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It’s hard to be TOGETHER

By Sally King The Bears are staging a “TOGETHER” Happening at the corner of 5th Ave and High Street and they insist that if you’d like a TOGETHER sign you may take one home.

The problem with TOGETHER is that it can be so divisive.

My sister and I vote differently and it can be painful when we talk.

The Bears understand That it is hard to be together.

It’s easy to get attached to the honey of being right.

And hard to let it go.

Human evolution is beyond politics Together is being with that which is beyond my point of view.

TOGETHER. Milton Glasser, the artist who penned I heart New York, has given us the TOGETHER graphic as featured here.

Aria Johnson, Eridanis Tucker, and Tallulah Johnson display their Together signs, made by Sally King. King and the girls installed the signs in front of her iconic Bears sculpture at the intersection of High Street and 5th Avenue in Lyons.

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B •R •I •E •F •S Lyons Elementary School began August 18 online LYONS – Lyons Elementary School has been in session since August 18, with all students logging in to their classes online. Many kids are attending virtually from home, on their own or with a parent or caregiver, while others are a part of small groups of kids (typically referred to as “pods”) who gather together each school day and log in on one device. Before the first day of school, each student was provided with an iPad and various other supplies to use for their schoolwork, and new supplies are picked up by families about every other week. Teachers are working from their classrooms, teaching via video conferencing software called Webex. This “distance learning” model is set to continue through at least September 30, and the St. Vrain School District is expected to announce plans for October sometime before that date.

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Lyons Town Board makes a difficult call on a liquor license and other issues

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – It was a dark and stormy night and the power was flickering at the Lyons Town Hall on Tuesday, September 8 when the Lyons Town Board was conducting its regular meeting on Zoom. Several staff members and the Mayor and one trustee were working from the town hall.

Deputy Town Clerk Merissa Davis read the renewal liquor license application for Lyons Den Tavern, located at 160 Main St., to the Town Board.

Davis said in her statement that Lyons Den had five noise citations which are still pending in Lyons Municipal Court. The Lyons Den was asked to suspend outdoor entertainment due to the violations of COVID and zoning regulations but spoke to the Town Administrator who offered a modification, and an agreement was reached. Davis said that Lyons Den did not comply with the agreement and the agreement was revoked on August 31. New stipulations were offered on September 3.

On another matter concerning Lyons Den, Davis said the finance director

(Jill Johnson) found that Lyons Den was noncompliant on reporting and on paying sales tax. The board was notified of the noncompliance issue with sales taxes. Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen said that two payments were made on the taxes, one for April 2019 and one for July 2020. The Lyons Den open up on April 24, 2019.

Mayor Nick Angelo read some letters of complaint into the record. Some of the letters said that the music did not always stop at 10:30 p.m. when it was supposed to, others said that sometimes the music stopped on time and everyone went inside for about a half hour then they came right back out and started playing on the patio again.

Chrystal DeCoster, owner of Western Stars Gallery, said that she wanted to support the Lyons Den and wanted them to get their liquor license renewed. She said that they were sort of roommates. Western Stars is located on the western end of the building complex that is shared with Lyons Den. Randall Yarbrough, owner of Lyons Den, spoke up in his own defense saying that he has been in compliance with the noise ordinance for the prior week-

end. He went on to say that he had a partner who was supposed to be paying the sales taxes but did not.

“I was new to the business and it was her (the partner’s) area to pay the taxes.

We are just trying to run a successful business. It’s not easy. I’ve done so much mitigation to comply. I don’t want to see the 14 employees I employ go without a job. We have art shows too. We bring in some good business.”

Trustee Mark Browning asked who was responsible for paying the sales taxes after Yarbrough’s partner left last November. Yarbrough said he guessed that was responsible.

“Do you understand that when you collect sales taxes, under state law those taxes are trust funds for the state, the county and the town?” asked Browning.

“Yes, I do now sir,” said Yarbrough.

Trustee Browning asked him if he had a payment plan in place with the Colo.

Dept. of Revenue or if he was just in discussion with them. Yarbrough said he was in discussion with the Dept. of Revenue. Browning asked if he was in compliance with the Feds for their income taxes and Yarbrough said that he was current. He added that his new accountant, Julie Hamilton, who owns Scope Accounting was handling his accounts and his payments.

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LYONS O B I T U A RY Carol (Tubbs) Devenir January 26, 1950 – August 15, 2020 Carol (Tubbs) Devenir loved life and all that is beautiful. She was a talented musician, an enthusiastic gardener, a fierce protector of Mother Nature, an inveterate world traveler, a devotee of libraries and farmers’ markets, and a loving friend to many, many people.

Carol was born January 26, 1950 to Frederick B. Tubbs and Margaret Ross Tubbs in Newport News, Virginia, the oldest of four children. The family moved to Oneonta, N.Y., when Carol was 12.

She was a Rotary Exchange Student to the Netherlands for her junior year in high school and quickly became fluent in Dutch. She graduated from Oneonta High School in 1968 and from Harpur College in Binghamton, N.Y., in 1971 with a degree in English Literature.

On December 24, 1971, Carol married Steve Naatz, her high school sweetheart.

She and Steve moved to Fort Collins and fell in love with the mountains and the

sunshine. They divorced a few years later.

Carol studied urban and regional planning at UCLA, then returned to Colorado where she was a city planner in Glenwood Springs, after which she offered contract planning services for Fort Collins, Boulder and other Colorado cities. As a volunteer, she helped launch “Recycle Something,” Fort Collins’ first recycling program.

At various times, she was a vocalist, a volunteer and a staff member of the Boulder Bach Festival.

Recycling was both a career and a personal passion of Carol’s. She was a trendsetter in the emerging field of solid waste management, rooted in recycling principles.

In 1990 she moved to Boise, Idaho, where she started the first “blue bin” recycling program for the city, a program that grew into a citywide endeavor that continues today. From there, Carol was recruited by the city of Vancouver, Wash., to be its director of solid waste management. She married Martin Moore in Vancouver in 1997, and they bought a historic home, which they lovingly restored. In Vancouver, Carol tended a stunning flower garden, including a diverse and

magnificent collection of roses. They divorced a few years later.

Ready for more sunshine in her life, Carol returned to Colorado in 2006, settling in Lyons, then Pinewood Springs.

She wrote for the Lyons Redstone Review and other publications. After a battle with breast cancer, Carol authored the book Beyond Chemo Brain.

Carol is survived by her sister Joanne Kelly of Boulder; her brother Stephen Tubbs of Boise, Idaho; nieces Louise Oldenkamp (Mindy) of Nampa, Idaho; Annah Tubbs; Erin Decker of Evergreen, Colorado; Sarah Dufoe (Candace) of Dyken Lake, N.Y.; nephew Joshua Wetmore of Boulder; and several grandnieces and grandnephews. She was predeceased by her parents, her brother Frederick B. Tubbs, III, and her brother-in-law Alan Kelly.

The family extends heartfelt thanks to Susan Nemcek of Willow Farms for giving selflessly and taking tender care of Carol for so many years. Thanks also to the staff at The Bridge at Longmont for going the extra mile to make Carol feel loved and cared for.

Memorial contributions may be made to The Nature Conservancy at nature.org.

Hot dry weather conditions create perfect conditions for fires in the state

By Steve Pischke, Lyons Regional Fire District Interim Chief Redstone Review LYONS – As many of you know there have been (and still are) a number of significant fires going on in our state. Some Pischke of you may have family and friends that have been affected by the evacuations related to these fires.

These fires should serve as a reminder to all of us that there’s no better time than now, no matter where you live, to prepare an evacuation plan well ahead of any future emergency.

The hot and dry weather conditions we’ve been experiencing make us all susceptible to a fast-moving wildfire.

While this recent moisture we received has helped diminish some the fire danger in our area, with the warm and dry weather returning, so does the fire danger. Should we experience a wildland fire, some homes may be asked to evacuate with little to no notice. If your home is asked to be evacuated within five minutes, will you be ready?

Given this current pandemic, what friends or family could be a good place to go if you had to leave? Does everyone in your house know the plan?

A local resource that many of you may have already utilized is the Boulder County Wildfire Partners program, which provides wildfire mitigation support to homes at risk of wildfires. You can find more information about that program here: https: // www. wildfirepartners. org/. While those of us who live in Larimer County may not be able to access this particular program, you can still find wildfire Walk, run, stroll or hike and help support the animals cared for by LHS. Multiple registration and fundraising opportunities to suit various interests. First 150 registrants will receive a Paws in the Park 2020 t-shirt. Learn more at www.longmonthumane.org and register today,

Minni This delightful 11-year-old girl loves being in the company of her people and is looking for a home where her social and chatty nature will be celebrated. Minni will likely do well with another cat or a polite dog in her new home, given time to adjust. To learn more about Minni or to make an appointment to come in for a visit please call (303)772-1232 or email info@longmonthumane.org.

Paws in the Park, Virtual Walk for the Animals, has gone virtual. Help support the work of Longmont Humane Society and walk for the animals, October 3 through 11.

Order your Pints for Paws card. Each $50 Pints for Paws punch card is redeemable for one pour/drink at our 10 participating local breweries. Card must be presented to server at time of ordering. Cards valid through August 4, 2021. Purchase cards online at www.longmonthumane.org or by appointment at LHS’ retail store, Boz’s Place. All proceeds benefit the animals cared for by Longmont Humane Society.

mitigation planning materials at the Colorado State Forest Service Site, found here: https: // csfs. colostate. edu / wildfire-mitigation /.

In difficult times and when an emergency strikes, preparation and planning help us focus on a task that is within our control. Let’s all keep those involved in leaving their homes and the firefighters working these fires in our hearts and minds. If you know someone who may need help to evacuate, please offer to help them prepare now.

And, as always, Lyons Fire is here to help. If you have additional questions about being prepared for wildfires in this district, please feel free to reach out to publicinformation@lyonsfire.org. Thanks for helping everyone stay safe.

Steve Pischke is the former Lyons Fire Marshal and now the acting Lyons Regional Fire District Chief.

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TRUSTEES’ CORNER The role of the PCDC is critical to the Lyons Town Board

By Kenyon Waugh, Lyons Trustee Redstone Review LYONS – Wow, can’t believe the summer is over already. It’s been a busy spring and summer at Waugh Town Hall, with COVID and many development issues coming to the Town Board.

One of the key areas the Town has been focusing on relates to Planning and Community Development. The Planning and Community Development Commission (PDDC) is established by the Lyons Municipal Code. This commission has a direct impact on the way Lyons looks and feels today and in the future.

As the Board of Trustees liaison to the PCDC and a former member of the commission, this is an area that is key to the growth and future of the town and something I am very interested in. The responsibilities of this commission are complex and require a combination of experience and openness to public input. The PCDC supports the Town staff in the Planning Department and the Board of Trustees.

Paul Glasgow, Town Planner, has recently been joined by Reyna Jones (Yani), who has experience in both Planning and Historic Conservation.

Their overall responsibilities include: • Advise, recommend and assist the Board of Trustees and the Town staff relating to planning the physical growth of the Town.

• Review recommendations of staff regarding proposals submitted to the Town for annexation, subdivision or other land development.

• Develop, revise, recommend professional guidance for, and adopt the Lyons Comprehensive Plan and other broad based planning documents.

• Hear, decide and recommend to the

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Board of Trustees all matters pertaining to zoning, interpretation of zoning codes and the zoning map.

• Perform any other function or action that, in the opinion of the Planning and Community Development Commission, is relevant to its role in advising the Board of Trustees on matters related to annexation, subdivision and land development.

The PCDC has been focused on all areas of their responsibilities while taking on additional responsibilities during COVID-19, as outlined in Trustee Rogin’s article last month.

One of the largest efforts underway by the PCDC is the preparation for an update to the comprehensive plan. The Comprehensive Plan (Comp Plan) is a document that is updated typically every 10 years with a tremendous amount of public input.

The last Comp Plan was completed in in

L E T T E R •T O •T H E •E D I T O R To the Editor: I would like to explain to Lyons citizens why some recent town-related actions were taken.

The Lyons Municipal Code says the Town Administrator is in charge of engineering and construction work. So when the Town Administrator called me in May, upset that the Mayor (she said) had gotten involved in directing some construction details, I agreed with her that mayors don’t have such authority under the Municipal Code.

Though it was unpleasant to do so, I brought the matter to the attention of the full Board of Trustees. I also advised the new Board of instances when a former mayor interfered with staff functions. The board appointed a task force to address mayor / trustee / staff roles, see that the Municipal Code is respected and improve communications. A resolution addressing those issues will be considered soon.

The Code requires a vacant lot owner to provide a water share to get a building permit if either a new tap (the right to hook into the town water system) or a new connection is needed. The Code also says that only the Board of Trustees “in its sole discretion” can waive the water share require-

2010, prior to the flood. After the flood, the Town undertook a Lyons Recovery Plan. This was a document that supported and updated some of the Comprehensive Plan based on the flood. While there was public process to create this plan it was not as robust as the Comp Plan based on the fact that so many residents were recovering from the flood and many were temporarily out of town during that process.

The PCDC has created a Comprehensive Plan Taskforce led by former Trustee Jocelyn Farrell. She has been working with the town staff and the taskforce to select a team to help us with our update to the Comp Plan. With eight proposals submitted following a Request for Quotation, the taskforce held two rounds of interviews with companies and focused on a fit to the Lyons community, the ability to proactively gather public input in the time of

ment. Town staff can’t do that.

In late June I discovered, by asking questions, that the Town Administrator, without going to the board, had waived a water share for a building permit. Though it was again unpleasant to do so, I did the same thing I’d done as to mayoral authority: brought the matter to the attention of the full Board. The board accepted the TA’s apology for not bringing the water share waiver request to the Board. The board directed better future communication as to such matters.

In both cases, the issue was complying with the Municipal Code.

The Municipal Code is a law – a local law. There are also state and federal laws. Collectively, they are the foundation of what is called “The rule of law.”

An oft-stated reason for the United States’ greatness is that “We are governed by a rule of law, not of men.” (A bit sexist, but historically pretty accurate as to gender.)

For examples of nations governed by the “rule of men” (literally), not of law, see North Korea (Kim Jong Un), China (Xi Jinping) and Russia (Vladimir Putin). For a “rule of law” being changed before our eyes to a “rule of men,” see Hong Kong.

For examples closer to home, consider a President withholding for political reasons foreign aid appropriated by

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COVID and the ability to create a Comp Plan that will serve as a guide for the next 10 years for Town staff, elected officials and residents. The PCDC is finalizing the selection this month. I know they are looking forward to the public’s input in shaping the vision of Lyons for the next 10 years.

The PCDC is also working to create consistency and fit between our code and the realities of the Town of Lyons. This includes looking at zoning definitions for Old Town around setbacks, rights-of-way, and related issues that are unique to that part of town. A lot zoned R1 in Old Town doesn’t always look like a lot in one of our newer subdivisions. The PCDC also recently started to look at downtown design standards to make our downtown even more consistent and attractive. Based on business owners and building owners input, this effort was put on hold during COVID19. While it is important, immediate support for our businesses took priority.

Lastly, the PCDC has been working on supporting additional housing options in Lyons. While the amount of time and effort put into the Summit Housing project is a very visible example, the PCDC has been busy in other ways. The updates to the Associated Dwelling Unit (ADU) ordinances has allows several homeowners to add both attached and detached ADU’s, including one Tiny Home as an ADU approved, but not yet built. It is estimated that there are over 30 “non-registered” ADUs in town and the PCDC is working to bring those units into compliance.

All in all the PCDC does a lot of work to keep Lyons safe and looking forward.

Their meetings are open to the public and I encourage to join a meeting to see the work of our great commission, and get involved with the Lyons Comp Plan when the process starts in 2021.

Kenyon Waugh is a Lyons Trustee elected in April 2019. He and his wife Juli Waugh are the owners of Wee Casa Tiny House Resort at River Bend just west of Lyons on Highway 66.

Congress, diverting military funds in Congress’ enacted budget (a law) to build a border wall, or taking money earmarked by Congress in a law for disaster relief to use for other purposes.

I don’t equate Municipal Code non-compliance with those examples, which are orders of magnitude different (billions of dollars versus thousands of dollars). But the Municipal Code is our “local rule of law.” All trustees take oaths to uphold it. All town employees are required to follow it.

When I find out a municipal law may not have been followed in a material respect, I take seriously my oath to uphold the “local rule of law.” I will bring the matter to the attention of the full Board and the public, not try to sweep it under the rug behind the scenes. I believe strongly that the rule of law, not of men or women, should apply in our tiny part of the United States.

It’s what separates our system of government, including local government, from inferior systems.

Perhaps that makes me a troublemaker – not a “team player” in some people’s eyes. But it lets me say, in good conscience, that I try to uphold the laws I swore to uphold.

Mark Browning, Lyons Trustee

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EDUCATE Explore Lyons’ history from the comfort of your home

By Baiba Sube Lennard Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Historical Society has, for over forty years, been dedicated to the collection, protection, preservation, dissemination, and presentation of Lyons’ history.

As with many cultural entities in 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic has challenged the Lyons Redstone Museum to come up with new ways to carry out its mission. As reduced time and budget permitted, staff continue to work behind-the-scenes on collections projects, object preservation, research for future exhibits, newspaper scanning, catalog database management, answering public inquiries, and more. But how to disseminate and present Lyons’ history to the public? Read on to find out how you can still explore Lyon’s history.

Visit the Virtual Museum In response to the physical museum being closed to the public, the museum stepped up its online presence. Instead of presenting in-person programs and physical exhibits at the museum, staff published the Lyons Redstone Museum’s first ever Virtual Museum hosted by Virmuze.com.

Through this online platform, staff have created permanent virtual exhibits that people can explore anytime, at their own pace, and from their computer, tablet, or smartphone. To view the exhibits, go to the Virtual Museum’s webpage https://virmuze.com/m/lyons-redstone-museum/ Forty Years/Forty Artifacts.

The history of Lyons is told through the stories of 40 artifacts. It is based on the 2019 museum exhibit that celebrated the Museum’s 40th Anniversary. Comprised of objects, photographs, and documents this virtual exhibit showcases the depth and breadth of the Museum’s collections. For example, learn about the Lyons Woman’s Club Scrapbook wherein club members presented monthly topical reports on a variety of subjects and the child’s Baseball Uniform that was worn by a five year old bat boy for

Wedding clothing from the Colt Family wedding attire collection at the Lyons Redstone Museum the Lyons baseball team in the 1940s.

Stories from the Lyons Cemetery Staff realized that it was not safe to present the popular walking tour, so they created a virtual exhibit tour where visitors find out that while the earliest recorded burial is that of a 29 year old quarry worker who died an accidental death June 28, 1888, the oldest existing markers date to July and October 1890.

Some of the stories include the untimely death of Leonard Lyon, son of town founder E.S. Lyon; many children buried who can attribute their deaths to diphtheria or the flu, the classical musician from Chicago, who received his music education in Germany who came to Lyons for health reasons and brought music to a fledgling community; and the heroic mine worker who saved several men from

death in a mine in Nederland. Visitors learn the significance of symbols and emblems found on the headstones. The exhibit also includes a map, timeline, vistas around the cemetery, photographs of headstones, historic photographs, and personal objects all from the Lyons Redstone Museum’s collection.

The Colt Family wedding attire Did you know that one of Lyons’ former residents helped to build the east side of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park? In this new exhibit to be published late September 2020, explore the William Colt family history. Check out Colt family wedding clothes and turn-ofthe-century fashions. Learn about the textile preservation process for these objects from the LRM Collection.

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newspapers Lyons’ first newspapers, the Longs Peak Rustler and portions of the early years of the Lyons Recorder, July 17, 1902 to December 28, 1911 and January 1, 1914 through May 18, 1922, are now accessible to the public from your home computer. A service of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 1.8 million digitized pages, representing more than 400 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 up to 2019.

Best of all the CHNC can be browsed (coloradohistoricnewspapers.org) and searched for free. An added benefit, this online tool helps preserve the fragile newspapers housed in the museum’s archives.

Read Lyons area and flood books Visit the museum’s website (www.lyonsredstonemuseum.com) to see a list of books we have in our museum shop. Then, place your order via email to Redstonehistory@gmail.com or leave a message on the museum’s answering machine, (303) 8235271. For your convenience, curbside pickup will be available. Staff will get back to you to arrange payment and pickup.

Follow the Museum The museum regularly posts history vignettes and photos on Instagram and Facebook. Watch for news updates and next season programming announcements on the Museum’s website.

Support Lyons history The COVID-19 shutdown has significantly impacted the Lyons Redstone Museum financially in 2020. We did not open to the public which hampered efforts to raise funds. The museum relies on sales and donations for funding its operations every year. If you would like to support the Lyons Redstone Museum during this time, tax exempt donations may be sent to Lyons Historical Society, PO Box 9, Lyons, CO 80540.

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Biddy Mason: From slavery to one of the truly great ones

By Terry de Castro Redstone Review LOS ANGELES – I once read a passage in a book by a contemporary Chinese philosopher (whose name I can’t remember) that said something like, “Stop thinking about your problems, and instead think about the deeds of the great ones.”

It was probably worded differently, but its sentiment has stuck with me for years, and I genuinely try to heed this advice.

Whenever I remember to think of the greatest deeds by the greatest people, I usually alight on one person in history. She was an American, a Los Angeleno, who was born into slavery in 1818 and died one of the richest women in Los Angeles in 1891. She was also one of the greatest and most beloved philanthropists the city has ever known. Her name was Bridget “Biddy” Mason. Her story is a phenomenal account of achievement and triumph, but most of all it is an example of just how much humanity, kindness, and generosity one person can bring into the world.

I knew nothing of this extraordinary woman until the day I signed up for a downtown Los Angeles architecture tour led by a friend of mine, Stephen Cirello, a

docent of the Los Angeles Conservancy.

After regaling us with the history of Art Deco and Beaux-Arts buildings, he concluded the tour at the Bradbury building (of Bladerunner fame), behind which is the Biddy Mason Memorial Park which commemorates the spot where Mason made her first property purchase. In the park stands the Biddy Mason Wall, a beautiful structure illustrated with a timeline of her life story. It begins with her being born into slavery, and illustrates how she “walks to California behind a wagon train ... delivers hundreds of babies ... how she “mourned and revered by the city of Los Angeles.”

It’s almost impossible to fathom the achievements of someone like Biddy Mason, to recognize the resilience, intelligence, talent, and spirit that powered her to such phenomenal success. After the tour, I went home and looked her up.

There are few books about her, but I ordered one of them immediately: Bridget “Biddy” Mason From Slave to Businesswoman by Jean Kinney Williams. And there is plenty of information on various online sources like L.A. Conservancy, National Park Service, Atlas Obscura magazine, and numerous history blogs. Through Kinney Williams’ book and these websites,

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I learned that Biddy Mason grew up on a plantation owned by a John Smithson in South Carolina, where she learned medicine and assisted the midwives.

By the time she was 13, she was already a skilled midwife herself and an exceptional healer. When she was 18, she was “given away” as a wedding present to Smithson’s cousin Robert Smith, who lived in Mississippi, and whose six children she would come to deliver. She would also have three children of her own.

When she was around 30 years old, her fate really began to take shape. The Smith family moved to Utah to join the Mormon community there.

They traveled by wagon caravan on a nearly 2,000-mile journey from Mississippi to Utah. Biddy Mason walked the whole way, barefoot, behind the caravan, herding the cattle, birthing the cattle, tending the livestock, administering medical attention to humans and animals, alike, all while tending to her own children, one of which was an infant. She was also responsible for setting up camp, cooking, and packing up in the morning. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve relayed this list of tasks to people, in awe of what she was able to shoulder.

The group arrived and settled in the

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Salt Lake Valley and had only lived there a relatively short time before Smith decided to move again, to California, to meet a group of Mormon pioneers. The wagon train started up again, and Mason was once more in charge of everything pertaining to the welfare of each living creature, human or animal, on the 600-plus mile journey to San Bernardino. Again, she was barefoot (I can’t seem get over this).

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OPTIONS The best new restaurant on the Front Range is coming to Lyons, limited time

By Sam Miller Redstone Review LYONS – Expect to find some delicious dining coming to Lyons in early October.

Modou Jaiteh, Lyons’ own popular chef, will be bringing many of the dishes he developed for his Boulder restaurant, Jacaranda, inside Rosetta Hall. Those who have enjoyed Jacaranda’s unique menu while visiting Boulder’s Rosetta Hall have uniform praise for the new and different tastes of West Africa and the American South that Jacaranda “cooks up.”

According to the Denver Post Restaurant Guide published December 23, 2019, Jacaranda is at the top of the list for the“10 Best New Denver Restaurants of 2019.”

In the review, the Post suggests arriving early because Jacaranda is likely to sell out their favorite dishes every day. Due to the dining changes wrought by the pandemic, Rosetta Hall will be moving to a new model. It will no longer be a large, eating area, anchored by independent chef stalls.

Hence, Jacaranda is looking to its own reorganization with dinners structured for today’s environment.

The Jacaranda dinners at the Stone Cup will run for two weeks starting October 8. All County, State, and City safety precautions will be followed. Patrons will be expected to maintain the six-foot safety rules and to wear masks. Initially, there will be no indoor dining. The take-out dinners can be enjoyed at your preferred location, or at one of the out-

door tables provided by the Stone Cup. Jaiteh plans to present some of the customer favorites from Jacaranda. Included, of course, will be his peanut butter chicken stew. Other unique dinners will include a Haitian fried pork sandwich and a vegan offering of a rice bowl with fermented locust beans. The menu is still in development, but patrons can expect to find the same top quality offerings and service that earned Jacaranda and Modou Jaiteh one of the top reviews among the Front Range restaurants this year.

More information about the dinners will be available at both Instagram @ Jacaranda _ Boulder and Facebook, Jacarandaboulder.

Sam Miller is a retired materials researcher who continues to consult for cases where a plastic component failure results in a major loss. He says he is trying to retire, and make it through this pandemic with the help of crossword puzzles and wood work.

Lyons’ own Modou Jaiteh will be bringing dishes from his Boulder restaurant, Jacaranda to Lyons in early October.

Suicide Prevention Month: Be part of creating a community of hope

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – Will you be part of making us a Community of Hope? Let’s make Lyons a Community of Hope where 20 percent of us are trained in suicide alertness and prevention. Because suicide is preventaJane ble. I have been shocked to learn the number of our youth and people that I know, including neighbors, co-workers, even my family and friends, who have thought about suicide. You would be shocked too, if people felt safe sharing that. But there is hope, because suicide is preventable. That is the main message of National Suicide Prevention Month. The other important message is that everyone has a part in preventing suicide.

Everyone is part of the solution.

When you learn about suicide, who is at risk and how to help, you feel empowered and you gain confidence and hope yourself. Just that makes our community safer. The more people who are trained, the more lives we save. For every 100 people trained in suicide prevention or alertness, at least 75 lives are directly saved. We don’t have numbers for how many others are helped, just the stories all the trained people can tell of how their alertness has helped their communities.

It feels good to know you have helped someone who is struggling. It is humbling and moving to help save a life.

Please consider signing up for one of the classes listed below. Sign up yourself and your family, talk to your co-

workers or your coffee group about taking a class together.

If you want a group class and can’t make one of these times, contact me, Janaki Jane, at info@lyons regional library. com or wide spaces community @ gmail. com or leave a message for me at the Lyons Library at 303-8235165, and we can set up a time.

Lyons has two ways during COVID-19 to get certified in suicide alertness or suicide prevention (different organizations that offer classes use different names). Both classes are free for participants, paid for by a grant from the Lyons Goodwill Fund. The two options are: Living Works Start: A free online training that is selfpaced. It includes videos, quizzes, opportunities to record yourself when you “ask the question,” and stories. You can finish it in about an hour or take longer to do all the options.

Email widespacescommunity@gmail.com or call the library at 303-823-5165 to register for the course and the link will

be sent to you. You have 60 days to complete the course and receive your certificate. If you don’t finish the course in that time the link expires so we can give it to someone else.

QPR: Question, Persuade, Refer: This is a free live training that is virtual only during COVID-19, then it goes back to being in person. In QPR provides the chance for questions and discussion.

This creates a nice group feeling of exploring together.

QPR is being offered five times between September 18 and October 10. You can find the dates and register by googling “Eventbrite Wide Spaces Community” and clicking on the multiple dates flyer at the bottom of the page. If you don’t have internet access, call the library at 303-823-5165, tell them you want to register for QPR, and I’ll call you back.

You can also help by putting the numbers in the box into your phone and adding them to your favorites. Doing this increases the chance that you will call and save a life.

Trying the numbers on your own to ask them about their job increases the chances you will actually call to save a life by over 80 percent. Doing this means you become a part of our Community of Hope.

You can help save lives by putting these numbers into your favorites in your phone: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 (TALK); for Military: 1-800273-8255 (TALK), Press 1; text Line: 741741.

Tennis elbow: not just for tennis players

By Bronwyn Muldoon Redstone Review LYONS – Lateral epicondlytis, also known as tennis elbow or elbow tendonitis, is a common injury, not only in athletes, but the general population. It can have nothing to do with playing tennis. Gardeners, Muldoon artists, musicians, fly-fisher people and construction workers are all prone to this injury.

The extensor tendons in your hand, which are responsible for straightening your fingers and bending your wrist backwards, have a common attachment site at the elbow.

When these tendons are stressed, they pull on their attachment site, the elbow. Activities that require gripping, or holding the arm in a certain position for an extended amount of time, are the main cause of pain and aggravation. Once the tendons are inflamed, simple activities like lifting a coffee mug or turning a doorknob can cause pain.

The majority of the time, the true problem isn’t in the elbow but the shoulder. The shoulder and shoulder blade are responsible for the stabilization of the arm when it’s away from the body. Typically when we grip something, we are also reaching, or moving our arm outward in front

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or to the side. If the shoulder isn’t able to stabilize the arm efficiently, it will put an additional load on the next closest joint, which is the elbow.

Treatment for this injury involves taking the stress of the attachment site, decreasing the inflammation of the tendons and strengthening of the shoulder. It takes four to six weeks to build muscle strength, but you don’t have to wait long to get some relief. A few things you can do immediately to help decrease the pain are: • Buy an elbow brace: Braces can easily be found at your local drug and or grocery store. Apply the brace about one inch below your elbow. It should be snug, but not too much, as it shouldn’t cut your circulation.

• Apply ice: Applying cold to the elbow and the forearm tendons daily, especially after activity, will help decrease the inflammation, which will decrease the pain.

• Massage the tendons: Use a tennis ball, or have a friend/spouse massage the forearm, up to the elbow. This helps relax the tendons and restore their elasticity. When a tissue is injured, the body’s response is to tighten and shorten.

• Do shoulder exercises: Strengthen your rotator cuff and scapular stabilizers. Exercises such as rows, pushups, external rotation and internal rotation will build the muscles that support your arm when it’s away from the body.

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INTEREST Rainbow trout worldwide trace their origin to a single river

By Greg Lowell Redstone Review LYONS – Almost every trout swimming in Colorado waters, with the exception of cutthroat trout, were artificially introLowell duced in the state, including the non-native rainbow trout.

Rainbows are found on every continent except Antarctica, including such unlikely places as Africa and India. All of these fish were introduced around the globe. The only truly native rainbow trout are found on the Pacific slope of North America. In fact, the genetics of any rainbow trout caught today – anywhere in the world – can be traced to fish propagated at a fish hatchery on California’s McCloud River 140 years ago.

A well traveled fish The proliferation of rainbow trout began in the 1870s when agents of the newly formed United States Fish Commission were looking for a source of Pacific salmon for a hatchery to help restore fish in California rivers degraded by pollution, timbering and gold mining. Although the Chinook salmon eggs they harvested in the McCloud River proved too fragile for transport, the agents chanced upon another abundant fish there known as a Sacramento River trout or red-banded trout (today’s rainbow trout). They built a rainbow trout hatchery on the river in 1879, harvested and fertilized trout eggs, packed them on ice and sent them to state agencies and private individuals throughout the United States over the next few decades, including to Colorado in the 1880s.

The fish commission’s leaders believed that if enough fish were stocked and readily available to anglers no regulations would be necessary; there would be enough trout that both catch limits and closed seasons would be unnecessary. They were responding to a public who believed that an angler’s worth was defined by how many trout he could string up and bring home. And rainbow trout – durable and adaptive – were a perfect match for eager anglers.

Adding to the spread of these hardy

trout was a worldwide “acclimatization” movement that began when European colonists in foreign lands clamored for species familiar to them. Species were moved around the globe like so many game pieces: Eastern brook trout to the American West, German brown trout to

they survived in less than ideal water conditions. The rainbow trout became an icon of sport fishing. One angler of that period wrote, “Angling for rainbows … is trout fishing raised to its supreme eminence.”

Once introduced and established, rainbow trout can reproduce under the right

America, all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare’s works to New York’s Central Park (thanks for the starlings) and many other species to destinations without a thought of the environmental havoc these migrants would cause.

Rainbow trout were among those global travelers. The California Acclimatizing Society first sent rainbow trout eggs from the McCloud River hatchery by train to New York, from whence the trout were sent to Europe and so started the worldwide proliferation of rainbows.

Bully for angling Sport fishing had grown in the burgeoning cult of outdoor recreation that arose in large part due to the persona of Teddy Roosevelt, who extolled the virtues of what he called a “strenuous life” spent outdoors.

City dwellers of that period sought to escape overcrowded and dirty cities and seek health and adventure in the great outdoors. Rainbow trout offered the perfect match for these new anglers; they couldn’t be fished out quickly after stocking and

conditions, creating successive generations of what become essentially wild trout. Unfortunately, their aggressiveness and adaptability eventually crowd out native fish and other introduced trout species.

Playing God with trout Over the years, rainbows have been bred to grow faster and breed earlier to accommodate hatchery schedules. They were called by one fish culturist “an entirely synthetic fish” whose genes could be manipulated by breeding and hybridizing with different trout species. The result today is more than 100 species of rainbow trout.

Not only could rainbow trout be manipulated by breeding but in many cases they were used to purposefully change entire ecosystems. An example is the Green River in Utah and Wyoming. When the Flaming Gorge dam was built there in the 1960s, the two states’ fisheries agencies saw a perfect opportunity to “rehabilitate” 450 miles of the Green by eradicating native fish regarded as trash fish and introducing rainbow trout. In 1962, state agencies

Seven years after the flood of September 2013, LEAF is still helping people survive disasters

By Tricia Marsh Redstone Review LYONS – Through flood, fires, snowstorms in early September and the prolonged pandemic, Lyons residents continue to take care of each other. Seven years ago when the flood showed us the need for Lyons to have its own social services agency, the Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund was born. Thank goodness for the foresight of the members of the Lyon’s Community Church, the Lyons Community Foundation and some aware, compassionate key players in town. Because here we stand seven years post flood with systems in place for managing what we’ve been hit with in 2020.

Although I wasn’t part of the birth of LEAF, I have been on the board for three years and was elected to the position of Chair in January of 2020. My thoughts being that I know the ropes and this year will play out like the previous two and a half. How wrong I was. Clearly this year has been anything but normal. We have been blessed, however, to have the strength of a dedicated and adaptable group of weekly food pantry volunteers, Meals on Wheels volunteers, a bookkeeping volunteer, seasonal Rave to the Grave and Giving Tree volunteers, mental health professionals, a part-time staffer, and a

tireless Executive Director. Not to mention a volunteer Board of Directors.

Our current board consists of myself, Rebecca Major, Vice Chair, Heather Santestaban, Secretary, Meghan Pound, Megan Walsh, Kevin Shaffer, Crystal White, and our newest member Karen Schwenn. We meet monthly to oversee the implementation of policies, programs, budgets, and update the bylaws and operating guidelines as needed. We also coordinate events like the Donor Appreciation in February, as well as the Volunteer Appreciation in April. But primarily we work to fundraise, educate the community and promote LEAF. And speaking of fundraising, our biggest fundraiser of the year is by far Rave to the Grave. This year it’s obviously shaping up to look a little different. But have no fear, the Rave to the Grave will be coming to a home or business near you. Thanks to the ingenuity of Arthur Lee Land and his troubadours, we will be having a fundraising dance party that will rock your scary souls. So get your quarantine pods together and save the date for October 30. More details to come on this. Look for posters around town in early October.

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dumped 20 thousand gallons of fish-killing rotenone in the river over three days destroying the native fish, including the nowendangered giant pike minnow.

Subsequently, more than 20 million rainbow trout were stocked in the Green River between 1963 and 1971, and Flaming Gorge is now recognized as one of the West’s premier trout fishing destinations.

A downside of reliance on artificially raised fish was the near-disastrous loss of rainbow trout in the 1980s due to whirling disease. The disease, which destroys the cartilage of young rainbow trout, was introduced in the U.S. through infected frozen trout meant for human consumption that was used as fish food at a Pennsylvania hatchery. It soon spread to nearly all hatcheries in the U.S. and, by stocking infected fish, to water bodies. The Colorado Division of Wildlife stocked rainbows that carried the disease and ended up decimating large populations of rainbow trout in most Colorado rivers. Eventually, a disease-resistant strain of trout was developed in Germany by an aquaculturist named Hofer. Today, Colorado Parks and Wildlife stocks young Hofer rainbows (2 to 4 inches) in the state’s rivers and streams where it’s expected they’ll mature and their natural reproduction will eliminate the need for further stocking.

CPW still stocks non-Hofer rainbows in “put and take” waters like nearby McCall Lake, where natural reproduction is not possible and most fish are taken home by anglers, said Ben Swigle, CPW fisheries biologist.

Locally, the stocking of young Hofer rainbows in the St. Vrain River (11 thousand in 2018 to 2020) is already restoring the rainbow trout population decimated by whirling disease. In 2016, the river had an 8:2 brown trout-to-rainbow ratio. In 2019, the same survey showed a nearly 5050 split between browns and rainbows, said Swigle.

Love it for its availability and sporting qualities, or hate it for its displacement of other trout species, the rainbow trout, as it is across the globe, is clearly here to stay in Colorado.

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The pancake breakfast is a small event where a handful of usually newer community members come to learn more about LEAF and generally leave with an overflowing heart, a full belly and a financial commitment to do more for the

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INSIGHT Are you voting for or against?

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – The first presidential election I voted in was in 1968. You still had to be 21 to vote then. The voting age wasn’t lowered Gierach to 18 until 1973, during the Vietnam War, when the compelling case in favor of it could no longer be ignored. Namely, that if you were old enough at age 18 to be drafted and sent off to die for your country, you were old enough to vote for the leaders who could order you to do that. Some opponents still insisted that at 18 you weren’t yet smart enough to vote intelligently, but that wasn’t much of an argument. I’ve known people in their 80s who weren’t yet smart enough to vote intelligently, but that didn’t stop them.

I voted for Hubert Humphrey in ‘68 and didn’t have to hold my nose to do it, but I was really voting against Richard Nixon – for all the good it did. That set a pattern that has largely held to this day – voting more against than for – with the exceptions of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both of whom I voted for enthusiastically. I was right about Obama and half right about Clinton. Sometime during Clinton’s second term, I finally had to concede that he was a son of a bitch, but he was still my son of a bitch.

This year will be no different. I’ll be voting against Trump and, incidentally, for Vice President Joe Biden, although if you replaced Biden with any other Democrat – or a Labrador retriever for that matter – I’d vote the same way.

But I do think Biden is a good choice.

He has 44 years of experience in federal government – 36 years as a Senator from Delaware and eight more years as vice president. He understands how things work at that level and has made them work the way he wanted them to any number of times. In retrospect, he may have made some mistakes, but things change over that much time and, for that matter,

how many mistakes have you made in the last 44 years? By all accounts, Biden is as intelligent, honest and humble as it’s possible for a politician to be and, more to the point, he’s a recognizable human being capable of reason, morality and empathy. In other words, he’s everything our current president isn’t.

Biden probably qualifies as a centrist or “establishment” Democrat and during the Democratic primary, Chris Matthews on MSNBC said he was the best choice for the party because people weren’t looking for the leader of a revolution, all they wanted

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Danny Shafer is back to share the Open Stage on Zoom LYONS – Virtual Open Stage with Danny Shafer is back September 29 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Are you craving connection, a chance to share your talents or to spend time in a warm community of artists? Join the group of folks who perform and attend the monthly Open Stage with Danny Shafer on Zoom. Any kind of family-friendly performance is welcome. Musicians, storytellers, video makers and poets have all already been a part of the event, but other arts are welcome. Email widespacescommunity@gmail.com to sign up to perform. Google Eventbrite Wide Spaces Community to register for a free ticket and get the link to the Zoom event.

Organizer of Virtual Open Stage with Danny Shafer Wide Spaces Community Initiative (WSCI or “Whiskey” for short) exists to “Creat(e) a Community of Belonging and Per-

was “a designated driver to get them home safe.” There are those who say Biden isn’t progressive enough for them and I agree, but that’s not how politics work. You can’t hope to get everything you want; the best you can do is nudge things a few more degrees in the general direction of what you want and a few degrees away from what you don’t want. There are no less than 153 million registered voters in the U.S. and almost that many different opinions about how things should be done. The only way to come out on top is to run someone with the kind of broad appeal that attracts grudging voters and coin flippers as well as true believers. Or to put it more plainly, if you don’t vote for someone because you can’t quite bring yourself to love them, you’ll get four more years of someone you hate.

As Biden himself has pointed out, the nightmare vision that the Trump campaign is painting of Joe Biden’s America is actually a portrait of Donald Trump’s America.

The Republicans have controlled the White House and the Senate for the better part of four years, so how much of what’s wrong with the country can still be the fault of Democrats?

Trump either doesn’t make sense, or he’s an open book: not the cagey political tactician, but every bit the selfish, ignorant, dishonest spoiled brat he appears to be.

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sonal Safety for Everyone.” We present community events that bring people together to do feel-good things, like Sing-Alongs and Community Dinners and Arts. We teach classes to increase understanding and break the stigma of mental illness and suicide, and to teach people how to recognize and address when someone is in trouble. We hold regular community conversations on mental health issues, are working with the Human Services Commission to bring more low-cost therapists into Lyons, and we are working with the Lyons Library and some local therapists on creating a series of events for teens and their parents on resilience, bullying, and the stress that teens face today. Contact us at WideSpacesCommunity@gmail.com; on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/widespacescomm/; or leave a message at 720-600-3483.

Wide Spaces Community Initiative is a program of the Lyons Regional Library Janaki Jane is the director and founder of WSCI. She has lived with mental illness her whole life. She has been a spiritual healer, life coach, case manager and counselor for most of her

ington Post, The Guardian, Forbes and other sources, Trump has made over 20,000 “false or misleading claims” – or what you and I would call lies – since taking office, so why would you believe a word he says now?

There’s enough evidence that he cheated in the 2016 election with the help of the Russians that if we still had a functioning Republican party, he’d have been removed from office. But we don’t have a functioning Republican party anymore, which means that any future Republican president will do the same things Trump has done using the same playbook. Something to think about in the decades to come.

I won’t bother to catalogue all Trump’s crimes and misdemeanors – I’d just end up ranting and you’ve heard it all anyway – but if there’s one thing that disqualifies him from office it’s trying to sabotage the election. You’ve heard all that, too: the claims that mail-in ballots are fraudulent (they’re not); his dirty tricks on the U.S. Post Office by eliminating overtime; defunding the service, stealing mail boxes, deactivating high-speed sorting machines and so on. And more recently he’s even urged his followers to vote twice, once by mail and again at the polls, while his hand-picked Attorney General, Bill Barr, has said publicly that he “doesn’t know” if that’s illegal in all states. For the record, it’s a federal crime to even attempt to vote twice (punishable by fines and prison) and it’s also a federal crime to incite people to do that.

We’re lucky here in Colorado because we have the best mail-in voting system in the country already in place. And if you’re worried about the crippled Post Office getting your ballot in on time, you can do what I plan to do: vote the ballot the day you get it and drive it directly to a drop box in person.

It’s disheartening to think that for the first time in our 244-year history we have to worry about the security of our election as if we were a banana republic trying to unseat a corrupt dictator, but that’s entirely the fault of Donald Trump. And that, more than anything else, makes him unfit to be a dog catcher, let alone president.

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Stone Cup will close from September 24 to 27 LYONS – The Stone Cup will be closed September 24 to 27. We plan to continue our Thursday to Sunday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. schedule, on October 1.

Lyons Middle Senior High School adjusting to online classes and other things LYONS – Lyons Middle Senior High School had another great week adjusting to teaching and learning in an online environment. We want you to know that we are constantly listening to your feedback and making small adjustments to our approach.

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OPPORTUNITY How the Lyons Share Fund has helped local businesses survive and thrive

By Tanya MercerDaty Redstone Review LYONS – Thanks to the Lyons Share Fund, a small business economic relief fund, 43 locally owned Daty and operated companies received $1,000 each to help cover expenses such as rent, utilities, payroll, etc. during the COVID-19 extended business closures. The fund was spearheaded by St. Vrain Market, which contributed the initial $10,000. Lyons Community Foundation (LCF) was happy to match that amount in the first round of funding. LCF also matched the Town of Lyon’s Goodwill Grant of $5,000 in the second round of funding. Individual donations made up the difference for a total of $43,000.

It was LCF’s intention to support the businesses who have always given back to our residents, schools and charitable causes throughout the years. The unique

Dr.Joe Meckle, at right, and his son, Joshua at the Lyons Health Fair in 2011. and local nature of our businesses make up the fabric of our main street and town.

Four recipients of the Lyons Share Fund would like to share their story with the community so that everyone can appreciate the positive impact this fund has had on their business.

One of our beloved and longtime locals, Dr. Joe Meckle, has owned and operated the Lyons Chiropractic Clinic for 36 years.

He arrived in Lyons at the age of 24 from Buffalo, NY. Despite an economic downturn, a natural disaster and a pandemic, his clinic has persevered.

His first location at the corner of Third Ave. and Main Street had to close after 25 years of practice following the 2008 financial crisis, which cut his business in

Bryan Baer,front, of Baer Mountain and Urban Forestry, and his brother-in-law, Patrick Gibbons on a work site in downtown Lyons half. Then, seven years ago, the flood destroyed his home and the practice he had built as a home business in the confluence area of town. While Meckle rebuilt his home, he opened a temporary office in Longmont before moving his practice back to Lyons in 2015.

At the time of the flood, he was out of business for nine weeks. All of his medical equipment had been destroyed. Luckily, he had saved all of his patient files the night of the flood. When COVID-19 forced the state of Colorado to issue a stay-at-home order mid-March, Meckle had to close his practice for a third time. Still, he treated emergency situations so as to “keep people out of the emergency room.” With help from the Town of Lyons Local Business Recovery Fund, he was able to obtain a loan for $10,000 at 0 percent interest.

Even though Joe Meckle feels incredibly sad at the loss of lives and the long-term consequences of those affected by the pandemic, he personally believes that he is “one of the luckiest guys in the world, making a living in this gorgeous town” in which he raised his children and enjoys visits from his grandchildren.

Another local family, the Baers, was also affected by both the flood and the pandemic. Shortly after moving to Lyons in 2013, they had to evacuate back to Chicago following the flood. When Kathleen, Bryan and their three children returned to Lyons in August 2014, they decided to start their business Baer Mountain and Urban Forestry. When the

stay-at-home order came into effect midMarch, Bryan had two employees working for him.

Thanks to the $1,000 grant from the Lyons Share Fund, Bryan was able to keep his employees on the payroll even though client funding was drying up. Without financial aid, Kathleen says they would have had to “make some adjustments.”

Kathleen thanks the LCF Advisory Board for “taking the time to find the resources necessary and giving them peace of mind” during a very stressful time. She states that they are a little nervous about the future as winter is typically their slow season.

Even though they sell firewood and have a smaller crew in the winter, Kathleen is worried about people reaching out to companies in Boulder and Longmont. Now, more than ever, it is important to shop locally in order to support our neighbors and friends who own businesses.

Local mental health therapist, Roslynn Regnery, founded Wild Wisdom Therapy in 2017. Five months after moving into her new office (located in a cute little cabin behind Stillwater), Regnery was forced to close her practice for a couple of weeks during the stay-at-home order in

Roslynn Regnery outside of her practice, Wild Wisdom Therapy, in the little cabin behind Stillwater. the spring of 2020. Lucky for her, she was able to make herself available to clients via phone or zoom calls. Because her business expenses were fixed and her income was variable, her business was only able to survive thanks to a combination of savings and grant money from the Lyons Share Fund. Regnery hopes that she will be able to return to pre-Covid conditions in the near future.

Businesses in Lyons hit hard by pandemic

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – Restaurants, retail businesses (other than grocery and pharmacy), and entertainment are among the top six industries hit hardest by the pandemic according to the website of one of the Moore Federal Reserve District Banks. That has been proven to be true in Lyons.

“Any business that depends on people traffic is on the edge,” said Dan Siddall, president of the Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce, in speaking about how the Coronavirus pandemic had impacted businesses in Lyons. In fact, three establishments that relied on foot traffic through the door, The Fork, Reruns, and Lyons Classic Pinball have closed permanently. The laundromat is also closed.

“Ancillary businesses that rely on festivals, weddings, and tourism generally have been impacted greatly,” said Erin Foudy, Executive Director of the Chamber. “The slowdown in traffic to and from Rocky Mountain National Park has been a factor in diminished business for many Main Street businesses,” she said.

“Those that have survived so far have changed to reduced hours, have limited services, but are not sure how they will survive the winter,” Foudy said. “They also have a realistic appreciation for what is going on and continue to look for new and innovative things to try.”

Those Main Street businesses that are open have a continuing problem with patrons who walk in wearing no facemasks. The Chamber has provided signs requiring masks to be place on the outside of the establishment and the Town of Lyons has given owners a script to follow asking patrons to please mask up. Furthermore, the Town’s Economic Vitality Commission has provided certain businesses with needed personal protective equipment and thermometers.

Holly Beck at her workshop, HJB Designs on Main Street.

Holly Beck founded HJB Designs, the leather workshop on Main Street, which features hand-crafted custom goods in 2017. After two months of no walk-in customers or sales, Beck realized the importance of developing online sales. She considers the grant money from the Lyons Share Fund as “angel” money, as if it had fallen from the heavens. As she points out, “if it weren’t for this grant, there would have been no reprieve when it came to rent, utilities or insurance.”

Without economic aid such as the Lyons Share Fund, most locally owned small businesses wouldn’t have survived the two-month closure during the statemandated stay-at-home order. For some of these businesses, this pandemic is the second crisis in seven years. As anyone who appreciates living within a one-mile radius of these services knows, if we want to continue to access these businesses on foot, by golf cart or by bike, then we need to support them.

We all have a stake in looking out for the future of these locally owned companies and their ability to survive during these incredibly difficult times. We urge you to support them as they continue to remain open under challenging conditions. If you would like to do so via the Lyons Community Foundation, you may donate to the LCF General Fund by visiting their website at lyonscf.org.

Tanya Mercer-Daty is the new Marketing and Communications Associate for Lyons Community Foundation. She has lived in Lyons for the past eight years after immigrating to the U.S.A. from France with her family in 2011. Feel free to contact her at tanya@lyonscf.org. She has a master’s degree in French.

able to obtain relief through the boosted Federal unemployment benefits,” Siddall said. “But those who don’t have reportable income have not been getting those checks,” he said.

Self-employed people in Lyons have been hit particu“Additionally, musicians who have relied on supplelarly hard. Many were eligible for relief through the Federal mental income from in-person teaching have seen that government’s Paycheck Protection Program which pro- dry up. People don’t want to be potentially exposed to the vided both unpaid grants and loans. The Chamber has virus, and for some online lessons just don’t work,” he went on to say.

One sector of the economy that is booming following the shutdown in May is the real estate industry.

“There was a lot of pent up demand, and people decided it was time to make the move,” said Siddall about his own Lyons business, Gateway Realty. “People who can work from home living in big cities such as Denver have come to Lyons to seek a different, more peaceful lifestyle and most want to live on properties just outside Lyons proper.”

In addition to real estate companies, Foudy said, certain businesses like Spirit Hound distillery, Redstone Liquors, and St. Vrain Dan Siddall, left, President of the Lyons Area Chamber of Commerce Market, Deli & Bakery are doing well.

Potentially there is some other good and Erin Foudy, Chamber Exectutive Director. The Chamber is news.

Foudy said there are a few new busiseeking grant sources to help local business that have taken a beating nesses that would locate on Main Street during the pandemic. but have taken a “wait and see” approach regarding what happens with the panbeen helping them and other businesses in applying for re- demic. They are concerned about another shutdown lief under PPP, but qualification guidelines keep changing, similar to the one this past spring. One of those potenaccording to Foudy. “Businesses are interested in loans that tials is a restaurant but finds it not viable to open offerare forgiven but are wary of making applications for fear ing only takeout food. they would be signing on for loans that would not be forWhat both Foudy and Siddall said is that the Chamber given,” she said. “They do not want to take on more debt, needs sources that can provide grants to our local businesses with some still paying off flood relief loans.” Foudy said the which are already burdened with unpaid debt from the flood.

Chamber itself is in dire straits, as until recently it has not asked for members to renew their memberships.

Don Moore is a retired lawyer and the author of Love is a According to Siddall, musicians and other artists are suf- Verb: Healing Yourself through Love, Gratitude and Compasfering greatly. “Those who have reportable income have been sion. He lives in Longmont with his wife Joanne.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT you how. Contour line is a process Home school and the importance of art show where you don’t look at your paper while your pencil is moving. It’s the right side of

By Sally King Redstone Review LYONS – Making stuff.

What fun. About onethird of us are visual learners and some portion of the population loves to use King their hands to make things.

As parents take on the challenge of hosting school from home, there is an added responsibility to provide your student with art experiences. And if your child is a visual person the confidence they will feel from their successful experiences from making art will carry over into other subjects that are more challenging, and confidence is really important, as we know.

When I taught art I offered two dimensional projects like drawing and painting and craft projects, which tend to be more 3D. Working with clay is an absolute joy for some kids. I just ordered five pounds of selfhardening, non toxic, modeling clay from

Amazon (free shipping.) I have an 11-yearold friend who loves to create with clay. So when he comes over I can get the clay out.

There is additive sculpture like working with clay and subtractive sculpture like carving a piece of soft alabaster or wood.

There is also printmaking which is one of my favorites.

YouTube is a marvelous assist when it comes to getting ideas about working with various materials. When I visited the site and entered art projects for kids. I found how to fold a paper airplane, use thumb print to make leaves on a fall tree, and 15 amazing projects you will love, using drinking straws. And really the bracelet and the hair ties were good looking.

And in looking up drawing for kids and found 31 pastel ideas, which could be a launching pad for a child’s own work, their originality is best but it could be a starting point.

I love the practice of contour line drawing and I’m sure you could find a video to

your brain that knows how to draw, even if your mind tells you you can’t draw and it’s perfect for a skeptical middle schooler.

I remember my eighth grade teacher went gaga over my contour line drawing, but it was this moment that gave me an insight into myself as a potential artist.

And then there’s our appreciation which could just be picking out one artist’s work per week and getting familiar with their work.

Our parents are performing so many tasks. If you are a relative or a neighbor, art might be an area where you could assist a student and have fun too.

Art expands the mind and the heart and expected ways. Making stuff. What fun.

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

Eridanis Tucker, on the left, and Aria Johnson make string pictures in Sally King’s art class.

Lyons Film Festival returns for the sixth year

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – “The Film Festival originated in Lyons and for the sixth annual event part of it will be free on a first come, first seating at the Lyons Den Restaurant outdoor patio,” said Jackie Brennan. Brennan is the Social Media Coordinator for Colorado Festival Productions, the umbrella organization that hosts film festivals in five different venues in the Front Range area. She is also the producer for the Lyons International Film Festival.

Jackie Brennan is the Social Media Coordinator for Colorado Festival Productions “We’re doing the free showing only in Lyons because we wanted to honor the town and to provide its residents a time to get out of their houses and come to an event suitable for the entire family,” Brennan said. “This will be a time for people to come who’ve never been to a film festival.

With the town being in lockdown, we thought it was a good idea to offer something outside.”

The date for the free part of the festival is September 27, 2020 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and state guidelines for outdoor gatherings will be followed. Patrons are required to wear masks to enter and to keep

them on until they are seated. Individual chairs will be at least six feet apart and round tables are designed for families or friends who have already socialized during the pandemic. In further accordance of the guidelines, only the first 50 people will be allowed in the venue. Filmgoers will also be able to order food and drink from the restaurant’s menu.

“As this is a celebration for Lyons, proper theater etiquette rules will be relaxed and quiet talking will be allowed,” Brennan said.

The eight films to be shown on the free night are: Big Agnes and the CDT Coalition; Visions of the Lost Sierra; Golden; Fall Out Dogs; Truly Noble Souls; Un Nuevo Capítulo; An Eagle’s First Flight; and Cat Lake City. Brennan is hopeful that one or more of the film producers will be able to attend.

The shortest is just under seven minutes and the longest is 20 minutes. Themes range from hiking the Continental Divide Trail, the care of dogs from the Chernobyl disaster, yoga and rehabilitation of women in prison, and an animation of a cat looking for a day off.

Other than this free viewing night, the rest of the festival will be through virtual online screening.

“As in past years, we had planned to have all the films shown indoors. It was originally scheduled to be held in Rogers Hall for April, but we first postponed the event and later had to cancel because of COVID-19,” Brennan said.

The online virtual films will be screened on October 3, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and according to the website “Lyons International Film Festival celebrates independent films ranging from environmental documentaries, outdoor recreational adventure films and international shorts.” The oneday event features intriguing titles such as Colorado September Skies; Extra Innings; Sundown Road; Sockeye Salmon, Red Fish; and The Soul Journey. Synopses of all the films can be found online where tickets for the entire event can be purchased for $25.

For more information on the virtual screenings, including buying tickets, see www.coloradofests.com.

Clarifier Fundraiser The Clarifier volunteers are working with the Town of Lyons and Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission to raise money for two signs at the Community Clarifier Mosaic. An etched welcoming stone and a table-style interpretive sign are planned. How they will appear is shown in this photo illustration by Priscilla Cohan.

The fundraising goal is $5000. To donate, go to www.clarifierproject.net “Make a Donation.”

Lyons Seniors Thrive on Watercolors

The Colorado Film Festival Production team, left to right: Dawn Engel; Ellis Barrowmen; Melinda Jordan; Jackie Brennan; Sara Murphy; Jennifer Roan; Destin Hernandez; and Tara Noel.

Trish Murtha has made watercolor painting fun and simply delightful for Walt Self Seniors over the past several years and since 1990 for hundreds of students from Maine to the Rockies. She fell in love with Lyons and the scenery driving from her studio in downtown Loveland. You may have seen Murtha’s originals at the Holiday Market, plus her note cards and calendars or at Western Stars Gallery. In her classes step-by-step methods are well explained followed by

mesmerizing watercolor demonstrations.

Murtha is mostly self-taught and loves to share the watercolor “joyride” with others. Her online classes and demos are coming soon. For more information you can contact her by email at TrishJourneys@gmail.com.

For more information about senior activities in Lyons contact Lisa Ramsey at lramsey@townoflyons.com.

Above: The upper St. Vrain, by Trish Murtha

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FORWARD Planet Bluegrass lays in wait

By Katherine Weadley Redstone Review LYONS – Planet Bluegrass has laid the festivarian fields “to fallow” for the rest of 2020 and into the winter of 2021. The music producing ranch and venue site headquartered out of Lyons cancelled all its events, including the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, RockyGrass, and Folks Festival, and weddings due to the worldwide pandemic.

Like many other businesses Planet Bluegrass turned virtual in part this summer.

They had a successful livestream from the main stage on the Summer Solstice in June that featured Bowregard (the 2019 Telluride Band Contest Winners), Bonnie Payne and Friends, and Yonder Mountain String Band. This event was webcast live and was a commemoration of the Fallowed 47th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

The recordings can be found at www.bluegrass.com if anyone is curious about that music they likely heard coming from the property over the summer.

“Our biggest focus moving forward is safety, and we are ready to bring our events

back as soon as we feel that it is safe for our patrons, our staff, and also the Lyons community,” said Zach Tucker, Planet Bluegrass.

Craig Ferguson, Lyons local and part-owner of Planet Bluegrass said “We’re all doing the best we can not to guess on this bug.”

“Planet Bluegrass, as well as almost every other independent venue in the country, could still use more help,” Tucker said. “If you love to enjoy great music at any venue in the country, I can assure you that they need help. The best thing anyone can do right now is write to congress and ask them to pass the Save Our Stages Act and the RESTART Act.” Tucker suggests writing to congresspeople in support of these Acts. “These are pivotal to keeping independent music venues alive and helping all of the people in the industry survive until events can happen once again,” said Tucker. For a short informational video go to www. wemakeevents. org.

Another website, www. saveourstages. com has an easy form letter to complete and a running list of the venues that are joining the call to lobby congress.

Planet Bluegrass recognizes and appre-

ciates its Festivarians, musicians, volunteers, and furloughed staff during this difficult time brought on by the 2020 worldwide pandemic. “We are eternally grateful for the generous support we have received from our patrons, with thousands of people electing to postpone their tickets to next year’s events and many choosing to donate to our Festivarian Fallow Fund,” said Tucker. The fund will be divided between the artists and staff affected by the “fallowing” of the Planet Bluegrass Events, Telluride and Lyons non-profits who rely on donations from the beer booth every year, and Planet Bluegrass itself, to help

keep the lights on.”

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, no plans have been made yet for what will happen in 2021. “We are not planning a thing until a) after the election and b) it’s legal,” states Ferguson. Tucker agrees “Other than that things are quiet on the Planet Bluegrass Ranch as we lay in wait.”

For more information go to www.bluegrass.com Katherine Weadley has been covering Planet Bluegrass locally for over 15 years.

She is a librarian, writer, and is trying to learn the ukulele.

Forests scorched by wildfire unlikely to recover, may convert to grasslands

By CU Communications Staff Redstone Review BOULDER – With flames racing across hundreds of square miles throughout Colorado and California this summer and a warming climate projected to boost wildfire activity across the West, residents can’t help but wonder what our beloved forests

will look like in a few decades.

A new University of Colorado Boulderled study offers an unprecedented glimpse, suggesting that when forests burn across the Southern Rocky Mountains, many will not grow back and will instead convert to grasslands and shrublands.

“We project that post-fire recovery will be less likely in the future, with large percentages of the Southern Rocky Mountains becoming unsuitable for two important tree species – ponderosa pine and Douglas fir,” said lead author Kyle Rodman, who conducted the study while a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography.

Previous CU Boulder studies have looked at individual fire sites, including the site of the 2000 Walker Ranch fire in Boulder County, and found that forests recovered slowly or not at all. Even 15 years post-fire, as many as 80 percent of the plots the researchers surveyed still contained no new trees.

Rodman and his team of coauthors – including scientists from the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Arizona University, Colorado State University and the University of North Carolina Wilmington – wanted to build on those studies, project-

ing the future by looking at the past.

To that end, they looked at 22 burned areas encompassing 710 square miles from southern Wyoming through central and western Colorado to northern New Mexico. The team focused on ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forests, which make up about half of the forested area in the region.

“For those of us who live along Col-

orado’s Front Range, these are the trees that we see, live near and recreate in on a daily basis,” said Rodman.

Higher elevations, lower temperatures fare better The study, published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, included regions that had burned as long ago as 1988, and land ravaged by the

2002 Hayman Fire near Colorado Springs; the 1996 Buffalo Creek Fire southwest of Denver; the 2000 Eldorado Springs and Walker Ranch fires near Boulder; and the 2002 Missionary Ridge fire outside of Durango.

Using satellite images and on-theground measurements, the scientists first reconstructed what the forests looked like prior to the fire. Then, by counting juvenile trees and looking at tree rings, they assessed how well the forests were recovering. Not surprisingly, those at higher-elevations with lower temperatures and more precipitation fared better. Those with more surviving trees nearby (which can spread their seeds via wind and water) were also more likely to rebound.

Meanwhile, lower-elevation forests, like those south of Pueblo or in portions of the Front Range foothills, proved less resilient.

And compared to regions that burned in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the more recent burn areas failed to bounce back.

“This study and others clearly show that the resilience of our forests to fire has declined significantly under warmer, drier conditions,” said coauthor Tom Veblen, professor of geography at CU Boulder.

The team then used statistical modeling to project what might happen in the next 80 years if montane forests of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir were to burn under different scenarios. In one scenario, humans do nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change escalates unchecked. In another, considered a “moderate emissions scenario,” emissions begin to decline after 2040.

The future is not written in stone Currently, the team estimates that about half of its study area is suitable for post-fire “recovery.” (Trees there may return to at least their lowest densities from the 1800s).

By 2051, under the moderate emissions scenario, less than 18 percent of Douglas

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Meanwhile, Veblen notes, the number and intensity of wildfires will continue its steady rise. The number of acres burned annually across the country has already doubled since the 1990s.

“The big takeaway here is that we can expect to have an increase in fire continue for the foreseeable future, and, at the same time, we are going to see much of our land convert from forest to non-forest,” said Veblen.

Rodman, now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of WisconsinMadison, hopes the database of post-fire recovery he and his team have created can help land managers better plan where to invest their resources, or not, after a fire.

For instance, they may be better off planting seedlings in regions more likely to bounce back, rather than plant them in dry sites no longer suitable for their survival.

He also hopes the projections spelled out in the paper give people one more reason to care about climate change.

“This was a hard study to write and can be a bit depressing to read, but there are some positive takeaways,” he said. “If we can get a handle on some of these trends and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, the outcomes may not look so dire. The future is not written in stone.”

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LOOK AHEAD The Water Dancer shows the important role memory plays in our lives Book by Ta-Nehisi Coates Book Discussion by Andi Pearson Redstone Review DENVER – What if memory had the ability to loosen bonds, if enslaved people could achieve freedom by remembering, if liberation were possible through mental Pearson recalling? Magical thinking, some call it, or fantasy beliefs – can these serve to guide people to escape, to a freedom heartbreakingly desired? In The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates relies on memory, on a sense of collective remembrances, to drive that striving toward freedom.

Hiram Walker, called Hi, has an incredible memory.

He can recall dates and names and incidents and that ability to recall and verbalize makes him stand out from the other slaves (Coates calls them The Tasked) at Lockless Plantation in Virginia. Hi’s talent is noticed and he is elevated from the general work of youngsters to the manor house – and in this way, he avoids the backbreaking work of the fields. But Hi cannot recall what he most wants to – the image and sound of his mother who was sold when he was nine years old. How did she act? What brought her joy? Did she love him? It is a sadness he cannot shake.

Tobacco has just about depleted the soil and there is a sense of fading former glory and eroding glamourous pomp at Lockless. The Tasked (slaves) are sold – children torn from their mothers’ arms, wives pried from the grasp of loving husbands, humans treated like property – to help pay the bills. Lockless is owned by Howell Walker and his son May-

nard. Hiram is Howell’s son, too, but because his mother was a Tasked, he has no legal standing – he is a Tasked. And his job becomes the care and safety of Maynard.

In what may seem like an effort to join two large farms together, Maynard is engaged to Corrine Quinn of a nearby plantation. But he is reckless and immature, not an easy young man to handle. One night as the two young men were on the way back from a night in town to the plantation, horse and cart and passengers overturned into the river. Submerged in the dark water, Hi had a vision of

The Water Dancer is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel his mother, a surprising and clear vision, a vision that incited power and deep feeling. He followed her image and was transported to the surface of the water. He tried to find Maynard in the murky dark river but was not successful – the heir to Lockless drowned. Howell Walker was inconsolable and between grief and the burdens of a

diminishing tobacco farm, he slipped into drink. Hi cared gently and attentively for his grieving father.

But Hi’s image, a distant, foggy one, of his mother – balancing a water jug on her head as she smiled and danced in a circle of campfire light – is very much in his consciousness and soon the siren call of freedom is all Hi can hear. He escapes Lockless and on his arduous journey, meets “Moses” (Harriet Tubman) and learns about the intricate and complex workings of the escape network. Hi finds himself among free blacks in Philadelphia and understands what an independent life can look like. But Hi wants to be involved with the network and the dangerous idealistic program – known as Conduction – and he leaves behind social acceptance and opportunity to work for the freedom of others.

The Water Dancer is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel and it is written with sensitivity and feeling and what one critic called, “great moments of lyricism.” Published in September 2019, it has been an Oprah Book Club favorite and you can watch the select book group chat with the author. Go to YouTube and search on Oprah Winfrey Talks Bookclub + Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Coates is the author of Between the World and Me which won the National Book Award in 2015. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.

Andi Gregory Pearson writes essays, book reviews and short stories. Her first novel Scent of the Wild is available from Amazon or through her blog andipearson.com. Her website is www.andipearson.com. She and her husband have a cabin in the greater Lyons area.

Lyons Library is linking information and entertainment from libraries across the state

By Kara Bauman Redstone Review LYONS – We at the Lyons Library are pleased to once again be your link to information and entertainment from libraries across the state. With almost 90 percent of our AspenCat sister public liBauman braries lending, patrons are now able to place up to 15 items on hold via our online catalog (lyons.catalog.aspencat.info).

Courier deliveries occur three times each week. All deliveries – and returns – are quarantined for at least three days prior to check in and processing to align with the most current and prudent information regarding virus viability.

September is Suicide Prevention Month. With funds gratefully received through the Town of Lyons Goodwill Grant, Janaki Jane, and her Wide Spaces Community Initiative, has coordinated a series of Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) classes. Just as people trained in CPR help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Live Zoom classes will be held throughout September and into October or participants can register for self-paced online training.

Please email widespacescommunity@gmail.com to register or for more information.

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Mizushima writes the Timber Creek K-9 mysteries, set in the high-Rockies and featuring Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner, Robo. Mizushima was elected the 2019-2020 Writer of the Year by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, serves as the president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of American, and is also a member of Northern Colorado Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Women Writing in the West. She lives here in Colorado on a small ranch with her veterinarian husband. Her books are available through the library’s catalog. Please visit the library’s website at lyons.colibraries.org (under Support Your Library) to register for the event and do consider becoming our Friend.

Also coming up in early October is the return of the Libraries Transform Book Pick digital reading program with Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis Sharma. This program connects readers nationwide by offering free access to the same e-book through public libraries. Digital copies are available through OverDrive and Libby without any need for holds or waiting from through September 28.

This book would be a great choice for your book club or join in our discussion on Thursday, October 8 at 7 p.m.

Not sure how to access OverDrive or Libby? Just follow the directions on our website or call 303-823-5165 for

Friends of the Library Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 1, at 7 p.m.will feature Colorado author Margaret Mizushima as the keynote speaker. Mizushima writes the Timber Creek K-9 mysteries, set in the high-Rockies and featuring Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner, Robo. step-by-step help. Don’t have a device? We can preload the title on one of our Nooks or Kindles and check it out to you. Several physical copies are also available through the AspenCat catalog. Please email vicky@lyonsregionallibrary.com to register for our discussion.

And finally, this month we get to brag a little bit. Your Lyons Community Library was recently featured in the Library Design Showcase issue of the American Libraries magazine. A write up of our project states: “In 2013, flooding destroyed the small town’s public library, which was housed in a historic railroad depot. After six years of fundraising, the new Lyons Community Library opened its doors on the anniversary of the flood to serve as a symbol of the town’s resilience. Central to the library’s design is a large community room for live music, theatrical performances, and town meetings.”

We wish to sincerely thank any and everyone who had a hand in making our new space so special. From the input and design phase, to fundraising and construction, to overwhelming use during our few open months, and now to continued support as we navigate unchartered waters and changing service models: Thank you, Lyons. Together, we’ve certainly got something very special.

Visit us for browsing or computer use by appointment Monday, Thursday, and Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.; and on Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. We’re also available for curbside pickup of holds and print outs during the same hours. We’re always open on the web at lyons.colibaries.org and look forward to your call at 303-823-5165.

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

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ Welcome back to oven season with squash, goat cheese, nut and cherry galette

By Catherine Metzger Redstone Review

minutes 1 C flour 1/2 C cold, unsalted butter (1/2 stick cut into 8 pieces) 1/2 C cold water 1 small Delicata or Butternut squash, cut lengthwise, seeded and sliced into 1/4 inch half circles 6 oz goat cheese 1/2 of a small onion, chopped 2 T butter 1/2 C dried cherries 1/2 C roughly chopped cashews or walnuts 2 T milk • Preheat oven to 425° F. • In a medium-sized bowl combine the flour with the butter. Using a pastry cutter or your hands, cut or rub the butter into the flour until it’s combined, with peasized lumps of butter left.

• Add 1/2 C cold water (or more as needed) and mix as if for any pie crust, lightly and not too long.

• Form the dough into a moist ball. Cover with a wet towel and set in refrigerator for

1/2 hour to rest.

• Parboil the squash for about 5 minutes in lightly salted water, drain and set aside.

• Saute the chopped onions in the 2 T butter over medium heat.

• Just before the onions begin to color, add the goat cheese. Heat the mixture through so the cheese melts. Remove from heat and set aside.

• Remove your 3-2-1 dough from the fridge and cut in half. Save the other half of the crust in a freezer bag for your next galette.

• Form dough into a ball and roll until somewhat transparent, until you can see the cutting board or counter through it. Transfer rolled crust to a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet.

• Spread the goat cheese and onion mixture over the center of the dough, leaving empty a 2 1/2 inch ring around the outer edge of the crust.

• Lay out the squash in concentric rings beginning from the outer edge of the cheese circle and going to the center. •

Sprinkle the nuts and dried cherries over the top of the squash.

• Fold the crust over the edge of the galette. Brush with milk around the edge.

• Bake 35 minutes or until browned.

• Cut into wedges and serve hot, at room temperature, or cold.

Tostadas with a savory kick for dinner

Taste for salt and add a tablespoon of pureed chipotle peppers or your favorite chili.

The salsa: I have been enjoying the mangoes available in the market and relish their sweetness against the chilies, beans and cheese in a tostada. I make a tomato,

minced pickled jalapeño, a chopped green or slice of red onion and a handful of cilantro.

To assemble the tostadas, have ready some grated cheese. I use Catamount but Jack, cheddar, or another favorite melting cheese would be delicious. Spread the warm beans on the crisp tortillas, top with the cheese and warm in the toaster oven until the cheese is well melted.

Garnish the tostadas with salsa, avocado slices and a dab of sour cream or thick yogurt, if you have it.

A tart salad is a welcome sidekick to these savory, rich disks of deliciousness.

Combine shredded green cabbage with julienned jicama. Add the dressing, a simple mixture of the juice of a lime, salt and pepper, and a little olive oil. If using a tomato salsa, add a sliced peach to the salad.

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – Now that the heat of summer appears to be past and some of us have even enjoyed our first snow, our ovens come back into play with anytime-of-day baking. And my Squash Goat Cheese Nut and Cherry Galette is a good start to getting back at it with a satisfying, vegetarian dish that uses what’s on hand in the pantry and ripe in the garden right now.

And you might ask, what is a galette? A galette is a free-form crust that you can fill with sweet or savory food. It’s not quite a pie and kind of like a pizza, but with a nonyeast crust that partially folds over itself.

Here we use our most moisture-proof and quick-to-make 3-2-1 crust to enfold these simple, delicious ingredients. Some of the inspiration for this galette recipe goes to Yankee Magazine.

Squash, Goat Cheese, Nut and Cherry Galette Serves 6. Preparation and cooking time 45

By Barbara Shark Redstone Review LYONS – At the end of a warm early fall day I crave something savory with a spicy kick for dinner. I’ve made tostadas for years and never tire of their crisp, smooth, crunchy combination of tortillas, beans, cheese and salsa. I have been receiving quarterly shipments from Rancho Gordo, a wonderful source for fresh, dried beans. I cook them with a piece of kombu (seaweed) and find this prevents any unpleasant bean gas experiences. Plus, I think the more beans we eat the more our digestive systems become accustomed to them. Check out my book, How I Learned to Cook, an Artist’s Life, for a method of cooking dried beans.

Anyway, here’s a plan for making tostadas with mango salsa.

First prepare the corn tortillas, 2to 3 per person. In a small skillet just bigger than

the tortillas, heat sunflower oil, about 1/4 cup, until almost smoking. Slide in a tortilla. The oil will bubble and splatter so be careful. Turn with tongs and cook until crisp and brown, about a minute or two per side.

Drain on paper towels or a grocery bag cut open.

I usually have cooked black or pinto beans on hand; if you must use canned beans, rinse them well. In a tablespoon of sunflower oil, sauté a chopped large clove of garlic until it is translucent. Then add the drained beans, about two cups for four tostadas. Using a potato masher or a fork, work the beans to a semismooth paste, adding bean cooking liquid or water when the mixture gets too dry.

peach or cantaloupe salsa with the same ingredients so choose your favorite fruit.

To the peeled, sliced, diced and lightly mashed mango add a good squeeze of lime, a

Catherine Ripley Metzger has been cooking professionally and privately since 1979. She is the proprietor of the food blog www.foodfortheages.com, and Facebook.com/Food for the Ages.

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WILDLIFE Stories of the Greenwood busy season

By Linda Tyler Redstone Review LONGMONT – The busy season is always intense at Greenwood.

With COVID-19, it’s been even more so this year. But Tyler through it all, we’ve treated nearly 2,300 patients so far and, as always, have some compelling stories to tell.

A man in Arvada was doing yardwork when he heard a ruckus behind his shed and found an unfamiliar furry mammal. He texted his wife with a picture saying, “There’s a beaver in our backyard!” but he soon noticed that the animal lacked the iconic dam-building tail. It was an adult Yellow-bellied Marmot. Shortly after, his wife saw a marmot run from beneath her car at work – their backyard visitor! These creatures are notorious hitch-hikers. Several days after seeing it flee, the wife noticed a little ball of fluff on a walkway in their backyard – it was a baby marmot.

When he came to Greenwood, he was emaciated and lethargic. We immediately warmed him up, gave him fluids for dehydration, and fed him. The next day we

heard that the house next door also had a little marmot! Given these mammals don’t live at low elevations, we knew they had to be siblings. The second pup soon arrived, and the two were reunited. They

graduated from eating formula to dandelions, sweet potatoes and oats and are vocalizing like crazy. It’s no surprise that the species has earned the nickname “whistle pig.” After being at Greenwood for five weeks, they were transferred to a rehabilitator on the Western Slope with a single, young marmot. Being very communal animals, they can’t spend their first winter alone. They will be released together at a high elevation next spring.

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A woman noticed an unusual duckling wandering around her four-acre farm, with no mom to be found. Worried that her barn cats might get to it, she gathered it up. Then she heard her domestic ducks and geese making a racket in their pens and found three more little ones there. Before she could get them into a box, she saw a couple more about to run under the fence to the south of her property. She tucked her shirt into her pants and put the ones she had already gathered inside.

Believe it or not, it wasn’t over yet!

Once she had all six contained, she heard her husband calling from the pasture that he had found another. They scooped it up and spent a few hours observing at a distance to see if mom was still around, but she was nowhere to be found. The woman called her local Animal Control, who referred her to Greenwood. The birds turned out to be baby common Mergansers! The seven of them flourished in our care, enjoying diving in pools and feasting on lots of live fish. They were released together on a protected lake near Greenwood.

It’s a pretty special experience when a hummingbird builds a nest near your patio.

It’s even more unique for her to do so on a decorative strand of outdoor lights and better yet if the same bird comes back year after year to raise her babies. Sadly, one day

Colorado State University study shows how conservation has prevented numerous extinctions

By Mary Guiden, CSU Communications Redstone Review FORT COLLINS – Conservation action has prevented the global extinction of at least 28 bird and mammal species since 1993, according to a study led by Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and BirdLife International. Colorado State University’s Sarah King, research scientist in the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, is a co-author of the study, published September 10 in Conservation Letters.

The international team of scientists estimated that up to 32 bird and 16 mammal species would have disappeared forever without conservation efforts in recent decades.

The species highlighted include Przewalski’s horse, Iberian lynx and the Black stilt, a wading bird found in New

Zealand, among others.

King, who has been studying the Przewalski’s horse for 20 years, described the animal as prehistoric and similar to horses portrayed in ancient cave paintings. The horses went extinct in the wild in the 1960s.

In the 1990s, conservationists began reintroduction efforts and in 1996, the first Przewalski’s horse was born in the wild. Now, more than 760 of these horses are roaming the steppes of Mongolia once again.

Actions taken to preserve rare species The study highlights the most frequent actions to prevent extinctions in bird and mammal species. Twenty-one bird species benefited from invasive species control, 20 from conservation in zoos and collections and 19 from site protection. Fourteen mammal species benefited from legislation and nine from species re-introductions and con-

the mother stopped showing up, and they found one of the babies dead beneath the nest. They drove straight to Greenwood with the remaining one. The Broad-tailed Hummingbird spent eight days in our care, learning to use its wings. We were excited when it zipped off, back into the wild.

Life in the wild goes on, pandemic or not. We are happy we can be there for wildlife in need.

Wild Night for Wildlife Please join us for virtual Wild Night for Wildlife on Saturday, September 19. This is Greenwood’s biggest fundraiser, and this year it will be held online from 5:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. When you register at www.greenwoodwildnight.com, you’ll receive a link with details for the show prior to the event.

Our live auction offers stays in Vail, Silverthorne, Estes Park, and Delray Beach, Florida plus a tour of a beekeeping operation and a gorgeous handcrafted quilt featuring images of sea life. We promise you a fun-filled evening, all to help the orphaned and injured animals in our community. For more information, call 303-823-8455.

Linda Tyler is the Executive Director of Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, located east of Lyons on Colorado Highway 66.

servation in zoos and collections.

The research team identified bird and mammal species that were listed as threatened on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.

They subsequently compiled information from 137 experts on the population size, trends, threats and actions implemented for the most threatened birds and mammals to estimate the likelihood that each species would have gone extinct without action. Their findings show that without conservation actions, extinction rates would have been around three to four times greater.

Species preserved from extinction One of the species the team evaluated was the Puerto Rican amazon, a small parrot species that lives on the island of Puerto Rico. The formerly abundant population was at its lowest in 1975, when only 13 individuals remained in the wild. Since 2006, efforts were made to reintroduce the species to the Rio Abajo State Park on Puerto Rico. In 2017, hurricanes wiped out the original population, leaving only the reintroduced population at Rio Abajo Continue Extinction on Page 14

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Extinction Continued from Page 13 Other species remain only in captivity, but there are opportunities for such species to be reintroduced into the wild.

This gives hope that other species that are now only held in zoos, collections, or for plants in botanic gardens and seed banks, will be successfully returned to the wild in the future.

The Denver Zoo houses a small herd of Przewalski’s horses, and this type of conservation is critical, said King, who has served as co-chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Equid Specialist Group since 2007.

“Zoos get bashed a lot, but they have prevented the extinction of species,” she said. Some species included in the study, such as the vaquita, a species of porpoise found in the northern end of the Gulf of California, are still rapidly declining.

King said that while conservation actions have been very helpful for some species, others may yet go extinct.

Rike Bolam, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral research associate from Newcastle University, said the analyses provide a strikingly positive message that conservation has substantially reduced extinction rates for birds and mammals.

Professor Phil McGowan, a co-author from Newcastle

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ported during this challenging time.

We have enjoyed having athletes competing on campus and getting the chance to connect.

We look forward to hearing more about the plan for the SVVSD learning format in October at the Town Hall meeting on September 21.

The Importance of Attending Online Classes LYONS – Students can get behind quickly when they miss a class – just like regular school, and even more so with classes being held online and not face to face. It’s extremely important for your children to log in to every class, participate and complete all assignments, and stay in touch with their teachers. Fridays look different, not as structured, yet students are still required to log in to Schoology to see what their teachers have assigned for them to do that day. With everyone's support, our students will have a successful year.

We encourage parents to log in to your Infinite Campus Parent Portal to periodically check your child’s attendance. If for any reason they were marked NoP (Not Participating) and you would like to change/correct this information, or you need to let us know of a planned absence, please contact Angela Rittenhouse, Attendance Clerk, as soon as possible via email or phone 720-494-3844. We are

LEAF Continued from Page 6 underserved and underprivileged in the area.

The autumn into winter is the busy season for all the LEAF volunteers. The schools usually do food, paper products and personal care drives. We will see what they come up with this November with the children not gathering at school. We can also look forward and start thinking about the Christmas Giving Trees which may be located in fewer places around town, but there will still be an opportunity to pick up ornaments.

We also depend on our small businesses in town to help our programs stay afloat.

With our LEAF Believer sponsorship model we invite the local businesses to sign up for an annual sponsorship. They get to see their businesses promoted through various outlets; social media, newspapers, posters, slide shows etc., in addition to giving back to the community that has been

University who leads the IUCN Species Survival Commission task force, said that while the study provides a glimmer of hope, “we mustn’t forget that in the same period, 15 bird and mammal species went extinct or are strongly suspected to have gone extinct.”

He said that it is possible to stop extinction. “We usually hear bad stories about the biodiversity crisis and there is no doubt that we are facing an unprecedented loss in biodiversity through human activity,” said McGowan.

working hard to maintain accurate participation records and really appreciate your partnership in this effort.

Senior College Planning Guide is coming soon. Watch your email for our guide that contains everything you need to know about the college application process. Counselors will be scheduling individual meetings with all of our seniors to make sure they are prepared for their plans after high school.

Make sure to check out the Lyons Counseling Virtual Offices to access resources, information, stress-management tools and more.

Online Parent Permissions LYONS – The process of collecting signatures will be done through the parent portal in Infinite Campus. Parents without access to the portal will work with Building Secretaries to receive the form. Parents can grant permission for their child(ren) to be included in virtual showcase events by giving permission through the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. Here are the parent instructions Parents should sign the online permission form for each child for the current school year. Parents who do not have portal accounts can sign this form and submit it to the school office.

Gifted and Talented Nominations LYONS – Each year St. Vrain Valley School District completes a process to identify students in grades K through 12 who demonstrate exceptional ability or performance in one or

the backdrop and foundation of their world. This year has been hard on many local establishments, but if your business has found some success and would like to learn more about being a LEAF Believer please reach out to info@leaflyons.org or the website for more information.

So as the crazy weather patterns continue and COVID-19 remains a concern, we can all take comfort in knowing in our little town, with the generous support of local businesses, residents, foundations and grants, that the people of Lyons will be taken care of in their time of need.

And on behalf of the LEAF Board of Directors, I would like to personally thank each and every community member who has found it in their heart to give a little, either with their volunteer time, their food donation, or their monetary gift.

You’ve made life a bit easier and smoother this year for those who found themselves in need. Way to go Lyons.

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At left: Przewalski’s horse, an ancient species, went extinct in the wild in the 1960s. Reintroduction efforts began in the 1990s, and now more than 760 of the horses live on the steppes of Mongolia. Above: A very similar horse appears among the many cave painting in Lascaux, France, believed to be around 17,000 years old.

“The loss of entire species can be stopped if there is sufficient will to do so. This is a call to action: showing the scale of the issue and what we can achieve if we act now to support conservation and prevent extinction.”

more academic or talent areas and may therefore qualify for Gifted and Talented educational services. The nomination deadline is September 30. For information contact Angela Rittenhouse, Attendance Clerk (x45608).

is damaged, please email Bonnie Meyers, Library Clerk, with the following information: student name, grade, and details of the damage. She will put in a ticket to replace your iPad and reach back out to you when its available to pick up.

Lyons Lions Cross Country LYONS – The next meet will be 9/18/20: St. Vrain #3 @ Lyons 5:30 p.m. Boys, and 6:15 p.m. Girls.

There will be no spectators allowed on school property at the cross country meets due to the spectator limit set by Boulder County and CHSAA. Cross country meets hosted at Lyons will be live streamed, if possible. We will post the live stream link when it is available.

Office Hours and Contact Information LYONS – The Lyons Middle Senior High School front office is open from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Please reach out via phone 303-823-6631 or email if you have any questions, to Angela Rittenhouse, Attendance Clerk (x45608), or Ann Cisar, Registrar (x45609).

iPad Insurance and iPad Damage LYONS – Here is an important reminder about iPad Insurance and iPad Damages for the 2020-21 School Year: The window to purchase iPad insurance is still open until September 18. You must make at least a partial payment before the deadline.

The insurance fee appears in Infinite Campus.

Damage happens. If your school issued iPad

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Biddy Mason Continued from Page 4 California, Mason caught wind of the possibility of freedom. California was a free state, something Smith had tried to hide from her and the others. In fact, when he found out that there was a danger he might “lose” his slaves, he decided to move them to the state of Texas, where freedom

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was not an option. Mason was able to petition for her freedom and the freedom of her extended family. Winning her freedom was no easy task, as she was not allowed to testify against a white man, and she was never taught to read or write. But in 1856 she succeeded; she was a free woman.

Kinney Williams’ book also said she and her family moved to Los Angeles where she

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continued to practice medicine and midwifery, saving enough money to buy property in what is current-day downtown Los Angeles. She continued to buy and sell property and began to amass a fortune. She also founded the first African American church and the first elementary school for African American children in Los Angeles.

Once solvent, she would often work for free.

She deposited money into the bank accounts of those in need, fed and sheltered the poor, paid their bills, and donated much of her fortune to various charities.

Cirello concluded the talk by showing us the place marked with an impression of Biddy Mason’s signature, an X, because with all that she had achieved throughout her amazing life, she remained illiterate.

She was not merely an inspiring success story, but a tireless humanitarian, which inspires even more admiration in me every time I think of her.

I’ve spent some time studying her iconic portrait, the serious, almost dour expression, the formidable, penetrating gaze and the stiff-collared dress of the time. But by all accounts, she was cheerful, warm, and charismatic. In fact, she is depicted in a 10-panel mural entitled “The History of Medicine in California,” housed in a building on the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) campus. In one of the panels, Mason is center stage, tending to a patient, surrounded by white men. She appears serene, confident, and compassionate, immersed in her expertise. The murals were painted in the 1930s by Polish-born artist Bernard Zakheim, who was a student of the legendary Diego Rivera.

The future of this monumental artwork is currently in flux. I learned through recent articles in both the LA Times and the New York Times that the building is set for demolition, and preserving the murals is complicated and cost prohibitive. Mason’s great-great granddaughter wrote a letter to the editor that appeared in the LA Times on July 16, stating the importance of honoring Black history by saving this depiction of her “revered ancestor.” Various options are being explored, including having them declared a city landmark and seeking funds to re-house them.

Whenever I feel the need to get out of myself, I consider the deeds of Biddy Mason. Let’s hope the murals are saved.

Her two legacies, as an accomplished medical professional, equal in the company of the highly trained doctors of her time, and her legacy as a wildly successful, self-made entrepreneur who overcame impossible circumstances to become, not just an affluent woman of color, but an extraordinarily openhanded benefactor and a pillar of her community, must be preserved.

I feel privileged to be able contemplate this remarkable person who deserves to be celebrated among the truly great ones. I would love to see her become more a prominently celebrated figure in U.S. history. She was a heroic black women who rose above adversity and road blocks, dedicating her life to serving others.

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the Consent Agenda, there was the sound of a loud bang near the town hall and the power at the town hall went out temporarily. Sgt. Bill Crist sent a text to Administrator Simonsen saying that a transformer blew out. The power came on shortly after at the town hall, but sections of town were without power for a while.

Flood Recovery manager Tracy Sanders reported to the board that the homeowner at 194 Second Ave. wants the town board to hold $9,000 in an escrow account for possible damage to trees and landscaping at that property during the construction of the Second Ave. bridge. She said that the homeowner at 207 Second Ave. has pulled their permission on their easement agreement with the town, and the homeowner at 197 Second Ave. is close to signing the easement agreement. She added that there is a $611,000 shortfall on the money needed to pay for the new bridge. She said that staff has notified the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) about the shortfall, and they are looking for some funding from the Colo.

Department of Local Affairs (DOLA).

There is a 147-sq.-ft. area for excavation by the river required for the new bridge on Second Ave. The town has made several offers to homeowners for temporary use of their land for construction of the new bridge. According to Town Attorney Brandon Dittman, some land owners feel that some of the landscaping that they put in would be damaged in the construction of the bridge. The town staff made several offers to the homeowners, but Attorney Dittman said that the homeowners never really executed the agreements.

The board discussed condemnation.

Trustee Mark Browning said, “I would emphasize that in condemnation we are not talking about taking any of these properties, this is just temporary use of a small portion of these properties and in return we are getting increasingly higher demands from a few property owners.

Let’s be clear, it is the people of Lyons who will pay for these demands with taxpayers’ money.”

Trustee Browning said the staff has the authorization to start condemnation proceedings, with the purpose of getting as much value for the lowest cost for all the people in Lyons. He said that the town has made generous offers to the property owners and now it is time for them to take it or leave it. “If we go to court all these offers are off the table and property owners face the risk of losing all the offers that are on the table and they can pay their attorneys to argue it out,” he said.

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ing to Sgt. Crist, (from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Dept.) we have had 10 complaints (about noise violations).

This is hard.”

Trustee Browning said, “This business has numerous compliance problems.

When I was in there, employees were not wearing masks, customers were not wearing masks. This business is operating on the edge of the law and has been for some time. They (the owners) have been skirting the law, living on the edge of the law. I think it is a stretch to renew your license. We have plenty of other businesses that are complying with the law and I’m sure it is tough for them to pay their sales taxes and if we allow them (Lyons Den) to violate the law then they have an unfair advantage over other businesses in town that are following the law. Clean up your act.”

The board approved the liquor license renewal, 7 to 0, with several stipulations requested by Trustee Browning. Lyons Den is required to have a payment agreement with the Colo. Dept. of Revenue within 60 days to pay all back taxes and copies of that agreement must go to the town administrator and the town finance director.

The town staff must inform the Town Board of any missed payments or failure to file returns and the staff is directed to stay in touch with the Dept. of Revenue and monitor the compliance agreement.

The Town Board also approved a new tavern liquor license application from A2 Properties for ALodge, located at 338 Main St., the former Aspen Leaf Motel.

Managing partners for A2 Properties, Asa Firestone and Curt Clive, spoke at the meeting saying that they want to be a family-friendly place.

“We want to put in an outdoor movie screen, mostly featuring sports videos. We would like to work with local restaurants to help them, we don’t want to compete with them,” said Firestone.

“We really envision this as a family friendly place; we want to be more of a daytime place with kids playing outdoors, with ice cream available or snow cones or something like that,” said Clive.

In other news Mayor Nick Angelo said that he met with the Student Advisory Commission and the students are still working on the issue of vaping in the schools. He added that the students on the commission would like to work on lowering the voting age to 16. The Mayor said that lowering the voting age might be a tough sell.

Shortly after the Town Board approved