The Home Front: Local Goat Thinks He’s An Elk

ACROSS COLORADO – By Staff Report for The Colorado Independent. “A little black goat appears to have joined an elk herd near the Devil’s Backbone, causing wonderment and a bunch of photo snapping among residents in the area,” reports The Loveland Reporter-Herald. “People who have seen the bull elk and the little black goat a few times over the past week said the goat hangs out and runs with the herd, traveling from spot to spot along U.S. 34, Glade Road and in the neighborhoods on the west side of the Backbone. ‘We are convinced he thinks he’s an elk,’ said resident Lisa Bounds. ‘It’s hilarious.'”

“A multi-million dollar expansion of the fire station on east 32nd Street is underway. Durango Fire Protection District expects to spend $3.1 million to expand the 1,000-square-foot Fire Station No. 3 into a 10,600 square-foot building that will house additional vehicles and staff,” reports The Durango Herald. “Northern Durango has seen residential and commercial growth in recent years driving the need to improve the 20-year-old station. The station’s staff is also responding to a rapidly growing number of emergency calls each year, said Fire Chief Hal Doughty. The station staff responds to about 800 emergency calls annually, he said.”

Gordon Kolisnyk loved socks. Either that, his friends said, or he was smuggling them to his friend Rico Mean, a fellow homeless man grappling with Colorado’s cold winter on the Longmont streets. Kolisnyk died this year,” reports The Longmont Times-Call, “along with seven others within Longmont’s close-knit homeless community who were memorialized Monday evening at Journey Church. The ceremony, hosted by Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement, or HOPE, was part of a push by the National Coalition for the Homeless, the National Consumer Advisory Board and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council to hold events on or near Dec. 21, the shortest day of the year.”

“As a little girl was walking along the City Market parking lot, she discovered a ring much more valuable than the diamonds embedded in it,” reports The Canon City Daily Record. “After a fun evening at the movies, 5-year-old Sky Pierce walked with her aunt and brother into City Market. As they walked through the parking lot, a glimpse of something shiny caught her eye. Sky had found a diamond wedding ring. She immediately showed it to her aunt, Christina Ireland. Sky was eager to find the ring’s owner. The family went into City Market and left it with customer service.”

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