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Boulder celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 11th
Each year on the third Monday of January, Boulder joins with the rest of the nation in celebrating the birth, life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year marks the 82th anniversary of Dr. King’s birth, and the celebration in Boulder this year will be bigger, better and more inclusive than ever before.
On Monday, Jan. 17, Boulder will honor Dr. King with a day of dialogue, tribute and celebration of his life, struggles and dreams. This day of activities, planned by community organizations, the City of Boulder and University of Colorado at Boulder will serve as an opportunity to not only reflect on Dr. King’s life and work, but to commit ourselves to helping make our world and our community a better place.
On Monday, Jan. 17, Boulder will honor Dr. King with a day of dialogue, tribute and celebration of his life, struggles and dreams. This day of activities, planned by community organizations, the City of Boulder and University of Colorado at Boulder will serve as an opportunity to not only reflect on Dr. King’s life and work, but to commit ourselves to helping make our world and our community a better place.
The day’s festivities, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Boulder High School, 1604 ArapahoeAve., include a rally and march, a Human Rights Fair and children’s activities, a presentation by Boulder ADAPT disability rights leaders, Sudanese singers, Glenda Robinson & The African American Heritage Voices of the Second Baptist Community Church and a keynote presentation by Jonny5 of the Flobots. Free parking will be available on the street and in the Boulder High School parking lot.
The event is brought to the Boulder community by: the Boulder MLK Planning Committee: the City of Boulder Human Relations Commission, the Youth Opportunities Program/Youth Opportunities Advisory Board (YOAB), the Office of Human Rights & Community Relations and the Boulder Public Library; the University of Colorado at Boulder, Center for Multicultural Affairs; the Boulder Valley School District, Boulder High School; the Anti-Defamation League (ADL); Boulder ADAPT; Boulder Community United; the I Have A Dream Foundation; the New Horizons Cooperative Preschool; the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center; the Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Non-Violence SPAN, and the Watershed School.
For more information contact Carmen Atilano, City of Boulder, Department of Housing & Human Services, Office of Human Rights & Community Relations at 303-441-3141.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY Monday, Jan. 17th, 2011 starts at 11:00 am at the Boulder Court House near Pearl St.
Jan 10th
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY
Monday, Jan. 17th, 2011
starts at 11:00 am
at the Boulder Court House near Pearl St.
Featuring members of FACE
Followed by Boulder ADAPT, singers from Sudan, the gospel choir of the Second Baptist Church, and rapper Jonny 5 of the Flobots
Event Details:
The celebration begins with a rally at 11:00 a.m. near the courthouse on the Pearl St. Mall, featuring members of FACE. It will be followed by a march to Boulder High School for free lunch and a full afternoon of activities.
At Boulder High there will be live music, a fair of local agencies addressing human rights, and children’s activities. Hear members of Boulder ADAPT, singers from Sudan, the gospel choir of the Second Baptist Church, and rapper Jonny 5 of the Flobots.
This celebration has been planned by representatives from a dozen local agencies & schools.
For more information, contact Carmen Atilano at the City of Boulder 303-441-3141.
Deadline approaching for public input to Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Jan 6th
Boulder County, Colo. – Boulder County is in the process of developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan to help mitigate the impact of future wildfires. The county and its partners are seeking input from residents in the form of policy and programmatic recommendations to be included in the plan and volunteers to serve on the plan’s Advisory Team.
The deadline for submitting recommendations and signing up for the Advisory Team is Wednesday, Jan. 12. Guidelines and submission forms are available at www.BoulderCountyCWPP.org.
“We have already received many important recommendations from residents on our website,” said Jim Webster, Community Wildfire Protection Planner in the Boulder County Land Use Department. “However, we know there are others who have come up with noteworthy ideas during this past year that have not yet shared their recommendations.”
Topics of the recommendations received to date include improving communication, planning evacuation and access routes, educating the public on wildfire mitigation, installing fire danger signs, collecting slash, funding fire suppression, and declaring and enforcing county fire bans.
“After this past year, not many initiatives are of equal importance,” Advisory Team member Kitty Stevenson said. “It is really exciting to see a community plan being developed on a larger countywide scale. It is important that people from all parts of Boulder County participate.”
