Last weekend was a 3-day-one for federal employees. Because Monday was a bank holiday. Yet it seems that this doesnt go for everybody employed by the United States Postal Service (USPS). I saw several USPS vehicles in different parts of the region on Sunday. And my heart went out to their drivers because here I was headed for lunch and their family had to have Sunday lunch without them.

On Tuesday, I headed for the Lakewood post office shortly after lunch. I wanted to mail a calendar that one of my readers had won in a give-away activity on my public Facebook page. And a handwritten letter to my father, who is currently recovering from surgery in a German sanitorium. There was a line in the lobby of the postal office that reached to the doors. No way would that deter my determination to send off the gift or the letter.

It was a very interesting experience to stand in that line. Normally, Id have expected some annoyed commenting. But this time, everybody was strangely quiet. People kept their distance, and all wore masks. If somebody needed help, such as being pointed to the mailbox, they were accommodated. Inside the business area, there was laughter at the counters. The employees treated every customer with kindness and patience, interspersed with good humor. And getting some very pretty, new Forever stamps added to my pleasant experience.

What was interesting to me was that the one bank holiday had such an impact on the frequency of the post office. It was as if everybody had had the same idea of packing boxes and writing letters over the weekend. And, of course, a lot couldnt be mailed off on Monday. Well, I might want to avoid Mondays and Fridays as well as days after a holiday in the future in order to avoid standing in a line especially in Covid times. But these postal employees cant. They will be seeing these lines every Monday, Friday, and day after a holiday. And this is only their receiving end.

The delivery end is what I saw last Sunday. If there is an extra-load of boxes and envelopes, these people are out on the road even when they should have their day off. Tuesday started off with some thunderstorm from hell, heavy rain, and wind gusts that were ripping off big branches from trees. Did this deter the postal employees from delivering our mail? No. Because they keep doing their work rain or shine, in blistering summer heat, during wet storms, and in bitingly cold weather. When their load is extra-big, they deliver until their work is done. Shortly before I started writing this article, I found somebody on Facebook reporting from Steilacoom that their mail had been delivered around 1930 h on Tuesday. I keep thinking that by that time, I had had a cozy dinner with my husband already, and was chatting with him over a glass of wine very leisurely. And some postal employee was still out there doing their job!

The holiday season is coming up. Ill be sending out a whole lot of cards and Christmas gifts in a while. Postal lines will be insanely long, as everybody will be doing the same. Maybe even more than ever, in Covid times, as letters and gifts are a sign that we care about our loved ones who are far away, whom we may not even be able to visit. I should hope that we remember that postal employees are at the receiving end when we bring them our load. We are sending out loving thoughts to our loved ones dont let us do it with impatience or anger against the postal employees, who are trying to keep ahead of the constant flow of mail. And lets wait graciously for our mail if we have to wait. We are in the coziness of our homes while somebody out there is fighting the elements and foregoes the comfort of a family meal to deliver their task.

There are countless other essential workers out there who do theirs so we are seen to in our needs and whims. They have the same needs and whims as we, only theirs might get seen to later. If at all. If we put ourselves into their shoes, we can make their world a little friendlier, too. Even if there is a long line between them and us.

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A senior director in the public works department admits: In terms of war, we are fragile

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19 October 2020 - 18:07 Tom Eaton

Throwing an entire ministry under the bus is difficult at the best of times, but for senior members of the ANC it comes with an almost impossibly long list of challenges: asking taxi bosses for permission to appear in public next to a bus, finding a bus, extinguishing it ...

And thats before the inevitable tender process for identifying the company that will do the actual throwing, usually a catering firm created eight days earlier whose postal address is a wheelie-bin in an abandoned lot apparently owned by two people, one of whom died in 1968, while the other was born last Wednesday.

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Though Ive never been really bad at most of it, I rarely developed a passion for any kind of work-out. As a kid, I was on a treck and field athletics team for about a year. Then I tried myself at gymnastics I felt awkward about the trainer. Then I had a stint at the aero wheel indeed, I was good. Though I didnt do ALL the tricks they show in this little video:

But I was that good that they wanted to train me for championships. It would have meant that my family would have spent their weekends on the road, driving me around. So that didnt happen. It didnt make me upset. Sometimes things just dont happen in life.

School swimming classes started in third grade. I couldnt swim, so my parents flash-taught me at a local swimming pool during the one-week fall vacation that year. We went every day. By the end of the week I was a swimmer. I never was fast, but I got best grades as to style. And I never had a problem with endurance.

I was second best in high jumping in our class in middle school, but a horrible gymnast. I preferred to play soccer with the boys who actually invited me along to be a goalie or an offense. In high school I excelled on the balance beam. I didnt even need a springboard to jump onto it. And I was a passionate ballroom and Latin dancer in my early twenties when I attended a dance school and was even asked to be a freelance partner at classes I hadnt booked.

I made half-hearted attempts at compensatory gymnastics at university. I tried treck. I even bought a new bike at one time. To make a long story short Im a walker. Power walking is fine with me. Long-distance walking, as in German hiking, as well. Mountain hiking not so much. I love loop hiking. So, I dont have to return by the same way.

What has me so wary about sports or working out? Maybe it is because competition has never been a way by which I wanted to express myself. Maybe all this grading in school, being voted on a team because of ones popularity (nerdy me usually was among the last), the embarrassment of failure simply put its mark on me. But I happily climbed trees. And the aero wheel is still something the memory of which I treasure. Because that was ME.

Later, in Stuttgart, Germany, I made walking a daily routine. There were beautiful meadows, lakes, and woods around where I lived, and an hour of walking passed in a jiffy. I continued doing so in Steilacoom. Whats NOT beautiful about walking through town for an hour, seeing things change as the seasons change, chatting with neighborly people over the fence?! Here in Lakewood, I always have to get into the car to start walking somewhere worthwhile. Its a bit of a pain; I have to kick my shin a little harder. Meanwhile, our fitness club membership goes unused because of Covid. So, my husband and I have developed a routine of core training that we promised to do at a specific time during the day. I fail at that more often than not. Its not ME.

I need to find back to my little walking routine again. It makes me happy. It keeps me healthy. Its ME. If you are stuck in a similar rut maybe you have also just been trying out the wrong kind of work-out. Keep trying to find out what makes YOU happy. Sometimes its just a change of scenery that works miracles.

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TROY The latest exhibition to open at the Arts Center of the Capital Region is rich in texture, color and subject matter.

Called Fence 20, the exhibition features more than 100 works from Arts Center members. The Troy gallery traditionally hosts Fence shows each year as a way to spotlight a range of local artists and this year the exhibition is juried by Ian Berry, director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.

The show opens with the dark and slightly grotesque sculpture of a frowning figure, its skin peeling away and muscles deteriorating. The piece, called Forgotten Pain by William Fillmore, sets a gruesome tone, though there are plenty of other works in the exhibition that strike a lighter chord.

Take Virginia Scholz vibrant landscape with its glowing sky and delicately branched tree, called Old Best Road. Or theres the lush green abstract from Natalie Boburka, and the humorous Van Gogh with iPhone 11, by Meghan Cioffi, with the Starry Night background.

Overall, the exhibition is grounded in the current moment, meaning there are plenty of works ruminating on the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps the most obvious, and the largest, is Conversations in COVID, by Annette Chesser which features sculptures of the coronavirus plastered with emails and social media posts about how life has changed during the pandemic. One post says Other jobs: we r closing down due to the corona. My job: some of u may die but thats a sacrifice were willing to make.

In another nearby work, several guitar necks, stripped of their strings, are fanned out on a white canvas. Bows, with their horsehair strings cut, are displayed in between the guitar necks. Titled And We Danced All Night, by Phil Teumim, it could be read as a remembrance of an evening of celebratory music that went on for so long that the strings simply fell off. However, today, its a reminder of the absence of live music and the silence of local stages.

Nearby, theres an eerie painting, blue-hued with a blurry figure looking just past the viewer and wearing a mask. The edges of the David Austin work are dark, blue-black and the background features a slitted light that puckers around the figure. In terms of size, its an unassuming piece, but its powerful in the subject matter.

There are also echoes of other national and global crises, like climate change. Katarina Spitzers sweeping hyperrealistic landscape of Glacier Bay, Alaska, is one stunning example of that. Titled, Our Vanishing Landscape: Glacier, Bay, Alaska, the work features sunlit mountains surrounded by a thinning strip of ice.

In another room, silhouetted figures walk with the heads down in a grey-cityscape. Peter Watrous Refugees is a reminder of another global crisis thats slipped out of headlines in light of the pandemic.

Fence 20 is a weighty exhibition of regional talent and artistic discourse. It runs through Nov. 7. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday-Thursday. For more information artscenteronline.org.

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Endorsements are coming in for Third District Congressional candidates Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush and Republican Lauren Boebert, including a notable break from party ranks.

Former Speaker of the Colorado House Russ George, a Rifle native who also directed two state departments under both Republican and Democratic governors, said this week he endorses Mitsch Bush over his partys nominee to represent the region in Congress.

Meanwhile, Boebert added to her list of endorsements from Garfield County Republican officials, which already included Sheriff Lou Vallario who is actively campaigning on her behalf.

In a recent interview with the Post Independent, Garfield County Commissioners John Martin and Mike Samson, who also are seeking reelection this fall, said they support Boebert, as well.

We need pragmatic, steady leaders who will meet the multiple crises we all face in this moment, and Diane Mitsch Bush is that leader, George said in a statement sent out by the Mitsch Bush campaign on Thursday.

Her proven bipartisan track record and reputation as an independent leader who was willing to stand up to Democratic leadership in the State House shows me that she will work with anyone to do whats right for Colorados Third Congressional District, George said.

George is a fourth-generation Rifle native and longtime water attorney before he entered politics.

He was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1992 to represent District 57, which at the time included not only Garfield, Rio Blanco and Moffat counties, but also Democratic-leaning Pitkin County.

He later served as Speaker of the House in 1999 and 2000, and went on to direct two state agencies the Department of Natural Resources under Republican Gov. Bill Owens and the Department of Transportation under Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter.

He also was appointed by former Gov. John Hickenlooper to the task force that worked to develop the Colorado Water Plan in 2015.

Mitsch Bush, from Steamboat Springs, served in the Colorado House from 2013-17 and is a former Routt County commissioner.

She faces Boebert, an ardent gun-rights advocate and social conservative who defeated five-term incumbent Republican Third District Congressman Scott Tipton in the June primary. Third-party candidates Critter Milton (Unity) and John Keil (Libertarian) are also on the ballot.

Boeberts endorsements from Samson and Martin come despite run-ins earlier this year with the Garfield County Public Health Department over coronavirus-related violations at her Shooters Grill restaurant in Rifle.

I look at Laurens views and her political ideology, which aligns with mine much more closely than that of Diane Mitsch Bush, Samson said.

Likewise, Martin said he supports the Republican candidate for Congress for many of the same reasons.

She is inexperienced in government, but long on life, Martin said. I have worked with and know Diane Mitsch Bush when she was a county commissioner. She has certain views, some I agree and some I disagree. But [Boebert] is the Republican candidate, which I support.

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Originally appeared on the Lincoln Police Department Facebook page

On October 1st a Lincoln resident reported that an acquaintance of hers forcefully removed car keys from her hands and fled in her vehicle. The suspect was identified as 28-year-old David Carrasco.

On October 2nd at about 3:30 p.m. a Lincoln Police Officer saw Carrasco on the porch of a residence in the 1500 block of 5th Street.

Carrasco immediately ran into the residence. He fled out the back of the residence, jumping fences in an attempt to evade arrest. Ultimately he was captured in a back yard. He was found to be in possession of methamphetamine, syringes, and a meth pipe.

Carrasco was arrested for carjacking, auto theft, resisting arrest, and possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. He was booked at the South Placer Jail where his bail was set at $265,000.

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ROSWELL, N.M.(KRQE) A family on a weekend outing could not believe what they saw. Two dead elks; a result of a project designed to study and protect the endangered jumping mouse in the Lincoln National Forest. The study may be causing more harm than good.

The family asked KRQE News 13 to hide their identity. You could tell they both had struggled for quite a while, said the family.

A family on a camping trip over the weekend came upon an upsetting and disturbing scene in Wills Canyon in the Lincoln National Forest. So we were driving, my wife and myself and our two kids, we have a boy and a girl; Driving up a canyon coming across elk that have been tangled up in this electric fencing, said the tipster.

They say they came across the two bull elks that where tangled in a fence that killed them. At first, they did not know if the elk were caught by poachers or got stuck in a farming fence. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish says it was something else.

There were two bulls who got tangled in an electric fence at the head of Bulls Canyon in the southern part of the Lincoln National Forest, said Tristanna Bickford Communications Director for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.

The electric fence was placed earlier this year by the United States Department of Agriculture in an effort to monitor the endangered jumping mouse. The project is to study its habitat and see if what can be done to preserve the animal. In the press release from July, the USDA hopes they could build permanent fences to improve the living conditions of the jumping mouse, but for the family, they think this was a tragedy that two elks where killed in such a way.

For them to be killed like that and be wasted, is I dont know, Its frustrating from a recreation standpoint and inhumane from a conservation standpoint, the tipster said.

KRQE News 13 reached out to the Lincoln National Forest and the USDA for comment. They declined to comment because of a current lawsuit about the jumping mouse. The environment group believes the government is not doing enough to save the mouse.

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Big Bachelor brood! Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert have been vocal about their future family plans since tying the knot in 2016.

The Bachelor in Paradise alums announced their first pregnancy in March 2017. Feeling crazy grateful to finally share a little secret weve been keeping! Were already absolutely head over heels in love with our little one, the Colorado native captioned her baby bump debut at the time. #babyjanner #hanginthereTanner #eatingfortwotherightway.

The Bachelorette alum shared the same shots via Instagram, writing, Dad Bod. Check. Dad Jokes. Check. Becoming a Dad. Check.

Their daughter, Emerson, arrived five months later, and she became a big sister in July 2019when her baby brother, Brooks, was born.

Roper gave birth to her son at home in her master closet. The moment I realized that we werent going to make it to the hospital, I was, like, screaming, the Mommies Tell All podcast cohost told Entertainment Tonight the following month. It took my painto a whole other level because it became fear.

Her husband chimed in at the time: I could see the whole head [before the paramedics came]. He was crowning. I was there by myself [and saw] a head of hair, and I was like, Oh, my God, this is actually going to happen.

In May 2020, the former ABC personalities announced that Roper is pregnant with baby No. 3.

HERE WE GROW AGAIN, the Bachelor alum captioned her Instagram announcement. It feels so good to be able to finally talk about this pregnancy! If you noticed I havent been on social media much the past couple of months, its because I was dealing with terrible nausea and fatigue, on top of taking care of two kiddos during a pandemic. Although this time has its uncertainties, we are so thankful and excited for this baby. I truly believe babies being born during this time are here for a special reason, to be light workers.

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