Buffington admitted to Arizona Bar
Drew Pepper Buffington earned his Juris Doctorate from Summit Law School in Phoenix on Dec. 20, 2014, graduating Cum Laude and was granted to the Arizona Bar in May, 2015.
His is employed by the Carroll Law Firm in Anthem, Ariz., and he makes his home in Glendale, Ariz., with his wife Jessica, and his children, Kyle and Adleigh, who joined their family on April 10, 2015.
Buffington is a 2005 graduate of Dove Creek High School, and a 2011 graduate of Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. His proud parents and grandparents are Matt and Sonie Buffington, Janet Buffington, Don and Joy Steerman and Karen Kingery.
Norton invites all to birthday card party
Dana Norton will turn 95 on Saturday, July 11.
She is currently undergoing rehabilitation for a broken leg so she would like to hear from all of you via a “card party.”
Please send cards to her home address: 1508 E. Montezuma Ave., Cortez, CO 81321.
Watch hummingbird tagging in person
Did you know that trained volunteers capture, tag, and release hummingbirds every year in the San Juan National Forest north of Dolores as part of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network?
Join San Juan Mountains Association on Thursday, July 16, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. to learn about this program and watch the volunteers and hummingbirds in action.
The event is open to all ages and is located about 90 minutes from Cortez.
Space is limited. Email [email protected] or call 970-759-1170 for more information and to register. The program sponsored by SJMA and San Juan National Forest.
Country Reunion on tap for July 18
When longtime friends who graduated from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 1974 missed seeing certain classmates at reunions, they started holding “The Country Reunion.” This year’s get-together, which also includes non-classmates, is Saturday, July 18, at the American Legion.
The committee of two, Cheryl Dean and Terry Click Kimbrel, created the event “for all of us who hung out together in the ’70s, and remember the rodeos, fairs, parties, dragging Main, and stopping at Dairy Queen and the old Safeway parking lot.”
Doors open at 4 p.m., followed by a catered dinner, music and dancing. The cost is $20 per person with the meal, and $10 per person without the meal, to cover the costs of dinner, a DJ, and rental of the American Legion hall.
More information: 970-759-3455 (Cheryl) or 307-575-5669 (Terry).
Want to learn about the Veaches?
The Montezuma County Historical Society plans a free presentation by Sharon Van Loenen about the history of the Veach family, on Tuesday, July 21, at 7 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 515 N Park St., Cortez.
James Veach, the first of the family in America, arrived in Maryland in 1651.
The presentation traces the Veaches from the British Isles, to the U.S. and Canada, and finally, Montezuma County.
Park presents Yucca House lecture
On Saturday July 11, 2015 Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum and the Four Corners Lecture Series presents a free lecture by Cortez historian Fred Blackburn at 2 p.m. in the Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum auditorium in Blanding.
Blackburn’s “Yucca House and Snider’s Well: The Case of a Different Cradleboard” addresses Yucca House (Aztec Spring) located southwest of Cortez, Colorado and a nearby site known as Snider’s Well. He is completing a report that investigates ownerships, excavators, developers, and interpersonal links of personalities in the Four Corners. Fred involved Watershed School students, from Boulder Colorado, in the finding and duplication of historic photographs taken in 1894. Their investigation helped solve and prove the location of Snider’s Well through photograph and description.
Blackburn is a historian, an author, and an independent guide. He has written extensively about the early archaeological era of the Four Corners. He co-authored the popular “Cowboys and Cave Dwellers” with Dr. Ray Williamson, reviewing early archaeological explorations in the Grand Gulch and Mesa Verde region.
Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum is at 660 West, 400 North, in Blanding. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday April through September. Daily admission is $5. For more information contact the museum at 435-678-2238.
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