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Last-Minute shopping at Bass Pro Shops as shoppers grab Thanksgiving essentials

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

ST. LOUIS -- At Bass Pro Shops in Saint Charles, it's business as usual. Shoppers are camping out, filling carts, and taking advantage of the opportunity to shop for last-minute items.  Residents are filling rows and scrambling for last-minute Thanksgiving items, from cooking utensils for those planning to fry turkeys to hunters seeking last-minute gear. Despite the decline of holiday hours and other nearby stores closing, Bass Pro Shops remain open, drawing people from all over the region. This last-minute shopping experience is more than just bows and bargains; it's about continuing family traditions.  From a front-row seat with Santa to an atmosphere that makes fishing for deals much more bearable, shoppers share their favorite holiday activities.  Even those manning the cash registers put in over eight hours to ensure everyone is taken care of before they head home to enjoy their Thanksgiving turkey.    

Colorado snow totals for November 24, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

The following Colorado snow totals have been reported by the National Weather Service for November 24, 2023, as of 6:45 a.m. Friday:Boulder, CO — 2.3 inches at 2:35 a.m.Denver Intl Airport, CO — 1.2 inches at 5 a.m.Eldora Ski Area, CO — 6 inches at 4:07 a.m.Greeley, CO — 2.5 inches at 4:29 a.m.Related ArticlesWeather | Colorado snow totals for Nov. 19-20, 2023 Weather | Colorado weather: Foothills west of Denver, Boulder blanketed in heavy snow Wednesday evening Weather | Colorado snow totals for Nov. 8-9, 2023 Weather | Colorado snow totals for Oct. 29, 2023 Weather | Colorado snow totals for Oct. 28, 2023 Jamestown, CO — 3.6 inches at 12 a.m.Louisville, CO — 2.4 inches at 5 a.m.Milliken, CO — 1 inch at 12 a.m. 

All-volunteer backcountry ski patrol looking for new recruits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

When Karen Roth learned a volunteer group was forming to assist the forest service in patrolling the Cameron Pass area on cross country skis, she thought it sounded like fun. It would give her an opportunity to make friends in the Nordic ski community while serving the public in one of Colorado’s most iconic backcountry settings, located 70 miles west of Fort Collins.That was in 1992, and she’s been a member of the Cameron Pass Nordic Rangers ever since.“Number one, I like to ski,” Roth said. “One of the reasons I joined was to meet new people to ski with. I met some great friends through the Nordic Rangers. We hike in the summer and we do other things. It was to join a volunteer group, to feel good that you’re doing something while you’re enjoying the activity, but also expanding the people I could ski with. And it’s lasted for years and years.”The Cameron Pass Nordic Rangers want to share the fun and are recruiting new members for this coming wi...

Holiday movie preview: A sweet symphony of Oscar hopefuls, family fare and adventure

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

If you write about movies, this is the time of year when you write a lot about movies, and they’ll continue to snowball into theaters and onto streaming services through the end of the year.There will be time to breathe in January.Now, though, as the fall rush gives way to the early-winter avalanche, we offer this look at much of what’s coming, from Academy Award hopefuls to fanciful films the studios hope will appeal to your whole family around the holidays. (As always, dates are subject to change.)“Leo” | Nov. 21 | Netflix >> Adam Sandler’s latest film for the streaming giant is an animated tale set during the last year of elementary school — as seen from the eyes of the class pet. Sandler (“Hotel Transylvania”) voices the titular 74-year-old lizard, who’s been stuck for decades in a Florida classroom with a likewise glassed-in turtle (voiced by Bill Burr). When Leo learns he has but one year to live, he plots his great escape.“Genie” | Nov. 22 | Peacock >>...

Opinion: Trump called the Colorado ruling a “victory.” He couldn’t be more wrong

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

The latest opinion denying a challenge to Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for president has occasioned a lot of teeth-gnashing about how the court, in the words of Colorado’s secretary of state, gave Trump a “get-out-of-jail-free card for insurrection.” The frustration is understandable but shortsighted.In fact, the opinion by Colorado District Judge Sarah B. Wallace is a giant step toward disqualifying Trump from the ballot on constitutional grounds.The Colorado challenge is one of several brought under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies officials who “have engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding federal office. The provision gives rise to the argument that Trump is not qualified to run for president because of his role in the events of Jan. 6, 2021.In the last few of its 102 pages, Wallace’s opinion concludes that the president is not “an officer of the United States” for the purposes of the amendment and is therefore not disqualified fro...

Denver auditor says lax oversight undermines city’s affordable housing goals

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

Denver housing officials are not holding the Denver Housing Authority accountable when it comes to producing and preserving agreed-upon numbers of affordable units, according to a recent report issued by Denver Auditor Tim O’Brien.The audit, released last week, identified 203 units in housing authority projects backed by taxpayer dollars that were renting at market rates. Of those, the rents for 89 units were at prices considered unaffordable to people making 80% of the city’s area median income — currently $69,520 for an individual or $89,360 for a family of three — which is a violation of the city’s agreement with the authority.The rest were at risk of rising above that maximum level in the future, the audit says.Auditors also found the authority was 32 units short of its commitment to develop housing for people with very low incomes and 301 units short of the number agreed upon for people with moderate incomes.“The city needs stronger oversight to co...

“Bromance” between special needs student and school resource officer touched lives of many

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

Gretchen Olmsted says she remembers the phone call as if it happened yesterday. Jesus “Moose” Chavez, the school resource officer assigned by the Lakewood police department to Alameda International High School, was calling to say he had met her son, Luke, at a Special Olympics event at Jefferson County Stadium. Luke was born with cerebral palsy, confined to a wheelchair and non-verbal, but Chavez sensed an opportunity to bring him joy.“He called me out of the blue,” Olmsted said recently, two months after her son passed away at age 26 due to medical complications related to his cerebral palsy. “He said, ‘I watched Luke and saw how much joy he had with someone pushing him fast on the track. I’m a runner, and it got me thinking, how fun would it be to push him in a race? I’m just calling to ask your permission. Would you give us the blessing of doing a race together?”’“Are you kidding?” she replied. “We would love to do...

After farmers market season, Denver-area producers seek other ways to sell their food

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

Area food producers are finding new ways to get their fruits and vegetables, pasta, breads and meat to people’s tables long after farmers markets have packed away their stands for the season.Restaurants and customers who participate in CSAs, community supported agriculture, buy directly from area farmers and ranchers. Denver-area producers are also reaching more people through the online grocer Pinemelon, which promotes “local first,” and Spade & Spoon, a meal-in-a-box service that uses locally produced food.Joy Rubey founded Acme Farms & Kitchen, a meal-kit service, in Washington state in 2011 after her husband quit working in architecture to take up farming. She started Spade & Spoon, a Colorado version of the business, in 2022.“It just seemed like an uphill battle for farmers, and so I was trying to think of a way to help my husband to move more local food and help the farmers around him,” Rubey said.Her idea was to offer meal kits using ...

Inside the violent threat against the Beatles’ only Colorado concert

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

On Aug. 18, 1964, officials in the Denver Police Department alerted the FBI to a threatening letter brought to them by a local promoter.Verne Byers, a musician and Denver nightclub owner, had booked England’s most famous rock ‘n’ roll band to perform at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison the following week.The Beatles were coming to Colorado.But eight days before the show, a piece of paper arrived in Byers’ hands. The letter, which had arrived inside an envelope postmarked in Greeley, was comprised of cut-out letters from a magazine taped onto plain white paper.“If you know what’s good for you, cancel Denver engagement,” the letter read. “I’ll be in the audience and I’m going to throw a hand grenade instead of jelly babies,” referring to the British candy fans famously hurled at the rock stars during the concerts.The letter’s signature: “Beatle Hater.”This little-known account is tucked away in t...

Woman dead after vehicle crashes into lake in Orange County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:40 GMT

A woman died after her car crashed into a lake in Irvine on Thursday night. A social media post from the Orange County Fire Authority indicates that first responders were dispatched to the area of East Yale Loop and West Yale Loop just before 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving on reports of a vehicle in water. Upon arrival, rescue crews immediately began a water rescue and discovered that the car, a Mercedes-Benz sedan, had driven straight into the lake.  A woman died after her car ended up at the bottom of a lake in Irvine on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (County News)A woman died after her car ended up at the bottom of a lake in Irvine on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (County News)A woman died after her car ended up at the bottom of a lake in Irvine on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (County News)A woman died after her car ended up at the bottom of a lake in Irvine on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (County News)The rear driver’s side window of the Mercedes was open when it was pulled out of the water, authorities ...