September 13, Quilts of Valor were presented to Kit Carson VFW Post 3411 members Rod Houser and Ronald White at their regular post meeting. 

In 2003, while her son was deployed to Iraq, a quilter named Catherine Roberts started the movement that became known as Quilts of Valor.  Since that time over 300,000 Quilts of Valor have been awarded.  Their mission is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. 

United States cattle on feed from the USDA for August 2022.

Colorado cattle on feed from the USDA for August 2022.

United States livestock slaugher report from the USDA for August 2022.

Come join us for Boggsville Days Saturday, October 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. where living history characters bring the 1860s to life.  It’s fun for the whole family, and admission is free.

Dorothy was born on November 16, 1939, at Traer, Iowa to Leonard Lee and Florence E. (Stoakes) Reigel and passed away at the Weisbrod Memorial Long-term Care Center in Eads September 18, 2022 at the age of 82.

In recent years, cities from Seattle to Los Angeles to Madison, Wisconsin, to Austin, Texas, have turned to these affordable and energy-efficient living spaces to shelter people experiencing homelessness.

Coastal urban centers around the world are urgently looking for new, sustainable water sources as their local supplies become less reliable. In the U.S., the issue is especially pressing in California, which is coping with a record-setting, multidecadal drought.

Burrell Leon Mason, known to many simply as Mr. B, was born August 2, 1947, in Springfield, the first child of Ora C. Mason and Florence V. (Combs) Mason. 

He departed this life Thursday, September 15, 2022, at Southeast Colorado Hospital Long Term Care in Springfield.

Banned Books Week, an annual event that teachers and librarians across the U.S. mark with a combination of distress and defiance, is here again. The theme of this year’s event, which takes place Sept. 18-24, is “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.”