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e 2023 Canine on the Creek was a win-win-win. Families participated in a 5K or 1-mile walk together along Clear Creek on a beautiful May morning in Dumont. Dogs happily joined their owners for the run or walk along
Clear Creek teachers ask for professional salaries
BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Clear Creek teachers are imploring the school board to provide them with a living wage, so they can a ord to continue doing what they love and live in the area where they teach.
At the May 16 board meeting, representatives from the Clear Creek County Education Association, which is the teachers union, said if the school board really believed in attracting and retaining the best educators, then it needed to provide the necessary compensation to teachers and sta .
Clear Creek.
e top win goes to Friends of Charlie’s Place — the animal shelter for Clear Creek and Gilpin counties — and the Clear Creek Metropolitan
“ e current wages don’t match statewide moves nor do they attract or honor educators’ long-standing positions in the district,” Rachel Richardson, a third-grade teacher at King-Murphy Elementary School, told the board. e board is expected to approve the compensation package that district o cials and the CCCEA agree to at its meeting at 2 p.m. ursday, June 15, at Clear Creek High School.
SEE SCHOOLS, P3 all three bills to help the state combat wildfires,
Polis signs 3 wildfire bills into law
Je co, Clear Creek o cials attend the ceremony
BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
County and re o cials from Je erson and Clear Creek counties watched Gov. Jared Polis sign three bills into law that will look at di erent facets of preparing for wild re.
Polis stopped by Inter-Canyon Fire’s Station 1 in Morrison on May 12 to sign bills that will:
• Establish a wild re resiliency code board to create rules that governing bodies in the wildland-urban interface — including the Je erson County foothills and Clear Creek County — will adopt to harden homes to reduce wild re risk;
• Increase the number of state re investigators to four, rather than the one investigator it has now; and
• Provide funding to give high school students more information about career opportunities in forestry and wild re mitigation, and to provide community colleges with funding to create programs in wildland re prevention and mitigation.
“ ese bills are the product of a lot of work, and it’s been a pleasure
Weather Observations for Georgetown, Colorado
Week of May 15, 2023
Weather Observations for Georgetown, Colorado
Week of May 15, 2023
A local National Weather Service volunteer observer makes temperature and precipitation observations each day at about 8 a.m. at the Georgetown Weather Station. Wind observations are made at Georgetown Lake. “Max” and “Min” temperatures are from digital displays of a “MMTS” (“Maximum/Minimum Temperature System”); “Mean daily” temperature is the calculated average of the max and min. “Total Precipitation” is inches of rainfall plus melted snow. “Snowfall” is inches of snow that accumulated during the preceding 24 hours. T = Trace of precipitation. NR = Not Reported. “Peak wind gust at Georgetown Lake” is the velocity in miles per hour and the time of the maximum wind gust that occurred during the 24 hours preceding the observation time. Historic data are based on the period of record for which statistical data have been compiled (about 54 years within the period 1893-2022). Any weather records noted are based on a comparison of the observed value with the historical data set.
A local National Weather Service volunteer observer makes temperature and precipitation observations each day at about 8 a.m. at the Georgetown Weather Station. Wind observations are made at Georgetown Lake. “Max” and “Min” temperatures are from digital displays of a “MMTS” (“Maximum/Minimum Temperature System”); “Mean daily” temperature is the calculated average of the max and min. “Total Precipitation” is inches of rainfall plus melted snow. “Snowfall” is inches of snow that accumulated during the preceding 24 hours. T = Trace of precipitation. NR = Not Reported. “Peak wind gust at Georgetown Lake” is the velocity in miles per hour and the time of the maximum wind gust that occurred during the 24 hours preceding the observation time. Historic data are based on the period of record for which statistical data have been compiled (about 54 years within the period 1893-2022). Any weather records noted are based on a comparison of the observed value with the historical data set.
