With plans and funding for the upcoming expansion of the Big Piney Public Library already on the books, the Friends of the Library have been hard at it, raising funds to stock the added space with books, shelving, computers and all the other odds and ends that will be needed to make the facility work.

fairground’s dining hall featuring truckloads of biscuits and gravy, hash brown potatoes and sausage links.

Then with everyone stuffed to the gills, Jay Fear took center stage and auctioned off several dozen donated Easter baskets, some of which brought outstanding prices, like the rubber bucket filled with horse stuff that Sandy McGinnis plopped down $305 to purchase.

From there, parents guided their excited children to the Ag Center for the library’s traditional Easter egg hunt.

The event, which was the brainchild of Nancy Espenscheid, reportedly raised more than $2,500.

In an interview just before the auction, Nancy said, "This is for our library and to provide a good Easter egg hunt for the kids ... and I just think it’s a wonderful way for the community to show support for the library, and they do ... (because) last year we raised $2,000.

"We needed an Easter egg hunt, and the Ag Center helps us so much, because usually in Big Piney, Wyoming, we’re in a snow storm at Easter, so this provides a good, dry, safe place for the kids to hunt eggs and a way for everybody to get together and support the library," Nancy added.