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MADE IN WYOMING: High Country Horse
We are thrilled to team with the Wyoming Business Council to feature a Wyoming First business every week on our blog! Wyoming First is a program that promotes Wyoming member businesses. Visit their website (click here) to learn more about this service — and if you are a Wyoming business who’s not a member, be sure to inquire about membership! There are many benefits! This week we are featuring High Country Horse of Laramie, WY Oliver “Ollie” Hill, High Country Horse Laramie, WY 307-745-4553 Ollie_wy@hotmail.com www.highcountryhorse.net Ollie Hill got started because of his love for horses and hunting and fishing trips in the back country of Colorado and Wyoming. His first high country experience was during a…
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Liberty Lausterer: Hitch Your Wagon to the Stars
visit our website & read the new Sprinter 2014 issue! Our guest blogger, Liberty Lausterer, is back with another introspective look at our square state. Liberty moved to Wyoming within this past year, and offers us her perspective at life in the Cowboy State from a new resident’s eyes. HITCH YOUR WAGON TO THE STARS Here’s a scary thought. According to Tyler Nordgren, author of Stars Above, Earth Below: Astronomy in the National Parks, 50% of children born this year will never see the Milky Way. I’m no astronomer, but I’d say that’s pretty tragic news. At a recent talk Nordgren gave at UW, he shared how light pollution…
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Black Dog Animal Rescue Wins a Car!
visit our current issue! We’re so excited for our friends at Black Dog Animal Rescue, located in Cheyenne & also serving Laramie and the region! They were awarded with a new Toyota Sienna Van for their good deeds as part of the Toyota Cars for Good program. Congrats to them – it is VERY well deserved! Pics follow of the award, plus a note on their upcoming event on April 10, AND info on how you can foster a dog – or adopt one & give it a loving Forever Home! Click on the photo above for info on Thankful Thursday, April 10! Info on BDAR from BDAR… Black…
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Wind River Country to Have a Team in Cowboy Tough Adventure Race
click here & view our current issue Chuck Schuster and Karla Wagner competing in Leadville. Photo credit: Shad Hamilton Fremont County, WY – The Rev3 Cowboy Tough Adventure Race will return to Wyoming for a second year, and this year not only will a considerable portion of the race take place in Fremont County, but the county will have its very own team. The Wind River Visitors Council is sponsoring a local four-person team for the three-and-a-half-day race on July 17-20. The Wind River Country Team will be the local team to root for as the race makes its way from South Pass City to Casper. Adventure racing mixes outdoor sports like mountain…
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ART IN WY: Sheridan, Cheyenne, Casper, Lander, Laramie
SHERIDAN: SAGE COMMUNITY ART CENTER FEATURES STATES & WUERKER DEAN STATES “SEVEN YEARS PLUS”: The SAGE Exhibit Gallery features lifelong Sheridan area resident Dean States, whose exquisite colored pencil drawings will be exhibited during his “Seven Years Plus” show, which runs March 1st-31st. An artist’s reception and gallery talk will be held March 13 at the Main Street SAGE Exhibit Gallery (at Sheridan College’s Main Street location), 171 N. Main, in Sheridan, WY. As always, the public is invited and refreshments will be served. More of States’ work can be seen at Dean States Studio, located at 637 W. Loucks in Sheridan. This project is supported in part by a…
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NEWS FROM THE PARKS: National Elk Refuge Celebration, GTNP Looking for Youth for Summer 2014
Visit our website & read the current issue – Spring 2014 issue will be coming out soon! image from National Elk Refuge website National Elk Refuge: NER to Celebrate the National Wildlife Refuge System The National Elk Refuge is pleased to offer an opportunity this month to celebrate several significant dates in the history of the National Wildlife Refuge System. From Friday, March 14 through Sunday, March 23, displays and naturalist presentations at the Jackson Hole & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center will focus on the conservation efforts of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The events listed below will run daily throughout the ten–day celebration and are free of charge. The Visitor…
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Wilson, WY’s Answer to the Winter Doldrums – by Liberty Lausterer
visit our website & read the current issue — Sprinter issue (Spring + Winter) will be coming before long! Liberty Lausterer, our guest blogger, is back with another look at life in Wyoming from a new resident’s eyes. We greatly appreciate learning what our state looks & learns like to someone new – always keeps the perspective fresh! Wilson, Wyoming’s Answer to the Winter Doldrums by Liberty Lausterer As a newcomer to Wyoming I have paid close attention when someone…
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International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race Kicks Off TONIGHT!
visit our website & find a WY vendor We dare you to say the name 10 times fast – or even the acronym, IPSSSDR — I always get hung up on S #2. 🙂 This beyond awesome, annual event finds dog teams mushing across the western half of Wyoming, stopping in small towns along the way, and bringing together a whole lot of folks excited to see this wintry spectacle. The event kicks off TONIGHT, January 31, in Jackson (see event details below!) – and continues through February 8 with stops detailed below… Stay tuned to their website & Facebook page for pictures, details, updates & more! Photos in this…
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Valentine’s Day Fun in WY – Singing Flowers in Laramie, Wintry Fun in Green River…
Laramie’s Fresh Flower Fantasy Brings Harmony to V-Day In Laramie and looking for something fun & unique for your sweetie on Valentine’s Day? Fresh Flower Fantasy offers singing valentines! Have your beautiful roses or other flowers delivered by some very talented musicians – and you can even name your tune! Delivery charges are tiered, from the non-musical variety to a selection from the list below…or add your own for just a little extra! Details — call 307-742-7616! A list of the selections you can choose…or name your tune for just a little extra: “1, 2, 3, 4” by the Plain White T’s — “It Only Takes a Moment” from the musical…
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Liberty Lausterer: “This Wyoming Life”
visit our website & read the current issue Earlier this month I saw Ira Glass give a talk at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts in Jackson, WY. Glass is the host of the public radio show This American Life. He appeared on stage wearing a skinny grey suit and tie, having flown in from NYC, and joked that he was way overdressed for his Wyoming audience. His blue jean wearing, ice pick carrying audience cheered him on in agreement. Then Glass did what he does best, he told stories. The stories he told, like those heard on This American Life, ranged from the weirdly mundane to the shockingly…
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C.J. Box Releases “Stone Cold”
visit our website & read the current issue I was thrilled to receive my copy of C.J. Box’s newest book, Stone Cold, published by Putnam. The 14th novel in Box’s acclaimed series about Wyoming game Joe Pickett, will publish on March 11. C.J. Box is a long-time resident of Wyoming – I was beyond thrilled to interview him for our Sprinter 2012 issue of WLM! A graduate of Kelly Walsh High School in Casper, and a reporter for the Saratoga Sun, C.J. Box discusses topics that are sympathetic to the west and Wyoming. “My goal is that with every book, readers are exposed to different points of view on controversial issues…
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“Mama, Rock Me Like a Wagon Wheel…”
Thanks to our contributing blogger, Liberty Lausterer, for a look into square dancing! Thought of as country past times, square dancing and line dancing can be found throughout Wyoming. Liberty takes a look into the art of square dancing… by Liberty Lausterer Square Dancing Caller to Dancers: “Bow to your partner. Corner too. Circle left. Heads up to the center and back. Sides, Grand Square. Turn a corner. California Twirl. Dosados and swing your partner!” Old Crow Medicine Show If this square dancing speak reads a little like a foreign language, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Up until two months ago I had no idea what most of these calls meant. But…
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Laramie’s UW Women’s Club Features 2013 Holiday Home Tour
visit our website & read the NEW Winter 13-14 issue The University of Wyoming Women’s Club Holiday Home Tour is scheduled from noon-4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 15. Tickets cost $10 in advance and are available at Ace Hardware and Turtle Rock Coffee. Tickets also are available the day of the tour for $12 at the featured homes. Children 12 & under are by donation. From a new custom-built home to a historic tree-area Hitchcock home, the public will have the opportunity to view a variety of housing styles, all decorated with holiday cheer. “The Holiday Home Tour is our main fundraising event for the year with the proceeds providing…
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WY FOODIE: Yummy Recipes from WY Beef Council
visit our website & read the current issue A new series of great holiday recipes from our friends at the Wyoming Beef Council! We greatly appreciate all the hard work they do promoting the advantages of beef – a Wyoming agricultural staple and the income for many of our friends & neighbors! As we begin to think about having guests over for the holidays, we can’t help but imagine all the wonderful possibilities. When it comes time for friends and family to gather ‘round your table, our holiday recipes will delight their senses—from the smell of a roast in the oven and the taste of cranberries to the sight of a hearty…
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ART IN WY: WY Film & Cardinal Matters, Casper’s Corridor Gallery Event
WYOMING FILM IN DUBOIS: The 2013 Wyoming Short Film Contest winner, Mark Christian, is working towards a film shot in Dubois, Wyoming — Cardinal Matter — and they’re going to the people to help put together their budget! They’ve just got 13 days left and $12,000 at stake…can you help them out? Read on for a letter from Mark… My name is Mark Christian, winner of the 2013 Wyoming Short Film Contest, held by the Office of Tourism and Wyoming Film Office and was awarded $25,000 to make a film to be shot in Wyoming. I am reaching out to you because we are trying to spread the word of…
