Superior Chili Fest and Boulder Valley Beer Fest

Community Park

September 7th, 2-6 pm

This year’s Superior Chili Fest & Boulder Valley Beer Fest is sure to be one chill-E-vent!

Start your day at the 5K fun run and walk at 8 am, www.superiorchamber.com, then bring your bib for a discount on a Beer Fest ticket! Get your fill of free chili tastings from local restaurants and community cooks, who are competing for serious prizes. The Main Stage opens at 2 pm with Funk Knuff and headliner Strange Americans, no frills rock & roll, at 4 pm. Bring the kids and enjoy a Kids Carnival sponsored by Avista Adventist Hospital.

Make it an outdoorsy day and walk or ride your bike. Free parking and shuttle from McCaslin & Coalton, shuttle runs every 15 minutes 10:30 am-7 pm.

Quick Facts:

Historical Commission Corner

August 26, 1920 saw the beginning of a yearlong celebration in Colorado of the passage of the 19th Amendment. That is the date the Centennial state ratified the Amendment making it one of the 35 needed to approve it, making a part of the United States Constitution. Women throughout the U.S. were then able to vote in the presidential election of 1920. 

But there is more to the story. “Western Women Wild With Joy Over Colorado’s Election,” a headline in one of the state’s newspaper, heralded the granting of suffrage to Colorado women on November 7, 1893. Yes, Colorado was the first state to allow women to vote beginning in 1894. Colorado was preceded by other westerners in women’s suffrage: Wyoming and Utah who passed the right to vote in 1869 and 1870, but since they were still territories rather than states, our state retains the distinction. Another difference in the Colorado case is that the right was gained through a statewide election in which only men could vote.

We surmise that here In Superior in 1920, there would have been women, many of whom were naturalized citizens, who might have cast there first vote for president of the United States. For more tidbits on the history of Superior and this area, drop by the Superior Historical Museum on Saturday, September 7th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Volunteers will be on site to show you through the former miner’s house and the 1942 Fire Truck will be on display, weather permitting. Parents of Superior 2nd graders be aware that the annual field trips with Superior, Eldorado and Monarch students will happen this month.

Superior Historical Museum is located at 2nd and Maple Streets in Original Superior. For more information contact Bryan Meyer, Town Staff, at 303-499-3675 or Larry Dorsey, Commission Chair, at 303-499-1969.

Goldfish Swim School to Open in Superior Marketplace

Goldfish Swim School, the leading premier learn-to-swim franchise, will bring its research-based philosophy called The Science of SwimPlay® to the Superior community. Swim lessons in their shiver-free 90-degree pool are booking now and will begin in October. Lessons are available for children ages four months to 12 years old.

Visit goldfishsw imscho ol.com/superior.

Kick Off Football Season with Broncos Ride!

If you’re headed to Denver for a Broncos’ game on Sunday this fall, skip the drive and take BroncosRide instead! BroncosRide makes getting to the game a snap. Just hop on at one of our pick-up locations and pay your exact cash round-trip fare. Buses depart from many Park-n-Rides and other locations for the game about 2½ hours before kickoff and operate until about one hour before the game starts, depending on your BroncosRide route and location. Service resumes immediately following the game and will continue until 45 minutes after the game ends. BroncosRide service is available at the following Park-n-Rides in our region:

Check the RTD website a few days before each game for a pick-up schedule detailing BroncosRide route names, pick-up times, departure frequency, and after-game bus locations.

If I don’t have a house phone how will reverse 911 reach me? What if I’m not home?

During emergencies first responders can use reverse 911 and in Boulder County the Everbridge Mass Emergency Notification System to contact residents in the affected area if evacuation or shelter in place orders need to be issued. Reverse 911 calls the homes and businesses with land lines in the geographical area identified by responders and provides notification via traditional land lines. The Everbridge system provides calls and emails to the geographical area selected by responders.  You must sign up for and update your contact information for Everbridge to work and to participate.  

Boulder County, portions of the Arapahoe Roosevelt National Forest, Summit County and other agencies along the front range have issued or are considering fire restrictions due to the hot dry weather. The vegetation along the front range is drying out rapidly and the possibility for rapid fire growth especially on hot windy days has increased. Even if you are not in the fire restricted area of the foothills of western Boulder County you need to be extra careful with fire and sparks until significant moisture returns to our local weather pattern. If you are using a grill be sure it is out before leaving it, don’t use sources of sparks and embers such a fire pits and chimineas on windy days, keep your grass and plants watered and trimmed and if you’re camping know before you go the campfire rules in place at your destination.

Now is a great time to sign up for or update your Everbridge information. Rocky Mountain Fire thanks you for doing your part to make it a quiet wildfire season in Colorado. Follow us @RockyMtnFire on Facebook, @RkyMtnFireDept on Twitter, and rockymountainfire on Instagram