Community events happening around Goshen County.
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Singing Valentines offered
YODER – The Cy-Tones from Southeast High School will be offering Singing Valentines in honor of the holiday again this year.
Spouses, best friends, work colleagues or secret, special someones can receive a live, singing salute on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. Vocal students will be out and about most of the day, presenting the well wishes around Yoder, Torrington and Lingle.
Singers will be in Yoder from 8 to 9 a.m. and in Torrington and Lingle from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Individuals wishing to send a musical Valentine may select from six pieces of music.
Cost for the Valentines is $15, cash or check, with checks payable to Southeast Music. Requests may be delivered to the school or any Cy-Tone member or faxed to (307) 532-5771.
County commissioners scholarships available
TORRINGTON – Applications for County Commissioner’s scholarships are available in the County Clerk’s office or online at goshencounty.org. Three initial scholarships may be awarded.
The scholarships are for $500 per semester for one year. They are in addition to the Hathaway Merit Scholarships. Also, the students who received an award last year may apply for the single renewal scholarship. Only one renewal scholarship is awarded.
Applications must be received prior to May 1.
Workforce topic of EWC Roundtable
TORRINGTON – Community success and the workforce will be the topic of the next in a series of roundtable discussions hosted by Eastern Wyoming College President Lesley Travers here.
Travers invites business, industry and community members, as well as other interested parties, to the next Community Roundtable, set for noon on Thursday, Jan. 8, in the conference room of the CTEC Building on the EWC campus in Torrington.
Zippy Toad comes to THS auditorium
TORRINGTON – Fifth-graders from Trail Elementary will present their annual musical, Zippy Toad’s Zany Adventures, here in February.
Curtain times for the production are 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Torrington High School auditorium.
Gearing up for the production, each class wrote the speaking parts for its own, unique, Zippy Toad adventure. The students also learned five different musical selections to be played on the Recorder.
Pratt-Ferris Ranch presentation
TORRINGTON – The history and impact on the local agriculture community of the Pratt-Ferris Ranch will be the topic of a presentation at the next meeting of the Goshen County Historical Society.
The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, in the community room of the Platte Valley Bank branch on North Main Street in Torrington. Special guest will be Donna Cay Heinz, who will talk about the historic ranch, which was located in eastern Wyoming.
The Pratt-Ferris Ranch was owned and operated in Goshen County by the Pratt and Ferris Cattle Company. Founded in 1879, the company also operated the U Cross Ranch on Clear Creek in Johnson County, as well as the Upper PF Ranch, originally located on Rawhide Creek, also in Goshen County.
The original partners were James Harvey Pratt, Marshall Field, Levi Leiter, Robert M. Fair, and Cornelius Ferris, with Pratt as the general manager of ranching operations.