Home Care In Longmont, CO

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Cary Morin concert: 7 p.m. Thursday, Stewart Auditorium, 400 S. Quail Road, Longmont. Cary Morin brings together the great musical traditions of America like no other. Morin crafts an inimitable style often characterized as roots-infused Native Americana with hints of bluegrass, folk, blues and rock. This concert is presented in conjunction with the museum’s “Picturing the West” exhibition. $12-$18, longmontcolorado.gov.

Page Turners Book Club: 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Carbon Valley Regional Library, 7 Park Ave., Firestone. Avid readers can meet every second Thursday at Carbon Valley Regional Library for the Page Turners Book Club. The club will discuss books from a variety of genres. Free, highplains.libcal.com.

Tween Club: 4 p.m. Thursday, Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Third through fifth graders can meet every week for Tween club, where they’ll play games, make crafts and do fun challenges and activities. This week, participants will do a clay emoji craft. longmontcolorado.gov.

Art & Sip — Celestial equinox painting: 4 p.m. Thursday, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. The spring equinox is a time when day and night are balanced in duration, and the earth starts to come alive again. Julie Benoit will teach students how to create a celestial painting with acrylic, paint markers and glitter inspired by this time of awakening and balance. $40, 303-651-8374, longmontcolorado.gov.

JT Jones and Dan Froelich at Bootstrap Brewing: 6 p.m. Thursday, Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. JT Jones and Dan Froelich are an acoustic music duo playing songs from the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s and beyond. bootstrapbrewing.com.

Professor Jean Wyrick talk: 6 p.m. Thursday, Berthoud Library, 236 Welch Ave., Berthoud. The Berthoud Community Library and the League of Women Voters will be be hosting Daring Deeds — Our Courageous Foremothers’ Fight for the 19th Amendment in celebration of Women’s History Month. Professor Emerita Jean Wyrick will retell the fight for the vote that ended in passage of the 19th Amendment and founding of the League of Women Voters. Free, 970-532-2757.

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Potcheen at Bootstrap Brewing: 6 p.m. Friday, Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Potcheen has played thousands of shows from New York to Alaska. Named Colorado’s Top Celtic band, the group continues to play alongside hundreds of the world’s best musical acts from Celtic to bluegrass, jam and rock bands energizing crowds with its high energy foot stomping stage shows. bootstrapbrewing.com.

Writer’s workshop: 7 p.m. Friday, Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. When writers gather in a community to write, each may well break through old habits and write something stronger and truer than before. Join the Firehouse Art Center Writers for a helpful, all levels, writers workshop. The event may include read throughs, prompts, sharing and more. Sarah Elizabeth Schantz will facilitate the group. facebook.com.

The Soundpost Sessions: 7 p.m. Friday, The Times Collaborative, 338 Main St., Longmont. The Soundpost Sessions is thrilled to present two amazing local musicians — Pamela Machala and Kyle Donovan. Singer, songwriter and pianist Pamela Machala’s music features influences ranging from jazz and soul to musical theater and folk. Her genre-blending sound is both modern and reminiscent of ’70s favorites like Carole King and James Taylor. With a style that hearkens back to a bygone era, Kyle Donovan’s pure, soaring tenor and fingerstyle guitar work have drawn critical acclaim from across the nation. $18-$25, eventbrite.com.

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St. Patrick’s Irish dinner: 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Hygiene United Methodist Church, 1475 Hygiene Road, Hygiene. Hygiene United Methodist Church will host its St. Patrick’s Irish dinner. The menu features corned beef, cabbage, Irish potatoes, carrots, drinks and desserts. Tickets will be sold at the door. Free-$15, 303-588-3255.

Carbon Valley Quilters: 1 p.m. Wednesday, Carbon Valley Regional Library, 7 Park Ave., Firestone. People of all skill levels are invited to explore the fun and fascinating art of quilting. The pattern will be provided. Participants must bring their own sewing machine and fabric. Open to all, ages 16 and up. Registration is required. Meets the second Wednesday of each month. Free, highplains.libcal.com.

Rockets and Orion’s Belt: 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie. Come explore various types of rockets from straw rockets, water rockets and maybe even launch a live rocket in the air. Free, 888-861-7323, highplains.libcal.com.

The Lofty Pines at Rosalee’s Pizzeria: 6 p.m. Wednesday, Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont. The Lofty Pines are an acoustic trio based out of Erie. The group’s music blurs the lines between folk, Americana, singer-songwriter and bluegrass. The Lofty Pines is gearing up for recording its debut album and starting to play out at various venues across the Denver/Boulder area. Ben Knighten (guitar, mandolin, songwriter), Darren Thornberry (guitar, vocals, percussion) and Carey Lewis (violin) are three ordinary dads who have each had their own unique musical journey up until the formation of the group. Free, rosaleespizzeria.com.

Longmont Public Media meeting: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Longmont Public Media, 457 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Longmont Public Media is a media makerspace open to the public and accessible to all interested in local media creation, production and more. It is also an innovation center and educational hub for local media. Those interested in learning more or helping create a new innovative model for public access television, can attend the meeting. Member meetings are held weekly on Wednesdays. Free, 720-544-7758, longmontpublicmedia.org.

Upcoming

Page Turners Book Club: 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Carbon Valley Regional Library, 7 Park Ave., Firestone. Avid readers can meet every second Thursday at Carbon Valley Regional Library for the Page Turners Book Club. The club will discuss books from a variety of genres. Free, highplains.libcal.com.

Tween Club: 4 p.m. Thursday, Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Third through fifth graders can meet every week for Tween club, where they’ll play games, make crafts and do fun challenges and activities. This week, participants will do a clay emoji craft. longmontcolorado.gov.

Art & Sip — Celestial equinox painting: 4 p.m. Thursday, Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. The spring equinox is a time when day and night are balanced in duration, and the earth starts to come alive again. Julie Benoit will teach students how to create a celestial painting with acrylic, paint markers and glitter inspired by this time of awakening and balance. $40, 303-651-8374, longmontcolorado.gov.

JT Jones and Dan Froelich at Bootstrap Brewing: 6 p.m. Thursday, Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. JT Jones and Dan Froelich are an acoustic music duo playing songs from the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s and beyond. bootstrapbrewing.com.

Professor Jean Wyrick talk: 6 p.m. Thursday, Berthoud Library, 236 Welch Ave.,, Berthoud. The Berthoud Community Library and the League of Women Voters will be be hosting Daring Deeds — Our Courageous Foremothers’ Fight for the 19th Amendment in celebration of Women’s History Month. Professor Emerita Jean Wyrick will retell the fight for the vote that ended in passage of the 19th Amendment and founding of the League of Women Voters. Free, 970-532-2757.

Cary Morin concert: 7 p.m. Thursday, Stewart Auditorium, 400 S. Quail Road, Longmont. Cary Morin brings together the great musical traditions of America like no other. Morin crafts an inimitable style often characterized as roots-infused Native Americana with hints of bluegrass, folk, blues and rock. This concert is presented in conjunction with the museum’s “Picturing the West” exhibition. $12-$18, longmontcolorado.gov.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the Boulder County area with nine to 18 inches of snow forecast between Wednesday evening and Friday morning.

In light of the upcoming storm, Longmont shelters and churches are making plans to help people without shelter.

The nonprofit Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement will offer a severe weather overnight shelter to anyone who needs it beginning 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Journey church, 2000 Pike Road, in Longmont.

HOPE also will provide a day shelter starting at 8 a.m. Thursday at Messiah Lutheran Church, 1335 Francis St., which will stay open throughout the day and overnight. Messiah Lutheran Church will re-open its doors for shelter again at 5:30 p.m. Friday.

The winter storm warning for Longmont and the Denver metro area runs from 9 p.m. Wednesday through 6 a.m. Friday.

“[We expect] snow first spreading over the Front Range foothills during the day Wednesday and in the afternoon,” said Zach Hiris, a National Weather Service forecaster. “[It will] spread east into Boulder and the Denver metro area Wednesday evening and night.”

The National Weather Service as of late Tuesday was forecasting a bit more snow in the Boulder area than Longmont. The Boulder forecast called for 3 to 5 inches Wednesday night followed by 7 to 11 inches on Thursday. The Longmont forecast called for 1 to 3 inches Wednesday night followed by 4 to 8 inches on Thursday. The Boulder County foothills could see anywhere from 1 to 3 feet.

The weather alert also warns of hazardous conditions on the roads for Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. Winds are expected to be anywhere from 10 to 24 mph with gusts of 30 mph on Wednesday night and Thursday.

St. Vrain Valley School District officials could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Travis Chancey, owner of Abbotts Cleanup and Restoration, helps provide fire and flood restoration to residents across Colorado, including Boulder County. Chancey said his company experiences an uptick in calls following a period of heavy snow. He said calls usually relate most to roof damage, but some involve melting snow leaking into basements and crawl spaces.

Chancey said if heavy snow causes damage later in the week, he would send out a “code orange” advisory to his employees.

“We have a code orange program inside the company… which means all hands on deck and everybody ready to be helping our customers because there’s an uptick,” Chancey said.

In his experience, however, the snowfall would have to be significant to prompt a spike in business.

“It has to be over a foot of snow for it to have a substantial impact,” Chancey said.

Forecasters are calling for gradual improvement in conditions during the day on Friday.

Staff writer Matthew Bennett contributed to this report

The city of Longmont recently won designation for a CHIPS Zone, providing tax incentives for companies engaged in semiconductor design and production. Longmont became the second Colorado city after Fort Collins to receive such a designation.

BizWest editor and publisher Chris Wood joined KUNC’s Nikole Robinson Carroll to discuss what this news could mean for northern Colorado.

A CHIPS zone is a geographic area that functions much like an enterprise zone, which provides tax benefits for companies within economically distressed areas.

“A CHIPS zone provides similar benefits to companies that are engaged in research, development and manufacturing of semiconductors,” Wood told KUNC. “Colorado last year passed the CHIPS Refundable Tax Credits Program in response to the federal CHIPS and Science Act, and that federal law provides $280 billion to boost various sciences and manufacturing, including semiconductors.”

Wood said Fort Collins and Longmont have a long history in semiconductor design and research.

“In Fort Collins, you have companies such as Broadcom, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices,” he said. “Longmont has Seagate, AMD, Micron and others.”

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Fort Collins won approval last June for a CHIPS zone and a Longmont zone was approved in February by the Colorado Economic Development Commission and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade.

“Another Colorado city that has a robust semiconductor industry is Colorado Springs, but much of its semiconductor sector resides in an existing enterprise zone,” Wood said. “And you can't overlap an enterprise zone and a CHIPS zone. So we probably won't see a CHIPS zone application there. But there are other areas that could be in the mix; we'll have to see. There are some significant semiconductor operations in Jefferson County, for example. So it is possible that we might see some more applications.”

Semiconductors are used in a variety of products, including cars, cell phones, military hardware and medical devices. The federal government has been placing a lot of emphasis on domestic production of them in recent years. Wood points back to the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I know, most of us want to forget that era. But we did have a lot of supply chain issues that arose out of the pandemic and that really shined a spotlight on how dependent the U.S. has become on foreign production of semiconductors,” he told KUNC.

The Semiconductor Industry Association estimates the U.S. once accounted for 37% of semiconductor manufacturing worldwide. That has now dropped to 12%.

“That reliance on Taiwan, Japan, Korea or China has serious national security implications,” Wood said, “not only because of supply chain issues, but also because of the potential for an adversary to insert so-called ‘backdoors’ into chips that could allow them to be reprogrammed or even shut off in the event of conflict.”

The Semiconductor Industry Association ranks Colorado ninth overall in number of semiconductor facilities statewide.

Wood says semiconductor manufacturers can take advantage of other programs, such as job training tax credits.

“We're already seeing expansions for Broadcom in Fort Collins, and Microchip Technology and Integris in Colorado Springs — those projects alone would account for hundreds of new jobs,” Wood told KUNC. “Micron Technology also has leased more than 200,000 square feet in Longmont to potentially expand its presence in the city. So we're talking about potentially many hundreds of new jobs.”

NEWS RELEASE BOULDER COUNTY ************************* BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. - Boulder County is partnering with Commuting Solutions on a CO119 Branding & Wayfinding Project. The project will create a distinct identity for the Diagonal Highway corridor along the future Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route connecting Boulder and Longmont.

A community survey is open through March 31 on the CO 119 Branding & Wayfinding Project webpage. The survey is available in English and Spanish.

Two opportunities to take the survey in-person and talk with project planners are scheduled in March:

This unique brand will be used on signs guiding travelers in the first and final miles, BRT station structures, the nine-mile bikeway connecting Boulder, Gunbarrel, Niwot and Longmont and other important elements along the CO 119 corridor. The project will deliver construction-ready wayfinding plans and signs, ready for local governments to fabricate and install.

Branded wayfinding signs make it easier for residents, commuters, and visitors to navigate the region via walking, biking, and taking transit. This project builds on recommendations from the CO 119 First and Final Mile Study to connect people with places through signage that is simple, inclusive, and predictable.

The project welcomes input from diverse community perspectives to shape the CO119 brand. The team will define key brand elements such as fonts, layout, colors, graphics, and messaging, creating a visual identity for integration into wayfinding, stations, and materials.

Visit the CO 119 Branding & Wayfinding Project webpage for more information or contact Alexandra Phillips at [email protected] or 303-441-4520.

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