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<br />!Ii Victims still bailing OlWt
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<br />OClAlWPRESS
<br />,~Broncos
<br />starling
<br />lfrey.McCaf-
<br />'or 553 yards
<br />last season
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<br />and Hensel
<br />ponen!!in
<br />gion B Slale
<br />11'\ Fort Mer-
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<br />sionto!)bpu'
<br />en he faced
<br />tyhUllopin
<br />lIeylhatend.
<br />nhisresur.
<br />,O,orJohn
<br />alronsaint
<br />immigrants.
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<br />>9OClATED~ESS
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<br />1 New York
<br />duct$UNeU.
<br />'Sf ~h8 apart-
<br />.cted bombs
<br />l Brooklyn bor.
<br />'icef.
<br />,the b-
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<br />Weld County
<br />families start
<br />salvaging lives
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<br />By .JARED FIEL .
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<br />When toe Kinlmclldi hi~ hllll'l.' with hi..
<br />r;mlily TucMiuy ni~hl. h~' WllSIl"SIlI'I: he \\1;1"
<br />~oin~IOSC( itllt::1in.
<br />The Pr~iri~' School .1t:ricllltun: 1.':I.'hcr
<br />w;l.u:ker.l;ls Pnwn.-.: Creek swcllcll ~l\W ils
<br />banks:llldwllSlhl\':ll...nin!;hishnn~"orthca~t
<br />oI'Ston...ham.Hc
<br />raekedhis(an1i.
<br />Iy - his wife
<br />K11I'!:n "mllhcir'
<br />htlys, T)'kr. 10.
<br />"ndTnl\',S_intoahoNctr;lilerllnultllwe
<br />iltohillht,r~1l1\lnd.
<br />When Uk'\' well' ~;,r \.', he tin\\'1.' hm:k III ~Inn
<br />othlllhc1.'l~;;tricit\'lltlhchIIIlSC."utlllt'll\;ltl
<br />to lhe house WI\S 1I1l'C:\d\' cfI\wed with water,
<br />Th::u ni~hllhe family tried "l o.:nlch some
<br />. rc~inlhclrnilcr."Rl1lwiththeli!:h'nin~and
<br />wondcrinJ; what would t-<: there when we ~I\t
<br />b;u;k. we didn'l slcepmuo.:h:ll all:' Kimmel
<br />re'::illcdThun;day.
<br />At da\'hreOlk. the\' dro\'c hack to the hlllls",
<br />:md ~il....:Pawllee Cicek stretched OUI .tlX'"t 11
<br />qunrtcro(amile.
<br />'"Thnt wllswhcn I rc.l11ythou{:hlwelosl
<br />thtlhou~,"hesaid.
<br />Fortunatelv the creek crested a fel\' r.:et
<br />shortoftheho~sc.
<br />But the $10.000 Ji\....,lock eu,rollthal he
<br />:lnd his fnther, Ditk. built two )....:1"' ago was
<br />almosltotall)' ri~d OUI of th... Ilmup. Onl)'
<br />:looutll fourth of the metal rods nnd f1O't~ still
<br />slood Thursd:lY as thc)' ,,~~ssetl the dnmagc.
<br />"I elln't helievc ho..... be:ll up itis. Look lit
<br />. how IwiSled,tbo)C pipes arc." Dick.Kimmel
<br />said.
<br />"If you wlmled itlu lli; Ihnl twisted. you
<br />couldn'l ha...... dllnc il." his ~on chimed in.
<br />Thc:utherpl.lles,buned tlm:Cluf(\urfecl in
<br />lite j;rotmd with enncrcle. were: slrcl\'n across
<br />hlspropcny, The short: \If,hc creek has re.
<br />I.~dc:d. bUI w~ter slill nuIY~ lluickly o\'er Ihe
<br />Nbpleleflbchind.
<br />Moslof Ih,,' ",hllle is. the concrcl.: cul~1!n
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<br />. Howtohelp/A12
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<br />Music students
<br />at Colorado
<br />. State
<br />University
<br />clean the mud
<br />off of
<br />Instruments at
<br />the School 01
<br />Music In Fort
<br />Collins
<br />Thursday. .
<br />Thousands 01
<br />dollars worth of
<br />wind
<br />Instruments
<br />. were lost In the
<br />flood thai hit
<br />Ihe school ear.
<br />lier this week.
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<br />City's odor
<br />hotline gets
<br />record calls
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<br />Stoneham resident H~'rry Thompson lrie~ to create a walking bridge with remnants from a concrete culvert that used 10 car-
<br />ry water from Pawnee Creek near Weld County Road 1 S3 on Thursday, The.culvl,'rt was destroyed by flood waters this week.
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<br />o.:l'll"in!; lhe creek for Weld COUIll)' RO:ld Flooding
<br />15J.JIlOJKIIlUllelS:lidlhemel:L1luhesunder
<br />Ihcconcrcter:K.lwcrefreque"tlyplu~gcdup
<br />wilh debris an..! the .....~Ier from even 0. small
<br />r.linragcdo\,erthcIOp\lflherolld.
<br />Somelime :lh\)UI I a.m. W...dOCSl.l:ly. lite
<br />cre:ekstuppecJrunninj;overthcroadnndjusl
<br />l.Iestroved i1. The steclcu]vcrts lire no where
<br />tohcsCun.Joc Kimmel said the clQl;Cst one is
<br />amilcdowlllhccrcek.
<br />The rolltl i~ C1UU-tlllnd he said he lI;I~ nn
<br />idcawhcn It issupposeuIOhc()pcnn~l,in.
<br />The house i~ ultnmt isoluted now. Alon~
<br />with the counly rt'llId. lhe hridgcs on Colo. 71
<br />111.\U were: de~trtlyed. To ~~t 1(\ ;1I1)'where.
<br />Kimrnel hl'~ tn w~avelhrol.lj;h cI,unly rllads
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<br />See STONEHAM, Page A12
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<br />1. U.S 6 between Sterling and At-
<br />wood bec'.luse of water covering Ihe
<br />highway. The road will reopen when the
<br />water sub-~Ides.
<br />2. Colo, 14 between Slerling end
<br />Cola. 52 because 01 damage 10 the
<br />highway and the bridge al Pawnee
<br />Creek 12 miles west 01 Sterling. The de.
<br />partmentl:lstimales repair 01 the bridge
<br />will take live to six days.
<br />3. Colo. 71 between Stoneham and
<br />Nebraska because of bridges out al
<br />Pawnee and Cottonwood creeks. Crews
<br />will be working on Ihe area and tempo-
<br />rary bridges will be up In about two
<br />weeks. Pe""anent repairs will take sev.
<br />eralmonths.
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<br />''-veidona assesses this
<br />year's hit from nature
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<br />ASSOCIATED PAESS
<br />- W-ELOONA _ As Reeu Ci)~'elli \Coop<:d
<br />upshovels.fullurmudinfrontufhishuuSlJ.he
<br />pondered the wistlul11 urstuyin~ in lhissm;lll
<br />funniA~ C{.mnHlnity inund:ltl.~1 hy nrll,.u W:l'~'f1(
<br />thlsIYeck.
<br />Punlnr; dOIYn his shovel ThurMiay, he
<br />pnuSi.-dulltlsaid, "It'sjllstunll.~s.ju't"nasty.
<br />noslymess,"
<br />Covo:lIi hadn'le...ent:hceklld\lll his <lnlflS.
<br />which he li~uretl were under wuter.
<br />"It'sdiscoor~iting,"s:li"'Covelli.ul'ulice-
<br />man in neighhllrin!: t..(lt! Lane. "I uun'l knuw
<br />jfl wllnlloslllY here." .
<br />WWl1ts"'ay,lhcullythllt lUlTl"nls of wIlier
<br />~wcrt through We1<Jnnu. W:II the one-year Iln.
<br />nlversary ufn d~Vllslulin!: hull ~turm lhat be:ll
<br />fi...ld, of com und other crops into Ihc: j:roullu.
<br />Covelli Willi nllultli! the lI1:1ny IllSCN 'n~t year.
<br />"Thut cost my bnlther unu 1I1e SI!iO.O(X). It
<br />jusl ahout broke us,"
<br />Thisyellt,ilWilSrnin-uplo 15 inches fell
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<br />tional Gro.ls>lands tuth( north. Thl.' rain, CI'I:Ul.
<br />l'l.l llrivc:rlhUlllnc: Wa.,ldnl!lI111 C.\Unl)' \Ilcrilf,
<br />d(pllty ,aid "1{l1'~ed likl. l~ Mi"js,irrli Riv.
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<br />Wnl<.'rs (nlln Pl'Wnc~' ("n'd, e.w~reu "lnle
<br />1.l.UU()ucrcst1frril1mril)'~'flll'laml\\llhupttl
<br />:!!ifl:1..tu(wlllersuuthufSte,lilll1.
<br />In Sl~rlinll, at 1~.llllO ~tlple lhe IJrl1t,t
<br />tuwn inlhe :11'1:;1, ur I., I.lIlKI hutl...... ;t....1 ~nll
<br />husinc:s.....~ '!<uloCainc:tl ululIalle. s~iu I~olm Gumi.
<br />nU.a.~sislunt ttl tlledlY Illan:l~<.'r. SIk! 1.',11111.11'
<br />tU ullmal1eat SIOmi11itH1. Nurt!lt:l,ttm J.unl';l'"
<br />Cullej;eSU,luincdane,ttnluh:.JSI.!itnllhllflln
<br />thllna~.
<br />Wc:lIIllnll,I,..tllllpl(lcly (V3C031~'t.\ \\\'t.\nc:'.
<br />uuy, was slill u~r mllu Thur~l~y a., I'I:MlIenh
<br />I'l:lumc:u to Illelr htlnl(~. Pn:lllmnary <Iumilill:
<br />~~limillC:li r.lnllcU frum SNK).{XX) 10 ,S I milliun,
<br />~:lid Dun lIeer. a~\i,tant thrco.:wr h,r Mtlfv-ao
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<br />See WElDONA, Page A12
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<br />Judges trying
<br />for fair results
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<br />By BIU .JACKSON
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<br />whenthtr(b,uch3varielY
<br />andIlJluflhc:rnhan'h..-en
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