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Rules weighed for distressed properties
The Jeffco commissioners are poised to enact a distressed-property ordinance designed to prevent foreclosed homes from becoming flophouses, nearly a year after the county lobbied the state legislature to allow such measures. The proposed ordinance, which the Sheriff ’s Office revised after the commissioners earlier this year criticized a previous version as too intrusive on property rights, could be passed in as little as days. The amended document, which was presented to the commissioners Aug. , would let police charge property owners an initial fine and , in subsequent fines for failing to register vacant properties with the county. The ordinance is necessary, police say, because the foreclosure crisis has left many vacant structures that present safety hazards. Namely, houses fall into dangerous disrepair due to a lack of adequate maintenance or because of looting or partying by vagrants. The ordinance would require “distressed properties,” including any foreclosed building or vacant building with a “hazardous condition,” to be registered with the county’s Planning and Zoning Division. — Emile Hallez Williams
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HISTORY From Page 1 Goose,” Bobbie said. “These are the fairy tales. This is the way it was in the before times.” Bobbie lives in Bailey and works at the Cutthroat Café. When not serving up the daily special, she’s dishing stories to kids at local schools and spinning folklore yarns at mountain man rendezvous. Her husband, mountain man Marv Sterling, listens intently as she tells her stories. “Even though I’ve heard the stories a lot, they’re still neat to hear,” Marv said. In Bobbie’s stories, the Coyote is a trickster who makes bad choices. She said the Coyote, cunning but lacking insight, gets himself into trouble by not heeding the warnings of wiser animals. Some stories tell of the foolishness of wasted gifts, impatience, ignored warnings and abuse of power, and of why coyotes have brown eyes. To a group of children, Bobbie admonishes them to “pay attention to what you’re told.” Bobbie said the stories are cleaned-up versions. “The stories are more accessible to the modern man. The old stories were a little rough,” she said. “They used to be more black and white, but now have more gray, more white in them.”
Telling it like it was
Leona Nelson also speaks in plain language, and on Saturday
Shawnee resident Leona Nelson plays the ocarina for visitors to McGraw Park during Park County’s th anniversary celebration in Bailey on Saturday. Photo by BARBARA FORD | The Times
she welcomed more than visitors to the Entriken Cabin, one of the buildings restored and decorated in themes from another century. From her place by the door, she catches everyone who ventures in and asks them to sign the guest book. “No one gets by Mother Nelson,” she said. Nelson, , owns the Shawnee Tea Room, the post office and a small row of apartments not far from Bailey, and she’s a lifetime member of the historical society. She calls herself a political watchdog cross-stitcher, and has served on the Park County planning commission and as a columnist for
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the Fairplay Flume. She holds her audience’s attention with stories of the house’s owner, Elizabeth Entriken and her family, who came to the Bailey area in . She knows a lot about the longtime families and current events in Bailey. She also plays tunes on a harmonica and an ocarina, an instrument that makes a sad tone like a whippoorwill. “I started to play my harmonica, and some guy walked in and put in the donation jar,” Nelson said. “I don’t know if it was just a donation or to get me to stop playing.” Nelson pushes hard to recruit
CHS From Page 1 AP classes in the district. This year Conifer will offer AP classes and college-credit courses. Students get credit at either the Univeristy of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Red Rocks Community College, where they earn college credit in classes such as computeraided drafting, business, English, math and social studies. When a student becomes a senior, in theory all of his or her classes could be college courses, Musick said. Musick said that in Colorado the remediation rate for college freshmen is about percent, and those students are required to take refresher courses to get them up to college level. Conifer students have a remediation rate of . percent. Musick said the system allows students to get a more advanced education while within the supportive confines of a local high school. The school’s support system is crucial. Tutoring, online help and volunteers help are read-
members to the -member historical society. “I embarrass them into signing up,” Nelson said. “If you don’t sign up, shame on you.”
About Park County
Park County is almost at the dead center of Colorado, and covers , square miles. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in there were , residents with an average of seven people per square mile. In Bailey, history begins with the Elizabeth Entriken land claim in and ends with the most recent restoration of the Keystone Bridge at McGraw Park in . The post office was established in , the Bailey land plat was filed in , the Bailey flood occurred in , the last train came through Bailey in , the Hi Meadow Fire started in , and the Cutthroat Cafe burned in . Arthur Hall, president of the Park County Historical Society, said it’s important to boost the membership of the club, so more people will see how the county’s past is important to its future. Big names in history have come through Bailey, and Hall is quick to share stories such as how President Ulysses S. Grant stayed at the Entriken House shortly after leaving office sometime around . Hall would like to see more volunteers, more educational seminars, field trips, and access to photos and stories from the area’s residents. “We’re trying to keep the spirit of historic Park County alive.” ily available. “Why would you want to go to college when you would get to stay here?”Musick said. In the upcoming school year, freshmen and sophomores are taking college-level courses. “Our goal is to make it happen for kids,” Musick said. “How to offer a high-powered education with less money.” For more than a decade, Newsweek has ranked the top public high schools in America. To compile the list of the top high schools in America, Newsweek reached out to administrators, principals, guidance counselors and Advanced Placement/ International Baccalaureate coordinators at more than , public high schools across the country. In total, more than , schools were assessed to produce the final list of the top high schools. Each school’s score is comprised of graduation rate, college matriculation rate, number of AP tests taken per graduate, average national achievement scores and the number of AP courses offered.
Nominations sought for Noxious Weed Advisory Committee Five positions on the state’s Noxious Weed Advisory Committee will become vacant in September. Nominations will be accepted statewide, with particular interest in nominations from the Eastern Plains and south-central areas of
the state. Terms are two years. Nominations are currently being taken and must be submitted no later than Aug. . The nomination form and additional information can be found under the “News” section at www.colorado.gov/ag/csd.