Isaac Allen Wins Honorable Mention in ASCAP Young Composers Competition
BY LIZ EMMETT-MATTOX
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Isaac Allen started taking violin lessons when he was eight years old. In seven years, he racked up an
impressive list of musical accomplishments and awards, winning concerto competitions from Longmont to
Denver and performing with orchestras all across the area.
Allen was recently notified that a composition he had submitted to the ASCAP Morton Gould Young
Composer competition had received an honorable mention. The competition is named for Morton Gould,
a Pulitzer Prize winning composer and is intended to encourage young composers of “original concert
[classical] music.”
Left Hands Garner Grassroots Support
BY KIM GLASSCOCK
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A grassroots “left hands” movement is underway in the Niwot business community, spearheaded by Anne
Postle of osmosis art and architecture, and the Niwot Cultural Arts Association.
As originally proposed, the Left Hands Sculpture Project calls for installing about 200 “left hand”
sculptures along Second Avenue and throughout Cottonwood Square by Left Hander’s Day in August.
Left Hand Laurel: Itsera Martial
Arts Raises Funds for Autism Research
BY LIZ EMMETT-MATTOX
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Scott Meier of Itsera Martial Arts thinks it’s important for businesses to give back to the community, which
is why Itsera Martial Arts has had a spring fundraiser every year.
Specializing in Muay Thai, and offering martial arts classes for adults and children as well as housing a
small gym, Itsera has been in business for about two and a half years.
The first two years in business, Itsera participated in the MS Walk-A-Thon, raising about $3,000 last
year. “This year the timing changed [for the MS Walk] and this half-marathon [the Carbon Valley Half-
Marathon supporting autism research] came up and it seemed like a perfect fit,” Meier said.
NCA: PID for Subdivision Roads?
BY KIM GLASSCOCK
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Boulder County officials met with Niwot residents at the April 17 Niwot Community Association
meeting to discuss the November ballot proposal to form a public improvement district to pay for
rehabilitating unincorporated Boulder County subdivision roads.