Ray K. Erku / Post Independent
After waking up to a bluebird day, volunteers chose to roll up their sleeves and break out the garbage bags for a nice, hot session of spring cleaning.
On Friday, 26 volunteers through the city of Glenwood Springs and Garfield County ventured from their home base at the Glenwood Springs Community Center and picked up refuse all around the Midland Avenue area.
The hope is for the event to inspire more residents to do their part.
“We are encouraging folks, in celebration of May Day, to pick up litter and trash anywhere in their area,” Glenwood Springs spokesperson Bryana Starbuck said.
Garfield County Public Health has determined that six additional employees at the Glenwood Springs Community Center were exposed to COVID-19, the city reported in a Saturday news release.
The findings prompted city officials to extend the community center’s temporary closure until March 14, they announced. All reservations until then are canceled.
The hockey rink, however, is exempt from the closure and will continue to operate as normal.
After an employee in the city parks and recreation department began displaying symptoms late this week, the city initially closed the center Thursday. The city at the time reported no other exposures were detected among additional community center employees.
The Glenwood Springs Community Center will be closed through at least Saturday after an employee displayed symptoms of COVID-19, a city news release states.
“Currently, the City is treating the employee, who works at the Community Center as presumptive positive,” the release states. “Community Center members are not believed to have been exposed.”
As recommended by public health guidelines, the employee will quarantine, along with “others in their immediate work area.”
Garfield County Public Health is conducting contact tracing for all individuals who may have been in contact with the employee. Anyone with questions should contact the public health office at 970-945-6614 in Glenwood Springs or 970-625-5200 in Rifle.
Kind Castle will be the first marijuana retail shop to open at the Glenwood Meadows commercial area.
Glenwood Springs City Council last week voted 4-3 to approve the proposal by Kind Castle to construct a new 4,504-square-foot, two story building at the corner of Wulfsohn Road and Flat Tops View Drive.
The location is at the southeast corner of the larger Glenwood Meadows planned unit development (PUD), near the Glenwood Green Apartments.
The retail marijuana shop is planned to take up 3,270 square feet of building space, leaving another 784 square feet for future retail leasing to be determined.
City Council held a lengthy public hearing on Dec. 3, where a range of arguments were made both for and against the application.