That was good enough for Ria R Squared. (Fagnant, Lewis & Brinda has also served as WyoFiles auditor.) Potratz and another nurse, Jim Hanson, interrupted the attack and restrained Rose until law enforcement arrived. ***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter***, By Clair McFarland, General Assignment ReporterClair@CowboyStateDaily.com. According to documents obtained by WyoFile, the Wyoming Business Council on Feb. 9 demanded that McCown return all of the $841,863 that he had received. (AP) Beverly Paddleford carved the clay veil of a towering Virgin Mary statue. To experience such a profound breach of trust by a leader of our institution has been both embarrassing and painful for Wyoming Catholic College, the school wrote on July 7. In the monument room, where workers assemble larger sculptures, workers prepared a moose statue bound for Minnesota. Phil Wright died peacefully at home in Qualicum Beach, BC on November 10th, 2022. The shells crack as they cool, emitting a sharp popping noise. She hadnt been snowboarding in years. Wyoming Catholic College in Lander fired Paul McCown, its chief financial officer, after he was accused of defrauding an investment firm out of $15 million. This is the name that will be displayed next to your photo for comments, blog posts, and more. By: Sarah Elmquist SquiresManaging Editor, The, By: Shawn OBrate After five seasons as the Lander Valley Tigers head football coach John Scott has decided, On November 25th a waterline break occurred in front of More Burgers & Shakes on the corner of, Man arrested after conflicting reports of St. Margarets incident*, Rivertons Nathan Hutchison signs with McCook, Headley sentenced for role in 2019 double homicide in Riverton, Beware: Construction causing water service shut-down in Riverton. I think they were waiting for the road to open and then that happened, said Thompson. It looks like they were traveling through, she said. Rose was taken from the hospital to the Fremont County Detention Center after the incident. The Marines father, John Phelps, started sculpting the piece before his son was deployed, and it stands outside the towns courthouse, Hooper said. Six months earlier, in his application for a $15,385 PPP loan, he had claimed to have 12 employees. (Jaden Bales via AP), Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. You can click this link to create an obituary. Paddleford herself started sculpting about 20 years ago. You can cancel at any time. You have permission to edit this article. When Paul McCown came to Lander from Michigan in 2018 to take over the finances of tiny Wyoming Catholic College, he quickly made a strong impression. Like most small banks in the state, Wyoming Community Bank has nowhere near enough statutory capital to accept or transfer $750 million, the personal fortune McCown claimed to have deposited in the bank. Paddlefords Mary sculpture is bound for a church in Coronado, California. Teams cover 30 to 35 miles per day on out-and-back courses. In all, McCown Enterprise received federal coronavirus relief aid totaling $1,957,246. Anything further along with that? asked Denhardt. Also unclear is what happened to the $15,385 and $1.1 million loans that McCown obtained through the federal PPP loan program. By: Shawn OBrate WYOMING The Wyoming High School Activities Association (WHSAA) Commissioner since 2004, Ron Laird, announced, Man arrested after conflicting reports of St. Margarets incident* By Sarah Elmquist Squires Managing Editor A Fort Washakie, By: Shawn OBrate Local baseball phenom Nathan Hutchison signed his letter of intent to play for McCook Community, It took almost three years for investigators to identify the alleged killers. Details on the traffic accident are scant as of 2:00 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24. What seems to have led to this is, he quit taking some prescribed medication and had a very bizarre and extreme reaction to that as is obvious from the alleged offense and the facts of it, said Stebner. Its a very difficult kind of business and requires a lot of hard work and commitment and integrity.. WebThe Lander Journal is a newspaper in Lander, Wyoming, USA covering local news, sports, business, politics and community events. (AP) Beverly Paddleford carved the clay veil of a towering Virgin Mary statue. Roadkill is indiscriminate, though, and includes a wide range of scavengers coyotes, eagles and skunks, to name a few that feed on highway-killed creatures and end up getting hit themselves. Here's why. A college employee who asked to remain anonymous said that for the time being, Tonkowich is not allowed to handle any financial transactions for the college. Some property owners with viable businesses in the targeted area were aghast at seeing the college discuss how those properties could be repurposed, said Missy White, a Lander City Council member who also runs a management-consulting business. The Paddlefords started a small foundry in 1985 to cast sculptures by Beverlys father, artist Bud Boller. The sculptor's small metal loop tool scraped off small clumps of the Shortly after McCown resigned, the college parted ways with Kyle Clement, its director of horsemanship. Lander, WY Hudsons Funeral Home - Lander Thursday, January 19, 2023 Add Photos Add a Memory Vickie Lorene Bush Vickie Lorene Bush, 76, of Lander, The college employee who asked to remain anonymous told WyoFile that the school had incurred $200,000 in new architectural and engineering costs for work that cannot currently move forward. The doe was crossing U.S. 287 south of Lander early on the morning of Presidents Day just as Marta Casey was headed out in her Subaru to go snowboarding. The casting begins with an artists original clay sculpture. Workers throughout the foundry on a recent Friday worked on sculptures in a variety of stages, from molding artists clay pieces to the final coating of their bronze surfaces. The day after its press release about the fraud, college President Glenn C. Arbery, a classical scholar, invoked Dantes Inferno to describe the situation at the college. Choose wisely! Agents photographed the area and set up multiple canopies over the ground, during intermittent rain that afternoon. Tonkowich, the colleges vice president of operations, who received $750,000 from McCown, was also briefly placed on administrative leave after the civil lawsuit was filed, but is now back at work full time. Every single part is critical to the end product, Paddleford said. McCown himself admitted that his boutique Lander Distilling (later renamed Sweetwater Spirits) never produced a single bottle of gin. This officer-involved shooting is the fourth in Fremont County since January 2019. WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy. (Photo by Matthew Copelan, WyoFile.com) She declined to give the mens names, pending notification of next-of-kin.. Thompson said finding the men affected her. WebPartnership arranges free flights for Wyoming patients Cheyenne All-City Children's Chorus to present WATER concert Prekindergarten registration to be held March 1-15 Woman attacked, blinded in Lander hospital. By geotagging roadkill with their phones and documenting the species, app users will contribute to the data that help Wyoming wildlife biologists and highway officials decide where to install wildlife crossing signs and other ways of reducing critter deaths. He wanted the Ambassadors to help produce it, said Case , who was present. Lander - Please dont feed the mule deer. Wyoming Catholic College board Chairman Kellogg said McCowns performance slipped in his third and final year, and its easy to imagine that May 11 was not a productive work day for Paul McCown. In a telephone interview with WyoFile, Kyle Clement vehemently denied any inappropriate dealings with the college and claimed that in job interviews with Arbery, Tonkowich and McCown, he had made the college aware of his past troubles in Texas. Tonkowich, Susanka and Kyle Washut, the dean of students, are also Aquinas grads. After the mold is removed, the workers are left with a wax replica of the sculpture. Wyoming Catholic College Spokesperson Joseph Susanka confirmed that Tietz has been a contracted consultant with Wyoming Catholic College since the spring of 2020, working primarily on recruitment and advancement marketing and publications. Susanka said the college had no knowledge of the $550,000 that McCown had transferred to Trolan LLC from the $15 million Ria R Squared loan. Some people within the college and in the city of Lander wonder if the perceived insular nature of the leadership team, and an associated lack of transparency may have played a role in allowing the McCown imbroglio to occur. Bales mailed in a lymph node from the animal to be tested for chronic wasting disease, a neurological illness similar to mad cow disease thats been spreading through U.S. deer populations for decades, and it came back negative. The reasons why may be about more than money. By MEAD GRUVER March 12, 2022. He is survived by his children Trevor, Celeste (Martin) and Kevin (Amanda), four grandchildren Alyssa, Jaylin, Vance and Nicholas, and his brother Roger (Susan). When the investment firm officially filed its lawsuit in late June, McCown resigned from the college. Tonkowich declined to be interviewed, but shared a similar account in an email to WyoFile, stating that he was unaware of the fraud and that he was told by McCown that the distribution [was] consistent with the 5% ownership stake I had in McCown Enterprises. Tonkowich said he is working with Ria R Squareds lawyers to return the money. Its always been important to me to understand where our food comes from, she said. But whenever youve got roadkill, it is really dangerous for any of the critters who come and try to eat it.. Most of the remaining $5 million, according to the lawsuit, was distributed to Tonkowich ($750,000); McCowns father, Phillip McCown, Sr. ($375,000); a Michigan company, Trolan LLC, set up on McCowns behalf by businessman Doug Tietz ($550,000); McCowns brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Paul and Clair Alarcon ($750,000); and to the Wyoming Business Council to meet its payback demands ($841,863). Roadkill collisions dont help that, DiRienzo said. Road to table: Wyomings got a new app for claiming roadkill. The victim was an elderly woman whose remaining eye was damaged beyond probable repair. Thompson said the car had a Nevada license plate. A civil court jury awarded the Blackwoods $747,505 in damages, which was confirmed on appeal. Rose is charged with aggravated assault, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines. The payback requirement from the business council may have motivated McCown to attempt what is alleged to be his biggest and boldest scam obtaining the $15 million loan from the New York firm Ria R Squared. Unofficial sources indicated that the troopers injury is serious but nonfatal. You can play the circle of life card and be like, Well, there is never something that is wasted, Bales said. He still goes to church, and the guys at the college dont know whether to say Hi or not, one associate said. The race consists of seven individual stages on National Forest land trails which wind through the seven mountain ranges of western Wyoming and Idaho. I told them, Look, boys, you need to know something first. He said Tonkowich followed up with phone calls to lawyers in Texas and, fully aware of the Blackwood case, hired him anyway. Wyoming Catholic College in Lander fired Paul McCown, its chief financial officer, after he was accused of defrauding an investment firm out of $15 million. Soon, it would be ready to cast at Eagle Bronze, the family foundry she co-founded with her husband, Monte. I dont think that we should assume that were out of the woods yet, and that its not possible to move down a path of greater autocracy, she said. A Dubois man who had been hospitalized in Lander is accused of attacking another patient and Clair McFarland The Ranger Via Wyoming News Exchange Dec Eagle Bronze is one of the largest monument-producing foundries in the country, foundry manager Ed Hooper said. Vanderhill said that autocratic states like Russia and the Peoples Republic of China routinely penetrate and manipulate the information environment of other states as part of their efforts to undermine democracy from within.. The piece by John Houser is the worlds largest equestrian statue, or at least was in 2006. This is the story of a complex, calculated, methodical and fraudulent scheme, the lawsuit, Ria R Squared v. Paul D. McCown and McCown Enterprises, LLC, reads, orchestrated by an individual holding a trusted and respected position with the Wyoming Catholic College, to defraud R Squared out of the sum of $15 million.. The whole carcass must be retrieved, not just the antlers or hide. First they paint the clay with layers of silicone then surround it with a plaster mold. The details of the investigation are still emerging, noted WHP, adding that the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation will be conducting the investigation as the standard operating procedure for all WHP officer-involved shootings. And I hugged my babies when I got home.. Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Lander, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. Theres more two-legged wolves in this place than I could ever have imagined.. The first sign that there were problems with McCown Enterprises came this February when an audit conducted for the Wyoming Business Council, a state agency that administered federal COVID-relief programs and gave McCown three grants in 2020, declared that McCown had failed to provide proof of the revenue that he claimed his company had earned. The metal is heated to about 2,100 degrees and poured into the ceramic shells. It messed me up a little, she said. WebLander. Only a few years ago, college board chair Kellogg said, he was involved in weekly meetings where we would wonder on Wednesday if we were going to have to close this thing on Friday.. Sweeney did not return phone calls from WyoFile. Fraud case rocks Lander, Catholic College, By BEN GOSE and RONE TEMPEST WyoFile.com There has been a rise of autocracy around the world in recent years, according to Dr. Rachel Vanderhill. Want YOUR news in the Lakelands Connector? Restaurant staffers found two men dead Saturday in a parked car in Lander that had been running all day. LANDER, Wyo. Lander - On March 4, 2020, Fremont County Circuit Court Judge Robert Denhardt the found Kelly J. Grove of Dubois, Wyoming guilty of two counts of accessory before or after the fact in taking big game without a license (elk and deer), and one count accessory before or after the fact in the take of big game from a vehicle. He mentioned Grammy-award-winning country and western singer Kacey Musgraves as an example of the kind of performer he was seeking for the blowout party. The one step the investment company took to independently confirm Kendall Hayfords existence was to call the bank. Some are small, like the golden microphones the foundry casts each year for awards at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. Your purchase was successful, and you are now logged in. But it didnt start off that way. This falls freshman class, with 68 students, is the largest ever. McCown may have made his biggest splash in March 2021 when he and Lander banker Kendall Hayford appeared before a group of civic boosters to propose an all-day summer street party for 10,000 people in Lander, with top music stars as entertainment. Wyoming bankers said Ria R Squareds due diligence before transferring the $15 million was woefully inadequate. Then the pieces are sandblasted clean and finished in the patina room, where any colors the artist chooses are applied before a final layer of sealant. WyoFile made several unsuccessful attempts via telephone and email to reach McCown for comment. Lander - Wyoming Game and Fish officials at the Lander Regional Office are asking residents to be aware and show patience with wildlife that often show up in developed areas during the winter months. Now more than 50 of her monuments stand around the world. He said he had a mysterious, anonymous donor who was going to make this happen. 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