Tree House open house
The Tree House, 1505 Chipeta Ave., has scheduled an open house for today, Tuesday, July 15, 4pm - 7pm. Come see what they do. Info: 261-7695. Cody Moore is the new director, taking the helm from founder Terri Klements, who will stay part time. In her other job, she’s working at Collbran Job Corps.
Big bluegrass thanks!
Flat Top Reed thanks all who came out for the benefit concert at the Botanic Gardens on Saturday. About 250 people raised over $3,000 for Lawrence Melchor and his family, and FTR and Co. had fun helping out. This community continues to look out for one another in ways that are really special.
Preliminary hearing set in Hite case
A judge Monday scheduled a preliminary hearing for Oct. 6 in the case of 22-year-old Morgan Hite. An Alaska resident, Hite is being held on $1 million bond at the MC Jail on allegations she delivered a child in GJ and abandoned it in a tote bag, which was discovered months later by her parents.
Windows targeted at jail
Inmates at the MC Jail Sunday reported someone from the outside had broken a window on their jail cell. Two cell windows were shattered at a cost of $400. Nobody was injured and the objects did not penetrate the windows
Coal Creek Fire meeting Tuesday
Today, Tuesday, July 15, at 6pm, firefighters and others involved in the Coal Creek Fire are hosting a community meeting. It will happen at Shirt-tail Point, about 2 miles from the top of Land’s End Road, on the mesa rim above Kannah Creek. Info: 257-4834.
Things that go boom
A woman in the 1900 block of L Road in Fruita on Saturday said she found a box with white powder while cleaning out a barn. The powder was Atlas Gelodyn high explosives from 1956. The box was turned over to authorities.
Biker boated out after Mary’s Loop accident
MC Search and Rescue and Lower Valley Fire on Saturday boated out an injured biker along the CO River after the biker fell off a ledge in the area of Mary’s Loop and Horsethief Bench. The biker had a broken leg.
Wildlife sampled after industry spills
State wildlife officials are sampling fish and the bugs they thrive on in Parachute Creek after four oil & gas industry spills this year. DOW says the results may take three months. DOW began analyzing the population and species distribution of the creek’s fish — which include native CO cutthroat trout and brook, brown and rainbow trout — after four spills of water used in drilling operations occurred near Garden Gulch, NW of Parachute. Runoff from melting snow in Garden Gulch flows into Parachute Creek.
Gurdjieff workshops
Gurdjieff Movements are dance-like spiritual practices set to original music and designed to break through mental fixations that keep us from being open. The GJ Gurdjieff Study Group offers an intro to the practice in July and will host teachers from Portland Aug. 2-3. Info: 314-1119.
Rauch, you rock!
Congrats to GJ’s Andrew Jameson Rauch, who was named to the dean’s list with honors at McDaniel College in western Maryland.
Historic trail subject of oral history
Vicki Felmlee will give an oral history on the Spanish Trail, noon Thursday, July 17, at the Whitman Education Center, 248 S. Fourth Street. The program is jointly sponsored by the Museum of W. CO and the MC Historical Society. Free. Info: 242-0971, X209.
Clay art
Clay art by The Art Center’s instructors & students will be for sale until the end of July. It’s functional and sculptural at reasonable prices. Sales benefit The Art Center’s ceramics studio. Info: 243-7337 x4.
Golf for art
The 20th annual Art on the Corner golf tourney is Friday, Aug. 1, starting at 1pm at Tiara Rado Golf Course, and AOTC seeks sponsors of all levels. Info: 254-3865 or 245-9697, or downtowngj.org/Events.
Youth, women hunt
If you’re a kid, 12-17, or a woman and you want to hunt birds and big game, the CO DOW has a program where you could hunt on private ground. Info: 255-6181.
Share the road, trail
MC Sheriff’s Office and Synergist Group PR each received state grants for a multi-media campaign to encourage the walking, cycling and driving communities to share the space, whether it’s roads, sidewalks, trails, you name it. Don’t be a road hog. Synergist is donating its time for this program and is seeking other volunteers. Info: 270-8394.
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