The Avon Police Department will be hosting its ninth annual Latino Police Academy. The goal of this academy is to educate and inform Latino community members of the roles and capabilities of the Avon Police Department, Eagle County Sheriff’s Office, Vail Police Department and Eagle Police Department.
The Academy will take place every Monday starting July 12 and running through Aug. 30. Classes will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. The events provide an inside look at what it is like to work as a police officer in Eagle County.
The academy will include eight classes, covering the following topics:
July 12: State of the police department, crime in Avon, community policing, Avon Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Bureau and crime scene investigations; including fingerprinting, latent prints, dusting and black lights.
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In a cross-departmental training exercise, there will be a Wildridge Wildland Fire Evacuation Training on Wednesday, May 26, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
There will also be a test of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. This warning system is a test messaging system that reaches all cellular phones regardless of subscription in a specified area. In addition, reserve 911 and EC Alert notifications systems will both be tested.
This is a training exercise and will not require evacuation or road closures. Residents can expect to see police activity and door-to-door knocking in certain areas of Wildridge during this training. Officials recommend the public use this as an opportunity to develop and practice their personal or family emergency plan.
Eagle River Fire Protection District / Special to the Daily
This news could be old by the time you read it, but: River-watchers aren’t expecting much in the way of high water this spring on Tuesday, the Vail Rec District canceled its whitewater race due to low flows.
Below-average snowpack, combined with a cool, moist period in this stretch of May, has eased runoff into local creeks and rivers. All that could change with torrential rain, or a sustained warm spell could swell local streams. For now, though, streamflows up and down the valley are well below 30-year medians.
That doesn’t bode well for summer. Virtually all of Colorado’s Western Slope is in either “extreme” or “exceptional” drought