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B •R •I •E •F •S Halloween – Let the wild rumpus begin at Spooktacular LYONS – The annual Lyons Halloween Spooktacular will be held on Saturday, Oct. 28 from 4 to 7 p.m. Lyons Halloween Spooktacular features activities including music, Bongo the Balloon Man, tricks and treats for ghouls and goblins, and eerie games and activities, all leading up to the parade through town.

All are welcome to be a part of the parade. The parade lineup will begin at 5:45 p.m., on Third and High St. in front of the elementary school; the parade will begin promptly at 6 p.m.

Trick or Treat will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Main and High Streets with local businesses. Games will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Lyons Elementary. There will be a Chili Cook Off at the Stone Cup, corner of Fifth Ave. and High Street at 4:30 p.m. Chili fans can enter the chili contest. The Pride of the Roaring Lyons Show Choir will perform and more events will entertain those in attendance. For more information, go to www.lyonscolorado.com/spooktacular.

New this year! All activities will be held at Lyons Elementary School east playground.

Join us for a spooky night in Lyons – a good time will behead by all.

CDOT US 36 Road Work LYONS – Week of Oct. 16: Colorado Department Of Transportation’s (CDOT) U.S.36 pavement project through Lyons continues next week. The contractor and CDOT estimate paving to wrap up on Oct. 19 or 20 (weather dependent), with the construction schedule limited to Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Striping is currently planned for the week of Oct. 23.

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Maddie Arnold and Shaena Putnam of Boulder consider the autumn offerings at the Loukonen Pumpkin Farm on Highway 36 just outside of Lyons. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS

Town board continues to tackle the Five-Acre Rule and affordable housing

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – The Lyons Town Board has now continued, for the third time, the public hearing on Ordinance 1020 to amend or change regulations pertaining to annexations to be approved by the voters known as the Five-Acre Rule. The board continues to change, amend or modify the Five-Acre Rule to make it seem more palatable to residents, voters and themselves although the town’s people seem to be all over the map on their opinions on the subject.

The Five-Acre Rule was added into the comprehensive plan over 30 years ago when two developers from Denver, Scott Carlson and Terry Ten Eyk, wanted to create a development of over 70 homes in the area that is now part of Stone Canyon right behind the U-Pump It gas station. The Town Board at that time voted to annex the land for the development without telling the people of Lyons that they wanted to get the money from building permits to fix, repair or rebuild the failing water treatment plant which was not in compliance with the state regulations.

Let’s just say, the drinking water in Lyons was

out of compliance.

Even though this was not widely known until later, the people in town did not want to have a subdivision with that many homes, they knew that it would destroy the small town character, be a burden on the schools, the water / sewer treatment plant, the roads, etc., so they created a petition for a referendum, brought it to a vote and the annexation was defeated by a two-to-one margin. The Five-Acre Rule, which says that any annexation of five acres or more must go to a vote of the people unless the land is owned by the town, became a part of the municipal code.

Former Trustee LaVern Johnson spoke to the board on the issue during the public hearing. She apologized to the Board of Trustees (BOT) for shouting out at them at the last meeting, but added that they need to have the history behind the Five-Acre Rule because none of them were here 30 years ago.

She said she was conflicted about which way to go on supporting or not the Five-Acre rule.

“I don’t know what I think about it and I don’t even know why I’m up here,” she said.

Larry Quinn spoke to the issue, “This is a perfect example of trying to solve a problem that does not exist.”

Others spoke out defending the right of people to vote on annexations as part of the democratic process. Trustee Dan Greenberg said, “Don’t tell me that direct democracy (voting on issues) is (always) the best idea. Laws were passed in Colorado that discriminated against marriage equality.” He went on to list several other laws passed in Colorado that discriminated against minorities’ civil rights.

There was no end to the variations on the debate by the trustees. Everyone was careful to say that they wanted to preserve the people’s right to vote, but Mayor Connie Sullivan brought up issues saying that the Five-Acre rule is preventing land owners with larger parcels from annexing.

Mayor Sullivan pointed out that people who live on the outskirts of the town boundaries use all the town facilities, parks, roads but do not pay for those services. This gets complicated because people who live on the edge of town pay county property taxes, sales taxes, marijuana taxes, St. Vrain School taxes, Library District taxes, Fire District taxes and other taxes which filter back to Lyons to a greater or lesser degree. Nevertheless they would be paying more taxes directly to Lyons if they were inside the town limits.

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LYONS OBITUARIES Phyllis Anna Holup, aka Wopo Holup April 2, 1937 – September 29, 2017 Phyllis Anna Holup, aka Wopo Holup, died peacefully on September 29, at her home in New York City. Since 2004, she also lived and worked in Lyons.

She was a dedicated and tenacious public artist, completing more than two dozen public art commissions beginning with a Viet Nam War memorial in Forest City, PA, 1987. Wopo’s environmentally and historically tuned works can be found across the continent from Kodiak, AK to Tampa, FL, from Concord, MA to Los Angeles, CA; from the tip of Manhattan Island to the mountains of Colorado. Her work joined seamlessly and subtly with architectural and natural surroundings. She is also known for her scroll-like river and mountain drawings.

She wrote in 2013, “My primary work has been public art projects over the past years, but as I deal with these sometimes complex projects I also – mostly late in the day – make drawings for myself.” Her work can be seen at the

Leo James Saidel August 22, 1916 – September 21, 2017 Leo James Saidel, long-time resident of Spring Gulch in Lyons, was born in Lanark, IL to Samuel and Tillie Saidel (nee Chapman). He spent his childhood and young adult years in Sterling, IL, Denver, Chicago, Washington D.C. and New York (1916 to 1944), his middle years in Chicago, (1945 to 1982), and his retirement in Colorado.

He was a dedicated husband and father, and an intelligent, wise, and compassionate presence in the lives of all who knew him. The first in his family to attend college, he earned his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1938 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Georgetown University (circa 1941). During his postdoc at Columbia University in New York he met his beloved wife Helen Ann Fabricant.

Leo and Helen were married in 1943, and were inseparable for 63 years until Helen passed away in 2007.

They raised their three children (LouEllen, Matthew and Tobi) in Chicago where Leo was a researcher and professor of biochemistry at the Chicago Medical School, now part of Rosalind Franklin University. He worked on the sequencing of amino acids in proteins which helped us understand what gives proteins their shapes, their function and their roles in both causing and curing diseases. As professor of biochemistry he launched countless doctors on their medical education, many of whom remember his quiet integrity as much as his lectures on the Kreb’s cycle. At home in the evening he

website: www.wopoholup.com.

Wopo Holup was born April 2, 1937 in San Diego. Her father was a Navy man and the family traveled often during and after the war, finally settling in the Dallas area in the early 1950s. She studied art initially at Arlington State College and then, moving to California, receiving a BFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, 1965 and MFA degree from Mills College, 1967.

She met Christo and Jeanne-Claude during the installation of the Running Fence in Sonoma County, and they encouraged her to come to New York, which she did in 1978.

She is survived by two sons, Matt Brannon, of Lyons, and Mark Brannon, of Denver, three grandchildren, and by her husband of 33 years, artist Peter Brown, also of Lyons and New York City. The cause of death was lung cancer.

In high school Wopo was a majorette on the football field, tossing the baton high in the air; “I dropped it quite

read aloud to his children, and often their friends, many of the great classics they were not ready to read alone. He was active in both local and national politics through the Independent Voters of Illinois. The family travelled the U.S. by car, visiting national parks and discovering the part of Colorado that Leo and Helen would later call home.

After retiring to Colorado in 1982, in addition to hiking, skiing, traveling, and auditing classes at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Leo and Helen were active in public service and community life. They were avid supporters of both the Chicago and the Denver Botanical Gardens, and both received certificates as master gardeners.

They mentored young people in an intergenerational school program in Lyons, in addition to serving as science fair judges.

He volunteered for many years delivering groceries to those in need through Community Food Share in Lyons.

Leo and Helen were beloved in their Spring Gulch community, where they served as surrogate grandparents for many of the children being born to the young couples on Rowell Drive. Lifelong teachers and students of life, Leo and Helen inspired those around them to be curious, to ask questions, and to care for their fellow creatures, and for the environment.

After Helen’s death in 2007, Leo enlarged his already huge heart to fill the void, and the community embraced him in kind, watching over him through the remaining seasons of his life. He loved Spring Gulch community activities and family functions, frequently visiting his

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often” she said recently, “But, I never stopped trying.” She was also the school’s 50-yard dash champion. And she continued strong to the finish line.

Wopo completed her final commission for the OUR Center in Longmont in October 2016. Earlier in the year her aluminum and gold leaf Colorado River sculpture was installed in the new Westin Hotel at Denver International Airport. A river drawing, Mississippi Delta, was included in the exhibition Audacious, Contemporary Artists Speak Out at the Denver Art Museum in 2017.

Her drawing Rio Grande is currently in the exhibition Icons and Symbols of the Borderland at the San Antonio Center for the Arts. A retrospective of drawings is planned at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in 2018.

Memorial donations may be made in her name to the LaGuardia Community College Foundation, 31-10 Thomson Ave. Long Island City, NY 11101 www.laguardia.edu/makeagift.

Jennifer Sue Montgomery May 19, 1966 – September 7, 2017 Jennifer Sue (White) Montgomery went to be with God on September 7, 2017, in the presence of loving family.

She was 51.

Mrs. Jen Montgomery was born May 19, 1966, in Boulder Colorado. She graduated from Centaurus High School in 1984, where she earned varsity letters in tennis and cheerleading. Some of her most fond early memories were of adventures with her sister and cousins in Denver, Montana, and upstate New York.

She worked as a financial controller for many years before following her true passion for horsemanship. Mrs. Jen Montgomery was a truly gifted horsewoman with the ability to create a relationship with any horse to achieve their goals. Jen spent much of her time as volunteer trainer at the Colorado Horse Rescue. In 2005, she moved to the Spring

Gulch area northwest of Lyons with her soul mate Bill Begin and their two horses and dog. She was also graceful and skilled at fly fishing, and her frequent trips to mountain streams and lakes were a source of strength and joy during her difficult illness.

Mrs. Jen Mongomery was strong, bright, loving, funny, and beautiful.

She is survived by her husband of more than 20 years, Bill Begin of Lyons; her parents, Gordon and Terry White of Lyons and Arizona; her sister Wendi Aumiller (Phil); and her niece, Maddie Aumiller of Fort Collins. A celebration of life was held at the YA YA Farm and Orchard (6914 Ute Hwy., Longmont) on Tuesday, September 19. M. P. Murphy and Associates of Boulder were in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to the Colorado Horse Rescue, 10386 N. 65th St., Longmont, CO 80503.

children and grandchildren in far-flung places. His solitary early morning or sunset walks, past the age of 95 along Rowell, Stage, and Colard were legendary.

Leo Saidel, loving father, grandfather, brother-in-law and uncle, is survived by his children Lou-Ellen, Matthew, Tobi, and daughter-in-law, Susan; his sister and brother-in-law, Sarel and Freddy Ament; his nieces and nephews, Terry Saidel, Mark and Adrianne Ament and Deborah Fabricant; and his five accomplished grandchildren Jonathan, Micah, and

David Gordon, Charles and Jessa Saidel, and their spouses Mary Jewell, Andrea Paola Zunigo and Avi Katan.

There will be a memorial gathering at the Saidel home in Spring Gulch on Saturday, October 21 at 1p.m. with his family, friends and the loving community that surrounded him. Contributions in lieu of flowers: American Jewish World Service; Natural Resources Defense Council, and Planned Parenthood. The family address: P.O Box 1205, Lyons, Colo. 80540.

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MAYOR’S CORNER The challenges of managing an extra $35-plus million dollars

By Connie Sullivan, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – Every year an outside firm conducts an audit of the town’s financial statements. This is a requirement to ensure the town is following best Sullivan accounting practices and to verify the financial statements are accurate. The Board of Trustees recently accepted the annual audit of the 2016, financial statements; and if that is as far as you go with this article, I can’t say I blame you. Reviewing audit reports is not exactly exciting reading, however since the town is managing an exceptionally large amount of money compared to usual circumstances, I feel it’s worth a mention.

To put this in context, the 2017 budget for the General Fund (the town’s primary account for operations) was about $2.4 million dollars. During the past several years of disaster recovery, the town is managing closer to $35 million dollars from grant sources such as FEMA and Community Development Block Grants Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR). I should also offer the disclaimer that I am not an accountant and this is written from my layman’s understanding of the report as presented to the Board, but I will do my best to offer a summary.

I won’t go into great financial detail in this article, but anyone interested in reading the full report can find all the

L E T T E R •T O •T H E •E D I T O R Help for the Old Gallery in Allenspark I don’t know if you are aware of the Old Gallery, just 20 minutes away up Highway 7. The Old Gallery is a community center, artist co-op, and performing arts venue with many wonderful art and wellness classes, a food bank and clothes closet, a visitor center; and a wide range of services and gatherings for Allenspark and the surrounding area. We invite you to drive up to the Old Gallery on the weekends to see this beautiful, world-class facility. (Open six days per week June to October, and open at other times throughout the year for regularly scheduled activities and services.)

The Old Gallery raised funds for renovations, which were completed in July 2015. However, because it had additional requirements of the building code and escalated construction costs, the Old Gallery currently has a $660,000 construction loan, in addition to its mortgage and operating costs. The construction loan must be paid off by December 1, 2017, and to that end, two long-term Meeker Park residents have established a $350,000 matching donation fund designated specifically to retire the entire construction loan. A fundraising campaign is underway to raise the matching $350,000 before December 1, 2017; each donation is matched dollar for dollar. This gives the Old Gallery a real possibility of surviving; without raising these funds this wonderful community center is facing foreclosure.

Matching grants have been applied for and there have been significant pledges, but the grants are uncertain. Therefore, the Old Gallery hopes to raise another $100,000 specifically from individual donors. If the entire match it is not met, your pledges will not need to be fulfilled, because it will mean we have not raised enough funds to pay off the entire construction loan.

The pledge agreement spells out these details.

There are some upcoming events at the Old Gallery: Songwriters in the Round on October 14 at 7 p.m.; a Scottish Fall Festival, dinner and Celidh on October 21, with classes beginning at 10 a.m. and the Celidh at 7 p.m. (contact Arlene Patterson 303-827-5386); and a Halloween party and dance featuring the Market Street Boys on October 28 at 7 p.m. with a potluck at 6 p.m.

Anyone interested in pledging a matching donation to retire the construction loan should contact Cathy Benjamin at cathy.benjamin.co@gmail.com or 303775-9551. I will be happy to answer any questions.

For more information about all activities and services, contact Board Chairman Dave Pinkow at 303-4948934; pinkow@gmail.com. He is also the Volunteer Coordinator for the Old Gallery, and is actively recruiting volunteers for many fun and exciting positions. The Old Gallery is located at 14863 Highway 7, next to the Allenspark Fire Station. Thanks.

Cathy Benjamin, Board Member, The Old Gallery

information in the September 25, 2017, special meeting packet posted on the town website. Additionally, if you are thinking that it seems rather late in the year to be finishing the 2016 audit, you would be correct. The usual timeline is to conduct the audit in April or May after the fiscal year is closed, and the Board typically accepts the audit findings during the summer. Due to the amount of grant dollars flowing through the town for disaster recovery, and the wide range of funding sources, the audit process is much more complicated and has taken additional months to complete.

The audit is valuable in that it presents an outsiders view of how well the town is tracking the financial transactions associated with usual fiscal activities and for grants. Any material weaknesses or deficiencies in accounting practices are noted and the staff develops a

expenses will be denied for various reasons. The difficulty lies in that until projects are completely closed, it is not possible to predict how much money the town may have at risk, and using other disasters as a benchmark is not very helpful since each disaster and city is unique.

According to the recent audit, the town has approximately $805,000 in non-reimbursable costs through December 31, 2016. Of this amount, the state has provided additional funds for un-met needs of $344,000 to help offset these expenses. Approximately $213,000 has already been paid out of the town’s General Fund $248,000 that must be paid unless a new funding source is identified. The Board of Trustees has anticipated this eventuality and has been setting aside money in each annual budget to pay for non-covered disaster expenses. One of the primary audit recommendations is to develop a system to begin accounting for ineligible disaster expenses on the general ledger. This will be a topic of discussion for the 2018 budget cycle.

The other major area brought to the Board’s attention is a weakness in accounting of capital assets. This is again related to the complexity and volume of infrastructure improvements that has occurred with disaster recovery.

The town needs to develop and improve its tracking system for capitalizing improvements and tracking inventory. The town’s new finance director has already The McConnell Bridge was rebuilt after the flood.

PHOTO BY THADDEUS ROAN developed the plan of correction for this exposure. Another item plan of correction. The audit also functions to inform the of note is related to the changes in the town’s staffing situaBoard of vulnerabilities that may present future fiscal tion as it pertains to managing finances and flood recovery impacts on the town’s budget. projects. The auditor suggested developing redundancies to One of the most challenging aspects of disaster recovery ensure valuable historical knowledge is not lost as the has been tracking the grant dollars and ensuring the funds staffing levels return to normal. The town still employs sevare accurately applied to the appropriate project. In 2013, eral temporary contract staff to help manage the grant the town devised a system to track recovery project dollars expenses, and as these people leave the permanent staff in a separate Grant Fund, and subsequently reconcile the must be able to maintain an accurate status of each project payments as they are made through the town’s regular and the associated funding. accounts. This system has worked fairly well for tracking In summary, the positive news is that the town was given purposes and has made it easier to see how the town’s oper- a “clean opinion” from the auditor in terms of compliance ations are performing without all the grant projects skew- with all federal programs. This essentially means that the ing the picture. While not perfect, the Board has been able town complied with the requirements of federal programs to maintain a sufficient view of both the grant finances in terms of financial reports. The most significant risk the and the regular budget expenses, and the staff has been town faces in the next several years as the grant projects able to track the funds in a somewhat exclusive manner. begin to close is due to ineligible grant expenses. The 2016, The challenge the town faces over the next few years is to audit assumes that all the expenses related to the remainmerge the two systems, which may introduce additional ing open projects will be eligible. We know this will not exposure for the town’s General Fund. necessarily be the case, but there is no way to predict the As the final funding for each recovery project is con- town’s total future exposure. Based on the results of 2016, firmed, the town will begin to develop a clearer picture of however, some clues are emerging and the board is gaining any expenses that are not going to be reimbursed through a better sense of how to prepare for the potential fiscal grants. The town has always known that some recovery impacts of the flood recovery on the town’s finances.

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INTEREST Big changes coming for Lyons’ parks, development, and annexations

By Roger Flynn Redstone Review LYONS – Major changes are in store for how land around Lyons will, or will not be, developed or protected. In the coming weeks and months, the Town will consider substantial modifications to Flynn town ordinances affecting our parks, open lands, and borders, which could result in new and significant development and growth.

For the parkland at the southern end of Bohn Park, the town will determine the zoning and permitted uses of the Dog Park and may also consider whether the ten acres just south of the Dog Park will be annexed and subject to development or other non-park uses. Proposals for development in the Eastern Corridor are being formulated.

The Board of Trustees (BOT) has also been discussing substantially limiting the scope of the current rule requiring a citizen vote on annexations of five or more acres.

Now is the time to let town officials know how you feel about the future direction of our community.

Zoning of the Dog Park For the Dog Park (known as Lot E in Town / County

documents), the town will determine what zoning to apply, as the property was not zoned when we acquired it from Boulder County. The Dog Park is protected by conservation easements established when the county gave the land to Lyons on the condition that future land uses “are consistent with the generally intended open space, recreational, and educational uses.” The Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC), and then the BOT, will consider whether to zone the Dog Park for Parks / Open Space (POS), or some other use, such as Municipal. “Permitted uses” (i.e. use-by-right) in the Municipal zone include “municipal administration office, municipal service facility, accessory building or use,” and other non-park uses. Such uses would not permitted in the POS zone.

Annexation and zoning of the ten acres just south of the Dog Park The future of the roughly ten-acre parcel directly south of the Dog Park (known as Lot F) is also at stake. The land was transferred to the town by the county in 2013, with the town stating that “the primary uses to be permitted in perpetuity shall include passive recreation, educational, or school activities and general open space and park uses.” This beautiful, gently sloping grassland

Halloween Chili Cook-Off Competition and Garden Club Fund Raiser

By Sara Erickson Redstone Review LYONS – The Annual Chili Cook-Off Sale Fundraiser will be held on Saturday, October 28, at 4:30 p.m.at the Stone Cup parking lot at the end of the Lyons Spooktacular parade route. Chili entries can be red, green or vegetarian. Whether you want to cook, compete or eat, you’re bound to have a wonderful time.

Entering your chili in the cook-off is easy. No entry fee is required.

Bring a crockpot with a ladle, both clearly marked with your name, to the Stone Cup parking lot on Saturday October 28. Fill out an entry form when you drop off your chili. We will start accepting chili entries at 3:30 p.m. Samples will be sold for $.50 per taste and each

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bowl will be $5. Toppings will be provided. Sales begin at 4:30 p.m. and will last until chili is gone. Beverages will be available at the Stone Cup for purchase.

This year voting is a little different. Those purchasing chili can vote, but make sure you sample at least a few entries before you vote. Hopefully there will be no ballot box stuffing. Stuff yourself with chili instead.

Awards will be given.

One entry will receive a People’s Choice prize of a $50 gift certificate to Gwynne’s Greenhouse.

Winners will be announced at 6:30 p.m.

The Garden Club will also be selling specially decorated Halloween flamingos as a special fundraiser. They are fun, foolish and fabulous.

One can be yours for a minimum $10 donation.

Sara Erickson is a Lyons resident and member of the Lyons Garden Club.

and wildlife habitat is used by Lyons residents and visitors for hiking and biking and connects to Heil Ranch Open Space. It annually hosts the nationally recognized St. Vrain Invitational cross-country meet and other recreational events.

Although the town owns this land, it has not been annexed. Whether to annex this land, and what zoning and permitted uses will be allowed, have been discussed and may soon be formally considered by the PCDC and BOT. There are likely three main choices: 1. Do not annex, since annexation is not required to maintain its current uses for recreation, wildlife habitat, and viewshed; 2. Annex and zone the lands for Parks / Open Space to continue the passive recreation and similar uses; or 3. Annex and zone for non-park uses such as Municipal. It is also possible that the town could ask the County to eliminate the conservation easement protections covering this land, and if the County agreed, development for other uses could occur (but likely only if the land were annexed).

The PCDC will hold a public hearing on October 23 at 7 p.m. in Town Hall to consider the zoning for the Dog Park, when it will make a recommendation to the BOT. The BOT would then hold a public hearing, likely in late November, to make the final decision. For Lot F, public hearings have not yet been scheduled, so stay tuned.

Development proposals in the Eastern Corridor The town is pursuing development of lands within the Eastern Corridor (roughly from Clark’s Hardware towards Cemex). The town is now accepting proposals for commercial and / or residential development of the Townowned water treatment plant lands along Colorado Highway 66. These proposals will be considered in the coming months and public hearings will be scheduled.

New exemptions from the five-acre annexation vote rule The BOT is also considering creating major exemptions to the town ordinance that has required, since the year 2000, voter approval of annexations of private land of five acres or more. The BOT has recently discussed adding numerous exemptions to allow certain types of larger annexations to avoid the citizen approval vote. A BOT workshop in late November and a continuation of the public hearing on December 4 have been tentatively scheduled.

All of these issues directly affect the future of the town and unique quality of life we have here in Lyons. Please make your voices heard. Submit written comments to the PCDC and BOT, and attend the public hearings. To be informed, go to: http://www.townoflyons.com/list.aspx, and under “Available Lists” click on “Notify Me” and “Agenda Center” to get the weekly notices of upcoming PCDC/BOT hearings, which will include the zoning, annexation, and development proposals up for consideration.

Roger Flynn serves on the PCDC. He is a public interest environmental lawyer and Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado.

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ECOLOGY The state of the fishery is good and getting better

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – Early this spring I met a fly fisherman coming out of the St. Vrain River near the Second Avenue Bridge, and as a fisherman myself I asked him how his luck was. His enthusiastic response was to show me a phone photo of a big brown trout he had just caught. He had measured it at 19 inches before he released it.

I don’t know which of us was more excited. I recognized this big fish as a

2013 flood survivor who had seen the very worst that nature and man could deal and survived. (A fish this size is at least five years old.) Scientific and anecdotal evidence suggest the state of the trout fishery in and around Lyons is in good shape, and will only get better as the full impact of the river restoration work takes effect in the coming years.

Fish recovering from nature and man The 2013 flood greatly impacted the St. Vrain’s fish population, but post-flood fish counts by Colorado Parks and

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A CPW employee displays one of the rainbow trout stocked in the North St. Vrain in 2016.

Wildlife showed there was still a viable population – about one thousand fish per river mile. The real culprit that severely damaged the fishery was the instream work done that winter whose focus was property protection, not ecological restoration. Following that work, fish counts plummeted.

“The flood didn’t decimate the fish populations; the necessary emergency repairs were the real culprit,” said Ben Swigle, CPW fish biologist.

That emergency work in the winter of 2013-2014 destroyed in-stream habitat by removing woody debris and valuable vegetation, disconnecting the floodplain and channelizing the river.

The subsequent restoration work done in 2015-2016 from LaVern M. Johnson Park down through town to near the McConnell Bridge has corrected much of the damage and improved the river’s habitat. The river is today substantially changed; a deeper center channel plus instream structures create riffles and pools and promote higher fish populations. Also, woody debris – a key to macroinvertebrate (aquatic insects, crustaceans or mollusks) production – was placed in the river.

Surveys say …

Electroshocking surveys last November at three locations along the North St. Vrain were revealing and showed both positives and negatives for the fishery.

The survey done at a site about halfway

Save the fish – report violations Fishing in the Town of Lyons is strictly limited to catch-and-release and the use of flies or artificial lures only. Anyone witnessing a violation of these fishing regulations should call Operation Game Thief at 1-877-2656648 (the number is on fishing licenses). The Boulder County Sheriff’s office (303-444-4441) also has legal authority to address violators. The Colorado State Patrol dispatch at 303-239-4501 will also notify the oncall CPW officer. up Apple Valley showed healthy populations of both rainbow trout (2742 per river mile) and brown trout (1819 per river mile). The high number of rainbow trout in Apple Valley was expected due to a spring 2016 stocking in that area; the fact that so many survived was an indication of good fish habitat. Swigle said the Apple Valley numbers are at 75 percent of pre-flood numbers.

A second survey done at the Planet Bluegrass stretch of river showed a healthy brown trout population (2173 per river mile) but fewer rainbows (188 per river mile).

The third survey location was conducted at LaVern Johnson Park and, surprisingly, it showed low numbers; only nine rainbow trout were counted and brown trout averaged only 887 per river mile, despite the fact that extensive stocking of Continue Fishery on Page 14

Conversation on Mental Health at the Lyons Regional Library on Oct. 25

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – “We need to get to the place where we understand that mental health challenges are like physical health challenges,” says Katherine Weadley, Director of the Lyons Regional Library.

Jane “When someone breaks a leg we don’t expect them to ‘just snap out of it’ or think they somehow brought it on themselves. Like physical health conditions, mental health conditions need treatment and the people who confront them need our support.”

How much do you actually know about mental health and mental illness? Did you know that one in four Americans, from all walks of life, experiences a mental illness each year? Or that one in ten young people have

experienced a period of major depression? In Colorado, suicide is the number one cause of death for people ages 14 to 24 and 35 to 44 and number two, after poisoning, for people ages 25 to 34. If any of this surprises you, it’s for a good reason. There is a stigma attached to talking about mental health and mental illness, and even more of a stigma attached to having one. So, we end up not knowing the facts about it and not talking about it.

Locally, nationally, and internationally, there is a movement to change this, to bring acceptance of and the truth about mental health and mental illness out into the daylight. Cities and towns are becoming “stigma-free zones.” Stigmafreezone.com is the name of a Canadian organization that used to be called the Bipolar Society.

They are working to decrease the stigmas associated with all forms of “other ability.” They offer an interesting stigma test for you to see how much you hold preconceptions

and act on them.

Changedirection.org wants people to sign pledge to know the five signs that may mean someone is in emotional pain and might need help. The five signs are: personality change, agitation, withdrawal, poor self-care, and hopelessness. Since 40 percent of people who have mental illness don’t go for help, they want to make sure that if you see these symptoms in yourself, someone you love, or a community member, you ask about them. The questions to ask are simple, but they can be scary to ask, so it is suggested that you practice asking them with friends, for example, asking “Have you been unhappy lately?” or “You don’t seem to be the same recently. Is something going on?” Most important is to keep talking, keep listening, and be kind and accepting.

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OPTIONS Celebrating Day of the Dead with a new oven

By Natalie Costanza Chavez Redstone Review FT. COLLINS – My oven’s been broken since early summer. I knew it Costanza-Chavez was dying when it started to beep loudly for no apparent reason; the temperature began to fluctuate wildly. I bought a small oven thermometer and simply adjusted according; I added 100 degrees more than the recipe called for when the oven was too cold, or subtracted 60 degrees when the oven was too hot. I cajoled it along for months until finally, it beeped louder and longer than usual, and was seemingly gone.

I called the repair technician. He pulled the oven out of the wall and balanced it on a dolly, checked all the connections, the fuses, the electrical currents. And then, after double checking the part numbers, he told the circuit board needed to be replaced.

Then he said that it’s not manufactured anymore. “It’s time to get a new oven.”

Then came mid-summer, and the full heat of the sun in our south-facing kitchen. Using an oven seemed redundant. Instead, we barbequed, or used the sauté pans, or cast iron pots, or the griddle, on the stove.

Of course, this also meant no baking.

No chocolate cake using my great Aunt LaLa’s recipe – “Carmelita’s Best Chocolate Cake.” No olive oil lemon cake, no Mexican pecan cake. But, I would rationalize, the boys aren’t living at home for the summer, so not baking will save my husband and me from eating a whole cake.

It also meant no sheet pans full of roasted potatoes, beets, and onions, no browning the top of a frittata, no pies of any sort – not even blueberry, and no cookies at all. “But, it’s too hot anyway,” I’d think.

I didn’t want to research new ovens. I wanted my old oven to beep and spring back to life.

the shape of a skull. Each are then decorated with bright frosting – blue, pink, green, red, yellow, orange – and then further embellished with sequins, cut foil, pieces of colored tissue paper or seeds and beads and feathers. Each one is made to honor someone gone, someone missed, someone loved. It’s but one part of an

Even though we’re clearly past the beginning of fall, it was the sugar skulls that finally got me moving. I called and offered to make some for an art class at Pathways Hospice and once I hung up the phone I knew I’d have to break down and pick out an oven.

Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, is a day set aside to honor and celebrate loved ones who have died. Calavera de Azúcar – a sugar skull – is molded sugar in

ancient tradition that originated in what is now central Mexico. October is here.

Dia de Los Muertos is coming.

My husband and I began celebrating Day of the Dead when our sons were very young. We liked the tradition of happily honoring the dead, of cooking their favorite foods, and of taking the dark, and hidden heaviness out of loss and death for even a day. We spent weeks making tamales, and preparing sugar skulls and

Vote for Lyons History

By Baiba Lennard Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Historical Society has been notified by Dana Echohawk, Project Director, Colorado Collection Connection (CCC), that the Redstone Museum’s collection of Teacher Registration and Grade Books are in the running for the top 10 of Colorado’s 2017 Most Significant Artifacts.

The general public is being asked to vote from now to November 17. Please show support of your Lyons Historical Society and the Redstone Museum by following the link to view the artifacts and voting form: https://collectioncare.auraria.edu/content/teacher-registers-grade-books.

The link will take you directly to the Teacher Registers page. Click “VOTE.” Select Teacher Registration and Grade Books, 1920-1961. Submit your vote at the bottom of the page. You can vote once a day until November 17.

This nomination is an honor for the Redstone Museum. In its fifth year, this program recognizes that artifacts “cared for by Colorado’s cultural heritage organizations tell a story that collectively represents the diverse history of Colorado.” CCC is a collaborative partnership among the Center for Colorado and the

West (CC&W), the Colorado Wyoming Association of Museums (CWAM), the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists (SRMA), the Colorado State Library (CSL), and History Colorado.

During recent efforts to organize and preserve the museum’s collections, museum staff came across the boxes containing 214 teacher registers and grade books. Why are these significant? The one-room “1881 Schoolhouse” was one of the first major structures built by community effort in the newly 1881 platted town of Lyons. The books provide a wealth of information about the Lyons schools, teachers, students, families, and community from 1920 to 1961. In fact, the books bring the retired school building to life. A note from Hazel Craker's 1956/57 Third Grade Class Records states: “Picnic Day: Slide down fire escape, rooms by turns, starting at 11:30, first grade. Younger children permitted to come.”

What was recorded changed over the years. But, the books give the museum the ability to track class sizes, gender and age demographics, school year calendars, and changes in what students studied. Together with photographs and newspaper articles also from the museum’s collection, these provide valuable material for research, as well as content for the “School and Sports Memorabilia” display and planned updating of the school exhibit.

You can see a sample of the registers on display when the museum opens for the season, May 5, 2018 or by appointment.

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Please share this link with your friends, families, coworkers, and neighbors. The Historical Society appreciates your support and votes.

Baiba Lennard is the media specialist in the blended library at Lyons Elementary School. She is also a part-time employee of the Redstone Museum. She lives in the Lyons area.

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then invited our friends and the families of our children’s friends. We encouraged them to bring pictures of their loved ones for an altar-of-sorts. We decorated with marigolds and tissue paper flowers, made margaritas, played music and watched a table full of children, sticky with frosting, adorning their sugar skulls. “Who’s that one?” we’d ask. And they’d tell us stories about their dead people, all the while beaming with the grace and normalcy of children simply describing a part of life.

The new oven arrives tomorrow.

This weekend I’ll pour a half pail of sugar into a metal bowl. Then, one after another, I’ll crack eggs with one hand and strain the whites through the cupped fingers of my other; each time I’ll catch the yolk whole to keep it from falling into the bowl. Next I’ll put my hands in the sugar and move it around and around. It will sound like dry sand until it begins to stick to the egg white. When it’s ready it will be like wet sand on a beach. I’ll scoop the sugar into the molds, push it down with the heel of my hand, and flip the mold over on the cookie sheet. Eight skulls to a sheet, four sheets into an oven set to barely hot. They’ll stay in there for hours and I’ll turn the oven off for the night. In the morning I’ll pull out the sheets and pile the skulls, hardened and solid.

Each one will be decorated with the spirit of life – colorful, celebratory, sparking a pause of joy and remembrance.

Happy Dia de Los Muertos. Happy Halloween. Happy All Saints Day, All Souls Day – happy fall.

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INSIGHT Donations: Do they help the organization or do they pay for more junk mail?

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – Like many other concerned Americans in the months since Donald Trump was elected president, I’ve sent Gierach checks to various organizations that I thought could effectively oppose some of his most egregious policies: Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, among others.

I don’t mean that I joined those groups, just that I sent them checks for what, in the grand scheme of modern social activism, were modest but, to me, significant amounts of hard-earned money to help with a worthy cause.

They could have each just sent me polite notes saying, “Thanks, this’ll help” and left it at that. But instead they all launched an onslaught of junk mail asking for even more money that will likely dog me for the rest of my life. That’s the accepted tactic now, even though it’s pointless. I already sent what I could and, if nothing else, it seems rude to tell someone who’s just made a donation that it’s not enough. If it were me, I’d worry that donors might recall this ingratitude the next time they were tempted to write a check.

Of course I expected that based on previous experience with various groups, beginning with the Democratic Party.

When I first registered to vote in 1967 – you had to be 21 then – I registered as a Democrat and stayed a Democrat until about ten years ago when, out of frustration, I re-registered as “unaffiliated.”

When I became a registered Democrat in the 1960s they espoused a liberal philosophy that I more or less believed in, but with subsequent debates over platforms and messaging it became obvious that they were sitting down every two years to decide if they believed anything at all, and if so, what it might be this time around. Turns out they were politicians instead of philosophers. Who knew?

I was never a dues-paying member of the party, but over the years I did send them money from time to time – not much, but often as much as I could spare – and in return I got endless come-ons for more that haven’t stopped to this day.

(Among other things, they’ve been sending me membership renewal notices marked URGENT and FINAL for over half a century now.) At first I threw this stuff away with the rest of the junk mail.

Later I learned to recycle. Over the last 50 years, by my calculation, the Democrats have spent several times what I sent them on printing and postage asking me for more.

A friend says she gets around that by sending contributions in cash in a plain envelope with no return address so they can’t track her d o w n .

Another f r i e n d astutely asked, “ W h a t ’s to keep someone in the office from j u s t pocketing the money?” Well, maybe character, which I think is a better than even bet, or roughly the same odds that the organization won’t piss the money away on the kind of pointless excesses that big-ticket fundraising is sometimes heir to.

Early in the Trump administration those unsolicited donations began to resemble a kind of populist resistance movement and at first glance might have looked like good news for these organizations. Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU,

demanding, timeconsuming lives that require our full attention so these organizations count on the spurof-the-moment impulse buy.

That’s why you get the endless solicitations for more. It’s also why I sometimes think the small grassroots contributions do little more than fund the search for deeper pockets.

Left Hand Creek with a wider bridge that spans the creek, allowing a 100-year flood event to pass under the highway. They also will restore Left Hand Creek to a natural, resilient state, in coordination with other restoration efforts east and west of U.S. 36.

Bridge features will include: six to eight foot shoulders; two 12-foot travel lanes; a northbound left-turn lane to Middle Fork Drive and a southbound right-turn / deceleration lane to Middle Fork Drive.

In the Town of Lyons, work includes protection efforts against scour or erosion on three bridges, and minor drainage improvements.

Traffic Impacts: Normal work hours 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Traffic will be reduced to one lane during paving. A 25 mph speed limit will be strictly enforced within the mile-long work zone during this two-week window.

Damage Overview: This section of U.S. 36 is one of the main corridors providing access between Estes Park and Boulder crossing both the St. Vrain Creek and Left Hand Creek. Floodwaters caused extensive damage to these channels as well as the structures along U.S. 36. Damage included large amounts of debris

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Lyons Elementary School calendar 10/20 Jogathon Pie in the Face Assembly 10/24 Preschool Back to School 5 p.m. 2nd grade to RMNP 10/25 4th grade to RMNP 10/26 5th grade to RMNP 10/27 Preschool Back to School 8:30 a.m.

10/30 Kindergarten to Anderson Farms 10/31 MONSTER Mash 10/30 to11/3 Scholastic Book Fair 11/2 Book Fair Evening Event

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Repairs: Crews will replace the 62-year-old culvert at U.S. 36 and

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said a few months ago that they’d received more in contributions in the weeks since the election than they normally do in a year. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they’ll need all of that and more to even begin to hold back the tide for the next four or, God forbid, eight years.

The pros who solicit contributions understand that there are better and worse times to make their pitches. That’s why charities hit us hard before Thanksgiving and Christmas when we’re thought to be feeling all warm and compassionate. Political groups do the same during the run-ups to elections when we’re already nervous, if not downright scared, or when knee-jerk issues like the Muslim ban are all over the news, and it works. It’s not that our attention spans are short; it’s just that most of us have

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That’s annoying to those who don’t have deep pockets, but I can’t say I wouldn’t use the same strategy myself.

And of course there are other worthwhile non-profits that could use our help.

What about the rainforests, or starving children or homeless puppies? Every year I send a substantial contribution to the Authors League, a fund run by the Authors Guild that offers interest-free, often never-paid-back loans to down and out professional writers to pay for things like rent and medical expenses. It’s a cause that’s close to my heart because, you know, there but for the grace of God . . .

Donating to political campaigns has gotten especially disheartening since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that let unlimited corporate funds into the political process along with untraceable dark money that comes from who knows where – potentially even foreign governments. It’s so common now for each successive political campaign to be the most expensive in history that it’s no longer even news and it’s hard not to feel a little bit ridiculous as you drop your little hundred dollar check in the mail.

But you do it anyway because it might just make a difference. After all, Bernie Sanders made a big dent in the Clinton campaign based on contributions averaging $35, along with his unique brand of curmudgeonly New England-style Democratic Socialism.

I sent Bernie $100, which makes me one of his larger donors. It was in the form of a check with my name and address printed on it, but I never received a come-on for more money, although I’m sure that would have changed of he’d become the candidate and fallen into the hands of the pros.

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and sediment deposit, erosion of the roadway embankment, overtopping of the roadway, scour damage of the bridge piers and abutments, and exposing underground utilities.

Benefits: One of the goals in the repair process is to introduce certain betterments to roadway facilities that were damaged and make them more resilient to similar storm events in the future. Having analyzed the damage caused during the flood event, certain design elements will be incorporated in an effort to prevent or lessen the severe damage that significant flood events can cause. The permanent repair phase will allow for the betterment of drainage facilities and erosion protection areas throughout the corridor that can handle the high flows from large storm events and protect facilities from potential damage in the future.

Branch disposal LYONS – Since 2013, the Town has discontinued curbside chipping. Please remember that it is illegal to place branches and unwanted limbs on Town and CDOT right-of-way property, which includes parks, alleyways and any property in the buyout program.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in the greater Lyons area

By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS The Stone Cup Café will present an art show featuring artist Allen LaFollette for November and December. Growing up in Lyons, there Wu was never a shortage of scenery to inspire LaFollete. Influenced by Claude Monet, Lafollete hopes the richness in the paintings that comes from nature will bring comfort, peace, and tranquility. The music line-up includes: Michelle Allen’s folk on Oct. 21; Ryne Doughty’s roots-Americana on Oct. 22; Jon Cumming’s Americana on Oct. 28; Thomas Gronberg’s folk rock on Oct. 29; Antonio Lopez with modern folk on Nov.4; singer-songwriter Goinomadic on Nov. 5; A Human Named David who is both the pianist and storyteller on Nov. 11; Ben Knighten’s acoustic and alternative on Nov. 12; Billy Shadow’s American folk music on Nov. 18; and Hope Griffin Band on Nov. 19. The café is at Fifth Avenue and High Street. For more information please call 303-823-2345 or visit www.thestonecup.com.

Denver Zoo welcomed the birth of two male red panda cubs on August 27. The brothers, who don’t have names yet, have been quietly spending time behind the scenes with their mother, Faith, in a nest box.

Keepers say the cubs are doing well and growing fast and that the brothers are pretty feisty when they wrestle each other.They won’t be visible to the public for another few weeks, when they’ll be more developed and ready to join their father, Hamlet, in the Zoo’s red panda enclosure. PHOTO: DENVER ZOO Two cozy indoor Friday evening concerts end the season at the Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass with Monocle Band’s CD release party on October 20 and the singer-songwriter icon Vance Gilbert on November 3. Monocle Band’s newest album The Clearing is an earnest collection of songs destined to enchant their longtime fans and turn the ear of a new crop of listeners. The evening also welcomes special guests of the Jon Stickley Trio, featuring Jon Stickley’s rapid-fire flatpicking guitar, Lyndsay Pruitt’s wild yet refined melodies on violin, and the deep groove of Patrick Ermitage on drums. Vance Gilbert burst onto the singer-songwriter scene in the early 90s when buzz started spreading in the folk clubs of Boston about an ex-multicultural arts teacher who was knocking ‘em dead at open mics. Gilbert’s compositions, while frequently employing sophisticated melodies and harmonies that show his jazz roots, remain true to the storyteller’s craft. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

Shows start at 8 p.m. For tickets and information, visit www.bluegrass.com or call 1-800-624-2422.

Western Stars Gallery and Studio, 160 East Main St., will host a fundraiser for Pearl Group on October 22 from 2 to 4 p.m. Pearl Group is an organization that aids struggling single-parent families. The planned painting depicts a raven sitting atop either a pumpkin or a tree branch. Betsy Hubner will instruct students of all ages and abilities. Western Stars will donate $10 per person to the Pearl Group from the $35 fee which also includes all materials and one beverage.

Western Stars will celebrate its two-year anniversary on Nov. 18 and 19 from 11 to 7 p.m. Special treats and discounts will be offered, and local musicians are welcome to stop by and jam. Since opening on Nov. 15, 2015, over 100 painters, musicians, photographers, sculptors, jewelers, woodworkers, candlemakers, crafters, and ceramicists

Paintings by Allen LaFollette are featured at the Stone Cup Café during November and December have been represented, the vast majority of which are from Colorado. For information call 303-747-3818.

BOULDER Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrates its 14th season with exciting concerti, chamber concerts, and Mozart’s Requiem. The season begins on Oct. 20 and 21 with violinist Sharon Park and violist Andrew Krimm in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, as well as Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 and Elgar String Serenade.

On Nov. 10 and 11, pianist Mina Gajic and violinist Zachary Carrettin of the Boulder Bach Festival will join BCO for Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin and Piano and Leo Janacek’s Idyl, a seven-movement large-scale composition for string orchestra. The concerts take place at the Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Rd. in Broomfield, and Boulder Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave. in Boulder. For tickets and information please go to www.boulderchamberorchestra.com.

CU Presents features a play by Paula Vogel, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Oct. 18 to 22 at the Loft Theater. On the icy road home from a disastrous Christmas celebration, a family of five is forever changed by one traumatic moment. This experimental play uses traditional Japanese puppetry to explore what keeps families together and what tears them apart.

On Oct. 19, faculty and students of the CU Music Department present chamber music by celebrated American composer and Roser Visiting Artist Lowell Liebermann. Program includes Lieberman’s Sonata for Flute and Piano, Nocturne, Paio Trio, Sonata for Violin and Piano, Daydream and Nightmare for two pianos and eight hands. The concert features Christina Jennings on flute, Charles Wetherbee and William Terwilliger on violin, David Reguiro on

cello, Margaret McDonald, Andrew Cooperstock, Maria Wietrzynska, Nathália Kato, Barbara Noyes, Jonathan Morris, Sarah Rushing, Jennifer Hayghe, and David Korevaar on piano.

The Merry Widow, an opera by Franz Lehár, will take place on Oct. 27 to 29 at Macky Auditorium.

Vienna’s definitive romantic operetta uses laugh-outloud comedy and lavish costumes to concoct the perfect musical confection. At a gala reception in Paris, an ambassador plans to save his poverty-stricken kingdom by sending one of his noblemen to court the fabulously wealthy Hanna Glawari.

The Grammy Award-winning Takács String Quartet will present a program consisting of Mozart, Carl Vine, and Mendelssohn on Oct. 29 and 30. Hailed by The Guardian as “ simply breathtaking, matchless, their supreme artistry manifest at every level,” the irresistible blend of virtuosic technique and engaging personality of the quartet has moved the audiences for almost three decades. The concerts will take place at Grusin Hall, located in the Imig Music Building.

The CU Japanese Ensemble presents a performance on November 5 with a program of music and dance from Japan that reflects traditional, neo-traditional and contemporary popular culture. Directed by CU Instructor Mami Itasaka-Keister and CU Professor Jay Keister, the ensemble performs a selection of folk songs and dances, a classical kabuki dance and a taiko drumming piece inspired by Japanese anime cinema. For ticket and information, please go to cupresents.org.

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High Street Concerts presents the November Project

By Annie Sirotniak Redstone Review LYONS – The November Project is an effort to bring hope, encouragement, and solace to anyone experiencing adversity in their lives. Started by Lyons musician, Ian Brighton, in November of 2016, the project began in the form of an audio diary and has evolved into a collaboration with over 12 musicians. The November Project will be held on Saturday, November 18. Get your tickets early as we expect to sell out well in advance of this show.

Proceeds from the November Project will go towards the Cardio-Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at Children’s Hospital and the Sie Center for Down Syndrome. Thanks to the generosity of our artists, we will be donating from ticket sales; and we will be collecting cash and check donations at the show.

The original inspiration for the November Project is Ian Brighton’s son, Michael Brighton, who has a congenital heart defect and Down syndrome. He’s faced many hurdles in his young life, but he continues to inspire everyone with his amazing spirit and infectious smile.

Looking back over the past 15 years, it’s heartening to recall the shows we’ve produced in our all-volunteer

High Street Concert series. We’ve shared many moments of joy and inspiration together as a musical community, bringing “world class music to our cozy listening venue” at Rogers Hall. It’s our tradition to embrace the holiday season with a musical fundraiser, and with Thanksgiving a month away, we invite you to participate in this event, which will make a difference in the lives of others, and inspire your heart with peace, hope, love and joy.

For this special event, we will have three amazing bands on the stage; these are fabulous musicians with strong Colorado / Lyons / Longmont / Denver connections: Peacocks of Potato Hill (John Grigsby, Patrick Lee, Jonny Jyemo, Ian Brighton), the 89s (Eben Grace, Michael Thompson, Brian Schey), and Lyons Gospel Band (KC Groves, Caleb Roberts, Bonnie Sims, Taylor Sims, Ian Brighton), and we are anticipating special guests.

The November Project will be held on Saturday November 18 at Rogers Hall at Fourth Avenue and High Street in Lyons. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 online at www.highstreetconcerts.com and at the door. For information on the Children’s Hospital and Down Syndrome go to https://www.childrenscolorado.org/doctors-and-departments/departments/down-syndrome/your-visit/.

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Rave to the Grave, a benefit for LEAF at the Enchanted Forest

By Kate Kerr Redstone Review LYONS – Don’t miss the benefit of the year, Rave to the Grave, Saturday Oct. 27, 7 to 11 p.m. at the Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass. Ages 18 and up are welcome to attend. Admission is free but donations are encouraged to benefit Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund, (LEAF).

Rave for the Grave is LEAF’s fundraiser for the year. Donations will be accepted at the Rave by cash, check and credit card.

Spruce up your costumes for the costume contest! Enchantress Kahlie Sue Pinello and her siren friends will create the magical Enchanted Forest using all sorts of mysterious items such as antlers, mirrors, skeletons, tapestries, patio furniture and much more.

Video DJ Andrew Breslin will add his otherworldly visuals. Arthur Lee Land’s mad guitar along with the epic band, Gogo Lab will have all dancing legs turned to spaghetti. Watch for surprise musical guests!

A cash bar will be available with wine and Oskar Blues beer. Pizza Bar 66 will provide pizza for purchase, all proceeds to LEAF. Special thanks to Planet Bluegrass for donating use of the incredible Wildflower Pavilion venue.

Still need even more party? After Rave to the Grave, head over to the Pizza Bar 66 After party with live music and try an extra special LEAF drink created using liquor donated by Spirit Hound, all proceeds go to LEAF. Lyons, don’t miss this chance to cut loose for a great cause. Thirty-four local businesses are sponsoring the event, allowing all donations at Rave to the Grave to go directly to LEAF, whose mission is to offer a human services safety net to those in need in the Greater Lyons area. LEAF serves over 100 people every week with programs including the Food Pantry, advocacy, and Meals on Wheels. For more information, go to www.leaflyons.org.

Kate Kerr is a LEAF volunteer and volunteers throughout Lyons. She is also a fiddler.

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One of the nearest organizations that will collect branches is Western Disposal. For $0.45 per 20 lbs., residents (non-commercial) can drop off unwanted branches to Western’s collection site, located at 5880 Butte Mill Road in Boulder. For larger pick-up loads, the cost equates to $44.40 per ton. Western Disposal is open Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Visit www.westerndisposal.com, or call 303-444-2037 for more information.

Lyons Old-Time Square Dance LYONS – Old-time reels, mixers, 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 square dance will be held on Saturday, Nov. 4 at from 7 to 10 p.m. at Oskar Blues event room, 303 Main St. Bob Zuellig is the caller with Ramblin’ Joe and the Vittetones.

The cost is $10 adult, $5 child and $25 family. For more information, go to https: / / www. facebook. com / events / 1103999993064589 or contact oldtimedances@musicinlyons.com or 303-827-6322. Future dances: February 3, March 3 and April 7, 2018.

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FOUNDATION Standing or kneeling during the National Anthem

By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review

Pence and fans, a boycott by whom could wreak havoc with NFL attendance and consequently profits, I began wondering what constitutes disrespect for the flag.

Physical flag desecration, of course, is the number one way of showing such disrespect, but the U.S. Supreme Court has, in at least two highly publicized cases, Texas v. Johnson, and U.S. v. Eichman, ruled against legislation at state and federal levels prosecuting flag burners who were using such “symbolic speech” to express

Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, “The flag uniquely symbolizes the ideas of liberty, equality and tolerance.”

PUEBLO – NFL team So, we have a situation less about flag owners are meeting this desecration and more about what constiweek to decide if they will tutes respectful protest. make standing during the It’s similar in some ways to what the pre-game playing of the high court upheld as a free-speech right of Joyce national anthem a students in the Tinker v. Des Moines requirement for all players and, presumably, Independent Community School District coaches, trainers, and other employees. case. In Tinker, a case in which the school As owners, they have the right to district suspended a group of junior high decide the conditions of students for wearing black employment their employarmbands in silent protest ees must follow. The punagainst the Vietnam war. ishment for breaking those The court said as long employment conditions as the armbands were not will, again presumably, be causing a disruption in the along the lines of bencheducational process or intering, fines and, perhaps, terfering with the rights of othmination of contracts. ers in the school, then the The meeting was schedban the school hastily instiuled a while ago, but it tuted against the armband comes on the heels of preswearing was unconstitutionsure from President Trump al. It was a silent, respectful via Trumptweets (really, protest by politically conthey have become so ubiqcerned citizens. uitous they deserve their In the Eichman case, own label) and the vice Justice Stevens also wrote, president’s recent exit from “The integrity of the symbol an NFL game because some (the U.S. flag) has been players knelt on one knee Colin Kaepernick, at right, with San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid, compromised by those leadduring the anthem. ers who seem to advocate takes a knee during the national anthem to bring attention to social The kneeling is an act injustice. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS compulsory worship of the Pence and Trump condemn flag even by individuals as disrespectful to the flag, whom it offends, or (those the anthem, all active military and veter- their dissatisfaction with U.S. government leaders) who seem to manipulate the symans and their families, and the entire policies and, as they saw it, hypocrisy. bol of national purpose into a pretext for nation as a whole.

The Eichman case nullified the Flag partisan disputes about meaner ends.”

Additional pressure to prohibit the Desecration Act Congress had passed in behavior arrived at owners’ doors last 1989 after the Johnson ruling. It did so on week from the NFL commissioner, Roger First Amendment grounds, 5 to 4.

Goodell, in the form of a letter in which But none of the NFL players is engaged he wrote, “Like many of our fans, we in physical flag desecration, nor are they 303 Main St, Lyons • 303-823-6685 believe everyone should stand for the talking, joking, laughing, or flipping the national anthem.” bird, as far as I can tell. In fact, they Interestingly, only a short time ago 32 remain respectfully silent on bent knee.

WED, OCT 18 • 7:30-10:30PM owners supported their players’ kneeling.

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NEW FAMILY DOG who let the NFL know it. Among them, Because he, himself, respected what the W/ SALLY VAN METER blues no doubt, are wealthy NFL game sponsors flag was supposed to stand for, and networks seeking lucrative game- Kaepernick’s kneeling silently reminded SAT, OCT 28 • 8 :30-11:30PM • $5 COVER broadcast contracts. us of our failure as a nation to live up to HALDEN WOFFORD The NFL team owners aren’t likely to its symbolic promise, and that’s what he & THE HI*BEAMS americana come out of their meeting saying the intended it to do. That’s what all the players have a right to express their dis- kneeling is intended to do.

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So, the real question in all of this is, who is really disrespecting the U.S. flag and that for which it stands?

It seems to me that those who fail to preach, promote and actually practice liberty, equality and tolerance are the real flag desecrators, the true flag-and-anthem disrespectors, the “unpatriots” and the hypocrites in our nation.

The government cannot lawfully compel all of us to walk in lockstep, though there is a federal law that spells out what we should do during the anthem and in saluting the flag. Most of us follow it, but it’s a should, as in ought to, and not a must. Make it a must, and it will become a mockery.

Those who respectfully take a knee in silent protest during the anthem are expressing their considered beliefs about the flag as a tarnished symbol, just as those who stand are expressing what they think about it as our national symbol.

Obviously, the two groups disagree, and they are expressing that in their silent behavior.

And all of us, by living in this nation, abiding by its laws and accepting its benefits, have pledged ourselves to defend to the death the right of all Americans to do that.

Richard A. Joyce is a retired professor in the mass communications department at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is an award-winning journalist who served as managing editor, and subsequently editor and general manager of the Cañon City Daily Record from 1988 to 1994. The opinions he expresses in this column are strictly his own, and do not represent in any way the views of anyone else at the Redstone Review or at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He can be reached at phase15@mac.com.

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CREATE Legal vacation rental process for residential zones begins January 1

COMMENTARY: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN LYONS

By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review

LYONS – Starting January 1, there will be a legal process for short-term vacation rental use by right in Town of Lyons residential zones. After a public hearing and about ten amendments at a Sept. 18 meeting, the Lyons Board of Trustees unanimously approved an ordinance Reinholds that lets homeowners rent out rooms to vacationers in the homes where they live.

A “use by right” means an allowed use that doesn’t require a conditional use review with additional processes.

“Short-term” means rental periods of less than 30 days.

Right now, in town limits, short-term vacation rentals are not permitted by right on residential zoned land (neighborhoods where most of us live). Under current town code, to legally rent out rooms as short-term vacation rentals in residential (R-1 or R-2) zones, homeowners today need to complete a longer process to apply to run a bed and breakfast business, with several steps and public hearings before the Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) and the Board of Trustees. Bed and breakfast businesses with six or fewer units are allowed as a use by right on estate residential and agricultural zoned land (A1, A2, and Estate zones), if the homeowners have a business license and the rented units are in the main house. In addition to agricultural and estate zoned land, lodging is also allowed in commercial zoned land (including the CEC zone).

But in January it will be much easier for homeowners on R-1 and R-2 zones who want to rent out short-term vacation rentals in their homes. The PCDC worked with Town of Lyons planning staff on the changes to town code for more than a year, including gathering input from vacation rental hosts. After hearing public comments at an August public hearing, the PCDC voted to recom-

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ness license, to comply with safety-based requirements such as certifying they have smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, and fire extinguishers, and to acknowledge that the Lyons Fire Protection District may require an inspection. Licenses can be revoked for reasons such as insufficient responses to repeated complaints from neighboring residents or law enforcement. Other requirements include: • Homeowners must live in the home at least nine months out of each calendar year.

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• No more than two vehicles can be parked overnight on the street outside the vacation rental.

• Homeowners must pay sales tax to the state (which can be collected and administered by companies like Airbnb) and have an annual short-term vacation rental business license for the Town of Lyons.

• Short-term vacation rentals are not allowed in recreation vehicles (which includes any vehicles with a VIN number), tents, campers, or other temporary structures.

• Short-term vacation rentals are not allowed on properties with accessory dwelling units (ADUs), also known as mother-in-law apartments or carriage houses – either in the ADU or in main home if the owner lives in an ADU. To learn more about ADUs, which are intended to increase availability of long-term (at least 30 day / monthto-month) rentals, read the Lyons municipal code at www.townoflyons.com/566/Accessory-Dwelling-Units.

What do these new changes to allow short-term vacation rentals mean for affordable housing? Some communities with unmanaged short-term vacation rentals deal with a new problem of fewer longer-term rentals that local employees can afford. I saw most of the PCDC and the Board of Trustees members care about availability of long-term rentals for local employees and aim to balance minimal impact on neighborhoods and general ease of compliance for homeowners who want to rent out rooms in the homes where they live. I’m glad a majority of both the commissioners and trustees voted in support of approaches that value the needs of affordable housing and long-term renters and not just property owners.

Mayor Connie Sullivan said “I think it should be easier to do an ADU and a long-term rental” than short-term vacation rentals. Trustees Dan Greenberg and Wendy Miller introduced and voted for amendments that kept in mind the concerns of renters looking for places to live in

LCF celebrates ten years with a “Brazilian Carnival” style bash

By Kristen Bruckner Redstone Review LYONS – On Friday, November 10 the Lyons Community Foundation will turn its annual gala fundraiser on its ear by hosting a Brazilianthemed carnival style celebration at Bruckner Lionscrest Manor. If there was ever a year to attend the gala, this would be the year to get your “salsa on.” The Lyons community is invited to get in the spirit of supporting LCF’s decade of service, while having a great evening of dancing, dinner, drinks and enjoying your neighbors. The evening is an opportunity to celebrate the incredible amount of inspired work the foundation has done over the past ten years for the people of Lyons.

Highlights to the program start with the band Sambadende, a Brazilian soul ensemble lead by Lyons’ own Ty Hammes. The truly unique arrangement of musicians is sure to inspire party-goers to feel the rhythm of carnival and community. Enhancing the overall experience will be the participation of Samba Colorado, the Brazilian dance school and performing company, which will entertain attendees by sharing Brazilian culture and soul.

The Tenth Anniversary Gala will also feature a Brazilian-inspired menu from Lyons’ own A Spice of Life Catering. The gourmet dinner will be served family style, where each table will enjoy abundant platters of Brazilian steak and salmon and sides as they enjoy the company of neighbors and friends. Passed hors d'oeuvres, desserts and cock-

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tails will also complement the evening’s festivities.

The Lyons Community Foundation aspires to continue to enhance life in Lyons as we enter into our second decade. The annual November gala is our only major fundraiser, and proceeds go to support ongoing grants. To that end, the evening will feature a silent auction with exotic trips, travel packages and other one-of-a kind items. Local artist Jocelyn Farrell’s piece titled Salsa Caliente will be one of the many sought after auction items.

The Lyons Community Foundation has been built on the hard work, dedication, and contributions of many area citizens. We invite the broader community to honor and recognize all those who have laid the ground work for its deeds. The work of LCF encompasses a diverse range of projects over the last ten years such as: LEAF (Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund); Food Pantry; Meals on Wheels; Local Ecology, Landscaping, Area Beautification; 9Health Fair; Sandstone Summer Concert Series; Holiday Parade of Lights; Sounds

of Lyons; Community art and music; Enrichment in area schools; Lyons History; Animal Welfare; and Scholarships.

A local community foundation is not only an invaluable resource to address varying and diverse needs, but also sits poised to come to a community’s aid in time of need. During the 2013 flood, over $1million in donations was able to be swiftly and directly allocated to area residents. Because of LCF’s existence local efforts this money remained local.

This is a compelling reason to support the continued value in having a Lyons-based foundation.

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CONCEPTS What a dog nose

By Margo Hennet, DVM Redstone Review LONGMONT – Anyone with a dog at home can tell you a story or two about canine sense of smell. One of my favorites happened one spring in Wyoming, when our dog abruptly veered off of a trail and made a bee line about 50 feet into the woods, stuck her face straight into a layer of leftover snow, and came up with a perfectly mummified, very desiccated, and not at all smelly fox. She was pretty proud of herself, and I was once again completely blown away by what she had just accomplished with her nose.

Dogs have a famously powerful sense of smell, and humans have a reputation for a fairy poor one. The reality is not quite that simple, however, and there is a wide variety of olfactory (smelling) capacities across the animal kingdom. The ability to smell is a large part of life for all animals and plays a significant role in history and medicine. The amazing olfactory capacity of dogs is a product of genetics, physical features, and behavior.

The ability to smell means that we can convert molecules in the air into signals that are relayed to our brains, which are then processed and interpreted as “smells.” In every creature with a nose, the nasal cavity holds receptors which will transmit a signal to the brain when they match to a molecule in the inhaled air (like a key into a lock). Every smell, such as coffee or gasoline, is composed of many different molecules – therefore the ability to distinguish between different smells depends on how many of the molecules in a given “package” one can identify.

The more types of olfactory receptors an animal possesses, the wider the range of odors that animal can detect. Dogs have more than 800 types of functional receptors, whereas humans have about 450. Furthermore, the total number of

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receptors in the nasal cavity of dogs (each type of receptor is reproduced more than once) is somewhere around 300 million compared to 5 or 6 million in humans.

The greater density and diversity of receptors in dog noses is suggested to contribute to their superior ability to distinguish between odors.

nostril that splits airflow into two paths, one for olfaction and one for respiration.

The air designated for olfaction (about 12 percent of what is inhaled) is sent to an area in the back of the nose rather than moving down into the lungs. In this area, there are paper-thin scrolls of bones (called turbinates) lined with tissue that is packed

For a complete discussion of smelling capacity we should also look to the nose itself. Human noses are pretty straightforward – we inhale and exhale through the same airways in our nose. This means that the molecules we need to “smell” are pushed out with each exhale, then brought in again with each inhale. It’s not the most efficient system. Dog noses, on the other hand, are little smelling machines. When dogs exhale they send air out through the slits on the sides of their noses. This way, air going out does not interfere with air going in, allowing them to essentially sniff without pause. They can also wiggle their nostrils independently, which helps them figure out the directionality of an odor.

The inside of the dog nose is just as interesting. There is a fold of tissue inside the

with olfactory receptors. This set up allows the air to be “filtered” through the maze of turbinates, thus maximizing detection of odor molecules. Human noses contain a less complex network of turbinates, however their function with respect to smell is to help direct air up towards a narrow region in the roof of the nasal cavity, where most of our olfactory receptors are.

Finally, dogs and some other animals possess a unique organ called the vomeronasal organ, or Jacobson’s organ.

This is located on the floor of the nasal passage and is responsible for detecting pheromones (species-specific, behavioraltering chemicals). These are most commonly thought of as relating to sexual behavior, but are not limited to this alone.

Some breeds of dogs are especially well

Town Continued from Page 1 would agree to develop only five acres or less and the rest of the land would be legally protected from development such as placing it in a conservation easement.

Trustee Juli Waugh said that she thought that this exemption solved the problem of changing the FiveAcre Rule and that this was all that was needed, no other provisions were necessary. Those land owners who did now want to go this route to annex could take it to a vote of the people.

Trustee Waugh expressed some concerns about another proposed provision in the ordinance which said that any size annexation would be exempt from a vote if 50 percent or more of any development would be used for permanently affordable housing. “I think that this is the wrong place for this,” she said. “I’m for affordable housing, but many people will object to this and I think that this would not survive a vote.”

Permanently affordable housing became a sticky wicket for several board members who expressed concerns.

Trustee Mike Karavas pointed out that some people who had to sell their affordable housing and go to assisted living or other types of care facilities could not get enough money from the sale of their homes to pay for their care.

Trustee Wendy Miller said that she felt that affordable housing needed to be part of the ordinance.

Trustee Dan Greenberg said, “I would like to like to tackle this one and come up with some way to preserve incremental development.”

Mayor Sullivan said that she did not believe that by changing this ordinance people would come running in with annexations. “I actually don’t think it is even possible to have massive growth around here. And some growth is good. To go 17 years and have only one annexation tells you something,” she said.

The board decided to hold a workshop sometime later in November to yet again refine the wording of the ordi-

nance, and decided to continue the public hearing to the December 4 meeting. Mayor Sullivan asked Paul Glasgow, town planner and director of community development, to gather information and to help facilitate the workshop.

In other news Kim Mitchell, director of community programs and relations, was questioned by the BOT on the fact that she did not recommend approving the contract with 3D Racing for the Powerman event, part of the Outdoor Games. Mitchell explained that a contract had been sent to 3D Racing but was not returned or signed yet. She said that the cost of the racing event came back with higher costs than originally discussed and that when she checked on the participation of this event in other states it was very low. She thought that the board should be aware of the much higher costs for the low participation rate. But several member of the board said that the money for the event had already been budgeted and they did not agree with the participation information. The original cost for the event was about $15,000 and 3D Racing came back with a $35,000 price tag.

Trustee Greenberg said that he could not understand why Mitchell would send off the contract to 3D Racing to be signed if she did not agree with the terms of the contract pertaining to the financing. Mayor Sullivan pointed out that if you send off the contract and they sign and send it back then it is a done deal and the conditions cannot be reset after the contract has been signed.

It turned out to be a moot point, since there was no recommendation needed from Mitchell because it should not have been listed as a resolution. Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen said that no vote was necessary on the issue. It was a mistake that it was listed as a resolution.

She formally apologized for the mistake and said again it required no action. The town attorney agreed.

The board also noted that there was a contract signed to begin work on the McConnell Bridge. Administrator Simonsen said that the town was going to apply for Round

known for their smelling ability. Hound dogs, for instance, were specifically bred for that purpose. Studies have shown that different breeds have more of certain receptor types than others, or they possess receptors unique to the breed. There are also changes between individuals in each species, including humans.

The canine sense of smell has been a powerful tool for humans to utilize or exploit throughout history. To take one example, dogs were used by Nazis during World War II to detect Jewish stowaways in trains, cars, and ships. For a few weeks in Denmark, fishermen helping to smuggle people out of the country were using the Nazi dependency on dog noses to their own advantage. They laced their handkerchiefs with blood and cocaine to numb the dogs’ sense of smell; this strategy reportedly led to one of the highest success rates of escapes in occupied countries during the war.

Today, we use dogs to sniff out drugs, explosives, and human remains. Dogs are also used in the medical field to detect malignant disease (cancer), including melanoma, bladder, lung, and breast cancer. The potential for smell as a diagnostic or security tool is so great, that is an active field of research in which scientists are constructing “artificial noses.” Although there has been promising progress, trials comparing electronic sensors to dog noses still gives the win to the dogs.

So, next time your dog shows up with something disgusting it found by following its nose, take a minute to be impressed before you decontaminate your house.

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CONTENT A new bridge for Stagecoach Trail

By Teagen Blakey Redstone Review LARIMER COUNTY – The forces of nature sometimes take us aback by their power when they rise from many years of slumber. The changes that occurred over the course of only a few days during the 2013 floods are still evident in many places.

Over the last four years local watershed coalitions, like the Little Thompson Watershed Coalition, have filled out and filed mountains of paperwork to make flood restoration projects like the $3.3 million Stagecoach project possible. Of the total amount for the project $800,000 is being used for the bridge, and $2.5 million is being used for the river restoration.

Both of these costs include design and engineering in addition to the cost of construction. The funds for all of this come from five different sources: the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (bridge), the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the Department of Local Affairs, and the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (river restoration). Restoration and rebuilding aren’t nearly as swift as the water, so when a project reaches the point of construction it’s a good reason to admire all of the hours of work put in by

so many people to get it there!

This past September Larimer County, which is now sponsoring the Stagecoach Trail Bridge and River Restoration Project at the request of the Little Thompson Watershed Coalition, completed the bidding process and selected a contractor for the job. In the second week of October crews were out to mark survey points before the first stages of construction begin the week of Oct. 23. Lawrence Construction will be removing dead trees and other debris from around the bridge later that week.

From November 9 to 14 they will be constructing a temporary detour, using some of the cobble material being removed from the river, so that residents in the Blue Mountain neighborhood can continue to have uninterrupted access to their homes. The temporary bridge, which has been in place for the last several years, will be deconstructed at the end of November to prepare for the new bridge. Come around Dec. 20 there will be a lull in construction until January 22, 2018 when the steel structure for the new bridge is delivered. By Valentine’s Day next year the new steel and concrete bridge on Stagecoach Trail will be complete!

The river restoration up and down stream of the bridge will be completed earlier in the season, mostly between now and Thanksgiving. This will include stabilizing the river banks in places with

Fly fishing writer and Redstone contributor John Gierach caught this enormous musky (muskellunge) on the Flambeau River in Wisconsin.The fish measured 45 inches long and was caught on a huge fly. rock and root wads, removing sediment, and planting to help secure the soil with new plants. This work will also improve the ability of the bridge to convey flood waters in the future as well.

The Little Thompson Watershed Coalition has a new website including upto-date information on this project and others. Please visit us at: ltwatershed.org and look under “Projects.” We are also happy to answer questions at assistantcoordinator@ltwatershed.org, or 303-434-6293.

All Boulder residents are invited to participate in the Boulder Job Fair. Admission and parking are free. More information about the fair is available online at https://bouldercolorado.gov/job-fair, or by calling Tony Barkey at 303-441-3146.

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LYONS – The phone number for the Snack Soda Fountain, 400 Main St. in Lyons, is 720-893-0075, and its hours of operation are Saturday to Tuesday and Thursday 11 to 7, Friday 11 to 5. Closed Wednesday. In a previous article the Redstone Review printed an incorrect phone number and hours of operation. We regret the error. In the near future the shop will be featuring breakfast.

BOULDER – Through Oct. 31, Adventures in Watercolor, an art exhibit of 20+ works by Boulder older adult artists, will be displayed at the West Boulder Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Ave. The free exhibit is open to the public Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., excluding holidays. The paintings and prints in this exhibit were created by a talented group of participants in a Boulder Senior Services watercolor class led by local artist Anne Gifford. Gifford has been offering watercolor instruction to Senior Services participants since 2007. Gifford noted that, “these dedicated students put their heart and soul into their painting endeavors.” The class thrives on the jovial atmosphere and camaraderie as they share a common enthusiasm for art. For more information on the class or the exhibit, visit www.BoulderSeniorServices.com.

City of Boulder to host Boulder Job Fair on Oct. 30 at Millennium Harvest House hotel BOULDER – The City of Boulder is hosting the Boulder Job Fair on Oct. 30 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Millennium Harvest House hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder. The fair will connect job seekers to Boulder-area employers and employment resource organizations representing green / renewable energy, technology, retail, education, local government, transportation and other industries. Workforce Boulder County will provide resume critiques and workshops on creative job search strategies.

Additional workshop offerings will focus on youth employment.

The job fair will help support the city’s goals of promoting a qualified and diversified workforce that meets local employers’ needs, supports broad-based economic diversity, and provides residents with opportunities to improve their economic condition.

The city’s Human Services and Community Vitality departments are sponsoring the job fair to support the city’s economic mobility and vitality goals for residents and employers.

Souper Bowler BOULDER – Souper Bowler is an annual event that raises money for the Emergency Family Assistance Association, EFAA. Local potters, and potters from far away, donate bowls to the event. For $25 guests are welcome to choose a bowl from hundreds of beautiful, handmade, quality bowls. Soup is provided by Twisted Pine and music is generously performed by the local musical group, Crowboy. The Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery runs the event each year and has bowls for sale in the gallery afterwards. The Souper Bowler will be held on Friday, Oct. 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Twisted

Lyons Area & Flood Books (from Lyons Historical Society, dba Lyons Redstone Museum)

LCF Continued from Page 11 ing, and encourage positive change in the greater Lyons area. We invite all area citizens to engage and celebrate your foundation and attend the Tenth Anniversary Brazilian Carnival Gala. Tickets are $75 each, include dinner and drinks and are now on sale at www.lyonscf.org. Buy your tickets today. Bring a friend. Invite a neighbor, but don’t delay. Only 200 seats to this very special birthday party.

Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St. in Boulder. The cost is $25 and includes soup, bread and a handmade bowl of your choice, donated by a local potter. There will be a beer cash bar by Twisted Pine.

Last year the Souper Bowler raised $3,000 for EFAA. For more information, contact Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery at 303-443-3683 or localartsandcrafts@gmail.com.

The LHS Thrift Store Has Your Halloween Needs Covered LONGMONT – Make the LHS Thrift Store your one-stop shop for all of your Halloween needs! Find the creative costume and creepy decor inspiration you are looking for under one roof. Don’t miss our 50% Off Halloween Gear sale on Oct. 21. Call 303-774-6517 for more information. Conveniently located in the Parkway Plaza Shopping Center, 700 Ken Pratt Pkwy., Suite 216 in Longmont. Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Free Spay Day, November 15, 2017 LONGMONT – Longmont Humane Society will offer a Free Spay Day through its public Well Pet Clinic on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. Absolutely free spay and neuter service for dogs and cats, eight weeks to seven years, will be available for clients who income qualify.

For those who wish to apply, please visit the Longmont Humane Society website and download the PAC application.

Bring your completed application to the LHS Well Pet Clinic before 12 noon on Monday, November 13. Space is limited.

First come, first served. For more information please call 303651-0610 or email vetservices@longmonthumane.org.

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Mental Health Continued from Page 5 www.LetsTalkCO.org, that includes ideas on how talk about mental illness, a toolkit of resources including a video, mental health stigma presentation, fliers and a newsletter article. The materials, created after a series of focus groups, draw from an award-winning campaign from Minnesota called www.MakeItOK.org.

The Community Conversation on Mental Health on Oct. 25 at the library will be an open, respectful, nonjudgmental conversation mental health in Lyons, facilitated by certified facilitator and mental health educator, Janaki Jane. Participants will have an opportunity to learn the realities about mental illness, to talk about how mental health impacts them and the community, to admit their own stigmatizing attitudes (if they want to) and to start to discuss how the Lyons community can best

Fishery Continued from Page 5 rainbow trout took place there.

The suspicion for the low numbers in the park centers on the hydrology of the kayak structures and the lack of woody debris – both of which are not conducive to fish habitat.

Trout population is a mix of native and stocked fish The St. Vrain has historically been a brown trout fishery as browns are more adaptable to periods of warm water and low flows. The brown trout in the river reproduce naturally and there is no stocking necessary. But the newly restored river within Lyons should be more accommodating to rainbow trout which require cooler, more-oxygenated water.

To that end, 14 thousand rainbow trout, including some large (16 inches or more) brood fish, were stocked in the North St. Vrain between Button Rock Dam and Lyons. Eight thousand rainbows were stocked in the South St. Vrain around Bohn Park – most of those 3.5-inch fingerlings. The rainbow trout are the Hofer strain – a breed more resistant to whirling disease, which has wiped out many populations of rainbow trout in the state.

Swigle said the decision to stock rainbows was to boost both the post-flood fish numbers and to take advantage of the river’s restoration. “Since rainbow trout

are an easier catch for anglers and they might better establish themselves in the river’s new configuration, we opted to stock both fingerling rainbows and fully mature brood fish,” he said.

Before committing to future stocking, Swigle said an assessment will be made this fall to determine if the rainbow trout are thriving. The rainbow trout need to show a degree of natural reproduction to justify further stocking.

Fishing regulations key to recovery Aiding the fish recovery has been the strict regulation that applies to both branches of the St. Vrain within town limits. The law, effective April 2016 (found on page 30 of the CPW fishing regulations), states fishing on St. Vrain Creek (north and south) “within the town limits of Lyons ” shall be by “artificial flies and lures only” and “trout must be returned to water immediately.”

The “town limits” are defined loosely by the North branch beginning at the first Rte. 36 / Apple Valley bridge, the South branch beginning at the Old South St. Vrain Road bridge and extending some 200 yards below the Highland Ditch diversion dam.

John Koehler, the CPW district wildlife manager who covers the Lyons area, said, “It’s the angler’s responsibility to know the regulations,” and ignorance of the law is no excuse. Koehler and other

A&E Continued from Page 8 fusion of contemporary, modern, hip-hop, ballroom and contact improve, creating memorable imagery in motion.

Ying Chang and Julius Reinante rejoin the company to perform Pat Connelly's Break A Leg with Noel Baterna, Amanda Kepus, MaryAnn Nason, Lisa Adeva Samoy, Skylar Shaver and Thomas Wingerd. Opera on Screen at the Boedecker Theater features Mozart’s The Magic Flute on Oct. 22 and 25 and Puccini’s La Bohème on Nov. 5 and 8. Mozart’s glorious opera The Magic Flute is brought enchantingly to life in David McVicar’s production with beautiful sets by John Macfarlane. As well as being a comedy, The Magic Flute is an expression of Mozart’s profound spiritual beliefs: Enlightenment concerns with the search for wisdom and virtue are at the heart of this enchanting tale. Puccini’s La Bohème is iirresistible in its witty, passionate blend of comedy and tragedy. The opera focusses on the lives of a group of young artists as they eke out an existence on the Bohemian fringes of Paris.

Dairy Arts Center is located on 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

For information please go to www.thedairy.org.

Rentals Continued from Page 11 town. “It takes away what little housing stock we have,” Miller said to an earlier proposal to allow homeowners to be away six months out of the year and still rent out short-term vacation rentals. Miller recommended a required nine months of homeowner occupancy instead, which made it into the final ordinance.

To me, a balance means that affordability is not just for those who own homes, but also for those who can only rent at this time in their lives. Consider that a homeowner in Lyons who needs to cover

respond to the challenges and opportunities that mental health issues present. Everyone is invited to come and listen and share, including those who are or have experienced mental illness themselves or in someone close to them, those who are just interested, and those who have never thought about it.

Everyone in our community can benefit by starting to talk about mental health and mental illness. Our youth can be especially hard hit by the fear of stigma and fear of telling anyone how they are feeling. It will take time and effort to change, but each one of us can be a part of that change. Simply by noticing how others are acting, and asking them without judgment how they are feeling, and then being willing to listen with acceptance and kindness can make a big difference.

The staff at Lyons Regional Library has recently completed Mental First Aid Health Training certification for

both youth and adults through a grant from the National Council of Behavioral Health. “We all learned so much about the variety of mental health conditions, how to recognize them, how common they are in our society, and resources that are available for people in our area,” said Weadley. Recently, the Human Services and Aging Commission and Lyons Goodwill fund committee awarded the Lyons Regional Library $750 for Mental Health Community Awareness, Education and Engagement.

Along with acquiring more materials that highlight mental health issues, this grant allows the library to start a conversation around mental health.

Janaki Jane works has worked as a Health Coverage Guide for Boulder County. She lives in the mountains, where moose and foxes come and look in her windows.

CPW officers patrol the river within town limits, including LaVern Johnson and Bohn Parks, for violations.

Final assessment: the fish are back, but work still to do The 2013 flood and post-flood work damaged the trout population in both branches of the St. Vrain River but in the ensuing four years the fish have shown resiliency and, with a boost from humans. have rebounded. Mike Clark, owner of the South Creek LTD fly rod shop, said that both his experience and those of his friends and customers fishing the river has been encouraging with reports of 18-to20-inch rainbow trout being caught from Apple Valley down through the Back Bear Hole area.

More encouraging are reports of abundant brown trout along the same stretch, reflecting the resiliency of these fish and their ability to survive the 2013-2014 insults to the river.

River restoration work was completed on the North St. Vrain down through town in 2016 and work is wrapping up on the South St. Vrain upstream from the confluence to the Old South St. Vrain Road Bridge.

But there will be setbacks. Upstream work being done on the upper South St. Vrain by Boulder County has resulted in substantial silt flow downstream, which may temporarily affect brown trout

Boulder Philharmonic is pleased to invite all to the 60th Anniversary Hoedown on Saturday, Oct. 21. For one night only, the Boulder Elks Lodge will transform into the rootin’-est, tootin’-est saloon in all the West. Join us for a night of high-falutin’, heel-stompin’ hoedown music by the Boulder Phil under the baton of Michael Butterman. The orchestra will perform Ferde Grofe’s On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite, John Williams’ The Cowboys Overture and Aaron Copland’s Hoedown featuring the Boulder Ballet. This “cowboy formal” event will feature a game room with pool and blackjack, a cowboy sing-a-long hosted by Liz Masterson, and a farm-to-table supper. The evening will be hosted by emcee and square dance caller, Chris Kermiet. The event includes presentation of Conductor Emeritus title to Oswald Lehnert II. The Boulder Elks Lodge is at 3975 28th St. in Boulder. Individual ticket is $160. For information please visit www.boulderphil.org.

LONGMONT 2017 Land through the Lens Exhibit shows through Nov. 3. A juried show hosted by and featuring Boulder County Parks and Open Space, the photography exhibit is

costs of a mortgage can easily do so with longer-term renters, and doesn’t have to rent only to short-term vacationers in order to “afford” to keep her house. For example, not only can an artist or musician who worked hard enough to own a home in Lyons gain additional opportunities to cover the mortgage payments, but another starving-artist painter or fiddle player (or even an elementary school teacher!) can find an affordable longerterm rental in the spare room, apartment, or basement suite. Better yet, the artists might collaborate on projects that we all can enjoy. I call that a win-win situation

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spawning this fall but should not affect rainbow trout spring spawning.

Restoration work planned along the Apple Valley reach will also impact the fishery while the work is being done, but Matt Rooney notes that the design of the restoration “should be fish-friendly and ecologically based,” and in the end improve the fishery. Rooney is the chair of the Watershed Advisory Board, whose mission is to protect, restore and enhance the sustainability, flood resiliency, and ecological integrity of the St Vrain River system in the Lyons watershed planning area.

Swigle said that once all restoration work is complete, the floodplain connectivity (which is key to streamside growth and insect life) will be much better compared to pre-flood conditions. “The long-term repairs have addressed many critical needs the rivers require to function,” he said.

All evidence points to a better, healthier, fish-friendly St. Vrain River that will support a viable, long-term trout fishery that through sound management and enforcement of fishing regulations will guarantee a source of angling pleasure for residents and visitors to Lyons.

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 lives in Lyons.

a display of selected photographs featuring flora, fauna, historic structures, and stunning landscapes taken throughout Boulder County. The exhibit takes place at the Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont. For more information, please visit www.BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org/photoshow or contact Karen Imbierowicz at 303-678-6268.

Seicento Baroque Ensemble presents an evening of German Baroque Music, Music of the Reformation on Oct. 20, 21, and 22 under the leadership of new Artistic Director Kevin Padworski and Assistant Conductor Amanda Balestrieri. Explore two centuries of German baroque music beginning with Martin Luther and coming full circle 200 years later with J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 106, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, incorporating Martin Luther’s tunes. The concerts will take place on Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Denver, 1373 North Grant St., Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder with a pre-concert talk featuring Artistic Director Kevin Padworski, and October 22 at 3 p.m. at the Steward Auditorium, 400 Quail Rd, in Longmont.

For information please go to www.seicentobaroque.org.

for the homeowners, the long-term renters, and our entire community.

The new changes to Town of Lyons municipal code to allow short-term vacation rentals will be implemented Jan. 1, 2018. These changes apply only to shortterm vacation rentals in the Town of Lyons. People who own homes outside Lyons town limits are subject to the specific regulations for their county (Boulder or Larimer). Even within town limits, it’s important to know that some homeowners associations and deed-restricted affordable housing have more restrictive rules than Town of Lyons ordinances.

This is a monthly opinion column in the Redstone Review about affordable housing after the 2013 flood in Lyons. If you have questions, comments, or complaints about this column, contact Amy Reinholds directly at areinholds@hotmail.com. Lyons lost a total of about 70 flood-destroyed homes to federal buyout programs (including buyout of a mobile home park) and to the changed use of a second mobile home park property rezoned for commercial use. For history of post-flood efforts for affordable housing in Lyons, read previous columns at lyonscoloradonews. wordpress. com.

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ENJOY STUNNING CONTINENTAL DIVIDE VIEWS FROM THIS FABULOUS BRAND NEW HOME! Expansive window glass from which to enjoy the view. Overlooking the town of Lyons and the St. Vrain Valley, yet easy walking distance to downtown, schools and parks. Gorgeous high-end finishes and appliances. Beautiful main floor master suite; 3 bedrooms + bonus room upstairs + spacious family room. Spacious half acre lot but virtually no yard maintenance required.

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Master suite on walkout lower level with 5-piece bathroom, abundant closet and storage space, and a private entrance. Spacious multi-level deck and a foothills view. Southern exposure and outstanding privacy in beautiful Pinewood Springs.

1813 Kiowa Road, Lyons / $450,000 FIRST TIME ON MARKET IN DECADES! Super rare location — one block from downtown, yet the spacious .4 acre lot offers tremendous privacy, amazing rock outcroppings and is right across the cul-de-sac from the St. Vrain river! Home was completely rebuilt after the 2013 flood including an all new interior, roof and mechanicals and has not been lived in since. 3BR & 2BA + study. Oversized, heated 2-car detached garage + separate shop & storage buildings. Recent ILC. Once-ina-lifetime opportunity!

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Mark your calendar for RAVE TO THE GRAVE, a fantastic dance/costume party benefiting LEAF (Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund) on Fri, Oct. 27th, 7pm!

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