“Conditions are very dangerous at this time,” says Burton. “People shouldn’t float when the river is this high. It will drop soon; wait until then for your float trip.”
WYDOT is working hard for your time off. They want to have high country roads open by Memorial Day weekend. To that end, they are putting in 10 hour days and pushing hard with some older equipment. While its hard on the machinery, the crews have luckily avoided any major breakdowns...
With the Memorial Day Holiday weekend approaching, taking three-to-four seconds to put on your seat belt, could be the difference between either walking away or being taken away from the scene of a vehicle wreck.
Former slaves began the observance now known as Memorial Day immediately after the end of the Civil War.
"Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May the first of 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina, to honor 257 dead Union soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave at a Confederate prison camp," the Rev...