What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope
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After a two-year hiatus due to the recent pandemic, the Haxtun Lion's Club Chuckwagon Dinner and Show is back featuring entertainment by Orion and Stacey Potter. The 47th event is slated for Saturday, April 9 at Haxtun Schools. Dinner kicks off at 5:30 in the grade school cafeteria followed by the show at 7 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. The first Lions Club Chuckwagon took place in 1974; the Club then under the direction of President Van Liufau. According to Club history compiled by Wilbur...
Immune systems, heart and lung functions, joints and ligaments, are typical parts of the human body that the medical team at Haxtun Health works on daily. The inner workings of the body all need to function well for one to feel good and to perform at optimal levels The team at Haxtun Health believes these same concepts are valid for the facility in which we provide care. "The equipment on the roof, the ductwork, pipes, valves above the ceiling and the back of house boiler room all play a crucial...
Do you keep a rain gauge and check it regularly? Does it seem that the drought monitor doesn’t see the droughts you experience? If so, you may be interested in participating in the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network or CoCoRaHS. Who uses CoCoRaHS data? CoCoRaHS is not just a fun activity. The reports are used by many agencies and weather scientists. The National Weather Service looks at reports to track storms and their variability. Reports also help inform the United States Drought Monitor creators. Weather modelers compare r...
Colorado State University Crops Testing recently announced details for the 2022 Wheat Field Days. These days are made possible by farmer-cooperators, seed company and industry partners and colleagues from the CSU College of Agriculture and Agriculture Experiment Station, CSU Extension, Colorado Wheat and the United States Department of Agriculture-ARS. CSU has a set of public and private wheat varieties to show off in field trials and characteristics of these varieties will be shared at each field day. CSU faculty and experts will share the...
Emotional stories from Democratic lawmakers who lost loved ones to COVID-19 was enough to garner a preliminary voice of approval on March 25 on a hospital visitation bill from Senator Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, Senate Bill 53 was approved on a voice vote in the state Senate and is currently awaiting a final vote. Sonnenberg told this reporter he believes the vote will be very close. The bill would grant one visitor of a patient’s choosing the right to visit that patient in a nursing home or hospital during a pandemic. Those facilities w...
On April 1 First Friday at First Presbyterian will present vocalist John Chapdelaine. The concert is from 12:05 to 12:35 p.m. at the church at South Fourth and Ash streets and it is free and open to the public. It will be performed both in person and on facebook.com/FPC.Sterling. Viewers don’t have to belong to Facebook to access this performance and it will stay up and be viewable after the performance. Although Chapdelaine enjoys singing all types of music, it is the Easter season, so he will present a program containing contemporary C...
The Don Fix Memorial Scholarship is available for the graduates of Haxtun and Holyoke high schools. It is also available for students already in college or trade schools. The scholarship requirements are a 2.50 grade point average and in good standing with their school. It is renewable and will be paid directly to the school. Applications can be obtained by requesting them at [email protected]. Applications should be completed and returned to the same email address. Deadline for applications is April 10. Scholarship winners...
Big corporations always publish a year-end report containing both financial information and overall performance of the company. I think the purpose is to keep stockholders in the dark while shining a light on their profits to the banks they have borrowed from. The system appears to work quite well so beginning this year I decided to do the same for our ranch operation, with a few alterations. I want to shed a light on the three or four things we accidentally did right, while keeping the bank in...
The need for speed Gotta have it, must get it, and oh, what’s next? Where would we be without our favorite technology to flout or the latest shiny must-have gizmo to show off? Millions are made forecasting and projecting what the near future holds. We don’t want to let anything get in our way in the marketplace where time is money and money is God. Ingenuity and necessity are prime movers, a not altogether bad combination. Each drives the other. The potential to produce something astounding is...
The weather finally cooperated this past weekend and a majority of local athletes took advantage of the warmer conditions to turn in strong performances in several sports. That includes meet and school records falling in track. Wray's Sydnee Cheek established a new meet record in the pole vault at the Yuma Early Qualifier last Saturday, as she cleared nine feet, eight inches to win the event my more than a foot. Chloe Cure swept the shot and discus for the Lady Eagles, who won the team...
Democrats at the State legislature made a remarkable choice in recent weeks to burnish their “reproductive rights” bona fides by passing a bill that stakes out perhaps the most extreme position possible on abortion by explicitly depriving an unborn child of any legal rights whatsoever until the moment after birth. A premature over-reaction to fears that the United States Supreme Court may strike down Roe v. Wade, the bill strangely ignores Colorado’s history as one of the most permissive in th...
13 Years Ago March 31, 1937 A pretty Easter wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Cronquist Sunday afternoon when their daughter, Miss Lillian, became the bride of Mr. Carol Lydin. The ceremony was performed at three o'clock by the Rev. E.W. Fondell, pastor of the Fairfield church. A new fire truck and equipment purchased by the town some months ago, will be delivered to the Haxtun Volunteer Fire Department here next Monday. Philorado News - Miss Ethelyn Starkebaum had a little...
The Haxtun Bulldogs split a double-header with Akron to open the 2022 baseball season. The Bulldogs hosted the Rams last Tuesday in a chilly, windy afternoon contest. This year's 22-man roster is led by Head Coach Trenton Ham and Assistant Coach Ryan Nolin and includes senior leaders Owen Knode, David Avery and Isaac Andersen. Haxtun took game one of the double header, a league win, to give the Bulldogs a 1-1 start to the season and a 1-0 record in the Lower Platte League. The Bulldogs were...
The Haxtun track team opened the 2022 season at the Yuma Early Qualifier meet on Saturday, March 26. The following is a list of the top-10 winners of each event, both boys and girls: Girls 100-meter-dash: Cassidy Goddard, 10th, 15:06. 200-meter dash: Allie Thompson, second, 29:32. 800-meter run: K’lyn Bornhoft, fifth, 3:05.53 100-meter hurdles: Jayleigh Bullard, 10th, 22:08. Four-by-100-meter relay team: fourth, 58:04. Four-by-200-meter relay team: fourth, 2:05:58. 800-meter sprint medley relay team: sixth, 2:23.85. Four-by-400-meter relay t...
It was a rough start to the season for the Fleming Wildcat baseball team who returned the field following a three-year hiatus. The Wildcats have been unable to field team since 2018 when they went 6-9 under the coaching of Anthony Serrato and Derek Feather. Anthony Serrato returned this year to assist Head Coach Jaxon King and Assistant Coach Tanner Serrato - both alumni who once wore Wildcat baseball jerseys. An anticipated season opening double header scheduled for Monday, March 21 was...
The Fleming Wildcat track team traveled to Yuma on Saturday, March 26 where they participated in the first meet of the season — The Yuma Early Qualifier. Top-10 placers from that meet are as follows: Girls 1,600-meter run: Madi Serrato, first place, 6:24.99. Four-by-200-meter relay: Team of Lexi Schaefer, Maddy Zink, Kally Kirkwood and Maddy Harms, second place, 2:04.46. 800-meter sprint medley relay: Team of Schaefer, Zink, Kirkwood and Harms, second place, 2:05.73. Triple jump: Schaefer, third place, 30 feet, 11 inches. Pole vault: S...
Jane L. Olson passed away on March 8, 2022 at the Haxtun nursing home of natural causes at the age of 91. Jane Olson was born Dec. 10, 1930 at home in Red Lion to Rueben Pleasant and Harriet Ellen (Laughrey) Blake. Jane was raised in Red Lion until her mother passed. Then she moved to Haxtun with her sister Harriet and attended Haxtun Schools until approximately the eighth grade. While at Harriet's, Aubrey Olson would attend game nights where he met Jane. They fell in love and married in...
Jessica "Jessie" Rene Owens leveled up from Earth life following a vehicle accident on Monday, March 21, 2022 at the age of 16. Jessie was born on Sept. 4, 2005 in Holyoke, the second born daughter of Randy and Joan (Thornton) Owens. She took the great commission to heart from what seemed like day one, "to make a difference, make an impact and change lives" was her calling. Her dad, Randy, sums it up as "she was always busy" and sister Rebecca jokingly says "it made me the easy one." Jessie...
Shirley Daunita (Gill) Hielscher passed away on Sunday, March 20, 2022 in Sterling at the age of 85. Shirley was born in Dover on June 26, 1936 to Wilbur and Sarah (Davis) Gill. Shirley, along with her brothers Rod and Scott and sister Barb, grew up along the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Railroad. They lived in Frazier, East Portal, Nederland, Rollinsville, Tabernash, Pueblo, Grand Junction and Helpern, Utah, wherever the duties of her father as Roadmaster took them. She had...
