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RETREET plants trees to help Lyons recovery LYONS – On Sunday June 5, a group of volunteers from all over the country came to Lyons to plant trees for residents who were flood victims. The group, RETREET, is a 501(c)(3) public charity founded by a motivated group of arborists, cyclists and project managers. The organization provides disaster relief to stricken communities on a local, national and international level by leading volunteers in restoring decimated urban forests. RETREET offers a unique solution to an urgent problem at a relatively low cost.

About 25 volunteers came to Lyons and along with some volunteers from Home Depot planted over 100 trees at homes in the confluence and in Apple Valley.

A practice and learning session took place in the dog park where about four trees were planted. The trees were blue spruce and oak.

RETREET worked closely with the Colorado Forest Service from Colorado State University to find the right trees for Lyons. They worked with the Fort Collins Wholesale Nursery and the local Lyons Lions Club donated some money left over from their treeplanting project on Main Street to RETREET for the trees.

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There was plenty of great kayaking action at the 15th Annual Lyons Outdoor Games, held June 3 and 4 at Bohn Park on the St. Vrain River in Lyons. PHOTO BY JONATHAN AUERBACH

The 2017 budget process begins, new sheriff deputy steps in, and alternatives for buyout properties

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – Finance Director Tony Cavalier discussed the upcoming budget process with the Lyons Board of Trustees (BOT) at a workshop on June 6. This was a prelude to working on the new 2017 budget which will begin in earnest on July 5, the first town board meeting in July.

The town budget is generally considered to be the projected total expenditures for the next year (2017). “The budget is our best estimate of our expenses,” said Victoria Simonsen, town administrator.

Cavalier told the board that a large part of the town’s revenue comes from sales and property taxes.

In 2015 the town collected just under $500,000 in property taxes ($499,722). The town is limited to 5.5 percent in property taxes but Lyons does not collect that whole amount.

“We have a temporary mill levy credit, so we don’t collect that much,” said Cavalier. He explained that the enterprise funds (utilities) do not normally fall under the TABOR Amendment, which limits the amount of taxes that governments can collect and spend.

The town collected $774,002 in sales tax in 2015. “We have projected sales tax to come in higher this year,” said Cavalier. “We expect to collect approximately $880,000 in

sales tax in 2016.”

In November 2015, voters in Lyons approved a .5 percent increase in sales tax.

Lyons went from a 3 percent sales tax to a 3.5 percent sales tax. The increased sales tax started in January 2016. About four or five years ago the town board and then-Mayor Julie Van Domelen tried to pass an increase in sales tax; the voters turned it down. But the flood created a serious burden on the town’s ability to repair and maintain its utilities and infrastructure, and last year voters looked at sales tax as a means to rebuild and maintain some of the damaged areas and so the sales-tax increase passed easily.

A third source of revenue for Lyons is grants. Lyons is still using Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) money and grant funding for flood recovery projects.

Cavalier said he is anticipating that the grant funding will be about $25 million this year by the end of 2016. This would bring the total expenditures for 2016 to just over $30 million. The 2017 budget will be based on this year’s budget.

Lyons still has a long way to go before it completes the flood repairs and finishes the grant funding. Cavalier said, “The town is about 25 percent of the way into the FEMA grants.” This year the town will start replacing several bridges.

In other news Boulder County Sargent

Nick Goldberger introduced the BOT to his replacement, Sargent Bill Crist, who will replace Goldberger as the substation supervisor sometime in August or September. Crist told the board that he often works in Lyons on the night shift and said that he grew up in Gunbarrel. He is a 15-year veteran with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Department.

Joe Kubala, Lyons town engineer, told the BOT that the curb and gutter project is making headway and the project should be finished by the end of June. The project caused long lines of traffic stopped up all through town on Memorial Day. One driver reported that it took 45 minutes to get through town starting at the light at the Intersection of Hwy. 36 and Hwy. 66 going all the way through town to the end of Main Street where the highways fork off on to Hwy 7. The lanes through town narrowed down to one lane going each way. After that weekend traffic jam, Kubala said that the four lanes of traffic going through town would remain open on weekends.

Matt Manley, flood recovery supervisor, brought up the idea of people living in the confluence area managing the vacant properties where flood damaged homes have been removed. The small lots surrounded by homes are not suitable for actual park areas for the public, but could be used by neighbors adjacent to the vacant properties in exchange for those neighbors taking care of the property.

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LYONS Reaching a milestone: Lyons Fire Fund gains 501(c)(3) status

By Sue Suskiewich Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Fire Fund (LFF), which supports the Lyons Fire Protection District (LFPD), has gained the 501(c)(3) certification, which enables the LFF to qualify for funding from corporations (such as employee charitable matching funds programs), and a broad array of public and private grants. For example you can now contribute to LFF when shopping on-line via websites such as AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com) and iGIVE.com which donate a percentage of your pur-

chase dollars to LFF. Donate your car using the online vehicle donation program for non-profits (v-Dac.com) that makes the process quick and easy.

Many companies use Benevity, an online site for workplace giving and matching. One contributor comments it was very quick and easy: “I made a donation to Lyons Fire Fund through my employer-sponsored workplace giving program with Benevity and it automatically applied my employer match.” Check out if your employer has a program like this.

Lyons Fire Fund was formed last summer to help LFPD keep pace with new

The money raised by Lyons Fire Fund will help the district provide additional public education programs such as CPR and First Aid training, fire safety, and life saving equipment such as AED's (automated external defibrillators).

We are going to have various fund raising events this summer, look for us at the various outdoor happenings around Lyons. We're also still looking for people interested in helping Lyons Fire Fund be a successful support organization for the Fire District.

You can donate directly via our website LyonsFireFund.org and learn about other ways to help. For any inquires or questions contact us at Fire Fund @ lyons fire.org.

technologies, equipment upgrades, and increased training needs, as well as completing the outfitting of Station 2 which had to be replaced due to the devastating flood of 2013. Our volunteer firefighters do much more today than ever before, responding not just to house fires, but we're also the first response for medical calls, vehicle accidents, hazardous materials incidents, swift water rescues, wildland fires and natural disasters to name a few.

Lyons Fire is an important safety net for our community, the town of Lyons and the 67 square miles of the district spanning Boulder and Larimer counties.

Peaceful Valley Resort under new ownership Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – The new owners of Peaceful Valley Resort and Conference Center, Dan and Dianne Brauer and Amanda and Ben Archibald, are celebrating their oneyear anniversary. The resort is located at 475 Peaceful Valley Rd., 20 minutes above Lyons.

Amanda and Ben Archibald purchased Peaceful Valley Resort on Feb. 24, 2015. Amanda is a freelance photographer and graphic artist, Isagenix nutrition sales representative, and author. Her husband, Ben Archibald, is a Cordon Bleu chef and now is the assistant general manager role at the resort. Amanda’s parents, Dan and Dianne Brauer, are the owners of an engineering firm that specializes in water engineering.

“We are a wedding and conference venue and we want the surrounding communities to know that we welcome them to come stay with us,” said Amanda. “We have lodge rooms, pool and hot tub, and cabins with hot tubs to rent all year round.”

Amanda said they (the new owners) “really want to

connect with the community and we are hosting several events this year.”

The first event will be a Father’s Day BBQ, then there will be a July Fourth Hog Roast with live music by the band Judge Roughneck. Lodging is available for all the festivals and events at the resort and the soup and salad bar is open daily from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. for anyone, including those who just want to have lunch and enjoy the scenery. Visitors can also eat at the bar using the bar menu if a large event is happening.

The resort offers fishing, horseback riding, hiking trails, community pool passes, a gift shop and company and family planned events. Rooms start at $79 a night.

Visitors can purchase day passes to use any of the facilities at the resort including the pool. Some activities need reservations such as horseback riding. Visitors can make reservations for specific meals or just come up for lunch.

The resort has teamed up with Wilderness Institute to offer visitors a variety of events and also the resort has teamed up with Red Fox for outfitter equipment.

For more information, go to www.peacefulvalley.com or howdy@peacefulvalley.com or call 303-747-2881.

Travels with Redstone Here are Lyons residents Chuck Esterly and Mystie Brackett with their daughter, son-in law and granddaughter enjoying lunch and Redstone Review at a beachside cafe in St. Maarten.

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MAYOR’S CORNER Maximizing opportunities in the Eastern Corridor

By Connie Sullivan, Mayor Redstone Review LYONS – Recently the consulting group RickerCunningham completed a series of planning meetSullivan ings to take public input on potential uses for parcels of land along Lyons’ Eastern Corridor (EC). The study area included a review of future development options for parcels stretching from the McConnell Avenue / Stone Canyon intersection (where the new traffic light was recently installed), east to Highland Drive (located on Highway 66 past Cemex and the defunct water treatment plant sites), and to the southeast including the 85-acre Loukonen property abutting Highway 36. They also presented results of a market analysis demonstrating the fis-

cal impacts of applying Lyon’s current zoning code to these parcels. The preliminary findings demonstrate that: 1) Lyons has very little unencumbered land for redevelopment; 2) Lyons must encourage commercial or mixed use development for parcels with high visibility and accessibility from the highway; and 3) Options exist to accommodate diverse housing without sacrificing economic opportunities. (See the preferred EC land-use map and slides from the planning meetings at http: // townoflyons. com/441/Lyons-PrimaryPlanning-Area-Master-Plan.)

The purpose of the planning effort is to provide the Planning and Community Development Commission and the Board of Trustees with a reference document to use when considering annexations and development proposals involving parcels in the Lyons Primary Planning Area (LPPA).

The LPPA properties were identified in the

2012 Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Boulder County as areas where expansion of the town through annexation is likely. In addition to the EC, planning meetings are being conducted for parcels along the South St. Vrain and Apple Valley Road. The Ricker-Cunningham report, if adopted by the Board of Trustees, will be used in conjunction with the Comprehensive Plan, which informs land use decisions for parcels located within the town limits, and current zoning code. Until now, no planning process has been conducted to identify the highest and best use of the properties located within the LPPA; however prior boards did recognize the need to encourage commercial development in the EC, and created the “Commercial Eastern Corridor” (CEC) zone, which allows for a wide range of commercial and light industrial uses. The CEC zone is the most liberal of all available

Lyons Community Foundation 2016 Scholarships awarded

By Monique Sawyer-Lang Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) exists to improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving, and encourage positive change for the Greater Lyons Area. The attributes of the LCF mission statement can be found in all the recipients for this year’s scholarships. This speaks highly of the dedication and hard work of not only these students and their parents but all the teachers and staff along the way.

Offering scholarships to Lyons area graduating seniors began in 2009 with a single $500 scholarship. On May 17, 2016 the LCF awarded $7,000 in scholarships to seven Lyons graduating seniors. To date, $25,000 in scholarship funds has been awarded to 28 college-bound students.

The Lyons Community Foundation Scholarship recognizes exemplary students who successfully served in a leadership role, earned a GPA of 3.5 or better, and have demonstrated community-mindedness. The 2016 Lyons Community Foundation Scholarship was awarded to Marissa Casey and Sierra Tucker. Casey will be attending CU Boulder majoring in psychology or marketing. Tucker will be

2016 LCF scholarship recipients,left to right: Maria Marquez Rubio; Sierra Tucker; Lars Basey; Mitchell Simms; Meagan Keen; Marissa Casey; Principal Greg Winger; Not pictured: Jessica Boxrud. attending Montana State University majoring in cell biology and neuroscience.

Established in 2009, the Lyons Community Foundation Scholarship in Memory of Steve Ralston honors Lyons resident and business owner Steve Ralston and is awarded to a student who best expresses his or her passion for learning and sharing one’s interests, skills, and joyful life experiences with their community.

Maria Marquez Rubio is the 2016 recipient; she will be attending Front Range Community College, then Metro State majoring in math and civil engineering.

The Joel Mack Memorial Scholarship recognizes one female and one male student athlete who serves as a role model of good sportsmanship. It honors the memory of Joel Evan Mack, a Lyons High School alumni and a student at Northeastern

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Established in 2014, the Gerald Boland Memorial Scholarship recognizes a student who demonstrates a passion for learning and for their community. Gerald Boland died during the September 2013 flood near his home in Lyons. He taught in Lyons for 31 years, five years at the high school and 26 years at the elementary school. He served as a mentor to many of Lyons youth as a basketball coach for 23 years and as a Boy Scout Leader. His dedication to the Lyons community was just as unwavering as his dedication to education. Recipient of the 2016 Gerald Boland Memorial Scholarship Meagan Keene is majoring in communications at University of Northern Colorado.

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The CEC zone was created to emphasize the need to generate additional sales tax revenue and jobs to sustain the Lyons economy as the town approaches maximum build-out of new residential units.

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LOCAL LEAF: Part of a community that cares

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – A woman bent over her phone, googling “gratitude quotes.”

Another woman directed her grandson to make a Jane line diagonally across the board, with “Gracias, LEAF” on one side and “Thanks, LEAF” on the other. Occasional panic: “What should I write?” someone asks. Then, into the room with Peggy Dyer, the cameras, and the lights.

The door closes. Sometimes there is laughter. Sometimes there are shouts. Sometimes there is candy and cake. The door opens. Then there are smiles, hugs, and grins.

Last month at LEAF, volunteers, staff, and clients got to express their gratitude for what LEAF does in their lives and for the Lyons community. Peggy Dyer and her One Million Faces project (OneMillionFaces.org) came for the afternoon. Dyer has an extraordinary ability to make her subjects feel seen, heard, and appreciated. (Locals may remember Dyer’s One Million Faces campaign from immediately after the flood: she came to the elementary school when it was in Longmont and documented the children and staff

there in the Let It Shine project.) Dyer is a professional photographer who takes black and white photos of people holding up white boards with a message that is meaningful for them. For this event, everyone was asked to write something relating to gratitude for what LEAF means to them, or to the community.

The energy in the room was infectious. Each person crafted his or her own message. There was humor: It takes a Village People... but beyond that, Thanks, LEAF, for feeding us!; Yo, LEAF, I (heart) you. I Love Skittles!

There were declarations: No one should go hungry in Lyons; It takes a village; “Poverty in America is mainstream” – the New York Times. And directives: Everybody in!

Do good, feel good!

Mostly, there were simple messages from the heart: I am a part of a community that cares; Grateful every day for my community; I envision a world where people take care of each other in their time of need; Thank you for so much help.

And the occasional burst of pain: Everyone struggles sometimes.

And how they saw LEAF: LEAF saves lives! LEAF is here for OUR community;

LEAF = Love, Thank you; LEAF actually helps locally, and many more phrases that will appear throughout the coming year. All participants were happy to share their messages about LEAF with the public.

Research has proved that expressing gratitude improves our health, and even helps us live longer. When we express our gratitude in a true, heartfelt, way, our blood pressure goes down, we sleep better, and we even live longer, happier lives. Expressing our gratitude also strengthens our social bonds.

LEAF already was a community that cared. Every Wednesday, a community of givers comes to LEAF. Some come to give money, or food, or to volunteer their time, and some come to give companionship and gratitude. Some of those who give also take something away: information, or food from the Food Pantry, or assistance, or feeling empowered.

This event increased the feeling of community and caring.

The photos will be used for this year’s marketing and awareness campaigns by LEAF. Each participant gets a framed

CU Board of Regents approves tuition guarantee for CU-Boulder in-state students Staff Reports Redstone Review BOULDER – The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado has approved a tuition and mandatory fees guarantee for resident students at the University of Colorado Boulder by a vote of seven to two.

Beginning fall semester 2016 and fall semester 2017, incoming freshmen will see a one-time increase of up to 5 percent in their tuition and mandatory fees, which will then remain locked for four years.

Incoming freshmen in the fall of 2018 and 2019 will see a one-time increase of up to 4 percent in their tuition and mandatory fees, which will then remain locked at that rate for four years.

“We are working hard to create predictability for students and parents, as well as for the campus administration to allow them to know what they will have to work with on more than a year-by-year basis,” said Regent Steve Bosley.

The Regents approved the new tuition model to address resident tuition and mandatory fee increases for the next four years. Each entering freshman class will see a one-time increase in tuition and mandatory fees with a lock on that tuition and fees for the next four years. If a student takes an additional year to finish, the tuition rate for the fifth year would increase to the level of tuition and mandatory fees that the following freshman class of that student’s class is paying.

“We believe this changes the conversation by shifting the burden of managing the risk of major swings in the economy from the students and their families to the university,” said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. “It also allows current high school students to plan for what the cost of tuition will be at CU-Boulder for the year when they will enter.”

Resident sophomores and juniors in 2016-2017 will also benefit from this new model. They will receive the one-time increase in tuition and mandatory fees that the freshman will receive along with the guarantee of no change for four years.

“The students like this model because it gives extra benefit to current students by having a little longer to finish if they need it,” said CUSG Finance Board Chair Wyatt Ryder. “CUSG carefully considered the two proposals, and we felt that the guarantee was the best option. It passed unanimously. This also allows families that might not be considering college, because it is too much of an unknown, to actually consider it.”

Ryder and Haelena BondiCamacho, vice chair of the CUSG Finance Board, attended the meeting and testified in support of the tuition guarantee for resident students.

Students who are seniors in the fall of 2016 will see only a 3 percent increase in tuition and mandatory fees for their fourth year. If they need a fifth year starting in the fall of 2017, the tuition will increase to match the increase that all other current students received in the fall of 2016, and then remain locked for an additional three years.

“We thought that seniors, being close to graduation, should get a lower rate in recognition of the progress they have made, but with a plan if they need more time,” said Kelly Fox, CU-Boulder senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer.

Non-resident tuition for both graduate and undergraduate students will increase 3 percent next year as will graduate resident tuition. Nonresident undergraduate students already receive a four-year tuition guarantee, which locks the entering tuition rate. Graduate student tuition will continue to be evaluated annually to determine the tuition rate increase that is required.

copy of a photo, and access to digital copies of their other photos. LEAF has created a slideshow of some of the pictures, which is up at www.leaflyons.org.

The day proved, as Dyer says, that “when you start to listen to people, you have a better understanding of your community.”

LEAF provides resources and assistance to strengthen and support families and individuals toward financial stability and greater community. The journey is different for every household. To find out more about LEAF, including using our resources, or becoming a donor or a volunteer, go to www.leaflyons.org, type LEAF, Lyons in the Facebook search bar, or contact us at info@leaflyons.org and 720-864-4309.

Janaki Jane is the Direct Services Advocate for Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF.) For more information, go to www.leaflyons.org, or type LEAF, Lyons in the Facebook search bar, or contact LEAF at info@leaflyons.org and 720-864-4309.

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OPTIONS Online dating from the perspective of an old guy

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “Do you want to have children?” At my age, 68, it’s a ridiculous, even frightening question, but there it was. I was required to answer it if I wanted to use the services of Match.com. My Moore goal is to find a life partner, which did not involve creating a second family, so I answered “no” and went on to complete my profile. (I look for retirement age women who also say “no.”)

I’ve used online dating services several times in the past ten or so years with no success. This time it’ll be different, I tell myself. I’m now in traditional retirement age status and with that, there’s been a significant shift in my mindset as to what’s important in a life partner. Life is easier now with much less stress. It’s a time to relax and enjoy the so called golden years. I’m sure women in my age bracket believe the same. After seven months and 33 dates with no success, I still believe it’s true.

The first woman I contacted agreed to meet me. We were a high percentage match and after our first coffee date we both acknowledged that things seemed to click for us. Good sense of humor, love of travel, adventurous, and a simple lifestyle were all things we held in common.

This is going to be easy, I told myself.

The coffee date was followed by one over dinner where, when we talked without running out of things to say, I felt even more promise. But something changed on the third date. The space between us was different – stiff and uneasy. When I asked about it in a follow-up email she acknowledged that things were different. An old boyfriend had resurfaced and come back into her life.

It was time for this non-boyfriend to move on.

What most surprises me in this process is the lack of responses I get to the offers of a coffee date I send out.

Nearly half, I’d say. I don’t take it personally, but I wonder how their mothers raised them. I get it, they’re saying we’re not a match, but what would be wrong with simply writing back and saying something like, “Sorry, I’m busy the rest of my life,” or, “I have Alzheimer’s and can’t remember if I wrote back, but just in case, the answer is ‘go away’?”

Then there was this exchange: ME: Our profiles show we have a lot in common. Would you meet me for coffee / tea sometime soon? I’ll buy.

HER: I don’t think we have much in common, but I’ll meet you anyway.

ME: Your “not much in common” trumps my “we have a lot in common.” Best to you in your search.

There was the woman I sent a message to last December who responded with interest, and she was

This is what seasonal looks like

By Kayann Short Redstone Review LYONS – Spinach.

Again. Walking onions, green garlic, radishes, and kale. A curly head of lettuce from the greenShort house. Nice to have rhubarb – so early this year.

Welcome to the season’s first community-supported agricultural shares on Colorado’s Front Range.

When members join a CSA, it doesn’t take long to figure out that eating locally and seasonally isn’t like shopping at a grocery store. Variety and availability is determined by the climate – temperature, day length, precipitation, zone, and weather influence what can be planted and when.

After winter’s frigid temperatures, the soil needs time to warm up before most crops can be seeded. Even when spring days are sunny and warm, nights remain cool. The last frost of the winter can hit in March, April, or even May. Until all chance of frost has passed, tender crops can’t be planted. Moisture is another variable: too much and seeds rot in the ground; not enough and they don’t germinate.

All these factors and more determine what’s ready in the Stonebridge barn each week. From early May until mid-June, the share is limited because fall-planted or

perennial plants are still waking up from the winter. At Stonebridge, the season starts a month earlier than most CSAs in our area because our members are ready for early spinach and fresh lettuce. From kale to rhubarb, anything else is a bonus in those first unpredictable weeks.

In Colorado, we say if you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute. Change will come. The same is true in eating seasonally. When we’re tired of the same early crops, the brassicas – cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage – started in the greenhouse and transplanted to the fields in early spring soon join the line-up, along with baby beets and carrots seeded in May’s still-cool soil. Peas – so much work but such a treat – show up next in the barn; many of them don’t make it home but get eaten on the drive instead. Spring-planted spinach comes on as winter-over spinach begins to bolt. Kale and chard are both raring to go. All those greens take getting used to but, as our doctor says, eating greens “is like eating health.”

Once the summer squash and cucumbers need picking every other day, the garden’s bounty has arrived. Garlic is harvested and given every week. Peas beg for picking and beets and carrots become Saturday regulars. The show-offs of the fields – tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant – make their many weeks’ work seeding, weeding, and tending worth it. Even people who

doing her usual wintering over in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We had many long talks, both on the telephone and then using Skype. She was not coming back to Colorado until May and we wanted to get together to see if there was something between us worth pursuing. At her invitation I flew down and stayed in her condo for a long New Year’s weekend.

There’s no substitute for face-to-face time together.

I had a good time being with her, we laughed a lot, and enjoyed fabulous Mexican food. We had much in common, and lots to share. On the second full day I asked if she believed it was necessary for there to be a “spark,” that chemistry thing between two people to make a good match. She agreed it was necessary.

“Do you feel it with me?” I asked.

“No,” she replied. “Do you feel it with me?”

“No,” I said.

Having gotten that on the table, we both acknowledged our disappointment, took it in stride, and continued to have a good time for the rest of the visit.

I’m a Baby Boomer, one of a generation that refuses to accept the way of life that was lived by our parents and grandparents. Enjoying an active life, being adventurous, and “never saying never” is who we are.

Well, maybe not all of us.

There are profiles of women who belong to what I call the Bingo and Bridge Brigade. Unifying features include plumpness, permed white hair (did I see a touch of blue in there?), floor to ceiling floral print cotton dresses, a love of cookie baking, and a penchant for TV watching. Thanks, but no. I have no intention of dating my grandmother.

I’m an aging hippie and so far “Can’t get no, satisfaction,” but I’m committed. Date on!

Don Moore is a retired lawyer and the author of Love is a Verb: Healing Yourself through Love, Gratitude and Compassion. He lives in Lyons.

think they don’t like eggplant admit that a fresh one is a whole different matter.

Come August, farmers are busy harvesting and members are busy cooking, canning, drying, and freezing with help from our weekly recipe list. This plentitude won’t slow down until the temperatures cool again. When first frost threatens,

Repetitious? Sometimes. Unpredictable?

That’s farming. But people who hang out at a CSA learn to treat vegetables like old friends. Ah, how wonderful to see you again! It’s been a year since we last met.

You’re looking well. I can hardly wait to make that soup / salad / dip / dessert I only make each spring / summer / fall.

high summer crops are pulled for the barn; the pepper “pick-down” yields plenty for freezing, too. After frost nips the vines, winter squash and pumpkins are harvested in a hand-to-hand relay from the fields to the hay wagon and the hay wagon to the barn. Onions come in from the fields to cure, leaving autumn’s Asian and other greens, roots like rutabagas, carrots, and turnips, and whatever’s stored in the barn to fill the end-of-season shares.

Seasonal eating has its challenges. In any given year, one crop will shine and another will lack luster. Especially in Colorado, no week can bring the amount or variety of vegetables available at a grocery store. We hope the benefits of supporting local agriculture outweigh that inconvenience. Fresh is a flavor; freshpicked veggies just taste better. Not to mention the value of keeping local land

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ECOLOGY Spurge is a scourge on the Front Range landscape

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – What started as a popular and attractive plant for rock gardens and xeriscaping has turned into a nightmare weed that threatens sensitive Colorado ecosystems by out-competing native plants and reducing wildlife forage.

It’s myrtle spurge and it’s considered one of the top noxious weeds along the Front Range.

Myrtle spurge is among the plants that comprise the Colorado Weed Management Association’s List A rating.

Noxious weeds that make List A “must be eradicated whenever detected in order to protect neighboring communities and the state as a whole.”

So threatening is myrtle spurge that it is a law under the Colorado Noxious Weed Act, Boulder County Noxious Weed Plan, and Town of Lyons municipal code (Sec. 7-530), that failure to remove it may result in legal action and abatement action taken by the town with costs billed to the property owner or collected as liens against the property.

This weight of these laws underscores the plant’s potential for disrupting local ecosystems and the difficulty of permanently removing it.

“Myrtle spurge is a Eurasian species that started out innocently enough as a yard ornamental,” said Deryn Davidson, Extension Agent for Boulder County. “But where it’s planted it escapes its original garden and rapidly takes over adjoining land.”

It has no value to any Colorado ecosystem and the concern is that it will proliferate into wildland areas, she said.

It’s easy to see why the plant initially appealed to gardeners. Myrtle spurge is a low-growing perennial with low water requirements that has the appearance of a suc-

culent. The leaves are blue-green and fleshy and it produces small yellow flowers that appear from March to May. The plant grows 8 to 12 inches high and spreads 12 to 18 inches.

What makes the plant’s spread so effective is its ability to project (throw) its seeds up to 15 feet from the parent plant.

The beauty of myrtle spurge as a garden plant helped lead to its damaging proliferation along the Front Range.

PHOTO BY ALICIA DORAN, JEFFERSON COUNTY WEED & PEST CONTROL

Eradication is difficult, dangerous. Myrtle spurge is particularly difficult to eradicate once established. Its seeds can remain viable for up to eight years. The main goal in destroying stands of spurge is to reduce its seed production by removing mature plants early in the season before seeds can set, according to the Colorado Department of Agriculture. It’s also important to check during subsequent years for seedlings.

Populations of myrtle spurge can be managed by handpulling or digging out plants when the soil is moist.

Caution! Myrtle spurge contains a toxic, milky sap that can cause severe skin irritation, including blistering, and is poisonous if ingested. Always wear gloves, long sleeves and pants, shoes and socks and eye protection when working in myrtle spurge.

After removal, the plants should be bagged in plastic bags and disposed of to prevent any spread of seeds.

Additionally, the site of its removal must be checked every year for many years as re-sprouting can occur from any severed taproots.

Spot treatment with herbicides can also eradicate the plant. Herbicides used include: 2, 4-D ester; Dicamba + 2, 4-D; and Picloram. Any herbicide must be applied strictly according to the application instructions.

Make no mistake, myrtle spurge is one of the worst actors in Colorado’s noxious weed family and left unchecked can take over a yard, pasture or wild area in a matter of a few years.

If you have myrtle spurge, work quickly to eradicate it.

If you see it on public lands in Boulder or Larimer County notify the individuals listed below. If you spy it on Town of Lyons property, report it immediately to town staff.

Boulder County Weed Manager – Steve Sauer 303678-6110 ssauer@bouldercounty.org Larimer County Weed Manager – Tim D’Amato 970498-5769 damatotj@larimer.co.us For more information on myrtle spurge, go to www.colorado.gov/ag/weeds and select “Noxious Weed Management Program.”

Greg Lowell is a member of Lyons Ecology Advisory Board and has been involved with land conservation issues for more than 25 years. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire and now lives in Lyons.

COMMENTARY: WHAT’S THE FIX FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN LYONS?

Speak up for affordable housing

By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review LYONS – Do you still care about helping add back affordable housing in Lyons? Pay attention to the following meetReinholds ings, and let both the Board of Trustees and the Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) know how you feel: 1) The Board of Trustees and the PCDC will hold a joint workshop on Monday, June 20, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Lyons Town Hall. Mayor Connie Sullivan said last month that this work-

shop will focus on policy-driven discussions for affordable housing. The trustees decided to direct the PCDC to advise on how to implement affordable housing policy and incentive strategies listed in a Lyons Affordable Housing Resolution passed by the outgoing Board of Trustees on April 18. A tap fee study that was needed for town utilities will be completed soon, and that information also should guide help the PCDC commissioners and the trustees on incentives. The workshop will also cover possible incentives and public safety issues for homeowners who want to rent out accessory dwelling units.

2) The second reading of the final Planned Unit Development (PUD) plan

ordinance for rezoning for the former Valley Bank parcel at Second and Park, to allow six Habitat for Humanity homes, is expected to be scheduled for a public hearing at the Tuesday, July 5, Board of Trustees meeting, along with a resolution for the subdivision plat. The six lots for three duplexes can be sold to Habitat for Humanity after the plat is recorded, and the former bank building will remain on a commercial lot. Board of Trustees meetings start at 7 p.m.

Try to attend the meetings on both June 20 and July 5. Those of us who are interested in seeing workable affordable housing polices and incentives need to follow up with trustees, town staff, advisory boards, and commissions to make sure that the policies and incentives from the resolution are actually implemented. And those of us who like the affordable home-ownership model of Habitat for Humanity and want to see it in Lyons should also express our support.

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INSIGHT A shiny new black truck

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – I recently bought a new pickup, not a different used one, but a brand new one that had 18 miles on it when I drove it off the lot. It’s the first new truck I’ve ever owned and no, it wasn’t cheap.

Gierach In fact, it cost more than my first house, although, admittedly, the two purchases came 40 years apart and the house was nothing to write home about.

But more than the price it’s the pristine, showroom newness of it that’s shocking. I keep thinking I should wash my hands before I drive it.

I’ve owned over a dozen vehicles in my life; all but two were pickups and all were used when I got them, if not actually used up. But that was back when you didn’t have to be a skilled mechanic to buy a beater for a few hundred dollars – or what would now be a few thousand adjusted for inflation – and keep it running with a few simple tools.

In the days before cars had computers, diagnosis was straightforward – it was gas, spark or timing – and most major parts could be changed by removing four bolts.

I always bought used vehicles because they were what I could afford without going into debt and because, as those of us who drove rattle traps used to say, the act of driving a new car home made it a used car you’d just bought at a new car price. I may even have said I’d never be so stupid as to buy a car new, but in light of recent events I can’t actually remember.

It’s possible to dither for months over a five-figure purchase and I did. My old truck was 16 years old and sneaking up on 200,000 miles – past the point when most people would have replaced it. When I bought that truck in 2004 it was four years old, had 44,000 miles on the odometer and I paid $14,000 for it. (I remember because of all the fours.) Twelve years later there were a few things wrong with it, but nothing too serious, and for a comparatively small investment I could have eked out a few more good years.

That’s what I did with my previous old pickup. By doing the maintenance, changing the oil religiously and replacing the usual wear parts – tires, brakes, belts and a clutch – I got over 300,000 miles out of it. I’ve always believed in the Magliozzi rule: When you start spending more on repairs than on scheduled maintenance, it’s time to replace the vehicle, and although I was approaching that threshold, I hadn’t crossed it yet. I sold the truck

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daughter were both volunteers.

To date, RETREET has planted 4,096 for those rebuilding in the wake of fires, floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes in 11 different communities. There is no other organization solely focused on this unique issue and it is quickly gaining national prominence as a result. RETREET is redefining the concept of disaster relief through direct action. Last year in Jamestown, 25 volunteers traveled in from all over the country and planted 96 trees at 21 homes. You can learn more about RETREET at www. retreet. org. or www. facebook. com / retreet.

LAHC art show at town hall LYONS – The Lyons Arts and Humanities Council art show at the Lyons Town Hall on 423 Fifth Ave. is called The Giving Tree. The LAHC will host an opening reception and community tapas potluck on Saturday July 2

anyway, not because there was anything wrong with it, but because I’d gotten nervous about driving it any farther than walking distance from home.

But then this was the year I had new car money for a change owing to the advance on a new book and friends encouraged me to go ahead and spend it. One said, “You’ve worked hard; you deserve it.” Another said, a little more ominously, “Do it now while you can enjoy it.”

Roughly along those same lines a friend from Maine said that if I got a new pickup now it could “see me out.” I turn 70 this fall; apparently an age when one of the available options on a new truck is an intimation of mortality.

I thought of my father. He also worked hard and when

he finally started making what was considered good money, he took to buying a new car every two or three years. (A friend accused him of buying a new car every time the ash tray in the old one got full.) I think Dad liked new cars because they made him look prosperous and he was perpetually paying off car loans. He liked credit because it spoke to steadfastness and reliability. I dislike credit because life is urgent and unpredictable, so I paid cash.

When Dad was buying those new cars all I wanted was a learner’s permit, then a driver’s license, then use of the family sedan and finally a car of my own. Driving was a strange and terrible power, a ticket to the big world of freedom, danger and the back row at the drive-in theater.

Sports and academics notwithstanding, the coolest kids in high school were the ones who drove their own cars.

Many of us never completely outgrew that. Sure, most

from 6 to 8 p.m. Music will be performed by singer/song writer Norma Pfaff and Friends.

Bring a dish to share. Wine sales will benefit LAHC for local arts-centric endeavors.

Concerts in the Park are underway LYONS – Every Thursday during the summer through August 11, concerts will be held in Sandstone Park at Raul Vasquez Stage at 6:30 p.m. The next concert will be held on June 16 and will feature Take Down the Door. The June 23 concert will feature Halden Wofford and the Hi Beams. The June 30 concert will feature Blue Canyon Boys. The July 7 concert will feature Bonnie and the Clydes and the July 14 concert will feature Tupelo Honey.

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days the vehicle is now a thoughtless convenience we only pay attention to when it needs tires or starts making funny noises, but then there’s that morning you hop into it and drive to Livingston, Montana to fish for trout in a spring creek as a friend and I did last month. Twelve hours on interstates across country where you can go for hours without seeing anything man-made except the occasional other car, the road itself and the ubiquitous barbed wire fences you don’t notice unless there’s a hawk perched on one of the posts. The destination is one thing, but the drive is another: a whole day passed at 80 miles an hour with room for one of those endlessly aimless conversations that even old friends rarely have time for anymore.

That’s why I didn’t even think about buying an electric car. They don’t have enough range and the only charging stations I’ve ever seen were at dealerships that sold electric cars. For that matter, if you run dry in the middle of Wyoming you can’t hitchhike into town for a jerry can full of electricity to limp you in.

The same goes for hybrids.

On a long trip you’re burning gas before your first pit stop and incidentally lugging along a now useless electric motor and a bank of batteries.

As for flex fuel cars, I’ve only seen two ethanol pumps – both in Nebraska – and using corn as fuel when so much of the world doesn’t have enough to eat seems morally reprehensible.

Any or all of those technologies could eventually turn out to be the answer, but not yet, so for my first new truck ever I went old school with internal combustion, half hoping it’ll “see me out,” half hoping it won’t, and fully aware that although the old pleasures of driving survive, they’re no longer unambiguous.

John Gierach is an outdoor and fly fishing writer who writes a column for Flyrod & Reel magazine. His books include Trout Bum, Sex Death and Fly fishing, and Still Life with Brook Trout. His new book, All Fishermen are Liars is available at book stores and fly fishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street.

Lyons Community Church. Client advocate services are available starting at 10 a.m. The food pantry is open from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

The food pantry needs donations of canned tomatoes, toothpaste, cleaning supplies, paper products including toilet paper and paper towels. These and any other items can be donated to the food pantry every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Last Thursdays Art Stroll LYONS – The LAHC led by Chrystal DeCoster and Betsy Hubner has been very active as of late, helping to launch Lyons Last Thursdays/Art Stroll. This is a collaborative effort between LAHC, the Lyons Economic Development Commission, the Town of Lyons, the Lyons Chamber of Commerce and various business entities. This event features artists displaying their work at coffee shops, restaurants and galleries all over Lyons. Residents, visitors and friends can enjoy dinner, wine and a pleasant stroll through town looking at all the art both inside and outside businesses.

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Bird walk with Davis LYONS – On Wednesday, June 22 Raymond Davis will have a free bird walk from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Meet at the Picture Rock Trail parking lot on Red Gulch Road. The bird walk will be along the Old South St. Vrain Road just off of Colorado Highway 7.

Be a stylista doer, observer or fun paparazzi documenter LYONS – Join Coco Gordon for the next Stylista Salon from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on June 18 at 523 Fifth Ave. Bring items you want to restyle and RSVP which you wish to be to cocogord@mindspring.com. Scissors, pins, sewing machine, extra fabrics, trimmings, needles, thread, etc. are available to use. A $10 donation is requested for tea and snacks.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in the greater Lyons area

By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS The Stone Cup Café will continue showing the paintings of Lyons impressionist artist Wu Hollingsead Brent through June. Hollingsead’s work plays with texture, layering, abstraction and spontaneity, and expresses with passion the authenticity in each brushstroke. The breadth of expressions of nature, from her serenity to her wrath, forms the inspiration at the core of Brent’s work; also a struggle between man and technology is often revealed in his modern collage series.

Sally King will present her art show Girl Friends with Lindsay Heppner in July and August. Local artists, Heppner paints an inviting connection to animals and King is well known for her bears. With Girl Friends as the current theme, a delightful group of new works will be on display: Steady Friend, Forgive Me, Goodbye Sweetness, Carry On, Tippy Teapot, and Bossy Pants. Sally King said, “I have lived in Lyons for 15 years (love it).

Studied art in college at Miami University in Ohio. It’s been an interesting path to make art and be a part of peoples’ lives in this way, a painting in their kitchen or in their child’s room, part of the flow of days.”

Upcoming weekend morning music lineup includes a double show with James Falk’s folk and classic and Stonebelly on rock, blues, and reggae on June 18. Ran Off the Rooster will present Americana, folk, and bluegrass on June 19, Bethel Steele is on June 25, and Jill Cohn will be on June 26. The café is located on Fifth Avenue and High Street. For more information please call 303-823-2345 or visit www.thestonecup.com.

Birds of Spring, paintings by local artist Betsy Hubner entitled , now through end of June at the Lyons Town Hall Art Show. Above: “Squak” Hall is located on 432 Fifth Ave. The contact number is 303-823-6622.

The next artwalk, Last Thursdays In Lyon,s will take place on June 30. It is an early evening artwalk with a voucher incentive valued at $7 each, and a partnership between local business and visual or performing artists, art form, special culinary delight or cocktail creation. The artwalk series is a stimulating collaboration between the Lyons Arts and Humanities

Sally King (“Sisters” at left) and Lindsay Heppner (“Hen” at right) have teamed up to present their show Girl Friends, during July and August at the Stone Cup. The Corner Studios, 318 Main St., will be doing its summer art show featuring Evan Colbert, a pop art printmaker from Longmont. Come join the art festivities along with the Lyons Last Thursdays on June 30 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hope to see you there.

Lyons Town Hall Art Show is currently featuring a solo show of paintings entitled Birds of Spring by local artist Betsy Hubner, now through end of June. Next show entitled The Giving Tree is open to creative responses from those of all ages and stages of artistry, and the show will take place July through September.

In more news, Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission is assisting a group of fifth graders in acquiring a piece of sculpture by Alonzo Clemons, it’s co-hosting farm-to-table dinners at the Lyons Farmette, and in August will be collaborating with Boulder County Arts Alliance and Sounds of Lyons in the Arts on the River event. This will take place on Sunday, August 28, at the River Bend. Lyons Town

Commission, local business and the Lyons Chamber, the Economic Development Commission, and the Town of Lyons. The participating businesses include Lyons Quilting, Lyons Dairy Bar, Ax and Oar, Western Stars, Corner Studios, Oskar Blues, Metamorphosis, Redstone Museum, Red Canyon Gallery, Art Bank, Hearth, Haven, BRICK and mortar, ReRuns, Lyons Community Church, Gatherings and Lyons Fork, St. Vrain Market, Spirit Hound, Pilates of Lyons, Red Fox, Carve, and the Stone Cup. Mark the dates for July 28, August 25, and September 29.

BOULDER The 2016 Colorado Music Festival opens in heroic fashion with a monumental program on June 30 featuring music director Jean-Marie Zeitouni, the CMF orchestra and violin virtuoso Jennifer Koh. Opening the program is Beethoven’s flashy, fearless and often daring Overture to Egmont, followed by Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Violin Concerto, and Berlioz’s larger-thanlife Symphonie Fantastique.

Brooklyn-based ensemble, Sō Percussion, current Ensemble-inResidence at Princeton University, kicks off CMF’s Presenting Series on July 1 with a stunning program. Described by the New Yorker as “an exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam,” a performance by Sō Percussion is guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat! On July 2, Sō Percussion joins the CMF orchestra for a family concert program that includes Ravel’s Bolero, Reich’s Clapping Music, and Matthews’ Machines and Dreams, described as “fulll of broad as well as sly humor” and featuring instruments from toy pianos to fishing rods to bird calls.

Boulder Brahms will present programs on July 7 and 8 for experiencing the verve, freedom, and complexity of the complete Brahms Symphonies, beginning with the grand and dignified No. 1, contrasting the joyful melodies and pastoral beauty of No. 2, the turbulence and tranquility of the epic No. 3, and the emotional powerful final essay in the No. 4.

On July 10, a pocket-sized, but dramatically intense adaptation of Georges Bizet’s Carmen will be led by legendary British theater and film director, Peter Brook, in his famously fresh The Tragedy of Carmen.

The 2016 Music Mash-Up series kicks off on July 12 with a program featuring the so-called bad boys of jazz, the Bad Plus. The legendary jazz trio presents its original deconstruction of Igor Stravinsky’s once notorious masterpiece, The Rite of Spring, commissioned

by Duke University and Lincoln Center for the Arts’ Out-of-Doors festival in 2011. While the 1913 debut of the ballet performance in Paris triggered riots, the Bad Plus’ musical interpretation of the signature work, with beautiful projected images and videos, has been praised as “electrifying” by the New York Times and “exhilarating…dramatic, dynamic” by the Boston Globe. For tickets and a complete list of the concerts, please visit www.comusic org or call 303-665-0599.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival kicks off with The Comedy of Errors, now through August 7. Directed by Geoffrey

Kent and set in jazzy, sexy 1930s Paris, this hilarious new production bends the classic adventure of mistaken identities in a different direction that puts the women in charge and the men in their places. Sultry singing, cabaret nightlife, puns and punchlines, this is Comedy, inside out.

Playing June 17 through August 6 is Equivocation, praised one of the most bracingly intelligent, sizzlingly theatrical American plays in a decade. Reluctant playwright and sleuth “Shag,” aka William Shakespeare, finds himself at the perilous crossroads between artistic integrity and survival when King James I commissions him to rewrite the history of England’s infamous Gunpowder Plot.

Under the Orwellian gaze of a security state not far removed from today’s headlines, Shag must find a way to tell the truth without selling his soul.

Opening on June 24 is Troilus and Cressida, directed by Carolyn Howarth. God-like heroes, embattled kings, doomed love, and a sinister, snarky clown make Shakespeare’s epic of the Trojan War one of his greatest legends.

Like grown-up versions of Romeo and Juliet all too familiar with life’s stark realities, the eponymous lovers face painful choices in this mythic mélange of drama, comedy and history, set in a world on the verge of apocalypse. For ticketing and more information please go to www.coloradoshakes.org, or call 303-492-8008.

DENVER The groundbreaking exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism will show at the Denver Art Museum through September 25. It celebrates the often unknown female artists of this mid-twentieth-century art movement with more than 50 major paintings on view by artists working on the East and West Coasts during the 1940s and 1950s.

These artists include Mary Abbott, Jay DeFeo, Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Sonia Gechtoff, Judith Godwin, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Deborah Remington, and Ethel Schwabacher.

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CONTEXT Team U.S.A. gets ready for the 2016 Olympics

By Bronwyn Muldoon Redstone Review LYONS – The Olympic games have always felt like a time when countries come together, forget their differences, and if they are not at peace, are at least civil to each other for a two and a half Muldoon week time period so the focus can be on young athletes from different backgrounds, lifestyles and economic situations competing on an “even playing field” and showing their athleticism, determination and patriotism in search for the coveted Olympic gold.

As we bystanders watch the events unfold on television, our sense of pride and admiration for these athletes is overwhelming, for these athletes have spent years honing their skills, working full time to become their best.

They don’t do it selfishly as each one represents a country they love. Very few of them make money with endorsements. For every Michael Phelps, there are hundreds of athletes who have spent just as many hours relentlessly training, mentally and physically. The majority of these athletes rely on family and friends to support them financially while they strive for the chance to be an Olympic triumph story. Many can’t turn professional afterwards, as there are no Bobsled / Wrestling / Modern Pentathlon leagues that compete every Sunday.

I wondered what drives these athletes to spend years putting their careers and families on hold, travelling around the world competing, dreaming to become Olympians and possibly the next gold medalists.

When I received word that I was accepted as a volunteering member of Sports Medicine Team at the Olympic Training Center (OTC) in Colorado Springs for two weeks, I was honored. I would be joining medical doctors, physical therapists, sports psychologists, chiropractors, athletic trainers and massage therapists in taking care of Olympian athletes. It seemed like a dream job.

The time I spent at the OTC will always remain a

highlight. The insight I gained into the lives of elite athletes was phenomenal. Staying on campus in dorms with the athletes, eating in the same cafeteria, working oneon-one and watching their training sessions, it was easy to feel like a part of the U.S.A. team.

I was grateful for all the athletes / weekend warriors in Lyons who prepped me for this next level of competitors.

I was familiar with gymnasts, wrestlers, swimmers and weight lifters, but competitors in fencing and women’s boxing, not so much.

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with injuries, they also had to find time to squeeze in physical therapy between their training sessions.

The cafeteria is another gathering spot for these athletes. The food is delicious, homemade and plentiful. But if you are looking for a low calorie meal, you will have to go elsewhere. These athletes consume up to 12,000 calories a day. The chefs at the OTC take pride in always serving healthy fresh food. There was no salt, pepper or ketchup on any of the tables. As good as the food was, I couldn’t help but occasionally crave the forbidden: potato chips, cookies or chocolate.

These athletes were not only driven in the athletic world, but other aspects of their life as well. Everyone I met had a college degree and often obtained graduate level degrees. They had their lives planned out. They were polite, well spoken and grateful to be in their situations. It was easy to see, with their current levels of work ethic and determination; they would be successful at any career.

But for now their whole lives, and quickly mine, were focused on the upcoming Olympics. Every piece of clothing they wore echoed their thoughts: U.S.A., Team U.S.A., the Road to RIO 2016.

As the days wore on and I became more involved with these extraordinary people, it was difficult to think about, but the realization was clear: not every athlete is going to make the team. Who has made the team? Who still needs to qualify? What injuries are we dealing with? What are the time lines for return to competition after an injury? How do we speed up the healing process? The pressure started to build. These athletes did not or would not use pain as a guidance. As amazing as the human body is, we can only push it so far when an injury occurs. What are the longterm effects on the body when competing with an injury?

Research shows that one injury leads to another. My dream job was suddenly becoming stressful.

Thankfully, as I was a volunteer, none of the tough decisions were solely mine. I didn’t have to decide what injuries we could push through, while other injuries caused the athletes to sit out. The Sports Medicine Team was truly a team. Using diagnostic tools (MRI, treadmills with force plates, etc.) and input from every member of the medical staff, decisions were based on objective measurements and group input. The decisions were still difficult to make, especially when the end result caused an individual to miss the upcoming Olympics.

This year as I watch the Olympic Games, my excitement and patriotism will be elevated. Knowing some of the intricacies that go into producing these remarkable athletes, I’m grateful for the countless hours, the numerous resources and each dedicated member from the coaches, trainers, medical staff, chefs, volunteers, and sponsors which all contribute to make up Team U.SA. Bronwyn Muldoon, a licensed physical therapist, owns Lyons Physical Therapy, 435 High St. in Lyons. Some of the things addressed at her clinic include but are not limited to: acute and chronic spinal pain (back and neck pain), postural dysfunction alignment, sports and performancerelated injuries, repetitive/overuse-related injuries, postsurgical rehabilitation, muscles strains and sprains, and physical rehabilitation of all kinds. For more information call 303-823-8813.

Here is Katie Fankhouser, age 14, at the GoPro Mountain Games in Vail.

She rides for Team Jackson in the freestyle kayak competitions around the country. She only learned to kayak 4 years ago and started in the pool with the Lyons Kids Kayak Class.

Katie placed second in the Cadet Class at this year’s Lyons Outdoor Games. She placed first in the Cadet class at Paddefest in Buena Vista on May 28. Next she is off to FIBARK in Salida.

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REDSTONE • REVIEW

JUNE 15 / JULY 13, 2016

FOUNDATION Vote for candidates that have programs you can trust

By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review VP PUEBLO – It would seem the time for sparring is nearly over, and the real battle over control of the government Joyce and nation for the next four or more years will soon begin.

We’re talking about the presidency, majority control of the House and Senate, and the balance of the U.S. Supreme Court. We’re also talking about major issues, such as gun control, immigration, abortion, our crumbling infrastructure, health care, Social Security, terrorism and privacy, and many more.

During this time, it’s really important to hold candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to as few insult exchanges as possible and as many specific proposals to resolve the issues as possible.

That’s not likely, of course, because the media and the people who run them find much more profit in the insults than in the issues, and too many Americans prefer listening to platitudes and pejoratives to realistic proposals. At least we can be thankful at this watershed moment in American politics and history that the economy is back in decent shape.

Recent government reports indicate inflation is very low, wages are beginning to rise and the unemployment rate is back to where it was before the nasty recession that began in 2007-2008. Yet, in an article by Tami Luby published June 10 on CNN Money, it’s clear we’re not out of the woods at all economically. Luby cites the Federal Reserve Bank’s latest survey on our economic health, which shows: • 31 percent of American adults, or 76 million people, in 2015 said they are struggling to get by or just barely doing so; • 46 percent of adults say they can’t cover an unexpected $400 expense or would have to borrow or sell something to do so; • While lower income Americans said they’d have the toughest time handling that $400 expense, about 38 percent of middle class Americans reported they’d have trouble too; • 19 percent of those making more than

$100,000 a year said they couldn’t pay the $400 promptly; • About 33 percent of Americans said their income varied month-to-month, mainly because they had an irregular work schedule; • Around 45 percent said their expenses change each month, and about 42 percent of those with fluctuating income and / or expenses struggled to pay the bills at least once in the past year.

The report, according to Luby’s article, also said many Americans want to work more or are already holding down multiple jobs. In fact, about 35 percent of workers, particularly lower-income respondents, non-Hispanic blacks, younger folks, Hispanics and those with less education who are not self-employed said they’d prefer to work more hours at their current wage. Few of them expected to see wage increases anytime soon.

The report also showed that with regard to savings: • Nearly half of Americans spend less than their incomes, and the savings rate is 9 percent higher than it was two years ago – a hopeful sign; • Unfortunately, nearly a third of nonretired adults, including 27 percent of those ages 60 and older, have not put away anything for their retirement years, and they don’t have pensions; • About 42 percent expect either to

retire at age 70 or older or never to retire; • 38 percent expect they’ll need to work in retirement, and almost 22 percent think their spouses or partners will work.

As they have been for the past several decades, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Welfare and other social programs – fully or partially federally funded, or not funded at all, except by the states – will bear the brunt of the great need definitely implied in the

Federal Reserve report’s findings.

To meet that need, those programs either will run into bankruptcy or they won’t. If they do, it will mean social chaos, including possible riots, malnutrition, deaths, untreated major physical and mental illnesses, and political upheaval or government suppression throughout the nation. All it will take is reaching a certain tipping point we can’t see from where we are.

To avoid the bankruptcy and continue to fund social “safety net” programs, we’ve got to do one thing: increase tax revenue.

That’s it.

Increased tax revenue will pay for everything. It will balance the budget, it will bring down the national debt, and it will fund all the programs we need, including our national defense and the general welfare social programs.

But how do we accomplish that without raising taxes significantly on those

who, according to the above report, are already having a tough time meeting expenses, which includes most families in the nation, most of whom earn less than $50,000 a year, but also including more than a few earning all the way up into the $100,000-plus range of incomes?

Make sure the candidate you favor for president, senator, representative, etc. has a plan that answers that question. Even if that answer isn’t perfect, make sure it’s real, and by that I mean it has enough specifics to show its strengths and flaws, because knowing those, we can all work intelligently to improve it. Don’t expect it to be a simple fix. That does not exist in complex systems such as ours.

Knowing less than that from a candidate, as in, “Don’t worry about the details, folks. Just trust me,” and still voting for that candidate is the political equivalent of voluntarily playing Russian roulette with all six revolver chambers fully loaded for every turn.

Or holding up a sign that reads “Please Shoot Me – It’s Better Than Slow Death at the Hands of Imbecilic, Impotent Government.”

Richard A. Joyce is an associate 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 or at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He can be reached at phase15@mac.com.

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Under his leadership, more than 100,000 acres of land have been protected from future development in perpetuity.

He was elected as Boulder County Commissioner in 1984. He was later appointed as Director of Parks and Open Space in 1999.

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CREATE Guns, snakes, and a boy alive

By Natalie Costanza Redstone Review LOVELAND – Four men held a gun to my son’s head. These are the words I use. The word he used was “mugged.” “Mom, I Costanza was mugged.”

Four men in a car drove him blocks demanding money while one of them held the gun to his head.

He had no money. He said they could have his credit card; they didn’t want his credit card. He said they could have his phone; they didn’t want his phone. They yelled at him for money. Finally, they dumped him out of the car onto the street and drove away.

He tells us all of this on Saturday – from three states away, on the phone. I can hear his friends in the house. He’s not alone. “I’m fine, Mom,” he says. “I’m fine.

Mom, I’m fine.”

“They didn’t do anything to me, Mom.” “I’m fine.”

After we hang up, we call him again.

His brother calls him.

His cousin calls him.

His grandmother calls him.

Sunday I call him yet again. He texts back that he’s in the library. “What’s up?” he writes. As if it’s all over. As if he doesn’t think we should talk and talk about it. I stare at his words and then go back to what I’m working on, rewiring the wall switch in the laundry room. It’s a three-way switch wired next to two more three-way switches. I can’t keep track of the wires; this is

unusual and I notice it as if I am watching myself from a distance. Suddenly, I feel very tired. I sag, from the shoulders down, and my hip hits the dryer. My hands shake; they tremble. I need air and take my keys with me, out the laundry room door, into my car, down the street.

When I arrive at my friend’s house, I start to cry. I cry and cry and cry and between breaths try to tell them, “It’s ok. He’s ok. I’m ok,” when clearly I’m not.

I don’t want these two dear friends to worry too much. I’m aware this is ridiculous as I

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the back of my head somewhere I hear them discussing.

“She needs the sugar, Gene – get her the white grape juice.” Their voices are in a tunnel. They only have purple grape juice. “And bring potato chips.” They sit with me and push a bowl chips closer and closer. “Eat them.” They nudge the juice glass. “Drink this.” They make me drink glass after glass of purple grape juice.

Now tell us again. Start from the beginning. Tell us again. I don’t want to say it out loud again – I think I can’t – so they help me. They say back to me what I said to them.

“Four men mugged your son,” says

Gene. “Four men held a gun to my son’s head,” I correct.

He’s ok, they remind me. Tell us again.

They make me tell it again. Then they talk about other things; they tell me stories and direct my about-to-tip-over mind back to some sort of balance before they circle around and make me tell the story – again.

I say I am terrified that my son won’t talk about it, won’t process it, will stuff it way down inside of himself until it rears up and strikes at him.

They remind me that my son isn’t me. That he will process it in his way. As will I, his mother.

The next day, I take my dog for a walk. We go around the basketball courts toward a fork in the concrete path – I take the one that runs south, past the recycle bins, the trail signs, and the skate park. I hear the thump, thump, thump of basketballs. A woman pushes an empty stroller, her toddler runs ahead. My dog sniffs the concrete to my left, deeply, like a vacuum.

I glace down to my right at the mowed grass, spring grass – half green, half brown.

A snake, as thick around as a water bottle moves in tight, fast “S’s” backing up into itself compressing like an accordion.

Its sharp head moves back and forth, back and forth, parallel to the ground. I see brown and black – diamonds and stripes huge down the length and spread of it.

I don’t know how I end up 15 feet away looking back at the snake – I flew or hurdled or leaped. And, then I’m suddenly unable to move. Unable to breathe. I don’t know what to do. I can’t believe

what I am seeing. I can’t believe the zoo animals are out loose, though there is no zoo anywhere near and of course snakes live here – the foothills of Colorado. I know this. Everyone knows this. It’s cold outside. No sun. They shouldn’t be out yet, my brain says. But there it is and I’m walking as if no snake could bite me. I’m walking as if I don’t have to worry.

I was walking as if the world might be a safe place.

I look around for someone to warn, someone to tell. No one is near for the moment. Finally, I take pictures with my cell phone, feeling modern for a moment – like a regular person. It isn’t until I back even farther away, that I begin to shake, to tremble, to cry. I’m so angry I could scream. “Seriously?” I think. I just wanted to go for a walk. The whole world is screwed up. We are all bad and nothing is safe and the giant snakes hang out by the basketball courts.

Later that night, I examine the image on my cell phone. The snake is well over five feet long. I send the picture to my son. “Be careful.” He writes back.

And then I call him and tell him more; I know instantly I’m not just talking about the snake. I tell him every detail – how strange it was that everything sped up and then slowed down and then sped up. How, moments later, when I was safe, my body felt poisoned with adrenalin and how it lasted for hours. How I can still taste it in my mouth.

“It was like that for me,” he says. “Everything was so clear. I’ve never been so scared in my life. I was very focused. And then it all went away when they dumped me out. I mean I was a mess, but my friend’s house was right there and he took me home and I was fine, mom. They didn’t do anything to me.”

I tell him about my friends and the grape juice and potato chips. “Do you have any grape juice?” I ask and he laughs.

I tell him to call me if everything speeds up. “I’m fine, mom. I’m fine,” he says.

That night in bed, I think about the snake instead of the men and the gun. On purpose, I drag my head back to the snake over and over. They’re in the grass. They’re on the concrete. They’re beside the basketball courts where the mamas and the strollers pass. They’re near the dogs, the skaters, the soccer kids. “Be careful,” I think. Be careful. And then I say it again: “Four men held a gun to my son’s head.”

For information about ending gun violence, and making our country a safer and saner home for all of us, please visit www.everytown.org.

Natalie Costanza wrote a blog called Grace Notes now called Precarious Kites, a weekly, Sunday, newspaper column that first ran in the Fort Collins Coloradoan in 2004. From there it went on to run in various other papers: Denver Post, Greeley Tribune, Fort Collins Weekly, Reporter Herald, North Forty News, Redstone Review, Vail Daily, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.

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CONCEPTS The Pale King a deep panorama of human existence The Pale King by David Foster Wallace 548 pp., Little, Brown and Co., 2011

By Andi Gregory Pearson Redstone Review LYONS – “It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing Pearson you cannot accomplish.”

It doesn’t appear until page 438, but this is probably one of the biggest statements that David Foster Wallace wants to make with his novel, The Pale King.

“Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time (the late 1970s), I dreamed of becoming an ‘artist,’ i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.” But Wallace (as his autobiographical fictional counterpart) goes on to describe living and minutely examining the dronelike life – his own and several of those with whom he shares office space, understanding of agency policy and his daily minutia of a humdrum life.

The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, is the backdrop for this incredibly creatively detailed account of 13 months of the narrator’s employment with one of the most complex federal government agencies. “The place was a labyrinth of hallways, staircases and fire doors with coded signs... in sum, the

Housing Continued from Page 6 interested in a cap on what she could charge to keep it affordable to people with incomes in lower ranges (for example, the people who work for small businesses in Lyons). But she also wasn’t interested in attending PCDC, Board of Trustees, or the Engineering and Utilities Board meetings to express her interest in changed policies.

Others have told me similar stories, varying on whether they would voluntarily keep rents low or support programs that cap rents. The problem is, unless people reach out and express their wishes to the volunteer commissions and the elected Board of Trustees, the result is nothing happens. (I mean nothing happens to add affordable rentals in town. Some things will happen if we do nothing: based on the real estate markets we see in Lyons and Colorado, the rents will continue to rise, and home sales prices will rise.)

Since my column last month, the Board of Trustees has been talking about affordable housing on the Eastern Corridor.

“We all want to see a diversity of housing

place was too overwhelmingly complex and repetitive... not to mention confusing.” And it’s not just the physical environment the reader finds complex and confusing.

The characters who work for the IRS at Post 047 are equally intricate, multifaceted and thorny; they are human and flawed.

advancement were very common topics of interest among examiners.”

The interior lives of the examiners were of high interest to each other as well.

Wallace recounts, in page after page, a happy-hour conversation between examiners Meredith Rand and Shane Drinion,

“David set out to write a novel about some of the hardest subjects in the world – sadness and boredom – and to make that exploration nothing less than dramatic, funny and deeply moving,” Merrill Errol Lehrl is head of the office and Reynolds and Sylvanshine work for him.

The latter two offer advice to the new guy.

They “started out with a small lecture on the two basic different ways that a person could rise to prominence and large responsibility within the bureaucracy of the IRS. Bureaucratic aerodynamics and modes of

also called “Mr. X for Mr. Excitement.” The protracted conversation uses a close examination of deep personal details to draw a picture of a woman who seems to suffer a multi-layered kind of pain and a man who is a quiet, controlled listener known to be “above social graces and evident compassion.” But this is Wallace’s style – to exam-

in Lyons,” Mayor Sullivan said at a Town Hall meeting about flood recovery on May 25. “We are down about 200 citizens.”

Sullivan said that the Board of Trustees is looking for parcels and developer partners for permanent affordable housing.

The Town of Lyons has an option to buy contract on the former Longmont Water Treatment plant land, both north and south of Hwy. 66 and east of Hwy. 36. A state economic development fund will grant Lyons funds to extend town water and sewer utilities out to the eastern corridor for the purpose of developing the former water treatment land.

At a June 6 meeting, Sullivan asked trustees to review draft questions for a short survey of citizens about options for annexation of property in the Eastern Corridor, including promoting affordable housing and economic development.

Also, Dave Emerson, Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley, gave an informational report to the trustees June 6 about contracts to maintain permanent affordability for Habitat for

Humanity homes built in Lyons, and the preference policy to fill the six homes proposed for Second and Park Streets.

First preference is for applicants who were living in the 80540 zip code during the flood and were displaced. Second and third preferences are for applicants from surrounding areas who were displaced by the 2013 flood, and current local residents, students, and employees of 80540 who weren’t displaced.

Despite the preference policy, applicants must also qualify for the Habitat for Humanity program. Households must demonstrate a need for housing (examples include paying more than a third of your family income on rent, not qualifying for a traditional loan, or living somewhere that is not able to be maintained for health and safety), a willingness to partner with the Habitat for Humanity program (including volunteering hours to build their home and other homes), and ability to pay the mortgage and provide a down-payment (some assistance is available).

Emerson said that Habitat for Humanity

ine with an excruciatingly close magnifying glass the genuine beneath-the-skin complexities of the people who live lives of dayto-day sameness and repetitiveness. And he does it with agonizing detail and often with footnotes that take more space on the page than the actual story. Even the onand-on details around the functioning of the IRS make a point – the human brain can only absorb so much and the human spirit probably draws the line much earlier.

Wallace’s effort to deal with crushing boredom and dulling routine and the depression that often accompanies them is wrought with emotion and told with often wrenching detail. When the narrator tells of the terrible subway accident that took the life of his father, he tells it with a steady cadence and words that plod heavily on the page, hammering their way through telling of the horrible event. I have to say I felt chills run up and down my back as I read the account.

“David set out to write a novel about some of the hardest subjects in the world – sadness and boredom – and to make that exploration nothing less than dramatic, funny and deeply moving,” editor Michal Pietsch writes in the introduction to this doorstop of a book. When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, The Pale King (one of the three nominees for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012) was unfinished. But after much soul-searching and with the encouragement of the author’s wife, Little, Brown and Company decided to publish the work exactly as it existed. And as readers, aren’t we glad they did. hopes that all six homes will be filled with people in the primary preference category.

They already know of three interested applicants who have been living out of state since they were displaced by the flood.

“We hope to bring back people who were displaced,” he said. “That’s success in our mind” And watch for information about a flood rebuild project with Habitat for Humanity this summer in Lyons at a home in the confluence neighborhood. I’ll spread the word about volunteer opportunities when the project is scheduled.

Keep following my columns in both Lyons papers for news about any accomplishments to increase affordable housing stock in Lyons. Keep up with housingrelated agenda items at Board of Trustees and PCDC meetings. All town meetings are open to the public and posted at www.townoflyons.com/calendar.aspx. If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this column, contact me directly at areinholds@hotmail.com.

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By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review LYONS – The Joy of Cooking was first published in 1936 and has stood the test of time with ageless recipes for familystyle cooking. And few foods are more native to the American palate than the classic fruit pie. One of my favorites is rhubarb – which isn’t even a fruit! This odd plant is a vegetable, and its green leaves are actually poisonous. But when

the large, umbrella-shaped leaves are removed, and the sturdy crimson stalks are treated with sugar, a bit of orange rind, and then cooked to perfection, few

fruits compare to its tangy deliciousness.

It pairs beautifully with boiled custard or, like most fruit pies, with vanilla ice cream. Since it’s one of the first plants that comes up in the spring, and grows just about anywhere (unlike most true fruits that favor warmer weather and lower altitudes), rhubarb is always the first pie that I bake in the spring.

This rhubarb pie recipe stands out as one of the best in Joy. It is amazingly sweet and sour and is complemented by Food for the Ages’ flaky homemade pie crust. If you are a rhubarb neophyte, this recipe is a great way to introduce yourself to what will become a new favorite. If you love rhubarb already, be prepared for unmitigated rhubarb bliss.

Rhubarb Pie à la The Joy of Cooking Use large, deep-dish pie plate; Serves 8 You can make this pie with a lattice crust to make it look even cuter.

6 C unpeeled, diced young rhubarb stalks 1/2 C flour 2 C sugar 1 1/2 T butter 1 1/2 t orange rind Preheat oven to 450⁰ F. Combine all ingredients and place rhubarb mixture in a large deep-dish pie plate with an uncooked pie shell then dot with butter. Roll out top crust and place on top of pie. Fold top edge of crust under bottom crust and pinch as you like. You can paint with milk and sprinkle a bit of sugar on the top of the pie then place in pre-heated oven on middle rack. Cook for ten

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minutes then lower the temperature to 350⁰F and cook another 40 minutes.

Remove from oven and let cool ten minutes before serving with vanilla ice cream.

Pie Crust Makes 6 crusts 6 C all purpose, unbleached flour 2 1/2 C Crisco (not butter, oil, margarine) 2 t salt 2 eggs, beaten 2 T vinegar 10 T cold water You will have to add enough water so that your dough ball is seamless – without cracks – depending on how dry your flour is.

Beat the eggs in a small bowl. To the eggs add the vinegar and cold water. In a separate large bowl add the flour and whisk in the salt. Add the Crisco to the flour mixture and cut in with a pastry cutter until the mixture is pea-sized. Make a well in the flour mixture and pour in the egg mixture. Mix for a minute or two, until the crust pulls from the side of the bowl. Shape the crust into a loaf for a minute or two (do not overwork) and cut out six crusts. Seal the crusts in freezer bags for use later.

Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking professionally and privately since 1979.

She was a French cuisine journeyman at the celebrated Henri d’Afrique restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Today she is the proprietor of the food blog www.foodfortheages.com, and Facebook.com/Food for the Ages. Though she cooks every day in a tiny kitchen with a two-burner stove, her recipes are expansive and she dedicates her craft to living large by cooking well in tiny kitchens.

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You’ve heard of Swiss chard, how about Swiss rhubarb?

Not all rhubarb stalks are the thick, crimson red stalks like the kind we buy at King Soopers. Sarah Patton, a great friend, baker and blogger at www.bakingbedlamite.com, tried out the rhubarb pie recipe using her green rhubarb plant that grows in her back yard in Geneva, Switzerland against the wall of her home that was built 400 years ago.

Here’s her rhubarb story: “I had been waiting for years for my rhubarb plant to turn red and then you suggested it might be a different variety – one that stays green. We researched it and, lo and behold, green it is!

“Doesn’t make for the most appetizing color pie but it was very tasty. We think this green variety is less tart than the red.” “Here’s a pic of the Green Rhubarb Pie. Delicious,” she says.

We think it’s a beautiful pie and its color would definitely appeal to the Green Eggs and Ham crowd! Great photos and thanks for sharing these with Food for the Ages. When you make one of the recipes found here in the Redstone Review, send your photos and story to cadymetzger@outlook.com and we can feature your photos and experience online at www.foodfortheages.com.

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NATURE Seizures in dogs: understanding a common veterinary emergency

By Dan Taylor, DVM, Emergency Veterinarian Redstone Review LONGMONT – Seizures are one of the most common reasons for presentation to the pet emergency room. These abnormal neurologic episodes can be dramatic and scary for both animals and their owners. Commonly, when a dog has a seizure, the body will involuntarily stiffen and limbs will paddle. Additionally, most dogs lose consciousness and will defecate and urinate without knowing it.

There are many causes for seizures in dogs and these causes can be split into two main categories, extracranial and intracranial. Seizure causes due to brain conditions, or intracranial situations, include head trauma, infections such as encephalitis and abnormal growths such as brain tumors. Extracranial, or outside of the brain, conditions that lead to seizures include low blood sugar, kidney or liver failure, toxins or other metabolic conditions, such as hypothyroidism. When a seizure does not have an identifiable cause, it is termed idiopathic epilepsy.

If you suspect your dog has had a seizure or is actively seizuring, it is advised that you seek emergency care immediately. If a seizure persists for too long (called status epilepticus) or your dog is suffering from a cluster of seizures, it can result in a dangerous elevation of body temperature and can cause significant brain damage. If your dog is having an active seizure as you are coming into the hospital, it will be taken immediately to the treatment area for emergency seizure care, which involves a valium injection, oxygen and close monitoring of vitals.

When a dog presents to the ER after having a suspect seizure but is no longer having seizure activity, investigating the cause of the seizure starts with a thorough history of the dog’s age, prior medical history, medications and possible toxin exposure. During this history taking, your dog may spend time in the hospital’s treatment area to be monitored for another seizure. If another seizure occurs while in the hospital, the veterinary staff can stop the episode quickly with an injection of valium.

Determining the exact cause of a seizure can be challenging. We first start by taking your dog’s age into account. Typically, seizures in dogs that are under a year old are caused by infections of the brain, congenital defects or toxins. In dogs that are between ages one and five years, the most common cause is idiopathic epilepsy.

Dogs older than six will most often have seizures caused by a brain tumor. Taking into account your dog’s age is only the first step. Blood work is usually recommended to rule out extracranial causes of seizures such as low blood sugar. More invasive tests such as MRI of the brain and sampling of the spinal fluid are sometimes needed to identify the inciting cause.

After these tests are complete, the reason for seizures is addressed if one is found.

Often times, dogs are admitted to the

hospital for a seizure watch, where they are monitored for further episodes and potentially started on anti-convulsant medications. If they do not have any further seizure activity after 12 to 24 hours in the hospital, they are usually discharged with instructions to monitor for more episodes and to possibly start anti-seizure medication.

There are criteria for starting dogs on anti-seizure medications. These include having a seizure that is prolonged, having a cluster of seizures, when two or more seizures are noted in a 24-hour period or whenever seizures start to interfere with a good quality of life. There are many options for anti-seizure medications and your veterinarian can help decide which is best for your dog and when is the best time to start them. The overall goal of starting a patient on these medications is to reduce the frequency and severity of seizure activity, as completely eliminating seizures can be difficult. In some cases, consultation with a veterinary neurologist may be needed as some cases are more complicated than others.

Seizures can be scary for both dogs and owners. There are many causes of seizures and if you suspect your dog has had or is having a seizure, evaluation with a veterinarian is extremely important in giving your dog the best chance to survive and not suffer long term neurologic consequences.

Dr. Dan Taylor is an Emergency Veterinarian at Aspen Meadow Veterinary Specialists. AMVS is a 24-hour veterinary facility providing specialty internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, oncology, emergency, critical care, and pain management located in Longmont at 104 S. Main St. For more information, go to www.AspenMeadowVet.com.

When good intentions go awry – let them be wild

By Stacey Scarborough Redstone Review LYONS – If you’re an animal lover, you were probably equally astounded, horrified and outraged Scarborough at the recent news out of Yellowstone National Park regarding a tourist and his son who, out of concern for the health and welfare of a baby bison, removed the calf from its herd and took it to the ranger station several miles away.

After diligent attempts to reunite the calf with its herd by Yellowstone wildlife management staff, the decision was made to euthanize the animal.

Unfortunately, the theme of this tragedy is replayed day after day throughout our local community, the state and around the world. Parents set their children on bison trying to get that unique photograph; baby dolphins are pulled from the ocean and posed in selfies with beachgoers; birds, rabbits, squirrels and even raccoons are taken in and “cared for” to the point that they can no longer survive in the wild. Somehow, somewhere, we humans have forgotten that we do not always know best when it comes to wildlife. In fact, unless you’re a licensed, trained wildlife rehabilitation specialist, we probably don’t know as much as we’d like to believe we do.

It is far too easy for us to convince ourselves that we’re the best source of care for any animal. After all, we have wonderful food, warm homes, plenty of water and, oh yes, cuddles and loves and hugs!

What animal wouldn’t want to come home with us? We humans can offer the

upper echelon of quality of life for everything around us.

Perhaps it’s time to take a step back and reflect on that perception for a moment.

Let’s put aside our beliefs and emotions regarding the wild beings with whom we share our habitat. We need to clear our minds of everything except rational thought and consider the quality of life that a wild creature craves and desires.

Wild creatures need trees, streams and their own pathways through the wilderness. They need branches that are thick and thin, grasses and roots and logs to hide in for safety. They need cavities in trees, sun and shade, and dark holes to rest in. They need a diet containing the natural items that their species thrive on, because their digestive systems and nutritional needs are not like those of their

domesticated counterparts. (Improper feeding technique and diet leads to the death of wildlife). Wild animals need opportunities to be with their own kind or alone; the human presence is stressful on wildlife. They need to be away from bumper-to-bumper traffic, screaming children, barking dogs and the noise of television and radio. They need to be away from unfamiliar smells, human food and chlorinated water. They need to be in their natural home and free.

Our good intentions sometimes go awry, much like it did with the Yellowstone bison calf. First and foremost, we need to respect the animal’s ability to survive in its natural environment, even though we, as the dominant species, don’t believe that it may be good enough. If there is still concern, we need to be willing to contact someone who has studied and practiced wildlife rehabilitation and get more information or advice, rather than try to “fix” the problem ourselves.

Respect for wildlife and the environment is not something that humans necessarily come by naturally. It is something that is taught. It needs to begin when we are children and be shared often, so that when we become adults we intuitively know that our interference with wildlife is not, as we so often wish to believe, always a good idea or a “good deed.”

As we’ve seen in recent headlines, our encounters with wildlife can have farreaching, sometimes devastating effects on the very creatures we are trying so hard to help. Yet, we will still continue to help, because we are nurturers; caregivers; keepers of the world. That instinctual human trait is wonderful, but there’s something you should know, even if it breaks your heart. For all your good intentions, your efforts, your home and food, your love of that animal, there will be one thing missing from its life that you, a human, can never give it. And if you leave the cage door open, crack that window just enough, open that door, it will opt for that one thing above all others that were provided by you, and it will walk, fly or crawl out of the door to freedom and away from human interactions, because they are wild.

Stacey Scarborough is the Volunteer & Outreach Coordinator at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. To learn more about Greenwood Wildlife, please visit www.greenwoodwildlife.org. Got ideas for a column?

Email jenny @ greenwood wildlife.org.

With gorgeous green eyes the color of her namesake condiment, Wasabi is looking for a family who will share their home, love and the occasional tuna roll.

She’s always ready for a snack with her snazzy white bib, but would thrive on regular feasts of affection. Come by and meet this lovely girl today.

There are more than 200 animals waiting for forever families at Longmont Humane Society. Visit them first on www.longmonthumane.org. Then come see them at the shelter today. You may find your new best friend.

News and Notes: Humane Solutions for Feral, Free- Roaming Community Cats presented by Longmont Friends of Feral and Abandoned Cats, June 25, 2016, 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Longmont Public Library. Learn the history of trap, neuter and return (TNR) of feral cats in the U.S., as well as what other cities are doing to help these cats. Free and open to the public. No registration required.

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Mayor Continued from Page 3 the diversity of Lyons’ housing stock, ensuring the town’s artistic character, diversity and economic future is sustained. With housing in mind, the board must reconsider how to manage the competing interests of the Eastern Corridor and how a variety of uses might fit together and complement the existing adjacent properties and town as a whole.

The two primary barriers to achieving redevelopment in the Eastern Corridor are the lack of costly utility infrastructure, and the requirement that the public vote to approve annexations of parcels over five acres. The five-acre vote rule was the result of a petition ordinance, and the language includes an exemption from the vote for town-owned land. The town has received a grant to install water and sewer lines to the EC, making development more cost effective, however the annexation vote requirement remains a significant hurdle for prospective developers as up-front investments may be lost if a vote fails. To date, no party has been willing to take on the risk of putting forward a proposal for the EC, and without annexation the properties cannot be developed for commercial or residential uses due to Boulder County zoning restrictions. The current board is exploring whether public support exists for annexing land in the EC as town-owned property and has developed an informal survey for residents to provide feedback regarding this option. Additionally, the board will discuss potential ballot questions at the June 20 meeting and could opt to address the five-acre vote rule as a ballot initiative. The board would like to encourage residents to participate in the survey and attend meetings to provide input on a path toward economic and residential development in the EC. Removing barriers to annexation and development along our eastern edge is critical to making economic progress for Lyons. Annexations are discretionary actions by the board, however decisions

Scholarships Continued from Page 3 arship is made possible by an endowment from a local Lyons resident to honor the memory of his Uncle Louis Winkler who helped put him through college. The first recipient of the Uncle Louis “Bud” Winkler Scholarship is Mitchell Simms who will be attending Western Washington University majoring in journalism with an emphasis in business and economics.

The Lyons Community Foundation is proud of the accomplishments of these seven students, as well as the accomplishments of all the students who applied for the scholarships. These scholarships are

Seasonal Continued from Page 5 in organic agricultural production through participation in a communitycentered, reciprocal effort. As we say at Stonebridge, when the community feeds itself, the land and the people prosper.

Eating seasonally brings surprises, satisfactions, and delights. It also brings disappointments and, sometimes, failures.

Good thing farming is forgiving. Each season, we get to try again.

If you’re a new CSA member, learning the season’s rhythms takes time. If you

A&E Continued from Page 8 focus on the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of abstract expressionism, while revealing inward reverie and painterly expression in these works by individuals responding to particular places, memories, and life experiences. To find out more information on other exhibition, please call 720-9130130 or go to www.denverartmuseum.org.

PAGE 15 should be informed by guidance documents such as the Comprehensive Plan (which describes the general character and long term goals of the citizens), the Boulder County IGA, and other planning documents such as the one being created

by Ricker-Cunningham for the LPPA. In addition to a robust public planning process, the Board of Trustees will be looking at other tools to ensure any future development that may occur fits the character of the town, while also meeting our economic goals. Policies for Urban Renewal funding, design standards and annexation conditions are all mechanisms to control the type and extent of development.

Annexations also bring risk, and each proposal must “pencil-out” by generating the necessary revenues to justify the cost of bringing utilities and other services to new areas. The town must be able to maintain the roads and public lands it acquires through annexation, and the cost of adding services must be weighed against the revenues that will be generated through additional property and sales tax. Lyons has limited potential for growth of any kind due to the natural land constraints and open space borders.

Maximizing our developable land to create the most desirable and sustainable community for all residents is the primary goal. I believe that finding a path forward to utilizing our Eastern Corridor to meet our housing and economic needs is a challenge worth tackling and I look forward to a community conversation about the possibilities.

Connie Sullivan was elected Mayor on April 5, 2016. Prior to becoming Mayor, she served two terms on the Town Board of Trustees beginning in 2012. Connie and her husband Neil have two children and have lived in Lyons for approximately nine years. Connie is coowner of the St. Vrain Market located in downtown Lyons on Main Street. For comments or questions, Mayor Sullivan can be reached by email at csullivan@townoflyons.com. made possible through the generous donations of the Lyons community. If you would like to support the scholarship program and help students achieve their dreams of college education, your contributions are greatly appreciated. To donate to any of these scholarships, please go to www.Lyonscf.org and click on the DONATE NOW button and indicate if you would like your support applied in memory of Steve Ralston, Gerald Boland, Joel Mack, or the General Scholarship Fund. Donations may also be mailed to the Lyons Community Foundation, P.O. Box 546, Lyons, Colorado 80540. give it a chance, one day that shift will occur. From kids learning to eat vegetables to members anticipating the next crop, we’ve seen that magic in the barn as “Spinach again???” becomes “Yippee, spinach again!!!”

Kayann Short, Ph.D. and John Martin are the owners and managers of Stonebridge Farm, located just east of Lyons on Colorado Highway 66. They are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their Community Supported Farm (CSA). Short is the author of A Bushel’s Worth: An Ecobiography.

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