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14 unusual facts about Riverton


1975–76 Philadelphia Flyers season

Heading into the playoffs, the Flyers squeaked past Toronto in seven games and defeated Boston in five games, Game 5 featuring a five-goal outburst by Leach, the Riverton Rifle, to head to a third straight appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Clif Evans

He was elected Mayor of Riverton, Manitoba in October 1989, and held the position until his election to the provincial legislature the following year.

Hellhole

But Hellhole was essentially closed to the caving community in 1988, two years after a lease on the land including its entrance was obtained by the Greer Limestone Plant, a part of Greer Industries, Inc. in the nearby town of Riverton.

Mike Tisdale

Tisdale grew up in Riverton, Illinois and attended the University of Illinois from 2007-2011.

Riverton Bridge

The suburb of Riverton was in 1937 informally called Riverton Bridge to avoid confusion with the South Australian town of Riverton.

Riverton Collegiate Institute

Riverton Collegiate Institute (or RCI) is a high school located in Riverton, Manitoba in the Rural Municipality of Bifrost in the Interlake Region, Manitoba.

Riverton, Kansas

The famous Rainbow Bridge, about two miles (3 km) west of town, was the site where in the year 2000, musician Brad Paisley performed the song (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 for the TLC (TV channel) special "Route 66: Main Street America".

Riverton, Manitoba

It is on the way to Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park and many people from Winnipeg stop in or pass by the village on the way to cottage country each summer.

Riverton, New Jersey

Philip Slater (1927-2013), sociologist who wrote the 1970 work The Pursuit of Loneliness.

In 1916, Japanese beetles, now a widespread insect pest in the United States, were first discovered in a nursery near Riverton.

Riverton, New Zealand

It is situated on the south-eastern shorelines of the Jacobs River Estuary being formed by the Aparima and Pourakino Rivers, which leads through a narrow outflow channel into Foveaux Strait.

Many Kiwi bands and singers, including Suzanne Prentice and Ray Columbus, performed at the Soundshell in its heyday during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s

Riverton, South Australia

A passenger who was travelling on the Broken Hill Express from Adelaide fired a number of shots into the dining room, and Percy Brookfield, the Member of Parliament for Broken Hill, was shot and killed when he tried to disarm the gunman.

Southern Scenic Route

At Te Waewae Bay the coast is reached and the route swings eastward towards Orepuki, Colac Bay and Riverton.


Henry family of New Zealand

The Henrys on arriving in New Zealand founded a timbermilling operation near Riverton in Southland .

Kate Morton

Later she earned first-class honours for her English Literature degree at the University of Queensland, during which time she wrote two full-length manuscripts (which are unpublished) before writing the story that would become the 2006 novel The Shifting Fog (The House at Riverton).

KCWC

KCWC-FM, a radio station (88.1 FM) licensed to serve Riverton, Wyoming

KCWY-DT

Licensed to Casper, it station also airs its programing on six low-powered satellites: KSWY-LP channel 29 in Sheridan, KCHY-LP channel 13 in Cheyenne, K14LK channel 14 in Laramie and K28HL-D channel 28 in Riverton.

Kwinana Freeway

On 20 December 2012, the State Transport Minister Troy Buswell, with Federal MP Gary Gray and State MLA for Riverton Mike Nahan, officially opened the northbound lane.

Oreti Beach

Twenty-six kilometres in length, the bay lies between the town of Riverton and the outflow of the Aparima River in the northwest, and the estuary of the Oreti River in the southeast.

Pilgrim Radio

In addition to streaming its programming at pilgrimradio.com, the signal is broadcast over-the-air on KNIS in Carson City, Nevada, KNVQ in Elko, Nevada, KDOX in in Big Pine, California, KCSP-FM in Casper, Wyoming, KDNR in Cheyenne, Wyoming, KTME in Rock Springs / Green River, Wyoming, KPMD in Evanston, Wyoming, KMJB in Lander / Riverton, Wyoming, and KLMT in Billings, Montana.

Provincial Road 222

The song "Petition" takes the form of an online petition to induct Reggie Leach, a native of Riverton, into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Reggie Leach

Leach is the topic in the John K. Samson song "Petition" which concerns the efforts of the citizens of Leach's hometown of Riverton, Manitoba to get him inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Shirley E. Flynn

She and her husband Lloyd have three surviving children: Carol Lamoin Flynn Rush (born 1954) and husband, John Benjamin Rush, of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, Kathryn Elaine "Kay" Hauser (born 1955) of Washington, D.C., and Lloyd Rader Flynn (born 1956) of Riverton; there are five grandchildren.

WGU-20

Besides the Maryland site, candidate sites for distribution stations were Maynard, Massachusetts; Mount Joy, Pennsylvania; Gray, Maine; Morristown, Tennessee; Starke, Florida or Chiefland, Florida; Mazomanie, Wisconsin; Carthage, Texas, Marshal, Texas or Seagoville, Texas; Alcova, Wyoming or Riverton, Wyoming; Mendota, California or Selma, California; Winslow, Arizona; Hermiston, Oregon; and Wallula, Washington.

Wyoming PBS

Initially, KCWC's coverage was limited to Riverton and surrounding Fremont County.