Transcript GOLDEN 1.10.13-20
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Jefferson County, Colorado • Volume 147, Issue 6
Major role in stock show
Westernaires ride single file inside Western Arena during the start of a practice at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds Saturday, Jan. 5, for the upcoming National Western Stock Show. Photo by Andy Carpenean with the matching number on their backs while keeping the other 27 getting in the way. “You have to get them in a little catch pen, all from horseback, without a rope,” Keller said. Sorting is a similar sport, where two riders without ropes have to move cattle from one pen area to another, in numerical order. Many of those same Penning and Sorting athletes will compete in the stock show coliseum on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Each day, the top 10 finalists will then compete during the intermission of that night’s main event, the Pro Bull Riding competition. “If you get to ride in front of the PBR crowd, it’s pretty fun,” Keller said. “The crowd always seems to really like it too.” More information, and a schedule of events is available at www.National Western.com.
Westernaires There is another strong connection between Jefferson County and the Stock Show — The Westernaires. “Every year since 1954, we’ve been a big part of the National Western Stock Show,” said Glen Keller Jr., the director of the Westernaires. This year is no exception, with the club of Jefferson County teens putting on a total of 45 performances over the duration of the stock show, including a 120-member entry in the opening day parade. In all, Keller said more than 150 Jeffco teens would participate, performing trick riding, precision drill riding, Wild West show stunts and dressage. A complete schedule of the Westernaires performances is available at www. westernaires.org.
Space tech firm in Golden sold A Golden-based firm that produces spaceflight components and software was purchased last week by a similar company for $48 million.
Broad Reach Engineering Company, 1113 Washington Ave. No. 200, was founded in 1997. The company, which recently developed a processor that can better withstand the radiation that bombards spacecraft, has approximately 60 employees spread among offices in San Jose, Calif., and Tempe,
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Land swap means 617 acres of open space for new toll road route
Fairgrounds hosting competition Sunday and Monday Today marks the start of the National Western Stock Show, and Jefferson County will play a large part. Now in its 107th year, the stock show is a major 27-day event that draws rodeo and livestock fans and competitors from around the country to the Denver Coliseum. The event has longstanding ties to the Jefferson County Fairgrounds as well, however. For years now, 2013 included, some preliminary stock show events have been moved to the Jeffco Fairgrounds (15200 W. 6th Ave.): Penning beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday and Sorting beginning at 8 a.m. Monday. “The National Western is always an exciting time because you do get the athletes from across the nation,” said Jeffco Fairgrounds Director Mark Danner, adding that he thought that hosting some of the competition in Jeffco was a great opportunity. “They’re free events and they basically see the same action out here that they would at the coliseum,” Danner said. Jeff Keller, a U.S. Team Penning Association (USTPA) regional director, and penning competitor, said Team Penning has been called the fastest growing worldwide equestrian sport. In Penning, three riders are put into the arena with 30 numbered cattle. A number is called out, and the riders have 60 seconds to sort out the three cattle
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Ariz., and Golden. Broad Reach founder and CEO Chris McCormick was quoted by trade publications, saying that all those employees would begin working immediately for the buyer, New Yorkbased Moog Inc., as part of the deal. Calls for further comment from McCormick were not returned. It was uncertain whether the Golden facility would remain in operation. “Their engineering team brings extensive spaceflight heritage, industry expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to Moog,” said Moog’s Space and Defense Group President Jay Hennig. According to the corporate website, Broad Reach had
previously provided software and hardware support to clients including NASA, Boeing, JPL, Lockheed Martin and Ball Aerospace Corporation. One of its latest products is a specialized computer processor chip that can better withstand radiation exposure. Some of the company’s work is currently in use aboard the International Space Station. The acquisition is anticipated to add $32 million in revenue to Moog’s 2013 fiscal year. According to Moog’s press release, the firm is a worldwide designer, and manufacturer of control components and systems for aircraft, satellites, space vehicles, missiles, wind energy, marine and medical equipment.
It was a bumpy road, but a land swap to grant a swath of the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge for use as a new tollway through Jefferson County has happened. The $10 million land swap deal, involving U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of the Interior, Jefferson and Boulder counties, the city of Arvada and others, officially adds 617 acres of land to the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge. In exchange, the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority (JPPHA) was granted a 300-foot-wide transportation right-ofway along the refuge’s eastern edge, over the objections of some nearby cities and environmental groups. “I am delighted that we have overcome all the obstacles through hard work and perseverance by our fellow county commissioners, mayors and council members and their staffs as well as the United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, the State Land Board and the many others who have negotiated and compromised, always keeping in mind the vision of what is best for our citizens,” said Jefferson County Board of Commissioners chair Don Rosier following the decision. The land swap was opposed by a lawsuit claiming an inadequate environmental review, filed by environmental groups WildEarth Guardians and Rocky Mountain Wild, along with the cities of Superior and Golden. In mid-December a federal judge ruled that the swap was legal, and dismissed the lawsuit. Superior and the environmental groups filed an appeal, along with a request for a temporary injunction to keep the deal from being finalized on Dec. 31 as scheduled. The injunction was initially granted, but the three-judge panel decided to let the deal close as scheduled after receiving a rebuttal to the injunction by the JPPHA. The JPPHA may now proceed with plans to construct a 10-mile toll road. The new road would connect the current terminus of the E-470 Northwest Parkway in Broomfield to Highway 93, about three miles north of the city of Golden, as part of the continuing effort to complete a ring road around the Denver Metro Area. Like the Northwest Parkway, the road would be public, but rely on the investment of a private investor, who would then receive the parkway’s fee revenue. JPPHA Interim Executive Director Bill Ray said the lawsuit set back the parkway project by at least a year, even as the project itself still has years of study and planning ahead. Ray added that “extensive environmental reviews,” would still need to be conducted for the major interchanges, and affected wetlands associated with the parkway plan. Ray said the authority would be watching closely, in case the federal lawsuit is granted an appeal.
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