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Mayor Justin Fornstrom called the monthly meeting to order at 7 p.m.for the Town of Pine Bluffs. He welcomed everyone and lead the council and visitors in the Pledge of Allegiance. Getting down to business, Councilmember Allie Leitza made a motion to accept the agenda. It was seconded and passed then moved on to the consent agenda. The Consent agenda which included the following: 1. Review and Approve: a. Special Meeting Minutes, July 27, 2022 b. Committee of the Whole Minutes, July 27, 2022 2. Consideration of Claims and Payroll 3. Building...
Honoring eight veterans with memorial bricks in the Veteran Memorial Plaza took place on Sunday, August 7. This event was held by the Donald Eisenhauer American Legion Post 60 and Auxiliary Unit 60 of Pine Bluffs. Guest speaker for the event was Timothy Sheppard, Director of the Veterans Commission for the State of Wyoming. In attendance were veterans placing their bricks as well as family and friends. Also in attendance was Pine Bluffs Mayor - Justin Fornstrom and his wife Kara. Assisting with...
Summer storms with lightning are suspected in starting the fast spreading Carter Canyon fire. The origin of the fire is believed to be started by lightning about five miles southwest of Gering, Nebraska. This quick moving fire has consumed over 13,000 acres and is only about thirty percent contained. The urgency of this fast moving fire brought a call out to all area fire departments. Nebraska Forest Service Public Information Officer Ben Bohall stated, "There are 35 different fire departments...
After the meeting was called to order shortly after 7:00 p.m., Mayor Justin Fornstrom welcomed everyone and then led the town council and visitors in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. After everyone was seated, the meeting started with the business at hand, Councilmember - Allie Leitza made a motion to accept the Consent agenda, which was seconded and passed. The council then moved on to do the third reading of Ordinance 2022-07. Mayor Fornstrom and Councilmember Leitza reclused themselves from this. The reading was done and they asked for...
Honoring our military veterans is done in many ways, and shown in many different forms. Flags, ribbons, patches and stickers display a form of thank you, pride in and a legion to our veterans. This honor is bestowed to all that have served and in every branch of service. In the town of Pine Bluffs, there are a couple of well known veteran displays. The Pine Bluffs Memorial Park on Main Street is the newest one and recently held a dedication for the "wall" 'America the Beautiful' with Governor...
Members of the American Legion from across the state of Wyoming converged on the town of Green River for their 103rd Department Convention. While the Legion members took one meeting room at the Hampton Inn, the American Legion Department of Wyoming Auxiliary held their 101st Department Convention as well, in the next meeting room. Down the hall and around the corner the Sons of the American Legion held their convention as well. During convention, reports are given for the year, as well as a...
Immediately following the opening of the June 13, 2022 town of Pine Bluffs council meeting, Mayor Justin Fornstrom presented scholarship awards to two Pine Bluffs students. Carson Rabou and Alexis DePaulitte were this year's recipients of the 2022 mayoral scholarships in the amount of $500.00. The meeting then turned to business and the council returned to the agenda and items were discussed as they were listed. Granting the Wyoming Department of Transportation an easement for the Highway 30...
The American Legion is all about the American Veteran, their service, their lives, and their families. We are a family for Veterans in that we have the American Legion Auxiliary, the Sons of the American Legion. and the Junior Auxiliary. We can reach out to all to assist, and support our Veterans. Recently, the Donald Eisenhauer American Legion Post 60 did just that, in a long reach of our hearts. On Saturday, June 4, 2022 we were honored to host the Eisenhauer family to honor Lloyd, Donald's...
The Donald Eisenhauer American Legion Post 60 held the annual Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday, May 30 at the Pine Bluffs Cemetery. Those in attendance were subjected to Wyoming's chilly wind, and all stood together during the ceremony. Post 60 Commander John Wise started off the ceremony with the Pledge of Allegiance and Melinda Gibson sang 'America the Beautiful' and later the National Anthem. Pastor Dan DeBruyn said a prayer written by Department of Wyoming American Legion Chaplain Brian...
At the request of the elementary school teachers the Laramie County Fire District No. 5 in Pine Bluffs were invited to make contact with the children to share the importance of fire safety and allow the children to see real firemen and their equipment in person. This helps ease the fear of children and lets them know the firemen are their friends. "The district fire Chief asked for volunteers from our fire district to help share our mission to save the children and public from fires." said one o...
Derek Walls, out-going director of Pine Bluffs EMS steps down after serving about seven years as director. Walls has been director two different times, and has seen much growth in his seven years. Walls started out on the Fire Department in February of 2002. He began driving for the Emergency Medical Services in approximately 2003. He went on to get his EMT in 2004 and has been on the service since then. Walls went to bat to get funding for a new ambulance which was obtained in January of 2021 w...
May 15-21, 2022 is National EMS Week. We are lucky in our area to have wonderful volunteers who give up time from their families, jobs and their everyday lives to come to the rescue during emergencies and time of need. As with many small town and surrounding areas, an ambulance crew may cover a wider area than just their own city or town. Pine Bluffs Ambulance covers an area of the south- eastern corner of Laramie County, which reaches to the Colorado border. In 1974, President Gerald Ford...
While the weather has not been good for growing plants outside, it has been wonderful for the greenhouse at Pine Bluffs High School. Students in Ag Science class with Mr. Brian Cox start in the fall and learn about plant structures including soil functions, seeding, fertilizer soil treatments, germination and transplanting. The students learn to get in and get their hands dirty working with seeding, soil and watering so their plants grow and flourish. "As they get through the fall part of the...
In the physical absence of Mayor Justin Fornstrom, Councilmember Mike Ragsdale called the meeting to order leading off with the Pledge of Allegiance while Mayor Fornstrom was present through zoom. A motion was made to accept the agenda, which was seconded and voted on. The agenda was accepted as presented. Council then moved on to the Consent Agenda, which included: 1. Review and Approve March 14 & 23, 2022 Meeting Minutes 2. Consideration of Claims and Payroll 3. Review and Approve: Building Permits/Plat Map a. 401 Maple – Metal Storage C...
Throughout all branches of the military, April is set as the Month of the Military Child. This is done to honor the youngest members of the military families. This special month long honor to the military child was established in mid 1980s by Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. This was set up to recognize the over 1.2 million military children for the scarifices and challeges they face on an everyday occurance. From their parents (yes sometimes both gone) going overseas, via a one station or a TDY (Temporary Duty) that is three to six...
Members of the community came together with the town council in person and on You-Tube to hear the meeting of March 14, 2022. The council went into action after the welcoming statement by Mayor Justin Fornstrom and all saying the pledge of allegiance. A motion was made right off to amend the agenda by council-member Allie Leitza by moving two of the building permit items to new business. It was seconded and passed. Items moved were for 401 Maple and 604 Beech. With this done the agenda was approved. Minutes from the February 14 meeting were...
As time progresses all things age and some breakdown, others cease to function or upgrades are required in order to have a smooth working system. There are times upgrades must be done to fill the supply and demand as well. This can apply to cost, not just equipment. The more population a town has, the more demand there will be, and older systems must be upgraded to meet the need. This brings us to the recent Water Rate Study completed for the Town of Pine Bluffs. According to this study, the last study was done in 2009 and it indicated the...
Water rates are going to rise, minimally, as well as the town is drilling a new well. These were some of the items discussed at Monday, February 14, town council meeting. The town of Pine Bluffs which has not raised their water rates since 2014, has felt the pressure of costs concerning wells, main line breakage and other cost items. A recent study was done regarding water rates in the area, and while comparing Pine Bluffs to Cheyenne is not necessarily an even across the board, it showed within the study how high Cheyenne is and that Pine Bluf...
Members of the staff of the Pine Bluffs Post recently traveled to Casper, Wyoming to attend the Wyoming Press Association 123rd Annual convention and awards ceremony. Each year entries into the contest are judged by neighboring states. This is open to all the newspapers in the state of Wyoming. They are broken in to three categories: Dailies, Large Weeklies, and Small Weeklies. In the division for the Pine Bluffs Post, small weeklies, there were twenty-five newspapers competing. "It was...
For many years there has been a fund raising program in Laramie County that has become an annual event. The Laramie County Community Christmas program, which raises funds for grocery cards given out to many rural individuals and those in the larger cities. Originally, it was set up as a food basket program in 1946. From there it grew into the Community Christmas program sometime in the 1960s. Pine Bluffs Distilling has competed for the last four years. In fact, they did a repeat performance of coming out on top as overall winner with raising...
On Feb. 3, 1943, four Army chaplains – Father John P. Washington, Rabbi Alexander D. Goode, and the Revs. George L. Fox and Clark V. Poling – gave up their life jackets on a sinking Army transport in the North Atlantic so that others might live. Of the 902 soldiers, Navy armed guard, ship's crew and civilian passengers on board the Dorchester, only 230 survived. They have told us of the chaplains' efforts to restore calm in a hopeless and chaotic situation, and how they were last seen at the shi...
From the dawn of history, there has been been some form of military throughout the world. In the early days it was a "right of passage to become a soldier" whether you "signed up" or you were taken from your home camp or village and you found yourself serving a ruler, king or country. 'Conscription is the mandatory enlistment in a country's armed forces, and is sometimes referred to as "the draft." The origins of military conscription date back thousands of years to ancient Mesopotamia, but the...
It was December 7, 1941, and many members of the military were still sleeping in their bunks this Sunday morning, along with residents of the Pearl Harbor, Oahu area. At 07:55 the first attack hit. From that moment on, there were bombs, machine gun fire, explosions and more. A quote from the Honolulu Star Bulletin states, "A Day that will live in Infamy." From this first initial attack, the waves of war hit home, and the United States was now at war with her attacker of the Pacific... Japan....
Serving in the military means often times one is away from home during Thanksgiving time. For many military members their Thanksgiving meal is one provided by the military at the chow hall. This meal, depending upon where the military member is, will depend on whether it is a full fledge traditional turkey dinner with all the normal trimmings and desserts or if their mess tent was able to do a make shift Thanksgiving meal. David J. Parshall, Navy Veteran - Cook saw many holidays aboard ship and...
The year was 1775,. The Second Continental Congress of the United States passed a resolution creating the Continental Navy. At this time the Continental Navy consisted of converted merchantmen because of the lack of funding, manpower, and resources, with exclusively designed warships being built later. The Continental Navy was a success and stemmed from the efforts of the Continental Congress and patron John Adams. It's main goal was to interrupt British maritime commercial operations. As the...
