News from neighbors

Bus involved in collision
    HAXTUN-FLEMING HERALD, Jan. 24 — Eleven Haxtun students were on a bus traveling east on Highway 6 while on their way home from school Tuesday afternoon when a vehicle traveling along Highway 59 collided with the front of the bus. According to reports, one student was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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Yuma Five Rivers feedlot part of major acquisition
    YUMA PIONEER, Jan. 25 — The huge Five Rivers Cattle Feeding feedlot east of Yuma is among the JBS USA holdings that are being sold to Pinnacle Asset Management, L.P., a commodities and natural resources investment firm.
    The announcement was made Jan. 17. The transaction is for approximately $200 million.
    The Yuma feed yard has a capacity to hold more than 100,000 head and employs approximately 65 people.
    Five Rivers Cattle Feeding is the largest cattle feeding operation in the world, with roots in the U.S. dating back to the 1920s. The transaction includes 11 feed yards across Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, with feeding capacity of more than 900,000 head of cattle.

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Fleming treasurer gives update on sewer pond project
    HAXTUN-FLEMING HERALD, Jan. 24 — Work on the new sewer pond project is progressing, and construction will probably start in 2018.
    The project engineering firm, JVA, hired Terracon to drill and test monitoring wells around the existing sewer ponds to determine if the existing lagoons are contaminating groundwater. Their first test showed that there was significant contamination and that new lined sewer ponds are required to protect the aquifer from contamination.

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