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THURSDAY
OCTOBER 9, 2014
Vol. 138, No. 202
THE FINE PRINT
OCTOBER 9
Sheriff’s Convention
THUR 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 Development
THURSDAY (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 Group
THURSDAY (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 10-12
SPBC Fire District
FRIDAY (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 Benefit
SATURDAY (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 Association
SATURDAY (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 District
SATURDAY (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 Dinner
SATURDAY (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” Opening
SATURDAY (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 Group
SUNDAY (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 Society
SUNDAY: 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 SERVICE
CLOSURE 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 Program
MONDAY (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 Group
TUESDAY (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 Class
TUESDAY (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 Clinic
Here 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.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Board approves City’s Southside annexation waiver
WEATHER WATCH
Thursday: A 40 percent chance of show-ers
and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with
a high near 67. West northwest wind 5 to 10
City Attorney Les Downs, above, explains the
legal issues involved with the Southside An-nexation
left, holds up the sign protecting landowners
from liability related to agri-tourism activities.
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.
Photos by Steve Block / Chronicle-News
to the County Board. Tara Marshall,
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 CALL
Purgatoire River Call as of:
10/08/14. Chilili ditch: Prior-ity
# 7 --- Appropriation date:
04/30/1862.
Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:
Release 48.97 AF
Inflow 46.63 AF -- 23.51 CFS
Evaporation 6.66 AF
Content 11,158 AF
Elevation 6,168.25
Precipitation 0
Downstream River Call / High-land
Canal: 05/31/1866.
THE CHRONICLE NEWS
COUNTY COMMISSION
By Steve Block
The 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
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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.
EMERGENCY SERVICES
Fire Department
gets Med Sleds
from Ambulance
District
By Steve Block
The 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-News
The 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.
Aguilar is doing their
part with Shadow of the
Breast Fest Saturday
Special 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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