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This week on Inside Boulder News: Bridge House and Har HaShem Housing, HOP Enhancements, and the Book Rich Environment Program

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This week on inside boulder news after he life isn't certainty in homelessness. This Boulder woman is back on her feet. Thanks to two community organizations. New changes are coming to this popular bus service and these kids are getting the chance to turn the page to a brighter future.

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Welcome to inside boulder news, your source for all things: Boulder I'm, Justin, abend Daniel, you may have noticed the bright orange hot buses driving through town. This is all part of new renovations to the hop and even more changes are coming to the popular bus service. Some of these changes include a new timetable and expanded evening and weekend service, we spoke to senior transportation, planner Natalie Stifler, to find out what users can expect.

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Beginning August 26th in 2016, the city's Transportation Department conducted the hop transit study, a study aimed to examine the Hobbs, reliability and ridership on the existing route. The.

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Expansion of the span of service and the frequency of service was something that we wanted to be able to improve to help with reliability and also increase ridership. After.

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Extensive research and input from the community, the hub, will move to a schedule based service running from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. every day. Instead of reduced service hours on the weekend right.

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Now people are familiar with the more headway based service. That's just approx. A bus will come every 10 to 15 minutes. This will basically move the service to a schedule, so people can reference a schedule and find an exact time when the bus will be out of stock.

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The bus will run every 10 minutes Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will run every 15 minutes until 10:00 p.m. on weekends. The bus will run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every 50 minutes and from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. every 30 minutes. The decision process.

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To change the service hours and the frequency was really just to enhance service and we wanted to to provide service on weekends that would be available to people that were trying to get two jobs in the morning on weekends or late in the evenings on weekends.

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The hot bus will continue as a loop route serving major destinations like downtown Boulder and Cu, and when Cu boulders out of session, the hub remained on the same schedule instead of having reduced service. But that isn't all for the future of the hop. We also.

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Will be ordering three new electric buses later this fall and we are hoping to have those by the end of next.

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Year to take a look at hot bus schedule, information and route map, please visit Boulder, Colorado gov forward, slash hot bus, Boulder, housing partners. The city's housing authority has launched several education programs for children who live in public and affordable housing. One of those programs is in partnership with Boulder public libraries. It's called the book rich environment program, otherwise known as breed's we're.

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In our second year of the program this year, we're distributing over 3,000 books to BHP communities over the course of three events and.

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Only a limited number of communities nationwide are chosen to participate in the Bri program. Lucky.

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That we're actually one of 37 communities across 19 states that is able to participate in the brewery program. Data.

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Shows that low-income youth have access to a fewer amount of books than mid an upper-class youth. Through this program, the Boulder Public, Library and Boulder housing partners will connect families with three books, programming and vital connections to libraries and other literary resources. Reading.

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To young children is related to subsequent higher academic performance so simply put by, through this program, by bringing higher access to books and higher quality books, we're improving the outcomes of the youth and families of the bhp communities. We.

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Want to create vibrant and accessible book environments to support and strengthen our residents home libraries so that they have the accessibility to create their own literacy. Rich environments for in their own home. To.

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Learn more about the book rich environment program. Please visit the website seen on screen two prominent community organizations. The congregation, Harlem and Bridge House have come together to address the affordable housing shortage in Boulder. Thanks to this partnership, six graduates from the bridge house ready to work program are living in stable homes, with continued support from the community for misty Doyle who struggled with homelessness. In the past, the bridge house ready to work program was the key to stability. I have.

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A lot of help a lot of support and they are my family there's still. My family I have two great kids, but ready to work. Is my family ready.

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Work is really a program that works on three different things. If you would look at a three-legged stool, that's kind of how we look at things, there's the work component, there's the housing component and then there's support services. Misty.

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Is one of six graduates from the program who were chosen to live in the two homes that are a result of a partnership between the Congregation, Hashem and Bridge house? They.

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Pay the rent, just like anybody else, they have a lease with Boulder party management for the houses at Horsham has graciously. Let us go to a partnership with them. Social.

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Justice and social action is a big part of what Hashem does, and this was a way for us to put assets that we had to work both doing social good and hopefully making a change in Boulder right.

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Now I'm gonna stay here. This is a great opportunity and I am blessed to have it and like I said, I was scared at first but I'm so happy it's so nice and I'm just glad to be one of the people that got chosen to come here and stay and after.

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A life of uncertainty Misty's excited to finally have her life back on track. I've.

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Become stronger, really I think just with the counseling and stuff I I'm stronger than I was ma'am I make better choices.

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Yeah I have a path I'm going hon.

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It's back to school for cu-boulder, as thousands of students filled up Cu builder's campus this week for their annual move in almost six thousand rooms were inspected for moving as students waited anxiously approximately seven thousand freshman and 32,000 degree-seeking students, sir classes is upcoming. Monday August, 27th move-in week was through 21st and more than 300 moving bins. Helped students get situated thousands of volunteers, greeted the new incoming students, as he prepared for their first day of school living.

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In a res hall, if you've never done it before, which a lot of us have it's just a great communal experience to meet new people from different places and maybe learn a little bit more about yourself that you hadn't before in high school, fall.

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Is officially a month away, which means the leaves will start to change, color and flowers will lose their spring liveliness. However, this week the city of Boulder helped interested gardeners prepare for their flowers. Next summer season, with colorful tulip bulbs that decorate the Pearl Street ma dozens of people lined up on Wednesday and boulders Brostrom off for the annual tulip bulb giveaway. The city of boulders, Park and Rec Department gave away a total bout, nine thousand bulbs.

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From the past 12 years, the department has been hosting this event to provide people the opportunity to enhance their gardens three local resources. Each year, Pro Street Mall displays a wide variety of unique tulips that adorn the walkway of a staple shopping area. We.

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Just got done designing the tulips for the spring of 2019. We will get them in mid-october and we will plant them in the first couple weeks and then, after that, we will get an order of pansies that our winter taller and we will put them over the bulbs for some winter color.

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