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  • Mondays; Discover amazing illusions

    MONDAY

    Discover amazing illusions that will baffle your mind at the Optical Illusion Studio, 2:30 to 4 p.m., Carbon Valley Regional Library, 7 Park Ave., in Firestone. For students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

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  • Apprenticeship programs provide future job training

    By Belen Ward

    Staff writer

    Weld County commissioners announced in November that it would be in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Apprenticeship program.

    “Employers develop apprenticeship programs to meet their specific workforce needs and may include one apprentice to hundreds. Registered apprenticeships may be a viable strategy to support employers to grow their workforce using a traditional apprenticeship “earn and learn model,” said Jennifer Finch Weld County communications director.

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  • ‘I Am Evidence’ examines law that changed sex assault evidence processing

    By Belen Ward

    Staff writer

    The Brighton Police Department teamed up with the 17th Judicial District Assault Response Team to host a screening of an HBO documentary, “I am Evidence” at the Armory Performing Arts Center Nov. 29. It showed how rape survivors felt and sharing their stories to end the backlog of rape kits.

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  • Fort Lupton DECA has 30 members attending DECA State Conference February 24th through 26, 2019

    Fort Lupton DECA has 30 members attending DECA State Conference February 24th through 26, 2019 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. This year the Chapter has 8 members that qualified for DECA through placing at the Colorado DECA District 7 Conference in Greeley on Friday November 9. Those members are:

    · Jose Soria for Business Finance Services,

    · Joe T. Bachicha III for Entrepreneurship Series,

    · Benjamin Bradshaw and Johnathan Helvig for Financial Team Decision Making,

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  • Council approves Zadel annexation

    By Belen Ward

    Staff writer

    A big land development deal is in the works for Fort Lupton as part of a plan to revitalize the city to bring more affordable homes and jobs.

    Some residents not too happy with the plan.

    Fort Lupton City Council voted Dec. 3 to approve the Thunder Valley development of 13, single- family homes north of the Weld County Road 10 right of way and adjacent to Weld County Road 21.

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  • ONGOING Looking for volunteers

    Volunteers are needed to help with special need hippotherapy in Fort Lupton.

    Hippotherapy uses characteristic movement of a horse to improve neurological function and sensory processing.  In a hippotherapy session a specially trained therapist aptly positions the individual on the horse, analyses the rider’s response to the equine movement and then adjusts the horse’s movement accordingly to provide a “just right challenge” for each individual. It’s used to help with such disorders as autism, cerebral  

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  • ONGOING Looking for volunteers

    Volunteers are needed to help with special need hippotherapy in Fort Lupton.

    Hippotherapy uses characteristic movement of a horse to improve neurological function and sensory processing.  In a hippotherapy session a specially trained therapist aptly positions the individual on the horse, analyses the rider’s response to the equine movement and then adjusts the horse’s movement accordingly to provide a “just right challenge” for each individual. It’s used to help with such disorders as autism, cerebral  

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  • Weld County is StormReady, says National Weather Service

    By Belen Ward

    Staff writer

    Weld County Office of Emergency Management earned recognition from the National Weather Service for being a StormReady county by maintaining preparedness during an emergency.

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  • Historical Fort may be heading for the pits

    By Belen Ward

    Staff writer

    Weld County Commissioner Barbara Kirkmeyer said Fort Lupton’s Bestway Concrete & Aggregate Inc, a sand and gravel mining business, will be pulling permits to run a sand conveying belt west of the Platte River and crossing The Fort Historic landmark at 2001 Historic Parkway.

    It didn’t sit well with some.

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  • Have a “light dinner” of tacos or chef’s choice with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Firestone Post

    FOURTH MONDAY OF THE MONTH

    Have a “light dinner” of tacos or chef’s choice with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Firestone Post members at the American Legion, 870 First St., Firestone. Call 303-833-3878 to R.S.V.P.

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