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When:

Wednesday, September 19th, 2012: 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Where:

West Jeff Middle School, 9449 South Barnes Avenue, Conifer, CO 80433 – (303) 982-3056

What:

LOWER NORTH FORK FIRE
What Will Be Done to Prevent Future Catastrophes?
Legislative & Other Updates

HOMEOWNER’S INSURANCE
What You MUST Know Because of Where We Live

HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Meyer Ranch House / The Little White Schoolhouse / The Yellow Barn

MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST
Saving the Land / Leaving a Legacy

TRAILS / CDOT / DEVELOPMENTS / LIBRARY / SCHOOLS
UPDATES

Fall Clean Up Recycling Festival, Saturday, September 22

(see attached flyer for details, including charges)

9 AM til 3 PM – Evergreen Country Day School at El Rancho Town Center.

The following items are acceptable; some have charges – see attached flyer:
~ electronic devices – see attached for details including prices
~ household batteries ($2.00 per pound) and latex paint ($1.00 per can – must be in the original container – intermixed colors not acceptable)
~ orthopedic devices (crutches, leg braces and wheelchairs)
~ bicycles and metals including appliances, but no refrigerators or items containing gases or mercury
~ Compact fluorescent light bulbs, or CFLs
~ skis, but no ski boots
~ child car seats
~ paper for shredding,
~ #6 Styrofoam blocks; no food containers, bubble-wrap or peanuts
~ clothes and shoes
~ tires – the first 800 of the day collected are free, then $1.00 each; no commercial tires

Don’t forget EDS Waste Solutions (http://www.edswaste.com/services/transfer-station/)  accepts at their transfer station (5801 Hwy 73, Evergreen) FREE single stream recycling (plastic, paper, aluminum, glass bottles, flattened cardboard and metals).

EDS also accepts for a charge Electronic Waste, Metals, Concrete, Auto Parts, Yard Waste, Construction Debris, Appliances and much more. Call for charges and details 303.278.8600.

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**RECYCLE INFO**
~ Conifer High School Parking Lot and Big O Tires (26237 Conifer Road, Conifer, CO 80433); (303) 816-7088
~ 9 AM til 3 PM – VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED – shifts 8 AM til Noon and Noon til 4 PM – please reply to this e-mail or call Susan Imming 303-838-5163
~ FREE – Scrap metal, co-mingled recyclables (steel/aluminum/aerosol cans, glass bottles/jars, cardboard/paperboard, paper, plastic #1-7 containers), Styrofoam, document shredding, clothing and shoes, mobility devices (crutches, wheelchairs, walkers) and bicycles.
~ CHARGES APPLY – Electronics (varies) and tires ($1/tire, $5 with wheels).
~ NO household hazardous waste (cleaners, paints, antifreeze, motor oil), batteries, refrigerators, gases or mercury, furniture, yard waste.
~ Brought to you by Conifer Area Council, Rotary Club of Conifer, Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce, EDS Waste Solutions, Inc., BigOTires Conifer, Metech, Eco-Cycle, Cintas, Crutches4Africa, Recycle Bicycles.
**285 SHOWCASE business expo – FREE**
~ Conifer High School
~ 1 til 5 PM

May 19, Saturday – Community Veterans Coalition Rendezvous (see attached flyer)

~ Conifer Community Park at Beaver Ranch, 11369 S. Foxton Road, Conifer, CO 80433.
~ 7 AM til 1 PM.  Free breakfast for Veterans.
~ Free Veterans services – mobile veterans center; health screening; county, state and national service providers; Veterans and family information services; summer conservation jobs.
~ In honor of our Veterans and their families; the public is invited.

May 19 and 20, Saturday and Sunday – Mountain Area Home and Garden Show (click here for more information)

~ Evergreen High School, 29300 Buffalo Park Road,  Evergreen, CO 80439; (303) 982-5140
~ Saturday – 9 AM to 5 PM
~ Sunday – 10 AM to 3 PM
~ All proceeds benefit Rotary Foundations of Evergreen and Conifer.  Over $61,000 donated to our community; over 1,300 volunteer hours.

Remote Slash Schedule – (See attached flyer)

~ all times are 8:30 AM til 3:30 PM
~June 16 and 17 – Elk Creek Fire Dept.  at Conifer High School
~June 23 and 24 – Coal Creek Fire Dept. at 11583 Camp Eden Road
~August 11 and 12 – Inter-Canyon and Indian Hills Fire Depts. Near Station #3 on Settlers Drive at 8445 S. Hwy 285

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1.  March 17, Saturday – Rotary Club of Conifer’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Fundraiser (see attached flyer).

~ St. Laurence Episcopal Church, 26812 Barkley Road, Conifer – Saints and Sinners welcome.
~ Dinner 5 to 8 PM; Pub open 5 to 10 PM.
~ Live music (The Mint Edition Band and Catherine Reed), traditional Irish food, selection of beers and wine.
~ $15 adults and take out; $10 children 5-12 years; Tickets available from any Conifer Rotarian, Mountain Books & Angela’s (303-838-6755).
~ Door prize drawings and Pot ‘O Gold raffle.
~ All proceeds support the charitable projects of the Rotary Club of Conifer – come have some Irish fun while helping Rotary help others.

2.  April 18, Wednesday – Conifer Area Council Town Hall Meeting (details forthcoming).

~ West Jeff Middle School, 9449 Barnes Ave., Conifer, CO 80433; (303) 982-3056
~ 7 til 8:30 PM

3.  April 21, Saturday – Conifer 9HealthFair (details forthcoming)

~ Our Lady of the Pines Catholic Church, 9444 Eagle Cliff Road, Conifer, CO 80433; (303) 838-0338
~ 7 AM til Noon

4.  May 19, Saturday – Spring Fling It Recycle Festival (details forthcoming)

~ Conifer High School Parking Lot and Big O Tires (26237 Conifer Road, Conifer, CO 80433); (303) 816-7088
~ 9 AM til 3 PM – VOLUNTEERS WILL BE NEEDED
~ FREE – Scrap metal, co-mingled recyclables (steel/aluminum/aerosol cans, glass bottles/jars, cardboard/paperboard, paper, plastic #1-7 containers), Styrofoam, document shredding, clothing            and shoes, mobility devices (crutches, wheelchairs, walkers) and bicycles.
~ CHARGES APPLY – Electronics (varies) and tires ($1/tire, $5 with wheels).
~ NO household hazardous waste (cleaners, paints, antifreeze, motor oil), batteries, refrigerators, gases or mercury, furniture, yard waste.
~ Brought to you by Conifer Area Council, Rotary Club of Conifer, Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce, EDS Waste Solutions, Inc., BigOTires Conifer, Metech, Eco-Cycle, Cintas, Crutches4Africa, Recycle Bicycles.

5.  May 19, Saturday – Community Veterans Coalition Rendezvous (see attached flyer; further details forthcoming).

~ Conifer Community Park at Beaver Ranch, 11369 S. Foxton Road, Conifer, CO 80433.
~ 7 AM til 1 PM.  Free breakfast for Veterans.
~ Free Veterans services – mobile veterans center; health screening; county, state and national service providers; Veterans and family information services; summer conservation jobs.
~ In honor of our Veterans and their families, the public is invited.

6.  May 19 and 20, Saturday and Sunday – Mountain Area Home and Garden Show (details forthcoming – see http://www.homeshowcolorado.com/ for more information).

~ Evergreen High School, 29300 Buffalo Park Road,  Evergreen, CO 80439; (303) 982-5140
~ Saturday – 9 AM to 5 PM
~ Sunday – 10 AM to 3 PM
~ All proceeds benefit Rotary Foundations of Evergreen and Conifer.  Over $61,000 donated to our community; over 1,300 volunteer hours.

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You’re Invited to a
TOWN HALL MEETING
Presented By
Conifer Area Council
To Find Out

When:
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012: 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Where:
West Jefferson Middle School

What:

CONIFER PUBLIC LIBRARY
Meet our new Library Supervisor

Intermountain Humane Society – What’s New?

Aspen Park Metropolitan Water District
And Their Request to Discharge to the Stream

Jeffco Public Schools Happenings

COLORADO STATE LEGISLATORS &  OTHER  GOVT. OFFICIALS

CONIFER DEVELOPMENT Update

CDOT Update

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Conifer Area Council would like to thank:
PITSKER & ASSOCIATES, INC
Est 1982 Professional Land Surveyors
www.pitskersurveying.com
26689 Pleasant Park Road, Bldg A, Suite 200, Conifer, Co
303-674-6018
For their COMMUNITY SUPPORT of this Town Hall Meeting
Conifer Area Council is a nonpolitical organization that does not support or oppose any development, issue, political agenda, individual person or business.
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for the following upcoming Conifer area Recycling Events: 

1.  January 7, 2012 9 am – 2 pm – Conifer Community Church, 9998 Havekost and Hwy 285

Download the Flyer: Single Stream Recycling Jan 2012

FREE SINGLE STREAM – newspaper, office paper, mixed paper including wrapping paper, bulk/junk mail, magazines, phone books, brown paper bags, glass bottles and jars, steel/tin cans, aluminum foil, pie tins, corrugated cardboard, chipboard (cereal/tissue boxes), empty aerosol cans, plastics #1-#7, plastic milk/water jugs, yogurt containers, butter tubs, detergent bottles, vitamin bottles – NO PLASTIC BAGS

METALS – Appliances (washers, dryers – NO refrigerators, gases or mercury), exercise equipment, scrap metal, bikes (non-refurbishable), ancient heavy-metal microwaves, tire wheels only– NO TIRES.

BIKES – those in good condition will be refurbished by Recycle Bicycles for reuse by underserved kids

MOBILITY DEVICES – crutches, canes, walkers, knee/leg braces, wheelchairs – donated to Crutches4Africa (Mountain Foothills Rotary)

STYROFOAM – #6 blocks. NO food containers, bubblewrap or “peanuts”.  UPS in Conifer will take the bubblewrap and peanuts any time.
ELECTRONICS – CHARGES APPLY 
~TV/Monitors – $1.00/inch diagonally
~$10 – Computer, monitor, laptop, fax, scanner, copier, multifunction, stereo, speaker (additional charges may apply for large systems)
~$5     – CPU, printer, modem, hard drive, radio, newer plastic microwave, DVD/VCR player/recorder, analog phone
~$5/box – CD/DVDs, floppy disks, audio/video tapes
~$3     – Large cameras
FREE   – Answering machines, cell phones, keyboards, mice, cable, tiny cameras, small electronics (ipods, gameboys, walkmen, PDA, e-readers,
ipads), inkjet/printer cartridges.

NON ACCEPTABLE ITEMS
NO Household Hazardous Materials, Paints, Batteries, Mattresses
NO DOCUMENT SHREDDING, CLOTHING, SHOES OR TIRES this time – see us May 19, 2012 at Conifer High School Parking Lot and Conifer BigO Tires – stay tuned for details.

VOLUNTEERS  NEEDED We need volunteers to set up, take down, direct traffic, help unload recyclables, complete price sheets for electronics, cashier, answer questions.  Two shifts will be 8 til 11:30 AM and 11:30 AM til 3 PM.  Please reply to this e-mail or contact Susan Imming (303-838-5163) if you can help make this event a success, while having fun seeing your friends and neighbors!  Please indicate the shift you prefer, your name, home or cell phone number and e-mail.  Thanks so much!

SPONSORS and SUPPORTERS:  Thanks to Conifer Community Church, Rotary Club of Conifer, Conifer Area Council, Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce, EDS Waste Solutions, Inc., Recycle Bicycles, Mountain Foothills Rotary for making this event possible.

2.  January 7 and 14, 2012 Saturdays 8 am  – 4 pm – CHRISTMAS TREES – EDS Transfer Station

Once again, you can recycle for FREE your “real” Christmas trees at the EDS Transfer Station (see address, phone and website link below).

~Trees must be bare – no stands, lights, ornaments, tinsel or garlands
~ No artificial or flocked trees
~Christmas trees only, no other trees can be accepted
~Cal 303-674-TREE (Lam Tree Service) for info on receiving free mulch.

Thanks to EDS Waste Solutions, Inc., Lam Tree Service and EAS+Y (Evergreen’s Alliance for Sustainability) for providing this valuable service to our community.

EDS Station Location
5801 Hwy 73
Evergreen, Colorado
303.278.8600
http://www.edswaste.com/Pages/Services/TransferStation.php

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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

7:00pm at West Jefferson Middle School

There are TWO LOCAL RECYCLING OPPORTUNITIES coming up in September – Please see attached flyers for details.

CAC Evergreen Fall Cleanup 9-24-11 Flyer

CONIFER  LIBRARY  CLOSURE  POSSIBLE

Information Provided by Conifer Area Council

The Jefferson County Public Library Administration put out a press release on July 22, 2011 listing their 2012 Library budget recommendations to the Library Board.  A mill levy of 3.5 mills was authorized by voters in 1986 for the Public Library budget.  Although the Library has only been given the full 3.5 mills a few times, the County Commissioners recently reduced the allocation to 3.225 mills.  With the decrease in property values, tax dollars decrease and the real dollars represented by 3.225 mills decrease.  The Library Administration is certainly faced with gloomy budget options.

The Library Administration’s recommendations include closing the three smallest libraries which includes Conifer. The Wheat Ridge and Edgewater Libraries, listed as possible closures, each have three large libraries within five miles.  The Evergreen Library is eight miles from Conifer and approximately 15 miles from the Jefferson/Park County line. The 285 corridor has the best chance in the County for bad winter weather and residents will be required to drive the longest distance library services.

• A community library has a positive influence on the value of a community.
• Currently the Conifer community enjoys equal access to County library resources with the rest of the County residents.
• The Public Library provides the Conifer High Library with resources that exceed
  school district funding of high school libraries.  These outstanding resources helped Conifer High School achieve the ranking of 434 of the top 1000 high schools in America as defined by Newsweek.
• Conifer High School students will not have access to the library after school hours or on weekends as they do now.  The public will not have access to the Conifer Library at all – it will no longer exist.
• The Public Library is not charged building rental, utility costs or building maintenance by the School District. In exchange the High School receives the benefit of the Public Library materials budget, after school and weekend access for students and public patrons and use of Public Library computers during the school.
• The combined High School/Public Library idea was initiated by Conifer community residents in the mid 1990′s who wanted both a high school and a public library in Conifer.  This arrangement is unique and has worked to the benefit of the Library and the High School as well as the community.
• Conifer Public Library patrons have been directed to use the Evergreen Library if the closure occurs. Those of us living here know that our traffic flows up and down 285 not the route to Evergreen. Our more likely alternative library is the Columbine Library, 21 miles away and already the Library system’s busiest.
• Conifer has been accommodated by the Public Library system in the past by the bookmobile and a traveling  librarian at the Little White School House. The proposal does not address the possibility of the library returning to Conifer.
• According to the 2011 Budget and Strategy of the Jefferson County Public Library, the total revenue in 2011 for the County Library system is $25,647,207.00.  In the same document, the Library lists the Grand Total Operating Expenditures for the Conifer Library at $211,887.00. Conifer Public Library’s present share is less than 1% of the Library budget.

There are monthly Library Board and County Commissioner meetings all open to the public and some where public comment is allowed*.

~Library Board – Aug 11 – Study Session 5:30 PM Belmar Library 555 So. Allison Pkwy, Lakewood – Belmar Meeting Room

~Board of County Commissioners & Library Board – Aug 17 2-3 PM, 1000 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, BCC Conference Room 5^th Floor

*~Library Board – Aug 18 Board Meeting 5:30 PM Belmar Library 555 So Allison Pkwy, Lakewood – Belmar Meeting Room

*~Board of County Commissioners – Aug 23 8:00 AM, 1000 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden – Hearing Room One

Comments should be sent BEFORE the above dates

and to the Board of County Commissioners, the Library Board of Trustees and

the Library Administration at the following addresses:

Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners:

100 Jefferson County Parkway

Golden, CO 80419

Phone:  303-271-8525

Commissioner Faye Griffin     Commish1@jeffco.us

Commissioner John Odom      Commish2@jeffco.us

Commissioner Donald Rosier Commish3@jeffco.us

Mr. Rosier is the representative Commissioner for the mountain area of the County but all three should be included in correspondence at Commish@jeffco.us

Jefferson County Library Board of Trustees:

~~Linda Rockwell, Chair **                                      ~~Lynne Heinekamp, Vice Chair

Trustee.Rockwell@jeffcolibrary.org                          Trustee.Heinekamp@jeffcolibrary.org

303-526-9358                                                              720-364-8306

~~Ruth Anna, Secretary                                             ~~T.J. Carney

Trustee.Anna@jeffcolibrary.org                                 Trustee.Carney@jeffcolibrary.org

303-904-6978                                                              303-424-4463

~~E.F. “Buddy” Douglass                                         ~~Ray Elliott

Trustee.Douglass@jeffcolibrary.org                           Trustee.Elliott@jeffcolibrary.org

303-742-3015                                                              303-986-2787

**  Address to Linda Rockwell with copy to Pam Nissler (below).

Library Administration contact information:

Pam Nissler  **

Interim Executive Director

Jefferson County Public Library

10200 W. 20^th Avenue

Lakewood, CO 80215

The Library’s website provides space for your comments at www.jeffcolibrary.org/about/pcomm10.htm

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MOUNTAIN AREA HOME & GARDEN SHOW

Conifer High School.

See www.homeshowcolorado.com for details.

May 14 (Saturday 9 AM to 3 PM)

SPRING FLING-IT-FESTIVAL

in conjunction with the Mountain Area Home and Garden Show

lower parking lot of Conifer High School.

Hard to Recycle items, including electronics*, metals, bikes,

tires* (at BigO Tires Conifer), document shredding, styrofoam,

plus single stream “regular” recycling.  (*There will be charges for these items).

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED – PLEASE CONTACT Coniferareacoun@ecentral.com IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HELPING UNLOAD RECYCLABLES, DIRECTING TRAFFIC, SET UP/TAKE DOWN, DISTRIBUTING FLYERS….

Get rid of your unwanted items, then head on up to the Home and Garden Show to search for NEW THINGS!

For More information click here:

WILDFIRE SYMPOSIUM

Tuesday

May 17^th, 2011

6:00pm – 8:30pm

West Jefferson Middle School

OPEN HOUSE

With Presentations

From 7:00 – 7:45pm

Experts from

Colorado State Forest Service

Jefferson County Emergency Management

Elk Creek / Inter-Canyon / Platte Canyon / North Fork

Fire Departments

American Red Cross

Loggers / Chippers / Pest Control / Sprayers

Tree Services

Grant Opportunities

Come to Find Out All of Your Options

May 22 (Sunday) – 11 AM til 4 PM

COMMUNITY & VETERANS CELEBRATION

Community Park at Beaver Ranch

Information, medical and other services available in honor of our veterans and their families; the public is invited to celebrate and thank our military citizens.

June 11 (Sunday) – 9:00AM

THE RACE FOR PEACE

For information, go to www.raceforpeace.com

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