Moorcroft Leader - The Voice of the Community Since 1909, Serving Moorcroft and Pine Haven, Wyoming

For the last few years, Moorcroft High School (MHS) agriculture teacher and FFA counselor Hugh Jenkins has been promoting the benefits of a barn on school property for urban kids without access to rural land to have a place to raise animals for fair or 4-H.

In October, a big step toward this realization came with the approval from the Crook County School District #1 Board of Trustees of a bid from Sundance based Four Aces Fabrication to build an insulated steel barn southeast of MHS for $81,585.

Dirt work, electrical, water lines, concrete, meter fees and any other miscellaneous building e...