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B •R •I •E •F •S Join Us for a Site Blessing in Lyons Wednesday, Sept. 13 LYONS – On the flood anniversary, rebuilding continues. Join us for a site blessing in Lyons, Wednesday, Sept. 13. The face of our landscape and lives of our neighbors were forever changed four years ago as a thousand-year rain pounded down upon Boulder and Larimer Counties. Tangled debris remains – like scars on the riverbanks – reminding us of the unfathomable devastation of those September days. Yet it is also testament to the resolve for restoration with which that destruction has been faced.

Rebuilding of homes, lives and communities is ongoing. This painstaking yet healing work is made possible because of the generous support from friends of Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley.

Please join Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley for the site blessing of six new homes in Lyons. We celebrate the resiliency of the human spirit and power of community as we continue to rebuild in the wake of the floods of 2013. The site blessing will be held on Wednesday, September 13 at 5 p.m. at Second Avenue and Park Street. For more information contact Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley at 303-682-2485 or www.stvrainhabitat.org.

Flood recovery update meeting LYONS – The Town of Lyons is hosting a flood recovery update meeting for area residents at 7 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 13 in the Town Hall Board Room, 432 Fifth Ave., with an overview that is to include a review of the status of ongoing and upcoming flood recovery projects. The town has provided a link to the status of the projects: http://www.townoflyons.com/floodrecovery.

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These blue footed boobies on the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles west of Ecuador, are engaging in their distinctive and humorous mating ritual. First the male, who is the smaller, plants himself before the female and lifts his blue feet, one at a time, showing the soles of his feet in hopes the female will admire them. The more brilliant blue the foot, the better the health of the bird. Then, if her interest seems to warrant, the male spreads his wings and points his tail and head upward, in the emblematic skypointing gesture seen in this photo. Just after this photo was taken the female also sky pointed, signalling mutual affection. As the boobies have no natural enemies on these islands, humans can wander through the nesting sites without unduly disturbing these amazing birds. Half the blue footed boobies in existence live in the Galapagos.

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Five-acre rule exemption for Eastern Corridor, short-term rentals are topics for the Lyons Trustees

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – The Lyons Board of Trustees discussed changing the five-acre rule at the September 5 meeting. The current ordinance requires Jane the Town of Lyons to hold a public vote before annexing any property over five acres that is not owned by the town. The new ordinance would exempt the eastern corridor from the voter approval requirement after October 15, 2017. Few members of the public spoke during the public hearing, so the Board voted to continue the public hearing to the October 2 Board of Trustees meeting.

Former Mayor Nick Angelo pointed out that the public has never had a chance to vote on the Eastern Corridor plan, and that this ordinance had been put in place originally because the public desired it. He said it is appropriate to change the ordinance through a vote. Residents Mark Browning and Mike Loukonen also spoke for the ordinance.

Trustees Jim Kerr and Wendy Miller supported having the ordinance change put to a public vote. Other Trustees took more nuanced views. Trustee Barney Dreistadt was hoping the BOT would get more input so

they could move forward with the change now rather than later. Trustee Juli Waugh feels strongly the ordinance change should go through, but “I’m stuck,” she said. Mayor Pro Tem Dan Greenberg talked about having conditions that would trigger a vote for specific types of properties. “There’s going to be a vote no matter what this Board does,” he said. Mayor Connie Sullivan would like to see “the default of the new ordinance be no vote,” with certain sizes of property or uses triggering a vote to annex. She has concerns that, for example, a 25-acre parcel with only two acres of buildable land (because the rest is too steep, or in the floodway) would lose a vote for annexation because misinformation could be easily spread. She is not optimistic that the ordinance change would pass a public vote, and so wants more public input.

The Planning and Community Development Commission (PCDC) presented recommendations for Short-Term Rentals.

After much input from the public, PCDC has drafted a new ordinance that “effectively allows short-term rentals as a use-by-right in residential zones.” The residence has to be owner-occupied at least six months of the year, which limits owners to two houses to use as short-term rentals. An Auxiliary Dwelling Unit (ADU) cannot be used as a short-term

rental, in order to allow for affordable housing. The Fire Marshall requested to have mandatory inspection for fire and CO2 detectors, in order to get a license. If the applicants refuse the inspection, they won’t get the license. The PCDC also reported that it is “getting an enormous amount of grief about why the town writes code and does nothing to enforce it.” The PCDC has presented the Board with a recommendation for hiring a Code Enforcement position.

During audience business, Tyler Miller, who moved to town in November, requested that the Town change the zoning that does not allow marijuana businesses within 1000 feet of a school, daycare or library, when the license being requested is for manufacture, not retail. Miller wants to start a wholesale business making marijuana-infused products, which he predicts will have up to 12 employees and bring in $12,000 or more in tax revenue a year. Towards the end of the meeting, the Board discussed the proposal, and the consensus seemed to be to give the marijuana zoning ordinances another look.

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LYONS O B I T U A RY John (Jack) Aldridge Collom Born November 8, 1931 – Died July 2, 2017 Jack Collom was a noted and prolific poet who was adjunct professor and outreach director of the Writing and Poetics Department at Naropa University; he died at his home in Boulder on July 2, 2017 at age 85.

Jack Collom was born in Chicago, IL on November 8, 1931. His family moved to Fraser, CO when he was 16. He joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in Germany and Libya. It was in Tripoli that he wrote his first poems. He returned to the U.S. and received a B.S. in Forestry, science and Arts at Colorado A and M, now Colorado State University in 1952.

He received a B.A. in English and an M.A. in English Literature at the University of Colorado in 1974. In 2001 the Boulder Mayor and City Council designated a Jack Collom Day. Collom started publishing his poetry in little magazines and small presses in the 1960s and started his own magazine The, which ran from 1966 to 1977. He published over 30 books of poetry including Wicker and Situations, Sings.

One of Collom’s students, Ed Engle, a

fly-fishing, outdoor writer and columnist for the Daily Camera said, “Years ago, I attended a poetry class that Jack taught in Blackhawk, CO. This was before gambling was legal in Colorado, so Blackhawk was just one of many on-theouts old mining towns. Jack probably got

the class room for free. I learned something about the mechanics of poetry in the class, but more than anything I learned how to be a poet and writer. It didn’t mean much to him if you just said you were a poet. Jack was all about getting the work done. I kept in touch with him

on and off over the years. I dropped by once when he wasn’t home and explained to his daughter, Sierra, that I’d been one of Jack’s students. She said, ‘Yeah, lots of his students stop by.’ Jack was like that.

You can’t forget him.”

Collom’s work was published in many anthologies and he was awarded numerous grants and awards including two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships and the Colorado Book Award for Second Nature in 2013. He worked with artists, musicians, dancers, composers and recorded three CDs including Colors Born of Shadow with Ken Bernstein.

Fly-fishing and outdoor writer, John Gierach, who has published Sex Death and Fly-fishing, Only Brook Trout get the Blues, Another Lousy Day in Paradise and many other books, was a student of Collom’s.

“Jack was a poet’s poet and a born teacher,” said Gierach. “It’s impossible to describe Jack’s teaching style. Whether the situation was informal or formal (and it was never very formal with Jack) you felt that you’d simply been befriended by a fine poet and a little bit of what he had might rub off. Jack’s lessons were often sidelong and conversational. If you described a scene in which the birds were singing, he might ask, ‘What kind of birds?’ and you’d think, Yeah, the kind of birds would make a difference as if you’d

Save the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse from Martin Marietta’s industrial gravel mine

By Amanda Dumenigo Redstone Review LYONS – The Preble’s meadow jumping mouse, a.k.a.

PMJM, was first discovered in Colorado by Edward A. Preble a century before it was listed under the Endangered Species Act. In 1998 and locally, Boulder County Commissioners approved Special Use Permit 96-18 to convert up to 640 acres of the St Vrain Valley’s agricultural land and riparian habitat to the industrial use of gravel mining.

Fast forward almost two decades later, and SU 96-18 came out of hibernation silently and in the dead of winter in January 2017, when the current Boulder County Commissioners approved Martin Marietta Material’s building site plans on its five-acre property in Lyons, off Hwy. 66, despite the face that the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse is still endangered and also is thriving in the St. Vrain Valley and the entire South Branch ditch pre and post 2013 floods.

Reinforcing its endearing name, PMJM’s arguably cute physicality somewhat resembles Terrytoons’ Mighty Mouse, with its extremely long tail (which accounts for more than 60 percent of its 8 to 10 inches length), and its disproportionately big hind feet and legs designed to help it swiftly leap across small creeks, through wetlands, dense grasses and shrubs in specific riparian habitat where it dwells. This mouse hibernates for up to nine months from September or October through May, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife. PMJM historically has the super power of staving off indiscriminate industrial takeovers on the Front Range – a mighty feat as the urban edge gets blurred by all the industrial smog that can’t be glossed over by all the greenwashing double speak.

Eric Lane, Director of Boulder County Parks and Open Space, (BCPOS) in a recent email to U.S. Fish and

Wildlife dated June 27, says that “Of particular value and concern to . . . [BCPOS] is habitat of Preble’s meadow jumping mouse present in the project area. This project area contains invaluable habitat for the mouse, and [BCPOS] trapping studies over the past three years have shown that its comparative importance in the broader landscape context is highly significant.” Using PIT tagging, BCPOS documented 154 unique individual mice in the St. Vrain corridor and the South Branch of the St. Vrain.

In comparison, trapping within federally designated critical habitat for the mouse in Boulder County, South Boulder Creek, resulted in very few individuals, and no trapping success within the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge.

BCPOS director affirms “the population along the St. Vrain is of increasing importance in a population dynamic context. [And] While [BCPOS] . . . [has] reviewed the 2001 Biological Opinion (ES/GJ-6-CO-01-F-045) associated with this project, some of the mitigation measures are difficult to interpret sixteen years later . . . on the ground conditions have changed with the passage of time, implementation of some measures by the operator, changes in the ownership and the proposed mining footprint, and lasting effects of the 2013 flood such that a review of the 2001 Biological Opinion by USFWS as part of the overall permit review process is also warranted.”

Habitat Conservation Plans serve a higher purpose than preserving the PMJM; their habitat protection positively affects water quality and quantity; plants act as a buffer zone and filtration system for both surface runoff and water flowing into streams through groundwater or subsurface flow and lower nitrate contamination in surface runoff from fertilizers and manure that would compromise human health and the ecosystem. Riparian zones with their root systems and diverse plant communities distribute the streams’ flow, slowing water, and thus reducing flooding and soil erosion.

The St. Vrain Valley has experienced floods for thousands of years. In the 2013 floods, areas previously mined for gravel and left as ponds ruptured and caused severe flooding even in Hygiene and non-floodplain areas of Longmont. There will be more floods in this valley and riparian habitat is needed to protect residents and wildlife, not more mined ponds leading to future flood-damage.

Approximately 90 percent of all wildlife species rely on stream habitats for survival. The conservation of these limited resources is critically important for the survival of many wildlife species. Max Robertson, of the Center for Native Ecosystems, calls the stream corridors of the Front Range “a network of blood vessels in the landscape,” and Continue Mouse on Page 15

thought if it yourself.”

Collom taught poetry to all ages from little children to college students and older people. He began teaching poets in the schools programs in Wyoming, Nebraska, New York and Colorado.

Teachers and Writers published the influential Poetry Everywhere: Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community with Sheryl Noethe. Collom became a great advocate for teaching poetry beyond the confines of the undergraduate and graduate classroom.

In 1986 Collom taught at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics as an adjunct professor, where he shaped Writing Outreach, a community creative writing project, into a course. His nature and environmental writings were published in The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing, as well as other places.

He is survived by his wife Jenny Heath, a writer, editor, journalist, and by three sons, Nathaniel of Boulder, Christopher of Calgary and Franz of Boulder, his daughter Sierra of Portland, OR, and his grandson Joshua Lerman. He is also survived by his step-children Sarah C. Bell of San Francisco and Matthew Heath of Albuquerque and their families.

A memorial service was held in August at Naropa University in Boulder.

L E T T E R •T O •T H E •E D I T O R An Open Letter from Jen Lo Farm, on the “Eastern Corridor” Our family trust is on one acre of land, on Ute Highway (Highway 66) in the St. Vrain Valley, just one mile east of Lyons. (Its geographic definition is rectangular, following the dictates of U.S. real estate rather than by the natural boundaries of meandering streams or irregularities of foothill’s curves. We have the right to be occupiers of this farm as long as we pay the monthly mortgage and taxes owed to the capitalist veneer that has us all colonized.)

We are the settlers, those of white European descent who have grudgingly accepted others into the fold; excepting descendants of slavery, people of color, and the original, indigenous people whose land we have colonized. Slavery and genocide, of both land and people, define the history of this country, a history that is with us today in the laws we’ve created and the culture we’ve embraced.

This little farm stands in defense, with our neighbors, against the encroaching threat of development by the greedy unseeing, uncaring disease of “growth.”

The decisions that are made in Lyons, that we have no control over, deeply affect us and our neighbors. We stand in opposition to the attack on air, water, land and the animals who live here. Has anyone thought to ask the real, the natural world, its opinion about colonization and occupation? About “development”?

JenLo Farm is offered as a therapy farm, with deep love, as a place of community where children and their families can enjoy interaction and relationship with nature and the animals who share this space. Children with a variety of disabilities and abilities come for therapy that addresses their challenges, weaving into therapy sessions the real life experiences that can happen only through connecting with the natural world. It is hoped that JenLo Farm can be seen as symbolic of our connection with the real world, and with deep respect, to the original dwellers, the indigenous people who lived in harmony with the land here and throughout this hemisphere.

Is it possible for the Lyons Town Board to think beyond the veneer of rapacious development and more deeply into what really matters; for ourselves, for our children and for the precious valley we must protect?

Do the right thing. You don’t have to perpetuate this culture of colonization.

Lois Hickman, occupational therapist, farmer, Longmont, CO

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MAYOR’S CORNER Planning for the next disaster

By Connie Sullivan, Mayor of Lyons Redstone Review LYONS – Probably not the headline you were expecting on the fouryear anniversary of the Sullivan devastating 2013 floods.

The town as a whole, and several residents, remain in recovery mode. We are still living with gravel-patched roads, temporary bridges, unfinished parks, and a handful of neighbors are waiting to either close on their buy-outs or elevate their homes. The list of projects to be completed is shrinking, but enough work remains to prevent the feeling that we’re on the home stretch . . . four years later.

The recent events in Houston and Florida have brought out a range of emotions as we recall our own flood experiences. We know all too well what lies ahead for Texas and Florida, but not all the memories are difficult. Lyons was at its best in the early days of the flood.

Neighbors looked out for one another, and our optimism was strong for how the town would build itself back. The selflessness and sense of community, especially in the first hours and days of the disaster, was something to be proud of.

The work that followed was physically and emotionally exhausting; the endless community meetings, the mucking out, and agonizing decisions about whether or not to rebuild homes and businesses. Yet we continually hear from outside observers that Lyons has performed well above average in terms of managing the recovery. A compliment I attribute to a competent and tireless town staff and highly engaged citizens. While the pat on the back is nice, we can’t deny there have been struggles. The town’s population was reduced by approximately 200 permanent residents; a loss that may become more acute in the years to come unless we replace the lost workforce housing.

As part of the recovery process, numerous studies have been done to identify ways to make the town less prone to future flood damage. Today, the town has a better grasp of the opportunities for improving our infrastructure, and how to

plan for future land use that doesn’t exacerbate our flood risk. That is why we should start thinking about the next disaster now. Hopefully Lyons never has another flood as catastrophic as what we experienced in 2013, but the region has seen a fairly significant flood event about

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every 11 years, and that doesn’t account for climate change.

Lyons will flood again, and we should do everything we can to prevent the loss of life, property and infrastructure.

Offering residents whose houses were substantially damaged in the high hazard areas to take a federally funded buy-out is painful way to mitigate for future floods, but approximately 27 residents elected to sell their property to the Town and relocate elsewhere. The river restoration work throughout town will go a long way toward protecting the remaining homes and new infrastructure. Most who did rebuild their homes elevated them two feet or more above base flood elevation.

Lyons also has a task force (Lyons Prepared) dedicated to improving our public communication during disasters.

These are all steps in the right direction, but we can still do more.

The Board recently adopted a Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) study. The report accounts for a wide range of potential hazards including fires, floods, wind, hail, drought and even

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dam failures. It’s not light reading, but the report is very well written, provides a detailed history of prior hazards, and assesses the likelihood of future occurrences for each type of event and the potential impacts. The report concludes with a list of recommended actions that will require new policies and funding to implement. For example, the report recommends creating a new storm water util-

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ity to fund infrastructure improvements that can prevent property damage from major rain events, something that has been discussed for years.

A recent storm water master plan update was completed, but without funding no improvements will be made. We can also use the experience gained from this recent disaster to develop better plans for evacuating residents and visitors

in the event of wildfire, an event that has a high likelihood of occurrence. This Board will consider acting on several of these recommendations before the end of the term; however some actions will be ongoing and take more time to implement. The report can be found on the town’s website (type HIRA into the search menu) and contains over 140-plus pages of information about every possible hazard that could impact the town.

Lyons has come a long way since 2013.

We have a great appreciation for what goes into mitigating for future floods, and we’ve had the benefit of many federal and state resources to help our recovery efforts. Future disasters may not be so fortunate as our federal programs are not financially sustainable in their current state. As we re-evaluate floodplain regulations, land-use plans, design standards, property development proposals, and eventually the Comprehensive Plan through the lens of disaster preparedness, the town will have to balance many different and competing interests. Lyons still has several flood recovery projects to complete, but the impacts of 2013 will eventually become less visible. Even then, we must continue to prioritize resilience and preparedness.

Connie Sullivan was elected Mayor on April 5, 2016. Prior to becoming Mayor, she served two terms on the Town Board of Trustees beginning in 2012. Connie, and her husband Neil are the owners of the St. Vrain Market in Lyons on Main Street.

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

Board priorities include sales taxes, code enforcement, economic development

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – Taxes, code enforcement, zoning, and Main Street maintenance were among the topics the Board of Trustees discussed in a workshop on priorities for the remainder of their current term. The next election for Board of Trustees and Mayor is in April 2018.

Discussions of sales taxes took up much of the time. Mayor Connie Sullivan and several trustees stated that they were definitely not looking to increase sales tax, but were interested in broadening the collection base. Ideas floated included a pillow tax, capturing events taxes and food vender taxes at festivals, capitalizing on the wedding industry and Rocky Mountain National Park, and using shoulder seasons for events. Mayor Sullivan said Lyons needs an analysis on what drives sales tax, in order to capture more of it. Trustee Dan Greenberg talked about marijuana business regulations and the idea of having a third retail store, or having retail and grow or value-added manufacturing side by side.

Trustee Greenberg also brought up

code enforcement. Residents are complaining that ordinances are being passed, but with no one to enforce them, to some it seems pointless. Especially with the new short-term rental ordinance coming, he feels it is a safety issue to have code enforcement, and it needs to be included as part of the entire safety budget.

The discussion moved to the need to include all commissions in developing an Economic Development Plan and the vacancies on Main Street. Trustee Juli Waugh floated the idea of changing the zoning on Main Street. “Do we need to rethink Main Street as a service industry and housing area, now that we will have the Eastern Corridor as retail space?” she asked. This led to the need for a strong operating income that allows for a Capital Improvement Plan fund.

The electric substation needs an upgrade, so expect a brownout sometime soon. The Board also discussed smart meters, the sewage plant, Main Street landscaping and maintenance, and the need to look at changing some details in current ordinances to match with best practices for flood mitigation.

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INTEREST It’s the fourth anniversary of the flood and we are still recovering

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – The fourth anniversary of the flood that ravaged our little slice of heaven is fast approaching. To many in Lyons, once they were able to move back after utilities and town services were restored, Moore life returned to normal and the flood is becoming a distant memory. To others the flood and its aftermath are ever present with rebuilding and returning to that normal remaining a goal yet to be attained.

“It’s our hope that those who are still rebuilding their homes here will be back in place by the September anniversary. We’re hopeful, but it may not happen on the anniversary,” said Nancy Arp recently. Arp is the proprietor of Miss Nancy’s Childcare, Lyons’ oldest childcare facility where safety is the number one concern. She said there are three neighborhood families who are still displaced, but will be moving back if all goes well.

Arp lives in the confluence area, hardest hit by the flood of any place in Lyons, and she is referring to her neighbors who are nearing completion in rebuilding their homes. It has been a long, slow process full of many ups and downs, but according to Arp, all the time, hard work, and seemingly endless outflow of cash has made it all worthwhile.

“Recovery did not happen overnight, and most certainly not according to my timeframe,” Arp said with a smile on her face. “Until you’ve been without, you don’t realize how grateful you can be for the basics of such things as sewer, water, roads, and heat in your home.”

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Two weeks left to see the new exhibits at the Lyons Redstone Museum LYONS – In only two weeks the Redstone Museum will close for the winter, so now is the time to visit the new exhibits at the Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., open daily 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except Sundays when the museum opens at 12:30 p.m. The museum closes for the 2017 season after Sunday, October 1. The museum is free for visitors but donations are requested.

Visitors can check out the museum store, or do genealogy research, which now includes data on the museum computer. Over the past year, the museum has added three new permanent exhibits and one temporary exhibit, and enhanced four existing exhibits.

The temporary “Tiny Stories: The Art of the Dollhouse” exhibit features five beautifully handcrafted dollhouses from different time periods that are meticulous in historic detail. It was

For Arp, the flood not only displaced her from her home for two years while it was being rebuilt, but having to move away during the rebuild, Arp also lost her home-based business, Miss Nancy’s Childcare. Since moving back home in 2015, she has been able to slowly rebuild the childcare business, but still has the capacity to take on more kids.

Nancy Arp, proprietor of Miss Nancy’s Childcare, was washed out of her Confluence neighborhood home in 2013 and has slowly brought her life to a new normal.

Financially what’s different today from pre-flood days is twofold. To rebuild her home, she had to give up the lower part of her house where she could take in a housemate and earn some supplemental income. Secondly, the cost of rebuilding her house ravaged her savings.

created by past Lyons resident Anne O’Brien.

“125 Years of Cameras,” which opened last September, displays 12 decades of cameras, representing 125 years of the town of Lyons’ incorporation. All cameras were donated or lent to the museum by Lyons old-timers, such as a 10" x 12" wood and brass camera, a Brownie, a Polaroid, a reporter's big flash camera, and a miniature spy camera.

“Lyons Newspapers: A History” opened in May. It displays reproductions of the original first issues of five of Lyons’ newspapers during its 126-year history. There are also three inter-

The gift shop at the Redstone Museum is a great source for books on local history.

“There were $500 and $2,000 checks to write, along with lots of $1,000. Lots of $1,000 checks!” she said. “But I’m not complaining because I believe I’ve finally turned the corner.

I’m a person who has always been happy with enough.”

Arp likes all the neighborhood improvements the town has provided and is hoping everything the town has slated for the area will be completed by the end of summer, 2018. On her list are parks, plans for and taking care of the buyout lots, and rebuilding the footbridge across the north fork of the St Vrain, making the confluence area a part of town again.

She said living without the footbridge has had a very isolating effect on those living in the confluence area.

“This is all the new normal, and I’m slowly getting used to it,” Arp said philosophically, referring to all the changes that have taken place and those that are still yet to come.

In getting her life back to that new normal, Arp could not say enough about the countless volunteer hours that have been devoted to rebuilding her home and life. In addition to naming family and friends, she named the Lyons Volunteers and Lyons Leos as being steadfast and reliable. She’s grateful for both the work they did for her, and for all her confluence neighbors.

“They constantly surprised me. When I finally got a permit to build a fence for my daycare business, the materials were delivered, the volunteers showed up, and the fence went up. I’ll be forever grateful,” she said.

Miss Nancy’s Childcare, Lyons’ oldest childcare facility where safety is the number one concern, is licensed for children of all ages. Arp is a retired firefighter / EMT. Parents interested in finding childcare are welcome to call Miss Nancy at 720-308-1218 to check on availability.

active activities, including having your photo taken and placed on a digital newspaper page.

Another impressive display was donated by the Swift / Bohn Families, which includes family artifacts, including military uniforms and journal, Springfield carbine (circa 1858), arrowheads, local baseball history, and more. Exhibits enhanced over the past year include the Stop the Coffintop Dam, Minnie Hutchinson and the Lyons Woman’s Club, the State Bank of Lyons and Ramey / Moony family, and the history of Meadow / LaVern M. Johnson Park.

In addition to viewing exhibits, visitors can do research in both the paper files and on the museum’s computer. The museum has aggressively worked to transfer much of its historic data to its computers. Visitors’ genealogy research is now enhanced with the ability to research five years of Lyons Recorder newspapers. For those curious about Lyons businesses, such as identifying the original owners of a particular business, or whether the town ever had a movie theater, that basic information has now been transferred to the computer for easier research. The records go back to 1860s.

The museum shop includes a large used book

section, two dozen new history books of Lyons and the Front Range, flood memorabilia, gift items, old knick-knacks, and souvenirs of Lyons.

There are history talks on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month.

The dozens of old-time photographs on display in the second floor’s “Old Time Lyons” display have now been scanned and are available for purchase. This includes group graduation photos going back to the 1930s.

Stagecoach pre-construction informational meeting LYONS – The Stagecoach Trail meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 19 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Lyons Fire Protection District, Station #2, on Blue Mountain Road.

It will be organized by the Little Thompson Watershed Coalition.

It’s almost time for the work to begin. This October the bridge on Stagecoach Trail in Larimer County will be replaced in addition to river restoration work and sediment removal. Join us on Sept. 19 for an overview Continue Briefs on Page 6

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OPTIONS The soda fountain on Main Street comes to life again

By Don Moore Redstone Review LYONS – Take a step inside the Snack Soda Fountain on Main Street in Lyons and you will take a step back in time.

Moore “We have the oldest functioning soda fountain in Boulder County and probably the oldest in all of Colorado,” said new owner, Jennifer Quinn, as she proudly pointed out the original 1920 Grauman brand soda fountain.

The Soda Fountain, as it was originally called, was established on Main Street in 1921 and, except for three years in the 1920s when it was closed after a fire, has been in continuous operation since its founding.

According to LaVern Johnson, Lyons’ historical maven, it is the oldest continuously operated business in downtown Lyons.

Quinn, a six-year resident of Lyons having come from Ohio, bought the business on June 12 and, with her family’s help opened on July 8. It is a true family endeavor as daughters Alayna, age 9, and Kristen, age 12, enjoy helping out mom and her staff after school and on weekends.

“My 9-year-old is the manager,” said Quinn, tongue-in-cheek. “She’s a natural in dealing with customers and a whiz at mixing all of our drinks. She makes a wicked malt.”

In an effort to cater to the school age crowd, the Snack Soda Fountain offers a

protein nutritional snack at 2:45 p.m. every school day, just 10 minutes after the close of school. To coincide with the time of day for the snack, the price for the snack is also $2.45. One recent offering was banana sushi, which is a banana rolled in peanut butter and coconut and sliced into bite-sized sushi pieces.

The soda fountain uses natural ingredi-

wide as other soda fountain operations, but that’s okay. We’re more interested in serving products that come from the best ingredients we can source,” Quinn said. The shop features the locally produced Boulder Natural ice cream as well as the locally produced kombucha, Rowdy Mermaid.

Quinn is a registered art therapist and sees the shop as her next blank canvas.

“Lyons is very proud of the soda fountain and I want to honor that. I want this to be a place to go to as well as a place locals will want to bring out of town guests.”

She has done some remodeling and there is more to come. She wants to cater to the current generation, but will retain the retro look, and that includes continuing to use the 1950s shake mixer. To personalize the shop for New owner Jennifer Quinn (right) and staffer Sharla Fortier its customers, Quinn gives man the fountains at the Snack Soda Fountain on Main Street them the opportunity to create their own drinks ents for its fountain drinks. Quinn stocks and name them after themselves. such ingredients as ginger, lime, blackber“Because I employ soda jerks, I can get ry, birch bark, and cherry bark, honoring away with calling my staff jerks,” Quinn the shop’s focus on quality. All ingredi- said with a twinkle in her eye. “Soda jerk” ents are organic and there are a variety of originally was a pun on the term “store vegan options. clerk,” and the “jerk” refers to the jerking “The ingredients we use are more expen- action the operator uses to add carbonatsive, resulting in our margins not being as ed water to the drinks.

Lyons Food Pantry serves the community

By Kate Kerr Redstone Review LYONS – Although Lyons lost much of its affordable housing in the 2013 flood, there are still many residents with a significant need for assistance in providing adequate food for themselves and their households.

Anyone living in the greater Lyons area in need of food is welcome to drop in at the lower level of 350 Main St. (Lyons Community Church) on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

Thank you to the many Lyons residents who donate food and other items to the pantry. This summer there have been many donations from Lyons gardens,

including 90 pounds of beautiful veggies cultivated by students at Lyons Elementary!

Drop by with donations on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Along with food, there is always a need for products such as soaps, feminine products and toilet paper.

Here are Lyons Food Pantry stats from January 1 to June 30, 2017: • 832 Pantry visits • 88 Adults • 34 Children • 12 new households • 5,093 total pounds of food donated to the Pantry • 17,904 total pounds of food collected from the Boulder Community Food Share The Lyons Food Pantry is a program of the Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund

Quinn is getting lots of traffic from Estes Park residents as well as people returning from Rocky Mountain National Park. To spur Lyons’ traffic, Quinn has printed up 10-percent-off $5 or more purchases and distributed them in varying locations around town. Even if a Lyons resident does not have a coupon, Quinn will honor the deal.

“It’s been uphill work with Lyons citizens to let them know we exist and are open for business,” Quinn said. “And, we know it will all happen.”

In addition to the vegan options, the shop’s menu boasts ice cream, milkshakes, malts, brownies, cookies, sodas, ice cream floats, and egg cream treats. Soon Quinn plans to offer soups, salads and gourmet grilled cheese. Currently she has Rueben sandwiches, and a turkey panini. If that’s not enough, you can choose among kombucha, smoothies, shaved ice, and coffee brewed from Unseen Bean coffee roaster from Boulder.

To learn more about the Snack Soda Fountain and its history, see www.snacksodafountain.com. The shop, located at 400 Main St., is open seven days a week, 11a.m. to 7 p.m. and can be reached at 303-823-5393.

The shop’s slogan is “A snack is a simple way to keep your mood stable.” Stop by to stabilize your mood.

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

He lives in Lyons.

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LEAF offers a human services safety net to those in need in the greater Lyons area with three programs: Lyons Community Food Pantry, Lyons Meals on Wheels, and Basic Needs and Resource Matching. LEAF receives no federal or state funding and relies on financial contributions from donors such as you.

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CONTENT Books can have a lasting influence on children’s lives In memory of my cousin and lifelong friend, Paul Belding

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor

working at night. Sometimes guys in the restaurant would ask me “Do you know that guy playing the sax?”

“Yes,” I would say. “He’s my uncle.”

Then they would stuff a wad of bills in my hand and tell me to ask him to play some crazy tune which was totally not jazz music. So I would go up to Wayne while he was playing and he would bend over to hear me, still playing his sax and I would give him the crazy song request and stuff the bills in his pocket. Then he would wink at me as if to say, “No problem. I know what you are up against.”

LYONS – When my cousins Warren and Paul, and I, were little kids we had a book called Paul Puffin. It was Paul’s book, so we nicknamed him Puffin. We had this book read to us hundreds of times. We commandeered anyone who could read, to read it to us.

We learned that Puffins lived around the fjords in Norway where our grandparents came from. We also learned that Puffins stayed out to sea for years on end, only coming back every five years or so to lay eggs. No one knew what they did when they spent all those years out at sea.

We thought that Paul Puffin sounded like our grandfather, Sam Halverson, who built his own commercial fishing boats and went out into the Great Lakes to fish without coming home for days on end. My mother told us that our grandmother and my aunts and uncles thought he was dead many times over. But then he would come walking in the house with his catch as if nothing had ever happened.

My grandfather may have been afraid of any number of things but fighting a storm in his boat on the Great Lakes was not one of them. If he was going to die, he was right where he wanted to be on his boat the Prince Olaf and like the Puffins, he would rather be on the water than on land.

Warren, Paul and I drew pictures of Puffins and we colored them with our crayons. I had to help Paul because he was too little to make a good Puffin.

He couldn’t color inside the lines and his drawings were mostly scribbles of colors. But Uncle Wayne, Warren and Paul’s dad, told us that our drawings were wonderful.

Uncle Wayne was a musician and a commercial artist.

Many times he sat at his piano composing music in the living room while we read about Paul Puffin and made our Puffin pictures. Wayne played the saxophone and had his own jazz band, which played in clubs around Lake Michigan. I worked as a waitress in high school and Uncle Wayne often played at the hotel or restaurant where I was

Uncle Wayne hung up our very primitive Puffin drawings all over the house. Eventually the spine broke apart in our Puffin book and pages fell out. We tried to tape it as best we could, but after reading it so many hundreds of times it just fell apart. It didn’t really matter because we had it memorized and we told each other the story of Paul Puffin over and over.

Of course we embellished on the story and Paul Puffin became our super hero He could come from far, far away and save us.

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Boulder County looking at Lyons for shooting range BOULDER COUNTY – Boulder County will be presenting an Informational Briefing to the next Lyons Board of Trustees meeting on September 28, at the workshop at 5:30 p.m., to discuss the possibility of locating a shooting range in the old quartz quarry behind Loukonen Stone. There will be no opportunity for public comment at this meeting. Since 2013 the County has been looking at creating official shooting ranges

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of what to expect during construction, the timeline for implementation and any additional questions you have about the project.

For more information contact: Chad Julian at coordinator@ltwatershed.org or Teagen Blakey at assistcoordinator. ltwatershed @ gmail. com, or at 303-823-2370.

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When we grew up we never lost touch. Warren went to Michigan State University, I went to the University of Denver and Paul went to University of California, Berkeley. He became a mechanical engineer and became an expert at mechanical drawing. He had finally learned to color his drawing and stay inside the lines.

Sometime in the late 1980s I read a magazine article about how Puffins had been reintroduced to some islands around Northern Maine. This was their original southernmost habitat many years ago but they were driven out of that area by other birds moving in, namely sea gulls, which ate their eggs. An ornithologist procured some Puffin eggs from Nova Scotia and managed to hatch a few Puffins. But Puffins won’t return to their breeding ground unless they see other Puffins in the area. So the ornithologist created wooden life sized Puffins and planted then in the breeding grounds.

It worked and now Maine has a whole tourist industry around the Puffins.

This was exciting. I told Warren and Paul and we planned to go and see the Puffins sometime. But time went by and then we learned that Warren had cancer. He died before we could make our plans.

Paul and I decided we had to go and see the Puffins, Warren would like that. Then On Sept.

1 this month my Cousin Paul died of cancer. Now Paul and Warren are out on the North Sea flying around with the Puffins without me.

I can’t remember the words to the Puffin book any more, I can only remember the Puffin on the cover. I still keep photos of Puffins on my desk. In one picture two puffins are facing each other. The male has a beak full of herring, which are dripping out of his beak.

He is presenting his gift to his girlfriend and she is deciding whether she will accept the gift. She has seen it all before and remains skeptical.

When Paul died I told my cousin Heather, Paul’s daughter, on her Facebook page the story about our Paul Puffin book and said that I might not ever get to see the Puffins but I know that wherever I go Paul and Warren will be with me.

Then out of the blue Heather sends me a message saying that she would like to go with me to see the Puffins.

Right after that my cousin Almy in Gloucester, MA said she wants to go to see the Puffins with us.

It was like a breeze blowing the dark clouds away. A whole new generation will now learn to love the Puffins the way we did as kids and they will tell their kids about the Puffins, and their grandchildren.

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INSIGHT Doctors, clinics, and corporate health care

By John Gierach Redstone Review LYONS – I changed doctors this summer, but not by choice. I’d gone to the same local clinic for something like 25 years – through two doctors and a couple of physician’s assistants – and was always Gierach happy enough. Of course even at my age there’s nothing much wrong with me, so it was mostly just routine maintenance: spark plugs, oil change, tire rotation, that kind of thing.

The one time my gall bladder plugged up and I had to have an operation, I was sent to a specialist. He was an unlikable cold fish, but my at-the-time doctor said, “I wouldn’t have lunch with the guy, but there’s no one I’d rather have operate on me.” Apparently the procedure went well because here I am nearly two decades later writing about it. I don’t claim any medical knowledge, but I’ve had three organs removed in my life – tonsils, appendix and gall bladder – and I don’t miss any of them.

It makes me wonder why they were issued in the first place.

Like most of us, I have a lifelong history with doctors, starting with the one who delivered me in 1946. In those days, right after the Second World War, general practitioners still did it all, including delivering babies and setting broken bones. (Being sent to a specialist meant you were at death’s door.) He was the family doctor until we moved away when I was seven and I think I remember him. At least I have a vague impression of a large man who was serious with my parents and jovial with me in a way every kid recognizes as phony.

I didn’t like him because his presence usually meant painful poking and prodding, foul-tasting medicine, a shot, or some other humiliating unpleasantness. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a farm dog’s attitude toward being sick or injured: I want to crawl under the back porch where I can lie in the dark and feel sorry for myself in private. That said, the old family doctor managed to see me through all the usual childhood scrapes and illnesses – some of which have since been all but eradicated – whether I liked it or not.

The first doctor I got on my own as an adult was Doctor Wolf. He was old (in his late 70s) white-haired, liver-spotted, scotch-drinking, cigar-smoking, all of which I found comforting. I went to him because I’d injured my back working on a garbage truck. I expected

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Paws in the Park LONGMONT – Paws in the Park will be held on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at the Boulder County Fairgrounds Picnic Shelter from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Bring your friends,

heavy duty pain pills, but what I got instead was a lecture on how to properly lift heavy, unwieldy objects like garbage cans. I found that comforting, too. Better to fix it at the source than to just treat the symptoms.

The same thing happened when I took up running and went back to him for sore knees. He said, “Save your running for when something’s after you.”

When he retired at the age of 80, he gave me some advice on finding a new doctor: “A young doctor will be up on all the latest medications, research and procedures,” he said, “and an old doctor will have seen it all and will be a better diagnostician. The choice is yours.”

That should be the motto of every patient, to be chanted like a mantra when entering a doctor’s office: “The choice is mine.”

In my mid 30s I had a brief fling with an HMO. At least on paper, it looked like a good way to get affordable medical insurance, but I soon learned that when you’re locked into a network, everyone you deal with is a direct employee of the insurance company and is in no position to go to bat for you. In most independent doctor’s offices there’s at least one employee whose job it is to deal with the interminable delays, evasions and outright refusals that are dished out by insurance companies. For some reason it’s usually a woman and you can always spot her.

She’s the one who looks perpetually shell-shocked.

The last straw at the HMO was a case of tendonitis in my right elbow – the one I use for fly casting – that left my HMO doc flummoxed. So I went to an acupuncturist in Boulder named Ting Liang Zhang who cured it in fairly short order

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using methods I’m not culturally equipped to understand.

When I told my doctor, he threw a fit, saying it was only a psychosomatic cure, not a real medical one, and yelling at me for going outside the network. I fired him on the spot.

That’s how I ended up at the local clinic, where I stayed more or less happily – not counting the usual administrative pratfalls – until last summer when it was bought by a big corporate player in the medical / industrial complex – one of those outfits whose TV ads claim that they’re in the health care business because they care so much about patients. They immediately closed the clinic because it wasn’t turning enough of a profit, abruptly leaving all the patients and staff out in the cold.

It was nothing personal, which is the same thing I’ve heard virtually every time I’ve been screwed: “Look, it’s nothing personal; it’s just business.”

So I ended up with a woman in Longmont who has a reputation for returning phone calls, treating actual patients instead of just test results and for going to pharmaceuticals as a last, instead of a first resort.

During our “get acquainted” appointment, she scored points by not saying I was in good shape for a man my age, but just that I was in pretty good shape.

I think we’ll get along fine as long as I remember that the relationship we’ll eventually develop with be intimate in one way and professional in another. Doctors have to care about their patients while keeping a safe distance. They have their victories, but they also see awful things on a regular basis and if they took them all personally they’d be emotional train wrecks.

A veterinarian I know once told me she was re-thinking her career choice. “I got into this because I love animals,” she said, “and now all I see are sick, injured and dying animals. It’s depressing.”

The main difference between doctors and patients is that doctors know from experience that in the fullness of time, the other shoe always drops, while we patients innocently assume that we can just go on and on. The great old comedian, George Burns, is my role model in these matters. He published his autobiography in 1996 when he turned 100 years old and dedicated it “To the widows of my last five doctors.”

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts and Entertainment in Lyons and the surrounding area

By MinTze Wu Redstone Review LYONS The Stone Cup Café presents an art show called Skin and Bones, co-hosted by Kahlie Wu Sue Pinello and Savannah Watson, for September and October. The show features a vibrant combination of media including painted and embellished skulls by Savannah Watson, as well as costumes and tattoo paintings by Kahlie Sue Pinello. Artists’ reception and costume catwalk will take place on Saturday, September 30, at 6:30 p.m.

Costumes will be for sale that evening.

The morning music series continues with David Coile’s rock / folk on September 10; KC Groves’ bluegrass on September 16; Thomas Gronberg’s folk / rock on September 17; Maya Bennett’s blues on September 23; Harmony and Brad’s acoustic pop / rock on September 24 and October 14; John Cumming’s Americana on September 30; Antonio Lopez’ acoustic soul on October 7; eclectic singer-songwriter Evan Bartels on October 8; Emily Barnes’ folk on

October 15; Michelle Allen’s folk on October 21; and Ryne Doughty’s roots / Americana on October 22. The café is at Fifth Avenue at High Street. For more information please call 303-823-2345 or visit www.thestonecup.com.

Experience Lyons’ unique art atmosphere with an array of eclectic offerings from the galleries and studios around town. Lyons Quilting, 42 East Main St., is a Mecca for devotees of the fabric art, and proud presenter of the annual Lyons Great Outdoor Quilt Show in the summer.

Western Stars Gallery and Studio, 160 East Main St., offers a carefully curated blend of offerings for all ages, wages and stages of gift givers, art collectors, jewelry seekers, and fans of Colorado-made creations and Lyons local souvenirs. Sip n’ Paint custom parties and fundraisers are available at this fabulous space. Thanks to former Branch Manager Heather Loeb’s vision, the Bank of the West, 303 East Main St., has a rotating display of local art for sale on its walls all year ‘round. The Corner Studio, 318 East Main St., houses a cross-cultural and creative group of likeminded artisans, offering unique pop-up boutiques and shows such as the recent Naked in Lyons show. Metamorphosis Tattoo and Piercing Studio, 339 Main St., features creativity and expertise by

A tattoo paintings by Kahlie Sue Pinello is part of the current show Skin and Bones at the Stone Cup Café. award-winning body art artists and occasional pop-up art shows and displays.

Mayama Movement Studio is constantly abuzz with dance, yoga, Nia, for all age groups and more at 625 Fourth Ave. and at Rogers Hall. The long standing Red Canyon Art Gallery, 400 Main St., features a rich variety of beautifully displayed work by mainly Colorado artists. Gallery Now recently presented the Nightmakers Show as its unofficial opening, featuring paintings by four Boulder women. Ralston Brothers Antiques, 426 High St., and Gatherings of a Lifetime, 447 Main St., both offer an array of creative vintage and well aged art options. The Lyons Fork Restaurant regularly presents stunning visuals on its expansive interior walls as well as exquisite music and cuisine. The ARTBOX, 523 Fifth Ave., is a showcase of sustainable creativity orchestrated by Coco Gordon, offering an array of opportunities for creative community gatherings, such as a Stylista Salon and LIPS (Lyons Itinerant Poetry Salon). Continue to support this artistically vibrant community of Lyons!

The last LAHC Town Hall Art Show of 2017 is approaching. A reminder to

all Lyons area photographers: The Commercial Photography – Area Photographers’ Showcase will hang at the Town Hall from October 6 through January 5, 2018. Photographers: Consider including things that might sell for holiday gift giving; promote your business and / or creative services to the Lyons area. Ready to wall-hang submissions from Lyons area photographers should be delivered on Friday, Oct. 6 from 4 to 7 p.m. to Lyons Town Hall, 432 Fifth Ave., Lyons.

This is the same date and time that graphic design pieces currently on display at Town Hall must be picked up.

Each submitted piece must be accompanied by the artist’s wall placard (business card sized) detailing: title of work, name of artist, medium, size and price of piece (if for sale), artist phone, email, and website The Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission (LAHC) will hang submissions in time for the show’s opening reception and community tapas potluck to be held Saturday, Oct. 10 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Everyone is welcome. Bring friends, family and finger foods to share. Wine sales benefit LAHC. Local musician /songstress Amy Francis will be performing at the opening reception. All photography must be picked up at Lyons Town Hall on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 from 4 to 7 p.m.

BOULDER Ars Nova Singers opens its 32nd season with Maurice Duruflé: The Complete Choral Works on October 6 and 7. Maurice Duruflé’s music has been described as “an eclectic mixture of plainsong, Renaissance polyphony, the organ textures of fellow composers Tournemire and Vierne, and the impressionistic harmonies of Debussy and Ravel.” It is music of supreme craftsmanship and timeless beauty, and Ars Nova will present his complete catalogue of choral works: the beloved Requiem, the exquisite Four Motets, the rarely performed Messe Cum jubilo for men’s voices, and the beautiful motet Notre Père. Concerts will take place on October 6 at St. Paul Community Continue A&E on Page 13

Join the Mabon Celebration at Planet Bluegrass on September 23 at 8 p.m. with the Take Down the Door (pictured) and the Séamus Egan Project. Gates open at 2 p.m. for on-site camping set up. Food and hearty beverages will be available all day. For ticket and information, please visit www.bluegrass.com or call 1-800-624-2422.

Irish roots return to Mabon Festival at Planet Bluegrass

By Katherine Weadley Redstone Review LYONS – Celebrating the harvest during the Fall equinox was important to the ancient Irish. It’s a festival known in Gaelic as Mea’n Fo’mhair or more commonly known these days in English as Mabon. So it only makes sense that Planet Bluegrass returns to its original celebration of Mabon with Irish music as the Séamus Egan Project takes stage along with the Colorado-based band Take Down the Door on Saturday, Sept. 23. The last year Planet Bluegrass celebrated Mabon with Irish music was 2006.

This day of Mabon revelry includes camping, an evening bonfire, food and drink, pickin’ (and Irish sessions) by the river. Bring your instruments. The gates at Planet Bluegrass open at 2 p.m. for a relaxed day on Planet Bluegrass grounds. Tickets are necessary to enter at any time. The Wildflower Pavilion doors open at 7 p.m., and Take Down the Door starts at 8 p.m.

The name Take Down the Door reflects that the Irish were once known to take the doors off the hinges when it was time for a party. The band, self-described as “PremiumGrade Irish Music,” offers everything from heartbreakingly beautiful ballads to foot-stomping and floor-shaking tunes.

Two members of this band, fiddler Jesse Burns and singer Beth Leachman Gadbaw, are Lyons residents. Burns toured for six years and recorded three number one world albums with Celtic supergroup Gaelic Storm. Gadbaw’s voice, which is uniquely suited to traditional Irish music, can be heard at https: / / www. bethgadbaw. com / music.

This is the first year that Séamus Egan, known for starting the popular Irish band Solas, will tour as the Séamus Egan Project. Solas, which is Gaelic for the word “light,” began as a band in 1996 and after 20 years is taking a break from touring. Egan was one of the founding members of Solas and plays flute, tenor banjo, mandolin, whistles, guitars and the bodhran (traditional frame drum). As a teen prodigy, Egan won four All-Ireland Championships on four different instruments by the age of 14. For this special Mabon Concert, he will be joined by all-star friends: Moira Smiley (vocals, accordion, banjo), Kyle Sanna (guitar), and Tristan Clarridge (pioneering cellist for Crooked Still, and five-time U.S. Grand National Fiddle Champion).

The 2017 autumn Wildflower Concert Series continues with three more shows. On Friday, Oct. 13, Austin, Texas bluegrass quartet Wood and Wire returns after a nearly sold out 2016 Wildflower show. On Friday, Oct. 20, Boulder’s Monocle Band (led by former Lyons resident and Water Girls member Monica Whittington) celebrates its CD release with special guests the Jon Stickley Trio from Asheville, N.C. Finally, the fall series concludes with Boston singer-songwriter Vance Gilbert and special guests.

Tickets for Mabon are $25 each and camping for the night of Saturday, Sept. 23 is $10. Details about all Wildflower Shows at www.bluegrass.com.

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CONTEXT An evening of birds with local expert Joel Such LYONS – On Friday, September 22, the Lyons Ecology Advisory Board and Stonebridge Farm will host a bird walk and slide presentation with 19-year-old birder and field researcher, Joel Such. Beginning at 6 p.m. we will tour the farm’s property in search of birds. With a species list reaching well over a hundred birds, Stonebridge Farm, Boulder County’s first Community Supported Agriculture farm, is home to a variety of native species including riparian songbirds, woodpeckers, and raptors. As the month of September lies in the midst of fall migration, birds will be migrating through from as far north as Canada, offering the possibility of some feathered surprises.

Once the sun dips below the horizon, we will retreat to the Sunflower Room for a presentation by Such featuring stunning photos and a narrative on the birds that call

Lyons home. Growing up in the foothills northwest of Lyons, Such has pursued birds with unwavering devotion and has contributed to a wide range of biological field projects and avian education. These experiences include being a field technician for the Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas, a co-founder and leader for Boulder County Audubon Teen Naturalists, and a bird bander for projects in Colorado, Ohio, and Guatemala.

Please dress for an evening outdoors and bring a flashlight and binoculars, if you have a pair. There will be a few loaner binoculars courtesy of the Boulder County Audubon Society. Light refreshments will be served.

Stonebridge Farm is located at 5169 Ute Highway, east of the US-66 / US-36 intersection. This event is free and open to the public.

Avid birder and field researcher, Joel Such, will lead a bird walk and slide presentation at Stonebridge Farm. Joel is shown here banding a Downy Woodpecker.PHOTO BY RENEÉ HAIP

Interactive map online of town’s flood recovery projects; risks of disasters

By Janaki Jane Redstone Review LYONS – A new interactive online map of the many flood recovery projects in Lyons was introduced at the September 5 Jane Board of Trustees meeting. Arielle Hodgson, Communications Specialist, presented the map as David Hook, Flood Recovery Project Manager, gave the Board an update on a profusion of post-flood projects. Residents can find the page by going to the Town of Lyons website and entering “post flood projects.” There you will find an intuitive, interactive map of 13 projects, with click-

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Mayor Sullivan said that she had not realized that the wildfire risk was so severe; it is listed as “highly likely – near 100 percent chance of occurrence in the next year, or happens every year,” and the severity as “critical – 25 to 50 percent of property severely damaged; shutdown of facilities for at least two weeks; and / or injuries and / or illnesses resulting in permanent disability.” The report also includes recommendations for mitigation and evaluations of mitigation actions currently in process. The town has the capability to implement almost all of them, and has made significant strides already Continue Map on Page 13

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box to find the reports. There have been 20 disaster declarations in Boulder County since 1969, including snow, fire, drought, and flooding. The consultant said that the report was not comprehensive, however it considers 13 possible disasters, ranking them for geographic extent, probability, severity, and significance. The possibility of Button Rock Dam breaking, while “unlikely,” was given the highest severity, “catastrophic – more than 50 percent of property severely damaged and services shut down for more than 30 days, and / or multiple deaths” and prompted a discussion among the board and consultant about how high residents would have to go to be safe from the deluge. Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen said she

seats need to be moved to another vehicle.

Caregivers can’t always take the seat to be checked when they have to remove the seat. The focus of LYONS – Mark your calendars Lyons! The Lyons CPST is to make sure that the caregiver has the 9Health Fair returns this fall for the 10th year, on proper knowledge on the best practices for October 7, from 8 a.m. to noon at the Latter Day installing a car seat.

Saints (LDS) Church, 200 Second Ave. in Lyons.

A hallmark of the 9Health Fair program is The health fair offers health screenings and impor- the low-cost blood screening options. tant health-related information and local advoca- Remember to drink plenty of water and contincy, at no cost, from local healthcare providers who ue to take prescription medications. There is volunteer their time and knowledge. no need to fast. New, and free this year, is a B12 One example of a program featured this year is blood draw for all folks who purchase any blood the Child Passenger Safety Seat Check, which is test of any kind. We will also have representaoffered for free. This is a great safety check for tives available to discuss your involvement in a parents and grandparfree assessment for ents alike. rheumatoid arthritis, The Lyons 9Health which also includes a Fair will have technifree blood test. To cians from the CPST register in advance, (Child Passenger go to http: / / www.

Safety Technician) 9HealthFair. org. program out front at As always, the Lyons the church during the 9Health Fair also offers Lyons 9Health Fair. both low-cost blood These techs are draws and free health trained and equipped screenings. This year, with the knowledge to the free health screeneducate caregivers on ings include the followproper selection, ing: body in balance, installation and use of breast and PAP exams a car seat or booster Jackie Brennan(left) speaks with 9Health volunteer (women), flu shots seat and when it is Dawn Weller at a previous event. (some are free if you time to move a child to qualify, others will be a seat belt alone. billed to your insurCPST also have access to resources in order to ance), blood pressure, mental health, vision, dengive current information on recalls and other tal, hearing, skin, foot and hand screenings, stress information to keep children safe during travel. management and more.

This is a great time for parents and grandparents Non-medical volunteers and a few medical volto stop by and have their car seats checked for unteers are still needed for the Lyons 9Health Fair proper safety. Leewitt Akia who is a certified to operate successfully. Consider donating your CPST and will be volunteering in Lyons says, “I time, knowledge or expertise at the health fair. To have made an adjustment every single time I volunteer or to learn more visit https: / / www. have gotten into a vehicle at a safety check.”

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FOUNDATION Monarch butterflies are disappearing in alarming numbers

By Richard A. Joyce Redstone Review PUEBLO – I had long suspected the truth of what scientists, in yet another study confirmed recently: Something very Joyce beautiful is dying.

A few columns back, I noted a study that showed rapid declines in the populations of thousands of vertebrates on this planet, and last week scientists added another to the growing pile research painting a dismal future for all living species, including ourselves.

I already knew the eastern variety of the monarch butterfly was declining in alarming numbers along its migration route to Mexico and Southern California.

I knew it from studies, but I also experienced it as an avid amateur nature photographer who has observed the decline in the numbers of monarchs flitting past my lens over the last 20 plus years. Now, a new study shows it’s also happening to the Western monarchs, i.e., those that live west of the Rocky Mountains, as well.

Lead author on the study, Associate Professor Cheryl Schultz at Washington State University Vancouver, has said that if things don’t change, the Western monarch butterfly has an 86 percent chance of vanishing in the next 50 years. In fact, within 20 years, the study predicts, there’s a 72 percent chance that not enough Western monarchs will be migrating in the west to sustain the population. The situation is worse for the Western monarchs than for those east of the Rockies.

Data for the study spans two decades, some of it going back into the 1990s, when residents along the California coast began noticing fewer monarchs migrating in from

their breeding grounds in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and Northern California. They and volunteers in the hundreds began counting the monarchs at roosting sites in 1997 around Thanksgiving.

Schultz used that data and other amateur and professional data going back into the 1980s, applying newer statistical methods to combine it all. Her research

tor. Monarchs lay their eggs on the plants, and the developing caterpillars eat milkweed leaves. Milkweed is being eliminated from yards, from farm fields and from orchards, primarily via the use of herbicides and pesticides.

All of those factors have played a role in the eastern monarch’s decline, so it’s likely they have at least some effect on western

team expected to find declines, but the rate of decline surprised them. From the 1980s until now the number of western monarchs wintering on the California coast dropped from 10 million to 300,000.

The only chance they have is if scientists can determine why they are declining so rapidly and find a way to stop it. Schultz pointed to three possibilities as to why: loss of habitat, both for breeding and wintering; pesticide use; and maybe climate change.

The first two are directly affected negatively by humans. In wintering areas, she said, human development and the aging of trees without replacements growing where they roost are factors. In breeding areas, declining milkweed is the main fac-

monarch populations. Climate change, of course, may also be in play here, and it would be surprising if it was not a factor.

When all these dots are connected, they sketch the same picture we’ve seen before in many studies of climate and of species’ decline and extinction. It’s a picture depicting one primary underlying cause: human activity of one sort or another.

In the case of one species, the bald eagle, human creation of and use of DDT was identified as the primary cause of decline, and we took action. We stopped using it, and the eagles have come back from the brink of extinction. That may be why the Department of Defense is paying for a study by Schultz to understand

Top three things you can do to support affordable housing

By Amy Reinholds Redstone Review

ask about the status of past affordable housing efforts that Lyons volunteer commissions, employees, and elected officials were COMMENTARY: pursuing. Here are three ways you can be part of the solution: AFFORDABLE HOUSING LYONS – Like many of us who lived in Lyons 1. Welcome affordable rentals in your neighborhood. The IN LYONS during September 2013, I was encouraged by Town of Lyons purchased land at 4651 and 4652 Ute Hwy. to use neighbors helping neighbors in the immediate a piece of it as a permanent home for the town’s flood-destroyed days and weeks of the flood disaster. Then I was public works building and to sell remaining the remaining 7.5 discouraged in March 2015, when a proposal to available acres to buyers who want to pursue uses described in the set aside five to seven acres of Bohn Park for recent Lyons Primary Planning Area Master Plan. subsidized, affordable Boulder County Housing The Lyons Mayor and Board of Trustees support “land swaps” Authority rentals and some Habitat for of light-industrial businesses moving to the Ute Hwy. land, openHumanity for-sale affordable homes (a total of ing up central land for affordable housing. Town staff have been 50 to 70 units) was voted down 614 to 498 by talking with interested landowners. The mayor and trustees have Reinholds Town of Lyons voters in a special election. said at multiple meetings that they do not want to lose $4 million The Town of Lyons lost a total of about 70 flood-destroyed in federal flood recovery funds that is earmarked for housing in homes to both the federal buyout Lyons. But a plan must be in place programs (including one buyout of by end of September of this year. a mobile home park) and to the If a light-industrial business in changed use of a second mobile your neighborhood is interested in home park property to an event moving out east, and affordable venue (rezoned for commercial housing is proposed in its place, be use). I was a member of the supportive. Welcome a new small Housing Recovery Task Force, a apartment building that provides a group of Lyons community memrental option for neighbors on bers who volunteered their time fixed incomes or working families from December 2013 to February who are part of the fabric of Lyons 2015 to look for affordable housing but can’t keep up with skyrocketoptions. After the vote failed that Habitat For Humanity will soon begin construction on a ing rents.

March, I encouraged some oppo- block of homes at Second Ave. and Park St. in Lyons.

2. Support Habitat for nents of the first proposal and othHumanity of the St. Vrain ers interested in other options to volunteer their time on another Valley and attend the ground blessing September 13. Habitat group, and the Board of Trustees appointed the Lyons Special for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley never gave up on the Town Housing Committee for April 2015 to April 2016. I was appoint- of Lyons, even after the proposal for affordable housing in Bohn ed to the Lyons Human Services and Aging Commission, anoth- Park was rejected by a majority of voters, and after a long journey er volunteer board, which continues to identify overall gaps in to purchase even a small parcel in Lyons. You can support a perservices for all segments of our population in the 80540 area. manently affordable home-ownership model for six households in Now, four years after the flood, newcomers to town sometimes Lyons by giving your time and money to Habitat for Humanity. ask how to help with affordable housing. Community members Continue Housing on Page 14

where and when monarchs are breeding in the West so the department can manage its land to make sure military training is fully harmonized with the need to protect such natural resources.

It may also be why the recently published study by Schultz was paid for by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and why that agency is gathering data to determine whether to list monarchs as a threatened species.

Perhaps we can save the monarchs. It’s certainly worth the effort to bring back to its full potential such a magnificent species, one we surely would miss as much as if we had killed off the bald eagle.

One thing is certain. If we continue in our drive to populate, our activities will undermine the existence of every other living thing on the planet, and even of our water and atmosphere.

We cannot escape to Mars or anywhere else in time or in sufficient numbers to ensure the survival of our species, either.

And besides, what we do here, we will do everywhere and anywhere in the universe we may go: Kill the beauty we ought to protect – all for nothing.

Richard A. Joyce is a retired professor in the mass communications department at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is an award-winning journalist who served as managing editor, and subsequently editor and general manager of the Cañon City Daily Record from 1988 to 1994. The opinions he expresses in this column are strictly his own, and do not represent in any way the views of anyone else at the Redstone Review or at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He can be reached at phase15@mac.com.

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CREATE The heART of Lyons – community inspired art

lations for which artists are paid a stipend to loan the work to the Town of Lyons for a period of generally two years. This makes the art affordable for the Town to borBy Kristen Bruckner to a variety of groups in town that support and promote row. local artists of many genres.

LAHC is currently working to bring at least 10 new Redstone Review The Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission plays a pieces in the coming year, complete with identification LYONS – The Lyons Clarifier Art proj- key role in representing and nurturing these efforts. More placards and ample mounting blocks or pedestals. Under ect is perhaps one of the best and most than $22,250 in grants during the decade-long relation- consideration is the development of a contribution procompelling symbols of the spirit of the ship with LCF has allowed for such popular events as the gram where pieces determined to be beloved by the peoartistic community in Lyons. The proj- Lyons Art Walk and its various iterations. The commis- ple of Lyons could perhaps be ultimately purchased by ect, which took more than 11 years to sioned sculptures installed throughout downtown are the community for permanent display in town.

Bruckner complete, tells a great story of creativity, also a very tangible and iconic example of our love for In addition to the heARTS of Lyons collection of outcommunity collaboration and perseverance. public art expression. These pieces are temporary instal- door art, LAHC also co-hosts Arts on the River / Sounds If you’ve never visited the clarifier and taken of Lyons with the Boulder County Arts in mosaic brilliance and captivating visual storyAlliance, coordinates quarterly Town Hall Art telling, it’s worth a trip. The landscaping and Shows with community tapas potlucks and local access to the clarifier are awaiting completion musicians at their openings, has been instrudue to flood / river restoration work in this area mental in the still-evolving Lyons Last Thursday just past the water treatment plant by the Black Arts Strolls / Lyons Arts Walk Weekends, and is Bear Hole. The fact that the clarifier exists at all always eager to both physically and financially and survived the flood is miraculous. Flood assist (when possible) artists and arts endeavors waters surrounded the old concrete treatment such as the Lyons Film Festival, Lyons Old-Time tank but incredibly did not destroy it.

Square Dances and sponsoring LAHC represenThe mosaic itself was actually completed in tation at events such as the annual Colorado 2015, incorporating the high water marks left in Creative Industries Summit. the flood path. Local artists, school children, The Sounds of Lyons (SOL), an organization seniors, church goers, stone and landscaping that presents world class musical experiences to companies and many more artists and citizens the people of Lyons was also helped to thrive collaborated with the projects leaders Cathy with Lyons Community Foundation’s financial Rivers, Priscilla Cohan, Kristine Smock, assistance. Since its inception in 2009, SOL has Candace Shepard, and Shelly Gottshamer, who partnered with LCF along with other groups initiated the project and helped see it through. such as the LAHC, Mayama Dance Studio and The Lyons Community Foundation funded the High Street Concerts to bring a music festival to project over this period in annual grants to the town that is rich in creativity and expression. tune of more than $16,000.

With director, founder and accomplished classiIn fact, the art community has been a major The Lyons Clarifier project was made possible in part by continuing annual cal violinist MinTze Wu recently moving back focus of LCF Community Support Grants in the LCF grants totalling more than $16,000 over the 11 years it took to comto the area, we look forward to the continuation decade of the foundation’s existence. Its annual plete. Mystie Bracket, pictured, was one of the countless contributors to the Continue Grants on Page 15 granting cycle has awarded more than $50,000 Clarifier’s story

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The Old South St. Vrain River and bridge project

By Susan de Castro McCann Redstone Review Editor LYONS – If you haven’t been down the Old South St. Vrain Road lately you are in for a shock. Boulder County is working on a St. Vrain River flood restoration project and reconstructing the bridge, across from Hall Ranch and near the Andesite Mine, which was destroyed in the flood of 2013. The river is being moved in various directions to withstand a flood greater than the 2013 flood.

Giant trucks are hauling gravel and rocks while huge diggers are pulling up sand and rock from the river. Trees are being hauled up by the root ball and a virtual city of trucks and trailers are stacked up and down the river. Giant trees are being dumped in the Andesite Mine location.

It is horrifying. All the trees along the

fence on the Dean Redman property have been cut down and their fence is virtually destroyed along with the trees. Most of the shade that shelters those of us who frequently walk the road is gone. The river is being moved around for some inexplicable reason and the birds that people came from miles around to see and hear are now silent. The trucks are so loud that you couldn’t hear the Canyon Wren if your life depended on it. These areas are environmentally sensitive. Those species of birds are not going to just magically come back after the work is done. They may never return to that area.

On the Boulder County website it states: “The goal of the project is to restore and improve the channel and surrounding floodplain to protect life and property and provide a safe, natural, resilient, functioning, and ecologi-

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cally rich habitat utilizing natural system principles. The project will expedite recovery from the 2013 floods and make the area more resilient in future flood events.”

in place before and after the flood because that is what nature does. Now the ecologically rich habitat is being ripped to the bone and will need to be replaced. This is not how nature works. How do you replace all the incredible birds and animals which are now gone due to this massive reconstruction? This has all the makings of a theme park with water features.

Artist’s rendering of the proposed replacement bridge over the St. Vrain River on Old South St. Vrain Road near the entrance to the Andesite mine.

Specific components of the project include: “Incorporating natural channel diversity and character; Re-establishing floodplain benches for lateral connectivity; Reducing longitudinal connectivity constraints; Improving flow conveyance and sediment transport; Promoting naturally functioning stream processes; Protecting public and private infrastructure; Repairing unstable erosion scars in high-risk areas and Revegetating denuded areas with native species,” according to the website.

The part about “providing an ecologically rich habitat utilizing natural system principles” calls into question the vast amount of huge cottonwood trees being uprooted and destroyed, the land that is being ripped and stripped bare, the river that is being moved all over the place.

The ecologically rich habitat was already

The huge machinery is digging some pools, perhaps for fish habitat, in the river.

On a recent walk along the river, John Gierach, fly-fisherman, author and environmentalist said, “I knew this was not going to work, as soon as they dig these pools, they just fill right back in again.”

In a letter to the editor in the Boulder Daily Camera on September 10 on the reconstruction of the St. Vrain River along the Old South St. Vrain Road, C.U. professor Robert Brackenridge wrote, “Some of the land that has not been stripped has been dewatered and compacted: for staging areas for the enormous machines being used to reconstruct this river. The reach is now a source for siltation downstream in Lyons’ riverine fisheries. And if a flood occurs now or in the near future, it will cause much damage, Continue St. Vrain on Page 14

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CONCEPTS Canine hip dysplasia LONGMONT – Does your young dog become lame on the hind legs or tire easily after playing? Does your older dog have a hard time getting up from lying down, have stiff hind legs, or reluctant to walk or jump? It’s possible that these dogs could be suffering from one of the most common orthopedic diseases in dogs today: canine hip dysplasia.

Retrievers, Rottweilers, and Great Danes just to name a few. Dysplasia is divided into two forms and clinical signs can vary greatly. The juvenile form is usually first noticed within the first year of life, and tends to be the more severe form of the two. The chronic form is more common and is usually seen in adult dogs, and clinical signs may not be fully appreciated until they become severe.

Owners may notice sudden lameness and / or soreness of one or both hind legs; difficulty rising after rest; reluctance to walk, run, jump, or play. Young puppies may be seen “bunny hopping” while running or reluctant to climb stairs. Adult dogs may prefer to sit, or have stiff

The hip in dogs, as in humans, is a “ball-in-socket” joint. In a very general description, hip dysplasia is an inherited condition where the hip joints don’t articulate properly, most commonly due to a shallow acetabulum (socket of the joint) and / or flattening of the femoral head (ball of the joint). This inappropriate articulation causes joint laxity, or excessive movement within the joint. Joint laxity then causes excessive joint inflammation, which eventually leads to development of osteoarthritis. Though we as veterinarians are still unclear as to a true cause of hip dysplasia in dogs, multiple indepth studies have proven that it is a result of complex inheritance. Genetic predisposition and environmental influences enhance expression of clinical signs.

Hip dysplasia can be seen in any breed dog, but is most commonly diagnosed in large and giant breed dogs such as German Shepherd Dogs, Labrador Retrievers, Golden

back legs after excessive activity.

Hip dysplasia is diagnosed by a combination of physical exam findings and diagnostic imaging. Your vet will perform a full orthopedic exam to distinguish from other common orthopedic diseases. Common findings on a veterinarian’s physical exam may be hind leg lameness, mild to extreme muscle atrophy of one or both hind legs, shifting weight to the front legs, a wide- or narrow-based stance, decreased range of motion of the hips, and mild to severe hip joint laxity. In severe cases, obvious pain can be elicited when the hips are directly palpated. This can especially be seen when the hips are fully extended. If osteoarthritis has already developed, crepitus (crackling sensation within the joint) can be felt within the hip.

Radiographs (x-rays) are the most common imaging used to diagnose hip dysplasia. On the x-ray, your veterinarian will be able to determinate how well the hip joints

By Tyler Dugard Scott, DVM Redstone Review

Recapping Greenwood’s busy baby season

By Alie Moreno Redstone Review LONGMONT – Fall is coming. It’s there lingering in the morning chill, making me wonder if I should turn on the Moreno heater for my morning drive into Greenwood Wildlife or if I should grab a jacket and roll with the windows down for as long as I can.

Everyone’s getting excited for pumpkin spice lattes and boot season, for Halloween and scenic drives in the high country to marvel at the brush strokes of autumn, and I’m desperately trying to make summer stay with me, even if just for a few more minutes. I find myself reflecting on another busy season even as the second batch of baby fox squirrels come through Greenwood’s door.

The summer was full of interesting happenings. Greenwood worked through 364 mallard ducklings, 41 wood ducks, and 32 merganser ducklings. At one point, we had so many ducklings we had to transfer some of them to another facility on the Western slope which graciously agreed to help us raise all the babies. A pigeon saw both the worst and the best of humanity as he came to Greenwood with a blow-dart penetrating straight through his chest and out the other side. With care, he healed

fit together. It is on x-rays where we see if, and how shallow the acetabulum is, along with if, and to what degree flattened the femoral head is. X-rays will also be evaluated to see if osteoarthritis is present and how severe it may be. Presence or absence of arthritis can be a major determining factor when deciding mode of treatment.

Depending on severity, recommended treatment of hip dysplasia may be conservative with medical management or surgery. Medical management is largely used to treat symptoms of osteoarthritis and involves reducing pain and improving function of hind legs. It is important, when treating your pets for osteoarthritis, to keep them at a lean body weight appropriate for their body size, modify activity by implementing physical therapy to reduce aggravation of the diseased joint, and use anti-inflammatory medications in a careful way. Stem cell therapy has also shown promise in the treatment of osteoarthritis.

Surgical options for treatment of hip dysplasia mainly focus on one of three goals: prophylactic, salvage, and palliative. Prophylactic procedures are more often performed in young dogs and geared towards prevention of osteoarthritis by reorienting the coverage of the acetabulum over the femoral head. Salvage procedures are focused on removing the source of pain and restoring function to the joint. Most common salvage procedures are total hip replacement, where the entire hip joint is replaced with synthetic implants, and femoral head and neck excision, where the femoral head and neck are removed eliminating the hip joint altogether.

Any time lameness is noted in your pets, they should be evaluated by a veterinarian for diagnosis and discussion of proper treatment options. As there can be many causes for lameness and it is important to get an accurate diagnosis from your veterinarian before commencing treatment. If surgery is being considered, your veterinarian may refer you and your pet to a board certified veterinary surgeon. A surgeon may be able to better explain surgical options and pros and cons of each procedure to better formulate a treatment plan specifically for your furry loved ones.

Dr. Tyler Scott is an Associate Veterinarian at Aspen Meadow Veterinary Specialists. AMVS is a 24-hour veterinary facility providing specialty internal medicine, orthopedic surgery, oncology, emergency, critical care, and pain management. They are located in Longmont at 104 S. Main St. For more information, go to www.AspenMeadowVet.com.

sad or frustrating, working toward the goal of release is noble. Their daily adventures and their comedic antics kept us all in stitches. The raccoons became a reason to show up for work everyday because you could only guess what they might do next.

and was released back into his neighborhood. Animals came wrapped in fishing line with hooks tearing into their flesh, but they left us whole, strong, and capable of returning to the wild world.

Rescued from a camper, a family of minks was a joy to watch grow from tiny, furry infants to sleek water animals.

Watching them explore their world, moving to larger enclosures along the way brought a sense of wonder and the realization that learning is fun and there is always something new to One of the minks cared for at Greenwood this summer. discover. In little more than 60 days, the minks were old enough to be on Grackles, Blue Jays, sparrows, finches their own and were released into a perfect and more are no longer singing and callhabitat to live out their lives. ing in the bird nursery for their next meal.

The raccoons, who came to The days of feeding mashed hard-boiled Greenwood in singles or pairs, eventual- eggs and squished frozen berries to this ly added up to more than 113 since the bird group or that bird group based on first of the year. Though the situations in their dietary needs are over already. The which they were found were sometimes cages are cleaned and put away for next

year and somehow it seems to have happened too soon.

I’m not ready for the birds to migrate.

I don’t want the crispness invading the morning air or our wild neighbors beginning to make their winter dens. I will miss them. I think the only one that’s happy for the busy season to be over is Greenwood’s dryer. After trying to keep up with hundreds of loads of laundry for the last five months, the dryer has earned the break!

Greenwood Wildlife will be hosting our big event to close out our busy season, and we would love to see everyone there.

Wild Night for Wildlife is Sept. 29, 2017; it’s our biggest fundraiser of the year. An evening of fun with a buffet dinner, open bar with wine and beer, silent and live auctions, there is something here to appeal to everyone. Your support helps Greenwood care for more than 3,400 animals each year. Your support allows us to reach out to the community and reach 4,200 children and adults annually. Why not bid on a luxury apartment in Manhattan and escape for a weekend without the kids? Tickets are available at Greeenwood Wildlife. org.

Alie Moreno is the Lead Animal Care Liaison at Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, which cares for more than 3,400 mammals, songbirds and waterfowl each year. Greenwood also offers education programs for children and adults of all ages. Visit www.greenwoodwildlife.org to learn more.

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A&E Continued from Page 8 of Faith,1600 Grant St. in Denver, and on October 7 at St. John’s Episcopal Church,1419 Pine St. in Boulder.

Both concerts start at 7:30 pm. For tickets and information please visit www.arsnovasingers.com.

CU Presents’ Artist Series brings to stage the legendary Martha Graham Dance Company on October 5 for an energetic, poignant, provocative and boundary-pushing performance of Graham’s greatest works. Program includes Dark Meadow Suite, Ecstasies, Errand into the Maze, and Mozaic, originally choreographed by Martha Graham. Artist Series continues with The Triplets of Belleville on October 15. Described by the New York Times as a “tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief, and unlikely sublimity,” this is an experience of the award-winning animation of a Cannes Film Festival darling on Macky Auditorium’s big screen, complete with a live performance of the film’s jazzy, swinging score by Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville.

This quirky, irresistible French film follows one woman on a citywide search for her missing grandson. The series take place at Macky Auditorium in Boulder. For tickets and information, please go to cupresents.org.

The Grammy Award-winning Takács Quartet has been moving audiences and selling out concerts for three decades at CU Boulder. The quartet’s irresistible blend of virtuosic technique and engaging personality led the Guardian to proclaim, “The Takács Quartet are matchless, their supreme artistry manifest at every level.” The September 24 and 25 concert will include Haydn’s String Quartet op.76 no. 2 “Fifths.”

Mendelssohn’s String Quintet no. 2 in B-flat major, and Brahms’ String Sextet no.2 in G major. This concert

Map Continued from Page 9 in many areas. The report was created in collaboration with townspeople giving their input through surveys and public meetings.

Mayor Sullivan also wants to reassure residents about the town’s Federal Emergency Management Agenda (FEMA) funding. “We understand that there are huge

REDSTONE • REVIEW will take place at Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St. on the CU campus in Boulder. For tickets and information, please go to cupresents.org The Pathways to Jazz Tribute Concert will take place on October 6 at the Gordon Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. This evening headlines music from the awardees’ new albums that include Annie Booth, Sma Williams, Anisha Rush and the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra. The Boulder County Arts Alliance is proud to be the fiscal sponsor for Pathways to Jazz supporting costs associated with producing recorded work for Colorado jazz musicians.

Tickets are $10 to $20. For information please go to www.thedairy.org.

The Boulder Philharmonic at 60 presents Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jon Nakamatsu on September 24 in a program featuring Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Christopher Theofanidis’ Dreamtime Ancestors, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7.

The concert will take place at Macky Auditorium. For information please call 303-492-8423.

DENVER The Avenue Theater, 417 East 17th Avenue in Denver, presents the hilarious one-woman comedy, My Brilliant Divorce, now through October 15.

Written by Geraldine Aron, starring Jane Shirley and directed by Richard Pegg, this brilliantly observed onewoman play explores middle-aged Angela as she attempts to find a new life when husband Max leaves for a younger woman. Using a wonderful mixture of comedy and pathos, she recounts her journey back to happiness.

For tickets and information, please go to www.avenuetheater.com.

needs in other areas, but they cannot take funding away from you once it has been awarded. That said, there are timelines that we need to meet,” she said. Administrator Simonsen added that FEMA has now assigned someone to work directly with Lyons on projects, as opposed to having everything go through the county and / or state, and that will significantly speed up current and future recovery projects.

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Colin Waters, Community Relations Specialist, from the Colorado Lottery, LaVern Johnson and Mayor Connie Sullivan receive the Starburst award from Great Outdoors Colorado. The LaVern M. Johnson Park project received $1.1 million from GoCo, funded by the Colorado Lottery. Lyons has received $2.05 million from six Starburst awards since 1996, the most of any municipality in Colorado. Projects have included the Whitewater Park and the Raul Vasquez Stage.

Calendar of events for Lyons Elementary School September 16: LES Eco Club at CU Football Game with Ralphie’s Green Stampede September 19: PTO General Meeting at 2:45 p.m., childcare provided September 19: Green Hawk Assemblies, 10 Green Star Anniversary September 22: JOGATHON! Take a JOG on the wild side September 29: Ameritown Field Trip, Grades 4 and 5 October 3: PTO/Town of Lyons Parent Series at LES, 5:30 p.m.

October 4: Late start and Outdoor Science and Leadership program October 5, 12: Parent / Teacher conferences October 13, 16: No school – Fall break October 17: PTO meeting, 2:45 p.m., childcare provided

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Housing Continued from Page 10 On the four-year anniversary of the flood on Wednesday, September 13, come to the ground blessing ceremony at 2nd Avenue and Park Street at 5 p.m.

You can welcome new homeowners to the neighborhood and volunteer on construction of three duplexes later this year. So far, applicants have been selected for three out of the six homes, and all are in the first preference category of people who lived in the 80540 area during the flood and were displaced.

In November 2016, Habitat for Humanity of the St. Vrain Valley purchased six residential lots from Craig Ferguson of Planet Bluegrass and his LLC. The lots are on Park Street, west of Second Ave., south of the former Valley Bank building (which remains on a separate commercial lot). At the end of July, the construction plan for public improvements that Habitat for Humanity was approved, and then Habitat selected a contractor to do that infrastructure work. Find out more about donating and volunteering at www.stvrainhabitat.org.

3. Rent to local employees and people who lost their homes in the flood instead of to short-term tourists. Does gentrification make you uneasy or irritat-

St. Vrain Continued from Page 11 both locally and downstream in Lyons.”

He added, “The town of Lyons is concerned about the downstream impacts on flooding and river hydrology, including sediment inputs, of all restoration projects upstream. This issue has not been addressed, despite millions of public dollars spent on the consulting design studies and construction work.”

He went on to say, “Although ‘before’ and ‘after’ modeling scenarios for flooding in these restoration reaches have been accomplished, the flooding effects downstream were not evaluated. This is an inexplicable oversight after such a damaging flood.”

The bridge replacement near the

ed? Want to keep the “funky” artists and musicians in Lyons? If you are a homeowner in Lyons, you have the power to fight gentrification by how you decide to rent your available spaces.

If you own your home in the town limits of Lyons, you can help provide more lower-cost rentals in town by complying with the accessory dwelling unit (ADU) ordinance, which allows small apartments or carriage houses to share utility connection fees with the main house (saving homeowners $20,000 to $40,000 in construction costs). You can read the ADU ordinance at www.townoflyons.com/566/Accessory-Dwelling-Units.

Homeowners of ADU properties must rent for periods of 30 days or longer (for example, at least a month-tomonth lease), and cannot use their properties for shortterm vacation rentals.

Even if you don’t have a complete apartment, but you have some extra space, consider renting to a housemate who works at a local business.

In August the Planning and Community Development Commission recommended a new, proposed short-term vacation rental ordinance that would allow some shortterm vacation rental use by right in residential R-1 zones in the Town of Lyons, just not in ADUs. The Board of

entrance to the Andesite Mine on Old South St. Vrain is already underway. Both the bridge and the river reconstruction are scheduled for completion by the end of December. There are fewer than 10 homes along the Old South St. Vrain River section from Red Gulch to the Andesite Mine. The Andesite Mine is closed and has been for years. Many residents of both Lyons and the Old South St. Vrain wish that the county would not replace the bridge, which will now open up the road to much more traffic and outof-town bicyclists.

The county website says the bridge replacement is eligible for FEMA reimbursement through the Emergency Response funding program.

The website goes on to say: “The Old

SEPTEMBER 13 / OCTOBER 18, 2017 Trustees will hold a public hearing on the code changes for this new allowance on September 18.

Real estate agents and property managers can help by linking new Lyons homeowners with tenants who need a place to live so they can continue to serve you coffee, cocktails, or tacos in local businesses or teach your kids music lessons. We need more heroes in Lyons to take these actions. I know our wonderful community is filled with champions who are capable of this work.

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

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

St. Vrain Rd. Bridge was built in 1960 and was nearing the end of its expected life span before the flood. To optimize recovery efforts, the post-flood goal is to build a bridge that will be able to pass the 100-year flood event. The new bridge will have a structure length of about 180 feet and be 33 feet wide. For comparison the old bridge was 73 feet long and 20 feet wide. The existing bridge passed an approximate 10-year flood event. The new bridge will have two 11' lanes and 4' shoulders on each side. The new bridge will be a weathering-steel Warren pony truss structure to complement the natural surroundings.”

I would call the words “complement the natural surroundings” into question.

Bridges are created to move traffic, not to

enhance the environment. This new bridge will be much wider, much longer and higher. It seems like this is a very expensive over-built bridge that could be built to more modest specs and still address the same safety concerns.

No one wants to endanger lives or put people at risk of flooding. But if every bridge and building in the hurricane areas of Texas, Florida and the Gulf Coast were built to these specs, FEMA would be bankrupt in a week. As Robert Brackenridge said, “Boulder County Parks and Open Space has some explaining to do.”

Please note this is an active construction site, and members of the public are not allowed to enter the site.

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Mouse Continued from Page 2 “magnets for biodiversity.” With the uncertain future of water resources in the west, wetland habitat in the St. Vrain Valley needs to be conserved. Destruction of the most biologically diverse habitats on the Front Range is arguably unrecoverable.

As evidenced in the comparison of live PMJM captures: Rocky Flats 0 vs. 145 captures in the St. Vrain and South Ditch, the habitat once damaged by irresponsible industry does not recover readily and is never enhanced; it seems that the PMJM

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don’t thrive in an open space “complex” and requires the natural, undamaged, undisturbed habitat of the St. Vrain Valley.

There are not many areas left for them but there are plenty of open space complexes.

Jacob Smith, the executive director of the Center for Native Ecosystems in 2004, said, “We’re talking about housing developments and gravel mines here, (the Front Range) is getting blitzed. It’s just getting completely devastated. Protecting the Preble’s mouse is a core part of protecting what’s left of the Front Range.”

Trustees Continued from Page 1 years for $30. The town and library Boards hammered out some details about funding, and requested priority for the town in the library public meeting spaces. Near the end of the meeting, when the room was almost empty, Ana Canada was sworn in as the new Lyons Finance Director.

In attempting to get affordable housing, the town has reached out to 10 property owners to talk with them about potential development. The focus is on two project areas: family housing and apartments. The Board also approved looking at “tank hill”

Grants Continued from Page 11 of this incredible musical experience.

The Community Foundation has also funded other such popular events as the Town Of Lyons Summer Concert Series.

With more than $18,000 in the past decade, the Town has been able to bring free concerts to Sandstone Park, now for 10 weeks in the summer months. The concerts are a great community event; they feature local musicians as well other businesses selling food and other amenities.

The Lyons Film Festival, running its third season this June, was helped off the ground with an LCF grant in 2014.

Annual support has allowed for this

Please write your letters to U.S. Fish and Wildlife and ask that the 2001 Biological Opinion (ES/GJ-6-CO-01-F-045) associated with this project be reassessed, and a current Biological Opinion be done. Ask for maximum protection for the PMJM and the Hygiene bald eagles from Martin Marietta Material’s proposed mining. For more information go to the Save Our St. Vrain Valley website.

Amanda Dumenigo is the chairperson of the SOSVV.

above Seward next to the cemetery as a possibility for affordable housing. It would need rezoning and grading. Mayor Sullivan said there still is a lot of interest in a modular home park. The town is going to lose the $4 million of funding for affordable housing from the federal government unless they use it, so “let’s grease the skids,” on this, she said.

Janaki Jane most recently worked for Boulder County. She has worked as a Health Coverage Guide for Boulder County and as a client advocate for Lyons Emergency Assistance Fund, and lives in the mountains, where moose and foxes come and look in her windows.

unique and alternative outlet for artistic creativity and expression in film to continue.

With the abundance of talent and passion for everything from visual arts, music of diverse genres, public installations and a vibrant artisan culture, the Lyons Community Foundation has been proud to nurture the area’s artistic community.

As part of our mission to enhance life in Lyons, we will continue to support these types of projects. Stay tuned for more information on our 10th Anniversary Celebration which will be held at Lionscrest Manor on November 10. The work of community support granting will not continue without the continued sup-

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port of Lyons area residents. For more information about volunteering, donating or applying for a grant, please visit our website or email us at info@lyonscf.org or visit our website at www.lyonscf.org.

More information on the Clarifier Project: clarifierproject.net; Sounds of Lyons: soundsoflyons.com; Lyons Arts and Humanities Commission or Sandstone Summer Concert Series: www.townoflyons.com and Lyons Film Festival: lyonsfilmfestival.com.

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

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