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B •R •I •E •F •S Journalism Educator of the Year Award DENVER – Richard Joyce, professor of Journalism at Colorado State University – Pueblo received a letter from Ed Otte, president of the Society of Professional Journalist, Colorado Pro chapter telling Joyce that he Joyce received the Journalism Educator of the year Award. The letter stated: “It is my pleasure to inform you that you were selected by the SPJ Colorado Pro chapter board to receive the 2016 Journalism Educator of the Year award at our Region 9 Top of the Rockies contest awards program at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 21, at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place.” Otte went on to say, “This is a well deserved honor because it recognizes your years of service at CSU-Pueblo and, specifically, the outstanding work you have done with the school’s journalism students. The journalism program is stronger today because of you. Congratulations and we hope to see on April 21.” Joyce has been teaching for over 20 years at CSU – Pueblo and will retire at the end of Continue Briefs on Page 4
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Male Red Fox with Kit – Prospect Park, Wheat Ridge, Colorado; Photo by Fi Rust. The number one reason Prospect Park attracts photographers is the large Red Fox population found there. The adult male fox in this photograph fathered more kits than any other, so Fi made the image as a tribute to him. Fi Rust was born and raised in Kent, England, where she first acquired her great love of nature. She began her career as a wildlife photographer in early 1990 after a move to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A birthday trip to Rocky Mountain National Park in 1994 inspired her to move to Boulder the following year. Fi’s award winning images have been widely exhibited and published in magazines, books and calendars. In the summer, Fi participates in many of Colorado’s fine arts festivals, and her work is available for sale locally at the Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery in Boulder and the Red Canyon Art Company in Lyons. See more of Fi’s beautiful photographs at www.focus-on-nature.com.
FEMA gives Highland Ditch 120 days to comply, Flood houses demolished By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – At a special meeting of the Lyons Town Board on February 3, Victoria Simonsen, Lyons administrator, told the board that the diversion structure built by the Highland Ditch Company after it was destroyed by the 2013 flood was not in compliance with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regulations. She attended a meeting with Highland Ditch and FEMA advisors who told the ditch company executives that they had 120 days to bring the diversion structure into compliance or all FEMA funding would be denied. And FEMA told Simonsen that if Highland chooses not to comply and lose federal funding, the Town of Lyons would be at risk. The diversion structure (built out of compliance) would pose a flood risk for the town because potential flood water could back up into Lyons. It would become the town’s liability and Lyons could potentially lose all its FEMA insurance in the future. This would force the town to remove the diversion structure. Simonsen said that one of the FEMA officials said to her, “This is one where you call
in the Attorney General.” The ditch company originally applied to FEMA and was denied funding to repair or replace the diversion structure so Highland Ditch called the meeting on February 2 to appeal the FEMA decision, asking FEMA officials to reconsider their decision and grant Highland the funding for rebuilding the diversion structure. But FEMA told Highland that the structure was built way out of compliance and FEMA regulations were not taken into consideration when the structure was built even though the FEMA regulations were given to Highland Ditch. “It sounds like they lost the manual on FEMA flood regulations,” said Mayor Pro Tem Connie Sullivan. Highland asked FEMA for over $1 million in funding for reimbursement for the rebuild. According to Simonsen, Highland applied for a repair permit for the diversion structure, but FEMA said that they did a total rebuild and not a repair plus it was not upgraded to current standards and current water flows. FEMA told Highland that there are eight items for compliance that must be met by Highland before reimbursement can be considered such as: the new structure cannot cre-
ate a rise in water level during a flood, meetings must be held with neighbors, and Highland must get public input, as well as several other things. None of the FEMA compliance issues were addressed when Highland rebuilt the diversion structure. Sullivan said that at a recent meeting with Highland Ditch, she and some of the town staff encouraged Highland to comply with the FEMA regulations and to meet the 120 day deadline. FEMA has offered to work with Highland to help it get into compliance. It seems likely that Highland will try to comply and meet the deadline because there is too much at stake to leave the structure as is. The original diversion structure, built in 1870, was destroyed by the flood in September, 2013. The structure is located on the St. Vrain River behind the houses off of McConnell Drive. After the flood the Highland Ditch Co. along with other ditch companies scrambled to repair their diversion structures before the spring runoff in May, 2014. The Highland Ditch Co. is a privately owned company and one of the largest ditch companies in the state. Ditches operate using diversion dams and head gates. The dams slow the water and back it up so it can then flow through the head gate, which is open to let the water through. At this point the water is diverted from the river to various irrigation ditches for farmland and in the case of the Continue Town on Page 17
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LYONS OBITUARIES Eva Mesmer April 30, 1939 – December 13, 2015 Eva was born in Aachen, Germany, on April 30, 1939, and thus experienced World War II as a young child. During the war her family (parents, Eva, older brother and younger sister) lived in a small village near the city of Darmstadt, where her father taught in the technological university. She remembered allied bombings of nearby railroad tracks and seeing the sky lit up at night by fires resulting from the bombing of Darmstadt, causing worry about the fate of her father.
the time). The relationship developed nicely, and they eventually bought a home together, and subsequently married. In addition to her continuing participation in bicycle tours, during this time Eva became chair of the canoe committee of the AYH, and was responsible for organizing many overnight float trips on Missouri’s scenic rivers. She continued her musicianship, performing with community orchestras and frequently playing chamber music with a group of friends. She taught science in the high school from which she had graduated, as well as in another school system. When Gene retired in 1991, they decided to move to Colorado, to be near her youngest son and his wife. Together (with the aid of a couple of professional carpenters) they built the house they had designed in the Spring Gulch subdivision, outside of Lyons (where her son also lived). She was active in the community, working to put out a newsletter and fighting against invasive weeds, while also being a major force behind the organization and running of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center Food Co-op (a buying club). She continued with her musical life, playing in the Boulder Symphonia and then the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. She also became very involved in Left Hand Books after Gene was temporarily disabled in a bicycle accident. In addition, she became a
volunteer at KGNU, the community radio station. Finally, she was involved in the start-up of Stonebridge Farm, the first Community Supported Agriculture farm in Boulder County, where she served as Barn Boss until her death, weighing and displaying vegetables and helping members pick up their shares. Her farming friends will miss her enthusiasm and leadership in the barn each Saturday. In 2004, Eva’s son remarried and moved into Boulder. Eva was concerned about wildland fires near their house in the woods, while Gene could not use his bicycle on the steep hilly roads in their Spring Gulch subdivision. These circumstances, and the desire for more neighborliness, encouraged them to a move into the new Wild Sage Cohousing Community in far North Boulder, where Eva again became very active in support of her new community, while continuing her many volunteer and music activities. In 1999 she was diagnosed with breast cancer, underwent a radical bilateral mastectomy, and fought the cancer with as much determination as she continued to show in all her activities, leading a very active life until shortly before her death on December 13, 2015. A celebration of Eva’s rich and loving life will be held Saturday, March 5, at Stonebridge Farm. Please contact the farm at 303-8230975 or kshort@greenspeedisp.net for more information.
Mark J. Divine
He is survived by his partner, friend, and confidante of 30 years Dennis Teclaw and their beloved dog Dusty. He is also survived by his brother David (Laurie) Divine, sisters Diane (Donald) Rieger and Debbie Divine, and his sister-in-law Colleen Divine. He was the favorite uncle to several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents George Divine and Betty Peterson, and his brother-in-law Ronald Boddy. A Celebration of Life ceremony was held on Saturday, February 6 at the Millennium Harvest House, in Boulder.
March 15, 1957 – January 28, 2016
After the war, Eva’s father was invited to teach mechanical engineering at Washington University (WU), just west of St. Louis, MO, and was subsequently offered a teaching position at that institution. Eva remembered the journey from Europe to the U.S. via Paris and then on a boat past the Statue of Liberty, and continuing by car in a newly purchased 1950 clunky grey Ford to St. Louis. She was educated in the public schools of University City, adjacent to the university. Eva, who had played the piano in Germany, took up violin in high school and switched to the viola to fill a lacuna in the high school orchestra. She married her high school boyfriend (also a musician), with whom she had two boys. She followed her husband to Princeton, NJ and then to New York City, where the marriage broke up, leaving her with the younger of the boys. She returned to her parents’ home, and enrolled in WU, initially majoring in German literature, but switching to biology after being inspired by the teaching of Barry Commoner. After graduating, she got a job in the biology labs at Harvard University. She also earned a teaching certificate in Massachusetts, and then taught science / biology at Gloucester High School for a number of years. In Gloucester she played in the local symphony orchestra and performed at weddings and other events in a string quartet. In 1981 she gave up her job and joined her sister at her parent’s home to help her father, who had cancer. In the early 1980s she met Gene on a bicycle ride sponsored by the Ozark Area Council of the American Youth Hostels (AYH), offering him a ride home (he was car-less at
Mark Jeffrey Divine, 58, passed away on January 28, 2016 at his home in Littleton, Colorado from complications of living a good life. He was born on March 15, 1957 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska to George and Betty (Petersen) Divine. He spent his childhood years in Lyons, Colorado and graduated from Lyons High School in 1975. He worked in the clothing industry and in the cable and telecommunications business before his retirement.
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CONTENT Families are finally getting payment from FEMA for homes destroyed by the flood. Lives have been changed forever By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “The saddest day in this whole ordeal was coming back after the flood and seeing my house in the middle of Moore the river,” said Ray Thomas, formerly of Lyons. Thomas and his family, along with 22 other Lyons homeowners, have been participants in the first round of the Federal Management Agency Emergency (FEMA) federal government buyout programs administered by the Town of Lyons. All 23 homes have been purchased and closed. Another five to eight homeowners will participate in the second round. The FEMA program is known as the 404 Buyout Program. Many Lyons homes damaged in the September, 2013 flood were eligible for the buyout programs. Some people chose to have the foundations of their homes raised and to continue living there. The rest chose to participate by having their homes purchased with federal government money at a price that was a combination of two independent appraisers using pre-flood prices as a consideration.
maintaining them. “My father moved to the property in 1965 and at the time there was only a trailer here,” Thomas said of the property located at 233 Park Ave. The family built its house around the trailer. “Dad always wanted a shop for himself, so he would build an addition for that purpose, but Mom would soon take it over for another purpose,” Thomas went on to explain. “Then he’d build another addition for his shop until there were three roofs over the property and a separate shop building. In the end we had over 4,500 square feet of space.” When the demolition occurs, workers will discover the original trailer still in place. “We used the tongue as a place to put a flower pot,” Thomas said. Thomas, his wife Beatrice, and sister, Geneva, lived in the house, along with half-year resident, Thomas’ dad, Raymond. For the first six months following the flood the family lived in a FEMA-provided trailer in Boulder. Because rebuilding was going to be prohibitively expensive, Thomas decided to participate in the buyout. The family used flood insurance money to pay off the mortgage on the Park Ave. property, bought a lot in Mead, and over the following six months built a new five-bedroom home
The Thomas home on Park abvenue is slated for demolition All the homes purchased will be demolished, with title to the property transferred to the town. The program does not allow rebuilding on any of the buyout sites, which become parkland. Each parcel will be designated as open space and the town will be responsible for
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where the family has since lived. “I decorate our new house for Christmas, but not like we did in Lyons,” said Thomas, referring to the Park Ave. property, known by some as the Christmas house because of the sumptuous light display that adorned the house
every holiday season. “I loved doing it, but with the move, that time has passed. We’ve moved on with our lives.” The Fry/Stacy family, 124 Fourth Ave., also participated in the buyout of the family property in the confluence area. The property at one time included 26 acres of land that straddled both sides of the south
on to explain. The pig was a family favorite. “That pig would go on walks with a friend of mine, always staying close by,” Wilma Fry said. “In the winter time I would feed whiskey to the calves to warm them up so they would suckle.” Other animals joined the menagerie. “We used to raise turkeys that we sold. Some would get to be 50 pounds and the buyers would purchase them and then cut them in half to cook,” Linda Stacy added. Stacy and her husband, Ken, handled all
Ray Thomas and his family were among the 23 homeowners to participate in FEMA’s 404 Buyout Program for homes destroyed in the flood of 2013. PHOTO BY DON MOORE fork of the St Vrain. At the time of the flood, parts of four generations of the family lived on the Fry Farm. “When he was courting me, my husband Melvin told me, ‘Marry me and I’ll take you to God’s Country’,” said Wilma Fry, 90, the family matriarch. “This was 1945 and we were living in Kansas at the time. God’s Country he was referring to was the Lyons area." They were married a year later and thereafter Melvin kept his word. They bought the Fourth Ave property in 1951 and moved in. “We raised milking cows and had 13 of them. We bottle-fed all the calves,” Wilma Fry said. “Then we always had horses for the kids and grandkids to ride.” The flood took a toll on the animals too. “In addition to the riding horses, we raised miniature horses,” Linda Stacy, daughter of Wilma Fry, said. Five riding horses survived the flood, but only one of the three miniature horses made it through. “We even had a house goat and house pig. Both were housebroken and were just other members of the family,” Stacy went
the negotiations for the family during the buyout program. One of the houses on the property survived the flood intact, and it was sold to a third party. The rest of the property went through the appraisal process and then the sale was closed in February. “It was hard for mom to deal with,” Stacy said. “We could not afford to rebuild, even though there were six buildable lots. There were some people who wanted to buy, but that fell away and we took the buyout.” “The town plans on converting our property into a park and naming it Fry Farm,” Stacy said. “That really makes us feel good.” The Fry/Stacy family no longer lives next to or across the street from one another, but they all now live in Longmont homes and continue to look after each another, and are pleased the process is over. Both the Thomas and Fry/Stacy families acknowledge the bittersweet they all felt, but they said working with the town had been a good experience. At times it was frustrating and it took a long time, but in the end they felt they were treated fairly and with respect.
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LOCAL Lyons Polar Bears plunge for LEAF, raise over $10,000 By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – About 100 hardy folks plunged into the Black Bear Hole of the St. Vrain River in Lyons on Saturday, February 13, to raise money for LEAF, the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund. Jane Dressed in outlandish outfits, with glitter, wings, headdresses, and cat faces, people of all ages, sizes and shapes jumped into the melted snow water of the river, while about 100 warmly dressed spectators cheered them on. The Lyons Polar Bear Club is an informal group of people who love to jump into the water in the coldest months of the year. Realizing that many Polar Bear clubs plunge for charity, “In 2012 we started raising money for different causes,” according to Jason Stillman, one of the original Polar Bears. This year, the club chose LEAF, a Lyons charity that offers a human services safety net to those in need in the greater Lyons
area. LEAF serves 100 people weekly with services such as a food pantry, financial counseling, Medicaid and food stamps sign-up, case management, resource referral, and supportive advocacy. After jumping or cheering, the crowd moved to an afternoon fundraiser at the Ax and Oar restaurant in Lyons. The day was warm for mid-February, so there was a large crowd on the outdoor terrace, where there was a large portable hot tub set up, and music by Bonnie and the Clydes. The party was sponsored by Headquarters Cannabis Company, Colorado Advanced Restoration Experts (CARE), Bud Depot, and Dan Siddall. The partying multitudes added their support buying food, drink and bidding on silent auction items donated by other local businesses. As of this writing, the final count of how much money was raised is not yet in. However, it is certain that over $10,000 was raised for LEAF. “We are so thankful for the support of our community as we work to help those in need in Lyons. Our community has a huge heart,” says Emily Dusel, director of LEAF.
Lyons Polar Bears leap into the St. Vrain River to raise funds for LEAF, the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund. Over $10,000 was raised to benefit those in need in the greater Lyons area. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS
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By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “I’ll be donating one percent of all sales from the restaurant this year to Lyons flood relief,” said Tim Payne, Moore owner of Lyons’ newest restaurant, Farmer Girl, located at 432 Main St. “I want to be an integral part of the community and this donation is something I could not do on my own, but it is doable through the business.” Payne grew up in small towns in Missouri and loves the location, feel and spirit of Lyons. Even though he did not live on a farm, he has always had an affinity for farm life and an appreciation for locally grown organic foods. He always sourced locally grown products for a restaurant he owned in Longmont. Additionally, he follows that practice for the food truck business he currently owns and operates, also named Farmer Girl. Now he’s employing that same philosophy in operating the Farmer Girl restaurant. “The name Farmer Girl is a tribute to all the strong women who, in many cases, have been the backbone of farming in the U.S.,” Payne said. “They’ve not always been recognized and I wanted to do that.” Payne formerly worked in healthcare management, but found it unsatisfying. He decided then to pursue his passion of creating and enjoying good organic food properly prepared. He is a 2002 graduate from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Scottsdale and brings many years of restaurant experience to Farmer Girl. He started out his career as a prep cook earning minimum wage, and then worked his way up. He has lived in the Lyons area since 2007. “We will have a relatively small menu,
Tim Payne has opened the Farmer Girl restaurant. His menu features seasonal, locally sourced foods. payne plans to donate a portion of his sales to Lyons flood relief. PHOTO BY DON MOORE concentrating a few items that will be seasonal and well prepared,” Payne said. “Additionally, we will offer a variety of wines at affordable prices.” Payne also stocks local beers and spirits. On the menu is an eclectic assortment of food and selections will rotate regularly. A recent menu offered five different appetizers and six entrees. The appetizers
include a beet salad and a butternut squash falafel; they range in price from $6 to $12. Offerings from the list of entrees include braised beef Flat Iron, mushroom tartine, and lamb Bolognese. The price range for entrees is from $10 to $20. “I’ve made only minor changes to the interior from the prior tenant. It fits the rustic farm idea for décor and food,” Payne said. “The only major change, which will come in April, will be adding a garage type door to the front wall, opening the space to receive more natural light.” Payne likes the large open bar, which has a community-welcoming feel to it. Farmer Girl opened to the public on Feb. 4 and Payne said the reception he’s had from the community has been very positive. He has been pleasantly surprised by the response he’s received. The restaurant is open five days a week, Wednesday through Sunday, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. “I believe in giving my employees a two day rest at the end of a work week and before the next week begins,” Payne said in explaining the restaurant’s hours of operation. While reservations are not required, Payne suggests patrons make them, especially on Friday and Saturday nights. 303-823-5856. For more information, see coloradofarmergirl.com, and facebook.com/myfarmergirl/. Don Moore is a retired lawyer and the author of Love is a Verb: Healing Yourself through Love, Gratitude and Compassion. He lives in Lyons.
this academic year. He received a master’s degree in Journalism at CU Boulder in 1983, graduating in the same class with Susan de Castro McCann, Redstone Review Editor. The two classmates formed a partnership to own the Redstone Review in 2005. Joyce is the vice president of Redstone Review LLC and a regular contributor to the Redstone. Before teaching at CSU Pueblo he was the managing editor at the Pueblo Chieftain and the managing editor at the Cañon City Daily Record.
LEAF brings Medicaid and food stamp sign ups and financial counseling to Lyons LYONS – Tired of commuting to Boulder or Longmont for services? Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF) is now collaborating with two organizations to bring their counselors to Lyons every month. These services are free to Lyons residents. Starting in January, LEAF is now bringing Medicaid and food stamps technicians to Lyons the second Wednesday of every month from 1 to 5 p.m. These bi-lingual (Spanish and English) folks are not only able to help you apply for these services, they also can solve problems you might be having with your Medicaid and assist you in applying for LEAP heating assistance Continue Briefs on Page 7
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OPTIONS To move or not to move: the Lyons Regional Library Board weighs the options By the Lyons Regional Library District Board of Trustees Redstone Review
expected when we moved to Main Street after the flood of 2013. The decision was complicated. So, let us take you, our neighbors, fellow taxpayers, and fellow LYONS – To move or not to move. That library patrons, through the concerns that was the quandary before the Lyons got us here. It’s a long story, but please Regional Library District’s Board of read on. There’s even a happy ending for Trustees over the last four months as we the Depot. weighed pros and cons of moving back First, a reminder of our mission. It’s to into the restored Depot before our new “responsibly use mill levy revenue to probuilding is ready in 2018. vide the best possible library services for The Depot holds a special place in Lyons the people of the region.” Our task is to history. Its restoration is an exciting mile- balance the needs of both taxpayers and stone in our post-flood recovery. However, library patrons. we came to realize that moving back to the Moving to the Depot would provide Depot in 2016 would expose us to chal- immediate financial benefit via rent relief. The Town of Lyons, which owns the Depot, charges the library virtually free rent, which is $1 a year. In contrast, two more years on Main Street would be $67,200 ($2800 x 24). That’s a serious number. However, we soon realized that free rent would involve other hard and soft costs, plus much risk. For example, moving requires disassembling and reconfiguring the library’s IT system ($1,500). There are costs for additional staff time, and for movRenovation at the Depot is ongoing and is expected to ing collections, equipment, and take another two years to complete furnishings. We estimate about PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS $15,000 if we are lucky and it is just one move in 2016. If, howevlenges and risks that could not be ignored. er, we need to move out again in 2017 to After much consideration, the board voted accommodate construction (a real possi(6-0) on Feb.10 to stay at Main Street until bility with additional risks, see more on our new facility is constructed. that, below), that is $30,000. We realize that this is not what we Aside from financials, we also considered soft costs. We had concerns about impacts on services and programming, unforeseen expenses, and hazards in a soon-to-be major construction zone. Could we guarantee safe access during construc303 Main St, Lyons • 303-823-6685 tion? If we needed to move out in 2017, would we even be able to find affordable THURS, FEBRUARY 18 • 7PM and suitable rental space? Would we have Complete Unknowns to reduce or cease services? FRI, FEBRUARY 19 • 8:30PM We were not comfortable embracing Gasoline Lollipops those kinds of risks. Patron safety, our ability to provide services, and predictable SAT, FEBRUARY 20 • 8:30PM Bonnie & the Clydes cost-control were all at stake. This discomfort led us to take a closer look at SUN, FEBRUARY 21 • 3PM remaining at Main Street. How would Rusty 44 that scenario play out, we wondered? THURS, FEBRUARY 25 • 7PM
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Boulder author Molly Kate Brown gave a talk about her new book “Learning to Walk in India” on Feb. 10 at the Lyons Regional Library on Main Street. Book and DVD checkouts and circulation numbers have increased markedly at the temporary location. After much soul searching and number crunching, the library Board has decided to keep the library on Main Street until renovations at the Depot are complete in 2018. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS Right off, we were pleased to find that Main Street is being well received. Book checkouts are up 52 percent, DVD checkouts are up 150 percent, circulation is up 67 percent and patron drop-ins are steadily rising. Next, we talked with our landlord. He generously agreed to stabilize rent at $2,800 per month and expand our space by adding another room, thereby bringing us to 1,500 sq. ft. Despite all this good news, we still struggled with justifying the expense. And then, in another example of Lyons’s generosity, a local family pledged $800 a month to subsidize the rent! Applying this $19,200 subsidy over the two years results in a final rent expense of $48,000. This scenario also saves $15,000 to $30,000 in moving costs. Thus, the net cost for Main Street becomes $18,000 to $33,000 over two years. Annually, that is 2 to 3.8 percent of revenue. It became clear to us that staying on Main Street was viable. But we had one more concern, the fate of the Depot. We talked to people at Town of Lyons, and they were excited. They
assured us that they had immediate use for the Depot, and that we could reserve the right to utilize it at a future time. We are confident that the Depot will continue as a beloved community asset for generations to come. Throughout our deliberations we recognized the great responsibility we feel for the community and our emotional connection to the Depot. We are very grateful to Christina Wells, Mark Browning, DOLA, the State Historical Fund, and everyone else who has diligently labored to restore our landmark. It is a relief to know that their loving work will continue to inspire. So, that is the story of how the Board came to decide to stay on Main Street until the new facility is ready. Then we will move – once. We thank you for your patience with all of this. We will continue to work hard to fulfill our mission in a conscientious manner and with due deliberation. As always, our meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the month at the library on Main Street and are always open to the public. You can email the Board at: board @ lyons regional library. com.
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CONCEPTS Redstone celebrates 16 years By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – Starting a brand new newspaper anytime in the last 20 years was a really crazy idea at best. The survival rate for new or even existing newspapers is still challenging. Although social media was not as prevalent 16 years ago as it is now, newspapers were still competing for a smaller and smaller piece of the readers’ time and attention. And although the odds were not in our favor, the Redstone Review published its first issue in February 2000. It was an election year just like it is now. President Bill Clinton was spending his last year in office and the primaries were underway. Texas Governor George Bush was running against Vice President Al Gore. The election ended up too close to call, everyone was upset about hanging chads from
voting devices and the Supreme Court decided that George Bush won the election which is now history. We have had many adventures along the way with publishing the newspaper. We started printing with the Colorado Daily in Boulder. Its pressman called himself Snake and his back was covered with tattoos of knives in various sizes. Most of the printing for outside jobs like the Redstone was done in the middle of the night. Marijuana was not legal in Colorado at that time so Snake and his co-workers ate junk candy all night to get buzzed. His favorites were marshmallow peanuts and chocolate covered espresso beans. The presses were old and broke down regularly and Snake did his best to patch the machines back together. The printing quality was ragged and irregular, but the Redstone rolled off the presses every month and never missed a beat.
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The Future is now in Lyons for solar-plus-storage By Diane Dandeneau Redstone Review LYONS – A new solar-plus-storage demonstration project is coming to Lyons to show the effectiveness of adding batteries to solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in homes and small busiDandeneau ness to support the utility grid and to provide localized emergency backup and resiliency. The project purpose is to reduce carbon emissions by expanding the possibilities for a higher penetration of rooftop solar PV. The project will equip up to ten home and / or small business demonstration sites for premisesbased “solar-plus-storage” installations. The sites can include advanced grid / battery inverter / chargers, solar arrays, batteries, an electric car charger, and smart appliances integrated energy management gateway and application platform. The sites will demonstrate and quantify the benefits of solar-plus-storage systems combined with advanced features such as automatic and / or utility demand response, supply / demand balancing, and grid support. This project began with the City of Boulder and the Boulder Energy Challenge, funding three demonstration sites in Boulder by Smarthome Laboratories, Ltd. The project is in the process of expanding to Lyons because of the interest and awareness of the community for resilience, as well as the ability to work with a small municipal utility to help design the best possible scenarios for the Town of Lyons to support the community and increase the amount of renewable energy on the grid for the future.
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A nationwide push is emerging to increase the amount of renewable energy on the electricity grid. Solar PV has finally become affordable, and with net-metering, it has a similar cost to utility-provided electricity. Increasing the amount of solar on one hand is great, but on the other hand, the challenges are becoming apparent. Although solar can provide all of our energy needs, the issue is the time of the generation versus the time of use. When the sun is shining, the energy first goes to the building. If it is not used in the facility, it is sent on to the grid for someone else to use. Standard net-metering agreements run the meter backwards, and the customer is credited for the solar energy at the same price. Then, later at night the building can use grid power when the sun is not shining. This arrangement, while a good deal for the solar system owner, and has helped solar grow, it is not such a good deal for the utility, because it is buying the solar energy at retail, then selling it back at retail. Another problem for grid-tied solar is that above 12 to 15 percent penetration, there are grid stability issues with voltage and frequency due to solar variability and intermittency. As a result, in places like Hawaii and Nevada, regulators are changing their netmetering rules to either eliminate net-metering, or reduce what utilities must pay for the energy exported back to the grid. This change is happening faster than people had anticipated, and thus it is driving the growth of solar-plus-storage (batteries) to time-shift the electricity and to preserve its retail value to the solar system owner. People have been using solar PV with batteries in off-
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grid applications for many years, and there are also millions of installations of grid-tied PV, but the combination of batteries with grid-connected systems is rather new. With such systems, there are many benefits that can be identified by evaluation and collaboration with actual users. In addition to the benefits to the project, the participants will receive several benefits. First, they will gain emergency backup energy in case of a grid outage. The duration of the backup will depend on the installation and battery size (Grid-tied-only systems shut off if the power goes off). Second, the system owner can get the 30 percent tax credit on entire system, including batteries, if purchased with the PV. If it is purchased in the future, it may not qualify unless some additional renewable energy is added to the system. Third, there may be some funding available to the initial participants to help offset the costs of the batteries. The benefits to the utility and thus to the community of Lyons may include: 1) improved grid stability as the smart inverters and batteries quickly smooth grid fluctuations, 2) reduced demand at the times of highest costs to the town, 3) emergency locations for residents to go in a power outage, and 4) reduced reliance on coal. Finally, the project will benefit the electronics industry as a whole as the results will be shared with international standards committees that can use this information for the design of future appliances that will communicate with the grid and user management systems. Also, utility tariff designs can be evaluated based on more time-of-use or dynamic rate options. Finally, there are only a few solar companies that really know how to install these systems, and this project will develop best practices to the solar industry. The project is looking for ten participants who have not already installed solar, but would like to consider it (you can be in the town of Lyons or in Poudre Valley REA or Longmont Utilities). Please contact Diane Dandeneau with Lightly Treading and Smart Home Laboratories to learn more: dianed@lightlytreading.com or call 303-552-7468. Diane Dandeneau is a Lyons-based artist, author, speaker, singer-songwriter, and activist. When she’s not painting, you can find her hiking with the eagles, or sharing her passion about solar energy. She is about to release her first book, Journey to the Soul, Connecting to the truth of who you are through Journaling. www.dianedandeneau.com.
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Snake eventually ran off with a young woman who worked with him, but he failed to get the Colorado Daily printed before he ran off and was fired. The Colorado Daily then told me that it would no longer print the Redstone because it was too much trouble. Today the Redstone is printed in Berthoud by the former Lehman Communication Company. The company was purchased by the Denver Post. The press is huge and very high tech. If the press was to run at full speed the 3,000 copies of the Redstone could be printed in about eight minutes. The press rarely breaks down and the color is set by a computer. We still face many new challenges because the news changes minute by minute. Thanks to you our readers and our advertisers we have continued to put out the newspaper for 16 years and this month we begin our 17th year. Thanks for being part of this adventure.
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INSIGHT Donating my papers to Montana State University By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – Last year I was asked to donate my papers, notes, and old working manuscripts to the Montana State University Library in Bozeman. Jim Thull, MSU’s Special Collections Gierach Librarian, said they were assembling the papers of Western writers of note (with a particular emphasis on those who’ve written about fly fishing) and that they already had dozens of writers, including some big name novelists like Thomas McGuane and Ivan Doig. Of course I was flattered – not to mention surprised – but I told him I’d have to think it over. What was there to think about? It’s not like I was holding out for a better offer from Harvard and my actual Alma Mater hadn’t asked. When someone at the alumni association there learned online that I’d published numerous books, his response was to write asking for a six-figure contribution for the new football stadium. I wrote back that in my college days I was a little hippie with literary pretensions and the football players had been mean to me. I failed to mention that I didn’t have that kind of money anyway. So is there something in my papers that could be embarrassing or, God forbid, libelous? Well now, there’s something to think about, especially with Hillary Clinton’s interminable email scandal back in the news. A dusty hands-and-knees tour through the attic crawl space revealed that I’d been a pack rat about saving stuff. There were drafts and copyedited manuscripts of 17 books, old journals and notebooks, 30 years’ worth of newspaper columns, plus another 16 years’ worth of columns for this publication, not to mention magazine stories and reams of pre-email correspondence on actual sheets of paper. There was also an overlap with older digital material, some on 3 1/2-inch disks and some on ancient 5 1/4-inch floppies in a program called WordStar 2.0 from the electronic stone age when floppy disks really were floppy. Jim said that wasn’t a problem; they had all the old machines and an IT geek who can keep them in working order and run all the obsolete programs. He said a lot of Ivan Doig’s work was on those big old disks and that
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some of it had degraded, but added, “You’d be amazed at how much can be retrieved.” The oldest letters were from my longest running writer friend, Ed Engle, and dated back some 40 years to when we still thought of ourselves as poets, but were coming to terms with the knowledge that all the paychecks went to prose writers. Even as young and idealistic as we were then, we didn’t think that was unjust. After all, poetry wouldn’t be what it is if you could make a living at it, or as Robert Graves said, “There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either.” When I called Ed to talk about the MSU request, he said they’d also asked for his papers, and that’s when I learned that he’d saved my letters as faith-
fully as I’d saved his, which was kind of a sentimental moment. He said he’d found one in which I said I’d been working for weeks on a long poem, but had only come up with ten lines I liked. On the phone he said, “I don’t think you ever finished that poem, but those ten lines were pretty good.” I also came across an old unpublished manuscript I’d all but forgotten about. It was a collection of short stories I’d sent to my agent to look over, only to have him write back to say, “You don’t want to publish these because THEY’RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH.” Those last four words weren’t actually typed all in caps like that, but that’s how I remember them. It was probably the best professional advice I ever got.
Lyons Food Pantry donations for 2015 LYONS – At the beginning of each year the pantry takes note of all the regular businesses that donate food to the pantry and sends a thank you note to their regular business donors including how many pounds of food they donated the previous year. The Food Pantry is a part of the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF). The following is a list of donors and the number of pounds of food they donated in 2015. Thank you to all the donors for supporting the food pantry. Fords Market – 282 lbs. Steamboat Mtn. – 487 lbs. St. Vrain Mkt. – 2597 lbs.
I didn’t go back and re-read those stories because I doubted that 25 years in a cardboard box had improved them any, but I did decide to hold them back on the off chance they could be fixed with some careful editing, or entirely rewritten, or at least serve as inspiration for something new and better. That’s when I realized that I’d go ahead and donate this stuff and, furthermore, that I wouldn’t go back through it all to redact anything that didn’t cast me in a favorable light. I’m not too worried. I know myself well enough to be pretty sure things like that letter from my agent telling me my stories weren’t good enough probably went right into the wood stove a quarter century ago. Of course it’s doubtful that future generations will care about any of this. If you look at old best seller lists you’ll find the occasional Hemingway or Faulkner buried amid dozens of names so obscure they might as well have been picked at random from a phone book and whose titles are now unavailable from any source. That’s where all but a handful of writers are headed. But on the off chance someone does care it’ll be the first clumsy drafts, failed attempts, unintentional repetitions and outright mistakes that’ll be interesting, even if those mistakes aren’t all as far in the past as I’d like to think. Naturally there’ll be some omissions. In one of our early talks Jim said he understood I’d hold onto anything having to do with works in progress or current business as well as items with sentimental value like photos and literary awards. That could all be accounted for in a codicil to my will leaving it to the library after the last roundup. I’m sure that’s a necessary part of the pitch; the part that keeps this from sounding too valedictory by allowing that of course you’re still working and will be for the foreseeable future. As it stands now I have nine big boxes full of paper and one small box of disks. I hadn’t looked into any of them since they were packed and only opened them now to see what was in there and to check for nesting mice. I think handing this stuff over to a librarian will feel like letting go of the past once and for all in order to address the future unencumbered, which everyone says is a good idea. William Steig put it best. “You can’t try to stay young,” he said, “that would make you old in no time.” John Gierach is an outdoor and fly fishing writer who writes a column for Flyrod & Reel magazine. His books include Trout Bum, Sex Death and Fly fishing, and Still Life with Brook Trout. His new book, All Fishermen are Liars is available at book stores and fly fishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street.
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CANDIDATES Lyons Town Board election 2016 By Staff Reports Redstone Review LYONS – On April 5 the votes will be tallied and Lyons residents will choose a new mayor and six members of the Board of Trustees. Lyons elects its mayor and board of trustees every two years. Only one candidate is running for mayor this year, current trustee, Connie Sullivan. Three current board members are running for a second term: Dan Greenberg, Barney Dreistadt and James Kerr. Two candidates have served on the town board previously: Juli Waugh and Nick Angelo (who was also a former mayor). Three candidates are new to the political process in Lyons: Wendy Miller, Michael A. Karavas and Dan Reitz.
TRUSTEE CANDIDATES Dan Greenberg was elected as a trustee to the town board in 2012. He was re-elected in 2014 and now he is seeking
MAYORAL CANDIDATE Connie Sullivan was elected to the town board in 2012 as a trustee and was re-elected in 2014. She is currently the Mayor Pro Tem. This year Sullivan is running unopposed for Mayor of Lyons. She and her husband Neil Sullivan pur-
chased and revamped the St. Vrain Market on Main Street. The market suffered major damage during the flood. As a trustee Connie worked closely with Mayor Julie Van Domelen and the town staff during the flood to bring Lyons back from the crippling disaster. The St. Vrain Market was one of the first businesses to open in Lyons after the flood. Connie is a pharmacist by profession and works with a nonprofit national pharmacy association to focus on research and develop regulatory policy. She currently serves as a liaison to the Ecology, Watershed and the Golden Gang a group of seniors who plan senior events and the Meals on Wheels program. She said that the number one priority for the incoming board will be to make sure that the Lyons Recovery Action Plan (LRAP) continues to be implemented as well as continuing the ongoing recovery process. She would also like to see the board adopt policies that promote the development of affordable housing. Connie wants to see the town’s tax base shift away from property taxes and fees to sales tax as a primary source of revenue. She wants to encourage the board to engage the public regularly on issues that contribute to the quality of life in Lyons. She and Neil have lived in Lyons for nine years. They have two children attending school in Lyons.
a third term. He worked with the town board and staff during the flood to help Lyons recover. Greenberg is a liaison to the Library Board, which is working on planning and building a new library building. He is a math teacher by profession and is a math coach to other math teachers, helping them in the classroom to improve their teaching skills. He said he realized during his first term on the board that the town’s budget relied too heavily on fees from developers and needed to shift to a more long-term view of a sales and property tax based economy. Greenberg said he is seeking a third term because he wants to see the town through the final phases of recovery and the grant projects to fund the projects. He said he can help the board stay on track to keep the utility funds stable so as not to impose a burden to taxpayers. This also includes finding ways to pay for the upkeep on all the new and existing park land. He wants the board to be more inviting to residents and make it easier for members of the community to engage with the board. He and his wife moved to Lyons in 2004 with a 15-month-old child to a house in the confluence area. They had a second child less than a year later and moved to another part of town as the family grew. Nicholas Angelo is a 30-year resident of Lyons and a local businessman. He has a shop where he sells fine art, prints, artifacts, jewelry, native masks and other things of interest. He first served on the town board in
1995 when he was appointed to replace a trustee who decided to step down. He was officially elected to the board as a trustee in 1996. Then he was elected Mayor in 1998 and elected Mayor again in 2006. Currently Angelo is on the Planning Community Development and Commission (PCDC) where he is working with others to create a strategy to enable people displaced by the flood to return to Lyons and to address the issue of affordable housing. Angelo said he also wants to work to repair the flood damage to the parks, and reopen the parks and trails as soon as possible, which will help to create an economic stimulus for Lyons. He wants to get residents involved in creating a vision for Lyons. He believes that Lyons has become a recreational hub for people all over the area. Angelo is married to local artist Candace Shepard. They have four children. James Kerr is running for his second term of office as a trustee. He was elected to the board in 2014 and served as the construction coordinator for the Lyons Volunteers where he was able to see the devastation first hand and help local residents and businesses that experienced flood damage.
He is from Michigan where he graduated from Michigan State University and became a systems engineer. During his time on the board Kerr has served as the liaison to the Planning and Community Development Commission and as liaison to the Utilities Engineering Board and he still works with the Lyons Volunteers. Kerr and his wife Kate have been big supporters of the arts and music in Lyons. He began taking fiddle lessons. James said his priorities are: to work on affordable housing for displaced residents and town employees; support local businesses; continue with flood relief and economic recovery; and help monitor town expenditures to ensure that federal and state grants are spent responsibly. James said that when the recovery is completed and finances have stabilized, he would like to pursue the idea of lowering property taxes. When he retired, James and Kate moved to Lyons just over three years ago. They have three kids who they raised in Virginia where he was working at the time. Juli Waugh has lived in Lyons for 13 years. She and her husband Kenyon own the Lyons Dairy Bar on Main Street, and the Tiny Homes business. She was elected to the town board as a trustee in 2008. She served one term. Juli worked as a human resources manager. Before she became a trustee, she was on the Depot Library Board. While on the board, the trustees approved the 2008 Parks and Open Space Plan and updated the 2008
Comprehensive Plan. In 2010 she and her husband bought the former Dairy Lite and renamed it the Lyons Dairy Bar and became owners of a small business in Lyons. She wants to help the town with the post-flood recovery to make sure it aligns with the Comprehensive Plan and to work with the Economic Development Council to help local business owners with post flood recovery and funding. Juli and Kenyon Waugh have two daughters in Lyons schools and they live in Lyons. Barney Dreistadt was elected to the town board as a trustee in 2014 and he is seeking a second term. He moved to Lyons in 2009. Dreistadt has worked with the Lyons Volunteers since the very first days of the flood. As a trustee he works with the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission. He was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and has lived in West Virginia, Ohio and Florida prior to moving to Lyons. He graduated from Wheeling College in 1969 and attended Ohio University for several graduate courses in business. He has four daughters and six grandchildren. His career included working in management roles for two physician group practices and for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. These positions provided experience in organi-
zational strategy, planning, budgeting, project management and the nuts and bolts of making complex organizations work effectively. Dan Reitz moved to Lyons a little over two years ago. He married his wife Lisa in 2010. He is an international business manager and he has done work in community service holding several leadership positions related to youth sports and cycling. He said, “One of my primary beliefs is that we all have some common points that we can agree on and can use
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ASPECT Swift water rescue facility is still a real possibility in Lyons By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – Many of the town officials, town staff and residents were greatly disappointed when Governor John Hickenlooper announced in January that Colorado did not receive any money from the National Disaster Resiliency Competition (NDRC). The competition was sponsored by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Agency (HUD) along with the Rockefeller Foundation to provide significant resources and support to communities to increase their resiliency to natural disasters. It was widely believed that Colorado had an excellent chance of winning a chunk of the $1 billion pot since the Rockefeller Foundation helped Colorado write its proposal. The Town of Lyons applied for $6.75 million from the NDRC, which was a contest open to all states and municipalities that have had major devastation disasters destroying homes, buildings and land due to floods, fire, hurricanes, tornados or other disasters. Lyons entered the competition under the state of Colorado’s application to HUD for $419 million for disaster relief funding. Lyons wanted to
use the $6.75 million for a development project in the eastern corridor and for a swiftwater training and rescue center on the St. Vrain River. However J.J. Hoffman, Lyons Fire Chief in the Lyons Fire Protection District, is not ready to give up on the swiftwater rescue facility. He is exploring the idea of getting grants and moving forward. Without the NDRC funding it will be slow going. “Yes, unfortunately Colorado did not receive the (HUD competition) grant,” said Hoffman. “I was very optimistic that if Colorado would have received the grant, then we probably would have gotten the swiftwater rescue training facility. We had a lot of support from all those involved at the state level. My plan B at this point is to go for a grant.” Hoffman remains optimistic that with enough support from other agencies in the area he can get the funding lined up. “It is still very definitely on my bucket list of things to do,” he said. “I am hoping at some point to possibly go for a FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) grant. My next step will be to get a letter of support from the county chiefs association and then as well a letter from
Wendy Miller moved with her partner to Lyons 12 years ago from Colorado Springs partly seeking regional work in the wholesale wine industry. She and her partner have one son. She currently serves on the Lyons Special Housing Committee and as a volunteer on a Tenant Landlord Protections subcommittee for the Lyons Human Services and Aging Commission. She also serves on the Lyons Elementary PTO Board and as a volunteer for the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund (LEAF). Miller has a
those to build better relationships and community.” He was educated as a mechanical engineer. As a young adult he worked in landscaping, painting and various other labor related jobs. During his university years he helped manage a small group that competed in national engineering events that placed in the top five schools. After university he worked in several different industries including automotive, research, and high-tech manufacturing. He has been with his present company for 15 years. “I want to help Lyons stay great and adapt to future community needs,” he said. “I have been encouraged to run for the board of trustees because of my skills at working with diverse groups of people and my belief in moderation.”
Lyons-based business cleaning homes and offices by the name of GLEAM. She said it was a struggle to find affordable housing in Lyons. “After the flood, it became apparent to me that Lyons is in
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the state chiefs association. We have already received letters of support from other rescue organizations, law enforcement and others. The FEMA grants look at funding projects that will benefit multiple agencies instead of a stand-alone dis-
agencies all across the state as well as bring in others from out of state. The other big thing is that this would bring more visitors to Lyons so it is a win win. The FEMA grants vary in type and we just missed the most recent one as we were waiting to hear back on the other grant. I will be pursuing it more this year and more than likely apply at the end of
trict or entity. The more agencies it covers the more likely we will get funding. As pointed out this swiftwater rescue facility would benefit fire, law, EMS and rescue
this year or beginning of next. We may or may not get it the first time we apply so we will re-apply the year after again with the hopes of getting it soon.”
jeopardy of becoming something it has never wanted to be,” she said. “I believe we need to look hard at the Lyons Comprehensive Plan for Lyons to move forward. I believe there may be a need to readdress certain issues like zoning, parks, housing, and business.” Miller said, “The three most important things in this town are 1) the people, 2) housing, and 3) businesses. Without all three of these things as the focus, we no longer have a community, but an empty shell. I also believe it’s important for Lyons to take care of our elderly and to maintain a high level of learning opportunities for our children.”
eastern corridor annexation. By developing the area using the modern technique of mixed use design to include retail, housing, restaurants and recreational venues, annexation will help achieve
Michael Karavas is a semi-retired business owner, of a family contracting business, and is the sole owner of a residential and landscaping contracting small business. He spent the early years of his career in the insurance industry and has served in both management and labor positions. Karavas is involved in the Lyons community as a volunteer. He also serves as the Chair of the Lyons Volunteers. He helps at Lyons Elementary School with the spelling bee, serving as an ice hockey coach for 12 years, as an alumni advisor to college students, and as an officer of a building corporation for a fraternal organization. In addition, he served as the vice president of his church board for seven years and as a youth camp counselor while in college. As a trustee, Karavas wants to advocate for the growth of Lyons through the
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increased property tax revenues, without raising tax rates. He said this development scheme will recover the lost property tax and utility revenue following the flood, while increasing the town’s sales tax revenues, resulting in a more stable tax base for the community. By providing mixed-use development alongside the river with exceptional views of Mt. Meeker and Longs Peak, Lyons will truly be the gateway to the Rockies. He lives in Lyons with his wife, Julie. They have two grown sons who visit frequently.
Saluting the Redstone Review for 16 years of keeping the Lyons area informed. – Lyons Regional Library District –
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IDEAS The Alchemy of Soup: From bones to liquid gold By Catherine Ripley Metzger Redstone Review WINTER PARK – The alchemy of soup: from bones to liquid gold, it’s the chicken stock that makes the magic. It starts with your roasted chicken that was so good on Sunday. But the leftover carcass is fighting for fridge space and looking a little dried out by Wednesday. Should you throw it out? Never! Renew your resources instead by making chicken stock. From here, you can easily make a variety of soups and enjoy the deep flavors of your light labors. One of the first and most important things you will learn from us at Food for the Ages, which I learned from Lady Marian MacMillan, of Finlaystone Estate, is to use everything and waste nothing when it comes to food. Your roast chicken carcass is a perfect springboard for this lesson and a good chicken stock is the perfect liquid gold starter for soups such as minestrone, leek and potato, cream of cauliflower, chicken noodle and many others. This recipe makes enough stock for one soup, about seven cups. If you aren’t ready to make soup right away, once it’s cooled, you can strain and freeze your stock for when you are. Besides a homemade chicken stock recipe, below are two of my most favorite soup recipes: one for minestrone and the other cream of cauliflower soup. With the minestrone, if you don’t have peas and green beans, you can use whatever other green vegetables, such as zucchini, or even yellow squash, that you might have on hand but remember that there is something about the cabbage and turnip that makes their absence noticed. Chicken Stock 1 roasted chicken carcass 2 carrots, washed and cut in 2-inch pieces
1/2 onion, skin on, cut in half again 1 leek 1 celery rib cut in pieces 2 garlic cloves, smashed bouquet garni (1 bay leaf, 1/2 tsp thyme, 1/2 tsp parsley) salt and freshly ground pepper • Prepare the leek: slice stem to stern from a quarter-inch under the root all the way to the tip, then quarter turn and do it again cutting all the way through each time. Keep cutting and turning until you have ribbons of leek attached to the root. This exposes the dirt in which they were grown which could make your soup gritty if you don’t get it all out, so rinse thoroughly in cold running water or in a bowl of water. • Place all ingredients in a large pot, including any drippings from the roast chicken. Cover and simmer for 1.5 hours. Let the stock cool then strain it. Minestrone Soup 2 bacon rashers 4 T chopped onion 2 leeks, chopped, white part only 7 C homemade chicken stock 4 T each of chopped carrot and turnip 2 T chopped celery ½ C chopped potato 2 chopped tomatoes ½ C frozen peas ¼ C green beans ½ C orzo or rice 1 clove chopped garlic several fresh basil leaves, shredded • Place bacon in a large pot and cook until browned then remove from pot. • Add to the pot onion and leeks and cook together until lightly golden, about ten minutes. • Add to the pot seven cups of your homemade chicken stock, the carrot and turnip, celery, potato, and tomatoes. Bring to a boil and simmer gently for
A few simple and frugal ingredients, some time at a simmer, and you have the beginning of any number of delicious soups approximately 30 minutes. • Add peas, green beans and orzo or rice. Yes, broken spaghetti will do as well! Let the soup cook on very low heat for one more hour. At the last minute add garlic and basil. Cream of Cauliflower Soup 1 cauliflower, cut into florets 3 T butter 1 medium-sized sweet onion, chopped 2 T water 7 C chicken stock 2 egg yolks, lightly beaten 1 C half and half, or whole milk Salt White pepper Nutmeg Parsley, dried or chopped fresh • Prepare a large pot of salted boiling water and add the cauliflower; cook for ten minutes then drain. • Melt the butter in a large frying pan. Add the onion and cook until golden, about 15 minutes. Don’t rush this part. The onions are imparting their delicious-
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ness to the butter and will not completely give themselves unto the soup unless they are golden. • Add the cauliflower and 2 T of water and cook gently with a lid on it for 10 minutes, or until the cauliflower is tender. No rushing, please. Your taste buds will thank you later. • Using the large pot, add the chicken stock and bring it to a boil then add the cauliflower mixture and simmer, covered, for approximately 30 minutes. • Puree the soup, three cups at a time in a Vita Mix, Ninja or other blender. Pour the puree back into the large pot and just before serving bring the soup to a boil. Take the soup off the heat. • Mix the beaten eggs in with the half and half and stir into the soup. Adjust seasonings with a pinch of nutmeg and some salt and pepper. Sprinkle with parsley to serve. Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking both professionally and privately since 1979. Her food blog is foodfortheages.com and Facebook.com/food for the ages.com.
EcoCycle’s Green Star schools in 2005. This is a nationally recognized program, where kids compost and recycle throughout the school as well as find ways to reduce waste and environmental impact. The school started an Eco Club four years ago to further promote and enhance sustainability efforts. By making simple changes such as buying reusable dishes for classroom parties and converting paper registrations and information to online systems, the school has been very successful in reducing its overall impact on landfills. The school has also made tremendous strides in reducing paper waste, reducing lunchroom waste, and improving general awareness of how to conserve
recycling, and being a green work-and-school building. The Town of Lyons received a grant last year to implement “zero waste” in the town offices. The town “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one received the throw stations but had no training. Without proper education on the correct way to handle teacher can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai what goes where in the workplace, the implementation LYONS – Local students in Lyons are making an was not going smoothly. The eco kids were the perfect impact on their community. Motivated school kids are experts to bring in to assist. Through a collaborative effort through the Town of taking what they are learning in school and sharing Lyons, the Sustainable Futures Commission, EcoCycle, their knowledge with others. The Lyons Elementary School Eco Club kids recently provided training to the and the LES EcoClub, roughly 25 students along with Town of Lyons staff in the principles of composting, parents and Eco Club leaders provided an interactive program for town staff. Students shared “what it means to be a Green Star School,” Eco Tips and Trivia, and a training on proper use of the throw bins. Town employees learned what items are okay to recycle and compost, and received suggestions for reducing waste in the first place. Town employees asked questions like “Can you compost human hair?” and “Can you recycle shredded paper?” The session was informative for all those who attended. The Eco Club will also receive BOCO Zero Waste grant money to create a training video. Footage Open Daily 6am-4pm taken by the students from the Breakfast & Lunch TOL trainings and other events served 7am-2pm will be used in the production of a Third graders at the Lyons Elementary Discovery Fair, left to right: Jack Knapp, Hannah Dusel, Sasha Bruckner, Grace Hall, Hannah video that can be used for subsequent zero-waste training. Coulson, Brooklyn Blosser, Katie Brownsberger, Eamon Osborne 5th & High Street • 303.823.2345 Lyons Elementary became one of and Jessie Nunez. Adults Judy Brownsberger (Event Chair at left) www.TheStoneCup.com and Coco Gordon.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Tickets are $22 advance and $25 at the door. Tickets will be sold on-line only at www.highstreetconcerts.com. The show starts at 8 p.m. High Street Concerts take place at the historical Rogers Hall, Fourth and High in Lyons. For more information please go to www. high street concerts.com. The Corner Studios will present Sally King’s King art L’Amour February 5
Arts and Entertainment in the greater Lyons area By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS Mayama Movement Studio will host Defined Motion Dance Team Showcase and Wu Fundraiser on Saturday, February 20 at 6 p.m. at Planet Bluegrass Wildflower Pavilion. The proceeds will benefit the dance team for the two competitions this spring in Denver. Spaghetti dinner from Oskar Blues will be served at 6 p.m., and the showcase featuring works in progress from Mayama’s advanced dance classes will commence at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35, available at mayamastudio.com, or at the door. It might sell out so get your tickets now! The Wildflower Pavilion is located in Planet Bluegrass. For more information please call 720-245-5448 or visit mayamastudio.com. The Stone Cup Café will continue Rachel Tallent’s show Little Words through the end of February. March and April will feature the paintings of interdisciplinary scholar and artist David Williams. An Emmy-winning environmental songwriter for kids and a children's author with Random House, Williams has been teaching the lessons of wildlife preservation and sustainability to generations. He is also a gypsy jazz guitarist, a cartoonist, a painter, and a visual artist. His image of “Evolution of Birds” was described as many global traditions and patterns melding into a unique homogenized personal vision. Upcoming weekend morning music schedule includes David Coile’s rock/folk/R&B on February 20, Banjo Andy’s bluegrass on February 21, James Faulk’s classic rock on February 27 and March 12, Aural Elixir’s jazz-rock-folk fusion on February 28, Thomas Gronberg’s Americana on March 5, Maya Bennett’s folk blues on March 6, and Billy Shaddow’s folk music on March 13. The café is located at Fifth Avenue and High Street. For more information please call 303-8232345 or visit www.thestonecup.com.
Come celebrate Jay Stott’s CD release show Dirt and Heartache at Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., on March
One Body by Sally King, acrylic on canvas through March 25 with the opening reception on Saturday February 20 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. A celebrated Lyons artist, mostly adored for her bears and floral landscapes, Sally King will explore the infinity meaning of love in this exhibition: “The secret of devotion is that it informs the devotee/Imagined love is love.” The Corner Studios is a collective of artisans and a place for art, at 318 Main St. For more information please contact the corner studios @ gmail. com or call 303-903-2165.
Evolution of Birds by David Williams. Williams’ paintings will be featured at the Stone Cup Café during March and April. 12 at 8 p.m. Playing rueful Americana and roots music, Stott has been influenced by the diverse strands of the blue collar rock sensibility of Springsteen, the mournful tones of Hank Williams, and dashes of progressive rock, punk rock, folk, modern country, and traditional blues. Eventually his stories started to appear in songs exploring the darker side of life without losing a sense of humor. Pre-order CDs now, available at jgstott.com, to be shipped prior to March 12. For more information please visit jgstott.com. High Street Concerts is thrilled to announce the March show of Lucky Season 13 with the incredibly talented and creative young artist Sierra Hull
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on March 19. Known by her sensational RockyGrass main stage appearance last July, Sierra Hull will be back in Lyons with her brand new release, Weighted Mind. A landmark achievement in the world of folk-pop, bluegrass, and acoustic music overall, Weighted Mind is genre-transcending music at its best, with production by Béla Fleck and special harmony vocal guests Alison Krauss, Abigail Washburn, and Rhiannon Giddens adding to the luster. Highly praised by Bela Fleck and Alison Krauss as “a rare talent” with “a degree of refined elegance and that few have achieved,” Hull will be joined by bassist Ethan Jodziewicz and multi-instrumentalist, Justin Moses.
BOULDER Ars Nova Singers presents Renaissance Retrospective: Music for Many Voices on February 19 and 20. For 30 years, Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers have been bringing exceptional choral music to the Colorado Front Range and beyond. This is a rare opportunity to hear the two great Renaissance works in 40 parts: Ecce beatam lucem by Alessandro Striggio and Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis. In an era that was dominated by polyphony for four, five or six voices, this is music written specifically to challenge the prevailing convention, and to explore a new world of sound. Using techniques common to music for small forces, these Renaissance composers sought to create something wholly new: music based on the expressive possibilities of textures and densities. The concerts are held on February 19 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. 1600 Grant St. in Denver, and February 20 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St. in Boulder. Tickets and information are available at www.arsnovasingers.org. Seicento Baroque Ensemble will Continue A&E on Page 19
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By Tamara Vega Haddad Redstone Review LYONS – It’s that time of year when Senator Rollie Heath, District 18, and House Representative Jonathan Singer, District 11, share with Lyons’ constituency
their efforts and goals, and listen to ours. Senator Heath, in his last term and final legislative session, continues to educate us about the misguided TABOR first passed in 1992 and amended in 2005 as Referendum C which gave a five-year reprieve to TABOR’s limitations. While
Liberal vs Progressive By Marty Hine Redstone Review LYONS – Someone recently told me that I am just another “bleeding-heart liberal.” Well I’m sorry, but I can’t let an insult of that magnitude slip by. The word liberal comes from the Latin Hine liberalis which meant befitting a man of free birth. From that it has come to mean generous, free and bountiful. That sounds pretty good but another, political, sense of the word means not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy or traditional forms. In other words: radical, tolerant, broad-minded and progressive. So it follows that a liberal is a person who advocates freedom and tolerance especially when it comes down to individual rights. That’s sounding even better, maybe I am one of those guys after all. But wait a minute here. Aren’t the Democrats supposed to be the liberal party? Am I terribly mistaken or aren’t they the ones who give us all those rules on smoking, gun control, pollution, drugs, the environment? And there’s another meaning for the word liberal which is lacking in moral restraint and disregarding the rules for strict sexual correctness. Maybe the Democrats are the real liberals after all. Forgive me if I’m a little confused. I guess I haven’t really made up my mind what I am. So, I tell myself, perhaps the test is progress. Progressives say their goals are conserving the environment, conserving health, conserving education, and conserving poor people. I don’t know but that sounds just a little bit conservative to me. On the other hand, the Republicans want Americans to make money, at least some of us. Now that’s progress but I’m still having a problem picturing Republicans as closet liberals. There used to be a strong liberal wing of the Republican Party. Eisenhower was one of them and his
most states operate with some tax or spending limits, TABOR is the most restrictive limitation in the country, some say unconstitutional. Research points to structural flaws in TABOR that have seriously impaired the state’s ability to set budgetary and program priorities and respond to crises, such as the recession, long-term natural disaster recovery, and education. See more at: http: / / www. bell policy. org / basic / colorados - tabor # sthash. Fi Eg 7s l Q. dpuf House Rep. Singer will discuss marijuana legislation and other topics. “The 2016 Colorado General Assembly just got underway this past Wednesday. The state legislature now has 120 days to get a lot of work done,” Rep. Singer recently wrote. “The past few years I’ve served as the one of the legislature’s leading authorities on the laws and regulations implementing the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana. This year there will be bills regarding the establishment of Cannabis Clubs, allowing sick kids who use medical marijuana to attend school, directing marijuana tax dollars to mental health, and adding PTSD to the list of covered conditions for medical marijuana.”
policies were much like Bernie Sanders’ today. He wanted to tax the rich at 90 percent. There used to be conservative Democrats like the Southern octogenarian senators who were on the Armed Services committee since the war with Spain. They were not a group known for broad-mindedness or tolerance. These days there’s Bernie who has the temerity to question Hillary Clinton’s right to the liberal crown. And just what are we supposed to make of staunch conservatives like Cruz and Rubio. Could it be that they really have our best interests at heart or is their interest really just our votes? And Mr. Trump, I can’t help but wonder why he wants this job. Except for Bernie, I can’t say that I trust any of them. They certainly don’t trust each other. They read the polls and then make a tentative statement. Then they run nervously back to the polls to see how they did. If they didn’t do well, they change tomorrow’s speech. Is it any wonder I’m confused?
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There aren’t many true liberals left anymore. There are plenty of Republicans and Democrats, plenty of secondrate politicians for sure. There has been some progress in health care but real progress in education, poverty, human rights, privacy, the environment, election reform, corporate greed, indeed, the whole liberal agenda has been elusive. I remember, back in the 1960s, when somebody coined the term “welfare Cadillac.” I loved that phrase and swore that, someday, I would own one. But the phrase that seemed more to the point was, “limousine liberal,” referring to rich liberal politicians who pander to poor people while riding around in limousines. That’s where “bleeding heart” as an insult comes in. Every person is sometimes a liberal in politics. You have to be a sleepwalker to think that the government is perfect and never needs change. The real genius of America is the ability to perceive things in a novel way. Anyone could be a liberal when their intellect or conscience is aroused. But there hasn’t been a novel idea (in the sense of revolutionary) in American politics since I started to vote and that covers some history. We’re stuck with much the same tired old problems we had 50 years ago and it seems like the same tired old politics as well. What a dilemma. This all makes me one poor excuse for a liberal but I must admit I do vote that way. Well, at least you can take some comfort in the fact that this election promises to make even the coming local Lyons election look pretty tame. Marty Hine has lived around Lyons for more than 40 years. He has served on the Lyons Board of Trustees, the Utilities and Engineering Board, the Boulder County Planning Commission and as chairman of the PCDC. He and his wife, Ellen, have raised five children in Lyons over the years.
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What’s the fix for affordable housing in Lyons? Funding disappointments, delays, committee mission By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review LYONS – The past month included funding disappointments, a delay in the proposal for the former Valley Bank site, Reinholds and final goals set for the Special Housing Committee. Here’s what happened: No National Disaster Resilience Competition (NDRC) funds for Colorado. Lyons received the disappointing news in January that the National Disaster Resilience Competition, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), didn’t award any funds to the State of Colorado. Now an idea for a Lyons Resilient Replacement Housing development for the eastern edge of Lyons needs to find other funding sources. Now it’s even more important that both Lyons residents and our neighbors on the outskirts of town participate in the upcoming land-use planning process that includes public engagement for the vision for the Eastern Corridor. Watch for announcements of upcoming meetings. If you think there should be housing that people who work in Lyons, or people who lost their homes in the flood, can afford, make that part of the vision for the Eastern Corridor. The town has option-to-buy contracts for two parcels: the former Longmont water treatment land, on the north and
south sides of Hwy 66, and the Ernst property, also known as the Shady Lane mobile home park, near the eastern intersection of Highland Drive and Hwy 66. The $6.75 million that Lyons had applied for in the resilience competition would have covered acquiring other land outside of the Longmont water treatment parcels and funded unique aspects of the proposed new neighborhood like a microgrid system, a safe-haven community center, and a regional trail connecting downtown Lyons east to Longmont. Watch a resilience competition video that describes our journey to recovery in Lyons: www. youtube. com / watch ? v = L1xaNsZxOJ4. Learn more about 13 other communities awarded a total of $1 billion at www. rockefeller foundation. org / ourwork / initiatives / national - disaster resilience - competition: California; Connecticut; Iowa; Louisiana; New Jersey; New York; Tennessee; Virginia; New Orleans; New York City; Minot, North Dakota; Shelby County, Tennessee; and Springfield, Massachusetts. Subdivision of Second and Park postponed by current landowner. The final plat and subdivision improvement agreement for Second Avenue and Park Street subdivision for six proposed Habitat for Humanity homes was continued to the Feb. 16 Board of Trustees meeting at request of the current landowner applicant. The Lyons Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) approved recommending the subdivision
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and PUD zoning final plan in November 2015. The application is to subdivide the currently zoned B-Business zone into one PUD-C Commercial lot for the existing former Valley Bank building, and six new single-family lots zoned as PUD-R Residential for three duplexes along the north side of Park Street. Craig Ferguson closed on purchasing the 0.76-acre parcel from Valley Bank in June 2015. He has a contract to sell the six residential lots (at $50,000 each) to Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley. The trustees voted unanimously in June to waive water and sewer connection fees that they have control over for the proposed Habitat for Humanity homes, totaling about $173,500 in savings, helping Habitat for Humanity meet its permitting and fees budget, keeping mortgages down to $150,000 for homeowners. The Town of Lyons is seeking an agent to administer the resale requirements of the six permanently affordable homes. (Lyons does not have a town housing authority and does not have a department for administering affordable home-ownership programs.) The plans include a designated 25foot fire lane in front of the homes along Park Avenue to allow access for emergency vehicles, arrived at after discussions with the Lyons Volunteer Fire Department and Jerry Moore, the project manager for the owner. Special Housing Committee gets mission and sunset date. On Feb. 1, trustees directed the Special Housing Committee to deliver two items by the first Board of Trustees meeting in April: • Survey questions and format to determine the need for education and outreach to citizens about affordable housing. • An affordable housing policy that future town leaders can use to make decisions about how to encourage and commit resources to affordable housing. The new members of the board (to be
decided in an April 5 election) will take over on April 18. The current board members said they want to take action on approving a survey and a policy before they leave. Also, trustees said the Special Housing Committee will sunset when the current board leaves. The new board, equipped with a policy and a survey, can determine future steps for affordable housing. The trustees created the Special Housing Committee in April 2015 on a temporary basis when residents came forward, endeavoring to deliver alternatives after a proposal for affordable housing in part of Bohn Park was voted down in a town election. Committee members are researching affordable housing policies from other Colorado towns. The proposed document will include a strategy based on existing affordable housing statements in the Lyons Comprehensive Plan and the Lyons Recovery Action Plan and policy statements to support that strategy. Last June, when the trustees determined to waive fees for Habitat for Humanity homes proposed for Second Avenue and Park, discussion centered around how Lyons needs an affordable housing policy so future decisions are made based on the policy. Keep following my columns in both Lyons papers for news about any accomplishments to increase affordable housing stock in Lyons. If you have any questions, comments or complaints about this column, contact me directly at areinholds@hotmail.com. The next meeting of the special housing committee is scheduled for Feb. 24 at the Town Hall annex (behind the Barking Dog Cafe) from 5:30 to 7 p.m. All housing committee meetings are open to the public. Check the town calendar at www. town of lyons. com / calendar. aspx. Amy Reinholds served on the Lyons Housing Recovery Task Force from December 2013 through its end in February 2015. She is currently a member of the Lyons Human Services and Aging Commission and serves as a liaison to the special housing committee. She has lived in Lyons for 12 years and in the surrounding Lyons area since 1995.
LEGAL Public Notice: Notice is hereby given to tenants who were affected by the 2013 flood who may have resided at the Foothills Mobile Home Park. The Town of Lyons is interested in purchasing the property located at 104 5th Street also described as 440 Meilly Street, as part of the Town’s buyout which may receive funding assistance from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Community Development Block Grant, Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program. The Town is seeking to locate affected tenants (renting a unit or leasing a pad) who may have been or will be displaced from the Foothills Mobile Park as a result of the 2013 flood. This notice serves to inform such tenants that they may have potential rights as a displaced person under federal law known as the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act (URA). If the proposed project receives HUD funding, tenants who lived or are currently living at the Foothills Mobile Home Park may be eligible for relocation assistance and payments under URA. Tenants who may be displaced because of the purposed buyout, should leave a message with their contact information with the Town of Lyons at 303-823-6622 ext. 48 or drop off the information at the Town Hall located 432 5th Avenue, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please provide the full name of the tenant, telephone number, current address and address at the time of the flood.
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EDUCATION Giant flightless bird wandered the Arctic 50 million years ago By CU Staff Reports Redstone Review BOULDER – It’s official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse’s wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 million years ago. The confirmation comes from a new study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the University of Colorado Boulder that describes the first and only fossil evidence from the Arctic of a massive bird known as Gastornis. The evidence is a single fossil toe bone of the six-foot tall, severalhundred-pound bird from Ellesmere Island above the Arctic Circle. The bone is nearly a dead ringer to fossil toe bones from the huge bird discovered in Wyoming and which date to roughly the same time. The Gastornis (formerly Diatryma) fossil from Ellesmere Island has been discussed by paleontologists since it was collected in the 1970s and appears on a few lists of the prehistoric fauna there, said Professor Thomas Stidham of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. But this is the first time the bone has been closely examined and described, he said. Gastornis fossils also have been found in Europe and Asia. “We knew there were a few bird fossils from up there, but we also knew they were extremely rare,” said Jaelyn Eberle, an
associate professor in geological sciences who conducts research on fossil mammals, reptiles and fishes. In addition to the Gastornis bone from Ellesmere, another scientist reported seeing a fossil footprint there, probably from a large flightless bird, although its specific location remains unknown, she said. A paper by Stidham and Eberle appears in the most recent issue of Scientific Reports, an
open access, weekly journal from the publishers of Nature. About 53 three million years ago during the early Eocene Epoch, the environment of Ellesmere Island was probably similar to cypress swamps in the southeast U.S. today, Eberle said. Fossil evidence indicates the island, which is adjacent to Greenland, hosted turtles, alligators, primates, tapirs and even large hippo-like
Fast-paced An Untamed State filled with fear, hope By Roxane Gay Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, 370 pp., $16 Discussion by Andi Pearson Redstone Review LYONS – Roxane Gay’s novel, An Untamed State, opens with Mireille and Michael Jameson and their two-year-old son Christophe leaving Mireille’s parents’ expensive, protected estate in Portau-Prince, Haiti. They are headed to the beach for a day of fun. But the minute their car is out of the gate, heavily armed Pearson kidnappers stop them and tear Mireille away from her family. She is driven to an unknown location where a 13-day ordeal begins. Mireille is tortured, abused and assaulted. Her father refuses to pay $1 million dollars ransom and the men who have captured her, led by the Commander, escalate the physical torture. “The sky darkened when the Commander appeared,” said Mireille. “I became two women – the one who remembered everything and the one who remembered nothing. This required a delicate balance.” Mireille immediately begins to believe she is two people, one who has a family and love in her life and the other, a battered captive, badly used by kidnappers. It is this battle with insanity that probably keeps her sane. Mireille’s father Sebastien Duval is a respected businessman in Haiti. Sebastien has been successful after years of work in the U.S., years where he felt he had to work longer and harder and prove himself repeatedly. Back in Haiti, with his devoted wife Fabienne, his success and political
connections have allowed them to be ensconced in a secure enclave, away from the embarrassing poverty of the majority of the country. Sebastien has been vocal in his refusal to pay ransom for kidnapped employees. And now that the kidnappers have his youngest child, he adamantly sticks to that his beliefs. But Mireille’s husband Michael cannot sit idly by. Having grown up on a farm in Nebraska, Michael believes his intellect and strength can do anything, overcome any obstacle, find his beloved wife. But despite his efforts, he cannot find and rescue Marielle.
Roxane Gay tells a story of sexual violence and political rage in An Untamed State. Finally, the Commander tells Mireille her father has paid and she is free to go. She runs and returns to her parents’ estate. But re-entering the life she has left, the life where she was an immigration lawyer in Miami, the life where she had friends, a loving husband and a darling child, is not so easy. Once the little family is back in the
and rhino-like mammals. Today Ellesmere Island is one of the coldest, driest environments on Earth, where temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit in winter, said Eberle, also the curator of paleontology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Originally thought to be a fearsome carnivore, recent research indicates Gastornis probably was a vegan, using its huge beak to tear at foliage, nuts, seeds and hard fruit. A second Ellesmere Island bird from the early Eocene also is described by Stidham and Eberle in the new paper. Named Presbyornis, it was similar to birds in today’s duck, goose and swan family but with long, flamingo-like legs. The evidence was a single humerus, or upper wing bone, collected by the same paleontology team that found the Gastornis bone. Like Gastornis, Presbyornis was mentioned in several lists of Ellesmere Island fauna over the years but the bone had never been described, said Stidham. Stidham compared casts of Presbyornis bones excavated in ancient Wyoming to the single bone from Ellesmere Island, including all of the marks for muscle attachments. “I couldn’t tell the Wyoming specimens from the Ellesmere specimen, even though it was found Continue Bird on Page 18
U.S., Mireille hops into a car and drives to Nebraska where her mother-in-law gently helps her get medical help and gradually find her way to back to some sense of normalcy. But Mireille is not done with her abuser. Roxane Gay is of Haitian descent and she is no stranger to blunt, brutal life. When she writes of abject poverty existing next door to palatial, gated estates, she knows exactly what that looks like and what it means. In her book of essays, Bad Feminist, she talks about her own rape at the hands of a group of young men. As I read An Untamed State, all of this came back to me. Often, as I read of Mireille, I thought of the country of Haiti – kidnapped by other interests, held hostage by Papa Doc Duvalier and other dictators, financially raped by those who would walk away with money, and the scene of grinding poverty and poor quality of life, possibly the worst in the Western hemisphere. What happens to Haitians who cannot pay? Will it be Haitians who have had success in other countries, who return to shore up the system, enact reform and change in government? Or will Haiti continue to be badly used, abused, and tortured? It seemed to me that Mireille and the horrors she endured represented the sadness of Haiti. If only the country could be rescued and find its way to normalcy, a quality of life for its people, a way of living that embraces humanity then writers who help expose the corruption and hopelessness might have lost their subject matter. Until then, An Untamed State helps speak about the connection between sexual violence and political rage. Until then, Roxane Gay’s unflinching and sympathetic look at Haiti and its culture will continue to remind the rest of the world what people must endure to survive extreme conditions. Until then, powerful novels like An Untamed State are needed.
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HEALTH Total knee replacement needs preparation By Bronwyn Muldoon Redstone Review LYONS – Over 600,000 total knee replacement surgeries are performed yearly in the United States alone. This procedure is becoming increasing popular as we are living longer and staying Muldoon active. Most artificial knee joints are functioning well for over 15 years, keeping people active and pain free. A successful joint replacement surgery is a multi-step process that should be addressed from a team approach. The team being; the surgeon, the physical therapist and YOU! Initial Step: Preparatory Stage 1. Find the right doctor. There are numerous doctors that preform joint replacements, but how do you know which MD is right for you? Ask around and most likely one of your friends or relatives or neighbors has had the same surgery. The more you ask around, the more you will be surprised how many people have had the same operation. Most insurance companies will pay for multiple consults, so take advantage of this by meeting several MDs and asking them how many surgeries they perform a year and what techniques and devices they use. 2. After you have found an MD, call and make sure that both the office and the facility where the surgery is taking place are both in network with your insurance company. Just because the MD is in network, doesn’t mean the operating facility will be. 3. Talk to your MD about home health. The majority of insurance companies will pay for a nurse, and for physical and / or occupational therapists to come to your house up to four weeks post surgery. This is a tremendous help, as the first ten days are typically the hardest due to pain and swelling. Daily tasks like getting in and out of car and walking into a clinic can be very challenging 4. Don’t be afraid to ask for help from friends and neighbors. Have them bring dinner or help drive you to appointments.
5. Get necessary equipment. Most people need a walker, a raised toilet seat, a grab bar attached to their beds and an ice pack / machine. Most of these items can be borrowed from a friend, rented by King Soopers, or checked out by a local church. You will not need these items long term, thus borrowing or renting them can save money. 6. Try to exercise as much as possible prior to the surgery. Research shows, the stronger one is and the more range of motion in the knee, the quicker the recovery. Second Stage: the Surgery Most people will spend one to four days in the hospital before going home. Be sure to take comfortable, loose clothes and your walker. If your surgery was early in the day, don’t be surprised when a physical therapist comes to your room to get you up walking. Getting the joint moving early helps the muscles and the body get accustomed to the new joint. The physical therapist will make sure you can ambulate safely and manage stairs; will go over a set of exercises that should be performed daily; and make sure your pain and swelling are under control. Third Stage: Recovery: This is where the hard work takes place. Besides going to physical therapy two or three times a week for up to 12 weeks, you are expected to perform exercises several times a day to help with the movement, strengthening and function of your new knee. Swelling and pain are initially the components that limit movement of the knee, with the first ten days being the hardest. Good advice to remember Everyone’s healing times are different, so try not to compare your recovery with someone else’s.
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Church, 350 Main St., lower level entrance. Anyone curious about making some life changes is welcome. For more information, check out smartrecovery.org or contact James Hart at 720-310-8010 or consultjamesh@gmail.com.
Post-Flood Stream and Floodplain Restoration Projects Proposed
Travels with Redstone Spring Gulch friends (left to right) Laurie Miller, Kim Freymiller, Cathie Holm and Gail Frankfort, took a bike trip to Italy with a four-day stopover in Paris. Here they are at a Left Bank Metro station. Take the Redstone with you on your next trip and send us your photos showing where the Redstone has traveled. Send your photos to sdcmc@infionline.net.
FORT COLLINS and BOULDER – The Canyon Lakes and Boulder Ranger Districts of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland is proposing restoration work on both ranger districts in areas that were impacted by the September 2013 Flood. The Forest Service is proposing to implement stream and floodplain restoration projects in areas damaged during the flood event. Restoration projects include fish habitat structure repair and replacement, stream channel and floodplain restoration and re-construction, streambank stabilization and floodplain construction and riparian planting. Project goals are to improve watershed health, fisheries habitat and riparian habitat in drainages impacted by the flood. Instream habitat, floodplain and riparian work may also be necessary to improve watershed conditions along reconstructed road corridors (State Highways 36, 34, 14 and 7
Be realistic: a recovery typically takes six months and in some cases up to a year. Don’t be afraid to use the pain medication; if you are in constant pain, it will be harder to perform the exercises, thus slowing your progress. Stay ahead of the pain. Don’t wait till it is unbearable to take the medication. Ice frequently throughout the day. Please let your healthcare provider know if you are having problems; this is a team approach and each member wants to assist in making this the best possible recovery and outcome.
Being prepared mentally and physically for this surgery will help with the recovery and overall success. There are plenty of great resources to help understand the process, the surgery and the rehabilitation. Ask questions, get informed and get excited about returning the quality of life you deserve. 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, muscles strains and sprains, and physical rehabilitation of all kinds. For more information call 303-823-8813.
and County Roads 43, 44H, 47, 94 and 106). Proposed work could start as early as spring 2016 and would occur over the next five to ten years. Restoration projects may be completed in partnership with various cooperators. Details of this proposal are online at http : / / www. fs. usda. gov / project / ? project = 45878. This proposal is being analyzed under 36 CFR 220.6(e) (19) and it is currently in the public scoping phase. If members of the public have specific interest or questions about this project proposal, please contact Nehalem Clark at 970-295-6613 or ncclark@fs.fed.us . It would be most helpful to hear from the public by March 2, 2016.
Spirit Hound Events LYONS – On March 8, Upslope Brewing Company is releasing a beer that was aged in Spirit Hound Whisky Barrels and the Lyons' Fork will be one of the only three locations besides Upslope where it will be available. Also, the second whisky release is scheduled for April 1. There will be music and food. More details to come.
Boulder County Takes Next Major Step toward Building Affordable Housing in Louisville BOULDER COUNTY – The Boulder County Housing Authority
(BCHA) has completed its financial closing of the 200-unit Kestrel development thanks to a public-private partnership that includes Red Stone Equity Partners, Citi Community Capital, and other funding collaborators. BCHA can now begin construction this month on the permanently affordable housing development, and expects to be able to move residents into the units beginning in 2017. Beginning this month, construction will take place in five phases, and is expected to be completed with the initial phase in mid-2017 and final phase in 2018. BCHA will start leasing multi-family units in the spring of 2017 and senior units later that year. “Thanks to the tremendous collaboration with Red Stone Equity Partners and Citi Community Capital and others we are able to build quality affordable housing in an area where rent and mortgage costs have risen by 42 percent in the last four years and rent averages $2,280 per month,” said BCHA Executive Director Frank Alexander. Financing the Project: The $77.8 million Kestrel development is being financed with a variety of federal, state, and local funding sources, as well as conventional private debt and equity. History and Foresight of the Project: Boulder County purchased the 13-acre property, located on the west side of Highway 42 just north Continue Briefs on Page 18
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Hold the salt; deicing alternatives available By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – Sometimes the high Colorado sun just doesn’t do the job of melting away winter’s ice on sidewalks and driveways and then many people begin to look for a product that will do the job the sun and temperature can’t do. Traditionally, rock salt (sodium chloride) has been the go-to remedy for ice. It’s cheap, readily available and does the job. But while it keeps thoroughfares clear and safe, it’s also harmful to plants and pets and damages concrete. Salt damages plants by dehydrating plant tissues (causing burn) and is deadly at high levels. A Colorado State University Extension Service bulletin says that while most plants have some tolerance to salt, repeated applications during the winter can lead to dieback or death the following spring. Pure salt also damages concrete as the resulting liquid brine is absorbed into the porous concrete and gradually breaks up the concrete as it repeatedly freezes and thaws. Salt can also injure pets through ingestion when they lick their paws after walking through salt. It can also burn pets’ paws through repeated exposure. While all deicing products can be damaging if used improperly, there are several alternatives to the use of salt. Calcium chloride can melt ice down to minus 25 degrees F. Calcium is a nutrient that plants can tolerate in fairly large quantities and is, in fact, a nutrient often lacking in soils. But it can damage concrete as it causes the Ecology Board offers free movie. The Town of Lyons Ecology Board is showing the movie The Great Divide Friday, March 18 at 7 p.m. at the Lyons Farmette , 421 Ute Hwy. Admission is free and the public is invited. The movie is the story of water development in Colorado, covering the compelling story of water rights and the construction of reservoirs and tunnels in the early 20th Century to move water from the Western Slope to here on the Front Range.
same freeze / thaw cycle as salt. It also leaves an oily residue and generally costs three times as much as salt. One common commercial is called product “Driveway Heat.” Potassium chloride is a good choice for warmer areas; it’s effective at 25 degrees but not at lower temperatures. Most plants can handle the extra potassium in the proper application but concentrated amounts will burn plants. It’s safe for pets and won’t damage concrete. The one caution is that it is frequently mixed with salt in commercial products. Magnesium chloride is gaining in popularity as a deicer. It is the primary ingredient used in the pre-storm brine used on Colorado highways, and the Town of Lyons uses it on walkways around the town hall and on some Second Avenue sidewalks. Magnesium chloride lowers the freezing point of precipitation. It can melt ice down to minus 15 degrees F. In the proper amounts, it is relatively safe for plants and pets. It does, however, leave an oily residue and requires frequent applications. Fire ‘n Ice Ice Melt is one popular brand. Salt-Free – There are two deicing products that contain no salt whatsoever and are therefore considered the most pet- and plant-friendly. Calcium magnesium acetate is a relatively new deic-
ing product that has low corrosion potential so it’s less damaging to sidewalks and plants and is pet friendly. It has no chloride component and is biodegradable. Unfortunately, it is expensive. Brand names include Quad Melt Ultra and Snow Joe MELT. Carbonyl diamide is the most expensive deicer product and is considered the best deicing product for pet owners and gardeners. It is generally not as good at deicing as some of the other products but it is effective in the 25 to 30 degree F range. A common brand name is SafePaws. The bottom line is to always check the ingredients on any deicer product. Many are blends of chemicals, including some that are touted as less harmful but which may contain salt. One popular brand contains a combination of all three (sodium, potassium and magnesium chlorides), so check the label of any deicing product to ensure you’re buying what you want. Of course, if it’s just traction on ice you’re concerned about, there’s always good old sand, cheap and available at most big box home improvement and hardware stores. Just to be Safe – Any of the products mentioned here can harm pets and plants to some degree. And since often your pet may be walking on surfaces treated with an unknown product, protect them by wiping off their paws after a walk, and never let your dog lick ice melt or drink from puddles or slush pools. If you use any deicing products during the winter, it’s a good idea to thoroughly flush the soil around plants with water after the ground thaws in the spring. Greg Lowell is a member of the Town of Lyons Ecology Advisory Board, which is tasked with guiding residents and town staff on environmental and land use matters.
Lyons Community Foundation: Looking ahead into 2016 By Kristen Bruckner Redstone Review LYONS – The New Year brought some new faces, familiar faces and a renewed energy for local philanthropy. As the goBruckner to source for community inspired giving, the Lyons Community Foundation is thrilled to announce the addition of four new Advisory Board members for 2016. Laura Levy, Toshen (Tosh) Golias, and Dave Lock are new to the board, while Jayne Rhode is reprising her role in service to the foundation. Laura Levy has been an active and tireless advocate for flood recovery work since the 2013 floods, and is currently the Manager for the Larimer County Long Term Recovery Group. She is also the chair of the Larimer Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster. With a background in marketing and real estate development, she brings tremendous resources and expertise to LCF. Levy lives in Pinewood Springs with her husband Bill and son Wyatt, who attends Lyons Elementary School. Dave Lock originally came to Lyons in
1997 to serve as the Town Administrator. He subsequently has worked in electric utilities and enjoys life in Lyons with his wife and two daughters. Lock and his wife Jennie have been enthusiastic LCF supporters over the years and he looks forward to serving on the board. He also serves as Chairman of the Lyons Planning and Community Development Commission.
Tosh Golias describes his connection to Lyons as follows: “I still vividly remember driving into Lyons for the first time 25 years ago with my partner, Garima Fairfax, and thinking wow, this is the place we’ve been looking for!” Golias’s commitment to the local community is evident in his participation in Boulder County Leadership Fellows and is dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods as a member of the Lyons Prepared steering committee. He has long been an admirer of the community based project work that LCF supports and is excited to join the advisory board. Jayne Rhode is returning as an LCF board member. Rhode is a long-time contributor to the Lyons community, having arrived in Lyons in 2002 through her career at the Lyons branch of Bank of the West. Over the years, she has served on many boards Lyons Community Foundation will again grant financial sup- and committees including LCF and the Lyons port to the 9 Health Fair, returning to Lyons in April.
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Chamber of Commerce. Now that Rhode is retired from the bank, LCF is pleased to welcome her back. LCF is looking forward to the great work coming up in in the year to come. With over $42,000 in Community Support Grants recently awarded to 24 inspired projects, community volunteers have their work cut out for them. Artists, musicians, ecologists, educators, health care providers, and caring citizens are coming together in the Lyons area every day to enhance life and give back. Scheduled plans on the horizon include the 9Health Fair in April, continued support of the food pantry, spring volunteer work by the Lyons Leos youth service organization and community events such as the Sandstone Summer Concert Series and the Lyons Film Festival. Stay tuned for more details on the enriching work happening throughout our community. Rebuild Lyons continues to support Lyons recovery. In 2015, over $95,000 was awarded to the ongoing efforts to rebuild and recover. LCF will continue to support these critical efforts as long as funds are available. The current round of granting for 501- (c) 3 status organizations has an application deadline of April 1. The Lyons Community Foundation’s Continue LCF on Page 19
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CONTEXT Heart murmurs in pets By Dr. Tiffany Hughes Redstone Review LONGMONT – You bring your pet in to see your veterinarian for its annual wellness visit and everything seems to be going well. After listening to your pet’s heart during the exam, the vet informs you that Fluffy has a heart murmur. What is a heart murmur and what does this mean for your pet? Our pet’s hearts are structured very similarly to our own, with four chambers separated by valves that control the flow of blood through the heart. The right side of the heart collects blood from the body and sends it to the lungs for oxygenation. The left side of the heart collects oxygenated blood from the lungs and sends it to the rest of the body. Heart murmurs are additional, abnormal sounds outside the regular lub-dub or boom-boom you think of when you think of a heartbeat. Blood flowing through the heart should be smooth, but when there is turbulence in this flow is when we hear a murmur. Often the location of the murmur can tell us about its underlying cause. Not all murmurs mean your pet has heart disease, but it is often the first sign that is noticed with heart disease. In smaller dogs, the most common murmur develops in middle-aged to older animals and originates from an abnormal or damaged valve. Age-related changes to the valve cause it to become thickened and nodular and allow leakage of blood when closed. This abnormal leakage of blood causes turbulence and the murmur that we hear. Over
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time, this abnormal leakage of blood can lead to heart enlargement and even heart failure, where fluid develops in the lungs. Heart failure, such as in this scenario, will present as sudden onset of difficulty breathing, collapse, or even sudden death. Often, the first sign pet owners will notice prior to the onset of serious failure is coughing, particularly at night. In larger dogs, murmurs are sometimes associated with a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy. This is where the chamber enlarges while the muscle thins and becomes weakened. Eventually the heart is not strong enough to push enough blood through the body. This process can occur in both sides of the heart but the left side is most common. This leads to left sided congestive heart failure, difficulty breathing, and death. If the disease is right sided, blood backs up in the rest of the body and fluid builds up in the abdomen or chest. In young animals, murmurs can indicate developmental problems or structural problems that may require surgery to fix. This is especially true of loud murmurs in young animals. Soft murmurs may resolve as they age, but if persistent may indicate a problem. Cats tend to be trickier with their heart disease. Cats can have severe heart disease and not have an audible murmur at all or they can have a murmur and no heart disease. Cats can develop a heart condition called
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hypertrophic cardiomyopathy where their heart muscle thickens and the chamber size becomes much smaller. Cats with heart disease can develop congestive heart failure like dogs and develop sudden respiratory distress. However, cats with heart disease are also prone to throwing blood clots to their legs, especially their back legs, causing sudden paralysis and pain. If a heart murmur is found in your animal, your veterinarian will likely recommend chest x-rays to evaluate the heart. Chest x-rays allow us to assess overall heart size and for specific chamber enlargement. They also allow us to assess the vessels of the lungs for impending onset of heart failure or for the presence of fluid in the lungs. The ultimate diagnostic for heart disease is an ultrasound of the heart called an echocardiogram. This is most often done by veterinary cardiologists. Echocardiograms allow for more a detailed assessment of the heart and can assess for the severity of heart disease. Often, an echocardiogram is the only modality that can evaluate the extent of heart disease in a cat since their hearts tend to not show obvious changes on x-rays. There are many causes of murmurs and the diseases listed above are only a selection of the most common. Unfortunately, there is no medication that treats or fixes a murmur. There are medications that can help reduce the work on the heart, if failure is imminent or has already occurred. Knowing the extent of disease is important by performing x-rays or echocardiography, in order to more closely monitor our pets for the onset of heart failure. The more quickly the onset is recognized the more likely it is that we can treat them appropriately before it becomes life-threatening. Dr. Tiffany Hughes is an Emergency Intern at Aspen Meadow Veterinary Specialists. AMVS is a 24-hour veterinary facility providing specialty internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, oncology, neurology, emergency, critical care, and pain management located in Longmont at 104 S. Main St. For more information, go to www.AspenMeadowVet.com.
Town Continued from Page 1 Highland Ditch some of the water is diverted to Longmont for use as drinking water. Highland Ditch water is used to irrigate over 35,000 acres of water. Ditch companies control the water rights to irrigation ditches and are charged with maintaining them. Highland is typical of most such entities, it's privately held and owned by shareholders. In other news, demolition of flooddamaged homes is going on very rapidly in the confluence area. The contract for the demolition was eventually awarded to Peak Environmental after first being awarded to Young’s General Contracting. Young’s bid arrived a little late and was later disqualified after consultations with Tim Cox, Lyons town attorney. About 22 families are participating in the first round of buyouts. These families received FEMA or Colorado Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) payments for their homes that were destroyed by the flood. Two independent appraisers were
used to appraise the homes and families could also hire independent appraisers to appraise their homes. The appraisals were divided and a median value was used for the final payment for the damaged homes. Most of the families have moved on to other places. A few are still in Lyons. The land where the houses stood will become open space and it will be maintained by the town. No future homes can be built on the vacant land when FEMA funding is used. At a February 2 town board meeting St. Vrain Valley School District Superintendent Dan Haddad spoke to the board. Haddad said that approximately 32,000 children are served in the school district, one of the largest in the state. He told the board he is forming a task force to explore the idea of asking voters to approve two bonds totaling up to $220 million for buildings and additions to schools in the district. He said that he would like to perhaps add on to the Lyons Elementary School and would like to build an auditorium for the Middle / Senior High School.
The Babcock home in the Confluence neighborhood was demolished as part of FEMA’s 404 Buyout Program. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS
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of South Boulder Road, for $2.58 million in March 2013. The acquisition followed an August 2012 InterGovernmental Agreement between BCHA and the Louisville Housing Authority under which BCHA committed to increase the number of affordable units in Louisville within five years. Kestrel will include 71 units for people 55 and older and another 129 units for families, and will serve households with incomes up to 60 percent of the Area Median Income.
Awakening LYONS – Mary Magdalena is offering a free talk at the Lyons Regional Library, Wednesday March 2, 2016 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Magdalena will be sharing her journey of awakening and tools that she has found
Kids Continued from Page 10 energy and resources. The recent Discovery Fair at Lyons Elementary was another example of collaboration with students and their community. With a theme of upcycling, fair coordinator Judy Brownsberger brought in local experts on how to turn trash into treasure. Coco Gordon, Marianne Ousler, and Teresa Hoffman are area upcycling experts who shared their knowledge and enthusiasm with the kids. During the fair, over 60 students created projects that were designed to turn something that might be discarded into something useful or beautiful. Examples included a table made out an electrical spool, a poncho made from old T-shirts, and a lamp decorated with discarded plastic spoons. The entire process was very inspiring. Lyons Elementary fifth graders are also working on a Fifth Grade Legacy project.
effective in becoming authentic: the power of nature to heal, meditation, creative self-expression and listening to the voice within. Magdalena’s experience with the Great Mother and her path in discovering the Divine Feminine has exposed her to the truth that we are all one and that the joining of the internal masculine and feminine will bring us into balance. As we make internal shifts from fear to love, our experience in the world changes. She invites you to join in an evening together awakening the light and love within you. Magdalena believes that reconnecting to the truth of who you already are (which is love) is the greatest gift one can give to our world.
Spiritual counseling with Mary Magdalena LYONS – Mary Magdalena has been a Spiritual Counselor guiding individuals through inner focusing,
The kids were captivated by a presentation by artist Alonzo Clemons, who shared his story of overcoming a severe head injury as a child to build a life as a successful sculptor. His injury had left him with savant syndrome and he was institutionalized as a child. The fifth graders were so inspired by his story of determination and perseverance that they would like to commission him to create a bronze mountain lion as a legacy and message for the school and the people of Lyons. Under their own initiative, students have been speaking to local residents, parents and artists to generate support for their dream of funding a commissioned piece that could be displayed in a public space in Lyons. Kristen Bruckner is on the Lyons Community Foundation Communications Committee and writes columns for the LCF. She lives in Lyons.
FEBRUARY 17 / MARCH 16, 2016 for the last 30 years. She has assisted her clients in relieving all forms of separation: trauma, abandonment issues, relationship challenges; abuse: physical, emotional and sexual; illnesses; lack of passion and purpose. She welcomes you to the opportunity to be guided to let go and become authentic. During our life journey we have picked up false beliefs as to who we are; these false beliefs veil over our truth that is already within us. You will wonder why you waited so long. It is time to set yourself free! Make an appointment with Mary Magdalena at 303-652-4004 or MaryMagdalenaArts@gmail.com. She now lives and works in Lyons. She is the former owner of Mary’s Market and Deli in Hygiene. Meditations times: Monday mornings, 9:30 to 11a.m. and Tuesday evenings, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Please let her know if you will be coming, MaryMagdalenaArts@gmail.com or 303652-4004. Donations are welcome.
Bird Continued from Page 14 roughly 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) to the north,” he said. While the diversity of plants and animals on Ellesmere was surprisingly high in the early Eocene, one of the biggest challenges to life on the island may have been the Arctic winters, said Eberle. “Since Ellesmere Island is high above the Arctic Circle, the lights still went out there for several months of the year, just as they do today.” It is not known whether Presbyornis migrated north to Ellesmere Island every year or lived there year-round, said Stidham. “Given the fossils we have, both hypotheses are possible,” he said. “There are some sea ducks today that spend the winter in the cold, freezing Arctic, and we see many more species of waterfowl that are only in the Arctic during the relatively warmer spring and summer months.” The pale-
ontology team working on Ellesmere Island in the 1970s and who found the Gastornis and Presbyornis bones in the 1970s included Mary Dawson, Robert “Mac” West, Howard Hutchinson and Malcolm McKenna. The new study has implications for the rapidly warming Arctic climate, primarily a result of greenhouse gases being pumped into Earth’s atmosphere by humans. “Permanent Arctic ice, which has been around for millennia, is on track to disappear,” Eberle said. “I’m not suggesting there will be a return of alligators and giant tortoises to Ellesmere Island any time soon. But what we know about past warm intervals in the Arctic can give us a much better idea about what to expect in terms of changing plant and animal populations there in the future.” The study was funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Natural Science Foundation.
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LCF Continued from Page 16 Scholarship Program is also going strong. Currently accepting applications for area high school seniors, the program will select seven students to receive $1000 each towards higher education. These awards include the Gerald Boland, Joel Mack, and Steve Ralston Scholarships, an LCF scholarship, and a newly named award in honor of Uncle Louis “Bud” Winkler. More information and applications are available at the front office at Lyons High School or at: www.lyonscf.org/scholarship-information. The Lyons Community Foundation exists to improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving and encourage positive change in the greater Lyons area. Funds raised through the foundation support programs in our community. The great work is accomplished by the dozens of community volunteers and generous support of local individuals and businesses. A special note of gratitude goes to CEMEX for sponsoring our downtown office and Lyons ReRuns for its sustaining contributions. For more information, to get involved, or to support LCF work, please visit www.lyonscf.org. Kristen Bruckner is on the Lyons Community Foundation Communications Committee and writes columns for the LCF. She lives in Lyons.
A&E Continued from Page 11 present Scarlatti Father & Son March 11 through 13. Experience fabulous but lesser known music from the 17th and 18th century, a concert of Alessandro Scarlatti and his son, Domenico Scarlatti. The central piece of the program will be Domenico’s Stabat Mater, lushly written for ten voices and continuo, which incorporates traditional polyphony of Palestrina while foreshadowing Mozart. Guest harpsichordist Charlotte Mattax Moersch performs two of Domenico’s 555 keyboard sonatas, and soprano Amanda Balestrieri sings excerpts from Alessandro’s well loved operas. The concerts are March 11 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1600 Grant St. in Denver, March 12 at First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce
Icicles adorn a mossy boulder on the Picture Rock Trail’ February 2, 2016
St. in Boulder, and March 13 at Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Rd. in Longmont. For tickets and more information, please go to http://www.seicentobaroque.org. Boulder International Film Festival will take place March 3 to 6. Named one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals” in the world by MovieMaker Magazine, the Boulder International Film Festival brings films and filmmakers from around the world to Boulder for a four-day celebration of the art of cinema. BIFF has developed a reputation as one of the most influential young film festivals in the U.S., with an extraordinary number of new-but-unknown feature films, documentaries, and shorts that have gone on from early screenings at BIFF to significant box-office success and multiple Oscar nominations. The Red Carpet Gala
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on March 3 will feature Colorado Premiere of Barbara Kopple’s U.S. documentary Miss Sharon Jones! For detailed event schedule and ticketing information please go to www.biff1.com or call 303-449-2283. The Boulder Chamber Orchestra will present a mini-chamber music concert on March 12. BCO members will present Romanian Dances by Bartok, Il Re Pastore by Mozart, Elegiac Trio by Arnold Bax, Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp by Claude Debussy, Skitter by Sydney Hodkinson, and Shepherd on the Rock by Franz Schubert. The concert will take place at Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13th Street in Boulder. For more information and tickets please call 303-583-1278 or visit www.boulderchamberorchestra.org.
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