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This week on Inside Boulder News: A new state-of-the-art museum breaks ground. Parks and Recreation launch their new software system. And we’re light on snow, but not on optimism. We check in with Eldora Mountain Resort to bring you the latest from the slopes.

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This week on inside Boulder news, a new state of the art, museum breaks, ground, Parks and Rec launched their new software system and we're light on snow, but not on optimism.

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We check in with aldora to bring you the very latest from the slow welcome to inside Boulder news your chance to share your stories, get involved and keep up to date on all things: Boulder, I'm, Kristin, Skov era, even with the snow showers we saw this week, resorts like Eldora are having to push back their season, but they still have plenty of good news to report.

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We're not going to make it for friday, but we're very optimistic, we'll make it for thanksgiving weekend brent.

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Tregaskis is used to warm weather before becoming president and GM and Eldora about 14 months ago he was overseen, bear mountain and snow summit in Southern California. It.

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Feels a lot like Big Bear, where I came from and last year when we were here, we were just getting killed with natural snow and snow making. It was terrific. We had just a great start, and this has just been the opposite. The warmest you know October November, that we've seen in Colorado in quite some time, but.

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Brent isn't letting a late start, get him down he's already looking forward, we've.

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Been working on a minor expansion plan for many many years finally got approval to do that. Last October and working in conjunction with the Forest Service, we were able to cut three new runs, which we haven't cutting runs here at Eldora in 20-something years, new.

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Runs new amenities at the main lodge and plans to improve existing lifts, a.

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New high-speed detachable six pack and that lift will go in next summer, Eldora.

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Is under new ownership, we.

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Have a kind of an igloo shaped thing here: that'll be our own thing to do. Gymnastics and the kids have a lot more fun in a kind of a non-traditional lesson powder.

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The same company that owns copper, mountain acquired the resort in June and is now dumping money on the operation. Just.

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To give you an idea, we spent you know: 1.8 million dollars this summer alone in capital. Improvements normal for el door is about 600,000, so we're almost tripled what we normally spend and.

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Spending very well could pay off, especially for skiers and riders. Looking to avoid I-70 become reacquainted with the resort. They thought they knew so.

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We've done quite well because of that, even though we have an invested millions yet, but there will be more than 10 million dollars spent here in a three-year period, so we're we're trying to catch up a little bit and you'll you'll come and see at this winter and note and there'll be a noticeable difference in the services you have experienced in the past and wait till next year. It's even going to be better for.

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More information visit Eldora dot-com, so you want to take a yoga class or sign your kids up for flag football registration and online navigation just got a whole lot easier. Most.

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People will interact with it as being their online registration or how they interact with their account. It's called.

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Active dotnet, a new software platform launched by the city's Parks and Recreation Department, and we.

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Decided on active just because it really offers some great user experience, security and overall ease. That's.

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Communication, specialist Denise white. She says the new system allows users to update their online profiles, attach multiple accounts to a single household, even customize, a calendar. You.

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Can search for the activities you want through a different sort of filters now, as well as look in real time, what classes may be filling up? Is there still availability? Has there been a change from the publication of the catalog.

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If you're already in the system, you should get an email that will help you make the transition. If you didn't get an email or you're a new customer just visit boulder park, / rec, dot, org.

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We have winter registration for recreation programs start december six, so you know that's going to kind of be another test for us, but we're feeling pretty positive about it.

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After nearly three decades, the Museum of Boulder has a new home. This.

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Has been really 30 years in progress, the museum which was found in 1944 moved to the Harbach house up in university hill in 1985, the boulder history museum did and for almost from that moment forward. There was a realization that the museum needed to expand and serve the community in better ways better.

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Ways like serving the community as an interactive science, history and Children's Museum, imagine a place where families and friends or even complete strangers can come together and build new technology like a robot or a talking posted those Bob Yates is a city council member who supported the project from the beginning. He says getting to this point would have been impossible without community support. We.

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Put ballot measure to a before the voters in November 2014 and almost by a two-to-one margin, the voters approved a 4 million dollar investment in the museum and the museum is matching that with 4 million of its own money, and so this partnership between the taxpayers and the people, Boulder and donors to the museum are creating this brand new museum, a builder for the entire community. Finding.

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A building big enough and affordable took time and about 20 other site tours until they found this building owned by the Masonic Lodge. So.

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We sat down with the Masons and we negotiated a deal, and here we are with the 18,000 square foot building built in 1949 at the corner of broadway and pine. It couldn't be any better. The.

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Groundbreaking is just the first step. It will take millions more to bring the building to life, whether.

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That's a gift of a thousand dollars a hundred dollars or ten dollars contributions to the museum investment in the museum. This is the time for the community come together, put the museum over the goal, line, finish the museum and create the museum the boulder wants and deserves for.

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More information visit, museum of Boulder org, whether you're biking, driving or walking Boulder, is committed to complete streets. That means streets that provide the best access for all kinds of vehicles and pedestrians. Now the city wants to hear from you to help develop a vision and design that will improve canyon, boulevard and state highway. 119 from ninth to seventeenth, Street, an open house and walking tour is scheduled for Thursday December. First, whether.

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You're walking or bicycling taking a bus or driving that you're able to travel along or even across much easier, Noreen.

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Walsh is a senior transportation planner who says your input is critical, so we.

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Looked at all the conceptual options that we showed in the spring and review them to see which one's best met the goals and objectives, and we've identified three for further development. So we'd like to share that information as well as plans for these three that are more fully developed.

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The walking tours begin at three thirty and 4pm participants should meet at the south side of Canyon Boulevard and eleventh Street. There will be an open house afterwards from five to seven pm at the boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. If you're unable to attend the meeting. All meeting materials, self-guided, walking, tour information and comment forms will be posted online, with a request for feedback by January.

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Third for more information visit, boulder colorado, gov, / transportation, / canyon, boulevard, Complete Streets, a part of what makes Boulder the unique community that we are is our thriving startup scene from the smallest food companies to technology giants like Google, creative companies and innovative ideas live here, but growing a business takes years of hard work and many challenges to navigate. That's where New Coke Boulder comes in.

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We can have sessions that have dozens of people or sessions like this, where it, maybe it's just around a dozen or so sit.

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In on a new co session, and you will meet the people behind boulders best brands, the.

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Really nice thing about new co. Is it allows for a very authentic conversation with the founders, the executives, the visionaries, behind a lot of the brands and businesses? We know Tim.

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O'shea produces the new co Boulder festival, an event that lets anyone explore the companies they may already know and love buy a ticket and you'll be able to take a tour, ask questions and get inspired. We.

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Really do see that that has kind of inspirational effects on other folks and entrepreneurs that might be taking some of the same risks and exploring the same opportunities as folks like Jamba Jamba.

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Done is the owner and brew master at the rowdy mermaid, a local kombucha brewery I had.

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Spent a while in high tech and in corporations jam.

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Is one of this year's featured speakers? He says, even after nearly three years in Boulder, he still feels like a start-up I.

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Wrote all the online content for all their games, the.

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Presentation starts out with the easy questions like what's kombucha kombucha.

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Is a fermented tea drink it's made by making a sweet tea and you add yeast and bacteria to that and the end result is a slightly tart slightly sour living probiotic beverage. But.

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It's not just samples and stickers. The.

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Smoky badger is cinnamon, chipotle, peppers and hibiscus flowers. The.

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Hour-Long session is an in-depth conversation about business ownership. The unseen risks the rewards and what it feels like to finally be on the other side for more information visit, bdr new Koko. Thank you so much for watching this week's edition of inside Boulder news. If you have pictures news tips or events you'd like to see featured we'd love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, you can also sign up to receive video updates right in your Inbox. Just go to boulder channel 8, dot-com and click on subscribe. I.