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Campaign raises more than $46,000 to save tank

April 10, 2013 by Heather Zadra Leave a Comment

Children’s music recording artist Lois LaFond spent time making music in the tank last week with several Rangely children (from left: Drew Zadra, Zane Wiley and Caleb Wiley). The Friends of the Tank successfully raised more than $46,000 in three weeks to secure and restore the unused water tank for the next generation of sound-makers.

Children’s music recording artist Lois LaFond spent time making music in the tank last week with several Rangely children (from left: Drew Zadra, Zane Wiley and Caleb Wiley). The Friends of the Tank successfully raised more than $46,000 in three weeks to secure and restore the unused water tank for

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Letter to the Editor: Tank supporters thank Rangely folks

April 7, 2013 by Special to the Herald Times Leave a Comment

Dear Editor: My first trip to the town of Rangely was in 1976 with the Colorado Chautauqua tour. It was great. We had everything from dancing to pottery workshops, and the people of Rangely joined in and tried everything.

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Locals try to save old Rangely tank

March 22, 2013 by Heather Zadra Leave a Comment

Sammi Wade, 22, has been listening to artists make music in the tank since she was a child. Last summer, she recorded “Sammi’s Song” with Friends of the Tank organizer Bruce Odland and other musicians. Listen to the clip online at www.tanksounds.org on “The Tank Channel.”

RANGELY I When musician and composer Bruce Odland first came to Rangely in 1976, it was the last stop of the Chautauqua Tour, a traveling arts festival funded by the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities.

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This is an aerial view of Coulter Field in Meeker with the hangars visible to the far left and the widened runway and taxiways visible on the right. The runway was widened from 60 feet wide to 100 feet wide, and it can now handle aircraft weighing up to 60,000 pounds, where the previous limit was 27,000 feet.

Coulter Field dedicated to Gary Coulter

RBC I The newly reconstructed runway, taxiways and a new large-aircraft apron at Meeker Airport were dedicated Saturday morning to Gary Coulter, the man who has managed the airport since 1959 — a total of 54 years. The new airport opened on Nov. 27. Coulter piloted the first aircraft onto the new runway accompanied by […]

Pastor Jon at United Methodist Church in Meeker sits with some of the children who helped fill 169 local Samaritan’s Purse gift-filled shoeboxes that will be distributed around the world as part of a project to bring Christmas presents to children who have never received a gift.

169 Meeker gift baskets set for world children

MEEKER I This year, Samaritan’s Purse is celebrating 20 years of distributing gift-filled shoeboxes to more than 100 million children around the world.

Rifle hunting season good for deer, bear

RBC I Hunting for deer and bears was pretty successful, however, hunters seeking elk found the elusive game a little tougher than normal to harvest this year, according to a local Colorado Parks and Wildlife official. Bob deVergie, the area game manager out of the CPW’s office in Meeker, said the elk hunting this year […]

Dr. Katy Rieves, left, Rangely District Hospital’s newest physician, has begun seeing patients and getting to know hospital and clinic staff last week. Rieves is the friend and former coworker of Dr. Mercedes Cameron, center, who took a leave from RDH last December after being diagnosed with breast cancer. RDH registered nurse Shelby Lindsay, right, will begin seeing patients early next year after completing board and licensing requirements to become a nurse practitioner. Rieves and Lindsay are two of three health care providers filling slots left by Cameron and Dr. Chris Adams in the last year. A third physician, Dr. Casey Aguirre, has signed a contract to begin at RDH in March.

Rangely hospital getting back to a full healthy staff

RANGELY I In the coming weeks and months, Rangely District Hospital hopes to offer what it’s been short on for the better part of a year: continuity. In December, Dr. Mercedes Cameron took leave to be treated for breast cancer. Then, after extended absences beginning in February, Dr. Chris Adams resigned from the hospital in […]

Ficken, Hogan, Slagle lead Lady Panthers on basketball court

RANGELY I Winter sports are under way, and the Rangely girls’ basketball team is ready to begin a season of hard work and constant improvement.

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Dinosaur woman gives back by working at food bank, thrift store

DINOSAUR I Sometimes getting help can be the stimulus to pay it forward down the line. That’s what happened to Dinosaur resident Valerie Page, who left Rapid City, S.D, in February with 17-year-old daughter Makayla to come to Colorado. The circumstances of their move forced them to arrive in Dinosaur with almost nothing.

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Water tank…

Alan Ducey of Ducey’s Electric, Friends of the Tank executives Bruce Odland, Lois LaFond and Mark McCoin and Moon Lake Electric Association (MLEA) District Manager Bob Kissling discuss the logistics of connecting power to the water tank west of Rangely.

Cheri Smith, transformed into a goblin banker at Gringotts Wizarding Bank, trades Muggles’ cash for galleons.

‘A Night at Hogwarts’ draws 150 to promote reading

RANGELY I Rangely’s inaugural “A Night at Hogwarts” program drew more than 150 children and parents to Parkview Elementary School on Friday, raising approximately $1,200 for next year’s Harry Potter-themed literacy event.