Photo courtesy of Julie Dowling
A while back, members of the Johnstown Garden Club transplanted four roses from in front of the old library to Letford Elementary School. “While I was at the school today I checked the roses, and found that one is blooming!” Garden Club member Julie Dowling wrote to us this week in an email with a picture. “The first ‘mystery rose’ is yellow with a few tinges of pink! The bad news is that two of the other roses are pretty scrawny, and one looks dead. I guess we need to think about replacing the dead one. May she rest in peace.” Do you have a picture for Page 3? Items of interest for Around Town? Please submit them to editor@johnstownbreeze.com.
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In this week's Breeze:
• "Black Knight" brings jousting academy to Johnstown.
• Local reaction to civil unions bill.
• Remembering Ramiro and Oton.
• Johnstown Dreaming.
• RHS students visit scene of forensic science.
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'Black Knight’ brings jousting academy to Johnstown
By Megan Conner/The Johnstown Breeze
Knights Edge Jousting Academy (KEJA) has officially set down roots here. Run by “The Black Knight” – instructor and founder of the operation Patrick Lambke – the school is located on a rural property just east of Johnson’s Corner.
Although the first thing that may come to mind when you think of jousting is full-blown, 200 pound metal suits and men spearing each other to death off their horses, that isn’t exactly what Lambke’s students are learning.
Think more along the lines of cowboys and cowgirls that joust, rather than wrangle.
Photo by Martin B. Hamilton
By Martin B. Hamilton/The Johnstown Breeze
JOHNSTOWN – Many names on the wall of the practice room at Roosevelt High School, along with accomplishments by the Rough Riders wrestling team, indicate Mike Pallotto was a pretty successful coach for 38 seasons.
Saturday night, his body of work is to be recognized in the form of a Lifetime Service to Wrestling Award that translates into being inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
“It’ll be exciting to go to Stillwater (Okla., where the NWHOF is headquartered) and see my plaque up there,” Pallotto said.
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And the wind began to switch...
Photo by Felicia Crabbe A microburst Friday afternoon in Johnstown dropped this tree across Charlotte Street.By Matt Lubich/The Johnstown Breeze
JOHNSTOWN – If it wasn’t a tornado, for a moment, it darn sure felt like one.
That was the consensus of people in downtown Johnstown Friday afternoon, after a brief but beyond blustery microburst came through the area, cracking branches from trees like the sounds of baseball bats at a homerun derby and closing expansive Charlotte Street when a tree fell across the road.
KQA Board seats three new members
Sets mid-July date for recall vote by school membership
By Matt Lubich/The Johnstown BreezeAs if fighting the kidney stone pain she said was so intense that she was forced to stand and pace during the meeting wasn’t bad enough for new Knowledge Quest Academy charter school board member Shiela Woodson, less than an hour after becoming a board member she officially faced recall.
Woodson, along with Joshua Speiser and Danny McDaniel, were seated Wednesday night in Milliken as the three new members on the charter school board. They join Amy Carlson, Justin Vanvalkenburg, Brandy Sargent and Nancy Supernor. McDaniel was unable to attend the meeting, board president Carlson said.
The trio were the top vote getters in a recent election of board members that has been called into question by a parents group at the school. That group had called on the board to hold another election before the end of school next Friday, when a full seven members would be elected.
All seven current members now face a recall election July 11 by the membership (parents) of the school, which has been in operation for a decade. Although, apparently in the back and forth, ‘they-said/they-said’ of the situation, even that point is one of contention.
Wednesday night’s meeting was attended for part of it by two Milliken Police officers, and the audience swelled to about 100 at the outset, but dwindled to no more than two dozen toward the end of two-hour-long-plus session when the recall was discussed. Audience members had earlier called on the board to move the matter higher on the agenda, where it had been placed as the second-to-last item.
Public Star Night focuses on Neptune
The Johnstown Breeze
BERTHOUD – Neptune, our solar system’s ice giant and the first plant located through mathematical predictions, is the focus of Friday night’s Public Star Night at the Little Thompson Observatory.
Mike Hotka, a senior software engineer at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, is scheduled to talk about the discovery of Neptune. |
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