City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 12 Oct 2018

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Meet the Spirits, Pearl Street Display Panels and Lighting on the Hill's Alleys

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This week on inside for the news for one night, boulders dearly departed will rise from the graves ProStreet Maw unveils its thirteenth historic display panel and the city lights up. University Hills alleyways, welcome to inside boulder news your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Joslyn, Navin Daniel. Last month the city of Boulder recognized October as conflict resolution month in an effort to support peaceful means of resolving conflict. The city is offering events and activities for the community under principles and practice of conflict resolution.

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Counties, cities and school statewide are recognizing October as conflict resolution month and the Bowl is to promote constructive, problem-solving, finding peaceful.

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Methods of resolving conflict makes our community stronger happier more peaceful, particularly in these times. We hope to encourage our community to take time to really listen to one another throughout.

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The month, the city of boulders mediation service, in partnership with the boulder district attorney's office, is offering events and activities for the community to attend. The next event will be held on October 20th, and it will be a restorative justice, open house where.

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Start of Justice is an alternative approach to crime and it's a community-based process where we bring together an offender, the victim community members to talk about what were the impacts of that crime on the human. What's the human impact during.

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This event, attendees will hear real examples of restorative responses to crime in Boulder, County and learn about ways they can become involved in the process of restorative justice. It.

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Can be incredibly powerful for offenders to realize for the first time how they've affected those around them and it it's a process that builds empathy and healing and a lot of times for victims. It is very transformative and healing for them to have a voice in the process. The.

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Restorative justice, open house will be held on Saturday October 20th from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Boulder Public Library. More information can be found on the website. Seen on your screen, Boulder's Department of Community vitality, initiated the hill commercial alley enhancements plan to look at how the city could best use the alleys located at University Hill as better places for pedestrians and bicycles circulation. One of the things the city found was that the alleys were not very well lit. The city currently by.

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Code requires a safety light over the rear entrance to every building and what that was doing was creating these hot spots of light so that when employees were taking out the trash at night, they were going from a very bright space to a very dark space, and they said they'd love to have more even lighting across the alleys so that it would be safer at night. After.

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Taking a look at the alleys, existing conditions and existing code requirements, the city came up with a pilot for private property owners, we're piloting something.

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On the hill, where private property owners can put in lighting on the rear entrances of the building across the backs of the building, that will create a nice even spread of light. The.

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City hopes that installing these new light fixtures will increase safety in the alleyways and will provide the public with another way to get around the district. The city is.

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Piloting the grant program to try to encourage property owners to take advantage of this opportunity to provide better lighting by providing the property owners through a grant program with dark skies compliant low energy usage. Led fixtures, the.

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City will be offering the new LED light fixtures to those who are shown on the alleys enhancement plan through December 31st. These.

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Will be available by agreement with the city that they will install it in such a way, so that the lighting levels go down to zero on adjacent properties and that they're meet all of the city requirements. More.

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Information on the hill alleys enhancement plan can be found on the website. Seen on your screen. Last year, the city celebrated the 50th anniversary of the open space sales tax. This historic and innovative measure has helped the city create today's 45,000 acres of open space and mountain park system. This week at the Pro Street Mall Boulder dedicated its 13th interpretive history panel to commemorate this initiative. These panels, along the Pro Street Mall, displays small glimpses into Bullers history on October 10th, the city dedicated a new display panel on the northeast corner of Broadway and Pearl.

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The interpretive panel is titled, looking back at planning ahead and features the 1967 municipal election when residents approved a 1 cent sales tax increase for transportation improvements and open space purchases, Boulder Mayor, Suzanne Jones was in attendance along with councilmember Cindy Carlisle. Also in the celebration of the new display panel was Ruth Wright a big influence in the creation of the sales tax. Fifty years ago, we.

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Put on a great campaign that the citizens for open space, we really won that election, and so then we started getting in money for purchasing open space. And now we have 45,000 acres and we have the entire mountain backdrop and nobody can build. On the mountain backdrop, historic.

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Boulder is getting into the Halloween spirit as one of its signature events returns to the Columbia Cemetery. The committee is invited to come out and watch US. History comes alive at the meet the spirits event on Sunday October 21st, there's a lot of history in Boulder that lies deep underground. The public is invited to join historic Boulder, as they travel back in time to resurrect some of Columbia cemeteries, most prominent and permanent residents. People will have.

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Just about 30 spirits who are coming to life for one afternoon, they'll be dressed in period dressed and they'll, be at their own grave markers coming to tell the story of their life and through that you're, going to learn a lot of boulders early history meet.

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The spirit is not only a lesson in history: it's also a way to raise money for cemetery conservation efforts. We.

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Feel that the more you know about the people that were buried here and life stories and how they shaped older, the more you'll care about preserving this piece of history, the.

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Columbia Cemetery became a historic landmark in 1977 people. Buried here are the people who shaped Boulder, some of which will be seen at the event, including ciues first female professor Mary Ripon, but she had a secret.

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And it was a secret that she took to her grave and it was a secret that she needed to keep in order to keep her job at the University. So her story is a is a story of women's inequality at that time in the workplace, and it's one that needs to be told.

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Other infamous favorite inhabitants include Evan, G, fine and boulders Jane Doe, a murder victim that remained unidentified for five decades. There's.

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A lot of sadness around her story and years later, historian, Sylvia padam, put in years of research to find her identity and if you come, you'll hear her tragic story. But it's also a story of the community coming together and caring about somebody. They'll.

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Miss me the spirit on Sunday October 21st from 12 to 5 p.m. at the Columbia Cemetery tickets for the event can be purchased on historic, Boulder. Org, don't be surprised this weekend. If you see boulder police officers waiting your table, it's all for a good cause. Community members are invited to come out and support their Boulder Police Department for their annual tippy cop fundraiser. Members of the police departments will serve as wait. Staff to support Special Olympic athletes in Colorado proceeds will go directly to the organization.

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The fundraiser will be held on Saturday October 13th from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at link peope located at 2525 Arapaho Avenue. Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside for news. If you have pictures news tips or events, you like to see featured we'd love to hear from you connect with us on Facebook and Twitter, you can also sign up to receive video updates right in your inbox. Just go to Boulder channel 8, comm and click on subscribe have a good week.