Meeker Locals: January 8

Is anyone else ready for the customary January thaw? Well, probably not, since it hasn’t gotten really cold yet. Always something to look forward to. Our average minimum daily temperature in January is 2 degrees Fahreinheit. And we wonder why snow-birding is so popular!
Good old fashioned tuna fish is quite the delicacy in Japan, where two sushi bar owners paid more than $100,000 for a premium blue fin tuna. The fish weighed in at nearly 300 pounds. That’s a lot of cans of tuna!
Great-grandpa Jim Tyler would like to wish a belated welcome to Cody Lane Richardson, son of James and J’Leah Richardson. Cody arrived on Nov. 26, 2008, the day before Thanksgiv-ing. He did make it home for Turkey Day, Jim says.
Happy birthday to Pam Cook, Morgan Neilson, Jan. 8; Beth Hollowed, Jan. 9; Katie Day, Jan. 11; Earl Shrode, Cameron Glasscock, Jan. 12; J.D. Merriam, Chip Brown, Jan. 13; Gayle Stewart, Erin Watson, Jan. 14. And a belated happy birthday wish to Julie Jensen, Jan. 6.
We’d like to wish a very happy anniversary to Dave and Bessie Allen, Jan. 8; Paul and Shannon Sheridan, Jan 11.
Does anyone in your social network have a January birthday or anniversary? Do you have a new niece, nephew, grandkid or son or daughter in your family? Let us know! Please send birthday greetings, anniversary wishes, and other social tidbits you’d like to share to [email protected], or mail items to P.O. Box 720, Meeker, Colo., 81641.