Photo by Kathy Browning Stahl’s building destroyed The fire in the large cold storage unit at Stahl’s Orchards last week will not stop their fruit and vegetable store from opening this season or hinder work in the adjacent packing shed. The Paonia Fire Department used a trackhoe to tear down a wall to get at the fire, which had lots of fuel from packing boxes, some filled with apple wood, and the unit’s insulation. Four tractors and other equipment were destroyed in the fire. The building and its contents are a total loss.

Photo by Kathy Browning The Beta Sigma Phi Beta Mu Sorority has renovated the Kathleen Wheeler Room at Memorial Hall. Left to right are Patty McMillan, Kathy Carlson, Cheri Kent, Janet Oatman, Carol Dawson, Shari Davis, Karla Nolte, Libby Schovajsa, Lydia Savage, Nancy Stevens, Margie Hollembeak, Karen Martin and Susan Smith.Over the years the Kathleen Wheeler Room at Memorial Hall in Hotchkiss has seen a lot of use. It was time for it to be refreshed and made new.

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