and background checks. A physical also is required. The main requirement is 25 weeks of intensive training, including marksmanship and coursework on state laws. Three troopers are joining the force in Gillette and two each in Lander and Rawlins. One trooper each is going to work in Buffalo, Laramie, Douglas, Big Piney, Jackson, Wamsutter, Lusk, Farson and Lyman.
Youth B1 THE SHERIDAN Press Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Sessions meets life’s challenges with unshakable diligence Summit Award winner Miranda Sessions is a strong academic student who has worked diligently to prepare herself for life after high school. Sessions’ family moved to Sheridan from Gillette last August to follow the family’s business. Most seniors’ preparation for college usually doesn’t involve a change in high schools, but this has not shaken Sessions’ success as a student at Sheridan High School. ‘Harvey Birdman’ lands on the gaming console By David Thomas AP Tech Writer Miranda Sessions Summit Award Winner School guidance counselor Brenda White states: “Miranda has done a great job of making new friends and being involved in school activities and plans to play soccer this spring. “She is a very sweet young lady and a dedicated student. I have enjoyed getting to know her this year, and I know she will be successful after she leaves here.” Sessions’ initial challenge was to adapt to the way courses are offered at SHS. In Gillette, students work off a block schedule, which is four classes per day, compared to the seven classes per day at SHS. This proved to be more difficult than Sessions predicted, requiring much more homework than her old school; however, she still maintains a GPA of 3.9. Her favorite subjects in school prior to her senior year were human anatomy and physiology & health. Presently she is taking a pre-calculus algebra class at Sheridan College, which she enjoys the most. She has taken three years of Spanish, and although she reads it better than she writes it, she enjoys conversing with her uncle, who is fluent in the language, any chance she gets. Other classes this year include AP British literature, AP psychology, intro to pharmacy, and health occupations/Certified Nursing Assistant, which is a concurrent enrollment class at Sheridan College. Summit Award Culture has gone to the birds. Meet Harvey Birdman, cartoon star and video game newcomer. Once video games and cartoons were the exclusive domain of anyone too young to drink, or at least not mature enough to pursue more worthwhile adult activities. At least that was the stereotype. These days, with “The Simpsons” closing in on its 20th season and video games such as “Madden NFL” and “Halo” making the gaming console a fixture in the American family room, everyone seems to find time to kid around. So, it’s no wonder that these twin paragons of low culture find themselves teaming up time and time again to generate new entertainment properties. “Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law” stands out as one of the Our Mortgage Rates Are Super Low! Purchase or refinance real estate at these attractive rates 15 – Year Mortgages from 4.875% with an Annual Percentage Rate of 5.071% She will get her CNA certificate at the end of the semester. Mike Clift, instructor of AP British literature, states: “She came in very eager and willing to dive right into one of the more difficult classes and wasn’t the least bit afraid of it. “Typically there’s a substantial reading project over the summer prior to AP British literature. She is such a dedicated student that she completed the reading in a very short time.” Sessions appreciates Mr. Clift, saying, “I like the way he teaches and motivates me.” Sessions has been in National Honor Society the last three years and was in student council her freshman year. She states that she really enjoys the volunteer activities provided in these organizations, especially reading nights at the elementary schools. She serves as a peer counselor, which is an assistant to the guidance counselors. She is president of Laurels, a youth group in her LDS church, which teaches young women about lifetime activities. This group also tended a community garden weekly throughout the summers and helped at the local soup kitchen. Sessions was a soccer player in Gillette and plans on playing for Sheridan this spring. She has lettered in soccer all three years, as well as volleyball her freshman year. Hard work is no stranger to this senior. Sessions has held a job since she was about 15 years old, working approximately 15-20 hours/week. She states, “It makes me feel a little bit more independent to work and be able to make my own money.” Sessions will attend the University of Wyoming this fall and apply for the pharmacy program. She would like to work in the program as a pharmacy tech. She is the daughter of Steve and Heather Sessions. Academics for All is an all-volunteer group of individuals and donors who support academic excellence in Sheridan County School District 2. Members of the committee include: Jean Spiegelberg, Tempe Murphy, Bill Patton, Kay Pearson, Barbara Ziegler, Jeriann Jacobson, Bill Campbell, Dave DeBolt, Marilyn Pettit, Alison Ochs and Cam Forbes. more interesting examples of video games based on cartoons. Depending on how you look at it, this is either the future of interactive cartoon entertainment, or it’s simply a weird experiment that will soon fade from memory. The problem comes from the fact that the game works great as a cartoon. If you enjoy this “Adult Swim” regular on the Cartoon Network, complete with belowthe-belt, non sequitur and zany humor, then you can expect to laugh along with the game. There’s just something funny about watching a purple hippo in a suit and a safari hat trying to ignite a lighter with no thumbs. But what this cartoon is doing inside a game system is hard to figure. As funny as the performances and as true to the TV cartoon the visuals are, there isn’t much room left over for game play. 30 – Year Mortgages from 5.50% with an Annual Percentage Rate of 5.617% Adjustable Rate Mortgage holders may want to act now! Cows, magnets, and keeping warm • Area future scientists show their work at regional science fair By Frances K. Foster Staff reporter Cows and heifers are under a lot of pressure in the spring at calving time — barometric pressure that is. Holy Name School seventh-grader Nate Kane won the first-place award in zoology at the Northeast Regional Science Fair last Wednesday for tracking the effects of changing barometric pressure on the rate of calving on his family’s Angus ranch northeast of Sheridan. His two years of records for 2006- 2007 indicated that when the barometric pressure dropped by .05 inches of mercury or more, the rate of heifers’ calving increased 25 percent and the rate of cows’ calving increased 11 percent during March and April. During the calving months for both years, Kane recorded the barometric pressure from a barometer in his home twice daily, 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and then accompanied his father, David Kane, to check on how many heifers and cows had calved. Nate said his father told him several years ago that he thought he’d observed this increase, so Nate set out to scientifically verify whether it was accurate. “The results were what he (David Kane) expected,” Nate said. Sam Sanders, sixth-grader at Sheridan Junior High School, wanted to find out to what degree magnets are repelled — not touching — by each other. By Frances K. Foster Staff reporter Middle school pupils at Holy Name School of Sheridan received eight first-place awards in 14 project categories at the Northeast Regional Science Fair on Wednesday at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds. Sheridan Junior High School pupils received three first-place awards, and Tongue River Middle School received two. There was no first-place award in one category (computers). Eight middle and junior high schools from Sheridan, Campbell, and Weston counties contributed 121 projects created by 145 pupils for the fair. All first-, second-, and thirdplace winners are eligible for the Wyoming State Fair on March 9- 11 in Casper. Judges also chose honorablemention awards for some categories, but these will not be eligible for the state competition. Judges had the option of not awarding a first-, second-, or third-place if they felt no project met the criteria for that award. All pupils receiving awards Wednesday were presented with medals and $45 in cash. The monetary prizes were donated by K Bar K Enviroseal and First Interstate Bank, said Tongue River Middle School science teacher Tim Maze, who announced the winners. The following pupils are eligible for the state competition: Behavioral and Social Science • First — Hannah Garcia, Sheridan Junior High School, “Use Sheridan Junior High School sixth-grader Brittney Buckler discusses her science project with judges (from left) Dick Birkholz, Thayer Shafer, Mark Rogaczewski and Bob Giurgevich at the Northeast Regional Science Fair at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds last Wednesday. He constructed a round wood base with a large wood dowel attached to the center and then placed in varying order magnets and metal washers with holes in the middle — resembling very hard doughnuts — onto the dowel. When the poles of the magnets were arranged north to north or south to south, a gap of 1 to 1.5 centimeters remained between them even with washers weighing a total of 3,500 grams (about 7.6 pounds) on top of them. If aligned north to south or south to north, the magnets attracted — or touched each other. Sanders recorded the amount of space or lack of space between It or Lose It” • Second — Alanna Siler, SJHS, “Oh Busted” • Third — Antoinette Cudney, Holy Name, “Can You Remember Now?” • Honorable Mention — Carly Cottrell, Newcastle, “To Blink or Not to Blink” • Honorable Mention — Alexa Inchauspe, SJHS, “Battle of the Brains” Botany • First — Sarah Mockensturm, Holy Name, “Digging Deep” • Second — Brittany Buckler, SJHS, “They Move?” • Third — Barbara Griffin, Sage Valley Junior High of Gillette, “Smokin’ Beans” • Honorable Mention — Joshua Faass, Holy Name, “Elbow Room” • Honorable Mention — Adaline Ostler, TRMS, “Plants Under Light” Biochemistry • First — Noelle Golinvaux, Holy Name, “A Pain in the Neck” • Second — Nick Gill, SJHS, “Sweet Tart” • No third place was awarded. • Honorable Mention — Renee Merriman, Upton, “A Juicy Project” • Honorable Mention — Bailey Roberson, Upton, “DNA Sequences” Chemistry • First — Daniel Slipp, Holy Name, “Get the Lead Out!” • Second — Courtlynn Barba, Newcastle, “How Safe is Your Closet?” • Third — Katie Rotellini, SJHS, “Irony Cereal” • Honorable Mention — Faith Carson, Recluse, “Sulfuric Acid, Friend of Foe?” Computers • No first place awarded. • Second — Aaron Campbell, SJHS, “How Fast is Your Computer?” • No third place awarded. Earth and Space Science the magnets aligned in different directions and with different weights on them and presented them in a spreadsheet for his display. He received a first-place award in the physics category. Sarah Maze likes to read in bed, but in the winter, she often had cold hands holding her book outside the covers. So the Tongue River Middle School seventh-grader decided to find a way to keep her hands warm so she could better enjoy wintertime reading. She started with a blanket and lay on the floor with the blanket over her, marking with straight • First — Curtis Foster, Holy Name, “Spudtastic” • Second — Jesse Melius, SJHS, “River Runs Through” • Third — Ethan Hoopes, SJHS, “Radon” • Honorable Mention — Shaylinn Harvey, TRMS, “Green Salt Crystals” • Honorable Mention — Chelsea Wiley, SJHS, “Can Water Float on Water?” Engineering • First — Justin Franck, Holy Name, “Gone With the Wind” • Second — Trace Addlesperger, SJHS, “Suspended in Disbelief” • Third — Malik Grant, “Solar Sun Suckers” • Honorable Mention — Desirae Burtenshaw, Recluse, “Hydroelectric Dam” • Honorable Mention — Keith Tetschner, SJHS, “Paper Airplanes” • Honorable Mention — Meredith Weber, SJHS, “Over Easy or Scrambled” Environmental Science • First — Phillip Klebba, Holy Name, “Burn, Baby, Burn” • Second — Grace Henderson, SJHS, “Popcorn Packaging” • Third — Ty Bock, Newcastle, “Which Water is Purest?” • Honorable Mention — Laurel Fosnight, SJHS, “The Bitter Truth” Inventions • First — Donovan Powers, Tongue River Middle School, “The Burning Brick Bracket” • Second — Sarah Maze, TRMS, “The ‘Hand’y Reader’s Blanket” • Third — Austin Peery, TRMS, “3-on-3 BB War” Medicine and Health • First — Cal Botten, Holy Name, “Glycemic Index: High and Low” • Second — Emily Spiegelberg, SJHS, “Wake Up, People” • Third — Bryan McLean, Don’t delay, please call Debbi Collier or Lori Miller for these and other low rates today. No one knows how long these super-low rates will last. (307) 672-0705 Building For Your Future! The Sheridan Press/Michael Sullivan pins the location of her arms underneath the blanket. She then cut slits in the blanket where she’d pinned it, removed the sleeves from a cotton blouse, and sewed the upper part of the sleeves around the slits. Finally, she sewed a glove onto each lower part of the sleeves, creating a blanket that can be worn — “The ‘Hand’y Reader’s Blanket.” You can even watch television while wearing it, Maze said. Maze said she will survey people she knows to find out whether there is a market for the blankets. If so, she’ll begin making them using different colors, designs, and fabric types. Fair Results • Holy Name School dominates first-place awards at regional event SJHS, “TV vs. Pulse Rate” • Honorable Mention — Sara Ellingrod, Arvada/Clearmont, “Blood Pressure” Microbiology • First — Becky Bridger, SJHS, “Soap vs. Germs” • Second — Trish Juhala, Upton, “How Well Do Disinfectants Work?” • Third — Liberty Filey, Recluse, “Yuck Mouth” • Honorable Mention — Kyle Atkinson, Arvada/Clearmont, “Mold Killer” Physics • First — Sam Sanders, SJHS, “Repulsive Magnets” • Second — Leah Wolf, Newcastle, “Which Absorbs More Heat, Dark or Light Colors?” • Third — Max Marquis, SJHS, “Magnetic Forces” • Honorable Mention — Morgan Brenneman, SJHS, “Sink or Swim” • Honorable Mention — Christopher Garber, Holy Name, “Up, Up and Away” Teams — Any Category • First — Chase Linhart and Wyatt Main, TRMS, “P.S. 1000” • Second — Hope Clark and Bethany McVay, Newcastle, “The Natural Way” • Third — Kaylee Harley and Alondra Munoz, Newcastle, “Merry-Go-Round Physics” • Honorable Mention — Kaycee Ashby, Cynthia Schalau, and Jasmine Wilson, Newcastle, “Effect of Drink Choice on Weight” • First — Nate Kane, Holy Name, “Cows Under Pressure” • Second — Owen Bensel, TRMS, “Cow Behavior” • Third — Abby Ouellette, Holy Name, “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow” • Honorable Mention — Morgan Jacobs, SJHS, “Pooch Smooch” Member Rates are accurate as of January 30, 2008. 15 & 30 Year Annual Percentage Rate is based on a $100,00 0 loan amount with a $1281.50 prepaid finance charge, 20% FDIC down payment and requires 180 or 360 monthly payments respectively. 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