City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 13 Sep 2019

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Boulder Food Rescue, Scott Carpenter Update and Boulder's New Tobacco Regulations

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This week, on inside boulder news over a third of food loss, happens at the consumer level check out how this bold organization is helping decrease. This number we take a dive into this projects.

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Construction process and Boulder moves forward with new vaping regulations find out what this means for you welcome to inside boulder news, your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Jonathan, daniel construction for the scott Carpenter pool began earlier this year, the more than 50 year old pool is undergoing some major renovations and, as of now is said to be complete in May of next year, we spoke to the city's parks and recreation planner Doug Godfrey, to get an update earlier this year, construction, crews, those right into the renovation of scott Carpenter pool and have been knee-deep in work since right.

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Now, where we're trying to wrap up the pool construction so again, right now, they're doing the pools, I'm, sorry, the floors next or later on this week, you'll see the the walls for the rec pool go up in the grand scheme of things. This is a pretty big milestone for the project. Getting the pools up and completed is really important. The.

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New scott Carpenter pool will include features such as a 10-lane lap pool a lazy river, a deep water exercise area and a climbing wall. Over the next couple of months, community members will start to see the facility take shape, you'll.

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Start to see the walls for the bath house go up and you'll also see also see a lot more activity in this building. Here, the pool equipment building, which is where the infrastructure, the infrastructure for the pools, the pumps and electrical electrical equipment, will be housed in this room right here up.

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Until now, community members have been able to enjoy the rest of the parks features such as the skate park and ball field, but as construction advances, there will be some further detours enclosures to keep everyone safe in.

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The near future, you will see some impacts to the multi-use path. That is just on the south side of the ball fields, because we are installing some well we're putting in a new multi-use path, a wider multi-use path and we'll also be installing some 30 to 35 foot tall nets to protect the pool area from any balls coming from the baseball field. But.

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Crews aren't out of the deep end just yet as construction for the new facility is expected to be completed by May of next year. More information on the scott Carpenter pool enhancement project can be found by visiting boulder colorado, gov forward-slash parks rec well. Their City Council recently took this step to bend the sell of flavored electronic cigarette products containing nicotine. Colorado currently leads the nation in Youth East cigarette use in efforts to reverse this trend.

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The city will limit the purchase of tobacco products to those 21 and over new regulations include the prohibition of flavored options and limiting the amount of electronic smoking devices that can be sold to an individual in a 24 hour period. All changes will go into effect. On October 17th, more information can be found on the city's newsroom.

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The boulder police department gave a special recognition and promotion to one of their own. We are.

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Lucky to have her as a member of the boulder Police, Department and I am honored to promote her as our first explorer post sergeant.

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Chaos shooter is part of a boulder Police Department's Explorer program, where teens get the chance to get hands-on experience in law enforcement. Tonight's celebration was the first time someone from the Explorer program got promoted to an explorer post sergeant. They.

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Will oversee several explorers take on a leadership position within the post, take on a lot more responsibilities and it really be our go-to explorer for the entire post. It's.

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Really cool that I got to do this I think that's! It's really awesome, especially you know. Being the only girl on the post, I'm excited a lot more responsibility.

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Just a lot were just more resources to help other people sort of guide them on their way, and this.

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This young team first started her path with the boulder Police Department by being a part of the department's youth academy program, which then brought her to the Explorer program four years ago. Her natural leadership and dedication is what program advisors say made her perfect for the new role she.

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Has this capability of bringing everyone together and making them a team and at the same time, when she sees that you know she needs to stand up and address something she's, not afraid to do that as well, and.

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Bill is now senior in high school, doesn't have any intentions of going into law enforcement? As of now all jeweller says, this program has given her more than police training skills, really.

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Interested in like journalism, especially international journalism, just because I guess it actually was through this post, I kind of figured out, I, really love to talk to people and I like to interview people and just sort of get the big picture about what's going on, and so that's it's kind of actually prompted me to go in that direction.

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This week the City and County of Boulder brought awareness to food waste with events and panel discussions for the community. One Boulder based organization is tackling food waste and hunger through their everyday work. There's Boulder based organization delivers food seven days a week 12 times a day, hey.

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Would you happen to know if the food for donation has been set aside today, but.

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This isn't your typical food delivery service. The boulder food rescue has a mission where.

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You do it the more you see how much perfectly good healthy food is just left behind. That would otherwise be thrown away by grocery stores, if it weren't for programs. Since.

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2011, the boulder food rescue has been delivering food to over 40 local low-income organizations in need of food. The food delivered is set aside by grocery stores that would have otherwise been discarded.

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Know that we actually just distributed over three million pounds of food, and we hit a milestone this year in total, and we we distributed about 1,500 pounds of food every day, which equates to about 550 thousand pounds of food a year.

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You're gonna station has over a hundred and forty volunteers, distributing food and bikes around Boulder. When the volunteers can't make a shift. Someone from the organization's Rapid Response Team steps in I like seeing.

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People smile or become lighten when they see like boxes of food, come by it's really. It's a nice feeling to provide some extra food and though.

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Not every piece of food can be donated when.

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I eat a piece: it's like becoming a piece of muster like that's halfway: melting.

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These few bad apples are still put another helpful use of.

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It I can't donate I will compost it so then at least that at the very least, I'll call back into the earth and become the earth once more. So it's still, you know it's still going to get used to.

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Learn more on the boulder food rescue. Please visit the boulder food rescue org.

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