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Ovarian cancer survivor urges others to pay attention to their bodies, advocates for testing

The symptoms that took Fowler resident Carol Benzing to the doctor eight years ago were vague: bloating, lower back discomfort and trouble urinating. She initially dismissed them as signs of aging and the long hours she put in as a pharmacist. Eventually, she couldn’t ignore her intuition that something wasn’t right and scheduled an appointment. A Physician Assistant at her doctor’s office ordered an ultrasound, which revealed an 18 cm tumor on Benzing’s left ovary.

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Trump, Scofield win Bent County, Boebert wins in new district

Roughly three quarters of the electorate, 74.3 percent of registered voters in Bent County, cast their ballot on, or before, November 5, wheres local voters, known, at times, to overlook party affiliation, unanimously preferred republican candidates over their democratic counterpart.President-elect Donald Trump earned just over 68 percent of the vote total, 1,470 votes, to Kamala Harris’ 29.43 percent, 663 votes.Third-party candidate Robert F.

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Manzanola United Methodist Church nominated for National Register of Historic Places

Two properties in Colorado are being considered for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, which includes Manzanola United Methodist Church.According to the National Park Service, the National Register of Historic Places is the official list of historic places across the country that are worthy of preservation.The local congregation had been worshipping out of a local elementary school for 15 years before the Manzanola United Methodist Church was built in 1908, according to History Colorado.“In 1915 the church took on a whole new life when it became the heart of a Black homesteader community known as The Dry, which was one of two such settlements in Colorado, the other being Dearfield in Northeast Colorado,” a 2022 History Colorado press release states.The congregation grew from 38 members in 1898 to 332 in 1933, according to the Otero County website.

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