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B •R •I •E •F •S Graduation News LYONS – The Lyons Middle/Senior High School is still waiting on the specific information about graduation and there is no official word on the specifics yet. The school expects to have more specifics by the beginning of July.

The information that is available from LMSHS Principal Andrea Smith is that the graduation will take place on July 25 at 9 a.m. at John “Jet” Johnson Field. The school will be following all social distancing guidelines as outlined

by Boulder County Public Health Department. More details will be shared with graduates and their families as we get closer to graduation date. We are waiting for some key info from Boulder County. For more information, parents and friends can contact LMSHS at 303-823-6631.

Lyons parks open slowly LYONS – As the weather warms and local, county, and state officials permit gradual reopening, we welcome the public back into the parks. Bohn and LaVern Johnson Parks have opened with limited parking, and with RV and tent camping available.

If you plan to visit any of Lyons’ parks or public areas, COVID-19 safety regulations are still in effect.

We appreciate all park visitors’ continued cooperation with: wearing masks, keeping a safe distance from others (at least six feet), washing hands often.

Colorado Music Festival is virtual BOULDER – All virtual performances at CMF are free, pre-recorded and will be available on demand for a period of time after July 30. If you register for the virtual festival you will receive all of these performances. All performances are prerecorded. To register go to coloradomusicfestival.org/2020season/register.

The Grammy Award winning Takacs Quartet will open the festival with their chamber music recorded in 360 degree view at the Chautauqua Auditorium, with Takacs’ newest member, Emmy Award-winning violist Richard O’Neill.

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Great Blue Herons in their nest. One determined chick is showing his siblings how to use their wings. Thanks to Dagmar Leo Teleky for permission to use her photograph. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Dagmar has been photographing Colorado wildlife and landscapes for 20 years. To see more of her work go to her website, www.dagmarleophoto.com; her Facebook page and instagram, Dagmar Leo Photography.

Town Board looks at moving forward in uncertain times

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – The Lyons Town Board exchanged ideas on a wide variety of issues at their last meeting in June. Some of the issues that plague the entire nation have also found their way to Lyons. Sgt. Bill Crist told the board how the Boulder County Sheriff’s Dept. is reacting to the new not-so-normal environment.

He said that this is a difficult time to be wearing a law enforcement uniform. “It is very difficult for us to be out there right now,” he said. “I have had some people throwing up their fist to me and some people giving us the finger. The Minneapolis police have been so blatantly bad (concerning the death of George Floyd by a policeman’s knee on Floyd’s neck).”

Crist said that the actions by the Minneapolis Police Dept. (a policeman causing the death of George Floyd) have affected law enforcement agencies everywhere. He said it has caused great sadness among county officials. Crist went on to say that most of the state’s new proposals are already in effect with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Dept. and have been for a long time. He said that not only are they in effect, but the deputies constantly practice safe measures of restraint and stop as soon as the suspect is subdued and secure. It is part of their ongoing training.

When it came to new agenda items, the board discussed Fire Protection District Chief JJ Hoffman’s resignation over his remarks made on Facebook. Mayor Angelo presented the idea of hiring a facilitator (a person he knows and recommends) to conduct a work-

shop for the purpose of gaining more knowledge and training around Black Lives Matter sensitivity. Trustee Greg Lowell suggested that the board issue a letter of support for Chief JJ Hoffman and ask the Lyons Fire Protection Board to reinstate Hoffman as Chief.

Trustee Mark Browning said that the town board should not admonish another board’s decision. “I would not appreciate it if the School Board or the Library Board tells us what to do,” he said.

Trustee Hollie Rogin said the (town) board should not take on discussions about another board’s decisions. “Only JJ knows all the facts and he’s not talking.”

Trustees Kenyon Waugh and Wendy Miller agreed. Trustee Waugh said that he was very disappointed with Rep. Jonathan Singer’s actions and saw his motives as political. He said that he did not see any need for workshop because it would be preaching to the choir.

Mayor Angelo said he was prepared to hire the facilitator with his own money and that he felt the discussion on Black Lives Matter and race relations was important.

The town board went on to discuss the ongoing problem of bears getting into commercial and private trash containers. Bears have been getting into trash containers since people first began moving into bear territory. The problems have grown more intense in recent years as populations of people move farther into bear territory and bears have less habitat to roam around in.

Arielle Hodgson, communications coordinator, and Garrett McDaniel, sustainability coordinator, gave a presentation to the town

board on the bears raiding trash bins all over town. They reported that there were 22 reports of bears getting into trash in Lyons between April and July in 2019 and once bears discover food at any location, they will come back and bring the cubs along. Also bears get increasingly aggressive when they return over again. Bears can smell food up to five miles away. The staff recommended that the board adopt an ordinance requiring residences and businesses to use bear-resistant containers and commercial dumpsters. They also suggested that the Code Enforcement personnel should undergo training on bear-proof bins.

The town board sought to take a milder approach suggesting that trash bins go out closer to the pickup times, and if they were out too early the code enforcement officer could check the streets to see if the bears had raided the trash bins and issue citations.

Trustee Hollie Rogin asked staff to check on possible funding sources to help businesses purchase bear-proof bins.

In other matters Aaron Caplan, utilities director, reported that the tests for copper at the wastewater treatment plant in May were at 2.2 micrograms per liter for the first time and for the first time Lyons was in compliance. The tests in March showed 5.8 micrograms of copper per liter. The compliance limit is 2.2 micrograms per liter. The Biochemical Oxygen Demand or BOD was also down in 2019 over previous years. The BOD was 1,521 total pounds in 2019 and 2,001 total pounds per year in 2018. This is a huge drop over 2014 when the BOD was 6,450 Continue Town on Page 12

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LYONS L E T T E R •T O •T H E •E D I T O R Colorado Rep. Jonathan Singer’s letter to the Redstone Review in response to Lyons Fire District Chief JJ Hoffman’s resignation After I and many others in our community called for accountability and change, Lyons Fire Chief JJ Hoffman has stepped down from his position.

I see this as an important step forward on the path towards making sure that everyone in our community feels safe, heard, and well represented by their leaders.

In my original statement in response to former Chief Hoffman’s hurtful and divisive remarks, I called on the Colorado Chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to investigate his conduct. While the immediate issue of Mr. Hoffman’s resignation is behind us, there is a great deal of work left to be done.

It is my hope that the NAACP can provide a thoughtful outside perspective to create space for a difficult, overdue conversation. We need to take proactive steps to ensure that our community is a place where everyone feels welcome and heard. I’ll start with myself: please know that I’m always available to talk to you and hear your perspective whether we agree or not. Lyons has a special place in my heart. For the last seven years, it has felt like a second home.

The next steps forward will be uncomfortable and hard. I am confident that they will be worthwhile.

State Rep. and Candidate for Boulder County Commissioners, Jonathan Singer. Rep. Singer can be reached at singerforbouldercounty@gmail.com.

Statement from the Lyons Fire Protection District Board of Directors, June 8, 2020 This evening, Chief JJ Hoffman resigned his position with the Lyons Fire Protection District in response to remarks he made on social media. Chief Hoffman expressed to us that he felt it was in the best interests of the Lyons Fire Protection District for him to resign.

The board would like to thank Chief Hoffman for his service to the Lyons Fire Protection District and the Lyons community. We will begin a search for a new chief immediately and we will provide additional updates to our community throughout that process.

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Lyons Fire District Chief JJ Hoffman resigns

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – Just over a week ago, Lyons Fire Protection District Chief JJ Hoffman resigned over comments made on social media. The Chief’s comments were made in a response to another social media post which suggested opening up fire hoses on people protesting the death of George Floyd in Denver to “wash all this human trash into the gutter.” There was a black and white photo posted on social media which showed a group of black people on the street with the police turning fire hoses on them from the Birmingham campaign of 1963, where the police turned dogs loose and fire hoses on a group of black demonstrators.

Chief Hoffman responded on his Facebook page saying that if he were down in Denver at the protests, “I definitely would open up our high pressure bumper turret and have some fun.” His comment was quickly spread around social media and there was a big backlash creating a media frenzy.

Hoffman quickly apologized for the remark saying that the remark was “thoughtless and insensitive.” He said his remark was made in jest and that he was troubled by the destructive actions of some of the rioters.

State Rep. Jonathan Singer, who represents Lyons, said one of his constituents pointed out the comment to him.

Singer said Hoffman’s apology was not enough. He suggested disciplinary action. Singer wrote a letter to the Colorado State Fire Chiefs and contacted the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored

Statement from Lyons Fire District Chief J.J. Hoffman June 1, 2020 I would like to apologize to the entire Lyons community, Lyons Fire Protection District crew members and staff, and the Fire District Board of Directors, for the thoughtless remark I made in a social media post late last week. It reflected poorly on the district and me, and I regret that. I am sorry.

Like many in our community, I was frustrated that peaceful protests in Denver were hijacked by some violent rioters who committed property crimes that hurt a number of small business owners and overshadowed what the peaceful protesters were trying to accomplish. In response to a post in my social media feed, I remarked that I would turn fire hoses on those groups.

As someone who has dedicated my life to protect people and property, and has witnessed the devastating impacts of fire, I was troubled by the destructive actions of some of the rioters. While my remark was made in jest, and was meant to refer to the rioters whose actions followed the peaceful daytime protests, it was brought to my attention by several community members that my remark was insen-

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sitive, particularly given the historical context of the use of water cannons to break up civil rights demonstrations. Those community members are right, and I acknowledge that my remark was thoughtless and inappropriate. For this, I sincerely apologize.

I requested the opportunity to meet face-to-face with one of the community members who was angered by my comment. His son had participated in the peaceful protests in Denver, and he took great offense at my post. We had a very healthy and productive conversation, and it helped me understand the impact that my comment had on him and other members of our community. I apologized to him directly, and he graciously accepted it.

It is an incredible honor to serve the Lyons community as Chief of the Lyons Fire Protection District, and I do not take the responsibilities associated with that role lightly.

My goal is to protect and earn the respect of our entire community, and I regret that my comment on social media undermined that goal. I want to assure the community, crew members and staff, and the board that I will continue to work hard to represent all of you in the most honorable way possible. Thank you.

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The Colorado State Fire Chiefs released a statement following Hoffman’s social media post, saying Hoffman’s comments do not represent the values of the Colorado fire service.

“The fire service should never be used, or allow itself to be used to control any manner of demonstrations by citizens expressing their First Amendment rights,” it said.

Lyons and the area around it is in a Fire Protection District, which has its own board of directors and the ability to levy taxes. The fire chief is appointed by and reports to the Fire Protection District Board which has the authority to hire and fire the Chief. Toshen Golias is the president of the Lyons Fire Protection District Board of Directors. The Fire District Board and Chief JJ Hoffman have both written statements which are on this page.

Mayor Nick Angelo said he spoke with Hoffman last week. “I wish we could have resolved the situation among ourselves, come together as a town about it, instead of having the fabric of our society unravel one thread at a time by division and having no good come of it,” said Mayor Angelo. “It happened to be a perfect opportunity to address the issue, and now the result so far has been animosity and division,” he said.

Mayor Angelo said he hoped that things would come to a different resolution. “I'm talking about some resolution and some behavior modification not just for JJ but for everyone, including myself,” he said. “We could all use a little teaching on the subject.”

Hoffman had been the Fire Protection District Chief for 11 years.

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MAYOR’S CORNER Racism is systemic in America

By Nick Angelo, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – This may be the most difficult column I will write as mayor. As I write this the Board of Angelo Trustees has not yet had the opportunity to address the resignation of Lyons Fire District Chief JJ Hoffman, therefore I must state that these words are strictly my own. I suppose several Trustees may take the position that this lies solely at the discretion of the Lyons Fire Protection District as we are separate entities, that is their privilege.

As mayor I took a different approach. I met with JJ Hoffman and admonished him harshly for his insensitive, abhorrent, racist remark. To sit with a man for over one and a half hours hearing his contrition and apologies first hand, it was incumbent upon me to uplift him for he was on the edge of total despair.

Racism is insidious in America let’s not imagine kidding ourselves, okay? Let’s imagine becoming educated about the racist experiences that continue to fester and unravel the fabric of who we are as a people. Let’s begin a new weaving together in celebration of what we can become.

As mayor I will submit a proposal to the Board of Trustees and the Town to come to-

gether in an education session to learn and to begin healing. If the Board of Trustees is unwilling to appropriate funds for a reconciliation, I will personally sponsor it along with any interested parties and organizations actually willing to learn about the systemic depth of racism in America.

Police brutality, inequities in education, housing, public health, hiring discrimination, sexual harassment, colorism, etc. If you just started caring about black and brown lives, you better strap in for a ride.

We can’t imagine changing the world, just to open our hearts ever so slightly to let a beam of the light of freedom shine on every one of us.

This is not meant as a holier than though diatribe, quite the opposite, I have much to learn. Let’s do this together, Lyons.

With heartfelt sincerity, Mayor Nick.

LEAF partners with LCF and Cemex to create grants

By Lory Barton Redstone Review LYONS – Thanks to generous partnerships with Lyons Community Foundation, Laura Levy, the CEMEX Foundation, Barton and many more, grants made to date total $19,299. We intend to continue to partner with our community members as we persevere together through the difficulties created by COVID-19. You can learn more about these grants, and complete the short application, by visiting LEAF’s website at leaflyons.org. If you have additional questions, please send email to ellen@leaflyons.org.

In addition to these grants to households and individuals, I want to share an amazing “win-win” project that LEAF implemented a few weeks ago: A generous anonymous donor made a significant gift, along with instructions to purchase 100 gift cards, for $50 each, from several Lyons eateries. I had the complete joy of sharing these gift cards with all of Food Pantry participants. This donation was a big “win”

for the local restaurants that benefitted from the donor’s generosity, and a meaningful “win” for LEAF’s participants, too.

To our anonymous donor: THANK YOU. If you are interested in creating this kind of “win-win” project that will benefit our local businesses and LEAF participants, please reach out and let me know.

Speaking of the Food Pantry, Lyons Community Food Pantry is available to anyone who lives in the greater Lyons area.

Each Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., our team of dedicated volunteers provides boxes of shelf-stable food, plus choices of meat, a variety of produce, bread, milk, eggs, snacks for kids, and more. The amount of food is based upon the number of people living in the household.

How does a community member start using the Food Pantry? Just come to the lower level of Lyons Community Church at 350 Main St. on Wednesday between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Using best practices for social distancing and risk minimization, our team will load food into your car. Or they will hand it off to you if you walk to the pantry.

There’s no shame in coming to the Food Pantry. The current health pandemic has created lots of uncertainty and loss of jobs for many people in our community. If high quality food and a virtual hug sounds good to you, I hope to see you at LEAF’s Food Pantry.

Lyons Meals on Wheels is available to anyone in the greater Lyons area who is not able to shop for or prepare at least one healthy meal each day. This service is not only for aging adults. Currently, our volunteer drivers are delivering five frozen meals (mostly prepared by local restaurants) each week, along with boxes of additional shelfstable food, snacks, milk, and eggs. The cost of these meals is based on a very generous sliding scale and nobody is turned away for an inability to pay. If you’d like to learn more about Meals on Wheels, please contact our volunteer program coordinator

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Like the rest of the world, we don’t know what the near-term future holds. At this time, we don’t know if Rave To The Grave will happen this year. It’s LEAF’s biggest fundraiser and this town’s biggest party, so we hope to have good news to share eventually. But for now, we simply have no news. Stay tuned for updates as they become available.

No matter what opportunities and challenges LEAF and our community face, I’m always humbled and amazed by the strength and compassion in our community. Every single day, local people come alongside one another to stand in the gap for each other. The needs these days have surged, and we expect this difficult season will continue until Lyons can find financial and emotional recovery. For those of you who can support LEAF’s work now, it is needed and appreciated. To the hundreds of people who volunteer, help, give, receive, and encourage to make LEAF happen, thank you. You are seen, valuable, unique and needed. You make Lyons a very special place.

Lory Barton is LEAF’s Executive Director.

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EDUCATE April Morning offers Lyons allergy-friendly baking at its finest

By Tracy Pearce Redstone Review LYONS – Fourteen years ago April Krause discovered that her infant daughter Claire had severe food allergies. After Pearce nursing, baby Claire would vomit if Krause had eaten certain foods, and the infant had also developed eczema. In a follow-up visit to the family pediatrician, Krause was assured that these were simply the normal reactions of a nursing infant. Some were just more sensitive than others, her doctor said.

However, Krause had a gut feeling that something was wrong. She opted for a second opinion and a variety of tests only to find out that young Claire was allergic to wheat, peanuts, and eggs. So began Krause’s journey into the world of allergy-friendly baking and what would eventually become April Morning, her cottage industry bakery specializing in organic goods and recipes catering to those with various sensitivities and allergies.

“At first I was a little overwhelmed as I navigated the grocery stores searching the ingredient lists and looking for baked goods that (Claire) could enjoy. The lack of options really motivated me to experiment with ingredients I had never baked with before,” Krause said.

Krause’s experimenting over the years paid off. She even created her own glutenfree flour blend for the perfect balance of favor. Her ingredients are natural, organic, and without preservatives. But unlike so many gluten-free products, Krause’s do not have that gritty gluten-free taste. In fact, it’s easy to forget they’re gluten-free.

“With lots of encouragement from my husband, and plenty of failed recipes, I started making some items that extended family members and friends would rave about and say, ‘You should sell this,’” Krause said.

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When April Krause found her daughter has multiple food allaegies, it put her on a path to start April Morning, her cottage industry bakery specializing in organic goods and recipes catering to those with various sensitivities and allergies. mom of two, tried Krause’s chocolate chip granola and was hooked. “It was so delicious that I started and ended my day with a bowl. Needless to say, it didn’t last long in our house,” Brighton said.

April Morning has a small but growing menu of items including granola, mini loaves of pumpkin and banana chocolate chip sweet bread, pumpkin chocolate chip and banana chocolate chip muffins, baked cake donuts, and chewy chocolate chip cookies. Customers can specify their dietary sensitivities when ordering. Krause can adjust her recipes to make an item vegan or specific to a given food allergy.

The demand for high quality gluten-free products, Krause’s specialty, continues to grow worldwide. In fact, it’s a billion-dollar industry. In 2018 gluten-free products surpassed $6.2 billion dollars in revenue. The

demand stems from the increasing sensitivity so many people have toward gluten.

According to WebMD, six out of every 100 people have non-Celiac gluten-sensitivity, which does not include the one in 100 people who have Celiac disease, an immune reaction to eating gluten which causes inflammation and eventually damage to the lining of the small intestines.

For those who know Krause, it’s no surprise that she would venture into the world of artisanal baking. She grew up outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan, the daughter of a lumber-mill owner turned luthier, specializing in handcrafted guitars and violins.

Krause’s mother also had her own cottage business selling wooden chopping boards at local farmers markets. The devotion to artistry and entrepreneurship, whether it’s baking or woodworking, runs in the family.

“Baking is my personal form of art. Mixing wholesome ingredients, creating new recipes, and inhaling the amazing scents that fill the rooms is something I truly enjoy,” Krause said.

Krause is the exact person one might imagine baking wholesome, all-natural baked goods. She is a self-described morning person, often up with the sunrise, baking in the kitchen as her four children are still sleeping. “It’s one of my favorite times of the day,” Krause said.

Although she has always loved to bake, Krause didn’t always have aspirations of becoming a professional baker. In fact, she studied Early Childhood Education and even taught fourth grade in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She met her husband while living in the town of Salida. The two were avid skiers and mountain bikers.

With a growing family, they decided to make Lyons their home in 2016. “I believe Lyons is the perfect place to start April Morning. The Lyons community is very supportive for those who create and pursue their passion in their respective art forms,” Krause said.

While April Morning is an at-home, cottage bakery, Krause hopes to one day expand into a storefront and make more products like birthday cakes and sandwich breads. But for now, supplying Lyons with wholesome, allergy-sensitive baked goods out of her own kitchen, while raising her four children, offers Krause the best of all worlds. “Sometimes,” she said, “life takes you in a direction you never thought about or considered before.”

To order baked goods from April go to aprilmorningbakedgoods@gmail.com or call her at 303-493-1952. She is happy to do door deliveries. April Morning is also on Facebook under inspiredallergyfriendlybaking.

Tracy Pearce is a writer and former English teacher whose work has appeared in The Colorado Review and Chicago’s Hyde Park Herald among other publications. She is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. She lives in Lyons with her husband and two children.

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later in the summer as in-person programs following social / physical distancing guidelines. As we move through the summer months updates to the programming can be found

By Baiba Lennard first major structures in the newly 1881 platted town of on our website.

Lyons. It was constructed with local sandstone under the Digital Walking Tour: Lyons Historic District VirRedstone Review direction of Edward S. Lyon and by community effort. tual Tour. The Lyons Historic District was created on LYONS – Things are looking different for 2020 at the Many remodels and expansions have taken place over April 29, 1980. Each of the 15 buildings in the historic disLyons Redstone Museum. Due to the COVID-19 pan- the years to accommodate the growing student popula- trict is on the National Register for Historic Places. Every demic the physical museum is temporarily closed to the tion, and in 1927, the need for a high school became an building was constructed using locally quarried sandstone public for the health and safety of our visitors, community, issue. The photographs (left to right) are circa 1882, circa and has a unique history. Take the virtual tour from the and staff. We are following the guidance from our govern- 1902, and circa 1976. In 1977 the Lyons Historical Soci- comfort of your living room by using this link to CLIO: ment. Updates will be available online. ety established a three-way lease between the St. Vrain https://theclio.com/tour/910 . This tour is powered through Until we can welcome back visitors to the building, we Valley School District and the Town of Lyons to preserve Clio, a free app created by the University of Michigan. have a number of ways that people can explore Lyons his- this valuable example of Lyons’ history for generations to When it is safe to roam, you can download the app on your mobile device and use it to find free walking tours in Lyons and cities throughout the United States.

The 44th Annual Good Old Day was cancelled.

Class reunions and other events have been extended to 2021. However, the Lyons Historical Society honors Graduates of Lyons pioneer families who have lived in this area 40 years or more: Colton Bashor, Karson Bean, The Lyons 1881 Schoolhouse through the years. Left to right: circa 1882, circa 1902, and circa 1976. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE LYONS REDSTONE MUSEUM. Trenton Burton, Katie Felt, Isaac King, Isaac and Isabelle tory through our online resources at http://www.lyonsred- come. The former school building now houses the Lyons Passwaters; Mr\Mrs Good Old Days: (retired-longtime stonemuseum.com and by following posts on Instagram: Redstone Museum located at 340 High St. workers) Robert Jones of Lyons Communications, LLC; LyonsRedstoneMuseum and Facebook: LyonsRedstone.

Programs for 2020. Museum staff is happy to offer Kathy Slauson-M\S HS Secretary; Dorothy and Jim PelA Little History. For those new to the Lyons commu- several new ways to present our programs this summer. louchoud, Steamboat Mountain Foods; and Lyons Classes nity, the one-room “1881 Schoolhouse” was among the Most are online, but a few are tentatively scheduled for Continue Museum on Page 13

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OPTIONS Lyons ReRuns to close soon but some parts will still be available

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – One of Lyons’ most loved shops will close at the end of June. At least three quarters of the people in the greater Lyons area have shopped at ReRuns, 437 Main St., at some time or another. Shirts, jeans, jackets and men’s clothing filled the back room to the brim. Books, toys, kids clothing, the occasional child car seat, jewelry, sunglasses and women’s clothing and shoes of all kinds filled the front of the shop. It was the go-to place for just about anything. Many residents are very sad to see the little secondhand shop close.

The precarious times we live in have caused many changes in all our lives. Co-owner of ReRuns Ellen Hine said that sales at the shop had slowed down dramatically over the past year and a half. “Business was really slowing down,” said Hine. “Our busiest months are May, June, July, and August and once the Coronavirus hit and everything shut down, we knew we had to close.

Other factors played into the decision. Property taxes went up dramatically for businesses in Lyons and that meant that rents had to go up dramatically. The ReRuns building is owned by Dave Fagouli, who also owns the Barking Dog building and he raised the rent on ReRuns a lot. “I don’t blame him at all for raising our rent,” said Hine. “I know that property taxes went up a lot and he had no choice, but we could barely make our rent before he raised it.”

On top of that Ellen Hine’s partner and co-owner, Gabry Cornell, had a stroke and would not be able to work for a long time. Hine said that Cornell is doing well and on the mend. She is out of the hospital, living with a friend while she heals and has had many rounds of physical therapy.

Everything seemed to hit at once and it all led to the decision Hine made to close ReRuns on the last Sunday

Gabry Cornell (left) and Ellen Hine are shown in their secondhand store, Lyons ReRuns, in this photo from 2014. ReRuns will be closing at the end of June

2020: The year we discover our home

By Kate Zalzal Redstone Review LYONS – “Can you see me? Can you see me?” squeals my six-year-old from the branches of the maple tree in our front Zalzal yard. She’s been doing this most days since early April when she first noticed buds beginning to appear on its limbs. But today is the day she has been waiting for. “See you where? I can’t see you at all,” I say truthfully. “YES,” she replies with equal parts joy, satisfaction, and relief. The transformation is complete, she can now climb unseen behind the dark green foliage, hidden away from nosy land dwellers (like her mother) below.

In a year packed with seemingly endless calamities, witnessing my daughter playing in a beloved tree is a marvelous thing. She has always loved this tree. But in this COVID-19 spring of disrupted school and cancelled activities, she’s had a chance every day to swing and climb on its branches, and she’s noticed how they have changed as spring has progressed. She noticed the first buds that emerged. She noticed many of them fall off in those two wet spring snow storms. She noticed cracks and wrinkles appear in its bark, likely the result of classic Colorado temperature swings.

She also noticed, as have I, that she’s strong and confident when up in its limbs.

I hope something about the life of this tree stays with her, somehow embedding itself into her mind and heart as she grows and goes off to make her mark in the world.

There have been other perks of our quarantine life, too. We’ve spied on the growing owl family on a road near Lyons. We’ve talked about why the owl family picked this spot (fabulous habitat with big trees, water, shrubby undergrowth, food), what the owl babies eat (mice, voles, rabbits, squirrels), where those prey live (burrows, nests) and what they eat (plants, nuts, seeds, fruits). We’ve talked about how rivers built ideal habitat and how winter snowfall and spring snowmelt rule it all.

We are fortunate to live in a place where we have access to beautiful outdoor

of June, unless they sell out of everything sooner. Two different groups came in and gathered up items to take to two different Native American Reservations. One group is taking items and clothing to the Navajo Reservation at the Four Corners area and one group is taking things to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Another group took a bunch of things for a homeless group that they work with.

Ellen Hine wants her loyal customers to know that parts of ReRuns will continue at other places. “We are thrilled to announce that Connie McGuire at Red Canyon Arts, 400 Main St., is taking over the whole line of Melissa & Doug Toys, so everyone will be able to continue to buy toy gifts for kids in Lyons,” said Hine. Red Canyon Arts is open Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Wednesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and closed on Tuesdays. Hine added, “And Sally Gibson at Gatherings of a Lifetime will start to carry secondhand clothing.” Gatherings is located at 447 Main St. There will be more news on that at a later date.

The owner of the building, Dave Fagouli, is researching the idea of opening up a wine store at the ReRuns location. No plans have been finalized for that yet.

ReRuns will be open Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will close right after the last Sunday of the month. Reruns is not accepting any more donations, but you are welcome to come in and pick up some great bargains.

disappeared, how long would it take me to notice? Would I ever? Or would I assume that the silence had always been there? If we don’t know what’s going on in the natural world around us, how do we know when it changes?

Since I started thinking about this article, George Floyd lost his life at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis

spaces. Of course I wish a tragic pandemic weren’t the reason that I’ve been able to spend so much time outside with my family. But in the face of the pandemic’s incalculable human loss and the ever deafening drum beat of environmental problems, I am looking for something to hold onto, some silver lining. Most of us know of the damage humanity has done to the environment and most of us don’t want it to be that way. We know we have massive work to do on a global scale. But COVID has forced many of us home, and perhaps our homes are the best place to start. What can we do in our own backyards and community to improve habitat and to protect our ecosystem?

A friend recently loaned me a book titled What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World, by Jon Young. It’s a lovely tribute to bird life and language and it teaches that it’s possible to use bird song to “read” the environment.

One can listen to the birds and know who is calling for their companion, who is engaged in a high-drama, territorial face-off, and who is merely letting their bird friends know that the neighborhood cat is wandering by.

I’m still working through the “Can you see me?” Kate’s daughter and her tree book and, to the chagrin of my children, I’m still bad at imitating bird song. But the take-home and a long-simmering rage exploded across message is that a healthy ecosystem con- the country. At face value, it seems hard tains a rich and complex world of animal to espouse the benefits of local, small-scale drama, interaction, and communication. conservation efforts while millions are out If you pay attention long enough, you may protesting the heinous, life-threatening, be able to understand the conversation. and longstanding injustices faced by many.

I hear robins in the morning, mourning But cultivating environmental stewarddoves in the afternoon, and plenty of oth- ship is part of creating an equitable world. ers I can’t yet identify. But until recently, It’ll come as no surprise that indigenous bird song was simply sweet noises going on people and communities of color have hisin the background of my day. If the songs torically seen the worst environmental

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degradation and have suffered from its accompanying health risks. Restoring healthy ecosystems and protecting them from harm will allow nature to heal. Without clean air, water, pollinators, and carbon-storing, food-growing topsoil we are all in a world of trouble. And, as we’ve witnessed in abundance lately, hard times fall hardest on the vulnerable.

I don’t fool myself into thinking that I have the answers. But I do have hope.

And I do know that big, lasting changes start with small, local actions. So, let’s start there. Plant a tree to provide shade, shelter, food, and nest sites. Turn a patch of lawn into flowers to provide food for pollinators, habitat for birds, small mammals, and invertebrates. Commit to eliminating pesticides to help regenerate healthy soil, reduce pollution, and rebalance insect populations. Grow your own vegetables or purchase a share from a local CSA to reduce the carbon footprint of your food. Find an organization that supports environmental justice and make a donation or volunteer.

While you’re on your ecowarrior journey, be sure to also go out into your yard or onto the trails and paths of our town and look around. Find something that you’ve never noticed before and learn about it. What is its life like?

What else is connected to it?

How does it grow and change?

I have to think that it is a worthy step, a step that matters and a step that is necessary, because we cannot protect what we do not know.

And, if during your wanderings, you happen to see a sweet six-year-old dangling from a tree branch, make her day and pretend that you don’t see her.

Kate Zalzal lives in Lyons with her husband, three children, chickens and parakeets. She studied earth science in graduate school and recently joined Lyons’ Ecology Advisory Board.

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HOUSING This column is ending, but the need for affordable housing is not Editor’s Note: Amy Reinholds and her husband Caleb Roberts have recently moved to Santa Barbara, CA. The Redstone Review staff would like to take this opportunity to thank her for researching and writing her extensive and well written columns on housing in Lyons for Redstone. She has been a tireless champion for affordable housing and was never afraid to rip the scabs off those who opposed affordable housing thinking that their property values would go down or not wanting to live next door to people who could not afford to purchase housing in Lyons. It goes COMMENTARY: AFFORDABLE without saying that we will miss her greatly, HOUSING and we wish Amy and Caleb the best of luck.

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By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review LYONS – After a March 2015 special mail ballot election, I contacted Susan McCann with an idea that the local newspapers in Lyons needed coverage about affordable housing. I never exReinholds pected my work to last for more than five years, only stopping because my husband and I have moved out of state for a job change.

Susan and I talked about how the public needed factual information about definitions of affordable housing and what options were possible with local and federal funds, as well as non-profits and the private sector. I was deeply disappointed about the flow of misinformation on Facebook groups leading up to the special election for a proposal to build a range of 50 to 70 Boulder County Housing Authority rentals and Habitat for Humanity for-sale homes in five to seven acres of Bohn Park. The final vote was 614 against the proposal and 498 for the proposal.

Because of my passionate advocacy for affordable housing, I wanted to write a commentary, an opinion column, to give my personal perspective in addition to the facts.

We arrived at a column titled “What’s the Fix for Affordable Housing in Lyons?” because I liked the acronym WTF. I had volunteered on one of the Recovery Working Groups after the devastating 2013 flood in Lyons, barely keeping my head above water in the deluge of acronyms for federal funding and government agencies. Even the name of that group I served on was called HRTF for the Housing Recovery Task Force.

I also had the snarky idea to wrangle some armchair quarterbacks off their sofas in front of laptops or phones where they proposed “better ideas” on local Facebook groups and invite them to find a way for Lyons to add some affordable housing. They volunteered to serve on a Lyons Special Housing Committee, which lasted for a few months, planting the seeds for a land sale from Craig Ferguson and his LLC partners to Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Val-

ley at the end of 2016. I pledged to write a WTF affordable housing column in every edition of the monthly Redstone Review (and in the weekly Lyons Recorder) until new affordable housing was created in Lyons.

During the three-year anniversary of the flood in 2016, I collected some lessons learned that are surprisingly relevant today: Affordable housing takes a long time, and it’s not easy.

But nothing happens at all if no one tries in the first place, or if no one perseveres. In the nearly four years since I wrote this observation, we have finally seen all six Habitat for Humanity homes completed on Park Street and local families purchasing those homes. We have also seen final approval of a plan for 40 affordable rentals in Lyons Valley Park for households at 60 percent of the area median income, and an announcement that the land has been purchased to build those 21 townhomes and 19 single-family homes. Eight new market-rate detached accessory dwelling units (ADUs) have been approved since the flood. Utility

The completed Habitat for Humanity townhomes in Lyons. connection fees on these ADUs are waived for the property owners to encourage them to offer long-term rentals at the lower end of the market. Thankfully, town leaders passed ordinances that these ADUs must be used for longterm renters and not short-term vacation rentals for tourists. This will provide some help and protection for workers in local businesses who want to rent in the same town where they work. There’s still more work to be done to keep ADU rentals affordable, but this is a good start.

We can’t rely on Facebook posts for factual information.

Like accepting rumors heard on the street, believing Facebook posts as gospel truth causes misinformation and strife.

In 2015 to 2016, Lyons community social media arguments focused on the special election to build Boulder County Housing Authority rentals and Habitat for Humanity for-

sale homes in part of Bohn Park. In recent months, local Facebook groups are hosting arguments about safety, caring for others, personal freedom, the economy at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the right to protest, rights of police in treatment of criminals or suspects, the value of human life, the value of law and order, whether all Americans are treated equally by law enforcement and the criminal justice system, and whether racism exists in American society today. To actually get things done back in 2016, we had to turn away from the lure of social media pontificating and put our energy into the actual work.

“Lead, follow, or get out of the way!” I saw this motto on a plaque at a 2016 event honoring LaVern Johnson, who has devoted decades to serving on Town of Lyons boards and commissions. The good news in 2020 is Mrs. LaVern is still here in Lyons actively promoting causes she is passionate about – through social media and Zoom. She attends virtual meetings to keep track of what the Lyons Board of Trustees is doing and to give her historically valu-

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able input. Just like in 2016, or in decades before, when she was raising her children and championing a new Parks and Recreation department in town, there’s a natural tendency to proclaim that something needs to get done, but it is someone else’s job. We naturally want to blame others when events don’t unfold the way we think they should.

I have found that people who are passionate about initiatives should take the lead, and those who aren’t willing or able to invest the time and energy should accept the volunteers who step forward. There’s always room for others to sit at the table and debate the direction, but they have to be willing to devote the time to do so. Now, although all the meetings are virtual, there are still empty seats on boards and commissions waiting for volunteers.

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The Summer Reading Club, books for understanding racism, books on LBGTQIA pride, all available at the Lyons Library

By Kara Bauman Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Library shares the nation’s anger, sadness, and frustration over the murders of Bauman George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the epidemic of violent acts perpetrated against people of color across our nation. We condemn this violence and the microaggressions faced by people in our community and across the country on a daily basis.

We reject any actions that degrade or destroy the human spirit. We stand in solidarity with our community against systemic racism, oppression, and injustice.

The Lyons Community Library is a safe place to learn, explore, and convene hard discussions. We are committed to addressing antiblackness and any other forms of

oppression that destroy and divide. We also know, that like the rest of American society, we have so much more work to do to eliminate racial and social equity barriers. We need to listen, learn, and act; the time is now. Because without question #blacklivesmatter.

Consider placing a hold on one of the many books available from your Lyons Community Library that addresses racism, bias, and black lives and stories.

Titles suggested for understanding, reflection, and hopeful growth surrounding these issues include: • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo • How to be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi • Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

by Jennifer L. Eberhardt • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

• This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell We also have a great collection of LGBTQIA+ materials for the celebration of Pride Month. Physical materials are available via curbside pickup on Mondays and Thursdays between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., and on Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 11a.m. Many more titles are available via digital download through the CloudLibrary and Libby (by OverDrive) apps.

Governor Polis’ current Public Health Order advises public libraries continue to provide curbside service only through the end of June. We will certainly keep you informed of our next steps as soon as we know them. Please help us shape our services by letting us know what you’re needing and missing.

Until we can serve you in the building again with more traditional services, please consider staying on the virtual service bandwagon with us.

The Lyons Community Library’s 2020 Summer Reading Program (SRP) kicked off June 1 and this year’s theme is “Imagine Your Story.” We invite readers of all ages to sign up for this year’s virtual program.

To participate, please visit lyonslibrary. beanstack.org to register. We’re offering three challenges: Early Literacy; K-12; and Adult. Once you’ve registered, simply log your reading and activities to earn badges and tickets. Then, enter your tickets into virtual raffle drawings for prizes. Prizes?

This year we’re excited to offer chances to win a kayak, educational toys, a portable hammock, and many local gift cards. TravContinue Library on Page 13

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By John Gierach Redstone Review

voked attacks by police and still others simply think that politeness is no longer the proper response to state-sponsored murder.

A few days in, the cop who knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes, resulting in his death, was finally charged with murder, and a few days after that, the other three were also charged as accomplices. I don’t enjoy admitting it, but if dozens of cities hadn’t been figuratively and sometimes literally on fire, that probably wouldn’t have happened because it hardly ever does.

LYONS – So, we’ve got a global pandemic that’s claimed 110,000 American lives and counting and demonstrations that have spilled over into rioting in dozens of cities, against a background of Gierach global warming and incipient totalitarianism. And don’t forget that this November we’ll hold a presidential election during which we’ll learn if we still have a functioning democracy and, if not, what we’re willing to do about it. This is the strangest year I can remember and it’s only June.

The demonstrations didn’t so much start because of the killing of a black suspect by four Minneapolis cops, but because, although the officers were immediately fired, days went by without any charges being filed; long enough that it had begun to look as though, once again, no charges would be filed. It’s not like there was any question of what happened. Four cops crushed the life out of George Floyd, who was unarmed and handcuffed at the time, and they did it in broad daylight, in front of witnesses and on video for the world to see.

If any civilian had done something like that, they’d have been arrested on the spot, charged with murder and jailed, probably without bail. But, once again, white cops had killed a black man and apparently faced no repercussions beyond a possible career change. They might even have shown up in a year or two working for a different police force in a different city.

And so, people hit the streets. Lots of people; lots of streets, starting in Minneapolis and quickly spreading to over 400 other U.S. cities and cities throughout Europe.

As usual, most of the demonstrators were loud, but peaceful, while a few others were violent and destructive.

I hate the violence if only because it invariably hurts the wrong people and because it can turn the undecided against the cause, but it’s hard to deny its usefulness.

Demonstrations are intended to demonstrate something, and to do that they have to attract attention. Being big, loud and orderly works for a few days (think of the Women’s March on Washington) but reporters are as fickle as six-year-olds and will soon drift away to other, more interesting stories. But they can always be counted on to turn back up for a fight.

This isn’t strategic – demonstrators don’t go out and recruit hooligans – it’s just a matter of human nature. Some are violent radicals (every movement has ‘em) others are out to settle old grudges, some are responding to unpro-

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crete crews are scheduled to continue to form and pour new curb and gutter on Fourth Avenue between Railroad and Park, and Evans from Third Avenue to Second Avenue. Concrete crews are scheduled to start pouring driveways on Fourth Avenue and along Evans.

Pipe crews will continue to install the new storm drain system along Evans as well as install a new storm drain inlet at Fourth Avenue and Park. Asphalt removal on Third Avenue from Railroad to Evans is scheduled to continue. Installation of a new waterline on Third Avenue between Evans and Railroad is scheduled to start. Crews are scheduled to continue

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Of course, President Trump didn’t help matters any when he threatened to deploy active military against demonstrators and did, in fact use federal troops to drive peaceful demonstrators away from in front of the White House with tear gas and flash-bang grenades. That wasn’t

backfilling behind the new curb and gutter and regrading driveways. Crews are scheduled to start reconstructing the roadway subgrade at Fourth Avenue and Railroad then continuing on Evans to Third Avenue.

What’s coming in the next few weeks?

LYONS – From June 22 to June 27 concrete crews are scheduled to continue to form and pour new curb and gutter on Evans from Third Avenue to Second Avenue. Concrete crews are scheduled to continue pouring driveways along Evans and Fourth Avenue. Pipe crews are scheduled to construct modifications to the Lyons Ditch at Second Avenue and Evans.

Crews are scheduled to continue backfilling behind the new curb and gutter and regrading driveways. Installation of a new waterline on

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Traffic Impacts LYONS – With asphalt removal starting this week on Third Avenue between Railroad and Evans no on-street parking will be accommodated for this area until the project is complete. Also there may some short delays with access to the Post Office while crews work in this area. One-way traffic pattern will be in place along the curve at Fourth and Evans. Traffic will only be allowed to travel

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done to restore order, but so he could strut across the street to pose for a photo op with a Bible in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church. According to some reports, he held the Bible upside down. I couldn’t see that in the clip I watched, but I can say I’ve never seen a man look so uncomfortable holding a book.

Later General Mark A. Milley apologized for taking part in Trump’s photo op after waves of criticism.

“I should not have been there,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a prerecorded video commencement address to National Defense University. “My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics,” from the New York Times on June 11.

And who are these troops, by the way? Some of them appeared armed and in riot gear, but with no identifiable uniforms, badges, name plates or insignia that could be used to identify them. Some also wore sunglasses and masks, although it’s unclear whether the masks were intended as a public health measure or to further hide their identities. Mounting this secret army is the creepiest move yet from our creepiest president and it backfired as so many of his stunts do. The next night the crowd in the streets of the capitol was even larger and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had BLACK LIVES MATTER painted in yellow down the block and renamed the street Black Lives Matter Plaza.

It’s all become the usual vicious circle where every time the police brutalize people who are demonstrating against police brutality the point is driven home even farther. And this stuff is no longer anecdotal; we have it on video now, so police unions can no longer just sweep it under the rug.

The demonstrations didn’t stop when charges were filed in Minneapolis because by then they’d become a movement, if not an actual uprising. The most recent examples of police brutality were what set them off, but, as in the 1960s, they encompass a whole raft of other issues including, but not necessarily limited to, the coronavirus, massive unemployment, social and economic inequality, the corporate control of our lives and personal information, voter suppression and the government’s mishandling of all of the above.

Jelani Cobb recently wrote in The New Yorker that, taken together, Depression-level unemployment and the coronavirus amount to a crisis multiplied by a crisis, and when you add massive civil unrest you get a crisis cubed, and that’s where we are now. It seems clear that things can’t go on the way they are and that something important has to happen.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Morning fisherman selected for display in Washington, D.C.

By Sally King Redstone Review LYONS – Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Since the Artistic Discovery competition began in 1982, more than 650,000 high school

students have participated.

Students submit entries to their representative’s office, and panels of district artists select the winning entries. Winners are recognized both in their districts and at an annual awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The winning works are displayed for one year at the U.S. Capitol.

This year I participated in the selection of this year's art works created by students

to hang in Washington D.C. I was one of three along with Congressman Joe Neguse and his wife Andrea.

I loved the gesture of the fishing line in Morning Fisherman created by Megan Hess, a ninth grade young artist at Nederland High School, who likes to fish in the rushing river that runs through her town. It was my first pick. Megan Hess’s teacher, Theresa Redmond supplied her interested

students with pieces of scratchboard, a clay board painted black and then scratched through by a shape point. “I really appreciated how my teacher encouraged me to try new things,” said Hess. She plans on drawing and painting this summer, just for fun.

Megan Hess’s art work will be an energetic lift to the hard workers in the legislative office of our Congressman Joe Neguse.

As they work towards solutions to our nation’s challenges, Morning Fisherman is a reminder that moment of reflection is always a good thing.

High School art goes to D.C. Above, left to right, are the winners of the annual Artistic Discovery competition: 3rd place: Morning Fisherman by Megan Hess, Nederland Middle School.; 1st place: Diagnosis by Ollie Pol, Legacy High School; 2nd place: Delirium by Xan McKenna, Boulder High School.

I love beauty: meet Valerie Combs

By Sally King Redstone Review LYONS – Entering The Corner Studio at 318 Main St. in Lyons is a little bit like entering the wand shop in Harry PotKing ter. Valerie Combs is an art wizard with old wood “upcycled” to frame sacred objects like family heirlooms, prints and art. She is a master framer, a conservator and a creator of her own line

of framing materials with her own finishes.

She loves old wood frames and says, “Old wood has a history: savor its patina and its rich grain.” Her love of old wood started years ago when an old house in Lyons was being torn down and Combs was given the one-hundred-year-old wood flooring to make her frames.

Combs grew up in Provence, France surrounded by art and has lived in Lyons since 1993 working with antiques and art. Her studio is warm and inviting with an old wooden farm table and her tools of the trade nearby. She surrounds herself with objects and art that inspires her to do her best work. Everything about her lifestyle is that beauty is important and essential.

Several local artists have a piece of two of their work on display at The Corner Studio, just because it’s such a great place.

The Corner Studio is a quick trip to Provence. Good food, flowers and art. I found her today out back, with a watering hose in her hand and a smile on her face, surrounded by flowers, orange pop-

pies, pink peonies and purple penstemons. I call it extravagant attention. As we are all beginning to see the benefits of staying closer to home, The Corner Studio is a wonderful shop to visit and utilize for your framing needs. It is a satisfying art experience to put your art in her caring hands and see the magic happen.

You can text Combs for an appointment at 303-903-2165.

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

Black Lives Matter

Valerie Combs at work at The Corner Studio. At left, a view of the studio interior.

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Max Jacobs on the corner of 5th Ave. and Main Street in Lyons on June 3. Max and her friend, Marissa Rae are trying to organize some events.

BOULDER – The events that have transpired over the past weeks have weighed heavy on my heart. Racist-driven senseless killing and subjugation have a long history in our country and after 400 years we haven’t yet figured out how to stop it. My heart is heavy over the injustice, the brutality, the murder, and the bystanders who watch and say or do nothing. It’s time for action. Black Lives Matter!

Because the Dairy is built on commu-

nity and diversity I have invited members of the board and staff to speak to you directly with expressions of support, grief, anger, and calls to action with powerful images, links to donate, books to read, anecdotes to share.

In addition, our visual arts curators are inviting black artists to create public-facing works of art we will wheat paste onto the front of our building to share with the larger community. Please join us in standing and speaking up in support of Black Lives.

Melissa Fathman is the Executive Director of Boulder’s Dairy Arts Center.

The first act of participating in a march is to make a sign.

Sitting with yourself to figure out what you want to say and what your sign will look like, what color? what shapes?

Made by your hand it is an act of solidarity, a creative process the first act of ritual, preparing you to march.

5000 kids and parents marched In Denver’s gathering sponsored by Denver Public Schools On June 7th They walked from the Civic Center To the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. In City Park.

Holding their signs high, words, hashtags, stencils and symbols Black Lives Matter.

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LHS GRADUATING SENIORS

HARRISON ABERNATHY

JESSE BARTEL

COLTON BASHOR

KARSON BEAN

HENRI BERGERON

NICHOLAS BOGGESS

CHICORY BOSTIC

TRENTON BURTON

ALEX BUSTOS

ASHLEE CLARK

OLIVIA COPE

LUCIA CRONIN

ALORA CROSS

CATHERINE DARROW

KATHERINE FANKHOUSER

KATIE FELT

NATHANIEL GROBASKI

MATTHEW IZATT

NICHOLAS JOHNSON

ALEXA KARSEL

QUELENNA KELLER

ISAAC KING

NATHAN KISSAM

TAYLOR MAGUIRE

CORMAC OSBORNE

ISABELLE PARKER

ISAAC PASWATERS

ISABELLE PASWATERS

HANNAH PATON

LIBBY PAZNOKAS

ESTELLA PERCARPIO

CONNOR PIERCE

CHRISTOPHER PRATT

ISAAC ROBERTS

CHARLOTTE ROGERS

JORDAN SHACKELFORD

MARISSA SHAW

FELIX SYKES

EMILY VANLEEUWEN

TREVOR WOELFLE

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LHS GRADUATING SENIORS Senior Plans and Awards Harrison Abernathy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Major: Business Administration; Top 10 percent of the Class; Seal of Biliteracy; AP Scholar; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; National Honor Society; Eight Academic Letters; Varsity Letters Cross Country (11th, 12th), Basketball (11th, 12th) and Track (12th); Academic All State First Team (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Certificate of Achievement-Geometry; Certificate of AchievementWorld Geography / History; Outstanding Achievement in AP Spanish; Lyons Lions Club Sports Award for Basketball; Lyons Community Foundation Uncle Louis “Bud” Winkler Scholarship; Army ROTC Scholarship tuition for 4 years.

Jesse Bartel, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon.

Major: Civil Engineering; National Honor Society Vice President; 6 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters Tennis (9th, 10th, 11th) and Volleyball (10th, 11th, 12th); Society of Women Engineers High Honor Award; George Fox University Merit Scholarship for 4 years; George Fox College of Engineering Scholarship for 4 years.

Colton Bashor, Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, Colorado. Major: Agricultural – Business; Varsity Letters Baseball (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Football (11th, 12th); Lyons High School Sports Award for Baseball; Lyons Community Foundation 2 Year Study Scholarship.

Karson Bean, Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, Colorado. Varsity Letters Football, (9th, 10th ), Wrestling (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th), and Track (9th, 10th, 11th); Lyons Lions Club Wrestling Sports Award; Multi-Sport Athletic Award; Wrestling Scholarship; Academic Scholarship.

Henri Bergeron, plans to work to save money before going to flight school. Wants to go to Phoenix East Aviation flight school in Daytona Beach, Florida; 3 Academic Letters.

Nicholas Boggess, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado. Major: Aerospace Engineering; Valedictorian; Top 10 percent of the Class; Seal of Biliteracy; AP Scholar with Distinction Award; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; National Honor Society Treasurer; 8 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters Cross Country (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th) and Track (9th); Physics Award; Louis Armstrong Band Award; CU Boulder Outstanding Colorado High School Student Award; University of Colorado Boulder Esteemed Scholar President James H. Baker Award; University of Colorado Boulder Regent Scholarship.

Chicory Bostic, Front Range Community College and working; Seal of Biliteracy; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; 8 Academic Letters; Choir Letter and Honor Choir (11th, 12th).

Trenton Burton, Brigham Young University Idaho, Rexburg, Idaho. Major: Graphic Design; 3 Academic Letters; Varsity Letter Track 3 years; United States Heritage Award; Lyons Community Foundation 2 Year Study Scholarship.

Alex Bustos, traveling.

Ashlee Clark, Northeastern Junior College Business School, then Esthetician School.

Olivia Cope, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Major: Political Science; National Honor Society 2 years; 6 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters 9th Track (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th), Cheer (9th, 10th), Volleyball (12th); Twin Peaks Rotary Student of the Month for Debate.

Lucia Cronin, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. Major: English; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; National Honor Society; 8 Academic Letters; Art Award; Band Award; Puget Sound President’s Scholarship; Puget Sound Grant.

Alora Cross, will be taking a gap year to work, plans to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to study Aeronautical Science, fall of 2021; Seal of Biliteracy; National Honor Society member (11th); National Honor Society President (12th); 5 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters Cross Country (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th), Track (9th, 10th), Basketball (11th, 12th), Softball (12th); MultiSport Athlete Award; Track State Champ 3200 relay (11th); Track All Conference Award (10th 11th); Algebra 1 Certificate of Excellence; John Philip Sousa Band Award; Women of Excellence Scholarship for four years; Dean’s Scholarship for four years; Alumni Legacy Grant; Girl Scout Bronze and Silver Awards.

Catherine Darrow, Front Range Community College for 2 years then transfer to University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Focusing studies on Health, Nutrition, Fitness and Wellbeing; National Honor Society; 6 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters Cross Country (10th, 11th, 12th), Track, (10th, 11th, 12th); EFSVV & FRCC Partnership Scholarship.

Katie Fankhouser, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. Major: Engineering; Will be be running Cross Country and Track at Fort Lewis College; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; National Honor Soci-

ety; 8 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters Cross Country (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Track and Field (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Mile High League Runner of the Year / Conference Champion; 2A State Runner of the Year / State Champion; CHSAA IBM Hero of the Week Award; John Lynch Foundation December Athlete of the Month; Sportswomen of Colorado Sportsmanship Award; Track, 11th grade: First Team All Conference (800m and Pole Vault Champion); First Team All State (4x800m Champion); McConnell Sports Award Girls Cross Country; Lyons High School Sports Award Girls Track; Lyons High School Senior Girl Athlete of the Year Award; Society of Women Engineers Honor Award; Art Award; Fort Lewis Provost’s Tuition scholarship; Fort Lewis College Athletic Cross Country and Track Scholarship; Ascend St Vrain Scholarship; Welker Scholarship; Gladys Hubbard Scholarship; LaVerne Johnson Memorial Scholarship.

Katie Felt, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Major: Editing And Publishing; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; 8 Academic Letters; 4-H Grand Champion summer between 9th and 10th (creative writing) Art Award; Choir Award; Spanish Award; DAR Good Citizen Award; PVREA Well-Rounded Student Scholarship Award; American Legion Auxiliary Unit 32 Scholarship; Paul David Rodriguez Vietnam Memorial Scholarship; Brigham Young Scholarship; LaVerne Johnson Memorial Scholarship.

Nathan Grobaski, Front Range Community College, then Colorado State University.

Matthew Izatt, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado. Major: Computer Science.

Nicholas Johnson, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Major: Mechanical Engineering; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; 7 Academic Letters; Highest Level of Distinction in the design and construction of a bridge (Cornell University; Strength and Creativity Categories); Colorado School of Mines Medal of Achievement in Math and Science; Award of Excellence in Mathematics (Algebra II, Precalculus, AP Calculus); Award of Excellence in Science (Chemistry, Physics); Award of Excellence in English; Cornell Scholarship Grant; Lyons Lions Club Scholarship; Lyons Community Foundation in Memory of Steve Ralston Scholarship; Evelyn C. Elder Scholarship.

Alexa Karsel, Davis & Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia. Major: Nursing; Will also be playing soccer for Davis & Elkins College;Athlete of the Year for Soccer (Northern Conference); Multi-Sport Athletic Award; National Davis & Elkins Merit Scholarship; Women’s Soccer Scholarship; Leadership Scholarship.

Quelenna Keller, Bay Path University, Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Major: Forensic Anthropology; 3 Academic Letters at Silver Creek; Varsity Letter Track Grade (12th); Bay Path University Founders Scholarship; Bay Path University Signature Scholarship.

Isaac King, no information available.

Nate Kissam, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. Major: Business; 1 Academic Letter; Varsity Letter Track (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th) and Golf (9th, 11th, 12th); Track & Field Academic Letter (9th, 11th); University of Wyoming Brown and Gold Commitment Scholarship for 4 years.

Taylor Maguire, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado. Will be playing volleyball at CSUPueblo; National Honor Society; 8 Academic Letters; Varsity Letter Volleyball (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th), Track, (9th, 12th); 9th: 2A State Champion Volleyball; MVP at West Grand Volleyball Tournament; High School Hero of the Week. 11th: All-Conference 1st Team; MaxPreps Player of the Year Volleyball; Lyons Lions Club Sports Award for Volleyball; CSU- Pueblo Athletic Scholarship; CSU-Pueblo Academic Scholarship Welker Scholarship.

Cormac Osborne, Front Range Community College, Fort Collins, Colorado; Then transfer to CSU, Fort Collins, Colorado. Major: Engineering; Seal of Biliteracy; 2 Academic Letters; Varsity Letter Track (10th, 11th, 12th), Cross Country (12th) and Basketball (12th); Hilltop Guild in Memory of Gerald Halsey Scholarship.

Isabelle Parker, Western Washington University, Bellingham Washington. Major: Biology; Seal of Biliteracy; Top 10 percent of the Class; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; AP Scholar; National Honor Society; 8 Academic Letters; Varsity Letter Track (10th, 11th, 12th); American Chemical Society Award; Art Award; Western Undergraduate Exchange scholarship program (for Western Washington University) for 4 years.

Isaac Paswaters, Wyo Tech, Laramie, Wyoming, Major: Automotive Technology; Varsity Letter Football (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Lyons Lions Club Sports Award for Football.

Isabelle Paswaters, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado. Major: Theater; National Honor Society; 6 Academic Letters; Varsity Letter Cheerleading 12th; Drama student of the Year Award.

Hannah Paton, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado. Major: Business Management and Administration; Seal of Biliteracy; National Honor Society; 2

Academic Letters; Varsity Letter Softball (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Basketball (10th, 11th, 12th); Track (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Longmont Ford’s September Player of the Month; McConnell Sports Award for Girls Basketball; Lyons Sports Award for Softball; Multi-Sport Athletic Award; Lyons Community Foundation Janet Orback Memorial Scholarship.

Libby Paznokas, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. Major: Marketing; 5 Academic Letters; Earth Systems Award; Art Award; Language Arts Award; Northern Arizona University Western Undergraduate Exchange; NAU Founders Gold Scholarship.

Estella Percarpio, taking a gap year doing a paid internship in Germany. Will be working on a nature reserve in hopes of gaining knowledge in the environmental science field, planed major when attending college in the US fall of 2021. Deciding between Northern Arizona University, Colorado State University, and Western Washington University; Seal of Biliteracy; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; National Honor Society 2 years; 8 Academic Letters; Varsity Letter Volleyball (10th, 11th, 12th), and Basketball (12th); Volleyball State Champs, 10th; Twin Peaks Rotary Student of the Month for Community Service (12th); Art Award; Pre-Calculus Award; AP US History Award; Northern Arizona University Founders Gold Tuition Scholarship for 4 yrs; Western Washington University WUE Scholarship; Colorado State University Colorado Merit Scholarship.

Connor “CJ” Pierce, Gap year to work; Varsity Letter Track (10th, 11th, 12th) 11th grade Football (11th, 12th).

Christopher Pratt, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska. Major: Aviation Systems Management; 3 Academic Letters.

Isaac Roberts, Colorado Christian University, Lakewood, Colorado. Major: Business; Will be running Cross Country and Track for the Colorado Christian Cougars; 7 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters Cross Country (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Track (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Basketball (12th); Mile High League Cross Country runner of the year (10th, 12th); Cross Country State Champion (12th); Track State Champ in the 3200 and runner-up in the 1600 (11th); Part of the 4+800 relay Track State Champs (10th, 11th); Lyons High School Sports Award for Boys Cross Country; Lyons High School Sports Award for Boys Track; Lyons High School Senior Boy Athlete of the Year Award; Language Arts Award; Elevations Foundations Hellie Scholarship; CCU President’s Scholarship for 4 years; CCU Cross Country and Track Scholarship for 4 years; CCU Board Scholarship for 4 years; Colorado Student Grant for 4 years; Colorado Opportunity Fund for 4 years.

Charlotte Rogers, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. Major: Strategic Communications; National Honor Society; 5 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters Cheerleading (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th), Track (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th), Volleyball (10th, 11th, 12th); Volleyball State Champions, (10th); Show Choir Academic Awards Night Award (10th, 11th); Lyons High School Sports Award for Cheer; Multi-Sport Athletic Award; Choir Award; NAU Gold Scholarship for 4 years; Lyons Community Foundation Gerald Boland Memorial Scholarship Award.

Jordan Shackelford, Adams State University, Alamosa, Colorado. Major: Kinesiology with a Minor in Sport Psychology; Varsity Letter Cross Country (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th), Track (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); Welker Scholarship.

Marissa Shaw, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado. Major: Secondary Mathematics Education; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; 8 Academic Letters; Varsity Letter Cheerleading (9th, 10th), Band Letter (11th); Award of Excellence Algebra II; Patrick Gilmore Band Award; Calculus Award; SVVSD District Honor Orchestra 2 years (1st violin, 2nd violin 3rd chair); Catharine C. Owen Scholarship; National Daughters of the American Revolution Wilma Dunn Scholarship; Welker Scholarship; Nancy Nixon Scholarship; UNC Trustee Scholarship for 4 years; UNC Founder’s Grant; Lyons Lions Club In Memory of Frank Namesnik Scholarship; Hilltop Guild Elizabeth Greenwood Memorial Scholarship; Lyons Community Foundation Mission Scholarship.

Felix Sykes, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Major: Agriculture Business; 7 Academic Letters; Varsity Letter: Swim (9th, 10th), Track (9th, 10th), Cross Country (12th).

Emily VanLeeuwen, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado. Major: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Salutatorian; Top 10 percent of the Class; President’s Award for Educational Excellence; National Honor Society Secretary; 8 Academic Letters; Varsity Letters: Track (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th); St. Vrain Honor band (11th); All Conference Honors Track (11th); Director’s Award for Band; Language Arts Award; Physics Award; Society of Women’s Engineers Highest Honors Award; University of Colorado CU Alumni Buffalo Legacy Scholarship; University of Colorado Boulder Scholarship for 4 years.

Trevor Woelfle, Traveling to Florida Keys.

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ISSUES Lyons Community Foundation Awards the 2020 Scholarships

By Josie Lawrence Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) exists to improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving, and encourage positive change for the Greater Lyons Area.

The attributes of the LCF mission statement can be found in all the recipients for this year’s scholarships. This speaks highly of the dedication and hard work of not only these students and their parents but all the teachers and staff along the way.

Offering scholarships to Lyons area graduating seniors began in 2009 with a single $500 scholarship. In May, 2020 the LCF awarded $9,500 in scholarships to seven Lyons graduating seniors. To date, $56,000 in scholarship funds have been awarded to 59 college-bound students.

New in 2020, the Lyons Community

Also new in 2020, the Lyons Community Foundation Two-Year Study Scholarship recognizes a student who plans to attend a two-year program at college / university, trade school or other technical / vocational training. The student also embodies the LCF’s mission of improving the quality of life, building a culture of giving, and encouraging positive change for the greater Lyons area. The 2020 recipients are Colton Bashor, who will be majoring in Agricultural Business at Northeastern Junior College, and Trenton Burton, who will be attending Front Range Community College majoring in Graphic Design.

Established in 2009, the Lyons Community Foundation Scholarship in Memory of Steve Ralston honors Lyons resident and business owner Steve Ralston and is awarded to a student who best ex-

Left to right, top to bottom:

Marissa Shaw, Colton Bashor, Trenton Burton, Nick Johnson, Charlotte Rogers, Harrison Abernathy, Hannah Paton Foundation Mission Scholarship recognizes a student who embodies the LCF’s mission of improving the quality of life, building a culture of giving, and encouraging positive change for the greater Lyons area. The 2020 Lyons Community Foundation Mission Scholarship was awarded to Marissa Shaw, who will be attending the University of Northern Colorado majoring in Secondary Mathematics Education.

presses their passion for learning and sharing one’s interests, skills, and joyful life experiences with their community. Nick Johnson is the 2020 recipient; he will be attending Cornell University majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

Established in 2014, the Gerald Boland Memorial Scholarship recognizes a student who demonstrates a passion for learning and for their community. Ger-

ald Boland died during the September 2013 flood near his home in Lyons. He taught in Lyons for 31 years, five years at the high school and 26 years at the elementary school. He served as a mentor to many of Lyons youth as a basketball coach for 23 years and as a Boy Scout Leader. His dedication to the Lyons community was just as unwavering as his dedication to education. Recipient of the 2020 Gerald Boland Memorial Scholarship Charlotte Rogers will be majoring in Communications at either Colorado State University or Northern Arizona University.

Established in 2016, the Uncle Louis “Bud” Winkler Memorial Scholarship was made possible by an endowment from a local Lyons resident to honor the memory of his Uncle Louis who helped put him through college. The 2020 recipient of the Uncle Louis “Bud” Winkler Scholarship is Harrison Abernathy who will be attending University of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill majoring in Business Administration.

Established in 2018, the Janet Orback Memorial Scholarship honors the memory of lifelong Lyons resident Janet Orback, who along with her husband Dave, tirelessly helped to provide support and friendship to her neighbors whose homes and lives were destroyed in the 2013 floods, as well as being stewards of the Lyons Cemetery for over 15 years. Recipients of the Janet Orback Memorial Scholarship are active participants in the community, and show a commitment to caring for the environment. The 2020 recipient is Hannah Paton who will be majoring in Business Management and Administration at the University of Colorado.

The Lyons Community Foundation is proud of the accomplishments of these seven students, as well as the accomplishments of all the students who applied for the scholarships. These scholarships are made possible through the generous donations of the Lyons community.

If you would like to support the scholarship program and help a student achieve their dream of a college education, your contributions are greatly appreciated. To donate to any of these scholarships, please go to www.Lyonscf.org and click on the “Donate Now” button and indicate if you would like your support applied in mem-

A fond goodbye to Kristen Bruckner

By Jeanne Moore Redstone Review LYONS – Kristen Bruckner has stepped down from her position as Communication Specialist at Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) after more than six years of dedicated support to several advisory boards. She was hired as a contract consultant soon after the 2013 flood to help communicate the role and work of LCF in the community. We know we speak for all the board members over the years when we express our gratitude and appreciation to Kristen Bruckner for her talent and skills in telling our story, for her friendship, and for her unending devotion to the Lyons community. We wish her much success as she pursues other interests.

Jeanne Moore is the president of the Lyons Community Foundation ory of Steve Ralston, Gerald Boland, Janet Orback, or the General Scholarship Fund.

Donations may also be mailed to the Lyons Community Foundation, PO Box 546, Lyons, CO 80540.

Josie Lawrence is the chair of the LCF Scholarship Committee.

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LOOK AHEAD We need to prioritize mental health care right now

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LONGMONT – Imagine: you have a stroke and have to wait two months to see your physical therapist and then pay for it out of pocket. Imagine: you have pneumonia and need antibiotics, and the Jane first appointment you can get with a doctor is six weeks away. This kind of delay is standard treatment for people with mental health issues, and even though they are angry and demand change, nothing changes. This is how it is for people with mental illness and their families. We shouldn’t be surprised that they end up in confrontations with family, neighbors, bystanders, and the police. We have abandoned them. Stigma has blinded us to taking sensible action.

Because we as a society have refused to take the necessary actions to identify, treat, and support people with mental illness, the final responsibility for the mentally ill has landed with our criminal justice departments. In 2016 in Colorado, 39 percent of prison inmates had moderate or severe mental illness histories. This is about the national average. It costs over three times as much to house a mentally ill prisoner as one without mental illness. It is not, and should not, be the job of our police, courts, and jails to be the first contact with people with mental illness, or to refer, house and treat them. The extra money spent on them in prisons should be going to diversion, community mental health centers, and treatment.

We need a major realignment in our priorities as a nation and as people. Mental health needs to be high priority when funding our health care system, and in funding governmentally mandated health care agencies, by factors of 10 to 20

times what it is now. We need our health care system to pay for mental health care like it does for physical health. We need urgent care centers for mental health to be as common as regular urgent care, separated emergency room areas for mental health issues, and as many insurance-covered therapists and psychiatric specialists as there are doctors in other specialties, and that’s just a beginning.

As the cities of Longmont and Boulder have started to do with a few teams, we need many full-scale teams of mental health professionals and p a i d

peer specialists to respond to mental health emergency calls. We need our teachers, anyone in government, and all of law enforcement fully trained so they are competent to spot possible emerging mental health issues, and for them to be able to call professionals who are available and can de-escalate and refer for treatment. We need affordable, available treatment for everyone, before they reach a crisis, interact with the police, or 911 is called.

We need to rethink our definitions and revamp our

budgets for our criminal justice systems. We need to start to move some of that money to mental health and social services. We need programs to stop domestic violence before the police need to be called, to recognize and treat people before they become violent. It is time to start funding approaches to mental health care that people will trust and be willing to be a part of before they become desperate and “go crazy.” It’s time to house the homeless and treat the ill, so that they can become active and functioning members of society. The police will be safer, and so will the people with mental illness.

The addiction and anger and impulse control problems that cause so much of the need for our criminal justice system involvement need to be included in our definitions of mental illness, and people with these issues need immediate, longterm, and compassionate help and treatment.

As a people, a country, and a society, we need to take our heads out of the sand and stop being terrified of mental illness. Just like cancer used to be called “the big C” and is now openly talked about, we need to accept that over half of us will have a diagnosable mental illness in our lifetimes. Instead of shunting people with mental illness off to confrontations with armed police, we need to identify them early and offer them understanding and hope. It’s time to stop treating them like criminals. People with mental illness are not the other, they are us. It’s time to treat them that way.

Janaki Jane has a degree in psychology and has worked for over 30 years in related fields. She is the founder and Director of the Wide Spaces Community Initiative, “Creating a Community of Belonging and Personal Safety for Everyone,“ a program through the Lyons Regional Library. She teaches multiple classes on mental health and suicide prevention and creates community-building events. She can be reached at wscilyons@gmail.com, or info@lyonsregionallibrary.com.

Greenwood invites you to join the Outside Every Day Challenge

By Chelsea Barrett Redstone Review LONGMONT – Greenwood Wildlife, along with a number of incredible local organizations, is currently particBarrett ipation in the “Outside Every Day Challenge.” The campaign is focused on encouraging children to do something outdoors every day in order to increase their physical and mental wellbeing. The website for the challenge (outsideeverydaychallenge.org) is filled with creative activities and robust resources to make it easy for everybody to participate. In addition to suggestions for fun venture ideas like “Biodiversity List and ‘Micro Hike’” or “Be-a-Camera Game,” they also offer monthly calendars with very simple ideas for every day of the week, like “Listen to a bird sing,” or “Balance on a fallen down log.”

If you have kids at home or just want to check it out, visit outside everday challenge.org. You will be inspired by the variety of exciting suggestions with things to do outdoors. Sign the #Outside Every Day pledge and join others by agreeing to try your best to get the children that you care for out there and enjoying nature.

Not only will it benefit them, it will also be good for you.

I think we should informally extend this challenge to the adults in our communities. The activities and resources that are provided for children are an im-

side in bigger ways on days when you are able to. Plan a weekend camping trip with your family away from electronics and screens. Enjoy time telling stories, laughing, drinking hot cocoa and maybe bring the kayak or fishing gear for some daytime activities. Can’t find time to get away for a whole weekend? Set aside a “camping day” instead. Go for a hike with your loved ones in the morning. When you return home later, set up the tent in the living room or backyard, roast marshmallows over the stovetop or grill, leave the TV off and appreciate each other. Remind yourselves what it feels like to unplug and be present.

Now, I challenge you to finish reading this edition of the Redstone Review in an outdoor space. Enjoy every chance to be outside.

portant reminder that getting outside doesn’t need to be some full-day hike in the backcountry, nor does it even need to be a one-hour hike at Chautauqua. Going outdoors can be whatever is accessible to you in that day and in that moment based on your schedule and what you have the energy to do. It can be simple things that only take a moment, like doing one yoga pose outside in the sunshine or taking your shoes off to wiggle them in the grass for a couple of seconds. You can even find your inner child and go skip a stone on the river or create whimsical chalk designs on the sidewalk.

Experiencing the open air can also be adjusted to fit your existing habits and routines. Instead of drinking your morning coffee or tea at your kitchen table, take it outside to your local park and enjoy it on the bench there. Are you used to eating lunch at your desk or kitchen counter? Take it to the picnic table outside of your office or to your yard or patio. When you really start to think about it, there are so many easy ways to integrate a little bit of the outdoors into your day. You will feel the benefits immediately.

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Town Continued from Page 1 pounds per year. BODs have to be separated out of the wastewater and hauled off for treatment, which the town has to pay for. The lower the BODs, the less the town has to pay for treatment.

The board discussed how to run more efficient meetings, which means how to shorten the time spent at the Board of Trustees meetings. Every time a new board is installed this topic comes up and every time trustees and the mayor try out new techniques to try to shorten the meetings. So far nothing has worked very effectively.

The town staff made a list of suggestions to help trustees expedite the meetings more effectively. Some of the suggestions for the town board included: emailing corrections for the minutes to the clerk and the corrections will be sent back before the meeting; asking questions on accounts payable before the meeting, any item that takes more than 30 minutes consider for a workshop; considering putting time limits on some agenda items such as trustee reports; taking breaks every 90 to 120 minutes; disabling chat function on Zoom meetings, and others.

Suggestions for staff included: staff would no longer read their reports since they are in the packet, but would answer any questions from the trustees and mayor; staff memos and presentations should be thorough yet concise; staff presents agenda items then takes questions from the board, and other things.

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Museum Continued from Page 4 of the “0s.” Also cancelled is the Summer History camp for children.

Learning Lyons History, Thursdays, July 9 and August 6, 5:30 p.m. If you’re curious about Lyons History, ask LaVern Johnson. One week before each program, email your questions to lavern921@aol.com.

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Virtual Tour: Forty Years / Forty Artifacts, coming in July. From your electronic device you will be able to view the history of Lyons as told through the stories of 40 artifacts. The museum exhibit was developed in 2019 to celebrate the museum’s 40th anniversary. The exhibit is

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composed of objects, photographs, and documents that showcase the depth and breadth of the museum’s collections.

Lyons Cemetery Tour, Tentative: August 22. Tours start at 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00 p.m. Learn the history of the Lyons Cemetery and the stories of some of those buried there in a new version of this popular tour of Lyons history. Tours will be free with donations appreciated. Meet at north end of Third Avenue, Lyons.

Lyons Then and Now, September (date TBD) with Lyons Regional Library. Discover local history and landmarks through photographs of Lyons and compare them with today.

Lyons Area and Flood Books Available. For your convenience, curbside pickup will be available. Simply visit our website to see a list of books we have in our museum shop. Then, place your order via

email Redstonehistory@gmail.com or leave a message on the museum’s answering machine, 303-823-5271. Staff will get back to you to arrange payment and pickup.

The COVID-19 shutdown has significantly impacted the Lyons Redstone Museum financially in 2020. The museum relies on donations for funding its operations every year. The museum did not open in May and as of this writing continues to be closed until Colorado allows institutions such as ours to open to the public. When we do open to the public budget limitations may require the museum to curtail its hours of operation, further hampering opportunities to raise funds. If you would like to support the Lyons Redstone Museum during this time donations may be sent to Lyons Historical Society c/o LaVern Johnson PO Box 9, Lyons, CO 80540.

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August 1, so register today.

Another way to stay engaged with the library this summer is to participate in our virtual “Busy Reader’s Book Club.” We have been connecting monthly via Zoom, and will meet on July 8 for a discussion of El Deafo, a graphic novel by CeeCee Bell.

For August, we will read Mennonite in the Little Black Dress, by Rhoda Janzen, with a Zoom discussion scheduled for August 26.

Both of these titles are available in hard copy at the library. Call or e-mail us to register and place your copy on hold, then come by for curbside pick-up. These titles are also available electronically via the CloudLibrary and OverDrive. For more information on the Summer Reading Program and the Virtual Book Club, visit our website at lyons.colibraries.org or call us at 303-823-5165. Be well, Lyons.

eling this summer and away from your computer? Download the convenient Beanstack app.

While the current closure of the physical library and the new on-line summer reading platform changes many aspects of our SRP, one thing that will never change is how much we love seeing our patrons.

We encourage you to connect with us on social media (Facebook or Instagram) to tell us what you’re reading, share pictures of program participation, or just let us know how you’re doing. We’d like to thank our SRP sponsor, the Friends of the Library, who helped make the program possible. We are grateful for the Friends’ commitment to summer reading success in our community. The SRP runs through

Even though I knew I was privileged…

By Terry de Castro Redstone Review LOS ANGELES – Only a little more than a year ago (I have to be honest with myself and admit that it really was that recently) I knew I wanted to commit myself to fighting racism. And (if I’m more honest) I had to ask myself what action I would have the appropriate ability and insight to take. And (to be even more brutally honest) before I would be able to do anything effective at all, I would have to acknowledge the deep-seated racism in myself, and that was going to be rough. I am a white woman, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to a white family. I now live in Los Angeles, where 50,000 people marched in protest last Sunday on Hollywood Boulevard.

I’ve never considered myself a racist; of course I haven’t. How many of us have?

But I’ve come to believe with no doubt that if I am white, I am probably also racist. I may not mean to be, and I may even be actively fighting racism. But if I have, in any way, benefitted from an inherently racist system or failed to see how much and in what ways I indeed have benefitted, I am contributing to an unjust society. And if I have done little to help change it, I am tacitly condoning it. Most insidiously, if I were to look carefully within myself with an unwaveringly critical gaze, I would undoubtedly find subconscious biases and evidence of racism. This evidence resides deep within me and has existed since I was very young, simply because I was born into a society that values white lives more than black lives. Period.

I only need to scratch the surface of American history and current events.

So I tried to look deeply within myself.

At first I wanted to prove all of the ways I was not racist: when I was four years old, I told a black man he was beautiful; I went to a diverse junior high school and had black friends; I discussed racial inequality with my father at the dinner table; I read the Autobiography of Malcolm X; I gave speeches in my public speaking group about Biddy Mason, a Mississippi slave who freed herself (and many others) in California and went on to become a great philanthropist; I talked about racism; I cared. But I knew, deep down, that everything I found in myself as an example of my “non-racism” was at best inadequate, and at worst a lie. Had I ever said anything

careless in jest or otherwise? Had I ever neglected to speak up when I should have?

To what degree had I educated myself about black history and actively sought to understand the experiences of black Americans today? How many black businesses do I support? And have I had a genuine awakening to how many advantages I have enjoyed simply because I am white?

Kind of, but peel back another layer of the onion: how often did I consider it? How bad did I really feel about it? What action did I take to correct it? Even though I knew I was privileged I did nothing.

On Tuesday, June 8 I attended a protest in Hollywood, carrying a Black Lives Matter sign. I have explained to a few people who say, “all lives matter” that that is not even remotely the point. Of course they do, but “Black Lives Matter” is stated as such because much of the time, certainly in this country, it seems like they don’t.

And “all lives matter” will not resonate until black lives are valued as much as white lives. It’s painful and hard to look at, but it’s true, and white people are complicit – I am complicit. As I marched in Hollywood, I struggled not to feel like an imposter, a “performance ally.” I cared, and I wanted to contribute something in the fight against racism, but what did I know?

And what could I do? I felt ineffectual and fake. Even in writing this, I realize I am only speaking from my own experience and putting myself at the center.

It was exhilarating to witness the enthusiastic horde of Angelenos marching together, slowing traffic, with drivers honking in solidarity instead of frustration. If you’ve never driven in Los Angeles, you may not know what a rare and wondrous thing this was.

It was a beautiful June day, and the jacaranda trees were in full bloom. As we crossed the Hwy. 101 overpass, people honked up from the freeway, fists aloft; it was genuinely moving. There were protests all over Los Angeles for more than a week. I missed the main Hollywood one on the following Sunday, the big one, and I was disappointed not to have experienced the exuberance of that many people standing up against injustice together. But we need to do more than that – I need to do more. And I need to do more than say, “I need to do more.” There are countless resources out there, listing actions that can be taken, organizations that can be confronted, businesses that can be supported, Continue Privileged on Page 13

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ Vegetarian lasagna with homemade pasta

By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – Our neighbor just had her first baby and I wanted to bring over a casserole. She is vegetarian so I made my best veggie dish, which is Vegetarian Lasagna. Packed with cheese, sauces and roasted and sautéed vegetables it contains all the power foods you need to get back on your feet. She and her family declared it the best lasagna they’d ever had. Even if you haven’t had a baby, try it, it is loaded with taste and tenderness.

Vegetarian Lasagna Ingredients Preparation time: 1.5 hours Cooking time 45to 50 minutes One 9 x 13-inch baking pan, or a slightly larger lasagna pan One recipe homemade pasta dough One recipe lasagna sauce One recipe ricotta filling One recipe Zacusca (roasted eggplant, red pepper, tomatoes and onions) Two medium-sized zucchinis, sliced, sautéed in olive oil until tender, seasoned with salt and pepper ½ lb mushrooms, chopped and sautéed in olive oil, seasoned with salt and pepper One 15-oz container of Buitoni Alfredo Sauce, or you can make your own One lb grated mozzarella 8 oz grated Parmesan cheese Homemade Pasta Dough Preparation Time: 5 minutes 4 C flour 1 t salt 4 eggs 2 T olive oil 1/4 C water, as needed • Measure flour into a large bowl and stir in the salt.

• Beat eggs lightly. Add the olive oil to the eggs and mix.

• Make a well in the flour and pour the egg mixture in, folding it in. Add water as needed to make the dough pliable.

• Knead the dough until it is smooth and firm, approximately 3 minutes. Or, use your electric stand mixer with a dough hook. Mix only until the dough is smooth and clinging to the hook.

• Remove dough from bowl and shape into a flat disc. Cover with a damp kitchen towel and set in the fridge to rest for 30 minutes.

• Roll out pasta dough until nearly transparent and cut into 3 inch by 13 inch strips and set aside (or cut as you assemble later). The dough should always be pulled as thinly and transparently as possible.

Lasagna Sauce Preparation Time: 50 minutes 1/2 C olive oil 1 large, sweet onion, diced 3 garlic cloves, minced One 28-ounce can of Italian whole tomatoes, shredded with your fingers One 28-ounce can Italian-style tomato purée One 4-ounce can tomato paste 1 T dried basil 1 t fennel seed 1 bay leaf 1/2 t salt 1 1/2 t pepper • Heat olive oil in a large stock pot. Add onion and cook until golden.

• Add garlic and cook for one minute • Add the tomatoes, purée, tomato paste, herbs, salt, and pepper. Stir well.

• Cover. Simmer on low for 45 minutes.

Ricotta Filling Preparation Time: 5 minutes 1 lb. ricotta cheese 2 T fresh chopped or 1 t dried parsley 2 eggs, beaten 2 T grated parmesan cheese • Mix ricotta with eggs, parsley and cheese.

• Refrigerate until ready to use.

Zacusca Preparation Time: 45 minutes 28 oz fresh or canned tomatoes 4 oz can tomato paste 2 medium eggplants 2 red peppers 1 large onion 1/4 C olive oil 1 T sugar, or to taste Salt to taste • Finely chop onion and brown until

Housing Continued from Page 6 We still face many other affordable housing issues, such as aging in place, and a home-sharing approach for elders who have extra rooms in their homes but need help with home or yard tasks. (This might need to be reexamined in the time of physical distancing.) But our community has a lot to be encouraged about in terms of what has already been accomplished.

In 2018, I walked home from a Summit Housing Group question-and-answer session at Lyons Middle and High School focused on an early version of the proposal for Lyons Valley Park. I wondered if in a few years I would be walking through the neighborhood and see new residents of affordable rental homes who were biking with their children or gathering for an event. As I walked on Second Avenue, completion of the Habitat for Humanity buildings seemed so far away, even though 112 Park St. was already under construction. When the final Habitat building was completed last month, I rejoiced in front of my computer, watching a video of new homeowners opening their doors.

A few months ago, I talked to a Lyons Valley Park homeowner who was concerned about safety for her kids with speeding traffic in the neighborhood. I mentioned that the new residents who would move into the neighborhood in Summit’s proposed buildings would probably include other moms with kids who ride bikes, and who also care about traffic safety in the neighborhood. It’s an opportunity for

Privileged Continued from Page 12 petitions that can be signed, blogs and newsletters that can be subscribed to, books to read, and black educators who are willing to share their knowledge and experience to shed light on what can be done. I don’t need to ask anyone, “What can I do?” Action is more accessible than ever – the information is one click away. But before any action of mine can be truly meaningful, I must take an unflinching inventory of the prejudices and injustices that remain unexamined in myself.

Terry de Castro lives in Los Angeles with her husband Andrew. She works at a craft shop in LA and plays guitar in a rock band based in England.

golden in the olive oil.

• Pierce the eggplants and peppers with a fork or small knife. Place on a grill at high heat and roast. Check every 10 minutes and turn to expose the skin not yet charred to the grill. The skin will be charred all over and the flesh tender when they are ready.

• Remove tomato skins using the boiling water / ice-bath-plunge method. If using canned tomatoes, skip this step. Finely chop tomatoes and set aside.

• Move the finished grilled vegetables to a Dutch oven with a lid and keep it closed for 20 minutes. The heat and moisture will cause the skins to peel away easily.

• Peel the skin from the grilled vegetables. Finely chop and set aside.

• Add tomato paste and tomatoes to the pan with the onions and cook 5 minutes.

• Add the chopped eggplant and peppers and cook for another 5 minutes, stirring frequently.

• Add sugar and salt to taste and continue to cook at low boil on medium heat until thickened enough to spread.

• Set Zacusca aside in a bowl.

Assembling the Lasagna • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. • Have youe ingredients a line of bowls at the ready for assembly: bowls of chopped, sautéed mushrooms; the sautéed zucchini; the Zacusca; the ricotta mixture, the mozzarella and parmesan cheeses; and the Alfredo sauce.

• Coat the bottom of your pan lightly with lasagna sauce.

more caring neighbors who are part of the community to get involved in making the neighborhood better for everyone, just like the families who bought the Habitat for Humanity townhomes, or people who rent in town now.

Lyons has a history of volunteers working to make the community a better place to live, from Mrs. LaVern to young parents of today, families of all sizes, couples, and single people of all age groups who work together. It’s a bright future for affordable housing in Lyons if this collaboration continues. I look forward to learning what happens in Lyons in the years to come.

• Cover sauce with strips of pasta dough, stretching the dough as thinly as possible without tearing • Spread more lasagna sauce evenly over the pasta dough and cover with half the ricotta mixture.Spread evenly using the back of a spoon.

• Sprinkle a layer of grated mozzarella over the ricotta mixture.

• Cover this with strips of pasta dough.

• Cover the pasta dough with all of the Zacusca.

• Cover this with strips of pasta dough.

• Cover the pasta with all of the sautéed mushrooms • Cover this with strips of pasta dough.

• Cover with lasagna sauce, then grated mozzarella, then the Alfredo sauce, and top with the parmesan.

• Cover with aluminum foil.and bake 45 to 50 minutes, until bubbly around the edges.

• Remove pan from oven and let sit for 10 minutes before serving.

• Serve with whatever lasagna sauce you might have left.

Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking professionally and privately since 1979. She was a French cuisine journeyman at the celebrated Henri d’Afrique restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Today she is the proprietor of the food blog www.foodfortheages.com, and Facebook.com/Food for the Ages. Though she cooks every day in a tiny kitchen with a two-burner stove, her recipes are expansive and she dedicates her craft to living large by cooking well in tiny kitchens.

Amy Reinholds is an affordable housing columnist for the Redstone Review. She served on the Lyons Housing Recovery Task Force from December 2013 through its end in February 2015.

She served on the Lyons Human Services and Aging Commission (later renamed to the Lyons Housing and Human Services Commission) from December 2014 through May 2020. She lived in the Town of Lyons from August 2003 to June 2020 and in the Boulder County area near Lyons from 1995 to 2003. For a history of her affordable housing columns in local newspapers, see her blog at lyonscoloradonews.wordpress.com.

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CREATE Nature thrives in Lyons River Park; visitors reminded of rules

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – What a difference 18 months has made. From a dry, barren plain of silt and cobble to a vibrant, green landscape Lowell that daily brings natural surprises, the Lyons River Park is shaping up to be exactly what residents envisioned when they first planned the ponds in 2015 in community meetings.

There’s a saying that “nature will find a way,” and that’s what’s on display in the ponds and surrounding land.

On any given morning or evening, tree swallows and the occasional cedar waxwing flocks swoop low feeding on the bounty of bugs hatching off the pond surface. The volume of bug life hatching from the ponds is impressive and is the major attractor of bird life to the ponds.

Earlier in the spring, mountain bluebirds showed up around the ponds. Local resident Dave Rahbani installed three bluebird houses around the area but the birds moved on. But his efforts weren’t in vain as the swallows have moved in and two of the houses have active nests.

The cliff swallows that built the softballsize mud nests under the bridge last year have yet to return in the incredible numbers of last summer.

The fathead minnows that were introduced into the ponds last year to help control mosquitoes are thriving. Earlier this spring they could be seen spawning around the rocks near the north shore. And where there’s little fish, there’s fish-eaters like the hooded mergansers that frequent the ponds and the chattering kingfishers sitting on the fence wires looking for their next meal.

A pair of western grebes also took up residence for a short while in April.

A family of mallards and six ducklings have taken up residence and on dry land a pair of killdeer are raising fledglings – both good reasons to keep dogs on leash and out of the off-limits areas.

The grass carp that were stocked to help control the aquatic growth remain secretive, but Aqua Sierra – the environmental firm that stocked them – assures that the eightto-ten-inch carp are there but they choose to stay in the deep parts of the ponds at this stage of their life, perhaps to avoid the occasional osprey that perches in the riverside trees. As the carp, which are sterile, grow larger – perhaps as much as 25 pounds or more – they’ll become more obvious.

But the news isn’t all good. The ponds

Bullfrogs are an invasive species in Colorado (see Redstone Review article, April 2020) that will prey on other amphibians, young birds and anything else they can fit in their wide mouths. How the bullfrogs found their way into the ponds last year is a mystery but expect to hear their deep bass chorus around the ponds this summer.

With this vibrancy of nature all around the pond, it’s time to remember that we humans need to be respectful and do our

Lyons River Park then – October 2018, and now – June 2020 continue to be plagued by an overgrowth of algae, but it’s expected that as the nutrient levels drop as the ponds ecology matures the algae will lessen. The Town had budgeted for an aerator to be placed in the middle of the lower pond to assist in reducing the algae but that expense had been put on hold during the COVID-19 crisis and the resulting loss of income.

The water quality itself has been rated as very good, according to Dave Cosgrove, Director of Public Works and Parks, and follow-on testing may be done later this year.

Another bit of bad news is the proliferation of bullfrog tadpoles in the ponds.

This writer recently witnessed more than 100 second-year tadpoles at the inlet of the upper pond along with two adults.

designated trails; access to the shoreline is only at designated spots.

Dogs must be leashed – As in all of Lyons, dogs must be leashed and their waste picked up.

No picnicking or camping allowed – There are no picnic tables, bathroom facilities, grills or trash receptacles at the ponds. No outside grills are allowed. N o littering will be strictly enforced.

No alcohol, glass containers, open fires, camping, smoking, amplified sound, defacing property – These rules apply to all Lyons Town parks.

There’s no parking in the area of the

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part. The ponds have seen a big uptick in use as the weather warms and the walking paths were opened.

Just a reminder that there’s a good reason why much of the shoreline is off-limits. Thousands of wetland plants, shrubs and trees were planted and they need time to take hold and grow. Human and dog traffic is not allowed in the roped-off areas.

As summer unfolds, it’s obvious the ponds have become an attraction for recreationists and those just seeking quiet and nature, but there are rules to protect wildlife, vegetation and to ensure the ponds are used according to the consensus of the public during the 2015 planning session for the area.

Stay on the trails – Visitors must stay on

ponds – Parking is prohibited on the McConnell Bridge. Public parking will be available at the Black Bear Hole, Second Avenue lot or Bohn Park.

No jumping off the bridge – Due to safety concerns, jumping off the McConnell Bridge is not allowed.

No fishing – There are currently no catchable fish in the ponds; once a decision is made on stocking fish, fishing may be allowed.

Dawn to dusk – Once public access is allowed, the River Park will be open only from dawn to dusk.

Lyons resident Greg Lowell is a Lyons Town Board Trustee and serves as a liaison to the Ecology Advisory Board.