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September 10, 2020
ADAMS & JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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With Holy Days ahead, temple goes online
VOLUME 75 | ISSUE 46
SLIDING SAFE
Westminster’s Temple B’Nai Torah preparing for Rosh Hashana celebrations BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
With six months of COVID-19 and its difficulties in the past and unknown challenges still to come, Holy Days like Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur might just the kind of thing we need. “People need connection,” said Rabbi Boaz Heilman of Westminster’s Temple B’Nai Torah. “One of the things this pandemic and the quarantine has done to us is to isolate everyone, not just the elderly and frail and unhealthy who have to isolate themselves. But I mean those of us who care Heilman for others and take that responsibility seriously, we have to be careful. We can’t endanger them by our getting together. So the need for community is at least as strong as it ever was.” The Jewish New Year Rosh Hashana is Sept. 18 and 19 this year. That begins a ten day period of looking back at the previous year culminating in Yom Kippur on Sept. 28 — the Jewish day of atonement. Heilman said he’s been working with Temple B’Nai Torah’s members and lectors to port as much of the annual celebration to video, via the Zoom networking platform. The temple will offer a slate of live-streamed services throughout the high holy days. “It comes at a very important time,” he said. “The quarantines, the pandemic, has caused people to look inward, so this series of High Holy days come at a very interesting time. We are in the process now of evaluating our lives and what we’ve done.” Heilman said the temple has head plenty of practice using Zoom. The temple has doubled the number of regular sabbath services via the teleconferencing platform. SEE TEMPLE, P4
Rocky Mountain shortstop Kaia Cobb, left, can’t make a tag on Horizon’s Lily Simmons at second base during a Front Range League game Sept. 3, at Horizon High School in Thornton. The Lobos still beat the Hawks, 10-8. See more photos and softball coverage, page 11. PHOTO BY STEFAN BRODSKY
FAA grant coming to fix Rocky Mountain taxiway Work expected to begin in spring 2021 BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A federal grant, part of $1.2 billion set aside nationally for airport safety and structural improvements, will rebuild the main taxiway at Broomfield’s Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. “We’ve done the crack sealing and epoxy sealing on it before,” said Airport Director Christopher Nicholas. “But this is the first work we’ve done on the whole thing since it was built. There are portions that are in desperate need of rehabilitation, so that’s what this is.” Nichols and Deputy Director Brian Bishop said work is planned on Taxiway A, the main connection
between the airport and Runway 30 Right, 12 Left. The taxiway was built at least 15 years ago. “It’s at least that old, if not older,” Bishop said. The airport has become a hub for local business and small aircraft. The airport also hosts a full-time U.S. Forest Service tanker base, used for refilling and refueling the aircraft that have been fighting wildland fires across the western United States. Work is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2021. “That’s what the plan is, in the spring, but it most likely will occur in the summer of 2021,” Bishop said. The work should take a few months and will require the airport to slow taxiing aircraft a bit. “That just means more work for the aircraft control tower,” Bishop said. “They’ll have to space the aircraft out more, but we should be able to keep using SEE AIRPORT, P2
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