Road worker killed by car ID’d as Westminster man
A highway worker killed Saturday on U.S. 85 in Sedalia was identified Sunday as Christopher Naeve of Westminster, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
Naeve was getting out of a truck when he was hit by a 19-year-old woman who, police said, might have fallen asleep at the wheel of a Geo Metro.
Elizabeth Vogel was taken to Sky Ridge Medical Center with minor injuries.
Police are still investigating the incident.
Naeve was working for a private contractor and was not a Colorado Department of Transportation employee.
BOULDER
Handgun being tested as clue in 2004 killing
For two years, investigators have sought a clue into the fatal shooting of a Denver father of five who was killed two years ago Sunday as he drove to Boulder on U.S. 36.
Investigators could not find a shell casing or the gun used to kill Frank Santos, 37.
In November, a break came when someone jailed by Larimer County authorities gave a friend a .22-caliber handgun to stash and said it was used in a killing, said Boulder County Sheriff’s Office Detective Steve Ainsworth.
It is being tested to see if was used to kill Santos, Ainsworth said.
“I don’t want to hang my hopes on it, but it certainly is an interesting story, an interesting lead,” he said.
BEAVER CREEK
Homeowners oppose alpine slide on ski run
Vail Resorts is always pushing to find more ways to encourage visitors during the summer.
This time, the corporation is running into resistance.
It wants to build an alpine slide down its Haymeadow ski run at Beaver Creek. Riders hop on small wheeled sleds and plunge down.
Owners of the nearby expensive homes say it would change the character of the area.
“It’s not what people here want. I’d say at least 90 percent of the resort property owners are against it,” said Bernie Scharf, the president of the McCoy Peak Condominium Association and spokesman for several other associations in the Haymeadow area.
“We’re going to work together on this,” said Tom Schouten, president of the Beaver Creek Property Owners Association. “But we think a different place is better.”
In the meantime, the company has put off the project until at least Jan. 31, said John Garnsey, chief operating officer of Beaver Creek. “We want to spend time with the property owners to review our options.”
Garnsey said the resort company wants a compromise but also wants to offer more summer activities at all its resorts.
COLORADO SPRINGS
Contents of 1906 time capsule to be revealed
Pioneers Museum staff members have being tight-lipped about what’s inside the recently unearthed 100-year-old Pikes Peak time capsule.
Although a partial list of items was printed in a newspaper in 1906, mum is the word until the contents are publicly unveiled Saturday as part of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Zebulon Pike’s journey to the region. Museum director Matt Mayberry did let a few details out with his office door closed.
The items inside the 20-by- 10-inch copper cylinder are mostly paper.
“There were a few last-minute things thrown in, but not what I expected. One is funny, but I’m not going to say what it is,” Mayberry said, grinning.
Water somehow seeped into the sealed copper cylinder, but only a few items were destroyed. The contents are being dried and treated for mold, which was growing on some items.
The capsule, buried in 1906 at Antlers Park downtown in concrete below a 17-ton granite boulder, was unearthed June 27, using jackhammers and a crane.
ASPEN
Road advocates sue to get issue on ballot
Advocates of a four-lane road into Aspen are suing the city in an effort to let voters cast ballots on the matter in November.
In late June, the city clerk’s office rejected petitions for a four-lane entrance to Aspen across open space.
On Friday, lawyers for Jeffery Evans and Curtis Vagneur filed a lawsuit in Pitkin County District Court seeking a court order against the city to accept the petitions and allow them to gather signatures.
City Attorney John Worcester said the city rejected the petition because the realignment of a road is an administrative matter. Under state law, only legislative matters are subject to a citizen initiative, Worcester said.
Evans and Vagneur’s lawsuit argues the issue is a legislative matter because it deals with a change in use of open space owned by the city.
