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APPRENTICE LINEMAN Delta-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA) is seeking an Apprentice Lineman. Must have and maintain a valid Class A Commercial Colorado driver's license. Must have basic math skills, computer skills, and legible handwriting. High school diploma or equivalent required. Greater consideration will be afforded applicants who have completed an electrical lineman vocational training program. Electrical utility or related experience preferred. Must be able to lift up to 100 pounds and carry up to 50 pounds. Mechanical aptitude preferred. Must reside within a 30-minute response time of service area center. The person hired to fill the Apprentice Lineman position will be employed as a temporary Groundman at $24.27/hour for not more than six months. Holding the Groundman position is a prerequisite to be met by Apprentice Lineman candidates prior to being accepted into DMEA's Journeyman Lineman OJT Apprenticeship Program, recognized by the US Department of Labor Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. The Apprentice Lineman candidate's job performance will be evaluated throughout the sixmonth preliminary training period. The temporary Groundman position will end within the six-month time frame and the candidate will either be accepted into the Apprenticeship Program or will no longer be employed by DMEA. To apply, contact the Colorado Workforce Center in Delta or Montrose, Colorado, phone: 970-874-5781 or 970-249-7783. Applicants must be registered with the Colorado Workforce Center. Application packets are available from the Workforce Center. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 1, 2012. DMEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. (2x16) TRANSCARE AMBULance is hiring RNs and all level EMS personnel for the Western Slope. To apply call 970-901-2863. (2x16)
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CROSSROADS ASSISTed Living is accepting applications for QMAP (Qualified Medication Administrative Person). Pick up application at 1380 Aspen Way, (on 3rd Street, Delta). (2x17)
Has immediate openings for: MSHA Certified Underground Electrician(s) CO Underground Coal Mine Foreman(s) For mine expansion we are also recruiting for: Continuous Miner Operators Roof Bolter Operators High quality coal in strong demand, long term reserves, excellent working conditions, great opportunity for advancement. Full Benefits for GCC employees. Hourly Rate determined based on experience.
If you are interested in interviewing please contact: Matt Watson 970-385-4528 Ext. 6518 Fax: 970-385-4638 Email: mwatson@gcc.com THE TOWN OF CEDARedge is accepting applications for a Golf Course Groundskeeper III position. This is a seasonal parttime position consisting of mowing and grounds maintenance tasks on the golf course with occasional weekend work. Wage range is $7.64 to $8.80 and dependent on experience. Employee will report directly to the Golf Course Superintendent. A job description and employment application are available at Town Hall, 235 W. Main, or www.cedaredgeco lorado.com; or by calling 970-856-3123. Interested persons may submit a completed application to the Town Administrator's office, Town of Cedaredge, 235 W. Main, P.O. Box 398 for mailing, Cedaredge, CO 81413; on or before 12 p.m. April 27, 2012. A resume may be attached to the Town application. The Town of Cedaredge is an EOE/ADA employer. (2x16) RECEPTIONIST POSistion available part-time, some nursing experience needed to assist with back office duties, beginning May 1. Must be experienced and extremely flexible. Send resume to Marilyn, Cedaredge Doctor's Office, 255 S. Grand Mesa Drive, Cedaredge, CO 81413. (1x17)
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PUBLIC SERVICE THE DELTA COUNTY Independent runs these items as a public service free of charge for non-profit organizations, if no fees are charged. However, each group is asked to please keep them current by calling 874-4421. BEGINNING THIS MONTH the Pioneer Al-Anon Family Group will host a special speaker meeting on the last Thursday of each month. Everyone is welcome. 7-8 p.m. in Cedaredge at First Baptist Church, 370 W. Main Street in Wick Hall behind the church, west end. Call Mary 856-6123 or Vicki 8567115. (tfnx12)
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YOU HAVE THE POWER TO change a child's life! Children are waiting for senior partners in Delta County right now! Can you spare 3 hours a week? We need your help! Call today for more information. Please volunteer to spend time with a child in our community. Partners of Delta, Montrose and Ouray, 874-4661, www. partners-west.org. or www. deltayouth@montrose.net. (tfx13)
SERVICIOS DE SALUD De Campesinos: Ofrecemos ayuda con doctores, dentistas, y medicinas. Si trabajas en agricultura puedes calificar para nuestros servicios. Para mas informacion llame al 323-0538. (tfx12)
THINK YOU'RE PREGnant? Abused? Need help? The Pregnancy Resource Center in Delta offers free service, support and advice to all teenagers and women in crisis pregnancy situaPAONIA AMERICAN tions. For Christian help, Legion runs a year round anytime, call 874-5733. non-perishable emergency food pantry. This is for YOU CAN QUIT. WE CAN the North Fork area. For help. Colorado Tobacco information, call 527-6252. Quitline offers free, confidential assistance. Call 1(tfx49) 800-QUIT-NOW. (TFNx28). SAVE EYEGLASSES, OLD jewelry and silver or bits of SUPPORT GROUP: CAREgold and silver scraps. The givers, friends and loved Grand Odd Fellow Lodge is ones of Alzheimer’s and sending them to: New Eyes dementia victims. Facing for the Needy, 549 Millburn difficult situations? Get Ave., Short Hills, NJ 07078 help. 2nd Monday every or send them to: Gale month, 10 a.m. Grand Mesa Conger, Secretary of IOOF Southern Baptist Church, Lodge #116, 544 St. Hwy. 110 SE Jay, Cedaredge. Call Karen for more details, 835548, Delta, CO 81416. 3113. (tfx3) THE AMERICAN RED Cross needs you. Become GOT TIME? RSVP NEEDS one of the Red Cross vol- senior citizen volunteers unteers who says, “We’ll Be throughout area. If you There, Because Help Can’t have 2 - 4 hours per month Wait!” Call your local Red minimum, opportunities in Cross Chapter at 970-242- Delta/Montrose counties 4851 or 1-800-HELP NOW that match your interests for information on the dif- are available. YOU are the ference you can make in missing LINK. Call 874-8657 someone’s life as a disaster or 249-9639. (tfx28) volunteer. ((TFNx4)) THERE IS HOPE, THERE IS UNEMPLOYED? JOIN help for families of probothers for a time of net- lem drinkers. Al-Anon working, encouragement, Family Groups. Join us in and skill improvement. Cedaredge, Thursday, 8:00 Latent Resources meets p.m. in Wick Hall, behind the first Thursday of each Cedaredge Baptist Church, month at 6:30 at the Delta 370 W. Main., Cedaredge. United Methodist Church Call Vicki 856-7115 or Mary (5th & Meeker). Attendants 835-6123. Speaker mtg. last and visitors are encouraged Thurs. of month. (tfx8) to dress professionally DO YOU HAVE AN UNand bring a note pad and wanted item that is taking a willingness to learn and up space in your closet? be challenged. Find us on Sell it through the DCI facebook.com & twitter.com Classifieds! Call 874-4421. - search "Latent Resources", or call James at 970-901- SUBSCRIBE! 874-4421 9463.
FREE DIAPERS FOR UP to one year! Pregnant women in Delta County can now get help to quit smoking and get something they can really use after their baby arrives — free diapers. Healthy moms have healthy babies. Enroll in the Baby & Me Tobacco Free program today. Contact the Delta County Health Department at 874-2165 or your local HEALTHY BABIES START physician. (TFNx2) with early prenatal care. Delta County Health THE DISTRICT ATTORN- Department. Offers access ey's Office provides ser- to immediate, temporary vices to those who have Medicaid for pregnant been victimized by a crime women who qualify. 874of domestic violence, 2165. (tfx25) assault and other crimes. To learn more about the BECAWS! DISCOUNT victim assistance services spay and neuter coupons provided by the District available. Call 970-527Attorney's Office, please 3350, or visit cawsonline. contact Peggy Saxton at org. Delta County Citizens 970-874-2085. (tfx41) for Animal Welfare and Shelter (CAWS) HOTCHKISS-CRAWFORD Historical Museum. Winter FARM WORKER HEALTH hours, Saturdays 1-4 p.m. Services: We offer assisthru December 24. $3 admis- tance with medical, dental sion or free to members. and medicines. If you work Come see our museum at in agriculture you may 2nd & Hotchkiss Streets in qualify for our services. For Hotchkiss. 872-3780. (tfx44) more information call 3230538. (tfx12) ALCOHOLICS ANONYmous, at Friends of Bill ALANON FAMILY GROUP W. club at 9th and Palmer, meetings. Hotchkiss, meets Sunday 1 p.m., 7 p.m. Tuesday, 7 p.m., Baptist Monday at noon, Tuesday at Church, Oak and Main. Edna noon, Wednesday at noon, 872-6141, Judy 527-5618. 5:30 ladies only. Thursday Due to low attendance, call at noon, and 8 p.m., Friday first. at noon, Saturday 12:15 ALANON FAMILY GROUP p.m. Call 874-8282. (tfnx5) meetings, Paonia, ALCOHOLICS ANONY- Wednesday, 7 p.m. United mous meeting, women only, Methodist Church, 3rd and (non-smoking), Saturdays, Ornaga. Call Kay at 52711 a.m., in the basement of 3518 or Chris 527-3366. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5th and Palmer, (go to the SIGN UP TODAY FOR a subscription to the DCI! back door). (tfx1)
while the women and children were given places in the life boats, was fully corroborated. In the mind of the public, the sinking of the Titanic will all too soon pass as an incident, but there will remain many sorrowing ones in whose lives it must remain a vivid page. *** Tis not often that a passenger train can be hurled from the tracks and coaches completely overturned in the mountain districts of this section without a record which would cause sadness to many homes, but this is just what happened at about 2 o’clock Monday afternoon. COMPILED FROM DELTA NEWSPAPERS The ill fated train was No. 316, which usuBy DELTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ally carries many Delta county passengers over 251 Meeker St., Delta • 874-8721 Marshall pass from Montrose to Salida. Three April 26, 1912 rear coaches left the rails at a point about one (From the Delta Independent) mile this side of Cimarron, and when an invenJust after the Independent went to press last tory of the damage was made, it developed that week, the Carpathia steamed into New York harbut two or three of the many passengers had bor with its six hundred odd of the Titanic, and sustained trivial fractures. The engine and front two hundred and fifty bodies for burial. Later, coaches held their places and carried the passenmore than a hundred bodies have been picked gers to their destination. up near the scene of the disaster, most of them *** unrecognizable, and quickly buried at sea. Usually at this time much of the surface and The real story of the Titanic wreck was fairly foot hill snows have melted and passed down well known before the arrival of the survivors the channel of the Gunnison river. The lateness on the Carpathia. Many distressing details were of the present spring and the large amounts of added, and in many instances, sensational chargspring snow in the mountains, ready to slush as es were made in newspaper publications. soon as a warm sun strikes it, causes considerThe survivors spoke mainly to the deficiency able apprehension of high waters, particularly if of life saving apparatus. A senate committee is the change should come suddenly. There are usubusy investigating the disaster and no doubt ally two periods of flood water in the Gunnison stringent recommendations will result to foreat this point in spring time, one the latter part of stall a repetition. The bravery of the male pasApril, and a second the last half of May and up sengers, in standing back, inviting certain death to the 10th of June.
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PUBLIC SERVICE IS SOMEONE’S DRINKing affecting your teenager? Delta and Cedaredge area is now offering Al-Ateen Group meetings for your troubled teen. Teens share support, strength and hope. For more information call 835-3408 or 874-9832. (tfx8) FAMILIES BELIEVING in families: Tandem Families is an innovative, private non-profit mentoring program providing services for at-risk children of Delta and Mont-rose counties. Anyone interested in volunteering their services or donating usable items should call 874-3000 or 2527445. (TFNx8) THE AMERICAN LEGION Post 97 Paonia is seeking the names and addresses of all persons currently serving on active duty in the military from the North Fork Valley in order to contact them and show our support. Send addresses to American Legion Post 97, PO Box 277, Paonia, CO 81428 or call 527-6552. PARENTS FREE! INFORMation and referrals to licensed child care providers, call Bright Futures Child Care Resource and Referral, 1-877-728-5613. (TFNx4) FOSTER GRANDPARENT Program enriches the lives of senior volunteers while improving the education of children with special needs. Volunteers, 55 and older, needed to assist in class rooms tutoring and mentoring children. Low-income volunteers may qualify for a stipend. Teachers in Delta area class rooms request "Grandparents" to come in and work with students who need the extra help to achieve their best. For information on how you can use your talents to help kids call Tanya at 263-9091. (tfx7) SELL YOUR UNWANTED items in the DCI Classifieds, call 874-4421 today.
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With the extra amount of snow in the mountains and but little flood water now gone down, pretty high water can be expected. *** The Mountain States Telegraph and Telephone company has withdrawn its application for a franchise in Crawford. *** Some little excitement prevailed in the vicinity of the Hotchkiss depot last Saturday evening when Will Reynolds team took a sudden notion to run away. They started from the depot and were brought to a standstill by coming in contact with an electric light pole at the corner of 2nd and Orchard streets. The only damage done was to the wagon which had to be taken to the blacksmith shop for repairs before Will could go home. *** The blanket ballot of Colorado is bad enough, but the primary ballot in the twenty-third congressional district in New York is fourteen feet long. The ballot box stuffer in that district will surely be out of a job. *** County roads have been good again this week. Our roads are very much like the little girl that had a little curl – they are either very good or horrid. *** Miss Genevieve Hartig has just completed the setting of fifteen acres of Jonathan and Rome Beauty apple trees on her California mesa place near Delta. The trees were planted by dynamiting the holes. ***