Wyoming
Meet Wyoming Jefferson Award Finalist Glee Nett
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) – The Jefferson Awards honor those making a difference in communities across the state, and Glee Nett is one of those people.
Based in Cheyenne, Glee is the founder of the Children’s Western Wish Foundation. The Children’s Western Wish Foundation focuses on supporting youth battling childhood illnesses or who live with special needs, but there are no restrictions to who they serve. Glee and her team work to provide everyone with an unforgettable experience at the rodeo.
Reporter Grace Swanke had the opportunity to sit down with Glee to learn more about the work she does and the impact she has made in the lives of others in her community.
INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:
Grace Swanke: Start by telling us a little bit about the children’s Western Wish Foundation.
Glee Nett: The children’s Western wish came about so that I could continue to be with my rodeo family after I retired, and I did so so that we could give back to the community where our rodeos are held, and give back to one of their own community members and their immediate family. I named it children’s Western wish, because in the book of Psalms, there is a verse that says, ‘We’re all children of God’. Therefore in our 21 years of granting wishes, we have granted from a three year old to 101 year old.
GS: What inspired you to kind of start it was just the desire to still stay within the rodeo world, correct?
GN: Yes, and show the rest of the world that those who attend our Western heritage events, what we do to live the cowboy way, and to be good to one another. It’s a simple act of kindness. We do to live the cowboy way, and to be good to one another. It’s a simple act of kindness. I could not do this by myself. It takes our whole rodeo family, our rodeo committees, and the community themselves to give back and make the wish successful, and they all are.
GS: This is a big undertaking. This is a lot of work. What brings you joy, and what kind of motivates you to keep going?
GN: The next wish. It motivates me because I see the rewards. Whether it’s a personal reward, or it’s a community reward. It’s the benefit that I have in doing what I am blessed to do is that I get to work with the man above and give from my heart. That’s my incentive to just keep going. I think it’s important that each one of us remember that we are given the opportunity so many times throughout every day, to give an act of kindness even if it’s just to share your smile. The difference you can make in someone’s life because you don’t know the battle the other person may be going through and that act of kindness and I’ve seen it too often has proven to be a lifelong memory and experience. So I would just ask everybody to extend that act of kindness to one another. It’s really easy to give.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. — A bull moose was spotted roaming the streets of Laramie early Tuesday morning before being safely tranquilized and relocated by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.
Photos from the University of Wyoming Police Department and Laramie residents show the creature curiously wandering through the university campus, where he was tranquilized before heading to a strip mall along Grand Avenue and taking a nap.
“Biologists got the call this morning that the moose was wandering in the UW Apartments neighborhood,” Laramie Region Game and Fish Information and Education specialist Hannah Smith said. “They responded to the scene and were able to dart the moose.”
While he was darted near the apartments, he didn’t stand around and wait for the tranquilizer to take effect. Smith said he worked his way east for about 20 minutes before ending up, coincidentally, in front of Sportsman’s Warehouse.
Lilly Avila, a Laramie resident working at a nearby coffee shop, told Cap City News the animal was sluggishly wandering the parking lot and rubbing against cars before the tranquilizer got to him.
“They brought him to the office and got him cooled down,” Smith said. “They don’t want to be in town. It’s a stressful situation for them, too. They can overheat really easily, so we get them cooled down before we transport them.”
Game and Fish couldn’t say as of Tuesday where the moose came from. Smith said he could have come east from the Pole Mountain area between Laramie and Cheyenne or up the Laramie River from the Snowy Range. Either way, his new home will be around Medicine Bow Mountain.
He also shouldn’t be feeling the effects of the tranquilizer for too much longer. Biologists gave him a reversal drug that should have prepared him to return to the wild.
“He should be pretty normal in terms of the medication. I think, in terms of his day, hopefully he goes back to living his happy moose life munching on some willows and doesn’t go for too many more walkabouts,” Smith said.
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Wyoming State Historic Sites Superintendent Sharie Mooney Shada made an appearance on Sheridan Media’s Public Pulse to speak on the upcoming Immersion in Crow Culture program at Fort Phil Kearny on July 16.
The event begins at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 16 at the Fort Phil Kearny Interpretive Center.
S. Mooney Shada
The rangers host free, family-friendly evening talks and presentations throughout the summer. Shada said the Native American Student Interpretive Ranger Program has enriched the visitor experience at Fort Phil Kearny. In its fourth year at the fort, the program allows a perspective from the indigenous side of history.
Keep up with events at Fort Phil Kearny by clicking here.
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