City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 25 Nov 2016

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Need a "Lyft" downtown? The City is helping holiday shoppers. Open Space and Mountain Parks invent new ways to get people outside. And "Snow Much Fun" returns to Central Park.

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This week on inside Boulder news need a lift downtown. The city is helping holiday, shoppers, open space and mountain parks, invents new ways to get people outside and snow much fun returns to Central Park.

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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, I hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving and in the spirit of the holiday season, it's the celebrated return of snow, much fun on ice grab your scarf and an extra hot peppermint mocha then head out to Boulder central park. The park is illuminated with more than 250,000 LEDs twinkling daily from four to eleven o'clock p.m. now through februari 20th.

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This season, you can lace up your skates and welcome the return of winter skate presented by boulder creek events. Winter skates, grand opening is november 29th. The rink will operate on the 13th Street Plaza visit, BCE productions.com / winter skate for ice time. The rink will be adorned with additional city installed lighting and decor, created from downed ash trees. As part of the tree debrita opportunity, project movies in the park will host a showing of The Polar Express on December 10th, and there are even self-guided scavenger hunts.

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You can find hidden lights and learn more about the trees in Central Park snow, much fun. Events are just some of the activities designed to keep the Civic area vibrant and bustling during the construction that just began in parts of the park west of broadway. That construction will continue throughout the winter months and into late 2017, making the area more inviting and easier to access for years to come. When finished, the park will feature an innovative nature play area near the main library, an open event lawn for special events and a new eleventh Street bridge.

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The work will have short-term impacts to civic area visitors and downtown employees, but the team is working hard to keep the area accessible for more information on civic area park, improvements and parking information visit, Boulder, Colorado, gov, /, Civic area. It's.

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A pilot that we're going to be trying and the whole idea is to provide a variety of different options to access getting downtown holiday.

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Shoppers listen up. You can hitch a ride downtown using your favorite transportation network companies, uber lyft and z-trip.

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We have this beautiful downtown and our beautiful pearl street mall I think the other very important component is shopping, local, so your sales tax dollars stay within the community. So that's.

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Molly winter, the director of community vitality, she says this year: the city is trying something.

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New we're providing $25 subsidy that can be used in four and five dollar increments for five trips, just.

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Sign up at DTD, Boulder, calm, click on the large green button and take a quick survey. You'll get a ride. Share credit sent right to your smartphone via text message. It's just that simple and if you knock out some of your holiday shopping, participating vendors like bliss and feel Raven will even help to get you home.

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If you spend fifty dollars, then they will give you a credit for your return trip for.

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More information and to get your credit visit, DTD Boulder, calm, take a hike on open space land and you might run into EV or maybe even a Pikachu, a fact that was not lost on Steve Mertz, an outreach coordinator, who's been with the city for more than two decades. I realized.

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That there were a lot of Pokemon out on the trails on open space, which kind of surprised me Steve,.

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Took the location-based, augmented reality game and turned it into a hike for kids. The.

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Idea for doing a Pokemon hike was ultimately I. Guess that was mine. He.

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Says it's all about finding new ways to get people outside at.

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Open space in mountain parks were constantly trying to find ways to tie in the natural world with people's interests and hobbies hobbies.

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Like catching them all the.

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Creatures in the pokemon game mirrored those that you would find in the natural world steve.

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Says getting the kids outside and on the trail turned a virtual experience into a learning opportunity. We.

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Covered safety and trail etiquette and a lot of Natural, History and I noticed that, after about a mile into the hike, the video game really took a backseat to what they were. Learning about nature and just the experience of being outdoors and.

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If chasing down creatures is not the hike for you, Oh SMP has other ideas. We.

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Have a lot of hikes related to art and music, and we have hikes for families. We have hikes for people who use wheelchairs and we're also working on a hike. That's going to involve a new year's resolution. If.

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You have an idea for a hike. The department is always looking for fresh inspiration to find out more information on upcoming events and hikes visit. Oh SMP org need a grant to grow your cultural organization or take a dream project and make it a reality. 2017 cultural grants are ready and waiting. The city of Boulder Arts Commission allows individuals, nonprofits and for-profit organizations in the cultural community to apply for funding through grants online a colorado-based internet service. This year's approved budget is bigger than ever with six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars in funds.

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There's a rental assistance fund, developmental scholarships and grants for art, education, guidelines and deadlines can be found online at BAC cultural grants. Org a new feature is the use of a jury panel to help select, grant recipients the deadline to apply or nominate. Someone for the jury panel is December. 7 2016 for more information visit, boulder arts org slash panel nomination form on Monday December. Fifth, you are invited to a community meeting about the CU South property.

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It's part of the city's Boulder Valley Comprehensive, Plan, Update CU south is a 308 acre parcel owned by CU Boulder, the city and county will provide information about the project and future plans for the site and any future annexation agreements between the city and see you. The event is from six to eight pm on the Cu campus for more information visit, Boulder Valley coughlin net. Thank you so much for watching this week's edition of inside Boulder news.

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