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B •R •I •E •F •S Easter service held at Planet Bluegrass LYONS – The community Easter Celebration at Planet Bluegrass will be held at Planet Bluegrass in the Wildflower Pavilion on Sunday, April 5, at 11 a.m.

Local musicians will provide music. An Easter egg hunt and potluck will follow the service. A love offering will be taken for Higher Ground Ministries. The love offering will be given to the England family this year to help with medical expenses. All checks should be made payable to Higher Ground Ministries with an earmark that it is for the England family. Bring your own table service and beverages and a dish to share; the potluck sign-up sheet at the Stone Cup. Bring donations of filled plastic Easter eggs (no chocolate please) to the Stone Cup on Fri. April 3 and Sat. April 4. Call the Stone Cup for more information at 303- 823-2345.

Spirit Hound Distillers LYONS – Spirit Hound Distillers will host a 1970s Throwback Costume Party to be held on April 11 at 4196 Ute Hwy., featuring two Live Bands, Kit Colt and the Groupers. The music will start at 8 p.m. Costumes are encouraged and there will be a costume contest for those who can dress in that authentic Continue Briefs on Page 5

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Sandhill Cranes migrate from their winter retreat in New Mexico to places farther north such as Nebraska, Idaho and Canada They stop along the way at the National Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge. See story on page 5. PHOTO BY DON BROCKMEIR

Marijuana and recovery housing were central issues for the town board

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – An ordinance imposing a temporary moratorium for six months on the licensing, permitting, and establishment of operations of any new business that sells, cultivates or tests marijuana or manufactures marijuana products and any marijuana enterprise was passed by a five to two vote by the Board of Trustees (BOT). Mayor John O’Brien and Trustee Jim Kerr voted against the measure.

The ordinance goes into effect in 30 days.

A second ordinance to make existing medical marijuana businesses exempt from the 1000-foot rule, which says that all medical marijuana businesses have to be 1000 feet away from each other, was passed by the board on first reading. This ordinance was designed to correct an earlier ordinance which was put in place when all marijuana businesses were medical marijuana businesses. The intention was to not allow marijuana businesses near churches, schools, day care facilities, libraries, etc. When recreational marijuana was approved some businesses wanted to become

dual medical and recreational businesses and two marijuana businesses were located in Lyons Village Central along Main Street. The board decided to grandfather in the businesses that were operating when the first ordinance was put in place. But the requirement for 1,000 feet from schools and other institutions would still apply. This ordinance passed on first reading.

The board also passed an ordinance approving a 99-year ground lease between the town of Lyons and Boulder County

Housing Authority (BCHA) for the proposed flood recovery housing project in Bohn Park. Trustee Dawn Weller voted against the ordinance. This was the final reading of the ordinance. The actual lease will not be signed by the town until after the votes on the proposed housing in the park are counted on March 24. If residents vote against the measure the lease will not be signed; if they vote for the measure the town will sign the lease after the votes are counted.

A resolution to approve Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) was approved by the BOT after a lengthy discussion. Typically BCHA does not pay taxes on its housing projects to Continue Town on Page 15

Awards won by Redstone Review in the Colorado Press Association DENVER – Each year the Colorado Press Association (CPA) trades its contest entries with another state and members in that state do the judging. This year the CPA contest entries were judged by the Missouri Press Association. The contest period started on September 1, 2013 and ended August 31, 2014.

The Redstone Review won 24 awards this year in Category 10, which comprises a total of seven monthly newspapers. The newspapers in Category 10 include: Glendale News and Cherry Creek Chronicle (circulation 82,283); Left Hand Valley Courier (circulation 8,500); Life on Capitol Hill (Circulation 21,000); North Forty News (circulation 50,000); Redstone Review (circulation 3,000); Southern Ute Drum (circulation 1,700) and Stapleton Front Porch (circulation 36,000).

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LYONS Fundraiser for Rick England LYONS – A fundraiser for Rick England will be held on Saturday April 4 starting at 4 p.m. at Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Rick England, one of the friendliest faces in Lyons – a father, husband, broth-

The England Family er and peer – was in a severe car accident with a co-worker on January 20, 2015 where he was ejected from the vehicle.

He suffered multiple broken bones, pneumonia, and blood clots. He spent 36 days at Longmont Community Hospital, in and out of the Intensive Care Unit, healing and getting stronger. England, who already combats Parkinson’s disease, is now preparing for one of his biggest bat-

tles, open-heart surgery, to be scheduled soon. The heart condition wasn’t a result of the accident but demands urgent attention. On February 26, he was transferred to Medical Center of the Rockies where he has been completing a strict regimen of physical and occupational therapy. The past several weeks have been emotionally and physically taxing, and financially taxing as well.

For those of you who don’t know him, Rick and his wife Linda were the owners of England Surveying for 18 years, and Rick is a partner of Spirit Hound Distillers. Rick is also a founding contributor of the Lyons Community Foundation and has always stepped up whenever necessary to help others in need.

All proceeds from the event will be donated to the England family and silent auction donations include two backstage passes to Yonder Mountain String Band at Red Rocks, a two night stay at a lovely condo in Crested Butte (donated by Anne and John O’Brien), several one-day passes to the Folk Festival this summer via Craig Ferguson, a home cooked dinner for eight by Sue Wratten, handcrafted furniture, massages, several restaurant participators, and some great artwork by local artists, just to name a few so far.

L E T T E R •T O •T H E •E D I T O R We have an opportunity to create change There is an adage that states, “The only constant is change.” We have experienced this firsthand as a community in Lyons. No one here chose to have the changes brought about by the flood, but we have many choices about how we recover as a community. I would suggest that the more we embrace change, the more we can create a progressive, dynamic Lyons. The more we try to cling to “how things were” the more we hold ourselves back.

When my wife and I first moved to Lyons in 2004, a friend told me “This town is changing a lot.” I imagine that statement could have been said in 1974, 1994, and 2014 as well.

Lyons is changing, and always has been. The events of the flood created a new type of change that we never foresaw.

But now we have an opportunity to create change, rather than just reacting to it. Resisting change is as futile as resisting the flood. Let us instead embrace the changes that we have encountered, and continue to be a thriving progressive community that is adaptable and forward thinking in scope.

We have a choice to make regarding how to bring back housing for displaced citizens of our community. We have an obvious resource in Bohn Park that provides ample

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There will be great tunes from various local bands and of course delicious food and brew from Oskar Blues. Feel free to stick around after the event for some great tunes from the Blue Canyon Boys.

If you wish to donate directly via check, a special fund has been established

at Lyons Bank of the West: Rick “Richardo” England Recovery Fund: c/o Bank of the West, PO Box 920, Lyons, CO 80540.

Thank you in advance for your support of this important event. Rick’s family is completely humbled and amazed at the outreach and support by so many of you.

The chamber is reawakening this spring

By Gabry Cornell Redstone Review LYONS – Spring is here again! Plants and animals are waking up, invigorated after a restful winter, ready for new and excitCornell ing challenges ahead.

Your Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce is experiencing a similar re-awakening, with new, enthusiastic board members and exciting plans for 2015.

The year started off with a very successful Chamber Social at Local EAT+Drink in January. After listening to our members it became very clear that these social gatherings are an extremely popular chamber benefit and we are committed to organizing at least six more socials in 2015. Please look for more details soon about our next social in April 2015, hosted by Art on the

opportunity to meet all our needs. The proposed area is an ideal place for additional housing that trades a grass parking lot for a new, dynamic area of Lyons that will bring back a diverse citizenry, increase our tax base, and make use of our lands in a responsible manner. We have tens of thousands of acres of open space surrounding our community, and ample parkland throughout the town. Are we really using the field at Bohn Park in its highest and best use right now? Or can we envision a change to a greater use of this land that is of collective benefit?

At one of our first post-flood community meetings at LifeBridge, Mayor VanDomelen stated that we would be judged by how we treated our most affected citizens. We now have the choice as a community to share our land to bring back some of these most affected people in a new way that is of ultimate benefit to all of us. We can embrace change, or we can remain stuck preventing change. I offer that Lyons can never be what it was, and trying to grasp at the past prevents us from moving into a better future.

Voting yes on 2 provides us the opportunity to create a positive change for our beloved town, and extends an invitation to all of the people who deserve the chance to live in a dynamic, beautiful, and unique Lyons.

Joshua and Alison Nacht, Lyons

Green. Would your business like to host a social? Currently we are still looking for hosts (or co-hosts) for the months of September / October / November.

With the help of the dedicated Lyons Volunteers, work on the new chamber office is still underway. Soon we will have a beautiful space for members to gather, meet, use the wi-fi, and printer / copier services.

Please stay tuned for our Grand Opening.

Also currently in production is the exciting new 2015 LyonsFirst Guidebook.

The Guidebook is a valuable resource for anyone living in or visiting Lyons and includes information about the town, its surroundings and most importantly a member business directory. If you (or your business) want to be included in the directory or advertise in the guide, please contact the Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce to become a new member, Continue Chamber on Page 10

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MAYOR’S CORNER 2. Concern: lack of buffer between existing neighborand the proposed community. The housing has been Recovery housing status hoods designed to optimize the buffer zone between it and the

By John O’Brien, Mayor Redstone Review

LYONS – In my opinion, one of the most effective planning tools is a “To Do” list.

Important elements of a job or process and key milestones or accomplishments can then be checked off as they are comO’Brien pleted. Many people involved in the recovery housing project from town government to independent, professional consultants to citizen task force volunteers have successfully reached the goals laid out.

The following list is a summation of many of the key goals and tasks to be reached in the recovery housing development along with a synopsis of how they have been met: 1. Concern: loss of parkland. Recently we received a letter from the Boulder County Commissioners verifying the transfer of the Martin property, 8.8 acres to the Town of Lyons.

neighborhoods. Vehicle access is designed to minimize use of neighborhood streets and headlight glare at night.

3. Concern: displaced or current Lyons residents would not get priority for housing. Boulder County Housing Authority has committed to preferences and there is a HUD precedent for local preferences for disaster-displaced persons.

4. Concern: Greater Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), which provided some of the initial funding for Bohn Park, would disallow the use of five to seven acres of the park for recovery housing. Recently, the board of GOCO decided that if the March 24 vote of the people is positive, GOCO will agree to swap land outside of Bohn Park for the land in Bohn Park on a 2:1 basis within the next 18 months.

5. Concern: that the restrictive covenant on “Lot 1,” the major part of Bohn Park would not be released. An agreement releasing the restrictive covenant to the satisfaction of the local landowner and the town of Lyons has been signed.

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6. Concern: the recovery housing project would not pay local property taxes thereby placing an additional burden on existing residents. BCHA and the Board of Trustees have agreed to a “payment in lieu of taxes” (PILOT) of approximately $12,000 per year. In addition, the six Habitat for Humanity “for sale” houses will pay regular property tax.

7. Concern: there would be no “for sale” units included in this recovery housing community. Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley, which has years of experience in helping people achieve home ownership, will build six “for sale” houses that will be privately owned.

8. The final item on the “To Do” list is critical. The ballots for the March 24 Special Election have already been mailed. I encourage all eligible voters to cast your ballot.

John O’Brien is the Mayor of Lyons elected in April, 2014.

He was the chairman of the Lyons Economic Gardening Group, LEGG. He has worked in business and industry for many years and teaches classes at the University of Denver.

He lives in Lyons.

Ecology health matters for Lyons

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – In revealing surveys of Lyons residents conducted in September 2013 and again in June 2014 the highest ranked priority was the “Ecological Health” of the town. The surveys were conducted by National Capitalism Solutions as part of the town’s planning for a sustainability action plan.

The Town of Lyons Ecology Advisory Board (EB) considers the results of this survey to be a confirmation of what had been suspected for quite some time: Lyons’ diverse natural landscape is a large part of the fabric of our community, providing a high quality of life and economic development. The EB also appreciates that town residents want to ensure that proper development within the town doesn’t harm our local environment and that sound practices are used to protect the special places they value.

It is with this in mind: that the town’s seven-member EB seeks to guide town officials on how best to protect and enhance those places and also to assist private landowners with the health of their own special places. The EB’s membership includes experts in botany, river restoration, wildlife habitat, sustainability, and environmental assessment, as well as citizens with an enthusiasm for all things outdoors.

Formerly known as the Tree, Weed and

Landscape Board, the EB changed its name in 2013 to better suit its wider mission. Following the September 2013 flood, the EB’s mission has only become more important as Lyons and the neighboring communities begin restoration of the St. Vrain River and riparian corridor.

The EB recognizes the river as not just a place for outdoor recreation and wildlife habitat, but also as a principal economic driver for the town. Before the flood, the river drew fishermen, tubers, kayakers and families from out of town that subsequently spent money at the local businesses.

The flood devastated nearly all of those opportunities, but the EB is focused on the health of the river and its corridor to make it even better than it was before.

To that end, the EB has authored the Sustainable River Corridor Action Plan.

The plan recognizes the vitality of the St. Vrain River and its benefit to the town, and provides a guide for proper planning around the river corridor. The plan addresses flood mitigation, river access and recreation, and ecologically responsible restoration and development along the river. The Lyons Board of Trustees adopted the plan in 2014 and it’s being used as a guide by firms involved in river and parks restoration. The plan can be viewed online at the Town of Lyons homepage, under Boards and Commissions, then Ecology Advisory Board.

The EB also focuses on projects beyond

the river. A town-wide Walking Arboretum project is currently underway to identify and map tree species on town property. The Walking Arboretum will help guide residents on what trees grow best in this climate. There are also plans for creating a botanic garden to assist landowners with choosing native and low-water plant species.

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OPTIONS Out of the ice: artifacts tell cultural and climate tales

By Kate Zalzal Redstone Review LYONS – At 68 degrees N latitude and 1,400 meters up, the air feels fresh. The watery beams of the late summer sun Zalzal have, for the moment, won the battle against the thick fog rolling in from the ocean. Three people walk, faces down, shoulders hunched, along the rocky edge of a small ice cap on the southeast coast of Baffin Island in the Canadian High Arctic. The steady drip of melting ice turns to a low gurgle as tiny rivulets coalesce and form channels that flow across and erode the red, gritty soil now exposed. One man stops, bends down, fingers a three-inch, fuzzy green and brown mound of moss, takes a GPS measurement, makes a few notes in a yellow notebook, and pops the moss in a Ziploc bag. Todays is the first sunlight that mound of moss has seen in millennia.

Across the globe, researchers are discovering a vast trove of human, plant and animal artifacts melting out of glaciers and ice caps. Many of these items, including the Baffin Island moss, are being exposed for the first time in hundreds to thousands of years as increasing global temperatures bombard the world’s icy places. The emerging, yet booming, field of glacier and ice patch archaeology and paleoclimatology is gaining attention, both for the wealth of cultural information gained, but also because of what these finds tell us about past climate.

These studies began informally decades ago when farmers, hikers and scientists occasionally stumbled upon out-of-place items at melting ice margins. Now, with improvements in finding and dating these objects, growing awareness of the field, and the rapid melting of ice, thousands of items are being discovered at sites from

the Andes to Scandinavia, Canada, the Alps, the Urals and Greenland.

The discovery of Ötzi, the Late Neolithic “Iceman” (~5,200 years old) recovered from the Tyrolean Alps, and the Inca Ice Maiden (~500 years old) found frozen in the Andes first captured interna-

Archaeologist in Norway scanning ice margin for artifacts recently melted out of the nearby ice patch. PHOTO: JOHAN WILDHAGEN / PALOOKAVILLE tional attention in the 1990s. The exceptional preservation of their bodies and objects with them provided detailed insight into the cultural and spiritual time in which they lived. Ötzi, who likely met his demise by a blow to the head, was so well preserved he still had intact blood cells and a belly full of identifiable food.

DNA analysis shows that he was also lactose intolerant and had Lyme disease.

Since then, more bodies have been discovered in these areas and in other regions including a 500-to-600-year-old man, found headless but with hunting tools, a fur hat and robe and a pouch of preserved salmon in British Columbia, Canada.

LEAF looks at expanding

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF) is the organization that moves Lyons families and individuals, who need assistance with basic needs, towards selfsufficiency.

A number of families and individuals in the Lyons area need a little assistance to get back on their feet and move forward.

LEAF is now in charge of the Food Pantry which is held in L y o n s Community Church, in the lower level, at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Main Street on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

“We are now helping 29 families at the Food Pantry a month,” said Pastor Emily Flemming, the co-executive director of LEAF. This number was for the month of February. The LEAF board

In addition to these spectacular human finds, there have been thousands of hunting tools, travel and hiking gear, clothing and military objects dating as far back as 9,500 years ago, well into the Stone Age. In the Oppdal region of Norway, a hot bed for ice patch archae-

ology, Lars Pilø and his colleagues have been collecting hundreds of artifacts that have helped identify ancient travel, trade, and communication routes across the mountains. In 2014 alone, the team recovered 400 artifacts including a horse skull and hiking staffs dating to the Viking Age. These finds expand our understanding of the social, cultural, and spiritual ties between human populations and cryogenic environments.

Back in the lab, the Baffin Island moss is radiocarbon dated, along with dozens of other mosses found on the margins of similar ice caps across the island. The results tell when that small mound of moss, rootpice support, budget counseling, and other services. The funding and donations that are collected to assist those in need go to pay for the services for the clients. The clients do not receive any funds directly.

The LEAF board would like to expand the number of board members from the current number of seven to at least nine.

Also needed are people to work on committees. The committees include Finance, Marketing and Fundraising,

assumed that this translated into about 90 people. Some families are families of one and some families have more than six members.

The Food Pantry needs a wide variety of household items that many people cannot get with food stamps such as dish soap, hand soap, laundry soap, toothpaste, paper towels, toilet paper, and all types of men’s and women’s toiletries, along with traditional food items, all of which are greatly appreciated. You can donate directly to the Food Pantry on Wednesdays from about 3 to 5 p.m.

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ed and growing in the tundra soil, experienced its last photosynthetic exchange before it was covered with the snow that would turn into the ice cap that covered it until now. It also helps answer the critical question of “how long has it been since it was as warm as present?” Giff Miller and his team at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at CU Boulder have been conducting this research and their results are stunning.

Their data support the idea that the last time many of these sites on Baffin were ice-free was during the last interglaciation some 120,000 years ago.

That these mosses have survived, rooted in place under an ice cap for so long is remarkable. But what is shocking is the implication that we are now in a world that was as warm or warmer than the last interglacial period. Orbital positioning, the distance between the earth and the sun, which drives large-scale climate variability, should currently have the earth colder than the last interglacial period.

Yet temperatures across the globe, and particularly in the Arctic, continue to climb. These mosses, and the melting out of so many other artifacts, show just how far out of the range of natural climate variability we have strayed.

There is immediacy to this research.

Organic material quickly decomposes and is gone. In the case of the Baffin mosses, if left undisturbed, these zombie-plants, still rooted, will begin to grow again, equilibrating with today’s atmosphere and overriding critical information about the past. With melt rates increasing, the race is on to find, collect, and document these artifacts. Out of their icy tombs they tell us much about our history as a people and about the world into which we are headed.

Kate Zalzal has a M.Sc. in Geology. She most recently worked on her Ph.D. at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research and the University of Iceland. She lives with her husband and two young daughters in Lyons.

She can be reached for comments and article ideas at katezalzal@gmail.com.

Communications and Public Relations and Programming. Positions are open to anyone in the Lyons area, not just Lyons residents. Contact LEAF if you would like to join or have questions.

LEAF has set a goal of trying to raise $300,000 this year. LEAF has helped several families make the transition from struggling financially to sustainable living. For more information on LEAF, you can go to www.leaflyons.org or call 720864-4309 or go to info@leaflyons.org.

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CONTEXT Sandhill cranes spring migration through the San Luis Valley Staff Reports Redstone Review MONTE VISTA, Colo. – The annual spring migration of greater sandhill cranes is in full force in southern Colorado. If you’ve never seen this beautiful event, be sure to put it on your schedule. The cranes are spectacular. Bird watchers can’t get too close, but even from a distance you can see them dance, jump, toss twigs in the air, jump up and flap wings in a mating ritual. Watching the cranes was a high point this year for me.

“People in Colorado should take time to see the cranes; the migration is truly one of nature’s wonders,” said Rick Basagoitia, area wildlife manager for Colorado Parks and Wildlife in the San Luis Valley.

The annual San Luis Valley Crane Festival takes place in Monte Vista each year in the middle of March. Make your travel plans early because people come in droves to see the nearly 25,000 birds at the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge.

The cranes start arriving in late February, flying from their winter nesting grounds, primarily in New Mexico.

The large wetland areas, wildlife refuges and grain fields in the San Luis Valley draw in about 25,000 birds. The cranes stop in the valley to rest up and refuel for their trip north to their summer nesting and breeding grounds in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

Cranes are among the oldest living species on the planet. Fossil records for cranes date back 9 million years. The birds that migrate through Colorado are the largest of the North American sandhill subspecies, standing four feet tall with a wingspan of up to seven feet, and weighing in at 11 pounds. They are imposing in sound as well as size: the birds issue a continuous, distinctive and haunting call. At this time of year cranes are engaged in their mating ritual and the birds perform an elaborate and elegant hopping dance to gain the attention of other birds.

The birds are most abundant at the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, located six miles south of the town of Monte Vista on Colorado Highway 15. The birds also are easily seen in farm and ranch fields around Monte Vista.

Wildlife watchers can also see the birds at the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge located southeast of the town of Alamosa, and at the Rio Grande, Higel and Russell Lakes state wildlife areas. Plenty of birds can also be seen in the many agricultural fields near Monte Vista and Alamosa.

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Trunk Sale at the Stone Cup LYONS – Nancy McKee is having another Stella Blu Re-Design trunk sale on Sunday, April 12, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Stone Cup at the corner of Fourth Avenue and High Street. The event includes eclectic, one of a kind, upcycled clothing and handbags made from rescued materials. Upcycle is the practice of taking something that is disposable and transforming it into something of greater value to produce something

The cranes are most active at dawn and at dusk when they’re moving back and forth from their nighttime roosting areas. Be sure to dress warm as temperatures can be very cold in the valley.

The festival headquarters and starting point for the tours is the Ski Hi Park building located near U.S. Highway 160 on Sherman Avenue on the east side of Monte Vista. Visitors can pick up maps, schedules and information at the headquarters.

During the crane festival bird, wildlife and photography experts offer a variety of workshops. An arts and crafts fair continues through the weekend at the headquarters building. The crane festival is organized by the local crane festival committee, with help from the Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Rio Grande County, SLV Ski Hi Stampede, Monte Vista school district, and the city of Monte Vista.

The number of cranes in the valley peaks in mid-

March and many birds linger through the month. So even if you can’t go the weekend of the festival there’s still plenty of time to see the birds. Birdwatchers who travel on their own should be cautious when parking, getting out of vehicles and walking along roads. People are also asked to view birds from a distance with binoculars and spotting scopes, and to observe trail signs and closure notices. Many other bird species, including eagles, turkeys and a variety of waterfowl, can also be seen throughout the San Luis Valley.

Approximate distances to Monte Vista: Denver, 220 miles; Colorado Springs, 182 miles; Salida, 85 miles; Vail, 175 miles; Durango, 135 miles; Grand Junction, 230 miles.

For more information on the sandhill cranes, see: http://cpw.state.co.us/learn/Pages/SpeciesProfiles.aspx.

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Road board president Donn Fairbank said, “Patience will be a virtue for the next few months” as the bridge projects proceed. He expects about 400 trucks in and out of the area, not including material delivery. Access to the “Kiowa Island’s” 35 homes is a priority during replacement of the Kiowa Bridge.

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Bridge Work in Pinewood Springs PINEWOOD SPRINGS – Three Pinewood Springs bridges are under repair or replacement after flood damage: Kiowa, Seneca, and Cree Court. Getting the equipment to the work sites was challenging, due to heavy snow and ice on the roads in early March. Bridge contractors Walsh Construction, Inc. were removing packed snow and ice from Kiowa Road, and planned to spread a sand / salt mixture to melt the ice and stabilize the road base. In a not-uncommon accident that week, a truck carrying sand and salt rolled off Highway 36 at Kiowa Road. No one was injured.

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Art on the Green June 20 and 21 LYONS – Art on the Green is a yearly celebration of the arts in Lyons. This event highlights the vibrant arts community and presents Lyons as an arts destination. In its first year the festival attracted over 50 artists with work on Continue Briefs on Page 7

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HEALTH Crowdsourcing turns medical research upside down

By Carol Devenir Redstone Review PINEWOOD SPRINGS – With the plethora of technical terms created during the past decade, any useful dictionary must be quickly updatable. For those not up on this week’s lingo, Wikipedia, a Devenir crowdsourcing encyclopedia, defines a once ridiculous-sounding word: “Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.”

On March 4, MedScape, an electronic medical news provider, announced a “groundbreaking study” in a report titled Crowdsourcing Adverse Effects of Breast Cancer Treatment. Medscape talked with Dr. Susan Love, MD, MBA, a clinical professor of surgery at UCLA. She is well known by breast cancer patients for her thorough and compassionate book, Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book, which was updated to its fifth edition in 2010. She is also president of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, which is dedicated to research on causes and prevention of breast cancer. The study reported was groundbreaking because no previous study had asked patients themselves what their side effects were, and what they wish they had known before they drank the poison. This use of crowdsourcing could change the world as we know it.

Love got a new perspective on cancer treatment when she was diagnosed with leukemia in 2012. While in treatment, she realized that the medical / research establishment did not understand the patient’s experience. Also, that “most physicians don’t want to know about what I call the collateral damage of treatment,” Love wrote.

While doctors feel successful when patients survive, Love said, “as the patient, you are comparing yourself to how you were before you were treated for cancer.”

She decided to take the question to the people.

Hundreds of thousands have experienced breast cancer treatment. All who survived are familiar with the side effects. What did they wish they had known? Love’s foundation contacted 19 breast cancer advocacy groups and the 375,000 members of her online community

Dr. Susan Love, MD, MBA, clinical professor of surgery at UCLA and president of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, which is dedicated to research on causes and prevention of breast cancer. While in treatment for her own cancer, she realized that the medical establishment neither understood the patient’s experience, nor wanted to know about the collateral damage of cancer treatments.

Love reported a few preliminary results at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in December, where nearly 8,000 doctors and researchers gathered to focus on the latest in breast cancer research. As expected, the data show the most common side effect of cancer treatment was fatigue, followed by memory problems, anxiety / depression, and then numbness / neuropathy. “What surprised me the most,” she said, “was how many women said, ‘How come nobody told me (fillin-the-blank)?’ ” The term “collateral damage” is more accurate, Love says, because “calling them side effects makes them sound temporary, and many of these issues are not temporary. Chemobrain doesn’t really improve; you get a little more used to it but it doesn’t get better. After a while, people stop complaining about them but most of the effects don’t go away. We need to have a better way to capture the damage that results and better ways of helping people deal with those issues.”

“Traditional research is very top-down,” Love said.

“We need to turn research upside down, and crowdsourcing is a way to do that. Crowdsourcing asks the people involved what the issues are.” She believes it’s time to recognize that the issues that matter to patients might be different from what the researchers and medical professionals think.

Another problem with traditional research and clinical trials, especially for drugs, Love believes, is that the research is funded by the company developing the drug.

Identifying side effects threatens profit potential.

Companies know which side effects can be asked about, without jeopardizing US Food and Drug Administration approval. “They don’t want to document all of the problems that might be associated with the drug,” she said in the MedScape interview. “The data that we get from clinical trials don’t always represent the real world. I think that crowdsourcing can give us some interesting hints about what is really going on.”

Many thousands of cancer patients would likely agree with Dr. Love: Ask the patients! It’s great to have an advocate among the professionals.

naire was sent to Love’s international Health of Women (HOW) group, beginning in October, 2014. By late November, over 8,700 participants had submitted their questionnaires, a third of whom have had breast cancer treatment. Results are still coming in.

Carol Devenir worked for 30 years in planning and public works and is the author of Beyond Chemo Brain: Recovering after Surviving. While glad to be alive, she has been studying and working to overcome collateral damage since her cancer treatment was halted, nearly nine years ago.

called the Army of Women. In late 2013 the foundation posted a website called “Question the Cure.”

More than 3,200 women responded, contributing over 9,000 questions about their symptoms, side effects, or collateral damage. Using this crowdsourced information, a Quality of Life questionnaire was developed. It used standard questionnaire techniques, but the questions were informed by the patients themselves. The question-

9Health Fair returns to Lyons

By Sue Wratten Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons 9 Health Fair is coming again this year to the Lyons Middle / Senior High School on Saturday April 18 from 7 a.m. to noon. This will be the 9 Health Fair’s seventh year of providing health screening and wellness information to our community.

I’m in my seventh year as the medical coordinator for this great event, and I’d like to invite all of you to be in charge of your health. The fair gives you an opportunity to take your own health into your control without leaving the town of Lyons, and for almost no cost. The health fair is for those 18 and over; if you need to bring small children, bring someone who can care for them while you have your screenings.

This year the free screenings include blood pressure, pulse, oxygen, feet, skin,

hands, bone, vision, oral, spinal, hearing, stress management, body fat, body balance, height and weight, breast exam and pap tests for women.

Did I say all that was free? Can you tell me another place in Lyons you can get all those health aspects screened for free? If you choose to have blood tests done, there is a minimal cost, and we do have some vouchers for those that can’t afford the blood work.

We also want to share changes. This year you no longer have to be fasting for your blood to be drawn, as the only levels that will be affected are glucose and triglycerides. Most physicians today like to see what your blood levels are on a daily basis, not necessarily based on a fasting regimen. This allows you to sleep in, eat breakfast, and come to the health fair at a time that best works for you. Those who want to fast may still do so but please

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drink water. Again, you are taking control of your health.

All of the screenings will be provided by qualified health care professionals, many of whom live here in Lyons. We will also have information about vaccinations, as well as the ability to be registered as a bone marrow donor in the National Marrow Donor Program.

We still need volunteers for this event.

To become a volunteer, either medical or non-medical, go to the website 9healthfair.org. Here you can find the information you need, and you can also register for any blood tests you want drawn on April 18, avoiding some time at registration that morning. You may also send me

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an e-mail at steveandsuew @ gmail. com, or to Pam Browning at pbmountaingirl @ gmail. com. Pam is the coordinator for all non-medical volunteers. Please join us on Saturday, April 18 at the Lyons 9 Health Fair.

Sue Wratten RN is the medical coordinator for the Lyons 9 Health Fair. She lives in Lyons.

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INSIGHT The money guy

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – I recently sat down to talk with my money guy (“financial advisor,” that is) as I do every year or so on no Gierach particular schedule.

Most of us need someone like this to translate the gibberish of finance into something we can grasp well enough to avoid at least the most clueless mistakes. Of course we all understand in a basic way that money invested wisely grows while money languishing in a savings account at an interest rate that begins with a decimal point and a zero won’t even keep up with inflation. We probably even understand that there’s a sliding scale on which sensible investments are safer but make less, while adventurous ones could make more – sometimes a lot more – but the risk involved is scarier than most of us can bear.

And then out at the fringes are things like legal marijuana. They say there’s huge dough to be made in this new frontier and I considered it once, but there were too many landmines. At the time I looked into it, no federally insured bank would handle marijuana money because pot is still illegal nationally and there may have been tax problems for the same reason. (Remember, they got Al Capone on tax evasion.) And then there’s politics. If the same Republicans that want to repeal the Affordable Care Act and pull the rug out from under Social Security manage to elect a president, there could be a crackdown. If that happened, you’d lose your

investment at best, and at worst you’d do time for bankrolling a criminal enterprise.

Okay, so you try to be a responsible adult and color inside the lines, but then there’s the fraudulence we all sense lurking in the system. We may not fully understand the particulars, but we do know that the real money is made by those who operate high-speed computers that make tens of thousands of trades in the time it took you to read this sentence, while the rest of us plod along at a geologic pace and, if we’re lucky, pick up a little of the pocket change that’s left on the floor by the big boys. Which begs the question, what is “the economy” if the bulk of the

people who contribute to it aren’t allowed to fully participate?

My money guy works in one of those hushed, white offices with inoffensive artwork on the walls and a big, roomy desk containing nothing but two large computer screens. He wears a crisp dress shirt and a tie, but leaves the suit coat in the closet when he meets with clients in order to seem more casual. This setup doesn’t suggest wealth as much as a stark, Vulcan rationality. When I’m sitting down to talk about the possible future of my modest nest egg, I find this atmosphere sort of comforting.

He doesn’t argue with me about keeping nearly half the money I have in savings accounts; he wouldn’t do that himself, but he can see my reasoning. Like

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display, and 3500 to 4000 visitors over the course of the weekend. Art on the Green became a destination for many, and also attracted many vacationers and Coloradans returning from the mountains. It was financially beneficial for the recovering town of Lyons for portion of the festival’s proceeds were donated to the Lyons Community Foundation; proceeds from the 2015 festival will benefit another Lyons-area non-profit. Art on the Green is where the most talented and engaging artists from Colorado and around the country come together to display their paintings, printmaking, photography, fiber, wood, jewelry, metal sculpture and so much more. Lyons is the ideal place for such a festival, with its sights and sounds, which are art in their own right. This year’s festival introduces some new additions: an interactive kid’s art booth, a wine garden, sponsor tents, and food trucks and kiosks, and more.

Artists can enter in any of 16 categories. For more information on how to register, contact Rick Hammans at rick@lyonsartfestival.com.

Save the Date!

LYONS – The Lyons C o m m u n i t y Foundation is hosting a Hometown Hoe Down at River Bend on June 17 from 5 to 10 p.m. The benefit is a family-friendly community gathering featuring Smokin Dave’s BBQ, square dancing, live music, a corn hole tourna-

many, I took a pretty good bath in the crash, wasn’t among those who were deemed too big to fail, and so seven years out I still haven’t completely earned back the loss. The funds stashed away in savings accounts earn about enough interest to buy me lunch once a year, but they’re federally insured and let me sleep at night. Likewise, back when I used to gamble, I’d cash my paycheck on Friday and leave half the money at home before I went off to play poker.

I write books about travel and fly-fishing for a living and I don’t think my guy is being condescending when he says I’ve done pretty

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well for a freelance writer, although the comment does sound a little like “You’re in surprisingly good shape for a man your age.” He says it’s worth a lot to love your work, which we both understand to mean it’s good I won’t mind staying at it indefinitely because a cushy retirement in Mazatlán is not in my immediate future.

I have to say this guy has earned me money – sometimes more; sometimes less, but always some – ever since I went with him in 2009. That was after I fired my old money guy, the one who didn’t call before the crash to tell me to cash out and run for the hills. They say no one could have foreseen that, but in fact any number of people did. Some just quietly pulled out and saved their own bacon while others tried to warn the rest of us, but were ignored by the investment community, including my guy. I don’t think it was mean spirited of me to fire him. I mean,

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CU-Boulder announces new payment plans BOULDER – In an ongoing effort to help students and families plan, prepare and pay for their educations, the University of Colorado Boulder is implementing new tuition and fee payment plans for the upcoming academic year including fall, spring, summer and annual plans.

Offered through the Bursar’s Office and administered

by NelNet Business Solutions, these plans offer undergraduates, graduate students, and their families the option to spread payment of the tuition and fee bill over several months without incurring interest.

“We’ve heard from families that additional flexibility would help when it comes to paying tuition and fees,” said Kelly Fox, senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer. “In certain situations, students or families have the money available over the course of a semester, but it’s harder to come up with one payment.”

The new plans allow students and authorized payers the choice of three to five payments depending on the semester as well as a plan for summer.

Initial response from a pilot of the plan this semester has been very positive, Fox said, including feedback that the flexibility could allow students in certain situations to accept lower loan amounts.

For the pilot, information was posted on the website but not advertised. Over 1,000 students enrolled and participated for the spring semester.

The enrollment fee of $25 per plan for a semester or $45 for the annual plan (fall, spring and summer) covers the cost of offering the plan through NelNet Business Solutions. While a two-payment plan has been available for several decades, the new plan offers families additional options in terms of more monthly installments at a lower cost. The previous plan allowed the bill to be

he said he was an expert, but he turned out to be as dumb as I was, so why keep paying him?

So I sit down with my current guy once a year or so and we talk things over.

(Or he talks and I listen.) Sometimes we stand pat. Other times we shuffle things around for reasons that sound plausible when they’re explained, but that I couldn’t repeat an hour later. He doesn’t try to snow me like those cornball TV ads that scare you in the beginning and then show you the bright, silver-haired future you’ll have if you simply give this or that company all your money to manage. One such ad asks, “Will you be able to l i v e the way you want to in retirement?” while most of us in the audience think, “Hell, I can’t live the way I want to now.”

I often think visually, so it’s hard for me to picture black figures on a white screen as a metaphor for my future. As a friend once said, it would be easier to visualize if you got it all in one dollar bills and stacked it on the kitchen table. I prefer to think of firewood. It’s nice to see a big, neat stack of it sitting there, although it’s of no practical use until you start to burn through it.

John Gierach is an outdoor and fly fishing writer who writes a column for Flyrod & Reel magazine. His books include Trout Bum, Sex Death and Fly fishing, and Still Life with Brook Trout. His new book, All Fishermen are Liars is available at book stores and fly fishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street.

paid in two installments for fall and spring semesters with a 1 percent finance charge on the deferred amount.

It was not available for summer.

More information and instructions on how to enroll is available at bursar. colorado. edu / payments / payment-plans.

Softball season is coming up LYONS – Lyons Youth Baseball and Softball Association (LYBSA) is in the process of organization three Lyons recreational teams: eight years old and under (not born on or 1/1/2006 ); ten and under (not born on or before 1/1/2004); and 12 and under (not born or before 1/1/2002). The teams will be registering as part of Longmont Recreation and playing with the Indian Peaks Girls Softball Association. LYBSA is compiling a list of participants to confirm the number of kids interested in participating.

Practice will be held in Lyons and begin in April. The games begin on May 1 and run through June 30. The cost per player is approximately. Scholarships are available. For information, please contact Jay Malito at jjmalito@yahoo.com.

Lyons Outdoor Games LYONS – On May 31 the Lyons Outdoor Games and the Burning Can Festival sponsored by Oskar Blues will be held. Many water games will be featured this year including kayaking, tubing and canoeing and other events.

Lyons Good Old Days LYONS – The 38th Lyons Good Old Days will be held on June 27 and 28. All the usual events are planned including booths with crafts and food. For information and to get involved contact Dave Cosgrove at 303-823-8250.

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CULTURE Ferguson accepts major industry award

By Katherine Weadley Redstone Review News Editor LYONS – What do pop icons Paul McCartney and Katy Perry have in common with Craig Ferguson of Planet Bluegrass? It sounds like the start of a great joke, but actually all were given awards on the same night at the 26th Annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Feb. 21.

The Telluride Bluegrass Festival, produced by Lyons’ own Planet Bluegrass, was awarded “Music Festival of the Year.”

This marks the first time a Colorado festival or any bluegrass festival has ever won this prestigious award.

McCartney won for “Major Tour of the Year” and Perry won for “Most Creative Stage Production of the Year.” The award for “Best Major Outdoor Concert Venue” went to the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Ferguson won “Music Festival of the Year” for Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The list continues and can be found at pollstar.com.

Pollstar, according to its website, is “the

only trade publication covering the worldwide concert industry. We have been supplying in-depth information to every professional concert promoter, booking agent, artist manager, facility executive and every other entity involved in the live entertainment business for 30 years.”

Craig Ferguson, co-owner and resident of Planet Bluegrass on Main Street in Lyons produces music festivals in Colorado which include Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride as well as RockyGrass and Folks Festival in Lyons on the Planet Bluegrass Ranch. While many of the festivals are bluegrass centered, much of the music is eclectic including a variety of up-and-coming music and musicians as well as those who are established in the industry.

Brian Eyster of Planet Bluegrass said, “This marks the first time a Colorado festival or any bluegrass festival has ever won this prestigious award.” In his acceptance speech, Planet Bluegrass president Craig Ferguson said he was “kinda stunned.”

Ralphi May, a comedian, presented the award and after the announcement the

Craig Ferguson at the 26th Annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards comedian exclaimed, “I love bluegrass music! Love Colorado!” Other celebrities who have hosted the Pollstar Awards include Joe Piscopo, Elayne Boosler, the Blues Brothers, Kevin Nealon, Lewis Black and Chris Hardwick.

Nominees for the Music Festival of the Year award included: Electric Forest (Rothbury, Mich.), Fun Fun Fun Fest (Austin, Texas), Newport Folk Festival

Benediction – Story of the simple elegance in life Benediction, by Kent Haruf, 2013, 258 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.95 Review by Andi Gregory Pearson Book by Kent Haruf Redstone Review LYONS – Dad Lewis runs the hardware store in Holt, Colorado. He and his wife Pearson Mary have been married over 50 years and they have a daughter and a son. Dad’s medical test results have just come back.

“Go on ahead, Dad Lewis said, say it.

I’m afraid I don’t have very good news for you, the doctor said.”

Dad and Mary leave Denver and drive “away from the mountains, back onto the high plains: sagebrush and soapweed and blue grama and buffalo grass in the pastures.” And so we begin Dad’s final, the life-journey faced by the couple, by their daughter and by all their neighbors in this tiny fictional but completely realistic town.

It’s a simple journey told in a quiet way with easy-to-read sentences and words all humans can understand and identify with. It is author Kent Haruf’s portrait of a town and its residents, of a loving couple, of gentle but complex lives intertwined and lived with placid, day-to-day dignity.

Lorraine has come home from Denver to be with her dad in his final days, in the house where she grew up.

Mary goes searching for their son, Frank, who angrily left home years ago. Next door, eight-year-old Alice moves in with her grandmother, Berta May. “Is yours in your breast? She asks Dad. That’s where my mother’s was.”

Just down the road live an elderly woman and her middle-aged daughter. Willa and Alene Johnson wear lightweight cotton dresses and eat tomato sandwiches in the

summertime but while their lives seem simple, their pasts are anything but predictable.

Lyle is the Methodist minister and he, his wife and their troubled son are relatively new to town. Some of the preacher’s radical ideas – like sharing wealth and ending the war – are not popular topics for Sunday sermons. All of them pitch in to help Dad and Mary only to find they are helping themselves and each other as well.

As Dad’s illness progresses, he thinks back on his life – the way he behaved when he found his son wearing a dress, how he handled an employee who embezzled money from the store, his lifetime reaction to his harsh Kansas upbringing. And the backdrop for all of Dad and Mary’s life is the town of Holt, and its population of beautifully upfront folks, each life filled with the elegant details that make the everyday sacred.

Benediction is the perfect example of Haruf’s style – a

(Newport, R.I.) and Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival (Ozark, Ark.).

“Awhile back someone called me and said that the Telluride Bluegrass Festival had been nominated for Pollstar Music Festival of the Year. I, of course said, ‘who the hell is this?’... It’s such an honor to be recognized by the industry for what we do... One of the things about our festival that is so important is the artists who have played there – in some cases for 42 straight years: Sam Bush, Peter Rowan, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer and Tim O’Brien... I’m pretty amazed and I really appreciate it. Some of you out there must be mandolin players!

Thank you very much,” said Ferguson For more information about Pollstar Awards go to pollstar.com and for more information about Ferguson or Planet Bluegrass go to bluegrass.com.

Katherine Weadley lives in Lyons with her family and two dogs. She is a librarian at the Longmont Public Library. She recently won a first prize for a sports story through the Colorado Press Association and was one of a team of librarians to win the Colorado Library Program of the Year Award for work with kids and families on the autism spectrum.

straightforward narrative story based in a rural setting, an example of a simple life with all its intricate feelings and interactions, lived in a tender, steadfast manner. And it is the perfect selection for stage adaptation. Currently, Benediction is being performed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. For tickets and information, go to www. denver center. org / shows.

Kent Haruf’s novel Plainsong (1999) was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. Eventide, a sequel to Plainsong, followed in 2004. In 2006, Haruf was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Haruf was born in Pueblo and lived with his wife Cathy in Salida until he passed away there November 30, 2014.

Andi Gregory Pearson wrote her first short story at the age of seven and despite requests to do so, she has not quit writing since then. She spends a great deal of time reading and writes a monthly book review for the Denver Post YourHub. Her website is www.andipearson.com. She and her husband have a cabin in the greater Lyons area.

Kent Haruff’s Benediction is currently onstage at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, featuring Joyce Cohen and Mike Hartman. PHOTO BY JENNIFER M. KOSKINEN

Planting it forward – garden to garden

By Sara Erickson Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Garden Club will continue this spring with the Plant It Forward program begun last fall, to assist Lyons area residents who sustained damage to their flowerbeds from the 2013 flood.

The project will be expanded, due to an exciting collaboration with the Garden to Garden program, sponsored by Martin Acres Gardening Group in Boulder.

Plant it Forward Project Coordinator, Anne Marie Mikoni, has been working closely with Garden to Garden leaders Lois

LaCroix, Kim Dunning and Nina Andalero. After visiting Lyons and seeing the severe damage to many homes, LaCroix contacted the Lyons Garden Club last summer to offer assistance to any Lyons and Jamestown resident with flood damage, to help return their flowerbeds to the colorful spaces they were prior to the flood. The Boulder Garden to Garden group has secured donations from Boulder residents, Boulder nurseries and garden centers, and will supply an assortment of perennials, annuals and shrubs to be delivered to Lyons. The plant distribution event will be held in Lyons on May 30.

Details of the event will be announced on the Lyons Garden Club website and local media. Please reach out to your friends and neighbors who are still in the process of restoring their yards and tell them to attend this special event! If you are interested in participating, visit www.lyonsgardenclub.org for details, which will be posted in the upcoming weeks. You can also contact Anne Marie Mikoni at 303-859-9089, or mikonanne@aol.com. We are very grateful for this very generous offer, and looking forward to another year of helping to “making Lyons beautiful, one flower at a time!”

Sara Erickson is a member of the Lyons Garden Club. She lives in Lyons.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in the Lyons Area

By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS The Stone Cup Café / Rise and Shine Bistro will continue showing abstract modern-style Wu paintings by Jocelyn Farrell throughout March. Farrell favors acrylic on canvas to create a strong statement of her experiences in the world around her, such as the deep canyons of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, or the turquoise waters of the Florida Keys. Her recent experimentation with charcoal and acrylic paint on hand-pressed paper and images of nude female body are expressions of her belief that all women have boundless beauty.

Music in the Mornings takes place on each weekend. The upcoming shows include James Faulk’s Folk-Classic Rock on March 21, Tupelo Honey’s Folk music on March 22, Glenn Colby’s Jazz Standards on March 28, and Billy Shaddox’s American Folk Music on March 29. The café is located at Fifth Avenue and High Street. For more information please call 303-823-2345 or visit www.thestonecup.com.

High Street Concerts announces Season 12 Finale: Danny Shafer and Finnders and Youngberg on April 11.

Hailed by the Denver Post as a singersongwriter who “can stand solid next to folks like John Prine and Greg Brown,” Lyons’ Danny Shafer is now touring with his fourth solo recording, Wherever You Are, on Tolstar Records. With over 200 shows a year, Shafer brings his acclaimed songwriting and fingerstyle guitar to every setting, energizing and inspiring his audi-

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ences wherever he is. Continuing the evening’s show is Finnders and Youngberg, who proudly swim in the deep currents of American music-classic bluegrass, tried-and-true honky tonk, country swing and skillfully spun folk tales. Their tunes draw on the bumps, bruises and laugh lines earned when we find ourselves in the bogs of backroads, dive bars, and long, lonesome nights. Mike Finders’ finely honed storytelling forms the bulk of

the band’s canon. Erin Youngberg provides the voice and the bass while her husband Aaron Youngberg plays a mean banjo and seductive pedal steel, joined by Richard Zimmerman on mandolin and Ryan Drickey’s chameleonic fiddling. The show starts at 8 p.m. High Street Concerts take place at the historical Rogers Hall, at Fourth and High in Lyons.

Tickets available at the Stone Cup. For more information and advance tickets, please go to www.highstreetconcerts.com.

BOULDER Boulder Bach Festival and Third Law Dance / Theater presents BACH UNCAGED with violinist Zachary Carrettin at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., on March 27 and 28 at 7 p.m. Following 2014’s sold-out performances of Obstinate Pearl, Third Law again joins Boulder Bach Festival Music Director / electric violinist Zachary Carrettin with Marcia Schirmer on prepared piano in a new collaboration merging the transcendent music of J.S. Bach with the mystical sounds of American composer John Cage. Third Law Artistic Co-Directors Jim LaVita and Katie Elliott, with ten dancers, bridge these seemingly disparate sounds to blend classical music traditions with an avant-garde sensibility. For the extensive musical offerings by Boulder Bach Festival, tickets and detailed information, please go to wwwboulderbachfestival.org or call 303-776-9666.

The Boulder Public Library Concert Series presents the Carpe Diem String Quartet on March 29 at 2 p.m. at the library. Carpe Diem is a boundary-breaking ensemble that has earned widespread critical and audience acclaim for its innovative programming and electrifying performances. With programming that reflects its passions for Gypsy, tango, folk, pop, rock, and jazz-inspired music alongside the traditional string quartet repertoire, the quartet continues to rack up accolades and awards. The quartet members include Charles Wetherbee and Amy Galluzzo on violin, Korine Fujiqara on violin, and Carol Ou on cello. Carpe Diem’s diverse musical partnerships include American singer / songwriter / guitarist Willy Porter, Latin Grammy winner / bandoneón player Raul Juarena, klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, cellist Yo Yo Ma, banjo virtuoso and Canadian Folk Music Artist of the Year Jayme Stone, Dixieland trumpeter Tom Battenberg, Chinese pipa player Yihan Chen, and world master of the Persian santoor Dariush Saghafi. The quartet is the resident ensemble for Columbus Dance Theatre, and its recent project includes recording the nine string quartets of Sergey Taneyev for the Naxos label. The concert is free to the public. For information please go to www.boulderlibrary.org/events.

The Boulder Chamber Orchestra will present MiniChamber Concert I

Woman, Bird, and Star (Homage to Picasso), oil on canvas by Joan Miró. Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination, March 22 – June 28, 2015 in the Hamilton Building, Level 1 at the Denver Art Museum.This exhibition focuses on artworks the Spanish artist created during the last two decades of his career (1963 – 1981). Miró’s imagination and creativity extended well into his old age. Later in life, he continued the inventive forms for which he is known and began exploring new materials, including bronze. Featured are bronze sculptures which have rarely been seen outside of Europe.

Admission to Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination is included in general admission to the museum. http://denverartmuseum.org/ on April 10 at Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13th St., Boulder. The program includes Beethoven and Brahms string quintets.

MiniChamber Concert II will feature Boulder Bach Festival Artistic Director and eclectic violinist Zachary Carrettin on April 18 and 19 with program of Beethoven String Trios. For more information and tickets please call 303-583-1278 or visit www.boulderchamberorchestra.org.

CU Theater and Dance presents Jesus Christ Superstar from April 10 to 19 in the University Theatre on the CU-Boulder campus. Ever since the controversial rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice was released as a concept album in 1970, it has inflamed the passions of critics and fans alike. The story of Jesus of Nazareth during his final days, from the time of his arrival in Jerusalem to his crucifixion, this high-energy, immensely popular show plunges deep into the hearts of the men and women, from Judas Iscariot to Mary Magdalene to Pontius Pilate, who played a part in one of the most momentous stories ever told. An open rehearsal will take place at 7 p.m.

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Theatre on the CU-Boulder campus. You are invited to sing along with the cast for all of Act I. Lyrics will be projected on a screen. The rehearsal is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please RSVP to jcsuperstar15@gmail.com. For ticket and information, please go to www.colorado.edu/theatredance.

Join the CU Concert Jazz Ensemble and guest artists on April 12 at 2 p.m. at Macky Auditorium for a swinging return to the Big Band era, including works by Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and more.

For information please call 303-492-8008 or visit www.cupresents.org.

The Art Underground in historic downtown Louisville presents Grease from March 19 through 21 at Louisville Middle School Auditorium, 1341 Main St., Louisville. Come back to 1959 and hang out with the students of Rydell High School, directed by Betsy Keating. The casts are from the auditioned students from grades six through ten. Tickets are $6 for children and $8 for adults. For information please contact Lori Jones at 303-229-1127.

MinTze Wu is the musical director of the Sounds of Lyons. She lives in Taipai, Taiwan with her husband Jem and two daughters. She can be reached at mintzewu@hotmail.com.

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FOUNDATIONS Executions

By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review VP PUEBLO – When the Utah State Senate voted March 10 to revive execution by firing squad as a backup in case the drugs Joyce currently used in the lethal-injection method of execution become too scarce to acquire, it raised once again the issue of capital punishment and why many in this country still insist on using it.

Those in my generation were taught the prevailing contradiction of the time.

On the one hand, there’s the Blackstone Ratio, named for the English jurist, William Blackstone, who coined it in the 1760s: “Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”

On the other hand, in the United States, we’ve always given that doctrine some respect, but not to the point of applying it categorically across all levels of crime. In capital cases involving serial killers, and in those involving particularly heinous crimes, many Americans say it’s a waste of time and money to incarcerate criminals for life, especially if the evidence against the convicted person is seemingly beyond all doubt, not just reasonable doubt.

That attitude is not likely to change anytime soon, so it’s a good bet we’ll be executing convicted criminals far into the future for some crimes, at least. But that creates a crisis of conscience, for while we believe the executions are justified, we don’t want to face the ugly brutality of murder in our names, and neither do we want the process of that murder to last long enough that it can be termed inflicting suffering on the condemned. We want our executions to be quick, painless, out of sight, except for the executioners and the witnesses, and out of mind, except for several before and after mentions on the 6 p.m. news. We also want to protect the executioners from any stigma attached to their roles in the process.

So, we’ve moved throughout our history from burning at the stake, drowning, drawing and quartering, and strangulation hanging, to beheadings by sword and guillotine,

death by the bullets of a firing squad, necksnap hangings, electrocution, cyanide gas, and most recently to lethal injection.

At last, we thought of the latter, we have invented method of execution that lets us all sleep soundly afterward. No suffering for the condemned other than the mental anguish that accompanies approaching certain death. No problems for executioners or witnesses, who simply put someone into a transitional state of peaceful torpor and then administer a substance that will stop heart, lung and brain functions – forever.

endure these days, so many, such as those in the Utah Senate, are seeking ways to ensure the quickest, most painless method of execution possible.

As a result, executions across the country are on hold either because the states can’t get the drugs or because inmates are challenging the chemicals now used for lethal injection. Sates, therefore, are waxing nostalgic in attempts to find acceptable, effective execution methods.

Tennessee resurrected its old method – death by electrocution – last year, but inmates have filed suit to block it.

There would be no screams, shouts or writhing in agony on the part of the condemned, no horror for those who witness the process and no guilt for all the rest of us. And so it seemed, for a time at least, that we had solved the execution problem satisfactorily, but recently the chemicals used in the lethal injections are not available in large supply or even at all.

Naturally, substitutes were used, but in at least the last three executions by lethal injection in the U.S., serious questions have arisen because the condemned did indeed seem to be in some sort of duress during the process, which also seemed to grow interminably long.

Pain makes time slow psychologically for those experiencing it and for those witnessing that experience, such that a minute of agony can seem like hours.

That’s too much for even the staunchest supporters of capital punishment to

In Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, as of this writing, hasn’t said he’ll sign the firingsquad bill, but if he does, condemned inmates there will likely sue to stop its use. Still, death by firing squad may be just the way to go, according to those who have studied the methods available.

An NBC News report this month contains one federal judge’s assessment of the method: “Last July, a federal appeals judge said lethal injections are a ‘misguided’ effort to mask the brutality of executions and suggested a method most closely associated with the French Revolution would be better,” the report said. “ ‘The guillotine is probably best but seems inconsistent with our national ethos,’ Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a dissent at the time. And the electric chair, hanging and the gas chamber are each subject to occasional mishaps,’ he

continued. ‘The firing squad strikes me as the most promising. Eight or ten largecaliber rifle bullets fired at close range can inflict massive damage, causing instant death every time.’ ” Unless, of course, the four real bullets coming from the rifles of the five-member squad (one bullet is always a blank, so each shooter can indulge the fantasy that his / her bullet was the blank and therefore he / she did not execute anyone) somehow miss vital organs. In that case, the bullets will cause instant suffering every time.

These execution-method debates, however, are absurd. Why the rush, when the solution to the problem is so simple? If the most powerful and scientifically advanced nation on earth can’t find a truly painless, instantaneous and foolproof way to execute its condemned, then it must halt all executions, even if that means commuting current death sentences to life without parole, until such a way is discovered and proven completely effective.

As an added benefit, while we search for that method, we might also discover that, in reality, there is no sound reason ever to use it.

Richard A. Joyce is an associate professor in the mass communications department at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is an award-winning journalist who served as managing editor, and subsequently editor and general manager of the Cañon City Daily Record from 1988 to 1994. The opinions he expresses in this column are strictly his own, and do not represent in any way the views of anyone else at the Redstone Review or at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He can be reached at phase15@mac.com.

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Future columns in the Redstone will present subjects of interest to residents of the greater Lyons community, such as river restoration, native plants, natural weed control and water conservation. Comments or suggestions for future subjects can be sent to: ecology @ town of lyons.com.

A movie will be shown free to the community on March 20, 7 p.m. at the Farmette on Ute Highway. “Open Sesame – the Story of Seeds,” a timely and emotionally moving documentary, illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: seeds. A limited number of bags of native grass seed will be available to attendees.

Greg Lowell is a member of Lyons Ecology Advisory Board and has been involved with land conservation issues for more than 25 years. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire and now lives in Lyons.

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NATURE Kids can make an impact helping wildlife

By Cathy Dennerline Redstone Review LONGMONT – If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck – it’s probably a duck. Yes and no. There are wild ducks and domestic ducks, and each belongs in its own environment.

Dennerline Every spring, Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center fields calls from people who bought domestic ducklings as an Easter gift and no longer want them. Although at times we can direct callers to sanctuaries, the domestic duck ends up at a local pond – a practice unhealthy for both wild and domestic ducks and not recommended by Greenwood.

Instead of giving a cute baby animal, Greenwood offers many options to teach kids how to support wildlife found locally. In 2014, Greenwood received more than 2,500 orphaned and injured wildlife, and 75% were babies requiring constant care. Due to health and liability issues, only those 18-years and older can work directly with the animals. Below are some ways kids can indirectly help our wild patients. Some of these projects require adult supervision (contact our center for details).

Baby squirrels like to snuggle into nest boxes. Kids who like to work with tools (with adult supervision) can contact Greenwood for nest box construction plans. Flannel squares and hammock T-shirts are great places for these babies to hide. Crocheted or knitted nests are perfect for

Xylitol is toxic to dogs

By Dana Dietrich Redstone Review LONGMONT – You get home from work to find your dog acting unusual. He is weak, wobbly, and uncoordinated. He almost appears as if he is drunk. You check the house and find that he has ingested part of a pack of sugarless gum. You think to yourself, “Gum is not toxic to dogs is it?” You call the Pet Poison Helpline at 1-855-7647661 and pay just $49 for a consultation with a veterinary toxicologist.

The toxicologist informs you the sugarless gum containing xylitol is in fact toxic to dogs. You look on the part of the gum package that is left and sure enough, xylitol is a listed ingredient.

Your dog is in danger and needs to be evaluated by a veterinarian immediately.

Xylitol is a sugar substitute used in many common sugar-free products including gum, mints, toothpaste, and mouthwash. Xylitol can also be used for baking or to sweeten coffee. Although harmless to people, this product is toxic and can be life threatening if ingested by dogs.

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both baby squirrels and baby birds.

Many species in our care eat fresh greens every day.

Younger kids can collect branches with lots of buds, pinecones, hand-cut grass, dandelion greens and alfalfa.

We also need fresh branches and logs to create a natural habitat in our patients’ enclosures. All items must be free of pesticides or fertilizers. Please note: we cannot accept woodchips, cherry trees (toxic), grass clippings from a lawn mower or anything with fertilizer or pesticides on it.

Fundraisers like bake sales and penny wars are great ways to raise money. Scout groups have held “baby showers” to collect the vitally needed items for our upcoming busy season. Some of these items include: baby cereal (rice only), baby food (plain chicken, apple, banana, no mixes), canned pumpkin, Cheerios (plain only), puppy and dog biscuits, bird seed (safflower, sunflower, nyjer, finch, wild bird), fresh fruit (berries, apples), ground turkey, bleach, paper towels (white) and Ziploc bags (quart and gallon sizes). Additional items are listed on our website.

Greenwood is always looking to expand, and always adding new outdoor enclosures or improving existing ones. A little muscle goes a long way (with adult supervision). This is a great project for service and honors groups. In addition, we can help Eagle Scouts think of creative projects they can complete to earn their award, or you can contact us with ideas of your own.

Have kids help with spring cleaning and donate gently used items to our Boulder thrift store. Donations are taxThe most common cause of xylitol toxicity in dogs is from sugarless gum ingestion. It is not known if it is toxic to cats; it is more unusual for cats to eat things they should not as opposed to dogs. Since even small amounts of xylitol can be toxic if ingested, dogs that have ingested xylitol should be evaluated by a veterinarian immediately.

Xylitol can cause hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), electrolyte disturbances and even liver failure. In both dogs and humans, the blood sugar level is controlled by insulin released from the pancreas. Xylitol is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream and in dogs this causes a large amount of insulin to be secreted. This large amount of insulin can cause severe hypoglycemia, which can occur within 30 minutes of ingestion but can be delayed from 12 to 48 hours. Hypoglycemia can lead to vomiting, weakness, a wobbly gait, lethargy, tremors, or seizures, and if not treated can be life threatening. Liver failure can be seen nine to 72 hours after ingestion. Liver enzymes generally elevate within 12 to 24 hours of ingestion.

The veterinarian will induce vomiting if the dog is evaluated within four hours of ingestion. Activated charcoal is commonly used when toxins are ingested to bind to the toxin and prevent further absorption, but giving activated charcoal is not usually helpful with xylitol ingestion since xylitol is so rapidly absorbed and activated charcoal does not bind well to xylitol.

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Check out our website at www.greenwoodwildlife.org or call the center at 303-823-8455 for additional information. What better way to teach kids to appreciate and help the diverse wildlife living in Colorado?

Cathy Dennerline is a professional writer and part of the seasonal staff and a volunteer at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. If you’d like to learn more about Greenwood Wildlife visit www.greenwoodwildlife.org. may need to be hospitalized for treatment and monitoring. Treatment usually consists of fluids, frequent feedings, and liver protectants. Blood work is performed initially to have starting values and then monitored closely. Glucose is checked every two to four hours, electrolytes every four to six hours, and liver enzymes and clotting factors every 24 hours. If hypoglycemia occurs, dextrose (a type of sugar) is administered in the fluids.

Dextrose may need to be given for 12 to 24 hours or until the dog can maintain normal blood sugar values without supplementation. Electrolytes may also need to be supplemented in the fluids. For ingestion of large amounts of xylitol, dextrose is automatically supplemented for a minimum of 24 hours and liver protecting medications are given. Blood products may need to be given if clotting factors are affected.

The prognosis for animals that have ingested xylitol is variable. The prognosis is good if animals are treated before clinical signs occur or with uncomplicated hypoglycemia. Mild increases in liver enzymes can resolve within a few days with treatment. The prognosis is guarded to poor in animals that develop liver failure or bleeding disorders. If your dog has ingested a product containing xylitol the Pet Poison Helpline or a veterinarian should be contacted immediately for further advice.

The Pet Poison Helpline is a 24-hour animal poison control center for pet owners and veterinarians dealing with a poisoned pet. The Pet Poison Helpline was mentioned but is not the source of reference in this article.

Dana Dietrich is an Emergency Veterinarian at Aspen Meadow Veterinary Specialists. AMVS is a 24hour veterinary facility providing specialty internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, oncology, emergency, critical care, and pain management located in Longmont at 104 S. Main St. For more information, go to www.AspenMeadowVet.com.

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INTEREST Sen. Heath and Rep. Singer will hold a meet and greet in Lyons

By Tamara Haddad Redstone Review

HB14-1001, which in laymen’s terms said, “If you can’t find my house you can’t tax me on it.” It passed in the witching hours of the last 2014 session benefiting many of LYONS – It’s usually difficult to pinpoint where the our flood victim home owners. Singer’s fight for Lyons’ chain of camaraderie begins: it could be through a col- residents and economic vitality shone again in March on league, a friend, a meeting or in this case, a flood. Two the house floor with HB15-1202, which makes sure “our exemplary examples are Lyons’s relationship with State restaurants and craft breweries can keep their doors open, Senator Rollie Heath and State Representative Jonathan pay their employees, and grow our economy,” said Singer.

Singer. They will be hosting a Meet and Greet gathering Most notable is how our legislator cleans up: he takes a at Ferg’s Inn, 349 Main St., on Thursday March 26 from plunge with our own Polar Bear Club – in both the Black 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Bear Hole and the hot space is limited. tub behind Oskar I saw House Rep. Blues – to help raise Jonathan Singer in almost $7,500.00 for the immediate afterthe Lyons Golden math of the flood. He Gang. Now, that’s a was in our streets of Representative. mud, physically slingOften Rep. Singer ing mud into piles of is side-by-side with mud. He was a very Senator Rollie Heath, dirty legislator and I except for the plunge – was head over heels... we might be able to in mud. talk him into the hot Singer continued his tub next year. Sen. shoveling on the Heath was touring the General Assembly State Senator Rollie Heath (left) and State Representative Jonathan Western Slope as a floors with the first Singer will be hosting a Meet and Greet gathering at Ferg’s Inn, 349 member of the Senate House Bill of the year, Main St., on Thursday March 26 from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

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Video marketing in 2015

By Christy Crosser Redstone Review LYONS – According to the Video Marketing Statistics and Trends 2015 report from Syndacast, video content Crosser will account for 74 percent of online traffic by 2017 (syndacast.com/video-marketing-statistics-trends-2015). Businesses continue to realize the potential of video for mobile customer engagement, video search engine optimization, and increased timeon-site ratios. It is simply impossible to ignore the value of video marketing in promoting your business.

Mobile users are watching more video than ever before, including on the platforms of Facebook and YouTube. YouTube recently celebrated ten years and its growth is nothing short of jaw dropping.

Businesses utilizing video content are likely to see the benefits in name recognition and sales. However, a bad video can work against your business; so knowing your target audiences and what appeals to them is critical. Video marketing can engage customers through the effort of

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variety and updating videos frequently.

Videos can be produced on phones and if you want to adventure into a more professional looking video there are many tools available for video creation and editing.

The following are some brand names of recently released iOS tools: Crop on the Fly – Available from Fly Labs, the Crop on the Fly app lets you automatically crop your videos while filming. Create videos in both portrait and landscape mode, and then adjust your video for maximum impact. Position your subject matter in the center of your screen or edit out background content to better spotlight the business message.

Dubify – Offered by Rory O’Logan, the Dubify app is a tempting option for marketers and business owners who want to add audio overlays to their video marketing efforts. This fun app lets you create music-synced videos for sharing on social media pages or on YouTube. This app is good for video creation that will allow light-hearted uploads into the message.

ClipSpeed – Available from OutThinking Limited, the ClipSpeed application allows for adjusting the speed video, including portions of the video.

Committee when the flood hit. Former Mayor Julie Van Domelen was in Africa; both hustled home to work on what at the time were uncertain issues (rescue, recovery, public safety, displacement, etc.). They met together and toured the area as to get a sense of the damage.

Where Singer and other town leaders were working on the ground Van Domelen and Senator Heath and his staff were literally making sure the town had the financial ability to keep operations in business, since there was almost no access to Lyons and most / all storefronts were closed. Heath continues to work closely with FEMA, Colorado General Assembly and Mayor O’Brien regarding the recovery stage that Lyons is still working through.

As for the woman in front of the man, the Senator’s wife, Josie Heath, continues to be very involved in flood recovery fundraising as the director of the Community Foundation of Boulder County, parent of LCF. Please join Mayor O’Brien and the Lyons Economic Development Commission (EDC) in welcoming Senator Rollie Heath and Representative Jonathan Singer for a Meet and Greet gathering with Jamestown Mayor Tara Schoedinger, Boulder County Representatives, and other Colorado leaders in attendance on Thursday, March 26, from 6 p.m.to 8:30 p.m. at Ferg’s Inn on Main Street.

Tamara Vega Haddad is a member of the EDC and advocate of Lyons’s 100 percent locally owned businesses, residents and quality of life.

Zoom in on subject matter with highspeed intensity or pan out to the exit message with a slow motion wide shot. Videos edited with ClipSpeed can be uploaded to Vimeo or YouTube or shared on social media sites such as Instagram.

Integrating numerous mobile apps into video marketing strategy is essential if businesses want to offer customers, potential customers and followers a variety of moving content options. Adding image filters, text overlays, audio dubbing and speed adjustments are just some of the ways to keep your video interesting.

What’s in your portfolio of options to keep your customers engaged?

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Trauma revisited

By Linda Weber Redstone Review LYONS – Chances are you’ve heard a lot about trauma in the past year and a half or so. Pretty much everyone in Boulder County has, because the Great Flood of 2013 in one way or another affected everyone. Some were mildly affected, hearing about the tremendous impact of the event on their neighbors and friends, but not directly touched themselves. For others, the impact was severe and long lasting. Almost all the residents of Lyons and Jamestown saw the effects of the flood up close and personal and in ways that boggle the imagination.

But, why revisit it? Wouldn’t it be better to leave well enough alone and let time do the healing? What about resilience? Can’t people get over it on their own? Yes, they can, and many do. But, many don’t, and it is for them that I am offering these thoughts. I’ve met and heard about people who are still suffering and don’t realize that inner post traumatic stress might be the cause.

One of the great things about the flood was that it brought us together. But, the community honeymoon period has been over for some time now, and a good number of people feel cast out on their own.

So, what is there to understand better and why is it important? Let’s review. Trauma to the nervous system is caused by shocking experiences that overwhelm a person’s natural ability to cope. It’s impossible to shake it off the way we want to and the stress lodges itself in parts of the brain where it influences us to react to present difficulties as though they were as threatening as the original event(s). On top of that, a trauma can resurrect older traumas that have been hiding out (repressed). The person carries a level of disturbance that is often just below the surface of awareness. This can cause reactions to people and situations that don’t make sense. We might get angrier, sadder, or more afraid than current circumstances warrant. We might have ongoing nightmares. We might use mind-altering substances more than we want to. We might try to be in control of situations and other people when it is unnecessary and counter productive.

Time heals of course, but difficulties from traumatic

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stress can get worse over time instead of better. I like to think of this as nature’s way of getting our attention. After all, each of us is a work in progress as far as life is concerned. When something big happens that reconfigures both the outer and inner landscape, we’re presented with an opportunity to look into the way we’ve been living. It becomes more possible to see things we want to change.

The burgeoning field of brain science shows us what humans have always known, namely that healing is possible. Here are some resources so you can find out more: Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman (book).

Healing Trauma by Peter Levine (book and CD).

“The Trauma of Being Alive” (article) at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/opinion/sunday/the -trauma-of-being-alive.html?pagewanted=all General information: http: / / www. helpguide.org/articles/ptsd-trauma/emotional-and-psychologicaltrauma.htm; and http://apa.org/helpcenter/recoveringdisasters.aspx EMDR information: http: / / www . emdr.com/generalinformation/what-is-emdr.html.

So, what can you do right now? You can start by simply realizing that something is going on in you that needs more attention, just like you would for any important practical task in your life. Your mental and emotional health is ultimately about your spirit, your heart, the very essence of you. It’s worth it.

Here are some simple ways you can help yourself: Start each day with, “I wonder what life has in store for me today.” Bring your attention to your body and remember that it is the place that holds you in this lifetime. Feel yourself connected to the ground. Connect with nature every day. Remember that you, too, are nature. Include something beautiful in your daily life, like flowers, music or art. Write down your thoughts and feelings regularly.

Be kind to yourself and others. Talk about what is on your mind with someone who knows how to listen. Breathe and be silent whenever you think of it. Eat in a balanced way; drink enough water. Take yourself seriously, but not too seriously. Let yourself be carried by life.

Linda Weber, M.A. is a psychotherapist, spiritual counselor, and wilderness vision quest guide in private practice in Boulder and Lyons. She’s been living and counseling in the

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MARCH 18 / APRIL 15, 2015

CONNECTIONS Playing the what-if game

By Emily Gubler Redstone Review LYONS – Every community needs to prepare for emergencies. But what kinds of emergencies should we be preparing for? At first, this question appears straightforward, but it quickly gets comGubler plicated. Hazards can be described by the likelihood that they will happen, and the amount of impact they are likely to cause. Dam failure is unlikely near Lyons, but if it happened the impact would be high.

Thunderstorms are highly likely every summer, but typically have a low impact.

At a community level, it makes sense to plan for high impact events. Lyons All-Risk Preparedness is focusing on three goals: strengthening communication during a disaster, supporting neighborhood preparedness, and enhancing the relationships between our fire district, surrounding communities, and county emergency planners.

The Boulder County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan (MHMP) lists the following highly likely events – events with close to 100 percent chance of occurrence in the next year – and the expected impact in Boulder County. ( h t t p : / / w w w. b o u l d e r o e m . c o m / d i s a s t e rpreparedness/mdocuments-library/) HIGHLY LIKELY HAZARDS AVALANCHE EXPANSIVE SOILS SEVERE WINTER STORM WILDFIRE WINDSTORM FLOOD*

IMPACT LOW LOW HIGH HIGH HIGH HIGH

Managing shoulder pain

By Bronwyn Muldoon Redstone Review LYONS – Consider yourself lucky if you haven’t had an episode with shoulder pain / stiffness in your life. Most of us don’t realize how much we move and use our shoulders until one or both shoulders Muldoon start hurting. The shoulder joint has greater mobility than any other joint in our body.

Because of the mobility, it does not have a complex structure of ligaments holding it together like most joints, thus making it very susceptible to injuries.

Common shoulder problems that occur gradually (not from one incident / accident) include frozen shoulder, rotator cuff strain, impingement syndrome, tendonitis and arthritis. Thankfully most shoulder problems don’t require surgery for the pain to go away. Even better news: stretching, strengthening and making improvements in your posture can solve most shoulder problems.

Shoulder pain can present in several ways: • Pain occurs with certain movements (reaching out or above shoulder height, lifting or carrying an object) • Pain occurs after you have been sitting or staying in one position • You have constant pain, even when your shoulder isn’t moving • Pain occurs with sleeping – you’re unable to get the shoulder comfortable or pain wakes you up.

Various structures within the shoulder present different pain patterns and behaviors. Figuring out how to treat the problem is best achieved by identifying the correct structure that is causing the symptoms.

The first step is ruling out the symptoms are coming from your neck. This might sound strange, but nerves in your neck can refer pain to your shoulder, arm or shoulder blade area.

Are any of these true? Moving your neck (up, down, or rotation from right to left) causes your shoulder pain to increase; you are experiencing pain / numbness / tingling down into your arm, past your elbow; you have pain in your shoulder blade area; you have weakness in your hand / fingers; your pain is “lessened or relieved” when you rest your arm on top of your head.

If you answered yes to any of these, there is a possibility your neck might be the cause of your symptoms.

*The probability of flooding is listed as Highly Likely / Occasional.

I’m simplifying this table – hazards can also be categorized in other ways, such as the expected size of the geographic area impacted and the magnitude or severity of the event.

Let’s consider windstorms for a moment. How can a windstorm have a high impact on a community?

According to the MHMP, “Strong wind gusts can rip roofs from buildings, snap power lines, shatter windows, down trees, and sandblast paint from cars. Other associated hazards include utility outages, arcing power lines, debris blocking streets, dust storms, and occasional structure fires... between January 1, 1955, and November 30, 2007, Boulder County experienced 166 wind events that reached wind speeds of at least 50 knots (57.6 miles per hour, mph). Of these wind events, one was responsible for a death and 30 were responsible for injuries and / or property damage.”

Citing NOAA’s Climate Diagnostics Center, the plan goes on to say that Boulder County experiences wind gusts of 100 mph almost annually and gusts have been measured as high as 147 mph. The probability of occurrence along with the potential of high impact makes strong winds a high probability / high impact hazard – one worth planning for.

The hazard probability and matrix enables us to better address our original question: What kinds of emergencies should we be preparing for? The list above has four highimpact hazards. For each of those hazards, I can imagine endless scenarios, some with a high probability of happening and others – like my favorite, the one where Godzilla walks through – with a low probability of occurrence. The MHMP plan identifies 17 total hazards in Boulder County, four with limited or low impacts and the others medium to high impacts. Do we have to plan for every imaginable scenario for each of these hazards? Is that possible?

Clearly, there comes a point where no one can imagine all iterations of a single hazard. The good news is that Further evaluation of your neck is needed.

Positional Strain: Does pain come on after you have been in a position for a while, such as sitting at your desk or driving? If this is the case, poor posture is most likely the cause of your symptoms.

Impingement Syndrome occurs when a tendon or bursa gets squeezed between bones in your shoulder. Pain occurs when reaching overhead; activities like painting, lifting, swimming and tennis are common activities that bring on shoulder pain. It can occur from overuse and / or having poor posture (forward and rounded shoulders).

Rotator Cuff Injuries: These injuries can be caused by accidents or by overuse and are the most common cause of surgery. If the injury is caused by an accident, the shoulder most likely will have constant pain and it will be difficult to raise / use your arm. If the symptoms are more gradual, then one will have pain with certain movements and activities and one will start to notice weakness in the arm. Pain can also start to interfere with sleep.

Frozen shoulder typically occurs when it hurts to move your shoulder / arm, thus to avoid pain one restricts the movement. As the pain decreases, the person can’t move their shoulder because the shoulder has become stiff. To help this problem, start passively moving your shoulder with the other arm.

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we don’t have to. Instead, we can create flexible plans, plans that can shrink or expand as needed. We only have to play the what-if game a little. Basic questions apply to every event. For instance, will we evacuate or shelter-inplace? If we evacuate, what routes might work? If we shelter-in-place, how long can we support ourselves? How will information be spread?

Lyons All-Risk Preparedness and its steering committee is looking for a few more members. If you are interested in volunteering with the steering committee or have any questions about LARP, please email Lyons.Preparedness@gmail.co.

Emily Gubler spent 10 years working as a wildland firefighter and five years working on an ambulance as an emergency medical technician. She is currently working on emergency preparedness in Lyons as a volunteer with the Human Services and Aging Commission. She lives in Blue Mountain Valley with her family. efficiently and effectively, it needs to have full range of movement. A body works best if it is symmetrical, thus the right and left sides have the same amount of movement. To test your shoulder flexibility place one hand behind your back, trying to touch the hand to the opposite shoulder blade. Compare it to the other arm. Next, reach your arm above your head, and then bend the elbow so your hand goes behind your head and touches the top of the shoulder blade. Compare your other arm.

Strengthen your shoulders: Three exercises that the majority of people could benefit from are: Side lying External Rotation: Keep your elbow at your side, holding the towel in place. Hold a soup / vegetable can to add some weight; do two sessions of 10 daily Standing shoulder extension: Push arms back as you squeeze your shoulder blades together and keep trunk upright. Perform movement slowly 10 times daily.

Push-ups: Can modify to stairs or wall if floor pushups are too difficult. 10 daily keeping motion slow and controlled.

If any of these exercises cause pain, modify them, starting with smaller movements and make sure the joint has full range of motion. If pain persists, talk to a healthcare professional. Most shoulder injuries can be resolved within four to six weeks.

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Regardless of why your shoulder is hurting, there are things you can do to help.

Watch your Posture: Unfortunately we are becoming a sedentary society. Over time, sitting with poor posture causes muscles to become weak and ligaments to stretch out. Make sure your shoulders are back (not rounded forward), your spine is tall (not slumping) and that your head is back over your shoulders.

Increase Shoulder Flexibility: For a joint to work

Bronwyn Muldoon, a licensed physical therapist, owns Lyons Physical Therapy, 435 High St. in Lyons. Some of the things addressed at her clinic include but are not limited to: acute and chronic spinal pain (back and neck pain), postural dysfunction alignment, sports and performance-related injuries, repetitive/overuse-related injuries, post-surgical rehabilitation, muscles strains and sprains, and physical rehabilitation of all kinds. For more information, call 303-823-8813.

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CPA Awards Continued from Page 1 Redstone Review won the following awards: Columnist John Gierach won First Place Best Serious Column Writing for Shelter in place; First Place Best Humorous Column Writing for On and off the grid; Second Place Best Editorial Writing for Pot is legal: I never thought I would live to see the day and Mass killings fire up the gun control debate; and Second Place Best Story / Picture Combination for Shelter in place.

Page Designer Eileen Tobin won First Place for Best News and Page Design for September 2013 pages 8 and 9, and First Place for Best Feature Page Design for April 2014 page one, and First Place for the overall newspaper Best Editorial Layout and Design, May 2014 issue.

Columnist and VP Richard Joyce won Third Place Best Serious Column Writing for Why have we not called them heroes?

Town Continued from Page 1 a municipality. It maintains, repairs and manages its projects including snow removal, lawn maintenance, trash collection, etc. BCHA acknowledged that Lyons had suffered a significant loss of taxes due to the flood-damaged and destroyed homes leaving the town with a reduced property tax base, so it agreed to use the PILOT program to pay a percentage of funding to the town in lieu of the taxes that the town would normally collect. A percentage of this funding would go to the Lyons Fire Protection District.

Quinton Giese, president of the Lyons Fire District Board, spoke to the board saying that the fire district needs to be funded at 100 percent for the proposed Bohn Park housing project. The town board basically agreed with Giese.

The town board approved a resolution to take 64 percent of the PILOT funding rather than 100 percent because this would allow BCHA to build four Area Median Income (AMI) housing units as part of the flood recovery housing project.

Editor and Publisher Susan de Castro McCann won First Place Best Deadline Reporting for A river runs through it and First Place Best Business Feature Story for Flood keg rum becomes a hot commodity; First Place for Best Sustained Coverage for A river runs through it; Second Place for Best Business News Story for Button Rock Bakery offers sweet sensations; and Second Place Best Feature Story for Retiring the hands of the master builder; and Third Place for Best Headline Writing for A river runs through it.

News Editor Katherine Weadley won First Place Best Sports Story for Biking in winter ultra-marathon.

Photographer Cathy Rivers won Third Place for Best Feature Photo for Betsy Burton and her Angora goats.

Writer Carol Devenir won Third Place Best Story / Picture Combination for Little Thompson report blames downstream damage on rain intensity not failed dams.

The AMI for Boulder County is $96,000 for a family of four. The four AMI units would be available for families that make 30 percent of the AMI. At the 64 percent level the town would collect $12,000 per year (based on 66 housing units) from BCHA using PILOT funding. The Fire District would get $3,766 at the 64 percent level per year.

Trustee Connie Sullivan asked if the funding would be restricted in any way so that they could give the fire district the full 100 percent which would be about $6,000 annually. Cody Humphry, the Lyons Recovery Housing Coordinator, said the town was not restricted in how it uses the PILOT funding and could fund the fire district at 100 percent.

The town board also approved a resolution authorizing the use of a previously approved grant application for $689,000 in property acquisition matching funds from the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) for the acquisition of four buyout properties. Rosie Dennett, Lyons buyout consultant, told the board that this

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PAGE 15 Writer Julie Smith won Second Place Best Sports Story for Turning 50 and skiing across Finland.

Writer Don Moore won First Place Best Sports Event Story for Joining Brave Hearts and running the Bolder Boulder; First Place Best Health Feature Story for Hope held by a horse heals wounds; Third Place Best Business Feature Story for Ciatano Winery survives the flood and opens on Main Street; and Third Place Best Business News Story for Local Eat + Drink.

Writer Meg Waters won Third Place Best Public Service Story for The 404 buyout means homeowners have decisions to make.

Columnist John Gierach, and photographers Cathy Rivers and Kenneth Wajda won Second Place Best Story / Picture Combination for Shelter in place.

Copy Editor Sara Neustadtl won Second Place Best Headline Writing for Retiring the hands of the master builder.

grant is to replace or exchange it for the round-one DOLA funding for the roundtwo DOLA funding. “We can acquire either three or four housing units with this money,” she said.

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The board went into an executive session to discuss a lawsuit brought by Picture Rock LLC, an infused marijuana products business. Picture Rock is represented by attorney Roxanne Peyser from Lyons.