Dorothy Taylor Werner passed away on Aug. 18 in Cottonwood, Ariz. Dorothy was born on July 29, 1921, in Jackson and grew up in the Kelly-Jackson area. She was the last remaining member of the Taylor family who grew up in the Taylor homestead near Kelly. The homestead had been featured in the movie Shane. Dorothy left the valley in the late 1950’s. She was not related to any of the Taylors currently in Jackson. Dorothy was the oldest sister of Rich Taylor and Echo Taylor’s sister-in-law.

The Jackson Hole High School Rodeo Team is back and off to a great start. The team’s first rodeo was in Sheridan over Labor Day weekend. Team members competing there included Tayler Holmes, AJ Fuchs, Jake Mangis, Brittany Martin, Shyann Lucas and Kylie Tafoya. On Saturday, Shyann was second in barrels and poles, Tayler was third in breakaway and fifth in poles and AJ and partner Matt Scheick were ninth in team roping and AJ was first in cutting.

On Sunday AJ took first in cutting and second in team roping; he also won the average on both days in both the cutting and team roping. Shyann was fifth in the barrels. Kylie came in seventh in poles and Tayler was eighth in poles.

More recently the team competed in Wheatland. Team members included Brittany, Shyann, Kylie, and AJ. Saturday results: AJ came in first in boy’s cutting and second in team roping with partner Matt Scheick, Brittany was fifth in breakaway, Kylie came in fourth in poles, while Shyann finished fifth in poles and fourth in barrels. On Sunday, AJ was first in cutting and seventh in team roping, Brittany was third in breakaway and third in team roping with partner Sarah Davison, and Shyann was first in poles and fourth in barrels. AJ received Reserve All-Around Cowboy for the weekend and Brittany won the average for the breakaway. The team headed to Riverton this past weekend and will hold its local High School Rodeo here Saturday and Sunday.

The new Community Health Information Center in the St. John’s Medical Center lobby announces a public ribbon-cutting ceremony and “Food For Thought” open house from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sept. 25. The open house will feature healthy, brain boosting hors d’oeuvres. Information center Coordinator Carlee Roderick will be on hand to answer questions and demonstrate the center’s reference resources. Connie Kemmerer from the Teton Wellness Institute and Virgil Boss from St. John’s Medical Center will conduct the ribbon cutting.

“Ask an Expert” question-and-answer sessions allow individuals to talk with traditional and alternative medical experts about specified health topics. Sessions will be held the first and third Monday of each month from 1 to 2 p.m. in the CHI Center. In honor of October’s designation as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, St. John’s Director of Oncology Judy Basye will be on hand on Oct. 6, and licensed acupuncturist, physical therapist, and breast cancer survivor Becky Hawkins will be the featured practitioner on Oct. 20.

The center is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., on weekdays, and many of its reference materials are in English and Spanish. The center is a partnership of the Teton Wellness Institute and St. John’s Medical Center. For information, call 739-7244.

Happy anniversary wishes to Justin and Josephine Adams, Tom and Kris Thompson, Ernest Labelle and Frances Pollak, Kraig Kobert and Julie Birrer, Billy and Kathy Robertson, Randell and Tricia Mayers, Warren and Debbie Machol, Dirk and Jennifer Collins, Robert and Debra Sanford, Shepard and Lynn Humphries, Joe and Julie Whitlock, Carl and Mary Eveleigh, Norm and Carole Hofley, Mark and Liz Cassen, Mike and Luette Keegan, Chip and Courtney Marvin, Shawn and Jill Milne, and Butch and Linda Williams.

Happy birthday to Lily Herro, Dean Shaw, Mark Wittig, Meg Womack, Charlie Joy, Dave Leinonen, Liz Goddard, Louise Deland, Dean Lewis, Bennett Blount, Richard Thoenig, Cole Brazinski, Jim Barlow, Kerry Carr, Mary Bonnett, Trevor Potter, Caroline Taylor, Rayne Wikoff, Robert Copyak, Mary Belford, Layne Shanholz, Jim Fontaine, Laury Lacy, Lucy Nystrom, Paula Jorgenson, Walter Thieme, Bonnie Vorhees, Elizabeth Carlin, Paul Zcheile III, Susan Shepard, Margaret Ordway, Hallie Sales, Betty Lewis, Stewart Sullivan, Jim Kaye, Rob Weed, Carol Moore, Andy Phillips, Kristine Brown, Sarah Ross, Helen Walton, Irene Mellion, David Young, Carol Conners, Roberta Seaton, Norm Evarts, Barbara VanDeburg, Elizabeth Caesar, Greg McHuron, Afton Jones, Sally Gushee, Joan Greiver, Charles Chidsey, Darlene Wiles, Crystal Nethercott, Meta Sterberg, Mae Johnston, Sue Taylor and Nance Parriott.

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Ceci Clover writes weekly on the doings and doers in and around Jackson Hole. Send submissions to circling thesquare@hotmail.com or call 733-8348.