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Niwot High Grad Cameron Robertson Opens Doors with a Smartphone February 2013

BY LIZ EMMETT-MATTOX
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If you’ve ever locked yourself out of your house, needed to let your pet-sitter in while you were on vacation, or hassled with the keys to a vacation home that you rent out, you might want to check out Lockitron, the brainchild of Cameron Robertson (NHS ‘05) and fellow CU grad Paul Gerhardt.

Robertson said he was always playing around with computers, taking them apart and putting them back together again. While an undergraduate at CU, he and his friend, Paul Gerhardt, started playing around with the idea of connecting different things to the Internet.

Their first idea was a smoke alarm that would send you a text message whenever it went off. However, they realized that smoke detectors tend to go off when the batteries are low, or when someone burns the toast.

Dalton Request Withdrawn February 2013

Dalton Request Withdrawn 
BY KIM GLASSCOCK
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Robert and Sally Dalton have withdrawn their request for a special use permit to allow them to use their Burning Sky Ranch property near Niwot as a reception hall and community meeting facility. They had asked for approval to hold up to 75 events annually at the property at 7723 Oxford Road, just west of the Diagonal Highway.

According to county land use planner Steven Williams, Robert Dalton withdrew the request on Jan. 4. The request had been scheduled for consideration by the Boulder County Commissioners on Jan. 15.
The Boulder County Planning Commission had already unanimously recommended denying the request. Letters opposing the special use request had been sent to the county by 23 neighbors of the property.

Daughters of the British Empire Host Christmas Fayre, Support Children’s Park January 2013

Daughters of the British Empire Host Christmas Fayre, Support Children’s Park
BY LIZ EMMETT-MATTOX
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When Deborah Read-Fowler, Diana Grover and a number of other women of British heritage asked to join the Longmont chapter of the Daughters of the British Empire, the Longmont chapter declined to accept them, saying that the Longmont chapter was too full. So in October 2010, Read-Fowler, Grover and 10 other women became the charter members of the Niwot chapter of the Daughters of the British Empire. Read-Fowler has served as regent and Grover as vice-regent since their charter was granted.

Started over 100 years ago, the DBE is a philanthropic organization with membership open to women of British or Commonwealth heritage, and the spouses of someone with British or Commonwealth heritage. The mission of the organization is to raise money to support retirement homes.

Left Hand Laurel Katie Barger January 2013

Left Hand Laurel Katie Barger
BY LIZ EMMETT-MATTOX
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"I’m fortunate to be in the role I am as a teacher,” said this month’s Left Hand Laurel, Katie Barger. “I have access to so many students who are willing to go out and do things. They just need someone to point them in the right direction. If you can help them find an interest in doing something good, they just run with it.”
Barger and her family moved from California just over five years ago because they wanted more space and Colorado seemed like a good place for their daughter to grow up. Now in her fifth year in the math department at Niwot High, she has jumped into the community with both feet.