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  • Are you late? Or on time? – Spring Ahead Happened

    Time travel occurred last night 🙂 Did you make the trip?  Clocks jumped 1 hour between the hours of 2 and 3 a.m on Sunday, March 7

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  • It’s that time – Spring Ahead!

    Don’t forget the time changes between 2 and 3 a.m. Sunday morning! 

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  • DON’T FORGET TO SPRING AHEAD

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  • Delegation from France Visits State Fire Agency Facilities

    Delegation from France Visits State Fire Agency Facilities

    March 6, 2020 – Lakewood, CO: The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) will host a delegation from France March 9-10th. The delegation requested the visit as part of France’s efforts to increase their knowledge about emerging technologies that impact the wildland fire community.

    The delegates include French firefighters officers (Head of international affairs), AIRBUS personnel, THALES personnel, and representation from NĂŽmes metropolitan area (Openimes). 

    The delegation will use this visit to learn more about aerial firefighting best practices in the US and to learn about new and innovative technologies that may help with the firefight in France.

    In addition to meeting with DFPCs Multi Mission Aircraft program staff at the Centennial Airport, the group will travel to Rifle to meet with the Center of Excellence to learn more about the Divisions efforts in Night Aerial Firefighting, Aerial Water Enhancer, Team Awareness Kit (TAK), and Unmanned Aerial Systems. 

    “We are pleased to welcome the delegates and share the programs we’ve built,” said DFPC Director, Mike Morgan. “We are fortunate to have outstanding facilities and resources, which serve as a model for other fire programs not just in Colorado, but around the world.”

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  • Step back to the 1800s at the 17 Mile House Farm Park

    Step back to the 1800s at the 17 Mile House Farm Park

    This Saturday, March 7, kids can enjoy crafts, make pinwheels, and learn the windmill’s history. It’s fun for the whole family!

    Visit the 17 Mile House Farm Park, a 155-year old farm, which served as an important resting stop for pioneers traveling on the Cherokee/Smoky Hill wagon trails in the 1860s. Experience what life was like from living historians, interactive interpretive displays and artifacts. Walk through time as you explore Arapahoe County’s original farm house.

    Saturday, March 7 | 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
    17 Mile House Farm Park
    8181 S Parker Road, Centennial

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  • On eve of Super Tuesday, study sheds light on how people make choices

    On eve of Super Tuesday, study sheds light on how people make choices

    On Super Tuesday, Democratic voters from Colorado and across the United States will face a serious decision: Sanders or Warren? Biden, Klobuchar or Bloomberg?

    Now, a new study taps into mathematics to probe how people make those kinds of fraught choices—in particular, how hypothetical, and completely rational, individuals might select between two options as they navigate through a noisy social environment.  

    It turns out that not making a choice can sometimes be as revealing as picking a side, report researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Houston. When the people around you are indecisive, for example, that can have a big influence on your own choices. 

    “Say you have a friend who has been a staunch Sanders supporter in the past,” said Zachary Kilpatrick, a coauthor of the new study and an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at CU Boulder. “It’s the night before the primary, and they still have not made a decision about who they’re going to vote for. That suggests that they have received some evidence that’s in conflict with voting for Sanders.”

    Kilpatrick will present his team’s results remotely at a meeting of the American Physical Society. (The physical conference has been canceled due to public health concerns).

    His team’s research zeroes in on a major question in a field of study called decision-making theory: How people make choices based both on their own, private research—such as watching televised debates—and through their social interactions—say, checking out their friends’ posts on social media.

    Kilpatrick compared that goal to the classic battle of wits between Vizzini and the Dread Pirate Roberts in the 1987 film The Princess Bride. In that scene, the pirate claims to have poisoned one of two glasses of wine. Vizzini, a scofflaw of supposedly vast intellect, must choose the one he thinks is safe to drink. 

    It gets complicated.

    “What Vizzini says is that he knows what the Dread Pirate Roberts knows that he knows,” Kilpatrick said. “But he takes multiple loops through what we call a ‘common knowledge’ exchange before he makes the decision on the wine glasses.”

    To explore similar kinds of intellectual spirals, Kilpatrick and his colleagues used a series of equations, or mathematical models, to simulate social interactions of varying complexity. Their models didn’t revolve around real-life voters, or even pirates, but “rational agents”—theoretical deciders who always make the right choices based on the evidence available to them. 

    “We’re both watching the same news show, for example, and I look over to you to see if you’ve made a decision or not,” Kilpatrick said. “We have to account for our common knowledge multiple times until we’ve adequately squeezed all of the information that we can out of the fact that you haven’t made a decision yet, and I haven’t made a decision yet.”

    Eventually, it stops. One voter or group of voters in a network might finally receive enough information to feel confident about their choice

    Kilpatrick is quick to note that, of course, no voter is perfectly rational. But scientists can still learn a lot by studying where real-life humans fall in line with what theory suggests they should do—and where they don’t.

    People should also always try to be aware of the baggage that others in their social networks carry, he added. 

    “When we’re determining how political leaders or people in our networks make decisions,” Kilpatrick said, “we should think hard about how those individuals are biased in order to figure out what we should take away from their decisions.”

     

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  • GOVERNOR’S AG FORUM WELCOME RECEPTION MAKES A MOVE TO THE COLORADO HISTORY CENTER FOR FIRST TIME IN 29 YEARS.

    GOVERNOR’S AG FORUM WELCOME RECEPTION MAKES A MOVE TO THE COLORADO HISTORY CENTER FOR FIRST TIME IN 29 YEARS.

     For the first time in 29 years, the welcome reception for the Governor’s Forum on Colorado Agriculture will not be at the Governor’s Mansion. On Feb. 25, from 5:30p to 8:00p, the Welcome Reception for the Governor’s Forum on Colorado Agriculture will be held at the History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway, Denver, Colo. 

    This year marks the 29th year for the Governor’s Forum on Colorado Agriculture. This change in venue will allow the forum reception to welcome a greater number of guests and allow a stronger opportunity for networking and engagement. With a theme this year of “Brand it Agriculture”, CALP Class 14 hopes to cover a diverse range of agricultural issues and topics in an attempt to create solidarity among all agricultural industries. Registration is open through 1 pm at the event, Feb. 26, 2020 at the Renaissance Stapleton Hotel in Denver.

    For more information or to register, go to governorsagforum.com or contact Dani Traweek at (303) 547-5963. Speaker biographies available on-line and interviews may be arranged through Dani. 

    About Colorado Agriculture Leadership Program (CALP)

    CALP is an intensive, two-year agriculture leadership program, focused specifically on developing high caliber leaders for Colorado agriculture who are well-versed in the complex and diverse issues of food production, agriculture policy, and the converging interests of rural and urban populations in Colorado. For more information, please visit www.coloagleaders.org. 

     

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  • Basketball postseason continues this week; first games tonight

    Basketball postseason continues this week; first games tonight

    by Steven Vetter, Managing Editor

    Seven of the eight I-70 Corridor high school basketball teams are still playing this week in their district or league tournaments.

    In 1A, the Deer Trail girls and boys both host a 1A District 7 pigtail contest tonight (Feb. 24). Both teams enter the tournament as the No. 6 seed. The Lady Eagles will host Pikes Peak Christian at 5:30 p.m. with the boys playing Hanover at approximately 7 p.m. If either team wins, they play tomorrow night in the district second round. The girls would either host Colorado School for the Deaf & Blind or travel to Kiowa. The boys would host Cripple-Creek or travel to Colorado Springs to play Pikes Peak Christian.

    Both Byers boys and girls are in the 2A District 4 quarterfinals. The Bulldog boys will host Clear tomorrow night (Tuesday, Feb. 25). The girls travel to Burlington on Wednesday, Feb. 26. If either team wins, they will play in the semifinals Thursday, Feb. 27, at Vista Peak High School in Aurora. The two girls semifinals are at 4 p.m. and approximately 7:30 p.m. while the boys games will be around 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

    Both Bennett teams won their Frontier League pigtail games Feb. 22 and will travel for the quarterfinals tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 25). The Tiger girls will take DSST: Montview at 6 p.m. with the boys traveling to Granby to take on Middle Park at approximately 7:30 p.m. If either team loses, they play in the consolation semifinals on Wednesday, Feb. 26. If either team wins, they will play in the championship consolation semifinals at The Pinnacle High School in Thornton; the girls games are scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 27, and the boys Friday, Feb. 28. Championship Saturday is on Feb. 29, also at The Pinnacle High School.

    The Strasburg boys are in the consolation semifinals of the 3A Patriot League Tournament and host Brush at 6 p.m. tomorrow (Feb. 25). With a win, the Indians will play in the fifth-place game at about 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 27, at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland. With a loss, Strasburg will play in the seventh-place game about 10:30 a.m. that same day.

     

  • I-70 Corridor to send 15 to state wrestling tournament

    I-70 Corridor to send 15 to state wrestling tournament

    by Steven Vetter, Managing Editor

    DENVER — When the 2020 Colorado State Wrestling Championships commence this Friday (Feb. 20) at Pepsi Center in Denver the I-70 Corridor will be represented by 15 student-athletes from Bennett, Strasburg and Byers.

    Bennett qualified eight and Strasburg four from 3A Region 3 and Byers had three qualify from 2A Region 3. Bennett is tied with seven other teams for the third-most qualifiers in 3A; only three other schools had more — Jefferson and Alamosa with 10 each and Pagosa Springs with nine.

    First-round matches start at 2 p.m. on Thursday with the following locals competing in their respective 16-man bracket:

    BENNETT & STRASBURG IN 3A

    • 106 pounds: Bennett sophomore John Faczak (40-7 record) will face Berthoud freshman Will Moneypenny (27-12) in the preliminaries.

    • 120 pounds: Bennett freshman Carson Hawkins (28-15) will face Pagosa Springs junior Erik Wyman (41-5) in the opening round.

    • 132 pounds: Strasburg freshman Zach Marrero (27-3), a 3A Region 3 weight champion, will take on Platte Valley sophomore Orrin Jackson (26-9). Bennett Freshman Isaak Copeland (25-20) will take on Berthoud senior Colton Williams (21-10).

    • 138 pounds: Bennett freshman Wesley DuBois (26-15) will face off against Woodland Park junior Colton Simonis (11-4).

    • 152 pounds: Bennett senior Joe Jordan (37-7) will take on Eaton freshman Ryder True (21-12).

    • 170 pounds: Bennett junior Mac Copeland (40-2), a regional champion, will take on Olathe junior Wyatt Mansker (20-6). Strasburg junior Blake Coombs (15-7) faces off with Alamosa senior Hunter Smith (41-6). Both Copeland and Coombs are on the bottom side of the bracket and, if both win their first two matches, they would face each other in the semifinals.

    • 182 pounds: Bennett junior Cody DuBois (35-3), the Tigers’ second regional champion, takes on Lamar junior Anthony Martinez (27-8).

    • 195 pounds: Bennett senior Casey Harvey (25-9) faces Steamboat Springs senior John Stowey (37-9). Strasburg senior Trevor Smith (22-12) takes on Delta senior Gauge Lockhart (29-5).

    •  220 pounds: Strasburg senior Chad Sutherland (31-10) takes on Severance sophomore Cody King (27-9).

    BYERS IN 2A

    • 132 pounds: Bulldog freshman Lain Yapoujian (34-6), a 2A Region 3 champion, faces Dolores Huerta junior Xavier Mendoza (29-14).

    • 138 pounds: Bulldog senior Wyatt Yapoujian (37-4), another regional champion and the No. 1 seed entering state, takes on West Grand junior Rene Dominguez (12-9).

    • 220 pounds: Bulldog senior Wyatt Vermeer (11-24) takes on Monte Vista junior Ethan Hotz (28-9).

    Second round action on both the consolation and championship parts of the bracket start Friday morning.

  • Anythink Bennett hosts photography workshop and showcase

    Anythink Bennett hosts photography workshop and showcase

    Series focuses on honing creativity and photography skills

     BENNETT, Colo.–Feb. 14, 2020–Beginning Saturday, Feb. 15, Anythink Bennett will host a series of photography workshops led by local instructor Pattie Lindsay. Participants will discover the best practices for shooting high-quality photos using just their mobile phones. In the past few years, smartphone cameras have advanced to include functions, settings and display resolutions formerly reserved for professional-grade cameras. By discovering these settings and composition techniques, community members will be able to leverage their photography skills without having to purchase any special equipment.

     This four-part workshop will culminate in a special showcase and reception, featuring framed pieces from participants. Participants who complete all four workshops will receive a universal mobile lens kit, including wide-angle, fisheye and telephoto lenses for your phone. More details on the showcase to follow in the coming weeks.

     â€œWe are excited to bring more opportunities for artistic expression and education to the Bennett community,” says Anythink Bennett manager Whitney Oakley. “Learning mobile photography skills is not only a way to enhance your own captured memories, but also begin to find a passion for an entirely new art form.”

     The series is hosted in conjunction with the Bennett Arts Council and Joyful Journeys Community Enrichment.

     As part of its current strategic plan, Anythink strives to provide cultural learning opportunities for Adams County. Through programs and experiences like this series, community members are able in gain 21st century skills in an accessible format. In the past few years, Anythink has hosted a number of community art exhibitions in a variety of mediums, including sound, oil panting and more. Anythink also celebrates culture with This is Who We Are, a series of collaborative public art projects on permanent display. At Anythink Bennett, “Life on the Eastern Plains” brings the stories, colors and expressions of the Bennett community to life in the form of a quilt designed by Deidre Adams. This piece includes elements of fabric, photos and letters gathered from community members.

     Event Details

     Phone Photography Workshop

    Saturdays, Feb. 15-March 7, 2020

    10:30 am-12 pm

     

    Anythink Bennett

    495 7th St.

    Bennett, CO 80102

    303-405-3231

     

    The best camera is the one you have with you. Learn to capture stunning images in this mobile photography course taught by instructor Pattie Lindsay. This four-week workshop will culminate in a photography showcase and reception featuring framed work from participants. Participants who complete all four workshops will receive a universal mobile lens kit, including wide-angle, fisheye and telephoto lenses for your phone. Space is limited; registration required at anythinklibraries.org. This workshop is hosted in conjunction with the Bennett Arts Council and Joyful Journeys Community Enrichment.

     

     Phone Photography Showcase and Reception

    Saturday, March 21, 2020

    3-5 pm

     Anythink Bennett

    495 7th St.

    Bennett, CO 80102

    303-405-3231

     

    Celebrate community photography at this exhibition highlighting the work of Bennett’s mobile photography workshop. Free and open to all ages. Refreshments will be provided.

     About Anythink™

    Anythink is a new style of library – a place of unlimited imagination, where play inspires creativity and lifelong learning. Anythink serves the residents of Adams County, Colo., with seven libraries and a bookmobile. With a focus on innovation, Anythink’s award-winning approach to library service is recognized by industry leaders and organizations across the globe. For more information, visit anythinklibraries.org.

     

     

     

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