The Lamar Community College Fitness Center has recently expanded its hours to better serve its users. 

The Fitness Center will now be open Monday through Friday from 5:00am to 8:00pm and Saturday from 8:00 to 11:00am.  It will be closed on Sundays and on major holidays, and any holiday closures will be posted in advance. 

Birthdays

May 22

Stacey Grogan

Krysta Elam* In Memory

Zack Kopasz

May 23

Grayson Weber

Kennedy Gyurman

Callie Rusher

Micki Faulkin

Tom Davis

Brad Morgan

Jacob Buck

Kody Lane

May 24

Caleb Berggren

May 25

Julia Hopkins

Sadie Lynn Muth

Jennifer Boyd

Amber Kiniston

Kayli Phipps

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife team is preparing Lake Pueblo State Park for the unofficial start of summer on Memorial Day weekend and wants visitors to know what they can expect when they arrive.

Renovation work at the Rock Canyon Swim Beach facilities has been delayed due to a wet, stormy spring. As a result, a $500,000 project is behind schedule and the beach will not be ready by the traditional opening date of Memorial Day Weekend.

Why did the lesser prairie chicken cross the state line?

Well, if Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists are successful, the answer will be to rebuild populations of the rare and vulnerable bird that has mostly disappeared from the sagebrush and grasslands of the southeast corner of the state.

John Morrell and Co., a Cincinnati, Ohio establishment, is recalling approximately 210,606 pounds of ready-to-eat hot dog products that may contain metal according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

The beef franks items were produced on January 26, 2017. The following products are subject to recall:

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.

Copies of the print version of the Kiowa County Press can be purchased each week at Kiowa Healthmart, COOP C-Store in Eads, Haswell Propane, and Thunderbird Petroleum, our at our business office at 1208 Maine Street, Eads.

Shown below - the front page of the May 19, 2017, Kiowa County Press - Wheat in Kiowa County. Photo by Chris Sorensen.