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WEEK OF OCTOBER 5, 2023
VOLUME 64 | ISSUE 46
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New building for downtown Evergreen moves forward with community meeting BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Sarah Aiken, one of more than 100 volunteers at Split & Steak, the wood ministry at Conifer Community Church, throws a piece of firewood into a trailer. The wood will be given to families in need that need firewood to heat their homes for the winter.
Split & Steak a special firewood-chopping event Conifer Community Church’s firewood ministry aims to prepare 70 cords for families in need
BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The fragrance of fresh-cut wood blended with the buzz of chainsaws and splitters as volunteers spent a day creating piles and piles of firewood for residents in need.
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PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST
After the work was done, the volunteers sat down to a steak dinner to celebrate their hard work. Therefore the name: Split & Steak. The Conifer Community Church wood ministry event in its 13th year
The Ross-Lewis Trust has moved forward in constructing a new building in downtown Evergreen, though construction likely won’t start until 2025. Representatives of the trust and Jefferson County Planning & Zoning conducted a community meeting on Sept. 25 to introduce the proposal and get feedback, the first step in moving through the county’s rezoning process. The trust wants to rezone the property where Sweetwater Boutique and Seasonally Yours were located on Evergreen Parkway, plus the neighboring pocket park to construct a new building there. A fire in that building in December forced both businesses to close. In addition, the trust wants to SEE BUILDING, P3
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