Local Store + Longtime Customer = $0 LID Bond Balance  March 2011
BY MARY WOLBACH LOPERT
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You couldn’t have asked for a more perfect setting – Niwot Feed and Rental and long time customer Sabrina Gerringer’s purchase of shavings for her horses and a salt lick – to pay off the Local Improvement District’s $700,000 bonds.

According to LID representative Euvaldo Valdez, on Feb. 4 “the first customer after 4:20 p.m. who rings the cash register will be the customer that will pay off the final dollar on a $700,000 bond issue that we floated in 1993.”

Funds raised from the bond were used for gutters, drainage, lights and a master plan. Valdez said that everything has been accomplished and the master plan is still active. “We’re at the maintenance stage now,” he added.

Niwot Feed and Rental, owned by Kay and Steve Rollman, was chosen as the location for the prize basket give-away by members of the LID and NBA who used a random-number generator and a map of Niwot to select the location.

Pictured L to R: Euvaldo Valdez, Dave Laber, Kay Rollman and Sabrina Gerringer.  Photo by Mary Wolbach Lopert.

Gerringer won a gift basket worth nearly $1,000 that included gift cards and other items donated by Niwot merchants.

When Gail Ludwig of the NBA told Gerringer there was close to $1,000 worth of prizes, Gerringer said she was tickled pink. “I love Niwot,” she said. “I shop here all the time. I love to keep it local. And I love Kay and Steve.”

Niwot merchants provided the following items for the LID Payoff Gift Basket held on Feb. 4:
Bank of the West, teddy bear; Colterra, $50 gift certificate; Elysian Fields Auction Co., antique books, almanac, porcelain pictures and glass tray; Eye Opener, $10 gift certificate; First National Bank, uncirculated quarters; Garden Gate, $25 gift certificate; Jennifer, stained glass; Manifest Art Gallery, affirmation cards, bookmark and 3 note cards; Niwot Florist, plant and ribbon, paper, balloons etc. for basket décor; Niwot Inn, one-night stay including the works; Niwot Interiors, $100 consultation and picture frame; Niwot Jewelry, fun watch; Niwot Liquor, $20 gift certificate; Niwot Market, $40 gift certificate; Niwot Massage, one-hour massage; Niwot Real Estate, Bird House; Niwot Tavern, $50 gift certificate; Old New Borrowed Blue, $35 gift certificate; Osmosis Gallery, jalapeno jelly with silver spoon; Rockin’ Robins Retro & Resale, $50 gift certificate; Sante Day Spa, $100 gift certificate, serenity sea soak, and muscle oils; Santelli Healing Center, $100 gift certificate; and The Hitching Post, $15 gift certificate.

Photo By Mary Wolbach Lopert
Pictured are Euvaldo Valdez, Dave Laber, Kay Rollman, and Sabrina Gerringer. Gerringer won a $1000 gift basket of items donated by Niwot merchants, because her purchase at Niwot Feed and Rental represented the pay off of the 1993 LID bond.