By Eads USDA Service Center Staff

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

One of our most popular features from the past 15 years - a full-page color photo on the front of the Kiowa County Press showing various impressions of life in Kiowa County. While a limited number of copies continue to be printed and distributed each week at Kiowa Healthmart, COOP C-Store in Eads, Haswell Propane, and Thunderbird Petroleum, we wanted to bring this feature to our online readers as well.

Shown below - the front page of the September 2, 2016, Kiowa County Press - Sunrise in Kiowa County. Photo by Jeanne Sorensen.

The Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program (CALP) is proud to host the 26th annual Governor's Forum on Colorado Agriculture, this year titled "Label it: Agriculture," and focusing on a future built by collaboration.

The event will take place February 22, 2017, at the Renaissance Hotel in Denver.

A middle school volley ball game has been added to the Eads School calendar for Tuesday, September 6.

Athletes will leave for McClave at 1:45 p.m., for varsity and junior varsity games set to begin at 3:00 p.m.

By Chris Sorensen

Thunderstorms remain in the outlook – particularly for Friday – into the early part of the week as temperatures rise.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected after 4:00 p.m. Friday, continuing into the early evening as a strong upper-level disturbance passes through the area. Winds could gust as high as 50 miles per hour, and small hail is possible. There is potential for one-tenth to one-quarter inch of rain, though amounts could be higher where storms do occur.

CDOT’s “Social Experiment” Video logs over 150,000 Views Nationally

Labor Day festivities will be plentiful this weekend as Coloradans enjoy the last days of summer. Encouraging Coloradans to celebrate responsibly, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), Colorado State Patrol (CSP) and statewide law agencies are continuing heightened DUI patrols through the travel-heavy holiday weekend. The Labor Day enforcement period began on Friday, Aug. 19, and runs through Tuesday, Sept. 6.

More teens in Colorado are getting recommended vaccinations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2015 National Immunization Survey for Teens.

The national survey of teens ages 13-17 found an increase in the percentage who had received the vaccines routinely recommended for 11- and 12-year-olds. The tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap) vaccine had a 93 percent coverage rate, and significant improvements were made in coverage rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV), varicella (chickenpox) and meningococcal conjugate vaccines. In 2015:

Pages  from the Past

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