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rWotD Episode 2820: Glenwood Canyon Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia’s vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Wednesday, 22 January 2025 is Glenwood Canyon.Glenwood Canyon is a rugged scenic 12.5 mi (20 km) canyon in western Colorado in the United States. Its walls climb as high as 1,300 feet (400 m) above the Colorado River. It is the largest such canyon on the Upper Colorado. The canyon, which has historically provided the routes of railroads and highways through western Colorado, currently furnishes the routes of Interstate 70 and the Union Pacific's Central Corridor between Denver and Grand Junction.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:08 UTC on Wednesday, 22 January 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Glenwood Canyon on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Joey.

On today's newscast: I-70 eastbound will be closed in Glenwood Canyon for an accident cleanup today, three longtime Aspen One executives are phasing out of their positions, Aspen Family Connections receives a grant to address youth substance use, a Glenwood Springs city councilor announces her resignation, and more.

On today's newscast: local hiker Jennifer Hearn has been found alive after she was reported missing three days ago, Garfield County has pledged $3 million to help purchase the Shoshone water right in Glenwood Canyon, the Roaring Fork School District is set to open the first of three new buildings in its Meadowood housing project next month, and more.

On today's newscast: Wildfire danger is looking relatively low for now in Western Colorado this summer for now, Garfield County Sheriff's Office recovered a body from the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon on Sunday, local Folk musician Natalie Spears will perform songs from her newest album at TACAW in Willits this Friday, and more.

On today's newscast: Glenwood Springs voters have received ballots for the April 23 special election, a bill that proposes stricter safety regulations on commercial vehicles in Glenwood Canyon has nearly reached the governor's desk, Sunlight Mountain will host an event in memory of local resident Joel Shute who died in an avalanche near Marble last year, and more.

Episode 439 - Glenwood Canyon Brewpub, Casse & Kennedy Edition Happy Monday, Thieves! Don't adjust your headphones - that is, in fact, Casse and Kennedy filling in for Augie and Holl this week. We sat down with Robin, Todd, and Jake of Colorado's Glenwood Canyon Brewpub. Casse grew up with Robin so it's a bit of a catching up for the two of them. We talk about the brewpub's history (one of the oldest in Colorado) and how they've changed things up in the recent years. We have some fun in the black glasses too. Tune in and let us know what you think!***As always, you can email your questions, complaints, whimpers, or whines to us at stealthisbeerpodcast@gmail.com. We read everything we get and we'll try to respond as quickly as we can. If not online, then on air. And THANKS! You can subscribe to STB on iTunes and PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW!!! Co-hosts: Augie Carton & John Holl Producer: Justin Kennedy Engineer: Brian Casse Music: "Abstract Concepts - What Up in the Streets" by Black Ant.

On today's newscast: Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot appear on the state's Republican primary ballot, a state agency is working to buy one of the oldest water rights on the Colorado River at the Shoshone power plant in Glenwood Canyon, the fate of Stubbies bar in Basalt will be decided by Pitkin County, and more.

Kyrsten Sinema gets first GOP challenger in AZ Senate race | Poll shows Lauren Boebert is in trouble | Denver students demand action on gun violence | Sen Michael Bennet and Rep Joe Neguse speak out against Utah rail project that would send daily oil trains through Colorado communities | Gipsy Kings announce Renaissance tour kickoff in DenverSong playsIntro by hostWelcome to High Country - politics in the American West. My name is Sean Diller; regular listeners might know me from Heartland Pod's Talking Politics, every Monday.Support this show and all the work in the Heartland POD universe by going to heartlandpod.com and clicking the link for Patreon, or go to Patreon.com/HeartlandPod to sign up. Membership starts at $1/month, with even more extra shows and special access at the higher levels. No matter the level you choose, your membership helps us create these independent shows as we work together to change the conversation.Alright! Let's get into it: ARIZONA MIRROR:AZ Sen Kyrsten Sinema gets her first Republican challengerBY: JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY - APRIL 11, 2023 1:25 PMRepublican Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb is the first Republican to enter the 2024 contest, but is unlikely to be the last. Sinema, who won in 2018 as a Democrat but last year left the party to become an independent, has already drawn a challenge from Democratic Congressman U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego of Phoenix.Mark Lamb was first elected sheriff of Pinal County in 2016, and since then has regularly appeared on far-right fringe media outlets.Lamb has partnered with groups like True the Vote that have pursued far-flung conspiracy theories of election fraud and lied to law enforcement. Lamb has also railed against vaccines, and is part of a right-wing group that call themselves the “constitutional sheriffs.”  Led by former Graham County Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, the Constitutional Sheriffs are a sovereign-citizen group that believes a “New World Order” is aiming to take away guns — and that sheriffs are on the frontlines of stopping “election fraud.” The group takes a favorable view of armed citizen militias, including militias that are active along Arizona's border with Mexico, and some whose leaders were at the Jan. 6 riot. Lamb is also a favorite of QAnon conspiracy theorists, signing a copy of a book for a QAnon influencer with the QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA.”Lamb has appeared on a number of QAnon-related shows, as well, including one with a history of antisemitic comments. TruNews has published antisemitic rhetoric on its site, including a piece in which founder Rick Wiles spent an hour and a half saying that “seditious Jews” were “orchestrating” to impeach Trump, and calling Jewish people “tyrants.” Wiles has also claimed that the anti-Christ will be a “homosexual Jew.” He was interviewed by Lauren Witzke and, during an episode in which Sheriff Lamb also appeared, Wiles said that Jews “squash” and “crush” people. Witzke is a conspiracy theorist and has echoed white nationalist beliefs herself. During an appearance on the white nationalist podcast No White Guilt, Witzke echoed the racist “great replacement” theory. Lamb supported Lauren Witzke when she ran for U.S. Senate in Delaware, and has also echoed the “great replacement” theory on another QAnon talk show.Lamb is likely to be joined by other GOP contenders in the Senate race, with Kari Lake and Blake Masters two of the most-watched. COLORADO NEWSLINE: Poll shows Lauren Boebert is in troubleBY: SARA WILSON - APRIL 11, 2023 1:19 PMIf the 2024 election were held today, 45% of voters would choose Democrat Adam Frisch, and 45% would choose Boebert, according to findings from a poll released Tuesday.Among voters who knew of both Adam Frisch and Lauren Boebert, Frisch led by 19 percentage points.The poll, conducted by progressive organizations ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group, surveyed 600 likely voters in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District and has a 4.4% margin of error.Among Republicans who described themselves as not very conservative, 60% back Boebert, 24% back Frisch and 16% are undecided. Pollsters said this shows an opportunity for Frisch to gain ground with moderate voters who may be disillusioned with Boebert's extreme politics and headline-grabbing antics.Boebert's unfavorable rating has grown in the past two years. In March 2021, 39% of respondents had an unfavorable view of her. Now, 50% of them do.The race was unexpectedly close in the 2022 midterms. with Boebert, the highly controversial conservative lawmaker, beating former Aspen City Councilman Adam Frisch by just 546 votes in the right-leaning district. The district encompasses the Western Slope and the southwest corner of the state, sweeping east to include Pueblo, Otero and Las Animas counties. After the most recent redistricting in 2022, the district favors Republicans by 9 percentage points.Frisch has already started his campaign for the seat in 2024 and raised $1.7 million in a strong start.That sets the stage for the race to receive national attention — and dollars — as Democrats view Boebert as vulnerable in a presidential election year with higher expected turnout.The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has announced that it will target Boebert in 2024.COLORADO NEWSLINE: Denver Students Demand Action on gun violenceBY: LINDSEY TOOMER - APRIL 6, 2023 4:00 AM     Student leaders across the Denver metro area want their voices to be heard, as they balance being high school students with pushing state lawmakers to take action on gun reform. Students Demand Action groups have formed at multiple high schools across the city amid increasing gun violence, particularly at Denver East High School. Hundreds of Denver-area students have marched to the Colorado Capitol to testify in favor of gun reform and press legislators on how they plan to keep students safe.This school year alone, East High has seen multiple gun-related incidents involving its students: A freshman at East was shot outside the neighboring Carla Madison Recreation Center. Student Luis Garcia died after he was shot in his car in the East parking lot. Student Austin Lyle shot two faculty members while he was being patted down for weapons, then fled and was later found dead, with a ghost gun next to his body. Gracie and Clara Taub, both sophomores at East High School, started a chapter of Students Demand Action last year and have watched it grow immensely, with about 90 people in the club now. Clara said that while the reason behind the club's growth is sad, it's powerful to bring together and amplify the student voice. Students Demand Action is a national initiative for high school and college students to advocate for gun violence prevention, with more than 600 groups formed since the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida.The twin sisters have been advocating gun reform since the Parkland shooting, when they were in fifth grade and Gracie organized a walkout at their school. Now that they've seen gun violence harm their own community, they've led multiple student marches to the Capitol to talk to legislators and testify at bill hearings as co-presidents of Students Demand Action.Gracie said of her sister, “I'm really grateful to have someone by my side who's as passionate as me. We've been working together on everything our whole lives, so it was sort of natural that we did this together.”And it's not just students at East who are getting involved. Gracie said this year they've had students from five or six different schools joining them, along with teachers. The student leaders hope to have a Denver district-wide Students Demand Action meeting soon.Agnes Holena, a sophomore at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, found out about Students Demand Action through her role in her school's student Senate and started a chapter with two of her peers in November. She said the organization isn't about politics - it's about safety. “Since I've started going to such a big high school, shootings have been a genuine worry of mine,” Holena said. “When I leave my classroom to go get water during class, I always think about ‘Where will I go if somebody were to walk in,' and I just feel like that's not the way I should feel or any other students should feel and that this is something that needs to be talked about.”“When there's more people involved, people pay attention, and when there's more students, legislators see that these are kids,” Holena said. “It's different when there's a lot of adults coming together, but when it's the kids who are saying they're scared going to school, I think that really calls for attention.”For Agnes, engaging with the Legislature has been intimidating, but she's found herself prioritizing it because of the chance she might change just one lawmaker's mind. While some legislators have supported and encouraged Students Demand Action leaders to push their limits in their advocacy until change is made, Gracie thinks others too often make excuses for why they can't support certain gun-related bills or why a state bill to ban assault weapons isn't being prioritized. The Colorado Legislature has a strong Democratic majority, and four bills intended to curb gun violence have already passed both chambers this session. But to Clara, these bills are still “pretty basic gun sense.” She wants to see a state bill regulating ghost guns introduced this session. Clara said her generation is learning the flaws of the legislative process, and is taking notes on how they will change it when it's their turn to lead. COLORADO NEWSLINE: No train for oil!BY: CHASE WOODRUFF - APRIL 8, 2023 4:30 AMSome of Colorado's top Democratic elected officials issued their most united and forceful call yet to halt a planned Utah railway expansion, that would send up to five two-mile-long oil trains per day through sensitive mountain ecosystems. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Joe Neguse joined state and local leaders on the banks of the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon, just yards away from the tracks of the Union Pacific railroad that snakes through the canyon, alongside the river and Interstate 70. Not far away were areas burned by the 2020 Grizzly Creek Fire, and sections of the highway that were shut down for weeks by mudslides a year later.Glenwood Springs Mayor Jonathan Godes said “To say that this canyon is anything but an incredibly fragile place, to say that this river is anything but in crisis in the American West, is to ignore reality.” Colorado officials say they're alarmed by the risks to Glenwood Canyon and other vulnerable areas by the Uinta Basin Railway Project, an 88-mile railroad extension that would allow oil produced in Eastern Utah to be shipped to Gulf Coast refineries through Colorado's central mountain communities and the densely populated Front Range.Several key permits for the new railway have already been approved by President Joe Biden's administration, but Sen Bennet and Rep Neguse have called on at least four different federal agencies to conduct additional reviews before the project's financing is finalized and construction begins.Mountain communities worry about the threat of the Uinta Basin trains potentially derailing and spilling oil into sensitive watersheds, or sparking dangerous wildfires in Colorado forests that are increasingly at risk from climate change. Officials in Denver estimate that the Uinta Basin project could quadruple the number of rail cars with hazardous material traveling through the city every day.Colorado State House Speaker Julie McCluskie, state Sen. Dylan Roberts and state Rep. Elizabeth Velasquez, all Democrats who represent mountain communities along the rail route, also spoke in opposition to the project.Five environmental groups and the government of Eagle County Colorado are suing to block the project.As officials wrapped up their press conference beside a popular Colorado River boat ramp, Senator Bennet waved through three anglers who launched their boat and pushed off downriver. Sen. Bennet said that given the importance of the river to the Western Slope's economy and the risks posed by climate change, there aren't any safeguards that would make the risks of the Uinta Basin project acceptable.“This train has no business bringing this oil through Colorado, period.” Sen Bennet said. “Anybody who has spent serious time in this canyon understands what the risks really are — what these mudslides really look like, what these wildfires really look like here.”CONCERT PICK OF THE WEEK: The Gipsy Kings! This legendary group is kicking off a spring tour with the first show in Denver, at the Paramount Theatre on Friday April 14. With more than 20 million albums sold and a career spanning 30 years, the legendary Gipsy Kings are hitting the road in support of their new album, Renaissance. Welp, that's it for me! From Denver I'm Sean Diller. Original reporting for the stories in today's show comes from the Arizona Mirror, Colorado Newsline, Colorado Sun, and Denver's Westword.Thank you for listening! See you next time.

Kyrsten Sinema gets first GOP challenger in AZ Senate race | Poll shows Lauren Boebert is in trouble | Denver students demand action on gun violence | Sen Michael Bennet and Rep Joe Neguse speak out against Utah rail project that would send daily oil trains through Colorado communities | Gipsy Kings announce Renaissance tour kickoff in DenverSong playsIntro by hostWelcome to High Country - politics in the American West. My name is Sean Diller; regular listeners might know me from Heartland Pod's Talking Politics, every Monday.Support this show and all the work in the Heartland POD universe by going to heartlandpod.com and clicking the link for Patreon, or go to Patreon.com/HeartlandPod to sign up. Membership starts at $1/month, with even more extra shows and special access at the higher levels. No matter the level you choose, your membership helps us create these independent shows as we work together to change the conversation.Alright! Let's get into it: ARIZONA MIRROR:AZ Sen Kyrsten Sinema gets her first Republican challengerBY: JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY - APRIL 11, 2023 1:25 PMRepublican Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb is the first Republican to enter the 2024 contest, but is unlikely to be the last. Sinema, who won in 2018 as a Democrat but last year left the party to become an independent, has already drawn a challenge from Democratic Congressman U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego of Phoenix.Mark Lamb was first elected sheriff of Pinal County in 2016, and since then has regularly appeared on far-right fringe media outlets.Lamb has partnered with groups like True the Vote that have pursued far-flung conspiracy theories of election fraud and lied to law enforcement. Lamb has also railed against vaccines, and is part of a right-wing group that call themselves the “constitutional sheriffs.”  Led by former Graham County Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, the Constitutional Sheriffs are a sovereign-citizen group that believes a “New World Order” is aiming to take away guns — and that sheriffs are on the frontlines of stopping “election fraud.” The group takes a favorable view of armed citizen militias, including militias that are active along Arizona's border with Mexico, and some whose leaders were at the Jan. 6 riot. Lamb is also a favorite of QAnon conspiracy theorists, signing a copy of a book for a QAnon influencer with the QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA.”Lamb has appeared on a number of QAnon-related shows, as well, including one with a history of antisemitic comments. TruNews has published antisemitic rhetoric on its site, including a piece in which founder Rick Wiles spent an hour and a half saying that “seditious Jews” were “orchestrating” to impeach Trump, and calling Jewish people “tyrants.” Wiles has also claimed that the anti-Christ will be a “homosexual Jew.” He was interviewed by Lauren Witzke and, during an episode in which Sheriff Lamb also appeared, Wiles said that Jews “squash” and “crush” people. Witzke is a conspiracy theorist and has echoed white nationalist beliefs herself. During an appearance on the white nationalist podcast No White Guilt, Witzke echoed the racist “great replacement” theory. Lamb supported Lauren Witzke when she ran for U.S. Senate in Delaware, and has also echoed the “great replacement” theory on another QAnon talk show.Lamb is likely to be joined by other GOP contenders in the Senate race, with Kari Lake and Blake Masters two of the most-watched. COLORADO NEWSLINE: Poll shows Lauren Boebert is in troubleBY: SARA WILSON - APRIL 11, 2023 1:19 PMIf the 2024 election were held today, 45% of voters would choose Democrat Adam Frisch, and 45% would choose Boebert, according to findings from a poll released Tuesday.Among voters who knew of both Adam Frisch and Lauren Boebert, Frisch led by 19 percentage points.The poll, conducted by progressive organizations ProgressNow Colorado and Global Strategy Group, surveyed 600 likely voters in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District and has a 4.4% margin of error.Among Republicans who described themselves as not very conservative, 60% back Boebert, 24% back Frisch and 16% are undecided. Pollsters said this shows an opportunity for Frisch to gain ground with moderate voters who may be disillusioned with Boebert's extreme politics and headline-grabbing antics.Boebert's unfavorable rating has grown in the past two years. In March 2021, 39% of respondents had an unfavorable view of her. Now, 50% of them do.The race was unexpectedly close in the 2022 midterms. with Boebert, the highly controversial conservative lawmaker, beating former Aspen City Councilman Adam Frisch by just 546 votes in the right-leaning district. The district encompasses the Western Slope and the southwest corner of the state, sweeping east to include Pueblo, Otero and Las Animas counties. After the most recent redistricting in 2022, the district favors Republicans by 9 percentage points.Frisch has already started his campaign for the seat in 2024 and raised $1.7 million in a strong start.That sets the stage for the race to receive national attention — and dollars — as Democrats view Boebert as vulnerable in a presidential election year with higher expected turnout.The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has announced that it will target Boebert in 2024.COLORADO NEWSLINE: Denver Students Demand Action on gun violenceBY: LINDSEY TOOMER - APRIL 6, 2023 4:00 AM     Student leaders across the Denver metro area want their voices to be heard, as they balance being high school students with pushing state lawmakers to take action on gun reform. Students Demand Action groups have formed at multiple high schools across the city amid increasing gun violence, particularly at Denver East High School. Hundreds of Denver-area students have marched to the Colorado Capitol to testify in favor of gun reform and press legislators on how they plan to keep students safe.This school year alone, East High has seen multiple gun-related incidents involving its students: A freshman at East was shot outside the neighboring Carla Madison Recreation Center. Student Luis Garcia died after he was shot in his car in the East parking lot. Student Austin Lyle shot two faculty members while he was being patted down for weapons, then fled and was later found dead, with a ghost gun next to his body. Gracie and Clara Taub, both sophomores at East High School, started a chapter of Students Demand Action last year and have watched it grow immensely, with about 90 people in the club now. Clara said that while the reason behind the club's growth is sad, it's powerful to bring together and amplify the student voice. Students Demand Action is a national initiative for high school and college students to advocate for gun violence prevention, with more than 600 groups formed since the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida.The twin sisters have been advocating gun reform since the Parkland shooting, when they were in fifth grade and Gracie organized a walkout at their school. Now that they've seen gun violence harm their own community, they've led multiple student marches to the Capitol to talk to legislators and testify at bill hearings as co-presidents of Students Demand Action.Gracie said of her sister, “I'm really grateful to have someone by my side who's as passionate as me. We've been working together on everything our whole lives, so it was sort of natural that we did this together.”And it's not just students at East who are getting involved. Gracie said this year they've had students from five or six different schools joining them, along with teachers. The student leaders hope to have a Denver district-wide Students Demand Action meeting soon.Agnes Holena, a sophomore at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, found out about Students Demand Action through her role in her school's student Senate and started a chapter with two of her peers in November. She said the organization isn't about politics - it's about safety. “Since I've started going to such a big high school, shootings have been a genuine worry of mine,” Holena said. “When I leave my classroom to go get water during class, I always think about ‘Where will I go if somebody were to walk in,' and I just feel like that's not the way I should feel or any other students should feel and that this is something that needs to be talked about.”“When there's more people involved, people pay attention, and when there's more students, legislators see that these are kids,” Holena said. “It's different when there's a lot of adults coming together, but when it's the kids who are saying they're scared going to school, I think that really calls for attention.”For Agnes, engaging with the Legislature has been intimidating, but she's found herself prioritizing it because of the chance she might change just one lawmaker's mind. While some legislators have supported and encouraged Students Demand Action leaders to push their limits in their advocacy until change is made, Gracie thinks others too often make excuses for why they can't support certain gun-related bills or why a state bill to ban assault weapons isn't being prioritized. The Colorado Legislature has a strong Democratic majority, and four bills intended to curb gun violence have already passed both chambers this session. But to Clara, these bills are still “pretty basic gun sense.” She wants to see a state bill regulating ghost guns introduced this session. Clara said her generation is learning the flaws of the legislative process, and is taking notes on how they will change it when it's their turn to lead. COLORADO NEWSLINE: No train for oil!BY: CHASE WOODRUFF - APRIL 8, 2023 4:30 AMSome of Colorado's top Democratic elected officials issued their most united and forceful call yet to halt a planned Utah railway expansion, that would send up to five two-mile-long oil trains per day through sensitive mountain ecosystems. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Joe Neguse joined state and local leaders on the banks of the Colorado River in Glenwood Canyon, just yards away from the tracks of the Union Pacific railroad that snakes through the canyon, alongside the river and Interstate 70. Not far away were areas burned by the 2020 Grizzly Creek Fire, and sections of the highway that were shut down for weeks by mudslides a year later.Glenwood Springs Mayor Jonathan Godes said “To say that this canyon is anything but an incredibly fragile place, to say that this river is anything but in crisis in the American West, is to ignore reality.” Colorado officials say they're alarmed by the risks to Glenwood Canyon and other vulnerable areas by the Uinta Basin Railway Project, an 88-mile railroad extension that would allow oil produced in Eastern Utah to be shipped to Gulf Coast refineries through Colorado's central mountain communities and the densely populated Front Range.Several key permits for the new railway have already been approved by President Joe Biden's administration, but Sen Bennet and Rep Neguse have called on at least four different federal agencies to conduct additional reviews before the project's financing is finalized and construction begins.Mountain communities worry about the threat of the Uinta Basin trains potentially derailing and spilling oil into sensitive watersheds, or sparking dangerous wildfires in Colorado forests that are increasingly at risk from climate change. Officials in Denver estimate that the Uinta Basin project could quadruple the number of rail cars with hazardous material traveling through the city every day.Colorado State House Speaker Julie McCluskie, state Sen. Dylan Roberts and state Rep. Elizabeth Velasquez, all Democrats who represent mountain communities along the rail route, also spoke in opposition to the project.Five environmental groups and the government of Eagle County Colorado are suing to block the project.As officials wrapped up their press conference beside a popular Colorado River boat ramp, Senator Bennet waved through three anglers who launched their boat and pushed off downriver. Sen. Bennet said that given the importance of the river to the Western Slope's economy and the risks posed by climate change, there aren't any safeguards that would make the risks of the Uinta Basin project acceptable.“This train has no business bringing this oil through Colorado, period.” Sen Bennet said. “Anybody who has spent serious time in this canyon understands what the risks really are — what these mudslides really look like, what these wildfires really look like here.”CONCERT PICK OF THE WEEK: The Gipsy Kings! This legendary group is kicking off a spring tour with the first show in Denver, at the Paramount Theatre on Friday April 14. With more than 20 million albums sold and a career spanning 30 years, the legendary Gipsy Kings are hitting the road in support of their new album, Renaissance. Welp, that's it for me! From Denver I'm Sean Diller. Original reporting for the stories in today's show comes from the Arizona Mirror, Colorado Newsline, Colorado Sun, and Denver's Westword.Thank you for listening! See you next time.

This episode has everything but Jimmy Mac! We give a professional AF jackassessment  of UTMB, or was it UTMP? Cultra Bot gets feisty with the Crew.  Then we give tips for how to get to Aspen via Leadville as part of a workaround if Glenwood Canyon shits the bed, and shout out Harvey Lewis.  Ultra walker Andy Cable has completed one of the most beautiful projects, running at least 5 miles in every one of Connecticut's 169 towns, and connects them into a single connected maze! Phred cross examines AFB about what it was like to run every Blue Blaze Trail in CT. We preview the Dumbass Dice Challenge, talk some Nipmuck Alpaca Llama love aid stations, and even preview early leaf catching season. Have you read Amy Mower's book Run To Save Your Life: A Compilation of Poetry and Short Stories by Runners But this all is just a warmup for AFB's review of the $35 Nevo Rhino Hydration Pack AKA: Ultimate Wrong Direction.  Do we really need to spend more than $100 for a hydration pack? Tune in to find out. Outro music by Nick Byram Become a Cultra Crew Patreon Supporter Cultra Facebook Fan Page Sign up for a race at Live Loud Running  

Afghan refugees who came to Colorado after the withdrawal of U.S. troops face a deadline if they want to stay. Then, a private investigator on a landmark sexual assault case opens up in the book "Tell Me Everything." Plus, working to upgrade a detour around Glenwood Canyon without making it too inviting.

Afghan refugees who came to Colorado after the withdrawal of U.S. troops face a deadline if they want to stay. Then, a private investigator on a landmark sexual assault case opens up in the book "Tell Me Everything." Plus, working to upgrade a detour around Glenwood Canyon without making it too inviting.

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A group advising Colorado lawmakers on how to spend four hundred million dollars of federal aid on affordable housing has started voting on WHICH projects should get funding; The Colorado Department of Transportation says the final lane on I-70 through Glenwood Canyon should reopen within the next week.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Tuesday September 28th,   Today - Glenwood Springs has had a challenging year … between the Grizzly Creek Fire, and mudslides. But businesses have largely stayed afloat thanks to federal aid. And now, they have access to federal disaster loans.   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we take you back to September 28th, 1719, when a massive expedition of Spaniards, Puebloans, and Apaches endured an early winter storm and feared for whether they had enough food. It's little wonder that this beleaguered company at its camp near present day Trinidad Colorado, referred to a nearby river as the River of Lost Souls in Purgatory.    Now, our feature story.   Glenwood Springs has had a rough year … the Grizzly Creek Fire in August 2020 forced a two-week shutdown of Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon, just as the tourist destination was emerging from COVID lockdown …. in August this year the hot-springed resort town again endured a two-week closure of the canyon as mudslides buried the interstate below the burn scar … Glenwood businesses have been able to stay afloat for most of 2021 thanks to COVID relief  from the federal government … and now those businesses have access to low interest federal disaster loans approved earlier this month.   Colorado Sun reporter David Gilbert looked into what he called Glenwood's “cavalcade of hardships,” and how this new round of federal assistance is helping the town's economy …   To read more of David's reporting on Glenwood Springs, go to coloradosun.com     And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   Nonprofit river conservation group American Whitewater is exploring a plan to adjust Colorado water law so communities can protect recreational river flows without building whitewater parks. The proposed changes to Colorado's Recreational In-Channel Diversion water rights regulations faces stiff opposition from Western Slope water users. The Denver Public Schools board has expanded its conflict-of-interest policy to ban employees of independent charter schools and innovation zones from serving on the board. The district's policy already barred school district employees from serving on the seven-member school board. Last week the board unanimously approved the new rules without public discussion. The board's next election is set for Nov. 2. Fewer than 5,000 students — that's less than 1% of Colorado's K-through-12 students — have signed up for a weekly coronavirus testing program.  That is not enough kids, says Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who launched the testing plan as a way to track cases and prevent outbreaks.    Schools need to test at least one in five students to make a difference, the governor says. The testing program, which is backed by $173 million in federal funding, is testing about one-in-25 kids at 200 Colorado schools. And Colorado students are catching COVID, with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment last week tracking 156 active coronavirus outbreaks in K-12 schools. For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Thursday August 26th.   Today - Between rising housing costs and a lack of affordable child care many rural school districts are struggling to hire new teachers, and keep existing ones. One approach to addressing this problem is by opening up child care centers of their own.   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we take you back to August 26th, 1776 when a Spanish expedition consisting of two priests, a cartographer, two aristocrats, and five other men arrived at an area on the Uncompahgre River. They named their campsite “La Cienega de San Francisco”. It still stands today on the south side of Montrose near History Colorado's Ute Indian Museum.   Now, our feature story.   Some rural school districts in Colorado are struggling to hire and retain teachers because of a double-whammy of soaring housing costs and a lack of affordable child care.    Faced with chronic staffing shortages, some have decided to open up child care centers of their own in an effort to attract more teachers. Colorado Sun reporter Shannon Najmabadi and Erica Breunlin recently spoke with staff and administrators at local schools to find out more.   Najmabadi and Breunlin talk with fellow Sun reporter Daniel Ducassi about what they learned.   To read Shannon and Erica's article, go to coloradosun.com   And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   Beloved Hanging Lake may be mostly off limits to hikers for the next year, but Forest Service managers see opportunity in the hiatus created by massive mudslides in Glenwood Canyon. During a walk up the trail ruined by mudslides the managers said they expect to create a more sustainable trail to the travertine lake that will be better able to handle the crowds of hikers that visit this year. About 15,000 reservations to hike the trail were canceled when the trail was closed earlier this month. The company that manages them said many people are opting to contribute their $12 fee to the trail rehab work.   Colorado voters will decide in November whether to raise marijuana taxes to boost out-of-school learning. The Colorado Secretary of State's Office ruled Wednesday that supporters of Initiative 25 gathered enough signatures to secure a spot on the upcoming ballot. Backers of the Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program Initiative, also known as LEAP, easily met the 124,632-signature threshold to qualify for the 2021 statewide election. The initiative would impose a new 3% sales tax on recreational marijuana starting on Jan. 1 and increasing to 5% by Jan. 1, 2024. That's in addition to the existing 15% state sales tax on recreational marijuana.   Colorado has only paid out about 7.4% of the $444 million in federal rental assistance funds it had available. The amount of money being paid out is increasing monthly, but the state has hired a new payment vendor to get the money out to tenants and landlords who have been waiting for months for help. Including the $246 million local governments had to hand out, the state started with almost $700 million in federal aid available to people at risk of eviction.    For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow for a special holiday episode. Now, a quick message from our editor.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Thursday August 19th.   Today - The debate over masking in schools has intensified as many kids return full time. And while school board meetings have become tense, everyone agrees that the argument doesn't belong in the classroom.   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we take you back to August 19th, 1887 when the town of Rocky Ford was incorporated in Otero County by George Swink. Previously settled in the early 1870s, Swink proved to be quite the farmer and by 1878, the watermelon harvest was such a success that the town celebrated with Watermelon Day which is now part of the oldest continuous fair in Colorado. You can attend the Watermelon Day Festival this year until August 22nd at the Rocky Ford Fairgrounds.   Now, our feature story.   The debate over mask mandates has intensified as schools return, many of which are going full time again for the first time in a year. While parents and educators have made local school board meetings extremely intense, there's one thing many agree on: Keep the toxic debate out of the classroom. Colorado Sun education reporter Erica Breunlin reports on the intensity of the debate in school districts throughout Colorado and the unified goal to focus on students. She joins Sun reporter Tamara Chuang in an interview.   For the latest updates on coronavirus in Colorado and how that's impacting our schools and more, visit coloradosun.com And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   The U.S. Forest Service has canceled 15,000 reservations to hike to Hanging Lake because trails and bridges to the Instagram-friendly destination were wrecked by mudslides that also damaged Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon. The good news is that the travertine lake and the waterfall streaming into it are undamaged. But the forest service says it could be a year before the trails to the National Natural Landmark are safe to hike again.    U.S. health officials citing evidence that the effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccine wanes over time now recommend all Americans get a booster shot to improve protection as the delta variant surges. They are calling for an extra dose eight months after people get their second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. The FDA still must evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a third dose, which could be offered as soon as the week of September 20. People who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine will also probably need extra shots. But the health officials said they are awaiting more data.    A bipartisan team led by Mesa County treasurer Sheila Reiner has been tasked to manage the November election in the wake of an investigation of Republican County Clerk Tina Peters. The FBI has joined the probe of allegations that Peters helped someone post passwords to voting equipment and copies of the office's elections hard drives online. Peters was removed from managing the election by Secretary of State Jana Griswold, who is a Democrat. The new management team includes state Rep. Janice Rich and Ouray County Clerk Michelle Nauer, both Republicans, and former Secretary of State Bernie Buescher, a Democrat.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow for a special holiday episode. Now, a quick message from our editor.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CDOT's chief engineer, Steve Harelson, updates the I-70 cleanup through Glenwood Canyon. Then, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, (D) Colorado, talks about addressing critical infrastructure needs, from roads to broadband to water. Then, the future of Denver's iconic Casa Bonita. Plus, "Black Ice" uses climbing to explore what it's like to be Black in America today.

CDOT's chief engineer, Steve Harelson, updates the I-70 cleanup through Glenwood Canyon. Then, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, (D) Colorado, talks about addressing critical infrastructure needs, from roads to broadband to water. Then, the future of Denver's iconic Casa Bonita. Plus, "Black Ice" uses climbing to explore what it's like to be Black in America today.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Monday August 16th. Nearly 50 years ago a school bus crash killed eight Gunnison High School football players and their coach drew national attention. Now, Gunnison is preparing a memorial to mark the anniversary. Today - Hear from survivors of the crash on the legacy of this tragedy.  Before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”: Today we're going back to August 16th 1999, when the students of Columbine High School in Jefferson County returned to school for the first time since the tragic shooting that took the lives of 13. When the 2,700 students arrived back at Columbine that morning, they raised the American flag to full staff…..it had flown half that high since April. For some, the moment was a triumph of spirit, for others, especially those with lost loved ones, it was too soon. The Columbine shootings remain a communal trauma and today, we remember the students who lost their lives, and those children, teachers, and families who continued on.  Now, our feature story.  Nearly 50 years ago, a school bus crash killed eight Gunnison High School football players and their coach. The tragedy drew national attention at the time, but it has since faded from memory across much of Colorado. Not so in Gunnison, which is preparing a memorial to mark the 50 year anniversary. Colorado Sun reporter Kevin Simpson recently spoke with several survivors of the crash and has written an article examining the legacy of the tragedy. He sat down with fellow Sun reporter John Ingold to talk about what he learned.  You can read more on the 1971 crash and its 50-year aftermath from The Sun's Kevin Simpson at ColoradoSun.com Thanks for listening. Finally, here are a few stories you should know about today: The creators of the wildly popular “South Park” animated TV show say they have a deal to buy and revive Casa Bonita, the iconic Mexican restaurant that is both beloved and reviled. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who grew up in Colorado, announced their plans in a press conference with Gov. Jared Polis on Friday, but will have to navigate the bankruptcy of Casa Bonita's owner before the deal can close. One lane in each direction of Interstate 70 opened through Glenwood Canyon on Saturday morning. But it likely will be November before traffic is moving through the area at a pace approaching normal. The highway had been closed since July 29, when what transportation officials described as a 500-year weather event sent tons of rock, mud and debris flowing from the steep canyon onto the highway. The governor has requested $116 million from the federal government to cover the cost of repairs, which includes reconstructing parts of the westbound lanes. When mountainsides of mud and rock tumbled down to block Interstate 70 at Glenwood Canyon weeks ago, the mess stopped more than a highway. The debris also blocked off the most important river in the West, the Colorado. And while the stream started working its way through the rock pile almost immediately, the impact on river wildlife will last for years. Biologists are itching to get into the canyon to assess the damage and start offering fixes, while engineers are still worried about what's left to fall down the hillsides. Laura Richardson, who was an All America swimmer at Northglenn High and got her officer's commission through the ROTC at Metro State, has been promoted to 4-star general and commander of the Army's U.S. Southern Command. Richardson, who is 57, will be only the second currently-serving woman to earn the rank of four-star general, the second female four-star general in the Army's 246-year history, and the second female combatant commander. For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. Now, a quick message from our editor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How is Colorado's "Red Flag Law" working? State Attorney General Phil Weiser argues the extreme risk protection orders are underutilized based on the first year of data. Then, CDOT chief engineer Steve Harelson on plans to partially reopen I-70 through Glenwood Canyon. Plus, author Craig Childs on ravens. And author Sarah Maslin Nir on being "horse crazy."

How is Colorado's "Red Flag Law" working? State Attorney General Phil Weiser argues the extreme risk protection orders are underutilized based on the first year of data. Then, CDOT chief engineer Steve Harelson on plans to partially reopen I-70 through Glenwood Canyon. Plus, author Craig Childs on ravens.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Thursday August 12th.   Today - Mesa County has been consumed by controversy surrounding a breach of passwords to its election systems.    The Colorado secretary of state is now blaming Mesa County's clerk. And the clerk just spoke out against the secretary of state… at an event hosted by election conspiracy theorist and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we take you back to August 12th, 1892 when The Knights of Templar, a national fraternal organization, concluded their annual convention with a grand banquet in Denver's newest and most impressive hostelry, the Brown Palace Hotel. The week-long gathering inaugurated one of Colorado's most historic buildings, host to the rich and powerful.    Now, our feature story.   Mesa County, home to Grand Junction in western Colorado, has been consumed in recent days by controversy surrounding a breach of passwords to its election systems. The passwords were posted online to a far-right blog last week. Now, the Colorado secretary of state, a Democrat, is placing blame on Mesa County's clerk. And the clerk, a Republican, appeared this week at an event hosted by election conspiracy theorist and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell to accuse the secretary of state of wrongdoing. Colorado Sun reporter Jesse Paul has been following all the developments. He spoke with fellow Sun reporter John Ingold about what he's learned.   You can read more on the Mesa County investigation from The Sun's Jesse Paul and Sandra Fish at ColoradoSun.com   And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   ​​San Juan Basin Public Health has identified a coronavirus outbreak that has led to three deaths and infected at least 12 other people. Contact-tracers said the outbreak, first identified June 19, originated at the Nissan of Durango car dealership and includes five cases of the highly contagious delta variant. Two cases are considered “breakthrough,” involving people who were fully vaccinated against the illness. The health department said the addition of the cases to its outbreak report doesn't mean staff or contractors at the dealership are currently ill.   Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon likely will be at least partially open starting Saturday. The Colorado Department of Transportation said one lane of traffic will be open in each direction, assuming the weather holds and work to make travel safe can continue. The highway has been closed since July 29, when heavy rain storms sent mud, boulders and other debris flowing down from five drainages burned last year during the Grizzly Creek fire.   Colorado's population has boomed over the last decade, jumping to nearly 5.8 million people, up 14.8% from 2010, according to the latest census figures. Forecasters expect new, detailed census data that will be released Thursday to show Latinos represent nearly 1 in 4 Coloradans. But community leaders are worried that the once-in-a-decade redistricting process now underway will continue to give them the short shrift at the state Capitol and in Congress. Critics say first-draft maps drawn by two independent commissions clump together Latino communities in ways that lack nuance, and cultural and geographical perspective. The new data will prompt a new round of map drawing and the boundaries of the draft maps are certain to change.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow for a special holiday episode. Now, a quick message from our editor.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Vincent Turnbull from Step Denver joins us to talk about the progress that has been made to help homeless individuals reclaim their lives through sobriety, work, accountability, and community. Positive news: I-70 through Glenwood Canyon will be reopened by Saturday, as stated by Governor Jared Polis. The Census numbers are being released on Thursday-- how long until whites are the minority? More on the CDC recommendation that pregnant women be vaccinated.  Steffan takes calls. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Tuesday August 10th.   Today - Decades of work to clean up the South Platte River have resulted in more opportunities for both wildlife and recreation to thrive.   But last year, the state Water Quality Control Commission rejected a recommendation to upgrade protections. And the commission reaffirmed the decision on Monday. So what's next?   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we're taking you back to August 10th, 1972, when husband and wife team Christo and Jean-Claude Javacheff unveiled a massive piece of artwork that hung across Rifle Gap in Garfield County. Nearly 100 workers stretched a cable 1,368 feet across the gap and unfurled 200,000 square feet of bright orange nylon curtain while a curved opening allowed for cars to pass below on Highway 325. Even though the artwork was intended to hang until October, high winds started fraying and tearing the fabric within the first two days.   Now, our feature story.   The South Platte River flowing through Denver has long been one of Colorado's most used and abused waterways. Decades of work to clean up the river have finally created more opportunities for wildlife and recreation to thrive there. But last year, the state Water Quality Control Commission rejected a recommendation by its own staff and supporters like the Colorado Parks and Wildlife division to upgrade protections for the river in north Denver and Adams County. Conservationists hoped to change the commission's mind. But the commission reaffirmed the decision on Monday. Colorado Sun health and environment reporter Michael Booth first broke this story and has been following it ever since. He spoke with fellow Sun reporter John Ingold about what the decision means and what comes next.   You can read more from Michael Booth on the future of the South Platte at ColoradoSun.com   And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   A Colorado Springs man charged in connection with the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has pleaded guilty. Glenn Wes Lee Croy admitted to a charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing inside the Capitol, according to federal court records. He faces a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a fine of up to $5,000 when he is sentenced on October 15th.   Interstate 70 remains closed through Glenwood Canyon, and now the state is asking for federal assistance to clear the muck clogging the roadway. Gov. Jared Polis asked the Federal Highway Administration for $116 million in emergency relief, with $11.6 million of that to be issued in an expedited manner. Mud and rock slides caused by heavy rains on the Grizzly Creek fire burn scar have inflicted extreme damage to the highway. There is still no estimate for when it will reopen.   The Colorado commissions that are drawing up new boundaries for the state's congressional, state house and state senate districts finally received some welcome news. The U.S. Census Bureau announced that it will release 2020 census data on Thursday. That's four days earlier than Colorado's independent redistricting commissions had expected. The earlier release date will give the commissions precious time in their race to finalize new district maps by October 1st. You can learn more about the commissions' work in The Sun's newest newsletter, called Remapping Colorado. Sign up for it at ColoradoSun.com.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Businesses that rely on I-70 through Glenwood Canyon are assessing their supply chains, including Timberleaf Teardrop Trailers. Then, we get the long view from a former CDOT engineer who led the canyon highway project. Plus, an encore conversation with two authors who corresponded across The Contintental Divide about the pandemic, politics, and place.

Businesses that rely on I-70 through Glenwood Canyon are assessing their supply chains, including Timberleaf Teardrop Trailers. Then, we get the long view from a former CDOT engineer who led the canyon highway project. Plus, an encore conversation with two authors who corresponded across The Contintental Divide about the pandemic, politics, and place.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Monday August 9th.   Today - A group called the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative is keeping track of the tens of thousands of people who climb the state's most popular routes. They're also hoping to enhance safety for climbers and help protect the peaks.   Before we begin we'd like to thank our sponsors at Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network. Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network fights for justice by providing free immigration legal services to individuals, children, and families in Colorado. Join them on Thursday, August 19th, for their annual Immigrant Liberty Awards, celebrating immigrants and advocates in our community. The event is virtual and free to attend. (www.rmian.org/ila)   Before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today we're going back to August 9th, 1859 when Captain John N. Macomb's US Army expedition skirted the northern flank of Mesa Verde. They were searching for a route to connect New Mexico and Utah Territories. Why? Because the federal government and Mormon settlers were clashing over authority in Utah and the army sought new avenues to enter the territory.    Now, our feature story.    Colorado is blessed with more than 50 peaks rising at least 14,000 feet above sea level. And many Coloradans are motivated by the idea they should risk the thin air and steep slopes to climb as many of those fourteeners as they can. A group called the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative is keeping track of the tens of thousands of people who climb the most popular routes every year. They are also trying to build better paths up the steepest slopes so that visitors don't love the mountains to death, as they have in other popular parts of the state. The Colorado Sun's Jennifer Brown trekked up high on Mount Elbert, the tallest fourteener in the state, to meet with the trail builders and find out what it takes to protect our most majestic peaks.    You can read more from Jennifer Brown about building better paths up Colorado's tallest mountains at Coloradosun.com   Thanks for listening. Finally, here are a few stories you should know about today:   New economic data has economists concluding that Colorado is now in full recovery. New business filings were up in the first half of the year. Colorado's labor force participation is third-highest in the nation and our gross domestic product growth was the fifth fastest, according to the state's quarterly economic update. Not all the news was rosy. Weekly wages are up about 4.7% and that suggests a labor shortage. The 6.2% unemployment rate, which is higher than the 5.4% for the nation as a whole, also is troubling. Economists also are worried about the high cost of housing. A minimum-wage worker now must work 72 hours a week to afford a fair market one-bedroom apartment in Colorado.   Smoke from wildfires in northern California made the air quality in Denver the worst among large cities in the world on Saturday, according to IQAir, which tracks air pollution in real time. The National Weather Service in Boulder says fire smoke will persist at least until Monday afternoon at levels that could be dangerous for people with respiratory problems or who are sensitive to smoke.   Passengers on a Greyhound bus had to be rescued from 23 miles up a forest service road on Friday night. The Garfield County Sheriff's office says the bus attempted to get around the closure of I-70 in Glenwood Canyon closure by driving up Coffee Pot Springs Road, a dirt road typically used by 4-wheel drives and A-T-Vs to reach wilderness areas in the White River National Forest. The bus was stopped when a hole was ripped in its oil pan. The 21 passengers spent about five hours stranded. For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. Now, a quick message from our editor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Wild Animal Sanctuary rescues large carnivores from captivity. Then, how to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower at its peak. And, a first-person account of a mudslide that hit Glenwood Canyon last week. Plus, the search for graves at an Indian School near Grand Junction. Finally, a musical exchange between two of Colorado best-known acts.

The Wild Animal Sanctuary rescues large carnivores from captivity. Then, how to watch the Perseid Meteor Shower at its peak. And, a first-person account of a mudslide that hit Glenwood Canyon last week. Plus, the search for graves at an Indian School near Grand Junction. Finally, a musical exchange between two of Colorado best-known acts.

In today's episode we talk about how Colorado transportation officials are reminding truckers to use approved detour routes during the extended closure of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon. Follow us on social media! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ele_logistics/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ELELogisticsInc/

The closing of I-70 in Glenwood Canyon after mud and debris flows affects businesses that rely on the corridor for shipping. Then, meet the US' first female Olympic gold medalist in Taekwondo. Later, working to stop water from leaking out of irrigation canals. And a new plant species discovered in Rocky Mountain National Park.

The closing of I-70 in Glenwood Canyon after mud and debris flows affects businesses that rely on the corridor for shipping. Then, meet the US' first female Olympic gold medalist in Taekwondo. Later, working to stop water from leaking out of irrigation canals. And a new plant species discovered in Rocky Mountain National Park.

CDOT's chief engineer, Steve Harelson, joins us to talk about what it will take to reopen I-70 in Glenwood Canyon and to make the highway safe from mud and debris flow. Then, licensed psychologist Rick Ginsberg on dealing with the anxiety of trying to return to normal at this stage in the pandemic. Plus, a bike opera! And, working to preserve Camp Amache.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Tuesday August 3rd.   Today - State lawmakers have finally passed laws to provide Colorado parents at least 10 hours a week of free preschool for every child. But to do all this, the state needs to start an entirely new department. So how does that work?   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we're taking you back to August 3rd, 1964 when Drivers on the Denver-Boulder Turnpike learned sad news. Shep - a sixteen year old shepherd mix dog was dead. Shep had been a fixture at the toll booths on the road for as long as it had existed. From the beginning he served as the turnpike's mascot, even appearing at its dedication ceremony.   Now, our feature story.   Colorado parents have struggled for a long time to pay for day care for their young children. And even if they could afford it, it's been extremely hard for them to find a reliable provider. State lawmakers who had worked on solutions for years finally broke through in 2021 and passed laws fulfilling voter wishes for at least 10 hours a week of free preschool for every child. That kind of systemic change can boost both a child's chances at starting school on an equal footing, and parents' chances of going to work knowing their kids are in good hands. To do all this, you need to start an entire new department of the government. The Colorado Sun's Erica Breunlin is here to talk about how a state government starts something from scratch, and tries to make some sense out of a complicated system.    To read our report on the new Department of Early Childhood, and the promise for universal preschool, go to ColoradoSun.com.    And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   Residents of 15 mobile homes in a park along the Yampa River in Steamboat Springs have been forced to live without any electricity for more than six weeks since a fire broke out near one home's electric meter. Residents are bewildered by the complexity of getting the lights turned back on, which includes the owner of the Sleepy Bear park rebuilding the electric system for all 54 homes there. Once the power gets to the meter, the mobile home residents are responsible for making sure the wiring inside is safe, and that's left them suffering through a long, hot and dark summer.    It may be a few weeks before a single lane of Interstate 70 in each direction opens in Glenwood Canyon, Governor Polis said Monday afternoon. Monsoons that dropped twice as much rain in five days as usually falls in all of July have sent mud and boulders pouring down on the highway, sometimes from thousands of feet above. The state is declaring a disaster and asking for federal help to fix damage to the highway and the Colorado River below.   Mandates to get the coronavirus vaccine or stay home are piling up thick and fast across Colorado. State and local health officials are trying to avoid the spikes in COVID-19 cases plaguing other parts of the United States in a new surge. Denver made a forceful move Monday by requiring the vaccine not just for city workers, but for all high-contact public and private employees inside the city boundary, including school employees, hospital employees and nursing home workers. Soon after the city mandate was issued, Kaiser Permanente in Colorado said it is requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 if they want to keep their jobs.    For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CDOT's chief engineer, Steve Harelson, joins us to talk about what it will take to reopen I-70 in Glenwood Canyon and to make the highway safe from mud and debris flow. Then, licensed psychologist Rick Ginsberg on dealing with the anxiety of trying to return to normal at this stage in the pandemic. Plus, a bike opera! And, working to preserve Camp Amache.

Updates on the Glenwood Canyon damage and the effect it's having on transportation along I-70. More on the CDC and new mandates in Colorado for state employees. Steffan takes calls.  Our film of the week: In the Heat of the Night (1967) Be sure to watch with us! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Gov. Richard "Dick" Lamm, who died last week, spent his 60-year career on issues still in the spotlight. We share excerpts from his past Colorado Matters interviews and a friend's memories. Then, the perilous situation in Glenwood Canyon shows what communities grapple with for years after wildfire.

Former Gov. Richard "Dick" Lamm, who died last week, spent his 60-year career on issues still in the spotlight. We share excerpts from his past Colorado Matters interviews and a friend's memories. Then, the perilous situation in Glenwood Canyon shows what communities grapple with for years after wildfire.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Wednesday July 14th.   Today - Many resort communities across Colorado are short on housing, employees and hospitality. But locals are in a tough spot, since they depend on tourism. As a solution, some towns are considering spending money on the housing crisis instead of marketing.   But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we take you back to July 14th, 1938 when President Franklin D Roosevelt signed an executive order expanding the Dinosaur National Monument across the boundary in Utah into Colorado. Back in 1869 John W Powell noted that fossils remained in the area.    Now, our feature story.   As people have flooded mountain towns during the pandemic, many resort communities are feeling overcrowded -- short on housing, employees and hospitality. Locals now are in a tough spot, understanding that they depend on tourism, but knowing that they may also be at capacity. Some towns are thinking about diverting money they usually spend marketing their towns as destinations toward solutions to the housing crisis. As outdoor reporter Jason Blevins tells Erica Breunlin, tourism is quickly evolving in Colorado's mountain communities as they struggle to both preserve their own culture and share the beauty of the high country with outsiders.   To read more about how Colorado's resort towns are pursuing more sustainable tourism, visit coloradosun.com.   And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   An Idaho Springs police officer has been charged with third-degree assault for using a Taser on a 75-year-old man without warning less than a minute after he answered his door while holding a serrated sword, but after he had put down the weapon. The arrest warrant for Officer Nicholas Hanning says he was responding to a report that Michael Clark had punched his roommate in the face. A judge on Tuesday ordered the affidavit unsealed and also ordered that body camera footage in the case must be released to the public by July 29 under a new state law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on July 6.   Hundreds of aircraft are used to fight wildfires each year. But airport officials facing jet fuel shortages are concerned they'll have to wave off planes and helicopters that drop fire retardants during what could be a ferocious wildfire season. Overall, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said jet fuel inventories in the U.S. are at or above the five-year average, except in the Rocky Mountains, where they are 1% below. Most larger airports, such as those in Denver, Seattle and Boise, are supplied by pipeline. But jet fuel is delivered by truck to many smaller, outlying airports, such as the one in Aspen, and to many of the airports with tanker bases, some of them hundreds of miles away from jet fuel refineries or pipelines.   The threat of flash floods shut Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon again Tuesday afternoon for the third time in less than a month. But ecologists working in parts of the Grizzly Creek burn zone high above the canyon have been racing since last winter to get seeds planted in every path of scorched earth that could slump to the highway below. The work is designed to stabilize soil and restore damage in areas of the 32,000-acre burn scar that can still grow plants. One ecologist said she's seen encouraging signs of natural vegetation coming back -- including significant growth of snowberry, chokecherry and fireweed.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow for a special holiday episode. Now, a quick message from our editor.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Tuesday July 6th   Today - Because of Colorado's drought, the Ute Water Conservancy District is going to mix Colorado River water into water from its reservoirs on Grand Mesa… for the first time ever.    But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we're taking you back to July 6th, 1994 when A small forest fire smoldering west of Glenwood Springs in Garfield County erupted. The fire surrounded and killed fourteen firefighters on Storm King Mountain. Dry conditions had made 1994 one of the worst fire seasons on record at the time. In fact, in just three weeks, 8 blazes scorched more than 8,000 acres across the state.   Now, our feature story.   Colorado's severe drought is forcing Mesa County to tap into a different source for their drinking water. For the first time, Ute Water Conservancy District is going to mix Colorado River water into water from its reservoirs on Grand Mesa.    It's a move water managers are forced to do in order to meet the peak demand of its 90,000 customers in Grand Junction and across the county, The Sun's Michael Booth reports. It will also help preserve water that is quickly evaporating in the summer heat.   Reporter Olivia Prentzel chats with Booth on what these changes mean for Mesa County residents.   To read Booth's story, go to coloradosun.com.   And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon was closed again this weekend due to debris flowing from the Grizzly Creek wildfire burn scar. Five mudslides came down in a 2-mile stretch of the canyon Saturday afternoon trapping a few dozen motorists for hours, the state transportation department said. When the highway finally reopened Sunday afternoon, speed limits were dropped to 40 miles per hour to keep dust down on the highway.   Colorado may have hit the 70 percent COVID vaccination rate goal set by President Biden -- but only technically. While more than 70 percent of adults in the state have received at least one dose of the vaccine, only 12 out of 64 counties met the July 4th goal. The dozen includes Denver and Jefferson counties, each of which account for more than 10 percent of the state's total population, and other high-population counties are near the goal. Other places that reported vaccination rates of 70 percent or higher include the tourism-dependent Summit, Gunnison, Pitkin and Eagle counties, the state's COVID vaccination dashboard shows.   The Douglas County Commissioners, who decided to break from the Tri-County Health Department because of disagreements over pandemic-related business restrictions, are moving forward with plans to create a stand-alone health department. The work begins with a community health assessment required by the state. The assessment is intended to help the commissioners understand the county's public health needs before they officially decide to leave Tri-County, which serves about 1.5 million people in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two mudslides in Glenwood Canyon shut down I70 over the weekend and put Glenwood Springs residents on water restrictions. KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh has more.

Good Morning, Colorado, you're listening to the Daily Sun-Up with the Colorado Sun. It's Tuesday June 29th.    Today -  For the first time ever, state wildlife officials are asking anglers not to fish the Dolores River. Why? To protect trout struggling in the 75-degree waters.    But before we begin, let's go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett's book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we're taking you back to June 29th, 1975 when The Colorado Springs Gazette reported the imminent closing of the Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was a popular downtown nightclub that had challenged racial attitudes and divisions for more than a quarter century. It was the result of years of work by Fannie Mae Duncan. Duncan's nightclub did not discriminate by race, in fact she had a large sign in the window that read “Everybody Welcome”.   Now, our feature story.   State wildlife officials are asking anglers not to fish the fasty-emptying Dolores River in southwest Colorado, for the first time ever, in order to protect trout struggling in 75-degree waters. They're looking at similar closures on the Animas and San Juan Rivers, too. Brief, but intense rainfall over the weekend are not nearly close enough to bring Colorado's Western Slope out of a 20-year drought that has drained rivers and dried up pastures.    Conservation groups told Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth that they're also worried about low river levels in more visible, popular branches of waterways that attract many anglers and recreators later in the summer, including the Colorado River.   Booth tells reporter Olivia Prentzel more about the voluntary restrictions and what this recent rainfall means for the state's drought conditions.   To read Booth's story, go to coloradosun.com.   And Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:   The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case involving a Denver medical marijuana dispensary that wanted the same federal tax breaks other businesses get. But conservative justice Clarence Thomas didn't let it go without commenting on the government's incoherent regulation of cannabis, writing that a 2005 Supreme Court ruling that kept marijuana possession illegal may now be out of date. "Federal policies of the past 16 years have greatly undermined its reasoning," he wrote. "The federal government's current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana.”   A second mudslide from the Grizzly Creek burn scar closed Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon Sunday afternoon. And though the Colorado Department of Transportation was able to haul away the debris and expected to fully reopen the highway, more storms are forecast for the corridor this week. One transportation official said the rain is a double-edged sword. “We need the moisture,” he said. “We don't need it concentrated in Glenwood Canyon.”   A federal court judge declined to force U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert to unblock a former state lawmaker from seeing posts to her personal Twitter account. Bri Buentello, who lives in Boebert's district, claimed her First Amendment rights were violated when she was blocked. Her lawyers argued that because Boebert uses her personal account for public business, she must make it visible to all her constituents. But the judge disagreed, saying the account was personal before Boebert was elected and it will remain personal if she leaves office. Other Colorado politicians have had to pay hefty penalties for blocking constituents from their Facebook pages.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com. And don't forget to tune in again tomorrow.   The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you'll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don't forget to tune in again tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mudslides closed I-70 in Glenwood Canyon, and they may be a sign of things to come. Then, can training prepare officers to determine quickly if someone armed with a gun is a friend or a foe? Plus, we answer more Colorado Wonders questions about pollinators, from plants to pesticides. And the love story of a Denver philosopher whose wife died of cancer.

Mudslides closed I-70 in Glenwood Canyon, and they may be a sign of things to come. Then, can training prepare officers to determine quickly if someone armed with a gun is a friend or a foe? Plus, we answer more Colorado Wonders questions about pollinators, from plants to pesticides. And the love story of a Denver philosopher whose wife died of cancer.

It's world premier day with a brand new track from Thomas Rhett! We will be playing, "Country Again," all day in case you missed it. Denver makes yet another list! This time it's one of the best cities to work. You might see a few helicopters out there this week. They will be replacing some power poles along I-70 at Glenwood Canyon. It should be pretty cool to watch, but traffic might not be so great. 'Be Happy Boutique' will be holding an event in honor of a girl named Riley who unfortunately passed away at the age of 12. They will be discounting and donating prom dresses for anyone who wants to look their best for the big night! All the details in today's #TrendingInDenver with Tracy Dixon! #KygoMorningShow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

S2:E2 - Inspired by a postcard written in 1972 by my paternal grandparents to my maternal grandparents, I had to ponder the different types of friendships in our world today. Their postcard of Glenwood Canyon also inspired my 16"X20" pastel painting. View all of my paintings or listen to different FHAM podcasts at this link: https://linktr.ee/fham --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fham/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fham/support

Good Morning, Colorado, and welcome to the Daily Sun-Up. It’s Tuesday December 1st, and we’re feeling lucky to start the day with you. Join us daily for an in-depth look at one of our top stories. Today, we’re discussing Glenwood Springs, and how they’re spending more than $10 million on repairs and upgrades to water supply infrastructure following the Grizzly Creek Fire.   We’ve also released another bonus episode today, featuring insight from one of our readers on what they’ve learned while living through a global pandemic in Colorado.    Before we begin, let’s take a look at what happened on this day in Colorado history - adapted from Derek R Everett’s book “Colorado Day by Day”:   Today, we take you back to December 1st, 1894. The day Francis B Lowry was born in Denver. Lowry joined the US Army during World War One. He served as a photographer and observer of artillery positions from aircrafts, an innovative technology on the field of battle. During his 33rd mission German guns shot down his plane and he died in the crash.    Now, our feature story.    The Grizzly Creek Fire was not even 10% contained. Jumbo jets still were dousing flames as firefighting teams from across the country scrambled to protect Glenwood Springs and a critical watershed above the Colorado River. And teams of scientists were in Glenwood Canyon, too, battling alongside firefighters.    Those hydrologists, biologists, geologists, archaeologists and recreation specialists are still there, even after the flames are gone, waging a behind-the-scenes battle to protect water and natural resources.   Colorado Sun reporter Jason Blevins is joining us today to talk more about the aftermath of the fire, and what’s in store in terms of recovery.    Jason, thanks so much for the time! So, the Grizzly Creek fire was still raging in Glenwood Canyon when a team of scientists descended on the burn zone to began assessing damage and making a recovery plan, can you start by talking about what they found? And, the city of Glenwood Springs has water intake infrastructure in Glenwood Canyon, can you tell us what was specifically damaged?  And what are they spending money on? Thanks so much for the insight, Jason. It didn’t take long for Glenwood Springs to identify immediate repairs and upgrades to protect water systems from expected sediment and debris flowing from scorched canyon walls.    By early September, less than a month after the Grizzly Creek Fire started, the city had a list of $86 million in projects. And the money started flowing almost immediately.    Thanks for listening. Before we go here are a few stories you should know about today:   On the first day of a special legislative session, Colorado lawmakers are potentially exposed to coronavirus. A Republican staffer in the Colorado House was on the chamber’s floor Monday morning despite testing positive for COVID-19 last week according to Democrats. - As unemployment claims in Colorado tick back up again, the site where out-of-work Coloradans go to request benefits was down on Monday morning possibly due to expired domain. - State officials have agreed to consider new county-by-county variances to red-level shutdown restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19, but they warned rising case loads mean they will cast a skeptical eye on anyone hoping to replicate Mesa County’s “5-star” exemption program. - New Colorado state guidance could mean fewer teachers have to quarantine at home after a positive case of COVID-19 at their school, allowing more classrooms to stay open.   For more information on all of these stories, visit our website, www.coloradosun.com.    The Colorado Sun is non-partisan and completely independent. We're always dedicated to telling the in-depth stories we need today more than ever. And The Sun is supported by readers and listeners like you.   Right now, you can head to ColoradoSun.com and become a member. Starting at $5 per month for a basic membership and if you bump it up to $20 per month, you’ll get access to our exclusive politics and outdoors newsletters. Thanks for starting your morning with us and don’t forget to tune in again tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ballots are being mailed to all registered voters in Grand County today, October 13th. And there’s a lot for voters to consider, including three questions related to our county’s form of government. The questions essentially ask: Do you want a new form of county government? Do you want things to stay the same? Or, do you want to amend what we have? Today on the news, de-fogging FOG (form of government). And later, we continue an in-depth look at the intersection of wildfire and watersheds in the West. Show Notes: Photo: Firefighters watch a controlled burn within the Grizzly Creek Fire in Colorado. The fire has burned more than 30,000 acres near Glenwood Canyon. Now, the charred hillsides pose a flood risk for nearby areas. (Alex Hager // Aspen Public Radio) Form of Government Vote Outcomes (Props 10, 16, 17) https://www.grandcountyutah.net/DocumentCenter/View/10061/FOG-Flyer---Propositions-Vote-Outcomes?bidId= KZMU Election 2020 Resources https://www.kzmu.org/election-2020-grand-county-information/ Aspen Public Radio: Homeowners Who Avoid Wildfire Damage Can Find Themselves In New Flood Zone https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/post/homeowners-who-avoid-wildfire-damage-can-find-themselves-new-flood-zone-0

Even people with mild COVID-19 can face symptoms for months. Then, the Grizzly Creek fire left Glenwood Canyon and the interstate that goes through it more vulnerable to landslides and flash floods. Also, “smoke taint” -- the taste that lingers when wildfire smoke cloaks vineyards. And, a Boulder director on his Netflix film, “The Social Dilemma.”

Today on the news, stories from across the region. First, the southwest’s biggest reservoirs will continue to struggle over the next five years, according to new data from the federal agency that oversees them. And, the Grizzly Creek Fire burned over 32,000 acres of lands through Glenwood Canyon. So, how do wildlife handle these wildfires? Plus, High Country News – the nonprofit newsmagazine headquartered in Paonia – celebrates 50 years this month. Our radio partners speak to their executive director about covering the West’s complex environmental and natural resources issues. Show Notes: Photo: Bighorn sheep at Grizzly Creek Exist off 1-70 in the Glenwood Canyon in September/KDNK KDNK: Forest Ecologist Talks Wildlife and Wildfire https://www.kdnk.org/post/forest-ecologist-talks-wildlife-and-wildfire High Country News Celebrating 50 Years in Print https://www.kvnf.org/post/high-country-news-celebrating-50-years-print

Even people with mild COVID-19 can face symptoms for months. Then, the Grizzly Creek fire left Glenwood Canyon and the interstate that goes through it more vulnerable to landslides and flash floods. Also, “smoke taint” -- the taste that lingers when wildfire smoke cloaks vineyards.

The Grizzly Creek Fire has burned over 32,400 acres and is 91% contained but not before two Type 1 Incident Management Teams from the Great Basin and Alaska, swooped in to bring the blaze under control. Roads are beginning to open up but the Glenwood Canyon is still too dangerous to ride a bike or walk through or hang out at the rest areas. This week's show features a clip from the final, live Facebook update, held almost every other night for a month, by the leading team. The show also features two stories by the KDNK News Team from inside the fire perimeter.

I70 through the Glenwood Canyon is open to 2-way traffic but rest areas and the bike path remain closed. At a community meeting Thursday night, Don Poole, of the Colorado Department of Transportation, explained why. You can view Thursday's meeting and much more about the Grizzly Creek Fire by clicking here .

As wildfires continue to burn across the West, Southeastern Utah has felt impacts, especially when it comes to air quality. But beyond the smoky air and searching through pictures, it’s difficult to get a real sense of neighboring wildfires. What do they feel like? Sound like? Have they affected that favorite hiking trail? Today on the news, our partners at KDNK answer some of these questions reporting from Grizzly Creek Fire, currently burning in Glenwood Canyon. And later, Moab resident Carey Dabney produced an exhaustive study for the League of Women Voters on the transfer of public lands movement in Utah. It documents the modern movement from its roots in the Sagebrush Rebellion to current legislation today. Show Notes: KDNK – No Name Survives Grizzly Creek Fire: News from Glenwood Canyon https://www.kdnk.org/post/no-name-survives-grizzly-creek-fire-news-glenwood-canyon Air Now Fire and Smoke Map https://fire.airnow.gov/# InciWeb: Grizzly Creek Fire https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6942/ Transfer of Public Lands Movement Study (2020) https://www.lwvutah.org/studies/transfer-of-public-lands-movement-study-2020

The Grizzly Creek Fire has scorched close to 30,000 acres and, as of Sunday afternoon, is 30% contained. Interstate 70 through the Glenwood Canyon has been closed for over a week due to the fire. No Name homes have stood empty and locals have been worried about Hanging Lake. Earlier this week, KDNK reporter Kathleen Shannon and News Director Amy Hadden Marsh got a tour of the western end of the Canyon, including a glimpse of the Hanging Lake trailhead. Here's their report.

Photo courtesy: Town of Rangely Thanks for listening to Rio Blanco County news. Here are highlights from the August 20 edition of the Herald Times. This week Herald Times staff visited White River Electric Association and hopped into a very shiny, quiet, and speedy new Tesla Model 3 for a test drive that at times felt more like a theme park ride. The vehicle is one of two EVs on loan to WREA from Tri-State Generation and Transmission, as part of their “Beneficial Electrification” program. Check out our Facebook page or Youtube channel to see a special video of the car and some parts of the drive, and read more about Tri-State’s promotion on the front page. Also on the front page this week we hear from Spencer Gates of Meeker, who’s on his way to state fair after taking home the title of Grand Champ. He won for market, breeding and showmanship with his Boer goat, Al. Gates shares lessons learned, plans for the future, the benefits of brotherly competition and more in this week’s edition. Meeker Resident Bob Tobin noticed smoke Friday afternoon as he pulled into his driveway near the top of Seventh Street, and sure enough a fire had broken out near two large water towers in the area, Tobin was the first on the scene and reported the fire. Within an hour Meeker and BLM firefighters had the blaze under control. The Pine Gulch fire near Grand Junction is reported at over 125 thousand acres after growing 30,000 acres overnight on Tuesday August 18th. It is now the second largest fire in Colorado history. The Grizzly Creek fire burning in Glenwood Canyon was reported just over 28,000 acres as of press time. I-70 remains closed, marking the longest closure of the stretch of highway in recent history. Photos of the 7th Street Water Tower Fire, Pine Gulch and Grizzly Creek fires are on pages 2A and 3A. With the addition of one new COVID-19 case in Rangely on August 17, Rio Blanco County’s total case count rose to 21. As of press time Wednesday, the county’s public health department reports 20 of those cases are recovered. No hospitalizations have been recorded. You can check the latest stats at rbc.us/592/coronavirus-update. Meeker School district won’t be offering transportation service inside Meeker city limits for the 2020-2021 school year, in an effort to achieve appropriate physical distancing. Former meeker attorney Joe Fennessy has a new role in our local courtroom, that of county judge. He replaces Laurie Noble, who retired in July after 28 years in Rio Blanco County Courts.The Herald Times sent a list of questions to Fennessy about his new appointment and he responded via email. Read his answers on page 2A Fifth street bridge and all of Circle Park are closed to public access for construction of park infrastructure and amenity improvement projects. The park is expected to reopen next year. Project updates are at erbmrec.com Rio Blanco County residents will be voting on term limits for most county officials in a few months. Commissioners elected to add all offices except surveyor to the ballot. That story on page 7A. The 20th anniversary edition of the Northwest Colorado Hunting Guide is in production and hits shelves on September 3rd. Local stories and more this year, don’t miss it. Your quote of the week: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Mark Twain There’s our highlights for this week. Find more in print and online at ht1885.com. Thank you for supporting community journalism.

Considering 2020 has been a wild one, it's only appropriate that there is a fire that is raining ash down on Eagle County and those surrounding it. Alex's guest today is Todd Lieb, a colleague of Alex's that worked as a heavy equipment operator right out of college. Todd spent the last 3 years working as an English teacher in Colombia, teaching as a second language as well as literature and advanced writing. Unfortunately, Todd was forced to come home because of COVID and now has to deal with the ongoing Grizzly Creek Fire!   In this episode, Alex and Todd talk about… Diving into Todd's education and time as a teacher in South America Operating heavy equipment for the town of Vail The Grizzly Creek Fire is destructive and moving fast Travel time has been changed because of the fire Alex actually works, he swears by it Tackling suicide prevention through Rescue Run Todd is an attractive and available bachelor for all fans Rough jokes with Todd and Alex; they're here all weeks folks Old technology that is still in use to this day   Links to resources: A Drive Through Glenwood Canyon in Colorado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLNUKV2QInI   Rock Slide Closes Part of I-70 in Glenwood Canyon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZAIiNLKc0    Grizzly Creek Fire Grows To 25,600+ Acres In Glenwood Canyon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etq5GklMzW0    First Minutes of the Grizzly Creek Fire 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyqemDQDXSk    Air Drops on Grizzly Creek Fire 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHIZtRrZktc    Start of Grizzly Creek Fire Captured by Rafters 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpgsrKcKd-I    Post Independent: Grizzly Creek at 25,000 acres, Pine Gulch More Than 85,000 acres https://www.postindependent.com/news/monday-morning-fires-update-grizzly-creek-at-25000-acres-pine-gulch-more-than-85000-acres/   South Canyon Fire 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzGTjfTHihU   Fire on the Mountain – John Maclean 2009  (South Canyon Fire West of Glenwood Springs, Colorado) https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Mountain-Story-South-Canyon/dp/0061829617    National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255 Or Text “HOME” to 741741 to connect with a caring crisis or peer counselor   Travis Brown & Team www.PodcastBuddy.co www.TheBuildersJourney.com   Alex's email: Alex@PlumbKendall.com   The Builders Journey Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebuildersjourney/   Check out The Builders Journey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebuildersjourney/?hl=en   For more information about finding the right remodeler, check out http://remodelvail.com 

The Grizzly Creek Fire blew up Monday afternoon in the Glenwood Canyon and quickly spread to 1300 acres in steep, rough terrain. KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh spoke with White River National Forest Public Information Officer David Boyd to get an early report.

The Shannann Watts and Kelsey Berreth cases captivated many outside Colorado, but there are many other domestic violence cases in the state. Then, a Colorado Springs nun travels to the border to volunteer with migrants. Next, John Hickenlooper rubs elbows in Iowa. Also, finding a long-lost Glenwood Canyon monument. Finally, "The Wizard of Oz" is a ballet.

Colorado poet Jovan Mays penned a poem to Glenwood Canyon as part of the Wild I-70 audio tour.

In this Travel Tuesdays episode, join us as we explore Colorado Springs, hike on awe-inspiring Pike’s Peak, walk through the mysterious Anasazi Indian cliff homes at the Manitou Cliff Dwellings, marvel at rock formations at Garden of the Gods, drive through Vail and the steep and stunning Glenwood Canyon and finally end up in Grand The post RFWH42: Travel Tuesdays, Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak, Anasazi Cliff Dwellings, Garden of the Gods, Glenwood Canyon and Grand Junction, Colorado appeared first on Real Food Whole Health.

Welcome to Valley Roundup, a review of the top news stories in the valley in the past week. RFTA bus drivers voted to unionize this week. It looks like better wages are on the horizon. What can be done, if anything, about the valley’s dwindling workforce, low wages and high cost of living? Meanwhile, over-use of the national forest is once again at the forefront of conversation. Expect to see more rangers patroling the Hanging Lake trail in Glenwood Canyon. President Obama has recommended that police officers around the country wear body cameras. Is that necessary here? And elected officials on the lower end of the valley are wondering whether they should continue to protect the Rio Grande trail for a future rail line. Joining this week are Curtis Wackerle, Managing Editor of the Aspen Daily News, Randy Essex, Editor of the Glenwood Post Independent and Brent Gardner-Smith, executive director of Aspen Journalism and Michael Miracle, editor of Aspen Sojourner magazine. Learn more about Valley Roundup and Aspen Public Radio: www.aspenpublicradio.org/programs/valley-roundup

Pulling Into the Rest Stop…To Stay? So what would you think of a traveler who had to drive from California to New York to be with his extended family in a wonderful and joyful family reunion, but somewhere in Colorado, came across a rest stop with the most spectacular vista that he'd ever seen in his life, and this traveler, liked the rest stop so much, he decided to move in there? And they had a very nice washroom vending machines with all of his favorite snacks, and soft drinks and, a lot of friendly people that came and spent 10 minutes or so, and then went on their way. He slept in his car, he greeted those new friends and just kind of settled in there. What would you think if this former traveler's family called him on the cellphone the day he was to have arrived and asked "Where are you?" and he told them, "I found the most beautiful place to live, and I've decided to settle here." "What? We're all waiting for you, where are you?" And this former traveler answered "I'm living now at a spectacular rest stop in Colorado, in the Glenwood Canyon, actually, in Interstate 70." "A rest stop?" They answer. "Are you crazy? We were expecting you sometime this afternoon." "I know, I know," he answers, "but you really should see the view here. It's so restful." Do you think there would be anything that that strange seller could do to persuade his family that he hadn't lost his mind? Settling down at a rest stop, even one as beautiful as Glenwood Canyon Interstate 70 in Colorado. Or consider a different case. What about a man who, during World War II escaped from a Nazi prisoner of war camp in Central Germany with three fellow POWs, and they're making their way across Germany, they travel all night, they're exhausted beyond all reckoning, they're traveling through the mountains of Bavaria, they're seeking across eventually into Switzerland, they're hiding, frantic during the day, hiding in caves, under bushes, terrified as they hear the sounds of German soldiers down the valley, searching for them. After three days of this kind of travel, this arduous journey, they find a small abandoned ski chalet, and they break in, they're thrilled to find some canned vegetables there and they break them open and eat them cold, first food they've had in three days. Then they take turns, through that night, keeping watch, while each of the others get a few hours of fitful sleep. But when the time comes to push on, one of them says, "I don't think I'm going anywhere, I'm going to stay right here. I like it here, I'm going to stay." And his buddies are dumbfounded, and they say, "Stay? Are you kidding? The German patrols could be here in minutes. You're not going to last a day here, they'll catch you for sure." "No, no, no, I'll be okay. Besides, I like it here, and I'm tired of the journey." We Have Not Arrived Yet Friends, God in his wisdom, has set each one of us on a journey home to an incredibly joyful family reunion. The journey is a long and challenging one. Final resting place in the family reunion with brothers and sisters from every tribe and language and people and nation, is going to be incredibly, infinitely joyful. Along the way, God in his wisdom gives us certain providential rest stops. He restores our soul, he makes us lie down in green pastures, leads us beside quiet waters, he restores our soul, so that we can follow him in passive righteousness for his name's sake, through the valley of the shadow of death, but renews us. Like rest stops on an interstate, he does not intend for any of the travelers to settle down there in their hearts and minds, but rather that they should think of themselves, as aliens and strangers who are simply passing through. And again, dear friends, God in his love has rescued us from Satan's dark kingdom and is in the process of transferring us or bring us over into the kingdom of his beloved Son. In one sense, he's already done that. If you've come to faith in Christ, you're justified, you have already crossed over from death to life, but we still pray Your kingdom come. In a very real sense, we still have miles to travel across occupied territory, enemy territory, we're in danger here, miles and miles to go, and our journey is far from over. And like that ski chalet, he gives us way stations of rest along the way, so that we can continue to make our journey across this occupied territory until at last, we come to a safe haven, safe resting place. We are therefore to consider ourselves just passing through aliens and strangers in this dangerous world. But sadly, I think, too many Christians, too many of us settle down here in some sense, in our minds. We think of the earthly blessings that we enjoy here, and that refresh us, are meant to last forever. They include the blessings of beloved family members, of Christian friends, godly pastors and disciplers and prayer partners and others that help us along the way, the blessings of good health, the blessings of possessions, of homes, of vehicles, of clothing, of hobbies, of food and drink, of a certain style of living that we're accustomed to. None of these things is meant to last forever. They're just way stations of rest along the way. But how sad it is when it happens that one of those or some of those blessings, get taken from a Christian and they lament as though somehow God doesn't love them anymore. I fear that many Christians yearn for a rest here and now that God is not willing to give us. Hebrews 4:9 speaks of a rest that is yet to come, friends. "There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God." God lavishes restful blessings on us to renew us for our journey, and we are tempted to settle in and live there and stop journeying. Remember in this church, we talk again and again about those two infinite journeys, the internal journey of sanctification, of growing in grace and the knowledge of Christ, becoming more and more like Jesus, it's an arduous difficult journey. God gives you way stations along the way, but we're still to be journey, or that external journey of evangelism and missions of world-wide kingdom building, it's an arduous journey. God gives us way stations of rest along the way, but we have to travel those miles as a church. Now, as I told you last week, I didn't fully understand this passage like I needed to, I was preaching more the earthly way stations, than I was the final heavenly rest. And I think the earthly way stations are needed. The Sabbath itself was such, a cyclical kind of resting time to rest and to be renewed. The Saints Everlasting Rest But I hadn't really understood how much of this passage is really pointing ahead, until that is, I read this book by Richard Baxter. Now, don't get me wrong, friends, I didn't read the whole thing, I just wanted to show it to you, look at that. And you can't see from here, but that's really fine print, small print. With single space, maybe even half space. I don't even think it's single space. 672 pages of meditation on one verse. Hebrews 4:9, "There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God." Now, this Pastor, Richard Baxter, may be the greatest pastor in terms of the whole pastoral ministry of the Puritan movement, a great and godly man, was dying in 1650, dying of an illness, and thought he was going to die, he actually didn't die of that illness, but thought he was and so he had recoursed to Heavenly meditations and he started to write them down and it became this book. And the central message that I got out of it, (I haven't read the whole thing, but I hope to at some point), but this Saint's everlasting rest, the central message is, "We have not yet entered God's rest." That's the message. I. We Have Not Yet Entered God’s Rest The burden of this passage in the book is "We're not there yet, we haven't entered the rest yet." Look at Verses 9-11, that Hong just read for us, but look again: "There remains then a Sabbath rest for the people of God," verse 10, "For anyone who enters God's rest, also rests from his own work, just as God did from his." Let us therefore, I'm going to change it a little bit, "let us therefore labor (preacher’s interpretation) to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience." The sabbath rest still remains for the people of God. KJV in Verse 11, gives us "Let us labor therefore." That's the clencher for me. The exhortation here is we need to work. What that means is we haven't entered the rest, we're still laboring, we haven't yet laid down our labors, as God has finished his. There is a race to be run and we must run it. We're going to get later in Hebrews 12:1, "Let us therefore run, throw off everything hinders in the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with perseverance, the race marked out for us." I guess one of my desires in this sermon is to mark out the course of what that race looks like for you, very clearly today. What is that race, that arduous race you have to run, what's it look like? So I have three goals, number one, to make clear the labors of the Christian life that will burden us from now until death, that will be no part of our heavenly experience. But they are definitely part of our earthly experience. Secondly, to warn and exhort FBC members, and visitors and guests, to run that laborious race for the rest of your lives. I want you to drop with happy exhaustion at the finish line. I don't want you to spare anything in your running of this race. And then thirdly, I want to strengthen you, throughout the message, with sweet meditations of our heavenly rest. What I'm going to do is take you through each of the labors and tell you how it's part of our earthly life but not part of our heavenly. And then I'm going to put in a brief kind of word for the way that Baxter did some heavenly meditation. II. How Must We Labor From Now Till Death? So, how then must we labor? What are the labors that will characterize our earthly life, but will be no part of our heavenly life? 1) Continue to Believe in Jesus Christ Well, first, we must labor to continue to believe in Jesus Christ. This is the work of God, said Jesus, that you believe in the one he has sent. This is very much the point of the whole book of Hebrews. Look back at the beginning of this chapter. Hebrews 4:1-2: "Therefore, since the promise of entering this rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it, for we also have had the Gospel preach to us", just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good because those who heard did not combine it with faith." And then again, in Hebrews 10:3939, it says "We are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed but of those who believe, and are saved.” So the labor in front of us is to keep believing the Gospel, to keep believing in Jesus Christ. What is the gospel? That God, the Holy One, sent his son, he was incarnate. Son of God, Son of man who lived a sinless life. He did miraculous signs and wonders to prove his deity. But above all, he came to lay down his life on the cross for sinners like you and me, and if you will just put your trust in Jesus, all of your sins will be forgiven, that is the Gospel, that message will do you good if you combine it with faith. And I'm pleading with you, I've already prayed for you if you're lost here today, but I'm pleading with you, believe in Jesus. The one who was died, who died, who was crucified, but who's raised also in the third day. We must labor, now, I know that faith is a gift of God, that God implants in the soul, but yet Jesus did say "This is the work of God that you believe in the one he has sent." And so there is a co-operative work of faith going on. We work out our salvation with fear and trembling, because God is working in us and faith is the center-piece of that. But not only do we work on our own souls, we've got brothers and sisters around us, who are in danger too, and so we need to labor that they continue to believe as well, we need to know and be known, we need to pray for them and care for them. And so look again at Verse 1 of this same passage, "Therefore since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear," I think is a better translation, "That none of you be found to have fallen short of it." You see that? We should be caring and in some sense, fearing that no one around us drops off here. And again, in verse 11, "Let us therefore labor to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience." I don't want anyone here to fall away, so I have a labor to do in your lives. I'm seeking to do it right now, frankly, but then throughout the week, through prayers, through exhortations, through word of counsel, anything I can do to labor on each other's faith that we keep believing in Jesus. Now, I believe that if you truly genuinely believe in Jesus now, you will till the day you die. But you still need to labor. However, in Heaven, all such labor will end. You will not need faith then, dear friends. You will see him with your own eyes, you will see him with your own eyes, and your heart will rejoice, and delight, and the day of faith and of hope will end. And you won't need to labor anymore in faith and in hope, but you will have the reward of your faith and the object of your hope at last, the consummation will be upon you. 2) Labor in Self-Denial and Taking Up Our Cross Secondly, you need to Labor in self-denial, in taking up your cross, daily. Again, Luke 9:23, Jesus says to us all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me." Now, here we come face-to-face with the flesh, with that indwelling sin nature, and how we must say no to the flesh, and say no to the fleshly drives and desires. The bent of your flesh is selfishness. To pander to yourself and comfort yourself, and make yourself at ease when you should be pressing on, and you have to deny yourself and take up your cross. It's a labor. And to fight self every day is exhausting, isn't it? But in Heaven, dear friends, our nature will be transformed. We will love everything that Jesus loves and hate what he hates, we will be conformed to him in every way, and there will be no denying of self anymore, but we will give full reign to self because self is going to give full rein to Jesus. And we will be in that consummated era, and we will embrace the savior at last, our daily battle with the flesh will be done forever. How sweet will that be? 3) Labor to be Holy and Against Sin Thirdly, we have to labor to be holy, and to fight sin. In Hebrews 12:14, it says, "Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy. Without holiness, no one will see the Lord." If you take out the middle words, they're important. And if I change it a little bit, change it to Labor, make every effort. I'm going to use word labor right now. Labor to be holy, without holiness, you're not going to see Jesus. So there is a holiness that comes through labor and if that isn't in your life, you're not going to Heaven. And so you must labor to be holy. Sanctification, then, is a bitter step, better fight every step of the way. It's a wrestling match with a serpent, and John Owen said it this way, he said, "When sin leaves us alone, then we may leave sin alone." Well, he's meaning in this world, it's not going to leave us alone, but you know, actually, it's not absolutely true. Someday, sin will leave us alone, amen, and we won't have to do anything with sin anymore, there'll be no more sin in Heaven. But that time has not yet come, temptation assaults you every day by day and by night. It seizes you with a brazen face and kisses you and promises you pleasures and feeds you death in the end. Every day, you have to fight temptation. You have to slay the temptations. You must labor to do it. And if you have sinned, if you've yielded to temptation, you have to labor on your heart even more. You have to labor in confession. In 1 John 1:9, it says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." You must lay your soul open before Jesus. Confess your sins honestly to him. So also, you must mourn for your sin, and that takes a certain laboring on the heart. It is a bitter and a painful work, but it is necessary. And none of us mourns for our own sin as deeply as we ought to. We think of it as a light, a minimal thing, we don't really deal with it much. "Oh Jesus I'm sorry of what I did, I did it again. Please forgive me, amen.". But James, chapter 4, says "Grieve, mourn and wail, change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom." That's labor. Labor is written all over that. Labor on your hearts to grieve, because the Holy Spirit was grieved when you sin. It's hard work. Oh, but how delightful it will be to lay aside all morning for sin. Doesn't it say, in Revelation, they'll be no more death, or mourning, or crying, or pain. We will not be morning over our sin in heaven, not at all. And you won't be striving and laboring to be holy, you will be holy as he is holy. You will be light as he is light, you'll be pure as he is pure, and temptation that's slithering coiling serpent will be dead at your feet forever. No need to labor on your heart to love God more, you will love him. You'll love him, with a perfect love. And you won't need to Labor on your heart to love brothers and sisters and Christ, you love them as well, in all bitterness and ranker and unforgiveness will be gone and you'll be in sweet fellowship with the body of Christ. You won't need to confess sin anymore, you've already been thoroughly searched on Judgment Day, and the time for that is over, you won't need to give Jesus any more accounts for what you did in the body, whether good or bad, the time for that will be done and he'll wipe every tear from your eyes, there'll be no more morning because the time for rejoicing will have come. 4) Labor Against Bitter Spiritual Enemies Fourthly, we need to labor against bitter enemies we are not making this journey to heaven unopposed, we have bitter enemies. It says in 1 Timothy 6:12, "Fight the good fight of faith, take hold of the eternal life to what you were called." The Christian life, therefore is a life of warfare, spiritual warfare, first and foremost, against Satan and his dark kingdom. Satan, he's a powerful angel with an intellect and an experience in spiritual matters. That Towers is far over you as a title wave does over a sea side Village. He's been at this for centuries, you've been at it for years, and he has arranged this wicked demonic kingdom around you with, I believe in some mysterious way, demons assigned to study. You would know your weaknesses, and feed you temptations that will be effective. And so it says in Ephesians 6, "Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." that is labor, so put on that full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes you may be able to stand your ground and after you've done everything to stand, that is exhausting labor isn't it? To fight the devil, to put on the spiritual armor, to get up again and go fight when he's studying you and coming at you, with those flaming arrows with those accusations, with those alluring temptations. We're tempted to give up grow weary and give up, and then we'll see who he really is. He is a ravening lion, a devouring lion seeking to devour your soul. That's when you see him when you give up, he'll come after you. He has no mercy. So you must fight him. The good news is, the Bible tells us, Resist the devil and he'll flee from you, God's sovereign power will make him do so, but you still have to fight. And then there's the world his brilliant dark wicked system that he's created around us with all of its kind of built in temptations and allurements, and it's pandering to our idolatrous nature the way it allures us, with power and pride and possessions, the way it just sings a siren song to us to entice us to ruin on the rocks of materialism and idolatry. How like in the parable The Seed and the Soils, it sends up a thorns, which choked the seed, making it un-fruitful. Worries of this life from the deceitful-ness of wealth and just the desires for other things. That's the world that's what it's all about, and friends, it's exhausting labor to fight the worldliness the encroaching worldliness that comes into your heart. It's already there. Do your friends, brothers and sisters, it's already there, and you need to weave the garden of your heart, you need to get out there with a whole... Or in there, I think really... And weed your heart from the worldliness. It's already crept in. It's hard work. And part of that world system are human beings, people who hate us, who hate what we stand for, who the more faithful you are in challenging Satan's world system the more aggressive and louder, they're going to be in yelling at you, cursing you, insulting you. It's part of what we face here. And we have to labor to not hate them, but to pray for them and love them and turn the other cheek and pray for those who despite fully use us and bless those who curse us and yearn that God would convert them. These are bitter enemies of our soul, and we faced them, every day, but someday we're going to step into God's Sabbath rest, we're going to step into God's Sabbath rest, how sweet it will be in Heaven when all of our enemies will be gone when Satan and his demons will be thrown into the lake of fire, that's what it was made for us, for the devil and his angels, along with all of his rebellious human fellow servants. Everyone who causes sin and all those who do evil, will be weeded out of his kingdom and thrown into the fiery furnace. And you will breathe a sweet clear air of peace and everywhere you look will be angels and redeemed people who are your friends and none of your enemies. There are no enemies left, you will be a peace at last free from all opposition. 5) Labor on Heart Attitudes We Need NOW... but WON’T NEED in Heaven Fifth, we need to labor on heart attitudes that we need now, but we will not need in heaven. There's certain heart attitudes that are necessary for this journey that we have, for example, longing and waiting patiently, longing and waiting patiently is a hard attitude for here but not for there. Hebrews 11 praises those who were yearning and longing for a city yet, to come, they died without receiving the things promised, they saw them and welcomed them from a distance, they confessed that they were aliens and strangers in this world that is an admirable state of heart now, and we need to labor to develop that long and yearning for an invisible kingdom wanting it yearning for it and waiting patiently. It's kind of, it's a development of almost a certain kind of home sickness, like in that song Beulah Land where there's this home sickness that comes on us, and we're just not there yet and how we wish we were. I long to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far says the Apostle Paul. Romans 8:23, testifies to this. "Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” Do you know what that groaning is like? If you've done any of it this week? Groaning, inwardly. It's a hard attitude that you need now but you don't need it in heaven. And how about this? Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, Do you hunger and thirst for righteousness? You're yearning to be pure, if you want your brothers and sisters to be done with their sins too "Are you hungry and thirsty for righteousness? So, you groaning inwardly, for that world of righteousness, that's promised to us hungering and thirsting is a reasonable heart attitude now, but you won't need it in heaven. There's no hunger in heaven. There's no thirsting in heaven, we will be satisfied. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be richly, deeply, fully fed, and satisfied. And what about watchfulness that's a heart attitude. Do you need watchfulness? Do you need to watch over your own heart do you have to guard your heart for out of it flow the well-springs of life, do you have to, if any man thinks he stands, take heed lest default, you have to do some of that. Taking heed now. Do you have to develop a watchful attitude over your own wandering, changeful drifting heart, you have to be vigilant over your own heart and that of your brothers and sisters. Friends we can never be perfectly at ease in this world at any front. Can you ever reach a certain place in a certain toilsome fight against a specific sin? Say, "At last I know that sin at least is dead. I will never lust in that way again or I will never gossip that God has dealt with me." I heard a good sermon on it, I had a prayer partner who prayed for a whole week for me, I saw some victories in that area tempted to gossip, I didn't do it. I'm done at last, and forever with gossip. Was that true? Friend you better take heed, you better be watchful, you better take heed if you think you stand lest you fall. You've got to be watchful. But you know what, you're not going to need watchfulness in heaven. You know, the odd thing about the new Jerusalem it's got these high powerful walls that no one could get in, but there's no enemies anymore, they're all deal with, they're all gone. We don't need any watchmen on the walls and you don't need any watchmen on the walls of your heart, in heaven, you will be free at last, no more watchfulness. And no more mourning, over other people sins either. We talked about morning of our own sins, we mourn over this world that we live in. Rivers of tears flow from my eyes and Psalm 119 verse 136. Because your law is defiled, every day. In the book of Ezekiel, these shining ones, these angelic messengers were given a task to go through the City of Jerusalem and mark each Saint there who mourned and lamented over the sins of the city. Those are the ones who weren't slaughtered so therefore the Christians are the ones who live in this world, and like righteous lot are tormented in our righteous souls by the lawless deeds we see in here. There is a mourning over the sinfulness of this world, but we won't need that in heaven. Neither will you have to mourn over the lost in Romans 9:2. Paul says, "I speak the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit, I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish, for I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers…" Those of the nation of Israel that haven't come to Christ yet, he's mourning over the lost, grieving over them. Any of you do that? Mourning over lost family members, relatives, neighbors. There's a grief. You're like "Well, I don't know that I grieve that much over." Well you ought to. And so therefore, you should Labor on your heart to be like Paul or like Jesus who wept over Jerusalem, and weep over the lost, then you'll witness to them, and we're supposed to mourn with each other, right. You may be going, you may be having the best week you've had but you'll bump into a brother, or a sister, here who isn't. And out of compassion, you're going to mourn with them and show some love for them, but you won't need any of that in heaven. You'll be done with all mourning and you won't need perseverance in heaven or, an old word for perseverance is long suffering, right? We're supposed to run with perseverance, the race marked out. You don't need any there's no enduring of heaven. I know you may think I can't be there floating around, singing Amazing Grace a million times in a row, I think on the 900th thousand time. I'm ready, I'm done, I'm set. We need a new him Lord. But friends, that's a satanic lie, there's no boredom in heaven and there's nothing to suffer in heaven. There's no long suffering need in heaven, there's no short suffering need in heaven, there's no suffering in heaven. You won't need any perseverance or endurance in heaven. You won't need any humility to accept correction, but you need it now, you need it now? If you're in a good church some brother or sisters at some point perhaps even very soon, perhaps even your spouse will come to you saying, "You know something. This is an area you need to work on." And so it says in the Psalms, "Let a righteous man strike me... it is oil my head, I will not refuse it." I want to be corrected, I want people to help me with my battle against sin, so I need to be ready with humility, right? Somebody comes, I need to be humble, I won't need that kind of humility in heaven. There are different kinds of humility in heaven but not that one. I won't need the humility that's ready to accept correction, and I won't need any fear and trembling. Now I work out my salvation of fear and trembling, but then we'll be done. These are many heart attitudes that you have to labor on in yourself now, but you won't need any of them in heaven. 6) Labor in Spiritual Disciplines and Graces Sixth labor in spiritual disciplines, and graces. God has ordained various means by which he's going to get Grace into your soul, they're called means of graces. Two of the greatest are coming up in Hebrews four. The Word of God, which is living and active, that's the scripture. You have to labor in scripture to get its messages. And then after that we're encouraged to come to the throne of grace. That's prayer, right? You have to labor in prayer, these are means of graces they're not easy, and so you have to read the Bible every day and feed on it every day. A number of brothers and sisters here have resolved before God to read through the Bible in a year. How's it going? Since the last Sunday in January. Renew, refresh, reset, whatever you need to do. Pick up the Bible and read it. But it's labor isn't it? Some of you have resolved to memorize the book of Philippians. It's hard work to memorize scripture but it's well worth it. Pastors and teachers of the Word of God labor after exegesis, we have to struggle with Greek or Hebrew with rules of exegesis with interpretations. We have to stand up in front of churches and say, "I got it wrong. We'll do this again next week." You have to do that from time to time, because the word of God is not always easy to understand. We have to labor in it. And do any of you ever labor in prayer? You know, there's a certain wrestling in prayer isn't there, Paul says in Colossians 4:12 that he is always wrestling in prayer for them that they may be mature and established in Christ. There's a wrestling in prayer waiting on unanswered prayer George Muller, praying every day for 50 years for a loved one to come to faith in Christ. The parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge. You remember that one? What's the lesson? God isn't going to give it to you right away. So you need to labor in unanswered prayer, but those labors will be done when we reach heaven. We have very soon the Lord's Supper. It's a means of grace labor in it, we labor it to understand its symbolism, we labor to have our hearts ready and right before we receive it, all of these labors will end when we come to heaven. 7) Labor Under Discipline for Sin Seventh you have to labor under discipline for sin, When you sin and when God thinks it's necessary, he will chastise you, he will chastise you. In Hebrews, 12 it says, "The Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son. Endure hardship as discipline, God is treating you as sons." You may feel even very soon the rod of fatherly chastisement across your back. He may be bringing some illness or some financial reversal, or some other kind of chastisement into your life, and at that point, you need to labor under it. As some have said, to kiss the rod and don't get angry at God and don't murmur against him. And don't make light of it, either, but learn the lessons of fatherly chastisement and labor on your own heart to trust God even more and to resolve to fight sin even more deeply and more powerfully. But you have to labor under discipline for sin. 8) Labor in Ministry to Other Christians Eighth, you have to labor in good works in ministry to other Christians, God has a whole lifetime of good works for you to do. I don't know about you, but I think in order to do works, you have to labor don't you think? [chuckle] There is just some works that we have to do. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works. And that involve spiritual gift ministry. Brothers and sisters in Christ. Use your spiritual gifts, your gift is teaching, you need to labor it to be a good teacher. For your gift is encouragement you need to labor in it and be focused in it. If your gift is prayer, you need the labor in that prayer, if you're gift is administration, there's labors to be done. If you're in the ministry of counseling. We've got some brothers and sisters do a great job of counseling. You have to labor to be a better counselor going to conferences, name conference reading books and then as you're sitting down with someone whose marriage is falling apart or struggling, you have to labor with them, give them a good scriptures pray with them. There's a labor involved in serving our brothers and sisters. 9) Labor in Mission to the World Ninth, there's a labor in the mission in the world, you know that many elect people, many elect people haven't come to faith in Jesus yet. And many of those elect people that haven't come to faith in Jesus yet are in very hard to reach places, like the Muslim world. And there is a labor that has to be done for those lost people. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost," and we are his ambassadors, as though God Himself were making his appeal through us, the missionaries in those places, they know that their labors aren't done, They haven't ended their heavenly rest, they've had to bury a member of their church this week where they have to lament and prayer over some other person is incarcerated they know what it's going to take to reach that Muslim village for Christ. It's hard work, others are learning a language for the first time, and they're laboring to bring the lost to faith in Christ. This isn't time to settle in at a rest stop no matter how beautiful the vista or the scenery, it's not the time for the ski chalet and eating cold vegetables. We're not in Heaven yet. And there's still some work to be done. There are lost people here in this triangle region there's lost people, to the ends of the earth. Wouldn't it be sweet for you to know, have God were to send an angel and say I have 12 people for you to lead to Christ, over the next year? One a month, I want you to do that. Wouldn't you rejoice in that? So Lord, will I be successful? I'm telling you, you will be your only job is to go share the Gospel with him but we have labors to do. In Heaven, we don't need to do those labors. For the church the redeemed, will be set and all of the elect will have come to faith in Christ, and they'll be there with your rejoicing. 10) Labor in Painful Trials And finally, dear friends, we have to labor in painful trials. "Consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds. Why? "Because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance, must finish its work. you need to get work done. And so, I do too. And the work in sanctification happens during trials. That's a hard time. And so you have to labor in trials. And that's how you know you're not in Heaven yet, there, there's no more death, or mourning, or crying, or pain, but here there certainly is, there is death here and there is mourning here and there's crying and there is pain here. And so the parents have a terminally ill child have to labor on their own hearts, to keep trusting in God and loving God and not murmuring against God or questioning God, even when their hearts are breaking, and they want to know why God's not answering prayer for healing, they have to labor in their hearts to keep trusting in Jesus through that time and not question what he's doing, even if he doesn't in the end, give the Healing. Friends of an incarcerated house church pastor and East Asian nations have to labor under that trial as their prayers go unanswered, and then as their friend is not released but actually executed. They have to labor in the middle of that trial, and count it pure joy and see God's hand in it. Single person waiting for God to answer their prayers for a spouse, a godly husband, a godly wife. Still waiting. Still waiting, they have to labor in that trial to keep trusting Jesus to not give up to believe in him. So also a childless couple every month praying that same prayer and still the prayer hasn't been answered. Oh but in Heaven, you're going to step across that threshold, you're going to cross that river and you're going to step into your Sabbath rest, and you're going to lay aside all trials. Their time will be over all of the grief, and sadness, will fall off you like an old garment, and you will be free of all of these things and you will have finished your race. III. The Delights of Heaven: Resting from Our Work as God Did These are the delights of heaven, we will rest from our labors as God did from his. Look at verse 10, anyone who enters God's rest, also rests from his own work just as God did from his. In the meantime though, we have all these labors to do and others besides I'm just giving you a sampling, but there are labors that we have to do. But can I tell you a word of encouragement? The same God who called you to do these labors will sustain you and strengthen you through the spirit, in your inner being, to run this race with endurance. He will give you what you need to finish this race. IV. Heavenly Meditation And one of the ways he does that is through sweet heavenly meditations. We've been doing some of that here, but I want to close my message now by giving you a little sampling of this book, okay. Richard Baxter at the end of 672 pages, gives an amazing chapter in which he gives a sampling of his style or type of heavenly meditation, for those. And this is little quote, for those who are unskilled in it, Amen I'll sign up, I'll go with that class, all right? And I read it and I was just swept away by it. Now this is a man who used to spend hours and hours in heavily meditations and when he would come out of that room, friends that knew him said It was like Moses coming off the mountain, his face was shining it was like, he was in another world. Well, when I began reading these meditations when I began reading, I realized I'm not good at this, I've never done this. And then just my engineering side kicked in and I started timing one of these pages, I literally did, I got my stop watch out and I timed it, I read it in a natural kind of flow and it took me four minutes and 11 seconds, and then I counted the pages and there were 30 of them. That's two and one half-hours of heavenly meditation. I said to Christi yesterday, "Wouldn't it be something if I just spent a Sunday afternoon, just reading this out loud?" She said, "Oh you ought to do it." I haven't done it yet, I've done little portions of it. I've copied it for 50 of you, and it'll be in the north tower. Ryan will tell you more at the end, but get it and read it. In the King James kind of style of English, but you can understand it and I want to close with a section of it that literally brought me to tears, and with that we'll go into the Lord Supper. And in it, by the way, he talks to his own soul as though he were Jesus then he turns around and talked back to Jesus not talking back but answering back in prayer. Sometimes he preaches to himself, sometimes he receives breaching but he's the one doing all of it, he's doing scripture than he's stepping aside and meditating. It's just an amazing journey. And I would recommend that all 50 get taken take them all, I mean how can I face Tom tomorrow when he did all the work, and there's still like 16 of them left. So don't let there be 16 left, 50 of you grab them. And it's public domain, so it's on the internet too. Listen to a portion of it as you prepare for the Lord’s Supper: "Though your eyes have never seen your Lord, yet you have heard his voice, received his benefits, and lived in his heart. He taught you to know yourself and him; he opened to you that first window, through which you saw into heaven. Have you forgotten since your heart was careless, and he awakened it; hard, and he softened it; stubborn, and he made it yield; at peace, and he troubled it; whole, and he broke it; and broken, till he healed it again? Have you forgotten the times when he found you in tears; when he heard your secret sighs and groans, and left all to come and comfort you; when he took you, as it were, in his arms, and asked you, ‘Poor soul, what troubles you? Do you weep, when I have wept so much? Cheer up! Your wounds are saving, and not deadly; I’m the one who wounded you, I who mean you no harm; though I drained off some of your blood, I will not drain off your life.’ I remember his voice. How gently did he take me up in his arms! How carefully did he dress my wounds! I think I hear him still saying to me, ‘Poor sinner, though you have dealt unkindly with me, and cast me off, yet I will never do that to you. Though you have trivialized me and all my mercies, yet they and myself are all yours. What would you have that I can give you? And what do you lack, that I cannot give you? If anything I possess will give you pleasure, you shall have it. Would you have forgiveness? I freely forgive you all your debts. Would you have grace and peace? You shall have both. Would you have myself? Behold I am yours, your Friend, your Lord, your Brother, Husband and Head. Wouldst you have the Father? I will bring you to him, and you shall have him, in and by me.’ These were his sweet words to me! After all, when I was doubtful of his love, I still remember his overcoming arguments: ‘Have I done so much, sinner, to prove my love, and yet do you doubt? Have I offered you myself and love so long, and yet do you question my willingness to be yours? At what dearer rate should I tell you that I love you? Wilt you not believe my bitter passion on the cross proceeded from love? Have I made myself in the Gospel a lion to yours enemies and a lamb to you, and do you now overlook my lamb-like nature? Had I been willing to let you perish, why would I have done and suffered so much for you? Why would I need to follow you with such patience and urgency? Why do you tell me of your wants; have I not enough for me and you? or of your unworthiness; for if you were yourself worthy, what would you do with my worthiness? Did I ever invite or save the worthy and righteous? or is there any such person upon earth? Have you nothing? are you lost and miserable, helpless and forlorn? Do you believe I am an all-sufficient Savior, and would you have me? Here, I am yours: take me; if you are willing, I am; and neither sin nor Satan shall break the bond.’ These, O these, were the blessed words which his Spirit from his Gospel spoke unto me, till he made me cast myself at his feet, and cry out, ‘My Savior, and my Lord, you have broken, you have revived my heart!"