Archive for May, 2018
Granada Student, Tarin Kemp, Selected as Boettcher Scholar Recipient
DENVER, CO – Tarin Kemp, a senior at Granada High School, has been selected as a recipient of the Boettcher Foundation Scholarship. Boettcher Scholarships recognize Colorado’s top students by providing them with the funds to attain an excellent in-state education and access to additional opportunities to enrich their time in college and beyond. Boettcher […]
LCC Students Showcase Work, Compete for Scholarships at Spring Horse Show
(Lamar, Colorado; May 2, 2018) Lamar Community College freshmen in the Horse Training & Management (HTM) and Equine Business Management (EBM) programs demonstrated their hard work from this past year during the Spring Horse Show held on Friday, April 27. Friends and family of the students as well as horse owners watched as each […]
Letter to the Editor: from Heritage Defenders
Dear Editor: May 2, 2018 On behalf of Heritage Defenders in southeast Colorado, I would like to present some facts about a very important issue infiltrating our community. Heritage Defender’s goal is to be supportive to our community and held educate and inform fellow citizens about information that is relative to our community. […]
Ramon Peña…October 1, 1935 – May 1, 2018
A Mass of Christian burial for longtime Granada resident, Ramon Peña will be held at 10:00AM on Friday, May 4, 2018 at the St. Frances of Rome Catholic Church in Holly with Reverend Mariusz Wirkowski as celebrant. A rosary service will be held prior to the mass at 9:30AM with Josie French reciting. […]
Brightening Up the Alleyways
Side-by-side murals grace the outer walls of the east side alley in the 100 block of South Main Street in Lamar. One, for the Brew Unto Others coffee shop and the other, larger work is being done for the Shore Arts Center Pocket Park. The projects are being completed by local artists Jeremy […]
Tourism to Bent’s Old Fort creates $1.7 Million in Economic Benefits
Report shows visitor spending supports 21 jobs in local economy La Junta, CO – A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 26,398 visitors to Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site in 2017 spent $1,509,200 in communities near the park. That spending supported 21 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative […]
Sage Brush Meadows Prepares for City Council Meeting, Briefs PEP Board
Jillane Hixson, one of the organizers of the proposed Sage Brush Meadows skilled-care facility planned for Lamar, briefed the Prowers Economic Prosperity (PEP) board members on their progress, during the PEP monthly meeting held at the Green Garden Restaurant this past Tuesday, May 1st. Hixson stated, “We are moving forward, and the feasibility study is […]
Avoid Hantavirus: Practice Prevention and Year-Round Rodent Control
As spring cleaning gets underway, the state health department reminds Coloradans to take steps to avoid hantavirus, a rare but potentially fatal respiratory disease from a virus carried by deer mice. People are most likely to get hantavirus by breathing in dirt and dust contaminated with deer mouse urine, droppings or saliva. More people […]
Janice Berndt…May 31, 1950…April 26, 2018
Janice Lee Berndt passed away surrounded by her family on April 26, 2018. Janice was born on May 31, 1950 in Jamestown, North Dakota. She graduated from high school in 1968 in Lamar, Colorado. On August 15th of that same year, she married Frederick Guy Berndt, and this year would have marked their 50th […]
New President Announced at Otero Junior College
LA JUNTA — Dr. Nancy J. McCallin, President of the Colorado Community College System (CCCS), announced today that Dr. Timothy Alvarez will be the fifth president of Otero Junior College (OJC), ending a five-month search conducted by college and community representatives. Dr. Alvarez is expected to start in mid-July. “After completing a nationwide search, […]
Lonnie Hess…September 23, 1922 – April 28, 2018
Funeral Services for Lonnie Hess will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at Valley Memorial Funeral Chapel in Holly, CO with Pastor Kathy Leathers officiating. Interment will follow at Holly Cemetery in Holly, CO. Visitation for Lonnie will be held from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May […]
City Clean-Up into Day Two
There’s a lot of junk and unused items out there, so much so, that the City of Lamar work crews started their Monday with the second round of refuse round-up. Volunteers and city workers spent most of this past Saturday, April 28th from 7am to 4pm collecting mounds of trash, tree limbs, debris, […]
