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B •R •I •E •F •S An update from the Stone Cup: Open for take out LYONS – The Stone Cup Café, 442 High St., is now open and the hours are: Thursday – Sunday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. They are continuing their 4-day/week schedule. Masks are required for all staff and customers. They have lots of signage, marked distancing patterns, and clear policies to help keep everyone safe throughout the summer. Owner Mindy Tallent said, “It’s a challenging way to do business, so we appreciate your kind patience and support. We have less staff. Our food menu is smaller. Our ordering station is set up at the open garage door, with customer flow across the patio. “Dine-in” tables are outside. Seating is limited. We are hosting live outdoor music on some weekends. Watch for posts on our Facebook page.” Gift certificates are available for purchase in person or may be requested by calling 303-8232345 or emailing mindy@thestonecup.com and paid through PayPal: PayPal.Me/thestonecup or by credit card over the phone.
Farmette Dinners will be canceled for 2020 LYONS – After much deliberation and thought, we have decided to cancel all of our farm dinners and workshops this year. We want to be very responsible business owners and this is just not the summer to have gatherings for the public. Farmette dinners are wellloved for many reasons and they’re also all benefits for wonderful causes and deserving nonprofits. I’ve linked everyone below. Stay home, enjoy a glass of wine and consider donating. • Mountain Crust & the Lyons Community Foundation • Jacaranda & SOIL • A Spice of Life & PRIDE Benefit • Idea Wild Benefit • Cured & Growing Gardens • Sugar Pine & People and Pollinators • Butcher & the Blond & SOSVV • GB Culinary & the Colorado Haiti Project • Forage Sisters & the Water Shed Center & MAD Agriculture Continue Briefs on Page 8
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Gerry Morrell photographed this mama brown bear and her four cubs in Tetons National Park on May 18. A litter of three cubs is unusual, but four cubs is very rare. This bear, called 399, is 24 years old and is probably the most photographed bear in the Tetons.
Town Board tackles some issues with conflicts By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Town Board had numerous complex issues to discuss at the early July town board meeting. The parks and some river areas seem to be overrun with people on the weekends with crowd control becoming difficult and almost no one wearing masks or practicing social distancing. Summit Housing Group has to re-submit their site plan to move some housing units and the board will form a task force to oversee certain actions by the town staff and the town board. Administrator Victoria Simonson suggested to the board that due to the fact that the town was getting overrun with people on the weekends and the park hosts parking attendant were not able to control the crowds, the town should require reservations to use the parks on the weekends. She said that the park hosts were frustrated with the amount of clean up and destruction in the bathrooms and were afraid for their safety. Most people using the parks on weekends are from out of town. The board agreed that anyone who wants to camp, use picnic tables, pavilions, etc. needs a reservation. It seems that the 4th of July weekend passed fairly smoothly with the new rules in place. Two sheriff deputies have been added to help patrol the parks on weekends which helped with managing the flow of people. During staff reports at the board meeting, Administrator Simonsen brought up a new development with Summit Housing Group, the development company which is building the affordable housing near 2nd Ave. She said that Summit’s construction bids for the housing development came in significantly higher than expected due to the rocky hillside where the proposed multifamily units were to be built. Summit is requesting moving the two multifamily unity to Carter Drive or they want to move one of the units to Carter Drive and add five more single family homes. Summit wants to know if these changes to
the site plan can be approved by the town staff or if they need to come before the board with a new site plan and answer questions. Simonsen said the town code allows staff to approve minor changes to the site plan. Attorney Brandon Dittman, said that the town code was very vague on this issue. He pointed out that the town was going to discuss amending this section of the town code later in the meeting that same night and could make changes at that time. Trustee Greg Lowell said the town owes Summit a huge apology because the rocky hillside was never going to be buildable and he referred to the fact that developer Michael Markel, chose not to buy that property from Keith Bell because it was too rocky to build on. Simonson disagreed that Summit was owed an apology saying that Summit did all their own soil samples (testing) and the town had nothing to do with it. Trustee Mark Browning agreed saying that the town does not owe them an apology. The town never owned that property and Summit did all their own surveys, testing, etc. Browning said this change to the site plan was not minor and he agreed with Attorney Dittman, that the code was very vague on this issue. He said that Summit should submit a new site plan before the board. The other trustees agreed and Mayor Angelo said that he wanted to follow the proper process and have Summit resubmit their plan and present it to the board. Later the board approved, on first reading, Ordinance 1085 amending sections of the municipal code concerning site plan development and review process with an amendment by Trustee Mark Browning, so that modifications to site plans will now be required to go to the board for approval after the staff has approved the plans. Towards the end of the board meeting, Trustee Mark Browning brought an issue to the board for discussion of a recent event where Administrator Victoria Simonsen sought direction from the board after Mayor
Nick Angelo was asked by a homeowner to change the curb and gutter work at or near the homeowner’s house. Mayor Angelo showed up at the construction site and instructed the contractor to change the curb and gutter to comply with the homeowner’s wishes. However, the original plans for the work order had already been approved by the town staff. It is written in the town code that the town staff has the authority to approve this type of work. Trustee Browning said, “That this same problem has occurred in the past where former mayors or board members have interfered or even changed already approved plans.” He said he could no longer stand by and felt he had to bring up this issue to the board. Trustee Browning made it clear that Mayor Angelo’s motives or honesty were not in question saying, “I am sure he had the best intentions.” Browning said that this issue was going to be discussed in an executive session at the end of the board meeting. He said that since he has been a board member, about 2.5 years, he has been informed by staff or by a member of another board or commission over that time of several instances where a former mayor or board member got involved with issues that had been settled by staff. He gave an example of a former mayor who interfered and over ruled staff when there was a serious building code violation and directed staff not to pursue further action. He also mentioned that a former mayor got involved in a utilities issue, where a former mayor over ruled town staff on disconnecting utilities at a local business which was in default of payment and this resulted in a long difficult process and in litigation for the town. “In neither of these actions did the staff inform the board, I as one Trustee do not like being left in the dark,” said Trustee Browning. Browning said that these issues would be discussed in an executive session. Trustee Kenyon Waugh spoke up saying Continue Town on Page 14
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LYONS L E T T E R •T O •T H E •E D I T O R Making Lyons safe for pedestrians One Wednesday in June, I saw a woman run over by a car. I need to tell you about it. I was sitting outside a medical office in Boulder, while my wife was inside getting her blood drawn. Behind me, I heard the sound of an automobile engine and tires. I turned and saw the car accelerate into a woman a mere ten feet from me. She was carried several yards on top of the hood of the car, before being thrown to the ground as the car turned. The car then hit the medical building, wheels still turning, while the woman lay crumpled on the ground, motionless. I called 9-1-1 immediately. Being that this happened outside of a medical office, nurses and doctors were on the scene soon after. The Police, EMTs, and a fire truck were there within a few minutes. The woman still wasn’t moving. I need to tell you this story, even though it happened in Boulder, not Lyons. I need to tell you this story, because any of us could be hit by a car here in Lyons. I need to tell you this story, because my family and my neighbors have tried our best to explain to the Town of Lyons how dangerous the intersection of 3rd Avenue and Park Street is, and nothing has been done about it. Last year, at a town meeting concerning traffic in our part of town (south of the post office), residents, mostly from Evans Street, shared their concerns about traffic. My wife and I were present (along with our one-year- old, despite it being past bedtime). We share our Evans Street neighbors’ concern about traffic, and we wanted to make sure to add our perspective about 3rd Avenue and Park Street. Our Park Street neighbors have voiced this concern for years. We live near that intersection, and every day we see near-collisions. Many children live on Park Street and Evans Street, and many more bike and walk on these streets year round (not to mention many adults). We see cars driving too fast through the turn, almost hitting other cars. We see cars almost hit cyclists. We see cars almost hit children. We have imagined what it will look like the day a car does hit a child, and we shudder with dread. These drivers are often tourists cutting through town, but just as often, they are residents taking a shortcut (often driving their children to the Middle / High School). I no longer need to imagine what it would look like to
see a human being hit by a car. I’ve seen it, and it confirms my worst fears about 3rd Avenue and Park Street. The current road work on 2nd Avenue, 3rd Avenue, and Evans Street will help. Attempts have been made to slow traffic down in the area. But these improvements do not address the blind curve at 3rd Avenue and Park Street. There are many possible cost-effective solutions, including making it a one-way intersection or adding stop signs in both directions. The town should take this opportunity, while work is being done in the area, to fix one of the most potentially dangerous intersections in town. For now, please know that if you or your children walk or bike in town, regardless of where you live, you probably encounter this intersection sometimes or often, which means your life and your childrens’ lives are in danger. I can now say that confidently, without any fear of being overdramatic. If you don’t live on one of these streets, please avoid using Park Street and 3rd Avenue when driving around town. We are facing many challenges right now, as a society and as a town. I won’t pretend that this is the highest priority for all of you at the moment. But I also can’t wait until a child dies outside our front door to speak up publicly. This is what I saw, just a few feet from me, just a few days ago: Behind me, I heard the sound of an automobile engine and tires. I turned and saw the car accelerate into a woman a mere ten feet from me. She was carried several meters on top of the hood of the car, before being thrown to the ground as the car turned. The car then hit the medical building, wheels still turning, while the woman lay crumpled on the ground, motionless. The car was not speeding. It was not going that fast at all. But a car is a car, and a human is a human, and it doesn’t take much speed for a car to seriously injure a human. The woman was carried on the hood of the car before being thrown off. A child at 33 inches tall would be literally run over, her head slamming into the pavement. She might then be crushed under the car’s wheels. The child would lie there, motionless, while someone called 9-1-1. The EMTs would surely arrive within minutes, but the child would still be lying motionless on the ground. That child might still be motionless later on when her parent picks her up for the last time, still warm, but gone, gone, gone. Kyle Boelte, Lyons, CO
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O B I T U A RY Charles Harlan Stacy November 20, 1932 – June 30, 2020 Charles Harlan Stacy joined his Lord and Savior on June 30, 2020. He was born on November 20,1932 to Charles Estel and Carrie Mae Stacy in Heavener, OK. He graduated from high school, went to work in California then enlisted in the United States Army, serving from 1953 to 1955. After discharge, he attended junior college, receiving an Associates of Arts degree. Following college, he returned to California where he met and married his beautiful wife June Peoples in January, 1957. Together they raised five children. He has 22 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. They shared several adventures in moving before settling in Lyons in 1972 where they lived until 2019. Their home was damaged in the flood, and later Charles Stacy was injured in an auto accident. Eventually they moved in with their son Charles in Johnstown in 2019. Charles Harlan worked for several trucking companies as a driver or dock worker and was a member of the Teamsters union until his retirement. He was a wonderful, generous man who loved his family, his Lord and his Westerns. He was a friend to all and was well respected. He is preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, Norma and Velma, and a brother, Burl. He is survived by his wife June (June’s mother was Marguerite Peoples, who ran the Lyons Café for 48 years), son Charles Stacy of Johnstown, daughter Peggy Edgell of Seminole, OK, son Kenneth (Linda ) Stacy of Stamford, NE, son Donal (Mona) Stacy of Johnstown and daughter Julie (Bryan) Walls of Berthoud. Also surviving him are his sisters Willa Mae (Chet) Saylor of Wister, OK, Marceille Miller of Wister, and brothers Arnold Stacy of Wister and Carl Stacy of Bixby, OK along with numerous nieces and nephews. An open house is planned for July 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at their residence in Johnstown. Internment will be held later in Oklahoma. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
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TRUSTEE’S CORNER Town budgets – boring but important By Trustee Mark Browning Redstone Review LYONS – Town budgets are boring and hard to figure out. Lyons’ 2020 budget is 35 pages of Browning small-print line items and even smaller-print notes to many of those line items. But the town budget is the most important document the town board and town staff deal with. Buried in the fine print are important policy choices and priorities with long-term effects on citizens, including what taxes they pay and how their tax money is used. I contend that bit by bit, line item by line item, year by year, Lyons’ budget priorities have gotten out of whack. Lyons has added too much overhead for some desirable, but not essential, services while ignoring critical infrastructure needs. I hasten to say these are my views, as one of seven trustees. They are not the views of town staff and may not be the views of a majority of the Board. Yet I believe it’s important to state my views and provide some facts and numbers to support them. I welcome fact and number-based opposing views. Just talking about these things would bring attention
to budget issues that get far too little scrutiny. I see some disturbing trends. Trend 1: More Overhead Before 2017, Lyons mostly contracted out planning services – reviews of development proposals, zoning issues, roadway plans and the like. A planner from Estes Park was paid an hourly rate for such services. From 2012 to 2016 (disregarding the aberrational 2013 flood year), the average annual amount paid for planning services was $45,675, exclusive of attorney fees, engineering fees and one-time costs. In 2017, planning services were brought “in-house,” with a fulltime Town planner hired. In 2020, a second planner was added. In 2019 and 2020, the average amount budgeted for planning services (again exclusive of attorney fees, engineering fees and one-time costs) was $184,730. So, in four years, planning expenses quadrupled. In an almost built-out town of 2,000. Other positions have been added in recent years. A Main Street Manager position was initially partly funded by an
outside grant, but is now paid 100 percent from the General Fund. Same thing for a Sustainability Coordinator. Together, in 2020, those positions cost $68,407 in salary, benefits, insurance and payroll taxes. Overall, in 2020, the town budgeted for 35 fulltime and part-time positions at a total cost (salary, taxes, insurance, benefits) of $1,898,865, though some spots have been left unfilled to hedge against Covid-19 revenue declines. That doesn’t include contracted-out services like law enforcement, engineering, attorneys, sewer plant operators and electric line workers. Expenses for the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) have also ballooned since it was created in late 2015. Through 2020, if budgeted amounts are spent, it will have cost the Town around $129,000 for attorney and consultant fees, with no tangible projects to show for it. That amount doesn’t include Town staff time donated to the URA. Does all that mean the town isn’t getting its money’s worth? No. Staff positions do benefit citizens and businesses, and people filling the positions are good em-
ployees. But the trend is clear: Town overhead has gone up. Way up. Trend 2: Stalled Infrastructure Spending “The Flood” affected everything, especially Town infrastructure – bridges, streets, utilities. It’s hard to separate new infrastructure expenses done as part of flood recovery (funded mostly by grants and insurance) from “regular” infrastructure expenses (funded by taxes and fees). But in general, it’s safe to say there have been a lot of the former and not much of latter since the flood. Lyons is currently facing a $650,000+ shortfall to pay for the new 2nd Avenue bridge and the 4th Avenue pedestrian bridge. Some additional grant money will likely cover part of that, but there will be a shortfall. Lyons has no street improvements fund and has done little but “patch and fill” its streets for many years. Recent street construction is all flood recovery grant-funded. A 2020 study concluded Lyons needs to spend $322,000 annually just to maintain streets in their current condition, and $390,000 a year to improve them somewhat. A 2017 capital improvements plan identified Longs Peak Drive sewer and water lines as a major concern – top priority. The sewer line is believed to be deteriorating and leaking. The water line is old and too narrow. If the street is re-paved at the same time (more efficient than doing Continue Budget on Page14
Forecast for hot temperatures and low humidity has increased fire danger By Boulder County Sheriff Dept Redstone Review BOULDER County – Sheriff Joe Pelle has enacted Level 2 Fire Restrictions, which were effective at noon on Friday, July 10, for western Boulder County. The increased fire restrictions are being implemented due to increasing fire danger, lack of moisture and the forecast for hot temperatures. In addition, we are still concerned about the firefighting and law enforcement resources while we have the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and continue to take a proactive measures to protect the health, safety and welfare of our residents and first responders. The fire restrictions include the mountain areas of Boulder County. The mountain areas include any and all unincorporated areas of the county: • West of CO Highway 93 (CO-93), from its intersection with the southern boundary of Boulder County until, and including, its intersection with CO Highway 119 (CO-119); • West of Broadway Avenue in the City of Boulder, from its intersection with CO119 until, and including, its intersection with U.S. Highway 36 (U.S.-36); • West of U.S.-36, from its intersection with Broadway Avenue until its intersection with the northern boundary of
Boulder County; • West of the western boundary of the Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain until, and including, U.S.-36; and all of the Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain property. The fire ban prohibits: • Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire on private and public lands. This includes charcoal grills and barbecues, coal and wood burning stoves and sheepherder’s stoves and includes use in developed camping and picnic grounds. • Shooting or discharge of firearms for recreational purposes. • Smoking, except in an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials. • Operating a chainsaw without a USDA or SAE approved spark arrester properly installed and in effective working order, a chemical pressurized fire extinguisher kept with the operator and one round point shovel with an overall length of at least 35 inches readily available for use. • Using an explosive. This includes but is not limited to fuses or blasting caps, fireworks, rockets, exploding targets, and tracers or incendiary ammunition. Welding or operating acetylene or other
torch with open flame outdoors. • Possessing or using a motor vehicle off established roads, motorized trails or established parking areas, except when parking in an area devoid of vegetation within 10 feet of the vehicle. The fire ban allows: • Smoking in an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or
while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials. • Devices using pressurized liquid or gas (stoves, grills or lanterns) that include shutoff valves are permitted when used in an area at least three feet or more from flammable material such as grasses or pine needles. • Shooting or discharge of firearms for
hunting, with a valid and current hunting license on public lands. • Operating a chainsaw with a USDA or SAE approved spark arrester properly installed and in effective working order, a chemical pressurized fire extinguisher kept with the operator and one round point shovel with an overall length of at least 35 inches readily available for use. For current fire, shooting and developed recreation site restrictions and seasonal closures for USFS properties, visit: www. fs. usda. gov / detail / arp / alerts-notices / ?cid = fseprd 533597. Anyone found in violation of the fire ban may be convicted of a class two petty offense and may be subject to up to a $1,000 fine, in addition to any possible civil penalties. Higher fines may be imposed for subsequent offenses. The fire restrictions do not affect open fires within incorporated cities and towns; however, residents and visitors must comply with applicable ordinances and regulations in their respective cities and towns. The fire restrictions will be in effect until Sheriff Pelle finds that the hazardous conditions have subsided.
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EDUCATE St. Vrain Valley School District institutes a reopening plan for Lyons schools By Tracy Pearce Redstone Review LYONS – On August 18, Lyons Elementary School (LES) and Lyons Middle Senior High School (LMSHS) will reopen Pearce their doors after closing in early March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Like most school districts, St. Vrain Valley Schools has set forth a tentative plan for reopening. It includes fulltime in-person instruction for students in grades PK-5, 6, and 9, and a hybrid of inperson and online learning for grades 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12. “While this is our plan at this time, the evolving nature of this health crisis will require us to remain flexible as we plan for the start of the school year and beyond,” Dr. Don Haddad, the superintendent of St. Vrain Valley School District said in a recent letter to parents. The plan is as follows: Preschool: • Students will wash hands or use hand sanitizer upon entering the building. • Students will bring a cloth mask and wear it while entering the building and when asked to do so. • Desks and sitting areas will be spaced apart as much as necessary and will face the same direction. • Students will engage in recess when weather permits. • Students will leave the building from a designated, grade-specific exit.
Elementary: • Students will attend school five days a week and be required to stay with their cohort. • Directional arrows will be placed in the hallways to guide student traffic. • When entering the building, students will wash their hands or use hand sanitizer. • Students will bring a cloth mask to school and wear it when entering the school and at other times throughout the day.
designated doors. Dismissal times may be staggered. Middle School: • Sixth grade students will attend school five days a week in-person. • Seventh and 8th grade students will attend school on a hybrid schedule of in-person one day and synchronous online the next. • Students will enter school at grade-designated entrances.
• Students will sit forward-facing in desks that have been spaced apart as much as possible. • Students will participate in specials but with less sharing of materials. • Students will engage in recess, except during inclement weather. • Students will exit the building at grade-
• After entering the building, students will wash their hands or use hand sanitizer. • Students will bring a cloth mask to school and wear it when entering the building and at other times throughout the day. • Student will sit forward-facing in desks that have been spaced apart as much as
Preserving the Lyons Recorder for posterity By Monique Sawyer-Lang Redstone Review LYONS – On March 17, 2020 the Lyons Redstone Museum was notified that it had received the 2020 Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection (CHNC) New Content Support Program Award for the Sawyer-Lang digitization of early editions of the Lyons Recorder newspaper. This award means that the CHNC will provide up to $3,000 for the cost of newspaper digitization which will include newspapers from July 17, 1902 to December 28, 1911 and January 1, 1914 through May 18, 1922. As part of receiving this award the Lyons Redstone Museum is required to provide a 25 percent cash match, amounting to $750. With the onset of COVID-19 the museum’s plans for raising the money through visitor donations and community programming have been halted. Donations from the community to help the museum meet this matching grant requirement and to support the museum during this time would be greatly appreciated. Donations can be mailed to Lyons Historical Society c/o LaVern Johnson, PO Box 9, Lyons, Colorado 80540. Please specify if the donation is toward the digitization project match or general support of the museum. A service of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 1.8 million digitized pages, representing more than 400 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 up to 2019. Best of all the CHNC can be browsed at www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org and searched for free. The original Lyons Recorder newspaper began publication June 7, 1900. The proprietors were the father-and-son duo of Oliver H. and Herbert C. Knight. Herbert also served as the editor and publisher. The paper was published weekly on Thursdays, was four pages and included local, state, national, and world news. A year’s subscription was $1.50. Ownership of the newspaper changed hands over the years and a number of editors and publishers came and
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went. The January 1, 1943 issue of the paper stated the need for community support if the paper was to continue. That support was not forthcoming and the March 26, 1943 issue announced that the paper had quit publication and the subscription list sold to the Longmont Ledger. In the following years news from Lyons was contributed and published in the Longmont Ledger from various Lyons residents. In September of 1967 the Ledger began publishing a special pull-out section called The New Lyons Recorder in which Ada Lou Hammans was a contributor.
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possible. • Students will attend electives with less sharing of materials. • Students will exit the building at gradedesignated doors. Dismissal times may be staggered. High School: • Ninth grade students will attend in-person five days a week; 10th, 11th , and 12th grade students will attend on a hybrid schedule of in-person one day and synchronous online the next; students in these grades will be split into two groups to reduce the number of students in the building at a given time. • The school will continue to use a block schedule. • Students will enter the school at gradedesignated openings. • After entering the building, students will wash hands or use hand sanitizer. • Students will bring a cloth mask to school and wear it when entering the building and at other times throughout the day. • Student will sit facing forward in desks that have been spaced apart as much as possible. • Students will attend electives with less sharing of materials. • All ninth graders will stay on campus during lunch; 10th, 11th and 12th grade students may leave campus for lunch with parent permission. • Students will exit the building at gradedesignated doors. Dismissal times may be staggered. Continue Schools on Page 15
In September of 1969 Ada Lou and her husband Max took over publication and the paper came back to Lyons. In the following years the paper changed hands several times, and each new ownership was accompanied by a name change. These included: The New Lyons Recorder, The Lyons Recorder, Lyons Recorder, The Old Lyons Recorder and most recently The Lyons Recorder under the ownership of Lora Gilson and Joseph Lekarzcyk. They ceased publication in August of 2019. In the fall of 2019, a group of volunteers led by Lyons resident Ken Singer undertook revising the Lyons Recorder as an online entity. Why is the museum’s New Content Support Program award important? For a number of reasons. First is accessibility. Once it is on-line, anticipated to be sometime this fall, large portions of the Lyons Recorder will be accessible to the public with the touch of a button. In the past, finding information from issues of the newspaper for research projects or public inquiries required staff to personally look through issues of the fragile paper in the museum’s archive. Second is facilitating research for museum staff and the public. The CHNC database is searchable which allows for quick and efficient gathering of information. Beforehand research required knowing or having a close approximation of the date of an event in order to locate the information a person was seeking. Research on general topics such as the school building or the railroad required painstakingly going through every issue in search of relevant information, a time-consuming endeavor. Third is the preservation of the original newspaper. Research no longer requires physically going through individual issues of the newspaper, exposing the fragile newspaper to damage from handling. The Lyons Redstone Museum looks forward to using this new online tool for future research and is pleased it will be easily available to the public. In the meantime, you can explore one of Lyons’ first newspapers, the Longs Peak Rustler, which was added to the CHNC this past spring. The Rustler was published in Lyons from December 1890 to April 189l. Monique Sawyer Lang is one of the curators of the Lyons Redstone Museum. She is also a volunteer with the Lyons Food Pantry and a former member of the Lyons Community Foundation Board. She lives in Lyons.
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OPTIONS Summer is splat season Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon The blood and the guts, they're gonna make you swoon Loudon Wainwright III, “Dead Skunk” By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – My kids’ high school had a biology teacher affectionately known as “Doctor Splat,” who used roadkill analysis as part of his curriculum. His students would document where, when and what Lowell animals they saw splattered on the local roads. It was biological inventorying with a weird but sadly effective method. Here in Colorado, our own “splat” season is in full swing. June and July are among the top three months in Colorado for vehicle-wildlife collisions (November is the other). Roadkill is an unfortunate byproduct of our mobile society. Our expanding web of roads and our insistence on getting to and fro easily encased in our high-speed, high technology steel cocoons takes a toll on our fellow creatures. It’s the big animals killed that get our attention and seem to engender the most alarm (and, frankly, terror on a dark night when they step from the roadside shadow), like the elk or deer carnage along Route 36 to Boulder. But we should also note the butterflies in our grill or the dark spot that was a prairie dog. For every deer carcass by the side of the road, there are millions of other lesser creatures who die on the roads. Whether high-speed highways or dirt, our roadways all have a seen and unseen impact on wildlife. Collectively or personally, our driving takes a toll. My home state of New Hampshire thought some years ago to beautify the drab medians of an interstate highway by planting acres of wildflowers. It was hailed as a great idea – until it was discovered that the flowers attracted thousands of pollinators who, in seeking nectar in the middle of a 65 m.p.h. four-lane highway, became pretty smears on windshields and grills. I’m as guilty as anyone. I’ve never hit a deer with my car but have come close, and had I hit that bull moose one dark winter night I wouldn’t be writing this column. But the endangered spotted turtle I killed one day by swerving to avoid kids on bikes haunts me and the memory of the mother duck and little ones that stepped in front of my car – the only car on the road on that longago rainy day – still wrenches.
But there are bright spots in all this carnage. Some states have constructed tunnels or underpasses to allow safe passage of animals along the highways. And individuals make a difference as well. In New England, there are dedicated groups of volunteers who turn out on rainy spring nights to stop traffic to allow the migration of salamanders from the woods to the vernal pools they travel to for procreation, the amphibians’ instinct not tuned to the 20 feet of asphalt and the crushing tires that weren’t there 10,000 years ago when the species first pioneered these migration routes.
Dead animal scorecard Who knew that CDOT keeps statistics on roadkill? It does and the statistics are both fascinating and disheartening. Here in Region 4, the northeast quadrant of the state, CDOT’s scoreboard shows 1774 animals were sacrificed to our mobility in 2019, which could be construed as macabre good news as that figure is below the previous yearly averages of 1907. Deer were the number one casualty with 443 hit by vehicles. Prairie dogs didn’t fare well in the numbers (although I wonder who would ever bother to report a prairie dog collision). An owl, coyotes, a couple of bears
The virtue of friendly nosiness By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – We Americans value our independence and self-determination, especially here in the West. Jane We believe in live and let live. There is much good that comes from respecting the self-reliance and autonomy of ourselves and others, but there can be much that is not so good that can come from it, too. Sometimes, those who live in the castle next door may need our attention and help. This is where another value we honor arises: that of community. The two can come into conflict, when our sense of community reminds of that we are our brother’s keeper, and our independence says they know best how to live their own lives. As much as we want to honor the privacy of our neighbors, many of our neighbors actually need our help and compassionate action, but are unwilling or unable to ask for it. This is where the virtue of being nosy in a friendly way comes in. Why is it a virtue to be nosy? Because so many people who live around us need our help, or our intervention, or a friendly
Lyons resident Greg Lowell is a Lyons Town Board Trustee and serves as a liaison to the Ecology Advisory Board.
conversation and signs of caring. Even though we have been trained to mind our own business, a healthy community requires that we pay attention when we sense that someone else might be in distress. We have an epidemic of loneliness in this country, with over 50 percent of
tributes to the high suicide rate, the high domestic violence rates, the high rates of parental physical and sexual assault. Colorado has been in the top ten states for suicides per capita for the last ten years. Data suggests that for every completed suicide, there are 25 attempts. This is especially true for teens in Colorado, where suicide rates increased 58 percent in three years from 2016 to 2018. That’s a lot of folks in
people now admitting feeling lonely some or all of the time. Loneliness hurts, we all know that, and it can lead to despair. Despair can lead to depression, substance abuse, even violence and abuse. This con-
a lot of pain, living all around us. It’s a lot of folks who don’t know how to ask for help, or who feel that asking for help is a weakness, because of our American value of standing on our own two feet. It’s a lot
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and three horses (one can only imagine the horror of those collisions) were also casualties, as was a lone moose that didn’t make it to the other side of the road. Stay alert, especially If you’re driving in Region 3, the state’s northwest quadrant; 1273 deer and 208 elk were struck and killed there last year. While the reams of statistics on roadkill are impressive (or disturbing), remember that all that are hit are not necessarily counted. Many larger animals are struck and then wander off to die. And not counted are the legions of birds, butterflies and moths, snakes, small mammals, etc., that register barely a bump in our travels. Further, magpies, crows and turkey vultures often make off with forensic evidence. Jeff Peterson, CDOT Wildlife Program Manager, said animal-vehicle collision information is received from Colorado State Patrol and other law enforcement personnel, and CDOT’s own maintenance workers – the ones who scoop up the bloody messes on the roads – also provide a body count. The departed are then entered into a statewide database that’s used to determine where wildlife crossing signs should be placed, determine where rare species like lynx tend to cross and to help make decisions on where to consider improved wildlife crossings, such as underpasses. Close to home, CDOT has identified three significant wildlife crossing areas on Route 36 between Lyons and Boulder: about a half-mile out of town, just south of St. Vrain Road and a half-mile north of Nelson Road. Modern society’s toll CDOT’s roadkill data puts meat on the bones of modern society’s deadly secret – that our cars, our trucks, our convenient mobility exacts a more lethal toll than any of us care to admit. If we were told that in order to have the ability to go anywhere, anytime in a comfortable, swift and sometimes exhilarating fashion, each of us would personally be responsible for the deaths of a certain number of warm-blooded animals and an untold number of lesser creatures, would we still accept that reality? The sad fact is that the rest of life pays for our mobile society. As the author Barry Lopez said of roadkill, “We treat the attrition of lives on the road like the attrition of lives in war; horrifying, unavoidable, justified. Accepting the slaughter leaves people momentarily fractious, embarrassed.” Unless we give up our cars and trucks, which is clearly not going to happen, we’ll go on killing billions of creatures and continue to be as Lopez says, both horrified and embarrassed but also accepting of our part in the slaughter.
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of folks who may even believe that they can’t be helped. But they can be, and any one of us can help. We can help by breaking the rules and being just a little bit nosy when that little voice inside us says, “Something’s not quite right here.” We can take time to stop, and ask “How are you? What have you been up to?” and then waiting. Letting the other person know that we are here, we want to know, we are listening. Being genuinely friendly, not just saying “Hi! How are you doing?” as we take out the trash, but stopping, asking, waiting, listening. If all we get is “I’m fine, how are you?” then we can actually, for real, answer that question. Not just the typical “Fine, thanks.” but moving into something authentic about our lives in that moment. Whether it’s that we are happy because the work day is done, tired from working in the yard, sick of our shirts sticking to our back in the hot weather and wishing we had a pool, we are always feeling or thinking something real that we can share about ourselves. Whether the other person shares at that point or not, a bridge is being built, and we need to keep building it. The next time we see them, we need to stop again, ask again, and wait with real interest for the answer, again. COVID-19 actually makes this a little easier. We are home more, we can notice Continue Nosy on Page 15
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SUMMER New ceramic tags for the culinary garden By Mimi Hedl Redstone Review
around in somewhat of a trance, with several herbs in their hand. I then realize I should’ve had them watch the fire as I fetched the herb. It’s a big, strange world out there LYONS – It can feel difficult to navigate these troubled to the uninitiated used to buying herbs in plastic containwaters. Crises on many fronts. Pain and anger, death and ers with labels. Now, however, with the addition of my sickness. Exhaustion. I remind myself I’m a tiny cog in this new ceramic labels, the guesswork has disappeared. machine we call our world, that I have a part to play, and My sister Susan Hopkins discovered pottery years ago I need to do it well to contribute to the smooth running but when she retired she had time to play and explore the of this machine. So I work harder, smile more and feel possibilities. She’s made beautiful bowls, bonsai containgrateful for my good life, as I celebrate us all. ers, ikebana vases, and many, many other things as she alMy culinary herb garden began its life 30 years ago. It lows clay to lead her. Now these ceramic tags. has become a temple, of sorts, to my love and appreciation Last fall, as we talked on the phone, I casually asked if she for the magic herbs give to food. The most humble of could make plant labels. She said she’d never done it but felt meals becomes a taste and visual treat with the addition sure she could. And like a house on fire, she experimented, of parsley, cilantro, or any of the other herbs people the came up with ideas, and started asking more questions than world over have discovered and honor. If cooks knew how I had answers for. I tried to slow her down a bit, so I wouldn’t easily most herbs grow, our meals would taste richer. have to do my part, write down the names of the herbs, make Every year I try to add another herb to one of the formal choices (Pathetic, I know.) She’d have no truck with that. beds or along the edges, where rougher herbs like epazote She wanted to do it. And now. (This comes from our mother, who would’ve made a great general.) Finally I told her I trusted her judgment completely, to keep them simple. We decided on a shape and the rest I left in her hands. When I came home from a trip in November, I found them waiting for me. I hadn’t planned on unwrapping the box, but when she asked what I thought of Mimi Hedl’s culinary herb garden was begun 30 years ago. At right, one of Susan’s ceramic tags them, I felt I’d better look and see. I was can ramble. It’s wonderful to see the delight on a friend’s stunned by the two I opened. Wow, I said to myself, and face when they recognize an herb from their homeland. I to her, then stored them until just a few weeks ago and especially remember, Saori, a young Japanese woman, who had another wow as I viewed one after another of these shouted enthusiastically when she saw beef steak plant, beautiful tags. “Shiso, shiso! You have shiso!” And she proceeded later, We had a cold, wet spring. Weeds grew apace. Finally the to make tempura batter and show us how her family eats head gardener had time to dutifully prepare the beds for the this herb. And it does taste like beef steak. labels and a few days ago I ceremoniously planted them in The garden sits about 200 feet from the kitchen. When their proper bed and smiled at how official, how open for I have guests and realize I forgot to pick the tarragon or business, this culinary garden looked. I even spied Brother basil, dill or cilantro, I’ll ask my friend to please run out Cadfael, who has an apothecary garden connected to this to the herb garden and bring back a handful. Suddenly culinary garden, sneaking, yes, sneaking over to the herb their eyes glaze over. “You mean out there by the sauna?” beds to snatch up some chervil that hadn’t gone to seed. “Yes,” I’ll reply as I cook another tortilla. After 10 minutes You can see a few of the herbs that have come into their I’ll rush out to the garden and see them puzzling, walking own. Garden sorrel, a sour herb, tastes delicious in salads,
LCF Annual Granting season is now open By Julie Jacobs Redstone Review
tember 11, 2020. These grants are available only once per year and must be applied for at this time. Electronic submissions are reLYONS – Lyons Community Foundation quired; granting information and applica(LCF) Grant Applications are now avail- tions are available at lyonscf.org. able. LCF just announced its 13th Annual The LCF’s Community Support grantCommunity Support granting season. Ap- ing program focuses on our mission to implications for Community Support Grants prove the quality of life, build a culture of are available online now and are due Sep- giving, and encourage positive change for the greater Lyons area. We connect people who care with the causes that matter. Eligible for grants are non-profit organizations in the greater Lyons area which have 501(c)3 status or a sponsoring organization with 501(c)3 status, government agencies, and schools. In 2019, Community Support Grants totaled over $27,000 and were awarded to 14 individual projects including LEAF (Lyons Emergency & AsSandstone Park concert with Halden Wofford and the sistance Fund) and the Hi*Beams. LCF grants help to fund the Sandstone ConLyons food pantry; the cert Series.
Summer 2012, oil on canvas, a portrait of Mimi Hedl by her sister Barbara Shark. in soups, or a leaf or two grabbed as you pass by looking for a sharp taste in your mouth. Sage flowers beautifully and in the background, rue flowers its lovely yellow blooms. I read that gardeners in Central Park in New York City can’t keep rue plants in their gardens, because someone pilfers them as soon as they go in the earth. I like that. Here, they selfsow with abandon and become host plants for swallowtails later in the summer. Italians use the leaves in salads, in small doses. Some people, including me, get a dermatitis from the leaves on hot summer days, when sweat pours down and the leaves react with your skin and the sun. Although no labels appear at the entrance to the culinary garden, you can see the rose de rescht that flavors a rose petal wine and the lemon balm behind the roses that also make a delicious wine, as well as tea. And more rue I’d kindly share with the gardens in Central Park. As the herbs come into their own in each bed, I’ll write more about each and you’ll get a closer glimpse of the plant and the labels. With much appreciation for the fine work of Susan this was produced by Barbara, written by Mimi and inspired by Susan. Barbara Shark, Mimi Hedl and Susan Hopkins are sisters. Mimi Hedl is a gardener and cook living on Straw Dog Farm, her home of over thirty years in central Missouri. This piece was originally published on the blog www.howilearnedtocookanartistslife.blog. Barbara Shark is an artist and the author of How I Learned To Cook, An Artist’s Life. She lives near Lyons. Susan Hopkins makes ceramics and gardens in Aurora, Colorado.
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INSIGHT Everything is different now By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – So, this is how things are now. A friend died last winter, though not of COVID 19. The official cause of death was sepsis, but it’s hard not to think that the real COD was the cumuGierach lative effects of a lifetime of drinking and drug taking that began in Vietnam and never stopped. Of course, now, in the seventh month of the global coronavirus pandemic with over 12 million cases worldwide and 548,000 deaths, it’s almost quaint to think of anyone dying of something else. The memorial service was held earlier this month at our friend’s old place on a river on the west slope. He was a fixture of the local fly-fishing community and fishermen scatter like migrating birds in the winter, but have mostly regrouped by July, so the timing made sense. Everyone was either back in town already or could arrange to be. In normal times this would have been a no-brainer. The four of us old friends who live here on the east slope would have driven over and found a place to stay – rooms at our usual motel in town or maybe a campground – and gone to the memorial. We wouldn’t have expected it to be somber and, although I’ve yet to hear any reports, I’m sure it wasn’t. It would have been on the order of an Irish wake, with drinking and pot smoking, more laughter than tears and lots of stories. (Our friend was nothing if not a gold mine of stories.) Afterward we’d have stayed on a few days to fish, which he’d have expected and approved of. But we didn’t go. We talked it over and made the same risk / reward analysis you now have to do about anything from attending a memorial service for a friend to going out for coffee. Most of it could have been finessed. We could have driven over in separate vehicles, camped at a safe distance from each other, brought a few days’ worth of groceries from home and so on. But joining a group of 40 or 50 people, even outside, is precisely the kind of thing the CDC warns against – or at least did back when they were allowed to speak publicly. The people who did go were mostly on the young side – in that demographic that hasn’t been taking this virus
seriously – so mask-wearing and distancing would have been casual to nonexistent. And the four of us are all past the age that puts us in the high-risk group and have the usual odd assortment underlying conditions. So that was that; as much as we wanted to go, staying home was the better part of valor. After just a few months this has become an old story. Things we’d have once done at the drop of a hat are now fraught with doubt fed by a kind of cultivated ignorance. Every medical expert – from Anthony Fauci to my own doctor – agrees that if everyone could just go home and stay there in isolation for six months, the virus would die
out on its own. Failing that, universal mask-wearing, social distancing and compulsive hand-washing would at least keep the spread tamped down until treatments and / or a vaccine could be developed. But it’s not happening, largely due to faulty leadership and inconsistent messaging. We all remember Trump saying the coronavirus was nothing to worry about, that it would go away in April “like magic” and that 15 cases would soon become zero, while the epidemiologists patiently explained the way viruses spread, so that, in fact, 15 cases become 30, 30 become 60, 60 become 120 and so on until you get 3 million cases and counting in the U.S. and 134,000 deaths.
In spite of this willful ignorance out of the White House, we almost got it right in the beginning by closing everything nonessential and telling people to shelter in place. Even in the first panic, there were some outliers. A woman who works at a supermarket in Longmont said her boss told her to ask customers to wear masks, but not to push it if they refused so she wouldn’t get shot. (That wasn’t hyperbole; it had already happened once in Denver.) Most states made enough headway to at least not permanently swamp their hospitals with cases – even with no help from the federal government – but there were always ignored or overlooked hot spots of contagion, like retirement homes, prisons and meat packing plants, so we never quite got it under control. And now we’ve reopened too soon with predictable results. Trump ordered the restarting of the economy and, even though he had no authority to do it, the pack of Republican governors who follow him around like adoring puppies followed suit and even some Democratic governors like ours have gotten on board. Consequently, there are hideous spikes in cases in states like Texas, Arizona and Florida and Colorado has a smaller spike of its own that we now know could explode overnight. So as if the country wasn’t splintered enough already, we now have two new divides to negotiate. One is between older people who, as a group, seem to have grasped the seriousness of the situation, and younger folks who haven’t. Many of them think they won’t get it, or if they do, it’ll be no more than a case of the sniffles. In some cases they’re right, although it’s not something I’d bet my life on. And some seem not to care that they could carry the virus to people whose outcomes wouldn’t be so rosy. (Was I that thoughtlessly reckless in my 20s? Maybe it’s best that I don’t remember.) The other divide is political. Left wingers wear masks and distance while right wingers don’t, if only because the lefties want them to. Meanwhile, we’ve done a worse job of managing the virus than any other country in the world. A few months ago, I cancelled a bunch of fishing trips for this year, including two to Canada. It broke my heart at the time and still does, but there’s a silver lining. I’d now be embarrassed to go to another country for fear that someone would ask me what the hell we Americans are thinking. But of course, it’s a moot point now because they wouldn’t let me in.
Lyons Regional Library is now open by appointment By Kara Bauman Redstone Review LYONS – Great news, Lyons: the Lyons Regional Library is now open by appointment. Patrons are encouraged to call 303Bauman 823-5165 to schedule an appointment to browse the collection or use a computer. Appointments begin at the top of each hour and last a maximum
of 45 minutes. For the remaining 15 minutes of each hour staff will disinfect computers and high-touch surfaces. Of course, patrons who walk up are also encouraged to call from the porch to inquire about current availability. Currently, appointments are available between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, between noon and 6 pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Saturdays. Patrons will be required to properly wear a
face covering while inside the library and for the duration of their visits. Staff also requests that social distancing be practiced during the visit and that hands are sanitized upon entering. For those without a proper face covering or those who simply aren’t quite ready to come back just yet, we will absolutely continue to offer curbside pickup of holds and print jobs. Please place your holds via our online catalog at lyonslibrary.com (Catalog) and await email notification that they’re ready for pick up. We’re also happy to notarize documents on our porch. Please note that due to the nature of a notarization social distancing is particularly difficult and cannot be performed for those without a face covering. Returns are accepted 24 hours a day in our outside book drop located to the right of the front doors. Current research on surface transmission has allowed us to cut down the length of time items are quaran-
tined. Returned materials will now be quarantined for 72 hours before cleaning and check in. This does mean recently returned items will remain on your account for a short period. Unfortunately, we’re presently unable to provide areas for gathering or meeting or any in-person programming. Virtual programs and e-resources are certainly still available, though. Youth Services Librarian McCourt Thomas continues to offer a weekly storytime appropriate for all ages followed by related crafts presented by B.J. Campbell. New storytimes are posted to our website each Tuesday morning. The next installment in our local writers’ group, Word Wednesday, facilitated by Kayann Short, Ph.D., will be Wednesday, August 5 at 6:30 pm. Also coming up in August is another Continue Library on Page 14
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FORWARD LEAF Volunteers find: Friends in need, friends indeed By Lory Barton Redstone Review LYONS – As we see the many ways our community has been disproportionately affected by COVID, the teams at Lyons EmerBarton gency & Assistance Fund (LEAF) continues working hard to meet the human services needs in our community. I’d like to share a story that illustrates just one aspect of LEAF’s work. I hope you will feel encouraged and happy to be reminded of the good people and good things that surround us, even in hard and uncertain times. LEAF was contacted recently by a community member who needed help in a big and heavy way. Annie Mannering’s long gravel driveway had experienced significant settling, rendering it hard to use most of the time. In the winter, ice collected in the hole and made it dangerous to safely enter the highway from her driveway. When a semi-truck full of gravel recently overturned near her home, it seemed Annie had found a perfect solution: She asked the clean-up crew to leave enough gravel behind to fill the low spot in the driveway. This would greatly improve the use and the safety of her driveway. Unfortunately, the crew left the car-sized pile of gravel in the wrong place. Not only was the original problem not
solved, a new problem had been created, too: The misplaced pile of gravel blocked the community’s propane truck from turning around after deliveries. Annie tried to find someone to help. Then she tried to hire someone to help, but the price was prohibitive. Feeling a little desperate, she reached out to LEAF. I consulted the leaders of our newest program, Lyons Volunteers, to see if they could help. In short order, Rick DiSalvo organized the project. Team members Mike Karavas, Jon Corson-Rikert, and Leigh Williams with his skid steer joined in. The gravel was relocated to the correct place, and Annie’s problem was solved. She now has a driveway that is easily accessible and safe. Thank you, Lyons Volunteers. On another note, Lyons Volunteers completed sixteen other projects in the past month, too. They also lead the Weed Posse, help out with the Botanical Garden, and undertake various projects for the Leigh Williams, in the skid steer, and Annie MannerTown. It’s a joy to see their ing. Williams and other Lyons Volunteers team memskills, creativity, and willing bers helped Manning to repair her gravel drive.
Lions Club Golf Tourney, back for 26th year By Mark Browning Redstone Review LYONS – With a few changes to ensure safety during these “Covid times,” the Lyons Lions Club will hold its 26th annual charity golf tournament on August 3 at Lake Valley Golf Club in Niwot. The golf tournament is the local Lions Club’s only fundraiser each year and supports the club’s many community projects, including scholarships for Lyons High
School graduates, help for local residents needing assistance with vision care and eyeglasses, highway cleanup days, intake desks at the 9Health Fair, and sponsorship of the Lyons Leos youth service organization. “We try to pack all our fundraising into one fun event each year,” said Lions Club president Jerry Tabor. “We couldn’t do it without participation by local golfers and hole sponsorships and door prizes from local businesses. It is really a community-wide thing.” Due to ongoing, and constantly changing, guidelines to protect against the Covid-19 virus, some extra precautions will be taken this year. More carts will be available to limit group contacts, lunch (included in registration fee) will likely be by takeout, and prizes will be handed separately to individuals instead of at a group gathering. “We are making every effort to comply with all state and county health guidelines,” said tournament director Mark Webber. “Those change from time to time, but we’re staying on top of them and will adapt what we do on tournament day to what’s in place at that time.” The $110 tournament entry fee includes 18 holes of golf, a cart, lunch, practice balls, many door prizes, a holein-one contest (new car for an ace), and automatic entry
LYONS – In a special board meeting, the Lyons Fire Protection District appointed Fire Marshal Steve Pischke as our Interim Chief. Our first New Business matter is discussion related to an Interim Fire Chief. The work of the board can be best expressed in a touchstone question we continually ask ourselves: What is in the best interests of our fire district as we strive to protect the lives and property of every person who lives in or visits our community during any time of need. To best achieve this at this time, we must work to earn the full confidence of every person who lives in or visits our community. Ultimately, this requires that we hire a new Chief to lead the district forward. We need sufficient time in order to devote ourselves fully and comprehensively to getting that right. At the same time, we must ensure that our district continuously provides the highest quality coverage for operations
and management. We have an incredibly talented team of paid and volunteer firefighters, officers, and staff. We think the best way to move forward is to appoint an Interim Fire Chief who can lead the district forward while we undertake the search for a new Chief. We are fortunate to be able to discuss at this time an exceptional candidate for the position of Interim Chief who is very well respected in Colorado and beyond, has forty-six years of experience, and has been serving part time as our Fire Marshal since 2016, Steven Pischke. Fire Marshal Pischke previously served as: Interim Chief of Vail Fire Department in 2014 and 2015; Deputy Fire Chief of Mountain View Fire District from 2001 to 2013; Division Chief at North Metro Fire Rescue; District and West Adams County Fire Protection District between 1992 and 2000; Fire Chief of Silverthorne Fire Protection District from 1987 to 1992; and prior to that, between 1973 and 1987, he served with the Littleton Fire Department and the Wheat Ridge Fire Protection District. Fire Marshal Pischke has professional affiliations with, among others: the Interna-
Lory Barton is LEAF’s Executive Director. Connect with her at lory@leaflyons.org.
in the Lyons Leos putting contest. The Leos youth service group will run the putting contest. Online signup is available at www.lyonslionsclub.com. Or, those who wish to enter can contact Mark Webber at 720-291-9812. Foursomes are encouraged, but individuals are welcome to sign up and will be placed with a four-person team – an opportunity to make new friends. Hole sponsors and door prizes are needed. Lumber Liquors has agreed to be the “Ace” sponsor this year. Laura Levy (Coldwell Banker) and Mark Webber (Pineview Properties) are “Birdie” sponsors. Additional hole sponsors signed up to date are Atlas Flooring, Bud Depot, Clark’s Hardware, Gateway Realty, Aldyene Gullickson, John’s Well Service, Lyons Automotive, Mac Equipment, Matt Arthur Memorial, McConnell Realty, Mojo Taqueria, Precise Cables, Ron’s Printing, State Farm Insurance (Wes Parker) and Tucker Group (Jonelle Tucker). Door prizes are also needed for “goody bags” given to each player. Any local business able to donate keychains, flashlights, pens, pencils, $50 gold pieces or other small promotional items is asked to contact Randy Pollard at 970-590-6074. More tournament information is available on the Lyons Lions Club Facebook page or at www.lyonslionsclub.com.
Steve Pischke appointed as Interim Fire Chief of Lyons Fire Protection District President of the Fire Protection Board, Toshen Golias, provided this statement For Redstone Review
hands and hearts at work. While Lyons Volunteers is by no means a new organization in Lyons, this amazing team of people who love to serve is a new program at LEAF, and we’re so grateful to work with them. If you have a volunteer service need with which Lyons Volunteers might be able to help, please visit LEAF’s website at leafyons.org, find Lyons Volunteers under the “Programs” tab, and complete an online Work Request Form. And finally, did you know? LEAF still has funds available for Gig Grants and COVID19 grants. You may recall these are financial grants intended for members of the Greater Lyons community (zip code 80540) who have lost significant income due to COVID. To date, LEAF has made $22,587 in these grants, with over 91% going to support housing expenses. As we begin to emerge from this crisis, some folks might need help more than just once. Community members who are still being impacted by COVID can apply for additional grant support even if they have already received one of these grants. Working artists and musicians who have lost “gig work” should apply for a Gig Grant. Other members of the community who have lost income due to COVID-related loss of work should apply for a COVID-19 grant. These grants can help with expenses like rent, mortgage, utilities, etc. To learn more or to apply, visit leaflyons.org and click on the COVID-19 & Gig Grants tab.
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We’re trying to keep a good attitude and look forward to next summer when we hope to have a bounty of beautiful and delicious dinners. Thank you all for understanding. Take care, stay safe, wear a mask.
New Pastor Emily Hagan will hold Meet & Greet events
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tional Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC); the Colorado State Fire Chiefs Association (CSFCA) and the Denver Metro Fire Chiefs Group. Our motion related to this matter: A motion was made to appoint Fire Marshal Steve Pischke as the Interim Fire Chief, effective immediately and continuing until the District completes its search for a new Fire Chief, or such other time as may be appropriate. The motion passed unanimously by the board.
LYONS – The new Pastor of Lyons Community Church, Emily Hagan, is planning to have several events for church members and others to meet her family in the coming weeks. Please look at the list below and choose what will work best for you. Please contact the host for the event you would like to attend. We will limit the numbers based on location to ensure everyone’s safety. If you prefer to attend online there are some zooms listed as well. • July 16, Zoom 9 a.m., contact the church or pastor@lyonscommunitychurch.org if you would like the zoom link for this event. • July 23, 6:30 p.m. at Jani and Zeke Little’s home, jani.little@colorado.edu, 303-818-3822 • July 27, 1 p.m., Zoom hosted by Deb Tabor, dlt6710@gmail.com, 303-823-6710 • August 6, 6:30 p.m. at Monica and Ron McGuckin’s home, Monica _ mcguckin @ yahoo. com Continue Briefs on Page 14
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Pure Americana: Driving to Longmont just got better By Sally King Redstone Review Have you seen the new mural yet, just outside of town at the corner of 66 and 63rd? Right next to where the giant cowboy stands Overlooking the lake in his now broken hat? I don’t know Jerri Wall but I appreciate what she is doing. Hiring the muralist, Neil Armstrong, A man who worked for Disney To paint this mural of The Haying by Robert Duncan, his permission given. It’s big, 45 feet wide by 15 feet high.
Armstrong uses Alkyd oil paints (in case you want to paint a mural of your own) Or he is available for commission work. Contact listed below. Cathy Rivers, our roving reporter on her bike, turned up these details and inspired by its beauty she reflects on the generosity of the woman who had the vision to create a bit of Americana art for us all to see. Kids especially. Especially now. Neil Armstrong: 720-322-3647
Artist Neil Armstrong (yes, like the astronaut) with his mural at the intersection of Hwy 66 and 63rd Street in Longmont. PHOTOS BY CATHY RIVERS
Sally King is a local artist who has created whimsical bears and delightful wild flower acrylic paintings to enhance the appearance of Lyons all over the town. She lives with her husband John King, a kinetic sculpture artist, near Lyons.
Times change, values change and we change: Taking down monuments in America By Sally King Redstone Review
“Emancipation” in Denver’s City Park.
LYONS – History moves on and we find ourselves finally reconciling our past with our present. Statuary that is representational of values that have changed are coming down, no longer reflective of King who we are, they no longer serve the public. I remember visiting St. Petersburg, Russia just shortly after the Berlin Wall came down and everyone was talking about how the statues of Lenin were no longer in the city and how pleased they were to no longer have to see his image. In some ways the U.S. is just catching up to what Europe and Russia have been working on for the past few decades.
Loving Lyons, through thick and thin By Mary Huron Hunter Redstone Review LYONS – It has been said that “we shall be known by the company we keep,” and in Lyons, this mantra has been ever present over the years through the trials and tribulations of growing and changing as a small and historic municipality, wading through flood waters, navigating evacuations and temporary housing, rebuilding our assets and infrastructure, and now enduring the deep and daunting impacts of the current pandemic.
What are you grateful for? Post it on the Love Wall at the library. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS
Truth: we need each other. That’s how we get through tough times. We are hardwired as humans for connection, collaboration and relationship. Our brains rely on other humans to thrive emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually. Biology and neuroscience confirm this. Which means that here in Lyons, we are inextricably linked by geography AND community. And in this current climate of locking down, staying at home, and tending to ourselves, our families and our wellbeing, now is the time. The time to once again pause and take inventory. Reflect. Be present. Show up. Share gratitude for living here. In Lyons. The place that holds us, nurtures us and provides for us. The little town with BIG love. That’s what the Town of Lyons team hopes, anyway. And that’s why it kicked off its “Lyons Love” summertime community campaign. Through August, in safer-at-home fashion, the town’s “Lyons Love” campaign is offering creative opportunities to engage with our public spaces, our parks, our trails, and our amenities, including: a gratitude wall at the Lyons Regional Library; a locals’ thank-you effort; a photo, art and video contest; a community scavenger hunt; coordinated at-home events; and more. “Our intention is to foster a culture of giving and receiving, of bringing out the best in ourselves and each other, as we all experience uncertainty and discomfort in these difficult times,” said Kim Mitchell, director of community programs and relations for the
On June 19, local clergy called for the removal of a Lincoln statue that depicts the crouched figure of Archer Alexander, a black man, who after escaping from his enslavement assisted in the Union Army. It has stood in Boston since 1879 and was a gift to the city by Moses Kimball, a local politician and circus showman. The inscription on the front of the piece says, “A race set free and a country at peace, Lincoln rests from his labors.” Public art is being re-evaluated. “Public art is storytelling at the street level.” said Ekua Holmes, Vice-chair of Boston Art Commission. “It is time to change this story in America. What I heard today is that it hurts to look at this piece, and in the Boston landscape we should not have work that brings shame to any groups of people not only in Boston but across the entire United States.”
Town of Lyons. “We truly are lucky in Lyons... to have wide open spaces, to have well-cared for amenities, to have one other.” So, when this pandemic is over, and it WILL be over someday, we will have shown our courage and strengthened our community muscles, once again, remembering that connection is the vital energy that surges between us. And that energy goes both ways, from me to you, from you to me. Every day in every way. When we pay attention, show up and participate. That’s how we build and maintain a connected community in a discon-
Passing the oar By Sally King Redstone Review LYONS – My good friend Ann Ripley, who lives in Apple Valley, told me that her neighbors Ken and Cathy were looking for an artist to paint a scene on an oar. The oar belonged to Doug McNeil who is no longer with us. His father, Vernon McNeil, is moving out of their family home on Antelope Road where he and his wife have lived since the 1960s. In the process of moving, Vernon came across the oar that had belonged to his son and gave it to his
nected world. Let’s do this, Lyons! Grab your mask, your grit, your grace and your gratitude and get out and PLAY this summer. For more information on how to participate, visit LyonsColorado.com or follow this effort at Facebook.com/OfficialLyonsColorado or on Instagram at lyons_colorado. Mary Huron Hunter is a messenger, storyteller and advisor. She works for the Town of Lyons to help plan events and programs, marketing for people, pets and places. She can be reached at www.n8Communication.com or 303-641-3116.
neighbors. That’s where I came in – Ken and Cathy asked me to paint the oar. I guess you could say that this chain of events is called community. When I met with Ken and Cathy at their home and was surprised by their amazing view of Steamboat Mountain and the valley to the south, this is the scene they asked me to paint for them. I will miss Vernon. Ann Ripley told me that although he appeared to be “the essential western county man” he travelled all over the world managing construction projects for Ball Aerospace. Vernon is moving to Oregon to live with his granddaughter and family. The oar has been passed, a story told, a journey ending and beginning.
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SENIORS COVID-19 revising seniors’ plans for 2020 By Kathleen Spring Redstone Review LYONS – It is time for seniors to think in the long term about their well-being with regard to COVID-19. When the Stay at Home rules were initiated in midMarch, most people thought it might be Spring over within a month or so. Many thought it would be like the flu and disappear in spring. On July 8, the number of world cases hit 12 million (548,000 deaths) – so, no, it is not “like the flu.” On Wednesday July 1, the U.S. reported 50,000 new cases. That’s twice as many as a month ago. As of July 8, the U.S. was the leader in cases and deaths, in the world. So where do we stand today? Medical experts are saying that this is still the first wave of infections as we never went through a recovery period. They predict that a second wave will probably hit around October. And most are hopeful for a country-wide vaccine distribution around January. Seniors over 60 years of age and those with underlying health conditions are still advised to stay home as much as possible, and to wear face masks when going outside their homes. So, now that we understand that it looks like we will be spending most of our time at home for the next six months, what are some long-term plans that we should consider undertaking? Consider vacation plans Did you delay your spring vacation to the fall? Do you usually alternate between a summer and a winter home? Are you anxious to travel? Think about these plans when you consider the following facts: According to AAA (and other sources) the most popular vacation plans include: driving to the destination; vacationing within 100 miles of home; renting a cabin; or buying a recreational vehicle. Travelling abroad is being blocked. The European Union has officially banned travelers from a handful of countries including the United States. Mexico has Latin America’s second-highest death toll after Brazil. Take on long-term lessons Now is the time to take on some new skills. Among the benefits of learning a new skill are: you will likely delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease; it will bring new joy into your life; and it’s a great feeling of accomplishment. So, go sign up for university classes online, buy that keyboard, drag out that guitar you always wanted to learn how to play, or chose which foreign language you promised to learn. Use some of that $1,200 stimulus check to stimulate your brain. The key is to write down a plan and put deadlines on your calendar, so that you don’t wake up on January 1 wondering where the time went. Consider switching homes Where are you staying? Did you get stuck in some place because you thought this would only last a month or two?
Are you in your kids’ home with tiny, noisy grandkids running around? Are you in your city home while you could be in your mountain cabin? Are you in a rehab facility, and being ignored by nurses, instead of getting home-care service? Are you out of state, and want to feel the comfort of your hometown? Now is the time to decide where you want to live “in isolation” for the next six months. Don’t put off medical treatments any longer Many people are putting off dental visits because of fear of sharing someone’s saliva. Some don’t want to get their hearing tested, or get mammograms, or colonoscopies, or even toenail clipping. Remember, these are medical professionals who treat you, and their livelihoods depend on having clean treatment rooms. Call them and ask them to tell you specifically what they are doing to keep their places safe for you. The alternative is scary – breast cancer, hemorrhaging gums, and even ingrown toenails. When we first put these off, again, we thought it would be for a month or two. Government Guidelines The Town passed stronger COVDI-19 restrictions than the state required. A person must wear a face mask during
any interactions in a Lyons store or restaurant. That means you need to wear a mask when ordering food or paying a bill, but do not need to wear one while eating or drinking and keeping six feet apart from your dining partner. A business can refuse to serve you if you do not wear a mask. Neither the Town of Lyons and Boulder County Area Agency on Aging offices are, in general, open to the public. Business is done online or over the phone. You can call them during normal business hours to address your needs: Town of Lyons 303-823-6622; Boulder County Area Agency on Aging 303-441-1617 (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.). The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted long-term care facilities and nursing homes throughout the U.S. Thou-
sands of residents of these facilities, who are a high-risk group, have died of the disease. Each month we hear new statistics, which have ranged from 45 percent to 73 percent of the death count in each state, including Colorado. Governor Polis took immediate action and sent National Guards to all nursing homes in Colorado to test both the patients and workers. Some workers work at multiple facilities; and many who tested positive were asymptomatic (did not show signs of having it). As of the end of April, researchers leading the study tested 454 nursing home workers and found 13.1 percent, or 60 of 454 workers were asymptomatic. After completing the first round, the governor partnered with Colorado State University to launch another period of testing of workers and residents at the 30 largest senior homes. This, plus not allowing visitors, has cut the rate down significantly. Senior Center meals and activities The Walt Self Senior Center is closed until further notice. Therefore, there will be no activities or meals inside. However, BCAAA is still providing the twice-weekly hot lunches in boxes. The River Church is serving outside free boxed hot meals on Monday nights; call 303-823-6469 at 4 p.m. for more details. The Town of Lyons is offering the following free activities for seniors: Wednesday 9 a.m. walk to the park from the Senior Center; plein air watercolor class August 5; social distancing and masks wearing adhered to. Also, all ages classes include yoga in the park ($10 Tuesdays, Bohn Park) and women’s mountain biking fall class. Contact lramsey@townoflyons.com for information and to sign up. Wellness If you are feeling at times depressed, lonely, scared and more, there are local resources that you can utilize. LEAF’s mental health therapist, Cherie Maureaux, has started free weekly online sessions, and is also available for individual counseling sessions. Write mentalwellness@leaflyons.org. The toll free BCAAA crisis hot line is 1-844-493-TALK. The Colorado Crisis Services hot line is 1-844-493-8255. Lyons’ Wide Spaces Community Initiative has converted its monthly Community Dinners to online sessions. Director Janaki Jane also runs group workshops on depression, suicide prevention, and more. Go to their Facebook page or the Lyons Regional Library page for more information. Free Bus Trips Boulder County/zTrip Voucher Program is ready to roll. Funded by Boulder County, this program was conceived to replace the missing midday bus service for those in need. Vouchers are good for a one-way ride between Lyons and Boulder or Lyons and Longmont (either direction) on weekdays from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. For questions contact Lisa Ramsey, Town of Lyons, lramsey@townoflyons.com; 303823-6622 x30 or your case worker. Kathleen Spring is a local historian, journalist, author and photographer. She does publicity, research, exhibits, and fundraisers for the Lyons Historical Society, and has done extensive video interviews of Lyons' pioneers.
LCF is hiring a part-time marketing and communications writer LYONS – The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) is hiring a Marketing and Communications Associate, part-time, contract position to work with LCF in Lyons and report to the LCF board chairperson. The Lyons Community Foundation exists to improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving and encourage positive change for the Greater Lyons, CO area. LCF was founded in 2007 and is a nonprofit fund of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County. The activities of LCF are overseen by an advisory board comprising volunteers from the Lyons community. The Marketing and Communications Associate will play a key role in developing, executing, and monitoring LCF’s marketing and communications strategy, with the specific goal of increasing awareness of our organization and furthering our mission. This role will communicate regularly with the LCF Advisory Board, and will work with individual Board members to complete some projects. The primary responsibilities are: • Take the lead in developing and implementing a marketing and communications strategy designed to further LCF’s objectives. • Utilize Board members to complete communications/marketing tasks as appropriate. • Write content for a variety of different publications / uses including, but not limited to: annual report, newsletters, website, brochures, press releases, newspaper articles, fundraising appeals, event marketing materials, and social media.
• Manage and maintain LCF’s social media accounts, including regular posts, campaign ideation and execution, and comment moderation. • Design and launch email marketing / fundraising campaigns. • Monitor basic analytics and create reports detailing the successes and failures of communications / marketing strategies and practices. • Perform outreach to press outlets, magazines, and influencers, and build strategic partnerships to grow LCF’s brand awareness. • Work with freelance graphic designer to create needed digital and printed collateral. • Maintain database of constituents. • Act as LCF’s brand manager, upholding brand standards and ensuring consistency in all projects. • Maintain photo collection. • Attend Advisory Board meeting once per month. Present communications / marketing update. • Perform any related duties or special projects as directed. Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, English, Public Relations or Journalism or three years related work experience. • Understanding of and experience with social media tools and basic website content management. • Confident communicator with outstanding interpersonal skills. • Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills are essential. Graphic design
skills are a plus. • Superior project, time, and organizational management skills. • Basic knowledge and understanding of current trends in social media and digital media. • Ability to work evenings and weekends on occasion. • Technologically savvy, and willing to learn new software. Compensation: This is a contract role, with no benefits. Compensation will be at the rate of $35/hr, with an expectation of 40 to 50 hours per month, on average. Work Environment and Schedule:
The vast majority of work (with exceptions such as attending Advisory Board meetings and special events) can be done from a home office, and the person who fills this role will be able to create their own schedule. How to Apply: Please send your resume to lyonscfchair@gmail.com by July 20.
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ISSUES The Town of Lyons Comprehensive Plan update zBy Jocelyn Farrell Redstone Review LYONS – As a member of the Planning & Community Development Commission (PCDC), I have been asked to help facilitate an update to the Town of Lyons Comprehensive Plan. The purpose of this Farrell article is to explain what a comprehensive plan is and is not; to explain the process for updating the plan; and to outline the timeline to complete the plan. According to Anne Miller, Colorado Department of Local Affairs Community Development Office Senior Planner, “A municipality’s comprehensive plan, or master plan, is a critical road map to guide decisions about the community’s future development.” A good comprehensive plan is a guide to the future that’s created with as much input as possible from residents. It contains a vision of what a municipality might become, but because communities evolve and, as we know, natural disasters can happen, it does not contain specific policies. Rather, it guides our legislators in creating them. A comprehensive plan is required by Colorado state statute (CO Rev Stat § 31-23-206 (2016)). At a minimum, it must include recreation and tourism elements. However, Miller outlines how comprehensive plans often go above and beyond to answer important questions like: What are our community assets / opportunities? What are our community needs / challenges? What is our community’s vision for the future? What goals, policies, objectives, and actions could help us achieve that vision, and address our challenges and opportunities? Comprehensive plans can go even deeper to include land use, transportation, utilities, housing, natural and cultural resources, public services, and environmental preservation. Elements can also include public health, downtown revitalization, aging, and at-risk populations, to name a few. Our comprehensive plan was created in 2010. Then, the 2013 Flood spurred the creation of the 2014 Lyons Recovery Action Plan and the 2016 Lyons 3-Mile Primary Planning Area Master Plan (LPPA). The LPPA is also a state-required document that “outlines where municipalities may consider annexing property, how they would provide services to the newly annexed areas, and how they would sustain adequate provision of services throughout the rest of the municipality,” according to Miller. Together the three documents comprise the Town’s comprehensive plan. However, relying on three separate, extensive documents to guide our policies is cumbersome. One goal for the update is to incorporate all three into one well defined document that will guide Lyons’ future. The PCDC leads the comprehensive plan process. In March, we started by forming a subcommittee that contains one representative from each Town commission including: Arts & Humanities, Ecology Advisory Board, Economic Vitality, Housing & Human Services, Parks & Recreation, Student Advisory, and Utilities & Engineering. The purpose of this subcommittee was to write a Request for Qualification (RFQ) for a consultant to guide us through the entire process. We spent three weeks discussing many of the wants, needs, and concerns the town will grapple with over the next ten years. More specifically, the RFQ states, “The Lyons Comprehensive Plan will create a long-term vision for building an inclusive and environmentally, economically, and socially resilient, sustainable town. The updated plan should reflect the desire of the community to maintain its small-
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town character and to support and manage growth in a responsible manner. The plan will serve as the foundation for future decisions by Town staff, boards / commissions, and elected and appointed officials. It will guide future inter-governmental relationships. The plan should clearly identify ways to improve processes for future updates to plans. The expectation is for the consultant to prioritize the town’s wants and needs regarding the comprehensive plan. It should specifically identify strategies and resources to develop a process and schedule for implementing updates to the town’s plan.” In addition, the consultant is expected to manage and complete the following or propose another approach consistent with best practices and experience: Community Engagement – Lyons has a very involved community. Successful community engagement includes a high level of involvement throughout the planning process with all segments of the community (public, technical staff, elected and appointed officials, boards and commissions, businesses, developers, etc.) when analyzing issues, generating visions, developing plans and monitoring outcomes. Successful engagement will solicit feedback in several mediums. Involvement should encourage long-term buy-in to the vision, objectives, and actions of the plan. It should also include a method to ensure all those involved will have a chance to participate and have their voices heard. Existing Conditions Analysis – The plan should be data-driven. It should examine existing plans, geographic data, socioeconomic data, and the built environmental to develop a clear picture of where we are today so it can develop a clear launching point for the future. Future Land Use and Development Analysis – The plan should identify how/if/when and where the town grows. The plans should also identify adaptive reuse and redevelopment potential that can help the Town achieve the project focus areas above. Recommendations for Additional Studies –The consultant should identify any areas of study our preliminary work may have overlooked. Action Plan – Although a visionary document, the comprehensive plan should also provide clear timelines, goals, strategies, measurable objectives, and actions, and identify roles that are accountable and responsible. It should have a tool for evaluating future projects, plans, and development for consistency. We will choose a consultant at the end of July. In the meantime, the town is seeking a grant from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), which often helps towns pay for comprehensive plans. We anticipate that we’ll know how much grant money we can expect by October. Then, we’ll sign a formal contract with the chosen consultant. We anticipate starting a community-wide engagement process near the end of this year or early in 2021. The entire process will likely take one year. The unfortunate reality is that we are in the midst of a public health crisis, and we don’t know how COVID-19 might impact this entire process. The PCDC is taking an optimistic approach with the realization that we may have to adjust our expectations. I will gladly keep you updated. The work we do together as a community to plan for our future builds our resiliency and helps ensure, in the face of disaster, we remain Lyons strong. Jocelyn Farrell is a former Trustee of the Lyons Town Board and a new member of the Lyons Planning and Community Development Commission. She is also an artist.
PASTOR EMILY HAGAN AND FAMILY
New Pastor arrives at Lyons Community Church Editor’s Note: Emily Hagan is the new pastor at Lyons Community Church. She wrote the two letters below to introduce herself to the community. Dear Lyons Greater Community, I love you already! I love your resiliency as a community to overcome challenges. I love your patience with traffic going up the mountain. I love your mountain mindfulness, and your can-do spirit. You may disagree with me, and I know you will tell me so. I look forward to our conversations. I love your great music and care for creation. It is my pleasure to serve as the pastor of Lyons Community Church, knowing that their joy is to care for and serve the community. Although this is a very difficult time for all of us, I look forward to meeting you, working with you and ministering together. I hope to hold regular office hours at the Stone Cup on Thursdays mornings. Feel free to get connected for our worship on Sundays at 9:30 by emailing me at pastor@lyonscommunitychurch.org or you can sign up for our weekly newsletter to keep apprised of what is happening on the website. Blessings to you this day and every day. Grace and peace, Emily Hagan (she, her, hers) Dear Lyons Community Church, My name is Emily Hagen. I am very excited to become your new pastor. I am an enthusiastic and faithful disciple of Christ. I graduated from Saint Paul School of Theology in 2004 with a Master of Divinity degree. I was ordained an elder in the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church in 2007. I have served as solo pastor in Rye; associate pastor in Cañon City; pastor in Berthoud; and now serve as half-time pastor at Lyons Community Church. I enjoy preaching scriptural, challenging sermons which stay with people throughout the week. Usually, I enjoy visiting from house to house. I appreciate Wesleyan heritage and have been teaching Wesleyan History and Wesleyan Distinctives at local pastor licensing school for the past two years. This year for the first time, I will also be Dean of the Mountain Sky Licensing School and it has gone online. As a part of my education at Saint Paul School of Theology, I had an immersion experience in a Trappist monastery as well as a Korean / China immersion experience. I have been on many mission trip including trips to Meru, Kenya; Goodland, KS; and Mission, SD. Because of my immersion education, I have also found travel experience to be an important part of spiritual formation. I participated in a Study Sabbath Service project on Francis of Assisi through Columbia Theological Seminary and co-led an educational trip to Assisi. Italy. My husband Erik and I helped lead spiritual pilgrimages to Israel and most recently to Ireland. My husband Erik is an amazing support to ministry. He works as a kindergarten teacher in Loveland. Together we are raising our son Zac, who is five years old. I have been to all 50 states and enjoy music, reading and nature. I currently serve on the Board of Ordained Ministry and as chair for the Peaks New Ministry Council. I also currently serve on the Wesley Foundation Board of CU. I am passionate about worshiping God, inspiring love and nurturing discipleship. You are welcome to read my blog at practicaldiscipleship.wordpress.com/. I am so happy to serve with you as we grow in love of God and love of neighbor. Grace and peace, Pastor Emily Hagan Pastor@lyonscommunitychurch.com
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LOOK AHEAD Register for Greenwood’s Virtual Wild Night Event and help your local wildlife By Chelsea Barrett Redstone Review LONGMONT – The residents of Lyons are wildlife lovers for a reason. We’re likely to encounter some kind of wildlife, whether large or small, on a daily basis. Many people are drawn to Colorado’s Front Range to Barrett recreate outdoors and that includes observing the various animal species that inhabit our communities and open spaces. Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, located just east of Lyons on Colorado Highway 66, is a resource for wild animals in distress and questions about living harmoniously with wildlife in Colorado. Greenwood is licensed to treat orphaned and injured wild mammals and birds from the size of a hummingbird to that of a coyote. Even though we cannot care for larger animals like elk, deer and bears, we can still field inquiries about these species and will help direct the caller to the appropriate resources or offer advice. We are experts in questions about how to deter woodpeckers from pecking on the siding of your house or what to do about foxes denning under your chicken coop. If you have a question about wildlife or have found an animal that may be in need of help, our staff can be reached at 303-823-8455 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. any day of the week. With over 38 years of experience caring for wildlife in our state, Greenwood is well equipped to help. We treat thousands of animals annually and over 200 different species have come through our doors since we were founded. We are the largest rehabilitation center caring for mammals, birds, and waterfowl on the Front Range of Colorado. Greenwood also provides education programs
about rehabilitation, humane solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, and how you can help Colorado’s wildlife. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Greenwood’s busy season was just beginning. Spring and summer are the time of year when the majority of wild animals give birth and over 70 percent of those that we care for are orphaned. Many of you know that we remained open since we are considered essential and rapidly updated our onsite procedures a result.
These baby Common Mergansers are currently receiving care. At Greenwood. There eight in all. During the initial stay-at-home order, we were unable to allow the volunteers and interns that we normally depend on that time of year to come to Greenwood. In order to continue providing the best care possible to the animals, we added more seasonal staff to cover this gap. As with so many businesses and organizations, Greenwood needed to remain resourceful and creative. We tried to accommodate as many animals as possible while pro-
Saving the whales one song at a time By Kati Gosnell Redstone Review LYONS – It is finally summer, and everyone can use good news. It is nice to see stories of how countries are having some success tapering the spread of COVID19 (shout out to New Zealand and Germany). But besides that, and the array of cheeky memes poking fun at the coronavirus, there really isn’t much else to celebrate. Except for the environment. Score one for nature. News stories have been highlighting how much the air and waters have cleared up when all of the humans are forced to go to their rooms and think about their life choices. (Especially when those life
choices are loudly arguing over what to binge watch.) There are even indications that some countries might actually meet their Paris Climate agreement goals. Now is the time to channel some collective action to taking care of ecosystems throughout the world. And the oceans would be a great place to start. One small glimmer of hope for both ocean lovers and Star Trek IV fans has been the modern recovery of whales. These beautiful mammals give charismatic megafauna their due name. The renewal is not evenly shared among species and regions, but the overall trend has been positive. In the past whales were being slaughtered at an alarming rate for their oil and meat. And this hasn’t exactly stopped today (ahem, Japan and Norway and the U.S. in Alaska). Whales were given a slim lifeline when their blubber fell out of favor as an energy source. However, it is notable that the real recovery efforts arose after humpback whale songs were recorded, and new age gurus and everyday folks alike recognized how soulful these gentle giants
could be. Who would have thought that underwater crooning could yield such an impact on a species survival? Science side note: recent research observes that narwhales sound like chainsaws. The Whaling Moratorium finally passed in 1982 and has assisted in their gradual recovery. In recent times elephant seals, gray seals, and southern sea otters have also bounced back into positive numbers. While sea turtles are still endangered, they have also been swimming at an upward trajectory and into recovery. Sea turtle hatches this year benefited tremendously from the lack of tourists along beaches. These success stories have materialized in modern times and demonstrate that environmental successes are possible. Speaking as an oceanographer, this profession can be disheartening. Coral reefs are bleaching away into wastelands, anoxic “dead zones” are growing throughout the world, and microscopic plastic pieces invade the deepest trenches and smallest stomachs. However, a recent journal publication in Nature offered a glimmer of hope and laid out a case that it is still possible to help recover oceans to partial glory by 2050. Considering that the current trajectory for 2050 is that the majority of fish will be decimated, and waters will be dominated by plastic, it is nice to know there is still potential to take a different path. However, it is not enough to just sit around and hope it magically happens. Marine conservation requires a collective effort as a society to change things. One of the easiest things for everybody to do is to use less plastic. The adage goes “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” because that is the order that these actions should be tackled and completed. But more importantly we need collective agreements and actions taken throughout the world. This requires government initiatives and actions. Our leaders need to make decisions based on scientifically sound reasoning in order to help the lands and oceans. The first and most essential act we need to undertake would be to push for and set up extensive global Marine Reserves where all species can live, and thrive, without dis-
tecting the safety of our staff and volunteers. A major source of income, our Thrift Shop & Consignment Gallery in Boulder, was required to close for two months. Since Greenwood relies primarily on donations to fulfill their mission, we need your support. One great way to help this year is to register for our virtual evening of fun and fundraising, Wild Night for Wildlife, which takes place on Saturday, September 19. The live event begins with a Happy Hour, preview and log in from 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. and a virtual event from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Registering also gives you access to the online auction that opens at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, September 16 and closes at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, September 22. This is the first time the event will not take place in person during its 12-year history. Wild Night is a substantial revenue generator for Greenwood and the wildlife in need. Registration is free but please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help offset our expenses. Join us for this virtual event including an online auction (replacing the traditional silent), along with a live auction and a heartwarming special appeal led by entertaining auctioneer Don Martin. Please visit www.greenwoodwildnight.com to register. If you can’t attend or want to support in other ways, Greenwood would appreciate any support you can give towards the treatment of the wildlife that come through our doors. You can make donations online and find other ways to support our work by visiting www.greenwoodwildlife.org. Chelsea Barrett is the Development Manager at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, which cares for thousands of mammals, songbirds and waterfowl each year. Greenwood also offers education programs for children and adults of all ages. Visit www.greenwoodwildlife.org to learn more.
turbance. Nature flourishes when humans give it breathing room. Attention chiefly needs to be focused on fisheries. When fisheries are well managed and regulated it is possible for healthy fish populations to recover and thrive. If we do not begin operating fisheries with targeted sustainability there will be little besides jellyfish and “ghost nets” bearing dead sharks to be found in the open waters. Consumers can drive and support this by only purchasing fish which is sourced and caught sustainably. It is essential to avoid fish caught by trawling and long-line fishing. This pandemic has demonstrated that we can change and adapt quickly. That has always been one of humanity’s greatest
strengths. This societal break is an opportunity to use our voices and a cultural reboot to change things. The pandemic has upended many things about modern times. Let’s ensure some of that change is for the better. Kati Gosnell received a double Bachelor of Science in oceanography and chemistry from Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. She received a Masters degree in oceanography from Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL and her Ph.D. in Oceanography is from the University of Connecticut. Currently she is working in on a ship for the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research near the town of Kiel, Germany.
Jonelle Tucker 303-902-6250 jtucker@realtor.com www.tuckergroupinc.com Special thanks and air hugs to our local fire departments for their speedy response to the recent house fire in Lyons Park Estates and continued protection of our community! SOLD!
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WHAT’S COOKIN’ White beans vinaigrette – summer sensation By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review
resorted to creating my own. But I think it’s a close fit, and I give The Hill credit for the inspiration for this quick and refreshingly delicious recipe.
SAN MIGUEL County – The Hill Seafood and Chop House is a small, toney restaurant that has long graced the upscale Kercheval Avenue neighborhood of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, where I once worked. The male clientele, who frequent the hushed and hallowed chop house, wear the predictable Grosse Pointe uniform: blue blazer, blue oxford shirt (sans tie) tucked in, leather belt, khakis and expensive loafers without socks. The women arrive in cashmere sweaters layered for any season, pearls at the neck and a grosgrain ribbon for a headband, usually accompanied by a fitted khaki shirt and Sperry boat shoes below their bare, tanned legs. Dressed as if, as one comic aptly put it, they never left the 1960s. The food at The Hill goes back a long time, too, and is good, if expensive, but its best-kept secret remains its white beans vinaigrette served with a basket of crusty bread when you’re seated for lunch or dinner. Of all the fancy dishes available at The Hill, it’s this simple inexpensive recipe that my nostalgic taste buds frequently return to. Since they wouldn't share the recipe with me, I have
White Beans Vinaigrette Serves 8; Preparation time: 10 minutes 1/3 C extra virgin olive oil Zest and juice of 1 lemon 1/4 C sweet onion, finely diced 1 clove garlic, chopped Pinch of ground cloves 1/2 t salt Freshly ground black pepper Two 15-oz cans Great Northern or small white beans, drained and rinsed 1/3 C fresh parsley, chopped • Combine olive oil, lemon zest and juice, onion, garlic, parsley, salt, and black pepper to taste in a large bowl and stir to combine. Add the rinsed white beans and stir • Taste and season with more salt and pepper as needed. • Cover and refrigerate for a half hour. Serve at room temperature.
Peach Cobbler is an easy summer dessert By Ardelle Gifford Redstone Review LYONS – It’s almost August and the Palisade peaches are rolling into season. These little Western Slope wonders are growing wildly in popularity, and can be purchased at roadside stands and supermarkets across our region. The peaches are particularly sweet and fragrant and the solar heat at 4,700 feet above sea level where they grow in the environs of Palisade, Colorado, really brings on the fruit. What to do with all these delicious peaches? Slice them up over your homemade granola at breakfast, cut them into a fruit salad, savor them whole
bite by bite, or my favorite, make a peach cobbler. Yes, baking cobbler heats up your kitchen, but the heat of a summer kitchen with the screen door slamming as friends and family head outside, murmuring in the
cooling darkness of the back yard, is a comfort as is the dessert served warm à la mode that finishes your barbecue. I got this recipe from a 1980s Women’s Club cookbook called Seasons of Thyme. It is a favorite dessert that my children, who are now living on their own, text me for the recipe. Peach cobbler à la mode Serves 8 4 C sliced fresh peaches 1 T freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 C flour 1 C sugar 1 slightly beaten egg 6 T melted salted butter Vanilla ice cream • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. • Place the sliced peaches in a pie plate. You can peel the peaches if you like – I prefer to leave the skins on. Sprinkle the lemon juice over the peaches. Set aside. • Combine the flour and the sugar in a
small bowl and stir together. Pour the beaten egg into the center of the flour and sugar mixture and, using a fork, stir together. It will have large lumps when you’ve finished mixing. • Spread this mixture evenly over the peaches. Drizzle the melted butter over the top. • Place in the center of the oven and bake for 35 minutes, or until the topping is golden and the fruit is bubbling. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream. Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking professionally and privately since 1979. She was a French cuisine journeyman at the celebrated Henri d’Afrique restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Today she is the proprietor of the food blog www.foodfortheages.com, and Facebook.com/Food for the Ages. Though she cooks every day in a tiny kitchen with a two-burner stove, her recipes are expansive and she dedicates her craft to living large by cooking well in tiny kitchens.
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Budget Continued from Page 3 it later), total estimated construction cost is $1,262,000. So far, all the Town has done is commit about $100,000 to design work. No funds have been allocated for construction. In 2019, a break in the town’s main water line near the tank on Apple Valley Road had to be repaired. During repairs, it was discovered that the late 1960s-vintage pipe was sitting on rocks, rather than being properly bedded. The break was fixed, but the rest of the pipe in that area needs inspection and possible repair. Nothing has been budgeted for that. Also, a dime-sized leak in the Apple Valley water tank was recently discovered. Significant, but as yet unknown, repair costs may be needed, because a small leak in a big tank wastes a lot of water. The town is awaiting state approval to re-rate and improve its wastewater treat-
At Home with Redstone Extra shaggy Redstone page designer Eileen Tobin enjoyed having a plein air haircut at TK Barbershop & Salon in Lyons. Anthony (pictured) and Kelsey Pecone have moved services outdoors to their breezy carport for an anxiety-free, safety-plus experience. Make your appointment at their Facebook page. Since we cannot travel at this time, send us photos of what you are doing for fun or work as you shelter at home. Include your copy of the Redstone in the photo if you have one. Send to redstarnews5@gmail.com and we will run your photos in the paper.
Town Continued from Page 1 that Browning’s point about informing the board and public was well taken. He said, “I believe there is intentional, sometimes obfuscation regarding actions of town staff.” Waugh went on to say that he supported having a task force to hold both the town board, the town administrator and the town staff accountable for their actions. “I personally feel the town administrator has personal issues against one specific property owner in one case and I have personally experienced bias by the town administrator and the town staff when it comes to a certain property.” Waugh said that while it is never appropriate for the town board to overstep their bounds it is imperative that the town administrator and town staff be forthright with information when asked and said he would like to see a taskforce that can pull
LibraryContinued from Page 7 meeting of the Busy Readers’ Book Club. On Wednesday, August 26 at 7 p.m. we will discuss Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen. Both programs will meet via Zoom; please email info@lyonslibrary.com for the login and password information. We’re pleased to offer our popular Henna for Teens program again this year, with a few modifications, of course. The Henna Design-Creating Workshop for Teens (ages 12 and up) will be held via Zoom on Thursday, July 30 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. We have packets of henna (that must remain in the freezer) for participants to pick up the week before. Register by calling the library at 303-
that information that is blatantly ignored in requests by citizens. Several of the trustees said they would agree with forming a taskforce. Mayor Angelo apologized to Administrator Simonson and said it (his interference with a town project) would not happen again. Trustee Browning said he would agree to a taskforce as long as it would be future oriented and not past directed. “I see little point in digging into things in the past.” Trustee Mike Kavanaugh seemed unsure about the nature of the taskforce. He said that there is always going to be a he said/she said situation regarding disputes due to the nature of how boards are structured and that everyone has the right to challenge any actions by the board on any decision. Trustee Browning volunteered to work with Trustee Waugh to come up with some names for the taskforce. The board held an executive session at the end of the meeting.
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Yard signs “Together” for sale LYONS– Sally King has ordered 30 yard signs with the Milt Glaser art of the word “Together” on it. If someone is interested in one they can contact her at sallywhiteking@live.com. The “Together” yard sign is 5”x18”.
Sunrise Stampede 10K race goes virtual LYONS – The upcoming Sunrise Stampede will be a virtual race. The Sunrise Stampede is a 10k/2-mile run/walk that benefits St. Vrain Students with Special Needs. A couple of highlights: • The virtual race will be held August 6 to August 8. • The race is free for the first 200 SVVSD students to register, thanks to Longmont United Hospital Centura Health. After the 200 free student registrations are claimed, students can register for $15. All student registrations include a free race t-shirt. • Adult registration is $30, with the option to purchase a race t-shirt for $10 • Visit www.sunrisestampede.org for more information. Thank you in advance for helping us spread the word about this important community event. Tammy Palombo is managing the event. For more information, go to tammy.palombo@efsvv.org
Celebrating Wendy Hall for 40 years of service BOULDER – Carnegie Library for Local History manager re-
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ment plant, necessary to address problems encountered since the plant went online in late 2015. Estimated improvements cost: $200,000 or so. With significant rate increases in recent years, the Water-Wastewater Fund balance has stabilized (after declining for years), but no funds are set aside for things like the Apple Valley water line or tank or treatment plant improvements. If those were done now, reserves would have to be tapped. All that is to say the town has many unmet infrastructure needs, with no capital improvements fund to meet them. Is Change Possible? If one believes, as I do, that Lyons needs to change its priorities by reducing overhead and using the savings to create a capital improvements fund, is that possible? It isn’t easy to turn around an ocean liner or even a small town budget that has been trending the other way.
823-5165 or by emailing mccourt@lyonslibrary.com. The Lyons Community Library’s 2020 Summer Reading Program kicked off June 1 and this year’s theme is “Imagine Your Story.” We invite readers of all ages to sign up for this year’s virtual program. To participate, please visit lyonslibrary.beanstack.org to register. We’re offering three challenges: Early Literacy; K-12; and Adult. Once you’ve registered, simply log your reading and activities to earn badges and tickets. Then, enter your tickets into virtual raffle drawings for prizes. Prizes? This year we’re excited to offer chances to win a kayak, educational toys, a portable hammock, and many local gift cards. Traveling this summer and away from your computer? Download the conven-
It’s unrealistic, I think, to expect town staff to make major policy and priority shifts without strong direction from the Board of Trustees. Any area proposed to be cut has a constituency that will object, and it’s easier to object to change than to push for major policy revisions. The law of inertia applies and the status quo tends to prevail. Very few citizens participate in the tedious process of drafting a budget, which runs from August to November. We’re all busy and budget work is hard. In my opinion, though, without citizens voicing a desire for more emphasis on infrastructure and less on “overhead”, things won’t change much. And that would be a shame. Mark Browning is a Lyons resident and retired attorney. He serves as a Trustee on the Lyons Town Board and he is active with the Lyons Volunteers and Lyon Emergency & Assistance Fund.
ient Beanstack app. Finally, families are invited to pick up a complimentary copy of this year’s One Book Colorado, The Little Red Fort by Brenda Maier. Copies are available in both English and Spanish. Copies may be picked up as part of curbside delivery or when visiting the library by appointment. Remember, 45-minute appointments can be made by calling the library at 303-8235165 and are available beginning at the top of each hour on Mondays and Thursdays between 10 am and 4 p.m.; Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.; and on Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. We’ve missed you, Lyons. Kara Bauman, MLIS, is the Director of the Lyons Regional District Library.
Baby squirrel found in River on St. Croix, WI nursed back to health From Lisa White Redstone Review RIVER ON ST. CROIX, WI – Two baby squirrels appeared on the porch of Lisa and Bob White’s house in Wisconsin. Lisa’s father had gotten fed up with the squirrels raiding bird feeders and dispersed them from his feeders. Lisa took in the two babies; one died soon after, but the other one is surviving. His name is Rocket J. Squirrel and he is doing very well on a diet of puppy milk replacer (administered with a syringe), almonds, and peeled pears, according to Lisa. “I offer him a huge variety of foods, but those are his favorites,” she said. “Bob built him an outdoor habitat, where he can live when he gets older and stronger. We plan to gradually reintroduce him to the wild.”
tires after 40 years of public service. Wendy Hall started working for Boulder Public Library in 1980 as a library assistant at the George Reynolds Branch Library. She was quickly promoted to Circulation Desk Supervisor, and then was offered the opportunity to start up the Meadows Branch Library in 1988. In 1993, Hall became the manager of the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History. According to Hall, “I spent a week at Carnegie, which was all it took to convince me that this was the best job in the world. Every time someone came in with a question, I was able to explore the vast collection of documents, photographs, maps, oral histories, and ‘stuff’ that make up the archive. Not one day went by that I didn’t learn something new about Boulder’s history. Carnegie’s collections are a treasure trove of historical information about Boulder that can’t be found elsewhere. Having the opportunity to bring the collection into the 21st century with our digitization project has been the icing on the cake. I have been fortunate to have been able to witness a lot of changes in policies, technology, buildings, and programming, yet it is the people with whom I work that I will miss the most.” The Carnegie staff, volunteers, and BGS members organized a surprise drive-by celebration for Wendy. Best wishes Wendy. We look forward to still seeing you at Heritage Roundtable.
Town seeking payroll/accounts clerk LYONS – The Town of Lyons is accepting applications for a Payroll/Accounts Payable Clerk. This is a full-time regular position eligible for benefits. Please complete an online application or call us at 303-823-6622 ex.22 for more information. Job Title: Accounts Payable/Payroll clerk Department: Finance
Salary Range: $16.90 to $23.80 per hour Job Type: 40 hours per week, Full Time Non-Exempt. Location: Town Hall, 432 5th Avenue, Lyons Under the direction of the Finance Director/Treasurer, the AP/Payroll Clerk will perform multiple tasks in the Finance department, with a focus on Accounts Payable and Payroll. Partial statement of duties include: • Process accounts payables, ensure integrity of data in the Town’s accounting system, and prepare general ledger entries as required. • Post entries involving analysis to proper accounts; maintain current record of status; balance against other accounting records and prepare reports. • Process invoices for approval by department supervisors, the Town Administrator, and the Town Board to pay vendors and suppliers. • Prepare checks/ACH for vendor payments. • Maintain and adjust accounts as necessary; maintain records; maintain related records as necessary. • Type technical and/or statistical reports, correspondence, and other office forms. • Review correspondence and reports; determine information to be extracted for further use; determine routing and filing. • Assist with tasks related to program compliance with Town policies, procedures, rules, and regulations. • Payroll processing and analysis, verification of employee withholdings, print payroll checks/prepare payroll ACH, determine employee earnings, report distribution and balancing. • Work with Human Resources to process wage garnishments and levies by federal, state, and county court orders. • Make withholding tax deposits, reconcile and generate checks/ACH for payroll deductions/benefits with various private, state and federal agencies, create general ledger entries for payroll, benefits and withholdings. • Prepare all payroll reporting requirements, ie. Quarterly reporting, W-2s, 1099R’s and all year end reports.
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Schools Continued from Page 4 Chastidee Bolkovatz, the president of the Parent Teacher Organization at LES, said, “We are ready to see what reopening looks like, but I am aware that everything could change. We are cautiously optimistic and will be ready to shift gears if need be.” Other parents are more doubtful. “(The
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guidelines) sound pretty loose. How do you make six-year-olds social distance? You can’t is the answer. We have to trust the teachers and the school to follow procedures, which I do. It’s young kids that you can’t always control and watch,” Heidi Dunn, a parent of a student at LES, said. Lyons students with underlying health issues or special circumstances may opt for
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SPECTACULAR LOCATION WITH OUTSTANDING END OF THE ROAD PRIVACY WITH LITTLE THOMPSON RIVER FRONTAGE! Adjacent to Pinewood Springs Open Space. Well built raised ranch Modular home with aluminum clad, wood windows, decks on 3 sides and on 2 levels. Beautiful view of the valley, pellet stove, solar system, and newer Bosch dishwasher. 464 Cree Court, Lyons / $468,500
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ENJOY SPECTACULAR BACK-RANGE VIEWS + TOWN AND VALLEY VIEWS FROM THE DREAM HOME YOU CAN BUILD ON ONE OF THE LAST LOTS AVAILABLE IN THE TOWN OF LYONS! Quiet cul-de-sac location surrounded by upscale homes; plenty of level ground to build on + walkout basement possible. Lot next door to the south is also available for $225K (618 Overlook Drive, Lot 20). Approx. $27k for water & sewer tap + approx. $55k for required water share. 620 Overlook Drive, Lyons / $235,000
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full-time online learning through the St. Vrain LaunchED Virtual Academy. This K-12 distance learning program was created through a partnership between St. Vrain and the Florida Virtual School and is monitored by St. Vrain teachers. The curriculum is delivered through Schoology, the same online program students used during the spring school closure. Learning has been particularly challenging for students with disabilities during the coronavirus outbreak. Many have worked without a regular viable learning plan. As part of the St. Vrain reopening, all students with Individualized Learning Plans (IEP’s) will be contacted by a case manager to discuss the individual schedule of each student. Students who attend Main Street School and centerbased programs may receive in-person instruction every day. School bus transportation has also been a concern for local Lyons parents since district school buses will not be able to accommodate as many students as in previous years. With limited bus space, parents are encouraged to drive their children to school. Students need to be registered before August 1 for riding eligibility. The protocol for riding the bus will also be guided by the health and safety mandates of the school district. In between routes, drivers will disinfect seats, windows, and aisles. Students are expected to wear a face covering while riding the bus. They will also be given assigned seats, required to sit with family members, and expected to enter from the back of the bus. If a student is showing flu-like symptoms, a driver may take that student’s temperature. As for the Lyons school cafeterias, lunch
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will be served as in previous years; hot lunch will be available, and menus will be presented on the school website. But unlike in past years, students will be expected to wear a face covering until they sit down to eat. Cafeteria staff will wear face coverings and have a temperature check before preparing a meal. While the reopening of schools may be
halting and ever-changing, school administrators are undeniably being presented with challenges unlike anything experienced before. “It’s not going to be easy because we’ve never done it before,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Thursday in the Washington Post. “This is uncharted waters, always remembering the primary issue is the safety and welfare of children as well as the teachers who are going to be interacting with the children.” Tracy Pearce is a writer and former English teacher whose work has appeared in the Colorado Review and Chicago’s Hyde Park Herald among other publications. She is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. She lives in Lyons with her husband and two children.
Coronavirus testing steps up in Colorado Editor’s note: This is the fourth story in a series of COVID-19 stories that have been written through the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), an independent media resource hub that serves all Coloradans by strengthening high-quality local journalism, supporting civic engagement, and ensuring public accountability. These stories about dealing with COVID come from all over Colorado. By Scott Condon The Aspen Times ASPEN – Noon: Parking lot of the El Jebel Laundromat, Eagle County. Fabiola Grajales waited for the nose swab that would tell her whether she was finally free of the coronavirus and able to be near her family again. In one of Colorado’s COVID-19 hotspots, a coalition of Eagle County Public Health, MidValley Family Practice and the Mobile Intercultural Resource Alliance has set up this free mobile testing site. Grajales, 27, a medical assistant at a Glenwood Springs clinic, said she started feeling sick March 2 and tested positive for the virus March 6. Over the next week,
Nosy Continued from Page 5 our neighbors more. If we’re on video meetings a lot (who isn’t?) we get to see a lot more of people’s personal lives than we are used to. We have opportunities to break out of isolation in less usual ways, pay attention and step up when we notice something doesn’t feel quite right. Building bridges with others who might need our help helps us and them. We should all welcome friendly, well-intentioned nosiness, picking up on cues that others around us are in distress and offering our presence, our interest, our compassion. Coretta Scott King said, “The greatness of a community is most accu-
her cough worsened and she experienced shortness of breath. “You know when you step on dry leaves? I could hear that sound coming from my lungs.” “You get really bad headaches,” Grajales continued. “You feel like your eyes, they’re going to pop out. I couldn’t smell or taste anything.” Doctors at Grand View Hospital in Rifle confirmed she had pneumonia and treated her there but didn’t admit her, she said. She self-isolated for 10 days before symptoms disappeared. But a follow-up test showed she still had coronavirus. After more rest, Grajales feels “90% better, maybe 95,” she said. Waiting her turn for yet another test, Grajales said the knowledge and contacts she’s gained working in health care helped her acquire tests and treatment, with some effort. “It was hard for me,” she said. “I can’t imagine how hard it would be for other people.” Scott Condon is a reporter with The Aspen Times.
rately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” We are a great community. We show it by acting from the compassion of being nosy in a friendly way and being willing to help. Janaki Jane has worked for over 35 years assisting people toward wellness. She is the Director of the Wide Spaces Community Initiative, “Creating a Community of Belonging and Personal Safety for Everyone,” a program through the Lyons Regional Library. Janaki teaches multiple classes on mental health and suicide prevention and creates community-building events. She can be reached at wscilyons@gmail.com.