Immunization drive kicks off for children
State officials on Thursday launched a marketing campaign aimed at ensuring Colorado’s children are fully immunized.
The campaign includes information for parents about how and when to immunize their children.
“Immunizations not only are safe, but they also prevent the youngest residents of the state from becoming ill with the childhood diseases that can be so serious,” Lt. Gov. Jane Norton said in a statement.
In addition to printed materials in local health departments and clinics, information is at www.immunizecoloradoskids.org or by calling the Family Healthline at 303-692-2229 or 800-688-7777.
Accountant makes bid to join DPS board
David W. Lewis, an accountant in the city auditor’s office, has announced he will be running for the Denver Public Schools board.
Lewis, who has worked in the auditor’s office for 24 years, has experience as a contract officer, sports instructor, salesman, English as a Second Language teacher and musician.
He is a native of New York who grew up in New Jersey and now lives in southwest Denver.
Lewis said he is seeking election to the board of the state’s second-largest school district, which serves about 73,000 students, because he believes “we’re failing our children in Denver by having the number of children drop out that we have.”
He is seeking the at-large seat currently held by Lester Woodward, who has served on the board since 1999.
Overturned auto pins 4, puts 1 in hospital
Union Colony firefighters had to cut four people out of a overturned vehicle at the intersection of 23rd Avenue and 10th Street in Greeley on Thursday morning, Deputy Fire Marshal Dale Lyman said.
Seven people from the accident were taken to North Colorado Medical Center with injuries ranging from cuts and bruises to possible internal and head injuries, he said.
A hospital spokeswoman said only one victim was admitted to the hospital Thursday, and she was in good condition.
Nearly half of landfills in Wyo. found to leak
The state Department of Environmental Quality has identified at least 65 of the 145 municipal landfills in Wyoming as needing some improvements to protect groundwater from pollution.
“Evidence that an increasing number of Wyoming’s municipal solid-waste landfills leak and contaminate groundwater contradicts earlier assumptions that Wyoming landfills will not pollute groundwater in our arid climate,” Bobbe Fitzhugh, chairman of the Wyoming Citizens Advisory Group on Solid Wastes, said in a statement Thursday.
Statewide, the cost of improving and cleaning leaky landfills is estimated at $180 million.
Rock Creek area gets new wild designation
Public comments have prompted Bighorn National Forest officials to designate about 34,000 acres in Wyoming’s Rock Creek area as a wilderness study area.
A newsletter dealing with updates to the forest plan noted the revision, and said that the Tongue River would not be recommended for Wild and Scenic River status because of widespread opposition.
“Many people, including the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, requested this change,” the newsletter said.
Forest officials still plan to ask for Wild and Scenic status for another river, the Little Bighorn.
When forest officials released their draft management plan last fall, conservationists complained that it didn’t do enough to protect potential wilderness areas such as the Rock Creek area.
World Tibet Day festival Saturday
The Tibetan community of Colorado will hold its third annual World Tibet Day festival Saturday to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Dalai Lama and the culture of the Tibetan civilization. Organizers say it is the biggest Tibetan and Himalayan festival in Colorado.
There will be live music and dances, cultural exhibits, a bazaar of Tibetan and Himalayan antiques and arts and crafts, and information on Tibet and the Tibetan community in Colorado.
The event, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is free to the public and takes place at the band shell, Central Park (Broadway and Canyon) in downtown Boulder.
