Warm, dry days and cool evenings are in store across the weekend for Kiowa County.
Highs will be in the low to mid-70s Friday through Sunday. Winds will remain light, 5-10 miles per hour, through most of the period – with slightly stronger 15 mph wind Saturday afternoon.
Overnight, temperatures will be in the lower 40s Friday and Saturday, and falling to the upper 30s Sunday night.
Warm and dry early spring conditions continued to expand the area impacted by drought in southeast Colorado over the past week.
All of Baca and Prowers Counties are now in moderate drought. Kiowa and Bent Counties had smaller areas in drought last week, which has expanded to cover most of Kiowa and essentially all of Bent.
Drought continued to expand in Las Animas County, and now also impacts eastern Otero County.
Colorado’s oldest livestock organization will meet Saturday, April 9, 2016 in La Junta.
Bent-Prowers Cattle & Horse Growers Association’s annual meeting, auction, banquet and cowboy ball will rotate to La Junta this weekend. Events are open to the agricultural community, with the majority of events being held at Inspiration Field.
The Weisbrod Hospital Auxiliary will meet Tuesday, April 12th at 11:00 am, at the JJ’s Ranch House for lunch and a working meeting. Possible new members are encouraged to come to help plan projects for the benefit of the ECU and Hospital
This week at Lamar Theatre
Held Over!
Miracles from Heaven, "Based onthe Incredible True Story" 6:45 p.m. daily
Starts Friday
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, stars Tina Fey, 8:50 p.m. daily
Coming Soon
Batman vs. Superman
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
15 yrs Ago
April 13, 2001
Curtis Schrimp-Wild Horse Roundup: Coming back, for ten miles south of Arriba, it was mud. I wouldn’t have cared so much if was our mud, but our road was dry.
25 years Ago
April 11, 1991
Eight head sold over the $2000 mark at the 17th annual sale of the Southeast CO Bull Test Association held at Winter Livestock in La Junta April 5
Birthdays
April 11
Emily Gyurman
Kenan Elarton
Emma Frey
April 12
Wyatt Ehrlick
Lily Phipps
Cade McDowell
Michele Brown
Matthew Haskell
Morgan Thomas
Eddie Lang
Sommer Lang Kelley
Lucille Crow*In Memory
Nathan McKnight
April 13
Heather Campbell
Jim Campbell
Ruth Dawson* In Memory
Alicia James
Zachary Ramsay
Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) has announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program will make $10,240,800 available to Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs for the purposes of restoration and flood mitigation after severe weather impacted the region last year. Gardner sent a letter on July 10, 2015 to President Obama requesting federal assistance for several counties in Colorado impacted by significant weather events.
