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The Evergreen Rotary Club presented a check for $500 on Friday to John Zabawa, director of the Seniors’ Resource Center in Evergreen.

Rotarian Jane Weinberger, who championed the grant through the Evergreen Rotary Foundation, presented the check at the club’s weekly meeting at El Rancho and noted that the center is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. She said that members of the Evergreen Rotary Club, chartered the same year, have been volunteering at the center each year since.

The Mount Evans Scenic Byway, the highest paved road in North America, was closed for the season on Oct. 6.

The road is closed at the Echo Lake entry station, 12 miles southwest of exit 240 on Interstate 70. The road is scheduled to reopen on Memorial Day weekend in 2009.

Many other roads and trails are still open in the Clear Creek Ranger District. To get information on other places to enjoy the national forest, stop by the Clear Creek Ranger District office, or call 303-567-3000.

The long-vacant 24-unit condo complex at the Highway 74 turnoff to Bergen Park staged a grand opening last week under a new owner, a Broomfield-based real estate investment company.

On Thursday, Oct. 2, the new owners debuted the project to the public for the first time at a festive open house complete with jazz ensemble, wine and buffet banquet in a fully furnished model.

A lot of landscaping and cleanup work has been done to make the area come to life after a two-year period of dormancy.

The question of how closely Jefferson County should follow community plans took center stage at a forum for political candidates Oct. 2 at the Evergreen Lake House.

District 2 county commission candidate Jason Bane, a Democrat, seized on the issue to turn up the heat on his opponent, Republican incumbent Kevin McCasky.

"Community plans must be respected," Bane said. "There were a couple of cases where, by and large, they were ignored."