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WEEK OF MARCH 23, 2023
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EPRD ready to ask residents what they think Postcards with links to a survey should be mailed next week BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A survey about the Evergreen Park & Recreation District is coming to residents’ mailboxes.
More specifically, the postcard is coming. The postcard is key to answering the survey that will help guide the EPRD board’s decisions as it plans for the next three to five years. The postcard, which is being mailed to all 9,000 households in the rec district, will have an individual code that must be used to access the online survey, and the survey can only be answered by one person per household.
Those who don’t want to or can’t take the survey online can bring the postcard to either the Wulf or Buchanan Park rec centers to get a paper copy. The postcards should be mailed by March 24, and people will have 10 days to answer the survey, which should take 15-20 minutes. Board members and staff hope as many people answer the survey as possible to give them an accurate picture of what the community wants from its
Evergreen man performs world-record feat Monty Estis will be in Guinness list for gymnastics skill BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
If you’re going to set a Guinness World Record, you might as well accomplish the feat not once, but twice. That’s exactly what Monty Estis of Evergreen did on March 14 when he set the record for the oldest man — he’s 65 — performing a planche on the gymnastic rings. A planche is a skill that is one level more difficult than the iron cross during which the gymnast holds his body horizontally with straight arms. Estis is an avid athlete, participatSEE RECORD, P4
recreation district. For those who live outside the district or a second person in the household, there’s a path to take the survey for you, too: A link will be available on the EPRD website to access the survey. The difference is that responses from those with postcards — those living and paying property taxes in the district — will be tallied differSEE EPRD, P2
EFR unveils re-imagined plans to attack wildfire mitigation BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Monty Estis of Evergreen performs a planche, holding it for at least two seconds to be put into the Guinness World Records as the oldest person to perform the skill. Estis is PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST 65.
Evergreen Fire/Rescue’s wildland fire team has moved forward since the department’s community ambassadors asked 16 months ago whether wildfire prevention and mitigation were priorities for the department. At a fire board meeting on March 15, members of the department’s wildland team outlined the multipronged approach to both educating the community and performing the SEE WILDFIRE, P5
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