DID YOU KNOW
Buffalo Bill Days
Wild West fun is planned Wednesday through Sunday during the annual Buffalo Bill Days celebration in downtown Golden.
Buffalo Bill’s grave is on Lookout Mountain, and the event’s beginnings were rooted in trail riders trekking to the site.
Events include a parade along Washington Avenue at 10 a.m. Saturday with more than 125 entries; arts and crafts vendors in Parfet Park; a vintage-car show and Wild West Show after the parade, and mutton bustin’ for kids ages 5-7 from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit www.buffalobilldays.com or call 303-384-0003.
REGIONAL NOTES
AURORA
Bring old computers for recycling
The city of Aurora and Hewlett-Packard are teaming up to recycle older computer equipment from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the city’s north satellite facility at 15700 E. 32nd Ave.
Residents throughout the metro area can bring computers, scanners, monitors, printers, VCRs, digital phones, DVD players, copiers, fax machines and other home electronics.
Televisions, microwaves, stoves, items with refrigerants and household chemicals will not be accepted.
To volunteer for Aurora’s recycling event, call Environment Aurora at 303-739-7555 or e-mail jschrack@auroragov.org.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
Clinic to vaccinate for pertussis
A mass immunization clinic for pertussis – also known as whooping cough – will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Monday for county residents ages 11 to 64.
The Jefferson County Department of Health and Environment is holding the “Operation Whoop It Up” clinic for public health while conducting an emergency-preparedness exercise.
The clinic will be at the health department’s offices at 6303 Wadsworth Bypass in Arvada and at 260 S. Kipling St. in Lakewood.
Preregister by calling 303-239-7033. In addition, free tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccinations will be offered to those who preregister.
BOULDER
Brigade offers conservation tips
A brigade of energy-conservation soldiers are going door to door in two Boulder neighborhoods to encourage people to be more frugal with their energy use and to offer tips for how residents can do that.
City of Boulder employees have teamed up with the University of Colorado Environmental Center and Longs Peak Energy Conservation to form the Boulder Energy Brigade. The group hit the Majestic Heights neighborhood earlier this month and will be in the Aurora 7 neighborhood Saturday.
Members of the brigade will hand out educational information on energy conservation, as well as energy and water conservation kits that contain compact fluorescent light bulbs and water-reduction aids.
Residents in the neighborhoods also will have the chance to sign up for free energy audits.
