City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 19 Oct 2012

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Boulder Reservoir prepares for voter-funded improvements; police chief shares tips to keep children safe; council lowers proposed fee on disposable bags; and local nonprofit wins award for water-friendly garden initiative.

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This week on inside folder news, the city celebrates three capital improvement bond projects, boulder police offer tips to reduce the risk of child abduction and a local nonprofit receives an award for innovation.

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Welcome to inside Boulder, featuring topics and stories that impact the community of Boulder, with Patrick Vaughn, Kaiser, Lang and Jennifer Bray, and on the news desk, addley wood and Mike Benway lows bring you the stories making headlines in the community this week inside Boulder news starts now.

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Welcome to inside folder news, I'm Natalie Wood, the city is celebrating the work of three capital improvement bond projects, East Palo, Park and belmont city park recently completed renovations thanks to funding from the voter-approved bond. Cip money is also funding enhancements at the boulder reservoir city, officials held a groundbreaking at the reservoir on Monday to start work on two years of planned improvements already.

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One two three I just want to thank the voters for their approval of the bond initiative back in 2011 in November. Out of that parks and recreation received about 8.3 million dollars for all of our infrastructure needs. We're.

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Very excited to see some improvements out here. Nothing major has been done in about 30 years, so this is a very exciting time for us. We.

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Have about three million dollars that will be spending on the reservoir? The next couple of years, with some enhancements relative to off street improvements. Try to deal with the traffic that we've got we're going to move the book. The entryway back about 500 feet will actually let us get more traffic off the road. We got some infrastructure improvements coming next year, related to water and sewer the gatehouse going to be improving it and just a lot of aesthetic improvements with that three million dollars.

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That would really help give us a facelift out here at the reservoir, as well as deal with some of the infrastructure issues. We've.

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Had a lot of feedback from the neighborhood wanting to see us be able to get traffic off the road faster, and this is one way that we are going to work towards that goal and become better neighbors with the neighborhood watch.

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For great things to come over the next couple years out here at the boulder reservoir and thanks again for your support, you.

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Can find out more about the bond and track the progress of this project and others at boulder colorado, gov, / bond projects, the recent abduction of 10 year old, jessica, ridgeway in Westminster, has prompted renewed concerns about child safety. There are precautions, kids and parents can take to help prevent these tragic crimes. I spoke with Chief Mark beckoner of the boulder police department about ways to reduce the risk of abduction, teach.

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Your child, how to protect themselves and things to be aware of first thing: it can they walk to school with other kids are their friends in the area of the neighborhoods that they can walk in groups? Kids are always safer if they're in groups. Secondly, is: does your kid know which route to take to school and to come home and which is the safest, walk with them, show them the routes to take and show them safe havens along those routes?

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So if something should happen, that makes your child uncomfortable or they feel like they're in danger or they're scared teach them. Where can they go for safety? What you want to do is teach your child to get away from the danger run, fight scream. You know. If someone tries to grab your child teach them to to yell out. You know you're, not my mom you're, not my dad adults, don't typically approach children and ask them for help. You know adults, that kids don't know, but the one thing that's important, that's not talked a lot about.

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Is most kidnappings are committed by people that their child does know. It may be someone in the community or in the neighborhood that they've gotten to know, because a lot of effort goes into what they call grooming, these kids to trust them. So you have to go beyond that.

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The typical things you hear about and teach your child to have that that sixth sense, that gut feeling and don't do things without asking mom and dad don't go with someone, even if you know the neighbor and they ask you to go to the store with them, make sure you ask mom and dad if it's okay in.

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Speaking of that gut feeling, we oftentimes here to go with our gut on things. If we encounter a strange situation, what advice do you have for kids when they feel something just isn't quite right? You.

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Know you should really play that up and talk to your children about look when you're in a situation, and it doesn't feel right. Listen to it. You don't have to be polite to strangers and you don't have to do what a stranger tells you to do. You know, listen to yourself, listen, remember what your parents have told you and act in that manner. Chief.

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Beckner recommends visiting the National Center for Missing and Exploited children's website at missing kids calm for more valuable information fees on disposable bags in all food retailers in Boulder moved one step closer to reality this week, but the fee is likely to be lower than what staff recommended. City Council voted 523 to cut the proposed fee in half, making it ten cents a bag instead of twenty cents. Money raised from the fee would be used to educate the public about the environmental problems posed by disposable bags, as well as the city's ordinance.

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It would also be used to provide bags to low-income populations. We.

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Do have to go back and reevaluate. You know the budget of where that money will be spent, but there still will be a strong priority in getting bags out to the community, including especially the low-income populations, so that they don't feel a disproportionate effect of Lorna's. Because.

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Of the reduction in the proposed fee council will need to consider the ordinance at a third reading on November. First, if approved, the 10-cent bag fee would go into effect in July.

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Gardening season may be over, but an innovative gardening program recently gained some recognition. The Boulder County Business Report awarded this year's innovation quotient award to the Center for resource conservation for its garden. In a box program, the nonprofit boulder based company provides pre-planned water saving gardens to residents at a low cost. The program quickly blossomed in our community. That's a low-water.

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Xeric garden, that is professionally designed it's a plant by number garden that fits into a hundred typically a hundred square feet. The way we design it and it saves about fifty percent of the water in the landscape. Once it's established really.

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Tried to remove the barriers to make it as easy as possible for someone to plant a water, efficient garden. We found that people are interesting. The concept of water efficient gardening, but they don't necessarily know how to do it. So, with this program, you tried to make it very easy, with the plant by number design, with planting and care instructions and having all the plants selected and designed by local designer visit.

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Conservation center org for more information on the award-winning program, thanks for watching inside folder news stay in touch with us on Facebook by submitting news tips and questions just search for city of Boulder channel eight more inside Boulder is next I.