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B •R •I •E •F •S Important town meeting LYONS – Updates on the town recovery and planning process will be discussed at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at LifeBridge Christian Church on Colorado Highway 66 east of Lyons. If you want to know how the recovery process is going, plan to attend this town meeting. Sea Bright, a small town on the Jersey Shore, had more than a thousand homes and businesses damaged or destroyed in Hurricane Sandy and the streets were filled with mountains of sand and debris. Lyons Mayor Julie Van Domelen asked the mayor of Sea Bright what was the most helpful thing she did to facilitate recovery and she said community recovery planning. Community Recovery Planning is an inclusive process that does three things. First, it helps disaster-impacted communities, such as Lyons, identify the issues they face and want to address. It then provides a framework for developing solutions to address those issues. Finally, it provides a vehicle for building consensus around the best proposed solutions. Outside agencies can help facilitate the planning process, but it is the community that must determine the issues and agree on the solutions. Simply, after the planning partners are gone, the town will be left with a document that it must feel comfortable in implementing. In Lyons, the town has partnered with the Colorado Department of Local Affairs and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help facilitate the Lyons Recovery Planning Process which will produce the Lyons Recovery Action Plan. The Planning Process kicked off on December 18 when over 500 Lyonites met at LifeBridge Church in Longmont to begin charting the town’s road to recovery. Eight Recovery Working Groups were formed including housing, business Continue Briefs on Page 4
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BOT election will be held in April Lyons looks at raising its debt ceiling as the flood recovery continues By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – The Board of Trustees, BOT, will be up for re-election in April. The election will be a mail-in ballot. All six Trustee seats and the Mayor’s seat are up for election. The Mayor, Julie Van Domelen, has indicated that she is not running for re-election again due to her busy schedule and needed family time. Mayor Van Domelen has endorsed John O’Brien, who has decided to run for mayor. O’Brien teaches in the school of business at the University of Denver. He has been the Chamber of Commerce president and the chair of the Planning and Community Development Commission. No one else has turned in a packet to run for mayor so far. Packets are due by the end of February. Trustee Kirk Udovich is term limited as a trustee. So far two current trustees have picked up packets to run again for BOT; Trustee Dan Greenberg and Trustee Connie Sullivan have picked up packets. Trustee Dawn Weller is undecided as to whether she will run again and Trustee LaVern Johnson said she will run again and Trustee Sandy Banta has chosen not to run. Three town residents have also picked up packets to run for Trustees: Barney Dreistadt, James Kerr and Manny Vasquez. So far only John O’Brien has turned in his packet.
Three hour closure Monday, February 24 for blasting on US Highway 36 between Lyons and Estes Park Detour routes in place; major delays expected
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Town Board action– Currently the Lyons Town staff and the BOT are still struggling to find enough money to pay the debt incurred from the flood devastation. Town residents apparently are aware of the crushing debt hanging over the town because when the town decided to raise electric rates by 12.8 percent, no one showed up to complain during the public hearing and the motion to raise the electric rates along with a temporary $5 surcharge to the base rate passed without a hitch or even a comment. The surcharge is designated to only last one year. The flood is expected to cost the town about $60 million with Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, paying the lion’s share. This figure has jumped by $10 million since last month now that new assessments have been made. Even though the Federal Emergency Management Agency pays 75 percent of the cost to repair public works projects, the town is unable to come up with the remaining 25 percent of the cost. The Colorado Department of Local Affairs is offering up 12.5 percent, but the town is still in a bind for the rest. Some other form of help is coming from the state to lower the cost for repairs. The town was already in the process of rebuilding the sewer plant when the flood hit. The cost of the waste water plant was
BOULDER, LARIMER COUNTIES — The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration – Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFLHD) have scheduled the second of 20 different three-hour blasting operations for noon to 3 p.m., Monday, February 24, at mile marker 17.6. Timing of this blasting event was determined to ensure passage for afternoon school bus routes. The blasting is part of the US 36 Emergency Flood Reconstruction project between Lyons and Estes Park. The blasting will require full stops of both directions of traffic for three hours near mile marker (MM) 17.6, which is also west of Pinewood Springs and southeast of Estes Park. Motorists will need to use alternate routes, especially via State Highway 7 between Lyons and Estes Park, as no through traffic will be allowed through during the closure and major delays are expected. During blasting activities, crews will be loosening sections of the mountainside and then removing the loosened materials from the roadway. On average, the highway will be moved inland away from the river 20
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Open letter to the Lyons Town Board from the residents of the Confluence Area in Lyons This letter was read to the town board by Priscilla Cohan To the Board of Trustees, Monday, February 3. We are the citizens whose homes are in the Confluence Area and are now mostly living far away from those homes. We come here tonight so that you can see us and recognize us as individuals who are struggling to rebuild our community. The focus of the housing recovery meeting quickly shifted to visions of new neighborhoods and parks and the future of Lyons. We hope to be a part of that future, but because we are not able to live in our homes, our lives are scattered and our attention is focused on our immediate situation, not on the radiant new future of Lyons that will come to pass. We under-
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stand the need to imagine and rebuild the town into a thriving community and are grateful that so many have put time and effort into this endeavor. We are here tonight as a united group of citizens who, 144 days after the flood, want our neighborhood situation to be made a priority. We are here to thank you for your service and also to ask you to do more to recognize the struggle of a group of people who are those who have not moved back to Lyons, who are not celebrating with the rest of the town. We are still digging out and trying to find our way out of the purgatory of broken houses, banks, insurance companies, FEMA assistance and displacement. Following is a list of Confluence Neighborhood Priorities: 1. Establish direct communication with our group and respond in a timely way to current issues in an open forum either through Facebook or by emailing this list
Dear Lyons residents: After a great deal of consideration, I have decided not to run for re-election. As friends and family can attest, this has been an agonizing decision for me. I understand what an important moment this is for Lyons. I also know that given my life circumstances, I cannot commit to another two years. Prior to the flood, I was finalizing discussions on a new job that would have required me to resign in November. With the flood, I let that opportunity pass. But it was indicative of a work situation that is changing. I am traveling more often – I was in Pakistan last week and will head to the Congo next week – and at this point in our family’s life I cannot afford to curtail my consulting opportunities. I have often been asked how I manage to do all of this. The bald fact is that I no longer can. This realization has been difficult for me to accept. I
Chamber News By Sara Hart Redstone Review LYONS – “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” can definitely be said for the business community in Lyons today. We have all endured great change in such a wide variety of ways and for many people and town businesses, the strength is returning. If you’re not feeling it yet, the tide is definitely coming in for a great wave of energy to enliven the community further. For the Lyons Chamber Board, we are all busily trying to keep up with such inspiring momentum from the community working groups. Ideas are flowing faster and broader than the St. Vrain River ever will.
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of individuals. 2. Address our concerns about paying utility base rates on un-inhabitable homes. Keep us posted about grant efforts. 3. Recognize us as a viable part of town: When it snows, shovel the Fifth Street bridge so we do not have to walk in the middle of the highway to get downtown. Return our street signs. 4. Return our portable toilets. Consider a location that is more central, i.e., the corner of 4th and Park, and less exposed to the highway. 5. Keep us informed about permitting, fees and processes as they change. It is apparent that information can change, and change again, in the space of a couple of hours. It is a complicated, messy process, but we need to be up-to-date with the changes, because new information a few days or hours late can seriously impact our eventual outcomes. 6. We understand that town has to try to persuade us to create a consensus for any
am committed to Lyons recovery, and intend to stay actively engaged in recovery efforts. But, I realize that I need to find a different role, one that aligns better with my time availability. I would not be able to make this decision if there were not a really good candidate willing to step up to the plate for Mayor. Fortunately, John O’Brien has agreed to run. I have worked with John for years, from our days together on the Planning and Community Development Commission to the Economic Development Commission which John currently chairs to his recent leadership on business recovery efforts following the flood. John will make an excellent mayor both for his knowledge and leadership abilities of working with the many groups within Lyons as well as his ability to represent Lyons to the county and state. Despite what may be considered unsavory about “Disaster Tourism,” the looky-loos and on-lookers are doing what is only natural. When mass destruction happens the unfathomable has become reality. It pushes our concept of reality open to what can and does change in an instant in life. Witnessing it brings us in contact with our own impermanence. As a business community, we welcome you all to come be a part of not only observing the natural disaster (with due respect) but also the amazing experience of community revitalization. While the wild reclaimed a part of the region that people had called home, we as a community are reclaiming our businesses, lives and routines to be better than ever. Things You’ve Got to Check Out: The Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce has a Main Continue Chamber on Page 14
government buyout possibilities. After the cost / benefit analysis we trust that the best possible grant will be written for those individuals who will gain the most from the program. We understand that for all of the individuals whose homes are un-livable there are as many different courses of action. We will all approach you for our individual concerns. From here on we refuse to experience this circumstance in isolation. We are here for each other and welcome you to make us priority and recognize us as thriving group of citizens who are working hard to rebuild our homes and our community. Thank you for your time and all your efforts. The Confluence Neighbors For more information anyone who is in town and suffered flood damage may contact Priscilla Cohan at priscillacohan @ gmail. com. Also the confluence area now has a website at lyonsconfluence. org.
I still have a few months to go and will keep at it until the last day, full tilt. But I wanted to take this moment to say thank you to the residents of Lyons. I was worried about entering into local politics, which can be nasty and life disrupting. You have made this such a positive experience. Throughout my five years as Mayor, I never forgot who I worked for. It has been an honor to serve you. Mayor Julie Van Domelen
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MAYOR’S CORNER Putting the financial puzzle together for recovery By Julie Van Domelen, Mayor Redstone Review LYONS – As we put our collective heads together to come up with a Lyons Flood Recovery Action Plan, one of the most common questions I have heard is how are we going to pay for all of this? Van Domelen Developing a solid financing plan is critical to our recovery and I wanted to give you all an update on where we stand. We have financial needs in three main areas: First, we must repair and restore our public infrastructure like water and sewer systems, roads, bridges, electric supply, and river bank stabilization. Everything done so far are temporary fixes. The initial estimate of $50 million for public infrastructure looks closer to $60 million now that more
detailed assessments have been done. The funding formula of FEMA 75 percent, State of Colorado 12.5 percent and local government 12.5 percent would have left Lyons with a bill of over $6 million versus reserves of $4 million. We recently went to the State to plead our case for additional assistance. The State developed a model that reviewed our pre-flood reserves fund by fund to determine our ability to afford our match. We are expected to use our own reserves before relief kicks in, but leave a three-month operating expense cushion as a fiscal ‘floor’ in line with our BOT reserve policies. Where there are insufficient resources, the State would increase its share up to a maximum of 22.5 (or 2.5 percent for the local requirement). The good news is that the Governor’s Office confirmed on Friday that this assistance will be forthcoming. This is a huge relief and a big effort on the part of the State, who will end up contributing at least $4.8 million based on the initial calculations of how costs map out over different funds. However, even at the 2.5 per-
Our kids learning in nature By Drew Biel Redstone Review LYONS – With an abundance of debris, excavation equipment and FEMA forms, there are some things in Lyons that are not in short supply. Conversely, our beloved town has an ever-growing list of shortages such as restaurants, affordable housBiel ing, parks and playgrounds, a library, a public works building and more. There’s one more thing we should add to each list: Young children (under the abundance category) and a privately operated early-education center (under the shortages list). Lyons has a slew of kids zero to six years old, and their parents have a strong desire to involve those youngsters in early-learning experiences. Prior to September 12th, Lyons had a few preschool options available to three to five yearolds including Lyons Community Montessori (LCM) and the preschool program at Lyons Elementary School. After the deluge, the LCM closed its doors and the Lyons Elementary School program is now near capacity. In October, former LCM teachers and parents (including my wife and me) gathered together to continue, even if temporarily, the Montessori program. Eventually, with the help of the nice folks at the Lyons Community
cent local match, we will go below the fiscal floor of 3 months of operating reserves in the General Fund. Here we are hopeful that volunteer hours can help fill in the gap. Since it will take over 18 months to carry out the infrastructure fixes, we have some time to figure out the funding gap in this area, which is estimated at between $100,000 to $200,000. The second challenge is that our revenues have declined, making it difficult to fund basic Town operations. For example, the 2014 budget projects property tax revenues will decline by 10 percent and sales tax revenues by 40 percent. Overall Parks and Recreation fund revenues are expected to be a mere 30 percent of 2013 levels due to damages that will cut into events and parking revenues in addition to the overall decrease in sales tax. Moreover, we have intentionally adopted policies that will reduce our revenues, like waiving building permit fees for flood-affected properties. At the same time our needs for personnel have increased, for example to help process building permits, assist resi-
Church, we settled into the parsonage house on Main Street. Since classes are scheduled only until May, we need a long-term solution. As we’ve been considering our options, a greater vision is emerging among a number of Lyons parents: to create an enduring early education center amid the outdoors and nature. The objective would be to manifest a multi-sensory environment where kids are free to explore the natural world, physically express themselves and discover the cycles of the seasons and the earth. As author Richard Louv says, “A place where children grow up with a deep understanding of the life around them.” Call it a blend of Montessori and Waldorf. Call it whatever you like. But it’s calling us, and not only in Lyons, but as a nation. Practically every week a new study reveals not only the importance of early education, but also the life-long impact of experiential, creative and fun learning environments in nature. What would this preschool center look like? First, it would preferably be situated within the town limits (as opposed to neighboring, unincorporated Boulder County), affording parents the opportunity to walk or bicycle to the site. Secondly, it would require land and space (not necessarily a vast amount) that included a natural setting. Lastly, it would need a suitable home or other
dents with housing and home repair processes, organize volunteers, and provide administrative support as tasks have multiplied. We cannot mount an effective recovery with the existing 15 staff of Town Hall – they need reinforcements given the increased workloads. We cannot use our reserves for this as they are already obligated in the funding formula used by the State to grant match relief. And, this is a lousy time to increase sales or property taxes, which would hit businesses and households already suffering from the disaster. The good news on this front is that there is a solution, but it will require voter approval. FEMA has a Community Continue Mayor on Page 14
structure that could be transformed into a schoolhouse. Such an enterprise would entail the purchase or rental of real estate and we’re currently on the lookout. If you are aware of any sites that might meet these specifications, shoot me an email at drew@booksofdiscovery.com. We’re open to all possibilities. In the meantime, let me leave you with this question: Who’s going to be the mayor of Lyons in 2044? The answer may hinge on our preschoolers. There’s a good chance that one of them will stay in town after college, start a family, get involved in civic matters and – voila! – become the mayor. Several other preschoolers could populate the Board of Trustees. How cool would that be? Let’s be honest, in 2044 – 30, short years from now – most of us will be too old or tired to run the show and happily will rely on the young minds and talents of those preschoolers. So here’s the follow-up question: How bright, experienced and well rounded would you like our future leaders to be? Top-notch, right? An early-education center in Lyons would be one step toward that goal. Andrew Biel is on the Steering Committee for the library/community resource center. He is the owner of Books of Discovery in Boulder and spends his free time with his wife, Lyn Gregory, and daughter, Grace.
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Biking in a winter ultra-marathon By Katherine Weadley Redstone Review News Editor LYONS – It’s 40 degrees below zero in International Falls, Minn., not counting wind chill, and you are walking your bike up a mountainside. Dusk is falling and the wolves are howling. Your insulated bottles of water are freezing again and you have many vertical miles to go before you reach the next safety check. Most of the people you know have been disqualified due to frostbite and the finish rate is 30 percent. You are in the coldest part of the lower 48 states in the coldest part of the year. You want to quit a thousand times but you don’t. You finish. On Jan. 29, Tom Woods of Lyons finished the Arrowhead Ultra 135. It’s a 135mile ultra-marathon that takes place every year near International Falls and the Canadian border. The race follows the Arrowhead State Snowmobile Trail in northern Minnesota. There are no cheering crowds and the media coverage is scarce. This year’s race started at 7 a.m. at 24 degrees below. Racers can bike, ski or run the race. It’s a non-stop, self-supported race with a 60-hour limit. According to the Arrowhead race results 141 people started the race and 47 people finished. The cartoon character Bullwinkle is from the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minn., which was based on International Falls; International Falls is often listed on the weather news as the coldest place in the U.S.
Woods is an ultra-athlete who works from his house in Lyons as a patent lawyer. He biked the race last year but didn’t finish. This year he vowed to finish even though he often wanted to quit. “I thought to myself, ‘What would I do with the rest of my day if I stopped now?’ I’d go back to my hotel room and feel like shit. So I kept on going.” Woods said his unfinished race last year haunted him all year long so this year he was determined to get to the end. During the race Woods experienced an asthma attack for the first time. “I felt like I was breathing out of a straw,” he said. Woods is convinced the attack was brought on by extreme cold. “You are out in the middle of nowhere, people are reporting seeing wolves, it’s below freezing and suddenly you can’t breathe. I started to freak out,” he said. “Then I just told myself to be calm. I told myself to calm down. And then I was calm and I knew I’d be okay. There was no other option.” While there are only three checkpoints about 35 miles apart, each checkpoint is a mandatory stop. Racers are checked for frostbite and if anything is wrong racers are disqualified immediately and removed by snowmobile. Mental conditions are also assessed. “A lot of people got kind of crazy on the trail,” said Woods. So when his bike chain broke he took off his gloves and fixed it. When one of his companions didn’t have the right food to eat Woods gave him food. When another companion’s water froze Woods shared his water. “It gives you confidence in an extreme situa-
Tom Woods (at right) of Lyons was a finisher in this year’s Arrowhead Ultra 135, a 135 mile, below-zero bike race in International Falls, Minn. tion to know you aren’t alone. That people are cooperating,” he said. Woods knows the meaning of cooperation in survival situations. Roughly 2,000 people evacuated Lyons due to the disastrous floodwaters in September 2013, but Tom and his wife Lora stayed in their home without any services for the six weeks or more of displacement. “Lora and I wanted to stay in Lyons. Our pets are here and we wanted to be here too. Cooperation among those of us who stayed was crucial,” he said. Going through a national disaster and coming out the other end in an okay condition makes for a better ultra-athlete, according to Woods. “You know if you can handle that then you can handle just
Lyons Love offers nourishment for body and soul By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – A new and somewhat eclectic shop offering a range of food, decorative items and beverages recently opened at 447 Main St., the former Big Foot Liquor. The shop, called Lyons Love Ltd., is owned by Lawrence LeBlanc who just moved to Lyons from Queens, N.Y. “This is my first retail shop,” said LeBlanc. “I do part time web design and graphic design. I usually work at ad agencies. I worked at a big ad agency in New York.” LeBlanc said that he will be sharing his shop space with another business, Alpaca Bowl, owned by Mike and Arielle Powers who make soups that they package in jars to sell. “I like to think of the shared space as a co-op. I want to move towards that; to have shared space for local artists,” he said. “My initial goal is not to charge artists a commission,” he said. “I was in New York during 9/11 and I found that the most helpful thing was to go back into my creativity and not have to worry about survival. I want to offer that to artists here because of the trauma from the flood. I want to help local artists recover.”
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recovery, parks and recreation, stream recovery, public facilities, infrastructure, health and hman services and arts, culture and historic preservation. It’s not too late to get involved! In fact, there’s plenty of planning still to do and every Lyons resident and business owner is encouraged to become involved. A list of the meeting dates and locations can be found on www.lyonsrecovery.com or by calling Town Hall at 303-8236622. So far, the Recovery Working Groups have met four times. To date, they have worked on confirming the issues that were developed at the kick-off meeting, determining goals and objectives that address those issues, and discussing solutions that achieve those goals and objectives
Free Home Energy Audits LYONS – Getting your house back to itself, after the flood? Want to save on electric bills? Lyons Area customers (members) of Poudre Valley REA may call Gary the Energy Guy at 970282-6464 for a home energy audit. The basic, in-home audit is
LeBlanc also wants to have a working artist in one corner of the shop creating an art project for customers to watch. “It really reminds me of Austin here,” he said. “There are so many talented artists here and musicians.” The shop will have a variety of food items for sale including chocolates, juices, smoothies, crepes, Lyons Love Ltd., is owned tamales, breakfast burritos, by Lawrence LeBlanc who probiotic drinks, energy just moved to Lyons from Queens, N.Y. His aim is to bars, and other items. The probiotic drink is made in create a cooperative space where creativity can flourish. house by LeBlanc and is called Not Soda. The soups, crepes, and breakfast burritos are made off site, but LeBlanc hopes to have a kitchen built in at some point. He said that he came up with the name of Lyons Love for free, and leaves you with a written list of recommendations. Adding a more extensive evaluation of air leakage and weatherization costs $50. A third option includes these two plus infrared structural and insulation evaluation, for $100. Gary Meyers, the auditor, has an extensive background and a mind full of information, which he can explain in plain language. Meyers is also available to meet with a group of neighbors to make a presentation about energy saving measures and to answer questions and discuss options. REA will rebate up to $50 after qualifying repairs or updates are made. These include switching to more efficient light bulbs, weather stripping and other low-cost energy saving measures. A recent U.S. Department of Energy study found that weatherization measures saved an average of 32% on a typical American home’s energy bill. Continue Briefs on Page 10
about anything,” he said. Tom’s next adventure race on his bike is the Actif Epica set for February 15 in Manitoba, Canada. While similar to the Arrowhead Ultra 135 in terms of the cold, wind and snow, this race is only about 81 miles (130 km.) and runs across a prairie without brutal ascents and descents. “This race will be much easier,” said Tom. What does Tom’s wife Lora do while Tom races over frozen tundra and up and down mountains? She heads to Ouray to ice climb. Of course she does. Kathrine Weadley is a freelance writer and a librarian. She worked as a reporter for the Daily Camera in Boulder. She lives in Lyons with her family and dog Wolfie.
his shop because he wants people to come to the shop to relax, listen to music find what they love to do. “Basically I want people to do what they love,” he said. “It’s nice to be surrounded by people who are happy. We should all be doing our passions. This has been a dream of mine to have a space, a café, a place where people could come and hang out. We also want to support local artists. I want to do the things that Lyons people want and need. We might have a person doing a chair massage.” There will be a grand opening on March 1. LeBlanc said he will have someone come in to teach crystals on March 2 and there will be some classes on probiotics and other teachings. “We want all our products to be all natural and organic wherever possible,” he said. Store hours are not definite yet, but for now the hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and LeBlanc hopes to have live music in the shop soon. “I want to support people who don’t have a voice,” he said.
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CONTRAST Barbed Wire Books celebrates its grand reopening with new and used books By Carol Devenir Redstone Review LYONS – Lucky Lyons, living in the midst of so much natural beauty, and just 11 miles up the road from another local treasure, Devenir Barbed Wire Books, 504 Main St. in Longmont. After four years of business primarily as a used book store, Barbed Wire Books celebrates its grand re-opening on March 15 as a full-size new-book store – 1200 square feet – in addition to continuing as the area’s largest used book store. “We have about 1000 new titles and 60,000 used, and we’re open seven days a week,” said owner Kathe Heinecken. Most of the new titles are priced at 20 percent off the listed price. Customers, employees and authors credit the store’s success and its ambience to Heinecken’s quiet charisma and her dedication to books, the local community and its authors. Service – “Our goal is service,” Heinecken said, “to the people of Longmont, to the Main Street economy, and to the greater area – so people don’t have to drive so far to find what they want.” According to the American Booksellers Association, studies have documented that locally owned businesses bring significantly greater economic return to the local economy than retail chains, big box stores, and remote online retailers; and independent booksellers have often been
the driving force behind these efforts. Barbed Wire Books employs a staff of six, including the former long-time owner of the Longmont Used Book Store, Jeanne Prosser. Prosser recently merged her inventory and experience with BWB’s. Barbed Wire Books accepts gently used books in exchange for trade credit. It locates out-of-print books, orders new books, provides classrooms with books, and helps with appraisals and building book collections and works with local schools, as well, stocking many copies of The Scarlet Letter, for example, when that book is on the classroom reading list. BWB does special orders every day; just call 303-827-3620. Supporting local authors – The store supports local authors by showcasing their books and offering signings and readings. As Heinecken walks by the shelves, she points out books by about 75 local authors, with at least 20 from the Lyons area. She knows each author and his or her strengths and stories. There’s usually at least one other author in the store when I visit. Ted Ringer has written a whole shelf of books, starting with Born with a Beard. He lives nears Highway 36 and Nelson Road. “Through Kathe’s work, her vision and her personality,” Ringer says, “Barbed Wire Books has the vibe a bookstore should have. The people here know and love books. Kathe keeps books in circulation that we can live on – that give our lives meaning.” Pop-ups – Pop-up books are one of Heineken’s specialties. “I’ve loved pop-up books since I was a child,” she said. “I love that they’re interactive, and the engineer-
Barbed Wire Books at 504 Main Street in Longmont will celebrate its grand re-opening on March 15 as a full-size new and used bookstore. ing is thrilling. We carry new pop-ups for both children and adults.” Adult pop-ups include topics such as sex and death. Some of the used pop-ups are classics – now out of print. The Little Prince, Puff the Magic Dragon, and Bugs are among the many enticing covers. A copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, engineered by Robert Sabuda, “who is tops in the field” according to Heinecken, sits behind glass with a few other remarkable pop-ups, to protect their fragile moving parts. She aims to house the best selection of pop-up books anyone ever saw. She seems to have reached that goal already, but customers can expect even more. Speaking of classics, Heinecken enjoys pointing out the likes of TinTin, Asterix,
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H.P. Lovecraft, Ginsburg, and many other beloved old favorites. “Not your mainstream stuff,” she summarizes. Outdoor books, Colorado guides, and self-sustaining living make up another specialty. These include books on gardening, hiking, raising chickens and bees, and all kinds of “not your mainstream” stuff. Beyond books – BWB also carries an array of works by local artists: unique wall hangings, custom clothing, wood carvings, stained glass, purses and bags, scarves, bookmarks and cards. Also on board is a collection of jewelry, both vintage and new. The store hosts small literary gatherings, including a Tolkien Discussion Society and a Harry Potter Discussion Society, for adults. Creative window displays change with the season and feature a local celebrity, Barb Dwyer. Tim Combs, antique dealer and former Lyons mayor, said, “It’s a great book store – super inviting, and comfortable – four stars!” Lyons’ Art 4 Art group used BWB’s meeting room for their gatherings while the Town was closed after the flood. Merlyn Williams, Lyons Library Director, uses the store to buy used books for the library. “They also have a lot of off-thewall, things like beautiful photograph books and a book made from a private collection of Victorian stencils from Japan. I like it a lot, and I do recommend the store to others,” Williams said. “But I don’t necessarily want more competition for all the unusual things I like!” Grand Opening – The public is invited for Grand Opening festivities on Saturday March 15, at 3 p.m. Niwot High School teacher Terry Kroenung will read from his new book, Jasper’s Magick Corset. This is the third in a series, following Brimstone and Lily, and Jasper’s Foul Tongue. As Kroenung describes the series, “A snarky serio-comic young adult takes on traditional quest-lit. The idea started as swords-and-sorcery Huck Finn and took off from there.” Brimstone and Lily won the Bronze Medal in Sci-Fi/Fantasy at the 2010 Independent Publishers Book Awards. In literary style, Kathe Heinecken sums up the store’s many offerings: “Barbed Wire Books is a purveyor of plots, potboilers, and prose of all kinds; a curator of cookbooks, characters, and childhood memories; and a sanctuary for ideas, diversion, and the lost art of browsing.” Lucky for Longmont, and lucky for upthe-road Lyons. Carol Devenir worked for 30 years in City Planning and Public Works. She is the Vice President of the Friends of the Lyons Depot Library and the author of Beyond Chemo Brain: Recovering after Surviving. She lives in Lyons.
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CONTACT Peter Molnar wins geophysicist’s highest award Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – Geophysicists are among the rare breed of scientists who rush in where others fear to tread. They are often heard on radio and TV explaining why an earthquakes happen, why a volcano blew up or why the jet stream has become unstable and wobbly sending snow and cold weather into the deep south in the U.S. due to climate change. They are quoted in the media explaining weather patterns, shifting tectonic plates, why and how the continents separated and are continuing to shift. They explain to students how continents collide and one slides on top of the other. Italy for example was actually part of Africa millions of years ago. One of those rare geophysicists, one of our own Lyons neighbors, Peter Molnar, just won the highest award given to geophysicists. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences 2014 to Peter Molnar, a professor of geological sciences and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from Columbia University in New York. The Crafoord Prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, is the same body that awards the Nobel Prize. It covers research in fields of science not addressed by the Nobels, including astronomy and mathematics, geosciences, biosciences, and rheumatoid arthritis. The prize comes with four million Swedish Kroner or about $620,000 US dollars. Molnar said that the money is intended for research and he is not sure how he will use it, though he plans to give much of it away.
The May 6 Crafoord Prize ceremony at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, will be attended by Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, who usually gives the award to the recipient. Molnar was nominated to receive the award by a group of his colleagues “for his groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of global tectonics, in particular the deformation of continents and the structure and evolution of mountain ranges, as well as the impact of tectonic processes on ocean-atmosphere circulation and climate,” according to the Swedish Academy of Sciences. The award came as a surprise. “I had no idea that I was being considered for the award,” Molnar said, adding that he was unaware that any of his colleagues recommended him for the award. In his research Molnar set out to answer numerous questions, such as: Why do continents move? How are mountain ranges like the Himalayas and vast elevated regions like the Tibetan Plateau formed? During the 20th century, many pieces were laid, one after the other, in the theoretical puzzle elucidating the dynamics of the Earth’s crust and mantle. By observing and analyzing, geoscientists around the world were able to demonstrate not only that the compositions of oceanic and continental crust were fundamentally different, but also why these uppermost layers of the Earth, the key components of the socalled lithospheric plates, moved and deformed. With a background in geophysics, this year’s Crafoord Laureate, Peter Molnar, has contributed groundbreaking knowledge about the driving forces behind plate motions and the place of continents in the plate tectonic model of Earth’s evolution, according to the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Innovatively combining geological and geophysical methods of inquiry with satellite measurements
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Geophysicist Peter Molnar of Spring Gulch has been awarded the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences 2014 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the same body that awards the Nobel Prize. and basic theory, the Laureate has also paved the way to a new understanding of the formation of mountain ranges and their role in global tectonics.
LOCAL eat+drink – A new restaurant called LOCAL eat+drink will open during the By Susan de Castro McCann endurance. Down jackets, rain first or second week in March at gear, fleece, sleeping bags, packs 432 Main St. at the former Redstone Review Editor and tents are also well established Matsuri location. The new eatery is owned by DeAnna LYONS – New businesses are in the European market. Russian President Vladimir Moore whose husband Gavin popping up all along Main Street. Moore owns Pizza 66 at the locaThe Russians are Coming – Putin is said to wear Red Fox gear tion right next door to LOCAL. One new business is on the way to (when he decides to wear a shirt). “The two restaurants are sepaLyons all the way from Russia. It Red Fox gear is not only touted as rate,” said DeAnna. “We are not seems like it’s a done deal – the exceptional quality, it is also supposed to be cheaper than other opening up a door between the two businesses.” DeAnna will be partnering with Katie Baum, who has a catering business called the Eat Private Chef and Catering Co. that has received rave reviews on Yelp.com. DeAnna said that the restaurant will be totally remodeled. The restaurant will feature farm-to-table dinners with all natural fresh ingredients. Left: Art Dudley of Lyons resident, bought Main Sterrt Auto from Greg Brooks and took over the business on January 6. The dining establishment will be open for Right: Monica McGuckin has sold the Lyons Mercantile to Lyons resident Amy Munson. dinner from 5 to 9:30 Russians are coming to Main well known brands such as and remodeled three homes, so I p.m. Thursday through Saturday. have always been interested in Wednesdays will be dedicated Street Lyons. The new business is Patagonia and North Face. According to John Burke consignment. I love the idea of for special events, special dincalled Red Fox and the new outdoor gear shop will soon be locat- who, with his wife Janice recycling.” She pointed to a ners, classes, etc. There will be ed in the former Lyons Quilt Gavan, owns the building, the wine rack that she made herself three community tables along with several regular tables. “I Shop store front on Main Street. space was leased to Jim Wagner from old pallets. “I want to have local artists in call our restaurant rustic indusRed Fox will be a retail store as last July. Wagner lives in Lyons well as the North American and will open the Red Fox here,” she said. “I grew up with trial,” said DeAnna. “We want to create a hub, a gathering headquarters for the company North American headquarters at art and I love it.” Munson said that she likes the place. We will offer small plates, that makes and exports outdoor the Main Street location. The gear, backpacks, parkas and other Red Fox retail shop is expected consignment furniture she takes specialty cocktails, specialty outdoor gear. Red Fox makes all to open this spring and is in to be in good condition and to beer and we want to source as types of outdoor gear including expected to be a destination be good quality items. “That is much as possible locally.” Main Street Auto of Lyons military survival gear, extreme shop for outdoor gear clients what we are looking.” for she said. The winter hours are 10 a.m. – Main Street Auto of Lyons, endurance gear, tactical gear, from all over Boulder and to 5 p.m. Lyons Mercantile is 505 West Main St., is under new adventure gear, camping equip- Larimer Counties. Lyons Mercantile – The closed on Monday. Hours are ownership. Art Dudley, Lyons ment and many other types of gear and equipment. The Red Fox Lyons Mercantile, 441 Main St., subject to change in the spring. resident, bought the business brand is well known throughout is under new ownership. Former For more information, call 303- from Greg Brooks and took over the business on January 6. Europe for its quality and owner Monica McGuckin sold 823-5256. the business to Lyons resident Amy Munson. McGuckin still works at the store a few hours a week helping Munson learn the ropes. Munson purchased the business on Dec. 12. “Monica and I became friends when she opened two years ago,” said Munson, who lives in Lyons with her husband and daughters (one daughter is away at school). “My husband and I have gutted
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The auto shop specializes in new tires, alignment, mounting / balancing, suspension, brakes and steering, routine maintenance, oil change, computer diagnostics and other auto work. Dudley has lived in Lyons since 1990. Formerly he built log homes. Dudley said that his auto shop was not damaged by the flood which ravaged the trailer park next to him and tore through Planet Bluegrass across the street. Dudley said that he is amazed and how fast Lyons was able to rebuild and repair the infrastructure. The hours are 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. For more information, call 303-823-0106. “The people in Lyons are very entrepreneurial in the way they handle disasters,” he said. “And that is the way I would describe the West in general”
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INSIGHT Pot is legal: I never thought I would live to see the day By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – It’s been 30 years, more or less, since I last smoked marijuana. Why did I quit? I sometimes say that I’d begun to make some headway Gierach as a writer and felt I should keep my wits about me in a more reliable way, but that’s not the whole story. After all, any number of writers, from Allen Ginsburg to William Burroughs to Hunter Thompson openly used pot – among other things – and did okay for themselves, at least in literary terms. I also sometimes say that pot got too expensive and too strong, which is closer to the heart of the matter. When I started smoking marijuana in the 1960s, you could buy an ounce for $12. Granted, the minimum wage at the time was $1.40 an hour and half of that ounce was seeds and stems. Still, it wasn’t the kind of expensive habit that would turn you to a life of crime. But when a lid went from $12 to $15 it was like a dam had broken and the price began to climb in five dollar increments with no end in sight. The quality of the weed increased along with the price and for a while it made a kind of sense, like paying a few dollars more for a better bottle of wine. For that matter, a $30 ounce went as far as a $15 bag once had because you only had to smoke half as much to get the same effect. So far, so good, but then both trends
continued apace until the last ounce of pot I bought cost in the neighborhood of $50 and I couldn’t finish it because it was too “trippy,” as we used to say. When I smoked a joint, all I wanted was for Star Trek to seem more profound than it really was and for peanut butter on a stale tortilla to taste like beef bourguignon. I didn’t want to wake up 36 hours later in a strange house filled with people I didn’t know.
It’s true that for some of the time I smoked pot I worked a succession of lowskilled, low paying jobs, but that wasn’t because of a marijuana-induced lack of ambition. In fact, I had plenty of ambi-
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tion as a writer and did scut work simply to keep body and soul together until I made the best seller list – a project I’m still working on. It’s also true that marijuana briefly acted as a gateway to other drugs simply because some of the people who sold me pot also dealt in other substances, but in my case that didn’t last long. I quickly came to agree with Ken Kesey who said that psychedelic drugs were a useful way to cast off the moorings, drift out to sea and get a fresh perspective on things, but, “Sooner or later you’ve got to row the boat back to the dock.” He might have added that it’s best to do that while the dock is still in sight. I was asked to characterize the sensation of smoking pot a few times (a favorite uncle once took me aside and asked, “What’s that stuff do for ya?”) but it was like trying to explain an inside joke. The closest I ever came was to point out that while the authorities were warning about reefer madness, tens of thousands of hippies were preaching peace and love. What does that tell you? My mother took the more direct approach of asking to try some, just out of curiosity. We shared a skinny number and after a while she asked, “So, that’s it?” “Yeah,” I said, “That’s pretty much it.” “Oh,” she said, and then added, “Are you hungry?” So when medical marijuana went on the ballot here in Colorado, I voted in favor of it, and when recreational pot came up more recently I voted in favor of that, too. You’ve heard all the arguments so I won’t repeat them here except for a few highlights: For one thing, there’s no good reason to make criminals out of otherwise innocent people, but there’s every reason in the world to put the real criminals out of business by just legalizing the stuff. For that matter, the state can either spend millions of dollars a year prosecuting people for victimless crimes, or it can make millions by regulating and taxing the stuff. Will legal marijuana be trouble free? Probably not any more than alcohol is, but, as with Prohibition, it’ll be less trouble than it was when it was illegal. All of which is to say, recreational marijuana had been legal in Colorado for a little more than a month when I drove down to the nearest recreational dispensary and bought myself some pot. I’m not sure why. I could say I was a journalist simply doing research for this story or that I never thought I’d live to see the day when you could walk into a store in broad daylight to legally buy pot over the counter and I wanted to see how it felt. The shop was tucked away in a light industrial section of North Denver: a tiny, fragrant space that was completely filled by seven customers, three clerks, a small glass display case and a folding card table. It had the look of something that had been hastily thrown together, but that
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might get more elaborate once the initial rush has settled down. The people in the shop ranged in age from their 20s to their 50s and I didn’t see anyone I’d describe as a dope fiend. In fact the customers at the pot shop were quieter, better behaved and more polite than the patrons of your average sports bar. When I asked the young woman behind the counter for the closest thing they had to the Mexican ditch weed we used to smoke before she was born, she began to run down some menu items like a barista at Starbucks. I passed up the Death Star, Train Wreck and Bruce Banner (“You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”) and settled on two pre-rolled joints of mild-sounding Mamasan for $8.50 each, plus the hefty 18.75 percent tax, plus the $6 reusable security bag that locks with a small zip tie. The bag doubles as a child- and pet-proof container and as proof to any police officer who might ask that the pot inside was purchased legally. Total sale: $26.42. The shop’s website said they’d accept credit cards, but I paid in cash out of old habit. 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 Fisherman are Liars, will be available at bookstores and fly-fishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street in Lyons, in April. Gierach will be on a book tour in spring 2014.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in and around the Lyons area By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS The Stone Cup Café / Rise and Shine Bistro will continue with Kahlie Sue’s collaborative show TIME throughout February. The show seeks to connect people through their own experience and Wu interpretation of time. Mahalia Mae Porter will be the featured artist for the month of March. Her creativity and sensibility as an artist is reflected through the nontraditional education, hardship over losing her eldest sister, and overcoming an eating disorder. Fairy tales and her trip inspire her current work to Ireland. The line-ups for this month’s musical delights include Sarah Caton’s Americana / soul / blues on February 23 and March 22, James Faulk’s folk-classic rock on March 1 and 15, Denny Driscoll’s acoustic guitar on March 2, Meraki’s eclectic rock duo on March 8, and Ethan Morrison’s soulful and melodic alternative folk rock on March 9. The café is at Fifth Avenue and High Street. For more information please call 303-823-2345 or visit www.thestonecup.com. High Street Concerts presents Jake Schepps and Expedition with special guest Gyan Riley on March 22, featuring the world premiere of a new 24-minute work composed for bluegrass string band by Matt Flinner. The piece is written for banjo, mandolin, guitar, violin and bass. Each instruments will be brought to life by the indomitable virtuosi that make up Expedition: Jake Schepps on banjo, Matt Flinner on mandolin, Ross Martin on guitar, and Lyons’ own Enion Pelta Tiller on five-string fiddle and Eric Thorin on bass. Along with the world premiere of Flinner’s work will be newly commissioned works by Marc Mellits, Matt MaBane, and music by Béla Bartók as well as by each of the members of Expedition. The show starts at 8 p.m. High Street Concerts take place at the historical Rogers Hall, at Fourth and High Streets in Lyons. For more information and advance tickets, please go to www.highstreetconcerts.com.
Works by Mahalia Mae Porter will be featured at the Stone Cup Café / Rise and Shine Bistro during March. BOULDER The Boulder Bach Festival culminates on February 21, 22 and 23 with compelling concert programs in Longmont, Boulder and Denver. Visceral Vivaldi is an instrumental performance of riveting and rhythmically charged concertos of Antonio Vivaldi that concludes with a four-violin battle of epic proportions; Visceral Vivaldi features soloists Zachary Carrettin, Paul Miller, and MinTze Wu, and can be heard on February 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church and Third Avenue and Terry Street in Longmont. From the Depths I Call To You explores the ancient spirituality of J.S.Bach’s early cantatas, and includes the motet Komm, Jesu, Komm that expresses the intense longing to be one with the Creator. From the Depths I Call To You, featuring the Bach Festival Chorale and Players as well as noted vocal soloists, will be presented on February 21 at 7:30 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St. in Denver, and on February 23 at 4 p.m. at Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, in Boulder. For detailed information and ticketing please go to wwwboulderbachfestival.org or call 303-776-9666. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art at Macky
Fly Fishing Film Tour movie will be held in March to benefit the St. Vrain River restoration By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – The Fly Fishing Film Tour movie, which is shown each year all around the U.S., will have a V.I.P. screening in Lyons at 7 p.m. on March 24 at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew at 303 Main St. in Lyons. The tickets are limited and cost $50 each. The money from ticket sales will be matched dollar for dollar by CAN’D Aid, the non-profit set up by Oskar Blues, and the total amount raised will by matched times four by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (formerly the Division of Wildlife, DOW) for the St. Vrain River Restoration Project designed to restore the St. Vrain River in the town limits of Lyons. The CPW match is funded by the State of Colorado Fishing is Fun Grant and the goal is to come up with $100,000. Anyone who has driven through Lyons since the flood has seen the extreme damage to the river. The sight of the power lines bundled in knots lying in the river, houses tipped into the river, trees with root balls upended sticking out of the river, and cars and trucks jammed into the river banks, has left us all reeling. Closely linked to repairs to homes and buildings, highways, water, sewer and electric lines is the restoration of the St. Vrain. The river was moving at 20,000 cubic feet per second going east from the confluence in town, according to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
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“Without the river, there isn’t any Lyons,” said Mike Clark, local bamboo rod maker, fly fishing expert, and owner of South Creek Ltd. on Main Street. Clark is a member of the Stream Restoration Executive Committee, headed up by Reed Farr, which meets every week, hosting local experts on river habitat restoration. The Town of Lyons will get bids from river restoration companies to do whatever it takes to bring the river back to life, and work with Colorado Parks and Wildlife along with white water kayak companies, including S2O of Lyons, to restore the habitat for bugs, fish, trees, shrubs, aquatic vegetation, and kayak courses. The project will take two years. Clark
features Kim Jongku and his Steel Power Painting and Landscape from February 14 through March 30. A collaboration between BMoCA and the Andrew J. Macky Gallery, the exhibition will show large-scale, steel-power paintings that Kim will create during his two-month visiting artist residency at CU-Boulder. Kim’s interest in the material residue of the sculpting process has moved his practice away from conventional sculpture and towards a variety of processes, from sculpture, installation, painting and performance to calligraphy. BMoCA at Macky exhibitions take place at the Macky Gallery located on the CU Boulder campus. A fundraising event for flood relief, the Flood Project Benefit Dinner, will take place on February 24 at 6:30 pm at BMoCA, 1750 Thirteenth St. in Boulder, with cocktails and dinner featuring Chef Hosea Rosenberg in collaboration with the bARTer collective: Still Waters Run Deep: Recipes, Stories, and Songs. The Flood Project is a series of temporary public art projects commissioned by BMoCA and the City of Boulder as a catalyst for community healing after the flood. The proceeds support the relief efforts by Foothills United Way. Tickets are $100. For more Continue A&E on Page 15
said that there are ways to build kayak courses that are fish friendly. The original kayak course was not fish friendly and the fish could not move upstream. That course is gone, washed away with the flood. “They will start the project in the spring of 2015 because they want to wait for the spring runoff to be completed two times,” said Clark. “The brown trout spawn just started when the flood hit and it was wiped out. The river biologists want to see what the river does, where it goes. We know that the biomass, the bottom of the river, is way down. What we are doing here is almost starting over. We have a clean canvas. River bank stabilization will come first.” There is some good news. Clark said that there are fish in the river and there are bugs for them to eat. “They did a shock test in November in Meadow Park and we got 70 fish,” he said. “I was surprised; we even got a bullhead. And we have bugs there. It is a lot better than I thought it was.” For those of you who would love to see great fly-fishing adventures, get your ticket early for the Fly Fishing Film Tour Movie that will be shown on March 24 at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew. Seating is limited. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and show starts at 7 p.m. Local fly fishing writer John Gierach will be a featured performer in one of the fishing videos. There will be a silent auction of bamboo rods and artwork and a raffle for other prizes such as a Patagonia guide duffle, a Sage rod, and Costa sunglasses. Everyone gets a bag o’ swag (hats, buffs, magazines, etc.) The first beer is free. Additional food and beer is available for purchase. Tickets for the event are available at South Creek Ltd. at 415 Main St. and Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop at 10675 Ute Hwy. on Colorado Highway 66 in Longmont. For more information, call South Creek Ltd at 303-823-6402.
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CULTURE The enterprising artist, Ruth Wilson By C. Chrystal DeCoster Redstone Review LYONS – We have a Captain James Tiberius Kirk connection here in Lyons. At one time the Canadian born actor, William Shatner, dated Ruth Eisenach Wilson, and later her twin sister, AnnDeCoster Marie, when they all lived in Petit Lac Long, an hour north of Montreal. That was well before Wilson, born in Saint John, New Brunswick, moved during her enterprising art career to Florida, then New York City, onto Bridgewater, New Jersey, and finally here to Colorado. She was a staff artist for Zellers, once a major Hudson Bay Company retailer, for All Florida Magazine, then for Charm, the New York City magazine “for women who work.” She was also an advertising manager for the invention that became known as Velcro, and a fashion illustrator
in Manhattan’s garment district during the iconic Jacqueline Kennedy era. She is known here locally as “Ruthie,” the award winning watercolorist who recently enjoyed an unprecedented turnout of admirers at her solo show’s reception at Lyons Town Hall. This show will hang for several months and can be seen Monday through Friday. Many of the pieces on display are available for sale. Wilson’s professional achievements include being an elected member of the prestigious New Jersey Watercolor Society, American Artists Professional League, Garden State Watercolor Society, Salmagundi Art Club NY, Somerset Art Association, and Raritan Valley Art Association. She has received high awards at local, state and national exhibitions and her work is in many private and major corporations’ collections. Locally her paintings are available at Lyons Mercantile on Main Street. Her work has been called “atmospheric” due to what she calls her “lost edges” and “illustrative sensitivity.” She described the contemporary trend of creating highly photorealistic and “sharp
Watercolors by Ruth Wilson are currently on display at Lyons Town Hall and may be viewed any weekday.
edged pieces that cry out to be noticed,” as having nothing to entice the viewer’s interest to linger. As Captain Kirk once said, “There’s another way to survive. Mutual trust... and help.” With the assistance of her son, Blair Wilson, and his family from Ward, and her local support team, Stevie LaRue and Dan Ballard, who “treat me like I’m the Queen of Sheba,” Wilson hopes to soon fully regroup
C. Chrystal DeCoster is publicist for the Lyons Arts and H u m a n i t i e s Commission (LAHC) and is a two-year resident of Lyons. Her arts-centered career includes spans as editor/art director of The Morgan Horse Magazine, secondary vocational and fine arts teacher, post secondary director of education, advertising account executive, and freelance graphic designer, writer and photographer. Please contact her for any inquiries or contributions readers might have regarding arts in Lyons at chrystaldecoster@gmail.com. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS
LISTEN LIKE A LYONS LOCAL exclusively to Lyons locals. These tickets go on sale on Wed., March 5, exclusively at the Stone Cup Café on High Street. Tickets for the general public to the LYONS – Lyons as locals listen differently to the music at Planet Bluegrass. 42nd Annual RockyGrass sold out six Perhaps it is because we live with the bab- weeks earlier than ever before. Saturday ble (and sometimes the roar) of the St. tickets sold-out the day they went on Vrain river every day. Perhaps it is because sale on Dec. 5, 2013. Three-day passes we visually and daily drink in the majesty sold out within 24 hours. As with past years, approximately half and timelessness of Steamboat Mountain. We watch the seasons change over our of the locals’ tickets are sold at a discount of $5 per day. Threeunique landscape. day RockyGrass music Together we’ve watched festival passes are disour landscape change. counted to $130 Maybe it is because we (including a $15 dislive with, near, or by count) and single-day musicians, volunteers tickets are discounted to and staff at Planet $55 (includes a $5 disBluegrass. Or maybe we count). After the alloare those people. PHOTO BY BENKO PHOTOGRAPHICS cation of discount tickPlanet Bluegrass recognizes the symbiotic relationship ets is gone, the remaining locals tickets between the rhythm of nature and the will be sold at the regular prices of $145 melody of Lyons locals. Each person, ani- (3-day pass) and $60 (single-day tickets). Payment must be made via cash or mal, business, family and event adds rich contextual notes to an ever changing local check. No phone or internet orders complex song. Sometimes we create in are accepted. A local ID or proof of resiharmony and we all fall out of tune occa- dency in the 80540 zip code is required sionally, and sometimes we sing or play without exception. This offer is limited solo. However, the chorus of the music to two tickets per adult person. Discount tickets for Lyons residents to we create with the lyrics of our lives is the 24th Annual Rocky Mountain Folks uniquely Lyons. So our act of listening is more personal and experienced. We are Festival (Aug 15 to 17) go on sale later the home of song and the song of Lyons this spring. The preliminary lineup for the 2014 Folks Festival includes: Dispatch, is our home. Locals’ Tickets – Planet Bluegrass Ani DiFranco, Josh Ritter, Greg Brown, has reserved a large block of both three- Elephant Revival, Lake Street Dive, Peter day passes and single-day tickets to sell Himmelman and Imelda May.
from the impact of the recent disaster and get back to teaching the technical mastery of watercolor painting. “The flood made me aware, here late in life, that it is critical to enjoy your moments and that life is not all about being in control,” Wilson reflected. Wilson is a prime illustration of the depth of “starship” talent resident to Lyons.
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Left to right: Taka, Rio and Yumi Sueyoshi , Debi Stevenson, Monique Sawyer-Lang, and Chrystal DeCoster received checks of $3500 each from funds raised in Sendai, Japan.
People reach across the ocean to help each other By C. Chrystal DeCoster Redstone Review LYONS – A check for $3,500 from Japan was presented to Yumi and Takami Sueyoshi of Sushi Matsuri, a Sushi restaurant on Main Street. The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) also received a $3,500 check. Japan’s massive March 2011 tsunami and earthquake prompted a rally of relief efforts from all over the globe. Locally, Matsuri hosted a successful fundraiser that April which raised $10,000. Debi Stevenson, former owner of the Language Shop in Lyons, the Sueyoshi family, and Nick Schneider, once a student of Stevenson’s, coordinated the event. Schneider, an astrophysicist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), a University of Colorado research organization, was coincidentally attending an atmospheric conference near the epicenter of the disaster at Tÿhoku University in Japan. In the aftermath Schneider, who had limited Japanese language abilities, was graciously cared for in local evacuation centers near the ravaged research center in the cata-
strophically devastated town of Sendai, the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and largest city in the Tÿhoku region. On the heels of last fall’s flood here in Lyons, Schneider's friends and colleagues at the hard hit Tÿhoku University’s Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center reciprocated with kindness. Their “Fundraising Activity to Return the Favor to Lyons,” coordinated largely by Mizuki Yoneda, collected contributions from area residents, researchers and students for the owners of Sushi Matsuri and the LCF. This benevolence is exceptionally extraordinary given that the donors’ stricken area, where nearly 19,000 people died or are unaccounted for and thousands remain displaced, is still struggling nearly three years after the tsunami. Online are ongoing efforts to specifically assist the Sueyoshi family via the Fundly site, https://fundly.com/taka-and-yumi-sflood-recovery. The proceeds flowing forth to the LCF through www.lyonscf.org/, continue to systemically fuel relief efforts throughout the community. The funding of Japan’s recovery efforts persists as well. One noted site to make contributions there is: http://donate-japan.com/.
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FOUNDATIONS Economic Business Recovery moves forward By John O’Brien Redstone Review LYONS – The Economy / Business Recovery Working Group (E/BRWG for short) had its fourth meeting in the two-month process of coming up with a Lyons Long Term Flood Recovery Plan. The meeting took place on Wednesday Feb 12 at 5:30 O’Brien p.m. at Town Hall. It was attended by about 25 people. The meetings are led by Barney Dreistadt and John O’Brien and reported by Tamara Vega Haddad. Able support for the leads and reporter comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA). As you may recall, in the first and second meetings the group brought forth issues that confront Lyons at present. Some of those issues were extant in the pre-flood period and some issues were caused by the flood. Some of those issues included: Identifying business affected by the flood; Businesses need ongoing support to stay healthy and strong; Lyons has a dramatic decrease in sales tax revenue due to the flood; Need to get more customers – locals and visitors;
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The world changes right before our eyes PINEWOOD SPRINGS – Sitting in traffic is a waste of time and a drag. But sitting in a line of cars and watching amazing feats of technology has become a mind-opening educational process. In the fall, thousands of us saw more gigantic road machinery than we’d seen in our entire previous lives, as well as a mind-boggling and tear-jerking number of hard-working people rebuilding our roads home. Now we are witnessing incredible feats of “mind over matter.” It took Nature millions of years to build these mountains and valleys here in northwest Colorado. Feats that seem equally dazzling are happening in relative milliseconds, as we watch.
Regulatory barriers need to be streamlined and expedited; Businesses need access to capital: grants, loans and equity investment; Lyons does not have enough service sector workers to support peak demand; Lyons lacks higher paying jobs; Lyons needs more new businesses; The third meeting, which took place on Feb 5, took the above issues and discussed the “ideas for action” that came from them. To simplify the process, we broke the issues into five idea categories: • Support Businesses; • Increase Customer Base; • Create resilient and sustainable business community; • Need to leverage new economic opportunities; • Attract and foster new businesses (support home businesses and improve the Commercial Eastern Corridor). The fourth meeting summarized those idea areas into concrete plans and projects that are outlined on FEMA forms called Plan/Project Development Guides (PDG). The projects that the group outlined are the following: • Project 1: To increase customer base, schedule more year-round events; weekly including attractive winter and shoulder season festivals and events; events on High St. and Main St. with appropriate regulatory support; create overall event coordination and marketing plan What an opportunity – gifts from “The Flood,” our flood – opening our eyes and our minds. At left: Hwy 36 west of Pinewood Springs: CDOT workers begin carving away the hillside at a sharp bend in Highway 36, just west of Pinewood Springs. The 4-month project will stabilize the highway, moving it farther from the Little Thompson River. At right: Hwy 36 pre-blast: CDOT workers prepare for blasting bedrock, to provide a firm footing for the relocated Highway 36. The highway is down the steep slope to the left of the photo. Photos taken by a grateful Pinewood Springs resident during a 30minute traffic stop.
and include opportunities for fund raising. • Project 2: To support local businesses, develop programs to attract volume and increase local commercial traffic; library/community center; shop local programs such as discounts cards; resiliency programs; high speed internet (fiber optics). • Project 3: Increase lodging in the immediate Lyons area; hotel / conference / event center; temporary, affordable accommodations for artists, musicians, outdoor enthusiasts; identify target markets dependent on local accommodations such as weddings, business conferences and music and sporting events. Each project has a champion that has volunteered to complete the PDGs. The next step is a town meeting called the Lyons Recovery Planning Exchange, which will take place at the Lifebridge Church east of Lyons on Highway 66 on Wednesday, February 19 at 6 p.m. This will be a great opportunity to hear what all eight recovery working groups have generated in terms of plans and projects that will improve all aspects of life in Lyons. John O’Brien is the chairman of the Lyons Economic Gardening Group, LEGG. He has worked in business and industry for many years and teaches classes at the University of Denver. He lives in Lyons. For more information on LEGG, contact legg@lyons-colorado.com or call 303-823-5215. Story Time and LEGOs LYONS – After a post-flood hiatus, the Lyons Library’s Children’s Story time with Dawn Henley resumed Feb. 14, with Valentine card making. Story Time is for young children and their caregivers. The group meets at the temporary library in Sandstone Park, on Fridays at 10:30 a.m. No reservation is needed. The Library offers another parent-child gathering at 3:30 to 5 p.m., Wednesdays, at the Walter Self Center. The LEGO Club does require reservations, because of the limited supply of LEGOs. The Library is seeking donations of additional Continue Briefs on Page 12
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OUTREACH Introducing your new baby to your pets By Abby Holtman, DVM, Emergency Clinician Redstone Review LONGMONT – A newborn will bring many fun and amazing changes to your life, but it will also affect the pets in your household. Starting to prepare your pets beforehand will help minimize stress later. Although some animals will accept a new person easily, there are several things you can do to reduce the anxiety for your pets. Start by making changes a few months ahead of time for what you know will happen once the baby comes home. For example, their environment and activity schedule will change. There will be new smells and sounds, plus the addition of baby gates and possibly loss of access to rooms. Your dog’s exercise schedule may need to change as multiple times a day walks may become only daily or just limited to yard play. Allow your dog to gradually become adjusted to this change. Otherwise, consider doggie day care once or twice a week, or a dog walker. Place baby gates up ahead of time, so your pets can adjust to the new layout. Make certain they still have access to food and water bowls, doggie doors, their beds, and litter boxes. Make sure cats, especially, can still have an escape route if they become stressed. Provide places for your cats to hide and lounge away from the noise of the nursery, particularly if
they are losing a room they once considered theirs. Also, consider what areas your cats may not be allowed onto. Are they used to counters, but now will not be able to go onto the changing table? Are your cats and / or dogs use to being on your lap? Training your pets ahead of time to ask before jumping up can help ease the transition.
You can start to introduce sounds and smells before baby arrives. Buying a baby CD or downloading a crying baby soundtrack from YouTube can help your pets adjust to the crying. Playing them in the nursery through the monitor speakers may also help. When you visit another
Town News Continued from Page 1 discussed months ago. Then the BOT in February passed an emergency ordinance approving a loan for $5.2 million at an interest rate that cannot go above 2 percent to proceed ahead with the rebuild of the waste water plant. The most exotic measure the board passed was to raise the town debt ceiling, so to speak. The Mayor spoke of this in her column this month but it bears repeating because it requires a vote of the people. The BOT passed an ordinance to bring to the voters in this April’s election the question of whether the voters should allow the town to take out a FEMA loan not to exceed $995,000 to be used for operating expenses incurred by the town. The debt will not actually be any burden on the town. This loan will just allow the town to recover, especially the business community to begin making money again and paying sales tax to the town. After three years, if the sales taxes have surpassed what they were before the flood, then that surplus
baby, bring some of those smells home with you or have a baby visit the house. This is a great time for your pets to investigate both sounds and smells. During this time, reassure your pets with positive commands, treats, or loving. Please consult your veterinarian for further advice if they become upset. Making these changes early and slowly will help your pets manage any anxiety beforehand. Do not forget about your pets’ annual veterinary visits or vaccines. If they are due shortly after your baby is due, try scheduling it before baby comes home, so it is not overlooked later. If your dog is not already on year-round heartworm prevention, we recommend starting. These products not only prevent heartworm disease, they also treat gastrointestinal parasites. This will help prevent these parasites from being transmitted to your baby. A general dewormer should be considered for both your dog and cat. Once your baby is born, but still in the hospital, have someone bring a few items home for the pets to smell. A blanket or hat can be placed in the nursery for continued adjustment. This is a great way for a partner to come home, while mom is
would be used to pay back the loan. If the sales tax revenues have not fully recovered, then FEMA can use a sliding scale to reduce the loan or even forgive the loan. It’s all to the good and the town is not going to be burdened with yet more debt because if it doesn’t have the money after three years, the debt will be forgiven. It’s a win-win. The BOT has asked that everyone please consider voting yes to the FEMA loan for the town. Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen told the board that there are 21 homes in the floodway. This is the most dangerous pathway of the river when it floods. This is the pathway that carries huge boulders and massive debris. She said that the town does not give permits to build in the floodway. The flood plain is where the water spreads out and is not as dangerous as the floodway. It is assumed that the floodway is in danger of flooding again. Many home owners are interested in selling their flood-damaged homes to the town through the 404 program which uses grant money from the U. S. Housing and Urban
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Development (HUD) program which buys flood damaged homes at pre-flood value. Simonson said that a notice of intent was filed early in February to ask the state for $48 million to buy out homes using the 404 program. Trustee Dan Greenburg said that the 404 program is complicated because the homes that are purchased must be scraped and no one can ever build on that property again. Also, the program does not allow for only one home in an area to be purchased. Homes need to be purchased in a block so that the land becomes more of a park. The BOT also considered a proposal to repair Meadow Park in order to have it ready to open up this summer. The board decided to allocate $30,000 for working on a plan and getting bids for repairs. One bid for putting sod on a camping area of the park was over $400,000 and the board members balked at spending that much money on sod. Since campers in this area tend to be pretty hardy, the BOT thought that the money might have a better use elsewhere.
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OUTCOME Library District Board approves 2014 vote By Mark Browning Redstone Review LYONS – At its February 6 meeting, the Lyons Regional Library District Board of Trustees voted to proceed with a 2014 vote on tax funding for a new library / community resource center. A tax measure to fund the district narrowly failed, by 41 votes out of 1,406, in November 2013. A second measure to remove Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) restrictions on library funding easily passed, by a 66 percent to 34 percent margin. The TABOR ballot issue will not have to be repeated, leaving a simple “yes or no” vote in 2014 on funding the library district. Issues discussed by the district board in scheduling a second vote included the fact that the majority of district residents were still displaced when 2013 voting took place and that mailed-out ballots were non-forwardable. Board members have heard from a number of residents that they either never received ballots, or were out of the area and simply missed voting deadlines. The board decided to put the issue before voters again, under what are hoped to be more normal voting conditions. The library district board also discussed the ongoing Town of Lyons Recovery Working Group process and its
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possible effects on the new library / resource center effort. The anticipated completion of the Recovery Working Group process by March 31, 2014 would allow the library district board to re-visit the issue of a 2014 vote if the final product of the RWG effort is inconsistent with the library district’s plans. The majority of the board believed it appropriate, however, to get the 2014 voting process underway by informing the public that the district intends to proceed with another election. Several years of effort by many people and the town of Lyons led to the district being formed. Board members see their mission as taking necessary steps to make a new library / resource center a reality for the Lyons area, with voters having the final say in November about whether the community values such a project highly enough to provide tax funding. The library district board also discussed site options for the new library / resource center, including how the RWG process may impact potential sites if certain sites are selected for flood recovery projects. It was decided to take up the site issue at the next board meeting on April 15, when results of the RWG process should be known. Input from the public will be solicited and welcomed at the April 15 meeting, set for 6 p.m. at Town Hall. In other business, the library district board reviewed
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INTEREST You can reduce your risk for injury By Bronwyn Muldoon Redstone Review LYONS – No one likes to get injured or have pain, so wouldn’t you like to reduce your chance of getting injured? Yes it’s possible, and it’s not even that difficult. Cross train: Cross Muldoon training involves including several different exercise routines in your workout lineup. We all have our favorite workout activity that makes us feel good, but performing the same exercise daily trains your muscles to specific movement patterns. No health professional wants to discourage exercise, but doing the same routine throughout the weeks can increase your chances of acquiring overuse / repetitive injuries. Benefits of cross training are conditioning of the whole body, a higher level of overall strength and endurance, and most importantly a reduced chance of injury. Activities one might consider in cross training are running, biking, swimming, jump roping, yoga, Pilates and weight training. Posture: Poor posture is responsible for a high percentage of neck and back pain. Individuals who have
sedentary jobs have always been prone to neck and back pain, as sitting for longer than 20 minutes promotes slumping and poor positioning on the spine. When we are not sitting upright, with our spine in a neutral position, it strains our joints and muscles. Over time this weakens the muscular system (the core) which supports the spine, and pain starts. While in the past poor sitting posture was most often seen in the adult population, we are now seeing teens and 20-year olds complaining of back and / or neck pain. The increase of pain in the younger generation might be contributed to all the hours spent in front of computers, iPods, and video games. Regardless of why we sit, poor sitting posture typically translates to poor standing posture. If you are going to sit, sit smart; have pelvis and shoulders aligned in an upright position, hips and knees bent at 90 degrees and your feet resting on the floor or a footstool. When sitting, try not to sit for more than 20 minutes. Good posture is easier to maintain in standing, so if you can perform the activity standing up, choose it over sitting. In standing your core muscles are engaged, promoting bone strength, muscle activity and healthy joints. Good posture should keep your spine pain free. Balance: Regardless of age, we all need good balance. Good balance requires communication between the muscles and
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the brain; the better the communication, the better the balance. As we age, our balance tends to decrease because we don’t challenge it as much as we did as kids. As balance decreases, the chance of falls increases. The good news is balance can be improved. Challenging your balance just a few minutes a day can save you from spraining an ankle or breaking a bone. One simple way to improve your balance it to stand on one leg. The goal is to be able to hold that position for 30 seconds. Once you master that on each leg, progress by tossing a ball to yourself while standing on one leg, or closing your eyes while standing on one leg. The goal is be able to perform this on either leg for 30
seconds without losing your balance. Start your year off right with posture, balance and cross training to help keep yourself healthy, strong and hopefully injury and pain free. Bronwyn Muldoon, a licensed physical therapist, owns Lyons Physical Therapy, 435 High St. in Lyons. Some of the things addressed at her clinic include but are not limited to: acute and chronic spinal pain (back and neck pain), postural dysfunction/ alignment, sports and performance-related injuries, repetitive/overuse-related injuries, post-surgical rehabilitation, muscle strains and sprains, and physical rehabilitation of all kinds. For more information call 303-823-8813.
Are patients tired of spending too much for health care? By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service For Redstone Review DENVER – The conversation around health care and what we pay for it is beginning to change. The realization that we pay way more than other countries for the same services is Lieberman beginning to sink in. Why do Americans on average pay $8,143 for hospital and physician services for cataract surgery while the Swiss pay $2,566 and the French only $1,938? By all accounts, outcomes are similar. For too long Americans have accepted these high price tags for medical care without asking questions. Politicians have justified them saying American quality is better. But studies by many organizations have shown that justification doesn’t necessarily hold up, and in the last year or so I’ve detected a pushback from the public. Last spring came the expose of hospital and pharmaceutical prices in Time magazine by journalist entrepreneur Steven Brill. One piece I wrote about Brill’s 36page story got more than 13,000 hits on one website that reprinted my post. Brill told me that was indicative of interest from the public he received. People want to know why medical care costs so much. At the end of last year a 20-year-old Californian named Nick Gonzales had his appendix removed at Sutter General Hospital in Sacramento. The bill for a 24hour stay: $55,029.31. His family’s insurance policy covered a good chunk of it, but he still was left with $11,119 to pay out of pocket. At the end of last year he posted his bill on the link-sharing community Reddit, saying “I never truly understood how much healthcare in the U.S. costs until I got appendicitis in October. I’m a 20year-old guy. Thought other people should see this to get a real idea of how much an unpreventable illness costs in the U.S.” His $55,000 bill went viral much to the chagrin of the hospital. Two weeks ago Dr. Rita Redberg, a prominent cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, and a colleague penned an op-ed in the New York Times with the catchy title “We are Giving Ourselves Cancer.” Her piece was about the overuse of CT scans in the U.S. “CTs, once rare, are now routine,” she wrote. One in ten Americans undergo a CT scan every year, and many of them get more than one.” Not only are many unnecessary, and add to the country’s national health care
tab but they also deliver high doses of radiation, Redberg writes. She reports that the use of medical imaging with high dose radiation, particularly CT scans, has soared in the last 20 years resulting in exposure to medical radiation that has increased “more than six-fold between the 1980s and 2006, according to the National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurements.” CT scans are becoming common in emergency rooms where patients are getting scans at rates that are five times higher than in the mid 1990s, Kaiser Health News reported in 2011. While some use surely saves lives, Kaiser noted that doctors’ fears of malpractice suits, patients’ demands for the tests and the presence of more machines and the financial pressure on hospitals to use them boost their use. Patient demand? Redberg had a suggestion, which I agree with. Since patients are becoming more aware of the high costs they must pay out-of-pocket, they must ask if a recommended test, whether a CT scan or something else, is really needed. Clearly Nick Gonzales needed his appendix removed. But for many patients there’s time to weigh the benefits, safety, and costs of what physicians recommend. Redberg suggested patients consult a website called: abimfoundation.org / Initiatives / Choosing - Wisely. aspx. Choosing Wisely, sponsored by the ABIM Foundation, which furthers medical professionalism. Working with the medical specialty societies, Consumer Reports, the AARP, and other organizations the foundation has created the website to help patients make smarter decisions about medical tests, especially those commonly overused. When it comes to CT scans Redberg advises asking: Will the scan lead to better treatment and outcome? Can you get the recommended therapy without the scan? Is there an alternative that doesn’t involve radiation such as ultrasound or an M.R.I.? Can radiation exposure be minimized if a scan is necessary? Come to think of it, these questions can be adapted for other tests too. I’ll add another. Because of the great cost shift from insurance companies to patients, you might want to ask how much of the bill you’ll have to pay yourself. And if you feel inclined to use social media, there’s always a way to alert others to the high cost of medical care. This health column is a bi-weekly series, a joint effort of the Colorado Press Association and the Nebraska and South Dakota Newspaper Associations. It is funded by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund, the Rural Health News Service will provide Coloradans with unbiased health-related information, written to help members better understand the health issues facing our communities, state and nation.
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Chamber Continued from Page 2 Street office. Thanks to so many people in this community, we celebrated its much awaited grand opening on February 8. The office serves as a resource to find out what’s going on in Lyons and more. Stop by the information lobby at 443 Main St. There are new businesses in town. You’d have never guessed the town was shut down completely just a season ago. Now we have at least three new eateries to enjoy: Button Rock Bakery at 405B Main St., the Rise & Shine Bistro at 442 High St., and soon, Local – Eat & Drink @ 432 Main St. Yum. On March 10, Oskar Blues and Bank of the West will sponsor the next Chamber Social. Come enjoy great
Mayor Continued from Page 3 Disaster Loan program that lends up to 25 percent of operating expenses, which in the case of Lyons totals about $995,000. There are no repayments for the first five years, and then depending on the level of recovery, repayments would be spread out over five years. The Community Disaster Loan works like a line of credit at very favorable interest rates. We only tap into it if and when we need it and only have to repay what we use. If our revenues recover, we would have the resources to pay it back. In cases where revenues do not recover, these loans are typically turned into grants –
company and celebrate the new space at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew at 303 Main St. from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Lyons Cinema – a movie theater in Lyons? That’s right, and not only that but it’s supporting independent filmmakers and their amazing, unique art at 442 High St. Suite 2 behind the Stone Cup. Stillwater Healing Arts Clinic (yours truly!) has created a membership program to support balance to chronic stress with natural medicine and spa therapies. Care for yourself today and prevent disease tomorrow. Stillwater is located at 304 Main St., Unit C. Visit LyonsFightsBack.org for more information on how to support community renewal today. The Lyons business community looks forward to welcom-
which happens in about 60 percent of the cases. No new taxes would be involved. Since it is technically a debt obligation, it will be on the ballot in April for voter approval under Colorado’s TABOR rules. This is a perfect funding mechanism for our situation. Without it we will be forced to layoff staff, Town activities will be curtailed and our recovery will stall for lack of ability to fund basic services. The third area of financial need is to fund the local match on other grants. Since our reserves are dedicated to our infrastructure match in order to get relief from the State, we are left with no money to leverage the
US 36 Continued from Page 1 feet, with the range varying between five feet to 50 feet. Altogether, an expected 210,000 cubic yards of material is expected to be removed (the equivalent of 210,000 dishwashers). The materials will be recycled and used to not only stabilize the embankment below the highway, but will also be used to stabilize the river channel. Leftover materials will be donated to other area reconstruction projects underway by towns and counties still recovering from the flood, including the County Road 80 (Longmont Dam Road) project underway by Boulder County and the city of Longmont. Unfortunately, no materials will be available for donation to private citizens.
FEBRUARY 19 / MARCH 19, 2014 ing you to town in a variety of fantastic, innovative and definitely entertaining ways this season. We’re guaranteed to make it well worth your time whether you stroll downtown, ride your golf cart over from the neighborhoods, descend out of the mountains or cruise on up from the city. Sara Hart is a naturopathic doctor, licensed acupuncturist and owner of Stillwater Healing Arts Clinic at the corner of Third Avenue and Main Street, 304 Main St., in Lyons. She is passionate about Colorado life and supporting the natural balance of health in individuals and communities. Visit her today to support your optimal health as well as for options in chronic disease treatment. Visit stillwaterhealingarts.com or 303-823-9355 for more information.
grant monies that are out there to help in our recovery. For example, Great Outdoors Colorado has opened a funding round for flood recovery and we have submitted a $1 million request for improvements in Meadow Park. We will need $250,000 as match. This could be funded from the FEMA Community Disaster Loan. Much attention is focused on Lyons because of the flood and grant resources will be available that will never be available again. We need to make sure we have funds able to take advantage of these opportunities. The financial puzzle is complicated. We will be receiving help from the State. We
Altogether, there will be 20 different three hour full closures, 10 different two hour full closures, and 10 different night time full closures. The night time full closures will last from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. Due to this and other projects on US 36, including utility work as well as work on Longmont Dam Road, major delays are expected on US 36 during the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily. CDOT is strongly recommending the use of US 34 between Loveland and Estes Park, and SH 7 between Estes Park and Lyons as alternate routes for those who can use them. Throughout the duration of construction, cyclists will not be permitted on US 36 within the work zones, and several trail access points will be closed for safety reasons. Other flood-impacted highways
will also have to help ourselves. One of the consistent messages I have gotten from other towns that have gone through disaster recovery is that it is important to control your own destiny. To do that, we need funds. While we have gotten a great deal of outside support, we need to be willing to invest in our own recovery. Julie Van Domelen was first elected mayor of Lyons in 2009 in a special election. She was reelected mayor in April 2010. Mayor Van Domelen works part time as an economist for the World Bank. She lives with her family in Lyons and can be reached at juliev@townoflyons.com.
will remain open for cyclists, who ride at their own risk and are urged to ride using extra caution. American Civil Constructors, Inc. is the contractor for this project. For additional questions or comments about the US 36 repairs project, please contact US36 Flood Repairs @ Public Info Team.com or call the project hotline at 970591-0001. Further information about the project is also available on the project website at www. coloradodot. info / projects / floodrelatedprojects / us-36-lyons-toestes. Motorists are encouraged to sign up for email updates about the project by clicking on the green cell phone icon on the right hand side of the project website.
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A&E Continued from Page 8 information please go to www.bmoca.org. Boulder Opera is back with Vanessa, a production for grown-ups, February 28, March 1, 2, and 30. Vanessa by Samuel Barber is a rich, lush and lyrical score that is both elegant and fraught with dramatic tension. With stunning arias, and a heart-wrenching libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, Vanessa is considered by many to be one of the most important and beautiful American operas of the twentieth century. It is the story of three women of three different generations whose lives are turned upside down when a handsome young man comes on the scene. The opera is performed in English, with dancers, a video projection on the background and featuring an ensemble orchestra with members of the Boulder Philharmonic led by Michael Tilley, at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St. Tickets are $25 to $45. For more info visit www.boulderoperacompany.com. The Boulder Chamber Orchestra will present a mini-chamber music concert, Seeing Through Sound, on February 28 at 7:30 p.m. The concert features musicians Ivan Sokolov on piano, Karen Bentley
Peter Molnar Continued from Page 6 Early in his career, during the latter half of the 1960s, Molnar pioneered the use of seismology to investigate the relationship between deep earthquakes and plate motion, demonstrating that the sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the rest of the mantle at subduction zones provides the main driving force (slab-pull) for moving the plates. Thereafter, Molnar focused his research on the collision of continents, where deformation is not concentrated at plate boundaries, but spread over vast areas. When Molnar and others began to analyze the crust of the Earth, recognizing its brittle behavior in upper parts and ductility at lower levels, and using a continuum mechanics model, crucial discov-
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Pollick on violin and viola with compositions by J.S. Bach, Ivan Sokolov, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Jan Vicar. The concert takes place at Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 Thirteenth St. For more information and tickets please call 303-583-1278 or visit www.boulderchamberorchestra.org. Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic opera Hansel and Gretel will be brought to you by CU Presents from March 14 to 16. Hansel and Gretel is the classic tale of two children, the witch and the gingerbread house set to beautiful melodies. CU Presents also features Tao: Phoenix Rising on February 24. TAO fuses the explosive power of Taiko drumming with fiery athleticism and color into a thrilling modern interpretation of this ancient art form, performed by men and women who have trained for years in the mountains of Japan. The shows take place at Macky Auditorium at CU. For information please call 303-492-8008 or visit www.cupresents.org.
Longmont. Featuring four of Colorado’s most accomplished and celebrated Celtic musicians: former Gaelic Storm sensation Jessie Burns on fiddle; lyrical and expressive Beth Gadbaw on vocal and bodhran; soulful Margot Krimmel on Celtic harp; and Annie Sirotniak on guitar. Tickets are $35. For information please call 303651-8374 or visit www.artslongmont.com. Longmont Theatre, 513 Main St. in Longmont, presents The Nerd from February 28 through March 15. Written by Harry Shue and directed by Rob Mess, this is a story about Willum Cubbert who is deeply indebted to Rick Steadman, a fellow ex-GI who saved his life in Vietnam. Their reunion takes a turn from delight to one uproarious incident one after another, as Willum discovers that Rick is a hopeless nerd. For information please call 303-772-5200 or visit www.longmonttheatre.org.
LONGMONT The Granias: Colorado’s Own Celtic Women will be featured as St. Patrick’s Day Special Celebration on Sunday, March 16 at 4 p.m. at Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Rd. in
MinTze Wu is a professional violinist and the director of the Sounds of Lyons Music Festival. She plays with the Boulder Bach Festival Orchestra and is the director of a concert series in Newfoundland. She lives in Taiwan with her husband and two daughters and orchestrates many concerts there.
eries were made. Molnar focused his investigations on south Asia and the collision between India and Eurasia, a process that began 50 million years ago and continues today, involving frequent major earthquakes in the Himalayas and Tibet. Combining interpretations of satellite images with other geological and geophysical methods of inquiry, including the reconstruction of the plate convergence prior to collision, Molnar and his colleagues were better able to explain the pattern of deformation in this continent-continent collision zone. Their work also demonstrated the fundamental differences between this and other mountain belts like the Andes, where collision occurs between oceanic and continental crust and deformation is
concentrated along the plate boundary and above the subduction zone. By contrast, when continents collide, one is usually thrust beneath the other and deformation may extend more than a thousand kilometers from the collision zone, crustal thickness more than doubles, and the ductility of the lower crust promotes mobility both across and along the mountain belt. Thus, Molnar and his colleagues were able to offer new explanations for the formation of the Himalayas, the elevation of the Tibetan Plateau, and the presence of major faults oriented approximately perpendicular to the dominant stress field, facilitating lateral transfer of material from the collision zone. Molnar, an active researcher, has taken an interdisciplinary approach not only to
the study of processes in the Earth’s crust and mantle, but also to their influence on climate. His contributions to our knowledge of the formation of mountain ranges and high plateau, taken together with evidence for the opening and closing of seaways between continents, has added to our understanding of ocean and atmospheric circulation and their influences on regional and global climate. Peter Molnar’s research has also yielded additional knowledge about earthquake risks, a subject that is highly relevant in the densely populated areas of the southern Himalayas and also in eastern Tibet. Peter Molnar lives with his wife Sara Neustadtl (the Redstone Review copy editor) in the Spring Gulch area.
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