The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday night granted emergency use authorization to Moderna's new COVID-19 vaccine, the second approval of a coronavirus vaccine in a week.
Photo of the week from the December 18, 2020, edition of the Kiowa County Press in Eads, Colorado - Bird tracks in the snow.
Post-retirement life can become mundane or monotonous, so spice things up with new options! Here are a few engaging activities for seniors in assisted living.
Art is a meaningful form of creative expression that people never outgrow. Find a local instructor who is willing to teach people how to paint. Try to find an object or idea that is easy to draw and simple to explore so anyone with eyesight problems can still paint from memory. If the residents enjoy it, consider making a painting class a weekly option.
Going into “The Croods: A New Age,” I barely remembered anything from “The Croods” from 2013. I remembered that Emma Stone, Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, and Cloris Leachman voiced cave people, but that was about it. I had even forgotten that Ryan Reynolds was in it, mainly because I had written Reynolds off as a box office draw prior to his 2016 resurgence in “Deadpool.” Speaking of 2016, that was the year of “La La Land,” which won Emma Stone an Oscar for Best Actress (the highest-profile announced win for that movie to stick).
Colorado businesses are opposed to lawmakers increasing taxes during the upcoming legislative session, according to a new survey on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the state's businesses.
First-time unemployment claims soared last week to their highest level since September, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Kiowa County, Colorado, is now at 64 COVID-19 coronavirus cases, with two deaths.
Bunnie Louise Larrew
March 28, 1931 - December 16, 2020
Wednesday December 16, 2020, Bunnie Larrew, loving wife, and mother to five children, passed away at age 89 at Prowers Medical Center in Lamar.
Bunnie Louise Larrew was born March 28, 1931, to Blanche and Shields Eichelberger in their home outside of Fowler.
Mike Wyckoff
March 10, 1951 – December 16, 2020
Mike Wyckoff, 69, passed away December 16, 2020, at his Cheraw home. He born March 10, 1951, in La Junta, to Harold and Dorothy (Bushorr) Wyckoff.
He grew up on the family homestead in Arlington. He attended elementary school in Haswell and attended High School in Eads and completed a mechanics program at Lamar Community college.