RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

BOARD MEETING June 22, 2021

The Kiowa County Hospital District and County Board met in regular session on June 22, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. at Cobblestone Inn Meeting Room and via Zoom.

District Board members present were: Mary Eikner, Sylvia Shields, Craig Kerfoot and Meghan Buck. Absent - Cathryn Anderson (called).

County Board members present were: Ken Flory, Kevin Davis, Karl Eikenberg, Claire Prince and Pam Cole.

Beer has a complicated history in the U.S. Prior to the industry consolation that is the contemporary norm, small, local breweries dotted the country. Prohibition devastated the industry, but, when it was repealed in 1933, there was a period of rebirth.

Toyota once led in the greener car market. What happened?

All military members will be required to take the COVID-19 vaccine, the Pentagon announced Monday, but some members of Congress have already mobilized an effort to overturn the mandate.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave full approval Monday to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, a major step that will likely have significant implications for vaccination mandates nationwide.

Marilyn Kay White

December 30, 1940 – August 17, 2021

Marilyn Kay White

December 30, 1940 - August 17, 2021

Visitation for Marilyn Kay White will be held Tuesday, August 24, 2021, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Kit Carson. Funeral services will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the church.

Burial will be at the Kit Carson Cemetery.

“Hic habitat felicitas” – “Here dwells happiness” – confidently proclaims an inscription found in a Pompeiian bakery nearly 2,000 years after its owner lived and possibly died in the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed the city in A.D. 79. What did happiness mean to this Pompeiian baker?

Ningbo-Zhousan may not exactly be a household name, but find something in your house made in China and it’s quite likely it was delivered from there.

Life in Eads and Kiowa County, Colorado, as observed by Doris Lessenden.