Salazar shares stimulus impact

New Secretary of the Interior and native San Luis Valley son Ken Salazar told Valley residents on Sunday what the economic recovery package would mean to the Valley, specifically the Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve. Salazar traveled to the sand dunes on Sunday to outline local improvements that will likely be funded by the stimulus approved by Salazar’s former senate colleagues and expected to be signed by President Barack Obama in Denver today. Salazar described the recovery package as “something good for this Valley and something good for this country.” He said the Great Sand Dunes National Park and the Valley’s wildlife refuges will receive about $4 million for “shovel ready” projects, in other words projects that are ready to go when the money is there to fund them. “This is a real deal,” he said...Valley Courier