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I needed caffeine. I woke up feeling like my brain was in an unclean fish tank and a hundred miles away. A shower didn’t help rejuvenate my senses, and I stumbled around trying to find a shirt not wrinkled like a dead elephant’s carcass. There were none. This wasn’t all that unusual. Iron in hand, I cleared a space on my countertop and melted a hole in a $40 shirt. I looked at the bottom of the iron and then to the clock above the stove — I was running late for a meeting.

The next time you’re doing business in Golden, do yourself the pleasure of stopping by to see an old Evergreen friend.

OK, maybe not “friend” so much as “brief acquaintance.” Or, possibly, “unwelcome guest,” or even “bitter enemy,” depending on how long you can hold a grudge. In any case, you’ll likely find a courtesy call to Evergreen’s one-time Dam Bridge well worth the effort.

How convenient that downtown Evergreen’s newest public amenity happens to be the perfect place to throw a little party in its honor.

On Saturday afternoon, June 21, dozens of folks turned out at Evergreen Mountain Village to extend a heartfelt “howdy” to the Evergreen Interpretive Plaza, a restful two-tiered oasis of ease and edification just footsteps from the buzz and bustle of Main Street. The plaza is the second link in a chain of interpretive interludes the Lariat Loop Heritage Association has planned along that historic route.

“It’s not about new schools,” Jeffco Superintendent Cindy Stevenson says as she asks voters to support a proposed $350 million school bond issue, plus a $32 million permanent tax increase.

It’s about bettering existing schools, keeping class size down and increasing graduation requirements, rather than bricks and mortar, Stevenson says.

Stevenson spoke June 18 at Bergen Meadow Elementary School in Evergreen at a meeting of about 30 people, most of whom had children in Evergreen schools.