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B •R •I •E •F •S Mayor Sullivan and Sergeant Crist change policy in LaVern M. Johnson Park LYONS – The Town of Lyons is a welcoming destination for visitors from across the state wishing to enjoy our unique and beautiful parks. We greatly appreciate the economic support visitors bring to our community. On some days (particularly holidays) however, there is the potential for our parks to become crowded to the extent that safety issues may arise.

LaVern M. Johnson Park over the July Fourth holiday was crowded to the point where first responders had concerns about their abilities to address an emergency should one unfortunately occur. In addition to enforcing existing regulations, we feel it is prudent to trial several new guidelines to ensure that residents and visitors to our town and parks continue to have a safe and positive experience.

Beginning this weekend, the following efforts to limit overcrowding will be applied: • The park will be considered “Full” when all the parking spaces are taken.

• Visitors (in vehicles or on foot) toting coolers will not be allowed to enter the park once the “Park Full” sign is posted, and will be encouraged to utilize Bohn Park instead.

• Visitors directed to Bohn Park will be informed of the need to use the paid parking lot on Second Avenue.

• Visitors without coolers may enter the park on foot for purposes of accessing the river, jogging, walking dogs, etc., when the “Park Full” sign is posted.

• Cars will not be allowed to idle in access lanes to ensure emergency vehicles can get into the park.

• The town will pilot a “pack-in / pack-out” policy for trash.

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July’s unusually long spell of hot weather drew lots of families and kids to LaVern Johnson park to play in the river and lounge in the shade of the trees. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS

Board seeks to change the OAOD, new attorney attends board meeting, other issues

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – On Monday night the Lyons Town Board had a lengthy discussion about an ordinance (1040) to change the municipal code pertaining to the Outdoor Activity Overlay District (OAOD) in order to modify the boundaries. In 2009 the Board of Trustees (BOT) exempted itself from the 500-ft. rule, which prohibited allowing liquor establishments within 500 ft. from a school. The town also adopted an OAOD, which gave businesses within 500 ft. of the elementary school the right to sell liquor and have outdoor activities such as music.

Recently some businesses wanting to locate on the north side of Main Street in the OAOD wanted to have outdoor seating.

They discovered that was not allowed and they decided not to relocate to Lyons.

Another business wanted to expand its seating to the north side of Main and was denied expansion due to the OAOD. The Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) found that the proposed change to the ordinance followed the direction of the Comprehensive Plan and would create an environment in

which local businesses could prosper.

Paul Glasgow, Director of Community Development said, “Taverns, bars, restaurants would be allowed be allowed under conditional use review. The PCDC thought that the (OAOD) map changes would allow business to expand.”

Trustee Mark Browning pointed out to the board that one business, the Stone Cup, was still in the area labeled Restricted on the Overlay District map. The restricted area only allows business to have amplified music on Sundays with the town administrator’s approval. The businesses that want amplified music on Sunday would need to be permitted administratively. Currently the Stone Cup has music outside on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

The town board immediately began shuffling around trying to figure out how to exempt one business in the restricted area of the outdoor overlay district so that business could continue hosting music events on Sunday. The Trustee Mike Karavas suggested grandfathering the Stone Cup in, so that the ordinance could stay the same with just a clause added. But Paul Glasgow said that it is not clear as to whether the Stone Cup ever had a permit to play music on Sunday or not.

“I will have to go back and check the records to see if they had a permit,” he said.

Mindy Tallent, who is the owner of the Stone Cup along with her husband Sam, said she did not know that a permit for music on Sunday was even required. “We have been doing music on Sundays for years and years,” she said. “I had no idea.”

Then the board tried to modify the ordinance to allow the Stone Cup to have music on Sundays. Mayor Connie Sullivan pointed out they that needed to proceed cautiously.

Considerations in that area would be the two churches nearby and new businesses that might come in and want to have music on Sunday. In the end the board decided to continue the ordinance until the August 20 board meeting. They discussed having a workshop before the meeting to figure out a way to amend the ordinance.

In other matters, the town’s new attorney, Brandon M. Dittman, attended his first board meeting. The board approved a contract with Dittman’s law firm, Kissinger & Fellman PC in Cherry Creek in Denver.

He is an associate at the firm. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree and Dittman Bachelor of Science degree in 2011 from Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, and his law degree in 2014 Continue Town on Page 13

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LYONS L E T T E R •T O •T H E •E D I T O R To the Editor, The Redstone Museum’s new permanent exhibit All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons opened to the public Wednesday, June 27. The exhibit would not have been possible without a community support grant from the Lyons Community Foundation. We are grateful for their financial assistance and encouragement of the museum and the preservation of history in Lyons.

We would like to thank the many people who contributed their knowledge and expertise to this project.

First, Lyons Historical Society Director LaVern Johnson, who said yes when we asked if we could curate the railroad exhibit and who trusted us to do it justice. Thank you to museum curator, Terri Weir, for her help with design and support.

A huge thank you goes to Mike Lennard for building the beautiful custom display case for the exhibit. Max Lang of mlangarts.com created authentic reproductions of the fragile documents, some dating back to the 1880s, so the originals can remain safely archived in the museum. Additionally, Max Lang assisted with research and the creation of interpretive panels. Thank you to Steve Lang for his technical expertise in enhancing the images of the old photographs and for his assistance in installing the exhibit. Thank you to Christina Wells, who was instrumental in the preservation of the Lyons Depot building after the 2013 flood and who shared her extensive research with us. Thank you to Ron Gosnell for bringing several of his model trains to display at the opening reception, they were a big hit.

Last but not least, thank you to all who came to the opening reception and the History Talk for the exhibit. It was a pleasure to meet you and to share the evening with you. Thank you for helping us to keep Lyons history relevant in our community.

Chuck Wing, on the right, presents a check to Habitat for Humanity’s Development Director John Lovell, on the left. Chuck Wing is the owner of Lyons Automotive Repair, 403 Broadway, which organizes and sponsors the antique car show at Good Old Days. Lyons Automotive collects fees and donations from participants to benefit Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley. This is the second year that the money from the car show has been donated to Habitat. This year the car show raised a total of $1,982 for Habitat. The oldest car was the 1918 Ford truck, which the owner drove in from Lafayette. Lyons Automotive has been putting on the car show for six years.

Roxy One-year-old Roxy makes friends everywhere she goes! Roxy loves people of all ages, enjoys other dogs and gets along well with cats, too. This sweet little lady will make a wonderful all-around companion. Visit Roxy at the Longmont Humane Society, 9595 Nelson Road in Longmont, open weekdays from noon to 6 p.m., weekends 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Low cost vaccines Keep your pets healthy and save money at one of Longmont Humane Society’s low-cost summer vaccine clinics for cats and dogs. Saturdays, July 21 and August 11 from 9 to 11 a.m. Visit www.longmonthumane.org for a full list of vaccine clinic costs and services.

Dogs and hot cars: a deadly combination Longmont Humane Society reminds you that the inside of a car can quickly become much hotter than the outside temperature. Even at 70 degrees outside, the inside of a car will become dangerously hot within minutes. If you do see a dog in distress in a hot car, call law enforcement immediately. In Longmont, call Animal Control at 303-651-8500.

Temporary splash pad and zipline closures

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they can better serve park visitors. The town staff will be meeting to re-assess the success / impact of these guidelines, and to discuss additional strategies for managing residential parking issues. Residents are encouraged to notify the Sheriff using the non-emergency phone number if they experience cars blocking their driveways. On behalf of the town, we appreciate the continued cooperation and patience shown by residents and visitors with the evolving management plans for our unique park system.

LYONS – Two different quilt shows will exhibit in Lyons on Saturday, August 11.

Tracey Barber, owner of Lyons Quilting, has arranged the first show. This year she will be displaying more than 100 modern quilts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Lyons Great Outdoor Quilt Show, at Lyons Quilting, 42 Main St. Next year she hopes the show will spread throughout the town of Lyons.

Several years ago Barber attended the world’s largest outdoor quilt show, the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show in Oregon, and recognized that Lyons Quilting with its abundant clientele throughout the

side of the Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) center (198 Second Ave.). Construction for the new ADA-accessible facility is well underway; the town estimates the move to be complete by the week of July 23.

The town does not anticipate any lapse in availability in single-stream recycling between locations. Recycling will remain available at its current location, and a new dumpster will be replaced at the new site, upon its completion. The availability and schedule of the cardboard-specific bin may vary during the relocation period. Updates will be sent as information is received.

LYONS –The splash pad and zipline features at LaVern M. Johnson Park are temporarily closed until further notice, while they undergo repairs. The Town estimates a timeline of about one month for the splash pad repair, and between two to three weeks for the zipline.

Recycling Center moving to Second Avenue LYONS – The Recycling Center is anticipated to move by the week of July 23. Due to construction for library, the town and associated partners have begun preparation for relocating the recycling center (Fourth Ave. and Railroad) to the south

Two unique quilt shows in Lyons

By Kathleen Spring Redstone Review

With gratitude, Baiba Lennard and Monique Sawyer-Lang Curators Lyons Redstone Museum

Front Range, its unique and popular quilting supplies, and its many popular classes, would be a good base for a similar show in Lyons. In 2017 she displayed 75 quilts outside her shop.

As the Lyons Redstone Museum historian, I decided to join Barber and put on a second program to display antique quilts, including both locally made quilts and those with general historic significance. These include a quilt owned by former Lyons resident Minnie Hutchinson, who passed away at age 101, a quilt owned by Daniel Boone, and another quilt hidden during the Civil War from the approaching Union troops.

Nationally known collector and presenter of quilts, Jeanne Ann Wright will bring approximately six significant quilts from her collection to the program. She will speak about styles, tell of her quilts’ past lives, and comment on the Lyons quilts.

Observers can view and learn about the vintage styles, like patchwork, appliqué, Honeycomb, Wedding Ring, and more.

The Lyons Redstone Museum will dis-

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play its collection of quilts done by the Older Rural Women’s Quilting Community, done in the 1980s. The members are distinguished women who were participants in Lyons’ growth, such as Fran Brackett and Marguerite Peoples.

The antique quilt show will take place at Rogers Hall, 408 High St. from 1 to 3 p.m. It will include an extensive silent auction and light food. A donation of $10 is requested. All proceeds benefit Lyons’ oral history project.

Local families are encouraged to join in and honor their ancestor’s diligence and artistry by locating beloved quilts for the show. Please contact Kathleen Spring at lyonshistory@yahoo.com or 303-8235271 as soon as possible in order to start the process. Both shows will need dozens of volunteers to help hang the quilts, and / or work at the venues for a couple of hours. Please contact Kathleen Spring for the museum, or Tracey Barber at 303823-6067, for Lyons Quilting.

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MAYOR’S CORNER Sales tax could fund transportation

By Connie Sullivan, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – Elected officials in Colorado spend a lot of time talking about how to fund improveSullivan ments to transportation infrastructure. Fixing potholes, putting in new sidewalks and expanding multimodal transportation options are always on the budget to-do list.

Unfortunately, few cities and towns have the funds needed to make timely repairs to aging infrastructure, let alone upgrades, and Lyons is no exception.

Colorado has a major funding gap where transportation is concerned. The inability to invest in modern modes of transportation such as light rail, or make preparations for smart cars and more electric vehicles, will eventually hurt the Colorado economy.

The state simply has not kept up with the population growth where transportation is concerned. Since 1991, Colorado’s population has increased by 60 percent, while transportation spending per driver

(adjusted for inflation) has been reduced by 50 percent. Anyone who has driven to the mountains on I-70, or commutes to Denver or Fort Collins knows the congestion has become unbearable at times.

Around Lyons, we feel the impacts of more cars on busy summer weekends, which also have potential to spill into our neighborhoods. Additionally, safety on our highways is being negatively impacted.

Highway 66 east of Lyons is second only to Highway 287 in annual traffic fatalities.

The state legislature passed Senate Bill 1 last May, which presented a few different options for funding transportation improvements depending on whether a citizen initiated ballot measure passes this November 6, 2018. If a citizen initiative fails (or doesn’t make the ballot), then a different ballot question will go to voters in November 2019. This November, citizens will likely be asked to authorize a 0.62 percent (six cents on a ten dollar purchase) sales tax to help fund state, county and local transportation improvements.

If this ballot measure passes, then the state will issue six billion dollars in bonds to address transportation priorities across the state. About 40 percent of the rev-

enue would go to cities/towns and counties for local projects, and 45 percent would go toward state highways. The final 15 percent would be dedicated to expanding multi-modal options that meet the parallel goals of reducing congestion and improving air quality.

Currently, Lyons funding for transportation improvements comes from the Highway Users Tax Fund (HUTF), which is funded through the gas tax, registration and licensing fees and traffic fines. The 0.22-cent per gallon gas tax has not been increased since 1991, and the HUTF fees generally have not generated sufficient revenue to fund the statewide needs for many years.

Lyons gets less than $75,000 annually from HUTF, which does not go very far in terms of funding for all the maintenance improvements that are needed. Regardless of whether voters opt for the sales tax or another approach, Colorado needs a statewide solution to solving the transportation-funding problem. As we approach November, more information will be provided about the various ballot measures and how they would benefit Lyons.

For comments or questions, Mayor Sullivan can be reached by email at csullivan@townoflyons.com.

Project Homecoming: Getting you back on your feet after a hospitalization (And it’s free!)

By Emily Dusel Redstone Review LYONS – Receive five free meals delivered to your home if you’ve just been released from any hospital to your home virtually anywhere in Boulder County.

It’s Project Homecoming, our hospital-to-home five free meals program. Project Homecoming is for people of any age or income level. Meal recipients have been as young as four years old.

When is Project Homecoming right for you? When you or someone you care about is transitioning from hospital to home, perhaps due to chemo treatments, the birth of a baby, a surgery or accident or for any number of reasons.

One recipient said, for example, “Grateful to the service to fill the gap of abilities to cope in transition from rehab to home. Great service.”

Good nutrition helps you get well when you’ve been in the hospital. We at Lyons Emergency and Assistance Fund (LEAF) can support your recovery with delicious meals so you can focus on getting better. Each homedelivered meal contains an entrée, vegetable, carbohy-

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drate, salad, and fruit or dessert. And each meal is delivered to you free of charge.

Our volunteer drivers deliver between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. each weekday. Get started now by calling the LEAF Meals on Wheels Program at 720-507-5480. We can accommodate special dietary requirements and if you want to add a frozen meal for use later, we’ll deliver it in a microwaveable container for your convenience.

The cost of the service? It’s free for five days – with no

The 2018 Mr. and Mrs. Good Old Days honor, given by the Lyons Historical Society, went to Raul Vasquez of Blue Mountain Stone, operating since the 1950s, for philanthropic donations to the town. Pictured are members of the Vasquez family accepting the honor. Standing are Bobbi Vasquez on the left, Manuel Vasquez on the right.

Isabelle Vasquez is in the front on the left. Also honored by the Historical Society were Donna Boone of The Hair Company, 37 years in business, and Dr. Joe Meckle of Lyons Chiropractic, 33 years. PHOTO BY KATHLEEN SPRING

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Determining which Meals on Wheels agency to call is based on where the patient lives, not which hospital facility was utilized.

• Lyons residents call Lyons Meals on Wheels, a program of LEAF, at 720-507-5480.

• Boulder, Gunbarrel or Eldorado Springs residents call Meals on Wheels of Boulder at 303-441-3908.

• Longmont or Niwot residents call Longmont Meals on Wheels at 303-772-0540.

• Lafayette Louisville, Superior or Erie residents call Coal Creek Meals on Wheels at 303-665-0566.

One client said, “Thank you so much for the healthy meals you deliver to my door. It is assisting in my recovery from a nutritional standpoint and my girlfriend doesn’t have to worry about me or my needs when she is at work. Your drivers are ALL very friendly and the meals are hot. Thank you again.”

Project Homecoming: Whether it’s a planned hospital stay or an unexpected hospitalization, give us a call and we’ll help you get back on the road to recovery. We’re Meals on Wheels and we’re here to help.

Emily Dusel is the executive director of the Lyons LEAF board. She lives in Lyons with her family.

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INTEREST Lyons Leos strong and getting stronger

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “At first, the kids really didn’t want to meet to discuss and plan projects,” said Jonelle Tucker, the community Moore advisor to the club.

“However, since 2014 the group has become strong and has been getting stronger since then.”

Tucker is talking about the Lyons LEOs, a Lyons Lions Club group of high school students that does volunteer work for the town and for other organizations in Lyons and the surrounding areas.

“Once the kids took ownership of the organization and made it their thing, it took off,” Tucker said. “Now I provide some guidance and support, but they basically run it without much of my involvement.”

It is not a school sponsored group, so the Lions Club provides necessary liability insurance, safety regulations and mentoring. The organization delivers meaningful volunteer opportunities and leadership roles, expands the members’ social circles, and the members gain insight and experience from the projects and people they serve. LEO stands for leadership, experience, and opportunity.

On June 30, the LEOs partnered with Habitat for Humanity to provide labor in

the construction of one of the houses the organization is building on Park Street.

“The Habitat project was a big deal,” said Tucker. “In order to reserve a build date for an entire club or organization, the St. Vrain chapter of Habitat requires it must raise $2,000 as a general donation to Habitat.” To the group’s delight, the local Lions Club raised the necessary funds to reserve the date. At 9 a.m. on the morning of the work day, ten LEOs and five or six Lions Club members showed up for work.

After initial instructions, work began.

“A safety rule for working on a construction site requires wearing a safety vest with the LEOs’ logo on the back,” said Tucker. “We were concerned the students would object to wearing the vests, so we made it fun by allowing each participant to sign his or her name on the vest each time it was used. The kids love it.”

“We divided into three groups, one to do roofing, another to do caulking before insulation was installed, and the third to put up siding on the outside,” said Kylen Christiansen, the club’s president.

For liability concerns, only 18-year-old students could be on the roof applying roofing materials. Since she is not yet 18, Christiansen stayed on the ground applying caulking and helping install the siding. “It was hard work, especially using the caulking gun all day long,” Christiansen said, expressing a new

appreciation for construction labor.

“In addition to the ten of us, we had four 14-year-old LEOs organize and serve a pulled pork sandwich lunch donated by the Lions,” Christiansen said.

She gives a big thank you to the Lions Club for raising the funds necessary to do the daylong project and for all its ongoing support.

While in a car on their way to a project, Tucker said to the group, “Sometime we should get together to have some fun. Then one of the kids in the car said, ‘This is fun.’”

“They do such a good job, people can’t believe it, and ask them to come back,” Tucker added. “If you give them responsi-

bility, making it their deal – they’ll do what you ask. Once they take ownership of the project, they can be trusted to do a good job and complete it.”

Past projects of the LEOs have included working with students in Lyons Elementary School, teaching autistic people how to ride bikes, assembling Hope for Homeless gift backpacks, being helpers and ambassadors for community and other events, and planting willow trees for the St. Vrain Creek restoration.

Lyons Community Foundation has been a proud sponsor of the LEOs for several years and strongly believes in the philosophy of the club and its activities.

Shauna Strecker plans to open Bella La Crema, a specialty butter bar, in Lyons on August 1.

purchased a cow-share (ownership of part of a milk cow). From the grass-fed cow’s milk, she began churning the cream into her own organic butter. The milk had been pasteurized, taking out both harmful and helpful bacteria. In her process she then adds back in those healthy, good bacteria active cultures that also gives the milk a more natural flavor.

“One day my son Rooks and I began mixing spices until we got just the flavors we were looking for, then we added those mixes to the butter we had just churned,” she said. “Rooks would get into the spices and wouldn’t give up until the taste was just right. Then I began cooking with it and gave some to friends. It was the feedback from those friends that convinced me I was on to something.”

About a year and half ago Shauna rented space in a commercial kitchen in

Nashville and began making her various butter spreads and selling them to the public. She now has 12 different spiced butter spreads for sale. Her business grew, and she has been selling her products online, in specialty shops, grocery stores, and through private functions. Her customers range to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and many places in between.

“It has been my goal in this business to open a shop that serves the public, and when the space in Lyons became available, I took it,” she said. She’s remodeling the place, which includes adding a deck on the back. With seating in the shop, deck, and on the sidewalk out front, the establishment will seat between 26 and 28 customers.

The target date for opening is August 1 and meeting that date all depends on

Bella La Crema

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “People have been making butter for over 10,000 years, but nobody has ever made butter beautiful,” said Shauna Strecker, who has been spicing up butter for a new business that she is opening on Main Street. She will specialize in offering her own buttery creations.

“I’m a foody and have a great memory of flavors,” Strecker explained. “So, I’ve always mixed spices together to get the flavor I want.” It was her passion for food and flavors that led her to create her business, Bella La Crema butter bar.

A few years ago when Strecker was living in Jefferson County, Colorado, she

The Lyons LEOs is a Lyons Lions Club group of high school students that does volunteer work for the town and for other organizations in Lyons and the surrounding areas.

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OPTIONS In the Czech Republic no one takes freedom for granted, neither should we

By Mark Browning Redstone Review LYONS – On July 4, we flew the Stars and Stripes at our house, like we do every year.

This year, flying our flag carried some special meaning. We had just returned from a trip to Europe, where we found that Browning a country with less than 50 years of independence in modern times can teach (or maybe re-teach) us Americans some important things about the independence and freedoms we have enjoyed for 242 years.

The Czech Republic is the heart of Europe’s Bohemia region. Things are old in Bohemia. Very old. Plaques on cathedrals and town towers display dates in the 1100s, sometimes earlier. Even logos on beer mugs date breweries back to the 1200s.

Yet despite its old age relative to the U.S., the Czech region has enjoyed independence for a very short time.

The Habsburg dynasty ruled Bohemia for nearly four centuries (1526 to 1918), clinging to monarchical power long after reforms in other Western countries. German was the official language, and school instruction in Czech was banned. Not until 1848 – 72 years after American independence, 59 years after the French Revolution – did the Habsburgs even declare an end to serfdom in their empire.

World War I (during which Czechoslovakia, seeking independence, quickly seceded from Austria-Hungary and joined the Allies) brought an end to control by the decrepit Habsburgs. Treaty terms in 1918 ushered in the first independence Czechs had known in modern times.

Czechs to this day honor Woodrow Wilson for contributing to their independence. It didn’t last.

In 1938, appeasement of Hitler in the infamous Munich Accords brought Czechoslovakia under German control, allegedly to protect ethnic Germans in the socalled “Sudetenland.” (A ploy worth remembering when Vladimir Putin speaks of “protecting ethnic Russians” in Crimea and the Baltics.)

After World War II, Russia brought Czechoslovakia into its sphere of influence, using the Czech Communist Party to assume control and then gradually eliminate private businesses and farms.

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Water Conservation – it's a hot topic LYONS – Due to the extended dry period we are experiencing, water usage will increase for many residents and businesses. Water conservation tactics can help conserve water and save money on utility bills, especially during the summer months: Replace turf with xeric gardens. Homeowners

In 1968, after chafing for 20 years under Soviet rule, Palach’s grave is almost literally in the shadow of the Czechs tried to loosen USSR control. The “Prague massive 709-ft. Zizkov Tower, a controversial structure Spring” provided a brief window of hope for more free- planned and begun in the Soviet era to, in part, jam news dom and autonomy. and information beamed to Czechs from Western That window was shattered on August 21, 1968, Europe. In 1992, Czechs completed the tower. They now when Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague and other use it for their own uncensored communications. Each cities. Czechs resisted, but civilian resistance to overwhelming modern military force proved futile.

In January, 1969, Jan Palach, a 20-year-old Czech history student, tried to re-energize Czech resistance by setting himself on fire in Wenceslas Square. He died three days later, the Prague Spring’s most prominent martyr. As he lay dying, Palach told doctors and family he wasn’t so much protesting the Russian invasion as he was trying to counter the Czech people’s gradual acceptance of their fate.

Palach’s grave in a Prague cemetery became a rallying A bronze cast of Jan Palach’s death mask is featured on his memorial at Charles spot for dissident Czechs, so University. In 1969 Palach set himself on fire in an effort to energize the Czech the Russians refused to let people to throw off Russian domination. him rest in peace. They disinterred his remains and cremated them, obliterating his grave. night, it is brightly lit in red, white and blue colors visiIn early 1989, “Palach Week” protests were staged in ble all over Prague – a proud symbol of Czech independCzechoslovakia to mark the twentieth anniversary of his ence and freedom. death. Protestors were arrested, beaten and silenced.

Older Czechs worry that young people who didn’t live When the Berlin Wall toppled months later, the Czech under German or Soviet occupation will forget what things “Velvet Revolution” quickly followed, spurred by massive were like and take for granted the freedoms Palach and othgatherings in Wenceslas Square after police beat student ers sacrificed so much for. A Museum of Communism has protestors marching through streets of Prague. Again, for been established in Prague to document what occupation the first time since 1938, Czechs gained independence. and oppression brought. It is a sobering reminder of how Palach’s family returned the urn holding his ashes to things were, and how much they have changed. the same cemetery and erected a new headstone.

The Czech Republic today is a relatively prosperous Czechs still visit it to pay tribute, as we did on our trip. country, part of the European Union and governed by a A monument in Wenceslas Square now commemorates Continue Czech on Page 12 the spot where Palach died.

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OPPORTUNITY A short history of Lyons water

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – This recent spate of hot, dry weather has many of us thinking about water: the extreme drought in parts of Colorado, the look of our gardens and lawns or whether there’s enough flow in the St. Vrain to float a tube or kayak.

Our area averages about 18 inches of rain a year (or, coincidentally, as much water as we got in that one memorable September of 2013). The fact that we can live and thrive here depends on a complicated, engineered system of supply and infrastructure.

Some of the Lyons water you drink, bathe in and irrigate with, like much of Colorado’s Front Range water, comes from the western side of the Continental Divide through the Colorado Big Thompson Project. And some of the water is local from the North St. Vrain River via the Ralph Price Reservoir in the Button Rock Preserve. But all of it goes through a municipal system that was devised 12 years ago.

Prior to 2006, the history of Lyons’ water supply is a tale of missteps, discarded options and finally a solution.

Water problems and a solution Lyons’ original water treatment facility was located at the upper end of Apple Valley. It’s the now-abandoned building to the north just before the arched bridge.

That plant took water directly from the North St. Vrain River, purified it and distributed it to residents. In the 1990s, problems of excess turbidity began, especially during spring run-off, some of it necessitating boil orders. The town was also facing stricter state water standards starting in 2003 and, despite installation of new microfiltration systems, it was clear the town would not be able to meet the new standards.

Further complicating the issue was that the water shares the town held for the North St. Vrain were junior rights, which could mean that during droughts senior water rights downstream could effectively deprive Lyons of water.

The town did have water shares of the Colorado Big Thompson (CBT) project but could not use them as the water from Carter Lake flowed into the southern end of town and there was no way to get the water five miles back to the Apple Valley plant.

Various schemes were explored including a reservoir in Stone Canyon, a satellite water plant in south Lyons, retrofitting the existing Apple Valley plant or rehabilitating the Longmont water plant on the Ute Highway. Studies showed that the cost to build a new Lyons plant, storage facility, piping and pumphouse would be close to $9 million.

The last, best option was to enter into an intergovernmental agreement with Longmont to have Longmont purify Lyons

water. So in 2003, the town took out a 20year, $4.48 million loan from the state to build the infrastructure necessary to access Longmont water. The result of this financial commitment was a considerable rise in water rates and there were numerous tweaks to the rate after the system went into place in 2006. The loan is still being paid back by the town; it’ll remain part of

next to the storage tank sends the water five miles north up Apple Valley Road to a 1-million gallon storage tank across the street from the old Lyons treatment plant.

Water is then released as needed and flows by gravity back into town for residential and business use.

Anyone who lives in these parts should visit the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy headquarters in Berthoud to learn about the CBT project and truly appreciate the engineering marvel that

Ralph Price Reservoir, with a view of Button Rock Dam in the distance. residents’ monthly water bills for the remaining eight years of the loan.

Clean water, courtesy of Longmont The town of Lyons annually transfers its water shares to Longmont for our municipal use. If you’re a relative newcomer like me, the term “water share” may be foreign to you, and explaining Colorado water law here requires more words than can fit in this entire edition of the newspaper. Suffice to say that the town owns the rights to a certain amount of water from two sources.

The water represented by the town’s St. Vrain and CBT shares goes to the North 53rd Street Longmont water treatment plant – the facility seen on the south side of the road leading out to Rabbit Mountain Open Space. The CBT water shares come from Carter Lake outside Fort Collins then flow down the canal that passes under Rabbit Mountain and fall down into Lyons via the Stone Canyon flume, thence via the Supply Ditch to the water plant.

The town’s St. Vrain water shares flow from the Ralph Price Reservoir to the Longmont plant via a line along Apple Valley.

All water is purified and pumped to Longmont’s large tan storage tank (known as the Montgomery tank) seen on the corner of Route 66 and North 53rd Street.

Next, the Lyons-owned pumping station – the one that looks like a small red barn –

provides our water.

Lyons water among most expensive in Colorado Lyons currently has one of the highest water rates in Colorado (according to a 2016 study). The study used a baseline figure of 10 thousand gallons per month and found that a Lyons water customer pays $87.48 for that amount. By comparison, a Longmont water customer pays $31.47. Lyons water customers actually average around 3,000 gallons per month – well below the state average of 6,000 gallons per month, according to Lyons Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen.

But there’s a reason why Lyons’ rates are high; it’s all about scale. Lyons has 925 users and Longmont has more than 25,000. Both Lyons and Longmont have a

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delivery infrastructure, but with fewer customers and the debt service of the 2003 loan, Lyons needs to charge more per customer. Similar small towns like Nederland ($86.20) and Estes Park ($69.72) have costs comparable to Lyons.

A little-known fact is that anyone wishing to build a new house in Lyons must first purchase a share of CBT water, currently going for $35,000, then transfer it to the town. This is in addition to the $17,500 tap fee each new home must pay to hook up to Lyons water.

While there’s not much residents can do about the price of water, there are well publicized ways to conserve. Many homeowners have switched over to xeric (low-water) landscaping, replacing thirsty grass.

The town is also a partner with ReSource Central (resource central.org), an organization that offers evaluations of water usage and sells preplanned xeric gardens.

Back in the early 2000s, Lyons leaders had the foresight to ensure residents had clean and adequate water, but that doesn’t mean we’re in the clear.

The 2015 Colorado’s Water Plan projects a shortfall in the state of 500,000 acre-feet of water by 2050 (an acre-foot is an acre covered by 1 foot of water). By that time, the state’s population will have nearly doubled to 10 million people – all of whom will need water.

And then, of course, there’s always the possibility of prolonged droughts – a fairly regular occurrence in the state’s history.

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INSIGHT Demonstrations are usually designed to oppose some issue and to send a message

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – A few Saturdays ago Susan McCann, Sara Neustadtl and I went to a demonstration in Longmont.

Gierach This one was to protest Donald Trump’s appalling immigration policy (if you can call that mess a “policy”) but in fact these weekly demonstrations have been going on here every Saturday like clockwork for over 70 weeks – ever since it became clear that the Trump administration would commit one outrage after another that people would feel the need to comment on.

I’m not good at estimating crowd size, but I’ll guess there were between 250 and 300 of us. We were spread out along both sides of Main Street at 6th Avenue, so from the inside it was hard to see the whole group at once. There were a few people in their late teens to early 30s, but most were middle-aged or better. I saw one man about my age carrying a battered cardboard peace sign that looked like it had first seen service in the late 1960s. We exchanged a glance that seemed to convey determined resignation: Half a century later and here we still are. Who’d have thought?

As the term implies, demonstrations are intended to demonstrate something – usually opposition, occasionally support – and they’re performed in public because they’re for public consumption. The idea is to send a message to more than just the few people who’ll witness the event first hand,

and to accomplish that you want to rack up enough numbers to make the news.

That’s why the Women’s March on Washington so effectively set the tone for the resistance. It was peaceful for the most part and it was massive: an estimated 3 to 5 million people in Washington with satellite demonstrations in cities and towns

fraction of a percent of them throwing rocks and hurting their own cause.

The timing of the Women’s March couldn’t have been better. It was held the day after Trump’s inauguration while he and his mouthpiece, Sean Spicer, were both claiming that the crowd at that event was “the biggest ever,” even as offi-

around the country (perfect for split-screen shots on TV) and demonstrations in solidarity in dozens of foreign countries.

Naturally there were a handful of demonstrators on the periphery of that march who got rowdy and broke some windows. That kind of thing seems inevitable when you get that many people together, but it’s unfortunate because of the nature of news coverage. You know how it works: millions of people demonstrate peacefully, but what you see on the evening news is a

cial park service photos clearly showed that the turnout was pitiful. Crowd size isn’t everything (unless you have a terribly fragile ego) but when you draw many times more people to a demonstration against the new president than he could draw to his own swearing-in, it makes a statement that’s hard to misinterpret.

The point of demonstrating isn’t to win over those who disagree with you. In fact, the bigger and more effective a demonstration is, the more likely it is to harden their hearts against you. The point is to speak directly to your intended target – in this case the president and his supporters – and to show those who might be on the fence or leaning in your direction that they aren’t alone. That’s how numbers grow and why they’re important. Two or three demonstrators are easily dismissed as weirdos; a few hundred begin to constitute the kind if movement that can cause senators and congressmen to duck out the back doors of their offices; a few million are a political force that not even the most cynical politician can completely ignore.

I don’t regularly attend demonstrations anymore and I can’t isolate the exact

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LYONS –We’re gathering residents of Lyons who want to help shape the future of Lyons.

Residents are invited to gather on July 26 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Pizza Bar 66, 430 Main St., to discuss ideas for Lyons. Join us for pizza, and weigh in on how we can work together to make Lyons a Zero Waste leader!

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cocktail of emotions that got me out the door to the most recent one. It just seemed to be time. It’s possible that I once thought these things were fun, although that now seems like too simple a word. I think I now consider them more of a civic duty than anything else. And of course behind the specifics of any demonstration is the larger point that the First Amendment rights to free speech and to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances are still in operation.

And I’ll admit that there’s a degree of excitement to these things; something about joining a crowd of like-minded people who’ve all come out on a Saturday afternoon to stand in the hot sun and air out their civic responsibility. Strangers seem happy to see you and if you meet someone you know it seems more meaningful than running into them at the coffee shop.

I can testify that at really large demonstrations – especially those that attract platoons of cops in riot gear – the noise, the crush of people, the sense of selfrighteousness, and the threat of impending combat can cause you to do things you might not have done if you’d had more time to think them through. It can be a great feeling, but it mimics the effects of tequila and cocaine and therefore shouldn’t be trusted.

There was nothing like that at this last demonstration. Even the signs were pretty mild as protest signs go. As we’ve all seen, anti-Trump picket signs can get pretty raw, which isn’t surprising. When Trump decided to be the kind of bully who deploys ridicule as a political weapon, he must have understood that he’d get the same thing back in spades.

Our only audience that day was the passing traffic, which is why we were spread out along Main Street in the first place. We got a mixed reception. Most people seemed to ignore us, although they could have just been watching the road.

Some others honked and waved encouragingly and a few glowered and raised their middle fingers as they passed by.

And a few on motorcycles revved their engines as they went through the intersection. Not sure what that meant except that bikers just like to make noise.

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COMMUNITY Big Round World brings local charm to global travel

By Kayann Short Redstone Review LYONS – Local Lyons resident Deirdre Butler, who is originally from England, is going back to her roots. She has started her own travel company and will offer guided tours of the beautiful country Short around England.

With Big Round World, her new travel business headquartered in Lyons, travelers get more than a trip. Butler’s Big Round World offers international travel with local insights and comforts.

Butler, who grew up in England on the British Channel Islands and on the southwest moors of Devon, moved to Lyons with her husband Peter in 2000. After more than a decade leading international trips for the Sierra Club, including to Greece, Nepal, the UK, and three summits of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Butler decided to establish her own tour company, combining her expertise with those of a talented team of trip leaders to offer small-group global travel experiences that go beyond what larger commercial companies can offer.

Butler’s firsthand knowledge of the UK’s breathtaking landscapes and unique cultures makes the trip more like a family visit than a tour. In fact, Butler’s sisters join her as local guides, even offering an authentic cream tea, which in British terms means tea or coffee and homemade scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam.

Butler’s upcoming trips to the UK, for example, include walking the legendary Coast to Coast trail that traverses England’s northern shores, passing not only through three National Parks, including the UNESCO world heritage Lake District, but crossing different regional linguistic styles, as well. “Participants enjoy meeting the locals, hearing their stories, and distinguishing their accents,” says Butler. Another trip includes Dartmoor National Park, where travelers view a 16th-century aqueduct built

by Sir Francis Drake. “Unless you’re a local,” says Butler, “you wouldn’t even know it’s there.”

British pub cuisine is a favorite for Butler’s trip participants. Butler emphasizes that “locally sourced” in England means grown or raised within 50 miles, including locally brewed real ale with names like Doom Bar and Jail Ale. One special restaurant is the Royal Oak at

Butler, Big Round World’s company ethos is staying safe while having fun.

Big Round World trips are also ecologically conscious, with Butler and other trip leaders always emphasizing awareness of preserving precious ecosystems while visiting them. Says Butler, “The British trail system depends on the good practices of travelers, especially with the loss of funding following Great Britain’s exit from the EU. We take special care to leave no trace here and everywhere we go.”

Deirdre Butler has launched her own travel company, Big Round World, specializing in unique, small group guided tours to less-traveled parts of her native England.

Meavy, a classic 16th-century pub on the village green over which a 900-year-old oak tree spreads its limbs.

While providing unique views into the local history, traditions, landscapes, and cuisine, Big Round World prides itself on its personalized service before and during the trip. Preparation includes pre-trip newsletters with information about local flora and fauna like unique wildflowers, trees, and animals, as well as tips for the potential exigencies of international travel. Butler’s years of trip-leading experience help her provide the best support for hikers and travelers of all abilities. According to

Butler loves leading trips that share the natural and cultural beauty of her old home country. “I grew up walking the countryside with my mother, a keen and observant naturalist who developed my passion for all things wild and wonder-full. That love of the land and all it holds is what I want to bring to my participants, too.”

Connections with locals and with each other are at the forefront of Big Round World’s goals.

For more information on international travel blended with local charm, see www.bigroundworld.com or contact Butler at info@bigroundworld.com.

Lyons Community Foundation grant applications available now

By Kristen Bruckner Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) is pleased to announce its 11th annual Community Support granting season.

Applications for Community Support Grants are available online now and are due September Bruckner 10, 2018. These grants are available only once per year and must be applied for at this time. Electronic submissions are required; granting information and applications are available at www.lyonscf.org.

In 2017, Community Support Grants totaled over $30,000 and were awarded to 14 individual projects. None of this work would continue without the dedication, inspiration, hard work, and financial support of Lyons area citizens.

The LCF’s Community Support granting program focuses on our mission to improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving, and encourage positive change for the greater Lyons area.

Eligible for grants are non-profit organizations in the greater Lyons area that have 501(c)3 status or a sponsoring organization with 501(c)3 status, government agencies, and schools. Some of programming including the projects that were funded in 2017 included support for LEAF (Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund) and its food pantry, the Town of Lyons / Parks and Rec Sandstone

Concert Series and Parade of Lights, Lyons Elementary School, Lyons High School, Lyons Volunteers, and the Lyons Historical Society. A complete list is available on our website.

The Lyons Community Foundation welcomes the participation of community members who wish to serve on the Grants Review Committee, which is separate from LCF’s Advisory Board. Being a grant reviewer is a great way to learn about some of the exciting efforts going on in Lyons and help in the LCF granting process. Applications to serve on the Grants Review Committee are available at www.lyonscf.org and must be submitted by September 4, 2018.

We are a community-funded organization and are proud to support projects and programs that enrich life in Lyons. We serve to enhance area resident’s experience of community and encourage all to become involved through participation, volunteering or offering financial support. The Lyons Community Foundation exists because of our generous community of donors; your financial support is greatly appreciated.

Information on ways you can donate is on our website.

Kristen Bruckner is on the Lyons Community Foundation Communications Committee and writes columns for the LCF. She lives in Lyons.

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Fire restrictions enacted for the Town of Lyons LYONS – Sheriff Pelle’s Level 2 Fire Restrictions orders for Lyons and western Boulder County have been formalized for the Town of Lyons by Mayor Sullivan.

Level 2 Fire Restrictions have been enacted in the Town of Lyons and western Boulder County, effective immediately. The fire restrictions have been implemented due to increasing fire danger, lack of moisture, and the forecast for hot temperatures. There has also been an increase in recreational activities in western Boulder County during the summer months. In addition, local and

regional fire suppression resources have also been committed to large fires in Colorado and across the nation.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT to noon A Human Named David (David Berg) pianist / storyteller will perform. On the same day from 12:30 p.m. Miriam McQueen will perform old soul / folk. On

By Chrystal DeCoster Saturday August 11 from 10 a.m. to noon Redstone Review Harmony and Brad will perform acoustic pop / rock. On Saturday August 11 startLYONS ing 12:30 p.m. Rachel Price will perform Art and music at the pop / rock / R&B. On Sunday August 12 Stone Cup, 442 High from 10 a.m. to noon Ryan Hutchens will Street, starts with artist perform Americana / folk. On Sunday Brent Hollingsead, August 12 from 12:30 p.m. Jay Stott and DeCoster whose art will be Friends will perform Americana. For shown through the end of more information, call 303-823-2345 or August. Hollingsead is a Lyons-based go to www.thestonecup.com. impressionist artist whose multitude of Lyons Arts and Humanities works play with texture, layering, abstracCommission’s Call to Artists for tion and spontaneity. A graduate of heARTS of LYONS has concludWittenberg University’s Fine Arts proed. The LAHC has officially gram, he has translated his lifelong pasgleaned over 20 pieces of high-quality sion for art into his professional career as original art and sculpture for its heARTS a graphic designer which is often reflectof LYONS Outdoor Arts Collection – all ed back in the dimensionality of each over town, from the new 10’ “Ursa painting. Today, he is emerging as a seaMajor” bear sculpture in front of Western soned artist with a passion for expressing Stars Gallery and Studio by Parker authenticity in each brushstroke.

McDonald of Longmont to James Vilona The music line-up at the cup is as of Berthoud’s illuminated “Generator” in follows: There will be lots of extra music place at NOW Gallery. The exhibit’s over the long RockyGrass weekend selected artists are being paid a $750 (Friday through Monday). On Friday July total stipend for their two-year commit20 from 10 a.m. to noon, Alex Canales ment. Huge thanks to the Town of Lyons, Blue Mountain Stone and Robyn Sloan for their generous assistance and support of this exciting and complex undertaking. To make much needed donations or for more information call Melinda Wunder at 303-818-6982 or email melinda@creativeconvs.com.

The LAHC’s Summer Town Hall Art Show’s Opening Reception, Community Tapas Potluck and open to everyone musician’s jam in the courtyard Lyons’ own Renaissance women Diane Dandeneau (led by Michelle Allen) is will have paintings on display at Bank of the West, Saturday July 21 from 6:30 303 Main St., through October 12. to 8:30 p.m. The community is welcome; bring finger foods to share and / or any instrument to will perform jazz / Brazilian / New play. From 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday July Orleans music. On Saturday July 21 from 20 is the drop-off of ready-to-wallhang 10 a.m. to noon, Emily Yates will perform summer-themed art, each piece with an folk. On Saturday July 21 at 12:30 p.m. info placard featuring title, artist’s name, Emily Barnes will perform folk. On city / state, medium, price or NFS (not Sunday July 22 from 10 a.m. to noon for sale), and contact details. All ages John Mieras will perform folk; he is a and stages of artists are welcome to subsinger / songwriter. On the same day from mit up to five summer-themed pieces.

12:30 p.m. Robert Tiernan, singer / songFor more information, email chrystaldewriter will perform folk. coster@gmail.com.

Rocky Grass artists include: On Lyons’ Bank of the West displays Friday, July 27 from 9 a.m. to noon Bob art by local artist, Diane Barrick will perform Americana / folk. On Dandeneau. The Bank of the West genFriday July 27 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. erously began these quarterly art show Mark Lavengood Band will perform rotations in 2017 in an effort to help proAmerican roots. On Saturday July 28 mote and celebrate local arts-centric busifrom 9 a.m. to noon Caleb Miller will pernesses. This show at 303 Main St. hangs form folk / alternative through Friday, rock. On Sunday July October 12 and fea29 starting 9 a.m. tures artwork by the Billy Shaddox will multi-gifted perform American Dandeneau, an folk music.

On accomplished painter, Monday July 30 from singer / songwriter, 9 to 11 a.m. Tim solar industry profesOstdiek will perform sional, and entreprefolk / singer / songneur. Stop by Western writer. On Saturday Stars Gallery and August 4 from 10 a.m.

Studio at 160 East to noon Antonio Main St. to purchase Lopez will perform her bank-displayed art modern folk / acoustic and to see more examsoul. On Saturday ples of her creations.

August 4 starting Red Canyon Art, 12:30 p.m. Dakota located at 400 Main Gray will perform The Colorado Shakespeare festival St., will be showing Americana / bluegrass at CU Boulder is in full swing with the work of its artists / folk. On Sunday performances through early August. at the bank October Above, a scene from Richard III. August 5 from 10 a.m. through January.

Arts and Entertainment in the greater Lyons Area

Works by Brent Hollingshead will be featured at the Stone Cup through August.

Art on Main Street: Western Stars Gallery and Studio, The Corner Studios and Red Canyon Art Gallery all proudly showcase a wide variety of work by Colorado artisans. Stop by to explore their eclectic consigned offerings. Watch for pop-up events at NOW Gallery. Shop locally to support area painters, ceramicists, sculptors, framers, collectors, woodworkers, and craftspersons.

The free 20th Annual Sandstone Summer Concert Series is on Thursdays, through August 23 at 6:30 p.m. Thanks to the generous support of the Lyons Community Foundation, the Raul Vasquez Community Stage hosts the Sandstone Summer Concert Series every Thursday evening this summer. Bring chairs or a blanket and picnic fare or plan to dine out before or after at a local restaurant.

The line up of local talent: July 19, Erik

Yates Band; July 26, Sally Van Meter and the True Bluegrass Band; August 2, Bonnie and the Clydes; August 9, Jimmy Sferes and Jennifer White; August 16, Woodbelly Band; and August 23, Take Down the Door Unhinged.

LAFAYETTE Rose & Iris, a reading by author Pam Noble, will be held at 7 p.m. on August 11 at the Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way in Lafayette. The reading will be accompanied by David and Enion Pelta-Tiller of Taarka, in concert.

This event will celebrate the release of Rose & Iris audiobook on CD, benefiting Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence at the Arts Hub in Lafayette. Rose & Iris is a short story in poetic form of two young women in Appalachia in the early 1900s. Listening Continue A&E on Page 15

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EXPRESSIONS The U.S. Constitution lists no qualifications for becoming a Supreme Court Justice

By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review PUEBLO – So, who wants to be on the U.S. Supreme Court?

If you responded, “Brett Kavanaugh,” you got one right – but you left out the other 200+ million citizens who also Joyce might want the job. Kids wouldn’t take it.

But what a job it is: no qualifications listed in the Constitution; lifetime job security unless you commit impeachable offenses at some point; a salary of $200,000+ per year, and 15 percent of that on top for other earnings (the big bucks come after retirement, if you take that option, because the “ethics” salary cap disappears); prestige; the power to change the nation in many cases and to keep it the way it is in many others.

About 10,000 cases per year are appealed to you and your colleagues, but you only have time and resources to decide about 80 of them. It would seem most of the difficulties arise in deciding which cases to hear. After that, you pick your side of the decision and support it with legal argumentation. Then you vote, and five justices often end up deciding the path for the nation on the point of law involved. And anyone, according to the Constitution, can be a justice on the court.

Realistically, though the Constitution lists no qualifications – not age, citizenship, gender, knowledge of the law or experience with it as a lawyer or judge – you have no chance of becoming a Supreme Court chief or associate justice without a prestigious background in law school and 12 or so years working with the law in some noteworthy way.

Even then, those who qualify have about a one in 800,000 chance of being picked – and those qualifications are just the price of admission to the possibility of it happening. Usually, the appointment is political, and that eliminates almost everyone who meets the qualifications, except for those in the forefront of the right political party at the right time.

Only a few ever are considered as candidates for appointment, a fewer still are confirmed by the Senate. Kavanaugh is one of the former and is likely to be one of the latter soon.

subjective “intentions” of those who wrote the text or of the “original expected applications” that the Framers of a constitutional text thought that it would have.

Originalism is usually contrasted as a theory of constitutional interpretation with Living Constitutionalism. Living He is more conservative than the justice he would constitutionalists believe that the meaning of the constitureplace, Anthony Kennedy, by many accounts, and con- tional text changes over time, as social attitudes change, siders himself an originalist, i.e. a jurist who, according to even without the adoption of a formal constitutional a white paper by Steven G. Calebresi, Clayton J. and amendment pursuant to Article V of the Constitution.

Henry R. Barber professor of law at Northwestern Living constitutionalists believe that racial segregation Pritzker School of Law, subscribes to the philosophy that: was constitutional from 1877 to 1954, because public opinThe constitutional text ought to be given the original ion favored it, and that it became unconstitutional only as public meaning that it would have had at the time that a result of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board it became law. The original meaning of constitutional of Education (1954) – a case in which they think the Supreme Court changed and improved the Constitution.

In contrast, originalists think that the Fourteenth Amendment always forbade racial segregation – from its adoption in 1868, to the Supreme Court’s erroneous decision upholding segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), to the decision in Brown in 1954, down to the present day.

Living constitutionalists think racial apartheid could become constitutional again if social attitudes toward race evolve.

Originalists disagree and think race discrimination will always be unconstitutional unless the 14th Amendment is repealed.

Brett Kavanaugh is Donald Trump’s pick to replace the retiring Justice Anthony So, is being an originalist a bad Kennedy. Kavanaugh is considered to be a constitutional originalist. quality in a Supreme Court Justice? The answer is, of course, texts can be discerned from dictionaries, grammar books, it depends. Justice Scalia first defined the term and pracand from other legal documents from which the text ticed it, saying from his viewpoint the Constitution was might be borrowed. a “dead” document, by which he meant “enduring.”

It can also be inferred from the background legal events Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch are of simiand public debate that gave rise to a constitutional provi- lar mind. Kavanaugh would add immeasurably to that sion. The original meaning of a constitutional text is an way of interpreting the Constitution. objective legal construct like the reasonable man standard But there may be a third way, a middle way that, if in tort law, which judges a person’s actions based on adopted by an originalist justice, would accommodate whether an ordinary person would consider them reason- both approaches by seeking to recognize that both the able, given the situation. It exists independently of the Continue Justice on Page 13

The Lyons Pits fights to save the St. Vrain River Valley from Martin Marietta’s proposed mining

By Amanda Dumenigo Redstone Review LYONS – Things have been heating up this summer, and it’s not just the temperature. Save Our St. Vrain Valley, SOSVV’s year and a half long efforts to protect the St. Vrain River Valley from a spot zoning or defacto rezoning by Martin Marietta Materials, MMM, in the area is reaching its boiling point on July 25, at an upcoming appeal hearing before the Board of Adjusters, BOA. If you live or recreate in

Lyons, Hygiene, or Estes Park and have not yet heard of the “Lyons Pits,” then please do yourself and the community a favor and catch up by visiting our website at www. sosvv. wordpress. com before it’s too late.

As we have reported for nearly a year and a half, what is at stake is 640+ acres of agricultural land, including Lands of National Significance, rare riparian habitat, endangered and protected species of animals and plants, valuable archeology and geology, existing ranching and farming uses, property values, health and safe-

ty, vistas, and our quality of life, etc.

Some of the deeper issues under the surface, and taken in the larger context, are issues of our fundamental First Amendment rights, power and enforceability of the law (or lack thereof), and setting the precedent for the future of unincorporated Boulder area.

In the First Amendment issues, this week, SOSVV’s Facebook ad for the BOA appeal hearing was “not approved due to political content,” even though it is an “event” using Facebook’s event template,

a public announcement for a public hearing at a public county courthouse, not an op-ed. The denial is being investigated.

The legal battle for the CLR 34 Neighborhoods Association Group in Weld County that has paved the way locally in their opposition and victory at the Colorado Court of Appeals level opposing a Marietta processing plant approved Use by Special Review permit, is far from over. MMM attorney, Mark Mathews of Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck claims that the Colorado Appeals Court and the District Court do not have the authority to provide the remedies (i.e. reverse the Commissioner’s approval and take the estimated $70 million dollar plant down), and that jurisdicContinue Pits on Page 13

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HOUSING COMMENTARY: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN LYONS

Updates on vacation rentals for tourists and affordable rentals

By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review

LYONS – More information is now available for two issues that affect affordable housing in the Town of Lyons: updates for residential property owners who plan to make money renting space to tourists short-term, and updates about proposed affordable rentals for community members Reinholds struggling to find places to live.

Vacation rentals in Town of Lyons residential zones On March 29, homeowners who wanted to learn more about the licensing process for short-term vacation hosts in residential zones in Lyons attended an overview meeting at Lyons Town Hall, but several questions went unanswered. A conversation with town staff in June confirmed the required steps and answered many of those questions.

Until the short-term rental ordinance was added to the Town of Lyons municipal code at the start of 2018, the only way for homeowners of residential-zoned properties (R-1 and R-2) in town to legally rent space in their homes nightly or weekly to visitors (including on websites like AirBnb and VRBO) was to apply for a conditional use review to run a Bed and Breakfast business. This process required several steps including public hearings before the town planning commission and the Lyons Board of Trustees. No homeowners applied.

(Bed and breakfast businesses with six or fewer units are allowed by right – without the conditional use reviews – on A-1, A-2, and Estate zoned land, if the homeowners have a business license and the rented units are in the main house.)

Now a new process makes it much easier for homeowners on R-1 and R-2 properties to rent out rooms to vacationers in the homes where they live. All they must do is complete an application for a Town of Lyons Short-term Rental Application License, and pay an initial $75 application ($50 for ensuing years) fee and a $100 annual license fee. An additional Town of Lyons Business License is not required. Waivers of the $100 license fee are granted for short-term rentals of rooms that meet accessibility requirements. Residential homeowners must fill out paper applications at Town Hall or print out the application at www.townoflyons.com/ShortTermRentals), and an

online application is expected soon.

The Lyons Short-term Rental ordinance prohibits short-term rentals in campers or RVs, in homes that the property owners do not use as their principal residence, and in other non-compliant structures like sheds and accessory dwelling units (ADUs) (see the www.townoflyons.com/566/Accessory-Dwelling-Units ordinance).

Greer said he was researching short-term rental advertising websites (like AirBnb and VRBO), to compile a list of properties running unlicensed short-term rentals, and sending out letters to those property owners. The goals are to get all of the rentals licensed and to begin enforcement on any short-term rentals that do not conform to the short-term rental ordinance.

Proposals for affordable housing Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen told the trustees July 2 that Summit Housing Group, which has an agreement to purchase Tract A of Lyons Valley Park Filing 8, is creating a new concept design proposing to build 29 affordable rentals on that parcel. She said that Summit is also pursuing a purchase agreement for 19617 N. St. Vrain Drive and a concept plan that proposes 20 to 24 affordable town homes there.

Summit, based in Missoula, MT, is a development company that specializes in low-income tax credit and mixeduse developments. It develops and manages rental properties in six states, including Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, all which include portions affordable to people who make 60 percent or less of the area median incomes. The federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) program is a source of investment funding that subsidizes development costs, allowing housing units to rent at below-market rates.

On Jan. 29, the trustees approved a resolution authorizing a purchase and sale agreement with current owner Keith Bell, for an option to buy Tract A of Lyons Valley Park Filing 8. Summit was selected by the trustees in March. The purchase and sale agreement with Keith Bell was then assigned from the Town of Lyons to Summit, who is working directly with the seller.

Simonsen told the trustees on July 2 that Summit plans to hold another community meeting later in the month about the updated proposal for building affordable rental homes in Lyons. At a previous community meeting in May, input from the Lyons Valley Park neighbor-

hood encouraged Sam Long, Summit senior project manager, to consider building only 29 homes instead of the 43 homes originally planned. Long said at that meeting that Summit determined that the Lyons Valley Park subdivision agreement allows for multifamily density on 3.82 acres of Tract A of Filing 8, allowing 27 to 29 homes to be built by whoever owns the property. Summit proposed rentals affordable to people who make about 60 percent of the area median income (or possibly less, depending on funding sources and investments like LIHTC).

This column is a monthly commentary (opinion column) in the Redstone Review about affordable housing after the 2013 flood disaster in Lyons. If you have any questions, comments, or complaints, contact me directly at areinholds@hotmail.com. For a history of post-flood efforts for affordable housing in Lyons, see previous columns at lyonscoloradonews.wordpress.com.

Amy Reinholds served on the Lyons Housing Recovery Task Force from December 2013 through its end in February 2015. She is currently a member of the Lyons Human Services and Aging Commission and served as a liaison to the Special Housing Committee during its existence from April 2015-April 2016. She has lived in Lyons since 2003 and in the surrounding Lyons area since 1995.

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Aspen Moon Farm produce is heavily damaged by recent hail storm LYONS – The hail storm on June 18 and 19 did significant damage to the crops at Aspen Moon’s Niwot location. Ten acres of vegetables and seven acres of grains were damaged.

The Hygiene location had very little hail those particular days and with so many different types of crops and lots of succession plantings throughout our season, we are still able to provide a nice variety for our community.

This is the most significant damage we have experienced as a farm of 9.5 years. We will still fulfill every CSA share for our members with a diverse selection of high quality produce: CSA is always our top priority.

The lost income from those fall crops will make it challenging to make our FSA (Farm Service Agency) loan payments at the end of the year. Here are two links to support Aspen Moon and Waldorf School. http://bvwaldorf.org/giving/farm-support/. This is a tax-deductible donation to support our work at the Waldorf School. And the second link is https://www.gofundme.com/support-aspen-moon-farm-hail.

This is a go fund me page to directly support the farm financially. For more information, go to the website http://www.aspenmoonfarm.com/hail/.

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LIBRARY Locals Job Fair will be held this month for the library construction project

By Darcie Sanders Redstone Review LYONS – The much anticipated Locals Job Fair for the new library construction project is happening. Fransen Pittman, our general contractor, is seeking subcontractors, carpenters, and laborers. One of the reasons that the Lyons Regional Library District chose Fransen Pittman in the first place was because of the company’s deep commitment to local involvement. Fransen Pittman sincerely believes that “locals are better. This is a project for the community and should be built by the community. Building with locals also helps the local economy keep more money within the District.”

There will be two times and locations for the Job Fair for the new library construction project. The first one will take place on Wednesday, July 18 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at Pizza Bar 66, 430 Main St. in Lyons. The second Job Fair will take place on Saturday, July 21 from 8 to 11 a.m. at Sandstone Park in Lyons.

What to expect at the Fair. The Fair will walk you through the project’s needs and paperwork and help you pre-qualify.

There will be samples of insurance info, safety records, and financial statements.

Fransen Pittman will take your contact info and follow up with you.

What to bring. All you need to get started is your business card or some other form of contact information. If you already have insurance, safety, and finan-

Czech Continued from Page 5 vibrant democracy. Private enterprise is restored. There is a palpable sense of national pride in independence.

It took Czechs multiple tries to secure their independence, which even now is an exception to historic dominance by others. Jan Palach and many others sacrificed to reach that goal, just like American rebels in 1776 sacrificed to gain independence and just like thousands of American soldiers and their families since then have made sacrifices to maintain our independence and the freedoms that go with it.

Our country isn’t perfect. We sometimes use our independence to make mistakes.

We sometimes forget the cost and value of things like freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

When those freedoms are attacked, by a shotgun-wielding malcontent at a small

cial records that’s great – bring them along. If not, or if you first want to talk to the Project Team about exactly what they need, then that is fine – you can provide those documents later.

Who will be there? Project Team members Rachel Fenn (Project Estimator), Dan Sullivan (Project Manager), Marc Groen (CFO), and Dave Eddy (Director of Preconstruction) will all be staffing the info table. Stop on by and say “Hello.” These are exactly the decision-makers who interested subcontractors should be talking to about opportunities on the Lyons Library project.

In other news, we are giving a shout out to a wonderful member of our community, Patricia McGrane. She couldn’t make it to the Taste of Lyons – Hazel Miller event due to being out of town, so she went ahead and bought tickets for two other couples who otherwise would not have been able to attend. According to her Lyons Happenings post she did it “in honor of my EXTREME love for live Blues music and public libraries.”

Welcome new Library volunteers Joan Treece and Danny Eaton (age 16); incoming Friends Board Members Bonnie DiSilva, Pam Browning, and Lisa Sobieniak; and new Foundation member Bill Palmer.

newspaper or by a Twitter-wielding blowhard, we need to remember that they are not inevitable or permanently guaranteed to us. Our independence and freedoms were not cheaply won. The Czech Republic’s history teaches how hard it can be to both obtain and maintain these things.

When we fly the red, white and blue on July 4 and other holidays, those same colors are on display in many places in the Czech Republic – on the Zizkov Tower, at Jan Palach’s grave, and at his monument in Wenceslas Square. We should join Czech patriots by celebrating what we have achieved and resolving never to forget the value of the freedoms we have.

Mark Browning is a Lyons resident and retired attorney. He is a Trustee on the Lyons Town Board and he volunteers with Meals on Wheels, the Lyons LEOs and the Lyons Volunteers.

Welcome home intrepid Blister Sisters Sarah Catchpole and Erica Ellingson, who hiked the 100-mile English Coastto-Coast Trail and raised $3,975 through GoFundMe.com.

Congrats to Katherine Weadley, who celebrated her three-year anniversary as our awesome Library Director in June, and to our part-time cataloger Karen Selden, who was elected to the Executive Board of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).

Demand for services continues to increase: In May we registered 12 new

library cards (that makes 73 new year-todate), checked out 3,352 items, and hosted 151 All-Ages Storytime patrons.

Our “Walk Under The Strawberry Moon” event was sold out with a waiting list.

The book or the movie? Books being filmed include Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple, starring Cate Blanchett as the brilliant but complicated mother who disappears; Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, about a New Yorker who goes to Singapore to visit her boyfriend’s family and gets quite a few surprises; Boy Erased, Garrard Conley’s memoir of undergoing conversion therapy as a child, starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe; and finally Philip Reeve’s scifi/fantasy Mortal Engines, boasting a screenplay by Lord of the Rings (LOTR) team Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh. Order these titles through the library now so that you can decide for yourself which is better. This summer’s reading program theme all across the U.S.A. is “Libraries Rock.”

Darcie Sanders is a member of the Lyons Regional District Library Board.

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Town Continued from Page 1 from the University of Colorado Law School. His practice is focused on municipal law, public utilities law, and telecommunications law, representing clients in both the government and private sectors.

Also at the board meeting Will Toor, a former Boulder County Commissioner, talked to the board about the ballot initiative Let’s Go Colorado to raise a sales tax for the Transportation Department. Toor is currently Director of Transportation Programs at Southwest Energy Efficiency

Pits Continued from Page 10 tion lies with the local Weld County Commissioners. These are the same Commissioners whose permit approval was deemed to be “capricious and arbitrary” by the three Appeals Court Judges.

Former MMM district sales manager Paula Oransky was fired in October 2017 for speaking at a rally against oil and gas

Project and he is working on the Let’s Go Colorado initiative. The proposed sales tax would be 0.62 percent and would give 45 percent to the state highway fund, 20 percent to cities, 20 percent to counties and the rest to highway projects. The Colorado Transportation funding has not been increased for decades. Most of the funding comes from the gas tax.

The board decided to keep the prior exemption language in Ordinance 1039 which offers the people building new homes the option to install in home sprinklers or

extraction ( https : / / www. denverpost. com / 2018 / 05 / 23 / anadarko - firestone - explosion - lawsuit - settlement / ), with the Erie Protectors. Oransky has filed a lawsuit against MMM. Regarding power and enforceability of the law, questions must be asked in light of said facts and the upcoming BOA Hearing: Is MMM above the law? Does local government authority supersede

Justice Continued from Page 10 enduring language of the Constitution and the broader living language apply in every case.

An originalist of such thinking, would likely first and foremost assume the Preamble to the Constitution to be the first binding language of the document, and yet in its original form its broad language points to the prime directives of the document in such a way as to imply its “living” quality for the future.

The Preamble’s prime directives are: “form a more perfect union, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”

There are no specifics there. The rest of the document is largely concerned with a creating a structure within which to accomplish those things, and with the

PAGE 13 not. The board heard from the Lyons Fire Protection District Marshall that the sprinklers are designed to allow people time to evacuate the home. They can potentially also lessen the fire damage.

Mayor Connie Sullivan said that the town is very near build-out and very few homes will be built in the future. She also pointed out that older homes would still have no protection and that the older homes are more at risk of fire. She did not favor making the sprinklers mandatory.

state law? What happens when local government refuses to enforce land use codes that are promulgated to protect the citizens from potentially dangerous intensive uses, such as the Five Year Lapse Provision in Boulder County Land Use Code? We learned that it has never been upheld or applied since it was promulgated.

Please join us on July 25 at 4 p.m. at the Boulder County Courthouse in the

amendments that changed the document to reflect new thinking and new social realities, such as the 13th and 14th amendments.

Originalists would argue that change through amendment and / or legislation (and therefore, by the ballot) is the way the Constitution is set up for change, and the Supreme Court is not and should not be the instrument for addressing such shifting social realities.

Yet, it has been used as such quite positively and effectively in terms of our Preamble’s language, and perhaps Justice Kennedy’s decisions one way or the other demonstrate an understanding of why and when the court must act in that role.

If he is confirmed, I hope Kavanaugh truly will replace Kennedy as a swing vote on the court, and I hope his decisions also reflect the deeper understanding that our Constitution is both an enduring and a living document, one which the Supreme Court must interpret in the most

Commissioners Hearing Room to be a part of the discussion or to support SOSVV with your presence.

For more information visit www.sosvv.wordpress.com or www.facebook.com/LyonsandHygiene Amanda Dumenigo works with Save our St. Vrain Valley, the group opposing the proposed Martin Marietta mining operation.

appropriate way for the point of law at stake, whether it be a matter of upholding precedent and past understanding of the Constitution, or sweeping it all aside in light of the Constitution’s needed application to new situations arising in modern reality.

It’s a quixotic hope, I know, but I’ve always believed in the middle way. In the case of interpreting our Constitution, I see no better hope to have.

Richard A. Joyce is a retired professor in the mass communications department at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

He is an award-winning journalist who served as managing editor, and subsequently editor and general manager of the Cañon City Daily Record from 1988 to 1994. The opinions he expresses in this column are strictly his own, and do not represent in any way the views of anyone else at the Redstone Review or at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

He can be reached at phase15@mac.com.

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Bella Continued from Page 4 obtaining necessary health department permits on time. The shop will have Shauna’s butters for sale, along with places to sit and enjoy food served on site.

The menu will include tapas-sized selections, grilled cheese sandwiches, and a grilled angel food cake with Song of India butter, seasonal berries, and topped with homemade whipped cream.

The end products of her spreads delight the palate with a non-oily butter and the combined plus the individual, flavors of the spices. The spiced buttered coffee is unlike regular coffee and is a pleasure to drink. The

A&E Continued from Page 9 to Noble read Rose & Iris, with her melodic southern accent, is like taking a trip the Blue Ridge Mountains. You can feel the summer heat as Rose expresses her determination to find moments of happiness in the face of unspeakable neglect and abuse. Go to the website https://www.wildheartcrone.com/events/ for more information. Tickets: $15. Free CD with 2 tickets. Visit Brown Paper Tickets (link: https://roseandiris.brownpapertickets.com BOULDER Artists Lori Hight (August 1 through September 9), Joel Bruce Wallach (through October 1), Mary Kay Samouce and Sara Slee Brown (both through July 29) are featured at Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery at 1421 Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. Hight specializes in capturing “the sensuality of light on everyday objects” as well as landscapes, florals and architecture. A reception for this artist is slated for Friday, August 3 from 6 to 8 pm. This is Boulder

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extraordinary flavors that come through in her offerings are both varied and mildly delicate to savor. For instance, as the Mayan Chocolate Muse melts on your tongue, the texture of a delicate chocolate mousse comes through.

Shauna believes nobody else in the country has anything quite like her spreads.

Other offerings will include buttered coffee and tea, buttermilk biscuits, pastries, a bourbon concoction, white grape water, bone broth infused with collagen and butter, buttermilk, butter cream frosting, and dressings.

Every food and drink item will be prepared in the shop’s kitchen. She claims her buttered coffee is so good some people have it as their entire breakfast.

Arts & Crafts Gallery’s 47th year of showcasing hand crafted merchandise curated by practicing artists and craftspeople. Call 866-656-2667 or 303-443-3683 for hours and info.

CU Presents Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, 277 University Ave. Love’s Labour’s Lost (to August 12), Richard III (to August 11), Cyrano de Bergerac (to August 11), You Can’t Take It With You (to August 12), and Edward III (to August 5) are included in this year’s festival line-up.

Discounts are available for students, CU employees, active military, seniors, and groups of 10 or more. Season tickets packages start at $36, a 40% savings on summer season tickets for two or more plays. Season tickets for 2019 Festival go on sale Monday, October 29; single tickets go on sale Monday, November 26. Call 303-492-8008 or visit cupresents.org for further details.

ESTES PARK Free Monday Artisans Market at George Hix Riverside

“In addition to the shop, two or three times a month I plan on hosting up to eight people for a private dinner party in the kitchen.” The four-course meals will feature dishes prepared with her butter creations. “And, I have a grand piano in my kitchen!” she said. Shauna Strecker plans to entertain her dinner guests by playing the piano.

Bella La Crema is located at 405 Main St., Unit B and can be reached at 833-MOO-LOVE (833-666-5683). For more information, including descriptions of Shauna Strecker’s spreads, go to the website, bellalacrema.com.

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

Plaza through August 27 from 10 to 5 p.m. weekly. Enjoy local art and meet local artisans promoting their pottery, painting, jewelry, sculpture, hand-blown glass, photography, fiber arts, polymer clay art, and more. The market strengthens and creates community partnerships between art, artists and the community while supporting local commerce and conscious creative lifestyles. Call 970586-6838 for questions.

LONGMONT Downtown Summer Concert Series at 6 p.m. on Fridays. At the intersection of Fourth and Kimbark attend this free event where local music, food vendors, kids’ activities, craft breweries, cider, wine, and spirits all provide a great mix. Check out downtownlongmont.com or call 303-651-8750 for more info.

Firehouse Art Center’s A Place in History exhibit featuring Glen Moriwaki, Michael Brohman and C. Maxx Stevens through July 28 at 667 4th Ave. Each of these artists has a personal relationship to current or historically marginalized groups. . Visit http://fire-

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houseart.org/ to learn about this and other events.

ALLENSPARK The Old Gallery is a one-of-a-kind center for the community and the arts. Here visitors and local residents can participate in classes, learn about the area’s wildlife, history and culture through the Rocky Mountain 101 Speaker series, enjoy health and wellness presentations, and witness community spirit in action with its Community Closet, Community Cupboard Food Bank, and Boulder County Human Services offerings. Stop by 14863 CO-7, visit theoldgallery.org or call 303-747-2906 for details.

Birthday On July 23, LaVern Johnson will turn 91. Be sure to tell her Happy Birthday.

She will celebrate with her favorite group at a square dance in Lyons.

To submit details of regional arts-related events for possible inclusion on this page please email chrystaldecoster@gmail.com by the first of the month

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