From our files: Wolvington baby delivered by Dad in 1999

100 years ago, Dec. 19, 1924

The Cowley Progress

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wilcock last night, a fine, bouncing baby boy. All concerned getting along nicely, especially Glen, who declares the newcomer “Wyoming’s Best Yet.” We think, though, the stork exhibited some nerve in delivering a human parcel with the mercury at 45 below zero. Don’t you think so, too?

75 years ago, Dec. 22, 1949

The Lovell Chronicle

Henry Schmidt of Greybull, formerly of Lovell, went to Billings Saturday to meet Paul Haruo Kasai of Japan, 17-year-old youth he will educate in America. The boy will enter Greybull High School next fall, improving his English and getting oriented in America in the meantime.

Schmidt brought the Japanese boy here because of a promise he made the father, who saved Schmidt from starvation while he was a prisoner of war working in the shipyards of Japan. The elder Kasai had given the American part of his own food, and Schmidt promised in return he would give the boy a break if he got home alive after the war. Schmidt was captured as a civilian laborer on Wake Island early in the war.

50 years ago, Dec. 19, 1974

The Lovell Chronicle

Another legal snarl has been thrown in the path of the National Park Service, Bighorn Canyon transpark road. Monday the Montana Department of State Lands commission granted an easement to the NPS to construct the road across Montana school trust lands. The easement called for $6,000 to be paid to the State of Montana. What appeared to be a victory for those in favor of the transpark road soured immediately with the announcement Wednesday that a preliminary injunction barring the easement had been filed by the Montana Wildlife Federation and the Montana Wilderness Association.

25 years ago, Dec. 16, 1999

The Lovell Chronicle

He was there for the birth of his first son Brandon four years ago, but the birth of his second son proved to be extra special for Dan Wolvington of Lovell.

Dan said in an interview Tuesday morning he got the rare privilege of delivering his own son (unnamed at press time). On Monday, Dec. 13, at about 10:30 p.m., he said his wife Melissa’s contractions were about eight minutes apart so they thought they had plenty of time. At 12:30 a.m., the contractions were four minutes apart. (Dec. 13 was the due date.)

“The next thing you know it’s 1:20 a.m. and she told me I wouldn’t be able to get her to the hospital,” Dan said. So he delivered his son at 1:30 a.m. on December 14, Brandon’s birthday.

Editor’s note: Kyle Wolvington is the son “unnamed at press time.”

10 years ago, Dec. 18, 2014

The Lovell Chronicle

A group of good-hearted fifth-graders at Lovell Elementary School were so moved by the plight of their classmate’s baby sister that they decided to hold a fundraiser to help the baby and her family in their time of crisis. When Alyssa Rael, Sam Cornia and Hailey Rael learned that their classmate Dallen Mangus’ little sister Aavah suffered from complications of a rare disease called heterotaxy, their first instinct was to help. 

The students have already placed a donation jar in the lobby of the school and the fundraiser appears to be going very well. The students hope to raise $3,000 for the family.