It’s the time of year when one reflects on the last 12 months and tries to put events in some kind of perspective. As your Mayor, and as a Hideout resident who chooses to make my home here, I can’t help but reflect on what has been a very difficult and divisive year.
On a national scale, we have been dealing with a pandemic and a Presidential election. These are large events that create stress for all. I certainly hope that with the election over, and a vaccine in view, we can begin to look forward with a bit less stress and a bit more hope.
720 Airport goes on for holiday shoppers
Patricia Faulhaber
Suburbanite correspondent
GREEN The 720 Market has become a favorite event in Stark and Summit Counties over the past several years. The founders, Lynn and Dave Shimko usually offer three or four open air markets throughout the spring and summer.
But for their 2020 season, the open markets that were scheduled over the spring, summer and fall had to be canceled due to the sizes of crowds that the events have drawn in the past. The Shimkos did host smaller events called 720 Sidestreets in the Oakwood Square Plaza in Plain Township in the fall and they held the 720 Airport event on Dec. 5 at the Akron-Canton Airport.
to mitigate the climate crisis and slow species loss.
But today Colorado is losing open land faster than we’re protecting it: Over a half-million acres of natural lands were lost to development since 2001. Fortunately, a coalition of conservation groups has developed a detailed roadmap to preserve 30% of Colorado’s lands (an additional 14 million acres) by 2030.
Working with lawmakers, land managers, tribes, and private landowners, the “Colorado Pathways to 30-by-30” proposal utilizes executive orders, federal and state land manager policies, energy-development reforms, and private landowner protections.
In Colorado, 2019 outdoor recreation accounted for more than $12.2 billion in economic impact and employed almost 150,000 workers earning $6.4 billion needless to say, Eagle and Summit Counties strongly benefited. As our increasingly popular local trails and wilderness attest, outdoor recreation is critical to recovery from COVID-19.