C2 Wednesday, June 6, 2012
SURFACE CREEK NEWS
Delta County Independent
Plants of the Western Slope A look at local flora with Evelyn Horn
Photo by Hank Lohmeyer
Chapel season opens A Sunday afternoon performance in acoustic guitar and vocals by David Starr and Roy Martin opened the Chapel of the Cross summer music season at Pioneer Town. They played some country songs, blues, popular numbers by other artists, and some original work. A new CD will be available soon. The Chapel concert season is fully booked with performances each Sunday and Thursday through the end of August. The Gullible Skeptics will present a show of soft county rock music on June 7 at 7 p.m. Concerts are open to all and admission is by donation.
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Time Out Recently my burning concern has been the proposed sandhill crane hunt in Moffat and Routt counties. I have the sinking feeling that we’ve probably lost the cause. But I’ve been recharged by Mary Taylor Young’s PowerPoint presentation at the Visitors Center here on Colorado National Monument. It was excellent! She is the author of 14 books on nature here in Colorado and this evening (June 6) she’ll appear at the Grand Junction Audubon meeting. I’ll be there! So to happily fill this afternoon, I’m back on the Colorado National Monument in my favorite pursuit, wildflowers. So far I’ve found purple lupines and red paintbrush, yellow asters and white phlox. I’ve been listening to the gentle breezes and enjoying the lack of traffic. And each year, the geology of an area
FATHER’S DAY CHECK LIST Let Dad Choose
❏ Breakfast ❏ Wine ❏ Barbecue Lunch ❏ Art ❏ Gourmet Foods ❏ Chocolate OPEN TIL 2 P.M. ON FATHER’S DAY 250 S. Grand Mesa Dr. Cedaredge • 856-7007
A SALUTE TO FATHERHOOD
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Double J Disposal David James, DDS Elberta Rebekah Lodge First Baptist Church of Cedaredge First Baptist Church of Delta Foster Farms Grand Mesa Discount Grand Valley Convenience Goldsmith Co. Hellman Chevrolet Hellman Ford Industrial Systems, Inc. Jerry Reiher Insurance Agency Kevin Parks State Farm Kissner GC Kohls in Grand Junction New Hope Evangelical Church Oxbow Mine Pest Away Spraying Renovators Warehouse S&E Ward’s Landscaping Surface Creek Bank Summers Rocky Mountain Motors Taco Time Taylor Funeral Service Title Company of Delta County Touch of Care Walmart Wildcat Drilling
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the rock that was left after the waters from two canyons carried the surrounding soil away. Back into the car, and I drive along this excellent roadway that’s well marked and smooth, but very twisting. Wait!
Cedaredge Elberta Lodge awards scholarships On Thursday, May 24, Cedaredge High School held a scholarship awards dinner. Twentyfour organizaions handed out scholarships to graduating seniors. Cedaredge Elberta Lodge #106 awarded two scholarships. Esmeralda Alejandre was the winner of the lodge’s $500 scholarship. Bonnie Pope, noble grand, and Grace Farmer presented Esmeralda Alejandre Jason Elfein her with a certificate. a $2,500 IOOF scholar- plans to study computer Alejandre won five other ship from Rocky Moun- science at Colorado State scholarships and hopes to tain Lodge No. 2. He University. become a Spanish/English teacher. Jason Elflein received
Breakfast with dad
The Cedaredge High School graduating Class of 2012 and their parents wish to thank the following for their generosity and support of our Grad Night Celebration. ACE Hardware Alpine Fencing Apple Shed Arch Western Resources Bank of Colorado Bed, Bath & Beyond Beep West Benson Brothers Big O Tires Cedaredge Chiropractic Cedaredge Food Town Cedaredge High School Administration Cedaredge Police City Market Clay & Dodson Classic Computers Connie’s Restaurant Delta County Federal Credit Union Delta County Independent Delta County Memorial Hospital Delta County School Dist. Delta Elks Lodge Delta Emblem Club Delta Family Fun Park Delta Sales Yard Devon Wilson, DDS Doughty Steel & Machine Dollar Tree
becomes more fascinating. Now I’m studying the famous Independence Monument and from this angle it is clear that the formation is not a tower (as it appeared to be when I started out). It’s more like a “wing,”
There’s a yellow-flowered tree ahead . . . it almost looks like Cliff Rose. That’s unlikely, for that delightful plant was a favorite back in the Nevada years. But here it is! A spindly desert-type tree-shrub all covered with half-inchwide yellow rose blossoms. It’s well over six feet tall and filled with nectar hunting insects. I stand, reveling in the sweet fragrance. As I remember the Cliff Rose I knew in the red rock area near Las Vegas, I’m savoring the warmth and sun on this lovely day in late May on the monument.
In celebration of Father’s Day, Cedaredge’s Elberta Rebekah’s Lodge #106 plans a special breakfast each year on the day before dad’s special day. Breakfast will be served from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 16, at the IOOF Hall, 290 W. Main Street in Cedaredge. Homemade biscuits and gravy tops the menu, served with scrambled eggs, mixed fruit, coffee and juice for only $6 a plate. Come hungry! Bring your family; tell your friends. Everyone is welcome. Proceeds from the breakfast are used for school awards.
Traffic warnings top police activity BY HANK LOHMEYER Staff Writer
The 373 “traffic warnings” issued by Cedaredge Police comprised the largest classification of citizen contacts logged by the department all last year. In all, the department made 8,089 citizen contacts and filed 1,094 reports on the activity. Other police activity shown on the department’s “condensed list” included the following categories: 165 municipal
ordinance complaints; 153 agency assists; 146 criminal offenses; 79 animal control calls; 69 traffic summonses; 61 citizen assist calls; 42 VIN inspections; 42 suspicious vehicle/persons calls; 40 traffic accidents; 21 sex offender registrations; 18 personal welfare checks; 14 suicide attempts; and, seven each calls for unattended death and animal control summons. Information in the report came from the department.
Nine post perfect attendance Nine students at Cedaredge Elementary School achieved perfect attendance during the 2011-2012 school year. The students who attended every day were: Hayden Rupp, kindergarten; Graceanne Prosser, first grade; Natalie Barnard, Damiyen Knight, Reganne McIntire and JD Miller, fourth grade; and Dalia Alejandre, Camie Baldozier and Seth Belden, fifth grade.
Photo by Hank Lohmeyer
A return to good times The church elevator fund raiser event hosted by Cedaredge Community United Methodist Church on Saturday at the Stolte Shed sparked lots of memories with its 1950s drive-in theme. Marge Johnson, left, of Eckert, brought out some copies of vintage Family Circle magazines from the late ‘40s and ‘50s that she owns. Johnson tells how she ended up buying a “shed full” of printed materials, including the 5-cent cover priced Family Circle copies, at the Stolte family auction some 15 years ago. Shown with Johnson is her close friend, Judy Brahams.
Cedaredge Elem. honor roll The following students were named to honor roll at Cedaredge Elementary School for the fourth quarter of the 2011-12 school year: Third grade Straight A’s Kimber Alanko Isaac Blair Conner Brooks Sterling Brown Jacob Cok Sierra Findley Aspen Furubotten Jadyn Gorham Kammie Henderson Aby Lozano Sophia McCrackin Christoferr Myers Colby Rupp Skyler Sakala Emma Stumpf Brody Wagner Olivia Wick 3.99-3.0 Alex Barron Sam Campbell Jessica Dexter Daniel Garcia Zach Hamilton Brady Healy Winnie Hirsch
Dominic Hoeltzner Halee Lowrance Jade Malinowski Jamie Meyer Natalie Mills Taelor Mills Charley Perkins Jade Price Nicole Price Dimitri Prisbrey Emma Purvis Xavier Quintanilla AJ Robidoux Kiyoshi Salazar Mason Smelser Hailey Smith Joaquin Tillman Reagan Todd Blake Tullis Shyler Walker Nevaeh Wilkerson Jeanene Williams Fourth grade Straight A’s Hannah Carlson Elisabeth Cole Owen Craig
Sean Dale Alayna Edwards Grace Hatheway Brian Hoerr Hannah Hohenstein Ryan Imhoff Michael James Joshua Jenkins Elle Lewis Reganne McIntire 3.99-3.0 Natalie Barnard Kaleb Berardi Kayla Buckallew Lacey Cobb Paden Conner Josh Deal Ethan Fish Trey Geyer Rebbecca Hofius Abigail Inskeep Bailey Weiss Brie McGovern JD MIller Lee Moon William Parker Jacqueline Rivera
Katie Lindley Kiara Springer Ani Summers Kaitlyn Toothaker Zoe Wood Summer Young Fifth grade Straight A’s Dalia Alejandre Camie Baldozier Mickenzie Balistreri Wyatt Camp Hunter Campbell Jacob Chlarson Victoria Creech Payton Donahue Courtney Freeman Hannah Gardner Kylee Hanson Chole’ Hart Garth Knutson Wyatt Lewis Max Moore Jared Reynolds Keaton Sheppard Kaylee Smith Sydney Staples
Emily Tullis Michelle Varanai Manney Wilson Whitney Woolley 3.99-3.0 Wade Barnard Emalee Brooks Dillon Coe Jasmine Cruthers Faith Esquibel Devin Glidden Jordan Guereque Taylor Hancock Elle Hockersmith Hannah Maclean Nevaeh Martinez Kiki McFarland Larissa Prisbrey Bella Rash Tyler Saunders Levi Smothers Shelby Stone Taj VanderLinde Briar Wagner