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This week on Inside Boulder News: If disaster hits, would you know what to do? The City of Boulder kicks off resilience training. A 26-foot animated tumbleweed rolls into town. And don’t look down! A man on a wire crosses Eldorado Canyon, hundreds of feet in the air.

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This week on inside Boulder news, if disaster hits, would you know what to do the city of Boulder kicks off resilience, training, a 26-foot, animated tumbleweed rolls into town and don't look down a man on a wire process. Eldorado Canyon hundreds of feet in the air.

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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, whether it's a fire, a flood or an economic downturn. The city of Boulder believes were always better together. Now, Boulder residents can participate in a new set of courses designed to prepare us for whatever comes our way.

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The better together course is just one of several initiatives in the cities resilient strategy made up of three classes. The course helps participants develop the skills they'll need to protect their families, their neighbors and themselves in any emergency situation. A.

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Sudden shock is going to be a sharp disruptive issue like a flutter fire, whereas a stress is going to be something that is underlying it's something that weakens the fabric of our society on a day-to-day basis. A good example of that could be traffic or invasive species or affordable housing and shocks tend to expose stresses McKenzie.

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Bola is with the city's resiliency office. She says: preparing the city to work together during hard times. Not only helps the community bounce back but helps it bounce forward, and this first round of classes. It.

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Was amazing, we had the best session, everyone was engaged, everyone was excited and the idea is that people and neighborhoods get a sense of how they can be prepared and be resilient to these issues. Autonomously. Obviously, there's a big city structure and there's lots of people working hard to keep everyone in Boulder safe. But this the idea behind this is that are our neighborhoods and our individual households can do all the things that they can do to be as prepared as they can be.

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Boulder is one of 100 resilient cities, an effort by the rockefeller foundation to build resilience in cities worldwide for more information visit, resilient Boulder calm every year more than a half million visitors come to chautauqua trails, they enjoy the park, they use the nearby lodging, but all that traffic and no sidewalk on the south side of baseline, where cars, bikes and people share the road. Now that's about to change starting November. First, the city will begin an important project on one of boulders, most visited and beloved sites. We've.

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Been planning through 2016 and now we're ready to start construction Melanie.

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Sloan a city, transportation, planner, says this construction project is all about safety and accessibility. That.

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I was identified in the 2014 community culture and safety tax ballot initiative that voters approved for improvements across the city and Tahoe being one of them. The project.

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Will cost about 1.5 million dollars and will create sidewalks pedestrian crossing areas, improve the nearby transit stuff and add some much-needed lighting since there aren't any sidewalks now there won't be any pedestrian detours, but the project will take parking from the south side of baseline. So the construction crews have a safe place to work and like any project of this size and scale, there will be some impact on the trees and natural vegetation. We're.

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Going to preserve and protect as many of the mature trees that are in the park as possible, but we will have to remove several trees about 12 trees along chautauqua. Meadow will be removed in about 25 within parks. The chautauqua park Melanie.

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Says this will give planners an opportunity to replant and restore the area once.

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The project is completed, we'll be working with open space and mountain parks to replant to incorporate more native species to replace the non-native species removed by our project and also to improve the habitat within the meadow. The.

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Project will take about six months from November to the end of March for more information visit, Boulder transportation. It.

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Have you seen the city's latest art installation, it's called Rome and it rolled into town this week. This sculpture is a 26-foot animated, tumbleweed created by artist John Geiger. The abstract sculpture is made up of 5 neon structures and when they light up, they create a tumbling effect. This.

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Is a sculpture that combines three Western icons, so it combines the structure of a billboard. The advertising neon and the form of an animated tumbleweed are five different tumbleweeds. The.

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Sculpture is located across from the boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and will stay there until februari. The art was commissioned by black cube, a non-profit nomadic Contemporary Art Museum black cube artwork is usually experience through pop-up art exhibits like this.

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One, this location is very special to us, because John Geiger has his undergraduate degree from see you Mandy.

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Is the public art coordinator for the boulder Public Library? She says this exhibit is part of the city's community cultural plan in.

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November of 2015 City Council adopted the community cultural plan, which was a charge to infiltrate boulder with a lot more art, and so with that we started the public art program. This is one temporary peace that will be a part of that for.

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More information visit black cube, art, org and boulder arts org history came alive over the weekend as columbia cemetery invited the boulder community to meet the spirits um local historians volunteered their time and dressing up and retelling the stories of boulders, most famous and infamous graveyard inhabitants. The event is not only a lesson in history: it's also a way to raise money for cemetery conservation efforts as those.

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Member of the columbia cemetery.

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Conservation corps, jack box introduced visitors to army veteran edward baker, a buffalo soldier in the 9th US Cavalry, who was just recently discovered, identified and awarded his own marker, sent all the way from Washington DC Columbia cemetery has been managed by the city since nineteen sixty six but relies upon community and volunteer support for more information about the city's graveyard and how you can help with conservation efforts visit the city's website and search columbia, cemetery conservation.

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She's, all about making a grand entrance, and now five decades and four Ralphie's later see, use beloved mascot is celebrating 50 years in boulder. In 1934 the Buffalo was chosen as the first official CU mascot. The first live Buffalo was brought on campus in 1966, and now you can't, or five decades of Buffalo nostalgia at a new exhibit called here, comes Ralphie at the CU Heritage Center you'll find Ralphie t-shirts handler uniforms and dozens of photos. The heritage center is open monday through friday. Ten a.m. to 5 p.m. and admission is free.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ralphie being given to the University next year will be the 50th anniversary of her first run on the football field. Expect a big celebration in her honor for more information about the here comes Ralphie exhibit visits you heritage, org, they're gutsy may be crazy, but they're. Definitely not slackers. Take a look at this video so.

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When the wind comes, the whole line can shift 15 to 20 feet, one way or another, and so that's pretty heady. That's.

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Taylor Van Allen of Morrison slacklining, more than 400 feet high above Eldorado Canyon taylor was leashed to the line, so this stunt is really considered, highlighting because there are safeguards in place. I'm.

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25 I got in a slacklining about six years ago. You know always wanted a high line and just kept standing up and falling off a bunch and slowly over time, got longer and longer lines and started going higher, and I er any.

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Kind of slack lining is usually prohibited in El Dorado, State, Park Taylor and his crew had to get special permission ahead of time. It took Taylor under 20 minutes to complete his walk, 18 minutes to be precise, not.

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Trying to focus on the exposure and the height and everything, because those are the things that are gonna, you know, discourage you and make you fall.

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Terror is not the first person to attempt this crossing. He was retracing the steps of showman and aviation daredevil IV Baldwin, a legendary tightrope walker who crossed the canyon more than 80 times between 1902 and 1948 IV.

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Baldwin is a huge part of the canyon, has a huge history and he's a legend there, and the town was really waiting for a return of that experience. This.

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Event was organized by the action committee for El, Dorado and slackline industries. It was used to raise money for El Dorado State Park I spoke to a park ranger who says this event was a great success and they sold about 300 tickets. This money will directly support trail maintenance. Thank you so much for watching this week's edition of inside Boulder news.

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