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Members of the arts and business communities of Evergreen are joining forces to produce a multi-week showcase of visual, musical, theatrical and cultural delights, "Arts Alive Evergreen," from July 15-31.

This year there will be more art on display at the Bergen Village Shopping Center, more children's theater, new jazz workshops for teens, a free outdoor silent movie, an extra week and an extra weekend, in addition to the Summerfest and Jazz Festival weekends.

 At EDS Waste Solutions, recyclables are getting a makeover. They come in looking like a disorganized mess and go out in style.

EDS has installed an elevated sorting station with a conveyor belt, an industrial compactor and a baling machine at the EDS transfer station and recycling center at 5801 Highway 73.

Jock Spence constructed the bell tower at the Mission of the Transfiguration in 1911. Then, the Army Corps of Engineers restored it in 1978. The 35-foot tower, besides calling families to service, has greeted travelers as they entered Evergreen after driving Highway 74, climbing through Bear Creek Canyon. Many citizens of Evergreen still consider the bell tower one of the gateways of town.

An Evergreen woman has started a new business to help people overwhelmed by clutter and mess, or even struggling with just one room full of disorganization.

Think of that home office that seems perpetually buried in books, papers, boxes and bills. Shows like "Hoarders" on cable's A&E channel have exposed the emotional toll of compulsive collecting.

A young family from Evergreen with a knack for showmanship has won the grand prize over 185 other entries in a national video dance contest sponsored by the Primrose Schools of Atlanta.

Thanks to the efforts of Rebekah and Schannon Gumz and their son, Aiden, 4, a $30,000 donation will go to Children's Hospital from the Primrose Schools based in Atlanta.

They also received a $5,000 cash prize, which the family is donating back to Primrose School of Bear Creek in Lakewood, where Aiden goes to day care.

Editor’s note: Local paleoclimatologist Peter Link filed this report on a recent trip to Patagonia. His photographs accompany the article.

By Peter Link

For the Courier

Faye Hess may be almost 93 years old, but she can compete with people half her age when it comes to sewing and making quilts.

Hess recently completed an enormous quilting project that she is donating to Mt. Evans Hospice, which is holding a raffle to raise money for the hospice.

Tickets are $10 each or three for $25 and can be purchased online at www.mtevans.org or in person from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 3081 Bergen Peak Drive. A drawing will be held on the Fourth of July at the party for the Freedom Run, a benefit for Mt. Evans Hospice.

Editor's note: As our country fights its way out of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, the Clear Creek Courant is remembering those who fought for their very survival through the days following Black Tuesday into the winds of the Dust Bowl and onto the beaches of the Second World War.

Longtime Empire resident Duane Lewis was 8 when he was given a trumpet and began learning to play music.
He was 15 years old in 1929 when the stock market crashed, pitching the United States into the dark years of the Great Depression.

By Virginia Grantier

For the Courier

The pine trees’ white coats were melting one recent February day, and at times the drip-drip-drip seemed the only sound in Indian Hills.

Still, there was a hushed but persistent buzz in the foothills hamlet — a buzz that seems to be growing louder in the art world about a log building across the street from the Indian Hills post office.