The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand? ~ Captian Jack Sparrow We all know them… those folks for whom every perceived problem is a catastrophe, an apocalypse, the end of the world as we know it. Sometimes we are them.[Read More…]
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Tips for a new Code of the West
It’s not always easy living in the rural West, with customs so entrenched that everybody takes them for granted. What makes it hard for the newest newcomers is that they’re caught up in a mysterious culture. Learning the Old West code was easy decades ago. Novelist Zane Gray’s “Code of[Read More…]
Don’t call me unaffiliated
I don’t want to be called unaffiliated. That’s what Colorado’s Secretary of State calls me. Merriam-Webster says it means I am “not associated with another.” It is not true. I am an independent. And as of July 1, 2022, I am associated with 1,715,211 other independent voters in Colorado. We[Read More…]
Loose Ends: A closer look
Babies and puppies are a number one draw at any parade. Our community’s Fourth of July celebration offered so many examples once again, as a huge crowd of visitors and residents alike took advantage of the great weather. Most of them staked a claim to the few shady spots by[Read More…]
Labor-saving devices of yore
The White River Museum is a wonderful way to spend an hour or two. Teresia, Kevyn, staff and the Historical Society have organized it into a place full of ooohs and ahhhhs. I highly recommend a visit if you haven’t been in for a while to see new things and[Read More…]
BIVENS AWARD …
Thomas Bivens of Penn Valley, California, is the principal of Alta Sierra Elementary School in Penn Valley. Thomas was honored, along with three of his colleagues, by the Region 2 Association of California School Administrators which covers 10 Northern California counties. Bivens has been a principal at Alta Sierra for[Read More…]
COUNTY BEAT: July 12, 2022 Meeting
RBC | Newly appointed as the director of the Rio Blanco County Public Health and Environment department, Karen Dinwiddie told the county commissioners Tuesday, ““There’s a lot to learn,” after her first week. Dinwiddie has been working at public health for a little over a year, but is new to[Read More…]
RODEO RESULTS …
(Above) Easton Butler on his first mini-bronc ride.Rodeo Winners from July 7:No. 8 Team Roping – Cactus Barnes/Trent VernonMixed Team Roping – Leah Wood/Joe Wood 11 Team Roping – Rusty Taylor/Denton Taylor Jr/Sr Team Roping – Leah Wood/Brett Watson Open Breakaway – Wyatt UptainLadies Breakaway – Shelly PinntOpen Barrels –[Read More…]
It’s Showtime livestock club report
RBC | We started our meeting on Sunday, July 10 at 4 p.m. First, we did our Pledge of Allegiance and our 4-H Pledge led by Cambrey Rogers, Milo Brennan and Brodee Kilduff. Then, we had an “ice breaker.” Hadley Franklin and Marryn Shults demonstrated how to give a good[Read More…]
New options for VA care
RBC | Rio Blanco County military veterans may be eligible for the “new and improved” Veteran Community Care Program (formerly the Veterans Choice Program, which ended in 2019) to obtain faster access to VA-funded medical care in their local community from civilian physicians under certain circumstances. According to va.gov, veterans[Read More…]
A Golf Story
MEEKER | Once upon a time ago, along in the 1980s sometime, three Meeker “Yahoos” by the names of Ray McKee, Bill Zobel and Tom Pilkington decided they needed to play a round of golf. So, they each rounded up some clubs and drove out to the Meeker Golf Course[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY: July 14, 2022
The Meeker Herald125 years ago • The following is from an Independence Day address delivered in Washington by Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, and is worthy of careful consideration: “There is not a legislature today under this flag that has not its organized banditti within its midst who buy and sell legislation,[Read More…]