Why some people climb mountains
By Cindy Noble/For The Johnstown Breeze
Editor’s Note: This Saturday, Sept. 11, Cindy Noble of Johnstown will again join with others to take part in the Pikes Peak Challenge, a 13-mile ascent to the summit of Pikes Peak to benefit The Brain Injury Association of Colorado. In 1998, her son Josh suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. The Challenge is the major fundraising event funding programs and services through the Brain Injury Association of Colorado and Memorial Health System’s Think First for Kids Head & Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program. Noble shared this piece she wrote in 2007 about taking part in the event.
While sharing the details of a recent hike with a friend at work, I was politely interrupted by a co-worker asking if my husband and I were avid hikers. I giggled in response, no, no… gosh no… this was just a whim we decided to do after talking with someone in a local sporting goods store. Just something to challenge ourselves to see if we could even accomplish such an unbecoming task for two recent ex-smokers who shared the only exercise of fork lifting during meal times.
Editor’s Note: This Saturday, Sept. 11, Cindy Noble of Johnstown will again join with others to take part in the Pikes Peak Challenge, a 13-mile ascent to the summit of Pikes Peak to benefit The Brain Injury Association of Colorado. In 1998, her son Josh suffered a traumatic brain injury in a bicycle accident. The Challenge is the major fundraising event funding programs and services through the Brain Injury Association of Colorado and Memorial Health System’s Think First for Kids Head & Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program. Noble shared this piece she wrote in 2007 about taking part in the event.
While sharing the details of a recent hike with a friend at work, I was politely interrupted by a co-worker asking if my husband and I were avid hikers. I giggled in response, no, no… gosh no… this was just a whim we decided to do after talking with someone in a local sporting goods store. Just something to challenge ourselves to see if we could even accomplish such an unbecoming task for two recent ex-smokers who shared the only exercise of fork lifting during meal times.
Historic schoolhouse burns
Fairview school fire felt to be arson
By Martin B. Hamilton
MILLIKEN – Part of Milliken’s past burned in the early hours of last Saturday, when the Fairview schoolhouse somehow caught fire.
“Part of our history (is) gone,” said Milliken Trustee Peggy Wakeman, whose mother, Mary Nelson, attended school there more than 80 years ago. “I think it’s pretty sad, but it had been abused for quite a number of years.”
By Martin B. Hamilton
MILLIKEN – Part of Milliken’s past burned in the early hours of last Saturday, when the Fairview schoolhouse somehow caught fire.
“Part of our history (is) gone,” said Milliken Trustee Peggy Wakeman, whose mother, Mary Nelson, attended school there more than 80 years ago. “I think it’s pretty sad, but it had been abused for quite a number of years.”
Streetside switch
Streetside switch - Demolition work began Tuesday night on the east side of Parish Avenue as part of the Johnstown downtown streetscape project. Crews came in overnight and removed asphalt in the northbound lane of Parish. Traffic will now only be allowed southbound. The intersection of Parish and S. First Place is also closed temporarily, but parking is still allowed along S. First Place. Like work on the west side of the street, curb and gutter will soon begin to be installed, before crews move on to sidewalk demolition and construction. All businesses downtown remain open during the construction. Late last week, crews also installed lighting along the west side of the street. Photo by Martin B. Hamilton
Click below to see a map of the new street routes and parking
Click below to see a map of the new street routes and parking
21 N. Parish: Then and Now
By Ardis Briggs/The Johnstown Breeze
This building at 21 North Parish Avenue in Johnstown was originally built for the storage of Elmer and G.W. Rowden’s milk truck and drey service equipment. Elmer Rowden’s blacksmith shop, and barns and corrals for the drey service were originally at that site, too, but were torn down. The storage building was purchased by Ern Hill in 1938 for the Plymouth Garage.
This building at 21 North Parish Avenue in Johnstown was originally built for the storage of Elmer and G.W. Rowden’s milk truck and drey service equipment. Elmer Rowden’s blacksmith shop, and barns and corrals for the drey service were originally at that site, too, but were torn down. The storage building was purchased by Ern Hill in 1938 for the Plymouth Garage.
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Art draws out Rotary Student
JOHNSTOWN – Taylor Embury didn’t start drawing until she took art class her first year at Roosevelt High School.
Showing she has a lot of potential and indicating it’s a career she would like to pursue, Embury is this school year’s first Johnstown-Milliken Rotary Student of the Month.
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Recycle your discarded electronics this weekend
Johnstown and Milliken residents are invited to recycle their used electronics, with a portion of the proceeds helping local schools.
This recycling event is being sponsored by The Johnstown Breeze, Radical Designs, Tami Sprague Prudential Real Estate of the Rockies, and Access Computer Products, Inc./Cartridges for Kids®.
Colorado State Fair titles taken
The Johnstown Breeze
PUEBLO – People from Johnstown and members of the Johnstown-based Calico ’n Jeans 4-H club came away from this year’s Colorado State Fair with some top-notch results.
