CATC adds Spruce bus stop

The Casper Area Transit Coalition will add a bus stop to the Public Health Center at 475 S. Spruce starting Oct. 1. The bus leaves at 18 minutes after every hour starting at 7:18 a.m. and ending at 6:18 p.m.

"We can add it to the end of the red route without affecting the time throughout the route. The bus can still get to the transfer station on time," CATC Director Marge Cole said. "They'd asked for a stop three or four months ago, and we were finally able to get it worked out."

Revised schedules are available on each of the buses as well as at 1715 E. Fourth St.,

Consultants offer assessment today

Consultants from Krenek Consulting LLC will present results from the weeklong assessment of the Natrona County School District today.

More than 300 students, school and district staff and community members were interviewed for their views of how the district operates as an organization. Last year's results concluded districtwide mistrust between schools and the district and also within district offices.

Superintendent Joel Dvorak said the assessment helps him identify what needs improvement. Each assessment cost about $30,000, which came from federal a Title I improvement fund.

The results will be made public at 9:30 a.m. today at the district Central Services Facility, 970 N. Glenn Road.

Dvorak thanks WMC

Joel Dvorak, superintendent of the Natrona County School District, attended the Wyoming Medical Center's board meeting Wednesday to present Shauna VanderLinden, WMC marketing representative, with a gift of $250 worth of books for her literacy promotion efforts, according to a media release.

In June, VanderLinden and the WMC launched the Books at the Bedside book drive campaign, which aims to put books in the hands of the nearly 13,000 youths who are admitted to the emergency room or pediatrics floor each year. The idea was to give them something more productive to do while in the hospital than watching television and playing video games.