Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Celebrating the art of highway patrolling

This comes from Coleen Haines at WYDOT:

The Wyoming Highway Patrol will be hosting a public open house event to celebrate its 75th anniversary on Thursday, Aug. 21 from 1-4 p.m. It will be held in the white tent between the Wyoming Highway Patrol Headquarters building and the main WYDOT building at the I-25 and Central Avenue interchange in Cheyenne. Refreshments will be served.

The open house will provide an opportunity for employees to visit with Wyoming Highway Patrol Staff and Troopers. On display will be the restored 1954 WHP Buick along with other current Patrol vehicles and equipment. There will be various exhibits and displays and K-9 Drug and Bomb demonstrations at 2 and 3 p.m.

The Wyoming State Museum is hosting an exhibit celebrating the WHP's 75th anniversary through Sept. 30 on the museum's first floor in the Barrett Building. The restored WHP Buick was on display this summer in front of the museum.