Dear Estes Park Friends, It is with much regret that Maritza and I have decided to close the local Curves effective January 22nd. As most of you know Maritza is going through some additional preventative chemotherapy for her lymphoma. This combined with the fact that we have never been in a totally solvent position with Curves finalized our decision. Maritza has made many great friends through Curves and th ...

To The Editor: This letter is in reference of the Estes Park Community Thrift Shop complaint stated by one person which makes you wonder if he has ever volunteered for anything in his life. If he had, then he would not be stirring up a problem for the Thrift Shop that does so much for people and individual entities in our community. The Estes Park Community Thrift Shop has donated to the Big Thompson Flood ...

An Open Letter to the Citizens of the Estes Valley, Thanks to your support, January 1 marked the transition from the Estes Park Fire Department to the Estes Valley Fire Protection District. This has truly been a community solution to a community need. Due to the work of so many individuals the transition has been as smooth as could possibly be expected. We are proud to work with highly-trained and caring vo ...

Dear Editor: The Estes Park Salud Foundation Board wishes to express publicly our extreme gratitude to the Estes Park Community Thrift Shop (Hwy 34) for again including Salud in the Year End 2009 grant awards. We thank each of the Thrift Shop volunteers for the dedication to this cause that benefits not just Salud, but many other non-profit groups in the area. The grant award also provides a public acknowle ...

Dear Editor: On January 12, Estes Park voters participated in a special municipal election at unprecedented levels.  More votes were cast in the special election than were cast within Town limits during the November election.  Indeed, it was the highest number of voters in a municipal election ever. Thank you to all those Estes Park citizens who voted in this past election.  The strong turn-out demonstrated ...

To the Editor: This letter was written before EPURA ballots were counted, so I have no way of knowing how the vote will turn out.  (As Mark Twain surely must have said: "Any man who claims he knows how an election will turn out will lie about other things as well.") "Friends of EPURA" plan a Tuesday election watch dinner at Peak to Peak American Grille. I don't know what those on the other side of the issue ...

A big thank you to all who helped and generously donated to the fundraisers for Stephanie McCrea's Medical Fund.  Both the bake sale and bowling night were a big success! Thank you to Rocky Mountain Evangelical Free Church (Estes Park) for hosting the bake sale, setting up the medical fund for the McCrea's, and helping spread the word. Thank you to Tanis Roeder and the staff at Chipper's Lanes Bowling Alley ...

To The Editor: There are certainly a lot of opinions about the EPURA election, and everyone is entitled to have one. Recently many opinions in the newspapers appear to have been formed based on the belief that EPURA’s funding does not come from tax receipts that would have gone to other taxing districts, had they not been diverted to EPURA. One fact is irrefutable and that is that in the last year of the or ...