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A ceremony is slated for the War Memorial Park at the Fremont County Airport to dedicate more names on the veterans' memorial wall and to conduct an official flag disposal ceremony. The names of more than 160 additional veterans were recently engraved on the memorial wall from orders submitted over the past year.

A Patch Construction Company crew (left) prepares a section of Phantom Canyon Road for a concrete pour. The work funded by a Gaming Impact grant is repairing washouts from a flood in July, 2006.

(photo by Don Moore)

Fremont County property owners have begun receiving their Notices of Valuation (NOV's) in the mail from the Fremont County Assessor's Office. Assessor Stacey Seifert says 2009 is a reassessment year in Colorado which takes place every two years. Seifert says after mailing the NOV's last week, her staff has already begun handling protests that will come into her office in the coming weeks.

Award of a bid for bleachers at the Pathfinder Park outdoor arena and a lease-purchase agreement for a used fuel truck at the Fremont County Airport highlighted a brief agenda of business for the Fremont County Board of Commissioners Tuesday.

The Fremont County Board of Commissioners voted April 22nd to rescind a zoning decision made last December on a 143 acre tract of property at Highway 50 and 'R' Street at Penrose. The decision followed a three hour public hearing in which neighbors who organized the East Fremont Alliance alleged that property owner Ron Walker misrepresented the facts in his zone change application last fall.

The Phantom Canyon scenic road to Victor and Cripple Creek will be closed to all through traffic for nearly a month starting Monday, April 27th, to allow for road stabilization work. The Fremont County Commissioners recently awarded a bid to Patch Construction Company to perform the road stabilization at the site of three ravines on Phantom Canyon Road about nine miles north of Highway 50. The area targeted is about a mile north of the historic railroad trestle.

Suspension of the Fremont County fire ban and award of a bid for road stabilization work on Phantom Canyon Road highlighted a busy agenda for the Fremont County Commissioners Tuesday.

The Colorado Springs City Council voted Tuesday 8-1 in favor of a resolution to formally recognize the commitments in the terms and conditions of the Pueblo County 1041 land-use permit. The resolution will preserve Colorado Springs' ability to construct the Southern Delivery System (SDS) Preferred Alternative - a pipeline from Pueblo Reservoir.

Even with the assurances that the pipeline will originate in Pueblo County, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) officials intend to hang onto their approval for a Fremont County route along Highway 115 should problems develop.

The Holcim Company and Geocycle are again cooperating this year in Fremont County's annual spring cleanup campaign. Holcim and Geocycle have announced they will conduct another free tire collection day on Saturday, April 18th, at the Holcim Portland Cement Plant east of Florence. The event will run from 8 a.m. until 12 noon.