The Prowers Journal- The Prowers Journal Site Has Moved
- Highway 160 Bridge Project Set to Start
- Prowers Journal Alert Winner Claims Prize
- Public Invited to Meet City Administrator Candidates this Thursday
- LUB Reviews Financials, Approves Scholarship Renewals
- Another Monthly Increase for Lamar City Sales Tax
- Another Monthly Increase for Lamar City Sales Tax
- Motel Lodger’s Tax Proposed to Lamar City Council for November Ballot
- Lamar Teen Center Moving to Lincoln Elementary School
- Lamar 18 & Under Team Wins Merchants Park Tournament
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Cowboy Camp – The Rolling Hills Cowboy Camp that is…
They’re back… Jack Martin has brought back the old time spirit of camp with a meeting under tents, introducing folks to Jesus. O.V. Keith and Diane Brown take care of the music, inviting local singers to participate in the song service. Pastor Steve Cody will be preaching again. If you haven’t ever been to the Rolling Hills Cowboy Camp at the Sand & Sage Fair Grounds in Lamar, Colorado, you’ll want to come this year… It’s more fun than you’ll have an opportunity to have anywhere else. And, I promise, you’ll have an opportunity to meet Jesus there. Schedule: Thursday Prayer Service 5 PM Supper 6:30 PM Song Service 7:30 PM Evening Service 8 PM Campfire Service 9 PM Friday & Saturday Breakfast (Saturday only) 8 AM Children 9 AM – Noon Youth Activities 9 AM – 4 PM Morning Bible Study 10 AM Lunch (Kids & Workers) 12 NOON Prayer Meeting 5 PM Supper 6:30 PM Song Service 7:30 PM Evening Service 8 PM Campfire Service 9 PM Sunday Morning Service 8 AM Lunch 12:30 PM Prayer Meeting 5 PM Supper 6:30 PM Song Service 7:30 PM Evening Service 8 PM Campfire Service 9 PM
Posted in Music, Sand & Sage Fair, Stuff Happens
Tagged Colorado, Cowboy Camp, Lamar, Rolling Hills Cowboy Camp, Sand & Sage Fair Grounds
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The Best of Lamar, Colorado
Ty Harmon – definitely produces the BEST Radio Show in town. It’s always fun and exciting to listen to Ty on KLMR Radio, located on the curve across from the Big Timbers Museum in Lamar, Colorado. The Willow Creek Park in Lamar, Colorado. Graceful trees shadow grassy knolls and park settings where residents gather for lunch and play time activities. Take a moment to gather in the Boy Scout Kiva on the east side of Willow Creek Park in Lamar, Colorado. Spend some time admiring the work of Boy Scouts and WPA workers who put together the stone benches in the late 1930′s. Take a moment as you pass through downtown to stop and wander around the Steam Engine sporting the numbers 1819, on the Chamber of Commerce lot. Investigate the Enchanted Forest and have your photo taken on North Pole Mountain, or near Santa’s cabin in the great northern woods of Lamar, Colorado. Residents of Lamar, Colorado are proud of the parks, and scenic bounty in the area. Celebrations of many kinds take place in Lamar, throughout the year. Resident Pat Palmer is fond of saying, “If you can’t find anything to do in Lamar, Colorado, you must have read more…
Cal Ripkin World Series 2009 to Happen in Lamar, Colorado
When a good friend from a neighboring community called today to ask when the Cal Ripkin World Series would be coming to Lamar, I considered for a moment the events that had just happened. Of course, I gave her the dates of the World Series, it seems a great event to share in our community – but the cost… The cost of this event coming to town is greater than any I’ve experienced in recent years to the community. When Mayor Nelva Heath spoke early on of the World Series coming to Lamar, I was as thrilled as any with anticipation of tourist trade and the good news of folks visiting along the Santa Fe Trail, stopping in at Big Timbers Museum and spending their money at the local hotels and restaurants along Main Street. The event seemed like the perfect opportunity to celebrate the community where my great grandparents homesteaded almost a hundred years ago. But… The event began turning sour as I realized the city people didn’t want to showcase Lamar, but rather to stage the community as a perfectly manicured residential town where everyone had perfect lives… Never mind that city employees, and elected officials in the read more…