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Health District Plans Lake City Engagement, Financial Future

Lake Fork Health Service District Board of Directors hosted a facilitated planning workshop for community education and engagement on Saturday, August 29, at the Lake City Area Medical Center – Zeller Conference Center. The workshop planning focused on community education and the engagement phase of a multi-year Project started in late 2025. The Project’s purpose is to assess Lake City medical and dental center services and Health District financial condition. Workshop attendees included Lynn McNitt – Board President; Kay Vossler – Board member; Rachel Moore – Health District Executive Director; Phillip Virden – Project Manager; Sherry Huisman – Family Nurse Practitioner; Amanda Fender – Physician Assistant; and Sarah DeCristino – Administrative Assistant and Project Team member. Also participating were Nancy Chambers and Sarah Moody. Facilitation was by Janice Welborn of Welborn & Associates and Bernie Krystyniak. Lynn McNitt, President of the Lake Fork Health Services District, said “our Board and staff are committed to making sure we provide quality healthcare to all the citizens and visitors of Lake City and Hinsdale County. Our clinic is one of a kind in that we have a modern, up-to-date facility staffed by highly qualified professionals. Even with the economic challenges we face as

September 11, 2026

Busy Beaver Praised at ‘Best Yet’ Conservancy Forest Feast Fundraiser

According to board member Lyn Lampert and executive director Camille Richard, Monday evening’s Lake Fork Valley Conservancy annual “Forest Feast” fundraiser was the “absolute best yet” both in terms of food and staff, vastly increased beaver knowledge, environmental comaraderie and, perhaps most important in terms of finances, financial remuneration with revenues from the event topping a whopping $50,000. While the monetary intake was record-breaking, Executive Director Richard explains September 7 revenues are commensurate with Conservancy’s many equally large and ambitious environmental programs. As briefly enumerated by Conservancy board member John Coy, serious in his address to the overflow crowd while dressed in a buck-toothed beaver costume, Lake Fork Conservancy’s ongoing and ramped up projects include the Slumgullion Pass astronomy site and three-year Lake Fork River water study with hoped for achieving “outstanding waters” designation. Introducing himself as “Bob the Beaver,” following an illuminating program by Colorado Natural Heritage Program’s Sarah Marshall on the benefits of beaver introduction, serious-faced Coy ended his remarks to applause, “nice gnawing you.” Marshall, a Wetlands Ecologist from Boulder, Colorado, spoke on the benefits of a re-energized beaver population in the state in terms of diverse wetland habitat, aquatic and terrestrial plant habitat, and, especially significant

September 11, 2026

Busy Beaver Praised at ‘Best Yet’ Conservancy Forest Feast Fundraiser

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Health District Plans Lake City Engagement, Financial Future

September 11, 2026September 11, 2026

Elk Fire Moderates, Public Lands Partially Re-Open

August 28, 2026August 30, 2026

Alpine 50 Race Biking Success

August 28, 2026August 30, 2026

Optimismat Start of 2026-27 School Year

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026

Northern Evacuees Return Home with Rain, New Fireline

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026

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Grant

August 28, 2026

I received the August 7 issue of the Silver World yesterday and last night as I read once again about your talk at the Presbyterian church with Ruth Darley Goodwin about George Darley and the church’s history and architecture. I sure wished I could have been there to hear it.

Grant

August 28, 2026

The following is a statement from CCCA President Carly Koppes on Yesterday’s Supreme Court Election Executive Order Decision. It was forwarded to WORLD from County Clerk Joan Roberts: Littleton, August 25, 2026 — Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision was not a ruling on the merits of the President’s executive order or

Grant

August 28, 2026

We inadvertently left out a shoutout and thank you to the ever-popular and very generous The Sportsman Fly Shop for their donation to the silent auction at the Toast of the Mountains event on August 10th. Thank you, 2026 Pioneer Jubilee Women’s Club’sToast to the Mountains Co-chairsCarrie Pitt, Mary Kay

Dear Community

August 28, 2026

We hadn’t necessarily planned on hosting a Labor Day event this year, but then we started hearing the question: What are we doing for Labor Day? The community spoke, so here we are! On Saturday, September 5, the Chamber is bringing back Dog Days of Summer, and we’d love your

Grant

August 28, 2026

I, for one, surely appreciated having Katherine Heidt as my EMS boss. Her organizational and communication skills, and her respect and concern for her team members kept EMS a well-oiled machine. Lorie Stewart, EMT

Hello Grant

August 28, 2026

I’m so grateful the fires around Lake City are becoming managed and not so threatening. We had a few firefighters stay with us from Oregon. Those guys are so amazing. On a different note, Terry wanted me to ask you to do a thank you in the paper. Something to

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Water Report- September 11

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