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Boulder firefighters and Parks and Recreation team up to brighten local children’s holidays
Dec 1st
The City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department’s Youth Services Initiative (YSI) program is working to brighten children’s holidays this season with help from the community and the Boulder Fire Department’s IAFF Local 900 union.
YSI provides youth from low-income families with opportunities and resources necessary to make positive recreational, educational, and lifestyle choices through after-school programs and community involvement activities.
This year, YSI will host holiday parties for program youth and their families during the week of Dec. 13. Last year’s holiday parties served more than 150 families and delivered nearly 500 gifts to the children.
IAFF Local 900 support of YSI
The Boulder Fire Department’s IAFF Local 900 union will donate money for the fourth consecutive year. Their donations will help purchase gifts for children served by the YSI program who are living at Boulder’s low-income housing sites (managed by Boulder Housing Partners). The firefighters say this is a way to give back to kids in their very own community.
“We wanted to be able to put toys in the hands of the kids we see in school and while running calls in their neighborhoods,” said Lt. John Nunez, who has been involved with the department’s toy drive efforts for 18 years. “The kids are just in awe when we show up in uniform and in our fire trucks.”
Then there are the parents’ reactions. “This is just really touching for them. In some cases, this may be the only gift their child is going to get. It’s a great feeling to be able to help, but it’s also a humbling feeling.”
Community asked to help with donations
If you would like to make a donation to the YSI Program Toy Drive, visit www.BoulderParks-Rec.org, click on the “Youth Services toy drive – Donate today!” link and follow the instructions. A secure PayPal connection is provided and personal information will not be shared. Donations can be made using a major credit card or PayPal account. A small processing fee is deducted by PayPal from all donations. All donors will receive a receipt from PayPal and a Thank You from YSI. Checks can also be made payable to “YSI” and submitted to YSI, Attn: Alex Zinga, 3198 Broadway Ave., Boulder, CO 80304.
Additional funding over the amount needed for the toy drive will be placed in the YSI Scholarship Fund, which helps fund year-round recreation programs for low-income youth.
SOURCE: CITY PRESS RELEASE
Boulder atheists protest Christmas! Embarrass city again
Dec 1st
Boulder Atheists embarrass city by launching unpopular protest of Christmas!
BOULDER, Colo. — Members of a Boulder atheist group is joining an umbrella organization to sponsor billboards protesting the nativity scene outside the Denver City and County Building.
Boulder Athiests is joining the Colorado Coalition of Reason to put up three billboards within a half-mile of the municipal building. They say the nativity scene belongs at a church, not a government building.
But the atheist group have drawn the ire from 9 out of 10 people polled by Boulder Channel 1 News who believe that atheism itself is a religion of anti love and intolerance. Atheism is a tenant of totalitarian political movements such as communism . Boulder has the highest registered number of communists in the USA per capita.
The Christmas holidays started out as the celebration of the birth of Christ as a Christian holiday celebrated all over America as an official government holiday. In recent years political correctness have found a way to make the holiday more inclusive by including similar holidays for Moslem’s, Jews and blacks. Some of this is questionable since Hanukkah is a minor Jewish holiday and Kwanza is a black non religious family day artificially created in Texas to coincide with Christmas.
Boulder Athiests will not alter the Christmas celebration at the Denver municipal building. Countless court cases have all come down on the side of the city. At this point Boulder atheists have only served to embarrass Boulder as anti Christmas. This of course is not true. The number of churches in Boulder also register in the top 10% of churches per capital for America. Though Boulder Atheists seem to grab headlines and other religions proliferate here, Boulder is still overwhelmingly a Christian community.
But Denver officials say the display on the City Hall’s front steps is a holiday tradition that has survived several legal challenges over the past 40 years. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in 1986 that the decorations, which include nonreligious displays, were constitutional.
Associated Press contributed to this story
CU-NASA RESEARCH CENTER TO STUDY SUN’S EFFECTS ON EARTH’S CLIMATE
Nov 30th
The center, called the Sun-Climate Research Center, or SCRC, will be co-directed by LASP Research Scientist Peter Pilewskie as well as Robert Cahalan, who heads Goddard’s Climate and Radiation Branch, and Douglas Rabin, head of Goddard’s Solar Physics Laboratory.
“The exciting thing about this collaboration is that we believe it will promote studies to help answer key questions about the climate system, including how Earth’s atmosphere responds to the sun’s variability and how that affects climate,” said Pilewskie, a faculty member in CU-Boulder’s atmospheric and oceanic sciences department. “This question is particularly important now as we seek to quantify the human-induced impact on Earth’s climate.”
Made possible by a Federal Space Act Agreement, SCRC will foster collaboration between Earth-atmosphere and solar sciences at the two institutions. Opportunities will include a scientist exchange program between the organizations and the ability for postdoctoral scientists and graduate students in science, engineering and mission operations to move between LASP and Goddard. The partnership also will include international research symposia on sun-climate interactions.
“In recent years Goddard and LASP have worked together on several Earth and sun missions,” said Cahalan. “Now we look forward to continuing to drive growth in this key interdisciplinary field of sun-Earth research, bringing new focus to the study of multiyear changes in the sun and its influence on Earth’s climate.”
According to the center’s co-directors, the SCRC represents a rare and innovative step that underscores LASP’s ability to take its high-caliber research and program opportunities to a new level with Goddard.
“LASP has developed some remarkable areas of expertise that are key to studying the sun and its effect on climate and on human activities,” said LASP Director Daniel Baker. “By working with our colleagues at Goddard, we can leverage our skills and help take an important step toward greater cooperation between NASA centers and leading university research teams.”
For more information on LASP visit http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/. For more information on NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center visit http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html.
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