MAY, 2002
NEWS FROM OUR COMMUNITIES

BRISTOL, GRANADA, HARTMAN
HOLLY, RURAL AREAS

Volume 3, Issue 7

National Police Week, May 12-18

See below for more observances

FAREWELL POTLUCK DINNER
FOR THE PERRY FAMILY

   Saturday, May 18th, at 6 pm, the Fire Department will host a Farewell Potluck Gathering in honor of Ken and Beth Perry and family at the Granada Community Complex. Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish. Several items have been donated to raffle and the fire department will be selling raffle tickets prior to the potluck as well as that evening. Everyone is invited as we take the time to appreciate the Perry family for all they have done as a part of our community.
   In 1984, Ken and Beth moved to Granada; Ken went to work at the former American State Bank, now Colorado East Bank and Trust. Beth continued her teaching career, getting a job with Granada School as an elementary teacher. Beth taught school until their daughter, Heather, was born in 1989. Daniel came along two years later. Beth continued teaching when Heather was in Preschool.
   Ken and Beth have been an active part of this community. Ken a member of the Granada Lion's Club and a volunteer on the Fire Department. Beth was a member of Granada Civic Club and played an active role in all her children were involved in. Heather and Daniel have been in the Granada Ranch Hands and involved in many sporting events. They will be moving to Southwest Colorado in June. We will miss them and wish them the best in their future.

Home Town Pride Award

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END OF THE LINE
RANCH RODEO
MAY 26, 2002

End of the Line Arena,
Camp Amache
3:30 pm

12 Team Limit
4 or 5 Man Team

For more information contact:
Fred Dorenkamp @ 719-734-5226
Ancel Malone @ 719-537-6771

EVENTS
Wild Cow Milking
Mock Calf Branding
Trailer Loading
Team Doctoring
Steer Muggin

Committee Minutes

   On April 7, 2002, at the Granada School, the meeting was called to order with sixteen people in attendance.
   A motion to approve the minutes passed and the treasurers report was given. The Committee has $7175.77 in their account. A motion to accept the treasurers report was made and passed.
   The fundraisers discussed were: Hypnotist, Ranch Rodeo and Horse Pull.
   Chairman Dorenkamp recognized Mayor Ron Grasmick and his wife Patty. Ron explained he and the new council will work closely with the Pride Committee. Three high school students attended. They want to become active members in the Pride Committee.
   Discussion on the Horse Pull Fundraiser in May was brought up again. The Committee would like to share the gate proceeds with the Granada Volunteer Fire Department, and will check to see if they will help collect at the gates. The Granada 4-H Ranch Hands will once again put on the evening Bar-B-Que at 5:00 pm.
   The Granada Ranch Hands will do their community service work again this year at the arena, if we will provide the paint.
   The Park Grant was touched on and contractors and bids were discussed.
   Jerene DeBono reported that we were turned down for our raffle/bingo license, until we have been in operation for five years. They did take our start date of 1999.
   With no further business, next meeting was set for May 5th, a motion to adjourn was made.

END OF THE LINE
DRAFT HORSE PULL

May 26, 2002
Camp Amache, Granada, CO
1:00 pm

ADMISSION
ADULTS-$5
STUDENTS-$2
UNDER 12-FREE

8 TO 10 TEAMS
Will pull in Light & Heavy Weight Competition

Prizes Include
1s-2nd-3rd-Teamster

Drawing of a horse pulling a man

Granada Ranch Hands
4-H Club

Barbecue Supper
5pm

Children under 12/$4 Adults/$6

Turkey/Ham/Beef
Baked Beans/Chips/Pie
End of the Line Arena
Camp Amache

Pony Rides
Mr. Morlan will once again have his ponies at the End of the Line Arena on May 26th. Bring the kids out to ride the ponies while you watch the Horse Pull and Ranch Rodeo

FSA NEWS

   July 15th is the final date to report crop acres and turn in production records.
   Now that everyone wishing to purchase NAP policy has done so. It is time to get ready to submit crop production records and report your crop acreage intentions. When reporting your crop acreage make sure you know the planting dates of each crop. When submitting crop production records it is to your advantage to have at least 4 years, less than that will cause the FSA office to use a portion of the county yield as a T yield. Production records need to be verifiable for the crop by practice, type and variety, summarized by year. Acceptable records can be commercial receipts, ledger sheets, custom harvest invoices, contemporaneous diaries to verify actions other than commercial sales such as fed to livestock. If there was no production in a year then you're past report of acreage will verify no crop planted in that year.
   Report any crop losses to the FSA office within 15 days of the disaster occurring, even if it is an INSURABLE crop such as wheat.
   June 1st is the final date to request a reconstitution. This is in the event that you bought or sold any land and need to combine or separate from existing farm.

Showing at Holly Theater

Holly Days

Holly Days is June 8th. Activities will be held throughout the day, starting with kids' games at 10:00 a.m., softball games, and the duck race. At 5:00 p.m. the Commercial Club will have a barbeque at the Depot. Come out and enjoy the festivities!

GRANADA SENIOR CENTER

Dinner and Meeting
First Monday of Each Month
6 pm

GRANADA SENIOR CENTER

Foot/Blood Pressure Clinic
First Friday of Each Month
1 pm

Congratulations
to all area Seniors!

Bristol (Told by Deloris Jones)
   Bill and I met at a welding school in the spring of 1943 where I learned to do tin welding.
   In the fall of 1945, Bill and his brother Jim came to eastern Colorado to look at farms. Bill took option an 80 acres northeast of Bristol, Colorado.
   We had rain, rain, and more rain that fall in southeastern Kansas. After Bill had planted wheat the second time in the mud, he said, “I am going where it is high and dry.” When we have dry years, I remind him of that fall.
   We were married in January 1946 and spent our honeymoon in the Colorado mountains. We bought our farm from Walt Decker.
   In February, we moved to two rooms over the Russom Grocery Store. It had been sold to Gene Roberts before we came back. The post office was in the grocery store, and Mr. Russom kept it. Later, he moved it next door when the hardware store closed and the owner went back to eastern Kansas. Felix Smith had a drugstore south on the corner from the grocery store.
   In February 1947, we moved to our present farm. It was purchased from the sugar company in Holly. We raised wheat, hay, milo, and some cattle. Bill has been engaged in farming all his life. When the work slowed down in the fall, he liked to deer hunt and went for many years. He was an avid reader of western magazines.
   Being a small town girl who knew nothing about farming; life has been interesting. Through the years I became active with the 4-H kids, and for twenty years I was a leader. I also was a set mother for many Holly Square Dancers.
   After Bill retired, wooden puzzles became his passion He designed many brain teasers, but his Jesus puzzle is his masterpiece.
   We have four children: Carl, our son and three daughters: Kay Marples, Susan Lucius, and Gail Bowers. Along with one daughter-in-law and three son-in-laws, we have seven grandsons and two granddaughters living. Our hearts are still with the two granddaughters we lost.
   Carl has taken over the family farm and checks on us every day.
   We are members of the Bristol Presbyterian Church. Several years ago, I had a junior choir at the church, and Bill was the Sunday School Supervisor.
   Bristol is a great place to live. We would not live any place else.

Holly High School
Chooses Cheerleader Squad

The Holly High School conducted their cheerleading tryouts on Friday, April 5th. Twenty-five students were interested in filling the twelve open spots on the cheerleading squad. The Holly School and Community will be proud to know that the following A/B students with great attitudes and work ethics will be representing them though the 2002-2003 Cheerleading season: Ashley Darnell, Michele Foreshee, Chelsey Hammes, Morgan Leiker, Kira Neill, Emily Schenk, Britney Sherwood, Kendra Tefertiller, Nicole Thompson, and Crystal Weigum. Cheerleading co-captains are Chelsey Seufer and Whitney Siegfried and the mascot is Amanda Ferguson. Chantelle Osborn is the alternate. The Wildcat Squad is coached by Joette DuVall and Anjie Simon is the sponsor.

Granada Police Department:
New Cars, New Officer

The Granada Police Department is back to two officers after hiring Officer Ray Duncan in April. Ray and his wife Noreen have two children and four granddaughters. Ray's son-in-law is former Granada Officer Khris Mooney. Officer Melanie Frantz has been employed since September. Her husband Brad, is the former Chief of Police and is currently a Deputy of the Prowers County Sheriff's Office. They live in Holly and have three sons. Both Ray and Melanie are graduates of the Otero Junior College Law Enforcement Training Academy. Maintaining an “open-door” policy, they urge anyone with any concerns, complaints or ideas to let them know.

FLUSHING LINES

The Town of Granada will be flushing lines through the months of May and June! Please run your cold water prior to use.

Box Top$ for Education

   Recently the Granada School began a program called “Box Top$ for Education.” This program is to help benefit the art programs at all levels. Box Top$ for Education is a fundraising program, which started nationally in 1996, as more and more schools struggled to make ends meet. With this program Granada School can earn extra money to help with the high cost of art materials.
   Students, parents, teachers, and the community are asked to clip Box Tops from participating products. They include: General Mills cereals, all Betty Crocker products and Betty Crocker fruit snacks, Yoplait Yogurt Multi-Packs, Yoplait Go-Gurt, Lloyd's Barbecue products, some General Mills snack products and General Mills food service products.
   Each year the Granada School will send the box tops to General Mills. The school will receive a check, equivalent to 10 cents for every Box Top redeemed. Each student will receive a Box Top box to take home. There will also be a Box Top box in the school office and at the Colorado East Bank and Trust.
   Other ways to receive funds from this project is to shop on line. Such businesses as JC Penny, Amazon Books, Proflowers, Barnes & Noble, Crayola, Spiegel, Office Depot and Target, just to name a few, will donate a percent of your purchase price to your school.

Start watching, clipping and saving those Box Tops!

For more local information you may call Charlotte Schenck at 537-6215.

For online national information Box Top$ for Education

COMMUNITY EVENTS

1ST SUNDAY :

BRISTOL BUSY BEES from 2-4 pm, Bristol Hall
GRANADA PRIDE MEETING @ 6 pm, School Board Room
1ST MONDAY:

GRANADA COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER dinner/meeting @ 6 p.m.
2ND MONDAY:

BRISTOL UMW @ 1:30 pm
3RD SUNDAY:

GRANADA RANCH HANDS @ 2 pm, Granada Town Hall
3RD MONDAY:

GOODALE CLUB
1ST & 3RD TUESDAY:

REBEKAH LODGE, 7:30 pm
1ST & 3RD WEDNESDAYS:

GRANADA MASONIC LODGE, 8 pm
COOLIDGE BINGO, 7 pm
1ST FRIDAY:

GRANADA COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER foot/blood pressure clinics 1 p.m.
MAY 15:

Granada Elementary 1st-6th field trip to Burlington
MAY 16:

Holly High School Academic Awards @ 8 am

MAY 18:

Holly Senior Graduation 2 p.m.
Appreciation Dinner/Ken & Beth Perry, 6 p.m.
MAY 20:

Amache Reunion
MAY 21:

Granada Kindergarten Graduation 2 pm
MAY 22:

Holly School Last Day of School
MAY 24:

Granada School Awards Presentation/ school dismiss 11:30 am
Granada School 8th Grade Graduation @ 8 pm
Granada School Last Day of School
MAY 25:

Granada High School Graduation @ 10 am
MAY 26:

End of the Line Draft Horse Pull @ 1 pm, Camp Amache
Ranch Rodeo @ 3:30 pm, Camp Amache
Ranch Hands B-B-Q Supper 5 pm, Camp Amache
JUNE 8:

Holly Days
JUNE 15:

Granada/Bristol Days
Granada Alumni Reunion

SHARING YOUR NEWS...

OVER COFFEE

Birth Announcement:
Rilley Austin Jackman born April 10, 2002 to parents Michelle Musick and Tony Jackman

Community Losses:

   Herman J. Kirmer on April 14
   Edythe M. Tyner on April 25
   Ruby Annabelle Trueblood Tyner on April 25
   Billie J. Woodward on April 26
   Cecil E. "Bill" Dennis on May 1

BIRTHDAYS/ANNIVERSARIES

MAY, 2002
12 PAULINE WILGER
     CODY DUVALL
13 EVA ANDERSON
14 TARA NEUGEBAUER
     TRACI KLOTZ
     NELLIE GARCIA
     ARGIE & JOAN THRALL
15 MYRNA DUVALL
     BRAD GRASMICK
     JERRY PARK
16 MARIAH HARTSHORN
17 PAIGE TYREE
     JERRY & KAREN EASTIN
18 JIM PARK
     KAYSI LAPOINT
     KATHI LAPOINT
19 MILTON & CAROL RINK
     DAVID & SHERYL HOLDEN
20 TANNER & JANINE PANKEY
     SHEILA TEFERTILLER
21 RENA RINK
     GLENN WILSON
     ARGIE THRALL
23 TONYA MALONE
     DERICK GALLEGOS
24 CAROL RINK
     DEBBIE HARTSHORN
     MIKE BROOKS
25 CINDY MALONE
27 KERRY & SHAWNA HARTSHORN
28 CECILE TEFERTILLER
29 TREVOR & MENDI CHOAT
     JERRY & LINDA SMITH
30 JERRY & CARA DORENKAMP

JUNE, 2002
  1 GRACE JONES
     BECKY KALMA
  5 KEVIN & CHARITY RINK
     STAN VANDERPOOL
     TABATHA BERNDT
     DOROTHY FREY
  6 FRITZ DORENKAMP
  8 MIKE & LEEANN BROOKS
  9 DIANE SMITH
10 LEEANN BROOKS
11 JACK & WANDA WATSON
12 COURTNEY KLOTZ
     STEVE & KERRY WAGNER
13 RICK SILVA
14 DEBRA CHOAT
     BRET LAPRARIE
     SHANNON ISLEY
15 BILL & CECILE TEFERTILLER

MAY OBSERVANCES

May is...
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Better Hearing and Speech Month
Better Sleep Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month (World)
Older Americans Month
Physical Fitness & Sports Month (National, US)
Teacher Appreciation Month
Trauma Awareness Month
Safe Kids Week (National) May 5 - 11
Suicide Awareness Week (National) May 5 - 11
Teacher Appreciation Week (National, US) May 5 - 11
Alcohol and Other Drug-Related Birth Defects Week (National) May 12 - 18
Police Week (National): May 12 - 18
Stuttering Awareness Week (National) May 13 - 19
Emergency Medical Services Week (National, US) May 26-31
Etiquette Week (National, US)May 26-31
Historic Preservation Week (National, US)May 26-31
Nurses Week (National, US)May 26-31
Nursing Home Week (National, US)May 26-31
Pet Week (National, US)May 26-31
Pickle Week (International)May 26-31
Police Week (National, US)May 26-31
Wildflower Week (National, US)May 26-31

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