Eileen Liles - Cedaredge and Delta Co Colorado Homes and Real Estate

Just after daylight every Memorial Day the local Boy Scout troops, Veterans and thankful citizens converge on the Cedaredge Cemetery to place huge American flags on poles. These are casket flags that have been used in the burial of soldiers who have proudly served this nation. I don't know the actual number of flags unfurled, but it is well over a hundred. Let me add that the Cedaredge Cemetery sits atop a hill right in town and this huge display of American flags never fails to give me tears. Several years ago I took two of my granddaughters with me to help attach the flags. I want them to realize the great sacrifice that has been made and is now being made by incredibly brave men and women. Those granddaughters are on their way to Nana's house tomorrow and we have already planned to help put out the flags Monday morning. Our local VFW members will hold a lovely ceremony at 10:00 AM up at the cemetery. Take the time to remember and honor our soldiers - we owe them more than we can ever repay.

Bring those lawn chairs and get ready for some GREAT music. Anybody who knows me knows that I love music, I don't know how people exist without music. Stirs the soul, makes you happy, gets you moving....you get my picture. Well, this weekend in Hotchkiss, Colorado, is the place to be.

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Western Colorado is home to some of the best musical talent in the country. Watch for my post about the Joe Cocker Concert - Joe lives in beautiful Crawford, Colorado when he isn't touring and is giving a local concert to benefit the Cocker Kids Foundation later this month. Stay tuned for more info.....

Delta is getting a new hotel! That's right! New hotel with meeting rooms should be open by this fall. Wow, I thought Delta was just going to sit by and watch Montrose and Grand Junction get all the new businesses, but not anymore. We have seen many changes in the last year or so. Taco Bell just opened a couple of month ago and is now across from Walmart. Oh, it isn't new, but we had kept it hidden behind City Market for years. I bet many Delta residents didn't even know we had a Taco Bell. Their new location is right off Highway 92 and I don't think I've been by there since they opened that there isn't a line at the drive-thru window. This was a great move for them! Now, if we could just get a Starbucks..... Chasco Company has begun construction of a new shopping center right across from Walmart also, rumor has it that we may get another new restaurant in that complex also.

Not a day goes by that someone doesn't ask me, well, how is the real estate market around here? My standard answer is that people are still buying and selling real estate, not as many as a couple of years ago, but people still need to move around. Cedaredge, Delta, Hotchkiss, Paonia are still wonderful places to live and many people are waiting for homes to sell somewhere else so they can move here to retire. I'm amazed at the number of younger families we see moving here that have businesses or jobs that they can do from anywhere in the world with high-speed internet access. Isn't that wonderful?