News & Announcements

 
 
Rich Valdez, Archuleta County Sheriff, Tonya Hamilton, Under Sheriff, and Warren Brown, Sergeant, were our guests at last week's meeting.  It was fascinating to hear about how many responsibilities the Sheriff's Department have to handle.  From containing wild land fires; all civil processes, court security, transporting prisoners, patrolling for the health and safety of the community and search and rescue, there is quite the job to do.  In 2016 there were 17,032 calls for service in Archuleta County with the Sheriff's Department handling 50% of them.  There were 88 major crime cases were investigated resulting in 18 arrests as well. It struck me as very unfortunate that man-power, funding and talent are spent transporting prisoners due to the extent our own public facilities were allowed to degrade. 
 
  • It was a busy week for visitors!  Kris Kohler was a guest of Neal Johnson; Hank Slikker attended as a guest of Art Benzel, Alicia Summers had been invited by Cindi Galabota and Patty Tillerson was there with our dear member Bob Tillerson
  • Jo Bridges updated us that the Feed the Children program was running really smoothly with lots of support and cooperation from the school.  21 families are involved which serves 67 children in those homes.  Codie Wilson pointed out what a wonderful job Jo and Lassie had done with the Christmas Party for these children!  There were homemake cookies from Jo and gifts donated by Jann Pitcher
  • Roberta Tolan announced there will be a free Radon Awareness class on January 24th at 10:30 am.  See Roberta for more details
  • Also on January 24th a Safe Food Handling Course will be offered - Bill Hubbard has the information on that
  • Dave Smith gave us the rundown on the Science Fair at the Middle School.  There were 28 projects to judge and Rotarians, Dave Richardson, Gindi Galabota, Lisa Scott and himself were all involved with the process.  The cash prize awards were presented through Rotary with Dave contributing the funds.  The top placing students will take their projects on to regional competition
  • Leo reported that he certainly enjoyed the watching the Ducks ice hockey game in Phoenix! They had seats that allowed them to experience the impact as the players collided with the wall
  • Barry Wheeless is making good improvement from his ordeal with back surgery
  • Our thoughts go out to Loyette with her newly acquired broken ankle and male nurse