Author Archive for Russ Baldwin
Chamber Hosts Small Business Saturday & Holiday Festivities
Lamar, CO – The Lamar Chamber Merchants are kicking off the holiday shopping season with “Small Business Saturday”. Area merchants will be offering specials that day to encourage residents to shop locally and take advantage of what Lamar has to offer. “We really have a lot of opportunities for finding unique gifts right here […]
Commissioners Discuss Options for $3 Million Windfall Settlement
Based on a $3,000,000 sales tax settlement, the source of which is protected by a court mandated gag order, the Prowers County Commissioners discussed an application for a temporary reduction in the county mill levy for 2015. They have until December 10 of this year to act before certifying the current mill levy proposal. A […]
Lodging Tax Panel Funds 2015 Summer Events
The Prowers County Lodging Tax Panel approved $3,000 in marketing funds for Larry Coberly’s Monster Truck Show planned for next summer. “I am planning on two shows this year and perhaps we’ll hold a lawn mower race. I’ll have to give that some more thought before it’s going to be offered,” Coberly told the […]
Wayne Mendenhall…August 23, 1928 – November 19, 2014
A celebration of life for longtime Lamar resident, Wayne Mendenhall will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Monday, November 24, 2014 at the Lamar Christian Church with Ian Blacker officiating. Burial will be held at 3:00PM on Monday at the Walsh Cemetery in Walsh, Colorado. Visitation for Wayne will be held on Sunday, November […]
Letter to the Editor: Veteran’s Day Thanks
I would like to tell your readers how much I appreciated being invited to participate in the Veterans Day Assembly held at Granada School on November 11th. Along with the other Vets attending it was so very apparent that our Country will be in good hands when the young men and women we interacted with […]
Clare Dunn Signs with Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group Nashville has signed singer/songwriter/guitarist Clare Dunn. She has opened for Keith Urban, Florida Georgia Line, Dierks Bentley, and Luke Bryan, and this week Dunn will open for Bob Seger. Dunn, a native of southeast Colorado, grew up working on a farm from a young age. While attending Nashville’s Belmont University, she added […]
Legos are a Library Hit
Youngsters between 3 and 12 years, dug into a table piled high with multi-colored, plastic building blocks know as legos, you know, those things you step on with your bare feet in the dark of night, when the kids haven’t put their toys away for the day. That’s the adult description of the […]
11th Annual Fantasy Tree Set for Saturday
The 11th Annual Fantasy Tree fundraising event is set for this Saturday, November 22 at the Lamar Elks Lodge, beginning at 6pm. Funds raised through the auction sale of decorated Christmas trees and wreathes, plus a silent auction, help support the annual expense for maintenance and operation of a safe house operated by the […]
Regional Drug Training Course Concludes in Lamar
Do you need to be able to recognize illegal drugs on sight, or can you make a determination about the type of drug that has been used by observing a user? The Drug Training Expert course, hosted by the Lamar Police Department, and attended by numerous law enforcement officers from the region, helps police officials […]
Birth Announcements: 11-17-14
Kevin and Rachel Meyers of Arapahoe, Colorado, announce the birth of daughter Katherine Hope at 7:34pm on November 17, 2014 at Prowers Medical Center with Dr. Kunhardt attending. Katherine weighed 8 pounds and 1.5 ounces and was 20 inches in length at birth. Siblings at home include Amelia and Lydia. Kristarlin Hetrick and Tina Ellington […]
Baxter Black, Top Entertainment for Farm City Banquet
“So what is it that you do for a living?” Johnny Carson asked Baxter Black when he was a guest on his late night show, back around 1984. “Well sir, I speak at agricultural banquets,” Baxter Black replied, which, he said, left Johnny Carson somewhat perplexed. No one attending the annual Lamar Chamber Farm-City Banquet […]
Jamie K. Sykes…September 3, 1959 – October 7, 2014
A celebration of life memorial service for Middle Brook, MO resident, Jamie K. Sykes will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday November 22, 2014 at the Peacock Family Chapel in Lamar. Jamie K. Sykes was born on September 3, 1959 in Hugo, CO to James D. and Nancy (Potter) Elliston and departed this life on […]
Shirley M. Hartley…February 4, 1937 – November 13, 2014
A memorial service for longtime Lamar resident Shirley M. Hartley will be held on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 10:00AM at the Peacock Family Chapel with Ian Blacker of the Lamar Christian Church officiating. A private family inurnment will follow at Hillside Cemetery in Granada. Per Shirley’s request cremation has taken place and there […]
Lightkeepers Ministries Seeking Headquarters
Mary Moore, of Lightkeepers Ministries, Inc., spoke with the Prowers County Commissioners this past Thursday, November 13, seeking an unused building that could be converted to a temporary shelter for homeless women in Lamar. This past April, Moore, and her associate, Connie Gangwish, had hopes the former Troy Apartments on South Main Street would fit […]
PMC Revitalizing “A Star is Born” Wall
Just as stars illuminate the heavens, a newly born infant can brighten a family’s world with their arrival. To celebrate local births, Prowers Medical Center Foundation developed “A Star is Born” wall located just outside the New Beginnings Birth Center in 2012. Parents, friends or relatives are invited to commemorate the new arrival with a […]
Lola “Ferril” Allard…February 11, 1921 – November 12, 2014
Funeral services for Ferril Allard will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday, November 17, 2014 at the Friends Church in Las Animas, Colorado. Interment will follow in the Union Valley Cemetery in Hasty, CO. Pastor Diane Hutson will officiate. Lola Ferril (Foster) Allard, affectionately known as Ferril, was born in Miami, Oklahoma on February […]
USDA Reports 55.3 Million Acres of Irrigated U.S. Farmland
2013 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Data Now Available Lakewood, CO – There were 229,237 farms with 55.3 million irrigated acres in the United Sates, according to the 2013 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey results, published today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). According to the 2008 […]
John Howard Finney…December 5, 1937 – October 28, 2014
A memorial service for John Howard Finney was held Saturday, November 8 at North Ridge Church in Sabetha, KS. John H. Finney, son of John L. and Gertrude I. Ringer, was born in Cheyenne WY., December 5, 1937. He died in Topeka, KS. October 28, 2014. John grey up in Lamar, Colorado and graduated […]
Salazar Stepping Down as Colorado Ag Commissioner
Gov. Hickenlooper announces retirement of Agriculture Commissioner John Salazar DENVER — Friday, Nov. 14, 2014 — Gov. John Hickenlooper announced today that Colorado’s Commissioner of Agriculture John Salazar will retire at the beginning of January 2015. He has served in the role since 2011. “For the last twelve years, Colorado has benefitted from the generous, […]
CDOT Installs 80 “Live-View” Cameras Throughout Colorado
ENHANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION CDOT Upgrades Traffic/Weather Cameras throughout State STATEWIDE – The Colorado Department of Transportation has installed a new traffic and weather camera at the T-junction of US 24 and US 285 at Johnson Village (just south of Buena Vista) today, as part of a $1.01 million project to upgrade the Department’s traveler […]