The mountain area’s newspaper since 1958
WEEK OF JULY 25, 2024
VOLUME 65 | ISSUE 36
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Work begins on Hilldale Pines wildfire fuel break P2
First Mountain Music Fest to bring full day of music to Evergreen BY JANE REUTER JREUTER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Tobyn Groutas with Mile High Youth Corps works on a fire mitigation project July 15 near Crystal Way in Conifer’s Hilldale Pines neighborPHOTO BY ROBERT D TONSING hood.
VOICES: 8 | LIFE: 10 | HAPPENINGS: 12 | SPORTS: 21
The cost for a student to participate in one extra-curricular activity in a season was about $833 in 2022, according to the Aspen Institute’s Project Play. For families with annual household incomes of $150,000 or more, that average is $2,068. The Evergreen-based Wooden Hawk Foundation wants to help, and it’s doing so in a unique way — by helping to coordinate a largely student-run mountain music festival through which students can gain unique experience, and raise money and awareness about their sports and clubs. “Firefall” will headline the Aug. 3 Mountain Music Fest, SEE MUSIC FEST, P4
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