Makes:   5 servings 

Mushrooms, nutmeg, and white wine make a delicious yogurt-based sauce for the pasta in this beef recipe.

Ingredients

1 pound beef (lean, top round)
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
3⁄4 tablespoon onion (finely chopped)
1 pound mushroom (sliced)
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
  black pepper
1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
1⁄2 teaspoon basil (dried)
1⁄4 cup white wine
1 cup yogurt (plain, low-fat)
6 cups macaroni (cooked in unsalted water)

Directions

A celebration of life for longtime Eads resident, Dorothy M. Lyon will be held at 11:00AM on Monday, March 20, 2017 at the Eads Christian Church with Pastor Mark Imel officiating. Interment will follow at the Eads Cemetery.

Visitation for Dorothy will be held prior to the service on Monday at the church from 10:00AM until the time of service at 11:00AM.

Dorothy was born on April 21, 1930 at Sharon Springs, Kansas, to Jeremiah Theodore and Lenola (Johnson) Merica and passed away on March 16, 2017 at the Weisbrod Memorial Nursing Home at the age of 86.

Perhaps you want to learn how to stalk and bag your next Thanksgiving turkey. Or maybe you just want to brush up on your skills so you are ready when spring turkey season opens April 8. 
Then sign up now for Turkey Hunting 101, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife class scheduled for 6 p.m., Thursday, March 23, at the Lake Pueblo State Park auditorium.
District Wildlife Manager Gretchen Holschuh is hosting the three-hour class, which is open to everyone from novice to experienced hunters.

By Chris Sorensen

With recent warm temperatures and generally dry conditions, drought intensity has increased in Colorado, particularly for north central counties.

Note: March 12 through 18 is Flood and Wildfire Safety Week in Colorado. This is the seventh and final article in a series on safety and preparedness. See Friday’s article here 

Colorado has more than its fair share of floods, flash floods, and wildfires. During the past week, in our effort to build a Weather-Ready Nation, we have presented information to you on how to stay safe and minimize property damage during flood and wildfire threats.

By Chris Sorensen

While the average March is Colorado’s snowiest month, this year feels more like early spring, with temperatures in the 80s this weekend and the potential to break records for this time of year.

Saturday starts off sunny, with a high around 80 in southern Colorado and an overnight low near 40.

One of our most popular features over the past 16 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 March 17, 2017, Kiowa County Press - Fence line. Photo by Jeanne Sorensen.

Food competition, celebration of state’s ag industry one of the most popular events under the Golden Dome

A celebration of Colorado’s agricultural producers and agribusinesses is set for Wednesday, March 22, at the State Capitol Building in Denver.

By Bob Garver

I bet when most people hear the term “Viet Cong” for the first time, they snicker at a mental image of King Kong fighting in Vietnam. Almost everyone outgrows this joke in about a minute, but not the makers of “Kong: Skull Island.” They’ve spent $190 million and years of effort making the King Kong/Vietnam crossover that nobody was demanding, but nobody’s in a hurry to reject either.

Arbor Day, an April holiday that celebrates the planting and caring for trees, is a popular time for homeowners to add new trees to their landscapes. Before doing this, however, homeowners should consider advice from expert arborists to ensure the trees' longevity.

"Too often, consumers waste hundreds of dollars on trees that will die because they were planted too deep," cautions Tchukki Andersen, BCMA, CTSP* and staff arborist with the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA).