Finding the Middle Ground
By Amy Hartman, MA, LPC, NCC, RPT
People who know me would say I’m a practical, down-to-earth counselor. I tend to talk about goals, steps to meet them, and how we’re going to get there. I always have a map in my head, guiding the sessions toward the desired outcome as defined by the client. On the (more…)
2012-2013 supplemental and June 2013-2014 budgets approved
By Patty Unruh
The Board of Education of Gilpin County School conducted its final meeting for the 2012-2013 school year on June 17. Board members present were Brook Ramsey, vice president, who conducted the meeting, Charlotte Taylor, Kersten Armstrong, and Rusty Hardy. (more…)
County Management
By Roger Baker
One of the changes to the Gilpin County zoning regulations that was approved at the last Commissioners’ meeting was to create a separate class of short-term temporary use permits that can be issued administratively, without having to come before the Commissioners. (more…)
Northern Colorado Front Range Management Partnership Forms
PRESS RELEASE – Recently Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin and Larimer counties formalized a partnership with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service to develop a landscape-level, multi-jurisdictional strategy for Recreational Sport Shooting (RSS) across northern Colorado’s Front Range. (more…)
Pastor’s Pulpit
By Pastor Tom Davidson
We live in a culture of blame instead of personal responsibility. The Bible is different in that it very much supports personal responsibility for the choices and decisions we make. I like what Eleanor Roosevelt said, “One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words. It is (more…)
Life Coaching
By Dr. Mike Brooks
When is the last time you heard someone say “I will never forgive my ex-wife. She can rot in Hades for all I care.” Or, “If Joe wants me to forgive him he better crawl on his hands and knees begging for it.” How many of us have un-forgiveness in our hearts? We just can’t (more…)
39th annual bed races, beauties, and bunches of fun!
By Patty Unruh
Comedian George Burns once quipped, “Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
Sorry, George, Central City “housekeepers” in the 19th Century came up with that notion before you did, and on June 15 that historic town tipped its hat to one of its more enterprising historical figures, Madam Lou Bunch. (more…)
Community Fun Event
By Cary Ihme
It was 19 years ago that Ed Saxton helped start the “fishing clinic” in Central City at the William C. Russell Park, where he would teach kids how to fish. The fishing clinic has since evolved into the Father’s Day Fishing Derby sponsored by the Gilpin County Rec Center, (more…)
Timberline reports one wild land fire, quickly contained
By Lynn Volkens
Gilpin County Sheriff Bruce Hartman issued directions to put the entire county on Stage 1 fire restrictions as of 1 p.m. June 12, 2013. This is not a complete fire “ban,” but does prohibit some activities and sets specific requirements for others. Sheriff Hartman and (more…)
Dory Hill water plant, casino celebrations, Bobtail liquor store
By Lynn Volkens
Black Hawk Mayor David Spellman and City Council members Linda Armbright, Paul Bennett, Diane Cales, Jim Johnson, Greg Moates and Benito Torres met the afternoon of June 12, 2013 for their regularly scheduled City Council meeting. They amended the 2013 (more…)
The End of Self-Sabotage
By Amy Hartman, MA, LPC, NCC, RPT
“Oscar Wilde said: ‘Each man kills the thing he loves.’ And it’s true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of an ordinary person with guilt. We look around us at those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what (more…)
Pastor’s Pulpit
by Pastor Brian Young
cyn·i·cism – An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others.
There lurks a trap tailor made for you and for me in this life. Its confining bars drain the life from our spirits, evaporate the joy from our hearts, and send well-wishers away (more…)
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
PRESS RELEASE – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is reminding the public about the dangers of approaching moose after recent activity in Grand Lake has heightened concerns with moose/human conflicts. (more…)
Life Coaching
By Dr. Mike Brooks
Okay, right off the bat, I’m telling you this article isn’t about going to a priest and confessing all of your faults and sins and your whole life story. This is about getting things right with someone you have offended or wounded. It might be a family member, a friend (more…)
This week at the Gilpin Library
by Larry Grieco
Here are a couple of Young Adult series that could keep both teens and adults occupied this summer. From Ally Condie comes the futuristic trilogy that begins with Matched, and continues with the sequel, Crossed, and concludes with Reached. This is the story (more…)
This year’s most unusual item…
By Lynn Volkens
It was definitely the armadillo. That’s what the volunteers of High Country Auxiliary said was the most unusual item donated for their annual Flea Market, held last weekend; one of them dubbed it “Julio.” The armored mammal might have had competition from the (more…)