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4 Opinion The Birthdays capture a child's energies T here are a few things in life that, no matter what, make me feel better. One is birthdays, especially a child’s. There’s nothing that can compare to the joy of watching a child anticipate that day they call their own. The excitement begins with a faint glimmer of realization — “My birthday is only two months away” — and explodes into a full frenzy at least a week before the big day. Then the countdown begins. “ Only six more, only five more, only four more … days until my birthday.” This is when they also launch a full-scale public relations/advertising campaign. They pull out all the stops to ensure that their birthday is not forgotten. They drop hints about what they want. They constantly remind you that their birthday is “tomorrow.” They are absolutely absorbed in the plans for the big day. This leads to my favorite part about kids’ birthdays — shopping. I love to scheme and plan and browse to try to find the perfect gift for that child I want to bless. It takes a lot of thought and effort to ferret out the gift that will bring joy at the first snippet that peaks out from the wrapping paper and delighted ooohhs at the final unveiling. Sometimes I’ll see something I think is totally cool, but it’s not right for the child. So I have to think “Does this remind me of (insert name of child here)? Does this look like (insert name of child here?” Sometimes I choose the wrong color and I think days later … no, the red one was the right one. Then again, finding that perfect gift is sometimes as easy as walking down an aisle and spotting a green grasshopper pillow. “That’s it!” I love the anticipation in their eyes. The excitement of the day. The rattling and poking at presents to determine the contents. Yes, nothing delights me more than celebrating someone else’s birthday. After all, a birthday is not just any day — it’s the most special of days — child or adult. Berry's World Liz Phillips News Editor E-mail us Managing editor Steve Miller: steve@thesheridanpress.com News editor Liz Phillips: liz@thesheridanpress.com Sports editor Patrick Murphy: patrick@thesheridanpress.com Staff reporters: Senior staff reporter Pat Blair: pat@thesheridanpress.com People/Society news Louise Constable: louise@thesheridanpress.com Wyeth Friday: wyeth@thesheridanpress.com Larque Richter: larque@thesheridanpress.com Staff photographer Roger Ames: roger@thesheridanpress.com Letters Offers compromise to fence flap Editor: I was surprised to find the controversy over “the fence” on Pioneer Road is actually around what was known as Fort Benson, to many of us locals, years ago. I went to see for myself. I was stunned at the impact of the 6-foot solid white wall. Perhaps it isn’t the height of the wall — it’s the complete solid mass of the thing. In years past, the hedges, shrubs and brick all blended nicely with the surrounding landscapes. The stark solid white is a shock to the whole area. Compromise? Six-foot chain link next to the street and 4- or 5-foot white around the pool area. Chain link lets the landscape breathe and blend in with the surroundings. It would also soften the shock of the blazing white. I’m looking to buy a home on the hill, but definitely not looking at that fence. Pat Furley Chichester Sheridan WASHINGTON — I carry within me the childhood memory of nuclear air raid drills, waiting under my fragile school desk for that flash of light Sister said would signal the world’s end. I know, too, the present specter of a Mideast or Asian zealot lobbing a crude A-bomb across an unfriendly border — or delivering it, somehow, to us. Did the 51 Republicans who voted down the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty enter the Senate chamber sharing some other life experience than mine? Is their fear of invading United Nations helicopters, their hatred of Bill Clinton so severe as to deaden their human aversion to nuclear warfare? If so, I must warn them of a danger that is both close and manifest: politics. As Mr. Clinton showed at his nationally televised press conference last Thursday, perhaps the finest hour of his presidency, he is prepared to By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — Usually, politicians work to keep military bases open to curry favor with constituents. But away from the continental United States, the sentiment often goes the other way. Hillary Rodham Clinton has become the latest American politician to wade into the maelstrom swirling around whether the Navy should abandon its bombing range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. The controversy — spawned by the death of a civilian security guard in April in a bombing accident — comes as the U.S. military is having a hard time finding welcome mats. Chris Matthews Columnist Address The Press Write: The Sheridan Press, Box 2006, Sheridan, WY 82801 Letters must be signed and include the address and telephone number of the author, and are used for verification only. Unsigned letters will not be printed. Letters should not exceed 400 words. E-mail to steve@thesheridanpress.com What others say... The New York Times, on departure of Kenneth Starr: Common sense and the rule of law both dictate that any independent counsel charged with investigating a president has a civic obligation to make a final report to the nation on his or her findings. Kenneth Starr is skittering away from that obligation even though the taxpayers, after the expenditure of $47 million, have every right to expect him to be the government’s most knowledgeable official on the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Whitewater and related matters. Mr. Starr, who accepted the job of independent counsel in 1994, likes to blame the White House for damaging his reputation. But no one in the Clinton administration can fairly be blamed for his failure to stay the course. ... Mr. Starr may feel that any report destroy them over their vote of the day before to reject the treaty to which he had put his hand. Clinton issued the warning loud and clear. As long as he sits in the Oval Office, countries antsy to bolster their nuclear arsenals might well show restraint. But the moment we get a commander-in-chief of a different bent — Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush leaps to mind — all bets would be off. “Now, if we ever get a president that’s against the test ban treaty, which we may get — I mean there are plenty of people out there who say they are against it — then I think you might as well get ready for it. You’ll have Russia testing. You’ll have China testing. You’ll have India testing. You’ll have Pakistan testing.” Someone, in their partisan souls, deeper even than their visceral hatred of Clinton, Republicans like Trent Lott, must know the time bomb they have set with this vote. Why else did they offer to put off the humiliating vote if the president would promise to bring the treaty vote back next year on the eve of the election? But if they envisioned the popularity of Clinton’s position come the year 2000, why did they take the position they did last week? The Air Force and Navy were forced to close bases in the Philippines in 1992, U.S. nuclear-powered vessels are banned from New Zealand. And misbehaving American soldiers have strained relations with Japan. The United States must close its bases in Panama when that nation takes control of the Panama Canal after midnight December 31, under a treaty signed in 1977. Panama rejected the continued presence of the U.S. military. ‘‘We don’t want any more bases in our country,’’ Panama’s president, Mireya Moscoso, said in Washington on Tuesday after a meeting with President Clinton. That it would also find itself unwelcome in Puerto Rico is a particularly bitter pill MALLARD FILMORE by Bruce Tinsley Sheridan Press, Thursday, October 21, 1999 from him would be tainted by the perception that he has pursued a vendetta against Mr. and Mrs. Clinton. But copping out on his duty is not the answer to that problem. Having led the nation on a tumultuous journey punctuated by the impeachment of a sitting president, Mr. Starr was obliged to spend a few more months deciding on any final indictments and delivering his professional conclusions about the quality of the evidence on all aspects of his sprawling inquiry. Mr. Starr took over as a former federal jurist with a reputation for sound judgment. Yesterday, by leaving before his job was done, he further diminished a reputation damaged for the most part by his own legal and public-relations decisions. Quotes for the Pentagon since it’s U.S. territory. ‘‘We are not angry with the Navy. It is, after all, our Navy,’’ said Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Rossello. ‘‘We are not angry, but we are convinced enough is enough.’’ Puerto Rican officials are near unanimous in their desire to see the Navy leave Vieques, after nearly 60-years of uneasy coexistence. Mrs. Clinton’s comments, as she campaigned for the Senate in New York earlier this week, helped to raise the political temperature of an already feverish debate. ‘‘There should be an immediate and permanent end to the bombing,’’ Mrs. Clinton said, disagreeing with a panel named by her husband that on Monday Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, on Cincinnati case against gun makers: The potential gravy train filled by gun manufacturers’ money came to a halt in Cincinnati last week and there the train should remain, permanently derailed. Judge Robert Ruehlman of Hamilton County Common Pleas Court threw Cincinnati’s claim for damages from gun makers out of court. He said it didn’t belong there. Ruehlman based his ruling on a simple premise. Cincinnati had charged that the gun makers’ product is unsafe because it lacks sufficient safety devices, such as trigger guards. Yet Ohio has no law requiring trigger guards. The legislature should confront the issue of stronger gun controls. The gun manufacturers make a legal product. ‘‘We have no plans to increase patrols, but will continue to monitor the area — not just for Ramsey’s grave, but for all the graves in the cemetery.’’ — Marietta (Ga.) police Lt. Rick Townsend, following graffiti in red marker on JonBenet Ramsey’s grave ‘‘No Justice in U.S.A.’’ in the days after a grand jury declined to bring charges in her death. ‘‘Regardless of the message, the First Amendment says people have a right to express their views. They have a right to anonymous political activity.’’ — NYCLU executive director Norman Siegel, about the New York Civil Liberties Union filing a lawsuit claiming the New York police department improperly denied them a permit to hold a rally and that they have a First Amendment right to wear hoods at the demonstration. GOP serves up President Clinton his finest hour Is there some weakness in the test ban only Republican senators can appreciate, but which cannot be shared and understood by the rest of us? For if it can be shared, why do they fear so much to duke it out in a full-fledged public debate? By killing the treaty, they have given Clinton’s party a powerful issue in the next election. Remember how much damage Newt Gingrich inflicted on his House majority when he said the reason he’d closed down the government four years ago was because Bill Clinton made him sit in the back of Air Force One? Imagine how voters will react to the knowledge that the Republicans killed a nuclear test ban to spite the man who signed it? To the belief that the loyal opposition has done damage to the country simply to hurt the lame duck Bill Clinton? By their own politics, the Republicans of the U.S. Senate may have given us their worst hour of leadership, and President Clinton his finest. (Chris Matthews, chief of the San Francisco Examiner’s Washington Bureau, is host of “Hardball” on CNBC cable channels.) Copyright1999 NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN. Hillary in campaign raises heat of bombing range debate recommended limited resumption of bombing — and a five-year phase-out timetable. Since the accident, a temporary moratorium on bombing has been in place on the 20-mile-long island that is inhabited by 9,300 civilians. Mrs. Clinton’s position may play well with New York’s Puerto Rican voters but it hasn’t exactly been cheered by the Pentagon or its defenders in Congress. ‘‘I’m not aware that the first lady has been elected to make a decision on this question,’’ said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon.
People The Mr. and Mrs. Anthony W. Danforth NAMI provides support The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill used to be known as WYAMI. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) — Sheridan group meets the first Thursday of the month. For information, contact Kris Elte at 672-6400 or Juanita Tibbett at 673-4370. NAMI encourages the formation of family and consumer support groups throughout Wyoming. NAMI provides information, referral, and mutual support to those who experience mental illness. It encourages individuals and their families to participate in the decision making process of mental health and as a participant in their treatments. NAMI works with schizophrenics, delusional disorders, schizoaffective, bipolar, anxiety disorders such as panic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, post traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders and childhood disorders such as autism or attention deficit disorder. Some like it hot, some not DALLAS (AP) — Although some like it hot, others prefer it mild. For those folks, a new Mexican salsa is available offering a spiceless chili pepper. The genetically enhanced Primavera pepper packs only onetenth the heat of a regular jalapeno. So diners don’t have to break into a sweat to enjoy Mexican food. Developed by New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute, the Primavera — named for the Spanish word for the year’s mildest season — is the product of 10 years’ research. ‘‘To the locals, we’ve sold our soul to the devil,’’ Paul Bosland, a geneticist and the Las Cruces, N.M., institute’s director, said Monday. ‘‘But there really is a purpose behind what we’re doing. There are a lot of closet chili heads who really do want the mild.’’ COUNSELING SERVICES BARBARA SCHUTTE, M.S. 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Bowen, Danforth wed Gretchen Michelle Bowen and Anthony Warren Danforth were united in marriage Aug. 21 at First Baptist Church in Sheridan. The bride is the daughter of Ken and Eadie Bowen of Sheridan. Her grandparents are Scotty and Jeanette Douglas and Edith Collins, all of Sheridan; Hal Bowen of Riverton; and Mary Bowen of Mountain View. She is a 1997 graduate of Sheridan High School, and attended Sheridan College. She works at the Infant Center. The groom is the son of Kathy and the late Dan Danforth of Sheridan. His grandparents are Warren and Bernice Danforth of Lolo, Mont.; Pete and Nelda Anderson of Missoula, Mont.; and Phyllis Anderson of Arroyo Grande, Calif. He is a 1991 graduate of Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., and works for Thompson's Master Masons. The double-ring ceremony was presided by the Rev. Chuck Lucas and the Rev. Bill Wietmore, among wedding colors of plum and silver. The bride's father gave her away in marriage as she carried a bouquet of plum and white colored roses. Maid of honor was friend Kyan Sanderson of Sheridan. Bridesmaids were friend Kari Jenkauski of Sheridan Press, Thursday, October 21, 1999 5 Bartlesville, Okla.; cousin Stephanee Kemprowski of Cody; and the groom's sister, Ashley Danforth of Sheridan. Best man was the groom's brother, Tim Danforth of Lancaster, Calif. Groomsmen were the bride's brother, Zach Bowen, and friend Matt Dillon, both of Sheridan, and friend Justin Teel of Basset, Neb. Ushers were friend Dusty Taylor and cousin James Douglas, both of Sheridan. The bride's cousins, Austin Kemprowski and Jacob Sondgeroth, served as ringbearers. Flowergirls were sister of the bride, Alicia Bower, and cousin Sara Sondgeroth. Music for the ceremony was performed by pianist Harriet Fletcher. Songs included "Butterfly Kisses" and "From This Moment On." The bride's grandfather, Scotty Douglas, sang "Lord's Prayer" and Tammi Taylor sang "Only God Could Love You More." A reception, coordinated by Linda Ernst, followed at the Sheridan Inn, with music provided by D.J. John Diaz. The celebration was assisted by Jessica Lakey, Jennifer Bocek, Erica Teel and Heather Danforth. The wedding cake was provided by Rhonda Roush. The couple took a wedding trip to Seattle, and have made their home in Sheridan. VA Medical Center selects “Employee of the Month” Courtesy photo Director of VA Medical Center, Maureen Humphrys, left, honors Dr. Barbara Ziegler. ‘Journal’ lists worst vacation spot LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — People whose job it is to promote Los Alamos think the folks at The Wall Street Journal need a geography lesson. Los Alamos was listed among the runner-ups for the world’s worst place to take the family on vacation in Friday’s Weekend Journal section. It was listed in the same category as Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident; mosquito-and-gnat infested St. Croix State Park, Minn.; and Key West, Fla., where signs warn swimmers at some beaches of bacteria from sewage runoff. The article said: ‘‘Tourists who visit this famed nuclear-weapon making area can see the National Atomic Museum, where bumper stickers read ‘Get a Half Life, Visit the National Atomic Museum.’ Twice a year they can go to the Trinity Site, where the world’s first nuclear bomb was successfully tested.’’ Kevin Holsapple, executive director of the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corp., said Saturday he ‘‘got a little bit of a hoot’’ when the article landed on his desk. The he pointed out the errors. For one thing, Holsapple said, the Atomic Museum is in Albuquerque. And the Trinity site is near Alamogordo in southern New Mexico — nowhere near the Los Alamos area. The Sheridan VA Medical Center has selected psychologist Barbara L. Ziegler as "Employee of the Month" for September. Dr. Ziegler has been actively involved in several research projects, and co-authored three technical papers. She is involved in developing a patient satisfaction survey, and has volunteered her time on several special interest committees at the Medical Center. Dr. Ziegler serves on the State of Wyoming Board of Psychological Examiners. Call Louise at The Sheridan Press with your ‘People’ news! 672-2431 or e-mail louise@thesheridanpress .com IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH (across from the hospital) invites you to REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY SUNDAY MORNING SCHEDULE: 8:00 a.m. Confirmation Classes for grades 6,7,8 9:15 a.m. Sunday School for ages 3 through adult 10:30 a.m. Divine Service & Worship 1300 W. Fifth St. • Phone: 674-6434 • E-mail: sgodwin@wyoming.com JEANS AND QUEENS Beginning Square Dance Lessons 7 p.m. at the Elks Club (45 W. Brundage) 2nd floor – front door George Baker (teacher) Kids are welcome! Don’t miss out!! First 2 lessons FREE! People briefs Xi Alpha Omega hosts bazaar Xi Alpha Omega Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi will feature its annual Holiday Bazaar and Craft Fair from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Story Womans’ Club in Story. Lunch will be served from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. for $5 per person. The annual fund-raising event features holiday decorations, crafted items and homebaked goods by Xi Alpha Omega members. To reserve tables, call 683- 2815 or 683-2424. Everyone is invited. Homemakers plan luncheon Members of Sheridan County Homemakers will have their “Achievement Day” luncheon at noon Saturday at the Golden Steer Restaurant. Officers for the year 2000 will be installed. They are president, Jean Lunbeck; vice president, Pat Howell; secretary, Karylyn Petrie; and treasurer, Alta June Poole. The program will include a fashion show of the “Make it With Wool” contestants, and featured guest is cowboy poet Gina Stevens of Kirby. Each club will recognize its “Homemaker of the Year, 1999.” DUI course offered Saturday The next DUI course offered by Counseling Associates is 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, at 108 S. Thurmond. The course is designed to meet the legal and educational needs of those with a DUI, and is approved by the Department of Transportation to have driving privileges reinstated. A substance abuse evaluation is required to attend this course, and may be obtained through Counseling Associates by calling Servio Carroll, EdS, LPC at 672-4596. Registration and evaluation must be completed by Thursday, Oct. 28. Counseling Associates offers bilingual counseling services, including marriage, family and individual counseling for relationships, depression, stress, anxiety, conflict resolution, grief and loss, assessment and treatment of behavior, educational and learning problems, and substance abuse and treatment. Legion pinochle names winners The American Legion pinochle game Oct. 18 had 15 players in attendance. Winners were first place, Erlene Rousch; second, John Waggoner; and third, Hilda Anderson. There were no moonshooters. All pinochle players are invited to participate 7 p.m. Mondays at the American Legion.
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