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Wildlife group presents documentary

The Friends of Northwest Colorado presents "Being Caribou," the award-winning documentary film that chronicles filmmaker Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer as they spend five months on foot following the migration of the Porcupine Caribou herd from Old Crow, Yukon, in Canada to the caribou calving ground on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and back.

The screening is at 6:30 p.m. today at The Center of Craig, 601 Yampa Ave.

Volunteer training for emergency situations

The Visiting Nurse Association in Moffat and Routt counties are having volunteer training in their efforts to generate a dependable volunteer contingent of medical and non-medical personnel who are ready to perform various public health services during local, regional, state and possibly national emergencies. Volunteer trainings will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday in Conference Room 1 at the Yampa Valley Medical Center. Attendance is required for one day. Call Diana Eilers or Steve Hilley at the VNA, 879-1632.

Wildlife public

meeting held Feb. 15

Colorado Wildlife Commissioners Roy McAnally of Craig and Tom Burke of Grand Junction are planning a public meeting in Craig to get input on wildlife issues.

Commissioners typically hold meetings around the regions they represent to visit with constituents and cover a wide range of wildlife topics.

Colorado Division of Wildlife staff members also attend meetings to help answer questions and provide information.

The wildlife commission is an 11-member board appointed by the governor that sets policies for fishing, hunting, watchable wildlife and non-game, threatened and endangered species.

Commissioners also oversee DOW land purchases and property regulations.

The public meeting will be from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15 in the Moffat County Fairgrounds Pavillion, 640 E Victory Way.

Speech team seeks judges for tournament

The Moffat County High School Speech and Debate Team seeks judges for the district tournament it will host next weekend.

The tournament runs from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 17 at the high school, 900 Finley Lane.

Judge training is from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the high school.

For more information or to volunteer, call adviser Eric Hansen at the high school at 824-7036, ext. 7319, or email him at eric.hansen@moffatsd.org.

Web site offers youth character training

One Web site is taking on the charge to teach youths positive character traits.

"KidsCom.com provides children an online outlet to express themselves and learn the skills and attitudes to help them become responsible and successful adults," said Jori Clarke, president of Circle 1 Network, which publishes KidsCom.com.

KidsCom.com teaches children character traits through a virtual pet program called "Plant Babies." Each Plant Baby represents a positive attitude: balance, confidence, gratitude, hope, humor, patience and persistence.

"Children adopt a Plant Baby and are entrusted with its daily care, including feeding it and increasing its 'anti-cloud power' to fight the 'Clouds of Chaos,' which represent negative traits that can 'cloud' anyone's thinking: anger, gluttony, sloth, greed, jealousy and others," Clarke said.

KidsCom.com also features interactive games, writing challenges, message boards and other activities that teach kids how to apply positive character traits in real-life situations. There's also a program that permits parents and teachers to reward kids for their good behavior.

For more information, visit www.kidscom.com.