DIAMOND WING FLIES ALONE by MARK DAVIS Wing
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2018 108TH YEAR/ISSUE 02 POWELL GAME BIRD FARM ONLY COMPANY MOBILE HOME DAMAGED IN TUESDAY MORNING FIRE TO APPLY TO BE CERTIFIED TO ATTEMPT CAPTIVE BREEDING OF SAGE GROUSE DIAMOND WING FLIES ALONE BY MARK DAVIS Wing. The facility is managed Tribune Staff Writer by Powell resident Karl Bear. “We think we’ve met all hile Wyoming Game their criteria, but this is the and Fish Commis- first time for all of us — in- Wsion rules allow for cluding the Game and Fish. five private game bird farms It’s hard to speculate [on ap- to attempt cap- proval],” True tive rearing of said. the greater sage ‘We think we’ve If certified, grouse, only one Diamond Wing has applied to met all their plans to finalize the commission criteria, but this infrastructure for certification. is the first time renovations to Diamond prepare for the Wing Upland for all of us — spring collection Game Birds, including the of up to 250 LLC, of Powell eggs. Gearing has been the Game and Fish.’ up for the pros- only private pects will be a company to ap- Diemer True large financial ply for certi- Diamond Wing owner commitment, fication. Game True said. A and Fish commissioners will large portion of the funds have consider approving its applica- been dedicated to the project tion on Tuesday. Their answer by True. He also intends on should be made public some- seeking additional investors. Smoke billows as Powell volunteer firefighters work to put out a fire in a mobile home on Adams Street in Powell just before dawn on Tuesday. time before Jan. 15. A recent success story in Tribune photo by Toby Bonner “We’ll be ready,” said Di- the captive breeding of sage emer True, a former state grouse, according to True, is senator, member of the Sage a small scale victory at the Grouse Implementation Team Calgary Zoo. They reportedly and mineral extraction entre- Powell man wakes to flames preneur who owns Diamond See Grouse, Page 2 BY ILENE OLSON breaking, letting in additional oxygen to Tribune Staff Writer further fuel the inferno. “My dog was still there, so I opened the eynaldo “Rey” Adame woke up door again, and the fire was just grow- Tuesday morning when his dog ing. I couldn’t find my dog,” Adame said. Rjumped on him. “The trash man was there, and he was like, That’s not unusual; but anything ordi- ‘Get away! Get away! Get away from the nary about the morning vanished when house!’ Adame, of Powell, realized his mobile “I ran to him, and asked him to call the home was on fire. fire department. I couldn’t call; everything “When I woke up, I was sitting on top of of mine burned — wallet, papers, phone.” the fire,” Adame said Wednesday. Then Adame ran to the rear of the trailer Adame had fallen asleep on the couch in and threw open the back door, knocking it the living room, the warmest room of his off its hinges. His terrified dog ran to the home, during the bitter-cold night. When door and jumped out to join his master, his dog, Blue, woke him up at 6:55, flames equally frightened. were licking at the couch from underneath. Later, a neighbor gave Adame a pair “Everything was full of smoke,” Adame of shoes to give his feet some protection said. “I pulled the couch back to see where from the frozen ground, and a crew from it was burning. But I couldn’t see anything Powell Valley Hospital took him into an — just the fire.” ambulance. That was when he ran outside, barefoot, Adame’s niece, Janelly Rios, lives with in the sub-zero, pre-dawn weather. her family in the neighboring mobile home “When I opened the door, it went — to the east of Adame’s in Triangle Mobile whoo! — and everything popped into Home Park, located between South and flames,” Adame said, blowing a gust of air Adams streets near Ferris Street. A male greater sage grouse strut displays for hens on a lek near Rey Adame awoke Tuesday to find flames with his mouth in imitation of the sound. “I Rios and her husband, Juan, were wak- Heart Mountain last spring. If farm-raised sage grouse in Powell licking at the couch he was sleeping on. He closed the door, because I saw the flames ened shortly after 7 a.m. by a loud banging advance to the breeding stage, the grouse would be paired rather and his dog were able to escape the blaze. coming after me.” than attempting to recreate the natural breeding conditions for Tribune photo by Ilene Olson Windows in the mobile home began See Fire, Page 8 the species. Tribune photo by Mark Davis Brokaw op-ed in New From a Brazilian slum to Georgetown gasped in amazement upon so that meant she had to double NWC ALUM TELLS HER STORY hearing about Souza’s accom- down as a sophomore to be able York Times keeps his BY ILENE OLSON of women’s basketball season, plishments during her presenta- to graduate. Tribune Staff Writer when she also served as captain tion at the NWC Foundation’s Despite those huge challeng- of the Lady Trappers. Nelson House earlier this month. es, Souza earned an associate Powell experience alive uring her last semester The previous semester, Souza When Souza came to North- degree in general education with at Northwest College, in took 21.5 hours — also well west, she couldn’t speak English a 3.6 grade point average and BY DAVE BONNER healthcare practitioners. Dspring 2012, Layana De above the 12 credit hours consid- at all, so much of her first year graduated after her second year. Tribune Publisher “In Powell, Wyo., I met a Souza of Brazil took 27 credits so ered to be a full-time class load. was spent studying English as a “I honestly don’t know how doctor, Nathaniel Rieb, the she’d be able to graduate. That An audience of NWC ath- second language. Those classes I survived,” she said. “I really owell’s “Tom Brokaw son of a Presbyterian minis- heavy load came in the middle letes and international students don’t count toward graduation, wanted to graduate — that’s why connection“ made news ter, who is the only general I came here. ... I just tried to do Pagain to open 2018, cour- surgeon in the town hospital,” my best.” tesy of a mention in a Brokaw- Brokaw wrote. “He stays be- Doing her best has netted authored op-ed in the New cause if he leaves, then what?” some other impressive results York Times. “Nathaniel and his wife as well. The high profile NBC- have five children, including In 2014, Souza earned her TV newsman made a late one severely disabled by mul- bachelor’s degree in sports ad- July visit to Powell, tiple sclerosis. They ministration from Lees-McRae which he likened met him on a mercy College in Banner Elk, North to a picture post- mission to Haiti and Carolina, where she also played card of small town immediately made basketball and served as team America. him part of their captain. Brokaw explored family. I left our After her required classes the state of health- encounter think- were completed at Lees-McRae, care in a rural com- ing, ‘I’d like to be she continued to challenge her- munity in visiting Nathaniel’s patient self. with Powell physi- and his neighbor.’” “I took an anatomy class just cians last summer. While Dr. Rieb for fun,” Souza said, prompting His interviews with may have been flat- another cry of amazement from Drs. Nate Rieb and TOM BROKAW tered to be singled the audience. Sarah Durney of out for his dedica- She graduated with a GPA Powell Valley Healthcare tion to rural medicine, he said of 3.85 and became a member and Dr. Bob Chandler of there is a simple explanation of Phi Theta Kappa and Sigma 307Health were carried on for his devotion to a surgical Beta Delta honor societies. the NBC Today Show over the practice at PVHC. After returning to Brazil, Labor Day weekend in Sep- “We stay because we love Souza went to work for THG tember. Powell,” he said. Sports in Rio de Janeiro. When Some of his reflections in Of his meeting with Brokaw THG closed its doors in Rio a Monday’s opinion piece in the this summer, Rieb said having short time later, she was invited New York Times, on health- Brokaw and the NBC team in to go with the company to work care in America, grew out of his home was a pleasing expe- for three months in Berlin. his Powell trip. rience. She returned to Brazil again in Brokaw particularly cited Former Northwest College student Layana De Souza (at right) is pictured with her basketball coach Janis the commitment of rural See Brokaw, Page 2 Beal during a visit to Powell last month. Tribune photo by Ilene Olson See Souza, Page 8 INSIDE ♦ PHS SPORTS RESUME FRIDAY: PAGE 9 ♦ ROBORUMBLE SATURDAY: PAGE 12 PAGE 2 • POWELL TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2018 WOLF MOON Weather Columbus Hardin Bozeman Billings Livingston 39/25 35/24 33/19 23/11 37/25 Red Lodge 37/26 Bridger Lodge Grass 34/24 38/20 Mammoth Lovell Sheridan 34/17 28/14 38/17 West Yellowstone POWELL 31/13 30/18 Cody Greybull 35/16 19/6 Weather Manderson 25/7 ColumbusMeeteetse Hardin DriggsBozeman Billings Livingston 39/25 37/2035/24 Ten33/19 Sleep 38/2023/11 37/25 Worland 24/2 35/14 Dubois Red Lodge Jackson 40/22 33/13 37/26 Thermopolis Bridger 31/11 Lodge Grass 34/24 38/20 5-day Forecast for Powell Shown is today’s weather.