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Elizabeth junior Anastasia Buzalsky completes her floor routine at the Oct. 18 league gymnastics meet held at Ponderosa High School. Buzalsky finished second in the all-around competition and she and her teammates amassed a score of 176.650 that earned the Cardinals second place in the team standings in the field of eight mostly 5A teams. TOM MUNDS
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am pleased with their performance at the league meet.” She said, while many teams are composite groups with athletes from several schools, the Cardinals gymnasts are all Elizabeth High School students.
After four months of analysis and number-crunching, a draft of the 2018 budget for Elbert County was publicly presented to the Board of County Commissioners at the Oct. 11 BOCC meeting. Although the numbers will likely be adjusted, the county budget for 2018 is tentatively set at $27.48 million. This is a $4 million decrease from the projected final total in 2017, made possible by the Rush Creek Wind Farm project fees that the county has received from Xcel Energy. Revenues are expected to increase roughly $1.1 million from the 2017 budgeted number, and expenses are expected to decrease roughly $1.3 million.
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Cardinals 2nd in league gymnastics meet BY BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Teammates and parents cheered each Elizabeth athlete as the Cardinals took second place in the team standings at the Oct. 18 Centennial League gymnastics meet held at Ponderosa High School.
Overland won the team title with a score of 184.825 at the meet of eight primarily 5A teams while the Cardinals captured runner-up honors with a score of 176.650. “We are a young team with no seniors among the 23 girls on the roster,” Coach Stacey Folmar said. “This is an excited, happy team this season and I
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