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Elk Creek residents asked to give budget input B D H B Staff Writer
Residents of the Elk Creek Fire Protection District are being asked attend a public hearing Nov. to help the board of directors determine how to replace three of its vehicles in . Replacing vehicles will be a large part of the discussion at the district’s budget hearing
at p.m. at Elk Creek Fire Station No. , Blackfoot Road. The public is invited to provide input on all areas of the proposed budget. The board will finalize and vote to approve the budget at p.m. Tuesday, Dec. . “The challenge is not so much the rest of the budget, but how to keep up with vehicle replacement,” said Assistant Fire Chief Joe Page. “The older the equipment gets, the more we tend to
pay in repair and maintenance of the vehicles. It’s important to keep newer vehicles on the road.” The board will decide whether to buy or lease the vehicles or to wait another year. The board would like to buy a new ambulance, fire engine and tender, which carries water, with a combined cost of about ,. Please see BUDGET, Page 11
“Things like quantum physics are just as strange. It’s important to keep an open mind.”
St. Laurence Episcopal Church will hold its Christmasfest from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the church, 26812 Barkley Road. Shoppers can purchase handmade items, toys, candles, glassware and home décor items, and homemade jams, mustards and pickled vegetables. The Christmasfest café will serve soups for lunch. For more information, call the church at 303-838-2457.
Zumba! for the Mountain Peace Shelter
A Zumba! fund-raiser for the Mountain Peace Shelter will be at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8, at Conifer Community Park at Beaver Ranch, 11369 Foxton Road. Cost is $5 per person. For more information, contact Mary Ann Goldstein at 303838-5928 or coloradozumbafitness@ yahoo.com.
Dowser travels from Kansas to search for unmarked graves B B F Staff Writer
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Christmasfest at St. Laurence
The 34th annual Conifer Newcomers & Neighbors’ Holiday Boutique will be from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Conifer High School. Proceeds from the sale benefit local charities. Ninety vendors will be selling items, plus there will be silent auctions and a bake sale.
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hough the identities of many of the people buried at the Pine Grove Cemetery are lost in time, a Kansas grave dowser has tried to fi nd their fi nal resting places. Grave dowser Vince Marshall was invited to the cemetery to do a grave census and to help make sure that future cemetery tenants lie in their own resting places and not in someone else’s. On Saturday, Marshall and several members of the Pine Grove Cemetery Association surveyed the cemetery, which is about a quarter of a football field in size, and “found” unmarked graves in addition to the already marked there. “I wasn’t surprised by how many graves we found,” Marshall said. “Records get lost, and headstones get removed. … It’s not unusual that there’s a lot of unmarked graves.” Grave dowsing — similar to water dowsing — has no basis in scientific fact. Dowsing, sometimes called divining, is most commonly used for fi nding things underground such as water sources. Marshall said that for years, he used dowsing rods to locate buried utility pipes, and about five years ago, he learned how to dowse for graves.
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Dowser Vince Marshall wields the metal wands he uses to find unmarked graves at the Pine Grove Cemetery. Marshall claims he can even tell whether a grave belongs to an adult or a child. INSIDE THIS ISSUE Community News News
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The Mountain Resource Center’s third annual Empty Bowls fundraiser will be held at the Mountain Resource Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov 9. Empty Bowls will be at the Lake House in Evergreen from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10. For a minimum donation of $25, guests may choose from a selection of soups, breads and desserts donated by local restaurants and caterers, and listen to live music provided by local musicians. Guests select from a variety of bowls donated by local artisans, children and students, and take the bowls home as a reminder that someone’s bowl is always empty. Net proceeds go to providing food and support services for at-risk mountain residents. Tickets may be purchased at www.emptybowlscolorado.org or call the MRC at 303-838-7552.