COLORADO

The number of cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in Colorado feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 head or larger was estimated at 930,000 head as of July 1, 2018. The latest inventory was 2 percent below the previous month’s inventory but no change from the July 1, 2017 inventory.

The inventory included 520,000 steers and steer calves, down 10 percent from the previous year. The number of heifers and heifer calves, at 410,000 head, are up 15 percent from a year ago.

Billie J. Lafferty

October 30, 1942 - July 16, 2018

Mrs. Lafferty passed away at her home in Wild Horse.

A private family graveside service will be held at the Kit Carson Cemetery.

Memorial contribution can be made to the St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Brown Funeral Homes in charge of arrangements

KIOWA COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

June 25, 2018 at 7:00 pm

Jay Specht called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm.  Those present at the meeting were:

            Jay Specht, President

            Teresa Witte, Treasurer

The Kiowa County Hospital District and County Board met in regular session on May 22, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.at the Bransgrove Building Meeting Room.

District Board members present were: Mary Eikner, Sylvia Shields, Cathryn Anderson, Priscilla Waggoner,and Robert Woods.

County Board members present were: Lori Shalberg, John Negley, and Craig Kerfoot. Absent- Dennis Pearson(called).

In the debates that rage after each highly-publicized mass shooting, one side claims that more restrictive gun laws could prevent future such tragedies while the other side counters that the rights of law-abiding gun owners shouldn’t be sacrificed because of the horrendous act of someone who disregarded existing laws.

Due to high water temperatures and low flows, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is implementing voluntary fishing closures between 2:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. on sections of the Eagle River, Colorado River, Crystal River, and Roaring Fork River in Northwest Colorado. The fishing closure is effective immediately, until further notice.

Although anglers are not legally prohibited from fishing in these stretches, CPW is asking anglers to fish early in the day and find alternative places to fish until conditions improve.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is lifting the mandatory fishing closure on the sixth-tenth mile section of the Yampa River below the dam at Stagecoach State Park, effective immediately.

Due to minimal snowpack this past winter resulting in low stream flow during the hottest time of the year, the agency implemented the closure on June 14 to protect the popular fishery.

Since then, CPW has been continuously monitoring conditions on this stretch of river.