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Articles from the April 6, 2018 edition


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  • School safety focus of SVVSD town hall

    Vicky Dorvee, [email protected]|Apr 6, 2018

    St. Vrain Valley School District Superintendent Don Haddad opened the bond update and school safety town hall meeting held at Silver Creek High School (the fourth such meeting this month in the district) by emphasizing that for SVVSD, and for himself, student safety was an area of concern long before the recent shootings. Haddad pointed to the “summer of violence” that occurred in Denver in 1993 as the initial cause for the heightened worry over school safety. At that time he was working at a h...

  • Out In Leftfield

    Bruce Warren, [email protected]|Apr 6, 2018

    TRACK & FIELD Valarie Allman (Silver Creek) is back for her senior year at Stanford after redshirting last season. Allman was far from idle, earning a silver medal at the World University Games in Taiwan, and setting the 12th-best discus mark in U.S. history. She opened the 2018 Track & Field season with a discus throw of 199.0 feet at the Stanford Invitational March 31, easily outdistancing the competition. In fact, all three of Allman’s throws would have won the meet, topping 184’5” each...

  • Letter to the Editor

    Apr 6, 2018

    Ms. Strecker and all Niwot Patriotic Cookie Moms and Dads, Good evening from [the middle east]. I just received an Easter package from you guys and I wanted to shoot you a quick note to express my appreciation and gratitude. I am an infantry platoon leader with 25 soldiers and I was able to share the cookies and goodies with all of my guys. They loved the cookies and we've been sharing the chocolate Easter bunny.The Rummy game and playing cards have been a hit and the flag stars were a real...

  • Ninth-annual Doing Democracy Day at Sunset

    Julie Rich, Special to the Courier|Apr 6, 2018

    Doing Democracy Day has been a St. Vrain Valley School District annual event for the past nine years. It’s a day when school board members, teachers, city council and students gather at the Longmont Civic Center to discuss and present issues within the community. This year, for the first time, select students from St. Vrain Middle Schools were invited to join with high school students to share their opinions and thoughts. The event was started so students could be involved with topics that a...

  • Fresh new space perfect fit for Begin Fitness

    Vicky Dorvee, [email protected]|Apr 6, 2018

    After nearly seven years of bringing about dynamic changes in others, Begin Fitness Studio has undergone a renewal of its own. Owner Julia Franklin searched prodigiously for the perfect space in Niwot when her lease at the Emporium on Second Avenue was terminated. The new studio location at 6800 79th Street, Suite 104 in the Cottonwood Shopping Center is rich with natural light and much roomier. “The name of the business is Begin Fitness, because I really love the idea of beginning every day s...