This year's Bondurant BBQ is planned for Sunday, June 30 at the Church/Library grounds in mid-town Bondurant.
The first annual community barbecue was held on August 3, 1941, to celebrate the completion of the St. Hubert the Hunter church. Since then, the event has been held every summer - always on the last Sunday in June.
Residents, visitors, tourists... All are welcome! We cook two full beef in a brick-lined BBQ pit for up to 20 hours, the Wild West way! All the side dishes and desserts are homemade. Come enjoy a relaxing day of wonderful food, fine music, and fun activities for the kids. Bring your lawn chairs.
Friends and Neighbors: your help is needed for cleanup prior to the event, "on the line" during, and cleanup after. Sign up at the Post Office, or contact your local BCC Officer for more information.
It's a fact that every single person in Bondurant is talented and interesting and noteworthy. Yet somehow we narrowed the field down to just 12 photos!
Month by month, the 2013 Bondurant calendar depicts Library supporters ranging from life-long residents with well-known faces to new neighbors bursting with enthusiasm for community activities. You can preview Mr. October and Mr. October (aka Tom and Kevin), left.
Calendars sell for $20 each, or $15 each for more than one.
SALE!! Now only $15 for one calendar. Only $10 for two or more. Get 'em while they're hot (and it's still 2013)!!
Get your calendar at the Post Office. Or, call or email Arlene (733-8539). Or mail your check to the Library Fund at PO Box 152, Bondurant WY 82922 (include $1 each for postage).
All proceeds go toward the restoration of our historic Bondurant Library.
THANK YOU for your ongoing support of our community Library!
Friday, October 19, 2012: Bondurant is one of approximately 80 rural Wyoming post offices under scrutiny of the POST Plan, to be either discontinued or have their hours cut. At Friday's community meeting, Gary Sims, Manager of Post Office Operations in Wyoming, presented the Service's plans.
Gary told us that of 190 surveys sent to Bondurant postal patrons, 123 surveys were returned. 99% of respondents requested "realignment of hours" of operation, as opposed to closing the post office completely. Therefore, said Gary, reduced retail hours for the location will likely be:
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (with lunch from 12:00 - 12:30) Monday-Friday
8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Saturday
The change will become effective 30 days from posting notice - check the post office bulletin board for times.
Gary emphasized that income from rural post offices will greatly influence any future plans concerning the service. So - buy your stamps and post your packages from Bondurant whenever you have a chance - instead of from Pinedale or Jackson! Every dollar will count toward keeping our local post office alive. Send any additional questions or comments to Gary Sims.
Thanks to those who responded to their surveys and to those who attended the meeting. Keep those cards and letters, um, going!
Friday, October 5, 2012: WyDOT announced that the speed limit through Bondurant will remain unchanged.
Thanks to everyone who acted decisively to help keep our street safe!
Friday, October 5, 2012: Today, Citizens For the Wyoming Range announced that PXP has agreed to accept an offer to purchase their leases in the Wyoming Range. This means that the company will abandon all plans to drill in the Upper Hoback, for their part in the $8.5 million deal.
Contact Dan for more information or to help buy out the leases, one acre at a time.
On Wednesday, August 29, Flo Shepard read from and discussed her new book Sometimes Creek to the delight of a full house. Books were purchased and autographed, and neighbors visited over cookies and coffee.
Thanks to Flo for sharing a wonderful evening, and for donating the proceeds from the evening's sales of Sometimes Creek to Bondurant Library's ongoing restoration.
August 22 was a beautiful day for a ball game!
Despite the haze of smoke from distant wildland fires, enthusiastic sports fans gathered at the River Bend Ranch for a pot luck tail-gate supper right, then retired to the field for some fun...
Batter up!
Left, Gloria braces for a swing...
Right Tanner (June's grandson) lunges for the ball as a runner approaches base...
Thanks to Bill, Martha, Tony and Stacey for the field. Thanks to Jay Sweede for the pics.
This year's raffle was a great success. Brandi Mills, Daniel's postmistress, held the winning ticket for Eileen's "Dandelions". Claudia's "Feeling Happy" quilt went to Justin Mulinix of Centerville, MD. To no one's surprise, Pauline sold both winning tickets.
Thank you to our many helpers, sellers and buyers - you are all winners!
- June Sweede, Heritage Days mastermind
June 6, 2012. Children's colorful artwork adorns the new LVE station. You can admire six "fine feathered friends" on the new station behind Bondurant's Post Office.
Thanks to Arlene and Missy and the Bondurant Elementary School art class.
July 8, 2012.
Bondurant fire fighters responded valiantly to the BIG blowout at the summer homes in Middle Piney Creek last week. Above, Richard Thomas and Tam Halling pause in full gear before threatened homes.
Bondurant volunteers have been working on the this local fire since June 24th, and continue to work with Federal resources to contain and protect assets located in the area. The prep work done by firefighters saved all of the summer cabins from the fire as it moved north through the Wyoming Range.
This is living proof that "Firewise" homes CAN withstand a forest fire with a bit of help from resources on hand.
Visit the Bondurant Fire Department Open House (August 19 - see article left) and contact Fire Chief Richard for more information on Grant funding available in Sublette County to make your home FIREWISE.
- Gloria Thomas
Sunday , June 8, 2012: Following a warming lunch of chili and cookies, community members cleaned and dusted all the new and old logs of the Bondurant Library.
Monday, June 9, 2012: The next day, hearty souls donned plastic gloves and big smiles for a day of staining the newly-restored building. In the early afternoon, everyone took a break to sing and eat cake in honor of Jim Brinkerhoff's birthday. Work was resumed, and the job completed by mid-afternoon.
The stain color was chosen as the lightest color available - it shows paler on the new wood and darker on aged wood. The stain will protect the logs from deterioration brought on by UV radiation and general weathering.
If we keep up this good work, it will become easier every year. Join us each spring for ongoing maintenance coats!
Sunday, May 26
11:15 a.m.
St. Hubert the Hunter Church
All are Welcome, every Sunday through the summer
Tuesday, June 4
6:00 p.m. Potluck
Followed by meeting
St. Hubert's
Fri-Sat, June 28-29
Time T.B.A
Sunday, June 30
Noon-ish (after church)
All are welcome!
Tuesday, July 2
6:00 p.m. Potluck
Followed by meeting
St. Hubert's
Tuesday, August 6
6:00 p.m. Potluck
Followed by meeting
St. Hubert's
Mon - Fri, Aug 5 - 9
Time T.B.A
Saturday, August 10
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Great food, great bargains, great fun
Tuesday, Sept. 3
6:00 p.m. Potluck
Followed by meeting
St. Hubert's
Tuesday, Oct. 1
6:00 p.m. Potluck
Followed by meeting
St. Hubert's
Tuesday, Nov. 5
6:00 p.m. Potluck
Followed by meeting
St. Hubert's
This page last updated May 24, 2013