City of Boulder, CO Inside Boulder News, 25 May 2018

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This week on Inside Boulder News: Boulder Creek Festival, Barker Dam and Beyond Limits

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This week on inside for the news, this event marks the unofficial start of summer. The missed the 31st annual Boulder Creek festival waters running pretty fast in the creeks, will tell you the reasoning behind it and watch out these athletes a gear up for the Boulder Boulder race.

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Welcome to inside Boulder news your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Jonathan Daniel, you may have noticed the creek is already running pretty fast. With this winter snow melting dams around Boulder are filling up. This means that we can expect the Barker damp up in Boulder Canyon to spill over soon Barker Dam is one of the city's water supply reservoirs and around this time each year as snow starts to melt water levels at the reservoir increase. When.

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It gets up to the spillway level behind us, it spills over and the flows in the creek increase, which people will see in town. The.

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City wants to remind residents that this is a normal and expected event. Residents don't need to be alarmed, but they should be cautious around the water, especially those who live near creeks and major drainage ways. Typically,.

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The the spring runoff doesn't cause major flooding, but if it's confined with a thunderstorm or something like that, that can happen. People certainly need to be aware, joe.

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Teti youichi is the city's water resources manager and oversees the city's source water supply. That's.

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The water that's delivered to our water treatment plants and treated for drinking water. He.

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Says that, though, this winter seem to have a lot of dry, spells, raising concern for water supply, snow levels for this year actually came out to be average. Our.

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Supply situation is pretty decent for this year and we determined that we did not need to activate our drought plan or have any water restrictions or anything like that. Increased.

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Flows along the creek are expected to continue through mid to late July for more information. Please visit the website displayed on your screen, formerly known as Rob's Boulder music. This location near 30th and Belmont will now be home to bridge Hills path to home navigation services. This.

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Is an important next step in the city's homelessness strategy. It consolidates our coordinated entry services and all of the daytime and nighttime path to home services. The.

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Location was purchased in 2017 and is a partnership between the city, a local developer and bridge house, to provide a two-year home for coordinated entry and the path to home navigation program.

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This site will offer sleeping space for 50 pack, the home navigation participants. It also offers a daytime case management services, there's going to be some on-site partner services for other organizations that can assist people experiencing homelessness. All.

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Adult individuals seeking services start with a coordinated entry evaluation that helps determine the individuals.

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Need and since this site consolidates coordinated entry, along with all of the paths to home navigation, daytime and nighttime services, that makes it easier for clients to get on a plan, get their needs, met and exit homelessness more quickly. The.

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New site is expected to open its full complement of adult homeless services. The week of May 29th, the cities go, polar team is gearing up for walking bike month which begins June 1st. This week the Boulder Chamber hosted an open house for businesses and organizations participating in this annual event. Businesses were able to pick up banners, posters and order t-shirts in preparation of walking bike nuts marquee event back to work day, which will be held on June 27th stay tuned for next week's inside boulder news.

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As we'll give you a look at the full list of events and activities happening in June, walking.

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Bike month is a month-long celebration walking and biking in Boulder. Now we have over 50 events this whole month and the main highlight is Bike to Work Day. So that's what we're here for today to really get everybody ready. Thousands.

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Are set to participate in the annual Boulder Boulder race, this Memorial Day weekend an annual tradition for many people that during months in preparation for this big day among them, is this community based program that dedicates its time to Train athletes with disabilities in crossing the finish line. Photojournalist Steve Shepler has more.

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My name is Henry Guzman and I'm, the founder of the beyond limits group which started in 2001. Wouldn't it be great if we got a group of people that not necessarily people pay a lot of attention to our training groups, really focus on and take a group of individuals and have them run the bolder bolder.

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I've enjoyed myself I've been part of it since 2014 I, like it a lot. It's a new competitive sport for me to.

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Make this thing run it's a lot of different individuals and a lot of people that have to be committed, and so we're always looking for good people who want to come out and be part of the community. I started.

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In 2009, because both my kids left, the house and I looked for something and I really loved, giving back to the community and it's a wonderful program. Number.

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One requirement is be a good team player showing up on time and following rules and being able to make the commitment the best you can I learned.

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So much about how to be a good person dealing with people that are a little different than I am. But it teaches so much more about yourself and.

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You get to know that people with disability can conquer their dreams too, and it's the most inspiring thing I've ever done. It's.

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A good time we had, if you like, exercising or you want to get back into better shape and meet new people.

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Beyond limits is part of the boulder boulder community, they are just like anybody else out there doing the best they can on any given day and they have their stripes. But we all overcome that, but we all overcome that together. I think that's the biggest thing.

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Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer in the city, with the annual Boulder Creek festival from May 26th through the 28th. The Boulder Creek along downtown will feature carnival, rides tons of food and drinks and over 500 vendors, showcasing community arts and crafts to healthier alternatives and technology and best part of all. This community event is free for more information on the Boulder Creek festival. Please visit BCE productions. Calm.

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Thank you so much for joining us on this week's edition of inside folder news. If you have pictures new steps 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.