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on the cover Robert Bradley and Marilyn Bradley stand together at the clinic where Robert works in Windsor. The couple travel around the world helping people in need, their next trip will be taking them to Nepal.
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Answers to the most-asked questions about the town of Windsor Have you wondered where to go to pay a ticket? Does the town have ordinances to regulate pet ownership? Who do I call about a big pothole? And why is the sky blue? Except for the color of the sky, the town of Windsor answers these and dozens of other questions to help Windsor residents navigate municipal government and be a well-informed citizen. Here is a sample of some of the useful information on the Windsor FAQ:
Can I sign up to receive my utility statements electronically and pay online? Yes! Reduce your carbon footprint, pay and receive statements electronically! New users will need to register by clicking under registration options on the right side of the screen at windsorcoutilities.merchanttransact.com. How do I set up service for a property I purchased? An application will be completed at closing with the title company. The account will be set up under the property owners’ names as of the closing date. For further questions regarding new account set up, contact the Utility Billing Clerk Erin Porter at (970) 674-2403. How do I set up service for a property I rented? An application needs to be completed by the property owner or manger. I am moving, what do I need to do with my service? If you sold your house, the title company will contact the town of Windsor to close out your account. They will request a final reading and statement as of the closing date. Please contact the town immediately should your closing date change. If you are a tenant, please contact the town to schedule a final read. A forwarding address is needed to mail your final statement. How do I change my contact information for my utility account? Please contact the town of Windsor at (970) 674-2400. The account will need to be setup in your name to make any changes. What do I do if I find a water leak at my residence or business? If you need your water service disconnected immediately, please contact the town of Windsor at (970) 674-2400 and we will arrange for an emergency shut-off by a trained service professional. The town of Windsor is responsible for repairing water meters and all pipes leading to our meters. Pipes that proceed from the water meter to a citizen’s residence or business are the responsibility of the property owner to repair. If you locate and repair a water leak at your residence or business, and provide the town with proof, such as receipts for parts or a bill from a plumber, that repairs were successfully made, we offer a Utility Appeal Adjustment Program that may reduce the money owed for water while the leak was occurring. Please fill out the Utility Appeal Application or call (970) 674-2422 for more information about leak adjustments. My water has been shut off. How do I get it turned back on? If your water service has been disconnected for non-payment, the full account balance must be paid before your service will be restored. Making a payment on-line or through your online bill pay will not restore your service. Please contact the town of Windsor during regular business hours to make payment and have service restored. 4
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Robina McWilliams stands among the lotions in her shop, Ekte Skin Clinic, 1190 W. Ash St., in Windsor. 6
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ix months before embarking on classes for a degree in dermatology in her native Norway, Robina McWilliams thought she’d spend her free time traveling to the United States to learn to speak English with an American accent and then visit France en route home to begin school. She never made it to Paris. And she never made it to her first dermatology class. She did make it to the United States, however, but ended up in Trinidad, Colorado, of all places, far from the anticipated glitz and glamour portrayed in her favorite TV shows “Dallas” and “Dynasty.” “Trinidad was safe. That’s part of the reason I stayed. It wasn’t Chicago or New York,” said McWilliams, owner of Ekte Clinical Skin Care in Windsor. And as fate or karma would have it, Trinidad is where she met her husband-tobe, Steve, then playing baseball on a college scholarship. After marrying, they moved to Golden so Steve could attend the Colorado School of Mines. And then it was off to Houston. McWilliams, a trained esthetician, did facial clinics for brand-name skin care lines at Nieman Marcus. But big city life wasn’t for them so they moved to Durango where McWilliams opened a holistic day spa using her own all-natural skin care products. When clients kept asking for samples to take home, she knew the next logical step was to start the Ekte line of skin care — Ekte meaning “pure” in Norwegian. “Before I knew it I had a little line of 11 products,” she said. Six years later, with three young daughters, the couple moved to Windsor to be closer to Steve’s parents. That’s when she opened Ekte Clinical Skin Care on Ash Street, where she offers a myriad of treatments and pampering, from facials, body wraps and massages to waxing and spray tans. At extra-busy times she has a list of other professionals she calls to lend a hand. McWilliams refers to herself as a “researcher” and spends most of her spare time reading and researching subjects related to all-things skin care. “I research everything. I knew I wanted to do more clinical, even
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i research everything. I knew I wanted to do more clinical, even back 25 years when estheticians were more about pampering. back 25 years when estheticians were more about pampering. But being from Norway, we treated toe fungus, warts and capillaries on your face. That was my background. We don’t just fluff you up.” Today her skin care line has mushroomed to 55 products and includes everything from cleansers, exfoliants and toners to sunscreens, eye creams and mineral makeup. To come up with new products, McWilliams works with chemists at laboratories specializing in compounding pharmaceuticals who then finesse the formulas she provides. The product is shipped to her in a small batch to test. If it’s a success, it’s added to the Ekte line. She credits her daughters for inspiring her to add many of the new products. The acne line, for example, resulted from helping her oldest daughter, Sarah, get her acne under control. Helen, a member of the poms team at Windsor High School, was the inspiration for adding a line of cosmetics. “And Monica comes along and she’s all about pampering, massage and lotions,” McWilliams said. And speaking of pampering, once a year in November McWilliams invites other business owners to join her at an open house to offer complimentary mani/pedis, facials, massages, even energy work, for women fighting cancer. She gets the word out via fliers and word of mouth.
Rows and Rows of lotions line the walls in Robina McWilliams' shop, Ekte Skin Clinic, 1190 W. Ash St., in Windsor.
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Dr. Robert Bradley examines a child during one of his earlier mission trips to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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longtime family physician in Windsor, Dr. Robert Bradley just can’t get enough of helping others. When he takes trips abroad with his wife Marilyn, they can be found starting nutrition programs and treating infections in remote villages.
It started after he finished an internship in Cooperstown, N.Y. Bradley joined the Indian Health Service and spent two years on the Navajo Reservation out of Shiprock, N.M. “As opposed to being a tourist where you’re just shown places, you really learn a lot more about people and their culture by living among them,” Bradley said. After having their first child on the reservation, Bradley and his wife returned to Colorado. In the late 1980s, Bradley and Marilyn took their two teenage daughters along with them to a village in Ecuador for a 10-day mission trip with the Christian Medical and Dental Society. “We would encourage everyone, at some time in their life, to go on a mission trip to another country and serve. It’s so valuable what you come home with,” Bradley said. “It’s a very educational, eye-opening cultural
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Dr. Robert Bradley of Windsor examines an elderly man during a mission trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
experience for families to take their teenage children.” After 20 years of practicing in Windsor, Bradley was ready to take another longterm trip. Taking a six-month sabbatical, Bradley worked as the only doctor for a sixbed hospital on an Aboriginal reserve in Australia. Marilyn, a registered nurse, served alongside him on the island with a population of about 1,000 Aborigines. Since the early 2000s, the couple has volunteered through United Methodist Volunteers in Mission. Started in 1976, UMVIM is a grassroots movement for Christians to offer their skills to provide service at home and around the world. Taking multiple weeks-long trips to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a trip to Armenia and another to Brazil, Bradley said the experience has been a privilege. “What we really enjoyed about the culture was the
friendliness of the people and their love of music,” he said. “In addition to offering medical service and our Christian witness, we are able to experience the inner lives, the real culture and social network of the people living in these countries.” In Africa, they started a nutrition program encouraging the locals to grow more peanuts and training them how to make food to help address the malnutrition issues. “The team leaders went back after we were there, in Kapanga, and took a manually operated peanut grinder,” Marilyn explained. “They had no way to grind them and they don’t have electricity either, so this, they’re able to do by hand.” The couple has also taken trips to an orphanage in Manzanillo, Mexico, where Bradley has served as a medical consultant. Supported by several churches, including Bradley
and Marilyn’s, the orphanage was founded by a Loveland resident. Their most recent trip was on a medical boat with the Methodist Church to the Amazon region, where they helped treat parasitic diseases. After all the service they’ve provided, Bradley said the personal growth they’ve received in return has been invaluable. “Anytime you’ve been to another country and see what they have to deal with, you are so grateful for what you have in this country,” he said. “Politics aside, no matter who’s running the country, this country is so well-off compared to most of the rest of the world.” On their trips, the couple normally provides outpatient, acute care clinic work and healthcare training to local medical providers who lack professional training. When they encounter chronic medical conditions, they refer patients to local medical providers and help support their treatment. On their first trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the doctor and nurse grew close to a team headed by a nurse and her husband, an electrician. “United Methodist Volunteers in Mission has trips all over the place, so there’s been a lot of choice, but this group bonded so much the first time we went to Africa that we all sort of talk it over and decide which one we want to do together,”
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Robert's office is decorated with images from some of his and Marilyn's travels around world.
Marilyn explained. “We’ve gone under the hospices of the The team leaders of this tight-knit group Methodist church, and so we are associated have family connections in Nepal, where with the church community every time we Bradley and Marilyn are planning to join a go to these places. That’s been very, very trip later this year to remote villages that valuable and helpful,” she said. were damaged by “We just strongly an earthquake a believe in this couple of years ago. experience for Trekking between anyone,” Bradley It’s a very educational, villages in the explained. Annapurna region, eye-opening cultural experience... “Finances are a the team leaders concern, but just will have family help interpret for the group. about anybody who wants to go on a mission While the cultures of the places they’ve trip can learn how to raise support for explored have varied greatly, Marilyn said themselves to do it.” one thing has stayed the same.
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Dr. Robert Bradley, shown here treating a child in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and his wife Marilyn have taken several such medical trips through the United Methodist Volunteers in Mission program. The Best Of Windsor Magazine • premier • january 2017
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From new swimming pool to old town hall, Windsor goes green with energy-saving improvements By Trevor Reid // For Premier
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ith the completion of the $16 million W expansion, the town of Windsor paved the way for a greener future. Featuring sustainable technology, the expansion is estimated to save 15 percent on energy costs for the Recreation Center. In the new gymnasium, skylights provide the most efficient form of light: sunlight. Accented with LED lights, the gym shines brightly even on a cloudy day. With a longer bulb life and less energy consumption, LED lighting is quickly replacing fluorescent lighting as the greener alternative. Automatic controls shut off the lights when no one is using them, further conserving lighting energy. For the Aquatics Center, a dehumidification unit maintains air quality by removing chemicals such as chlorine that evaporate out of the pool. Using a heat exchange, the dehumidification unit heats the incoming fresh air as it exhausts the old air. By harvesting the energy of the exhausted air, the dehumidifier saves energy spent heating the incoming fresh air. One of the most important features are the variable frequency drives that run the pump motors for pool circulation. By controlling the energy going into the
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David French, the Director of Sustainability for Windsor, stands in the pump room at the Community Recreational Center, 250 N. 11th St., in Windsor. One of the functions of the pumps is to push the water in one direction, for example it is used in the lazy river that is located in the new indoor Aquatic Facility.
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efforts of the Recreation Center expansion follow a trend that was set during the reconstruction of Town Hall after the 2008 tornado. “It all kind of came into play after our tornado,” French explained. “We had so much to rebuild — might as well do it right.” In 2009, reconstruction on Town Hall began. With the support of town leadership, many sustainable features were included. For the heating, ventilation and air conditioning, an evaporative cooler provides the most efficient cooling system for the building. In an arid or semiarid climate, evaporative coolers reduce energy consumption by introducing water vapor into the air. Much like how the evaporation of sweat cools bodies, the evaporation of water in these systems cools the air more efficiently than
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typical air conditioning systems. Heat pumps help maintain a consistent temperature throughout Town Hall. By absorbing warmth in the outside air and circulating the heat throughout the building, the temperature can remain constant, no matter where the sun’s rays are warming the building. With its several large windows, Town Hall benefits greatly from the double-paned windows that were installed after the tornado. Doublepaned windows help insulate from both frosty outdoor temperatures and hot summer air. Expanded foam insulation in the roof also reduces the energy needed to maintain the temperature of Town Hall. As Town Hall was being finished, work begun on the new Police Department building. Using a geothermal system, the temperature
David French, the Director of Sustainability for Windsor, stands in the pump room at the Community Recreational Center, 250 N. 11th St., in Windsor.
of the water traveling through the heating and air conditioning devices in the building are kept at a 50-degree constant. The geothermal loop uses the natural 50-degree temperature of the ground with 18 geothermal wells that are 330-feet deep. Since heat moves to colder areas as a universal law of physics, the geothermal loop has few moving parts, making it an incredibly efficient system. French said Windsor’s sustainability efforts are for the benefit of the taxpayer. “We are stewards of taxpayers’ money,” he said. “We need to make sure that when we do something, it’s done correctly and will last a long, long, long, long time.” For the Public Works building, which began construction in October, another photovoltaic system will help offset the building’s energy usage. Lighting controls and insulation will also contribute to energy conservation. “We’re going to try to use as much sustainability things as possible out there as well,” French said. “It should be a very nice campus.” Peak demands multiply costs because they require the energy providers to maintain a larger infrastructure to avoid brownouts when everyone is using energy from the grid at the same time. To pay for this larger infrastructure, the energy providers use these multiplied peak demand rates.
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