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Kites Are Fun!
A sunny Saturday in late April brought around 100 youngsters and parents to Escondido Park in Lamar for the HOPE Center’s Kite Flying day and free BBQ, sponsored by Healthy Places. It was nice to see so many kids, on the early side of their teen years, to be without a cell phone for a […]
CDHS Launches Colorado Parent Employment Project in Prowers County
(Denver) – The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) has just launched the Colorado Parent Employment Project (CO-PEP) in five Colorado Counties: Arapahoe, Boulder, El Paso, Jefferson, and Prowers. The intent of the project is to reach out to parents who are able to work, but are not able to pay child support because […]
Open House Set for Project HOPE at Lincoln School
Partners for HOPE Center held a Coalition meeting Monday, September 10, at Lincoln School to develop plans for an open house at the school on Thursday, October 18. Lori Hammer, Project HOPE, executive director, said the open house, which combines a chili dinner and silent auction, will be run from 5:30pm to 7:30pm and will […]
Project HOPE Discusses Funding Plans for Teen Center
Members of the Partners for HOPE Center Coalition met at Lincoln School on Monday, August 13, to conduct an election of officers, review the status of their non-profit 501C3 application and reorganize or discontinue current committees. Lori Hammer, Project HOPE director, chaired the meeting, held at Lincoln Elementary School in Lamar, the new […]
HOPE Helping Hospice
Twelve willing students from the Lamar Teen Center, Project HOPE, braved the heat to help transfer stored equipment and boxes of miscellaneous items to the Lamar Area Hospice headquarters. Although they were going from West Elm Street to West Olive, the distance was minor in light of the continued heat wave. A vacant business on […]
Burned Apartments Being Rebuilt
The four apartments in the former Gelhausen complex in Lamar, damaged by fire and smoke this past June, are being rebuilt. Apartment complex manager, Anthony LaTour, said the owners, Michael and Stacy Ashley out of Denver, decided to rebuild the units, damaged by fire on June 6 of this year. No one was injured in […]
Aftermath of a Fire
Photos by Russ Baldwin – Click to see full version of picture. The apartment complex in the 800 block of South 13th Street in Lamar will be torn down. The complex general manager, Anthony LaTour said recently, the owner has decided to raze the four unit complex, plus the storage garage and make an assessment […]