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Kindness Reigns in the Valley

Pathfinder Medical & Saratoga Urgent Care now has an EKG machine thanks to Platte Valley residents raising $4,300 in donations.

Horses, Violence and Love

Welcome to my book of the month column. In the edition of each month, I’ll be writing a few hundred words on a recent read. There is no practical rhyme, reason or theme with my reading list other than my interest.

If you have any recommendations, thoughts or opinions – feel free to reach out via email at elliott.saratogasun@gmail.com

That’s where you go and that’s where you stay’

For most of his life, Reed Gray has wanted to help people.

“I’ve always wanted, since I was 11 or 12, to help people get untangled and it comes from being tangled up myself. It comes from being confused and hurt, which is usually where a lot of bad things come from [and] good things come from,” said Gray. “At that early age, I just knew I wanted to help people get untangled.”

Cooking at Elevation

 

It’s subzero temperatures on the Saturday of Encampment’s Sierra Madre Winter Carnival and David Pack, co-owner of The Pit in nearby Riverside, is wearing shorts.

Go for the Greens!

I want to share with you another soup recipe since I only managed to get one written last month during National Soup Month. This week we are going to make broccoli and cheese soup from foodnetwork.com. This is such a crowd-pleaser and it is a wintertime go-to in my comfort food rotation. I definitely have dishes that I only make in certain months of the year. Maybe that is just me, but I don’t make these soups in the summer.

“The Drive to Continue”

“If you stop learning, what’s the point? I can always find a way to not just better myself but better the things around me.”

Low Temperatures and Low Water

 

Ivy Raymond sings and plays the fiddle during the Saratoga Friends of the Library Low Water Jam on January 24

 

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