I can't believe it is fair week already. Hope everyone can come and enjoy the activities. We have been busy picking and digging our garden produce and getting it ready to show at the fair. Kyle and I have been doing some baking and making candy and I have also been busy making pickles, jelly and relish to show. Fun! Fun!

Last Thursday, Susan Greenfield and Jeanie Smith went to Holly to watch their girls play volleyball. Friday, they went to La Junta shopping and then back to Manzanola to watch the Eads football and volleyball teams play.

Virgil Laverne Drescher 

January 3, 1952 – August 28, 2018

Virgil Laverne Drescher was born January 3, 1952, in Lamar, Colorado, at the St. Catherine Hospital to Theodore Wilbur Drescher and Annabelle Marie Drescher. He passed away suddenly August 28, 2018, in the Aurora Medical Trauma Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. Upon his death he successfully donated his corneas to the national eye bank.

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission will discuss allowing leashed dogs on select trails at Cheyenne Mountain State Park, prohibiting fishing at the ponds within the dog off-leash area at Chatfield State Park, restricting watercraft to vessels propelled by hand on the Chatfield State Park ponds (excluding the main reservoir), removing the boating seasonal closure at Jackson Lake State Park, and defining and allowing incidental commercial use at state parks without a cooperative or special use agreement.  

Football game start times have changed for the September 7 Eads High School and Middle School match ups.

Both games are at home, with the middle school team taking the field at 5:00 p.m., while the high school game starts at 7:30 p.m.

Middle school volleyball varsity and junior varsity matches – also at home for the Kiowa County Fair week – begin at 3:00 p.m. High school varsity and junior varsity games begin at 5:00 p.m.

Labor Day weekend is notoriously bad for the box office. Not just bad in relation to other holiday weekends, but bad in relation to other weekends, period. Here were the top four movies this past weekend, in order: the third weekend of “Crazy Rich Asians”, the fourth weekend of “The Meg”, the sixth weekend of “Mission Impossible – Fallout”, and then and only then did we get a new release in fourth place with “Operation Finale”.

15 Years Ago

August 29, 2003

• Kiowa County received $1,000 for West Nile Protection.
• The Kiowa County Economic Development Foundation purchased nearly 800 acres of land south of Eads.
• Wild Horse Roundup-Curtis Schrimp: I’m not having much luck yelling at the Rockies lately as they don’t seem to pay attention.

25 Years Ago

September 1, 1993

“He has made everything beautiful in its time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11

That verse reminds me of the song Sylvia (Blooding) Weeks used to sing. One year at a Veteran’s Day program at school as she sang the song, “Everything Beautiful in His Time” while her classmates passed out those words they had copied to slim sheets of paper to the students in the Assembly. In those years we also had skits on the Viet Nam topic and concerns of teenagers.

This weekend there is a major patriotic parade and program in Lamar Saturday,

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

• COUNTY FOR CRP EMERGENCY GRAZING THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30th
• CRP Emergency hayed  bales – removed from field by September 15^th
• Apply for Livestock Forage Program - Call office for appointment.
• NAP COVERAGE DEADLINE- December 1^st, native grass 
• FARM LOAN Personnel in Kiowa County Service Center – Tuesday, September 11^th– CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT
• FSA County Committee Meeting