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Broom eld’s Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport will host the Chabad of Northwest Metro Denver’s holiday menorah for Hanukkah this year. e nine-foot-tall electric menorah is displayed on the upper level of the terminal building. e electric menorah will be lit with the correct lights each night of Hanukkah, which begins Dec. 18. e airport will host a fth night lighting and part on Dec. 22.
Rabbi Benjy Brackman of Chabad of NW Metro Denver said he’s excited to be hosting a menorah at a Colorado airport.
“It’s very gracious of the Rocky Mountain Metro Airport to display the menorah, already community members who use the airport have talked about the sense of inclusiveness they feel with the menorah standing next to the holiday tree,” Brackman said. “Especially in the current environment of heightened antisemitism, this gesture is even more meaningful.”
It’s part of a series of Hanukkah celebrations hosted by Chabad of Northwest Metro Denver. It includes a rst night lighting party Dec. 18 at Orchard Town Center, the second night lighting Dec. 19 at the Medusa Collective art gallery at 140 Hooker St. in Westminster and the third night lighting Dec. 20 at the Village at Larkridge Shopping Center, 16542 Washington St., in ornton. Olde Town Arvada hosts the fourth night lighting Dec. 21. e airport menorah lighting and Hanukkah party is scheduled at the airport at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 22, the fth night of Hanukkah. e menorah’s electric bulbs will be replaced with large candles for the community menorah lighting. e Hanukkah party will take place in the terminal’s large meeting space, overlooking the runway and the mountains at sunset. e event will include live Hanukkah music, a magic show and a light supper including Hanukkah treats of donuts and latkahs. e event is sponsored by air carrier JSX, which operates daily ights from the airport. e event is free. RSVP are required.
For more info and to RSVP please visit www.COJewish.com/airport online.
Council draws up economic development wishlist
BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A place to buy Levi’s or a washing machine.
How about a steakhouse? Or a chicken restaurant?
“We are a farming community, but there is no place to buy barbecued chicken,” Mayor Zo Hubbard said during a Dec. 13 Fort Lupton City Council town hall. “ at doesn’t seem right.” ose were some of the ideas tossed around during a discussion on economic development. Hubbard wondered about a couple of area enterprises. One was a mushroom farm owned by former NFL quarterback Jake Plummer. Another was the wild animal sanctuary in Keenesburg.
Councilman Carlos Barron had a word of caution.
“We know how volatile the oil eld business is,” he said. “I don’t want to hang all our eggs there.”
Hubbard noted there were a couple of weapon manufacturing businesses that would be good ts for the city.
“We could incentivize those businesses,” Barron said. “With the government, we have now, they wouldn’t allow it. We shouldn’t put a lot of e ort into it until there’s a change.”
Michelle Magelssen, the city’s economic development director, said the city had to show some restraint.
“You can’t poach a business in another town,” she said. “You can say, ‘Would you like to open a new business in our community?’ But you can’t actively recruit a business out of one community into ours.”
Magelssen guided the council through the basics of how she and the city can attract business. Some of the available tools include opportunities for expansion, grants for startups and word of mouth. e city can also promote its library resources for future research, educational partnerships, safety resources and community involvement.
“We want businesses to tell their stories,” she told councilors. “It’s a huge component of economic development, them telling the stories of all the great things going on here.”
Sign of the times
Changes to real-estate advertising signs within city property right of way may be on the way.
“We’re going to bring you more form ideas about structure and location,” planning Director Todd Hodges told the council. “ e intent is to put the information for new homes so we don’t end up with what happened when someone put a massive sign next to Dale’s Pharmacy without permits.”
Hodges said the changes would come with prosecution.
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Age no barrier for Ann Pepmeyer
BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Turning 90 hasn’t stopped Ann Pepmeyer from volunteering in the community she moved to in 1961.
“She is an integral part of what we do here in the museum. She has the knowledge, the love of the time, and has the love of the people of that the time. I don’t know what I’d do without her. She’s just a lovely lady and just marvelous,” said Maggie Bidmead, Fort Lupton Museum Coordinator.
Pepmeyer grew up in Southern Iowa. She worked and went to nursing school in Omaha for a year.
“My friend went to school at the University of Colorado-Boulder and they had a good three-year nursing school, so I started school in 1954, it was towards the end of the Korean War. I graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science degree,” Pepmeyer said.
Pepmeyer said a lot of nurses attending the school with her had military experience. She had a Navy Commander classmate and another one, an Army captain.
Meeting her husband
Pepmeyer’s husband Ed was born in Fort Lupton. He entered the Army stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington State as military police.
“When Ed got out of the military, they had a veteran’s group, and we went to a Christmas program at the University and it’s where we hooked up. It was a blind date,” Pepmeyer said.
Pepmeyer and Ed stayed in Boulder. She graduated rst, and he had another year. While living there, she worked in surgery at Boulder Community Hospital.
Pepmeyer was interested in nursing because she thought it would be something special.
“I remember growing up back in Iowa, and our family doctor allowed me to observe a tonsillectomy when I was in high school. It was quite interesting to me, and it’s what I did in my nursing career working in the operating room, “ she said.
After Ed graduated from school, he got a job in Scottsblu , Nebraska and Pepmeyer taught operating room nursing skills to nursing students in Scottsblu . en moved back to Ed’s hometown of Fort Lupton in the summer of 1961.
“Our oldest girl was born in Boulder, and I would always come back to Boulder to have my babies. I knew the doctors over there,” Pepmeyer said.
In Fort Lupton, she raised her three girls, two of whom are mirror twins. She also went back to school for a nurse refresher course until Ed had open heart surgery.
“When the girls were 12 and 14, I continued the refresher course and went to work for Salud Clinic in Fort Lupton as a nurse for the next eight years,” Pepmeyer said. “Then I took a summer job working for the state licensing agency for nursing homes and went into home health care.”
Volunteer years
As Pepmeyer’s girls were growing up, they were in Girl Scouts, so she volunteered with the girl scouting while also working in their homerooms and serving as the cookie chairman for the Weld County group for a few years. After retirement, she volunteered with her church.
She got involved with the Fort Lupton Historical society rebuilding the historic Fort Lancaster. She was part of the group that founded Fort Lupton Historical Society, Pepmeyer said.
Her volunteering didn’t stop there. She also helped at the Fort Lupton Food Bank and now volunteers at the Fort Lupton museum archiving history. Also, she works for the Colorado Visiting Nurses Association once a month.
“ e group helps seniors trim ngernails and toenails. I process the paperwork. We do quilting at the church, I don’t do a lot of quilting, I just tie them together,” Pepmeyer said.
Pepmeyer said she loves working a the museum because, in high school, history was her favorite subject.
“When I came to Boulder, I had a professor teach history, and he was something else, Pepemeyer said. “I fell into it and love reading and researching it. Genealogy is another hobby of mine.”
Pepmeyer said she loves volunteering because it gives her something to do.
Ann Pepmeyer with her family photos of her daughters Lisa, Erin, Meg, her husband Ed, and a portrait of her great, great grandfather Jacob Finger. PHOTO BY SAMATHA MARKEY PHOTOGRAPHY
Fort Lupton: Insurance provider survey o ers positive feedback for changes
BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A recent survey of 40 city employees in Fort Lupton indicates support for a new city health insurance provider. e city OK’d a four-month trial run for a new employee insurance plan, Amaze Health, this summer. e cost was $4,650.
Human resources coordinator Amanda Rice said a bit more than half of those surveyed used the insurance during the trial run. e others “didn’t have a need,” she told Fort Lupton City Council during a Dec. 13 town hall. e cost to employees was $15 per employee per month.
“We had very positive feedback,” she told council. “One said it was the greatest bene t that had ever been o ered.”
Ninety people signed up, and 15 opted out.
“If we were to o er it to those 15, it would add an additional $2,700 to the cost,” Rice said. “ e cost is $16,200 now.”
Rice said she had to use the insurance the morning of the town hall after scratching her cornea.
“I’m for it 100 percent,” said Councilman David Crespin. is summer, Human Resources Director Laura Howe told council the city was “in a challenging position of having to provide health care by buying a really crappy product.” Amaze Health provides telemedicine, concierge services and a digital health gateway, according to its website. During this summer’s discussions, Howe said employees at Amaze Health are not tied in to particular doctors, pharmacies or hospitals.
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