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B •R •I •E •F •S Library construction shifts Recycling Center and RTD lot LYONS – As the new library approaches construction, the town and associated partners have prepared the south side of the Wastewater Treatment Plant center (198 Second Ave.), as the recycling center’s new site, as the library will be located at the current RTD lot site. The town, together with Boulder County, plans to have the recycling center relocated by mid-September. The library’s construction is anticipated to begin in October. In late September (approximately September 21), the RTD lot will permanently close as a parking lot. Please plan accordingly; vehicles parked in the lot after September 21 are subject to towing. Additionally, there is parking along U.S. 36 (eastbound) between Railroad Ave and Park Ave. The Kurt Carlson Skatepark will also be removed around this time, as the building contractors mobilize for library construction. A new skatepark is currently scheduled to be built in Bohn Park, as part of Phase II of the Recovery Project.
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Library District seeking public input for new director search LYONS – The Lyons Regional Library District is seeking public input to help develop a profile of the ideal candidate for our new library director. We would love to know what strengths or qualifications you think a new library director should possess in order to be successful in our community. Please send your comments by October 31 to: Lyons Library Director Search @ gmail. com.
Free youth mental health first aid class September 29 LYONS – Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond Continue Briefs on Page 6
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Water rates, water taps and sales taxes dominate the Town Board discussions By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – The Lyons Town Board made a motion at the September18 meeting to follow the advice of town staff and to deny the appeal to reduce the utilities/tap fees for Lyons Properties LLC, also known as River Bend. The appeal by Lyons Properties was continued from the September 4 board meeting. Lyons Properties and Wee Casa (Tiny Homes), located at River Bend, sought to prove to the Board of Trustees (BOT) that they were being overcharged for tap fees that were left over from the flood and that they did not use. The town charges Lyons Properties for nine taps fees and $55,000 was owed on their utility bill. The property is owned by Mike Whipp, Kenyon Waugh, Steve Beck, John Eaton, and Jerry Moore. The water taps were due to be shut off on August 15 if no payments were made. At the town board meeting on August 6, Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen said that sewer taps are counted by the same ratio that is used for RVs, which is a ratio of one tap for four RVs. There are 23 tiny homes at Wee Casa at River Bend; tiny homes fall into the RV category. The bill was allowed to escalate because the staff wanted to be business friendly. Cutting off the utilities would be a great hardship since the weddings at River Bend are often booked a year or two in advance, along with caterers, bands, etc. The utility bill eventually grew to $55,000. In July, Kenyon Waugh made a good-faith payment of $5,000 on the utility bill, and in
August about 60 percent of the bill was paid. Lyons Properties went into an appeal process with the town at the September 4 meeting. Both Lyons Properties and the town staff presented their cases. Kenyon Waugh presented the case for Lyons Properties. The issue in question was the nine sewer taps that Waugh said they should not be charged for, and he said that he and his partners were being treated unfairly. Waugh said that $32,440 of the disputed utility bill was paid. Town administrator Victoria Simonsen said at the Sept. 4 meeting that the business was not being treated unfairly and that everyone who lost their property in the flood had to continue to pay their base rate for water and
sewer taps, but not for water usage. The taps, she explained, were valued added to the property. The owner of a property without any taps has to bring in the utilities at great expense. A property with the taps in place is worth much more money. The taps go with the property whether it has a house on it or not. Those homeowners who had lost their houses in the flood were all distraught, for they had to pay their tap fees even when their houses were destroyed and they could not use their water or sewer. For those who were unable to pay the fees, the money was taken out of the sale at the buyout when the houses were purchased by the town or the county with FEMA funding. Trustee Mark Browning pointed out in an 11-page document that Lyons Properties was not discriminated against, it was in fact given privileges that other homeowners and Continue Town on Page 14
Governor and other officials speak at 2013 Flood recovery event By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – It was a beautiful day in Bohn Park on September 10 when dignitaries gathered with a large group of residents to celebrate the recovery and five-year anniversary of the 2013 flood that ripped through Lyons and gutted the infrastructure. Bohn Park has been largely repaired from the severe water damage it sustained and looked splendid with new walkways, trees, tables and benches. Several new ball fields
Governor John Hickenlooper spoke at an event in Lyons marking five years of recovery since the flood of 2013. will soon be under construction. Mayor Connie Sullivan addressed the Continue Governor on Page 14
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LYONS 9Health Fair celebrates 10 years in Lyons By Sara Erickson Redstone Review LYONS – The 10th Annual Lyons 9Health Fair will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2018 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and will again be at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 200 Second Avenue, Lyons. Organizers are encouraging the community to save the date for the event. The fair provides a vital service, particularly for those who don’t have regular access to health care. The health fair, as it has in previous years, will include free and reduced-price health screenings. There will be several Spanish speaking providers present. Sue Wratten, Medical Coordinator for the Lyons 9HealthFair, is hopeful that residents will take advantage of the family friendly event with many free screenings. “Health fairs are a way to hone
in on a few important screenings and make them accessible to the general population. Normal findings in basic screenings are the good part of healthcare. The fair provides the perfect venue to ask health-related questions,” Wratten said. The event, which promotes self-care and wellness, will offer a range of free health tests, including: diabetes risk assessment and education; hand screening; hearing screening; height / weight / BMI screening; nutrition screening; oral health screening; pap smear screening and breast exam; skin screening by a dermatologist; blood pressure; spinal screening; stress management screening; vision and eye health screening; rheumatoid arthritis screening; and more. We will have qualified police officers doing car seat checks outside the church. New this year: Blood typing ($30) will be available for participants (online regis-
L E T T E R S •T O •T H E •E D I T O R Dandelion wine, anyone? With or without glyphosate? LYONS –One particular passage from Patty Smith’s book Just Kids sticks with me as can happen sometimes with a good book. It is her as a kid playing in a meadow with her friends as the sun’s going down while the parents lay on a blanket drinking dandelion wine. It was the late 1940s, back in eastern Pennsylvania. I can picture the foggy golden light and hear the dreamy laughter coming out of those faces. But when she goes back 50 years later, only cement remains. Here in Lyons I wonder what has happened to our land over the past 50 years? Since the introduction of a water-soluble chemical called glyphosate, a whole hell of a lot. Glyphosate, was “classified as probably carcinogenic to humans” according to a new report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization’s France-based cancer research arm (Bush, 2017). Because of its water-solubility it’s found in all of our bodies. It’s literally raining down on us. And it’s really hard to clean-up; especially if we keep spraying. In this case, abstinence really is our best protection. Did you know that glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup? Roundup is the world’s most widely used herbicide. Monsanto, created and sells this product. They are also the creator of Agent Orange. Roundup has been sprayed / dumped / poured etc. on almost every surface someone wanted weed-free, including our parks. Maybe you remember a place like Smith’s Pennsylvania meadow from your youth. But we live in the western US,
tration only). C-Reactive protein test (CRP) ($35). CRP is a substance produced by the liver that increases in the presence of inflammation in the body. Flu vaccines: Walgreens is providing flu vaccines on-site if you also are getting a blood chemistry panel. You can pay with cash or Walgreens will bill your insurance, so remember to bring your insurance information. Flu vaccine vouchers: If you opt to have any blood tests, we will have vouchers for free flu shots at Safeway stores. The vouchers are available first come, first served basis. You will need to take your voucher to a Safeway for the vaccine. Screenings: Screenings with a cost: blood chemistry; PSA; Vitamin D;
open space, wilderness untouched, majestic mountains and waters abound! So blessed we are to have that meadow scene any time we want! All we have to do is walk down to Lavern Johnson Park and this idyllic scene is commonplace. However, if you look deeper, the scene is not so tranquil. In April and June 2018 Roundup was applied to the mulched beds bordering the playgrounds and zip line area. Soil samples revealed that the soil near the zip line area was still contaminated with glyphosate over a month later. That really spoils the idyllic scene.
Kids at play in LaVern Johnson Park. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS
A more recent picture that has entered my ethers is one my mom describes of her ecosystem in Florida. The Okeechobee River has been so overrun with toxic herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers from industrial farming
Vitamin B12; blood cell count; hemoglobin a1c; colon cancer screening kit. Blood test costs are lower than most insurance deductibles and we will have vouchers available for those unable to pay for the blood chemistry test. We need both medical and nonmedical volunteers to make this event a success. Please go to the website, 9healthfair.org, to volunteer. Or feel free to contact our medical coordinator, Sue Wratten, RN, at steveandsuew@gmail.com. The 9Health Fair is Colorado’s largest non-profit, volunteer-driven health fair program. Together, with a local team of volunteers and coordinators, the Lyons 9Health Fair provides life-saving, professional health screenings and education programs. Thanks to all our committed volunteers, sponsors, and suppliers, our local health fair has continued to be an annual success. To learn more about the 9HealthFair go to 9healthfair.org.
that the beaches up and down the coast are experiencing the worst red tide ever seen. Sea turtles are dying, all the stores are closed, the home owners can’t open their doors and windows or coughing persists, hundreds have sought medical care for breathing difficulties due to toxic exposure. One man died. These are the immediate negative impacts of glyphosate and other antibiotic chemicals felt across ecosystems. And what happens in Lyons when the 800 acres gravel mine opens? Martin Marietta is proposing to flatten and surface mine the area between Hygiene and Lyons. It could wipe out the last eagle nest, destroy an archeological site, and cause tremendous traffic at Hwy 36 and 66. Our sacred land and lucrative tourism industry would likely be effected by 230 semi-trucks leaving that corner ever 3 mins. I don’t expect our air quality to get better for cyclists or for your commute to be shorter. Luckily, SOSVV (Save Our St. Vrain Valley) and it’s 500 members are working tirelessly to protect our Gateway to the Rockies. In fact there’s a benefit at Planet Bluegrass on Thursday, September 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. featuring Rapidgrass, Jamie Stone and Lakota singers. Buy your tickets at www.sosvv.wordpress.com. I am proposing that we stand up for what the Front Range means to us: clean air and water for our recreational needs. I call on Lyons residents to ignore a few dandelions, reject the open pit. Put some sweat equity into taming the unwanted weeds by pulling them, not spraying. I call on Lyons residents to say NO to the gravel mine by buying tickets to the benefit that funds the legal team. We have a chance to tell our Board to stop poisoning our parks, river and bodies. We have a chance to tell Boulder Continue Letter on Page 13
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MAYOR’S CORNER Five years after the flood: Thoughts on our recovery By Connie Sullivan, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – In the first days after the flood I remember thinking to myself how long and hard the recovery process was going to be for our town. Several experts did their best to sound hopeful as they prepared the Sullivan town staff and Board for what lay ahead. They all said the recovery would take five to seven years, and of course they were right. They have seen many such disasters and knew all too well the long process that would ensue. In 2013, it was hard to image “recovery.” Friends and neighbors had just lost their homes and lifetimes worth of memories. There were endless questions with confusing and often conflicting answers. The cost to rebuild was going to be enormous compared to the town’s coffers, and the necessary grant funding seemed inaccessible due to a tangled web of regulations. My feelings of anxiety had to be set aside because there simply was not time to be overwhelmed; there were too many tasks that needed immediate attention. While thoughts of recovery were mostly a blur, I recall vivid examples of neighbors, and in many cases strangers, reaching out and supporting each other to get through those first weeks and months. I still feel an enormous sense of pride and awe when I think of these acts of humanity. The community came together impressively in that first year. I credit former Mayor Julie Van Domelen
and Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen for harnessing that determination (aka: grit) and bringing the community together in planning for the rebuilding of Lyons into the strong, thriving town that it is today. The town held two flood related anniversary events in Bohn Park to commemorate the recovery. Our parks have become symbols of our community commitment and perse-
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verance. The first event was organized by the state and was attended by Governor Hickenlooper and Senator Bennet, both of whom have made several visits to Lyons over the past five years. It was wonderful to show them the progress we’ve made, and to thank them in person for their support. Lyons has not accomplished this recovery alone. If not for the leadership of Governor Hickenlooper and his team, as well as close partnerships among the Boulder County communities, our recovery could have stalled. On several
LEAF: Neighbors helping neighbors By Kate Kerr Redstone Review
2008, a group of compassionate residents saw that additional assistance was needed to help those with emergencies and basic needs. The Lyons Community Church founded two ministries: Basic Needs and Emergency Fund and Lyons Community
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in Bohn Park in honor of Mr. Gerald Boland and his family, and we cannot claim that all our friends and neighbors were able to return to Lyons despite their desire to do so. Most importantly, the community owes the Town of Lyons staff an enormous, “thank you” for their hard work and persistence. This is an especially capable and determined group that have exemplified that “We’ve Got Grit” bumper sticker printed by Flappies Print Shop in the weeks
Food Pantry. These later became Lyons Emergency and Assistance Fund (LEAF). Then came the September 2013 flood. Suddenly the need for neighbors helping neighbors went into the highest possible gear. Neighbors woke neighbors shouting to them to get out. Go to high ground. Mr. Boland unlocked the school as a safe refuge, and then lost his life as he returned home to be sure his wife was safe. Dozens of homes were destroyed. Heroic rescuers saved many lives. Neighbors shared food and offered respite. Many homes that remained were uninhabitable. The town was left without basic utilities. Soon everyone was asked to evacuate their homes for at least several months. Where to go? How to find a place to live? How to pay for home as well as a new place? How to replace lost possessions? Vehicles were flooded, stuck in the mud or even washed away. How to wade through the red tape of insurance and FEMA? Fortunately, two town organizations were already in existence to step in to help. LEAF teamed up with the Lyons
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occasions town officials have met with various state departments to sort out the funding snags, permit issues, or regulatory questions. Senator Bennet was instrumental in securing much of the federal disaster funding that the state needed and took a personal interest in our progress. The second event was for Lyons residents, old and new, to reconnect and reflect on how far we’ve come and on what was lost. While Lyons is an example of a successful recovery on most counts, many families will never get back what they lost in 2013. Our commemorations included a tree planting
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Community Foundation (LCF) to create a campaign entitled “Rebuild Lyons, One Life at a Time.” Suddenly over 800 donors gave nearly $1 million. 290 grants of a maximum of $5,000 per household were distributed to help greater Lyons residents with their immediate and short-term needs. Grant checks went out before Christmas 2013, and the Associated Press picked up our story which was broadcast nationwide. Services included counseling and information about available resources. However, at least $500,000 of established need was left unprovided for due to a lack of funds. LEAF and LCF applied for as many grants as possible and continued to encourage donations. After the flood, despite the strong desire for everyone who lost their home to return to town, far too many found this dream impossible. Many homes were too damaged to repair. Other people could not afford to rebuild to the strict standards required to build in a floodway. Other people just needed to get on with Continue LEAF on Page 14
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INTEREST Green Goo: Made in Lyons, sold across the US By Don Moore Redstone Review
mainly for family and friends who were looking for products made from natural ingredients,” Jodi said. Eventually it became a ‘hobby gone wild’ and in 2009 the first product, First Aid, went to market. “It’s similar to Neosporin, the sort of thing people would carry with them at all times.” First Aid is used to heal dry cracked hands, scrapes, cuts, sunburn, poison ivy, and insect bites. And, like all
LYONS – September 2013 marked many things for many people. Lyons suffered from its historic flood, but about the same time Sierra Sage put its first “Made in Lyons” label on its products. Today the Moore company’s Green Goo brand herbal products are sold across the United States and in parts of Canada. Earlier in 2018 the company moved its head offices out of the owners’ homes and into space at 424 Main St. The world headquarters houses the corporate offices, plus a retail outlet offering its products, including sunglasses made from recycled plastic, umbrellas, and socks. “We’re a woman owned, family operated B Corporation, known as Sierra Sage,” Jodi Scott, founder and CEO, said recently. Together with Jodi, who was a premed major in college, her sister, Jen Scott, and Left to right, Kathy, Jodi and Jen Scott are the owners of Sierra Sage, a womanmother, Kathy Scott, are the owned, family operated B Corp, makers of Green Goo brand products. owners. The three women, together with each of their husbands, all work in the its products First Aid is homeopathic, made with 100 perenterprise that employs 28 people. cent natural and high quality ingredients. “Jen, a midwife, is also an herbalist who formulates all The company grew exponentially and since 2016 most our products, and I lead the company,” Jodi said. Her of its products are sold under the Green Goo brand mother, Kathy, has developed her talent in graphic arts name. The company does none of its own manufacturby designing all the labels for the company’s approxi- ing. Instead all products are produced in various locamately 100 to 150 different products, including pet for- tions throughout the United States. In turn brokers and mulas and a baby line. Toothpaste and deodorant are distributors are used to get the products to market. being added to the mix this fall. Currently, products are shipped from the company’s “This started out as a hobby where we made products warehouse located on Fifth Ave. in Lyons. The company
Explore Lyons’ history By Monique Sawyer Lang Redstone Review LYONS – Looking for something fun to do in the waning days of September? Why not drop by the Lyons Redstone Museum and explore Lyons history. Located at 340 High Street, in the Sawyer-Lang town’s original schoolhouse, the museum offers an opportunity to travel back in time. You can sit in the booths from the town’s original soda fountain, read what was happening in the news over 100 years ago in the Lyons Newspapers: A History exhibit, view an extensive collection of antique and vintage cameras, read excerpts from the WWII diary of Charles P. Swift, which he started on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor, and much, much more. Now is your chance to view the new exhibit All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. It wasn’t long after the 1881 founding of the Town of Lyons that the Denver, Utah, and Pacific railroad made its way to Lyons. Arrival of the railroad in 1885 signaled a new era in the development of the town, making the shipping of sandstone more efficient and opening up the area to a bustling tourism industry. The new exhibit highlights the history of the railroad and the depot building through photographs, ephemera, and artifacts from the museum’s collections,
some of which have never before been on display. An HO scale model railroad kit of the depot building, telegrams to and from Town of Lyons founder E.S. Lyon, and the scale model of the depot building used during the campaign to restore it and make it the the town’s library are a few of the items that are on display . September is also your last chance to see the temporary exhibit Tiny Stories – Art of the Dollhouse. On loan to the Lyons Redstone Museum for the 2018 museum season by former Lyons resident Ann O’Brien, the dollhouses will be heading off to a new location to be enjoyed by others. The intricately detailed dollhouses represent five eras in history, and are accompanied by stories created by Ann O’Brien about the lives of those who may have lived in the houses. Stop by to enjoy these unique dollhouses before they are gone. The museum will be hosting one final session of the 2018 History Talk Lecture Series: Saving Lyons Schools on Thursday, October 11, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the museum. LaVern Johnson will be giving the history of the fight to save Lyons schools from being closed and the students bused to larger schools in Longmont, a battle which began in the late 1940s and continued into the 1970s. Light refreshments will be served. The entire museum will be open to the public that evening. The Lyons Redstone Museum will be open daily through September 30 and by appointment over the winter. It will reopen on weekends in May, starting May 4. If you would like to schedule a winter visit contact the museum at 303823-5271 or email us at redstonehistory@gmail.com.
will soon outgrow that space and the Scotts are hoping to build a bigger warehouse in Lyons. In addition to online sales from the company’s website, retail outlets include such stores as Walmart, Target, Albertson’s, Safeway, Lyons Reruns, and pharmacies across the country. Moreover, Green Goo products are sold on Amazon.com. On a recent camping trip Kathy was thrilled to see Green Goo products being sold in park visitor centers. None of the owners has a business background, so Jodi as CEO has sought advice from the owners of many startups. “I learned aggressively along the way, asking many questions about what they did wrong. That has helped me more than anything else,” Jodi said. She listens to many podcasts on running a business, as well as meeting weekly with a business coach. “I have learned how to do things I did not know how to do, including developing an agility to move swiftly when opportunities appear. The current challenge is learning how to support the growth we’re experiencing.” Jodi proudly points out that the company is a B corporation, a for-profit corporation which has received a private certification issued by B Lab, a global nonprofit organization. To obtain the certification a company must receive a minimum score on an assessment for social and environmental performance. As a part of its B corporation designation, Sierra Sage donates a portion of the profits for most of its products to charitable causes. These are organizations doing good things in the world such as 1percent For the Planet, Sports Summit for Soldiers, Keep a Breast Foundation, and World Vision International for baby products. “We work with organizations that make a difference,” Jodi said. In keeping with the company’s philosophy of giving back, on Friday, September 28, the entire company team, all 28 employees, will be spending the day working on the Lyons Habitat for Humanity project on Park St. To learn more, visit the company store 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 404 Main St, call 303-8232468, or go online at www.greengoohelps.com. Don Moore is a retired lawyer and the author of Love is a Verb: Healing Yourself through Love, Gratitude and Compassion. He lives in Lyons.
September is your last chance to see Tiny Stories – Art of the Dollhouse, on loan by former Lyons resident Ann O’Brien. The Lyons Redstone Museum looks forward to seeing you in 2019 when the museum will be celebrating its 40th year of operation. Museum staff will be busy over the winter creating new exhibits and activities for the 2019 season. Visit the museum’s new website lyonsredstonemuseum.com in 2019 for a schedule of events and to see what’s planned for the coming year. 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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Rocky Flats to build nuclear triggers. There was a “spill” at work and shortly after he fell ill and died from cancer. As a child, I mostly recall him disappearing into the hospital where only the nurses and doctors got to see him. When I was a teenager, I struggled in high school and found a way out by attending Front Range Community College with their vocational-tech program. I received my nurse aid license and worked at Berthoud nursing home from 15 to 18 years old. What is the biggest misconception about Stillwater? (i.e., naturopathic medicine) That it is anti-western medicine. When I first opened the business, I had an overwhelming number of patients who hated doctors and wanted to treat serious medical conditions with energy medicine. I’m not saying that isn’t possible, but I am trained in, and actively utilize, all the tools in the medicine chest including diagnostic testing and pharmaceutical therapies. What does Stillwater bring to the Lyons and surrounding community that it does not have? Dr: Hart: Stillwater was my inspiration while sitting alongside the St Vrain River at Bohn Park on one of my frequent visits to my parents in Colorado from my home in Portland. Stillwater provides a unique resource for integrative medicine, combining what I consider to be the best of what medicine has to offer today. Plus, our goal to empower others in their health inspires our educational programs that are growing and evolving all the time. One more question, Dr. Hart, horses. You bought property in Apple Valley where they live, and you offer horse riding lessons. Do you consider them a business or a love or both? My horses are my passion; I feel like it is absolutely part of my life purpose to provide a safe and loving home for these gentle giants who are so awkwardly displaced from modern life. We have a lovely horseback riding program happening. Dr. Hart, ND, Lac, works with three other trained specialists: James Hart, CAC III; Jason Vest, Certified Nutritionist; and Sara Schultz, CPC. For more information go to Stillwater Healing Arts, 418 High Street Lyons, CO 80540 or call303-823-9355 or go to https://stillwaterhealingarts.com/.
OPTIONS Naturopathic healthcare: an interview with Dr. Sara Hart By Tamara Vega Haddad Redstone Review LYONS – The future of medicine is female. With women’s enrollment in medical school up to Haddad 50.01 percent, the field is finally seeing a balance in economics and gender. With the gender evolution also comes an awakening of the Naturopathic Doctor, a specialty practice that has been around for thousands of years. In Lyons it can be found at Dr. Sara Hart’s Stillwater Healing Arts Clinic and Apothecary, 418 High Street, Lyons. Dr. Hart, ND, LAc, recently moved her practice from the corner of High St. and Third Ave, where she opened in November 2011, to the building that was once the White Lion gift store. “Our lease was up,” Dr. Hart said, “and I was eager to find a permanent home for the clinic, and by the grace of the Gods and the EDC Revolving Loan Fund plus the generosity of Lyla Carter and her husband, the former White Lion was ready to be transformed, and the new Stillwater Clinic and Apothecary was born. Lyla had put so much effort into creating the environment. It has a zen garden; it was meant to be a healing space.” What inspired you, what compelled you to be a Naturopathic Doctor? Dr. Hart: I got a job as a home health care aid in the evenings while working on my undergrad in pre-Med and philosophy. My clients came from a region that included the borders of the Navajo reservation in southwest Colorado. I soon learned I had two very different client populations: the standard Americans who needed help with getting to and from the toilet, bathing, dressing and most aspects of life; and then there were those who had utilized the traditional diet, lifestyle and medicine of the Navajo people, who needed help with opening their mail and sorting their bills or getting cobwebs off their ceiling fans. The contrast was profound. Somehow this latter group had maintained their mental and much of their physical facul-
ties into old age. So, I added the study of ethnobotany to my coursework, found a local herb shop to apprentice at and became fascinated with the use of plants as medicine. While struggling over applications to allopathic medical school, I discovered the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland Oregon. Their fully accredited medical program was and still is equivalent to the standards
eases for over 2,000 years. We can say that naturopathic doctors work in clinics and treat people for illness too, what do you see as the differences? Dr. Hart: Stillwater provides a unique resource for integrative medicine combining what I consider to be the best of what medicine has to offer today. Western medicine diagnostic testing,
Dr. Sara Hart’s Stillwater Healing Arts Clinic and Apothecary has moved to 418 High Street, the former location of the White Lion gift store. Dr. Hart is a Naturopathic Doctor, a specialty practice that has been around for thousands of years. and curriculum of western medical schools, and it incorporates studies on the integration of organ systems, comprehensive study of nutrition and physiology, classical homeopathy, spinal manipulation techniques that are also utilized in chiropractic and osteopathic schools, herbal medicine, and so much more. Plus, it shared the same building with a Classical Chinese Medicine college. It blew my mind that we have collected the knowledge, tools, and systematic practice of a tradition of medicine that has been keeping people healthy and treating dis-
Eastern assessment of organ function and balance, mental health counseling tools, bodyworkers and the highest quality tools for health that are available today, along with physician quality supplements, the infrared sauna, organic herbs from around the world, and more each day. How long have you wanted to be a doctor? Dr. Hart: I remember saying I would be a doctor when I grew up as early as six years old. My family was moved to Colorado when I was six because my Dad was a machinist and he was recruited by
Reflections from the past five years and how local philanthropy has evolved By Kristen Bruckner Redstone Review LYONS – Five years ago this week, a historic life-altering event literally roared through Lyons. For anyone who lived through the floods, it was and is an experience we will never forget. We lived Bruckner stranded on our five islands, we were evacuated in many cases by helicopter and under duress, we lived in temporary housing, and our kids went to school in a temporary building in the middle of Longmont. Many of us still refer to the families we stayed with as our “flood Open Daily 10-5 Closed on Tuesdays Corner of 4th and Main
families” and events in town and in our lives are referenced as either “before the flood” or “after the flood”. During these dark uncertain times, the best of our neighbors and the outside community surfaced. People reached out from all over the region and the country to see how they could help. Schools wrote letters to our kids, universities donated backpacks and supplies, and money poured into the Lyons Community Foundation to offer aid. Because Lyons had its own foundation, we were able to accept this type of support and in turn began distributing funds within three months following the flood. In all, LCF granted over $1.1 million in flood recovery aid that supported everything from helping businesses get through months of not being open, to
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individuals who needed a hand just getting through the massive damage that many sustained. As the months and years have worn on, the demands and needs in town have only grown. In granting efforts, LCF has shifted from immediate, urgent needs in flood recovery, to other more persistent, ongoing needs. After the flood money was depleted, LCF has focused more on the ongoing, evolving causes in Lyons. The food pantry, and now LEAF, which is our public safety net, was founded well before the flood, but its customer base has continued to grow. LEAF has been the largest single recipient of LCF funding over the past 10 years. Our population of residents Continue LCF on Page 14
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OPPORTUNITY Trump’s War on Truth Editor’s note: Last month the New York Times and Washington Post asked newspapers all over the country to write a column on the defense of a free press in an August issue. The Colorado Press Association also asked all of its member publications to write a column on freedom of the press in August or in its next publication. This is the column that the Redstone Review is submitting written by my friend and colleague, Jon Stewart, a former editor and columnist at the San Francisco Examiner and a senior editorial writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Susan de Castro McCann, editor and publisher
essential command.” Elsewhere, at the height of the Nazi nightmare, Orwell lamented that “we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” Almost 80 years later, we find ourselves back in the same deep hole, though this time the assaults on truth lack even the veneer of rationalism that worked for
By Jon Stewart Redstone Review BERKELEY, Calif. – It may have been Aeschylus, the fourth century B.C. Greek dramatist, who first proclaimed, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” It’s an indisputable truth being played out today in President Trump’s escalating war against the media (or most of it) and freedom of the press, the First Amendment. What makes today’s war more than a little interesting is that Trump’s war is a war not only against “treasonous” officials on his own White House staff and the “enemies of the people,” as he has labeled the mainstream press, but a war against truth, itself. Reality – the world of observable, objective, testable facts, which are among the foundations of civilized society – is Trump’s ultimate enemy, the force that most threatens his power and his self-image. His very survival depends on his ability to undermine it. “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening,” he tweets, echoing George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most
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to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. This eight-hour training gives adults who know, are around, or work with youth the skills they need to reach out and provide initial support to adolescents (ages 12 to 18) who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem, and help connect them to the appropriate care. This class is a collaboration of the Lyons Regional Library, Longmont Supporting Action for Mental Health, St. Vrain Valley School District and the Town of Lyons Goodwill Fund. This class regularly costs $100 to $120 per person, but is being offered free.
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Orwell’s Big Brother. Trump’s lies are the caveman’s club of brute force, applied so repeatedly that we stop noticing the damage they do. The Orwellian lie, told often enough, so corrupts the language we speak that the distinction between fact and fiction, truth and falsehood, right and wrong, black and white is utterly lost. Instead, we have a world of grays, of “alternative facts,” of opinions about reality, a world without any basis for trust, a world in desperate need of a dictator to tell us what to do. Hannah Arendt, the great historian / philosopher of
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20th century totalitarianism, put it exactly right in a 1974 interview: “If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer...And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act, but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people, you can do what you please.” This is how the seat of power passes from its rightful place among the people – the governed – to a dangerous and authoritarian seat among those who govern. This is what happens when the people, you and me, no longer have an effective means of speaking truth to power, such as a free and independent press. And this is why Trump correctly views that voice as his greatest enemy. As the late Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, the great defender of press freedom, declared, “Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people...” As Black understood so clearly – along with Orwell, Arendt, and the army of defenders of a free press and free expression back to the Founding Fathers and beyond – the ability to speak the truth in the face of a lying government is the final bulwark of our freedom. Without it, truth and our freedom are the first casualty.
Lyons Volunteers plans to periodically offer to collect residential scrap metal items and bring them to CHaRM and drop off. This is a volunteer effort and there is no charge. To request a scrap metal pickup, visit Lyonsvolunteers.org and fill out the online work request form. Lyons Volunteers will plan to do a pickup of scrap metal at your property after they receive enough work requests to fill a small trailer load of scrap metal. Lyons Volunteers is hoping to do at least one CHaRM trip in the next year before September 15, 2019. Scrap metal means items that are 50 percent or more metal, including appliances (stoves, washers, dryers, water heaters, dishwashers). Appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, etc., can only be accepted if the refrigerant has been removed (by state law, refrigerant must be removed by
company licensed to do so, before recycling or disposal). Items that used gas or oil, for example lawn mowers, must be emptied of gas or oil to be accepted. Of course, if appliances are in good condition, you might consider selling or donating them to a used appliance outlet, instead of recycling.
Square Dancing in Longmont LONGMONT – Square dancers and anyone who likes to move: you are invited to the Longmont Senior Center, 900 Longs Peak Ave., on Wednesday, September 19 to our introduction to square dancing. We will have a chili supper at 5:30 p.m. and Mike Olivieri will be teaching; cost is $6 person. Give it a try, it may add 10 years to your life! Continue Briefs on Page 7
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INSIGHT Rain on your parade By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – My flight landed in Denver around midnight – or four a.m. by the clock I woke up to in far northeastern Canada that morning – and when I finally got home in the wee hours I couldn’t get to Gierach sleep. Maybe I was still wired from rushing through five flights and customs, or maybe it was that extra-large cup of truck stop coffee I guzzled in order to stay awake on the long drive home from the airport. Whatever the reason, I was up at 5:30 the next morning, standing barefoot on the back porch with my first cup of coffee, listening to coyotes yipping from all over the valley as they clocked out after the night shift. That naturally got all the neighborhood dogs going, from Jack Russell squeaks to the baritone baying of my nearest neighbor’s blue tick hound. It was a godawful canine racket. The cat had followed me outside, but instead of heading off on her usual morning rounds, she sat within inches of the open door staring wide-eyed at what sounded to her like a puzzling and dangerous world. Her expression was exactly the same one I’d be wearing that evening when I watched the first national news I’d seen in eleven days. This is the normal reentry problem I always face after a trip to someplace quiet and remote where my only concerns are eating, sleeping, staying dry, catching fish, and trying not to be eaten alive by mosquitos and blackflies – life in all its complexity reduced to a handful of basics. Unlike some, I refuse to refer to trips like this as an escape – if only because I don’t want to think of my life as something I need to escape from – but I’ll admit that taking a break from the world can be a relief. The unwritten rule in fish camps has always been that politics and religion are taboo subjects, and with good reason. You’ve got a small number of people (in this case, nine fishermen, plus guides, cooks and a bush pilot) 150 miles by floatplane from the nearest settlement, living and eating in close quarters. In that kind of enforced isolation arguments over touchy subjects can quickly turn into dark and violent grudges and you can’t just walk away because where are you gonna go? Avoiding politics is made easier by a relative absence of media. There are no magazines or newspapers; no blaring radio or TV. But although there was a time when the only contact between a fish camp and the outside world was a sputtering shortwave radio that was about as reliable as
smoke signals, now, sadly, WIFI and satellite phones have begun to penetrate the wilderness, so you’ll sometimes see fishermen checking their phones or laptops. You pray they’ll keep whatever they see to themselves – unless of course it’s a photo of the seven-pound brook trout they caught that day, in which case you’re happy to look. Back home the news hit me like a bucket of ice water: startling revelations, obvious lies, genuine and manufactured outrage; the entire grim civic duty of staying informed. I’d only just gotten back up to speed when The New York Times published its op-ed by an anonymous “senior administration official” assuring us that there’s a
secret resistance in the White House doing its best to thwart the worst instincts of our unhinged president until – “one way or the other” – he’s out of there. That’s not how they told us it was supposed to work in civics class and I didn’t know what to make of it. In one way, it’s a relief to learn that there’s a resistance trying to keep an unstable president in check. In another way, subversive shadow governments within governments are the stuff of spy novels and banana republics, not the country I know and love. As my father might have asked, “So who the hell’s actually minding the store?”
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For that matter, how smart can this anonymous person be? Doesn’t admitting the existence of a secret resistance in a national newspaper effectively pull the teeth of that resistance? If I realize that, why doesn’t he? (I’m supposed to say “he or she,” but this all sounds suspiciously like a man to me – a man with a savior complex, a hidden agenda, or a little of both.) Or maybe he does realize it, so there’s something else going on and the theories are flying on and off the TV screen. Maybe this is an attempt to change the discussion from policy to fitness for office – a signal to the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and begin the process of removing the president. Or maybe it’s an attempt to make Trump finally fly off the handle so even Republicans will see the need for impeachment, or cause him to finally blab to the Mueller investigation where he’ll throw a tantrum and spill the beans on the Russians and obstruction of justice. Or maybe we’re giving these people too much credit by assigning sly motives to their apparently inexplicable behavior. Maybe everyone left in the White House is as crazy as the president and no more aware than he is of the consequences of their actions. The only guess I’ve liked so far came from P.J. O’Rourke who said that whatever Anonymous has in mind, he probably delivered the op-ed after meeting with his agent about a six-figure book deal. And yes, I do catch myself wishing I was back in the Canadian sub-arctic with cold water, strong current, biting insects, vicious weather off the north Atlantic, and the wellknown vicissitudes of fly-fishing where the mindlessness of nature is somehow consoling. It can all rain on your parade in a dozen different ways, but at least it doesn’t mean to. John Gierach is an outdoor and fly fishing writer who writes books and columns for magazines. His books include Trout Bum, Sex Death and Fly fishing, and Still Life with Brook Trout. His new book, A Fly Rod of Your Own is now out and available at book stores and fly fishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street in Lyons. 30. The park will be open all days that week. Three hunters per week have been granted an access pass by Boulder County to hunt this specific area only during this management period. Each hunter was selected through a random drawing of CPW-licensed hunters who obtained the subunit antlerless license (hunt code E-F-020-L3-R) and who then declared interest in this program. Hunters were required to attend an orientation class and pass a shooting proficiency test. This hunting program is solely and specifically permitted as a resource management tool. There is no cost to the hunter beyond the existing Colorado Parks and Wildlife license system and Boulder County does not receive any revenue. Continue Briefs on Page 10
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COMMUNITY Lyons Regional Library presents fall-winter series on Mental Health Awareness By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Regional Library has once again received a grant from the Town of Lyons Goodwill Fund to present Jane a series of programs on Mental Health Awareness, Education, and Engagement. The fall-winter 2018 program will build on and expand the program that was presented in 2017. The program includes two day-long Youth Mental Health First Aid classes and a one-evening training on suicide alertness, and is supported with three community conversations on mental health issues, informative articles in local papers, social media posts, materials relevant to mental health for the library, and expansion of the current Mental Health Information Guide on the library website. The Lyons Regional Library was chosen for the program because libraries are a neutral venue where people feel safe, feel they are heard, and can be certain they are getting accurate information they can trust. Last year’s program was well received and resulted in an increased involvement in Mental Health awareness and training for the Lyons Regional Library and its staff. Independently of the 2017 Goodwill Grant, the entire Lyons Regional Library staff, at the library’s expense, is now trained in Mental Health First Aid, either for adults, youth, or both. Residents requested more information and training, and this year the library is col-
laborating with multiple organizations and agencies to offer wider opportunities for community involvement. Collaborating organizations include the St. Vrain Valley School District, Longmont’s Supporting Action for Mental Health, Boulder County Public Health, and several more, along with local Lyons mental health professionals. Programs included at residents’ requests include the safeTALK suicide awareness and intervention training, a community conversation on LGBTQA issues cofacilitated by Caitlin Floodmoore, and a community conversation on the topics of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and psychoses. Many adults in Lyons have expressed concern about the mental health of our school students in the last few years. The concerns are legitimate ones, for both adults and youth: Colorado is
ranked first in the country economically, yet only ranks 43rd for its mental health care. In Boulder County, 69 percent of all residents report seeing a therapist for mental health support, and 37 percent of older adults report feeling depressed. Among St. Vrain Valley High School students, in 2011 (the last time data was available), 30 percent of seniors reported feeling sad or hopeless in the year before, and 20 percent had seriously considered or planned suicide. These are sobering numbers. The lack of mental health support impacts our friends and neighbors in Lyons every day. One of the goals of this program is to help a bit with the pain of that lack by increasing awareness of what people going through mental health issues really look like and act like. Another goal
is to decrease the fear and stigma around mental illness and increase the ability of locals in Lyons to respond with understanding and compassion when someone discloses about their experiences. Fifty percent of youth will experience a mental health issue lasting more than two weeks while they are in school. Twenty percent of adults in any one year are living with a mental health issue and 65 percent of these go untreated. We, as neighbors, relatives, and friends, can help. That is why these trainings and programs are being offered. Each of us can help someone, and it’s not as hard or as scary as the media makes it out to be. The series starts with a daylong training on Youth Mental Health First Aid, which will take place on Saturday, September 29, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Lyons Town Hall. This training typically costs $100 per person but is being offered for free. The training helps anyone over 18 learn to recognize the signs of mental health issues and how to respond. Register at ttp://bit.ly/MHFALyons. Contact the library at info@lyonsregionllibrary.com or message me, Janaki Jane, on Facebook for more information. Janaki Jane has a degree in psychology and has worked as a case manager and crisis counselor. She is a Certified Youth Mental Health First Aid trainer, is certified in Youth, Adult, and Older Adult Mental Health First Aid, Motivational Interviewing, and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills. She has been working in the training and health and healing fields for over 30 years.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in the Lyons area By Chrystal DeCoster Redstone Review LYONS Planet Bluegrass is hosting an Autumnal Equinox Festival of the Mabon Celebration on September 22. The ranch will open at 2 p.m. with DeCoster doors to the Wildflower Pavilion opening at 7 p.m. and music to begin at 8 p.m. Around dusk the Mabon bonfire will be lit next to the St. Vrain River. A ticket is required to access the grounds for a casual afternoon of revelry on this final summer weekend of Celtic music, spirit, and delightful festivation. Vendors, artisans, pickers, perhaps a stray bagpiper, and folk performers will be all over the ranch including cash-only à la carte food sales (such as Shepherd’s Pie, artisanal soups and a variety of hearty beverages) starting at 4 p.m. Featuring multi-award winning Irish quartet JigJam, often described as the best Irish group so far in Bluegrass, and special guests Bonnie Paine (Elephant Revival) and Enion Pelta-Tiller (Taarka) as the Dandelion Seeds, the acoustical offerings on the Wildflower Stage will make for an intimate and memorable evening. Tickets and camping: $10 per person, no electric or water hook-up, for Saturday evening are on sale now at shop.bluegrass.com or 800-624-2422. Note: Planet Bluegrass charges no handling or service fees. Lyons’ Bank of the West displays art by local artist Diane Dandeneau. The Bank of the West generously began these quarterly art show rotations in 2017 to promote and celebrate local arts-centric businesses. The current show at 303 Main St. hangs through Friday, October 5 and features artwork by the multi-gifted Dandeneau. Stop by Western Stars Gallery and Studio at 160 East Main St. to purchase her bank-displayed art and to see more examples of her creations, all currently on special sale. Red Canyon Art, 400 Main St., will install the work of their artists at the bank on October 5; this show will run through January 4. At the Stone Cup: Peggy Dyer’s Remixing Resilience will continue through the end of September. In October the Stone Cup will show Kahlie Sue Pinello’s wall hung costumes and photos from her Costume Catwalk. The photos in fanciful frames (created by graphic artist Jessica Kutrumbos) are of local models wearing Pinello’s one-of-a-kind and inspired fashions. The upcoming music lineup is: Sept. 22 (Sat.) 10 a.m. to noon, Thomas Gronberg performs folk rock/Americana; Sept. 22 (Sat.) 1 p.m., Student Recital; Sept. 23 (Sun.) 10 a.m. to noon, Caleb Martin performs roots and Americana; Sept. 23 (Sun.) at 12:30 p.m. a Human Named David (David Berg), pianist and storyteller; Sept. 29 (Sat.) 10 a.m. to noon, Doc & the Devil do the blues; Sept. 29 (Sat,) 12:30 p.m. Emily Barnes performs folk; Sept. 30 (Sun.) 10 a.m. to noon, Beni Brosh
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performs Americana/singer-songwriter; Sept. 30 (Sun.) 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Aural Elixir performs jazz/rock/folk/fusion; Oct/ 6 (Sat.) 10 a.m. to noon, Antonio Lopez performs modern folk/acoustic soul; Oct. 6 (Sat.) at 12:30 p.m. Miriam McQueen performs old soul/folk; Oct. 7 (Sun.) from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jill Cohn performs folk/Americana; Oct. 13 (Sat.) from 10 a.m. to noon Harmony & Brad perform acoustic pop/rock; Oct.14 (Sun.) from 10 a.m. to noon Dahlby & Nadine perform Americana/folk; Oct. 14 (Sun.) 12:30 p.m., a Human Named David (David Berg). Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission receives another bronze! heARTS of LYONS has installed another sculpture on Main Street in front of South Creek Ltd. The gorgeous “Day’s Catch” has been loaned to the Town by artist Bobbie Carlyle of Loveland. Inquiries regarding purchase of these select pieces or for more information on the LAHC contact Melinda Wunder at 303-818-6982 or melinda@creativeconvs.com. Pick up all art in the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission’s current “Summer” exhibit and drop off of ready to wall hang “Autumn” Town Hall Art Show art with placards on Friday October 5 from 4 to 7 p.m. at 432 Fifth Ave. Each “fallish” submission’s placard must contain title, artist's name, city/state, medium, price or NFS (not for sale), and contact details. All ages and stages of artists are welcome to submit up to five autumn-themed pieces. The normal opening reception and community potluck has been cancelled to support the Costume Catwalk at Mayama. Mandatory pickup of all art from the “Autumn” show will be Friday January 4 from 4 to 7 p.m. Viewing of these LAHC shows is possible when Town Hall’s chamber room is otherwise vacant during weekday business hours. For more information or to submit ideas and / or volunteer for 2019‘s shows please email chrystaldecoster@gmail.com. Saturday October 6 at 6 p.m. is the Costume Catwalk featuring inspired fashion creations by local designer, Kahlie Sue Pinello. This event at Mayama Movement Studio 625 Fourth Ave. is a creative feast for the eyes and a momentum-builder for the October 26 Rave to the Grave. The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Hwy., seeks homesteaders and beekeeping wannabees for Grant Hamil’s Introduction to Beekeeping class. This class, to be held at the farmette on Tuesday October 16 at 6 p.m., is designed for those interested in starting a hive in 2019 and will be an exploratory into equipment, start-up costs, general beekeeping lingo, package ordering information, and what it takes to become a keeper of the bees. Class size is limited, and costs $25 each. Or bring a friend and get two tickets for $40. To enroll, visit lyonsfarmette.com. Plan your costume now for Rave to the Grave with music by local musician Arthur Lee Land and GoGo Lab on Friday October 26 at 7 p.m. This critical fundraiser for LEAF (Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund) aids human services funding for those in need by transforming Planet Bluegrass’ Wildflower Pavilion into a magical costumed community concert extravaganza. Contact info@leaflyons.org for details. Local poets should plan now to attend a gather-
ing for Word by Word Journeys on Sunday October 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. This informal writers’ roundtable event will be held at Western Stars Gallery and Studio at 160 East Main St. For details contact CoCo Gordon at 917-774-3538 or cocogordon@mindspring.com. Art on Main Street: Western Stars Gallery and Studio, the Corner Studios and Red Canyon Art Gallery all proudly showcase a wide variety of work by Colorado artisans. Stop by to explore their eclectic consigned offerings. Watch for pop-up events at NOW Gallery. Artsy vintage finds can be discovered at Rosey’s Rescues, 343 Broadway, Ralston Bros. Antiques, 426 High St., and the antique shop near the intersection of Highways 36 and 66. Shop locally to support area
Artist Bobbie Carlyle of Loveland with “Day’s Catch,” the latest sculpture to be installed on Main Street by the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission. painters, ceramicists, sculptors, framers, collectors, woodworkers, and craftspersons. Bella la Crema, 405 Main St., is accepting cow or cow-related art for the “Cowllery,” a divine bovine gallery. Submit wall creations for display and or sale after 10:30 a.m. daily (except Wednesdays) at the new Bistro and Butter Bar located next to the Library. Email shaunaalee@bellalacrema.com or call 303-823-UMOO for more details. Give your kids the opportunity to learn the craft and skill of leather working from a professional, at the Second Wednesdays Leathercraft Workshop Series with Holly Beck at HJB Designs, 436 Main St. These classes will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. with light snacks provided and a minimum enrollment of four, maximum enrollment of eight. Register via www.townoflyons.com/registration for individual classes or the whole series from the following offerings: Workshop #2 on October 10: Make a fun and custom leather bracelet or choker necklace to perhaps enhance a Halloween costume; $20 for ages eight and up. Workshop #3 on November 14: Learn to create a personalized leather-bound journal/sketchpad and feather quill by learning lacing and embossing techniques: $30 for ages 10 and up.
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EXPRESSIONS An elevator ride into space By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review PUEBLO – As I scour sources for information on which to base this column each month, I often end up feeling my natural human optimism slipping away. Whether with regard to population Joyce growth and its effects (scientists once estimated optimal population on Earth to be about 1.5 billion; we’re at 7.5 billion now), pollution, climate change, poverty, human trafficking, and a host of other areas, the dots, when connected, seem to outline a multifaceted path to disaster for humans and our planet. Yet that path is less like a smooth-edged road and more like a horizontal lightning bolt, with short branches snaking off into darkness from the main current, and more than a few of those branches involve humans engaged in activities that show full optimism for the future. One of these up-looking branches, one I’m not likely to see through to completion, if indeed it occurs on schedule in 2050, involves taking us on an express elevator ride into space – literally. I first encountered the idea of a space elevator in the The Fountains of Paradise, a 1979 novel by Arthur C. Clarke, in which a main element is the construction of such an elevator and all the problems and potential benefits inherent in such an endeavor. Many other sci-fi writers have used the idea, which according to a recent article by Tom Nardi on hackaday.com, was first proposed in 1895 by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. “In a fully realized space elevator,” Nardi wrote, “an incredibly strong cable would attach an orbital platform
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New member of the Lyons High School admin team LYONS – Lyons High School welcomes Colleen Ford to the Lyons Middle Senior High School administration team as an Assistant Principal. She has been an educator for eight
to the surface of the Earth. Electrically powered vehicles (usually referred to as “climbers”) would ride this cable from the ground, through the atmosphere, and directly into space.” He went on to say, “No rocket engines, no G forces pinning you to the seat. No flying at all, really. Just a smooth vertical ride at a leisurely pace of 200 hundred kilometers per hour or so. Physically it would be an easy trip, free from the rigors of a traditional space launch. But it certainly wouldn’t be a quick one. For the space elevator to work, the ‘top floor’ needs to be in what’s called a geosta-
tionary orbit. This means that the platform’s orbital period would match Earth’s rotational period, giving the appearance (from our perspective on the surface) that it’s hovering motionless above us. This is the same orbit that many communications satellites are placed in, as it negates the need to actively track them across the sky.” He added, “The problem is, geostationary orbit around Earth is at an altitude of 36,000 km (22,370 miles). At 200 km/h, it would take over a week for a climber to reach that altitude.” That’s not the only problem. The cable would be 22,370 miles long, so it would have to be made of “spider silk,” i.e. extremely light and incredibly strong strands of
years and has served in the St. Vrain Valley community for the past two years as a science teacher at Niwot High School. She has had a strong impact on the school communities in which she has served, championing teacher professional develFord opment and strengthening transition programs for eighth to ninth grade. Ford has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Arizona State University and a Master of Arts in Education Leadership with
something (right now, nanotubes look promising) that could withstand Coriolis forces on the climbers, and other forces, such as gravity. Given that and an estimated up-front cost of $90 billion, who would even want to build such a thing, much less set a completion date of 2050. Turns out it’s the Japanese, in particular the Obayashi Corp., which estimates the cost of moving freight up the elevator at $100 a pound, according to Nardi, less than 1/10 the cost of sending materials into space on the Falcon rocket, which is considered quite inexpensive right now. So far, however, only baby steps have been taken. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in 2004, 2009, and 2016 launched Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite missions, designed by a team at Shizuoka University, to test the deployment and stability of the tether, using a cube at each end. Based on those tests, according to Nardi, the team will soon deploy a test in which two small “CubeSats,” about 10cm per side, “will be ejected from the ISS as one unit, but will then separate and move away from each other,” in the process stretching out a 33-foot-long steel tether, along which a 6 x 3 x 3 cm climber will attempt to move from one cube to the other. It’s another baby step for certain, but if successful, scientists will still have 31 years to learn to crawl, then walk, and then push a button on an elevator to the stars. This is one of those lightning branches that illuminates the bright future we envision even in the midst of the blinding main bolt that seems to be carrying us toward less happy days of more natural and human disasters around the world. But who knows, maybe the space elevator will be part of what ultimately ensures our survival as a species in this universe, by allowing us to construct the ships in which we can escape our past and find new homes within and beyond our solar system. I do hope we have enough time.
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Parent/Teacher Conference online sign up LYONS – Parent/Teacher Conferences at Lyons Middle/Senior High School are on September 19, 24 and 26 from 3:30 p.m. to
7:30 p.m. Parents can sign up for 10-minute conferences via our school district's newly adopted “Meet the Teacher” online conference scheduling system. Parents will need to know their student’s number from Infinite Campus in order to schedule conference times with teachers. You can call our front office at 303-8236631 for assistance scheduling conferences.
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HOUSING Lyons Valley Park and “Rental Madness!” in Lyons COMMENTARY: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN LYONS
By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review
LYONS – During the week when Lyons commemorated the five-year anniversary of the devastating flood that changed our town forever, a community meeting addressed possible affordable rental homes – part of our town’s flood recovery that could Reinholds be in our future. Summit Housing Group, which has a contract to buy land in Lyons Valley Park, held a community meeting on September 11. Representatives for the proposed affordable homes presented updates and answered questions from neighbors in Lyons Valley Park and the broader community. The public learned that Summit wants to build a total of 40 affordable rental homes in the Lyons Valley Park neighborhood, including 11 single family homes on 11 single family lots already platted in the Lyons Valley Park subdivision. Summit’s proposal for about 2.9 developable acres on Tract A of Filing 8 would include 12 buildings of duplexes and triplexes. All 40 homes would have rents affordable to people who make about 4060 percent of the area median income, Summit president Rusty Snow said. Snow and Denver-area architect Elizabeth Johnson related the following information about the proposal: The 12 buildings of duplexes and triplexes are proposed be two stories and not higher than 25 feet, and the 11 single family homes will be one story. The density of the proposed 12 multifamily homes is less dense than the current Lyons Valley Village homes that are already in Lyons Valley Park. According to information from Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen, Lyons Valley Village has 18 buildings on 2 acres, with about 30 total residences. The multifamily units that Summit is proposing are 12 buildings on 4 acres (about 2.9 of those acres are buildable), with a total of 29 total residences. Snow and Johnson said they were interested in getting a copy of the Lyons Valley Park Homeowners Association (HOA) design guidelines so the buildings match the existing neighbors’ homes. Snow also said he was willing to discuss whether Summit would join the HOA. Examples of rents for someone who earns 40 percent of the area median income (about $36,000 for a single person or more for a larger household size) could be
approximately $906 a month for a 2-bedroom rental home, or $1045 a month for a 3-bedroom rental home, depending on family size. Flood-displaced residents are prioritized for these proposed homes, and Snow said he planned to work with the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF) to reach out to possible future renters. Federal disaster recovery funds in the form of Community Development Block Grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing are available to Summit at a maximum of $100,000 per rental home, up to $4 million. Total funds awarded must be spent by September 2019, and Snow said that
(required to be 60 percent of area median income or lower). Renters complete applications and re-certify each year (some income growth is allowed each year). The next steps for the proposal are a site plan development review process for building the multifamily homes on Tract A, which is a public process and requires data, such as a traffic study. The process begins with a public hearing before the Lyons Planning and Community Development Commission and later goes to a public hearing before the Lyons Board of Trustees. Nearby homeowners and all community members can submit public
cial of the HOA announced a status of whether the HOA was going to court. Other than questions and concerns about parking and roads, no one expressed objections to the number of homes proposed. There was a question about whether multifamily housing was allowed “by right” on Tract A as part of the subdivision agreement. The discussion then centered around how lawyers from Summit and the Town of Lyons had determined that a density of up to 29 multifamily homes was currently allowed on Tract A, without rezoning. This proposal in Lyons Valley Park still has many more steps to go before it becomes a reality. But in the meantime, the local community has had several
This concept plan was presented at the community meeting with Summit Housing Group on September 11. Summit wants to build a total of 40 affordable rental homes in the Lyons Valley Park neighborhood. there will not be an issue spending those funds on land acquisition and tap fees. He also said that Summit is not requesting discounted or waived tap fees from the Town of Lyons for building the homes. Summit plans to use federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), which gives investors a reduction in their federal tax liability for every dollar they invest in financing to develop affordable rental housing. The investors’ equity contribution subsidizes the development, allowing housing units to rent at below-market rates
comment, either in person or in written comments, for all the public hearings. The development process for single-family lots is like all others already platted in the subdivision and elsewhere in Lyons, requiring a permitting and development process with the Town of Lyons. Snow said Summit expected to submit the site plan for the development review in the next 45 days. Summit entered into a new contract to purchase both Tract A and the 11 singlefamily parcels from Keith Bell, owner of Lyons Valley Park, Inc., on September 3, and Snow estimated that Summit might be able to complete the purchase as early as the end of November. This spring, Summit determined that the Lyons Valley Park subdivision agreement allows for multifamily density on 3.82 acres of Tract A of Filing 8, allowing about 27-29 homes (whether built by Summit or any future property owner), but not as many as the 43 that Summit had originally proposed. At Summit’s May community meeting, several homeowners in the Lyons Valley Park neighborhood encouraged Summit to build just the 29 homes on Tract A. But at the same meeting, the president of the Lyons Valley Park HOA said his attorneys did not agree that any multifamily housing was allowed in the subdivision agreement and announced that the Homeowners Association was prepared to go to court. At the September 11 meeting, no offi-
questions about renting in Lyons today, from both the renter and the landlord perspective. A community discussion on renting, titled “Rental Madness!” is scheduled for Wednesday, September. 26, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Lyons Regional Library at 405 Main Street. Community members are invited to attend with questions about roommates, short-term and long-term rentals, tenants and landlords, accessory dwelling units, and anything else about renting in Lyons. The discussion is moderated by tenant-landlord expert Susan Spaulding from the City of Longmont and will include a resource sheet specifically for Lyons. Amy Reinholds served on the Lyons Housing Recovery Task Force from December 2013 through its end in February 2015. She is currently a member of the Lyons Human Services and Aging Commission and served as a liaison to the Special Housing Committee during its existence from April 2015-April 2016. She has lived in Lyons since 2003 and in the surrounding Lyons area since 1995. She writes a monthly commentary (opinion column) in the Redstone Review about affordable housing after the 2013 flood disaster in Lyons. For a history, you can read previous columns posted on her blog at lyonscoloradonews.wordpress.com. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints about this column, please contact her directly at areinholds @hotmail.com.
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CONTEXT Library District Board remembers flood events and looks forward By Darcie Sanders Redstone Review LYONS – What an emotional time this month of September is for us. September has always been my favorite month. The crops come in. The birds fly out. The trees dress up. The elk move down. Leaves are crisp under your feet, and backpacks smell of new books. It’s a month still lulled by summer’s warmth, but also energized by the prospect of fall’s harvest. It’s the time to begin new endeavors, and to reap the rewards of past ones. In short, an intoxicating mash-up of past, present, and future. It is also the month that, if it rains a lot, quite a few people around here, including myself, still can’t get to sleep at night. This September is particularly significant. It marks the five year anniversary of the disaster that was The Great Flood,
and the birth of our district. Yes, the Lyons Regional Library District was born in the Flood Times. We were formed on September 3, 2013, under resolutions by the Town of Lyons, Boulder County, and Larimer County. Prior to that, the town of Lyons solely funded and ran the Lyons Depot Library as a municipal library. Our new district’s first board meeting was September 6. The catastrophic flood that almost wiped out our community came just a week later, on September 12. One life was lost, and many lives, homes, and businesses changed forever. What an incredible effort these last five years have been. Despite many displacements and constantly being in the midst of on-going flood recovery, our community has persevered. Thank you to the public who voted in 2013 and 2014 to support the district. Thank you to Town of Lyons staff
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excellent student and family participation. We would like to increase school spirit and improve student supervision at football games by creating a separate Middle School Student Section and a High School Student Section. We have also worked to define unsupervised areas of our fields that will now be off-limits to students during football games. This format will begin with the Homecoming Game Friday, September 21 at 7 p.m. During football games, students can elect to sit in their student section, sit with their family, or socialize between the football bleachers and the concessions building. We are going to ask that students not go beyond the south side of the scoreboard or underneath the bleachers as this poses a safety issue. Signs will also be posted in the bleachers. We hope that
Mayor Continued from Page 3 after the flood. The staff never wavered from the notion that Lyons would come through this a stronger town. They have worked tirelessly to ensure we succeed. They say grit is having the persistence to overcome challenges and to reach relent-
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lessly for a desired goal. Most citizens will never fully appreciate the sacrifices the staff has made to pull us through this recovery and we cannot thank them enough.
and Trustees. Thank you to the volunteers, grant-writers, and recovery team members. Thank you to the Fire District, National Guard and all the rescue workers. Thank you to those who organized the many meetings, memorials, rehabilitations, and celebrations. Thank you to everyone who picked up a shovel to clear a basement or picked up a phone to check on a neighbor. Thank you to the journalists and photographers who documented it all. Thank you to the library staff, trustees, Friends of the Library, foundation folk, commissions, Chamber of Commerce members, donors and every single patron; to all of you who support the library and our community with your wonderful ideas, energy, programming, services, and love. All of which, in turn, helps us support and serve you. And most of all, thank you for your faith in our future as a community. We are grateful to be here.
So, with pleasure we report that things are very active in the library. Interim Director Kara Bauman says that the Summer Reading Program truly rocked, with more than 750 participants in 45 programs for kids, families and adults. The Friends of the Library helped us provide Continue Library on Page 14
having students together to cheer for our Lions will increase school spirit and excitement at our football games.
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LYONS – Mark your calendar for the next Chamber Social, which will be held Thursday, September 20 at 5:30 p.m. at Stillwater Healing Arts, 418 High St. As usual, drinks and appetizers will be provided. Join the Lyons Chamber! Contact Mike Porter at admin@lyons-colorado.com for more information.
New tourist maps of Lyons now available LYONS – The new tourist maps are here. They’re currently available at the Quarry, St. Vrain Market, PizzaBar 66, Mojo Taqueria, and plenty of other locations. If you’d like some to give out (and dispensers for them too), email us. For Chamber members, a limited supply of laminated copies is available for your businesses to
As community, I believe we’ve more than lived up to that “Grit” bumper sticker. In 2013, we demonstrated our grit by holding our traditional Halloween Parade even though most of the town was still evacuated and the businesses were still closed. Planet Bluegrass showed their grit by rebuilding their grounds in less than a year and holding their annual festivals without missing a string. And the Board of Trustees remains committed, despite several setbacks, to rebuilding the housing units lost in the floods. While it has been hard to summarize what the recovery has meant to Lyons, mostly there are feelings of awe, pride, gratitude, and continued optimism that we can finish what we’ve started and achieve a full recovery. It’s hard to reflect on the flood
LYONS – At the Chamber we still have plenty of the “Love, Lyons” pens, postcards, and marker boards to give away to Chamber members’ guests and clients. Let us know if you need more of these very popular items, and we’ll get them to you. Speaking of “Love, Lyons,” have you seen the new marketing campaign? See lyonscolorado.com for a glimpse of it. Advertising will start to appear regionally in the coming weeks. It’s all part of your Chamber putting the tourism grant money to use. You’re welcome to use the materials to promote your own business too, photos, videos, and more. Contact Mike Porter at admin@lyons-colorado.com for more information.
without admitting that Lyons is changed. While the flood forced some changes that we could not control, or accelerated changes that were likely already in motion, I think with this milestone, we can once again assume control over the future direction of the town and our community. This is Lyons. While it is changed in many ways, it is still the same funky, art and music loving, family and community oriented, locally owned town it was before. I think it’s safe to say that after five years we could print a new bumper sticker: ”Lyons, CO We’ve Got This.”
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CONCEPTS The best way to love our cats is to keep them indoors By Chelsea Barrett Redstone Review LONGMONT – Many of the birds that we see at Greenwood Wildlife each year are victims of attack by domestic cats. Barrett As a cat owner and lover who also respects our native birds, I find this troubling. I often wonder if there’s more that we could be doing to keep both our furred and feathered friends safe. The unfortunate reality is that cats who are allowed to roam freely outdoors pose a substantial threat to wild birds. A study from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that outdoor cats are a leading cause of death among birds in the United States, killing 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion birds each year. When I was growing up, I had a sweet orange tabby named Zeke. I remember the day when he returned from his daily outdoor roaming with an arrow in his side. We rushed him to the emergency veterinarian and he was ultimately okay, but it broke my heart to see our sweet Zeke in pain. I tried my best to focus on Zeke’s recovery instead of planning terrible ways to enact my revenge on the heartless humans who had done this to our boy. It was that day that I began realizing that, while my cats loved being outdoors, it might not be the best for their long-term health. When I moved to Colorado after Zeke passed away, I started keeping my cats
indoors. At first I found it challenging to keep my curious and active kitties inside. I lived in a small apartment and I felt guilty at the thought of them being inside with nothing to do while I was at work during the day. I knew that cats sleep much of the day, but I couldn’t help but worry about them being inside. It’s been over ten years since I’ve had a cat that was allowed to roam freely outdoors, and that guilt has subsided. Over time, I’ve collected a number of strate-
gies for keeping my indoor felines happy and entertained. My current cat, Mimo, is as active as they come. In my apartment, I don’t have the ability to provide an enclosed outdoor space like a patio or atrium for her to enjoy the outdoors at her leisure. Instead, I’ve provided her a perch at every window so she can jump up at any time to spend hours staring and clicking her lips at the birds and squirrels running around outside. When weather permits, I leave the
Letter Continued from Page 2 County to stop putting a price on the St. Vrain Valley. We have a chance to protect the St. Vrain Valley, this precious ecosystem that we all enjoy. In doing so, we can protect ourselves, too. Before killing the dandelion medicine and flattening the valley, let’s discuss alternatives that calms the critical ecological crisis we are ALL experiencing. Remember the Victory Gardens of the 1940s, a national call to action, which asked all citizens’ to plant their own food again. Let’s call on all residents to abstain from spraying synthetics until amphibians, bees, humans, soil,
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windows open so she can smell and hear the outdoors. I’ve also trained Mimo to walk next to me on a leash. We go on short walks almost daily. I’ll admit, it’s a different experience from walking a dog, but it’s so fun for her to feel the sunshine on her back and the grass under her paws. Now she begs me for walks more often then she asks for wet food. It’s unbelievable. It’s also important to provide entertainment and other enrichment, like toys, for her to engage with while she’s at home alone. Mimo has a variety of toys at home including balls, mice, catnip kickers and more as well as battery-operated toys that can move on their own. She also loves watching nature documentaries and YouTube videos of birds and squirrels, so I also give her limited screen time. She even pounces on or swats at the computer from time to time! Cats have a variety of personalities so these tactics won’t work for everyone, but I hope you consider the health and safety of both your cat and local wildlife before letting your pet roam freely outdoors. As humans, it is our responsibility to do all we can to provide the best quality of life for both pets and wild animals.
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Town Continued from Page 1 businesses did not receive such as not paying their bills for several years. The owners of Lyons Properties present at the Sept. 4 meeting seemed truly surprised that all the homeowners who had homes destroyed in the flood had to pay their utility fees. Lyons Properties has set up a payment plan with the town clerk and the clerical errors have since been resolved. The remaining amount of the utility bill is about $22,731.00. Utilities were also the topic of the board earlier in September. At a BOT meeting earlier in the month, Aaron Kaplan told the board that the wastewater/sewer fund is running at an annual deficit of $358,000 due to the cost of running the wastewater/sewer plant. At the current rate the fund will be depleted by 2024. “We are on track for a $350,000 loss this year,” he said. Treatment costs did go down at the plant; however salaries, insurance and administration costs went up. The board was aware of the financial state of the fund but was hesitant to raise rates for residents. Now it seems that they are down to the wire. Kaplan suggested trying to find ways to cut costs and to fine those businesses who do not comply with pretreatment measures such as grease traps, etc., but that would not be enough. The average customer uses 3,000 gallons of water a month and Kaplan pointed out that if the board increased the user fee by $11 per 1,000 gallons per month that would add $33 to the average customer’s bill. The current rate is $5.65 per 1,000 gallons of water and a $22.65 base fee per month. Kaplan suggested that the board raise the rate by $4 per 1,000 gallons per month as soon as possible for the first year then raise it by $1.50 each year for the next four years for 1,000 gallons to ease the burden on customers. The BOT voted to approve this proposal. n other news a new marijuana shop is going to open at 4170 Ute Hwy. in the Vasquez subdivision. The shop is High Culture LLC, doing business as High Culture Cannabis. The shop is owned by Teah Welsch-Rainek and Kelsey Fox. They have a retail marijuana license. The board asked staff for a resolution to support Proposition 110, which would increase sales tax from 2.9 to 3.52 for highway and transportation projects. The board also asked staff for a resolution to oppose Amendment 74, which is supported by the oil and gas industry and gives property owners compensation for a government action that reduces the value of their property.
Governor Continued from Page 1 crowd. “We are still recovering and we are now in awe of how beautiful our parks are,” she said. Sullivan thanked the residents, friends, staff and all those involved in Lyons’ recovery. “It’s hard to admit that some things have changed,” she said, referring to those residents who moved away and will probably not return. But some things have not changed. Mayor Sullivan added that after the recovery, “Now it is still the same funky art and music community that we loved before.” She announced that the town was dedicating a pathway through the park to the Governor, newly named the Governor John HickenLOOPer Walkway. The Governor seemed genuinely surprised by the gesture. “I’ve never had anything named after me; when they see the name Hickenlooper, they just walk away.” He went on to talk about the flood recovery and asked if the Planet Bluegrass owner was in the crowd, “Is Craig Ferguson here? I always said he would go to the opening of an envelope.” Ferguson was not in attendance. “People ask me why I spend so much time in the counties, and I said, ‘We are one state and we are all working together.’ Everything you have done here is inspiring,” said Hickenlooper.
Library Continued from Page 12 awesome, high-quality Melissa & Doug Learning Toys prizes for the kids. Adult prize winners were thrilled with their gift cards to The Stone Cup, The Barking Dog, Red Canyon Art, Western Stars, and The St. Vrain Market. Partnerships with local schools, Boulder Parks and Open Space, Play-Well TEKnologies, Boulder County Arts Alliance, local artists, musicians, and writers helped us provide these great programs. September also marked the end of our SIPA Tech Outreach mini-grant ($5000), which was awarded to increase usage of the Library's free tech help and online resources. You may have seen librarians and volunteers hosting info tables out on Main Street and at the
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Emergency Preparedness Fair October 13 LYONS – As we reflect on the on the 5-year anniversary of the flood and celebrate how far our town has come in its rebuilding efforts, it’s also important to consider how prepared you are (or are not) for next disaster. This is not a pessimistic point of view, rather a practical, self-reliant one. If you don’t have an immediate answer, have no idea, or just want to see what your local fire district recommends, check out the upcoming Emergency Preparedness Fair, made possible by an IBM Disaster Preparedness Grant. It’s a family-friendly event where you can meet your firefighters, see fire safety demonstrations, have your little
one sit in a fire truck, enter to win door prizes, and learn more about Lyons Prepared, a volunteer citizen partnership with the Lyons Protection Fire District, whose goal is to support neighborhood disaster preparedness, strengthen neighborhood communications during an emergency, and enhance our communities relationship with our local fire district. Things like this – groups who care deeply about their community – are part of what makes Lyons an amazing place to live. Learn more at the Emergency Preparedness Fair on Saturday, October 13 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Lyons Fire Station 1 at 251 Broadway in Lyons.
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highlighted the need for a proper safety net in town, and LEAF has grown to meet the need in response.” LEAF’s response to the needs of the community never stopped and continues today stronger than ever even without a natural disaster. Today LEAF’s Food Pantry serves over 40 families on an ongoing basis. LEAF is here offering that human services safety net to those in need in the greater Lyons area. Services include the Food Pantry, Meals On Wheels, Basic Needs and Resource Matching. Currently the majority of LEAF’s work is funded through local donations. To contact LEAF, call 720-864-4309 or email info@leaflyons.org.
their lives and could not spend the time and money it took to deal with the severe damage to their homes. Much of the remaining available housing in town was not affordable. LEAF Executive Director Emily Dusel said, “Here at LEAF, as we look back at a time of devastation in our community, we are reminded of how the people in Lyons really did and still do have “grit.” We step up and care for each other through devastating community disasters and through life’s ups and downs. We are 5 years into recovery, and we have been through a lot of darkness, but only through darkness can you see the light. The flood
LCF Continued from Page 5 who don’t have enough to eat, need housing help, and are still struggling to recover and thrive continues to grow. Other causes spawned by the flood, including the Lyons Volunteers and Lyons Leos youth service organization, are great examples of the continuing momentum of community service and local philanthropy. LCF was able to fund these groups as they had at their start and allow them to continue to perform a tremendous amount community service in a wide variety of settings. Since the flood, they have assisted in everything from digging out residents’ homes, to now aiding in building the new Habitat for Humanity housing. At the same time, Lyons Community Foundation continues to fund projects that cultivate the unique culture that we love and appreciate as a community. Annual granting pays for things like the Sandstone Summer Concert Series and the Lyons Arts and Humanities Council, a champion in nurturing our strong community of artists. The Town of Lyons Parks and Recreation department has its hands full in rebuilding our parks, but LCF funding allows for things like Good Old Days, Lyons Outdoor Games, and the Holiday Parade of lights to continue. While residents are focused now on such a wide variety of causes, it is reassuring to know that LCF’s core mission of creating a culture of giving continues. Our students are supported through scholarships and academic enhancement granting. Kids and adults are empowered to make a difference. Our human services groups are given a lift in their efforts benefitting all of us as a community, and projects that otherwise would not occur are able to get off the ground. As we go into our 11th year of funding Community Support Granting we are looking forward to seeing what ideas and projects local residents are planning. Applications for these annual grants have just closed and funds will be awarded in the next several months. To pay for this continued work, we host an annual gala whose proceeds provide funds for all future granting. This event will take place on Friday, November 16, at Lionscrest Manor. We will be debuting an exciting new format for the gala that will include participation of our
Sandstone Summer Concert Series, or used a Tech Tip flyer, or read a social media post. Or perhaps you had oneon-one consulting. What were the results? During the April through August study period, visits to the library’s online catalog almost doubled from the same period last year. Downloads of eBooks more than doubled. Website visits increased from 2,994 to 4,173. In-person visits to the library were also up, from 8,296 to 9,034. While the study period itself is over, the services of Tech Tips and Tech Thursdays continue. And general research help is always available from trained staff at your library. Visit us at 405 Main Street, Monday through Saturday, or online anytime at www.LyonsRegionalLibrary.com.
local community including the fabulous Mayama dance team. Please save the date and plan to attend this event. The Lyons Community Foundation would like to take this moment in time to recognize the heroes in our community. During the flood, we saw our local police, firefighters, and other responders work along ordinary residents in acting heroically. Public works employees performed rescues and ensured there were not more casualties. We witnessed service groups come from all over the country to help our town rebuild and recover. We watched our neighbors reaching out to literally dig their fellow residents from under the mud and debris. Community members have stepped up to form service groups, to serve in public office, to lead our town governments. None of these jobs are easy and are quite often thankless. We are fortunate to live in a town where residents really care about one another. We are humbled by the opportunity to serve the Greater Lyons Area. For more information about the Lyons Community Foundation, visit: lyonscf.org. Kristen Bruckner is on the Lyons Community Foundation Communications Committee and writes columns for the LCF. She lives in Lyons.
Surf’s up at the LES Jogathon By Tory Oakland Redstone Review LYONS – Grab your surfboards and sunblock, and don’t forget your beach ball when you come join Lyons Elementary School on Friday, September 21, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon for this year’s beach-themed Jogathon. Family, friends and community are encouraged to come and cheer for these awesome runners, and then stay for a picnic lunch following the event. Look for students hosting lemonade stands, knocking door-to-door, and setting up small businesses to collect pledge money for the run. You can support the students of LES by offering a flat donation or sponsoring a runner per lap. All donations are greatly appreciated, and 100 percent of the money raised goes to the Lyons Elementary School PTO. Funds raised pay for the school’s Late Start Leadership Program, STEAM Learning units, playground equipment, field trips, artists-in-residence, and so much more. For those wishing to donate from afar, please visit http://mkt.com/lyons-elementarypto/jogathon. There are numerous incentives for the students, and prizes to be won. For these, a special thank you is owed to many local sponsors: CEMEX, Laura Levy, Oskar Blues, Green Goo, Wee Casa, Brown’s Shoes, Gateway Realty, Planet Bluegrass, A Besen Home, LLC, Mojo Taqueria, Lyons Eye Optometry, The Mountain Sun, Villa Tatra, Lyons Physical Therapy, and Lyons Redstone Museum.
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