Cohousing-L Mailing List: Lyons Valley Village needs our help

[Richard L. Kohlhaas (rlkohl]

>From Cohousing Association of the U.S.

Lyons Valley Village Needs Our Help

The Denver Post reported on November 3rd that the September floods in Colorado 
"took nine lives, 
damaged 26,000 homes, destroyed more than 1,800 homes, damaged 765 businesses, 
destroyed 203 
businesses, damaged or destroyed almost 500 miles of road" as well as causing 
significant damage to 
other infrastructure and croplands.

Six weeks after the floods, the small town of Lyons Colorado was still without 
utilities, with 20% 
of its homes damaged, most businesses shuttered and all the roads in closed to 
the general public.
 
The cohousing community of Lyons Valley Village was directly in the path of the 
September 12th 
flooding.  The residents Lyons Valley Village report on their website that "We 
know that we will be 
displaced from our homes for many months as we are still without all town 
utilities: sewer, water, 
gas and electric." Yet they also want to assure us that their "spirit is 
strong" and that they are 
"resolved to come through this experience with strength, courage, perseverance 
and resilience."
With winter fast approaching, our fellow cohousers at Lyons Valley Village are 
in need of support. 
CohoUS asks that if you are in a position to render assistance; be it skills, 
materials, cash or 
prayers; this small cohousing community at the base of the Rocky Mountains 
would be grateful.

Additional information related to the situation at Lyons Valley Village can be 
found, as well as 
donations made, at 
       http://lyonsvalleyvillagefloodassistance.com/


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Dick Kohlhaas <rlkohl [at] earthlink.net>
(719)633-8170   
Board Member, Cohousing Association of the US
Resident of  Colorado Springs Cohousing Community at Casa Verde Commons
Completed March 2003. 34 units on 4 acres     www.casaverde.us