The next Bent's Fort Chapter meeting will be held on Saturday, November 12, at the JW Rawlings Heritage Center and Museum located at 560 Bent Ave., Las Animas, CO.  The Chapter meeting will start at 11 AM followed by a potluck. 

At 1 PM Sandy Dexter will present a talk titled "Walking Woman” about Amache Ochinee Prowers who was the Cheyenne wife of John Wesley Prowers.  In her talk Sandy will share what she has learned from researching Amache's life, especially her life after the death of John Prowers.  It is a fascinating story.

With the holidays quickly approaching our thoughts and prayers go out to the less fortunate families in Kiowa County. This year, as in previous years, three “Fanny Murdock Giving Trees” will be put up around the county.

This tradition was started years ago by Charlotte Phillips, who had a passion for seeing that every child in need received a gift.

Thanksgiving is a little more than weeks away, and the December holidays are closing in. The state health department reminds Coloradans to protect themselves and their loved ones by getting a flu vaccination. It takes about two weeks after getting a vaccine for a person to build immunity against the flu.

The file below in Adobe Acrobat PDF format contains the unofficial election results from Kiowa County for the 2016 general election.

Lamar Community College’s Beta Eta Gamma chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society welcomed its newest members during the fall induction ceremony on November 2. 

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), Colorado State Patrol (CSP) and statewide law agencies collaborated to halt impaired drivers over Halloween weekend, the latest sweep as part of The Heat Is On campaign. Law officers arrested 308 drivers, an increase from the 269 arrests last year.   

Dorothy Lucille English was born in Edwards County, Kansas on November 30, 1925. She was the second of three daughters of Emmett Eugene English and Flora Blanche Wood. She was proud to be a farmer’s wife following a long tradition in her family.

Did you know there is a program that could pay for a portion of your heating costs if you qualify? The LEAP (Low-Income Energy Assistance Program) runs from November 1, 2016 through April 30, 2017. You may only apply and be approved one time in this period. Contact Ashlynn Miner at Kiowa County Social Services (438-5541) for more information.

The residents of Eads have often seen this gentleman out in his motorized wheelchair, scooping up dirt and placing in potholes in the street. He does this because he has pride in the community not for any special recognition. I have seen him out when most of us take to the comfort of our homes when what we call the extreme elements – heat – cold or wind, there he is completing the task he started out to do.

Dr. K.S. Young, D.O. joined the primary care team at Southeast Health Group this fall, relocating from his most recent temporary assignment in Oklahoma.  “I have been a traveling doctor for almost three decades, licensed in eight different states, and worked all over the country.  I’ve seen a lot of different things and had a lot of different experiences,” said Young.  “My wife and I like being near the mountains, and we were impressed that southeast Colorado had so much going for it and the people were so friendly.”