Photo of the week from the February 25, 2022, edition of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado - Clouds at sunset - Chris Sorensen.

What’s better than ranch dressing? Fresh, homemade ranch dressing! It’s the perfect addition to your salad, veggies, or just about anything you can dip!

Bone doesn’t bend. It is very strong, but it’s also brittle and can break with too much pressure. Cartilage is strong, but it is squishier and can bend.

Birthdays

February 28

• Adrienne Specht
• Paul Specht
• Jaidyn Walsh
• Brithni Lee Talbert
• Jim Gibson
• Brynlee Sky Jeffryes

February 29

• Vickie Morgan
• Brittni Legg Talbert

March 1

• Hillary Koehler
• Lexi Lopez
• R.J.

Following a request by property owners earlier in the month, the Kiowa County Commissioners have asked for a meeting with representatives of Xcel Energy to discuss a 10-mile setback from the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in routing a proposed power transmission line.

Cattle on feed highlight for January 2022 in Colorado and the United States from the USDA.

Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.56 billion pounds in January, down 5 percent from the 4.80 billion

pounds produced in January 2021.

Beef production, at 2.27 billion pounds, was 2 percent below the previous year. Cattle slaughter totaled 2.70 million head, down 2

percent from January 2021. The average live weight was down 1 pound from the previous year, at 1,398 pounds.

Veal production totaled 4.6 million pounds, slightly below January a year ago. Calf slaughter totaled 32,300 head, slightly below

Teaching during a pandemic is forcing the implementation of online teaching. To ease your stress, here are some tips for teachers shifting to online classrooms.

The White House announced Friday President Joe Biden had selected a nominee to replace outgoing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Some 4.9 billion people – or 63.9% of the world’s population – have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of late February 2022. And more than 430 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic.