Frederick A. Esgar

A celebration of life for longtime Wiley resident, Frederick A. Esgar will be held at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, May 24, 2018 at the Wiley United Methodist Church with Zach Esgar officiating. Interment will be held prior to the church service at 2:00 p.m. at the Wiley Cemetery under the auspices of the Lamar Masonic Lodge #90. 

Visitation for Frederick will be held on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Peacock Family Chapel. 

Employers in Colorado added 7,200 nonfarm payroll jobs from March to April for a total of 2,717,000 jobs, according to the survey of business establishments. Private sector payroll jobs increased 6,300 and government increased 900.

Proverbs 18:24 ‘Friends come and …go but a true friend sticks by you.”

A small earthquake was recorded Sunday evening just across Colorado’s southern border with New Mexico

The quake, measuring 2.7 on the Richter Scale, occurred just after 5:00 p.m. at a depth of about five miles beneath the surface according to the United States Geological Survey. It was centered 100 miles southwest of Pueblo in a sparsely populated area of New Mexico.

The USGS has not received any citizen reports of feeling the earthquake.

15 Years Ago

May 16, 2003

·     Plainview High School won top honors at the 2^ndannual statewide Home Energy Investigation Contest sponsored by the Colorado Energy Science Center

·     Riki Berry, Eads senior, and Megan Fickenscher, Plainview senior, were selected to be honored as “Zonta Girl of the Year” by the Lamar Zonta Club.

FRIENDSHIP AND FAMILY

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Proverbs 17:17

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When Dewey and Emily walked into the Mule Barn the other day, they were greeted with applause and whistles. Emily blushed and Dewey took a bow, almost hitting the coffee pot Loretta was carrying.

“I hear you too really fell for each other,” Doc said. “And the way I hear it, many times.”

“That’s right, Doc, I finally cornered him and we’re planning a wedding,” Emily said.

Emily is a brave soul, taking for a husband the most accident prone human being since Wrong Way Corrigan.