Keep your sparkle today

Let not one person take away your sparkle today. Shine bright and have a great day. (Thanks for the reminder Gretty). 

Thank you Security State Bank, J & E, Inc, WYO Sprinkler & Landscaping, and RE/MAX Elevation (Nicole & Curtis Lindgren) for your chamber membership renewals.

We greatly appreciate Tom Newman State Farm and Basin City Arts Center for sponsoring Entertainment in the Park Thursday nights June 19 - July 24 at 7 p.m. We are still working on doing something extra fun for the July 3 date. Maybe hot dogs, snow cones, games and of course music. Please let us know if you have any ideas.  

Lilac Days is June 6 - 7. Soon you will see boxes for your votes for Lilac Queen. This needs to be a woman in the Basin area that has made a difference in our communities. Currently, only women sixty-plus are eligible. This may change if the queen committee will let me. The townwide yard sale is June 21. 

Thank you, Susan Wynn, for a wonderful chamber lunch last week. Who knew BBQ spaghetti with pulled pork was a thing?  It was so good as were the Texas Twinkies, baked beans and chocolate cobbler. 

Chamber member news:  

 • UW Extension 4-H: Garden Expo, April 30, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.. Please RSVP by April 24. Ag Day, May 1 for 2nd and 3rd graders at the Fairgrounds in Basin. Graze into spring, May 10, 2 - 4 p.m. at Shell Bar. Spring charcuterie bits and bites class, $25. Pairing beverages $3 a sample or $6 a glass. Please RSVP for any of these events.  (Gretty 307-272-0576).  

• Town of Basin:  Budget workshop April 18, noon.  Town residents clean-up day, April 26, 9 a.m. - noon at the Fairgrounds in Basin. (See flyer in this week’s newspaper). 

 • Greybull Rec Center:  Easter skate - April 19, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Bring a basket or a bag to gather your treats as you skate. 

 •  Big Horn County SD #4:  LIE Spring Concert, April 17, 6:30 p.m. May 12, RMHS band/choir concert, 6:30 p.m. 

 • Wyoming Retirement Center:  Easter Egg Hunt, April 18, 2 p.m. (see attached) Benefit yard sale for Darcie Colwell-Tigner, April 26, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. A little bit of everything and a bake sale! 

 • St. Andrews: April 17 - Agape Supper Service, 5:30 p.m. April 18 - Stations of the Cross, 5:30 p.m. April 20-Easter Service, 11 a.m. 

• Basin First Baptist:  Good Friday service, 7 p.m. April 18 - Sunrise Service. April 20 - 7 a.m. followed by carry in breakfast at 8 a.m. 

• Town of Burlington:  Easter Egg Hunt, April 19.  

• Town of Manderson:  PD Highway Clean up, May 15, 20 a.m.   

• Midway Golf:  SPRING FLING 4-person Scramble! April 26. Call Midway Golf Club, 307-568-2255, to sign up! Better yet, come play a round and sign up at the Clubhouse!!

• Big Horn County Extension: University of Wyoming Extension - Artist Julie Werbelow is teaming up with the University of Wyoming Extension and the Basin Library to offer Art for Better Living watercolor painting classes on Monday afternoons from April 21 to June 2, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. There will be no class on Memorial Day. Call the Basin Library to sign up today. (307) 568-2388. (  

• Big Horn County Fair:  Fair Rodeo Royalty Contest, April 26 at 4 p.m.  Applications due April 18. 

• Basin City Arts Center:  Music Jam, April 24 (ballroom) 6:30 p.m. Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Review, April 26, 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Contact Carmen Olson for advance tickets 308-899-0446. Piatigorsky Piano Concert, May 3, 10 a.m. Donations for entry. 

• Camp Bethel:  Camp registration is open. Campbethelwyo.com