News from Neighbors
Bobcat time in Yuma County
YUMA PIONEER, Feb. 15 — Mike Chambers had been trying nearly his whole life to trap a bobcat. Then he suddenly got two in three days, near his rural residence south of Vernon.
Chambers, after several years as the vo-ag teacher at Otis High School, moved to southern Yuma County last August after taking the same teaching position at Wray High School.
“I’ve never seen so many cats in my life,” he said in a telephone interview earlier this week. “I’ve seen eight or 10 since August.”
Chambers posted pictures on his Facebook page of the bobcats he trapped over the course of three days. Trapping since he was a youngster growing up in southeast Colorado, Chambers said he has been trying for 42 years to get a bobcat.
He first caught a female with his live trap, then a few days later caught a male. The first trap was out nine days, the second for 11. Chambers laughed that some of his students that he had taught how to trap had caught several bobcats before he finally caught his first pair last week.
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NJC enrollment up slightly, down over 10 years
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, FEB. 16 — Northeastern Junior College’s Advisory Council got some good news on enrollment at their regular meeting Thursday. According to NJC President Jay Lee, spring semester enrollment is up just slightly from spring 2017.
NJC is one of six colleges in the Colorado Community College System that are showing increases in spring enrollment at this time. Most of the increase is due to students who are less than half-time, many of whom are working on getting teaching certification credits.
A fall 2017 academic profile, prepared by Leslie Weinsheim, coordinator of institutional research, planning and development, shows NJC’s full-time equivalent enrollment was 1,250, up from 1,243 the previous year. There were 896 full-time students and 651 part-time students.
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