CO Public Radio Interview: Conifer Park & Chamber Directors

Janet Shown is the Executive Director of the Conifer Community Park at Beaver Ranch, which hosted many firefighters during this situation, and Dawn Smith is the Director of the Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce, who organized the community dinner last Wednesday, with all of the local businesses who donated food, for the firefighters. If you haven't yet met these two amazing women, you don't know what you're missing - they were both evacuated this past week, yet dropped everything to help the community and the emergency crews who came to help. Come on out to the Conifer Community Park this Friday: Janet has modified it to be a potluck honoring the emergency personnel, evacuees, and volunteers, rather than just a movie night as usual. You can find more information about it in this thread .

Great interview ladies!

Listen Here: Mountain Community Takes Stock of Fire's Toll
by Megan Verlee
Apr 02, 2012

[Photo: CPR/Megan Verlee]

As of Monday morning, the final residents displaced by the Lower North Fork Fire in Jefferson County had been allowed to go home, except residents of the more than two dozen buildings that were damaged or destroyed in the blaze, which also left three people dead. Colorado Public Radio’s Megan Verlee has a report on how the community is coping.

[The following is a transcript of Megan Verlee's report]