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While Gateway Travel Center opened, & S Construction continued to
finish up the
concrete parking lot. With a cement mixer pouring large amounts of cement
other
workers filled in, smoothed, and textured the wet mixture.
Loo/eing beyond the bidding war
I’ve been perusing a lot of camera and found my passion
up to a tall, remote ridge where
she sat and enjoyed the silence
and the birds chirping? Did the
person driving the tractor take
pride and joy in sowing fields,
or was it a mundane task,‘one
that needed doing? Was that
Jeep the result of years of
saving, an adventure of four-
wheeling that finally
came true?
This leads me to
wonder about my own
pile of possessions
which are currently
online auctions lately. I’ve in a viewfinder; the ring I
been to a few auctions in bought myself as a reminder
person, where it’s all a quick to love myself after a tough
hustle and bustle of looking break-up; the painting I bought
while everyone is crowded in a second-hand store that just
around you, and then the thrill makes me feel good when I
of the in—person bidding. This look at it; the wedding dress I
is different. meant to give to my daughter
With COVID—l9, — and the list goes on. ‘
most auctions are So I look at the items in
now done online, online auctions, sat ithe teapotssi.‘ 1
and I’m grateful and mismatched chairs, atzthec; ,5
for that. In fact, it fishing boats and pie pans, and ‘
gives me more time I wonder: Were they just stufl‘?
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them, to think about A” , “new, a half-built house, and
what I might bid on. Jusi Thinkin' ‘2 a trailer. If I die and
And there’s Still the v ,, ,. . , ,. , my were to
thrill of the bidding, decide to auction ofi"
only now it is watching that
timer go down and furiously
hitting the keyboard and
seeing if you got the item or if
someone quickly outbid you.
It’s a similar anticipation and
excitement, I’m just doing it in
my pajamas.
Looking through these
auctions certainly gets me
thinking, though. Not just
about the deals I might get on
items I need — and on many I
really don’t —— but also about
the people these items once
belonged to. A collection of
bears, old tools, license plates,
four boxes of kitchen utensils,
five antique radios, a slew of
odds and ends, paint, farm
tools, car parts the list goes
on. It strikes me that what I
am looking at when viewing
these possible treasures is the
accumulation and tirneline of a
person’s life.
That plate from Niagara
Falls? A long-awaited honey-
moon trip in 1972. That col-
lection of salt shakers? Annual
Christmas gifts from a niece
that kept sending them, even
when there was no longer room
for them to be displayed. That
food processor? A purchase
long dreamed of, but once
achieved never really used. The
box of dusty canning jars? The
vessels of a once-productive
garden. Those car parts? A
project to ‘get to when there’s
time’ —- but time ran out. Those
walkers, wheelchairs, bathroom
assist devices and canes? The
ravages of time on a body.
When I see these items
I wonder about them. In the
assortment of cookbooks,
which one was the favorite?
Is there one in there, sticky
and splattered from a recipe
lovingly cooked over and over,
a family favorite? Will the
winning bidder also find that
recipe to be a favorite? Did the
hiking boots take this person
my stuff, what will the bidders
think of my belongings? Will
they wonder why I have four
totes of yarn containing three
partially finished blankets,
two hats and a half a mitten?
Will they be surprised to find I
ended up with five coffee pots?
Or is that the norm? Will they
look at the thousands of photo-
graphs I took and think, “that’s
trash,” or will it be “wow, what
a find!”?
More than a dozen years
ago I sold my home in Alaska
and got rid of boxes and boxes
and more boxes of stuff.
There were so many material
possessions that I realized I
didn’t need, and had no use
for. Somehow — how does it
happen? ~— I ended up with
piles and piles of it again. Most
of it I could care less about,
they are possessions, things, the I
stuff that you use and accumu-
late day to day.
But in among the coffee
pots, the unfinished quilt, the
picture frames, the dollar store
curtains and the inverter I just
had to have, there are trea-
sures. At least, to me, they are
treasures. There’s the trophy
my daughter won in a Miss
Pre-teen Petite contest when
she was 7, and her doll cradle I
built her when she was 5, and
her favorite sweater she were
just before she died from a car
accident. There’s the plaster of
Paris handprints my oldest son
made in pre-school, and his
baby blanket, worn and frayed.
There’s the long, black coat
my younger son wore when he
was broody and full of teenage
angst, along with the news-
paper clippings from when he
went to war in Iraq. There are
baby books, lockets of hair and
report cards.
Then there are the
memories of my life: the
photographs dating back to the
1970s when I first picked up a
Dear Patrons and Stakeholders,
As most of you are aware, a new set
of health orders approved by Governor
Mark Gordon will require students,
teachers and anybody else who enters
our schools to wear a face covering
with very few exceptions.
The order will also limit the number of
people who are allowed to gather in
areas without required social distancing
to 10 people, which could potentially
force us to make adjustments to some
of our operations or processes.
Governor Gordon said the measures
laid out in the orders are intended to
protect the public and keep our schools
open, and we are asking our patrons
to work with us towards that same goal
by following the new guidelines and
working together to do everything we
can to ensure our children can continue
to attend school and participate in
activities.
Although the latest news from the
governor is not what we had hoped
for, we are encouraged by how well
we have all been able to adjust to
quarantines, changes in guidelines and
spikes in case numbers through the
first half of the year. Because of that,
we believe our staff and students will
handle the newest direction from the
State of Wyoming with the same level
of respect and cooperation they’ve
shown throughout this experience,
and we will continue to succeed in our
fight to keep the virus from negatively
impacting the things most important to
students and their education.
We also feel confident that we can
continue to offer opportunities for
children to learn in a school setting and
participate in extra-curricular activities
until the Christmas break arrives, and
that really is quite an accomplishment
when you consider how uncertain
things were at the.beginning of this
school year.
We want to thank all of you for that.
We understand that there will be some
members of the community who are
concerned about the new health orders
and their impact on schools, and want
to ensure the public that you can raise
those concerns or ask any questions
you may have by emailing me at
lacrnlbewcsdlnrg, or calling the
school district office at 746-4451.
Because of the new health order, we
are encouraging remote participation in
district meetings that may require ten
or more people, including this week's
meeting of the Board of Trustees.
Anybody interested in attending or
participating in this meeting or any
others offered via Zoom can contact
the district office for instructions on how
to do so, or find them on the school
district’s website at wcsd1.org.
We will continue to seek guidance
and necessary clarification from the
Governor’s Office and Wyoming
Department of Education as we move
forward through the final months of this
pandemic, and we ask that you all help
us pull together as Dogies to help our
community defeat our common enemy
the virus.
At this time of'year, it shouldn’t be
difficult to focus on taking care of
each other,‘and we can best serve our
children right now by demonstrating
patience, understanding and respect
towards one another as we finish our
final days of school for 2020, and get
ready to take a well-deserved break for
the holidays and spend time with those
we love most.
Thank you to the people of Weston
County for all you’ve done for our
children and our schools through this
trying time. We extend our best wishes
for good health and happy holidays to
all of you.
Sincerely,
Brad LaCroix, Superintendent
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