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Steamboat Springs — The U.S. Forest Service is soliciting proposals from responsible small businesses for an indefinite quantity contract on the Medicine Bow and Routt national forests. Visit www.fedbizopps.gov for more information. The solicitation number is AG-82X9-S-09-0149.

The length of the contract will be from 1 to 5 years, and the Forest Service anticipates making multiple awards. The work includes felling, limbing, skidding, decking and removing hazard trees in campgrounds, picnic areas, trailheads, administrative sites and along roads.

Defensive driving classes start today for students

All Steamboat Springs High School juniors and seniors are required to complete the National Safety Council's Alive At 25 defensive driving class if they intend to park a vehicle on campus or apply for open campus privileges during the next school year. Parking permits will be sold to juniors and seniors for $40 after Aug. 18 in Mr. Hensen's office at the high school. Sessions of the nearly five-hour Alive at 25 class are scheduled for today, Wednesday and Aug. 18, 20 and 25. The cost is $30. Register and see class times on the Web at http://coloradosafedriver.com. New drivers also can take the class to apply for their learner's permit.

Seniors must take a free, two-hour refresher course, scheduled in August. E-mail dhensen@sssd.k12.co.us, or call 871-3685 for class times.

Help needed at Respite House with landscaping

Volunteers are needed in early August to help with light landscaping at the Rollingstone Respite House. Duties include pruning, raking and planting. If you are interested in volunteering for any amount of time, call Laura LaMetterey at the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association, 871-7638.