Kitchell Collins was hired last Thursday night as elementary principal in action taken by the Board of Education of Dolores School District Re-4A. Collins has four small daughters. He, his wife and family will be living in the Bryan addition at the east side of town.
The Dolores Bears traveled to Pagosa Springs last week for their first league games of the season. According to Coach Page, they played pretty much the same kind of game they had played against the Cortez JVs the previous week and look good.
Another step in the process of planning for the proposed new hospital facility took place Wednesday evening when a group of interested persons met at the First national Bank in Cortez to hear preliminary projections by Dick Purcell of the architectural firm of Muir and Associates who told them they were thinking about a 52 bed unit attached to the present nursing home which would have an additional 24 beds for extended care in that facility.
Kinkade Chevrolet Company is inviting the community to their showroom on Sept. 27 to view the 1975 Chevrolets in their annual New Car open house. Coffee and donuts will be served with door prizes for those attending.
Miriam Tangren, a longtime resident of Dolores passed away early Wednesday morning in Oregon. Funeral services have been set for Monday in Salt Lake City, Utah.
On October 3, 1974, the Rev. Canon H. B. Liebler will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. The Rt. Rev. E. Otis Charles, the Bishop of Utah, and many friends will join him in a celebration of the Eucharist.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Wallace of Summit Ridge are the proud new parents of a baby boy born at Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez last Friday, Sept. 20. He weighed 8 lb. 4 oz. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Howard Goldsworthy of Longmont and paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs. Walter Wallace of Dolores.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Porter and Helen Fogel recently returned from a two-week trip into the Northwest. They drove to Oregon then went by bus to Seattle where they boarded a boat to Victoria, British Columbia.