Parks and Wildlife educates public
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering a free Internet based Hunter education class for members of the media. The class, with a space limit of 20 people, is open to all local and regional reporters, sales people, news directors and administrators. After taking one of three Internet courses approved by Colorado, media members will attend [...]
Fruita welcomes backyard chicken farmers
Homeowner associations not all so accommodating Erin McIntyre Why did the chicken cross into Fruita backyards? It’s hard to choose which reason came first: the chickens or the eggs. Many urban chicken farmers have more than one reason for keeping the birds, and the trend has flocked across the U.S., with hundreds of municipalities adopting rules [...]
Savvy Senior
Looking for love and companionship online Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about online dating for older people? My daughter has been urging me to give it a try, but at age 62, I’m a little hesitant. Lonely Senior Dear Lonely, Dating sites have become enormously popular among the older generation in [...]
Community Cinema takes climate change out of the headlines
Special to the Fruita Times Community Cinema, a national documentary screening series sponsored locally by Chevron and Independent Television Service (ITVS) presents a screening of “The Island President” at Colorado Mesa University on Wednesday, April 17 at 7p.m. The screening will take place in Room 111 of the Academic Classroom Building, a new location for [...]
Charlie Thinks
Traveling with Tim Just what I needed, another ill-fated trip with Tim. I thought I was going to have a nice quiet week lying around the office and having folks stop by to pet me. My dreams were dashed when Tim came in on Monday and announced he had to fly to Pennsylvania in the [...]
District 51 schools raise money for March of Dimes
Special to the Fruita Times District 51 is encouraging its schools’ Parent Teacher Associations and Parent Teacher Organizations to join the March of Dimes in their fight to reduce premature births. In recognition of the March of Dimes 75th Anniversary, individual schools’ PTA’s or PTO’s are being asked to participate in a new fundraising campaign. [...]
The way it was
— March 24, 1960— Fruita State Bank to expand and remodel Work will begin soon on expansion and remodeling at Fruita State Bank, according to vice president D. Earle Brumbaugh. Starting date is expected to be about April 11. Architects Van Deusen and Bliska have drawn plans and general contractor is Carl E. [...]
Healthy eating habits play a role in eye health
Special to the Fruita Times In honor of Save Your Vision Month, celebrated each March, the doctors and staff at VisualEyes Eyecare remind residents in Fruita about the importance of healthy eating habits for optimum eye health. More than 22 million Americans suffer from cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the two leading causes of [...]
Wanda Lee Long
Oct. 21, 1924 – March 28, 2013 Wanda Lee Long was born Oct. 21, 1924, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Opal Dixon and Claude L. Long. In 1929, when she was 5, her parents, along with another couple, loaded all their belongings into an open touring car and headed west across Kansas hoping to find [...]
CSU event helps shelter critters
Special to the Fruita Times The public is invited to join the Colorado State University (CSU) Alumni Association’s Grand Junction Ram Network on Tuesday, April 9 at a reception will also benefit Roice-Hurst Humane Society. The reception will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Two Rivers Convention Center, 159 Main St. in Grand Junction, and [...]