Green River Star -
March 10, 2021
Green River will be the first city in Wyoming to receive a police therapy dog following an approval by the Green River City Council last week.
The Council approved a $6,000 grant to purchase Buddy, a black Labrador retriever, who will serve as the department’s therapy dog.
Tom Jarvie, chief of police for Green River, said the department received several donations for the therapy dog, including a $1,250 from Jason Barrera, a nine-year-old child.
“The community has really latched onto this program and the department is grateful for the support,” Jarvie said in a press release.
GREEN RIVER The Green River City Council approved a $6,000 grant on Tuesday night to purchase Buddy, a black Labrador Retriever, that will become the police department’s therapy canine.
Buddy will be the first therapy police canine in the state of Wyoming, according to City Communications Administrator Steve Core.
The City received the grant from the Children’s Trust Fund and Police Chief Tom Jarvie said several donations, including $1,250 made by nine-year-old Jason Barrera, have been received by the GRPD to help supplement the program.
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“The community has really latched onto this program and the department is grateful for the support,” Jarvie said.
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Shoreline Biome, a microbiome research company with multi-platform, easy to use, ‘Sample-to-Answer’ products for characterizing microbiome populations down to the strain level, announces a significant update to its SBanalyzer software.
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Green River Star -
December 30, 2020
As vaccines roll out to people in the 1A priority group, local health workers are waiting for state officials to define who would be in the 1B and 1C groups.
Several hundred doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed to people working in healthcare and emergency response roles. The immunization requires two doses of the vaccine, delivered 21 days apart. The vaccines have been offered to employees at both Memorial Hosptial of Sweetwater County and Castle Rock Medical Center due to the close proximity workers at both facilities can find themselves in with other employees. CRH.
ROCK SPRINGS â Rock Springs Police Chief Dwane Pacheco said he and his officers have had multiple friendly conversations about the health orders that are in place and other safety restrictions related to the coronavirus. On Saturday, he said a similarly cordial exchange started at the Rock Springs Family Recreation Center when multiple people showed up without masks, which have been required in all city facilities since May. However, the tone and volume of one of the protestors grew more extreme, and one man was arrested for alleged verbal disturbance of the peace, but not for not wearing a mask.
Saturdayâs confrontation included Pacheco, Rock Springs Mayor Tim Kaumo, Harold Bjork, a handful of other protestors, rec center staff, officers of the Rock Springs Police Department, and Sweetwater County sheriffâs deputies.