Here it is the first of February, the sweetheart month, sometimes the cold and snowy month. Let’s hope for the best. Lots of activities going on this month, so be sure to participate and join in. Have fun!
DON’T FORGET YOUR VALENTINE!
This Saturday is the Foot ‘n Fiddle Square Dance Club’s 50th Sweetheart Square Dance Ball at the 4-H building in Loveland. A Mr./Mrs. Valentine will be chosen, and Jim and Bonnie Pardy of Lyons (last year’s sweethearts) will crown them.
LYONS AREA RESPRESENTATIVE NEEDED FOR ST. VRAIN VALLEY SCHOOL BOARD
We hope someone from this area will apply for the seat in District A for the St. Vrain School Board. It is very important that we have someone from Lyons to tell them what our Lyons schools are all about (see my Letter to the Editor).
CONGRATULATIONS to Jeff Gagliardi and Clark Hodge who won the second annual “Spirit of Lyons Award”, last Tuesday evening at the Lyons Chamber of Commerce Social for their Sketch-A-Palooza event during the Lyons Good Old Days. The event set the Guinness World Record for having over 250 people (they had 372) participate. A truly stunning event, which brought many Lyons residents and visitors out. Hodge, who has been lamenting the fact that the Lyons Good Old Days Parade has been cancelled, is looking for something exciting for this coming Good Old Days, June 22 to 24. A few years ago, he had his own parade with an old firetruck filled with screaming kids. Last year the record breaking Sketch-A-Paloooza. What is coming this year? Stay tuned!
TAKE NOTE
Wayne Werner will be honored for his years of volunteering for the Lyons Visitors’ Center, Golden Gang, Parks and Recreation, Lions Club, etc. A memorial program will honor him during the Lyons Good Old Days on Saturday, June 23. If you wish to donate to this memorial, mail a check to Lyons Parks and Recreation – Box 49, Lyons, CO 80540.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BETH (FORD) BOSS (98 and still going strong). We wish Beth a very happy birthday. She will be 98 this Sunday, February 5. Send a card to Elizabeth (Ford) Boss, 1021 Woodlawn, #304, Canon City, CO 81212, or an e-mail message: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . She was born in Carr, Colorado, 1914, received her Business Degree from UNC in 1935, and taught three years in Kanorado, Kansas, where she met Adam Ford. She was the Lyons High Business teacher (1942 to 1977), teaching both me (Class of 1945) and my sons (Jerry Class of 1970 & Ron-Class of 1973) and hundreds of students in that 35-year period. Through the years the business department changed from seven manuel typewriters to include 30 electric typewriters and a variety of adding machines, calculators, transcription machines. She taught in the basement of the old high school (torn down in 1976-77) and the new high school, 1975-1977.
She married Adam Ford in 1938, who had three sons: Donald, Justus (J.B.) and Clarence, who graduated from Lyons in 1946. The couple had a son, Bob, graduate of Lyons in 1957, who with wife Judy were teachers in Canon City. Ford ran a dairy on what is now Park Street, and operated a milk route, which he sold to Harry Wedow in 1946. He soon became an expert stone mason, served as town trustee and was a charter member of the Lyons Lions Club. He died of a sudden heart attack in 1972.
Beth retired to Longmont and married her neighbor, Fred Boss, who died in December 1997. In 1998 she moved to Canon City to be near her son Bob and family. Beth has learned the computer and stays in touch with her Lyons teaching co-horts-Marilou Waitz, Rich Cole, Ginger Johnson, Gerald Boland, Henry Bernhardt, Joseph Campbell, to name a few, as well as many of her students via e-mail. She was officer of the Lyons Ditch Co. #1 (that runs from Meadow Park to the St. Vrain River on 2nd Avenue) and worked to get it incorporated. WE TRULY WISH OUR FINE BUSINESS TEACHER, BETH, A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AND MANY MORE!
FAREWELL DEBI STEVENSON
We hate to say farewell to Debi Stevenson, who has sold her home on Main Street and is moving to Longmont, to save time and gas and walking. She, the sister of Kathy Haines, has lived here for several years, and has given piano and Japanese lessons, written plays and participates in The Longmont Community Theatre. Through the years, we thank her for playing the keyboard for many town activities and parties, and she raised $9800 last year to benefit the victims of the Japanese tsunami. She will be missed. Good luck, Debi. Come up and visit us!
GROUP AND PRIVATE LESSONS BEGIN AT BRIGHTWOOD MUSIC
Fiddle, violin, guitar, mandolin, upright bass and ukulele lessons are offered six days a week. Go to www.brightwoodmusic.net or call (303) 823-8863.
THURSDAY, FEB. 2 – Discovery Fair 2012, will be held at the Lyons Elementary School with an Open House from 6 to 7:45 p.m. Kari Basey ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) is in charge. Be sure to attend to see what these kids are thinking of, doing, creating, a time to share their projects, knowledge, and enthusiasm on various topics. Very interesting. See you there.
FRIDAY, FEB. 3 – Concert at the Stone Cup, with Eben Grace, starts at 7:30 p.m. A local favorite who plays alternative, ambient, and Americana music; $5 cover charge. All are invited.
SATURDAY, FEB. 4 – A Workshop by Downtown Colorado at the Lyons Valley Village, 2nd Avenue, from 9 a.m. to noon. Presentations will be held on forming a business district, how to market your town, etc. This is valued information to enhance the economy and help Lyons’ businesses. Public invited.
THIS WEEKEND, FEB. 3, 4 & 5 - Three ribbon cuttings for three new businesses. On Saturday, Feb. 4 at 3 p.m., the grand opening for Stillwater Heating Arts, at Lyons’ new clinic on the corner of 3rd Avenue & High. The natural living store includes bulk western and Chinese herbs, homeopathics, physical and quality supplements. They also offer counseling for mental health and addiction, recovery. The first 30 guests both days, will receive a coupon for a free l hour sauna/hyrotherapy room visit. Visit www.stillwaterhealingarts.com for times for weekend events.
On Saturday, Feb. 4 at 4 p.m., it’s the grand opening of the Lyons Mercantile, at 441 Main Street, and they will celebrate with refreshments, music, and some freebies. The store has everything from beanie babies to large furniture pieces. Consignments are welcome. Stop by.
On Friday, Feb. 3, an open house will be held at The Corner, an art studio/workshop at 318 Main Street from 5 to 9 p.m.
SATURDAY, FEB. 4, From 7 to 10 p.m., an Old-Time Square Dance and snack pot-luck at the Lyons Odd Fellows Hall, 4th & High, with old-time reels, mixers, squares, waltzes, and clogging to the live fiddle/banjo music of The River Right String Band, with Chris Kermiet calling. Cost: $7 - adults; $4 - child\seniors; and $15 - families. Public invited. Fun for everyone of all ages.
FRIDAY, FEB. 10 – Concert at the Stone Cup, with David and Enion (from Taarka), who play a blended evolution of Western and Eastern folk traditions of jazz, rock, bluegrass, old-time and gypsy music. Begins at 7:30 p.m., with $5.00 cover charge.
THE BOULDER COUNTY HISTORY PRESERVATION FORUM will be held this Saturday, Feb. 4, from 9:15 to 1l:30 a.m., at the Odd Fellows Hall in Boulder, 1543 Pearl Street, which has been restored recently through a State Historical grant Public invited.
THE LYONS LIBRARY BOARD will host an informational session this Wednesday, February 8, at Lyons Valley Village on 2nd Avenue, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., featuring three specialists from the Denver-Douglas County Libraries, who will present an overview of what needs to be done to form a library district, or a new library/town hall/community center in Lyons. There will be a lot of time to answer questions. The public is urged to attend.
SHOP LOCAL CAMPAIGN
Each Lyons household will receive a dollar bill in their utility bill marked with a special number and red mark, to see how many Lyons Bucks stay in town. Each business is asked to give $10 for expenses. Send check to Box 416, Lyons 80540.
LYONS GIRLS AND BOYS BASKETBALL played Estes Park and Eaton last week, and will play Valley this week (Boys away and girls at home); and University this Friday, Feb. 3, (boys at home/girls away). Next week they play Mead on Tuesday (boys away/girls at home) and Weld Central on Thursday (boys away/girls at home) Times: C games at 4 p.m.; JV at 5:30 p.m.; and Varsity-7 p.m. All invited to attend.
WRESTLING is this Thursday, Feb. 2, against Valley at 6:30 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Highland Duals, away, at 9 a.m. The Regional Wrestling Tournament will be next weekend, Friday/Saturday, February 10 & 11, with the State Tournament held on February 16 & 18 at the Pepsi Center.
MINNIE’S RED HAT CLUB is accepting members. Send an application to president and founder, Kathleen Spring, Box 257, Lyons, Colorado 80540. The club is for sociability and fun, with an event once a month. It’s fun to go with a group of ladies wearing red hats and purple. Call (303) 823-0997 if interested, or e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
SCFD REPORTS AND GRANTS are due Feb. 15, and March 19. LaVern Johnson of the Lyons Historical Society and Priscilla Cohan, of the Lyons Clarifer project, attended a workshop last Saturday at the Northglenn recreation building to get final changes and instructions for the process. SCFD is a 1\10th of 1% sales tax paid by seven metro counties. Each county dispenses grants in the amount taken in by their county. Boulder County receives around $400,000 and gives it to nearly 100 applicants. A very helpful funding source to the Lyons Redstone Museum, which receives money for museum operations, and the Lyons Parks & Recreation Department.
PIZZA PARTY!
Ed and Claudia Kean of Lyons Valley Park hosted a pizza party last Friday evening for friends and neighbors to get acquainted and eat some of Ed’s delicious pizza on very crisp crust. H-m-m-m-m! The couple has lived in Lyons over 20 years; she teaches school, and Ed is into real estate and sound systems. Their sons, both graduates of Lyons High, are graduating from Colorado University this spring; Eric in music and Ryan in architecture. Nice party, thank-you all!
THE ST. VRAIN HONOR BAND, including several band members from Lyons Middle and High School, performed Wednesday, Feb. 1, at Vance Brand Civic Auditorium. Each band, one for middle school and one for high school, includes 85 students representing all the schools in the St. Vrain Valley School District, plus the Twin Peaks Charter Academy. The conductors of the middle school band were Peter Miksza, an associate professor of music education at Indiana University, and Alan Mills, director of bands, and assistant professor of music education at Colorado State University at Pueblo. Congratulations to Lyons M/Sr. students who received the honor of playing in the bands.
THANKS TO DAN BALLARD AND TRUSTEE ED BRUDER
The Lyons Golden Gang received almost a thousand last weekend by attending the large Motorcycle Show and Auction at the Denver Coliseum. The members had their booth decorated with a large banner, fliers, a slide show of their activities, including riding motorcycles in the Lyons parades, and had crafts for sale. They attended both days of the big show, and went on a Special Transit bus on Sunday. It was indeed an exciting venture and much needed fundraiser for The Golden Gang.
THANK-YOU MARILYN PENN
A delightful program and potluck was held last Sunday morning by members of the Lyons Community Church to honor longtime pianist, Marilyn Penn. Marilyn has driven from Longmont at least twice a week for more than seven years. She was also pianist for the Quarry Gals who with many other friends and relatives were in attendance. Marilyn presented a rose to her co-horts. With many tears and thank-you’s, they all said “adieu” and wished Marilyn the best.
NEW BOOK AT THE MUSEUM
Several members of the Lyons Historical Society attended the presentation of “Niwot-the Railroad Town,” by Anne Dyne, who recently wrote a book, which is on sale for $20 from the Lyons Historical Society, (303) 823-5925.
TIDBIT
Gary and Nell Coffey have returned from a seven-week visit over the holidays with her daughter, Diane, and family in Pensacola, Florida. They enjoyed the good weather, sight seeing, and attended a big square dance in Waco, Texas, with 49 squares (400 people), featuring famous callers Ken Bower, Gary Shoemake, and others, on their way home.
BIRTH
Camille Wray Moore, was born on January 27, at 12:50 a.m., at the Boulder Foothills Hospital to proud parents Jem Moore and MinTze Wu. She weighed 7lbs 2oz and was 20” long. Jem is an airline pilot and filmmaker. MinTze is a violinist and director of Sounds of Lyons. Camille’s siblings are Gaelan Moore, a senior at Lyons High School, and Adelaide Moore, now 2-years old and a student at the Lyons Montessori Toddler program. The grandparents are J.B & Sharon Moore of Phoenix, and Stephen & Cecilia Wu of Taiwan. The family has lived in Lyons since 2007, and loves this wonderful community.
WITH SYMPATHY
We express our Sympathy to Peter Watson, whose father passed away last Friday morning in Connecticut. Peter is married to Jacque, and has three children: Savannah, Madison, and Logan. (Obituary later)
A HELPFUL HINT
Cell phone numbers go public this month, and numbers are being released to telemarketing companies. You will start to receive sales calls and you will be charged for these calls. The National Do Not Call list will take only a minute. It blocks your number for five years. To add your number to the Registry you can call 888-382-1222 from the phone you wish to register, or visit www.donotcall.gov, click on “Register a Phone Number” in the left column of the page. Help by passing this on.
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