WWII veteran honored on Idaho Springs monument

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Clear Creek County has honored a World War II veteran with local ties.

On June 17, Clear Creek dignitaries and about 25 members of the family of William G. Yost, known as “Red,” gathered to add his name to the World War II monument, which stands outside the Idaho Springs library along Miner Street.

Idaho Springs Mayor Chuck Harmon, members of the Idaho Springs

Elks Lodge and the Clear Creek County Veterans Service O ce attended along with the Evergreen American Legion honor guard. Red was born in Idaho Springs

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After four years at the helm of the Clear Creek School District, Superintendent Karen Quanbeck has announced that she will be leaving this fall.

Quanbeck will become the vice president of statewide partnerships for the Colorado Education Initiative, an organization the district

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