Today's News

Apparently, running for hours on end just wasn’t enough for Jason Poole.

The Evergreen resident, who began his love-affair of endurance races (or ultra-marathons) after competing in an Eco Challenge, upped the stakes when he applied – and was accepted – to compete in a 100-mile trail race in Plain, Wash., that’s set to take place Sept. 12 and 13.

A great success is the best way to describe the first-ever Art in the Park at the Mountain Resource Center last week.

The event, which provided free art activities for children and their parents, was expected to garner a couple dozen wannabe artists, but by the halfway point, at least 50 children had attended. And they all had messy, artistic fun.

The kids painted birdhouses and made kites, hats, beaded necklaces and stamped booklets, and even painted canvas shoes.

Gov. Bill Ritter last week appointed Evergreen resident Christine Bachmeyer Phillips as a new district judge in the 1st Judicial District, which serves Gilpin and Jefferson counties.

She fills the vacancy created by the resignation of M.J. Menendez, who returned to the U.S. attorney’s office in Denver after two years on the bench.

Phillips worked as a civil lawyer for a private law firm for four years out of law school but since then has been in government.

Some things never change.

At a fair, the band will always play “You Are My Sunshine,” and kids will eat sweets and run everywhere they go. There are quilts and cornhusks, and everyone wears brightly colored hats and spends a little too much time in the sun.

Also, ask a woman her age, and she’ll tell you that you don’t want to know. That’s how most of the female residents of the Life Care Center in Evergreen responded to questions about their age.