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B •R •I •E •F •S Dolores Vasquez has earned the CMC designation LYONS – In a letter to Town Clerk Deb Anthony from the Institute of International Municipal Clerks (IIMC), Inc., Anthony was informed that Dolores Vasquez, CMC of Town of Lyons, has earned the designation of Certified Municipal Clerk (CMC), which is awarded by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC), Inc. IIMC grants the CMC designation only to those municipal clerks who complete their demanding education requirements and who have a record of significant contributions to their local government, their community and state.

The International Institute of Municipal Clerks, founded in 1947, has 14,000 members throughout the United States, Canada and 15 other countries, and the mission of this global non-profit corporation is to enhance the education opportunities and professional development of its diverse membership.

The letter said that in light of the speed and drastic nature of change these days, lifelong learning is not only desirable, it is necessary for all in local government to keep pace with growing demands and changing needs of the citizens served.

Lyons can take immense pride in Dolores Vasquez’s educational accomplishments and achievement of this milestone.

“On behalf of the IIMC Board of Directors, I am honored to endorse the conferring of CMC to Dolores Vasquez, CMC of Town of Lyons. We share your pride in this achievement and we applaud your support of the role Dolores Vasquez plays in your city.” The letter was signed by Stephanie Carouthers Kelly, MMC, IIMC President.

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The Peacock Parade, one of Lyons’ lesser known annual traditions, took place this past Labor Day weekend. Thanks to Ian Taylor for sharing his photo of all the participants gathered at the stage in Sandstone Park. You can see more of Ian’s work on Instagram at iantaylor_photography. He currently has a show at The Lyons Den on Main Street.

FEMA approves 2nd Ave. Bridge plan, town board rethinks a 4th Ave. and Evans Pedestrian Bridge, and other issues

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review LYONS – It was a slow news night at the Lyons Town Board on September 16. The board heard from Tad Smith, who is the president of a Tiny Home Association in Colorado.

He asked the board to expand the areas where Tiny Homes can be allowed. Currently Tiny Homes are allowed in R1 areas and Smith asked the board to expand the area to include R2A areas in town. The R2 designation is for residential and multi-family housing and A is for agricultural land.

The case for expanding the area was made again by Gregg Oetting, chair of the Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC). Tiny Homes are treated like Additional Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Trustee Wendy Miller pointed out, using a map of residential lots all over Lyons, that just about all the locations where Tiny Homes are allowed already have ADUs on those lots. The spaces for additional ADUs or Tiny Homes are few at best. No decision was made by the board although there seemed to be general agreement that they would like to expand the use of Tiny Homes into the R2A areas.

In other news Tracy Sanders, Flood Recovery Manager, told the board that she had received a note from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) saying that they were sending their approval for the Second Avenue Bridge Flood

Recovery Mitigation Plan and it would arrive next week. This is good news for everyone since the bridge has developed more cracks in the pilings. Sanders said they would be setting up a work schedule soon.

Sanders conducted a discussion with the board on the FEMA Public Assistance Alternative Procedures Program (PAAP) current budget and asked the town for direction on how to manage items that were not in the current budget, but needed to be purchased in some cases, which would result in cost overruns. The PAAP budget is designed to put infrastructure back in place as it was pre-disaster.

Some projects were left out of the bid but need to be added, such as the electrical connection to the pump house/irrigation system, which was left out of the bid per the Town Engineers’ request. This will be and an additional $28,000.

Lighting for the Skate Park was also discussed and the Third Avenue Pedestrian Bridge. The original estimate for the Third and Park pedestrian bridge was approximately $300,000. Now that the preliminary design has started it has been determined in order to meet the no-rise requirement the bridge would need to be 200 feet long. With this size bridge the cost doubles in price for design and construction and the Town may be out of the footprint of the current environmental clearance.

Sanders said that the staff would like the

Board to consider removing Third and Park Pedestrian Bridge from the PAAP scope and focus on the Fourth and Evans location for the pedestrian bridge. The board will have to make some decisions on the bridge fairly soon. The current deadline to complete the PAAP projects is December 31, 2019.

At a board meeting early in September, the town staff reported that the installation of the water line in Apple Valley was completed. Work on the Lyons Valley River Park will start this winter and be completed by next spring. The Venus de Miles bike riding event is looking for a new home base and would like to use one of Lyons Parks as their home base. The board did not discuss this yet.

Administrator Victoria Simonsen said that the new flood maps will show some new areas in the flood plain. She added that the centrifuge at the Wastewater Treatment Plant needs to be upgraded.

The board approved Ordinance 1066 to add artisan manufacturing as a permitted and conditional use in the commercial downtown area. The measure was approved six to one with Mayor Connie Sullivan voting against the ordinance, saying she wanted the ordinance cleaned up before she would vote for it.

A meeting has been set up for discussing the noise issue at the local Lyons Den Restaurant and Tap House at 160 E. Main St. Sgt. Bill Crist from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Dept. and substation manager in Continue Town on Page 14

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LYONS O B I T U A RY Darlene Marie Bachy January 26, 1935 – September 11, 2019 LYONS – Darlene Marie Bachy, 84, passed away on September 11, 2019 at the home of her son near Lyons.

She was blessed to be part of a loving family that cared for her at home throughout her struggles with dementia.

She was born on January 26, 1935 in Ulysses, Nebraska to Raymond and Mary (Chermok) Cink.

They moved to Lyons when Darlene was four years old, and she lived on Evans Street her entire life. She loved to take a walk around town nearly every day.

She married the love of her life, Robert (Bob) Leo Bachy, on February 12, 1953 in San Diego, California.

Bob was serving in the U.S. Navy at the time. When he was discharged from the Navy, the couple returned to Lyons.

They had two sons, Robert L. Bachy, Jr. and Dennis R. Bachy. Her husband, Bob, passed away in 1993 and she missed him every day. She never married again.

She had many long-time friends in Lyons and loved to take trips to Las Vegas with them. She enjoyed gambling, watching football and spending time with family. She especially loved her many dogs and cats.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob; her

Front Range Watershed Days on September 28 LYONS – Front Range Watershed Days: A community celebration of the watersheds, will be held on Saturday, September 28 at LaVern M. Johnson Park on the banks of the St. Vrain River at 600 Park Dr. A bio-blitz (data collection and tour) will be held at 9 a.m. and a celebration will be held from 1 to 4 p.m.

The Watershed Center, along with its partners and sponsors, is hosting this watershed celebration in order to inspire people to connect to their

watershed. This event will include food, hands-on activities for the whole family and meetings with the scientists. In the afternoon the celebration and hands-on activities will take place on the banks of the St. Vrain. The event in the LVJ park is free and no signup is required. Lunch is available.

Left Hand Watershed Center (formerly Lefthand Watershed Oversight Group) is a 501c3 nonprofit, stakeholder-driven organization that aims to

parents; and her nephew, Dan Elwood. She is survived by her sons, Bob and Dennis, both of Lyons; her sister and brother-in-law, Arlene and Farren Elwood of Longmont; her niece, Tammy (Rick) Crowell of Mead; and great-nephews, Kyle Crowell and Daniel Elwood.

She adored her two grandchildren, Sheena (Erick) Lovett of Phoenix, Arizona, and Dennis (Erika) Bachy Jr. of Milliken. She had four great-grandchildren: Kalen and Capri Lovett, and Kynsleigh and Berkleigh Bachy.

Services were be held 11 a.m., Tuesday, September 17 at Ahlberg Funeral Chapel, 326 Terry St. in Longmont.

Interment follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Longmont.

The family requests donations to the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado, 455 Sherman Street, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80203.

protect and restore watersheds for people and environment, using a collaborative, science-based approach.

They provide place-based watershed education opportunities to ensure our watersheds remain healthy for future generations.

Participating watershed groups are St. Vrain Creek Coalition, the Big Thompson Watershed Coalition, Left Hand Watershed Center and Fourmile Watershed Coalition.

The St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District is proud to partner with the Left Hand Watershed Center on the upcoming Front Range Watershed Days. For additional information please visit https://watershed.center/front-range-watershed-days/.

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Emergency Preparedness Fair on September 21

By Sara Erickson Redstone Review LYONS – Lyons Fire District and Lyons Prepared invite you to attend the second annual Preparedness Fair set for September 21 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lyons Fire Station No. 1 at 251 Broadway.

This is a fun family event. Activities include: meeting your firefighters; participating in kids’ events, fire safety demonstrations, First Aid / CPR demonstrations and getting information on emergency preparedness and much more.

Pye Barker Fire and Safety will: provide free fire extinguisher inspections; provide fire extinguishers for sale; and provide information / tips on how to properly use an extinguisher.

Participating organizations include Wildfire.org, B CARES, Larimer Connects, Red Cross, Lyons Prepared, and the Fire District.

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Please visit the fair on September 21 to learn more and to support emergency preparedness in our community.

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MAYOR’S CORNER Six years post flood – are we back?

By Connie Sullivan, Mayor of Lyon Redstone Review LYONS – Six years post flood – are we back?

My short answer to this question is, “almost.” I say Sullivan “almost” not because the work is all done, as there are still a handful of major projects that need completing such as the ball fields in Bohn Park and the rebuild of the Second Avenue Bridge.

However, the remaining work will happen and will seem to some as if we were just fixing things that needed fixing. The biggest milestones are behind us where construction is concerned.

Visible signs of a major federal disaster are harder to find. What remains are the memories of how things looked before in the minds and photos of those who were here. The Board of Trustees’ agendas are still filled with contract approvals and details of how projects and funding are proceeding, but there is time to discuss other issues and start thinking of how Lyons should evolve over the next five to ten years.

My personal definition of recovery revolves around whether or not we restored the housing lost for the citizens who lived in the confluence and mobile home parks. The challenge of replacing this housing was by far the most difficult and it would be naïve to claim that com-

plete success was even possible. However, I believe that we have done the best we could in this regard. Many will say there were simpler answers and that we could have built mobile homes in the eastern corridor, etc.; but they are not correct.

There were no easy or simple solutions to rebuilding housing that existed for decades in a county experiencing 40 percent increases in property taxes every two years. Every land use policy discussed or passed over the past six years has had our housing goal in mind. The trustees of the past several boards wanted Lyons to remain a family-oriented community that is affordable for the locals who work in town. Each Board passed ordinances to allow accessory dwelling units, limit short-term vacation rentals, and create opportunities for permanently affordable projects. Seeing the Habitat homes being filled with familiar faces is evidence of progress. The town has a project in the planning phase that will restore a good majority of housing units that meet the income level of those who were displaced.

While it isn’t apples-to-apples, I feel we have done our best to create new housing options to replace what was lost.

The challenges of flood recovery are not over. The town staff still lives through recovery on a daily basis in their dealings with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) inspectors and state coalitions regarding funding deadlines and such. The toll this process has taken on the

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staff is hard to put into words. The anniversary of the flood is a great opportunity to let the staff know what an exceptional job they have done rebuilding our town. Please say “thank you” or send them a note to express your gratitude if you are inclined. The jobs they do are extremely difficult, require vast amounts of knowledge and experience, and rarely offer recognition. FEMA is so amazed at what Lyons has accomplished that they are now studying our process to see how others might benefit from our example. Most do not realize that our recovery process has been exceptional and is not the norm of how these things usually go.

When I am driving into town, I often

try to see it as someone who is visiting for the first time would. Would they see Lyons as a tired place whose prime has past? Or would they focus on the natural beauty of Steamboat Mountain, the bustling of Main Street, colorful flowerpots, and the Black Bear bridge and think it was an adorable surprise? As I was driving through town recently, I was struck at how beautiful things looked. It was the same feeling I had just before the flood when I thought to myself ”Lyons is really thriving right now.” I am enormously proud of how our town has come through the flood. The job is not completely done, but I think we’ve done well and can say that we are “almost” there.

LEAF’s core services and resources help strengthen the Lyons community

By Lory Barton Redstone Review LYONS – As many of us “re-set” for fall and the coming cooler weather, I want to take an opportunity to remind everyone about Lyons Emergency and Assistance Fund’s (LEAF) core servicBarton es. This month, I’ll tell you about Lyons Community Food Pantry and Mental Wellness and Addiction Recovery. Next month’s focus will be on Lyons Meals on Wheels and Basic Needs and Resource Matching.

The Lyons Community Food Pantry is open every Wednesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the lower level of Lyons Community Church. Our volunteers work hard to

create a positive and healthy “shopping” experience.

When you come to the Food Pantry, you can expect a joyful environment, with people visiting and enjoying a bit of community together. When it’s your turn to choose food and household items, you’ll choose from canned items, pasta, legumes, cereals, crackers, meat, eggs, milk and other dairy items, a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, breads, and more. We even have cat food and dog food for “fur babies,” thanks to our partnership with Colorado Pet Pantry.

The amount of nutrition participants collect is based on the number of people living in the household.

Participants only need to provide proof of Lyons-area residency to visit the Food Pantry. Financial survival in Boulder County is becoming more and more difficult.

There is no shame in coming to the Food Pantry to

supplement your household’s nutrition needs. The Food Pantry’s mission is to ensure no one in the greater Lyons area goes hungry. If you or someone you know in town could benefit from nutrition support, remember the Food Pantry!

Another core LEAF program is also its newest one: Mental Health and Addiction Recovery. Thanks to partnerships with so many, including the Town of Lyons and Lyons Community Church, plus committed individuals who pledged financial support at our Pancake Breakfast in June, affordable and accessible mental health care is now available in Lyons. This is cause to celebrate!

LEAF’s mental health therapist, Cherie Maureaux, is a Lyons resident and excited to serve in her own comContinue LEAF on Page 14

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LOCAL Lyons long-awaited new district library finally opens with great fanfare Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – The Friends of the Library planned one incredible party for the new Library’s grand opening on Saturday, September 7. The District extends our sincerest thanks to the Friends who planned and hosted the event and the scores upon scores of community members who visited throughout the afternoon.

Visitors were treated to rollicking music courtesy of the Better Than Book Club band (we’ll try not to hold their name against them!) featuring hammered dulcimer national champion Tina Gugler.

Area children and their parents were enthralled by a storytime presented by Annie Grace, a close friend of our library’s namesake, YaYa. Building Committee Chair, Sandy Banta, and new Board of Trustees President Janet Corson-Rickert were among those who spoke words of thanks to those who funded, designed, and literally built the new library.

Several key Board members then wielded scissors of the giant variety to properly cut a festive ribbon strung between the library’s beautiful entry beams. The Lyons High School Jazz Band performed a medley of tunes to much delight. The Friends of the Library hosted their annual meeting and slideshow before Court Whelan, Ph.D., butterfly expert and adventure travel guide, presented a fascinating presentation about Monarch migration. Stop by the library to check out a copy of his new book, The Monarch Migration: A Journey Through the Monarch Butterfly’s Winter Home. Snacks, temporary tattoos, and a scavenger hunt

A much anticipated ribbon cutting. Left to right: Building Committee Chair, Sandy Banta; newly appointed Library Director, Kara Bauman; retiring Library Board Member, Darcie Sanders; retiring Board Chair, Kathleen Crane. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS rounded out the day’s activities. We were truly blown away by the community excitement and cannot wait to help you make the new space yours.

District News September will bring new faces to the Lyons Regional Library District team, in addition to familiar faces in new roles.

As of September 1, 2019, Assistant Director Kara Bauman stepped up into the role of Library Director. Due to family commitments, Rebecca Schuh left her position as chief executive, but will be

staying on until new staff are established.

Reflecting on her time here, Schuh said that she is “extremely proud to have been a part of the evolution of Lyons Regional Library District (LRLD) as we have moved into the Lyons Community Library. I am also excited that Kara will become the next LRLD Director; she is extremely talented and committed to the Lyons community.”

The Board shares Schuh’s enthusiasm for Bauman. She has a proven track record of dedication, strategic thinking, and many

years of professional experience. Bauman is looking forward to leading the District forward during this time of growth, and said that, “I learned so much from Rebecca and the vast experience she brought to the role. I was honored to work so closely with her during her time here, and there’s a lot of groundwork I hope to build upon. Staff and I are confident that we can continue to expand our services to our supportive community.”

Schuh played a critical role in the development and success of our move into the new building. We will miss her and her inspiring leadership and wish her the best of luck.

September is also the month when trustee terms turn over. Departing members this year are Kathleen Crane, Darcie Sanders, and Lori Adams-Weaver. Join us in welcoming incoming members Brian Donnell, Bill Palmer, and Shirley Sullivan.

Incoming Trustee Brian Donnell: An engineer and musician, Donnell previously served on the Town of Lyons Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2010.

Incoming Trustee Bill Palmer: An engineer and editor, Palmer previously served on the Lyons Community Foundation and also was an important member of the Library Building Committee.

Incoming Trustee Shirley Sullivan: Sullivan holds a master’s degree in library science and has worked in military, public, and university libraries.

Incoming Director Kara Bauman: Patrons are already familiar with Kara Bauman, who holds a master’s degree in library science and previously served as the Adult Experiences Librarian and Assistant Director.

Hummingbird moths, hornworms, sphinx moths and other garden creatures

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – Penstemon, bubblemint and other flowers in the garden were in full bloom and the humming of the bees could be heard from ten feet away. A glorious Colorado summer day and the pollinators were out in full force with the occasional hummingbird buzzing and squeaking as it made its way from blossom to blossom.

But – wait – what heck was that? Do hummingbirds get that small? It hovered and zipped around like a hummer. And it fed like a hummer, probing into the flowers’ blossoms.

Closer inspection revealed it was no bird; it was definitely an insect – a big one.

What I had seen, and continued to see for many summers after, was a sphinx moth, also known (appropriately enough) as a hummingbird moth. Many people think sphinx moths are the adults of those big camouflaged uglies that skeletonize your tomato vines. Not so. While the fliers in

your garden are in the same family, they are not the dreaded tomato hornworms.

The Sphingidae are a family of moths commonly known as sphinx or hawk moths and, in their larval stage, hornworms.

There are about 1,450 species and they’re found in every region including 30 varieties here in Colorado. Unlike the fluttering, erratic flight of most moths, sphingids are among the fastest of flying insects capable of speeds more than 20 miles per hour.

More impressive, the moths have the ability to hover and move rapidly side to side.

Biggest caterpillars in the state Hornworms are among the largest caterpillar types here in Colorado, according to the CSU Extension website. They get the name “horn” from the flexible spine on their hind end. Most hornworm species in Colorado and the adult moth versions are rarely seen as they are active at night and don’t cause significant plant damage.

The hornworm most people come into contact with is the elegantly camouflaged tomato hornworm, whose color makes it

A white-lined sphinx moth, also known as a hummingbird moth. difficult to see among the tangle of tomato vines. Their presence is advertised by skeletonized branches and the masses of “frass,” or droppings. The tomato horn-

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OPTIONS LEAF and an 11-year-old boy help Michael and his dog Taz find a new golf cart

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – When Michael Tovani’s golf cart died a month or two ago, his life looked very bleak. On January 3, 2005 he had suffered a stroke and had been left partially disabled. His golf cart was the only way he could get around town. Tovani and his dog Taz were seen all over Lyons in the golf cart. Taz would wait patiently in the cart while Tovani was in the grocery picking up a few things.

Then another blow came in 2013. “My house was destroyed in the flood,” said Tovani. “I lost a lot of things. I almost died. Taz and I were in the house that night and three sheriff deputies came to my house and rescued Taz and me. They saved our lives.”

Tovani, with help from friends, found an inexpensive place to live with Taz, and Tovani and Taz managed to get around town in a golf cart that the Lyons Emergency and Assistance Fund (LEAF) helped him to acquire about four years ago.

“I’m pretty independent,” said Tovani. “I was a farrier and I had a forge and I made various things including doing art work. I did blacksmith work at the little log cabin next to Smokin’ Dave’s when Tim Combs owned it back in 1997.

But Tovani’s golf cart died a short time ago. Tovani, now 70, felt he had been set back once again. His situation was brought to the attention of LEAF. Tanya Daty, the chair of LEAF, took on the challenge. Daty found out that an 11-year-old Lyons Elementary student, Eli Goldstein, had won a golf cart in a contest four years ago,

when he was seven, and his had parents stuck it in their garage, rarely if ever using the cart. They were originally thinking of selling it.

Daty approached Eli’s parents John Goldstein and Susanne Ducker and presented Tovani and Taz’s plight to the family.

“I watched my dad lose his mobility,” said Susanne.

“He was very active until three years ago and I watched how hard it is for my mom. So when Tanya explained to me why this would be so important and such a wonderful idea, I said stop, I’m already sold on the idea.”

When Eli was asked why he wanted to donate the golf cart to Tovani he said, “I haven’t used it in over two years and it is a really nice thing to do. It makes me feel really, really, really, really good.”

Eli’s dad John, looking at his son said, “He is an exceptional kid. Not every kid would give up a golf cart that he won.”

Eli seemed pleased.

“Do you know that you are a hero?” said Daty.

“Yes,” said Eli. “Well you are a hero,” said Tovani.

Eli drove his parents over to Tovani’s house to deliver the golf cart and then Eli showed Tovani how to work the brand new cart, which had a few new features from his old cart.

Tovani drove the family back to their house. He thanked them again and said, “I will be sure to stop by.”

He was overcome with emotion, that someone would give him such a wonderful gift.

“Mitzvah means a good deed,” said John. And a good

Eli Goldstein and Michael Tovani ride in their very special golf cart. deed it was. When the LEAF board meets each month, Daty asks the board members to share what we call A Mission Moment. A mission moment is when one or more of the board members tells the board about a recent event where LEAF had the opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life. Daty said to me that day, “This is our mission moment. We made a big difference in several people’s lives today.”

Most days now Taz and Tovani can be seen scooting around town running errands in their new golf cart, and Taz is back to greeting all his friends who come up to pet him while he waits for Tovani.

“I think Taz missed the golf cart more than I did,” said Tovani.

Former Gov. Hickenlooper visits Lyons for a flood update

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – Former Governor and current Democratic candidate for the Senate John Hickenlooper stopped in Lyons on his way to Estes Park to spend an hour getting a flood recovery update and to see the affordable housing site and the new Habitat for Humanity dwellings.

His first stop was the new library, where he met the new Library Director Kara Bauman and had a tour of the facility. “If you want to build resiliency after recovering from a disaster, you have to build bigger and better and this library is the best example I have seen of doing that,” Hickenlooper said.

Then he heard a presentation by Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen and Flood Recovery Manager Tracy Sanders.

Simonsen said that 25 percent of the current population of Lyons has moved here after the flood. She went on to describe what happened on the night of the flood.

The North and South St. Vrain Creeks overflowed their banks at the confluence area in Lyons. The water was flowing at 23,000 cubic feet per second at one point.

But, the gauging station blew out during the flood and there are no actual records at the height of the flood.

Lyons is laid out on a formation of layers of compressed sandstone that is very rare and highly sought after for construc-

Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen and Former Governor John Hickenlooper in Bohn Park on the pathway through the park named Hickenlooper Way. tion and landscaping. The sandstone here is hard whereas most sandstone is soft.

There are 960 households in Lyons and 211 homes were damaged in the flood, 80 homes were substantially damaged. After the flood the town was divided into six islands where most people were trapped by the rivers, bridges torn apart, roads washed away, debris everywhere. The National Guard was the first to arrive with help for the residents. The water and sewer systems were destroyed and there was no electrici-

ty. Most of the town had to evacuate, some were evacuated in helicopters from areas that vehicles could not get to.

The town arranged for 27 homes to be bought out in the government buyout program. The rest of the home owners chose to elevate their homes or to sell.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimated the damage to be $50 million but so far the cost is at $72.7 million and the repairs are still not completed. The town has completed two

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miles of stream restoration, Bohn Park will be done in a few months and five miles of trails have been completed.

The Second Avenue bridge is still an issue. The bridge was seriously damaged by the flood and is in need of repair. The town has waited a year for FEMA to approve the town’s mitigation plan and by a stroke of luck, the approval for the bridge came to Sanders’ desk while Gov. Hickenlooper was visiting Lyons. Sanders said that a work schedule will be set up for the bridge and some bridge closures will be likely.

Simonsen said that she expects all flood related construction to be completed by next July. The town has been spending about $10 to $15 million a year, counting all funds, state, federal and county, on flood repairs annually. Now she said they are focusing on the work that the town needs and has needed for some time that is not flood related.

The state has advanced Lyons a lot of money because it takes so long for FEMA to come through with the money for the approved flood projects. Now the state wants Lyons to start paying back the money, which will pose a hardship on Lyons unless the Town can get an extension. Sanders said it will take four more years to close out all the FEMA and state accounts.

Hickenlooper was impressed with the progress that the little town of Lyons has made and Simonsen said that FEMA and other agencies are using Lyons as an excellent example of flood recovery and they want to use some of the same princiContinue Hick on Page 14

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OPPORTUNITY Learn to preserve old photos at Lyons Redstone Museum

By Monique Sawyer Lang Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Redstone Museum will be hosting one last program in the 2019 History Sawyer-Lang Talk series.

On September 19 from 7 to 8:30 p.m., the museum will present “Faded History,” a free photography workshop on the preservation of photographs and how computer technology can be used to restore photographs faded by time.

Additional topics for the evening include the care, handling, and storage of historic photographs, and sources for archival materials. For a $10 donation participants can have one photograph (up to 8”x10”) scanned that evening after which museum volunteer Steve Lang will do his best to clean up the photograph.

You will receive a JPEG image of the photograph at a later date. All proceeds from the event will go towards the purchase of archival materials for the museum.

This event is made possible by a grant from the Lyons Community Foundation.

Contact us at redstonehistory@gmail.com or leave a message at 303-823-5271 if you have questions or would like additional information about the event. We look forward to seeing you on September 19.

on Instagram #lyonsredstonemuseum for announcements on a date for the 2020 tour.

The Lyons Redstone Museum was honored to have the Diary of Charles P. Swift, which he started on December 7, 1941 in Pearl Harbor, selected as one of the Top Ten Significant Colorado Artifacts of 2019.

Charles Swift grew up in Lyons, graduated from Lyons High School in 1932 and was a radioman on the DDS Phelps.

The diary is on display and a transcription is available for visitors to browse through.

Copies of the transcription have been sent to the National Museum of the Pacific War, home of the Admiral Nimitz Museum, in Fredericksburg, Here’s an example of an old photo and how much it Texas and the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia can be improved with computer restoration. for their archives.

This is the second time that A well-attended Lyons Cemetery the Lyons Redstone Museum has Walking Tour was presented August 24. received this honor. Our collection of Participants heard the stories of some of 214 Teacher Registration and Grade Lyons’ earliest residents. The tour will be Books from the Lyons Schools, 1920held again in May 2020, so you have not 1961, was selected as a 2017 Top Ten missed out. Visit the museum’s website, Colorado Significant Artifact. lyonsredstonemuseum.com, or follow us The last public day of the 2019 season on Facebook at lyonsredstonemuseum and at the museum will be Sunday,

September 29. View the new exhibit, Forty Years / Forty Artifacts, showcasing 40 artifacts highlighting the 40 years the museum has been open to the public.

Stop in and browse the museum gift shop and bookstore. The gift shop has a selection of new Lyons T-shirts, holiday merchandise, as well as vintage items for sale.

The bookstore is chock full of new and used books; there is something for everyone. We have autographed copies of the autobiography Chopin Through the Window by Franziska Stein, former owner of the Black Bear Inn. The museum will be closed for the winter and will reopen weekends in May 2020. However, we are available by appointment over the winter for tours and research purposes. Contact us at redstonehistory@gmail.com or leave a message for LaVern Johnson at 303-823-5925 if you would like to make an appointment.

Just because it will be winter doesn’t mean we are idle. We will be busy planning programming for 2020 and hosting a different grade from the Lyons Elementary School on late-start days each month. In its third year, this collaboration brings the museum and its resources into the school’s social studies, language arts, library, and leadership curricula.

Monique Sawyer Lang is a co-curator 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.

Lyons Garden Club Chili Cook-Off coming next month

By Sara Erickson Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Spooktacular Parade is just around the corner and that means, of course, the Lyons Garden Club will hold its annual Chili CookOff fundraiser on Saturday, October 26, in the parking lot of the Stone Cup. Every October folks come to enjoy the parade and activities and enjoy generous samplings from some of the town’s best chili cooks.

Bring your best chili recipe to compete

in three categories: red, green and vegetarian. We have fantastic prizes this year.

We will be awarding a six-cup Instantpot to each winner in each category. Yes, you read that correctly: three Instantpots will be awarded. Entries will be judged this year by esteemed judges, including twoand three-time winners from previous years. Don’t worry, they won’t be entering their own chili.

Bring your chili and register starting at 4 p.m. Bring a labeled crockpot and ladle.

Be prepared to describe your chili on the entry form: level of hotness, main ingredi-

ents, dairy or gluten free, nuts, vegan, etc.

Judging and sales will begin at 4:30 p.m. The cook-off will end at 6:30 p.m. or until we run out of chili, which happens.

Bowls will be sold for $5 and tasting cups are 50 cents with all proceeds going to Lyons Garden Club nonprofit projects.

Plan now to make and enter your chili.

The more entries, the more chili, the more fun we have. Please contact Sue Wratten at 720-580-2475 for more information.

At right, 2018 Chili Champ Bill Moore and his wife Jeanne Bill will be a judge this year.

The 11th Annual 9Health Fair is coming to Lyons

By Sara Erickson Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons 9Health Fair is once again coming to serve our community. This will be the 11th year that this high-quality service has visited Lyons.

The fair will be held on Saturday, September 28, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 200 Second Ave., known as the Mormon Church.

This event, which promotes self-care

and wellness, offers a wide range of services and testing. Screenings with a cost are: blood chemistry (no fasting required); PSA; Vitamin D; B12; testosterone (male and female); blood cell count; Hemoglobin A1c and colon cancer screening kits. Free screenings by qualified professionals include: blood pressure; hearing; oral health; skin; spine; vision; breast exam; Pap smear tests; stress management; nutrition counseling; and much more. Blood test costs are lower than insurance deductibles and we will

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The 9Health Fair has helped countless Coloradans get information on conditions that were unknown to them prior to their screenings. Conditions such as thyroid disorders, skin cancer, high PSA, high cholesterol and many more have been brought to our patients’ attention.

The 9Health website contains many testimonials from individuals throughout Colorado who are grateful to have participated and have improved their health.

The Lyons 9Health Fair also provides car seat checks for parents. There will be Spanish speaking providers present.

Safeway Pharmacy will be at the fair to provide free flu vaccines.

Check the 9Health Fair website, 9healthfair.org, for information about the fair. The website will provide information on the screenings offered, and you will be able to register online. Online registration is highly recommended. Pre-registration will save you time and you can access your test results online if you pre-register.

Please bring your printed registration form with you to the fair. Come to the fair, be strong, be healthy and be happy.

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INSIGHT Cafés that bring nostalgia

By John Gierach Redstone Review

a time when if you asked for a vegan or gluten free alternative, you’d have been asked to leave.

There are some good cafés in Longmont – Janie’s on Main Street comes to mind – but my first choice is Aunt Alice’s Kitchen. You can get a hot turkey sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy that’s to die for and if you don’t want to injure yourself you can do what I do and order the smaller “senior size.” So far, no one has asked to see my I.D. If you have a good eye, you can spot these places. Their names and the buildings they’re housed in are usually plain as dirt, but the real giveaway will be the parking lot.

At mealtimes it’ll be crowded with old sedans and pickups with muddy tires, tools in their beds and company names painted on them. A hand-written note taped to

LYONS – I stopped for lunch at the Walnut Café in Boulder recently, a place that’s been around for over 30 years, but where I hadn’t eaten in recent memory. I used to have lunch there with my old Gierach publisher – the kind of meetings where food isn’t the point – but I vaguely remembered it being plain old café fare – bacon and eggs, burgers and fries – recognizable to any American who grew up in the 1950s and 60s.

The menu was more or less as I remembered and I was happy to see a sloppy joe until I noticed it was vegetarian. I gave that a moment’s thought. Sloppy joes were my favorite lunch in high school and the description on the menu promised, “You won’t miss the meat!” so I shrugged and took the plunge. If nothing else, I’ve been half-heartedly allowing myself to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The vegetarian sloppy joe really wasn’t bad, but I did miss the meat.

Usually when I eat in Boulder I go to Dot’s Diner (“Where the folks get their yolks”) which has also been around for decades. It’s on 28th Street now, but it used to be way out on East Pearl – a block and a half past where the mall is now – in an old gas station that was finally bulldozed in one of Boulder’s many Dot’s Diner,on 28th Street in Boulder. It’s “Where folks get their yolks.” waves of gentrification. I once lived in Boulder before that same gentrification scraped the cheap rentals where many of my the door of the café urging patrons to “Please wipe your friends I and lived and scattered us into the county and feet” is also a promising sign.

Some places come close, but give themselves away beyond searching for rent we could afford.

At Dot’s I like the pancakes and sausage or the south- with excessive cuteness. Once, somewhere outside ern breakfast: ham, eggs, grits, gravy, and a buttermilk Bozeman, Montana, I stopped at a place called the biscuit the size of a softball. I could eat like that every “Kountry Korner.” The substitution of Ks for Cs raised a morning when I worked long days at physical labor. Now red flag, as did all the miscellaneous antique junk hanging on the walls, but I was hungry and didn’t have a lot it’s a nostalgic treat.

I don’t know how long the Village Coffee Shop has of choices. The food actually wasn’t bad, but the place been on Folsom Street, but I swear I remember it from had the slightly too contrived quality of a chain.

Not that a chain is necessarily bad. Cracker Barrel was the late 1960s or 70s. It was – and probably still is – a place where the food was good, cheap and there was founded in Tennessee in 1969 and, although they’re not as plenty of it, so hippies, students and working stiffs rubbed ubiquitous as Starbucks or McDonalds, they’re now in 45 shoulders with no apparent friction. I haven’t eaten there states, including Colorado. They’re a little too kitschy for in a while, but the last time I drove past I felt the old tug my taste, but the food is good. (I don’t always order biscuits of sentimental gravity. I doubt it’s still true, but there was and gravy, but I always want to.) My mother introduced me

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to Cracker Barrel in Missouri and when I went into one in Nebraska I told the waitress it was my mother’s favorite.

She said, “Sweetie, this is every mother’s favorite.”

Of course I don’t eat like this all the time, which is the main reason why I don’t weigh 300 pounds and my heart still works. At home we make simple, mostly nutritious meals and when we go out we avoid assembly line joints in favor of places where at least part of your meal comes from a stove instead of a microwave. But most restaurants fail, either by going for speed and quantity over quality, or by bending over so far in the direction of “healthy eating” that they serve food that’s expensive and politically correct in every way, but uninteresting.

That’s why I have a soft spot for the food of my youth and for the cafés that still serve it.

Heavy on meat, fat, starch and taste, it’s the food that fed the hardworking folks that made America great. It’s also why, when farming became mechanized after World War Two, implement manufacturers had to start making their tractor seats wider.

I once found a great place in Wisconsin. I can’t remember its name or what town in was in – all I know is that I was north of I-90 on a maze of county roads leading to Hayward. It was in a storefront that had obviously once been something else; maybe a beauty parlor or a gun shop. The floor was linoleum, the counter and tables were Formica, and the walls were bare except for a clock, a calendar and the mounted head of a white-tailed deer. I slid into a booth with a vinyl bench that had been patched with duct tape, and studied the menu. I half expected to see my father and my uncle at the counter wearing their fishing hats and drinking coffee.

By the time the waitress came over and said, “Hey, hon, what can I get ya,” I’d become helplessly sentimental and ordered a hot beef sandwich: two pieces of white bread covered with roast beef and two big ice cream scoops of mashed potatoes, all smothered in the kind of industrial-strength brown gravy that Jim Harrison once said comes in a 55-gallon drum. It was all I could do to hold back the tears.

John Gierach is an outdoor and fly fishing writer who writes books and columns for magazines including Trout Magazine.

He has won seven first place awards from the Colorado Press Association for his columns in the Redstone Review. His latest book, Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers will be available in April 2020.

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COMMON GROUND WOMEN IN BUSINESS SERIES

Defined motion: A ten-year retrospective of Mayama Dance Studio

By Tamara Haddad Redstone Review

chasing the building. “There were a lot of meetings,” said Lok, “A lot of coffee and cinnamon rolls. It took a long time, but then we got the call; the building was ours.”

The deal is an example of Lyons’s generational community. It’s the foundation of Lok and Kishiyama’s core motivation: to foster a community that inspires collaboration, respect, and growth. They succeeded.

“Jasmine and Ali created an organic community center where kids come, even ones that don’t dance,” says a

public outcry came from those avid followers that longed for their entertainment.

Where most dance studios clad their young dancers in LYONS – Walking into Mayama’s front padded bustiers and teach them to Twirk, Lok and door, at 625½ Fourth Ave., Lyons, I go Kishiyama teach that cheap tricks don’t define the art of into what feels like a living room, passing dance nor self. “I attended a dance competition last year,” the family couch and join the co-founders, said a Longmont parent, “The talent and confidence these Ali Kishiyama and Jasmine Lok, at the dancers showed brought the crowd to its feet.” The compeHaddad large round dining room table. As the tition was one of two that the dance team attends, where table’s shape suggests, it has no head, implying that most dance teams hit 20 or more. “These competieveryone who sits there has equal status. “It’s a symtions are exactly what we don’t want to support,” bol,” said Lok, “part of our natural commitment to says Kishiyama, “The two we attend, we get honest our community.” feedback from the judges and use it to critique our As Mayama reaches its tenth anniversary in dancers back home.”

October, Ali Kishiyama and Jasmine Lok reflect on Back home, it is hard to find someone who hasn’t its beginning and its evolution. Most recently, the experienced the dancers at the annual February name change: Mayama is now Defined Motion. fundraiser in the Wildflower Pavilion – even if they Don’t panic. Nothing else is changing. It’s a comdon’t have a kid in the crew. Mayama / Defined mon theme among businesses lasting this long to Motion is not a nonprofit, but don’t tell Lok and reevaluate goals, branding, and future audience Kishiyama that – as they flip the bill, they also teach impact. Defined Motion has always been at the their dancers how to support themselves through heart of the company; now it’s the new name. participating in the fundraiser and reward them with In the beginning, despite both women living in 100 percent of the money they raise with scholarLyons for ten-plus years, their lives moved around ships to cover classes and costumes. Leave no child one another, they were acquaintances by proxy. It behind is not a bumper sticker here, it’s a mantra. was a coincidence that simultaneously, they decidBut what stands out most at the fundraiser is not ed that their life needed a change. Lok quit her the dancers’ involvement with its production, the corporate job in human relations. packed house, the engaging costumes, or the rivet“I woke up one day and realized I was dying ing performances. It is the gratitude you become inside,” she continues. “I needed a place where part of from your seat to the stage. It’s the goosemy core values were shared. I knew I had to bumps you get when you realize you are one of many engage in my community. I took a job at the listening to the dancers tell the audience what they Stone Cup and reconsidered everything.” That expect from themselves with confidence. “I will be was a much needed break. a Doctor Without Borders,” says one dancer. “I will “And you started Nia!” Kishiyama interrupted run a successful tech company.” says another. There with pride. Later in the interview, after Lok left is no shortage of hope on this stage and in the audifor a meeting, Kishiyama lowered her voice. Ali Kishiyama and Jasmine Lok, co-founders of Mayama Movement Studio, ence: hope in our youth; hope for our future; a belief “Jasmine is recognized in the Nia community. recently renamed Defined Motion. that community, big and small, define us as individShe’s a double Black Belt and was just invited to uals that make the world a better place. train with the best Nia teachers. That’s big!”

Join Defined Motion’s anniversary party, Hashtag, WomenSupportingWomen. Another core Lyons parent. “You can walk into the studio after school October 13, 4 to 7 p.m. at 625½ Fourth Ave., featuring belief for the duo. and see the hallway full of kids stretching and doing their studio performances in all styles and student choreograAs Lok’s life shifted, Kishiyama graduated from CU in homework and helping one another. What these teach- phy. Free community drop-in classes (Nia, yoga, barre, dance and was ready to leave Oskar Blues to open a ers instill in their students – in my daughter – it’s not just and more) are available October 13 through 19 to all the dance studio. That’s when Sam and Mindy Talent, own- about a kid dancing, it’s about self-discipline, self-respect, adult students and an opportunity for new students to ers of Stone Cup and the building, suggested the two personal awareness, and a healthy body image.” explore the studio and meet the teachers. Defined women get together and open a dance / Nia movement Lok and Kishiyama are widely respected as communi- Motion is for everyBODY. https://mayamastudio.com/. studio in their building. A few years later, as the business ty stewards willing to speak up and stand out. grew, they moved to 625½ Fourth St., the Odd Fellows America is in a time when stories are finally breaking Tamara Vega Haddad provides communications and advoHall, where they rented until the owner’s stewardship about people like Jeffery Epstein. Nonetheless, media cacy to independently owned businesses in the Front Range. became one of empowerment and faith. outlets refer to his victims as underage women as opposed She holds a degree in Political Science and Marketing from The Odd Fellows Board saw Lok and Kishiyama’s busi- to children. When the show, Toddlers and Tierras, can- University of Colorado, Boulder and spent 20+ years in pubness acumen, Lok and Kishiyama saw a way to secure celed its series after seven years due to public outcry for lic affairs. This is her fifth year on the Lyons Economic their financial future as entrepreneurs and proposed pur- hypersexualizing three-to-five-year-old girls, an equally Development Commission.

Grass carp are part of solution to River Park weeds

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – The mats of floating algae and aquatic weeds in the newly created Lyons River Park ponds have been a concern of both residents and Town of Lyons staff.

Warm weather combined with a heavy nutrient load of nitrogen and phosphorus from flood silt and introduced topsoil has caused algae blooms and proliferation of aquatic weeds.

Now a solution is close at hand: weedeating triploid grass carp will be stocked in the two ponds in mid-October. The town has contracted with environmental consultant Aqua Sierra to come up with solutions to the overgrowth; the grass carp are the initial step in the long-term management of the plants.

The first-year weed and algae growth in the ponds is fairly common in new ponds.

The key now is to control the overgrowth and help the ponds find a balance.

Greg Sayles, fisheries biologist for envi-

ronmental consulting firm Aqua Sierra, said that the grass carp will assist in the control of rooted aquatic vegetation. He added that some aquatic vegetation is critical for success of the ponds, giving fish and macroinvertebrates refuge, and that the carp will control but not eliminate aquatic plants.

Of immediate concern is the proliferation of Eurasian milfoil and water hyacinth in the ponds. These species are invasive and are difficult to control once they become established.

About 80 carp eight to ten inches long will be stocked in the larger lower pond and 25 of the same size in the upper pond.

Sayles said that number was calculated on acreage and depth of the ponds, the proper balance of aquatic plants and expected life span of the fish.

Grass carp, per Colorado Parks and Wildlife regulation, must be sterile. The carp can live as long as 20 years and grow to a large size, but they are preyed on by herons, ospreys and raccoons. But for the

first few years the carp will tend to be near the pond bottom and not be so obvious to predators. There may be additional stocking in the future if too many carp are lost to predation. Unlike common carp, grass carp are strictly vegetarian and won’t prey on other fish.

Fathead minnows will also be stocked in the ponds at the same time as the carp.

The minnows will prey on mosquito larvae and will naturally reproduce providing forage for any other fish stocked later in the ponds.

Aqua Sierra has also tested the ponds’ water and may suggest further measures to bring the ponds back into balance. (The water test results were not available at press time.) Those measures might include chemical treatment of the algae and aeration of the ponds. These last two actions have not yet been presented to the Town.

Grass carp will be stocked in the River Park ponds to help control weeds.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Art and Entertainment in the Lyons area

By Redstone Staff Redstone Review LYONS The Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission art show is now on display at the Lyons Town Hall, 432 Fifth Ave, and the new musical sidewalks are ready for your feet! .

There is another new crosswalk in town by Lyons artist Sonny Smith. Smith was at it again on the streets. With the help of Cormick Bowen, John Jacob and several Lyons Town Crew – Conner, Collen and Jason – a second crosswalk of musical piano keys on High Street near Lyons Elementary School has been completed. This intersection is looking colorful and taking on a life of its own thanks to Sonny’s fun vision and hard work. A special thanks goes to the LAHC for funding the supplies and paint.

The art show currently up at the Town Hall sponsored by the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC) features artwork from over 20 local artists aged 55 and over. The show is called Wise Eyes and offers a nod to sage wisdom and the creative spirit born from age and experience. Opening night featured food donated by Oskar Blues and an impressive turn-out, with nine pieces sold that night. The exhibition is on view until October 11.

Calling all kids and young people: the Town Hall’s The Beetles are coming! Works by Kahlie Sue Pinello and Patricia Appelfeller at the Stone Cup during October. next show will be for young artists 18 years old and under. Call for young artists to be part of the 2019 quarterly Lyons Town Hall Art Shows. Artists of all media, Please check TofL calendar for our meeting dates. For addi- Pop-Rock; Sept. 22 Sun. 10 a.m.to noon The Wonderboys ages, abilities, and artistic interpretations by those 18 and tional information please contact LAHC’s chair Melinda performing Old School Blues and R & B; Sept. 28 Sat. 10 younger, are invited to bring wall-hangable holiday- Wunder at 303-818-6982 or email: melinda @ creativecon- a.m. to noon Steven Hoffman will perform Pop-Rockinspired artworks. The theme is ‘Tis the Season: Kids vs. com. See details at https : / / www. townoflyons . com / Country-Blues-R & B; Sept. 29 Sun. 10 a.m. to noon present their own personal or historical meaning of holi- 180 / Boards-Commissions and http : / / www. townoflyons David Leonard will perform Fingerstyle Guitar; Oct. 5 Sat. days (Halloween, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, . com / Form Center / Boards-and-Commissions-13 / 10 a.m. to noon Johnny G will perform Soulful Acoustic Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and more). Deliver wall- Boards-and-Commissions-61town. The deadline is Singer / Songwriter; Oct. 6 Sun. 10 a.m. to noon Sarah September 16, 2019. For more Tibbetts will perform Americana / Soul / Blues; Oct. 12 hangable art with placards on October 11 information go to: http : / / Sat. 10 a.m. to noon Brian David Collins will perform from 5 to 7 p.m. Art teachers, hometownoflyons . com / 643 / Singer / Songwriter; Oct. 13 Sun. 10 a.m. to noon Anji schoolers, non-schoolers please take note Creative-Outlets.

Kat will perform Folk / Rock Singer-Songwriter. of this curriculum expansion opportuniA new art show will be at ty. Opening reception with music and the Stone Cup featuring the BOULDER nibbles hosted by Oskar Blues Beetles. Kahlie Sue Pinello The Renaissance Project will perform Saints and on Saturday, October 12, 5:30 to 7 p.m. and Patricia Appelfeller will be Sinners on Saturday, November 16 at 7 p.m. at the To learn more go to https://www.lyonshaving a show of the Beetles for First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Longmont, 803 3rd colorado.com/do/town-hall-art-show-tisthe month of October. They Ave, Longmont, and again on Sunday, November 17th at the-season. Wise Eyes artists to pick up will have an opening reception 4 p.m. Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13th St. in Boulder. your artwork at the same time. at the Stone Cup on Friday, On Friday Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at First United LAHC is seeking a new board memOctober 4, 6:30 p.m. to 8 Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Seicento Baroque ber. The applicant needs to be a team Sonny Smith has created a second keyp.m. Cash bar. Snacks provid- Ensemble will once again present an intimate and nuanced player, enthusiastic and willing to partici- board crosswalk at the corner of 4th ed. The Beetles show will run chamber program with chamber choir and vocal and instrupate in various arts related projects Avenue and High Street. through the month of October. mental soloists. Join us for Praise and Lamentation, an exhilthroughout the year. The LAHC meets once a month for two hours at the new Lyons Library. Allan Robertson will continue to show his art work at the arating program exploring sacred music of early baroque composers. Seicento brings alive for modern audiences the LAHC meetings are open to all area arts enthusiasts look- Cup through the end of September.

The music schedule at the Stone Cup: Sept. 21 Sat. musical language of these composers with historical instruing for a way to contribute to the arts’ pulse in Lyons: volunteer at arts events, assist with various LAHC projects, etc. 10 a.m. to noon Harmony and Brad will perform Acoustic ments and baroque performance practice.

Rearrangements: High Water, Reflections on Lyons 2013 Flood Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – A new art show is on display at Lyons Fork Restaurant, 450 Main St. The show features photos, found flood sculptures and mixed media works by Cathy Rivers, some fabric art in collaboration with Bonnie DiSalvo and a mixed media collage with Barbara Cargill.

The show comes on the heels of the sixth anniversary of the 2013 flood which all but devastated the Town of Lyons. The show will run through December 31 and close out the year.

Rivers decided to do the show with her collection of photos, found objects and collages to show the power of resilience, the creativity of change even when forced upon us, and the enduring force of hope even in the face of loss.

She tells the story as she lived it. “It all started with the old, bent truck fender, with a lovely multicolored patina, just a few days after the September 12, 2013 flood event.

I’d passed it a number of times, seeing it stuck in the mud on the side of Old South St. Vrain Road,” she said.

“Like most of us, I was very busy cleaning and packing up, moving out of my flooded home on Red Gulch.

Dealing with so much debris and stuff. Where to store what was salvageable? How to get rid of ruined things?

How to find help? Where to live? Overwhelming. Crazy to think of acquiring another, very heavy, thing. But it

was too tempting. I told myself, if it was still there the next time I drove by, and I had room in the car, I’d pick it up. It was. I did.

I appreciated its beauty, even as its form was altered by the flood, and respected it as a flood survivor. Like me,” Rivers said.

“On a beautiful fall day early that November, I was taking photos of all the flood debris caught at the bases of the trees, in the small woods on Apple Valley Road, near the Highway 36 turnoff close to town. I was struck by the beauty in the chaos, and how our lives, and stuff, had been forever rearranged. Sitting in a coffee shop in Niwot, my home away from home for eight months, I got the idea to have an art show, with mixed media pieces (including some flood debris), photographs and actual found sculptures, like the twisted kids’ Radio Flyer wagon I pulled out of a snow bank that winter. The title came then too, “Rearranged: High Water (reflections on Lyons 2013 Flood),” she said.

“People have been saving unearthed flood bits of smaller materials as well as larger items for me. It seemed appropriate to have the show coincide with the flood anniversary, and Wayne Anderson, owner of the Fork with his wife Debbie, was kind enough to accept my proposal. My desire is to tell a bit of the story so far (now six years out), to express my very personal, creative response through art and found objects; to honor our experiences, our

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resilience, our hopes for the future while acknowledging and honoring our sense of loss. And to express humility and awe in the face of the power of nature,” Rivers said.

Stop in and see the show at the Fork, 450 Main St. You might recognize some of the items that were pulled from the mud and debris.

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SEPTEMBER 18 / OCTOBER 16, 2019

EXPRESSIONS The people must decide how to define the soul of the nation

By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review PUEBLO – “We are in a battle for the soul of this nation,” Joe Biden said.

Did anyone doubt it before he voiced it? Does Joyce anyone doubt it now? But what is the soul of a nation if not the collective souls of its constituents?

We are the soul of the nation, and we get to decide the nature of that soul. That’s true even if certain groups in the nation want the national soul to be defined in the image of their ideologies.

It’s always been that way. Various groups and / or individuals have always wanted the power of political and financial control of whatever society they inhabited. The battle for the soul of this nation is, and will continue to be, never-ending – I hope.

It is necessary in a democratic republic for groups to clash. It is enshrined in our Constitution that because of this, they must resolve clashes and conflicts through a process of debate and voting that seeks to ensure all voices will be heard. ALL voices. And that the majority opinion rules.

Fortunately, the founders of the nation saw clearly that the majority in power may represent only slightly more than half the population, and so may persecute minority groups; so the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments limit majority rule to the extent that they preserve certain rights recognized to exist for all of us.

Like the “Force” in Star Wars, the soul of this nation has a light and dark side, and it has been the experience of my lifetime to watch as each side has gained dominance for a while and then faded as the other side grew in opposition.

Last month, I wrote about having attended Woodstock 1969 and basking in the light side of the national soul even as the dark side held power and sway. The energy from that experience changed much for the good of all across this country.

It was based in the principles of freedom, respect for each other, compassion

for each other, and behaving accordingly.

That energy could never dominate and force everyone to embrace it because that’s not its nature. Its nature is to give and not to take in any way. It’s an ideal, and it’s worth attempting to actualize every day in all we do.

On the practical side, it represents a

the most terrifying and painful means necessary to achieve them, and where might makes right, regardless of laws and lawful processes to the contrary.

A tyranny of the majority is what the Trump Republican loyalists and Trump supporters want in the end. They will use chaos and fake news and other false infor-

Faith Ringgold, The Flag Is Bleeding (1967) national soul that includes, loves and nourishes all in an atmosphere of as much freedom as possible without allowing actions taken under that freedom to harm others – even one other.

The dark side of our soul on the other hand wants to dominate others, wants to make them all bow to our will and beliefs or suffer the consequences, which could be severe, including death. It has no concern for forcing itself on everyone through its believers and practitioners. It has no problem masquerading as its opposite in order to lure potential recruits and turn them to the dark side, where the longed-for noble ends always justify even

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Boulder County offers wildfire mitigation to mountain homes BOULDER COUNTY – Wildfire Partners performed its 2000th wildfire mitigation assessment in Boulder County on Tuesday, August 20, 2019.

Started in 2014, the Boulder County government program educates homeowners on how to protect their home and property against the threat of wildfire. The 2000th assessment occurred in Peaceful Valley, a rural foothills community along the Peak to Peak Highway in northern Boulder County.

Wildfire Partners Mitigation Specialist Matt Tobler performed the assessment for homeowners Kara and Waldy Baumgart.

Residents of Boulder County living in the wildfire zone are eligible to apply for the program. Homeowners accepted into the program receive an on-site mitigation assessment with a wildfire mitigation specialist. The assessment covers every-

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mation to achieve it legally, but illegal acts are also on the table. They are and have been thumbing their noses at the laws and constitutional processes we use to govern ourselves and they are doing whatever will bring them more power. Gerrymandering is a prime vehicle for this.

The goal is noble for them. Power in the long term, the power to suppress the light side of the national soul and keep it suppressed, is the goal. Those who want that kind of national soul believe they are on the light side. How could they not? It’s so seductive to suppress others in the belief you are the good guys, doing the will of God, for the betterment of all.

thing from evaluating the exterior of a home to marking trees and vegetation for defensible space creation. Free assessments are currently being offered to Boulder County homeowners who are new to the program for 2019.

This past spring, Wildfire Partners received a $1.2 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), allowing the program to offer financial assistance for forestry work for 500 properties new to the program.

Wildfire Partners has become a model program for the western U.S. and frequently gets requests from other communities for advice on starting similar programs. For more information or to apply to Wildfire Partners, visit www.wildfirepartners.org.

General guidelines for home football games Lyons Middle / Senior High School Principal Andrea Smith has announced some guidelines for home football games: Student Seating: We have a lot of students join us for our games, and we are proud of this show of school spirit. During football games, students can elect to sit in their student section, sit with their families, or socialize between the football bleachers and the concessions building. We are going to ask

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Such was always in the mind of the Inquisitors, during whose time huge numbers of innocents, mostly women, were tortured and killed by the servants of God in the eternal battle with Satan.

Those Democrats, Republicans and Unaffiliated voters who believe in the simple commandment “Do unto others what you would have them do unto you,” or “Do whatever you want, just don’t hurt anyone,” or “Love, and do what you want,” and believe in the words of our Constitution and in the processes it sets forth by which to implement the vision behind those words, can’t be just a few. In fact, it must be the majority.

And if so, then I find it difficult in the extreme to believe any of them would vote for the suppressive ways of the dark side. I cannot imagine, as I watch Democrats debate whether health care should be universal among us and which is the best way to do that, all while Republicans have offered nothing but the ever more expensive status quo on health care for well over a decade, that anyone in the nation would deny health care to the poor or bankrupt those in the middle class who need it.

Yet I know many will vote for those who would deny it or profit exorbitantly from it. They will vote that way out of party loyalty, religious loyalty, to preserve real and false beliefs and hopes – almost any reason except rational examination of facts and intent. We’ll know for certain on November 3, 2020.

Take a long look in the mirror on that morning and every morning from now until then. Make it a very long look.

Then decide which side of the national soul you want the nation to call its own.

Vote accordingly.

Richard A. Joyce is a retired professor in the mass communications department at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is an award-winning journalist who served as managing editor, and subsequently editor and general manager of the Cañon City Daily Record from 1988 to 1994. The opinions he expresses in this column are strictly his own, and do not represent in any way the views of anyone else at the Redstone Review. He can be reached at phase15@mac.com.

that students not go beyond the south side of the scoreboard or underneath the bleachers as this poses a safety issue.

Backpacks: Athletic events provide wonderful opportunities to welcome Lyons supporters from our community who want to celebrate our students. This year, to enhance event safety and expedite event entry, we are asking that all students refrain from bringing backpacks, duffle bags, or other large cases into school athletic games, music performances, or other large events. If carrying a large bag into a school event is necessary, a member of the school staff may ask to see the contents of your bag.

Areas of Play: We know that many middle school students use the area behind the bleachers to socialize and play. This is something that is allowed at our football games, and we now have motion sensor lights that light the area behind the bleachers. We want parents to know that we circulate through the area to increase supervision, but there may be time periods where there is no adult supervision. Please encourage your student(s) to play appropriately (no roughhousing, please) in these spaces. We look forward to a great fall season with amazing school spirit and support of our student athletes.

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COMMUNITY Preschool playground is ready for action

By Kate Zalzal and the LVP Board of Directors Redstone Review LYONS – The new Lyons Valley Preschool playground is almost complete. Thank you to so many people in the Lyons community who have helped Zalzal support this project through their contributions of time, money, supplies and ideas. The project could not have happened without you.

In 2018, after five years of enthusiastic daily use by dozens of preschoolers, we realized that our playground needed improvement. Last summer LVP began a playground renovation fundraising campaign with the goal of redesigning our outdoor space to improve safety, increase greenspace and to better provide opportunities for outdoor learning. We signed on with Lyons’ Urban Oasis to design and guide the project. LVP applied for and received a $13,000 grant from Qualistar’s Healthy Beginnings, Active Futures program, kick-starting our fundraising attempts.

LVP held a “parents night-out” fundraising event in November, 2018 hosted by the former Lyons restaurant, the Quarry. We raised over $20,000 that night through our silent auction, paddle-calls, live auction, and other donations. A huge thank you to all the people and businesses that donated auction items and helped out with that event. A special thanks to Pizza Bar 66, which

donated pizza, and to Lyons Leos who provided childcare so parents could focus on the fun. With funding in place, we broke ground on the project this past May. Phase I is almost complete; stop by and take a peek.

LVP would like to thank Urban Oasis, Steve McCain of Hatrock Excavation and the Vasquez family of Blue Mountain Stone for their kind help on this project. We would also like to thank all the parent and community volunteers who pitched in this summer to get it done.

We are so grateful for your support and we look forward to many more years of happy preschoolers romping around the playground.

Lyons Valley Preschool (lyonsvalleypreschool.org) was born after the 2013 flood out of the desire to get Lyons kids back in excellent care within our own community. Since then, the program has prospered and is now an important cornerstone for so many families. The school has served over 80 families and has graduated at least 70 kids. We are so proud of our talented staff and are thrilled that they continue to share their love and dedication with our students.

Building off of our enrollment success, LVP’s goal shifted to the development of a scholarship program so that we could offer all the benefits of a great preschool to families who might not otherwise be able to afford it. Over the past three years LVP has offered financial assistance to at least 18 families and we are proud to continue to offer this important service. LVP plans to continue offering financial assistance to qualified applicants. If you

Chloe Kluin, 4-years-old, is looking forward to the new platground at The Lyons Valley Preschool. wish to contribute to this cause, visit www.coloradogives.org and search for Lyons Valley Preschool. You may also reach out to the Head of School Heather Santesteban at heather@lyonsvalleypreschool.org. LVP also recently qualified as a Colorado Level II facility, a formal recognition of LVP’s quality and competency as an early-childhood education facility.

Thanks again to all those who have helped out along the way. We are so happy to be part of the Lyons community and are so thankful for the opportunity to play a role in the lives of so many Lyons kids.

If you could save a life by doing something scary, would you?

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This is crazy, and backwards. What’s going on here?

They say that people fear mentioning it will “put the idea into their heads,” as if the person you are asking would never have heard of suicide before. I think it’s something more. I think we are so scared to talk about it because, if we are honest, we have at some time had had a random (or not so random) thought about it.

We’ve thought idly about running the car off the bridge or thought it would be nice to lie down to sleep and just not wake up.

I think we are afraid of “catching” suicidal thoughts. We all know life can be really hard. We all can understand the

desire to have it just not be so hard anymore. I think it’s so scary to be aware of our own understanding of the desire for self-annihilation that we just don’t want to talk with someone who might be seriously considering it.

For most of us it’s a passing thought, we aren’t honestly considering it. And it is scary to be confronted with a person who might be seriously considering it. Why? I think suicide is a deep taboo. Taboos against murder are in almost every religion and every society; self-murder is then even more of a taboo. For most people, it’s a reflex to back away and refuse to talk about it.

So what to do? The number of suicides keeps increasing. We are losing a distressing number of people to suicide, and the percentage of children nine years old and up who attempt or complete suicide is growing at a dangerous rate. Refusing to talk about it is obviously not working.

However, data show that talking about suicide decreases risk of attempt or completion. It’s that simple.

Learning how to tell when someone is at risk, getting

over the terror of asking, learning what to do when the answer is “Yes,” all of these things save lives. It really is that simple.

Which is why we are offering two more safeTALK suicide alertness classes this fall. You can take a 3.5-hour class at no cost to you that not only provides a meal for you, but also teaches you what to look for, what to say, and what to do. Classes are open to anyone 15 and up. Lives have already been saved by people who came to the classes last spring.

Join the team of people in Lyons who care more about other’s lives than about their own discomfort. Sign up to take a safeTALK class on Saturday October 12 in the morning or Tuesday November 5 in the evening. Email lyonsmhi@gmail.com or info@lyonsregionallibrary.com for more information or to register, and “Like” us at Lyons Mental Health Initiative on Facebook.

Janaki Jane has a degree in psychology and has worked as a case manager and crisis counselor. She created the Lyons Mental Health Initiative, a program through the Lyons Regional Library. She is certified to teach multiple classes on mental health and suicide awareness and sits on several countywide mental health steering committees.

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HOUSING It takes years to rebuild lost housing stock in Lyons

By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review

other surrounding residents of Lyons. Based on input at the first of those meetings, Summit reduced the number of multifamily homes in the proposal.

LYONS – Six years ago this month, raging flood Glasgow told the PCDC at last month’s meeting that Summit is waters from the North and South St. Vrain taking longer than expected going through a fiscal impact analydestroyed nearly 100 homes in Lyons in the span sis, which would probably take a month to complete. He said the of a day. But as we have seen, it takes years to analysis, part of the development plan to be submitted to the rebuild what was lost. town, includes aspects such as cost of development, gains to the It took more than four years since the first town, property millage, and sales tax income. At the September spark of an idea in 2015 until the first four of the 16 Board of Trustees meeting, Town Administrator Victoria six Habitat for Humanity homes at Second and Simonsen said that Summit representatives “decided to extend Park Street were completed and new homeown- their closing date with Mr. Bell to the end of October.” ers purchased them and moved in. On the sixth In February of this year, the State Housing Board approved Reinholds anniversary of the flood, one duplex building Summit’s application for $4 million of federal CDBG-DR funds out of the three is still under construction. And these complet- to build those 11 single-family and 29 multifamily rental homes ed Habitat for Humanity homes came after an original proposal in Lyons. The application was approved at a maximum of for using part of Bohn Park to build subsidized, affordable $100,000 per home, $4 million total for the 40 total residences.

Then on May 21, the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) approved tax credits and bonds for Summit’s proposal.

Simonsen has reported to the Board of Trustees that the CHFA approval is a preliminary award that allows the development project to sell the tax credits and bonds to the public. The federal LIHTC program gives investors a reduction in their federal tax liability based on the amount 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.

Summit specializes in developing and managing low-income tax credit and mixed-use developments in six states, including Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The property management site for Summit buildings, www.leasehighland.com, shows Summit Housing Group is under contract with landowner Keith Bell to purchase about four acres of what the applications are like for land in the Lyons Valley Park subdivision Tract A of Filing 8. PHOTO BY AMY REINHOLDS other rentals built by Summit, including homes in Longmont.

The area median income (AMI) Boulder County Housing Authority rentals and some Habitat for changes every year, and varies depending on the number of peoHumanity for-sale affordable homes (a total of 50 to 70 homes ple in a household, but you can download the 2018 Colorado combined) was rejected in a town vote, 614 to 498.

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So I’m not surprised that a proposal from Summit Housing html. Examples of rent estimates that Summit representatives Group to build 11 single family homes and 29 homes in multi- have given at past meetings for two-bedroom apartments are $906 family buildings (all affordable rentals) that began to take shape a month for a 40 percent AMI household, and $1,200 a month for in early 2018 is not farther along. a 60 percent AMI household, varying depending on family size.

Summit Housing Group, based in Missoula, MT, is under contract with landowner Keith Bell to purchase land in the Lyons Valley Park subdivision, intending to build 11 single-family homes on already platted lots and 29 homes in multifamily buildings on Lyons Valley Park Tract A of Filing 8 (about four acres). All of those 40 rental homes must be affordable for households at 60 percent of the area median or less, required by the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) funding that Summit plans to use.

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However, at an August 26 meeting of the Lyons Planning and Hot Stone Massage Community Development Commission (PCDC), Town Planner Shiatsu Paul Glasgow said that Summit is taking longer on the development plan for the 29 homes in multifamily buildings. He told the Reiki commission that the development plan probably won’t come in until the end of September.

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By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Housing and Human Services Commission has a vacant seat and needs your help. The mission of the Housing and Human Services Commission, as established in the Lyons Recovery Action Plan, is to provide coordination and communication with various private, non-profit, and county entities in an effort to assess and fill the gaps in human service provision and identify unmet needs in the Lyons and greater Lyons 80540 area.

Joining a board or commission is a great way to become involved and help shape the decisions made in your community. The Housing and Human Services Commission is one of several citizen several advisory boards and commissions that advise the Lyons Board of Trustees. You can volunteer on the commission even if you live in the surrounding 80540 areas outside of town limits.

Examples of recent work the commission advised on and helped shape include a resource guide of all area human services, a medical equipment loan closet, a vulnerable resident list for emergencies, senior lunch programs (including home delivery) and other social events, access to a county-wide program of all-inclusive care for the elderly, and programming for youth, in collaboration with schools and other partners.

Are you interested in serving? To learn more, contact Amy Reinholds, acting chair of the Lyons Housing and Human Services Commission, at areinholds@hotmail.com or reach out to other commission members who are listed at www. townoflyons. com / 197 / HousingHuman-Services-Commission. When you are ready to apply, you can fill out the form at www. townoflyons. com / Form Center / Boards - and - Commissions - 13 / Boards - and - Commissions - 61 and your application will be sent to the Town of Lyons mayor, who will follow up with you directly about the appointment process.

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EDUCATE Lyons Community Foundation grants keep things buzzing at Lyons Elementary

By Kristen Bruckner Redstone Review LYONS – Last fall, thanks to a Lyons Community Foundation grant, the garden program at Lyons Bruckner Elementary added a new element: bees. A honeybee habitat with a clear viewing window was installed in the wall of the school that leads out to the garden courtyard, allowing students to witness the activity of a live bee colony and its bounty of honey created.

Spearheaded by Kim and Andy Doering, the garden program has been flourishing over the last few years.

Students at every grade level participate in everything from the collection and harvesting of seeds, planting and growing plants, crop cultivation, picking of the harvest and ultimately the delivery of fresh vegetables to the Lyons Food Pantry.

There are also bulbs and flowers grown that contribute to landscaping efforts around the school. Key additions also funded through Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) granting over the past few years have included the addition of several hoop houses that extend the growing season.

Not only are students engaged in the curriculum during grade level science study, but elements of garden work have engaged other student groups such as the

Garden/Eco club, the monthly K-12 Outdoor Science and Leadership program, and the after school enrichment “Pathfinders” program. In addition, a variety of community members have been brought into the mix to add their expertise. Daniel Warner is a professional bee keeper and has lent his knowledge to the bee program. Local high school student, garden and eco-enthusiast Charlie Gau and community members

Beekeeper Daniel Warner and his daughter Aaliyah Warner are shown here with the see-through honeybee habitat at Lyons Elementary

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Nell and Gary Coffey participate in the Science and Leadership program regularly along with other experts in composting and permaculture.

The environmental leadership shown at Lyons Elementary is something that has been building over the last many years. The school became one of Eco Cycle’s “green star” schools in 2005, meaning the school recycles and composts. Eco Cycle provides consistent training and support for higher level sustainable practices.

The school started an Eco Club in 2012, further engaging passionately involved school children and, by default, their families and classmates. Each year, this program has broadened its focus.

Initially, the club focused on proper sorting of trash and compost. With the help of a grant, they purchased reusable dishes and have gradually moved towards a Zero Waste model for all school events and classroom parties. The club works with University of Colorado’s Ralphie’s Green Team at home football and basketball games and has begun to work on a model for a true zero waste school. The school store has shifted from selling disposable plastic trinkets to offering reusable napkins and sandwich bags as well as veggie and plant seedlings. This year, the club is looking to focus its efforts to tackle a big issue in climate change: food waste.

Kristen Bruckner is the Communications Specialist for the Lyons Community Foundation. She is also the chair and cofounder of the Lyons Elementary School Eco Club. She lives in Lyons with her husband and three children.

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This land is their land and our land

By Chelsea Barrett Redstone Review LONGMONT – I recently visited the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center in Divide, Colorado. During Barrett the tour, they gave us a comprehensive look into the history of wolves in the United States, specifically the lower 48. I’m embarrassed to admit that it was the first time I realized the detrimental impact humans have had on the population of wolves on our country.

It’s hard to say how many wolves inhabited the United States before the arrival of European settlers, but there is no doubt the impact humans had on these animals was devastating. Earlier this year the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that, after 40 years of intense conservation efforts, it’s time to take the gray wolf off the Endangered Species List. Many scientists and advocates disagree. Currently, gray wolves occupy less than 20 percent of their original range in the U.S. There’s no doubt that populations have increased, but is this enough for wolves to thrive the way they once did in our country?

Before the arrival of settlers, gray wolf and red wolf were the two species found in North America. When humans began hunting prey animals for their own food, the wolves had less to eat. Concurrently,

the number of domestic animals used for livestock increased. Many believed that wolves were a danger to their farm animals, therefore the predators were hunted and killed nearly to extinction.

Currently there are several groups and organizations in Colorado seeking to introduce a ballot initiative to bring wolves back to Colorado. The group leading the charge and collecting signatures on an action letter is the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project. Of course, there are many opponents to this effort. The benefits of reintroduction include promoting biodiversity, strengthening deer and elk herds, and reconnecting the wolf’s historic range from the high arctic to Mexico.

We’ve never rehabilitated a wolf at Greenwood Wildlife because they currently don’t inhabit our state and we are not licensed for them. At Greenwood, we deal with many difficult wildlife issues. One of the toughest problems we address is chronic wasting disease in ungulates (or hoofed mammals like deer, elk and moose). We are also not licensed to rehabilitate deer, but we get many calls about them. Chronic wasting disease is a

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deadly neurological condition that is similar to mad cow disease. One of the most interesting potential benefits of reintroducing wolves is that it could help stave off chronic wasting disease. Since the predators are known to hunt sick and weak prey, it makes sense that they would start to eliminate the infected animals. There are also hypotheses that the threat of a wolf pack could encourage deer and elk to form

smaller herds, which would reduce the spread of the disease.

In California the grizzly bear is the most prominent feature on the state flag.

However humans caused the extinction of the animal in the state by 1924.

Recently there has been a lot of news coverage about black bears in Colorado having close encounters with humans.

After these interactions, the bear is often

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ples and programs that Lyons has used for flood recovery to demonstrate how other communities can recover.

The former governor wanted to go to Bohn Park to see the pathway through the park named Hickenlooper Way. He said that he has never had a street, road or walkway named after him because people see the name Hickenlooper and decide to call it something else. His staff snapped a few photos of him standing by the sign.

He spent a few moments telling me some of the things that he wants to promote on the campaign trail as he runs for the Senate against Republican incumbent Cory Gardner. “Colorado deserves an independent voice in the Senate,” he said. “We have 750,000 Coloradans with pre-existing health conditions. We need a better health care system. We have tariff wars which are very hard on agriculture, we need to work on climate change and we need common sense government.”

they are nocturnal and rarely seen.

The moth commonly seen hovering around flower beds is the white-lined sphinx moth. They’re big, strong flyers that are described as having a “superficial resemblance to hummingbirds in flight” (so I’m not the only one who made that mistake). What at first appears to be the beak on an impossibly small hummingbird is in fact the proboscis that it plunges into flowers to drink nectar. Close inspection also shows decidedly un-birdlike antennae. They’re most active during late afternoon and dusk.

The hornworms of the white lined sphinx moth favor plants like portulaca, primrose and wild grape. There may occasionally be visible migrations of the hornworms when their food plants are exhausted. The hornworms are mostly green with some yellow, white or black markings.

The white lined sphinx moth female hornworms lay eggs on the underside of

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Medicaid or other health insurers.

Clients who don’t have mental health insurance, or who have high deductibles or out-of-pockets, will be asked to pay based on a very generous sliding scale.

Thanks to our community’s support, nobody will be turned away due to an inability to pay.

It’s our great hope that our friends and neighbors will take hold of this opportunity with hope, and no shame or embarrassment. Whether struggling with a specific issue, or simply a desire to get to the best possible life, one can gain so much by seeking mental wellness support: good relationships, healthy coping strategies, improved quality of life, and a growing sense of well-being. Mental Wellness and Addiction Recovery can be a gamechanger for so many, and for our entire community. Let’s go for it, together.

Please visit LEAF’s website

tracked down and euthanized. As of late August, Colorado Parks and Wildlife had already euthanized 72 bears so far this year. There have been similar situations with mountain lions in our state.

We are not the natural prey to these animals. The increase in human population particularly in areas where these predators usually thrive has caused a growth in the number of encounters. In order to respect the wildlife in our state, we must do everything in our power to discourage bears and mountain lions from a terrible demise. They cannot meet the same fate as the wolves in Colorado or grizzly bears in California, which is extinction. It is important to educate yourself about humane interaction with wildlife as well as preventative tactics. Visit Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s website or talk to your local expert for tips on how to keep bears and other predators from threatening your property and those you care about.

Colorado is a state full of people who love and appreciate wildlife. If we do more to educate ourselves on humanely interacting with wildlife, it will lead to an improved environment for humans and animals alike.

Chelsea Barrett is the Development Manager at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, which cares for more thousands of mammals, songbirds and waterfowl each year.

Greenwood also offers education programs for children and adults of all ages. Visit www.greenwoodwildlife.org to learn more.

the leaves they feed on. After hatching and reaching adult size, the hornworms drop to the ground, burrow into leaf litter and spend the winter in cocoons. Leaf litter is essential to their survival so if you like having these unique pollinators around, leave some unraked leaves around your yard.

Adult moths feed on a variety of flowers; their long proboscis make them important pollinators of long-necked flowers like morning glory, blazing star, sage and columbine.

Two other so-called hummingbird moths commonly seen in daylight are the great ash and twinspot sphinx moths. But most sphinx moths fly after dusk and are rarely seen except when they hover around streetlights or porch lights.

The largest of Colorado’s sphinx moths is the big poplar sphinx moth, which has a wing span of five to six inches. It develops on aspen, cottonwood and willow, never reaching significant enough numbers to cause damage to those trees.

Town Continued from Page 1 Lyons said he would discourage creating a new sound or noise ordinance. He suggested mediation and volunteered his own time to set up a meeting with the restaurant owner and those with complaints.

They will meet soon.

Crist said that there have been 16 noise complaints so far and most of them are from only two sources. He added that the current noise ordinance is somewhat vague in some areas and very specific in others.

Two realtors representing Diane Johnson were turned down for a request for a variance for her log cabin house/office located at 346 High St. by the town board. Johnson was requesting a variance to be classified as a hotel/motel without a lobby or an employee on premise. The board liked the idea of creating more rental spaces downtown, but in the end only Trustee Mark Browning and Mayor Sullivan voted for the measure and it was voted down by the board.

munity. She is offering 12 weeks of Monday evening and Thursday morning groups, as well as individual counseling.

Group participants will learn how to enhance relationship-building skills, assert personal needs in positive ways, strengthen emotional intelligence and emotional regulation, learn mindfulness practices, and develop distress tolerance and conflict resolution skills. This therapeutic approach is proven to be highlysuccessful, and enjoyable. She is committed to providing a safe and confidential experience to everyone. Whether you have a specific struggle or are simply looking to maximize your life, we encourage you to check out these groups. It’s not too late to get started.

All of these services will be offered in the lower level of Lyons Community Church. LEAF will be able to bill

(leaflyons.org) or email Cherie Maureaux confidentially at mentalwellness@leaflyons.org.

Finally, mark your calendars and start planning your costumes. LEAF’s 5th annual Rave to The Grave is set for Friday night, October 25 at Planet Bluegrass. Featuring an amazing dance party led by LEAF’s own troubadour, Arthur Lee Land, Lyons knows this is the biggest party of the year, and one not to be missed. What’s even better than this epic event, The fact that it raises funds to support LEAF’s vital programs in our community. Thank you for your generous support of LEAF’s work and participants. I look forward to seeing you at Rave To The Grave.

Lory Barton is LEAF’s grateful Executive Director. You can reach her about this article or anything else related to LEAF at lory@leaflyons.org.

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