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CLUBS Editor’s note: To add or update a club listing, e-mail calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com. Recreation OPOCS Singles Club, ages 55-plus, meets all around the metro area. Meet new friends. Sign up and receive a monthly newsletter that lists all monthly activities. Contact JoAnn Cunningham, membership chair, 303-751-5195, or Mary Riney, president, 303985-8937. Prayer Shawl Group of Castle Rock meets at various times. Contact Sandy at sandyt3388@aol.com for information on upcoming meetings. Salty Dog Sailing Club If you love to sail or want to try, if you don’t have a boat, if you have a boat but don’t sail enough because you cannot find a crew, the Salty Dog Sailing Club is for you. The club meets the second Thursday of the month. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. with the business meeting commencing at 7 p.m. Go to www.saltydog.org for meeting locations and directions.
SilverSneakers Fitness, Silver&Fit at ACC The Arapahoe Community College fitness center offers the SilverSneakers Fitness and Silver&Fit programs for seniors in the south metro Denver area. For more information about health and fitness options at ACC, call 303-797-5850 Thursday Evening Book Club. Members meet for a lively discussion of the book selection for the month. See the library website www.douglascountylibraries.org for a list of the book selections for this year. The club meets at 7 p.m. the third Thursday of each month at the Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock. Drop-ins are welcome. Contact Jane Smith at 303-688-7712 or send an email to jsmith@dclibraries.org. Service Castle Rock Civitan Club provides networking, fellowship and community service, emphasizing help to people with developmental disabilities. Group meets at noon the first and third Tuesdays at 680 Atchison Way, #500, Castle Rock; and at 6 p.m. the third Tuesday in June, July and August at Centen-
nial Park, Gilbert and South streets, Castle Rock. Go to http://castlerock.civitan.net or call Bernie or Linda Funk, 303-663-1721. Modern Woodmen Youth Service Club has monthly activities and participates in volunteer projects that benefit our community. Participating children undertake countless educational, service and beautification projects for the betterment of our local community. Contact Shane Bauman at 303-5484810 or email Shane.Bauman@mwarep.org. Ridgeline Wranglers trail maintenance group meets one Saturday a month to help maintain and improve the soft surface trails at Ridgeline Open Space in the Meadows. Meet at 8:30 a.m. at the trailhead parking lot off of Coachline Road. Outings are completed by 11:30 a.m. Outings are scheduled for Saturdays April 12, May 10, July 19, Aug. 16, Sept. 27 and Oct. 25. The June outing will be in celebration of National Trails Day with a Community Work Day at Memmen Ridge Open Space at from 8:30 a.m. to noon). Contact Lisa Sorbo at 303-814-7456 or lsorbo@ crgov.com. Women’s Crisis and Family Outreach Center groups offer help for people affected by domestic violence. Call 303-688-8484 Social The AARP Douglas County Chapter meets at 12:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of
each month at the Castle Rock Senior Center, 2323 N. Woodlands Blvd. AWANA Club at Sedalia Elementary meets at 7 p.m. Wednesdays at Sedalia Elementary for kindergarten to sixth grade. Call Phil Smith at 303-688-9638. Beta Sigma Phi, Preceptor Gamma Theta Chapter, meets at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Mondays in members’ homes. Contact Sandy Pearl at 720-851-0482 for info. The Breakfast Club: A great way for single people ages 50-plus to meet new friends and have fun. We are an active and social group enjoying activities ranging from card games to white-water rafting, international and domestic travel to bowling, and all things in between. Our signature breakfast, which takes place at 8:30 a.m. every third Saturday, is at The Ridge Golf Club in Castle Pines. Interested? Call our hotline at 303-814-8428 or go to www. TBC50plus.org. Castle Rock Chess Club meets every Monday from 6-9 p.m.at the Philip S. Miller library in Castle Rock. All ages and skill levels welcome. Castle Rock Civitan Club meets at noon the first and third Tuesdays at Castle Rock Senior Center. Call Phyllis Tumey at 303688-5610.
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she said. They plan carefully “for that uncertain future.” Overall, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System, as of Jan. 30, about 99 percent of Colorado residents live in areas experiencing abnormally dry conditions. The remaining 1 percent — in a small section of Larimer County — live in the only area not in some degree of a drought. The driest areas are to the west and south of the Front Range. The South Platte Basin, which serves the Front Range from Douglas County northward, is at 85 percent of its average precipitation as of Jan. 19, Goble said. Although there may not be any water restrictions on consumer usage, there could be other environmental and recreational impacts attributed to the lack of snowfall, Goble said. These could include affecting river activities, such as kayaking or fly fishing because the rivers could be low, and a higher risk for fires. “Some years are going to be dry, and some years are going to be wet,” said Bart Miller, the director of the Healthy Rivers Program for Western Resource Advocates. “Having drier years like this one raises awareness and helps people take an incentive to water conservation.” it can also influence the Legislature to try new things, Miller added. For example, he said, look at House Bill 16-1005, also known as the rain barrel bill. It was signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper in May 2016 and allows Colorado homeowners to collect a total capacity of 110 gallons of rainwa-
One-year-old Ben Voight, of Centennial, sleds down a hill at deKoevend Park in Centennial on University Boulevard in March of 2015. FILE PHOTO ter to use for outdoor purposes, such as gardening. “This new law will … connect people with their water usage more closely and encourage water conservation,” said Rep. Jessie Danielson, D-Golden, in a previous interview at the time of the bill singing. Danielson was one of the bill’s legislative sponsors. “In our state, when it comes to water, even small efforts like this will add up to help us protect our most precious resource,” Danielson said. Overall, people in Colorado have done a good job with being mindful of how much water they use, both indoors and outdoors, Darling said. And no matter if in a drought or not, it’s important use water wisely all the time, she added. “What you do today,” Darling said, “influences the amount of water that will be available in the future.”