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New York Life Insurance Company Golf Tournament In Memory of Jill Tinnes

New York Life Insurance Company Golf Tournament In Memory of Jill Tinnes

The Colorado General Office Agents, Management and Staff at New York Life Insurance Company presented Lamar Area Hospice with a $600 donation in memory of Jill Tinnes. The donation was the proceeds from the first annual Jillian Sweet Tinnes Memorial Golf Tournament held July 31st at Heritage Golf Course at Westmoor. Every year the Agency […]

First Annual Pirate Party

First Annual Pirate Party

A Pirate Party was held for the benefit of Lamar Area Hospice on Saturday, February 28, 2015 and hosted by the Buzzard’s Roost. The idea came from former Telluride resident, Joe Malecki. Jay Gruber and Karen Moreno of Buzzard’s Roost contacted the Hospice Fundraising Committee and the event was organized with many silent auction items […]

Family Makes Generous Donation to Juniper Village

Family Makes Generous Donation to Juniper Village

February 7, 2014 (Lamar, CO) – Rehabilitative care is often an essential component of the medical treatment plan to prepare an individual for a return to their home environment. Juniper Village at Lamar knows how important privacy can be to a patient who needs to enter into a nursing home for this therapy and created […]

Lamar Elks Lodge Donates Athletic Equipment to the Partners for Hope Center

Lamar Elks Lodge Donates Athletic Equipment to the Partners for Hope Center

Lamar Elks Lodge #1319 donated $900.00 of athletic equipment to the Partners for Hope Teen Center. Items donated were basketballs, footballs and flag football equipment, soccer balls, volleyballs, baseball and softball mitts and bats, pool cues, an electronic dart set and ping pong equipment. The money for this donation came from an Elk’s National Foundation […]

Chamber of Commerce Honkers and Lamar Eagles Donate to Local Charities

Chamber of Commerce Honkers and Lamar Eagles Donate to Local Charities

On Friday, June 21, 2013, members of the Lamar Chamber of Commerce Honkers met with representatives from two area nonprofit organizations to present them with donations. The Honkers and Lamar Eagles Aerie post 3898 partnered to raise funds for the Southeast Colorado Cancer Initiative (SECCI) and the Remember Foundation. The funds for these donations were […]

Mike Flower Donates $100,000 to Lamar Area Hospice

Mike Flower Donates $100,000 to Lamar Area Hospice

Mike Flower, a recognized entrepreneur based in California, donated $100,000 to Lamar Area Hospice to support their renovation project. Mike, son of Glen and Delores Flower, grew up in Lamar and attended high school with Deb Pelley, the director of Lamar Area Hospice. Mike, a big supporter of the Two Shot Goose Hunt, is also […]

Lamar Eagles & Honkers Support Local Charities

Lamar Eagles & Honkers Support Local Charities

The Lamar Eagles Aerie & the Lamar Chamber of Commerce Honkers jointly sponsored a “Comedy Night” in January. With comic relief, money was raised to support the two local charities of SECCI – South Eastern Colorado Cancer Initiative & the Remember Foundation. Both organizations support families in southeastern Colorado with expenses related to supporting individuals […]

Two Shot Presents Donation to Toys for Tots

Two Shot Presents Donation to Toys for Tots

The Southeast Colorado Two Shot Wildlife & Habitat Foundation a/ka the Southeast Colorado Two Shot Celebrity Goose Hunt presented to Darlene Lopez a check in the amount of $1,000.00 for Toys for Tots.  Robert Yates was quoted as saying, “Darlene Lopez and her volunteers give so much of their time to make sure that children in Southeast Colorado have […]

New at the Lamar Public Library - 10-3-12

New at the Lamar Public Library – 10-3-12

  TOP TEN BOOKS FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 1 Daring to Dream by Nora Roberts The Innocent by David Baldacci The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht 11th Hour by James Patterson And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman Bared To You #1 by Sylvia Day Dance With Me by Luanne Rice The Guinness Book of Records 2009 Line of Fire  by […]

PMC Auxiliary Contributes to LCC Students

PMC Auxiliary Contributes to LCC Students

Members of the Prowers Medical Center Auxiliary (left to right: Donna Alexander, Vivian Ply, Helen Emick, Kathy Smith, Mary Rita Simmons, Eileen Hartshorn, and Helen Cook) stand with Lamar Community College President John Marrin as they give a “large” donation to the Lamar Community College Foundation. The annual gift provides four $1,000 scholarships to Level […]

Lamar Community College Foundation Accepts Donation

Lamar Community College Foundation Accepts Donation

  Lamar Community College President John Marrin (left) and LCC Foundation Chair Norm Arends accept a donation from Frontier Bank President Clay Whitham for a 2012-2013 Presidential Scholarship. This year’s Frontier Bank Presidential Scholarship recipient is Jamie Nordyke, a 2012 Lamar High School graduate. The LCC Foundation solicits and administers a multitude of scholarships for […]

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Prowers County 4-H Foundation Ushers in March Membership Drive

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 17, 2012 By Lacey Mann, CSU 4-H Extension Agent, Bent & Prowers Counties Southeast Area—2012 is off and running and March has been declared “Membership Madness” month. The Prowers County 4-H Foundation is developing new ways to invest in our 4-H future and would like to ask your help to […]

2011 Fantasy Tree - November 19th

2011 Fantasy Tree – November 19th

The 8th annual Fantasy Tree, fund-raising event for the Domestic Safety Resource Center, will be held on Saturday, November 19th, 2011, 6:00 pm, at the Elks Lodge in Lamar. The Fantasy Tree Fund Raising Committee are Chairman: Lisa Thomas; Vice Chair: Jillane Hixson; Secretary Treasurer: Lori Morlan; and, committee members Cheryl Preisser, Holly Burton, Valerie […]

Curves Food Drive brings in 2370.5 Pounds Locally

Curves Food Drive brings in 2370.5 Pounds Locally

Mary and Martha Ministries Benefits from Lamar Member Efforts Lamar, CO (Grassroots Newswire) 5/5/11 — Curves, the world’s largest fitness franchisor, today announced that the 2011 13th Annual Food Drive brought in 2370.5 pounds in Lamar which will benefit Lamar’s Mary and Martha Ministries. Worldwide, Curves members have donated more than 61 million pounds of […]

Party of Gold Earns Donations for Voces Unidas in Lamar

Party of Gold Earns Donations for Voces Unidas in Lamar

Private sales of gold jewelry helped raise donations for Voces Unidas in Lamar this past Saturday, March 26. The concept is identical to the television ads in which people receive payment when their gold jewelry is mailed away for assessment. The transactions took place this Saturday at the Shore Arts Center, downtown Lamar. LaRoyce Riley, […]