City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 16 Sep 2016

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This week on Inside Boulder News: United Way Day of Caring; campfire ban; North Boulder Celebrates and neighborhood enhancement grant; Nefertiti's City Egyptian exhibit; solar installation at Boulder Nissan

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This week on inside Boulder news, colder weather means more illegal campfires how you can enjoy fall in the flatirons about sparking wildfires. Boulder Nissan is raising the bar by putting solar panels on its room and we'll take you inside Colorado's day of Kerry.

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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. Well, for more than two decades, the United Way's annual Day of Caring has been a staple in both boulder and broomfield counties. It's the largest single day, volunteering effort. Last year, more than 1,000 volunteers donated their time and their efforts to dozens of community projects. This year was no different, sorting through schedules and finding time to volunteer can.

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Be tricky it's very time intensive, but David. Finding.

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Said it was a no I think it's a yes and other city leaders spent the day caring for their community check.

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Out this pattern, I think it has some I, don't know some pizzazz we're all very busy. We have very little time to do it, and so this Colorado Day of Caring we go out each year and volunteer in the community. I can't remember last year, I think we were calling veterans. This.

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Year city officials spent the morning at true a local Boulder nonprofit that benefits hospice care. Its.

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Sole purpose is to support what we do with our hospice programming. We bring them peace and space and the ability to say good by the way that they want to a.

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Net mainland is the vice president of philanthropy and true community.

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Care, while a lot of people know about our thirst shop, there are a lot of people who don't she.

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Says summertime is the busiest season there are piles of clothes and stacks of other merchandise that need attention. It's.

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Incredibly important to sort all of that merchandise price it incredibly important.

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Because every time one of these items sells a hospice patient been fits. It's.

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Also about letting even more people know about this great resource we have in the community, and this way we'll have this many more ambassadors out there telling our story and.

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It tells me the shop is always in need of more volunteers, and you can find out more information about true and how you can get involved at true care. Org, well, we're starting to feel that familiar chill in the air and soon we'll be enjoying sweater weather. But it's also that time of the year when the city of Boulder starts to see a sharp increase in illegal campfires, take a look at this map.

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It shows where Rangers have already discovered more than two dozen illegal campfires just this year alone and for those fires were found in the past few weeks. Now, according to Boulder fire, they tend to show up near scenic, overlooks and areas popular with campers, yeah.

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Pretty much all open space mountain parks lands are closed to any open fires. You.

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Can still use liquid fuel stoves gas stoves or campfires sitting on private land or on maintained campgrounds that are currently open to the public. Again, all open burning is illegal, and that means campfire rings or any fire that doesn't pass through a chimney or a scrubber burning trash or leaves that's never allowed. North Boulder celebrates first edition. You may have noticed a celebration going on at the corner of Dakota, Boulevard and Wingate street.

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Maybe you even joined in there were pop-up library stands: live music, local food, vendors, local schools, teaching some fencing, training, North, Boulder resident Bill Kramer says he and other residents organized the neighborhood event to bring people together and celebrate the incredible diversity of North Boulder. Thanks to Mary for being here, this event was funded through the newly created neighborhood enhancement grants. The grants are just one way the city is working to strengthen.

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Neighborhoods Kramer was awarded eleven thousand dollars to help put on the event which he and other organizers hope will create a good foundation for continued unity and participation. If you're interested in learning more about the neighborhood enhancement grants or the neighborhood services visit the city's website now for a story, that's timely, but hardly new. In fact, downright ancient the popular Egyptian exhibit Nefertiti city is coming to the main library on September 17th, and you can take a virtual tour. Nefertiti city is a free one day program.

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It will feature a renowned Egyptologist and members of the excavation team. Their talks will be followed by hands-on workshop, where you can learn about forensic anthropology, it's a great chance for families to build their own miniature pyramids. We flax into linen and get up close and personal with mummified materials, even bones now the Research Foundation, the University of Colorado classics department, the Egyptian study society and the boulder public library they've all partnered, for this project. So if you would like to travel back in time, the event again is Saturday September 17th from ten a.m.

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to five pm and for more information. Of course, you can visit the library's website, Boulder library, org, ok, so from something very old. Let's now talk about something very new: we caught up with Boulder Nissan and the city's pace program to take a look at the newest initiative taking place in solar power right here in Boulder. It's.

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So exciting so exciting Boulder.

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Nissan is so excited.

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We will save four hundred sixteen thousand pounds of co2, so four hundred sixteen thousand of these with.

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The help of independent power systems and both the city and county support the boulder dealership now has more than a hundred and forty solar panels on the roof. We've.

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Sold a lot of leafs, so we have a lot of zero-emission cars out there, but now the building and the amount of power will save his job. Brett.

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Can Karen is the city senior environmental planner? He says actions like this. One support the next generation of climate action in boulder, which could include a goal of 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 last.

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Fall, we did a program with them where, for the first time in the country we launched a group purchase program for electric vehicles, it turned heads literally around the world because in the span of about two months we had over 200 electric vehicles sold in this area. So we got in this conversation with the nissan dealership saying you know, wouldn't it be exciting if you actually put solar in the facility to because one of the things that we found was a lot of the people buying, electric vehicles are actually also buying solar. It's.

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A combination that works since the electric vehicles charge from the power provided by the solar panels, leds.

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And solar together really helped bring down the energy costs enough to begin to make this financially viable. The city.

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And the county and IPS have been fact well: firstly, fantastic supporters of the vest store, and so they said, look there's there's all of this funding available and it's just sitting there. Why not take advantage of it and why? Wouldn't we and I think, particularly in Boulder any company, that's if they can see that they can save this sort of quantity of co2.

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We're going to make a big difference to.

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Learn more about the pace program that Nissan used to make this possible visit, pays partners, com and estimate how much potential solar, energy, your home or business could generate visit the city's new solar mapping tool at Boulder solar tool com. 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, and you can also sign up on our website to receive this weekly newscast right in your Inbox.

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