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B •R •I •E •F •S 2015 Lyons Holiday Parade of Lights LYONS – The Annual Lyons Holiday Parade of Lights will take place on Saturday, Dec. 5. The theme this year is Christmas Around the World. Lyons residents love the bright glow of lights around town when the holidays return. Friends and family will be happy to see the return of Lyons Lights in Sandstone Park. Be sure to come out and enjoy a colorful, exciting, dancing light display synchronized to music. Beginning Saturday, Dec. 5 through Friday, Dec. 25, Lyons Lights will run every day from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The highlight of the weekend is sure to be the Holiday Parade of Lights on Saturday, Dec. 5. The parade will line up at 5:30 p.m. and will start at 6:30 p.m. It will be filled with illuminated, colorful floats, many of which will be decorated in the theme of this year’s parade. Sign up today at www.townoflyons.com Don’t miss live music and entertainment following the parade, at approximately 7:15 p.m. in Sandstone Park on the Raul Vasquez Community Stage. Among those performing this year will be the Lyons High School Choir. At 7:40 p.m., there will be a wonderful fireworks display made possible by donations received from local supporters. The Parade Awards Ceremony for the floats will take place at 8:05 p.m. on the Raul Vasquez Community Stage, awarding the outstanding parade entries of 2015. The evening will wrap up with Lyons Lights in Sandstone Park from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. If you are interested in entering the parade, or would like to donate money or time to this event, the donation and entry forms can be found at www.townoflyons.com. Please direct questions to 303?823?8250, or email recreation@townoflyons.com. Continue Briefs on Page 3
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BOT has a problem with eagles nesting, 404 buyouts slowed to a crawl, and trying to bridge the gap in funding for Stone Canyon light By Mark Browning Redstone Review LYONS – The eagles have landed on Lyons. More specifically, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service informed the Town of Lyons on Tuesday that under the federal Bald and Golden Eagles Protection Act, all construction within one-half mile of the usual golden eagle nesting site above Meadow Park may come to a screeching halt on December 31. Construction could not resume until late summer. Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen informed the Lyons Board of Trustees (BOT) of that unwelcome news at Monday night’s BOT meeting. Unless a “take permit” can be obtained from the Fish and Wildlife Service, multiple town projects could be shut down: Meadow Park reconstruction, river improvement work, and street projects in the Confluence and Depot library rehabilitation. Other projects like the Second Avenue Bridge and new library could be affected in the future. Simonsen told the Board that Town staff would be working with Congressman Jared Polis’ office to seek the required take permit. But she also said that no take permit has ever been issued in the State of Colorado for a golden eagle nest (only for bald eagles). Without a permit, not only town projects, but any construction project in downtown Lyons and the Confluence area could be affected. The BOT wished Simonsen well in the permit effort. In other news at a workshop session prior to the BOT meeting, consultants from DHM
Design and Ballard and Associates presented their Operations and Parks Maintenance Analysis of planned flood recovery projects in the parks. The consulting firms were hired with grant funds. Should parks be built out as now proposed (the new Bohn Park master plan draft having recently been released) and staffed as recommended by the consultants, an additional estimated $133,000 in revenue would need to be devoted to parks over current funding sources. Parks would have more amenities and require more maintenance and staffing than they did pre-flood. Other items on the BOT’s Monday agenda included updates on Confluence permitting and the Main Street / U.S. 36 streetscape project, which includes the long-delayed McConnell Drive traffic light. The BOT, sitting as the Town of Lyons Ethics Board, also heard and resolved a complaint involving Trustee Lavern Johnson. With a large group of fellow Confluence residents in the audience, property owner Doug Miller listed six areas where he believed more follow-up was needed after September BOT meetings that resulted in promises for more attention to Confluence concerns. Town engineer Joe Kubala and Administrator Simonsen responded to Miller’s list, identifying progress on several permits, confirming that no trails or public access points are planned along the St. Vrain River on Evans Street, and informing everyone that a decision on moving Evans Street to the south would not have to be made until March.
Confluence residents clearly appreciated recent efforts by Kubala to address their permit concerns, giving a smattering of applause after Trustee Dawn Weller stated that she had gotten good reviews of Kubala’s performance during a recent visit to the neighborhood. Kubala and Simonsen reported that they, along with the “other” town engineer, Jim Blankenship, have come up with suggestions on how to bridge the $400,000 gap between available funds for the streetscape / “Stone Canyon light” project and the lowest bid. Three major items could be taken out of the project to reduce costs by that amount: storm sewer drainage improvements and connections on Third Avenue and U.S. 36, asphalt paving for the Black Bear Hole parking area, and improving / resurfacing the trail between Black Bear Hole and McConnell Drive. For all that to work, however, the Continue BOT on Page 13
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LYONS L E T T E R S •T O •T H E •E D I T O R Lyons Garden Club An Open Letter to the Residents of Lyons and Main Street Business Owners: As of October 1, 2015, the Town of Lyons will be totally responsible for the planting and maintenance on Main Street. The Lyons Garden Club has been asked by Jacque Watson and Victoria Simonsen to stop any further planting on Main Street, and the board of the Lyons Garden Club has agreed to their request. The Town of Lyons has a future plan for Main Street, with a look towards more consistency in planting. Future donations to the Lyons Garden Club will go towards new projects as we plan to re-direct our efforts to “beautify Lyons, one flower at a time.” Please direct any questions, concerns, or ideas regarding Main Street to Jacque Watson and / or Victoria Simonsen. Respectfully, Sue Wratten Co-founder and Treasurer of the Lyons Garden Club LCF executive director steps down On behalf of the Lyons Community Foundation and our local constituents, we want to publicly thank Emily Dusel for her service to our organization and our mission over the last two years. Emily has recently decided to step down from her position in order to spend more time with her family. Since assuming the role of LCF’s first Executive Director, Emily has lead our organization during a period of tremendous growth and change. Immediately following the devastating floods of 2013, she adapted our community based philanthropic entity into a disaster response organization able to effectively grant over $1.5 million in critical assistance and recovery work. LCF continues to address the long-term needs of the Town of
Lyons and our area’s residents in rebuilding and resiliency, awarding over $90,000 to organizations involved in recovery work in 2015. Under Emily’s strategic vision and professional guidance, LCF has solidified its position as the go-to philanthropic organization in Lyons. In addition to the Rebuild Lyons flood recovery work, LCF has continued to award scholarships and Community Support grants each year. These focused programs are what makes Lyons “uniquely Lyons” by supporting community-enhancing projects such as art and music, human services, volunteerism, animal welfare and historic preservation. We are extremely grateful for Emily’s unwavering dedication and leadership during this critical time for LCF. Moving forward, LCF will be ensuring stability and long-term sustainability by strategically partnering consultants with community based volunteers. LCF has appointed Kristen Bruckner and Joanne Barnard as specialized consultants able to assist with the foundation’s communications and donor services. We look forward to the next chapter at the Lyons Community Foundation as we continue our work to improve the quality of life, build culture of giving and encourage positive change in the greater Lyons area. Sincerely, Monique Sawyer-Lang, Debbie Simms, and Sandy Banta on behalf of the Lyons Community Foundation Advisory Board. Clarifier project I was so delighted to read about the Clarifier dedication in your Sept.-Oct. issue of the Redstone Review. I was there when the original decision was made to go with the four directions and the four seasons, and helped some with the first mosaic work. I occasionally helped there till I moved in May of 2013. Since then I have followed the reports in the Review with pleasure. Cathy and Priscilla have done really amazing work, and I applaud
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• Began creating communication trees in many of our neighborhoods; • Connected with the community at the Lyons Fire Station 2 Grand Opening; • Received a nomination for BoCo Strong’s Resilient Community Project Award; • Held a pilot neighborhood meeting in Lyons Park Estates. The fun goes on! In our second year, Lyons Prepared will solidify methods of communicating during emergencies, recruit Point-of-Contact volunteers in more neighborhoods, and run exercises to evaluate our system. Want to learn more about Lyons Prepared and get involved? Check out Lyonsprepared.com.
LYONS – Lyons Prepared is celebrating one year of working to improve emergency communications and preparedness in our Lyons Fire Protection District neighborhoods. It’s been a busy and successful first year for our group as we: • Formed our steering committee and began strategic planning; • Created a website: lyonsprepared.com; • Identified Point-of-Contact positions for more than half of our neighborhoods; • Surveyed residents about communications during emergency events;
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MAYOR’S CORNER Participate in the Sock It To ‘Em sock campaign By John E. O’Brien, Mayor Redstone Review LYONS – There is a great campaign to help the homeless that many Front Range mayors sponsor every year. It is called the Sock It To ‘Em Sock Campaign and I am championing it in O’Brien and for Lyons this year. This will be the fifth year of the campaign. In Lyons and around the Denver regional area, we are gathering socks for the homeless. During the winter months the need for warm socks for homeless men, women and children (families) becomes critical. Homeless families comprise roughly one-third of the total homeless population. Approximately 1.6 million children experience homelessness over a year. In any given day, more than 200,000 children have no place to live. Federal, state, county and local governments and the private sector are working on possible solutions for homelessness. This campaign does not provide them with a home, but it does help keep them warm during the
next few difficult months. Here’s how the campaign works and here’s how you can be a part of it. You can donate socks, tell others about the program or even become a Sock Ambassador! We are looking for at least one package of new warm socks for men, women or children.
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.
Town BOT workshop on utilities By Mark Browning Redstone Review LYONS – Lyons Board of Trustees (BOT) spent much of its November 9 workshop session on town utilities exploring how to Browning hold down rate increases needed to pay for big capital projects. No actions were taken at the workshop session. The town has three utilities: electric, sanitation (sewer), and water. Major improvements in two of those (sanitation and electric) will affect future rates charged to customers. The new wastewater treatment plant on Second Avenue, financed by $5.2 million in loans, is nearing completion. Since the pre-flood planning stages, it was known that rate increases (estimated at $10 to $12 per month per customer) would be needed to repay those loans. Two federal laws increased the plant’s cost above initial estimates. The Buy American Act limited sources of some plant components, driving up the cost. So did the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires higher “prevailing wage” rates to be paid on projects where federal funds are involved. Now the question facing the BOT is how and when to reflect
• Please get the word out by contacting family and friends, inviting them to participate in the Sock It To ‘Em Campaign. • Buy socks at area retailers. • Deliver the socks to Lyons ReRuns at 437 Main St., the Town Hall at 432 Fifth Ave., or other locations to be announced later. We will set up donation boxes at local area businesses. Lyons ReRuns has already volunteered to collect socks for the homeless. The Lyons Town Hall will also be a drop-off location. We will gather socks until Dec. 31 when we will take the socks collected to a homeless shelter in the Lyons area during the first week of January. The other fun part of the campaign is that all who care to will go to their place of work or leisure without socks on December 9. Will you commit to donating a pair of new, warm socks to the homeless and going without socks on December 9?
the increased costs in “base rates” – the fixed monthly charge to customers that covers capital improvements to the town’s sanitation system. Also contributing to base rate increases is a decline in the number of customers who pay base rates due to property buyouts stemming from the damaged homes during the September 2013 flood. An $11 per month increase in base rates (from $16.65 to $27.65 per month) for the projected 837 customers would produce about $110,000 per year in added revenue, about $67,000 short of the amount ($174,799) needed to cover principal and interest payments on the treatment plant loan, after savings from efficient improvement are taken into account. The BOT and Utilities and Engineering Board (UEB) members reviewed several ways to bridge that gap. One possible source of additional funds is to draw down some of the reserve capital in the Water and Sanitation Fund, which comes from tap fees (currently $17,500 per water tap and $8,500 per sewer tap) collected over the years when new utility customers were added. UEB chair Aaron Caplan and vice chair Steve Wratten noted that one of the main reasons tap fees are collected is to help fund major capital improvements,
such as the new treatment plant, so that this may be an appropriate time to tap into the Water and Sanitation Fund. However, by law and town policy, minimum balances and reserves must be maintained in that fund to cover emergency repairs and any unanticipated loss of revenue, such as a system shutdown that occurred after the 2013 flood. The BOT, in setting the 2016 budget, will have to decide how to balance the costs for the new treatment plant between rate increases, guaranteed operational savings, and reserve fund draw-downs and any other sources of money. A similar issue exists for the electric utility, which eventually needs to replace all electric meters in the system as they wear out. The type of meters the town has been using for years are obsolete, Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen explained. New meters of that type are no longer made or available for purchase, so the town in recent years has been searching for “extras” of that type of meter wherever available in order to postpone the day of reckoning (and expense) for the change to new meters. Sources for the old meters are drying up, Simonsen said, forcing the town to move to a new type of meter. In addition to the new meters themselves, the town will have to acquire the tools (software and hardware) needed to Continue Workshop on Page 14
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41st Annual Lyons Holiday Craft Bazaar LYONS – Mark your calendar. More than 60 artisan crafters will sell their handmade wares in the Lyons Elementary School Gym at the 41st Annual Lyons Holiday Craft Bazaar on Saturday Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Lyons Holiday Craft Bazaar features handcrafted items direct from Colorado artisans. Most artists are on hand to discuss their wares. A wide variety of quality crafts, jewelry, photography, pottery, glass, and textile arts will be found at this event. What’s more, it’s a great opportunity to find unique holiday gifts and accessories. Last year over 1,500 shoppers attended the bazaar. This is a Lyons Continue Briefs on Page 5
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LOCAL Robots in Lyons Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – A robot will soon join the collection (and staff) of the Lyons Regional Library. This robot, nicknamed Baby Bibli, is the work of Jalali Hartman of Robauto, Inc. Hartman, in conjunction with Katherine Weadley, then at the Longmont Public Library, built the first Bibli robot with a $1,500 grant from Oskar Blues’ CAN’d Aid Foundation that librarian Katherine Weadley wrote. The rest of the money came from the Friends of the Longmont Public Library. Weadley, who was working at the Longmont Public Library at the time, first met Hartman in 2014 when the Autism Society of Boulder County referred him to her. “I was looking for a communitycentered place to design and test my robots and they suggested I speak to Katherine,” Hartman said. “So I did.” Bibli, a tall robot with Rastafarian-like
Baby Bibli, at left, of the Lyons Regional Library, and his creator Jalali Hartman hair, came out of that collaboration. Longmont Public Library is now the permanent home for the original Bibli. The name Jalali was given to him by his mother and is pronounced Juh-lolly. His mother was a hippie and named his sister
Radiance. Despite his unusual name Hartman has co-founded or served as the driving force behind four technology startups, generating more than $1 billion in revenue and creating hundreds of jobs in multiple states. Now Hartman’s goals are to make robots accessible to everyone through libraries. Also, he wants people of all ages to better understand the entrepreneurial process. “I actually like robots better for education than a tablet or computer, because they get people away from the endless screens and keyboards,” he said. Hartman, who worked with teenagers in Longmont to build the original Bibli, said that his robots are “for the people by the people.” Hartman, a serial entrepreneur, has been making robots for many years now. In 2014 Hartman was a recipient of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Intellectual Property Champions award for his work. This award was centered on a robot called One, which he originally designed to work with kids on the autism spectrum. Hartman plans to build four Baby Biblis that have a more functional and stream-
lined designs than the original Bibli. The name Bibli was created by Weadley and means in general “book.” As the Director of Lyons Regional Library Weadley is excited to be the first library in the nation to be a recipient of the next generation of this robot. “The robot will greet patrons, roam around, will have the ability to tell stories and is very interactive. It is science and technology and design made accessible to everyone. Plus, it’s designed to be used so kids, teens and adults can control the robot or simply interact with it.” Baby Bibli is just a temporary generic name given to the robot. The design of the robot coming to the Lyons Regional Library is based on a late 70s early 80s punk look. “I thought we might name the robot after Jello Biafra who was born Eric Reed Boucher and raised in Boulder. He was the lead singer and songwriter for the famous punk band the Dead Kennedys,” said Weadley. “Not only is he a big supporter of intellectual freedom (a foundational aspect of libraries), but his sister Julie Boucher worked at the Library Continue Robots on Page 14
New library reading area named for Kathy Ralston By Mark Browning Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Regional Library District Board of Trustees has voted to name the reading area in the new library / community resource center after Lyons resident Kathy Ralston. Browning Kathy Ralston and her husband Dick are longtime supporters of the new library project for the Lyons area. Prior to her death in September, the Ralstons made a generous contribution to help start the planned capital campaign for the new facility. They had also been instrumental in organizing support for the 2014 vote that funded the new library district. Kathy Ralston was a lifetime reader who shared her love for reading with many friends and was an active member of a local book club. She decided that helping to fund a new Lyons library / resource center was a project she believed in, especially a reading area or reading room that all members of the community could use. The Library District Board enthusiastically accepted
the support and voted at a recent meeting to name the reading area or reading room in the new facility in Kathy Ralston’s honor. The new library / resource center is in the early planning stages. A project manager has recently been hired and a community survey is in the works to gather input about desired features and services for the new facility. The survey, expected to be distributed in December, will update a pre-flood survey done in 2012 in which survey responders identified a “quiet reading area” as one of their top choices. A capital campaign for the new library is also currently being planned. A generous matching pledge from a local family will make up to $100,000 of matching funds available for amounts raised in the campaign, including the Ralstons’ initial contributions. The Lyons Regional Library District Foundation has been established as a 501(c)(3) organization for the purpose of conducting the capital campaign and supporting the Library District. For more information, contact the District or Foundation at lyonslibrarydistrict@gmail.com or P.O. Box 619, Lyons CO 80540 or visit the Library District website at http://lyons.colibraries.org/.
Kathy Ralston and her husband Dick were generous contributors to the capital campaign for the new library. She died in September of this year
28th Annual Kids’ Holiday Bike Program gives the gift of two-wheeled wonder By Betsy Welch Redstone Review LYONS – For 28 years, Bicycle Longmont’s annual Kids’ Holiday Bike Program has been delivering joy to area kids in the form of two wheels. Ask people you know if they remember getting their first bikes, and the answer is usually a resounding yes. Bicycle Longmont wants to make sure that no child is left behind when it comes to the opportunities that owning a
bike afford. Bicycle Longmont is a tireless advocate for bike paths built and for road safety, and has also dedicated a significant part of its volunteer effort to collecting and fixing up bikes every year for this giveaway program. Last year the organization gave away each and every one of the 230 bikes that were
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OPTIONS Super El Niño: it’s a mixed bag for Colorado skiing By Kate Zalzal Redstone Review LYONS – El Niño – it’s everyone’s favorite punching bag when the weather gets weird. Not to say this phenomenon isn’t a handy scapegoat: El Niño events are linked to variability in everything Zalzal from monsoons, droughts, and fires to marine life, food supply, and civil conflict. This weather upheaval has great economic consequences, too. Storm clean up following a strong event can run in the billions. But what exactly is El Niño? And as the ski season approaches, what can Colorado expect from the current conditions that are nearing “super” El Niño proportions? The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a coupled oceanic and atmospheric event that occurs in the equatorial Pacific Ocean but that has far reaching impacts across the global climate system. In the United States a strong El Niño event shifts the Pacific storm track south, increasing the likelihood of above average moisture to the southern U.S. while the Polar jet stream, shifted north, often leaves the Pacific and interior North drier and warmer than usual. Western Water Assessment (WWA), in collaboration with National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, held a briefing at CU Boulder in midOctober to discuss El Niño and Colorado’s winter weather outlook. “Colorado is special because of its topography. Our state interacts with storm tracks in ways not apparent in national projections,” said Jeff Lukas, a research specialist at WWA and panelist at the event. Model forecasts predict a peak in strength this winter, followed by a rapid weakening in the spring and a return to neutral, or La Niña, conditions over the summer. Guided by seasonal precipitation comparisons during other strong El Niño events, research meteorologist Klaus Wolter discussed the likelihood of certain weather patterns in Colorado over the next six months. In gener-
al during strong El Niño events, falls in Colorado tend to be wetter with the mountains tending toward drier winters but with strong variability. Above normal spring precipitation is more likely as well. Winter temperatures show little tendency toward mild or cold. Regional geography complicates the picture. Here on the Front Range we have an increased likelihood of more moisture in all seasons, especially the spring. The Front Range has had a big October dump during most strong El Niño years over the past decades, but this year we missed out, an example of what Wolter calls “flavors of El Niño.” He also warned of the chance for big spring snowstorms across the Front Range and reminds folks to stock up on provisions in case of power outages. The North Central mountains, headwaters of the Colorado, Gunnison, Yampa, and North and South Platte Rivers and home to Colorado Champagne, tend to experience a wet fall in strong El Niño years, with winter more likely to be particularly dry. Wolter notes that this has a mixed effect on the ski season as “maybe there’s not as much powder but it’s easier travel and easier to groom because of fewer wind storms.” South in the Sangre de Cristos, San Juans, and in the Rio Grande Basin, the snowpack tends to do better, with a wetter fall and spring and nearly average winter. Late spring snowstorms are common for the region and help pad the average winter with a nice long spring ski season. In the West, discussions of weather variability are invariably followed by concerns about runoff, water supply, and fire risk. In past strong El Niño years, the wet falls and springs have tended to balance out the drier winters, resulting in runoff that has been above normal in Colorado’s major river basins. Fire risk is tricky to predict, gauged by multiple factors including fuel availability, ignition sources, and weather. How and when we transition out of this current strong El Niño has impacts on future fire risk, particularly due to high wind storms associated with La Niña events that may lead to more frequent red flag conditions over the summer.
WHAT IS EL NIÑO? In a neutral year, the Earth’s spin causes easterly trade winds to blow across the vast equatorial Pacific Ocean, piling up water near Indonesia and Australasia. Along the coast of South NOV 1997 America cold water can then rush up from the deep ocean, replacing the warm surface waters that were blown west, and providing deep-ocean nutrients for NOV 1998 vast schools of fish. These conditions set up the weather patterns that determine the extent and timing of precipitation across the globe. Every two to seven years this system seesaws, transitioning from its La Niña cool phase (a strong version of neutral) to its El Niño warm phase. In an El Niño year, trade winds weaken, the low pressure system over the western Pacific diminishes and a warm tongue of water develops and extends far to the east. This shift results in huge amounts of heat and moisture transfer between the ocean and atmosphere that alters the Pacific and Polar jet streams. The month ahead will be critical in setting our precipitation and runoff trajectory through the spring and into the summer. It may be appealing to point to El Niño as the reason you won’t make the Alpine Ski Team this year, but Klaus Wolter reminds us that “a bad day of skiing in Colorado is better than a good day anywhere else, so it will be okay.” Kate Zalzal has a M.Sc. in Geology with a focus on Arctic and Antarctic climate change. She most recently worked on her Ph.D. at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at C.U. and at 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.
Western Stars Gallery and Studio celebrates with a grand opening By Ardelle Gifford Redstone Review LYONS – Western Stars Gallery and Studio held its grand opening on Sunday, Nov. 15, from 3 to 6 p.m. at 160 E. Main St. at the former Outlaw Saloon location. Mayor John O’Brien performed the ribbon cutting along with the three owners of the gallery, Betsy Hubner, Chrystal DeCoster, and Clara Thomas. Local musicians Enion and David Tiller (of TAAR-
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KA) provided musical entertainment. The gallery was packed with well wishers and people anxious to see the artwork. Appetizers and beer and wine were available. Many people commented on the variety and rich diversity of the artists and the artwork. Adjoining the Ax and Oar Tavern and Grill owned by Pat and Betsy Hubner, Western Stars Gallery and Studio celebrates and nurtures the artistic passion in artists, students, and customers by committing to excellence in arts and art education. The gallery, which will continually grow and freshen with the seasons, offers for sale a variety of carefully chosen
fine art, paintings, photography, jewelry, Western antiques, unique home furnishings, and select gifts. The studio offers a space for professional artists to instruct and inspire both children and adults through various mediums. It also provides an ongoing array of quality classes, informational gatherings, and custom-created celebrations. Art classes for adults and children will be offered at the gallery including sip and paint classes. There will be something for everyone. For more information, please email info @ western stars gallery studio. com, see the gallery on Facebook, or call 303-747-3818 or 720-378-3418.
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gourmet and beer-pairing dinners, and other one-of-a kind experiences. This is the Lyons community’s opportunity to support local philanthropy. The annual gala is the LCF’s main source of raising funds for the its Annual Community Support Grants which allows for many important projects that improve the quality of life in the greater Lyons area. Tickets are $75 each and can be purchased at www.lyonsbenefit.org.
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tradition not to be missed. This is one of the few exclusively handcraft fairs in Colorado. This year will also include a raffle to benefit the Lyons Golden Gang for those attending the bazaar. If you choose, you may participate in the raffle by donating one of the items that you have for sale worth at least $10. The Lyons Elementary School PTO sponsors the 2015 Holiday Craft Bazaar. More information, including artist applications can be found at www.lyonscolorado.com.
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LYONS – Don’t miss out on the Lyons Community Foundation’s signature event being held Friday, Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m. at Lionscrest Manor. This is a (Lyons) formal event featuring hors d’oeuvres, dinner, cocktails, live music and dancing, and a live and silent auction. The Experience themed evening features an opportunity to bid on travel and adventure packages including a safari excursion, mountain getaways in Steamboat, Crested Butte, and Breckenridge,
Black Friday Party LYONS – The Corner Studios and Corner Collective Gallery, located at 318 Main St., will be celebrating its third annual Black Friday Party Nov. 27 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. with special guest artist Julia Lunk and her whimsical art, local artisans, live letterpress and a glass of sparkling wine. For more information, call 303-903-2165.
CANiversary and Barnburner at Oskar Blues LYONS – Oskar Blues is celebrating the 13th CANiversary on Friday Nov. 20. The celebration will include another in the Barnburner concert series at Oskar Blues Grill and Brew in Lyons. Tickets are $15 in advance, or $20 at
Mayor John O’Brien cut the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony of the new Western Stars Gallery and Studio on Nov. 15. To his left are the co-owners Chrystal DeCoster, Betsy Hubner and Clara Thomas. the door. This show will consist of Musketeer Gripweed and Hot Soup. The show will start at 6 p.m., and go until at least 11 p.m. The Barnburner concept pays homage to the 100year old barn next door, where Dale’s Pale Ale was canned in 2002, propelling Oskar Blues Brewery to a national reputation, and starting the craft-beer-in-a-can movement. The music will start around 7 p.m., with Musketeer Gripweed, a high-energy band from Fort Collins. The title of Reverend is high on the list when Jason Downing breaks down his many duties in the quintet. Downing, who teaches sociology at Colorado State University, is also serious when he describes the group’s musical style as “American ass-shake-stomp-holler.” Messages of peace and activism come in nuanced forms, including tunes about rising up early in the morning and singing. Such messages could just as easily be a part of blues wails from the 1920s.
LACC 2015 shopping contest LYONS – During the holiday season the Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce, LACC, will be sponsoring a Holiday Shopping Contest. LACC encourages everyone in the Lyons area Continue Briefs on Page 13
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Moose are newcomers to Colorado By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – I was in trouble. Glaring at me from 20 yards away was a cow moose, her ears twitching and her gaze locked onto me. It was spring and I had surprised her in a streamside thicket while fishing and I knew chances were good that somewhere nearby was her calf that she would defend. As I slowly backed away from what could be a very uncomfortable situation, I saw the calf rise up from the grass beside her and begin to nurse. I made good my escape as mama moose glowered at me. An episode like this would have been inconceivable in Colorado just 40 short years ago. It’s hard to believe, given the number of moose sightings in local places like Indian Peaks Wilderness and Rocky Mountain National Park, that moose have only been common in the state for a very short time. Until the 1970s the only moose in Colorado were the occasional interlopers from Wyoming. According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, historic records as far back as the 1850s showed that moose used to wander into northern Colorado but never established a breeding population. There’s some speculation among wildlife biologists that moose might have been extending their range southward and possibly could have become established in Colorado without assistance. But during the 1960s and the early 1970s, the Colorado Division of Wildlife
(now CPW) worked with various agencies, the general public and local ranchers on selecting the North Park area in the Routt National Forest near Walden as the site for the first moose reintroduction. There was abundant habitat and a lack of natural predators. In 1978, state wildlife experts transplanted 24 male and female moose from Wyoming and Utah to North Park. More moose from Wyoming, Utah and Colorado’s own growing population were introduced to other areas of western Colorado over the ensuing years. “The state introduced moose back then when they realized we had the right habitat in the state to support a population,” said Jennifer Churchill, Public Information Officer for the CPW. “Moose have since become a very popular animal with wildlife watchers and hunters.” Churchill cited the importance of hunting as a tool to provide a healthy moose population in balance with available habitat as moose have few natural predators. While the annual take by hunters is around 200 animals per year, the moose population in Colorado has doubled from around 1200 animals in 2008 to 2400 in 2014. The nearby Indian Peaks Wilderness area (where I had my encounter with the moose and her calf) has a viable population of moose, and they are frequently seen close to the Brainard Lake area. The moose in Indian Peaks originated from the North Park transplants, said Churchill.
Moose are the largest members of the deer family, and are found in 15 northern states. The term moose comes from the Algonquin Indian word “mooswa” meaning “eater of twigs,” and the most common place to find moose is in riparian areas (or near water) where there is lots of brush for them to browse on. The moose in Colorado belong to the Shiras subspecies, which are smaller than the subspecies found in Alaska and Canada. Colorado’s
A CPW website cautions on interacting with moose, noting “that moose have very few natural enemies in the wild and, as a result, do not fear humans as much as most other big game species. Moose tolerate a nearby human longer and at closer distances.” CPW cautions that if you do get too close to a moose to stay calm; do not run away; talk, make your presence known and slowly back off in the direction you came. For more
adult moose can run 35 miles per hour, weigh up to 1,000 pounds and stand six feet tall at the shoulder – three good reasons to be careful around the animals. Bull moose can be belligerent during the mating season, which runs from late September through October. And a cow moose with calves will vigorously defend them if she feels they are threatened or if she’s caught off-guard.
information on moose, go to: http : / / cpw. state. co. us / Documents / Wildlife Species / Mammals / Moose Reintroduction Fact Sheet. pdf.
Rave to the Grave nets $12,000 for LEAF By Emily Dusel, Executive Director, LEAF Redstone Review LYONS – The Wild Rumpus sure was wild. The biggest adults-only Halloween Party in Lyons’ history, Rave to the Grave, was held on Friday October 30 at the Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass. The party was a benefit for Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF). “We are so thankful to all of the artists, musicians, partygoers, donors, clients, sponsors, and volunteers for making Rave to the Grave a huge success raising over $12,000. The money raised for LEAF will directly bene-
fit our friends and neighbors in need,” says Tanya Daty, a LEAF board member. Although attendance was free, donations were collected throughout the evening. LEAF envisions a world where our friends and neighbors are cared for in their time of need. LEAF was created by a group of concerned citizens who recognized a gap in accessibility to human services for Lyons residents in need. LEAF is a partner of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center and is fully operational under its 501c3 nonprofit status. LEAF fills a critical need for direct human service provision in the greater Lyons area. LEAF seeks to:
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• Be the local hub for human service integration and coordination; • Help clients access resources at the local, county, and state level – the majority of our clients are underutilizing many resources available to them; • Ensure that no one in the Lyons area goes hungry; • Educate our community around issues of poverty; and • Support our residents recovering from disaster. The music by Arthur Lee Land and the band GoGo Lab was truly out of this world! Along with a video DJ show by Needmore productions, wild costumes, lots of dancing, great food and drink, and fun booths, this party was epic. Congratulations to Jenna Brink for winning the best costume as the mean old lady. Continue LEAF on Page 14
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INSIGHT speaks directly to personal responsibility, self-reliance and a fading rural past. I’m not sure the polls can be believed. These days everyone has their own experts generating their own self-serving statistics that sometimes bear little resemblance to reality. (Mitt Romney was so convinced by his pollsters that he’d win the last presidential election that he didn’t take the usual precaution of writing a concession speech.) But this one seems right based on over half a century spent in and around the hunting subculture.
desire to protect yourself is legitimate, but just having a gun doesn’t accomplish that. Even experienced hunters sometimes get buck fever in the heat of the moment and are unable to locate the safety on a rifle they’ve used for years or eject all their shells without ever pulling the trigger. For that matter, soldiers and police who are trained in combat shooting sometimes make mistakes that would never happen in calmer circumstances. Some of the people who buy guns for protection actually get some training and go to the range periodically to maintain their familiarity with the weapon, but not many. Most just have someone show
Of all the hunters I’ve met, I can count on the fingers of one hand those that were survivalists eagerly awaiting the end of the world or black helicopter types harboring fantasies of overthrowing an oppressive government. Most were simply reasonable, responsible people who liked to hunt and who were interested in firearms as tools of the trade. Some were excellent marksmen; most of the rest were at least unlikely to shoot themselves or someone else by accident. I’m not sure the same can always be said of those who own firearms – usually handguns – for home protection. The
them how to load, unload and shoot the thing and they’ll usually fire it a few times. Then they’ll put it in a bedside drawer as an insurance policy and not give it another thought. Okay, but I’ve used, handled and otherwise been around firearms all my life and still have serious doubts that I could grab a pistol in the middle of the night and successfully go one-on-one with a desperado in a dark house. That’s not to say I wouldn’t try if it ever came to that, but like most of us, I’d probably be better off calling the cops. All these folks believe in the private ownership of guns in one way or another,
Guns are the two-edged sword By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – All through this fall I heard the crackle of small arms fire around our valley as neighbors sighted in their Gierach rifles for hunting season. It’s a symptom of my age and upbringing that this is a cheerful autumn sound reminiscent of the happier parts of my childhood when hunting season was a rite of passage, a big step toward growing up and losing the youthful innocence I’d only get nostalgic for many years later. Now fast forward from my early teens to my late 60s when elk hunting – or more precisely, hauling a large dead animal out of the mountains – became too difficult and I reluctantly gave it up. I missed two seasons entirely and then this year I went up and stayed at the cabin with the two men I’ve hunted with for the last 25 years. Every morning they went out before dawn with their rifles, while I drove to the nearby Frying Pan River to fly fish for trout. It was a pleasant week and the fishing was good, but a habit that’s been ingrained over a lifetime is hard to break, especially in the company of people who are still happily doing it. Which is to say, every morning over coffee I’d spend a few minutes gazing sentimentally at the spot where my elk rifle used to hang by the cabin door. And then I’d go fishing. If the polls can be believed, this is how something like 70 percent of American gun owners feel about their firearms. We fully understand that they’re lethal weapons – gun safety has been drilled into us from adolescence – but we see them more as the implements of a wholesome tradition that
Grant for Lyons free EcoPass expires soon By Dawn Weller Redstone Review LYONS – With the year’s end approaching, you have a few more weeks to get out and use your EcoPass. The grant for the Lyons EcoPass expires at the end of this year. Funded by grants from both Denver Weller Regional Council of Government (DRCOG) and Boulder County, the program was originally slated to end last year. But due to savings from the flood, schedule adjustments, and funding from the Town, the EcoPass was extended to the end of 2015. Lyons ridership data from RTD shows that about 120 individuals ride the Y on a regular basis. Cost to extend the program for 2016 would be around $38,000, and could
be increased up to 10 percent per year, although RTD tries to limit price increases to every two to three years. Working with Boulder County, the Sustainable Futures Commission (SFC) and town staff were unable to find any other funding sources or grants to continue the program. In addition, the Y midday routes will also be ending Dec. 31. These routes are funded by Boulder County and the grant period expires at the same time. A recent poll of AM/PM commuters revealed that approximately 65 percent of the riders had an EcoPass from their employers (or had the option to obtain one). The SFC has reached out to the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF) to partner in locating funds for single bus passes for those in need. In addition, SFC is also available to assist with exploring other transportation alternatives, including carpooling, vanpool-
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but – and here’s the crux of the thing – they – or I should say “we” – recognize that at the same time gun violence is out of control and something has to be done about it, although exactly what remains an open question. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2013 there were 11,208 gun deaths in the U.S. by homicide, 21,175 more by suicide, 505 by accident and another 281 cases where the intent was undetermined. That’s a total of 33,169 gun deaths in one more or less representative year, or four times the number of Americans who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined since they began. Those are wars we got into – rightly or wrongly – in response to the deaths of 2,977 Americans in the terrorist attacks in September of 2001. Statistics don’t tell the whole story and comparing some deaths to others doesn’t amount to moral equivalency, but it still seems fair to ask why we’d go to war over the killings of 3,000 Americans, but be unable or unwilling to do anything at all about ten times that many every year. I don’t mean to say that I feel guilty about owning guns. I came by them legally and responsibly, I use them – when I use them – in the same way, and I’m not interested in giving up that right. But I am willing to accept some reasonable restrictions in the interest of the general welfare. By the same token, I feel I have a right to drive, but don’t mind having to carry a valid driver’s license and obey the speed limit. And as a writer I cherish my freedom of speech, but understand it doesn’t extend to libel, inciting violence or shouting “fire” in a crowded theater. But with those few reasonable limitations, I can still drive anywhere I want and I can still speak my mind.
ing, and car share programs to provide transportation options and reduce single occupancy vehicle travel to and from Lyons. If you have interest in participating in or leading one of these efforts, please contact Toby Russell, the Town Sustainability Coordinator (trussell@townoflyons.com). In the meantime, Lyons mayor, John O’Brien is participating in the Transportation Advisory Committee meetings, along with other Boulder County communities, to assess and promote a countywide EcoPass program. The planning will incorporate input and seek support from all the communities in the county, and it is hoped that a countywide EcoPass program will become a ballot initiative in the next year or two. Dawn Weller is a member of the Lyons Board of Trustees. She was elected in April 2014 to a second two-year term. She is the liaison from the town board to the Sustainable Futures Commission.
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HOLIDAYS Exciting Thanksgiving sides make traditional meals sparkle By Catherine Ripley Metzger Redstone Review LYONS – There is no need to stress over preparing Thanksgiving dinner. Interesting and colorful side dishes can make the dinner unique. I ran into Angie at Sur le Table, in Boulder, who was waiting in line next to me hugging a large turkey-roasting pan. She announced that she was hosting Thanksgiving at her house this year. She asked nervously, “Do you know any exciting side dishes?” The cashier apologized to her. Most of their cookbooks had been sold, she said. I offered her the name of my website, foodfortheages.com, and told her that I would post a few Exciting Thanksgiving Sides for her to consider. Every host or hostess wants the flavors on their Thanksgiving table to sing and sparkle and connect with the different tastes of their hungry guests. Some want to try and make the old-tried-and-true recipes new and exciting. Some are tired of the brownish / brown-green color of the usual suspects on a Thanksgiving spread: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, rolls... Other people are allergic, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free – you name it. Food preferences are big right now in our gustatory pursuit of health. But no need to tread on eggshells – you’ve got this. I love all the traditional foods found on the Thanksgiving table and then some. Below are a few. Then, some recipes for Exciting Thanksgiving Sides for you to consider as you build out your banquet. The following salad is colorful, delicious and is interpreted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbook, Plenty More. I used green cabbage in mine, but the red
cabbage makes the dish more festive looking. This recipe is vegetarian but is easily made vegan with substitutions for the sour cream and mayo. Sort of Waldorf Salad 1/4 of a red cabbage, shredded 2 Granny Smith or other tart green apples, halved, cored, then quartered and sliced thinly with skin on 6 celery stalks, cut into 1/4 in. slices 1/4 C toasted slivered almonds or hazelnuts 1/4 of a purple onion, thinly sliced 1/2 C dried tart cherries 1/2 C fresh dill, chopped Mayonnaise 1 small shallot, finely chopped 1 C real mayonnaise, such as Hellman’s 2/3 C sour cream 1 t maple syrup 1 t Dijon mustard 1 T cider vinegar Roast the nuts scattered on a cookie sheet, either on the top of the stove or in the oven at 325 degrees F for 30 minutes, until they are perfectly dry and crisp. Let them cool, then crush roughly. Set aside. Place the cabbage, celery, apples, cherries, dill, onion and mayonnaise and 1/2 t salt and some ground black pepper in a large bowl. Combine the mayonnaise ingredients in a blender and blend until just mixed. Mix the mayonnaise and the salad mixture together and chill thoroughly. Before serving, scatter the nuts on top. Beets in Vinaigrette Dressing My mother always served delicious pickled beets with onions in the fall. Here
LCF awards 2015 grantees Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – Through the annual Community Support granting cycle, Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) is proud to provide financial support to a variety of worthy projects that improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving and encourage positive change in the greater Lyons area. Your commitment to the Lyons Community Foundation allows for important community based philanthropy to continue and to directly fund projects that may not otherwise occur. Thank you for your generous support. This is where the money goes:
is a slightly Frenchified version that always gets high marks. Salad 1 lb. cooked and peeled beets, cut to matchstick size 1 T sweet onion, chopped 1 T chopped parsley Dressing 3 T olive oil 1 T tarragon vinegar (use 1/4 t tarragon with white wine or white vinegar if you don’t have tarragon vinegar) 1/4 t Dijon mustard 1/2 t sugar Salt and pepper Use canned matchstick beets, or cook your own beets and cut into julienne. Note: Orange beets cook to yellow, not orange. I used red beets. Mix dressing together and combine with the beets, onion and chopped parsley. Cover and refrigerate, turning occasionally with a spoon.
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Smoked Whitefish Never underestimate the power of a whole, smoked whitefish! Served with baguette croutons it is amazing. These are sold at stores such as Ideal Market, Lucky’s and Whole Foods, in Boulder. Always a big hit. And super simple. If you’re looking for more recipes for Exciting Thanksgiving Sides, please check out my website found at foodfortheages.com or at Facebook.com/foodfortheages.com. There’s Cauliflower and Cumin Fritters with Lime Yogurt and Tomato Pomegranate Salad as well as many more recipes. All are food-for-theages kitchen tested. Thanks for reading and Happy Thanksgiving!
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Catherine Metzger lives in Lyons with her mother, husband, youngest daughter and three dogs. She has been cooking both professionally and at home since 1979. Her food blog is foodfortheages.com and Facebook.com/food for the ages.com.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in the Lyons area By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS Art and music at the Stone Cup – Tyler Voorhees will continue to show his work, the Jobs of Yesteryear, through the end of the year. It’s a whimsical glimpse Wu back in time at the occupations that many folks once held, before machines changed the way we work. Always drawn to the art of storytelling, Voorhees explores the combination of history and surrealism, depicting historic scenes using his long-limbed and whimsical characters collaged onto the canvas. Voorhees’ reception at the cafe is on Saturday, December 5, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. It will be a great opportunity for people to chat about his work and where this series is heading in 2016. Check out his great images and his bio. http://www.tylervoorheesart.com. The music line-up for the month includes: On Saturday, Nov. 21 Thomas Gronberg will perform folk / rock from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; on Sunday, Nov. 22 there will be a pie contest and no music; on Saturday, Nov. 28 James Faulk will perform folk / classic rock from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; on Sunday, Nov. 29 Aural Elixir performs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; on Saturday, Dec. 5 Antonio Lopez performs jazz-rock-folk fusion from 10 a.m. until noon; on Sunday, Dec. 6 Jay Stott performs modern folk / acoustic soul from 10 a.m. until noon; on Saturday, Dec. 12 James Faulk will perform folk / classic rock from 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m.; on Sunday, Dec. 13 Maya Bennett will perform folk / blues from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The café is located on Fifth Avenue and High Street. For more information, please call 303-823-2345 or visit www.thestonecup.com. BOULDER Boulder Chorale 50th Anniversary Season: Sharing Our Love of Song – The Boulder Chorale announces its 50th Anniversary season with exciting concerts, a new initiative, a Colorado premiere, and a world
Lady Elk with a Lion’s Tail, a painting by Annie Berman, was featured at the Hope and Harvest art show at LyonsTown Hall. The show was presented by the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission. More photos appear on page 14. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS premiere commissioned for the 50th celebration. With a new artistic director, Dr. Vicki Burrichter, the Chorale promises a season of enticing performance events. Upcoming is the Boulder Children’s Chorale performing with the full ensemble of the Nutcracker, Macky
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Auditorium at the University of Colorado-Boulder, from Nov. 27 through Nov. 29. Tickets for the Nutcracker are available through boulderphil.org. During the Chorale’s 50th Anniversary Season, the group will collaborate with the Boulder Ballet, Downtown Boulder Inc., Meals on Wheels, CU’s Ralphie’s Ramblers, Historic Boulder, and Kutandara Marimba Experience. The chorale’s five groups, the100plus-voice adult choir, the 24-voice chamber choir, and the three choirs that comprise the Boulder Children’s Chorale, will perform at Macky Auditorium, Atonement Lutheran Church, First United Methodist Church, the Broomfield Auditorium. Highlights of the 50th Anniversary Season include: • A holiday concert, All My Heart This Night Rejoices, combining all five Boulder Chorale choruses to celebrate the oneness that underlies all spiritual communities in this special season. Performances are Dec. 11 and Dec. 13 at First United Methodist in Boulder. For tickets visit boulderchorale.org. • Misa Tariro: Mass of Hope, on March 11 and 13, 2016; the work is a prayer of hope for those caught in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, an extravaganza of sound with chorus and the Kutandara marimba orchestra. The music was written by Kutandara founder Randy McIntosh, and was originally commissioned by the chorale. • Premiere of River of Entangled Voices, commissioned for the Boulder Chorale’s 50th anniversary and composed by the young and brilliant Trevor Villwock. • The Colorado Premiere of Dave Brubeck’s To Hope! A Celebration for choir and jazz ensemble. • One Song, One Boulder, a grant-funded project in which community groups, musical and non-musical, will post videos to social media of themselves singing Sing (Sing a Song) of Sesame Street and the Carpenters fame, inspiring the whole community to sing together for the love of song (BoulderChorale.org/concerts/one-song-one-boulder/). Tickets for the November Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boulder Nutcracker collaboration and the December Holiday concert are on sale now. Other concerts available soon. BoulderChorale.org/concerts/seaContinue A&E on Page 14
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FOUNDATION Fighting terrorism may require restrictions on our rights By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review PUEBLO – As I write this, on the morning following the terrorist attacks in Paris, I am reminded of the fundamental truth of Joyce these times: Terrorism is the easiest act of war to commit, and all of us, therefore, are vulnerable to it. No matter how many police are on duty, no matter how strict the gun control and curfew laws may be, no matter whether a state of emergency has been declared and no matter how many terrorists have been killed or imprisoned, those who are deeply committed to killing any and all of us will always be able to find the means to kill some of us. And like the Viet Cong and many other terrorists and guerrilla fighters of previous centuries, if they lose significant numbers of fighters in their attacks on us, they will melt into the population and strike in small ways until they can hit us with a sledge hammer blow somewhere down the road. That we, because of our values, feel morally right and therefore righteous in our police and military responses to their attacks and atrocities is small comfort when a handful of them can kill hundreds or even thousands of us. In fact, everything we are doing to combat terrorism, other than betraying our own values by behaving in a way as disturbingly psychotic as theirs, in our response to them is justified and sound. Calling on each other to stand in soli-
darity against the evils they commit, assisting law enforcement in every way to head off terrorist activities, being vigilant and without fear or knee-jerk reactions (such as blaming all Muslims for the actions of radical jihadists) in the face of such attacks, caring for the victims of terrorism and their families – all of it is how the democratic nations of the planet should respond, even when the attacks are in their own homes, so to speak. But we must be careful that we do not begin the long, terrible spiral into paranoia that can lead to the brutality of police states, the witch hunts of the inquisition of the Middle Ages or the Cold War Communist-hunting frenzy of the 1950s in this country. We must work harder now than ever before, perhaps, to preserve the rights we have cherished in Western democracies, even if we find it necessary for our collective safety to institute certain restrictions on their practical applications in everyday life. So, for example, regarding gun control, the U.S. Supreme Court already has established that we have the right to bear arms, period, and that right is not contingent on our involvement in a “well-regulated militia,” but the application of that right can, nevertheless be restricted in certain ways for the welfare of the entire nation. So our representative government can set limits on what kinds of arms we may bear or how many rounds of ammo their magazines may contain, etc. Where the lines of those restrictions eventually end up being drawn is something legislative bodies and courts will work out over time, perhaps a very long
time. The same is true of other rights. In First Amendment case law, the principle of using time, place and manner restrictions on free speech and press rights has long been established, and in the years following the 9/11 attacks, we have
accepted restrictions on our freedom of movement in the form of security checks at airports, other transportation hubs and many government and private buildings throughout the nation. In time, no one will remember a world
in which such restrictions did not exist, much as the current generation has no concept of a world without computers. The hope, of course, is that someday there will be no terrorism, so such restrictions will fade into non-existence. Meanwhile, resisting the restrictions in lawful ways is healthy in a democratic society and will help ensure that those we place in governance don’t take things too far. And there’s another danger we must resist in our response to attacks in this Age of Terrorism: the tendency to become desensitized to the reality of this violence, which causes untold pain and suffering. In the classic film, Brazil, the bureaucratic order of society is constantly under attack by terrorists, so much so that in one scene, as the main character, his mother and several others lunch at an upscale restaurant, a terrorist bomb explodes a few yards away, tearing a huge hole in the wall, killing a group of diners at a nearby table and causing dust and falling chunks of plaster to disrupt the conversation at the main character’s table. After a sarcastic comment by his mother about the inconvenience, and a hurried cleanup by restaurant staff, who replace the blown-to-bits table nearby, scrub away the blood left by the blown-to-bits diners at that table, and place a drape over the huge hole in the wall, the mood and conversation in the restaurant return to normal, as if other more significant than a car backfire had occurred. In these times, we must accept the reality of terrorism, and we must accept that restrictions may of necessity be placed on some of the rights we take for granted, but we must never allow ourselves to become Continue Terrorism on Page 14
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What’s the fix for affordable housing in Lyons? Four updates after seven months By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review LYONS – I have updates in four areas this month about affordable housing: two Habitat for Humanity proposals; the Reinholds application for the National Disaster Resiliency Competition for a new neighborhood with affordable housing; and an upcoming survey to help Lyons elected officials and staff make decisions about affordable housing policy. Proposed neighborhood east of Hwy. 36 and Hwy. 66 The Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) and the Board of Trustees discussed the vision for housing in the planning area east of town at a combined workshop November 9. Language in the Lyons Comprehensive Plan already allows for an “employment area” land use type in the eastern corridor that includes complementary uses to meet the needs of employees including “highdensity residences.” Commissioners and trustees discussed clarifying the vision, and the topic is set for future PCDC agendas. The town has applied for funds from the National Disaster Resiliency Competition for affordable housing as part of a new neighborhood and community center at former Longmont water treatment plant and the surrounding area.
The town applied with the State of Colorado, and awarded funds will be announced by late January. Possible Habitat for Humanity duplex on Railroad Avenue At a November 2 workshop, the trustees supported town staff pursuing more information about the possibilities for a Habitat for Humanity duplex at Railroad and Third Avenues. Cody Humphrey, Lyons housing recovery coordinator, gave an update about a possible duplex on the triangular 0.2 acre parcel, east of the post office, which he has been exploring with David Emerson, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley. The parcel is part of the railroad rightof-way land that the Town of Lyons purchased in 1986 and is zoned R-2, a zoning that allows residential use. The current use as a parking lot is actually considered a non-compliant use, according to the town’s R-2 zoning regulations. Six proposed Habitat for Humanity homes on the south end of the former Valley Bank site The PCDC decided to continue the public hearing for final rezoning and subdivision of Park Street and Second Avenue to November 23, allowing more time for some final steps to be completed. The application is to subdivide the currently zoned B-Business zone into one PUD-C Commercial lot for the existing former
bank building, and six new single-family lots zoned as PUD-R Residential for three duplexes along the north side of Park Street. On Nov. 2 the trustees unanimously approved the second reading of the preliminary plan for subdivision, including recommended conditions from the PCDC, but additional items must be completed by the final rezoning and subdivision steps. Back in June, the trustees voted unanimously to waive the tap fees and water share fees that they have control over for
current round of federal disaster recovery funds awarded to Habitat for Humanity, which affects the timing of funding of the Lyons project. There will be another chance for the public to give input on the rezoning and subdivision at the November 23 PCDC meeting. If the PCDC approves the final rezoning and subdivision, then it could go to the trustees for final approval in December. Town staff is looking into an agreement between the Town of Lyons and the City of Boulder or the City of Longmont, which both have affordable homeownership programs, so those departments could serve as agent for Lyons to administer the resale requirements to meet the covenant of deed restrictions. Upcoming affordable housing survey If all goes as planned, Lyons residents will have an opportunity to say how they feel about affordable A Habitat for Humanity duplex in Oakland, CA. housing in Lyons in a survey that the Special the 6 proposed Habitat for Humanity Housing Committee is working on for the homes, totaling about $173,500 in savings, end of 2015 or early 2016. Results are helping Habitat for Humanity meet its per- expected to shape a Town of Lyons affordmitting and fees budget, which helps keeps able housing policy. The special housing mortgages down to around $150,000 for committee has arranged pro-bono survey homeowners. Current owner Craig creation and administration from a Ferguson has a contract to sell the six lots research firm that assists government and for $50,000 each to Habitat for Humanity, nonprofit sections with public opinion pending the final subdivision process. research. The delay also gives Emerson time to This is the eighth month that I’ve been get direction from the Colorado Habitat Continue Housing on Page 12 for Humanity Board allocations of the
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CONNECTION A raw food diet may not be healthy for pets By Dr. Alexandra Pauls, Surgical Intern Redstone Review LONGMONT – As a culture, we’ve begun to pay a lot of attention to the food we eat. We know that diet can have a significant impact on our health, and it’s only natural that we would want to extend this same consideration to our whole family – including our pets. For a growing number of pet owners, this has come to mean the incorporation of uncooked food in their pets’ diets. Raw food diets come in a variety of forms, both commercially produced and home-prepared, but despite growing popularity, owners may be surprised to learn that there is very little peerreviewed research supporting or refuting the diet’s purported benefits. The nutritional needs of our furry family members are just as complex as our own, requiring specific nutrients based on species, age, lifestyle, and state of health. As such, it can be very challenging to meet all of our pets’ nutritional demands. This presents one of the major potential hazards of raw diets – many homemade and commercially available options are not nutritionally complete or have significantly inappropriate ratios of key components, and these inadequacies can result in clinically significant deficiencies. One study reviewing homemade raw-food diets for dogs reported that ten percent of diets had less than 25 percent of recommended calcium, half did not meet the requirement for iodine, a
Housing Continued from Page 11 writing my “What’s the fix for affordable housing in Lyons?” column in the Redstone Review. So far, no new affordable housing has been created in Lyons since the September 2013 flood, but there are some proposals underway that could happen. In case you can’t tell from the column heading, this is a column, or a commentary, which means that I include my opinion and my personal observations. I have asked both Lyons papers to label it as commentary, but sometimes the label is missed, or the headlines are changed.
quarter only had 70 percent of the recommended Vitamin A, and 60 percent had imbalance ratios of calcium to phosphorus or excessive iodine (Dillitzer, 2011). Too much, too little, or the wrong proportion of any nutritionally important element can result in disease and growth abnormalities. There are options to make certain that your pet is getting a correctly balanced diet. For those interested in homemade diets, the University of Tennessee can formulate a nutritionally complete and balanced diet to meet your needs for general purpose, disease-specific, or allergy requirements. http: / / www.vet.utk.edu / clinical / sacs / nutrition.php. The myriad of pathogens in uncooked meat also present a potential danger to pets and owners alike. One study on commercially prepared and homemade raw diets detected Salmonella, Campylobacter, Shiga toxic E. coli., Clostridium, as well as a number of parasites and viruses (LeJeune, 2001). An additional study of commercially available raw diets found Salmonella contamination in 21 percent of samples, most commonly in products containing raw chicken, but also in diets with lamb, turkey, buffalo, and other meat sources. Several of the Salmonella types sampled were also noted to have antibiotic resistance (Finley, 2007). In another study of 200 dogs over a oneyear
period, researchers found that while 8 percent of dogs fed kibble or cooked diets shed Salmonella, the bacteria was shed by 61 percent of dogs fed raw meat (Lefebvre, 2007). Salmonella is communicable to humans, but may not produce any clinical signs in pets. In some cases it can cause mild diarrhea or gastrointestinal upset, but severe cases, when the bacteria migrates into the bloodstream, can be fatal. Prevention and early treatment are critical in achieving a good outcome. Some studies have shown positive health benefits, but with a caveat. In the study of Salmonella-shedding in pets, researchers found that dogs fed a raw meat diet had fewer incidences of some infections, including those of the urinary tract and skin, but there was no difference in the likelihood of being diagnosed with other major diseases (Lefebvre, 2007). Currently there is not enough evidence to support or refute the health benefits of feeding a raw-food diet, but any pet owner interested in the trend should be aware of the danger of nutritional inadequacy and the potential for zoonotic disease. Here are recommendations for minimizing risks when feeding raw food as a complete or supplemental diet: • Ensure that the diet is nutritionally complete and balanced; • Maintain proper food handling by wearing gloves, washing hands, and keeping food at the recommended temperature; • Dispose of feces daily to minimize environmental contamination; • Do not feed raw diet to pets that will come into contact with individuals more susceptible to sickness, including the young, old, pregnant, and immune-compromised; • Monitor your pets for any signs of gastrointestinal disease and seek veterinary advice.
If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this column, please contact me directly at areinholds@hotmail.com. I can handle it. People in the Lyons community who have lost their homes have gone through a lot more than I ever will writing for newspapers. I aim to keep writing this column at least until the first affordable housing after the flood breaks ground in Lyons. Keep following my columns in both Lyons papers for news about any accomplishments to increase affordable hous-
ing stock in Lyons. The next meeting of the special housing committee is scheduled for November 18 at the Town Hall annex (behind the Barking Dog Café) from 5:30 to 7 p.m. All housing committee meetings are open to the public. Check the town calendar at www.townoflyons.com.
“Blue moon you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own.” Do the lyrics of the classic song describe you? If so, we can help. With a lovable cat like Blue Moon, you’ll never stand, sit or slouch alone again and your heart will be filled with love. Lose the blues and come by and meet this gorgeous golden-eyed girl during Adopt a Senior Pet Month. More than 200 animals are waiting for forever families at Longmont Humane Society. Visit them at www.longmonthumane.org, and then come meet them at the shelter today. As always, involve your veterinarian. Feel free to discuss nutrition and disease risk with your family practitioner. Dr. Alexandra Pauls is a Surgical Intern at Aspen Meadow Veterinary Specialists. AMVS is a 24-hour veterinary facility providing specialty internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, oncology, neurology, 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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LARIMER COUNTY – Join the Little Thompson Watershed Restoration Coalition for an anniversary celebration. On Thursday, Dec. 3 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. members of the staff and Board of Directors will host an open house gathering at the Berthoud Community Center (248 Welch Ave., Berthoud) to commemorate the successes made by the Little Thompson watershed community and supporters since the coalition’s inception in late 2013. The coalition invites residents, landowners, and those who have participated in volunteer restoration projects or other work throughout the watershed to share images and stories from projects that have helped to restore the watershed. .
BOT Continued from Page 1 Colorado Department of Transportation, (CDOT) would have to approve the changes and also agree to not require rebidding the entire project. Simonsen said answers from CDOT were being requested by the end of the week to avoid further delays to the construction schedule. Mayor John O’Brien offered that the BOT would meet on an emergency basis if needed to consider any required contract amendments. In staff reports Administrator Victoria Simonsen spoke on the 404 buyouts. A meeting with federal and state elected officials or their staffs last Friday brought renewed promises on the State level (where the main holdups seem to be) to move the Lyons buyouts forward. Hardships on property owners and the town were reviewed in detail. But nonetheless, only one has been done to date. Two more are scheduled for November 30, with more planned for December. But Simonsen did not seem wholly confident that the state agencies involved will be able to complete the buyouts by then. A November 30 workshop is scheduled on location options for the new Public Works Building, with Trestle Strategies to present a report and recommendations. A hearing scheduled on an ethics complaint against Trustee Lavern Johnson was mostly a non-hearing, with Johnson having acknowledged an unintentional violation by sending an email to a town staffer containing information that the BOT had discussed in executive session. Town attorney Tim Cox investigated the complaint and suggested to the BOT that a
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Call for Submissions: If you have photos from your debris clean-up project, a planting day, a community fundraiser, or other highlights since flood recovery began that you would like to share with the coalition, please send digital files to Erin Cooper at erin@ltwrc.org by November 30 with photo credits and a brief description of the images. For more information contact Erin S. Cooper, Assistant Watershed Coordinator, Little Thompson Watershed Restoration Coalition at erin@ltwrc.org. or 970-821-5604.
Tupelo Honey and Rapidgrass at High Street Concerts LYONS – It’s been 13 years for High Street Concerts and we’re calling it our Lucky Season because we have so much great talent. In addition to a great night of music, in our community holiday spirit tradition we’ll be collecting canned goods and donations for LEAF – Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund. On Dec. 12 High Street Concerts will open our evening with Tupelo Honey at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) at Rogers Hall on Fourth Avenue and High Street. Lyons-based quartet Tupelo Honey offers a swingy, folksy mix of music with great harmonies and rich tones. Then we welcome Rapidgrass, the winner of the 2015 RockyGrass Band Contest. Many of us were watching at this year’s packed Wildflower Pavilion – the music was electrifying, with a never-before additional play-off round.! Tickets are available online now at www.highstreetconcerts.com and in person at the Stone Cup in Lyons. Get your tickets early – we expect a sold-out show!
full hearing with presentation of evidence, testimony and argument was not essential, due to the “accused” (Johnson) having essentially admitted to the facts in a letter also expressing remorse for her actions. Based on Cox’s advice that sanctions could be limited to a written reprimand, Trustee Dan Greenberg so moved, stating on the record that Johnson’s contributions to the town in many capacities over many years were “unquantifiable” compared to the one-time ethics issue. The BOT-as-Ethics-Board then voted for a written reprimand and having Johnson attend a refresher course on open meetings and executive sessions. Trustee Johnson accepted the “verdict,” and again apologized profusely for having made a mistake, recognizing that some might say “the old hen got her just desserts.” Mayor O’Brien reiterated that the BOT considered Lavern Johnson a “valued trustee” and that “we, like everyone in the town, love you.” Also at the BOT meeting, Sgt. Nick Goldberger of the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office discussed possible video cameras (up to four) to be installed on major highways entering and exiting Lyons. The cameras would be useful both for crime detection and investigations, as well as monitoring road and river conditions, Goldberger said. The town might be asked to contribute as much as $28,000 to help install the system, which is not yet approved by the county or the town. Board members asked Finance Director Tony Cavalier if grant funds might cover those costs. Trustee Dan Greenberg also noted that town residents would have to be assured the cameras were not intended to “surveil citizens.”
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Workshop Continued from Page 3 run them and pay the cost to train public works employees how to run the system. The new meters will provide some benefits over the old meters. The new meters will provide improved meterreading. They will also have remote controls, so Public Works employees won’t have to drive around to do onsite shutoffs. The town is already the process of raising electric rates because the main electricity supplier, the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska (MEAN), substantially raised wholesale prices in recent years. The town decided to pass through the added cost by gradually increasing winter electric rates over a four-year period: by onefourth of the added cost each year for four years. The rate increase schedule could be altered (accelerated) to pay for the new metering system.
LEAF Continued from Page 6 Local artist Kahlie Sue Pinello took the lead on artistic vision and decorations along with her team of Wendy Miller and Claudia Kean and, wow, did they deliver. From blood lining the walls, to old-fashioned carnival booths, this team blew it out of the water! Booths with all kinds of fun activities lined the walls of the pavilion. Thanks to Lyons Mane (body art), the Polar Bear (whiskey slap), Nancy Arp and Carol Lee (fortune teller), Button Rock Bakery and Harry Kellogg (connect 4), Hogwash (double dog dares), Gateway Windows and Doors (photo booth), and Mayama (dancing screen). Planet Bluegrass donated the venue, staff time, and proceeds from alcohol sales directly to LEAF. This event would not have been possible without this generosity. Thank you to Craig Ferguson, Eric
The UEB representatives presented the BOT with an option that would increase winter electric use rates by 0.0065 per kilowatt hour for 2016 – roughly a 6 percent increase in winter use rates (but not base rates) over current rates. BOT members discussed whether the reserve capital in the Electric Fund could be tapped to cover some of the new metering system cost, but the Electric Fund is not in the same secure financial condition as the Water and Sanitation Fund. The town has struggled in recent years to keep positive annual cash flows to the Electric Fund. By law, the fund cannot run an annual deficit. As with sanitation rates, the BOT will have to decide at its final budget hearing and at rate hearings how to cover the projected costs. The BOT got better news from the UEB representatives about the water utility. It is projected to produce positive cash flow this year and during 2016, with no big
Kean, and all of the Planet Bluegrass staffers that helped. Rave to the Grave sponsors covered all of the hard costs of the event, allowing every dollar raised that night to go directly to LEAF’s programs. Thank you to premier sponsor Headquarters Cannabis Company. Sponsors included Wild by Design, Conner Construction, CARE, Capable Kids, Mama Heather’s Childcare, Lyons Sandstone, and LeGault Construction. Thank you to Ax & Oar for providing delicious food. And lastly, thank you to the Lyons Community Foundation for being a major funder of LEAF. This holiday season, please consider a donation to LEAF and help all residents in need. For more information, go to www.leaflyons.org. Emily Dusel is the executive director of Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund, LEAF. She lives with her family in Lyons.
A&E Continued from Page 9 son-concerts-events/. Full season information available at BoulderChorale.org/concerts/. Boulder Bach Festival presents its historic 35th season – The winter sees the continuation of a special year for the Boulder Bach Festival and its musicians. On Friday, Dec. 5, and Saturday, Dec. 5, the Boulder Bach Festival music director and violin soloist Zachary Carrettin performs the Vivaldi and Piazzolla Seasons with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Bahman Saless, conductor. Comparing and contrasting Vivaldi’s pro-
NOVEMBER 18 / DECEMBER 16, 2015 immediate capital projects that would require rate increases. Simonsen, however, reminded the BOT that a pre-flood project that had begun testing for water line leaks and replacing faulty joints or pipes needs to be resumed. Before making final budget decisions, the BOT expects to get some additional information from the UEB, including whether MEAN expects any further increases in electricity rates during 2016, what options there are for phasing in the infrastructure costs for the new electric meters, and how a cost-savings guarantee from Honeywell on the new wastewater treatment plan can be allocated to cover some plant operating expenses. Mark Browning is the Lyons Regional Library District Board President. The district roughly follows the boundaries of the Lyons Fire Protection District. He lives in Lyons.
Onstage at Rave to the Grave. LEAF’s Haloween costume event raised $12,000. PHOTO BY GABRIEL DATY
grammatic masterpiece with Piazzolla’s tango-inspired works, the ensemble performs on baroque period and modern bows, and Carrettin performs on acoustic as well as electric violin. On Dec. 20, at the Mountain View Methodist Church in Boulder, the Boulder Bach Festival teams with the Boulder Philharmonic, with Gary Lewis conducting, for the classic that makes everyone’s Christmas, Händel’s Messiah. For tickets and detailed information, please go to wwwboulderbachfestival.org or call 303-776-9666.
Robots Continued from Page 4 Research Service in Denver where I used to work.” Julie Boucher tragically died in a climbing accident and now the Colorado Association of Libraries gives the Julie J. Boucher Award for Intellectual Freedom every year. “This name connects the punk aspect with libraries,” said Weadley. However, there may be some trademark issues with “Jello.” Hartman’s ultimate goal is to receive input on the functionality and design of the robot from the patrons of Lyons Regional Library. “I think Lyons area is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activity and everyone is encouraged to give input and interact,” he said. The robot, which is almost finished, will likely come to the library in early 2016. “We’ll let everyone know and have a welcome to Lyons party for our robot,” said Weadley. Also trying to move to Lyons is Hartman. Hartman would love to live in Lyons and is looking for a rental for himself and his two chocolate Labradors named Grace and Bear.
LCF Continued from Page 8 • 2015 Lyons Community Foundation Scholarships: $1,000 Award to each of the following student recipients: Lyons Community Foundation Scholarship – Emily Schneider; In memory of Steve Ralston – Kate Berreman, Madison Wright; Gerald Boland Memorial Scholarship – Jenna Anderson and Mikayla Roth; • Joel Mack Memorial Scholarship: Lauren Simms and Zach Christiansen. For more information on any of our grant recipients, LCF scholarship programs and Rebuild Lyons work please visit our website: lyonscf.org.
Terrorism Continued from Page 10 insensitive to the real pain, the senseless deaths of innocent people and the horrendous destruction wrought by terrorists. If we slip into numbness regarding these realities, we will become ever less human, and that’s the road to real terror we should all fear to travel.
At the Hope and Harvest LAHC art show reception, Nov. 17 at Town Hall. Clockwise from top left: Enion and David Tiller, of Taarka, playing at the opening; Artist Mimi Elmore; Painting by Mimi Elmore; LAHC board members Betsy Hubner, Chrystal DeCoster, and Mary Magdalena. PHOTOS BY CATHY RIVERS
Richard A. Joyce is an associate professor in the mass communications department at Colorado State UniversityPueblo. 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.