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B •R •I •E •F •S Canyon Door restaurant to open soon in Lyons LYONS – A new restaurant called Canyon Door will open around Memorial Day in Lyons. Canyon Door will be located in the former Outlaw Saloon building on Second Avenue and Main Street. The owner of Canyon Door, Ian Moore, describes the menu as family-oriented American style food with an emphasis on fresh, homemade and cooked in-house. The restaurant will be open every day for lunch and dinner. A brunch menu will be served on Saturdays and Sundays. The restaurant will open weekdays about 11 a.m. and about 10 a.m. on weekends. The kitchen will close around 10 p.m. but the bar will remain open later in the evening. Moore lives in Lyons and owns another restaurant in Boulder called 28th Street Tavern, located at 2690 28th St. Moore has two partners, Gaven Moore (no relation and former owner of Pizza Bar 66) and Yvonne Mihalik. Ian said that they plan to make extensive use of the patio. The restaurant is pared down from its original version when it was the Outlaw. The restaurant will include the bars, patio, dining area and the kitchen. The rest of the building will be retail space and some office space. The restaurant will seat about 150 people and the patio will seat about 100 people. “We put a lot of work into this place making it a lot lighter and prettier,” said Ian. “We are also going to paint the exterior.” The menu will offer specials each day along with burgers, fries, lots of salads, sandwiches, fish and chips, steak, dinners, gluten-free options and many more items. Ian said he wants to keep the prices low, so that people can bring their Continue Briefs on Page 8
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The Barrera family meets with a puppy at the Longmont Humane Society to see if it’s a good fit for their family. Longmont Humane Society provides shelter and adoption services to over 4,000 lost and homeless animals each year. Right now, over 100 wonderful cats, dogs and small mammals are looking for new, loving forever homes at LHS. You can visit them at www.longmonthumane.org. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS
Residents still wait for buyout money, BOT limits hours for meetings, and cell service may improve By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – Many Lyons residents are still waiting for the money from the government buyout program (404 buyout or Community Development Block Grant, CDBG) for their flood damaged and destroyed homes. “We still have 31 homes waiting for the buyout money and six homes that are a maybe for the buyout,” said Rosi Dennett, town housing coordinator for the flood-damaged homes. “So we have a total of 37 on the buyout list and we are now hoping to have the funds to the homeowners this fall.” Dennett said that the state has all the funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and CDBG Disaster Recovery money and she hopes that as soon as all the final paperwork is in, the state will start to release the money, but the state has not given the town any time frame as to when the funding will be released. There are so many hoops to jump through that the paperwork is relentless. “There is something called a DOB or duplicate of benefits whereby a homeowner can’t double dip or take funding from both insurance (or other sources for flood repairs) and from
FEMA. If the homeowner takes insurance money and fixes up the home to live in temporarily, then the homeowner can still collect the full amount for the house from FEMA, but if the homeowner uses insurance money to rent a place or to buy another place to live then the insurance money will be subtracted from the FEMA settlement. “We are still collecting the final documents from homeowners and working with title companies, and we will have everything in soon,” said Dennett. “The homeowners are very anxious at this point.” After the homes are paid off the homes will be demolished and hauled away and the land will become park land in perpetuity. No struc-
tures will be allowed on the properties and the town will own and maintain the land. Most of the homeowners will be have to find homes to buy or rent outside of Lyons. There are not many affordable homes for sale in Lyons and not many homes for rent. The town continues to pour vast amounts of money into flood recovery and will continue for a few more years. “Our general fund for the town is a little over a million dollars per year,” Mayor John O’Brien said. “By the time this is over, we will have spent maybe 100 times our annual budget, which is more per-capita than New Orleans spent on Katrina.” Lyons officials
Lyons Community Garage Sale and Cleanup Day By Dawn Weller Redstone Review LYONS – By now we hope you’ve heard about the Lyons community garage sale, which will take place on Saturday, June 6. The Sustainable Futures Commission is sponsoring the event in partnership with the
Chamber of Commerce. We are hoping that area residents, clubs, churches, etc. will participate in this one-day event, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 6. For those who can’t or prefer to not host a sale at their residence, you are invited to Continue Sale on Page 4
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