State Labor Department Kicks Off National Apprenticeship Week
Governor Hickenlooper has issued a proclamation declaring November 13 through November 19 Apprenticeship Week in Colorado. This is the third annual National Apprenticeship Week.
Apprenticeships have trained millions of Americans for over 75 years through a network of over 150,000 employers in more than 1,000 occupations. Today, there are over 545,000 apprentices being trained in all sectors of the economy.
In conjunction with National Apprenticeship week, the Colorado Department of Labor (CDLE) and its network of partners, including CareerWise Colorado and the Colorado Workforce Development Council, will be promoting a website that showcases Colorado’s apprenticeship programs and their real-world advantage in building the state’s talent pipeline.
The website, www.apprenticeshipsincolorado.com, is designed to highlight apprenticeship and work-based learning programs and educate businesses on the benefits of hiring apprentices.
Colorado is a recognized leader in the development of the apprenticeship and work-based learning models. In 2016, the state received an Apprenticeship Accelerator Grant to advance awareness and interest among businesses and industries in registered apprenticeship programs. Colorado currently has over 5,000 registered apprentices enrolled in over 200 registered apprenticeship programs.
Did you know employers get approximately $1.50 return on investment for every $1 spent on apprenticeships. By reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity, apprenticeships are simply good for business. *U.S. Department of Labor >
Most workers who complete an apprenticeship find employment with a starting wage of more than $50,000. In fact, successful apprentices are upgrading their skills and being put on a career path that will result in higher lifetime wages than their peers who were not in apprenticeship programs.
About National Apprenticeship Week
National Apprenticeship Week is a yearly focus on the tools available to every industry in developing a highly skilled workforce. The week also demonstrates to individuals how they can earn a salary while learning the skills necessary to succeed in high-demand careers. In Colorado, an investment in apprenticeships is already underway as innovative on-the-job training programs, coupled with mentorships and classroom education, are creating a model that meets the demands of emerging industries as well as those that are undergoing rapid innovation such as manufacturing. Many colleges are awarding credit toward a degree for completing an apprenticeship program and workforce development agencies such as CDLE are working to enhance those efforts.
University of Colorado Boulder Announces Breakthrough In Flu Research
Just as flu season swings into full gear, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Texas at Austin have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the human immune system tries to battle the influenza A virus. The discovery sheds new light on how the virus — which kills 12,000 to 56,000 people in the United States annually — often wins, and it could ultimately lead to new treatments.
“We’ve solved a mystery, revealing a new aspect of our innate immune system and what flu has to do to get around it,” says Nicholas Meyerson, a postdoctoral researcher in the BioFrontiers Institute and lead author of a paper published in the Nov. 8 issue of Cell Host and Microbe.
The findings, several years in the making, could lead to a better understanding of how the seasonal flu virus, which typically originates in birds, makes its way to humans. They could also inform development of next-generation antivirals able to combat a broad spectrum of influenza strains, says co-senior author Robert Krug, a leading influenza researcher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
The x-ray structure of the effector domain of influenza virus NS1 protein. Each monomer subunit of the dimeric structure is depicted in rainbow colors from blue (N-terminus) to red (C-terminus).
The paper focuses on two key molecular players in the story of influenza infection: a human protein called TRIM25, which was recently discovered to play an important role in the human immune response to flu infection; and a protein called NS1 present in all strains of the influenza A virus and shown to bind TRIM25 to keep it from doing its job.
“We were basically trying to find out what TRIM25 was doing that flu did not want it to be doing and the role NS1 was playing in blocking that function,” Krug said.
Through a series of laboratory tests, the team revealed two main findings:
TRIM25 acts earlier than previously believed, latching on to a critical and unique flu virus structure like a “molecular clamp” to keep the virus from replicating as soon as TRIM25 detects this unique structure.
NS1 produced by the flu virus can block this function of TRIM25, enabling flu to circumvent the immune response and cause infection.
Previous research had suggested that TRIM25 fought off flu by switching on what is known as the “interferon response” — a complex signaling pathway that arms cells through the body to fight off pathogens. But not all strains of influenza block this interferon signaling pathway, which led Meyerson to suspect another mechanism was at play in helping TRIM25 fight flu.
The paper reveals that TRIM25 is also a “restriction factor,” a special protein present in the fastest-acting arm of the immune system, before spreading infection occurs.
“Restriction factors lie in wait, and should a virus be detected in one of your cells, they have immediate destructive ability,” explains co-senior author Sara Sawyer, an associate professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) at CU Boulder.
Flu uses its NS1 protein to evade TRIM25’s early flu-fighting response, the researchers found.
To do the study, the researchers first infected transgenic cell lines loaded with nonhuman primate versions of TRIM25 with the human influenza A virus. They found that the cells fought off the virus far better than human versions of the TRIM25 protein.
“This told us that TRIM25 has the capacity to crush influenza, but that its human form was less active,” Meyerson said.
To find out how it crushes influenza, the researchers combined purified TRIM25 with purified viral ribonucleoproteins (vRNPs) — eight-piece protein chains that house the influenza genome — and used state-of-the-art electron microscopy to take pictures of what happened.
They found that TRIM25 appears to swiftly recognize the unique structure of vRNPs and clamps down on them to keep them from replicating inside the cell.
Other experiments confirmed that the NS1 protein in flu virus inhibits this function.
They also found that TRIM25 (previously believed to be present only in the cell cytoplasm) is also present in the cell nucleus, which is the same cellular location where flu replication occurs.
Sawyer and Meyerson are now looking to further investigate the role TRIM25 plays in cross-species transmission of influenza.
More studies are needed, but Krug believes new therapeutics could be designed to block the NS1 protein produced by the flu virus, hobbling its ability to evade the human immune system.
“If you could somehow block NS1 from acting, you could block all strains of the virus,” he says.
You know the experience: You slice into a red, juicy, store-bought tomato, take a bite and…nothing. Perhaps you want some tomato with that salt?
This familiar, flavorless experience might someday be less common thanks to the work of Harry Klee, professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida and featured speaker at this year’s Thornton-Massa Lecture, 3:30 p.m. Nov. 12, at the Lory Student Center Theater at Colorado State University.
Klee hasn’t always been in the flavor game.
After receiving his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington focusing on the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, a vital organism for gene transfer and genetic engineering of plants. He then spent 11 years working on a Monsanto team developing herbicide-resistant crops.
In 1995, he moved to the University of Florida to take an endowed chair in the Department of Horticultural Sciences. There, he created a program that uses biochemistry and genetics to better understand the flavor of fruit crops. His work has uncovered the plant-created compounds that produce truly tasty tomatoes. Then, using large-scale genomics, he and his team have created a genetic blueprint for restoring these compounds in commercially grown tomatoes. The goal is to bring heirloom flavor back to tomatoes that aren’t grown in your backyard – while not decreasing yield.
He and his lab are also extending their work to strawberries, melons and even lettuce.
Klee is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and president of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Public lecture
Klee’s lecture, “Why Don’t My Tomatoes Have Any Flavor? A Case Study in Industrial Agriculture,” is free and open to the public.
The 18th annual Thornton-Massa Lecture is co-hosted by the College of Agricultural Sciences and the College of Natural SciencesDepartment of Biology. The series is made possible by a gift that honors the late Dr. Emil Massa and the late Bruce and Mildred Thornton, who shared a passion for biodiversity, plant genetics, agriculture and horticulture.
Dr. Emil Massa was an orthopedic surgeon who, beginning in 1960, practiced for more than 30 years at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver. Massa had an abiding sense of appreciation and wonder for the phenomena of the natural world. He endowed this lecture series to engage the public in a vital conversation to honor, preserve and investigate nature’s rich vocabulary of organisms.
Massa’s legacy endures in other ways: the grounds of St. Joseph’s Hospital are graced with trees he raised from seed; after he retired from medical practice, he restored rare books, including those in the Western History Room of the Denver Public Library and at the Denver Botanic Garden.
Bruce and Mildred Thornton shared a life-long interest in and commitment to the study, identification and preservation of seeds. Mildred attended what was then called Colorado State College, and after receiving her master’s degree in botany, she went to work as a junior botanist at the Federal Seed Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Bruce served on the Colorado State College faculty and the Agricultural Experiment Station staff from 1927-1962, and he headed the Colorado State Seed Laboratory from 1940-1961.
Bruce and Mildred married in 1930. When Bruce retired in 1961, Mildred took over the directorship of the State Seed Laboratory, where she had worked intermittently for 20 years.
Tricia Bader-Binford • Bobbi Brown-Vandenberg • Jenny Coalson, L. D. Elarton • Don Kimble • Brian Richmond • Ken Shaw • Kent Smith • Joe Silva
Aurora, Colo. – The Colorado High School Activities Association Hall of Fame has announced its 29th Hall of Fame class, a nine-member group that depicts the rich history of the Association, along with providing real-life examples of what participation, coaching, leading and advocating for students can do. Each of these people has established themselves as a role model for today’s young people seeking their way to adulthood.
The CHSAA Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017 includes three of the state’s top former athletes in Tricia Bader-Binford (Roaring Fork), Jenny Coalson (Ellicott) and Joe Silva (Fruita Monument), along with four coaches in Bobbi Brown-Vandenberg (Boulder), Don Kimble (Limon), Ken Shaw (Regis Jesuit) and Kent Smith (Boulder/Highlands Ranch/Ponderosa). Official Brian Richmond (Fort Collins) and an administrator L. D. Elarton (Lamar) round out the Class of 2017.
Being selected for the CHSAA Hall of Fame speaks volumes about the impact the honorees have made to the high school landscape in Colorado. The CHSAA is humbled to be a part of the ceremonies that elevate and recognize these individuals and teams who excel amongst their peers.” CHSAA Commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green said in making the announcement.
The selection committee struggles with the make-up of the class every year. They debate and advocate knowing that there are so many good people deserving of this recognition. The single most important item to the committee is the impact that each of these inductees, like those that came before them, have had in their respective areas of the state. The 29th class reflects the efforts, passion and love Colorado has for high school activities. — CHSAA Hall of Fame administrator Bert Borgmann
The committee, which is headed by Bob Marken (Buena Vista). Committee members aside from Marken include Kevin Boley (Legend), Larry Brunson (CHSAA Hall of Fame), Michele DeBerry (Boulder Valley Schools), Dick Katte (CHSAA/NFHS Hall of Fame), Jeremy Kerns (Byers), Shelli Miles (Widefield), Mike Miller (Cheyenne Wells), Dan Mohrmann (CHSAANow.com), Carol Sams (Grand Junction), Cherie Toussaint (Pueblo SD 70 Schools) and Kendall Wilson (Poudre).
CHSAA CEREMONIAL INDUCTION
The Class of 2017 will be inducted during a ceremony on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, at the Radisson Hotel-Denver Southeast (I‑225 and Parker). Individual tickets may be purchased for $50 each by contacting the CHSAA. The festivities get underway at 6:30 p.m. Seating is limited.
The selection of the one student participant to the CHSAA Hall of Fame puts the total number of participants in the hall at 68. There are now 69 coaches/sponsors, 28 administrators, 17 officials and 11 significant service contributors enshrined in the CHSAA Hall of Fame that began in 1989. There are also four teams in the hall. The Hall of Fame now features 197 inductees.
2017 CHSAA Winner Biographies
Tricia Bader Binford
Tricia Bader Binford (Roaring Fork HS) – A three-sport athlete – basketball, volleyball and track – Bader was a five-time state track champion, three-time all-state basketball player and led the Rams to the 1989, 1990 and 1991 state basketball titles. She was a three-time all-state player and the player of the year as a senior. She won the 1991 Rocky Mountain News’ Steinmark Award and RHS has named its “Three-Sport Athlete Award” after her. A former WNBA and Australian professional player, Bader is the head coach at Montana State where she was the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year in 2015-16. As great as she was on the court, she was equally great off it, maintaining great character, and inspiring many young women in rural communities to become involved in sports.
Bobbi Brown Vandenberg
Bobbi Brown-Vandenberg (Boulder HS) – A girls’ coach for 32 years in Colorado and Wisconsin, Brown was the architect of one of the strongest girls’ basketball programs in Colorado. Her BHS teams were 182-28, winning the 1984, 1986, 1989 (undefeated), 1990 and 1991 state titles. Her 1985 and 1992 teams finished second. She also took a leave of absence in the middle of her Boulder tenue to finish her graduate studies. A former CU basketball player, was also an assistant varsity football coach in 1990, coaching wide receivers and defensive backs. She coached at Fairview and Boulder from 1981 until 1992. She was Coach of the Year by The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Boulder Daily Camera five times. She is currently the Viterbo University (La Crosse, WI) women’s basketball coach.
Jenny Coalson
Jenny Coalson (Ellicott HS) – Coalson was a three-sport athlete at Ellicott, leading her team to two state basketball championships and winning four state individual track titles, while placing 10 more times. She won the triple jump as a freshman, the 200 meters and shot put as a junior, along with winning the long jump as a senior. The 2A Basketball Player of the Year twice in basketball, Coalson was all-state in basketball (twice) and volleyball (once). She was selected to the CCGS and CHSCA All-State Teams in both sports as a senior. In addition, she is a Little Britches world champion rodeo performer. She won the 1995 Rocky Mountain News’ Steinmark Award She went on to play and excel in basketball at Kansas State.
LD Elarton
Eldon “L.D.” Elarton (Lamar Schools) – One of the state’s most respected administrators, Elarton’s career as a student participant, teacher, coach and administrator was steeped in Lamar. A native of the community, he played baseball, basketball and football, was student body president and an all-state participant for LHS. After college, he returned home to teach and coach, starting in 1968 and moved up the ranks, serving as teacher, assistant principal, principal, finance director and superintendent. As a coach, Elarton earned Baseball Coach of the Year honors in the Will Rogers League at Widefield High School. Once returning to Lamar, he initiated the Academic Letter Award, host numerous CHSAA Music and Speech events, while the school’s baseball, wrestling and girls’ basketball teams won 10 state titles among them. He was active on the state and national scene through CASE and NASSP.
Donald Kimble
Don Kimble (Limon HS) – A music teacher who established one of the finest music programs, the late Don Kimble taught music for the Badgers for 29 years after one year at Flagler. His bands received 26 first division ratings in state large group festivals, both in performance and sight-reading. The marching band also won state recognition in 1977 for its field performances. Kimble directed four different bands at Limon, the fourth-grade band, fifth-grade beginning band, the Cadet Band (6, 7 & 8 graders) and the Senior High School Band. He taught Music Appreciation and took his pep bands to many out-of-town athletic contests. He was also assigned three choirs to conduct. Kimble was a master at balancing the demands for his students between athletics and his music programs.
Brian Richmond
Brian Richmond (Fort Collins) – One of the state’s top gymnastics coaches and judge, Richmond coached high school for 17 years, but has been a high school judge since 1971. He coached gymnastics at four high schools – Jefferson, Poudre, Fort Collins and Thompson Valley – with the PHS team winning the 1984 title and runners up in 1985. A former CSU gymnast and coach, Richmond became one of the top judges in the state, as well as one the national and international scene. He judged 20 CHSAA boys’ state meets and has been a mainstay with the girls’ state meet, having worked 35 of those. He has judged on the national and international stage. He was inducted in the National Gymnastics Judges Association Hall of Fame in 2011.
Ken Shaw
Ken Shaw (Merino, Yuma, Sterling, Rocky Mountain, Smoky Hill, Regis Jesuit HS) – One of the state’s legendary athletes who became one of Colorado’s top prep basketball coaches, Shaw guided his Merino team to a pair of state tiles, while going undefeated. He was a prolific high school athlete at Merino, and held the career scoring record when his career was over. That mark has since been broken, but Shaw’s name still dots the basketball record book as a player. Additionally, Shaw was a standout football player, and has his name in that sport’s record book. As a coach, his teams have won more than 710 games and he guided Regis to three straight 5A championships. His teams also won titles two other times, at Yuma and Sterling. His teams have a record 29 state tournament appearances.
Joe Silva
Joe Silva (Fruita Monument HS) – A Bronze Star Recipient in Vietnam, Silva was a three-time state wrestling champion for Fruita Monument and compiled a 58-0-2 mark in his career. In 12 state matches, opponents scored just 6 points on him. He also participated in football and baseball. He is a former District 51 Teacher of the Year and taught 29 years at Fruita Middle School. During that time, he, along with 2016 inductee Ray Coca and others broadcast the Western Slope State Championship matches on radio and television. From 1963-65, Fruita enjoyed much success in wrestling, baseball and football. The constant on these teams was Silva. The school won two wrestling team titles and the football team was state runner up twice and baseball once over the period.
Kent Smith
Kent Smith (Boulder, Ponderosa, Aurora Central, Highlands Ranch, La Veta, Alamosa) – Having just retired after 53 years of coaching, Smith is one of the state’s top coaches, regardless of sport. And, he is noted for his integrity and ability to build better people through activities. He has been the head boys’ basketball coach at Boulder and Ponderosa, the head cross country coach at Ponderosa and Highlands Ranch, as well as the head boys’ soccer coach at Aurora Central. Additionally, he served as head girls’ basketball coach at La Veta and Alamosa. His teams have won state titles in basketball (twice at Boulder) and cross country (six times at Highlands Ranch). He runs a dog and horse rescue ranch near Walsenburg.
Additionally, the staff has selected Varsity, a company dedicated to the dynamic, athletic and high-profile sport of spirit to receive the Colorado Tradition Award. The staff has also selected Woodie Smith, a former coach and athletic director at Overland High School to receive the Distinguished Service Award this year.
Tickets are $50 per seat or $500 per table of 10. Please contact Whitney Webermeier () for reservations. Contact the CHSAA office with questions.
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Over the course of 25 years, Colorado State University’s Powerhouse Energy Campus has been transformed from an abandoned municipal power plant into a state-of-the-art research facility with global impact.
The Powerhouse team will celebrate its 25th anniversary and its long history of energy innovation on Nov. 2. The campus and community are invited to an open house, 2-4:30 p.m. at the Powerhouse, 430 N. College Ave., Fort Collins.
The free, public event will include guided tours of the facility, live demonstrations of current energy research, ice cream sundaes, appetizers, beer, and a program highlighting the history of the Powerhouse.
From coal plant to Powerhouse
The transformation of the power plant into a campus began in 1992. Bryan Willson, then a CSU assistant professor of mechanical engineering, toured the City of Fort Collins’ decommissioned coal-fired power plant on the north edge of downtown. Willson looked past the lack of heat, power and bathrooms, and saw the perfect site to build CSU’s Engines and Energy Conversion Lab (EECL). The EECL team worked to renovate the facility while they launched ambitious, large-scale research projects.
Ultimately, they outgrew the original 35,000-square-foot facility, and a 65,000-square-foot addition was completed in 2014, providing more work space for faculty, staff, students and start-up companies.
With the addition, the building’s name was officially changed to the Powerhouse Energy Campus. The new name reflected the broad interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the energy work being done at the re-modeled facility. At the same time, the building officially became the home base for CSU’s Energy Institute, of which Willson is the executive director.
“We’ve grown tremendously over the past two decades,” Willson said. “We’ve gone from a small ragtag team working out of a dilapidated power plant to over 250 people working at the state-of-the-art Powerhouse to help solve the world’s most pressing global energy issues.”
National, international recognition
Today, the Powerhouse Energy Campus is a modern, LEED Platinum building that is one of the largest free-standing energy facilities at any university. It is recognized nationally and internationally for its interdisciplinary approach and its groundbreaking work on engine technology, electric grids, biofuels, energy policy, human behavior, energy access in the developing world, and energy-focused entrepreneurship.
“There is a lot to celebrate, and even more to look forward to,” Willson said of the upcoming celebration. “Powerhouse students, faculty, and company partners implement energy innovations at a global scale and make this a one-of-a-kind energy research facility.”
The first diesel engine, Caterpillar 3508, installed at the CSU Energy Powerhouse — 1998.
Colorado State University generated $338.4 million in research expenditures in Fiscal Year 2017, a boost of nearly 2 percent, which affirms the university’s research prowess in the face of downward trends in national research support. CSU researchers were also issued a record 66 patents in that same timeframe, an indication of the university’s strength in innovation.
CSU’s Alan Rudolph said research is an integral part of the university’s mission.
This marks the 10th consecutive year research expenditures at the university have topped $300 million. The $338.4 million total is up from $332 million over the previous year. Research expenditures include money from federal, private, state and local organizations.
The figures were presented Oct. 6 at the CSU System Board of Governors meeting in Fort Collins.
Alan Rudolph, CSU’s vice president for research, said the numbers highlight the continued impact and performance of research at the university.
“Research is an integral part of our mission,” he said. “CSU is sustaining our position among top-tier universities and we’ve strengthened our position in some areas, based on the excellence of our faculty. We continue to address the unmet challenges of our day, including weather prediction and climate resiliency, translational medicine and infectious diseases, through research conducted by our faculty and students.”
Earlier this year, CSU broke ground for the C. Wayne McIlwraith Translational Medicine Institute, which promises medical innovations by harnessing the body’s healing powers to help animals and people suffering from a wide range of diseases. The facility will open in fall 2018.
Expenditures up from federal funding
Federal funding of research at CSU increased by 16 percent, to $247.3 million. On the national level, federal funding of research and development held steady in recent years, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Clouds near the mouth of the Amazon River, an image captured by the CIRA team.
CSU’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, which earlier this year was awarded the CO-LABS Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research, had $27.4 million in research expenditures in FY 17. The team works on the nation’s newest weather satellite, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Rudolph acknowledged that research universities face challenges when competing for federal funding.
“Funding for science is experiencing uncertain times and, yet, the importance of science in key issues facing our planet and our nation has never been more important,” he said. “CSU has positioned itself well as an objective source of discovery and translation of science and will continue to contribute objectively to the dialogue.”
Research spending on projects supported by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services totaled $41.4 million, a slight increase from expenditures in the previous fiscal year of $37.3 million. U.S. Department of Defense-related expenditures were $58.8 million, a slight drop from $60.1 million in FY 16.
Expenditures supported by the National Science Foundation totaled $32.3 million in FY 2017.
Tech transfer sets new records
CSU Ventures, the university’s technology transfer office, continues to set new records.
The office negotiated 44 agreements with companies to license CSU technologies. In addition, researchers filed 101 invention disclosures and were issued 66 patents, nearly double the number from the previous fiscal year.
“We used to get a handful of patents issued each year and, with the university’s strong commitment to innovation and research, we now see numbers in the 60s,” said Todd Headley, president of CSU Ventures.
Todd Headley, president of CSU Ventures
Licensing revenue for FY 17 totaled more than $3 million, and CSU Ventures also launched six new startup companies.
Headley said one of the highlights of the year was seeing VetDC, a university startup, receive FDA approval for Tanovea-CA1, a new drug to treat canine lymphoma. Veterinarians with CSU’s Flint Animal Cancer Center serve as key advisers for VetDC and played a key role in designing clinical trials to evaluate the full potential of the drug for canine cancer patients.
“We’re continuing to evolve, and to support the university as best we can,” said Headley. “I’m really encouraged by CSU faculty and industry engagement. We continue to see excellent participation.”
In 2016, CSU was designated an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The designation recognizes public research universities working with public and private sector partners in their states and regions to support economic development through a variety of activities, including innovation and entrepreneurship, technology transfer, talent and workforce development, and community development.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to law and requisite action of the Board of Education of Bennett School District 29J, (the “School District”), in the Counties of Adams & Arapahoe, State of Colorado, a Regular Biennial School Election will be held in the School District on Tuesday, November 7, 2017.
The election will be conducted (by mail ballot) as part of the coordinated election to be conducted by the County Clerk and Recorder in Adams & Arapahoe Counties. Information about the walk-in locations for delivery of mail ballots and receipt of replacement ballots is available by contacting the appropriate County Clerk and Recorder in Adams or Arapahoe County.
At the election, the eligible electors of the School District shall vote for members of the Board of Education. Candidates for the position of the Director of the Board of Education are:
Bennett School District 29J
School Director at Large
[Four-Year Term]
(Vote for Two)
Zebulen A. Petre
James DuBois
Kyle Meyer
This official election notice incorporates by reference the election notice by the County Clerk and Recorder concerning the location for application and the return of absentee ballots and notice about the locations and times for early voting. Information is available by contacting the appropriate County Clerk and Recorder in Adams or Arapahoe County.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Board of Education of Bennett School District No. 29J, in the Counties of Adams & Arapahoe, and State of Colorado, has caused this notice to be given as required by law this 17th day of October 2017.
12 Cents for Marvin and The Patti Fiasco will be among the Stadium Sessions playing at Colorado State University campus before the Homecoming football game against Nevada on Oct. 14.
Stadium Sessions is a series of free live performances by top Colorado bands launched this fall as part of the 2017 football season.
12 Cents for Marvin
Friday, Oct. 13 — The Burroughs will perform at 3:30 p.m. on the Oval, in conjunction with Festival on the Oval and the Homecoming Parade.
The Patti Fiasco is scheduled to play at 5:45 p.m. the next day at The MOB, which opens at 4 p.m. on the West Lawn of the Lory Student Center. The event will also feature a DJ, a juggler, free food, Ram swag, airbrush tattoos and giant lawn games like Jenga, yard pong, tic-tac-toe and inflatable football and bowling. Students can reserve tents online.
At the Iris & Michael Smith Alumni Center, Tea on Mars performs at 5:15 p.m., followed by 12 Cents for Marvin at 5:45 p.m.
Stadium Sessions, made possible by CSU’s partnerships with The Music District and Bohemian Foundation, is open to the public and features more than 30 bands on three on-campus stages during weekends when the Rams are playing at home.
DENVER — More than just an educational hub, a new school in Limon is improving the quality of life for the entire community.
The town of Limon received a Colorado Lottery Starburst Award for using Lottery proceeds to create the Limon Public School. The project was made possible with two Lottery-funded grants: $18 million from Building Excellent Schools Today and $114,000 from Great Outdoors Colorado.
Limon Public School replaced an older facility that had too many exterior doors, asbestos, inadequate drainage, and additions that were nearly 90 years old.
The new school costs less to operate and maintain. The town also acquired a grant for a new playground to be built simultaneously.
LIBRARY EVENTS
Cooking Club
Anythink Bennett library @ 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Adults can meet other food lovers from the community while experimenting with ingredients in a recipe for No Bake Energy Bites. Many healthy snacking options will be provided, and participants are invited to bring their own recipes that share the theme.
