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Windsor will add to culture, arts offerings with expansion of Rec Center By Luanne Kadlub // For Premier
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Luke Bollinger stands at the overlook inside the Windsor Recreation Center. Bollinger recently became the Arts and Culture Supervisor for the recreation center.
hen Windsor’s newly expanded Community Recreation Center opened to the public in October, town residents ooh’ed and aah’ed over the new pool, gyms, workout room, walk/run track and child care area. What they didn’t see — and perhaps something that will have an even bigger impact — is the new suite of offices that now marries the Culture Division with the Department of Parks and Recreation. Before, culture operated separately with offices in the Town Hall and Arts and Heritage Center while parks and rec was located at the community center, said Eric Lucas, director of the department. “We needed to break down the silos,” he said. And thus it’s now the Department of Parks, Recreation and Culture with all 13 staffers collaborating in the same daylight-bright office space. “We’ve already seen great collaboration,” Lucas added. The move didn’t come willy-nilly. Lucas did his research and what he kept hearing through feedback from the public, members of the Windsor Historical Society and the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board was that more programming, and active programming at that, was desired. The result? “We’re programming and activating spaces we have, and we want people to see public spaces in different ways,” Lucas said. He also wants people to begin thinking of culture in different ways as well. “Culture can be anything in Windsor. It can be a culture of being active … It’s music, language and public art.” To get the ball rolling, Luke Bolinger, a native of nearby Brush and 2011 graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, was hired in October as recreation supervisor/culture. He previously worked for the department as a recreation coordinator, and has also had stints with Rocky Mountain Water Works, Great Outdoors Colorado and the city of Thornton. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Bolinger’s goal is to bring a variety of events and classes to the community beyond the increasingly popular summer concert and movie series. Think weddings in the historic church at the Museum at Boardwalk Park, classes on wine and cheese pairings or French cuisine, and the return of the farmers market next summer. Also on tap are summer camps for youth. And he plans to build on already successful cultural events. The Arts and Heritage Center, in partnership with Boardwalk Gallery, hosts wellattended artist receptions, the last one drawing 130 art enthusiasts. The Center will soon offer classes for youth, tweens and teens that mirror current exhibits. In January, for example, the Center will host an exhibit titled “Repurposed: A Second Look, A Second Life” that spotlights art created from found objects. When the town was approached about the possibility of yoga lessons
at the Arts and Heritage Center, Lucas said he was at first unsure about the concept. “Yoga in an art gallery? I Googled it and the Guggenheim Museum does it. The Guggenheim!” Expect Windsor’s tranquil art setting to be next. And then there’s the Museum at Boardwalk Park, a living history museum currently closed for the season, that hosts up to 6,000 area students during the school year. Interactive exhibits will be ramped up big time. “If they’re in the school building, we want them to be able to write on the chalkboard,” Lucas said as an example. And historical items donated throughout the years, and currently in storage, will be brought out for hands-on learning as well. In addition, the Windsor Museum’s Eaton House project, expected to begin in 2018, will include renovations to the house originally constructed for Eaton Ditch workers in addition to walkways and a water feature commemorating the importance of agriculture to the community. Couple this with the proposed landscaping project for the museum grounds, expected to get off the ground in 2018 as well, and you have the makings for a setting that hits the culture mark on many different levels. The farmers market will return to Windsor next summer at Boardwalk Park, Lucas and Bolinger said, and will be set up, appropriately enough, next to a commissioned 9-foot sculpture by Austin Weishel depicting the sugar beet, water and work history of the Windsor area. Will there be more public art? Lucas said it’s still in the “infancy stage” as to what such a project would or could entail. Stay tuned.
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NoCo Ice Center brings to young and old in northern Colorado By Trevor Reid // For Premier
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U8 League players have a scrimage on a recent Saturday morning at NoCo Ice Center in Windsor.
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hen Corey Fredenberg saw his eldest son, Trey, cruise around the kitchen on a pair of Lego cars as a toddler, he knew he had a natural-born hockey player on his hands. “I put a hockey stick in his hand, and he started hitting a ball around,” Fredenberg said. “Then I got him some skates and brought him out (to the Northern Colorado Ice Center), and he just took off with it.” As Trey grew to like hockey more and more, his little brother picked up the sport. As they learned how to play at the NoCo Ice Center, they fell in love with the sport. Having played hockey when he was younger, the boys’ father was ecstatic. “It’s awesome. It’s always nice to see them pick it up on their own and develop the passion on their own,” he said. Fredenberg is an assistant coach for the Northern
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Paiton Jacquot, 8, of Windsor practices figuring skating during a recent Learn To Skate session at NoCo Ice Center.
Colorado Youth Hockey’s Under 8 and Squirt (under 10) programs. The non-profit hockey organization owns the Ice Center, where its operations are held. His wife, Sheri, said the family makes it out to the Ice Center just about every day of the week. “It’s a good place for the boys to hang out and practice their hockey in a good community where we know tons of families,” she said. “It’s just a great place to be.” Northern Colorado Youth Hockey purchased the Ice Center in 2007. Director of Rink Operations Sarah Nelson said the non-profit is constantly busy in order to keep the Ice Center open. “We’re one of a different breed of rinks in the state of Colorado in that we don’t have public city funds that come and help us like in EPIC (Edora Pool Ice Center in Fort Collins) or in Apex down in Denver,” Nelson explained. “We own this facility under a nonprofit status, so — owning a facility 12 months out of the year, running 24 hours a day — we have to get really creative in what kinds of programs we offer.” With hockey leagues for all ages, skating classes and even curling, the Ice Center rarely sees a dull moment. More than 150 kids play in the competitive youth hockey league, about 200 play in the recreational hockey league, and the Under 8 program is composed of almost 150 kids. For adults, from ages 18 to 60 and up, there are more than 500 players in four different leagues during the winter. “It’s pretty much from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. is when it’s quiet,” Nelson laughed as the phone started to ring during yjr interview. “Otherwise, it’s really busy.” In her five years at the Ice Center, Nelson said things have been busy from the start. She attributed much of what Northern Colorado Youth Hockey
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Anita Trajan, 9, of Windsor attends a Learn To Skate session at NoCo Ice Center.
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is today to former Colorado Eagles player Aaron Grosul. In 2009, Grosul became the executive director of the Northern Colorado Youth Hockey organization. He passed the operations on to Nelson and Rhett Gordon this spring to pursue a career in financial investment. “I think he was instrumental in the growth of youth hockey up in northern Colorado because he was so passionate about the sport,” Nelson said. The Colorado Eagles continue to partner with the Ice Center. With programs such as Blue Line Buddies, kids have the opportunity to skate before an Eagles game for the national anthem. “We have a wonderful partnership with Chris Stewart and the Colorado Eagles,” Nelson said. “They’ve been very supportive of growing youth hockey.” Both the youth and adult hockey leagues see more players every year. With things so busy, the Ice Center must rent out both sheets of ice at the Edora Pool Ice Center during the regular season from September to March. “There is definitely a large demand for more ice in northern Colorado. We would be ecstatic
if we could see another sheet come about in our area because there’s definitely demand,” she said. Unfortunately, Nelson explained, the organization doesn’t have the resources at the moment to get more ice in northern Colorado. However, the Water Valley Land Co. announced plans earlier this year for a shopping and entertainment center in Loveland that would include an ice center. For now, the Ice Center must utilize early mornings and late nights. The Squirt program runs from 6-7 a.m. While that might sound too early for some, the children don’t seem to mind. “Some parents cringe when they hear ‘6 to 7 a.m.,’ but what’s interesting is the coaches have found the kids actually get up, they get motivated, they go to school and grades have gone up,” Nelson said. Trey, now 9 years old, said one of his favorite memories was making the Squirt level. “When I had my first tryouts for our Squirt level, I was only 8, and you had to be 9. But I made the team, it was awesome,” he said. “We won a banner here for the season.”
Thanks to the coaches, Trey said learning to play hockey was easy. He loves how much time he gets on the ice. “My favorite part is you get a lot of fun time. You get to play a lot,” he said. Trey also wanted to mention how much he likes the Stick Rack, a hockey equipment store at the NoCo Ice Center. Steve Kristiansen, the general manager of the Stick Rack, said the store’s loyal customer base keeps things busy. “I think because we get to deal with people from the start, they know that we’re taking care of them and have their best interest in mind,” Kristiansen said. Just as Kristiansen is glad to see customers who are just starting hockey, Corey Fredenberg said watching children who are just starting hockey takes him back to his youth. “It’s exciting to see kids who don’t know the game yet, and they develop a passion for it. They devote so much time, early mornings and late nights and multiple days a week,” he said. “To see them develop the love of the game that I had when I was young is awesome.”
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is more than a custodian at Windsor’s Tozer Primary School Students eat their lunches as Rudy Hernandez walks around joking and helping on Thursday at Tozer Primary School, 501 Oak St., in Windsor.
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With cleaning supplies and office supplies rising up around him Rudy Hernandez sits in his office making a call about some repairs that need done to the school on Thursday at Tozer Primary School, 501 Oak St., in Windsor.
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eeping a primary school clean might not sound like a glamorous job, but for “Mr. Rudy” Hernandez, it’s a source of constant joy. “It’s great. It’s always great. Sometimes I can’t even wait to be here,” Hernandez said. A custodian at Tozer Primary School, Hernandez, 55, is known throughout the Windsor-Severance Re-4 School District for his positive work ethic and popularity among the school children. When Superintendent Dan Seegmiller delivered a speech at a new teachers’ breakfast earlier this year, he used Hernandez as a living example of advice for new teachers. “There’s two people in the building that you need to please, and it’s not the principal. One is the office manager, and the other is the custodian,” Seegmiller said. When Hernandez walks into a classroom, faces light up and calls of “Mr. Rudy!” fill the room. As classes pass him in the hall, little hands reach out to him for high fives. But being a custodian wasn’t always such a lively job. Hernandez started working in 1984 as a night custodian at Skyview Elementary. After about five years, he headed to work in Nevada for about a year. Before too long, the distance from his family was too much, so he returned to northern Colorado. When a day custodian position opened up at Tozer in the early 1990s, Hernandez said he wasn’t too sure at first. “I was kind of scared because I didn’t know what I was dealing with. Nighttime was different compared to days,” he remembered thinking. Over the course of his first year at Tozer, Hernandez started to realize what it was all about. “Just watching them come in, talking about the weekend, what they did. That was something that really got to me, that it was all about the kids,” Hernandez said. Since then, it’s all been the same to Hernandez: easy and meaningful work. “A lot of people probably don’t think (it’s wonderful) doing
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came to him one day. what I’m doing, but if you give it “It just got into my mind…it’s one time, and really concentrate on of those deals that it’s hard to what it’s all about, it’s easy. It’s just explain,” he said, “to be there for like every other job,” he said. anybody, even with the parents, the Hernandez’s popularity doesn’t community, the staff, the kids.” stop with the children. Shelly Second-grade teacher Clarissa Prenger started teaching at Tozer Fasano has been teaching at Tozer in 1993, before becoming principal. for 21 years. In that time, she During her time there, Hernandez said Hernandez has been “a huge was always there to help. support.” “Both as a teacher and a “Any time we need any kind of principal, no matter what I asked extra support with a student, either him to do, he would do it with a academically or behaviorally, Rudy smile on his face. He would do is there. And that’s not part of his things like fix the zipper on a job description,” she said. kid’s winter coat if it was broken,” One year, Fasano had a student Prenger said. “He would do who would often shut down in the anything for the betterment of the classroom. When it was time for school.” reading and that student wouldn’t When she transferred to read to her, she knew what she had Rangeview Elementary in 2013, to do. Prenger didn’t want to say goodbye. “He loved Mr. Rudy so much. I “I tried to get him to come with would invite Mr. Rudy to come into me when I left Tozer, but his heart’s Rudy Hernandez jokes with second grader Jordan Adkins during lunch the room on any particularly rough at Tozer,” she said. on Thursday at Tozer Primary School, 501 Oak St., in Windsor. day, and that student would read to Seegmiller, who served as the Mr. Rudy,” she remembered. school’s principal from 2005-09, Always in a good mood, always working hard, Hernandez is an recounted a time he had a student who was struggling with behavior. important role model to the students. Fasano mentioned one little As Seegmiller was pondering what he could do for the student, he girl in her class two years ago who said she wanted to grow up to be a realized the student’s connection with Mr. Rudy. custodian “like Mr. Rudy.” “I just went to Mr. Rudy and asked him, ‘You know, this is a kid that “One of my philosophies is that every person in this building is I think needs to feel needed. Could he work with you over some lunch important and has a role to play, and I think Rudy exemplifies that,” times?’” Seegmiller said. Butcher said. “The kids see what working hard does, what working Without hesitation, Hernandez accepted the proposal. It was immediately apparent that Hernandez was good at not only cleaning up hard gets you out of life, and it’s that joy he brings.” Hernandez said it’s just about finding what you love and sticking with the school, but also cleaning up students’ attitudes. it. “I try to make them understand that they’re important, that they “To me, if you really like what have to make good choices. Respect you’re doing, you stay with it. You other kids, just move on and before have to stay with it, you gotta enjoy you know it, you’re going to be all what you’re doing. Enjoy what’s right,” Hernandez explained. here: the staff, the kids,” he said. “I When Shelly Butcher, 42, was got blessed for being here.” hired to take over as principal of Hernandez said he’s thankful to Tozer, she met Hernandez during everyone he works with for making her first tour of the school. it all wonderful. As he considers “My first impression of him was, retiring in three years, he is very ‘Wow, I lucked out! I hit the jackpot!’ aware of his unique connection to ” Butcher said. Tozer. Now in her third year at Tozer, “I’ve got to think about it Butcher is thankful both for because I’m never going to find Hernandez’s ability to work with a job like this,” he laughed. “I’m the children, and for his immediate thinking about it, but I’m going to willingness to help out wherever try to stay longer.” he’s needed. After experiencing a As he waved at a passing class, big wind recently, Butcher asked one child’s face lit up as if her whole Hernandez to check out the trees day had turned around. With the around the school. effect he has on children, it’s easy “He drops everything he’s doing, to see how he has earned such and he focuses on you and what a widespread reputation in the your need is in that moment, and he district. does that,” she said. “He truly is the soul of Tozer,” Just like the realization that Butcher smiled. “He is Tozer, he his work is all about the kids, Rudy Hernandez cleans a mirror as he works on one of the bathrooms really is.” Hernandez said his immediacy just on Thursday at Tozer Primary School, 501 Oak St., in Windsor.
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Adina Woodward smiles as she stands in her studio at Main Street Music, 609 Main St., in downtown Windsor.
Adina Woodward goes from aspiring music teacher to successful music store owner By Luanne Kadlub // For Premier
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dina Woodward always wanted to be a band director, but until a few years ago didn’t pursue her dream. What she has done instead is still pretty awesome. After graduating from Colorado State University, Woodward started Rocky Mountain Therapy and contracted with 10 senior living facilities with Alzheimer’s units to provide music therapy. “The music gets into a different part of your brain,” Woodward said, adding that her reward came when the patients would remember songs, sing, perk up or tap their toes. And then 13 years ago, on the advice of a close friend, she embarked on a new venture: Main Street Music Academy. She originally set up shop in a small retail strip on the east side of Windsor that was later blown apart in the infamous Windsor Tornado of 2008. “I thought that was going to put me out of business. I had no place to go,” she said. Not one to give up, she began looking for new studio space and found a vacant house just three blocks west on Main Street. Karma was on her side. It was the very same house she had grown fond of when it was a women’s boutique. “I would go
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Rachel Daharsh plays piano as Adina Woodward instructs her through the song during a lesson at the Main Street Music studio, 609 Main St., in downtown Windsor.
“The music gets into a different part of your brain,” Woodward said, adding that her reward came when the patients would remember songs, sing, perk up or tap their toes.
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Music echoes through the Main Street Music studio, 609 Main St., as Adina Woodward plays.
there not to look at clothes, but to look at the space,” she said. She purchased the house and today Main Street Music Studio provides lessons in most instruments — including voice — to about 100 students of all ages. She also rents instruments and sells related music supplies. Over the years Woodward has employed about 40 music majors as teachers. “They get to work on their teaching skills and I have really good teachers,” said Woodward, who herself teaches piano, flute, guitar and piano.
Woodward started playing piano at age 4 when her mom “wanted something for me to do.” And the lessons stuck, so much so that today when she has time to herself “I still go home and play piano.” She also plays in the Loveland Concert Band. Running a business has it’s challenges for a self-confessed free spirit like Woodward, however. “I don’t exactly like being here every time I say I’m going to be here. I need one of those signs that says I’m open 10 to 6 unless I went
fishing.” She’s respectful of her business’ hours nonetheless and puts in the time. Now let’s get back to that bit about being a band director. Not willing to let that dream fade, she pursued her teacher’s certificate a couple years ago and now subs whenever called by area schools. A full-time teaching position remains elusive. “I’ve decided that music teachers must really like their jobs because they never leave,” she said.
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What is the current mill levy for the town of Windsor? A: Town officials have made a conscious effort to reduce and maintain the property tax mill levy, reducing the levy from 15.1 mills in 1996 to the current 12.03 mills, where it has remained steady.
When is the budget adopted? A: The 2016 budget was adopted Nov. 23, 2015. The 2017 budget will be adopted Nov. 28.
What are the town funds? A: Governmental Funds: General, Park Improvement, Conservation Trust, Community Recreation Center, Capital Improvement, Economic Development Incentive, and Community Recreation Center Expansion Funds. Proprietary Funds: Water, Sewer, and Storm Drainage, with the Internal Service funds of Fleet Management, Information Technology, Facility Services and Windsor Building Authority Fund. The town has no fiduciary funds.
How is the budget adopted? A: Here is the budget preparation schedule: » June-July: Finance prepares revenue projections; Town Board and department heads meet to plan capital improvement plan. » June-July: Finance department prepares historical data and distributes to department heads. » August: Town Board and department heads review strategic plan and confirm goals. » August-September: Prepare, submit and review initial requests with finance and town manager. » October: Budget reviews with Town Board. » November: Balance and prepare recommended budget. » November-December: Budget hearing, adoption and distribution.
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:
How is the budget amended? In amending the budget, the Town Board may add or increase programs or amounts, or may delete or decrease programs or amounts except those expenditures required by law or for debt service or for estimated cash deficit. The amendment ultimately cannot increase the total expenditures for the overall budget as presented at the public hearing. If the amendment does increase the total expenditures, then another public hearing must be held prior to the adoption of the budget.
How are supplements to the budget handled? A: Every effort is made to forecast revenue and expenditures for the coming year, limiting the need for supplemental budgets. If required, supplemental budgets are adopted at one of the last Town Board meetings of the year. Supplemental items are kept as a “running total” by the director of finance throughout the course of the year and adopted in one supplemental resolution as described.
Is the budget on the website? A: Yes, the budget can be found under Departments and then under Finance.
Where can I locate the current audit report? A: The audit is contained in the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR) located under the Budgeting and Financial Reporting Division of the Finance Department. Both current and historical reports are available.
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Windsor Chamber honors community leaders at annual banquet at Rec Center Staff reports The Windsor Chamber of Commerce handed out a variety of awards at its annual banquet on Oct. 19. About 150 people attended the banquet at the recently renovated
Michelle Scallon, the Windsor High School principal, was honored as a 2016 Summit Award winner by the Windsor Chamber of Commerce for her work with high school students.
Community Recreation Center. The keynote speaker for the event was Jim Davidson of Fort Collins, who spoke of his neardeath experiences while climbing Mount Rainier in Washington and Mount Everest. He has written
a motivational book about his adventures, titled, “The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier,” and has been featured on several major networks.
The Pat Weakland family was honored as a 2016 Summit Award winner by the Windsor Chamber of Commerce for their ownership of three businesses in town that serve residents. From left are son Zach, Pat, daughter Rachel and wife Amanda. In the back is Tom Prenger, treasurer of the Windsor Chamber board, and far right is Kim Schutt, a Chamber board member. The family owns the Dr. Pat Weakland Dental Office, the Windsor Gardener, and High Hops Brewery.
Ivan Adams, a Windsor Town Board member, was honored by the Windsor Chamber of Commerce as a 2016 Summit Award winner for his work as a volunteer in the Windsor-Severance Re-4 School District.
Amanda and Pat Weakland, along with their two children, won the 2016 Summit Award from the Windsor Chamber of Commerce at this year's annual banquet.
Brenda Heckman is director of the WindsorSeverance Food Pantry and won the 2016 Windsor Champion Award at the Chamber of Commerce's annual awards banquet. Photos courtesy of Windsor Chamber of Commerce
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