News from neighbors
Army Chinook makes emergency landing in rural Chase County
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, Aug. 16 — One of three Army National Guard CH-47 Chinooks made an emergency landing in northwest Chase County, Nebraska, Friday, Aug. 3, after warning lights indicated an issue with the craft’s forward transmission.
The three helicopters were flying from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora to summer training in Michigan when the incident occurred.
According to 1st Lt. Chris Poppleton, a warning light indicated metal chips in the oil of the front rotor transmission. When the warning did not clear, the pilots set the helicopter down immediately.
The copter was set down about a mile east of the Tyler Hughes home at Road 748 and Avenue 318.
After regrouping, the personnel on the damaged Chinook hopped on the other two Chinooks and continued on to Michigan.
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Gardner presents flag to former WWII prisoner of war
JULESBURG ADVOCATE, Aug. 17 — U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner presented the Colorado state flag to World War II veteran and former pirsoner of war Ralph Turner of Sedgwick County Friday, Aug. 10, in Julesburg.
At the request of Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, Gardner presented a United States flag flown over the United States Capitol July 18 and a Colorado state flag flown over the State Capitol in Denver July 4.
Turner accepted the flags on behalf of all veterans and military service members.
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Company firing up hemp in Yuma
YUMA PIONEER, Aug. 16 — Thanks to passage of Amendment 64 several years ago, hemp is a growing market in Colorado, continuing to gain traction nationwide.
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Yuma has been working diligently for years now, along with Sen. Michael Bennet, Colorado’s senior senator, in trying to bring hemp off the controlled substance list and into the mainstream.
Gardner visited the All Seeing Hemp location in Yuma, along with Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture Don Brown, also of Yuma, for a tour of the facility and to discuss the growing hemp industry.
Colorado is the nation’s top producer, according to the Colorado Department of Agriculture, and Yuma County is at the forefront with 600 acres of industrial hemp, which produces fiber for a wide variety of uses.
Now, legalization at the federal level is gaining traction, though slowly. An amendment to the Senate version of the 2018 Farm Bill would fully legalize industrial hemp in the United States. The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 also legalizes all products made from industrial hemp, including CBD oil. It would officially remove hemp from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of controlled substances.
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Madrid hop yard reaching new heights
GRANT TRIBUNE-SENTINEL, Aug. 15 — When Chris and Holly Cornelius of rural Madrid, Nebraska, started building the structure for their 1 acre hop yard last year, there was wide speculation of what they were up to.
From hunting projects, a bird sanctuary to even jokes of a giraffe sanctuary, the roughly 20 20-foot poles needed to grow hops caught the eyes of many.
As people who enjoy the culture of craft beer, Chris began brewing his own beer a couple years ago. However, his interest in hops came before that. “People assume the two interests are very closely related, but they’re really not,” he said.
The couple discovered 90 percent of U.S. hops are grown in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, which have similar climates to Nebraska.
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