Colorado Workshop: Caring for Your Historic Home Central City, Colorado, will be celebrating National Preservation Week in style this May. The city's Historic Preservation Commission will host the first Preservation Honor Awards on Friday evening, May 16th at 6:00 p.m. The event will be held in the landmark Central City Opera House, which is currently undergoing a significant interior renovation. The evening's special guest speaker will be John Leeke, contributing editor of Old-House Journal and a nationally renown preservation specialist based in Portland, Maine. Mr. Leeke will also conduct a timely and invaluable workshop the following day, Saturday, May 17, designed specifically to assist historic home owners in analyzing their own preservation needs and discover renovation and repair techniques to preserve their investment. "It is possible to save the character of older homes and still respect a homeowner's limited time and budget." assures Leeke in a recent interview. This workshop is your opportunity to ask Leeke questions and get objective answers to all your vexing old-house problems. The workshop will include a demonstration of traditional and modern high-tech window repair methods. Leeke is a regular presenter at local and national preservation events. The fee for the one-day workshop is $25, and will be held at the Gilpin County Historical Society's Schoolhouse Museum in Central City beginning at 9:00 a.m. For more information on the Honor Awards nominations, reception or Saturday preservation workshop, phone Roxanne Eflin at City Hall in Central City, (303) 582-5251, ext. 201. For the latest info go to www.housenet.com/HistoricHomeWorks/ I want to make this workshop as useful as possible. Are there any specific topics you would like to have covered? John