LYONS – Linette DeSano will open an eclectic boutique called Experience at 429 Main St. on March 2. DeSano said she is very excited to open the boutique at the newly remodeled building on Main. Arn Hayden and Scott Young, both Lyons businessmen, own the building.

DeSanto formerly had a boutique on the north side on Main Street in the building where Ma’s Pizza is located. At her new shop she plans to carry women’s clothing, gifts, cards, jewelry, antiques, art, cool things for kids, accessories including hats, CDs from local artists including her cousin, Romano Paoletti’s CDs and many more items.

There will be an open house for both Experience and Lyons Community Montessori from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 19 at 429 Main St. The two businesses share space in the same building and will hold a joint open house. For more information call Lyons Montessori at 303-823-9629 or contact DeSano at zalay13@yahoo.com

Barking Dog Café moves to 441 Main

LYONS – The Barking Dog Café is moving to a newly remodeled building at 441 Main St. Greg Chesne and his wife Bridgette, owners of the Barking Dog, will shut down the coffee shop at their current location, 447 Main St. on February 27 and reopen the Barking Dog Café at their new location in the last week in March. The building was formerly occupied by Living Arts Floral.

The coffee shop will be closed for three weeks while the remodeling is completed at the new location. The newly remodeled building at 441 Main St. is owned by John Burke and Janice Gavan who own VisAbililty, the public radio fulfillment company also located on Main Street.

“I will be moving from 850 square feet to 1,300 square feet,” said Greg Chesne. “It will be quite a switch and I’m very excited. I will have a south-facing stone patio at the back of the building as well as seating outside in the front of the building. We will be able to seat between 60 and 70 people. We will continue to open at 6:30 a.m. but we may expand out closing hours to about 8 p.m. during the summer. I also plan to expand our menu to add more breakfast items such as fresh fruit yogurt granola and waffles. And I really want to focus on expanding the lunch menu with more variety of sandwiches, hummus and also salads. My wife is really pushing for salads.”

The café will continue to offer their usual assortment of muffins, bagels, scones and sweet rolls as well as espresso, cappuccino, lattés, coffee, tea and a variety of other drinks.

For more information, call the Barking Dog at 303-823-9600.

Big Foot Liquor to open this spring

LYONS – Big Foot Liquor, a new liquor store owned by Christy and Steve McCain, will open sometime this spring at 447 Main, the current location of the Barking Dog Café. The building is owned by Grant Gillig and Patty Martillaro. The McCains will take possession of the building on March 1. Christy McCain will run the liquor store. Christy received a liquor license from the Town of Lyons and the State. The McCains have ordered all their coolers but are not sure how long the renovations will take or when they will be able to open.

Nicholas Angelo Fine Arts moved

LYONS – Nicholas Angelo Fine Arts has moved to 4089 Ute Hwy. across from the “Welcome to Lyons” sign. Nicholas Angelo Fine Arts is owned and operated by Nick Angelo, a twice-former mayor of Lyons. The Lyons Community Montessori has moved into part of the space formerly occupied by Nicholas Angelo Fine Arts at 4090 Ute Hwy.

Denver Post restructures $930 million of debt

DENVER – Affiliated Media Inc, the holding company for Media News Group which owns the Denver Post and the Daily Camera has agreed to a plan to restructure $930 million in debt. The plan will swap debt for equity and be implemented through a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The plan was announced in early February. Dean Singleton is the chairman and chief executive of Media News said it would give them some breathing room. Singleton currently owns 29 percent of the interest in Media News but will lose shares and eventually own less than 20 percent. Singleton said that nothing will change at the Post and there will be no layoffs.

Colorado foreclosures drop in 2009

By Ryan McMaken

Colorado Division of Housing

DENVER – Completed foreclosures in Colorado during 2009 fell four percent from 2008′s totals, and have fallen 18 percent since 2007. According to a report released recently by the Department of Local Affairs’ Division of Housing, there were 20,437 completed foreclosures in the state during 2009, falling from 2008′s total of 21,306. In 2007, completed foreclosures reached 25,056. While completed foreclosures fell, new foreclosure filings, which begin the foreclosure process for borrowers, increased 18 percent during 2009. During 2009, foreclosure filings rose to 46,394 from 2008′s total of 39,333.

However, since 2007, in spite of increasing totals in new foreclosure filings, the total proportion of filings that ended in a solution other than foreclosure increased by 51 percent. In 2007, 37 percent of foreclosure filings ended in a result other than foreclosure such as short sale, loan modification, refinance or other solutions. By 2009, this total had increased to 56 percent. The result has been fewer completed foreclosures even as new foreclosure filings have increased.

The falling totals in completed foreclosures were driven by significant declines in foreclosure activity in the Denver metro area. In Denver County, foreclosures fell 28 percent, and they fell 20 percent and 16 percent in Adams and Arapahoe Counties respectively. The only county in the Denver area to report increases in completed foreclosures during 2009 was Boulder County where they increased six percent.

“We’re cautiously optimistic that we won’t be seeing the sorts of increases in foreclosures that we saw during 2006 and 2007,” said Pat Coyle, director of the Colorado Division of Housing. “Colorado’s Foreclosure Hotline and its network of housing counseling agencies have helped over 16,000 households avoid foreclosure since 2006, and we see that reflected in these numbers.”

Kmart will close in May

LONGMONT – The Kmart store at 2151 Main St. in Longmont will shut down on May 9. The parent company, Sears, will shut down 13 of approximately 1,300 Kmart stores nationally. About 59 full- and part-time workers will be affected by the store closure. The store opened in 1975. Wal-Mart opened a super store in 2006 less than a block north of Kmart and some believe that it took a lot of business away from Kmart. The Longmont store is the only Kmart store that Sears plans to close in Colorado.

Longmont Hospital gets two new board directors

LONGMONT – Longmont United Hospital welcomes Thomas Chapman and Mark Hinman, MD to the Longmont United Hospital Board of Directors.

Thomas Chapman, Managing Partner of the First MainStreet Insurance, LCC, is presently involved in the Longmont Community Foundation (since 1998). In the past, he has been a member of the Longmont Chamber of Commerce, Longmont Area Economic Council, and Front Range Community College Foundation. Mr. Chapman has lived in Longmont area for 32 years.

Dr. Hinman has been an active member of the Longmont United Hospital medical staff since June 1993. He was the Chief of Medical Staff in 2003 and 2009. Dr. Hinman also has served on several committees including the ethics, quality review, family practice and infection control committees.

The Board of Directors establishes and maintains Longmont United Hospital for the care of all persons suffering from any illness or disability requiring hospital care. The term length for directorship is three years, effective January 1. All directors should be a representative of the Longmont United Hospital service area.

Longmont United Hospital 2010 Board of Directors Officers are Martin Plaster, Chairperson, Dan Gust, Vice-Chairperson, Leona Stoecker, Secretary, Richard Lyons, Treasurer, and Clair Volk, Asst. Secretary-Treasurer.

Completing Your Census is the patriotic thing to do

By Tony Hernandez

Director, Division of Local Government

Colorado Department of Local Affairs

DENVER – This March you’re going to receive something very valuable in your mailbox or at your home: a 2010 Census questionnaire.

The data collected by the 2010 Census will help define how $400 billion in federal funding is allocated and to which states over the next ten years. This money comes, in part, from tax dollars we have all paid, and will be given to states and communities for essential programs such as schools and libraries, tuition assistance, health services, parks, and road improvements. It has been estimated that each Coloradan counted is worth $880, or approximately $4.27 billion per year of funding.

As of 2008, it is estimated that our state population has grown to over five million people. Per the American Community Survey (ACS), there are at least 492,000 Coloradans over the age of 65; that’s 44.5 percent, 45.7 percent of whom live alone. It’s easy to imagine that Colorado’s health and senior services are essential to many of these people.

Of Colorado’s more than 620,000 families with children, 12.6 percent to 13.4 percent live below the poverty level. This includes between 181,156 and 194,196 children under the age of 18. Many of these families rely on programs such as food stamps, Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and other health services just to survive.

Libraries in cities and towns across the state provide safe, reliable learning and recreational opportunities. Unfortunately, during the recent economic downturn, many Colorado libraries have been forced to cut hours, services and staff, and in some cases, close their doors altogether. Because their funding relies in great part on Census data, this is a perfect example of how an accurate Census count helps our communities.

Participating in the Census is a constitutional requirement, but more importantly it’s the patriotic thing to do. Completing and returning your census questionnaire is like writing a check to your community, so please do your part.

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