In this Dec. 1, 2008 file photo, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, center, waves to a crowd during a campaign stop for Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga, in Savannah, Ga. Palin has added to her financial disclosure forms two free trips that she took nearly two years ago but failed to report. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton, File)
Porcine pals Tyrone and Chuck share an afternoon snuggle on Thursday in the new Morton Arena Annex. Jake Mitchell/Star-Tribune
Casey Leary, left, and Larry Keffer, the assistant naturalist at the Audubon Center at Garden Creek, watch birds through a window at the center on Saturday morning. Leary was participating in a beginner bird identification class, which continues the next two Thursdays from 7 - 9 p.m. with field trips taking place the next two Saturdays. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
A view from Tom Morton's 1948 black MG TC at the Cruizin' with the Oldies car show in Casper on Saturday. (Jake Mitchell/Star-Tribune)
Bryan Shewey, 6, looks back at his mother while holding plants during the Natrona County Master Gardeners annual plant sale on Saturday morning in Casper. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Joelle Anthony helps Parker Phillips learn to skate Saturday afternoon during Casper Recreation Center's "Play All Day" event.
Damon Saunders hammers in a post to hold the rubber duck funnel Saturday afternoon at Crossroads Adventure Park in Casper. The 10th annual Great Duck Derby starts at Jonah Bank and ends at the Adventure Park with thousands of rubber ducks in between. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
Deputy Sheriff Rhody Ridley works at the X-ray machine in the new Townsend Justice Center with James Hinkle, left, an employee with the Natrona County Sheriff's Department, on Tuesday afternoon. The public must now go through security at the entrance to the new courthouse and will eventually have to walk through a metal detector. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Staff interpreter Alex Rose poses with a buffalo stomach on Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, which is one of several tools he'll be using during his presentation 'Of Man and Best: Native Americans and the Buffalo' this Sunday at the National Historic Trails Center in Caper, Wyo. Native Americans would use the buffalo stomach as a bucket, and they would also stuff it with meat and cook it over a fire. (AP Photo/Dan Cepeda, Casper Star-Tribune)
Alex Rose holds buffalo dung and powder he rubbed from the dung. Native Americans would use the dung as fuel and also the dried powder as baby powder, according to Rose. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Gerald Sinclair of Pope Construction is seen through protective glass as he installs a two-way communication system in the lobby of the clerk of district court in the new Townsend Justice Center on Thursday afternoon in downtown Casper. The original marble staircase, seen in back, is a reminder of the building's past as the Townsend Hotel. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
The front of the new Townsend Justice Center gets a power wash on Thursday afternoon in preparation for the building's opening. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Mitchell James helps move a copy machine into the Self-Help Center's new location at the Old Ivy House Inn on Wednesday. The center, which had been renting at its previous location on the Life Steps Campus, decided to move after the city raised the rent to nearly $40,000 a year. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
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