By USDA Service Center Staff

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

Pneumonia, an infection of the lungs, needlessly affects millions of people worldwide each year. Pneumonia can often be prevented and can usually be treated. Lower your risk of pneumonia with vaccines and other healthy living practices.

Globally, pneumonia kills nearly 1 million children younger than 5 years of age each year. This is greater than the number of deaths from any infectious disease, such as HIV infection, malaria, or tuberculosis.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering free admission to all veterans and active duty members of the military, military reserve and National Guard to any Colorado state park for Veterans Day. On Nov. 11, any member of the military forces or veteran can enter any of Colorado’s 42 state parks free of charge, along with his or her companions in the same vehicle.

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By Chris Sorensen

The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Drought Mitigation Center is reporting that drought conditions have expanded and strengthened across Colorado.

By Chris Sorensen

This weekend will cool slightly from an above-average week, and a chance of rain returns.

Friday will be mostly sunny, with a high in the low 70s and an overnight low in the upper 30s.

A 30 percent chance of showers enters the forecast Saturday afternoon into the evening. The mostly cloudy day will be marked by a high in the mid-60s and overnight low in the mid-40s as a weakening upper low moves over the state throughout the day. The best chance of rain will be south of Highway 50.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has ordered flags lowered to half-staff on Monday, Nov. 7, on all public buildings statewide in memory of Cimarron Hills Firefighter Jermaine Frye. Flags should be lowered from sunrise to sunset.

Frye, 31, died on October 29 following an injury he sustained during training in the Colorado Springs area. Frye is survived by his fiancée Megan who is expecting, and family members.

Randall "Randy" Eugene Richardson 
(July 4, 1952 - November 3, 2016) 
Funeral services are pending at this time.

Randy died at the Morton County Hospital in Elkhart, Kansas.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Alzheimers Association or to the KA Hall in Sheridan Lake.

Breakfast

November 7: French toast, sausage links, apple juice, milk, orange

November 8: Breakfast casserole, orange juice, milk, peach cup

November 9: Hash browns, toast, sausage, grape juice, milk, apple

November 10: Bagel sandwich, apple, juice, milk, mixed fruit

Lunch

November 7: Chicken pot pie, biscuit, peaches, milk, fruit and vegetable bar

November 8: Ham and cheese pocket, cooked peas and carrots, grapes, milk, fruit and vegetable bar

By Bob Garver

“Inferno” is the third film to star Tom Hanks as adventure-prone symbology professor Robert Langdon. The two previous films were 2006’s “The Da Vinci Code” and 2009’s “Angels & Demons.” Like the James Bond franchise, the titles don’t follow a pattern. Unlike the James Bond franchise, I don’t see many people staying loyal to the character for fifty years. Langdon has existed in movies for ten years now, and many people who have seen “Inferno” agree that’s more than enough.