Fort Lupton confirms watering restrictions

Watering lawns banned during the heat of the day

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Summer watering restrictions will begin in the city June 1 and will continue until Aug. 31, City City Councilors agreed at their meeting on May 2.

Dogs help kids learn to handle COVID, other pressures

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

If a tiny 6-year-old Yorkie-Poo therapy dog named Dorothy Rae can capture the hearts of the inmates at the Platte Valley Jail, Sylvia Stribling just imagines what she can do with middle school kids.

“ ese guys were big and gru and

I’ve got this one little dog named Dorothy Rae; she’s tiny,” Stribling said. “Nobody wanted to work with her. ey wanted the German Shepherd or the Doberman.”

Stribling, owner of Lovelandbased Caring Canines therapy dogs, regularly works at Platte Valley Jail with 18- to 21-year-old inmates. ey have had success at the jail with those younger populations.

“Once they met Dorothy Rae with her spunky little personality, now she is on the waiting list to work with them,” Stribling said.

Caring Canines has had success working with traumatized children and children with cognitive and physical disabilities in those districts, she said as well as with nursing homes, assisted living memory care and battered women’s shelters.

She’s hoping to expand that success now at Fort Lupton Middle School, where she and her dogs will aim to help the kids. Her program aims to teach them several types of skills such as focusing, following e resolution also notes that water sprayed during the hottest parts of the day evaporates more quickly due to the heat and sun. Restrictions will be in place for all properties from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. unless the property uses untreated or nonpotable water. e resolution also allows the city to grant one three-week waiver to

Councilors voted unanimously to adopt restrictions, with a few exceptions, daily during the hottest parts of the day, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. e city’s resolution notes that Colorado and the Front Range have been in drought conditions for “several” years and that the drought includes Fort Lupton. e city could have to endure limits on its water supply this summer because of the drought.

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