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In today's newsletter:

  • How the 12-24 Club's new leader is reshaping recovery support
  • See what Casper's new Love's and Hardee's are offering locals.
  • Were your records exposed in Casper Orthopedic Associates' recent data breach?

Also on today's calendar: Book Launch and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the hospital? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Stiff winds, with a high of 84 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Saturday: Clouding up; warm, temps: high: 80, low: 45.
  • Sunday: Cloudy and cooler, with a high of 62 and low of 43 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. 12-24 Club welcomes new executive director (oilcity.news) — Casper's 12-24 Club has a new executive director, Joy Shain, whose own recovery journey began at the club and now guides her service-first leadership. She's juggling funding challenges, staffing the Fresh Start Café, and expanding support for people seeking sobriety, while keeping an open-door policy that encourages patrons and staff to drop in, connect, and ask for help.
   

2. Love's Travel Stop opens; Hardee's coming Monday (oilcity.news) — A new Love's Travel Stop just off I-25 near Bar Nunn is now open 24/7, with an attached Hardee's set to start serving customers Monday morning. The project brings 40–50 jobs, a $5,000 local nonprofit donation, and long-awaited round‑the‑clock food and fuel options for Casper's oilfield, welding, and manufacturing workers.
   

3. Casper Orthopedic Associates; Atlantic Digestive Specialists Announce Data Breaches (hipaajournal.com) — Patients of Casper Orthopedic Associates should know that a May cyberattack exposed personal and medical information for over 56,000 people, including Social Security and financial details, with notifications mailed in early September. The practice says it hired cybersecurity experts, completed its investigation this summer, and is alerting affected individuals while another New Hampshire clinic reports a separate breach.
   

4. Arizona Man Gets Prison For Trying To Cash Stolen $540,000 Habitat Check In Casper (cowboystatedaily.com) — A man from Arizona has been sentenced to just over two years in federal prison after opening a fake business account at a Casper Wells Fargo and depositing a stolen $540,000 check meant for Habitat for Humanity. Local Habitat leaders say the bank's loss roughly equals the cost of a Natrona County home, underscoring how fraud like this could affect housing efforts in the Casper community.
   

5. Celebrating Wyoming and America for National Poetry Day (greenriverstar.com) — Wyoming writers who were honored at a Casper-hosted statewide conference are now sharing their award-winning work at a National Poetry Day event on Oct. 15 at Western Wyoming College. The reading, led by Poet Laureate Barbara Smith, will feature contest winners and an open mic, inviting residents to celebrate Wyoming's past, present, and future through poetry and storytelling.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the cookie go to the hospital?" — Because he felt crummy. (Thank you Sanda J. for sending it in!)
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