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AIR FORCE ACADEMY — When they heard the news, theywere devastated.

But they never gave up hope that they would someday knowwhat happened to their loved one, Col. Leo S. Boston, who wasreported missing during a search and rescue mission April 29,1966.

On Friday, Col. Boston’s family was greeted with PatriotGuard Riders carrying American flags as they were escortedinto the cemetery at the Air Force Academy, where an Ameri-can hero who was missing for more than 45 years was buriedalongside his wife in the cemetery at the Air Force Academy.

As part of a tradition, Gov. John Hickenlooper ordered theflags to be lowered to half-staff on public buildings statewideFriday to honor the memory of Col. Boston.

“There were many times we never thought we’d see this day,”said his daughter, Stephanie Boston Danielson. “We ’re sograteful to everybody that was involved in the identification ofour father’s remains.”

Her brother, John S. Boston, agreed.“It’s hard to keep up hope,” he said. “My sisters never gave

up. They knew this day would come.”Col. Boston’s mother, Edythe Boston, felt the same.“I get spiritual messages, and I got them from him,” she said.

“Whenever I was grieving, he would be coming up the hillwhere I was sitting and say, ‘mama, you’re not supposed to besad. I’m OK’ and things like that. Nobody else knew that hewas in heaven, but I did. He told me.”

She said she was lucky to have had him for 30 years.“He was a blessing,” Edythe said. “He is such a hero, and I

always think it was a terrible waste.”After the long wait, his daughter, Bethany Boston Johnson,

said it was such a relief to know what finally happened to him.“We ’re extremely lucky to know,” she said. “I’m terribly sad

for all of us. As the first born, I’ve been missing my mother ter-ribly. I’d like to think they are in heaven together, hopefullysince my mom passed in 1988.”

During the service, Capt. Joshua Kim, chaplain with the 10thAir Base Wing, said he was not only a national hero, but also adecorated veteran, an obedient son, a loving father, a faithfulhusband and a legacy that continues to live on in the lives whoknew Col. Boston.

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Planning and Zoning commissionershave a couple of substantial projects inthe hopper, and the Cañon City Council ismeeting Monday to discuss one — off-street parking and loading.

“We recognize that we have a lot of pri-vately-owned parking for businesses thatare largely unoccupied,” Associate Plan-ner Mary Ann Nimmo said. “Also, the di-mension requirements of our code ex-ceed most other jurisdictions.”

When people come from other cities toplan a project for Cañon City, some of thecity’s requirements for parking spacesoften take them aback, Nimmo said. Anexample is the 30-foot wide aisle betweentwo rows of perpendicular parkingspaces. Typically, the requirement is 24to 26 feet.

“That equates to additional asphalt,which means paving money and is moreex p e n s i ve, ” Nimmo said. “The spacesizes may not necessarily need to be aslarge as they are in our requirements.”

Nimmo said city staff and planningand zoning commissioners studied nu-merous other codes from other jurisdic-tions. They also completed experimentsin the City Hall parking lot, putting downblue tape for different space dimensionsand driving different-sized vehicles in

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At Last, At PeaceBoston family buriessoldier after missingfor nearly 45 years Up with

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Group to performAug. 12-13 at CCHS

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The international cast of Up with Peo-ple is gearing up for its 2011 world tour.

Its first stop: Cañon City.Shows are 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12 and 2:30

and 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at Cañon City HighSchool, 1313 College Ave.

The organization is looking for hostfamilies to keep one or more students andstaff members from Cast B 2011 Aug. 8-15.The 100-member cast is made up of stu-dents and staff from 16 different coun-tries, ages 17 to early 30s.

“It is a great opportunity to experienceother cultures while sharing your own,”Promotion Representative AndreaThomas said.

Up with People is an international pro-gram that takes a troupe of young per-formers across the world to conduct com-munity service projects and uses the per-forming arts to deliver messages of hopeand goodwill throughout the world. Theopportunity to stay with local familiesduring their stay in each community is acenterpiece of Up with People’s 22-weekprogram, a press release said.

While families share their traditions

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Edythe Boston, right, watches as pallbearers hold a flag over her son Col. Leo Boston’s casket during his funeralFriday at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Col. Boston’s remains recently were identified after his planewent missing April 29, 1966, in Vietnam.

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Pallbearers carry the casket of Col. Leo Boston’sremains Friday during his funeral at the Air ForceAcademy in Colorado Springs.

“As we reflect on the ulti-mate sacrifice Col. Bostonhas made for our nation, weare grateful for his serviceand also mindful of thosewho are still left behind,”Kim said.

During the prayer, he saidthe family and friends arethankful that this day has fi-nally come.

“It has been a very long

time in bringing Col. Bostonh o m e, ” Kim prayed. “We ’rethankful that we can finallyunite Dorothy DeannaBoston with her husbandhere in this sacred place.”

As a part of the service, heread Ecclesiastics 3:1-8,which reminds the readerthere is a time for every-

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and out of the parking slots.“That was a real eye-opener for some

of the planning commissioners,” Nimmosaid. “Based on that feedback and fur-ther discussion with the commission,we ’ve come up with some recommenda-t i o n s. ”

The planning and zoning commission-ers and city staff also looked at howmany spaces each type of land use re-quires, to help them understand howthose spaces are being utilized. Theyconducted occupancy surveys of cate-gories of uses, such as fast food restau-rants, retails stores, medical complexesand convenience stores, among others.

“We went out at different times of theday and counted how many of the spaceswere occupied,” Nimmo said. “Thathelped us understand we are requiringquite a bit more spaces than whatseemed to be generally necessary.”

Community Development DirectorDoug Dotson said they also looked at thedifferent types of vehicles.

“What we found was that large vehi-cles; large trucks, for example, only 7percent of cars being parked were largerthan normal,” Dotson said. “Do you de-sign the parking lot for the biggest vehi-cles or do you design it for the normal ve-hicles and the others are accommodatedin some fashion? So we tried to take allthose things into account, as well.”

The recommendation going before CityCouncil on Monday is to reduce moststandard perpendicular spaces from 9feet to 8 feet wide. These changes willtake place as new structures are erected,an existing structure is enlarged or thereis a change in use of an existing structureor property that does not meet the 4.12Site Plan Review exemption criteria.

In addition, Dotson said, city staff nowis including spaces used in a drive-through business as part of the allottedparking requirements. Another proposedchange is off-street parking.

“In the past, all the parking had to goon the site,” Dotson said. “If you were ona public street, and there is public park-ing next to your use, you wouldn’t get

credit for any of that. Now, we’ve figuredout a way to actually grant credit forsome of those parking spaces in the pub-lic right-of-way.”

Other changes include motorcycleparking since four motorcycles can fill asingle car space, and credit is being giv-en to businesses that buy and install bikera c k s.

“We ’re looking at other alternativemeans of transportation, too,” Nimmos a i d.

Dotson said the commissioners andstaff tried to come up with proposed stan-dards that are reasonable, as well asmore efficient for business owners andp a t ro n s.

Though the proposals primarily are fornew structures, Nimmo said existingbusiness owners might be able to re-design their parking or even remove as-phalt to take advantage of more land-scaping prospects. Redesigning existingparking also could give business ownersthe opportunity to add additional build-ing space to the property.

Current regulations state the parkinghas to be asphalt or concrete. With newstormwater regulations, the proposedchanges include allowing parking lots tobe surfaced with alternative treatmentsthat allow infiltrations of stormwater, fol-lowing approval of the city engineer.

Other proposed changes include theparking requirements for businesses thatdo most of their commerce via the Inter-net but have an occasional walk-in cus-tomer; and, the ability of two neighbor-ing businesses to share parking.

“We are trying to create enough flexi-bility, enough reasonableness in this reg-ulation that it still will provide adequateparking,” Dotson said.

Proposed changes can be found atcanoncity.org, under the departmentslink. City Council meets at 7 p.m. Mon-day at City Hall at 128 Main St. Nimmoand Dotson encourage the public to at-tend with questions or comments.

For more information, call Nimmo at2 6 9 - 9 011 .

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and local attractions, the cast membersshare their experiences and cultures. 2010CCHS graduate Sydnee Gould joined Upwith People last year.

“I can honestly say that the dozens offamilies who have opened their homes tome during my time with Up with Peopleis one of the most meaningful and memo-rable experiences I have had,” she said ina release. “I still stay in contact withmany of them and I believe they will re-main lifelong friends.”

Gould is on a different team, and willnot be part of the August performances.

“Those with smaller children or youngteens in their home often find that the Upwith People cast members are wonderfulrole models and provide a glimpse intoother countries, cultures and traditionsthey might not often experience in CañonC i t y, ” she said.

Local host families are asked to pro-vide a bed, local transportation at the be-ginning and end of each day, as well asbreakfast and most dinners. Thomas saidthat while gone during the day partici-pating in regional learning, communityservice and show preparation, mostevenings cast members will be homewith the family to participate in their ac-tivities and interests.

Each host family will receive two com-plimentary tickets to an Up with Peoplep e r fo r m a n c e.

Up with People’s visit to Cañon City issponsored by Black Hills Energy, RoyalGeorge Bridge and Park, Cañon CitySchools and the Cañon City DailyRe c o rd.

Those interested in hosting a castmember can contact Thomas at ath-omas@upwithpeople.org or (303) 408-4143. For more information on the organi-zation, visit www.upwithpeople.org.

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thing.“There is a time to be

born, a time to die; a timeto plant and a time to up-root; ... a time for war anda time for peace,” Kimre a d.

“For most of us, we arehere to honor the ultimatesacrifice of a man, whogave his all to defend ournation for our country’sf re e d o m , ” he said. “With-out a doubt, Col. Bostondeserves every honor andevery recognition.”

But there is another sto-ry that the nation owes toBoston, which is his latewife, Dorothy DeannaBoston; his mother,Edythe; his children,Bethany, John, Stephanie;granddaughter, SydneyDanielson, other familymembers and closef r i e n d s.

“Our nation is gratefulfor your sacrifice, for yourpain and for your grief,”Kim told the family. “Wealso remember the oneswho become instantheroes for their acts ofsacrifice, but you havebeen the silent heroes thathave had to be strong, hadto be brave ... For yourloss and for your suffering,I am truly sorry.”

Prior to the service,B o s to n ’s children relatedstories of their father.

“On Christmas day 1965,a few months before Col.Boston went missing overthe jungles of Vietnam,Bethany told me a storythat her father was tryingto get all the kids into thecar to go to a Christmasmorning service,” Kim

s a i d.But the children wanted

to stay home to play withtheir new presents.

“Col. Boston scooped uphis daughter in his armsand said Bethany, youhave to be brave,” Kim re-lated the story. “That isone of the last things thatBethany remembers be-fore her father was de-ployed to Vietnam.”

After the short service,he was honored with a 21-gun salute, a flag foldingceremony with each of thechildren and his motherreceiving an Americanflag, followed by a buglerplaying “Ta p s ” and a bag-piper performing “Amaz-ing Grace.”

Boston was flying on themission when an enemyaircraft forced Boston andanother A-1E Skyraider pi-lot to divert their holding

pattern over Son LaProvince until the areawas clear, a release said.

However, when the leadair craft pilot returned tothe base, Boston’s aircraftwas not following him. Be-cause of bad weather andenemy activity in the area,military personnel werenot able to search forBoston or the aircraft, apress release said.

From that time on untilabout two months ago, noone knew what had hap-pened to him. In spite ofseveral trips to Washing-ton D.C., Deanna, prior toher death, and Edythewere never able to find outwhere Boston had disap-peared to until recentlywhen the Armed ForcesDNA Identification Labo-ratory matched Boston’sDNA with his mother’sand brother’s DNA.

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Col. Leo Boston’s granddaughter, SydneyDanielson, right; mother, Edythe Boston; daughter,Stephanie Danielson; daughter, Bethany Johnson;and son, John Boston, sit at his graveside duringthe funeral Friday at the Air Force Academy inColorado Springs.