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I am Perry Peterson, a retired auditor and tax accountant. My wife Valeta and I live along the front range of the beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountains.

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June 30, 2007

A recent German study, found here, claims that worms produce greenhouse gases 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

That tells us that Mr. Gore (pictured) isn’t the only alarmist. Gore is, however, the only alarmist getting rich from the warming scare. In fact, if he can keep the frenzy going, it just may propel him into the White House.

June 27, 2007

The old Loveland Memorial Hospital building is getting a new lease on life.

Remodeled as The Hillcrest, a senior housing center with an additional floor added to both wings

Loveland Memorial Hospital opened in 1951 at 535 N. Douglas Ave., with space to serve a community of 7,000 people. Little did anyone know how fast Loveland would grow. By 1965 the population had risen to 12,000.

The hospital become too crowded in the 1960s and 1970s when Hewlett-Packard and Kodak opened plants in Loveland and Windsor.

In 1976, Loveland Memorial Hospital closed and McKee Medical Center opened at 2000 North Boise Avenue.

The old hospital building at 6th and Douglas had just been vacated at the time of the Big Thompson flood on July 31, 1976. The building was pressed into service as a temporary morgue for many of the 144 people who lost their lives in the disaster.

The building was then used as the Thompson School District’s administration building for several years.

If the building at 535 N. Douglas Ave. were a book, many may have thought its final chapter was written years ago.

It was an empty dilapidated building, designed as a hospital and full of asbestos. The remodel was a daunting task but the building will begin its new lease on life as “The Hillcrest” in August of this year.

Johannesburg recorded its first confirmed snowfall for almost 26 years overnight as temperatures dropped below freezing in South Africa's largest city, grounding flights at its main airport.

Snow last blanketed Johannesburg for a single day on Sept. 11, 1981. The city's average minimum temperature for June over the past 47 years is 4 degrees Celsius, according to data provided by the South Africa Weather Service. This year's average minimum is 4.7 degrees compared with 0.7 degrees in 1968, the coldest on record.