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Today's News

  • Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity dedicates its 30th home

    On a high road in Brook Forest is a gray frame house with purple trim where Evergreen resident Elizabeth Gonzales now lives.

    Gonzales’ new home is the 30th one built by Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity.

    “Two years ago, I first saw this land. Now it’s going to be Elizabeth’s home,” said Kathleen O’Leary, executive director of the area organization.

    O’Leary was among Blue Spruce Habitat staff and volunteers who came to the dedication of Gonzales’ home on Friday afternoon.

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  • A well-populated play date

    Not far from where a class of elementary-school students kicked their shoes into the air in a colorful hail of flying footwear, 8-year-old Sam Haver leapt from the ground.

    He was airborne for what seemed like forever, going further than any of his classmates ó even the enthusiastic girl in pigtails. He landed with an explosion of sand and won a first-place ribbon in the long-jump competition.

    Sam, a second-grader at King-Murphy Elementary School, offered his key to jumping success: “Use a lot of speed.”

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  • Forest Service accepts Loveland’s expansion plan

    Loveland Ski Area’s master development plan to expand and upgrade the resort over the next five to seven years recently was accepted by the U.S. Forest Service.

    Officials from both organizations are quick to point out that acceptance does not mean approval.

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  • Vice principal, curriculum director in lesson plan

    A vice principal to split time between the middle school and high school and a curriculum director are needed to improve student achievement, according to the Clear Creek School District’s recently released master education plan.

    District Superintendent Todd Lancaster said the plan calls for hiring a vice principal for the high school/middle school to free principals from administrative work, so they may help teachers in classrooms. Lancaster said freeing up the principals will help build teachers’ instructional skills.

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  • Slide victims were buried for 4 hours, report says

    Four experienced backcountry snowboarders and a skier who died in an avalanche north of Loveland Pass on April 20 were buried four hours before a rescue was attempted, according to an investigation by the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

    Officials originally estimated that the avalanche happened at 1 p.m., and rescuers arrived at 2 p.m. However, the avalanche actually occurred about 10:30 a.m.

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  • Ranger district tries to curb illegal shooting in national forest

    The Clear Creek Ranger District wants to increase public awareness efforts in response to illegal shooting of firearms in the Arapaho National Forest.

    Ranger district officials are concerned about the number of trees damaged by gunfire; by appliances used as targets and left behind; and by a lack of safe backstops for stray rounds. Officials are concerned stray bullets could endanger visitors and district workers. 

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  • 4 Evergreen fire board members retained in contentious recall election

    Evergreen residents overwhelmingly voted to retain four fire district board members in a contentious recall election spurred by the board’s decision to erect a fire-training building in Bergen Park.

    Approximately 6,500 voters responded “no” to the question on mail-in ballots asking if board members George Kling, Charles Simons, Jeff DeDisse and David Christensen should be recalled, according to results posted April 23.

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  • Mt. Evans clinic helps seniors put their best foot forward

    By Stephen Knapp

    For the Courant

    Most days, the laundry room beneath the historic Queen Hotel in downtown Idaho Springs is all business — laundry comes in, laundry goes out, and not so much as a fritter, dally or dawdle between. But one morning every six weeks, tumbling linens give way to talk and laughter as Mt. Evans Home Health and Hospice holds its popular foot care clinic at the Project Support Senior Center on Miner Street.

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  • Two emergency-preparedness classes planned in May

    Residents’ concerns about wildfire danger this summer have prompted the Clear Creek Office of Emergency Management to host an evacuation preparedness class in conjunction with the Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation District.

    The free class will be held twice: on May 11 from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. and on May 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. at the Idaho Springs recreation center.

    While it’s too early to determine what the summer will hold in terms of wildfires, preparedness is always the best option, Clear Creek Fire Chief Kelly Babeon said.

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  • Sadie Hawkins dance at historic barn offers second annual chance to boogie

    More than 400 people who came to the first Boogie at the Barn at the Alderfer Ranch last fall can look forward to kicking up their heels again this Saturday, May 4.

    “Boogie is back for 2013 as a series of three great barn dances,” said Pandora Reagan, who is helping to organize the event with musician and partner John Erlandson.

    “In the tradition of the old barn dances and in celebration of spring, this first Boogie at the Barn of 2013 will be a Sadie Hawkins dance: ‘Gals ask guys,’ ” Reagan says.

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