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An air ambulance Southwest Memorial Hospital beginning in December will make it easier and faster for patients in rural Montezuma County to receive emergency care.
Shalina Luna holds one of her chickens, its leg broken by a goat, at her home south of Ignacio on Tuesday. “We called the vet and asked, ‘What do you do with a chicken with a broken leg?’ and they said, ‘You eat it,’” said Luna, laughing. “I couldn’t do that so we put a cast on it.”
Shalina Luna, her daughter Narissa William, 10, and partner Ben Griffith hang out in Luna’s off-grid, earthen home south of Ignacio on Tuesday. The home is powered by renewable energy and constructed using natural materials, such as straw and clay.
Shalina Luna, her daughter Narissa William, 10, and partner Ben Griffith laugh as their dog, Bailey, rolls down the hill next to the house’s water catchment basin. The basin, plus regular hauls of water, provide water for the off-grid home south of Ignacio.
Stacey Walker, Lab Manager The South Platte Water Renewal Partners prepares samples of raw sewage May 12 at their facility to send out to be tested at the BioBot Analytics Lab in Massachusetts. The South Platte Water Renewal Partners are participating in a sewage study in an attempt to determine how much of the population is infected with the coronavirus and where the hot spots might be located. The South Platte Water Renewal Partners serves Englewood, Littleton and 21 smaller sewage systems.
This illustration, made using a screenshot of a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment chart, shows how COVID-19 case counts have risen and fallen during the course of the coronavirus pandemic in Colorado. Each bar in the chart shows the average number of new cases reported each day for the previous seven days. State health officials believe the first peak was actually much higher than shown here, but inadequate testing prevented more cases from being reported during that time. More information is available at covid19.colorado.gov/data.
The Montezuma County Landfill will accept a nonperishable food donation instead of a fee for trash disposal on Sept. 19.
Kawasaki RacingEli Tomac of Cortez was third-fastest in qualifying rounds Friday at Rosebud National in Buchanan, Michigan.
