City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 15 Mar 2013

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Upslope Brewing takes advantage of city rebate program; two designs chosen for reusable bags; Boulder Fire Rescue honors its employees; and CU students raise money for children's cancer research.

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This week on inside folder news upslope brewing uses, City rebates to expand in Boulder, firefighters are awarded for their service and st. Baldrick's day. Participants raise money for children's cancer research.

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Welcome to inside Boulder, featuring topics and stories that impact the community of Boulder, Patrick, Vaughn, Kaiser, Lang and Jennifer Bray, and on the new set Natalie Wood brings you the stories making headlines this week.

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Inside Boulder news starts now.

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Welcome to inside Boulder news, I'm Natalie Wood, one of boulders, fast-growing breweries, is opening its second facility in Boulder, with the help of some City rebates. Here's a look at upslope brewing decision to expand and take advantage of the city's flexible rebate program. You.

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Know we grow up here in North Boulder and have always loved Boulder being a strong part of our our brand, our community, and so of course, we really want to stay in Boulder. This is our this, our backyard, our.

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Focus is to keep the companies that are here and help them grow and help them be happy doing business. Here we like to say that the jobs that we have here are the most important jobs that we have.

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The flexible rebate program is a business incentive tool that the city uses for high-impact primary employers working to help, keep them and grow here in Boulder duck approval that the city manager gave was for a fifty-thousand-dollar rebate, that'll, be something that up slope can present to the city receipts for taxes that they might pay on permits fees that they pay on permits and use in sales taxes on equipment that they're going to purchase for their new brewery. It's.

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Been definitely an incentive that kept us here, we found a great spot over flat iron park that we really like. We just started construction back in October. It's.

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Part of the review of the application, the city did a return on investment analysis, so we've already calculated that the economic impact that upslope brings to the city of Boulder will exceed the rebate. That's actually paid out to them. This.

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Flexible rebate, program I think it's been instrumental in keeping companies in Boulder when you're expanding and building into a new location. It's definitely part of the equation of staying here up.

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Slopes application is the sixth approved 2012, flexible rebate, application for more information about the city's economic vitality program, go to boulder colorado, govt click on business, paper or plastic. How about nada? The city chose these winning designs to be printed on reusable bags as part of the implementation of a disposable bag fee. Later this year, the designs were selected based on community input on inspire Boulder, the city's digital Town Hall. We.

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Had about a hundred and fifteen entries total, both through the mail through email and through inspire Boulder calm, and we had a committee narrow those down to ten finalists that we thought reflected the community well and would look great on a bag and met all of our requirements, and we put those up on inspire Boulder calm and have the community vote on the winners. The goal the ordinance is really to reduce disposable bag use everywhere. Both plastic paper bags at grocery stores by.

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Passing the ordinance the city is hoping, consumers will choose reusable bags over plastic to increase sustainability. The.

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People that are using the bags are going to be the ones that are sort of offsetting the impacts of the bag, so that fee will go towards you know doing the education and outreach about the ordinance buying the bags. Some money will go to the recycling center to help with contamination costs. We have some money in there that will go towards stream clean up and so really it that money is offsetting the impact of the bags. The.

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Winning designs will be printed on 30,000 bags and distributed to low-income residents and seniors. The 10-cent paper and plastic bag fee goes into effect on July. First.

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People demonstrate pride, integrity and professionalism in the work we do on a daily basis. Folder.

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Fire Rescue hosted an annual departmental achievement award ceremony Tuesday to recognize employees who have been promoted to new ranks provided exceptional service to the community and saved lives. This.

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Is our opportunity that we take once a year to thank our employees for some of the great work they do in the previous year and also to acknowledge promotions that occur throughout the year? Life-Saving awards are important for us, because when you're in the field and you're doing your work, often you don't get a follow-up or anything with it with the people you worked with, so we like to celebrate those lives.

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We save we pride ourselves in a service that we provide to the community and again, this is our opportunity to acknowledge the individual effort that makes that possible when we go out to serve the community. A number.

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Of employees have been promoted to new positions during the past year, including two female battalion Chiefs. The department will continue making improvements in 2013 like implementing a new dispatch system that will increase response times and creating a wildland fire station, see you. Students are shaving their heads for a cause. Lauren Peterson covers the st. Baldrick's Day fundraiser at the UMC I.

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Got my head shaved kind of huge.

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Yeah half the battle is not just fighting the disease, but it's also fighting the blow to your self-esteem, not losing your hair is especially for women. It's part of your femininity that you don't realize it's so important until it's gone. Alan.

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Reed doesn't have cancer, but she raised 655 dollars towards research for children who do last Wednesday. The herd student group hosted their annual st. Baldrick's day event. In the past four years, CU has raised over a hundred thousand dollars towards the cause one shaved head at a time we.

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Usually get about 5 to 10 girls per year on average and we've had about I. Think three actually shave their head so far, so we expect more brothers.

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It's not so hard ya.

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Guys tend to be a little bit more spontaneous they'll come out, and their friends will do it and they like they seem to be more easily persuaded into doing in I. Think there's a lack of emotional attachment to guys hair you're.

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Pretty much I'll shave our heads anyway, it's true. It's fun, though it was for 4.

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Girls, they they usually plan on it, a little bit more flyer themselves and they actually raise a lot of money towards the event I.

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Wanted to do something big for my 21st birthday, my goal was 2100 for my 21st and as of last night, I have raised 2252 I, believe so I overshot it and it seemed like a big goal from beginning. So it's really exciting.

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Nationally, the st. baldrick's foundation has donated over a hundred million dollars to Children's Cancer Research since 2005 this year's event at CU raised over twenty thousand dollars towards that rising number. With a hundred and fifty-eight bald heads for inside Boulder news, I'm, Lauren peterson, the.

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St. Baldrick's, Day Foundation will continue taking donations all year. Long visit, st. Baldrick's org for more information join us next week to see Boulder firefighters queue up to raise money with the st. Baldrick's Foundation, thanks for watching inside boulder news stay in touch with us on facebook by submitting news tips and questions or send a sign me up message to my city news at boulder colorado gov to receive video updates like this newscast in your Inbox.

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