The Northeast Colorado Child Care Resource and Referral annual Summer Day of Training will be in Limon June 10. The training opportunity is open to anyone in Colorado who wants to learn useful skills in working with children.  This includes family child care providers, preschool teachers, and center/preschool directors and children’s librarians.

LAZY OR DILIGENT

“Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.” Proverbs 10:4

May 21-27 is National Emergency Medical Service Week.  During this week, the Kiowa County Ambulance Service will be honoring volunteers that have stepped forward giving up quality time with their families to provide care for community members in their time of need.  The volunteers are few, but dedicated, and take care of the situations that come our way no matter what.  They are your everyday heroes.  You are all very much appreciated, thank you for all you do.

The 2017 Colorado Wheat Field Days will be held June 8-14 across 11 different variety trial sites in eastern Colorado.

Tours include

• Walk-through of variety trial with Dr. Scott Haley, CSU Wheat Breeder
• Collaborative on-farm testing -- Dr. Jerry Johnson, CSU Crops Testing Leader
• Seed certification & plant variety protection -- Rick Novak, CSU Director of Seed Programs
• CWRF and CWAC updates – to be determined

Each plot tour will last about an hour and all field day locations will include refreshments or a meal.

The aggressive aquatic nuisance species inspection program operated by Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been successful in keeping quagga and zebra mussels out of the state. Waters in several surrounding states, however, are infested with mussels and that is a serious problem for Colorado.

Wednesday, April 05, 2017, at approximately 1110 hours, Deputies were conducting speed enforcement in a CDOT Construction Zone on Highway 287, Mile Marker 118.  Adrian Hernandez  was issued a summons for 70 mph in the 40 mph construction zone. 

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IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

Another earthquake has been recorded in western Colorado, bringing the count to five in western Colorado over the past 30 days, and 28 for Colorado since the start of the year.

Colorado experienced a mix of continued improving drought conditions for the north central part of the state, while abnormally dry conditions expanded in western Colorado.

Moderate drought that, one week ago, had impacted portions of eight counties, has receded to only northeast Park county thanks to recent rain and snow storms.