By Dave Brendsel

Colorado remained the leanest state in the nation in 2015, with a 20.2 percent adult obesity rate, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

Colorado’s obesity rate increased dramatically from 2000 through 2010 but since then has leveled off. Nevertheless, one in five Colorado adults is obese, and obesity rates are higher for African-American (27.7 percent) and Hispanic (28.3 percent) Coloradans.

By Pastor Rich Z

WISDOM AND MADNESS

“And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly I perceived that this also is grasping for the wind. For much wisdom is much grief. And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.” Ecclesiastes 1:17,18

Home Country by Slim Randles will return next week with new adventures.

By Chris Sorensen

Elbert County deputies were dispatched shortly after 1:00 a.m. Saturday to a reported drunk driver who was southbound on Elbert County Road 21.

Based on registration information, deputies were led to an address on Dove Creek Drive in Elizabeth where they contacted the alleged driver, James Littrell, 59.

Littrell disobeyed verbal orders and pointed a handgun at deputies before running into a home.

Elbert and Douglas County officers were able to establish a perimeter around the home and requested the Elbert County S.W.A.T team.

Human remains were found Thursday south of Vona in Kit Carson County.

The Kit Carson County Sheriff’s Office closed County Road 23 between County Roads R and N Thursday morning. It was re-opened about 11 hours later.

The Sheriff’s Office is working with the County Coroner’s Office, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, 13^th Judicial District Attorney’s Office and Stratton Marshall’s Office to identify the remains.

According to a statement from Sheriff Tom Ridnour, the investigation is ongoing and no further details are available.

The Arkansas Valley Research Center at Rocky Ford will hold its Biennial Agricultural Field Day, Thursday, September 8 at 3:30pm.

There will be a wagon tour of selected research plots followed by a picnic supper.

The tour will include the following discussion leaders

By Bob Garver

A former member of the Huerfano County Sheriff’s Office was arrested for alleged incidents of sexual assault occurring earlier this year and in the late 1990s.

Harley “Gene” Parker, 67 passed away Friday, August 26, 2016 at his home in Garden City with his family surrounding him. He was born September 13, 1948 in Eads, Colorado the son of Oral and Margit (Olsen) Parker.

Breakfast

September 5: Muffins, yogurt, apple juice, milk, fruit

September 6: Doughnut, cereal, grape juice, milk, orange

September 7: No school – Kiowa County Fair

September 8: No school – Kiowa County Fair

Lunch

September 5: Nachos, lettuce, tomato, cinnamon bread, mandarin oranges, milk

September 6: Hoagie sandwich, chips, cookie, apple, milk

September 7: No school – Kiowa County Fair

September 8: No school – Kiowa County Fair