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Year 129
Week 45
Two-year-old Mesa J0hnson ;gets a hand at playing a game from morn, Kelsey, as dad, Scott, looks on at the
Cambria CommunitY Church Fall Festival on Saturday. (Todd Bennington/NLJ)
Todd Bennington
NLJ Reporter
The newly formed
board of the Weston
County Solid Waste
Disposal District held
its second .meeting last
Tuesday, electing board
officers before dis-
cussing with Wyoming
Department of
Environmental Quality
officials some of the
options available to the
county for future solid
waste disposal.
Ed Wagoner was
elected board chair
while Ted Ertman was
voted in as vice chair.
Ron Brunner and Brian
Pischke were elected
treasurer and secretary
respectively. The board
also voted to schedule
their regular meetings
for the third Wednesday
of every month, with
the understanding that
special meetings will
often have to be called.
Board members, who
were joined by County
Commissioner Randy
Rossman, and for part of
the meeting by County
Administrative Assistant
Dan Blakeman, resolved
to arrange a stakeholder
meeting with Upton
and Newcastle officials
after hearing from the
DEQ's Craig McComie,
program manager for
integrated solid waste
management and recy-
cling, and Rebecca
Dietrich, who handles
permitting and correc-
tive action for the south-
east third of the state.
Dietrich was standing in
for Dale Anderson, who
performs the same func-
tion for the DEQ for the
northern portion of the
state, including Weston
County.
McComie told the
board that when it comes
to solid waste disposal
they are dealing with a
complex issue, although
right now options are
totally open as far as
what path the board
might take.
In terms of avail-
able funding, however,
McComie asserted that
the Cease and Transfer
program that he over-
sees, which funds the
closure of landfills and
construction of transfer
-- See Trash, Page 8
Todd Bennington
NLJ Reporter
. Eastern Wyoming College
Outreach Director Kim Conzelman
reported to the WCSD #1 Board of
Trustees at their regular meeting last
Tuesday on the National Alliance of
Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships
conference she had J~ecenti-, attended
in Denver with High School Principal
Tracy Ragland.
New requirements from the
EWC's accreditation body, the Higher
Learning Commission, will require
high school instructors with master's
degrees to undergo additional educa-
tion and testing in order to continue
to teach concurrent classes in their
subject area, she told the board.
Board Chair Bob Bonnar and
Treasurer Tom Wright spoke out
strongly against the requirements,
calling them wholly unnecessary.
Wright observed that undergraduate
classes at four-year universities are
often taught by graduate students with
minimal academic credentials.
"Are the universities making that
same effort with the people they
put in college classes that they're
expecting us to make," Wright- asked
Conzelman, mentioning he continues
to hear stories of grad students with
-- See Teachers, Page 7
• • •
Alexis Shultz
NLJ Reporter
The Newcastle City Council gave approval to
a plan to resize a number of home lots designated
for sale a decade ago, and hope to make at least
some of them available to potential buyers shortly
after the beginning of the year.
The council held a public hearing to discuss
the resubdivision of Washington Park Addition
in Newcastle, and after no opinions were offered
in objection to the plan, the council unanimously
approved it. It was made clear by City Attorney
Jim Peck that notice was sent to homeowners sur-
rounding the area that will be resubdivided and
the only resident of the area that contacted City
Engineer Bob Hartley did not express concerns
with the proposal.
Washington Park was originally purchased by
the City of Newcastle from the State of Wyoming
back in 2004-2005 because the city was running
out of lots in town that were available to people
who wanted to build new homes, according
to Hartley. He reported that development was
slowed down, however, as a result of delays for
soil testing and the market proved unfavorable
once that testing was done.
"Shortly after we purchased it, we got a notice
from the Corp of Engineers that they were doing
a lead contamination test on the property, and
-- See City, Page 3
Hospital makes
partial payment
to Billings Clinic
Alexis Shultz
NLJ Reporter
Although the hospital's
electronic records systems
still aren't performing at the
desired level, the Weston
County Health Services board
last month decided to make a
partial payment to their con-
tractor because some improve-
ment has been noted and work
continues to be done to iron out
deficiencies.
At the regularly scheduled
WCHS board meeting on
October 15, the decision was
made to pay Billings Clinic
roughly half of what is owed to
them through the end of the last
fiscal year as an acknowledg-
ment of efforts that have been
made to improve the perfor-
mance of the local hospital's
electronicmedical records
systems.
WCHS has withheld
payment from Billings Clinic,
who was contracted to oversee
implementation and opera-
tion of the Cerner and Lawson
systems, due to a number of
issues with the systems that
remain unsolved.
Cerner was implemented at
WCHS in July of 2013 and
the facility has worked with
Billings Clinic to resolve the
issues and receive the product
performance they were prom-
ised, but because a number
of issues remain unresolved
WCHS opted out of sending
the payments for support to
Billings Clinic until a time
when they felt the local hos-
pital was receiving the level of
service they believe they were
promised.
"We have not paid them
anything, we are up to about
$86,000 that we owe them,"
CEO Maureen Cadwell told
the board before reporting that
a representative from Billings
Clinic had approached her
about the facility sending a
Dave Gose stands near five rental cabins currently under construction on the property of his Goose Landing archery range. The
Upton native, who divides his time between here and Alaska, plans the multifaceted facilitY as a regional draw that will provide
camping and other recreational opportunities in addition to indoor and outdoor archery. (Todd Bennington/NLJ)
Gose plans destination
archery campground
Todd Bennington
NLJ Reporter
Dave Gose, a 1972 Upton High School
--See WCHS, Page 3 graduate, is currently at work on Goose
Landing, a new multifaceted archery
facility located on 23 acres of land he's
purchased across from Upton's City Park.
An enthusiast for all things patriotic,
Gose is an avid hunter and fisherman
who has been residing in Alaska for the
past 35 years. Once involved in oilfield
work in that state, he's reticent to speak
of a drilling rig accident in which he was
severely injured several decades ago and
from which he was not initially expected
to recover.
Gose, who is joined in his new endeavor
by his employees, Officer Manager Tracey
MacDonald and Maintenance Manager
Larry Ellis, explained that the yet-to-be-
opened facility has been conceived as a
regional destination that should attract
-- See Goose, Page 7
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