FRIDAY THE SHERIDAN August 2, 2019 CATCH 134th Year, No. 67 UP ON Serving Sheridan County, POLO Wyoming, since 1887 ACTION www.thesheridanpress.com SPORTS • B1 www.DestinationSheridan.com 75 Cents Press ENTREPRENEURS MATTHEW GASTON | THE SHERIDAN PRESS U.S. Senate-hopeful Cynthia Lummis discusses her support for President Donald Trump, her views on immigration and the national deficit at a meet and greet breakfast at the Trails End Motel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Immigration, Social Security early priorities MATTHEW GASTON | THE SHERIDAN PRESS Jhett West, right, holds his cow steady while Braden West sprays down his coat at the Sheridan County Fair Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. in Lummis’ Duo win Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce scholarships Senate campaign BY KILEY CARROLL [email protected] BY MICHAEL ILLIANO [email protected] SHERIDAN — Braden and Jhett West are no longer just SHERIDAN — Cynthia Lummis discussed brothers working together her upcoming campaign for U.S. Senate to push their showmanship during a stop in Sheridan Thursday. abilities. They are now young Lummis — who previously served in the businessmen in the realm they state Legislature, as the state treasurer know best: quality livestock. and as Wyoming’s U.S. House representa- The West brothers submitted tive —is running as a Republican for the applications for an entrepre- Senate seat currently held by Sen. Mike neurial scholarship award- Enzi, R-Wyoming, in the 2020 election. Enzi ed by the Sheridan County announced he would not seek re-election to Chamber of Commerce after the seat he’s held since 1996 earlier this year. their mom saw a flier cir- culating on Facebook. Both brothers were awarded $500 Early priorities scholarships from the Sheridan Lummis said she conducted an issues poll County Chamber of Commerce before announcing her run and concluded for showcasing the best entre- immigration and Social Security were the preneurial project earlier this two most important issues to Wyoming vot- year. The money is intended ers. for start-up costs of their new business. SEE LUMMIS, PAGE 2 Braden West brushes off his pig before taking him out for practice in the show ring at the Sheridan County Fairgrounds Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. SEE BROTHERS, PAGE 2 Yoga Festival moves to The Brinton BY CLAIRE SCHNATTERBECK This festival aims to promote yoga in [email protected] Sheridan through its focus on wellness, community and connection. Sheridan — Tanya Moon, the founder For Moon, the yoga festival is just as of the Sheridan Yoga Festival, moved to much about supporting the yoga communi- Sheridan three years ago, unsure about the ty as it is about yoga in practice. acceptance and availability of yoga in the “Building roots and being part of the com- city. She was pleasantly surprised to find munity was very important to me, when I that people were “non-judgmental and very got [to Sheridan] that was the big thing,” open to learning new things.” Moon said. On Aug. 4, The Brinton Museum will host the third annual Sheridan Yoga Festival. SEE YOGA, PAGE 3 Yoga students model reverse warrior pose during a class at The Brinton Museum. 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Braden is a 16-year-old who won the upper-divi- sion scholarship when he realized he could make his love for showing pigs into a business. “They’re so easy, every- body likes pigs, it’s just an easy project to do so I just thought, ‘This could be an opportunity to start a pig business,’” Braden West MATTHEW GASTON | THE SHERIDAN PRESS said. Sen. Dave Kinskey, R-Sheridan, hugs U.S. Senate-hopeful Cynthia Lummis during a breakfast He’s raising three pigs and meet and greet at the Trails End Motel Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. three gilts and his goal is to expand into a successful pig breeding company called Opportunity Genetics, LLC. LUMMIS : Will need to act fast on SS Some members he competes with in 4-H travel to Iowa FROM 1 “For people the age of a lot of us in this and even Kansas for 4-H room, that’s not the case,” Lummis said. pigs. With high demand Those results, she admitted, were sur- “We’ve paid in our entire working lives of quality hogs around prising. and we’ve depended on it.” the county, Braden West Debates over immigration policies have felt like he could fill the MATTHEW GASTON | THE SHERIDAN PRESS become fixtures of the national daily news demand. Braden West gets in some last minute practice with his pig before cycle but Wyoming rarely feels direct Energy policies “My main priority is offer- the Swine Show at the Sheridan County Fair Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. impacts from the issue. Lummis attributed the decline of coal ing kids the chance to have Lummis speculated that Wyoming vot- production in Wyoming to Obama-era a hog without traveling ers’ concerns over immigration are rooted energy policies and, in the case of the far distances to get them,” in “a fundamental sense of fairness.” That recent mine closures in Campbell County, Braden West said. “But this is, they are upset that illegal immigrants mismanagement. Still, she said the out- community has given me so are entering the country while people look for traditional uses of coal is bleak. much, I want to return the attempting to enter the country legally “We’re going to settle into a new normal favor anyway I can.” wait in line. of lower output of coal,” Lummis said. He plans to sell pigs to If elected, Lummis said she would work To push back against that trend, Sheridan County School in support of President Donald Trump’s Lummis said she supports the state District’s 1 and 2 and donate immigration policies, most notably the aggressively pursuing research into considerable proceeds from proposed construction of a border wall. low-carbon coal technologies, like carbon the sale of one of his pigs Building the wall, she said, would help capture and sequestration. She specifical- back to both 4-H scholar- curb illegal immigration but should be ly highlighted research being done at the ships and Carbondale’s Wild accompanied by policies that make legal Integrated Test Center in Gillette. West Rodeo scholarship. He immigration easier. If those technologies are going to serve will have to go through a On Social Security, Lummis said as a long-term solution, though, Lummis certified process to be able Congress will need to act fast to salvage said the state will have to prove they can to work with both school the program, at least for older citizens. reliably reduce carbon emissions, an districts, which doesn’t “Social security can be fixed, but the increasingly prevalent goal both domesti- make the oldest West boy longer we wait, the harder it is,” Lummis cally and abroad. leery. said. “If we don’t, in about 15 years, social Lummis said she believes Wyoming’s “This project has been security payments will drop by a full congressional delegation help those efforts incredible watching things one-third the first year and go down from by helping the state achieve grants from really click for Braden,” there.” the U.S. Department of Energy. Rindy West, the boys moth- She added that she expects younger Lummis is an early entrant into er, said. “It was always a generations, who are unlikely to receive the 2020 race for Wyoming’s Senate plan of his I think to start Jhett West begins the process of cleaning his cow before show Social Security payments, are ready to seat. Candidates have until May 29, 2020 to breeding hogs to show, but I time by blowing off his coat in the stables at the Sheridan County abandon the program. file for the race. don’t think he realized this Fairgrounds Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. is a business opportunity until the scholarship came “The owner of Code Blue product,’ and they shook up and planted that seed gave my family a quart of hands that afternoon,” that, ‘Hey! This isn’t just his product to just try and Rindy West said. Arapaho Tribe sues its former law firm 4-H, this is the future.’” I instantly fell in love with Between the scholarship As for Jhett West, it,” Jhett West said. “The fund and college savings, BY CLAIR MCFARLAND tribal funding and docu- The tribe said the forces Braden’s 13-year-old broth- next time I saw him I asked Jhett West was able to pur- RIVERTON RANGER ments that should have been cited would “gather to try er, he was born to be a busi- him what it would take to chase his first pallet of prod- VIA WYOMING NEWS EXCHANGE returned to the tribe amid and insert themselves back nessman. be a distributor, so we made uct, making him the young- the transition from one law into a position of domi- After using Code Blue’s it happen.” est Code Blue distributor in RIVERTON — The firm to the next.