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2 | The Lovell Chronicle | December 31, 2020 St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 1141 Shoshone Ave. • Lovell, WY Rosary Sunday - 10:30 AM Sacrifice of the Mass Sunday – 11 AM Daily Mass & Confessions Check monthly calendar on www.StJosephLovell.com Fr. Glen Szczechowski For weekly schedule call 548-2282 SERVICES Sunday, 1-3PM at Assembly of God Church 310 Idaho Ave., Lovell For special prayer requests call Pastor Cox. Pastor Gerald Cox 970-629-2085 The Church of God Lovell Assembly of God Church Services Morning Worship AM -- 10:50 Wed. Bible Study -- PM 7 310 Idaho Ave., Lovell Rev. Dan Jarvis 307-548-7105 The Bible Church Sunday Worship Service 9 AM Sunday School 10:30 AM Wednesday Prayer 6:30 PM Rev. Kurt McNabb 307-548-7390 56 E. Main St., Lovell www.lovellbiblechurchwy.net The United Methodist Church Serving Northern Big Horn County 99 YEARS at the corner of Park & Shoshone, Lovell 307-548-7478 Food Pantry, Fridays, 3-5 PM Pastor Janita Krayniak Sunday: 9 AM Can’t wait for the postman? Read the Chronicle online first thing Thursday morning! Find out how at http://lovellchronicle. wy.newsmemory.com/ your photo TODAY call 307-548-2217 email [email protected] SUBMIT Heard any good news lately? email your news to: [email protected] Email your news to: [email protected] St. John’s Lutheran Church 5th & Montana, 307-548-7127 4 PM Bible Study 5 PM Worship Service Visitors Welcome! The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod WATER OF LIFE CHURCH Meeting Sundays at 10:30 AM in the Cowley Log Gym WEDNESDAYS: 6:30 PM REvolution (Youth Group) 6:45 PM Adult Bible Study 6:45 PM AmazingRedeemedKids Pastor Johannes Slabbert 307-271-1113 Text or call for locations of Wednesday meetings. theatre Wyoming’s Largest Screen Lovell, Wyoming | 548-7021| www.hyarttheatre.com ALL SHOWS $2 ALL SHOWS $2 INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADE Friday, Jan. 1 | 7 PM Sat., Jan. 2 | 3 & 7 PM Rated PG-13 2 hours, 7 min. In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers. Masks are required until seated. 1115 Lane 12, Lovell, WY - 307-548-5200 www.nbhh.com ALL DATES ARE TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE, PLEASE CONTACT PROVIDER FOR UPDATES UPCOMING CLINICS PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES Jenny Titus, DNP, FPMHNP-BC January 4 • 888-504-4074 MIDWIFE Sharae Bischoff, APRN January 13 & 27 307-754-7770 CARDIOLOGY Kristin Scott-Tillery, MD January 15 406-238-2000 SURGERY Randy Folker, MD February 307-586-5300 PODIATRY Big Horn Foot Clinic Lael Beachler, DPM January 6 & 21 • 888-950-9191 ORTHOPEDICS Mark Ryzewicz, MD January 14 & 25 307-578-2180 ORTHOPEDICS Jimmie Edwards, PA-C January 22 307-578-1955 DERMATOLOGY Jake Fagan, MD February 800-332-7156 GENERAL SURGERY Barry Mangus, MD January 12 307-548-5201 ORTHOPEDICS Clint Merritt, PA January 14 & 25 307-578-2180 ONCOLOGY Sam Abuerreish, MD January 26 307-347-2555 HEARING AID CLINIC Alfred McLees April 800-331-6009 ONCOLOGY Shin Yin Lee, MD January 12 800-332-7156 GENERAL SURGERY Michael Hill, MD January 14 & 28 307-548-5201 ONCOLOGY Patrick Cobb, MD Telemed 406-438-6290 FOOT CLINIC 307-548-5213 Call for appointment and information PUBLIC NOTICE The Big Horn County Airport Board will be holding it’s first meeting on January 5, 2021, at 7 PM, at the Lovell Annex building in Lovell to conduct general business of the Board. Those interested in the airports are encouraged to attend. Big Horn County Airport Board LETTERS OF INTEREST The Town of Lovell is requesting citizens who are interested in serving on Town Council to submit a letter of interest to Town Hall by January 4 at 5 PM. Town Council will review all letters and allow all interested parties to speak with Council during an open forum on Tuesday January 19. Council will make their decision to fill the vacant seat at the February 9, regular meeting. Dorothy Jean Demaree Aug. 29, 1932 – Dec. 25, 2020 Dorothy Jean Red- ding Demaree, 88, passed away in Lovell on Christ- mas Day, Dec. 25, 2020, of natural causes. Doro- thy was born in Hardin, Mont., Aug. 29, 1932, to Coil Austin Redding and Florence Irene Hoffman of Sarpy, Mont. She was the sixth of 12 children. She attended Wolf School during her grade school years in Sarpy and then Hardin High School. She lived briefly in Den- ver with her sisters after high school and then re- turned to the Montana she loved and always called home. She worked in Billings at Securi- ty Bank as a telephone switchboard operator. On Aug. 31, 1964, she married Norris Dema- ree of Billings and raised three children on a small ranch in Shepherd, Mont. Following retirement, they moved into Billings, where they remained un- til Norris died in 2012. They were married for 48 years. Dorothy continued to live alone and was busy with church ac- tivities at the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- ter-day Saints and work- ing in the Billings Tem- ple. Dorothy was known for her healthy and ac- tive life. She even worked part-time at a local nurs- ing home until age 80 when she finally re- tired. Prior to her death she had moved closer to her daughter, Dawn, in Cowley. Dorothy loved coun- try music. She wrote songs and played the pi- ano, guitar and violin by ear. Those from her ear- ly years remember that she played for dances at the old schoolhouse. Dorothy loved cattle and horses. In 1951 she was the Hardin Rodeo Queen commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Custer Battlefield. Dorothy was well known for gardening, canning, baking, sewing, quilting, oil painting and family history work. She had the greatest love for her parents, many sib- lings, nieces and neph- ews and especially her children, grand-chil- dren and great-grand- children. But, mostly, she will always be known for her great love of her sav- ior Jesus Christ and her Heavenly Father. Dorothy was preced- ed in death by her hus- band, Norris Demaree; sons NJ and Jimmy; par- ents Coil and Irene Red- ding; brothers June, Rich (Charlotte) and Donnie (Billie) Redding; and sis- ters Florence (Charles) Kovis, Shirley Redding, Joan (Ed) Louk, and Judy (Ronnie) Reed. Survivors include daughter Dawn (Buck) Hardwick of Cowley, sister Patricia (Jerold) Evanson of Sandy, Utah, brothers Tommy (Ginger) Redding of Fort Shaw, Mont., Jerry (Sandy) of West Jordan, Utah, and Leonard (Nancy) of But- ler, Mo.; grandchildren Bryce (Megan), Seth (Sar- ah), Cody, Shea and Zane Hardwick, Hayley and Garth Demaree, Mack- enzie Teichroew, Lane Demaree and Garrin; and great-grandchildren Monty, Mackly Hardwick and Michael Littlebear. Funeral services were Wednesday, Dec. 30, at 11 a.m., with a viewing at 9:30 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- ter-day Saints in Cowley, followed by the burial at Mountview Cemetery in Billings at 2:30 p.m. Robert Gene Good Feb. 18, 1949 – Dec. 23, 2020 Robert Gene Good passed away Dec. 23, 2020, in Mesa, Ariz., at the age of 71. He passed peaceful- ly while surrounded by his family. Bob was the second of four children born to Jo- seph Howe Good and Ag- nes Louise Bookout Good. He was born on Feb. 18, 1949. He had an old- er brother, Gary, younger brother, Rusty, and a sister that passed away as an in- fant, Betty Jo. He loved to work. He started working at a very young age. As a sophomore in high school, he took out his first loan to buy a small herd of cattle. He worked very hard farming and ranching with his family all through his teenage years. He loved working with cat- tle and horses, hauling and stacking hay and being in the great outdoors. He also enjoyed camping, hunting and fishing. He graduated from Lovell High School in May 1968. He attended Ricks Col- lege, where he worked as a campus police officer and also spent time working for the Idaho Game and Fish Department. He married Debora Wardell on May 16, 1969, in the Idaho Falls Tem- ple. In 1970, they started their family and had three daughters and one son, Bobbie Jo, Tia Cherie, Hol- ly Dee and Jade. He spent several years serving as chief of police of Lovell and as a depu- ty sheriff, and working for the Wyoming Game and Fish. Those days he spent serving in law enforce- ment were his glory days. He had fond memories of that time. Later, he joined the family trucking business. Good Transportation had around 50 semi-trucks and hauled loads to 17 western states. They hauled live- stock, wall board, lumber, etc. The trucking business was the mainstay for many years. As life changed, he had the opportunity to learn the trade of being a skilled brick layer. He joined AD Wardell Masonry crew. His talent can be seen at the school in Pinedale and the science building at North- west College in Powell, to name a few. In 1997, Bob injured his back. He nev- er fully recovered. It was a life changing event for him. Bob spent many days working in his yard and tending to his pet cows with his trusty border collie companion, Sierra. He took great pride in his yard. He loved all animals and enjoyed giving them lots of treats. He also served as a home teacher, primary teacher and building coor- dinator for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2018, after a very hard year, they decided to move. His health was de- clining, and they made the hard choice to sell their home of 40 years and move to Arizona for the abun- dant sunshine and to be closer to their daughter. Bob is survived by his wife, Debora; children Bobbie Jo (Greg) Turley, Tia Cherie (Tony) Dammen and Jade (Brandi) Good; grand- children Logan and Katie Turley, Dalton Croft, Gun- nar Dammen and Aytch and Alyssa Good; one great-grandchild with one on the way; mother Lou- ise; brother Rusty; as well as numerous nieces and nephews. His father, Joseph Howe Good, brother Gary, sister Betty Jo and daugh- ter Holly Dee preceded him in death. The funeral services will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- ter-day Saints in Lovell on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, at 11 a.m., followed by the burial at the Lovell Cemetery. County reviews requests for Community Charitable Relief Program funds BY BARBARA ANNE GREENE At a special meeting on Dec. 29, the Big Horn County commissioners re- viewed requests for the Charitable Relief Program funds that were allocated to the county. The county did not fund any of the re- quests at this meeting. County Clerk Lori Smallwood had distributed a notice on Dec. 23, say- ing, “The Big Horn Coun- ty Commissioners are pleased to announce that the county will receive $248,375 from the gover- nor’s office to help chari- table organizations in Big Horn County. Eligible or- ganizations must be non- profit 501C3 or 501C19 or- ganizations who operate in Big Horn County and provided direct services to citizens of Big Horn County.” The notice also said the county had been ad- vised by the Wyoming County Commissioners Association that the ex- tension that would allow this program to extend to March 2021 is in jeopardy of a veto by the president which means these funds would need to be issued by the original December 30 deadline. The commissioners prioritized this funding to help eligible agencies that provided assistance to Big Horn County residents be- tween March 19, 2020 – Dec. 30, 2020. The assistance prior- ities were: mental health and counseling services; food and clothing; trans- portation; childcare; tu- toring assistance to stu- dents struggling with distance learning or tele- work; temporary hous- ing, PPE or other expens- es necessary to continue safely providing services. The commission re- viewed the nine appli- cants that submitted the applications by the Dec. 28 deadline. At the start of the meeting Smallwood informed the commission that President Trump had signed the bill so the funds did not have to be paid out by Dec. 30. The funds must be expended before March 30. Also in attendance were members of the county’s COVID-19 inci- dent response team in Ken Blackburn, Chad Lindsey, Hillary Mulley and LaR- ae Dobbs as well as BHC Treasurer Becky Lindsey. The commissioners had asked them to review the applications and attend the meeting to be a part of the discussion. At the end of the two- hour meeting the commis- sion decided to seek addi- tional information from six of the requests and to re- ject three of the requests. Letters will be sent to six of the organizations that ap- plied, asking for addition- al information. Letters will be sent to the three re- jected requests, explaining they did not meet the grant requirements. Those three organizations may reapply if they change the parame- ters of their application to fit the requirements. Smallwood said in gen- eral many of the applica- tions did not provide com- parisons of expenditures from 2019 and 2020. The commissioners also want- ed additional information on if the group had already received CARES funding. The reason three of the re- quests were rejected was because the funds are eli- gible only for expenditures or losses that took place between March 19 and Dec. 30. So requests for some- thing that hasn’t happened yet is not eligible. For ex- ample some requests were for equipment, additional staff hours, etc. The county has re- opened the process and will be adding a section eight priority, which would allow those that lost dona- tions to qualify. Those that were ta- bled until additional infor- mation is received do not have to reapply. They do need to have the additional information to the county by Jan. 18. New applicants or rejected applicants that are reapplying also must submit by Jan. 18. The commissioners will hold a special meet- ing on Jan. 25 to review the requests again. Re- quests should be delivered to the Big Horn County Clerk’s Office, Basin, WY or emailed to lori.smallwood@ bighorncountywy.gov.

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2 | The Lovell Chronicle | December 31, 2020

St. Joseph’sCatholic Church

1141 Shoshone Ave. • Lovell, WY Rosary Sunday - 10:30 AM Sacrifice of the MassSunday – 11 am

Daily Mass & ConfessionsCheck monthly calendar on www.StJosephLovell.comFr. Glen Szczechowski

For weekly schedule call 548-2282

SERVICESSunday, 1-3pm at Assembly of God Church

310 Idaho Ave., Lovell

For special prayer requests call Pastor Cox.

Pastor Gerald Cox970-629-2085

The Church of GodLovell

Assembly of GodChurch

ServicesMorning Worship AM -- 10:50 Wed. Bible Study -- PM 7

310 Idaho Ave., Lovell

Rev. Dan Jarvis307-548-7105 The Bible

Church

SundayWorship Service 9 AM

Sunday School 10:30 AM

WednesdayPrayer 6:30 PM

Rev. Kurt McNabb307-548-7390

56 E. Main St., Lovellwww.lovellbiblechurchwy.net

TheUnited Methodist Church

Serving Northern Big Horn County

99 YEARS

at the corner of Park & Shoshone, Lovell

307-548-7478

Food Pantry, Fridays, 3-5 PM

PastorJanita Krayniak

Sunday: 9 AM

Can’t wait for the postman? Read the Chronicle online first thing

Thursday morning!Find out how at

http://lovellchronicle.wy.newsmemory.com/

your photo TODAY call 307-548-2217

email [email protected]

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lately?email your news to: [email protected] your news to: [email protected]

St. John’s Lutheran Church

5th & Montana, 307-548-7127

4 PM

Bible Study

5 PM

Worship Service

Visitors Welcome! The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

WATER OF LIFE CHURCHMeeting Sundays at 10:30 am in the Cowley Log Gym

WEDNESDAYS:6:30 pm REvolution (Youth Group)

6:45 pm Adult Bible Study

6:45 pm AmazingRedeemedKids

Pastor Johannes Slabbert

307-271-1113

Text or call for locations of

Wednesday meetings.

theatreWyoming’s Largest Screen

Lovell, Wyoming | 548-7021| www.hyarttheatre.com

ALL SHOWS $2 ALL SHOWS $2

INDIANA JONES & THE LAST CRUSADEFriday, Jan. 1 | 7 pm

Sat., Jan. 2 | 3 & 7 pmRated PG-13 • 2 hours, 7 min.

In 1938, after his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. finds himself up against Adolf Hitler's Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.

Masks are required

until seated.

1115 Lane 12, Lovell, WY - 307-548-5200 www.nbhh.com

ALL DATES ARE TENTATIVE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE, PLEASE CONTACT PROVIDER FOR UPDATES

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PSYCHIATRIC SERVICESJenny Titus,

DNP, FPMHNP-BCJanuary 4 • 888-504-4074

MIDWIFESharae Bischoff, APRN

January 13 & 27307-754-7770

CARDIOLOGYKristin Scott-Tillery, MD

January 15406-238-2000

SURGERYRandy Folker, MD

February 307-586-5300

PODIATRYBig Horn Foot Clinic

Lael Beachler, DPMJanuary 6 & 21 • 888-950-9191

ORTHOPEDICSMark Ryzewicz, MD

January 14 & 25 307-578-2180

ORTHOPEDICSJimmie Edwards, PA-C

January 22307-578-1955

DERMATOLOGYJake Fagan, MD

February800-332-7156

GENERAL SURGERYBarry Mangus, MD

January 12307-548-5201

ORTHOPEDICSClint Merritt, PA

January 14 & 25 307-578-2180

ONCOLOGYSam Abuerreish, MD

January 26307-347-2555

HEARING AID CLINICAlfred McLees

April800-331-6009

ONCOLOGYShin Yin Lee, MD

January 12800-332-7156

GENERAL SURGERYMichael Hill, MD

January 14 & 28307-548-5201

ONCOLOGYPatrick Cobb, MD

Telemed406-438-6290

FOOT CLINIC307-548-5213

Call for appointment and information

PUBLIC NOTICEThe Big Horn County Airport Board will be holding it’s first meeting on

January 5, 2021, at 7 pm, at the Lovell Annex building in Lovell to conduct

general business of the Board. Those interested in the airports are encouraged to attend.

Big Horn County Airport Board

LETTERS OF INTERESTThe Town of Lovell is requesting citizens who are interested in serving on Town Council to submit a letter of interest to Town Hall by January 4 at 5 pm. Town Council will review all letters and allow all interested parties to speak with Council during an open forum on Tuesday January 19. Council will make their decision to fill the vacant seat at the February 9, regular meeting.

Dorothy Jean DemareeAug. 29, 1932 – Dec. 25, 2020

Dorothy Jean Red-ding Demaree, 88, passed away in Lovell on Christ-mas Day, Dec. 25, 2020, of natural causes. Doro-thy was born in Hardin, Mont., Aug. 29, 1932, to Coil Austin Redding and Florence Irene Hoffman of Sarpy, Mont. She was the sixth of 12 children.

She attended Wolf School during her grade school years in Sarpy and then Hardin High School. She lived briefly in Den-ver with her sisters after high school and then re-turned to the Montana she loved and always called home. She worked in Billings at Securi-ty Bank as a telephone switchboard operator.

On Aug. 31, 1964, she married Norris Dema-ree of Billings and raised three children on a small ranch in Shepherd, Mont. Following retirement, they moved into Billings, where they remained un-til Norris died in 2012. They were married for 48 years.

Dorothy continued to live alone and was busy with church ac-tivities at the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-day Saints and work-ing in the Billings Tem-ple. Dorothy was known for her healthy and ac-tive life. She even worked part-time at a local nurs-ing home until age 80 when she finally re-tired. Prior to her death she had moved closer to her daughter, Dawn, in Cowley.

Dorothy loved coun-try music. She wrote songs and played the pi-ano, guitar and violin by ear. Those from her ear-ly years remember that she played for dances at the old schoolhouse. Dorothy loved cattle and horses. In 1951 she was the Hardin Rodeo Queen commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Custer Battlefield.

Dorothy was well known for gardening, canning, baking, sewing, quilting, oil painting and

family history work. She had the greatest love for her parents, many sib-lings, nieces and neph-ews and especially her children, grand-chil-dren and great-grand-children. But, mostly, she will always be known for her great love of her sav-ior Jesus Christ and her Heavenly Father.

Dorothy was preced-ed in death by her hus-band, Norris Demaree; sons NJ and Jimmy; par-ents Coil and Irene Red-ding; brothers June, Rich (Charlotte) and Donnie (Billie) Redding; and sis-ters Florence (Charles) Kovis, Shirley Redding, Joan (Ed) Louk, and Judy (Ronnie) Reed.

Survivors include daughter Dawn (Buck) Hardwick of Cowley, sister Patricia (Jerold) Evanson of Sandy, Utah, brothers Tommy (Ginger) Redding of Fort Shaw, Mont., Jerry (Sandy) of West Jordan, Utah, and Leonard (Nancy) of But-ler, Mo.; grandchildren Bryce (Megan), Seth (Sar-ah), Cody, Shea and Zane Hardwick, Hayley and Garth Demaree, Mack-enzie Teichroew, Lane Demaree and Garrin; and great-grandchildren Monty, Mackly Hardwick and Michael Littlebear.

Funeral services were Wednesday, Dec. 30, at 11 a.m., with a viewing at 9:30 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-day Saints in Cowley, followed by the burial at Mountview Cemetery in Billings at 2:30 p.m.

Robert Gene GoodFeb. 18, 1949 – Dec. 23, 2020

Robert Gene Good passed away Dec. 23, 2020, in Mesa, Ariz., at the age of 71. He passed peaceful-ly while surrounded by his family.

Bob was the second of four children born to Jo-seph Howe Good and Ag-nes Louise Bookout Good. He was born on Feb. 18, 1949. He had an old-er brother, Gary, younger brother, Rusty, and a sister that passed away as an in-fant, Betty Jo.

He loved to work. He started working at a very young age. As a sophomore in high school, he took out his first loan to buy a small herd of cattle. He worked very hard farming and ranching with his family all through his teenage years. He loved working with cat-tle and horses, hauling and stacking hay and being in the great outdoors. He also enjoyed camping, hunting and fishing. He graduated from Lovell High School in May 1968.

He attended Ricks Col-lege, where he worked as a campus police officer and also spent time working for the Idaho Game and Fish Department.

He married Debora Wardell on May 16, 1969, in the Idaho Falls Tem-ple. In 1970, they started their family and had three daughters and one son, Bobbie Jo, Tia Cherie, Hol-ly Dee and Jade.

He spent several years serving as chief of police of Lovell and as a depu-ty sheriff, and working for the Wyoming Game and Fish. Those days he spent serving in law enforce-ment were his glory days. He had fond memories of that time.

Later, he joined the family trucking business. Good Transportation had around 50 semi-trucks and hauled loads to 17 western states. They hauled live-stock, wall board, lumber, etc. The trucking business was the mainstay for many years.

As life changed, he had the opportunity to learn the trade of being a skilled brick layer. He joined AD Wardell Masonry crew. His talent can be seen at the school in Pinedale and the

science building at North-west College in Powell, to name a few. In 1997, Bob injured his back. He nev-er fully recovered. It was a life changing event for him.

Bob spent many days working in his yard and tending to his pet cows with his trusty border collie companion, Sierra. He took great pride in his yard. He loved all animals and enjoyed giving them lots of treats.

He also served as a home teacher, primary teacher and building coor-dinator for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In 2018, after a very hard year, they decided to move. His health was de-clining, and they made the hard choice to sell their home of 40 years and move to Arizona for the abun-dant sunshine and to be closer to their daughter.

Bob is survived by his wife, Debora; children Bobbie Jo (Greg) Turley, Tia Cherie (Tony) Dammen and Jade (Brandi) Good; grand-children Logan and Katie Turley, Dalton Croft, Gun-nar Dammen and Aytch and Alyssa Good; one great-grandchild with one on the way; mother Lou-ise; brother Rusty; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

His father, Joseph Howe Good, brother Gary, sister Betty Jo and daugh-ter Holly Dee preceded him in death.

The funeral services will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-day Saints in Lovell on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, at 11 a.m., followed by the burial at the Lovell Cemetery.

County reviews requests for Community Charitable Relief Program funds BY BARBARA ANNE GREENE

At a special meeting on Dec. 29, the Big Horn County commissioners re-viewed requests for the Charitable Relief Program funds that were allocated to the county. The county did not fund any of the re-quests at this meeting.

County Clerk Lori Smallwood had distributed a notice on Dec. 23, say-ing, “The Big Horn Coun-ty Commissioners are pleased to announce that the county will receive $248,375 from the gover-nor’s office to help chari-table organizations in Big Horn County. Eligible or-ganizations must be non-profit 501C3 or 501C19 or-ganizations who operate in Big Horn County and provided direct services to citizens of Big Horn County.”

The notice also said the county had been ad-vised by the Wyoming County Commissioners Association that the ex-tension that would allow this program to extend to March 2021 is in jeopardy of a veto by the president which means these funds would need to be issued by the original December 30 deadline.

The commissioners prioritized this funding to help eligible agencies that provided assistance to Big Horn County residents be-tween March 19, 2020 – Dec. 30, 2020.

The assistance prior-ities were: mental health and counseling services; food and clothing; trans-portation; childcare; tu-toring assistance to stu-dents struggling with distance learning or tele-work; temporary hous-ing, PPE or other expens-es necessary to continue safely providing services.

The commission re-viewed the nine appli-cants that submitted the applications by the Dec. 28 deadline. At the start of the meeting Smallwood informed the commission that President Trump had signed the bill so the funds did not have to be paid out by Dec. 30. The funds must be expended before March 30.

Also in attendance were members of the

county’s COVID-19 inci-dent response team in Ken Blackburn, Chad Lindsey, Hillary Mulley and LaR-ae Dobbs as well as BHC Treasurer Becky Lindsey. The commissioners had asked them to review the applications and attend the meeting to be a part of the discussion.

At the end of the two-hour meeting the commis-sion decided to seek addi-tional information from six of the requests and to re-ject three of the requests. Letters will be sent to six of the organizations that ap-plied, asking for addition-al information. Letters will be sent to the three re-jected requests, explaining they did not meet the grant requirements. Those three organizations may reapply if they change the parame-ters of their application to fit the requirements.

Smallwood said in gen-eral many of the applica-tions did not provide com-parisons of expenditures from 2019 and 2020. The commissioners also want-ed additional information on if the group had already received CARES funding. The reason three of the re-quests were rejected was because the funds are eli-gible only for expenditures or losses that took place between March 19 and Dec. 30. So requests for some-thing that hasn’t happened yet is not eligible. For ex-ample some requests were for equipment, additional staff hours, etc.

The county has re-opened the process and will be adding a section eight priority, which would allow those that lost dona-tions to qualify.

Those that were ta-bled until additional infor-mation is received do not have to reapply. They do need to have the additional information to the county by Jan. 18. New applicants or rejected applicants that are reapplying also must submit by Jan. 18.

The commissioners will hold a special meet-ing on Jan. 25 to review the requests again. Re-quests should be delivered to the Big Horn County Clerk’s Office, Basin, WY or emailed to [email protected].