Mosquito Spraying - July 1 from 8:00 p.m. to midnight

Due to recent high counts of adult mosquitoes and the potential for exposure to West Nile Virus, spraying will occur Wednesday, July 1 between 8:00 p.m. and midnight along the path through Community Park between McCaslin Boulevard and South Rock Creek Parkway. Residents of homes in this area are encouraged to close windows and doors and turn air conditioning systems to recirculate. For more information, please contact Colorado Mosquito Control at http://www.comosquitocontrol.com/ or call 303-558-8730.

Celebrate our Wonderful Community at this Year’s 4th of July Festival!

This year’s theme for the 4th of July Festival and Parade is “Live Superior! Caring-Community-Connection.” The event features a community parade with fantastic neighborhood floats, a pancake breakfast at Community Park and fun for kids of all ages. Start planning your parade entry now, our theme this year lends itself well to lots of fun ideas! The float application is available on the Events page of the Town website (townofsuperior.com).

Again this year, the Superior Downhill Mile race will immediately precede the parade. This one-mile race has become a local favorite. Details about the race and online registration are available at active.com. If you're interested in family registration, please stop by Solepepper Sports (459 S. McCaslin)

The parade starts at 8:30 a.m. by the North Pool and Superior Elementary (at Indiana and Rock Creek Pkwy.). The line up for the floats will begin at 7:30 a.m. and the pedestrian line up begins at 8:00 a.m. Come early to get the best seat and watch your neighbors show off their creativity. The parade will follow Rock Creek Parkway and end at Community Park.

The pancake breakfast is being held at Community Park and will begin at 9:00 a.m. Be sure to hang out after breakfast and enjoy fun, dancing with a variety of music by local favorites, Sugar Daddy and Surround Sound. There will be plenty of vendors, interactive games and prizes, snow cones and cotton candy, inflatables for kids, and lots more!

Applications to register for the parade, as well as booth and volunteer applications can be found on the Town website (townofsuperior.com). For more information on the parade, to enter a float, for general event-related questions, volunteer inquiries or booth questions, please contact Kristi or Dan Audette at 303-544-0359, or kristia@townofsuperior.com.

Green Energy by Matt Magley

In 2008, as part of the Board’s Live Green goal, the Board envisioned a plan to make Superior an energy self-sufficient community within 10 years. To achieve the goal to be an energy self-sufficient community, the Town is committed to exploring renewable energy projects and all other financially-prudent measures to offset all of its energy consumption and reduce our collective energy consumption for all existing and future municipal operations.

On Monday the Town Board approved the first phase of a two phase project to install photovoltaic (PV) systems on Town facilities. The first phase will install PV systems at five Town facilities totaling 40.85 kW. These systems will generate 56,524 kWh of clean renewable energy annually, offsetting more than 25 percent of the total energy consumption at these five sites. This equals 113,048 lbs. of CO2 reduction, planting 16 acres of trees annually, or removing 7 cars from the road annually.

The second phase of the project will include the installation of the two largest PV systems at the water and wastewater treatment facilities. These systems are currently in the design phase, but once installed are expected to be up to 1,000 kW in size and produce up to 1,450,000 kWh of clean renewable electricity annually and reduce approximately 2,900,000 lbs. of CO2 annually.

These two projects are only the beginning of what we can expect to see in the future to become a more energy efficient and green community.