Today's News

Jackie Mohr, a mother of three and the executive director of Drive Smart Evergreen/Conifer, is happy to know that more children will be protected by seat belts and booster seats after a new state law took effect.

As of Aug. 1, any child under age 8 has to be protected in a car by a child safety seat. The previous age was 6. Failure to obey the law could result in a minimum $82 fine. Law enforcement officers can pull over a vehicle if they see a child not safely restrained in a child car safety seat.

Salmonella recently sickened eight people and likely affected 20 others who ate at The Fort restaurant in Morrison, and the Jeffco health department is looking into the situation.

“We are corresponding on patients who ate at the restaurant between July 10 through 16,” said Jeffco Public Health spokeswoman Nancy Braden. “We are involved in an ongoing investigation.”

Talk about intestinal fortitude.

Evergreen resident Nick Kapande celebrated his 48th birthday Aug. 2 with a marathon consisting of 4,800 nonstop sit-ups, or 400 more than he did on his 44th birthday in the same amount of time.

So, instead of eating birthday cake, Kapande was sipping on an energy drink, wiping the sweat from his fat-free physique and listening to about 20 people clap and cheer in the exercise room at his business, Nick’s Pro Fitness, at Evergreen Parkway and Lewis Ridge Road.

Summer is in full swing with August weather starting in July.

As the weathermen have been saying, the monsoon winds are bringing warm and wet air up from the Gulf Coast, which is bringing us rain when it bumps into our cool mountains. This usually occurs in August, but this year two near tropical storms brought some similar weather in July, so we have had unusually hot and humid weather, very unlike the hot dry weather we are used to.