CALL TO BOOMERS
Every eight seconds for the next 18 years, one baby boomer will turn 60 in this country. So, what's ahead for this boom of aging Americans?
That's what two Colorado foundations - The Colorado Trust and Rose Community Foundation - want to know, so they are conducting the Colorado Boomer Survey to learn more about what baby boomers want and need to live healthy, fulfilling and useful lives in their 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond.
They are looking for people who:
• Are Colorado residents
• Are between the ages of 55 and 65
• Have 10 to 15 minutes to take the survey.
Note: The deadline is March 23. Log on to coloradoboomers.com to take the survey. For results, check www.coloradotrust.org or www.rcfdenver.org
WHERE THE MONEY IS
$79,946 national average salary for adults (in 2006) with a master's, professional or doctoral degree.
$19,915 average salary for adults (in 2006) with less than a high school diploma.
$54,689 average salary for adults (in 2005) with a bachelor's degree.
$29,448 average salary for adults (in 2005) with a high school diploma.
• Colorado ranks third overall with adults* who have college degrees (36.4%).The state ranks 13th overall with adults* who are high school graduates (90%). *25 years old and over Source: U.S. Census Bureau
AN URGENT QUESTION FROM EXTRA!
2:50Arrive in newsroom for 3-11 p.m. shift
3:10Make Starbucks run. Walk outdoors and notice man with boy, about 3 years old. Boy is peeing at north side of Pioneer Monument Park ("Dedicated by the Citizens 1910," postcard above). Man pulls up boy's pants and they walk to RTD stop on Broadway.
3:37Call 311 (Mayor Hick's nifty information line). Pat answers. Extra! asks if it is illegal for a child to urinate in public. Pat tells Extra! that police say it is illegal for anyone to urinate in public; however, officers use common sense before issuing a ticket. Police would never ticket a child, she says, although they could ticket the parent.
3:44Extra! calls 311 because we forgot to ask how much the ticket would cost. Extra! is transferred to Officer Stump - "just like a sawed-off tree," he said.
- Extra! could never track down the fine amount. But as one public information officer put it, "It's cute when a kid does it, but not a man."
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