Today's Sports

By Tim Donohoo
For the Courier
CONIFER — You knew it was going to be a good day for the Elevation Celebration 5k run and walk in Conifer on July 13. The sun appeared right before the runners approached the starting line. Then came the big boom, and the runners were off.
That skin-crawling sound came from a 15-pound starting cannon rocketed south toward the Conifer sky by trails member Brooke Kerns.

Many people’s first reaction on seeing an orange-and-black bird is that it must be an oriole; this, however, is not the case. We have another orange-and-black bird in the foothills that is not an oriole. It’s short thick finch bill and dull burnt orange color will immediately rule out an oriole.

As Bob Weiner gets older, he shies away from running shorter distances and concentrates more on marathons, half marathons and 10ks. But the 48-year-old Evergreen resident wanted to work on his speed at the 2013 Freedom Run 5k.
He did more than that. He won the race.
A veteran of the annual 4th of July run from Evergreen Middle School to Nick’s Pro Fitness, Weiner held off a hard-charging Joey Villarreal of Aurora to win in a time of 16 minutes, 20 seconds. Villarreal was just 2 seconds behind.

It’s a “pinch-me” moment for the president of North Evergreen Activity Trails, as construction began last week on the final leg of 1.8 miles of sidewalk connecting Evergreen Middle School to Bergen Park to Bergen Valley Elementary School.