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Rafa Volkamer-Pastor had been waiting all year for his rematch against Boulder.
On Tuesday afternoon on Fairview’s courts, the Fairview senior took out Boulder senior Ezra Doherty in a No. 2 singles match that saw a very competitive first set and a final 6-4, 6-2 score. Now a year older and wiser, he was ready to put his court skills to the test.
“Ezra’s a really good player. I know he plays a lot of tournaments so I knew he was going to be good. I tried to keep the ball in and I think it worked, but I think next time we meet, it’s going to be a lot closer,” Volkamer-Pastor said. “Last year, I was playing doubles and I actually also played Ezra. They absolutely destroyed us two times in a row so I really wanted to revenge this time.”
Volkamer-Pastor said he tried focusing on his net game to help out his stamina, but ended up grinding it out from the baseline. Doherty certainly made him work for every point.
“I don’t think I played my best,” Doherty said. “I feel like I could definitely do better, but it happens. Rafa played really well. I learn from my losses, so that’s fine.”
The Knights, who entered this week at No. 5 in CHSAANow.com’s Class 5A team rankings, ended up winning the dual, 7-0, to hand the Panthers their first loss of the season.
From left: Boulder’s Andre Parham celebrates a point with Chase Lewis in a No. 1 doubles match against Fairview on Tuesday. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)
Prior to their match at Fairview, the Panthers had won all of their duals against currently ranked teams, having gone 7-0 against No. 15 Heritage, taking down No. 8 Legacy 6-1, defeating No. 9 Fort Collins 4-3 and completely shutting out No. 29 Northglenn and No. 20 Greeley West.
“I think we made a smart lineup this year, which really helps,” Doherty said. “I think our lineup, and just team bonding in general, is really what pushed us to be undefeated.”
What do the Panthers have to do to earn a little respect?
The Knights, now 4-3, have played on another level after collecting losses to 4A’s top-ranked Kent Denver, 5A’s No. 2 Cherry Creek and No. 11 Monarch.
On the other courts, Fairview’s Caden Bell defeated Boulder’s Danny Benjamin 6-2, 6-0 at No. 1 singles and Fairview’s Noah Bodner beat out Boulder’s Will Curl 6-1, 6-4 at 3 singles. All of Fairview’s doubles teams also collected wins, starting with Richie Boston/Ben Mei Dan over Andre Parham/Chase Lewis at No. 1 doubles in a 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 campaign.
Jake Boston/Charlie Gomulka made quick work of Blake Curl/Henry Radoff at 2 doubles in a 6-2, 6-2 finish as Theo Meyers/Loic Masters took a bit more effort to put Bruno Damrauer/Leo Damrauer away at 3 doubles with 6-4, 6-2 scores. Cecil Carroll/Ian Schwartz rounded out Fairview’s doubles effort at the No. 4 spot with a final score of 2-6, 6-1, 6-1.
The Panthers will face two more tough teams this week in No. 17 Broomfield and Monarch as Fairview prepares to take on Northglenn before competing in the Ralston Valley Invitational. | 2022-09-14T04:47:25Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boys tennis: Fairview hands Boulder its first loss – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/13/boys-tennis-fairview-hands-boulder-its-first-loss/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/13/boys-tennis-fairview-hands-boulder-its-first-loss/ |
A meaningful process: Madaleine Sorkin…
Every summer on the Front Range, climbers take advantage of the short alpine rock season by testing themselves on the tall, high walls of Rocky Mountain National. The grandest of these walls is the Diamond, an almost 1,000-foot shield of vertical granite situated high on the northeast face of Longs Peak (14,259 feet).
Madaleine Sorkin working her fingers into the thin cracks on the top half (5.13) of the Dunn-Westbay Direct during her successful free ascent. (Henna Taylor (hennataylor.com)/Courtesy photo)
Of the 40-odd routes that grace the Diamond, the most challenging free climb — by a long shot — is the Dunn-Westbay Direct: a plumb line on the right side that boasts a magnificent 260-foot crux pitch in the middle of the wall. This mind-boggling marathon is rated 5.14b and sits well above 13,000 feet, making the Dunn-Westbay Direct the hardest high-altitude rock climb in the world.
Tommy Caldwell was the first to free climb the route in 2013. Since then, only four others have repeated it free, including its latest ascent by Madaleine Sorkin on Aug. 10. Any free ascent of this line is remarkable, but Madaleine’s climb is particularly noteworthy. Not only is she the first female to free it, but she completed the project astonishingly fast. It required only 3 days in 2021 and 12 days this year. Given the arduous approach and severe weather, coupled with the route’s extreme difficulty, 15 days is a lightning-fast ascent.
In addition, her process of choosing this goal, committing to it and following through marked a meaningful shift for her personally. “I let a more loving part of myself drive the process than I’ve been able to before with a goal,” Madaleine told me. A key piece of that, she said, was deciding to let this goal really matter to her.
The few days she spent trying the route in 2021 convinced her the Dunn-Westbay Direct was a worthy and realistic goal. She decided then to give it a wholehearted effort this summer. “There was a lot of mental preparation that went into this before even arriving at the starting line,” she said.
Part of that preparation included freeing two 5.13 big walls in the months leading up to Diamond season: Yellow Wolf (5.13d) in Wyoming, and a one-day free ascent of The Hallucinogen Wall (5.13 R) in the Black Canyon. These huge lines are major undertakings in their own right, yet for Madaleine, now 40 years old, they were mere stepping stones; those routes gave her the confidence she needed to attempt the hardest route of her life.
Madaleine Sorkin in Rifle Mountain Park in June 2022, just before heading up to the Diamond for the first time this summer. (James Lucas (jamesclucas.com)/Courtesy photo)
Incredibly, the actual climbing on the Dunn-Westbay Direct proved straightforward for her, as evidenced by her quick and steady improvement. “I had been thinking and preparing for the effort, and I was just so ready for the work to begin,” she said. “I think that let me really do quality work when I got there.”
An “important nuance,” she said, was that she didn’t obsess over the route (as climbers tend to do). Rather, she would redirect her attention to “more intentional behaviors” like resting and eating well, careful preparation for her climbing days, being present for the relationships and commitments in her life and “practicing mindfulness” throughout it all.
“An overarching intention for this project was to act with transparent commitment throughout the process and to experience giving myself as fully as I could to the project,” she explained.
A crucial aspect of her mindfulness practice was visualization. “I’d close my eyes and pantomime every move on the crux pitch,” she said. “I’d experience each movement, practice my breathing, merge with the emotional and mental space required in each section of climbing. The (hardest) pitch takes roughly 75 minutes to lead, so the embodiment practice took a while.”
And it paid off. During her free ascent, it was as if she’d been there countless times before. The movement, the granite’s texture, the tiny footholds all felt familiar. “You can find a way right now,” she repeated to herself as she climbed.
Indeed, Madaleine’s quick ascent this season was a personal triumph on several levels, as well as a beacon of hope for future climbers of all ages and genders. “That’s the gift I was trying to give myself with this climb: to let myself have a deep, meaningful process.”
Madaleine Sorkin redpointing the third pitch (5.13) on Aug. 10, during her no-falls ascent. This was her first time leading the pitch because it was usually soaking wet. (Henna Taylor (hennataylor.com)/Courtesy photo)
Scheduled event:
Madaleine will give a presentation about this climb and her experience on the Diamond’s most challenging routes at Chautauqua on Nov. 15. Buy tickets at chautauqua.com/events/category/explorer-series/ | 2022-09-14T18:15:52Z | www.dailycamera.com | A meaningful process: Madaleine Sorkin flourishes on Diamond’s hardest route | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/14/a-meaningful-process-madaleine-sorkin-flourishes-on-diamonds-hardest-route/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/14/a-meaningful-process-madaleine-sorkin-flourishes-on-diamonds-hardest-route/ |
Songwriter Showcase in Lyons and other area…
Multi-instrumentalist, soul singer and Lyons resident Dechen Hawk has kicked off a songwriter series on Wednesdays in Lyons. (Sean Hagwell/Courtesy photo)
Lyons Redstone Museum: Before the history museum closes seasonally on Oct. 2, take a look at the collection of the area history that’s captured in exhibits, black-and-white photographs, archives records and more; 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons; free; lyonsredstonemuseum.com.
Economic Glimpse of South Africa: Mark Ellyne will discuss the political-economic history of South Africa and will talk about why this “rich” country also has such a large, impoverished population; 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder; $12-$15; boulderjcc.org.
100 Years of Boulder Community Health: Closing on Sept. 19, this exhibit marks Boulder Community Health’s 100th anniversary. Celebrating the contributions BCH has made to the community, the exhibit highlights the organization’s history, partnerships and innovations. Explore medical procedures in the 1920s all the way up to the 2020 pandemic response; 9 a.m., Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder; $8-$10; museumofboulder.org.
Kikagaku Moyo at the Fox: Japanese psychedelic band Kikagaku Moyo progressed from early days in Tokyo’s experimental scene to traveling the world, exploring different facets of psychedelia; 8 p.m. Wednesday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $25-$29; z2ent.com.
Diamond Edwards Duo at Velvet Elk: Featuring tunes from Mark Diamond (on upright bass and vocals) and Ed Edwards (on guitar and vocals), the duo has been playiing tunes for more than a decade. Catch them in the bar; 9 p.m. Wednesday, Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder; Free; velvetelklounge.com.
Happy Hour on the Goat Farm: Head to this festive, educational and tasty happy hour at Briar Gate Farm. Enjoy delicious cheeses while learning the process used to make each one then pair them with your own BYOB beverage. After the tasting, head to the barnyard and interact with a friendly herd of Nubian dairy goats and their guard llama; 6 p.m. Wednesday, Briar Gate Farm, 11227 N. 66th St., Longmont; theartofcheese.com. | 2022-09-14T18:16:47Z | www.dailycamera.com | Songwriter Showcase in Lyons and other area events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/14/songwriter-showcase-in-lyons-and-other-area-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/14/songwriter-showcase-in-lyons-and-other-area-events-for-today/ |
• 30th Street and Colorado Avenue Underpass Project: Left turns will be restricted westbound, eastbound and southbound for underpass construction. Sidewalk detours where noted (southeast quadrant sidewalks closed). Use temporary crossings at 30th/Euclid Avenue and Colorado west of the intersection. Cyclists merge with traffic. Northbound bus stop on 30th (BOUND) closed; board at next stop. Anticipated end date is Dec. 31. The intersection of 30th Street and Colorado Avenue is fully closed.
• Colo. 157: There will be a single lane closure in both directions of Colo. 157 over the BNSF Railroad — the location of the Boulder bridge (MP 3.52) — while crews remove existing expansion joints and concrete, and perform other critical bridge repair work. Work is expected to last through Nov. 22.
• Dry Creek Drive: Dry Creek will be closed between Nelson Road and Lykins Gulch Roach from Sept. 19 through Oct. 18 for public utilities installation.
• Coffman Street: Southbound Coffman Street will be closed and detoured to Main Street during a water main replacement. Work hours are from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and closures are expected to last through mid-October.
• Colorado Boulevard and Tipple Parkway: Lane closures may be in effect between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. the week of Sept. 19 for intersection improvement. A full intersection closure is expected later this fall.
• Weld County Road 10: WCR 10 will be closed from WCR 5 to WCR7 through Oct. 7 for road construction. | 2022-09-17T01:58:18Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder County-area cone zones for Sept. 18-24, 2022 | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/16/boulder-county-area-cone-zones-for-sept-18-24-2022/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/16/boulder-county-area-cone-zones-for-sept-18-24-2022/ |
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Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: Recent indictments have highlighted the potential community-wide web of responsibility involved in underage drinking. Your take?
There is a generally held belief that alcohol is needed for a good time at social events like proms, and even some studies partially support that idea. But alcohol, by its nature, compromises judgment, which in combination with a 3000-pound vehicle can become deadly. Sadly, that knowledge by itself doesn’t seem to be an effective deterrent. So what should we do?
Maybe enact stronger penalties, e.g., charging minors as adults, increasing mandatory jail times and fines from the first offense for buyers and sellers, etc. My suspicion is that a more punitive approach may help only a bit because once the booze is flowing freely any fear of disaster and its stronger repercussions becomes more remote.
Maybe new technologies being developed by car makers to stop impaired drivers before they can even shift out of “park” will work. But those face substantial technical and legal challenges. And even if viable self-driving cars arrive, they will not be immune from bad judgments made by passenger/drivers who choose to override the computer in favor of their inebriated confidence.
Something more attention-getting is needed. Thinking back to my driver ed classes (taken soon after the invention of the wheel), I remember vividly the films shown to scare the bejeebus out of us would-be new motorists. These still-available flicks are not notable for their production values, but the graphic scenes of destroyed bodies and mangled steel more than captured our attention and made us think more deeply about our responsibility behind the wheel. Maybe there is some version of these highway horror films that could make a positive impact? This line of thought is similar to current arguments for showing the carnage from gun violence as a way to reduce its occurrence.
When I first read the tragic news stories and the District Attorney’s indictments, I was struck by two things. First, they list only the names of those who died, in essence sanitizing the fact that those innocent human lives with loved ones, dreams and hopes were terminated violently and messily. As suggested above, perhaps showing a bit more of the reality could be preventative (with the consent of families, of course). Second, the lack of cooperation reportedly encountered by the DA is appalling. Though tragic for all involved, protecting people from the repercussions of their actions is a major reason this madness continues.
Underage drinking is entrenched and, sadly, celebrated in our culture. Kids learn about crazy high school parties through pop culture at such an early age that they head to high school (and, probably, middle school) with expectations and desires to PARTY. And most parents brace with dread for the day that their kid comes home wasted. At least I do, which is why I have talked with my two sons about the hazards of drinking to excess, drugs, fentanyl and peer pressure since they were in first grade. But I’m not naïve or smug enough to think that my straight talk will actually dissuade my kids from experimenting. They are, after all, American kids immersed in a society that glorifies partying, even if their parents don’t.
Holding parents and party bus/limousine services liable for tragic drunken driving crashes is an understandable impulse, but a flawed one. Until American culture shifts so that binge drinking and drinking to excess is no longer venerated, teenagers will seek opportunities to get wasted. I see this regularly among my Boulder friends with teens — kids are caught sneaking beer out of the house, or hiding hard liquor under the bed, or they admit to buying booze from a fellow student who has a fake ID and can get them anything they want.
How can one household be responsible for curbing this dangerous and toxic phenomenon? It can’t.
But that doesn’t extinguish the pain and anguish of the survivors of car crash victims. Survivors want and deserve justice. The Boulder County grand jury that handed down the recent indictment has drawn a boundary in trying to hold parents and businesses accountable. It’s possible this indictment will have an impact. Maybe more parents will intervene when they discover underage drinking, buying alcohol, or substance-assisted partying. But for meaningful, long-term change, we need to change the narrative around binge drinking. And perhaps we need to curb teenage driving. We need to agree on what it means to drink responsibly and impart that understanding to kids. Of course, this sounds good in theory. But if parents are actively facilitating irresponsible, illegal underage drinking, then they’re exacerbating an already dire situation. And in that case, yes, hold them accountable. That might be the only way to galvanize the cultural shift necessary to keep our society safe from drunk drivers.
The topic of this week is a delicate one. As a parent, I have an underlying fear that my kids could be in an accident due to alcohol and/or drug use when they are in high school. You try to teach and guide them, but there are several factors that, as parents, we have less control over. For example, hormones blinding their judgment or social pressure from friends. Following recent news, I have a few thoughts to share:
• It seems the issue is systemic. There are companies that provide fake IDs to minors, and alcohol stores that accept these IDs. Then parents that provide alcohol to minors. While I have strong opinions about companies preying on minors, I don’t really have a strong opinion on the parents providing alcohol to minors. Would I have done this? Maybe yes, maybe no. It’s hard to tell without being in their shoes. I see this as an ill attempt to introduce them to alcohol while providing a safe environment. This kind of attempt could backfire in a tragic way. I feel horrible for the kids, the parents and the family of the victims.
• I think the companies that provide the IDs should be liable because they are providing an illegal item to minors that they know will be used to purchase alcohol illegally. Whether they are criminally liable or just open to civil lawsuits, that’s a question for the judicial system. I’m inclined towards making them criminally liable, but I’m not a lawyer.
• Liquor stores providing the substance to minors may be aware that the IDs are fake. I saw this systemic behavior plenty during my college years in Lawrence, Kan. Because of the lack of enforcement and punishment, the use of fake IDs in liquor stores and clubs was rampant. Again, the extent of their liability is a question for the judicial system, but I believe at the least these stores should lose their liquor license to send a strong message to other stores in the county and state.
The story of the crash is a tragedy, and it saddens me on a deep level as a fellow human being and a parent. The best I can hope for is that this serves as a cautionary tale for teenagers and parents, that authorities increase enforcement and/or change laws, and that the families of the victims find solace in their grief. | 2022-09-17T14:34:12Z | www.dailycamera.com | Community Editorial Board: Underage drinking | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/17/community-editorial-board-underage-drinking/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/17/community-editorial-board-underage-drinking/ |
Breckenridge Colo., residents Dalia Remeikis and her 13-year-old son Lukas pet goats at the Western Culture Farm outside Paonia Colo., Monday Sept. 5, 2022. The family visits the farm nearly each year to visit the farm’s goats. (Photo by William Woody/Special to The Denver Post)
• Bringing an empty cooler that you can fill with perishables like fresh berries, goat cheese, juices and other goodies you won’t be able to resist bringing home. Even if you plan to freeze your produce once home, you need to keep it from going bad on the way.
• Bringing sunscreen, a hat and your water bottle for your own picking time. These experiences are pretty independent and, before you know it, you’ve walked half a mile in an orchard on a hot summer day — and now have to walk back with a basket full of apples or peaches or both.
• Bringing cash. While the more established u-pick farms and orchards easily take credit cards, you may find honor-system cash boxes or small vendors that aren’t set up for digital payments.
• Planning your visit around a specific local activity such as live music, a workshop, a specific harvest (such as peaches, lavender, apples, pears or your favorite vegetable), a farm dinner or tour. For example, plan on heading to the Mountain Harvest Festival on Sept. 24 with area farm tours or the Vegetable Tasting Event on Sept. 27 at the Arbol Farmers’ Market.
• Making time to go to Colorado’s least-visited national park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison. This impressive gorge can be accessed via the town of Crawford (the north rim, which is closer when you’re in Paonia and Hotchkiss) or Montrose (the south rim). You’ll see more farm country on this 40-minute drive and can opt for the 1/3-mile Chasm Trail or taking a longer hike.
• Staying on a farm. You can find a list of local wineries, farms and ranches that have lodging accommodations at the Valley Organic Growers Association website (vogaco.org). Not all of these places have their own website, so the directory is helpful in finding those hidden gems. | 2022-09-17T16:07:59Z | www.dailycamera.com | Where to go glamping in Colorado's North Fork Valley | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/13/colorado-glamping-north-fork-valley-farms-fruit-harvest-fall/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/13/colorado-glamping-north-fork-valley-farms-fruit-harvest-fall/ |
Dave Taylor: What’s the Difference between…
Q: It’s time for me to upgrade so I’m trying to configure a new PC, but am getting confused at the difference between RAM and storage. Aren’t SSD drives comprised of RAM memory too?
A: It used to be that there were two types of memory, RAM (random access memory) and ROM (read-only memory), with everything else known as storage. Floppy disks, mag tapes, hard drives, they were all physical devices with information stored and retrieved through magnets or lasers.
That’s ancient history, though, and memory has become so much larger that just about every storage device we use is also built upon memory chips, albeit in a slightly different form.
Remember VHS cassettes? Imagine wanting to just watch the last five minutes of a movie when the tape was fully rewound: You’d have to skip, and skip, and skip, until you found what you sought. Sequential access = slow and tedious.
Using memory chips allows for random access with no penalty for data storage location. As memory chips have increased in capacity, it’s become common to find hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes of storage in a completely solid state, chip-based device. “SSD” stands for Solid-State Drive and if you cracked one open, you’d see a tiny circuit board with a few RAM chips thereon.
More importantly, RAM is the memory that programs use while they’re running. Watching a movie, searching an email folder, running spell-check in Word, they all require computer memory. Some tasks need a lot, like playing an immersive, graphically intensive computer game or rendering 4K video content.
Storage, on the other hand, is where all of your programs save things so that when you come back tomorrow, your files, photos, music, and videos haven’t vanished. You need both on a modern computer for the best experience. If you’re going to be running Windows 11, I suggest at least 16GB of RAM.
How much storage? That depends on what you’ll be saving on your computer. An archive with years of email is fairly small, but if you save every single video you watch on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, they can consume an astonishing amount of space in a fairly short time.
The operating system itself also requires disk space too, typically around 25GB. I would recommend no less than 128GB for PC storage and 512GB or more might save you a lot of heartache when the device would otherwise be starting to fill up.
Mac systems are the same, by the way. The best rule is the more you’re planning on pushing the capabilities of your system, the more RAM you should get. My Mac laptop
has 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD for storage!
Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since the dawn of the Internet. He runs the popular AskDaveTaylor.com tech Q&A site and you can find his entertaining gadget reviews on YouTube . Chat with him on Twitter as @DaveTaylor.
Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since the early days of the Internet. He runs the popular AskDaveTaylor.com tech help site. You can also find his gadget reviews on YouTube and chat with him on Twitter as @DaveTaylor, too. | 2022-09-19T20:31:39Z | www.dailycamera.com | Dave Taylor: What’s the Difference between RAM and ROM? | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/19/dave-taylor-whats-the-difference-between-ram-and-rom/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/19/dave-taylor-whats-the-difference-between-ram-and-rom/ |
Kevin Smith brings ‘Clerks III’ to Boulder…
Filmmaker Kevin Smith will be in town for a Q&A following a screening of “Clerks III.” (Courtesy photo)
Clerks III, The Convenience Tour: Watch Kevin Smith’s latest dark comedy with Smith, himself, in Boulder. The filmmaker, star (Silent Bob), author, podcaster and all-around funnyman is bringing the Clerks III: The Convenience Tour through Boulder for a screening of a the third film of the series (“Clerks” soared to cult fame in 1994). Smith is known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions — and this one is likely no exception. The film stars Ben Affleck, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Long, Rosario Dawson and more; 7 p.m. Tuesday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $40-$60; z2ent.com.
Hazed & Confused, Hazing Trivia: Can you recognize hazing? Stop by to learn about the harms and signs of being hazed. Discover resources and support for anyone who is experiencing hazing; 2 p.m. Tuesday, Norlin Library, East Entrance, CU Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu.
Boulder Bike Path Ride: Cruise along some of the best bike paths in Boulder on this casual group ride that will view street art, parks, and more. Bring your own bike or rent a BCycle bike; 5 p.m. Tuesday, UMC Bike Station, northeast corner, CU Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu.
‘The Displacements’ Book Signing: Former Boulderite who is now teaching at the University of Virginia, Bruce Holsinger will speak about and sign his new book, “The Displacements,” at Boulder Bookstore. The book looks at what happens when privileged lives are upended and transformed by a hurricane; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
Poetry Open Mic: In collaboration with Colorado Poet’s Center, R Gallery holds an open mic poetry night the third Tuesday of each month. A member of the center will present a reading, followed by an open mic where anyone is welcome to read their poetry to a fun, welcoming and supportive audience; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, R Gallery + Wine Bar, 2027 Broadway, Boulder; Free; rgallery.art.
Junkyard Autumnal Equinox Ecstatic Dance: Join a group of humans going on a fun, playful and heartfelt dance journey for the autumn equinox — a point of perfect balance of dark and light between summer and winter; 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Junkyard Social Club, 2525 Frontier Ave., Unit A, Boulder; $5-$15; junkyardsocialclub.org.
Trumpet Works at Faculty Tuesdays: Join Ryan Gardner and Margaret McDonald as they perform exciting works from both Latin and American traditions. Featuring trumpet works by Lauren Bernofsky, Carson Cooman, Eris DeJarnett and Joaquin Rodrigo, this diverse program will showcase both beauty and virtuosity; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder; Free; cupresents.org.
Face Vocal Band: The Boulder County a cappella rock band takes the stage at Nissi’; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 1455 Coal Creek Drive, Unit T, Lafayette; nissis.com.
Evening with an Open Space Naturalist: Listen to writings, poetry, conversation and music with Martin Ogle, Lafayette Open Space Naturalist, who presents “A Seamless Continuum — Our Human Relationship with Nature;” 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette; cityoflafayette.com. | 2022-09-20T20:26:00Z | www.dailycamera.com | Kevin Smith brings ‘Clerks III’ to Boulder Theater and other area events today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/20/kevin-smith-brings-clerks-iii-to-boulder-theater-and-other-area-events-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/20/kevin-smith-brings-clerks-iii-to-boulder-theater-and-other-area-events-today/ |
Letters to the editors: Small town…
A.R. Pete Palmer: Small towns: The future may be grim, but possibilities exist
There will be survivors!
If you are among the 20- or 30-somethings audience and pay attention to world news of climate challenges and international conflicts, you have every right to be pessimistic about the future of your world. But, consider the wisdom in the Beatitude “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.” There will be survivors.
Rather than look to a future in a city of even moderate size, think about that ancient beatitude. There are numerous small towns in rural agricultural areas between the Rockies and the Appalachians that are often in desperate need of doctors, dentists, teachers, librarians, writers for small local newspapers, veterinarians and others. Recompense is not necessarily lucrative, but these are frequently caring communities that might welcome the fresh air that can come from thoughtful residents with appropriate post-High School education. A future in even moderate-sized cities can look pretty grim, but there is a real possibility for a good quality life in rural America. This is not a time to despair, but a time for opportunity. Good luck!
A.R. Pete Palmer, Boulder
Laurie Dornberger: CU South: Delay works against community’s best interests
A “no” on the Delay Referendum this November means more city open space!
A year on from the approval of the CU South Annexation Agreement, I see opponents arguing that it will take open space away from Boulder. For decades, Boulder citizens have enjoyed CU South for its views and dog-friendly walking trails. It’s understandable that we wouldn’t want that taken away. However, it’s clear that those who make these arguments haven’t read the agreement and don’t understand what the annexation of CU South means for the city. Recently, a woman was canvassing outside our local grocery store regarding preserving our wetlands. I asked if she’d read the agreement and went on to say that it includes One Hundred and Nineteen (119) acres of open space and wetlands preservation. She replied that she “just didn’t want CU to get bigger.”
When one takes the time to read the agreement, one can see that it guarantees permanent open space. Currently, there is no city open space at CU South. It’s all privately owned by CU. The people of Boulder have been allowed to use it as open space, and it’s clear that CU wants to keep it that way. However, without the annexation agreement, there is no guarantee that this space will remain open and public.
The delay referendum on November’s ballot is represented by a group of residents who are attempting, through obfuscation, to overturn years of work by city staff, expert engineers and hydrologists, residents and committed council members. The annexation agreement preserves critical wetlands habitat, creates permanent open space for public use, provides flood protection and carefully manages development.
Delaying the agreement works against our community’s best interests.
Laurie Dornberger, Boulder
Joanne McIntyre: Library district: Direct funding is needed to protect access
I’m dismayed to see Boulder Chamber CEO John Tayer actively opposing proper funding for our libraries. His argument, in part, says “…we may wish we still had the budget oversight flexibility to allocate those library funding resources to address emergency needs.” It might not be apparent, but this is essentially an argument in favor of treating our award-winning libraries as a grab-bag slush fund for when other projects take priority. This is exactly why dedicated funding via a library district is needed.
This week’s Camera edition also included a front-page article stating that the American Library Association sees an unprecedented uptick in book banning this year. As our libraries fight for access for everyone, why does the chamber think they should do it on unpredictable, revocable funding? I think public libraries are essential, not merely temporary line items to raid whenever we need to.
Another letter from Saturday stated that libraries are obsolete because everything is online. Before the pandemic hit and caused the library to take the biggest cuts across the city, its visitorship was reaching 3,000 people a day. I think most of us would agree that a digital-only community is not an ideal, welcoming, restorative, joyful, creative, engaging or desirable way to live. Public spaces like libraries make our communities all these things, and they make access open to everyone.
People love and use our libraries. The only way our libraries will become obsolete is if opponents succeed in getting voters to reject the funding they need. I’m a “yes” vote on measure 6C to form a library district.
Joanne McIntyre, Boulder | 2022-09-20T20:26:06Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editors: Small town possibilities; delay works against interests; direct funding of libraries | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/20/letters-to-the-editors-small-town-possibilities-delay-works-against-interests-direct-funding-of-libraries/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/20/letters-to-the-editors-small-town-possibilities-delay-works-against-interests-direct-funding-of-libraries/ |
Opinion: Bob Greenlee: ‘Mission creep’ might…
By Bob Greenlee |
Will Boulder city and eligible county voters approve establishing a Library District this November 8? Like you, I have no idea, but there are certainly a number of issues yet to be determined and decided before any voter can make a definitive, intelligent and permanent decision on the issue at hand.
Not many agree the current Boulder Public Library is in great fiscal or physical shape. Years have eroded facilities and staffing levels never seem to be sufficient under the current financial means of supporting library functions. At least that’s what the Boulder Library Champions say. And according to their analysis, there’s no way for things to improve under the current funding source which largely comes from Boulder’s sales and use tax income. Thus, the library champs want to tap into a more generous property tax scheme that will take care of money matters. That is, of course, if “mission creep” is somehow not the real culprit affecting the current library system or any other city-funded department.
Bob Greenlee
The term was first used to describe how our national military defense managed to become so large, cumbersome and expensive. The term simply suggests that once something is initially established and funded with public dollars there’s plenty of room to increase the number of additional “needs” beyond what was originally required. The Pentagon and Department of Defense are perhaps the largest violators of mission creep as their needs to preserve and protect our nation seems to have no bounds. One new missile system requires newer and more expensive ones along with an endless support system, requiring both funding and personnel.
Decades ago, Boulder had a single Librarian in charge of things, followed years later by someone who obtained the title of library director. Today the library needs someone to not only check books in and out but also to serve as the head of “a center for community, art, and culture.” Creep has firmly established itself in our library system, and today the person in charge is David Farnam who appears to have exceeded expectations in that obviously complex role. Adding more and more responsibilities and the time to tackle all those obligations is probably more than one person can possibly handle and that’s what causes mission creep and there’s almost no end to what funds and personnel may ultimately be required.
If the library could exist with the solo mission of checking books in and out, would more funding from taxes be required? Maybe. Maybe not!
How many citizens really know what other projects the current library is involved with? Like the Canyon Theatre, Canyon Gallery, BLDG61 Makerspace, Cable TV Channel 8 or the family literacy program? All are worthwhile endeavors but all require staff, funding and supervision.
Sometimes these library projects have caused issues or problems, like the one in 2001 when a local citizen was caught stealing 21 ceramic penises that were strung on a clothesline and hung in the library’s public viewing space near the Canyon Theatre as an example of Boulder’s propensity for “cutting edge” contemporary art. The person who copped the goods said he was upset that at the time the library refused his request to display a 10-foot U.S. flag in the library’s entrance because the powers that were in charge at the time were worried that some people might be offended. So, the well-hung public art was stuffed in a garbage bag on a Veterans Day weekend as library patrons looked on and the thief left a calling card that said “El Dildo Bandito was here” and set up his own American flag at the library entrance. The cops ultimately found the culprit and ticketed him for a misdemeanor criminal tampering charge.
You may think I’m making this up. I’m not! This is an outrageous example of how an otherwise innocent but unmanaged situation can get out of control without ongoing adult supervision. We all love libraries but the things they do are not always known or fully appreciated. Will producing a Library District really improve things or just be a source of acquiring more public money for new library projects?
Bob Greenlee is an 18-year veteran of Boulder’s city council. He served as mayor during his last two years on the city council. Email: rgreen9231@aol.com | 2022-09-20T20:26:18Z | www.dailycamera.com | Opinion: Bob Greenlee: 'Mission creep' might be culprit behind library's woes | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/20/opinion-bob-greenlee-mission-creep-might-be-culprit-behind-librarys-woes/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/20/opinion-bob-greenlee-mission-creep-might-be-culprit-behind-librarys-woes/ |
Comedian Marc Maron’s tour stops at Boulder…
Comedian Marc Maron will perform at the Boulder Theater Thursday. (broachphoto / Courtesy photo)
Marc Maron at Boulder Theater: Comedian Marc Maron has four hit stand-up comedy specials, a landmark podcast “WTF with Marc Maron,” acting chops under his belt and, of course, plenty of stand-up comedy. See him live in Boulder for his “This May Be The Last Time Tour;” 8 p.m. Thursday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $49.50-$65; z2ent.com.
Billionaires and Boulderites, a Bolder Future for Space: Against a backdrop of billionaires taking trips to space, Colorado remains a steadfast leader in the advancement of Earth and space sciences. Fiske’s Theater Manager, Nickolas Conant, will take viewers on a trip exploring the Boulder science that makes future exploits in space possible, including NASA’s upcoming missions to the moon, addressing global climate change and the increasing threat of solar activity on our everyday lives, and more; 7 p.m. Thursday, Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu.
Fall Festival at the Boulder JCC: Join us for a fun, family-friendly celebration with live music, entertainment and activity stations for all ages; 4 p.m. Thursday, Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder; Free; boulderjcc.org.
‘Less Is Lost’ Book Signing: Pulitzer Prize winner for his book “Less,” Andrew Sean Greer will speak about and sign the breakout book, “Less Is Lost” at Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater; 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder; $10; boulderbookstore.net.
Laurie & Lorrie Duo at Trident: Local musician duo Laurie & Lorrie will be performing originals from Laurie Dameron’s three albums; 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St, Boulder; Free; lauriedameron.com.
‘The Automat’ Screening at International Film Series: Watch a special screening of “The Automat,” a 2021 documentary that looks at the vending machine popularized in the 20th century that offered fresh cooked meals in a commissary-style eatery. It was produced by Lisa Hurwitz, written by Michael Levine and features an original song by Mel Brooks; 7 p.m. Thursday, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder; internationalfilmseries.com.
Zach Deputy at Velvet Elk: Hear some tunes from an early pioneer of looping and synth guitar work from this Savannah, Georgia-based musician. Atlanta-based groove-rock band Khaliko opens the show; 7 p.m. Thursday, Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder; velvetelklounge.com.
Autumn Equinox Celebration: Unity Boulder is honoring the changing season with an event that will have ritual dancing, singing, chant, meditation and a burning bowl ceremony. We will be outside, weather permitting; 7 p.m. Thursday, Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder; Free; unityboulder.com.
CU Symphony Orchestra’s Fall Concert: Check out a wide variety of symphonic repertoire from this group that appeared with pop artist Natalie Merchant (and has recorded with the Indigo Girls); 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu.
Ibibio Sound Machine at the Fox: Check out this group, fronted by London-born Nigerian singer Eno Williams, who pumps out a clash of African and electronic beats. Terror Jr opens the show; 9 p.m. Thursday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $20-$25; z2ent.com.
Erin Stereo at Rosetta Hall: This local DJ who’s got “best DJ” props from Westword over the years, will spin house music for a late-night dance party; 10 p.m. Thursday, Rosetta Hall, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder; rosettahall.com. | 2022-09-22T14:20:16Z | www.dailycamera.com | Comedian Marc Maron’s tour stops at Boulder Theater and other area events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/22/comedian-marc-marons-tour-stops-at-boulder-theater-and-other-area-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/22/comedian-marc-marons-tour-stops-at-boulder-theater-and-other-area-events-for-today/ |
Guest opinion: Martha Roskowski: Plan for CU…
By Martha Roskowski
Every day, hundreds of people bike, skate, roll, walk or run on the Broadway bike path and sidewalk between University and Boulder Creek. It’s a big hill — tiring going up, exhilarating going down — and one of the busiest stretches of path in the whole city. Soon, it may be the most dangerous.
In late October, CU and developer Limelight are slated to break ground on a new conference center with a 250-room hotel and parking structure on the northeast corner of Broadway and University. The current design calls for the primary vehicle access to cross the Broadway path at Grandview, partway down the hill. Today, few cars use this access, but regular path users can testify that every vehicle turning on or off of Grandview feels like a threat. Most drivers simply don’t look for people on the path, going either up or down. Instead, they focus on finding a gap in traffic to make the turn on this busy section of Broadway.
Today, Grandview at Broadway sees about 70 cars a day. The new development is projected to increase traffic to 1,150 cars a day, a twenty-two-fold increase, with 150 to 175 cars an hour at peak times. That’s one car every twenty seconds turning across one of Boulder’s flagship multi-use paths with limited sight lines and no traffic signal for safety. Many of the drivers will be visitors unfamiliar with the intersection.
Quite simply, someone will likely die if this design goes forward. It may be a CU student on a skateboard, a teacher biking home, a mom on an e-cargo bike loaded with kids, a runner training for their next race. There is no crossing of a multi-use path in Boulder that comes anywhere close to this configuration: steep hill with many fast-moving bikers and skaters, heavy volume of turning traffic, unsignalized.
It’s also likely to cause traffic headaches on Broadway. Imagine all those cars making the move onto Broadway during busy times and when the hill gets slick in the winter.
I think most people can understand the problem with this design. And yet, Limelight Hotels (a brand of Aspen Skiing Company) and CU seem to think it will be fine. In response to concerns raised by Community Cycles, CU says they are looking at some design tweaks. No tweaks are going to fix this debacle. City staff, meanwhile, say they can only suggest changes to CU.
The most infuriating part is there is a clear alternative: It’s completely feasible to meet all the motor vehicle access needs to the new facilities off of University, using 13th and 15th Streets. That would mean traffic from Broadway — constituting most of the trips by conference center visitors — would cross the Broadway multi-use path at the signal-controlled intersection with University, a far safer situation. Grandview could then be closed completely, except for emergency access, at Broadway, resulting in a net safety gain for people walking, biking and driving.
I can’t say why CU and Limelight aren’t embracing this safer design. The agreement between CU and Limelight isn’t public. Grandview and Broadway are city streets, but because the conference center is a CU project, no public process has been undertaken. I’m guessing this is the first time that most in Boulder have heard about the design.
I’ve lived in Boulder for most of the past 45 years, and I’ve watched it change from a place of vision, exuberance and innovation that walked the talk on environmentalism and actively prioritized transit, walking and biking. Last week, I was saddened by the decision to turn West Pearl back over to cars. The Grandview design isn’t just sad, it’s potentially bordering on negligent.
A group of us calling for vehicle access to be relocated to University has started a petition. If you care, please add your name. People, let’s change this.
Martha Roskowski is a CU grad who has worked in transportation for years and frequently uses the Broadway path. Roskowski is writing in a personal capacity. She lives in Boulder. | 2022-09-22T14:20:20Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Martha Roskowski: Plan for CU conference center may pose risk to bicyclists, pedestrians | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/22/guest-opinion-martha-roskowski-plan-for-cu-conference-center-may-pose-risk-to-bicyclists-pedestrians/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/22/guest-opinion-martha-roskowski-plan-for-cu-conference-center-may-pose-risk-to-bicyclists-pedestrians/ |
Letters to the editor: Buffs should play CSU;…
Annette Gorny: Buffs: CU should prioritize game with CSU over Air Force
As an ardent fan and alumnus, I was holding my breath as I watched CU’s football team lose again to Air Force earlier this month! Why in the world do we schedule our guys to play Air Force in 2019 and now, setting them up to lose to a team that CBS’s commentators said, “not a lot of Power 5 teams want to play”? Why would you bump the better in-state rivalry game with CSU for this? Why not put the Rams back in our schedule and give the Buffs an easier team (sorry Rams fans) to get the win while they are still getting going at the beginning of the season?
Annette Gorny, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Carrie L. Kass: Trump: What are you so afraid of, Mr. Trump?
It’s been six years since Donald Trump ran for president. He has yet to provide his tax returns. These have been subpoenaed by the court system and he is still appealing to every judge he can find trying to find someone who will let him off the hook. My question is, what are you so afraid of, Mr. Trump?
Donald Trump is a classic schoolyard bully. A coward who instigates others to do his dirty work for him and then promises to pardon them when they are held accountable. He has a core group of supporters who believe every word he says and refuse to believe he ever is responsible for any wrongdoing. Is it because he supports the white supremacy mentality for this country? People who think nothing is ever their fault, always claiming, “It’s because of Black people, or Hispanic people, or Muslims.” Is it because he advocates for the removal of anyone who does not fit into his mindset and is not willing to serve as a “yes man” to whatever he proposes? He encourages fear and hatred and intolerance.
My question remains, what are you so afraid of, Mr. Trump?
Carrie L. Kass, Longmont
Lila Hickey: Elections: Life is complicated enough, even-year voting makes things easier
We live in incredible — and overwhelming — times. We can video chat with someone across the world, but to do so, we must download four different apps, know which ones work on which of our devices, and remember the particular app used by each of our friends, family and colleagues. We can sign our children up for a seemingly endless list of activities, but endless too are the fees, travel and sudden expectation of professional-quality skill development from our seven-year-olds.
Each new opportunity comes hand-in-hand with more responsibilities and more tasks, and many of us perform a constant balancing act to prioritize the most important thing from moment to moment. Too often that means last-minute scrambles to meet a deadline, or completely neglecting something we care about. How many of us feel a pinch of guilt when we think about the things that simply didn’t make the cut? Fighting the climate crisis, simple time with our family, or volunteering with local organizations to give back to Boulder.
Low voter participation is a universally-lamented problem in America — and I believe it reflects exactly the challenge I just described. Folks do care — and massively increased voter participation when jurisdictions sync to the national election cycle shows this — but life is busy and complicated. And so is voting, even in Colorado! We must track election cycles, candidates and issues, understand requirements and deadlines for registration, address changes and ballot returns — all without neglecting any of our other responsibilities! Switching to match the national election cycle allows everyone to consolidate their voting-related chores, while also reducing confusion around calendar dates.
Modern life is incredible, but it’s incredibly complicated — and so I’m voting for the even-year elections measure in November. Let’s make it easier for all of us to do our civic duty!
Lila Hickey, Boulder | 2022-09-22T14:20:22Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Buffs should play CSU; Trump's fears; easy even-year voting | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/22/letters-to-the-editor-buffs-should-play-csu-trumps-fears-easy-even-year-voting/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/22/letters-to-the-editor-buffs-should-play-csu-trumps-fears-easy-even-year-voting/ |
Guest opinion: Ashley Stolzmann and Elise…
By Ashley Stolzmann and Elise Jones
As current and former elected officials, we have seen firsthand how libraries provide essential services — from supporting early childhood literacy, to providing technology solutions at no cost to users, to serving as gathering places for people from all walks of life. They serve us quietly in good times, and serve as anchors when disaster strikes. We know our communities are stronger when they have strong libraries, and that is why we support the Boulder Library District.
One thing we’ve learned as elected leaders is that we need to provide dedicated funding for the services people rely on in times of crisis.
Libraries serve as “second responders” in our communities. During the pandemic, the Boulder Public Library distributed hundreds of wifi hotspots to low-income households. After the Marshall Fire, area libraries provided information and refuge for displaced residents and workers.
But just when we need libraries most, we often throw them into competition for a shrinking pool of resources. On top of that, sales tax revenues, the primary funding source for most city libraries, are particularly unpredictable.
Library districts operate with dedicated property tax funding, which provides a buffer against rapid changes. In economic downturns districts still have to make difficult decisions, but what funding they do collect goes straight to needed services. Having a library — and keeping it open can help a community rebound more quickly when disaster strikes.
Our work in city and county leadership has also shown us the importance of regional thinking. Our Boulder County communities may have started as self-contained towns and cities, but their growth has created service gaps and strained the municipal libraries many of us know and love.
In the case of Boulder’s library, the 2018 Master Plan found that households in unincorporated areas of the county use the library at similar rates as city residents and that three in ten active cardholders live outside of city limits. These residents travel long distances for library services and are not part of the library’s tax base. They have little say in how libraries operate and have no clear path to improve their access.
A library district is an equitable solution. Everyone living within its boundaries contributes funding equally, and everyone has a claim on library services. As a district, the Boulder library, which has struggled to serve its true service area with municipal funding, could scale up programming to meet demand. And the community of Gunbarrel would finally get a branch library, something the City of Boulder could never provide.
Cities like Boulder are rightly proud of the library systems they’ve built, and creating a district does nothing to threaten that investment. Library districts can lease major assets like library buildings, and Colorado Library Law restricts their use to library services. And as an “establishing entity,” Boulder’s City Council and the County Commissioners will appoint and remove trustees who will oversee the district. In this way, library districts can respect local history while extending access to new and growing communities.
We believe it’s time to invest in resilience and ‘social infrastructure’ in our community, and a library district is a good value. A Boulder-area library district would cost homeowners roughly $23 per $100,000 in taxable value (which lags market value) each year, or less than $10 per month for a home with a taxable value of $500,000.
For residents and small business owners struggling with rising property values, the state legislature has provided $700 million in tax relief for 2023 and 2024. Meanwhile, Colorado’s existing Senior Property Tax Deferral and Senior Homestead Exemption programs can help seniors living on fixed incomes. That’s important, because libraries promote equity in our communities, and the way we fund them should align with that goal.
We are proud to stand with organizations like the NAACP Boulder County, ELPASO (Engaged Latino Parents Advancing Student Outcomes) and El Centro AMISTAD, and the Boulder Area Labor Council — as well as current and former state representatives, city councilors, and school board members in supporting the formation and funding of a library district for Boulder’s libraries this fall.
Strong libraries promote literacy, equity and community, and we need to ensure they’re accessible to all of us in a changing world.
Ashley Stolzmann is Louisville’s Mayor and the Democratic candidate for Boulder County Commissioner District 3. Elise Jones is a former Boulder County Commissioner. | 2022-09-23T12:25:05Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Ashley Stolzmann and Elise Jones: Our community is stronger when we have a strong library | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/guest-opinion-ashley-stolzmann-and-elise-jones-our-community-is-stronger-when-we-have-a-strong-library/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/guest-opinion-ashley-stolzmann-and-elise-jones-our-community-is-stronger-when-we-have-a-strong-library/ |
Letters to the editor: Leave public nature…
Barbara Miles: Open Space: Leave the fruits and flowers of nature alone
Wild plums of red and dusty light purple were decorating green branches in a thicket and hanging like ornaments on a tree. It was such a pretty sight, just one small swatch painted on Mother Nature’s canvas. Their beauty greeted and visually treated those who passed by on Open Space trail.
You won’t see it anymore, though. It’s been erased. And that’s because Mr. and Mrs. Greedy had their way with it yesterday. Their fingers picked and picked. They so hurriedly picked, pillaging and plucking every single plum in their short sight and stuffing them into one bag after another. They made off with just as many bags as their arms could carry, leaving the thicket bare.
Boulder’s Open Space was procured with public money and was brought to fruition by citizen foresight and sensibility. It is for all to behold. It is for all to enjoy, not only Mr. and Mrs. Greedy (a couple of means, I might add).
The fruits and flowers of nature are alluring and beckoning, that’s for sure. But on Boulder Open Space land, please leave them alone. Please let them be. After all, that’s the intent and spirit of Boulder Open Space, and that’s the true Boulder way.
Barbara Miles, Boulder
Bob Massaro: Election: Woodward votes no on bills that would help us move forward
Election day is approaching. It’s time for us to get informed about the candidates. Those of us in Senate District 15 have a clear choice, Janice Marchman is that choice. Her opponent has voted “no” on bills that would help all of us moving forward. HB20-1265, Increase Public Protection Air Toxics Emissions, requires that we be notified if hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulfide or benzene are leaked into the atmosphere. Voting “yes” on this bill would seem obvious, but not for Rob Woodward, he voted “no.” Why would he keep us from knowing we could be breathing these toxic chemicals?
How about SB19-085, Equal Pay For Equal Work Act? This bill clearly defined how to identify the need for workers to get equal pay for the same work. This bill helps women get the same pay for the same work their fellow workers perform. Yet again the incumbent voted “no.” Why does he want to make it harder for women to get the pay they deserve?
Elmar Dornberger: CU South: Help ensure all Boulder residents are protected
When floodwaters overtopped U.S. 36 in 2013, my family and my neighbors were unable to evacuate and first responders could not get in to help us. We suffered significant damage to our homes and continue to experience anxiety when water courses down our street, into our yards and driveways during heavy rainstorms.
Did you know there are about 600 structures and 3,500 people in the South Boulder Creek floodplain and that South Boulder Creek has significantly flooded six times over the past eight decades?
Flood mitigation studies conducted over a number of years analyzed several locations along South Boulder Creek and found the best location for stormwater collection is near U.S. 36 on property currently owned by the University of Colorado, also known as CU South. The studies were openly shared with the public through extensive review, analysis and feedback. A 100-year flood protection plan was chosen and an annexation agreement negotiated between the city and CU. Ultimately, the agreement was approved by the council in September 2021. It provides flood protection, open space, habitat protection, low-income housing and enhanced recreational amenities for the community.
It allows CU to build much-needed student housing and other facilities while specifically prohibiting construction in the floodplain.
There is a referendum on the ballot this November seeking to repeal the annexation agreement, which means that critical flood protection for thousands of citizens could likely be lost forever.
The solution is clear: To help ensure Boulder citizens are protected, vote “no” on the delay referendum in November. The timeliness to act is crucial — if we don’t get this protection now, it may never happen.
Please educate yourself on this complex issue before voting in November, visit https://www.nomeansnomoredelays.
Elmar Dornberger, Boulder | 2022-09-23T12:25:11Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Leave public nature alone; votes against the future; protect Boulder residents | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/letters-to-the-editor-leave-public-nature-alone-votes-against-the-future-protect-boulder-residents/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/letters-to-the-editor-leave-public-nature-alone-votes-against-the-future-protect-boulder-residents/ |
Trivia with cats and other Boulder events for…
Funny Face, a cat named after a the 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin staring Audrey Hepburn, sits in a bridge overlooking the Purrfect Pause Cat Cafe in Boulder on Monday, May 23, 2022. All the cats are available for adoption. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)
Catastic Trivia Night: All of you cat fiends need to head over to this trivia evening where you can pet cats while you play and support the ones being fostered; 6 p.m. Friday, Purrfect Pause Cat Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., #Unit E, Boulder; $25; purrfectpause.com.
Feel Good Fridays: Learn about a work of art and then participate in a related mindfulness practice. Meet in the museum galleries in person or virtually via Zoom. No past experience with meditation required. The powerful, guided meditation can undo stress, soothe the nervous system and help you feel relaxed and revitalized; 12:15 p.m. Friday, CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder; Free; colorado.edu/cuartmuseum.
Filmmaker Luncheon Series at CU: The Brakhage Center Luncheon Series, which celebrates artists who embrace experimental film, welcomes Dennis Doyle for Friday’s event. Doyle, a graduate student at CU Boulder, explores queer ecologies of waste, atmospheric chemistry and multisensory installation; free refreshments; noon Friday, Roser ATLAS Center, 102 CU Boulder campus; calendar.colorado.edu/event/bcls_dennis_doyle.
‘Water is Life’ Opening Reception: Artists examine our access to clean water in the new exhibit which launches with an opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday. Meet the artists — Nicole Salimbene, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Zeke Peña, Theresa Clowes, JayCee Beyale (co-curator) and Kendall Rose Kippley — and attend a panel discussion right before the reception. In the Dairy’s Carsen Theater from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, featured artists, grassroots organizers and CU Boulder scientists will talk about water conservation, water use and spiritual connections to the shared waters of the world; reception is 5-8 p.m. Friday; 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; thedairy.org.
Paul Shupack at BoCo Cider: Hear Paul Shupack perform some Stevie Ray Vaugh-style rhythm and blues; 6 p.m. Friday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
Madison Cunningham at the Fox: Two-time Grammy-nominated musician Madison Cunningham stops in Boulder in support of her new album “Revealer.” Bendigo Fletcher opens the show; 7 p.m. Friday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; z2ent.com.
David Rogers at Muse: Head to Muse for an evening of Spanish music, up-tempo Latin, pop, jazz, and even some Bach and original compositions for good measture; 7 p.m. Friday, Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette; $10-$20; museperformancespace.com.
CU Dance Performance: CU Dance invites you to kick off the season with a new dance series rooted in decolonizing the university and imagining new futures for the art form. The series was created in response to the pandemic, structural racism, uprisings and more. A week of interactive symposiums culminate in to this weekend of live performances; 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; University of Colorado Boulder, Regent Drive at Broadway, Boulder; $23; cupresents.org.
Dirtwire at Chautauqua: Catch some back-porch space cowboy blues, swamptronica and electro-twang, as this Bay Area band calls itself, whose members play a variety of uncommon instruments; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder; $22.50-$35.50; z2ent.com.
Reed Foehl at Roots: Have an intimate evening with this longtime Boulder musician, who celebrated in May the release of his sixth album “Wild Wild Love,” which was recorded in Austin with The Band Of Heathens. Denver musician Emelise opens the show; 7 p.m. Friday, Roots Music Project, 4747 Pearl St., Suite V3A , Boulder; $30-$35; rootsmusicproject.org.
Screening of ‘The Mirage’ at Boulder Theater: Ultrarunner Timothy Olson aims to break the fastest-known time on the Pacific Crest Trail. Braving record high temperatures and impending wildfires, he must outrun nature and reach the finish line before the birth of his daughter. Supported by his wife and kids, Olson has to average over 50 miles a day for 50 consecutive days. Immediately following the film, there will be a Q&A session with the filmmakers; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $10; z2ent.com. | 2022-09-23T15:40:30Z | www.dailycamera.com | Trivia with cats and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/trivia-with-cats-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/trivia-with-cats-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Week in Art: Pearl Street art parade, Japanese…
Art work by JayCee Beyale, who is a founding member of the Creative Nations Arts Collective for Indigenous Artists, and is the co-curator of the new exhibit “Water is Life” at the Dairy Arts Center. (Courtesy photo)
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art: New exhibits open Thursday with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. “Just As I Am,” features large-scale painting and printmaking artworks by Kristopher Wright, and “A Home In Between,” has works by Erin Hyunhee Kang that reflect the emotions felt when her home was damaged during the Marshall Fire; both up through Jan. 22; 1750 13th St., Boulder; bmoca.org.
Dairy Arts Center: Artists examine our access to clean water in the new exhibit “Water is Life,” which launches at an opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday. Meet the artists — Nicole Salimbene, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Zeke Peña, Theresa Clowes, JayCee Beyale (co-curator) and Kendall Rose Kippley — and attend a panel discussion right before the reception. In the Dairy’s Carsen Theater from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, featured artists, grassroots organizers and CU Boulder scientists will talk about water conservation, water use and spiritual connections to the shared waters of the world; reception is 5-8 p.m. Friday; 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; thedairy.org.
The Found Collective Market: Shop from more than 25 artist, makers, vintage collectors and small-business vendors in this outdoor marketplace that will take place from 2-6 p.m. Saturday at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; thedairy.org.
Japanese Flower Exhibition: The annual Ikebana Japanese Flower Arrangement exhibit brightens the Canyon Gallery this weekend, bringing in more than than 50 arrangements. The exhibit, “Kachou Fuugetsu,” presented by the Colorado chapter of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society of America, will also showcase animal and bird-themed works of art from Japan’s Edo period. There’s a free lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday discussing the history of the past 800 years of Japanese flower arranging; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon- 5 p.m. Sunday; Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder; boulderlibrary.org/exhibits.
Square Foot Auction and Gala: The seventh annual auction and event will ring in an evening of art, music, snacks and drinks at its opening gala, 6-8 p.m. Friday, where the public can buy art before the pieces go on silent auction Saturday morning. The gala recommends “vintage” attire and tickets are $35. The silent auction runs Saturday morning through Sept. 30 — when there will be a closing party from 6-8 p.m.; Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, 310 N. Railroad Ave., Loveland; artworksloveland.org.
The Collective Community Arts Center: “Big Art,” large abstract work by 12 Colorado artists, through Sunday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, closed Sunday-Monday; 201 N. Public Road, Lafayette; lafayetteco.gov.
The Crowd Collective: “Open Space,” Boulder artist Whitman Lindstrom captures nature, through Saturday; open by appointment; 4939 N. Broadway #58, Boulder; thecrowdboulder.com.
Dairy Arts Center: “Homelands,” works by Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Ute artists are on display in the new Creative Nations Sacred Space, through Nov. 26; 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; thedairy.org.
Museum of Boulder: “Traveling to School in Boulder County: What Moves You?” exhibit looks at transportation, through Nov. 8; “Voces Vivas,” explores county’s Latino heritage, through Feb. 26; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, closed Tuesdays; 2205 Broadway, Boulder; museumofboulder.org.
Art Center of Estes Park: “Estes Valley Plein Air Show,” open-air art, through Sunday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; 517 Big Thompson Ave., Estes Park; artcenterofestes.com. | 2022-09-23T15:40:36Z | www.dailycamera.com | Week in Art: Pearl Street art parade, Japanese Flower showcase and Loveland’s annual Square Foot gala – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/week-in-art/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/week-in-art/ |
Boulder Center for Judaism offers accessible…
The Boulder Center for Judaism is offering a brief, open-to-all Rosh Hashanah ceremony to accommodate those who would otherwise not participate in formal Rosh Hashanah synagogue services.
The “Community Tashlich and Shofar Service” will be at 6 p.m. Monday in Boulder’s Admiral Arleigh Burke Park, 490 Mohawk Drive, near the picnic tables. The ceremony will include the primary observances of the holiday, as well as a special activity for kids and a small holiday gift.
For more information, contact Boulder Center for Judaism at 303-494-1638 or boulderjudaism@gmail.com or visit boulderjudaism.com. | 2022-09-23T18:32:39Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder Center for Judaism offers accessible Rosh Hashanah ceremony | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/boulder-center-for-judaism-offers-accessible-rosh-hashanah-ceremony/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/23/boulder-center-for-judaism-offers-accessible-rosh-hashanah-ceremony/ |
PHOTO GALLERY: Hike of the Week — Go beyond…
PHOTO GALLERY: Hike of the Week — Go beyond Alberta Falls to Mills Lake
An especially calm morning at Mills Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. (Dawn Wilson/Estes Park Trail-Gazette)
A hiker drinks in the beauty of Mills Lake. (Dawn Wilson/Estes Park Trail-Gazette)
A sunny morning at Alberta Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. (Dawn Wilson/Estes Park Trail-Gazette)
A calm morning at Mills Lake as first light hits Longs Peak and Chiefs Head Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. (Dawn Wilson/Estes Park Trail-Gazette)
Glacier Creek flows out of Mills Lake over a small cascade surrounded by fall colors in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Glacier Creek flows out of Mills Lake over a small cascade surrounded by fall colors and morning light in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Two hikers walk down the Mills Lake Trail on a sunny fall morning in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
The Mills Lake Trail as it heads into the backcountry of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
The trail to Alberta Falls from the Glacier Gorge parking lot sees a lot of traffic throughout the summer and fall.
Follow the trail another 1.7 miles, however, and the crowds not only clear up but another one of Rocky Mountain National Park’s beautiful lakes awaits hikers.
Named for Enos Mills, the “Father of Rocky Mountain National Park”, Mills Lake is a serene lake sitting on the northwestern side of Longs Peak. Although difficult to photograph because the high mountain walls on either side of the lake prevent good light from reaching the basin, the area does offer pretty fall colors, which are just coming into peak right now.
Mills Lake Trail is a moderate, 5.4-mile out-and-back hike that is rocky most of the way to the lake but isn’t terribly steep, rising only 856 feet.
The Mills Lake Trail starts at the Glacier Gorge parking lot along Bear Lake Road. The parking lot is the last stop before the last two switchbacks on the road to Bear Lake.
Less than a mile up the trail is Alberta Falls, a 30-foot waterfall flanked by aspens along the trail, currently in shades of fall gold. Named for Abner Sprague’s wife, Alberta, the popular waypoint, created by Glacier Creek flowing over the boulders, is a lovely spot for a rest.
But don’t stop at the falls. Keep hiking through forests, over creeks and along the edges of mountains high above Glacier Creek.
There are many interconnecting trails in this area for destinations like Lake Haiyaha, Bear Lake, Loch Vale and Sprague Lake. Watch for junction signs and read the directions carefully to avoid getting turned around in the wrong direction.
Right now, the aspens are coming into peak color along much of the trail. Hike early to catch the softer light of morning, and to get a parking spot; the lot often fills long before sunrise. A hike to the lake only takes about 90 minutes if sunrise is a goal. Although the surrounding peaks of Longs, Keyboard of the Winds, Pagoda Mountain and Chiefs Head rise sharply above the lake, first light does bathe the upper reaches of Longs and Chiefs Head at sunrise.
In total, the trail includes four bridges over Glacier and Chaos Creeks, 82 total rock steps in three steeper sections, several sections of rock slabs that take some care to find the trail, and dozens of some of the prettiest views of the Mummy Range, Lumpy Ridge and Glacier Gorge.
The trails around Bear Lake and Glacier Gorge stretch out to more than a dozen lakes, and many of the trails are interconnected to explore the area by foot. Although many of the trails are rocky and some are long or steep, the beauty of the area should not be missed. Mills Lake is just one of the many gems in this region on the eastern side of the Continental Divide.
Bear Lake Road requires a timed-entry reservation from 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Oct. 10. Parking is very limited at the Glacier Gorge parking lot. The shuttle bus does stop at this parking lot and can be picked up at the Bear Lake Park and Ride. | 2022-09-23T19:37:09Z | www.dailycamera.com | PHOTO GALLERY: Hike of the Week — Go beyond Alberta Falls to Mills Lake – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/22/photo-gallery-hike-of-the-week-go-beyond-alberta-falls-to-mills-lake/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/22/photo-gallery-hike-of-the-week-go-beyond-alberta-falls-to-mills-lake/ |
Boulder Ballet’s ‘Fall Passages’ and other…
Boulder Ballet’s Fall Passages: With three choreographic voices in this performance, the troupe will present “Junk Duet,” a lighthearted work by Twyla Tharp and two world premieres — one by Denver artist Jacob Mora and one by Boulder Ballet’s new Artistic Director Ben Needham-Wood; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder; $25-$65; chautauqua.com.
Lafayette Art UnderGround Hustle: Aka, LAUGH, is fun people making funky art and showing it off on this art tour where artists sell their art in their homes, studios, alleys, garages, vehicles, yards and driveways; 9 a.m. Saturday, Old Town Lafayette; Free; Find the map here: laughevent.org.
Homes By Architects Tour: September in Boulder is the “Month of Modern,” that’s a celebration of architecture, design, lifestyle, art and culture. Saturday, join a one-of-a-kind residential house tour that looks at local architectural design. For one day only, attendees will be given the rare chance to walk through the interiors of some of the most inspiring private homes in Boulder’s neighborhoods in a self-guided tour; 10 a.m. Saturday, Boulder; $50; bit.ly/3UygqAb.
Japanese Flower Exhibition: Check out more than 50 flower arrangements in the Canyon Gallery this weekend for the exhibit “Kachou Fuugetsu.” On display is also animal and bird-themed works of art from Japan’s Edo period. There’s a free lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday discussing the history of the past 800 years of Japanese flower arranging; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, noon- 5 p.m. Sunday; Canyon Gallery, Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder; boulderlibrary.org/exhibits.
Artist, Maker, Vintage Market: At this outdoor marketplace there will be 20-plus vendors of artists, makers, vintage collectors and small businesses, including permanent jewelry from Love Saro, personal styling from The Edit from KLM, tarot readings from Healing House and grab-and-go bouquets from Mountain Flower Farm. There will be live music, drinks for purchase and food trucks; 2 p.m. Saturday, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $5; thedairy.org.
Good Music Medicine at BoCo Cider: Boulder-based band Good Music Medicine pumps out upbeat folk and blues with a combination of classic covers and originals; 6 p.m. Saturday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit #14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
BETC’s production of The Children: Two retired nuclear scientists entertain an unexpected guest with a frightening question in the eco-thriller “The Children,” produced by Butterfly Effect Theatre Company. Catch the production at 2 or 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $16.95-$39.55; thedairy.org.
Hike with Frankenstein: Arts in the Open’s “Frankenstein” takes patrons on a moderate hike, playing out scenes set in the icy polar regions where scientist Victor Frankenstein has chased the creature he brought to life. Due to adult themes, it’s recommended for patrons 10 years old and up; 3 p.m. Saturday; Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder; $16-$21; chautauqua.com. | 2022-09-24T14:42:42Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder Ballet’s ‘Fall Passages’ and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/24/boulder-ballets-fall-passages-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/24/boulder-ballets-fall-passages-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Guest opinion: David Ensign: Boulder’s…
By David Ensign
Boulder area residents have an important ballot initiative to weigh in on this November. We are being asked whether a dedicated tax district is our preferred way to support our public library system.
Having served on Boulder’s Planning Board for five years, I’ve been fortunate to dig deep into how city staff and volunteers envision protecting and expanding our treasured community library resources. I’ve been inspired as I’ve learned about the critical role libraries play in offering great public spaces and what assets they are in creating dynamic complete neighborhoods.
Between 2018 and 2020 the Planning Board addressed revisions to the Public Library Master Plan, had multiple reviews of the North Boulder Library and got an early glimpse into the possibility of creating a library district for more stable funding. I’ve witnessed the resilience of our dedicated library champions in the face of difficult economic and logistical challenges brought on by the COVID pandemic. I’ve acquired both an appreciation of the services our library system currently provides and enthusiasm about what it can become with adequate financial backing.
I’ve voiced my support for the library district in the past and continue to strongly support the formation of the district as we head toward a public vote on the issue.
Much criticism of forming a library district revolves around the question of increasing taxes. Anti-tax ideology has taken hold in a big way nationally since the Reagan revolution of the 1980s, and even in liberal enclaves like Boulder County, we encounter deep skepticism when it comes to increasing the amount of dollars we put into our public amenities. As voters analyze the library question with a skeptical eye, I hope they will also give adequate time to thinking about both the counterarguments to the naysaying and the benefits that will come from this modest increase to our property tax bills.
Though it may not seem like it as we experience dramatic increases in home values, Boulder County remains well below the national average in property tax rates. Since taxing property is less regressive than adding to our sales tax, it makes sense to consider a funding mechanism that will spread the burden proportional to the amount of property taxpayers own. Personally, I’d love to see an even more progressive rate structure applied to the library district that would have scaled rates based on property value, but we don’t have the ability to do that in our property tax code system today. That would be a battle for another day, and this district proposal seems to be the most appropriate and equitable given current options.
Arguments have been made that funding the district will unfairly burden low-income families and fixed-income seniors. But these arguments miss the fact that these populations are among those that benefit hugely from a robust library system with excellent programming that benefits everyone. We can and should continue to work on tax relief programs like property tax exemptions for seniors and financial assistance to underserved residents. But we can do that while still providing access to an outstanding library system to all community members.
Another factor that I sense may influence attitudes toward the library district proposal is a bias toward private philanthropy over public government-based solutions. As someone who has served on numerous non-profit boards and who has financially supported organizations that I care deeply about, I appreciate the role that non-profits can play in taking on critical needs in a targeted way and by filling in gaps that public entities have not addressed. But I feel strongly that libraries should be a source of pride for everyone in our community, and that public funding is the most powerful and stable way to maximize their value. Let’s not let social media and destructive discourse that demonizes public solutions destroy our faith in our most effective institutions.
Here in Boulder County, we pride ourselves in being at the forefront of furthering progressive ideals and holding our elected officials accountable for implementing our ideals in public programs and policies. The formation of a library district is an opportunity for us to continue this proud legacy. Let’s step up and vote “yes” on the library district ballot question in November.
David Ensign is a community volunteer and former Planning Board member. | 2022-09-24T14:42:53Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: David Ensign: Boulder’s Library District is a measure worth our support | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/24/guest-opinion-david-ensign-boulders-library-district-is-a-measure-worth-our-support/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/24/guest-opinion-david-ensign-boulders-library-district-is-a-measure-worth-our-support/ |
Friends of motorcycle crash victim Ryan…
Alyssa Pinsker, left, and JJ Yosh, friends of Ryan Bigoness, catch up during the celebration. Bigoness’ friends and family came together Saturday evening to celebrate his life after Bigoness was killed in a motorcycle crash in north Boulder earlier this month. (Dana Cadey — Staff Writer)
In the wake of tragedy, friends and family of the late Ryan Bigoness came together Saturday evening to remember, honor and celebrate his life.
Bigoness, 37, was killed in a motorcycle crash in north Boulder on Sept. 14. The celebration of life was put together quickly but never felt stressful, said Alex Jacobsen, who hosted the event at his Lafayette home.
“Everything we’re doing is about what Ryan would want,” Jacobsen said. “With everybody coming together around a common purpose, it’s been the most easeful event I’ve ever experienced.”
Jacobsen has been close to Bigoness since meeting him through a mutual friend. He described Bigoness as a “calm and collected” person who loved camping, dancing and joking around.
“Ryan spent eight years as a combat Marine in Afghanistan and Iraq, and yet he was the most lighthearted, fun-loving guy you’d ever meet,” Jacobsen said.
Ryan Swanson, Bigoness’ girlfriend of two years, said Bigoness came to Boulder for a fresh start. He attended Naropa University and majored in Religious Studies.
Swanson said Bigoness had a “dorky” side to him, mentioning his love of fantasy and Dungeons and Dragons.
“He had a goofy personality that was very endearing,” she said.
Swanson said she has many fond memories of her and Bigoness spending time together with her 9-year-old son, Edward, and Bigoness’ dog, Daisy.
“He had a big heart, she said. “He was kind of introverted, but he made a big impact on the lives that he did know.”
Saturday’s celebration featured refreshments, music and toasts from dozens of friends and family in attendance. Many of the decorations, including tablecloths and flower arrangements, were purple — Bigoness’ favorite color.
Several members of Bigoness’ immediate family flew out to Boulder from the Chicago area, where Bigoness was born.
“Boulder has been a great home base for Ryan,” said his brother Kyle Bigoness, who will be returning to Chicago on Sunday. “He’s had a lot of great people surrounding him.”
Bigoness’ aunt, Peggy Bigoness, is his only blood relative in Colorado. She came down to Boulder from her Fort Collins home to attend the celebration.
“Ryan and I were the ones in the family who decided to move out west,” she said. “The two of us loved it out here.”
Michael Wise, a Boulder resident and guest at the celebration, played on the same softball team as Bigoness when Bigoness first moved to Boulder. He described Bigoness as curious, social and fiercely loyal.
“In a lot of ways, he was my best friend,” said Wise. “I was looking forward to a lifelong friendship with him.”
Wise said he was amazed with the turnout Saturday evening and wished Bigoness could somehow see it.
“I just hope he knew how much he was loved,” Wise said.
A formal memorial service for Bigoness will be held in Chicago on Oct. 2. Flowers can be sent using the link legcy.co/3f6GDWa. | 2022-09-25T05:13:48Z | www.dailycamera.com | Friends of motorcycle crash victim Ryan Bigoness host celebration of his life | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/24/friends-of-motorcycle-crash-victim-ryan-bigoness-host-celebration-of-his-life/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/24/friends-of-motorcycle-crash-victim-ryan-bigoness-host-celebration-of-his-life/ |
Opinion: Sam Weaver: Measure 2E is not ready…
In this mid-term election, Boulder voters will weigh in on many important candidate races and ballot measures. I’m writing today about a highly impactful local measure regarding Boulder’s City Council elections. Voters will decide on Ballot Measure 2E, which proposes to change council elections from the odd-year cycle they have been on since 1917 to even years, thus sharing the ballot with state and national races. Boulder has low-barrier ballot access with 100% mail-in voting availability, so we can and should be intentional about proposed electoral changes.
This is an even year, so how many candidate races will Boulder voters have before them without any mayoral or council races on the ballot? Colorado (9): Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Attorney General, Board of Education, CU Regent, State Senate, State House, RTD. County (7): Commissioner, Assessor, Clerk, District Attorney, Sheriff, Surveyor, Treasurer. Federal (2): Senate, House.
Eighteen candidate races, some of which are competitive, and all of which are vitally important.
Does this dance ticket look pretty full to you? How about with another 10 to 20 City Council candidates in the mix? Five additional decisions among 15 choices would add some time and probably some talking and thinking to do to prepare to mark a now-longer ballot. Supporters of 2E, brought to voters by City Council with only a single pro forma public hearing, claim that making this change will get more ballots cast in City Council races. This is undoubtedly true, but what community values does that claim support? Which does it leave behind?
In the unexamined process through Council, very little was asked about the potential downsides of 2E, of which there are many. Three likely significant failings include a reduced number of voters in school board elections, divided voter and supporter attention, and drowning out of local concerns by clamoring state and national issues. These are each potentially damaging community outcomes, and they deserve more attention than they’ve received to date, at council or in the muted community dialogue.
The Boulder community is grounded on outstanding educational opportunities available to everyone. We live that commitment through support for Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) board candidates, as well as support for district taxes and through our families and friends. A huge flaw in the 2E proposal is the entirely unresolved situation that this change to even years would leave the school district in. If council races move to even years, BVSD races would likely see a substantial drop in voter turnout for their state-mandated odd-year board elections. Proponents of 2E claim that the necessary state law changes are already in the works to allow BVSD races to move to even years before the council change occurs. Do tell. Where are the details? What, exactly, is in the works? When will the change occur? Who is working on it and where’s the draft language? I’d want definitive answers to these questions before supporting any changes that would make school board elections vulnerable to even lower voter turnout. Without these theoretical state law changes fully realized, which they are decidedly not, the 2E proposal is unsupportable.
Before detailing more potential harms from 2E, allow me to outline the number of proposed statutory and tax measures on your ballot in this election: Colorado (11): Amendments D, E, F and Statutes FF, GG, 121-126; County (4): Issues 1A-1C and the contentious 6C library district; Boulder (6): Ballot Questions 2A-2F.
So, on this even-year election ballot, there will be 18 county/state/national candidate races and 21 state and local ballot initiatives to decide. Thirty-nine decisions, with a minimum of 78 different sides of issues asking for a share of your valuable attention. Are you feeling short of voting decisions or requests for donations this year? Or are you feeling short of time and treasure as election day approaches?
In light of the facts above, it does not seem controversial to claim that adding five Council seats and 15 more candidates will divide already-stretched voter attention. How could it not: this would be a 15-item addition to the decisions people already have to make in what, for most, is limited time. This effect is called ballot fatigue and it’s crystal clear: longer ballots lead to more people voting partial ballots and more arbitrary decisions lower down on longer ballots. These results surprise no one, just as the concept that more people will mark a ballot for City Council if the elections are held on the ballot with state/national issues is not surprising. Human behavior is predictable in certain situations and this is one of them. The question really is: what community values are affected by this change? And with good effect or bad?
A few more major unaddressed 2E flaws: increased signatures required to place a citizen measure onto city ballots, unclear impacts on voter representativeness across race, ethnicity and class, increased involvement of political parties in local elections, and a poor Council process with little public input or regard for outreach, including to BVSD. Boulder did not arrive at the balanced system of even-year national, odd-year local elections by happenstance — it works well. This ballot measure is insufficiently baked and definitely not ready for prime time.
I’m voting “no” on 2E unless I see a whole lot more firm evidence that the good outweighs the bad.
Sam Weaver is a former Boulder Mayor and Council Member (2013 to 2021) and a supporter of Save Local Elections. | 2022-09-25T12:36:12Z | www.dailycamera.com | Opinion: Sam Weaver: Measure 2E is not ready for prime time | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/25/opinion-sam-weaver-measure-2e-is-not-ready-for-prime-time/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/25/opinion-sam-weaver-measure-2e-is-not-ready-for-prime-time/ |
Boulder Opera stages ‘Puss in Boots’ and other…
Boulder Opera Company’s Winona Martin sings while performing a scene during a “Puss in Boots” rehearsal in 2020 at eTown Hall in Boulder. The classic opera will be performed in Louisville Sunday. (Jeremy Papasso/ File photo)
Boulder Opera presents Puss in Boots: This is the perfect introduction to opera for the whole family with the beloved fairytale of “Puss in Boots,” or “Gato con Botas.” The story is Xavier Montsalvatge’s version of an ingenious and quick-witted feline with magical talents. Can Puss win the princess’ hand for his master? Will he outwit the evil ogre? This is a one-hour performance, followed by a Q&A with the cast and is sung in Spanish with English subtitles. Recommended for ages 3 years old and up; 1 p.m. Sunday, Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville; $20-$25; boulderoperacompany.com.
Motorcycle and Car Show with Pancake Breakfast: Head to this fun day of cars, motorcycles, pancakes and community. There will be show cars and motorcycles of all years, makes and models. Registration and admission are free, but donations are accepted, with proceeds benefiting community seniors. Spectators and participants can cast their vote for the Cultivate Car Show winner; 9 a.m. Sunday, Cultivate Office Parking Lot, 6325 Gunpark Drive, Boulder; Free; bit.ly/3C2ja0r.
Introduction To Fly Fishing: The purpose of the class is to provide the beginner angler a framework for catching more fish. We begin with the classic two fly rig, from there we apply that to suspended nymphing and straight-line nymphing. From there we move to the park to teach casting, etiquette and simulate fishing; 9 a.m. Sunday, Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder; $80; frontrangeanglers.com.
Banned From Flight at BOCO Cider: Listen to this Boulder-based rock band play classic rock and country hits, as well as a few contemporary and original songs; 4 p.m. Sunday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
Storyhill at eTown: Billboard-charting folk duo Storyhill, featuring Chris Cunningham and John Hermanson, returns to Colorado for special concert; 7 p.m. Sunday, Etown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder; $20; etown.org.
Rodrigo y Gabriela at Chautauqua: Deep-rooted fans who discovered Rodrigo y Gabriela through their 2006 self-titled breakout album have long recognized the Mexican musicians’ mastery of their instruments. The duo have established themselves as an in-demand live act; 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder; $55-$118; z2ent.com.
The Front Bottoms at Boulder Theater: These New Jersey natives went from playing in the woods to performing in high school bands. Catch the two-piece indie-pop acoustic band in Boulder; 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $30-$35; z2ent.com.
The Pickin’ Pear at Mountain Sun: Folk ‘n’ roll duo Tia Martini and Leon Elam combine non-traditional stylings with traditional instruments and create an original mix of modern Americana music; 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder; mountainsunpub.com. | 2022-09-25T15:20:45Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder Opera stages ‘Puss in Boots’ and other area events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/25/boulder-opera-stages-puss-in-boots-and-other-area-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/25/boulder-opera-stages-puss-in-boots-and-other-area-events-for-today/ |
Great places nearby to run, see the changing…
Estes Park residents, from left, Berl Clark, Carol Clark and Carol Linnig hike down the blue bird loop trail on Sept. 24, 2020 in Caribou Ranch Open Space in Boulder County. (Timothy Hurst/File photo)
We were halfway around a curve on the Switzerland Trail west of Gold Hill during a recent Sunday run when all at once came a reboantic roar and some loud yelling. Moments later a speeding ATV came flying by, kicking up dust, dirt and stones. Two more followed, one after the other.
Ultrarunner Abby Levene on a training run last fall along the West Magnolia Loop Trail, one of the many trails off the Peak to Peak Highway that are a good way to see the fall color changes. (Kyle Richardson/Courtesy photo)
I scrambled up through holly and pine boughs up a very steep hillside, while some of the others jumped down the steep slope. After letting the dust settle, we clambered down and regrouped up front around Smitty (my long-time running buddy, David Smith), who had been a bit in front of the pack and was very nearly hit. He was very shaken up, as were some of the rest of us.
“How close did it come to you?” I asked.
“Five feet,” he said, describing how he literally dived into the woods to avoid a collision. “That was the closest I’ve ever come to being hit. I screamed out to warn everyone. So dangerous.”
The Switzerland Trail is a wonderful place to run in order to see the leaves change, which, with the advent of fall last week, is upon us (although a bit later than usual this year). It is the old grade for the narrow-gauge railroad that served the mines around Ward at the end of the 19th century, and then brought tourists into the mountains. But based on our encounter with the ATVs, it is best to avoid it on weekends, when the ATV rental company sends its customers onto the Switzerland Trail. Dirt bikes also abound on weekends.
Fortunately, there are plenty of great places nearby to see the changing leaves, according to staff at the local running stores, which often get asked by tourists for trail recommendations.
“Peak to Peak Highway,” Mark Plaatjes, owner of In Motion Running, said. “Caribou (open space north of Nederland) and Brainard Lake.”
Indeed, Peak to Peak is the gold standard of local aspen-leaf viewing. A nice trail I discovered a couple of years back is the Maryland Mountain Hidden Treasure Trail, a mile from the historic town of Black Hawk. It has plenty of parking and a gradual uphill trail, again a former railroad bed, and is popular with cyclists. If time allows, head to Central City and park near the cemetery. From there trails branch off from the road in several directions, most lined with aspen. (Added bonus; all-you-can-eat buffets, blackjack for your card counters, and legal sports wagering).
Closer to home are the several trails starting at the historic Hesse townsite just past the Eldora Ski Area and the town of Eldora. Diamond Lake in the fall is the kind of place couples should go for their honeymoon.
Being out in the midst of changing aspen leaves is one of the pleasures of trail running each fall. (Courtesy photo)
Tricia Vieth, manager of Runners Roost, said she and her family always take a fall-color outing along an unnamed trail just off the Peak to Peak Highway, a couple miles from Ward.
“Everywhere” along Peak to Peak is good leaf viewing, Veith said. “It’s gorgeous.”
Katelyn Luther, Boulder Running Company’s retail experience manager, has two local “go-to” trails — Betasso, with access off lower Sugarloaf Road and up Four Mile Canyon, and Lion’s Lair, right up Sunshine Canyon.
“They are different,” Luther said. “On Betasso you get the expansive views, looking down at Boulder. On Lion’s Lair you are running through the trees.”
Chautauqua Park is another good trail to view the colors, Luther said, and I would add the stretch of South Boulder Creek trail, south from Baseline, and, yes, the ever-popular Boulder Creek Trail, when the big Cottonwoods reach their fullest yellow expression with the disappearance of the chlorophyll in their leaves.
After running with the group on a cloudy day last week along Wonderland Lake, seeing the cattails along the water’s edge, and the sumac, shrubs and a couple of trees showing shades of yellow, orange and red, I realized that Vieth is right. “Everywhere” is indeed a good place to experience fall’s beauty and the radiance of nature. William Blake’s “Auguries of Innocence” came up during the run, with its insightful opening lines: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand /And a Heaven in a Wild Flower/Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour.”
In a note to the group later in the day after the near-collision, Smitty sent this epilogue: “Most importantly, I hope we all can appreciate how very, very fortunate we were this morning. Stay well my friends.” | 2022-09-27T00:58:39Z | www.dailycamera.com | Great places nearby to run, see the changing leaves | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/26/great-places-nearby-to-run-see-the-changing-leaves/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/26/great-places-nearby-to-run-see-the-changing-leaves/ |
Author Greg Bourke discusses marriage equality…
“Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion,” by Greg Bourke.
Author Greg Bourke discusses Marriage Equality: Greg Bourke, author of “Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion,” and his husband, Michael DeLeon, were named plaintiffs in the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case that resulted in the legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S. Bourke will visit CU Boulder’s campus to share stories from his life and his groundbreaking legal battles; 6 p.m. Tuesday, Wolf Law, Main Courtroom 101, CU Boulder campus; calendar.colorado.edu.
Author Anthony Doerr at Boulder Theater: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “All the Light We Cannot See,” released best-seller “Cloud Cuckoo Land” in 2021 — a book that follows five characters whose stories, despite spanning nearly six centuries, are bound together by their mutual love for a single book. Doerr will discuss the book at the Boulder Theater; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $20; z2ent.com.
Jam with the Jam Society: The Jam Society at CU offers a platform for young musicians to expand their musical abilities by jamming out with other musicians on Tuesdays on campus; 7 p.m. Tuesday, University Memorial Center, The Connection, First Floor, CU Boulder campus; calendar.colorado.edu.
Musical Potpourri at Faculty Tuesdays: Pianist Margaret McDonald will take listeners on a musical journey by performing works by Francis Poulenc, Fernando Obradors, Mélanie Bonis and Fazil Say. Joining McDonald on stage are her College of Music colleagues and friends Andrew Garland, on baritone, Christina Jennings, on flute, David Requiro, on cello, and Alex Gonzalez, the new assistant professor of violin; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Grusin Music Hall (C112), Imig Music Building, 1020 18th St., Boulder; Free; cupresents.org.
Seun Kuti at Boulder Theater: The Nigerian musician, singer and son of the famous Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti, leads his father’s former band Egypt 80 and stops in Boulder today. Denver Afrofunk band Atomga will open the show; 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St, Boulder; $25-$30; z2ent.com.
Water is Life exhibit at the Dairy: Artists examine our access to clean water in the new exhibit “Water is Life,” featuring work by Nicole Salimbene, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Zeke Peña, Theresa Clowes, JayCee Beyale (co-curator) and Kendall Rose Kippley; exhibit open through Nov. 19; Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; thedairy.org.
‘Lasting Impressions’ at CU Art Museum: How do museums build art collections? Lasting Impressions answers this question with a close look at the CU Art Museum’s collection of American prints. Among the first artworks acquired by the museum in 1940, prints continue to be a focus of the museum’s art collection. Open through June 2023; 10 a.m. Tuesday, CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St, Boulder; Free; colorado.edu/cuartmuseum.
Boulder Cycling Club Road Ride: Join BCC for its popular road bike ride every Tuesday, featuring riders of all types. Routes and distances vary, helmets are mandatory and lights encouraged. Stay after the ride and grab a beer and pizza at Twisted Pine’s newly renovated back area; 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Twisted Pine, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder; bouldercyclingclub.org. | 2022-09-27T19:01:29Z | www.dailycamera.com | Author Greg Bourke discusses marriage equality and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/27/author-greg-bourke-discusses-marriage-equality-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/27/author-greg-bourke-discusses-marriage-equality-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Jeff Mitton: Natural Selections: Saltbush…
Gardner’s saltbush transforms landscapes by forming mounds. (Jeff Mitton — For the Camera)
Cathedral Valley, in the northern, primitive portion of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah, features magnificent sandstone walls and spires. During a recent visit I found that the wind sculpting the stones also conspires with plants to transform a valley floor to a landscape of mounds with embedded plants. The mounds are 1 to 3 feet tall, and they bristle with vertical branches bearing leaves and tiny flowers.
I checked the lists of plants for Capitol Reef NP and found that these were Gardner’s saltbushes, Atriplex gardneri, which grow on salty and alkaline soils from British Columbia and Saskatchewan to Nevada, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. A deep taproot supports a woody base that branches profusely, producing many vertical branches with grayish-green, rounded leaves.
This plant has remarkable variation, both within populations and across its wide geographic range. Seven varieties (similar to subspecies) are recognized, and most are separated geographically and adapted to different habitats. Plants can be annual or perennial, exclusively male, exclusively female or bearing both types of flowers.
Gardner’s saltbush can have two copies of each chromosome (as is the case for humans), which is denoted 2n, or they can be 4n, 6n, 8n or 10n. These different chromosomal forms are usually adapted to different habitats.
Perplexing variation within populations is attributable to crossing among chromosomal forms and hybridization with other saltbush species. In Capitol Reef National Park, Gardner’s saltbush grows with four-wing saltbush, Atriplex canescens; shadscale, A. confertifolia; and mat saltbush, A. corrugata. It hybridizes extensively with shadscale and mat saltbush, so intermediate forms occur as well. Incidentally, shadscale has multiple chromosomal forms as well: 2n, 4n, 6n, 8n, 10n and 12n. All these sources of variation make identification of saltbush species a challenge, and even the professional systematists maintain different opinions of the formal name of Gardner’s saltbush — some call it Atriplex gardneri; others insist it is Atriplex cuneata.
In northwestern Nevada, ecologists studied a salt-tolerant plant community occupying mounds around playas, which are ephemeral lakes in shallow desert basins from which water evaporates quickly. One species typically on the mounds is Torrey saltbush, A. lentiformis. This empirical study found that wind-blown or eolian dust is very common, and it has high salt content.
They found that plants, including Torrey saltbush, germinate in crevices in barren crust. As the plants grow, they entrap wind-blown or eolian dust that accumulates around the plants. As the plants grow in height and diameter, the mounds grow to the point that they coalesce. The process of entrapment of dust to mounds around plants eventually causes the demise of the plants, for as the mound grow taller, salts become concentrated at the top of the mound, excluding plants. After the plants die, wind erodes the mound, exposing crust again. This is a recurrent, cycling process.
Similar processes form mounds in Cathedral Valley. Some of the areas around the Temple of the Moon are barren soil crusts with numerous, conspicuous cracks reaching about 3/8 inches into the crust. When occasional snowfall or thunderstorms bring moisture, it would seep into these cracks, where it would evaporate more slowly than on crustal sheets exposed to sun and wind.
A seed blowing into the crack could get a good start, sending up a shoot, developing leaves and sending roots down to find moist soil. Gardner’s saltbush has a taproot, and its roots can reach a depth of 4.5 feet. As the leaves proliferate, they baffle the wind, causing dust to accumulate beneath the plant. When a twig contacts the accumulating soil, it develops adventitious roots, allowing the plant to grow in diameter. The mound would grow in diameter as the root system expanded outward, and branches became more numerous. The soil, shaded by twigs and leaves, would retain snowmelt and rainwater much longer than the exposed desert crust, helping the plant survive and grow.
I was unable to find studies recording ages of individual plants, but repeat photography in the Grand Canyon identified four-wing saltbushes over 100 years old.
Plants that are more effective in baffling wind to collect dust and pile it as soil would grow larger and probably be able to produce more seed. Natural selection, driven by differences in reproductive success, makes the next generation of plants similar to the plants that had the highest reproductive success in the previous generation.
Gardner’s saltbush has evolved to manipulate the wind, improve water retention and to continue to grow larger as it harvests soil from the wind. | 2022-09-28T02:10:07Z | www.dailycamera.com | Jeff Mitton: Natural Selections: Saltbush filters dust from wind to form mounds | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/27/jeff-mitton-natural-selections-saltbush-filters-dust-from-wind-to-form-mounds/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/27/jeff-mitton-natural-selections-saltbush-filters-dust-from-wind-to-form-mounds/ |
Sometimes climbers and their achievements are so remarkable they make my job easy; they leave no doubt I will write about them. My last column about Madaleine Sorkin climbing the world’s hardest high-altitude free route, was one of these.
Katie Kelble, 17, on the last pitch (5.12) of The Honeymoon Is Over on her second lead attempt on Sept. 4. While she didn’t free the whole route, she learned a lot and had a great time. (John Ebers/Courtesy photo)
Now I’ve been gifted another, on the same vertical stage — the nearly 1,000-foot tall granite wall called the Diamond on Longs Peak — but on a different extreme route: The Honeymoon Is Over (5.13c). Of its 8 pitches, 3 are rated 5.13. Each of these boasts insecure movement on tiny holds, plus short, powerful sections that require poise as much as power.
This rarely climbed route had seen just one female ascent, by Sorkin, in 2016. But this summer 3 local women — Amity Warme, Lynn Anderson and Katie Kelble — stormed the climb, working both independently and together. While Amity, the veteran of the trio at 29, had plenty of 5.13 big-wall experience, Lynn and Katie ventured way beyond their previous limits.
After back-to-back success on Longs Peak’s shorter routes Sarchasm (5.14a) and Barnacle Scars (5.13, a first ascent with Josh Wharton) earlier this summer, Amity made the second female ascent of The Honeymoon. Though it wasn’t without its challenges.
On Aug. 1 she and her husband, Connor, endured a frightening thunderstorm that moved in earlier than predicted. “There was thunder, lightning and painful hail for like 40 minutes,” said Amity. During the storm they struggled up the wall to find shelter. Afterward, she said, “I don’t want to be on the Diamond anymore this season. I’m over it.”
But when Amity learned that Lynn, 25, and Katie, 17, were going up three days later, she couldn’t stay away. “The girl crew was super motivated,” she said. “I got pretty psyched on it that day.” Amity rehearsed the route throughout August, despite poor weather and perpetually wet rock.
Lynn Anderson works The Honeymoon on toprope in mid-August with Katie Kelble. (Katie Kelble/Courtesy photo)
Then, on Aug. 28, she battled cold, slippery rock and another hailstorm to find herself on the final hard move of the wall: a leftward jump to an edge. Amity leapt toward the hold and stuck it as her body swung wildly. “I heard and felt this tearing sensation in my shoulder,” she said. Yet somehow she held on. With partially torn ligaments she topped out the Diamond for a hard-won, if bittersweet, success.
Just three days later, Lynn, who has only been climbing seriously for three years, became the third woman to free The Honeymoon. She knew Katie had planned to try it, so they decided to check it out as a team on July 9.
Lynn committed every weekend thereafter to The Honeymoon, regardless of the weather. She often worked alone, trying moves on toprope. “Sometimes it was so cool to be up there dangling around, lost in the route, figuring out (moves),” she said. “And other times I was like, ‘Ahhh it’s so lonely, I wish other people were up here.’ And when Katie or Amity was up there, I was like, ‘Ohh this is so fun!'”
On her second lead attempt, Lynn dug deep to free the route with Katie belaying and supporting her effort. Incredibly, they celebrated her success by spending another cold, windy night beneath the Diamond so they could swap roles the very next day for Katie’s first lead attempt.
Katie fell several times, then got sick halfway up. Dehydrated and exhausted, she threw up on top. “It was, you know … character building,” Katie said, laughing.
Undeterred, she returned three days later, with John Ebers supporting. “My goal going into the day was to have a good time and not suffer,” she said. Though she didn’t free it, Katie fared far better this time. “I was just excited to be there, and excited to be on top,” she said. “I realized it’s OK if I don’t send this year because I still had a really good time and learned a lot.”
Regardless of “success” or “failure,” all three women on The Honeymoon this summer prioritized improvement and camaraderie. Above all, their belief in themselves and dedication to each other fashioned a synergy that elevated each climber to extraordinary heights. | 2022-09-28T13:18:07Z | www.dailycamera.com | 'Girl crew' storms The Honeymoon on Longs Peak | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/28/girl-crew-storms-the-honeymoon-on-longs-peak/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/28/girl-crew-storms-the-honeymoon-on-longs-peak/ |
Letters to the editor: Aligning with ideals;…
Zach Herring: Elections: Boulder must align itself with its ideals
Over the last few years, Americans have been in the process of dividing themselves up into buckets of “us” and “them.” Ill-informed “build the wall ” chants defined national debates about inclusion (or lack thereof). Then there are the subtler efforts than a physical wall — we’ve seen a raft of voter suppression laws across the country passed in 2021.
I’m writing this on my phone while strolling through Boulder’s beautiful open spaces. Equally beautiful are the fellow Boulderites who pass me as I walk. The retirees holding hands on an evening stroll. The families on bikes, two toddlers in tow. The students who are training for their next run meet. One out of three of those folks, eligible to vote, will nevertheless not have their voice heard in Boulder’s off-year elections next year.
Boulder sees voter turn-out nearly double on even-year elections, around 30,000 more Boulderites have their voices heard. It’s because of this that I urge this city to move elections to even years! If we want to be good stewards of where we are and the space we inhabit, there are no alternatives. Boulder must continue to make itself a place more aligned with its ideals, a place where everyone can work, live and participate in its elections.
While other conservative communities seem to have made their circles of inclusion smaller, we in Boulder have an opportunity to draw a circle just a little bit bigger and include more of the voices that make our city great. Move Boulder’s elections to even years in 2026, and support this important ballot measure in November.
Zach Herring, Boulder
Cherri Jacobs Pruitt: Lafayette: Don’t overlook town’s rich history
I am writing regarding the September 12 article, “Business is Looking Up in Downtown Lafayette.” As a 30-plus year resident of the city, I am appreciative of the article highlighting the wonderfulness of our community; however, I was also extremely disappointed in the absence of a critical component of Lafayette: its rich Hispanic history and contributions.
The article’s opening paragraph describes the Anspach family as having been here “for about as long as anyone,” dismissing the numerous Hispanic families in town who have been here for generations, not decades. And, while Anspach’s, East Simpson Coffee Co., and the Flea Market are definitely three of the town’s gems, what about the several Mexican food restaurants that are community staples and economic drivers including Efrain’s — which has been a Boulder County favorite since at least the ’70s — and Santiago’s, which started in Lafayette but has since grown into one of the biggest Mexican food chains in the Denver area and one who’s foundational component has donated over $2 million to local charities?
Another economic driver for the community that was completely omitted was the Clinica Family Health System which is not only a national — but international — model for delivering quality comprehensive health care to individuals and families at a price they can afford, not only in Lafayette but throughout Boulder County. I recommend the Daily Camera and the author of this article think twice when deciding what gets published in the future as the message being communicated is often sent by what is not included, versus what is.
Cherri Jacobs Pruitt, Lafayette
Amy Muller: Library district: Set our libraries on stable funding path for the future
Library funding is on the ballot this year for the first time in a long time, and I enthusiastically support the initiative. I love going to the library with my daughter. Especially when she was little, we would go to the children’s section and spend time looking for new books, playing on the bean bag chairs, and performing on the stage influenced by the stories she read. Now that she is older, I know that formative time spent in the library fostered her continued love of reading.
We frequent the art exhibitions in the main library which inspire and educate on topics not readily covered at school or in the media.
While our library wins national and statewide awards and does amazing things for people of every age, we should bear in mind that it does all that despite decades of underfunding and budget cuts. We can’t expect our libraries to continue delivering so many wonderful services to us without setting them on a stable funding path for the future.
I’ve heard that the George Reynolds branch in South Boulder isn’t open on Mondays anymore, for instance. Other branches have had their hours cut. Our libraries are amazing, yes. And they are asking us for support this year. I’m going to vote yes on measure 6C this year to fund our libraries.
Amy Muller, Boulder | 2022-09-28T13:18:26Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Aligning with ideals; Lafayette's rich history; libraries need stable funding | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/28/letters-to-the-editor-aligning-with-ideals-lafayettes-rich-history-libraries-need-stable-funding/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/28/letters-to-the-editor-aligning-with-ideals-lafayettes-rich-history-libraries-need-stable-funding/ |
Pearl Street’s Open Gait Art Parade and other…
After an artist parade on the Pearl Street Mall, head to R Gallery for the afterparty. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)
Learn about the James Webb Space Telescope: Learn about the largest optical telescope in space, its first science results and its data management system. Delve into the questions Webb will help us answer: Where could life form on planets? How are new stars created? When did the first galaxies turn on? There will be remarks from Rose Smith, manager of the Sommers-Bausch Observatory at CU Boulder, and Gretchen Greene, a data scientist at the National Institute of Standards. Ball Aerospace systems engineer Greg Wirth, who assisted with commissioning Webb’s optical systems, will share the observatory’s science results thus far and give a preview of what’s to come; 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Boulder Public Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder; Free; calendar.boulderlibrary.org.
Alison Ames book signing: Colorado young adult author who pens paranormal/horror stories, Alison Ames, will discuss her new book “It Looks Like Us” at Boulder Book Store; 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder; Free; boulderbookstore.net.
Qwanqwa at the Dairy: This five-piece improvisatory Ethiopian supergroup was brought together by a shared passion for East African music. The traditional strings group performs a mix of psychedelic experimentalism and regional beats; 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $17-$23; thedairy.org.
Nick Shoulders at the Fox: Arkansas-based country crooner Nick Shoulders went from a punk rocker to singer-songwriter and now his distinctive country style shines with yodeling and whistling. South Carolina indie-rock crew Susto opens the show; 7 p.m. Wednesday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $20-$25; z2ent.com.
Pendulum New Music concert: Pendulum is a concert series and forum for the creation and performance of new and original works by CU student composers, songwriters, improvisers and collaborators. Every concert features multiple world premieres by living composers and creators; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu.
Jack Harlow at 1stBank Center: After going viral on TikTok, rapper Jack Harlow gained notoriety for his Grammy-nominated hit “Industry Baby” with Lil Nas X. Hip-hop duo City Girls opens the show; 8 p.m. Wednesday, 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield; axs.com.
Delta Sonics Duo at Velvet Elk: This Colorado group brings the Mississippi Delta-style blues and jump blues to the stage; 8 p.m. Wednesday, Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder; Free; velvetelklounge.com. | 2022-09-28T17:40:44Z | www.dailycamera.com | Pearl Street’s Open Gait Art Parade and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/28/pearl-streets-open-gait-art-parade-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/28/pearl-streets-open-gait-art-parade-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Guest opinion: Mary Dolores Young: There are…
By Mary Dolores Young
Historically, the manipulation of election timing has been a tactic of partisan players to secure an edge over their rivals. Reformers of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s) sought to change these dynamics. With a goal of good governance, they set forth reforms that included off-cycle elections working in tandem with non-partisan local governance and home rule charters. Boulder’s current municipal elections reflect all three of these reforms.
In Boulder, the off-cycle election timing varies less than in other surrounding municipalities. Erie and Nederland hold municipal elections in April of even years, while Denver, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins hold theirs in the spring of odd years. Boulder’s timing mimics Federal even-year timing: November elections — thus, addressing concerns about confusion over timing.
Colorado’s recent reforms of same-day registration, mail-in ballots and automatic registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles have further reduced barriers to voting. Here in Colorado and Boulder, registration is easy, receiving a ballot at your address is automatic and mailing or dropping off ballots is convenient.
Measure 2E won’t improve our local governance. Municipal (and school board) issues are vastly different from the emotionally charged and destructively divisive partisan issues at the state and national levels. Local governments must be responsive to the basic needs of their people: clean water, housing, storm drainage, public safety, snow removal, emergency medical services, transportation, town-gown relations and K-12 education (BVSD), to name a few. Electing municipal officials based on their stances on guns and abortion is a disservice to the responsiveness and responsibilities of city government. Even-year elections would risk nationalizing our local level politics bringing polarization and posturing that would de-prioritize critically important services that affect our daily lives.
Measure 2E would not engage or inspire new people to participate in city government leadership. This is about garnering more votes by riding on the coattails of national and statewide campaigns that are primarily conducting outreach to those who are already likely to vote. Voter turnout, regardless of election timing, is lower for low-income folks, who are disproportionately people of color. Yet, outreach, regardless of election timing, typically focuses on likely voters. Political parties and interest groups focus on voters who will turn out for their issues, thus ignoring those “unlikely” to vote, most often low-income voters.
Measure 2E has unintended consequences. By changing only the timing of city council elections, remaining state-mandated odd-year elections would be significantly impacted. These “orphaned elections” include school board, state ballot fiscal measures and local ballot measures. But, without municipal candidates to drum up interest, voter turnout would likely decrease to levels with potentially deleterious effects.
We can and should work actively to focus on local issues, increase the representativeness of the city council, engage new people for local leadership roles and avoid unintended consequences.
We should:
• commit more time, effort and money to local outreach, engagement and information dissemination to unlikely voters, making the case for the importance of their vote in local elections.
• increase council compensation to encourage more diverse residents to run for city council. The work is demanding and the pay abysmal, a situation that discourages potential candidates, especially those with lower incomes.
Local businesses could conduct civic outreach to unlikely voters by:
• including generic useful voter information generated by the county or city clerk on receipts,
• distributing voter registration forms with paychecks,
• posting flyers in retail store windows and
• making non-partisan handouts available at check-out counters.
The city government could get creative about interacting with underrepresented voting populations by:
• providing incentives for landlords to distribute voter registration and other election information to low-income tenants,
• engaging our community connectors program to distribute targeted educational materials and mentor new voters, and
• printing and distributing bilingual sample local ballots. Boulder is already required by the state to provide a call-in service in Spanish. Let’s take this even further.
We can all make the neighborly case for the impact of voting in local city council elections by:
• pointing out the impact of zoning or noise ordinances or flood mitigation on a neighborhood,
• educating residents (focusing on the underrepresented) on how to bring their concerns to their elected officials,
• involving residents in creating educational materials and events focused on local issues, and/or
• holding community or student (K-12 and college) contests to generate posters and other election collateral.
These actions would be more effective in odd years by keeping a local focus and would do more for strong local governance and cultivating a local culture of voting in local elections than moving city council elections to even years.
Let’s keep our community’s local democracy and work together on changes that have real, lasting, positive impacts on unlikely voters and actively increase city council representativeness. Measure 2E is not one of those changes.
Please join me in voting NO on Ballot Measure 2E!
Mary Dolores Young served on the city council, one year as mayor pro-tem, from 2013-2021 and as chair and member of the City of Boulder planning board from 2009 until her election to the city council. She is chair of the Save Local Elections campaign. | 2022-09-29T12:32:33Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Mary Dolores Young: There are better ways to engage voters than even-year elections | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/29/guest-opinion-mary-dolores-young-there-are-better-ways-to-engage-voters-than-even-year-elections/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/29/guest-opinion-mary-dolores-young-there-are-better-ways-to-engage-voters-than-even-year-elections/ |
Letters to the editor: Support volunteer rescue…
Dot Christenson: Election: Vote to support volunteer rescue groups
Louise Bradley: CU South: A reasonable compromise has already been achieved
Question 2F on your Boulder ballot this year asks, “Should Ordinance 8483 regarding the annexation of CU South, be repealed?”
“No” means no repeal of the negotiated compromise between the city and the university passed by the Boulder City Council in September 2021. “No” means the city can begin at once the urgent work to protect our neighbors from future floods. I urge you to vote “no.”
We must recognize two immutable facts about CU South — two “inconvenient truths,” in the view of some. First, our pioneering city founders plotted their new town at the mouth of a major river and its tributaries. However unwise this is in the view of water experts it is a fact of life. It has necessitated a series of projects to protect residents. The mitigation plan under consideration this year is not the first nor will it be the last. It cannot be expected to contain all floods for all time. But it is an urgent need that should be implemented now.
Second, CU owns the property in question, purchased after Boulder rejected the plot more than once. As the owner, the university has a major say in how the land will be used. It has proven to be a generous partner. Some maps indicated all CU South as “open.” That meant unoccupied. It did not mean “open space” as undevelopable. Thorough and thoughtful negotiations between the city and the university for annexation in exchange for city utilities have achieved reasonable compromises on “open space,” land use, and development which abides by flood plain restrictions, city height regulations and further controls including traffic, light and noise.
We will achieve no better. It is time to vote “no” on question 2F, “Should Ordinance 8483 regarding the annexation of CU South, be repealed?”
Louise Bradley, Boulder
Julie Lundquist: Libraries: Districts are innovative, successful governance models
Boulder values education and equity — and libraries provide public access to educational resources for all. Proposal 6C would provide Boulder’s libraries with stable funding by adopting a common form of library governance in Colorado: a library funding district. The current inadequate funding for the library is from the city’s general fund, which depends on sales tax, and so fluctuates from year to year — and is a regressive tax. The library district would be based on property taxes, and so will be more stable from year to year, is a progressive tax, and allows the library to grow together with the community it serves.
Many communities across the state support their libraries via library districts, including Fort Collins, Erie, Nederland, Lyons, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Douglas County, Adams County and Arapahoe County. Colorado law specifies that library districts are governed with a board of trustees appointed by both city and county elected officials and that they are managed transparently, with budgetary reporting requirements directly to taxpayers.
When COVID hit, Boulder’s libraries closed for two months. Because the current funding model depends on sales tax, the libraries have yet to reopen to their pre-pandemic hours of operation. About sixty staff positions were cut, resulting in literacy, outreach, and makerspace programming disappearing. My beloved neighborhood library, the George Reynolds Branch, is still closed every Monday. By contrast, library districts across the state, like Anythink Libraries in Adams County, weathered the storm without cuts to staff, operating hours or programming. For me, the choice is simple: As an educated community that values access for all, we should invest in our libraries by using one of Colorado’s most effective — and successful — library governance models. That’s why I’m voting “yes” on measure 6C to fund our libraries.
Julie Lundquist, Boulder | 2022-09-29T12:32:39Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Support volunteer rescue groups; CU South is reasonable compromise; districts are good governance models | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/29/letters-to-the-editor-support-volunteer-rescue-groups-cu-south-is-reasonable-compromise-districts-are-good-governance-models/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/29/letters-to-the-editor-support-volunteer-rescue-groups-cu-south-is-reasonable-compromise-districts-are-good-governance-models/ |
Boys soccer: Niwot blanks rival Skyline in…
Niwot’s Bo Gardner navigates the ball past Skyline’s Angel Pereyra during the first half of their game at Niwot on Thursday. (Alissa Noe/BoCoPreps.com)
NIWOT — High school soccer rivalries always bring out the best of competition, and a top-10 matchup only elevates the excitement.
In games like that, it only takes one, as Class 4A’s 10th-ranked Niwot learned in a defensive, 1-0 win over No. 6 Skyline on Thursday night. It certainly helped that senior keeper Matt Hansen played stellar all night.
The 37th minute proved vital when junior defender Josh Ary found senior forward Eric Walker among a crowd of players. Walker emerged to take his shot and secure victory for his Cougars. That lone goal pushed Niwot to a 6-3 overall record and a 3-0 record in the Longs Peak League. Skyline fell to 7-2 and 2-1.
“Our confidence on the ball has really improved, our teamwork,” Walker said. “Not all of us have played together for too long, so getting a few games in, it really just improves that bond between the team.”
Skyline’s Carson Manes takes the ball downfield during the first half Niwot on Thursday. (Alissa Noe/BoCoPreps.com)
Skyline began its season with a long untouchable streak, dropping five opponents before taking its first loss against Silver Creek, who was ranked No. 6 at the time. The Falcons announced their presence on the 4A stage early and have continued to excel through high-talent competition.
“It all starts in practice,” Skyline junior defender Alex Duarte said. “We are really focused on what we can achieve and we’re always trying to up the level in our sport.”
Niwot, on the other hand, took a bit longer to make its mark after starting its slate with a 2-3 record. It burst onto the scene with a 2-1 overtime thriller against the same Silver Creek team.
The Cougars have been flawless ever since, knocking out three top-10 opponents in four matches, including the Falcons. Skyline, likewise, has been lethal against nearly all of its opponents, including No. 7 Lewis-Palmer.
Defense was the name of the game on Thursday, as neither team allowed the other to take much of an advantage at any point. Even after they took the lead, the Cougars constantly had to chase down the Falcons, and vice versa.
The past two years, starting with the COVID disruption, have only served to strengthen the Falcons as they grew in age and in their skill sets.
“The last two seasons were a big test for us and a good learning lesson,” Skyline coach Luis Chavez said. “Because it was a good conference, we had some tough challenges, but we’re coming back to this and trying to just get the best out of it as we’re in a different level of performance and different level of maturity.”
Now, the Falcons will look to bounce back when they host Northridge on Tuesday night as the Cougars will try to keep the fire going on the road at Thompson Valley on the same night.
“Everybody’s really proud of that zero on the scoreboard tonight because Skyline is just so dangerous,” Niwot coach Stephen Dimit said. “I can’t believe that we were able to shut them down with the speed that they have and all credit to them. This is one of the classiest programs in the state. … We love this game every year.”
Skyline’s Joshua Kalisher winds up to send the ball downfield during the first half of the Falcons’ game at Niwot on Thursday. (Alissa Noe/BoCoPreps.com) | 2022-09-30T03:49:30Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boys soccer: Niwot blanks rival Skyline in Class 4A top-10 thriller – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/29/boys-soccer-niwot-blanks-rival-skyline-in-class-4a-top-10-thriller/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/29/boys-soccer-niwot-blanks-rival-skyline-in-class-4a-top-10-thriller/ |
Panel on youth mental health set for Oct. 9 in…
Panel on youth mental health set for Oct. 9 in Boulder County
A panel and breakout sessions on youth mental health are planned for Oct. 9.
The “Breaking the Silence: Youth Mental Health” event is from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at Boulder’s Atonement Lutheran Church, 685 Inca Parkway.
Rev. Sarah Lund, author of “Blessed Youth and the Survival Guide,” will start the event with a pre-recorded message. She will be followed by a panel of youth and adults from various backgrounds. Breakout sessions will focus on schools, families, faith communities, LGBTQ concerns and suicide prevention.
Participants include Out Boulder County, Colie’s Closet and RISE Against Suicide. Event sponsors are Atonement Lutheran Church, HOPE Coalition of Boulder County and First Congregational Church of Boulder.
To register for the event and for more information, go to tinyurl.com/r99d22px. | 2022-09-30T15:14:46Z | www.dailycamera.com | Panel on youth mental health set for Oct. 9 in Boulder County | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/panel-on-youth-mental-health-set-for-oct-9-in-boulder-county/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/panel-on-youth-mental-health-set-for-oct-9-in-boulder-county/ |
Wailin’ Jennys at Chautauqua and other Boulder…
Morten Fog / Courtesy photo
The Wailin’ Jennys will perform tonight at Chautauqua.
The Wailin’ Jennys at Chautauqua: Beloved Canadian folk act, that frequently appears on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” returns to Boulder to thrill audiences with its renowned live performance; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Chautauqua Auditorium, 198 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder; $30-$48; z2ent.com.
Family Pride Night at WOW: The children’s museum is hosting an inclusive evening to celebrate to the diverse families in the community. The night’s festivities will include Drag Queen Story Hour with Shirley Delta Blow at 6:15 p.m., a DIY face-painting station, make your own pronoun buttons, a “What am I proud of” activity, community resources and information for queer families and allies; 5:30 p.m. Friday, WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette; $1; wowchildrensmuseum.org.
Fruition at Boulder Theater: From former buskers on the streets of Portland, Ore., to touring headliners, Fruition plays, along with Heavy Diamond Ring, at 8 p.m. Friday at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $25-$30; bouldertheater.com.
Strangebyrds at BoCo Cider: This local band brings the blue-collar folk to town from the songwriting duo of Cari Minor and Ray Smith; 6 p.m. Friday, BoCo Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
ATL BDR Comedy Mashup: Atlanta’s finest standup comedy show comes to the Boulder for an epic mashup featuring Boulderites and ex-Boulderites who now live in Atlanta; 7 p.m. Friday, DV8 Distillery, 2480 49th St., Boulder; $10; dv8.fun.
Life Among the Stars: While there are eight planets orbiting our sun, astronomers have found that most stars have their own planetary systems, too. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, and hundreds of billions of galaxies in our universe — each filled with stars that could be hosting their own planets. Join us as we go on a deep dive and investigate whether there might be life among the stars; 7 p.m. Friday, Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder; $8-$12; colorado.edu/fiske.
‘The Dean’s List,’ a ski film screening: Cedar Palmer Films spent the past season capturing the skiing, traveling and lifestyle of a diverse group of local skiers — some who are students and bartenders, others engineers or carpenters, but all of them would give up anything just to ski. The one-hour film will be followed by an after party hosted by DJ Elevation; 8 p.m. Friday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $20-$25; z2ent.com. | 2022-09-30T15:14:52Z | www.dailycamera.com | Wailin’ Jennys at Chautauqua and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/wailin-jennys-at-chautauqua-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/wailin-jennys-at-chautauqua-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Boulder tailor accused of unlawful sexual…
On Wednesday, the Boulder Police Department arrested Ziya Ozdemir, 43, on suspicion of unlawful sexual contact.
A tailor accused of improper sexual contact with clients is set for a trial next year.
Ziya Ozdemir, 44, pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of misdemeanor unlawful sexual contact and is set for a 14-day trial in Boulder County court starting March 13.
Ozdemir, who remains out of custody on a $2,500 personal recognizance bond, is also set for a motions hearing on Jan. 19.
Ozdemir, the owner of Uni Tailor, was arrested in September 2021 after two females, one a juvenile, reported they were touched inappropriately while their clothing was being tailored.
Following news of Ozdemir’s arrest and additional investigation, the Boulder District Attorney’s Office said eight more named victims came forward, with the incidents ranging from 2017 to 2021.
Charges for the eight new named victims were added to the case in December. | 2022-09-30T20:14:46Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder tailor accused of unlawful sexual contact set for trial | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/boulder-tailor-accused-of-unlawful-sexual-contact-set-for-trial/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/boulder-tailor-accused-of-unlawful-sexual-contact-set-for-trial/ |
Man accused of threatening calls to Boulder…
Travis Chaudoir (Boulder County Sheriff’s Office)
A Colorado man accused of making hundreds of calls to the Boulder office of U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and threatening the congressman and his staffers is set for trial.
Travis David Chaudoir, 46, pleaded not guilty Friday in Boulder District Court to stalking – repeated communication; retaliation against an elected official; and harassment.
He is now set for a four-day trial starting March 13 and a motions hearing on Jan. 11.
Since the trial date was at the request of his defense attorney, Chaudoir agreed to extend the deadline on his speedy trial rights to accommodate the trial date.
Chaudoir, who appeared virtually for the hearing, remains in custody on $50,000 bond
According to an affidavit, the charges stem from calls Chaudoir made to Neguse’s office in Boulder and his office in Washington, D.C., in May.
Staffers at the Boulder office said they received hundreds of calls in just an hour, with Chaudoir telling staff he was coming for them and would be in the parking lot.
The staff at the Boulder office were sent home for the day due to the nature of the calls and safety concerns.
Chaudoir was taken into custody on June 17, and detectives were informed that he had made additional calls to Neguse’s office earlier that same day.
According to the affidavit, police have copies of voicemail messages left by Chaudoir in which he can be heard saying, “I want you all dead”; “If I see any of you in the street, I’m dragging you down a dark alley”; and “You all need to burn in hell.” | 2022-09-30T20:14:50Z | www.dailycamera.com | Man accused of threatening calls to Boulder office of U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse set for trial | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/man-accused-of-threatening-calls-to-boulder-office-of-u-s-rep-joe-neguse-set-for-trial/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/man-accused-of-threatening-calls-to-boulder-office-of-u-s-rep-joe-neguse-set-for-trial/ |
Boulder County foundation’s new grants to…
Community Foundation Boulder County on Friday announced 63 Community Trust grants totaling $193,200 for the first round of its flagship grantmaking program, the Community Trust. The second round of Community Trust grants, for the categories of civic engagement and health and human services, will be announced in November.
“Our community partners have worked tirelessly over the last few years to meet our community’s needs in a challenging landscape,” Tatiana Hernandez, the foundation’s CEO, said in a statement. “It is a privilege to support their important work in building a more equitable Boulder County.”
The Community Trust is the foundation’s primary discretionary grantmaking program. Established in 2001, the program supports community partners working within Boulder County across the following sectors: education, arts and culture, environment, animal care and welfare, health & human services, and civic engagement. Since its inception, the Community Trust has awarded more than $6 million to support the needs of Boulder County.
In this first 2022 cohort, the education sector received $63,000 in grants. Recipients were Access Opportunity, Boulder High School, Boulder Library Foundation, Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition, Colorado Youth for a Change, Crossroads School, I Have a Dream Foundation of Boulder County, Impact on Education, National Inventors Hall of Fame, New Horizons Cooperative Preschool, Open Door, TEENS Inc., Temple Grandin School, The Family Learning Center, TLC Learning Center and Wild Plum Center for Young Children and Families.
Designees in the Arts & Culture segment included Art Studio Inc. dba Firehouse Art Center, Boulder MUSE, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Cellists for Change, Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts, Creativity Alive, Dairy Arts Center, Frequent Flyers Productions Inc., JLF Colorado, Landlocked Films, LOCAL Theater Company, two programs at the Longmont Museum, Longmont Public Media, Motus Theater, Museum of Boulder, Parlando School of Musical Arts, Shaolin Hung Mei Kung Fu Association, Society for Creative Aging/VIVA Theater, Stitching the Situation, Stories on Stage, Street Wise Arts, The Word Storytelling Sanctuary, WOW! Children’s Museum and Young Professional DJs.
Receiving grants in the Environment sector were 350 Colorado, Cal-Wood Education Center, Community Cycles, Community-Led Preparedness Training for Climate Emergencies Project, Cottonwood Institute, Eco-Cycle, Garden to Table, Growing Gardens of Boulder County, Resource Central, Rocky Mountain Butterfly Consortium, Sustainable Resilient Longmont, Thorne Nature Experience, Wild Bear Center for Nature Discovery and Wildlands Restoration Volunteers.
Grantees in the Animal Care and Welfare segment included Brighter Days Dog Rescue, Colorado Horse Rescue, Colorado Pet Pantry, Front Range Freedom Rescue Inc., Good Life Refuge, Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Humane Society of Boulder Valley and Longmont Humane Society.
Those wanting more information — including data and stories of the countywide impact of Community Foundation grant recipients — can contact Eric Schoenborn at communications@commfound.org or 303-442-0436. | 2022-10-01T00:24:53Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder County foundation’s new grants to nonprofits top $193K | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/boulder-county-foundations-new-grants-to-nonprofits-top-193k/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/boulder-county-foundations-new-grants-to-nonprofits-top-193k/ |
Boulder County sends $238,000 check to…
Boulder County sends $238,000 check to fraudulent account
Thinking it was one going to one of its vendors, Boulder County mistakenly sent a $238,000 check to a fraudulent account, according to a news release issued Friday.
Hackers, who were acting as the vendor, sent a spear phishing email to the county, which resulted in the check being “sent incorrectly,” the release stated.
“Although the county has safeguards in place to prevent these types of frauds from occurring, and we successfully thwart attacks by fraudsters several times a year, we did not catch this one in time to prevent the check from being cashed,” Boulder County Administrator Jana Petersen said in the news release. “Fraudsters continue to get more and more creative in their approaches, and we continue to enhance our safeguards to make sure to minimize the risk to taxpayer dollars.”
The county has insurance for criminal activity that it expects will cover most of the lost $238,000.
The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office will investigate the crime with help from federal law enforcement officials, the news release said.
Citing the ongoing investigation, Boulder County Public Information Officer Gloria Handyside declined to comment on the vendor’s identity.
“To make a payment, one staff member enters the transaction, and it is reviewed and approved by another staff member in the department and again by centralized accounting staff,” Handyside said in a follow-up email. “Staff are trained on financial controls and how to spot fraud before given access to the financial system. Additionally, all county staff with system access must complete cybersecurity training annually.”
Handyside said the county sees five or six “significant” fraud attempts per year.
No information was immediately available concerning when the county may receive its insurance payout. | 2022-10-01T00:24:59Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder County sends $238,000 check to fraudulent account | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/boulder-county-sends-238000-check-to-fraudulent-account/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/boulder-county-sends-238000-check-to-fraudulent-account/ |
Football: Fairview’s Zach Lewis shines in…
Senior needed just 10 carries for his 113 yards and four TDs
Tom McCartney’s pass ‘til you drop offense at Fairview has looked much more balanced this season. Rowan Risner by air, a multi-headed rushing attack headlined by a big offensive line and bruiser Zach Lewis — it’s more harmonious through six weeks this fall than any stretch in recent memory.
Friday night at Christian Recht Field, McCartney’s guys didn’t dial up a pass until the second quarter against next-door neighbor Boulder. McCartney said it was due to the rain and wind that howled through the stadium. Still somewhat strange to see (at least in the context of the team’s air raid mentality in recent years), but no doubt effective.
The Knights went up 13-0 before Risner’s first throw, and they eventually beat the Panthers for a 14th straight time, 42-0. Their offensive breakdown finished like this: 187 passing yards to 281 on the ground.
Afterward, McCartney wouldn’t say his offensive philosophy has changed. Multiple factors have led to the recent uptick in the ground game, he said, listing out the reasons — one of which being star senior Lewis.
Boulder’s Malachi Torrico (No. 1) tackles Fairview’s Ben Holly (No. 5) on Friday in Boulder. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)
“Zach, his college future is linebacker, but for us he’s an every-down player at running back because he knows our offense the best,” McCartney said. “His pass protection is outstanding, his running is outstanding, his running routes are outstanding. We just love him.”
Lewis, who features as the team’s sought-after Division-I caliber linebacker, led the way for the Knights (5-1, 1-0 Class 5A League 3), totaling 113 yards and four straight scores on the ground.
Unlike the festive atmosphere in the stands, the senior’s 6-foot-1, 220-pound frame towered over the Panthers on the field like an imminent horror movie scare. The payoff was usually him bowling over defenders, showing a kind of strength not often seen in the high school game.
In an opening half he dominated, Lewis followed a 2-yard touchdown run from Ben Holly with TDs of 5, 6 and 26 to make it 28-0. The longest of the four scoring drives went 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
He continued after the break, sealing a drive highlighted by a 36-yard streak from Risner to Holly that was hauled in despite tight coverage. His 5-yard score was his sixth TD in the past two games.
Star receiver Jordan Rechel kicked off the running clock with 3:56 left in the third, taking a screen 51 yards for the score.
“It’s most of the guys’ favorite game of the year,” Lewis smiled afterward. He’d proven it, too.
Boulder’s struggles on the field continued since its opening week 16-10 win over Centaurus.
The Panthers (1-5, 0-1) are still searching for traction under first-year coach Casey Geiger, the guy they believe can give the program some much-needed consistency going forward. But the current stretch has been tough.
Friday, their offense was inconsistent but showed some bright spots late, with a hookup between Jaden Seligman and Charlie Goetz leading a fourth-quarter drive inside the 30 before going backward. It ended as Daniel Gerlach’s 50-yard field goal attempt hit the upright.
Their defense hung tough, too, especially in the second half. Defensive back Waylon Lowery had a nice stretch in the third, when he took Lewis behind the line on a fourth down near midfield, then came up with the perfectly timed pass breakup over the center on the next drive.
Building a winning culture takes time.
“The message is the same as when we started,” Geiger said. “The three core values, it’s all about character, commitment and grit. We’re trying to make these young men better on and off the field. The focus has to be on both. Every day we have to get a little bit better in everything we do.”
Boulder will look to end its five-game losing streak at home against Fossil Ridge Thursday.
Fairview, going for its fourth straight win, is at Poudre Thursday. | 2022-10-01T05:13:17Z | www.dailycamera.com | Football: Fairview’s Zach Lewis shines in rout over rival Boulder – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/football-fairviews-zach-lewis-shines-in-rout-over-rival-boulder/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/09/30/football-fairviews-zach-lewis-shines-in-rout-over-rival-boulder/ |
Guest opinion: Art Hirsch: Colorado is falling…
By Art Hirsch
Is anyone watching our state in achieving greenhouse gas reductions as required by legislation? Are our legislators, agencies, commissions and the governor properly managing this issue?
The Colorado Sun’s Michael Booth published a news article on September 19, 2022, that details significant gaps in achieving legislative requirements for greenhouse gas reductions. As you may recall, the State of Colorado is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions statewide by 26% by 2025, 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050 from 2005 levels (House Bill 19-1261). There are numerous emission sectors that create these greenhouse gas emissions, such as transportation (the number one polluter), electrical generation, residential commercial and industrial, fossil fuels and agriculture. Transportation is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases where significant reductions have not been realized. Based on 2005 levels, 10 million tons of annual carbon emissions reductions must be achieved to meet the 2025 reduction requirements; currently, there is at least a 1.3 million ton projection gap in meeting these reduction projections.
I am concerned that the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), under the oversight of Governor Polis, will follow the Ozone Reduction Playbook and will not meet these legislative requirements. With only three years to meet the 2025 reduction requirements, AQCC commissioner Elise Jones is quoted as saying “we have a pretty big gap and it seems we need to double down on transportation.” Did Commissioner Jones and other Air Quality Control commissioners and the CDPHE just realize this?
I believe it is about time that the Air Quality Control Commission replace its existing members. How can we expect them to manage greenhouse gas emissions when they have horribly failed to address the ozone problem in the Front Range? It is about time we have Air Quality Control Commissioners who are selected based upon their actual experience and scientific and technical backgrounds and who are actually paid and not volunteers. We need to have CDPHE management who will enforce air quality requirements and not permit future oil and gas applications.
We need to hold the Air Quality Control Commission and CDPHE accountable by monitoring the Greenhouse Gas Metric Dashboard.
This dashboard is supposed to be updated quarterly and contains an introduction summary, ghg emission graph and sector metrics such as natural gas production, gasoline sales, sales of electric vehicles, etc. This is a great tool.
Finally, we need to ensure that the State of Colorado meets these greenhouse gas reduction requirements and hold Governor Polis accountable. We cannot afford to have greenhouse gas reductions follow the same path as ozone reductions in Colorado.
Art Hirsch lives in Boulder.
Guest opinion: Dan Williams: Alternative responses to 911 behavioral health calls can save lives | 2022-10-01T12:20:11Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Art Hirsch: Colorado is falling behind emission reduction mandate | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/01/guest-opinion-art-hirsch-colorado-is-falling-behind-emission-reduction-mandate/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/01/guest-opinion-art-hirsch-colorado-is-falling-behind-emission-reduction-mandate/ |
Guest opinion: Sue Prant: Will council help…
By Sue Prant
Will Boulder City Council Help Avoid Carnage on the Broadway Bike Path?
On Sept. 15, Boulder City Council voted no to streets for people and yes to private automobiles by reversing the street closure of west Pearl. This from a city council where eight of the nine members ran on a reformist platform of making Boulder safer and more pleasant for people who walk and ride bikes, consistent with our Transportation Master Plan’s direction to “prioritize the pedestrian.” The council received more than 600 emails supporting the closure.
But there is an opportunity for the council to redeem itself and live up to campaign promises. It is a situation that is much more deadly than west Pearl.
As Martha Roskowski’s op-ed on Sept. 22 laid out, CU and its partner Limelight are proposing to route large numbers of motor vehicles across an existing unsignalized crossing of the Broadway multi-use path at Grandview on University Hill as part of the construction of a conference center.
Limelight’s own study says that auto crossings of the path at Grandview will go from 70 a day to 150 to 175 peak-hour crossings and a total of 1150 per day, a 16-fold increase. This is a potentially serious conflict almost every 20 seconds with the many path users who use this vital connection.
Community Cycles has been working on this issue for quite some time, including writing a letter to the council alerting them of this deadly situation.
On June 14, Community Cycles staff and volunteers along with representatives from the city’s Planning and Transportation Advisory Boards, councilmembers Matt Benjamin and Bob Yates, city Transportation and Planning staff and CU and Limelight representatives toured the site. At that time, and during the ensuing months, Community Cycles has continued to make suggestions on how to make accessing the new CU Conference Center safer. The solution to this issue is actually rather simple. CU and Limelight could use the signaled intersection at University to access 13th street, directly in front of the conference center entrance. Vehicles accessing the new hotel garage could continue north on 13th directly into the garage.
But so far CU and Limelight have rejected this solution. According to a recent Daily Camera article, construction on the conference center is set to begin before the end of the year. This project has a long list of negotiations and long-standing memoranda of understanding between CU and the city that limit Transportation and Planning staff’s ability to make any substantive changes at the site. It seems pretty clear that the only answer to this is political.
That’s where the Boulder City Council comes in. To be fair, councilmembers Matt Benjamin and Rachel Friend stood up for the west Pearl street closure. We would expect them to do the same if this Grandview crossing on the Broadway bike path came before the council. But the fact is these CU projects aren’t like regular development projects — they don’t need to go before the Planning Board or Council. There is no process — zero! — for public input, and yet decisions are being made about public streets that affect public safety.
Community Cycles is calling on the council to step in, assert the city’s control over its own streets, and force CU and Limelight to relocate the main conference center entrance to University. Council, this is your opportunity to show you do, in fact, support bicycle and pedestrian safety.
Someone could be killed if we allow 1,150 private automobiles a day — many driven by out-of-town conference goers who aren’t used to seeing people biking and walking in large numbers — to cross one of the city’s busiest paths at an unsignalized intersection on a downhill grade, all while trying to merge onto one of our city’s busiest streets, Broadway.
Council, it is your job to, at the very minimum, keep us safe. Recently you have shown little vision for freeing Boulder from its deference to the automobile. The least you can do is try to prevent us from getting killed as we walk or bike on the paths you encourage us to use.
For the rest of us, if you’d like to voice your opposition to this deadly crossing of the Broadway bike path, please sign the petition at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/dont-kill-us-at-grandview.
Sue Prant is the executive director of Community Cycles. | 2022-10-01T12:20:17Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Sue Prant: Will council help avoid carnage on the Broadway bike path? | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/01/guest-opinion-sue-prant-will-council-help-avoid-carnage-on-the-broadway-bike-path/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/01/guest-opinion-sue-prant-will-council-help-avoid-carnage-on-the-broadway-bike-path/ |
Letters to the editor: Bennet helps our…
Bob Norris: Senate: Bennet supports legislation to help those in need in our communities
Senator Michael Bennet has introduced and supported legislation that is important to those most in need in our communities, for example, childcare tax breaks have reduced child poverty by half over the last few years without the help of Republicans.
At the same time he is opposed to tax breaks for major corporations like oil companies that are recording record profits and at the same time jacking up the price at the pump. The Republican tax break of over $1 trillion to the richest Americans and corporations is not helping you.
In the meantime, his opponent claims to be pro-life but only so much. The real problem is if he’s elected he will have no choice but to do what Mitch McConnell tells him to do. For instance, failure to help control pharmaceutical prices like insulin that now costs several times more than it did a few years ago, resulting in many people choosing between insulin and food for their families.
Kurt Fuhrman: Elections: It’s easy to lose focus on local issues
Even or odd years for voting? Those for even years say it will increase voter turnout for local issues and candidates. Those against say that it will burden votes with more information and water down local issues and candidates to those of the nation and state. I say take a look at the 2022 State Ballot Information Booklet you received in the mail this week. One Hundred eleven pages. Wow! Now, think how easy it is to lose focus on local issues. Vote “no” on even-years elections.
Kurt Fuhrman, Boulder
Indira Gujral: CU South: Does annexation really benefit everyone?
Please join us in voting “yes” on 2F to repeal the annexation of CU South. We are experiencing the secondary impacts of the pandemic, a situation where an outgoing City Council left a major community decision up to voters, many of whom are not aware of what is happening in this space. And, because of the confusing ballot language, people are confused if their beliefs are being mirrored in their vote.
What has been lost for all of us is a community commitment to finding the common values between what CU proposes, what the high flood risk neighborhoods need, the environmental impacts of developing the space and the traffic safety impacts on families in South Boulder neighborhoods. A lot of this could have been avoided through a robust community needs assessment, one that took an equity approach to create many paths to listen to all voices. But in CU’s defense, that was not an option during the pandemic.
As many of us are coming out of the pandemic, we are starting to pay attention and we are also returning to pre-pandemic challenges such as long cross-town commutes. And some of us have questions. If CU cares about climate change, racial equity, improving access to the university and lowering costs for families, why doesn’t CU consider expanding their online global campus so that more students can attend remotely? And for the City of Boulder, if the environmental impact and traffic studies show increasing stress on an already stressed community and there is a historic need to protect neighborhoods from future climate impacts, how does annexation benefit all of us?
Community trust is on the line if this annexation agreement is not repealed. The voices of South Boulder matter, please join the growing number of voices and vote “yes” on 2F.
Indira Gujral, Boulder
Joanne Sullivan: Library district: The next crisis will cut even deeper
Looking on the library’s website, the North Boulder corner library branch is now closed on Thursdays and Fridays, in addition to the short-term Monday closures this summer. As a family, we rely on the library as a safe, peaceful place to be after school.
Also, I see that George Reynolds is closed on Mondays year-round now. Carnegie Library is only accessible by appointment. The fact that our libraries can’t operate on regular hours due to the fluctuations of city funding is not acceptable. We wouldn’t accept it for our school system, we wouldn’t accept it for our fire services. We wouldn’t accept it for our parks or police.
By kicking the can down the road on library funding, we’re doing real damage to our beloved library system that serves so many of us daily. The next crisis that hits will cut even deeper. I support ballot measure 6C to form a library district this fall because I think our libraries deserve to have predictable funding.
Joanne Sullivan, Boulder
Letters to the editor: Aligning with ideals; Lafayette’s rich history; libraries need stable funding
Letters to the editor: Library board would not be beholden to community; sales tax helps ensure everyone pays | 2022-10-01T12:20:23Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Bennet helps our communities; elections are already busy; annexation doesn't benefit everyone; next crisis will cut even deeper | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/01/letters-to-the-editor-bennet-helps-our-communities-elections-are-already-busy-annexation-doesnt-benefit-everyone-next-crisis-will-cut-even-deeper/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/01/letters-to-the-editor-bennet-helps-our-communities-elections-are-already-busy-annexation-doesnt-benefit-everyone-next-crisis-will-cut-even-deeper/ |
Black Cat Farm U-Pick Palooza and other Boulder…
Eric Skokan cuts greens on his farm in 2014.
FreeForm Dance Festival: Formerly Boulder Contemporary Dance Festival (by Cindy Brandle), this rebranded event highlights Colorado’s best choreographers and companies in an all-style dance festival, curated by Boulder’s VisKosity Dance Collective; 7 p.m. Saturday, Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $10-$25; thedairy.org.
Boulder Open Studios: This annual, free, self-guided tour of more than 150 artists’ studios across the county launches today for three weekends of tours; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 8-9 and Oct. 15-16; Find maps and more info at openstudios.org/open-studios-tour.
Street Wise Mural Festival: More than two dozen artists will create 16 new murals around town and the crew at Street Wise will host guided mural tours, workshops, e-bike tours, a panel discussion, an exclusive screening of digital art films and special pop-up projection installations. Saturday is the launch party from 6-9 p.m. at Junkyard Social Club, 2525 Frontier Ave., Boulder, where there will be live music from Tigress Pantera, dance performances from Fractal Society and breakdance battle with Mi Chantili. There will be wine, food and more; Find all the info, including mural maps, at streetwiseboulder.com.
An Evening of Irish Music: Join Boulder-based Irish duo Adam Agee and Jon Sousa for an enchanted evening of Irish music, dedicated to the spirit and land of Ireland with the fiddle, guitar and tenor banjo; 7 p.m. Saturday, The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder; nomadplayhouse.org.
Night Class at BoCo Cider: The band Night Class will bring its guitar-driven tunes with vocal harmonies of The Everly Brothers, The Beatles, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson and more to the stage; 6 p.m. Saturday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
G-Space at the Fox: Massachusetts electronic artist G-Space has a unique sound that grazes multiple genres from world, funk, jazz, trap, glitch, orchestral and bass alongside passionate piano solos; 9 p.m. Saturday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St, Boulder; $16-$20; z2ent.com.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change: This off-Broadway musical comedy about dating, love, sex and relationships is explored through a series of vignettes and produced by Boulder County’s new 11 After Theatre Company, who teamed up with CenterStage Theatre Company for the production; CenterStage’s Black Box Studio, 901 Front St. Louisville; 7:30 p.m. Saturday; $26-$30; centerstagetheatrecompany.org.
Chain Station at Velvet Elk: Denver-based four-piece, high-energy string band brings its roots tunes with tight harmonies to the stage. Charlie White opens the show; 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St, Boulder, CO 80302 , Boulder; $15; velvetelklounge.com.
BETC’s production of The Children: Two retired nuclear scientists entertain an unexpected guest with a frightening question in the eco-thriller “The Children,” produced by Butterfly Effect Theatre Company; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $16.95-$39.55; thedairy.org.
Frankenstein takes a hike: Arts in the Open’s “Frankenstein” takes patrons on a moderate hike, playing out scenes set in the icy polar regions where scientist Victor Frankenstein has chased the creature he brought to life. Due to adult themes, patrons must be ages 10 years old and up; 3 p.m. Saturday, with a number of productions through Oct. 30; Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder; $16-$21; chautauqua.com. | 2022-10-01T14:57:25Z | www.dailycamera.com | Black Cat Farm U-Pick Palooza and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/01/black-cat-farm-u-pick-palooza-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/01/black-cat-farm-u-pick-palooza-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’ on…
Street Wise Mural Festival: More than two dozen artists will create 16 new murals around town and the crew at Street Wise will host guided mural tours, workshops, e-bike tours, a panel discussion, an exclusive screening of digital art films and special pop-up projection installations; Find all the info, including mural maps, at streetwiseboulder.com.
Stars and Planets at Fiske: What stars and planets are visible in the night sky tonight? Join us for an introduction to the night sky, the stars, and constellations. Then we’ll lift off of the Earth to take a tour of the solar system and learn about the other planets that orbit our own star, the Sun. We’ll also touch on some of the thousands of planets that have been discovered around other stars in the night sky; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder; colorado.edu/fiske.
Boulder Open Studios: This annual, free, self-guided tour of more than 150 artists’ studios across the county kicks off this weekend and runs noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8-9 and Oct. 15-16; Find maps and more info at openstudios.org/open-studios-tour.
Sturtz at Gold Hill Inn: Check out the acoustic strains and smooth harmonies of the quartet Sturtz when they perform at 7 p.m. Sunday, along with opener Patrick Dethlefs, at the Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Gold Hill; $15; goldhillinn.com.
Vertical Fusion show at Nissi’s: Get in the mood for the spookiest month of the year when Vertical Fusion presents “Wicked Disco,” an evening of pole and aerial dance, featuring DJ Grim Shady, at 5 and 8 p.m. Sunday at Nissi’s, 1455 Coal Creek Drive, Lafayette; $30-$35; nissis.com.
Zizania at BOCO Cider: Zizania is a new music collaboration performing vocals and melodies found world-wide in jazz, blues, samba, funk, soul, Afrobeat, reggae and more; 4 p.m. Sunday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
Mapache at Velvet Elk: This cosmic West Coast Americana pop duo belts out the harmonies and psychedelic beats; 9 p.m. Sunday, Velvet Elk Lounge, 2037 13th St., Boulder; $15; velvetelklounge.com. | 2022-10-02T16:14:27Z | www.dailycamera.com | ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’ on stage and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/02/i-love-you-youre-perfect-now-change-on-stage-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/02/i-love-you-youre-perfect-now-change-on-stage-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Letters to the editor: Business interests had…
Jennifer Hewett-Apperson: Election: Business interests have been in power for too long
We’ve had business interests in power for far too long to the detriment of workers, families, kids and the environment. Business interests are a huge reason why we are in this current housing crisis. More than 20% of single-family homes sold in Colorado were purchased by investors, not families who struggle to find affordable homes. We need representatives who understand the struggles facing everyday families, and not just the interests of a few top earners. Janice Marchman is a middle-class mom and teacher who understands the struggles of family budgets and sees first-hand through her students the many different struggles of families in Northern Colorado.
Education is a huge issue for the next generation and the current manufactured outrage is not helping kids who are struggling in so many ways. Marchman is a middle school math teacher, specifically a math interventionist who knows first-hand how to help kids thrive and succeed. Prior to becoming a teacher, Janice was a systems engineer and member of the Thompson School District Board of Education. She truly understands what is needed in schools beyond talking points, from both the administration and classroom levels, and she understands the importance of ensuring that kids have a complete education that prepares them not only for college but also for the kinds of highly skilled and well-paying trades that so desperately need skilled workers. She also understands the importance of data-driven and science-backed approaches to addressing so many of the challenges facing Colorado today.
This November, I hope that you will join me and vote for Janice Marchman for Colorado Senate District 15. It’s time to have someone who will truly represent the citizens of our district.
Jennifer Hewett-Apperson, Loveland
Lyla Hamilton: Libraries: It’s not ‘mission creep,’ it’s adaptation
Bob Greenlee (Daily Camera, Sept. 20) apparently hasn’t been to a library recently. The task of checking books in and out has never been the “solo mission” of public libraries. That particular chore is increasingly performed by patrons at self-service computer terminals or via smartphones. This leaves time for librarians to use their professional expertise to assist patrons with research questions, direct teens to homework resources and provide the story-telling sessions that encourage school readiness in young children.
Boulder’s population has grown significantly — and changed — since that long-ago time when a single librarian could manage its services. Should public libraries founded by Andrew Carnegie more than a century ago continue to use kerosene lamps and manually maintained card catalogs? Should they shun such innovations as electric lights, audiobooks, internet access or delivery programs that serve patrons with limited mobility?
Many of the programs that Greenlee suggests constitute “mission creep” are in fact responses to changing technologies and changing community needs. Moreover, the literacy programs, cultural experiences, creativity initiatives and the makerspace programs that Greenlee scorns are in fact funded by the Boulder Library Foundation, not the City of Boulder. In providing these services to the community, the Boulder Public Library is pursuing research-based best practices promulgated by the American Library Association.
It’s telling that Greenlee has to look back to 2001 to find an incident that supports his claim that librarians need “adult supervision.”
For reasons having to do with the structure of the proposal to form a Boulder Library District, I will vote against it. Nevertheless, I strongly favor respecting library staff and recognizing the value of the public goods of literacy and community engagement that our public libraries help foster.
Lyla Hamilton, Boulder
Jeannine Harrington: Elections: Don’t surrender your vote to pre-determined destiny
I clearly remember my aging auntie telling me she had never voted for anyone except Democrats. As a then young woman and mother, I thought, “how sad.” How sad to surrender your independent vote for a pre-determined person and destiny.
This fall we will hear many advertisements concerning Colorado, from both sides of the aisle, and we should independently verify those. More importantly, I am asking you to look around you, look around our state and towns and cities and schools and neighborhoods.
Do you worry that your catalytic converter or bike might be stolen because you don’t have a private garage? Do you question the “compassionate camping” mantra allowing your fellow citizens to remain homeless, camping by the side of rivers and roads? Are you mourning someone who died from a drug overdose? Do you feel uncomfortable sending your kids off to school because you worry about their safety, or that they won’t learn the essentials, or worse that they might learn something they are not yet ready to know? Do you feel safe when you step out for an early morning walk before work? When you drive around our beautiful Colorado, dodging potholes, do you wonder about the condition of things and just where all those taxes and fees paid from your hard-earned money are being spent?
Then Anya Kirvan is the representative for you! Thankfully, Anya is not a politician … that’s how we got into this mess. Anya is capable and forward-thinking (successful entrepreneur), Anya is courageous (army veteran), Anya is caring (mother, grandmother, nurse), Anya is committed (over 50 years living, loving and caring in this state). Time to call 911 and send in the ER nurse to heal Colorado! Vote Anya Kirvan for HD 12, for your children, your family, your neighborhood, your future.
Jeannine Harrington, Boulder | 2022-10-03T12:23:40Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Business interests had their chance; libraries are adapting; don't surrender your vote | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/03/letters-to-the-editor-business-interests-had-their-chance-libraries-are-adapting-dont-surrender-your-vote/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/03/letters-to-the-editor-business-interests-had-their-chance-libraries-are-adapting-dont-surrender-your-vote/ |
‘Water is Life’ exhibit at the Dairy and other…
Art work by JayCee Beyale, who is a founding member of the Creative Nations Arts Collective for Indigenous Artists, and is the co-curator of the new exhibit “Water is Life” at the Dairy Arts Center. (Courtesy photo)
Water is Life exhibit at the Dairy: Artists examine our access to clean water in the new exhibit “Water is Life,” featuring work by Nicole Salimbene, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Zeke Peña, Theresa Clowes, JayCee Beyale (co-curator) and Kendall Rose Kippley; exhibit open through Nov. 19; 2-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday; Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; thedairy.org.
Black Midi at the Fox: Member of the band borrowed the name from a Japanese music genre where a MIDI file is stuffed with so many musical notes that its visual representation looks solid black. Black Midi says its music can be exuberant, cathartic, theatrical, comic, absurdist, over-abundant, intense, cinematic, brutal, restlessly brilliant — but “almost always fun.” Catch them at the Fox; 8 p.m. Monday, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $25-$30; z2ent.com.
Impressionism at R Gallery: Impressionism, developed by Claude Monet and other Paris-based artists, involves the practice of painting spontaneously outdoors, with the subject transformed through the eyes of the artist. R Gallery’s “Impressionism” exhibit guides the viewer into the minds of the creators, open through Oct. 16; 11 a.m. Monday, R Gallery + Wine Bar, 2027 Broadway, Boulder; Free; rgallery.art.
Lyons Redstone Museum: Today is the last day before the history museum closes seasonally until June. Take a look at the collection of the area history that’s captured in exhibits, black-and-white photographs, archives records and more; 9:30 a.m., Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons; free; lyonsredstonemuseum.com.
Modern Dance Classes: Longtime artist and dance teacher Mary Wohl Haan invites dancers intermediate and above to classes on Monday nights that challenge the mind and body with movement, weight play, musicality and fun; 5:15 p.m. Monday, Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd, Boulder; $15; haandances.com. | 2022-10-03T16:28:44Z | www.dailycamera.com | ‘Water is Life’ exhibit at the Dairy and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/03/water-is-life-exhibit-at-the-dairy-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/03/water-is-life-exhibit-at-the-dairy-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Letters to the editor: Walk with a naturalist…
Frances Hartogh: CU South: Before you vote, take a walk with a naturalist
This summer I joined an eye-opening naturalist-led tour of the land known as CU South. Based on what I’ve learned — both on this tour and as a former Open Space Trustee — I’ll be voting “yes” on 2F to repeal Ordinance 8483, which annexed CU South.
This land is host to a thriving wildlife community. We sighted scores of bird species — ponds make this area a popular migratory bird stopping point. Elk, deer, foxes, coyotes, prairie dogs, bears, moose and bobcats frequent the property. The City Council’s “emergency” annexation agreement will lead to the destruction of habitat for federally threatened species, declining populations of birds and fish, and rare globally imperiled plant communities.
As I walked the land, I tried to imagine the effect on these wildlife and plant species of a 3,000-seat stadium with spotlights and loudspeakers, 1,100 residences (less than 10% affordable), 750,000 square feet of non-residential buildings, a transportation hub, hundreds of acres of pavement — a large, intensive development comparable to Downtown Boulder.
Potential damage to adjacent Boulder Open Space is also daunting. Noise, water, air and light pollution can disturb wildlife breeding, foraging, migration and nocturnal pollinators. The proposed flood-mitigation project, constrained by CU’s acreage demands, threatens critical habitat. Diverse wet-meadow species are nourished by naturally occurring underground flows in this floodplain — yet the floodwall to be constructed will impede this flow. The proposed engineering “fix” is untested and unproven.
Yes, CU owns their land. Nevertheless, without annexation to provide water and sewer, development cannot occur. Voting “yes” on 2F provides Boulder the opportunity to pursue an agreement that meets our city’s true values. Voting “yes” provides the opportunity to develop a more effective flood mitigation plan and sustain critical habitats.
Frances Hartogh, Boulder
Elizabeth Garfield: Elections: Local issues and candidates deserve their own time
Ballot question 2E, which proposes to change municipal elections to even years, is a bad idea. I read with interest a letter to the editor earlier this month arguing that because life is so complicated and busy, we should only vote on local issues in even years (when we’re voting for state-wide and national elections), in order to consolidate our “voting-related chores.” Life may be complicated, but so are local issues and candidates! Keeping local elections in odd-numbered years gives us more time to focus on the often-nuanced issues important to Boulder, more energy to knock on doors for local candidates and potentially more money to donate to those same issues and candidates.
As an example, today we received our 2022 State Ballot Information “Blue” Book in the mail. It’s 111 pages long with decisions to be made on drugs, alcohol, charitable gaming and more! I never miss an election, but if I had to digest all those pages and then figure out the differences between voting for Mark Wallach or Rachel Friend, for example, I might just pour a glass, place a bet and give up!
Ballot fatigue is a real thing. It takes a bit of fortitude to research and then vote all the way down the ballot. Vote “no” on 2E; keep our elections odd.
Elizabeth Garfield, Boulder
Ryan Welsh: Library district: Don’t wait another decade to invest in services
I recently heard someone say we can’t sustain more taxes for services because costs are already high. But Colorado has one of the lowest property tax rates in the entire country, especially compared to what my parents pay in Connecticut. Unlike ordinary increases in our property taxes due to inflating assessed home values, the 4% proposed for the library this year will bring us tangible, usable, popular services. I’m particularly looking forward to musical story time with my daughter (now five months old). Investing in our libraries means investing in shared social goods that let us build and invest directly in our community.
The library has been underfunded for decades, and that trajectory will continue getting worse if we don’t intentionally invest in it now. Historically, the library has been told “now isn’t the right time” or “not this year” — it’s always the first service to be cut and the last to be restored. The library district measure on ballots this fall has taken many years of effort, with expert guidance and direction to get here.
Anyone can go to the city’s website to see what their annual cost will be. For my family, the cost will be about $191 per year to support lifelong learning services, literacy programs, limitless access to books, all the e-books I need for help raising a kid and a public space where my daughter and I can go anytime and stay as long as we like. I’m excited to bike to the new North Boulder branch (it looks amazing), not to mention restored hours at all branches and at the Makerspace.
I’ll be voting “yes” on measure 6C because our libraries shouldn’t have to wait another decade for the community to invest in the next generation.
Ryan Welsh, Boulder | 2022-10-03T16:37:31Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Walk with a naturalist at CU South; local issues deserve time; don't wait to invest in services | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/02/letters-to-the-editor-walk-with-a-naturalist-at-cu-south-local-issues-deserve-time-dont-wait-to-invest-in-services/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/02/letters-to-the-editor-walk-with-a-naturalist-at-cu-south-local-issues-deserve-time-dont-wait-to-invest-in-services/ |
Boulder climate staffer to serve on Colorado…
Boulder sustainability senior manager Carolyn Elam has been appointed to Colorado’s Energy Code Board.
The 21-member board is tasked with reviewing, approving and recommending energy codes for new buildings and retrofits, according to a city news release. Elam brings years of experience in sustainable building practices to the board and was nominated as the solar power expert.
“I am honored to be selected to serve on this important board,” Elam said in the news release. “Buildings — the energy we use to heat and cool them, and the electricity we use within them — are a significant source of our state’s emissions. Stronger building codes, adopted statewide, will really move the needle, not just in terms of emissions reduction, but also for ensuring that efficient, healthy and resilient buildings are accessible to all communities across the state.”
The Colorado Energy Code Board will develop and adopt model electric-ready and solar-ready codes to prepare new buildings for electric vehicles, rooftop solar and high efficiency electric appliances. The board was created through a new law passed earlier this year. Cities and counties must adopt the low-energy and carbon codes created by the board by 2026. | 2022-10-04T04:21:01Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder climate staffer to serve on Colorado Energy Code Board | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/03/boulder-climate-staffer-to-serve-on-colorado-energy-code-board/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/03/boulder-climate-staffer-to-serve-on-colorado-energy-code-board/ |
Guest opinion: George Gerstle: Keep Boulder…
By George Gerstle
This coming November election will include Ballot Measure 1C asking voters to continue, without increase, the current 0.01% sales tax that supports our county transportation system. This modest sales tax (one cent on every $10 purchase) has been in place for twenty years and has paid for, or leveraged state and federal funding for, almost all of our county transportation system improvements. These improvements include adding nearly 100 miles of shoulders on our county roads, improvements to 13 intersections to make them safer and reduce conflict between users, 23 miles of regional trails such as the LoBo Trail connecting Boulder, Gunbarrel, Niwot and Longmont, and the Coal Creek and Rock Creek trail systems connecting Superior, Lafayette, Louisville and Erie. In addition, this sales tax has funded our innovative county transit services such as the FLEX connecting Boulder and Longmont to the North Front Range, the Ride Free Lafayette call and ride service, the CLIMB connecting Gold Hill to Boulder, and the Eldorado Canyon and Hessie trailhead shuttles, as well the innovative Mobility for All program that provides assistance to our mobility limited population get to work, shopping, recreation or the doctor.
If Ballot Measure 1C is not approved, the county will have no funding to improve the existing transportation system, whether roads, bikeways, trails or transit. There will be no new shoulders on county roads, and no new regional trails or underpasses will be built. There will be no county support for transit services such as the shuttle to Eldorado Canyon and Hessie trailheads. Ride Free Lafayette and human service transportation support to Via Mobility will be significantly reduced. Furthermore, without this sales tax, we will lose out on millions of state and federal transportation funds that require a local match, putting improvements to the Longmont Diagonal, State Highway 7/Arapaho, State Highway 66, State Highway 287 and the Foothills Highway at risk.
Transit connections between all our communities will be improved, including on-demand transit service connecting our eastern communities, Lyons to Boulder transit, continuing the Gold Hill Climb and creating on-demand mountain area service. In addition, the sales tax would allow the FLEX service connecting Boulder and Longmont to Fort Collins to continue.
Extending the current sales tax with no increase will result in improved safety for all users, better and more affordable access for our mobility-limited and senior residents, and better commute options for workers, CU students and faculty, and visitors to communities throughout the county. Developing an effective transportation system that serves everyone in our community and connects us to the rest of the region is necessary if we are to accomplish our climate change, air quality, safety, equity and economic sustainability goals. Approving Ballot Measure 1C is critical. Please vote “yes” on 1C.
George Gerstle is a Boulder native and retired Boulder County transportation director. | 2022-10-04T15:23:51Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: George Gerstle: Keep Boulder County moving, vote 'yes' on 1C | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/04/guest-opinion-george-gerstle-keep-boulder-county-moving-vote-yes-on-1c/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/04/guest-opinion-george-gerstle-keep-boulder-county-moving-vote-yes-on-1c/ |
Sharkive exhibit at CU Boulder and other area…
The Sharkive vault, pictured at the CU Art Museum. CU Boulder acquired the collection as part of a $1.35 million purchase in 2018. The collection includes work from more that 40 years of collaborations between world-renowned artists and Shark’s Ink, the Lyons studio of Bud and Barbara Shark. (CU Art Museum / Courtesy photo)
Shark’s Ink exhibit at CU Art Museum: This exhibition celebrates the “Sharkive,” a collection that CU Boulder acquired from Shark’s Ink, a print publisher and lithography studio directed by Bud Shark in Lyons. It includes editioned prints, production materials (drawings, mylars and proofs), shop correspondence and records. The exhibit is up through July 2023; 10 a.m. Tuesday, CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder; Free; colorado.edu/cuartmuseum.
‘Lasting Impressions’ Exhibit at CU Art Museum: How do museums build art collections? Lasting Impressions answers this question with a close look at the CU Art Museum’s collection of American prints. Among the first artworks acquired by the museum in 1940, prints continue to be a focus of the museum’s art collection. Open through June 2023; 10 a.m. Tuesday, CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St, Boulder; Free; colorado.edu/cuartmuseum.
All-ages Craft Time: Head to the museum for a day of exploration, then join others in the Art Room for a special all-ages craft time. Craft time is included with museum admission; 2 p.m. Tuesday, WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette; $7-$13; wowchildrensmuseum.org.
Drop-in Mindfulness Community: Learn and practice mindfulness-based skills in community and become familiar with the natural movement and stillness of the mind; 6 p.m. Tuesday, Naropa Community Counseling, 3400 Table Mesa Drive, Suite 201, Boulder; Free; naropacommunitycounseling.com.
Activist artist visits CU Boulder: The Visiting Artist Lecture Series is hosting a talk from New Mexico-based activist Lucy R. Lippard, a curator and author of 25 books on contemporary art, cultural studies and local history. Her recent books are “Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West” and “Pueblo Chico: Land and Lives in Galisteo Since 1814.” An early champion of feminist art, Lippard is also a co-founder of various activist artists groups; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium 1B20, CU Boulder campus; calendar.colorado.edu.
Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo at Boulder Book Store: Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, who creates thangkas — vibrantly colored, meticulously sewn, sacred fabric scrolls that act as objects for meditation — will speak about and sign her new book, “Threads of Awakening: An American Woman’s Journey Into Tibet’s Sacred Textile Art” at Boulder Bookstore; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
Karyn Ann at KGNU: Portland-based singer-songwriter Karyn Ann has been described as a combo of “Patty Griffin grit and Amy Winehouse grace. She’ll stop by KGNU’s performance studio Kabaret with folk singer Hayley Lynn; 7 p.m. Tuesday, Kabaret on KGNU, Boulder; afterfm.com/livelocal.
Ry X at Boulder Theater: Australian singer Ry Cumming, aka Ry X, will perform some indie-pop to town behind his new album “Blood Moon,” rich with folktronica; 8 p.m. Tuesday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $25- $30; z2ent.com.
Iceage at the Fox: Danish punk rock band brings the beats to Boulder and Seattle rock group Earth opens the show; 9 p.m. Tuesday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $23-$25; z2ent.com. | 2022-10-04T15:24:03Z | www.dailycamera.com | Sharkive exhibit at CU Boulder and other area events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/04/sharkive-exhibit-at-cu-boulder-and-other-area-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/04/sharkive-exhibit-at-cu-boulder-and-other-area-events-for-today/ |
Guest opinion: Sue Larson: CU is not a good…
By Sue Larson
I’ve lived in Martin Acres since 1958. My neighborhood began its decline 30 years ago, largely due to ever-increasing CU enrollment. Each year excited absentee landlords welcome CU’s bursting student rental “market,” in lieu of proper university housing. CU loves to take their students’ money but does not seem to care about them after that.
CU doesn’t care about South Boulder either. I am tired of CU bullying Boulder for decades on end. CU’s growth, as well as Colorado’s growth, is precariously unsustainable. The increasing population confronted with diminishing water supply and the deepening drought-flood cycle bodes of coming catastrophes. In my blip of a lifetime here, Colorado’s population has nearly sextupled.
Martin Acres has been CU’s Dormitory Acres for far too long. If you don’t think Martin Acres has suffered enough, just wait until CU starts trolling your neighborhood. If CU continues to grow, count on your neighborhood becoming the favorite haunt of absentee landlords with their decaying houses, with yards turned into parking lots. Sometimes your yard, your garden. Count on new people every semester filling up your trashcans. Count on not being able to get out of your driveway, because some student parked right in front of it in a drunken stupor at 3 a.m. the night before. Don’t get me started on the months-long “Semester At Sea” parking saga.
When friends of mine (professors) moved to Boulder in 1968, they were shocked at how big CU was, even then. When the Tantra development was proposed, neighbors scratched their heads: “But it’s a marsh.”
When my mother attended CU (Class of 1948), most students lived in Greek system housing or owner-occupied boarding houses. The women’s dorm was occupied by ROTC, including my father (Class of 1964). It seems that CU has always been too big for the city that hosts it.
I know and love some people on the other side of this issue, including some residents of Frasier Meadows. But something as crucial as city flood control should not be hostage to CU’s unbridled growth. CU South’s divisive proposal pits neighbor against neighbor, resident against resident, citizen against citizen.
The human race is reaching beyond its survivable apex. We are all on the same planet. Climate change shows that what goes around truly does come around — with each spin of the earth. What we do here in our little valley affects the viability of life. When the ponds were drained at CU South, all the turtles were left to die in the drying mud, because “they aren’t native.” Are you? Are we?
We have a moral demand not to take down with us the vast, voiceless plant and animal species. I would much prefer having Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mice and orchids for neighbors — not more students, staff, humans. We have enough of those.
The larger CU grows, the more Boulder neighborhoods will decline, all over the city. Students come and go. But we residents are left with their fallout, day after day, year after year, decade after decade.
Once again, CU wants to bring more people than it can house — than it is willing to house. That’s not being a good partner. That’s not being a good neighbor. CU wants to selfishly grow at the expense of fragile ecosystems, at the expense of the lives of other species, at the expense of Boulder neighborhoods, at the expense of you and me.
Don’t let them. Vote “yes” to repeal CU South.
Sue Larson lives in Boulder. | 2022-10-05T12:48:41Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Sue Larson: CU is not a good neighbor | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/05/guest-opinion-sue-larson-cu-is-not-a-good-neighbor/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/05/guest-opinion-sue-larson-cu-is-not-a-good-neighbor/ |
Letters to the editor: Return on construction;…
Paul Levitt: Construction: What will the community get in return?
The unprecedented traffic congestion caused by the construction of a hotel on the Hill invites the question: What contributions are the builders making to the city and university in return for the havoc they have created? Will the hotel owners erect a new wing to the hospital, enrich the city library, endow university scholarships, pay for street paving, build housing for the homeless? Surely the owners of the new hotel owe the Boulder community more than a building that will charge room rates only the rich can afford.
What does the small print in the contract say? If the community comes away empty-handed, they would be well advised to remove from office the members of the city council.
Paul Levitt, Boulder
Nanci LaBianca: Election: Rob Woodward will continue good fight for Colorado
I am a registered Democrat but will be voting for Rob Woodward this next election. He embodies what most constituents want in a senator: honesty, experience, commitment to the people of Colorado — not advancement of his own political career.
Rob co-sponsored 44 bills in the 2022 legislative session with great success for working families. In other years he co-sponsored bills concerning student crisis services, school security, landowner wildfire mitigations, veteran/military status with fair housing, inclusive higher education opportunities and extended homestead exemptions to Gold Star spouses.
He supports teachers, seniors, students, people with disabilities, emergency responders, community colleges and all other Coloradans. He gets out and visits with people and actually listens to their concerns, then tries his best to advance bills that solve problems.
He has reached across party lines for bipartisan cooperation, interested in pragmatic solutions rather than political drama. Rob has extensive knowledge of small business, taxes and economics.
Rob has worked to find mental health solutions for students and housing affordability for Colorado families. He demonstrates integrity with love for his family, state and country. Rob is the man we need in the state Senate — to continue the good fight for all Coloradans.
Nanci LaBianca, Loveland
Rachel Daly: Banned books: Voters have opportunity to fight censorship
National Banned Books Week was last month, and I was pleased to read so much coverage in the Daily Camera about it. It’s troubling that book banning is on the rise, even resulting in libraries closing, librarians being threatened with jail time and armed mobs showing up at school board meetings. We live in precarious times for democracy.
The incoming president of the American Library Association, Emily Drabinski, said last month on Twitter that “Underfunding libraries is slow-motion book banning,” and it’s been on my mind ever since.
Our libraries and schools are only as strong as the investments we make in them, and those investments must be intentional ones. Without investment, our public institutions can’t withstand the waves of attacks that seek to block access to information, important ideas, identities, and topics about race, gender and religion.
This year, we have ballot measures for both libraries and schools, so voters will have a concrete opportunity to fight these growing waves of censorship and authoritarianism happening across the country. This is especially true for the Boulder Library, on the ballot as Measure 6C. The library has been chronically underfunded and is struggling to keep its branches open regularly due to staffing cuts, but Measure 6C will finally put it on a long-term, predictable funding path. I hope my neighbors will join me in voting “yes” for both libraries and schools, because without our public institutions, access to information and freedom to read become based on what you can pay for, and that will hurt the most vulnerable among us.
Rachel Daly, Boulder
Chris Norris: CU South: Brokered deal offers little, takes a lot
In September of 2021, just two months before the general election and vote on Measure 302, which would require the public to vote on a very significant change in the character of the city, the Boulder City Council voted to approve an emergency annexation of the area known as CU South, apparently for the express purpose of circumventing public input on the annexation. There was no reason for the City Council to declare the situation to be an emergency: The major flood had happened eight years prior, and for the council to declare a need for an “Emergency” resolution, they would have to define the need by describing analogous situations that also warrant the special powers of an emergency resolution. City Council did not make this defense before or after the resolution. I argue they did not make the defense because there is no defense of their Emergency Annexation.
When powerful interests wish to silence the voices of the people, one must ask one’s self, Why? In this case, I believe it is because the citizens of Boulder, a famously astute population, would see through the folly of the deal the council brokered, how it offers so little, and takes so much.
Chris Norris, Boulder | 2022-10-05T12:48:53Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Return on construction; Woodward fights good fight; censorship is on ballot; CU South is bad deal | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/05/letters-to-the-editor-return-on-construction-woodward-fights-good-fight-censorship-is-on-ballot-cu-south-is-bad-deal/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/05/letters-to-the-editor-return-on-construction-woodward-fights-good-fight-censorship-is-on-ballot-cu-south-is-bad-deal/ |
Opinion: Priscilla Dann-Courtney: The habitual…
By Priscilla Dann-Courtney | Daily Camera
Last Saturday, I took a handstand workshop at my yoga studio. Not because I want to become a gymnast at 65 years old but because I wanted to take a risk and see the world from a different perspective.
For years I’ve enjoyed flying up on my hands as long as I knew a wall was there to catch me if I tumbled. But the freedom of being upside down in the center of the room eluded me. Our usual ways of doing things may feel safe but can also be restricting, binding us to the familiar versus growing in new ways. Habits and routines are comfortable and organizing but may also rob us of exploration, curiosity and personal growth. Negative habits that include addiction to drugs, alcohol and nicotine obviously inhibit our health and wellness, yet positive habits that may become mindless as we age also keep us jailed. The world is a very large room, and we can miss so much if we stay in the comfort of our corners.
Priscilla Dann-Courtney
Even the daily predictability of certain habits such as exercise, meditation, yoga and healthy eating can inhibit our experience of mystery and wonder. We drive the same route without clear vision and awareness. How often do we arrive at a familiar destination with no memory of the route we frequently travel? It is important to stay in touch with the intention behind these acts. Initially, we may have adopted certain habits for our personal health extending out to community and further out to creating a better world. But that spiritual intention of kindness and compassion toward ourselves, others and our planet may get lost if daily ritual encourages a rigidity versus flexibility. We function on auto-pilot, void of deliberation, intentionality and purpose. When we are disassociated and disconnected in our actions and habits, presence goes by the wayside. Presence allows us to be aligned with what our emotional and spiritual self yearns for and that naturally changes over time. Flexibility versus rigidity allows for a bigger sky and a breath of fresh air, opening us up to possibilities and new choices.
Overuse injury occurs physically when we do repetitive movements over an extended period of time. Emotional misalignment can occur with repetitive behaviors void of consciousness. I find that standing on my hands has less to do with strength and more about internal alignment as I connect to my present experience on a feeling level. I finally realized that waiting for my fear to subside was futile. I had to accept fear, and “stand” in my shoes as I stood on my hands. I was aligned with the truth of the moment encouraging my physical alignment. Alignment on so many levels guides us in making decisions about the next right thing. When our compass is our heart, mind and body, our direction gains clarity.
Often taking a new risk professionally, traveling to a new place, starting a new relationship may feel scary and take us away from the familiar, yet it is in allowing discomfort that we grow. I remember physical growing pains in my legs when I was a child. Now it is growing pains and discomfort as adults that will “stretch” us in new ways. When I work with individuals in therapy, discomfort emotionally is a positive sign signifying hope for change.
It can be humbling beginning something new, but humility is good for all of us, and continuing to be a student as we age is essential. Becca Levy, Ph.D., has conducted groundbreaking research indicating that positive beliefs about growing older and our continued ability to change and take risks actually lengthen our life span. Simultaneously, it is helpful to remember that we don’t have to let go of many of our predictable daily activities that we may have embraced for years. Security and predictability remain cornerstones of physical and emotional health. Yet we can adjust our relationship to our habits by substituting mindful awareness for the automatic as we listen to our changing desires for personal and universal transformation. Then there is the freedom to stretch boundaries by sometimes choosing different forms of exercise, different meditations, different music, different foods, different relationships and different professional endeavors. Celebrating differences on so many levels encourages personal and universal health and well-being. The “walls” we lean against may actually contribute to our “falling” into a life of mediocrity. Each of us will have different versions of taking a risk and standing on our hands. But for all of us, walls can be hardened structures that do not allow the light to come through.
Priscilla Dann-Courtney may be reached through her website: priscilladanncourtney.com
Email: priscillacourtney3@gmail.com. | 2022-10-05T12:49:05Z | www.dailycamera.com | Opinion: Priscilla Dann-Courtney: The habitual may be a bad habit | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/05/opinion-priscilla-dann-courtney-the-habitual-may-be-a-bad-habit/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/05/opinion-priscilla-dann-courtney-the-habitual-may-be-a-bad-habit/ |
In just about a month, Boulder voters will be faced with a decision regarding whether to move City Council elections to even years.
Ahead of that vote, supporters and opponents on Wednesday evening debated the merits of the measure in a conversation hosted by the League of Women Voters of Boulder County.
Those in support — represented on Wednesday by City Council member Matt Benjamin and the People for Voter Turnout campaign — argue that moving City Council elections to even years is a simple proposal.
And it’s one that will increase voter turnout and provide easier access for groups less likely to vote on off-years such as people of color, renters and younger voters. There’s almost double the turnout in even-year elections in Boulder.
“Boulder’s off-cycle elections are inherently the problem,” Benjamin said, adding that the goal of the People for Voter Turnout campaign is to break down the limitations and biases of the current election system as well as the timing of elections.
The opposition — represented by former Mayor Sam Weaver and Brooke Harrison with the Save Local Elections campaign — argue that’s simply not the case. A switch to even-year elections would ultimately take focus away from local issues and lead to more polarization, opponents argue.
Additionally, Weaver argued the concept could benefit from additional consideration, which should have included conversations with Boulder Valley School District because the move would sometimes leave the school district coordinating odd-year elections on its own.
Having City Council elections at the same time as federal and state races will strip focus from local matters, which can be more nuanced and have a greater impact, opponents noted.
“A move of council elections to even years will divide attention between the candidates and issues that are on the ballot now as well as for donors and volunteers,” Weaver said.
Opponents argue this will ultimately lead to ballot fatigue, or the idea that voters will abstain from voting in lower ballot contests.
“Ballot fatigue is real, and we know that it will happen in Boulder,” Harrison said.
In response, Benjamin pointed to the conversation hosted on Wednesday: a discussion about a local matter in an even-year gubernatorial election.
And even taking rolloff, or ballot fatigue, into account, even years still lead to tens of thousands additional people voting in local matters, he said.
Both sides tend to agree that engagement and outreach could be a successful tool if the city hopes to improve turnout, particularly among low-income voters and people of color.
Improved outreach could include offering landlords incentives for distributing voter registration to low-income tenants; engaging Boulder’s community connectors to distribute educational materials and mentor new voters; and printing and distributing bilingual sample local ballots.
The opponents, however, would say additional outreach is the best solution for impacting turnout, whereas even-year election supporters would say it’s a “yes and” situation. City Council elections should move, and Boulder should improve its outreach efforts, supporters say.
The idea to consider a charter change to move City Council elections to even years was a council priority, agreed upon by the majority in the council’s annual retreat at the beginning of the year.
Since then, there have been a few council discussions and one public hearing on the upcoming ballot measures in which people testified for and against the proposal.
Ahead of officially sending the measure to the ballot and in response to feedback from opponents and the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, the City Council made some changes to the proposal brought forth by the council majority.
If it’s approved, for example, the measure would no longer require extending the nine current City Council members’ terms by a year. Instead, regular municipal elections would switch from odd years to even years beginning in 2026.
That allows the direct election of the mayor through ranked-choice voting to begin in 2023, the time frame set forth in the ballot measure Boulder voters supported and the preference of Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Molly Fitzpatrick. | 2022-10-06T05:19:08Z | www.dailycamera.com | Even-year elections debated in Boulder forum | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/05/even-year-elections-debated-in-boulder-forum/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/05/even-year-elections-debated-in-boulder-forum/ |
Guest opinion: Corey Kohn: Libraries are the…
By Corey Kohn, Nichole Nurenberg and Emily KenCairn
Boulder is known for many things. A world-class university, incredible parks and trailways, high-performing school districts, and an award-winning library system. Those of us who have started and grown small businesses here understand the value of calling Boulder home for many of these reasons.
But we are struck by the situation happening to the Boulder Public Library. Decades of underfunding have led to closed branches and limited programs and services. We see strong libraries as vital to a thriving, diverse community, and this is why we support this year’s ballot measure to form a library district.
Libraries are the center of our communities and one of the last non-consumerist public spaces we have. There are not many other places in town where you can reserve a room to study or work, complete with wifi, presentation screens and a closed door. There are not many other spaces where you can launch your business using professional equipment and tools. Not many other spaces where you can sit, think, watch, read, write, create, listen and simply “be,” without anyone telling you to buy something and move on. Libraries are remarkable, revolutionary institutions in this way. And supporting them must be intentional.
Because without intentional support, we end up where we are today. Today, our Boulder libraries are operating on reduced hours, with reduced staff, a reduced books and digital materials budget, offering reduced services, all despite growing demand.
According to the May progress report to the Boulder Library Commission (the appointed board that oversees the library’s operations), new cardholders have nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels, while door counts have doubled what they were last year in Q1. Book checkouts grew by 40% over 2021, and attendance to storytimes and classes grew by 57% over the first quarter of 2021.
The BLDG 61 makerspace, which gives people the tools to launch and run a business, is open only a couple of days a week now. This summer, the NoBo corner branch closed on Mondays due to staff shortages. Cornerstone programs like BoulderReads, the library’s 40-year adult literacy program, are severely limited.
Even though the City’s 2023 budget promises to restore funding for cuts made in 2020, the library will still be operating at 2002 funding levels, adjusted for inflation. The struggle to compete with other City services like fire and public safety will continue, with the library almost always losing out. Our library deserves adequate, predictable and fair funding.
Library districts create this predictability because they are based on property taxes that allow the library to grow along with the community it serves.
Opponents of the district have asserted that library district governance is an issue, but we think voters will agree that Colorado’s nearly 60 other library districts are proof positive that library districts work. Their governing boards are appointed by elected officials and have one job: to focus on running a great library!
We, the members of the community built and paid for our libraries. Community members before us over the last 100 years got grants and raised money specifically to build these libraries. Those buildings will remain in service to this very same community into the future.
The proposed library district includes a plan to upgrade them to meet current energy codes, leaving a low carbon footprint so they can adapt to climate change. Does the city have a funding plan to even maintain the buildings in their current state? Take a look around Colorado, and you’ll see that the library systems with green, sustainable buildings — Greeley, Thornton, Brighton, Parker, Highlands Ranch — are all library districts.
We must be intentional about one of our community’s most beloved, equitable and necessary institutions. Our libraries are part of why Boulder is home. If we do nothing and keep our libraries in the state they’re in now, we stand to lose even more in the future. Please join us in voting “yes” on the library district.
Corey Kohn is the CEO and co-founder of Dojo4. Nichole Nurenberg is the founder and CEO of Jai Mix. Emily KenCairn is the founder and principal at Regenerative Pathways. | 2022-10-06T14:58:38Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Corey Kohn: Libraries are the center of our communities | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/guest-opinion-corey-kohn-libraries-are-the-center-of-our-communities/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/guest-opinion-corey-kohn-libraries-are-the-center-of-our-communities/ |
Letters to the editor: Necessity of Fossil…
Susie Law: Fossil fuels: Scalable wind, solar only possible thanks to natural gas
To all of you who are in favor of ending the extraction and burning of fossil fuels: Surely you live off the grid since scalable wind and solar is only possible thanks to natural gas. And of course, you only wear clothes made of cotton, wool, hemp or silk, since the stretch in your yoga pants and the nylon in your outerwear are made from petrochemicals. And obviously, you don’t care about feeding the world since tractors run on gasoline and fertilizers are made from natural gas. So you must eat solely from your organic, hand-farmed vegetable garden. Is this really the life you want to lead?
Susie Law, Denver
Connie Herbst: Christian Nationalism: People came here for the freedom of worship
Christian Nationalism? Nothing Christian about this movement. A “minister” in Tennessee recently staged a book burning. Echoes of Nazi Germany?
Many of our forefathers were Deists. Many of those who settled in our country came because they wanted the freedom to worship as they chose. That tenet still applies to this country.
Many of these “Christian Nationalists” subscribe to the QAnon lies. One of them is unable to carry a bible right side up. Stop and think about what these people propose to do — take your vote away, attack our Capitol, spread lies and take away women’s rights. Be very careful.
Connie Herbst, Broomfield
Carl Heck: Election: Trump’s wishful thinking can work elsewhere
If you’re voting Republican this fall, no need to cast your ballot, you can simply think about it!
Carl Heck, Aspen
Robert Sachs: CU South: Flood mitigation must be primordial concern
This letter is intended to express the views of a South Boulder household that has not necessarily followed the flurry of technical arguments both in favor of and against developing the CU South site. From our perspective, we can accept some of the merits of a reasonable approach to additional growth in Boulder, provided the utilities, services, amenities, road capacity and potential hazards have been sufficiently addressed.
However, it must be readily apparent that the case of the southeast quadrant of Boulder is quite exceptional in that the majority of residents actually live in a floodplain, and the safety and well-being of the thousands of those currently residing in this sector must take precedence in any decision-making regarding future land use options.
We’re not in a position to categorically state that the flood mitigation envisioned as part of the new project will be inadequate and expose us to even greater risk, we’re not cynical to a point of claiming that the hydrological measures included in the development proposal are nothing more than a bone thrown to pacify the “SEBNA no-growthers.” Instead, our vote to repeal the agreement is simply aimed at forcing the City Council to once again pursue those strategies, unfortunately shelved during the CU South deliberations, focused exclusively on obtaining the acreage needed to implement the most effective and resilient flood mitigation solution, and this completely independently of CU’s pressure to build out its site. In other words, flood mitigation in Southeast Boulder must be the primordial overarching concern and not relegated to the status of a political bargaining chip during a development negotiation.
Robert Sachs, Boulder
Alycia Murray: Libraries: District would remove burden from the city
City Councilperson Bob Yates and his Orwellian-named “Save our Libraries” group are engaging in the worst kind of negative campaigning to torch ballot initiative 6C, which would create a sustainably funded library district in Boulder and Boulder County.
As a 25-plus-year resident of Boulder (and as a librarian with nearly 15 years as a substitute in the Boulder Public Library), I find these actions inconceivable. Each year city departments (the library is one) engage in an annual beg-a-thon for funding. Depending on what is happening in the city, and based on the sales tax revenues for the previous year, the library gets more or less, but rarely enough to meet the demand, as Boulder (and Boulder County) have continued to grow and the city tries to meet other critical demands.
The library has automated many services, library workers wear more hats than ever before, and the library foundation steps in to pay for nearly all programming, but despite all these efforts, Boulder Public Library’s funding is neither adequate nor sustainable. Librarians are like teachers — they work in the library because they believe in the mission — but just because library workers provide great service (often with a smile!), it does not mean that the library is well-funded nor that we are meeting the needs of the community, especially those who might benefit most.
Creating a library district would mean Boulder Public Library would be one department off of the city’s books, one department that would no longer be a cost center for the city. Why do Bob Yates and his group cry the equivalent of “everything is fine/change is scary/no new taxes!”? It’s unconscionable politics. Vote “yes” on 6C, fund our libraries, and let Yates know that we expect more from our politicians.
Alycia Murray, Boulder | 2022-10-06T14:58:51Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Necessity of Fossil fuels; freedom of worship; Trump's wishful thinking; flood mitigation concerns; removing city burdens | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/letters-to-the-editor-necessity-of-fossil-fuels-freedom-of-worship-trumps-wishful-thinking-flood-mitigation-concerns-removing-city-burdens/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/letters-to-the-editor-necessity-of-fossil-fuels-freedom-of-worship-trumps-wishful-thinking-flood-mitigation-concerns-removing-city-burdens/ |
Teton Gravity Research screens ‘Magic Hour’ and…
“Magic Hour” screens at the Boulder Theater Thursday. (Nic Alegre / Courtesy photo)
‘Magic Hour’ screening at Boulder Theater: Get hyped for winter with Teton Gravity Research’s new feature-length ski and snowboard film, “Magic Hour,” with two screenings; 6:45 and 9:15 p.m.; Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $10-$20; z2ent.com.
Sundance’s 2022 Indigenous Short Film Tour: As part of the Dairy Arts Center’s Indigenous festival this weekend, visitors can watch six short films directed by Indigenous filmmakers. The program includes fiction, documentary, animation and experimental works from around the world; 4:30 p.m. Thursday; Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $12; dairyarts.org.
BETC’s production of The Children: This is the final weekend to see this play where two retired nuclear scientists entertain an unexpected guest with a frightening question in this eco-thriller; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday (Friday’s production will feature a post-show conversation with the actors), and 2 p.m. Saturday; Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $16.95-$39.55; thedairy.org.
Airborne Toxic Event at the Fox: The Los Angeles indie alt-rock crew will bring their hits to the Fox; 8 p.m. Thursday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $35; z2ent.com.
Surviving Auschwitz, a Holocaust Survivor’s Testimony: Zev Harel will give testimony about his struggles for survival at Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee. Born in 1930, in what is now present-day Romania, Harel faced multiple anti-Jewish restrictions before Hungarian authorities forced the family into a ghetto. He was deported to Auschwitz in 1944; 12:30 p.m. Thursday, CU Boulder campus; Free; calendar.colorado.edu.
Kristen Ford at BOCO Cider: Nashville indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist does live looping shows that layers beatboxing, harmonies, guitar and drums; 5 p.m. Thursday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
‘The Trouble with My Name,’ a one-man show: This high-octane, poignant and humorous show features Javier Ávila, who moves between cultures to dispel misconceptions about Latinx identity. He’ll tell the story of his life and read poetry that illustrates what it means to be the American of the future; 5:30 p.m. Thursday, CU Boulder, Old Main Chapel, 1600 Pleasant St. Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu.
Susan Moon book signing: Writer, teacher and longtime Zen Buddhist Susan Moon will speak about and sign her new book, “Alive Until You’re Dead: Notes on the Home Stretch,” at Boulder Bookstore; 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
Authors discuss ‘Courageous Discomfort’: Authors Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman will discuss their book “Courageous Discomfort,” an empowering handbook that fosters productive discussions about race; 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Boulder JCC, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder; Free; boulderjcc.org.
Sofar Sounds pop-up show: Hear Boulder musician John Brewster join a few surprise artists for a stripped-down Sofar Sounds Session. Sofar Sounds (or secret gigs) is a global music community that connects artists and audiences through live music. Patrons can bring their own booze, but outside food is not permitted; 7 p.m. Thursday; Wonder Wonder, 1685 29th St., Suite 1268, Boulder; $18; sofarsounds.com. | 2022-10-06T14:59:09Z | www.dailycamera.com | Teton Gravity Research screens ‘Magic Hour’ and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/teton-gravity-research-screens-magic-hour-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/teton-gravity-research-screens-magic-hour-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Boulder Progressives told to stop using city…
The Boulder City Clerk’s Office last week issued a cease and desist letter to the Boulder Progressives after it listed the city’s municipal building as its mailing address on its September newsletter.
In the letter to the organization, John Morse, the city’s elections administrator, told the Boulder Progressives it was to cease and desist from using the Boulder Municipal Building address, 1777 Broadway, as its mailing address for newsletters.
“The city of Boulder does not handle mail or deliveries for Boulder Progressives or any other person or entity,” Morse wrote in the letter.
Morse advised the Boulder Progressives to change its mailing address and said he emailed the organization on Sept. 20, left a voicemail Sept. 22, Sept. 26 and again in response to an email question from Boulder Progressives on the evening of Sept. 26. The Boulder Progressives responded the next day to ask what it was in violation of, the letter said.
“You are misrepresenting the mailing address for Boulder Progressives on your campaign materials,” Morse wrote in the letter. “You are violating the disclosure and reporting requirements of the Boulder Revised Code.”
Deanna Kamhi, spokesperson for the city, said the city is not aware of the Boulder Progressives using a city address for anything else in the past. She said Boulder was first notified about the issue on Sept. 20.
In the letter, Morse said the Boulder Progressives listed 160 S. 34th St. Boulder, 80305 as its address when it filed with the city ballot measure committee. He told the Boulder Progressives, if this address was not correct it had until the end of the day Friday to correct it.
Sarah Huntley, a Boulder spokesperson, said the Boulder Progressives emailed the city on Sunday, saying the organization’s address had been amended. | 2022-10-07T01:20:26Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder Progressives told to stop using city municipal building as mailing address | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/boulder-progressives-told-to-stop-using-city-municipal-building-as-mailing-address/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/boulder-progressives-told-to-stop-using-city-municipal-building-as-mailing-address/ |
After a lengthy discussion on Thursday, Boulder is inching closer to approval of a budget that’s more than half a billion dollars.
However, the conversation, which included a public hearing with about 20 speakers, concluded after the Camera’s print deadline.
The proposed $513.5 million budget, which includes all city funds, represents an 11% increase from what the City Council approved in 2022 when Boulder largely kept its focus on restoring services that were cut during the pandemic.
Some highlights of this year’s proposal identified by city staff include:
• About $2 million for wildfire resilience and emergency response, including hiring three additional firefighters and staffing and resources in Open Space and Mountain Parks to increase wildland-urban interface management;
• Just under $1 million for a non-law enforcement response team for nonemergency and low-level behavioral health services;
• About $1.1 million for case management and homelessness solutions, including a day services center;
• Nearly $1.3 million to continue Boulder’s public space management pilot program and add an encampment management team and additional urban park rangers; and
• A little more than $25 million for infrastructure projects funded by the city’s recently extended capital infrastructure tax, which includes funding for the Boulder Fire-Rescue Station No. 3 construction.
There are likely to be a few minor changes, including $80,000 being allocated for additional trash management strategies.
Safety was perhaps the most regularly mentioned topic during Thursday’s hearing, with almost every commenter touching on it in some way.
Most of the people who signed up to speak advocated for the city’s public space management pilot program, which instituted an in-house encampment clearing team, downtown ambassadors and more, and argued Boulder should put money toward its police department.
Zoe Rhodes-Wolin, a ninth grader at Boulder High School, typically rides her bicycle along the Boulder Creek Path to and from school every day.
But after experiencing harassment on her ride by those living along the path, she said she now takes the far busier Arapahoe Avenue to school.
“We should feel safe riding a bike to school on a bike path for 10 minutes in the morning … and 4 in the afternoon,” Rhodes-Wolin said in Thursday’s public hearing.
In response to many of the concerns, Councilmember Junie Joseph questioned whether the safety-related problems are more about the police department budget or about its ongoing staffing challenges.
The current proposed 2023 Boulder Police Department budget is about $1.5 million higher than its current budget, Senior Budget Manager Mark Woulf confirmed.
Indeed, it is more so a staffing issue, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold noted. The department has the budget to fill the open positions, but it’s currently down 29 officers.
Still, she acknowledged that the community’s concerns are valid.
“We desperately need to get those numbers up because it’s taken a toll,” she said. “The community harm that we’re seeing is real.” | 2022-10-07T04:07:27Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder conducts public hearing on 2023 budget | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/boulder-conducts-public-hearing-on-2023-budget/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/boulder-conducts-public-hearing-on-2023-budget/ |
Boulder’s JVA Inc. named 2022 Corporate…
Boulder’s JVA Inc. is the recipient of Out Boulder County’s 2022 Corporate Changemaker Award.
“JVA, Inc. is deeply committed to LGBTQ equality and inclusion and it shows in their practices as an employer and commitment as a responsible community member. They are a rarity in the corporate and engineering sector,” Out Boulder County Executive Director Mardi Moore said in a news release. “Many LGBTQ people feel unsafe at work making openly affirming and inclusive employers like JVA, Inc. critical.”
In addition to coordinating employee resource groups representing young professionals and a Women’s Innovation Network, the engineering firm recently established an LGBTQ employee resource group that recognizes and enhances diversity and inclusivity for LGBTQ+ communities and allies, the release states.
Further, the firm has offered training on pronoun usage, suggested books to read to employees and shared relevant resources with staff.
JVA representatives will accept the award at the 2022 Gayla at the St. Julien Hotel in Boulder. | 2022-10-07T04:07:33Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder’s JVA Inc. named 2022 Corporate Changemaker | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/boulders-jva-inc-named-2022-corporate-changemaker/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/boulders-jva-inc-named-2022-corporate-changemaker/ |
Softball: Boulder wins first league title in 25…
Boulder’s Annali Langenegger secures a base hit during the Panthers’ home matchup against Adams City on Thursday afternoon. (Alissa Noe/BoCoPreps.com)
BOULDER — “Regional qualifier” sounds pretty good, but “league champion” sounds even better.
On Thursday on its own home field, Boulder softball earned both titles in its 11-7 win over Adams City during the 4A/3A Colorado League championship game.
The Panthers secured their first league crown in 25 years and, in doing so, they ensured their spot for a Class 4A regional tournament next week. It came a year after they secured a regional bid but fell just short of a league title.
“I’ve been waiting for this for so long,” senior left fielder Hannah Lowitz said. “Even though we beat this team twice, it’s just so impressive to see us all come out and just win it. I played for four years and my first few seasons, we didn’t make it too far. Our season ended mid-September. Last year, we did great, but this year, we came through, and it’s so awesome to see my last year end on such a good note.”
Boulder softball celebrates at home plate after Sophia Pereira (5) hits a two-run home run during the Panthers’ home matchup against Adams City on Thursday afternoon. (Alissa Noe/BoCoPreps.com)
Sophomore pitcher Sophia Pereira, junior center fielder Mariana Zatloukal, senior Annamarie Sorenson, sophomore catcher Sophie Jones and Lowitz each batted two runs in as sophomore Annali Langenegger added the other. Pereira complemented her own performance with eight strikeouts in the pitching circle.
Pereira got the party started in the first inning when she hit a two-run moonshot over the left field wall. Sorensen and Jones kept the rally going with RBIs of their own to help the Panthers build up a 4-1 advantage after just one frame.
By the end of the third inning, that lead increased to 8-1 before the Eagles began creeping back in, thanks to a series of unfortunate Boulder errors. Adams City made it interesting as the game started to wind down in the top of the sixth when it sent three runners across the plate to pull within just two runs, 9-7.
Boulder shut the Eagles down after that.
Langenegger and Lowitz added a couple of RBIs to the scoreboard in the bottom of the sixth before the Panther defense sent Adams City packing.
The gritty finish followed the same theme that has defined the Panthers’ season all year long, as they improved to 16-7 ahead of the regional tournament.
“It was a fight this year,” head coach Courtney Geib said. “I think we came in not knowing what our season was going to look like. We took it one day at a time, we really improved over the course of the season. We found good lineups. We had different players playing different roles all season and we came through at the end.”
Now, the Panthers must wait to see where CHSAA sends them for the first round of the postseason. Lowitz believes her team is ready for what lies ahead.
“Teams should fear us, period,” she said.
Boulder’s Sophia Pereira pitches during the Panthers’ home matchup against Adams City on Thursday afternoon. (Alissa Noe/BoCoPreps.com) | 2022-10-07T04:07:51Z | www.dailycamera.com | Softball: Boulder wins first league title in 25 years – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/softball-boulder-wins-first-league-title-in-25-years/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/06/softball-boulder-wins-first-league-title-in-25-years/ |
Boulder Bach Festival welcomes 42nd year!
Boulder Bach Festival
Boulder Bach Festival 2022/2023 Season
By Wendy McMillan |
Autumn is upon us, and with it comes tantalizing abundance to captivate and delight the senses: golden leaves ablaze, heady cinnamon-apple fragrance…and the warmly anticipated new season of the Boulder Bach Festival.
An annually occurring concert series that focuses on 500 years of music composition, the Boulder Bach Festival (BBF) is described as “navigating the waters of music history with J.S. Bach as its compass”. Since 1981, the nationally-renowned festival has enveloped and embraced its audience with thoughtful, dynamic programming across local stages. Now entering its 42nd year, BBF has much to celebrate.
Much like shift into fall, each new BBF season has brought a sense of evolution, conducive to joy, reflection, and appreciation. “What began as a weekend every spring celebrating J.S. Bach’s influence on a myriad of thinkers and artists, ranging from other baroque-and-beyond composers to Thelonius Monk, Jane Goodall, Eddie Van Halen and Albert Einstein, has developed into a year-round season presenting educational events that explore robotics, language, history, musical styles and more, and main season concert events that feature some of the most inspired and insightful musical artists from Europe and the United States,” says Music Director Zachary Carrettin.
For this 2022-2023 BBF season, full season pass holders will have admission to the five distinct inspiring concerts, presented in some of the finest acoustic environments — each intimate, visceral, and clear. For all attendees, BBF goes beyond the pure beauty of the music itself, layering in a resonant educational component that enhances the experience even further. “When one attends a BBF concert, they can expect to learn about the music in its original context, including cultural forces that led to stylistic innovations,” says Mina Gajić, Artistic and Executive Director.
Book your season passes or one-time tickets today for the BBF opener on October 15. This “Journey to France” with Jory Vinikour will lift and transport your soul. Acclaimed as one of the outstanding harpsichordists of his generation, Jory Vinikour has received multiple GRAMMY nominations. Performing regularly at the finest opera houses and festivals in Europe, his solo harpsichord recordings and performances in all of the world’s great concert halls have placed him as a leading interpreter of baroque music in our time.
As conductor and harpsichordist, Vinikour brings passion and polish to performances that elevate the concert experience with grace, style, spontaneity and intensity. You’ll hear J.S. Bach’s own ideas about French style in his French Overture, followed by a grand virtuosic suite of Rameau — all contextualized with Vinikour’s fascinating musicological anecdotes.
A glimpse of the upcoming season
OCTOBER 15 // Journey to France with Jory Vinikour
4 p.m., Longmont Museum Stewart Auditorium
DECEMBER 16 // Christmas Across the Ages with Claire McCahan and CORE
7:30 p.m., Broomfield Auditorium
FEBRUARY 11 // Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe in Recital
APRIL 8 // Sonic Alchemy with Mina Gajić, YuEun Kim, and Coleman Itzkoff
4 p.m., Gordon Gamm Theater, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder
May 13 // Grande Amore with Ysmael Reyes, Zachary Carrettin and CORE
4 p.m., First Congregational Church, Boulder
To learn more or to purchase tickets visit: boulderbachfestival.org
Wendy McMillan
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Opinion: Steve Pomerance: There is still a lot…
Last Friday, I participated in a debate with former Mayor Sam Weaver about the CU South annexation referendum ballot measure. The Boulder Rotary Club sponsored it at their regular meeting at the Jewish Community Commons. The first thing on the screen, before the debate even started, was the ballot title, “Shall Ordinance 8483, regarding the annexation of CU South, be repealed?”
The announcer cleared up the confusion resulting from this oblique wording by explaining to the audience that a “yes” vote supported repealing the annexation itself, and not some peripheral issue. I thought that this was incredibly thoughtful of the Rotary Club. The council should acknowledge having put a confusing title on the ballot and publicly clarify what the ballot measure means at their meetings.
A few issues emerged in the debate that I thought deserve some quick comments. The statement that a “500-year” detention pond is “not feasible” is really a statement about CU’s unwillingness to provide enough land to build a proper “500-year” pond that is not too deep. A shallow pond could avoid increasing the flow rate under the U.S. 36 bridge and flooding more land immediately downstream when the water starts to flow back into the creek as the creek’s flood flow drops. (By the way, I have been unable to extract from the city the details of these alleged regulations.)
Adequate land is not available because CU wants 129 acres with “500-year” protection for its own development. So Boulder neighbors to the north only get a “100-year” pond for protection. And when the next big flood occurs, as climate change ensures it will, CU’s land will likely be high and dry while the neighbors’ land may be under water. Also, remember that a significant portion of the 2013 floodwater came from the Viele Lake area to the north, and will completely bypass whatever detention pond is built. Thus, measures such as floodproofing buildings and installing sewer lining and backflow preventers should be done irrespective.
Correcting some other misconceptions: CU is not giving the city all of the open space land; CU is selling the majority of it for $37,500 per acre. The housing to be built on CU South, other than 10% of the units, is not required to be affordable, versus the city’s required 25% permanently affordable units for all other development. CU is only required to construct 2 sq. ft. of residential for every 1 sq. ft. of non-residential. (To grasp how small this is, compare your own housing and workspace.) So we can reasonably expect that the on-site students, faculty and staff will fill up all the available housing and then spill over, creating more pressure on prices elsewhere. And the rather opaque water deal apparently exchanges CU’s untreated, seasonal ditch rights for the city’s highly reliable year-round treated water.
In the library district ballot measure, I note that the district’s property tax revenues have no limits on how much they can increase. Everyone knows that housing values have gone up fast, both because we’ve managed to keep the Boulder area relatively nice and because our excessive job growth has put enormous pressure on housing and thus on prices. This rapid price escalation means that the library district’s property tax revenues could grow much faster than costs. Leaving aside other issues, like its unelected governance, etc., the ballot measure should have included a revenue growth restriction: Revenue increases should not exceed population growth plus inflation. That would provide some limits on tax payments.
One issue the proponents of even year council elections have avoided is that elections are not just about voters. Council elections also require participation by citizens who campaign for their preferred candidates, and who contribute money so that information can get out to voters. Having to do this work in an even year, on top of trying to elect good candidates to national, state and county offices, is going to really overload the folks that devote a lot of time, work and money to these activities.
Without this active participation by lots of people, city council races would become effectively partisan, with slates playing a determining role, and lots of money spent obliquely (to avoid campaign finance restrictions). The likely result is unbalanced outcomes that favor those well-heeled interests with skilled political consultants.
Many former city council members, who have been through this multiple times, support continuing our odd-year elections, as do some sitting council members. Shifting to even years will just make our election process worse and should be voted down.
Steve Pomerance is a former Boulder council member. Email: stevepomerance@yahoo.com | 2022-10-07T12:22:38Z | www.dailycamera.com | Opinion: Steve Pomerance: There is still a lot of election confusion to clear up | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/07/opinion-steve-pomerance-there-is-still-a-lot-of-election-confusion-to-clear-up/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/07/opinion-steve-pomerance-there-is-still-a-lot-of-election-confusion-to-clear-up/ |
Angus Drummond takes a break from the oars and tries his luck fishing a foam line near the river bank. Note the off-color water. (Ed Engle/Courtesy photo)
By Ed Engle |
While Angus Drummond was busy backing his drift boat down the ramp and into the Lower Colorado River, I walked a short distance along the bank to where an angler was busy landing a fish.
An above average sized brown trout caught from the Lower Colorado River. (Ed Engle/Courtesy photo)
“That’s a pretty nice brown trout,” he exclaimed as he carefully removed his lure from the trout’s mouth and released the fish.
By the time I’d witnessed the trout’s return to the river, Angus had the boat in the water and John Gierach was readying himself to climb aboard. I motioned him to move to the front seat of the boat and headed to the rear seat.
I took the bank angler’s success as a good omen for our day of fishing. This was a leap of faith because when John and I arrived in Silt the day before and walked down to take a look at the river it was definitely off color. You might even say dirty. Several other more descriptive “potty mouth” words were uttered, but I won’t go there.
The condition of the river wasn’t a total surprise. When I talked with Angus a week earlier, he said that there had been some mudslides over the past several years and the off-color water had become close to a permanent feature. However, it was fishable in the early season and tended to moderate and become fishable in the later season. Nonetheless, it was still a shock when we first saw the water.
Angus Drummond with an average size Lower Colorado River brown trout. (Ed Engle/Courtesy photo)
Initially, I was hoping to repeat a memorable trip I’d taken with Angus before the pandemic. We pounded the banks with grasshopper imitations for the better part of the daylong float. It was dry fly paradise.
This time around Angus let me know about the impact of the mudslides, which at one point actually precipitated some fish kills. He said that we might still catch some trout on the surface, but we’d probably want to suspend a nymph or two below our dry fly to up our chances of success. In addition, we should come prepared to fish streamers, too.
“You’ll catch trout, but it may not be exactly the way you hoped for,” he said.
When we first saw the river, I briefly wondered whether we would catch any fish at all, but quickly reminded myself that you have to trust your guide and I trusted Angus. A number of years ago we’d worked for the same outfitter guiding fly fishers on the South Platte River. He was already a superlative guide then. I told people that nobody gets a better drag-free drift whether fishing a dry fly or nymph than Angus, and nobody can teach that skill better than he can.
Over time Angus got more and more interested in floating anglers on the Gunnison River and eventually moved to Newcastle on the Colorado River where he opened his Colorado River Fly Fishing Outfitters guide service.
Rainbow trout and brown trout are commonly caught from the Lower Colorado River along with an occasional Cutbow (shown here). (Ed Engle/Courtesy photo)
I did let John know what Angus told me about the river conditions and we agreed that we’d still do the trip. We’ve both been at this long enough to know that when it comes to guided trips, or for that matter any fishing trip, it’s one day out of 365 days and you take what comes your way.
Before we pushed off into the river, Angus suggested that we should try to cover all the bases in regards to fishing techniques. One of us would start off fishing streamers and the other would go with a dry fly and two droppers. John’s fly rod was already rigged with a sink-tip fly line to which he knotted a black streamer to the tippet. I went with a big Chubby Chernobyl look alike dry fly with a beadhead pheasant tail nymph and Zebra midge nymph as droppers.
Angus headed to river left to start us off and John hooked up a rainbow trout on his first cast. After that the off-color water didn’t seem quite as menacing. I fished the dry fly dropper rig for a while, but after John hooked up again I switched over to a streamer. We managed to land several nice trout apiece during the morning and had a bunch of follows and “near-takes” before things slowed down.
Angus Drummond specializes in floating fly fishers down the Lower Colorado River. (Ed Engle/Courtesy photo)
We then went to dry fly dropper rigs and fished the foam lines near the banks. Angus kept us focused on getting good drifts on the edges between slower moving water and well-defined foam lines. He also made sure we fished any gentler riffles near the banks.
We didn’t catch one fish after another, but I’d say for the most part the fishing was steady. We caught mostly brown trout with a few rainbows.
A day of fishing comes in all shapes and sizes. There are those perfect days when the hatch comes off and you catch trout right and left. There are other days when it’s all you can do to hook and land any trout at all. I like the in-between days where things may seem a little grim, but the river surprises you. Maybe the weather is horrible, but the fishing is great. It might be that the river is off color, but the trout are pounding streamers.
Then, on a day when conditions seem most difficult, come signs of hope. You witness a shore fisherman catch a trout before you even put the boat in the river. Your pal hooks up on his first cast. A nice brown trout takes the large dry fly you’re drifting down a foam line.
As the day unfolds, you’re still catching a trout here and there. By the end of the float, you realize that you’ve caught your share under trying conditions and say to yourself, “That’s miraculous!”
Visit EdEngleFlyFishing.com to see Ed Engle’s blog, “The Lone Angler Journal.”
Angus Drummond guides float trips on the Lower Colorado River, Roaring Fork River, Gunnison River Gorge and the Lower Gunnison River. For more information, check out coloradoriverflyfishing.com.
Ed Engle | 2022-10-07T15:20:03Z | www.dailycamera.com | Fly fishing the Lower Colorado River | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/07/fly-fishing-the-lower-colorado-river/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/07/fly-fishing-the-lower-colorado-river/ |
Cause of Boulder trash enclosure fire deemed…
Boulder Fire-Rescue has determined that a September fire at 885 Arapahoe Ave. was accidental, caused by the improper disposal of oil-based stain covered plastic.
At about 2:20 a.m. Sept. 21, Boulder Fire-Rescue units were dispatched to a fire on Arapahoe Avenue. Firefighters found a trash enclosure on fire, with flames in a tree next to the enclosure and beginning to spread to a wall of the Highland City Club building. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading.
According to a news release, the oil-based stain covered plastic was placed in a compost trash container in the enclosure. The materials appear to have ignited spontaneously. The plastic sheeting had recently been used to cover windows from painting work at a multi-family building on the property. | 2022-10-07T18:06:58Z | www.dailycamera.com | Cause of Boulder trash enclosure fire deemed accidental | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/07/cause-of-boulder-trash-enclosure-fire-deemed-accidental/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/07/cause-of-boulder-trash-enclosure-fire-deemed-accidental/ |
Rosenberg’s closes short-lived Boulder bagel…
Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen, a popular eatery that opened its first Boulder outpost at 1262 College Ave. on University Hill last spring, has closed. (From The Hip Photo/Courtesy photo)
Rosenberg’s Bagels & Delicatessen, a popular eatery with locations in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood and in Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace, opened its first Boulder outpost on University Hill last spring to great fanfare. Now, little more than a year later, that location has closed.
Pollack, who called the decision to close the Boulder shop the hardest decision of his life, used a public comment session on Boulder’s municipal budget to chide city leaders for what he considers to be deteriorating conditions on the Hill and call for an increased law enforcement presence in the neighborhood.
“I had high hopes that the Hill would be a place where all members of the community could come, not just college students,” he said. But “vagrant(s)” and “crime” make the neighborhood “an unattractive place for people to travel to.”
BTRG has lost “countless amounts of dollars, and employees have to clean up human feces and urine daily,” at the Boulder shop, Pollack said. “The police don’t have the funding they need to patrol the neighborhood.” | 2022-10-08T01:01:27Z | www.dailycamera.com | Rosenberg’s closes short-lived Boulder bagel shop | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/07/rosenbergs-closes-short-lived-boulder-bagel-shop/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/07/rosenbergs-closes-short-lived-boulder-bagel-shop/ |
Android Jones’ trippy immersive Fiske show and…
Lyons-based psychedelic artist Android Jones is bringing his 30-minute project, “Samskara,” to Fiske Planetarium this weekend. (Courtesy photo)
Samskara by Android Jones at Fiske: Lyons-based psychedelic artist Android Jones is bringing his 30-minute project, a collab with 360art that specializes in fulldome projections, to the planetarium for two nights of immersive shows. Based on ancient Vedic tales and Sanskrit mantras, the artist takes a journey through the consciousness and beyond the mind to discover the inner self — from creation, through evolution, corruption, conflict and destruction, to eventual rebirth, and a path to enlightenment. Android Jones will host a Q&A after the final screenings on Saturday and Sunday; 6, 7:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday and 3:30, 5, 6:30 and 8 p.m. Sunday; Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder; colorado.edu/fiske/samskara-fall2022.
Lafayette Music Festival: More than 20 musical acts will fill the stages at five venues during the Lafayette Music Festival. From a nine-piece soul outfit to bluegrass, blues and indie pop, all festival acts are local and diverse. The festival runs from noon to 11 p.m. Saturday and tickets cost $40-$45; lafayettemusicfest.com.
Indigenous Traditional/Social Dance Showcase: As part of Creative Nations Indigenous Festival that runs through Monday, three different dance groups representing the Pueblo of Jemez in New Mexico, Apache Crown Dancers from McNary, Arizona, and Hopi Dancers from Second Mesa in Hopi, Arizona, will perform during a traditional dance showcase; 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday; Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; free; thedairy.org.
Boulder Phil’s Hymn to the Earth: The Phil explores the consequences of human greed and indulgence through musical allegory, including Strauss’s vivid tone poem, “Don Juan,” and the world premiere of Drew Hemenger’s “Ozymandias,” featuring Matthew Plenk, tenor, and presenting the Boulder Phil Chorus in its inaugural performance. The program also includes Abels’ “Global Warming,” Mozart’s “Overture to Don Giovanni” and Wagner’s “Trauermusik from Götterdӓmmerung”; 7 p.m. Saturday, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder; $22-$94; boulderphil.org.
Earth Surface People Concert: This Indigenous jazz collective, founded by producer and songwriter Yellowhorse, synthesizes R&B with fusion, jazz and art-rock elements, under the guise of contemporary indigenous expression; 7 p.m. Saturday, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $12-$15; thedairy.org.
Story Collective presents Unexpected: Hear an evening of storytelling and music, as storytellers will take the Junkyard stage to spin yarns and share tales under the theme “Unexpected”; 7 p.m. Saturday, Junkyard Social Club, 2525 Frontier Ave., Boulder; $20-$25; storycollective.org.
Boulder Children’s Chorale Concert: The choirs of the Boulder Children’s Chorale will share highlights from their fall camp in “I Dream a World,” an interactive performance of folk songs and tales from around the globe; 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Atonement Lutheran Church, 685 Inca Parkway, Boulder; boulderchorale.org.
Derek Dames Ohl at BOCO Cider: Derek Dames Ohl plays with Flash Mountain Flood, a five-piece, Boulder-based psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll jam band, but he’ll go solo at this show, channeling his inner Grateful Dead; 6 p.m. Saturday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
Hearts and Hands Michaelmas Gift Market: Shop handmade gifts, including beeswax candles, pottery, herbal products, eco-dyed silk and handmade wool scarves, felted creations, jewelry, and other art a made from natural materials by local artisans; 10 a.m. Saturday, Tara Performing Arts High School, 4180 19th St., Boulder; Free; facebook.com/events/584189940162638.
Wind Symphony at the Rayback Collective: Grab lunch and hear the CU Wind Symphony during an afternoon of chamber music. Selections will include works by Émile Bernard, Hirokazu Fukushima, Joseph Bologne, Kevin Day and more; 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder; Free; cupresents.org.
Here Come the Mummies at Boulder Theater: This eight-piece funk-rock band brings its unique sound to Boulder, while shrouded in mummy gear; 8 p.m. Saturday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $22-$27; z2ent.com. | 2022-10-08T16:54:08Z | www.dailycamera.com | Android Jones’ trippy immersive Fiske show and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/08/android-jones-trippy-immersive-fiske-show-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/08/android-jones-trippy-immersive-fiske-show-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Artists’ Open Studios and other Boulder events…
“All Together Now” a sheep sculpture by Giuseppe Palumbo can be seen outside of the Eldorado Springs Art Center. ESAC is one of the spaces participating in Open Studios. (Kalene McCort/Staff Writer)
‘Mad God’ Screening with Alex Cox: Join us for a special screening of “Mad God,” the nightmarish stop-motion masterpiece 30 years in the making from the legendary visual effects mastermind Phil Tippett. Filmmaker Alex Cox (“Repo Man” and “Sid and Nancy”) will be on hand to present the film and offer a Q&A afterwards. The fully practical stop-motion film is set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs; 2 p.m. Sunday, Muenzinger Auditorium, E050, CU Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu.
Boulderthon: This half- and full-marathon will bring in more than 4,000 runners from all over the world. The race starts Sunday at 7 a.m. and will wrap on the Pearl Street Mall with a big expo party; 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday; 1420 Pearl St., Boulder; boulderthon.org.
Frankenstein Theater Hike: Arts in the Open’s “Frankenstein” takes patrons on a moderate hike, playing out scenes set in the icy polar regions where scientist Victor Frankenstein has chased the creature he brought to life. Due to adult themes, patrons must be ages 10 years old and up; 3 p.m. Sunday; Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder; $16-$21; chautauqua.com.
Louisville Farmer’s Market: Enjoy a Sunday morning of acoustic music at the Louisville Farmer’s Market with Boulder musician John Brewster who recently released his debut album “42°” and will be performing his original music and covers from the 60s to today; 9-11 a.m. Sunday; Louisville Farmers Market, 824 Front St., Louisville; realfarmersmarketco.com.
Denver Record Collectors Expo: The expo is celebrating its 29th year as the region’s premiere music-collectors show. There will be more than 50 dealers from across the country selling LPs, 45s, 78s, CDs, posters and music memorabilia with more than 100 tables; 10 a.m. Sunday, The Delta by Marriott, 10 E. 120th Ave., Northglenn; $2; bit.ly/3fTwNHK.
Indigenous Public Memorial and Reflection: The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma will present their historical perspectives through singing, storytelling and narration in the event “Re-membering 1864…from Fort Chambers to Sand Creek the Future is Now”; 3 p.m. Sunday, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder; Free; bit.ly/3eLeMKX.
David Booker at BOCO Cider: Denver-based David Booker channels Chuck Berry, has backed Bo Diddley, and opened for Los Lobos. Hear his love of rock ‘n’ roll, R&B and folk blues through his music; 4 p.m. Sunday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com. | 2022-10-09T13:46:56Z | www.dailycamera.com | Artists’ Open Studios and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/09/artist-open-studios-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/09/artist-open-studios-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Guest opinion: Zen Dochterman: ‘Great…
Hustle culture and “grinding” might still dominate in America. However, it is therefore more important than ever to pay attention to what these anti-work films say: Perhaps work does not hold the key to happiness, fulfillment and the good life. (Dreamstime/TNS)
Zen Dochterman is a lecturer of writing at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Guest opinion: Charles G. Lief: Prop 122 can open door to promising mental health treatments
Guest opinion: Lauren Folkerts and Nicole Speer: Boulder’s libraries need champions | 2022-10-09T13:47:15Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Zen Dochterman: ‘Great resignation’? ‘Quiet quitting’? America’s anti-work movement has long cinematic history | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/09/guest-opinion-zen-dochterman-great-resignation-quiet-quitting-americas-anti-work-movement-has-long-cinematic-history/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/09/guest-opinion-zen-dochterman-great-resignation-quiet-quitting-americas-anti-work-movement-has-long-cinematic-history/ |
Letters to the editor: Pull the plug on Pueblo…
Chris Hoffman: Energy: Pull the plug on Pueblo 3
“Colorado has fallen alarmingly behind statutory goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions for 2025 and 2030.” This is the big takeaway from a new state report to the Air Quality Control Commission. An analysis by Western Resource Advocates shows a gap of 1.3 million tons annually by 2025.
Just a few days before this news appeared, Xcel’s coal-fired plant in Pueblo (“Comanche 3”), had once again broken down … this time in a sudden outage during a heat wave. Pueblo 3 has frequently been offline or unable to generate electricity for a cumulative two years since 2010.
Earlier this month, CORE, the state’s largest electric cooperative, announced that it was exercising its right under agreements with Xcel to withdraw its ownership in the coal plant in Pueblo. “Our fundamental claim is that through many of these instances over the years, they have failed to prudently operate the plant,” said Jeff Baudier, CEO of CORE.
Colorado Xcel customers are paying over $100 million per year to keep the coal plant generating profits for Xcel whether it is working or not. Xcel has stated the plant is not needed in terms of system reliability.
Since we are falling behind in our efforts to cut greenhouse gasses and the state’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gasses is an expensive lemon that should never have been built, it seems quite clear that it’s time to close the plant down. Pull the Plug on Pueblo 3.
Chris Hoffman, Boulder
Nathan Seidle: Library district: Chamber doesn’t represent my business in Boulder County
I own SparkFun Electronics, a homegrown Boulder business of 20 years. The Boulder Chamber’s decision to oppose the library district makes no sense to me. The chamber is no ally to small businesses surrounding this library campaign.
Businesses can pay our fair share, it’s in our best interest and it’s good for the community. Of all the ways to increase my business, getting the best employees into Boulder ranks at the top, and libraries help create an educated workforce. I’ll happily pay $10,000 more towards my annual $300,000 tax bill to make a better community for all.
I have huge respect for librarians. The data is on their side. Libraries are also good for the economy, your local librarian can help you research the studies that show that.
Watching library funding conversations for the past decade, it’s clear to this financially-minded businessman the city does not have the funds to keep up with public demand or give the community the library they want — especially after the pandemic.
I’m voting “yes” on 6C — 56 library districts in CO can’t be wrong. Districts are a popular form of governance in Colorado, and those libraries didn’t make cuts during the pandemic.
Nathan Seidle, Boulder
Phyllis Ortman: Election: Woodward has worked across the aisle
Rob Woodward has been an excellent conservative legislator for our district. With an opposing party as governor and majority in both houses in Denver, he co-sponsored 44 bills in the 2022 legislative session by working together across the aisle. His prime interest — working families and small businesses (the lifeblood of healthy communities and local economies) because he knows tax and regulation issues. He worked to pursue federal money needed to finish I-25 North and worked for mental health issues and housing affordability for Colorado families and kids. I’ve known him as a community volunteer providing his sandwiches for ball teams, firefighters, school groups, and everyone who asks for years and years! He is an impressive candidate and a community friend — well worth our continued support for Senate District 15.
Phyllis Ortman, Fort Collins
Serafina Scalo: Bees: We need to ban bee-killing pesticides
My Saturday morning visits to the Boulder farmers market are often a highlight of my week — I love seeing the vibrant selection of produce, honey and baked goods, and even more so, connecting with the people who made them. However, there is a major threat to this beautiful community and greater Colorado agriculture: pollinator die-offs.
Roughly 75% of all food crops need animal pollinators to some extent, yet nearly one in four native bee species is at risk of extinction. We rely on bees to pollinate apples, cherries, avocados, almonds, coffee, pumpkins, the alfalfa used to feed dairy cows, and my personal favorite at the farmers market, Palisade peaches. Without pollinators, the beautiful Boulder farmer’s market wouldn’t have many goods to sell, and all the joy and community it creates would be lost.
While causes for bee die-offs include complex issues like loss of habitat, disease and changing climate, there is one simple change that could have a major impact. We need to ban the worst of bee-killing pesticides, neonics. Our food, our local farmers and the community they create are more important than these pesticides — it’s time we start acting like it.
Serafina Scalo, Boulder | 2022-10-09T13:47:27Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Pull the plug on Pueblo 3; chamber doesn't speak for all businesses; Woodward works across the aisle; ban bee-killing pesticides | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/09/letters-to-the-editor-pull-the-plug-on-pueblo-3-chamber-doesnt-speak-for-all-businesses-woodward-works-across-the-aisle-ban-bee-killing-pesticides/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/09/letters-to-the-editor-pull-the-plug-on-pueblo-3-chamber-doesnt-speak-for-all-businesses-woodward-works-across-the-aisle-ban-bee-killing-pesticides/ |
Opinion: Ron Laughery: Boulder has an economic…
By Ron Laughery | ron@bikeandsail.net | For the Camera
Life sometimes provides opportunities to prove that we mean the things we say. Rarely, though, are moments when standing up for a moral principle coincides with an economic opportunity. In Boulder today, such a moment is upon us.
One of Boulder’s stated principles is our support for immigrants. In January 2017, the Boulder City Council unanimously declared Boulder a sanctuary city by promising support to immigrants regardless of their immigration status. “We are sending a message of reassurance to people,” Suzanne Jones, Mayor of Boulder at the time, said after voting. The packed crowd inside the council chambers erupted in cheers.
Ron LaugheryFor the Camera
Many of us fully supported and continue to support the sentiment behind this declaration. America is a nation of immigrants and in that simple fact lies our greatest strength. For almost 250 years, America has benefitted greatly from the diversity of history, thought and traditions that come with immigrants when they choose to call America home. If we are an exceptional nation, our diverse population that is constantly refreshed with infusions of immigrants is one big reason why.
Today, we need immigrants more than ever. What was, five years ago, an abstract conversation about the value and virtue of immigrants now has an economic tailwind — we need workers to fill job openings and many of those are jobs that immigrants could perform.
Decades of negligence by the people who are supposed to manage U.S. immigration — the Federal Government — and a declining birth rate in America have led us to this moment when we don’t have enough people to keep our economy humming. And, as anyone who has recently tried to hire anyone to do anything in Boulder knows, we are as desperate as any place for more workers across all skill levels.
Conveniently, current government data informs us that over 3 million American wannabes will cross our southern borders this year seeking sanctuary and a life in America as permitted under current law. These are the people that have taken risks and worked hard to get their feet on American soil to chase the American Dream, which starts with a job.
Unfortunately, America’s political circus has turned this potential solution to an economic problem into a political farce as southern states that are swamped with too many immigrants are spitefully transporting them to sanctuary cities. So far, the response has been the usual finger-pointing and recriminations by both sides seeking to gain political points.
I have a better idea. How about Boulder City and County leaders take this moment to show that our proclaimed commitment to immigrants was real and, in so doing, address Boulder County’s current labor shortage? How about we call a few border state governors and let them know that, within limits, immigrants who want to be brought to Boulder are welcome to join us and become productive members of our community?
There are few places in America better suited for this moment. Most of these immigrants are Hispanic and would find Boulder a more familiar home than, say, Martha’s Vineyard. We already have the educational and social infrastructure in place to support them.
To get them on their feet, Boulder’s government and charitable institutions have a history of reaching out to support struggling ethnic communities. Church congregations in Boulder have built homes in Mexico, provided labor and financial support, and even sheltered immigrants at risk of deportation. If asked, we can expect that these institutions will join our local government to help our new neighbors to find work and make Boulder their home.
Given that Boulder County has about 0.1% of America’s total population, our “fair share” would be to absorb about 3,000 of this year’s 3 million immigrants. Okay, that seems like a bit much to take on without a little warmup, so how about 10% of that or 300 people for 2022? I figure that’s about four busloads.
I don’t care if it’s the governors of Florida, Arizona or Texas who don’t want these immigrants in their neighborhoods — we should welcome them if they want to come.
I’ve always thought that Dr. Seuss was as much a philosopher as a children’s author. One of his most notable characters was Horton the elephant who, in his finest moment stated, “I meant what I said and I said what I meant — an elephant’s faithful 100 percent.” Let’s see if Boulder’s leaders share Horton’s commitment by being faithful to the meaning of what they said just five years ago.
Email: ron@bikeandsail.net
Ron Laughery
Email: ron@bikeandsail.net.
ron@bikeandsail.net | 2022-10-09T13:47:39Z | www.dailycamera.com | Opinion: Ron Laughery: Boulder has an economic problem immigrants could help solve | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/09/opinion-ron-laughery-boulder-has-an-economic-problem-immigrants-could-help-solve/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/09/opinion-ron-laughery-boulder-has-an-economic-problem-immigrants-could-help-solve/ |
Indigenous Peoples Day events and other Boulder…
Catch a staged reading of the play, “Master Plan,” at Dairy Arts Center. (Courtesy photo)
Boulder’s Role in the Sand Creek Massacre: Right Relationship Boulder, an organization that works with local governments and organizations to help bridge the relationship with Boulder’s Native people, will present a virtual slide presentation about Boulder’s Fort Chambers and its ties to the Sand Creek Massacre. Following will be a discussion with Fred Mosqueda (Southern Arapaho), Chester Whiteman (Cheyenne) and Stephen Fasthorse (Northern Arapaho) as part of its Current Conversations Series for Indigenous Peoples Day 2022; 6:30 p.m. Monday; Virtual, Boulder; Free; Register at tinyurl.com/47nhpfvu.
League of Women Voters Forum: Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, this videoconference forum will discuss the Colorado Secretary of State, a position that heads the department responsible for voting; 5:30 p.m. Monday, information will be provided in an email once registration is complete, Boulder; Free; lwvbc.clubexpress.com.
First Person Cinema with TJ Cuthand: Join filmmaker TJ Cuthand — who has created short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, queer identity, love and indigeneity — as he showcases some of his work and discusses his artistic approach and intent during this presentation sponsored by the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts; 7:30 p.m. Monday, Visual Arts Complex Basement Auditorium, 1B20, CU Boulder campus; calendar.colorado.edu.
Choir! Choir! Choir! at the Fox: This Toronto-based singing duo takes a non-traditional approach where there are no auditions and the audience is the choir. They’ll teach audience members an original arrangement to a song; 8 p.m. Monday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $20-$24.50; z2ent.com.
Trivia Nights: The Connection hosts themed trivia nights every other Monday. Today, go show off your “Halloween” brain for the theme. Teams and individuals are welcome, sign-up starts at 6 p.m. There will be prizes for top finishers; 7 p.m. Monday, University Memorial Center, The Connection, First Floor, Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu. | 2022-10-10T14:20:32Z | www.dailycamera.com | Indigenous Peoples Day events and other Boulder things to do today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/10/indigenous-peoples-day-events-and-other-boulder-things-to-do-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/10/indigenous-peoples-day-events-and-other-boulder-things-to-do-today/ |
Letters to the editor: Support remarkable…
Nicole Sager: Library district: Support remarkable community enrichment
The Boulder Library Foundation proudly supports this fall’s 6C ballot proposal to reliably fund our libraries.
We join the Daily Camera, the supermajority of Boulder City Council, all our elected school board members and Boulder’s entire legislative delegation in urging you to vote “yes” on 6C.
It was recently suggested on these pages that our support is inappropriate. These claims are false. Our position aligns with our founding articles of incorporation and with IRS lobbying regulations. In fact, the Boulder Library Foundation has a track record of supporting ballot initiatives for increased funding of our public libraries.
It has been 35 years since we’ve seen a proposal for dedicated library funding on Boulder area ballots and it is long overdue.
Join the Boulder Library Foundation in support of 6C and of all the remarkable community enrichment and connection that our libraries provide.
Nicole Sager, co-chair of the Board of Directors for the Boulder Library Foundation, Boulder
Roger Hibbard: CU South: Just because we believe it, doesn’t mean it’s true
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.” – George Orwell
Concerning the CU South annexation conversation, it sure feels to me like there are a lot of widely held yet false beliefs permeating our community’s collective conscience. This letter aims to dispel one of the most common myths about the CU South delay referendum I’m hearing over and over from my friends and neighbors.
Myth: Approval of the referendum to repeal the CU South Annexation Agreement will not impact the South Boulder Creek Flood Mitigation project.
Sadly, this is simply false. Without the existing agreement between the university and the city in place, the design and construction of the flood protection project would not be able to advance. And as we saw in 2013, catastrophic flooding can create an incredibly dangerous situation for thousands of downstream Boulder residents, including the Frasier Meadows Retirement Community.
First, regulatory agencies won’t accept any applications for the evaluation or approval of the flood project without a deal — and thus the permission of the landowner — in place. Plus, according to my limited understanding of water rights in Colorado, the city could not effectively perform the environmental restoration work required as part of the flood project without the transfer of water rights laid out in the already approved agreement. Worse yet, without the nearly 120 acres of land the agreement transfers to the city for permanent open space protection, it’s unlikely the necessary habitat restoration and protection required by the flood project could be completed on the site.
Unfortunately, just because we believe it, does not mean that it’s true. In this case, belief in a myth can leave some of the most vulnerable members of our community at extended, unnecessary risk. Vote no on the delay of CU South.
Roger Hibbard, Boulder
Keep city council elections as-is
For over 100 years, most Colorado communities have separated national and state elections from local elections. Why? Because they’re like apples and oranges.
National and state elections are typically highly partisan affairs, dominated by party politics and allegiances. Candidates and ballot issues are numerous. Voters are exhausted by the barrage of political ads. While often spirited, local elections are less about political parties — candidates don’t run as Democrats or Republicans — and more about the people and issues that affect our community and our daily lives. Candidates and ballot issues are fewer. Voters are afforded the opportunity to know the candidates.
What likely happens if local elections are moved to even years? Local races would be overshadowed by state and national races, becoming something lumped in at the bottom of the ballot almost as an afterthought. Candidates and issues could be considered through the lens of the political party. Volunteers will have to choose between helping with national or local races. Fatigued voters may opt to select the first name(s) on a busy ballot. Doesn’t that approach seem counterproductive to sound governance?
It’s no secret that odd-year elections attract fewer voters than even-year elections. That’s unfortunate and we should work to increase odd-year turnout. But moving to even-year elections hoping that candidates will receive more votes is prioritizing the wrong metric. A larger turnout does not deliver a better-educated or better-informed vote. It’s our community and it is best served when we take the time to know the candidate council members. Let’s continue to take advantage of the benefits of odd-year elections for the city council. Vote “no” on 2E.
Stuart Walker, Boulder | 2022-10-10T14:20:33Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Support remarkable community enrichment; current flood mitigation will end if referendum passes | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/10/letters-to-the-editor-support-remarkable-community-enrichment-current-flood-mitigation-will-end-if-referendum-passes/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/10/letters-to-the-editor-support-remarkable-community-enrichment-current-flood-mitigation-will-end-if-referendum-passes/ |
Boulder implements pilot program to address…
Boulder is implementing a curbside management pilot project to address the increasing demand for short-term curbside access downtown and on University Hill.
The program will continue into December and is intended to reduce travel delays and unsafe drop-off and pickup of passengers and goods in travel lanes when curbside access is unavailable, according to a city news release.
It will convert some existing time-restricted loading zones to 24/7, flexible loading zones that can be used for various needs, some of which include food delivery, package delivery and passenger pickup and drop-off, the release said. Pilot locations for the flexible loading zones will be marked with “curbside loading only” signs. There will be six flexible loading zones in downtown Boulder and three on University Hill.
After the program, the city will develop policies, practices and standard operating procedures for managing the curb along the public right of way. City staff will bring their recommendations to advisory boards, commissions and the City Council next year.
Locations and details for the program are available on the Access Management and Parking Strategy website. | 2022-10-11T04:18:57Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder implements pilot program to address demand for short-term curbside parking | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/10/boulder-implements-pilot-program-to-address-demand-for-short-term-curbside-parking/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/10/boulder-implements-pilot-program-to-address-demand-for-short-term-curbside-parking/ |
Humane Society of Boulder Valley to host…
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley will be hosting a pet adoption event Thursday with half-off adoption fees for animals 3 years old and older, the organization said Monday.
The adoption is part of the collaboration with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Subaru Loves Pets, Subaru of America and local partner Flatirons Subaru as part of a grant program for the humane society.
More than 40 animals are available for adoption at the Humane Society for Boulder Valley, including kittens, puppies and small animals.
The adoption event begins Thursday and continues through Sunday at 2323 55th St. To view the full list of animals up for adoption, visit boulderhumane.org. | 2022-10-11T04:19:16Z | www.dailycamera.com | Humane Society of Boulder Valley to host half-off adoption event | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/10/humane-society-of-boulder-valley-to-host-half-off-adoption-event/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/10/humane-society-of-boulder-valley-to-host-half-off-adoption-event/ |
CU faculty musicians take listeners on a winter…
Casey A. Cass
There will be a faculty Tuesday performance Grusin Hall Tuesday.
Faculty Tuesdays plays Franz Schubert: Mutsumi Moteki, long-time vocal coach and pianist at the CU Boulder College of Music, and Michael Hoffman, award-winning tenor and CU graduate, are excited to present “Winterreise” (winter journey), a monumental song cycle by Franz Schubert. In these 24 songs that feature poems by Romantic poet Wilhelm Müeller, listeners will experience a heartbroken young man’s journey through a winter landscape; 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Grusin Music Hall (C112), Imig Music Building, 1020 18th St., Boulder; Free; cupresents.org.
Learn How to Cook a Quick and Healthy Lunch: Callie Cavanaugh, founder of Nonna Eats (with local culinary chefs for hire), will demonstrate how to make a healthy lunch in under 15 minutes, followed by a short talk on her new book, “Eating In by Design: The Essential Guidebook to Redesign Personal & Planetary Health from Home.” Cooking demo and light lunch included; noon Tuesday, Oct. 11, Kiln , 2101 Pearl St., Boulder; $45; bit.ly/3VhYj1J.
The Ups and Downs of Being Out: Join us for an inspirational talk in honor of National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11) and LGBTQ+ History Month. Jeremy Moore, dean of Students at Naropa, will share his experience on the ups and downs of being out; 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Center for Community, Abrams Lounge, CU Boulder campus; calendar.colorado.edu.
Thomas Edison Film Festival: This touring short-film festival stops at CU Boulder, as a part of the Visiting Arts & Scholars Program, with a presentation of short films specially curated for Boulder by festival director Jane Steuerwald; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium 1B20, CU Boulder campus; calendar.colorado.edu.
Linda Cutting Book Signing: Former concert pianist and college teacher, Boston-based Linda Cutting will speak about and sign her new book, “A Is for Always: An Adoption Alphabet,” at Boulder Bookstore; 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder; Free; boulderbookstore.net.
Patrick Watson at the Fox: Canadian-based singer-songwriter, who’s been compared to Andrew Bird, Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley, will bring his cabaret-style indie pop to town; 8 p.m. Tuesday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder; $25-$27; z2ent.com.
Boulder’s Climate Initiatives: Virtually, Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett will discuss the city’s climate initiatives to reduce GHG emissions, and how it is measured, along with council priorities. Send climate or energy questions to EmpowerOurFuture.org/events; 6 p.m. Tuesday, Boulder; Free; 720-320-4294, empowerourfuture.org. | 2022-10-11T15:33:04Z | www.dailycamera.com | CU faculty musicians take listeners on a winter journey and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/11/cu-faculty-musicians-take-listeners-on-a-winter-journey-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/11/cu-faculty-musicians-take-listeners-on-a-winter-journey-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Guest opinion: Steven Telleen: What is the…
By Steven Telleen
Every organization, whether they are for or against the development of CU’s proposed South Campus, publicly agrees that the highest priority for that property should be the protection of life and property against flooding. This has been true since the 1970s, even before Flatiron Gravel obtained permission to mine the South Boulder Creek floodplain. To get the approval, Flatiron Gravel publicly accepted the condition that after mining concluded the entire area would remain “open space at virtually no cost to the public.”
However, proclaiming publicly that the “protection of life and property from flooding” is the highest priority is not the same thing as making decisions and acting in alignment with those proclamations, as CU likes to say, “Right Here, Right Now.” Just look at the difference between the original disposition of the floodplain that Flatiron Gravel agreed to, and what they actually did when mining that property was no longer profitable. That discrepancy between professed agreements and ultimate actions created our present flooding and flood mitigation “emergency.”
Right here, right now we see this same disparity being propagated between what organizations profess is behind their actions and what they actually do. Both CU and the city claim the current agreement was based on a set of guiding principles, the first being flood mitigation! However, looking at the actions and final agreement it is, in my opinion, easy to see that flood mitigation was not their highest priority.
With flood protection as their highest priority, the first thing the city and CU would have done was to figure out how to use the entire CU South property for maximum “protection of life and property from flooding.” They then would have looked at what was left to determine what, if any, development made sense on that property and at alternatives to meet CU’s desires. Numerous flood experts, including prominent CU researchers, have warned for decades that, given climate change, South Boulder needs a 500-year flood mitigation solution for the South Boulder Creek floodplain. A 100-year flood solution is just not adequate.
The city did start by evaluating 500-year flood mitigation solutions. However, my interpretation is that it was not that these 500-year flood solutions were not feasible or affordable, but that none left enough land in the areas CU wanted for their development plans. The city acquiesced to CU’s demands and voluntarily limited its mitigation options to those that provided “the highest protection of life and property from flooding” that could reasonably be obtained on what land was left after CU’s desires were met.
In my opinion, by appearing to first “reserve” what they wanted for development, CU made it clear that their “highest priority” was development, which relegated “protection of life and property from flooding” to the second priority!
After CU made this demand the city stopped looking at its original 500-year flood mitigation options. This shift in focus away from 500-year options makes it seem clear that CU’s development desires were the highest priority not just for CU but also for the city. Regardless of what the words in their guiding principles and marketing materials stated, and still state, the prior conditions set by CU made “the highest protection of life and property from flooding” a second priority to development.
Unfortunately, as the experts have warned, with climate change, greater than 100-year flood levels can be expected with increasing frequency. This solution will not protect those living in the 100-year flood zone, who now seem to believe they will be protected. When greater than 100-year flood waters overtop the spillway they might flow into the same neighborhoods they did in 2013. At that point, CU’s development will likely preclude the engineering of additional protective measures in the South Boulder Creek floodplain. The opportunity for reasonable flood protection will have been lost forever to CU’s development.
Boulder citizens can still reverse this bait-and-switch priority swap by voting “yes” on November 8 to repeal the CU South Annexation Agreement.
Steven Telleen is the president Southeast Boulder Neighborhood Association and a member of the Repeal CU South Annexation Executive Committee. | 2022-10-11T15:33:16Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Steven Telleen: What is the highest priority for CU South? | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/11/guest-opinion-steven-telleen-what-is-the-highest-priority-for-cu-south/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/11/guest-opinion-steven-telleen-what-is-the-highest-priority-for-cu-south/ |
Transforming the world: Naropa holds biannual…
Everyone joins in during the “In the Moment” dance Tuesday. Naropa University’s Community Practice Day Fall 2022 celebrates Art as Revolution. (Cliff Grassmick — Staff Photographer)
Students, staff and faculty worked to the beat of drums Tuesday as they sorted through an eclectic selection of materials to find the ones that spoke to them or filled them with inspiration.
Some chose to build sculptures using thick tree limbs while others painted cardboard with deep shades of purple and topped the art with glittery bows.
The materials they chose and the size or shape of their sculpture was up to them. They were the artists in charge of creating physical representations of seven themes: imagination, home, constellation, expanse, now, abolition and story, which soon would come together and be spread throughout Naropa University’s campus to tell stories from the past or to evoke the future.
About 15 Naropa University employees, students and community members worked together on Tuesday during the Creating Intertemporal Potential Transmitters workshop hosted by Regina Smith and Ramon Parish as part of the university’s Community Practice Day, which is held once a semester.
During the afternoon session, people were asked to build Afrofuturist art using themes, which originated from recent conversations between employees, community members and students, said Smith, vice president of Naropa’s Mission, Culture and Inclusive Community.
“Afro and Ancestral futurism is a form of collective imagining which creates a space for us to dream a communal dream and move past the polarization often projected into social justice,” Smith said. “It can take any form of healing imaginable, and today we co-created the future at the intersection of visual art, spoken word, movement and technology.”
Smith and Parish’s workshop was just one of many held Tuesday centered on the theme for this semester’s Practice Day: art as revolution.
“Practice is what brings our aspiration to be wise and compassionate into action, and every semester everything stops so we can collectively remember what really matters, which is transforming ourselves so we can transform the world,” Smith said.
Professor emeritx Lee Worley, a founding faculty of Naropa University, leads a sitting meditation class Tuesday. (Cliff Grassmick — Staff Photographer)
Cassandra Smith, spokesperson for Naropa, wasn’t able to confirm before publication Tuesday night the exact year Practice Day began, but said it was either 1982 or 1983.
Practice Week, rather than Practice Day, is still held by some departments at Naropa and started within Naropa’s religious studies and Buddhist studies department, said Judith Simmer-Brown, a professor emeritx of contemplative and religious studies, in a provided statement. After a while, Naropa realized that people could study religion or languages at other universities, but they couldn’t always learn how to practice what they were taught.
So Simmer-Brown and Naropa faculty member Reggie Ray began collaborating on practices courses, which eventually led to the creation of Practice Day, Simmer-Brown said.
“It started out as just something our department did,” she said. “We canceled classes in our department and sat together, and it took off it (and) caught on to other departments as well, especially when Barbara Dilley was the president of Naropa, and we began to really realize that this was something that was uniquely ours and also brought us together as a community. It had a kind of simplicity and wisdom that made us feel more connected to ourselves and to each other. So it was community building, but also made us feel more deeply connected with ourselves individually.”
Inside the Afro and Ancestral futurism workshop Tuesday, Judy Lief, a former Naropa president, whose husband, Charles Lief, currently serves as president of the university, worked to create a sculpture to resemble the theme “imagination.”
Lief said she attended the workshop because she loves Smith and was excited to attend Practice Day following the long two years of the coronavirus pandemic, which limited events like the biannual collaboration between Naropa and the community.
“It’s a hub of innovation,” Lief said. “New ideas come up, and new connections are made. It’s a way of touching on important values like community service, contemplation, art and spirituality.” | 2022-10-12T04:58:28Z | www.dailycamera.com | Transforming the world: Naropa holds biannual Community Practice Day with art as this semester's muse | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/11/transforming-the-world-naropa-holds-biannual-community-practice-day-with-art-as-this-semesters-muse/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/11/transforming-the-world-naropa-holds-biannual-community-practice-day-with-art-as-this-semesters-muse/ |
Close to cutting edge: A Patagonian solo…
A view of Supercanaleta from Colin Haley’s tent near the base of the route on the evening of Sept. 11, before his first attempt. (Colin Haley/colinhaley.com/Courtesy photo)
“Oh, you’re a climber,” says the person you meet at a party making small talk. “Have you climbed Mt. Everest?” they ask, assuming this oft-climbed summit is the pinnacle of climbing achievement.
Colin Haley looks down the “interminable” ice couloir during his successful winter solo of Supercanaleta. (Colin Haley/colinhaley.com/Courtesy photo)
Some version of this conversation takes place more often than one might think. It’s a fair question after all, despite the misguided assumption, and it points to the strong incongruity between climbs — especially alpine climbs — that garner media attention versus climbs that are truly significant.
What I mean by “significant” is an ascent that somehow advances the sport, such as an extreme route up a previously unclimbed, high-altitude wall, a unique enchainment of challenging peaks, a coveted speed record, or a first winter, first solo or first winter solo ascent.
American Colin Haley is a professional climber living in Chamonix, France. He recently spent one month in Argentine Patagonia, with the goal of a solo ascent, in austral winter, of the massive Supercanaleta on Fitz Roy (11,171 feet), the highest peak in the range.
After two arduous trips ferrying gear to the base of the climb, the infamously harsh Patagonian weather finally calmed, allowing him a brief attempt on the route. On Sept. 12 he climbed more than 3,300 feet up the route by early afternoon, but it took longer than he’d anticipated. The next storm was forecasted to arrive after midnight, which wouldn’t allow any cushion of time. He decided to bail.
Sunset near the top of the last hard pitch near the summit of Fitz Roy on Sept. 19 during its first confirmed solo ascent in winter. (Colin Haley/colinhaley.com/Courtesy photo)
“I spent 30 minutes pondering life, climbing, the people I love, soloing, ambition, risk, and the desire to stay alive,” he wrote in his blog, before starting the first of many rappels. “I felt, as I have many times before, that what I was doing was ridiculous, and too stressful and scary to be enjoyable … I concluded, once again, that it was time to put hard, solo alpinism behind me.”
But alpinists are notorious for their short memories. The day after returning to the town of El Chaltén, he had already began planning his next attempt.
On Sept. 19 he once again swung tools and kicked front points into hard, gray ice in the Supercanaleta. This time he reached his previous high point without feeling rushed; the weather forecast remained stable. Haley continued upward until, more than 14 hours after starting the route and in utter darkness, he stood atop Fitz Roy, completely alone, at 9:23 p.m.
His was one of few winter ascents of Fitz Roy and its first confirmed solo in winter.
One day later, back in El Chaltén, Haley penned his blog, in which he ponders how this ascent will be viewed by others. “I often find the public reaction to various climbing accomplishments to not correlate very strongly with the actual difficulty of the climbing accomplishment,” he wrote.
A selfie taken while descending the north face of Les Droites in Chamonix after a solo ascent of Couloir Lagarde in March 2021. (Colin Haley/colinhaley.com/Courtesy photo)
I spoke with Haley on the phone and while he said this is nothing new, he added, “but I do think that’s a lot more the case today than it was 15 or 20 years ago.” He pointed to the bias in climbing media toward (understandably) publicizing alpine climbs of which there are high quality photos and/or video rather than significant climbs without attractive photos.
“If (alpinists) have the extra time and energy to carry a good camera and use it a bunch, then it’s obviously not a cutting edge alpine climb,” said Haley.
What I find particularly compelling is that nowadays, even most climbers can’t discern significant alpine ascents from easier, albeit more glorified climbs. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which being the disparity between standard-setting alpinism and whichever climbs are convenient to film and/or encompass a compelling story.
The latter are the climbs everyone hears about.
Haley’s winter solo, it seems, falls somewhere in the middle of it all. He called his climb “close to cutting edge,” but not quite. In fact, he told me, “I did not expect nearly as much attention for this climb as I got. It almost makes me start to wonder, is this being over-hyped at this point?” If so, it could be due to the excellent photos he took.
Regardless of how others — the public, climbers, fellow alpinists — view his ascent, it was deeply meaningful to him. And in the end, isn’t that what really matters? | 2022-10-12T16:54:49Z | www.dailycamera.com | Close to cutting edge: A Patagonian solo highlights media bias in climbing | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/12/close-to-cutting-edge-a-patagonian-solo-highlights-media-bias-in-climbing/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/12/close-to-cutting-edge-a-patagonian-solo-highlights-media-bias-in-climbing/ |
Guest opinion: Claire Levy, Matt Jones and…
By Claire Levy, Matt Jones and Marta Loachamin
Keeping people safe from emergencies, protecting the environment and providing a full range of safe and affordable transportation options throughout our community are at the heart of our work as County Commissioners. That’s why we are asking voters to approve Ballot Issues 1A, 1B and 1C to fund wildfire mitigation, emergency response and transportation improvements.
Measure 1A will fund wildfire mitigation. This mitigation can reduce the number of homes burned during a wildfire along with the associated heartache, and protect drinking water supplies. It will protect communities, recreational settings, forests and the environment. Mitigation helps firefighters operate more safely and effectively to stop wildfires. Wildfire mitigation, at its core, is climate resilience.
The new tax from 1A adds a penny to a ten-dollar purchase, which is far cheaper than fighting and then recovering from wildfires. As they say, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
Measure 1A will mitigate risk both in towns and in the forest and grasslands. In towns, Wildfire Partners will work with homeowners, businesses, cities and others to educate and motivate people to take action to make homes more fire-resistant. It will provide a financial incentive for homeowners with limited means to do the work. In forests and grasslands, restoration will make the forests and grasslands healthier and lower the risk of large fires.
The 1B sales tax for emergency response will fund capital and operational costs for emergency response services for anyone who lives or recreates in Boulder County. This tax will fund a county-owned facility to house our primary, all-volunteer, mountain search and rescue organization, whose existing 1960s-era building requires replacement, and provide some operating and capital funds for all four volunteer search and rescue organizations.
Measure 1B will help fund a range of needs for mountain and rural fire districts and help with their training, staffing, and communications expenses. It will offset the increasing cost of ambulance service for rural and mountain areas of Boulder County where it is expensive for ambulance companies to operate. Measure 1B will also fund continued trail and trailhead safety services to address the vastly increased use of our open space.
Helping to fund rural fire districts is a matter of equity: The areas they serve are large, prone to fire and used by residents and non-residents, but their property tax base is small. These districts help fight fires on publicly owned land, but they receive no property taxes from these lands.
The projects that 1C will fund reflect input from all communities in Boulder County. They improve safety for cyclists, pedestrians, motorists and transit riders in the major corridors connecting us to each other and the region. These projects will provide improved road safety for all users, better and more affordable service for mobility-limited residents, additional regional trails, better commuting options throughout Boulder County for workers, students and faculty, and more multimodal options for visitors.
Revenue from 1C will also provide important services to mountain communities, including on-demand transit service, peak-hour transit service between Gold Hill and Boulder and between Lyons and Boulder, and continuation of shuttle service to the Hessie Trailhead.
Boulder County’s low-income, mobility-impaired and underserved communities rely on services funded by the current sales tax for connection with their doctors, jobs and family, and as a lifeline for engagement. Extending the tax through 1C will allow these services to continue.
Sales taxes are the most equitable way to fund these critical services. The cost of wildfire mitigation, emergency response and transportation shouldn’t just be borne by county property taxpayers. Measures 1A, 1B and 1C assure that residents, visitors and in-commuters all help us provide these essential services.
For more information, visit yeson1c.com and www.emergencyservicesboco.org.
Claire Levy, Matt Jones and Marta Loachamin are Boulder County Commissioners. | 2022-10-12T16:55:14Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Claire Levy, Matt Jones and Marta Loachamin: County measures provide wildfire protections, other services | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/12/guest-opinion-claire-levy-matt-jones-and-marta-loachamin-county-measures-provide-wildfire-protections-other-services/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/12/guest-opinion-claire-levy-matt-jones-and-marta-loachamin-county-measures-provide-wildfire-protections-other-services/ |
Letters to the editor: Closed branches mean…
Peter Pollock: Libraries: Budget cuts and closed branches mean it’s time for change
For the past 40 years, I’ve happily supported tax measures for education, open space, transportation, parks and other projects because they have added so much to our quality of life. Hardly anyone denies the benefits of our library and it’s critical that voters scrutinize any tax measure.
Using property tax is a better way to fund the library than sales tax. Property tax is more stable. Sales tax revenue varies with the vagaries of the economy, and tough economic times are just when we need libraries the most. And low-income people are disproportionately impacted by sales tax.
The library has historically been low on the list of council budget priorities due to the very real need to shore up public safety or public works in times of stressed budgets or emergencies. A dedicated library tax solves this problem.
I like that the geography of the district and its governance includes all the users of library services inside and outside the city. All those who benefit will have a chance to both financially support the district and participate in its governance.
The City Council and the County Commissioners are to be trusted with appointing the district board. Other appointed boards, such as the Open Space Board of Trustees, have been good stewards of the resources we have entrusted to them.
I have similar confidence in the work of those historically involved in the library and of the excellent staff itself. We will have the protections that all tax measures require a popular vote, and that development proposals be reviewed by the city or county.
With budget cuts and closed libraries, it’s past the time when we can say that things aren’t broken and don’t need to change. Let’s ensure that libraries can flourish in Boulder. Vote “yes” on 6C.
Peter Pollock, Boulder
Debbie Davia: CU South: Annexation creates pollution and population increase
The bottom line is that the CU South property should and could have been open space years ago. Reasons why annexing the property into Boulder is bad for Boulderites:
1. CU South development could increase per-day vehicle trips by up to 6,300 in an already congested area.
2. The development of CU South would increase population and congestion in an already over-crowded city, and only add new housing for about 30% of the additional students and staff positions their development could create.
3. The flood prevention plan as written now is woefully inadequate for protecting even the narrow portion of the Frasier Meadows Neighborhood targeted, which is listed as the primary goal of development by both the city and CU.
4. There are alternate flood protection plans available that provide better protection, require fewer permits and waivers, and create fewer environmental risks.
5. CU does not need another campus and stadium.
6. Pollution in the area would increase along with per-day car trips.
7. Boulder taxpayers would have to pay for utilities, maintenance of roads and other CU amenities for the area.
8. Benefits of the annexation, in my opinion, would be for CU alone.
So, if you don’t want increased pollution due to more cars, increased taxes for a development that CU benefits from and increased population, vote “yes” to overturn the annexation of CU South.
Debbie Davia, Boulder
Katie Farnan: Elections: It’s no surprise turnout is lower in off years
I support measures that increase voter turnout because civic participation is what our democracy is all about.
This year, Boulder voters can make it happen by voting yes on measure 2E. Currently, Boulder City Council members are chosen in off-year elections, when significantly fewer people turn in ballots compared to even years. It’s no surprise that turnout is lower in off years because almost all candidate elections happen in even years when important media coverage and large get-out-the-vote campaigns assist and encourage folks to be voters. Off-year elections simply don’t have this breadth of coverage or awareness, which directly impacts voter turnout.
Recent opinion pieces have suggested that we only need to commit more time, effort and money to local outreach to get more people voting. While such policies would help at the margins, the single most important change that local governments can make to increase turnout is by combining local elections with state and federal elections.
This is why I support ballot measure 2E, which will move Boulder’s local elections to even years when there are nearly twice as many voters. The change will benefit our city and its democratic foundations by including as many people as possible in electing our officials. When more people vote, the choices they make are more reflective of the community, and that’s what democracy is all about.
Katie Farnan, Boulder | 2022-10-12T16:55:26Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Closed branches mean it's time for change; annexation to create problems; turnout is too low in off years | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/12/letters-to-the-editor-closed-branches-mean-its-time-for-change-annexation-to-create-problems-turnout-is-too-low-in-off-years/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/12/letters-to-the-editor-closed-branches-mean-its-time-for-change-annexation-to-create-problems-turnout-is-too-low-in-off-years/ |
Colorado quarterback Owen McCown (7) throws a pass against Arizona on Oct. 1 in Tucson. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
Another newcomer playing more is safety Jeremy Mack. The junior college transfer had a season-high in snaps (63) and tackles (seven) at Arizona. “He’s new to the defense so he had to kind of pick up things,” safety Trevor Woods said. “He’s starting to catch on, though. And, he’s getting comfortable with everything he’s doing.” … CU has lost two in a row against Cal, but the Buffs have won the last two meetings in Boulder (2013 and 2017). … Offensive line coach Kyle DeVan has been given the title of run game coordinator. | 2022-10-13T01:57:05Z | www.dailycamera.com | Colorado football notes: Buffs making progress on offense – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/12/colorado-football-notes-buffs-making-progress-on-offense/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/12/colorado-football-notes-buffs-making-progress-on-offense/ |
‘100 Things to Do in Boulder Before You Die’…
A view of the Flatirons from the Chautauqua Trail in Boulder in 2017.
‘100 Things to Do in Boulder Before You Die’ Book Signing: Colorado-based travel writer Sandra Bornstein will talk about and sign her book “100 Things to Do in Boulder Before You Die” — that explores everything from trail hikes to hot air balloon rides and learning to paddleboard at the Boulder Reservoir to atmospheric research tours; 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
Colorado Curling Cup: World-class curling rolls into town for the Colorado Curling Cup, featuring teams led by 2018 Olympic gold medalists John Shuster and Matt Hamilton, Olympians Becca Hamilton, Vicki Persinger and Chris Plys; 11 a.m. Thursday, Rock Creek Curling, 1405 Overlook Drive, Lafayette; $10- $45; rockcreekcurling.com.
Richman Acoustic at BoCo Cider: This solo acoustic performer Rich Clymo rocks both the six- and 12-string guitar to play a variety of blues and classic rock songs from the ’60s-’90s; 5 p.m. Thursday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
ShakesFear, An Autumn’s Tale: Shakespeare’s characters have broken free of his pages and are haunting the CU Boulder campus. In this immersive theatrical experience, you’ll traverse the perimeter of the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre and face the most bloody, ghostly and ghastly characters from the Bard’s work; the 30-minute experience will have timed entry every 10 minutes from 7-9 p.m. nightly through Sunday; $16; cupresents.org.
Observing Trojan Asteroids from Australia: Fiske Planetarium’s Director and Teaching Professor in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, John Keller, will host an evening of immersion and adventure by sharing stories from his recent trek across Southern Australia chasing occultation shadows of a binary asteroid system; 7:00 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr, Boulder; $8-$12; calendar.colorado.edu/.
Mike Hyland Quintet plays Grant Green Funk: This group will play selections from the Grant Green funk catalogue for a funky fun time; 7 p.m. Thursday, Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette; $20; museperformancespace.com.
Thompson Jazz Combos at CU: This group explores the rich repertoire of jazz, including traditional, swing, bebop, fusion and tunes by new artists, along with presenting original student compositions; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder; cupresents.org.
Unauthorized Absence at Nissi’s: Rock out to this classic rock cover band that plays tunes from the ’60s-’00s; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nissi’s, 1455 Coal Creek Drive, Unit T, Lafayette; nissis.com.
‘Anywhere From Here’ Ski Film at Boulder Theater: Matchstick Productions will screen this 2022 ski film that explores this world of opportunities through the eyes of a 12-year-old freestyle phenomenon. The core of this film is packed with a star-studded cast of skiers shredding across the globe and was partially filmed at Copper Mountain; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $18.25; z2ent.com.
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio at the Fox: Aka, DLO3, dishes out the 1960s organ jazz stylings mixed with snappy soul, blues and cosmic Jimi Hendrix-style guitar in a show that the band calls “a soul-jazz concoction that goes straight to your heart and head makes your body break out in a sweat”; 8 p.m. Thursday, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St/, Boulder; $20-$25; z2ent.com.
LGBTQ+ and Allies Skate at CU: CU Rec Services and The Pride Office is hosting a free LGBTQ+ and Allies skate night that includes free skate rentals; 9 p.m. Thursday, Student Recreation Center, Ice Rink, CU Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu. | 2022-10-13T14:16:31Z | www.dailycamera.com | ‘100 Things to Do in Boulder Before You Die’ book signing and other area events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/100-things-to-do-in-boulder-before-you-die-book-signing-and-other-area-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/100-things-to-do-in-boulder-before-you-die-book-signing-and-other-area-events-for-today/ |
Guest opinion: David Paradis: CU South should…
By David Paradis
Although I have worked at CU Boulder for the past twenty years, I am writing this letter as a concerned Boulder citizen, and I do not speak for the university. I have spent quite a bit of time over the past year-and-a-half examining the CU South initiative. As I have delved into the issue, I have come to appreciate its complexity. I encourage readers to be wary of anyone who simplifies the issue into a good-versus-evil drama.
My reservations about the project resemble those of others who have weighed in. Given what we know about the effects of climate change, CU South should not include buildings in the 500-year floodplain; the university has proposed using the 100-year floodplain instead. More affordable housing and more green space on the property would be preferable. Personally, I think a well-engineered carbon-capture facility on the premises would reinforce CU Boulder’s position as one of the premier climate science universities in the world. Although CU Boulder will host the upcoming UN climate summit this December, CU leadership fails to fully realize the potential of the university’s position as a world leader on climate science.
Despite those reservations, I have found some of the public opposition to the CU South project to be hyperbolic, disingenuous and purposefully misleading. We live in a time when misinformation about political issues has proven to be a highly effective scare tactic. Some of the opponents claim that CU plans to increase its student population at a disturbing rate. Having sat on university budget committees for the past six years, I can state with some confidence that growing the undergraduate student population should be a very small concern regarding CU South. Student populations in higher education have been in decline for ten years nationwide, and while CU Boulder has been an anomaly so far, that trend is unlikely to continue. CU’s undergraduate student population may well remain flat between 2025 and 2040.
Opponents also intimate that CU is hiding its plans from the public. The opponents fail to acknowledge the dozens of community meetings that the university has held over the past decade to elicit community feedback. Furthermore, opponents often discount or ignore the affordable housing and the open space that CU is ceding to the city. I have not seen them mention that all the buildings on the new campus will be LEED gold or platinum certified. These standards are high for sustainability, and this failure to recognize the university’s vision for a sustainable CU South is somewhat disturbing.
Perhaps the most debatable topic related to CU South is the floodplain mitigation. Given that floodplain mitigation on the property does not currently exist, ensuring that downstream properties are better protected than they are now might seem easy to prove. However, the proposed roads and buildings will increase the potential for flooding, and the mitigation will need to be substantial and costly, or CU will find itself in potentially onerous legal and financial trouble. My employer, while sometimes frustrating, is not led by stupid people. They will take the floodplain mitigation seriously, and it requires scrutiny and approval from an array of outside experts.
In an ideal world where Colorado’s population was not expanding, we could more easily forgo CU South. However, we have employees and students who are driving 30, 60 and more miles several days a week to reach campus. CU South will reduce commuting requirements for many in the CU community. It will provide a transportation hub and traffic meters to reduce and monitor its traffic impact. While not perfect, the plan reflects a level of consciousness about sustainability that few developers demonstrate. We must ensure that NIMBY thinking does not inhibit our ability to recognize that CU South is worth supporting. Vote “no” on the referendum.
David Paradis is a teaching professor of distinction in the History Department at CU Boulder. | 2022-10-13T14:16:49Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: David Paradis: CU South should not be simplified into good vs. evil drama | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/guest-opinion-david-paradis-cu-south-should-not-be-simplified-into-good-vs-evil-drama/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/guest-opinion-david-paradis-cu-south-should-not-be-simplified-into-good-vs-evil-drama/ |
Letters to the editor: Football hiring needs…
Bob Yinzer: Buffs: Where is the accountability in poor hiring?
Time and again when the CU football program has a failure, a controversy or some other shortcoming, “Teflon” Phil DiStefano comes away with no fault and responsibility in the matter. Let’s try to get to the root of this problem. It’s long past due to fire some people who are in the hiring decisions of these subpar coaches. How much financial burden should the university carry due to the very poor decisions of inept administrators? It’s very troubling that CU (we) has paid millions and continues to pay millions to coaches who have done so little for the betterment of the CU program. The Board of Regents along with the CU president need to take a hard honest look at this matter. Where is the accountability?
Bob Yinzer, Boulder
Dave Larison: Ballot issues: New taxes are small, but add up
Whenever a new sales tax appears on the ballot, proponents are guaranteed to spread the euphemism, “It’s only a penny on a ten-dollar purchase!”
This may be true, but it’s the total sales tax the consumer pays at checkout. The total includes tax from city, county, state and district(s). You pay this full amount on every retail purchase and restaurant dine-in or takeout. It hits especially hard on larger purchases and is by nature a regressive tax for low-income people.
Passage of the Boulder County sales taxes on wildfire mitigation and emergency services (issues 1A and 1B) would raise the total sales tax in Boulder to 9.045% and Longmont to 8.715%, both all-time highs. It would also make a total of 11 Boulder County sales taxes amounting to 1.185%, glaringly contrasted to Weld County which has no county sales tax.
Another drawback of Boulder County sales taxes is that they never really expire to lessen the total sales tax burden. An individual tax is converted to some other use and most voters go along by hearing it’s technically not an increase in taxes.
An example was the 5-year flood recovery county sales tax passed in 2014 with a necessary 0.185% tax increase. Sure enough, when the flood tax was a year away from expiring, the commissioners came up with a less-critical alternative jail sentencing tax to replace the flood tax, but still at the same 0.185% sales tax rate.
Nine months have passed since the devastating Marshall Fire and investigators still have not determined the origin of the fire, or at least not released the official findings. Since as many as 90% of wildland fires are human-caused, I believe Boulder County voters have a right to know what or who caused the Marshall Fire before deciding on new tax increases for wildfire mitigation.
Julie Kaewert: Election: Bernett may not even live in HD 12
The political is personal. Trust is important. I’ve always found that people who can be trusted with small things can also be trusted with big ones.
So in reviewing the candidates for my House District 12 (Niwot, Gunbarrel, Lake Valley, Superior, Lafayette, Louisville), I was interested to discover facts about Democrat Tracey Bernett’s education and work history that established a personal connection.
Looking further, I discovered worrisome “small things.” Her Longmont home isn’t in redistricted HD12 anymore. She claims to live in a Louisville apartment. This potential breach of ethics is more than a personal betrayal, it may invalidate her candidacy.
Still, wanting to be fair, I checked her positions on the highly personal issues of parents’ rights in education, reducing crime and drug overdoses, promoting responsible energy, and helping small businesses. In all these vital areas she voted against my interests.
I’ll vote for Republican Anya Kirvan instead, who’s proved trustworthy in small and large things — as an Army nurse, an award-winning health industry entrepreneur, a champion for parents’ rights, small business, responsible energy, and reducing crime and drug overdose. She also lives in HD12.
Julie Kaewert, Longmont
Ron DePugh: CU South: New campus could bring in more students
CU’s public relations campaign about CU South misleadingly bills CU South as a “housing solution.” In fact, it’ll make Boulder’s housing situation worse.
CU South could attract thousands more people to Boulder than it will house — creating a housing problem, not a solution.
Reference sources for square footage per person on college campuses show that a typical college campus’ density is approximately 50 square feet per person (high-density), to roughly 100 square feet per person (low-density).
So at 750,000 square feet of non-residential space, CU South can accommodate at least 7,500 more students, faculty and staff. Yet CU will only house 2,300 onsite. The additional major spike in demand for off-campus housing could make housing prices skyrocket throughout Boulder and surrounding communities.
CU South proponents, conveniently, only admit to the 1,000 additional CU employees CU South will bring.
Does anyone really believe a college campus only brings university employees? Obviously, no. The overwhelming majority of people drawn by college campuses are students. It’s disappointing that CU South proponents only focus on the tiniest fraction of CU’s personnel and housing equation. Students — by far the largest potential population drawn by CU South — will need housing, too. And they’ll mostly be out of luck.
Again, based on nationally-accepted college campus density figures, CU South can accommodate at least 7,500 more students and employees. Focusing on the small number of employees, while ignoring the huge number of new students, is completely misleading. Potentially, thousands of new students, and others seeking housing in Boulder, will pay the price for CU’s lack of responsibility for housing the people it brings.
Vote “yes” on 2F, to repeal this ill-conceived development.
Ron DePugh, Boulder | 2022-10-13T14:16:55Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Football hiring needs accountability; new taxes add up; Bernett may not live in HD 12; CU South may bring more students | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/letters-to-the-editor-football-hiring-needs-accountability-new-taxes-add-up-bernett-may-not-live-in-hd-12-cu-south-may-bring-more-students/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/letters-to-the-editor-football-hiring-needs-accountability-new-taxes-add-up-bernett-may-not-live-in-hd-12-cu-south-may-bring-more-students/ |
About 1,800 customers are without power this morning due to an outage in western Boulder, according to Xcel Energy’s website.
Looks like a power outage in west #Boulder impacting about 1,800 customers. Xcel map shows estimated restoration time of 1 p.m. pic.twitter.com/iepzAe47hR
— Mitchell Byars (@mitchellbyars) October 13, 2022
Xcel is reporting the outage is impacting 1,837 customers on the western edge of the city north of Canyon Boulevard.
The estimated time of restoration is listed as 1 p.m. | 2022-10-13T16:41:23Z | www.dailycamera.com | About 1,800 without power in western Boulder | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/about-1800-without-power-in-western-boulder/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/about-1800-without-power-in-western-boulder/ |
Boulder County holds junior and senior team…
Boulder County holds junior and senior team fishing derby Saturday
Courtesy of Boulder County Parks and Open Space.
Boulder County Parks and Open Space will host a fishing derby for children and seniors this Saturday at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat on 75th Street between Jay and Valmont roads.
Each team must consist of one junior (15 or under) and one senior (65 or older). Teams are invited to come to the Wally Toevs Pond at the habitat any point between 9 a.m. and noon.
Prizes will be awarded to the team that catches the heaviest rainbow trout, the team with the biggest age difference, and the team that is first to catch the fish limit.
Participants must bring their own fishing gear and seniors must have a valid Colorado fishing license. Both live and artificial bait are permitted. | 2022-10-13T20:54:52Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder County holds junior and senior team fishing derby Saturday | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/boulder-county-holds-junior-and-senior-team-fishing-derby-saturday/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/boulder-county-holds-junior-and-senior-team-fishing-derby-saturday/ |
Boulder City Council approves resolution…
Boulder City Council Chambers at the Penfield Tate II Municipal Building in Boulder on July 29. Council members elected not to resume in-person meetings yet, due to lingering concerns involving the coronavirus. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)
After a few minutes of discussion, the Boulder City Council on Thursday night approved a resolution in support of four measures that will appear on Boulder County’s November ballot.
Council members Matt Benjamin, Lauren Folkerts, Rachel Friend, Junie Joseph, Nicole Speer voted in favor of the resolution. Council members Bob Yates, Mark Wallach and Tara Winer abstained. Mayor Aaron Brockett was not present for Thursday night’s meeting.
Yates prompted the discussion on the measure, saying he doesn’t believe cross-jurisdictional endorsements are helpful.
“We should kind of stay in our own lanes and move forward what we move forward and support those things,” he said.
But other council members disagreed.
“This is where we show our leadership to the community about where we find these synergies and connection points between issues that are between us or the county or BVSD,” Benjamin said.
The measure was approved as part of the council’s consent agenda. It codified Council’s support of Boulder County Issue 1A: Wildfire Mitigation Sales Tax; Boulder County Issue 1B: Emergency services sales tax; Boulder County Issue 1C: Transportation sales tax extension; and Boulder Valley School District Issue 5A: Capital construction and maintenance. | 2022-10-14T00:39:07Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder City Council approves resolution supporting 4 ballot issues | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/boulder-city-council-approves-resolution-supporting-4-ballot-issues/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/boulder-city-council-approves-resolution-supporting-4-ballot-issues/ |
Boulder City Council hears suggested policy…
Staff: Changes to document will better align it with city’s regional, state, federal goals
Boulder City Council during a special meeting on Thursday heard city staff’s recommendations for updates to the city’s policy statement to better align with top regional, state and federal priorities.
During the meeting, Chief Policy Advisor Carl Castillo presented changes to the city’s policy statement that he advises the city either combine, add or remove.
“(The policy is) to inform the city’s actions on specific policy proposals as they go forward,” Castillo said. “It allows the city to have a quick response to shape policy before the government, where decisions are being made and to be nimble in doing so.”
Castillo outlined four top state priorities and three top federal priorities that Boulder has outlined for which it will lobby with intergovernmental partners and on which it is centering its policy statement. Boulder’s state priorities include ending homelessness; vision zero; building resilience and mitigating climate risks of wildfire and extreme heat through forestry solutions; and restoring clean air to Colorado. Three top federal priorities Boulder plans to advocate for are building resilience and mitigating climate risks of wildfire and extreme heat through forestry solutions; congressionally directed spending requests; and northwest area mobility study projects.
One change Castillo recommended was to policy No. 49 — restore clean air to Colorado. The recommended change would add additional efforts to the policy, some of which include strengthening regulation, permitting and enforcement of high pollution emitters, including oil and gas exploration, industrial processing, power generation and natural gas transport and distribution.
“Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment did receive money to do just this in the (Legislative) session earlier this year,” Castillo said. “Now it’s a question of making sure that they implement and use that money to actually engage in that kind of enforcement.”
A new policy Boulder staff proposed looks at supporting local cash assistance programs that help low-income community members.
The issue right now, Castillo said, is that people who qualify for a local cash assistance program may lose other existing federal or state-funded benefits if they apply and qualify for local cash assistance programs because the funds may bump them over the income threshold needed to qualify for other benefits.
He added Boulder may be able to work with Denver, which will be pursuing a waiver program, to form a coalition to then work with the state to create a program or change policies that cause people to lose those benefits.
Following the presentation, several council members questioned policy No. 22 , which addresses funding and protecting the city’s ability to end homelessness.
Councilmember Nicole Speer wanted to see part B — “oppose preventing local governments from banning camping in public spaces” — removed from Boulder’s policy statement.
“That’s not one I’m really comfortable having in this policy statement,” she said.
Councilmember Rachel Friend seconded Speer’s opinion, adding she would like to see different language added for parts C and E as well. Part C calls for implementation for state support that may address high service utilizers, especially those providing for systematic and broadly beneficial solutions, and part E would establish flexible funding for permanent housing options that address barriers to housing.
“I am not suggesting that we completely strike B, but I think that we should look at different language for that, and C and E — I’m just not sure that we get to where I would want to go for ensuring that we are advocating for what would be the most effective uses of state law change,” Friend said.
Another suggestion for the policy was to change the title of “restore clean air Colorado.”
“I’m not sure that we’re going to restore clean air to Colorado but promoting access to clean air across Colorado — something like that,” Speer said.
One suggestion Councilmember Mark Wallach made was to expand policy No. 53 part E: “Reduced threat of ignition sources, such as overhead power lines and unsanctioned campfires.”
“Is it possible to put a little more meat on that because power lines are very dangerous,” he said. “We’re talking about undergrounding with Xcel, and it seems to me there is not very much there.”
Castillo said he can add more specificity to the policy as he continues to tweak the statement before bringing it back next month.
“A lot of these things are just plain improvements, and I think those are easy enough to make,” he told the Council.
He said he plans to review the Council’s suggestions and will look to the intergovernmental affairs committee for additional advice on how to best address policy changes before Council takes up the issue again. | 2022-10-14T04:13:40Z | www.dailycamera.com | Boulder City Council hears suggested policy statement updates | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/boulder-city-council-hears-suggested-policy-statement-updates/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/13/boulder-city-council-hears-suggested-policy-statement-updates/ |
Guest opinion: Brian Keegan: Opposition to…
Guest opinion: Brian Keegan: Opposition to even-year elections is grounded in vibes, not evidence
By Brian Keegan
Ballot Question 2E would move the City of Boulder’s municipal elections from odd years, when fewer than 50% of voters cast ballots, to even years when almost 90% of voters cast ballots. The opponents of this measure rely on several common arguments to justify their opposition. A close and objective examination of diverse data sources undermines each of these claims.
The first point opponents emphasize is voter fatigue: even-year elections would create a longer ballot that would result in declining attention to contests further down the ballot. These claims are not only false but backward. If there is any relationship between a contest’s position on the ballot and its turnout, it is a weakly positive one: in both odd (0.20 correlation) and even (0.13 correlation) year elections, contests that appear later on the ballot, like Ballot Questions, are correlated with greater turnout than the sparsely contested county- and district-level contests that appear in the first half of the ballot. In the past five even-year elections, longer ballots are correlated with higher overall turnout. This is campaigning 101: Elections with more issues drive more bases out to vote, increasing — not decreasing — turnout.
Diving deeper, I estimated and cross-validated statistical models to predict the precinct-level vote share of the winning choice of each contest as a function of the vote share of the other contests. In other words, how do precincts vote for each contest based on how they voted for every other contest in that year? If exhausted voters were making their later choices randomly, contests at the bottom of the ballot should be less predictable than contests at the top. However, there is no relationship (-0.03 correlation) between a contest’s position on the ballot and its predictability: later contests on both even- and odd-year ballots are just as predictable as earlier races. Despite 2E opponents’ meritless disparagement, Boulder voters consistently engage with long and short ballots alike.
The second point opponents emphasize is that state and federal races in even years will crowd out local elections. Since 2012, no Democratic candidate has won less than 75% of the votes among City of Boulder voters. The average vote share Democratic candidates have received across 46 contests since 2012 is 87.6%. If federal races in even years are crowding out local issues, someone better tell Representative Joe Neguse: he has raised less money than the average member of Congress the past three cycles despite winning his last two elections by 25-point landslides. Boulder voters are reliable straight-ticket voters: when there’s a Democrat to vote for, they vote for the Democrat. If the national and state Democratic parties barely invest in a district that reliably delivers supermajority margins, opponents’ arguments about local issues being swamped by federal and state races strain credulity.
A third point opponents emphasize is that Question 2E has received insufficient public comment. In this year’s even-year election cycle, local issues have dominated the discussion. According to the Daily Camera’s archives, between June 1 and October 1 local issues like even-year elections (at least 26 letters and opinions), the proposed library district (42 letters and opinions), and CU South (40 letters and opinions) have received extensive attention and debate. This ignores the vigorous activity across newsletters, blogs and social media posts debating the merits of these proposals. The nearly daily public debate about local issues — during an even election year, no less — once again undermines 2E opponents’ arguments that local issues have received insufficient deliberation.
Opposition to Ballot Question 2E relies on inchoate vibes that Boulder voters are too uninformed, overwhelmed and hoodwinked to vote “properly” compared to the older, richer and whiter population that dominates odd-year elections. Rather than take one step that will have an immediate impact on turnout, opponents instead propose literal window-dressing that will have predictably negligible effects. I trust Boulder’s voters will reject 2E opponents’ groundless maligning of their capacity for democratic self-governance and will vote “yes” on Question 2E to move municipal elections to even years when more voters can vote.
The data, code and additional visualizations from these analyses can be found here.
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder. | 2022-10-14T12:12:35Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Brian Keegan: Opposition to even-year elections is grounded in vibes, not evidence | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/guest-opinion-brian-keegan-opposition-to-even-year-elections-is-grounded-in-vibes-not-evidence/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/guest-opinion-brian-keegan-opposition-to-even-year-elections-is-grounded-in-vibes-not-evidence/ |
Guest opinion: Mardi Moore: Out of sight, out…
Guest opinion: Mardi Moore: Out of sight, out of mind
By Mardi Moore, Neil Fishman, Bruce Parker and Fintan Steele
Recorded history is notoriously subjective, with subsequent generations to the event being examined to sort out what is true from what was popular or what was enforced by power at that moment. Even today, with all the recording devices and roughly 100 zettabytes (a lot) of stored information over the past couple of decades, what counts as history and what doesn’t depend largely on the conscious or unconscious prevailing biases of those doing the analysis. The phenomenon known as damnatio memoriae or “condemnation of memory” continues to attempt to erase undesirable peoples and events from the historical narratives favored by the noisiest or the most powerful.
We like to think we Coloradans are more enlightened in our approach to history. But, intentionally or not, we still have moments when we seem willing to compromise objective truths for an uneasy political truce. The most recent and egregious example is the State Board of Education’s current consideration of proposed edits to their initial draft Colorado Social Studies Standards, edits that ignore the inclusion-promoting intent of HB19-1192 in favor of erasing the historical contributions of LGBTQ and other marginalized groups.
The recommendations as initially drafted were strong guidelines for school districts and teachers to help them make well-reasoned, inclusive curricula and lesson plans. But those recommendations raised the hackles of many, even within this newspaper’s own Community Editorial Board. The triggering language appears to be the specific naming of many marginalized groups for inclusion, with LGBTQ, racial and ethnic minorities seemingly the most objectionable. So revisions to the recommendations being proposed attempt to minimize those references simply by removing most of them. In a few contexts, it made sense to do so, but in others it demonstrates yet another instance of damnatio memoriae, intentional or not.
Let’s step back and list a couple of principles we should be able to agree on:
1. Social Studies Standards shouldn’t be political. All Colorado students by right should have accurate and inclusive educations that reflect the objective reality of the topic under consideration.
2. Traditionally marginalized groups should see themselves — and be seen by others — in accurate information about themselves, their families and their communities in their classrooms and curriculum. Our children’s experience is as varied as any other group, and to significantly limit their exposure to the breadth of human experience runs the risk of isolating many of them, with all the sad sequelae that come from such isolation. Inclusion saves lives and decreases bullying while having the added benefit of being educationally sound and a best practice.
3. All students — and thus ultimately society — benefit from accurate and inclusive education. At this point, education research has firmly established that accurate knowledge about other people from different backgrounds and identities allows for the sorts of skills that allow students to end up with successful professional careers in an increasingly heterogeneous world.
To our mind, the proposed revisions to the original recommendations are primarily an exercise in erasure, which is antithetical to a more complete and inclusive education. Or worse, it is just a clumsy attempt to pacify or appease those who are threatened by the inclusion of groups of which they are not a part. There are plenty of data that shows that such appeasement has a disastrous history.
So we would like to offer a couple of suggestions going forward.
• The BOE simply must provide more transparency into the revision process and the reasoning for why specific changes are being made. This cannot be just an exercise in conflict avoidance: There is much more at stake.
• We also believe the BOE members must have the courage of their convictions by insisting on the truth of the living history of our students, their families’, and educators. In the end, truth is really the thing under attack here, and the BOE should be its strongest champion.
• Finally, the Daily Camera must do better in its coverage of this issue. The above-referenced Community Editorial Board take on this issue was — in one case for sure — deeply flawed in both its focus on only LGBTQ inclusion in these guidelines and in conflating LGBTQ existence with gender/sex; precisely the ignorance that drives so much of the historical animus towards LGBTQ people as well as continued attempts to erase us from history. The flippant dismissal of historical contributions specifically by marginalized groups is precisely the kind of ongoing damnatio memoriae that compromises truth, and thus education.
We expect better. Our students and teachers deserve better. Colorado needs better.
Mardi Moore is the executive director of Out Boulder County. Neil Fishman is the chair of Out Boulder Advocacy and Public Policy Committee. Bruce Parker is the deputy executive director of Out Boulder County. Fintan Steele is a member of the Community Editorial Board. | 2022-10-14T12:12:41Z | www.dailycamera.com | Guest opinion: Mardi Moore: Out of sight, out of mind | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/guest-opinion-mardi-moore-out-of-sight-out-of-mind/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/guest-opinion-mardi-moore-out-of-sight-out-of-mind/ |
Letters to the editor: Residents race to…
Christopher Cox: Redtail Ridge: Residents are racing to support corporate greed
Why are Boulder County residents in a race to the bottom to disavow their personal interests and instead support large corporate greed? Boulder County is facing a monumental affordable housing shortage, made even worse by the Marshall Fire. Yet, despite this objective housing crisis, residents consistently support initiatives diametrically opposed to creating affordable housing opportunities and a stronger community. Chiefly, the development of Redtail Ridge in Louisville presented the city with an amazing opportunity to both help rebuild in the wake of the Marshall Fire’s devastation and ensure affordable, community-oriented, housing is available in Boulder County. However, corporate sway and the vocal “yes” movement threaten to develop Redtail Ridge as a commercial retail space. If the empty and decaying Alfalfa’s on South Boulder Road and the until-recently vacant strip mall in front of Delo Apartments are any indications, the last thing Louisville needs is more retail space that will likely remain vacant. Anyways, what good is retail space if you do not have any workers to staff it or residents to shop there?
I grew up in a town that over the span of ten years lost all of its charm and livability due to bad corporate development decisions. What makes a community great is the people living within it, but if actions are not taken to promote affordable family housing, the people that make Louisville great will leave, and the city will stagnate. More homes will not change the culture of Louisville or damage the property market, more homes will ensure generations of families can continue on our town’s legacy and appeal. A healthy community is built upon the well-being of its residents, so I have to ask the “yes” movement and Louisville City Council, what happened to communities providing for their residents instead of seeking big paydays from developers?
Christopher Cox, Louisville
Cathy B. Swanson: Elections: Even-year argument fails in many ways
The argument that more people will vote when state and federal elections are held:
1) Fails to give evidence that local candidates and issues will receive a significant increase of votes in the face of down-ballot fatigue.
2) Fails to acknowledge that Colorado has an easier process in getting local and state issues on the ballot than many states. Further, Boulder traditionally has a longer ballot of local proposals than our sister cities.
3) Fails to recognize the numbers gap is largely, in my opinion, a matter of self-selection, not restrictions or obstacles to voting. Colorado’s mail-in ballots make voting very accessible.
Please (re)read Mary Young’s insightful guest opinion from Sept. 29 about better ways to engage voters than even-year elections.
Cathy B. Swanson, Boulder
Boli Medappa: Election: Take notice of all the work our libraries do
Boulder Public Library doesn’t stop. Go to the library today, and you might not notice all the work your library has been doing to equalize the playing field in Boulder for residents and families. And that’s ok: Not all of us make use of the services the library provides. But if you are, for instance, a non-English speaking person, you’ll notice.
You’ll notice that the library has intentionally recruited bilingual and native Spanish-speaking staff. You’ll notice the Book-Rich Environments program, a partnership with Boulder Housing Partners that gives away free books to low-income families. You’ll notice Reading Buddies, a partnership with CU and Fairview High to match adult readers with a child in need of additional reading support. You’ll notice the Space Camp program, bringing in low-income students to the library’s makerspace to do engineering and mathematics. Students from this program have gone on to get scholarships for college as a result of their participation. You’ll notice the bilingual storytimes, reading circles and celebrations of different cultures and literature. You’ll notice the citizenship classes. You’ll notice “Conversations in English,” a program within BoulderReads, which has more than doubled during the pandemic.
Boulder library simply doesn’t stop. But that doesn’t mean it’s not struggling. And I’m asking you to notice that. The makerspace is closed five days a week. The programs mentioned above are paused, canceled, grant-funded or on restricted hours due to budget cuts. Library staff continue to stand on the frontlines of equity work, and this work is vital to our community’s future. The way we support that work is to give our library a stable funding source like the many other libraries across our state. That is why I strongly support measure 6C and will be voting “yes” to fund our libraries. Learn more at boulderlibrarychampions.org.
Boli Medappa, Boulder | 2022-10-14T12:12:47Z | www.dailycamera.com | Letters to the editor: Residents race to support greed; even-year argument fails; take note of library programs | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/letters-to-the-editor-residents-race-to-support-greed-even-year-argument-fails-take-note-of-library-programs/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/letters-to-the-editor-residents-race-to-support-greed-even-year-argument-fails-take-note-of-library-programs/ |
Gasoline Lollipops album release show and other…
Gasoline Lollipops at Boulder Theater: Gasoline Lollipops will release “Nightmares,” an album of three new songs and seven reworked favorites, at its show Friday. Check out our interview with frontman Clay Rose. Rose told us, “We wanted a more ethereal — kind of haunting — nightmarish vibe to the record.” With its somber waltzes, ‘sad bastard ballads’ and an very apocalyptic vibe of 2020, “Nightmares” is layered with grit and grain; 8 p.m. Friday, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $20-$25; z2ent.com.
Film Lunch Series with Skinner Meyers: Skinner Myers is an award-winning filmmaker who has written and directed 11 films, including “La Tierra del Exodo,” “Nightmares by the Sea,” “Things of Beauty Burn” and “Frank Embree.” His feature film debut, “The Sleeping Negro” premiered at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. Refreshments provided; noon Friday, Roser ATLAS Center, 102, CU Boulder; calendar.colorado.edu/event/bcls_skinner_meyers.
Boulder Magic Show: This weekend, Las Vegas-based magician Ben Young will perform two shows at the Dairy in this series that’s curated by Boulder and California magic-man Braden Carlisle; 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $15-$20; thedairy.org.
The Constant Tourists at BOCO Cider: Dance the week off with some gypsy folk rock from this husband-and-wife duo who will be joined by a drummer on a cajon box; 6 p.m. Friday, BOCO Cider, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 14, Boulder; Free; bococider.com.
Chris Pierce at the Dairy: California-based singer/songwriter blew up after his hit “We Can Always Come Back To This” aired on three episodes of NBC’s “This Is Us.” Hear his thoughtful songs during an evening at the Dairy; 7 p.m. Friday, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $20; thedairy.org.
Gilmore Family Band at Basecamp: Colorado Springs blues group will perform a backyard-style acoustic show just in time for Parents Weekend at CU; 7 p.m. Friday, Basecamp Boulder, 2020 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder; thegilmorefamilyband.com.
Laurie & Lorrie Duo at Tune Up: Local musician duo Laurie & Lorrie cover just about every genre; 7:00 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, Full Cycle’s Tune Up, 2355 30th St, Boulder; Free; tuneupboulder.com. | 2022-10-14T15:30:05Z | www.dailycamera.com | Gasoline Lollipops album release show and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/gasoline-lollipops-album-release-show-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/gasoline-lollipops-album-release-show-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Fearing a grocery monopoly, opponents of the merger are already calling on antitrust enforcers to look into — and potentially block — the deal.
Combined, Kroger and Albertsons employ more than 710,000, with almost 5,000 stores across 48 states and Washington, D.C. The merged company would serve a customer base of 85 million households.
Dozens of mom-and-pop grocers cater to Mile High City residents, such as Sun Market at 2201 Lafayette St., Pacific Mercantile Company at 1925 Lawrence St. and Decatur Fresh at 995 Decatur St.
Both the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Chamber of Commerce declined to comment on the merger.
“There is no reason to allow two of the biggest supermarket chains in the country to merge — especially with food prices already soaring,” said Executive Director Sarah Miller. “With 60% of grocery sales concentrated among just five national chains, a Kroger-Albertons deal would squeeze consumers already struggling to afford food, crush workers fighting for fair wages, and destroy independent, community stores.”
Talk of the merger were first reported by Bloomberg on Thursday morning. | 2022-10-14T21:02:47Z | www.dailycamera.com | Kroger and Albertsons to move forward with $25 billion merger | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/colorado-king-soopers-kroger-albertsons-safeway-merger/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/colorado-king-soopers-kroger-albertsons-safeway-merger/ |
BVSD supporting Casey Middle School’s…
German Chacon, left, and Nathan Kostishack begin work in seventh grade math class at Casey Middle School in Boulder on Oct. 11. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)
After several years of working to improve achievement at its high needs elementary schools, the Boulder Valley School District is turning its focus to middle schools — and especially Casey Middle School.
Casey, in Boulder, is the only school in the district this year that didn’t earn one of the top two state ratings, requiring the school to create an improvement plan. The school board is set to approve the plan at its Oct. 25 meeting, then submit the plan to the state.
Megan Fantinelli, a seventh-grade math teacher, writes problems on the board at Casey Middle School in Boulder on Oct. 11. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)
“We are already seeing many positive changes,” Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership Robbyn Fernandez told the school board at its recent meeting.
Casey’s rating this year is “priority improvement,” the second lowest rating category. Schools in the lowest two categories face state sanctions if they don’t improve after five consecutive years — though the state considers this a transition year, giving schools until next year to improve before they’re placed on the accountability clock.
The state ratings are based mainly on achievement on statewide tests and growth from year to year on language arts and math tests. This year was the first full administration of the statewide tests since 2019.
At Casey, growth in both language arts and math has remained below the 50th percentile over three years of testing, with a declining trend in math. While overall language arts achievement has remained stable, overall math achievement also has declined over three years.
Another challenge is disproportionate access to advanced opportunities. Latinx students and students eligible for meal assistance are underrepresented among students identified as gifted and students taking advanced coursework, including advanced math.
In 2021-22, Latinx students made up 43% of the student population at Casey, but only 17% of students identified as gifted and 5% of students taking advanced coursework were Latinx. The numbers were similar for students receiving meal assistance who make up about half the student population.
Writing the improvement plan is Casey’s new principal, Bryant Shaw, who previously worked in Boulder Valley schools and worked most recently in Aurora Public Schools.
“We have an opportunity to have a restart,” Shaw said. “It’s an exciting time at Casey.”
Bryant Shaw, Casey Middle School principal, drops in on seventh-grade math to add some wisdom at Casey Middle School in Boulder on Oct. 11. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)
In Aurora, Shaw received training through the University of Virginia’s Partnership for Leaders in Education program — the same program that Boulder Valley is working with to boost achievement for three of its traditionally lower performing elementary schools. All three of those schools received the state’s top ratings this year.
Shaw wrote the plan after meeting with school leadership, district leadership and data support staff members, as well as gathering feedback from school staff members and parents on the school accountability committee.
Shaw said a common theme was wanting Casey to be “a place where all kids could come and be successful, welcoming and accepting of everybody.”
The plan focuses on three areas: culture and climate, collaborative structures and assessment strategy.
Goals around improving the culture and climate include reducing the number of habitually absent students. The school has started making home visits, as well as providing resources like bus vouchers to remove barriers to getting to school, with help from a new “climate and culture” staff position.
The plan also says the school will create systems to manage student behavior that incorporate accountability and follow-through, reducing time out of class.
Shaw said the changes are already working. In 2021, 31 students attended school less than 80% of the time. At the end of September, that list was down to 20 students.
“Students are showing up, they’re in class,” he said.
Others goals include teachers using student achievement data to make instructional decisions, as well as aligning content so students can make connections among their core classes.
“It’s all rooted in data,” Shaw said. “We’re using student work to determine in real time what our students need. When we say all students, we really mean all.”
German Chacon, left, and Nathan Kostishack begin work in seventh-grade math at Casey Middle School in Boulder on Oct. 11. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)
Assistant Principal Hillary Culbertson, who is also new to Casey this year, said a big part of her job is getting students “back in school mode after all the interruptions of the pandemic.”
“It’s about what it looks like to be in school and how to be successful at school,” she said.
Another area is making connections with families, letting them know about student successes and bringing them in to help with challenges.
“Celebrating progress is a big part of what we do,” she said. “We have students who have made a lot of progress, even in two months in school.”
The other main role she fills is as an instructional coach for teachers. The school’s core teachers now are organized in teams of four — an English, math, science and social studies teacher in each team — and share the same students. Each team has a common weekly planning time to collaborate.
“They talk about content connections and strategies to better meet the needs of students,” Culbertson said.
Science teacher Ian Schwartz said the core content teams are proving “really helpful in meeting the needs of kids.”
He said teachers are looking for patterns in the academic standards to identify the main skills students need to meet those standards across the content areas, such as analyzing and summarizing. Teachers also use common academic language.
“The kids making connections throughout the school day is powerful in helping them with academic achievement,” he said. “There’s a lot of value in common language and common skills.”
Along with collaborating, he said, teachers are working to be more intentional about instruction and how they measure if they’re meeting goals for students.
“We all recognize that Casey is on a priority improvement plan,” he said. “We are focused on instruction, on academically moving things toward our goals. I’m very optimistic.” | 2022-10-15T01:40:44Z | www.dailycamera.com | BVSD supporting Casey Middle School's improvement plan | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/bvsd-supporting-casey-middle-schools-improvement-plan/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/14/bvsd-supporting-casey-middle-schools-improvement-plan/ |
Road woes continue for CU Buffs women’s…
Shrya James injured as CU remains winless away from home
It was a loss that may prove damaging to the NCAA Tournament hopes of the Colorado women’s soccer team. And the Buffaloes may have suffered a devastating personnel loss that would severely damage their ability to battle back into tournament contention.
CU remained winless on the road this season after suffering a 2-0 loss at Arizona on Friday night. It was the Buffs’ first loss in Tucson after a 4-0-4 run at Arizona. The Buffs are now 0-3-3 on the road.
It was a tough setback for a CU club that faces four ranked teams over the final five games of the season. The Buffs suffered what might be an even bigger loss when Shyra James was helped off the field in the 59th minute while heavily favoring her right leg. James leads CU with 11 goals and entered the match tied for 16th in the nation with 23 points. That total is tied for the 10th-best single-season mark in CU history. Midfielder Jenny Beyer also was injured late but walked off the field on her own.
Arizona jumped to a quick lead, netting a goal by Nicole Dallin just 3 minutes, 19 seconds into the game. CU goalie Dani Hansen recorded five saves in the first half, but head coach Danny Sanchez opted to go with Bella Grust after halftime. The 1-0 score stood the Wildcats padded their lead in the 53rd minute on an Olivia Briede goal after Iliana Hocking threaded a pass through the CU defense.
CU (8-4-3, 2-3-1 Pac-12 Conference) is back in action on Thursday at home against No. 1 UCLA, though the Bruins are likely to take a dip in the top 25 poll after losing 1-0 at No. 9 Stanford on Friday night.
Arizona 2, Colorado 0
UA 1 1 — 2
Goals — Arizona: Dallin, 4th minute; Briede (Hocking), 53rd minute.
Goalies (Min.-goals allowed-saves) — Colorado: Hansen (45-1-5); Grust (45-1-1). Arizona: Hisey (90-0-3). | 2022-10-15T16:50:08Z | www.dailycamera.com | Road woes continue for CU Buffs women’s soccer at Arizona – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/15/68687/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/15/68687/ |
Rare win against Washington State keeps…
The Colorado volleyball team was able to keep its momentum rolling against a foe that has been a painful thorn in the Buffaloes’ side in recent years.
CU began a weekend series against the Washington schools on Friday evening with a 3-1 win against Washington State, topping the Cougars 25-21, 25-17, 15-25, 25-9 at the CU Events Center.
It was the sixth win in the past eight matches for the Buffs, who improved to 13-4 overall and 5-2 in the Pac-12 Conference after finishing 6-14 in the league a year ago.
The victory ended a seven-game losing streak against the Cougars, who received enough votes in this week’s AVCA Top 25 to be ranked unofficially at No. 29. The win also was the 300th overall in the career of CU coach Jesse Mahoney.
Mahoney became the third CU coach to win 100 games in Boulder with the Buffs’ five-set win at home against Colorado State on Sept. 16. Mahoney’s overall career total includes 107 wins in six seasons at Division II Fort Hays State and 88 wins in four seasons at Denver. Mahoney improved to 105-87 in his seventh season at CU.
“Well, 300 wins, that just mostly means I’m old,” Mahoney said. “But there’s a lot of people…this whole team has been a part of it. Meegan (Hart) and Brynna (DeLuzio) have been here for probably 100 of those which is pretty awesome, and then going back to some early days with a lot of players. I’ve been lucky to be a part of great programs, and had great players and great assistant coaches and nothing we do in a team game is dependent on one person. I’ve been around for 300 wins. I’m not sure they’re 300 of my wins.”
CU led from the early stages of the first set and jumped to a 5-1 lead in set two before steadily padding the lead the rest of the way. The Cougars avoided a sweep by taking set three, but the Buffs put the match to rest after racing to a 16-4 lead in the fourth set.
The Buffs posted a hitting percentage of .289, and the attack was led by a .324 mark and 18 kills from Maya Tabron. Lexi Hadrych added 11 kills. Taylor Simpson recorded 27 assists and DeLuzio posted a double-double with 15 assists and 12 digs.
CU’s defense, led by six blocks from Hart and four from Alexia Kuehl, held WSU to a .136 hitting percentage.
The Buffs continue their homestand on Sunday at noon against No. 15 Washington.
“Absolutely amazing fourth set,” Hadrych said. “I was off the court for the whole service run that Katie (Lougeay) was doing. The energy you could feel it coming off the court. The sideline was getting pumped. Adam (Ringler), our strength coach, he was doing the cheers. Everybody was so excited. I just think we did a really great job making sure we had our systems in check and we got a win, so it was great.”
Colorado 3, Washington State 1
WSU 21 17 25 9
Kills — Washington State: Timmer 12, Jehlarova 10. Colorado: Tabron 18, Hadrych 11.
Assists — Washington State: Ung 26. Colorado: Simpson 27, DeLuzio 15.
Blocks — Washington State: Jehlarova 4, Wojdyla 3. Colorado: Hart 6, Kuehl 4, Schneggenburger 3.
Digs — Washington State: Ung 10, Basham 10. Colorado: Lougeay 13, DeLuzio 12, Schneggenburger 10. | 2022-10-15T16:50:12Z | www.dailycamera.com | Rare win against Washington State keeps momentum rolling for Colorado volleyball – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/15/rare-win-against-washington-state-keeps-momentum-rolling-for-colorado-volleyball/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/15/rare-win-against-washington-state-keeps-momentum-rolling-for-colorado-volleyball/ |
Sanitas Brewing winter sports gear swap and…
Summit Lynch rides down a run on opening day at Eldora in 2020. Sanitas Brewing is hosting a ski gear swap Saturday. (Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)
Sanitas Ski Swap: Get geared up for ski season at Sanitas’ annual ski swap that will have merchandise from local adventure brands. If you have unused ski gear piling up in the garage, come pop up a table and sell some gear. Items will be for sale, or we also encourage a trade system for anyone interested in bringing in items for trading. This family-friendly event will have food from McDevitt Taco Supply and free live music; noon-5 p.m. Saturday, Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Ave. Unit A, Boulder; Free; sanitasbrewing.com.
Boulder Bach Festival Concert: With multiple Grammy nominations, Jory Vinikour’s harpsichord recordings and performances in all the world’s great concert halls have placed him as a leading interpreter of baroque music. He’s visiting town and will play at the festival’s “Journey to France,” performing J.S. Bach’s French Overture, followed by a grand virtuosic Rameau suite; 4 p.m. Saturday, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont; boulderbachfestival.org.
Boulder Open Studios: This is the last weekend to go on free, self-guided tours of more than 150 artists’ studios across the county; noon to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; Find maps and more info at openstudios.org/open-studios-tour.
Mt. Sanitas Hike: Join a naturalist on a hike to discover Mt. Sanitas’ follies, falcons, flakes and formations. Over three rocky miles you will gain about 500 feet and learn some of the history, traditions and geology of one of Boulder’s most interesting parks. Come and find out how Mt. Sanitas got its name; 1 p.m. Saturday, Centennial Trailhead, 501 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder; (303) 651-8404. Ask for Activity No. 447945, bit.ly/3EGHqI6. | 2022-10-15T16:50:18Z | www.dailycamera.com | Sanitas Brewing winter sports gear swap and other Boulder events for today – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/15/sanitas-brewing-winter-sports-gear-swap-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/15/sanitas-brewing-winter-sports-gear-swap-and-other-boulder-events-for-today/ |
Rooney: Re-energized CU Buffs turn the page…
University of Colorado Boulder’s Jamar Montgomery celebrates a late fumble recovery against the Cal Bears on October 15, 2022. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)
Daniel Arias was having a bad day. And that was after Colorado’s offense had run all of six plays.
On CU’s first play, following a Buffaloes’ interception, Arias dropped a bomb that would have sent Folsom Field into a frenzy. The Buffs’ second possession ended with a third down drop that would have extended the drive.
Then Mike Sanford, anointed as CU’s interim head coach less than two weeks earlier in place of Karl Dorrell after a listless 0-5 start, did something along the sideline Buffs fans haven’t seen in years. He, you know, coached.
After Arias’ second drop, Sanford was beside the senior receiver immediately. Only those two know what exactly was said, but based on body language it seemed Sanford’s message was less critical than it was encouraging. It was a small gesture, but perhaps one that perfectly encapsulated the shift in mojo at Folsom from the statuesque Dorrell to the exuberant Sanford.
That energy carried the Buffs through overtime and, for the first time this season, into the win column, as CU christened the interim Sanford era with a 20-13 overtime victory against California. Arias bounced back to make big catches on a pair of scoring drives during a day littered with CU heroes, from JT Shrout’s relief appearance at quarterback to Montana Lemonious-Craig’s incredible toe-grazing touchdown in overtime to Trevor Woods’ game-saving hit two plays later that exemplified the full 60 minute-plus effort of a defense that looked nothing like the generous sieve that led to the exit of defensive coordinator Chris Wilson alongside Dorrell.
“We just put the past behind us and it’s a credit to (this) team,” defensive lineman Terrance Lang said. “We were able to take in information. We’ve been through a lot of adversity and nobody ever phoned it. Nobody ever gave up. They bought into what coach Sanford and coach (Gerald) Chatman were trying to say. And the result showed on the field.”
One obvious question in the immediate aftermath is to wonder what exactly Wilson was trying to accomplish with this defense. The Buffs will face much tougher offenses than Cal (whose quarterback, Jack Plummer, made the duo of Shrout and Owen McCown look like the classic combo of Joe Montana and Steve Young), but the CU defense had been an equal opportunity benefactor for opposing offenses this season.
CU entered the game dead last in the nation in rushing defense, allowing 294.2 yards per game. Talented Cal freshman running back Jaydn Ott was just two games removed from torching Arizona for 274 rushing yards, and he appeared ready to be next in line among backfield tormentors for CU’s defense when he reeled off a 12-yard gain on the game’s first play. Ott’s 15 carries the rest of the way netted just 35 yards, as the Buffs held the Bears to just 35 rushing yards overall on 22 attempts.
The change was as dramatic as it was unexpected. And it was a relief as much for a group of players that have been under-coached and deployed into the front lines ill-equipped to succeed as it was for a fan base eager for signs of life. What comes next for the program remains a huge unknown. Yet one thing that should be apparent to Rick George, Phil DiStefano, and any other CU brass that might stick their nose in the ongoing coaching search is that the support is there.
I don’t care if it was family weekend on campus, or if it was the sort of perfect autumn afternoon that makes Folsom one of the most picturesque venues in all of college football. Getting 50,000-plus fans in the stands to watch an 0-5 team that had been absolutely rolled in each defeat is a striking sign of support.
That’s why no one should scoff at the audacity of storming the field after squeaking past a team likely to be neighbors with the Buffs at the bottom of the Pac-12 standings. This was cathartic for players and fans alike.
Given the remaining schedule, it still will take a minor miracle for the Buffs to play their way into bowl contention. Yet Saturday showcased the difference inspired leadership can make. | 2022-10-16T01:43:21Z | www.dailycamera.com | Rooney: Re-energized CU Buffs turn the page with improbable OT win against Cal – Boulder Daily Camera | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/15/rooney-re-energized-cu-buffs-turn-the-page-with-improbable-ot-win-against-cal/ | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/10/15/rooney-re-energized-cu-buffs-turn-the-page-with-improbable-ot-win-against-cal/ |
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