Some stories do not begin with sirens or speeches. They start with a simple act â and a decision not to look the other way. This one began the way a lot of things do out here in the Wet Mountain Valley: with a neighbor lending a hand. When Warren Gold, a veteran and the founder of Valor DevelopÂment, visited a rural property to help fix a cistern, he found more than a plumbing problem. He found two elderly neighbors, a veteran and his wife, quietly enduring conditions no one should face, especially not in Coloradoâs high country. No proper insulation. No safe heat source. No real protection against the long winter thatâs coming. What came next wasnât a press release. It was a promise.…