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There goes Danish again

I wonder what leads someone like Mr. Paul Danish (CU history, 1955) to continue to reside in Boulder if he feels as he writes. I find certain idiosyncrasies around Boulder that may be amusing, but if I, way over here in Faultless-Starch-won’t-iron-myclothes Longmont, dare to oppose fracking anywhere (and I do, within any and all municipalities), then

Danish is likely to impugn my ancestry and question my loyalty to truth, apple pie and the American Way, if not the U.S. Constitution. Too bad the historical method did not stay with Mr. Danish after he left school. Logic, cause and effect, substantiation all have their place, and it is to be hoped he would apply these before he unloads on us North Korean sympathizers who disagree that any-

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ever have so few done so little for so many. But at last, they’re gone — Congress has adjourned for the year. And what a year it was! A few numbers sum up the sorry story, so let’s review them. For example, 16. That’s the number of days that a gaggle of tea party Republicans shut down our government by throwing an October hissy

fit. Oh, add 24 billion to that — $24 billion is the economic loss America suffered from the tea partiers’ shutdown stunt. Speaking of stunts, check out the number of times the House GOP has voted to make the political point that it doesn’t want Obamacare to work. It now totals 47 times. Now here’s a telling number: 239. That’s how many paid days off our Congress critters gave themselves in 2013. Yes, for two-thirds of the year, they were no-shows at their ornate workplace. Hey, stuff like shutting down government and casting meaningless votes is tiring, and you’ve gotta get your rest to keep up the pace. And here’s a big, angry number that our well-heeled lawmakers can’t seem to see: 11 million. That’s how many of our fellow Americans are jobless, some 4 million of whom have been out of work for more than 6 months. Yet

place and everyplace are fair game for any moneymaking venture, whatever its effects. When one’s money is his life, his value system quickly erodes. Danish appears to be a remnant of a longgone era. Too bad he is able to maintain an audience; heck, I have read him, too. Right before the comic pages. Fitting. Gregory Iwan/Longmont

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Congress went AWOL on its duty to respond to this raging jobs crisis. However, members did show up to slap America’s hardest-hit workers. Just before taking off for their Christmas break, GOP lawmakers pushed a budget deal that killed an emergency benefit program for people who’re mired in the misery of long-term unemployment. Yes, in the Season of Joy and Goodwill, Congress — Ho-Ho-Ho! — cut off this essential lifeline for 1.3 million workers and their families. Another 1.9 million will lose their benefits next year. But, hey, who’s counting? It’s all just a bunch of numbers to Congress. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 26, 2013 7

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mind. Pierson, 18, brought with him a shotgun, about 125 rounds of ammunition, three Molotov cocktails, a machete and a grudge against the school librarian, who also served as the school’s debate team coach and had suspended Pierson from the team. Pierson headed for the library. He fired a shot down a hallway. Then he shot Claire Davis, 17, in the head at point blank range while she was sitting with a friend in the hall. He shot her for no apparent reason other than that she happened to be “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” according to Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson. She died on Dec. 21. According to the Associated Press, Pierson fired off three more shots and lit off a Molotov cocktail, which fortunately failed to explode. Seconds later, he reached the library. Then he shot himself. Total elapsed time: 80 seconds. (He never encountered the librarian/debate coach, who hasn’t been iden-

left the building.) According to Sheriff Robinson, Pierson shot himself less than a minute and a half after his rampage began because a school resource officer, or more plainly, an armed sheriff ’s deputy assigned to the school, was “closing in.” Robinson said that the size of Pierson’s arsenal suggested that he didn’t intend to limit his killing to the librarian. So did the fact that he had written the numbers of five classrooms on his arm in ink, along with the Latin phrase “The die is cast.” The fact that he randomly shot Ms. Davis would be further evidence of that as well. “His intent was evil, and his evil intent was to harm multiple individuals,” Robinson said. However, Pierson’s rampage ended with his suicide 80 seconds after it began, with one dead instead of dozens, because an armed security officer intervened. Or, to put it another way, Pierson’s rampage ended 80 seconds after it began, because, unlike the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., and Boulder Weekly

danish plan most of the other school shootings in the U.S., Pierson wasn’t the only person in the school who had a gun. There was also an armed officer present who had a gun, who knew how to use it, and who, when the moment of truth arrived, swiftly moved to confront evil. Shortly after the Newtown killings, Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, held a press conference at which he called for putting armed security officers in every school in the country. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” he said. “Would you rather have your 911 call bring a good guy with a gun from a mile away or a minute away?” Gun control advocates, and progressives generally, predictably sneered. “They [the NRA] offered a paranoid, dystopian vision of a more dangerous and violent America where everyone is armed and no place is safe,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “They were blaming it on all kinds of other things instead of guns themselves,” said Medea Benjamin, co-director of the political exhibitionist group Code Pink, who was escorted out of LaPierre’s press conference after holding up a poster that read “NRA blood on your hands.” “If your purpose is to reduce gun violence in schools, then the solution isn’t to add more guns to schools,” said Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association. He called the NRA proposal “out of touch.” The American people disagreed. A Pew Research poll taken a couple weeks after LaPierre made his proposal found that 64 percent of those surveyed agreed with the NRA. Among those agreeing with the NRA was the Newtown School Board, which voted unanimously to put armed guards in all of its schools. I don’t know whether Arapahoe High School got its armed guard before or after Sandy Hook, but that is beside the point. The important point is that when evil struck it had one. According to press reports, the resource officer was in the school cafeteria when Pierson started shooting. He went racing down the hall toward the library, warning people to take cover along the way, and essentially bottled up Pierson in the library, at which point Pierson realized the game was up and shot himself. Total elapsed time: 80 secBoulder Weekly

onds. Compare that with Sandy Hook. There is no armed officer present. Adam Lanza, the shooter, entered the school at approximately 9:30 a.m., by shooting his way through a locked glass door. The first 911 call reached the Newtown police at 9:35 a.m. The first officers reached the school at 9:39 a.m. At 9:40 a.m. the officers heard the last shot that was fired — the one with which Lanza ended his

own life as the police arrived. At 9:45 a.m. — 15 minutes after the massacre began and 5 minutes after it ended — officers entered the school. Or, to put it another way, when seconds count, the police are there in minutes. In the 10 minutes during which Lanza had his way in the school, he killed 20 students and six teachers and wounded two others. The Arapahoe High attack

occurred one day before the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre. Its outcome showed that LaPierre was right and that his progressive critics were arrogant ignoramuses who cannot be trusted to secure the safety of children or anyone else. Total elapsed time: 364 days and 80 seconds. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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SEASONS GREETINGS TO THOSE WHO CLAIM FRACKING BANS AND MORATORIUMS ARE BAD We used the word “claim” in the headline instead of words like “think” or “believe” because, frankly, it’s really hard to find anyone not being compensated by the oil and gas industry who honestly believes that delaying fracking in populated areas while more research and testing on its health and environmental impacts is done is a bad idea. The exception is those nut jobs who think that questioning any action of a corporation makes you a Marxist. Let’s recap just a little of what we Commies have learned about fracking and oil and gas shale production while the drilling rigs have been paused by our local bans and moratoriums. We now have a study out of the University of Colorado that found that if you live within a half-mile of a production platform your chances of getting cancer increase significantly. Our own government researchers here in Boulder (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have found that oil and gas wells and production facilities are responsible for much of the ground level ozone in the area, ozone that is bad for everyone but poses a severe health risk for asthmatics and others with respiratory illnesses. We have research that shows that gas from as deep as 12,000 feet can find its way into our shallow groundwater after a 50- to 100-year upward migration. That means that the 20 percent to 40 percent of fracking fluid that is unrecoverable after each well is fracked likely has the same chance to make it into our water supplies at approximately the same pace. Sucks to be you, future generations. And most recently, a new study out of the University of Missouri found that it’s likely that fracking and other oil and gas activity, like spills, are putting hormone-disrupting chemicals into our surface and groundwater supplies, including the Colorado River that serves as a drinking water supply to tens of millions of Americans. No wonder the industry wants to drill everything now before the rest of the research comes in. Just imagine what other dreadful discoveries we will be making regarding fracking and oil and gas shale development in the next few years. We’re afraid it’s just going to get harder and harder for all those industry PR hacks to sleep at night. Perhaps someone should research that. REPEAL THE COGCC This holiday season, when you’re lying around the house, engorged from your feasting and drinking, looking for something to do, why not hop online and sign the petition challenging the constitutionality of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission? Yes, this is that state board that is charged with simultaneously policing and promoting the oil and gas industry. Too often, it neglects the former. So Carl L. McWilliams has launched a petition that reads: “The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) statutes illegally altered the Colorado Constitution @ ART. V, Sec. 35, ART. XX, Sec. 6 without the ‘consent of the governed.’ Therefore, Gov. Hickenlooper and the Colorado General Assembly have violated their constitutional oaths and must convene a special Constitutional Convention to remedy the unconstitutional Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission statutes.” The petition, which has garnered more than 400 signatures, is available at http://bit.ly/1c1C4lE. In his invitation to sign the petition, McWilliams cites the fact that Gov. John Hickenlooper has sued the city of Longmont over its fracking ban and has threatened to sue other municipalities that follow Longmont’s path. “Gov. Hickenlooper is guilty of the acts and omissions of ‘Constitutional Torts’ and must be made to answer to We the People of Colorado, (the Sovereign), in Federal District Court in Denver,” McWilliams writes. A bit Tea Party-ish, don’t you think? Maybe the two ends of the political spectrum have more in common than they think. After all, the Occupy movement originally counted Tea Partiers among its supporters. On the fracking issue, as with so many others, we have to agree that local control by the citizenry is better than a heavy-handed, big-government approach. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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first day the Jamestown Elementary School teachers could get back to the two-room schoolhouse in Jamestown after the floods in September, there were still huge boulders alongside barely there roads. The road to the schoolhouse was washed out entirely — in its place, a bare cliff. The detour route led past house after house torn open or mud-stained or halfburied in rocks and rubble after the onslaught that Jim Creek had become. The effect was stirring. “When I saw it, the first time up there to get supplies for the school, I was just, I couldn’t believe the impact of the water, that the water could be such a strong force,” says Ines Elizabeth Miller Rutkovskis, who teaches third through fifth grades at the elementary school. “It was so weird, because the first like half-hour I couldn’t do anything, I was so shaken up after seeing all that damage,” says Gay Paxton, Jamestown elementary’s kindergarten through second grade teacher. “I just, I wanted to leave right away. … If [Ines] hadn’t been with me, I would have left. … It was hard, really hard. … I know those people really well.” She tears up as she talks about how devastating it was — her stepson and his wife live in Jamestown and lost their home and the land that went with it — and just then, a third-grader finishing her reading assignment comes up and says, “Ms. Gay, I finished chapter 12.” Paxton draws a breath and says, “How about you come up with three questions about the chapter for me, OK?” More than three months after the flood, backhoes are still scraping the roads in and out of Jamestown clear of mud and dirt. Asphalt is stacked up on the side of the road, which has been washed down to one lane in places. Pine trees lay browning in the widened creek beds, some braced up against the guardrails or bridge rails or dirt embankments, and it’s clear where hillsides gave way, burying roads, and that the water shoved absolutely everything out of its way. Jamestown had lost a beloved local, Joe Howlett,

former owner of the Jamestown Mercantile, and many of the residents had been carried out to safety by helicopters. Some 60 of them had spent a night in the Jamestown schoolhouse as an emergency evacuation center, sleeping on pads used for the kids’ gym classes and wrapped in blankets gathered from the homes on the north side of town that weren’t cut off by the raging waters. The schoolhouse that served as emergency lodging is one of only a few one-room schoolhouses left in the country (neighboring town Gold Hill claims

steps untouched. A handwritten sign offers details on when and where to pick up personal items left behind after class ended that Wednesday before it started to rain. What has stepped in to fill the hole where homes and bridges and roads once were is a fervent sense of community, and insistence on staying together. Despite the massive environmental upheaval surrounding them, the people of Jamestown are trying to keep their kids on sound footing. So when the floodwaters washed away the road to their school, their families held a meeting and said the best thing was to keep the kids together. Paxton and Rutkovskis, heeding the call of the parents in the community, have kept Gay Paxton, who usually two now divided groups teaches kindergarten to second grade at Jamestown of students together. Elementary, now has 13 kids, up Jamestown Elementary to fifth grade, in an improvised classroom while the Jamestown has become Jamestown schoolhouse remains closed. West, the location at the camp in Ward with Paxton leading the classroom, and Jamestown East, at the Community Montessori school in Boulder, where Rutkovskis meets with the six students whose homes in Jamestown were so severely damaged they’ve relocated to Boulder for now. “What they’ve experienced makes them in need of community that they know and that they’re familiar with,” Rutkovskis says. “I think if they were plopped into different schools, all separated, I think it would have been really hard to adapt. This way they have me and Gay and [paraprofessional] Beth [Brotherton] as strong rocks, or like a foundation, to keep them moving forward.” At a meeting among the parents of the kids who live in the Bar-K Ranch just above Jamestown, the idea came up that perhaps they could create their own school. (Some parents one as well). It’s home to about 20 students from the were considering home school at this point anyway. time they start kindergarten until they finish fifth Signing kids up for the 45-minute bus ride on the grade, and they’ll have the same teacher from kindercoils of the Peak to Peak Highway, Highway 72, garten to second grade, Paxton, and then from third to fifth grade, Rutkovskis. between Ward and Nederland in winter, just wasn’t an option.) The town, now, is eerily quiet and the school“The kids had gone through so much with the house that should be teeming with the noise of chilfloods. … They had just gone through so much turdren, the playground that should have seen the snow moil that it was really important to us to keep the tracked out of it, is silent and the snow on the door-

A school divided,

a community united

Two teachers in Jamestown strive to keep their students together after schoolhouse closes

by Elizabeth Miller

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Elizabeth Miller

kids together — not bused to Nederland, because that’s not our home,” says Tessa Stampes, mother of a 7-year-old boy currently enrolled at Jamestown Elementary, a 12-yearold girl who completed her K-5 education there, and a 4-year-old boy who is expected to start kindergarten there next year. The idea of hosting school at their house started for Stampes and her husband, Jeff, as a bit of a joke, but it caught on. So by the Wednesday a week after the flood, school resumed, with 13 of the students coming to classes with Paxton in the living room of their house in Bar-K Ranch with the kind of mountain character that often leaves the houses mostly obscured by the pine trees. “When it’s that kind of trauma, they think, and I have to agree with them, that it’s better to keep as much stability as you can in their lives,” Paxton says. “They were adamant about keeping the kids together, and I think it was a great thing. I think it turned out to be really good, and I feel really privileged to be able to do it.” “Nobody could have done it quite the same way,” says Scott Boesel, principal of Flatirons Elementary and the Jamestown Elementary School. “You couldn’t have taken any other group of parents and teachers and students and made it work. A family opening up their living room just wouldn’t happen.” For two months, that was the schoolroom for these kids. Some of them could, for the first time, bike to school. Without desks, they started doing their work on clipboards, and on nice autumn days made use of a large table on the porch. A play area was set up in the kitchen. The Stampes even replaced the flooring in their home to put down a hard surface instead of carpet for the kids, Home Depot donated materials to put up a wall of corkboard, and volunteers from Jamestown coordinated an effort to get tables and chairs from the Jamestown school to the Stampes’ living room even before the roads were repaired and while people were still using ropes to manage the steep slopes left after the multiple mudslides in Jamestown. Then, the school district negotiated to relocate the students to a Christian camp just a few miles up the road from the Bar-K Ranch, and transformed a building emptied for the season into an elementary school classroom, adding a bathroom and appliances to the kitchen. “That place went from bare concrete and walls to carpet and school desks in just a couple weeks,” says the interim camp manager who oversaw the school’s move-in. The December winds howl around the improvised schoolhouse in Ward — it’s roughly the same size as Boulder Weekly

The Jamestown Elementary School was on high enough ground it went undamaged in the September floods, but will not be reopened to classes until roads are repaired.

the classroom Paxton used, and there’s a divided section with tables. When Paxton says it’s lunchtime, the kids leap up from their tasks, retrieve lunch bags from the cubbies loaned to Jamestown West from another school and take seats at the tables. Half the room looks like a typical elementary school classroom, with bright letters of alphabets and numbers up to 100 hanging on the walls, and tubs of rainbow-colored “manipulatives” — objects to count on and practice math — even desks with headphones at the ready for kids to put in a tape and listen to a book being read, and shelf after shelf of childrens’ books. Paxton spent evenings packing up the contents of her classroom in Jamestown and then unpacking it at the camp. It’s the books, she says, that were the biggest thing to get out of the Jamestown schoolhouse and back to the kids, who speed right through them, but she’s now received so many donated books the task of hauling them back to the schoolhouse in Jamestown looks daunting. At the end of the room, near where the camp has a fireplace and stage set up, a sign on the wall reads “music” and music notes hover around it, ready for the music teacher who comes once a week. At another corner of the room, mesh bags loaded with balls and a rack hung with hula hoops wait for the twiceweekly visits from a P.E. teacher. All the moving around and missed days in September means it’s been a bit of a crunch to get everyone up to speed. With all the kids in one room, Paxton has to teach one grade level out loud to everyone and individualize with assignments — like giving the second grade-level math lesson and tailoring individual assignments to the skill level of the first graders and kindergarteners sitting through that lesson. For reading assignments, students pair up with someone at the same level to read beside, seated on a pillow with a blanket spread over their two laps, or studiously perched at their desks. Writing assignments see many of the kids reaching for the sturdy, black laptops the district purchased for each student in class. Paxton works individually with each kid as much as three times a day, taking notes on what they

worked on, what issue they might have had and what projects they’ve got ongoing so she can pick up where she left off the day before. A thick threering binder holds her notes for writing, and one of equal size holds the notes for math. Paxton’s desk is busy with their requests and questions as they work through a writing assignment: thank you notes for a pair of Naropa students who came for a dance workshop with them. One first grader just pulls up a chair and her paper and pencil so she can ask perpetual “How do you spell …?” questions. While a fifth grader waits for his turn to ask Paxton for help — turns out, he wants to brainstorm what to write — the first grader asks, “How do you spell ‘rock’?” and he leans over to answer it for her. That’s the thing that makes it like a family, Paxton says, that the kids all help one another out. It’s the opposite of bullying. The weakest among them gets the most help. They share without being told. “If somebody’s struggling with an assignment or something, I don’t even have to ask, they just jump in and help,” Paxton says. Paxton worked as a paraprofessional in schools for years, a single mom taking care of her son and working while slowly chipping away at the teaching certificate she finished at age 50 — a point by which many teachers, who qualify for retirement at age 55, begin thinking about retirement. But Paxton instead is looking ahead to a particularly emotional fifth grade graduation this year, when the two students who started with her as kindergarteners six years ago, the first year she taught at Jamestown, move on to middle schools in Nederland or Boulder. “I think I have the best job in the whole world. I really do,” Paxton says. “It would be a really hard job to leave, because no matter when you leave, you’re leaving a family that you’ve had for forever.” Ten years ago, Rutkovskis took the job teaching at Jamestown as her first after finishing her teaching degree in New England, where she’d worked at a multi-age school in Vermont. “When the job opened up, I knew it was for me. I just knew,” says Rutkovskis, who volunteered with the Peace Corps in Ecuador for three years. “I like a different kind of setting. I’m used to working on my own a lot. … We’re kind of on our own up there. … And I like the mountain setting, the independence of doing something different, not just the regular teacher classroom.” At one time, she had 22 students — kindergarten to fifth grade, including five pairs of siblings — to See FLOOD Page 14

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Runner Up

Victoria Simonsen, Lyons town administrator by Jefferson Dodge

y all accounts, Lyons Town Administrator Victoria Simonsen has gone above and beyond, not only in the immediate emergency response to the September flood that wiped out much of her town, but in the recovery effort that ensued. “She’s been working tirelessly, nonstop, 24 hours a day, working with [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] to help her little community,” says Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle. Lyons Town Clerk Deb Anthony says Simonsen and another employee who live in Lyons were the only ones on duty for days because the other staffers couldn’t get into town. “They were up for virtually 72 hours straight,” Anthony says, not-

ing that the floodwaters even separated Simonsen from her home for a period of time. Anthony adds that Simonsen has been working tirelessly ever since and seems to have a boundless amount of energy. “She didn’t stop,” she says of Simonsen. “It was just incredible, the way she just kept everything going and everything straight in her head all the time.” Anthony also notes that under Simonsen’s leadership, the majority of the town’s residents have returned. “She wanted everybody home by the holidays,” she says of Simonsen. “We don’t have everybody, we still have some people down in the confluence area whose homes are just not habit-

able at this point. But she’s probably got 80 percent of the town or more back home, with all their utilities. … We’re lucky to have her. She is just awesome.” Longmont Emergency Manager Dan Eamon agrees that Simonsen deserves recognition, saying that the depth of what Lyons has endured pales in comparison to what his city experienced. “I was so impressed with the way she kept it together,” he says. “She was a steadfast leader for her town. She believes in her community, and that was her goal, to get her community back on track.” Det. Cmdr. Jeff Satur of the Longmont Police Department echoed those sentiments, noting that his city provided assistance

Victoria Simonsen

to the Town of Lyons in various ways, and Simonsen was not too proud to ask for help when it was needed. “She did a good job of getting Lyons back on its feet,” Satur says. “She had the comfort to say, ‘We can’t do this all by ourselves.’ They leaned on Longmont a lot.”

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herself, with one part-time paraprofessional to help. After persuading the district to hire a second teacher, she got to choose Paxton as her partner in teaching at the school. “It’s like a home away from home,” Rutkovskis says. “When they’re together this long, they’re like family,” Paxton says. “It’s just such a different feel here than it is in a larger school, because everybody’s so close, everybody’s so kind. One of the things the parents really like about this school is that the older kids are really kind to the younger kids and really caring, and they teach each other.” For now, her kids are in a separate room at the Community Montessori School in South Boulder. They’re hoping to go back at the start of the next school year. “I miss our mountain school, where we could go for hikes to the mine and the cemetery and the post office. Where we include locals in the classroom,” Rutkovskis says. One of her students lived below the mountain the mudslide came down from, and waded with her family through mudflow up to her waist to get out of the house and to the other side of the hill, leaving behind everything but what they had on their backs. She’s putting that story with others into a video the kids are making, telling the story of the flood from their own perspectives. And what kind of perspectives do they bring? “Just how scary it was,” Rutkovskis says. “How they want to teach other kids and families what to do, if it should happen again, not just here but in other parts of the country. They learn that, they can just leave their home, stuff isn’t important. Family is important, community is important.” The video is a STEM project that will include science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Rutkovskis had someone from the National Oceanic 14 December 26, 2013

and Atmospheric Administration come in to explain to her students what happened with the weather that led to them leaving their hometown in Chinook helicopters — how a tropical storm built in the Pacific Ocean near Mexico was pulled north by a low-pressure system, bringing monsoonal tropical moisture. That storm pulled even more moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and moved north in an unusual counterclockwise direction, hitting the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with an upslope flow. It hit another front moving south from Canada and stalled out on its rotation, rose up over the Front Range of Colorado and hit an elevation where the moisture in the air turned into rain, most of which fell in a 36-hour period between Sept. 11 and early in the morning of Sept. 13. It rained some 16-20 inches over Jamestown — the average annual rainfall — over just three days. When the flood started in Jamestown, Paxton got the call at 4 a.m. that school was canceled. Then she headed out with her husband, chief of the Indian Peaks Fire Department, to put up road blocks to keep people from driving down the canyon because the roads were already gone. The paraprofessional who works with Paxton and Rutkovskis, Beth Brotherton, was pulled from bed at midnight to set up the emergency shelter in the school. “We probably had about 60 people in the school that night,” she says. “Everybody from the lower part of town that could get to the school, got to the school. And so we just did the best we could with what we had at that point, because the school was not set up as an evacuation center so there weren’t cots or anything.” Brotherton is the principal’s assistant, secretary, nurse and special education paraprofessional for the Jamestown school. “I have a whole list of job descriptions, but that’s how it works in a small school,” she explains.

She started volunteering to teach art in Jamestown 15 years ago, when her children were in school there and the district stopped sending art, music and P.E. teachers to Jamestown Elementary and members of the community came forward to teach those to the kids. “I enjoyed it so much … I just decided that if a job came available at Jamestown school — I wouldn’t want to be at just any school, I don’t think they’re all this nice — that I would take it,” she says with a laugh. As the floodwaters were washing away the town, she was driving supplies through town in her Prius, until there was a hillside slide between her house and the school, and the car was trapped in mud. Moving over to her husband’s truck, she delivered food, clothes and dry socks — “People were wet,” she says — to those huddled in the Jamestown schoolhouse, even when she could hear the asphalt cracking underneath the truck’s tires. Meanwhile, the bridges to her own home at the north end of town washed out. “There were so many great people that just stepped up to the plate,” she says. “People in town who knew how to filter water, they filtered water because we didn’t have water at that point, and people just cooked huge pots of food for us. Just amazing the way the community came together.” By Sunday morning, most residents had been evacuated by the helicopter. She stayed until a swift water rescue team arrived to set up a Tyrolean traverse to get them out. Her home, at the northeast end of Jamestown, wasn’t damaged (and she’d begged firefighters to stop by to give food and water to the pets they’d had to leave behind and lock up the house they’d left in such a hurry). When they could, as soon as they could, she and her family returned to their home, and lived without water, electricity or phones. “It was like camping, but in a really nice house,” she says. Boulder Weekly

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Boulder firefighters forced to adapt on the fly during flood by David Accomazzo

he best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry, or something like that. Before the September floods, the Boulder Rural Fire Department, a mostly volunteer outfit, had a 60-page plan in case of flooding in the area where the Fourmile Fire raged just a few years ago. “We had this great plan, but the storm was well beyond the scope of everything we ever expected,” says Jeff Webb, deputy chief and fire marshal for the Boulder Rural Fire Department. “So it forced us to make changes on Jeff Webb the fly.” The September floods pulverized entire communities, and first responders in the community were forced to work days and nights to make sure as many people as possible got to safety. Many people likely deserve the title of person of the year, but we are going to recognize Webb as a runner-up for ability to adapt as the flood began to surpass the meticulous flood response plan drafted years earlier. For instance, floodwaters and mudslides trapped mountain residents behind impassable roads. So firefighters hiked up the hills and went door-to-door, contacting residents and getting them to safety. The department’s fire engines were cherry-picking people off rooftops, but some of the locations the plan called for to be used as temporary housing were for some reason unavailable. “We had an evacuation plan that was going to send them to a church on Jay Road, so the problem was that the person who was going to open up the church was trapped behind water, so they couldn’t open up the church,” Webb recalls. Again, the firefighters had to improvise. “We were driving [people who were rescued] around in the fire truck because there was no place to put them,” Webb says. “So it was like, as soon as we find a safe place for you, we’ll find you a safe place, but for right now, these people are going to have to ride around with us. … We eventually just took them back to our station and put them in the easy chairs, put some blankets over them, and let them sleep for a few hours until we could find them a place to go.” Webb himself found himself averaging maybe three hours of sleep a night, essentially moving from call to call for 40 hours straight. After the floodwaters receded, Webb didn’t stop. He spearheaded a fundraising campaign to help firefighters whose homes were damaged, raising and distributing almost $18,000. “It is a brotherhood,” he says of firefighting.

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back to school, she didn’t hesitate. She says, “I said, ‘Of course, I will be there — can somebody come and get me?’” The whole Front Range community surged in to help make it possible for Jamestown Elementary to keep going. Gold Hill held a bake sale to raise $2,300 for the school, and at Pioneer Elementary in Denver a schoolteacher

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this,” she says. The long-term picture is a little uncertain. Jamestown has suffered significant floods and rebuilt twice in the last hundred years, and every time seems to come back stronger. Tara Schoedinger, mayor of Jamestown, says they’re trying to rebuild smarter and more resilient development in the stream corridor. “If anybody is an example of resiliency, it’s those teachers,” she says. The building permit moratorium is expected to be lifted by the end of January, and the county has estimated road repairs will be done by the end of February — literally paving the way for rebuilding efforts. The Jamestown schoolhouse itself is fine, but the district won’t reopen it for classes until there’s a permanent fix to the washedout road. That construction may begin in early 2014. Jamestown is facing a winter with just 10 percent of its usual population of about 300. The superintendent has promised not to close the school next year, but

there’s some concern that families could move. “I think the town’s going to be different,” Rutkovskis says. “It’s not going to be the same — stronger, stronger community.” She hopes to get the whole school together in the spring to plant trees, she says, in “a celebration of community and rebirth and healing in a place that needs it for erosion control.” A potter from Jamestown recently visited her class, and the kids were tasked with rolling clay into balls, which represented the many rocks that came down during the floods and filled the streets. Those balls were then pressed onto a clay bowl that was eventually removed. On the outside, the round balls are still visible, representing the flood, but inside, it’s smooth, to represent healing. “That’s how I see what we need to do together, you know, we need to go through this healing together,” Rutkovskis says. “It takes time to heal.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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to generate just 25 percent of our satisfy our energy needs with renewenergy needs using nuclear. ables, in part because of intermittency He doesn’t rule out natural gas problems (it’s not always windy or serving as a primary bridge fuel to sunny) and the high demand for heatrenewables, even though it has gotten ing at night in many areas. Kok, editor a black eye in recent years because of of the Nuclear Engineering Handbook, hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” says nuclear is a good source for the While producing natural gas does additional baseload power needed to require a significant amount of energy, fill in the gaps left by wind and solar, with the right equipment about 90 and he’s also a proponent of hydroelecpercent of the water it uses can be tric power. (He argues that while naturecycled, according to Kreith, so he ral gas is well-suited for things like disagrees with the argument that home heating and transportation, fracking should be banned because of using it for electricity seems to be a its water consumption. waste.) During his talk, he also singled out He agrees with Kreith that the several claims in ideal reactor courtesy of Frank Kreith Pandora’s technology is Promise. While still at least a it’s true that no couple of one has ever died decades away, from a nuclear and he allows accident in the that wind and United States, solar can be there have been used in the scores of casualmeantime, “as ties associated inefficient as with nuclear they are,” but he mishaps in other views them as a countries, Kreith costly shortsays. term solution. In addition, Among the some proponents problems with of nuclear power wind and solar, claim that “fast Kok says, are breeder” reactors the fact that — such as those they require a much larger area using liquid than nuclear metal as the reactors, and coolant instead Frank Kreith questions the premise that they have enviof water — could nuclear power will solve our energy crisis. ronmental become an alterimpacts. The native to conventhreats they pose to birds are not just tional nuclear reactors because they limited to rotating wind turbines, but would be cheap, safe and produce much less nuclear waste. Kreith argues, include the fact that migrating waterfowl see the mirror effect of solar panhowever, that no such reactor exists, els, mistake them for a body of water although the United States, France and Russia have all tried this technolo- and “basically kill themselves by diving gy and abandoned it. into the solar collectors.” While Kreith is highly critical of When asked about Kreith’s claims the documentary, which he says comes regarding the ability of renewables to across as something the Koch Brothers provide 83 percent of our power and might have funded, it has received his dotted map showing how many some positive reviews. It was shown at reactors would be required to generate the Sundance Film Festival in January just 25 percent of the energy we need, 2013, and last June it won the Kok told BW that he and Kreith simSheffield Doc/Fest Green Award for ply don’t see eye to eye on everything. addressing environmental challenges. “Frank and I disagree on that,” Kok Ken Kok, a retired nuclear engineer says. “We could easily provide all the energy in the country with nuclear who now does consulting work on reactors. … The economics are probanuclear safety, disagrees with some of bly going to ultimately determine the Kreith’s stances. Kok says he agrees mix.” with the basic premise of Pandora’s Promise, which is that we can’t fully Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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late August, Aaron Montgomery received some big news via email. The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation, or UIAA, had officially selected him as an athlete to demonstrate ice climbing to the world during the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games. Although he was only one of three U.S. athletes selected for the event, 32-year-old Montgomery took it all in stride. “I’m a pretty even-keeled person, I don’t get too excited,” he says. “I definitely feel honored to be a part of it, and to be selected as an athlete.” Montgomery’s cool confidence has served him well in the months leading up to the event. He’s managed to juggle rigorous training with caring for newborn twin boys, managing his Broomfield-based environmental remediation company and some extensive traveling to participate in some of the nation’s and the world’s most prestigious ice competitions. And he’s helping to push ice climbing in its movement from fringe extreme to established sport. “I’d like to see it grow in the U.S.,” he says. “The Sochi Olympics is great exposure. There are a lot of people in the climbing community as a whole that think it’s a good thing.” Montgomery stands out in a crowd. He seems to tower about half a foot above most at a crag. With that long reach and his lean build, he looks like he was born to climb. But he didn’t get a traditional start. Montgomery’s southern accent gives away his Oklahoma roots. He grew up on a cattle ranch, and didn’t start climbing until a college professor introduced him to the granite formations of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. He didn’t start tooling around on ice until he moved to Westminster about four years ago. Turns out, he was a natural. “I guess I had a knack for it, so I decided to take it more seriously and [started] pushing hard,” he says. According to UIAA representatives, 80 athletes will participate in Sochi’s ice climbing “cultural” event. Details are scant, but the athletes won’t be competing for medals. Instead, it’ll be an opportunity for those passionate about the sport, like Montgomery, to showcase ice climbing and dry tooling (climbing with ice axes on rock and plastic walls instead of ice) to the world. With any luck, spectators and Olympic committee members will be wowed enough to consider it as an official sport in coming years. And ice climbing has plenty of Boulder Weekly

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Local climber prepping to demo the often-overlooked sport of ice climbing at Sochi Olympics by Leia Larsen

Aaron Montgomery was selected to showcase ice climbing and dry tooling to the Olympic committee at Sochi.

aspects that impress. Like traditional rock climbing, ice tooling is incredibly gymnastic. It’s physical. It’s also committing. “It requires more intuition,” Montgomery says. “You can’t feel the holds. You have to feel them with your tools.” Of the 80 climbers going to Sochi, half are Russian — a telling sign of the sport’s popularity there. Only three are from the United States. Because they’re separated by geography — one lives in New Mexico, one is from Minnesota but lives in Canada and Montgomery lives in Colorado — the athletes are on their own to develop training regimes. Montgomery is working with the Boulder-based Alpine Training Center, which helped him develop some highintensity endurance drills, as well as tool-specific training. Montgomery was selected, in part, for his efforts to be an ambassador for ice climbing and to expand the sport locally. He regularly takes newbies to the park in Ouray or the ice flows near Vail, showing them the ropes. Montgomery admits the growth of

popularity in both rock and ice climbing in the U.S. can be controversial. Some worry about the dangers the uninitiated could face in an unfamiliar backcountry environment — hazards like falling rock and inexperience with safety procedures. Others dread the idea of growing crowds at their favorite crags. Still others see it as a quiet, bodily meditation in an outdoor environment, rejecting it as a “sport” ripe for commercialism and product pushes. Some fear increased exposure through high-profile competitions will only fuel those problems. According to Montgomery, that aversion to climbing competitions and recognition of climbing as a “sport” represents a different mindset in North America versus Europe and Russia. He says that outlook is starting to shift, particularly as kids join gym and school club teams. “It’s changing a little with a new, younger generation of competitive sport climbers and boulderers,” he says. “As they get older, maybe there will be opportunity for more widespread competitions.” Better gear and improved technolo-

gy have also opened rock climbing to a larger crowd, and ice climbing is starting to catch up. Like rock climbing, ice climbing grew naturally out of mountaineering. But while rock climbers bolted crags and sent splitter cracks in the southwest desert, the long, grueling backcountry approaches to frozen waterfalls and insufferable climates still kept ice climbing inaccessible to most. “In climbing ice, you have to have a gladiator-type mindset,” Montgomery says. “You’re cracking ice, cleaning ice, breaking pieces off, and you have to want to be doing that. Besides that, it’s really cold.” In Europe, the pool of climbers hardy enough to take on ice also found a decent swath of spectators through competition events. According to the UIAA, ice competitions started in Russia as early as the 1970s, with others in France and Slovenia. In 2000, the first World Cup competitions started, which the European-based UIAA began managing a few years later. In the U.S., ice climbing competitions were slower to catch on. The sport first debuted on a large, national scale during the first televised X Games in 1998, but it was dropped from the lineup the following year. Around the same time, however, buzz began generating about a little ice park in Ouray. Southwest Colorado had been on ice climber radars for decades, as they flocked to classic falls like Bridal Veil near Telluride and ice flows near Silverton. In the late 1990s, some of those climbers noticed leaks in a hydropower pipe running through the sleepy town of Ouray. Those leaks drained in a canyon below, forming ice flows. “Climbers are generally pretty lazy and like accessibility,” jokes Kevin Koprek, the Ouray Ice Park manager. “Soon, they started promoting the leaks and, fortunately, local businesses as well.” Ouray locals recognized ice climbing as a valuable economic asset during the slow winter season. The town worked with climbers and experimented with “ice farming,” growing flows with irrigated water. By the mid-1990s, the Ouray Ice Park, just a short walk from downtown, was formed. It quickly made its mark on the ice-climbing map. In 1996, it introduced its own ice climbing competition — The Ouray Ice Festival — one of only a handful in the United States. Meanwhile, innovations in climbing gear were making the sport more comfortable. Curving tools’ handles preventsee ICE CLIMBER Page 26

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ed bashed hands. Gore-Tex and other fabric innovations made clothing dryer and warmer. Equipment in general became lighter. These gear trends, combined with the ease and accessibility of new ice crag hotspots, like Ouray, Frankenstein Cliffs in New Hampshire and Sandstone Ice Park in Minnesota, have made the sport accessible to a larger base of North American climbers than ever before. And a handful of small ice competitions and festivals have sprung up in places like Colorado Springs; Bozeman, Mont.; Cody, Wyo.; and Munising, Mich. While the sport once seemed intimidating, more and more outdoor enthusiasts are now jumping on board. “It’s been a slow, steady growth for us,” says Justin Roth of Petzl America, a major manufacturer of ice climbing gear. “It’s definitely come more into the public eye with the Sochi Olympics, and the World Cup. Ouray seems to get bigger every year.” Koprek, the Ouray Ice Park manager, has noticed that growth as well. They use a census method to measure the number of climbers visiting the park each day. “Historically, three or four years ago, we had two or three busy weekends,” he says. “Now, pretty much every weekend, the park is packed.” 26 December 26, 2013

All that growth has brought around $3 million to the Ouray economy during the winter months, Koprek says. The Ouray Ice Festival, held for four days every January, has maxed out at 3,000 attendees for several years as well. Koprek says they’re seeing the largest growth among women climbers and families. “Here in Ouray, it’s appealing because of the accessibility and variability in the terrain,” Koprek says. “People of all abilities can climb right alongside each other.” For Montgomery, ice climbing’s development as a more accessible activity is one of the most exciting things about participating in the Olympic event this winter. He just wrapped up the Bozeman Ice Festival in Montana, taking sixth place. He’ll spend a few weeks with his wife and 4-month-old boys, mixing in some drills at the Alpine Training Center in Boulder before taking off for the World Cup in South Korea. The following month, it’s Sochi. “I just feel like, for me, it’s a move forward, it’s a recognition of climbing,” he says. “For people who don’t want that to happen, that’s fine. I think everyone gets out of climbing what they want to get out of climbing, and it’s great in that way. … I like to share the sport.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ost-Louis Armstrong, there probably has not been a more influential American musician, save for Bob Dylan, than Lou Reed, who died two months ago at the age of 71, five years after marrying visionary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson in Boulder. It’s a shame that the legendary New York singer-songwriter, arguably responsible for both punk rock and indie rock, didn’t stick around here after tying the knot to give the music scene a kick in the ass. We need it, if Boulder is to incubate rock

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music that gets noticed nationally on lists such as this, my sixth-annual list of 10 favorite new releases (this year, focused on songs). Our lack of a relevant rock ’n’ roll scene (please let us know if there’s one out there), no doubt partly due to our lack of a small rock venue, is unfortunate, to say the least. But that can change as fast as you can say “Search and Destroy.” The Boulder music scene just needs a shot of creativity, cojones and a small venue where local rock bands can develop a good live show and a good following, soon. Boulder Weekly

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Loretta Lynn’s profound sass. And the rest of The Electric Lady, the third LP of Monae’s still-blossoming career, is even more diverse than all that. Lorde’s “Royals” was undoubtedly the song of the year in pop music, but it’s just child’s play compared to “Givin Em What They Love.”

1. In a music world overflowing with interesting and exciting indie rock, it’s great to have a band like Queens of the Stone Age to bring us back to when bands like Foghat and the Guess Who pleased arenas full of stoners with intentions no greater than, well, rocking. On its sixth longplay, ...Like Clockwork, the Southern California hard-rock staple delivers another riff-heavy clinic on dark-yet-melodic rock ’n’ roll, highlighted by the mid-tempo “I Sat By the Ocean,” which would be right at home on classic rock radio between “Evil Woman” and “Immigrant Song.” On this standout track, QOTS frontman Josh Homme laments a cruel former lover with honesty rather than forgiveness, and the surrounding tasteful guitar is just dirty enough to provide lamenting poetry of its own.

2. Just as a dozen years ago I marveled at Rage Against the Machine’s uncanny ability to sell extreme leftist rock records to frat boys, something Crass never dared dream, I’m now floored that Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, an addictive vocoder-focused dance album by two French men dressed as robots, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. The intention and imagination behind Daft Punk’s music deserves a thick biography, but I’ve most enjoyed “Giorgio By Moroder,” which begins with the briefly spoken Schwarzenegger-esque autobiography of legendary Italian musician/producer Giovanni Giorgio Moroder and impressively morphs into what sounds like a captivating virtual boxing match between a brilliant DJ and a hot jazz-fusion group. Boulder Weekly

3. My daughter, Sidney, just turned 4 and has made it clear her favorite band is The Ramones. Seeing her appreciate Joey Ramone’s earth-sized heart makes me endlessly happy. But she also needs female role models in music, and I can find none better than the enigmatic Neko Case. On the uncompromising ballad “Night Still Comes,” from Case’s uncompromising sixth LP The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, she veritably spits out the lyrics, “There’s always someone to say it’s easy for me / but I revenge myself all over myself / there’s nothing you can say to me” and continues, “Is it cause I’m a girl? If I puked up some sonnets, would you call me a miracle?” Case, now 43 and probably at the height of her vocal prowess, is not quite country but might be the best female country artist alive; she’s not quite indie but might be the best female indie artist alive. Listen to the buoyant defiance of the beautifully crafted “Night Still Comes” and you just might consider Case the best modern songwriter America’s got.

4. Speaking of Girl Power, Janelle Monáe’s badass duet with Prince, “Givin Em What They Love,” brought me back to the goosebump-inducing first time I heard Tricky’s powerful version of “Black Steel.” The talented, bold Monáe, a Kansas City native with six Grammy nominations already under her belt, defies categorization under the “urban” label, which is a pretty racist term anyway, and “Givin Em What They Love” reveals tinges of not only hard rock, hip-hop and funk but also just a smidgen of

5. At its best a perfect mixture of the Band and the Beatles, Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog — famously the one band every modern musician would give a limb to be in — unfortunately succumbed, at least on its recordings, to the age-old pattern of “jumping the shark” once the mainstream catches on. Luckily for longtime Dr. Dog fans, “Humble Passenger,” from the pleasing new LP B-Room, sums up just about everything that’s great about the Philly quintet in one gorgeous, unique ramble of a song-tale. Somewhere between “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream,” with more dynamic music, and Phish’s “Gamehendge” saga, with less psychedelics, “Humble Passenger” uses deft musicianship and songwriting as the formidable backdrop for what seems like a diary of singer-guitarist Scott McMicken’s dreams. The changes are beautiful; the delivery is impeccable. The ’Dog is back.

6. Speaking of “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream,” 25-year-old Courtney Barnett brings a little Highway 61 via Australia on the Jeffrey Lewis-ish “Avant Gardener.” Like “Humble Passenger,” this lo-fi jewel features music reminiscent of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and lyrics (see: “I take a hit from an asthma see SONGS Page 35

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NYE Events

New Year’s Eve with Surburbon Cowboy Noise. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

BOULDER COUNTY: Brother Ali. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-4470095.

Novus Folium with Pride in Pieces and Resonence. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

NYE Celebration with Jeff Scroggins & Colorado. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Halden Wofford and the Hi Beams. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

New Year’s Eve DJ Dance Party. 9 p.m. The Kitchen Next Door, 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-542-8159.

Intuit w/ Big Love String Band. 9:30 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. The Attic Bar and Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Laurie D New Year’s Eve. 7 p.m. Volta Mediterranean Restaurant, 2480 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303938-8800.

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.

Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Midnight in the Bubble. 9 p.m. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433850.

Phil Robinson. 8 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Thrive in the Age of Aquarius at Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place. 9 p.m. 2027 13th St.,

New Year’s Eve at BMoCA — Celebrate the birth of the new year at BMoCA. 9:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

New Year’s Party with LSD! 9 p.m. Foolish Craig’s, 1611 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-247-9383.

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New Year’s Eve Party with Riff Raff. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Whiskey Autumn. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

New Year’s Eve Celebration. 10 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

New Year’s Eve James Bond Ball. 8:30 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Yonder Mountain String Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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On The Spot. 4 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver, 303758-4722.

Abandin Pictures. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

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Paper Bird. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Amazing Scavenger Hunt Adventure. 9 a.m. Colorado State Capitol, 200 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-866-2604.

Reverend Horton Heat. 9 p.m. Gothic Theatre, 3263 South Broadway, Englewood, 303-789-9206.

AOA (Alive on Arrival). 9:30 p.m. Herb’s, 2057 Larimer St., Denver, 303-299-9555.

The Samples. 7:30 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840.

Bare Knuckle Blues Band. 8 p.m. El Chapultepec, 1962 Market St., Denver, 303-295-9126.

Shredding Heights. 8 p.m. Bushwackers Saloon, 1967 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-722-0280.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters. 9:30 p.m. Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106.

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 9 p.m. The Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Two Fer Tuesday. 8 p.m. The Berkeley Inn, 3834 Tennyson St., Denver, 303-495-3508.

Bunk With the Beasts — Enjoy a parents’ night out as the kids ring in the new year with a pizza sleepover. 5 p.m. Denver Zoo, 2900 E. 23rd Ave., Denver, 720-337-1400.

Umphrey’s McGee. 7 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. VooDoo Presents New Years Eve Bash. 8 p.m. Merchant’s Mile High Saloon, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver, 303-722-9880.

Decadence New Year’s. 7:30 p.m. Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000.

Walker Williams. 8:30 p.m. Grizzly Rose, 5450 N. Valley Highway, Denver, 303-295-1330.

Delta Sonics. 9 p.m. Lincoln’s Roadhouse, 1201 S Pearl St., Denver, 303-777-3700, 303-777-3700.

Wil Anderson. 5 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comedy Works South at The Landmark, 5345 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village, 720-274-6800.

Dotsero. 7 p.m. Jazz at Jack’s, 500 16th St. #320, Denver, 303-433-1000. The Dwarves. 9 p.m. Moe’s Original Bar B Que Englewood, 3295 S Broadway, Englewood, 303-7810414.

Matty Graziano. 8 p.m. Ziggies Saloon, 4923 W. 38th Ave., Denver, 303-455-9930.

Emilio Emilio. 7:30 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 West 38th Ave., Denver, 303-455-4269.

Miguel Migs. 9 p.m. Bar Standard, 1037 Broadway, Denver, 303-832-8628.

Exit 2. 8 p.m. Buckin’ Harley’s, 1451 Cortez St., Denver, (303) 487-0020.

Models & Bottles. 9 p.m. Club Vinyl, 1082 Broadway, Denver, 303-860-8469.

Flobots. 8 p.m. The Marquis Theatre-Denver, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

New Orleans Suspects. 8 p.m. Quixote’s True Blue, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver, 303-861-7070.

Gora Gora Orkestar New Year’s Eve Party. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-2949281.

New Year’s Eve Benefit Bash! 6:30 p.m. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver, 720-946-1388.

Klutch Beat. 9 p.m. Beta Nightclub, 1909 Blake St., Denver, 303-383-1909. Lipgloss NYE. 9 p.m. Meadowlark, 2701 Larimer St., Denver, 303-293-0251.

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Trout Steak Revival. 8 p.m. Park House, 1515 Madison St., Denver, 303-321-0585.

Blossoms of Light. 5:30 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver, 720-865-3585.

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. 8 p.m. The Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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Tea Leaf Green. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

Black and White New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Casselman’s Bar & Venue, 2620 Walnut St., Denver, 720-242-8923.

The Hot Lunch Band. 8 p.m. Jazz at Jack’s, 500 16th St. #320, Denver, 303-433-1000.

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The Sword. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Bigwheel Electrosoul. 10 p.m. Appaloosa Grill, 535 16th St., Denver, 720-932-1700.

Great Gatsby New Years Eve Party. 8 p.m. The X Bar, 629 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-2687.

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New Year’s Eve Dinner. 5:30 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281. New Year Eve’s with Faceman. 8 p.m. Lion’s Lair, 2022 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-320-9200. New Year’s Eve with Ginuwine. 9 p.m. City Hall Nightclub, 1144 Broadway, Denver, 303-832-8628 ext. 2. New Year’s Eve with ITCHY-O. 8 p.m. 3 Kings Tavern, 60 South Broadway, Denver, 303-777-7352. New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball. 7 p.m. Fado Irish Pub, 1735 19th St., Denver, 303-297-0066. New Year’s Eve Party. 9 p.m. Zephyr Lounge, 11940

E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 303-364-8981. New Year’s Eve Fireworks Downtown — See the bright the bright lights as they explode and enjoy the the afterglow. 9 p.m. and midnight 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-534-6161. New Year’s Eve featuring Mike Winfield — The Office actor and comedian helps ring in a joyous and hilarious new year. 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and 10 p.m. Comedy Works, Larimer Square, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303595-3637. A Night in Vienna. 6:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 14th St. and Curtis St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Noon Year’s Eve — A kid-friendly midday New Year’s extravaganza. Denver Children’s Museum, 2121 Children’s Museum Drive, Denver, 303-433-7444.

Wu Year’s Eve. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.

LOVELAND: 1st National Bank New Year’s Eve Extreme Rodeo Challenge. 7:30 p.m. Budweiser Events Center, 5290 Arena Circle, Loveland, 970-619-4100.

FORT COLLINS: First Night Fort Collins — The city’s annual New Year’s festivities include, storytelling, comedy, fireworks, and more. 5 p.m. Old Town, 19 Old Town Square, Fort Collins, 970-484-6500.

LAKEWOOD:

The Sword. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

Gifted. 8 p.m. Edge Theatre, 9797 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, 303-232-0363.

Nina Storey. 9 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214.

So What Brothers. 9 p.m. Baker Street Pub Lakewood, 7260 West Alaska Drive, Lakewood.

NWE Pre-Gala with Otis Taylor. 6:30 p.m. The Dazzle Showroom, 930 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-839-5100.

Thin Ice Band. 8 p.m. The Rusty Bucket, 3355 Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood.

NYE with Stu Miller Band. 7:30 p.m. The Toad Tavern, 5302 S. Federal Circle, Littleton, 303-795-6877.

World Music Night: A Special New Year’s Eve Concert. 6:30 p.m. Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 South Allison Parkway, Lakewood, 303-987-7845.

December 31, 2013 9:30pm-2am at BMoCA $25 / $20 members / $30 door Celebrate the New Year and become a Pop superstar at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s Warhol-themed NYE party and benefit! Featuring music by Discmann, screen prints, tarot cards, champagne toast, light bites & more. Pop-inspired clothing encouraged. To purchase your tickets, visit BMOCA.org or call 303.443.2122. Sponsors: Harvey M Hine Architecture + Interiors, Alfalfa’s, Boulder Lending Group, elephant journal & Pink Monkey Solutions Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art | 1750 13th Street Boulder, CO 80302

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