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 May 20, 2016, Kiowa County Press - Sunrise over Eads. Photo by Jeanne Sorensen.

Birthdays

May 23

Grayson Weber

Kennedy Gyurman

Tom Davis

Callie Rusher

Micki Faulkin

Jacob Buck

Kody Lane

Brad Morgan

May 24

Caleb Berggren

May 25

Alma Robertson

Amber Kiniston

Kayli Phipps

Harper Lee Morlan

Lily Jane Guterrez

Jennifer Boyd

Roger Saffer

Miles Philpy

Julia Hopkins

May 26

Susan Sutphin

Trista Tuttle

FREE 1 Day Camp

Saturday June 11, 2016 8:30am to 10:30am

Boys & Girls going into Kindergarten – 4^th Grade

Eads High School Gymnasium-Bring Shoes & Water Bottles

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

March 15 – July 15^th - Primary Nesting Season for CRP.  No practice or management activity allowed.

May 31 – Last day to request commodity loan for 2015 grain sorghum, corn and sunflowers

July 15^th - Production submission deadline for 2015 NAP crops.

July 15^th -  Acreage reporting deadline for planted spring crops and CRP

The pilot of a Cessna P210N that crashed Wednesday near County Road 71 three miles north of Highway 96 in eastern Kiowa County has been identified.

John Lee Stubblefield, 64, of Meridian, Idaho, was found dead in the crashed aircraft. The fixed-wing, single engine plane is registered to Stubblefield Construction Company, also of Meridian. It was manufactured in 1978.

By Chris Sorensen

May 20, 2016

Summer-like conditions are firmly in place for the weekend.

After some patchy fog to start Friday morning, temperatures will rise to the upper 70s and afternoon winds will be out of the southeast at 15-20 miles per hour.

Saturday and Sunday will see daytime highs in the mid- to upper 80s and continued southerly winds in the 15 to 25 mph range. Gust overnight Saturday could be as high as 30 mph.

Lows into next week will be in the mid-40s to low 50s.

This week at Lamar Theatre

Held Over

Disney's The Jungle Book, 6:45 p.m. daily

Starts Friday

Mother's Day, stars Julia Roberts & Jennifer Aniston, 8:45 p.m. daily

Coming Soon

Captain America: Civil War (Starts May 27)