Robin Gard leaves the Board after 7 years. I became involved in our communities’ libraries during our campaign to become a Library District in 2006, and was privileged to be named to the founding Board of Trustees in 2007. This year, after seven years of service on our Board, my term is coming to an […]
Black History Month is the perfect time to reflect on a many times forgotten era of both Colorado history and the Wild West. Black cowboys were not only around in the 1800s, they had a great influence in settling the west and creating the rodeo pastimes we know and love today. It is estimated that […]
Did you know there was a time that people were afraid of the internet? And no, we’re not talking about the time of The Terminator when networked computers essentially created robots to kill humanity (we still have fifteen years before that happens). No! We’re actually talking about time that is a bit closer, and that’s […]
This morning a Blue Jay welcomed me to work. Actually, he was scouting around under the industrial trash bin in the alley, so I took a closer look at the fellow we called a “Camp Robber” when I was a child. Last fall I took a bird watching class from Kevin Cook, who exudes a […]
Since living in Colorado, I’ve grown accustomed to the relatively mild winters we often have, and I still marvel at how I can usually hang Christmas lights outside in short sleeves in December. But with winter back in its full frozen glory, I find myself bundling up once again in layers of hats, gloves, jackets, and boots […]
