30 years ago – October 2, 1990
Do you know a child in the community who has special needs? The Colorado Department of Health handicapped Children’s Program might be an important resource for this child. Orthopedic, hearing, vision, genital, urinary, stomach, intestinal, heart and spinal cord conditions are covered. Also included in the coverage are conditions requiring plastic surgery, such as cleft lip and palate. In addition, children with diagnoses of cystic fibrosis, respiratory distress syndrome, cerebral palsy, and spina bifida may be covered. Services include hospitalization, medical consultations, office and hospital physician visits, refraction, surgery, anesthesia, clinic visits, casts, X-Rays, lab work, EEGs, EKGs, CAT scans, speech and hearing evaluations, and therapy evaluations. Appliances that are covered include braces, prostheses, hearing aids, batteries and repairs for hearing aids, hearing aid molds, glasses – and in special situations, wheelchairs and repairs, shoes attached to braces, certain corrective shoes, and ostomy supplies.
The Denver Museum of Natural History has acquired what could be the largest gold nugget found in Colorado in over 50 years. The nugget is an inch-and-a-half long, three inches wide, and weighs nearly eight troy-ounces—the equivalent of 8.6 ounces. “This is the largest gold nugget known from Colorado,” said Jack Murphy, the museum’s curator of geology. “By Colorado standards, it’s huge.” Most nuggets from Colorado are small—pea size or smaller—because they have travelled long distances in streams or glacial deposits, Murphy explained. The nugget was found this summer west of Alma on the alpine slopes of Pennsylvania at the site of the old Bulger Basin Placer Claim. The largest known nugget, weighing 12 troy ounces and measuring three inches by two inches, was found at the same site in 1937. It is also at the museum. Discovery of the newest nugget will contribute greatly to research on the deposit’s origin, said Murphy. The nugget was named the “turtle nugget” by the miners who found it because of its flat shape. A new endowment fund created for the purchase of mineral acquisitions for the Coors Mineral Hall made it possible to keep the nugget in Colorado. The fund came from a Philadelphia couple who willed a major part of their estate to the museum. This is the first use of the fund.
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