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August 1st Colorado Day

OFFICE OF GOV. BILL RITTER, JR.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 2008
CONTACTS:
Evan Dreyer, 720.350.8370, evan.dreyer@state.co.us
Wil Alston, 303.866.6323, wil.alston@state.co.us
GOV. RITTER PROCLAIMS TODAY COLORADO DAY
Gov. Bill Ritter marked today's 132nd anniversary of Colorado statehood by proclaiming Friday, Aug. 1, 2008, as Colorado Day.

COLORADO DAY

August 1, 2008

WHEREAS, on July 4, 1876, at the World¿s Fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the 100th anniversary of the birth of the United States of America, Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, announced that Colorado would become the Centennial State; and

WHEREAS, on August 1, 1876, President Grant, from the Oval Office at the White House, proclaimed Colorado to be the 38th state of the Union; and

WHEREAS, Territorial Governor John L. Routt was elected as the first Governor of the State of Colorado and the territorial legislature was dissolved, allowing for a newly elected State legislature to be formed; and

WHEREAS, on August 1, 2008, Colorado will celebrate 132 years of statehood; and

WHEREAS, while Colorado Day recognizes and celebrates the history of our state, Coloradans undertake to serve the community on this day through volunteer projects and programs, giving back to the state and preserving its resources, which have provided for our citizens for more than a century;

Therefore, I, Bill Ritter, Jr., Governor of the State of Colorado, do hereby proclaim August 1, 2008,

COLORADO DAY

in the State of Colorado.

GIVEN under my hand and the Executive Seal of the State of Colorado, this first day of August, 2008

Bill Ritter, Jr.

Governor

Off the Grid

Off the Grid is a heartfelt film about a bunch of bumbles living in New Mexico, in the middle of the desert. The film shows the lives of people who live Off the Grid; 

Off the Grid is defined by Urban Dictionary as - 


 1) Living without using the services of public or private utility companies (grids) such as electric, gas, or water, by generating and providing for one's needs such as by using solar power, etc. 

2) One who disdains all recordable common forms of commerce, such as eschewing any form of credit extension, banking services or reportable payroll activities, using only cash so as to avoid any traceable transactions, e.g., living completely 'underground.'))  


It is easy to overlook or gossip about people who live in an alien community: 

"Look at what they are doing!"

"They can't do that!"

"You can't live there!"

"Look at those Dharma Bums!"

But what is needed to live freely is defined in different ways; some people want absolute freedom, to live like they want to live, and do what they want to do; these people find life is best lived "Off the Grid".  Some people need the solitude only a place off the grid can offer. Some people live off the grid because they enjoy shooting guns. Some find Off the Grid the safest place to protect themselves from their former dangerous lives.  Some live off the grid because they fear society will brain wash their kids.
There is danger in living off the grid. Drugs are common here. And the law is the law of the people, vigilante old west style.
But without a full portrait, we are left arrogant. Jeremy and Randy Stulberg do a fine job of presenting these people objectively.  The people of the mesa are given a fair space to share their free formed lives.  

8 turnips out of a possible 10