Members of the community gathered to celebrate the start of construction on new homes.
During the peak snow removal season, the county averages 14 plow operators; right now it has eight employed. Public Works Division Director Karl Schell said this will likely create a slower response time when snow flies.
“We may have a longer response time to get to some of the secondary roads,” Schell said. “We have been working on rerouting some of the snow routes that we do have, and we are really going to have to reel that in a bit, and work on all the primary roads and the bus routes first.”
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Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity will start with four of the townhomes and build the rest later on. The homeowners of the first four dwellings got the chance to throw shovels into the ground to signify didn’t think I’d ever be a homeowner:”
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Members of the Idaho Springs community joined Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity in a groundbreaking ceremony on Sept. 8 for eight new townhomes.
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She is deeply and forever loved and missed. Her life’s work and purpose will live on through her children, grandchildren and those lucky enough to have known her.
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Margaret was raised in Greeley, Colorado, and later settled in Idaho Springs. She always enjoyed working, sewing, cooking, and dancing and was self-employed throughout much of her life. She was a caretaker to all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Fernando Gurbindo (husband), Robert
Margarita “Margaret” Steele
Margarita “Margaret” Steele was born on August 18, 1951, to Celestino and Ester Mata in Warren, Minnesota. She is survived by her children Dana Sterner, Paul Steele, and Maria Indrehus (Steve), four sisters, three grandchildren, Kirk Jaramillo, Jasper Sterner, Adrienne Gurbindo, and several nephews and nieces.
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Nanci was 71 years old and is survived by her seven children: Genny, Sean, Christy, Michael, Jonathan, Patrick and Colin, to whom she devoted her life. She is also survived by her sister and best friend, Sue Dell, her brother Stephen and 11 grandchildren as well as William Hale.
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Steele (husband), her son Fernando Gurbindo Jr., and three brothers.
On September 3rd, 2022, Nanci Hale, beloved mother, grandmother, sister and aunt passed away peacefully at her home in the town she loved.
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for many years.
Nanci was deeply rooted in her faith, serving on the Ritual Committee at Temple Beth Evergreen where she taught Hebrew school
Nanci is loved for her wit, for her resilience and for her quirky sense of style. Her sense of humor is legendary and we all smile to think of her.
Nanci led a life full of meaning. She imbued in her children love, a sense of humor, and a dogged determination to persevere no matter the obstacle. She was one of only two women in her electrical engineering program and successfully obtained her degree while raising seven children. In addition to her children, Nanci was a lifelong educator, devoting herself to teaching community college and grade school children alike. She was a voracious reader and a fount of knowledge.
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New homeowners took the opportunity to break ground with their friends and family.
Katie Ives is the proud homeowner of one of the townhomes being built in Idaho Springs. She and her daughter Mia, 15, have been waiting for this day for years.
owner and volunteer services with Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity, explained that high housing costs in the area have made it hard for people to find appropriate housing.
Jenna Huju, director of home-
the start of their work at the ceremony.Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit housing organization that works in local communities and is focused on providing safe and affordable housing. One of the requirements to be considered for Habitat housing is that a family’s income does not exceed 60% of the area median income. Habitat for Humanity also requires a monthly mortgage payment from homeowners, but the amount will not exceed 30% of the homeowner’s gross monthly income.
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She considered some of the Habitat housing in Empire, but it was too far since Mia goes to school in Evergreen. So they waited for something closer. Breaking ground at the site of their new home was exciting and emotional. The pair hopes to move in around spring 2023.
gives them a real sense of ownership,” she said.
“Two years ago I had applied and I was approved,” Ives said.
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Huju agreed, saying it connects communities.“It’sawhole community coming together and building it,” Huju said.
Right now, Julie and Symon live with Julie’s parents in Evergreen, where she grew up. Next up, they will be moving into Habitat for Humanity housing in Evergreen, with an estimated finish time of Dec. 2022. The pair looks forward to celebrating their first holiday season in the new home.
“It’s been really exciting picking out our colors, etc.,” Petty said. “It’s so great for us to have our forever home.”
Habitat for Humanity encourages what it calls “sweat equity” from homeowners. Habitat homeowners work alongside volunteers to build their homes and put in 250 hours of work per adult in the household toward finishing the house.
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Julie Petty and her daughter, Symon, are in a similar situation. Symon and Mia attend school together in Evergreen, and the Empire Habitat housing was not a viable option for the Pettys either.
“It’s really empowering, and it
Kathleen O’Leary, executive director of Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity, said the work model for Habitat for Humanity makes a big difference for the homeowners.
“Moving here has been challenging to find rental situations that are affordable,” she said.
“I didn’t think I’d ever be a homeowner,” Ives said.
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Many free and enriching activities are on the schedule for kids this fall in Clear Creek thanks to the 21st Century Community Learning Grant that Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation District received in August 2021 in partnership with the Clear Creek School District.
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“We believe in recreation as education,” Morris said of CCMRD.
Kids can enjoy free programming in Clear Creek County
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On Friday mornings, when the school district is not holding class, CCMRD is holding COMPASS day activities from 8 a.m. to noon for kids aged 5-12. The activities are open to students from Georgetown, Carlson and King Murphy elementary schools, as well as home school programs.CCMRD childcare director Caitlin Morris said Friday activities will be centered around getting outside.
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Veterans Community Project’s new mobile outreach unit is looking for ways to serve Clear Creek County.VCP’s new ADA-accessible van will provide the group opportunities to serve veterans in rural areas traditionally isolated from services.
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Nov. 5 will bring the annual pumpkin smash in Idaho Springs, with more details coming soon.
VCP of Longmont recently received a grant of $182,580 to fund its new mobile veteran outreach unit. The program was announced on Aug. 31 by Sen. Kerry Donovan who also initiated the grant. The grant established a partnership between VCP and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs.
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Morris said she thinks programs like these are integral to children’s development.“Education outside of the classroom is so important because there are so many other things we can learn in life,” she said.
CCMRD is partnering with Project Support-Senior Center to host a monthly activity between kids and older adults at the center. Kids will be able to bond with older adults at the senior center by doing crafts, eating snacks and having intergen-
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“The goal is really just to connect the older adults of our community with the younger children because we have so much to learn from each other,” she said.
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Morris said some of the outdoor activities will include hiking, identifying plants, playing by the river, learning to build shelter and more.
CCMRD is slated to host a kite festival for families on Oct. 8. Families will be able to build and fly kites together at the Idaho Springs Sports Complex, as well as enjoy a bounce house, food truck and games.
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“There are so many veterans that tend to isolate (and) live further away from services,” she said.
VCP Director of Veteran Support Services Ash Wallis explained that this can open doors for supporting veterans in need.
erational conversations. The first event is from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at the senior center in Idaho Springs. This event is open to all ages.Morrison said one of the goals of this program is to connect residents of Clear Creek Community, no matter their age.
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from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and is open to 4th-6th graders from Georgetown, Carlson and King Murphy elementary schools, as well as homeschool programs. On Mondays, there will be a Dungeons and Dragons club, Tuesdays will be Project Support with the Senior Center, Wednesdays will be a four-week series on selfdefense skills, and Thursdays will be wilderness adventures.
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“Our issue I think revolves around CDL licensed operators, most of our snow removal crew and maintenance crew are CDL licensed equipment operators. We are just not seeing applications come in,” he said.The county has been trying to entice applicants with a 10% wage increase for CDL operators, many ads and a recruitment video, and even a four-day work week during the summer. Schell thinks the problem stretches beyond Clear Creek County.
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“One of my lead mechanics and myself have pretty much picked up every Friday and Saturday for the past two months, and we are doing our full-time jobs as well,” Schell said.
Snow removal is not the only area of public works suffering from lack of staffing. The Transfer Station, a place for residents to drop off recycling and other materials for disposal, can only be open two days a week right now due to lack of staff. The county has to contract with a local waste management company to move materials since it has not filled the CDL operator position for theThatcenter.leaves workers like Schell to pick up the slack and try to make things run properly while the county waits for workers.
Snow removal trucks sit ready for winter, in hopes that there will be drivers to operate them.
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“In the industry, between CDOT, county facilities and the private sector, I think everyone is looking for operators,” he said.
Schell said the county’s problem in staffing is centered around obtaining workers with Commercial Drivers Licenses.
The harm goes deeper, though, for it has, like so much else done ostensibly for the public good, disturbing and unconscionable unintended consequences. My teacher friend said she is finding that novel reading is becoming absent from the English classes. She fretted about how her own children used to “gobble up” novels in elementary school but barely read one in its entirety in
Censorship knows no limits to where it is practiced. From Iran to American schools and school districts, the morality police and cultural warriors are unceasingly on the prow, forbidding the teaching of classic works from “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” to more current works that explore topics that shock uptight, pearl-clutching moralists and put them in a dither.Ateacher
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One wrote, “If you’re too old to still ride the trails you love, do as many beforehand, reminisce about the good old days and encourage the young. Don’t throw them and our public land under the bus.” That kind of attitude does not bode well for land managers to find an easy compromise.
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It is telling to note how some American morality squads in the guise ofcertain school boards, whose main purpose ought to be focused on creating and enhancing an educational structure that maximizes the full learning capacity of every student,hide behind the shibboleth that they are not banning books, but instead “removing them from approved reading lists.” Their explanation is a cowardly euphemism, a distinction without a difference. It simply changes a term or phrase to make the act sound acceptable, even benign, but without lessening its intention. Like saying “frigging” in lieu of hurling the f-bomb. Both mean copulating, but frigging has a venial-sin tone much like saying “gosh dang it” in lieu of you
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Rachel Fussell, program manager of the nonprofit PeopleForBikes, says that more than a battery boost, speed on trails reflects rider skill as well as trail design. She believes that all users observing proper trail etiquette would avert most potential conflicts.Celeste Young has been a biker all her life and now coaches mountain biking. Her fleet of bicycles has recently grown to include an electric mountain bike.
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n her memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Professor Azar Nafisi described clandestine sessions she held in her apartment with young women to openly discuss and debate the merits of works the Islamic Republic’s morality squad repressed. Nafisi had been raised during the reign of the ousted Shah who, despite his autocratic rule, allowed the liberal air of the West to permeate Iranian society. After earning her degrees at American universities, she returned to Iran after the 1979 Revolution and faced immediate scrutiny. Despite enormous pressure exerted on her to wear the traditional garb proscribed by the autocratic male rulers and to cease teaching Western literature, Nafisi refused to buckle. Her novel is a paean to true courage.
Once again, the controversy seems to stem from the fear of change, perhaps some arrogance and maybe a little jealousy. After all, since I suffered to get to the top of the climb on my own power, shouldn’t you?
friend told me she sees dropping books from approved reading lists as nefarious as banning books because the powersthat-be are not only discouraging students from reading those books, but they are also discouraging teachers from teaching or recommending those novels.She notes too that saying books are dropped from approved reading list is less inflammatory than saying certain books are being banned. In so doing, she says, “they and their egregious actreceive less parent awareness of what has been done.”
To find out, Tahoe National Forest measured the top speeds reached by intermediate and advanced riders using both kinds of bikes. Differences on the downhills were small. On uphills, traditional bikers averaged 5-8 mph, while electric mountain bikes traveled 8-13 mph. This was a difference, but not enough of a difference to cause more accidents, especially if bikers alert others to their presence and ride in control.
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Can we live with electric mountain bikes on trails?
And I think I’m fairly generous with that number—and this is in honors-level classes.”Banning classic works is more sinister than pearl-clutching moralism. It lessens, even demeans, the importance of not only reading but also of opening the mind. It is about keeping people ignorant, stupid, and easily duped. It is, as Alan Bloom wrote in his 1987 The Closing of the American Mind, the closing of the American mind.
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It’s hard to remember, but regular mountain bikes didn’t become commercially available until the 1980s, and when the early adopters hit trails previously used only by hikers and horseback riders, conflicts happenedPeoplefast.claimed the bikes increased erosion. They worried about collisions and scaring horses. They theorized that mountain bikes would frighten wildlife. Today, those same arguments are being used against electric mountain bikes.
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In 2015, the International Mountain Bike Association studied the environmental impacts of mountain bikes, both electric and self-propelled, and found no appreciable differences between the two in terms of soil displacement on trails. Overall, bike impacts were similar to the impacts of hikers. Horses, motorcycles and off-road vehicles do much more damage to trails.
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The first time I saw an electric bike — better known as an ebike — I was struggling up a hill. Suddenly, a silver-haired man came whizzing by in regular city clothes. I felt a wave of envy as he left me in the dust.
So, what are the impacts of electric mountain bikes. Do they harm trails, or cause more accidents?
“I cringe,” she said, “when I think that my students will read less than eight novels by the time they graduate from high school.
Jerry Fabyanic is the author of “Sisyphus Wins” and “Food for Thought: Essays on Mind and Spirit.” He lives in Georgetown.
Association, which had said that ebikes should be considered motorized vehicles, softened its stance. Instead, it proposed that local land managers and user groups should determine — on a case-by-case basis — whether to allow ebikes on naturally surfaced trails. Many members canceled their memberships. Some comments were harsh.
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know what. Regardless, whether a book is banned or removed from the approved list, it has the same effect—CENSORSHIP.
To counter censorship crusaders, the American Library Association celebrates Banned Book Week typically during the last week of September. Its purpose is to celebrate the freedom to read, especially works some or even many consider unorthodox or unpopular.Autocratic rulers and leaders, whether religious or political or whether in Iran or in America, are dependent upon mass ignorance to prop themselves up. And if one does not see something heinous in that, it suggests they are clueless about what ultimate heinousness is. It’s the closing of the mind, which is like killing a mockingbird. A mortal sin.
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That was probably five years ago, and since then ebike use has exploded. In 2020, ebike sales in the United States for just the month of June totaled roughly $90 million, up 190 percent from the previous June.
In 2017, the International Mountain Bike
The healthy gut “microbiome” of babies living in high pollution areas is under threat from particulates from vehicles, industrial smokestacks and wildfire smoke, leaving them more vulnerable to immune afflictions like diabetes or allergies, a new University of Colorado study says.The findings from babies involved in a mother’s milk study in Southern California go straight to the heart of a series of environmental justice and air pollution laws passed in Colorado in recent years. State lawmakers and regulators are targeting pollution concentrated in lower-income and minority neighborhoods, and overhauling permit-
The new CU study bolsters previous research about the health impacts of air pollution on adults, said Juan Madrid, a clean air and transportation advocate with Colorado GreenLatinos. Half of Adams County births in 2020-21, and a third of Denver births, were to Latino mothers, Madrid noted.
The researchers say the study published in the August edition of the science journal “Gut Microbes,” is “the first to show a link between inhaled pollutants … and changes in infant microbial health during this critical window of development.”
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It’s a puzzling notion that someone accused her of cheating. It would be one thing if you secretly put a motor in your bike during a race, but when it’s an amateur rider going out for fun and exercise, how is having an electronic boost cheating?
Antipollution activists often target south Adams County and north Denver because of the Suncor oil re-
We didn’t like them, and I doubt they liked us. But we’ve worked it out. Now, public land managers face the knotty problem of how much access to allow ebikes, and where, or whether to segregate them to their own trails. Welcome to the crowded West.
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The whole thing reminds me — a skier — of the controversy that erupted after snowboards appeared at ski resorts. They were new and
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“So the results of this study are alarming, as we know that many Latinos live in disproportionately impacted communities in Adams County and north Denver,” he said.
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The study is not able to distin guish the varied influence of the child’s indoor environment on the same intestinal biome issues. Home cooking creates particulates that can influence personal health, as well as other behavioral or envi ronmental factors such as burning candles or having access to home air filtration.Inthemeantime, the researchers say all families should take the easi est precautions against local air pol lution: avoid exercising near traffic or industrial areas, open windows or use stove vents during home cooking that may create particulates and seek a low-cost air filtration system. As always, they emphasize that moms should continue breast feeding as long as possible, one of the most crucial ways to support a healthy baby biome and brain devel opment.“What we do know is that breast feeding can act as a very potent beneficial probiotic,” Alderete said. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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PM2.5 particle pollution is limited by regulations, and each particle is about 1/70th the diameter of a hu man hair. The particles are emitted by car and truck fossil fuel exhaust, coal-fired power plants or chemical
The CU study piggybacked on a mother’s milk study by genetically analyzing fecal samples from 103 primarily Latino infants in Los An geles. Alderete learned of the cohort
But decades of regulation are just starting to have an impact, and low-income neighborhoods near refineries, power plants and busy highways are much more exposed than others. Bad wildfire seasons like those in 2020 and 2021 wipe out a lot of progress.
The research also looked at mark ers from slightly larger particles, PM10, and nitrogen dioxide, primar ily a vehicle-related emission.
what kind of health implications does that have?”
and was able to gain access to the ge netic data while she worked on her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. The infants’ health data was overlaid with hourly pollution samples in their area that are taken constantly by the EPA.
The researchers have also received funding and approval to follow the Southern California babies through six years, to check on the long-term impacts of their gut biome findings.
The results speak to a crucial age of development where the environ ment “sticks with you,” the CU researchers say. They talked about the study in a week of record heat in Denver and much of Colorado, and where state officials called another series of Ozone Action Day Alerts cautioning those in urban areas vulnerable to some forms of air pol lution.“Iwant to be able to arm indi viduals and communities with the information needed to fight for change,” said Tanya Alderete, study co-author and assistant professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado.
finery, the Cherokee Generating Sta tion, multiple interstates jammed with truck traffic, numerous heavy industries and a history of metals smelting.“Thisstudy adds to a growing body of evidence that breathing pollution harms more than just our lungs,” said Laurie Anderson, Colo rado field organizer for Moms Clean Air Force. “Babies and children are especially vulnerable. Here in Colorado, where we have persistent air pollution problems, this study in creases the urgency of taking swift action to reduce pollution — espe cially in the most impacted commu nities.”Theinfant gut collection of mi crobes is largely a blank slate until influenced by breast milk, solid food, the environment, any medicine intake, and other factors, according to the CU researchers. Beneficial microbes work to build appetite, immunity, insulin control and brain functions. But “bad” microbes can influence asthma, Type 2 diabetes and other lifelong issues.
“We’re going to also be consider ing individual behavioral factors as well as the environment,” Alde rete said. “If there is this associa tion with air pollution and the gut bacteria, how long does that persist? Do we see that over the course of development and the question is
Those exposed to the most PM2.5 lost 60% of a bacterium that de creases inflammation and aids infant brain development. Those exposed to the most PM10, slightly larger particles, had 85% more of a bacterium associated with inflam mation.Alderete’s earlier research on air pollution and microbes looked at about 50 young adults, showing that air pollution exposure from nearby high-traffic roads “was associated with bacteria in the gut,” she said. “And those bacteria had been linked with obesity, Type 2 diabetes and insulinThosesensitivity.”results,Alderete said, have since been replicated in a larger sample of young adults.
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Little has been consistent during the coronavirus pandemic in Colorado, but this has: Fall is COVID season.Inboth 2020 and 2021, as kids returned to classes and pumpkinspiced lattes emerged from their caffeinated hidey-holes, COVID cases began to rise in the state. By this time last year, reports of new coronavirus infections had already been climbing for more than a month. In 2020, infections began rising in the first week of September. In both years, the trends peaked in November in Colorado, part of a mysterious seasonality to the rhythm of the virus.
But it’s possible that this year, just maybe, will defy the trend, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, the dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. Samet, who is part of a team that tracks data to create projections about the pandemic’s course, said he isn’t seeing any worrisome signs in the numbers he’s following.
Colorado reported about 6,200 new coronavirus infections last week, a decline of more than 1,000 cases from the week prior. There were 464 patients admitted to the hospital with coronavirus infections last week, down by about 4% from the week
not provide a breakdown of the vaccination status of those in the hospital specifically due to COVID.
Fall is Covid season in Colorado
“Everything is going in the right direction,” he said. “Hospitalizations are down. Wastewater levels are down. Percent positivity (of COVID tests) is down. So as we head into the fall, we are in good shape.”
Accordingbefore. to state data, 53% of those hospitalized with the virus are unvaccinated — though that number doesn’t tell the full story because only about 63% of the people currently in the hospital with COVID are there because of their COVID symptoms. The state does
The reason Samet feels reasonably confident that these positive
trends will continue is that the state has been taking a beating from the omicron gang of coronavirus variants for the past nine months and, before that, dealt with a punishing wave of infections caused by the delta
Thosevariant.successive waves mean a lot of folks in Colorado have been exposed or been infected in the past year, giving the state a level of immunity that is also bolstered by new vaccinations for young kids and booster shots for older adults.
In Samet’s view, that level of community immunity should be able to stave off the fall surge that Colorado saw in 2020 and 2021 — at least for a couple more months, if not“Wherelonger.the prediction becomes uncertain is when we look out beyond early to mid-October and the what-if a new variant arrives, which is always a concern,” Samet said. “We keep generating them.”
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Dr. Rachel Herlihy, the state epidemiologist, said last week the state is seeing “a sustained decline
in cases.” The infections that are occurring are largely due to the omicron BA.5 variant, she said. But Colorado has seen newer variants
A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine vial is held by Lincoln Community Hospital registered nurse Deanne Kahler of Hugo as she prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccinations to patients at the hospital in Hugo on Wednesday, Feb. 24 2021.
About 150 people had signed up
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The state has confirmed a smattering of infections from the BA.4.6 variant, and the BA.2.75 variant has been detected in wastewater samples, indicating it may be spreading, as well. Samet said those variants bear watching. But, so far, they haven’t shown signs of being monsters, he said.
Updated COVID-19 boosters are being rolled out at pharmacies and clinics in Colorado. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials expect the updated boosters to become more widely available in the state.
“There’s not a delta-type situation on the horizon right now,” he said, referencing the delta variant, which gained steam at this time last year.
And Samet said there’s another reason for optimism this fall: Just because cases have surged the previous two years doesn’t
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“This is just another very easy step that you can take to protect yourself,” he said. Polis noted that the pandemic has claimed about 13,600 Colorado lives and that COVID-19 “has a much lower hospitalization rate and an extremely low death rate, if you are fully vaccinated.”
comes just ahead of the fall, when cases could surge.
Wednesday to get their vaccine shots at the Ball Arena site. “There’s still a lot of demand,” said the governor.Josh Phillips, a resident of Highlands Ranch, came to the site for his shot, his fifth, since he’d already had the original series, plus two previous
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pop up, as well.
people that have only had two or three doses of the vaccine,” said Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday, adding that “if you’re medically vulnerable, it’s particularly important. He spoke as he got his shot of the vaccine in front of a state vaccine bus at Ball Arena in downtown Denver.
The state is starting to break down how COVID cases were handled in Colorado.
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mean they’re destined to again this year. Yes, as kids go back to school and cooler weather means people begin to move indoors more, opportunities for transmission increase. But there’s also a lot we don’t know about how and when COVID spreads. After all, while the pandemic seems interminable, our studying of COVID has been relatively brief.
“We really only have two falls under our belt,” Samet said. “I would be careful about generalizing.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people who are eligible for these boosters get their shots. The news
Now, with omicron’s subvariants — BA.4 and BA.5 — expected to drive infections in the fall and winter, state officials say they hope Coloradans will take advantage of the added protection these boosters offer.“It’s particularly important for
Deaths, hospitalizations and positive cases have spiked every fall since the pandemic began in 2020, according to state health department data. And the omicron variant fueled a massive spike in cases earlier this year.
Who is eligible?
“Itboosters.isjust,you know, trying to protect myself and my family as much as possible,” he said, noting he was flying to Pennsylvania soon. “I’m actually traveling next week. So I think it’s important, especially in a
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the difference between the original booster and the updated booster?DianaHerrero, deputy director of the Division of Disease Control and Public Health Response for CDPHE, said the updated COVID boosters contain a spike protein that offers specific protection to the omicron strain that caused a huge wave in cases at the beginning of 2022. They also offer protection against the omicron subvariants that are currently the dominant strains in Colorado and the U.S.
The booster shots millions of Coloradans received since last fall were not specifically formulated to protect against omicron, she added.
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CDPHE’s website lists several links to view availability of the updated booster at providers around the state. You can find those links by clicking here.
In a laboratory housed in a red brick building near downtown Denver, the workers inside aren’t running scientific experiments.
• Be at least 12 years old to get the updated Pfizer-BioNTech booster or 18 years or older for the updated Moderna booster
congested place, like the airport, to be as protected as possible. And the rest of my family will be doing this as well, as soon as we can.”
Who is eligible for the updated booster?
Where can I get an appointment to get the updated booster?
The Laboratory to Combat Hu man Trafficking actually functions as a hub for information, data and resources for anti-trafficking efforts
“Much like viruses evolve over time, our vaccines really need to do the same thing to keep up with the strains that are circulating,” Herrero said. “We think these will be really effective at preventing the worst outcomes of severe disease, hospitalization and death.”
“I just thought it would be a good idea, you know, considering that we’re about to enter flu season and all,” said Fred Bernal, a Denver resident who also got his omicron booster shot. He said he did catch the coronavirus last November, right before he got a booster. “It probably would’ve been a lot more serious had I not received my vac cine,” he said.
Those offering the shots include many primary care offices, commu nity health centers, pharmacies, and community vaccination sites.
encouragement to get her booster.
Napolitano explained that human trafficking goes beyond what most people see in mainstream media and social media.
across the state, while also taking around-the-clock calls that come in on Colorado’s Human Trafficking hotline. Anywhere from two to five calls come into the hotline on a daily basis.“We provide the resources for the needs of trafficking survivors in Colorado. Survivors call looking for resources themselves, or provid ers that are working for survivors. Sometimes we get tips that we pass on to law enforcement when requested,” said Kara Napolitano, the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking’s research and training manager.
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According to the U.S. Department of State, there is an average of 24.9 million trafficking victims world wide at any given time. Statistics show that anyone of any race, age or gender can become a victim. Human trafficking is defined as a crime of exploitation; victims are pressured into providing labor — including sex as a form of labor — through the use of force, fraud or coercion. But trafficking also happens in many in dustries such as landscaping, hospi
Bernal brought his in-laws to get their shots. That included his moth er-in-law, Anita Easton, who was in town from Oregon and needed no
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“I’m absolutely convinced, but I’m a biologist, so I know why it’s good for you and why you should do it,” sheWhat’ssaid.
What about kids younger than 12? The CDC said in a press release
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“I think one of the biggest myths and what we see on social media is that people are kidnapped by a stranger and taken into a situa tion that would be sex trafficking, when in fact that is almost never the case,” she said, adding that most victims are trafficked by someone familiar to them, which sometimes includes parents trafficking chil dren. “Oftentimes it’s someone they know and love. So this ‘Stranger danger, white van marauding the
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last week that it “expects to recom mend updated COVID-19 boosters for other pediatric groups” in the coming weeks.
neighborhoods gonna-snatch-upyour-kids’ myth is really just that.”
In order to get an updated booster you must:
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cute in court, explained Napolitano, who said that only a few hundred cases have been prosecuted in Colorado over the last several years.
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“Many of the people affected by these crimes are from marginalized communities, so they don’t feel comfortable, they don’t feel safe reporting the crimes,” she said. “They don’t feel like they will be be loved
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or supported and in many cases they are criminalized because of crimes they were forced to commit as a result of their trafficking.”
“There’s a lot of stigma and shame around the experience of being trafficked and losing control over your life,” Pryshlak said, “so when a human trafficking survivor shows up at the hospital or school, they’re not going to be that person who’s saying ‘help!’”
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“They are identified by the perpetrator or trafficker as being vulnerable and people are vulnerable for lots of reasons. They’re experiencing homelessness, they’re using drugs, they’re desperately looking for work,” Napolitano explained, saying that many victims had a traumatic childhood. “They’re looking for love and inclusion, and a trafficker reaches in and offers that person the thing they need — that love, the bus ticket, the job, the housing — and kind of hooks them that way.”Katlyn Pryshlak, the hotline and advocacy manager at the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, adds that the hotline is so important because most trafficking victims have a difficult time reaching out.
And that also makes many human trafficking cases difficult to prose-
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tality and restaurants, construction, massage parlors, childcare, domestic work, factories and janitorial services. Many of these workplaces are in low wage industries with high turnover rates.
Napolitano added that most victims are recruited.
Perpetrators of trafficking target and manipulate their victims, taking over their lives. If you suspect someone you know is in a trafficking situation, call Colorado’s Human Trafficking Hotline at 866-455-5075,
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COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK STATE OF PURPORTEDCOLORADO
the Town
CurrentINC. Holder of Evidence of Debt NATION STAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER Date of Deed of Trust May 07, 2004
Last Publication: September 22, 2022
City and County
Original Beneficiary(ies) CITIMORTGAGE,
First Publication: September 15, 2022
August TOWN2022. OF GEORGETOWN By:
Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
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details are available upon request from WWC by either mail, P.O. Box 58, Durango, Colorado 81302 or by emailing westernweather@ gmail.com. The CWCB will conduct a public hear ing on the permit renewal application on Septem ber 28, 2022, beginning at 2:00 pm via Webinar. Oral and written comments will be part of the record of decision. Please contact Andrew Rickert, CWCB, 1313 Sherman Street # 718, Denver, Colorado 80203, by phone at 720-651-1918, or by emailing andrew.rickert@state.co.us to submit comments on the permit renewal application and to obtain information to access the Webinar hearing.
The operational period will be November 1 through – April 15 for each year for the next five winters, expiring in 2027.
BE IT
Estate of BEVERLY KARLEN GUNST, A/K/A BEVERLY A. GUNST, A/K/A BEVERLY ANN GUNST, A/K/A BEVERLY GUNST, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30018
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on August 23 2022 that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Clear Creek County Court.
the Board of Selectmen (the “Board”) is authorized to adopt such rules, regulations
Legal Notice No. CCC439
NamePUBLICChangesNOTICE
Town of Silver Plume Drawer F Silver Plume,
ATTEST: Jennifer
The permit Target Area for the CCMRB Program is the area generally above an elevation of 8,500 feet in the upper Colorado River basin and a small portion of the upper Arkansas River. The CCMRB Program Target Area includes Pitkin, Lake, Eagle, Summit, Chaffee, and Grand counties, with an exclusion area in the Tenmile Creek basin near Climax. Gunnison, Park, Clear Creek, Fremont, Saguache, Mesa, Garfield, Routt, Jackson, Lar imer, Boulder, and Gilpin counties are adjacent to counties within the permit area but not intended to see any effect from cloud seeding.
The petition requests that the name of Lisa Renee Howard be changed to Lisa Renee Ketcham-Hendrickson Case No.: 22 C 55
PUBLIC NOTICE
Estate of DONA JEAN ALEXANDER, also known as DONA J. ALEXANDER and DONA ALEXANDER, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30020
reserves the right to deny any and all bids.
By: Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. CCC429
NOTICE OF SALE
Tammy A. Sanford Town FirstLegalclerk@silverplumetown.com303-569-2363ClerkNoticeNo.CCC430Publication:September 8, 2022 Last Publication: September 15, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public RESOLUTIONNoticeNO. 12 (Series of RESOLUTION2022)GIVING NOTICE OF AND CALLING FOR A SPECIAL TOWN ELECTION TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 8, 2022, AND SUBMITTING A BALLOT QUESTION CONCERNING IMPOSITION OF A SALES TAX ON LODGING SERVICES
Public notice is given on August 19, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.
Clear Creek
COMMON ADDRESS: 6 SILVER LAKES DRIVE, DUMONT CO 80436-0000
First Publication: September 8, 2022
Last Publication: September 15, 2022
Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk
SHALL TOWN OF GEORGETOWN TAXES BE INCREASED $225,000 IN THE FIRST FISCAL YEAR (2023) AND BY WHATEVER ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS ARE RAISED ANNUALLY IN EACH SUBSEQUENT YEAR, THROUGH A TWO PER CENT (2%) TOWN SALES TAX ON LODGING SERVICES, COMMENCING ON JANUARY 1, 2023, THE REVENUES FROM SUCH TAX TO BE USED SOLELY FOR SUPPORT OF THE ACTIVI TIES OF THE TOWN’S BUSINESS PROMOTION COMMISSION, ORGANIZATION, PROMOTION, MARKETING AND MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC EVENTS, ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF BUSI NESS RECRUITMENT, MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT, COORDINATING TOURISM PROMOTION ACTIVITIES, HOUSING AND CHILDCARE FOR THE TOURISM-RELATED WORKFORCE, INCLUDING SEASONAL WORK ERS AND FOR OTHER WORKERS IN THE COM MUNITY, FACILITATING AND ENHANCING VISI TOR EXPERIENCES, INCLUDING EXTENDED SEASONAL MAINTENANCE AND USE OF THE GUANELLA PASS SCENIC BYWAY, CAPITAL EX PENDITURES FOR HOUSING AND CHILDCARE FOR THE TOURISM-RELATED WORKFORCE, INCLUDING SEASONAL WORKERS AND FOR OTHER WORKERS IN THE COMMUNITY, AND CAPITAL EXPENDITURES RELATED TO FACILITATING AND ENHANCING VISITOR EXPERIENCES, AND SHALL ALL REVENUES GENERATED FROM THE SALES TAX AUTHO RIZED HEREBY AND FROM ANY EARNINGS FROM THE INVESTMENT OF SUCH REVENUES CONSTITUTE A VOTER APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE AND EXCEPTION TO THE REVENUE AND SPENDING LIMITS OF ARTICLE X SEC TION 20 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION? be effective upon passage.
C/O Harvey J. Williamson, Esq. 4450 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 100 Boulder, Colorado 80303 303-716-9666
restrictions for the protection
Recording2004
Notice is hereby given that the Town of Silver Plume draft 2023 Budget will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for consideration during a Public Hearing scheduled for September 26, 2022, at 7:00 pm Public Hearing will allow for comments on the proposed budget. The proposed budget will also be on file at Silver Plume Town Hall, 710 Main Street, & can be reviewed during regular PUT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. AGENDA IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE . . . this notice posted at Town Hall & the Silver Plume Post Office.
Kent W. 1202PersonalAlexanderRepresentativeBergenParkway,Suite 110 Evergreen, Colorado, 80439
refer a ballot question
NOTICE OF INTENT OF A CONTINUOUS PROGRAM TO MODIFY WEATHER
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.
First Publication: September 15, 2022
Carol Lee, Public Trustee in and for the County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado
PUBLIC NOTICE
WHEREAS, the Board of Selectmen wishes to to the registered electors of at THEREFORE, RESOLVED
Clear Creek Courant 19September 15, 2022 Clear Creek Courant September 15, 2022 * 1 www.ColoradoCommunityMedia.com/Notices Public Notices call legals2@coloradocommunitymedia.com PUBLIC NOTICES 303-566-4123 FORECLOSURECOMBINEDPublicLegalsTrusteesL0915–FC2022-004NOTICE-PUBLICATIONCRS§38-38-103SALENO.2022-004
Notice to Creditors
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Clear Creek County, Colorado on or before Janu ary 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Larry Hjermstad, Manager of WWC, Mike Hjerm stad, Asst. Manager and Head of Operations, and Eric Hjermstad, Head of Field Operations are the people in control of the program.
Public Notice
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES EN TITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
____ YES ____ NO Section 3. Effective date. This Resolution shall
By: Wendy Grummons
WHEREAS,
Outstanding Principal Balance Pursuant$187,405.89toCRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other pay ments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
PLACE: SILVER PLUME TOWN HALL, 710 MAIN STREET, SILVER PLUME, CO with public participation via Zoom meeting (see above)
County of Recording Clear Creek Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 17,
the
First Publication 9/15/2022
Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
Personal Representative
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUM BERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Clear Creek County, Colorado on or before Janu ary 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
The Petition requests that the name of Pinky Daniels Moon-Soul be changed to Pinky Milez CaseMoon-Soul.No.:22C56
Safeguards are in place to limit weather modifica tion operations by daily monitoring of snowpack snow water equivalent, avalanche hazard levels, and National Weather Service Severe Weather Statements. The CWCB coordinates daily with permit holders to ensure programs are operated judiciously to minimize danger to the land, health, safety, people, property, and the environment. WWC has previously held three sequential fiveyear permits for cloud seeding in the CCMRB Target Area.
Section 2. Ballot Question referred to vot ers. Pursuant to CRS 31-11-111(2), the Board hereby refers the following ballot question to the registered electors of the Town at the November 8, 2022, election. The ballot title shall be the text of the ballot issue and question itself:
Public Notice
Town Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC437 First Publication: September 15, 2022 Last Publication: September 15, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Bids and REQUESTPUBLICSettlementsNOTICEFORSEALEDBIDSCLEARCREEKCOUNTY Clear Creek County is accepting sealed bids for: 2009 Chevy Tahoe, Fair/Good Condition - 224,183 2012miles GMC Sierra 1500 Cargo Van, Fair/Good Condition - 208,089 miles 2013 Chevy Tahoe, Fair/Good Condition - 205,919 Submitmiles sealed bids with your phone number, indi cating the specific vehicle on the outer envelope to Captain Matt Brown, Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office, P.O. Box 2000, 405 Argentine Street, Georgetown, CO 80444, Attn: Sealed Bids. Bids must be received in our office no later than 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 6, 2022, and all bids will be opened at that time. The winning bidder will be notified by the end of the business day on October 7, 2022. Cash only payment for the winning bid is required. For further information, or to schedule an inspection,
The intended effect of the weather modification operations is to increase precipitation/snowpack snow water content to benefit natural habitat, agriculture, municipal water, stock growers, recreational and tourism interests, and the local
Original Principal Amount $270,500.00
Misc. Private Legals
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as pro vided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
Last publication: September 15, 2022
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
The Board of Selectmen hereby gives notice of and calls a special Town election to be coordinated with the general election on November 8, 2022.
Last Publication 10/13/2022
Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 227539 Book: 705 Page: 411
DATE: 06/27/2022
First publication: September 01, 2022
First Publication: September 1, 2022
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, 10/27/2022, at The Clear Creek County Public Trustee’s Office, 405 Argentine Street, George town, Colorado, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
safety and welfare;
Legal Notice No. CCC1419
Last Publication: September 29, 2022
BY THE
LOT L, SILVER LAKES HOMESITE TRACT II CORRECTION AND DELETION SURVEY RECORDED FEBRUARY21, 1978 AT RECEP TION NO. 84790.
Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
Legal Notice No. CCC438
Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
On June 27, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relat ing to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Clear Creek records.
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the Town of Georgetown is a Colorado municipal corporation operating under a Territorial Charter and governed by its Board of Selectmen; and
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Name of Publication Clear Creek Courant
Also known by street and number as: 6 Silver Lakes Drive, Dumont, CO 80436-0000.
Gordon Karlen Gunst
Attorney File # 20-024377
Notice is hereby given that Western Weather Consultants of Durango, CO (WWC) has filed with the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) an application for a five-year permit to conduct a wintertime ground-based weather modification program. WWC will conduct the Central Colo rado Mountain River Basins Program (CCMRB) for the following entities: (Colorado River Water Conservation District)
BOARD OF SELECTMEN FOR GEORGETOWN, SectionCOLORADO:1.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Legal Notice No. CCC433
Operationaleconomy.
WESTERN WEATHER CONSULTANTS, LLC.
WHEREAS, and of public health, and
DONE AND RESOLVED this 23rd day of Lynette Kelsey, Police Judge Yobski, call 303-679-2451. County
First Publication: September 15, 2022 September 22, 2022
Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
Last Publication: September 22, 2022
Legal Notice No. CCC417
Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
Original Grantor(s) Darlene L. Duraski AND Robert Franklin Duraski
Legal Notice No. CCC421
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business hours listed below. Future work sessions will be scheduled by the Town Board of Trustees to refine the proposed budget & prepare a final budget for adoption. A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD REGARD ING THE ADOPTION OF THIS BUDGET AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, DE CEMBER 12, 2022, at 7:00 PM Zoom meeting info: www.silverplumetown.com THE PUBLIC IS INVITED & ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THESE MEETINGS & GIVE THEIR IN-
a special town election to be coordi nated with the November 8, 2022 general election. NOW,
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
By: Carol Lee, Public Trustee
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