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In 1873 — 140 years ago this month, in fact — the first edition of the Larimer County Express emerged from a frontier-era printing press in a small agricultural colony called Fort Collins.

The town was incorporated the same year. Colorado wouldn’t even exist as a state for another three years, and the college that would become CSU wouldn’t open its doors to its first class until 1879.

Thus, the spirit of Fort Collins and the need for public information would be joined at the hip.

Other news outlets would come and go — Ansel Watrous’ Fort Collins Courier would later merge with the Express, and the paper was renamed to the Coloradoan in 1945.

And, over the past 140 years, the Coloradoan would see the rise of radio, television, the Internet and social media. It not only endured, but adapted to these new tools.

The ways in which people learn about their world have changed profoundly in the past 140 years, but the hunger people have for information about their community has been constant.

As these new media trends have come to the fore, we’ve learned that the physical platforms on which we distribute are merely tools.

Whether you’re reading about your community on recycled trees, or swiping through a photo gallery on your tablet, our goal is the same: to answer your questions and enrich your understanding of our corner of the world.

We’re working to ensure that the longterm groundwork is laid to ensure the Coloradoan grows into a digital, post-print era as well. A message we’re not always bold enough about sharing: Nearly a third of the funding for the Coloradoan comes from digital sources — that puts us not just in the top of our company, but in the industry as a whole.

As readers increasingly look to our digital products to stay informed around the clock, it’s a testament to your belief in us that we’ve been able to thrive in this

new media landscape.

And ultimately, it all comes back to you. To the businesses that support us and allow us to spread the word on their behalf, we thank you. To the readers who have subscribed and stuck with us in print through thick and thin, you have our gratitude. To the new readers finding us via social media or tablet editions, welcome.

Through your patronage, we’ve survived and thrived through 140 years of change. While nobody knows what the next 140 years hold, we know that, as long as people want information about the world around them, we’ll be there to tell the tales and celebrate the successes of Fort Collins.

Thanks for reading.

Judi Terzotis is president and publisher of the Coloradoan. Josh Awtry is the executive editor of the Coloradoan.

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From fort to city, Fort Collins has a history of growth

By Coloradoan staff

Students gather in front of the Main College Building in 1886. Later known as Old Main, the building was constructed in 1878. COLORADOAN LIBRARY

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The course of the Cache la Poudre River determined the location of the city of Fort Collins back when this area was still an unsettled frontier and the country was in the throes of the Civil War. A line of the Overland Stage and Mail Co. moved into the newly created Colorado Territory in 1862, when raids by Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians closed the trail up the North Platte River to Fort Laramie. The new route came up to the South Platte River to Latham, then west following the Cache la Poudre to LaPorte, where it turned north to rejoin the main trail in what is now central Wyoming.

Soldiers of the 9th Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, were sent to build a small outpost west of LaPorte in summer 1862.

Camp Collins, named for the popular commander at Fort Laramie, Lt. Col. William O. Collins, served as a base for patrolling and protecting the stage and emigrant trails.

In early June 1864, a flood tore through the little camp, sweeping away most of the military supplies.

A patrol was sent downriver to find a better location.

Collins came from Fort Laramie in mid-August to inspect the new site, 5 miles downstream. On Aug. 20, 1864, he issued Special Order Number One, calling for a “permanent post on the Cache la Poudre River.”

Soliders of Collins’ own 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry were detailed to build the new post. Our town’s namesake visited the site only once more — in mid-September that same year, firmly establishing the

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location of the future town.

How permanent was permanent? The fort was ready for occupancy in late October 1864. It was ordered abandoned 21⁄2 years later in March 1867. Civilians who had been allowed to settle on the military ground stayed and formed the nucleus of the fledgling town’s population. Joe Mason became the town’s first storekeeper.

Elizabeth Stone had been a cook for the officers and now turned her log home into a hotel. Henry Clay Peterson, the fort’s gunsmith, partnered with Stone in the first grist mill in Fort Collins.

The mill, owned by Peterson and Stone, began operating in late 1868, grinding grains of local farmers such as John G. Coy, who had settled in the rich bottomland across the river in 1862. Mason and Sam Gano operated a stageline from Fort Collins to the new town of Cheyenne, with its rail connection to the East and, soon, the West Coast.

Judge Alfred Howes raised $1,100 in 1870 to build the first public school in town.

Land Improvement Co. Part of its membership list reads like a roll call of the streets in the older part of Fort Collins: John C. Mathews, AE. Howes, Jesse M. Sherwood, John C. Remington, Norman H. Meldrum, E.W. Whitcomb, Benjamin T. Whedbee and Mason.

The company hired Franklin C. Avery, a young surveyor who helped lay out the town of Greeley in 1870, to plat the area nearest the remnants of the old fort.

Avery created a 21-block square in late November 1872. It included roads and buildings that had grown around the fort and was oriented on a northeast-southwest line and parallel to the river.

In January 1873, Avery was able to do what he was trained to do as a surveyor: lay out the rest of the town on north-south meridians and east-west baselines. He named the east-west streets for trees and bushes, just as he had done three years earlier for Greeley. The idea was to plant trees and bushes of the variety along their namesake streets to create an Eastern environment. But that part of the town plan was never to be due to the climate.

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In 1872, the War Department, after searching unsuccessfully for five years for some record of a reservation, asked Congress to open the land to homesteading. Some residents joined others who had come over from Greeley and created a town company, the Larimer County

The north-south streets were named for the town’s founding fathers. The exception was College Avenue, which went south past the Agriculture College grounds.

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Citizens lobbied the territorial Legislature for the college in 1870, three years before there was officially a town. Larimer County commissioners appointed a five-member Board of Trustees, the equivalent of today’s City Council, to run the town.

These men, Whedbee, Peterson, W.C. Stover, George Blake and W.S. Vecilius, met on Feb. 4, 1873. Whedbee was elected town board president, or mayor, and their only real business was to consider extending College Avenue north to the river where the commissioners were proposing to build a bridge. More importantly, the town was officially entity.

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It wasn’t until 1877 that the town’s survival was guaranteed with the laying of the tracks of the Colorado Central Railroad down Mason Street.

So desperate was the Board of Trustees for rail links to Denver and Cheyenne, that it granted a right-of-way down the center of the street forever.

Now Fort Collins would grow. The first spurt occurred during the 1880s, as population grew from 1,356 to 2,011.

In 1879, Fort Collins’ identity as a college town was born when what we know today as Colorado State University opened its doors as Colorado Agricultural College.

Citizens demanded more municipal services, and the city government responded. A combined city hall and fire house was built on Walnut Street in 1882 and a water system followed the next year. Incorporated in fall 1887, the “Fort Collins Light, Heat and Power company” began illuminating the city early the next year.

Brick and stone became the building materials of choice. Franklin and Sarah Avery’s elegantly restored home on West Mountain and the imposing McHugh Home and carriage house at Oak and Remington streets showcase the quality of this stone. The homes of the Arthur family at Mulberry and Peterson and William Stover’s residence two blocks west are fine examples of Victorian elegance that prompted the late local historian Richard Baker to label this decade the “Elegant Eighties.”

The addition of many other homes and businesses capped off by the beautiful red sandstone Miller Block in 1888 brought the “Elegant Eighties” to a close.

“There is a Presbyterian and Methodist church, and one or two other church societies, Sunday schools, a good public school, Lyceum, Masonic and Good Templar lodges, Farmer’s Club, a weekly newspaper — the Express — a nursery, two lumber mills, a grist mill, good hotels, and the usual number of stores and practitioners.” The book placed the population at 600.

“Composed of some of the best elements of Western immigration — intelligent, industrious, law abiding, and enterprising.”

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bling halls. There is not a place in the county where liquor is legal or publicly sold as a beverage, neither do we intend that it shall if we can help it.”

The “wets” prevailed early on, but saloons paid high license fees.

By the 1890s, temperance and prohibition forces had gained more strength. A strong prohibition ticket gained control of City Hall.

In 1896, the city went dry.

This action wasn’t fully reversed until 1969.

Town grows quickly Entry into the 20th century brought an agricultural boom to Larimer County. Lamb feeding and sugar-beet growing emerged as the main economic supports by the close of the first decade. The town’s population grew from 3,053 in 1900 to 8,210 in 1910. Completion of the sugar factory on East Vine Drive in 1903 and the electric

street railway in 1907 hallmarked this growth period.

The Evening Courier, on Dec. 31, 1907, published a detailed article on the rapidly expanding city. It now had: “Three public parks, 2 hospitals, 5 restaurants, 3 foundry and machine shops, a public library containing 5,000 volumes, 3 daily and 4 weekly newspapers, 1 electric and 2 vaude-ville theaters, 10 church edifices, 2 merchant flouring mills with a daily capacity of 800 barrels, municipal water plant with 55 miles of water mains and 115 fire hydrants, 16 miles of public sewers, and 75 miles of stone and concrete sidewalks.”

Fort Collins sounded like a place that would attract many more settlers, but, instead, growth stagnated and the town remained a small, sleepy farming community for the next 40 years. Citizens insisted on their public transportation, so, in the spring of 1919, the city went into the trolley business.

A new high school building on the south edge of town stimulated

some growth after it was completed in 1925, as did a brief oil and gas boom in the mid-1920s. The Great Depression and World War II went by with little change in the city as agriculture and the “Aggies” college remained its economic strengths.

Town diversifies The town began to grow and diversify after the war. Forney Industries became the first large home-grown manufacturing business with its many different products — farm welders, aircraft, movies, wrought-iron furniture and even a built-in home vacuum system.

During the 1950s, Forney was the largest employer in town.

Many physical changes in the city occurred as the town’s population reached 15,000 in 1950; then grew to 25,000 by 1960. South College Heights, platted in the early 1960s, was the first new large subdivision to be added to the city.

Older homes and churches close to downtown were demolished to make way for new or expanded businesses. Through the 1960s, Aqua Tee became the newest local industry and larger light industries such as Woodward Governor saw Fort Collins as an attractive location with a good workforce.

Growth jumped to 75 percent for each of the next three decades as the city’s boundaries expanded quickly, especially to the south and southeast.

Many high-tech industries established themselves in Fort Collins. A preservation ethic emerged by the late 1960s, and several homes and businesses from the “Elegant Eighties” have been landmarked and restored. The Old Town Square project of 1983-84 combined the old and new, bringing a new life to that part of downtown.

Today, the city has grown to an urban center with a population of nearly 150,000, but it still retains enough of its past to remind people of its pioneer heritage.

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News events timeline 1974: Transfort bus system began operation.

1873: Fort Collins was incorporated. B.T. Whedbee was elected Fort Collins’ first mayor.

1976: Hewlett-Packard began operations in Fort Collins.

1879: On Sept. 1, Colorado Agricultural College, now known as Colorado State University, opened with its first five students.

1976: The new Fort Collins Public Library opened on Oct. 18. Its 33,500 square feet could accommodate 109,000 volumes and seat 124 patrons.

1888: The city’s first and only lynching occurs.

1893: The first telephone toll line was installed in Fort Collins.

1890: A sensational murder trial took place. William Avery died of what originally was thought to be a stomach disorder. However, when his widow secretly married again 12 days after William’s death, foul play was suspected. It was discovered that William had died of arsenic poisoning. The prosecution couldn’t prove that anyone other than William had administered the poison, so the former Mrs. Avery and her new husband were acquitted.

1929: “Talkies” came to Fort Collins.

Forthcoming movies with sound were advertised on March 10 and included “The Jazz Singer” with Al Jolson.

1940: Steele’s Market opens.

1951: The swimming pool at City Park was built with the aid of a fund-raising campaign conducted by the Elks Club because the city had no money for the project. Drowning incidents involving

children swimming in irrigation ditches led to citizens’ desire for a pool.

1952: The local streetcar system became the last such operation in Colorado to end its services.

1957: A new county courthouse was dedicated. It was built on the 200 block of West Oak in Courthouse Square.

1958: A new city hall at 300 LaPorte Ave. was dedicated on June 8. It replaced a building that had been in use since 1882.

1966: Fort Collins-Loveland Airport was dedicated.

1969: Eastman Kodak builds a plant in Windsor.

1970: A new organization, Planned Development for Quality, was formed to create long-term comprehensive civic planning. Task forces were created to plan new facilities and projects.

1973: The civic planning group identifies their key projects that are still in use today: A new city library, the Lincoln Center, Poudre River Parkway, Transfort and Care-A-Van transportation systems, new parks, low-income housing projects and restoration of the Avery House.

1978: The Lincoln Center opened in the fall.

1985: Colorado State University professor Tom Sutherland was taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon. He is held captive for 61⁄2 years, released by his captors on Nov. 18, 1991.

1985: Revitalized Old Town opens.

1988: Anheuser-Busch opens a brewery north of Fort Collins.

1997: A flash flood strikes central Fort Collins, killing five people living in a mobile home park. CSU’s campus, including its student center and library, were heavily damaged to the tune of $140 million.

Oct. 4, 2002: Albert C. Yates, Colorado State University’s first African-American president, announces his resignation after 13 years at the helm. He leaves office in 2003, credited with creating a strategic planning process for academics and funding as well as changing the aesthetic atmosphere of the university.

He is replaced by Larry Edward Penley of Arizona State University.

2006: Money Magazine names Fort Collins “The best place to live in America” with populations over 50,000 people. The designation prompts more accolades, including Best Place to Retire and Best Place to Raise Children.

2008: Tim Masters is released from prison after a wrongful conviction for the murder in 1987 of Peggy Hettrick. Special

2010: A fire destroys the Mason Streets Flat building under construction at 311 Mason St. and damages the Penny Flats residential and mixed-used building. The fire causes $10 million in damages. Benjamin David Gilmore of Fort Collins is arrested on arson charges. The trial results in a hung jury. A new trial is scheduled for August 2013.

2011: A mega-party, fueled by social media invitations, draws thousands to the Rams Pointe housing complex. Police and rescue personnel are overwhelmed by injuries, drunken party-goers and trash. At least four arrests are made, and the party brings national attention to Fort Collins.

2012: The year’s dry spring gave way to a series of wildfires whose destruction will be felt for years. The High Park Fire’s footprint of 87,250 acres made it the second largest in Colorado’s history.

Sparked by an errant lightning strike in early June, it quickly spread to the east, crossing Poudre Canyon. Before the fire’s containment, it would destroy at least 259 homes and claim one life.

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1950: A piece of Fort Collins history was lost. The Welch House, owned by Charles Evans, was torn down to clear ground for a new Safeway store on the northwest corner of College and Mulberry. The house had been built in 1899 by Corwin R. Welch, owner of the region’s largest dry goods store at the time.

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2009: Fort Collins receives international attention when residents Richard and Mayumi Heene claim their 6-year-old son, Falcon, was aboard a homemade silver, helium-filled balloon that flew away. Falcon was found safe at home, and the story proved to be a hoax. Richard Heene pleaded guilty to a felony count of attempting to influence a public servant; Mayumi Heene pleaded guilty to filing a false report. The family moved away from Fort Collins.

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1895: Fort Collins women organized on the liquor issue. An ordinance was passed that prohibited liquor sales — it would last until 1969.

1974: Foothills Fashion Mall was built.

prosecutors move to vacate Masters’ conviction after tests conclude DNA found on Hettrick’s body matches someone else. A judge vacates Masters’ murder conviction and orders his release from prison. Masters sues the city of Fort Collins and Larimer County, receiving a total of $10 million in a settlement.

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Handful of businesses survive a century or more

By Pat Ferrier PatFerrier@coloradoan.com

Of all the businesses operating in and around Fort Collins, few are as old as the Coloradoan, the lone survivor of what once was a city with three newspapers. Some have changed their names, moved locations, even closed temporarily during Prohibition. But today they are all still thriving. The only continually operating businesses as old or older than the Coloradoan and still operating in the city are Ranch-way Feeds on Linden Street and City Drug.

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» Year founded: 1868 » Address: 416 Linden St. » (970) 482-1662 Located on the banks of the Poudre River in downtown Fort Collins, flour milling began in 1868 making Ranch-way Feeds the oldest continually operating Fort Collins business. Flour milling was discontinued in 1948 replaced by manufacturing of livestock feed. Today its focuses on bulk commercial feed, wholesale bagged feed and specialty products for animals from alpacas to zebras. Owned by brother and sister Bonnie Szidon and Joe Bixler, the company has been in their family for 45 years. They employ about 60 in Fort Collins and another seven to nine at a retail store in Santa Fe, N.M. Two years ago the company installed new milling equipment in a part of the mill that was not being used to begin making certified organic feed.

» Year founded: 1873 » Address: 209 N. College Ave. » (970) 482-1234 City Drug’s roots go back to a Wyoming pharmacist named M.E. Hocker, who bought some stock from another drugstore in 1873 and along with Fort Collins businessman William C. Stover opened a new drugstore in the southwest corner of Jefferson and Linden Streets. Several moves and a couple owners later, Arthur Grovert and his brother, Harold, purchased the drugstore now known as City Drug. In 1967, the Groverts moved the drugstore to 101 S. College Ave. and in 1991 sold it to current owners Barb and Bernie Wilkins. The drugstore moved to 209 N. College Ave. in 2009 when its lease expired.

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Siblings Bernie and Barb Wilkins pose behind the pharmacy counter at City Drug on April 15. City Drug has been in Fort Collins since 1873, under different names and with several owners. V. RICHARD HARO/THE COLORADOAN

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Morning Fresh Dairy (formerly Graves Dairy)

» Year founded: 1894 » Address: 5821 West County Road 54E, Bellvue » (970) 482-5789

Eric Alvarez, a driver for Morning Fresh Dairy, makes sales calls in a neighborhood in Loveland with his electric delivery truck Feb. 22. V. RICHARD HARO/THE COLORADOAN

The all natural, family-owned dairy has been operating in the same location for nearly 120 years. In the 1950s, they milked about 80 cows, four cows at a time twice a day. Today they have more than 600. William C. Graves ran the dairy until 1956.

His son Robert C. Graves took on the duties until Robert L. Graves (son of Robert C. and Sherry E. Graves) began running things in the early 1990s. Today, Rob Graves’ children are learning how to run the dairy farm. Morning Fresh currently has about 6,000 home delivery customers throughout Northern Colorado.

Black’s Glass » Year founded: 1908 » Address: 360 Jefferson St. » (970) 484-1505 Black’s Glass has moved around several times but always made its home in Old Town Fort Collins.

Longtime owner Ray Hess recently sold his shares to general manager Jasmin Ramirez and his son, Tyler Hess. “Part of our success is we have been a household name in the community for so long. We have a reputation as friendly, hometown people,” Ray Hess said. Everyone working at Black’s Glass is aware of the company’s history “and knows we have a reputation to uphold and we try not to disappoint. You can’t buy that kind of advertising.”

The Town Pump » Year founded: 1909 » Address: 124 N. College Ave. » (970) 493-4404

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F.D. Giddings, who started a machine shop in Fort Collins in 1901, sold a half interest to his brother, Claude Giddings in 1904.

The company operated for most of its time in Fort Collins from the old Giddings building at Pine and Willow streets. The building was sold in 2004 when it was purchased by Bas Bleu Theatre Co. The Giddings Machine Co. moved to Windsor in 2004.

Located in the historic Avery Building at the corner of Mountain and College avenues, the tiny Town Pump has a romantic history in Fort Collins. During Prohibition, the bar was a sandwich and soda shop, but rumors about a trap door behind the bar where illegal bootleggers operated out of the basement persist.

Owner Jake Latendresse said there is no way to prove it, but in the early 1980s old patrons would come in and ask if the secret bootleg door was still behind the bar, which leads him to believe the ancient myths were true.

The Town Pump claims to have sold the very first Fat Tire ever commercially sold. From the time the bar obtained a liquor license in the mid-1930s until 1989, it only served 3.2 percent beer. In 1989, the bar applied for a permit to serve hard alcohol, and in January 1990 it became a full service bar.

» Poudre School District: 126 years in business » Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce: 109 » Mishiwaka Inn: 97 » Bohlender Funeral Home: 88 » Poudre Valley Hospital: 88 » Sears Trostel: 84 » JC Penney: 84 » Forney Industries: 81 » Silver Grill: 80 » Fort Collins Nursery: 80 » Paul Wood Florist: 80 » Fort Collins Board of Realtors » Markley Motors: 77 Still other businesses have longevity but in the context of a century or more, haven’t operated in the city for that long. » Allnutt Funeral Home, founded in 1886, opened Fort Collins office in the mid-1980s

Patrons fill the Town Pump in Fort Collins during the bar’s 100th anniversary celebration March 11, 2009. COLORADOAN LIBRARY

» Wells Fargo, founded in 1852. It purchased Poudre Valley National Bank, one of the oldest banks in the city. » Citizen Printing, founded in 1906 in Omaha, Neb., opened office in Fort Collins in 1965 » Sather’s Jewelers: Founded in 1910 in Spooner, Wis., opened a store in Fort Collins in 1987 » Great Western Bank, founded in 1912 » RBC Wealth Management, founded in 1909 » Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, founded in 1906 » Bank of the West, founded in 1874 » Security One Reverse Mortgage, founded in 1863 » Resthaven Funeral Home and Memory Gardens, founded in 1886

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The Cache la Poudre River determined the location of the city of Fort Collins back when this area was still an unsettled frontier. Today, the city has grown to an urban center with a population of nearly 150,000.

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Future growth likely to give Fort Collins a more urban feel

By Kevin Duggan KevinDuggan@coloradoan.com

Growth in coming years is likely to shape Fort Collins in different ways than it did in recent decades.

The boundaries of Fort Collins’ growth management area, which covers the land within city limits

and what is expected to be annexed, are set and not expected to expand. But people are certain to keep coming to a region that is considered one of the most desirable places in the country to live.

That means Fort Collins is going to grow more up than out, said Les Kaplan, a longtime local developer.

The relative lack of space around the city’s edges will translate to more redevelopment and taller buildings near its core.

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said. Higher densities will mean a change in how people live and move around in an increasingly urban environment.

“You’re not going to have the big McMansions,” he said. “People will still want single-family, detached houses, but there will be smaller houses and more compact living spaces.”

New residents are likely to be a mixture of students — as Colorado State University increases its enrollment — young professionals with families attracted to the city by jobs in high-tech industries, and retirees lured by the area’s many amenities, he said.

Urban densities eventually will come to Fort Collins, said John Daggett, executive director of Embrace Northern Colorado.

But the closest example of that in the “near term, as in the next 20 years,” will likely be along the Mason Corridor, FORT COLLINS he said.

The Choice Center student POPULATION housing project south of » 1950 – 14,937 Prospect Road is an example » 1960 – 25,027 of the high-density complex- » 1970 – 43,337 es that are likely to be more » 1980 – 65,092 common along the city’s » 1990 – 85,758 “spine” and College Avenue » 2000 – 118,652 as the corridor develops, he » 2005 – 128,017 said. » 2010 – 143,986 The MAX bus rapid tran» 2013 – 151,330 (estimate) sit system under construc» 2030 – 430,000 (Larimer tion is intended to move peo- County, projected) ple along the corridor as it » 2060 – 600,000 (Larimer ties south Fort Collins to the County, projected) CSU campus and downtown.

Source: city of Fort Collins MAX is expected to be operational by May 2014.

Fort Collins’ long-range comprehensive plan for land use and transportation – City Plan – calls for increased infill and redevelopment and policies that discourage sprawl. It calls for development along enhanced travel corridors such as the Mason Corridor.

The document includes several elements, including plans for subareas such as downtown and the Mountain Vista area in the northeast part of the city.

Sustainability and supporting the area’s quality of life are key themes in City Plan, and its overall vision is of creating a “world-class community,” said Senior City Planner Pete Wray. It calls for protecting natural areas, open-space separators between neighboring communities and existing neighborhoods.

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north of Mulberry Street, although the area has constraints to development such as drainage issues and railroad tracks that affect major roads.

Land is available within the city’s growth management area to build all types of housing, Wray said. Buildout of available lands is expected to take 15 to 20 years.

Embrace Northern Colorado is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering regional planning and solutions to address transportation and land-use issues.

The transition to a more urban lifestyle in Fort Collins is likely to happen slowly, Daggett said.

Most of the buildings and neighborhoods in the city are less than 40 years old and are not yet candidates for redevelopment. Zoning restrictions limit the heights of most buildings in the city to four stories.

Urbanization of Fort Collins and other regional cities may require a generational shift away from familiar living patterns such as hav-

ing houses with yards and neighborhoods with plenty of elbow room, he said.

“There are a lot of cultural factors involved, including the age of the community and people not wanting to be crowded,” he said. “It all comes into play.

“Change is hard, and we don’t take it well.”

The population of the region bounded by Greeley, Loveland and Fort Collins is expected to grow by between 600,000 and 1 million in the next 35 years, according to Embrace Northern Colorado.

The emergence of major oil and gas reserves to the east in Weld County is likely to impact Fort Collins as companies look to relocate to the region, Kaplan said.

The growth will put additional pressure on the city’s economic, recreational and cultural structures, but Fort Collins is well-positioned to deal with the changes, Kaplan said.

“I think Fort Collins is poised for a very promising future,” he said. “The foundation is set, and we have a new high-tech economic base. I’m very optimistic.”

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Once upon a time at the Coloradoan To walk into the newsroom of the Coloradoan seven or eight decades ago, well before the computer age, was to come upon what can only be called organized chaos: Typewriters clattered, telephones jangled and smoke hovered in the air as thick as smog. Off and on, the teletype machine clinked and clanked, bringing up-todate news from The Associated Press. Voices called across the room.

Though it was a large, open space, the room had divisions of sorts — ads and classifieds in one area, sports in another, the city editor’s desk smack in the middle. He had the final say about copy — but the undisputed queen of the newsroom reigned at the front of the room. The granddaughter of Franklin Avery, Society Editor Betty Woodworth wrote about engagements, weddings, club happenings, parties and other notable occasions. When she answered the phone, the caller might have thought she was a man thanks to her exceptionally low voice, made even huskier by years of chain-smoking.

From time to time, someone strolled into the newsroom to chat or perhaps to share a bit of local news.

The newspaper, housed until the 1970s on East Mountain Avenue, was the primary source of local and national news, as well as international news — post-World War II, the high-wire tense Cold War, the conflict in Korea and other world events.

At his desk, the city editor worked his way through the stories piled up there. Sometimes he called to the creator of the piece to rewrite it; sometimes, he made corrections and went on to the next one. When he was satisfied with a piece, he wrote an accompanying headline, decided where the story would go in that day’s paper, estimated length and column width and sent it to the typesetter.

Type is set backward; the typesetters were highly skilled professionals who performed magic every day fitting the pieces together. Classifieds and ads were set first, with hard news and features arranged around the ads. No ads ever appeared on Page 1. After the pages came off the typesetting machine, they were assembled and sent to be printed. Only pressmen were allowed in the press room. When the giant presses rolled, the noise was overpowering, and the building shook a bit. But when they stopped, the paper was, as they said, “put to bed”— until the next day.

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In spring 1873, the town of Fort Collins blinked into existence.

It had been the dream of founding citizens for more than six years, since the close of the old fort and military reservation. They had worked tirelessly to get the federal

government to release the 6,100 acres of the old fort to homesteading and allow them to establish a new town on the banks of the Cache la Poudre River.

In February 1873, a town council was formed, and the city of Fort Collins became a reality.

Fort Collins had quite a bit going

for it. It had been chosen as the Larimer County seat in 1868, and the territorial Legislature designated Fort Collins as the site of the new Colorado Agricultural College in 1870.

Now that the town had been formally established, the future was bright. Several hundred people

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newspaper office was located on Mountain Avenue, near where Rio Grande Mexican restaurant is today. A printing press and some secondhand type had been brought in from Cheyenne, Wyo., and on April 26, 1873, the first edition of the Coloradoan’s forebear was published.

That first edition contained an extensive report on how wonderful Larimer County was, and it was circulated widely as a means of advertising Fort Collins as a great place to live.

During the next several years, Fort Collins went through difficult times, including grasshopper

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plagues, economic busts and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills that drew many townspeople away.

Finally, in fall 1877, the little town got the boon it had been looking for with the arrival of the railroad.

One of the earliest arrivals on the trains was a 42-yearold salesman named Ansel Watrous.

Watrous was convinced that Fort Collins was going to grow into a great town, so after working a while in Benjamin Whedbee’s drug store, Watrous teamed up with Elmer Pelton to found the Fort Collins Courier.

The newspaper was first published on June 29, 1878.

The population of Larimer County was about 2,500 people, of which about 500 called Fort Collins home.

Only Pelton had previous newspaper experience,

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Mistakes did happen on occasion. One vivid memory of mine is my very first wedding story, which came out in print with this description: “The bride was attired in a green wool Christmas tree.”

How did that happen? No one seemed to know, but of course we ran the story again the next day, with every word correct.

Newsrooms are quiet

but Watrous was an able writer, and soon the paper developed a following.

In the early days of the Fort Collins Courier, the paper was four pages and published daily. However, two of those pages were printed in Chicago. The other two were produced locally. Day after day, the Chicago pages didn’t change, giving the Courier a pretty monotonous look.

By Christmas 1878, Watrous and company had received some new type. A month later, they were able See COLORADOAN, Page 20

now. Cubicles separate individual staff members; pages are laid out with software.

Passersby don’t wander in; communication happens quite differently.

Though the processes are different, the results are the same — news is delivered to readers.

But that long-ago newsroom was an exciting, memorable place.

Barbara Fleming is a former Coloradoan journalist and writes weekly history columns for the newspaper. Email her at fcwriter@frii.com.

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to publish the entire fourpage paper in Fort Collins.

Watrous was a supporter of local business and worked with the motto, “Home First, the World Afterwards.”

As time went by, Watrous improved the paper, installed a power press and purchased the entire stock of the company. He remained the sole proprietor of the paper until 1886, when he sold out to a new company but stayed on as president.

The paper was sold again in 1899, but Watrous continued as editor. This

was despite the fact that the paper had been Democratic from the beginning but was now a Republican paper to reflect views of the new owners. It didn’t seem to make much difference to Watrous, who continued to write about Fort Collins in glowing and optimistic terms, regardless of politics.

The paper was expanded from eight to 12 pages and went from daily to weekly delivery.

Fort Collins continued to be a two-newspaper town after the turn of the century, when the town population increased to more than 8,000 by 1910. The Fort Collins Courier went back to daily evening delivery, becoming the Evening

Courier on March 24, 1902, with four pages of local news. In 1905, the company built a new building on Jefferson Street.

In 1910, Watrous embarked on his most ambitious project, compiling the first history of Larimer County. The original newspaper, the Express, had its entire morgue file destroyed by an 1880 fire. For this reason, Watrous began his major work. He completed the book in 1910 and published “The History of Larimer County” the following year.

In May 1920, the Courier was purchased by the Express. Watrous had retired by this time, and the two papers combined in 1930 to become the Express-Couri-

er. Other newspapers have since been established and published, but the ExpressCourier and its successor, the Coloradoan, have been the city’s only daily newspaper.

The Fort Collins Express-Courier continued to be delivered in the evenings until April 27, 1945, when it published its last edition as it came under the ownership of the Speidel Newspaper chain of Reno, Nev., and became the Coloradoan.

It was the first time in more than 72 years that the paper did not have a local owner. During the 1950s and ’60s, the newspaper offices were downtown at the corner of Mountain Avenue and Remington

Street. In 1977, Speidel merged with Gannett.

Today, the Coloradoan is part of the nation’s largest news organization, working with 81 other daily newspapers, including USA Today, and 23 television stations, including KUSA 9News in Denver.

The tradition of newspapers in Fort Collins runs deep. Over the decades the newspaper has watched over all the events, great and small, that have formed the fabric of Fort Collins.

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Ag at the heart of city, but farmers’ future is uncertain

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Ever since its founding, the heart and soul of Fort Collins has been agriculture.

It began in 1872 with the founding of the Agricultural Colony around the site of the Agricultural College of Colorado, which would eventually become Colorado State University.

“It has for its location one of the finest agricultural valleys in the territory,” the Denver Times newspaper declared that year.

Despite being occasionally ravaged by swarms of grasshoppers, Fort Collins and eastern Larimer County, along the banks of the Cache la Poudre River, proved verdant for sugar beet farmers and other producers, whose crops became the lifeblood of Colorado.

“Agriculture is the foundation upon which the superstructure of all other interests rests,” wrote newspaperman Ansel Watrous in his 1911 history of Larimer County.

“It forms the very basis of society and gives it that stability which is the keystone of prosperity.”

Larimer County, he wrote, “is the banner agricultural county in the state, and the value of its farm products is exceeded by no other county in Colorado.”

In the Cache la Poudre Valley, Watrous said he never knew a crop to fail since the county’s irrigation systems had been “brought to their present state of perfection.”

Irrigation was so perfect here in 1911 that “at the present time, there is little or no danger of a crop failure because of the lack of moisture,” he wrote.

Primary crops here in the early 20th century were sugar beets, wheat, oats, barley and alfalfa.

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“Entry into the new 20th century brought an “Agricultural Boom” to Larimer County,” historian Wayne Sundberg wrote in the Coloradoan in 1998. “Lamb feeding and sugar-beet growing emerged as the main economic supports by the close of the first decade. The town's population grew from 3,053 in 1900 to 8,210 in 1910, a phenomenal 169 percent growth rate. Completion of the sugar factory on East Vine Drive in 1903 and the electric street railway in 1907 hallmarked

this growth period.”

Sugar beet tops were used as feed for cattle and sheep. There were so many sheep here — up to 400,000 — that the area became known as the “lamb feeding capital of the world,” Sundberg said.

Mexican workers coming to work the sugar beet fields played a major role in the early 20th-century agricultural history of Fort Collins, Sundberg said. People fleeing Mexico after agricultural jobs there disappeared during the Mex-

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on taxing sugar, Sundberg said.

Much has changed in a century.

Fort Collins transformed from a conservative agricultural community focused on temperance to one where the vestiges of its early revulsion toward alcohol and outsiders can hardly be seen.

The city passed a “lunch pail” ordinance in the early 20th century that prohibited people, mainly farm workers, from carrying lunch pails while on College Avenue, Sundberg said.

“The conservative attitude in the town that was the anti-liquor thing was also anti-general laborers,” he said. “They didn’t want these people on the main street of town. It was part of trying to portray an image.”

Rather than trying to project an

image in line with conservative agricultural values, Fort Collinsarea farmers today are simply trying to survive.

Agriculture here weathered the Dust Bowl, the drought of the 1950s, and economic ups and downs, but today, as drought bears down on farmers once again and climate change threatens the long-term viability of the region’s water supplies, the future of agriculture in Fort Collins and the surrounding region is highly uncertain.

Forced to fallow some or all of their land because of poor water availability this year, many of the region’s farmers are enduring the economic ravages of the drought.

“The revenue is going way down,” Wellington farmer Eldon Ackerman said in March. “That’s why I started back in November

“The reality is, we’re kind of becoming extinct.

We’re an endangered species, and this may be the silver bullet that takes us all out.”

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trying to figure out which employees to let go.”

The snowpack across Northern Colorado was hovering around the 30 percent-below-normal mark in early April, and the region’s water conservancy district, Northern Water, was giving farmers only 60 percent of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project’s capacity for 2013.

It’ll take more than a year of good moisture to recover from more than a year of drought, and there’s little sign in the long-term forecasts that suggest a wet spring and summer are to come anytime soon.

“The reality is, we’re kind of becoming extinct,” farmer Richard Seaworth said in March. “We’re an endangered species, and this may be the silver bullet that takes us all out.”

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Fort Collins has long been a community of causes.

With more than 300 active nonprofits in Larimer County — the majority of which are within Fort Collins’ city boundaries — the char-

itable at heart can do anything from supporting the wild animals who keep our ecosystem thriving to helping a homeless man find his way off the streets.

Each volunteer finds his or her niche and donates their time, money and passion to make a difference.

Speaking of money ... of the $60,193,193 Coloradans donated through the United Way in the most recent fiscal year, more than $6.7 million came from Larimer County.

The majority of those funds were donated locally to help one of the 347 registered nonprofits.

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philanthropic heart that is Fort Collins, the Coloradoan celebrates this week another birthday: the first birthday of our Causes section to highlight the work of volunteers and the nonprofits they serve in our community.

On May 4, 2012, the first column highlighting the volunteer experience at a nonprofit — Respite Care Inc. — was published in the Causes section, which appears Fridays.

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Coloradoan, Odell create special beer A party just isn’t a party without beer.

And in Fort Collins, odds are the beer is of a craft variety.

The Coloradoan is no slouch. When the paper decided to throw a big bash in honor of the paper’s 140th anniversary, it didn’t just decide to buy some craft beer; it decided to brew it.

The paper partnered with Odell Brewing Co., which has a history of brewing beers with local businesses, and we set out to concoct a brew that would help us ring in our anniversary in style.

After some deliberation, and a bit of drinking, we decided on a white coffee pale ale, thus combining two journalist favorites: coffee and beer. Odell has never brewed this type of beer, so it will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Thanks to a reader’s name suggestion, the beer will be called Press Pale Ale. The week of April 15, Coloradoan employees joined Odell Pilot Brew Manager Brent Cordle in brewing up the small batch of beer. Cordle led us through the process, letting Coloradoan staffers dump hops into the batch and sample the beer as it went through the process.

As I write this, the beer is sitting in Odell fermenter No. 4.

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Trains and trolleys a big part of Fort Collins’ history

By Trevor Hughes TrevorHughes@coloradoan.com

Trains helped put Fort Collins and its approximately 1,000 residents on the map back in 1877. It’s a partnership that has endured to this day, albeit not without frustrations and annoyance. And it’s a part-

nership that may one day flourish again in a slightly different format if the Mason Corridor project proves successful.

Rail service first arrived in Fort Collins on Oct. 8, 1877. Without the major highways like Interstate 25 we can use today, Fort Collins was far from manufacturing centers,

said Carol Tunner, a longtime city resident and retired historic preservation planner. That first train to Fort Collins rolled on tracks running down Mason Street. A second line was eventually built along Riverside Avenue.

“Everything that came into town came by train,” Tunner said. “The

city was so eager to get the train in town. We needed to be put on the map. We were nothing. You were Grover or Carr if you didn’t have a train.”

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The Coloradoan is celebrating our 140th anniversary of being

Northern Colorado’s biggest news and information source. Beginning April 29th, we’ll be hosting a series of special events, gatherings and a chance w to taste our signature beer, Press Pale Ale. Join the party by following @coloradoan on twitter or like our facebook page at facebook.com/Coloradoan.

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route through Fort Collins and then up the Poudre Canyon, according to the city’s official history, but the effort was dropped after it was deemed too expensive.

That route instead today runs largely along the Interstate 80 corridor through Wyoming.

The archive at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery explains the railroad’s impact: “By the spring of 1878, Fort Collins was in the midst of a new period of prosperity and development, during which a number of the city’s most substantial business blocks, public buildings, and residences would be erected. An influx of new settlers from the Midwest took advantage of rail transportation to bring families, household goods, farm implements, and farm animals directly to the area.”

After the trains arrived, the streetcars followed. An extensive trolley system served the city, running along Mountain Avenue — those tracks are still used today for sightseeing trolley excursions — and down College Avenue. The trolleys served the city’s sugar beet factory near Lemay Avenue and Vine Drive and also prompted new developments west along Moun-

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Keeping it local, the coffee used in the brew will come from a local coffee shop, which also happens to serve beer. We will use a blonde coffee roast for the beer provided by Cranknstein, a local coffee, bar and bike shop.

In 1873, when the Colora-

The old railroad station on LaPorte Avenue in the early 1900s. COLORADOAN LIBRARY

tain Avenue as middle-class families moved out of what was then the city’s center.

It’s that kind of development current city leaders hope to encourage with the Mason Corridor project and its MAX bus rapid-transit service.

City officials say MAX and the $86 million Mason Corridor project will help revitalize the 5-mile-long corridor, which has been zoned to encourage taller, busier buildings. Those new buildings, residents, workers and shoppers will be served by special buses running along a dedicated route. The corridor was designed so the buses could one day be replaced with light rail service — modern trolleys — if ridership demands it. Fort Collins stands to benefit significantly if it spurs the kind of development city leaders predict.

doan started as the Larimer County Express, life looked a lot different here. For one thing, there weren’t nearly a dozen breweries in Fort Collins offering some of the best brews in the country.

We plan to unveil this brew to the community at our 140th anniversary party May 2. For those who want to try Press Pale Ale for yourself, it will be on tap in the tasting room at Odell Brewing Co., 800 E. Lincoln Ave.

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Residents share their memories of Fort Collins More than 50 years later, Fort Collins still near to heaven I was 15 years old. Of course I didn’t want to leave my friends and the world I knew.

It was the 1950s. My parents were recently divorced. My moth-

er wanted to build a new life and raise her children in a college town.

In June we left hot, dusty coastal Texas in our old car.

It took five long days to reach Fort Collins. As we crested a hill east of town, Fort Collins was a green oasis in the valley before us

with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop.

We drove down Mountain Avenue toward our destination. Roses were blooming in the center medians with sprinklers splashing water and overhead huge green trees arched over the street. We were almost speechless with awe.

That is my first memory of Fort Collins.

It was near to heaven then and still is, in my mind. I have never wanted to leave.

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From vacation destination to hometown My husband and I were living in Kansas where we were both born and raised.

We found ourselves coming to Colorado every summer for vacation and one summer we found ourselves in Fort Collins.

We had heard the rumor of what a wonderful town it was and we fell in love with the beauty of the area. I remember traveling up the winding road of Poudre Canyon and then sitting on the shore of Horsetooth Reservoir, wondering what was keeping us from mov-

ing here. So we made our decision sitting on that rock overlooking this beautiful valley that we would move to the area.

That was 1985 and since then we have made Fort Collins our home. Our children were born and raised here, graduating from Poudre High School and then from CSU. I often wonder what would have happened if we would not have made the move to Fort Collins. I do not think our lives would have been nearly this rich.

I feel so very lucky to live in such a beautiful community with the Rocky Mountains out our back door.

Now when we travel elsewhere on vacation, we always feel so blessed to

several other stores while breathing in the warmth wafting off my latte. It was heaven. Walking back to Ben & Jerry’s to get my daughter after that single, lovely hour, I felt very lucky to live in a town such as Fort Collins.

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There is no comparison anywhere in the world. We love it here and always will!

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A one-hour getaway in Old Town On a rather cold Saturday this past winter, my daughter’s classmate had a birthday party at Ben & Jerry’s in Old Town Square.

So, while my girl, Ashley, was busy having a ball making a tie-dyed shirt and sampling cold treats, I was free for an hour to wander Old Town. By myself. As a busy mom of two, this quiet snippet of alone time made me giddy, and as I turned to leave the ice cream shop to begin my adventure, big, soft flakes of snow started falling softly. Very few people were on the streets due to the cold, but as the snow began to come down harder, the magic of Old Town’s wintry silence touched me. It was honestly as beautiful as a movie set.

I crossed Mountain and got a hot vanilla latte at Starry Night. I slowly poked around in Killer Rabbit and happily wandered through The Cupboard, Go Lite and

I have so many memories, like the great decorative fountain at the southwest corner of College and Prospect that shot up water to impressive heights, and sitting on the bench eating my hamburger on the south side of the McDonald’s in Midtown (which then was Edge o’town) and enjoying the wheat fields where Kmart is now. There was nothing beyond to the south. I remember before Foothills Mall was built and also remember the farmhouse where Tres Margaritas is now. That is why there are so many large trees around it. I was a CSU student when Old Main burned down May 4, 1970.

And so it goes.

Oh, and one more thing: I was a journalism major back then and we took a tour of the Coloradoan building. This was when it was on Mountain Avenue and had that huge press and they still used hot type (yes, I am old but not that old). I remember seeing only men employed there and most of them were bald-headed and grumpy.

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well know), the printing press was so big that it was dropped to the basement of the building rather than dismantle it and try to move it. Since the building was turned into the Senior Center (the old SC), no one would have cared.

— Darlene Mueller Morse

Memories of stops along the way Walking home from Fort Collins High School in 1958 and 1959 meant making a couple of stops along the way. First was a stop to see my mom at Dr. Bliss’s office on south College where she worked as his RN. Then there was a stop at my dad’s store: Dixie Carmel Corn

Shop at 156 N. College (now the location of Perennial Gardens).

It was a great spot for a snack.

Then it was off to East Mountain for a two-hour stop at the Coloradoan, where I worked two afternoons after school and Saturdays with Betty Woodworth, the society editor. I would type up a first draft of wedding announcements, taking the information provided by the bride-to-be for the Coloradoan.

Betty, a descendant of the Avery family (her mother was Ethel Avery Woodworth), was the perfect boss, always making me feel like I had done a good job on my first draft. Of course, she would make any final needed changes before it became print in the paper.

It was all good experience for the editor of the other great newspaper in town, The Spilled Ink, the official paper of FCHS. After that I

walked home to 1309 W. Mountain, a home my dad built in 1951.

— Carol Strong Rowley

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My family scrapbooks are full of Coloradoan and Express-Courier clippings. My dad, James R. Young (FC High Class ‘44), was born and raised here. His parents were Roland and Edith Young and one of his uncles was “Red Feather Lou” Young. Jim delivered the newspaper for several years on a very large route. The clipping of him with the buck deer is from the first year he hunted at age 15 and he never bagged a better deer the rest of his life!

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We added Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland. We created Colorado Colora Health Medical Group with clinics throughout Colorado and southern Wyoming.

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