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B •R •I •E •F •S Lyons Flyer Daily Service to/from Boulder Free LYONS – All RTD services will be free, including the airport buses, for the entire month of August to help reduce air pollution in a collaborative, statewide initiative designed to reduce ground-level ozone by increasing use of public transit.

No need to show your EcoPass and you can bring a friend or a bunch of friends and family on RTD’s buses and trains. Get to where you want to go by transit and not have to spending time searching for parking.

And don’t forget there is new daily service (Monday to Friday) to/from Boulder, twice in the morning and twice in the afternoons.

The service, rebranded as the “Lyons Flyer,” will replace the Y route, formerly operated by RTD.

Bus Trip to the Butterfly Pavilion and Rosetta Hall August 29 LYONS – Hop aboard the bus and join us in exploring the wonderful world of insects at the Butterfly Pavilion on August 29. We will see displays filled with all kinds of invertebrates with exhibits such as Colorado Backyard and Wings of the Tropics. We’ll enjoy a stroll through a tropical paradise (think warm and humid) with butterflies flying all around us. We can even hold Rosie the Tarantula if we want to.

After our visit to the Butterfly Pavilion we’ll hop back on the bus and journey to Rosetta Hall in Boulder for lunch. Rosetta Hall features eight restaurants representing a variety of world cuisine, and two bars, and offers both indoor and outdoor seating. Please click on this link for menus and more information: https://rosettahall.com/. Dishes average in the $12 to $15 range for lunch items, with drinks being extra.

Monday, August 29, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Bus leaves from Walt Self, 335 Railroad Ave. $12.50 for Butterfly Pavilion plus money for lunch Scholarships are available for the Butterfly Pavilion portion of the trip. Seats on the bus are first come first served so drop off you payment at town hall to reserve your spot today. Please put $12.50 per person (list all people going) in an envelope and drop it in the green mailbox or give it to Maria at the front desk.

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Board prohibits open carry of firearms in public places, sale and manufacture of firearms and ammunition in downtown

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – At the last town board meeting in August, the Lyons Board of Trustees (BOT) approved ordinance 1126 to amend the municipal code on first reading, to prohibit open carry of firearms in public places.

The town staff presented background information saying: “As of July 28, 2022, there have been 372 mass shooting events in the United States in 2022 alone. Through the enactment of HB21- 1299 the state of Colorado has recognized gun violence as a major public health issue in the State of Colorado. Furthermore, the Colorado General Assembly has enacted SB 21-256, which gives local municipalities explicit authority to regulate firearms and ammunition.

“The restriction would not apply to private property including businesses or people’s private vehicles. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office has approved the policy behind the ordinance as an enforceable measure to help prevent gun violence.”

The legal issues were discussed by the board. Town Attorney Brandon Dittman said that a number of other town and cities in

Colorado have similar laws restricting people from being allowed to open carry weapons.

He said Boulder, Louisville, Broomfield all have or are working on restrictions for open carry of weapons.

The notes for the ordinance stated: The right to bear arms under the Second Amendment is among the most controversial and litigious issues in American society today. Under the current United States Supreme Court, the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

Bruen decision has significantly curtailed the ability of local municipalities to regulate firearms. However, the Bruen decision explicitly recognizes that regulations on firearms with a historical tradition of existing in the U.S. are permissible. United States Supreme Court Second Amendment decisions have long recognized the ability to restrict the open carry of firearms in public places. Furthermore, the proposed ordinance does not restrict ownership of firearms and ammunition nor the concealed carry of firearms pursuant to a lawfully issued state permit.

The board also approved Ordinance 1127 on first reading to amend the municipal code to list firearms sales, manufacturing and ammunition sales and manufacturing as prohibited uses

in the commercial downtown zoning district.

Attorney Dittman said that these ordinances have a very low rate of being challenged and a very strong chance of being defended and enforced. They are successfully enforced in a number of states.

Trustee Jocelyn Farrell asked about expanding the prohibited uses of firearms and ammunition sales and manufacturing to a broader zoning area.

In other matters, Lyons will have two ballot questions on the November ballot for voters to decide.

The trustees passed a resolution to ask voters to authorize the town to levy what they are calling a lodging occupation tax as a percentage rather than the flat rate of $2 per night that is currently in place. This rate was approved in 2018 and applies to lodging rooms and accommodations including camp sites The new proposed rate would start at 5 percent and could increase up to 8 percent of the price of the provision of lodging and accommodations, including camping or campsites without another vote of the people if future boards wanted to address that issue.

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OPTIONS Chief Zick warns about the burn scar areas, drainages that are shedding water, and he hires new fire fighters

By Peter Zick, Lyons Fire Chief Redstone Review LYONS – Happy August, Lyons. Many of you may be overwhelmed with the heat we have been expeZick riencing this month but hopefully relief is in our future soon.

Keys to staying healthy during the heat of August are to always stay hydrated, stay away from energy drinks or high caffeine drinks when you are going to be outside, and have your sunscreen applied so you don’t burn, if out in the sun. I want all of us to be able to enjoy the outdoors, but I want us all to be safe and heathy.

Our monsoon storms have been firing up regularly in the evenings here in Lyons over the past few weeks, with some of the rain and lightning being significant. I have been monitoring flooding levels in our fire district and we have been watching the rivers and drainages closely during these storms and have not seen a significant impact. Here are a few things to watch out for during these times of heavy rains and lightning.

First, heavy rains in the burn scar areas may produce dark, dirty water in the rivers and drainages because of the ash left behind after the fires. This may also result in larger debris floating downstream.

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To be safe, stay away from rivers and streams, as a precaution, during these times, and do not enter any drainage that is shedding water. This is an extremely dangerous situation. Larger debris and dark water can hide things in the river that can hurt you, so please stay out of those areas during heavy rain. In the event of a major event from flooding, please be aware of alerts and warnings that may be issued so we can make sure we get evacuations completed in a timely manner if necessary.

Lightning has been very significant during these storms. When these storms occur, I am in close contact with the Boulder County, the US Forest Service and all

our fire partners to monitor these storms as they pass through. Often, we have trucks out patrolling the areas to make sure we are in position to handle any fires that start as a result.

However, many of the lightning strike fires will not be noticeable until the storm clears or the next day. We have had multiple lightning strikes to trees that do not show any smoke until the next day. Please help us reporting any smoke that you may see after these storms. Even though we have had a lot of rain, we still need to be diligent in preventing wildfires from growing. We will start to dry out in the next few months going forward so you may see

Ukraine family receives help from a family in Allenspark

By Elisabeth Sherwin Redstone Review ALLENSPARK – Several years ago, when I lived in Davis, CA, I was a member of the Davis-Uman Sister City Project.

Uman is a city in Ukraine, south of Kyiv, that is in some respects similar to Davis – both towns had agriculture universities

Kyiv on the top floor of a highrise (even though the apartment number is 213). Stas came to our home in Allenspark, in the summer of 2016 to help us build a bunkhouse. He loved Colorado and took hundreds of photos including at the rodeo in Estes Park.

From my visits to Ukraine and discussions with Stas, I knew there was no love

A wall mural somewhere in Europe. and beautiful parks and were about the same size, roughly 60,000.

I traveled to Ukraine several times in the early 2000s with this group, stayed with our interpreter and visited her family.

On one occasion, ten women from Uman came to Davis on a program paid for by the U.S. State Department. The idea was that they would study democracy and run for a local office when they got home. I’m not sure any of them did. But I got to know some lovely people in Ukraine including Stas, the nephew of our translator.

Stas Potorocha and his wife, Natasha, and their university age son, Mitya, live in

lost between Ukraine and Russia. Even 20 years ago there were signs posted in Ukrainian towns saying “We speak Ukrainian only, not Russian.” So when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, my husband and I were stricken and spent those first few weeks watching the news closely.

I was aware that there is a shipping company that specializes in transport to Eastern Europe including Ukraine. When I phoned Meest (1-800-288-9949) in those early days of the war, they weren’t sure how or if packages would get through. But since then we have been sending about one box a month. None have been

lost. All have been delivered directly to the door of my friend Stas’ apartment.

I can only imagine the thousands of boxes of food and goods that have been sent to Ukraine by American and European friends. The military is siphoning off many items commonly found in stores. So this is what we have sent: rice, beans, canned meats, summer and dried sausages, trail mix, nuts, coffee (instant and ground), tea, chocolate of all kinds, nutella, peanut butter, dried vegetables, dried cheese, dried butter, dried eggs, bags of candy, aspirin, antiseptic creams, socks, hand warmers and battery packs with solar panels so people can charge their phones when the electricity goes out. We also sent solar flashlights, tea candles, sweat shirts, summer clothes, and winter clothes. Also a 3x t-shirt that said “ALLENSPARK.” Then we found out that our friends live next door to a special school for deaf children and we started sending small stuffed animals plus crayons, coloring books and school supplies. Great success.

Both Stas and Natasha are English teachers who continue to work with their students in person and online. Mitya plays the guitar so we sent him some music books, an important diversion. Food is expensive and sometimes the shops don’t have much to offer, and certainly not much variety. Mitya said, “(You sent) a lot of food which was absolutely delicious and interesting because there were some things you wouldn’t see in our stores.”

All Ukrainians who have access to even the smallest plot of land grow vegetables to can and eat through the winter. We in-

fire restrictions being put into effect in the coming weeks.

As a result of our mill levy increase coming in the next few years, I am excited to announce that the Lyons Fire Protection District is in the process of hiring more full-time firefighters and part-time firefighters. This will increase our staffing daily to ensure that we have adequate staff to keep our community safe.

We are anticipating that our newly hired staff will start their positions on September 1, 2022. This is an exciting time for Lyons Fire, and our community. Please feel free to stop by the station and welcome our new firefighters.

Lastly, our schools are coming back in session this month. We are excited to see all our students coming back and being active in our community. Let’s make sure we are looking out for all of our little ones who are walking or riding their bikes during school hours, and also observe our school zones when driving. Lyons Fire will be in our schools again this year talking to them about safety and fire prevention this year, so expect all of them to come home with excitement about seeing our firefighters in their schools and seeing our fire trucks.

Thank you for all the support that you give to the Lyons Fire Protection District.

We appreciate and love our community.

We will continue to improve our service to bring the best possible emergency services to the Lyons Fire Protection District.

We are stronger together.

Peter Zick is the Lyons Fire District Chief. cluded dehydrated vegetables in our packages, and now Natasha has dried vegetables for cooking, which she uses daily. “We use and share with others everything you send,” she said.

How does Mitya feel about his future?

“For the first time in many years I don’t know what my future will be like,” he wrote to us. “Sometimes it is hard to plan your next day. But I am 100 percent sure that the victory will be ours; thus, my future shall be bright.”

Those who are interested in sending packages to this extended family and community can do so by contacting Meest online at www.meest.com or phoning 1-800-288-9949. It is a little cumbersome as Meest has to mail forms to you and you have to fill out the forms and take your boxes to Fedex for shipping. But do it once and the next time it will be simple. Mail boxes to: Stas Potorocha, Entuziastiv St., Building 25/1, Apt. 213, Kyiv, Ukraine 02154. Cell phone 095-254-0809 Elisabeth Sherwin lives in Allenspark. Her grandparents came to Allenspark as summer residents in 1944 and became year-round residents in the 1970s. She wanted to work for a newspaper after college so she moved to Davis, Calif. where she stayed until she retired, then came back to Allenspark.

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MAYOR’S CORNER CEMEX update, a groundbreaking, a bridge, and some goats

By Hollie Rogin, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – It’s been a busy summer in town, and as we get the kids back to school, the action isn’t showing Rogin any signs of letting up.

On August 17, the County Planning Commission will meet to decide whether to recommend approval, approval with conditions, or denial of the CEMEX application to extend their Special Use Permit (SUP) by 15 years. Then, the County Commissioners will meet in September or October to render a final decision.

The County Planning Department posted their recommendation to the Planning Commission online. They are recommending approval of the SUP extension with some conditions. The Town of Lyons recommends denial, which we made very clear in our referral response. County Planning staff assert that there is no linkage between the permits of the Dowe Flats mine and what’s known as the Lyons Quarry,the plant side of the property. However, the Department of Mining and Reclamation has asserted that if Dowe Flats were to close, CEMEX would have to file an amendment to their current operating permit because they’d be using a new feeder mine. Would this be an opportunity for better regulation and control of CEMEX emissions? The plant has been operating with an expired Title V Clean Air Act permit for 16 months. Their application for renewal is with the EPA now.

As it stands, 15 more years of operating at an output of 370,000 tons of CO2 per year would lead to more than 5.5 million tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere

by the time CEMEX says they will close the plant. The plant burns 7 tons of coal per hour, 24 hours per day, every day of the year. That’s about 920,000 tons of coal over the next 15 years.

The County Commissioner meeting date and time has yet to be announced; the County Planning Commission meeting can be found here: https://boulder-

(CHFA). Kudos to town staff for working with Paul Capps from Summit Housing to put on an outstanding event.

When the development is complete, it will consist of 40 rental units: 24 singlefamily homes and 16 apartments in four 4plexes. These homes will be available to people who make 60 percent, or under, of the area average median income. And pur-

Goats are coming to Lyons as part of a fire mitigation plan. They will clear areas of fire fuel and eat up all the noxious weeds, fertilizing the soil as they go. Not a baaaaad idea. county.gov/government/boards-and-comm issions/planning-commission/.

If you’d like to speak at this meeting, please register in advance.

In other news, on Friday, August 5, we were pleased to welcome Governor Jared Polis and Congressman Joe Neguse to the Summit Housing groundbreaking ceremony.

Also joining us were Alison O’Kelly from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) and Steve Johnson from the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority

suant to the town’s agreement with Summit Housing, people who were displaced by the flood will be at the top of the applicant list. Stay tuned for more about the application process.

By the time you read this, the 4th Avenue Pedestrian Bridge will likely have been placed on its abutments. But that doesn’t mean it’s quite ready for prime time strolling. The contractor is working on the approaches, wing walls, and landscaping.

No matter how enticing it is, it’s important

to avoid the construction area and not use the bridge quite yet. Be on the lookout for a fun ribbon-cutting ceremony very soon.

Have you noticed more goats than usual around town? If not, you likely will soon. The Board of Trustees approved contracting with two goat fire mitigation services, Firehouse Farms and Goat Mowers LLC, to clear land of fire fuel and eat noxious weeds, all without the noise and pollution of traditional methods. According to Firehouse Farms, goats are part of the local ecosystem. Their use for weed and fire mitigation is incredibly environmentally-friendly; they fertilize, till soil, and have special enzymes in their four stomachs that work to break down and destroy any consumed seeds, making the seeds unviable in any future seasons.

Using goats for fire and weed mitigation is less expensive, less polluting, and more fun than traditional methods. Plus, the weeds don’t come back, which will save us money and time in the future.

Firehouse Farms will bring about ten goats to eat the yummy August grass and weeds in the area surrounding 377 Park Drive. The goats are named after Disney characters, and they will be in residence for three to four weeks. Goat Mowers will bring their herd of 35 or 40 goats to the open area west of Horizon Drive (the Lyons Playground) for four days, beginning on September 6. Be sure to swing by and say hello to your new temporary neighbors.

Hollie Rogin was sworn in as Mayor of Lyons on April 18, 2022. Before that she was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees for the term of 2020 – 2022. In 2015, Hollie created the foundation for what is now the City of Boulder’s Commercial Affordability program on a pro bono basis. While serving as a Trustee, she was the Board liaison to the Economic Vitality Commission and the Historic Preservation Commission.

US House passes Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act

By Joe Neguse, US Congressman Redstone Review BOULDER – As some of you may have heard, the last week of July was Wildfire Week in Washington D.C., and I was proud to work alongside my colleagues in Neguse securing House passage of my legislation, the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act. On Friday, July 29, the House of Representatives voted to invest in critical mitigation efforts for communities like Lyons and many others across our nation impacted by climate-induced disasters. The bill, a tremendous package of wildfire mitigation and drought resiliency reforms, contained proposals from nearly fifty stand-alone bills, including many of our own.

Here in Colorado, we are no stranger to the devastation caused by these terrible tragedies. From the 2013 flood in Lyons to the record-breaking Marshall Fire just this past December, far too many families are forced to bear the bur-

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The federal government must provide an all-handson-deck approach to recovery, creating and funding several programs that support community rebuilding and bolster environmental resiliency. And for the families across the country who have lost their homes due to wildfires and floods, and for the countless communities impacted by historic drought, this legislation provides exactly that.

Specifically, our office was able to attach a number of key priorities, including to increase flexibility in the federal cost share for Fire Management Assistance Grants and bring in additional resources for communities as they rebuild from wildfire damage (The Wildfire Recovery Act), and to provide federal emergency assistance to atrisk individuals in Colorado and nationwide suffering from unhealthy air quality caused by wildfire smoke (The Wildfire Smoke Relief Act).

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LYONS The Diner Bar opens in Lyons

By Jim Ramsay Redstone Review LYONS – When Aaron and Cassandra Esserman decided to start a restaurant, they asked friends and acquaintances what Ramsay kind of restaurant they would like to see in Lyons. Some said a breakfast place where you can eat outside on the patio, have early morning coffee, and catch up on your emails.

Others said they’d prefer a lunch place with plenty of options or a bar where you can meet others after work. Still others wanted to see a dinner venue for the whole family where you can hear live music, shoot pool, play foosball, or just relax on the patio in the evening. So, the Essermans decided to do them all.

It has always been Aaron’s dream to own a neighborhood diner in a small town, and now he and his wife Cassandra are doing just that at the Diner Bar at 160 East Main St., open 7 a.m. to midnight Tuesday through Sunday. They also draw on their food truck experience to provide catering for community events.

Aaron brings a lifetime of culinary training and experience to the table, most recently from Austin, Texas where he and Cass won the Trucklandia competition with their CluckNBurger food truck. Yearning for the opportunity to be hands-on owners of their own restaurant in a small town, they opened the Diner Bar on July 13.

Tastefully decorated with 50s diner highlights and artwork from the Western

Stars Gallery, with whom they share the building, the Diner Bar can seat up to 80 people in booths or at the bar inside, and the patio can seat 60 or more outside. The Diner features a foosball table, two pool tables, and a mean green espresso machine ready to deliver your favorite coffee drinks any time of day or night.

Aaron began his culinary career at age 14, washing dishes and asking how things are done in fine restaurants, and he became the cook at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for the Esserman family. He went on to study culinary arts at the Johnson and Wales Universities in Miami and Denver.

The Esserman family moved a lot, from Houston, Texas to Tampa, Florida, even living in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a spell, and they often vacationed in Colorado. Aaron worked at ski resorts in Vail, snowboarding during the day and cooking in a hotel at night. He moved to Nederland to work at the Marriot in Boulder, then the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, but the corporate environment and winter commute proved too much. Now he prefers running his own show in a small town.

The Diner Bar menu includes breakfast items served all day, soups and salads, lunchies, munchies, and a build-your-own choice of a beef sandwich or foot-long hot dog with a variety of cheeses, sauces, additional proteins and cool veggies. They have 14 local and international beers on tap and a variety of cocktails, plus bottles and cans and wines and something called a honey nut o’s whiskey breakfast shot from locally sourced spirits for the truly brave. Happy hour is daily from 3 to 5 p.m.

Co-Responder Program pairs mental health workers with law enforcement

By Kim Mitchell Redstone Review LYONS – In partnership with the Boulder County Sherriff’s office, the Town of Lyons announces a social service program to help law enforcement with mental health or substance abuse crisis calls.

This program is funded jointly through the State of Colorado Office of Behavioral Health and the Boulder County Community Services Department. The teams have been working and responding in Boulder County for about two years now.

The Boulder County Co-Responder Program consists of a clinically trained team that works directly with law enforcement on calls that involve mental health or substance use crises, and that program now provides help in Lyons as well as unincorporated Boulder County.

The Town of Lyons would like to introduce Lynette Anderson, who is based out of Lyons and is the local member of the Boulder County Co-Responder Team.

The co-responder staff work with people of all ages and can respond anywhere in Boulder County. Historically, coresponders were “nested” with Lafayette and Erie Police De-

Aaron and Cassandra Esserman have opened the Diner Bar at 160 East Main St., open 7 a.m. to midnight every day except Monday.

The Diner Bar offers live music on the patio stage Thursdays through Sundays, with a blues jam every Thursday night and acoustic duos from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sundays. They will soon be offering free wifi paired with espresso and chai for remote workers, and they are working with the American Poolplayers Association to host a local league for pool players.

So, if you’re looking for a place for a drink after work, a cup of espresso, an early breakfast, live music, or just a place to hang out, then check out the Diner Bar. Jim Ramsay was born in Iowa and grew up in Iran, Nigeria and Afghanistan. He gradu-

partments, and with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office (Superior and rural Boulder County). With funding from both the State and Boulder County, a Lyons position was created, The Lyons co-responder will be housed in the Lyons Sheriff’s substation, closely communicating with Boulder County deputies, and will be much closer to the foothills and mountain areas.

“Like many agencies, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Department has seen an increase in needs to help people who are having more of a behavioral crisis,” said team member and Lyons Co-Responder Lynette Anderson. “The Co-Responder program is a way to be proactive; to try to remedy the problem with families and health services with a long-term goal.”

What types of things can a Co-Responder help with?

Mental health and substance use issues; Crisis de-escalation; Linking individuals and families to supportive services within Boulder County; Reduce unnecessary incarcerations and hospitalizations How do I contact a Co-Responder, or ask for Co-Responder services? If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, call 911 and request a co-responder to respond.

If you have questions or are not sure if your situation is a crisis, you can email your Lyons Co-Responder at landerson@bouldercounty.org, and she can assist you. Co-responders work seven days a week, from noon till 8 p.m.

“We are aiming for long-term effects building on the social services made available to the public in order to have more impactful service calls. When law enforcement and social-service agencies work together, our communities are both safer and better supported,” Anderson said.

ated high school in Switzerland and studied English at CU in Boulder. Diploma in hand, he moved his wife and daughter to Tanzania to visit his parents. They found jobs in a local international school and stayed for two years.

The next stop was the University of Illinois for master’s degrees, then back to Boulder to teach English to foreign students. An affinity for computers led Jim from teaching to technical writing, and he spent the next 30 years writing manuals for tech companies up and down the Front Range. He and his second wife Deborah moved from Boulder to Pinewood Springs, where they shared a dream of mountain living until her death at the end of 2020. He’s still up there.

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I can’t wait to have some fun with you all this month and, yes, that includes exercise. Join us in Bohn Park every Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30 a.m. to get that heart pumping.

Lyons-area art and crafters sought for regional festival in Estes Park ESTES PARK – Vendors from as far away as Cheyenne, Wyo. and Colorado Springs come to Estes Park every fall for the eclectic Treasure Tables Arts and Crafts Festival and Sale, sponsored by a nonprofit philanthropic educational organization on October 29.

“We have moved to a new bigger location and are opening up the sale to more vendors,” said Nancy Hills, event organizer.

“We are looking for vendors from Lyons, Longmont, Boulder, and throughout the Front Range. We will have Allenspark Hilltop Guild crafts and goods for sale at one of our tables, too.”

The regional event takes place this year on Saturday, October 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It features free parking, free admission, several food trucks, a bake sale and more than 44 vendors welcoming the public at the Fairgrounds, 1125 Rooftop Way, Estes Park. The event will be indoors at the main Event Center.

Last year more than 600 people attended, even though masks were required. “This year even more people are expected,” said Hills. Inside the Event Center, myriad items will be for sale from fresh flowers, glassware, fanciful soaps, lotions and essential oils, keepsakes or ornaments, art work, candles, stained glass art, books, pottery, household and food products.

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CONTRAST Charles Valentine Engert and frontier justice

By Monique Sawyer Lang Redstone Review LYONS – Occasionally, Lyons Redstone Museum staff comes across interesting stories of former Sawyer-Lang Lyons residents. One such person is Charles Engert, who came to Lyons by covered wagon in 1899 with his wife Sarah and their three daughters: Eugenia, Ora, and Legora. Engert held a number of jobs over the years he lived in Lyons, including bookkeeper for the Lyons Rock and Lime Quarry, Superintendent at the Sites & Buell Stone Quarry, Town Marshall, and Clerk of Lyons. He was also the Deputy Assessor, Deputy Water Commissioner and served as the Postmaster from 1920 to 1936.

Life changed dramatically for Engert and his family the morning of December 14, 1919 when he shot and killed Charles Thomas, husband of his daughter Legora, at the Engert home at Second and Main in Lyons. The following is an accounting of events from the December 20, 1919 Lyons Recorder front page article, under the headline: “TO SAVE HIS DAUGHTER’S LIFE MR. ENGERT KILLS HIS

SON-IN-LAW.” “Last Sunday morning at about 10:30 a sharp crack of a gun rang out from the home of Charles V. Engert in the east end of town. For a time, it was thought that one Charles Thomas, had shot his wife or some other member of the family, which he had said he would do. The thought was so strong in the minds of the neighbors that they hesitated to go near the house, in fear that Thomas might get them. But when it was known that Thomas was beyond harm, the neighbors and friends gathered around the home and comforted the family as far as possible.

“Charles Thomas and Mr. Engert’s daughter were married twelve years ago; they lived together in Estes Park for some eight or nine years. Since that time Thomas has been making more or less trouble with his wife.

“About two weeks ago, not being able to stand his abuse and threats any longer, Mrs. Thomas came to the home of her parents in Lyons for safety. From that time on, Thomas was more bold with his threats and abuse. It appears his particular hobby was to get his wife to sign over to him a little house that she owned at Estes Park.

“On Thursday before the tragedy, Thomas came to the Engert home and

In 1919, Charles Engert shot and killed his son-in-law during a violent domestic dispute with his daughter. made more trouble. At that time, he was so violent that Mr. Engert realized that something would have to be done to protect his daughter and the family; accordingly, he went over to Boulder on Saturday and had a consultation with the District Attorney as regards to putting Thomas under peace bonds. After talking it over, it was decided that Mrs. Thomas should file for divorce and include a protection

Ten years after a devastating flood, Lyons had a groundbreaking to replace the 75 housing units lost

By Kim Mitchell and Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review LYONS – It has been a long time coming, much longer than anyone expected, but now 8 years and 10 months after a devasting flood that literally tore the town into several islands without electricity, water, sewer service, or phone service, Lyons is going to replace a part of the housing that was lost during the flood.

The day was hot, exceptionally hot; the sun was relentless, so different from the relentless rain that pounded the telephone lines into giant bundles on the ground and in the river during the flood.

Several of the Lyons Board of Trustees, both past and present, of the Town of Lyons joined the public in a groundbreaking ceremony for an affordable housing development at the intersection of Carter Drive and McConnell Drive in Lyons.

The celebratory groundbreaking was cohosted by Summit Housing, the developer, on Friday, August 5. President of Summit Housing Group, Paul Capps, gave the opening remarks and introduced Governor Jarod Polis. Congressman Joe Neguse and representatives with the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) and the Colorado Division of Housing all partici-

The August 5 groundbreaking ceremony for Lyons’ affordable housing development.

Left to right: former Lyons Trustee Mark Browning; Steve Johnson from the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA);Governor Jared Polis; Congressman Joe Neguse; Mayor Hollie Rogin; and Alison O’Kelley from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA).

PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS pated in the ceremony.

“I represented this area during the flood 10 years ago and many people are still affected by the flood,” said Governor Jared Polis, who was congressman in Colorado during the flood. “This (housing) will help those people and expand the market of homes in Lyons.”

Paul Capps said, “There will be a ribbon cutting here in 9 months (when Summit

finishes the affordable project). Now families will be able to live in Lyons that otherwise were not able to before. We want to be sure that home ownership is a priority.”

The affordable housing development is located within the Town of Lyons, which is nestled in the foothills of northwestern Boulder County. The complex will have a total of 40 units: 24 two- and three-bedroom single family homes and four multi-

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clause in the bill. This was started before Mr. Engert came home Saturday night.

“On Sunday morning Thomas arrived at the Engert home and asked to see his wife alone. They went down into the basement, which is a large and light room with a ground opening on the south side of the house. In a short time, Mr. and Mrs. Engert heard loud and harsh talk being made by Thomas, and then a sudden scream from their daughter. Mrs. Engert rushed out and around the house to the basement door. Mr. Engert followed, but took the precaution to take a single barrel shot gun with him as he knew Thomas had a gun on his person.

When Mrs. Engert reached the basement door, she found that it was buttoned on the inside; she plunged against the door and it flew open. Just at this time Mr. Engert arrived behind his wife. They beheld Thomas holding the arm of the daughter and in a wild manner swinging a revolver in his hand. Mr. Engert placed the shot gun partially over his wife’s head and pulled the trigger. There was a loud report and Thomas dropped back with a charge of duck shot in his temple, dying almost instantly.

“The coroner was notified and he and a deputy sheriff arrived from Boulder about noon. Mr. Engert’s neighbors gathered around the sheriff and asked him to fix a bond as they were ready to sign it. We overheard one of our wealthiest citizens Continue Museum on Page 11

family buildings, each with four two-bedroom apartments. These 40 affordable homes are instrumental in meeting the town’s affordable housing goals.

“Affordable housing continues to be a major priority for the Town of Lyons. The town, along with Summit Housing Group and our other community partners, such as the Division of Housing under the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, anticipates this helping individuals and families within our community, new neighbors, and perhaps most pointedly, those who were displaced following the flood of 2013,” said Mayor Hollie Rogin, Town of Lyons. “We have been working with our partners on this project for several years. This is the culmination of nearly nine years of working with our community, our partners, the state of Colorado, and Summit Housing. We couldn’t be more pleased.”

The project has received $4 million in funding using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CBDGDR) funds to support replacement of residential housing units lost during the devastating September 2013 flood.

The Town of Lyons is committed to the Boulder County Regional Housing Goals of providing 10 to 12 percent of affordable housing units. This development will make significant strides toward that goal and provide vital, affordable rental housing for costburdened individuals and families.

Kim Mitchell is Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Town of Lyons. Kim has called Lyons home since 2009.

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OPPORTUNITY Bird parents have to teach tough love

By Peter Butler Redstone Review LYONS – We are used to seeing red-tailed hawks in the sky and occasionally hearing that piercing cry that they always use in Butler Hollywood movies when they want to indicate desert or wilderness.

It’s easy to treat them like our local familiars, but a closer look reveals a family drama suitable for reality TV. When our friend Leah lived on Apple Valley Road, next to where the river used to be, before the flood, there was a very tall dead tree on the edge of her land. It was a clean vertical pole about 80 feet tall with a cluster of small dead branches at the top.

Each year a pair of red-tailed hawks would return to an old nest and raise a family. Sometimes there would be three or four fluffy white babies, visible through binoculars at the beginning of the season, but somehow there would only be one or two remaining by the time they were getting restless and flopping around the branches trying out their wings.

The parents worked relentlessly to bring food. It is difficult to identify a straggly lump clutched in those fearsome talons as a rabbit or other erstwhile ground dweller, but when they brought snakes, it was obvious from the long dangling silhouette what was arriving. The other white meat.

One of the great joys of summer around here is witnessing the flying lesson day. We would be spending a typical lazy Sunday morning having a coffee on the patio when the family would come into view, wheeling overhead.

At a fairly low elevation there would be

three or four hawks looping in circles. It is easy to identify mom and dad as they are effortlessly and silently soaring with almost no movement. They use just the slightest flex of a wing tip to adjust steering, in contrast to the desperate flapping of a baby. It’s just so hard to do what mum and dad do and those pectoral muscles are aching like crazy. Let’s tell the world how hard we are struggling. “Kwee. Kwee.” We humans below share the moment with amusement.

“Look at this baby trying so hard. Isn’t it cute?” Deep down there is the fundamental jealousy of any land lubber mammal looking at an avian master of the sky.

But only a few days after flying lesson day the family tragedy occurs. The parents do a bunk and leave the baby or babies to fend for themselves. I have imagined various scenarios as to how this happens.

My favorite theory is the mom gives a special wink to dad late at night when Baby has just gone to sleep and they silently take to the sky. In the morning Baby wakes up and there is not the usual warm downy body into which to nestle.

But it’s worse than that. Baby is all alone.

That is when the bleating begins. All though June and July we might be walking on the land and we’ll hear pitiful keening in the distance. It’s a sound that carries a long way: usually four, five or six repetitions of “kee”or “qwee”or “qwee qwee qwee qwee.” It is such a sorrowful song full of loss and misery, fit for a Wagner aria.

We try to send reassuring vibes, but Baby is inconsolable.

Last week I was running on Apple Valley Road and as I turned up Antelope Road, I could see baby No 1 on top of a ponderosa, keening the four-pattern as I passed underneath. The feathers of the im-

mature red-tail are a bit of a yard sale of colors and textures, and they haven’t acquired the burnished gleam that needs one or two feather molts.

As I passed beneath baby No 1, I could hear another more distant whining of perhaps the sibling orphan, baby No 2, at the other end of Apple Valley. Not one hour ago I was returning home and saw Baby No 1 sitting in the top of a small ponderosa, and almost at once her brother turned up in a swooping twig grab to claim the perch and force his sibling away. Frat boy pranks in the hawk world tend to be pointy and risky to encounter.

Maybe its behavior was caused by parental loss PTSD. By the time the cooler days of fall arrive,

Falling apart, some reassembly required

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – I have enough metal in my body now to be listed on the commodities market. And there’s more to come. I’m Lowell definitely a “buy.”

I’ve been falling apart with regularity since I came to Colorado. I blame it on the thin air, but the truth is I’m an orthopedic surgeon’s dream because of what my wife sometimes calls my hyperactivity.

There’s not a ball sport I haven’t played (well, maybe not Irish hurling) or an outdoor activity I haven’t tried, except rock climbing because as a Clint Eastwood character opined, “a man’s got to know his limits.”

And throughout all of these sporting excursions, my knee, hip and shoulder joints have taken a pounding and have been or will be replaced. (Oddly, I have zero back issues.)

No doubt also contributing to my physical breakdown is that I’ve probably tried most of the known exercise programs, from Charles Atlas’ “Dynamic Tension” to yoga, which being the lone man in a class with twenty leotarded women I found a bit distracting.

I’m certain that my lack of technique and overdoing some exercises contributed to my balky joints. One of my teammates in high school was a weightlifter long before Schwarzenegger made it popular, and the

football coach decided we should all lift. We cobbled together equipment and trusted our musclebound teammate to lead us. Trying one exercise he improperly demonstrated, I dislocated my shoulder, which then dislocated about a hundred more times over the years, leading to the dreaded bone-on-bone I now have, and which will necessitate a new shoulder this October.

When I started having hip issues a few years ago, which eventually led to a replacement, I first went to a physical therapist who suspected I had strained my psoas muscle (who knew I even had one?). She asked me what I was doing for exercises at the YMCA, and I told her about this nifty slant board they had where you hooked your feet at the top and did really difficult 45-degree sit-ups. Not one to pull punches, she looked straight at me and said, “What’re you in junior high? Don’t EVER do those. They’re the worst thing you can do!”

Good thing she never saw my pushup and pullup routines.

My knees went little by little by little.

First, the nagging pain and soreness, then the torn meniscus that was trimmed via arthroscopies and finally the metal knees.

The interesting thing is, I never had any trauma to my knees, despite all the sports I played, the miles I ran, and all the skiing and ice skating. I do know for sure that playing basketball in my 30s on a concrete gym floor and trying to relive my glory

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One of the author’s many new parts days by playing baseball when I was in my mid-40s didn’t help my knees. Nor did my regular noon run on city streets. I was never an enthusiastic runner, never experienced any sort of a “runner’s high,” but it was the easiest way for me to stay in shape to further hurt myself in other activities (see, hoops on concrete floor).

Now I’m like Steve Austin on the $6 Million Man TV show, except my artificial body parts are paid for by Medicare so I’m

the yearlings’ grief seems to have calmed and they start to assume adult independence. Next year they will go on to find a partner, and nest and mate and raise a new generation. Eventually, they too will do the dastardly deed of abandonment. So next time you hear the juvenile hawk cry of loneliness, please spare them a sympathetic thought.

Peter Butler was born in India and lived in a house facing a giant kapok tree. Growing up in England there were trees but never quite enough. After qualifying as biochemist there as a gradual evolution into being a graphic designer. He and his wife Deirdre moved to the States in 1997 and to Lyons in 2000. Finally, there are enough trees.

more like the $60 Thousand Dollar Man, hardly a catchy moniker for a TV hit.

And it’s not just my knees, hips and shoulders that are being reassembled. I’ve also got an assortment of screws and washers in my face that rivals Clark’s Hardware bins. They were installed to keep my left orbital bone together after I ate some Longmont pavement on my bike.

Am I a klutz? Possibly. I am long on enthusiasm and short on technique. But there’s also hereditary issues. My mom and dad had five knee replacements between them. My older sister has had a couple new knees and a hip, as well. Somehow my brother avoided joint replacements, possibly because professional musicians tend not to wear out their knees.

The object of this litany is to offer some advice and hope for any reader who has severe knee, hip or shoulder pain and has been advised to have a replacement or two.

Just do it. No sense living with the pain, and you’ll feel like a twelve-year old afterwards, less the social awkwardness. Find a good surgeon (trust me, I know a couple) and get well.

Sure, like me, someday when you’re gone and you’re cremated your body will look like The Terminator after the gasoline truck explosion, but in the meantime, you’ll feel better and get back on track with your new metallic life.

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INSIGHT Lots happening in the news, both bad and good, but we still need election reform to protect voting rights

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – As I write this, the Inflation Reduction Act has passed the Senate on a straight party line vote – 50 to 50, with Gierach Vice President Kamila Harris casting the tie-breaker – and will now go back to the House where it started and where it’s expected to pass.

This bill may or may not actually reduce inflation, but it is budgetary, which is how it passed with a simple majority, thereby sidestepping the filibuster that Republicans have used to block anything and everything back to the Obama administration and beyond. It’s the filibuster that explains why the Democrats can hold all three branches of government, but still not be able to call the shots. (That, plus senators like Joe Machin and Kirsten Senima who are dedicated to throwing a wrench in the works of their own party’s agenda for reasons you can determine by following the money.)

But assuming it passes the House and is signed into law, the act will do a lot of other good things like investing over $300 billion dollars in energy and climate reform, another $60 billion for renewable energy infrastructure, provide more support for wind and solar energy, lower greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the end of the decade, lower the cost of prescription drugs, put a minimum 15 percent tax on corporations making more than a billion dollars a year (most now pay far less) and so on. If you care enough to have followed this, you know what’s in the bill, and if not, you aren’t even reading this column.

And that’s not the only accomplishment so far in the Biden administration.

We’ve also seen the American Rescue Plan Act, the biggest year of job growth in history, over three quarters of the adult

population vaccinated against COVID in the face of massive disinformation, a bipartisan gun safety measure (toothless, but still something) the Infrastructure Act, expanded healthcare and the assassination of Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 architect Ayman al-Zawahiri.

But then just as President Biden was preparing to take a victory lap over the Inflation Reduction Act, the FBI raided Mar-

little bump, but it won’t be much and it won’t last. People are cynical about legislation with good reason. Mostly it languishes while politicians grandstand and even when it does pass, it often doesn’t fulfill its promises. More money has now been allocated to climate measures than ever before, but there’s still a climate disaster every week on average with no end in sight and, the title of the bill notwithstanding, infla-

a-Lago, former President Trump’s private club in Florida, looking for and finding stolen classified documents. The documents have been reported to have top secret information about nuclear weapons. Republicans are naturally saying this was political, but if it really had been coordinated with the White House, Attorney General Garland would have waited an extra day or two so Biden could bask in a few news cycles before the next big thing hit the fan.

It’s too soon to know if the bill and/or the raid will move the needle on Biden’s low approval ratings. I suspect there’ll be a

tion continues to drain our bank accounts.

I also doubt that the rumblings among Democrats about Biden not running for a second term will quiet down for long. He’s actually done a remarkable job under the circumstances, but he’s 79 and there are those who think he’s too old. It’s something to think about. I’m four years younger than Biden and if I ever had the energy and concentration it takes to be president (which is doubtful) I lost it decades ago. The presidency is known to turn peoples’ hair gray, but what if your hair is gray when you take office and there

Library offers cultural passes for museums, state parks; learn negotiating skills and more

By Kara Bauman Redstone Review LYONS – Your Lyons Community Library wishes to thank those who participated in the Oceans of Possibilities-themed Summer Reading Program. Readers of all ages helped us crush our community-wide readBauman ing goal of 100,000 minutes by logging a whopping 126,091 minutes.

Congratulations to all our readers, loggers, program attendees and prize winners. We also extend our thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring both the Beanstack tracking app as well as prizes for this year’s program.

Thanks are also in order to the Colorado State Library for their annual grant funding that we leverage in all sorts of fun ways: STEM kits, Wonderbooks, games, American Girls dolls, and this year, a set of cultural passes for local families. We now offer free passes to the Fiske Planetarium, the Longmont Museum, and the WOW Children’s Museum. Each family is eligible for one pass per month and passes may be reserved from Tuesday through Monday up to one month in advance. Don’t forget, we also offer one-week checkout of passes to all Colorado state parks.

The fall Storytime session resumes on August 23. Stories, activities, and playtime for babies takes place in the library’s Community Room each Tuesday beginning at 10:30 a.m.

Walkers, toddlers, preschoolers, and their caregivers are invited to a story and craft each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m.

After a successful inaugural year, we are also pleased to

announce the school-year return of our Teen Advisory Group (TAG). TAG will meet the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. Teens will contribute to the development and planning of library events for their age group, will make suggestions for book purchases for the Young Adult collection, and will offer ideas for creating a comfortable, safe, and fun atmosphere for teens at the library. Teens can earn volunteer credit and food will be provided courtesy of the Friends of the Library. Register with Youth Services Librarian Becki Loughlin.

Are you interested in building a community of belonging and inclusion in Lyons but still unsure about signing up for the SEED Seminar? We invite those on the fence to one of two information sessions: August 25 at 4 p.m. or August 27 at 10 a.m. Learn more about this opportunity to share personal stories about our identities to connect in meaningful ways with one another; use articles, books and videos as windows into different identities; and explore and discuss systems of power, oppression and privilege. Bring your questions and discover why this important series will be worth every minute.

The act of negotiating occurs in many aspects of life, and

isn’t even that much of it?

But most of all, Biden, along with Attorney General Merrick Garland and Congress, seem to be fumbling election reform, which we don’t have and desperately need.

Our last presidential election was a pitiful, third world s*** storm ending not with a peaceful transition of power, but with a nearly successful attempt to violently overthrow the government. The midterms – just a few months away – seem to be on the same track and so does 2024.

The Republican calculation is simple: if we can’t get people to vote for us, we’ll keep them from voting, and if things somehow go against us anyway, we’ll nullify the results and install our own candidates. No more democratic elections because – as Trump himself once said – Republicans would never win.

In many Republican-controlled states there are already voter suppression laws on the books or in the works, as well as election officials in place or running who say they’ll nullify any vote that doesn’t go their way. There may already be enough of both in place to throw a national election and there could well be more after the midterms. Ironically, our last free and fair election may turn out to be the one that put Donald Trump in office.

This should have been at the top of Biden’s list when he took office – especially since he was elected, but almost didn’t take office – but for some reason it wasn’t. A friend in Maine says it’s because he thinks he’s still living in the Ford Administration when politics was unquestionably dirty, but there were still a few things we all agreed on, like democracy and the rule of law.

I voted for Biden last time not only because Trump was unthinkable and he was the only viable alternative, but because he was smart and persistent and understood the legislative process from the inside out.

But now I’m beginning to suspect that putting a mild-mannered old man who plays by the rules up against violent insurrectionists who’ll stop at nothing was like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

we invite you to explore the skills necessary to articulate what you want with clarity, represent your own interests, avoid self-sabotage, build alliances, and create the best environment for a successful outcome at our Negotiation Skills with Joan Treece program on September 14 at 6:30 p.m.

Treece is a long-time Lyons resident who honed her negotiation skills over nine years as the Vice President of Operations for a unionized manufacturing workforce in Boulder.

Join us for the next installment of the Busy Reader’s Book Club on September 21 at 6:30 p.m. when we will meet to discuss Afterlife by Julia Alvarez. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this moment of political tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis, including – maybe especially – members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves?

And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?

Please visit the library’s website for additional information on any of our exciting programs and to reserve your spot. The Lyons Community Library opens Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. We close at 5 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays; 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays; and 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

Our online catalog is available 24/7 at lyons.colibraries.org and we’re always open for digital downloads of ebooks and eaudio on both the Libby and CloudLibrary apps. Give us a call at 303-823-5165 or email info@lyonslibrary.com with any questions.

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COMMUNITY Mark your calendars: Hootenanny at River Bend to take place on August 28

By Tanya Daty Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) and Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund (LEAF) are teaming together for a second year to bring you a fun-filled family-friendly event. The end Mercer-Daty of summer Hootenanny at River Bend is set for Sunday, August 28 from 2 to 7 p.m.

There will be something for everyone: live music, kids zone, dance performance, silent auction, cornhole tournament and the ever popular rubber ducky race. I cannot think of a better way to support two of my favorite nonprofit organizations in town.

Since LEAF has had difficulty sourcing food for Lyons Community Food Pantry, it would be greatly appreciated if you could bring one or more of the following food items to donate: sliced bread, condiments (ketchup, pickles, jam, jelly, honey, mustard, mayo, etc), cereal, snacks (crackers, chips, fruit snacks, etc), tomato products (tomato sauce, paste, pasta sauce, etc), canned meals like ravioli, stew, soup (but not chicken noodle). LEAF’s van will be parked outside the entrance. Feel free to drop by donations as you enter the event space.

The Hootenanny will feature live music from Daniel Rodriguez and friends. You may know this singer-songwriter as he is based in Lyons. He was a founding member of the band Elephant Revival. Rumor has it that Rodriguez is currently on tour with the Lumineers. Boulder Weekly refers to Rodriguez’s voice as “A timeless voice, deep and hearty, weathered but comforting.” We are very grateful that he has accepted to entertain us from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Perfect for a Lyons Hootenanny.

In addition to musical entertainment, we will feature two dance performances by Lyons’ very own Mayama Dance Company. We always look forward to seeing what the fantastic local dance company has in store. And, they will show us some moves to try out, so be sure to wear your dancing shoes or cowboy boots. They will be performing from 4:45 to 5:15 p.m.

For the kiddos, we’ll have a wonderful children’s area designed and presented by Rainbow Lightning Productions, whose mission is to keep the inner child inspired.

At the rubber duck race finish line.

This nonprofit based out of Crestone, Colorado creates playscapes and activities where kids can have an exploratory and fun experience. Colorado Fairy Hair will pay us a visit from 2 to 5 p.m. for all of you who are looking to add a little sparkle to your hair.

The rubber duck race will take place at 5:30 p.m. when we will be dropping the ducks in the river from the bridge on Highway 36. Watching the ducks float down the river is so much fun. You can still sign up for your duck numbers at the Sandstone concerts on Wednesday, August 17 and 24. You can also register the day of the Hootenanny from 2 to 5 p.m. at the LEAF tent. The cost per ducky is $5. A raft of ducks cost $20 for five. The cash prize for first place

is $100, second place is $50, and third place is $25.

There will also be a cornhole tournament for cornhole lovers of all ages. We are offering a $100 cash prize for the winners of the cornhole tournament. That’s right, there’ll be a cornhole tournament with help from Longmont’s former Cornhole Champion. You can sign up at the LEAF booth at the final Sandstone concert. Plan to get there early to participate. The cost is $10 per team of two.

Since this is a fundraiser, we are planning a silent auction, too. We will feature chances to win mountain getaways, a local staycation or a stay in a lovely Mexican casa near the ocean. We will offer all kinds of services from oil changes to massages to estate planning. We will also have local art, concert tickets, dinners, airplane rides and more.

Come to the Hootenanny to shop and check out an awesome way to take away something for yourself while supporting LEAF and LCF. But wait, there’s more. What if you get hungry or thirsty?

There will be three food trucks at the Hootenanny, with a variety of food for sale. McDevitt Tacos will have a variety of tacos on offer, including gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan choices. For you seafood fans, check out The Rollin’ Lobster, with lobster, crab cakes, and whoopie pies. For dessert, you can also indulge in ice cream treats from Sweet Cow. Yes, the MooMobile will be at the Hootenanny, dishing out your favorite flavors like Ozo coffee and chocolate chip cookie dough in cups, cones, or ice cream sammies.

Ah, but you’ve worked up a mighty thirst with all this activity, so we will have a choice of beverages for purchase, including wine, Oskar Blues beer and hard seltzer or Spirit Hound vodka lemonade to quench your thirst on the last of these summer days by the river.

We want to thank all the sponsors of the event who are helping to pay for the overhead costs. We appreciate your generosity. If you bring a motorized vehicle, we are asking for $5 for parking. Please leave your furry friends at home.

Come out and have some fun and help those in need at the same time. It’s definitely a win-win at the Hootenanny.

Tanya Mercer-Daty is the new Marketing and Communications Associate for Lyons Community Foundation. She has lived in Lyons for the past eight years after immigrating to the USA with her family in 2011. Feel free to contact her at tanya@lyonscf.org.

A look at galaxies born in the first 1 billion years of the universe

By Daniel Strain and Nicholas Goda University of Colorado Media Stories Redstone Review BOULDER – A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals galaxies born during the first 1 billion years of the universe.

Take a peek at “Cosmic Cliffs” that stretch dozens of light-years across; bubbles of gas and dust expelled by a dying star; and the blur of galaxies that formed less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

NASA released the first images in July taken by the James Webb Space Telescope – an instrument that launched in December 2021 and carries the largest mirror ever to make it beyond Earth. These first new glimpses of the universe reveal the birth and death of stars, collisions between galaxies and the deepest look yet into space and time.

John Bally is a professor emeritus in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at CU Boulder and will dive into the new images at three events at the Fiske Planetarium (two of which are already sold out). He took a moment with CU Boulder planetary sciences students and faculty in July to talk about these new images, why telescopes are like time machines and why, for James Webb, the best is yet to come.

What is so exciting about the James Webb Telescope and these new images?

“Telescopes are like time machines. Because of the finite speed of light, the farther you look into space, the farther you see back in time,” Bally said. “By looking ever farther into space with James Webb, we can reconstruct and literally watch the evolution of matter in the cosmos – from the very first galaxies up to the present.

With luck, we can see the first stars to emerge from our universe, the first galaxies to emerge from our universe.”

Scientists can infer the existence of dark matter from the light emitted by galaxies in the cluster SMACS 0720.

President Biden released a telescope

Young stars form from clouds of interstellar gas and dust in the stellar “nursery” of the Carina Nebula.

PHOTO BY NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI image of a galaxy cluster called SMACS 0723. This is an image of a cluster of galaxies located about 5 or 6 billion light-years away from us. The gravitational field of the galaxy cluster is acting as a natural lens to magnify and amplify the light of distant galaxies from the early universe.

In the image you can see arcs. Those are images of background galaxies that probably formed within the first billion years after the birth of our universe.

NASA has also touted it as the deepest image ever taken of the universe. Is that a big milestone?

“It’s one of the deepest images taken so far,” Bally said. The Hubble Space Telescope spent 150 hours looking at patches of the sky, and this James Webb exposure was only about 12-and-a-half hours. “You ain’t seen nothing yet,” said Bally, quoting James Webb. “Wait until James Webb takes images with exposure times of hundreds of hours. Then we will see things that we’ve never seen before.”

In another image, this one looking at the Carina Nebula and these soaring features that have been nicknamed the “Cosmic Cliffs.” Why did NASA choose to take a look

at this nebula?

The Carina Nebula is one of the most massive and active sites of ongoing star and planet formation in our Milky Way Galaxy. It has formed thousands of stars within the last few million years.

“The James Webb image shows you part of the molecular cloud that is responsible for forming some of the stars.

The particular field you can see here

only contains a few young stars in the process of formation. But it shows you the structure and beauty of the interstellar clouds, which, it is believed, will in the near future collapse into young stars and planetary systems.

“And then these giants bubbles in space – the Southern Ring Nebula. The Southern Ring Nebula is an example of what happens when stars like the sun die. In this case, one member of a binary star system expanded, transferred matter onto a companion star and, in that process, expelled a bubble of material.” Bally said.

In the Stephan’s Quintet the telescope shows five galaxies. Four of them are about 350 million light-years away from us, meaning the light we see today left these galaxies 350 million years ago. “These four background galaxies are orbiting each other, and, in fact, they’re cannibalizing each other. We think the galaxies will eventually merge into one giant elliptical galaxy,” said Bally There is something like 10 billion stars in our galaxy and something like 100 billion galaxies out there. In these pictures you’re only seeing a few hundred of them.

The patch of sky in the image of SMACS 0723 represents a tiny, tiny fraction of the universe.

“What really excites me about James Webb is not what we expect to see but discovering things that we did not expect,” Bally said.

In the Southern Ring Nebula, two stars orbit each other at a close distance. The star on the left has ejected material into space as it dims.

PHOTO BY NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI

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New artwork and mural coming to Lyons Town Hall

By Kim Mitchell Redstone Review LYONS – Local Artist Android Jones was born and grew up in Lyons and attended Lyons Middle/Senior High School.

He began studying art at age 8. He is known for his many layered digital paintings and projection art.

He has projected art onto the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Empire State Building in New York City and performed live visuals with numerous electronic musicians and bands. He worked as a commissioned artist for the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi and his award winning 360 film, Samskara has been shown in domes and planetariums all over the world.

For the past 18 months, he has been working with the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission who reached out to him to gather his interest in painting a mural at Lyons Town Hall. Using his artistic vision and

DETAILS OF THE MURAL BY ANDROID JONES

Prayer Pole vs 5 G In A Sacred Manner I am Walking

By Sally King Redstone Review I write with the persistent sound of the fledgling hawk A high pitched call for food from mom The river is bright with sunlight And the grass is wet from last night’s rain What a glorious summer!

“In a sacred manner I am walking.”

On Highway 36 at Dead Man’s Curve Our back lane enters the highway Where the blue tipi pole sculpture stood On the crest of the hill Marking too the Ute Trail A reminder of our indigenous relations Who once walked this land Traveling across the great plains Their dwellings, places of warmth, “In a sacred manner I am walking.”

The wooden tipi blew down this spring But the prayer pole remained

concepts, the work was presented to the previous Lyons Board of Trustees.

Engaging the local youth community, the Lyons Regional Library had kids draw what wildlife they would like to see added to the mural. Their offerings included a hummingbird, eagle, turkey, fox and bluebird.

Following those entries, a vote was organized by the Lyons Library and the fox won the vote and is now included in the mural. In addition, funds for the project continue to be raised with limited edition prints of the artwork.

Installation is slated to begin in mid to late September. To learn more about the artwork and to order prints, visit https://androidjones-obtain.com/collections/lyonsmural-fundraiser.

Kim Mitchell is Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Town of Lyons. Kim has called Lyons home since 2009.

And it is at this exact location That a 5 G tower’s foundation has been poured.

A meeting of two chiefs To have this necessary conversation The one between the Practical and the Sacred Cresting the hill, side by side, let’s talk.

And while the practical is doing just fine We lag in our appreciation of the sacred.

Greedy for more, Without proper regard for the balance So when you pick up your cell phone…

Honor Mother Earth The same way you might thank the deer For its life before you eat it.

In a sacred manner I am walking.

Gratitude for all that is given Changes the equation Adding spirit to the mix, Hands to heart.

Sally King is a local artist who has created whimsical bears and delightful wild flower acrylic paintings to enhance the appearance of Lyons all over the town. She lives with her husband John King, a kinetic sculptor artist, near Lyons.

RESTORATION OF TIPI POLES SCULPTURE ON HWY 36

BY LYONS ARTIST JOHN KING

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Travels with Redstone Eileen Tobin visited a favorite site, the iconic Red Mill in Clinton, New Jersey. A 4-story grist mill located along the South Branch Raritan River, the Red Mill was built around 1810 as an industrial mill. It has since been a wool processing plant, a peach basket factory, a textile mill, and is now a museum.

Take the Redstone with you on your next trip and send us your photos showing where the Redstone has traveled. Send your photos to redstarnews5@gmail.com.

Everything you should know about Colorado Creative Districts

By Brianna Hoy Redstone Review LYONS – Bluegrass, murals, mosaics, sculpture – Lyons is a hub of artistic talent. For years, our town has been known for Hoyt its music festivals and its local artists: visual, musical, culinary, performing, and more.

Lyons’ creativeness has attracted creatives from across the country. Meanwhile, in late 2021, the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission began exploring the process of becoming a Colorado Creative District and in 2022, Lyons Creates was created. Lyons Creates is an independent organization consisting of local business owners, artists, and volunteers from the greater Lyons community.

This year, with funding from the town, Lyons Creates has hired an expert consultant to guide the Lyons Creates steering committee and the town through the creative district application process, with the goal of submitting an application by the end of this year.

The statewide Colorado Creative Districts program was created in 2011 with the purpose of catalyzing economic development by supporting all forms of art in local communities. The goal of the program is to support local efforts to increase employment, investments, and income in creative places.

The benefits to joining this program include a $10,000 cash award to the local program, and access to a technical and professional assistance fund for communities that have been certified for more than one year. In addition, local creative districts have access to a marketing strategy developed with the Colorado

Tourism Office, support in developing content on the work of the creative district, state highway signage, access to statewide economic data, access to the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) Creative Vitality Suite, and access to resources and tools to facilitate program growth and input.

Lyons Creates and the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission hopes to use this program to better support the talent of local artists and musicians. Lyons has spent decades cultivating a community around live music and expansive art.

The Arts and Humanities Commission and Lyons Creates hopes to build on the past work of local businesses and creative ideas, to start new art programs, and find new ways to support our local artists. Lyons is looking forward to joining the many other Colorado Creative Districts that

have fostered a thriving art program in tandem with an artistic community.

Towns such as Carbondale, Ridgeway, and Mancos have begun successful creative districts that help to improve off-season tourism, economic development, and art program development.

If you are an artist, business owner, or Lyons resident who is interested in expanding local art programming, please fill out Lyons Creates’ survey so that they can use your feedback in creating their strategic plan for Lyons future as a Creative District. More information can be found at www.lyonscreates.org.

Brianna Hoyt earned degrees in anthropology and history from the University of Denver and worked as a freelance writer. She started working for the Town of Lyons in February 2020 as Lyons’ Main Street Manager.

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CONSENSUS Anise hyssop – fragrant flower smells like root beer

By Jessie Berta Thompson Redstone Review LYONS – Perky spikes of light blue-purple on tall plants? A whiff of root beer on the air? The anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) is in bloom at the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens in Lyons. It’s Berta-Thompson also called giant blue hyssop – the plant is bigger and the flowers are bluer than other Agastache species. Its foliage is a lush green. The undersides of the leaves are pale.

Each flower spike is made up of densely packed small flowers. The honeybees and tiger swallowtail butterflies stopping to enjoying its nectar are great, and the 3 to 6foot stems rocketing out of the ground in bold clumps are striking. But what’s really unique about this plant is the smell, best appreciated by gently rubbing a leaf and sniffing deeply. It’s aromatic, sweet, and spicy (sometimes described as like root beer).

Its licorice-adjacent scent gives this plant the name anise hyssop. It is not, however, related to the anise plant (Pimpinella anisum), which is in the carrot family (Apiaceae). Anise hyssop is in the mint family (Lamiaceae), which also includes hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis), a Eurasian herb with a very different scent but vaguely similar purple flower spikes.

Members of the mint family can generally be identified by their distinctive 4-sided stems, often with flavorful foliage. There are lots of species of mint (genus Mentha) in this family, like the field mint (Mentha arvensis) that we just added to the RMBG beds. The family also includes oregano, sage, thyme, lemon balm, basil, rosemary, and lavender (most of a typical herb garden, that is). Enjoying a lovingly prepared, flavorful herby meal? Thank the mint family for evolving to make all those fancy molecules. For the plants, these same compounds serve as antimicrobials, deterrents for herbivores, and attractants for pollinators.

Giant hyssop grows mainly in the upper Midwest and Canada, with some populations reaching all the way from Washington state to New England. Colorado is at the southern extent of its range, and it’s only found occasion-

ally in small pockets of forest openings in the Front Range foothills, 6500 to 8000 ft. So even though it’s not a plant that’s common out on the trails, it’s such a good garden plant, and because its range does just reach into Colorado, we couldn’t resist including it in our Colorado native plant garden. There is a similar, more common species, the nettle-leaf hyssop (Agastache urticifolia), that is widespread on the western slope. It has wide leaves and paler flowers. It would be a lovely addition to the garden, too, but it’s harder to find on the plant market.

Anise hyssop is edible and widely used for flavor and medicine. The Cheyenne have used anise hyssop in an infusion to treat colds, fevers, coughs, and “a dispirited heart” (North American ethnobotany database, naeb.org). The Pawnee, Omaha, and Winnebago peoples, among many others, traditionally use it as a flavoring herb in cooking and as a tasty tea. Spreading from these traditions, anise hyssop tea has been adopted widely, or at least among passionate herb gardeners, as a digestive aid, treatment for colds, and pleasant beverage. In cooking, it can be used in both savory and sweet dishes, with some of the properties of mint, some of licorice, and something all its own. They also make good cut flowers, adding lasting color, foliage, and scent to a bouquet.

For those interested in planting this pretty and useful species, anise hyssop can be bought locally or grown from seed. It’s fond of coming up self-sown in the rock nooks at the path edges of the RMBG, though not aggressively. It is not eaten by deer, thanks to those flavor molecules – delicious to humans, less appealing to the cervid palate.

It blooms later in summer, freshening up the garden and supporting pollinators in all the heat.

Anise hyssop isn’t the only Agastache that’s rewarding to grow. Agastaches are readily available in a rainbow of colors across different species and cultivars. All of them are beautiful, have fragrant foliage, and attract pollinators.

The yellow-orange-red-pink ones are favorites of hummingbirds (another name for Agastaches is hummingbird mint), while butterflies and bees favor the purple Agastaches (including anise hyssop).

The reddish group is mostly native to the Southwestern United States and Mexico and so require little water and

CEMEX is committed to Lyons community with volunteering and thousands in contributions

By Walker Robinson, CEMEX Communications Redstone Review HOUSTON, TX – CEMEX USA announced today that it is continuing to build on its strong commitment to Lyons and Boulder County, by seeking additional opportunities to further assist local organizations as part of the company’s longstanding efforts to deliver impactful donations and critical volunteering to positively benefit the community.

CEMEX USA’s Lyons Cement Plant has a lengthy history of actively seeking mutually beneficial relationships with its neighbors, nonprofits and local businesses, as well as investing in area stakeholders.

Between 2018 and 2022, CEMEX secured more than $160,000 for donations and sponsorships to address local homelessness, food insecurity, education and environmental initiatives. Some of the support has gone

to organizations including the Lyons Community Foundation, the Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission and Left Hand Watershed Center.

In addition to these contributions, CEMEX USA has been an ardent supporter of annual events, including the Super Donation Drive at Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund, providing turkeys and Christmas hams to families in need, as well as renting a personnel lift to hang Christmas lights for the Lyons Parks and Public Works Department’s Parade of Lights. On the sustainability front, the company has donated over 25,000 coyote willow trees to the Apple Valley Road and Hall Ranch/South St. Vrain River restoration projects, donated sandstone boulders for public spaces, including the new library and the restoration of McConnell Ponds and Black Bear Hole/2nd Avenue Trailhead. Lyons Cement Plant employees have also volunteered with Boulder County Parks

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can survive droughts, but they are less winter-hardy than the purple ones, which have broader geographic origins.

Anise hyssop can be planted in sun or shade and can handle Lyons winters. More sensitive species can be coaxed through the winter tucked in with a blanket of mulch in a protected garden spot, or they can be enjoyed as annuals in our climate. Visit the RMBG soon to meet the anise hyssop alongside other glorious late-season flowers.

Jessie Berta-Thompson studied algae in school, and loves gardening and learning about plants. She has a degree in biology. She currently serves as Treasurer on the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens board and as an Adjunct Researcher at the Denver Botanic Gardens, where she works on the diversity and evolution of Colorado mushrooms. & Open Space to maintain the Nighthawk Trail in Hall Valley Ranch. CEMEX recently planted 50 trees at Cal Wood Education Center as part of their wildfire recovery efforts and provided funding for 3,000 trees in partnership with Drylands Agroecology Research at the Yellow Barn and Elk Run Farms.

“It has been an important component of our business model to have an active level of civic and philanthropic engagement that comes from a genuine place,” said Edgar Angeles, Executive Vice President–Cement Operations and Technical at CEMEX USA. “From measurable sustainability initiatives, to a lively and engaged workforce that helps out when needed, we have embraced the Lyons community and plan to continue providing needed support for our neighbors.”

CEMEX is a global building materials company that provides high-quality products and reliable services with a rich history of improving the wellbeing of those it serves through innovative building solutions, efficiency advancements and sustainability efforts. Its U.S. network includes 10 cement plants, close to 50 strategically located cement terminals, nearly 50 aggregate quarries and more than 280 ready-mix concrete plants.

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Town Continued from Page 1 by passing a resolution asking voters whether Arts and Cultural Facilities shall be a permitted use, and non-profit facilities shall be a conditional use in the Parks and Open Space (POS) Zoning District.

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The Board of Trustees desires to refer a question on whether the list of permitted and conditional uses for the POS zone may be expanded to allow for arts and cultural facilities as a permitted use, and non-profit facilities as a conditional use, so that the planned uses for the Visitors Center may move forward and the new creative district, Lyons Creates, will have a place to set up their office and work area. The town board is asking voters to approve this as a permitted use.

In other matters Lauren Click, chair of Lyons Arts and Humanities Council, discussed the upcoming mural project by Android Jones to be placed on the stucco northwestern side of the Lyons Town Hall at 432 5th Ave. Installation will begin on September 19. Android Jones is a Lyons resident.

Golf carts in Lyons may soon become part of a registration program. The board discussed several reasons why they want to register golf carts including liability concerns with underage drivers driving golf carts around town.

Attorney Dittman was directed to come up with an ordinance to register the golf carts in Lyons. Mayor Hollie Rogin said proving the number of golf carts in Lyons can help Lyons by affecting the funding Lyons gets from DrCOG (Denver Regional Council of Governments). “If we can prove how many electric vehicles we have in Lyons, it can affect the amount of funding we get from DrCOG,” she said, adding that it shows a lower pollution rate for the town.

Administrator Victoria Simonson gave the board this update in her report on affordable housing: The town has been contacted by residents of two local multi-family residences where the owner is selling the properties. They are concerned that someone will purchase the sites and change the use, increase their rates or give them notice to vacate. They are inquiring about how the town can support them at this time. The staff has reached out to local affordable housing providers to make them aware of the properties being for sale and try to prevent the displacement of approximately 15 local residents.

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“The jury released Mr. Engert, saying he was justified in doing what he did.

“Thomas had been mixed up in many brawls and stabbing and shooting scrapes around Estes Park and this community for years past, and at one time was sentenced for stealing a horse from one of the resort hotels in Estes Park.”

Charles V. Engert died March 5, 1949 and is buried along with his wife Sarah in the Lyons Cemetery. If you are interested in stories about other Lyons’ residents who are interred in the Lyons Cemetery, visit the virtual museum exhibits at https://virmuze.com/m/lyons-redstone-museum. The Redstone Museum will be open daily through October 2.

say; “Fix the bond Mr. Sheriff, we are ready to sign to the limit.”

“The body of Thomas was brought out to the open and the coroner removed his personal effects, among them being two bottles almost empty.

“The coroner took the body to Boulder and the Sheriff left Mr. Engert with his family.

“On Tuesday morning an inquest was held at Boulder, and Mr. Engert was summoned for a preliminary hearing. A large number of our best and influential citizens accompanied him to Boulder, ready to meet any financial assistance needed. Several witnesses were called to the stand, all of whom testified that Thomas was a “bad man” and that Mr. Engert had only done what any other person would have done under the circumstances.

“Ernest May testified that Thomas told him at Estes Park a few days prior to the shooting that he would ‘get the

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FORT COLLINS – Confluence, an upcoming conference hosted by Colorado State University, will address the interests and needs of collaborative conservation groups in the West and is set to take place September 19 to 22 at the Chico Hot Springs Resort in Pray, Montana.

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Operation Mighty Goats eats up weeds LYONS – The Town is working with two goat entities to help with weed mitigation. Did you know goats will navigate even the most difficult terrain to consume any vegetation on wildfire-prone land? There will be a herd of about 10 goats arriving next week to work/eat the surrounding flood buyout areas near Park St. in the confluence. This herd will be in operation for 3 to 4 weeks. This herd is named after Disney characters.

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INTEREST Whistlepigs can fly – the tales of hitchhiking marmots

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the area and contacted Greenwood to discuss options. In addition to our Center, the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation was also willing to facilitate the marmot’s reLYONS – Creede to Aurora. Idaho turn to the Aspen area.

Springs to Arvada. Aspen to Toronto.

These three wildlife organizations corresponded over These are the recent road trips taken by the best diet and husbandry for the displaced marmot. The the adventurous Yellow-bellied Marmots critter needed to return home, but several international that Greenwood has cared for over the obstacles stood in the way. After innumerable hours of orFletcher last month. Known as whistlepigs due to ganizing permits and booking passage, Toronto Wildlife their loud shrill, these critters are often on a ride of a life- Centre tucked the mammal onto a flight back to the U.S. time with no roundtrip plans for themselves.

“It was very cool to watch all of these organizations Traveling whistlepigs come together and collaborate to get this marmot home,” Hitchhiking marmots have become a common tale here commented Tessa Parrish, a rehabilitator from Greenwood in Colorado as more people explore the Rocky Mountains. Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.

Most marmots that find their way to our Center caught a ride Parrish examined the marmot for obvious injuries and down into the flatlands and need help with their return trip. evaluated its overall health at Denver International Airport.

One marmot sneaked into a car while an Aurora resi- With fresh water and greens, the rock chuck was driven 90 dent was hiking the West miles to Silverthorne by Willow Creek Trail near Greenwood staff. A volunteer Creede. Another whistlepig then transported the little hitchhiked from a cabin in lady to the Pauline S. Idaho Springs to Wheat Schneegas Wildlife FoundaRidge where the rescuer distion in Silt where she stayed covered the animal and for several days until she was brought it to our Center. able to be released near her The most well-traveled original home. marmot found itself in Moral of the story: check Canada after a family’s adyour engine compartments venture in Aspen. so there are no more marMarmots are known to be mots in the skies. explorers of car hoods, hopTrue hibernators ing to find something sweet With hibernation fast apto nibble or seeking warmth proaching in September, it from the engine. As omniwas a race to get the Canavores, they typically feed on dian hitchhiker back to its grasses, wild flowers, insects, native habitat before it was and the occasional bird egg. too late. Yellow-bellied marThese critters are the largest mots can hibernate for over of Colorado’s ground squir- The fugitive marmot arriving at Denver International half their lives, according to rels and architects of elabo- Airport from Toronto. the National Park Service. rate mazes underneath our Colorado rehabilitator alpine meadows and rocky outcrops. They typically live Nanci Limbach helps the juvenile critters learn how to in colonies of between 10 and 20 animals. create burrows, natural hibernation patterns, and other Our furthest hitchhiker innate skills during a process called “overwintering” One “hitchhiker” made headlines across the state. This within the rehabilitation community. critter landed where no Yellow-bellied Marmot has before, Limbach, the founder of Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife after traversing over 1,500 miles in a camper and crossing Foundation, explained how marmot releases depend on the country’s border into Canada. age, when hibernation season is near, because of the inAs mountain natives in the western United States, this tense winters in the high Colorado tundra. If they have species was out of place in the Canadian city. The Toronto to overwinter at her facilities, then she tries to replicate Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre knew there was an issue their natural burrows by packing grass hay inside and when the rescuers brought in an animal not endemic to around their enclosures. Approximately three to five pups

Travels with Redstone Bennett Bloch and Quinn Bloch, both of Lyons, share Redstone Review with “Papa” Greg Lowell at their annual August vacation at Squam Lake, New Hampshire.

Take the Redstone with you on your next trip and send us your photos showing where the Redstone has traveled. Send your photos to redstarnews5@gmail.com. can hibernate in the same den enclosure to keep each other warm and simulate a colony setting for their release into the wild.

Limbach and her team of volunteers release them in March when other wild marmots, especially male bachelors, are ready to find new homes and establish colonies.

The whistlepigs are “easy” for Limbach after almost 40 years of experience with these critters.

“These (hitchhiking marmots) are a great example of how rehabilitators have to work together to care for whatever walks through the door,” said Parrish. “There is always someone out there who has more knowledge about a certain species than you do, so community is important.”

Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation releases most, if not all, of the marmots cared for at our facility.

Greenwood’s success depends on our wildlife community in Colorado and beyond.

Kaite Fletcher is currently the Communications and Fundraising Intern at Greenwood after over three years as a Middle School Science Teacher here in Colorado. She studied Environmental Science and Journalism at the University of Arizona.

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CROSSROADS Neuroscientist Zoe Donaldson and her team have found a new way to contribute to global science education

By Doug McPherson Redstone Review

vole (a small rodent about the size of a of it. On a personal note, this is going way hamster), and she had an idea for how to out of my comfort zone, but I hope to gain involve high school students in a project a lot from this experience. I’ve never been BOULDER – The associate professor in that would fit into the goals of the grant. to Europe before, let alone seen how scithe Departments of Molecular, Cellular “That was 2020,” she says. “This is just ence is done in an international context, and Developmental Biology now becoming a reality so it’s all very exciting.”

(MCDB) and Psychology after two years of pandemic Liza Brusman, a fourth-year MCDB and Neuroscience at the patience.” graduate student who has also served as a University of Colorado Donaldson explains that teaching assistant, is also going on the trip.

Boulder is teaming up with prairie voles, unlike lab “I think it will be a great opportunity,” a postdoctoral researcher mice and rats, are monoga- Brusman says. “I didn’t know what reand one of her graduate stumous and form lifelong search entailed or how experiments were dents to teach international bonds with their mating done when I was in high school, and an high school students this partners. “My lab studies experience like this would have been reAugust at the School of what makes it possible for ally valuable to me. I also like teaching …

Molecular and Theoretical them to form such bonds, (and) being able to make students excited Biology (SMTB) in Estonia. how doing so changes their about science.”

Zoe Donaldson became brain and what happens This is a really cool opportunity, not involved with the SMTB when they lose a partner.” only for us but also for the students. ... I’m back in the late 1990s when CU Boulder neuroscientist, Donaldson’s work com- very thankful that such a program exists she attended college with Zoe Donaldson will spend bines neural and genetic ex- and that we were invited to be a part of it.” the man who would help much of August helping Eu- periments to ask questions Donaldson says both Sadino and Brusstart the school, Fyodor ropean high school students like what genes are required man have “specialized skills” that will be learn the finer points of gene to be able to form a pair “invaluable” to their course.

(Fedya) Kondrashov.

“Although Fedya and I manipulation in prairie voles. bond, and can an existing “The hands-on nature of the course went into different fields – bond be broken by manipu- means that one person can’t do it alone,” evolutionary biology and neurogenetics, lating genes in the brain.

Donaldson says. “In addition to teaching, respectively – our work has had inter“These questions are the core of what the three of us will serve as mentors to woven themes that have seen us collabo- we’ll be doing at SMTB,” Donrate multiple times,” Donaldson says. “We aldson says. “The students will kept in touch, but it was only after I joined help us make a set of molecular the faculty at CU Boulder and had estab- tools to manipulate specific lished my lab that it was feasible for me to genes in the prairie vole begin teaching at the school.” brain, which will be used by my Kondrashov was excited to invite Don- lab and others in future experialdson to teach at SMTB. “I knew that ments to try to make or break Zoe has exactly the qualities we are look- bonds.” ing for,” Kondrashov says. “One of the Julie Sadino, who recently school’s pillars is to create an inclusive earned her PhD in MCDB with program. Every year we have students a behavioral neuroscience focus, from over a dozen countries. We work works with Donaldson as a postvery hard to eliminate barriers so that stu- doctoral fellow and will be dents feel included. I know that Zoe gets teaching alongside Donaldson The students will help create a set of molecular it, and I know she’ll create an inclusive at SMTB. tools to manipulate specific genes in the brain of the environment.”

“This is a really cool oppor- prairie vole.

Donaldson says before the pandemic, tunity, not only for us but also she received a grant from the National for the students,” Sadino says.

Science Foundation to develop new ways “I’m very thankful that such a program ex- students as they decide which projects to to manipulate the genome of the prairie ists and that we were invited to be a part pursue and discuss career opportunities

Zoe Donaldson (right) and her graduate student, Liza Brusman, middle, and postdoctoral student, Julie Sadino, left. in science.”

Kondrashov says he expects about 50 students to take in classes and labs at SMTB – some of whom are expected to be from Ukraine.

“Our students come from a diversity of different countries. Some of them end up in the top universities in the world – Harvard, Yale, Cambridge – just to name a few.

Most end up in the best universities available to them in the country where they are from. An incredible statistic that I have yet to internalize is that among our first graduates, more than half end up going to do a master’s or a PhD degree, while some have gone on to industry from their bachelor’s program and some have gone on to medical school and starting a career in medicine or pharmacy.”

Kondrashov adds that he hopes students get to know Donaldson as a person – “to understand her values about research, human relationships in the lab, her integrity and motivation, and also to see her as a wonderful human. In short, my greatest wish is for all of them to be themselves and in doing so being the role models to our students they crave to get to interact with.”

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ A hot summer, cool salads, a broken hip and a wrist cast

By Barbara Shark Redstone Review LYONS – I have been lying low after an accident and not doing much cooking. Our daughter and kind friends visit, bearing Shark dinner and sometimes staying to eat with us. Aren’t we lucky.

Our lunches in this hot weather are cool, crisp salads. Most of them don’t need a recipe, just a glance in the fridge and a taste for some particular veggie like a big juicy tomato. I rely on my daughter to provide us with veggies and fruit from the Fort Collins farmer’s market while I’m recovering.

One salad featured smoked trout accom-

panied by steamed green beans, tomato wedges, avocado slices, black beans (marinated with olive oil, cumin, and chile flakes), fresh mint leaves and a few slices of a delicious Colorado peach. I dressed the base of lettuce and arugula with olive oil, salt and pepper and lemon juice to taste.

Soon I will be cast-free and able to make more ambitious dishes. Salads are still my favorite meal and, with the abundance of lovely summer veggies and fruit, a fleeting pleasure to be savored.

Barbara Shark is an artist and author of How I Learned to Cook, an Artist's Life. She lives near Lyons, Colorado. For more recipes, read her blog - www.howilearnedtocookanartistslife.blog.

Crème Anglaise and fruit sauces – dessert sauces to keep on hand this fall

By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – Crème anglaise and fruit sauces are easy to make and nice to have on hand for desserts: pour them over sponge or angel food cake, use in layers of trifle or use them to deepen the flavors in a bowl of oatmeal, in lieu of milk and sugar.

First, the recipe for crème anglaise, a pouring custard, is easy to make if you follow a few precautions, and they are: when all ingredients are combined and you return the custard in the pan to the stove, stir it constantly. Next, don’t let it boil and don’t walk away from it while it’s cooking. I am certain that if you follow these techniques, you’ll have a delicious crème anglaise result every time.

Next up, the recipe for a tasty fruit sauce made of raspberries and strawberries that only takes about 15 minutes from prep to finish. Finally, there’s a warming autumn recipe from BBC Good Food, for your backyard plums: spicy poached plums.

As with the strawberry-raspberry fruit sauce, spicy poached plums can be served with crème anglaise, ice cream, rice pudding, oatmeal... and I know you’re already thinking of other ways for how to use these. Without a doubt, crème anglaise and fruit sauces are simple and delicious cold dessert sauces to keep on hand in your fridge for any occasion, even if it’s only breakfast.

Crème Anglaise – Pouring Custard Makes about two cups; prep and cooking time is about 20 minutes.

3/4 C cane sugar 3 whole eggs 1 1/2 C milk 1/2 t vanilla

and the mixture coats the back of the spoon, usually about five minutes.

• Mix the vanilla into the custard. If your custard is lumpy, pour it through a fine strainer or cheesecloth. To prevent a skin from forming on the surface of the custard, sprinkle sugar over the top.

• Let custard cool and refrigerate until ready to use.

Spicy Poached Plums Makes about four cups; prep and cooking time is about 20 minutes.

1 C cane sugar 1 C water 4 C plums, washed, pits removed and cut into quarters.

1 cinnamon stick • Place milk in saucepan and bring to the boil. Remove from heat.

• Add sugar and eggs to a mixing bowl and whisk together until they reach the ribbon stage, about five minutes if you are using a machine, about 15 minutes if you are whisking by hand. (Ribbon stage means that after beating the eggs when you lift some of the egg mixture on the spoon and pour it off, it creates a long, connected line or ribbon.) Caution: do not over beat or the resulting creme will be filled with tiny bubbles.

• Using a ladle, slowly drip in the boiled milk, a little at a time, stirring gently into the egg mixture all the while. Once about half the milk has been tempered in, you can pour the rest of the milk in and stir well.

• Then return the custard to the stove on medium high heat and stir constantly with a wooden spoon, using a figure-eight pattern. Do not allow the custard to boil or it will separate. Do not walk away during this final stage, until the custard has thickened

• In a medium saucepan, pour sugar into water and cook on medium low heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves.

• Add the plums and cinnamon stick and stir occasionally, cooking until the plums are tender. Let cool and serve with something creamy.

• This will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks.

Fruit Sauce with Strawberries and Raspberries Makes about two cups; prep and cooking time is about 15 minutes.

1 C hulled and quartered strawberries 1 C raspberries 1 C sugar 1 T cornstarch • Mash the fruit together in a small saucepan.

• Add the sugar and cornstarch .

• Bring the sauce to a boil, stirring occasionally, and cook until thickened.

• If you wish to remove seeds, and for a smoother sauce, rub the mixture through a fine sieve.

• Let cool then refrigerate until use.

Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking professionally and privately since 1979.

She was a French cuisine journeyman at the celebrated Henri d’Afrique restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Today she is the proprietor of the food blog www.foodfortheages.com, and Facebook.com/Food for the Ages. Though she cooks every day in a tiny kitchen with a two-burner stove, her recipes are expansive and she dedicates her craft to living large by cooking well in tiny kitchens.

Venus de Miles, ladies-only road ride, returns to bike-centric Lyons Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – Cyclists enjoy Lyons for a variety of reasons.

Mountain bikers flock to the trails for world class singletrack, technical terrain and spectacular views. Road cyclists take in the hip, funky town boasting independently owned coffee shops, restaurants and retail shops as a way to refuel before heading back out on the road. On Saturday, August 27, Venus de Miles, Colorado’s original and largest all-women bike ride, offers a whole new set of reasons to start and finish a great ride in Lyons.

The Venus de Miles event, benefiting Greenhouse Scholars, offers women a physical challenge, an opportunity to fundraise for a worthy cause and a festival-like atmosphere at the finish. Kim Mitchell, Director of Community Programs and Relations for the Town of Lyons says “The Town enjoyed hosting the race last year, for the first time. It brings great energy to town and introduces Lyons to new cyclists too. Local cyclists also participate. A group of Lyons ladies started a team last year in memory of a Lyons woman who passed away unexpectedly in 2021.

The spirit of honoring cycling, sisterhood, support and community lives on with this inspirational event.”

The ride format offers a 33-, 66-, or 100-mile loop, all

starting and finishing in Lyons’ picturesque Bohn Park.

The different course options accommodate participants of varied levels of experience, endurance or ability. The 33mile loop allows for the beginner riders to complete the course in a few hours. The 66-mile course follows the scenic road up to Carter Lake, with views of Long’s Peak and rolling farms. The 100-mile loop continues through the magnificent Big Thompson Canyon, traveling up to Estes Park and back, offering a serious climbing challenge even for experienced riders.

The fundraising aspect of the ride benefits Greenhouse

Scholars, supporting exceptional young leaders who have overcome unimaginable challenges such as homelessness, violence, loss, and poverty. Greenhouse Scholars supports them through four years of college and beyond, with resources such as one-on-one mentoring, an extensive professional network, internships, peer support, and financial grants for research or service projects. Groups wanting to fundraise for this worthy cause register as an individual or as a team.

The fully supported ride concludes with a celebration at the finish line in picturesque Bohn Park. Vending, food trucks, live music and spa treatments are all available to participants, as well as the public.

Bohn Park is one of Lyons outdoor gems, redeveloped after the 2013 floods, showcasing new ballfields, a skateboard park, picnic pavilion, playground, and bike path, all along the gently flowing St. Vrain Creek. Bohn Park is located at 199 2nd Ave, Lyons.

For more Information on the Venus de Miles course race, schedule of events, or registration Information, visit www.venusdemiles.com.

Lyons makes a picturesque, fun, and accessible and fun place to ride or linger. For more ideas, maps, and directions, visit LyonsColorado.com. Overnight visitors can also find an assortment of unique lodging opportunities in and around Lyons.