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BOT looks at a possible solution for affordable housing, and sales tax increase goes to a vote By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review LYONS – The big excitement around Lyons these days is the competition that Lyons has entered under the state of Colorado’s application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for $419 million for disaster relief funding. Colorado is hoping to get a share of the $1 billion pot of money that HUD and the Rockefeller Foundation are offering in a National Disaster Resiliency Competition (NDRC). The competition is designated for areas that have suffered major disasters; the qualifications are to create sustainable, resilient and self-sufficient solutions for rebuilding or creating new models for the damaged areas. About 40 states and municipalities are competing for portions of the funding.
Colorado has made it to stage 2 of the competition. Lyons is asking for $6.75 million to use for a large mixed-use development at the east end of Lyons along Colorado Highway 66, known as the eastern corridor. The mixed-use development would include a wide variety of business uses as well as housing. The town has been planning to develop this area for many years as a business park. Part of the original plan was and still is for Lyons to purchase the two decommissioned water treatment plants currently owned by Longmont Public Works Department on Colorado Highway 66 just east of Lyons on each side of the highway. The town applied for separate funding, not NDRC funding, for the water treatment plants, but has not heard back on that yet. Cody Humphrey, Lyons Housing Recovery Coordinator, made presentations on the NDRC at the Lyons Board of
Trustees meeting in October and at a Board of Trustees (BOT) workshop on the competition at the Lyons fire station on October 14. The proposal submitted by Lyons as part of the entire state’s package would include affordable housing, up to 60 units, along with space for mobile homes, Habitat for Humanity housing and market-rate housing, so that affordable housing would not be segregated in one section of town. There would be many other amenities in the eastern corridor as well including hiking trails. The housing would not only be energy efficient but also energy sustainable with batteries during a power outage. Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen said that Colorado and Lyons stood a good chance of getting some of the funding because they met all the criteria. Colorado has been in the news numerous times over the last several years due to the fires and floods ram-
paging through the state. The second proposal for part of the NDRC funding the town submitted was a Swiftwater Rescue Training Channel designed by S2O Design and Engineering, located in Lyons. Scott Shipley, principal with S2O, gave a presentation to the BOT on Oct. 12. The training channel would be built at McConnell Pond adjacent to the St. Vrain River near the new wastewater treatment plant. The training channel would consist of large cement blocks creating various levels of water with large water pumps pushing the water through the channel to simulate flood conditions. A car or even an airplane hull could be secured in the channel and then the rescue teams could practice rescuing people from the vehicles. The water would be pumped in from the river and drained out back into the river after the training. Some environmental concerns exist with the fish in the river, which Shipley said he would address. Continue Town on Page 15
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LYONS Chili Cook-Off benefits Garden Club LYONS – Before and during the Halloween Parade join the Lyons Garden Club at the Annual Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, October 24, at 4:30 p.m. at the Stone Cup parking lot. The Stone Cup is located at 442 High St. All proceeds will go Lyons Garden Club projects. Help make this year’s event a success. Enter your favorite pot of chili at the cook-off for a bewitching prize and / or stop by to sample the chili, which is also available to purchase by the bowl, or sample and taste a wide variety of favorite chili recipes. The Garden Club is calling for chili entries in the following categories: red, green or vegetarian. To enter, download an entry form and get details at the Lyons Garden Club web-
L E T T E R S •T O •T H E •E D I T O R Why we need affordable housing Why do I want affordable housing in Lyons? Recently, the Lyons Special Housing Committee decided we wanted to focus more broadly on affordable housing in general, not just housing for flood-displaced people. People sometimes ask me, “Why do we need affordable housing in Lyons?” I’m sure you’ve heard the argument that we shouldn’t be building affordable housing if it’s unclear it will be done in time to help some of those who are still displaced. But affordable housing is immensely valuable to our community, even if we can’t fill it with flood-displaced people. Here’s why I want affordable housing in Lyons – it should be blatantly obvious to all of us why some in our community need affordable housing. When I stop and think about what I want to achieve in my limited time on planet Earth, there’s a long laundry list of things, but funA letter to the Citizens of Lyons from the Board of Trustees Dear Citizens of Lyons, Two years have past since the epic flooding of 2013 caused major destruction, and forever changed the landscape of our Town. And while Lyons has made great progress in several areas, we are still struggling to find solutions for the displaced residents who do not have the option of returning to their homes. During the months immediately after the flood, we came together as a community to support and help one another as we dug out each other’s homes, cleaned out businesses, rebuilt churches and lifted each other up emotionally. Over the past two years, we have also seen our community divided and frustrated by challenges, and slow progress of our recovery. Finding viable solutions for housing represents a particularly difficult puzzle; one the board feels must be solved to achieve a full recovery, protect the long-term character of our town, and promote the economic viability of Lyons. The Board of Trustees has received information from town staff regarding new opportunities that could facilitate
site: www.lyonsgardenclub.org. Or pick up an entry form at the Stone Cup, St. Vrain Market, Lyons ReRuns or Lyons Dairy Bar. The $10 entry fee goes towards Lyons Garden Club programs. Chili entries will be accepted starting at 3:30 p.m. on October 24. Bring a crockpot of chili and ladle (both clearly marked with your name). Chili prices are $5 per bowl or 50 cents per taste. Toppings are provided. Beverages will be available at the Stone Cup. Come to the Halloween Parade warm up with a bowl of chili at the Cook-Off. The lovely ladies of the Garden Club will be dressed on their most scary, enchanting, spooky or chic witch’s costumes. Come see what they have brewed up. Free parking for broomsticks.
damentally it’s about three things: First, be happy and help those around me to be happy. Second, make the world a better place. Third, help my children (and other kids in our community) grow up to lead fulfilling lives and make the world a better place. I want affordable housing in Lyons, our community, to achieve all three of these things for me. First, I want to help people I know have affordable housing and be able to live near me. When they are smiling, it makes me smile and feel good inside. Second, building more affordable housing makes the world a better place, in the following way: When our communities are segregated, we have a harder time coming to political agreement, and we become ever more likely to engage in the tyranny of the majority that de Tocqueville warned us about almost 200 years ago. I want to help the world become a better place, and I want to engage in a civil society that includes all, not a segregated subset of people just like me. Third, I want my children to grow up being friends with kids who come from all backgrounds. I want them to understand that not
the purchase and redevelopment of property to the east of Lyons for residential development. Lyons would pursue private-public partnerships to generate a mixture of commercial and residential development, including manufactured homes, in the eastern corridor. The town has long planned for redevelopment of this area, primarily focusing on commercial and light industrial opportunities, while contemplating some mixed use in the area, as well. This funding may offer a means of facilitating these long desired improvements. The board recognizes that any significant proposal that involves housing will likely generate both enthusiasm and concern among Lyons residents, as well as from those living on our borders who we also consider part of our community. While the board continues to seek opportunities to diversify the housing options in Lyons, there is an understandable hesitancy to pursue any opportunity that would further divide and traumatize our community. For this reason, the board is requesting input from citizens living in and around Lyons regarding whether or not to pursue opportunities for commercial and residential re-development in the
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everybody is as fortunate as they are, and certainly not as fortunate as some of their friends. I want affordable housing in Lyons, so that my kids grow up knowing kids from all sorts of backgrounds. In short, my wife and I made a very deliberate choice to move to Lyons and we have made a very deliberate choice to stay here, precisely because of the great community that includes economic diversity. If we want to preserve the character of the town that we live in, then we need to preserve the housing stock that allows that community to exist. I urge all of you to engage in building something great that will allow us to preserve and restore our community. We may differ on the design, but for all of you who agree with me on the objective of maintaining our pre-flood housing affordability, please help us figure it out. Let’s rebuild the infrastructure that lets us rebuild our community. Justin Spencer, Lyons resident and chair of the Special Housing Committee in Lyons
Eastern Corridor near the defunct Longmont water treatment facilities. It goes without saying that any project proposed would involve many months of discussion and planning among all interested residents to define the size, scope and character to ensure compatibility with the existing community. The intent of this letter is to gain an understanding of the desire of our community to engage in that process. In the next few weeks the Board of Trustees will invite the public to participate in a special board meeting dedicated to the topic of pursuing com-
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MAYOR’S CORNER Opening the eastern corridor By John O’Brien Mayor Redstone Review LYONS – As has been communicated, the Town of Lyons has done significant planning work on the O’Brien possibility of participating in a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Rockefeller Foundation. It is called the National Disaster Resiliency Competition (NDRC). It is a two-phase process that will award nearly $1 billion in HUD Disaster Recovery funds to eligible communities. The monies from the competition will help communities recover from disasters suffered and improve their ability to withstand and recover more quickly from future disasters. In July 2015, the State of Colorado asked the Town of Lyons to participate in the competition. A countywide charette was held to determine which recovery projects would bring the most resiliency and value to local communities.
Affordable housing was identified as one of those projects. If chosen to move forward, the town would be applying for funds to support the development and construction of permanently affordable housing as well as a multi-use community center to be located in our eastern corridor. This project is one of 13 resiliency projects throughout multiple counties being collectively proposed by the State of Colorado. This competition is a high-profile opportunity in which the State is competing against 39 other states and municipalities throughout the US. The public comment period for the NDRC application began October 1 and ends on October 15, 2015. The Town’s application is due to the State on or before October 27. More information on the NDRC from the state perspective is visible on www.coloradounited.com. In addition to affordable housing, another project is anticipated and proposed under the rubric of the NDRC. It is a national Swiftwater Rescue Training Center. Capitalizing on our unique position on the St. Vrain River and at the confluence of the North and South St. Vrain Creeks, Lyons is
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the ideal candidate for this type of training center. During the 2013 floods, 17 inches of rain over three days was channeled down both the North and South St. Vrain Creeks from an altitude of 14,000 ft. to 5,400 ft. at Lyons. From a normal volume of about 50 cubic feet per second (cfs) to a flood velocity of 31,000 cfs, Lyons has the location and experience to show the nation and the world how to accomplish swiftwater rescues. During October and November, HUD will be reviewing the NDRC applications. It is anticipated that the announcement of the successful applications will be made
in January of 2016. Many of us have been interested in and have tried to develop the eastern corridor for several years. The decommissioned wastewater treatment plants and the surrounding area constitute a huge positive opportunity for Lyons to locate commercial, light industrial and mixed residential applications in an area that is within the Lyons Planning Area and could be easily annexed into the town. This is the opportunity we have been waiting for. We will have community conversations about this and more in the coming months..
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Town considers mixed-income housing in eastern planning area; PCDC reviews Valley Bank rezoning By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review LYONS – In the past month, Lyons has seen some movement toward two opportunities for affordable housing: one small six-home proposed Habitat for Humanity project that was already known, and one Reinholds new funding opportunity for a possible mix of 100 affordable homes in the eastern planning area. Public hearings for the subdivision and rezoning of 304 Second Ave., the former Valley Bank site that would allow six residential lots to be sold to Habitat for Humanity, were scheduled. And, by Oct. 5, the preliminary sketch plan phase was approved by both the Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) and the Board of Trustees. The next round of public hearing meetings, considered a preliminary subdivision plat and PUD plan for the project, was held on Oct. 12 for the PCDC and Oct. 19 for the Board of Trustees. If the process moves forward, the last phase considers the final approval of rezoning, subdivision plat, and PUD plan for the project. Public hearings are scheduled Oct. 26 for the PCDC and Nov. 2 for the Board of Trustees. The meetings start at 7 p.m. at town hall. The surprising news in the past month is that Lyons is eligible to apply for $6.75 million for a Lyons Resilient Replacement Housing development in the planning area east of town, in the eastern corridor, as part of the National Disaster Resiliency Competition, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As previously reported, Lyons is under contract to purchase the former Longmont water treatment plant sites on both north and south sides of Colo. 66, east of U.S. 36. Cody Humphrey, Lyons Housing Recovery Coordinator, told the trustees at their Oct. 5 meeting
that the State of Colorado is applying for proposals on behalf of 13 municipalities, already identified as having merit to make it to phase two of the competition. Lyons’ staff has created a proposal for a new housing site outside the 100-year floodplain for displaced residents and others who make up the fabric of Lyons. The proposal is combined with a Lyons community center that can serve as both a gathering place and a safe haven from future disasters, and integrates solar and micro-grid technology to allow operating off-the-grid in future disasters. The new neighborhood is proposed to include 50 to 60 affordable housing units, housing lots for 30 to 40 manufactured housing units that would be available for a mobile home park, and 10 for-sale affordable housing units. In addition, a recommendation in the proposal is to include commercial development (which that area was already designated for) and up to 30 market-rate homes, all connected to downtown with transportation and a regional bike path. If Lyons wins the competition, and the town acquires land, the town would send out requests for proposals for developers of new housing. There would still be many more steps in the process. The town had previously designated the eastern town planning area for increasing businesses and commercial opportunities in town. Lyons will have an Economic Development Administration grant to run water and sewer to the eastern corridor. The town also has applied for federal disaster recovery funds for several flood recovery items (including purchasing the water treatment plant sites), but those funds have not been awarded yet. These new resiliency competition funds might be another opportunity to pay costs for the land acquisition for housing, in addition to other development costs. Trustees expressed the importance of getting public support for considering housing in the eastern Lyons planning area, and encouraged a community discussion. In a letter emailed to town residents, the trustees asked the
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public to submit input. Also, a Board of Trustees workshop for a Swiftwater Rescue Facility and Affordable Housing Summary related to the resiliency competition was scheduled for Oct. 12. “We need to have a conversation with the town to see if this is even something the town wants to support,” Trustee Connie Sullivan said at the Oct. 5 meeting. If these two housing proposals continue to move forward, there will finally be some new housing stock that people who make less than 50 percent of the area median income can afford (helping people who make less than approximately $33,000 a year for individuals or $48,000 a year for a family of 4), making up for what was lost in the flood. And not only that, but we could also gain a new community center and a new trails system that everyone in all our neighborhoods could enjoy. The special housing committee also gave a report at the Oct. 5 Board of Trustees meeting about a plan to do a survey of the community to identify support for affordable housing, including location, housing type, and density. The trustees were very supportive and said it was good timing to fit with the community discussion for the resiliency grant that Humphrey described. Housing committee chair Justin Spencer said the input would be incorporated into an affordable housing policy, and would be available to guide town decisions about future affordable housing. The goal is to complete the survey results by end of the year and draft an affordable housing policy in January. Keep following my columns in both Lyons papers for updates about what has and has not been accomplished to increase affordable housing stock in Lyons. Special housing committee meetings are the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month 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 and agendas and minutes are published at www.townoflyons.com.
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LOCAL Crickets: Good for the planet, good on your plate By Kate Zalzal Redstone Review LYONS – What’s the difference between a lobster and a cricket? If your answer were that only one tastes delicious dipped in butter, then according to Wendy Lu McGill of Rocky Mountain Zalzal Micro Ranch, you’d be wrong. McGill, along with others concerned with the environmental constraints on the global food supply, is trying to get people reacquainted with the notion of insects as food. By 2050, 9 billion people are expected to call earth home. Food production will need to nearly double in the coming decades, yet unused arable land is scarce and oceans are overfished. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, tasked with fighting global hunger, puts it quite simple in its 2013 report, “We need to find new ways of growing food.” They hope that insects are part of that plan. Eating insects is nothing new to at least 2 billion people on earth. Nearly 2,000 species of insects are known to be edible and part of the diet of cultures across South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. As the growing global middle class demands animal protein and the environmental and financial limits of traditional farming are reached, reinvigorating the practice of entomophagy (the act of eating insects) and re-envisioning it for western palates has emerged as a relevant and intriguing issue in the 21st century. Informed by her work in international development and then egged on over drinks with friends, McGill developed Rocky Mountain Micro Ranch, the first edible-insect ranch operating in Colorado. At the ranch, a shipping container located in Denver, she and business partner Taylor Ferguson are bringing “microlivestock to the range” in the form of crickets and mealworms that they plan to sell wholesale to innovative natural food producers and chefs. “There’s a good food scene in Denver, people are interested in where their food comes
from and the impact that their food choices have. And Colorado is such a great agricultural state it seems fitting to continue the heritage of ranching, just with insects instead of cattle,” McGill says. Promoting insects as food may help ease the agricultural strain on the environment while helping to feed more people. Nearly a quarter of global anthropogenic greenhouse gases come from agriculture and intensive tradition-
al livestock production requires huge amounts of land, water, and feed. Insects provide a healthy balance of fats, vitamins and nutrients, yet are easy to produce en-masse, require much less resources, and can be grown and harvested in close, urban quarters with little smell or disease. The real environmental boon lies in the high feed conversion efficiency of insects. Crickets, for example, require just 2 kilograms of feed for every 1 kilogram in bodyweight gain. Cattle and pigs come in around 50 to 300 percent higher. And insects aren’t picky. Studies increasingly show the potential to rear food-grade insects on organic side-streams. New York City announced this year its ambitious goal of reducing its waste output by 90 percent by 2030. Critical to this goal is keeping organics, 30 percent of the city’s waste, out of landfills where they generate huge amounts of greenhouse gases. The City of Boulder also has plans to expand composting services through its newly adopted Universal Zero Waste Ordinance. The challenge becomes what to do with all of this material. Insect ranches, fed by a steady stream of unwanted organ-
ic waste, could be an ideal municipal partner. The potential health and environmental benefits are encouraging, but getting Westerners to embrace entomophagy will be tricky. At the micro ranch in Denver, McGill faces this challenge head on. This year alone she has passed out over 5,000 samples, trying to help people overcome the “ick” factor with her roasted crickets and chocolate “chirp” cookies. She also hosted a cricket-eating contest at the Denver County Fair (the winner took down 1/3 a cup of crickets in five minutes, an impressive feat given their apparent chewiness). McGill doesn’t see this as just the next foodie trend for aspiring locavores. She wants to reconnect people with the idea that insects can be regular food. With this in mind, Rocky Mountain Micro Ranch has partnered with Re:Vision, a non-profit urban farm and co-op in southwest Denver. “This part of Denver has a lot of people who are newly arrived from Latin and Central America, where eating insects is not uncommon. We want to host workshops and cooking classes and show that insect farming at a household level is really easy and economical. In an area of Denver without much access to healthy foods, this can be another piece of how people feed themselves.” Quantifying the benefits of insect ranching, both nutritionally and in terms of its environmental sustainability remain a significant focus of those in the industry. McGill concedes that there’s likely a long road ahead before roasted crickets become a grocery store staple but she remains passionate and dedicated to finding a place for edible insects at our global table, both now and in the future. When sharing her roasted crickets with those new to entomophagy, McGill gets a common response. “People tense up, close their eyes, grimace, and quickly pop the roasted cricket into their mouth. Then their body relaxes, their eyes open, and they say ‘oh, that’s not bad. That’s actually pretty good.’ ” Kate Zalzal has a M.Sc. in Geology. She most recently studied polar climate change at CU’s Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research and the University of Iceland. She lives, gardens, and writes with her husband and two young daughters in Lyons. Reach her for comments and article ideas at katezalzal@gmail.com.
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Community members honored at 2015 BoCo Strong Resilience Awards BOULDER COUNTY – BoCo Strong, an organization committed to facilitating resilience building at all levels of the community, was proud to host the first annual Resilience Awards Ceremony on Sept. 24 at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons. Celebrating the immense strength and dedicated work that helps make our community thrive, these awards were presented to key Boulder County organizations and community leaders that are helping to support connected, prepared, and adaptive communities. Lyons won awards in three areas: Sierra Tucker won the Youth Resilience Leader Award for work with the Lyons Leo Club; Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen won the Resilience Leadership Award; and Terry Parrish won for the Little Thompson Watershed Restoration Coalition. More than 30 nominations for six different categories were received from the community, and eight winners were chosen by a multidisciplinary committee with representatives from across the
county. All of the award recipients exemplify the BoCo Strong resilience definition, “Resilience is the capability to anticipate risk, limit impact, and bounce forward rapidly by adapting and learning in the face of disruptive shocks and stresses.” BoCo Strong Resilience Award Winners of 2015 are: • Youth Resilience Leader Award: Sierra Tucker, Lyons Leo Club. • Resilience Leadership Award – Private Business: Lefthand Excavating. • Resilience Leadership Award – NGO / Nonprofit: Big Thompson Conservation District. • Most Empowering Public Servant of the Year Award: Victoria Simonsen, Town of Lyons. • Best Resilient Community Project Award: Sanchez Elementary School, Lafayette; Saws and Slaws, TriCounty and Peak to Peak Highway. • BoCo Strong Community Leader Award: Amy Hardy, Foothills United Way and Intermountain Alliance; Terry
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Parrish, Little Thompson Watershed Restoration Coalition. More details about the award categories, the winners and videos from nominators can be found at www. BoCo Strong. org. For more information about the Resilience Awards or BoCo Strong, visit www. BoCo Strong. org, call Katie Arrington at 303-441-1609, or email bocostrong@gmail.com. Congratulations to all the winners.
LYONS – Town of Lyons has a temporary full-time Public Works Maintenance Worker I position open. This would be approximately a twomonth position involving the use of various small equipment for maintenance of streets, sidewalks, sewers, water, and storm drainage. Salary is $12.00 / hr. DOQ. Must be 18 or older and have a good driving history. Drug testing and pre-employment physical required. Application and resume are due by 4:30 p.m. October 23. For information go to www.townoflyons.com.
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OPTIONS Ax and Oar opens in Lyons By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – Picture a shield style logo with a jagged edge mountain range on its top. Onto that shield add the image of an oar with its paddle on one end and a banjo shape on the other. Then cross Moore that icon with another implement likeness depicting a pick ax on one end and a guitar shape on the other. With that you have the symbol for the Ax and Oar Tavern Taqueria and Grill, Lyons’ newest restaurant. “The name and logo we decided on represent things indigenous to Lyons – its music, outdoor sports, the mountains, mining history, and the water,” said Pat Hubner, who along with Gavin Moore and Jim May are the co-owners of the restaurant located at 160 Main St. That’s the location of the former Outlaw Saloon. “Like the temporary sign outside says, we’ll be opening soon. Our plan is for everything to be in place by November 1, but we hope the opening will be within the next few days,” said Hubner. “We want to make sure a few last details are nailed down so our first customers have the best experience possible,” he went on to explain. The three owners bring decades of combined food and beverage experience to the eating establishment. That experience comes in the form of restaurant ownership and management in a wide variety of food and beverage venues from the east coast to here in Colorado, with yet still more from Alaska, and many places in between. When asked about what will distinguish Ax and Oar from other eating out choices, co-owner Moore replied, “We have 13 options for dining in Lyons and with my background in owning two of them, I think I’ve developed a sense for what people in the community want. Fresh from farm to table will be one of our themes and coming from that perspective will be our chef taking what’s fresh on a given day, and using those ingredients to prepare that day's menu specials.”
shrimp as mainstays. Lamb and pork will be added from time to time, and California burritos along with house fajita burritos will be regular options. Diners can also choose a hamburger with a variety of intriguing toppings such as sautéed onions, egg, avocado, bacon, sautéed mushrooms, and grilled jalapenos. Fresh flavorful french fries to delight your taste buds are available as well. Over time the restaurateurs plan to set aside a one night each week featuring a menu devoted to a raw bar. For that they will rely on their Alaskan seafood experience and feature such delicacies as oysters, crab legs, shrimp, and clams. This new Lyons establishment will also house a gallery operated by Hubner’s wife, Betsy, and Candy May. To that effort the women bring careers steeped in creating, teaching, and displaying art of all sorts. “The gallery will be quite large. In addition to a room dedicated to teaching art classes, we will have four adjoining rooms that will display paintings, sculptures, other art objects, as well as an assortment of eclectic antiques and other novelty items,” said Betsy Hubner, former art teacher in Vermont. “We intend to conduct art classes in different media for all ages,” she said. “Plus we see the space being utilized for such The owners of Lyons’ newest restaurant, the Ax and Oar, are (left to things as receptions and birthday parties.” right): Gavin Moore, Candy May, Jim May, and Pat Hubner. The gallery space will also be used to display the works of area artists on a semiThe lunchtime concept is one of grab and go. Food permanent as well as on a rotating basis. “We are blessed with an extremely well-constructed purchased on site from the taqueria selections can be eaten in the restaurant, in the outside dining area, or building out of which the original owners created very taken as carry-out. Beginning at the dinner hour the interesting space. We’ve taken that raw product and restaurant’s full menu with dinner specials added nightly, added our own enhancements to fashion it into a family and local friendly restaurant and gallery Lyons will be will be available until closing. The regular menu starts off with chips, homemade salsa proud of,” Jim Hubner said. The Ax and Oar can be reached at 303-747-3795. with a zip to it, along with fresh made guacamole. Add to that delectable potato skins and mouth-watering chicken Don Moore is a retired lawyer and the author of Love is a wings in three different flavors with house made dips. Next come house made tomato soup, green salads, and Verb: Healing Yourself through Love, Gratitude and the softshell tacos with a choice of chicken, beef, and Compassion. He lives in Lyons. Moore went on to explain that paying attention to their customers and learning what they like and don’t care for will inform them of ways in which the menu will grow and adapt over time. “We will open for lunch six days a week, offering a limited menu from our taqueria selections of the day. In keeping with our commitment to freshness, those selections will necessarily vary from day to day,” Moore said. “We’ll stay open until closing hours at night, offering our full menu at dinner time.”
While Lyons still recovers from a devastating flood, numerous Lyons residents are willing to pay it forward By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “Lyons must be some kind of amazing place,” my friend, Linda, from the East Coast said to me on the phone a couple days ago. Indeed, as we all know, it is an amazing place in a multitude of ways: from the gifted world-class musicians and artists who make up a rich and vibrant music and arts scene gracing our lives in beautiful sights and sounds, to our picturesque town with a classic old downtown feel, to our now world famous river in the process of being restored, and to the scenic and endless beauty of the foothills that literally surround us in nature’s splendor. Linda’s been here before and those things are not what impressed her so. She’s wowed by our amazing people – you and the otherwise “ordinary” folks who call Lyons home. But, we’re not ordinary in any way. We are a very amazing, extraordinary collection of people who love deeply and
live lives of kindness and compassion. From some of the articles I’ve written for the Redstone Review, you know I cofounded and run the Himalayan Development Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that does good works in Nepal. HDF’s current project is rebuilding Chhulemu, a small Sherpa village in the Mt. Everest region that suffered major damage from last spring’s earthquakes. In September HDF sponsored the Everest Movie Fundraiser where we bought all the seats in a theater in Boulder, conducted a silent auction, had area mountaineer, Alan Arnette, give a few remarks, and watched the 3D premier of Everest. Scores of you showed up, participated in the silent auction, and help HDF raise over $12,600 in the Rebuild Chhulemu effort. Since the night of the fundraiser, others of you amazing Lyons folks have given several more thousand dollars to the cause. Moreover, five residents from Lyons, Edward Kean, Claudia Kean, Amy Rullkoeter, Marissa Casey, and Peyton
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A Chhulemu Sherpa woman prepares lunch in the family’s temporary shelter. PHOTO BY DON MOORE
Lyons is some kind of amazing place. I’ll be leaving for Chhulemu October 25 and returning December 10, and will be blogging while I’m gone. If you would like to receive those posts, please send me your name and email address and I’ll add you onto my list. The website is www.hdfoundation.net or e-mail don moore okay @ gmail. com.
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CONCEPTS Fall is the time of abundant locally grown produce By Betsy Welch Redstone Review LYONS – We all know that peaches and tomatoes are the superstars of the summer, but just because the seasons are changing doesn’t mean we have to resign ourselves to supermarket imitations. Now is the time to stock up on locally grown produce that can last you well into the winter (and keep you well away from tasteless trucked-from-afar fruits and veggies). The best part of putting up food for the cold months is that it no longer means spending days slaving over a sputtering hot water canner or having access to a root cellar. All it takes are a few supplies for storage (Ziploc bags, Mason jars, Tupperware bins), space in your freezer and refrigerator, and a few trips to the local farmer’s market and area farm stands. Here are a few tips to help preserve the season’s abundance. Buy in bulk. Farmers are usually happy to sell you a box or “flat” of produce for a good price. Ask for #2s or seconds; this is the stuff that isn’t quite pretty enough to sell for full price, but it’s perfect for making sauces, jellies, jams, or simply slicing up and freezing. It’s especially common to buy #2 tomatoes and fruit. Stock up on “storage” items. These
are things like potatoes, onions, garlic and root veggies like beets, carrots, turnips, and radishes. They keep well tucked into a drawer in your fridge. The root vegetables offer a two-for-one special: trim and clean their leafy greens to
sliding a cookie sheet in the oven. Roast under a hot broiler for 10 to 20 minutes (depending on quantity), and then simply remove the charred skin. Put in freezer bags to use as needed. Who says you can’t make salsa in February?
use right away, or blanch them and put in Ziploc bags to freeze. They’ll make welcome additions to mid-winter smoothies, omelets and pasta dishes! Turn on the broiler. Roasting tomatoes and chilis is as simple as slicing and
Make fruit butters and sauces. These are easy to make and taste delicious on plain yogurt, spread over toast, or as a complement on a charcuterie or cheese plate. First, peel the fruit (optional), then cut into chunks, add to stockpot with a
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must include Lyons Volunteers, and the colors must reflect earth and water tones – the rest is up to you. Submissions will be accepted through November 20. Winners will be announced via lyonsvolunteers.org website, our Facebook page, full article and picture in the local papers, and by direct contact to the winners’ email accounts. Please visit lyonsvolunteers.org for more details regarding logo design, contest rules and submission requirements. Winner will also have an announcement on LOV website and social media channels, and endless bragging rights.
Boulder County Voter Registration BOULDER COUNTY – County Elections Division encourages all voters to periodically check their voter registration. Because all active registered voters automatically receive a ballot in the mail, it is important that individuals ensure their voter registration is up-to-date in advance of an election – especially if they have recently moved, provided an alternative mailing address in the past, or have not voted in several years. Boulder County residents can check their voter registration information at: www.BoulderCountyVotes.org. The 2015 Coordinated Election will be held on Tuesday, November 3, and voting begins when active registered voters receive their ballots the week of October 12. Ballots are not forwarded by the U.S. Postal Service. Key Dates for the 2015 coordinated election: • On October 13, ballots begin to arrive in mailboxes. Voter services are available at Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Boulder. All 24-hour ballot drop boxes are open. • On October 26, voter service and polling centers
open. This is the last day to register and still receive a ballot in the mail. • On October 30, drive-by ballot drop-off locations open. • On November 3, coordinated election ballot drop-off and voting services are available 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Ballots must be received by 7 p.m. to be counted.
Oskar Blues CAN’d Aid donates water to flood victims in South Carolina LONGMONT – Oskar Blues Brewery and Ball Corp., through the CAN’d Aid Foundation, are canning and shipping clean drinking water to victims of the floodravaged state of South Carolina. The initial shipment of more than 1,600 cases, totaling over 38,000 cans of water, arrived at the center of flooding in Columbia, South Carolina on October 12, with more to arrive in the coming days. Canned water production began Friday, October 9 in the Brevard, North Carolina brewery and will continue as needed to help the citizens of South Carolina. On-the-ground NGO All Hands is assisting in the delivery of the much needed fresh drinking water. Freight has been donated by Justus Truck Lines. Brevard, North Carolina is the location of the Oskar Blues Brewery full-service canning production and close to the South Carolina flood region. Cans are provided by the Ball Corporation. CAN’d Aid is a 501c3 started in 2013 by Dale Katechis, founder of Oskar Blues Brewery, following the Colorado flooding that devastated the hometown of Oskar Blues Brewery, Lyons, Colorado. What started as a response to the 2013 floods in Colorado has now raised and distributed more than $1,000,000 to support small businesses and families in need all across the country. The foundation is the non-profit arm of Oskar Blues Brewery and has evolved into an irreverent nonprofit focused on nationwide “do-goodery.”
little bit of water and any sugar and spices you want to add, and stir occasionally. You can then puree in a blender or keep the sauce chunky. Do this with pears or plums also. These keep in the fridge for a few weeks and much longer in the freezer. Now for the fun part: go shopping! • Boulder County Farmer’s Market – Saturdays in Boulder (13th and Canyon) and Longmont (Fairgrounds) through Nov. 21. • Boulder County Farmer’s Market Holiday Market (also a great place to buy holiday gifts!) – Dec. 5 and 6 at the Fairgrounds in Longmont. • Ralph’s (on the corner of 4th and Broadway in Lyons) – open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. • Ollin Farm Stand (8627 N. 95th St., Longmont) – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays through October 18. Then, Wednesdays and Sundays through Nov. 22. • Cure Organic Farm Store (7450 Valmont Rd., Boulder) – Wednesday to Friday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Dec. 13. • Canning class at the Lyons Farmette (4121 Ute Hwy.) – Oct. 24, 3 to 6 p.m. Vegetable sales available to participants after the class. Betsy Welch is a freelance writer who has written for magazines and newspapers. She lives in Lyons.
LEAF is trying to find a van LYONS – The Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF) is trying to find a used van to use for transporting over 1,000 pounds of food each week from the warehouse in Louisville to the Food Pantry at the Lyons Community Church on Main Street. Currently the Food Pantry is using a van that belongs to one of the volunteers who wants to retire her van from the Food Pantry service. LEAF is looking for a van that is in good working condition, any make or model would be acceptable. LEAF has received some grant money for the van. The van would not only be used to pick up the weekly food for the pantry but also to deliver food to those who cannot come into the pantry. The LEAF Board is also exploring ideas to use the van to take people to appointment such as doctor’s appointments, dentist appointments, therapy, etc. If anyone knows of a van or has a van for sale or wants to donate a van please contact LEAF at 303775-9632 Donations to LEAF are tax deductible and bring good karma.
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INSIGHT Trump: The proof is in the pudding By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – I’m beginning to think that there might be some value to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. There’s no Gierach doubt that Trump is a braying idiot who shouldn’t be president – he proves that every time he opens his mouth – but he has managed to expose some truths about American politics in a way that no other modern politician has been able to do. Sometimes he does it plainly through his statements, other times by negative example. It’s impossible to guess how much is intentional and how much is inadvertent, but that may not matter in the long run. So, for example, when Trump says that all the other candidates are puppets in the hands of their big contributors (adding, truthfully, I think, that he knows because he’s given them all money) we understand that to be true. Furthermore, even those of us who can’t stand the guy can’t help but smile to hear someone finally say out loud what we’ve known all along. Likewise, when he insults his political opponents in the most personal terms imaginable he seems mean and petty – and it is – but we’re still relieved to see someone finally drop the pretense that “So-and-so and I are good friends; I just disagree with his policies.” And when he brags shamelessly about how rich and smart he is and about how good his poll numbers are, it’s embarrassing, but also refreshing to see someone drop the old “I’m a hardworking guy from humble beginnings and I don’t pay attention to the polls” business. We’ve always understood that politicians have fully functioning egos and, often enough to mention, a sense of entitlement, so why not just admit it? Trump has also managed to turn the political gaff into an asset. Up till now, when a politician said something offensive enough to be career-ending they’d
walk it back by half-heartedly apologizing or “clarifying” or saying their remarks were misconstrued. But Trump just blusters through – saying, in effect, yeah, that’s what I said – and then coming up with something else outrageous that the press dutifully eats up. The press itself has been shameless when it comes to Trump. Some of the
a lame attempt to bluff the bully. And on the Democratic side, Sanders and Clinton have criticized Trump in terms so mild that no one seems to have noticed. This has become an unsolvable political puzzle. The other candidates don’t want to be like Trump, but they would like the same kind of coverage he’s getting. Of course Trump’s followers love it that the mainstream press, the Democrats and the establishment wing of the Republican Party don’t like their guy. The black heli-
networks I watch have dedicated the better part of an hours’ broadcast to covering entire Trump speeches live, and most of the rest of their time talking about them, with hardly a mention of more viable candidates ranging from Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush to Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton. In another kind of year, Bush, the anointed son and brother of former presidents, and Sanders, a crusty New Englander and avowed Democratic Socialist who draws huge crows, would be big news. But apparently real candidates don’t hold a candle to an ignorant blowhard that even the leaders of his own party can’t stand. Some of the other Republican candidates have tried to come back at Trump with some of his own medicine, but they’ve done it without Trump’s bluster and conviction, so it looks like what it is:
copter crowd loves Trump for his bluster and political incorrectness and it doesn’t seem to bother them that his facts are wrong and his policies are cartoonish. Trump does seem unique until you parse his positions, which are more or less just a list of extreme right wing talking points: dark-skinned people are out to get us; the best option in matters of foreign policy is war; anyone who disagrees with us is part of a conspiracy, etc. There’s even a little unconvincing Bible-thumping: “I have my wine and my little cracker and I feel cleansed.” So illegal immigrants from Mexico are rapists and murderers who were sent here by the Mexican government. The solution? Deport everyone, do away with birthright citizenship and build “a huge wall like you wouldn’t believe” on the border and make the Mexican govern-
RockyGrass gets noted By Katherine Weadley Redstone Review LYONS – The International Bluegrass Music Association is catching up to what Lyons has always known: the music festival RockyGrass is the Bluegrass Event of the Year. Brian Eyster of Planet Bluegrass, the international music events and festival producer based in Lyons, recently returned from the World of Bluegrass conference in Raleigh, N.C., along with Planet Bluegrass senior vicepresident Steve Szymanski. Craig Ferguson, who lives on the grounds of Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, is also a co-owner. On Thursday, Oct. 1, Planet Bluegrass, was honored to receive the Bluegrass Event of the Year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) for the 42nd Annual RockyGrass Festival (July 25 to 27, 2014).
The International Bluegrass Music Awards recognize outstanding achievement and pioneering efforts in bluegrass as determined by professionals in the bluegrass music industry. This awards night, held annually since 1990, recognizes the top achievements across the bluegrass industry. This was the first time any of the Planet Bluegrass festivals have been recognized with this award from the IBMA. This award marks the second major award given to Planet Bluegrass this year. The first award was the PollstarLive Music Festival of the Year award recognizing the 2014 Telluride Bluegrass Festival. “It’s interesting that after somewhat flying under the national music business radar for decades, in the past year we’ve received the big festival awards voted on by our music business peers,” Eyster commented. Although RockyGrass is a big summer event, Planet Bluegrass offers smaller, more intimate venues on-site during the fall. The Wildflower Concert Series on the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons resumes this
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ment pay for it. ISIS? Bomb ‘em and take the oil. The economy? He’d make us all rich. And so on. These aren’t so much policies as wishful thinking: simple-minded answers to maddeningly complex questions that wouldn’t fly in the boardrooms he’s used to dominating, let alone in Congress. For that matter, inventing facts as red herrings is nothing new on the right – from the president as foreign imposter, to death panels under the Affordable Care Act, to the infiltration of the government by the Muslim Brotherhood, to the invented scandals around Benghazi and Hillary Clinton’s emails. The only thing unique about Trump is his style: loud, arrogant, condescending, self-satisfied. It doesn’t seem like enough to warrant all the attention. The common wisdom among Trump’s opponents is that he’ll get tired of spending his own money, or finally buckle under hard questioning, or flame out in the primaries, or even that his supporters will see that his so-called political philosophy is the same as their crazy uncle Frank’s once he has a couple of beers in him. Or maybe people will finally get tired of his preposterous ego. In the three or four months that Donald Trump has been all over the news, I’ve never heard him say a good word about anything or anyone except himself. So maybe the lesson politicians will take away from the Trump campaign is that voters respond better to candidates who tell the truth than to those who are coy and slippery. In the meantime, it’s sad that the first politician in generations who’s willing to tell us what he really believes has nothing worthwhile to say. John Gierach is an outdoor and fly fishing writer who writes a column for Flyrod & Reel magazine. His books include Trout Bum, Sex Death and Fly fishing, and Still Life with Brook Trout. His new book, All Fishermen are Liars is available at book stores and fly fishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street. In October he was inducted into the Catskill Mountains Fly Fishing Hall of Fame.
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It’s time to party! Get out your costume and let your hair down at Rave to the Grave, a benefit for LEAF Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – Let the wild rumpus begin. The biggest adults-only Halloween Party in Lyons history, Rave to the Grave, will be held on Friday October 30 at the Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass west of Lyons, and it is free to attend. The party, a benefit for Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund, begins at 7 p.m. and attendees must be 18 or older. Get your groove on because the evening will be filled with music by Arthur Lee Land and the band gogoLab, known for live danceable jazz / funk / improv and other eclectic sounds with heavy endings and incredible soloists, which will fill the evening with dance music. Jump to your feet and don’t miss a beat with the music of this great group. A cash bar will be available with beer, wine and a whisky slap. Grab and go food will be available for purchase at the Wild Flower Pavilion provided by Lyons’ newest restaurant and tavern, Ax and Oar Tavern Taqueria Grill, located at the former Outlaw Saloon. There will be costume contests with prizes given for the best men’s costume, the best women’s costume and the best couple’s costumes. Booths with all kinds of fun activities will line the walls of the pavilion. There will be body art, a fortune teller, a dancing screen where people can dance behind a lighted screen, a kissing booth, double dog dares, and other exciting things to do. Rave to the Grave is a fundraiser for Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF). Although attendance is free, LEAF members will be collecting donations throughout the evening. The Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund’s vision is to build bridges of hope for those in need in the Lyons area. 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 their 501c3 nonprofit status. LEAF fills a critical need for direct human service provision in the greater Lyons area. LEAF seeks: to be the local hub for human service integration and coordination; to help clients access resources at the local, county, and state level – the majority of our clients are underutilizing many resources available to them; to ensure that no one in the Lyons area goes hungry and educate our community around issues of poverty and support our residents recovering from disaster. If you cannot attend the Halloween bash, Rave to the Grave, please consider a donation to LEAF and help all residents in need. For more information, go to www.leaflyons.org.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS Art and music at the Stone Cup – The Stone Cup Café continues the collaborative art show of Wu Amanda Anderson and Kahlie Sue Pinello, Off The Wall, through the month of October. The works of Amanda Anderson with her flowing fabrics, along with Kahlie Sue Pinello’s found objects, break the barriers of wall art. Pieces are handcrafted from the wall out instead of from the ground up; they reach out and grab your attention. Boulder artist Tyler Voorhees will show in November and December. 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. The media paintings serve as a contemporary look at the past, a reminder of times and stories long forgotten. The music lineup for the month includes: Denny Driscoll with blues and folk
Americana on October 17; Tupelo Honey folk on October 18; Maya Bennet folk-blues on October 24 and November 15; Kate Little jazz and folk on October 25; James Faulk’s folk-classic rock on October 31 and November 14; Antonio Lopez modern folk and acoustic soul on November 7. The café is at Fifth Avenue and High Street. For more information please call 303-823-2345 or visit www.thestonecup.com. BOULDER Café Sole features Lyons artist – A special evening with local singer-songwriters will be held on October 29 at Café Sole, featuring Lyons artist Chrystal DeCoster. A variety of styles, genres, ages, instrumentations, and inspirations will be presented by seven singer-songwriters who have been working with celebrated recording artist Rebecca Folsom during the past five months. Among them is Lyons talent Chrystal DeCoster, featuring her song Luck Luck that was created in part by the Hope and Harvest theme of the upcoming LAHC Town Hall Art Show. Café Sole is located on 637R South Broadway in Boulder. For information please contact
Tyler Voorhees will be the featured artist at the Stone Cup in November and December. 303-499-2985 or visit www.caffesole.com Bach Festival opens – The Boulder Bach Festival presents its historic 35th season with opening performance Italian Roots on October 16 and 17. Wandering through a labyrinth of pre-Bach Italian mysticism with works by Castello, Arcadelt, Froberger and Uccellini, we arrive at two of the master’s most adored works: the Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor BWV 1052 and the soulful cantata, Ich habe genug. Arcadelt sings of love and death. Castello wanders through a fantasy world of 17th century violin virtuosity. Froberger touches on the natural world.
Hope and Harvest Art Show at Town Hall By Chrystal DeCoster Redstone Review LYONS – After a lengthy hiatus, the Town Hall Art Shows are back on the docket. Understandably, the Town of Lyons needed the usual gallery area for ongoing flood recovery efforts, presentaDeCoster tions and displays. Friday, November 6 between 4:30 and 7 p.m. at Town Hall is the drop-off date for the community’s creative artistic work. All ages and abilities are welcome to this show’s theme, Hope and Harvest. All ready-to-wall-hang 2D and 3D artistic interpretations must be accompanied by a neat display placard that features the title and medium of the work, artist’s name and contact information, and sale price, if appropriate. Works can include literary responses, photography, collage, wall-mounted sculpture / ceramics, song lyrics, paintings, fabric art, prints, etc. Up to three submissions per artist are welcome. As many ready-to-display pieces will be hung as possible, contingent upon wall space. There is no entry fee. Artists will be asked to complete a brief contract / release form at the time of drop-off. There will be an opening reception and community tapas potluck at Town Hall on Saturday, November 7
from 6 to 8 p.m. Wine will be available. Please bring a dish (and serving utensil) to share. Donations to the LAHC are encouraged at these events to help support the continuing and unfolding efforts of Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC) throughout town. Volunteers with a wide range of talents are also needed. The LAHC has also slated four three-month shows featuring various area artists for 2016. All shows will have Saturday evening opening receptions and are tentatively scheduled for the following dates: January 2; April 2; July 2; October 1. Save these dates now on your calendar, plan to attend with a dish to share, and watch for further details about these shows and all other LAHC events. At each reception, local musicians, poetry, dance, film and / or other artistic presentations are welcomed in the LAHC’s intentional efforts to embrace, celebrate and support all of the art genres happening in the area. Please contact Chrystal DeCoster, the LAHC chair, if you have recommendations or interest in participating and please indicate what payment would be required: chrystaldecoster@gmail.com. We are still looking for someone excited to showcase his or her talent at the upcoming November 7 evening event. Those interested in supporting the Lyons arts community are encouraged to attend the LAHC’s monthly
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FOUNDATION Life 25 years from now will look much differently if we fail to act By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review PUEBLO – I’ll likely be dead in 25 years. No problem. At that point, I’m sure I’ll deserve it. But my daughter, sonJoyce in-law and granddaughter probably won’t be, and for them life may be an experience of the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, the medical and technological advances we see so much potential in today will have given way to even more marvelous processes, procedures and devices, all geared toward keeping us in great health and keeping our environment clean, sustainable, beautiful and nurturing of our species. Other technologies aim to make communications and transportation better, and to allow poor nations to give their people clean water, better shelter, affordable energy and more food and health services. Aiming at targets and hitting them aren’t the same, however. So on the other hand, because of our failure to act in time, global sea levels will have increased such that coastal areas will be flooding even as the seas become more and more barren, the overpopulated planet will witness vast migrations of displaced and starving creatures of all sorts, including ourselves, our infrastructures will be crumbling, our governments will be ineffective at maintaining civilized political and social order, and on and on. I’m just repeating what has been said for more than a few decades. The difference is that now the evidence is becoming too obvious and too ugly to ignore. Just recently, a new study shows that warming ocean currents are bleaching the life out of coral reefs, i.e. causing them to expel the single-cell algae, dinoflagellates, that live on their skeletal surface, give them their color, and release energy into the coral tissues. Without the algae, the corals lose their color and become susceptible to
disease. If enough corals die out, much of the life in the reefs dies out, too. Plankton in general, the basis of so much marine life, are under attack from rising temperatures throughout the world’s oceans. It’s also possible that the subduction flow inherent in vital ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream may grind to a stagnating halt if water temperatures continue to rise, and that, too, can have devastating effects on life beneath the waves and above them.
Scientists also are urgently requesting that we study the Thwaites Glacier, part of the endangered West Antarctic ice sheet. It’s bigger than Pennsylvania and has been discharging 100 billion tons of ice each year for several years into the Amundsen Sea. It’s hard to get to and much of it lies beneath the water, which is where warmer waters are eating away at it. As early as 1978, Ohio State University glaciologist John Mercer warned its melting would cause largescale dislocations in all coastal cities, and would be especially devastating to Florida and the Netherlands. Above the waves, it doesn’t get much better.
According to an article by Chris Mooney in the Washington Post, the greenhouse gas emissions of the world are within 1,000 gigatons – a gigaton is a billion metric tons – of pushing the global temperature past the 2 degrees Celsius tipping point that marks the outer threshold of our “safe” climate by 2020. In fact, projections show we’re already committed to pumping 800 gigatons of that 1,000 gigatons in the unfolding future of this century, according to
research by the Stockholm Environment Institute, which had funding support from the C40 Climate Leadership Group, which is dedicated to fighting climate change and to creating sustainable development, according to Mooney’s article. The research report shows that if we continue to expand our cities in the ways we’ve been expanding them, we’ll pump 14 gigatons of emissions a year into the atmosphere just from those activities. What’s left will be a mere 200 gigatons to divide up worldwide, and it won’t be long before we use that up. What does it all mean? Should we despair? Though I worry about the world into which we are
plunging our grandchildren, I’m not ready for the complete doom and gloom scenario, though I do agree it’s likely to get worse before it gets better. But I’m also a realist, and I believe we can make an unwaveringly strong commitment to ridding ourselves of non-sustainable policies and practices regarding our contribution to climate change and replacing them with equally unwavering commitments to develop and implement sustainable and sane policies and practices to see us into the future. At least that way, if the point of no return has already been crossed, we as a species may be able to survive the coming upheavals and storms, droughts and fires, famines and deaths that will be the harvest of the seeds we’ve sown so far on the this planet. And if we haven’t crossed that line, maybe… just maybe, we can stop short of it. For all our children and grandchildren, I hope there’s still time – and a strong will to do that. Richard A. Joyce is an Associate Professor in the Mass Communications Department at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is an award-winning journalist who served as managing editor, and subsequently editor and general manager of the Cañon City Daily Record from 1988 to 1994. The opinions he expresses in this column are strictly his own, and do not represent in any way the views of anyone else at the Redstone Review or at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He can be reached at phase15@mac.com.
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Recycling the right way By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – The activity at Lyons’ community recycling bins, located on Railroad Avenue between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, shows that Lyons residents are enthusiastic recyclers. The two large roll-off containers on Railroad Ave. are regularly filled with recyclable materials and taken to the Boulder County Recycling Center (BCRC) where the mixed recyclables are processed. But a closer look at the processing facility and how it handles single-stream recycling reveals the importance of strictly following recycling guidelines. While single-stream recycling makes recycling more convenient, throwing the wrong things in the recycling stream causes delays at the plant, contaminates the final products and can seriously damage the plant’s machinery, said Bethany Hentkowski, education and outreach specialist for Boulder County’s Resource Conservation Division. At the BCRC on 63rd St. in Boulder the stream of mixed recyclables is processed on conveyor belts that run the materials through a separation process using air streams, magnets, screening and human labor to produce bales of aluminum, plastic, cardboard, steel, and paper that are then sold to various manufacturers. The key to efficiently running the plant and, more importantly, providing desirable recycled materials to manufacturers ultimately lies with residents and their care in recycling. Among the worst things residents can throw into recycling bins are plastic bags, which gum up the works, cause delays in processing, and can potentially damage the sorting equipment. “Our plant shuts down six hours a week to clear plastic bags from the machinery,” said Hentkowski. “Plastic bags of any kind should never be tossed in with singlestream recyclables.” Less obvious offending material includes shredded
The Get Help Guide By Meg Waters Redstone Review LYONS – Everybody needs a little help from time to time. Fortunately for those of us in the Lyons area, a wide array of government and nonprofit entities are Waters available to assist with everything from food and housing to child care, to disaster preparedness. But it hasn’t always been easy to figure out where to turn for help with specific needs. That’s why the town of Lyons’ Human Services and Aging Commission has published the Get Help Guide. Printed with a grant from the Lyons Community Foundation, the guide describes services offered by – and provides contact information for – 92 different government and nonprofit agen-
paper (its small size contaminates the entire waste stream), plastic packaging such as packing “peanuts” and paper “to-go” coffee and soda cups, which have plastic linings that make the cups non-recyclable. The BCRC lists a “Dirty Dozen” of materials should never be put in the recycling bin: • Plastic bags: remove recyclables from bags; don’t throw any plastic bags into the bins. • Food waste: rinse out containers. • Plastic packaging : packing peanuts, bubble wrap, merchandise blister packs. • Shredded paper. • Syringes, needles, medical waste. • Explosive or hazardous materials, like ammo and motor oil. • Non-recyclable plastics: food takeout containers, Styrofoam, “red cups.” • Ceramics, drinking glasses, lightbulbs. • Frozen food boxes and ice cream cartons: their plastic coatings are not recyclable. • Flattened cans and containers. • Scrap metal. • Liquids in containers. Don’t crush items and keep the caps on. Because the sorting machinery separates flat items from threedimensional items, cans and plastic bottles of all types should never be flattened. Leaving the caps on plastic bottles allows them to retain their shape during the sorting, but don’t leave flat lids on plastic containers. Metal lids from glass jars should be removed from the jar and placed in the bin separately. Sorry, no takeout containers allowed. The plastic containers, Styrofoam or “Chinese food” style containers used in takeout food should never be part of singlestream recyclables. The flat shape of plastic containers is not conducive to auto-sorting, Styrofoam containers are not recyclable at the plant and the takeout boxes (and soda / coffee cups) have a plastic lining that contami-
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Monarch butterfly migration movie at Stonebridge Farm LYONS – As part of its public outreach, the Lyons Ecology Advisory Board is offering a free movie on Friday, Nov. 13 at Stonebridge Farm located at 5169 Ute Hwy. east of Lyons. The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies describes the mysterious journey taken by millions of monarch butterflies as they migrate from all corners of North America to a single forest in Mexico. The film’s makers used a helicopter, ultralight, and hot-air balloon for aerial views along the transcontinental route. The movie is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served. The movie begins at 7 p.m.
Boulder County residents now have access to Text-to-9-1-1 service BOULDER COUNTY – All dispatch centers throughout the county are enabled for this 911 service. Boulder, Boulder County has introduced Text-to9-1-1 service in all communities within the county as of Thursday, Oct. 8. This new service allows residents to text dispatch during an emergency. Text-to-9-1-1 is supported by all four 9-1-1 dispatch centers in the county which connect
callers to public safety response agencies including police, fire, emergency medical services and other rescue teams. Text-to-9-1-1 service is enabled on the four major cell phone carriers in our area: AT&T (Cricket), Sprint, TMobile and Verizon. All other smaller carriers should be enabled for texting within the next six months. If your carrier does not support 9-1-1 texting at this time, or if you are in a location that cannot send / receive text messages, you will receive a bounce back message. Regular text message rates will apply with this service. Using the Text-to-9-1-1 service is only recommended if it is the only option and making a voice call to 9-1-1 is not possible. Remember to call if you can, text if you must. Some situations where this would be appropriate include: A caller reporting an emergency is hard of hearing, deaf or speechimpaired; voice connectivity is unavailable, but texts can be sent – this is true in some mountain areas; situations when silence is of the utmost importance for your safety – instances of intrusion, abuse or other dangerous situations in which making a phone call would escalate the emergency. For more information, visit the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, the City of Boulder Police Department, the City of Longmont Department of Public Safety or the University of Continue Briefs on Page 15
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NATURE Sandhill Cranes migrating south are the sounds of ages past By Tina Mitchell Redstone Review LYONS – North America has only two species of cranes: the desperately endangered Whooping Crane and the Mitchell more common Sandhill Crane, which we see and (more often) hear migrating through our area this time of year. Standing three to four feet tall with a wingspan of six to seven feet, the Sandhill Crane can be distinguished from most other long-necked heron-like birds by its clunky, bottom-heavy body and a droopy tail that resembles an old-fashioned feather duster. If you ever see one of these predominantly gray giants up close, you’ll also spot a red crown and a surprisingly small head that wields a large, dangerouslooking, dagger-like bill. Flying high overhead, a crane’s neck stretches out straight (unlike a similarlooking Great Blue Heron, which flies with a folded neck) and its legs trail behind. Males and females look similar although males tend to be a bit larger. In reality, though, most of us will hear cranes long before we can see them, if we ever see them. An adult’s call is loud, resonant, and unforgettable. In migration, a flock sounds like a symphony of giant, stuttering, creaking hinges. A crane’s windpipe coils into its chest, allowing the sounds to resonate even more. But honestly, words will never be able to adequately capture this sound. Type in this URL (http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sandhill_Crane/sounds) to
listen to this amazing sound. If you plug in headphones and turn the volume way up, especially on the middle audio clip, you’ll come close to the actual experience. Sandhill Cranes mature slowly, delaying breeding until two to seven years of age, depending on the subspecies. They are strongly monogamous and both parents care for their young. They usually nest near wetlands (e.g., marshes, bogs),
in nearby open grassland or in areas surrounded by woodlands. A clutch usually contains two eggs, which both parents help to incubate for 29 to 32 days. The precocial young (called “colts”) leave the nest within a day of hatching, following the parents to appropriate feeding areas. Despite hatching two chicks, usually only one survives, perhaps due to nestling-onnestling harassment. Both parents feed the young at first, but the youngster soon
feeds itself. First flight occurs between 65 and 75 days after hatching. The family remains together for nine or ten months, allowing the young crane to learn the migration path from its parents. A Sandhill Crane’s diet varies widely, depending on the location and the season. Foods range from insects, aquatic plants, rodents, a variety of amphibians and reptiles, and even berries and seeds. Preparing for and during migration, Sandhills can often be found in fields of cultivated grains when those are available. Areas around staging and wintering grounds such as Monte Vista and Bosque often abut corn fields; typically, managers leave some grains to provide important bulking-up nourishment. Most people will experience the magic of Sandhill Cranes primarily during spring and fall migrations, although a few pairs breed in northwest Colorado. An important gathering or staging area for Sandhills in both spring and fall migration is the San Luis Valley, or the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, to be precise. On the flight path between western
breeding grounds and wintering sites in New Mexico and Mexico, this area hosts nearly every member of the crane flocks that breed in Idaho, western Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. Every year, Monte Vista hosts a Crane Festival in early March honoring the return of the Sandhills. If you ever get a chance to go, you will never forget it. If you can’t wait until March and have a rambling itch, check out the 28th Festival of the Cranes at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in Socorro, NM from November 17 to 22. Sandhill Cranes live long lives, as far as wild birds go, often more than 20 years. They also rank among the oldest living birds on the planet, with fossil records dating back nine million years. This vast evolutionary record prompted Aldo Leopold to write in A Sand County Almanac (1949), “The cranes’ tribe, we now know, stems out of the remote Eocene period. The other members of the fauna in which they originated are long since entombed within the hills. When we hear their call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution.” When Sandhill Cranes pass noisily high overhead, you indeed hear trumpets and echoes from millennia long past: living fossils traveling an ages-old path twice a year since the dawn of time. Tina Mitchell is a bird enthusiast and seasonal volunteer at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, which cares for more than 2,500 injured, sick and orphaned wildlife each year along the Front Range. Visit www.greenwoodwildlife.org to learn more. Got an idea for a column? Send an email to jenny@greenwoodwildlife.org.
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CONTEXT Foxtails, the unseen foe By Mikala Brown, DVM Redstone Review LONGMONT – With the transition of late spring through early fall come some of the best days of the year for our furry family members. Long leisurely days spent by a lake or walking down a cool trail make many pleasant hours. We as pet parents take many precautions to protect the safety of our pets during these times. We protect them from known evils, but it is the unseen and the unknown that poses the greatest threat. The grass awn appears to be a small, unassuming bit of fauna, but its seeds are sharp. A grass awn is produced as the seedling of various types of grasses. Many would not expect plant materials such as these to be problematic for their lovable pups. But these small foxtails pose a huge problem to dogs, and can lead to serious and even lifethreatening conditions. What are grass awns? Tall grasses such as wild barley produce conical, brushlike seeds. These seeds are composed of barbed awns, and these awns are what pose the risk. Where are they found? The offending grasses grow in fields, along hiking trails and even in backyards. They can be found throughout the U.S., but are most common along the West Coast. When are they a problem? When these grasses begin to flower, their brushlike seeds are soft and unthreatening. As the weather warms and they begin to dry out, the now brittle awns break off and are picked up by our pets. From late spring to early fall is when foxtails pose the greatest threat. How do they pose a threat? Foxtails pierce the skin and migrate, leaving tissue damage and infection in their wake. It is the shape of the awn that provides it with this destructive potential. Each awn has a sharp point, with bristles that fan out from there. Were you to brush this foxtail with your finger, you would feel that it is quite smooth moving with the bristles. However, the spikes
resist motion in the opposite direction. This same thing happens in the body. The awn is picked up in the fur, is eaten or even picked up by sniffing. The pointed end and barbed bristles allows the awn to shift through the hair until it reaches and penetrates the skin. From that point, through muscle contraction, the awn can migrate through tissue. They can only move forward, making them especially difficult to remove. The foxtail brings with it a legion of bacteria, causing infection along this migrating tract. This can lead to serious problems, and can be life-threatening depending on the tissue involved. The most common locations to see foxtails are between the toes, as well as in the nose, eyes, ears and arm-pits. They can also migrate into the lungs or abdomen. Which dogs are typically affected? Dogs with longer hair are most commonly affected, although any dog can develop a problem. The long hair is better at trapping the awn than short hair, giving opportunity for further migration. What are the typical signs seen? This is dependent on where the awn has entered and migrated. Generally, swelling, pain and discharge at the site of entry are the most common signs. The dog may be limping if the foxtail entered at the foot, or sneezing and having nasal discharge if it is moving through the nose. Signs become even more serious if the awn migrates through the chest
or abdominal cavities. What can be done to help affected dogs? Veterinary care should be sought immediately. Treatment depends on the part of the body affected. Broadly speaking, the foxtail needs to be removed, the wound cared for and the associated infection treated. The complexity of this task changes with the path of foxtail migration. How can you protect your pet? Avoid locations where these plants grow; groom and inspect your pet after potential exposure to remove foxtails; and trim or clip hair, especially around paws, to help limit acquisition of the foxtail. Despite taking precautions to avoid foxtails, there is no guarantee that your dog will not be exposed to these wily fauna. Knowing where they are found, what they look like and what signs may indicate exposure are important tools in protecting your pet as you enjoy the outdoors. Dr. Mikala Brown is a surgical intern at Aspen Meadow Veterinary Specialists. AMVS is a 24-hour veterinary facility providing specialty internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, oncology, emergency, critical care, and pain management. They are located in Longmont at 104 S. Main St. For more information, go to www.AspenMeadowVet.com.
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INTENTION Jog-A-Thon surpasses fund raising goal By Claudia Paterno and Tanya Daty Redstone Review LYONS – Students at Lyons Elementary School surpassed their school goal of $25,000 by raising $40,566.72 at this year’s annual Parent Teachers Organization (PTO) fundraiser, the JogA-Thon, held on September 25. It was the most money ever raised since the JogA-Thon began in 1996. At the Jog-A-Thon, preschoolers and kindergartners ran as many laps as they could in five minutes. First and second graders ran as many laps as they could in ten minutes, while third through fifth graders ran as many laps as possible in 15 minutes. Collectively, the students ran about 300 miles at this year’s event. Parents and siblings came to cheer students on while volunteers counted laps. Music was blaring, an emcee called all runners to the field, and children were
rewarded for their efforts with a T-shirt (sponsored by Cemex), a water bottle filled with water (sponsored by Oskar Blues and VisAbility) and an apple (sponsored by St.Vrain Market). The Jog-A-Thon began in 1996 when Lonnie Jones, the physical education teacher at the time, decided to have children run laps around a set course. The idea was to raise money for the school by having children ask family, friends and neighbors to pledge a dollar amount for each lap they ran. Back then, the PTO was happy if the Jog-A-Thon raised $5,000. Once children returned their pledge envelopes and the money was tallied, children were rewarded with prizes depending on how much they raised. Among the classrooms, Jennifer White's first grade class raised the most money. That whole class will be rewarded with a pizza party sponsored by Pizza Bar 66. Esme Mohatt raised the most Jog-A-
Principal Moore, dressed as superhero Flash, trying to catch up with students in the Jog-A-Thon. Thon dollars. The three students with largest amount of individual donors were Cooper Ucker, Lochlan and Eamon Osborne. For the 238 students who raised $50 or more, the Lyons Dairy Bar will be
Common Cents at the Lyons Regional Library Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – Although many Americans indicate that they are adept at dealing with day-to-day financial matters, they nevertheless engage in financial behaviors that generate expenses and fees. As far as getting basic financial education in school, only 17 states require high school students to take a personal finance class and 58 percent of college students report being unprepared to manage money, even though they have already accumulated mounds of student loan and credit card debt. There is much finger pointing about what has caused financial illiteracy in America. Whatever the cause, statistics indicate many Americans are living beyond their means, saddled with unnecessary debt, fees and expenses. Through a core commitment to learning, literacy, and unbiased information, libraries have been determined to be among the best avenues for providing financial literacy education. Lyons Regional Library District has earned the honor of being selected as just one of 13 libraries in Colorado to participate in a financial literacy initiative, made possible through a national grant program. Lyons area residents will soon have the opportunity to take part in workshops and other activities to help with everything from personal budgeting and money management planning to strategies for saving and investing. Katherine Weadley, the Director of Lyons Regional Library, wrote this Common Cents Colorado grant for the community because of her own personal experiences with money. “I came into this position with financial literacy as a goal for our community. Our family has been all over the monetary map through the years,” she said.
“Financial literacy is meant for everyone regardless of anyone’s current finances or age. As we all know, change happens and it can happen quickly. Helping people to make their own decisions based on information is a core value of Lyons Regional Library.” This October, Weadley will attend Common Cents’ two-day planning and instruction workshop. Programs and resources at the library will follow. The library will offer a core five-part workshop series, and, through the grant, be able to offer books and other informational materials. FINRA’s goal is to “give people the information and resources they need to make sound financial decisions.” All the workshops and information and forthcoming materials will be free and the entire community is encouraged to attend. The original program, Common Cents Counts, was developed at the Estes Valley Library. Marsha Yelick and Kurtis Kelly are part of the team that developed this program. Yelick is a retired Chartered Financial Analyst, the highest level of specialty in the financial profession. “For over five years residents of the Estes Valley have been helped by this education program offered at the library,” said Yelick. “Now we have the opportunity to expand what’s already been created, sharing programs and materials with other libraries across Colorado. Thanks to this grant, many more Colorado residents will have direct access to unbiased, understandable financial information. The program contains everything people need and deserve to know so they can pursue a happy and successful life,” Yelick said. These financial literacy challenges, so well documented in the FINRA surveys, have been confirmed by many other studies. View their findings at www.usfincancialcapability.org. If you have questions or want to be a part of the pro-
Little Thompson River Restoration By Deirdre Daly and Erin Sam Cooper Redstone Review LYONS – Flood recovery is ongoing on the Front Range and the Little Thompson Watershed Restoration Coalition (LTWRC) is no different. There are four projects underway: a Sediment Transport Study for the entire river, and three floodplain rehabilitation projects in high priority areas: two in the Blue Mountain reach of the river near Lyons, and one in the reach near Berthoud (north of Highway 66, near County Rd 4, west of Highway 287). The Stagecoach Trail crossing area and River Way area are the two sites in the Blue Mountain neighborhood. A massive
amount of land and vegetation was lost here, and the channel and floodplain were severely impacted. Among the buildings destroyed were Lyons Fire Station #2, two homes, three barns, and several work studios and buildings. For
honoring ice cream cone vouchers, and Boulder Landscape and Design will be sponsoring swim passes for the 149 students that raised $100. On Friday October 23 the school will hold a raffle drawing for grand prizes at a Pie-In-theFace assembly: 69 students raised enough money to throw whipped cream at a few chosen teachers including the principal, Andrew Moore. Those raising $300 earned a day pass to Gateway Park Fun Center. Then, the last tier of individual prizes was met by 13 amazing students. Those students who raised over $500 will enjoy eating lunch with Principal Andrew Moore at Oskar Blues followed by a trip to the Lyons Pinball Arcade. This special excursion is sponsored by Kott Pediatric Dentistry and Lyons Pinball Arcade. The school will celebrate reaching its goal with a Monster Mash party held at the end of the day on Friday, October 30. Mayama Studio will provide the music and instructing dance moves for all the students on the playground.
gram as it grows and develops in our community, please contact Katherine Weadley at Katherine@lyonsregionallibrary.com or stop in at the library. This new financial program is called Common Cents for Colorado and is made possible by a grant from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Foundation) through SmartInvesting@yourlibrary®, a partnership with the American Library Association.
Travels with Redstone Sara Hercock, Sue Walker, Wendy Demjanick and Dee Martin get ready to start their Saturday with Redstone Review and an Oskar Blues-inspired Bloody Mary bar. The group gathered for a weekend at Sue’s vacation home in Elk Lake, PA. Take the Redstone with you on your next trip and send us your photos showing where the Redstone has traveled. Send your photos to sdcmc@infionline.net.
Stagecoach, a 30-percent design will be engineered to help LTWRC seek implementation funds to construct the design. River Way is a complete “design and build” so this project will design and construct restoration and bank stabilization to protect the homes in this reach. LTWRC is working closely with residents; work is expected to begin in two months. In other LTWRC work, a chainsaw crew from the Larimer County Conservation Corps (LCCC) was mobilized for debris mitigation work from the furthest reach east in Milliken up to the < Little Thompson Watershed Highway Marker – Now you know, the river you see on your left above Pinewood Springs as you head west towards Estes Park is the Little Thompson River (not the St. Vrain River). PHOTO BY ERIN S. COOPER
west fork of the Little Thompson in Big Elk Meadows. And a technical assistance team hired by the Colorado Water Conservation Board is working with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and LTWRC to complete damage survey reports for funding consideration through NRCS’s Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program. Deirdre Daly is the president of the Little Thompson Watershed Restoration Coalition (LTWRC) and lives on the river in the Blue Mountain neighborhood of Lyons. Erin S. Cooper is LTWRC’s Assistant Watershed Coordinator. LTWRC is a landowner-driven organization dedicated to the restoration of the Little Thompson River, located at 435 High Street in Lyons. Cooper’s email is erin@ltwrc.org.
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Katechis awarded Innovator of the Year LYONS – Founder of Oskar Blues Lyons, Oskar Blues Brewery launched the Brewery, Dale Katechis, was recognized as craft beer-in-a-can apocalypse with handInnovator of the Year at the Biz West’s canned, flagship brew Dale’s Pale Ale. Annual Innovation Quotient Awards on Today, Oskar Blues operates breweries in October 6. Longmont and Brevard, The 15th installment of North Carolina, while the awards was held at the approaching 200,000 barrels Boulder Theater, and feain 2015. The original tured 21 innovative compacanned craft brewery continnies from the Boulder ues to stay innovative with Valley, with seven different releases like the Crowler. products and services cateOskar Blues Brewery curgories. rently distributes to 44 U.S. Dale Katechis began states and Washington, home brewing out of his D.C., as well as parts of bathtub while attending Canada, Sweden and the Auburn University. Since U.K. To keep up with all then, he has grown Oskar things Oskar Blues, visit Blues Brewery into one of http://www.oskarblues.com. Dale Katechis the fastest growing indeIn 2013, Oskar Blues pendent breweries in the country, and was founded the CAN’d Aid Foundation, a the first to sell craft beer in a can. He has 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that also led the industry in developing reseal- community puts its spin on doin’ good by able alumi-tek cans and the Crowler, or supporting Tunes, Treads + Trails and growler in a can. Love Yur Mama programs in communities Founded by Dale Katechis in 1997 in around the U.S.
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Colorado at Boulder Police Department webpages. More details and an informational video are available online.
Pinewood welcomes new residents PINEWOOD SPRINGS – Pinewood Springs has started a new program to welcome new residents in the area. For only $30 your name and logo will be prominently printed on a high-quality canvas bag. This is a way to introduce new residents to your services and products. Pinewood Springs Welcomes You is also looking for items to be placed in the bag. This could include coupons, discounts, business
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Town Continued from Page 1 The training channel could also be used during all 12 months, whereas practicing in the river is limited to about five months. Kayakers could also use the training channel to train for their events as well as for water rescue. The channel would be a safer place for children to learn to kayak. This center would become a training facility for people in states all around the country and would be an economic and commercial advantage for Lyons, bringing in business opportunities and new customers for local businesses. In other matters the town is asking voters to approve on the November ballot a proposal to raise sales tax and create a new 5-percent excise tax on marijuana grow facilities in Lyons. This would bring in about $50,000 per year. Lyons only has one marijuana grow industry in the hopper at this time. Currently Lyons has no excise tax in place whereas most municipalities do. The BOT is also asking voters to approve a 0.5 percent sales tax increase which would bring in about $100,000 per
cards, informational pieces and samples. The volunteers will assemble the bags and personally delivery these to new residents. For more information, please contact Christy at C2 Strategies @ gmail. com or call 303-823-5991.
Colorado applies for Disaster Relief funding COLORADO – The State of Colorado is entering into a contest to win $419 million, a portion of $1 billion available for disaster relief funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for communities that have been affected by natural disasters in 2011, 2012 or 2013. Lyons and Longmont are two communities in Colorado that are submitting proposals to the state for part of the $419 million the state is trying to win in the National Disaster
year. Currently the town has a 3 percent sales tax rate, one of the lower sales tax rate in the county. The proposed 0.5 percent increase in sales tax is requested for capital projects such as improving roads, curbs, building improvements, paying down debt service and municipal operations. Administrator Simonson explained that the flood has taken a toll on the town and the money collected in tax revenues is not enough for the town to keep up with the work and ongoing repairs that are needed in town even though sales tax revenues are up this year. Mayor John O’Brien pointed out that income from sales taxes has increased this year so far by 35 percent partly due to marijuana sales. Still the town is struggling to repay debt. The government funding that came in to repair flood damage often required a town match. Usually the town was required to pay the debt up front and wait for reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and often only a portion of the debt was covered by FEMA leaving the town to cover the rest or seek other funding and grants.
Resiliency Competition HUD contest. The maximum award is $500 million for any one applicant. Colorado also suffered from severe fire damage in 2011 and 2013. Governor John Hickenlooper said that Colorado suffered from three major disasters in 36 months. Colorado is one of 39 applicants consisting of states and cities applying for a portion in the HUD contest. Colorado has made it to round two in the contest and must submit its stage 2 application by October 27. HUD will announce the winners in January. The state’s objective is to rebuild from recent floods and fires to ensure Colorado is more innovative, safer and resilient in infrastructure, environment, economy, etc. The state website for recovery and resiliency is ColoradoUnited.com.
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