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Carol White was born on April 12, 1925, in Saint Louis, Mo., the daughter of Howard Joseph and Olga Dorothy (Meese) Reed. She has been a resident of this area for the last 7 1/2 years. Carol passed away on June 22, 2012 at the age

of 87.Carol was preceded

in death by her parents, Howard Joseph and Olga Dorothy Reed; her hus-band, Alton Randolph White; and two brothers, Howard Joseph Reed, Jr. and Don Carlton Reed.

Carol is survived by her brother, Forest (and Alice) Reed of Dolores.

Cremation has taken place with no public ser-

vices planned.Arrangements are under

the direction of Four Cor-ners Funeral Chapel, Cor-tez.

Carol White

The Bridge Emergency Shelter is opening its doors to those of the Mancos community who have been evacuated or who feel the need to leave their homes for health reasons related to smoke in the air. The shelter opened to accommodate guests on Sunday night, June 24.

There are no clients at the shelter this time of year because they are typically not open in the summer. Bridge Shelter can provide mats, blankets, pillows, towels, showers, laundry, toiletries, computer service, phone service for local calls and very simple meals. The shelter is clean, and be-cause of the concrete block structure, it is also cool.

Karen Silliman, the Exec-utive Director, and Donna

Boyd, Shelter Manager, are coordinating this outreach effort. In addition, the shelter has been informed by the city that they will help the shelter in any way needed.

To locate the shelter, drive north on Mildred Road in Cortez (the road that goes towards the hos-pital). At the intersection of Mildred Road and Em-pire Street (a four-way stop) turn left (west) and go half a block and turn left into the parking area on the north side of the Justice Building. The door to the shelter is on the north side of that build-ing.

For information, call Karen at 570-0038, Don-na at 719-200-0030, or MB McAfee (Chair of the Board) at 560-5017.

Bridge Shelter opens doors for Mancos evacuees

Emmett Rockwell Dono-hue quietly passed away at his home in Dolores on June 24, 2012, surrounded by family.

Emmett was born Jan. 3, 1924 in Petaluma, Calif.

He grad-uated from high school in Iowa. Af-ter gradu-ation he returned to La Mesa, Calif. and worked in a grocery store.

Because of WWII, the Cali-fornia Dept. of Forestry (CDF) was hiring 18 year-old full time employees. In February of 1942 he began his lifelong career as a fireman with the CDF. In 1943 his career was put on hold to serve in the U.S. Navy as a gunner’s mate

2nd class on merchant ships in the Pacific. He was dis-charged in 1945 and returned to the CDF as a Forest Fire Foreman. In January 1948, he was promoted to Ranger I, one of the youngest in the state.

Emmett worked his en-tire CDF career in San Diego County, the majority of it in the Julian Ranger District, but he fought fires all over Califor-nia. He was known for being a dedicated employee and a hard worker with his superior stamina. Very few could keep up with him during a hike or walking the fireline. In fact, he did not like to fly in heli-copters, but on one lightning strike fire in the mountains he did fly in, but insisted on walking out afterwards.Em-mett always carried a diary and wrote in it daily. He was known to enforce and follow

policies and rules as written. He would stand up for any of his employees and their rights if he believed they were justi-fied. He did not take excuses from anyone over their work assignments or other duties and he would never ask his employees to do something that he would not do himself. He always met everyone with a smile and was faithful to friends, co-workers and oth-ers, loaning tools or a help-ing hand in time of need just because he could. He was blessed with great wisdom, knowledge, being honest in all situations and a man well-respected.

Emmett retired after 37 years with CDF and moved to Colorado where he and wife, Zoa Ann, remodeled two old houses, one in Silverton and the other in Dolores. Together they enjoyed their mutual

hobby of yardsale-ing.Emmett was also a great

husband, father, father-in-law, grandpa and great-grandpa. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Zoa Ann; daughters, Gail (Ralph) Klus-man of Ignacio, Kathryn (Ron) Serabia of Ramona, Ca-lif., Jane Neisler of Elko, Nev.; son, Dale (Diana) Donohue of Dolores; brother, Colonel Frederick (Patricia) Dono-hue (ret.) of Melbourne, Fla.; sister-in-law, Pat Donohue of Salinas, Calif.; nine grandchil-dren; 11 great-grandchildren; and by many nephews and nieces.

He was preceded in death by his father Emmett I, who passed away in a car accident in 1931; his mother, Doris; brother, Jim Donohue; sister, Joanne Watson; and by his grandson, Kevin Donohue.

No services are planned.

Emmett Rockwell Donohued e a t h s

Journal Staff report

Local Republican candi-dates will be picked tonight for the general election in two Montezuma County commissioner races and the district attorney for the 22nd Judicial District.

All mail-in ballots must be returned to the County Clerk’s office by 7 p.m. to-night. This year’s primary election is being conducted solely through mail-in bal-lot.

In the local area, only the Republican and Libertarian parties have contested races on the ballot for this elec-tion cycle. Though regis-tered members of the Dem-ocratic Party and American Constitution Party will re-ceive ballots, there are no contested races.

For Republican voters, Montezuma County District 2 commissioner seat can-didates are Keenan Ertel, Pat DeGagne-Rule and Bud Garner. Competing in the District 3 race are Dewayne Findley and Casey McClel-lan.

The District Attorney’s race features incumbent DA Russell Wasley and local de-fense attorney Will Furse.

The local Libertarian party will also be part of the ballot, with registered Lib-ertarians choosing a can-didate for the 3rd Congres-sional District seat. Gaylon Kent and Gregory Gilman are the candidates.

Republican Scott Tipton currently holds the seat.

See cortezjournal.com for election results tonight.

GOP primary election is tonight

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By KimBerly BenedictJournal Staff Writer

A report posted online Monday evening by the Durango Herald stated the Weber Fire was sparked by a stray bullet.

However, Connie Cle-mentson, the Bureau of Land Management’s agen-cy administrator for the Weber Fire, and Monte-zuma County Sheriff Den-nis Spruell, both agents in charge of the joint inves-

tigation into the cause of the blaze, said that infor-mation is unsubstantiated.

According to the Her-ald, during an update on local fires Monday, Butch Knowlton director of the a Plata County Office of Emergency Preparedness, told La Plata County com-missioners that bullets shot at targets in Weber Canyon passed through the targets, ricocheted off rocks and ignited a fire in the dry grass.

“That is complete ru-mor,” Spruell said in a phone interview Mon-day evening. “It is a joint investigation with the (Bureau of Land Manage-ment) and the Montezuma County Sheriff ’s Office and we are still investigat-ing.”

Clementson said she has the agency’s top investiga-tors working on the case and while the fire is being investigated as a human-caused incident, there is

little information beyond that at this point.

“The cause is under in-vestigation and anything about a bullet is pure ru-mor,” Clementson said. “It is human cause, but that is as much as we know now. As soon as we know what started the fire, we will make that announce-ment.”

Reach Kimberly Benedict at kimberlyb@cortezjour-nal.com.

Sheriff: Stray bullet theory is off targetBLM, county officials call report ‘unsubstantiated’ and ‘complete rumor’

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