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Local Artists To Hold Pop Up Art Show

Press Release
TAKE 3 recital featuring Lindsay Deutsch will perform at the historical Jones Theater on Sunday, October 7th at 2 p.m. as part of the InConcert: Classical Music in the Valley. Tickets may purchased through the Jones Theater.
During this classical music event, two local artists will be set-up in the adjoining Studio 2 area with their artworks for show and sale. Come by and enjoy the art before the concert, at intermission and after the concert.

Pop-Up Artists


Pattie Wall is a full-time valley resident and artist. She grew up in the front range area of Colorado. Promoting and participating in ART events is her key pastime. Making art/painting has been her way of communicating what she loves, often animals and places. Always planning, researching, creating or living ART, she thrives to explore new mediums. Her favorite medium is pastel and/or mixed mediums.

“Cleverness” by Pattie Wall

 

Jean Krueger

Jean Krueger currently divides her time between Westcliffe and Sun City, AZ. Trained as a architect, she uses design, color and composition to structure her paintings. She works in pastel, watercolor and oils. This past summer, she taught multiple classes in pastel and watercolor basics sponsored by the Sangres Art Guild.

Watercolor “Calf Roping – Florence” by Jean Krueger

Come Join Us !

Cuban Nationals Busted for Big Illegal Pot Grow

Custer County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO)
—October 2, 2018
Press Release
On Tuesday, October 2, 2018, Custer County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from the Colorado State Patrol, executed a search warrant on 1089 County Road 310 in rural Westcliffe on a suspected Illegal Marijuana Grow. The search resulted in the arrest of two Cuban Nationals, 35-year-old Serguey Recondo Palomino and 35-year-old Yenny Pena Hernandez. Continue reading Cuban Nationals Busted for Big Illegal Pot Grow

The NEIGHBOR–BUILT House The Dynamic Duo Organizers

Mrs Martha Starr and Mr. Chris Jenkins

by Fred Hernandez
This is the sequel to last week’s story about The House That Neighbors Built. When Mrs. Martha Starr of Cañon City found out that the house of her friend, Ms. Judy Field, co-volunteer at The Pantry, had burned to the ground, she made up her mind that Judy would not be homeless for long. The Pantry, where both Mrs. Starr and Ms. Field volunteer tirelessly, supplies food products from Care and Share, Loaf N’ Jug and other sources to over five hundred households in Fremont County. Continue reading The NEIGHBOR–BUILT House The Dynamic Duo Organizers

The House that Neighbors Built

The House that Neighbors Built
Love Conquers All, Even Great Tragedies

by Fred Hernandez
Exclusive from Sangre de Cristo Sentinel

WESTCLIFFE, Colo.

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Tragedy struck with two sharp blows in quick succession.  In November of last year, a son passed away as a result of violence that has the Fremont Police Department still in the process of investigating.  Just weeks later, in December, her home of almost three decades, catches fire from a malfunctioning heater and the flames take away everything she owned including her beloved pet cats. Continue reading The House that Neighbors Built

Committee for Input in hiring Vocational Ag/FFA Advisor

Press Release

 

Custer County School District is in the process of hiring a Vocational Ag/FFA Advisor and is looking for community input. We are putting together a committee of ten community members to help when we begin the hiring process for this position. If you are interested in participating on this committee, please reach out to jack.christensen@ccbobcats.net by September 21st at 12:00 PM. If we have more than ten interested people, we will do a drawing out of a hat in the admin office at 9:00 AM on September 17th to select the members for the committee. Thank you in advance!

-Jack Christensen

Principal of Custer County Schools

Bobcat Gridders Bring Home Victory

by CCHS Coaching Staff

-WESTCLIFFE, Colo.
The CCHS Football team traveled to Elbert Friday night for a non-conference game and the opener to the 2018 season. After a scoreless first half, the Bobcats broke out in the second half to pull out a 20-6 victory.
The first half was a defensive battle as both teams struggled to get their offenses going. “We had very little information on Elbert going into the game,” noted head coach Troy Bomgardner. “So it was adjust on the run and try to figure out their defense and their best players and it took our kids a while but we started to roll in the second half.”
Special teams played a big part in the victory as the Cats continually kept the Bulldogs pinned deep in their own territory with punts by Adam Sapp and great snaps by Jake Morris. Defense played a solid game led by linebackers Cole Budds with 20 tackles and Ray Perez with 18 tackles. Sapp added 16 tackles from his defensive line position. Continue reading Bobcat Gridders Bring Home Victory

The Passing of the Guard: Chief Jack Slater Retires

On the Grade: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
The Oak Creek Fire Department
The Passing of the Guard: Chief Jack Slater Retires

Story and photos
by George Gramlich
It was 1988 when Jack and Audrey Slater, owners of The General Store on Oak Creek Grade, (they’re on the Fremont side about a mile north from the Custer County border,) decided that due to their remote location, some sort of firefighting capability was needed on the Grade’s plateau. (The “plateau” starts around mile marker 10 on County Road 255 and extends north past the Fremont County line to the National Forest Lions Canyon Trailhead campsite going down “the hill”. About five miles long.) Continue reading The Passing of the Guard: Chief Jack Slater Retires

Silver Cliff Honored

by Fred Hernandez
In the bygone era of the early 1800’s when people had to care for each other, organizations formed to act as security nets for the workers of this country. Conditions were always difficult and sometimes downright dangerous. Men lost their lives in the course of making a living to support their families. Wives and orphans were left to fend for themselves in the harshest of conditions. To alleviate some of the hardship, fellow workers banded together and formed associations with the main purpose of helping the unfortunate families who lost their breadwinners. One such group was first founded in Virginia at the beginning of 1800. By 1830, it had a counterpart in California, but it really took off in 1849 at the start of the gold rush. From then on it grew rapidly. Continue reading Silver Cliff Honored

Hospital District Board: WHERE IS OUR SECOND AMBULANCE THAT WE PAID FOR?

Another Hospital District Mirage

by George Gramlich,
News and Commentary
The critical issue of not having a 2nd Custer County EMS (CCEMS) ambulance with a qualified crew reliably available still plagues Custer County (CC) and its citizens. Not to mention that the Clinic has NO doctors. (See below.) This problem has been with us for a long time and has been quite visible for the last seven years or so.
It was supposed to have been solved with the large EMS mil levy ($280,000) voters approved in 2014 but that has NOT happened.
After reading multiple incidents on the daily Custer County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) Incident Report and listening to them on the scanner, the Sentinel reached out to the Sheriff’s Office (SO) and asked if there were any statistics available for times when a 2nd CCEMS crew was needed and called and was NOT available. It turns out that there was. The SO was gracious enough to compile a spreadsheet from 1/29/18 to 6/12/18 showing the cases where someone in Custer County needed an ambulance crew while one was busy on another call and CCEMS could not provide the 2nd crew. To say the least,it is very, very alarming.
In a four-and-a-half-month period, FIFTEEN TIMES CCSO Dispatch requested a 2nd crew and CCEMS was UNABLE to answer those calls. In those cases, thankfully, Deer Mountain EMS was able to send their primary or SECONDARY ambulance to help CC out. On at least one call, Flight for Life was also called as it was uncertain if Deer Mountain could make it in time. (Flight for Life would have caused the patient to incur an enormous bill, of $10,000 to $20,000!)…

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