As mothers around the country are honored today with flowers and cards and perhaps brunch, Casper’s Della Works has a poster full of memories and some heavy hardware on which to reflect.
Works, 72; her daughter, Barbara “Barbie” Bosco, 46; and granddaughter, Nicole Bosco, 23, ran in and finished the Walt Disney World Marathon in Florida in January.
And just for grins, Works and Barbie Bosco ran a half-marathon the day prior, in order to get a special, gold “Goofy” medal given only to finishers of both events.
“Running with my mother is always an adventure, before and after the race mostly,” Barbie Bosco laughed. “And the journey — just getting there is always interesting.”
She is a 1980 graduate of Natrona County High School and lives in Vernon Hills, Ill., with her three children and dog. The Disney was her 12th marathon.
This is the fourth marathon she has run with her mother. They also ran the Los Angeles, Pikes Peak and Green Bay marathons together — the latter in honor of their late father and husband, Larry Works, who was raised in the Green Bay, Wis., area.
“Mom started first,” Bosco said. “I thought if she can do it (run 26 miles at once), I can do it.”
Although her mother is a marathon celebrity of sorts (she’s competed in 19 marathons on three continents over 15 years), Bosco said the mother-daughter aspect of the event is never lost on her.
“Being at the finish line together is very moving,” she said. “I get choked up every time she finishes.”
Works maintains she was luckier than usual in Florida, finishing just ahead of a cutoff time for “stragglers” in 7 hours-plus.
“I stopped for so many pictures and was messing around so much that it’s lucky I finished,” Works said.

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The Green Apple Festival’s Earth Day message will be spread by the Neville Brothers,the Benevento/Russo Duo, Rose Hill Drive and the Heyday Sunday at City Park with a free show. Visit greenapplemusicfestival.com for more local venues and bands taking part in the national eight-city festival.
Yeasayer continues to bolster Brooklyn’s rep as a painfully hip epicenter of new music by looking back to the ’70s/’80s yacht rock scourge. Trust that they rock harder live. Saturday at the Bluebird Theater with Man Man.
Kimya Dawson’s critical drubbing smacks of more than a little misogyny when paired with the backlash to last year’s “Juno,” a movie heavy with her music. Dawson has never pretended to write anything but simple, melodic acoustic tunes. Tuesday at the Bluebird Theater with Angelo Spencer and L’Orchidee D’Hawai.
Ladyhawk’s animalistic approach is more Wolf Parade than Crazy Horse, but bits of both exist in the Vancouver band’s trembling, guitar-centric musings. Wednesday at the Hi-Dive with Neva Dinova and Vampire Hands.
John Wenzel: 303-954-1642 or jwenzel@denverpost.com

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This past Saturday the Chicago River once again went green for St. Patrick’s Day. Yes, Chicago folks have been doing this since 1962.
This year new evidence has come to our attention from both CNN and blog scientists. CNN says that Chicago uses a “secret orange dye,” which sounds downright sinister and makes us half expect to see a giant red M&M dumping the dye into the river. However, those at scienceblogs.com suggest the dye is nothing more than fluorescein. Either way, some in Chicago claim the river looks green without the “dye” or the fluorescein.
Photo of this weekend’s dye job above, while after the jump there is a Google map of the dye free river.
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