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Boulder police officers and department employees to be recognized for service excellence at March 10 ceremony
Mar 10th
The ceremony will be held at the Boulder Police Department, 1805 33rd Street starting at 3:30 p.m.
Two officers will receive a Medal for Lifesaving award for rescuing a 5-year-old girl who was trapped in a house fire. The officers arrived before the Boulder Fire Department and were told that a child was still inside. It took two attempts to search the house which was thick with smoke, but the officers found the little girl asleep on the couch and were able to carry her to the safety of her waiting family.
Officers and employees will also receive Awards for Excellence and the Chief’s Certificate of Commendation. Along with the department’s crime analyst, a number of detectives and officers were able to solve more than 60 residential burglaries after identifying a pattern and conducting surveillance that allowed them to apprehend the two suspects who were responsible. The complete list follows:
Medal for Lifesaving
· Officer Brent Biekert
· Officer Kristin Weisbach
Award for Excellence
· Detective Craig Beckjord
· Officer Joel Burick
· Sergeant Greg LeFebre
· Analyst Mel Rhamey
· System Administrator Dave Ritchey
Chief’s Commendation
· Master Police Officer Mark Bliley
· Officer Sterling Ekwo
· Officer Michael Marquez
· Officer Ryan McAuley
· Officer Mark Niedzielski
· Officer Jenny Paddock
· Detective Scott Sloan
Unit Citation
· PTO Program (the department’s officer training program)
Boulder Fire Department investigates fire at downtown restaurant
Mar 10th
Fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of the fire that happened at Oak at Fourteenth Restaurant, 1400 Pearl Street, late this morning. Investigators believe the fire started inside the restaurant, then spread to other areas of the two-story building. The fire did not spread to adjacent businesses and no one inside the building was injured.
It happened around 10:34 a.m. Pedestrian traffic was shut down on Pearl Street between 14th and 16th Streets while firefighters were on-scene, and 14th Street between Spruce and Walnut was closed to vehicular traffic. The street is open now.
Damage estimates are not available yet.
Washington Village Progress Report for Nobo North Boulder
Mar 9th

-Steven Toot, VP of Construction
SENIOR COHOUSING:
Establishing a Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyle for an Aging Generation
by Chuck Durrett
Last year Americans drove 5 billion miles caring for seniors in their homes (Meals on Wheels, Whistle Stop Nurses, and so on). In our small, semi-rural county in the Sierra foothills, Telecare made 60,000 trips in massive, lumbering, polluting vans-buses – usually carrying only one senior at a time – schlepping a couple thousand seniors total over hill and dale to doctor’s appointments, to pick up medicine, or to see friends. In our cohousing community of 21 seniors, I have never seen a single Telecare bus in the driveway. In cohousing it happens organically by caring neighbors: “Can I catch a ride with you?”; “Are you headed to the drug store?”, etc. And this alternative is much more fun and inexpensive for all involved, and much less damaging to the environment. Wolf Creek Lodge, a new senior cohousing community under construction, has 30 units on 1 acre within walking distance of downtown Grass Valley, CA. population 12,000. Top of mind, one future household will be moving from a 20 acre lot, 9 miles from town, another from 15 acres, also 9 miles out of town, and another from 13 acres, 7 miles from town. These are young seniors planning not only to live more sustainably, but more fulfilling as well.
Bill Thomas, M.D. and prominent author on issues affecting seniors, describes our currently predominant scenario of caring for seniors as the “$3 trillion dollar dilemma.” The cost of care for the 78 million new senior/baby boomers “coming of age” in the next 20 years will be $3 trillion dollars more per year than it is now (and that is in a nation with a $13 trillion dollar GDP – to put it into perspective). It goes without saying, that the current pattern is not sustainable from an environmental, cultural or financial point of view.
President Obama has announced that for us to arrest global warming, we will have to reduce carbon emissions by 2% per year until 2050. It seems doable, but last year, carbon emissions increased by 1.4% – we are headed in the wrong direction. Given this situation, we’ve got to do something. We need to think collectively about how to set seniors up for success and to help them achieve their full potential into their last 20-30 years and how to set the environment up for success at the same time. Cohousing is for seniors who want to be a part of the solution.
SENIOR COHOUSING WORKSHOP APRIL 11-15, 2011
Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living, second edition published by New Society Publishers (www.newsociety.com) – and the type of communities it describes and helps to create – allows seniors to live lightly on the planet and to enhance their quality of life at the same time.