AREA CLOSINGS/CANCELLATIONS

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The El Paso County Board of County Commissioners has announced that all county offices will be closed today. Also, all client services at the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment have suspended operations. As of press time, county offices are scheduled to reopen Wednesday.

"Following Lewis and Clark," presentation and meeting of the Sierra Club Pikes Peak Group, originally scheduled for 7 p.m. today, at United Methodist Church, 420 N. Nevada Ave.

MCI at Tiffany Square has been closed for the day.

All air traffic into and out of DIA and the Colorado Springs Airport has been grounded.

Back-to-school activities at Skyway Elementary and an ice cream social at Caon Elementary were canceled as were all other after school activities.

All Greyhound Bus service has been canceled for today, including service in Colorado Springs.

Pikes Peak Community College canceled its classes at Peterson Air Force Base, as the base is closed until further notice.

Fisher DeBerry's weekly press conference is canceled. A meeting was being held late this morning, headed by athletic director Randy Spetman, on what activities will be affected by the day's events.

Pete, in concert with One Side Zero, originally scheduled for 8 p.m. tonight at Colorado Music Hall, has been cancelled; 447-9797.

The 8 p.m. Crosby, Stills and Nash concert at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver tonight has been postponed.

The Citadel and Chapel Hills malls are closed today.

All roads leading to Shriever Air Force Base and NORAD have been closed. Drivers also may experience severely backed-up traffic on South Academy Boulevard near Fort Carson because all cars entering the base are being searched; consider taking another route.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts has canceled tonight's performances of "Burn the Floor" and "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change." Their number is (800) 641-1222 for any ticket refunds.

The 7:30 p.m. lecture by Kevin Danaher at Colorado College has been cancelled.

The Tony Bennett and k.d. lang concert at Fiddler's Green in Denver tonight has been postponed.

Sunday night's Emmy Awards have been postponed.

The City of Fountain offices have closed for the day and tonight's 7 p.m. City Council meeting will be rescheduled. City offices will resume normal operations on Wednesday.

Memorial Hospital HealthLink's Aromatherapy class, originally scheduled for 8:30 p.m. today, has been canceled; 444-2273.

STATEWIDE CANCELLATIONS

The following government offices, businesses closed or increased security in the wake of apparent terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.:

State Capitol, closed. Public access to building was shut, and metal detectors were set up. All meetings were canceled.

Federal courthouse in downtown Denver closed.

U.S. Customs House across from the courthouse evacuated.

All Arapahoe County offices except law enforcement closed.

Qwest Communications headquarters in downtown Denver closed, employees sent home.

The World Trade Center in downtown Denver was closed.

Several downtown Denver office buildings were locked and only people with security-card access were allowed in.

Colorado State University and The University of Colorado at Boulder increased security, but continued classes.

The Denver Water Board closed roads to the dam in Dillon and the Green Mountain Reservoir near Kremmling.

Denver-area shopping malls, including Park Meadows and Cherry Creek, were closed.

The Pepsi Center in downtown Denver canceled events.

Denver International Airport and others across the state were closed after the Federal Aviation Administration canceled flights.

Most of the 5,000 employees at the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant northwest of Denver were sent home. Security was heightened and all shipments of waste and nuclear material were halted.

The Denver Federal Center remained open, although a handful of the 30 agencies sent employees home. Security was increased.

Security was increased at all military bases.

SPORTS CANCELLATIONS

Sports events postponed because of today's terrorist attacks:

Baseball

All 15 major league games (Toronto at Baltimore, Minnesota at Detroit, Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, Boston at Tampa Bay, Cleveland at Kansas City, Seattle at Anaheim, Texas at Oakland, N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh, Montreal at Florida, Philadelphia at Atlanta, Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, San Francisco at Houston, St. Louis at Milwaukee, Colorado at Arizona, Los Angeles at San Diego).

All minor league baseball games scheduled for today.

College

Women's volleyball match between Penn State and Youngstown State scheduled for tonight.

Golf

PGA Tour canceled Thursday's starts of the World Golf Championship and two other tournaments.

Hockey

Toronto Maple Leafs postponed trip to training camp in Newfoundland. Germany's Nuremberg Ice Tigers, which has three Americans, voted against playing a game today.

Soccer

U.S. Women's Cup doubleheader scheduled for today, U.S. vs. Japan, Germany vs. China. Four Major League Soccer games scheduled for Wednesday (Dallas at D.C. United, Miami at New York-New Jersey, Columbus at Colorado and San Jose at the Los Angeles Galaxy).