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Highlandlake Community Center
The Highlandlake Community Center will be restored through a recent grant from the State Historical Fund, a program of the Colorado Historical Society that awards organizations grants to preserve the state’s architectural and archaeological structures.
The community center was built as a church in 1876 and houses a bell tower that can be seen from Weld County Road 5, just a few miles from Mead. During the 1870s and 1880s, the town of Highlandlake had a population of 600 to 800. When the railroad built a route through Mead instead of Highlandlake in 1906, the population dwindled, and many of the town’s buildings were moved to Mead.
The community center and the parsonage are the only remaining structures of the former town of Highlandlake.
Sources: Colorado Municipal League newsletter; State Historical Fund
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REGIONAL NOTES
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
Artists may apply for summer slot
The National Park Service is accepting applications through December for its summer 2006 Artist-in-Residence Program at Rocky Mountain National Park.
Selected artists are provided with a creative, contemplative environment in which to generate artistic works and share their works with the public. Artistic diversity, new ideas and creative uses of media are encouraged.
Consideration is given to professional artists in all media. Two-week residencies are available at the William Allen White cabin from June through September. Musicians, writers, sculptors, painters, photographers, poets and performance artists will be given equal consideration.
During their stay, artists share their vision in two public presentations. Following their residency, artists donate a fully finished work, representative of their stay in the Rocky Mountains, to the park.
A panel of professional artists will judge the applicant pool. Five to six artists will be selected to participate in summer 2006.
For more information, call the park at 970-586-1206.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
NW road plan responses posted
Responses to comments and questions collected during the Northwest Corridor Environmental Impact Study public meetings in May and June are posted on the project website, www.NWCorridorEIS.com.
The Colorado Department of Transportation is studying transportation improvements in an area from U.S. 36 and Northwest Parkway in Broomfield County to the freeway systems in the vicinity of Colorado 58, Interstate 70 and C-470 to the south in Jefferson County.
For more information, to make comments or to be added to the mailing list, call the project hotline, 303-220-2545, or go to the website.
BOULDER
Frankenstein plans six-week visit
Frankenstein is coming to the Boulder Public Library.
The library is one of 80 across the U.S. selected to host a traveling exhibition of the 1818 classic “Frankenstein” that highlights author Mary Shelley’s life and the evolution of her novel.
“Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature” will be in Boulder for six weeks, opening at the Main Library on Oct. 19.
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