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The Community Office For Resource Efficiency (CORE) is launching a valley-wide art installation to tell the story of climate change, in partnership with a host of local organizations, including Colorado Mountain College.
The community mural project “Stories of Climate Change/Historias del Cambio Climático” is a part of both CORE’s third annual Imagine Climate series and the Inside Out Project created by renowned muralist JR.
Community members are invited to join in the project by submitting a selfie and a voice recording in the language of their choice about their experience of climate change. Participant’s photos and stories will be displayed on the outside of Colorado Mountain College campus buildings in Aspen, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs beginning in early March.
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Liftie Ben Filger helps a family on to the Thunderbowl Lift at Aspen Highlands on Thanksgiving Day in Aspen on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Aspen Skiing Company opened a run on Buttermilk and Highlands to spread skiers out during the holiday. Photo by Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times.
Various members of the Roaring Fork Valley community met virtually on Saturday to discuss the next steps in controlling the spread of COVID-19, with cases continuing to reach a new high nearly every day.
A Pitkin County Board of Health meeting is scheduled Monday afternoon that could lead to additional pandemic-related restrictions, although County Manager Jon Peacock said that as of Saturday evening there were no immediate plans to implement a complete shutdown, as was the case back in March.
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Roaring Fork Valley health leaders say high levels of local demand for coronavirus vaccines are outpacing new shipments of doses from the state. That is partially due to recent and sudden changes to the state’s priority guidelines, which made people 70 years of age or older eligible for the vaccine.
“We’re definitely ordering more vaccine than is coming,” said Carrie Godes, public health specialist for Garfield County. “It is coming, but it’s slow. A lot of our messages that we have been urging are for patience. We’re optimistic, we’re hopeful, we are administering doses.”
The region has not been so dry this time of year since 2002.
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ASPEN, Colo. Months of dry weather have left much of the Roaring Fork Valley in critical levels of drought, even after snow in December. The region has not been so dry this time of year since 2002. The Roaring Fork River and many others across the state are below normal levels of flow, which is unlikely to change without an extraordinarily wet winter.
“An average or slightly below average snowpack is not going to get us out of this drought,” said Steve Hunter, a hydrologist with the City of Aspen. “So we need a pretty epic year.”
They’re looking for help from community members to put a face on climate action.
Titled “Stories of Climate Change/Historias del Cambio Climático,” the multicultural project will debut in spring as the centerpiece of CORE’s third annual “Imagine Climate” project using art to inspire climate action.
The mural project is the result of a partnership with the Inside Out Project, the French artist JR’s global portrait initiative that included an Aspen project in 2015, and with Colorado Mountain College.
They are asking for locals to upload a self-portrait and a 90-second story to be eligible to be featured in murals that will wrap three college buildings. Submissions open Wednesday at aspencore.org/participate.