Them on Us February 14

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

By Jake Nichols

A press release is making the rounds touting the debut of something called Jackson Hole H2O. The bottled water, brainchild of Californian Sheldon Player, will be available mainly on the Left Coast, but Player hopes to have everyone in the nation drinking the stuff he calls “highly elevated water.”

Player started Jackson Hole H2O to answer the public demand for drinking only extremely pure bottled water, his release states. “Gone are the days of selling products with a fancy label,” Player is quoted saying. “Our products only contain the purest water from glacial reserves.”

The water is supposedly bottled under the authority of Twin Mountain River Ranch in Hoback Junction. Calls to the owner, Nancy Breitenstine, were unsuccessful.

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“I couldn’t take my eyes off the massive ram, with its immense, curled horns,” Melanie Radzicki McManus wrote for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. “I had never seen one in the wild, and the last time I saw one on film was probably back in the 1970s while watching an episode of ‘Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.’ I couldn’t wait to see what we’d spy next.”

McManus hitched a ride with the Elk Refuge’s Kurt Johnson while visiting Jackson Hole to ski. She opted to stay at the Spring Creek Ranch for a more rustic setting and a chance to catch bighorn sheep in the wild.

McManus was told by Johnson that at Kelly Warm Springs, he once saw a foot-long goldfish. “People dumped their aquarium fish in here over the years, so you can often see tropical fish and bullfrogs.”

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“It’s bittersweet to be leaving a place I love so much, but I am really looking forward to getting really familiar with that part of Colorado,” departing public relations guru Joan Anzelmo told the Casper Star-Tribune, referring to her job switch from Grand Teton National Park to Colorado National Monument in Fruita.

For 13 years, Anzelmo controlled information leaving GTNP with an iron fist. The D.C. native will begin her new assignment in May.

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Home of the Mules, Colby College in Dartmouth, N.H., held its annual Ski Carnival with a dozen schools participating. The campus paper reports that Corey Linton, of Jackson, placed 47th overall for the Colby men’s Nordic ski team.

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The Santa Lucia Fly Fishers Club held some big shindig at its headquarters in beautiful San Luis Obispo, Calif., on Feb. 12. The guest speaker is a “man with international credentials,” as they put it — Jack Dennis.

The 60-year-old renowned fly fisherman told the Tribune of San Luis Obispo that his presentation would include a fast-paced DVD with bits and pieces of a TV show that will air in the fall called “Jack’s Secret Wyoming.” The state of Wyoming will sponsor the show.

Dennis has taught the finer points of fly fishing to former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George Bush; actors Tom Selleck and Harrison Ford; comedian Richard Pryor; pro golfer Arnold Palmer; NBA Hall of Famer Julius Erving; and Texas Tech men’s basketball coach Bob Knight.

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Skiing Magazine’s December issue included mention of Snow King’s annual Town Downhill, calling the event one of the 50 Things You Should Do Before You Die.

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In a recent USA Today, an article listing sports notables and their dogs included Jackson’s favorite hulking center, Atlanta Thrasher Bobby Holik. Holik makes his summer home in Jackson when not playing ice hockey.

The article concentrated on dogs that were rescued as part of Pedigree’s “Drive to Adopt” during February.

Here was Holik’s mention: “Four dogs (golden retriever, chocolate Labrador retriever, black Lab/hound mix, yellow Lab and a Jack Russell terrier) rescued from a shelter in Jackson, Wyo., where he lives in the off-season.”

Photo of Jack Dennis.

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