The Oleson family siblings and cousins from Fort Collins rounded up their tubes for some cool fun on a hot day in the St. Vrain.
The legal issues were discussed by the board. Town Attorney Brandon Dittman said that a number of other town and cities in Colorado have similar laws restricting people from being allowed to open carry weapons. He said Boulder, Louisville, Broomfield all have or are working on restrictions for open carry of weapons. The notes for the ordinance stated: The right to bear arms under the Second Amend ment is among the most controversial and liti gious issues in American society today. Under the current United States Supreme Court, the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen decision has significantly curtailed the ability of local municipalities to regulate firearms. However, the Bruen decision explic itly recognizes that regulations on firearms with a historical tradition of existing in the U.S. are permissible. United States Supreme Court Second Amendment decisions have long recognized the ability to restrict the open carry of firearms in public places. Furthermore, the proposed ordinance does not restrict own ership of firearms and ammunition nor the concealed carry of firearms pursuant to a law fully issued state permit. The board also approved Ordinance 1127 on first reading to amend the municipal code to list firearms sales, manufacturing and ammuni tion sales and manufacturing as prohibited uses in the commercial downtown zoning district. Attorney Dittman said that these ordi nances have a very low rate of being chal lenged and a very strong chance of being defended and enforced. They are successfully enforced in a number of states. Trustee Jocelyn Farrell asked about expand ing the prohibited uses of firearms and ammu nition sales and manufacturing to a broader zoning area. In other matters, Lyons will have two ballot questions on the November ballot for voters to Thedecide.trustees passed a resolution to ask vot ers to authorize the town to levy what they are calling a lodging occupation tax as a percent age rather than the flat rate of $2 per night that is currently in place. This rate was ap proved in 2018 and applies to lodging rooms and accommodations including camp sites The new proposed rate would start at 5 per cent and could increase up to 8 percent of the price of the provision of lodging and accom modations, including camping or campsites without another vote of the people if future boards wanted to address that issue. The board approved a second ballot issue
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LYONS – At the last town board meeting in August, the Lyons Board of Trustees (BOT) approved ordinance 1126 to amend the mu nicipal code on first reading, to prohibit open carry of firearms in public places. The town staff presented background infor mation saying: “As of July 28, 2022, there have been 372 mass shooting events in the United States in 2022 alone. Through the en actment of HB21- 1299 the state of Colorado has recognized gun violence as a major public health issue in the State of Colorado. Fur thermore, the Colorado General Assembly has enacted SB 21-256, which gives local mu nicipalities explicit authority to regulate firearms and ammunition.
Lyons Flyer Daily Service to/from Boulder Free LYONS – All RTD services will be free, including the airport buses, for the entire month of Au gust to help reduce air pollution in a collaborative, statewide ini tiative designed to reduce ground-level ozone by increasing use of public transit. No need to show your EcoPass and you can bring a friend or a bunch of friends and family on RTD’s buses and trains. Get to where you want to go by transit and not have to spending time searching for parking. And don’t forget there is new daily service (Monday to Friday) to/from Boulder, twice in the morn ing and twice in the afternoons. The service, rebranded as the “Lyons Flyer,” will replace the Y route, formerly operated by RTD.
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Bus Trip to the Butterfly Pavilion and Rosetta Hall August 29 LYONS – Hop aboard the bus and join us in exploring the won derful world of insects at the But terfly Pavilion on August 29. We will see displays filled with all kinds of invertebrates with ex hibits such as Colorado Backyard and Wings of the Tropics. We’ll enjoy a stroll through a tropical paradise (think warm and humid) with butterflies flying all around us. We can even hold Rosie the Tarantula if we want to. After our visit to the Butterfly Pavilion we’ll hop back on the bus and journey to Rosetta Hall in Boulder for lunch. Rosetta Hall features eight restaurants repre senting a variety of world cuisine, and two bars, and offers both in door and outdoor seating. Please click on this link for menus and more information: https://rosetta hall.com/. Dishes average in the $12 to $15 range for lunch items, with drinks being extra. Monday, August 29, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Bus leaves from Walt Self, 335 Railroad Ave. $12.50 for Butterfly Pavilion plus money forScholarshipslunch are available for the Butterfly Pavilion portion of the trip. Seats on the bus are first come first served so drop off you payment at town hall to reserve your spot today. Please put $12.50 per person (list all people going) in an envelope and drop it in the green mailbox or give it to Maria at the front desk.
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By Peter Zick, Lyons Chief Redstone Review August, Lyons. Many of you may be overwhelmed with the heat we have been expe riencing this month but hopefully relief is in our future soon. Keys to staying healthy during the heat of August are to always stay hydrated, stay away from energy drinks or high caffeine drinks when you are going to be outside, and have your sunscreen applied so you don’t burn, if out in the sun. I want all of us to be able to enjoy the outdoors, but I want us all to be safe and heathy. Our monsoon storms have been firing up regularly in the evenings here in Lyons over the past few weeks, with some of the rain and lightning being significant. I have been monitoring flooding levels in our fire district and we have been watching the rivers and drainages closely during these storms and have not seen a significant impact. Here are a few things to watch out for during these times of heavy rains and lightning. First, heavy rains in the burn scar areas may produce dark, dirty water in the rivers and drainages because of the ash left be hind after the fires. This may also result in larger debris floating downstream. To be safe, stay away from rivers and streams, as a precaution, during these times, and do not enter any drainage that is shedding water. This is an extremely dangerous situation. Larger debris and dark water can hide things in the river that can hurt you, so please stay out of those areas during heavy rain. In the event of a major event from flooding, please be aware of alerts and warnings that may be issued so we can make sure we get evacuations com pleted in a timely manner if necessary. Lightning has been very significant dur ing these storms. When these storms occur, I am in close contact with the Boul der County, the US Forest Service and all our fire partners to monitor these storms as they pass through. Often, we have trucks out patrolling the areas to make sure we are in position to handle any fires that start as a However,result.many of the lightning strike fires will not be noticeable until the storm clears or the next day. We have had mul tiple lightning strikes to trees that do not show any smoke until the next day. Please help us reporting any smoke that you may see after these storms. Even though we have had a lot of rain, we still need to be diligent in preventing wildfires from grow ing. We will start to dry out in the next few months going forward so you may see fire restrictions being put into effect in the coming weeks. As a result of our mill levy increase coming in the next few years, I am excited to announce that the Lyons Fire Protec tion District is in the process of hiring more full-time firefighters and part-time firefighters. This will increase our staffing daily to ensure that we have adequate staff to keep our community safe. We are anticipating that our newly hired staff will start their positions on Sep tember 1, 2022. This is an exciting time for Lyons Fire, and our community. Please feel free to stop by the station and wel come our new firefighters. Lastly, our schools are coming back in session this month. We are excited to see all our students coming back and being ac tive in our community. Let’s make sure we are looking out for all of our little ones who are walking or riding their bikes during school hours, and also observe our school zones when driving. Lyons Fire will be in our schools again this year talking to them about safety and fire prevention this year, so expect all of them to come home with excitement about seeing our firefighters in their schools and seeing our fire trucks. Thank you for all the support that you give to the Lyons Fire Protection District. We appreciate and love our community. We will continue to improve our service to bring the best possible emergency serv ices to the Lyons Fire Protection District. We are stronger together.
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Those who are interested in sending packages to this extended family and com munity can do so by contacting Meest on line at www.meest.com or phoning 1-800-288-9949. It is a little cumbersome as Meest has to mail forms to you and you have to fill out the forms and take your boxes to Fedex for shipping. But do it once and the next time it will be simple. Mail boxes to: Stas Potorocha, Entuziastiv St., Building 25/1, Apt. 213, Kyiv, Ukraine 02154. Cell phone 095-254-0809
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Several years ago, when I lived in Davis, CA, I was a member of the Davis-Uman Sister City Project. Uman is a city in Ukraine, south of Kyiv, that is in some respects similar to Davis –both towns had agriculture universities and beautiful parks and were about the same size, roughly 60,000. I traveled to Ukraine several times in the early 2000s with this group, stayed with our interpreter and visited her family. On one occasion, ten women from Uman came to Davis on a program paid for by the U.S. State Department. The idea was that they would study democracy and run for a local office when they got home. I’m not sure any of them did. But I got to know some lovely people in Ukraine including Stas, the nephew of our translator. Stas Potorocha and his wife, Natasha, and their university age son, Mitya, live in Kyiv on the top floor of a highrise (even though the apartment number is 213). Stas came to our home in Allenspark, in the summer of 2016 to help us build a bunkhouse. He loved Colorado and took hundreds of photos including at the rodeo in Estes Park. From my visits to Ukraine and discus sions with Stas, I knew there was no love lost between Ukraine and Russia. Even 20 years ago there were signs posted in Ukrainian towns saying “We speak Ukrain ian only, not Russian.” So when Russia in vaded Ukraine in February, my husband and I were stricken and spent those first few weeks watching the news closely. I was aware that there is a shipping com pany that specializes in transport to Eastern Europe including Ukraine. When I phoned Meest (1-800-288-9949) in those early days of the war, they weren’t sure how or if packages would get through. But since then we have been sending about one box a month. None have been lost. All have been delivered directly to the door of my friend Stas’ apartment. I can only imagine the thousands of boxes of food and goods that have been sent to Ukraine by American and Euro pean friends. The military is siphoning off many items commonly found in stores. So this is what we have sent: rice, beans, canned meats, summer and dried sausages, trail mix, nuts, coffee (instant and ground), tea, chocolate of all kinds, nutella, peanut butter, dried vegetables, dried cheese, dried butter, dried eggs, bags of candy, aspirin, antiseptic creams, socks, hand warmers and battery packs with solar panels so people can charge their phones when the electricity goes out. We also sent solar flashlights, tea candles, sweat shirts, summer clothes, and winter clothes. Also a 3x t-shirt that said “ALLENSPARK.” Then we found out that our friends live next door to a special school for deaf chil dren and we started sending small stuffed animals plus crayons, coloring books and school supplies. Great success. Both Stas and Natasha are English teachers who continue to work with their students in person and online. Mitya plays the guitar so we sent him some music books, an important diversion. Food is ex pensive and sometimes the shops don’t have much to offer, and certainly not much variety. Mitya said, “(You sent) a lot of food which was absolutely delicious and inter esting because there were some things you wouldn’t see in our stores.” All Ukrainians who have access to even the smallest plot of land grow vegetables to can and eat through the winter. We included dehydrated vegetables in our pack ages, and now Natasha has dried vegeta bles for cooking, which she uses daily. “We use and share with others everything you send,” she said. How does Mitya feel about his future? “For the first time in many years I don’t know what my future will be like,” he wrote to us. “Sometimes it is hard to plan your next day. But I am 100 percent sure that the victory will be ours; thus, my fu ture shall be bright.”
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Congressman Joe Neguse represents Colorado’s 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was elected to his first term in November 2018, becoming the first AfricanAmerican member of Congress in Colorado history. He serves as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, the House Natural Resources Committee and the House Select Commit tee on the Climate Crisis. D. Meckle, Response and Drought Resiliency Act
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By Joe Neguse, US Congressman Redstone Review BOULDER – As some of you may have heard, the last week of July was Wildfire Week in Washington D.C., and I was proud to work alongside my colleagues in securing House passage of my legislation, the Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act.
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On August 17, the County Planning Commission will meet to decide whether to recommend approval, approval with condi tions, or denial of the CEMEX application to extend their Special Use Permit (SUP) by 15 years. Then, the County Commissioners will meet in September or October to render a final decision. The County Planning Department posted their recommendation to the Plan ning Commission online. They are recom mending approval of the SUP extension with some conditions. The Town of Lyons recommends denial, which we made very clear in our referral response. County Plan ning staff assert that there is no linkage be tween the permits of the Dowe Flats mine and what’s known as the Lyons Quarry,the plant side of the property. However, the Department of Mining and Reclamation has asserted that if Dowe Flats were to close, CEMEX would have to file an amendment to their current operating per mit because they’d be using a new feeder mine. Would this be an opportunity for better regulation and control of CEMEX emissions? The plant has been operating with an expired Title V Clean Air Act per mit for 16 months. Their application for re newal is with the EPA now. As it stands, 15 more years of operating at an output of 370,000 tons of CO2 per year would lead to more than 5.5 million tons of CO2 released into the atmosphere by the time CEMEX says they will close the plant. The plant burns 7 tons of coal per hour, 24 hours per day, every day of the year. That’s about 920,000 tons of coal over the next 15 years. The County Commissioner meeting date and time has yet to be announced; the County Planning Commission meet ing can be found here: (CHFA). Kudos to town staff for working with Paul Capps from Summit Housing to put on an outstanding event. When the development is complete, it will consist of 40 rental units: 24 singlefamily homes and 16 apartments in four 4plexes. These homes will be available to people who make 60 percent, or under, of the area average median income. And pur suant to the town’s agreement with Sum mit Housing, people who were displaced by the flood will be at the top of the appli cant list. Stay tuned for more about the application process. By the time you read this, the 4th Av enue Pedestrian Bridge will likely have been placed on its abutments. But that doesn’t mean it’s quite ready for prime time strolling. The contractor is working on the approaches, wing walls, and landscaping. No matter how enticing it is, it’s important to avoid the construction area and not use the bridge quite yet. Be on the lookout for a fun ribbon-cutting ceremony very soon. Have you noticed more goats than usual around town? If not, you likely will soon. The Board of Trustees approved contracting with two goat fire mitigation services, Firehouse Farms and Goat Mow ers LLC, to clear land of fire fuel and eat noxious weeds, all without the noise and pollution of traditional methods. Accord ing to Firehouse Farms, goats are part of the local ecosystem. Their use for weed and fire mitigation is incredibly environ mentally-friendly; they fertilize, till soil, and have special enzymes in their four stomachs that work to break down and de stroy any consumed seeds, making the seeds unviable in any future seasons. Using goats for fire and weed mitigation is less expensive, less polluting, and more fun than traditional methods. Plus, the weeds don’t come back, which will save us money and time in the future. Firehouse Farms will bring about ten goats to eat the yummy August grass and weeds in the area surrounding 377 Park Drive. The goats are named after Disney characters, and they will be in residence for three to four weeks. Goat Mowers will bring their herd of 35 or 40 goats to the open area west of Horizon Drive (the Lyons Playground) for four days, beginning on September 6. Be sure to swing by and say hello to your new temporary neighbors.
CEMEX update, a groundbreaking, a bridge, and some goats
By Hollie Rogin, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – It’s been a busy summer in town, and as we get the kids back to school, the action isn’t showing any signs of letting up.
We also secured several provisions that will make dras tic improvements to working conditions for federal wild land firefighters, improving retention rates and firefighter pay – a tremendous win on behalf of the federal firefight ingForworkforce.thefolks across our district, this bill signifies Con gress’ commitment to supporting them on their road to re covery, and I am proud to see this bill pass the House and look forward to seeing it cross the finish line.
Goats are coming to Lyons as part of a fire mitigation plan. They will clear areas of fire fuel and eat up all the noxious weeds, fertilizing the soil as they go. Not a baaaaad idea.
Bubba This smiley, almost 2-year-old, boy is always happy to see you. He loves going for walks and getting out on adventures. He is super smart, gives great eye contact, and waits for your cues. Bubba is so playful and could easily go for a long adventurous day, but then will come in and want to cuddle after. Could he be your next best friend? Come in today and set up a visit with this guy. For more information visit our website www.longmonthumane.org or give us a call at 303-772-1232. More than 200 animals are waiting for forever families at Longmont Humane Society. Visit them at www.longmon thumane.org, and then come meet them at the shelter at 9595 Nelson Road.
Hollie Rogin was sworn in as Mayor of Lyons on April 18, 2022. Before that she was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees for the term of 2020 – 2022. In 2015, Hollie created the foundation for what is now the City of Boulder’s Commercial Affordability program on a pro bono basis. While serving as a Trustee, she was the Board liaison to the Economic Vitality Commission and the Historic Preservation Commission.
The federal government must provide an all-handson-deck approach to recovery, creating and funding sev eral programs that support community rebuilding and bolster environmental resiliency. And for the families across the country who have lost their homes due to wildfires and floods, and for the countless communities impacted by historic drought, this legislation provides exactlySpecifically,that. our office was able to attach a number of key priorities, including to increase flexibility in the fed eral cost share for Fire Management Assistance Grants and bring in additional resources for communities as they rebuild from wildfire damage (The Wildfire Recovery Act), and to provide federal emergency assistance to atrisk individuals in Colorado and nationwide suffering from unhealthy air quality caused by wildfire smoke (The Wild fire Smoke Relief Act).
Additionally, to foster environmental stewardship and better protect our natural communities, we included meas ures to protect endangered fish species in the Upper Col orado and San Juan River Basins and preserve critical water infrastructure projects, and to establish grants that invest in climate and wildlife restoration and resiliency projects (The Land Restoration and Resiliency Act).
On Friday, July 29, the House of Representatives voted to invest in critical mitigation efforts for communities like Lyons and many others across our nation impacted by climate-induced disasters. The bill, a tremendous package of wildfire mitigation and drought resiliency reforms, con tained proposals from nearly fifty stand-alone bills, includ ing many of our own. Here in Colorado, we are no stranger to the devastation caused by these terrible tragedies. From the 2013 flood in Lyons to the record-breaking Marshall Fire just this past December, far too many families are forced to bear the bur den of these disasters.
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By Jim Ramsay Redstone Review LYONS – When Aaron and Cassandra Esserman decided to start a restaurant, they asked friends and acquaintances what kind of restaurant they would like to see in Lyons. Some said a breakfast place where you can eat outside on the patio, have early morning coffee, and catch up on your emails. Others said they’d prefer a lunch place with plenty of options or a bar where you can meet others after work. Still others wanted to see a dinner venue for the whole family where you can hear live music, shoot pool, play foosball, or just relax on the patio in the evening. So, the Essermans decided to do them all.
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“We are aiming for long-term effects building on the social services made available to the public in order to have more impactful service calls. When law enforcement and social-service agencies work together, our communi ties are both safer and better supported,” Anderson said.
Aaron began his culinary career at age 14, washing dishes and asking how things are done in fine restaurants, and he became the cook at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for the Esserman family. He went on to study culinary arts at the Johnson and Wales Universities in Miami and Denver. The Esserman family moved a lot, from Houston, Texas to Tampa, Florida, even living in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a spell, and they often vacationed in Col orado. Aaron worked at ski resorts in Vail, snowboarding during the day and cooking in a hotel at night. He moved to Nederland to work at the Marriot in Boulder, then the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, but the corpo rate environment and winter commute proved too much. Now he prefers running his own show in a small town. The Diner Bar menu includes breakfast items served all day, soups and salads, lunchies, munchies, and a build-your-own choice of a beef sandwich or foot-long hot dog with a variety of cheeses, sauces, addi tional proteins and cool veggies. They have 14 local and international beers on tap and a variety of cocktails, plus bottles and cans and wines and something called a honey nut o’s whiskey breakfast shot from locally sourced spirits for the truly brave. Happy hour is daily from 3 to 5 p.m.
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Jim Ramsay was born in Iowa and grew up in Iran, Nigeria and Afghanistan. He gradu ated high school in Switzerland and studied English at CU in Boulder. Diploma in hand, he moved his wife and daughter to Tanzania to visit his parents. They found jobs in a local international school and stayed for two years. The next stop was the University of Illinois for master’s degrees, then back to Boulder to teach English to foreign students. An affinity for computers led Jim from teaching to tech nical writing, and he spent the next 30 years writing manuals for tech companies up and down the Front Range. He and his second wife Deborah moved from Boulder to Pinewood Springs, where they shared a dream of mountain living until her death at the end of 2020. He’s still up there.
“Like many agencies, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Depart ment has seen an increase in needs to help people who are having more of a behavioral crisis,” said team member and Lyons Co-Responder Lynette Anderson. “The Co-Responder program is a way to be proactive; to try to remedy the problem with families and health services with a long-term goal.” What types of things can a Co-Responder help with? Mental health and substance use issues; Crisis de-escalation; Linking individuals and families to supportive serv ices within Boulder County; Reduce unnecessary incarcerations and hospitalizations How do I contact a Co-Responder, or ask for Co-Respon der services? If you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, call 911 and request a co-responder to respond.
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The Diner Bar offers live music on the patio stage Thursdays through Sundays, with a blues jam every Thursday night and acoustic duos from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Sundays. They will soon be offering free wifi paired with espresso and chai for re mote workers, and they are working with the American Poolplayers Association to host a local league for pool players. So, if you’re looking for a place for a drink after work, a cup of espresso, an early breakfast, live music, or just a place to hang out, then check out the Diner Bar.
I can’t wait to have some fun with you all this month and, yes, that includes exercise. Join us in Bohn Park every Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30 a.m. to get that heart pumping. Lyons-area art and crafters sought for regional festival in Estes Park ESTES PARK – Vendors from as far away as Cheyenne, Wyo. and Colorado Springs come to Estes Park every fall for the eclectic Treasure Tables Arts and Crafts Festival and Sale, sponsored by a nonprofit philanthropic educational organi zation on October 29. “We have moved to a new bigger location and are opening up the sale to more vendors,” said Nancy Hills, event organizer. “We are looking for vendors from Lyons, Longmont, Boulder, and throughout the Front Range. We will have Allenspark Hill top Guild crafts and goods for sale at one of our tables, too.”
It has always been Aaron’s dream to own a neighborhood diner in a small town, and now he and his wife Cassandra are doing just that at the Diner Bar at 160 East Main St., open 7 a.m. to midnight Tuesday through Sunday. They also draw on their food truck experience to provide catering for community events.
Aaron brings a lifetime of culinary train ing and experience to the table, most re cently from Austin, Texas where he and Cass won the Trucklandia competition with their CluckNBurger food truck. Yearning for the opportunity to be hands-on owners of their own restaurant in a small town, they opened the Diner Bar on July 13. Tastefully decorated with 50s diner highlights and artwork from the Western Stars Gallery, with whom they share the building, the Diner Bar can seat up to 80 people in booths or at the bar inside, and the patio can seat 60 or more outside. The Diner features a foosball table, two pool ta bles, and a mean green espresso machine ready to deliver your favorite coffee drinks any time of day or night.
The regional event takes place this year on Saturday, October 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It features free parking, free admission, several food trucks, a bake sale and more than 44 vendors wel coming the public at the Fairgrounds, 1125 Rooftop Way, Estes Park. The event will be indoors at the main Event Center. Last year more than 600 people attended, even though masks were required. “This year even more people are ex pected,” said Hills. Inside the Event Center, myriad items will be for sale from fresh flowers, glassware, fanciful soaps, lotions and essential oils, keepsakes or ornaments, art work, candles, stained glass art, books, pottery, household and food products.
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LYONS – In partnership with the Boulder County Sher riff’s office, the Town of Lyons announces a social service program to help law enforcement with mental health or substance abuse crisis calls. This program is funded jointly through the State of Colorado Office of Behavioral Health and the Boulder County Community Services Department. The teams have been working and responding in Boulder County for about two years now. The Boulder County Co-Responder Program consists of a clinically trained team that works directly with law enforcement on calls that involve mental health or sub stance use crises, and that program now provides help in Lyons as well as unincorporated Boulder County. The Town of Lyons would like to introduce Lynette An derson, who is based out of Lyons and is the local member of the Boulder County Co-Responder Team. The co-responder staff work with people of all ages and can respond anywhere in Boulder County. Historically, coresponders were “nested” with Lafayette and Erie Police De partments, and with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office (Superior and rural Boulder County). With funding from both the State and Boulder County, a Lyons position was created, The Lyons co-responder will be housed in the Lyons Sheriff’s substation, closely communicating with Boulder County deputies, and will be much closer to the foothills and mountain areas.
Aaron and Cassandra Esserman have opened the Diner Bar at 160 East Main St., open 7 a.m. to midnight every day except Monday.
The Diner Bar opens in Lyons
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“Charles Thomas and Mr. Engert’s daughter were married twelve years ago; they lived together in Estes Park for some eight or nine years. Since that time Thomas has been making more or less trouble with his wife. “About two weeks ago, not being able to stand his abuse and threats any longer, Mrs. Thomas came to the home of her par ents in Lyons for safety. From that time on, Thomas was more bold with his threats and abuse. It appears his particular hobby was to get his wife to sign over to him a lit tle house that she owned at Estes Park.
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Ten years after a devastating flood, Lyons had a groundbreaking to replace the 75 housing units lost In 1919, Charles Engert shot and killed his son-in-law during a violent domestic dispute with his daughter.
The August 5 groundbreaking ceremony for Lyons’ affordable housing development.
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Charles Valentine Engert and frontier justice
“On Thursday before the tragedy, Thomas came to the Engert home and made more trouble. At that time, he was so violent that Mr. Engert realized that something would have to be done to pro tect his daughter and the family; accord ingly, he went over to Boulder on Saturday and had a consultation with the District Attorney as regards to putting Thomas under peace bonds. After talking it over, it was decided that Mrs. Thomas should file for divorce and include a protection clause in the bill. This was started before Mr. Engert came home Saturday night.
“On Sunday morning Thomas arrived at the Engert home and asked to see his wife alone. They went down into the basement, which is a large and light room with a ground opening on the south side of the house. In a short time, Mr. and Mrs. Engert heard loud and harsh talk being made by Thomas, and then a sudden scream from their daughter. Mrs. Engert rushed out and around the house to the basement door. Mr. Engert followed, but took the precaution to take a single barrel shot gun with him as he knew Thomas had a gun on his person. When Mrs. Engert reached the basement door, she found that it was buttoned on the inside; she plunged against the door and it flew open. Just at this time Mr. Engert ar rived behind his wife. They beheld Thomas holding the arm of the daughter and in a wild manner swinging a revolver in his hand. Mr. Engert placed the shot gun par tially over his wife’s head and pulled the trig ger. There was a loud report and Thomas dropped back with a charge of duck shot in his temple, dying almost instantly.
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Kim Mitchell is Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Town of Lyons. Kim has called Lyons home since 2009.
“The coroner was notified and he and a deputy sheriff arrived from Boulder about noon. Mr. Engert’s neighbors gathered around the sheriff and asked him to fix a bond as they were ready to sign it. We overheard one of our wealthiest citizens
Left to right: former Lyons Trustee Mark Browning; Steve Johnson from the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA);Governor Jared Polis; Congressman Joe Neguse; Mayor Hollie Rogin; and Alison O’Kelley from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA).
The project has received $4 million in funding using Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CBDGDR) funds to support replacement of res idential housing units lost during the devastating September 2013 flood. The Town of Lyons is committed to the Boulder County Regional Housing Goals of providing 10 to 12 percent of affordable housing units. This development will make significant strides toward that goal and provide vital, affordable rental housing for costburdened individuals and families.
By Kim Mitchell and Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review LYONS – It has been a long time coming, much longer than anyone expected, but now 8 years and 10 months after a devast ing flood that literally tore the town into several islands without electricity, water, sewer service, or phone service, Lyons is going to replace a part of the housing that was lost during the flood. The day was hot, exceptionally hot; the sun was relentless, so different from the re lentless rain that pounded the telephone lines into giant bundles on the ground and in the river during the flood. Several of the Lyons Board of Trustees, both past and present, of the Town of Lyons joined the public in a groundbreak ing ceremony for an affordable housing de velopment at the intersection of Carter Drive and McConnell Drive in Lyons. The celebratory groundbreaking was cohosted by Summit Housing, the developer, on Friday, August 5. President of Summit Housing Group, Paul Capps, gave the opening remarks and introduced Governor Jarod Polis. Congressman Joe Neguse and representatives with the Colorado Depart ment of Local Affairs (DOLA) and the Colorado Division of Housing all partici pated in the ceremony. “I represented this area during the flood 10 years ago and many people are still af fected by the flood,” said Governor Jared Polis, who was congressman in Colorado during the flood. “This (housing) will help those people and expand the market of homes in Lyons.” Paul Capps said, “There will be a ribbon cutting here in 9 months (when Summit finishes the affordable project). Now families will be able to live in Lyons that oth erwise were not able to before. We want to be sure that home ownership is a priority.”
The affordable housing development is located within the Town of Lyons, which is nestled in the foothills of northwestern Boulder County. The complex will have a total of 40 units: 24 two- and three-bed room single family homes and four multifamily buildings, each with four two-bed room apartments. These 40 affordable homes are instrumental in meeting the town’s affordable housing goals.
“Affordable housing continues to be a major priority for the Town of Lyons. The town, along with Summit Housing Group and our other community partners, such as the Division of Housing under the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, anticipates this helping individuals and families within our community, new neighbors, and perhaps most pointedly, those who were displaced fol lowing the flood of 2013,” said Mayor Hollie Rogin, Town of Lyons. “We have been work ing with our partners on this project for sev eral years. This is the culmination of nearly nine years of working with our community, our partners, the state of Colorado, and Summit Housing. We couldn’t be more pleased.”
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By Peter Butler Redstone Review LYONS – We are used to seeing red-tailed hawks in the sky and occasionally hearing that piercing cry that they always use in Hollywood movies when they want to indicate desert or wilderness. It’s easy to treat them like our local famil iars, but a closer look reveals a family drama suitable for reality TV. When our friend Leah lived on Apple Valley Road, next to where the river used to be, before the flood, there was a very tall dead tree on the edge of her land. It was a clean vertical pole about 80 feet tall with a cluster of small dead branches at the top. Each year a pair of red-tailed hawks would return to an old nest and raise a family. Sometimes there would be three or four fluffy white babies, visible through binoculars at the beginning of the season, but somehow there would only be one or two remaining by the time they were get ting restless and flopping around the branches trying out their wings. The parents worked relentlessly to bring food. It is difficult to identify a straggly lump clutched in those fearsome talons as a rabbit or other erstwhile ground dweller, but when they brought snakes, it was ob vious from the long dangling silhouette what was arriving. The other white meat. One of the great joys of summer around here is witnessing the flying lesson day. We would be spending a typical lazy Sunday morning having a coffee on the patio when the family would come into view, wheeling overhead. At a fairly low elevation there would be three or four hawks looping in circles. It is easy to identify mom and dad as they are effortlessly and silently soaring with almost no movement. They use just the slightest flex of a wing tip to adjust steering, in con trast to the desperate flapping of a baby. It’s just so hard to do what mum and dad do and those pectoral muscles are aching like crazy. Let’s tell the world how hard we are struggling. “Kwee. Kwee.” We humans below share the moment with amusement. “Look at this baby trying so hard. Isn’t it cute?” Deep down there is the fundamental jealousy of any land lubber mammal looking at an avian master of the sky. But only a few days after flying lesson day the family tragedy occurs. The parents do a bunk and leave the baby or babies to fend for themselves. I have imagined var ious scenarios as to how this happens. My favorite theory is the mom gives a special wink to dad late at night when Baby has just gone to sleep and they silently take to the sky. In the morning Baby wakes up and there is not the usual warm downy body into which to nestle. But it’s worse than that. Baby is all alone. That is when the bleating begins. All though June and July we might be walking on the land and we’ll hear pitiful keening in the distance. It’s a sound that carries a long way: usually four, five or six repetitions of “kee”or “qwee”or “qwee qwee qwee qwee.” It is such a sorrowful song full of loss and misery, fit for a Wagner aria. We try to send reassuring vibes, but Baby is inconsolable.LastweekIwas running on Apple Val ley Road and as I turned up Antelope Road, I could see baby No 1 on top of a ponderosa, keening the four-pattern as I passed underneath. The feathers of the im mature red-tail are a bit of a yard sale of colors and textures, and they haven’t ac quired the burnished gleam that needs one or two feather molts. As I passed beneath baby No 1, I could hear another more distant whining of perhaps the sibling orphan, baby No 2, at the other end of Apple Valley. Not one hour ago I was returning home and saw Baby No 1 sitting in the top of a small ponderosa, and almost at once her brother turned up in a swooping twig grab to claim the perch and force his sibling away. Frat boy pranks in the hawk world tend to be pointy and risky to encounter. Maybe its behavior was caused by parental loss PTSD. By the time the cooler days of fall arrive, the yearlings’ grief seems to have calmed and they start to assume adult independ ence. Next year they will go on to find a partner, and nest and mate and raise a new generation. Eventually, they too will do the dastardly deed of abandonment. So next time you hear the juvenile hawk cry of loneliness, please spare them a sympa thetic thought.
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By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – I have enough metal in my body now to be listed on the com modities market. And there’s more to come. I’m definitely a “buy.” I’ve been falling apart with regularity since I came to Colorado. I blame it on the thin air, but the truth is I’m an orthopedic surgeon’s dream because of what my wife sometimes calls my hyperactivity. There’s not a ball sport I haven’t played (well, maybe not Irish hurling) or an outdoor activity I haven’t tried, except rock climbing because as a Clint Eastwood character opined, “a man’s got to know his limits.” And throughout all of these sporting excursions, my knee, hip and shoulder joints have taken a pounding and have been or will be replaced. (Oddly, I have zero back issues.) No doubt also contributing to my physical breakdown is that I’ve probably tried most of the known exercise programs, from Charles Atlas’ “Dynamic Tension” to yoga, which being the lone man in a class with twenty leotarded women I found a bit distracting. I’m certain that my lack of technique and overdoing some exercises contributed to my balky joints. One of my teammates in high school was a weightlifter long before Schwarzenegger made it popular, and the football coach decided we should all lift. We cobbled together equipment and trusted our musclebound teammate to lead us. Trying one exercise he improperly demonstrated, I dislocated my shoulder, which then dislo cated about a hundred more times over the years, leading to the dreaded bone-on-bone I now have, and which will necessitate a new shoulder this October. When I started having hip issues a few years ago, which eventually led to a replace ment, I first went to a physical therapist who suspected I had strained my psoas mus cle (who knew I even had one?). She asked me what I was doing for exercises at the YMCA, and I told her about this nifty slant board they had where you hooked your feet at the top and did really difficult 45-degree sit-ups. Not one to pull punches, she looked straight at me and said, “What’re you in junior high? Don’t EVER do those. They’re the worst thing you can do!” Good thing she never saw my pushup and pullup routines. My knees went little by little by little. First, the nagging pain and soreness, then the torn meniscus that was trimmed via arthroscopies and finally the metal knees. The interesting thing is, I never had any trauma to my knees, despite all the sports I played, the miles I ran, and all the skiing and ice skating. I do know for sure that playing basketball in my 30s on a concrete gym floor and trying to relive my glory days by playing baseball when I was in my mid-40s didn’t help my knees. Nor did my regular noon run on city streets. I was never an enthusiastic runner, never experienced any sort of a “runner’s high,” but it was the easiest way for me to stay in shape to further hurt myself in other activ ities (see, hoops on concrete floor). Now I’m like Steve Austin on the $6 Million Man TV show, except my artificial body parts are paid for by Medicare so I’m more like the $60 Thousand Dollar Man, hardly a catchy moniker for a TV hit. And it’s not just my knees, hips and shoulders that are being reassembled. I’ve also got an assortment of screws and wash ers in my face that rivals Clark’s Hardware bins. They were installed to keep my left orbital bone together after I ate some Longmont pavement on my bike. Am I a klutz? Possibly. I am long on enthusiasm and short on technique. But there’s also hereditary issues. My mom and dad had five knee replacements between them. My older sister has had a couple new knees and a hip, as well. Somehow my brother avoided joint replacements, possi bly because professional musicians tend not to wear out their knees. The object of this litany is to offer some advice and hope for any reader who has se vere knee, hip or shoulder pain and has been advised to have a replacement or two. Just do it. No sense living with the pain, and you’ll feel like a twelve-year old after wards, less the social awkwardness. Find a good surgeon (trust me, I know a couple) and get well. Sure, like me, someday when you’re gone and you’re cremated your body will look like The Terminator after the gaso line truck explosion, but in the meantime, you’ll feel better and get back on track with your new metallic life.
Peter Butler was born in India and lived in a house facing a giant kapok tree. Growing up in England there were trees but never quite enough. After qualifying as biochemist there as a gradual evolution into being a graphic de signer. He and his wife Deirdre moved to the States in 1997 and to Lyons in 2000. Finally, there are enough trees.
One of the author’s many new parts
Lyons’ resident Greg Lowell, is a former Lyons Town Board Trustee and serves as a member of the Ecology Advisory Board.
LYONS – Your Lyons Community Library wishes to thank those who participated in the Oceans of Possibilities-themed Summer Reading Program. Readers of all ages helped us crush our community-wide read ing goal of 100,000 minutes by logging a whopping 126,091 minutes. Congratulations to all our readers, loggers, program at tendees and prize winners. We also extend our thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring both the Beanstack tracking app as well as prizes for this year’s program. Thanks are also in order to the Colorado State Library for their annual grant funding that we leverage in all sorts of fun ways: STEM kits, Wonderbooks, games, American Girls dolls, and this year, a set of cultural passes for local families. We now offer free passes to the Fiske Planetar ium, the Longmont Museum, and the WOW Children’s Museum. Each family is eligible for one pass per month and passes may be reserved from Tuesday through Monday up to one month in advance. Don’t forget, we also offer one-week checkout of passes to all Colorado state parks. The fall Storytime session resumes on August 23. Stories, activities, and playtime for babies takes place in the library’s Community Room each Tuesday beginning at 10:30 a.m. Walkers, toddlers, preschoolers, and their caregivers are in vited to a story and craft each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. After a successful inaugural year, we are also pleased to announce the school-year return of our Teen Advisory Group (TAG). TAG will meet the second and fourth Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. Teens will contribute to the development and planning of library events for their age group, will make suggestions for book purchases for the Young Adult collection, and will offer ideas for creat ing a comfortable, safe, and fun atmos phere for teens at the library. Teens can earn volunteer credit and food will be provided courtesy of the Friends of the Library. Register with Youth Services Librarian Becki Loughlin. Are you interested in building a community of belonging and inclusion in Lyons but still unsure about signing up for the SEED Seminar? We invite those on the fence to one of two information sessions: August 25 at 4 p.m. or August 27 at 10 a.m. Learn more about this op portunity to share personal stories about our identities to connect in meaningful ways with one another; use arti cles, books and videos as windows into different identities; and explore and discuss systems of power, oppression and privilege. Bring your questions and discover why this im portant series will be worth every minute. The act of negotiating occurs in many aspects of life, and we invite you to explore the skills necessary to articulate what you want with clarity, represent your own interests, avoid self-sabotage, build alliances, and create the best en vironment for a successful outcome at our Negotiation Skills with Joan Treece program on September 14 at 6:30 p.m. Treece is a long-time Lyons resident who honed her negoti ation skills over nine years as the Vice President of Operations for a unionized manufacturing workforce in Boulder. Join us for the next installment of the Busy Reader’s Book Club on September 21 at 6:30 p.m. when we will meet to discuss Afterlife by Julia Alvarez. Afterlife is a com pact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this moment of political tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis, including maybe especially – members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost? Please visit the library’s website for additional information on any of our ex citing programs and to re serve your spot. The Lyons Community Library opens Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. We close at 5 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays; 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thurs days; and 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Our online catalog is available 24/7 at lyons.colibraries.org and we’re always open for dig ital downloads of ebooks and eaudio on both the Libby and CloudLibrary apps. Give us a call at 303-823-5165 or email info@lyonslibrary.com with any questions.
By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – As I write this, the Inflation Reduction Act has passed the Sen ate on a straight party line vote – 50 to 50, with Vice President Kamila Harris casting the tie-breaker – and will now go back to the House where it started and where it’s expected to pass. This bill may or may not actually reduce inflation, but it is budgetary, which is how it passed with a simple majority, thereby sidestepping the filibuster that Republicans have used to block anything and everything back to the Obama administration and be yond. It’s the filibuster that explains why the Democrats can hold all three branches of government, but still not be able to call the shots. (That, plus senators like Joe Machin and Kirsten Senima who are dedi cated to throwing a wrench in the works of their own party’s agenda for reasons you can determine by following the money.) But assuming it passes the House and is signed into law, the act will do a lot of other good things like investing over $300 billion dollars in energy and climate reform, an other $60 billion for renewable energy in frastructure, provide more support for wind and solar energy, lower greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by the end of the decade, lower the cost of prescription drugs, put a minimum 15 percent tax on corpora tions making more than a billion dollars a year (most now pay far less) and so on. If you care enough to have followed this, you know what’s in the bill, and if not, you aren’t even reading this column. And that’s not the only accomplish ment so far in the Biden administration. We’ve also seen the American Rescue Plan Act, the biggest year of job growth in history, over three quarters of the adult population vaccinated against COVID in the face of massive disinformation, a bipar tisan gun safety measure (toothless, but still something) the Infrastructure Act, ex panded healthcare and the assassination of Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 architect Ayman al-Zawahiri. But then just as President Biden was preparing to take a victory lap over the Inflation Reduction Act, the FBI raided Mara-Lago, former President Trump’s private club in Florida, looking for and finding stolen classified documents. The documents have been reported to have top secret infor mation about nuclear weapons. Republicans are naturally saying this was political, but if it really had been coordinated with the White House, Attorney General Garland would have waited an extra day or two so Biden could bask in a few news cycles before the next big thing hit the fan. It’s too soon to know if the bill and/or the raid will move the needle on Biden’s low approval ratings. I suspect there’ll be a little bump, but it won’t be much and it won’t last. People are cynical about legis lation with good reason. Mostly it lan guishes while politicians grandstand and even when it does pass, it often doesn’t ful fill its promises. More money has now been allocated to climate measures than ever be fore, but there’s still a climate disaster every week on average with no end in sight and, the title of the bill notwithstanding, infla
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tion continues to drain our bank accounts. I also doubt that the rumblings among Democrats about Biden not running for a second term will quiet down for long. He’s actually done a remarkable job under the circumstances, but he’s 79 and there are those who think he’s too old. It’s some thing to think about. I’m four years younger than Biden and if I ever had the energy and concentration it takes to be president (which is doubtful) I lost it decades ago. The presidency is known to turn peoples’ hair gray, but what if your hair is gray when you take office and there isn’t even that much of it? But most of all, Biden, along with At torney General Merrick Garland and Con gress, seem to be fumbling election reform, which we don’t have and desperately need. Our last presidential election was a pitiful, third world s*** storm ending not with a peaceful transition of power, but with a nearly successful attempt to violently over throw the government. The midterms –just a few months away – seem to be on the same track and so does 2024. The Republican calculation is simple: if we can’t get people to vote for us, we’ll keep them from voting, and if things somehow go against us anyway, we’ll nul lify the results and install our own candi dates. No more democratic elections because – as Trump himself once said – Re publicans would never win. In many Republican-controlled states there are already voter suppression laws on the books or in the works, as well as elec tion officials in place or running who say they’ll nullify any vote that doesn’t go their way. There may already be enough of both in place to throw a national election and there could well be more after the midterms. Ironically, our last free and fair election may turn out to be the one that put Donald Trump in office. This should have been at the top of Biden’s list when he took office – espe cially since he was elected, but almost did n’t take office – but for some reason it wasn’t. A friend in Maine says it’s because he thinks he’s still living in the Ford Ad ministration when politics was unquestionably dirty, but there were still a few things we all agreed on, like democracy and the rule of law. I voted for Biden last time not only be cause Trump was unthinkable and he was the only viable alternative, but because he was smart and persistent and understood the legislative process from the inside out. But now I’m beginning to suspect that put ting a mild-mannered old man who plays by the rules up against violent insurrec tionists who’ll stop at nothing was like bringing a knife to a gun fight. in the news, both bad and good, but we still need election reform to protect voting rights
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In the Southern Ring Nebula, two stars orbit each other at a close distance. The star on the left has ejected material into space as it dims.
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Scientists can infer the existence of dark matter from the light emitted by galaxies in the cluster SMACS 0720.
The Hootenanny will feature live music from Daniel Rodriguez and friends. You may know this singer-song writer as he is based in Lyons. He was a founding member of the band Elephant Revival. Rumor has it that Ro driguez is currently on tour with the Lumineers. Boulder Weekly refers to Rodriguez’s voice as “A timeless voice, deep and hearty, weathered but comforting.” We are very grateful that he has accepted to entertain us from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Perfect for a Lyons Hootenanny. In addition to musical entertainment, we will feature two dance performances by Lyons’ very own Mayama Dance Company. We always look forward to seeing what the fantastic local dance company has in store. And, they will show us some moves to try out, so be sure to wear your dancing shoes or cowboy boots. They will be performing from 4:45 to 5:15 p.m. For the kiddos, we’ll have a wonderful children’s area designed and presented by Rainbow Lightning Produc tions, whose mission is to keep the inner child inspired. This nonprofit based out of Crestone, Colorado creates playscapes and activities where kids can have an ex ploratory and fun experience. Colorado Fairy Hair will pay us a visit from 2 to 5 p.m. for all of you who are looking to add a little sparkle to your hair. The rubber duck race will take place at 5:30 p.m. when we will be dropping the ducks in the river from the bridge on Highway 36. Watching the ducks float down the river is so much fun. You can still sign up for your duck numbers at the Sandstone concerts on Wednesday, August 17 and 24. You can also register the day of the Hootenanny from 2 to 5 p.m. at the LEAF tent. The cost per ducky is $5. A raft of ducks cost $20 for five. The cash prize for first place is $100, second place is $50, and third place is $25. There will also be a cornhole tournament for cornhole lovers of all ages. We are offering a $100 cash prize for the winners of the cornhole tournament. That’s right, there’ll be a cornhole tournament with help from Longmont’s former Cornhole Champion. You can sign up at the LEAF booth at the final Sandstone concert. Plan to get there early to participate. The cost is $10 per team of two. Since this is a fundraiser, we are planning a silent auc tion, too. We will feature chances to win mountain get aways, a local staycation or a stay in a lovely Mexican casa near the ocean. We will offer all kinds of services from oil changes to massages to estate planning. We will also have local art, concert tickets, dinners, airplane rides and more. Come to the Hootenanny to shop and check out an awe some way to take away something for yourself while sup porting LEAF and LCF. But wait, there’s more. What if you get hungry or thirsty?
LEAF’s van will be parked outside the entrance. Feel free to drop by donations as you enter the event space.
President Biden released a telescope image of a galaxy cluster called SMACS 0723. This is an image of a cluster of galax ies located about 5 or 6 billion light-years away from us. The gravitational field of the galaxy cluster is acting as a natural lens to magnify and amplify the light of distant galaxies from the early universe. In the image you can see arcs. Those are images of background galaxies that proba bly formed within the first billion years after the birth of our universe.
In another image, this one looking at the Carina Nebula and these soaring features that have been nicknamed the “Cosmic Cliffs.” Why did NASA choose to take a look at this nebula? The Carina Nebula is one of the most massive and active sites of ongoing star and planet formation in our Milky Way Galaxy. It has formed thousands of stars within the last few million years. “The James Webb image shows you part of the molecular cloud that is re sponsible for forming some of the stars. The particular field you can see here only contains a few young stars in the process of formation. But it shows you the structure and beauty of the interstel lar clouds, which, it is believed, will in the near future collapse into young stars and planetary systems. “And then these giants bubbles in space the Southern Ring Nebula. The South ern Ring Nebula is an example of what happens when stars like the sun die. In this case, one member of a binary star system expanded, transferred matter onto a com panion star and, in that process, expelled a bubble of material.” Bally said. In the Stephan’s Quintet the telescope shows five galaxies. Four of them are about 350 million light-years away from us, meaning the light we see today left these galaxies 350 million years ago. “These four background galaxies are orbiting each other, and, in fact, they’re cannibalizing each other. We think the galaxies will eventually merge into one giant elliptical galaxy,” said Bally There is something like 10 billion stars in our galaxy and something like 100 billion galaxies out there. In these pictures you’re only seeing a few hundred of them. The patch of sky in the image of SMACS 0723 represents a tiny, tiny fraction of the universe.“What really excites me about James Webb is not what we expect to see but dis covering things that we did not expect,” Bally said.
By Tanya Daty Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) and Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund (LEAF) are teaming to gether for a second year to bring you a fun-filled family-friendly event.
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Tanya Mercer-Daty is the new Marketing and Communi cations Associate for Lyons Community Foundation. She has lived in Lyons for the past eight years after immigrating to the USA with her family in 2011. Feel free to contact her at tanya@lyonscf.org.
Young stars form from clouds of interstellar gas and dust in the stellar “nursery” of the Carina Nebula.
Since LEAF has had difficulty sourcing food for Lyons Community Food Pantry, it would be greatly appreciated if you could bring one or more of the following food items to donate: sliced bread, condiments (ketchup, pickles, jam, jelly, honey, mustard, mayo, etc), cereal, snacks (crackers, chips, fruit snacks, etc), tomato products (tomato sauce, paste, pasta sauce, etc), canned meals like ravioli, stew, soup (but not chicken noodle).
At the rubber duck race finish line.
By Daniel Strain and Nicholas Goda University of Colorado Media Stories Redstone Review BOULDER – A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals galaxies born during the first 1 billion years of the universe. Take a peek at “Cosmic Cliffs” that stretch dozens of light-years across; bubbles of gas and dust expelled by a dying star; and the blur of galaxies that formed less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang. NASA released the first images in July taken by the James Webb Space Telescope an instrument that launched in Decem ber 2021 and carries the largest mirror ever to make it beyond Earth. These first new glimpses of the universe reveal the birth and death of stars, collisions between galaxies and the deepest look yet into space and time. John Bally is a professor emeritus in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at CU Boulder and will dive into the new images at three events at the Fiske Planetarium (two of which are already sold out). He took a moment with CU Boulder planetary sciences students and faculty in July to talk about these new images, why telescopes are like time ma chines and why, for James Webb, the best is yet to come. What is so exciting about the James Webb Telescope and these new images? “Telescopes are like time machines. Because of the finite speed of light, the far ther you look into space, the farther you see back in time,” Bally said. “By looking ever farther into space with James Webb, we can reconstruct and literally watch the evolution of matter in the cosmos from the very first galaxies up to the present. With luck, we can see the first stars to emerge from our universe, the first galaxies to emerge from our universe.”
Mark your calendars: Hootenanny at River Bend to take place on August 28
A look at galaxies born in the first 1 billion years of the universe
NASA has also touted it as the deepest image ever taken of the universe. Is that a big milestone? “It’s one of the deepest images taken so far,” Bally said. The Hubble Space Tele scope spent 150 hours looking at patches of the sky, and this James Webb exposure was only about 12-and-a-half hours. “You ain’t seen nothing yet,” said Bally, quoting James Webb. “Wait until James Webb takes images with exposure times of hun dreds of hours. Then we will see things that we’ve never seen before.”
The end of summer Hootenanny at River Bend is set for Sunday, August 28 from 2 to 7 p.m. There will be something for everyone: live music, kids zone, dance performance, silent auction, cornhole tour nament and the ever popular rubber ducky race. I cannot think of a better way to support two of my favorite nonprofit organizations in town.
There will be three food trucks at the Hootenanny, with a variety of food for sale. McDevitt Tacos will have a variety of tacos on offer, including gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan choices. For you seafood fans, check out The Rollin’ Lobster, with lobster, crab cakes, and whoopie pies. For dessert, you can also indulge in ice cream treats from Sweet Cow. Yes, the MooMobile will be at the Hootenanny, dish ing out your favorite flavors like Ozo coffee and chocolate chip cookie dough in cups, cones, or ice cream sammies. Ah, but you’ve worked up a mighty thirst with all this activity, so we will have a choice of beverages for pur chase, including wine, Oskar Blues beer and hard seltzer or Spirit Hound vodka lemonade to quench your thirst on the last of these summer days by the river. We want to thank all the sponsors of the event who are helping to pay for the overhead costs. We appreciate your generosity. If you bring a motorized vehicle, we are asking for $5 for parking. Please leave your furry friends at home. Come out and have some fun and help those in need at the same time. It’s definitely a win-win at the Hootenanny.
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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. Prayer Pole vs 5 G In A Sacred Manner I am Walking
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The one between the Practical and the Sacred Cresting the hill, side by side, let’s talk. And while the practical is doing just fine We lag in our appreciation of the sacred. Greedy for more, Without proper regard for the balance So when you pick up your cell phone… Honor Mother Earth The same way you might thank the deer For its life before you eat it. In a sacred manner I am walking. Gratitude for all that is given Changes the equation Adding spirit to the mix, Hands to heart.
Eileen Tobin visited a favorite site, the iconic Red Mill in Clinton, New Jersey. A 4-story grist mill located along the South Branch Raritan River, the Red Mill was built around 1810 as an industrial mill. It has since been a wool processing plant, a peach basket factory, a textile mill, and is now a museum. Take the Redstone with you on your next trip and send us your photos showing where the Redstone has trav eled. Send your photos to redstarnews5@gmail.com BY ANDROID JONES
This year, with funding from the town, Lyons Creates has hired an expert consultant to guide the Lyons Creates steering commit tee and the town through the creative district application process, with the goal of submit ting an application by the end of this year. The statewide Colorado Creative Districts program was created in 2011 with the pur pose of catalyzing economic development by supporting all forms of art in local commu nities. The goal of the program is to support local efforts to increase employment, invest ments, and income in creative places. The benefits to joining this program include a $10,000 cash award to the local program, and access to a technical and professional assistance fund for commu nities that have been certified for more than one year. In addition, local creative districts have access to a marketing strat egy developed with the Colorado Tourism Office, support in developing content on the work of the creative dis trict, state highway signage, access to statewide economic data, access to the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) Creative Vitality Suite, and access to resources and tools to facilitate program growth and input. Lyons Creates and the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission hopes to use this program to better support the talent of local artists and musicians. Lyons has spent decades cultivating a community around live music and expansive art. The Arts and Humanities Commission and Lyons Creates hopes to build on the past work of local businesses and creative ideas, to start new art programs, and find new ways to support our local artists. Lyons is looking forward to joining the many other Colorado Creative Districts that have fostered a thriving art program in tandem with an artistic community. Towns such as Carbondale, Ridgeway, and Mancos have begun successful cre ative districts that help to improve off-sea son tourism, economic development, and art program development. If you are an artist, business owner, or Lyons resident who is interested in ex panding local art programming, please fill out Lyons Creates’ survey so that they can use your feedback in creating their strate gic plan for Lyons future as a Creative District. More information can be found at www.lyonscreates.org. Brianna Hoyt earned degrees in anthropol ogy and history from the University of Denver and worked as a freelance writer. She started working for the Town of Lyons in February 2020 as Lyons’ Main Street Manager.
A high pitched call for food from mom The river is bright with sunlight And the grass is wet from last night’s rain What a glorious summer!
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“In a sacred manner I am walking.”
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LYONS – Bluegrass, mu rals, mosaics, sculpture Lyons is a hub of artistic talent. For years, our town has been known for its music festivals and its local artists: visual, musical, culinary, per forming, and more. Lyons’ creativeness has attracted cre atives from across the country. Meanwhile, in late 2021, the Lyons Arts and Humani ties Commission began exploring the process of becoming a Colorado Creative District and in 2022, Lyons Creates was created. Lyons Creates is an independent organization consisting of local business owners, artists, and volunteers from the greater Lyons community.
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On Highway 36 at Dead Man’s Curve Our back lane enters the highway Where the blue tipi pole sculpture stood On the crest of the hill Marking too the Ute Trail A reminder of our indigenous relations Who once walked this land Traveling across the great plains Their dwellings, places of warmth, “In a sacred manner I am walking.” The wooden tipi blew down this spring But the prayer pole remained And it is at this exact location That a 5 G tower’s foundation has been poured. A meeting of two chiefs To have this necessary conversation
RESTORATION OF TIPI POLES SCULPTURE ON HWY 36 BY LYONS ARTIST JOHN KING
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Kim Mitchell is Director of Communications and Commu nity Relations for the Town of Lyons. Kim has called Lyons home since 2009.
LYONS – Local Artist Android Jones was born and grew up in Lyons and attended Lyons Middle/Senior High School. He began studying art at age 8. He is known for his many layered digital paintings and projection art. He has projected art onto the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Empire State Building in New York City and performed live visuals with numerous electronic mu sicians and bands. He worked as a commissioned artist for the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi and his award winning 360 film, Samskara has been shown in domes and plane tariums all over the world. For the past 18 months, he has been working with the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission who reached out to him to gather his interest in painting a mural at Lyons Town Hall. Using his artistic vision and concepts, the work was presented to the previous Lyons Board of EngagingTrustees.thelocal youth community, the Lyons Re gional Library had kids draw what wildlife they would like to see added to the mural. Their offerings included a hum mingbird, eagle, turkey, fox and bluebird. Following those entries, a vote was organized by the Lyons Library and the fox won the vote and is now included in the mural. In addition, funds for the project continue to be raised with limited edition prints of the artwork. Installation is slated to begin in mid to late Septem ber. To learn more about the artwork and to order prints, visit mural-fundraiser.https://androidjones-obtain.com/collections/lyons-
Between 2018 and 2022, CEMEX secured more than $160,000 for donations and sponsorships to address local homelessness, food insecurity, education and en vironmental initiatives. Some of the support has gone to organizations including the Lyons Community Foun dation, the Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission and Left Hand Watershed Center. In addition to these contributions, CEMEX USA has been an ardent supporter of annual events, including the Super Donation Drive at Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund, providing turkeys and Christmas hams to families in need, as well as renting a personnel lift to hang Christ mas lights for the Lyons Parks and Public Works Department’s Parade of Lights. On the sustainability front, the company has donated over 25,000 coyote willow trees to the Apple Valley Road and Hall Ranch/South St. Vrain River restoration projects, donated sandstone boulders for public spaces, including the new library and the restoration of McConnell Ponds and Black Bear Hole/2nd Avenue Trailhead. Lyons Cement Plant employees have also volunteered with Boulder County Parks & Open Space to maintain the Nighthawk Trail in Hall Valley Ranch. CEMEX recently planted 50 trees at Cal Wood Education Center as part of their wildfire recovery efforts and provided funding for 3,000 trees in partnership with Drylands Agroecology Research at the Yellow Barn and Elk Run Farms.
CEMEX is committed to Lyons community with volunteering and thousands in contributions
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Anise hyssop – fragrant flower smells like root beer
“It has been an important component of our business model to have an active level of civic and philanthropic engagement that comes from a genuine place,” said Edgar Angeles, Executive Vice President–Cement Operations and Technical at CEMEX USA. “From measurable sus tainability initiatives, to a lively and engaged workforce that helps out when needed, we have embraced the Lyons community and plan to continue providing needed sup port for our neighbors.”
Anise hyssop is edible and widely used for flavor and medicine. The Cheyenne have used anise hyssop in an in fusion to treat colds, fevers, coughs, and “a dispirited heart” (North American ethnobotany database, naeb.org). The Pawnee, Omaha, and Winnebago peoples, among many others, traditionally use it as a flavoring herb in cooking and as a tasty tea. Spreading from these tradi tions, anise hyssop tea has been adopted widely, or at least among passionate herb gardeners, as a digestive aid, treat ment for colds, and pleasant beverage. In cooking, it can be used in both savory and sweet dishes, with some of the properties of mint, some of licorice, and something all its own. They also make good cut flowers, adding lasting color, foliage, and scent to a bouquet.
By Walker Robinson, CEMEX Communications Redstone Review HOUSTON, TX – CEMEX USA announced today that it is continuing to build on its strong commitment to Lyons and Boulder County, by seeking additional op portunities to further assist local organizations as part of the company’s longstanding efforts to deliver impactful donations and critical volunteering to positively benefit theCEMEXcommunity.USA’s Lyons Cement Plant has a lengthy history of actively seeking mutually beneficial relation ships with its neighbors, nonprofits and local busi nesses, as well as investing in area stakeholders.
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Jessie Berta-Thompson studied algae in school, and loves gardening and learning about plants. She has a degree in biol ogy. 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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The reddish group is mostly native to the Southwestern United States and Mexico and so require little water and can survive droughts, but they are less winter-hardy than the purple ones, which have broader geographic origins. Anise hyssop can be planted in sun or shade and can han dle Lyons winters. More sensitive species can be coaxed through the winter tucked in with a blanket of mulch in a protected garden spot, or they can be enjoyed as annuals in our climate. Visit the RMBG soon to meet the anise hyssop alongside other glorious late-season flowers.
Anise hyssop isn’t the only Agastache that’s rewarding to grow. Agastaches are readily available in a rainbow of colors across different species and cultivars. All of them are beautiful, have fragrant foliage, and attract pollinators. The yellow-orange-red-pink ones are favorites of hum mingbirds (another name for Agastaches is hummingbird mint), while butterflies and bees favor the purple Agas taches (including anise hyssop).
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Giant hyssop grows mainly in the upper Midwest and Canada, with some populations reaching all the way from Washington state to New England. Colorado is at the southern extent of its range, and it’s only found occasion ally in small pockets of forest openings in the Front Range foothills, 6500 to 8000 ft. So even though it’s not a plant that’s common out on the trails, it’s such a good garden plant, and because its range does just reach into Colorado, we couldn’t resist including it in our Colorado native plant garden. There is a similar, more common species, the nettle-leaf hyssop (Agastache urticifolia), that is wide spread on the western slope. It has wide leaves and paler flowers. It would be a lovely addition to the garden, too, but it’s harder to find on the plant market.
By Jessie Berta Thompson Redstone Review LYONS – Perky spikes of light blue-pur ple on tall plants? A whiff of root beer on the air? The anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) is in bloom at the Rocky Mountain Botanic Gardens in Lyons. It’s also called giant blue hyssop – the plant is bigger and the flowers are bluer than other Agastache species. Its foliage is a lush green. The undersides of the leaves are pale. Each flower spike is made up of densely packed small flowers. The honeybees and tiger swallowtail butterflies stopping to enjoying its nectar are great, and the 3 to 6foot stems rocketing out of the ground in bold clumps are striking. But what’s really unique about this plant is the smell, best appreciated by gently rubbing a leaf and sniff ing deeply. It’s aromatic, sweet, and spicy (sometimes de scribed as like root beer). Its licorice-adjacent scent gives this plant the name anise hyssop. It is not, however, related to the anise plant (Pimpinella anisum), which is in the carrot family (Api aceae). Anise hyssop is in the mint family (Lamiaceae), which also includes hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis), a Eurasian herb with a very different scent but vaguely sim ilar purple flower spikes. Members of the mint family can generally be identified by their distinctive 4-sided stems, often with flavorful fo liage. There are lots of species of mint (genus Mentha) in this family, like the field mint (Mentha arvensis) that we just added to the RMBG beds. The family also includes oregano, sage, thyme, lemon balm, basil, rosemary, and lavender (most of a typical herb garden, that is). Enjoying a lovingly prepared, flavorful herby meal? Thank the mint family for evolving to make all those fancy molecules. For the plants, these same compounds serve as antimicrobials, deterrents for herbivores, and attractants for pollinators.
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For those interested in planting this pretty and useful species, anise hyssop can be bought locally or grown from seed. It’s fond of coming up self-sown in the rock nooks at the path edges of the RMBG, though not aggressively. It is not eaten by deer, thanks to those flavor molecules –delicious to humans, less appealing to the cervid palate. It blooms later in summer, freshening up the garden and supporting pollinators in all the heat.
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Attorney Dittman was directed to come up with an ordinance to register the golf carts in Lyons. Mayor Hollie Rogin said proving the number of golf carts in Lyons can help Lyons by affecting the funding Lyons gets from DrCOG (Denver Regional Council of Governments). “If we can prove how many electric vehicles we have in Lyons, it can affect the amount of funding we get from DrCOG,” she said, adding that it shows a lower pollution rate for the town. Administrator Victoria Simonson gave the board this update in her report on af fordable housing: The town has been con tacted by residents of two local multi-family residences where the owner is selling the properties. They are concerned that someone will purchase the sites and change the use, increase their rates or give them notice to vacate. They are inquiring about how the town can support them at this time. The staff has reached out to local affordable housing providers to make them aware of the properties being for sale and try to prevent the displacement of approx imately 15 local residents. say; “Fix the bond Mr. Sheriff, we are ready to sign to the limit.” “The body of Thomas was brought out to the open and the coroner removed his personal effects, among them being two bottles almost empty. “The coroner took the body to Boul der and the Sheriff left Mr. Engert with his“Onfamily.Tuesday morning an inquest was held at Boulder, and Mr. Engert was sum moned for a preliminary hearing. A large number of our best and influential citizens accompanied him to Boulder, ready to meet any financial assistance needed. Sev eral witnesses were called to the stand, all of whom testified that Thomas was a “bad man” and that Mr. Engert had only done what any other person would have done under the circumstances. “Ernest May testified that Thomas told him at Estes Park a few days prior to the shooting that he would ‘get the whole“Thefamily.’juryreleased Mr. Engert, saying he was justified in doing what he did.
FORT COLLINS – Confluence, an upcoming conference hosted by Colorado State Univer sity, will address the interests and needs of col laborative conservation groups in the West and is set to take place September 19 to 22 at the Chico Hot Springs Resort in Pray, Montana. The conference is hosted by the Western Col laborative Conservation Network, an organiza tion housed in the CSU Center for Collaborative Conservation, that promotes and supports com munity-based collaborative conservation efforts to strengthen and sustain healthy landscapes, vi brant communities and thriving economies in the West, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Texas and Wyoming
4th Avenue Pedestrian Bridge LYONS – The concrete abutment on the south side for the bridge was poured and the north side concrete abutment is scheduled to be poured this week. Currently the bridge is scheduled to be placed between August 17 and August 24. It will remain closed while the ramps are built for safety.
Operation Mighty Goats eats up LYONSweeds – The Town is working with two goat entities to help with weed mitigation. Did you know goats will navigate even the most diffi cult terrain to consume any vegetation on wildfire-prone land? There will be a herd of about 10 goats arriving next week to work/eat the surrounding flood buyout areas near Park St. in the confluence. This herd will be in op eration for 3 to 4 weeks. This herd is named after Disney characters. There will be another herd of 35 to 40 goats arriving after Labor Day and working the area west of Horizon Drive, near the playground.
The Board of Trustees desires to refer a question on whether the list of permitted and conditional uses for the POS zone may be expanded to allow for arts and cultural facilities as a permitted use, and non-profit facilities as a conditional use, so that the planned uses for the Visitors Center may move forward and the new creative dis trict, Lyons Creates, will have a place to set up their office and work area. The town board is asking voters to approve this as a permitted use. In other matters Lauren Click, chair of Lyons Arts and Humanities Council, dis cussed the upcoming mural project by Android Jones to be placed on the stucco northwestern side of the Lyons Town Hall at 432 5th Ave. Installation will begin on September 19. Android Jones is a Lyons resident. Golf carts in Lyons may soon become part of a registration program. The board discussed several reasons why they want to register golf carts including liability con cerns with underage drivers driving golf carts around town.
“We are looking for vendors of every type,” added Hills. “Please contact me at peotrea suretables@gmail.com if you are interested in being a vendor.” “So if you are a vendor looking for a prime location, send me (Nancy Hills) an email to reserve your spot. And if you are an early hol iday shopper, I’ll see you in October.”
by passing a resolution asking voters whether Arts and Cultural Facilities shall be a permitted use, and non-profit facili ties shall be a conditional use in the Parks and Open Space (POS) Zoning District. Currently, the POS zone list of permit ted and conditional uses does not permit either arts and cultural facilities or nonprofit facilities as either a permitted or conditional use; and now there is an op portunity to use the Visitors Center in Sandstone Park as an arts and cultural fa cility, office space for the Lyons Creative District (Lyons Creates), and continued use as a visitor’s center and public restroom Currently none of the planned uses for the Visitors Center are currently permitted or conditional uses in the POS zone.
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CSU conference to address collabo rative conservation in the West
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. OF THE MOST POPULAR
The conference will focus on three key col laborative conservation topics: watersheds, regional governance and cross-cultural col laboration. Online registration closes soon. Confluence attendees can participate in peer-to-peer learning sessions on measuring collaborative impacts; supporting emerging leadership; storytelling, communications and media; conservation finance; cross-cultural partnerships; and essential skills for a collabo rator’sAlongtoolbox.with the peer-to-peer workshops and keynotes, attendees will immerse them selves in the Montana landscape to learn about relevant case studies through field trips and discussion about Montana collaborative conservation efforts. For more information, contact Aireona Bonnie Raschke at araschke@colostate.edu.
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“Thomas had been mixed up in many brawls and stabbing and shooting scrapes around Estes Park and this community for years past, and at one time was sentenced for stealing a horse from one of the resort hotels in Estes Park.” Charles V. Engert died March 5, 1949 and is buried along with his wife Sarah in the Lyons Cemetery. If you are interested in stories about other Lyons’ residents who are interred in the Lyons Cemetery, visit the virtual museum exhibits at throughRedstonemuze.com/m/lyons-redstone-museum.https://virTheMuseumwillbeopendailyOctober2.
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Whistlepigs can fly – the tales of hitchhiking marmots Fletcher The fugitive marmot arriving at Denver International Airport from Toronto.
“These (hitchhiking marmots) are a great example of how rehabilitators have to work together to care for what ever walks through the door,” said Parrish. “There is al ways someone out there who has more knowledge about a certain species than you do, so community is important.”
By Kaite Fletcher Redstone Review LYONS – Creede to Aurora. Idaho Springs to Arvada. Aspen to Toronto. These are the recent road trips taken by the adventurous Yellow-bellied Marmots that Greenwood has cared for over the last month. Known as whistlepigs due to their loud shrill, these critters are often on a ride of a life time with no roundtrip plans for themselves. Traveling whistlepigs Hitchhiking marmots have become a common tale here in Colorado as more people explore the Rocky Mountains. Most marmots that find their way to our Center caught a ride down into the flatlands and need help with their return trip. One marmot sneaked into a car while an Aurora resi dent was hiking the West Willow Creek Trail near Creede. Another whistlepig hitchhiked from a cabin in Idaho Springs to Wheat Ridge where the rescuer dis covered the animal and brought it to our Center. The most well-traveled marmot found itself in Canada after a family’s ad venture in MarmotsAspen.areknown to be explorers of car hoods, hop ing to find something sweet to nibble or seeking warmth from the engine. As omni vores, they typically feed on grasses, wild flowers, insects, and the occasional bird egg. These critters are the largest of Colorado’s ground squir rels and architects of elabo rate mazes underneath our alpine meadows and rocky outcrops. They typically live in colonies of between 10 and 20 animals. Our furthest hitchhiker One “hitchhiker” made headlines across the state. This critter landed where no Yellow-bellied Marmot has before, after traversing over 1,500 miles in a camper and crossing the country’s border into Canada. As mountain natives in the western United States, this species was out of place in the Canadian city. The Toronto Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre knew there was an issue when the rescuers brought in an animal not endemic to the area and contacted Greenwood to discuss options. In addition to our Center, the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation was also willing to facilitate the marmot’s re turn to the Aspen area. These three wildlife organizations corresponded over the best diet and husbandry for the displaced marmot. The critter needed to return home, but several international obstacles stood in the way. After innumerable hours of or ganizing permits and booking passage, Toronto Wildlife Centre tucked the mammal onto a flight back to the U.S. “It was very cool to watch all of these organizations come together and collaborate to get this marmot home,” commented Tessa Parrish, a rehabilitator from Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Parrish examined the marmot for obvious injuries and evaluated its overall health at Denver International Airport. With fresh water and greens, the rock chuck was driven 90 miles to Silverthorne by Greenwood staff. A volunteer then transported the little lady to the Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Founda tion in Silt where she stayed for several days until she was able to be released near her originalMoralhome.ofthe story: check your engine compartments so there are no more mar mots in the skies. True hibernators With hibernation fast ap proaching in September, it was a race to get the Cana dian hitchhiker back to its native habitat before it was too late. Yellow-bellied mar mots can hibernate for over half their lives, according to the National Park Service. Colorado rehabilitator Nanci Limbach helps the juvenile critters learn how to create burrows, natural hibernation patterns, and other innate skills during a process called “overwintering” within the rehabilitation community. Limbach, the founder of Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation, explained how marmot releases depend on age, when hibernation season is near, because of the in tense winters in the high Colorado tundra. If they have to overwinter at her facilities, then she tries to replicate their natural burrows by packing grass hay inside and around their enclosures. Approximately three to five pups can hibernate in the same den enclosure to keep each other warm and simulate a colony setting for their release into the Limbachwild.and her team of volunteers release them in March when other wild marmots, especially male bache lors, are ready to find new homes and establish colonies. The whistlepigs are “easy” for Limbach after almost 40 years of experience with these critters.
Kaite Fletcher is currently the Communications and Fundraising Intern at Greenwood after over three years as a Middle School Science Teacher here in Colorado. She studied Environ mental Science and Journalism at the University of Arizona.
Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation releases most, if not all, of the marmots cared for at our facility. Greenwood’s success depends on our wildlife community in Colorado and beyond.
Travels with Redstone Bennett Bloch and Quinn Bloch, both of Lyons, share Redstone Review with “Papa” Greg Lowell at their annual August vacation at Squam Lake, New Hampshire. Take the Redstone with you on your next trip and send us your photos showing where the Redstone has trav eled. Send your photos to redstarnews5@gmail.com
Zoe Donaldson (right) and her graduate student, Liza Brusman, middle, and postdoctoral student, Julie Sadino, left.
“These questions are the core of what we’ll be doing at SMTB,” Don aldson says. “The students will help us make a set of molecular tools to manipulate specific genes in the prairie vole brain, which will be used by my lab and others in future experi ments to try to make or break bonds.”Julie Sadino, who recently earned her PhD in MCDB with a behavioral neuroscience focus, works with Donaldson as a post doctoral fellow and will be teaching alongside Donaldson at “ThisSMTB.is a really cool oppor tunity, not only for us but also for the students,” Sadino says. “I’m very thankful that such a program ex ists and that we were invited to be a part of it. On a personal note, this is going way out of my comfort zone, but I hope to gain a lot from this experience. I’ve never been to Europe before, let alone seen how sci ence is done in an international context, so it’s all very exciting.”
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BOULDER – The associate professor in the Departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder is teaming up with a postdoctoral researcher and one of her graduate stu dents to teach international high school students this August at the School of Molecular and Theoretical Biology (SMTB) in Estonia. Zoe Donaldson became involved with the SMTB back in the late 1990s when she attended college with the man who would help start the school, Fyodor (Fedya)“AlthoughKondrashov.Fedya and I went into different fields evolutionary biology and neurogenetics, respectively our work has had inter woven themes that have seen us collabo rate multiple times,” Donaldson says. “We kept in touch, but it was only after I joined the faculty at CU Boulder and had estab lished my lab that it was feasible for me to begin teaching at the school.” Kondrashov was excited to invite Don aldson to teach at SMTB. “I knew that Zoe has exactly the qualities we are look ing for,” Kondrashov says. “One of the school’s pillars is to create an inclusive program. Every year we have students from over a dozen countries. We work very hard to eliminate barriers so that stu dents feel included. I know that Zoe gets it, and I know she’ll create an inclusive environment.”Donaldsonsays before the pandemic, she received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new ways to manipulate the genome of the prairie vole (a small rodent about the size of a hamster), and she had an idea for how to involve high school students in a project that would fit into the goals of the grant. “That was 2020,” she says. “This is just now becoming a reality after two years of pandemic patience.”Donaldson explains that prairie voles, unlike lab mice and rats, are monoga mous and form lifelong bonds with their mating partners.
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Liza Brusman, a fourth-year MCDB graduate student who has also served as a teaching assistant, is also going on the trip. “I think it will be a great opportunity,” Brusman says. “I didn’t know what re search entailed or how experiments were done when I was in high school, and an experience like this would have been re ally valuable to me. I also like teaching … (and) being able to make students excited aboutThisscience.”isareally cool opportunity, not only for us but also for the students. ... I’m very thankful that such a program exists and that we were invited to be a part of it.”
Donaldson says both Sadino and Brus man have “specialized skills” that will be “invaluable” to their course. “The hands-on nature of the course means that one person can’t do it alone,” Donaldson says. “In addition to teaching, the three of us will serve as mentors to students as they decide which projects to pursue and discuss career opportunities in Kondrashovscience.” says he expects about 50 students to take in classes and labs at SMTB some of whom are expected to be from“OurUkraine.students come from a diversity of different countries. Some of them end up in the top universities in the world Har vard, Yale, Cambridge just to name a few. Most end up in the best universities avail able to them in the country where they are from. An incredible statistic that I have yet to internalize is that among our first graduates, more than half end up going to do a master’s or a PhD degree, while some have gone on to industry from their bach elor’s program and some have gone on to medical school and starting a career in medicine or Kondrashovpharmacy.”addsthat he hopes stu dents get to know Donaldson as a person “to understand her values about re search, human relationships in the lab, her integrity and motivation, and also to see her as a wonderful human. In short, my greatest wish is for all of them to be themselves and in doing so being the role models to our students they crave to get to interact with.”
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Neuroscientist Zoe Donaldson and her team have found a new way to contribute to global science education
Donaldson’s work combines neural and genetic ex periments to ask questions like what genes are required to be able to form a pair bond, and can an existing bond be broken by manipu lating genes in the brain.
CU Boulder neuroscientist, Zoe Donaldson will spend much of August helping Eu ropean high school students learn the finer points of gene manipulation in prairie voles.
The students will help create a set of molecular tools to manipulate specific genes in the brain of the prairie vole.
“My lab studies what makes it possible for them to form such bonds, how doing so changes their brain and what happens when they lose a partner.”
• Using a ladle, slowly drip in the boiled milk, a little at a time, stirring gently into the egg mixture all the while. Once about half the milk has been tempered in, you can pour the rest of the milk in and stir well.
Crème Anglaise and fruit sauces – dessert sauces to keep on hand this fall
A hot summer, cool salads, a broken hip and a wrist cast
Spicy Poached Plums Makes about four cups; prep and cooking time is about 20 minutes.
• Add sugar and eggs to a mixing bowl and whisk together until they reach the ribbon stage, about five minutes if you are using a machine, about 15 minutes if you are whisking by hand. (Ribbon stage means that after beating the eggs when you lift some of the egg mixture on the spoon and pour it off, it creates a long, connected line or ribbon.) Caution: do not over beat or the resulting creme will be filled with tiny bubbles.
• In a medium saucepan, pour sugar into water and cook on medium low heat, stir ring until the sugar dissolves.
1 C cane sugar 1 C water 4 C plums, washed, pits removed and cut into quarters.
Scholars, supporting exceptional young leaders who have overcome unimaginable challenges such as homelessness, vi olence, loss, and poverty. Greenhouse Scholars supports them through four years of college and beyond, with resources such as one-on-one mentoring, an extensive professional network, internships, peer support, and financial grants for research or service projects. Groups wanting to fundraise for this worthy cause register as an individual or as a team. The fully supported ride concludes with a celebration at the finish line in picturesque Bohn Park. Vending, food trucks, live music and spa treatments are all available to participants, as well as the public. Bohn Park is one of Lyons outdoor gems, redeveloped after the 2013 floods, showcasing new ballfields, a skate board park, picnic pavilion, playground, and bike path, all along the gently flowing St. Vrain Creek. Bohn Park is lo cated at 199 2nd Ave, Lyons. For more Information on the Venus de Miles course race, schedule of events, or registration Information, visit www.venusdemiles.com.Lyonsmakesapicturesque, fun, and accessible and fun place to ride or linger. For more ideas, maps, and direc tions, visit LyonsColorado.com. Overnight visitors can also find an assortment of unique lodging opportunities in and around Lyons.
1 C hulled and quartered strawberries 1 C raspberries 1 C sugar 1 T cornstarch • Mash the fruit together in a small
Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cook ing professionally and privately since 1979. She was a French cuisine journeyman at the celebrated Henri d’Afrique restaurant in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Today she is the proprietor of the food blog www.food fortheages.com, and Facebook.com/Food for the Ages. Though she cooks every day in a tiny kitchen with a two-burner stove, her recipes are expansive and she dedicates her craft to living large by cooking well in tiny kitchens.
• Then return the custard to the stove on medium high heat and stir constantly with a wooden spoon, using a figure-eight pat tern. Do not allow the custard to boil or it will separate. Do not walk away during this final stage, until the custard has thickened and the mixture coats the back of the spoon, usually about five minutes.
• Let custard cool and refrigerate until ready to use.
LYONS – Cyclists enjoy Lyons for a variety of reasons. Mountain bikers flock to the trails for world class single track, technical terrain and spectacular views. Road cy clists take in the hip, funky town boasting independently owned coffee shops, restaurants and retail shops as a way to refuel before heading back out on the road.
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• Mix the vanilla into the custard. If your custard is lumpy, pour it through a fine strainer or cheesecloth. To prevent a skin from forming on the surface of the custard, sprinkle sugar over the top.
On Satur day, August 27, Venus de Miles, Colorado’s original and largest all-women bike ride, offers a whole new set of rea sons to start and finish a great ride in Lyons. The Venus de Miles event, benefiting Greenhouse Scholars, offers women a physical challenge, an opportu nity to fundraise for a worthy cause and a festival-like at mosphere at the finish.
The ride format offers a 33-, 66-, or 100-mile loop, all starting and finishing in Lyons’ picturesque Bohn Park. The different course options accommodate participants of varied levels of experience, endurance or ability. The 33mile loop allows for the beginner riders to complete the course in a few hours. The 66-mile course follows the sce nic road up to Carter Lake, with views of Long’s Peak and rolling farms. The 100-mile loop continues through the magnificent Big Thompson Canyon, traveling up to Estes Park and back, offering a serious climbing challenge even for experienced riders. The fundraising aspect of the ride benefits Greenhouse
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LYONS – I have been lying low after an accident and not doing much cook ing. Our daughter and kind friends visit, bearing dinner and sometimes staying to eat with us. Aren’t we lucky. Our lunches in this hot weather are cool, crisp salads. Most of them don’t need a recipe, just a glance in the fridge and a taste for some particular veggie like a big juicy tomato. I rely on my daughter to provide us with veggies and fruit from the Fort Collins farmer’s market while I’m recovering. One salad featured smoked trout accom panied by steamed green beans, tomato wedges, avocado slices, black beans (mari nated with olive oil, cumin, and chile flakes), fresh mint leaves and a few slices of a delicious Colorado peach. I dressed the base of lettuce and arugula with olive oil, salt and pepper and lemon juice to taste. Soon I will be cast-free and able to make more ambitious dishes. Salads are still my favorite meal and, with the abundance of lovely summer veggies and fruit, a fleeting pleasure to be savored.
• Let cool then refrigerate until use.
• Add the plums and cinnamon stick and stir occasionally, cooking until the plums are tender. Let cool and serve with some thing creamy.
Kim Mitchell, Director of Community Programs and Relations for the Town of Lyons says “The Town enjoyed hosting the race last year, for the first time. It brings great energy to town and introduces Lyons to new cyclists too. Local cyclists also participate. A group of Lyons ladies started a team last year in memory of a Lyons woman who passed away unexpectedly in 2021. The spirit of honoring cycling, sisterhood, support and community lives on with this inspirational event.”
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By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – Crème anglaise and fruit sauces are easy to make and nice to have on hand for desserts: pour them over sponge or angel food cake, use in layers of trifle or use them to deepen the flavors in a bowl of oatmeal, in lieu of milk and sugar. First, the recipe for crème anglaise, a pouring custard, is easy to make if you fol low a few precautions, and they are: when all ingredients are combined and you return the custard in the pan to the stove, stir it constantly. Next, don’t let it boil and don’t walk away from it while it’s cook ing. I am certain that if you follow these techniques, you’ll have a delicious crème anglaise result every time. Next up, the recipe for a tasty fruit sauce made of raspberries and strawberries that only takes about 15 minutes from prep to finish. Finally, there’s a warming autumn recipe from BBC Good Food, for your backyard plums: spicy poached plums. As with the strawberry-raspberry fruit sauce, spicy poached plums can be served with crème anglaise, ice cream, rice pud ding, oatmeal... and I know you’re already thinking of other ways for how to use these. Without a doubt, crème anglaise and fruit sauces are simple and delicious cold dessert sauces to keep on hand in your fridge for any occasion, even if it’s only breakfast.
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• Place milk in saucepan and bring to the boil. Remove from heat.
Crème Anglaise Pouring Custard Makes about two cups; prep and cooking time is about 20 minutes.
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.howilearnedtocooka nartistslife.blog.
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• This will keep in the refrigerator for sev eral weeks. Fruit Sauce with Strawberries and Raspberries Makes about two cups; prep and cooking time is about 15 minutes.
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