WEEK OF OCTOBER 24, 2024
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Clear Creek EMS launches free CPR training, lofty goal Team hopes to train 15% of residents in life-saving skills BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Participants of the ghost hunt at Windsor Hotel in Silver Plume.
PHOTO BY CHRIS KOEBERL
Paranormal group visits Windsor Hotel in Silver Plume for ghost hunt BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Windsor Hotel in Silver Plume recently played host to historical and paranormal tours during which some participants said they made contact with something ethereal. The Denver-based paranormal group Dead October agreed to bring their ghost hunting equipment and national experience of paranormal-based investigations to Silver Plume Oct. 12 to benefit the sophomore class at Clear Creek High School.
“I know there is a spirit world and I know (it) is around me. I think that different people can preserve it in different strengths — I felt it today,” said Barb Field of North Carolina, who attended the tour with her daughter Thea Reiff of Georgetown. “That was way more educational and intimate as an experience than I anticipated — the hotel and the history and the phenomenon of ghost hunting and paranormal investigations,” Reiff said. The Windsor Hotel was burned to the ground in 1884 and rebuilt in 1902 at its current location, 515 Woodward St. by the
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Lampshire family of Cornwall, England, according to Silver Plume records. The Lampshire family experienced several unexpected and unfortunate deaths during the time they owned what had become a “miners hotel” during the period, according to records. Along the way, the hotel was apparently frequented by guests such as Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison and his son, both experts in the new field of electricity, a key in the paranormal, according to Dead October. SEE GHOSTS, P3
The common phrase “serious as a heart attack” is something Clear Creek Emergency Medical Service paramedics take to heart, and their goal is to prepare as many “citizen rescuers” in the county as possible. In an effort to train at least 15% of county residents in the techniques and repetition of CPR, EMS will hold a public and free training session at the Clear Creek County Metropolitan Recreation Center from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26. The difference between “trained” and “untrained” can mean a lifetime, according to Clear Creek EMS Clinical Captain Clark Church. “The quicker CPR is done effectively, the higher the chances of survival are for that person,” Church said. “The point of CPR is to circulate oxygen through the blood to the brain, which isn’t happening when your heart isn’t beating.” SEE CPR, P7
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