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Boulder County Youth Corps now accepting applications
Jan 31st
Boulder County, Colo. – The Boulder County Youth Corps is now accepting applications for summer jobs from residents ages 14-17 and from adults for team leader positions. Boulder County is especially in need of female corps members and leaders.
The deadline to submit youth applications is Friday, March 25. Other positions are open until filled.
The Youth Corps will hire up to 165 teenagers to work 30 hours per week, Monday through Thursday, from June 13 to Aug. 3 on a variety of community service projects. Team leaders will be employed from May 31 to Aug. 5 to work up to 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday. Projects include activities such as forest thinning, trail building, fence construction, historic restoration and landscaping. Youth Corps teams work in unincorporated Boulder County as well as in Lafayette, Longmont and Superior.
Applications are available online at www.BoulderCounty.org/YouthCorps. Applications can also be picked up at counseling offices in Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley schools; city and town personnel offices; most local recreation and youth centers and libraries; and the county human resources department at 2025 14th St. in Boulder.
This year, corps members will earn a starting wage of $7.36 per hour, with the possibility of earning a $100 bonus at the end of the program based on merit and strong attendance. Teens who have worked for the corps in past years can earn up to $7.86 per hour. In addition, corps members are eligible for reimbursement for the purchase of work boots and gloves. RTD bus passes for the purpose of traveling to and from centralized work meeting places may be subsidized.
Team leaders must be high school graduates and at least 21 years old with two years or more of college coursework. Assistant team leaders must be high school graduates and at least 18 years old, among other qualifications. A list of full qualifications is available online at www.BoulderCounty.org/YouthCorps. Team leaders start at $13 per hour and Assistant team leaders at $11 per hour.
The Youth Corps offers one of the best first-job opportunities available in Boulder County. Teams have completed projects such as building the new Benjamin Loop Trail at Betasso Preserve and building picnic table pads on open space. Other projects have included historic restoration of buildings, construction and repair of fencing, trail maintenance, removal of Russian olive trees and noxious weeds, replacing light bulbs with compact fluorescents, landscaping and forest thinning projects.
For more information, visit www.BoulderCounty.org/YouthCorps or contact Youth Corps program manager Judy Wolfe at jwolfe@bouldercounty.org or 303-678-6104.
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Boulder Police arrest account manager in embezzlement case
Jan 31st
Police have arrested a 40-year-old bookkeeper after investigators accused her of stealing approximately $760,000 from her employer, Highline Financial. The suspect, Michelle Lynn Shelton, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on Friday night after she was located at her home in Westminster.
Boulder detectives launched their investigation in December 2010 after another accountant, who was filling in while Shelton was off from work, discovered what appeared to be a large amount of money being transferred to two separate personal bank accounts. The company conducted an audit and contacted police. Shelton worked for the company since June 2007 and the evidence suggests she began diverting funds two months later.
Police obtained an arrest warrant on Jan. 28. The warrant accuses Shelton, whose date of birth is Sept. 4, 1970, of theft over $20,000, which is a class 3 felony, and computer crimes, which is also a class 3 felony. Bail was set at $50,000.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact Detective Traci Cravitz at 303-441-3345. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or 1-800-444-3776. Tips can also be submitted via the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the arrest and filing of charges on a suspect(s) may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.
Rolex 24 hour at Daytona International Speedway “Live”
Jan 30th
Live: 2011 Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona
29 January, 2011 at 19:47 (GMT)By Pat W
At last, winter is almost over! The racing season continues its awakening from slumber, following the Dakar Rally and the Rallye Monte-Carlo it is time for the first major circuit racing event of the 2011 season. Whilst the Dubai 24 Hours a couple of weeks ago was probably the first racing event on a closed course this year it isn’t yet considered a major event, Daytona is the venue the motorsport world looks to to officially kick off the racing year.
The Rolex 24 at Daytona falls outside the schedules of every other series so it always attracts a star-studded cast of guest drivers joining the Grand-Am Rolex Series regulars not least at Ganassi which features Juan Pablo Montoya, Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon.
The Race
Starting Saturday at 3.30pm ET / 8.30pm GMT, the field races for a full 24 hours around the Daytona International Speedway’s road course, which is actually a combination of the famed oval and a narrow infield. Daytona’s oval banking is the steepest anywhere used in professional racing and the entire circuit, oval and infield, was completely resurfaced in time for this year’s event. This has meant laptimes have fallen, the pole time was the fastest both classes had run before!
The race is the first round of the Grand-Am Rolex Series, which is owned by the same people that own NASCAR. Daytona itself is owned by a related company. You can see an onboard view of the track here from 2007, and take a look at the difference today when these road cars ran around it. (not embedding either in case of live feed embedding later)
As always with sportscar racing there are car classes, at Daytona there are only the two: Daytona Prototypes and GT. The laptime differential between the two is about 10 seconds per lap.
DP is the top class and there are 18 entered with some fantastic drivers among them.
GT makes up the bulk of the field and features an array of Porsches, Ferraris, Chevy Camaros, BMWs, Mustangs and Mazda RX-8s. Driver quality varies hugely in GT, from professional drivers who might otherwise be found in the top class, all the way through the range to the humble amateurs. As Martin Brundle said the other day, the problem is the pro’s often share with the amateurs so a lapped car acting professionally earlier may suddenly wander over the road and jump in front of you with an amateur on board.
Ones To Watch
As always for endurance races the teams bring in drivers to bolster the line-ups, two aren’t enough to run a car for an entire day, at least not in the current era when even endurance races are sprints. The choices are often famous names from other series.
Here are some cars and drivers to watch out for, from a Formula 1 or IndyCar perspective. I’m not going to provide a full form guide as I’m not competent enough with this series to do so – you can find one here.
Cars 01 and 02 – Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (BMW/Riley)
Even if you know nothing of Daytona or Grand-Am, you’ll be familiar with Ganassi from IndyCar. Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon have been brought in from the IndyCar team, with Juan Pablo Montoya and Jamie McMurray from his NASCAR Cup team. This quartet shares car 02.
Car 01 features sportscar stalwarts Scott Pruett, Joey Hand and Memo Rojas and they’ve brought aboard Ganassi’s new IndyCar signing Graham Rahal. Both cars are strong contenders, expect a minimum of a podium if not two. Favourite for the win.
Cars 55 and 95 – Level 5 Motorsports (BMW/Riley)
Up until Thursday I was placing this team as the main challenger to Ganassi (perhaps alongside the SunTrust #10), but then they withdrew from qualifying “for strategic reasons”, taking advantage of the DP and GT fields starting a few seconds apart rather than combined as in other series. So they’ll start at the back of the DP field. It means extra work, with this line-up it would be hard to bet against them but they’ve made it unnecessarily harder for themselves in my view. Cars feature Christophe Bouchut, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Raphael Matos and Richard Westbrook.
Car 9 – Action Express Racing (Porsche/Riley)
Won the race last year amd was sort of considered a fluke, but you never know what may happen.
Car 10 – SunTrust Racing (Chevrolet/Dallara)
This should be a strong car, with Ryan Briscoe, Max Angelelli and Ricky and Wayne Taylor.
Car 76 – Krohn Racing (Ford/Lola)
You can’t argue with a line-up including Nic Minassian and Ricardo Zonta, even if the others are weaker.
Car 23 – United Autosports with Michael Shank Racing (Ford/Riley)
Martin Brundle and Mark Blundell have come out of retirement to enter this car along with driver/boss Zak Brown (he of Just Marketing International) and Mark Patterson. I am not expecting these guys to set the world alight, after all their ‘name’ drivers have been out of racing professionally for years, but Brundle impressed by qualifying 9th. Could be the tortoise to others’ hares, if it keeps running… if.
Car 45 – Flying Lizard Motorsport (Porsche/Riley)
Nothing to do with F1 or IndyCar, but the front-running stalwarts of the GT/GT2 classes in the ALMS and GrandAm step up to running a prototype for the first time, for this race, and have only gone and stuck it on pole! They may not have the reliability to win as the car is new to them, but they will be a thorn in the side of the others when they are running, as they have Bergmeister, Long and van Overbeek alongside team boss Neiman (the weak link).
In the GT field look for the TRG Porsches as favourites.
A full entry list can be found here.
