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B •R •I •E •F •S Fire ban enacted for ALL of Boulder County; All open burning is currently prohibited in Boulder County BOULDER COUNTY – There is a Fire Ban in place for ALL of Boulder County. No open burning of any kind is allowed until the ban is rescinded. High Fire Danger will continue through the weekend. Updates on the Cold Springs Wildfire near Nederland are available at: http://www.boulderoem.com/emergency-status/. Cold Springs Fire near Nederland NEDERLAND – A fire that broke out Saturday July 9 was first reported at 1:30 p.m. located at Colorado Highway 119 at Cold Springs Road and the Peak to Peak Highway. The fire was named Cold Springs Fire and has now consumed five houses, three outbuildings and 600 acres. Firefighters are working 24/7 to contain the fire. Over 1,991 people have been evacuated, 24 aircraft are fighting the fire, about 150 firefighters and 12 aerial crews will be fighting the fire today, July 11. High winds have hampered fire crews from making progress. More information on the Cold Creek Fire is available at www.boulderoem.com/emergency-status/. There are 65 homes within the fire perimeter, officials said. A federal incident team has taken over command of the fire, which as of Monday night was only partially contained. Two men from Alabama were arrested Sunday, July 10. The two were accused of not fully extinguishing a campfire they’d made overnight Thursday into Friday on private property near the Peak to Peak Highway and Cold Springs Road. Jimmy Andrew Suggs, 28, and Zackary Continue Briefs on Page 7
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Alex Breslow, with his dog Philo. Enjoy the Lyons Concert in the Park on June 30.
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Lyons streetscape project continues for most of the summer By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – While it seems like driving through downtown Lyons trying to navigate orange cones and barrels in a maze of construction will never end, residents are beginning to see progress at least on the north side of Main Street. New sidewalks, curb and gutters and landscape areas are mostly completed on the north side of the street where most of the businesses are located. “Now they are working on the handicap ramps, islands, and curb and gutter at McConnell Bridge,” said Joe Kubala, Lyons flood recovery project manager. “They are working on the accel (acceleration) and decel (deceleration) lanes; this work should be completed in a few weeks. On the work that is completed, they will be putting in sprinklers and then they will start putting in trees and shrubs between the sidewalk and the curb this week.” DeFalco Construction from Longmont is the general contractor for the entire streetscape project along Main Street. John Carter, from Lyons, is the superintendent for DeFalco Construction on the Lyons project. Carter lost his home in the flood and now lives in Longmont. The next project DeFalco will tackle in
the ongoing streetscape project is the island triangle at Third Avenue and Main Street on the east side of Bank of the West, according to Jacque Watson, Lyons education and community relations manager. “The new sidewalks are wonderful,” said Watson. “They are wide and now you can walk from Planet Bluegrass all the way to the end of the parking lot at Lyons Quilt Shop (the former Black Bear Inn.)” Once the triangle project is completed, work will begin on streetscaping the south side of Main Street. This project should be less disruptive for both businesses and for residents driving in and out of Lyons. “We will be widening that area on the south side of the street,” said Kubala. “There will be more room to work and there will be fewer traffic interruptions. They will still need to narrow the traffic down to one lane to work during the day, but they won’t be working on weekends and they will open the road back up to four lanes at night and during the weekends.” Kubala said that the entire project won’t be completed until sometime in September depending on weather and other possible delays. By the time fall arrives, the landscaping should be done and the highway / Main Street project should be completed. In other news the Lyons Board of Trustees
(BOT) passed Resolution 2016-57 after a public hearing was held to authorize that end-of-life services be considered a permitted use in the Commercial Downtown District. The new business providing end of life professional services is called Natural Funeral. Prescott Knox is the president, Karen van Vuuren is the director of operations and Daniel Ziskin is the finance director and environmental scientist for the company. They would like to offer alternative funeral and natural end-of-life options for anyone in the area interested in more natural options. They don’t do any embalming or use chemicals and they would not do any cremations at their proposed site in Lyons or in the Lyons area. The group would like to purchase a facility in Lyons and is currently in negotiations with the business at 418 High St., the former White Lion, but that property is not under contract at this time. The group would use whatever facility it ends up purchasing mostly for holding educational seminars, discussions on end-of-life issues, funerals, celebrations of life, and ceremonies in whatever faith the families and friends might choose. The board went on to hear and discuss other issues. Substation Supervisor Sgt. Nick Goldberger told the board that although Continue Town on Page 13