Celebration Signing for Tristin Greenhagen held May 6, 2021
at Custer County High School
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Celebration Signing for Tristin Greenhagen
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KLZR 91.7 Announces Its 2021 Event Schedule
KLZR 91.7 FM Radio is pleased to announce the return of the Spring Block Party, Summer in the Park Sunday Concerts and the High Peak Music Festival.
Mark your calendars for May 29th for the Spring Block Party. Bruce Hayes and Ragged Mountain Bluegrass will provide the music from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. on 2nd Street in Westcliffe between Main and Rosita Streets. Food will be available through local vendors. The KLZR 2nd Street Block Party will take place right after the Parade of Honor.
The Summer in the Park Sunday Concert Series, will be held at the Silver West Feed Store in Westcliffe at 116 N 2nd St. Acts scheduled to appear are:
• Silver Cliff Lights /
Jack Naff (July 18)
• Hogan and Moss (July 25)
• Smythe and Taylor (Aug 1)
• Pint and a Half (Aug 8)
• Jimmy Stadler (Aug 15)
• The Rifters (Aug 22)
• The Crestones ( Aug 29)
• Tom Munch (Sept 5, on 2nd St.)
Concerts are free and held from 2 – 4:30 p.m. outside at the
Amphitheater with refreshments available.
The Tenth Annual High Peaks Music Festival will take place on September 11th at the Silver West Feed Store in Westcliffe. The outside event will take place at the Amphitheater from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Scheduled to appear are Hard Road Trio, BLT, David Starr and Charlie Provenza with Jimy Murphy, along with host bands Dakota Blonde and Smythe and Taylor.
KLZR 91.7 FM is a project of Wet Mountain Broadcasting, Inc. (WMBC). WMBC is volunteer-operated with a mission of bringing community-powered radio that informs, entertains and connects all who care about the Wet Mountain Valley. KLZR has provided 24/7 broadcasts and internet streaming for the Wet Mountain Valley since 2004.
KLZR thanks its volunteers, sponsors, partners and the community for making these events a success in the past. We look forward to welcoming the community back to live music.
Also coming on August 8th is the station’s annual Taste of the Valley.
You can learn more about all of our events by listening to the station at 91.7 FM; or, checking our website at www.klzr.org or our Face Book page.
Signing Celebration for Bo Van Duys
Custer County Schools Senior, Bo Van Duys, will attend Oklahoma State University on an Equestrian Scholarship.
L to R: Holly Van Duys, Shane Brown (Trainer), Bo Van Duys, Bob Van Duys, Garrett Oloman and Katie Wilkinson.
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Congratulations to Miss Van Duys!
“Before the Time Comes” Workshop Friday May 14
by Monica E. Young
“Before the Time Comes” Workshop
Author Monica E. Young will present information from her new book “Before the Time Comes” on May 14th, at 10 a.m. at the All Aboard Westcliffe facility on 110 Rosita Ave., in Westcliffe. The focus of her talk is how to have a senior conversation with aging parents in order to have the best possible outcome for everyone involved. Eventually a parent(s) will need to make a move and transition to different housing whether through an emergency or life circumstances. Monica says: “making a plan, choosing a new home, taking care of the person, collecting essential paperwork and recording the legacy are all required steps.” Her book helps families discover where to start and create family teamwork in the process. Monica will be signing and selling her book at the workshop.
The author embarked on her newest career as a writer in March of 2019. Her life’s journey has included: working at Walt Disney World, and the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. After 11 years and 1000 plus senior managed moves, she sold her senior move management business to a national organization. She lives with her husband in the foothills of the Sangre De Christo Mountains and loves to travel.
For more information on this free library event, please contact Cathy at 719-783-9138 or email cathy@westcusterlibrary.org.
Escape and Evasion Scenarios
by Mark Bunch/President Royal Gorge Gun Club/Chairman Fremont County NRA
For a couple of decades or so, I worked in pretty much all aspects of senior healthcare including Hospice, home health, physical rehabilitation and long-term care. It was both rewarding and tragic, depending on the circumstances of those I have helped. The one consistent theme that has always jumped out at me regardless of what field I have been in was how terrifying the loss of control is for patients as they struggle to understand and accept their new circumstances. Continue reading Escape and Evasion Scenarios
LIBERTY ROCKS AT LOCAL TAVERN: With NO Secure Property – NO Liberty Exists
by Fred Hernandez
American taverns of the eighteenth century were not just a place to visit, they were a daily necessity. It was a place to eat, travelers stopped in to freshen up with food and rest, a place to meet and discuss issues affecting their lives. In the same way our own tavern style politics in Custer County is a way of getting the community together for fun filled and educational discussions on matters that affect local lives day after day.
On Thursday night, April 15, the Custer Citizens for the Constitution (CCC) presented the Liberty Rocks monthly forum at Tony’s Mountain Pizza with a mind-boggling presentation centered on the erosion of personal liberties of which we should all be keenly aware. Continue reading LIBERTY ROCKS AT LOCAL TAVERN: With NO Secure Property – NO Liberty Exists
Bugging Out for when TSHF
by Mark Bunch
President Royal Gorge Gun Club/
Chairman Fremont County NRA
Should you stay or should you go? Many of you reading this are probably in the same mind-set that I am in, as I plan to stay in place. Staying in place makes the best sense if at all possible, because you know what the score is in your neighborhood. Leaving to head off into someone else’s neighborhood, town, state or mountain range is fraught with potential unknown dangers. It also severely
limits what you can take with you and guarantees that someone you don’t even know might just move into your abandoned house and set up shop with your supplies that you had to leave behind. Think scumbag homeless drug addict loser drinking your wine and eating your burgers. Continue reading Bugging Out for when TSHF
Micah Zeller Signs On with Adams State
Photo by Kaya Huffman
CUSTER COUNTY, Colorado
On Thursday, April 17, 2021, Micah Zeller signed a cross-country and track scholarship deal with Adams State University where he will be attending and running for NCAA Division II Adams State University in the fall. Family, friends, teammates and Coach Hal Walter attended the ceremony.
Micah is one of best high-school runners in Colorado. Coach Hal wrote;
“ Even as a youngster I could recognize Micah’s tenacity. There were times at practice in those early years when we would “race” for a short distance and any time I stepped up the pace, he would respond by going even faster. That was back in the day when I could still actually keep up with him, something that became impossible for me over the next couple years as he got a lot faster and grew into his natural gait, while I got a lot slower.”
“Throughout the ups and downs of any athlete’s high-school career Micah was always as gracious in defeat as he was in victory. In his senior year, he placed first in seven of the nine total meets he ran, won the Southern Peaks League Championship, Colorado 2A Region 3 Championship, and was runner-up Colorado State 2A Champion. One of the greatest moments of his final season was watching Micah take control of a race against a favored 3A rival at the Salida Cross Country Invitational and run away with the win.”
Congratulations, Micah Zeller!
To read the whole article written by Coach Walter, go to https://halwalter.substack.com/p/a-ticket-to-run.
PFC Elias A. Zeller Awarded the Army Commendation Medal
PFC Elias A. Zeller
Awarded the Army Commendation Medal
Press Release
Congratulations to PFC Elias A. Zeller, of Westcliffe, Colorado for his accomplishments this month during the 2021 Colorado Army National Guard “Best Warrior” Competition. Continue reading PFC Elias A. Zeller Awarded the Army Commendation Medal
April 14 BoH: LTE to Tribune Requesting Retraction and Apology
by George Gramlich,
News and Notations
With the “spike” prediction by one of the Board of Health board members apparently not happening, the only drama this week was the Board’s final vote to send Jordy “Red Bug” Hedberg, Editor of the Wet Mountain Tribune a request to print a Letter to the Editor from them to Jordy asking Jordy to retract and apologize for being a bad boy. We’ll get to that tasty tidbit in a minute. Continue reading April 14 BoH: LTE to Tribune Requesting Retraction and Apology