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This week on Inside Boulder News: Holiday Tips, The Nelson Home, and One Million Visitors and the Boulder Public Library

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This week on inside boulder news, it may not be in wintery holiday this year, but we'll give you tips on how you can make it green and eco-friendly. This Boulder home is being relocated to another city, find out. Why and boulders public libraries reach an impressive milestone.

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Welcome to inside boulder news, your source for all things, Boulder I'm, Jocelyn Daniel residents in the Buenavista Heights subdivision, will soon be missing a neighbor. That's because crews this week will be removing a house out of a floodplain as part of the Gregory Canyon Creek mitigation plan, this home, located along 8th, Street and University Avenue, also known as the Nelson house, will soon be removed from its current location to Old Town Lafayette. It's located.

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In the high hazard flood zone and so buying the property and removing the house, it removes the flood risk for this structure, but it also opens up some opportunities for flood mitigation in the future. The.

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City purchased the property back in October of 2017 there nearly 100 year home was one of several highlighted in the Gregory Canyon Creek flood mitigation plan as a priority for acquisition, Canyon.

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Creek mitigation plan is a it's a master plan that identifies improvements to reduce flood risks along the Gregory Canyon Creek watershed. This.

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Isn't the first home to be removed? Another home along Gregory, Canyon Creek was deconstructed as well. A few years back. The.

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First, one was at 810, Marine Street, and that house was deconstructed before we had our 2013 flood once the.

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Nelson house is moved filled, dirt would be brought in to grieve the site in preparation for native seating. It's going.

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To be like that, for a little while, while we work on design of Creek improvements and culvert improvements along the street chef, Gregory, Canyon Creek, so eventually there's there will be probably a wider creek and a reduced flood risks through this area. To.

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Learn more about the city's floodplain management program and other projects. The city is working on. Please visit the boulder flood info net, the Boulder Public Library celebrated this week with doughnuts and balloons for its millionth visitor of the year. The millionth visitor crossed the library doors on Saturday December 15th, a milestone that had not been surpassed in 12 years. This count includes visitors from all five Boulder public libraries to check out the countless resources builders. Public libraries have to offer head on over to Boulder Library org, these kids from Boulder Journey school.

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Are you learning the big task he waves? They are learning how to cross the street, but the adults are learning a little something too. We went on a walk to.

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Talk about safety when crossing the walk here in the neighborhood, and we believe that children have a right to participate in their community and have their voices be heard. Vicki.

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Olson is a school director at the boulder journey school. She, along with the community organization growing up Boulder, are working together to gather kids input on transportation around the city to share with builders, transportation, planners and.

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We'll share videos and different transcribed conversations and images of the children going out and working in the neighborhood going on walks, as well as in their classrooms, drawing pictures and working with clay and other natural materials and recycled materials to demonstrate their thinking and their understandings of these walks growing.

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Up Boulder in Boulder journey school hope providing this feedback will help improve signage and markings along the streets to make boulders youngest residents feel safe and.

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As one child explained that drivers often look at the children on the side of the road but don't always see them, and so we are really working with the children on being advocates for themselves and feeling safe and knowing when it is safe to cross the road.

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Other schools have been participating in this initiative as well. The school and organizations plan to meet in the upcoming months to discuss their findings and share with city planners. The holiday shopping season is in full swing and Boulder shoppers are looking for the best deals, but beware: shoppers aren't the only ones.

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Looking for opportunities we spoke with David Kaufman, with the boulder Police Department, to give you tips on what you can do to prevent yourself from falling victim sweet crime, this holiday season, it's the most wonderful time of the year, but not even the holiday, stop criminals from knocking at your door. So we gathered the following safety tips to keep in mind for a peaceful holiday season. Well,.

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Certainly, if you're out shopping retail locally, you want to be aware of your surroundings, make sure you always lock your car in the parking lot. Don't leave things in the car that are visible. This.

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Also applies when you're inside the store shopping. The situation Kaufmann says happens more often than not a lot.

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Of things we see are, for example, somebody in a store and they'll leave their purse open in the front of the shopping cart. While they look at the shelves, person runs by takes items, especially the wallet right out of the purse and they're across the street, making purchases on your credit cards before you even knew it was gone, but.

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This doesn't only happen in stores with the popularity of online shopping increasing rapidly, so have cases of porch pirates, people that steal your packages right outside your front door. A solution for this is to be aware when and how your package will be delivered. The.

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Common services, like FedEx UPS and the post office, allow you to hold your packages at their locations. Let them know ahead of time. You can do this online to hold and not deliver, and most.

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Importantly, this holiday season, if you're out celebrating don't drink and drive, be.

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Responsible, the average price for a taxi is $15, a DUI could set you back fifteen thousand dollars and in this day and age, you've got social apps for like meat like uber and lyft use those services or just get a designated driver old school, but don't risk it don't risk your livelihood and your family. Just because you had a couple of drinks for.

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More tips for a safe holiday season this year visit the website displayed on your screen. Did you know that over the holiday season Americans create 20 percent more trash and send out about 1.5 billion cards this time of year? Here's how you can reduce waste, this holiday season, wrapping gifts, use recycled paper such as old maps, calendars and even blueprints. You can stop by Boulder sustainability offices and pick up recycled paper materials to use for your gifts for those planning holiday parties.

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You can reduce waste by using washable dishes or come possible dinner plates an opt-out of using plastic tablecloths for cloth ones. Websites such as save the food calm will help. You calculate how much food yo needs, depending on the number of guests who minimize the amount of food wasted and after the holidays, are over, don't forget to place your natural Christmas trees next to your compost, bins, looking for more tips for an eco-friendly holiday check out eco cycle org for their annual holiday guide.

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