Chamber member lunch meeting today at noon

A man asked a gardener why his plants grew so beautifully. The gardener said: “I don’t force them to grow. I remove what stops them.”

There is a chamber membership meeting today (Thursday, Feb. 13). Lunch will be provided by a person who shall not be named. Please bring what is happening in your business to share during the roundtable. 

Time to start planning Lilac Days, which is the first weekend in June. Looking for fresh ideas and younger minds. Please let us know if you would like to be involved. 

We are still collecting pop tabs to donate to Shriners Children’s Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, etc. We are also collecting items to go in SWAG bags to our five elected officials (governor, superintendent, treasurer, auditor and secretary of state). I’ll be heading down at the end of this month. Pens, stickers, fun stuff. Thank you to Big Horn REA, Paintrock Processing, Big Horn County Weed & Pest, Big Horn County Citizens for Economic Development, Big Horn County Fair and Wyoming State Parks for already for supplying items. If you are a business that has an item, might I suggest you do what Wyoming Buffalo Company does? Lisa attaches a card with the website and a discount code good for a limited amount of time. It drives people to her website to shop. (She is so smart.)

Thank you, Larsen’s Bicycles, Wyoming Modern Tech, Wyoming Wares, Big Horn REA, Basin First Baptist, University of Wyoming Extension-Big Horn County for your chamber membership renewals. 

Chamber member news:

 • Town of Basin: Council meeting, Feb. 13, 7 p.m. Time to license your animals; all animals within town limits must be licensed by March 1. 

• Town of Manderson: Council meeting, Feb 13, 6:30 p.m. 

• BHCSD #4: Destination Imagination food collection drive and cotton candy sale Feb. 13 at Riverside basketball games. 

• Big Horn County Citizens for Economic Development: Their conservation guide is complete and printed. Look for a postcard in the mail. You may take the postcard to any of the locations listed on the card to get a hard copy of the book. You may also access it online at bighornhandbook.org

• Friends of the Basin Library: Friends of the Greybull Library will have a meeting Thursday, Feb. 13 at 5:15 p.m. at the Greybull Library. This will be their annual membership party with pie and ice cream.

• Big Horn County: Library book sale all of February in Basin. 

• Basin City Arts Center: Thursday, Feb. 13, Basin City Arts Center monthly meeting 6 p.m. ballroom. Everyone welcome! See us on Facebook. Saturday, Feb. 15, Jeff Troxel Trio at Basin City Arts Center 7-8-30 p.m. Outstanding trio of local musicians play jazz and pop standards. Tickets at the door: single adult $15, couple $25, students 6th-12th single $10, couple $15. Fifth grade and under are free. Join us on Facebook.

• St. Andrews: Neat Repeat Store, Friday, Feb. 13, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

• Friends of the Basin Library: Saturday, March 29. Friends of the Basin Library Wild West Cowboy Murder Mystery and BBQ Dinner. Harris Hall 5 p.m. Tickets: $15 per person. Deadline to sign up for 14 roles at the BHC Library: Monday, March 17. Contact Jennifer 307-431-6297 for tickets.

• The SHACK: Did you know that we are back open on Thursdays! So that means we are back to our normal hours of Monday through Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Friday 1-4 p.m. and 7-10 p.m., Saturday 7-10 p.m. Volunteer opportunities: Saturday night supervisor, board member, assistant supervisors for Tuesday, Thursday, Friday afternoon, Saturdays. COMING SOON: Next month we will have an update on our building progress while showing our Priority is the current programming. We will have some Windows 10 desktop computers that we can sell for $50 each. If you have any interest in purchasing a computer, please let me know by emailing theshackexd@gmail.com

• American Legion Auxiliary: Stop Veterans suicide rally, Feb. 22, noon at corner of C and Fourth Streets.