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Boys & Girls Clubs of Chaffee County will open the doors to the public and host a ribbon cutting and grand opening that’s nearly a year overdue Saturday.
Remaining members of the Central Colorado Performing Arts Center recently met to close the bank account of the nonprofit and distribute its remaining funds to area performing arts organizations.
CCPAC members presented checks to the Buena Vista High School Choir and Theater, Avery-Parsons Elementary School, the Buena Vista Middle School Band, the Collegiate Peaks Chorale, the Walden Chamber Music Society, Alpine Orchestra and Buena Vista Event Cooperative âin the hopes those organizations may continue to flourish and be enjoyed by the public,â said board member Kathi Perry.
âWe started a 501c3 called Central Colorado Performing Arts Center (CCPAC) and leased land from the town where the dog park is located today,â Perry said. âFor several years CCPAC hosted the Collegiate Peaks Music Festival. We sponsored Opera Colorado for the schools and brought in Think 360 Arts Tako drums so our young students could experience the fine arts. CCPAC was the umbrella orga
In her weekly update April 26, district superintendent Lisa Yates reported one case in Avery-Parsons Elementary School.
âThere was limited contact with others in the schools resulting in a single class having just a couple days of quarantine,â Yates said.
At the school boardâs meeting Monday night, Yates told board directors that âthe individual has not been around others in the school for quite some time. We were able to do some testing (Monday) and there were no positives in those tests, so those students will be able to come back Wednesday.â
âIt was a hard Saturday when you get that call,â Yates said. âBut everyone was back at it, and here we have this room filled with testing first thing this morning. I think it was a reminder to all of us that as weâre planning these extracurricular activities and trying to make these things happen for kids that we still need to be very mindful that thereâs COVID happening.â
The townâs first Keep Bewnie Buena event, an expansion of the long-standing spring River Park Cleanup, drew about 150 people of all ages to pick up surface trash not just near the river, but throughout the town.
âThis year we opted to be more downtown, more centralized, and it worked out pretty well,â said BV Rec director Earl Richmond. âWe sent them out to about 15 geographical areas around town.â
In the days prior to the cleanup, a bright blue Chaffee County Waste dumpster was parked just off East Main in the South Railroad Street parking lot. On Sunday, volunteers of all ages filled that whole thing, all 30 yards of it, in the span of about 2 hours, Richmond said.