City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 17 Aug 2018

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This week on Inside Boulder News: EFAA Day, RA Fire Academy, and Heads Up Campaign

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This week on inside boulder news, this nonprofit organization celebrates 100 years of service to the community, as students get ready to go back to school. These college kids get prepared for emergency situations and we'll tell you why the city will be stepping up enforcement around crosswalks.

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Welcome to inside boulder news, your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Jocelyn Daniel moving week for CU Boulder students is just days away this week, resident advisors from the Williams village student neighborhood spent the busy day learning about fire safety and how to lead effectively during emergencies. As students head back to school for the year for nearly 20 years, boulders fire rescue has been attending CU Bullers RA academy. They dedicated to educate, resident advisors and Hall directors, all about dorm room fire safety. There.

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Have been across the United States campus fire deaths, where students have died camp on campus and off campus fire deaths, and we wanted to have that not be part of our story here in Boulder, students.

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Rotated through different stations, learning about things such as emergency medical services in fire, extinguisher training.

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We actually have them go through a theater smoke-filled hallway, and that is just really to push the push at home. That smoke comes real quickly and so the first sign or first time someone hears a fire alarm. They need to evacuate quickly. The.

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Fire academy turned out to be a valuable experience for everyone who attended I. Think it's really good to get to know the people.

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That are on the other line of when we're calling 9-1-1, especially for first year, artists, who might not have called 911 ever before so I think that's really beneficial.

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To the unique partnership between cu-boulder and the city's Fire, Rescue has turned into a curriculum. Many universities nationwide follow, and it's also taught out the National Fire Academy for fire safety. So.

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We feel very fortunate to have that professional relationship with Cu, because I think it's best for our whole community, when we work together to help students take charge of their own safety and work with them to figure out how to navigate through college years. The.

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Emergency Family Assistance Association is a community-based safety net organization that has been helping families and meat across Boulder since 1918. Just recently, they're gonna, say: Shin celebrated its 100th year anniversary since 1918 the emergency Family, Assistance, Association or ephah has been helping families in Boulder with basic needs. Over the years. The organization has expanded its services to provide housing assistance, as well as case management to better serve the community. This organization was founded during a time of hardship in Boulder. We.

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Had the end of World War one at that point, you know some folks weren't coming home at all. You know, family structures had changed. The economy was affected significantly at that time. Dangerous.

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Occupations like the mining boom left a lot of widows and orphans in the boulder community. The Spanish Influenza was also affecting families, not just nationwide but locally as well. At that point,.

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It was very clear that some families were struggling and it was a group of faith-based organizations and actually a women's association who came together and said we can do better. We can. We can meet some of these needs and help each other out fast.

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Forward to today, ephah has helped hundreds of thousands of families in need in Boulder County. It is an organization that was built by the community or the community very.

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Important to have an organization like this, because if we weren't here folks might go without and that's the risk that we serve, fo receives no federal funding, we're all Community Supported. We have 700 volunteers and 3,000 donors each year and together we come together under this principle or idea of neighbors helping neighbors to.

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Help support and ours contributed by fs700 volunteers is equivalent to a value of half a million dollars. Mark Biggers has been volunteering forever for the last 10 years. It's.

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A wonderful organization to volunteer for because it provides you plenty of direction, so you know to do but not too much oversight, so you don't feel like you're being over man for me personally, I just just feel good about it. You know helping people out who are in need. We're.

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Excited to celebrate our 100-year anniversary- and you know one of the things that we recognize is that meat is constant and therefore so two must be f5.

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To learn more about ephah, and if you think you may qualify for this assistance program, please visit afer.org next week, the city of Boulder will step up enforcement around crosswalk safety ordinances. The heads up campaign is a part of a larger effort to reduce or eliminate collisions involving pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles. There are many ways to get around Boulder, while they're cycling, through town, taking a stroll down the street or cruising down one of boulders avenues. These methods of transportation have one thing in common crosswalks.

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Next week, city law enforcement will start cracking down on traffic laws revolving around street safety.

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Boulders heads up campaign focuses on crosswalk safety for all users, motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians, and the goal is to introduce and educate users and reduce collisions in and around crosswalks in Boulder. The.

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Heads up campaign is part of a much broader effort called vision, zero, which is a community partnership to implement safety strategies among the broader Buller community, while.

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The city's vision, zero goals is to eliminate traffic related deaths and serious injuries. The heads up campaign specifically focuses on traffic safety around crosswalks in.

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2016 over 3,000 collisions were reported that resulted in injuries and fatalities. The city hopes that education and community attention can ultimately eliminate these problems. The.

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Heads of campaign is so important because it's our primary safety campaign in the city and we work towards making transportation safe for all users within the city. The.

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Heads up campaign will run from August 27th through the 31st and again in September, from the 17th to the 21st city staff and Boulder. Police Department will be at various crosswalks around the city, reminding people of the heads up safety message, which is to always be aware at all times. People.

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Can find more information about the campaign at Boulder transportation net and feel free to stop by at any of our enforcement weeks protector.

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Pups boulder police, Animal Protection is hosting a low-cost vaccinations and licensing clinic on August 25th. The animal protection unit will be hosting a vaccine clinic at the Valmont city dog park. This is being hosted with the Boulder Humane Society, where for $10 you can get your pet vaccinated, dog or cat services will also be available to renew or purchase your dog license for the city of Boulder B Colorado pet pantry will also be in attendance, providing free dog and cat food as well as free pet supplies.

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Cats will need to be in a carrier and dogs on their leashes when they receive services the clinic will be hosted on Saturday August 25th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Valmont city dog park. Vaccinations will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside of Boulder news. If you have pictures news tips or events, you like to see featured we'd love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, you can also sign up through si video updates riding your inbox. Just go to Boulder channel 8, comm and click on subscribe have a good week.