Redstone July/August 2022

National Night Out in Lyons

LYONS – Join the Boulder County

Sheriff’s Office on August 2, from 5 to 9 p.m. in Bohn Park, 199 2nd Ave., for an evening of community building. National Night Out is de signed to help increase awareness of crime prevention, strengthen neighborhood spirit and partner with local law enforcement and first responders.

Every National Night Out loca tion will have different activities taking place, but all will have free food, emergency vehicles, first re sponders, fire departments, safety demonstrations, local vendors and children’s activities. These are free family-friendly events that are fun for all ages.

National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police community partnerships and neighborhood ca maraderie to make our neighbor hoods safer, better places to live. National Night Out enhances the relationship between neighbors, law enforcement and first respon ders and provides a great opportu nity to bring law enforcement and neighbors together under positive circumstances. Lyons Fire Protec tion District will be there wo/man ning the grill.

Lights Out Lyons Night

August 5

LYONS – Lyons area residents and businesses are encouraged to go Lights Out for the Lyons area in sup port of dark sky awareness and stargazing appreciation on August 5.

At 8:30 p.m. There will be stargaz ing talks in Bohn Park at the park shelter from 9 to 10 p.m. There will also be acoustic music.

Stargazing will happen from dark to sunrise with peak viewing after midnight until dawn. The rain date will be Friday, August 19.

This dark sky event is timed to happen during one of the peak viewing nights of the Perseid me teor shower. Participate at home or take a stroll down to Bohn Park for guided star talks with a variety of telescopes on hand.

Beginning at 7 p.m. helpers will accommodate overnight tent camping until capacity is reached.

Note for camping: Tents only, 4inch stakes or less. Pack in and pack out required. All other park rules apply. This is a free event sponsored by Lyons Parks & Recre ation Commission. Be sure to turn out your lights.

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review

LYONS – At a recent town board meeting in early July, the Lyons Trustees found them selves scrambling to respond to the new deadline the Boulder County Commissioners set for responding to the request by Cemex to extend its mining operations permit for another 15 years.

At the town’s request BoCo granted the town only a two-week extension to respond to the Cemex permit request; the town wanted two more months to respond. The town board is now scrambling to collect re sponses from town commissions, committees and the public to present to the county com missioners. “This is like a fire hose,” Mayor Hollie Rogin said.

The permit is set to expire at the end of September when Dowe Flats Quarry will run out of stone to make cement. Cemex wants to bring in materials, by truck, from other areas to produce cement.

If its permit is renewed for 15 years, Cemex said it would close down its plant for good at the end of the permit. If the permit is denied, Cemex said it would continue to use the south side of the plant to make cement from materials it would bring in indefinitely with no end in sight.

Lyons does have an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Boulder County con cerning land that the town wants to acquire at the Cemex complex that is in the Lyons planning area, which the town hopes to use as part of its eastern corridor expansion. Hav ing a lot more trucks moving in and out of the plant impacts everyone living in Lyons, peo ple going from I-25 to Rocky Mountain Na tional Park, Estes Park, or just to Lyons.

The plant was built in the 1960s, is out dated and is the biggest polluter in the county. It is a coal-burning plant and there is nothing in the permit extension request offering to lower emissions or upgrade the plant.

The town board wants to receive all re sponses by July 15. There will be a town board hearing and board discussion on July 19 where the public is able to address the board on the Cemex permit extension. You can send your responses to email Deputy Clerk Marissa Davis at (Mdavis@townoflyons.com). In other news, the town board held a finance workshop in early July to discuss ballot issues which have to be turned in soon to meet the county’s deadline to get questions on the No vember ballot.

Lyons Finance Director Cassandra Eye stone went over the taxes and fees that the town collects, identifying which of those can be raised or levied by the board without an election and which need to go to a vote of the people. The town collects various fees such as land use fees, shelter fees, building permit fees, parking fees and others.

For the most part, any increase in taxes goes to a vote and fees can mostly be set by the board. Lyons’ share of the total sales tax is 3.5 percent. In 2014 voters approved a 3.5 percent tax on marijuana sales. In 2018 the voters approved a $2 per night lodging tax.

The trustees agreed that they want to have a ballot question or two on the November ballot concerning some increase in taxes. No decision was made on what the ballot ques tions would be or what areas they wanted to tax. The trustees seemed to be leaning to wards making some adjustments to lodging and marijuana sales taxes.

Administrator Victoria Simonson pointed out to the board that it had already been ap

proved earlier that sales tax on marijuana could be raised up to 10 percent without a vote of the people.

In further discussions three new employees were introduced to the board. Zack Bertges is the new code compliance officer, and David Kimmett and Alexander Painter are both new town planners.

Bertges told the board that he is a former police officer from the Bay Area in Califor nia, born in Santa Barbara. He is a triathlon trainer/coach and trains people for Iron Man events. He works with at-risk children and has started at-risk programs for kids. Bertges said he has a dog, Luke, that goes everywhere with him. Luke wears a red bow tie. He and Luke have been here for two months.

Mayor Rogin said of hiring Bertges that “It is a match made in heaven.” The board seemed to be exceptionally pleased to have Zack Bertges on board as a town staff member. Trustee Gregg Oetting said, “Your credentials are phenomenal.”

Later in the meeting the board discussed authorizing the code compliance officer to issue administrative citations and they all agreed that it was a good idea to give that au thority to the code compliance officer.

David Kimmett said he is a sixth genera tion native of Colorado. He is a former schoolteacher and has two children, nine baby goats, chickens, and one grubby cat.

Alex Painter was born in Boulder, was in the 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Ea gles), has lived in Santa Fe, NM, and Virginia and worked as a planner.

Administrator Simonsen said that all the town offices are full now and they have a re ally good staff, full of energy and new ideas. In other news the town board had a discus

A view of Blue Mountain from Spring Gulch, by Jane Selverstone, retired geologist living in New Mexico. She cur rently finds joy via hiking, photography, playing the violin, knitting, and not having to write or review grant proposals.

Town board scrambles to meet BoCo deadline, discusses ballot measures, water shares, and more

Redstone stands with President Zelensky and the people in Ukraine

Peter Molnar

August 25, 1943 June 23, 2022

Renowned geophysicist Peter Molnar –a Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at CU Boulder, a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in En vironmental Sciences (CIRES), and recip ient of some of the most prestigious awards in his field – died Thursday, June 23. He was 78, and leaves family and friends and academic colleagues throughout the world deeply saddened by his loss.

Molnar was born August 25, 1943, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Margaret Andrews Molnar and Julius Molnar. Julius was a physicist and VP of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.

Peter received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Oberlin College. After earning his Ph.D. from Columbia Univer sity’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observa tory in 1970, Peter worked as a postdoc at the University of California San Diego and as an exchange scientist in the U.S.S.R.

Peter became an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 and then stepped down from the faculty position in 1986 to become a sen ior research associate there. In 2000 he accepted an appointment as a Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder and became a Fellow of CIRES, CU’s Cooper ative Institute for Research in Environ mental Sciences.

His research focused on aspects of how mountain ranges form and how con tinental lithosphere deforms. He published his most widely known work, showing that the Himalayan mountain range was lifted up by India shoving against Tibet by means of tectonic processes, in 1976. He pursued research in Tajikistan, Kenya, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, Tibet, India, Panama, Argentina, Colombia, Iran, Bolivia, Nepal,

China, and many other countries, as well as in the U.S.

In 2014, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Peter the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences – an honor given only once every four years – for his field-chang ing contributions to the understanding of global plate tectonics, including the defor mation of continents and the structure and evolution of mountain ranges.

A few years later, the Geological Society of America lauded him with an Interna tional Distinguished Career award, writing: “With stunning breadth and clarity, Peter Molnar has revolutionized our understand ing of the mechanisms of and controls on Earth’s geologic evolution during the past several hundred million years.”

Peter is survived by his loving wife of 36 years, Sara Neustadtl from Lyons, and also

the Lyons area and entertained scien tists, friends, and academics from all over the world.

“Your impact on the department and the scientific community are immeasurable,” Bob Anderson, Chair of the Geological Sciences Department and a Distinguished Professor himself, wrote in a note shared with Peter before his death. “Simply put, you have been our conscience.”

“His modus operandi was always to identify the next most important problem perceived to be arresting the future progress of earth science,” said Peter’s longtime colleague Roger Bilham, also a CIRES Fellow and an emeritus Professor of Geology. “He instilled this notion in his students and in his colleagues.”

Peter Molnar was the graduate advisor for Lina C. Pérez-Angel, a graduate stu dent from Columbia, who worked closely with him on projects.

important question?’ ” said Perez-Angel, referencing the phrase she and many oth ers heard often from their mentor.

Anderson said several pieces of advice from Peter have long inspired his career: “Choose important problems. Work with good people. Support those who have

his son Alyosha Molnar, daughter-in-law Erica Baumgartner Molnar, and two grandchildren, Vivian Molnar, 16, and Kestrel Molnar, 13, all from Ithaca, NY, where Alyosha is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University.

Peter and Sara made their home in

“Thanks to him, we are very lucky. I am honored to have him as my Ph.D. advisor; he was the most spectacular mentor, col league, and friend. He was always on my team and wanted the best for me. I am going to miss him so, so much. He was truly a gem,” Perez-Angel said.

“Well, I just want to finish with how wonderful, kind, generous, and unselfish Peter Molnar was. He was so smart and so humble at the same time. I am going to miss him everyday. He always said that he learned so much from the youth and many of us will ask ourselves, ‘what is the most

fought against all odds.”

Bilham will miss being in the field with his colleague. “He loved walking in the mountains, in snow or sunshine. He loved music. He loved science,” Bilham said.

“We all loved him for all of this, and we shall miss him.”

A memorial service for Peter Molnar is being planned for sometime later in the fall at the university.

By Joe Neguse, U.S. Congressman Redstone Review

LYONS – Did you know that America’s national recycling rate is only 32 percent – and that, in Colorado, the rate is even lower? In fact, a 2020 report shows that our state’s recycling rate hovers around just 15 percent. And that means that, although we are well known for our scenic public lands and pristine outdoors, our state has much to do to improve our recycling and conservation practices locally.

That is why just last month, I introduced a bipartisan bill to identify national composting infrastructure chal lenges, and improve our recycling practices, both here in Colorado and across the country. The Recycling and

Composting Accountability Act (RCAA), which I intro duced alongside two of my Republican and Democratic colleagues from Tennessee and Illinois, strives to fill crit ical information gaps in America’s recycling and compost ing systems so that we can better foster waste-free communities. The RCAA will help empower Americans to make conscious decisions regarding environmental stewardship so that we can work together to effectively combat the climate crisis.

As we continue to make great strides toward sustain ability, it is important that the federal government sup ports these efforts and provides all information available to spur innovation for state and local governments to improve their communities’ recycling programs. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to this problem – but we can educate and promote healthy and sustainable prac

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The message for this month is: get involved

By Hollie Rogin, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review

LYONS – In between tubing, enjoying the Sandstone concerts, and all the rest that Lyons has to offer in the summertime, there are opportunities to make your voice heard about extremely important issues that will affect our community for decades to come.

Last month, I wrote about the Cemex application to extend its Dowe Flats mining permit for an additional 15 years. If the application is approved by the Board of County Commissioners, Cemex asserts it would shut the plant and begin the three-year reclamation process after 15 years. Cemex maintains that if its application is denied, it will continue to operate its plant indefinitely by truck ing materials in. Boulder County Open Space and Cemex negotiated these options and presented them to us. The Town of Lyons is a referral agency, which means

that the County wants our input on the binary choice be fore us. They gave us a deadline of June 10. The Board of Trustees agreed to ask for an extension to that deadline so we could gather input from our community and our Boards and Commissions. The County responded to this request on July 5 and gave us an additional two weeks. What does this mean? It means that by the time you read this, you’ll have just a few days to get the Town Board your input on the issue (if you haven’t already).

To provide written comment, email Deputy Clerk Marissa Davis at Mdavis@townoflyons.com prior to close of business on Friday, July 15. We will also have a public hearing and Town Board discussion on July 19. Those de tails will be posted on the Town website and communi cated in e-blasts. We want to know what you think, and we welcome all ideas.

Another extremely important opportunity to provide input that will directly affect Lyons in both the short- and long-term is the Lyons Thrive Comprehensive Plan Growth Framework Survey. That’s a mouthful to say, but what it means is that you can make your voice heard about whether, how, and where Lyons should grow in the next decade and beyond. Want to see affordable housing in the Eastern Corridor? Increased density elsewhere? A rec cen ter? Something completely different? It’s time to let us know! The survey is open until July 31. Make some time to review the maps and proposals, and then give your feedback at: https://lyonsthrive.com/participate/survey_tools/survey.

Finally, if you would like to be more involved in your community for the longer term, there are several openings on our fun and hard-working Boards and Commissions. It’s a once-per-month commitment (with the exception of the Board of Adjustments, which meets as needed) and you’ll be directly contributing your talents to our community.

Current openings include: Housing and Human Serv ices, two vacancies; Economic Vitality Commission, one vacancy; Planning and Community Development Com

Fire risk is high; voters passed a tax increase for the Lyons Fire District to upgrade staff

By Chief Peter Zick, Lyons Fire Dis trict Chief Redstone Review

HONORING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE NATIVE TO COLORADO

This is the message and tribute that Mayor Hollie Rogin reads at the opening of each Lyons Town Board meeting to honor the Native Americans and indigenous people who were the caretakers of the land making up the state of Colorado, before any of the Europeans arrived.

We must acknowledge with respect (as non-Native people) that the land on which we stand, live, and learn, is the traditional territory of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Peoples. We also recognize the 48 contemporary tribal nations that are historically tied to the lands that make up the state of Colorado.

mission, one vacancy; Historic Preservation Commission, one vacancy; Board of Adjustments, two vacancies. Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy summer to help Lyons navigate toward a bright and beautiful future.

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 to 2022. In 2015, Rogin 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 Town Board liaison to the Economic Vital ity Commission and the Historic Preservation Commission.

You may have seen that when the river gets to a certain flow rate (measured in cubic feet per second) we close the river to all tubers. This ban is designed to keep our tubers from getting overwhelmed by high flows and risking get ting injured or drowning during extremely high flows.

Although this process may be disappointing to those that come here to use the river, the bans have shown to

LYONS – Happy July, Lyons. I hope all of you had a great Fourth of July. I was impressed that the Lyons community re frained from the use of fireworks this year as we did not have any significant calls because of fireworks being used. Our wildfire risk in our community is very high and anything we can do to elmi nate risk keeps us all safer. Great job.

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First, and foremost, I would like to thank everyone who voted in the Lyons Fire Protection District election in May. Our mill levy increased passed by a margin of 575 (yes) to 184 (no). This increase will allow the Lyons Fire Protection District to upgrade staffing to meet our increas ing call volume that has been occurring year after year, and will allow us to further protect our community from wildfires by being fully staffed, and having fully trained firefighters on duty every day to protect our community. We greatly appreciate all the support.

As many of you know, the Lyons Fire Protection District suffered a tragic loss of one of our members. Firefighter Griffin Ferguson was a valued and loved member of our department, and the shock and grief that followed his passing hit our department very hard. On behalf of the

Lyons Fire Protection District, I would like to thank our community for the tremendous outpouring of support and love everyone showed us during this difficult time. Every one in the community came together in our time of need with food donations, cards, phone calls, and even just giv ing one of us a hug when we were struggling. This unfor tunate event brought us all together as a community and truly showed that we all come together to help our com munity. Thank you so much.

We are excited to announce that we will be taking de livery of a new fire truck this year. This truck was ordered to replace one of our current trucks that is over 25 years old. We spent a lot of time and effort to design the truck so it will be able to serve our community in many different capacities. The truck should be arriving sometime in Sep tember/October this year. I am planning on having an open house or pancake breakfast event for our community when the truck arrives so the whole community can come help us with the ceremony of pushing the old truck out of the bay and pushing the new one in. That’s right, the fire service pushes out the old and pushes in the new, so we need our whole community to come help us. We will an nounce the date and time as we get closer to the event.

We have been working on ways to keep our tubers and rafters safer on our rivers this year. Lyons Fire, Boulder County Sheriff and the Town Trustees are committed to making our rivers safer for our residents and our visitors.

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reduce the number of rescues that we perform on the river, in turn preventing serious injuries that could occur. We greatly appreciate the understanding and patients during these times. If you are using the river to tube or kayak, even if the flow is low, please be safe and have the proper life jacket on to keep yourself safe. Even the strongest swimmers get into trouble because the water is often cold.

I am excited to announce that the new Lyons Mayor

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The Second Annual Mountain Blooms Garden Tour was a great success

By Sara Erickson Redstone Review

LYONS – The Lyons Garden Club’s Sec ond Annual Mountain Blooms Garden Tour took place on Saturday, June 18, 2022 and was a wonderful event. The garden club thanks all who visited our homes and gar dens. Our visitors were enthusiastic, inquis itive and really appreciative of our efforts. We owe a huge thank you to the garden hosts who graciously opened their gardens so that visitors could enjoy beautiful land scaping, flowers, garden ideas and garden whimsey. The variety of gardens was abun dant. We had a cactus garden, a precisely laid-out vegetable garden, beautiful and whimsical yard art, waterfalls and ponds. We didn’t just limit the tour to pretty flow ers: gardeners shared gardening informa tion on attracting butterflies and bees and using methods such as hugelkultur or mound culture to increase yield. There were refreshments at some sites and even live music in the garden of another host. It was a magical day.

We also thank our sponsors: Laura Levy Group, Cemex, McCann Real Estate, St. Vrain Market, Tucker Real Estate Group, Gateway Realty Group, Moxie Bread Company, Bellwether by HJB Designs, Peter Baumgartner, Lokation Real Estate, Bent Heirlooms, Botanical Interests, the Flower Bin, and all the local business who offered a 10 percent discount to tour reg istrants. We also thank photographer Gau tam Bhan, who took fantastic pictures of the tour that are on view on our website and on Bhan’s website at www.gbhan photo.com. The garden club members

Teresa Pennington, Beth Smith, Jeanne Moore, Sue Wratten, Debbie Simms and me, Sara Erickson, worked for months to prepare for this event and plan to hiber nate until the next tour.

If a Lyons area resident has a flower or vegetable garden that they think is inter esting, unique and/or noteworthy, please go to the contacts link at www.lyonsgar denclub.com and send a message, or email Sara Erickson at sarae403@gmail.com. Also email us if you are interested in the

club and want to attend our meetings and join in our activities. We will put you on our mailing list. We welcome new mem bers. We hope to see you again for the next

tour. Thanks to everyone.

Sara Erickson is a member of the Lyons Garden Club.

dust and heavy metals emissions during the next 15 years.

In July 2021, the Colorado law was changed to include requirements that the State’s Industrial sector must reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 20 percent by the year 2030, compared to what it released in 2015.

By Ed Kean Redstone Review

LYONS – I’m a civic minded person and I feel a pull to in vest time, thought and input regarding the Lyons Cement Factory (Cemex). I’m also a recovering engineer so where to start? What do I know? And/or what have I heard?

I “know” I can buy bags of cement which will not necessarily be from Lyons since it’s a global commodity kind of like gasoline. I know I can get bags of cement and make some of the most desirable, well loved, and long lasting constructions on earth. I “know” my 30-year-old concrete back patio still looks amazing and my home’s foundation is still keeping it level, plumb and leak free. I know that concrete represents a colossal amount of CO2 emitted into the greenhouse of our little planet and I’m as responsible as anyone else.

Beyond that I’ve read Cemex’s current written request to Boulder County to extend its special use mining permit which was granted back in the 1990s and which is cur rently set to expire this September, 2022. This special mine is sometimes referred to as the Dowe Flats Quarry (DFQ). Cemex’s portion of DFQ was agreed, back when, to be combined with Boulder County’s portion of DFQ and be come Open Space, another thing that I really enjoy.

The DFQ special mine was “sold” to the public on the basis of having a fixed ending of mining approximately by now. When you read the documents you’ll see that the transaction that Boulder County (BOCO) Open Space and Planning Departments have negotiated with Cemex over the past two years requires Lyons to agree to changes in the current Lyons/BOCO Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) which includes the Cemex Factory area. Document link: https://bouldercounty.gov/news/cemex-applies-to-ex tend-mining-permit-on-dowe-flats-property-east-of-lyons/.

I save phrases from random sources and let those steep in my brain which is often useful when life gets compli

cated. “A little cancer is good for you” – George Carlin. “We can make cement here forever” – during a phone call from a Cemex official a few weeks ago. “We all find a level of hypocrisy we’re comfortable with” – climate action author Michael Grunwald. “False dilemma / false choice” –common tactic in negotiation. My favorite – “I don’t like people who don’t honor the spirit of a thing” – can’t re member where I heard this.

So, with these and other phrases and looking at knowns, unknowns and known unknowns regarding Cemex what do I have to work with for my civic engagement?

BOCO approved the special DFQ with a promise to be finished by 2022. Boulder County and the previous landowners inserted a covenant controlling the time pe riod preventing mining beyond 2021 which caused Cemex to be turned down when they last requested a min ing extension in 2019. This covenant was subsequently somehow removed. I cannot find in the current BOCO paperwork that Cemex has offered to end manufacturing other than cement on the factory land they will retain. I do not see a copy of the current manufacturing permit al lowing making cement with materials trucked in with no connected mine. I do not see any mention from Cemex as to their Colorado Gemm (Gas Emissions and Energy Management for Manufacturing) Phase 2 requirements nor any mention of how they intend to control pollution,

I cannot find why there is such a big hurry up to ap prove or disapprove the current two-year long private renegotiation of DFQ between Cemex and BOCO. I cannot find any mention of any water rights and who winds up with those and at what cost. I cannot find any data to sup port the fear of “1,000’s of acres of growth,” a specter raised at the most recent BOCO Parks and Open Space Advi sory Council (POSAC).

So, what am I being asked to weigh in on? Extend min ing for 15 years with an increased amount of open space going to BOCO plus a continuing mystery of future fac tory use and emissions and a required amendment to the IGA? Versus what? No mining extension in which case we remain right where we are now and can continue ne gotiations for a less mysterious future? What will be my input to Lyons Board of Trustees for their referral to BOCO by July 15? What will be my input to our BOCO Commissioners with their decision and also do it imme diately? I’m really struggling with how 15 more years of one of the top 10 CO2 emitters in Colorado plays against BOCO and Colorado 2030 Climate Goals.

I wonder if Cemex really does have a cement manu facturing permit that’s still ok with no mine. I wonder if Cemex will really be able to be profitable going forward without a connected mine and increasing regulations. Why was a time limit covenant created in the 1990s and why did it suddenly go away? If BOCO does extend, what is the likelihood of this new deal being completed in 15 years with Cemex Global’s proven abilities and deepest of pockets to re-negotiate covenants and con tracts? This is a near impossible decision but I will send mine to Deputy Clerk: Mdavis@townoflyons.com and Planner@BoulderCounty.org.

Ed Kean is a Lyons resident.

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Oceans of Possibilities reading program, new art by Daniel Strawn, and studying sea turtles

By Kara Bauman Redstone Review

LYONS – On Wednesday, July 6, the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission and the library hosted the opening reception for this quarter’s tandem art show highlighting new paintings and older drawings of Lyons artist, Daniel Strawn.

It was another lively evening at the library featuring snacks from Cluck-n-Burger and the Lyons Dairy Bar, as well as live gypsy jazz courtesy of Aulternate Reality. The Town Hall art show, Thirst – Water, Water Everywhere, fea turing the work of Lyons residents, was also unveiled. Both shows run until October 7.

The library’s Oceans of Possibilities Summer Reading Program, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, con tinues through July 31. Keep logging time to help us reach our community-wide goal of 100,000 minutes read; we’re over halfway there. Area youth registered for the program through our Beanstack app will receive a book upon completing 10 hours of reading and will be entered to win one of several grand prizes including ocean-themed LEGO sets, a musical octopus, a rod and reel set, a plush seal, and a $50 local gift card. Adults are also eligible to participate and could come away with a $100 gift card to a local business or a charitable dona tion in the same amount.

On July 19 at 4 p.m. we welcome the Oceans First In stitute for a program all about sea turtles and their life his tory, ecology, behavior, and unique adaptations. Learn about nesting behavior, predators, migration, how hatch

lings make their way to the ocean, and how injured sea turtles are rescued and rehabilitated by veterinarians.

Join local photographer and DIY Nature Traveler Leslie Larson at the library at 7 p.m. on July 19 as she shares sto ries, photos, and videos from a five-week, self-organized safari in northern Botswana. With a focus on the country’s national parks, Larson will also share images from the amazing wildlife seen in the Okavanga Delta and Khwai community holdings. Learn about her adventure and pick up tips for planning your own DIY nature travel.

There are still two more opportunities to beat the heat, relax, and spark curiosity at Movie Mondays. We’ll dim the lights and pop up some corn to enjoy a classic 1966 surf documentary on July 25 and on August 8, during Song School, we will introduce folks to Pete Seeger. Each film begins at 1 p.m. in the library’s Community Room.

The Oceans First Institute will be back at the library on July 26 at 4 p.m. for a presentation on one of the ocean’s magnificent but misunderstood residents: the shark. Hands-on activities include shark anatomy, jaw and tooth morphology, and aspects of shark sensory biology.

At 6 p.m. on July 28, local youngsters are invited to wear their pajamas and bring their favorite stuffie or doll to the library for a special bedtime storytime. Following the story, they will tuck in their stuffie and wish them sweet dreams before leaving them to have an overnight adventure in the library. Kiddos should return Friday morning to pick up their stuffie friend and see photos from their special party.

Teens in grades 6 to 12 are invited to the library on Fri day nights through the summer for special programming.

Long time Lyons resident and artist, Daniel Strawn, was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2019. A collection of his older drawings and new paintings, inspired by his months of dialysis and eventual kidney transplant, will be on dis play at the library until October.

Dr. E.S. Crona: the man behind the Crona Heights Subdivision

By Monique Sawyer Lang Redstone Review

LYONS – Often mistak enly referred to as Corona Heights, the neighborhood on the west side of 5th Avenue, which in cludes Ewald and portions of Meily and Prospect Streets, is actually called Crona Heights. Originally known as Bull Hill and located south of Meadow Park (now LaV ern Johnson Park), the 127 acres was purchased in 1909 by the town doctor E.S. Crona. He had planned to build a large stone hotel there and renamed the area from Bull Hill to Crona Heights. He never built the hotel and the area instead was platted for individual building lots. He named Ewald Street after himself.

Born Sixten Ewald Sune Crona on De cember 28, 1838 in Smoland, Sweden, he attended medical school in Stockholm, Sweden and New York and was trained in the practice of medicine and pharmacy. Dr. Crona came to America in 1884 and to Lyons in 1888. He married Eva R. Gra ham in Denver on June 25, 1901.

In 1901 Dr. Crona had built a two-story stone building on the south side of Main Street in about the middle of the block. Known as the Crona building, the first floor housed an office for his medical prac tice and his Long’s Peak Drug Store. Living quarters for the doctor and his wife were on the second floor. Dr. Crona and his wife op erated the drug store until about 1914.

In addition to his medical practice and drug store, Dr. Crona owned the Crona Copper Mines about one and three quarter miles northwest of Lyons. From about 1900 to 1910 mining of assorted metals was active in the foothills and mountains north of Lyons. The March 28, 1907 edi tion of The Lyons Recorder recounts the tragic death of 38-year-old miner John H. Atkinson from toxic gasses at the 100-foot level of the mine. He had been married less than a year at the time of his death.

Dr. Crona was again in the news in 1908 when he became the first person arrested for violating the recently passed law pro hibiting the sale of alcohol in Lyons. The June 11, 1908 edition of The Lyons Recorder reported that he was convicted and fined $58 for the violation. Two hours after his conviction he was rearrested by

LCF annual granting season is open

By Ella Levy Redstone Review

LYONS – Lyons Community Foundation’s grant applications for its 15th Annual Community Support granting season are now available. Over the lifetime of the Community Support Grants program, LCF has awarded nearly half a million dollars in grant awards. This year, $42,000 will be made available to deserving recipients.

Applications for Community Support Grants are available to all local non-profit organiza tions. You can apply online starting Au gust 1. Submissions are due on Septem ber 9, 2022.

These grants are available only once a year and must be ap plied for at this time.

Electronic submis sions are required;

granting information and applications are available at lyonscf.org.

The LCF’s Community Support grant ing program focuses on its mission to improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving, and encourage positive change for the greater Lyons area. We connect people who care with the causes that matter. Eligible for grants are non-profit organizations in the greater Lyons area who have 501(c)3 status or a sponsoring organization with 501(c)3 status, government agen cies, and schools.

In 2021, Community Sup port Grants to taled over $37,000 and were awarded to 15 individual projects including LEAF (Lyons Emer gency Assistance

Under Sheriff William Thorne for a simi lar offense. The July 2, 1908 Lyons Recorder reported that this time he was convicted on three counts of selling liquor. In addi tion to a $100 fine it was reported that “the defendant also promised not to sell any liquor in Lyons except under the pre scription of a reputable physician, and none under his own prescription.”

Dr. Crona passed away March 2, 1919 at the age of 80 and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery in Longmont. The Lyons Recorder of March 8, 1919 noted his pass ing with the following observation: “In the passing of Dr. Crona, Lyons and Boulder County loses one of their best citizens, a man, rather quiet in disposition, but deep in mind and always ready to help a friend, especially loyal to his town and county, and honored and loved by all.” His wife, Eva, died July 8, 1930 at the age of 72 and is also buried in Mountain View Cemetery.

Monique Sawyer Lang is the Collections Manager of the Lyons Redstone Museum. She is also a volunteer with the Lyons Food Pantry and a former member/chair of the Lyons Community Foundation Board. She lives in Spring Gulch.

Fund) and the Lyons food pantry, the Town of Lyons Parks and Recreation: Sandstone Concert Series and Parade of Lights, Lyons Arts and Humanities Com mission, Lyons Elementary School, Lyons High School, Lyons Food Forest and Town of Lyons Ecology Advisory Board.

None of this work would continue with out the dedication, inspiration, hard work, and financial support of Lyons area citizens.

Grants Review Committee applications being accepted: Are you new to Lyons? Are you looking for opportunities to learn about the amazing projects led by LCF grantees? Are you in search of a way to give back to the community? If so, we wel come community members to apply to be on the Grants Review Committee.

Commitment is two evenings in September 15 and 29. Applications to serve on the Grants Review Committee are available at lyonscf.org, and must be sub mitted by September 4, 2022.

Ella Levy is the chair of the Lyons Commu nity Grants Committee.

Dr. E.S. Crona and his wife Eva. In 1909, Dr. Crona purchased 127 acres on the west side of 5th Avenue in Lyons and developed the neighborhood that would come to be called Crona Heights.

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Space to live, space to grow

By Peter Butler Redstone Review

LYONS – Arriving in a new country is super ex citing at first and then a little bewildering. In our first few weeks here we would go grocery shopping and be confused by strange labels and new ways of describing things.

Corn flour was corn starch; rocket was arugula, pastry was crust – it was endless. Some how we didn’t starve to death. When we made it to the West another unexpected disruption was that all our previous knowledge of wildflowers, trees, birds and butterflies was gone too.

Initially we were only supposed to be here for two years but when I discovered Home Depot at the end of my first week, I knew I could never go back. The old ex perience of a small expensive selection guarded by surly staff was replaced by a mountain of cheap alternatives. Later my reasons for wanting to stay became the lovely people we met, but after a year or two the biggest magnet was the space.

When you have lived somewhere ex pansive all your life I expect it’s easy to take space for granted. But when you come from somewhere where space is tight, it makes a lasting impression. The small town where I lived my teens and 20s was tight; small houses with nonexistent yards

on narrow streets. You might have a home on a street with no spaces between the houses and no garage.

Say you wanted to improve your kitchen. First you would beg the local council for the opportunity to pay them the equivalent of $250 a week to park a skip (that would be a dumpster) on the narrow sidewalk in front of your house. You would dump all the tear-down waste in the

of starting an encampment. Tight countries actually pay a premium of real expenses and extra time consumed working round these space constrictions that spacious places like the U.S. don’t suffer.

I think there must be a safety advantage here as well. In the English countryside, the lanes are narrow and winding and fre quently have high hedgerows so it is im possible to see who is approaching. If you are walking, or riding a bike or a horse on such a lane it can be scary hearing the sound of an approaching vehicle. Here the wide roads and long clear sight lines make for fewer surprises.

I suppose it is the difference of one or two thou sand years. When European towns and villages were laid out the roads

and yet the drivable road width was still wider than many roads in England.

The land area of Colorado is 7 percent bigger than the land area of the U.K. but the population of Colorado is less than a tenth of the U.K. population. That means there are more than 11 times more people in U.K. than in Colorado. I hesitate to say “at the moment.” Please may it always stay that way. If you do the numbers, it shows that each person in Colorado has almost 13 times as much space as a British person. No wonder it is such a great place to be. And we haven’t even factored in the glorious mountains, forests and grasslands that are so soothing to the soul.

skip and get it hauled away before any of the new materials arrived, and those materials would then be threaded through nar row alleys to reach their destination.

Here you can spread out and leave stuff lying around until you need it. Maybe that’s untidy and a bit lazy but it doesn’t incur the real financial bur dens that apply in tight places. You might find a cheap window at a recycle place and keep it somewhere for years until you use it. Try that in England and you’ll be accused

were gauged to the axle width of a horse cart, whereas when U.S. cities were planned they could see the benefit of leav ing more room. Last week I was driving along a quiet residential street in Long mont that had parked cars on each side

Little fish being stocked, beavers on the rebound, don’t catch the carp, and cement

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review

LYONS – Many residents are curious about what actions are being taken to help restore the North St. Vrain River after the disastrous 2020 gasoline tanker spill. The area downstream from the arched bridge was devastated with a mas sive fish kill and also the loss of aquatic bugs that the trout feed on. The partial good news is that this month Colorado Parks and Wildlife will be stocking approximately 28,000 rainbow trout fingerlings from the Button Rock Preserve downstream to the Apple Valley Road arched bridge.

According to Ben Swigle, CPW fisheries biologist, the young trout will not be stocked throughout Apple Valley as the macroinvertebrate study is not complete and the area has very little public access (a prerequisite for state-funded fish stocking). The young trout will, however, disperse downstream over the ensuing years. While it will be some time before these fish are catchable size, this is nonetheless good news for the fisheries recovery in that area.

Beavers on the rebound locally

I’ve seen evidence of beaver activity along the St. Vrain River for the past three years, but had not seen one until this spring. Lately, I’ve seen a beaver in the Supply Ditch Canal just down from the Black Bear Hole. Three nights in a row, he has been sitting bankside in the canal, strip ping bark off young willows.

You can see evidence of his presence by the bare sticks and the castor oil mounds he leaves along the shoreline. The beaver constructs these piles of mud and scents them with oil from his castor gland as his territorial marker, com munity bulletin board, and matchmaker site all in one spot. My suspicion is that our local beavers are young-of-theyear animals that have been kicked out of the den by their parents in preparation for the next set of young ones and are wandering downstream in search of their own home.

Look, don’t catch

I know it’s tempting for anglers to see big fish and to try to catch them, but those impressive fish you’re seeing in the McConnell Ponds (a.k.a., Lyons River Park) are off

If you live in any of the wondrous cities in Europe, let’s mention Paris, Florence, Vienna or Copenhagen, but there are plenty more, you have walking distance access to the greatest art, architecture and cultural experiences, as well as incredible food, but I still wouldn’t swap them for the experience of hanging out our laundry on the washing line, sur rounded by three different mountains and being tweeted at by a yellowbreasted chat.

Surely we live in the best place in the world?

Sssh, don’t tell anyone.

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 bio chemist there and a gradual evolution into being a graphic designer, he and his wife Deirdre moved to the U.S. in 1997 and to Lyons in 2000. Finally there are enough trees.

game fish, like bass and bluegills, and be open for fishing but according to Lyons Parks Director Dave Cosgrove that determination will be made once an assessment of the ponds is done to ensure that the ponds can support them. So, be patient (like all good anglers) and look, but don’t fish in the ponds.

Sometimes we need to be reminded

The current debate over the renewal of Cemex’s mining permit in Dowe Flats should be a reminder to all of us how our current lifestyle impacts the environment. Yes, the plant is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gas in Boulder County and, yes, the plant itself is considered an eyesore by some.

limits. The two ponds do not allow fishing while the ponds’ ecology is being established. Those large fish are sterile grass carp – notoriously hard to catch as they are plant eaters – that were stocked in the ponds by the town to help cut back on excess aquatic vegetation.

Grass carp can live to be 20 years old and it’s not un common for them to exceed three feet in length. At some point the ponds may be stocked with warm water

But it’s hypocritical of those who wish to deny the plant its quarry renewal or insist it be shut down while not considering the mil lions of cubic feet of con crete (made with the cement Cemex produces) used annually in our profli gate growth here on the Front Range. The explo sion of growth in towns like Longmont or the complete transformation of 30th Street in Boulder are exam ples of how cement is used. Every once in a while, we need to be reminded by the presence of industries like Cemex of the environmental cost of our lifestyle. It’s good that we see “how the sausage is made” in order to dedicate ourselves to a more eco-friendly, less growth-intensive way of life.

Lyons’ resident Greg Lowell, is a former Lyons Town Board Trustee and serves as a member of the Ecology Ad visory Board.

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Rainbow trout fingerlings will be stocked this month in the North St. Vrain River. The fingerlings lose their dark spots as they get older and their rainbow colors come in on their bellies.

How accurate is your news source?

By John Gierach Redstone Review

LYONS – I’d just spent a week off the grid at a fish camp on the Alagnak River in Alaska that was a welcome relief from the usual noise of wall-to-wall media, especially since the unwritten law that keeps the peace in fishing camps is that no one talks about religion or politics. That’s a break we should all give ourselves from time to time. Imagine visiting a pre viously undiscovered country where the fishing is good, the inhabitants are civil and there’s no TV.

But when I got back to the hotel in An chorage where I’d spend the night before my flight home the next day, I couldn’t help turning on the TV in my room to catch up on the January 6 Hearings. I scrolled down the guide, clicked on CNN and got a blank screen. I tried MSNBC and got the same thing. Then I tried all three networks and also got nothing.

What the hell?

I was about to call the front desk to com plain that my TV didn’t work, but then, as the light began to dawn, I tried Fox News and it came in loud and clear.

Oh, that’s right; not only am I back in civilization, but I’m in the red state that spawned Sarah Palin, a fact that’s still hard to ignore. The closest anyone had come to breaking the cardinal rule in camp was when one of the other fishermen joined me on the porch with his morning coffee and asked, “So, can ya see Russia from here?”

Banning the news that doesn’t fit your self-interested version of reality is an old tactic. Banning or burning books, closing newspapers, imprisoning reporters – you name it. All totalitarian regimes try this and it works at first, but eventually the truth – or at least an opposing view – leaks out. Once it passed by word of mouth, later there were mimeograph machines and shortwave radios, and now it leaks out elec tronically, but it always leaks out somehow.

I’m not a big fan of social media, but its one advantage is that it’s now nearly impos sible to hide things for long. They always

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try, but it’s just too big an octopus for any one – from a hotel manager to a govern ment – to control all its unruly tentacles. But then media and the people who know how to use it have always been powerful and politicians and journalists have always known it. Back before the Internet, news paper magnate William Randolph Hurst warned politicians “Don’t screw around with a guy who buys ink by the barrel.”

But the dark side is that the same

Watching the news is an adversarial business. Some of it is nothing more than propaganda and even if you don’t have a passing familiarity with the facts, you can usually spot it by its hysterically self-right eous tone and its moral absolutism: We’re always good; they’re always bad. We’re al ways right; they’re always wrong. When the world you see on the news looks more simplistic than the rich, colorful and nu anced reality you know, be suspicious.

We weren’t always so glued to the news except in rare circumstances like the Cuban missile crisis or the Watergate

America” – famously almost never offered an opinion, but being human, he sometimes revealed himself. It was said that Cronkite could editorialize by raising an eyebrow.

But that was back in the golden age of broadcast news. Now we have advocacy journalism, which is an unlikely hybrid of reporting, opinion and political cheerlead ing. The facts are accurate and verifiable (I think that because they largely come from print reporters working for publica tions with stellar reputations) but al though it’s not actually propaganda, it often employs some of the subtler propa gandistic tricks.

One technique is to start with straight reporting and then segue into an editorial so that opinion and speculation looks like fact. When it’s done well, it’s almost seam less, so that you’d have to go back and watch it again to catch the moment where one thing becomes another.

Another trick involves photos. When an opinion journalist shows a picture of some one they favor, they always look dignified and statesmanlike, while with opposition figures they always choose an outtake that makes then look stupid or deranged.

It’s the same with quotes. The ones from our side are presented in context in com plete sentences, while those by opposition figures are edited down to the isolated phrases that make them look as dumb and wrong as possible. The overall effect is sub liminal, but real.

sprawling media that brings you verifiable facts and informed opinion is also just as likely to tell you that world governments are secretly run by alien lizard people and that Democrats are cannibals with a sweet tooth for children. I can’t speak to the lizard people, but I can testify that as a life long Democrat, I’ve never once been served human flesh, although I understand it resembles pork and is referred to in some places as “long pig.”

I turned off the TV, called Susan to see how things were going at home and got the detailed report on the kind of week the cat had that told me everything else was okay, too. And I eventually got caught up on the news, which amounted to more of what we already knew about the insurrection, the Supreme Court and so on, BREAKING NEWS banners notwithstanding.

Hearings. Most days we had daily newspa pers and a half hour of broadcast news in the evenings. The various newsrooms had their own editorial policies, but they agreed on the facts, just not always on what they meant or what should be done about them. You didn’t see one reality on CBS and a completely different one on NBC, so most of us felt we could honestly disagree while still being on the same page.

Furthermore, opinion was always clearly delineated from reporting, both in news papers and on TV. David Brinkley, an an chor on both NBC and later ABC, ended many broadcasts with little opinion pieces he called homilies. He later collected them into a book he called Everyone has a Right to My Opinion

Walter Cronkite on CBS – aka “Uncle Walter” and “The most trusted man in

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Art and music at The Stone Cup

LYONS – Rachel Tallent’s art show will run through the end of August since it’'s been so well received. For more information, see the website at www.thestonecup.com/music-art.

The music starts at 10 a.m and runs until 12 noon. During RockyGrass, July 29 to July 31, and Folks Fest, August 12 to August 15, shows start at 9 or 9:30 a.m.

July 15, Friday: Arbour Season

July 16, Saturday: Jim Seely

July 17, Sunday: TBA July 22, Friday: Denny Driscoll

July 23, Saturday: Dechen Hawk

July 24, Sunday: Zea Stallings

RockyGrass

July 29, Friday: James Faulk

July 30, Saturday: Steven Hoffman

July 31, Sunday: MG Bailey

August 1, Monday: MG Bailey

August 5, Friday: Denny Driscoll

August 6, Saturday: John Shepherd

August 7, Sunday: Joe Teichman

Folks Festival

August 12, Friday: Daniel Ondaro

August 13, Saturday: Billy Shaddox

August 14, Sunday: Wrenn Van & Friends

August 15, Monday: Denny Driscoll

Sandstone Summer Concert Series

LYONS – Lyons Summer Concert takes place Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Sand stone Park on Broadway.

The series is back, now on Wednesday evenings through August 10. Thanks to so many of you who came out to kick off the Sand stone Summer Concerts last week. After check ing in with our small, independently owned businesses, the feedback was that Wednesdays is preferred by our local businesses, who con tinue to establish and grow their roots in Lyons.

We look forward to our partnership with the Lyons Community Foundation which supports this annual 10-week series. Mark your calendar for Wednesdays this summer and reconnect with your neighbors or meet new friends. Don’t miss it. View the summer line up.

Hilltop Guild Bazaar on August 6 in Allenspark

ALLENSPARK – The Hilltop Guild’s An nual Bazaar, which always takes place on the first Saturday in August, will be August 6 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is free and there’s plenty of parking.

“The Allenspark Fire Department offered its Community Room for a traditional blood drive

(no bloodmobile) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sat urday, August 6, the same day as the Bazaar,” said Jen Bell president of the guild. The Al lenspark Fire Department is located at 14861 Highway 7 at the Allenspark turn-off. Please sign up in advance through Vitalant for blood donations at this location .

Haircuts will be offered by Hair on Wheels at the bazaar. The White Elephant will be open. Fudge, peanut brittle and pies will be sold, and the Guild’s famous homemade jellies will also be available, including dandelion jelly. Live music will be provided by two groups, the Railroad Ramblers and Shazza and Steel.

Lunch will be available for purchase. The Country Kitchen will sell breads, pies, cakes, cookies, and fabulous gourmet sandwiches.

Local and area vendors will be selling jew elry, handicrafts, children’s books, watercolor prints, and wellness teas, and will be offering chair massages. Mary Hunter will have herbal products for sale. There will be repurposed pil lows and fiber art, mixed media painting, wood and fabric gift items.

Inside the Kelley House, at 18720 Highway 7, the boutique will offer embroidered tea tow els, felt pins, a wide variety of coasters, and hand-woven items from scarves to place mats.

The weavers have been working all year making rugs, totes, shoelaces, shawls, and more scarves. In fact, if you want to see a weaver at work and learn how to weave, come

I don’t mean you shouldn’t watch or read your chosen news source in an at tempt to locate yourself in the world and be a responsible citizen, just that you should do it critically, or as media writer Kurt Carlson put it, “You must always ask yourself, ‘what do I think I know and why do I think I know it?’ ”

John Gierach is an outdoor and fly fishing writer who writes books and columns for mag azines including a regular column for Trout Magazine. His books include Trout Bum, Sex Death and Fly fishing, and Still Life with Brook Trout. He has won seven first place awards from the Colorado Press Association for his columns in the Redstone Review. His latest book, All the Time in the World, will be released in June 2023 and will be available at book stores and fly fishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street in Lyons.

to the Bazaar on August 6. For more informa tion, call 303-747-2001.

4th Ave. pedestrian bridge update

LYONS – There was a conflict with the pro posed placement of the caisson and the exist ing retaining wall on the south bank, so the engineering team decided to move the bridge 3-feet south to avoid the retaining wall. Two caissons were poured but one of the caissons did not meet specifications, as there was an anomaly in the concrete. Town staff, the con tractor, and construction manager have been working with the structural engineers to deter mine the best way forward for a new caisson.

Both staff and the contractor are waiting on new direction and design from the engineers. They have enough information to start work on the south side, but are waiting on the driller’s availability, as well as delays of ordered material.

In the meantime, the contractor has com pleted the sidewalk work up to the bridge ap proaches, along with some trail work. Completion is expected in late summer.

Black Bear Hole and 2nd Avenue trailhead

LYONS – Work continues at Black Bear Hole and the 2nd Ave Trailhead. Landscaping ma terials and plantings were placed last week

Equity and diversity program coming to the Lyons library

By Regan Bullers Redstone Review

LYONS – I was colorblind, or at least I tried to be.

My first years of teaching, I acted color blind, and unabashedly so. I didn’t know any better. I thought, “Kids are kids.” I thought, “I should treat everyone the same.” When I was asked how many students of color were in my classes, I responded that I didn’t know, that I didn’t think of my students in racial terms. I was righteous in my belief that I should be colorblind.

But really, I was ignorant. I didn’t know that to pretend not to see color was dam aging. Acting like all my students’ experi ences in life were the same despite racial differences actually invalidated the lived experiences of my non-White students. I didn’t know that until I became a partici pant in the National SEED (Seeking Edu cational Equity and DiversitySM) Project.

As a high school English teacher, one of my goals for each term was to create com munity in my classroom, to work with my students and with the curriculum to estab lish our space as a place where all felt wel come, connected, and safe, where all of my students were able to fully express them selves, to write and discuss without appre hension. It’s a difficult endeavor, and not one I often entirely succeeded in.

Fortunately, as part of my continuing education and professional development, I had the opportunity to participate in a SEED Seminar at my school, a program that opened my eyes to the flaws of colorblindness and showed me ways I could cre ate a more inclusive classroom.

As a four-year participant in SEED Sem inars, I learned about racial identity devel opment, about the myth of meritocracy, about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which includes the need for self actualization,

and so much more. I was exposed to voices I hadn’t heard and experiences I hadn’t contemplated before in the texts that we read and discussed.

I read about the plight of low wage workers in Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich. I followed the journey of a Black student, Cedric Jennings, from his inner city Washington D.C. high school to an Ivy League college in A Hope in the Unseen, by Ron Suskind. I learned of the courage, determination, and sacrifice of people hoping for a better life in Dying to Cross, by Jorge Ramos. I was able to then add unheard voices to my classroom cur riculum, to provide more mirrors in which my diverse groups of students could see parts of themselves, and to provide win dows for my students through which to see others unlike themselves.

My participation in SEED Seminars gave me a new way of engaging with the world. These texts and others helped me see what I had not, that because of partic ular aspects of my identity (for the afore mentioned books my class, race, and nationality respectively), I have advantages. I began to see the systems of oppres sion in our society and how ingrained beliefs, institutions, and interpersonal in teractions reinforce them, but also how these systems can be dismantled with ed ucation, with conversation, with engage ment and action.

I am excited to train as a SEED Seminar leader this summer and I have committed to leading Lyons’ SEED Seminar this year and again next year as part of Wide Spaces Community Initiative, a program of the Lyons Community Library.

After the spotlight on racial injustice over the summer of 2020, after reading a Colorado Public Radio article about Lyons as a racist town, as a town divided, and after the library started conversations last

year about privilege, oppression, and allyship, I feel that our town will benefit from a SEED Seminar where community mem bers of all ilks gather to widen their lenses, to gain new perspectives, to connect to one another, to learn and grow.

I don’t know exactly how SEED will change Lyons.

in Lyons’ SEED Seminar is an opportu nity to do that.

Please join us.

Participation is free thanks to support from the Friends of the Lyons Library and the Town of Lyons Goodwill Grant awarded to Wide Spaces Community Ini tiative. Meetings will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Lyons Library on the third Thursday of each month, starting Septem ber 15 through May 18, 2023. Sign up to

Here are a number of the books Bullers uses in her seminars.

It will depend on the individuals who participate and their spheres of influence. I can foresee a greater allyship for margin alized groups with educator participants making changes to their curriculum to be more inclusive, with business owner par ticipants instituting a more diverse hiring system, with policy-minded participants writing new town ordinances to aid the disadvantaged in some way, with all par ticipants combating stereotypes in inter personal exchanges. There are myriad ways to take action to create a commu nity of belonging for all, and participation

Happenings, help, and hope at LEAF: Summer of 2022

By Lory Barton Redstone Review

LYONS – As it does every year, summer is flying by in a blaze of Lyons-style out door fun, live music, and good times with friends and family. I hope you are doing the things you love and making sweet memories this season.

In addition to all of the human services help and hope we provide every day at LEAF, Lyons Emergency & Assis tance Fund, we are doing our part to make this summer a good one by planning some terrific events. Get ready to mark your calendars.

We’re mixing it up this year and celebrating our volun teers and donors together. If you are a donor or a volunteer with us, please plan to attend our Volunteer & Donor Ap preciation Party on Thursday evening, August 18 in the Community Room and patio at Lyons Public Library. We’ll have food and drinks, connection and community, special guests, and a big announcement. Come enjoy a summer evening with some of the best people you know.

A bit later in August, we’ll team up with Lyons Com munity Foundation, LCF, for the second annual Hooten anny at River Bend. Join us on Sunday, August 28 from 2 to 7 p.m. for a fantastic and free family event in one of

Be a local champion of economic sustainability

By Kim Mitchell Redstone Review

LYONS – For many of us the word sustainability often triggers thoughts of the natural environment, reuse and recycling, or protecting limited resources. However, the meaning of sustainability can go beyond protecting our natural environment.

Local economic sustainability provides the ability to maintain and grow a local business, and it is especially im portant for Lyons’ economy and the local business owners too. As a small but unique town, in the foothills flanked by Rocky Mountain National Park, Lyons has been known as a quarry town, carpet alley, and more recently as a live music hub with an outdoor recreation twist. As Lyons continues to adapt and grow, how can we sustain and grow the economy in the future?

Lyons has struggled with seasonal vitality; many of our small local businesses thrive in the summer months but the effects of seasonality can be apparent during the rest of the year. Yet in Lyons our local businesses are operated by our friends and neighbors which means that economic sustainability has a stronger impact on our community

than it might in a larger city.

Our local businesses are gathering places that bring the community together to share ideas, stories and a positive vibe. Economic sustainability can be strengthened with local events in the off-season and encouraging visitation from October through May, but most importantly with your local support year-round. The best way to support economic growth and our local business success is by fre quenting and using our businesses all year.

Our local services and business owners are all local en trepreneurs, and being part of the fabric of Lyons provides an opportunity for them to sell their products and engage new customers. Becoming economically sustainable will help Lyons as it grows, it will help ensure that our resi dents have access to amenities and services, it will help our neighbors succeed with their business, strengthening their entrepreneurial spirit and it will keep our downtown vibrant and vital.

At the same time, keeping it local is also a great way to support our Lyons local non-profit organizations during their fundraising efforts so that they can continue to give back to the community.

Embracing the “support local” vibe isn’t hard. Be a local

participate on the Lyons Library web page (https://lyons.colibraries.org/) under Pro gramming/SEED Seminar.

Donations to the Friends of the Lyons Li brary at https://www.gofundme.com/f/Lyon sSEED will go toward my training and support this important programming to nur ture Lyons as a community of belonging.

Regan Bullers serves on LEAF’s Board of Directors, the Lyons Elementary School PTO, and the Housing and Human Services Commission. She lives in Lyons with her hus band and their young son.

the most picturesque locations in town.

Again this year, we’ll have a Duck Race, Kids Zone, food trucks, special drinks, silent auction, dance, corn hole tournament, and so much more. This year’s live music will feature a performance by Daniel Rodriguez and Friends.

In just its second year, the Hootenanny is becoming Lyons’ signature summer family event. If you attended last year, we hope you’ll be back this year. And if you missed the Hootenanny last year, you will not want to miss again. Learn more about this fun, free, family day on the Face book event page, or on LEAF’s or Lyons Community Foundation’s web pages. And if the wonderfulness of the day wasn’t enough, this community event helps LEAF and LCF raise funds for our work right here in the Greater Lyons community.

I would be remiss if I didn’t confirm that Rave To The Grave 2022 is set for the end of October. Be on the look out for information and updates. In the meantime, it’s not too late to start planning your costumes, inviting your friends, and lining up your babysitters.

We host these events for the community and to make it possible to continue offering a human services safety net in the Greater Lyons area. LEAF’s wraparound services in

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At Hootenanny 2021, waiting for the duckies to come ‘round the bend.

PHOTO BY BEN DUNN

champion and support the business community in Lyons from services to retail and restaurants. Count me in, how about you?

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

Red Canyon Art, a long-time Lyons retailer of fine art, jewelry, and gifts, moved to a new location on Main Street last fall.

Daniel Strawn’s art show at the library

By Sally King Redstone Review

A light-hearted look at humanity seen through the eyes of the SPO They’re saying it’s going to be alright With a Little Help from our Friends Cosmic guidance received just the nick of time!

Daniel Strawn Drawn the current art show at the library Can be seen through September! Meet the alien in yourself As Daniel first did In a Gary Larsen cartoon in his youth... Mo, Flow, Joe and Spo SPO was all eyeballs and tentacles Home sweet home for some of us!

Daniel’s been through a rough patch with his health And the practice of making art this art Has been the way back.

The soul body, not fettered by the personality With all its small demands Is the way Forward. So go meet the SPO

Sally King is a local artist who has cre ated 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.

Art @ River Bend and Dorothy’s Dictionary

By Brianna Hoyt Redstone Review

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By Jessie Berta-Thompson Redstone Review

LYONS – In the heat of summer, two milkweeds are blooming at the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens, showy milk weed (Asclepias speciosa) and butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). Wildly different at first glance, showy milkweed grows up to 5 feet tall with big, pale leaves and orbs of dusty pink flowers. Butterfly weed is less than 2 feet tall, with clusters of bright orange flowers and bright green leaves. Up close, these plants share the distinctive milkweed flower struc ture, a crown-like feat of origami. Milkweeds also share complicated chemistry, and, famously, a critical role in supporting pollinators.

Milkweeds are named for their milky sap. This fluid is latex, a sticky emulsion of polymers that coagulates when it hits air, sometimes laced with toxins. Latex is often, but not always, opaque and white (a few milkweeds actually don’t have milky-looking sap). An estimated 10% of plant species make latex. It’s a trait that has evolved independ ently many times, convergent evolution. Latex is thought to provide protection from herbivores by trapping insects in its glue or sticking their mouths shut.

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LYONS – After a two-year hiatus due to Covid, Lyons’ annual summer art show is back. Everyone is invited to join the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC) and the Boulder County Arts Alliance (BCAA) at River Bend on Sun day, July 17 from noon to 7 p.m. for our famed local art show.

Nearly 30 artists from the Boulder County area will display their talents and artwork. Enjoy an afternoon along the picturesque St. Vrain Creek at River Bend, interacting with artists of all media, live demos, along with local food trucks and libations. While admission is free, parking is limited and $5 per vehicle for on-site parking. Visitors and locals are encouraged to walk, ride or stroll.

The art show benefits both Boulder County Arts Al liance and the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission. BCAA is a non-profit organization that was created to act as a catalyst to incubate, stimulate and sustain a thriving arts community in Boulder County.

BCAA is committed to “championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive and equitable Boulder County for all.” To achieve its mis sion, the organization promotes diverse arts opportuni ties, nurtures arts through collaborating with various art disciplines, and offers professional development to arts businesses and artists. BCAA supports artists through workshops, development opportunities and fiscal sponsorships. The funds collected from vendor fees at Art @ River Bend are shared equally between the BCAA and LAHC to support the arts communities in Lyons and the broader Boulder County area. Invite some friends and join your neighbors to visit Art @ River Bend to see the local artists creations while simultaneously supporting our vibrant arts community.

Afterwards, the Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado (BETC) will be performing Dorothy’s Dictionary in Bohn Park beginning at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 17. High school student Zan is putting in his community service hours when he meets Dorothy, a book-lover who’s losing her eye

sight. Each of them might just have what the other needs, if they can only find the words. Powerful, heartwarming, and timely, this new play by award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis is perfect for older and younger adults.

This event was previously scheduled in late June but has been rescheduled due to weather. Walk, bike or stride over to Bohn Park (the fields to the east of the baseball fields) to enjoy this free, live performance from a theater company based out of Boulder.

A unique presentation of mobile theater with its own traveling stage, the Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado also performs at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder and

takes its company on the road during the summer in its handcrafted theater trailer.

The Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado supports play wrights and incubates theater talent in Boulder County. During the traveling months they visit communities throughout Colorado to bring professional theater to com munities for free. This performance will begin at 7 p.m. and is open to the public; guests are encouraged to bring their own chairs or blankets.

For more Information on the tour, visit betc.org/truck.

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

Milkweed sap is toxic when ingested by humans, wildlife, or livestock, to varying extents for different species. The chemical cocktail in milkweeds’ latex in cludes cardiac glycosides, which affect heart function. The sap can also cause skin irritation, so take care when tear ing a leaf to check its ooziness and color. Despite these risks, indigenous peoples found myriad uses for milkweeds, as food (prepared carefully), fiber and medicine, harness ing its powerful molecules.

The milkweeds (genus Asclepias) are made up of around 130 species native to North and South America. There are more relatives in Africa, which molecular stud ies suggest is the ancient origin of their diversity, before migration to the Americas and subsequent rampant spe ciation. In Colorado, there are 19 milkweed species, with flowers in orange, white, green, and pink. Around Lyons, the most common species is the showy milkweed.

Milkweeds are in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae). This family includes local spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium), the traditional European ground cover vinca or periwinkle (Vinca minor), and tropical fa vorites like oleander, plumeria, and mandevilla. Many of these plants also produce toxic latex, the bane of any nibbling animal.

An oft-told but important bit of ecology, milkweeds are the required host plant for monarch caterpillars. Through out their epic multi-generational annual migration, monarch butterflies must find milkweeds to lay their eggs

on. The eggs hatch, and the caterpillars eat milkweed leaves voraciously until they are ready for their transfor mation. Monarchs have not only evolved tolerance of the plant’s toxins, but they also absorb them to make their bodies poisonous to predators. To avoid the unpleasant physical properties of too much sticky latex, monarch caterpillars cut a leaf vein to let it spill out upstream of where they are snacking.

Lyons is slightly outside the main flow of monarch mi

Three generations of women from one family at the Women’s March in Boulder on July 9. Sally King, her daughter Willow King, and grandniece Callen Small at the Boulder courthouse.

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Long time Lyons resident and artist, Daniel Strawn, was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2019. A collection of his older drawings and new paintings, inspired by his months of dialysis and eventual kidney transplant, will be on display at the library until October.

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Prairie dogs enrich their underground world

By Kaite Fletcher Redstone Review

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LYONS – Three black-tailed prairie dogs in Greenwood’s care made it back to their natural habitat with the help of Green wood and the Prairie Dog Coalition. These small mammals were added to an existing colony through a soft release.

Acclimating in a man-made burrow for a few days, the critters sniffed out their new environment and family members before making their grand entrance into the grasslands. This was the first prairie dog release of the sum mer season. Yet, this release is more than wild patients re turning home once more. As keystone species and ecosystem engineers, prairie dogs hold the key to the fu ture of our endangered Colorado grasslands.

Under Threat

Kaitie Schneider, a trained wildlife biologist and pro gram coordinator for the Prairie Dog Coalition, found her self drawn to prairie dog conservation after realizing how much help this ecosystem needed to survive and, ulti mately, return to its original splendor.

Two decades ago, prairie dogs were defined as a keystone species for the native grasslands here in Colorado and across the plains. This means that they provide critical and irreplaceable benefits to their ecosystem. From water filtration and nutrient resources to habitat creation and predator-prey balance, these critters structure their ecosys tem and its services. However, there is still little protec tion for this important creature, only advocacy for their survival.

Today, prairie dog populations have declined by as much as 95 percent of their historical numbers while grasslands have declined by 98 percent. This is not a coincidence.

Schneider explained that the biggest threat to prairie dogs is the public’s perception of their burrows and other

end with the volunteer efforts of the Wildland Restoration Volunteers. The contractor has completed much of the river work. They are currently working on the restroom facility at the trailhead and grading of the parking area. Completion is expected this summer.

New free Lyons Flyer bus service began on June 27

LYONS – Fare-free scheduled bus service re turns, connecting the Town of Lyons to the

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behaviors. They are often seen as pests, especially to cattle ranchers, which makes the small but mighty animal diffi cult to protect. Schneider’s goal is to drive home the mes sage that “we can coexist with prairie dogs,” including the farmers and cattle ranchers.

Prairie dogs are friends, not foes, to agricultural lands as they improve the nutritional quality of the grasses for live stock and soil for crops in their area.

complexities of this species.

These burrowing critters are currently on the forefront of communication research after scientists decoded their high-pitched sounds. Each of their unique shrills can voice everything from predators’ warnings and their locations, territory boundaries, and mating calls.

Advocates for prairie dogs are not the voice for the voiceless per se, because of these critter’s chatty nature.

Community Collaboration

Wildlife rehabilitators, government agencies, and other community members need to work together to protect earth’s systems and the species that balance them.

The land used for this release is part of a network of properties consisting of federal, city, and county owned areas. With fragmented colonies scattered across the plains, the restoration project to reconnect habitat is fundamental for the protection of these prairie architects.

An Underground World Ecosystem engineers shape their surroundings and its resources. Through burrowing underground, foraging above ground, and providing as prey to other animals, these small mammals are masterminds of the prairies. Ac cording to the coalition, approximately 150 species rely on prairie dogs and their role in the ecosystem: mainly burrowing owls, eagles, and black-footed ferrets.

“People don’t realize there is a whole world under ground, similar to the deep ocean, that holds so much importance beneath a seemingly bare land,” Schneider said.

Their underground domains, called towns, hold a degree of mystery as they play such an important role in shaping the earth above them without easy access to their secrets below. Researchers continue to study and learn about the

City of Boulder along US 36 and reestablishing a critical transit route. Boulder County, with funding from the Regional Transportation Dis trict (RTD) and in partnership with the Town of Lyons, the City of Boulder, and Via Mobility Services is restoring commuter transit bus serv ice along US 36 between Lyons and Boulder.

The Lyons Flyer will be free to ride, no fare or pass required, and will operate three daily round trips during the morning and afternoon rush hours. Service will be provided Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. All vehicles are ADA accessible and have space to accommodate two passengers using wheel chairs or mobility devices.

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If a prairie dog is found healthy, then the animals are immediately transferred by the coalition to be reintro duced to their original or another capable colony. If they are injured or orphaned, that’s when Greenwood steps in to help. During their time at the Center, the critters are set up with a treatment plan consisting of testing, medications, diet, physical therapy, and enrichment if applicable. After the rehabilitation process, they are transferred and acclimated to the underground world.

Over the years, Greenwood and the Prairie Dog Coali tion together have released a handful of prairie dogs back into the grasslands. This partnership not only allows for more wild patients to be released back into their natural habitat, but also help restore important ecosystems across Colorado.

“The grasslands are one of the most endangered ecosys tems on the planet,” Schneider said. “And without prairie dogs, the whole prairie will collapse.”

Kaite Fletcher is currently the Communications and Fundrais ing 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.

The Lyons Flyer will provide service be tween downtown Lyons at 4th Ave. and Rail road Ave. to Broadway and Regent Dr. in Boulder. View a detailed route map at www.TownofLyons.com/LyonsFlyer Schedule:

The morning schedule will be: Trip 1 De part Lyons 6:10 a.m., Arrive Boulder 6:47 a.m.; Trip 2 Depart Boulder 7:02 a.m., Arrive Lyons 7:35 a.m.; Trip 3 Depart Lyons 7:50 a.m., Arrive Boulder 8:25 a.m. Leashed, wellbehaved dogs are welcome aboard.

Service will be provided Monday through Friday, excluding Independence Day, Labor

Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day in 2022. Riders can track their bus’s arrival time and location in real-time using Transit App, available for iOS and Android. No passes, reservations, or fare is required to use this free transit service.

Vehicle parking is available at the Lyons Park-n-Ride, at US 36 and 2nd Ave. in Lyons. All Flyers have bike racks that can accommo date three bikes. For information including the full schedule, visit www. TownofLyons. com / LyonsFlyer or contact Alex HydeWright at ahyde-wright@bouldercounty.org or 303-441-4910.

RockyGrass Turns 50 at Planet Bluegrass

By Katherine Weadley Redstone Review

LYONS – Leaning forward intently to listen for the sound of a solid “G,” he slowly turns the tuner on the neck of his Western Bigleaf Maple mandolin and picks the phosphor bronze string. Completely focused on the task at hand, he barely notices the inconsistent gurgle of the river, or the naked toddler as she runs by screaming in delight.

People walk by in their festival outfits of fleece, tie-dye, and hats of varying styles and sizes, talking and laughing as they find their way back to their tarps where they will eat, drink, dance and listen to music. The musician finally gets the sound he is looking for, unfolds himself from his cross-legged position on the grass, and gets up to find his bandmates for their set on the main stage. It’s showtime for Rockygrass. This year’s festival is July 29 to 31.

to Colorado’s largest annual bluegrass focused festival.

In 1989 the festival’s name was changed to “15 More Years of Bluegrass, Inc.” but was changed back to Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival a year later, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s website. A few years after the CBMS sold the festival in 1995 the name changed from Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival to RockyGrass –and that name remains the same.

This year’s sold-out festival, July 29 to 31, offers blue grass classic headliners such as Yonder Mountain String Band, Sam Bush Bluegrass Band, Hot Rize, and Peter Rowan’s Bluegrass Band. True to style, Rockygrass also showcases up-and-coming bands such as the Wildmans. From Floyd, Virginia (pop. 528) and newish to the Col orado Bluegrass scene, this band consists of siblings Eli and Aila Wildman as well as banjoist Vitor Furtado, who in 2019 became the youngest recipient of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize. A comedian and banjo player, Martin is an alumnus of Planet Bluegrass.

The band’s classical and jazz backgrounds show through their traditional repertoire. About Floyd, Virginia, Eli says, “We live in a town where there is a bluegrass and old time music scene. They all come out on the street on Friday night and jam. So there’s just lots of fiddle tunes being played downtown.” According to visitfloydva.com, this town is a key stop on the Crooked Road, Virginia’s her itage music trail – with its famous Friday Night Jamboree at the Floyd Country Store and County Sales, home of the world’s largest collection of traditional bluegrass and oldtime music.

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The more things change the more they stay the same, and nothing could be more true than celebrating the 50th anniversary of Rockygrass. Bluegrass in Colorado wasn’t as popular in 1972 as it is today. The Colorado Bluegrass Society started in 1972, the independent radio station KGNU started the radio show Old Grass GNU Grass in 1978 and it’s still on air today, often hosted by Lyons local Brian Eyster on Saturday mornings. Swallow Hill, which promotes acoustic music, was founded in 1979.

But what about Rockygrass? In 1972 the festival began through the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society (CBMS) as the Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival with the help of musician Bill Monroe, who is credited with creating the bluegrass music genre. According to the CBMS the first event had an attendance of 6,500.

Then in 1995 the CBMS sold this festival to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival (registrant Craig Ferguson) and the event was moved to Lyons from a fairground in Adams County. Once the grounds of the Center for Wildflower Preserva tion, the property at 500 W. Main St. in Lyons is now home

Newly together but with storied Colorado resumes is the band Big Richard, which calls its style of music “blue grass with a side of lady rage.” This band consists of Bon nie Sims (mandolin and guitar), Emma Rose (upright bass and guitar), Eve Panning (fiddle), and Joy Adams (cello). Sims is known for being part of the band Bonnie and the Clydes with her spouse Taylor.

The band’s music is virile and raw with old-timey wit. Lyrics range from, “Tell the preacher, tell the pope, I don’t wear no greasy coat,” from their song Greasy Coat, to a dark and delightful song about an older sister drowning her younger sister and a mysterious fiddler in the song Wind and Rain.

The next festival at Planet Bluegrass is the Folks Festi val from August 12 to 14. For more information go to planetbluegrass.com.

Katherine Weadley lives in the mountains and is a librarian, a writer, and has been covering Planet Bluegrass events for al most two decades.

and Board of Trustees have invited me to join the Board of Trustee meetings to give an update of all the things we are working on in the Lyons Fire Protection District to improve the protection of our community. I would en courage everyone to join the meetings online to ask me any questions you might have about your fire department and give me feedback on how we are doing. In closing, I want to thank our community for being extra aware and diligent in our effort to reduce the wildfire danger in our community.

The Lyons Fire Protection District, along with the Town of Lyons, has been working very closely with our Wildfire Task Force to reduce and mitigate wildfire risk in our community. We continue to have meetings with HOAs and neighborhood groups to educate homeowners on the importance of home mitigation efforts. Please pay close attention to fire restrictions that are put into place and be extra careful when we have critical fire weather or red flag days that ban all open burning. Anything we can do to prevent wildfires from impacting our community is our mission. We are stronger together.

Peter Zick is the Fire Chief for the Lyons Fire Protection District.

Strengthen communication during emergencies Support neighborhood emergency preparedness Enhance relationships between our fire district, surrounding communities, and Boulder and Larimer County emergency planners.

A volunteer citizen partnership with the Lyons Fire Protection District working together to:

Travels with Redstone Dad Ian Brighton, son James, mom Theresa, and Michael Bright, visiting in Charleston South Carolina. Take the Redstone with you on your next trip and send us your photos showing where the Redstone has trav eled. Send your photos to redstarnews5@gmail.com

CSU researchers intensify forecast, now predict a very active 2022 Atlantic hurricane season

By Anne Manning Redstone Review

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University hurricane researchers have intensified their forecast and now pre dict a well above average Atlantic hurricane season in 2022. The odds of El Niño for this year’s hurricane season are now quite low, and the odds of La Niña conditions have increased relative to what was projected with the initial outlook in early April.

Sea surface temperatures averaged across the tropical Atlantic are now warmer than normal, while the eastern Atlantic is much warmer than normal. This type of sea surface temperature configuration is considered quite fa vorable for an active 2022 Atlantic hurricane season.

The tropical eastern and central Pacific currently has weak La Niña conditions: that is, the water temperatures there are somewhat below average. CSU researchers an ticipate that these waters will likely remain slightly (e.g., cool neutral ENSO) to somewhat below normal (e.g., La Niña) for the Atlantic hurricane season.

The scientists believe that El Niño is extremely unlikely this year. El Niño tends to increase upper-level westerly winds across the Caribbean into the tropical Atlantic, tearing apart hurricanes as they try to form.

The tropical Atlantic currently is warmer than normal, while the eastern Atlantic from the subtropics to the midlatitudes is much warmer than normal. This type of sea surface temperature configuration tends to force a weaker subtropical high and associated weaker winds blowing across the tropical Atlantic. These conditions then lead to warmer waters in the tropical Atlantic for the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season.

The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project team is predict ing 20 named storms in 2022. Of those, researchers expect 10 to become hurricanes and five to reach major hurricane strength (Saffir/Simpson category 3-4-5) with sustained winds of 111 miles per hour or greater. This forecast is an increase from the early April outlook which predicted 19 named storms, nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes.

The team bases its forecasts on statistical models, in cluding three models that use a combination of statistical information and forecasts from dynamical models from the U.K. Meteorological Office, the Japan Meteorological Agency and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. These models are built on 25 to 40 years of historical hurricane seasons and evaluate conditions including: Atlantic sea surface temperature, sea level pressure, vertical wind shear (the change in wind direc

tion and speed with height in the atmosphere), El Niño (warming of waters in the central and eastern tropical Pa cific), and other factors.

So far, the 2022 hurricane season is exhibiting charac teristics similar to 1996, 1999, 2000, 2008, 2011 and 2021. “1996, 1999, 2008 and 2021 had above-average activity, while 2000 and 2011 had near-average activity,” said Phil Klotzbach, research scientist in the Department of Atmos pheric Science and lead author of the report.

the seasonal forecasts, launched the report in 1984 and continued to author them until his death in 2016.

The CSU forecast is intended to provide a best estimate of activity in the Atlantic during the upcoming season –not an exact measure.

As always, the researchers caution coastal residents to take proper precautions. “It takes only one storm near you to make this an active season,” Bell said.

The report also includes the probability of major hurri canes making landfall, including a 76 percent for the en tire U.S. coastline (average for the last century is 52 percent), a 51 percent for the U.S. East Coast including the Florida peninsula (average for the last century is 31 percent), a 50 percent for the Gulf Coast from the Florida

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The team predicts that 2022 hurricane activity will be about 145 percent of the average season. By comparison, 2021’s hurricane activity was about 120 percent of the av erage season. The 2021 hurricane season had eight conti nental U.S. named storm and two continental U.S. landfalling hurricanes, including Category 4 Hurricane Ida which battered the central Gulf Coast and then brought devastating flooding to the mid-Atlantic and northeast U.S.

The CSU team will issue forecast updates on August 4. This is the 39th year that the CSU hurricane research team has issued an Atlantic basin seasonal hurricane fore cast. The Tropical Meteorology Project team also includes Michael Bell, professor in the CSU Department of Atmos pheric Science, and Alex DesRosiers, graduate research assistant in the same department. Bill Gray, who originated

panhandle westward to Brownsville (average for the last century is 30 percent), and a 65 percent for the Caribbean (average for the last century is 42 percent).

The forecast team also provides probabilities of named storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes tracking within 50 miles of each county or parish along the Gulf and U.S. East Coast, as well as hurricane-prone coastal states, Mex ican states, Canadian provinces and countries in Central America and the Caribbean. These probabilities for re gions and countries are adjusted based on the current sea sonal forecast and its projected effects on the upcoming hurricane season.

Anne Manning works in the News and Media Relations Dept. at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

sion on whether to accept a proposal from Spirit Hound Distillers to take a cash pay ment of $26,000 in lieu of two water shares which Spirit Hound owes to the town for its increased water use.

Spirit Hound, 4196 Ute Hwy., ex panded its production, which increased its water use from a ¾-inch water tap to a 1inch water tap; this then required the pur chase of two water shares owed to Lyons. As a business, Spirit Hound is allowed to use Lake McIntosh water shares which are cheaper than the Colorado Big Thomp son (CBT) water shares normally used for water share dedication. The Lake McIn tosh shares are about $13,000 per share or a little less.

Neil Sullivan, one of the owners of Spirit Hound, said that he was not able to find any water share brokers who had only two shares of water to sell.

The board discussed the matter and de cided to accept the “cash in lieu of shares” offer and then purchase one share of water when it came available and put the rest of the money in the water fund.

Summertime fun at LaVern Johnson Park.

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clude these five no-cost or low-cost pro grams: Lyons Community Food Pantry, Lyons Meals on Wheels, Basic Needs & Resource Matching, Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery and Lyons Volunteers.

The LEAF teams have been busy every day, bringing help and hope to people through these services. We want to offer a

heartfelt thank you to those in the com munity who have responded to the call to support LEAF’s work in this season. Your donations of dollars and food are muchneeded and greatly appreciated. Here is the unique situation:

We are grateful to report that new families are coming to the Pantry each week (No shame, just come), but this also means that LEAF needs to purchase or receive more

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food than ever.

The source for most of our donated Food Pantry supplies, Community Food Share, hasn’t been able to provide meat, or suffi cient bread or produce for weeks now because of supply chain issues. Our team scours sales to source these items, but we are all aware that prices are high. In fact, Pantry leaders recently spent $1,104.88 in one week just to keep the Pantry stocked for local people who need food. This level of need far outpaces LEAF’s budget. We recently learned that even nonperishables like pasta, tomato sauce, canned foods, beans, and more will be unavailable now, too.

We have all heard that the rising costs of living are hitting home for many people across our country, and this reality is no different in Lyons. Requests for help from our Basic Needs & Resource Matching program are up, too. In fact, in the month of June, LEAF provided the same amount of direct financial assistance as was needed for all of the previous months this year combined. Primarily, households are strug gling with utilities or rent, as they see more and more dollars going for food, gas, and increased housing costs.

LEAF is available and ready to serve every day, in every season.

So what can you do?

• If you are able to give financially, please do so on our website (leaflyons.org), or mail a check, or stop by with a donation on Wednesdays between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Your gift will allow us to source protein and produce, and to take advan tage of sales and discounted food items.

• If you are able to donate food, please do so. Currently, we need snacks (chips, crackers, cookies), tomato products (sauce, paste, rotel, Manwich), pickles, mayo, pasta, cereal, baked beans, canned meals (ravioli, chili, stew, hash). You can drop food off at LEAF on Wednesdays between 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. We are in the lower level of Lyons Community Church, 350 Main Street.

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LEAF directly served 264 local people in the first quarter of this year, and we expect second quarter trends to look very similar. This is a lot of help and hope, in the form of food, mental health care, and housing, utilities, and transportation support.

Unfortunately, individual and business giving has been way down so far this entire year. LEAF is a community-based organi zation, and we do depend on our commu nity’s generosity to continue providing local human services. If you are able to share, please consider donating to LEAF. If you are a business leader, please consider joining our corporate giving family of LEAF Believers. LEAF is a communitybased organization, and we want to ensure

gration, which follows two paths on either side of the Rockies. Eastern Colorado sees more of the orange beauties. Still, it’s al ways worth checking the leaves of a milk weed plant to see if there’s one of the stunning black, white, and yellow striped caterpillars.

Milkweed flowers produce abundant (and non-toxic) nectar to attract pollinators. While adult monarchs certainly feast on milkweed flowers and help pollinate them, so do many other species of butterflies, as well as moths, bees, and hummingbirds.

It’s worth another visit to the milkweeds in the fall to see their pods. When they split open, masses of fluffy seeds tumble out to catch the wind. Milkweed silk is highly buoyant and a good insulator. During WWII, when life vest stuffing materials became unavailable, community-collected milkweed fluff was used instead. Currently, the textile industry is experimenting with milkweed silk as an alternative to down.

Milkweeds make a lovely, bold addition to gardens. Volunteers at the RMBG re cently planted dozens of swamp milkweeds (Asclepias incarnata). Stay tuned for perky pink flowers on tall stems next year. The native milkweeds are perennials that die back to the ground each winter. Showy milkweed spreads underground by rhizomes, though not as aggressively as its Eastern cousin the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Swamp milkweed and butterfly weed grow as tidier clumps. Swamp milkweed, unsurprisingly, requires more water than the other species, a good choice for sites with poor drainage or clay.

• If you need help or hope in the form of food, community, mental health care, or other human services assistance, reach out. No shame, just come. Visit our website at leaflyons.org to learn more about what we do. Or stop by any Wednesday afternoon. Indeed, there is plenty of help and hope happening at LEAF every day, this sum mer, and year ‘round. LEAF isn’t just an organization. LEAF is people. Whether you are a donor, a volunteer, or a participant, we are grateful for you. You are the heart of LEAF, and we love growing healthy community with you. If you have questions or want to learn more, please email me at lory@leaflyons.org, or stop in on a Wednesday afternoon.

Lory Barton is the Executive Director at LEAF, Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund. Having previously served with local and international non-profit organizations, she’s glad and grateful to partner with so many at LEAF to change our small corner of the world in the Greater Lyons area.

These are just a few of the many native milkweed species readily available, as plants or seeds. This Asclepias abundance for gardeners is the result of educational efforts to help monarchs by encouraging milkweed planting. Habitat loss and chemical use reduced monarch popula tions severely over the 20th century, and conservationists are closely monitoring their status today.

Milkweed seeds can be planted outdoors in the fall, as a winter cycle in the ground provides the right signals to encourage sprouting. Their first year, the plants are small and don’t to flower. The second year, and beyond, they come charging out of the ground with a show of flowers and buzzing, flapping, flittering life.

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.

Tortuga This sweet boy is looking for his new family. Tortuga is a very social boy. He comes running to you when called, loves his big cheeks getting scratched, and will cuddle in your lap for the day. He will thrive in a home where he can shine as the only cat. He has so much love to give. Come in today and set up a visit with this fella. For more information visit our website www.longmonthumane.org or give us a call at 303-772-1232.

More than 200 animals are wait ing for forever families at Longmont Humane Society. Visit them at www.longmonthumane.org, and then come meet them at the shelter at 9595 Nelson Road.

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Cabbage slaw is perfect for a summer meal with any grilled meat or fish

By Barbara Shark Redstone Review

LYONS – I bought a beautiful green cab bage from Zweck’s farm stand on Airport Road. Connie Zweck claims their cab bage is as tender and sweet as lettuce and she’s right. I decided to make a favorite coleslaw with mangoes.

Cut half of the cabbage into thin shreds. Then peel and thinly slice a mango and add it to the cabbage with a big handful of torn cilantro and a smaller handful of slivered mint leaves.

Toss this with the dressing: combine the juice of a lime, a teaspoon of toasted sesame oil, a teaspoon of shoyu (soy sauce), a tablespoon of maple syrup and a big pinch of hot

red pepper flakes.

Then add the crowning touch caramelized macadamia nuts.

In a small heavy skillet, toast a handful of macadamias in a teaspoon of butter. Add a couple teaspoons of sugar and let caramelize, watching closely so the nuts don’t burn, then sprinkle them with a bit of salt and red pepper flakes. Let cool then scatter over the salad.

I’ve made this with peaches in place of the mango and pecans or sliced almonds in place of the macadamia nuts. This delicious slaw is a great accompaniment to any grilled meat or fish.

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

Peach Cobbler is an easy summer dessert

By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – August, and the Palisade peaches roll into season. These little Western Slope won ders are growing wildly in popularity, and can be pur chased at roadside stands and supermarkets across our region. The peaches are particularly sweet and fragrant as it doesn’t rain too much, and the solar heat at 4,700 feet above sea level where they grow in the environs of Palisade, Colorado, really brings on the fruit.

What to do with all these delicious peaches? Slice them up over your homemade granola at breakfast, cut them into a fruit salad, savor them whole bite by bite, or my fa vorite, make a peach cobbler. Yes, baking cobbler heats up your kitchen, but the heat of a summer kitchen with the screen door slamming as friends and family head out side, murmuring in the cooling darkness of the back yard, is a comfort as is the dessert served warm a la mode that finishes your barbecue.

I got this recipe from a 1980s Women’s Club cookbook called Seasons of Thyme. It is a favorite dessert that my children, who are now living on their own, text me for the recipe.

Peach Cobbler A La Mode

Serves 8

4 C sliced fresh peaches

1 T freshly squeezed lemon juice

1 C flour

Hilltop Guild awards seven scholarships to students in Estes Park and Lyons

By Elisabeth Sherwin Redstone Review

ALLENSPARK – Hill top Guild has been awarding student scholarships for almost 40 years and has, to date, helped more than 125 students with their educations.

The guild is an association of mountain women who live at least part of the time in and around Allenspark. They make and sell handicrafts from dandelion jelly to weavings, from quilts to peanut brittle.

With the money they make from sales, particularly from the annual bazaar, which this year will be on Saturday, August 6, they give scholarships to local high school stu dents in Lyons, Allenspark and Estes Park. Members of the Education/Philanthropic Committee are Carol Halsey, Barb Coles and Donna Squyres.

Let’s give a shout-out to former Allenspark resident Chloe Walker who graduated from Western Colorado State University in May with a degree in biology. She re ceived a scholarship from the guild in 2018, which the guild would like to think helped her on her way.

Four students from Lyons High School received 2022 scholarships. Hailey Odell, the Marjorie McCulloch Me morial Scholarship recipient of $2,000, will be attending the University of Iowa, Iowa City. She is majoring in Eng lish and creative writing. She recently published a book. Gage Basey is the Gerald Halsey Memorial Scholarship recipient of $1,500 and will be attending University of Colorado at Boulder, majoring in entrepreneurship. He plays volleyball and represented the U.S.A. at World Beach Championships in Thailand when he was a sen ior. Murren Campbell, the Hilltop Guild Scholarship recipient of $1,500, will be attending the University of Northern Colorado. She is majoring in elementary education and has tutored elementary school students every other weekday for the past two years. James Dean, the Hilltop Guild Scholarship recipient of $1,000, will be at tending Front Range Community College, majoring in musical arts. He has written 58 lyrical pieces and com posed 20 musical pieces.

Three young women from Estes Park High School received scholarships. Bella Walker, who won the Mar jorie McCulloch Memorial Scholarship recipient of $2,000, will be attending Harding University, Searcy,

Arkansas majoring in health/wellness; her goal is to be an orthopedic surgeon. Sydney Lewelling, the Hilltop Guild Scholarship recipient of $1,500, will attend Col orado State University and is majoring in health/wellness with interests in pediatrics, sports medicine, and women’s

1 C sugar

1 slightly beaten egg

6 T melted salted butter

Vanilla ice cream

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Slice four cups of peaches and place in a pie plate. You can peel the peaches if you like; I prefer to leave the skins on. Sprinkle the fresh lemon juice over the peaches. Set aside.

• In a small bowl stir together the flour and sugar . Pour the beaten egg into the center of the flour/sugar mixture. Using a fork, stir the egg into the mixture. It will have large lumps when you’ve finished mixing it. Spread this mixture evenly over the peaches. Drizzle the melted butter over the top of the cobbler.

• Place in the center of the oven midway up and bake for 35 minutes, or until the topping is golden and the fruit is bubbling. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.

Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking professionally and privately since 1979. She was a French cuisine journey man 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.

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tices that will ensure we can enjoy our public lands for generations to come.

I’m happy to share that on July 1, the House Subcom mittee on Environment and Climate Change moved the bipartisan RCAA one step closer to passage after holding a hearing entitled No Time to Waste: Solutions for Amer ica’s Broken Recycling System. Our broken recycling sys tem is a growing burden on our environment, small businesses, and communities – and the passage of this bill will signify a shift toward a more sustainable America. Stay tuned for more updates.

Congressman Joe Neguse represents Colorado’s Second District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was elected to his first term in November 2018, becoming the first AfricanAmerican member of Congress in Colorado history. He serves as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the House Natural Resources Committee and the House Select Commit tee on the Climate Crisis.

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The Allenspark Hilltop Guild Board of Directors 2021/2022: Left to right : Kitty Burton, Past President; Jen Bell, President; Elisabeth Sherwin, Vice President; Emily Balduzzi, Director at Large; Barb Coles, Treas urer; Carol Halsey, Education / Philanthropic; Marta Dowell, Corresponding Secretary; Donna Squyres, Past President; Roz Doak, Secretary.

health. Kadynce Shotts, the Hilltop Guild Scholarship recipient of $1,500, will attend University of North Florida, majoring in ASL/English interpreting. She has sent a first draft of her SF/Fantasy novel to a publisher.

Please join us at our annual bazaar on August 6 in Al lenspark at the Kelley House, located at 18720 Highway 7. Hair on Wheels will be offering haircuts for a donation, dandelion jelly will be sold (along with other flavors of the mountains), the White Elephant will be open and lots of handicrafts made by the ladies of the guild will be for sale (plus peanut brittle and fudge. Free and plentiful park ing available.

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, California where she stayed until she retired, then came back to Allenspark.

On July 15 we will show a campy adventure flick; we’ll crank up the tunes and sing along for a Karaoke Night on July 22; and conclude the summer with a movie chroni cling Harry and Lloyd’s road trip to Colorado. Teen nights include snacks and run from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.

We are also pleased to announce that we are once again offering one-on-one tech help. Thanks to a generous local volunteer, we are able to offer drop-in, first come, first served tech help on Tuesdays between 2 and 4 p.m.

Please visit the library’s website for additional infor mation, including film titles, on any of our exciting programs and to reserve your spot. Your Lyons Com munity 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.coli braries.org and we’re always open for digital downloads on both the OverDrive/Libby and CloudLibrary apps. Give us a call at 303-823-5165 or email info@lyonsli brary.com with any questions.

Kara Bauman is the Director of the Lyons Community Li brary and holds an MLIS from the University of Kentucky. She’s an avid fly angler, enjoys craft beer, and in non-COVID times travels extensively to see her favorite band, Widespread Panic.

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