https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/6bf143d71d3df7eb51d91e53f66abb82.pdf 35d95a28a49fd9c3f70b30425f11574e PDF Text Text . ) ~~-~ . ~~~::::zf::::~~~ . . ..r ~ f~:L . 1i1;; ·(/} ~ =' ~ -7-~ . . _/ . ~ --~' _.,,, f ( I I : I !~ :: e ~ ·., f f ; ,___, ..._ trn I ' .~ . ~ ._ 1 j • l 'i / . ~ ,J \ • �c13a;-: ~..dr. --<Jj /1 ?C/ ~ ~ l,Z,'p() ~ §~: /4v>~~~ --JlfC/AM. ~ "7(£, ~ .-wul..t-<_ -1Kef~ ~ -~ -~~~~ ~~~-~~~ ~~~ c;-,{fw'fj ~ -~~~~~ 0 A-winter vacation on Arabian Horse R.nch sounds interesting , doesn't i t? William and Edith Wi tt returned home J anuary 24.! after spending a month with their daughter Eloise and her husband ~obert. The J oders operate a registered Arabian Horse Ranch near Boulde r. Th ey also board horses at the ranch and give some riding l es sons . Students from Colorado University are available to do the chorses and otrar j obs . Two trailers are furni shed f or housing for the helpers. The Witt vacation was a working one as Mr. Wi tt kept busy overha1.1ling machinery and such. Mr. Joder 's mother had owned and operated the r anch while he was gr owing up and he helped with the work. - l{rs. Joder has since r etired from r anch work and lives in Boulder. Be s i des the management and cars of the Arabians Eloise is a dieti cian at the Porter Hospital. Bob i s employed by the Bureau of Land Management and goes into Denver every day. William y Edi th Witt pasaron un mes en Boulder, Colorado vis.1 tando a su hija ( Eloise) y esposo senor y sen ora Rober t Joders, Ellos tienen un r ancho donde cricµi y ense'?!an caballos Arabian regis trados s enor Witt paso su vacaci6n trabajando en la maq uinaria. liloise es dietltica e n Porter hospi tal y Bob trabaja en la oficina de terrenos y va a Denver todos los dias . fl �3 ')t/~: ') ;-4q;tt,_ J'f-;d._ If"'l/1.., - /qd.. - ~,,;;,p :fl.. - ;J. g-Jf;L. - 3~.d.._ The Senior Citizens had a St . Valentines dande Wednesday fron 7 to 10 p . m. at the Senior Citizen Center. Alcario Vi gil and Eddie Box , Jr . furnished t he r.ms ic and r efreshments were served . Those pre sent r eporting a very good time were: Mr . & Mrs . Carl E. Masters Melanie Box Florence Self Matthew Box ) }fr • & Hrs . Joe B. Herrera Eddie· Box, · j·r. Agnes Box Frank Padilla Edna Gall egos J ose Duran lvir. & Hrs. Blacky Bledsoe Mabrico Montoya - Blanco, ?l.e w lfox. Willie Bledsoe Ruby Martinez Euterpe Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Joe Ulebarre Mollie Cloud David Joy Julius N. Cloud J ennie Thompson Ruby Garcia Betty Box Edwar d Box III Lena Allen The following people have their birthdays in Februa ry, 1979. Christina Pacheco Lupita Olguin Florencio Salvador Anthony Cor dova Conrado (C. D. Cr uz) Jose Epemi n co ~uintana Lillian Leise Irene Roderque z Dai sy Eagle Ramous Silva John Washington Claudette Gilbert Loren Hopkins Lillie Munoz Shelby Smith Jim's Laundromat is schedul ed to be opened for busines s by the first of March. The new business is located in the 400 block on Goddard Avenue . Construction began l as t fall, but winter weathe r slowed down the work. La l a vanderia de Jim s era a bie rta pa negocios pa el dia primer o de marzo. �Th I Catholic Church Board rnet with the architect Mr. Nelson, Sund;,y evening, to review the final drawings o.n the new ctn:zrch. BAr ng any complications we will be · able to start on the building by June . 't 1 1' . / ,,,,,.. Fl 1borde de la iglesa catolica se j unto con el arqui tee to s enor Uelsoz1 e~ · do mingo en la tarde a revi sar las dibujos finales en el nuevo edificio. ay', i rnpedimento ninguno podremos c ocensar· nuestra iglesia nueva en el mes d~ junio. SA,. no I Johh and Judy Chendo sent t he R.H. Gardners an announceoent of the birth of their daughter on January 20th in Basking Ridge, !lew Jersey. The most welcomed newcomer weighed in at nine pounds one oz and has been named Judith Ann Rose Chendo . The Chendos lived in Bayfield for five years, while they both prea ching in the San Juan Larger Parish churches . Johny Judy Chenao son los padres de una nina Judith Ann Rose Chendo ·que nacio el dia viente de ene ro y peso nueve libras y una onza. Ellos vi ven · Basking Ridge , llew Jersey. en I A World Day of Prayer will be observed on Friday , March second. at the Ignacio Presbyter ian Church at two o'clock . The prayer progra~ and social hour is being sponsored by the ladies of the Friendshin Circle . All women of the area are invited to attend this worshin-service. The January 17 Circle ~eeting at the church annex was spent.in tying a quilt . The quilt when conpleted will be given in case of need . Circle President , 1•!rs . Heinie Gardne r, conducted the business n:eeting . ~efresh~ents were served by l-~s . ~lizabeth Rig gin . The Bible st~dy ceeting was held on February second at the home of the hostess , !-irs . E·.:elyn Cra·,offord . The l es s::>n was ;,r-c se:1-:ed. by Mrs. ucro t!-:.:i' Ol j~!': . :!ef r e sr._·,en ts -.,iGrc s erved by Hrs . Olbert . Russell and Ruth Shock longtime Allison residents were married 61 years on the 27th of January . They en j oyed a special anniversary celebration Friday evening , the 26th . Their son and daughter-in-law, Lawrence and Emma, came to dinne r and brought with them t he caker Russell y Ruth Shock residentes de Alli son por muy largo tie~po campl ieron sesenta y un anode casados el dia viente sies de enero. Su hi jo Fire de.strayed the Vic Trujillo home at Tiffany around mi dnight, Honday morning , January 22 . Their two story home and furniture, clothing and all e l se was all lost in the fire. All that was saved were a few chairs and a sewing machine which were near a door . There are ten in the Trujillo family. Since the fire donations of clothing , cooking utensils bedding furniture have been gathered by the Tiffany neighborhood and also brought to the Senior Center i n Ignac io by people in the Ignacio area fer the Trujillo fa~ily . El di a vientedos de enero como a la mieda noche se le quemo la casa a don Victoriano Trujillo y familia. • , No puderon salvar masque unas cuantas cosas. La j ente le s ayudaron muy bien con ropa, comida, ca~as , muebles e tc. Unos de lo s lugares para traer sus donaci6nes es aqui en el centro de las ciudadanos mayores. y esposa Lawrenie y Emma cocinaron la s ena esa tarde y e l cake de """""' aniversar~o en su cas~, y l a llevaron pa acase los viejetos y todos comieron juntos �, Hospit~gr~eie~!!;~ans~!e~a!U~Sdayl J a~uary 25, in Colorado General . for thr~e we eks precee ding he ~e~~a·t~~p~ talized with a heart condition ~) Open ~~kria!~r;~; ei~e~~~v!~: had been in much better health following . Funeral servic es were 2:30 Tu d t Presbyt~rian church with t he R ;say, he 30th.f:~m the Ignacio in the t gnacio Cemetery. ev. on Kratz offic1a~1ng. Burial was She g~:ig~~e{n B~~!~ ~i~~a~t;as born in Durango, December 8, 1905. was employed in a Du~ango law ~~1~ie~ollege in Greeley. For a time she In 1927 she was married to L Wi moved to I gnacio in 1932 Hrs t,[~1-,renc? seman of Durango. Th e Wiseffians made her home with them for a •. s eman smother, Hrs. Etta Bowman, als o l<;>oked a f t er t.:ie bookkeeping a~u~~erHo;dyears . For a f ew years M4rgaret Biggs Hardware un til Lawrence boug~t ~.:- wafe Store • ...The store was the name Wiseman Hardware . ne 5 ore in 1 9?0 and changed the Yi.rsJ Wi seman was a char ter ~ember of the Pah- Chu- Chu- Wa Club and a member of the Presbyterian Church . In recent years she did volunteer work with the Senior Services Center. Two days a week she assisted during the lunch hour . Painting was quite an interest the_ l ast few years as she attending the painti~g class at the center anu had nainted a number of oils . ~Her husband Lawrence died in 1976. She is survived by her son Tom who now owns and operates the ~ise~an Hardware, a sister, Lena Wi tt of Ignacio; three grandchildren, Gretchen Germer of Golden , Loretta and Larry both of I gnacio . l~s . Virgi~ia Turner , tired of the winter weather , left Durango on the plane, January 28th for California . The Eru:!et Botts took her to La Plata Airfield . l,Irs . Turner is staying with her sister - in- law , :,~rs . I-lettie Castle and Jonnny at their home in Long Beach. , Vir gi n i a Turne r, cansada de tanta nieve y fr i o se fue pa California el di a viente ocho de en ero. Senor y senora Erunet Hott la llevaron al aeropuerto a subir en el avi&n . Ella visito a su cunada · y a Jo hnny en Long Beach . The FHA Tea sponsored by the Happy Homemakers Extens i on Club was given Friday afternoon the ninth in the Ignacio High School Home fu room . The Future Homemaker s entertained with a couple of fun skits. The I xtension Club members served punch and cookies and visited with the girls . l1i.rs . Bar bara Walker , FHA sponsor was unable to attend . Mrs . Juanita Anderson , chapter mother of the FHA , was a gue st. The annual congregational meeting of the Ignacio Presbyterian Chur cn was January 28 . A pot luck Qinner was enjoyed at noon followed by the meeting beginning at one o'clock . Rev . Don Kratz mqderated the meeting and r epo~ts were presented . Outgoing elders were Rosalie Knight and .Juanita Mackey . Hrs . Hackey was r e - elected to serve a second three year term. Also elected to serve for } a three year term as elder was Hrs . Eula May Morris . !•~rs . Morris was ..._,,, an elder a number of years ago and also the clerk of the session . ~~s . Ruby Hailey the church treasurer was asked to serve another year a s the trea surer. Since Mrs . Kni ght moved away and n0 l onger served a s clerk of session, Mrs. Heinle Gardner is wr.iti ng the mi nutes . !, �larmen V, Cordova died January 25 in Mercy Medical Center ·· follo~ing a long fight a gainst cance?. She was born November 8 , 1921 in Blancb , New Mexico. The Valencia family moved to I gnacio while she was stillia small child. ¢armen attended the Ignacio s c hools and in 1942, she was married to Ben Cordova. She long t ook a n ~ctive par t in the Catholic Church organizations and had attended a number of Retreats. When the Southern Ute Corrununi ty Action program began Carmen d i d the cooking for the n oon meals and worked until ill health forced her to retire. She also someti~es dr ove t he van on weekly trips to Durango . Rosary servic e s were held on >~onday, January 29 i n the Hood Mor tuary Chapel a t 7: 30 followed by a lfas s of Christia n Burial on Tuesday morning in the Pino Nuche Coomunity Center by the Rev. Donald Castonguay of the St. Ignatiu s Catholic Church. Besides her husband, Ben she is survived two daughter, Car~en D.D. Garcia, Bayfield and Vick ie Reider of Vail. A son, Anthony Cordova also lives in Vail. Three brothe rs and~ siste r and four grandchildr en als o survive. Virginia Chambers 61, a lifelong re sident of Ignacio di ed Wednesday, January 24 in St . Joseph ' s Hospital in Albuquerque . Mrs . Chamber had been emplo yed by the I gnacio school dis trict in the school lunchroom for 21 years . She had worked up until a short tine before her death. Virginia Stone Chambers was oorn July 19 , 1917 in Ignacio. She grew up on the fa mily r anch east of t own f ollowing her marriage to ~ugene Chal!lbers in Aztec in 194-2 , sru~ made he r ho~e on a ranch cr..ly a s hort distanc e fr om the Stone ranch. She is survived by her husband. and one daughter , Sandra ? r yo1· of Dur ango. Two gr a~dchil dr e~ al s o survi ve . Fune r al services were Saturday , January 27 fro0 the Parklavm l•:eoorial Chanel with Rev. Don Kra tz off i ciating. Burial was in Crestview Memorial Garaens . Emme t and J e ssie Hott and Mrs . Fern Hott of Pagosa Springs left Friday, January fi f th for a two weeks vacation. They went to Lake Havisu, Arizona to visit t heir daughter 1;~argare t and family, the Jim Sterling s . Emmet y J es sie Hott de I gnacio y Fern Hott de_J:ago s a Springs fu eron en Vaca citn por dos s emanas a visitar a senor y senora Ji~ St erling en Lake Havisu_, Arizona. Looking for someone? This pa s t ~onth of winter weathe r the t hing to do was to look up on the r oof . Roof s~ovel i ng was evidently a ~an's work . I t involved raking off s now, shoveli ng off snow to prevent the roof fro~ caving in, cutting through ice under the snow---getting it all on the· ground , on top of the snow , at least. Then what? In some cases it took a backhoe t o move the snow away fro;:1 the houses , even loading it up and hauling it off by the truckl oad, du:::ping i t in vacant l ots and where ever. Snowplows kept busy keeping the s treets open which in turn bl ocked driveways as the cold weather kept t he !!!OU?1tains of snow in good shaoe . . Then Febr uary and ri sini; te:::1peratures into the l~Os , sunshine , r.:el t -1ng snows and s01:-ie of those mounds of snow had cars u:ide r ther:: . Roofs were leaking and other problems developed---- su ch as r:ud . It was bec;inning to look as though the ic e age .,_,,as ending . Bir ds were ~inr;ing thankful songs to those people wh;) fed thc!'!l auantiti cs of bird se ed . Then too , quite a f ew rabbits hnd ~oved.into to,n1--but t hat could just well be another sto·ry . �J • .. ~ 1. 'l ------ - Assistance can be ?roviced to only t~ose fa□ilies raeeting the inco:.,e guiceli::-!es a.::; follows: Far.iily of 1 Fa..,.ily - o:;: 2 o= Family 3 Family of 4 Fz.r..ily o:: 5 Family of 6 3,925 5,200 6,475 7,750 9,023 $10,300 $ $ $ $ $ For :farnily uni ts ~-:i th rc:.ore th2.!1 6 ne::mers, ao-:::. $1,-275 fo~ each aC.C.i tior:al i7'.2~1Jer. ) 2. The ~axinu.:.~ a,~o~nt of assistance that can to a family iA $250. 4. Payment for utilities (up to the ~2 Xi rr~u...-~l) c2.n on l.~ ;:;e -~; - .••--.·.-..-- ...... ~- ... .t.ece_;__·vcc1 ~::)}r 7.:.!~ ~ f ~r._::._·1 ~- • provid.2C. 7 •-...:....~:............ .£ ... ~1......-..__ 5. The progra,c1. will cease l·!ay 31, 19 79, and no payr..2nt:.s may be ~ace after that date. 6. 'l'his progra.:7 is considered as "one-tine cr..ly" _:::>ro~::-ar:·,. Mrs. Belle Hayes of the Allison area has been quite ill for some time. She has been a patient in Mercy Hospital. It was hoped to be able to bring her home before too long. Mrs. Alice Phillips was taken to Denver to St. A.nthony's hospital in the ambulance plane. She was quite ill, but was improving and it ~as hoped to bring her home later this month. ,_,, La senora Belle Hays de Allison esta en el hospital Mercy en Durango ase alga de tiempo. Y La senora Alice Phillips esta en el hospital de St. Anthonys en Denver tambien ase coma un mes, a las dos les decie~os que se mejoren de salud presto y que vengan a sus casas. �Criseldo Liva and Christina Pacheco got a terrible shock Monday evening about six when they learned that Cresildo's brother Hanuel had died of a heart attack that evening about fou r o'clock. His funeral was Thursday the fifteenth. Criselda Pacheco y familia tubieron un sobresalto muy grande el lunes en la tarde cuando supieron que el hermano de Cris eldo, Manuel avia muerto de ataque de corazon esa tarde como a las cuatro. Su funeral fue el jueves. ********************* The heart warming message of faith and love was delivered by the Rev . R. J. Hasstedt to the congregration of the Bayfield Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning , January 28th. A reception honori..rgRev. Hasstedt in the church annex follo~~ng the morning service . It was a very special occasion as he was celebrating his 100th birthday. ********************* ; Valentines were the decorations and the Pah-Chu-Chu-Wa Club members tested their skills in a variety of games at the Pah-Chu-Chu-Wa Club party Monday evening, February 12th. Heart prize were awarded to the clever winners. A cherry dessert was served by the hostesses. In charge of the party arrangements were: Gardner, Olive Dillon and Evelyn Crawford. Charlotte Jones, Heinie ********************* The Ignacio Drug Store was sold the first of this year to C. E. ana Laurel Fri end by Bob and Gerry Ohnemus. Mr . & Hrs . Ohnereus bought the Drug Store from the Ray Martins and Mrs. Ohnemus had been looking after the store business since Septe~ber 1977 . Her plans were to give the store a new name and operate it as a Gift shop . !'I.rs. Friend will continue operating it as a Drug Store and sell over the counter drugs. Also few other s idelines are to be added. This will include a lunch counter for sandwiches etc. The Friends are fr om Texas and have lived on a cattle ranch at the top of ·Yellow Jacket Pass, east of Bayfield for a number of years. ~..r. Friend will continue in ranching business. The store has been closed while the building i s undergoing extensive repairs, including new flooring. It is hoped to be finished and open around the first part of March. Ignacio I s fir st dr1.1g store was built around 1910, when the town was plotted, by O. L. Keen . In later years Luther and Maybelle Britt , drug store owners, purchased lots_ fro!ll R. 1. Pennell and built the corner store. ********************* � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1972-1979 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby; Jones, Charlotte Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years: February 1979 Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-02 Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center