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Model railroad open house at Steve and Anne Haskew’s LYONS – See the locally favorite model railroad and village on July 4 and July 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on July 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Haskew’s, 788 Pioneer Rd., Lyons. For more information call 303-823-6059. Note, cell phones don’t usually work very far outside Lyons.

Directions: Take Hwy. 36 out of Lyons toward Estes Park. In two miles turn right onto CR 71 N. Go about two more miles to the second left (Spring Gulch Drive).

Turn left and bear uphill about 3/4 mile to a T junction. Go left at the T (Pioneer Road) and Haskew’s is the second house on the left. It sits way off the road but we will have our signs out.

Welcome everyone.

Come hang out and celebrate Lyons Physical Therapy’s 20th Anniversary LYONS – Lyons PT is celebrating 20 years of service to Lyons residents on Tuesday, June 25 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Lyons Den on Main St. next to the Western Stars Gallery. We’ll have dinner specials and Happy Hour all night and live Continue Briefs on Page 7

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The Nohe brothers from Lafayette enjoy a swinging good time, powered by their grandma, Ms. Kingston, at LaVern M. Johnson Park, on Father’s Day. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS

Trustee chosen in a coin toss, quarries hurting without migrant workers

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – For only the second time in anyone’s memory, a new Town Board Trustee was chosen in a coin toss. Trustee Juli Waugh resigned in a letter to the Mayor, which was discussed by the board at the June 3 board meeting. Please see Greg Lowell’s column on Page 3 for more details.

No one except me seemed to remember that years ago the town board chose to fill a trustee vacancy by asking people to fill out an application. The board voted on the candidates and once again there was a tie between two Lyons residents, Nicholas Angelo and Ric Breeze. The board tossed a coin and Nicholas Angelo won the toss and went on to become mayor.

The board did the same thing this time and decided to fill the trustee vacancy by asking for applications and then interviewing and voting in a new trustee at the June 17 meeting. The board received three applications from candidates Anya Mullen, Caleb Roberts and Elaina Hughes. Anya was not present in person for the interview but did conduct her interview on speaker phone at the meeting.

After a brief question and answer period between the board, staff and the candidates, including one member of the public, the board voted on scraps of paper for their first choice for trustee, which resulted in a tie. Then board members discussed the candidates to try to reach a consensus. Each board member praised all three candidates saying that each candidate was well qualified and each candidate would make a wonderful trustee. They all expressed their hope that the two candidates who were not chosen would run for town board seats in the April election next year. The board voted a second time which resulted in a tie a second time. No one changed their vote.

Then it was suggested that a coin toss would be the best solution. Candidate Caleb Roberts chose tails up, since candidate Elaina Hughes left the meeting earlier. A coin was produced and Trustee Mark Browning made the toss and slapped it on his arm. It landed with tails up. He showed the coin to Town Clerk Deb Anthony for verification and it was a done deal.

Lyons Town Attorney Brandon Dittman explained the next steps and the board voted unanimously for Caleb Roberts to be the new trustee. Roberts will be sworn in at the

Caleb Roberts, left, and Elaina Hughes.

Roberts won the coin toss. He will be sworn in on July 1. next board meeting on July 1.

Roberts seemed both amused and pleased by the process. “I was very interested by the comments of the board members when they discussed the candidates especially what they said about Elaina’s qualifications.”

Mayor Connie Sullivan said she was very interested in hearing some of Caleb’s humor at the board meetings, adding that they needed a little humor to lighten things up from time to time.

Many Lyons residents know Caleb Roberts as a mandolin player in various well known bands. About 20 years ago he had a bluegrass band, Billy Pilgrims, which played around locally and then got a record contract and toured nationally. After that band broke up Continue Town on Page 14

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MAYOR’S CORNER Proposed shooting range on Cemex property may go to a vote in November

By Connie Sullivan, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – A little over a year ago, Boulder County consulted with the Board of Trustees (BoT) about the possibility of locating a shooting range on a Sullivan parcel within the Lyons Primary Planning Area. The site is currently owned by Cemex and has been extensively mined for silica in recent years.

The parcel is directly adjacent to the town boundary; situated between the Lyons Valley Park subdivision and the Loukonen stone yard that faces North Foothills Highway 36. A large hillside with steep slopes separates the Cemex parcel from the Lyons Valley Park subdivision, and as the crow flies it is within a quarter mile or so from the location of the new affordable housing being built off Carter Drive. Additionally, the range would be in very close proximity to the Lyons Middle / Senior High School, Bohn Park, Picture Rock Trail and abut Boulder County Open Space. The parcel is currently slated to be reclaimed as open space once mining is completed later this year.

The proposal stems from a larger, coordinated effort between several counties and the Forest Service to reduce dispersed shooting on forest land. Boulder County and others are trying to identify several new sites for recreational shooting in response to the recent closure of many acres of forestland across Boulder, Larimer, Gilpin, and Clear Creek counties. More information about this effort can be found at www.sportshootingpartners.org. Maps of the closure areas are posted, as well as additional information about the sites being evaluated for ranges. You can also sign up to be notified via email of future meetings.

Trustee Waugh resigns, golden eagles and shooting range key BOT meeting

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – The sudden resignation of Trustee Juli Waugh headlined the June 3 Town of Lyons Board of Trustees meeting.

Near the beginning of the meeting, Mayor Connie Sullivan announced that she had received a letter from Trustee Juli Waugh dated June 2, saying Waugh was resigning the Board of Trustees effective immediately.

Waugh’s letter gave the Town’s recent decision to file a legal complaint against Lyons Properties, LLC, as the reason for her resignation.

Waugh’s husband, Kenyon Waugh, is a partner in Lyons Properties, LLC, which has been the subject of an ongoing dispute with the town over the number of water taps accompanying the property (now an event venue, known as Riverbend). The town also claims LP owes the town money that LP had agreed to pay for consultant fees for

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To compensate for the closure of forest land to shooting, Boulder County must identify additional locations for recreational shooting to occur. One of the solutions is to allow existing ranges to expand. In the southern part of the county, the Boulder Rifle Club was recently awarded a $300,000 range construction grant from Colorado Parks and Wildlife to expand its site.

For the northern part of the county, there has been no new site identified, but the Lyons quarry remains one of the options for the region. To date, nothing has changed with the Cemex quarry site per discussions from the county commissioners. The County has not received a letter of intent to sell from Cemex and therefore, has taken no action to evaluate the feasibility of the quarry site, which is why there has been no additional communication with the town.

The Board of Trustees recently held a special public comment session to hear from residents whether or not they support the idea of a shooting range in the Lyons planning area. The trustees want to be proactive in communicating with the county about whether or not support exists, and if it does, what are the primary concerns for the residents living near the site, which is essentially the entire town due to our small size and the way sound travels through the canyons.

Residents expressed a wide range of concerns from noise to environmental impacts. Over the past year, the board has received varied input on the topic, including strong support from several residents who cite the dangers of dispersed shooting in highly trafficked forest land.

There are strong arguments on all sides of this issue, thus the board is considering an advisory question on the November ballot to gain a stronger sense of the support or opposition from the Lyons community. As of the writLP’s original zoning and Special Use Review, and one water share that LP had agreed to dedicate to the town.

Waugh’s letter read, in part, “I am saddened by the board’s decision to serve a legal complaint against my husband and our partners when they have continually sought conversation and mediation to resolve their differences with the Town.”

She added, “I have Juli Waugh has resigned from tried to ignore how the the Lyons Board of Trustees. board and the Town feel about Riverbend and its partners. I have thus far remained objective, putting my emotions and my marriage aside to perform my job effectively and objectively. But with an official legal complaint against my husband and our partners on the table, I can no longer ignore the emotional strain of the conflict between the Town and Riverbend, and I can no longer remain objective. As such, I feel I must step down from the board so I am better able to support my husband, our partners, and the businesses generated on the Riverbend property.”

Sullivan praised Waugh’s contributions to the Board and her professionalism. Waugh was in her third term as a Trustee, having served 2008 to 2010, 2016 to 2018, and this most recent term.

Later in the meeting, the BOT discussed how the vacant trustee position should be filled. All the trustees’ terms run out in April 2020 when a new board will be elected. There was concern among the trustees present that the board would be short a member for 11 months (or six months, should a Trustee election be placed on the regular November county ballot), raising the possibility of both a lack of quorum and a short-staffed board during the 2020 budget process in the fall.

Town Attorney Brandon Dittman reviewed the options available to the trustees. He said if the vacant position was not filled within 30 days, an election would be required to take place. That election could either be a special town election or could be placed on Boulder County’s November election ballot.

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ing of this article, no decision has been made as to whether this will happen, so in the meantime, residents who want to provide input to the trustees on this topic can do so by sending an email (see town website for addresses) or speak during the audience business portion of any regular Board of Trustees meeting.

Connie Sullivan was elected Mayor on April 5, 2016.

Prior to becoming Mayor, she served two terms on the Town Board of Trustees beginning in 2012. Connie and her husband Neil are the owners of the St. Vrain Market located in downtown Lyons on Main Street. For comments or questions, Mayor Sullivan can be reached by email at csullivan@townoflyons.com.

G U E S T •E D I T O R I A L Tess McDonald LYONS – My child’s birthday party requests were granted this year in the spirit of making memories and spoiling her for a day. We adore our children so much and we want the world for them. We grant every wish we can so we take them to Disney World, throw them elaborate birthday parties, buy them the latest stuffy, yet the greatest gift we can give to them is a healthy planet.

The ecosystem we are passing on is in peril. Our last will and testament is being poisoned right in front of our eyes and by our own hands. Maybe the reason we don’t say “enough” is because we can’t SEE the danger being done. Long ago we could see the saber tooth tiger coming for us and we knew to get away. But the threats to us now – crystal silica in the air from mining and glyphosate runoff in the water – are not easily seen and so we don’t always compute the effects.

It’s hard to compare glitter usage (the herpes of craft materials) or plastic forks to a saber tooth tiger hunting you down but we are doing damage to the planet that indeed threatens our lives. Yes, the danger is less obvious and the actions needed are smaller but not any less imperative. That glitter though is so enticing and easy, it’s just another $3.99 and a flick of the wrist and it’s in my Target cart. We could have planted a tree but I was too lazy and rushed. But what’s my child going to remember more, the glitter unicorn slime or the tree we planted at her birthday party? Ok bad example but unfortunately glitter is a microplastic that harms aquatic life and like the forks (and herpes) it never goes away.

There’s a shift in priorities that needs to happen and a majority of our BOT made a step towards de-chemicalizing our ecosystem with the rejection of glyphosate.

But let’s remember, just because our town doesn’t use glyphosate doesn’t mean other chemicals aren’t also harmful.

The research and lawsuits just haven’t come out yet. If a chemical kills a plant, chances are it will kill a bee. If it kills a bee, chances are it can kill a dog, if the usage is excessive. If it can kill a pet, chances are it can kill a person... eventually. In 1967, 4 percent of the population had chronic disease. Today, almost 46 percent of children do. So the old adage of my “my grandma smoked a pack a day and she lived to 100,” doesn’t work anymore. Of course there are exceptions but, sorry, grandma grew up eating organic vegetables, breathed in clean air and enjoyed glyphosate-free water.

Chemicals did have a place once upon a time, but as we now see a little poison has turned into a big problem. For example, if I take statins to lower my cholesterol then chances are it’s going to affect my memory in the long-term. Is memory loss worth lower cholesterol?

Why not start walking 30 minutes a day? Is chemically treating weeds worth, killing soil microbes and bees?

What happens to my gut if I’m eating food grown in sterile, chemical laden soil?

If you choose to leave barren ground I can guarantee that the weed will return only requiring more and more poison. A better idea if you have to remove a weed is to put a lower-water perennial in its place. Then you get some exercise while you’re at it, a free and healthy way to lower your cholesterol.

So come down to Lavern Johnson Park on July 8, let’s connect, garden and lower our cholesterol together.

Event starts at 5 p.m. with a short workout then planting demo with Jess Ondra at 5:30 p.m. Bring garden gloves, bucket and tool if you can or just bring yourself.

Tess McDonald and her family live in the Lyons area.

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LOCAL Lyons Valley River Park off-limits to all until August

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – Despite appearances, Lyons Valley River Park is closed to the public until at least mid-August. While the ponds are full and the water may look inviting, the area is off-limits as contractors prepare the site and then plant some 1500 shrubs, 14,000 wetland plants and 145 trees. The area will also be seeded with native grasses.

“This is a very, very critical point in the project,” said Dave Cosgrove, Lyons’ Director of Parks and Public Works. “The Army Corps of Engineers permit requires us to restore all the wetlands that had been established on the site after the 2013 flood.”

The park’s new wetlands ring the two ponds’ shorelines. While the plants are becoming established, there are no people or dogs allowed on the ponds’ shores.

And it’s not just the wetlands that are a concern; irrigation has been installed to jump-start the grass seed, trees and shrubs. Fencing was installed early in the project and it will remain throughout the summer to deter foot traffic in the area.

The contractor will also install signage and rope off areas that are off-limits.

The design of the area, formerly known as McConnell Ponds, was driven by community input in 2015 through a series of meetings and solicited comments that

Nice to look at, but don’t enter – Cliff swallows soar above the new Lyons Valley River Park.

While plantings and wetlands restoration take place, there is no public access allowed favored the ponds being a natural area, and not a heavy recreation area.

While the larger pond will eventually have limited recreation opportunities once the park is open to the public, the smaller pond will have no public access to its shoreline. It is intended to be a totally natural area.

Listed below are the rules and regula-

tions for the ponds that will be in effect once the ponds are open to the public.

The rules will be strictly enforced by sheriff’s deputies and park security agency Trident Security.

• No parking in undesignated areas.

There is no parking in the area of the ponds. Parking is prohibited on the McConnell Bridge. Public parking will be

available at the Black Bear Hole, the Second Avenue lot or Bohn Park.

• No jumping off the bridge. Due to safety concerns, jumping off the McConnell Bridge is not allowed.

• No picnicking or camping is allowed.

There are no picnic tables, bathroom facilities, grills or trash receptacles at the ponds.

No outside grills are allowed. Littering regulations will be strictly enforced.

• Dogs must be leashed and owners are responsible for cleanup. No dogs are allowed on the newly seeded ground or on the shoreline at this time. When public access is allowed, dogs must be leashed and their waste picked up.

• No alcohol, glass containers, open fires, camping, smoking, amplified sound, defacing property. These rules apply to all Lyons Town parks.

• No fishing access. There are currently no fish in the ponds; once a decision is made on stocking fish, fishing may be allowed.

• Stay on trails. When the ponds are eventually opened, visitors must stay on designated trails or access the shoreline only at designated spots.

• Dawn to dusk. Once public access is allowed, the River Park will be open only from dawn to dusk.

With the public’s assistance, the ponds will become the natural treasure they were before the 2013 flood, but in the meantime both residents and visitors must stay out of the area.

Lyons Regional District Library building to open on or about August 1

By Rebecca Schuh Redstone Review LYONS – On October 19, 2018 the Lyons Regional Library District held the official Groundbreaking Ceremony at the construction site for the new Lyons Community Library. Now the long wait for the new Lyons Community Library is almost over, finishing touches are underway, shelving is being installed, and furniture will arrive throughout June and July.

The current downtown location will close at the end of operating hours, 5 p.m., on Saturday, July 13 for the move into the new library building located on Fourth Ave. Library staff anticipate opening the new library on Thursday, August 1. During the first week of the move to the new location the Friends of the

Library will be organizing a moving sale at the downtown location, so be on the lookout for official dates.

While the library is closed, library materials will not be due and fines will not accrue. If library patrons would like to return items the walk-up book return at the new library will be open throughout the move. Library staff may be contacted via email at info @ lyonsregionallibrary. com, and the library’s website, online catalog, and access to downloadable ebooks and audiobooks will remain up and running throughout the move. Library staff will post any necessary updates on our website and social media pages.

While you wait for the new library to open its doors, take a walk down Fourth Avenue and enjoy the full impact of the red sandstone juxtaposed against the dark

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grey board and batten siding and natural wood beams on the new Lyons Community Library. The new library will offer multiple outdoor spaces for the community to enjoy; the front porch welcomes visitors while two flagstone patios on the east and west ends of the building invite you to soak up the sun with a good read.

Take some time to peek into the Community Room which has been fitted with acoustic panels and two garage doors which will be used to open up the space to the rest of the library and to the outdoors.

Of special note is the tile work that has been installed in the lobby. Cathy Rivers and Priscilla Cohan, who conceived and implemented the Clarifier Project, are now spearheading the tile installation at the library. These tiles were painted by commuContinue Library on Page 14

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ents.” Muldoon’s specialty in sports has allowed her to work with a national gymnast, the U.S. Summer Olympic Team, and other highly visible sports teams.

And now after 20 years in business there is hardly a person in the Lyons area who has not benefited from her which are reliant on the Town of Lyons Administrator and hands, pulling, stretching, working the muscles and tenBoard of Trustees to stay in budget and advocate Boulder dons deep in the tissue. When you sign up for her theraCounty on their behalf. “We have Boulder taxes even py, you see many familiar faces and friends who have though we aren’t Boulder; we are Lyons. We are unique,” come in to fix an injury or have therapy for a hip, knee, shoulder replacement or ankle surgery, Muldoon said. “We don’t have a choice hand or arm surgery as well as neck and (as businesses) not to pass on the high back issues. The list goes on and eventaxes and fees to our clients.” Hence, tually most of us end up seeking her the empty buildings lining our Main healing hands.

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Muldoon’s appreciation for Lyons, old “I am fortunate to have moved to and new, is felt throughout the comLyons when I did,” she said. “I always munity as she puts in just as many had a lot of support from this town. hours volunteering as she does workBusinesses now need help. We don’t ing. Over the years she served as the have the answers yet.”

Lyons Chamber of Commerce Nonetheless, Muldoon‘s tenacity for President and now sits on the tapping into change for the better makes Chamber Board. She integrated 11 her stand out. “In the early days, most of years on the Parent Teachers my clients were coming to me with work Organization Board while raising her injuries,” she said. “We were a town of four children. “I have the best job in blue-collar workers. We were a town of the best town, ever,” she said. “I moved physical labor: stone workers; farmers here 20 years ago for the people. I get and heavy housekeeping. There weren’t to see them at Chamber functions, at many insurance claims. People paid in Dr. Bronwyn muldoon moved to cash, workman’s comp, and we bartered Lyons from Denver and opend her the park, and on the bike trails. I see a lot. The community was made up of practice, Lyons Physical Therapy, people not only as patients but as fellow community members, as well. This people who worked and lived here.” on June 18, 1999 is so special to me. It is very rewarding After the 2013 flood, demographics In appreciation to Lyons, on many changed drastically. Sports medicine replaced physical labor ailments. And Muldoon grew levels, Muldoon is hosting Lyons PT’s 20th Anniversary with the times earning her doctorate of Physical Therapy at the Lyons Den, June 25, 6 to 9 p.m. For more inforin 2014, and in 2017, she became a Board Certified mation about Lyons PT, visit http://www.lyonspt.com.

Sports Clinical Specialist. “People that now move here Marketing from University of Colorado, Boulder and has come for the active outdoor life. I believe in preventive spent more than 20 years in public affairs. This is her fifth care and work with educating athletes, coaches, and par- year on the Lyons Economic Development Commission.

Lyons PT celebrates 20 years in business

By Tamara Haddad Redstone Review LYONS – After a visit to the Folks Festival at Planet Bluegrass in 1998 from her Denver home Dr. Bronwyn Muldoon moved to Lyons and opened the Lyons Physical Therapy doors on June 18, 1999 Haddad at 428 Main St., now part of Pizza Par 66.

This was a time when property and business owners had the full support of the town and the diversity of businesses and services working side by side, creating a vibrant business core. “The people and businesses of Lyons, their uniqueness, brought me here. I am so thankful,” Muldoon said, as she approaches the celebration of Lyons PT’s 20th anniversary.

In the first few years Lyons PT moved twice within 428 Main St. due to renovations. From 428 Main it moved to the old Post Office, now the Stone Cup, which also had a gym and dance studio. In 2005, it moved to the Ferg’s Inn location. After its fourth move in six years, Muldoon committed to purchasing the 435 High St. building where Lyons PT exists today.

“The building was a video store, Muldoon said. “I went in and had to gut it completely.” Being a small business owner means wearing many hats. In this case, building rehabber is one. “I didn’t do it alone,” she said. “Joe Kuckla worked with me. We tore out the walls and low ceilings. We reworked the interior infrastructure and floor layout. My clients were very patient.”

The collaboration paid off. Lyons PT now has 13 staff members and a second location in Longmont at 700 Tenacity Dr. Success is not the case for many new Lyons businesses,

We celebrated our first anniversary with dinner in Italy Editor’s Note. Don Moore, a Redstone reporter, and his new wife Joanne rented a cottage in Italy in May for a 6 month stay.

Not long after arriving they celebrated their first anniversary with dinner at a local restaurant. The rest is in the story.

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CAMAIORE, Italy – When EMTs arrive on the scene, they bring me both comfort and a heightened sense of urgency. Last night was no exception.

Joanne and I were celebrating our first wedding anniversary at the restaurant where we were married a year ago. We had a lovely dinner at Candalla Osteria in nearby Camaiore, starting with shared plates of blue cheese risotto and pears in melted pecorino cheese and honey. It wasn’t quite enough, so we backtracked and ordered the assorted appetizer plate, and finished with dessert of a warm chocolate muffin with pear sauce. Delish!

I’d finished my espresso and the check had just arrived when from across the table Joanne told me she thought she was going to faint. Her eyes became glassy as she lost eye contact with me, staring off into space. I

called her name and she came out of it. I held onto her forearm as she drifted off again but did not respond to my repeated and louder calls to her. Diners at the surrounding tables heard my calls, stopped eating and watched me get up as I rounded the table and held onto her so she would not fall.

Waiters called the equivalent of 911 and quickly scattered tables to clear a place on the floor for Joanne to lie down.

Two of them then assisted me in picking her up and laying her out, pillow beneath her head. A young woman from a nearby table came over and propped up her legs before folding them on an upright chair.

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We continued talking about it all and how she felt, and after a while three EMTs Continue Italy on Page 14

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OPPORTUNITY Walking through history at the Lyons Redstone Museum

By Monique Sawyer Lang Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Redstone Museum’s mission is to discover and collect any materials Sawyer-Lang which may help to establish or illustrate the history of the Lyons area, its exploration, settlement, development, and activities. This summer the museum, located at 340 High St., invites you to take a walk through Lyons’ history.

The Lyons Historic Walking Tour will start at 1 p.m. on July 21 at the museum with a short presentation, where the museum will unveil an updated version of the walking tour of the Lyons Historic District that was officially created April 29, 1980. After the presentation walkers

are invited to begin their tour of Lyons at the museum and then stroll around town at their leisure exploring the rich history of Lyons. Additional details about the walking tour will be available soon.

The museum’s new exhibit, Forty Years / Forty Artifacts, celebrates the 40 years that the museum has been in operation.

This self-guided tour will take you around the museum where you can explore various aspects of Lyons history including the history of the museum itself housed in the town’s original school building, as well as the history of the railroads, newspapers, businesses, people, and much more.

Another new experience for history lovers will be the Lyons Cemetery Walking Tour on August 24. The guided tours will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at the cemetery located at the end of Third Avenue in Lyons. The 45-minute tours

will start every half hour with the last tour departing at 3 p.m. Participants will learn the history of the cemetery and the stories of some of those buried there. Tours are free but donations are welcomed. In the event that funeral services are scheduled for that day the tours will be rescheduled for the following Saturday, August 31.

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram (lyonsredstonemuseum) or visit the museum’s website lyonredstonemuseum.com for updates on the Lyons Historic Walking Tour and the Lyons Cemetery Walking Tour. The museum is currently open daily through September 29. Hours are Monday to Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. We look forward to walking through history with you this summer.

Monique Sawyer Lang is one of the curators

Creating a community of inclusion and deep safety

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – The people who have been coming to the Lyons Mental Health Initiative meetings have been talking about their vision for the Initiative. We have realized this means our vision for Jane the kind of community we want to live in. The term “mental health” has been hijacked by the insurers who provide “health” insurance. “Health” has come to mean “treatment for those who are ill.” In Boulder County, we have Mental Health Partners, and their entire job is about taking care of people with mental illness, not promoting mental health.

This is backwards.

It’s time to reclaim “Mental Health” for all of us. So, what is true mental health, especially for a community? It’s a place where we all have deep feelings of safety, belonging, support and acceptance. It’s a place where people and children never get bullied.

Ever. It’s a place where people who are struggling emotionally, or who have a mental illness diagnosis, can talk openly and where help is available. It’s a place where parents of kids, and kids, and adults on the autism spectrum or with sensitivities or who identify as LGBTQ+, or who are a different color, or of a different race, or differently abled, or different in any way at all, feel included and supported. It’s a place where saying no to an invitation leads to a conversation about who you are and what your needs are, instead of a widening gulf in the relationship.

We are fortunate to live in a town that is, in general, so welcoming. Let’s expand that to a being a town where residents feel safe to be who they are.

Safe not just from crime, but on a deep emotional and body level. We want to be the town on the news where the students crown the kid on the spectrum as Prom King because he’s such a great guy that everyone in the school likes him. A town where inclusion is done by habit, because “that’s what we do here.”

The Lyons Mental Health Initiative is working how to create this. We welcome anyone to

Summer time and the livin’ is... busy But we hope that won’t keep you away from LEAF’s Pancake Breakfast Barton

By Lory Barton Redstone Review

LYONS – Summer’s here! Life is busy.

Lyons is busy. And the Lyons Emergency and Assistance Fund (LEAF) is busy, too.

We know you’re busy, but we hope you’ll find time to let us share some good news and some new news with you at our Pancake Breakfast Saturday, June 22 from

8:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Lyons Valley Village community house on Second Avenue. We are serving freshly cooked hot pancakes, sausage, bacon, and more, along with coffee, juice and mimosas.

Once you are filled with a terrific breakfast, we’ll fill your heart with inspiring and positive stories from folks around Lyons. We’ll unroll a major announcement, too. This uplifting event is free.

You will have the opportunity to make a donation if you wish to do so. LEAF is sharing a wonderful fresh-cooked breakfast, hope and inspiration and a major announcement from LEAF. “How can one sign up?” you ask.

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This saddle is one of the many objects featured in the Forty Years / Forty Artifacts exhibit at the Lyons Redstone Museum. of the Lyons Redstone Museum. She is also a volunteer with the Lyons Food Pantry and a former member of the Lyons Community Foundation Board. She lives in Lyons.

join us. We will be having a Community Conversation on Mental Health every fourth Thursday of the month, and everyone is invited to come. We are going to continue Mental Health First Aid and safeTALK Suicide Alertness classes, but we see our role as doing more to promote inclusion and true feeling of being safe. In June (we got to it late) we are offering businesses and people the opportunity to fly Pride flags and post Pride decals.

But more than that, we want to start a conversation. All of us could ask ourselves: what are the ways I can support inclusiveness more? Are there people in town I could be more friendly to? We are already known as a town where people smile and say “Hi,” which is a great foundation to build ever increasing inclusiveness on. Let’s go another step and look at the ways that we hold back from including others and work to overcome them.

Janaki Jane has a degree in psychology and has worked as a case manager and crisis counselor. She created the Lyons Mental Health Initiative, a program through the Lyons Regional Library, that includes many local partners, teaches both Mental Health First Aid and safeTALK and sits on Longmont’s Supporting Action for Mental health (SAM) Steering Committee and Action Team, and the Boulder County Public Health Department’s five-year Mental Health Initiative Steering Committee. Contact her at lyonsmhi@gmail.com, or info@lyonsregionallibrary.com.

Simply send a quick email to info@leaflyons with your name and how many will attend with you. This way, we’ll be ready for you at 8:45a.m.

Saturday morning.

LEAF is growing healthy community in our town, and we’d love nothing more than to share it with you on Saturday, June 22 at

Lyons Valley Village.

Breakfast and inspiration. Fresh food, inspiration from people you know and care about, and a joyful family concert. We think this is the best way ever to spend a Lyons Saturday morning.

Lory Barton is the Executive Director at LEAF. She loves summer, pancakes, and good people and she looks forward to seeing you for all three on June 22.

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INSIGHT It’s springtime and that means travel season 2019 has begun

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – Susan and I haven’t seen a lot of each other recently and won’t for a while. In mid-April I went to the west slope, Gierach near Basalt, to spend a few days fishing. After I got back Susan went to Minneapolis to visit relatives.

When she got back I went to southeast Minnesota to fish for trout. After I got back she left for three weeks in Africa, where she is as I write this. A week after she gets back from Africa I’ll leave on a fishing trip to the Aniak River in Alaska.

And so on and so forth.

The only trip we’ll take together this year will be in early July to northern Michigan for a memorial service for her cousin, and my friend, Paul Belding. It’ll be a short trip of just a few days; it’ll be a production, what with plane tickets and a long drive in a rental car, but it’s nonetheless something neither of us could stand to miss. It’ll also be the only time I get on an airplane this year without carrying a leather-bound tube full of fly rods.

This seems like a busy year, but it’s not that unusual. Susan is a journalist and I write magazine articles and books about travel and fly-fishing, so we both travel for our own unique combination of personal and professional reasons. I usually travel on my own dime and write off all my expenses, but I’ve long since given up trying to convince non-believers that all this fishing amounts to work. I only have to convince the IRS; the rest of you can think what you like.

As a general rule, I take more trips than Susan, but hers are longer and she goes farther. With the occasional exception, I pretty much stick to North America, while in recent years Susan has been to

Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Norway, Finland and now South Africa, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

I don’t think being apart so often hurts our relationship. In fact, I think it helps.

We began in the 1980s as a successful office romance: a rare animal. She was the business editor at the Longmont Daily Times-Call back in the days when it still had an actual newsroom full of clattering typewriters, jangling telephones, a blaring police scanner and a monstrous Heidelberg press in the basement. I was

time we’ve had professional victories and set-backs, moved from one house to another, both lost our mothers, nursed each other through various illnesses, weathered car wrecks and floods and assorted other major and minor emergencies, steamed ugly wallpaper off the walls, asked for and given advice and bumped into each other thousands of times in our too-narrow kitchen.

We’ve managed to share some expenses while mostly keeping our finances separate so I never have to say, “What?

the outdoor sports columnist working for a laconic editor who needled me constantly, but, to his credit, never told me what to write or how to write it.

I don’t remember a lot of flirting, but there must have been some because eventually we went out for coffee, then to dinner and then, well, you know how it goes.

Neither of us is perfect, but we somehow turned out to be perfect for each other.

We’ve now been together for nearly 30 years. We both long ago left the TimesCall behind – Susan to eventually start her own newspaper and me to keep plugging away in other periodicals. In that

Another pair of shoes?” and Susan never has to say, “What? Another fly rod?”

We’ve even dared to work together, which has the potential to be a relationship killer. When Susan was putting together the first issue of her newspaper, she asked me if I’d write just one column to fill a hole on the comment page. That was 20 years ago, which would make this roughly my 240th column. I’m still not entirely clear how that happened.

We both love animals and we agree on politics; at least in general if not always on the specifics. We’re both writers, so we don’t have to explain deadlines or writers

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Be prepared for high water in local creeks and ditches LYONS – Spring run-off has started. “The cooler temperatures we’ve experienced means more snow has remained in the mountains, which could lead to higher runoff than we’ve seen in recent years,” explains Ken Huson, Water Resources Manager for the City of Longmont.

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Metamorphosis grand opening rescheduled for July 20 LYONS – Metamorphosis Tattoo Studio and Art Gallery is now open at its new location, 304 B Main St. The grand opening celebration has been rescheduled from June to July 20. Everyone is welcome to attend and look over the new facility.

block and Susan is from a generations-old fishing family in Michigan and has never once even suggested that I not go fishing.

We’ve had our disagreements, both large and small, but 30 years is a long time and we’ve had a couple of real arguments: the kind of arguments where we each said things we shouldn’t have, even if we meant them at the time, and then retreated to stew in our own hard feelings. But without ever really talking about it, we’ve somehow agreed to not hold a grudge for more than about 24 hours. Then we let it go, writing it off as just another one of those inexplicable differences that keep people interested in each other. Whatever it was, we got it off our chests and that was probably the whole point anyway.

We usually manage to work out a compromise on the small stuff. For instance, she’s more concerned with our cat’s health and safety, while I worry more about the cat’s happiness. Consequently, the cat is healthy, safe and happy (and, incidentally, spoiled rotten.)

And then there are the trips. They usually begin in the spring when, if we haven’t actually started to get tired of each other, we’ve at least spent a winter working together in the same house and bumped into each other in the kitchen one too many times. But then, as if on cue, one or the other of us packs a bag and blows town, giving absence the time it needs to make the heart grow fonder.

John Gierach is an outdoor and fly fishing writer who writes books and columns for magazines including a regular column for Trout Magazine. His books include Trout Bum, Sex Death and Fly fishing, and Still Life with Brook Trout. He has won seven first place awards from the Colorado Press Association for his columns in the Redstone Review. His latest book, A Rod of your Own is available at book stores and fly fishing shops everywhere including South Creek Ltd. on Main Street in Lyons. tinue through late October. In addition, there are elements of the Phase II project that still need to be completed within the completed Phase I project area, including a pump house and intake for irrigation, which will impact use. Skate park construction is underway; however, it won't be available for use until final completion of Phase II, which is currently slated for late October.

Please stay out of all construction areas.

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LYONS – Lyons Valley River Park is also an active construction site. The contractors and the Town request your continued cooperation to stay out of the park until the project is complete. Landscaping has begun and equipment and machinery will still be present to move boulders and rocks.

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COMMON GROUND Bluegrass, Broadway, and beyond

By Katherine Weadley Redstone Review LYONS – Whether you like your musical experiences intimate, hands-on, or want to share with thousands of people at once Planet Bluegrass has something for you.

At 11,000 plus attendees the biggest music festival produced by Lyons-based Planet Bluegrass is the Telluride Bluegrass Festival which takes place for the 46th time this June 20 to 23. The smallest events produced by Planet Bluegrass are the Wildflower Pavilion concerts which take place every spring and every fall at the Wildflower Pavilion on the grounds of Planet Bluegrass in Lyons.

Only single-day Thursday tickets are available in Telluride. This four-day festival in Elk Park (at 8,750 feet) features Thursday main-stage performers such as Leftover Salmon, Telluride House Band, Chris Thile, Jim James, and more. This festival closes with two of the biggest Grammy winners of 2019: Kacey Musgraves (four awards including Album of the Year) and Brandi Carlile (three awards including

Americana Album of the Year).

Many Planet Bluegrass performers are or become award winners whose accomplishments extend beyond their genres.

Consider Anais Mitchell who just received 14 Tony Awards for her folk musical Hadestown. Mitchell played material from her original Hadestown concept album on the Folks Festival stage in 2011. According to its website, www.hadestown.com, this musical intertwines two Greek myths: Orpheus and Eurydice and, King Hades and Persephone. The musical includes such lyrics as, “Now on the road to hell there was a railroad line / and a lady stepping off her train / with a suitcase full of summertime / Persephone by name.” The show premiered on Broadway in March of this year to critical acclaim. Listen to parts of the musical on the Hadestown website.

The larger festivals sell out quickly but now the 300-seat Wildflower Concerts series are as well. Situated in an acoustically designed “barn,” these indoor concert series feature a variety of performers. Brian Eyster of Planet Bluegrass says, “Thanks to

Anais Mitchell at the 2011 Folks Festival.

This year Mitchell won 14 Tony Awards for her musical Hadestown. everyone for supporting our spring Wildflower Concert series. This was one of our most successful seasons yet, with the last two shows selling out in advance!”

Mabon, a traditional Celtic celebration that celebrates the autumnal equinox, is also a Planet Bluegrass night of music at

the Wildflower Pavilion and will kick off this year’s fall Wildflower Concert Series on Sept. 21. Performers to be announced.

According to Eyster, discount tickets for locals in Lyons went on sale May 15 at the Stone Cup Café, 443 High Street, for Folks Festival, August 16 to 18. A proof of residency in the 80540 zip code is required without exception. This offer is limited to two tickets per person. Tickets must be paid via cash or local checks. No phone or internet orders. The 2019 Folks Festival lineup includes: Ben Folds, Violent Femmes, Mandolin Orange, Ani DiFranco, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Josh Ritter, the Oh Hellos, and many others.

Planet Bluegrass is still seeking volunteers for both its Lyons festivals, RockyGrass and Folks. Volunteers who join the Planet Bluegrass community receive a behind-the-scenes perspectives.

Volunteer for three four-hour shifts and earn a full festival pass. For more information on all aspects of Planet Bluegrass go to www.bluegrass.com.

Katherine Weadley is a librarian, a sometimes ukulele player, and dog lover. She enjoys hiking in Lyons and all over the mountains with her family.

Lyons Community Foundation grants fund old and new traditions

By Kristen Bruckner Redstone Review LYONS – Where else can you go to see class pictures from Lyons High School dating back to 1914, a detailed exhibit Bruckner about the railroad’s effects on settling the town, Edward S. Lyon’s personal journals and legal documents, and original copies of the Lyons Recorder which was first published in 1900? June marks the 40th anniversary of the Lyons’ Redstone Museum established in our

mix of shops, galleries and eateries.

Visitors feel they have arrived in a place that is set back in a simpler time.

Heritage Tourism, which the national Trust for Historic Preservation defines as “traveling to experience the places, artifacts and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past” is a popular tourist activity and brings many visitors to Lyons. The museum, open daily in the summer (except Sundays) is free to the public, which allows for wide access to visitors and tourists, but also offers a key resource for local residents and school children. In partnership with Lyons

Lyons Community foundation grants help to fund the Sandstone Summer Concert Series, free every Thursday evenings for ten weeks starting in June. PHOTO BY JOSIE WRATTEN town’s original schoolhouse. Since the Lyons Community Foundation’s inception in 2006, historical preservation has been included in the many diverse programs that are supported annually. Funds from LCF, totaling more than $26,000 over the last decade, have allowed for the development of unique exhibits as well as important preservation and restoration work.

Lyons, unlike many Colorado towns with exploding growth, is holding on to its rich heritage by design. Our small town embraces our past and holds dear its character and tradition. We welcome visitors seeking a unique experience and feature a picturesque downtown made up of historical buildings with signature sandstone façades. By design, there are no chain stores or retailers, rather an eclectic

Elementary School, the museum hosts area kids on a monthly basis to explore the rich cultural and scientific resources as part of their experience-based curriculum.

The museum saw more 2347 guests last year. Destination visitors enjoy the unique collections and stories about early pioneers, the prominence of the quarries in town development, an opportunity to research family genealogy and the increasing availability of interactive exhibits.

Through the support of LCF and other grants, the museum is putting forth a concerted effort to modernize collections and implement best practices in the important preservation of its vast resources.

The population of Lyons has changed considerably over the years, especially since the 2013 flood. As longtime resi-

dents disappear, the museum has put an emphasis on making the stories of the town’s origins in the quarries, railroads and as a major tourist destination available for the long term. There is also the force of LaVern Johnson, the town’s official matriarch who has championed causes ranging from keeping the school in Lyons, fighting the Coffin Top dam and other harmful development, as well as keeping square dancing and historical preservation a priority.

Grants from the LCF, the Town of Lyons, the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SFCD) and others have provided a means for the museum to offer new programming each year. This summer, there is an exhibit that features “Forty Years / Forty Artifacts” showcasing the breadth of the museum’s collections.

Staff is working on a walking tour of the Lyons Historic District that will have an interactive / digital element. There are planned talks, walking tours, a kids summer history camp, and of course many activities around Lyons Annual Good Old Days celebration on Saturday, June 29. For information on these events, go to townoflyons.com, lyonsredstonemuseum.com or follow the Redstone Museum on Facebook and Instagram.

Lyons Community foundation grants have also funded the Sandstone Summer Concert Series, which has grown in popularity since its inception. The free concerts held Thursday evenings for ten weeks starting in June, feature a variety of local musicians. Lyons is rich in musical tradition, as the home of the world-class Planet Bluegrass festivals as well as becoming an enclave for many artists. This homegrown resource allows for the performances of talented musicians that grace our town and the Raul Vasquez stage. Each Thursday at 6:30pm throughout the summer, residents and visitors can enjoy music, food and a gathering of community.

The Lyons Community Foundation is a community based non-profit with a mission to “connect people who care with causes that matter.” Annual funds support the diverse interests of the residents of the greater Lyons area. Projects feature such a wide range of programming that includes public art installations, area

A vintage child’s baseball uniform at the Forty Years / Forty Artifacts exhibit at the Lyons Redstone Museum ecology and the food pantry. For more information or to support our continued efforts, please visit lyonscf.org or look for us on Thursday nights at Sandstone Park.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in the Lyons area

By Redstone Staff Redstone Review LYONS The art display at the Stone Cup, 422 High St., will continue with local artist Jocelyn Farrell’s acrylic painting through the end of June. She describes her work as abstract expressionism with a hint of realism. She said, “My paintings explore a combination of modern abstract expressionism with a hint of realism. I love to layer full-bodied colors to create texture and offer a bold perspective of both landscapes and the female image.

Having always loved original paintings of landscapes, the human body and color, my work is an expression of the way I view and experience life and the world around me.”

The work of self-taught folk artist Ed Forrest Ward will hang in the Stone Cup during July and August.

Ward’s show is Colorado Dazzlers. “My watercolor inks on Arches Papier are created with what Navajo rug weavers call eye dazzlers in mind, meaning my imagery is meant to work, first and foremost, on a visual level. I like to think my imagery at least squiggles if not dazzles,” said Ward.

The Stone Cup’s music lineup: Kevin Dooley plays acoustic blues from 10 to noon on June 22; Joe Teichman plays alt country / folk / Americana at 12:30 p.m. on June 22; Thomas Gronberg plays folk from 10 to noon on June 23; Finally Sound plays folk rock / country / jazz at 12:30

Ruckus Rodeo at the Longmont Museum now through January 5, 2020, is an immense and immersive work of art consisting of painted two-dimensional surfaces and sculptural three-dimensional figures that depict the rodeo at the Fort Worth Stock Show. Created by renowned pop artist Red Grooms. PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS on June 23; Brandon Harris plays funk / indie / jazz from 10 to noon on June 29; Sara Santesteban plays pop / Americana at 12:30 on June 29; Laurie Dameron and Lorrie Baum play jazz / blues / Latin / country from 10 to noon on June 30; Dominick Antonelli plays folk at 12:30 on June 30; Andy Lightning plays folk / acoustic from 10 to noon on July 6; F/E/A/T/H/E/R play folk funk from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. on July 6; Andrew Sturtz plays folk / jazz / soul from 10 to noon on July 7; Joe Teichman plays alt country / folk / Americana at 12:30 on July 7; Brian Hill plays alt indie rock from 10 to noon on July 13; Emily Barnes plays folk from 10 to noon on July 14; Rico Jones Trio plays jazz 12:30 to 2 p.m. on July 14.

Call for Artists and Artisans: Art @River Bend in Lyons, deadline for submission is August 16.

Applications are through BCAA’s online form only.

Acceptances will be made on a rolling basis until filled.

Please apply by June 28 to ensure that you are included in pre-event publicity. There is no fee for submitting your entry. If selected, the fee for an artist’s booth is $25 BCAA members / $50 non-BCAA members. Art @River Bend is a collaboration between BCAA and the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission, held along the North Saint Vrain Creek in Lyons at River Bend. The date for the event is Sunday, August 25 from 12 to 6 p.m. We are look-

Works by Ed Forrest Ward will be shown at the Stone Cup during July and August. ing for artists and artisans of all mediums who want to staff a booth and sell their work at the event. For all work sold during the event, BCAA and LAHC retain a 30 percent commission (split evenly between the two nonprofit organizations). Table and chairs will be provided. In addition to the Art and Crafts Sale, Art @River Bend will feature live demos, children's activities, food, drink and more.

Lyons Summer Concert Series. The air is warm, the creek’s flowing, and music is playin’ at Sandstone. The 2019 Sandstone Summer Concert Series takes place Thursdays, from June 6 through August 15 (except July 4), at the Raul Vasquez Community Stage in Sandstone Park, beginning at 6:30 p.m. So pack up the family and blankets, and plan to spend your summer Thursdays at Sandstone Park!

Public Market: Businesses! If you’d like to apply to have a booth at the concerts, complete the vendor registration form, and submit to Marissa Davis. Vendors must have a Town of Lyons business license.

2019 Lineup: June 20: Jesse Garland Band; June 27: Von Hodads with Taylor Sims; No concert on July 4; July 11: Danny Shafer Band; July 18: Joe Kuckla and Irons in the Fire; July 25: Sally Van Meter and the True Bluegrass Band; August 1: Sambadende; August 8: Taarka; August 15: Bonnie and the Clydes Rock, Ram, Run is the current LAHC Town Hall Art Show. Public viewing hours are during weekly hours of operation. Pickup of work from this show is Friday July 12 from 5 to 7 p.m., the same time as drop-off for up to five wall hangable submissions for the next “Wise Eyes” show featuring art created by those 50+, open to all stages of artists. The next opening reception, with appetizers again kindly provided by Oskar Blues, is scheduled for Saturday, July 13 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Watch for the

2019 Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission’s (LAHC) Town Hall Art Shows posters around town and / or contact chrystaldecoster@gmail.com for questions regarding the LAHC’s Town Hall Art Show series.

ALLENSPARK Check out the Old Gallery in Allenspark. The Old Gallery is a one-of-a-kind center for community, arts and visitors. There’s always something going on here, including art shows, concerts, classes, lectures, special events, music events, health and wellness activities and more. Find more information at theoldgallery.org. The gallery is located at 14863 State Highway 7.

LONGMONT The Summer concert series Thursday nights, June 20 to July 25, 6:30 to 8 p.m., is free. Stretch out and enjoy some tunes, from up-and-coming local bands to established regional and national musicians, in the cozy confines of the Longmont Museum’s courtyard, 400 Quail Rd. Lawn chairs and picnics are welcome, kids and families, too. Alcohol and concessions available for sale; only alcohol purchased on site is allowed.

Bonnie and The Clydes, June 20. Join us as we kick off our Summer Concert Series with Bonnie and the Clydes. Pioneering their unique sound of Rocky Mountain Country Soul and fronted by the fiery Bonnie Sims, this band has been making waves with their powerful and memorable live performances for going on ten years. The Boulder County Fair Rodeo Queen will also join us in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the fair!

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Bohn Park gains first piece of public sculpture

By Bonnie Auslander Redstone Review LYONS – Charlotte Zink’s Imagine, now installed next to Bohn Park’s walking bridge, is the most recent sculpture to join the heARTS of LYONS outdoor art collection – all over town.

Imagine is actually Zink’s second piece to find a home in Lyons; the other one, the playful fish sculpture called Pesce, stands in front of St. Vrain Market.

The eight-foot tall sculpture, Imagine, uses a cut-out technique to showcase three small purple globes which appear to dangle like ripe fruit from the interior. The piece evokes Matisse in its sense of whimsy as well as its embrace of color and curving silhouettes.

Zink describes the piece as celebrating “fluidity, easy lines, and open spaces. I bring a feminine sense of design to metal,” she said. Her process varies: sometimes she sketches before drawing on metal; other times she says she enjoys “letting the unconscious guide the

images, shapes, and forms.”

The Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC) created the rotating collection as a sort of parade of art that escorts travelers through the Town of Lyons while enticing return visits. Since the beginning of 2018, new pieces in the collection number well over a dozen.

Originally from New Orleans, Zink has made her home in Colorado since 1987. She lives in Berthoud and collaborates frequently with her husband, Ben. Her small- and large-scale pieces are in private and public collections around the world. Closer to home, you can see her public sculpture on display in a number of other Colorado cities and towns, including Carbondale, Evergreen, Centennial, Lafayette, and Loveland.

Bonnie Auslander is an instructor of communication in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a member of the Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC). She lives in Lyons.

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FOUNDATION Technology has made the wizards of social media into masters of manipulation

By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review PUEBLO – In ancient times, by which I mean the 1970s, there was a saying: Believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear.

To approach truth, the prevailing wisJoyce dom assured us, you needed either to experience it yourself or read the information in a printed news story based on authoritative sources, who themselves relied on vetted information from their own reliable sources or paperwor.

That also applied to photographs, news film, and radio and TV news delivered daily by professional news organizations. It was hard work to provide people with accurate information, of course, because out in the darkness, where the media spotlight dimmed to gray, and then black, there lurked the masters of propaganda, who had been honing their skills since long before the printing press.

They knew the realities and complexities of the games played at the top of all societies. They knew how to manipulate information on behalf of themselves and their causes. They knew, of course, that no time in history was simple or innocent. They also knew most people were both, and tended to be ruled by their emotions.

Such knowledge made the societal manipulation games they played much easier and more effective. Human nature contains a certain “gullible” gene, it seems. The only brake on such manipulation was the relative difficulty in time and space of providing false and / or misleading information in such a way as to reach critical masses of people and cause a mass action on their part as a result.

However, communications technology, from whispering campaigns through printed smear campaigns through totalitarian propaganda blitzes that involved all media tools, gradually wore away that brake. This naturally was seen as a good thing by all those involved in communications, especially those who had professional status and everyone else who made money, either as a paycheck or as an investment, in media.

Few took seriously the downside of media evolution, though there was ample evidence in public for doing so, from Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds to the wartime and post-WWII government propaganda engines all over the world. Then some people did something that may prove horribly disastrous in the end. They invented the personal computer.

Computers had been around for a while, but they were mainframe computers housed in large areas of buildings, keeping their information at the core and distributing it to a finite number of individuals via “dumb terminals.”

They were very powerful and useful, and some people figured out that they could be fun, too, and if that was the case, shouldn’t everyone be able to afford and use

them, especially for fun, but also for productivity and communications, on demand in their homes?

PCs facilitated a new society, one that puts millions of users with similar interests into social networks spanning the entire range of human interests. What’s more, these networks can assemble in a heartbeat around an issue, event or person. To do that requires information, but the speed of information transmission via technology and social networks is so astounding that good information is about as easy to verify as bad information is to debunk.

The result is that technology has brought us back in time to the technology of the spoken word, and we are no

impressions at the time.

If I show you a fake video clip, for example, in which a man beats another man with a stick, then tell you later it was fake, and show you how I did it, and you believe me, you’ll still always carry that first clip and its emotional core in your mind.

Now stir in “deepfake,” named after the Reddit user known by that name who, in 2017, used deep learning technology to put the faces of celebrities on people in pornographic video clips.

Wikipedia says the term “deepfake” comes from “deep learning” and “fake.” Fake has been around forever. It’s easy in words. Examples are endless. PCs also brought Photoshop, which made photo retouching digital and has become very powerful, as did all image-editing software, including that used in digital video.

But none of them create the original image used.

Deepfake in a way does. It takes all the images and sound bites provided of a person, and learns how to create a projection of that person (think “Holodeck”) that walks and talks and looks and sounds like the original person. Then it can have that projection do or say anything. This is a highly dangerous development, because the manipulators of the world In May, during contentious negotiations with President Trump, an altered video of will continue to perfect it, creNancy Pelosi made the rounds on social media. The video, which went viral, ating not only negative effects appeared to show Pelosi drunk and slurring her words. That video was faked by slowing down the original by about 25 percent and adjusting the pitch of her voice to on democratic processes, but also negative effects on society match her normal tone. as a whole. It points toward a psychological and sociologic better off when it comes to telling truth from falsehood. dysfunction in which inner confusion and subsequent This is especially true of spotting propaganda. outer chaos become dominant undercurrents of daily life.

Manipulators know, for example, that to bring anything It’s a rich opportunity for manipulators and dictators. not in their interests to a screeching halt, all that’s needSince nearly all our societal information comes to us ed is to create a small but critical amount of doubt, which through media, the question of which media to trust varies by emotional intensity. becomes paramount, and yet also perhaps becomes unanIf 2,000 scientists say we are creating worse climate con- swerable. Once deep learning matures, questions of what ditions every day, counter that with 30 scientists who say is real and what is fake become absurd. There will be no that’s ridiculous and false. They don’t need good reasons to way to tell. If a way ever exists, it will take some time, create the doubt. The nature of humans does the rest. even if very little, and it will take little time to create Now add into that nature four things discovered in enormous consequences in a deepfake-based society. recent years by scientists: Humans have significantly It therefore is vital that we, the people, get ahead of faulty memories; those memories can be created and / or this power while we still have some of own because if tricked by outside sources; the trickery is most powerful this technology is perfected, and government is always when words and images are used in them; humans tend in the best position to do that, can a dystopian society to remember in association with any emotional first be far behind?

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LYONS Iron Eyes Cody is still crying Editor’s Note: This column first ran in August 2016. We are rerunning this column at the author’s request because apparently, three years later, nothing has changed.

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – It wasn’t as if I hadn’t seen this all before, but this particular pile of trash seemed so inappropriate. Maybe it was where I found it – a pretty spot by the North St. Vrain River. Or just maybe after decades of witnessing these affronts, this was the final straw for me.

Who, in their right mind (well, that might be the clue right there), after sitting under the pines eating their storebought sandwiches and swilling their sodas while watching the trout rise and the swallows swoop, would simply get up and walk away leaving a half-eaten sandwich, two soda cans, the sandwich wrappers, three containers of condiments, dirty napkins and the plastic bag they all came in right on the path in plain view? I wish I knew because at that point I was not above driving to their residence, knocking on the door and giving them back their garbage along with a considerable piece of my mind.

Instead, for the umpteenth time, I picked up the litter myself.

I’ve always tried to psychoanalyze what kind of person does this sort of thing. It’s certainly not just carelessness. It takes some considerable don’t-give-a-damn-

ness to leave behind a pile of trash this big.

Despite the hundreds of times I’ve encountered these affronts, I’m still always shocked. Growing up, I saw lots of littering, but sometime in the late 1960s it seemed people generally stopped tossing trash at the feet of Iron Eyes Cody, and Woodsy Owl taught us better behavior. But apparently many of us still don’t give a hoot. Iron Eyes Cody was a Native American symbol used to bring awareness to the problem of littering. Numerous studies have been done as to why people litter. Some posit that people’s economic or education level affects whether they litter. Others blame it on cultural upbringing.

In a Psychology Today article, Rob Wallace of the anti-litter Keep America Beautiful organization, said that while studies of littering are inconclusive, he theorizes that some people litter because they feel disenfranchised from society, that they feel powerless: it’s an expression of anger much like graffiti. Or, he thinks, people may litter because they believe someone else will pick up after them.

Robert Cialdini, professor of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University, said in an Atlantic article that humans tend to imitate the actions of others around them. Cialdini has conducted a number of studies on littering and its prevention and all of them point to the fact that people are likely to do what they think is expected of them. So, he says, “it’s the idea that since no one is

littering here, it must not be a legitimate thing to do.” On the other hand, if there’s already litter, it must be okay for me to litter as well.

I’m just not sure I’m buying all of this.

Because people are mean to me I’ll show them and make them pick up my trash?

garbage diminishes the place they, strangely, love to visit. In a word, they’re slobs.

Both the state of Colorado (Statute 184-511) and the Town of Lyons (Section 10-4-20 of the town code) have laws on the books regarding littering. First offens-

Search “Iron Eyes Cody” on YouTube and see why he’s still crying.

Or my mom never made me pick up after myself so certainly some mom-like person will retrieve that bag full of stuff I threw in the river? Or all the cool kids are littering, so I guess I’ll toss my McDonald’s bag too.

Or maybe, just as some animals leave their spoor as a calling card, litterers see garbage as leaving their own personal signature.

More likely, I think, litterers are just vacuous – there’s no appreciation of their surroundings and no sense that their

es run $20 to $500 and subsequent offenses have heftier fines. But despite years of these laws it’s obvious we’re never going to be shed of those among us who somehow believe the woods, rivers, hiking paths and roads are their own personal garbage can. I guess we just have to accept it and continue to adopt-a-road to pick up after them. Just don’t let me see you leaving your garbage behind, because, personally, I’ve had it up to here.

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HOUSING Housing bills passed in the Colorado legislature

By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review

COMMENTARY: AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN LYONS

LYONS – Two of the bills that I was following that would affect affordable housing or the relationships between tenants and landlords failed in the 2019 Colorado Legislative Session, which ended May 3. Senate Bill 19-225, which aimed to repeal an Reinholds existing law that prohibits local government ordinances that control rent, was probably the most controversial bill related to rentals this session. It didn’t make it out of the Senate. Also, HB 191075, which would have created a pilot state tax credit of up to $400 for donations to nonprofit sponsors of employer-assisted housing projects in rural areas of the state, didn’t make it out of the House.

However, several bills that affect funding for subsidized affordable housing, and regulations for tenants and landlords, did pass this session and were signed by the governor.

Bills affecting funding of subsidized affordable housing House Bill 19-1228, which expands state Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) funding, was signed by the governor on May 17. It raises the cap of total allowed state tax credits. You can read more about this bill at leg. colorado. gov / bills / hb19-1228.

House Bill 19-1322, which transfers money for the next seven fiscal years from unclaimed property trust fund to the housing development grant fund in the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), was signed by the governor on May 17. You can read more about this bill at www.leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1322.

House Bill 19-1245, which increases affordable housing funding from vendor fee changes, also was signed by the governor on May 17. The new law requires the state treasurer to credit an amount equal to the increase in sales taxes from vendor fee changes to the housing development grant fund, which the Division of Housing in DOLA uses to make grants and loans to improve, preserve, or expand the supply of affordable housing in the state. You can read more about this bill at leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1245.

House Bill 19-1319, which aims to identify non-developed land owned by the state that could be developed for affordable housing purposes and modify

the administration of an existing property tax exemption that applies to certain affordable housing developments, was signed by the governor on May 17. You can read more about this bill at leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1319.

Bills affecting homeowners, tenants, and landlords House Bill 19-1085, which defines property-related expense assistance grants for low-income seniors and individuals with disabilities, was signed by the governor on May 20. It expands the property tax and rent assistance grant and increases the grant amounts for these property owners. You can read more about this bill at http : / / leg. colorado. gov / bills / hb19-1085.

House Bill 19-1106, which governs rental applications and fees for prospective tenants, was signed by the governor and goes into effect August 2. This new law aims to limit possible high costs when tenants are searching for places to rent and paying application fees. Landlords can charge prospective tenants rental application fees only if they use the entire amount of the fee to cover their costs in processing the rental application.

Landlords must provide a disclosure of their anticipated expenses or a receipt that itemizes the expenses that the application fee covers, and fees must be the same for all applicants. There are also limits on how far back landlords can search rental, credit history, and criminal history, with exceptions for some kinds of arrests. Landlords who deny a rental application must provide the applicant a notice of denial that states the reason. You can read more about the bill at leg. colorado. gov / bills / hb19-1106.

House Bill 19-1118, which gives more time for a tenant to cure a lease violation that is not a substantial violation, was signed into law on May 20 and went into effect as soon as

it was signed. The new law requires a landlord or property manager to provide a tenant 10-day notice (instead of the three-day notice in current state law), to cure a violation for unpaid rent or for the first violation of any other condition or covenant of a lease agreement (other than a substantial violation), before the landlord can terminate the lease and initiate eviction proceedings.

The eviction process in Colorado is already a long process for all parties – tenants and landlords – with many mandated deadlines and steps that landlords and tenants meet to have the case resolved in court. Even before this new law, landlords who initiate the eviction process for unpaid rent and follow it through all the steps currently need to plan for at least one additional month (maybe two months, depending on court dates) when rent is not paid, and before the tenant moves out.

You can read more about the bill at leg. colorado. gov / bills / hb19-1118.

Senate Bill 19-180, establishes an which Eviction Legal Defense Fund, was signed by the governor on May 30 and took effect immediately. The state is appropriating $750,000. The court administrator will award grants from the fund to qualifying nonprofit organizations that provide free legal advice, counseling, and representation for clients who are indigent or disabled and are either experiencing an eviction or are at immediate risk of an eviction. You can read more about the bill at leg. colorado. gov / bills / sb19-180.

House Bill 19-1170, which increases tenant protections relating to the residential warranty of habitability, signed by the governor on May 20, will take effect on August 2. Current law allows landlords “a reasonable time” after receiving a written notice to fix the problems that make a residential premise uninhabitable, materially dangerous, or hazardous. The new law allows either electronic or written notice, and gives the landlords 24 hours to fix the conditions that are “materially

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House Bill 19-1328, which establishes duties for landlords and tenants in addressing the presence of bed bugs, was signed by the governor on June 3 and will take effect on January 1, 2020. A landlord shall inspect or obtain an inspection by a qualified inspector of the dwelling unit up to 96 hours after receiving notice of the presence or possible presence of bed bugs from a tenant, and the landlord may enter the dwelling unit or any contiguous unit for the purpose of conducting the inspection. Tenants must comply with reasonable measures to permit the inspection for, and treatment of, the presence of bed bugs, and tenants are responsible for all costs associated with preparing the dwelling units for inspection and treatment. Tenants who knowingly and unreasonably fail to comply with inspection and treatment requirements are liable for the costs of subsequent bed bug treatments. You can read more about this bill at leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1328 .

Finally, House Bill 19-1309, a mobile home park bill championed by Rep. Edie Hooton (D-Boulder), was signed by the governor on May 23 and went into effect that date. It creates a state Mobile Home Park Dispute Resolution and Enforcement Program and extends the time for a mobile home owner to move or sell a mobile home after eviction proceedings from 48 hours to 30 days. You can read more about the bill at leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1309.

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EXPRESSIONS Lyons Good Old Days includes history honors, kid games, car show and picnic

By Kathleen Spring Redstone Review LYONS – Lyons Good Old Days, taking place on Saturday, June 29, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., includes a car show, the museum’s annual history honors program, the children’s games in front of the elemenSpring tary school, and a picnic in the park.

The Lyons Good Old Days Car Show in Sandstone Park, Fourth Avenue and Broadway from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. includes everything from antique to custom built vehicles and is sponsored by Lyons Automotive. The event is free; voluntary donations are welcome, and will all go to Habitat for Humanity of St. Vrain Valley.

Spectators are encouraged to vote for their favorite car.

There will be food available.

The Town of Lyons’ sponsored kids games go from 1:30 p.m. ‘till 5 p.m. in front of the Lyons Elementary School playground. From 2 to 4 p.m. there will be free root beer floats, sponsored by the Lyons Community Foundation and Town.

The Lyons Museum, 340 High St., will begin its annual History Awards Program with a welcome from Director LaVern Johnson and Mayor Connie Sullivan.

The program begins with a brief introduction of Lyons Pioneer families who are present, and Lyons Alumni from Classes of 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970 who are gathering in town to celebrate, and all those classes that end in 9. The 50-year class reunion of 1969 is being coordinated by Gary Secrest and Rhonda French, and the two will give an overview of their activities for the weekend, along with some highlights of their class members’ news.

For decades Lyons has honored those Lyons students who come from pioneer families (50 years or more in town) by presenting their family history. We are running out of pioneer families, so, for the first time honors will go to those whose families have been here for 40 years.

Honorees include: David Brett, Kaylen Christiansen,

Konner Mauck, and Thorne Vasquez.

Historical Fund. From 2006 to 2014 the museum received A popular tradition in town is honoring long time res- two grants to restore the exterior of the museum, totaling idents and / or business owners, who have enriched life $235,100. The story of how and why two grants became in Lyons for its residents. This year’s Mr. Good Old Days necessary, as concepts changed and prices increased, and will be Lonnie Clark and Ted Gullikson of Clark’s how only old-time methods of restoration and materials (Ted’s) Hardware, and Mrs. Good Old Days will be had to be used, among other setbacks, will be told. Many Gwynne Owen of Gwynne’s Greenhouse. All have been thanks to Estella Cole, and Lyle Miller, liaisons between operating in Lyons for approximately 25 years and the state, the workers, and the museum. announced their retirement in 2018. They have touched A new exhibit has been created of 40 artifacts to repthe hearts and homes of resent the 40 years. At 2 hundreds of residents, and p.m., attendees can enjoy those people are encoursome cake and proceed on aged to come out and show a self-guided tour, until their support for these 4:30 p.m. They can take friendly, hard-working, home a copy of the day’s helpful individuals.

Commemorative Program The program will conon the history of the museclude with honoring the um, as well as a copy of the Lyons Redstone Museum for 40 artifact tour guide. The 40 years of operation, and exhibit will be open for the LaVern Johnson for her dedrest of the season. The ication in leading the Lyons museum is open seven days Historical Society to save a week until September 29. the building from the wreckHours are Monday to ing ball, and turning it into a The Car Show is a highlight of the Good Old Days Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 treasure trove of artifacts and celebration PHOTO BY CATHY RIVERS p.m., and Sunday 12:30 p.m. genealogy for the people of to 4:30 p.m. Admission is Lyons. The sparsely filled free; donations are apprecimuseum opened with volunteers on the weekends in 1978, ated. Call 303-823-5271 or write RedstoneHistory @ and officially had a grand opening in November 1979. It is gmail.com for more information. anticipated that Mayor Vaughn Carter, who presided in The final event, at 5 p.m. in LaVern M. Johnson Park, 1976, when the museum was saved, will attend and say a is a combined Lyons High School Class of 1969 Reunion few words. In 1977, a three-way 20-year renewable lease was Pot Luck / Picnic, and a town resident Community Pot signed by the Town of Lyons, St. Vrain Valley School Luck / Picnic, ending at 8 p.m. Note, no alcohol allowed; District RE-lJ, and Lyons Historical Society, and represen- the picnic is located in Quarry, 1st Shelter. The Lyons tatives from each group will speak. Terri Weir will give a Chamber of Commerce will not put on a music or beer brief talk on how things have changed and progressed over garden event this year, and encourages people to support the 30 years that she has been curator at the museum. local businesses by enjoying the music in local restauAlso invited are representatives from the State rants and bars that evening.

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Town Continued from Page 1 he had the Open Road Bluegrass Band and now he often plays with Bonnie and the Clydes, who will be playing in Sandstone Park on August 15, if you want to see the newest trustee in action.

Roberts said that now that his work schedule has slowed down he has the time to devote to his other interests, which include becoming a town board trustee.

He has served on several Lyons boards and commissions including the Economic Development Commission (EDC) where he worked on various subcommittees for the most recent Lyons Comprehensive Plan. He also served on the Engineering Advisory Board. Roberts said he decided to run because he thought that the Town Board might be able to benefit from someone who had experience serving on some of the town’s board and commissions.

After the interesting discussions with

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The board discussed bringing the question of a proposed shooting range on a parcel of Cemex property to a vote of the people. The property is located between Lyons Valley Park subdivision and Loukonen’s stone yard facing North Foothills Highway. Please see Mayor Connie Sullivan’s column on Page 3 for more details. The board liked the idea of asking voters to decide the fate of the proposed shooting range on the November ballot.

In other business the board discussed writing an open letter to senators concerning the dire situation at the local quarries due to lack of seasonal migrant workers. Mayor Sullivan said that one of the largest quarries approached her to say that they are not in line to receive any migrant workers this year, not in the first or second round of workers that are allowed permits to work in the U.S. Some

of the quarry owners are saying that they might need to close if they cannot get any migrant workers. Mayor Sullivan said that some of these families have been coming back to Lyons for many years and some of the children in these families have worked at her store, the St. Vrain Market. “These are wonderful families.” she said, “They have been coming here for many years and we have gotten to know them.”

The town board received some good news from Josh Kravetz, president of Adventure Fit, a marketing company that produces outdoor events. Adventure Fit was hired by the Town of Lyons about 2.5 years ago to produce the Outdoor Games event which includes Burning Can, in Lyons. The Outdoor Games have never produced any revenue for the town and after the second year that Adventure Fit put on the games the board was quite frustrated because it was the second year in a

Waugh Resigns Continued from Page 3 important to get a replacement as soon as possible. To that end, the decision was made to take applications from interested residents, interview them in public at the June 17 BOT meeting, select a trustee at that meeting and swear that person in at the July 1 BOT meeting.

Any town resident who has lived in Lyons for 12 consecutive months and who has not been a trustee for four or more years after having served three consecutive terms is eligible to be named trustee.

Hey, people: leave those eagles alone The resident golden eagles in the cliffs above Lavern Johnson Park have been the subject of attention – some good, some unwanted.

Boulder County Sheriff Sergeant Bill Crist reported that three adult men had been apprehended on the weekend of June 1 and 2 climbing the cliffs in the vicinity of the eagle nest, despite having been warned by town staff on duty not to climb. The three adults were subsequently confronted by Trident Security, which the town hires for park compliance issues.

Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen wondered whether disruption of the eagles was considered a Federal offense, as golden eagles are a Federally protected species.

Italy Continued from Page 5 entered the room and took over. Blood pressure, oxygen level, pulse taken, but I couldn’t see the results. They spoke nary a word of English, but soon had a doctor on the phone for me to talk to. I told the doctor Joanne had had a severe ocular migraine earlier in the evening and then later had passed out. The phone went back to the EMTs, a stretcher was brought in, Joanne was loaded and whisked out the door into the waiting ambulance.

“I’ll be right there, after I pay the bill,” I called after her.

Per instructions given through the restaurant manager, I got in our car and followed the ambulance, sirens wailing

With assistance and permission from the Town of Lyons, local photographer Art Trevino was able to capture images of the golden eagles at Meadow Park. Trevino presented to the Town two framed photos of the eagles as thanks for their help.

PHOTO BY ART TREVINO Sgt. Crist was unsure how to handle a Federal offense, but promised to look into the issue.

On the good note, local photographer Art Trevino presented the Town with two photographs he took of the

and lights flashing down through the mountains and into town. The pace was reasonable on the narrow mountain roads, but things abruptly changed when we hit paved streets in town and the ambulance screamed as a bullet through the night. The speed limit signs showed 50 km. per hour, and we were doing 110, flying past cars that had pulled off to the side. Afraid I’d accidently hit one, I turned on my flashers and honked my horn trying to stay on the tail of the emergency vehicle carrying my wife just head.

Lucky for all of us it was night time and the traffic was relatively thin.

Joanne had chosen not to carry much in her purse, including any identification. I

Library Continued from Page 4 nity members between 2006 and 2009 and have now found a home in the new library.

Collections and Programs The 2019 Summer Reading program is underway. The library encourages readers to continue learning throughout the summer with the return of its Summer Reading program. This year’s theme, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, is “A Universe of Stories” and inspires readers of all ages to dive into the realm of space exploration.

Stop by and pick up one of these space related titles: Space Case: A Moon Base Alpha Novel by Stuart Gibbs (2014); CatStronauts by Drew Brockington (2017); The Daredevil’s Guide to Outer Space by Anna Brett (2019); Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: Charlie Series, Book 2 by Roald Dahl (1972); Honor Among Thieves by Rachel Caine (2018); Chicken in Space by Adam Lehrhaupt (2016).

Summer is the best time to read for fun, and the annual Summer Reading Program provides even more incentive to

JUNE 19 / JULY 17, 2019 row that the town had lost between $10 and $20,000. Before Adventure Fit took over the games, the town tried to put on the games using staff and a lot of money was lost then also.

But this year Kravetz told the board that revenues for the event were up by $20,000 over last year. It’s not clear if the town actually made any money on the event, but it came much closer to at least breaking even.

By all other accounts the event was a big success. Kravetz told the board that almost 5,000 people attended this year, up from last year. People came from 33 different states. Most of the people came from Lyons. Over 68 breweries presented 24,480 beer names. About 37 percent of the people attending said that they were there to watch the games; 84 percent said that they were there for the beer fest; 56 percent said they came for the concert and 33 percent were there to support the town.

nesting eagles – a framed photo and an acrylic photo. He gave them to the town in appreciation of the efforts by town employee Crystal White, who told Trevino of the nest’s history and kept him informed when the parents and chick were active this season, allowing Trevino to capture his images.

Taking Lyons’ pulse on proposed gun range, garbage A long discussion ensued concerning an advisory ballot question (non-binding) on the November ballot for the possible shooting range near Lyons, as well as an advisory question on the proposed “pay as you throw” garbage disposal concept.

Mayor Sullivan reported that she had been in contact with a person at Boulder County who’s involved with the proposed siting of gun ranges in Boulder County, including the notional range at the inactive quarry just off Rte. 36 above the currently active Loukonen sandstone quarry.

The county is working with the National Forest Service in its efforts to close certain portions of the local national forest to recreational shooting. The idea is that if alternatives can be offered to the casual gun ranges in the national forest, then shooting in those areas can be banned.

Lyons resident Greg Lowell serves on the town’s Ecology Advisory Board and Parks and Rec. Commission.

supplied her name and date of birth, which seemed to be all the nurses and administrators needed. Soon I was shunted off to the waiting room and Joanne was wheeled in the opposite direction. I whiled away what seemed to be hours, checking once at the admitting window. In broken English I was commanded to sit down until the doctor called, and I did as I was told.

Meanwhile Joanne was demanding I be allowed to come see her, and after about an hour it happened. She’d been given an EKG and a CT scan of her head. We talked and waited in the emergency bay until a doctor who spoke broken English came and told us everything had checked out okay and we could go home. The doctor theo-

rized that the passing out was a result of the ocular migraine, with no following issue.

The total bill: $0.

We got in the car just as Joanne’s phone was ringing. It was our friend, Donatella, frantic because she’d been trying to reach us all evening, afraid something was wrong. I quickly explained what had happened, and even though she didn’t understand, she was relieved we were on our way home.

The juice in the phone squeezed out its last drop just as the last direction we needed to get home appeared on the screen of Google maps. It was black outside. It was one a.m.

Happy Anniversary, Sweetheart.

read with awesome prizes for achieving reading goals tracked with the reading logs you can pick up at the library.

The Summer Reading Programming will include Lego Engineering Carnival Creations with PlayWellTEK on Saturday June 22 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. This program is open to youth ages 5 to12.

This program requires registration; please call the library at 303-823-5165 or email McCourt at mccourt@lyonsregionallibrary.com. You can stop by the library Mondays through Saturdays at 405 Main St.; call us at 303-823-5165, like our page on Facebook, or visit us online anytime.

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Girl Painters West are Lancene Cadora, Penny Peterson, Alice Renouf, Laurie Donlon, Cyndy Hinkelmen Smith, Jacque Michelle, Cathy Faughnan and Laura Brenton. The artistic core of this group of Western women painters is their passion for expressing themselves through color. The impact and accessible message of each composition is devoted to committing color to canvas.

Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery is one of the oldest artist cooperatives in the United States, established in 1971. Located on the Pedestrian Mall in Boulder’s Downtown Historic District, it is a popular destination year-round for residents and visitors.

BOULDER The Renaissance Project will hold two open sings this summer. Steven Aguiló-Argues will direct on Thursday, July 11 and on Wednesday, August 7, Michael Hoffman will direct. Both summer sings take place at the Pine St. Church, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Music is provided.

Meet artists Girl Painters West at an opening reception at Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery. A reception for this group will be held on Saturday, June 29, from 2 to 4 pm, with refreshments and live music by the Wallpaper House Band.

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