Colorado Lightning Safety Awareness Week concludes today, with wildfires being the final topic. Friday's article can be found here.
During the past week we have presented lightning information and safety rules. Although wildfires are not an actual weather phenomenon, wildfires are directly related to lightning and other weather elements.
June 27
Jami Kraft
Fischer Woolsey
Debbie Eder
Scott Pearcey
Steven Phelps
June 28
Amber Gilmore
J.C. Cordova
Amanda McLoud
June 29
Traci Tuttle
Tammy Harris
Pete Thomas
Thata Hart
Cameron Crow
Kayla Frederick
Patrick Hollis
Bradley Rehm
Austin Coen
June 30
Katie Lyon
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 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
