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Portland’s ‘Big Freeze’!
It started snowing the week of December 15th and continued on through Christmas. It did warm up briefly enough to start melting but then the temperature dropped down again below freezing, and everything turned to ice. This caused a LOT of tree limbs to start falling, leading to down power lines throughout Colton and a […]
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First Snow of the Season
The Kittens had a chance to go outside and play in the snow. But once done, Nermal likes to return right back to the warmest spot in the house…the top of the pellet stove!
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Redneck Artwork
Brad & Jodi have been hanging out at the Colton Cafe, especially for Friday night dinners and weekend breakfast. The Cafe features paintings for sale by local artists. A few months ago, Jodi noticed that one particular artist signed his work as “redneck”. His theme seemed to be around old shops with even older cars […]
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Colton Burn To Learn
One of our Lieutenants, Dave, is planning to build a new house. But first we had to help get rid of his old one! Brad and Jodi spent half the day Saturday practicing forced entry, rapid egress, and just had some fun tearing through walls. Breakfast thanks to Kent Jodi & Brad breaking through the […]
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Our Favorite Holiday – Black Friday!
We always look forward to Thanksgiving Day…not just for the turkey, stuffing, and gravy, but for the Black Friday Ads!!! Thursday is traditionally spent studying the ads and strategizing the most efficient route for Friday morning. This year, Joan (Brad’s mom) joined in the festivities since she has a new house to furnish! The day […]
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Colton’s Gone World Wide…
…On the Web, that is! Brad’s been working diligently to give the Colton Rural Fire Department their first ever website. Jodi has been helping out behind the scenes with some content writting and design consultation. Although we’re still working on some details, you can check it out at www.coltonfiredistrict.org.
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Back to High School….Friday Night Football games!
As part of Colton Fire’s community services, the department provides EMT coverage for the high school varisty football games. Wanting to be first on call for any emergencies Halloween night, Brad and Jodi volunteered to help man the Rescue at the game. Good news – no one at the game needed medical attention. Bad news […]
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Study Partners
Brad and Jodi started EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) school, which means lots of extra hours studying. Nermal has been very supportive by ensuring we get our much needed sleep!
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Monitor Burn To Learn
Brad and Justin had the opportunity to participate in Monitor’s burn to learn. They needed to use Colton’s air trailer and were very gracious in including our Colton crew in their training exercises.
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Timbeeeeerrrrrrr!
We have 2 trees near the barn that block sun to the vegetable garden and make it difficult to use the tractor to clean out the stalls so we decided to get rid of them. We found a guy here in Colton who said he could take care of them for us so this week […]
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