Wednesday September 30, 2009

A press release on Tuesday from the owners of the Hotel Jerome in Aspen says the investors, Elysian Worldwide LLC, are working with lenders to keep the historic structure. 
Foreclosure proceedings are scheduled against the property owners at the end of January unless the group comes up with a way to pay on the 35 million dollars owed on the property.
Seasonal flu shots have been given to hundreds throughout the Roaring Fork Valley, but some of our listeners admitted that they either didn’t believe in the effectiveness of a flu shot—-or that they were just plain scared to get one.
We’ll continue to track the availability for the swine flu vaccine—that flu shot will be separate from the seasonal flu and the vaccine should be available locally within three weeks.
Seasonal flu is traditionally the strain to most target adults over age 49.
The H1N1 virus  (Swine Flu) is targeting, primarily, teens.
Aspen city leaders will meet again at the end of October to determine if their support should go to a proposed expansion of the Wheeler opera house.   Local news is taking a survey now—do you think the 30 thousand square foot addition to the historic wheeler opera house is a good idea….or would it be better to just leave it as is?  Send your answers to news@aspenglenwood.com

October is breast cancer awareness month—-with campaigns to raise money for research to combat the disease often choosing pink as the color scheme for marketing fund raisers.  Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland dyed his hair (what’s left of it we might mention) pink for last night’s meeting at city hall—-to honor the effort at combating breast cancer.
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