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Volume 11, Issue 4
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January 29, 2020
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Gardner Measure to Provide Substantial Funding for Rural Broadband Clears Senate Committee
Washington, D.C. – Today the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation passed a measure authored by U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) to provide potentially billions to expand access to broadband in rural areas. “By approving this legislation, the Senate Commerce Committee took a great step toward bridging the divide between urban and rural Colorado,” said Senator Gardner. “My proposal would ensure that at least 10 percent of the proceeds from a sale of C-band spectrum would be allocated for rural buildout in unserved and underserved areas throughout Colorado and the country.” Gardner’s measure was included in S. 2881, the 5G Spectrum Act, which was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee. The measure requires 10 percent of all of the proceeds from the C-Band spectrum auction in the bill to go directly to wireless broadband infrastructure buildout in unserved and underserved areas throughout rural communities across the country. Gardner first proposed the idea of a rural dividend provision in 2017 with his legislation known as the Advancing Innovation and Reinvigorating Widespread Access to Viable Electromagnetic Spectrum (AIRWAVES) Act, under which 10 percent of proceeds from spectrum auctions would be devoted to increasing broadband access in rural areas. Gardner’s efforts to expand broadband deployment in rural Colorado include: In August, Gardner introduced the bipartisan TOWER Infrastructure Deployment Act with Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), which requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve and streamline workforce development programs to prepare for next-generation communications infrastructure. In July, Gardner introduced the bipartisan AIRWAVES Act with Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), which could provide roughly $6.5 billion to expand broadband access in rural areas. Cont. on Page 2, See Gardner Measure
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Weld County Launches New “Marijauna is Not Harmless” Campaign Weld Central Basketball and Wrestling
Armed Parishioners Saved ‘Untold Number of Lives.’ This Law Made it Legal to Have Guns in Church
By Hollie Silverman, CNN (CNN)A shooter at a church in White Settlement, Texas, was taken down by parishioners with guns seconds after he began firing Sunday. Those parishioners, who were also volunteer members of the church’s security team, are able to carry guns into church due to a law passed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in response to another deadly church shooting that took the lives of 26 people in 2017. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick reWhite Settlement, Texas, officials ferred to the respond to church shooting 01:39 law during a Sunday night press conference, saying that it was passed following the deadly shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs. It took effect in September, Patrick said. Senate Bill 535 took effect in September and clarifies possession of firearms at places of worship. The bill allows licensed handgun owners to legally carry their weapons in churches, synagogues and other houses of worship. One month after Texas church shooting, pastor says his faith is stronger than ever “We have learned many times over that there is no such thing as a gunfree zone. Those with evil intentions will violate the law and carry out their heinous acts no matter what,” state Sen. Donna Campbell, co-sponsor of the bill, said in a statement when the bill was passed in September. “It makes no sense to disarm the good guys and leave law-abiding citizens defenseless where violent offenders break the law to do great harm.” Lt. Gov. Patrick also mentioned a second law that was recently passed that waives the fees charged to private institutions that have their own security teams. He lauded the heroic actions of those volunteer security members. “They were well trained, well trained. The heroism today is unparalleled. This team responded quickly and within six seconds the shooting was over,” Patrick said. “Two of the parishioners who are volunteers on the security force drew their weapons and took out the killer immediately saving untold number of lives.” CNN’s Faith Karimi and Christina Maxouris contributed to this report.
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Weld County Launches New “Marijuana is Not Harmless” Campaign
Weld County – In 2012, Colorado voters passed Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana. In 2014, the first recreational marijuana dispensaries opened. Based on 2018 data from the Colorado Department of Revenue, there are over 520 recreational marijuana dispensaries, which is more than twice the number of statewide Starbucks. Despite the ease of availability and social acceptance, recreational marijuana use has a downside. The 2019 annual report, The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado: The Impact, Volume 6, issued by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) reports the yearly number of emergency department visits related to marijuana have increased 54 percent since 2013; and the yearly number of hospitalizations has increased 101 percent. Traffic deaths involving drivers who tested positive for marijuana has more than doubled since legalization, resulting in one marijuana related traffic death every 3 days. Adult marijuana use in Colorado is 96 percent higher than the national average; and the past month usage for Colorado youth ages 12 and older is 78 percent higher than the national average. As a result of higher marijuana use rates, the Weld County Health Department launched its new “Marijuana is Not Harmless” campaign. “We acknowledge Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana,” said Mark E. Wallace, MD, MPH, Executive Director of the Weld County Health Department. “However, the general public, and especially youth, need to understand that marijuana use is not harmless. There are consequences to driving impaired and using frequent amounts of marijuana.” A drug use fact sheet from the National Institute on Drug Abuse finds that compared to those who don’t use marijuana, people who frequently use marijuana report lower life satisfaction, poorer mental health, more relationship problems, and less academic and career success. The Weld County “Marijuana is Not Harmless” campaign is using outdoor billboard ads scattered along high-traffic corridors, as well as social media to reach a variety of audiences. According to RMHIDTA, currently 64 percent of local jurisdictions in Colorado have banned medical and recreational marijuana businesses. To view the “Marijuana is Not Harmless” billboards, the National Institute on Drug Abuse factsheet and the RMHIDTA Annual Report, go to www.weldhealth.org and click on “Health Hot Topics.”
Weld Central High School Boys Varsity Basketball
by Chris Piper Thursday, January 9th, 2020 6:00 P.M. Weld Central High School Boys Varsity Basketball beat Eagle Ridge 74 -52 Rebels faced an Eagle Ridge team that will be in our league next year and came out on top.. Boys played hard all night. They started off fast and didn’t let up Noah Sena – 15 points Kevin Shaffer – 13 points Garrett Becker – 4 points Bryce Andrews – 14 points Wesly Gonzalez – 10 points Friday, January 10th, 2020 5:30 P.M. Weld Central High School Boys Varsity Basketball Falls to Frederick High School 80-52 Rebels got down early to a tough Frederick team on Friday night. Rebels fought hard through the entire game and never quit fighting back. Noah Sena – 17 points Bryce Andrews – 16 points Keven Schaffer – 13 points
Gardner Measure
Cont. from Page 1 In May, Gardner introduced the bipartisan Map Improvement Act of 2019 with Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) to update broadband deployment maps so federal funding will go where it is needed most. In March, Gardner introduced bipartisan legislation to expand wireless internet to school buses, which would help students in rural areas who have long commutes and may not have broadband internet at home. Cory Gardner is a member of the U.S. Senate serving Colorado. He sits on the Energy & Natural Resources Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, the Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee, and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy.
January 29, 2020
TRIVIA Whose voice did Ed Wynn provide for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland? THE MAD HATTERS What science does the journal Icarus discuss? ASTRONOMY What National Football League plastered its helmets with tiger stripes? THE CINCINNATI BENGALS What country contains the five highest mountains in Central America? GUATAMALA What Bee Gees biggie wonders: “How can you stop the rain from falling down?’? HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART? What Mouseketeer played Alice at the opening of Disneyland’s Alice in Wonderland? KAREN What night was Walt Disney Presents moved to for the 1960-61 TV season? SUNDAY NIGHT How is the binary number 1010 represented in the decimal system? 10 What ship docks at Fowler’s Harbor in Disneyland? THE COLUMBIA What Southern city promised residents a free dinner if they got through 1985’s Memorial Day weekend without a traffic death? NEW ORLEANS What Stephen Foster number has a second verse opening: “They hunt no more for the ‘possum and the ’coon”? MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME How many of the nine principal Mouseketeers were girls? SIX What Pinnocchio character asks “What does an actor want with a conscience, anyhow?”? JIMINY CRICKET What’s the common term for deciduous teeth? BABY TEETH
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Also on This Day
ART, LITERATURE, AND FILM HISTORY 1977 “Roots” premieres on television The eight-episode miniseries, which was broadcast over eight consecutive nights, follows a family from its origins in West Africa through generations of slavery and the end of the Civil War. 1980S 1979 Deng Xiaoping, deputy premier of China, meets President Jimmy Carter, and together they sign historic new accords that reverse decades of U.S. opposition to the People’s Republic of China. GREAT BRITAIN 1820 Ten years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, King George III, the British king who lost the American colonies, dies at the age of 82. In 1760, 20-year-old George succeeded his grandfather, George II, as king of Great Britain and Ireland. INVENTIONS & SCIENCE 1843 William McKinley, first U.S. president to ride in a car, is born WORLD WAR I 1915 German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads daring mission in France. In the Argonne region of France, German lieutenant Erwin Rommel leads his company in the daring capture of four French block-houses, the structures used on the front to house artillery positions. ART, LITERATURE, AND FILM HISTORY 1962 Peter, Paul and Mary sign their first recording contract 1845 Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” beginning “Once upon a midnight dreary,” is published on this day in the New York Evening Mirror. Poe’s dark and macabre work reflected his own tumultuous and difficult life. 1958 One of Hollywood’s most enduring marriages begins on this day in 1958, when Paul Newman weds Joanne Woodward in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two actors first met in the early 1950s while working in New York City on a Broadway production of the romantic drama Picnic.
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This Day in History - January 29, 1936
U.S. Basaeball Hall of Fame Elects First Members On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson. The Hall of Fame actually had its beginnings in 1935, when plans were made to build a museum devoted to baseball and its 100-year history. A private organization based in Cooperstown called the Clark Foundation thought that establishing the Baseball Hall of Fame in their city would help to reinvigorate the area’s Depression-ravaged economy by attracting tourists. To help sell the idea, the foundation advanced the idea that U.S. Civil War hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown. The story proved to be phony, but baseball officials, eager to capitalize on the marketing and publicity potential of a museum to honor the game’s greats, gave their support to the project anyway. In preparation for the dedication of the Hall of Fame in 1939–thought by many to be the centennial of baseball–the Baseball Writers’ Association of America chose the five greatest superstars of the game as the first class to be inducted: Ty Cobb was the most productive hitter in history; Babe Ruth was both an ace pitcher and the greatest home-run hitter to play the game; Honus Wagner was a versatile star shortstop and batting champion; Christy Matthewson had more wins than any pitcher in National League history; and Walter Johnson was considered one of the most powerful pitchers to ever have taken the mound. Today, with approximately 350,000 visitors per year, the Hall of Fame continues to be the hub of all things baseball. It has elected 278 individuals, in all, including 225 players, 17 managers, 8 umpires and 28 executives and pioneers.
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Weld Central High School Girls Varsity Basketball
by Scott Poole Thursday, January 9th, 2020 6:00 P.M. Weld Central High School Girls Varsity Basketball beat Eagle Ridge 49 – 30 The Weld Central Lady Rebels traveled to Brighton, Colorado and took on the Eagle Ridge Academy Eagles and came away with a 49-30 victory. The Lady Rebels were led by Kaydee Sims who scored 10 points and 8 steals and Sydney Pevler who scored 9 points and 6 rebounds. Leanna Lang and Hailey Jones each contributed with 7 points. The victory improves the Lady Rebels record to 9-2 on the season
Weld Central High School Boys Varsity Wrestling
by Elliot Copeland
Friday, January 10th, 2020 12:00 AM Weld Central High School Boys Varsity Wrestling falls to Norton Community High School 44- 27 The Boys Varsity Wrestling team traveled to Kansas on Friday where they fell to Norton Community High School. The host school boasted a full 14 man line up whereas the Rebels only filled 9 of the 14 weight classes. Despite giving up 30 points to forfeits, the Rebels were able to cut the deficit and win a majority of the contested matches. Individual results are as follows: 106 R. Estrada win by fall 126 M. Roskop loss via decision (10-5) 132 M. Villarreal loss via tech fall 138 C. Park loss via fall 145 L. Gerkin win via decision (9-5) 152 K. Robertson win via fall 170 T. Baumgartner win via decision (7-3) 182 B. Baumgartner win via decision (4-1) 195 Z. Stam win via fall Weld Central High School Boys Varsity Wrestling finishes in 3rd Place at Tournament @ Norton Community High School in Kansas with 127.5 Points The Boys Varsity Wrestling Team finished in 3rd Place this past Saturday at the J.R. Durham Invitational Tournament in Norton Kansas. Despite filling only 9 of the 14 varsity weight classes, the Rebels competed very well and ended up in 3rd place out of 19 tough Kansas and Nebraska squads. Five of the nine competing Rebels ended up in the finals, with 3 walking away with individual titles in their respective weight classes. Kolton Robertson and Levi Gerkin both dropped their final matches and finished 2nd, while Robert Estrada, Tanner Baumgartner and Braden Baumgartner all finished in 1st place. Individual results are as follows:
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106 lbs. R. Estrada 5-0 1st place
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138 lbs. C. Park 0-2 DNP
126 lbs M. Roskop 1 -2 DNP 132 lbs. M. Villarreal 0-2 DNP 145 lbs. L. Gerkin 3-1 2nd place 152 lbs. K. Robertson 3-1 2nd place 160 lbs. T. Baumgartner 3-0 1st place 182 lbs. B. Baumgartner 4-0 1st place 195 lbs. Z. Stam 3-2 DNP