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Blog Entry 198 of 210 From the mountains to 6th Avenue
Many Evergreeners commute. It's been described as a commuter community. Accurate. So there is an etiquette to commuting. The first rule: Leave early. Even if you depart for a 9 to five job at 6:30 a.m., you will not be alone. If you like being alone on the highway, go to Montana. The second rule: Leave early If you don't get off til 5 p.m., take a book on tape, because you will be sitting in traffic near Federal and 6th, and entertainment of any kind is helpful. There are polite drivers, like me, who let others sneak in, especially in merge lanes. I try. You probably do too. The one thing I have decided that will not happen to me is that I will not be mangled in a car wreck on 6th Avenue or I-70 in either direction. What do you do to keep this promise to yourself?

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Brockner knew how to live life well

Article Contributed on: 12/7/2008 11:08:56 AM

Anyone who knew Bill Brockner may remember their first meeting - whether it was a booming "What a glorious spring morning!" phone greeting, or hearing, "Isn't this a wonderful day," if you caught him during an early morning bird count at Evergreen Lake.

A celebration of his life Dec. 6 at the Evergreen Lake House only confirmed what people loved about him.

As artist Laura Mehmert said, "He was an example of a life well lived."

Someone guessed there were 400 people at the Lake House to remember and honor Bill Brockner, born Winston William 'Bill' Brockner in 1915.

His wife, Sylvia, a cohort for 68 years, sat with her sisters, niece and a 5-year-old grandnephew at a table near the podium, soaking in the comments, sharing the memories and a few tears.

Someone commented on Bill's life list - a meticulous one - that included 754 birds.

Pastor Vera Guebert-Stewart quoted Ecclesiastes and "The tearful truth of our own goodbyes."

She said, "Sylvia and Bill worshiped in the cathedral of the pines, now he is no longer dragging his leg, he is free a man of peace and joy."

As founders of the The Evergreen Naturalists Audubon Society, the Brockners crafted a following of friends and members that now number 550.

Current president Peggy Durham said a bench had been approved to be placed somewhere around Evergreen Lake in honor of Brockner.

According to his niece, who remembered a childhood visit to 'Uncle Win and Aunt Syl's" home in Evergreen, he rose in the morning, slapped his knee and said with typical exuberance, "Let's go for a ride," before loading the family into the car for a trip to Mt. Evans.

Memories were plentiful and charming and fun at the celebration, during which one friend said, "An old birder never dies, he just finishes his life list."

To contribute to the Bill Brockner Memorial Park Bench fund, make donations marked Brockner Bench payable to TENAS P.O. Box 523, Evergreen, CO 80437.

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