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B •R •I •E •F •S Easter service is back at Planet Bluegrass LYONS – It’s been two long years, but the annual Lyons Community Easter Celebration at Planet Bluegrass is returning. Join us on April 17 at 11a.m. Enjoy live music from Lyons’ amazing local musicians. The Kids’ Easter Egg Hunt will follow the celebration. Lyons Fire Department will be facilitating the hunt. We’ll be accepting donations of filled plastic eggs at the Stone Cup on the Friday and Saturday prior to Easter. No chocolate please – it gets messy when it melts.

We’ll be celebrating outdoors, so dress warmly and bring a blanket or chairs to sit on. Easter bonnets, frilly dresses and silk cravats are all encouraged. A love offering will be taken for Higher Ground Ministries.

We won’t have a potluck this year, but the folks at Planet Bluegrass are planning to make a day of it with food trucks, a fun beverage bar, and more live music for everyone’s enjoyment. We can’t wait to celebrate with all of you.

If you have questions please email info@thestonecup.com.

Easter Egg Hunt LYONS – Get the kiddos out and hunting for eggs in Lavern Johnson Park for the egg hunt Easter Eggstravaganza. Save the date for Saturday, April 16, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Join the Rockies for Youth Baseball and Softball Days LYONS – Join the Colorado Rockies to celebrate Youth Baseball and Softball Days and help support our Lyons athletes at the same time.

Local youth teams and their families, friends, and fans of any age are welcome to attend. Youth teams are welcomed to Coors Field with a scoreboard message and will be invited to parade around the field.

Come on out to the old ball game for a day of fun. Tickets are for the Colorado Rockies vs. Atlanta Braves game at Coors Field on Sunday June 5 at 1:10 p.m. Tickets are $40, which is a $5 savings off the regular ticket price. Tickets may be purchased online at www.townoflyons.com/recreation or you can call Lyons Town Hall for more information at 303-823-8250.

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New Italian restaurant soon to open in Lyons, board hears about the Prebles Mouse, and changes to the PBF annexation agreement

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – At a special meeting of the Lyons Town Board, the board approved a resolution for an amendment to the development plan agreement between Lyons Valley Townhomes LP and the Town of Lyons to dedicate two lots, 39 and 40 which are not buildable, to the town in lieu of some park impact fees.

The resolution was made partly for clarification due to the fact that there was a mix up when Lyons Valley Townhomes thought for a while that lot 17 was also not buildable and decided to dedicate that lot as well. Then somewhere along the way it was decided that lot 17 was buildable and furthermore LVT needed that lot to make up the 40-home requirement by the State. Paul Capps, the president of Summit Housing Group, said it was too late to decrease the number of units.

“This is just to correct an unintentional error,” said Trustee Mark Browning.

The current town board is getting short on time to complete some of its business still on the table before the new town board is sworn in on April 18 in person at Lyons Town Hall.

This is the first time in over two years that the board will meet in person. The current town board never met in person and all the town board meetings were held on Zoom with the public invited to attend on Zoom. The new town board will meet in person at the town hall with either Zoom meetings or video meetings going on at the same time so the public can attend the meetings remotely.

In other news at the regular meeting, the town board approved ordinance 1118 to amend an annexation agreement with Planet Bluegrass Farm (PBF). The amended annexation agreement would allow changes to land use and the grazing area. It would allow the addition of a permanent vehicular bridge, changes to camping area to allow up to 600 people per day, storage facilities, the addition of mid-tier events adding up to 5 events an-

nually, utility changes and a few other things.

Director of Community Development, Philip Strom, said that there were some issues of concern stated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The issues focused on the protection of habitat for the Prebles Jumping Mouse habitat and breeding. The Prebles Mouse lives and breeds along the St. Vrain River banks and is a very endangered species. The mouse was found in areas around the river area at PBF. Director Strom said that approval of the new amendment to ordinance 1118 would not remove PBF from complying with any regulations or restrictions in place by the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the mouse.

Trustee and Mayor elect Hollie Rogin asked town attorney Brandon Dittman if it was appropriate to pass this ordinance at this time since the Fish and Wildlife Service had not yet approved of given permits to PBF concerning the Prebles Jumping Mouse. Trustee Greg Lowell concurred with Trustee Rogin saying that the Fish and Wildlife report advised PBF to reduce all activity around the creek. Lowell said that would include the bridges, the parking and other areas and he wondered how PBF would be able to comply.

Attorney Dittman said that this was two separate entities working with parallel sets of rules and that the town has no jurisdiction over Fish and Wildlife Service regulations.

He said the town only has control over land use issues. PBF is required to obtain permits from Fish and Wildlife which has the authority to prevent any activity in the affected areas if they find PBF to be in violation and the fines for any violations are very hefty.

“They (PBF) can’t do it,” said Attorney Dittman referring to PBF if they did not comply with the Fish and Wildlife regulations.

Attorney Dittman also pointed out that the Fish and Wildlife concerns only apply to a portion of the land at PBF and that it would be possible for PBF to come up with modifications to their land use plan.

Attorney Dittman went on to say that if

PBF did have to modify their current land use plans to comply with Fish and Wildlife regulations, then they would come back to the board to have those plans approved as part of the annexation agreement.

The attorney suggested that the board could make an amendment to say that PBF had to come back to the board with any changes, but it was not necessary. He told the board that the it has no jurisdiction over the issues that Fish and Wildlife are working on with PBF. Zack Tucker, who spoke for PBF said that PBF was working with a consulting biologist and they were following all the guide lines set in place by Fish and Wildlife Service.

In other matters, Trustee Greg Lowell told the board that on a current stroll through town he saw people committing numerous violations, such as someone playing frisbee with his dog on the soccer field, someone fishing in the ponds near McConnell Bridge and several other things. He said what is the point of having laws if we can’t enforce them.

Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen told the board that an offer has been made to someone who was interested in that job. She created a job description and she said this person was interested in the job.

Trustee Lowell ask what the job title would be and Administrator Simonsen said he would be the Code Compliance Officer and would hand out citations to those people who were in violations of the town codes. She added that hopefully he could start in mid June.

Mayor Nick Angelo said that at the Sustainable Futures Commission meeting there was a discussion of finding an alternative to using MEAN (Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska) the power provider for Lyons. The board has had numerous issues with MEAN as an energy provider.

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LOCAL Looking forward to summer in Lyons

By Kim Mitchell Redstone Review LYONS – As winter winds down and the weather pattern shifts to springtime, the river rises, birds sing and thoughts of summer in Lyons begin in anticipation. Many of us look forward to shedding layers together with enjoying the warming temperatures, and seeing our neighbors and friends out and about. We’re eager for the arrival of spring and summer, and we are all reminded that this is the perfect time in Lyons to reconnect with our community and attend local events that had to be postponed, canceled, or modified over the past two years.

The Sandstone Summer Concert Series will return this year, moved to Wednesday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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Heading into the summer, we are planning a few, fun, Lyons-style events that we’re happy to share with you.

We’re also bringing back your favorite events and adding a twist to others to spice up the summer and share all that makes Lyons such a great community. As we look back on the past two years, many of us will agree, “Phew, that sure was challenging.”

While there have been many challenges, our local businesses and residents have endured and also grown stronger.

For this summer we look forward to the return of festivals, summer concerts, new and familiar restaurants that are psyched to be operating in Lyons, along with boutique shops that have made their commitment to set up in Lyons.

For so many of us we are grateful for our families, the beauty of spring, seeing our friends and neighbors and exploring all that mother nature provides. As we begin to gather again with family and friends, let’s celebrate and welcome those who visit this wonderful place we call home.

Of note, the Sandstone Summer Concert Series will be moving to Wednesday evenings, same time, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. We received input from the local business community and surveyed our small, independently owned businesses and the feedback was that Wednesdays would be more welcomed by our local businesses, who continue to establish and grow their roots in Lyons. The 2022 series kicks off on Wednesday, June 8 and goes through Wednesday, August 10. We look forward to our partnership with the Lyons Community Foundation, whose grant funding greatly supports this annual 10-week concert series. Be sure to mark your calendars and make plans for Wednesday evenings. The full line up and schedule will be finalized in the next month.

Last summer, the town hosted the first annual Lyons Local Artisan Market at Bohn Park. This new event was well received by both the artisans and our residents. Returning in 2022, we’ve added a twist, with a barbeque cook-off in Bohn Park, hosted by the Lyons Community Foundation, to be held in tandem with the local artisan market. Be sure to put Saturday, June 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on your plans, and support both terrific local events.

Looking towards July, Art at River Bend is also back for 2022. After a two-year hiatus, the Boulder County Arts Alliance and the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission are thrilled to bring back this exciting outdoor arts event along the banks of the beautiful North St. Vrain Creek, hosted by River Bend in Lyons. All of the creative and artistic fun will take place on Sunday, July 17, 2022 from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Hundreds of patrons can enjoy the works of talented artistic vendors, along with food trucks, drinks, craft activities and more.

With so much to love about living in Lyons, please and support the many events and local businesses that continually work to create a strong future for Lyons.

Kim Mitchell is Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Town of Lyons. She has called Lyons home since 2009.

Springtime Pasque flowers bloom around Lyons

By Jessie Berta-Thompson Redstone Review LYONS – Growing low on a dull ground of last year’s grasses, appearing as a flash of purple and yellow wreathed in fuzzy foliage, the Pasque flower (Anemone patens or Pulsatilla patens) announces spring to anyBerta-Thompson one looking down this time of year. Blooming under the season’s warm breezes and last snows, this is one of the first and most striking wildflowers in our area.

The outside of each flower and the lacy leaves below are covered in fine hairs that light up white when the sun catches them. The flowers’ colors range from pale bluelavender to purple, with a lighter shade on the inside of each blossom. The bright yellow centers are made up of a crowd of tiny stamens packed into a circle, inviting observers and pollinators down for a closer look. Each plant has just a few flowers, which outpace the growth of the foliage around them. Later in the season, the seed heads form fun fluffy balls.

Pasque flowers of various species are found around the Northern Hemisphere, including in arctic and alpine habitats. The local Pasque flower (Pulsatilla/Anemone patens var. multifida) grows wild across the Great Plains and mountain west, from Texas to Alaska. It can be found in a variety of grassy habitats at a wide range of elevations, from the prairie all the way up to 13,000 ft. It is one of the species that thrives after fire.

The name comes from an old French word for Easter, referring to the flower’s spring bloom time. In Colorado, Pasque flowers start blooming in April, but can still be found flowering in July, at higher and higher elevations as

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the summer unfolds. Its distinctive early flowering also makes it susceptible to, and an indicator for, climate change-related shifts in spring temperatures. One study tracking flowering times in Alberta found that Pasque flowers bloomed an average of two weeks earlier in the 2000s compared to the 1930s.

Pasque flowers belong to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). This family includes many mountain favorites, like delphinium, anemone, monkshood, columbine, clematis, marsh marigold, and globeflower. Although Pasque flowers are sometimes called the prairie crocus and share growth form, timing, and color with crocuses, they are not particularly related (Crocus species are in the iris family, Iridaceae). Pasque flowers are very closely related to anemones, placed in the same genus by some experts (Anemone), or in their own genus by others (Pulsatilla).

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Proclamation by the Lyons Board of Trustees to stand in solidarity with the sovereign nation of Ukraine and support the rights of all its citizens WHEREAS, Lyons, Colorado stands in unwavering solidarity with the people of the sovereign nation of Ukraine as they defend themselves against Russia’s unprovoked invasion and war against their democracy and sovereign right to exist as an independent nation; and WHEREAS, Russia continues to wage a brutal, unprovoked war against Ukraine, leading to the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II; and WHEREAS, the Town of Lyons desires to demonstrate its support of our allies, and WHEREAS, in these moments of crisis, the leadership demonstrated

by President Zelensky, members of the Ukrainian armed forces and the citizens of Ukraine are a beacon of resolve and commitment to democratic principles and values; and WHEREAS, the Town of Lyons stands with other countries, private corporations, religious leaders, states and cities from around the world in condemning this horrific act of aggression by Russia, and demands the immediate cessation of all hostilities; and WHEREAS, the public servants at the local level in Ukraine should be recognized as they continue to practice servant leadership under the most dangerous of conditions to provide essential municipal services; NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Trustees of the Town of Lyons hereby proclaims: Section 1. The Town of Lyons condemns the acts of Russian aggression; Section 2. The Town of Lyons supports the government and people of the sovereign nation of Ukraine; Section 3. The Town of Lyons urges the Lyons community to contribute resources to aid the people of Ukraine.

Given under my hand and seal of the Town of Lyons this 21st day of March 2022. Nicholas Angelo, Mayor

includes tiny delicate woodland spring ephemerals, the cheery garden-favorites Grecian windflowers, and bold florists’ cut flowers with black centers.

The Pasque flower plant contains toxic oils that make it both dangerous to ingest and a possible topical irritant, especially fresh. Preparations have been used medicinally by indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada, including a lice-killing decoction and a nosebleed remedy (see the Native American Ethnobotany Database for more: naeb.brit.org/).

At the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens in Lyons, the Pasque flowers can be found on the north side of the garden in the Foothills section, and they started to bloom in early April. To complement the Pasque flower’s early timing, it’s interplanted with hairy golden aster (Heterotheca villosa), which blooms later in the summer, keeping the bed interesting for longer. Pasque flowers, including the native variety, are available at many Colorado nurseries.

Locally in the wild, Pasque flowers grow along the Sleepy Lion Trail at Button Rock Preserve, among many other places. Wherever it’s spotted, the Pasque flower is a fascinating plant and a delight of the season.

In other garden news, the RMBG annual plant sale fundraiser will be held Saturday, May 21. We’ll be sure to stock more than last year, when we sold out hours before the sale was supposed to end, thanks to the wonderful support and generosity of our plant-loving community. We will have lots of beautiful native plants suited to local gardens and hanging baskets of colorful annuals for Lyons’ doorways and decks.

Jessie Berta-Thompson studied algae in school, and loves gardening and learning about plants. She currently serves as Treasurer on the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens board and as an Adjunct Researcher at the Denver Botanic Gardens, where she works on the diversity and evolution of Colorado mushrooms.

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MAYOR’S CORNER Mayoral farewell

By Nick Angelo, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to serve along with a most dedicated Angelo staff, plus trustees among the most talented and thoughtful that have served together. Again, it has been heart wrenching witnessing an average death rate of over 1,300 Americans from Covid every day for the last two years. We dedicate a moment of silence in remembrance

of those, and their families at our meetings.

Covid will be the legacy of the past two years, known as the Zoom term. There was no alternative, but that doesn’t mean one has to like it.

The continuity of projects and concepts from board to board is vital to proper governance and completed accomplishments. We were fortunate to have finalized the affordable housing project. Many boards since the flood have been working to replace lost housing as a result of the flood. We are about halfway there. It’s not just projects that take longer, policy decision implementation does as well.

We should support the hotel wholeheartedly; the financial contribution by the hotel to the revitalization of down-

town and the additional Lyons Urban Renewal Authority (LURA) properties is unparalleled. The 4th Avenue Bridge will be completed soon. What a glorious day when we are again connected conveniently. Safe routes to school will hopefully include safe sidewalks surrounding the elementary school.

Several prescient fire preparedness utility upgrades have been performed, and a budgeted fire mitigation strategy, along with code recommendations and codified requirements as well.

The eastern corridor is a prime example of issues that can become the thief of time. Actually though, the eastern corridor is becoming more fertile.

Let me offer my deepest apologies to the

residents of Eagle Canyon regarding 5G towers. I knew better than to exclude the community from discussion. Also for the lack of a conclusion to the Honeywell matter.

It was very unusual to have “never” met in person on the dais as a Board of Trustees. That is what I missed the most, more human contact.

It’s been nine and a half years of service with the town that started with a won coin flip. Ain’t that somethin’.

Thank you so much for the honor.

Nick Angelo became a Lyons Trustee in 1996 and won his first term as Mayor in1998. His current term as Mayor began in April, 2020. He and his wife Candace, a local artist, live in Lyons.

Lyons Fire thanks residents for attending Telephone Town Hall

By Peter Zick, Lyons Fire Chief Redstone Review LYONS – I want to personally thank the over 150 residents that attended our Telephone Town Hall on Zick March 8. For those that were not able to attend, a recording of it is on our website at www.LyonsFire.org.

During our town hall, we laid out some of the challenges the Lyons Fire Protection District is struggling to address, and we took questions and comments from the community. We answered many questions from residents about our fire district and the issues we currently face to adequately fund our emergency response services and we greatly appreciated this great interaction.

As a reminder, the Lyons Fire Protection District has identified five significant challenges that need to be addressed soon.

We need to increase staffing to ensure the appropriate number of firefighters can respond to a call. We also need to improve response times for Advanced Life Support calls (urgent treatment for cardiac and other serious emergencies). We need to implement critical wildland fire mitigation measures to reduce the risk of wildfires in our community, and we need to upgrade Advanced Life Support capabilities for our

residents in need of critical emergency medical care. Lastly, we need to replace a 27-year-old engine that is still in service.

As stated in our Town Hall meeting, we’re finding that while we’re doing more with less, it’s simply not enough. While the proactive measures we implemented in 2021 to address these challenges certainly helped a bit, call volumes continued to rise over the course of the last two years. They were up

eight percent from 2020, and 10 percent from 2019 (including a 43 per cent increase in wildfire calls). This was in part due to an increase in both population and wildfires.

As we have seen this increase in calls, we have also had challenges increasing staff and volunteers resulting in challenges to staff our nighttime shifts due to limited availability from our volunteer firefighters.

The reality is that with these current

constraints we are at risk of seeing increased response times, stressed personnel, and strained resources. That is why the Board of the Lyons Fire Protection District recently voted to refer a mill levy increase to the ballot for the upcoming May 3, 2022 Fire District election. This mill levy increase is an attempt to try to address these challenges to ensure an adequate level of fire support for your families and your property. For more information about the mill levy increase, please contact the fire district to get a copy of the fact sheet.

My ask of our community is to learn more about these challenges and our Fire District by listening to the recording of the Telephone Town Hall we held, and also read more about these challenges. All of this information is on our website at www.LyonsFire.org. After learning more, I would ask that you become an advocate of the Lyons Fire Protection District and spread the word to your family, friends, and neighbors so we can all support the brave firefighters that work hard every day to protect your families and your property.

We are stronger together, Lyons. Together we can work to address these challenges facing our Lyons Fire Protection District.

Peter Zick is the fire chief for the Lyons Fire Protection District.

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LYONS Rabbit Brush Gallery opens in Lyons

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “We’re very excited to be in Lyons and we have had such a warm welcome,” said Liz Durfee, owner of Rabbit Brush Moore Gallery. “Even though we’re not yet open, both local citizens and shop owners have stopped by to welcome us to Lyons. And that feels good.”

Durfee is talking about her shop Rabbit Brush Gallery, located on the northwest corner of Main Street and Fourth, space previously occupied by Red Canyon Art, which moved a few doors down on Main.

According to the shop’s website, Durfee conceived of the store’s concept and opened it in November 2010. Durfee’s background in studio art and art history includes a Bachelor of Arts from CU Boulder and extensive experience working in other galleries.

Durfee has visited the shops in Lyons and is pleased that her gallery’s unique offerings do not compete with those of other shops, but complement them instead.

During the pandemic the Hygiene shop was closed for two months, but she continued to see individual customers on a re-

quest basis only. That’s all in the past and Durfee decided to relocate to a bigger space in Lyons.

She still has the same wide and eclectic offerings as she did in the Hygiene location, but with an expanded variety of products.

“Since our move we’ve picked up 20 to 30 new artists, with a total of somewhere between 70 and 80,” Durfee said. “And that’s not including all our fair-trade items.” Approximately 30 percent of those artists are in Colorado. Durfee said she’s not looking to take on more artists but will consider as time goes on. Further, the store does not contain any of Durfee’s own work.

“We have a large assortment of handmade jewelry, watercolor paintings, and baskets. Gadget-type items are customer favorites, especially those made for kitchen use,” said Durfee. Paintings include both small and larger sizes. “Another favorite are nightlights, and we have a large assortment,” Durfee said.

In a walk around the shop a customer will see children’s clothing, handmade glass items, and gifts for men such as a handmade buffalo-hide wallet. In addition, the shop offers handmade shopping bags, locally produced T-shirts, some books, and a customer favorite – colorful,

Liz Durfee has moved her shop, Rabbit Brush Gallery, from Hygiene to Main Street, Lyons. She is in the space that was previously Red Canyon Art. soft alpaca blend wool socks.

That customer will also see a wide array of greeting cards and refrigerator magnets with humorous messages and sayings. “We love to make our customers laugh and when I hear a giggle, I know what they are looking at,” Durfee said.

Fair-trade items come from India,

Nepal, Thailand, Ghana, Rwanda and from those countries Rabbit Brush carries wooden bowls, handmade bags, weavings made from recycled cotton-blend yarns, and other items. One such is bowl cover made by African schoolchildren. In lieu of one-time use plastic wrap, the cover is made from cloth and designed to make it both reusable and sustainable. Another product is a zero-waste utensil wrap. A set of bamboo utensils – knife, fork, spoon and straw are wrapped in a cloth napkin bound with a cloth ribbon.

Durfee seeks out artists who donate a portion of sales proceeds to charitable causes. Further, part of her philosophy is giving back to the community where the shop is located. In the past the shop has sponsored benefits for Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and for forest fire victims. She anticipates continuing that practice in Lyons.

Durfee says the shop is about two weeks away from opening and interested parties should consult rabbitbrushgallery.com, the store’s website, for further details including hours of operation and the business’ phone number.

Don Moore is a retired lawyer and the author of Love is a Verb: Healing Yourself through Love, Gratitude and Compassion.

He lives in Longmont with his wife Joanne.

Keen to travel but concerned about Covid requirements?

By Dierdre Butler Redstone Review LYONS – Have itchy feet? Want to get out again to explore this big round world of ours but are worried about staying safe and Butler well? Reduce your stress by being prepared and getting informed.

Currently, even if you are fully vaccinated, you must take a pre-travel Covid

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test one day before your scheduled return flight to the U.S. While it is probable you can find somewhere at your vacation resort where you can get a Covid-19 test, this unknown carries its own burden of stress and raises unwelcome “What if... ?” thoughts.

Get self-sufficient. Before leaving home, buy a self-administered Rapid Antigen Covid test kit you can take any time, from anywhere in the world. All you need is an internet connection, a device with a webcam, your passport to confirm your

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identity, and 20 minutes.

One day before flying home to the U.S., from the comfort of your lodgings, open up the test kit and follow the directions to set up a virtual tele-health visit to self-collect and test your sample while being supported and directed by a testing specialist.

Results of this test (a digital health certificate), available minutes after completing your tele-health supervised test, are approved for re-entry to the U.S. Consider buying more than one kit just in case of loss or contamination or you need to retest.

Get informed. There are a myriad of online information sources to help you keep up to date with travel restrictions and entry requirements by country.

Because Covid is a moving target, and things can and do change rapidly, the key to your efforts is to check and cross reference multiple information sources. Compare your findings against news reports and updates issued directly by government agencies, and tourism boards.

For more information and links to online information sources visit Big Round World https://www.bigroundworld.com/blog.

Deirdre Butler is founder-owner of Lyonsbased Big Round World, a boutique travel business offering small group size hiking and sightseeing tours embracing a sustainable, local-centric approach relishing natural beauty and local culture. She lives in Lyons with her husband, Peter, and their menagerie of furry and feathered friends.

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Stone Cup to host live music this month LYONS – The Stone Cup, 442 High St., is hosting live music outdoors on the patio again. There are just a couple of dates in April, but there is a pretty full weekend schedule in May. For more information, call 303-823-2345.

April 16: Bryan Bielanski April 24: John Gimler May 7: Steven Hoffman May 8: Richman Acoustic May 14: Jim Seely May 15: Billy Shaddox

Emergency siren testing LYONS – Sirens are tested in Lyons regularly on the first Monday of each month from April through August. The two-minute tests are done at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. The purpose of the two tests is to familiarize people who work and live in different places with the sound of the sirens. Additionally, it is important to make sure the sirens work properly and to educate the public about what action to take when they hear the sirens.

Sirens are an effective way to warn people who are outdoors and in an immediate threat to safety. They are primarily intended to warn individuals in outdoor and high-risk areas.

The sirens will broadcast a voice message immediately following the siren signal to inform the public of the situation and what actions should be taken.

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OPTIONS Working to create Twenty First Century Climate Conservation Corps BOULDER – As many of you know, a few weeks ago on Saturday March 26, the NCAR Fire burned near Neguse the City of Boulder. This fire forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of families in our community, many of which are still reeling from the impacts of the Marshall Fire, which was the most destructive fire in our state’s history.

In our community, we are no longer witnessing wildfire seasons, but instead, wildfire years. And as the summer months approach, we must redouble our preparedness efforts for these dangerous and unrelenting disasters. That is why we are working to do all we can to increase investments in preparation and mitigation, while supporting families across Boulder County and the Rocky Mountain West.

In Congress, we are taking bold steps to fund wildfire suppression, resiliency, mitigation, and recovery. We are also working to better support our wildland firefighters and address the root causes of climate change, which is the fundamental reason for the pervasiveness, frequency and intensity of these wildfires.

As the Founder and Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Wildfire Caucus, last year I introduced the Western Wildfire Support Act, which funds state-of-the-art firefighting equipment and programming, including aircrafts, heat sensors, cameras, air tankers and more. And to bolster climate resiliency, I’m continuing to lead an effort in Congress to launch the Twenty First Century Climate Conservation Corps (CCC).

The CCC will make historic investments in our forests and put a new generation to work in our public lands.

We also need to ensure that our first responders and firefighters are properly taken care of. These men and women risk their lives to suppress the flames and protect our neighbors, but still struggle to find housing and must fight for fair compensation. To remedy this, we introduced Tim’s Act, named after a brave smokejumper who tragically lost his life fighting a fire in New Mexico last year. This bipartisan legislation raises federal wildland firefighter pay and ensures access to mental health services, affordable housing, and retirement benefits.

I know that the frequent reminders of these disasters open wounds for victims still charting their roadways to recovery. It is with that sentiment that, alongside Senators Hickenlooper and Bennet, we recently unveiled the Replacing Essential

Additional fire fighting air tankers are part of what will be funded by the Western Wildfire Support Act. Passports and Licenses After Certain Emergencies (REPLACE) Act. The REPLACE Act will waive the fees for the replacement of passports, visas, proof of citizenship and other documents, in case of a major disaster.

As a whole, these efforts are important first steps towards equipping our firefighting personnel, making major investments in wildfire resiliency and mitigation, and helping us to reduce the threat of climateinduced natural disasters.

From the East Troublesome and Cameron Peak Fires in 2020, to the Marshall, NCAR, and Soul Shine Fires in just

Lorraine Bayard de Volo to speak on gender and Cuba; adults can learn salsa dancing, plus a fiesta

By Kara Bauman Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Library extends our thanks to the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission for their coordination of another successful Tandem Art Show Opening on WednesBauman day, April 6. Visitors enjoyed the musical stylings of Lyons favorite Enion Pelta-Tiller and snacks courtesy of Moxie Mercantile.

Stop into town hall to view locals’ artistic interpretation of Joy – Where Do You Find It? and then pop over to the library to view Anita Miller’s Perpetually Creative before the end of June. Mark your calendars to visit the library during the first week of June when we will host Miller’s traveling Eyes of Freedom Lima Company Memorial.

After school on Friday afternoons, area students are invited to stop into the library for Drop-In Nintendo Switch play. It’s a great way for kiddos to wind down the week and stimulate creativity, focus, visual memory, and teamwork skills.

The next installment of the elementary school-age Hooked on Books Book Club will take place on Wednesday, April 20, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Copies of Wishtree

by Katherine Applegate are available at the library.

Come discuss the book and learn more about Islamic culture and Ramadan.

Adult Programming and Communications Librarian Vicky Reinold has been hard at work coordinating a wonderful series of cultural programs to connect cultures. On Thursday, April 7, the library welcomed Carmen Reina-

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courages participants to learn and speak Spanish. The classes will focus on learning popular Latin and Caribbean dances, including salsa, the cha-cha, and the bachata. Boulder musicians Leo Munoz-Corona and Kyle Perez will play percussion during the dance classes which maximizes the dancer’s connection to the music while supporting local artists.

The dance series culminates in a celebration fiesta on Saturday, April 30, from 4 to 6 p.m. complete with a live band, the Colorado Mambo Orchestra, and catering by Frida, who will offer delicious empanadas for purchase.

You do not need to have taken the previous dance classes to participate in the fiesta. The fiesta presents an opportunity for more than an evening out in Lyons; it’s also an opportunity to celebrate diversity within our community, create opportunities for Latin music to be enjoyed, for Spanish to be spoken, and for residents to dance together to syncopated rhythms.

Registration for each dance class session and the fiesta is required. Baile Latino dance programs are presented by the Lyons Regional Library, with financial support from the Friends of the Lyons Library, conceived of and organized by Brightheart Productions.

We welcome Dr. Lorraine Bayard de Volo on April 20 at 7 p.m. She will discuss her work studying gender and revolution in Cuba and Nicaragua. With a focus on Cuba, she will share how women’s roles in these revolutions challenge the notion that social change is a predominantly male sphere. There will be time for questions and answers at the end of the presentation.

Join us to discuss Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton on April 27 at 7 p.m. After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman traveled to Havana where she discovered the roots of her identity and unearthed a family secret hidden since the days of the Cuban revolution. Copies of Cleeton’s book are available through the library.

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OPPORTUNITY Explore the town’s history at Lyons Redstone Museum this spring and summer

By Monique Sawyer-Lang Redstone Review

writing with chalk on a handheld slate in the school exhibit. Sit in the old wood booths from the Lyons Soda Fountain and peruse the menu. View the many works of LYONS – Do you have art located around the museum from a vafriends or family visiting riety of Lyons’ artists, past and present. you this spring and sum- Learn the history of town founder E.S. Lyon mer? Are you looking for and the histories of the first fire department, Sawyer-Lang something new to do? Has the railroad, and many other institutions it been a while since you visited the Lyons from yesterday and today in Lyons. Read a Redstone Museum, or maybe you have riveting transcript of the WWII diary of never stopped by? Consider adding a visit Charles Swift from December 7, 1941 at to the museum on your summer “to do” list. Pearl Harbor and his time serving aboard Saturday, May 7 is the opening day for the USS Phelps in the Pacific. the 2022 season at the Lyons Redstone No trip to the museum is complete withMuseum, located at 340 High St. The mu- out stopping by our gift shop and bookstore. seum will be open weekends during the An eclectic selection of souvenirs and vinmonth of May and daily June 1 through tage glassware and dishes are available to October 2. Hours will be Sundays 12:30 to purchase. Spend some time perusing the 4:30 p.m. and Monday through Saturday large selection of new and used books in the from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Housed in the book store, including local history books. town’s original schoolhouse, the museum As you finish your visit to the museum, grab a copy of the Lyons Historic District Walking Tour or download the tour (https://theclio.com/tour/910) on your smartphone and continue your journey into local history with a walk around town.

The museum has several events planned for the 2022 “Good Old Days” to be held on June 24 and 25. At 6 p.m. on Friday, June 24 the alumni of the class of 1969 will dedicate a sandstone bench, located at the front of the museum building, in mem1908 photograph of the Lyons School, now the Redstone ory of classmate Mickey Museum, by Boulder photographer Ed Tangen.

Hawkins. USMC Private First Class Mickey is a great place for locals and visitors alike Hawkins was killed in a firefight on January to explore and learn the history of the 6, 1970 in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam.

Lyons area. Saved from the wrecking ball On Saturday, June 25, the museum by the Lyons Historical Society in 1976, will hold a history program on the lawn at the Lyons Redstone Museum opened to 1:00 p.m. and various activities are the public in 1979 and is the repository for planned for the alumni of the classes of objects, photographs, and documents that 1970, 71, and 72 throughout the day. Due pertain to Lyons’ history. to the pandemic, the 50th Reunion activThere’s a lot to see and do at the mu- ities for the Classes of 1970 and 1971 were seum. Pick up a copy of the Forty canceled but they look forward to joining Years/Forty Artifacts exhibit guide and go on the Class of 1972 in celebrating this year. a scavenger hunt to locate all the items. Put Admission to the museum is free but we together a jigsaw puzzle of the Centennial gratefully accept donations. Your donaedition of the Lyons Recorder in the Lyon tions help support exhibit design and deNewspapers: A History exhibit. Pretend velopment, purchasing of archival storage you’re a student in the 1890s and practice materials, and development of our virtual

CEMEX to increase production of low carbon limestone cement

By CEMEX Communications Staff Redstone Review HOUSTON – CEMEX USA has announced that as part of its efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, the company has increased production of Portland limestone cement (PLC) at its plant in Lyons, CO with the environmentally friendly, lower carbon building material expected to become the plant’s primary product by this summer.

PLC can offer CO2 emission reductions of up to 10 percent when compared to ordinary Portland cement (OPC). In PLC, finelyground limestone replaces a portion of the clinker, cutting clinker factor by about 10 percent and reducing CO2 intensity when compared to OPC. Extensive testing and customer feedback have shown PLC offers the same or better performance in durability and resilience when compared to OPC. CEMEX USA President Jaime Muguiro said, “The increased production of Portland limestone cement is just one element of our plan to reduce our carbon footprint, and by making the lower carbon solution more available for our customers, they can help provide an even broader and effective impact.”

Though PLC has been produced at Lyons cement plant for more than 15 years,

CEMEX is ramping up production to better align with the company’s ambitious carbon reduction goals and meet increased demand for lower carbon materials.

Just last year, CEMEX implemented its Future in Action program to reduce CO2 throughout its value chain and announced updated climate goals. The aggressive targets include reducing the company’s CO2 emissions by 40 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 baseline levels and working to deliver net-zero concrete globally by 2050.

To learn more about Portland limestone cement, visit the website: www.cemexusa.com/PLC. CEMEX is a global building materials company that provides high-quality products and reliable services with a rich history of improving the wellbeing of those it serves through innovative building solutions, efficiency advancements and sustainability efforts. Its U.S. network includes 10 cement plants, close to 50 strategically located cement terminals, nearly 50 aggregate quarries and more than 280 ready-mix concrete plants.

CEMEX USA has been repeatedly recognized for its efforts in sustainability and energy management, including earning U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year in 2019, 2020 and 2021.

and in-person programming. Additional information about the museum can be found on our website lyonsredstonemuseum.com. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and virmuze.com. We look forward to your visit in 2022.

Monique Sawyer Lang is the Collections Manager of the Lyons Redstone Museum. She is also a volunteer with the Lyons Food Pantry and a former member/chair of the Lyons Community Foundation Board. She lives in Spring Gulch.

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INSIGHT Our comfort with dogs is bone deep

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – On a recent fishing trip to Minnesota I stayed with my friend Mike, his wife Andrea, and their two dogs, Moose Gierach and Buncie. Mike and Andrea are the kind of high-quality people we’re advised to surround ourselves with if we want to be successful ourselves, and Moose and Buncie are Labrador retrievers.

Moose is black with a gray muzzle and in his teens, while Buncie is yellow and isn’t yet two, but in spite of the age difference they’re great pals and share a sense of fun that’s indistinguishable from that of 11year-old boys, but that’s more forgivable when seen in dogs. The only real difference between them is that where Buncie frolics, Moose galumphs.

Moose was a great fishing dog. I say “was” because he’s too old and arthritic now to get around on trout streams, but in his day, he was good company and understood that his role on a fishing trip was that of observer rather than participant, which is all it takes.

Buncie is still too rambunctious to be a good fishing dog, but he will be. These things take time, especially when you train a dog with encouragement and rewards instead of discipline. It takes longer, but you end up with a better dog who obeys because he wants to rather than because he’s afraid not to. You can instantly spot a dog that’s been trained with kindness and patience and that tells you a lot about its owner, too.

I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t around dogs. While I was still at home, there was Butchy, then Willy and then Sam. Butchy was some kind of small, indeterminate terrier sort of thing. He was there when I was born and I don’t have a clear memory of him, but I’m told that when I was little I decided he’d look better if he was red (and idea I may have gotten from comic books) so I tried to paint him. If true, the statute of limitations has long since run out on that, but I’m still sorry about it.

It’s that early familiarity that makes me more comfortable around dogs than I am around most people and I’m not alone. I don’t know many who won’t stop to say hello to a friendly dog or who don’t know enough to leave an unfriendly one alone.

Our comfort with dogs isn’t just lifelong, but bone deep. The common wisdom is that early humans domesticated wolves somewhere back in prehistory and to this day the genetics of dogs and wolves are identical, while there’s only a 1.2 percent difference between humans and chimps, so dogs and humans have been together for a long time.

But I once read about an alternate theory that it was actually wolves who domesticated humans. They found us useful enough to allow us to share their kills and eventually we began hunting together cooperatively. It was the influx of protein from our new meat-rich diet that allowed our brains to grow big enough to develop tools, language and art and it was the habit of cooperation that resulted in what we came to call civilization. So now we feed dogs, take them for walks, scratch their ears and let them sleep on our couches out of gratitude.

After leaving home and spending an aimless decade during which I never lived for long in any one place, I had some dogs of my own. The first was an unruly blackand-tan coon hound named Plug that I rescued from the pound just hours before he was scheduled to be euthanized. After a rough period when the alpha position in our relationship was up for grabs, he became the classic one-man dog: devoted to me, but barely able to tolerate anyone else.

A friend once tried to shoo Plug off a couch where he wanted to sit, but he never tried it again.

My last dog was Strider, a dalmatian who’d been driven half mad by the woman who owned him. I lived with that same woman for a while and she did the same for me, but once she was gone, Strider and I recovered together. I taught him a few basic commands without screaming or hitting and otherwise just let him be a dog.

Eventually he calmed down as much as his high-strung breeding allowed and lived

The distinguished Mr. Banks with his human, Lyons artist Sally King. out his life like a recovered alcoholic: a little haunted at times, but basically okay.

That was always my story with dogs.

Friends had stylish, well trained hunting dogs and I always ended up with insane hyenas that no one else wanted. They were loads of trouble, but in the end, we always seemed destined to be together.

When I finally started to get my feet under me as a writer, I was living alone and Strider was getting old and creaky. I traveled a lot then to places where I couldn’t take a dog and often left him with friends or at a kennel. He was well cared for, but I felt guilty for neglecting him and so when he died I didn’t get another dog.

But as it happened, Strider had also come with a pair of cats named Momma and Maggie (the woman had left in a huff and a hurry and never came back, leaving animals and furniture behind) so I segued easily into being a cat guy.

But I still say hello to friendly dogs and when Susan and I take our regular hikes; we gravitate to places where people walk

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Photos of graduating seniors to be published in Redstone Review

LYONS – The Safe Route to School 4th Avenue Pedestrian Bridge and Trail has begun mobilization and construction. The area near the St. Vrain and Park Street, Evans and 4th Avenue will have the most work in the coming months as the work progresses in the river to install the bridge abutments. Construction of a new sidewalk and ADA ramps on the west side of 4th Avenue from Evans Street to Railroad Avenue has begun. The bridge has already been fabricated in Wisconsin and will transported to Lyons. The project is funded with $1 million in federal/state funds to date.

Black Bear Hole and 2nd Avenue Trailhead Improvements have also fenced off the area and begun work to improve access and parking, and a public restroom facility. This

LYONS – The Redstone publishes a full page of the photos of all the students graduating from Lyons High School each year.

Last year for the first time we started to publish the photos of graduating seniors who live in Lyons but are graduating from schools outside of Lyons in Boulder County.

If your child is a senior, and graduating this year from a school outside of Lyons in Boulder County, and you want a photo in the Redstone, we will need a photo of your senior, a head shot, plus a small amount of information: full name, what their immediate future plans are, such as what college, university, trade school they are planning to attend, any scholarships they have received, if they plan to travel first for a year, or to work before attending

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their dogs to facilitate that. My observation there is that friendly dogs are with friendly people who’ll say hello and maybe stop to chat for a minute, while aloof dogs are with grumpy people who’ll barely spare you a nod as you pass on the trail. It’s so easy with dogs. Unlike humans, with our layers of secrets and defenses, dogs are an open book: easily readable at a glance and vice versa. It’s all body language. A human with an ounce of sense can spot a friendly dog, and a dog can spot a human who likes them at a range of 20 yards.

I have a lot of close dog friends. There are too many to list here, but Mr. Banks comes to mind. And yes, that’s his name.

He’s small (maybe 25 pounds) solid as a brick, scruffy as an old brush and profoundly pleased with himself. On walks, he trots along with the regal strut of a minor royal out strolling among commoners, and although he’s happy to say hello to anyone, he maintains his dignity as if to say, “Yes, I’m adorable, but it’s still Mr. Banks to you.”

project is funded with $282 thousand from lottery dollars through Great Outdoors Colorado. The project will require the closing of the pedestrian bridge in order to replace the boards of the bridge.

Longmont Water Pump Station Project began earlier this week. Railroad Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Avenues will be closed for the next two to three months. The parking lot will also be closed for this project, estimated to run through midJuly. They will be excavating a 100’ by 50’ by 20’ deep hole for the pump station and Railroad Avenue will be closed for much of the time that this project is going on.

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CORNERSTONE Feeding the birds: good for them, good for us

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – I’ve always put out bird feeders in the winter – a habit I acquired from my mom. She’d hang feeders and as a child I’d watch the parade of nature from my window: flocks of yellow grosbeaks, woodpeckLowell ers drawn to the suet and the occasional hawk taking hapless starlings. This nature-at-my-doorstep started my outdoors passion, and I’ve pondered at times who benefits more from bird-feeding, the birds or us?

A recent study by the Wild Bird Feeding Institute Research Foundation (its very name says something about the pastime’s popularity) found almost 50 million households in the U.S. and Canada buy wild birdseed each year.

This mammoth undertaking raises questions about the effect that hundreds of millions of pounds of seed has on the birds – is it beneficial or it is creating an artificial environment that compromises their natural instincts?

Boon or bane The answers, it turns out, aren’t obvious. Considering the hundreds of species of birds and their distinct niches and habits, there are just too many variables. Severe or mild winters, boom or bust cycles of natural food sources and manmade influences like habitat loss all make any studies of the effect of artificial feeding inconclusive.

But some facts are known. It’s obvious, and studies have shown, that winter feeding of birds can help with the survival of certain species. When winter storms roll in, snow blankets natural food sources and subzero nights burn up calories, a well-stocked feeder or suet block goes a long way to helping birds survive these hard times.

The flip side is: does feeding favor one species over another? When spring rolls around and there’s competition for nesting sites, is it wise to have helped aggressive house finches fattened on sunflower dominant over another

you or your neighbors allow your cats outside, it’s probably best not to feed the birds and thereby set an avian smorgasbord for Tabby. bird species?

In some cases, forcing birds to feed together at common Can birds, once habituated to artificial feeding, otherwise places can lead to increased disease transfer. But realistisurvive if that feeding is stopped? Dr. Emma Greig of the cally, in the wild birds often feed in groups, including Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology said, “Birds have an as- mixed-species flocks. To minimize the spread of disease sortment of places they can check for food in their winter feeders should be cleaned regularly, particularly of any habitat and if one source disappears, they have others that feces buildup. they can rely on.” Of course, with 50 million households Natural connection in comfort putting out bird banquets, they can also just move on to the Short of strapping on binoculars and trudging out into next feeder. Despite Dr. Grieg’s reassurance, it’s probably the cold, there’s no better way to connect with the natural world than from the warm comfort of your home.

The sheer number and variety of birds drawn to handouts is far greater than what a birdwatcher might normally see on a winter field trip.

Feeding birds offers a connection to nature through the investment of a feeder and a 20-lb. bag of sunflower seeds. People learn to identify birds and their habits. When the feeders and trees in the yard are crowded with birds, there’s a personal sense of caretaking and responsibility – a positive interaction with the natural world. And with that often comes a greater advocacy for the environment.

The writer Jonathan Franzen said in a recent National Geographic article that “Birds are good for the soul,” and I have to agree with him. The birds benefit from our largesse and we run for the Sibley guide when an unfamiliar bird shows up. It’s a A female and male house finch dine at a local bird feeder. unique symbiotic relationship not often experiPHOTO BY ROLF REISER enced in our everyday dealings with nature.

Postscript: The local bears have awakened from best to keep those feeders full once you start. their winter slumber, and it’s best to take in your bird feedFeeders can also attract natural predators like the bird- ers at the beginning of April. Next to unsecured garbage, snacking Cooper’s hawks, but they’re birds, too, and who there’s nothing a hungry bear likes better than feeders of doesn’t enjoy seeing some nature – red of tooth and claw high-protein sunflower and other seeds.

– close up and personal?

Unnatural predators, on the other hand, like freeLyons resident Greg Lowell is a Lyons Town Board Trustee roaming housecats, are also attracted to feeders. Should and serves as a liaison to the Ecology Advisory Board.

Wordle is taking over the country: GUESS – WORDS – QUICK

By Peter Butler Redstone Review LYONS – Just when it seemed that there are a million ways to wheedle away the day, a new threat to time management has arrived. We have a new start to the morning. In the old days it would be, get Butler dressed, make coffee, take the dog out, open up the chicken coop. But now there is a new element. You wander about, holding deep thoughts in your head before announcing to the surrounding countryside, “Today I’m going to start with OPIUM.” No, I’m not planning to fire up the hookah, but I’ve got my first guess for Wordle. A few moments later I might proclaim to the adjacent shrubbery that I’m going to start with “OPIUM – DELAY” even though it sounds like cold turkey.

Moments later, the dog has finished and we go inside and I log on.

OPIUM – DELAY – CAUSE – SAUTE Hmm – very bizarre cookery. The word “Splendid” dances around the screen even though it doesn’t realize that this French word has an E acute at the end.

If you haven’t gotten sucked into it yet maybe you’ve been on a hermit cave retreat or crewing the International Space Station because it seems like the rest of the planet is doing it. One new word every day and six chances to guess what it is. It is so naive that it seems like something from the 1950s rather than the latest hot thing in our Brave New Metaverse of Tiktok and fluorescent dancing parrots. Go to the web page and a simple matrix of five squares wide by six lines deep awaits you. At the bottom of the page is a rendering of a typewriter keyboard. Get a letter correct and it glows yellow. Guess the correct member of the alphabet and it glows yellow, but if you nail its position as well it renders itself bright green.

I like to test all the vowels and that “almost vowel” Y in the first two tries. Something like PIOUS – RELAY. So what is the difference between Wordle and those Sudokus that drain your entire life down the plughole of solitary endeavor? I’m not saying that I do it, but I’ve got a friend who can lose an entire hour or more trying to finish a “Hard” in less than six minutes.

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The beauty of Wordle is that you only get one game per day. The first time you experience this, there is a moment of bewilderment. But I deserve another game – surely?

Stuff is now so readily available (no I’m not talking about you, Russia) and so relatively cheap in historical terms that it is almost too easy to spoil yourself. Maybe you have self control and can convince yourself not to buy that new camera until you’ve learned Photoshop.

But then you lapse and get it anyway. Credit cards are your accomplice in this flabby lack of discipline. I remember, years ago, the best day of the year was when a local beekeeper would call and reveal that she had just harvested the first honeycomb of the season. Fire up the toaster – I’m drowning in my own saliva.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Unicorn of Apple Valley

By Sally King Her home is the wild A field so thick with brush and bramble That it was hard to spot her Standing so still With eyes that do not see She listens to the unseen world And in the golden glow of the late afternoon Light lingers on the edge of her coat A halo outlines her ears the spiral point of a unicorn’s horn Opalescent beauty gracefully balanced As if any moment she might reveal a clue To the invisible patterns We can only dimly remember.

They say she once belonged to a little girl Who moved away Leaving Babe to fend for herself.

Drinking of the St. Vrain River And eating what she could find in the field.

And when she was very old Betsy The High Priestess of the Glen Took care of her.

Feeding her soft mashed corn with molasses And brushing the burrs from her mane and tail.

I recently told Zack Tucker About the Unicorn of Apple Valley.

He and his staff are managing for Planet Bluegrass The field where Babe lived.

Passing on the lore of the land to him Sharing the wonder of this place The magic in the land!

Lyons is a mythic landscape A sister to Glastonbury England Where scholars think Avalon was.

Avalon means Veil of Apples.

Linked vortexes of light are we!

Sally King is a local artist who has created whimsical bears and delightful wild flower acrylic paintings to enhance the appearance of Lyons all over the town. She lives with her husband John King, a kinetic sculptor artist, near Lyons.

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Art Reflecting Feelings, storytelling and pride from Wide Spaces Initiative

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – The Wide Spaces Community Initiative is sponsoring or collaborating in offering a cornucopia of commuJane nity-creating events in the coming months and throughout the summer. We are a group of people who are working on “Creating a Community of Belonging and Personal Safety for Everyone.”

Anyone is welcome to join us at our meetings or in helping at our events. My contact information is at the end of the column if you want to get involved.

On two Saturdays in April, 16 and 30, Mystie Brackett is going to be offering a painting workshop ARF! Art Reflecting Feelings in the community room at the Lyons Library. It is limited to ten people, so sign up soon. We will be using a special selection of paints that work with the artist to allow feelings to be expressed on canvas.

This is a two-day workshop, materials provided, but you can bring your own, also.

Register at https://bit.ly/ARF-April 2022.

June 18 is Pride Day in Lyons. A dedicated all-ages group has been planning this event since January. We are going to gather at the Stone Cup for coffee from 10 a.m. to noon, then we will go to Sandstone Park and rally and parade (on the side-

walks) from noon until 1 p.m. We return to the park for music, speakers, and booths with a bake sale, face painting for all ages, DYI pride bracelets, conversation corner, and area mental health and LGBTQ+ organizations, and there are other possible events in the works. Businesses and residents are all encouraged to hang out their Pride flags on June 18 to show our Lyons Pride. Wide Spaces is getting some flags from OUTBoulder so contact us (information at the end of the article) to get one, or Uniquely Lyons should be carrying flags again as they did last year.

We are again looking for articles and sto-

ries to publish in the Redstone Review about how LGBTQ+ has impacted area residents’ lives. Last year we had three stories from residents, and we would like to have even more this year. Contact me, Janaki, if you have a personal story concerning LGBTQ+ that you would like to share.

Everyone loves stories, and most of us love telling them, and know that we could tell them better. This summer, starting in June, we will learn how to tell stories, practice telling stories, and then have two Lyons Story Slams at the library for the entire community. Johanna Walker is a professional storyteller and speaking coach who runs the

Boulder Story Slam and teaches storytelling workshops and runs the Speakers Playground. She will be coming in June to teach us both how to make the events of our lives into compelling stories that others will want to hear, and to teach us some speaking techniques to make us better storytellers. We will then have a few practice sessions telling stories with other storytellers, and finish with two all-ages Lyons Story Slams. Details and dates are still being finalized but will be in the papers and online.

Wide Spaces Community Initiative also has bought some online, at home suicide prevention classes that Lyons residents can take for free. These are one-to-two-hour online certification classes that you take at home. Contact me, Janaki Jane, for access.

There will be other events throughout the year, but these are some of what is coming. If you are interested in participating in planning or putting on any of these events, we can always use your help. Please contact Janaki Jane at widespacescommunity@gmail.com, or leave a message at the Lyons Community Library at 303-8235165 or at the library’s front desk. The Lyons Regional Library is the fiscal agent for the Wide Spaces Community Initiative and provides other in-kind support. We received funding from the Lyons Goodwill Fund in 2022 for ARF! Art Reflecting Feelings, Pride month, and the storytelling events. All events are free.

How Beanie Babies give back to your community

By Tanya Daty Redstone Review LYONS – Whether you are new to Lyons or a descendant of the original pioneer families, you probably know someone, a friend or neighbor who reminds you why Lyons is such a wonderful place to live.

Mercer-Daty Personally, I have never lived in a community where so many of its residents seem to give back in one way or another.

Lyons is full of local heroes. Monica McGuckin is one of mine. If you were living in Lyons in 2011 to 2013, you may remember Monica McGuckin owned the Lyons Mercantile on Main Street. At the time, she was also chairperson of the Lyons Community Foundation (LCF). She and her husband Ron are always helping their community from behind the scenes whether it is a tenant or a church in need of new windows.

When Monica learned that there were over 1,000 Beanie Babies available, she crammed two loads of them into her SUV to transport them from the collector’s home in Denver to her garage on Apple Valley Road.

From that moment, she knew that this collection of Beanie Babies had value and that she could donate them to her favorite local charity, the Lyons Community Foundation. After calling current Chair, Jeanne Moore, to discuss her plan to take suggested donations at multiple locations and events around Lyons, it became evident that they could include the entire community and build awareness for the good work LCF does. With a suggested donation of $10 for these bundles of cuteness, LCF could potentially bring in $10,000 in 2022.

Chrystal DeCoster, past LCF board member and owner of Western Stars Gallery & Studio, was the first person to sign up to consign the Beanie Babies on behalf of LCF. Since she already kept a secret stash of beanie babies at her shop, she knew that there was a growing demand for these cuties from people of all ages. By supporting LCF with a $10 donation, buying a Beanie Baby is an easy way to teach children to give back to their community at an early age, all the while, supplying their friends with a birthday gift or simply adding to their growing collection.

Monica and Chrystal DeCoster agreed that bringing shoppers into local stores looking for Beanie Babies would Continue LCF on Page 14

Jeanne Moore chair of LCF, (left) and Monica McGuckin with the library big bear and a gang of Beanie Babies.

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CONSENSUS Injured Greenwood goose receives a feather transplant

By Mysti Tatro Redstone Review LONGMONT – After finding it nearly unresponsive in her Greeley yard, a rescuer brought a Canada goose to Greenwood. Once on the exam table, the Greenwood intake staff discovered many Tatro broken flight feathers, an emaciated body, and wounds all over its chest.

The medical team administered pain medications, antibiotics and fluids, and scheduled an X-ray to further assess the bird’s condition. Fortunately, the goose improved, and the X-rays showed metal gunshot scattered throughout its torso. It was likely the victim of an unsuccessful hunt. The open wounds were probably the cause of the infection that was starting to manifest in its bloodstream and had made the bird so weak.

Greenwood knew this goose had a long road to recovery, which would include weeks of pain medications, de-wormers, nutritious feed, antibiotics, and rest. But the biggest concern was that with the missing flight feathers, the bird would not be able to fly again until its summer molt, which was months away. This goose would need a feather “transplant” after it had recovered.

Luckily, Greenwood knew someone who could help with this situation. Anne Price, the president of the Raptor Education Foundation, had repaired many feathers on raptors,

Dr. Alison Hazel (at left, in orange cap) and Anne Price, president of the Raptor Education Foundation, use a technique called imping to transplant new flight feathers onto those badly damaged on this Canada goose. through a procedure called “imping.” She agreed to imp new feathers onto the damaged ones. Greenwood’s veterinarian Dr. Alison Hazel decided the goose would need to be under anesthesia to prevent stress and keep the animal still while carefully replacing its damaged feathers with new ones, which came from a deceased goose.

The procedure started once the bird inhaled the anesthetic gas that brought on a restful slumber. The team

jumped into action right away, trimming the broken feathers and getting the glue ready. If an animal is under anesthesia for too long, it can be detrimental to its health, so the team had to work quickly.

Price carefully shaved bamboo dowels to fit perfectly into the shafts of the new feathers. These dowels act as an attachment to the broken shaft on the bird’s wing. Once the dowel is the perfect size, medical grade glue is used to adhere it to the bird’s original feather shaft. Seven feathers and over an hour of anesthesia later, the goose sported a completely repaired wing, nearly ready for the wild. After a few days of flight testing and ensuring the imped feathers were still in good condition, Dr. Hazel approved the goose’s release.

In the heart of winter, it can be challenging to find open water. A dedicated Greenwood volunteer drove the Canada Goose over 10 hours round trip to the southeast corner of Colorado to a perfect release spot on open water.

The recovered goose jumped from the transport bin, waddled out to the water’s edge and took its new feathers for a spin.

It takes expertise, resources, optimism, and caring people who are willing to collaborate to make a wildlife release happen. Greenwood is incredibly thankful to Anne Price for her help with this goose and for the community of wildlife lovers that make it possible for hundreds of patients each year to see the wild once again.

Mysti Tatro is the Communications & Marketing Coordinator at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. For information, call 303-823-8455 or www.greenwoodwildlife.org.

Garden Club invites all to its second annual garden tour, Mountain Blooms

By Sara Erickson Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Garden Club is pleased to announce its second annual garden tour entitled Mountain Blooms.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 18, to visit a variety of local gardens with unique approaches to gardening.

It’s a wonderful opportunity to learn what plants thrive in our climate, explore outstanding creative spaces, while gaining valuable landscaping tips.

Each stop on the Mountain Blooms tour will be unique.

You’ll meet a mix of master gardeners and passionate hobbyists who garden not only for their own enjoyment, but also to contribute to the health of our local ecosystem.

Bring your curiosity and your questions. Whether you are just getting started or have an established garden of your own, new discoveries await you.

Details which will be posted during the next couple of months via Facebook, Redstone Review and Lyons Recorder,

and town email blasts/utility bills. Check out our website www.lyonsgardenclub.com for updated information.

Lyons Garden Club always welcomes new members. We are an active group during the spring and summer and we like to get our hands dirty. Come join us for planting, weeding, conversation and exchange of gardening knowledge.

You can often see us working at the west wall, where the sculpted bears hide behind a mix of flowers and grasses. Or we might be weeding and planting at the butterfly garden where the beautiful stone sculpture of a butterfly floats above bright landscape of amazing flowers, grasses, and pathways.

Gardening is fun and you can help contribute to the beauty of our community. Check out our website this spring for events and the planting and weeding schedules.

Please contact Sara Erickson to be added to our mailing list: sarae403@gmail.com. We hope you will join us.

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INTEREST Mulch mania, mulch madness at Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens

By Garima Fairfax and Jessie Berta-Thompson Redstone Review LYONS – Visitors to the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens sometimes remark on the sprawling wild sunflowers or the lovely stonework. But when passers-by meet volunteers hard at work, they ask about one topic above all others – mulch.

The garden is a mulchy place. A mountain of mulch sits across from the entrance, a byproduct from the Boulder County fire-mitigation lumber sort yards. Hundreds of volunteer hours have gone into spreading mulch one wheelbarrow at a time. The look will change as plants grow, but for now, visually, it’s a lot of mulch. For those wondering, we’d like to take a moment to share some details of the garden’s mulch-fueled soil care regimen.

Soil at this site started out as very rocky sand. We’ve used a cardboard and woodchip mulch system to build soil and suppress weeds. Useful for any garden low in organic matter, this process entails removing weeds, spreading compost, laying down cardboard, and topping with a few inches of woodchip mulch. With all the layers, this is sometimes called lasagna mulching, though exactly what gardeners use for pasta, sauce, and cheese varies.

We began soil prep by pulling up weeds and removing weed seed heads. During initial flood clean up, Boulder County land managers had already spread two inches of compost at the site. This wetlands restoration technique enhances plant growth and soil water absorption. Compost improves soil structure, adds nutrients, and is teeming with beneficial microorganisms.

Next, we covered the garden with overlapping layers of cardboard weighted with rocks. A sustainable alternative to weed fabric, cardboard makes a fantastic garden material because it’s free, easy to find, and biodegradable, plus earthworms love it. Anything we do to help the worms is good for our gardens. They build, oxygenate, and enrich the soil. Standard weed fabric is not biodegradable, and, after a few years of wear, its lets the weeds through anyway.

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It is not beneficial for soil life and ultimately ends up in landfills, while cardboard becomes fluffy humus. For this application, it’s good to use plain brown cardboard and to remove staples and tape. The cardboard should be in direct contact with the ground.

Over the cardboard, we spread several inches of woodchip mulch. Mikl Brawner at Harlequins Gardens native plant nursery in Boulder recommends woodchip mulch because it supports soil microorganisms better than commonly used bark mulch. In addition to slowing weeds and giving a finished look, mulch benefits a garden by regulating soil temperature and moisture. Mulch buffers the soil from our region’s giant daily swings in air temperature and scorching summer heat, reducing stress on plants.

Mulch helps with water retention by shielding soil from hot sun and dry winds. It also prevents heavy rains (or hose spray) from directly hitting the soil surface, protecting the structure of the topsoil.

As the cardboard and mulch slowly decompose, they turn into a beautiful crumbly layer of soil. After three years of treatment, more and more often when a shovel explores beneath the mulch at the garden, it finds damp dark soil full

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of earthworms. Over time, we will add mulch on top but won’t need to replace the cardboard beneath. Weeds like open, disturbed ground, where they can easily take hold.

With an established mulch layer, the natives we plant will grow and spread, and the weeds won’t have a chance.

That covers the main soil improvement steps, but there’s a next step we don’t take – one onto the beds. Avoiding walking on planted areas, especially when wet, is one of the best things we can do to support plants. This prevents the soil from being compressed. Good garden soil should be about 50 percent air. Uncompacted soil allows water to penetrate freely, gives roots air and space for growth, and makes it easier for earthworms to tunnel. Our fluctuating winter temperatures freeze and thaw the soil, which fluffs it up by springtime. It’s such a gift to have the soil naturally aerated at the beginning of each growing season.

Careful garden design can preserve this structure. In Four Season Harvest, farmer-author Eliot Coleman writes “I like to have two distinct areas in the garden: space in which to walk and space in which to grow.” This can be achieved with pathways or steppingstones. When planting, instead of compressing the soil around a new plant, a thorough watering can help the soil gently settle into place.

At the botanic gardens, we don’t use chemical fertilizers or bug sprays. These can kill off the earthworms and microbes that are the authentic heroes of building rich garden soil. We do add all-purpose organic fertilizer with each planting, which is important to supplement the carbon-rich mulch additions. When you use mulch in your garden and have healthy soil, your plants will thrive, and gardening becomes a true pleasure.

Garima Fairfax is the founder/originator curator of the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens in Lyons.

Jessie Berta-Thompson studied algae in school, and loves gardening and learning about plants. She currently serves as Treasurer on the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens board and as an Adjunct Researcher at the Denver Botanic Gardens, where she works on the diversity and evolution of Colorado mushrooms.

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CROSSROADS Fun in the sun this spring and summer

By Lisa Ramsey Redstone Review LYONS – The sun is shining brighter, the days are getting warmer and longer, and the school year will be winding down soon.

Summer is almost here. The Town of Lyons Recreation Department is pleased to share some exciting new classes on offer this season along with some perennial favorites.

Let’s start with some of the newer offerings. Is learning “How to bake sourdough bread” on your bucket list? Would you like to know how to create and maintain a sourdough starter? Now’s your chance to gain these valuable skills so you have the confidence to bake bread at home. Join Lyons local Julie Smith, a former bakery owner, for the Sourdough Bread Basics class.

You will go home with your own sourdough starter, a recipe, and the knowledge of the “no knead” method of sourdough baking. Optional live, online, step-by-step guided tutorial of the actual baking portion of the class is available as well. Each student should bring a wide mouth pint or quart sized glass jar with a lid to class to take your starter home in. This class is at the Walt Self Center on Sunday, April 24 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. It is meant for adults and teens 14 and older. The cost is $25 for the class and an extra $5 for the online instruction.

Maybe you prefer to “Take a Walk on the Wild Side” and would like to join herbalist Anne Lelong for a springtime herb walk instead. In this class you will meet the weeds and learn their lore, medicinal uses, and edibility. You’ll identify the plants that grow all around us and learn to appreciate the value they add to our lives.

Walking will be at a slow pace with frequent stops to discuss the plants encountered,

going a total of a mile or less. Wear comfortable walking shoes for varied terrain and enjoy nibbling on the herbs after the walk. All ages are welcome for this class but it is more geared towards teens and adults. This class is offered on Saturday, April 21 or May 21, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

The first class will meet at Bohn Park, and the May class location has yet to be determined. The cost is $20 per date.

Would you be interested in a mid-morning adventure exploring “the alchemy of art and nature”? Come join Denise Susanne Townsend, interdisciplinary artist and master herbalist, as we paint both inner and outer abstract landscapes in “Creative Alchemy.” We’ll begin the morning soaking in the feeling of springtime through some gentle movement practices and then dive into a dual canvas painting practice using essences and water-based paint, crafting our landscapes in connection to ourselves, to one another, and to the natural world around us. We’ll complete our day together co-creating an abstract work of our wishes for the world with proceeds from this community generated painting gifted to One Tree Planted to help reforest our precious earth. The class is offered on Thursday, May 12, or Friday, May 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at LaVern M. Johnson Park. The cost per date is $125 and includes all needed materials. This class is for adults of all ages.

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Square State Skate also has summer lessons and camps available. For more information, please look at the website or call the number at the top of the article. Bring some energy and your smile and get ready for fun.

Led by Boulder Jr. Cycling Head Coach Lester Pardoe, “Kid’s Mountain Biking” is designed for beginner and intermediate riders. Come join in the fun and learn some great skills too.

This class includes instruction on braking, shifting, cornering, balance, drops and step-up, pumping and jumping, and trail mountain etiquette. The class will begin at the Bohn Park Dirt Jump Park and move on to local trails. Come on a ready-to-ride mountain bike, wearing a helmet and appropriate footwear, and bring a water bottle. Please make sure your kid’s bike is in excellent working order before the first class. Two separate sessions are offered for this class and both are on Fridays. The first is April 15 to May 6 from 3:30 to 5 p.m., and the second is June 10 to July 8 (no session July 1) from 9 to 10:30 a.m.

Ages eight to 14 are welcome and the cost is $115 per four week series. Classes meet at the dirt jump park in Bohn Park.

Lyons’ own former Olympian Ann Trombley is back with more fun with “Women’s Mountain Biking” classes for summer. The June class is geared towards both beginners and intermediate riders and is sure to improve your technique. Skills

covered include neutral ready and braking, wheel lifts, climbing and descending, and cornering at low and high speeds. The August class, for intermediate and advanced riders, will review the skills above and move on to ratcheting, switchbacks, rock dodge, track stands, and tight corners.

The class wraps up with level lifts, roll down lunges, small lunges, and wheelies. Dates, location, and fees for both classes will be posted on the town website soon. All participants need to arrive with a mountain bike in good working order, a helmet and a water bottle, and dressed for changing weather conditions. Get ready to have a great time on the trails.

Last year was such a success that the “Adult Co-ed Recreational Softball League” is back again this summer with an even longer season. Grab your teammates, get out that old leather glove, and head to the ball fields for some exercise and fun.

This summer we are offering an 11-week season with 10 weeks of regular games and the last week of playoff games. No experience is necessary to play.

If you are a free agent we will find a team for you. Players provide all their own gear. This league is for ages 16 through adults. The individual registration fee is $30 and each team also pays a $400 fee. Games will be every Thursday evening from June 2 through August 11, 6 to 8 p.m. And don’t worry, you won’t miss any Sandstone Summer Concerts as those will be on Wednesdays this summer.

The Town Recreation Department is pleased to be able to offer a varied selection of classes. Other offerings will be added soon. Be sure to check the town website and this paper for future classes.

And be sure to support our local teachers by signing up for classes today.

More information about all the classes mentioned in this article can be found at www.townoflyons.com/Recreation or by calling 303-823-8250.

Lisa Ramsey is the Recreation Coordinator for the Town of Lyons.

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TRAVEL Traveling in Spain with a curse of disasters

By Terry de Castro Redstone Review LOS ANGELES – While I know that it can’t possibly be true, I enjoy entertaining a long-held belief that I have a Spanish curse. It’s a dramatic notion, and I’ve spun some yarns out of it; it’s almost a romantic fascination.

I’ve traveled to Spain nearly a dozen times, mostly for concerts with a British band I’ve played with on and off for the last 20 years. I’m not saying that something bad happens to me every time I go to Spain, but I have had more mishaps there over the years than I can keep track of: a stolen purse, a lost bag, missing money, stolen shoes, food poisoning, a head injury, and a ludicrous passport fiasco. I have been inside two Spanish police stations.

I must clarify though, that these incidents were not complete disasters. The curse is not malevolent, it’s just mischievous. I ended up getting my passport back, I got my lost purse back, and I even got my bag back. The head injury was minor. But I do admit that when I stumbled to my knees onto a gravel driveway after grazing the top of my scalp on a low iron gate while carrying a heavy amplifier, I shouted, “Spain hates me!” Perhaps understandably, when I planned to travel to Barcelona this past December to do some recording with the band, I was a little apprehensive.

Anyone who has dared to travel in the last two years knows that it now requires extra effort and comes with some added inconvenience. The first time I left my Los Angeles bubble since the beginning of the pandemic was for a trip to the Twin Cities last April to visit my parents.

I took another trip to Boston the following October for a wedding that had been previously canceled due to Covid.

Those travel experiences felt fairly normal. Everyone seemed au fait with reduced services and requirements to mask up and provide proof of vaccination. I was surprised at how relatively easy it all was. It was only when I took a trip overseas that things got cranked up a notch. When I’d planned my Spanish trip, Covid cases were down all over the world, and concerns about traveling seemed to have calmed a bit. Then came Omicron, and everything became considerably less calm.

Before I set off, I had to complete some not-entirely-simple-to-navigate digital paperwork. I uploaded the required documents onto the Spanish Travel Health Portal and checked the rapidly changing travel restrictions daily. I was set to meet my fellow musicians from the U.K. in late December, but it was not at all certain if travelers from the U.K. would be allowed to enter other European countries.

Cases were climbing exponentially over there, and the U.K. was becoming known as “Plague Island.” I was not even sure if travelers from the U.S. would be allowed to enter Spain with the rise of cases here. I continued to check for changes in restrictions up until my departure date, and for better or worse, on December 28, I flew to Barcelona via Paris. When I landed on December 29, I could not help indulging ominous thoughts about my Spanish curse.

Arriving in Barcelona was shockingly easy, and I sailed through immigration and customs. Two of my band mates had driven down from Brighton, England and they met me at the airport. We went out for our first tapas meal (outdoors), in Sitges, near where we would be staying for the week. We toasted the end of the year with a glass of Cava, the fizzy white wine that the region is known for.

The curse wasted no time. I woke up that night with violent food poisoning. It was from the same culprit as my previous food poisoning years ago, in Madrid: bad shrimp.

Well, at least I got it over with at the beginning of the trip, I thought. Not quite, though. Two of the five musicians in the group, who were still in the U.K., tested positive for Covid and would not be joining us.

We decided to record as a three-piece with the cello player who resided in Barcelona. That idea lasted until he

tested positive the next day. A couple of days later, I developed congestion and a sore throat, and as my symptoms progressed, I became more and more convinced that I had Omicron. An antigen test showed a negative result, which was some comfort, but if I tested positive 24 hours before my flight home, I would not, and rightly not, be allowed to fly.

With the recording canceled, we kept to ourselves and spent our time outdoors, hiking, walking on the beach, drinking Cava on the patio of our little rented house, and walking in Sitges, Tarragona, and Olivella. It certainly was not a hardship, and it was an absolute privilege to spend time in another country. But it was also, unsurprisingly, quite nerve wracking. I was worried the entire time that I might not be able to return home, and the shadow of the pandemic was omnipresent. The obvious life-threatening risks of passing the virus to a vulnerable person are terrifying. But the pandemic has added a layer of subtle anxiety to traveling (and to everything).

I could not help but fearing that if I passed Omicron to anyone, I might disrupt their life, strand them someplace, or just mess up their plans. I questioned the wisdom of traveling in a pandemic, especially with a Spanish curse – surely, I was tempting fate. As lovely as it was in parts, I do not think I would have taken that trip in retrospect, and I definitely would have avoided the shrimp.

Terry de Castro lives in Los Angeles where she teaches yoga and works for the PBS series and arts organization, Craft in America. She was a member of a British indie rock band called The Wedding Present and continues to stand in on occasion.

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The board granted liquor licenses to two establishments; one is Marigold Lyons, 405 Main St. a new Italian restaurant owned by Theodore Adley. This is the former location of Bella La Cema restaurant. Adley said that there are plans for some outdoor seating. Several members of the town board expressed delight that a new Italian restaurant would be opening soon. Mayor Angelo said, “My wife can’t wait.”

A second liquor license was granted to Moxie, the bakery located at 355Main St. after a presentation by owner Andy Clark from Louisville.

Later the town board passed a development agreement with Moss Rock Development LLC.

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ tablespoons minced herbs. I used dill and parsley.

Creating a salmon tart three Add one large, cold egg and pulse just a few times until dough is moistened and starts to come together.

By Barbara Shark Redstone Review LYONS – I’m planning to make a tart topped with a cream cheese / yogurt /l emon / scallion mix, smoked salmon and arugula for an Easter / spring celebration.

The crust is a new one for me, from Shark Dorie Greenspan’s latest book, Baking with Dorie. It is baked flat, like a pizza dough, covered with the filling, then cut into squares and served at room temperature. Serve it with steamed asparagus and the marinated carrots from last month’s column.

I used my Cuisinart to make this but you could do it by hand. Cut in the butter with a pastry cutter, or a knife or as you would make any pastry.

In the Cuisinart, pulse together one and a half cups unbleached flour, one third cup almond flour, and one half teaspoon salt. Add four ounces unsalted butter and pulse several times until butter is in smallish pieces. Add two or

Add dribbles of cold water if necessary but don’t make the dough wet. Dump onto counter and grab it together.

Form into a disk. Roll between parchment sheets to one eighth inch thick. It will be an irregular shape but that’s part of the charm. Prick and chill for two hours, or freeze for one hour, on the parchment, covered with parchment.

Release the dough from the paper and place one of the parchment sheets on the baking sheet.

Lay the dough on it and cover with second parchment sheet. Bake at 400° for 18 to 20 minutes. This is the only baking so it should be lightly browned and cooked through.

Cool. Spread with eight ounces cream cheese lightened to a spreadable consistency with yogurt or sour cream and mixed to taste with chopped scallions, lemon zest and juice, salt and black pepper.

Top with eight ounces or more of smoked salmon and greens – arugula, baby spinach or microgreens. Serve at room temperature. Use a pizza cutter to make rectangular slices. Serves six.

Barbara Shark is an artist and author of How I Learned to Cook, an Artist's Life. She lives near Lyons, Colorado.

For more recipes, read her blog - www.howilearnedtocookanartistslife.blog.

J.L. Hudson’s shrimp salad sandwich on toasted cheese bread – the Mez, please

By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – Those of us who grew up in Michigan will never forget the wonders of J.L. Hudson’s on Woodward Avenue in Detroit. Before it shut its doors in 1983, it was the shiniest, most elegant example of a department store one could imagine. First built in 1911 in a city that was known as the Paris of the Midwest for its beautiful architecture, the J.L. Hudson Building became one of the wonders of Detroit. From the Detroit Free Press in 1982: “As late as the mid-1960s, the J. L. Hudson store downtown was one of the largest in the nation. The looming brick building boasted 49 acres of sales space, 25 floors and four basement levels – second in size only to Macy’s Thirty-fourth Street store in New York.

Hudson’s featured one of the world's largest switchboards, 553,921 items for sale, 51 passenger elevators, 17 freight elevators, five restaurants, 705 fitting rooms and a store hospital with four doctors, four nurses and a laboratory technician.”

The food, most notably from its Mezzanine Tea Room, is remembered still today in countless online posts and recipes. But of legend was its shrimp salad sandwich on toasted cheese bread. It appeared on its menu in the 1950s but later disappeared and was requested special order for years after by its devotees, including by my mother who is now 95 years old. She is still a big fan of this sandwich.

This sandwich brings back memories from the 1960s of my rare but impressive trips to J.L. Hudson’s at the height of the store’s popularity. As part of our shopping trip, my mother and my sisters and I would pile into the elegant

brass, accordion elevator. The gates would close in front of us, and the elevator operator wearing white gloves would ask us what floor. We’d say, “The Mez, please,” and she would expertly drop us off at the Mezzanine Tea Room.

We invariably ordered my mother’s favorite, the shrimp salad sandwich on cheese toast. It was delicious – almost as delectable as the rare sense of sophistication that I felt while eating in the elegant tea room, so distant from Campbell’s tomato soup and saltines elbow to elbow with my five sisters at our kitchen table.

I agree with the great chefs who believe that simplicity is the key to the most flavorful and winning recipes. And summer is about simplicity. The following J.L. Hudson’s shrimp salad sandwich on toasted cheese bread is one of those simple, stunning recipes. The jalapenos were never in the Hudson’s sandwich but what a great addition

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be a positive marketing plan. It also demonstrates how local businesses support their community through LCF. Several local businesses readily agreed to Monica’s plan: Uniquely Lyons, Red Canyon Art, HJB Designs, Sage and Grace Botanicals, and Western Stars all have Beanie Babies available in their stores. Currently, Red Canyon Art, Uniquely Lyons, and Western Stars Gallery & Studio have Easter-themed Beanie Babies to fill your child’s Easter basket.

LCF will also have some on hand at the concession stand in Lavern Johnson Park on Saturday, April 16 from 10 a.m. until noon during the Calvary Foothills Church Easter Egg Hunt. Come join us for some familyfriendly fun in the park.

Do not fret if you miss the Easter-themed Beanie Babies, there will be more for Graduation Day, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, July Fourth, Halloween, Christmas, etc.

LCF will be sure to have some on hand at community events such as the Artisan Market on June 4 and at the Sandstone Concert Series every Wednesday evening this summer. If you are a collector and you are looking for one in particular, please reach out to LCF at info@lyonscf.org.

When current LCF Chair, Jeanne Moore tried to thank past LCF Chair, Monica McGuckin for her fundraising efforts, Monica replied, “It’s not about me.

It’s about inspiring other people to give back to the community. It’s a team effort.”

Indeed, it is. Thank you Monica for inspiring all of us to give back.

May brings a change of pace with a Zoom workshop focusing on journaling and mindfulness on Wednesday, May 11, from 4 to 5 p.m., facilitated by local yoga and meditation teacher Diana Laughlin.

Through centering practices, guided meditation, and journaling with prompts, participants will practice tech-

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done by late June,” said Kim Mitchell, director of communications for the Town of Lyons.

This is the last bridge to be repaired or replaced that was destroyed in the 2013 flood.

Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking professionally and privately since 1979. She was a French cuisine journeyman at the celebrated Henri d’Afrique restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, VA. Today she is the proprietor of the food blog www.foodfortheages.com and cooks with curiosity from the ground up in her log cabin home on the Western Slope of Colorado.

niques to stay calm and centered during challenging times.

The Lyons Community Library is open Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. We close at 5 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays; 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays; and 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Our online catalog is available 24/7 at lyons.colibraries.org and we’re always open for digital downloads on both the “It's very exciting and the town will be planning a grand opening,” said Mitchell.

Public transportation to Boulder LYONS – There will be public transportation service again to /from Boulder beginning in June – details are being worked out currently with Boulder County.

Libby and CloudLibrary apps. Give us a call at 303-823-5165 or email info@lyonslibrary.com with any questions.

Kara Bauman is the Director of the Lyons Community Library and holds an MLIS from the University of Kentucky. She’s an avid fly angler, enjoys craft beer, and in non-COVID times travels extensively to see her favorite band, Widespread Panic.

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J. L. Hudson’s shrimp salad on toasted cheese jalapeno bread Makes four sandwiches.

To make this sandwich sing, all ingredients need to be top drawer. Fresh, that is. And the cheesier the bread the better. On Wednesdays in Lyons, the St. Vrain Market bakers make an incredibly delicious loaf of cheese and jalapeño bread. It costs $6.99 a loaf but you can freeze what you don’t use and bring it out again when you need your next shrimp salad sandwich fix. Sliced thinly and toasted with butter, this is a sensational snack. And add our simple shrimp salad recipe, and you’ve got a knockout.

If you can’t find cheese bread, use brioche or challah bread, toasted and buttered.

2 C cooked, deveined and chopped large shrimp 1/2 C Hellman’s or real mayonnaise 1/2 C chopped celery Freshly ground pepper Loaf of cheese jalapeno bread • Mix all ingredients, except bread, together, cover and chill in the refrigerator. Just before serving, toast and butter the bread and spread the shrimp salad mixture on it.

Sit down, close your eyes and think of elegant old Detroit, and enjoy.

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