Sophia Retreat hosts get-together
The Sophia Retreat and Event Center in Dolores is hosting a Business After Hours event with the Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce.
On Thursday, March 12, at 5 p.m., there will be a ribbon-cutting, tour of the facilities, chef-prepared appetizers, and good company. Meet the new owners, Mary and Vince!
Sophia Event Center is located off County Road 31 (Dolores-Norwood Road), on the ridge above Dolores.
Southwest Health hires new physician
Southwest Health System, Inc. has announced that Leslie Stanwix, DO, has been added to its staff in Cortez.
Stanwix provides general family medicine, newborn, and pediatric care. She's accepting new patients and takes most insurance including Medicare and Medicaid.
Stanwix attended Kansas State University and completed medical school at University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathy in Kansas City, Mo. She has practiced family medicine for 35 years in Colorado.
The staff also includes Dr. Daniel Bohle and Dr. Jill Schenk. With the addition of Stanwix, the office will provide a full spectrum of medical services including general family medicine, obstetrical care, newborn and child care, skin care and treatments, gynecologic services including annual physicals and preventive care, and screening colonoscopies. Southwest Memorial Physicians is at 20 South Market St., Suite 1 and can be reached at 970-565-4291.
USDA offers extension for ARC/PLC Program
A one-time extension will be provided to producers for the new safety-net programs established by the 2014 Farm Bill, known as Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC), the USDA announced last week. Farmers now have until March 31 to update yields history and/or base acreage. The final day for farm owners and producers to choose between ARC or PLC coverage is also March 31.
If no changes are made, the current yield and base will be used. A program choice of ARC or PLC coverage also must be made by Mar. 31, or there will be no 2014 payments for the farm, and the farm will default to PLC coverage through the 2018 crop year.
Online tools at www.fsa.usda.gov/arc-plc, allow producers to explore projections on how ARC or PLC coverage could affect their operations.
Oil-and-gas meeting set for March 26
A community oil-and-gas meeting will be held at 7 p.m. March 26 at the county annex on the corner of Chestnut Street and Montezuma Avenue in Cortez.
The focus of the meeting will be oil-and-gas regulatory overview. Representatives from the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Kinder Morgan, and the Colorado Emergency Planning Committee will give presentations. Written questions will be taken from the public, and a professional moderator will assist.
Telluride Blues and Brews tickets on sale
The Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is on Sept. 18-20, boasting four days of music and microbrews and a mix of live blues, funk, indie, rock, jam band, gospel and soul performances.
Tickets for the 2015 festival will go on sale Monday, March 2 at 10 a.m. Limited Early Bird and VIP 3-day passes often sell out in minutes.
The Blues Stage will feature a stacked line-up of artists and comedians. On Sept. 19, the Grand Tasting will feature 170 styles of craft beer and cider from over 55 microbreweries.
Tickets for Early Bird and VIP 3-day passes, Juke Joint (late night) passes, camping and RV passes went on sale Monday, March 2 at 10 a.m. The Early Bird 3-day pass is $160, and the VIP 3-day pass is $425.00. Single-day tickets go on sale June 17.
For info or to buy tickets, visit tellurideblues.com. To purchase tickets by phone, call (866) 515-6166. Tickets are available at Telluride Music at 333 W. Colorado Ave. and Wizard Entertainment at 126 E. Colorado Ave. VIP tickets will be sold at Telluride Music and online.
Telluride plans second Get Down events
The national reggae act Iration will headline the Mountain Town Get Down scheduled for March 28 and 29. The second Mountain Town Get Down attracts spring skiing and music enthusiasts for a weekend full of on-snow festivities and free music.
The weekend's events kick off on March 28 with free live music in Heritage Plaza in Mountain Village. Beginning at 12:30 p.m., Dustbowl Revival will perform, then reggae performers, The Expanders, at 2:15 p.m. Then, at 4 p.m., Iration will perform to a crowd in the afternoon sun. After the sun goes down, The Cold War Kids, will perform a ticketed show at the Telluride Conference Center.
On March 29 the party moves to Gorrono Ranch at 12:30 p.m. for the annual Bikini Slalom in which skiers don their best beachwear as they ski. The day wraps up on the Gorrono Ranch deck with a DJ and luau from 1:30-4:30 p.m.
The Dolores Star