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PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice of Public Hearing September 8, 2020 at 7:00 pm at the Community Center to consider the sale of lot 2, lot 9, lot 11, lot 12A, and lot 18A of the Clay Subdivision in Lovell, Wyoming pursuant to Wyoming Statute section 15-1-112. The lots will be sold through Johnson Home and Land with a fee of $1,000 per transaction; the fee is split with any cooperative agency working within Northwest Wyoming Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service. The Selling Agency will receive $400 of the $1,000.

Pursuant to Wyoming Statute section 15-1-112, the appraised value of each property being considered for sale is:

Lot 2: $8,500Lot 9: $8,500Lot 11: $7,500Lot 12A: $9,500Lot 18A: $9,500

Published: August 20, 27 and September 3, 2020

Public Notice

STATE OF WYOMINGCOUNTY OF BIG HORN/ss/IN THE DISTRICT COURTFIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

Probate No. 2020-000027IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF STEVEN ROBERT STROHDeceased.

You are hereby notified that on the 18th day of August, 2020, the estate of the above named decedent was admitted to probate by the above named Court, and that Lisa J. Stroh was appointed Administrator thereof.

Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the decedent or to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Estate of Steven Robert Stroh, c/o Basin Law Group, LLC, 117 North Bent Street, Powell, Wyoming 82435.

Creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to file them in duplicate with the necessary vouchers, in the office of the Clerk of the Court, on or before three months after the date of the first publication of this notice, and if such claims are not so filed, unless otherwise allowed or paid, they will be forever barred.

Dated this 20th day of August, 2020.

LISA J. STROH, AdministratorBy: J. Philip Bott, WSB #6-4199

Published: August 27, September 3 and 10, 2020

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practice,” Lundberg said. “I some-times don’t think he knows the po-tential that he has.”

Rocky Mountain High School sophomore Mason McCollam shot a 99 the first day and a 94 the second for a 193 finish just behind Pickett in 16th.

“Mason played very well this past week, and so did the rest of the team. We have been working in practice this week of making sure that we can be a little more focused and navigate the course when our game is not going the way we want. I really think that once a couple more of our kids gain a little more confi-dence, we will see our scores drop even more.”

Next was LHS senior Zeke New-man as he struggled Thursday and shot a 102. Friday, Newman bounced back and shot a 96 to place 18th with a 198.

“Zeke played very well at his first tournament and just needs to find his groove again,” Lundberg said.

Rounding out the Lovell boys was RMHS freshman Max Cooley in 20th place with a 98 the first day and a 104 the second for a 202.

“Max Cooley is improving ev-ery day and working hard at some of the little things he needs to do to become more consistent,” the coach said.

Competing in the JV division was LHS sophomore Cale Frost as he shot a 108 Thursday.

The Bulldog golfers will com-pete at the Cats and Dogs Invita-tional Friday and Saturday, a pair of independently scored, one-day tournaments. Lovell will host the tourney Friday and then will travel to Thermopolis Saturday. Compet-ing in the tournaments with Lovell will be Buffalo, Cody, Powell, Ther-

mopolis and Worland.Lundberg said the Lovell girls

will tee off at 8:30 a.m. Friday and will be competing against Worland and Thermopolis, and the boys will go at 1:30 p.m., competing against Cody and Powell.

“The tee times for Friday in Lovell will be staggered because of the limit that the WHSAA has placed upon us,” Lundberg said. “We can only have a max of 40 golfers on the course at a time. Our tournament is just a one-day winner take all.”

Lundberg said spectators are allowed at golf tournaments.

“They just need to abide by the rules that are set forth in the WH-SAA guidelines,” the coach said. “They need to keep their distance from the golfer that they are follow-ing and may not engage in conver-sations of give them any course ad-vice or swing tips.”

Revill, Green, Trautman team wins Foster Gulch Last Chance tourneyBY SAM SMITH

The trio of Steve Re-vill, Brian Green and Ca-sey Trautman took first place in gross scoring in the first flight at the Fos-ter Gulch Golf Course Last Chance Tournament Saturday.

The team of Pete Bax-

endale, Brad Baxendale and Randy Wacker took first place in net scoring in the first flight.

The trio of Brenen Hinckley, Tyler Hinck-ley and Carson May won the second flight in gross scoring. The team of Bill Baxendale, Chris Bryson

and Dusty Schultz took first place in net scoring.

Deuces were earned by the team of Eric and Kayla Honeyman and Russ Wilkerson, the team of Steve Revill, Brian Green and Casey Trautman, the team of Brenen and Tyler Hinckley and Carson May,

and the team of Dan Wolv-ington, Craig Lundberg and Charlie Marchant.

Flag prize winners were Todd Baxendale, Craig Lundberg, Dane Robertson, Carson May, Neil Baxendale, Tim Mar-ton, Kayla Honeyman and Tyler Angell.

Lovell harriers return with strength for 2020 season

BY DAVID PECKIt’s hard to know exact-

ly how the 2020 season will progress, but for Lovell cross country coach Caleb Sand-ers, it’s all positive right now with practices underway.

“I’m just grateful to be able to have a season and to be at this point,” Sand-ers said as he discussed the unfolding of the new sea-son with COVID-19 guide-lines and rules. “Some states don’t have fall sports this year. I feel fortunate to be in Wyoming and have an op-portunity to give this thing a shot.”

Sanders has 15 athletes out for the team this fall, seven girls and eight boys, about the same number as recent years, he said.

“I’m glad we’re able to sustain it (the numbers),” he said.

Bret George returns as the assistant coach, and Ca-leb’s brother Joshua is the head middle school coach. Volunteer assistants are Jill Allen, Ben Snyder and Au-brey Walker.

Sanders said the team had a great week of practice last week, running mostly in the morning when the air was cool.

“We had great practices; we did more than we could have if they had been in the afternoons,” he said.

Last year the Bulldogs did a lot of mountain training with the state meet sched-uled in Afton, elevation 6,240 feet, but this year the Wyo-ming High School Activities Association is spreading the state races among three lo-cations, Sanders said. Star Valley High School in Afton will host the Class 3A state meet, but Class 2A (Lovell and Rocky Mountain) and 4A will be in different locations yet to be determined, Sand-ers said.

“The season is going to be pretty fluid,” he said. “It (the location) depends on whether we get through the season. That’s the goal.”

Under WHSAA guide-lines, meets will be limit-ed to 112 competitors and no more than 30 per race, which will lead to both junior varsity and varsity races for most meets. Social distanc-ing, hygiene and mask rules apply. For instance, athletes will wear masks on bus trips and up until a race begins, but not during a practice run or a meet race.

During practice, the

team will run in pods, and coaches will remind the runners to spread out. Sanders doesn’t foresee lim-itations on spectators at a meet, as long as parents and fans spread out.

LADY BULLDOGSThe Lovell Lady Bull-

dogs have placed in the top three at State two of the last three years, Sanders said, and though they lost three seniors to gradation, he would like to see the team place once again and even improve their position after a third-place finish a year ago.

“I hope they can im-prove on that podium place,” he said.

The Lady Bulldogs lost three runners to gradua-tion in Patti Sanders (13th at State), Lauren Mitchell and Sariah Hendershot.

Sophomore Kathryn Mickelson is the top return-ing runner for the Lady Bull-dogs after placing sixth at State in Afton last fall with a personal record time of 22:10.76.

“I felt our girls team last year was strong in the sec-ond half of races,” Sand-ers said. “We’ll train for that same thing and progressive-ly up our intensity.”

Mickelson has been nursing a sprained ankle in-jury she suffered on the first day of practice last week, Sanders said.

Four other runners re-turn with experience. Se-niors Raeghan Wacker and Maddisun Steed have been all-conference runners in the past, and senior Brook-lyn Walker and Anessa Luna return with experience, Sanders said.

New to the team is sophomore Isabelle McK-ay, who ran indoor track last winter, Sanders noted. Moving up from the middle school squad is freshman Hallie Cornia.

Sanders said he likes the fact that he has five expe-rienced runners returning, adding that Steed and Luna have come into fall practice in “really good shape.”

“They did some running during the summer,” he said.

There’s only one weak-ness on the girls team that Sanders can perceive: depth.

“We’re not as large a team as we were last year,” he said.

BOYS SQUADThe Lovell boys placed

fourth out of 10 teams at

State last year, and although the team lost standout James Caldwell to graduation and a college career at Central Wyoming College, the team returns several other run-ners with experience.

Looking to step into Caldwell’s role as the lead runner is senior Cardon Mickelson, who placed eighth at the conference meet and 16th at State.

“Saratoga and Tongue River had really, really good teams last year,” Sanders said. “For our boys, our goal is to be on the podium (top three).

“It would be nice to see Cardon become an all-state runner. Right now he’s our fastest runner. He’s going to have to step up and re-place what we lost with James graduating. He has the potential.”

Returning with experi-ence are a quartet of soph-omores in twin brothers Cameron and Quin Carpen-ter, Jordan Allen and Rurik Olsen, and freshman Samual Dickson.

Quin Carpenter placed 17th at Regionals, Cameron 18th. Then Cameron placed 28th at State, Quin 40th.

Also out are senior Mar-shall Mickelson and junior Corbin Barry.

“He (Barry) has some natural ability. He’s going to be able to contribute quite a bit,” Sanders noted.

Of the Bulldog runners, Sanders noted, “For some of them, I want them to be consistently in the teens (for time), the 19-minute range. For others, I’d like them down in the 20- to 21-min-ute range. I’d like a couple (of runners) to be in the 18-min-ute range and one in the 17s.”

‘FLUID’ SCHEDULESanders said the sched-

ule this year will almost be determined week to week. This week, for instance, an originally listed “Cody Beck Lake Run” on Friday has been changed to the Park County Cross Coun-try Opener at Homesteader Park in Powell on Saturday. Running is scheduled to be-gin at 10 a.m. with the varsi-ty girls race, followed by the varsity boys at 10:30, JV girls at 11 and JV boys at 11:30.

Invited teams are Cody, Worland, Thermopolis, Lovell and Powell.

Sanders said the Bull-dogs are currently still plan-ning to attend a meet in Buf-falo on Saturday, Sept. 5.

Lady Grizz return with athletic and well-rounded roster

BY RYAN FITZMAURICEThe Lady Grizz netters

are going to have to put the pieces together quick-ly this season, but the te-nacious veteran group, bol-stered by young talent, is raring to go.

“We are just so thank-ful that we have the oppor-tunity to play,” head coach Jenny Christiansen said. “I am so thankful that we have the opportunity to see the team play, to do some-thing we love and not wor-ry about everything that’s going on in the world.”

The squad returns to the 2020 with 29 athletes on the team, including eight returning seniors and five returning starters. The team also has four juniors, 10 sophomores and eight freshmen.

“We have a lot of depth. We have a lot of flexibil-ity,” Christiansen said. “With the different oppo-nents that we’ve been fac-ing this year, we will be able to match up to differ-ent teams with different lineups.”

The team this year will have the offensive power of seniors Alexis Minemeyer and Taylin Boettcher and the added defensive pres-ence in front of the net with seniors Taylor De-spain and Trenity Hackney, followed by junior Isabelle Christensen.

“Taylin and Alexis are both dominant forces,” Christiansen said. “We’re going to be a fun team to watch.”

Last year’s all-staters, libero Aubrianne Crosby and expert setter Teagan Townsend, have both grad-uated, leaving big shoes for the rest of the team to fill.

Junior Josey Steed will be taking Crosby’s spot, and Christiansen said she has the innate ability to present a fearsome defen-sive and offensive presence.

“Steed is very athletic,” Christiansen said. “And al-though she’s going to come in and be a libero, if I need to bring her to the right side, I can. She’s deadly hitting the ball. She’s defi-nitely my utility player this year. Her dynamism and athleticism are impressive.”

Athleticism on this year’s squad is nearly a universal trait, Christian-sen said.

“My girls can jump,” she said. “They have that ability to elevate, and I like it.”

The Lady Grizz will face an early challenge of hav-ing to gel together quick-

ly this year. In the past, tournament games provid-ed teams with a low-stake environment to learn the game and get in sync with each other. Due to changes made to prevent the spread of COVID-19, those tour-nament games are no lon-ger on the schedule. Every game this season, right off the bat, counts.

For a team where play-ers will have to step into crucial new roles funda-mental to success, learn-ing will have to take place quickly. Prevention mea-sure for COVID-19 only al-lowed the team to partic-ipate in four open gyms in July. They only started practic on Aug. 17.

“With Teagan setting, we didn’t have to worry about where the ball would go, because we knew where the ball was going to go,” Christiansen said. “That trust needs to be built. Getting the team to mesh and mesh early, it’s going to be a quest.”

It’s going to change the way the team is coached, Christiansen said. In the normal season, she might let a certain shortcoming go unaddressed for a short period to focus on oth-er more pressing aspects. This year, play will have to be scrutinized at a clos-

er level, and mistakes will have to be fixed quickly.

“I will have to coach different and address things a lot quicker,” Chris-tiansen said.

The keys to a success-ful start will be consistent play and giving more effort than the team on the other side of the net, Christian-sen said.

“Right now, we’re just going to focus on leaving it all on the court,” Christian-sen said. “We’re not going to hold anything back.”

Earlier this summer it wasn’t known whether a volleyball season would be held or not. As volleyball is about to begin this week, the future still remains hazy. The most import-ant thing remains enjoying and appreciating the joy of playing and competing.

“There are so many unknown things at this time,” Christiansen said. “If we can just get through one day at a time and one practice at a time, we’ll be thankful.”

The Lady Grizz will be-gin the season on the road Friday, setting off against Meeteetse at 6 p.m., JV at 5 p.m. The Grizz will be-gin their home court cam-paign on Saturday, with the Varsity playing at 1 p.m. and the JV at noon.

Annette Moss Bailey Loftus passes the ball back to a teammate during a Rocky Mountain High School volleyball practice as the Lady Grizz prepare for their fast-approaching first game.

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