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This week on Inside Boulder News: South Boulder Emergency Training, Spring Gardening, and Boulder's Osprey Cam

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This week on inside boulder news expect the unexpected boulders rec center staff trained to keep patrons safe springtime. Is here, here's what you need to know when growing your garden. This season and boulders feathery friends are back welcome to inside boulder news, your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Joe flow and Daniel. The South Boulder Recreation Center, has been closed this week for its annual maintenance shutdown. Aside from spring cleaning, rec center staff received special training on how to keep patron safe in emergency situations.

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Emergency situation can present itself at any given moment, especially at a place where there is lots of physical activity. Those.

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Things are real and they do happen quite a bit when people are exerting themselves physically. That.

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Is why, during this week, south will direct shot down staff conducted emergency training with the Boulder Fire Department staff conducted scenario-based training, including cardiac emergencies, building, lock, downs and active farmers situations? They.

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Did their demo and then we had a question-and-answer session after that, where they were both answering questions, but also asking us questions as far as how can we better approach things in the future? What did we do well and I? Think things went very well: emergency.

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Situations happen and crews have been called out on scene. We.

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Do get quite a bit of heat exhaustion types of scenarios where someone is either coming out of the sauna or coming out of the hot tub due to either heat exhaustion or low blood sugar. They collapse Keith.

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Petrovich says these instances require training and are beneficial and crucial to keep community members safe, I think.

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It was a very valuable training and, and hopefully we gave our our staffs and tools to respond to emergencies going forward. The.

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South will direct Center will remain closed through April 1st for routine maintenance and will reopen its doors on Monday April. 2Nd Boulder has a climate commitment goal of reaching a hundred megawatts of local renewable energy by the year 2030. The city solar grant program is one of many city initiatives that supports the development of clean local and affordable energy. This program helps finance the installation of solar, electric or solar thermal systems in homes in nonprofit organizations around Boulder. An application for this grant program began this week.

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The city of Boulder solar grant program was first created in 2008 and since then, the program has awarded over $600,000 to nonprofit and homeowners across the city, solar.

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Energy allows us to reduce our reliance on natural gas and other sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Boulder, which is one of our large goals. This.

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Year, there is more than $50,000 available to Boulder, based on profits and income, qualified homeowners in previous grant cycles. Only homeowners that were part of the city's home ownership program were eligible to apply, but with this new cycle, the city will allow any income qualified homeowner to apply for a grant. If.

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You are an income, qualified homeowner and live in the city of Boulder. The grant can help to pay for up to 50% of your remaining out-of-pocket costs. After any other incentives that you're eligible for are subtracted from the top to.

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Find out if you're eligible to apply please visit the city solar grant criteria page on the website. Seen on screen. Awesome missions for the 2018 solar grant program cycle are due April 30th Boulder has prided itself with its environmental efforts, starting in April Earth Month inside Boulder news we'll bring you stories focusing on the programs and events that played a big role in the city's climate and sustainability efforts. We spoke to senior mental planner. Brett can Karen to get a preview of boulders earth month.

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It's no secret that boulders a police surrounded by natural beauty and the sense of health and vitality, but behind all that Boulder faces some environmental challenges for.

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Example, the emerald ash borer, which many people have heard of, will likely cause us to lose something like a quarter of the urban forest canopy in the next five to eight years. But.

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The issue is much larger than that losing part of the city's urban canopy will have a significant effect on temperatures and even affect species that depend on trees. We.

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Also have significant challenges around our pollinators. We've seen significant declines, like many other places in the number of honeybees and other pollinators PCs that are so critical and then we're in global warming. Now the number of days over 95 degrees have actually already doubled, since 2000 they're likely to double again in the next 10 years, though,.

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There are currently many projects and efforts in place looking at ways to protect the natural environment, it will require the whole community's participation to help make a difference. This.

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Is really the year that we're asking the entire community to start thinking about what's taking place in the environment? How do we start to actually participate in that, whether that's planting trees or planting pollinator habitats or finding ways that we can actually work to protect native species of other sorts, Earth.

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Month, which is in April, is the perfect opportunity for community members to start getting involved. We're.

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Actually doing quite a number of things, Earth Week this year is going to be very full of events. That's April 22nd through the 27th. You can go to Boulder dot, earth and there's a very elaborate calendar that can show you all the things that are taking place there. Events.

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During Earth month include pollinator protection projects, tree planting projects and even nature hikes to learn more about our surrounding environment. So.

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There are many ways for people to get involved as I mentioned, Boulder dot earth is a great place to go and see a calendar of events and activities that people can participate in. We also have the what's up Boulder happening. April 30th this year, that's another place for people to come and see all the different things that are going on in places that they can actually participate.

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Spring is in the air, which means warmer days are coming and, of course, flowers will start blooming. But before you plant your garden for this season, there are some things to keep in mind. The city has found.

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Pesticides and creeks both the be killing neonicotinoid, imidacloprid and 240, which is a commonly used, herbicide and weed and feed and commercial products that people get applied to their to their properties. Briella.

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Abernathy integrated pest management coordinator with the city of Boulder says that these products need to be avoided because not only are they banned in the city, but they harm aquatic insects, which then goes on to affect a whole ecosystem. Instead, she recommends using organic fertilizers. There.

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Are so many reasons not to use chemicals on our lawns and yards? One are the health effects to our families, our kids and our pets. These products are known. Many of these products are known to cause cognitive problems and cancers and children as well as dogs.

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When it comes to planting Abernathy says to try focusing on planting native plants, so native.

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Plants are important because they're there they've adjusted to our climate, they don't need very much fertilizer, they use very little water and then they support our native pollinators and Wildlife who evolved with them. Studies.

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Show that urban areas are important for supporting wildlife, including birds and pollinators, which have been in decline over recent years. Having your garden have some wilderness to it will benefit these species and think.

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About being a little bit messy as a gardener, the the 550 species of native bees that we have here in Boulder County them a lot of them- are ground nesting bees and make little tiny holes that you won't even notice, but they need bare soil, so leave some areas without mulch. If you.

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Would like more tips on how to care for your garden this season? The city is offering two workshops the public can attend for free. The first one is on Wednesday April 4th at the canyon Theatre from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. the second workshop will be held on Thursday April 5th at the same pause, United Methodist Church. At the same time, for more information, please visit boulder colorado, gov /ai p.m.

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a very popular webcam is back up the spring on the city's website check this out. The Boulder open space in mountain parks, Osprey webcam, is back for a third year in 2017 OS MP staff installed a new camera for a clearer picture of a nesting pair of Osprey. Now you can watch it live from the boulder reservoir. By going to the website seen on your screen, the Osprey haven't leave their extra set, but are predicted to do so in the following weeks. Here's hoping to another successful nesting season.

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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'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.