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ANOTHER LOSS HITS THE BAILEY COMMUNITY The Town of Bailey has lost a long-time local friend. Jean Hall was well known in the community for her friendly nature and hard work. Jean suffered a heart attack on Thursday, March 4 and was hospitalized. She never regained consciousness and passed away Tuesday, March 9. It is requested that, in lieu of flowers, those who would like to remember Jean do so by assisting with family obligations related to Jean's passing. To help, please contact Cheryl Quaintance at (303) 838-7411.

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SNOWMOBILER DIES IN HUGE SLIDE A massive avalanche on the north face of Mount Guyot killed a 39-year-old Lakewood man who was snowmobiling in the area Wednesday. The man, identified as Darin Heitman, is the first to die in an avalanche this season in Colorado. (Jane Stebbins, Summit Daily News, March 11, 2004)

Archived Mar 15, 2004
INVESTIGATION: SHOOTINGS ALONG US 285 (Link expired) Since the beginning of the year, at least three, and possibly more homes along U.S. 285 were hit by small-caliber gunfire. (Jonathan Ellis, Canyon Courier, March 4, 2004)

CAMPBELL'S FINISH LINE START OF RACE FOR OTHERS Tom Tancredo is leaning, Mark Udall and Scott McInnis are recontemplating, Marilyn Musgrave and Diana DeGette are musing. And Gov. Bill Owens is the big unknown. (Bill Scanlon And Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News, March 4, 2004)
RELATED: SENATOR CAMPBELL WON'T RUN FOR THIRD TERM

MORE REHAB URGED AT HAYMAN While the blaze itself was controlled five weeks after it began on June 8, 2002, the need for watershed rehabilitation "is still very much there," Bill Gordon, president of the Teller-Park Conservation District, said Wednesday. Groups and individuals wishing to do rehab work should call the Natural Resources Conservation Service at 719-686-9406. (Ann Schrader, Denver Post, February 26, 2004)

STATE WINS KUDOS FOR PREPAREDNESS On the first anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the agency's official in charge of emergency preparedness had high praise for Colorado. (Kit Miniclier, Denver Post, February 25, 2004)

TURKEYS RECLAIM WHAT FIRE GOBBLED (Link expired) Where Hayman's flames were fanned, now tail feathers are. The hills scorched by the Hayman Fire are now alive with the sound of turkeys. (Gary Gerhardt, Rocky Mountain News, February 19, 2004)

COURT UPHOLDS D.A. TERM LIMITS The Colorado Supreme Court upheld term limits for district attorneys today, keeping in place a voter-approved law believed to be the only one of its kind nationwide. (Associated Press, January 26, 2004)

Archived Mar 6, 2004

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KATHY BAUER PASSES Community friend and neighbor Kathy Bauer passed away on Monday after an extended illness. A Celebration of Life service will be held this Saturday, March 6, at 2 PM in the Great Room at Platte Canyon High School. The family's mailing address is Bauer Family, P.O. Box 1008, Bailey, CO 80421.

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Archived Mar 3, 2004
SNOW AND WIND CLOSE 285 (Link expired) The Colorado Department of Transportation closed Interstate 70 between Burlington and Limon due to blowing snow. Accidents and blowing snow closed U.S. 285 between Kenosha Pass and Fairplay around 4 p.m. (Associated Press, March 1, 2004)

Archived Feb 22, 2004
ICE TURNS SOUTH PARK INTO JUMBLED PARKING LOT (Link Expired) - By 5 p.m. [Monday], the Colorado State Patrol had accumulated reports of more than 23 separate crashes in the South Park area of Park County. (Linda Balough, Summit Daily News, February 17, 2004)

FIRE DAMAGES DHARMA CENTER A chimney fire caused about $30,000 damage to the Summit Dharma Center in Park County Friday night after heat or flame apparently escaped from the chimney pipe into the interior wall of the building. (Jane Stebbins, Summit Daily News, February 17, 2004)

AN "ANGEL" LIVES IN JEFFERSON (Link expired) For 16 years, Patricia Romero has collected money as a cashier for City Market in Dillon. Last year, she began collecting money for sick and injured kids. (Kimberly Nicoletti, Summit Daily News, February 9, 2004)

HAYMAN AREA WOOD WILL BE HARVESTED A sawmill from Montrose has contracted to harvest burned trees on just over 3,500-acres. (KOAA.COM, January 29, 2004)

FINDING WAYS TO USE WOOD DEBRIS (Link expired) - Long-term forest health in Colorado and other fire-prone Western states depends on entrepreneurs who create uses for the wood debris, Interior Secretary Gale Norton said Wednesday. (Deborah Frazier, Rocky Mountain News, January 22, 2004)
Related: Biofuels touted to fund forest thinning (Denver Post, Jan 22, 2004)

Archived Feb 17, 2004
TIME FOR ANTI-DROUGHT STEPS So far this winter, snowpack in the South Platte River drainage, which supplies water for half the Front Range population, is just 50 percent of what it should be in a normal winter. (Denver Post, January 20, 2004)

MORE CANADIAN LYNX TO BE BROUGHT TO COLORADO (Link expired) The state Division of Wildlife hopes that 50 lynx from Manitoba and British Columbia will join those from Quebec, raising the number known in the wilds of Colorado from 78 adults and 16 kittens to more than 150. (Gary Gerhardt, Rocky Mountain News, January 17, 2004)

FIRST HAYMAN VICTIMS REBUILD By 7:30 p.m., June 9, the Ronks' house of nine years was engulfed by the fire, and by the time they were allowed back, the house was nothing but ashes and melted artifacts of their former life. (Sean Hadden, Douglas County News Press, January 15, 2004)

THE YEAR OF THE PIG....AGAIN? Congress has the Mother of All Pork bills under consideration. (January 10, 2004)

Archived Feb 13, 2004
*DEADLINE TO AFFILIATE FOR CAUCUS - FEB 13* In order to participate in your local precinct caucus, you must be affiliated with the political party in which you choose to vote. That affiliation must be recorded by February 13, 2004, to participate in the April 13 caucus. A caucus is the first step in choosing candidates for a party's ticket. Not all candidates who choose to run will make it onto the ticket for the election. An individual delegate, chosen at caucus, can make a big difference at that level. It's the first chance to make a choice! Park County residents can contact the Park County Clerk at (719) 836-4222, or contact your party leaders. The Republican and Democratic Parties' information can be found at Park County Politics.

CLEANSING BY FIRE (Link expired) - Once again we are "thinking globally, but acting locally" as we track back to the origin of this insanity. We find the United States appears to be unable to make our own decisions, so we continue to depend on the United Nations to create a global agenda that we are following like sheep following a Judas goat. (Joyce Morrison Opinion, The Illinois Leader, February 3, 2004)

E-MAIL WORM THREAT: NOVARG (Link expired) An e-mail worm that looks like a normal error message but actually contains a malicious program continued a world-wide attack on computers Tuesday. "Because that sounds like a technical thing, people may be more apt to think it's legitimate and click on it," said Steve Trilling, senior director of research at the computer security company Symantec. (January 27, 2004)

Archived Jan 16, 2004
SNOWPACK ABOVE AVERAGE - FOR NOW Colorado's snowpack is considerably improved this winter, but drought-wary forecasters warned today the heavily populated Front Range will need a wet spring to avoid water shortages. (Robert Weller, Associated Press, January 6, 2004)

DRILLING LIKE OLD TIMES A record 2,500 permits to drill oil and gas wells in the state are expected to be issued this year, furthering the Rockies' claim as a hot spot for energy producers. (Gargi Chakrabarty, Rocky Mountain News, January 6, 2004)

BONING UP ON BISON (Link expired) - Some consumers with a hankering for red meat are looking for alternatives to beef after the recent report of the nation's first case of mad cow disease. Many are turning to buffalo. (Heather Draper, Rocky Mountain News, January 3, 2004)

WOLVES AT COLORADO'S DOOR To the north, to the west and to the south, wolves are at Colorado's door. No one knows exactly when they'll return to the state, but most experts expect they will be back within the next five to 10 years. (Gary Gerhardt, Rocky Mountain News, January 2, 2004)

Archived Jan 6, 2004
COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS IN FAIRPLAY By noon on Christmas Day, mounds of turkey, ham and all the fixings awaited more than 50 Park County residents at the 4-H building on the county fairgrounds. (Linda Balough/Park County Correspondent, Summit Daily News, December 27, 2003)

CHRISTMAS TREE RECYCLING IDEAS Instead of putting your tree out by the curb, for disposal in a landfill, try one of these ways to recycle your natural Christmas Tree. It's good for the environment . . . so, it's good for you too! (Lunenburg County Christmas Tree Producers Association)

CAN-SPAM LAW TAKES EFFECT JAN 1 2004 The House of Representatives passed the Senate Bill S877, with Amendments. Dubbed as the CAN-SPAM Bill, its formal title is "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003." The congressional findings point to the facts that email is relied upon by millions of Americans, and that SPAM has grown to over 50% of all email, up from 7% in 2001. (PRWeb, December 2, 2003)

FLU CASES DROP CONSIDERABLY Colorado's deadly flu outbreak has slowed considerably, state health officials said today. There were 720 new cases reported last week, about half the total reported one week earlier. (Associated Press, December 29, 2003)

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