Two people were killed instantly Monday afternoon when a Ford pickup attempted to pass a line of traffic on Colo. 392 about a mile and a half east of Windsor and hit a 1996 Suzuki head-on.

Windsor police, Weld County Sheriff’s Office, the Colorado State Patrol and Weld Ambulance all responded to the accident which occurred at about 2:30 p.m. As of 4 p.m., a mile of the highway remained closed.

According to the state patrol, the driver of the 2000 Ford three-quarter ton pickup was taken to the Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland on a helicopter called in from Denver. Margie Martinez, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, said the Suzuki had Wyoming license plates.

The patrol said the pickup was east bound on the highway and hit the west bound Suzuki just west of Weld County Road 21, killing both the driver and a passenger in the front seat.

No names have been released.

Larimer County officials have identified a man who fell into the Poudre River while rafting Sunday as Brandon Bowie, 25, from Gary, Ind.

The Larimer County Emergency Services, Search and Rescue and a dive team are resumed the search Monday for Bowie. The search crews planned to spread out along the Poudre River between Picnic Rock and Shields Street in Fort Collins.

About 40 search personnel and a couple of search and rescue dogs were to be on the scene Monday.

Bowie was in Fort Collins visiting friends. He is described as being 6 foot, 2 inches tall, weighing 180 pounds and has brown eyes, a shaved head, a goatee and mustache. Bowie was wearing a white T-shirt, white swimming trunks with blue and brown stripes and brown TVO type shoes.

He went into the river while tubing occurred 1,000 feet west of the Picnic Rock area. Bowie was tubing behind a friend when they both hit a rough area of the Poudre River. The turbulence caused both of their tubes to flip over. The friend w

BUENA VISTA – A water pipeline system that supplies 70 percent of water to Colorado Springs is back in service after crews repaired damage caused by a 140-ton boulder.

Repair crews shut down the Homestake Pipeline System to make the repair caused by a rockslide near Buena Vista in April.

Water service to Colorado’s second-largest city of about 400,000 was not interrupted.

Officials say the boulder damaged a 66-inch pipe that is buried 5 feet underground.
Colorado Springs Utilties officials last week announced the system was back in service. The 250-mile Homestake Pipeline System originates near Leadville.

COLORADO SPRINGS – Faced with budget cuts and no money for flowers outside of city hall, a group of volunteers is planting a vegetable garden to grow food for the poor.

Volunteers are growing beans, broccoli, asparagus, Swiss chard and rainbow carrots to provide greenery outside the building and vegetables that will be donated to the Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado.

The 20-foot by 20-foot plot is expected to yield about 156 pounds of produce.
Budget cuts in Colorado Springs has affected most city services, including street lights, park maintenance and police helicopters.

Members of the Greeley Police Department solemnly placed wreaths on crosses signifying the wars where Weld County veterans had given the greatest gift, their lives, in the fight for freedom.

The crowd of some 300 were silent as the wreaths were placed as part of the 2010 Memorial Day ceremony at Linn Grove Municipal Cemetery. That silence was only broken by a few signing birds, until a pair of F-16 fighter jets from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora roared across the bright blue sky. When the final wreath was placed on the Iraq-Afghanistan cross, Bob Bernd, the day’s master of ceremony, said the flyover by the Colorado Air National Guard couldn’t have been better timed.

The crosses in Lot 29 of the cemetery on Greeley’s east side marked every war beginning with the Spanish-American and progressed through World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm and Irag-Afghanistan.

Bernd noted the first of what was to become a national Memorial Day o