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B •R •I •E •F •S Spelling champ leads the Pledge of Allegiance LYONS – Desta Soma was invited to the Lyons Town Board meeting on Feb. 6 to lead the Lyons Board of Trustees in the Pledge of Allegiance. Desta Soma is a fifth grader at Lyons Elementary School and the winner of the elementary school’s annual spelling bee. Three other students tied for second place: Sage Wynja, Emma Bock and Emma Johnson. The spelling bee coordinator is Nancy Parker.

Soma was congratulated by the BOT on her winning accomplishment. Mayor Connie Sullivan asked Soma if her spelling words were difficult. Soma said, “Yes, and I had to spell some seventh grade words too.” She is clearly a champion, spelling words way above her grade level.

Next Soma will compete in the St. Vrain Valley Spelling Bee in Longmont later this month. If she is a winner at that spelling bee, she will go to Denver to compete in the state competition. Let’s all send good luck wishes her way.

Pony Up to Ride RTD LYONS – This year the Town of Lyons will continued its EcoPass program for all town residents, through 2017. The only change to the program from previous years is that there will now be a small annual $25 fee for the EcoPass that will be due before the end of March; the pass has a retail value of over $2,000.

Lyons EcoPass provides residents with free use of any RTD bus and light rail services. This includes the “Y” service from Lyons to Boulder, buses to the airport, and buses and light rail in and around Boulder, Longmont and Denver.

The deadline for paying is coming up. If you already have an EcoPass you need to pay $25 before March 31 in order to keep Continue Briefs on Page 4

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Ruby Etherton and Margot Spencer share the book “Don’t Let Your Cat Make Your Lunch” at Lyons Valley Preschool.

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Too much FOG at the wastewater plant, BOT term lengths and making a profit at Outdoor Games

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – Amy Lynn, the town Code Enforcement Officer, updated the Lyons Town Board on the new water treatment plant operations; she spoke at a workshop held on February 6 prior to the regular town board meeting. The issue came up again that the plant is getting too much FOG or fats, oil and grease, at the wastewater plant and the plant can only handle a limited amount of FOG substances.

FOG can come from a variety of different types of businesses which includes restaurants, auto and equipment repair shops, marijuana grow operations and some others. Lynn said that testing was being done and that she was meeting with local businesses to create prevention measures. The state issues a license for the wastewater plant and sets regulations on the plant’s capacity and how much FOG the plant can handle based on the size of the plant and how much treated water can be dumped back into the St. Vrain River.

When Lynn told the board that the plant can’t handle the amount of grease it is currently getting, Trustee Dan Greenberg said, “When you say the plant wasn’t built to handle this much grease, it sounds like this plant

has design flaws. You have to stop saying that and I mean now. You need to say that the businesses are not in compliance with the state regulations.”

Lynn reported that samples are taken regularly and tests are reported to the state regulators. The state also does its own testing.

Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen said that so far, the town has been lucky that when the state tests were conducted the elevated levels of FOG did not show up. But they could at any time.

Mayor Connie Sullivan said, “I’m worried if this problem is fixable or not.”

Simonsen reassured the board, “No, no, this problem is very fixable. We just have to contact and work with a handful of businesses.” There are solutions, she pointed out.

Grease traps can be installed and other measures taken.

At the regular board meeting the Board of Trustees (BOT) discussed at great length how long the terms of trustees should be. Currently the trustees and mayor serve two year terms and all trustees and the mayor’s terms come due at the same time every two years.

The state statute allows for two- and fouryear terms for mayors and boards. Many years ago Lyons did have some board members with four-year terms, but it was too hard

for most people to finish out their four-year term and many just resigned. The board members then chose replacement trustees to fill out the terms, but these trustees were not elected by the people.

The board discussed many options, among them staggering the two-year terms, and having some two-year and some four-year terms.

Trustee Wendy Miller said that more people might run for trustee and mayor if the compensation for meetings was higher. She added that now the $50 per meeting that trustees get will not even cover hiring a babysitter.

The trustees meet on the first and third Monday each month, but there are many workshops and extra meetings. The pay for extra meetings is limited to five per year.

Trustee Dan Greenberg suggested that there should be a flat fee of perhaps $200 per month for trustees and $400 per month for the mayor with no extra meeting payments.

None of the pay increases would go into effect until after the 2018 election. Most of the towns the size of Lyons pay their board members a higher stipend. The board decided to ask staff to do more research on the issue and the BOT will have further discussions in the future.

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LYONS O B I T U A RY Robert W. Dobbs June 29, 1939 – January 19, 2017 Robert W. Dobbs, of Lyons, died January 19, 2017 at Longmont United Hospital. He was 77. Mr. Dobbs was born June 29, 1939 in Emo, Ontario, Canada to Albert and Agnes (Erickson) Dobbs.

He was raised in Indus, Minnesota with his older brother Larry Dobbs, older sister Lorraine Dobbs Brolsma and younger brother Duane Dobbs.

In 1960 Mr. Dobbs started working for IBM and happily married his high school sweetheart Leata Rae Metcalf in 1961.

He was drafted into the United States Army in 1962 and honorably discharged in 1964. After his discharge, he returned to IBM in the MPLS department and was promoted to manager in 1966.

Mr. Dobbs’ first son was born in 1963 while he was serving in the military.

In 1968 Mr. Dobbs transferred to Colorado where he worked as a manu-

facturing manager. In 1968 he adopted his oldest daughter, he welcomed his second son in 1970 in Boulder, and his second daughter was born in 1972, also in Boulder. The family moved to Lyons in 1973 and his third daughter was born in 1976.

In 1991 he began working for Lexmark as a project manager, retiring in 1996 after 36 years with IBM/Lexmark. After retirement Mr. Dobbs owned and operated his own bobcat service until 2015. He enjoyed the outdoors, working on wood projects in his workshop, spending time with his family and his dog Buddy, and he also enjoyed church and special times with his grandchildren.

City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks implemented seasonal wildlife closures on Feb. 1 Staff Reports Redstone Review The City of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department (OSMP) instituted annual seasonal wildlife closures on Wednesday, Feb. 1, to safeguard sensitive habitats where birds of prey nest. All designated trails remain open during these seasonal protective measures, providing the community an opportunity to potentially view birds of prey.

A female peregrine falcon guards her mountain nest.

OSMP’s seasonal raptor closures – which protect numerous habitats where peregrine falcons, prairie falcons, golden eagles and bald eagles can raise their young – have helped city open space to become an important area in Colorado for nesting birds of prey. In 2016, OSMP’s seasonal closures helped nesting raptors to raise seven peregrine falcons; three prairie falcons; two bald

eagles and one golden eagle.

OSMP closed the following sensitive wildlife areas from until July 31: • Lefthand Canyon Palisades at the intersection of Lefthand Canyon Drive and Olde Stage Road. The Buckingham picnic area remains open.

• Mount Sanitas Summit, accessible from the Mount Sanitas Trailhead a half mile west of Fourth Street and Forest Avenue. All designated trails in this area will remain open.

• Third Flatiron, including the East and West Ironing Boards, Queen Anne’s Head and Jaws, and WC Pinnacle, accessible from Chautauqua Trailhead.

• Flagstaff Mountain, the north side of Flagstaff Mountain will be closed. The Boy Scout Trail will remain open.

• May’s Point cliff. May’s Point Trail will remain open.

• Skunk Canyon, including Ridges 2, 3 and 4, the Aechean Pronouncement, the Dreadnaught, the North Ridge and the entirety of Sacred Cliffs, accessible from NCAR Trailhead at the west end of Table Mesa Road.

• The Back Porch and the Box, accessible from the NCAR Trailhead at the west end of Table Mesa Road.

• Bear Creek Spire, accessible from the NCAR Trailhead at the west end of Table Mesa Road.

• Fern Canyon, accessible from the NCAR Trailhead at the west end of Table Mesa Road. The designated Fern Canyon Trail will remain open.

• Shadow Canyon and the Matron, accessible from the South Mesa Trailhead. The Maiden will remain open and accessible from the east; Shadow Canyon Trail will

Mr. Dobbs is survived by his wife Leata, children and grandchildren: Todd (Erin), Cyndi (Bryan) and their son Christopher; Peter (Terri) and their daughter Baylee; Tiffany (Todd) and their children Morganne, Jenna and Thomas; Heidi (Brett) and their children Brayden and Hallie; brothers Larry (Diane) Dobbs and Duane (Andrea) Dobbs and his sister Lorraine (John) Brolsma.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Services were held on, January 28 at the River Community Church in Lyons.

Burial followed at the Lyons Cemetery.

Memorial contributions are requested to the Gideon International, c/o Howe Mortuary in Longmont.

O B I T U A RY Pamela Squier-Solman January 19, 1955 – February 12, 2017 Pam Squier-Solman died on Feb. 12. Solman was a Realtor with an office on Main Street in Lyons. For a while she was in partnership with a Realtor colleague Sandy Williams; both shared the Main Street office.

The cremation will be handled by the Carroll Lewellen Funeral and Cremation Services, 350 Terry St. in Longmont. No details are available at this time.

In lieu of sending flowers, Solman’s daughter, Isabella Killeen, has asked that you consider making a donation to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where Solman received some of her treatments. remain open.

• The Sphinx and the Wings, accessible from the NCAR Trailhead at the west end of Table Mesa Road.

• The entire Mickey Mouse wall, including Cryptic Crags, which is accessible from the Goshawk Ridge Trail.

Raptor closures may be lifted if monitoring, conducted

by OSMP staff and department volunteers, indicates raptors are not present or if nesting attempts fail. OSMP relies heavily on the public to respect the closures, and the cooperation of visitors is greatly appreciated. OSMP rangers patrol closed areas on a regular basis.

For detailed closure maps and additional information about OSMP’s efforts to protect wildlife habitats, go to https://bouldercolorado.gov/osmp/cliff-nesting-raptorclosures or call the department at 303-441-3440.

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MAYOR’S CORNER What’s “up” with sales tax?

By Connie Sullivan, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – What word comes immediately to mind when you think of Lyons?

How visitors and people from neighboring communities answer this question Sullivan offers some insight as to how others view our town. I don’t ask this direct question when I meet people from outside of Lyons, but many offer clues as to the answer without realizing it.

Before the flood, the most common response to hearing I was from Lyons was, “Oh, I go to your music festivals.” For the first two years after the flood the response was typically, “How is Lyons doing?” Now, I hear, “I was just at a wedding in Lyons.” This unscientific analysis of how the answer has changed over the past six years reflects the subtle shifts in our local revenue streams and I think we should take notice.

In 2016, Lyons is expected to collect almost a million dollars in sales tax revenue. (Exact figures should be available later this month.) This represents approximately a 75 percent increase over 2014, the year after the epic September floods. Clearly, things have rebounded nicely, so let’s take a look at what is driving this uptick in sales tax revenues and what the town doing with the extra funds.

First, it is important to acknowledge that every city or town needs revenue growth in order to maintain basic operations. The costs of providing services (staff, materials, etc.) increase with the general rate of inflation. Thus, the town can’t provide the same level of service at today’s prices without growing revenue. The primary sources of revenue are property tax, sales tax and fees; and Lyons has a limited ability to grow the property tax base due to a lack of available land for residential and commercial building, therefore the focus has been on increasing sales tax revenues.

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nesses to gain a better understanding of the conditions that have a positive impact on sales. Until data becomes more readily available, we have to make an educated guess as to the sources of revenue growth.

Now, back to my question at the start of this article. In addition to sales tax rate changes and recreational marijuana legalization, there are two other likely explanations for the additional growth in sales tax: 1. The additional wedding venues, and 2. Increased tourism in Rocky Mountain National Park, which reports visits are up by 40 percent since 2011. While Lyons has long had several wedding venues in town, it may be that the addition of the two newest outdoor venues at the Farmette TO CONTACT REDSTONE REVIEW:

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ations are sustainable. Much of the recent revenue growth is a direct result of voter-approved increases in sales tax rates. Since 2014, voters approved a special recreational marijuana tax of 3.5 percent, and a 0.5 percent increase on all goods and services sold in Lyons. If all other factors remained equal, then we should have expected to see 2016 sales tax figures in the $880,000 range. The additional revenue implies some organic growth in the business sector took place. The town is trying to collect data from busi-

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and Riverbend pushed us over the tipping point toward becoming a full-on wedding destination.

From a sales tax perspective, the wedding industry is an attractive addition. A 2010, survey of 19,000 brides conducted by The Knot indicates the average wedding costs around $27,000, and a third of brides said the general health of the economy had little to do with setting the wedding budget. Additionally, about 25 percent of weddings were held at “destinations” resulting in the need for additional guest accommodations.

These facts are important because a healthy local economy depends on drawing customers from outside the town boundaries and needs industries that are sheltered from economic shocks. A robust wedding industry can make Lyons a more attractive place to open a small business, buoy existing businesses that struggle during the slow winter months and protect the town from dips in sales tax revenue during slower economic times. I believe the weddings are having a significant, net positive impact on the town’s budget.

One of the primary responsibilities of the Board of Trustees is to set the town budget. Budgeting equates to making a best guess as to what the revenues will look like any given year. Sales tax revenue has historically been a fragile and unpredictable entity due to the fact that a majority of Lyons’ businesses are small, independently owned endeavors. Shoring up the sales tax base creates economic stability for the town and therefore, the board should continue to look for ways to maintain the recent positive momentum. For example, additional hotel rooms would probably help the town capture revenue that is lost from wedding attendees who lodge in Boulder.

When the town earns revenues over and above what is budgeted for spending, the surplus goes into the General Fund reserves for future capital investments. The board Continue Mayor on Page 14

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LOCAL Lyons Dairy Bar has new owners

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “It’s never too cold for ice cream,” said Robin Boydstun who along with her husband Benji are the new Moore owners of Lyons Dairy Bar, 138 E Main St. The Boydstuns acquired the business from the previous owners, Kenyon and Juli Waugh, and reopened operations on December 10, 2016. As a part of the deal, Benji and Robin negotiated to have regular contact with the prior owners to keep things moving smoothly. That’s worked out well.

“We feel honored that Juli paved the way for us. We’re sticking with the business model she developed. Our customers like the way things were. We do too, and we see no reason to make any changes, including the menu and pricing,” Benji said.

Until three years ago, the Boydstuns were living in Mississippi where Benji

worked as a carpenter. Work was hard to come by, and after doing some research they learned that Boulder was a market in need of carpenters. They knew the area, having followed the Grateful Dead to Red Rocks concerts, so they moved out and made Longmont their home.

They would come to Lyons on a regular basis to do their laundry at the Laundromat in the shopping center because it was a peaceful, quiet place.

Those trips introduced them to the Lyons Dairy Bar and its excellent food, as well as all of Lyons. Having fallen in love with town, they moved from Longmont to Lyons about a year ago. With the Rocky Mountains just out of town they say they believe they have landed right on the edge of mountain heaven.

“Carpentry work was good and plentiful for us,” Benji said, “but Robin and I had always wanted to own and run a restaurant. We both have experience in the business and dreamed someday to have our own place.”

“When the Dairy Bar came up for sale,

Robin and Benji Boydstun are the new owners of Lyons Dairy Bar at 138 E Main St. we got in touch with the Waughs and quickly made a deal,” added Robin.

They’d eaten quite a few meals at the Dairy Bar and loved the hamburgers.

They say the location is perfect and the store is a friendly looking place, inviting passers-by to stop in.

The Boydstuns are extremely pleased with the warm reception they’ve had from the Lyons community and say they are in this for the long haul.

Robin and Benji have four children, with David, Benjamin, and Summer employed at the restaurant. David works with his parents, and the three of them make up the current full-time employment team. Summer and Benjamin have worked part-time on the weekends.

Summer will also work during the warm months, along with other Lyons students.

Robin and Benji intend to add a breakfast menu in the summer months, along with frozen yogurt.

“I think we were destined to have this place because after we moved out to Colorado we bought a used van that had a Lyons Dairy Bar sticker on it,” said Robin “We’d never heard of it before and now we own it,” Benji added.

The Dairy Bar is open Wednesday through Monday, 11a.m. to 9 p.m. To learn more and see the menu, please go to the Facebook page, Lyons Dairy Bar, www.facebook.com/lyonsdairybar/, stop by, or call 303-823-5800.

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.

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Lyons group organizes for post-election citizen action

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appointees, the immigration ban, and the Dakota Access Pipeline have become daily activities for many members. People LYONS – Colorado report feeling inspired, empowered, Conscious Action encouraged, and supported by their (CCA) was born the day involvement. CCA is networking with after the presidential regional and national groups like election when members Indivisibleguide.com.

Rivers of a Nia class at Mayama Acting locally, thinking globally, CCA Dance Studio, led by Mayama co-owner is a Lyons grassroots effort that is organJasmine Lok, shared their deep concerns ized and poised to take meaningful action, about the future of human rights, freemake citizen voices heard, and move fordoms and the environment. ward on the historic momentum and The women decided they needed to resolve of the International Women’s “pull out of their complaMarches. cency and do something difColorado Conscious ferent,” said Lok, who called Action mission statement the first Colorado Conscious states: CCA protects Action (CCA) meeting on human rights and our enviNovember 11. Word spread ronment through citizen on Facebook and Lyons engagement, education and Happenings. Twenty-five empowerment. We value like-minded people showed tolerance, respect and up, ready to dive in. Jasmine diversity, and bring conLok and four other Lyons scious voice and action in women, Emilyn Inglis, support of justice for all.

Esther Cohen, Yasmine CCA meets approximateShaddox and Sara ly every other week. Check Baranauskas, have stepped the CCA Facebook Page up as co-leaders of the group, (request membership), or rotating facilitation.

Lyons Happenings for PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS The CCA co-leaders all meeting times, locations; agreed that they were inter- The group Colorado Conscious Action, CCA, has formed in Lyons events. All are welcome. ested in moving toward with the intention to create a new culture of citizen engagement, advocacy Please contact Jasmine Lok goals and values that pro- and empowerment, centered on supportive, conscious community. at dancinglok@gmail.com tect human rights, support for more information. the environment and value tolerance, buses from Lyons to transport over 200 respect and diversity. They want to participants to the Women’s March on Cathy Rivers is a local artist and photogencourage positive action rather than Denver, January 21. Making calls and rapher. She has taught painting and drawing investing time and energy only in opposi- writing postcards to representatives voic- and actively volunteers for non-profit groups. tion. The intention: create a new culture ing concerns about issues such as cabinet She lives in Lyons. of citizen engagement, advocacy and empowerment, centered on supportive, conscious community. In the eight meetings since, gathering at Mayama or the Stone Cup, CCA has concentrated on creating actions relating to specific issues such as health care, human rights, and the environment. In a few short months, CCA has produced results.

Members Lori Stott and Andrea Dugan drafted a Proclamation of Inclusivity, which was adopted by the Lyons Board of Trustees (BOT). CCA members Kyra Toledo and Ian Phillips organized three

it active. If you have multiple members in your family you will need to pay $25 per pass. There are two ways to do this: You can bring a check to town hall or make the payment online at www.townoflyons.com/415.

Once you pay the fee no further action is required and your card will continue to work. EcoPass holders that do not pay the fee by March 31st cards will be deactivated until payment is received.

If you do not already have an EcoPass you can apply for a new one for the same cost of $25. For more information visit www. townoflyons. com / 415.

Items needed by the Lyons Food Pantry LYONS – The food pantry, located at the Lyons Community Church basement at 350 Main St., has a list of food items needed to fill the pantry. The pantry would like to have healthy kids’ snacks for the after school snack bags that it provides to households with children. Some examples are juice boxes, Horizon aseptic milk, puddings, crackers, granola bars, fruit cups, pretzels, baked chips, etc. Assorted soups and canned fruit are also needed. The Food Pantry helps over 40 families a week.

New outings and progress on Lyons’ senior meals LYONS – Progress is being made in bringing back hot lunches to the Lyons Walter Self Senior Housing. A group of five Lyons seniors traveled to the Louisville senior center with Boulder County Area Agency on Aging manager Teresa DeAnni sample the Louisville caterer’s meals. The Chinese New Year lunch was chosen in order to investigate the chef's skills beyond knowing how to bake a pork chop. The spring roll was made with fresh chopped vegetables and rice Continue Briefs on Page 5

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OPTIONS Lyons Meals on Wheels is on a roll

By Kate Kerr Redstone Review LYONS – Shopping and preparing meals is a challenge for all of us, but much more so for those homebound due to age, illness or disability. Dedicated volunteers in Lyons recently raised enough money to not only continue the Lyons Meals on Wheels (MOW) program but to expand it from four meals a week to five. In a moment of serendipity, Connie and Neil Sullivan, owners of the St. Vrain Market, asked to sponsor the MOW program by offering free sandwiches to MOW clients once a week. Volunteer driver, Ann Low, found that all of the clients were thrilled by this offer. Now Sandwich Monday is added to the previous Tuesday through Friday meal delivery schedule.

Lyons Meals on Wheels is organized by volunteers from LEAF (Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund). Currently eight clients receive nutritious meals dropped off at their homes along with brief friendly visits. Clients are asked to contribute for the meals on a sliding scale based on their incomes. The meals are picked up at the Longmont Senior Center and delivered to the clients by volunteer drivers: Ann Low, Mark Browning, Pam Freeman, Lori Matthews and Ron Gosnell. Toni St. John organizes it all, working closely with Emily Dusel, Executive Director of LEAF The MOW program was previously funded by the Lyons Golden Gang, which dissolved in September 2016 leaving hungry homebound folks in the lurch.

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ing the meals and was aghast that the program would end. Thanks largely to St. John’s efforts, an outpouring of volunteer and financial support raised $10,000 to continue the program by moving it to LEAF. Special thanks to everyone in our community who supported the transition.

Do you need Meals on Wheels? Do you have a neighbor who might benefit?

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LEAF volunteers Ann Low and Toni St. John thank St. Vrain Market owner Neil Sullivan for offering to provide sandwiches on Mondays for homebound Meals On Wheels clients.

Oct. 1, 2016 through Dec. 31, 2016 • Total Volunteers: 10 • Total Volunteer Hours: 109 • Total Unique Households Served: 9 • Total Individuals Served: 11 • Total Number of Meals Delivered: 416

Kate Kerr moved from Virginia to Lyons with her husband, Jim, partly to live near their daughter in Boulder. She enjoys playing fiddle, quilting, yoga, Nia, hiking and shopping local.

Gateway Realty Group makes Leaf photosynthetic

By Tina Boniface Redstone Review LYONS – Dan Siddall, broker / owner of Gateway Realty Group, recently installed a 9.47kW solar system to power the business as well as to use clean renewable energy to charge the company vehicles, a Nissan Leaf, and an electric golf cart, Ruby. This is truly the definition of photosynthesis, turning sunlight into fuel.

Boulder-based Independent Power Systems (IPS) installed 30 SunPower 327 watt panels on Gateway Realty Group’s east- and west-facing roofs. This system will produce close to 100 percent of Gateway’s annual energy use, including fueling the car. This system is battery-backup ready and can provide power during a power outage, something solar systems that are exclusively gridtied are not capable of doing. IPS has been in business for over 20 years and is one of the most experienced and trusted installers of solar photovoltaic systems and battery backup for residential and commercial customers in Boulder County.

Siddall wanted to get as much solar as possible in order to also charge his Nissan Leaf car, enabling the already very efficient vehicle to be powered by carbon-free fuel. He will charge directly from the sun from morning through the afternoon with panels on the east- and west-facing rooftops.

The IRS is still offering the investment tax credit (ITC) on solar of 30 percent (available for residential and commercial) plus MACRS accelerated depreciation for business for the next two years. These tax incentives can help businesses install solar creating immediate savings on electricity costs, plus save thousands of dollars over the life of the system.

Diane Dandeneau, sales director of IPS and Lyons resident explained, “There is a great opportunity for solar in Lyons, especially for businesses that can take advantage of accelerated depreciation and the tax credit. Dan Siddall is taking advantage of that, and as icing on the cake, Gateway received a Boulder County Solar Benefits grant for $9,470 that was available at the time.”

Dan Siddall added, “Although I have had the dream of a solar installation on my radar for a while. it wasn’t until Diane Dandeneau applied for the grant from Boulder County on my behalf and actually made it happen that I was able to make that

dream a reality. I had met the owner of IPS and several of his crew at a demonstration on residential solar installations they gave in Lyons last year at a customer’s home, and was impressed with their knowledge and professionalism. I had also known Diane personally for several years, so when she went to work for IPS, everything fell into place. Between the Boulder County grant, the federal tax credit, the accelerated depreciation for businesses, the financing package, and the utility cost savings

Dan Siddall of Gateway Realty Group recently installed a 9.47kW solar system from Boulder-based Independent Power Systems to power his business and charge the company vehicles. Here is Dan “filling” his Nissan Leaf. The solar panels are visible on the roof. (all of which Dandeneau illustrated and / or arranged), it all made sense financially. I am very grateful to her and IPS for making this happen. ” Tina Boniface has been with Independent Power Systems since its founding in 1996. Originally assisting with the installation of solar and wind generators, she currently does marketing for the company.

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paper and the Szechuan chicken was lightly spiced so it was thumbs up. DeAnni is now moving on to the next step of getting signed contracts and a dedicated phone line for meal participants to call in their reservations. It is hoped that Wednesday and Friday lunches will start at the end of February. Updates to this program can be found on the Lyons Longevity Facebook page. Seniors can sign up for the monthly Senior Newsletter if they send their email addresses to lyonsdreamteam@gmail.com.

Training course in Boulder to help family caregivers thrive BOULDER COUNTY – A training course, Powerful Tools for Caregivers, will be held Tuesday Feb. 28 to April 4 from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., Boulder. Registration is required.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers, a 15-hour course sponsored by the Boulder County Area Agency on Aging, a division of Community Services, is for family caregivers of older adults and provides them with the tools to help them thrive, not just survive, during their caregiving.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers has been proven to help family caregivers enhance their self-care, reduce their stress levels, and

feel better in general about their caregiving. It covers topics such as communicating effectively, asking for help, making action plans for self-care, using helpful resources, and more. Caregivers who’ve taken the course include are overwhelming positive. Caregivers say, “Thank you for giving me tools to cope.”

“What a beautiful and meaningful class. It came at just the right time for me.” “Thank you for a great period of enlightenment.”

Powerful Tools for Caregivers is open to Boulder County residents providing care for a relative, partner or friend who is age 60 or over, or of any age if the person has dementia.

There is no charge for the course, but donations are appreciated.

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ECOLOGY Where there’s smoke, there’s a better forest

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – The smoke billowing from Heil Valley Ranch open space this past December could have been alarming in this state where wildfire dangers are real, but the prescribed burn was actually creating a healthier forest.

Controlled fire burns the understory of the ponderosa pine forest at Heil Valley Ranch open space, October 2014. PHOTO BY ASHLEY GARRISON, BOULDER COUNTY It seems contradictory to burn a forest to save it, but for thousands of years, fire played a significant role in maintaining the ecological health of western forests. Natural fires, such as those started by lightning strikes, would regularly clear the forest floor of dead material that inhibits the growth of native plants and decreases wildlife habitat.

The ash from such fires would also recycle nutrients back into the soil and allow native plants to flourish.

Then came Smokey Bear. The iconic ad campaign was part of the U.S. Forest Service’s effort to prevent the type

of massive forest fires that exploded on federal lands early in the 20th Century. And while Smokey came to cartoon life in 1944, the effort to suppress forest fires had been part of the Forest Service policy for decades. The campaign, while appropriate for northern and southern U.S. woodlands, ended up doing just the opposite in Western states. The suppression of fires allowed abnormally large amounts of debris and undergrowth to accumulate, which when ignited then caused larger and hotter conflagrations, such as the 2002 Hayman fire southwest of Denver.

Many of today’s western forests are choked with unnatural amounts of vegetation waiting to fuel destructive fires. Instead of fire-adapted native plants, Colorado’s forests are now populated with non-native plants that load forests with potential fuel.

Not whether they burn, but how The choice now is not whether western forests burn, but how they burn, and that’s where the concept of prescribed burns comes in. Prescribed burns are fires set on purpose under strict control to both burn out the excessive fuel that natural fires used to take care of, and to improve forest ecology.

In the case of Heil Valley Ranch and Hall Ranch open spaces near Lyons the ponderosa pine forests there no longer resemble normal forests due to more than 150 years of fire suppression.

As Nick Stremel, Resource Specialist, Forestry / Fire for Boulder County explains, fire would have normally moved across these properties every eight to 15 years, but suppression of fire has resulted in a very different woodland that is dense, overgrown and cannot support healthy, lowintensity wildfires. Boulder County Parks and Open Space, which manages these properties, is now attempting to return the forests to their natural, fire-adapted state.

“The Hall and Heil Valley restorations are using fire as the primary restoration tool,” said Stremel.

The goal is to restore healthy lower-elevation ponderosa pine forests that have been the most altered by

previous land use decisions, he said. While wildlife habitat may initially be degraded after the burning, by the next year the forests begin to regenerate into an even healthier habitat.

Restoring forest health A healthy ponderosa pine forest will generally have open meadows full of native grasses and fire-adapted plants growing under various age classes of pines with about 12 trees per acre. Right now, the forests have closed canopies that admit less sunlight and have smaller pines growing close together. These forests, when they burn, will burn hotter, longer and generally destroy all vegetation.

The effort to restore the forests to a sustainable condition began in 2010 with a mechanical thinning of about 600 acres in Heil Valley. In 2014 and 2015 one prescribed burn each was done at both Heil and at Hall Ranches. Last year, there were three burns at Heil Valley.

There is one more burn planned for Heil before April to complete the 2016 burn. Thereafter, a schedule of regular burns that mimic cyclical natural burns will begin.

The scheduled dates of the burns are carefully vetted for wind, relative humidity and dryness. If certain conditions are not present, the burns are postponed. The burns also engage local fire departments to establish fire lines to ensure the fire doesn’t escape the prescribed burn area.

Stremel said that any natural fires such as those ignited by lightning would be allowed to burn under strict control to prevent a spread to other areas.

At press time, Boulder County Parks and Open Space announced it might conduct a prescribed burn at Heil Valley Ranch and / or Hall Ranch sometime between Feb. 13 and 24 if conditions are suitable. Updates will be posted to the BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org/burns website. Heil Valley Ranch and Hall Ranch will be closed during active ignition days. The parks will reopen as soon as it is deemed safe to do so by fire personnel.

Greg Lowell is a member of Lyons Ecology Advisory Board and has been involved with land conservation issues for more than 25 years. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire and now lives in Lyons.

Publishers’Weekly review of John Gierach’s new book: A Fly Rod of Your Own Review by Publisher’s Weekly Noted Fly-fishing writer Gierach (At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman) chronicles his adventures with rod and reel on some of the most remote lakes and streams in North America, from the Labrador taiga to the grizzly-infested forests of the Alaskan outback (as well as favored spots closer to his Colorado backyard). These undertakings generally involve pre-dawn risings, four-wheel drives, floatplanes, taciturn guides, and of course, fish, although – as

Gierach practices catch and release – they’re all the ones that got away.

Twenty-one chapters explore the realms of fly-fishing, from camp cooking to casting strategies. Gierach’s deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished storyteller. He isn’t a humorist per se, but his alert and slightly off-kilter observations place him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James Thurber. He’s dead serious about fly fishing, but he also recognizes the inherent contradictions and is astute enough to project those absurdities

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Pre-registration is required. To register, or for more information, contact Emily Cooper, Boulder County Area Agency on Aging, at 303-678-6116 or Info Caregiver @ bouldercounty. org. Financial assistance for respite care (substitute elder care during class sessions) may be available to participants.

onto the larger range of human aspirations and endeavors. This voice of a thoughtful, cantankerous, and tolerant fisherman in late middle age unifies the various chapters and keeps the pages turning. In his introduction, he writes,

From our Lands to Your Hands, a family farm event LONGMONT – Boulder County Parks and Open Space, along with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, Boulder Valley and Longmont Conservation Districts, CSU Extension Boulder County, and Farm Service Agency will host From Our Lands to Your Hands, Family Hands-on Farm Exhibit at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont. Food will be available.

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Yet even for those whose idea of paradise isn’t standing thigh-deep in an icy stream for six hours hoping for a bite, Gierach is charming company.

learn how those farmers conserve the land for future generations. Local farmers, ranchers, and other experts in the agriculture industry will share their passion and knowledge of where our food comes from and how it is grown. The event will be held at Boulder County Fairgrounds, Exhibit Building, 9595 Nelson Rd. in Longmont on Feb. 22 from 5 to 8 p.m. For more information about this event, please visit the From Our Lands to Your Hands Facebook Event Page or contact Vanessa McCracken, at 303-678-6181 or vmccracken@bouldercounty.org.

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INSIGHT Interesting times we live in

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – I remember driving into Lyons for coffee the morning after Donald Trump was elected and thinking I hadn’t seen that many long faces in one place since President Kennedy was assasGierach sinated in 1963. I’m not equating the two events except to say those are the only times I can recall seeing so many stunned people going about their business in a trance of disbelief, asking themselves, What now?

The first spontaneously organized anti-Trump demonstrations were on the news that evening. They took place in a number of cities around the country and although I thought the sentiments were authentic, the signs reading “Not My President” were inaccurate. In fact Trump is our president. The question now is, what are we gonna do about it?

Some of those first demonstrators blocked traffic by marching down the middle of the street, reflecting the usual quandary that activists always face. A demonstration is a publicity stunt in the finest sense of the term: If it doesn’t make news, nothing has been demonstrated and you’ve wasted your time. On the other hand, if you make news for the wrong reasons your message is lost. The idea isn’t to vent your emotions so you feel better; it’s to grow a movement by winning hearts and minds. But hearts and minds are fickle and the wrong first impression on someone who could have been persuaded – but is now just annoyed at being stuck in traffic – can last for years.

I didn’t always believe that. When I first demonstrated in the late 1960s and early 70s, I thought you should cause as much trouble as possible to shake people out of their willful ignorance and complacency. I didn’t see it as a problem that the editorial in the next day’s local paper called us violent radicals who should all be arrested and sent to Russia. In fact, I was proud of it.

My first inkling that something was amiss came a few weeks later when the local college team won a championship and the drunken fans trashed Main Street in celebration, doing much more damage than we anti-war types had. That same newspaper said it was unfortunate, but we did win the big game, after all, and boys will be boys.

So I grudgingly came around to agree with Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King that to be effective, civil disobedience should be visible and widespread, but

always peaceful.

The Women’s March on Washington the day after the inauguration was a flawless example of how it should be done. Estimates of its size are all guesses, but it was clearly enormous, with hundreds of thousands of people at a minimum in Washington and millions when you count the many satellite demonstrations around the U.S and in other countries.

There were so many people in Washington that a planned march never took place because the entire parade route was packed with people, so there was nowhere for anyone to go. And although it was loud, irreverent and defiant, it was 100 percent peaceful, with

no incidents at all reported. It was a textbook example of the peoples’ right to peaceably assemble.

There were plenty of women there, but in spite of the name there were also lots of men, teenagers, children and babies. That was important. When demonstrators all look alike – all one race, all one gender, all students or whatever – it’s easy to write them off as “those people,” but when anyone watching can easily find someone who looks just like them, they’re more sympathetic.

Homemade, one-of-a-kind protest signs are a kind of populist poetry and the Women’s March had some good ones: “Fight Like A Girl,” “Make America Think Again,” “It’s Only Day One and I’ve Already Had Enough,” “The Future Is Nasty,” and “Now You’ve Pissed Off Grandma.” Others included the poignant “My Arms Are Tired From Holding This Sign Since The 1960s,” “Melania, Are You OK?” and the eloquently understated “I Am Very Upset.”

“Too Many Complaints For One Sign” and “Not Usually A Sign Guy, But Jeez” were two of my favorites, but the best came from a shot a photojournalist friend sent from Minneapolis showing a determined-looking young

Upcoming events at the Spirit Hound

By Spirit Hound Staff Redstone Review LYONS – Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Hwy. at the east end of Lyons, is holding a crawfish boil on February 25 from 5 to 8 p.m. Mardi Gras is nigh upon us, and we thought a community event to get everyone in the spirit would be fun.

We will be flying fresh, live crawfish in from the coast for the boil. All the details for this event have not yet been set, but folks can follow any updates at the event

page on our website http: / / www. spirithounds. com / events / 2017 / 2 / 25 / crawfish - boil and eventually our Facebook, though the event is not up there just yet.

In addition, something that will be happening every Thursday, for what we are calling Whisky Bottle #tbt (Throwback Thursday). Each week we will release a limited number of bottles from previously released and no longer available barrels of whisky. For instance, today we have eight bottles of barrel #10,

woman, bundled to the eyeballs against a Minnesota winter, with the sign saying “Tiny Hands Off My Pussy” (a word that, as a man, I use here only as a direct quote).

But best of all the demonstration had the desired effects. It emboldened people to think there was a movement large and vital enough to make a difference and it got to Trump, who wasted the first few days of his administration lying about crowd size and making a fool of himself. Trump has a thin skin and a thing about size that’s transparently Freudian, so all you have to do to get a rise out of him is get on CNN. This is a tactic we’ll see more of in the years to come.

It looks like the 1970s again except that now there’s the Internet, while back in the day it was all you could do to get 200 people to a rally using dial telephones, mimeographed newsletters and word of mouth.

Now you can reach millions in 24 hours.

Most important, this movement didn’t fizzle after the first demonstration, but has continued to grow and organize. The single most useful tool has been the Indivisible Guide at indivisibleguide.com.

This has gotten the reputation of being a handbook for the leftist equivalent of the Tea Party, but it’s really just a step-by-step owner’s manual for democracy that covers everything from running for office to organizing demonstrations to effectively calling or emailing your congressman.

Specifically, don’t rant or write a long manifesto; keep it to a few clear sentences on one single issue. If you have a dozen issues (“Too Many Complaints For One Sign”) then send a dozen emails and encourage your like-minded friends to do the same. Representatives won’t pay much attention to any one constituent, but they will pay attention to volume.

Don’t send a letter. The security measures for physical mail to government agencies are now so tedious that it could be weeks before anyone reads it and things are moving fast enough that we don’t have weeks.

If there’s one good thing about the Trump presidency, it’s that it will be a rigorous field test of our system of checks and balances. So either you can sit back and watch what happens, or you can acknowledge that we’re all part of those checks and balances and pick up the phone.

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 most recent book, AFly Rod of your Own will be available soon and in flyfishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street. He writes book reviews for the Wall Street Journal.

which was originally released in June of 2016. On February 16th, we will put out barrel #19, which came out July of 2016.

And Thursday, February 23, we will release barrel #6, which was part of our initial whisky release on August 22, 2015.

Every month in our newsletter Spirit Hound will list the barrels of whisky our customers can expect, and will announce them on Facebook. This is the

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CONTEXT Short-term vacation rentals and affordable housing COMMENTARY: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN LYONS

By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review

LYONS – Now that an accessory dwelling unit policy is in place in the Town of Lyons, intended to encourage more long-term rentals for people who work for local businesses, the Lyons Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) is continuing a discussion about a short-term vacation rental policy for single-family residential zones in the town limits of Lyons.

Reinholds The PCDC heard informal comments from an audience of about 20 people at a special workshop on Jan. 30. PCDC commissioners wanted to know if short-term vacation rentals on residential zones in Town of Lyons were made legal, what limits the homeowners would find reasonable, such as a safety registry and inspection program, a flat occupancy fee per night, and requirements of owner occupancy, similar to other Colorado municipalities.

According to current Town of Lyons code, short-term (shorter than 30 days) vacation rentals in residential zoning districts in Lyons are not allowed unless homeowners have been approved as a bed and breakfast through a conditional use review (which also requires a business license). No homeowner in a residential R zone has applied for this conditional use since the code was created.

There are zones in the town limits of Lyons where the renting out of rooms is currently allowed as a principal use. Lodging is an allowed use on commercial zones in town, and a bed and breakfast is allowed as a principal use on Estate Residential (E) zone (if less than six units), with a business license.

Several homeowners who gave input to the PCDC spoke about the built-in safeguards of renting their rooms through websites like Airbnb.com and VRBO.com.

Several said they are interested in renting out their rooms only some of the time, instead of to full-time roommates. Most of the people who spoke said they rent out only one room or suite with a private bath and they are usually home.

Some of the vacation rental hosts said they have purchased required homeowners insurance coverage for short-term vacation rentals, but the rest might be at risk for uncovered costs of damage or maybe at risk for losing

their homeowners insurance. Some of the hosts expressed surprise and said they liked the idea of a checklist resource of what each guest host should do for safety.

Of the about ten to 15 vacation rental hosts who spoke to the PCDC commissioners at the workshop, safety registry and owner occupancy requirements were acceptable to most, and several expressed that a flat occupancy fee for lodging in Town of Lyons was also acceptable. State law requires that Colorado sales tax be collected and paid for short-term vacation rentals. In the future, if there is a local occupancy flat fee for vacation rentals and lodging in Lyons, Airbnb could collect and distribute that fee as well as the state taxes.

No decisions or have changes been made.

The PCDC is continuing to do research in what other towns allow in residential zones.

If any changes move forward to be proposed for Town of Lyons code, there will be official public hearings for both the PCDC and the Lyons Board of Trustees.

One thing that isn’t expected to change is that shortterm vacation rentals are not allowed in accessory dwelling units (apartments in a house, garage, or outbuilding), which are allowed to share utilities with the main house but are intended to encourage more longterm rentals for people who work in town.

There is a relationship between affordable rentals for people who work at Lyons businesses and short-term vacation rentals. At the end of last summer, the Board of Trustees first discussed this issue, directing the PCDC and planning staff to research and recommend policy changes. A document presented by consulting town planner Bob Joseph stated, “Although not mutually exclusive, the goals of increased housing (especially rentals) and the possible goal of allowing short-term vacation rentals are at odds with each other. Short-term

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 served as a liaison to the Special Housing Committee during its existence from April 2015 to April 2016. She has lived in Lyons since 2003 and in the surrounding Lyons area since 1995.

past, with nine historic passenger cars, a steam-engine locomotive, two full bands, four solo / duo acts and three bars with craft beer and wine.

“There’s something magical that happens when you combine blues and a steam train but there’s so much more to it than just that. It is an unforgettable experience that you will remember for a lifetime,” said Steve Gumble, founder of the Blues Train. “Each year, the train grows in popularity. Last year, tickets sold out in record time and we anticipate the same happening this season.”

To cap it off, passengers will take in spectacular sunset views along the Highline, a world famous section of the railroad, as the train crawls along craggy cliffs 400 feet above the Wild Animas River, known to be the most beautiful section of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Refreshments will be available for purchase on board.

Guests can enjoy light snacks, bars with wine and craft beer from award-winning regional brewery partners Telluride Brewing Company and Ska Brewing.

A selection of lodging options at local hotel partners are available for those looking to stay in town. To view all accommodation opportunities, visit www.durangobluestrain.com/lodging.

June tickets go on sale Wednesday, February 15 at 10 a.m. Tickets are $100 per person per night, plus a Historic Train Preservation fee. Tickets are limited and will sell out in advance. Purchasers must be 21 years old to participate. Tickets will be available online at www.durangobluestrain.com/tickets. Tickets for August 18 and 19 will go on sale later this spring. For general information and more, visit www.DurangoBluesTrain.com.

Durango Blues Train returns Staff Reports Redstone Review DURANGO – The onset of summer in the mountain town of Durango seems just a bit closer with the announcement of the 2017 dates for the Durango Blues Train. Presented by SBG Productions and the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival, the Durango Blues Train returns to the historic Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad for the seventh year at both ends of the summer season: June 2 and 3, and August 18 and 19.

The Blues Train is an exciting 3.5-hour moving experience of live blues on board the coal-fired, steam-powered train the runs through the breathtaking canyons of the San Juan National Forest. The Blues Train features six live blues performances inside the train coaches. Each artist performs in his or her own vintage coach, while passengers are free to dance their way from coach to coach. The Blues Train follows the same format as years

vacation rentals will consume available housing stock, and might act to drive up housing costs in the long run.”

A common argument that proponents of unrestricted short-term vacation rentals give is that it helps people afford to buy homes in Lyons. But that approach would only help people who can qualify to purchase the mostly $400,000 to $500,000 range of homes available in Lyons.

How many local Lyons businesses pay enough for employees to be able to qualify to buy a $400,000 or $500,000 home?

The Town of Lyons lost a total of about 70 flooddestroyed homes to both the federal buyout programs (including one buyout of a mobile home park) and to the changed use of a second mobile home park property to an event venue (rezoned for commercial use). In March 2015, a proposal for subsidized, affordable Boulder County Housing Authority rentals and some Habitat for Humanity for-sale affordable homes (a total of 50 to 70 units) in five to seven acres of Bohn Park was voted down 614 to 498 in a special election. At the end of 2016, Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley purchased six residential lots at 2nd and Park in Lyons, to build six permanently affordable homes (three duplexes).

For history of post-flood efforts for affordable housing in Lyons, you can read previous columns posted on my blog at lyonscoloradonews.wordpress.com. All town meetings of the elected Lyons Board of Trustees and appointed, volunteer town boards and commissions like the PCDC are open to the public and posted on the town calendar at www.townoflyons.com/calendar.aspx. This column is a monthly commentary in the Redstone Review. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints about this column, contact me directly at areinholds@hotmail.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in the greater Lyons area

By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS Rachel Tallent’s art show Lumberjacks and Leftovers will be on display through the end of February at the Stone Cup at 442 High St. For more information call 303-823-2345.

Carla Ogden and her daughter, Hannah Ogden, will be showing in March and April at the Stone Cup. The weekend morning music line up at the Cup will be: on Sat. Feb. 18 Ben Knighten will perform 10 a.m. to noon acoustic / folk-rock; on Sun. Feb. 19 Aural Elixir will perform from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. jazz-folk-rock fusion; on Sat. Feb. 25 the Story of Two will perform from 10 a.m. to noon acoustic pop-rock; on Sun. Feb. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon Jim Powers will perform acoustic 60s / 80s rock; on Sat. March 4 from 10 a.m. to noon Antonio Lopez will perform modern folk / acoustic soul; on Sun. March 5 from 10 a.m. to noon Amy Francis will perform country / jazz / blues; on Sat. March 11 from10 a.m. to noon Ben Knighten will perform acoustic / alternative / folk-rock; on Sun. March 12 from 10 a.m. to noon TBA will perform American folk music; on Sat. March. 18 from 10 a.m. to noon Jay Stott will perform Americana ; and on Sun. Feb. 19 from 10 a.m. to noon Billy Shaddox will perform American folk music.

The Lyons Town Hall Art Show featuring Quilting and Fiber Arts Creations will be at the Lyons Town Hall, 432 5th Ave, for February and March. The show is under the direction of Tracy Barber, owner of Lyons Quilting at 42 E. Main St.. Lyons Quilting is one of the largest quilt shops in Colorado with clients from all over Boulder and Larimer Counties. Some of the best quilters in the state will be on display at this show, which can be viewed Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information about the quilt show, call Tracy Barber at Lyons Quilting at 303-886-0651.

The Wildflower Concert Series will feature Shane Koyczan on Friday March 10 at the Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St. Internationally recognized author and spoken word artist Shane Koyczan has emerged as a creator of poetry that dares to belong to the people and SHANE KOYCZAN speak directly to them in their own voices. In 2013, he collaborated with animators to make the anti-bullying viral video To This Day which has had over 20 million views, and he performed a customized version For the Bullied and the Beautiful to acclaim at the 2013 International TED Conference in Long Beach, California. Koyczan has earned passionate standing ovations for his main stage performances at the Wu

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Rocky Mountain Folks Festival (2013, 2015) and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival (2016). For this special Wildflower Concert, he will be performing his spokenword pieces solo and unaccompanied. A note for sensitive ears: the performance will include poetic use of PG13 language. Doors open at 7 p.m. and show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $23 at the door.

Children 12 and under are free with a paying adult. All Wildflower Pavilion tickets are non-refundable.

Bonnie and the Clydes will perform on Friday March 31 at the Wildflower Pavilion. Bonnie and the Clydes are one of the foremost Front Range bands. Fronted by the fiery Bonnie Sims, this band has been making waves with powerful and memorable live performances for the past five years. They were awarded Best BONNIE AND THE CLYDES Country Band in 2013

A quilt’s journey through time

By Monique Sawyer-Lang and LaVern Johnson Redstone Review LYONS – You are encouraged to stop by the Lyons Town Hall council chambers (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday) to see the Quilting and Fiber Arts Creation show sponsored by the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission, which runs through the end of March. Among the interesting and intricate pieces on display by area quilters is a pansy quilt from the Lyons Redstone Museum collection.

The pansy quilt top was made by longtime Lyons resident Minnie Hutchinson (Dec. 11, 1907 – Oct. 10, 2008).

Hutchinson was the ninth of ten children whose parents, James H. and Nancy Hutchinson, came to Lyons in a covered wagon in 1890 and worked in the local quarries. She started school in Allenspark and later grew up in Mead on her father’s beet farm. She worked as a nursemaid in

Longmont and married Merton J. Hutchinson in Michigan. They moved to Lyons in the early 1930s, eventually buying two lots on Reese Street in 1936 and building a home.

Hutchinson took many classes through the Aggies State College and in 1939 was a leader for a 4-H sewing group the Hill Billy Swing Club for local Lyons girls, Berene and LaVern McConnell (Johnson), Colleen Drage, Margaret Dunfee, Bertha Burke and more. During the 1940s she was an active member of the Happy Hour Club, a women’s organization. In the 1950s she worked as a waitress at the Copper Kettle Tea Room. From 1958 to 1973 she worked for the Town of Lyons, after which she volunteered for nine years at the library. She was also a member of Minnie’s Red Hat Club.

The appliqué pansy quilt design was a popular Alice Brooks pattern created in the 1930s and available by mail order through the 1950s. It is not known when

and 2014 in Westword's yearly Best Of poll and the band has independently released four studio albums. Seeing Bonnie and the Clydes’ live show is what sets them apart.

The energy and connection that the band facilitates with the audience is irresistible, and first timers become lifelong fans in a single night. We are ecstatic to welcome them for their first Wildflower Pavilion headlining show.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $23 at the door. Children 12 and under are free with a paying adult. All Wildflower Pavilion tickets are non-refundable.

LONGMONT Arts Longmont and the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Rd., present the Friday Afternoon Concert Series to be held on February 17, March 17, April 21 at the Stewart Auditorium: Art Show 1:30 p.m., Concert 2:30 p.m. for $10 per show. The concerts will take place in the Stewart Auditorium. There will be a reception after each concert.

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Hutchinson made this quilt top but most likely it was during this time period. The pansy flowers are hand appliquéd on the ten-inch block and finished with an embroidered blanket stitch.

Around May of 2009 when Hutchinson’s house was being cleaned out after her death this quilt top ended up in the dumpster.

Bonnie DiSalvo and Romano Paoletti rescued the quilt top from that fate. DiSalvo, an accomplished quilter herself, finished the quilt with batting, backing, quilting, and binding and recently donated it to the Redstone Museum.

After the exhibit at the Town Hall Council Chamber concludes in March the pansy quilt will go on display at the Lyons Redstone Museum when it reopens for the 2017 season. The museum will be open on weekends in May and daily June through September.

Monique Sawyer-Lang, with Nancy Reckling, supervises the Lyons Food Pantry. and is a former president of the Lyons Community Foundation. LaVern Johnson is an historian and the director of the Lyons Redstone Museum.

Bonnie DiSalvo, pictured here, and Romano Paoletti rescued this historic Lyons-made applique quilt top from a dumpster. DiSalvo finished it into a completed quilt and donated it to the Redstone Museum.

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FOUNDATION Lyons Community Foundation hits the decade mark

By Kristen Bruckner Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) is marking its tenyear anniversary this year. Starting as a passion Bruckner project led by several local residents, LCF’s impact on the Lyons community is quite remarkable. LCF was established in 2007 and the first grants were awarded less than one year later.

Since then, LCF has awarded close to $400,000 in community support grants for a wide range of inspired work that seeks to “Improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving, and encourage positive change in the Greater Lyons Area.”

Several area residents saw the need for a locally based philanthropy and began the hard work of setting up the Lyons Community Foundation in 2007. John Burke, Gary LaFever, and Rick England among others were key in laying this groundwork. Connie Eyster and Christy Crosser were the first Advisory Board cochairs. LCF was established under the umbrella of the Community Foundation of Boulder County and remains one of its funds. The Boulder County Community Foundation has been a successful regional nonprofit for over 25 years and offers support and guidance while allowing LCF to operate largely independently in addressing Lyons-area needs.

Establishing the new non-profit foundation so that it was able to award its first grants within the first year was no small feat. Local businessman John Burke created the “founding contributors” concept whereby local businesses and residents were asked to commit to a two-to-fiveyear contribution program that could establish a sustainable giving base.

Through the commitment of roughly 30 such donors, LCF was able to begin awarding grants right away, when industry standard is typically a three-year lead time for a new granting cycle.

The reasons for having a local-based nonprofit included the ability to address the unique needs of a small and diverse community. There are projects that otherwise could not occur given the budget and constraints of a small town. Also, it gives local businesses and individuals a go-to centralized resource to help and enhance the community.

For some perspective on the wide-range of projects funded, here are the top programs and funding amounts supported through the Community Support Granting Cycle since 2008: • $102,669 – LEAF / Food Pantry / Basic Needs Fund • $72,812 – Youth / School enrichment/Educational programming: scientific equipment, after prom, marching band, tech equipment, field trips, youth sports, youth volunteer programs • $50,310 – Public arts and music: Lyons

You, me, and the EDC

By Tamara Vega Haddad Redstone Review LYONS – Who are you? You are business owners, barista, electricians, chiropractors, landowners, waitresses, retired, musicians, parents, you all are taxpayers. Who Haddad are we? We shop small, we are small; we are the fabric of Lyons economic sustainability. Who is the EDC? To understand who the Economic Development Commission (EDC) is today, it would be remiss to not mention 14 years EDC veteran, Jacque Watson. Although she moved on to different pastures there is little the EDC is doing now that she did not start.

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The EDC reviews development plans and advises the Board of Trustees. It also provides guidance to transition from a residential development-based economy to a commercial-based, localized economy. The EDC creates an economic environment that promotes financial sustainability for the town and creates an environment in which local businesses can prosper. It assists in the development of a streamlined, business friendly environment that promotes commercial and job growth.

That is just part of what the EDC does. It also establishes and coordinates a variety of things that help the Board of Trustees including: 1.

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Art Walk, Sounds of Lyons, Clarifier project • $45,350 – Town of Lyons / Parks and Recreation: Sandstone Summer Concert series, Parade of Lights, Lyons Outdoor Games, Good Old Days, Youth and senior programming • $26,000 – Youth scholarships for area college-bound students • $24,350 – Health and human services: 9Health Fair, parent education, Help resource guide • $23,750 – Ecology projects, landscape beautification and environmental sus-

Establishing practical guidelines for the formation of public-private partnerships. 2. Collaborating and coordinating on the development of promotional materials to attract out-of-town and state companies to the town. 3. Identifying ways to make the town a retail and recreational destination for residents and visitors. 4 Leveraging the town’s history, natural setting, parks, recreational activities, unique retailers and relationship with music and arts communities to attract tourists. 5.

Actively seeking funding sources, including grants, to sustain and enhance the programs offered.

Most of the points are in direct relations to advocacy in its many forms. It can range from hosting a political forum with our district legislators to hosting a workshop to better help the businesses understand their roles and responsibilities in Lyons’s economic vitality. It can be listening and implementing your ideas to finding the right resources to answer your questions and relate your ideas.

Advocacy also comes in the form of marketing and communications. The EDC members have identified tactics and seen them through to elevate marketing goals. This includes but is not limited to keeping the kiosks throughout town full of tourist brochures, providing trail maps, working on a photography and video competition to increase town’s image collateral resources, submitting events to the Denver Post, Daily Camera, Longmont TimesCall and Ft. Collins news calendars, and keeping up with the maintenance of LyonsColorado.com website, targeted to visitors.

For much of the EDC’s marketing efforts, we are relying heavily on the completion of the economic analysis. Partnering with the Chamber of Commerce, there will be an educational social February 23. This is a very detailed request of our businesses but enables the EDC to help businesses, BOT, and the town understands how external factors, such as events, MJ sales, weddings, weather, etc., impact Lyons businesses. It will also help guide the town in making business friendly decisions, grounded in data, as well as identify opportunities for businesses to capitalize on in the future.

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tainability • $21,800 – Historical preservation: Lyons history and Lyons Museum • $17,250 – Senior services and programming; Meals On Wheels • $7,000 – Lyons Library • $6,000 – Animal welfare: Humane Society and Greenwood Wildlife • $2,850 – Economic development: business support, Lyons Economic Gardening Group, Lyons Chamber of Commerce At no time was the need for a local foundation more critical than during the flood. Because LCF existed, the Rebuild Lyons One Life at Time grant program was able to spring into action, awarding over a million dollars to local residents and businesses when they needed it most.

While regional and national aid programs exist, their impact would not have been as direct or as swift. Funds were given out within three months of the flood to address critical needs. In addition, the Rebuild Lyons Fund continued to address longer term and persistent needs of those affected by the flood.

Since 2013, the Rebuild Lyons fund has awarded over $410,000 to support everything from Lyons Volunteers who help residents in their clean up, rebuilding and recovery processes, landscape and ecology restoration including reseeding, ditch restoration and landscape recovery, and the Lyons Fire Department rebuild of station #2 which was lost in the flood. The Larimer County Long Term Recovery Group utilized Rebuild funds to help with construction and volunteer management,

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CREATE Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s pick for Supreme Court, a visiting professor at CU Boulder

By CU Communications Redstone Review BOULDER – Neil Gorsuch, 49, who President Trump announced as his nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States, is a visiting professor at the University of Colorado Law School in addition to a judge for the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Since 2008, Gorsuch has taught ethics and antitrust law at CU Boulder, typically teaching one course per semester as a Thomson Visiting Professor. The visiting professor program brings leading experts from academia, the judiciary and legal practice to campus to teach classes in areas of key concern for law students.

“We congratulate Judge Gorsuch on his nomination,” said Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. “His time spent teaching, advising and mentoring our students has been invaluable to our campus. He has embodied our goals at CU Boulder for ensuring student success and developing tomorrow’s leaders.”

Through the years, Gorsuch has offered advising to students and has spoken at events, including Colorado Law’s new student orientation in 2016 and the law school’s commencement ceremony in 2012.

“As a distinguished jurist, Judge Gorsuch has given his time, energy and talents to Colorado Law over the last eight years, and our students and alumni are fortunate that he has taught in our classrooms,” said Dean S. James Anaya.

Gorsuch’s parents, David Gorsuch and Anne Gorsuch Burford, were 1964 graduates of Colorado Law.

Both are deceased.

Gorsuch is to be a conservative on all matters that would be brought before the court. Many legal scholars predict Judge Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge in Denver, would be a reliable conservative, voting to limit gay rights, uphold restrictions on abortion and invali-

date affirmative action programs.

Another CU Boulder connection to the U.S. Supreme Court, the late Justice Byron R. White, graduated from the university in 1938.

CU Boulder’s Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law hosts a variety of speakers and events, including statewide high school visits for Constitution Day; a program pairing upperlevel law students with teachers at underserved high schools to teach a course about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and lectures that bring legal scholars and well-known jurists to campus.

The center’s John Paul Stevens Lecture series, which is open to the public, has included Stevens (2011) and other U.S. Supreme Court justices: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2012), Sandra Day O’Connor (2013), the late Antonin Scalia (2014) and Sonia Sotomayor (2016).

Warm up your winter doldrums

By Stacey Scarborough Redstone Review LONGMONT – As February rolls in, there’s a sense of quiet and solemnity in the air. The Scarborough weather can be dreary and people seem to become more contemplative and weary as the calendar plods slowly toward spring. It can be a difficult time, as the joy and happiness of the holidays become a distant memory.

It is no different for the staff and volunteers at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. The number of animals being brought to the center drops drastically during the winter. When people do come across wildlife in need, those animals are

often the worse for wear because of the elements and in need of immediate attention. In the last few months, Greenwood has cared for waterfowl that mistook solid ice for water, birds that have flown into windows to cause neurological injuries, squirrels and rabbits that have been struck by cars on slick roads, and birds that have nearly become snacks for roaming domestic felines.

Seeing such injuries can be heartbreaking for a group of people who have dedicated their lives to helping injured wildlife. But, despite the weather and the doldrums, the Greenwood Wildlife team arrives every morning and works to the best of its abilities to help every creature that comes through the door get a second chance at life.

We create and offer programs for

schools, clubs, scout troops and community events that encourage people to learn and take the time to save a wounded robin or an orphaned squirrel, because no creature should be allowed to suffer. And with each rehabilitation success story, a little more sunshine is brought into February in preparation for the spring. So, if you have a case of the February doldrums, take a moment to consider one of the volunteer opportunities that Greenwood offers by visiting our website at www.greenwoodwildlife.org/get-involved/volunteer. You just might transform some dreary days into magnificent, heartwarming memories.

Shakespeare the Canada Goose is one of Greenwood’s winter guests

Stacey Scarborough is the Volunteer and Outreach Manager at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, which cares for nearly 3,500 mammals, songbirds and waterfowl each year. Greenwood also offers education programs for children and adults of all ages. Visit www.greenwoodwildlife.org to learn more.

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LYONS – The Lyons Parks and Recreation Department will offer the summer league youth softball through the Indian Peaks Girls Softball Association. Girls in Lyons ages five to 18 are eligible to register at rec.ci.longmont.co.us/. The deadline for registration is March 19 and the cost ranges from $80 to $112, depending on the age of the child.

The summer league youth baseball will be offered through the Longmont Baseball League for boys in Lyons ages six through 18. These kids must register with the Longmont Baseball League and the officials will try to create teams that consist of all Lyons players, so they can practice together and have local coaches. All games will be played in Longmont.

For more information, go to LBL website at www.longmontbaseball.org.

Boulder County awards $49K to nine waste reducing programs LYONS – Boulder County Commissioners awarded $49,040 to nine programs as part of the Resource Conservation Division’s Community Outreach Program for 2017. Lyons own Planet Bluegrass was awarded $8,500 for expanding its sustainable re-useable plate program. Planet Bluegrass hopes to revolutionize large-event reusable dishes.

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CONCEPTS When your cat has urinary tract disease

By Alex Pauls, DVM Redstone Review LONGMONT – While the bathroom habits of your pets may not be a particularly appealing subject, it’s important to know that urinary disease can lead to life threatening emergencies for animals that are no longer able to urinate.

While any pet can develop a urinary obstruction, male cats are particularly prone to it; they even have their own acronym, FLUTD, or Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease. Any sign of straining to urinate, particularly the inability to urinate at all, requires immediate medical attention. These obstructions can occur for several reasons, including because of urinary stones, plugs or grit, or with no apparent physical cause. While we do not always know the cause, there are several factors that may contribute to urinary obstruction, including stress, obesity, and lack of exercise.

The most common changes in behavior seen at home include decreased activity, increased licking and grooming of the perineum, decreased appetite, straining to urinate, or inability to urinate at all. In early stages before complete obstruction, you may notice your cat urinating in the sink or other unusual places, vocalizing when trying to urinate, or may see blood in the urine. If any of these changes are noted, patients should be brought in as soon as possible. If left untreated, complete urinary obstruction is fatal.

Once at the veterinarian, the diagnosis

of obstruction can generally be made on exam. Blood work is recommended, as urine retention can lead to electrolyte abnormalities which cause abnormal heart rhythms as well as changes in kidney values. While FLUTD is not generally associated with a bacterial infection, urine is submitted to look for evidence of crystals or bacteria. Antibiotics are not usually prescribed unless the urinalysis

indicates an infection is present, but in these cases, a urine culture should be submitted to determine the most appropriate antibiotic. Radiographs (X rays) are also taken, generally after urinary catheter placement to verify location, as well as to search for stones and crystals.

Once diagnosed, prompt treatment is recommended, starting with either pass-

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ing a urinary catheter or using a needle to relieve the urinary obstruction, followed by placement of an indwelling urinary catheter. Patients are then hospitalized and treated with intravenous fluids and medication for pain and to help relax the urethra. The urinary catheter is typically left in place for 24 to 36 hours, but duration is case dependent. After the urinary catheter is removed, patients are kept in the hospital until they are observed urinating on their own.

Overall prognosis with treatment is good

to excellent; however, there is risk for recurrence. In some cases, recurrence occurs as soon as the urinary catheter is removed; for these, the urinary catheter can be replaced and hospitalization continued. In other cases, recurrence will occur months to years later. For some individuals, stressful events may lead to obstruction.

Prevention and long term management

depends on the cause. If stones or crystals are noted, specific diets may be recommended to control stone formation. If a bacterial infection is noted, most cases respond well to a single course of antibiotics. A second urinary sample may need to be submitted to confirm the infection has been cleared. If stress is suspected, there are several changes at home that can be made to try and minimize stress and provide outlets for your pets. In multi-cat households, it is important to be sure to provide at least one more litter box than the total number of cats. You should also provide areas that allow for normal behavior such as scratching and napping, and be sure to play with your cat and offer several types of toys. It is also helpful to provide water fountains and feed a canned diet to increase water intake to help dilute the urine. For some cases, there are also surgical options to minimize the risk of urinary obstruction in male cats.

Urinary obstruction is a medical emergency. If you have any questions regarding your cat’s behavior, please call to speak with a veterinarian. Before it becomes an emergency, you can also discuss what changes can be made at home to minimize the risk with your primary veterinarian.

Dr. Alex Pauls is a veterinarian at Aspen Meadow Veterinary Specialists. AMVS is a 24-hour veterinary facility providing specialty internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, oncology, emergency, critical care, and pain management located in Longmont at 104 S. Main St. For more information, go to www.AspenMeadowVet.com.

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CONTENT Quiche Lorraine – uniquely Gruyere

By Catherine Ripley Metzger Redstone Review LYONS – After you eat this Quiche Lorraine, you may never meet another that you love so well. Traditional French quiche is quite robust – a real comfort food. But those of us who lived through the 1980s and remember the book Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche are sadly familiar now with the “meh” quiche served across our broad American food landscape.

Perhaps this watered-down, non-traditional quiche led to the disparaging 1980s epithet “quiche eaters” that described men who lacked manly virtues – when perhaps all they lacked was Gruyere cheese!

Why is it so hard to find good Quiche Lorraine stateside? Because many American cooks and restaurateurs do not make their quiche with Gruyere, which amounts to a tragic loss in taste. The French like to say that it should not be called a quiche unless it is made in the traditional way of Alsace or Lorraine.

That always includes Gruyere and also a bread-like crust, which many no longer use in favor of a puff pastry-like crust or, in our case, a 3-2-1 crust.

I learned to make this recipe as a journeyman cook at the Henri d’Afrique restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, Va., and today it’s a Food for the Ages favorite. It’s made of a 3-2-1 crust that is impermeable to its custardy cheese filling that bakes up flaky and buttery with a deep, Gruyere-cheese based tang – just the right balance for American tastes.

Perfect for brunch or as an appetizer at a party, this recipe is suitable for four minicocottes, or one pie-sized quiche.

But it all starts with the cheeses. For each quiche you want to use three ounces of Gruyere cheese and four ounces of noname Swiss. This will give you the correct levels of deliciousness and not overwhelm you with the nutty richness of the Gruyere.

Quiche Lorraine – Uniquely Gruyere Serves 4 4 oz. Swiss cheese (the blander, or more boring, the better), grated 3 oz. Gruyere cheese, grated 3 whole, large eggs, beaten lightly 1 1/3 C half and half Pinch of nutmeg 1/4 t white pepper 4 slices of bacon, cut into small pieces 2 T chopped onion 1 T chopped parsley Prepare the filling / custard: Combine beaten eggs, half and half, nutmeg and pepper in a medium-sized bowl. Cook the bacon until almost crisp then add the onion and parsley and cook another five minutes until golden. Drain the bacon mixture in sieve and let cool.

Once cooled, add it to the filling mixture, cover and refrigerate for at least an hour, but best if you let it sit overnight.

Prepare the 3-2-1 crust: This 3-2-1 paste is made of: 3 parts flour, 2 parts butter and 1 part water. In this recipe I used: 1 1/2 C flour

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1 C cold butter 1/2 C water Rub the butter into the flour between your hands until all is incorporated. Add the water and quickly blend. Pat this paste into flat disc, cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least a 30 minutes.

This will last two days in the fridge and several weeks in the freezer.

You can prepare the filling and crust a day ahead of time. If you do this, you may have to mix a bit more half and half into the filling before baking, to loosen it up a bit, as the cheese will have absorbed much of it overnight (which is a good thing).

Assemble and bake: Preheat the oven to 395 degrees F. Remove the crust from refrigerator and roll out the dough until it’s nearly transparent, and cut it to fit four mini cocottes or one pie plate. Make sure to not leave

an edge on the pie crust as it will burn during cooking.

Divide the filling equally among the four mini cocottes or pour all into the pie plate, and place in preheated oven to cook for approximately 40 minutes, or until deeply browned on top. Enjoy warm or cold with fruit garnish and a crusty piece of bread.

Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking professionally and privately since 1979. She was a French cuisine journeyman at the celebrated Henri d’Afrique restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, Va. Today she is the proprietor of the food blog www.foodfortheages.com, and Facebook.com/Food for the Ages. Though she cooks every day in a tiny kitchen with a two-burner stove, her recipes are expansive and she dedicates her craft to living large by cooking well in tiny kitchens.

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Town Continued from Page 1 said she is still waiting for the Highland Ditch Company to report back to her on its plans to correct the diversion structure, which was built out of compliance with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) right after the flood. She said that she has not heard back from Highland after the meeting they had over the weekend although she was expecting to.

The BOT heard a plan from Josh Kravits with Adventure Fit from Boulder to take over the Lyons Outdoor Games and Burning Can Festival. Adventure Fit would organize, manage and operate the entire festival for a flat fee from Lyons. Under the Adventure Fit plan, Lyons would pay a flat fee of $75,000. However the town only budgeted $45,000 for the event. Kravits said that he

Mayor Continued from Page 3 has also established special reserves for potential recoupments from non-reimbursed flood recovery work. Spending for 2017 was not significantly increased as the board prioritized increasing reserves; however additional funding was allocated

Piano at the Stewart Auditorium in Longmont will be performed by two of the most renowned classical musicians in the region. Violist Geraldine Walther from the Takács Quartet and pianist David Korevaar from the CU-Boulder College of Music will perform repertoire by Chopin and Franck. The art show will feature Dar Miner – Painter. For information, call Phone: 303-651-8374.

You may purchase tickets for all events in-person at the museum box office or over the phone at 303-6518374. Online ticketing is also available for most events by following the link available with each listing – please note, online ticketing only currently works via computer and not mobile.

The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) will show a series of films on March 3 to 5 at the Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium, 400

LCF Continued from Page 10 and LEAF programs, including the hiring of housing advocates, emergency client services and assistance in buying a van for the food pantry, were all made possible

by Rebuild funds that have assisted Lyons area residents with their long-term recovery.

The Lyons Community Foundation exists because of the passion and dedicated efforts of Lyons residents. Many volunteers, donors, past and present board members and

EDC Continued from Page 10 Main Street designation. With both priorities, we have and will continue to rely heavily on Arielle Hodgson, EDC Associate, aka “staff.” With her steadfast commitment to finding solutions, amid the many transitions the Town of Lyons is going through, she has not only been

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Boulder County seeking proposals for agriculture research project BOULDER COUNTY– Boulder County is seeking qualified companies, organizations, and vendors to submit proposals for the establishment and implementation of a long-term, sustainable agriculture research and innovation initiative in Boulder County. A mandatory pre-bid meeting is scheduled for Tues., Feb. 28, at 1 p.m. in Longmont. The bid deadline is March 7. For more information or to apply, please visit the Boulder County Bids and Purchasing Bidding Opportunities web page.

Old Time Square Dance LYONS – Lyons Old-Time Square Dance: old-time reels, mixers,

was sure that the town would make a substantial profit above and beyond the $75,000 that they would put in.

The town has consistently lost money each year that it hosted the Outdoor Games by about $10,000 a year. Last year the BOT decided to look into finding a company that would take over the games and try to make the games profitable for Lyons, and Adventure Fit stepped in.

The BOT then asked Adventure Fit to come up with a contract with details of what it would do with the games this year and to list performance expectations.

The board also discussed if the LaVern M. Johnson Park (formerly Meadow Park) could be used by local people during the bluegrass festivals. Craig Ferguson, owner of the Rockygrass and Folk Festivals, rents the park each year for his camper guests attending the festivals.

for grounds maintenance, planning, wage increases and additional staff, and community programs. Additionally, since 1 percent of all sales taxes dollars goes to maintaining our parks, some funds are being used to purchase new equipment for the skating rink and to improve security.

Overall, the town is making steady

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FEBRUARY 15 / MARCH 15, 2017 squares, waltzes and flatfooting to live fiddle / banjo music. All dances are taught and are beginner / family-friendly. Dances are easiest earlier in the evening and become more complex as the evening progresses. Come alone, bring family / friends / kids and join our mix of beginner and welcoming seasoned dancers. No experience, partner or special shoes required.

The next dance will be on Saturday March 4 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Oskar Blues Grill and Brew at 303 Main St. Chris Kermiet with Ramblin' Joe and the Vittetones will be the callers. The cost is $10 for adults, $5 for kids and $25 for families.

Please enjoy a bite to eat and drinks as we return to Oskar Blues' event room this year. For information, contact oldtimedances @ musicinlyons.com or 303-8276322. Another dance will be held on April 1.

Trustee Jim Kerr said he enjoyed walking through the park in the mornings and would want to continue that during the festivals. The discussion got complicated over campers having wrist bands to designate that they have paid to camp, because some people who have not paid for camping are sneaking in late at night to camp for free and local people who want the camp to remain open to locals to use the walkways and playground.

Trustee Juli Waugh said that Craig Ferguson rents the park and holds the contract, so it is up to him if he wants townspeople in the park or not. In the end the BOT decided to meet with Ferguson to discuss the matter, leaning towards the idea that the park would be closed to local traffic for the three days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) of each festival.

progress toward achieving fiscal stability by focusing on sales tax. While 2017 won’t see the large jumps of years past, we hope to continue to see the trend move in a positive direction.

served two terms on the Town Board of Trustees beginning in 2012. She is co-owner of the St. Vrain Market, located in downtown Lyons on Main Street. For comments or questions, Mayor Sullivan can be reached by email at csullivan@townoflyons.com.

Connie Sullivan was elected Mayor on April 5, 2016. Prior to becoming Mayor, she

Quail Rd., Longmont. 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 fourday celebration of the art of cinema. This year, for its second year, BIFF is coming to Longmont. The Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium will host screenings for eight BIFF feature films and three shorts programs.

BIFF has developed a reputation as one of the most influential 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 festival attracts more than 25,000 film enthusiasts, media and industry each year and has been proud to host and celebrate some of film’s most talented artists.

Pricing is $14 general / $13 seniors. A note about pur-

chasing tickets: Online ticketing is currently only available through computers (not mobile). If you don't have access to a computer, please call the museum's box office at 303-651-8374 to purchase tickets.

Lyons artist Beth Gadbaw will perform St. Patrick’s Day Encore Concert with the Beth Gadbaw Celtic Band on March 17 at 6 p.m. at the Stewart Auditorium in the Longmont Museum. A reception and Irish dancing will be held at 6 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. the concert will be held.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Irish dancing, traditional music, and Irish-inspired eats and drinks. The Beth Gadbaw Celtic Trio delivers joyful, ethereal Irish music, and features the traditional bodhrán drum, fiddle, guitar, Celtic harp and flute. The concert is presented in partnership with Arts Longmont. Buy tickets online.

General admission is $30.

project leaders devote countless hours of their lives with the sincere desire to help their neighbors and friends as well as enhance the culture and community experience of living in our wonderful town. We applaud the efforts of all those who have contributed over the years, and invite anyone to participate in our work. All are welcome.

We are proud of what we’ve accomplished in the last decade, and look forward to the continued greater service to our community. We are ambitious in our ten-year goal to raise even more funding in 2017. We have some special

events and fundraising efforts planned in order to support the continued existence of our own brand of locally based community philanthropy. For more information on how to get involved, email us: info@lyonscf.org or visit our website at www.lyonscf.org.

remarkable, she also has proven herself to be a solution-oriented partner and advocate of Lyons businesses. We have 16 of the 17 requirements to become a Main Street Designated partner; the ongoing communications include a visitor’s website, calendar listings, tourist brochures, and overseeing street beautification measures.

The EDC is many things yet it is noth-

Kristen Bruckner is on the Lyons Community Foundation Communications Committee and writes columns for the LCF. She lives in Lyons.

ing without you. Your participation is vital on many levels but none more tangible than joining the EDC. There are three openings on the commission. There are no established requirements for the roles. The Lyons Municipal Code states that if most of the board has a residential address, residents outside of Lyons boundaries, such as residents of Apple Valley,

Old South Saint Vrain Road up toward Heil Ranch, etc. are all qualified. As well, you can serve on up to two commissions.

Come to a meeting, and sees what the excitement is all about.

Tamara Vega Haddad is the Economic Development Commission’s Interim Chair.

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