Early voting underway in Boulder County
Oct 22nd
Boulder County, Colo. – Registered voters can cast ballots today, tomorrow or next week at any early-voting location in Boulder County.
Voters can choose to vote on paper ballots or ADA-accessible voting machines at any early-voting location:
· County Clerk’s Office – 1750 33rd St., Boulder
· County Courthouse, East Wing – 2025 14th St., Boulder
· University of Colorado at Boulder, Recreation Center – UCB 355, Boulder
· Lafayette Public Library – 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette
· County Clerk’s Office – 529 Coffman St., Longmont
· Twin Peaks Mall (near Sears) – 1250 S. Hover Road, Longmont
Locations will be open:
· 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 23
· 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Monday-Friday, Oct. 25-29
Voters are required to present an acceptable form of ID such as a valid Colorado driver’s license, valid U.S. passport or valid student identification card with a photograph of the voter. A complete list of acceptable forms of ID is available at www.VoteBoulder.org.
Voters also have the option to vote by mail-in ballot or at their assigned polling places on Tuesday, Nov. 2.
The deadline to request a mail-in ballot for the general election if the ballot is to be mailed is next Tuesday, Oct. 26. The deadline to request a mail-in ballot if the ballot is to be picked up is next Friday, Oct. 29. Voters can return their ballots by mail or drop off ballots to any early-voting location. Postage to mail a ballot is $0.61.
Voters can check their voter information at www.VoteBoulder.org or call 303-413-7740 to verify their voter registration information, ensure their ballots were mailed and received by the clerk’s office or to find their assigned polling places.
SOURCE: BOULDER COUNTY press release
Boulder Falls to close for the season on Nov. 1
Oct 21st
The City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) Department will close the Boulder Falls Trail and the surrounding area for the winter season on Nov. 1. Boulder Falls, located in Boulder Canyon at 33100 State Highway 119, will be closed due to hazards brought on by winter weather.
“Our concern is for the safety of visitors to the site,” said Land and Visitor Services Division Manager Jim Reeder. “Winter and spring are the seasons during which the freeze and thaw tends to loosen rocks on the slopes above the trail.”
Snow and ice can also make the trail very dangerous to hikers in winter. OSMP will use times of clear weather this fall for maintenance on the man-made stone structures that help protect the trail from falling rocks. Some of the protective structures sustained damage last spring and will be rebuilt. OSMP is planning to do annual scaling of the drainage above the trail next April before the trail is opened.
The trail was originally closed in the spring of 2009 due to a rock fall that severely injured a visitor. Boulder Falls will reopen on May 1. The closing and opening dates coincide with the closure of the summit of Flagstaff Mountain.
SOURCE: CITY OF BOULDER PRESS RELEASE
For more information, visit www.osmp.org or call 303-441-3440.
CU-BOULDER DIVERSITY SUMMIT TO BE HELD NOV. 2-3
Oct 21st
The University of Colorado at Boulder’s annual campus diversity summit, “Expanding Our Minds: Encompassing Diversity and Practicing Inclusion,” will feature a variety of sessions for students, faculty, staff and community members Nov. 2-3.
All events are free and open to the public. Hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and the chancellor’s advisory committees, the sessions will offer a view of diversity beyond the most common definitions and will highlight the research, talents and insights of CU-Boulder faculty, students and staff members.
“The summit is organized around a combination of skill-building sessions for those who are advancing their abilities to practice inclusion and who need tools for accomplishing the work and thought-provoking discussions on what we have yet to work on,” said Alphonse Keasley, associate vice chancellor for campus climate and community engagement. “The program also includes inspirational presentations to bring the latest information to those who toil every day around diversity and inclusive excellence.”
The keynote speaker, Luoluo Hong, is the vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Hawaii and a nationally recognized expert on violence prevention. She will speak on Tuesday, Nov. 2 at 9 a.m. in the University Memorial Center Glenn Miller Ballroom about gender and gender violence and its intersection with race, class and other social identities, and how to prevent gender violence on college campuses.
Also on Nov. 2, Philip Piket, professor emeritus of sociology, will present a plenary session titled “Viewing Religion Using Sociological ‘Lenses’: Beyond Us vs. Them” from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the UMC center ballroom.
On Nov. 3, plenary sessions include “Privilege and Activism” by sociology Professor Joanne Belknap and “Conflict Transformation in the Inclusive Environment” by communication Professor Stan Deetz. Belknap will speak from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and Deetz from 1:30 to 3 p.m., both in the center ballroom.
A performance by the Interactive Theater Project, titled “Rise up!” on Nov. 3 from 12:20-1:20 p.m. in the UMC center ballroom will address how to respond to hate when it occurs in one’s presence or nearby.
At “Expanding into the Multicultural Workplace,” panelists from various workplace environments will share their organizations’ need for employees who can evidence cultural competence or who can bring the skill set for participating in multicultural environments. This session will be held on both Nov. 2 and Nov. 3 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the UMC east ballroom.
New for this year, the Diversity and Inclusion Summit has established a way for employee participation to be recorded in Peoplesoft. Before attending a session, participants can check in at the summit desk in the Glenn Miller Ballroom to have their attendance recorded. Each session is categorized as plenary, participatory, student sessions, inclusion building, or skill-building/professional development. Many campus departments will accept diversity summit attendance as a diversity training requirement and participants who attend one event of each session type will receive a certificate of achievement.
A complete schedule of diversity summit events is available in the Events Calendar at http://tinyurl.com/DiversitySummit2010.
SOURCE: CU MEDIA AFFAIRS
