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THURSDAYOCTOBER 9, 2014

OCTOBER 9Sheriff’s ConventionTHUR FRIDAY (8 a.m.) Sheriff James

Cacias will host the Colorado County Sheriff’s Convention that kicks off on Wednesday at the Holiday Inn on Santa Fe Trail Drive, then moves to the LaQuinta Inn on Toupal Drive for Thursday’s and Friday’s events.

Economic DevelopmentTHURSDAY (3 p.m.) Trinidad and

Las Animas County Board of Directors will meet at 136 West Main Street. Infor-mation: 719-846-9412.

Water Association THURSDAY (3 p.m.) Greetville-

Carbondale Board of Directors will meet at the Century Financial Group, 109 W. Main St. Information: Jeni Skalko, 719-846-2080, ext. 116.

Autism Support GroupTHURSDAY (6 p.m.) New Autism

Awareness & Support Group for parents with challenged children in any area will meet at 315 E. Strong Ave. Refreshments will be served. Info: Linda Thompson, 719-680-2638.

Today’s Quote“Life is a succession of lessons which must be

lived to be understood.” ~Helen Keller

OCTOBER 10-12SPBC Fire DistrictFRIDAY (10 a.m.) The Spanish

Peaks/Bon Carbo Fire Protection District Board of Directors will meet in Century Fi-nancial Group Building, 109 W. Main St. Information: Dana Phillips, 719-846-2080.

Soup Kitchen BenefitSATURDAY (8 a.m.-2 p.m.) An-

nual Rummage Sale fundraiser includes homemade baked goodies, tamales, tortillas and burritos will be at the Fisher’s Peak Soup Kitchen, 308 Church St. Infor-mation: Terrie Lobato, 719-680-0427.

FP Horse AssociationSATURDAY (9 a.m.) All Breed Horse

Show will be held at the Las Animas County Fairgrounds on N. Linden St. No admission for spectators. Information: 719-680-0666.

Trinidad Ambulance DistrictSATURDAY (11 a.m.) Trinidad

Ambulance District Board of Directors special budget meeting at the Trinidad Ambulance District Office, 939 Robinson Ave. Information: 719-846-6886.

FPFD Pasta DinnerSATURDAY (3-7 p.m.) Annual Pasta

Dinner fundraiser for the Fisher’s Peak Fire Department will be held at the Sebas-tiani Gym on Animas. Carry out orders will be available. Information: 719-846-4074.

“Night Skies” OpeningSATURDAY (5-7 p.m.) Wonders of

the Night Art show gala opening at the SPACe Gallery, 132 W. Ryus Street in Le Veta includes artwork by local Trinidad artists. No admission and refreshments will be served. Show runs through Nov. 8. Information: 719-742-3074.

Meditation GroupSUNDAY (11 a.m.) Free group meets

the 2nd Sunday of every month at the Lava Yoga Studio, 828 Arizona. Sched-uled speaker is Health Coach John Da-vidson. Information: Noah Simpson, 719-680-0109.

Guadalupe SocietySUNDAY: Celebration Dinner to honor

Brother Harry’s 25th Anniversary will be held in St. Joseph’s Hall after the 11 a.m. Mass at Holy Trinity Church. There will be no meeting. Info: 719-846-3647.

PUBLIC SERVICECLOSURE NOTICES*The Chronicle-News office will be

closed Monday for Columbus Day. The paper will be delivered as usual.

*The Las Animas County Court-house will be closed on Friday for fur-lough and Monday for the holiday.

*The City of Trinidad and the Landfill will be closed on Monday.

*SCCOG and affiliates will be closed for Columbus Day.

City’s Main Street ProgramMONDAY (8-9 a.m.) Join in the

weekly conversations each Monday, Oct. thru Nov. at City Hall in Council Cham-bers on Animas St. This week’s topic is: Capital Improvement Projects. Group will meet on Columbus Day. Information: 719-846-9843.

Caregivers Support GroupTUESDAY (6:30 p.m.) This group

meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month at the LaQuinta Inn on Toupal Drive. Infor-mation: Age Wise, 347-852-0752.

Senior Driving ClassTUESDAY (9 a.m.-1 p.m.) The AARP

Driving Class will be held at the Sayre Se-nior Center, 1222 San Pedro St. Registra-tion: Carl Mozengo, 719-868-2288.

Samaritan ClinicHere to serve under-insured and non-

insured residents with free health care and low-cost lab work on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Samaritan Clinic, 413 E. Frost and corner of N. Linden. Information: 719-846-3536.

THE FINE PRINT

WEATHER WATCHThursday: A 40 percent chance of show-

ers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. West northwest wind 5 to 10

mph becoming east in the afternoon. Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunder-storms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43.

Friday: Showers likely and possibly a thun-derstorm before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 58. North northeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. Night: A 20 percent chance of showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. West southwest wind around 5 mph. Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 43. South wind around 5 mph.

Sunday: A 10 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 63. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Night: A 10 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 37. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

RIVER CALLPurgatoire River Call as of: 10/08/14. Chilili ditch: Prior-ity # 7 --- Appropriation date: 04/30/1862.

Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:Release 48.97 AFInflow 46.63 AF -- 23.51 CFSEvaporation 6.66 AFContent 11,158 AFElevation 6,168.25Precipitation 0

Downstream River Call / High-land Canal: 05/31/1866.

THE CHRONICLE NEWS

COUNTY COMMISSION

By Steve BlockThe Chronicle-News

The City of Trinidad would like

to annex some property on the City’s south side near Exit 11 off of Interstate 25, an area that includes Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburg-ers, Tequila’s Restaurant and Trinidad Fuel Stop, all on the east side of I-25. The County Board of Commissioners approved a waiv-er of an impact report for the City to help speed along the annexation process.

County law requires that if more than 10 acres of County property is going to be annexed by a munici-pality, an impact report must be prepared by the City about the area’s exist-ing streets, water mains, sewer interceptors, ditch-es, other utilities and plans for extending municipal services into the area, how the City is going to finance the extension, existing spe-cial districts and other in-formation about the area that is going to be annexed into the City. The Board’s action at Tuesday’s meet-ing waives those require-ments.

County Attorney Di-xie Newnam said the City was requesting the waiver from the County because the area to be annexed was largely developed proper-ty, and information about it was readily available

and so no impact report was need-ed. DDD Limited Family Partner-ship and the owners of Tequila’s, the two property owners in the area, requested the annexation.

“If the report is not waived to-day, the City would only have un-til Friday to complete an impact report, because it has to be com-pleted 25 days before the City’s hearing on the annexation,” New-nam said. “That hearing is cur-rently set for November 5.”

Commissioner Gary Hill asked if there were any other property owners in the area who would be

affected by the annexation. Trinidad City Attorney

Les Downs said the owners of the Penny Saver antiques store in that area had also requested a later annexa-tion if the first annexation is approved by the City. Downs said Penny Saver’s owners would like to estab-lish a marijuana-related business at that location.

Commissioner Mack Louden asked Downs why Penny Saver couldn’t be in-cluded in the first annexa-tion. Downs replied that it was a question of contigu-ity.

“The reason is because we don’t have sufficient con-tiguity to get that,” Downs said. “We have looked at it very carefully, and we have the one-sixth contiguity for what we want to do now, but we don’t have sufficient con-tiguity to take in that por-tion. It is desirable for the City of Trinidad to take in these businesses now with this annexation. My under-standing is that they have been asking for this annexation for quite some time. The area we call Penny Saver has not been part of that conversation so they’re kind of late to the game, so that’s why we haven’t really done that.”

Colorado municipal law re-quires that at least one-sixth of the perimeter of the land to be an-nexed must be contiguous to the annexing municipality, that there

must exist a “community of inter-est” between the area proposed to be annexed and the annexing mu-nicipality; and that the land pro-posed for annexation is or will be urbanized and is capable of being integrated into the annexing mu-nicipality.

The first requirement for “con-tiguity” may be established by a series of annexations completed

Board approves City’s Southside annexation waiver

Photos by Steve Block / Chronicle-NewsCity Attorney Les Downs, above, explains the legal issues involved with the Southside An-nexation to the County Board. Tara Marshall, left, holds up the sign protecting landowners from liability related to agri-tourism activities.

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

TSJC Volleyball team photo by Mike Salbato

TSJC Volleyball Team to host “PINK OUT”The Trinidad State Volleyball Team (18-8) will host McCook on Thursday night for a “Pink Out” volleyball game to support Breast Cancer Awareness at Scott Gym at 7 p.m. Everyone who wears pink to tonight’s game will get in free. The TSJC volleyball team will also host Northeastern Junior College on Friday at 7 p.m. and Western Nebraska on Saturday at 1 p.m.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

EMERGENCY SERVICESFire Department gets Med Sleds from Ambulance DistrictBy Steve BlockThe Chronicle-News

Emergency services workers

need every tool they can get in the difficult and often dangerous work they do to help people in trouble. The Trinidad Ambulance District gave two new Med Sleds to the Trinidad Fire Department to help firemen doing rescue and evacua-tion work.

Med Sleds represent a signifi-cant advance in the flexible litters used by emergency services work-

ers. Light, strong, flexible and durable, the Med Sleds allow for both horizontal and vertical lift ca-pability. The sleds fold up and can be put into a bag that emergency workers can carry like a back-pack. A backboard can fit inside of the sled for extra support. The sleds don’t have to be assembled at the time when emergency work-ers are extracting victims from an accident scene.

There are more than 52,000 Med Sled evacuation devices of various types currently in use in more than 3,500 facilities nation-wide, including the top 18 hospi-tals in the country, according to the website: www.medsled.com. The sleds are easy to maneuver into and out of accident or evacu-ation situations.

The Trinidad Ambulance Dis-

Steve Block / Chronicle-NewsThe Trinidad Fire Department got two new Med Sleds from the Trinidad Am-bulance District. On the left is Fire Chief Tim Howard with Ambulance District Chief Dan Moynihan.

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Aguilar is doing their part with Shadow of the Breast Fest SaturdaySpecial to The Chronicle-News

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and pink ribbons are on just about everything you see. Those pretty little swirls of pink might remind us to do a self-check or remember some-one who lost their battle, but in reality, the sta-tistics are staggering. The American Cancer Society estimates 200,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year. Even with the Affordable Care Act, breast cancer is hard to deal with.

Aguilar, a tiny hamlet on the southern I-25 corridor is doing their part to help during Breast Cancer Awareness month. On Saturday, Octo-ber 11, the Aguilar Economic Development Com-mittee will host the second annual Shadow of the Breasts Fest. The event is named after the near-

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