City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 3 Aug 2018

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Website Improvement Project, OSMP Junior Ranger Program, and the Jaipur Literature Festival

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This week on inside boulder news, the city's website is getting a facelift here, how you can get involved in the process. This isn't your typical summer. Job teens in this program are making a difference in the OS FP community and the greatest literary show on earth returns to Boulder.

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Welcome to inside boulder news your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Joslyn, Evan Daniel, since 1965, the city's Junior Ranger program has given local teens the opportunity to learn job skills, discover open space in mountain parks and engaged in stewardship building opportunities. These teens complete a variety of trail, maintenance, cleanup and land restoration projects. They have truly made a difference for their land and their community.

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We caught up with them this week to learn what being a junior Ranger is all about being in the Junior Ranger program is not the typical summer job for high school student, Hannah Pritchard, who has returned every year to the program for the last three years. This.

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Is just an experience that you can't really be is being up in the mountains with a great bunch of people that you get really close with over the course of the summer. Hannah.

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Is one of 44 teens that are in the program's second session to summer? Junior Rangers are teens ages, 14 to 17 or selected through a competitive application and interview process. Oh SMP has been running the Junior Ranger program every year for the past five decades. This is.

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An important program for OH SMP because it exposes the next generation of stewards, exposes them to our natural world and build a relationship, most importantly with that natural world and a sense of responsibility for taking care of it. Aside.

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From the basic you know how to maintain trails and some of the more technical parts which obviously do play a big role. I think the a huge thing that I learned is the interpersonal skills that come along with not only being an employee but also being a co-worker. The.

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Osp Junior Ranger program is much more than trail maintenance and taking care of holders public land, which some this program turned.

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Into a career when I was 15 and 16 I participated in this program wearing a banana yellow, junior ranger shirt and I originally signed up for the program, because I wanted a summer job and because I wanted to spend my summer outdoors I had no idea that that would mean that this turned into a career. For me and.

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The memories made here will last a lifetime. The.

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Stories that I think any Junior Ranger could tell you of having such a sense of fulfillment. When you see your work being used, especially after the sessions ended and you're no longer working as a junior Ranger, and you see that you've left behind you know, sort of a marker of who you were as an employee and as a colleague, I think is really was really a cool experience.

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For me to learn more about us and peace Junior Ranger program, please visit the website displayed on your screen. Each year the city's website averages 1.5 million visits. The site has become a centerpiece of information for both the city and for those using it. The current city of Boulder website, launched in 2013 and in the fast changing digital age we live in today, the site was due for an update. The.

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Website improvement project is something we embarked on this spring and that we're moving forward with, but we really want to talk to our community to understand their needs, so we can improve the website and lay the groundwork for the new website. The.

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Website improvement plan will be driven by user research, testing and input to better understand internal and external needs for the website. This process will include input from community members, city staff and City Council members, among others. A lot.

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Of the core things we're looking right now to improve are around navigation, and so we want to identify the top reasons. People come to the website in services. They might access and make those as easy to find as possible and.

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As part of this project, the city will be hosting a website Improvement open house for community members to attend this.

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Open house is an opportunity for the community to come and share feedback on the website and to talk the people who are leading this project and learn more about it, both the reasons behind it and what we see in terms of next steps. So their feedback will directly impact the website and the improvements that we hope to make in the near future, as well as long-term. The.

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Open house will be held on Thursday August, 9th from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Brittain. Building. Free parking will be available for more information and to provide digital feedback on this project.

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Please visit be heard: boulder dot, org, a new library branch is coming North Boulder during the city this weekend, as they kicks off its first phase of the project, with a series of community engagement events swing by the crowd: collective Friday, August 3rd during the noble art districts, first Friday festivities for a pop-up, tent and free ice cream on Saturday August 4th a Monti coffee shop on Broadway will be hosting this engagement events and, finally, on August 6th during city staff. At the boulder libraries Canyon gallery for a project open house.

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Both our library staff will be informing the public about the project and consulting with the community on their hopes and needs for this new branch. Details of all public engagement opportunities can be found on the library project site, Boulder library, org forward, slash, noble, Branch construction of the library is anticipated to begin in 2020 visitors down at the Pearl Street Mall can now enjoy a faster and extended Internet connectivity thanks to a grant funded by Google. The MAS prior Wi-Fi service covered the four block: pedestrian mall. Only they expanded free public access.

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Wi-Fi will not reach the east and west and districts on Pro Street Google's. Recent contribution of two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars provided the Pro Street Mall with fast and extended Internet connectivity, googles.

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Mission statement is to organize the world's information and make sure that it's universally accessible, so access to free Wi-Fi fits right into that and Wi-Fi like this being available to people visiting Pearl Street people who live here is extremely important to everyday visitors, but also to the small businesses to make sure that we can provide people with a place to log onto the Internet. The.

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Wi-Fi network is called hashtag Pearl and it's up and running for visitors of the grocery mock to use this new network now reaches from 8th to 20th streets. Our new.

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System can handle 7500 simultaneous connections at a rate of one gigabyte per second, so it's a much stronger signal for everybody, and people will notice faster connect and great service Google.

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Has been operating in Boulder since 2006 and has since created meaningful partnerships with local community organizations like the downtown Boulder foundation, to make amenities like the free Wi-Fi possible Google's.

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Been a great community partner for many years, their old office was right outside of the downtown district on Pearl, Street and they've always been a great partner, the synergy we had with our Wi-Fi provider, sky packets. They had a relationship with Google and the three of us came together. The stars aligned and formed a great partnership that we're very grateful for to.

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Learn more about the downtown Boulder foundation. Please visit Boulder downtown calm, boulders home to dozens of festivals each year, but few be participants together from around the world like the Z Jaipur Literature Festival, more than 70 authors from across the globe will gather at boulders main library from September 21st to the 23rd and an event. This big wouldn't be possible. Without the help of volunteers, the Jaipur Literature Festival is described as the greatest literary show on earth from author talks, panel discussions, music culture and, of course, literature.

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This literature festival is one of the many big events Boulder hosts in order to make this free festival possible volunteers play a critical role throughout the festival. That's why the Boulder Public Library, is looking for 300 volunteers to provide festival, support at this year's event. There are 19 different volunteer roles such as asurs event, photographers book, signing helpers and much more time. Commitment ranges from two to eight hours. This.

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Is a really fun opportunity for people there's over 150 volunteers typically involved throughout the three days, and it's a lot of camaraderie and a lot of fun working together to.

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Learn about volunteer opportunities at this year's Jaipur Literature Festival. Please visit diaper literature, festival org for slash Boulder. Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside Boulder news. If you have pictures news tips or events you'd like to see featured, we love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter. You can also sign up see video updates riding your inbox just go to Boulder tonight. Calm and click on subscribe have a good week.