2001
The Joint Powers Telecom Board officially began its work on July 9, 2001, when the board first met after an agreement between the cities of Rock Springs and Green River was approved by the Attorney General.
The board spent most of the meeting on organizational matters.
Steve Shea, representative of the Rock Springs board of directors, was elected chairman and Jim Rogers, a representative of Green River, was elected vice chairman. Green River’s representative, Larry Harkrader, served as treasurer and Brad Sarff, Fire Chief of Rock Springs, served as secretary. All members were sworn in at the first meeting.
Shea, Sarff, Rogers, and a few others had worked as an unofficial committee for about two years to build a fiber optic network to connect Rock Springs and Green River to the rest of the world.
– The fourth Read and Win program, a national reading program by trade show associations, was sponsored locally by the Sweetwater County Library System, the Sweetwater County Events Complex, and the Sweetwater Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
Participants began registering at the local libraries in July 2001, through to the Sweetwater County Fair from July 28 to August 5, 2001.
Children in grades 2 to 8 could take part. They bought books from the libraries, read them, and then returned them to qualify for prizes. They explained aspects of the books they had returned to a librarian.
When they registered, the children received a free ticket to Wyoming’s Big Show. When they finished four books, they were given a carnival ride and lunch with Ronald McDonald at the fair on Children’s Day on August 1, 2001.
1991
– The city of Green River celebrated its centenary on July 5, 1991.
Green River High School’s All-Class Reunion Committee coordinated their reunion as part of the city’s centenary. All afternoon events on July 5, 1991 took place in Centennial Park, then still under construction, on Flaming Gorge Way.
In the afternoon, a combined Green River High School Choir and choir alumni provided musical entertainment.
Centennial Park was inaugurated and included speakers, Green River Mayor George Eckman, Green River City Council President Carl Williams, and Director of Parks and Recreation Roger Moellendorf.
The Chairman of the All-School Reunion Committee, Alton Hermansen, dedicated a memorial tree planting to the deceased Green River High School graduates.
Mayor Eckman and the coordinator of the Green River Centennial Queen Pageant, Bev Coberly, presented the winners of the competition in five categories.
The afternoon will be rounded off with sociable and musical ice cream entertainment by Dr. Douglas Deardon, of Plymouth Minnesota, graduated from a GRHS class of 1940 alumni.
On the evening of July 5, 1991, the All-Class Reunion Dance of Green River High School took place in the old Lincoln building, which until 1977 housed Green River High School. Yearbooks and other pictures and memorabilia from all GRHS classes were on display.
The Carson and Barnes Five-Ring Circus brought the largest big top in the world with two performances to the Sweetwater County Fairgrounds on July 21, 1991.
On the morning of July 21, 1991, the spectators were invited to watch the 23 elephants of the circus erecting the 61,000 square meter, block-long tent.
In addition to the 23 elephants, the circus included 250 people from 17 countries. Acts included jugglers, wire acts, flying trapeze artists, animal trainers, clowns and ring masters.
The circus’ traveling zoo comprised 25 species and featured elephants, a giraffe, a white rhinoceros, a pygmy hippopotamus, lions, tigers and a rare liger.
1981
– President Ronald Reagan named Judge Sandra Day O’Connor of Arizona on July 7, 1981, as the first female Supreme Court Justice in the 191 years of the Supreme Court.
O’Connor, 51, referred to by Reagan as “a person for all seasons,” would fill the vacancy left by Justice Potter Stewart’s retirement. As the 102nd judge of the court, after 101 “brothers”, she lived up to the president’s election promise to nominate a woman to one of the first positions in the Supreme Court.
Reagan had chosen O’Connor after a personal interview with her in the Oval Office and a subsequent phone call on July 6, 1981.
Reagan called on the Senate to swiftly and non-partisanly approve O’Connor so that she could take her place in court and her place in history as soon as possible. The Senate was on hiatus and did not resume until October 1981.
– The Sweetwater County Historical Museum displayed items made by Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts from a 60-year history.
The exhibit included manuals from the 1920s, a range of merit badges from 1927, committee patches, Camporee patches, Green River Trail patches, as well as a variety of Boy Scout memorabilia.
The exhibition was an interesting comparison of the progress made by scouting in the 1980s compared to scouting in the past.
The museum was located in the basement of the Sweetwater County Courthouse in Green River.
Compiled by Connie Wilcox-Timar. If you have information for the column or would like to contact them, email [email protected].
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