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LYONS –– text A memorial celebration will be held for John GierBrief titledied on Oct. 3, 2024. ach, who LYONS – text will be held on The memorial May 3, at 1 p.m., at the Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Hwy. It will be held outside if the weather permits. John Gierach was a fly fisherman and an outdoor writer who wrote 22 books on flyfishing and outdoor life. He wrote a monthly column for the Redstone Review for 25 years. He was above all a story teller, who loved to be outdoors, hiking, flyfishing, hunting, camping, or just sitting on a rock contemplating nature. He is the only flyfishing/outdoor writer to have 20 of his books continuously in print with Simon and Schuster, one of the five largest English language publishing houses in the world. His books are also published in French in Paris. He won many awards including the Arnold Gingrich Angling Heritage Award, the Federation of Fly Fishers Roderick Haig-Brown Award, the PEN New England Cerulli Award for Excellence in Sports Writing, and the National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature. He was inducted into Catskills Flyfishing Hall of Fame in 2015. The parking lot at the Farmette has very limited space, so it would be wise to carpool or where your walking shoes. If possible you can RSVP to the Lyons Farmette, 303-746-6266. Jeep for sale
LYONS – A 2000 Jeep Wrangler/sport is for sale. The Jeep was owned by flyfishing writer, John Gierach. It has 127,310 miles on it, and a 4.0L 6-cylinder engine. He purchased the Jeep on 2/23/2012 and used it mainly for access to Front Range small streams. It has a folder with all the service records. He purchased the Jeep with about 108,000 miles on it. It runs well. For more information, call 303823-2250. Continue Briefs on Page 8
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Congratulations to the Denver Zoo on the birth of a new male giraffe! He’s already hanging out in his enclosure, enjoying his new home. Help name the new giraffe calf by casting your vote at denverzoo.org. PHOTO CHRISTA KLEIN, ANIMAL CARE SPECIALIST
Lyons and other cities examine the effects of executive orders, and a trail in Rocky Flats By Susan de Castro Redstone Review Editor LYONS – At a recent Lyons Town Board Meeting, Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen told the board that she and Mayor Hollie Rogin joined a phone meeting with almost 500 participants from all over Colorado to discuss and express concern over all the latest executive orders coming from the federal government. The meeting included representatives from cities, towns, counties, the Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), Colorado Municipal League (CML) and many other agencies around the state. “We are paying attention to and staying on top of the executive orders that we hear about and it does appear that the biggest concern is, what is going to happen to our Forest Service and who is going to regulate them and what impact they (executive orders) may have?” Simonsen said.
Simonsen added that the participants were asking how they were going to prevent wildfires and what happens when they need the federal government to respond to the wildfires. “That came up many, many times, especially in the south and west parts of the state. The metro areas are concerned about what’s going to happen to the non-profit services for feeding families and child care and those sorts of things,” she said. The Mayor and Administrator attended two sessions where attendees discussed congressionally directed spending, and were told they should anticipate that funding requests will continue since that part is controlled by Congress and is not part of the executive branch. Simonsen said that they were told to submit their requests for funding by March 24 and to prep their 2026 requests to have them ready. She said that there is some interest by some of the state legislators to focus on water quality issues. She added that last year they submit-
ted all their issues with the wastewater plant, and staff is interested in resubmitting that for 2025. “And then our next priority would be the storm water projects if those are eligible under storm water quality,” she added. Moving along, the board listened to a presentation by Chris Allred, an environmental advocate, who asked the board for support for his proposal to stop the Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail from going through the Rocky Flats Wildlife area. Rocky Flats was built in the early 1950s to make nuclear weapons using plutonium, and was located just outside of Denver. Everyone back East thought at that time that Denver was out in the sticks and no one would care about a little plutonium floating around out there in the Rockies. The facility’s primary mission was the fabrication of plutonium pits, the fissionable part of a bomb that produces a nuclear explosion. Continue Rocky Flats on Page 14