Chris Daniels, on the board of the Basin Clinic in Naturita said the community should plan for another “drive-by shooting.” Daniels is not referring to guns, but needles — and in a good way. Daniels wants all to know that the Basin Clinic is giving away flu shots again this fall.
“It’s that time of year again, folks,” she said over the weekend.
The Basin Clinic is offering free flu shots on Wednesday, Oct. 18, between 3 and 7 p.m.
Those in the West End can get the flu shot to protect themselves against the virus, and without even having to go inside. Recipients of the vaccine are welcome to fill out the necessary forms while sitting in the comfort of their car that afternoon/evening and receive the shot from there.
They should simply follow the volunteers who will be directing the flow. For those of “a certain age,” there are some high-dose flu shots available. Additionally, some “goodies” will be distributed too. For any questions about the drive-through flu shot service, the public may call the Basin Clinic at 970-865-2665.
In other community news, the Nucla High School volleyball team continues with regular season play. The girls have a tournament on Oct. 28, which will mark the end of the regular season. Head coach for the Mustangs Debbie Wytulka said the team will know more after that date.
"Then we will see what the final rankings are to know if we make it to regionals or not,” Wytulka told the San Miguel Basin Forum over the weekend. The state only takes the top 24 teams to regionals. Right now, the Mustangs are sitting at 44th.
Hundreds of people flocked to Nucla Town Park over the weekend for the seventh-annual Heritage Festival. The fall festival served a record amount of community cider using the old crank press from apples donated to the event. Melanie Eggers and Jen Nelson, cofounders of the Apple Core Project that produces the festival, said they pressed 33 bushels of apples. That’s 99 gallons of cider.
“Yes, the most we’ve served,” Eggers said on Sunday.
The cider was pressed, but not fermented, which means it was not true cider and did not contain alcohol.
At the same time, Montrose County held the tire drop for the public on Oct. 7. Up at the airport, in the Road and Bridge building area, representatives were taking old tires for recycling at no charge to the public. Recyclers were welcome to drop five tires per load.
West End Road and Bridge staff worked all morning. The guys said they had orders to take 470 tires or to stop by noon, whichever came first. By 11 a.m. they’d received approximately 270 tires with traffic still entering the premises to drop more.
Katie Yergensen, communication director of Montrose County, said in total there were 472 tires dropped in Nucla, and 1,229 in the east end of the county.
“We hit the cap at both,” Yergensen said.
