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Well there's top stories this week runners
and residents prepare for boulders

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Memorial Day celebrations
the city implements

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a recreation center pass program for veterans
and Boulder police officers to raise

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money and awareness for
Special Olympics Colorado.

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Welcome to INSIDE Boulder featuring topics
and stories that impact the community of

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Boulder Patrick von Keyserlingk and
Jennifer brick. And on the news

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desk Headley wood and Mike Benway let's
bring you the stories making headlines in

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the community this week. Inside
Boulder news starts now.

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Welcome to INSIDE Boulder News I'm Natalie
what from the creek fest to the bowl

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there Balder residents and
visitors are gearing up for

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a big weekend in our town Boulder offers
some great events around Memorial Day and

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the many attractions take about

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a year's worth of preparation inside Boulder
news spoke this week with Boulder ball

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the race card Nader cliff Bosley about
what it takes to produce the race named

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America's all time best ten K.

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By Runner's World magazine this is where
thing happens all the equipment comes in

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and out of the warehouse and so right now
we're in the process of I guess readying

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signs and cones and getting rid coolers
and trash cans and tables and chairs and

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tents and kind of everything required
to make the event happen the boulder

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Boulder's unusual because it's it really
is three hundred sixty four days for one

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and so as soon as this year's race is over
we're know we try to put it to bed but

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we're also starting work on next year
there's over fifty thousand hours between

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volunteer time our year our small year
round staff time seasonal staff that we

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hired to come in and help us
do what we do so almost just

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a hair more than an hour for every participant
more than fifty thousand people are

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expected to participate in the ball their
ball there on Memorial Day this weekend

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you can also check out the twenty fifth
Annual Boulder Creek Fest which is taking

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place from Saturday May twenty sixth
through Memorial Day. It is looking likely

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that all their voters will weigh in this
fall on whether to continue funding energy

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efficiency and conservation programs City
Council this week unanimously supported

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a staff recommendation that voters be asked
to extend the climate action plan tax

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the tax on consumers energy use raises
about one point eight million dollars

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a year to pay for valuable programs such
as energy smart before expressing their

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support council members heard from an
independent consultant who said the programs

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have delivered significant results for
the money spent. To me it's to not only

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spend the money but just to
be doing it consistently. And

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she said that's really.
In terms of stands.

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To lose the momentum without an extension
the cap tax will expire at the end of

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March two thousand and thirteen. Boulder's
Parks and Recreation Department is now

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offering

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a special recreation facility past program
for veterans the program which began on

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May twenty first includes

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a one time free ninety day recreation
facility passed for post nine eleven veterans

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it also offers

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a twenty five percent discount on Annual
Passes for all military personnel and

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veterans who live in Boulder or Boulder
County recreation superintendent Alice

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Guthrie talked to us this week about why
this program is worthwhile we felt that it

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was an opportunity to honor those people
who have served our country in the

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military as well is this an opportunity for
us to serve more community members who

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we really think it's

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a win win on all accounts as we get rolling
and get feedback from participants

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we're anxious to find out how they like it
in that there's any other specific types

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of programs would work better to meet their
needs and how we might modify it going

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forward the passes provide entry to all
three city recreation centers to outdoor

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pools and the ball their reservoir for
more information on the program visit

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Boulder parks rec dot org. The main
eighteenth blonde Foresman torch run was

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a success raising two thousand sixty five
dollars for Special Olympics Colorado

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a total of seventy five participants ran
biked and walked to the five mile course

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to raise funds and awareness for Special
Olympics and athletes with intellectual

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disabilities Here's a look at
this year's event. It feels like

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a real honor to run we did
read the last thank you good

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three or three years it was fun because.

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I think our athletes love the encouraged
we get from the police officers to keep

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trying harder in whatever sport they're
doing and I think it kind of goes back I

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think the police officers see our athletes
and say wow you know everybody can

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overcome

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a little challenges and be successful
are we. Are used to do football

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. Baseball. Basketball
and doing special and to

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turn a boulder Boulder. It's. I'm

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a team player so. They get a
big kick out of it we run as

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a group in our uniforms our shirts they
like to see the support for these guys

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these guys are in the community doing all
kinds of athletic events softball running

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with us keeps them active keeps them not
staying home and we like to show our

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support our whole SWAT team comes out
every year and run this little you see it

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when we train for different sports and you
know I'm coming here and having to do

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something different when you're

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a Seattle smile. I just want
the band name team called the

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Beyond Limits and we practice Mondays and
Wednesdays to improve our running or

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walking ability and participate in the
ball the ball or just shows that the ball

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the city of bowler as

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a whole supports these athletes so that we
try to encourage as many people to come

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out here as possible

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a lot of times or D.A.'s office is out
here with us also the Boulder County SWAT

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team they run a different
leg of this race it's

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a real neat event it gives everybody

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a chance to get out run meet everybody
the special and be adds We have

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a good time doing it and then we have

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a nice dinner at the
end. Boy yourself trust

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yourself to. Do your best. Don't

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don't don't. You know just do our best
and improve every day really poised

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yourself and. Having

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a good smile in your face. The individual
and collective support for this event

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benefits more than eleven thousand dedicated
Special Olympics athletes in Colorado

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. Last Saturday some community members
braved the rainy weather to help

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make improvements around town for the tenth
annual community cleanup day volunteers

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were moved to trash and are cyclable planted
trees and pulled weeds from parks and

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Greenways attendees were able to pick

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a location where onsite project leaders
provided direction and supplies amazing to

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come down thirty years and be. Really
probably twenty people working reading

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digging sending flowers she will be. Using
the event people love to clean the creek

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so we just help them know what you want.
To put it how to get it done and.

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Community cleanup day is intended to help
maintain and improve boulders publicly

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arms volunteers were rewarded
for their contributions with

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a free ice cream social
after the event and

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a one day pass to the reservoir the USA
Ultimate college championships are

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returning to Boulder this weekend to crown
the men's and women's college champions

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in the sport of ultimate frisbee the four
day tournament will be held at present

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the sports complex which was also the site
of last year's championships Balder will

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be hosting for the women's and open division
teams from universities across North

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America although more than seven hundred
teams enter the college regular season

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with hopes of earning

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a bed to the nationals only twenty squad
from each division eventually qualify to

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take center stage in Boulder. See you
is one of the teams competing in this

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weekend's games that's all the time we
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