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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Wednesday, July 17th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by Wyoming Senior Olympics, reminding you that this year's Summer Olympics start July 31st in Cheyenne and volunteers are needed, become a volunteer today at Wyoming senior Olympics dot org. On June 10, 4-year-old Serafina Blue Day fell face-first out of a second story window in Sheridan. Medical professionals told her mother the little girl might not wake up; might not be able to talk. They warned of potential paralysis or deafness. But a month after the accident, Fifi, as she's called, is spunky and bright as ever - despite her frightening injuries. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland spoke to Fifi and her mother, Anastasia Harbour. "The way she recalled it to her mother… she was playing with the other little girls she was visiting at that window, kind of, and she pushed on the screen wanting to feel the sun on her hands. And out she went, face first on the concrete. And Anastasia found her. She thought she was dead… But over the course of days, she was talking. I actually talked to her Monday in a FaceTime call. And she was so cute. She was showing off her nails. She was articulating things and asking for things and promising to be nice while her mother fetched a sandwich." Although her right leg remains in a rigid brace so her femur can heal, Fifi has even been dancing, wiggling her little body in her wheelchair. Read the full story HERE. On July 8, 19-year-old Powell resident Jhett Schwahn and his girlfriend were hiking down from the summit of Heart Mountain in northwest Wyoming, when Schwahn was suddenly bitten by a rattlesnake in the late afternoon hours. Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson spoke to Schwahn, who said he heard no rattle from the reptile that pounced out from a bush near the trail. "Schwahn got very lucky. Basically, since he was wearing pants that day, it… might have saved his life. Because … only one side of the fangs really penetrated his skin. So it was much less venom coursing through his body. And that's significant, because it took emergency rescuers about two, two and a half hours to reach him on the top of Heart Mountain. And then on top of that, it was still about four hours after he was bit that he finally received the antidote, the venom antidote." Schwahn is optimistic that he could be cleared to walk without assistance by this weekend, and even more likely, play baseball again by next weekend. Read the full story HERE. Going just by the numbers, the grizzly population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is more than double the 500 bears designated as "recovered." Outdoors reporter Mark Heinz says the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is waiting to hear back from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service whether a petition to delist the grizzlies from federal protection will move forward. "There's some bears showing up in new places in Jackson and also bears even showing up in cornfields in some places in Wyoming…Game and Fish is waiting to hear back from the federal wildlife service, the US Fish and Wildlife here was about possible moveme