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- Program ensures all children have equal opportuntites
- November 18, 2003
- Eighty percent of a child’s brain development takes place in the first year of life. Missing that window of opportunity — particularly because a child has a mental delay — can impact the rest of his or her life. But starting out slow doesn’t have to impact a child’s quality of life or long-term learning ability. Both the state and federal government recognize every child’s right to learn and Part C — a program under the Colorado Department of Education — provides the funding and services needed for children birth to age three to identify delays and to help move past them.
- Albert Wood
- November 18, 2003
- Albert Wood
- Moffat County welfare cases rising
- November 18, 2003
- After steadily declining since Colorado’s welfare system was reformed in 1997, the client caseload of those in need of assistance at Moffat County Social Services has begun to slightly rise again. Social Services Director Marie Peer accounts for the increase in caseloads by citing the recent slump in the economy.
- Teens penetrate cloud of lies endorsed by tobacco companies
- November 18, 2003
- Craig’s Get R!EAL group recently earned a grant to help publicize some disturbing facts. Ninety percent of smokers begin as teenagers and almost 11,000 Colorado youth become daily smokers each year. To stomp out these statistics, the local anti-tobacco group hopes a recent $3,350 grant garnered from a portion of tobacco settlements will help increase the numbers of youth the group can support.
- Charles Hellman
- November 18, 2003
- Charles Hellman
- New hospital, old location
- Consultants recommend
- November 18, 2003
- After nine months of research, architectural and financial consultants for The Memorial Hospital have recommended that the new hospital be built on the same site as the current hospital. The consultants, Keith McLaughlin of health care developer Hammes Company, Alan Richman, president of financial advisors InnoVative Capital, and Donald Finlayson, president of Architectural Nexus, made their recommendation during two meetings at The Holiday Inn on Tuesday.
- Library future
- Commissioners consider taking portion of mill levy
- November 18, 2003
- Moffat County commissioners are planning to divert more than a half a mill levy away from the Craig/Moffat County Library back to the general fund in a move that some library officials say may cause the library to shut its doors. Commissioners said the .58 of one mill levy will feed back into the general fund to help other departments.
- Committing to Quitting
- November 18, 2003
- When it comes to smoking, there’s no better time to quit like the present. Thursday is the Great American Smokeout, a day in which people are encouraged to take the first step in giving up their tobacco-using habits. We encourage area smokers to take advantage of the resources that are available to them locally and statewide.
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Question of the week
Would you be in favor of the Moffat County School District shifting to a year-round school year?
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