This is a terrific consumer protection bill, Hullinghorst said in a news release. It expands the current protections for owners of mobile homes, and it adds new rights to fix the old imbalance of power between landlords and owners.

The Second Annual WWII Ball will be held on Saturday, June 19, at the Boulder Airports Blue Hangar at 7 p.m. Attendees will enjoy a USOstyle show starring the likes of Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and the Andrews Sisters Act Reveille 3.

Five journalists have been selected as 2010-11 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The fellowships are hosted by the Center for Environmental Journalism and are funded through a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation.

The affected areas are the Meeker Campground Picnic Site, Olive Ridge Campground, Kelly Dahl Campground, Cold Springs Campground, Nederland Work Center and West Chicago Creek Campground. The areas were selected because the trees are susceptible to pine beetle attack.

Boulder County Parks and Open Space is hosting a homestead event on Sunday, May 30, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Walker Ranch. The event is free for all ages. Costumed volunteers will recreate one of the busiest seasons of the year as they demonstrate various chores associated with rural living in the late 1800s.

City of Boulder officials announced this week that there will be no water use restrictions this summer. But they urge the community to continue water conservation efforts that have successfully kept the city's reservoirs at safe storage levels since 2003.

Wood is a 1986 graduate of CU's Leeds School of Business. Over the past 10 years, his organization has established about 10,000 libraries across the developing world. "Room to Read" currently operates in nine countries Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, South Africa and Zambia.

Census workers are now visiting, in person, every residence that did not mail back a completed census form. Census workers will also re-visit every address that was previously classified as vacant or as non-existent to ensure that the classification was correct and to take the count in person if the address was misclassified.

International Workers Day, celebrated on May Day, was instituted in 1886 when 180,000 U.S. workers engaged in a strike to fight for the eight-hour workday. Since 1988, workers and organizers along the front range of Colorado have paid tribute to the working class and all they have brought the nation at annual May Day events. The 2010 May Day Celebration will consist of four events. May Day/Unity Day will be celebrated at the Boulder County Courthouse on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall on May 1, from 1 to 4 p.m. The event is free and will focus on raising awareness about the struggles of immigrants and workers.

The one in Longmont will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 24, at the Boulder County Parks and Open Space headquarters, at 5201 St. Vrain Rd. The Lafayette workshop will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.