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star Casper Area Saturday, December 24, 1 988 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo A3 Girls Club ends year of turmoil in sound condition financially United Way funds coming through -'1 I some place there they're provided some structured time." Harris hopes to start working with delinquent teen-agers who would volunteer at the club as tutors, for example. "We have a good latchkey program. I'd like to see thai expanded," she said. "I'd like to see more of the community involved in positive role-modeling for the children (and) work a little more with the youth of Casper just in general." Teens working at the club will get "a sense of pride and accomplishment" promoting self-esteem, Harris said. "You can't help but to improve a lot of things if you take time to help a child improve his self-worth," she said.

Harris was affiliated with daycare facilities in Casper for seven years before filling the director's slot at die Girls Club. She said she was "not real acquainted with what had gone on" at the club before she took over in November. However, "in the last two months alone there's been a world of difference," she said. Wait said the board wants to make the Girls Club available to the community when the building is not in use by members. Rental of the structure to day-care providers for recreational purposes has been proposed.

"The facility would be available from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the day-cares, particularly the smaller day-cares," she explained. Operators who would "like to get the kids out" when the weather is bad will have a place to go, Wait said. "I'm reallv excited about that," she added.

"We're trying to facilitate expanded use of the building by the community by designing particular programs geared toward getting the facility used more," she said. "We've been getting requests for things like receptions. we can do to aid the community's cause." The club has applied for a Ford Motor Co. grant to buy new vans used to transport children from school. "We are hoping to follow up on some of the grant information that has been accumulated through the years," Wait said.

"The Girls Club is actually on waiting lists it's just a matter of applying." Being a board member is "a lot of work," Wait noted. "1 had no concept" of what the volunteer job entailed before being appointed, she said. By EMILY QUARTERMAN Star-T ribune staff writer CASPER A year fraught with turmoil for the Girls Club of Casper is ending with new-found solvency under new leadership, club officials say. "We are in the black as far as we were in the red when 1 first came on the board" last summer, board member Janie Wait said Thursday. Internal disputes at the Girls Club became public in June when then-director Julie Owens was abruptly fired, replaced by former board member Carol Sera.

Sera shut down the club's summer day-care camp program without advance notice a move loudly protested by a group of parents who, led by Wait, formed a coalition to open the club's operation to members' input. Wait later was named to the board and elected secretary. Also this summer, the club's main revenue source, the United Way, made continued funding conditional on passage of a monthly review. The club's checks never were withheld, however, United Way Executive Director Don An-drussaid. "They've been receiving their funding," Andrus said Thursday.

"We've been meeting with them on a monthly basis. We haven't met with them yet during December to get a status report. their memberships have been increasing and they seem to be heading in the right direction." Sera, who took over the club's management on a volunteer basis, quit, and newly appointed club board member Jackie Boyles became director. But Boyles also left the post, and Connie Harris was hired. Harris has been directing the club for about six weeks, Wait said.

Of the board members seated when the upheaval at the Girls Club began, only one remains president Dick Sheldon. The new members, in addition to Wait and Boyles, are George Steinman, Von-nie Hitch and Barbara Reese, Wait said. The club is only open between 3 and 6 p.m. for more than 30 children between the ages of 5 and 16 participating daily in the "latchkey" program, Wait and Harris said. Harris said the "latchkey" service is open to "anyone who's stuck home all alone" after school.

"It doesn't matter what age," she said. "We want the kids off of the streets and out of empty homes in "I iff .1 4 1 .7 and "40 micrograms H2S per cubic meter, hour average not to be exceeded more than 2 times in any five consecutive days." Brookhurst residents have continued to complain about the characteristic "rotten egg" smell of H2S within the subdivision. However, the odor can be detected at concentrations well below the levels set for air quality violations by the state. According to the United Nations International Programme on Chemical Safety, "The threshhold of perception of this odour varies considerably depending on individual sensitivity, but under laboratory Energy firms sought to join city centennial CASPER Energy companies who want to take part in Casper's Centennial celebration are urged to contact the Centennial's Energy Committee, the committee announced recently. Tours of the Salt Creek, Teapot Dome, and South Casper oil fields are planned as part of the celebrations, along with a history of the energy industry in Casper, to be written by Art Randall with the Natrona County Historical Society.

Companies interested in contributing money to the committee or in planning activities related to the Centennial are encouraged to contact Murray Dahill, 234-4309, or Gail Dawson, 266-2824. Police nab two men in vandalism spree CASPER Acting on a Crimestoppers tip, police Wednesday arrested two young men in connection with a vandalism spree last weekend, Interim Chief Mike Colling said Thursday. Police arrested Mike Wicks, 20, and a 17-year-old male on suspicion of breaking six vehicle mirrors, four windshields, and spray painting 12 vehicles Dec. 16 and 17, Colling said. New raison d'etre for Guard battalion CHEYENNE The wartime mission of the Wyoming National Guard's Third Battalion, 49th Field Artillery, has been changed to one of providing fire support to Montana's 163rd Armored Brigade, Wyoming's adjutant general announced this week.

The battalion's authorized troop strength will rise by 150, the general announced. And the Third Battalion's nine, eight-inch MHO self-propelled howitzers are being replaced by M109 self-propelled howitzers with 155mm cannons, Maj. Gen. Charles Wing announced. The battalion's mission had been one of general support, he said.

As a result of the change, the unit will offer its soldiers training in digital communications, radar, and meteorology. Two sentenced in district court CASPER Two people were sentenced in 7th District Court this week, according to the district attorney's office. Steve Walsh, 20, was sentenced to two years of supervised probation and a $750 fine for auto theft. He must also pay restitution and $50 to the victims' compensatin fund, perform community service, and undergo counseling and drug and alcohol testing. Lynda Shaw, 30, was sentenced to probation and restitution for filing false unemployment vouchers.

Man arrested in sex assault of girl CASPER A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday by Nationa County sheriff's officers in connection with a sexual assault of an underage girl that allegedly occurred last July, Interim Police Chief Mike Colling said Friday. The man was arrested by the officers on a warrant issued as a result of an investigation by city police, Colling said. Zbignieu Bdak Star-Tribune Neither rain, nor snow nor lack of reindeer prevents mail carrier Mike Sucher IVTllilclHUS "rom comP'et'n8 n's appointed rounds as he delivers mail Friday on Center Street. Sucher dresses as Santa every year on the two days before Christmas. ii H2S violations conditions it ranees from 0.0008 to 0.20ugm3." During the most recent 34-day measurement period, 818 one-hour measurements were taken.

The highest concentration of H2S was 50 ugm3, on Nov. 11. This "ex-ceedence" of the 40 ugm3 standard was not followed closely by a second one, however, so did not constitute a violation under the regulations. Monitoring records show that 749 of the 818 one-hour samples about 92 percent showed concentrations of H2S of 15 ugm3 or lower. i Brookluirst monitor detects no 7VVVVVVVVVVVV AAAAAAAAAAAAAA, in blll'S By DAN WHIPPLE Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Air quality monitors in the Brookhurst subdivision picked up no violations of hydrogen sulfide standards between Oct.

25 and Nov. 11. It was the first monitoring interval since April that no H2S violations were detected within the subdivision. The Department of Environmental Quality has issued a notice of violation to the Little America Refinery in Evansville, which the agency suspects of being responsible for the problem. little America, however, has been unable to find any correlation between the H2S emissions and activities at the There have been repeated air quality violations of the H2S standards detected at a monitoring station set up at a residence in the subdivision.

State regulations require that 1 12S concentrations not exceecd "70 micrograms per cubic meter (ug m3), hour average not to be exceeded more than 2 times per ear;" Free Christmas dinners Sunday CASPER Free Christmas dinner will be available at three locations in Casper Sunday. The SaKation Army, 625 S. Jefferson, will serve food from I to 3 p.m. and the Central Wyoming Rescue Mission, 740 CY is offering dinner to the public at 7 p.m. Mama's Corner, a restaurant at 519 W.

Wyoming Blvd. in is planning to serve from 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Reservations arc required and can be made by calling 266-1414. ycOMPlETEWATERBEDS.

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