Summer’s all but over and things just get busier in the fall. Here's hoping that everyone is feeling okay, considering all the emotions that are tied to this date — locally and across the country.

Good luck, hug someone you love and take it as easy as you can.

Curt Baker is thrilled at how the new skateboard park at Buchanan Park is coming along.

Baker, a crew manager for California Skateparks, is happy that Evergreen’s skatepark fits into the hillside along Evergreen Parkway, so it looks like it belongs there.

“It’s such an upgrade from the other park,” said Baker, who is a skater — the term for someone who skateboards — about the small skatepark behind the Wulf Recreation Center.

Every member of his crew is a skater, Baker said as he stood inside a bowl he was painstakingly grading with a shovel to prepare for wooden forms and concrete.

Morrison officials will spend about $27,000 to have a company check out its water pipes to learn where they are leaking.

The town is losing about one-third of its water to deteriorating and cracked pipes, something town trustees said the town can’t afford to lose any longer. A water audit by the American Water Works Association in 2022 said the town lost nearly 22 million gallons of water out of the approximately 67 million gallons of water it distributed to users that year.

QP Services based in Centennial will scope approximately 40,000 linear feet of the town’s distribution system. Fritz Fouts, Morrison’s director of public works, doesn’t have a date for the work to start, though it will take 30 days to complete.

Trustees also decided to hold off paying a company to look at its sewer pipes, saying it was not an emergency like the water system.

A former Bootstrap scholarship recipient is becoming the nonprofit’s new executive director.

Amy Carman of Bailey has started her new job, and she is working with current executive director Susan Henry to learn the ropes of the organization that provided 94 scholarships worth a little over $350,000 this year.

Scholarships are funded by donations from individuals, organizations, families and businesses.

Bootstraps Inc. serves students at Evergreen, Conifer, Clear Creek and Platte Canyon high schools.

Before coming to Bootstraps, Carman was the executive director of the School of Finance and Grants at the Colorado Department of Education and executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of the High Rockies in Fairplay, Colorado. She was also president of the Platte Canyon RE-1 school board. She received a Bootstraps scholarship in 1997.

Henry served five years as Bootstraps’ executive director. She is retiring at the end of December to spend more time with her six grandchildren.

Henry served on the Bootstraps board of directors from 2011 to 2015 and returned to the board in 2021 just in time for Colleen Skates to announce she was stepping down as executive director. That’s when Henry stepped into that position.

Putting the ball into the back of the net wasn’t an issue on Sept. 8 at the North Area Athletic Complex.

Two of the favorites to make some noise deep into the boys soccer playoffs in Class 5A and 4A combined for six goals in the first 40 minutes of the non-league game at NAAC.

“It was a little more open than I would like the game,” Ralston Valley coach John Doody admitted about watching six goals find the back of the net in the first half. “When the game was 4-2, I really thought the game was hanging in the balance. I felt like it could go either way still.”

Ralston Valley — last year’s 5A state runner-up — eventually took a 5-2 victory over Evergreen in the all-Jeffco battle.

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