Archive for January, 2010

• Buy local … beers

  Friday, January 8th, 2010

  What better way to support local than by patronizing your local brewery. Check out these upcoming brewery events.

• EPA proposes major smog cleanup to protect health

  Friday, January 8th, 2010

  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed tougher controls on smog, a move that’s expected to make a lasting improvement in the quality of the air Americans breathe. The most common form of air pollution, smog is another name for ground-level ozone, which is created by chemical reactions between oxides of nitrogen and [...]

• 14th Annual Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival

  Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

  The 14th Annual Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival comes at the perfect time, in the beginning of the new year, when we all are rethinking our dietary and fitness regime. The festival is this Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. throughout Lafayette. The festival includes an oatmeal breakfast, 5K walk/run, health fair, oatmeal-baking contest and the Oatmeal Creation Challenge.

• Yoga studio supports troops

  Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

  Green Mountain Yoga’s Care program is sending our servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan care packages filled with treats from home. In December, Green Mountain mailed six care packages—90 pounds worth—filled with snacks, toiletries, playing cards and books to a Transportation Unit from Colorado stationed in Afghanistan. Care packages were all donated by the students and community of Green Mountain Yoga.

• Forest Service looks to preserve HD Mountains

  Monday, January 4th, 2010

  DENVER – The future of some of southwestern Colorado’s most rugged terrain will be decided in the new year. On Dec. 30, attorneys for oil and gas developers, conservation groups and federal agencies met in a Denver courtroom to continue a tug-of-war over whether to allow about 140 gas wells to be drilled in the HD Mountains east of Durango.

• Wine 101 at The Blending Cellar

  Monday, January 4th, 2010

  Enjoy fine Australian wines and tapas at The Blending Cellar on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 6:30 p.m. Sommelier Manuel Sanchez of The West End Wine Shop will lead a class on the region, appellations, winegrowing and tastes of different Australian wines.