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Newcastle, Wyoming
Year 129 Week 47
Peyton Crinklaw, Chase Loebs and Jaidyn Carter, along with their classmates, give a well deserved salute to the
in attendance at Crouch Auditorium, Wednesday, November 11 for the middle and high school choir and band
annual Veteran's Day concert. See more photos on page 10. (Bob Bonnar/NLJ)
veterans
students
City will continue to work with
new district on landfill options
Alexis Shultz
NLJ Reporter
On November 9, the Newcastle City Council met as a com-
mittee of the whole to discuss the solid waste disposal options
presented to the city and its residents moving forward, and while
there was no action taken, it was generally agreed that City
Engineer Bob Hartley should continue to work toward ensuring
the City of Newcastle will continue to be able to dispose of solid
waste affordably.
The council also agreed that the city should move forward
-- See Landfill, Page 8
Todd Bennington law that mandates the reorga-
NLJ Reporter nization of adult education and
employment services.
Diane McQueen, executive Per the Workforce
director of the adult basic edu- Innovations and Opportunities
cation program at Torrington's Act (WIOA), which went into
Eastern Wyoming College, effect on July 1 of this year,
presented at an informational McQueen said she is seeking
meeting held on Nov. 4 in
Newcastle on a new federal --See WAG, Page 3
Todd Bennington needed in order to execute the move
NLJ Reporter as modest.
"We have a general idea. We know
The Upton Town Council held a how much we can and can't spend. We
workshop meeting on Nov. 10, where can utilize a lot that's there already,"
city officials continued a discussion he said, further explaining that the
of the possibility of moving the city renovations would mostly focus on
hall and police departments into the rerouting wiring, phone, and internet
Upton Community Center in order to lines, in addition to the construction
cut down on maintenance and utility of two walls.
costs. "1 believe your biggest cost is your
City Superintendent Mark windows and the walls," he continued,
Lindstrom characterized the renova- noting that heating and AC, which
tions to the community center that are would have been expensive to rework,
will not be touched, while costing the town $126,000 in to the ra.mifications of selling the city
Lindstrom also noted some changes total Millar continued, hall building versus leasing it, because
to the kitchen will have to be made in Mayor Dustin Upton noted that the latter option would afford the town
order to ensure it remains optimally lowering the underused community some control over how it was used or
accessible, center's usage fees had not resulted modified.
Questioned by Councilmember in a substantial increase in the build- Mayor Upton requested input
David Watt, Deputy Clerk Kelleying's traffic. He said he believed the from those in attendance, and Dr.
Millar reported that the total cost community center renovation could be Summer Stephens, superintendent of
for operating the city hall and police done in stages, adding that remaining WCSD #7, asked the council if there
department buildings last year was in the city hall building would still is a way to maintain the building's
$44,423, while the community center require an investment in renovations carpeted conference space, which she
ran close to $32,000. to the backroom area formally occu- said the district has found useful for
Over the last five years the cam- pied by the Red Onion Museum.
munity center has brought in $22,000, Councilmember Watt wondered as -- See Upton, Page 9
Todd Bennington of a sudden they're not qualified."
NLJ Reporter Ragland seemed to suggest the change is an
ill-considered one, noting that for some con-
A discussion of new teacher education require- current courses, in which students simultane-
ments that have been adopted by the Higher ously earn college and high school credit, no
Learning Commission, the accreditation body graduate-level degree is even available. Ragland
responsible for the central region of the country, named vocational subjects like Woodworking,
continued at the Nov. I 1 meeting of the WCSD and Welding as especially problematic.
#1 Board of Trustees. "The problem is you can't get a master's
Newcastle High School Principal Tracy in those areas," he explained. "No one offers a
Ragland told the board that the new requirements master's in cabinetmaking. What they're going
should not affect WCSD #1 as adversely as some to have to do is find a way that, if we can't do it
other districts, and even some colleges, owing to as a concurrent class, we can do it as a certifica-
proactive measurers the district has taken in terms tion class where a student leaves with ... a work
of teacher education and because of its good certificate ... They're pretty common in welding
working relationship with Eastern Wyoming right now, where you can get certified in certain
College, the Torrington-based college through areas of welding."
which the district runs its concurrent program. Colleges and universities that receive accredi-
Ragland said he expects that the district will tation through HLC are actually in the same pre-
be in a good position in terms of the concurrent dicament as the high school concurrent programs,
classes it will be able to offer by 2017, the date Ragland noted, adding that he expects a struggle
to which the changes have been pushed back. He to ensue.
further suggested that the fact that the institution "As part of this criteria that HLC has put
of the new regulations has been delayed is evi- out, one of the things that has to go away at the
dence that there may be some latitude in regard University of Wyoming is graduate assistants
to the changes, which had been initially intended are no longer able to teach first and second year
to go into effect much sooner, classes. The professors have to do that," Ragland
As they stand, the new regulations will said.
prevent teachers from teaching college level "I think you're going to have legislators who
courses in subjects in which they don't possess are going to get involved," he continued. "I think
a master's degree without first attaining further the University of Wyoming and the community
credentials, even if they've taught courses in that colleges are going to get involved, and they're
subject area before. Many instructors teaching going to say, 'Hey, wait a minute. Show us where
concurrent courses possess a master's degree in we've got a problem'."
only a generalized area, namely Curriculum and Board Chairman Bob Bonnar expressed
Development. doubts that colleges and universities might be
"Someone's going to have to figure out what relied upon to look out for the interests of high
to do with all these teachers who have a master's school concurrent programs and questioned who,
degree," Ragland lamented, "who have been
teaching [a] class for a decade or so, and now all -- See Concurrent, Page 7
Tom Empey (former Program Director of the Casper College Department of Theatre and Dance),
Shone Sellers (Producer), and Collin Rudkin (Writer and Director) look through Empey's per-
sonal photo albums at his home in Salem, Oregon. (Submitted photo by Cathy Becker)
Alexis Shultz News Letter Journal. He noted was built in 1985, and that the
NLJ Reporter that the production's primary desire of the Casper community
purpose was to teach residents to have a larger theater was
Code of the West, a local and students at the college how largely responsible for its con-
public relations firm owned by the theater came to exist,struction.
Shane and Jill Sellers, recently "It is a really interesting "The program had proved
produced the documentary, theater," declared Sellers, who itself. It played in the Penthouse
'The Gertie at 30,' which made explained that there were a Theater that was located in the
its debut on October 23 on number of rumors regarding the basement of the Administration
Wyoming PBS's The Wyoming facility, and the group was able Building. The more they played
Chronicles. Casper College to confirm some of those stories the better they got," proclaimed
approached Sellers to produce while refuting others in order Sellers. He asserts that the
the film to commemorate the to discover the true tale of the program had proven itself sig-
30th anniversary of the Gertrude theater, nificant enough to need a venue
Krampert Center of Theater and Sellers noted that it was orig- of sizable worth so the program
Dance, formally known as the inally believed that the theater could deliver what it was worth
Gertrude Krampert Theater. made the theatre program at to the community.
"It is a documentary that we the college a possibility, but the "The program had gotten so
were tasked by Casper College opposite was actually true. large, so enjoyable and so in
to produce to commemorate the "The community had been demand that it burst the seams
30th anniversary," announced demanding a theater," Sellers
Sellers in an interview with the professed. He said the theater -- See Gertie, Page 7
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