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,  

Kiowa County Hospital District in Eads, CO is offering the CHSAA required school athletic physicals all year at our Eads Medical Clinic, Call 719-438-2251 schedule a physical appointment ASAP

• The hours for the Eads Swimming Pool- Monday thru Saturday 1pm-5pm; Sundays 2pm-6pm
• Kiowa County Commissioners Meetings  June---30---July 14---July 28   Open to the public 9:00am.

Kiowa County Vouchers

The following vouchers were paid at the Regular Meetings held on April 14,2016 and April 28, 2016 to be paid out of 2016 Budget to wit:

CAPITAL EXPENDITUTRES,

Cultural Resource Historians LLC, Historic Survey/Rialto Hotel      $1,500.00

PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY FUND

Atmos Gas, P/H Nurse - Gas            $53.53

Bent/Kiowa County Dispatch received a 911 call Tuesday morning, June 21, at 2:39 a.m. reporting a burglary in progress at Kiowa Healthmart, 1201 Maine Street, in Eads.  Undersheriff Jake Six and Deputy Josh Swanson responded.  Cameron Wheeler Jordan, 28, of Eads was taken into custody and transported to Prowers County Jail.   The 2012 GMC Sierra pickup at the scene was later reported stolen from the Cobblestone Inn & Suites, 501 E.