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St. Joseph’sCatholic Church

1141 Shoshone Ave. • Lovell, WY Rosary Sunday - 10:30 AM Sacrifice of the MassSunday – 11 am

Daily Mass & ConfessionsCheck monthly calendar on www.StJosephLovell.comFr. Glen Szczechowski

For weekly schedule call 548-2282

SERVICESSunday, 1-3pm at Assembly of God Church

310 Idaho Ave., Lovell

For special prayer requests call Pastor Cox.

Pastor Gerald Cox970-629-2085

The Church of God

your photo today call 307-548-2217

email photos.chronicle@gmail.comSUBM

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TheUnited Methodist Church

Serving Northern Big Horn County

97 yearsat the corner of

Park & Shoshone, Lovell307-548-7478

Reverend Melinda Penry

Sunday: 11 AM

Lovell Assembly

of GodChurch

ServicesMorning Worship AM -- 10:50 Wed. Bible Study -- PM 7

310 Idaho Ave., Lovell

Rev. Dan Jarvis307-548-7105

St. John’s Lutheran Church

5th & Montana, 548-7127Rev. Christopher Brandt

9 AM Bible Study and Sunday School10:15 AM Worship Service

Visitors Welcome! The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

The BibleChurch

548-7390

SundayWorship Service 9 AM

Sunday School 10:30 AM

1st & 3rd Weeks 6 PM

WednesdayPrayer 6 PM

Rev. Kurt McNabb307-548-7390

56 E. Main St., Lovellwww.lovellbiblechurchwy.net

SUNDAY 630p RAGE CYCLE

MONDAY 515a Ignite

6a Rage Cycle 830a MOB

6p RAW 645p Hard Core 30

715p OULA 7p KidFit

TUESDAY 515a ZUMBA

6a RAW 830a PrimeFit

Senior fitness class 5p Rage cycle

6p Yin30 630p POUND30

7p FUSION 7p KidFit

WEDNESDAY 515a Ignite 6a RAGE30 6a Fusion 830a Mob 5p Rage

6p Raw Burn 7p Vinyasa Yoga

THURSDAY 515a STRONG by Zumba

6a Raw 830a PrimeFit

Senior fitness class 5p Rage Cycle

545p Rock Bottom 30 7p TRIBE

multi-generational, kids to seniors

FRIDAY 515a Ignite

6a RAW Burn 830a MOB

SATURDAY 8a Fusion

All classes are all fitness level friendly

GX FALL SCHEDULE Classes are 45 to 50 minutes, unless noted with ‘30’ in the end.

LOVELL ROD & GUN CLUB

GUN SHOWSEPTEMBER 13-15

Friday, 1-7 pm | Saturday, 9 am-6 pmSunday, 9 am-2 pmLovell Community Center

$5per day

theatreWyoming’s Largest Screen

Lovell, Wyoming | 548-7021| www.hyarttheatre.com

Night Shows $5 | Matinees $4

Friday, September 13 | 7 pm

Sat., September 14 | 3 & 7 pm

Through his bond with his owner, aspiring Formula One race car driver Denny, golden retriever Enzo learns that the techniques needed on the racetrack can also be used to successfully navigate the journey of life.

Rated PG • 109 min.

James Love would like to thank Miller’s Fabrication for purchasing his market goat at the Big Horn County Fair.

THANK YOUMorgan Love would like to thank First Bank for purchasing his market goat at the Big Horn County Fair’s 2019 Junior Livestock Sale.

Ruth Walker WatkinsSept. 4, 1930 – Aug. 22, 2019

Ruth Walker Watkins, born in Lovell on Sept. 4, 1930, died Aug. 22, 2019, in Mesa, Ariz. Ruth was the middle child of Alvin Ray and Valeria Porter Walker.

She was a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all her life and was proud of her pioneer heritage.

Ruth graduated from Lovell High School in the Class of 1948. She had fond memories of her teen-age years and would often tell her children stories of playing for local dances with her dad and brothers.

Music was a big part of Ruth’s life. She had a beau-tiful singing voice and was an accomplished pianist. During her high school years she was called as the ward organist and would continue to play for church meetings throughout her entire life in various wards.

She married George Clarence Watkins in 1952 in Denver. They were the parents of five children. Eventually, the family moved to the Los Angeles area, where they lived for 30 years. While there, Ruth worked as a professional accompanist, playing pia-no for choirs, vocal soloists and instrumentalists of every kind. She was most proud while accompanying her oldest son, George, an accomplished violinist.

Ruth was a proud member of the Daugh-

ters of the American Rev-olution, the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and the Mayflower Society’s Wy-oming chapter. Ruth was a talented seamstress and avid quilter. She loved her cats, gardening and work-ing crossword puzzles, but mostly she loved be-ing with her children and grandchildren.

Her older brother, Lar-ry, and younger brother, Grant, both predeceased her.

Ruth is survived by all her children: George (Ann Romaker) Watkins of Mil-ford, Ohio, Clay (Didi) Watkins of Rochester, Minn., Amy (Mark) McKe-on of Whittier, Calif., Anna (Brendon) Ounjian of Mesa, Ariz., and Carrie (Ron) Harris of Simi Valley, Ca-lif. She was blessed with 18 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Interment will be in the Lovell Cemetery.

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Celebrate National Public Lands Day at Five Springs FallsThe Bureau of Land Man-

agement Cody Field Office will partner with the com-munity at the Five Springs Falls Campground on Sat-urday, Sept. 14, for a shared conservation stewardship project in celebration of Na-tional Public Lands Day.

Volunteers are invited to spend the day with BLM staff repainting parking bar-riers, cleaning out fire rings, adding gravel to campsites, marking and clearing trail, repairing wash-outs, and staining picnic tables and benches.

Participants will meet at 9 a.m. in the lower camp-ground parking lot of Five Springs Falls, located 22 miles east of Lovell along U.S. Highway 14A. Wear good work shoes or boots and bring work gloves, lunch and water. Volunteers will receive

a National Public Lands Day T-shirt.

National Public Lands Day began in 1994 with three sites and 700 volunteers. In 2018, 113,055 volunteers con-tributed 452,220 hours on service projects at 1,176 sites across the country.

Commissioners get first department updates since courthouse closureBY BARBARA ANNE GREENE

Hillary Mulley, the county nurse manager, pro-vided the Big Horn County commissioners with a year-end report and the June and July monthly reports during their meeting Sept. 3 at the courthouse. Join-ing her for the presenta-tion was Lauren Olsen, the nurse for the public health office in Greybull.

Mulley said both nurse positions are filled and that there is an opening for a nurse supervisor position in Lovell.

Twenty-five more vac-cines were given in Grey-bull during August this year than a year ago. In Lovell, this August had 49 vacci-nations more than the pre-vious year, according to Mulley.

She also discussed a presentation she attended in July about Narcan, a na-sal spray that blocks or re-verses the effects of opi-oid medication. Mulley was pleased to learn that Basin Pharmacy was taking steps to have it in stock. Many providers are requiring all of their patients who are on a pain management plan to have it along with their meds.

“Our state office just sent a policy that they want the public health nurs-es to carry Narcan with them on home visits. If we come across an overdose or something we can assume is an overdose we can use the Narcan to save a life,” said Mulley. She said some details still must be worked out before they start carry-ing it.

Lifestyle changes for diabetics training will be in October. Mulley said that they did get a grant to pay for that.

ENGINEERING/ROAD & BRIDGE

Jack Hoffman from WYDOT was in attendance to discuss the G-P road near Lovell. The county and WYDOT have been in dis-cussions about a road ex-change. The proposal is that the G-P road would be transferred to WYDOT in-ventory. In turn, the coun-ty would take responsibility for other roads in the coun-ty such as Golf Course Road

and Cannery Road. The ex-change would be done un-der the Commission Road Improvement Program (CRIB).

One of the require-ments for the funding is that the road be classified as a “major collector” road. Currently, the G-P road is classified as a “minor col-lector.” Hoffman said there is a process to reclassify the road. The commissioners made a motion to change the classification. The re-quest will be sent to Chey-enne for consideration.

Eric Mann, the new north end road and bridge supervisor, was welcomed by the commissioners. He noted that he had been on the job as supervisor for one week. The north end crew has been blade patch-ing Road 5, crushing grav-el and putting in a pipe on Road 6, south of Byron.

South county supervi-sor Shannon Hovey said the south end crew has begun straightening Lane 28 in anticipation of milling the road next year. He also not-ed that DEQ had contacted him about cleaning up one of the gravel pits the county uses. Someone had dumped a lot of trash and burned a lot of trash in the pit area. The county had to do the cleanup and take the items left to the landfill.

County Engineer Willie Bridges said he would visit with the sheriff about get-ting some patrol around the pit.

Commission chairman Felix Carrizales asked about the cost effectiveness of crushing gravel in house or hiring a contractor to do it. A discussion ensued.

County engineer Wil-lie Bridges told the com-mission that a striping con-tract had been awarded to S&L Industrial. He also dis-cussed a request by Wade McFarlane to receive his fee back for a utility permit that he did not need after all.

Bridges gave an up-date on the courthouse se-curity project. He said the contractor is back work-ing. The plan is to focus on the county attorney’s of-fice areas. Commissioner Deb Craft asked how things were going with the Circuit

Court portion of the build-ing, as she noticed that the Circuit Court and District Court had to share one courtroom. Bridges told the commission that District Court has priority over Cir-cuit Court. This has meant that Circuit Court has had to cancel a couple of times to accommodate District’s schedule. He said that is one of the reasons that portion of the courthouse needs to be focused on.

EXTENSION UPDATE Gretchen Gasvoda and

Kristy Michaels gave the commissioners an update on the move to the South Annex. Gasvoda said they are still unpacking, but things are good. She said they have more traffic as far as people coming in.

Michaels said the Cent$ible Nutrition gar-den is doing well. She has already given away more than 100 pounds of pro-duce. She will be bringing zucchini to an after-school program and the students will be making noodles with them.

Gasvoda told the com-mission that there were a lot of success stories at state fair. For example, Ad-disyn Perkins won cham-pion exhibitor. She is just 9 years old.

The county livestock judging members all fin-ished in the top 10 in the state. Gasvoda said they have learned a lot. The skills that they have learned and the connections they made will help them in the fu-ture with scholarships and college.

There was some dis-cussion on where the shed could be put at the new lo-cation. There was also dis-cussion about who was re-sponsible for the cleaning of the office. Carrizales asked that they do the in-door cleaning. If there is a bigger need like cleaning windows, etc., they were asked to notify the county on a case-by-case basis.

OTHER BUSINESS • Big Horn County

School District No. 4’s prin-cipals, Matt Jenson and Jeff Fuller, introduced them-selves to the commission. They also wanted to be sure that the commission-

ers knew they were invited to the open house for the new schools. It will likely be the end of October.

• Rick Schroeder and Emily Caudill from North Big Horn Hospital request-ed a signature from the commissioners for the hos-pital’s participation in the 340B Program. The pro-gram offers eligible safety net health care providers access to low cost medica-tions, which allows them to expand the type and vol-ume of care they provide to the most vulnerable pa-tient populations. The 340B Drug Pricing Program re-quires drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs to eligible health-care or-ganizations/covered en-tities at significantly re-duced prices.

Schroeder said that once a year they have to fill out an application.

• The Basin Area Cham-ber discussed with the commission that the cham-ber was working with the Wyoming Office of Tour-ism on a new program that offers counties a tourism assessment and strategic plan. The cost is just over $3,000. The chamber has contacted each town as well as Shell and Hyattville to invite them to be a part of the program.

• Airport manager Wes Huber gave an update. He said the most recent drag race at the south airport was another successful event. The next one sched-uled is Sept. 21-22.

• Land planner Nick Krueger gave his depart-ment update. It included updates on septic permits and subdivisions.

• Lovell town admin-istrator Jed Nebel notified the commission that the money from the county-wide consensus money would be used for a differ-ent project than originally noted.

• Maintenance supervi-sor Jeremy Pouksa’s update included the work that was completed at the north se-nior center, that the con-struction crews were back at work at the courthouse and a clarification on the maintenance/repair of county vehicles.