Please vote for 2025 Lilac Queen

You are not your worst moment, your hardest day or your biggest mistake. You are a collection of resilience, grace and untapped potential.

Lilac Queen ballots are out. Please vote at Basin Republican Rustler, Basin Pharmacy, Basin’s Market or Security State Bank. Votes must be cast by May 30. Vote for a woman in Basin over 50 who has made a difference in this community. 

Lilac Days June 7, 2025 lineup:

8 am, Free Kid Fishing Day/Basin Pond

9 am Gottshe/CRH Basin Clinic 5K

9:30 am, Basin First Baptist Free Breakfast

10 am, Welcome, music, games, vendors, bike rodeo, car show

10:15 am, Lilac Princess Contest

10:45 am, Lilac Baby Contest

11:30 am, Crowning of Lilac Queen.

Noon: Sign up for Basin Rec Cornhole Tournament.

Thank you sponsors: Three Rivers Health, Big Horn REA, Security State Bank Basin, TCT, Queen Bee Gardens, Basin Police Department, Basin Recreation District #4, Friends Of The Basin Library, Wing It Food Truck, Club Dauntless, The SHACK Community Youth Center in Greybull, Wyo., Road 10 T-Shirts and More, Town of Basin, Haley’s Concession (Tracy Haley), American Legion Post #29, Valley Hardware, Gottsche Therapy & Wellness-Basin, Cody Regional Health-Basin Clinic.

You may have noticed some fresh paint and sprucing up of the chamber/Legion building. Thank you to beautification committee members Wende and Diana.

The Welcome to Basin Billboard is sold out. Twenty-two businesses will be listed. Robin from Road 10 is doing the design and sign. It will go over the red and black billboard on the north end of Basin.

Quick shout out to Tony Demars from the Big Horn Radio Network. Tony receives Chamber Chat. He is so good about reaching out not only to the chamber for our events but to those organizing events and programs that are featured in Chat. He shares from our FB page too. If you have ever wondered why you received a request for an interview from Tony, it likely was from Chat and Tony doing a great job of reaching out. 

Chamber member news: 

•Hyattville Community Center: Cowboy Carnival, May 25. Many fun things to do and see.   

•BHC School District #4: Lilac Days 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament, May 30 starting at 3 p.m., May 31 starting at 9 a.m. Games rotate between the three gyms (high school, rec center and elementary)

•Town of Basin: Council meeting, May 22, 7 p.m. 

•American Legion Auxiliary: American Legion Post 29 will be presenting a Memorial Day ceremony on May 26, 2025. They will be at the Burlington cemetery at 9 am, the Otto cemetery at 10 and the Basin cemetery at 11 with a picnic/barbecue at Washington Park in Basin afterward, weather permitting for veterans and their families. Should the weather not cooperate, the picnic/barbecue will be moved to the American Legion/Chamber building. Hamburgers, hot dogs and drinks will be provided. Veterans and families, please bring a side dish and/or dessert and your lawn chairs.

 • Big Horn County: Public Health chalk art, Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m. starting June 3. 213 E 3rd Street, Lovell 307-548-6591. 

•Friends of the Basin Library: Storytime every Friday. The library will be closed on Memorial Day to honor our military. 

•Absaroka Head Start: Now enrolling for free pre-school. Children ages 3 and 4 for fall 2025. Apply today as space is limited. 307-568-2032. 

•Burlington Schools: Summer library hours are Wednesdays 8 a.m. to noon starting June 4.