Daylight Savings Time: Set Your Clocks, Check Your Stocks

Daylight Savings Time resumes on Sunday, March 13, 2016. That means we will turn our clocks forward one hour, or Spring Ahead! The semi-annual time change is also a great opportunity for valuable preparedness steps focused on checking your emergency preparedness supplies or stocks.

Change Your Clock, Check Your Stocks

This week as you prepare to change your clock, it’s time to check the stock in your emergency preparedness kit for items that may be missing or expired. If you don’t have a preparedness kit yes, you can create one that includes:

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Six-Week Online Courses Available at LCC

Online courses are still available for the spring semester at Lamar Community College.  Students and community members alike can take advantage of courses packaged into a quick six-week session starting on March 28, 2016 and running through May 7.

Online courses provide students the flexibility to work anywhere and at any time, making it possible to add a class into any schedule.  This six-week course schedule goes a step further, allowing for fast-paced learning for motivated individuals. 

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Deadline Friday for Clerk’s Scholarship

The Colorado County Clerks Association (CCCA) has established a scholarship fund to aid outstanding seniors who are residents of Colorado.

The scholarship is intended to aid students in furthering their education at any university, college, junior college, or technical institution. There are four regional, one-time $1,000 scholarships awarded to seniors graduating from Colorado high schools.

Selection is based on grade point average and community involvement with an interest in government, business or political science, as well as financial need/hardship. 

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Home Country

By Slim Randles

I was one of the half-dozen guys holding Isaac Okleasik’s sled down while his dozen-plus sled dogs were screaming and lunging. It was the first Saturday in March back in 1973, and Isaac was one of the first mushers to leave on the first Iditarod Sled Dog Race. I was wearing bib number 37, and since we let a team go every two minutes, I had plenty of time to help others before it was my turn.

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Weather Spotter Training Offered

UPDATED - adds newsly-scheduled training in Kiowa County

The National Weather Service in Pueblo provides SKYWARN weather spotter preparedness and training.  Typically, the sessions are scheduled from late March through early May each year, and are a cooperative effort of local government officials and the National Weather Service.  The sessions are free of charge and usually open to everyone unless noted.

Participants receive information about:

- latest hot topics about National Weather Service

- when and how to report severe weather

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