August 12, 2021
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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VOLUME 155 | ISSUE 34
Redistricting commission comes to Golden Local residents, officials voice concerns with preliminary maps BY RYAN DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The fair returns The county fair was back this year and open to the public, after an extremely limited 2020 fair that
Residents from Golden and surrounding municipalities gathered in the auditorium of Golden High School on Aug. 4 to give feedback to the Colorado Independent Redistricting Commission on the preliminary maps of redrawn congressional and state legislative districts. The commission is in the midst of a statewide tour to gauge community response to the maps, which are redrawn every 10 years to adjust for changes in population. Colorado was awarded an Eighth Congressional District in April — the Centennial State’s first new district in 20 years — after gaining more than 750,000 new residents in the last decade. Golden is currently in House District 24 and Congressional District 7, where the city of 20,000 is served by state Rep. Monica Duran and U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter. Under the districts proposed in the preliminary maps, Golden would be bisected into the 24th and 12th State House Districts. While Golden would remain in the 7th Congressional District, neighboring Jefferson
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Faith Martin, 18, from Conifer, poses with her goat, named Penny “because she’s a bit copper-colored.” Martin and Penny were qualifiers in this year’s Round Robin competition, which was held on the final day of the Jefferson County 4-H Fair on Aug. 8. PHOTO BY GLENN WALLACE
Great to see fair play Jefferson County Fair wraps up with 4-H camaraderie BY GLENN WALLACE GWALLACE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
There were twice as many animal entries in this year’s Jefferson County Fair as there usually are. For Emily DeMayo, the mother of a first-time 4-H participant, she isn’t surprised. “The way things were last year with sports being
weird ... this was the only thing they had.” DeMayo said helping her son raise a pen of turkeys and a pig this year involved “learning on the fly the whole time.” Her daughter also participated, raising bees, which presented its own set of challenges, especially when their honey extraction efforts went wrong, seemingly drowning much of the hive in loose honey. “We were picking bees out of the honey with chop sticks and trying to dry them off and get them back in the hive,” DeMayo
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said laughing. Luckliy the “zombees” seemed adept at reviving, cleaning themselves and proceeding to fly around the house. But despite the chaos, DeMayo smiles when asked whether she thinks her family will participate in 4-H again next year, and says yes.
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