The Little Engine Eatery opened for the season May 2. Located outside the BV Heritage Museum on East Main Street, the train engine-themed food trailer serves quality hot dogs Thu-Sun from 11a.m.-4p.m.

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The Chaffee County Boys & Girls Club held their second-ever drive-in movie event May 27.

Rainstorms did not deter veterans and members of the public from gathering at Mt. Olivet Cemetery to honor America’s fallen soldiers.

Red and white caps flew into the air over the Buena Vista High School football field as the stands erupted with jubilant applause, shouts and whistles.

The new graduates celebrated many years of hard work with confetti, streamers, colored smoke and even bubbles as they marched away together, clutching their diplomas. Phones and cameras came out for congratulatory photos and choir and band students danced the Macarena.

Andrea Coen and two musician friends, Tom Plant and Bruce Warren, will perform traditional Appalachian music at Buena Vista Heritage’s 2021 Kick Off from 5-8 p.m. June 11 at the Historic Turner Farm & Apple Orchard, 829 West Main.

This Heritage photo from 1939 was taken at the Rodeo Grounds in September. The rodeo was held Labor Day weekend for several years. 

The Chaffee Recreation Council offers opportunity for the public to review elements of the Chaffee Rec Plan starting today on the Envision Chaffee County website.

The Central Colorado Humanists awarded $1,000 scholarship to six 2021 high school seniors.

“All are high-achieving students with grade point averages exceeding 3.9,” CCH said in a press release. “They exemplify the values of the Central Colorado Humanists: Informed by science; guided by reason; inspired by art and nature; motivated by compassion. “All of them wrote compelling essays about the integrity of science. Not all have confirmed the college of their choice – they had multiple acceptances.”

The Greater Arkansas River Nature Association will accept entries from May 22-July 1 for its seventh annual photo contest for Upper Arkansas River Valley nature photos, celebrating the group’s 25 years of nature education and stewardship.

Thursday at 5:30 p.m., students at Busy Bees pre-school will celebrate the opening of their Hand-Me-Down Hut, the result of a year-long expeditionary learning project focused on recycling and reusing.

Thursday at 5:30 p.m., students at Busy Bees pre-school will celebrate the opening of their Hand-Me-Down Hut, the result of a year-long expeditionary learning project focused on recycling and reusing.

This 1957 photo of a red and white school bus was the first bus the school district purchased in 1953. 

Quilts of Valor presented five quilts recently.

This photo was taken in 1948 on the west side of Alpine Tunnel by Ruth McCoy, a photographer from Buena Vista. 

The town’s first Keep Bewnie Buena event, an expansion of the long-standing spring River Park Cleanup, drew about 150 people of all ages to pick up surface trash not just near the river, but throughout the town.

This photo taken in the early 1900s is of the Freegold School. Notice, the girls and women teachers with hats on and just two men. There are about 32 students in the photo.

Vaccinations have been an important aspect of community-wide public health efforts to guard against many types of communicable disease, long before the focus was on COVID-19.

The annual Chaffee County League of Women Voters geranium sale will to begin at 8 a.m., Monday, May 10 on the league’s website at www.lwvchaffeecounty.org

This photo shows a Buena Vista Fire Department hose cart team. 

It was donated to BV Heritage by Frankie Hankins and had belonged to Harvey Mear originally.

Choose Life Toymakers would not exist without the inspiration and expertise of Bill Distel.

GARNA executive director Dominique Naccarato will host an hour-long Zoom lecture from 7-8 p.m., April 15 about birding, an exciting way you can interact with nature anytime and anywhere.

Chaffee County Family & Youth Initiatives and partners are hosting a community art display event with prizes to bring awareness to Child Abuse Prevention Month in April.

The depot in Nathrop served both the Denver and Rio Grande and the Denver South Park and Pacific. 

The Collegiate Peaks Chapter of Trout Unlimited and GARNA are teaming up with Buena Vista Recreation for another year of Stream Explorers to connect youth to the river in their backyard.

Chaffee County Early Childhood Council sponsors a monthly virtual Conscious Discipline Parent night with Amy Speidel from 7-8 p.m., the second Thursday of the month.

Before I shut my plate glass eyes