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“When I find a well-drawn character in fiction or biography, I generally take a warm personal interest in him, for the reason that I have known him before — met him on the river.”

— Mark Twain, in “Life on the Mississippi”

Brad Bradberry never met a person he didn’t know, or with whom he couldn’t navigate a long, meandering conversation. While some people collect objects, Brad collected people: childhood friends, rivals, Rotarians, fellow publishers, bosses, employees, customers.

Ask anyone who had the good fortune to work with former Evergreen Newspapers publisher Brad Bradberry about their old boss, and they’ll tell you about the best boss they ever had.

“He always had faith in his employees,” says graphic designer Jeanne Ehmsen. “If you had a good idea, he’d let you run with it, and that’s pretty rare in this business. In a lot of ways, he was more like a father figure than a boss.”

Once more the holiday season is upon us, and with it comes the 108th Christmas Bird Count. As usual, the Evergreen Audubon Society will participate, covering the Evergreen-Idaho Springs area. This year’s count will be held on Sunday, Dec. 16. All Audubon members, guests, friends and the public are invited to participate.

Neither the Evergreen Dam nor Genesee Dam No. 2 is remotely capable of failing under the pressure of the kind of storm that happens only once in a hundred years, according to state dam safety engineers.

The Friends of Bear Creek, a local watershed protection group, organized a meeting Nov. 29 at the Morrison Town Hall to address members’ concerns about the safety of the new Genessee Dam No. 2, which went into service in September.