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How an Austin-based nonprofit is providing Texans access to nutritious food

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Steven Johnson is the garden coordinator with Green Corn Project, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Texans attain access to nutritious, affordable food while also providing an education along the way. "Our mission is to help low income communities, individuals and communities at large, grow food for themselves that don't have access to that food," Johnson said.Their way of doing this is by planting gardening beds. Their planned and scheduled events are called "dig-ins". These events are made possible with the help of participating volunteers taking a few hours out of their day during the weekends in the spring and fall to help plant on-site of a recipient in need."Not everybody can afford to buy it. Not everybody has the knowledge on how to grow food for themselves. So we provide that financial, the equipment needed for gardens, as well as the education for people to grow their own healthy food," Johnson said.Johnson added that the education for gardening is not ...

Taking the "No New Clothes" pledge with Ginger Zee

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - This April, the NEWS10 ABC in the Morning team signed up for the “No New Clothes” pledge. For 30 days, they’re committing to buy no new clothes and instead, shopping in their own closet. The goal of the challenge is to showcase the small ways we can help our environment by changing our own shopping habits. Take the “No New Clothes” pledge this Earth Month NEWS10's Cassie Hudson spoke to ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee to learn more about her experience taking the “No New Clothes” pledge last year and what ultimately inspired her to want to do it in the beginning.One year later, Ginger is still upholding her pledge. Besides one time where she was in a pinch and needed to buy a jacket for severe weather coverage, Ginger has bought zero new clothes for one year. She says it's been easy! VLOG: Team shares “No New Clothes” pledge update For a wardrobe, Ginger shops in her own closet, rents clothes and buys items secondhand. In our conversation, she wa...

Police: 20-year-old starts dumpster fire at Walgreens

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

WATERVLIET, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A 20-year-old was arrested Monday, April 3 for intentionally starting a dumpster fire at a Watervliet Walgreens, according to the Watervliet Police Department. Matthew Shufelt-Sumner, 20, is charged with second-degree arson. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Police say they responded to a dumpster fire in the parking lot of Walgreens, located at 1901 2nd Avenue. Upon arriving, they found the fire spread toward the building's main gas line, and the Watervliet Fire Department's swift response contained the fire to the outside of the building. Police say their investigation found Shufelt-Sumner had intentionally started the fire which eventually damaged property. Shufelt-Sumner allegedly started the fire because he was upset over the store's policy which stopped them from releasing a package to him. At the time of the fire, the store was open and occupied. Four arrested after traffic stop in Queens...

Bear Creek Lake Park is a suburban gem for running, mountain biking, hiking, fishing and swimming | Opinion

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems).There is a place in Lakewood where foothills and prairie meet, a quiet refuge from the bustle of Front Range suburbia that ranks as one of my favorite outdoor sanctuaries. A small creek with headwaters 25 miles west on a 14,000-foot mountain feeds into a lake formed by a large flood control dam, emerging as a creek again on the other side.Upstream from the human-made dam is a lovely beaver dam. I mean no disrespect to the Army Corps of Engineers, but the beaver dam is way more endearing.Cyclists ride along a majestic Cottonwood Trail in Lakewood’s Bear Creek Lake Park. (Helen H. Richardson, Denver Post file)This is the heart of Bear Creek Lake Park, one of my regular retreats for running and bike riding. I love it so much, I buy annu...

Denver’s fast-growing RiNo “music district” finds its groove amid vinyl renaissance

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

Scott Hagen drops the needle on a shiny slab of black vinyl — Fleet Foxes’ 2021 record “A Very Lonely Solstice” — and takes the time to admire the turntable’s delicate hardware as the tone arm slowly circles the grooves toward the center.A rich, smooth sound emanates from the speakers — so close and intimate it feels like the melancholy acoustic performance is right in front of you.Scott Hagen, CEO of Victrola, in front of new products on April 10, 2023, in the company’s corporate headquarters in Denver. s to offer on April 10, 2023 in Denver. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)That’s the intended effect of the hardware demo that Hagen, the chief executive of 117-year-old record player brand Victrola, has set up in his company’s temporary, Denver-based headquarters. The sleek Victrola Stream Onyx, which retails for $599, works as a standard turntable but also streams pristine audio via Bluetooth to Sonos speakers...

Will a gun that uses facial recognition reduce firearm deaths? A Colorado entrepreneur thinks so.

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

The country’s first biometric smart gun started as a Boulder teenager’s high school science fair project.Ten years later, Kai Kloepfer is bringing his smart gun to market in what could be the first weapon to break a decades-old political and manufacturing “log jam” that has kept smart guns from mass production.Kloepfer’s Broomfield-based company, Biofire, on Thursday announced the sale of guns that use both fingerprint and facial recognition to make sure only authorized users can fire the weapon.His goal is to reduce accidental deaths and suicides and to keep children from accessing their parents’ weapons. The gun will allow people to have a weapon at hand but want to make sure children, visitors or criminals can’t use it.The gun is primarily marketed for use as a weapon for home defense, Kloepfer said. Gun owners must balance keeping a weapon easily accessible in case of emergency but also secure enough that others can’t access it.“Ho...

Music, art and some excellent shopping will join global mayors at Cities Summit next week

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

The Cities Summit of the Americas, which comes to town this month, makes real a vision of Denver that many of us here have been working hard to manifest: cultured and consequential, leading, diverting and global — or at least hemispheric, since the event brings together politicians, artists and innovators from North, Central and South America.There are rising stars in that mix all around, including mayors of major cities who are embracing the rapid political and technological changes taking place in the world while looking toward the future. Americans tend to focus inward, but the lineup of 250 mayors coming here — including Bogota’s Claudia Lopez, Rio de Janeiro’s Eduardo Paes and Tijuana’s Monserrat Caballero — are intercontinental superstars leading the charge for tens of millions of people who want the same things we do: quality education, healthy citizens, a robust planet.That said, they also want to have a good time, and that is probably what makes the summit...

What’s hiding in your home’s walls? Denver renters, homeowners still dealing with asbestos.

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

The architecture of buildings around Denver stands as a testament to years past. Styles of older homes can run the gamut from a classic bungalow to a Victorian to a Tudor, just to name a few. But sometimes those buildings were constructed with outdated materials like asbestos.Today, asbestos can still be found within insulation and popcorn ceilings, hiding in walls only to be discovered during a home renovation or the replacement of a waterline. And when it’s found, it can be more than just a nuisance: It can pose a potential health hazard. Cleanup is a complicated process that can require the temporary displacement of homeowners and tenants – and can financially burden everyone involved.On Wednesday, a crew of two for Asbestos Abatement Inc. took a hammer to a kitchen wall at Monaco Place Condominiums in Denver. Earlier in the morning, licensed asbestos worker Jacob Wilson, 22, and supervisor Brad Packwood, 43, donned their full-body hazmat suits and respirator masks before s...

Denver’s best stoner dining, according to the pros on “Stoned Appetit”

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

Stoner holiday 4/20 may only come once a year, but Denver residents Kip Wilson and Chris Byard celebrate practically every day.That’s because they’re co-hosts of “Stoned Appetit,” a food- and weed-focused podcast that enables listeners to follow Wilson and Byard as they explore Colorado’s robust cannabis and restaurant scenes. And it’s fair to say that the podcast has been a hit.In the five years since its debut, Wilson has been able to transition to working full-time on “Stoned Appetit,” while Byard joins him when not working as senior grant officer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The two have also collaborated with local marijuana companies on specialty products, such as a vape pen and oil release with Denver’s Seed & Smith.“We like to consider ourselves at the intersect of culinary and cannabis worlds,” Wilson said.Together they’ve traversed the Mile High City corner to corner, from cuisine to cuisine. That’s why this 4/20, we asked Wilson and Byard to...

Clarence Thomas claimed income from defunct real estate firm, report says

Published Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:48:42 GMT

(The Hill) - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has claimed on financial disclosure documents that his family received hundreds of thousands in income from a now-defunct real estate firm, according to a new report from the Washington Post.The Post reports that Thomas said the income came from Ginger, Ltd., Partnership, a real estate firm launched by his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, and her family, that was shut down in 2006. A new firm was opened under the name Ginger Holdings, LLC, according to the report, but Thomas continued to claim income from the unused firm. The Post notes that the discrepancy could be a mere error, but it comes as Thomas faces scrutiny for his finances as he serves on the nation’s highest court. A ProPublica report earlier this month said a Republican mega-donor paid for Thomas to take part in various luxury vacations over two decades, which the justice did not disclose. A subsequent report found that Thomas also didn’t disclose a 2014 re...