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A man fell 40 feet Sunday from one of the newly installed zip lines at Conifer Community Park, and he was evacuated to St. Anthony Hospital in a Flight for Life helicopter. The zip lines were not open for business when the accident occurred.

Stefan Van der Steen, owner of Denver Zipline Tours, said no one had been given permission to use the zip line on Sunday evening.

“I’m not sure what happened,” Van der Steen said. “No one was authorized to use the facility; it was closed.

Friends and family of Sherry Pilcher gathered to dedicate a new residents' library and lounge in her honor on Friday, July 15, at the Life Care Center of Evergreen.

About 75 people crowded into the dining room to listen to tributes to Pilcher's work at the center, where she was a certified nursing assistant from 1998 to 2001. She loved to read, said Kathy Price, admissions and marketing director, in a statement.

 Foothills Fire Rescue completed a two-day inspection and testing process in late June that will help determine how much residents of the Foothills Fire District will be paying for their insurance premiums.

The last time an evaluation was done was more than 10 years ago. Since then the department has acquired two more water tankers, two more fire trucks and three full-time paid personnel, all of which should translate into a better rating and possibly lower homeowners' insurance costs.

The Jeffco library board is considering closing the system’s three smallest library branches next year, including the Conifer Library.
Library staff on Thursday listed closure of the Conifer, Edgewater and Wheat Ridge libraries as cost-saving options; shutting down all three could save the system up to $695,000 annually.
The closures could be necessary to meet a sharply reduced budget in 2012, library staff and board members said.