One of our most popular features from the past 15 years - a full-page color photo on the front of the Kiowa County Press showing various impressions of life in Kiowa County. While a limited number of copies continue to be printed and distributed each week at Kiowa Healthmart, COOP C-Store in Eads, Haswell Propane, and Thunderbird Petroleum, we wanted to bring this feature to our online readers as well.

Shown below - the front page of the June 24, 2016, Kiowa County Press - Grain elevator in Eads. Photo by Jeanne Sorensen.

Bids are now being accepted by the Kiowa County Commissioners & GHP for an independent contractor to perform structural demolition with friable ACM of the former Rialto Hotel.

For more details on the site and scope of work, contact the Kiowa County Commissioners' Office, 719-438-5810.

The forms and information on the bid process will be available at the Kiowa County Commissioners Office, Kiowa County Courthouse, 1305 Goff Street, PO Box 100, Eads, CO 81036 or you may request by email to kiowaco100@gmail.com

Colorado Lightning Safety Awareness Week concludes today, with wildfires being the final topic. Friday's article can be found here.

During the past week we have presented lightning information and safety rules. Although wildfires are not an actual weather phenomenon, wildfires are directly related to lightning and other weather elements.

Birthdays

June 27

Jami Kraft

Fischer Woolsey

Debbie Eder

Scott Pearcey

Steven Phelps

June 28

Amber Gilmore

J.C. Cordova

Amanda McLoud

June 29

Traci Tuttle

Tammy Harris

Pete Thomas

Thata Hart

Cameron Crow

Kayla Frederick

Patrick Hollis

Bradley Rehm

Austin Coen

June 30

Katie Lyon

 Pollinators, such as bees, wasps, and butterflies, are critical to the food system and ecosystem. The Colorado Department of Agriculture is taking part in a national effort to protect the pollinators and priorities are placed in two areas based on legislative mandates:

Pesticide application in a manner safe to the public and the environment as mandated by the Pesticide Applicator Act and the Pesticide Act and; Honeybee health as mandated by the Bee and Bee Products Act.

 Pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds make our world a more beautiful place by pollinating flowers and plants but they are also an integral part of the food system. The honey bee pollination alone adds more than $15 billion in value to agricultural crops each year, and helps ensure that our diets include ample fruits, nuts, and vegetables. In Colorado, we have several agricultural industries that rely on pollinators such as our Palisade peaches and Rocky Ford cantaloupes.

Pollinators are a group of diverse animals that play a critical role in the world’s food production. There are over 20,000 species of wild pollinators ranging from wild bees to managed honey bees, plus many species of butterflies, flies, moths, wasps, beetles, birds, bats and other animals that pollinate crops including those that provide fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts and oils.   In Colorado, we have several agricultural industries that rely on pollinators such as our Palisade peaches and Rocky Ford cantaloupes.

This week at Lamar Theatre

Starts Friday

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5: Out of the Shadows, 6:45p.m. daily

X-Men Apocalypse, 8:50 p.m. daily

Coming Soon

Conjuring 2

Me Before You

Finding Dory

By Chris Sorensen

After a high temperature near 100 Friday, Kiowa County can look forward to a cooling trend into next week and chances of showers and thunderstorms.

Watch for afternoon and evening and evening thunderstorms Friday as unstable air continues to drift east from Utah. Small hail, locally heavy rain, damaging winds and lightning are possibilities.

Colorado Lightning Safety Awareness Week continues through tomorrow. Today we discuss lightning medical issues for survivors. Thursday's article can be found here.

The facts about lightning strike victims,