Fort Lupton Press 3
June 30, 2021
Fort Lupton’s very own participate in July 4th event VIP tables on sale to help raise funds for drama club BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
An up-and-coming country star, a community volunteer and an Eaton High School student with family farming roots in Fort Lupton are contributing to the Fort Lupton July 4 celebration at 203 S. Rollie Ave. Teagan Joseph, an Eaton High School junior, is performing the National Anthem. She sings with the Eaton High School Troubadours Choirs. “Our top eight girls and boys are going to sing at the 100th celebration of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., so we are working on fundraisers,” said Joseph Joseph has been singing with the Eaton High School Red Diamonds since she was in second grade and also started in a play. The students with the Red Diamond Choirs join from secnd grade up to seniors. Joseph has a passion for singing through her blindness -- since birth -- with Leber Congenital Amaurosis. Joseph said, “ I have medium blindness and over 3,000 people have Lebers. So, since I can’t play in normal sports because of my eyes but I can hear with singing, I do not need the accommodations as I would for sports.” Joseph’s dreams are to become a recording Christian artist singing songs that Jesus loves us all.
A view of Fort Lupton’s fireworks display in 2020.
Another dream is to also become an equine horse therapist. “Horses are a big part of my life, and they allow me to help people,” said Joseph. There’s a family history in the area. Joseph has up to four generations of family members in Fort Lupton that have farmed the land for decades. Sadi Rose, a sophomore at Fort
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Lupton High School, was born and raised in Fort Lupton. At 15 years old, Rose is very involved with volunteering for community events. “I love to volunteer my time because it gives me the ability to help out with events, have fun and the opportunity to be able to get to know people in my community. What is super cool, as well, is volunteering can also help build my
resume, starting this year, in my freshman year of high school and adds a great value to my life in the form of community service,” said Rose. When she is not volunteering her time, she joined the drama club at Fort Lupton High School, fell in love with the class and knew it was her SEE FIREWORKS, P10
Triceratops art contest held in Weld County The contest is open to all ages, all over the world BY BELEN WARD
Weld County is calling for art submissions for the Pops Triceratops Art Contest. “Fun fact. Our first entry for this contest came from the Philippines, and I just received another from a gentleman who used to live in Greeley but now lives in Portugal,” said
Jennifer Finch, Weld County public information officer. Pops was a triceratops fossil that was found on Ronald “Sonny” Mapelli Briggsdale Ranch in 1982, and it was the first complete skull in the state. Mapelli donated it to Weld County in 1986, and a contest named the triceratops Pops. When Pops was donated to the county by private owners, it was never scientifically studied. Joe Sertich, the curator of dinosaurs for the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, heard about
the fossil. So, in 2020, he asked if he could study and restore Pops and then return it to Weld County for display at the end of this year. World-renowned Paleo Artist Andrey Atuchin, through photos of triceratops, recreated Pops with 3-D modeling, sculpting, and painting. The story and Pops scientific study have been on the Discover Weld website, social media sites and has been followed by 34 countries. Any medium can be used, such as drawings, painting and sculpting. But it must include Pops
the triceratops. The art submission will be judged by Sertich, Andrey Atuchin and Roland “Sonny” Mapelli’s daughters, Terri DeMoney and Jerri Gustafson. Contest submissions are open to all ages. The art has to include Pop the Triceratops. The deadline is Friday, July 2; mail the entries to pops@discoverweld.com). For information about the Pops art contest visit: https://www.discoverweld.com/Pops-the-Triceratops/ Pops-Art-Contest.
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