WEEK OF APRIL 24, 2025
VOLUME 53 | ISSUE 46
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Residents invited to Epic Day of Service Effort to clean up neighborhoods and parks draws support BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Townhall meeting at Yards Tap House in Idaho Springs April 10.
The Epic Day of Service is aimed at cleaning up parks and neighborhoods in Clear Creek County. Look for lots of volunteers carrying orange trash bags across the county May 17. The business community along with Idaho Springs director of Business & Community Promotion Sadie Schultz organized the day to clear out the trash in every county municipality with the help of local volunteers, The Rotary Club, Cabin Creek Brewing, Tommyknockers, Mountain Youth Network and Doyle Disposal providing a network of dumpsters donated for the day. You’ll find supplies, orange trash bags and instructions at several locations across the county starting at 9 a.m. including: • Idaho Springs: former Citywide bank parking lot • Georgetown: Events parking lot • Empire: Minton park parking lot • Silver Plume: Dinger Park Volunteers who fill an orange bag will receive a food and beverage coupon to Tommyknocker Brew Pub in Idaho Springs. Items that cannot be accepted in the clean up include: • Mattresses • Exercise equipment • Electronics • Tires • Hazardous material/old paint cans Organizers say it will be a day of community service cleaning up Clear Creek while having some fun with neighbors.
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Town hall dives into future of Idaho Springs City leaders, local business and residents discuss updates to Trek Trails, skate park, Argo cable car BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Dozens of local residents, businesses, community and government leaders join for a town hall in Idaho Springs to talk about and question: “What’s on the horizon for the town and county?” Yards Tap House offered the space and food for the event April 10 with several key players in business and government providing updates and answering questions about the rapidly changing
landscape of the town. Sadie Schultz, Idaho Springs director of business and community promotion, led the discussion that included Mayor Chuck Harmon, leaders in the construction of the Trek Trails at Virginia Canyon Mountain Park, and included updates on the Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation District skate park set to break ground soon. “My commitment in my new role is we’d have community conversation every quarter; one focused on the east end
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and one focused on the downtown district,” Schultz said. “There are significant changes in the landscape, daily tourist population and business culture heading to Idaho Springs and the county, in some cases rapidly. SEE TOWN HALL P6
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