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Show A-14 M The Park Record GORGEOUS CUSTOM HOME 2515 Aspen Springs Dr. Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 22-25, 2018 OUNTAIN TOWN NEWS A Roundup of News from Other Western Ski Resort Communities ALLEN BEST Mountain Town News OP HOUESN E SEPT TH 19 11AM & 22 ND -2PM Custom design home on 1.38 lush acres in coveted Aspen Springs, Master bedroom featuring his and her bathrooms, sitting area with private deck. Large open main floor great for gatherings and entertaining, opening out to a large private deck. 4 Bed • 5 Bath • 5628 sq ft $2,800,000 Brad Lambert 801-450-6403 HallmarkRealEstateCompany.com Plenty of jobs, yes, but then panhandling is free speech GRANBY, Colo. — “Get a job,” wrote one commentator on the Sky-Hi News website last week. “In this county there is no excuse for panhandling.” What provoked the barbed comment was a Sky-Hi News story that the town of Granby, which is located between Rocky Mountain National Park and the Winter Park ski area, was planning to update its town code upon advice of the American Civil Liberties Union. The current law bans vagrancy and defines a vagrant as “any person wandering abroad and begging, or any person who goes about from door to door or private homes or commercial and business establishments, or places himself in or upon any public way or public place to beg or receive alms for himself.” Federal courts have found such broad restrictions unconstitutional. And the ACLU points out that the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly stood behind heightened protections for free speech. The ACLU sent dozens of such letters to Colorado towns recently, including several other mountain resort towns. Denver’s Olympics dreams may be tested at ballot box DENVER, Colo. — A group of political organizers in Denver plans to put Colorado’s potential bid for the 2030 Olympics to a public vote. The committee appointed by Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has recommended that the state pursue a privately funded games, without direct public funding or any threat of financial losses for taxpayers. The Committee, reports The Denver Post, estimates the cost of hosting the event at $2 billion, OPENING LECTURE with half that coming from the International Olympic Committee. But the new group wants to ask Denver voters in May 2019 whether the city government can spend any public money or resources to support the Olympics. In other words, the vote will ensure that no city moneys will be used. The Post points out that the committee includes an individual who shocked Denver last year by succeeding in getting a green-roofs initiative approved by voters despite the opposition of developers and the city government itself. The committee also includes former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm. As a state senator in the early 1980s, he led the effort to reject public funding for the 1976 Winter Olympics. Denver had been named the host city, but the public vote in 1972 forced organizers to withdraw. Instead, the 1976 Olympics were held in Innsbruck. In the early 1970s, Denver and Colorado altogether were booming in times not unlike those of today. Highways were getting more congested and rents were spiking, just as they are now. Citizen scientists help track shrinking glaciers JACKSON, Wyo. — Citizen scientists have been participating in an effort to document the melting of the 13 glaciers and permanent snowfields in Teton National Park. The Jackson Hole News&Guide explains that the 13 volunteers each carried a camera to capture the ice from many angles. The photos will be compiled into a single 3-D model. Peri Sasnett, the park geologist, says this project is a test to see if both the technique works and use of volunteers works. “We could do this as park employees,” she said. “We could run around for a few days and just take a jillion pho- tos. But the more people we have, the more photos we have, the better the model “and, of course, citizen science is a very meaningful way for people to engage with park science.” The collated images will allow scientists to better track how the glaciers add and lose mass from year to year. Ever since the last big glacial advance, the glaciers in the Teton Range and elsewhere have waxed and waned. The most recent expansion was during the Little Ice Age, from 1300 to 1850. Among the volunteers was Vince Anderson, an engineer in Denver. “You can teach someone about it from a textbook and blah blah blah, but when you come up here you become a stakeholder,” he told the News&Guide’s Cody Cottier. If the surroundings inspired awe, the weather even in late summer was challenging. Hurricane Pass — where some of this ice is located — was named that for a reason, Cottier noted. Want a good job? How about becoming a sparkie? DURANGO, Colo. — Help Wanted signs proliferate in Durango as they do in most other mountain towns. And, at least in Colorado, nearly every place with a heartbeat. Colorado has fewer than 1,000 unemployed workers and more than 3 million jobs across the state, according to Ryan Gedney, an economist with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Colorado’s current employment rate is fifth lowest in the country, at 2.8 percent. Job growth is sixth highest, at 2.9 percent. “To see job growth at almost 3 percent is really impressive,” Gedney told the Durango Telegraph. 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