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City � nancials reveal improvement Report shows 2014 o� to good start; more businesses on way By Tom Munds [email protected]

Financial information presented at a re-cent study session indicated good news for the City of Englewood.

The unoffi cial numbers from 2013 painted a favorable picture of Englewood fi nances compared to 2012 and 2014 is off to a good start.

Finance Director Frank Gryglewicz said it was easy to give a good report as he made the presentations to the Englewood City Council at the Feb. 24 study session.

The numbers will become offi cial, Gry-

glewicz said, when the annual audit of city fi nances happens later this year. However, he said, he doubted any of the numbers in the unoffi cial report will change drastically after the audit.

The report showed a $934,000 increase in city revenues over 2012. Gryglewicz said much of the revenue increase can be attrib-uted to higher sales and use tax collections, the largest source of city revenues.

The report also showed that the 2013 numbers were about $1 million higher than the sales and use taxes collected in 2012.

Another area of marked increase was collection of license and permit fees. Gry-glewicz said the revenue source was about $463,000 higher than the fees collected in 2012.

“Along with higher revenues, spending was about $201,000 less than in 2012,” the

fi nance director said. “The combination of higher revenues and lower spending means the city had an unassigned reserve of al-most $7 million.”

He said that was a favorable indication because the 2012 budget estimated 2013 end-of-the-year unassigned reserves to be about $3.6 million.

Gryglewicz also presented the January fi nancial report, which again was favorable, demonstrating that the revenues collected were $4.2 million; about $460,000 higher than those collected in January 2013.

Again, sales and use tax showed a marked increase. The report showed the city collected about $3.2 million in sales and use tax, which is about $352,000 more than during the same period the prior year.

“We had a good January report last year and February was also pretty good,” Mayor

Randy Penn said. “But we then had three months where sales and use tax collections were below the previous year’s collections. We have to keep a close eye on the fi nancial trends so we can react quickly if there is a decline in revenues.”

Penn noted that he was encouraged by the news that three new businesses also plan to locate in Englewood.

He said the Sprouts development at Bel-leview and Broadway has leased retail spac-es to Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Mattress King and Great Clips. He also said that tool company Harbor Freight has leased half of the space that was formerly occupied by Sports Authority in the CityCenter develop-ment.

“There are a lot of good things going on in Englewood and I feel the future looks good for our city,” he said.

Library children’s area redone Faceli� provides friendlier atmosphere for families By Tom Munds [email protected]

When the Englewood Public Library cel-ebrates the reopening of its children’s area from 1 to 4 p.m. March 8, festivities will in-clude a magician and face painters.

“The children’s area has undergone a major facelift so it will be more user friendly for families,” said Dorothy Hargrove, library director. “Part of the refurbishing of the area included rearranging the shelves so it is easier to fi nd the books. We also have added seating so parents and children can sit and read together.”

Work on the major refurbishing of the

children’s area began in January and was made possible by money from the bequest from the Dwyer family.

The library was opened on the fi rst fl oor of the Englewood Civic Center in 2001. Some minor repairs and improvements have been made since the library opened but the basic library layout is unchanged since the doors opened.

The $30,000 spent on the project meant crews could repaint and install new carpet in the children’s area. Also, much of the fur-niture was upgraded or replaced.

Work in the children’s area leaves a bal-ance in the bequest and Hargrove said plans are to use the remaining $70,000 on several projects, including installing a self-checkout machine in the circulation area, updating the computer lab in the career help area and creating an area for custom-ers who bring in laptops or tablets to the li-

brary to use the wireless connection to the Internet.

The director said that the services Engle-wood provides, like libraries around the world, has been steadily changing.

“Today, about 10 percent of our circula-tion is for electronic or digital magazines, audio recordings or e-books,” Hargrove said. “We have also seen a big increase in the number of people coming to the library to use computers.”

There are 24 computer positions in the Englewood library. To make the computers available to more customers, a user is lim-ited to a 45-minute session. But, if there is no one waiting for a vacancy, the user is al-lowed to continue to use the computer.

“All 24 computer positions are full most of the time,” Hargrove said. “Often, we have that many names on the list waiting to use a computer.”

The Englewood Public Library is located on the ground fl oor of the Englewood Civic Center at 1000 Englewood Parkway. The li-brary is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.

For information about the library and its services call 303-762-2550 or visit the li-brary home page by going to the city web-site at www.englewoodgov.com, clicking on the department pull-down menu and click-ing on the library tab.

The Englewood Public Library’s children’s area has undergone a major facelift. A grand reopening is planned for March 8 to celebrate the refurbishing of the area that now has a smaller front desk as well as areas designed for parents and their children to read together. Courtesy photo

Sears set to retire as city manager Will step down Sept. 1 a� er 17 years of service in position By Tom Munds [email protected]

Englewood City Manager Gary Sears has announced his plans to retire.

“After a great deal of thought about the subject, I want to announce that I plan to retire effective Sept. 1,” he said at the March 3 city council meeting, while handing a re-tirement letter to councilmembers. “I have been in municipal public management in Colorado for 43 years and, for the last 17 years, I have had the privilege of serving as Englewood’s city manager.”

He said he and his wife Donna have discussed the subject and agreed it was time to make the decision. He added that he had in-formed his staff and direc-tors at the city department of his decision. However, the decision had been kept a se-cret and those at the meeting were gener-ally surprised by the announcement.

In his letter, Sears wrote that he has en-joyed the opportunity to be of service to Englewood and to have played a role in im-proving the city in numerous ways.

“As a professional manager and, accord-ing to the ethics of the International City Managers Association, I will not participate in the selection process for my replace-ment,” he said.

He added that he is willing to work with the city council and staff during the transi-tion period.

Mayor Randy Penn told the council that work to establish a process for the search for a new city manager would begin imme-diately.

Sears accepted the job as Englewood City Manager in 1996. He directed the city during the arrival of the Southwest Corri-dor Light Rail line, the successful effort to create a transit-oriented development, the demolition of the Cinderella City shopping mall and the construction of Englewood Civic Center.

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Dreams over time, one at a timeHe has always dreamed.Of what could be.When he was 8, picking strawberries in

the fields of his Mexican town.When, at 12, he left home for the big

city to sell popsicles and snow cones to help his parents provide for their family.

When, at 17, he walked from Tijuana over the mountain range into California, wanting the American dream.

“Era muy triste — la pobreza,” he says. The poverty — it was very sad. “And it made me very sad. My dreams were different.”

What he saw was a life of possibility — and music.

Singing.Performing.Applause.And although it may not be exactly the

original dream, what Ruben Escalera has now, at 54, is close enough to make him happy.

By most days, Ruben is a school custodian who takes pride in keeping his Douglas County high school neat, clean, ready for the students who fill its halls. Other days, he trades his working polo shirt for a crisp button-down, his white baseball cap for a black cowboy hat, and steps onto a stage to croon norteño music in a deep, resonant voice before crowd-packed venues in several Mexican states.

He is a wiry, compact man, a divorced father of three with brushes of gray in his sideburns and a closely trimmed beard and mustache. He walks with a measured step, and speaks with quiet assurance born of devout faith that seeks good in what comes his way.

“Gracias a Dios, nunca me di por vencido,” he says. Thanks be to God, I

never gave up. “Luché, luché, luché, luché.” He fought, always.And there was much to fight.He lived in Corona, a rural town in

Michoacán, a state just west of Mexico City. He was one of 13 children of a homemaker mother and a father who did everything from plumbing to bricklaying and construction.

Some of his brothers cut sugar cane; Ruben did, too. Mostly he picked straw-berries with two of his sisters. He’d arrive at the field at 7 in the morning and pick for an hour, then head to school. At noon, he’d leave school and return to the fields for another two hours, before finishing out the afternoon with play and home-work — “the typical life of a boy of 8 years old.”

Because he had to leave school to help his father, he repeated first grade four times. He never made it to second grade.

“Es una tristeza,” he says softly. “It is a sadness.”

That reality derailed an early dream to be a priest, to study in a seminary. In-stead, at 12, he left home for Mexico City to sell popsicles and snow cones. He lived with seven others who rented a house together.

“I believed that was the best way I

could help my parents,” he says.But another dream — the one in which

he was a singer — stayed quietly alive.It was born in his home, among the

instruments dispersed in corners — the guitar, the violin, the guitarrón of the ma-riachi tradition. His father played them all. His mother sang with “a precious voice.” And his brothers and he joined in also.

“Nos traían esa herencia,” he says. They gave us that heritage.

And much happiness.At 9, he had won his first singing com-

petition at the local theater, the first of many such performances in those young years.

But at 17, searching for a better life, he crossed the border illegally to join his brother in Los Angeles. He washed dishes and cars, worked in metal and carpet factories. He also learned to play the bass guitar and joined a mariachi group that performed in Mexican neighborhood nightclubs. It became a second, welcome source of income.

His voice, smooth and sonorous, brought him work in variety shows in Los Angeles and Las Vegas on long weekends.

When he married at 25, he turned to norteño music, most comparable to American country music, Ruben says. And for seven years he performed with a band. During that time, in 1986, Ron-ald Reagan’s immigration policy, which provided amnesty to 3 million illegal im-migrants, opened the door for Ruben to become a legal resident.

But then came the “sickness in his throat.” Cancer. He stopped performing for two years to treat it, then joined an-other band, the most successful one, with

which he toured throughout the U.S. and Mexico for four years.

In 1999, the cancer returned. And “with all the pain in my soul, I had to leave the band.” For much of two years, he commu-nicated only by writing, praying that God would let him keep his voice. Eventually, his throat healed.

That twist in the road, however, brought him to Colorado and to the job he now holds and which, he says, he loves.

Six years ago, working hard to improve his English, he became a U.S. citizen.

Five years ago, he began to sing again.The first time he performed, he cried.

“It was a very big emotion, very big, very big. … The people, they liked my work, accepted my style. … I was happy.”

He calls himself “El Vale de Micho-acán,” after the nickname his late father called him as a child — val-ay, buddy. Two to three times a year he heads to Mexico to perform.

Life is good. He is content.But he harbors one more dream, to

one day dedicate himself only to his music.

Dreams are important, he says.“When you know you can be someone,

but you don’t have the means, well, it is dreams that one uses to fight.”

Like Ruben did.Un sueño, one dream, at a time.To listen to Ruben Escalera

sing, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWysVfyFmog.

Ann Macari Healey’s column about people, places and issues of everyday life appears every other week. She can be reached at [email protected] or 303-566-4110.

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Englewood Fire Chief Andy Marsh briefed the city council at the Feb. 24 study session about options regarding the future of the city’s fire department.

“The status quo is not an option because of the expensive need to upgrade equip-ment and facilities,” Marsh said. “If the council decision is for Englewood to remain an independent department there must be plans to address the needs to update and upgrade equipment and facilities.”

After a lengthy discussion, the council consensus was to meet again in the near fu-ture to discuss the result of evaluations of ways to sustain a city fire department which would include upgrading equipment and facilities, plus providing the desired level of training opportunities.

Chief Marsh prepared a draft letter to the Denver Fire Department letting them know the city council consensus was to prepare a more detailed plan for sustaining the city’s department. The letter also thanked Den-ver for its proposal and letting them know Englewood wasn’t interested in additional discussion of contracted services.

Marsh also prepared a draft letter to South Metro Fire Rescue Authority noting that the council wants more information on how Englewood could sustain its own fire

department. The letter also noted that the study of options could lead to additional discussions with the authority about con-tracted fire and ambulance services.

The city has been exploring options for the future of the fire department since 2012.

“We joined with Littleton Fire Depart-ment for a cooperative feasibility study,” Marsh told the council. “We received the report in January 2013 that offered several

alternatives, including an Englewood-Lit-tleton merger.”

Each department continued to look at the different aspects of the report. Then, in October 2013, Englewood and Littleton re-ceived an unsolicited proposal from South Metro Fire Rescue Authority regarding the feasibility of Englewood and Littleton join-ing the authority.

In February, the Denver Fire Department sent a proposal to contract with Englewood to provide fire and ambulance services for the city.

The fire chief presented the pros and cons of each proposal. For example, if the city decided to become part of the author-ity, all the Englewood firefighters would be-come part of the South Metro department at their current position. If Englewood ac-cepted the Denver proposal, all Englewood

fire department personnel would join Den-ver’s department as firefighters.

Each proposal would result in changes in ambulance services to Englewood. Con-tracting with Denver would mean Denver Health would assign an ambulance to the city and costs would be higher. South Met-ro’s ambulance service was similar in costs to the current Englewood services.

Another issue was both proposals would replace the Jefferson station and would not staff the Acoma and the Tejon stations. Both proposals stated that the departments would respond with equipment from their stations located nearby to calls now cov-ered by Englewood’s Acoma and Tejon sta-tions. South Metro would want Englewood to pay about $5 million to build a new fire station. Denver didn’t specifically address costs of the new station.

Councilmember Bob McCaslin said the closure of the two stations will increase re-sponse times to Englewood addresses.

“We don’t know about response times under the proposals,” Marsh said. “We would have to do a study.”

The discussion then turned to the next step.

“I talked to quite a few firefighters,” Councilmember Steve Yates said. “The gen-eral opinion was, if the city decides to go with the status quo that most would look to leave Englewood. However, if the city has a plan to sustain the department, most of the firefighters I talked to said they would remain in Englewood.”

Mayor Randy Penn said Englewood has an excellent fire department and he would like to upgrade equipment and facilities. But, if the decision is to go forward with maintaining a quality fire department in Englewood, there would have to be plans on how to pay for the upgrades.

“I spent the day with one of the fire shifts and they talked about this issue,” he said. “Generally, they want an answer on what the city plans to do and they feel that deci-sion needs to be made soon.”

Englewood city council agreed that the current status quo can’t be maintained because of cost and is looking at options to maintain Englewood’s fire department rather than contracting with other agencies for fire services. File photo


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CRIME REPORT Failed robbery attempt

A man with a gun ordered an employee to open a safe then left the story empty-handed when the gunman was told the silent alarm had been triggered.

The employee, who works for a busi-ness on the 4100 block of South Broadway, reportedly told offi cers at the scene that a Hispanic man with a black handgun in his waistband had ordered the register and the safe to be opened around 1:10 p.m. Feb. 25.

According to the police report, when the would-be robber was told the silent alarm had been triggered, he ran out of the store without getting any money.

The suspect was described as about 20

years old, 6-feet, 1-inch tall and weighing about 200 pounds. He was wearing a gray hoodie and white or tan cargo pants. Offi -cers searched the area but were not able to locate anyone with a matching description.

Woman stabbedEnglewood police offi cers arrested a

26-year-old man who allegedly stabbed a woman around 1:35 a.m. March 1 during a disturbance in an apartment in the 3500 block of South Cherokee Street.

According to the report, witnesses told police a woman was heard screaming and later, seen being helped into a car that left before the offi cers arrived. When offi cers

did arrive on location, they found a trail of blood leading from the apartment to the street. Detectives took over the investiga-tion and later found a 22-year-old woman being treated for a stab wound at a local hospital.

The man arrested is being held at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Detention Facility. He could face a number of charges including assault.

Store robbedPolice are continuing an investigation

into the Feb. 28 robbery of a store on the 3900 block of South Broadway that in-volved the assault of a store employee.

Englewood offi cers launched the in-vestigation around 7:45 p.m. the evening of the incident. According to the police report, a masked man went into the store, showed a black and silver handgun and demanded the store clerk open the case register.

During the robbery, the suspect report-edly shoved the gun into the left side of the clerk’s face, injuring him. He then took money and ran from the store. He was reportedly wearing a purple hooded sweatshirt, black ski mask, tan pants and white shoes. Offi cers searched the area but didn’t fi nd anyone matching the suspect’s description. Detectives are continuing the investigation.


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opinions / yours and ours

Senate-race shockwaves come with territoryWhen U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner changed

course last week from re-election mode to pursuit of the Senate, it was a reminder of just how critical Colorado is in the national political landscape.

Gardner was well on his way to being voted back to Washington in the 4th Con-gressional District, a Republican strong-hold made up of farming-based eastern plains counties and conservative Denver suburbs. The congressman’s decision was a personal gamble — if he loses, he’s out of a job — but not so much for the GOP, which seeks to regain control of the upper house.

For the Republicans, it was simply put-ting their best foot forward. The 39-year-old Gardner, labeled a “rising star” in the party in virtually every media report, gives the GOP a chance against Democratic incumbent Mark Udall. That’s something that couldn’t be said with any confidence

about the previous field of candidates, which included Weld County District At-torney Ken Buck.

Meanwhile, Buck has shifted his sights to Gardner’s House seat, which, unless a high-profile Republican primary challeng-er emerges, he should be able to garner.

The maneuvering strikes us as shrewd, but with Colorado’s primary elections still nearly four months away and the general election eight months off, it’s enough to give some the purple-state blues.

Indeed, until the first Tuesday in No-vember, it’s going to be all politics, all the time in this battleground state. If you’re

squeamish, you might want to look away as:

• Republican Congressman Mike Coffman wages a fight for his political life against Democrat Andrew Romanoff, Colorado’s former speaker of the House. The race is for the 6th Congressional Dis-trict seat, a post that represents residents of Aurora, Centennial, Highlands Ranch and Littleton, among other areas. Like the Senate battle, it is one that looms large on both major parties’ national radar, and campaigning is already at a fever pitch.

• Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper works to fend off a Republican challenger chosen from among a slew of contenders. The field already includes former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo and Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler. It may soon include former Congressman Bob Beauprez, who, as of this writing, hadn’t announced a run

but reportedly was very close to doing so. His entry would certainly enliven the race and perhaps give the GOP a better shot at unseating Hickenlooper, which if achieved, would be a coup celebrated by Republi-cans across the country.

• Republican lawmakers, fueled by the frustration of taking a pounding in con-secutive sessions, pull no punches in their attempt to take back the state Legislature. Many issues will be discussed, but make no mistake, the centerpiece is the Second Amendment. The GOP will try to turn gun control legislation passed by the state’s Democratic lawmakers in 2013 against them, and national party leaders on both sides will be watching. This could get nasty.

There’s an old phrase, one we embrace, that says, “All politics is local.” To that, given the current political climate, we add, “…unless you’re in Colorado.”

our view

Seeking significance in a signatureI have worked very hard on my signa-

ture. Have you? It’s imperative to have a snappy signature, if you are an artist.

I understood this pretension at a very young age, so once a year, I signed the blank pages in the front of my dictionary. If I had amounted to anything big as an art-ist, those pages would be worth some good money now.

The signatures perceptively changed little by little every year. The signatures I use now have been in use for about 35 years.

I have two signatures, no, three. When I sign one of those credit card screens, I just draw a horizontal line. I have seen people try to spell out their name diligently, as if the screen can tell if you are a forger.

I sign “cm smith” on checks, letters, and forms. I sign “cms” on all of my artwork.

I took a calligraphy workshop at the Denver Art Museum. A very petite Asian woman was the instructor. The class was full, and I had a good time because I ap-preciate calligraphy. I try to include flowing line work in all of my paintings, and that includes my signature.

I watch “Pawn Stars.” Periodically some-one comes in with a celebrity’s autograph. One guy had Chuck Berry’s signature on a cheap guitar and wanted thousands of dollars.

If I inherited autographs, fine. Other-wise I would never ask for anyone’s auto-graph, or be an autograph collector. I have said so before. I just don’t get it.

Why would I want the autograph of someone who doesn’t even know me?

People have asked me to sign my book for them. I sign “cms.” I don’t add anything else, like, “Bon voyage, Omar and Flo.”

Picasso had a great signature. He signed “Picasso” on everything he did, and he did a lot. His birth name on a canvas was out of the question. Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trini-dad Ruiz y Picasso.

Artist Oscar Kokoschka signed his paint-ings “O. K.”Georgia O’Keeffe didn’t sign her paintings on the front. “Would you sign your face?” she said.

Signatures have become an after-thought, because cursive has become an afterthought. About the only time that

some of us handwrite anything, is when we sign our names. Everything else is done on a computer.

A signature can give you a heads up about someone. In “L. A. Story,” Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Sandy, signs her name like this: “SanDee*.” I would excuse myself and leave by the lavatory window.

Freshmen in my drawing classes had the largest signatures, and they liked to sign their names, not discreetly on a cor-ner, but right up there next to the image.

Advanced drawing students knew bet-ter, and kept it simple, in a corner.

What are the world’s most valuable au-tographs? If you have Neil Armstrong’s you have a very good investment. Babe Ruth’s went for $150,000 in 2005.

There are only six existing signatures belonging to William Shakespeare. You’re looking at $3,000,000 or more, if you own one. Shakespeare’s signature is the most valuable one in the world.

“Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s signature is highly prized as well, partly because he couldn’t write.

It always amuses me when I see a celeb-rity or an athlete sign something. It is often done without looking.

I think Stephen Wright signs his name with invisible ink. You can make invisible ink right at home. Squeeze a lemon into a bowl and add a few drops of water. Write something on a piece of white paper with a cotton swab that was dipped into the lemon juice. Let it dry. When the piece of paper is held up to a light, you will be able to read the message.

Mae West had another thought about all of this. “A man’s kiss is his signature.”

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at [email protected].

letter to the editorThere is help available

Four suicides in 11 days is a truly hor-rifying statistic.

Coroner Lora Thomas reports that al-though there is no connection between the cases, in her experience there is almost al-ways an underlying mental illness. Suicide and mental illness are not subjects that are comfortable for people to discuss. Parents of children with mental illness live with chaos, fear and feelings of isolation as they attempt to maneuver the fragmented men-tal health care system in search for help.

EMPOWER Colorado is a group, found-ed in 2000, that hosts two monthly parent support meetings in the south metro area, meeting on the first and third Thursday of every month, from 6-8p.m. at Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health, 155 Inverness Drive West. We collaborate with other

organizations, such as NAMI (National Alli-ance on Mental Illness) Arapahoe/Douglas, NAMI Colorado, Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network, and the Colorado Depart-ment of Education.

We don’t know that we can prevent suicides, but the more information families have, the more we can help educate them and offer other resources. We can offer them hope; something many families don’t have. Knowing that there are other families who are struggling with the same issues is very empowering.

For more information, please contact 866-213-4631 or [email protected].

Carol Villa, Highlands RanchDebi Kinder, Highlands Ranch

EMPOWER board members and family support advocates

Losing the little things, finding the big things

It seems as over the past 12 months I have lost or misplaced a half-dozen cellphone chargers. Whether it is the wall charger or the car charger, they just seem to disappear from the wall, my car, my backpack, or my mind. Regardless of where they went, the result is that I find myself right back in the store purchasing another one.

Maybe it’s just my memory getting slower and I just can’t remember where I placed them. Perhaps I have left my energy source in any number of power outlets in hotels or airports along the way. All I do know is that they were considered lost and then out of necessity, replaced.

Well wouldn’t you know it? At least half of them were found in a recent reorganiza-tion of my home and office. So for now I am flush with chargers and ready for tech-nological mobility once again. And there was much rejoicing.

Now phone chargers and other small miscellaneous items that get lost are one thing, and if not found they can usually be replaced. We may experience some minor heartburn and headaches, however we usually get past those in a very brief period of time. It becomes a little harder when we think about other things we have lost along the way like relationships, friendships, faith, hope and love.

If we only put as much time and ef-fort into finding those lost relationships, mending friendship fences, and restoring hope and faith as we did in finding our cellphone chargers and other small and less meaningful items, I truly believe there would be even more rejoicing.

Now a teenager may argue that their

cellphone charger is right up there with the five food groups, oxygen, and money on the scale of importance. I mean have you ever been on a long car ride with a teenag-er when their cell phone ran out of power? They go from happily texting to misery in about 10 seconds.

I was fortunate to have found some of my “little” things like my chargers as my home and office were reorganized. Now it has left me thinking about taking the time, putting in the extra effort to reach out to lost relationships and friends who I have been out of touch with for far too long. It has re-energized my belief system as I reor-ganize and recollect my passion for hope, encouragement, faith and love.

These relationships were not neces-sarily lost, I would say more misplaced for a period of time. And at the moment, knowing things can be lost, but that they can also be found, the strategy now has to become focused on keeping and maintain-ing them so they do not get lost again.

The keys are intention, focus, desire, communication and commitment. This means we are purposeful, these are priori-ties, we want the outcomes to improve, we

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OBITUARIES

Former Englewood resident Anita Noel died of natural causes on Feb. 16 at the Mantey Heights Nursing Home in Grand Junction, Colorado. She was 96.

Born Anita Catherine Bennett on Dec. 28, 1917 in Bushkill, PA, she was the youngest of three children by George and Cynthia Bennett.

Anita graduated from E. Stroudsburg High School in 1934 and spent most of her younger days helping her parents run a string of what were then called “tourist hotels” in the Pocono Mountains in and around Bushkill.

She moved to Maryland in the early days of WWII to work at the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company near Baltimore helping to build B-26 bombers. It was at Martin plant that she met her future hus-band, Tom Noel, and the couple married in 1943.

Following the war, Anita left work to raise her two children: Patrick, born in 1946; and Cathy, born in 1948.

In 1959, the family moved to Colorado where Tom Noel had been transferred by Martin (by then known as Martin-

Marietta; and no called Lockeed-Martin) to the company’s Waterton Canyon facility which manufactured the Titan ICBM.

Englewood became Anita’s home for the next 42 years.

During that era, Anita found employment in a variety of part-time jobs. Her favorite, however, was the one at Cherry Hills Country Club. She worked the Club’s lounge for a number of years as a cocktail waitress and once served the famed golfer Arnold Palmer an “Arnold Palmer” (iced tea and lemonade) when the club hosted the PGA Open tournament in the early 1960’s. Also at Cher-ry Hills, she met Broad-way musical star Ethel Merman when that lady was married to Denver airline tycoon Robert Six. The two became friendly and Anita was often hired by Ms. Merman to work the couple’s private par-ties at their Cherry Hills

mansion. Anita was fond of saying that “I always asked Ethel if there really was “No Business Like Show Business” (Mer-man’s signature song from her hit musical “An-nie Get Your Gun”)? And Ethel would always say, ‘No, there isn’t… except for marrying a million-aire.’’’

Anita’s hobbies included photography, antique refinishing, bowling and knitting. She faithfully attended Sunday Mass at St. Louis Catholic Church and in her later years volunteered at the Malley Senior Center teaching other seniors knitting and crochet. In 2001, she left Englewood and moved to the tiny town of Collbran on the West Slope to be closer to family.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother Robert; her sister Ione; and her husband Tom Noel, who passed away in 1974.

She is survived by her son Patrick Noel of Collbran, Colorado; her daughter Cathy (Noel) Ruhl, of Pinebluff, Arkan-sas; grandson P.J. Ruhl of Munroe, Louisiana; and numerous great-grand-children.

NOELAnita Noel

1917-2014

Senate-race shockwaves come with territorybut reportedly was very close to doing so. His entry would certainly enliven the race and perhaps give the GOP a better shot at unseating Hickenlooper, which if achieved, would be a coup celebrated by Republi-cans across the country.

• Republican lawmakers, fueled by the frustration of taking a pounding in con-secutive sessions, pull no punches in their attempt to take back the state Legislature. Many issues will be discussed, but make no mistake, the centerpiece is the Second Amendment. The GOP will try to turn gun control legislation passed by the state’s Democratic lawmakers in 2013 against them, and national party leaders on both sides will be watching. This could get nasty.

There’s an old phrase, one we embrace, that says, “All politics is local.” To that, given the current political climate, we add, “…unless you’re in Colorado.”

Losing the little things, finding the big things

cellphone charger is right up there with the five food groups, oxygen, and money on the scale of importance. I mean have you ever been on a long car ride with a teenag-er when their cell phone ran out of power? They go from happily texting to misery in about 10 seconds.

I was fortunate to have found some of my “little” things like my chargers as my home and office were reorganized. Now it has left me thinking about taking the time, putting in the extra effort to reach out to lost relationships and friends who I have been out of touch with for far too long. It has re-energized my belief system as I reor-ganize and recollect my passion for hope, encouragement, faith and love.

These relationships were not neces-sarily lost, I would say more misplaced for a period of time. And at the moment, knowing things can be lost, but that they can also be found, the strategy now has to become focused on keeping and maintain-ing them so they do not get lost again.

The keys are intention, focus, desire, communication and commitment. This means we are purposeful, these are priori-ties, we want the outcomes to improve, we

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open up and maintain lines of commu-nication, and that our dedication to our effort to finding what was lost and keeping it is sincere.

Have you ever lost something? Have you found it? Is it now in safe keeping? I would love to hear all about it at [email protected] and when we find and keep what once was lost it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of High-lands Ranch, the former President of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/Founder of www.candogo.com.

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Norton

Annual event honors businesses, individualsEnglewood Chamber gala celebrates membersBy Tom [email protected]

A couple speeches and a few jokes set the festive tone for the annual Greater En-glewood Chamber of Commerce Business Gala on Feb. 26.

City Manager Gary Sears, surprised when he was asked to speak on behalf of the city, thanked the chamber for all of its activities and said the city is stronger be-cause of the contribution of the business community.

Mayor Randy Penn echoed similar senti-ments.

“We have received a report about the city’s improving finances, including im-proving revenues,” he said. “That is because of you, the business community, because you provide customers the items they need and collect the sales taxes that are so much a part of the city’s revenues. We appreciate all that you do for the city.”

Penn said the city strives to be business friendly and noted that a number of new businesses are soon to open in Englewood.

Chamber president Jason White pre-sented all but one of the awards as he was

honored as Chamber Member of the Year. Other awards went to: Dave Cheadle’s City Center Community as the Community Or-ganization of the Year, About Time Fitness as Emerging Business of the Year, and Sam’s Automotive as the Business of the Year.

Englewood Mayor Randy Penn speaks to the audience at the Feb. 26 Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce Business Gala. The mayor thanked the businesses for all they do for the city and the chamber handed out a number of awards. Photo by Tom Munds

Chamber honors Tom MundsEnglewood Herald reporter thanked for years of serviceStaff report

The Greater Englewood Cham-ber of Commerce honored long-time Englewood Herald reporter Tom Munds with its Lifetime Achievement Award during its an-nual banquet on Feb. 27.

“If you want to know what’s going on in Englewood, Tom’s the guy to ask,” said Jason White, chamber president.

Munds is a familiar sight in En-glewood, having covered it for 37 years with camera, pen and note-book at the ready. The burly old-school reporter describes himself as “mean, grouchy and hard to get along with,” but he’s always quick with a pithy retort or humorous vignette on any topic.

Munds began his journalism career during his 21 years in the U.S. Air Force, which included service in the Vietnam War. He eventually landed as a public in-formation officer at Lowry Air Force Base, writing for the base’s newspaper and freelancing for the Sentinel chain.

He retired from the service on Dec. 31, 1976, and went on to complete his journalism degree at Metropolitan State University in Denver.

In 1977, the Sentinel chain hired him to report on and shoot photos of high-school sports at nine schools, including Engle-wood High School. The beat was eventually pared down to schools in Englewood and neighboring

Littleton. In 1986, he was assigned to cover the entire community of Englewood, which he’s been doing ever since.

Today, the Herald is part of a group of weeklies known as Colo-rado Community Media.

When he isn’t working for the paper, Munds is actively involved in his church, often participating in humanitarian missions. He en-joys traveling, visiting places like Nicaragua, Israel and Western Eu-rope.

In November 2012, he checked an item off of his bucket list by traveling to Kenya on a photo sa-fari.

“Daily we were also on the lookout for elusive animals like lions, cheetahs and leopards,” he wrote of his journey. “Thus, each day was an adventure as we trav-eled the roads seeking to get the opportunity to take good photo-

graphs. Even so, a couple good photos were missed because I was so fascinated by the beauty of the animals I didn’t focus and click the shutter.”

Family is also very important to him, and he still misses his wife,

Alva, who died on Feb. 3, 2011.He met her in May 1958 on a

Greyhound bus as a young Air Force Airman First Class. They were engaged 10 days later, and married on Aug. 18 of that year in Mobile, Ala. They had three chil-

dren, Gayle, Martha and Thomas.“My wife and three children

at home, they were my support, they were my rock,” Munds told the chamber members. “And I’ve made a lot of very, very good friends in this community.”

Englewood Herald reporter Tom Munds accepts a Lifetime Achievement Award Feb. 27 from Jason White, president of the Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce. Photos by Jennifer Smith

The Lifetime Achievement Award handed out by the Englewood Chamber of Commerce was awarded to the Herald’s Tom Munds.


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Cigarette sales could be banned for those under 21Some lawmakers call bipartisan effort a ‘nanny state’ measure By Vic [email protected]

Cigarette sales to persons under 21 would be illegal under a bipartisan bill that is making its way through the Legislature.

But whether the measure becomes law is another story as the effort is certain to receive push back from members of the bill sponsor’s own party who say the prohibition is an example of “nanny state” government.

State Rep. Cheri Gerou, R-Evergreen, calls her effort to make it more difficult for kids to smoke “a battle worth having.”

Right now, persons who are at least 18 can purchase and possess cigarettes. That would change under Gerou’s bill.

The bill provides a grandfather clause for those who are 18 when the law would go into effect on July 1.

“We’re not going to change the habits of people 18, that’s why we put in the grandfather clause,” Gerou said. “The point of the bill is to take it out of high schools.”

Gerou said that 90 percent of people who smoke into adulthood pick up the habit when they are young teenag-ers. Gerou’s bill aims to put a dent in the number of youths who begin smoking at young ages.

“Granted, they’re still going to find out a way to get (cig-arettes), but if we can diminish that, that’s the point of the bill,” she said.

Gerou said the bill could be amended to allow persons under 21 to smoke if they have a military I.D.

A Senate Republican, Steve King of Grand Junction, and two Democrats have joined as co-sponsors of the bill, which recently passed the Democrat majority House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee following a party-line vote.

The bill has to pass through a couple more committees before it reaches the House floor.

But some Republicans see the bill as government over-reach.

“It just seems to me that we’re trying to prohibit each and every thing that has been the norm in society for some time,” said Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs. “It’s the equivalent to prohibition to me.”

Water conservation plan discussedEnglewood seeks to change flat-rate customers over to metersBy Tom [email protected]

Englewood is dealing with the state’s concerns about aspects of the city water conservation plan and has plans to change flat-rate customers over to meters.

“The state wanted us to put in a system to force residents on a flat-rate water bill to install water meters,” Stu Fonda, utility director, told the city council at a Feb. 10 study session. “We recommend a campaign to enlist volunteers now on flat-rate water billing who will agree to have a water meter installed.

“The goal is 100 in a year and 250 in five years. … Under the proposal, the city will install a meter in a home now on flat-rate billing with a system for the homeowner to pay for the meter and installation without a large single transaction.”

Traditionally, the meter rate is less than the flat rate. Fonda said the e-meter assist program has the homeowner continue to pay the flat rate and deduct the difference in the bill if it had been charged at the meter rate. The difference is applied to the cost of the meter and its installation. Once the me-ter and installation bills are paid, the home-owner then is billed according to the water meter reading.

He said there are still about 1,700 homes in Englewood on a flat-rate billing system for water. John Bock, utilities manager of administration, said a water meter to be installed inside the house costs the home-owner $251.

“If the homeowner has the pit and wants the meter installed outside, we use a small-er meter and the cost is $140,” he said. “If the city has to dig the pit, the meter and in-stallation will cost $380.”

He said all meters the city installed read electronically from outside the home.

“Once the city council approves the changes to the water conservation plan and the state approves it, we will begin seek-

ing volunteers to have meters installed,” the utility director said. “We expect to start the campaign to sign up volunteers in late spring or early summer.”

Mayor Randy Penn’s home has been on a flat rate for years and he has volunteered to be part of the city’s effort to eventually have all homes in the city on water meters.

In the 1960s, all Englewood homes were on a flat-rate billing system. Bock said it was probably at least 50 years ago when city workers talked with residents to estimate water use and set the flat rate for the water bill.

“At the time flat rates were set, many homeowners had children living with them so they used more water,” he said. “We of-ten find that now, it is just husband and wife at the home. When we put a meter in a home like that, we find the meter bill is far less than the flat rate.”

Fonda said the city launched the effort to convert all homes to meters about 1985. At that time, there were 9,000 homes on the flat-rate billing system.

The city rules required that, when a

home is sold, a water meter must be in-stalled. Also, Englewood instituted a pro-gram that would install a water meter at the homeowner’s request.

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Bill aims to help out ‘turnaround’ schools Replaces unfunded School Academy Leadership Program By Vic Vela [email protected]

State Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, D-Arvada, is hoping to lend a hand in turning around struggling schools, through a bill that is making its way through the Legislature.

“We see this as an important issue that needs to be addressed right away,” Zenz-inger said. “All of these schools and districts are on the clock.”

Schools are designated turnaround sta-tus for factors that include standardized testing scores and graduation rates that are not up to par.

The schools are then given fi ve years to greatly improve their performance or else face state intervention, which could lead to schools having to shut their doors.

Senate Bill 124 would set up a grant pro-gram that would assist in leadership train-ing for school administrators and teachers at schools that are on turnaround status, in hopes of getting them on the right track.

Zenzinger said in a recent meeting with reporters that 16 school districts are on turnaround status, which impacts about 100,000 students across the state.

“It’s a very disruptive process to commu-nities and it’s very important to do whatever we can before they hit the clock,” she said.

The bill sets up the “School Turnaround Leaders Development Program,” which will contract with experts who would award grants that provide training to underper-forming schools and school districts.

The new program replaces the current School Leadership Academy Program. The Legislature created the existing program in 2008 and it was meant to provide pro-fessional development training to public school principals.

However, the board that was put in place to oversee the SLA program hasn’t met in three years, nor has the program been funded.

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The bill does not require turnaround schools to seek assistance through the pro-gram, only those that see the program as a good fi t.

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The bill now heads to a separate com-mittee before it receives a vote by the full Senate.

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Downtown Littleton was decked out in purple and gold Feb. 28 and March 1 as crowds bustled around checking out what the dining establishments were offering during the Historic Downtown Littleton Merchants’ Mardi Gras celebration. At Olde Towne Tavern, the catfish po’boys were a hit, and customers were enchanted by an array of beads and trinkets supplied by Reinke Bros. Halloween and Costume Store. Here, Julianne Fiedler, left, helps Gilbert Lucero and Ginger Saint-Amour ponder their bead choices. Photo by Jennifer Smith

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Eye of the Camera Exhibition opensLittleton show running through March 30By Sonya [email protected]

“Yguazu (Big Water),” a misty, mystical, magical color photograph by Fernando Bozo was awarded “Best of Show, Color” by juror Jeffrey Rupp in the 48th Annual Eye of the Camera Exhibition.

“It stood out from the beginning,” said Rupp of the photo taken at dusk on the multiple falls on the Yguazu River, a Unesco Heritage Site that touches Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

When the photo was shot, it had been raining, the river was about 10 times its av-erage volume, and it started to rain again hard just after he got his exposure —which gives him a reason to return, he figures. One can see the numerous smaller falls and the path of the river dividing Argentina and Brazil.

He and his wife said at the exhibits re-ception at the Littleton Museum that family members they were visiting were so apolo-getic about the rain, but they figure it was good, after all, with this award.

The Boulder resident, who works in Lone Tree, says he is an amateur who has photographed nature and wildlife in Africa, Australia, South America, etc. He “generally finds inspiration in and around Colorado — whether it is the Rocky Mountain National Park, Mount Evans, Yellowstone — or at the Boulder Reservoir.

There were 113 photographers who en-tered 328 images for this always-popular show. Of those, Rupp selected 76 photos by 60 photographers for a lively, inviting exhibit. In addition to jurying the show at the Littleton Museum, Rupp owns the Den-ver School of Photography, with locations in the Santa Fe Arts District and Park Hill,

where he teaches at all levels and has a gal-lery.

Other awards were: Best of Show Black and White: “Kanarra Creek” by Robert Lace; Best of Show Darkroom (vs. digital): “The Lionfish” by Conor Culver. (Lace, Culver and Bozo will hold a three-man show next year as a reward.) First Place Color: “Indian Child Dancer;” by Charles Lehman; First Place Black and White: “Wind Storm” by Carol Walker; Second Place Color: “Rialto Gondolier” by Sam Dichter; Second Place Black and White: “Las Trancas Cowboy” by Ron Cooper.

The exhibit, put on by the Littleton Fine Arts Board runs through March 30.

Yguazu (Big Water)” by Fernando Boza, was named Best of Show by juror Jeffrey Rupp in the 2014 Eye of the Camera Exhibit, presented by the Littleton Fine Arts Board at the Littleton Museum. Courtesy photo

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Mikael Padilla, local hair stylist and owner of Mikael Padilla Salon at 300 Fill-more St. in Cherry Creek, was in La La land last weekend for a trip to the Oscars.

Padilla attended the March 2 Acad-emy Awards with friend and client, Taryn Rose, an orthopedic surgeon-turned shoe designer. You can see her designs at www.tarynrose.com. Rose is a Vietnamese refuge and became a doctor like her father before creating a successful shoe business, de-signed out of frustration with shoes that left women with aching feet.

Padilla also had an appointment to color Camila Alves’ hair on March 1. Who is that you ask? Only the wife of Best Actor winner Matthew McConaughey, nominated for his work in “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Fallon takes `pot’ shot at ColoradoSpanking new “Tonight Show” host Jim-

my Fallon took a pot shot at our own Gov. John Hickenlooper Feb. 25 by making jest of Colorado’s legal retail marijuana laws.

“Colorado expects to make $100 million from taxing legalized marijuana,” the co-median said. “Governor John Hickenlooper (big audience laugh at the name) says he will use a lot of that money to build new schools.

Suggested names? “U. Holden Academy, Hot Pocket Prep and St. Mary Jane’s.”

Seth Meyers coming to ColoradoSpeaking of NBC late-night hosts: Seth

Meyers, the new host of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” will perform live at The Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Sept. 13. Meyers replaced Fallon as host of “Late Night” on Feb. 24.

Tickets for the show are $49.50 to $59.50 and went on sale Feb. 28.

Proceeds will benefit The Zarlengo Foundation, a Colorado-based 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization whose guiding prin-ciple is to support families of learning dis-abled children.

A portion of the proceeds from the event will be donated to schools and programs in the community that provide special-ized education for children with learning disabilities, including but not limited to language-based, attention and nonverbal disabilities such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder.

TAG Burger Bar busts budget on Zagat listGot a burger budget to burn? Zagat has

some ideas on where to go and one of those m selected was TAG Burger Bar in Denver’s Congress Park neighborhood.

The Zagateers wrote: “Troy Guard’s funky Congress Park tavern opened well over a year ago, and still no one’s managed to outdo his Andrew Jackson burger — a $20 topping.”

TAG Burger Bar is located at 1222 Madi-son St.

The seen and heardActor John C. McGinley dined at El-

way’s Cherry Creek on Feb. 17. McGinley is most notable for his roles as Perry Cox in “Scrubs,” Bob Slydell in “Office Space,” Captain Hendrix in the “The Rock,” Sgt. Red O’Neill in Oliver Stone’s “Platoon” and Marv in Stone’s “Wall Street.” His most re-cent role was playing sportscaster Red Bar-ber in the Jackie Robinson biopic, “42.” He was in town for the Global Down Syndrome

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Marc McIntosh posted on Facebook: “CU’s only Heisman Trophy winner, Rashaan Salaam, making a waiter’s night at The Cherry Cricket on Tuesday, Feb. 25. First time this dude had ever served a Heisman winner.”

Sign of the times: A sign seen on South Broadway in Denver: “I’ve wanted to run away from home a lot more as a grownup than I did when I was a kid.”

Eavesdropping on a man in his late 50s at a local bar who was carded by the bartender: “What, am I too old?”

Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area. Parker also writes for Blacktie-Colorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at www.blacktie-colora-do.com/pennyparker. She can be reached at [email protected] or at 303-619-5209.

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Littleton Youth Ballet’s annual Storybook Ballet will be “Alice in Wonderland” with performances at 6 p.m. March 22 and at noon and 5 p.m. March 23 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Tick-ets range from $16 to $23, plus a $3 surcharge. Call 720-509-1000 or visit lonetreeartscenter.org. Dancers Alyssa Palazzo and Jenna Armstrong will alternate in the role of Alice.

A Mad Hatters Tea Party will kick off the season of Al-ice at 3 p.m. March 9 at Littleton Dance Academy, 5239 Rio Grande St. in Littleton. Guests will enjoy treats, a per-formance and tea with Alice, the Mad Hatter and others. Tickets for tea cost $10 and can be obtained by calling 303-794-6649.

`Ragtime and Beyond’“Ragtime and Beyond” is Scott Kirby’s concert title

when he performs for the Ragtime Society of Colorado at 2 p.m. March 16 at Montview Presbyterian Church, 1980 Dahlia St., Denver. Parking is on south side of building, entrance on the west. Tickets: $20/$15 can be purchased at the door or by mailing a check to Coleen Vander Hoek, 8360 Zephyr St., Littleton CO, 80128.

Learning the lensThe Englewood Camera Club will present Terry Mieg-

er’s program on “Adobe Lightroom 5, Essential for the Serious Photographer” at 7 p.m. March 11 (doors open at 6:30) at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Guests always welcome. Contact club president Steve Johnson, [email protected], for more information.

As a follow up: the Colorado Council of Camera Clubs presents an all-day workshop on Digital Workflow, which will have more information on editing with Adobe Light-room 5 and Photoshop 6 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 15, at Epiphany Lutheran Church Basement, 790 Coro-na St., Denver. Cost: $15 members, $25 non-members. www.Englewoodcameraclub.net.

Englewood Arts PresentsViolinist Allegra Wermuth and pianist Hsing-ay Hsu

will present a duo recital at 2 p.m. March 15 at Hamp-den Hall, second floor Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway. They will perform works by Mozart, Brahms, Kreisler, Dallapicola, Gershwin in the Chamber Music of the Masters Series. Tickets: $15/$12 at www.englewoodarts.org or at the door.

Young dancers Alyssa Palazzo, age 13 and Jenna Armstrong, age 14 will share the role of Alice in Littleton Dance Academy’s production of “Alice in Wonderland” March 22-23 at Lone Tree Arts Center. Courtesy photo.


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Dawson | Wallace ‘Ascending Light’ Original choreography by Gregory Dawson featured March 14-15 By Sonya Ellingboe [email protected]

In October 2011, the board of directors of the former David Tay-lor Dance Theatre voted unani-mously to change the name to Dawson|Wallace Dance Project.

The David Taylor Dance The-atre, which for a number of years was a Littleton Main Street resi-dent, was at the time a part of En-glewood’s arts community. Since the name change and merger of talent, the company has contin-ued to perform locally.

The company steps forward in March with major new work as it presents “Ascending Light” with original choreography by Gregory Dawson to music composed for Dawson by jazz musician/com-poser Richard Howell.

The program will also present choreography by Dawson set to the music of Baroque composer George Frederic Handel. Dawson said that each composer inter-

preted the life and times within which they exist.

The performances on March 14-15 will be at the Lakewood Cul-tural Center.

James Wallace, who had been a dancer and resident choreogra-pher with DTDT, assumed the po-sition of artistic director in 2006, continuing performances under the original name.

He brought a broad back-ground as a choreographer and dancer with national connections.

He began a professional col-laboration in 2009 with Dawson, who had retired after 18 years as a dancer with San Francisco-based LINES, which offers a BFA dance program through Dominican Uni-versity.

The two directors found that a combination of talents and re-

sources would succeed in a long-tern collaboration that drew on dancers from Denver and San Francisco.

The company will be head-quartered in Denver and continue to perform its “Children’s Rainfor-est Odyssey,” “Nutcracker” and

“Nutcracker in a Nutshell” as well as conducting a summer dance intensive and producing other contemporary ballet works.

Dancer Byron Roman will perform in Dawson|Wallace Project’s “Ascending Light” on March 14-15 at Lakewood Cultural Center. Courtesy photo

‘It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got that swing’ By Sonya Ellingboe [email protected]

The bandstand is at the back of center stage, featuring six fi ne musicians knocking out one great swing era number after an-other from the 1930s and 40s, as they form a live backdrop for vocalists and dancers.

The audience sees assorted signs: “Sa-voy,” “USO,” “Rialto Room,” etc. as they tour to venues where music and dance are hap-pening and melody surrounds.

This swing music is in set arrangements, rather than the jazz improvisational per-formances we often hear today, so a chore-ographer can design a piece that will work every time.

It’s “Swing!” the musical, conceived by Paul Kelly and originally directed and cho-reographed by award-winning Lynne Tay-lor-Corbett, a Littleton High graduate who made it big-time on Broadway — with this show and many more.

It opened in 1999 at the St. James The-atre in New York and is unique in that it

consists entirely of lively song and dance, with no storyline or dialogue, thus requir-ing a very specifi c cast.

Swing dance is enjoying a new round of popularity, so this should appeal to more folks than just those of us who enjoyed it on the fi rst pass.

Director/dancer Matthew Peters has assembled four singers and eight dancers who work together smoothly, with dancers managing lightening costume changes and acrobatic numbers, one after the other.

Multi-talented Seth Caikowski is a sort of singing, dancing emcee who strings acts to-gether and harmonizes with vocalists Anna High, Traci Kern and De Thomas, who each bring a distinctive solo style to the show.

Dancers include Peters, Stephen Bertles, Joseph DeMers (a Lindy Hop/Blues special-ist who owns the Overstreet Dance Gallery in Littleton), Ronni Gallup, Rae Klapperich, Matt LaFontaine, Emma Martin and Brenda Thistle.

Some numbers, such as “Jersey Bounce,” engage all eight, while others, like “Harlem Nocturne,” with Martin and Fontaine show-

case a duo, as did “Dancers in Love” with Emma Martin and DeMers. Choreography is demanding throughout and these danc-ers are up to it.

Vocalists have the different styles of the era mastered as well. I particularly enjoyed the bit of scat singing by Kern and Thomas — “Bli-Blip” done with skill and a sense of humor.

Instrumentalists, such as trumpeter Rob Reynolds had an occasional chance to shine and the strong beat throughout sent an audience dancing out the doors after the company’s fi nale number: “It Don’t Mean a Thing, If It Ain’t Got That Swing.”

IF YOU GO“Ascending Light” will be performed at 7:30

p.m. on March 14 and 15 at the Lakewood Cul-tural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Tickets: $28/$22, 303-987-7845, www.Lake-wood.org/Tickets. (On Saturday night, the tick-et includes admission to the annual gala/silent auction beginning at 6 p.m.)

IF YOU GO“Swing!” plays through March 23 at Town Hall Arts

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Ranch View students enjoy mobile art exhibitGrant allows moving art galleries to roam school hallsBy Sonya [email protected]

For a second time, students at Ranch View Middle School in Highlands Ranch have won a grant from The Alliance Project allowing for a variety of art to be delivered to the school and implemented into their curriculum.

The program was developed because it’s become more and more difficult for schools to afford the cost of field trips.

Each year, one middle school in each of the seven counties served by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District is a recipient of this special service, paid for by about 30 of the largest “culturals” from Tiers I and II included in the district, who contribute to a fund.

Usually, the program continues for a sec-ond year, according to coordinator Char-lotte D’Armond Talbert, who works with cross-cultural teams to include science, art, social science in the mix.

Teachers can ask for specific theme-based programs, for example: “I wish our kids had a better understanding of how to perform slam poetry”— or, “how does the coloration on a butterfly change?” Talbert will then ask SCFD organizations for a pro-gram to meet the request.

At Ranch View, there were two move-able art exhibits. One, a group of brightly-painted, rolling “Culture Cases” from the Mizel Museum, which focused on Asian, Mexican, Jewish, African, Native American ceremonial objects, such as masks, jewelry,

toys, musical instruments and other cultur-al symbols. They were spaced around the wide second-floor hallway.

The other Moving Art Gallery (MAG) was located inside the library, circulated by the Cherry Creek Art Festival, and funded by Ja-nus Fund.

Items come from an auction held each year at the festival plus some chosen by students who visit the festival in July. There are paintings, sculptures, art glass, ceram-ics and wood objects, displayed on panels and pedestals.

Students serve as docents and conduct small groups throughout the show, explain-ing the art. Art teacher Amy Beth Mears trained the student docents who had to learn a bit about each piece.

Printed material comes with the exhibit, bearing a statement and explanation from the artists. These are available for visitors to pick up if they wish.

John Petry’s fanciful “Vegas Baby” sculp-ture, with a flared skirt of playing cards, at-tracted attention, as did Ann Hall’s “Cow,” a three-panel version of the “eat mor chiken” bovines seen on local billboards, advertis-ing Chik-fil-A.

It’s customary to invite students from another school and on Feb. 24, sixth graders from El Dorado Elementary School did just that. (The program not only brings in art, but also pays for transportation for such a visit and for field trips if requested.)

Earlier in the school year, artists from the Central City Opera came for a program, which was held in next-door ThunderRidge High School’s theater, since Ranch View doesn’t have such a venue.

The MAGs are constantly on the move and are available for libraries and other in-stitutions, as well as schools, Talbert said.

Libby Bortz’s life’s work honoredClinical social worker values justice, equality for allBy Jennifer [email protected]

Former Littleton Independent publisher Houstoun Waring learned the hard way that Libby Bortz is a force to be reckoned with.

When he named her Littleton’s Out-standing Citizen in 1973, the headline pro-claimed the “doctor’s wife” had won. He was immediately deluged with letters let-ting him know that Libby Bortz most cer-tainly didn’t need to be known simply as somebody’s wife, having earned her mas-ter’s degree from the University of Denver in 1967 and being herself a very highly ac-complished licensed clinical social worker.

Now, 41 years later and nearly 80 years old, Bortz is as much of a force as ever.

“I skied double diamonds yesterday,” she laughs.

Bortz’s years of hard work and passion are being recognized March 6 with a Life-time Achievement Award from the Colo-rado chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. It joins a long list of honors, including being named Outstanding Alum-nus by the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work and having Littleton Housing Authority’s assisted-living facility named after her.

“That’s my favorite, because it’s ongo-ing,” she said. “There are 116 people who will have a place to live that’s a really good place.”

Bortz grew up in a small town in New York, with only three other people in her graduating class. Her father was the phar-macist who never hesitated to help a neigh-bor in need, she said, and her mother helped run the store with a heart of gold.

“I saw them helping people, and I saw the appreciation the community had,” she said.

When it was time for college, Bortz knew she wanted to see more of the world, so it was off to the University of Michigan.

“My mother told me, `Remember, you’ve got to have an educated heart, not just an educated mind,’ ” she said.

Her major was public-health adminis-tration, at the time an experimental cur-riculum. She was one of just four to pursue it, and the only woman.

“I realize now that even then I was oper-ating on the belief that if you make every-one healthy, it will be a better world,” she said.

Her first real job out of college was as a statistician for Tri-County Health Depart-ment, which brought her to Littleton. But sensing there was more out there for her, she decided to pursue a medical degree at the University of Colorado at the age of 26.

“The dean of admissions told me I was too old,” she remembers. “That I was an old lady.”

So she sued and won, and today she sits on the school’s Medical School Admissions Committee.

Along the way, she became very inter-ested in women’s issues, which contributed to her passion for social work.

“I decided that what we needed to do was something to begin changing com-munity attitudes about women, and to em-power women,” she said.

She was working as a therapist at the Arapahoe Mental Health Center, and re-alized that a lot of women were showing signs of depression. A lot of them were like her — single moms trying to work and go to school to make better lives for their fami-lies. At the time, she says, there were 42 mil-lion divorced women with children living in poverty.

“The depression was based on our being told to stunt our growth,” she said. “… The traditional viewpoint of depressed women was that until they had a filled uterus, they would be depressed.”

So she went to Arapahoe Community College and helped establish the women’s studies program. She founded the Arapa-hoe County Coordinating Board of Human Service Agencies, and served on the state’s Commission for the Status of Women.

“I got so busy doing what needed to be done instead of sitting around discussing it,” she said. “For a while my focus was so much on women, until I began to realize that we needed men to also feel good about the changes in society and women’s roles.”

So she joined a number of organizations related to violence prevention and human rights, including the Littleton Council of Human Relations, which brought Martin Luther King Jr. to Littleton in February 1964.

“We wanted to make this a community that was more representative of the coun-try,” she said.

In 1978, she opened her private practice,

which she still maintains today.“It gave me the freedom to keep work-

ing on making this a better community in which to live,” she said.

With so much in her life to be proud of, it’s her family that lights up her eyes.

“What’s lasting in life is not an award, it’s the people you love and pass your values on to,” she said.

“When all is said and done, they could change the name of the building and take my picture down, and next year some-one else will win the lifetime achievement award. But it’s important to do what your heart tells you to do.”

Longtime Littleton resident Libby Bortz has been honored by the National Association of Social Workers with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Photo by Jennifer Smith


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Williams’ classic at Lone Tree“The Glass Menagerie”

by Tennessee Williams will be presented March 7-9 at Lone Tree Art Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree, by Phamaly Theatre Com-pany, a remarkable group of performers with a wide variety of physical, cogni-tive and emotional abilities, who give an extra edge to this moving story. Perfor-mances: 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. March 7; 8 p.m. March 8; 1:30 p.m. March 9. Tickets: $26-$38 ($15 at 10 a.m. 3/7.) 720-509-1000, www.

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A Voice of Reason…The highly inventive

Robert Dubac, known for “The Male Intellect: an Oxymoron,” will return to the Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave. in Denver with a new one-man show March 7 to 23: “The Book of Moron.” Dubac deals with his Inner Voice of Reason, Inner Idiot, Common Sense, Inner Child, and more… Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets:

$26.50/$23.50. 303-321-5925 or www.avenuethe-ater.com.

Guilty or not?“12 Angry Men” by Regi-

nald Rose plays March 7-30 at Cherry Creek Theatre, Shaver Ramsey Showroom, 2414 E. 3rd Ave., Denver. Bernie Cardell is director of a strong cast. Perfor-mances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 6:30 p.m. Sun-days. Tickets: 303-80-6578 or www.cherrycreektheatre.org.

Enchantment reigns“Goblin Market” by Polly

Pen and Peggy Harmon, with music by Polly Pen, plays through March 15 at Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Dr., Denver. Adapted from a poem by Christina Rosetti about two Victorian sisters who revisited their early years in a woodland filled by enticing goblins. Performances: 7:30 Fridays, Saturdays (No show March 7, but there will be an open house for First Friday in the Art District.) Tickets: $20, www.sparktheater.org, 720-

346-7396.

Lake Dillon Theatre Company“Other Desert Cities”

by Jon Robin Baitz will play through March 23 at the Lake Dillon Theatre, 176Lake Dillon Dr., Dil-lon. Christopher Alleman directs this tense family drama. Performances: se-lect Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm.; select Sunday matinees at 1:30 p.m. Tick-ets start at $29, www.lakedillontheatre.org, 970-

513-9386.

Comedy tonight!“Lend Me a Tenor,” a

popular comedy by Ken Ludwig, plays through March 23 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Katie Mangett is di-rector. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $26, with discounts avail-able, 303-856-7830, www.vintagetheatre.com. (See Vintage’s website about the dinner service offered in the lobby before plays.)

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Future of youth sports discussedMeeting seeks ways to replace recreation department programsBy Tom [email protected]

With the Englewood Parks and Recre-ation Department’s youth sports program coming to an end this August, about 35 peo-ple came together recently to brainstorm ways to keep recreational youth sports a vi-able option for area youth.

Representatives of local organizations, including the Englewood Youth Sports As-sociation, the Englewood Youth Wrestling Association, and the Colorado Magic Bas-ketball Program, attended a Feb. 25 meet-ing, along with recreation department and school district volunteers and employees.

Tom O’Connor, president of Kids Adven-tures in Englewood, volunteered to head the effort to continue to provide youth sports programs for Englewood kids and led the discussion.

“We have several organizations that have youth sports programs up and run-ning,” he said. “I feel the challenge is how we mesh all the elements together to avoid duplication.”

Debbie Penn of the EYSA said her con-cern was the need to get moving and have programs in place by August.

“The EYSA has competitive programs in football, baseball, softball and basketball,” she said. “But there will no longer be city programs for kids who want to play at the recreational level. That is something we must address.”

Krystal Kostiew said she will head up a youth volleyball program, stating that she

will host a volleyball camp for 7- through 11-year-olds in July with high school play-ers serving as coaches.

O’Connor said it is great that all the or-ganizations have their programs in place. He said his concern is that there is no single location where parents or kids can go to

learn about the youth sports programs that are available.

He said his idea is to create an umbrella organization to foster cooperation among all the existing and newly-created youth sports programs.

“No one wants to break up any youth

sports organization,” he said. “We want to set up a way for all of us to work together to do what is best for the kids.”

Another meeting was scheduled for 6 p.m. March 4 at Mosaic Church, 40101 S. Lincoln St. in Englewood, and future meet-ings are also in the planning stages.

This is the last year for the long-familiar scene of Panther League summer baseball being played at Miller Field. The parks and recreation department will no longer sponsor the program after this summer. A number of individuals are working to try to formulate youth sports programs formerly put on by the recreation department. File photo

Baseball team tunes up for seasonNew coach brings major league scouting experience to PiratesBy Tom [email protected]

Mother Nature touched the area with winter weather Feb. 26 but Englewood High School’s boys of summer still took to the field.

The Pirates went through a variety of drills under the guidance of Tim Mitchell, the team’s new head coach, who said practices will stress the fundamen-tals of catching and throwing the baseball.

The Pirates open the season on the road March 6 at Denver West and follow that up with a March 8 game at Alameda. The first home game on the sched-ule is slated for 4:30 p.m. March 17 against Denver South at Wise Field, just north of the high school.

Mitchell said he has a good turnout and that the Pirates will field a varsity and a junior varsity team this season. He added that there will be a lot of focus on academics so that all the players will remain eli-gible to take part in the games.

“From what I have seen so far, it looks like we have some good, talented kids on our team this season,” the coach said. “We also have some good young assistant coaches who will be a big part creating a baseball program the community can be proud of.”

Mitchell grew up in Denver and played baseball for Machebeuf High School. He continued his edu-cation and his baseball career playing for Regis Uni-versity.

He spent 30 years as a member of the Englewood Police Department and for several years, served as the school resource officer for Englewood High School and the two middle schools.

Mitchell has coached teams at Bear Creek, Arapa-hoe, Littleton and ThunderRidge high schools. He also spent 30 years as a scout for the Cleveland Indi-ans and now is a scout for the Chicago Cubs.

“If you look at teams that win baseball games, you see their strength is the fundamentals of catch-ing and throwing the ball,” the coach said. “That is a big focus for us as we work on those skills which, hopefully, will go a long way to eliminating errors in our games.”

He said, off the field, he is working to line up sponsors to help Englewood buy additional equip-ment for the players and to do some needed field repairs.

Arapahoe girls’ season comes to haltWarriors fall to Rock Canyon in second-round action, finish at 15-10By Jim [email protected]

Arapahoe’s season came to an abrupt halt as poor first-half shooting dumped the Warriors into a hole they couldn’t get out of.

Rock Canyon grabbed a quick 10-0 lead en route to a 60-44 triumph over Arapahoe Feb. 28 in a Class 5A second-round girls state playoff game.

The cold-shooting Warriors finally scored when Mikaela Moore made the second of two free throws with 1:22 to play in the first quarter. From the field, Arapahoe missed on its first 11 shots be-fore Jennah Knafelc finally hit a 3-point shot with 17 seconds remaining in the opening quarter.

“We just didn’t shoot well in the first half,” said Arapahoe coach Jerry Knafelc. “We played reasonably good defense most of the time. We played them even in the second half because we just shot better. We were more patient and we knew what we needed to do.

“I’m not discrediting Rock Canyon. It wasn’t because the defense was great. We just shot poorly. We got the shots. We spotted them too much. They are a very good team, very talented. Hats off to them, they did what they needed to do to win.”

Arapahoe, which downed Liberty 50-31 in the first round, played better in the second half but Rock Canyon pushed its lead to 21 points multiple times in the half. The Warriors, who finished the game shooting 34 percent from the floor, could pull no closer than 13 points with 4:23 left in the game.

Knafelc and Moore each scored 12 points for Arapahoe to lead the War-riors, which had to deal with the Dec. 13 shooting at their school and concluded their season with a 15-10 record.

“I have so much respect for our play-ers and their ability to try to put that be-hind them and focus on basketball,” said Jerry Knafelc. “They did a great job and I admire them for their work ethic and focus.”

Rock Canyon got contributions from a variety of players in the win.

Senior Lexy Thorderson scored from inside and outside, pacing the Jag-uars with 16 points, including netting four 3-pointers. Morgan Roos scored 14 points and was credited with 14 re-bounds and five blocked shots for the Jaguars.

Kendall Koslosky finished with 11 points, Delaney Sullivan had seven, Kendall Smith six and Erin McClarie six points, eight rebounds and eight assists.

“We talked about getting a quick start and not ever having to play from be-hind,” said Rock Canyon coach Becky Mudd.

“We wanted to get out early. That was a key for us.”

Rock Canyon traveled to Greenwood Village to face Cherry Creek in a March 4 Sweet 16 game. The Bruins (22-3) put an end to the Jaguars’ season, 59-43. Rock Canyon finishes the year at 17-8.

Mikaela Moore (40) launches a jumper over Rock Canyon’s Lexy Thorderson in a Feb. 28 Class 5A second round playoff game. Moore was one of two Arapahoe players to score 12 points in the loss. Photo by Paul DiSalvo


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amErican association of Univer-sity Women, Littleton-Englewood Branch invites baccalaureates to participate in activities that further the goals of equity for women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change. Meetings usually are Mondays each month, September through May, at Koelbel Library, Orchard Road and Holly Street, Centennial. Social time is followed by business meeting and informative program on subjects ranging from public policy issues to poetry. Call Linda Shell at 303-796-7702.

dEnvEr invEstor Club meets the first Thursday each month at 7:30 p.m. at the IHOP on Clinton Street in Englewood. Call Gail Segreto at 303-810-9015 or e-mail [email protected]. This is a nonprofit educational club.

EnglEwood chaPtEr of the Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees) needs men and women between the ages of 21 and 40 to help re-establish the chapter. Jaycees work to help chapter members grow professionally and to help serve the community through hands-on projects. To become involved, call 303-914-0180 or visit www.coloradojaycees.org.

lEtiP intErnational, local chap-ter, is a professional referral organization that meets at Maggiano’s at the Denver Tech Center, 7401 S. Clinton St., in Englewood. A Highlands Ranch chapter meets at LePeep’s, 7156 E. County Line Road. Call 303-789-7898 or visit www.letip.com.

narfE (national Active and Retired Federal Employees), Chapter 1089 was merged into Chapter 81. The member-ship meetings are from noon to 1:30 p.m. the third Friday of every month, with an optional lunch at 11 a.m., at the American Legion Post 1, at the Southeast corner of I-25 and Yale Ave (5400 E Yale). All current and retired federal employees are invited to attend. For information call, Hank at 303-779-4268 or Darlene at 303-771-2024.

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chErry crEEk Anglers meets at 7 p.m. every second Thursday in the Lodge Meeting Room at Gander Mountain Sports, 14000 E. Jewell Ave. Call Dennis at 303-841-3612.

kilowatt Eights is for people inter-ested in square dancing. Dances are the first, third and fifth Friday each month at Malley Senior Center in Englewood. Call Ron at 303-759-4862.

mountainEErs squarE Dance Club meets the first, third and fifth

Saturdays of the month at the Valley View Church of God, 4390 S. Lowell Blvd., Englewood, to square dance. Dances start at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and watch. This is a healthy activ-ity for all. Call 303-798-4472.

PoEtry night honors the great Edgar Allan Poe by reading poetry at The Attic Bookstore, 200 W. Hampden Ave., near Hampden and Bannock in Englewood. Take originals or an old favorite to read to others. Readings will be limited to five minutes. Sign up begins at 7 p.m. Readings begin at 7:30 p.m. All styles of poetry are welcome. Call 303-777-5352.

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homEcoming inc. offers caregivers of low-income seniors who are frail, disabled or unable to live alone without care in Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson and Denver counties respite care. Assistance includes personal care and homemak-ing. Call Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson or Trini Martinez at 303-526-2318 for an application and information.

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araPahoE sErtoma Club meets on Thursdays at the Englewood Elks Club, 3690 S. Jason, Englewood. Contact Ken Kelley at 303-789-9393 or [email protected].

daughtErs of the American Revolu-tion, Columbine Chapter meets at 1 p.m.

every second Saturday at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Unita St., Englewood. Call Michelle Brown at 303-979-7550.

daughtErs of the British Empire is a national organization with a philanthropic purpose. For almost a century, DBE has been a common bond for women of British heritage living in the United States. DBE is open to women who are citizens or residents of the U.S. who are of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry or who are married to men of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry. There are six chapters in Colorado, in-cluding chapters in Littleton, Englewood, Centennial, Evergreen and Boulder County. Call Chris at 303-683-6154 or Olive at 303-347-1311, or visit www.dbecolorado.org and use the contact form available.

sErtoma club of DTC meets on Thursdays at Mangia Bevi Restaurant, Englewood. Contact David Oppenheim at 303-850-7888 or [email protected].

EmbroidErErs guild of America Colorado Chapter meets at Bethany Lutheran Church at Hampden Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Englewood the fourth Tuesday each month from 9:30 a.m. to noon, excluding December and July. Meetings include needlework projects, needle art education, lectures and workshops of all levels. Guests are invited. Call Marnie Ritter at 303-791-

9334.

thE EnglEwood Lions Club meets at 7 a.m. every Thursday at the Grill at Broken Tee Golf Course, 2101 West Oxford Avenue. Previously the Lions Club met every Wednesday at noon. The change in time is being made to better accommodate working men and women in the Englewood area who are inter-ested in serving the community. Please join the Lions for breakfast and a weekly program and learn more about Lions Club International and the activities of the Englewood Lions Club.

thE rotary Club of Englewood meets each Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Wellshire Inn, 3333 S. Colorado Blvd, Denver. For information, contact Josh Staller at 303-721-6845, or visit rotaryclubofenglewood.org.

friEndshiPs arE Golden, a Pre-cious Moments collectors club, meets the fourth Thursday each month at Castlewood Library in Englewood. Din-ner provided by club members at 6 p.m., meeting from 7-9 p.m. Give back to the community by doing local charity work. Talk and share stories about Precious Moments. Call Leota Stoutenger, club president, at 303-791-9283.

gracE chaPEl Mothers of Preschool-ers meets second and fourth Wednes-days from 9-11:30 a.m. at Grace Chapel, I-25 and County Line Road, Englewood. Call Karleen Wagner at 303-799-4900 or visit www.gracechapel.org.

kiwanis club of Englewood believes it has an obligation to be involved in community projects. Members meet Wednesdays 7 a.m. at The Neighborhood Grille 1500 W. Littleton Blvd. Everyone is welcome to join and have breakfast on Kiwanis. Call 303-783-9523.

nEwcomErs at Grace Chapel in Englewood welcomes women who are new to the Denver area. Learn about the group’s ongoing Bible study, make new

friends, and be encouraged about God’s faithfulness and what happens after the boxes are unpacked. Call Carolyn Chan-dler at 303-660-4042 for information on welcome teas, Bible study, field trips and get acquainted luncheons.

ranch racontEurs Toastmasters. Learn to improve your personal and public speaking skills, listen effectively, develop leadership abilities and build your confidence in a fun, supportive environment. Group meets at 6:55 p.m. every Thursday at the Eastridge Recre-ation Center, 9568 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Visitors welcome. Con-tact Debbie Fuller at [email protected].

rotary club of Denver Tech Center meets from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays at the Glenmoor Country Club in Englewood. Call Larry McLaughline at 303-741-1403.

toastmastErs - Meridian Midday. Experienced professionals and beginning speakers alike can benefit from our practical, face-to-face learning program. Whether you’re speaking to the board of directors, your customers, your co-workers or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better. We meet every Thursday from 11:35 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. at the American Family Insurance Building, 9510 South Meridian Blvd. in Englewood. For more information, contact our current VP of Membership, Brent Hilvitz at 303-668-5789. We hope you will visit us and check out Meridian Midday Toastmasters. www.meridian-midday.com

widowEd mEn and women of America, Come join us and make new friends and share in a variety of activi-ties. Our monthly meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Rox Bar and Grill, 12684 W. Indore Place, in Jefferson County. For more informa-tion call Mel at 303-973-8688or Nan at 728-981-1841.

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Estate ofHAROLD EUGENE ROSENBERG,a/k/a HAROLD E. ROSENBERG,

a/k/a HAROLD ROSENBERG, DeceasedCase No. 2014 PR 30148

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Personal Represent-ative or to the District Court of Arapahoe,County, Colorado on or before July 7,2014, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael E. RosenbergPersonal Representativec/o Hall & Evans, LLC,1001 17th Street, Suite 300Denver, CO 80202

Legal Notice No.: 4702First Publication: March 7, 2014Last Publication: March 21, 2014Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Notice To Creditors Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORSEstate of CLETA RIEPL

a/k/a CLETA J. RIEPL, DeceasedCase Number 2014 PR 30092

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Co-Personal Repres-entatives or to the Arapahoe County Dis-trict Court of the State of Colorado on orbefore June 29, 2014, or the claims maybe forever barred.

/S/ Lynn Riepl and Diane RoachLynn Riepl and/or Diane Roach,Co-Personal Representatives327 Tucson Street, Aurora, CO 80011303-366-3481

Legal Notice No.: 4669First Publication: February 21, 2014Last Publication: March 7, 2014Publisher: The Englewood Herald

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NOTICE TO CREDITORSEstate of Lillian Kardos, Deceased

Case Number: 2014 PR 30097

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Personal Represent-ative or to the District Court of ArapahoeCounty, Colorado on or before June 21,2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda J. SmithPersonal Representativec/o Mark D. Masters2696 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 350Denver, Colorado 80222

Legal Notice No: 4678First Publication: February 21, 2014Last Publication: March 7, 2014Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORSEstate of Jean Frances Coogan,

aka Jean F. Coogan,and Jean Coogan, DeceasedCase Number: 2014 PR 30083

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Personal Represent-ative or to the District Court of ArapahoeCounty, Colorado on or before July 7,2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Anne Kane CooganPersonal Representative2808 Hacienda StreetSan Mateo, California 94403

Legal Notice No: 4679First Publication: March 7, 2014Last Publication: March 21, 2014Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORSEstate of Shirley Ann Nelson,

DeceasedCase Number: 2014 PR 0043

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Personal Represent-ative or to the District Court of ArapahoeCounty, Colorado on or before July 7,2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Julius Loren NelsonPersonal Representative1173 W. Snow Canyon Pkwy No. 50St. George, Utah 84770

Legal Notice No: 4703First Publication: March 7, 2014Last Publication: March 21, 2014Publisher: Englewood Herald

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SERVICE BY PUBLICATIONIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF

BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA

State of Nebraska,o/b/o Madeline J. Macev. John H. Mace IIIand Laura T. FankhauserCase ID: CI 04-245

TO: John H. Mace IIINotice is hereby given that you have beensued by the following Third- Party Defend-ant:Laura T. FankhauserThird-Party Defendant’s Attorney:Jon WorthmanAddress: 107 East Fifth StreetAlliance, NE 69301Telephone: (308) 762-1234

To defend this lawsuit, an appropriateresponse must be served on the partywithin 30 days of the last publicationherein and filed with the office of the clerkof the court within a reasonable time afterservice. If you fail to respond, the courtmay enter judgment for the relief deman-ded in the complaint.


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SERVICE BY PUBLICATIONIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF

BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA

State of Nebraska,o/b/o Madeline J. Macev. John H. Mace IIIand Laura T. FankhauserCase ID: CI 04-245

TO: John H. Mace IIINotice is hereby given that you have beensued by the following Third- Party Defend-ant:Laura T. FankhauserThird-Party Defendant’s Attorney:Jon WorthmanAddress: 107 East Fifth StreetAlliance, NE 69301Telephone: (308) 762-1234

To defend this lawsuit, an appropriateresponse must be served on the partywithin 30 days of the last publicationherein and filed with the office of the clerkof the court within a reasonable time afterservice. If you fail to respond, the courtmay enter judgment for the relief deman-ded in the complaint.


Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEOF LIENED PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that a public salewill be held on or after March 18, 2014at 10:00 A.M. at 101 E. Centennial Av-enue, City of Englewood, County of Ar-apahoe, Colorado. BROOKRIDGE SELF-STORAGE will sell to satisfy the lien onthe property stored at 101 E. CentennialAvenue, Englewood, CO 80113 by the fol-lowing persons. The inventories listed be-low were notated by the tenants at thetime of rental. BROOKRIDGE SELF-STORAGE makes no representation orwarranty that the units contain said invent-ories.

Unit: A018 LINDA LEE3540 S. Pearl #302, Englewood, CO80113Appliance, Trunk, Furniture, Luggage,Carpet

C025 STANLEY K. WILLIAMS5130 E. Asbury Ave #107Denver, CO 80222Tools, Luggage, Fishing Equip. MiscBoxes

C028 RICHARD G. HODSONJefferson Legal Group PC3051 S. Broadway Englewood, CO 80113Furniture, Misc. Boxes

E326 DARLENE MARIE PATMOREP.O. Box 709 Englewood, CO 80151Electronics, Furniture, Appliances,Cleaning Equip. Luggage, Misc. Boxes

F009 DANIEL W. WEISS6905 S. Penrose Ct.Centennial, CO 80122Vinyl Records, Furniture, Misc. Boxes

G020 MICHAEL DAVID EIDSON10722 E. Exposition Ave #116Aurora, CO 80012Furniture, Bedding

Purchases must be made with cash andpaid for at the time of purchase. No oneunder the age of 18 is allowed to attendthe sale. The landlord reserves the right tobid at the sale. All purchased goods aresold “as is” and must be removed by 6:00PM on the day of the sale. Buyers mustprovide a current original or a photocopyof their original resale permit at time ofsale in lieu of sales tax. This sale is sub-ject to prior cancellation in the event ofsettlement between landlord and oblig-ated party.


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NOTICE OF A PROPOSED PROJECTOR ACTIVITY

WARRANTING PUBLIC COMMENT

Costco Wholesale Corp. proposes aproject at a service station located at4000 River Point Parkway, Sheridan, inArapahoe County. The applicant pro-poses to remove the Stage II Vapor Con-trol system from the gasoline dispensingequipment. This project is subject to pub-lic notice because: permitted emissionsexceed public notice threshold values inRegulation No. 3, Part B, Section III.C.1.a(25 tpy in a non-attainment area and/or 50tpy in an attainment area) and changingmethod of controlling emissions to main-tain synthetic minor status. The Divisionhas made a preliminary determination ofapproval of the application. Commentsconcerning the ability of the proposedproject or activity to comply with the ap-plicable standards and regulations of theCommission are solicited from any inter-ested person. The Division will receiveand consider written public comments forthirty calendar days after the date of thisNotice. Additional information regardingthis action can be found at the ArapahoeClerk’s office and on the Division’s Web-site at: www.colorado.gov/cdphe/AirPub-licNotices or by contacting JonathanBrickey of the Division at 303-691-4093.

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NOTICE OF A PROPOSED PROJECTOR ACTIVITY


Costco Wholesale Corp. proposes aproject at a service station located at4000 River Point Parkway, Sheridan, inArapahoe County. The applicant pro-poses to remove the Stage II Vapor Con-trol system from the gasoline dispensingequipment. This project is subject to pub-lic notice because: permitted emissionsexceed public notice threshold values inRegulation No. 3, Part B, Section III.C.1.a(25 tpy in a non-attainment area and/or 50tpy in an attainment area) and changingmethod of controlling emissions to main-tain synthetic minor status. The Divisionhas made a preliminary determination ofapproval of the application. Commentsconcerning the ability of the proposedproject or activity to comply with the ap-plicable standards and regulations of theCommission are solicited from any inter-ested person. The Division will receiveand consider written public comments forthirty calendar days after the date of thisNotice. Additional information regardingthis action can be found at the ArapahoeClerk’s office and on the Division’s Web-site at: www.colorado.gov/cdphe/AirPub-licNotices or by contacting JonathanBrickey of the Division at 303-691-4093.

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Costco Wholesale Corp. proposes aproject at a service station located at1471 South Havana Street, Aurora, inArapahoe County. The applicant pro-poses to remove the Stage II Vapor Con-trol system from the gasoline dispensingequipment. This project is subject to pub-lic notice because: permitted emissionsexceed public notice threshold values inRegulation No. 3, Part B, Section III.C.1.a(25 tpy in a non-attainment area and/or 50tpy in an attainment area) and changingmethod of controlling emissions to main-tain synthetic minor status. The Divisionhas made a preliminary determination ofapproval of the application. Commentsconcerning the ability of the proposedproject or activity to comply with the ap-plicable standards and regulations of theCommission are solicited from any inter-ested person. The Division will receiveand consider written public comments forthirty calendar days after the date of thisNotice. Additional information regardingthis action can be found at the ArapahoeClerk’s office and on the Division’s Web-site at: www.colorado.gov/cdphe/AirPub-licNotices or by contacting JonathanBrickey of the Division at 303-691-4093.


Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDANNOTICE OF ADOPTION

OF ORDINANCE

On the 26th day of February, 2014, theCity Council of the City of Sheridan, Color-ado, approved on final reading the follow-ing Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 2-2014AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUN-CIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COL-ORADO, AMENDING SECTION 2-23 OFTHE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODEPERTAINING TO COUNCIL’S REGU-LAR MEETING DATE

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are avail-able for public inspection in the office ofthe City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.


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CITY OF SHERIDANNOTICE OF ADOPTION

OF ORDINANCE

On the 26th day of February, 2014, theCity Council of the City of Sheridan, Color-ado, approved on first reading the follow-ing Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 3-2014AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUN-CIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COL-ORADO, AMENDING CHAPTER 56 OFTHE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODEPERTAINING TO THE DEFINITION ANDZONING DISTRICT REGULATIONS FORMOTELS, HOTELS, AND EXTENDEDSTAY HOTELS

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are avail-able for public inspection in the office ofthe City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.


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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Anthony Lee Cadle,a/k/a Anthony Cadle,

a/k/a Anthony L. Cadle,a/k/a Tony Lee Cadle,

a/k/a Tony Cadle,a/k/a Tony L. Cadle, DeceasedCase Number 2014PR30126

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to pres-ent them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before July 7, 2014, or the claims may be forever barred.

Betty A. SpannPersonal Representative14935 E. Stanford Dr.Aurora, CO 80015


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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Mary Elizabeth Dewey,a/k/a Mary Dewey,

a/k/a Mary Elizabeth W. Dewey,a/k/a Mary Elizabeth Wilson Dewey,

a/k/a Mary Elizabeth Wilson,a/k/a Mary Wilson,

a/k/a Betty Dewey, Deceased Case Number 2014PR30128

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to pres-ent them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Coloradoon or before July 7, 2014, or the claims may be forever barred.

James M. DeweyPersonal Representative1159 Mallard Marsh Dr.Osprey, FL 34229


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Ranch RaconteuRs Toastmasters. Learn to improve your personal and public speaking skills, listen effectively, develop leadership abilities and build your confidence in a fun, supportive environment. Group meets at 6:55 p.m. every Thursday at the Eastridge Recre-ation Center, 9568 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Visitors welcome. Con-tact Debbie Fuller at [email protected].

RotaRy club of Denver Tech Center meets from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays at the Glenmoor Country Club in Englewood. Call Larry McLaughline at 303-741-1403.

toastmasteRs - Meridian Midday. Experienced professionals and beginning speakers alike can benefit from our practical, face-to-face learning program. Whether you’re speaking to the board of directors, your customers, your co-workers or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better. We meet every Thursday from 11:35 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. at the American Family Insurance Building, 9510 South Meridian Blvd. in Englewood. For more information, contact our current VP of Membership, Brent Hilvitz at 303-668-5789. We hope you will visit us and check out Meridian Midday Toastmasters. www.meridian-midday.com

WidoWed men and women of America, Come join us and make new friends and share in a variety of activi-ties. Our monthly meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Rox Bar and Grill, 12684 W. Indore Place, in Jefferson County. For more informa-tion call Mel at 303-973-8688or Nan at 728-981-1841.


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MARCH 7-8

FAMILY MUSICAL Simchat Torah Beit Midrash presents its � rst original family-friendly musical production about a teenage girl living in ancient Susa who becomes queen of the entire Persian empire. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. March 7, with dinner served at 6:30 for minimal fee; and at 9:30 a.m. March 8. Free child care is available on March 8. Performances will take place in the STBM Main Sanctuary, 3651 S. Colorado Blvd., Englewood. Visit www.stbm.org or call 1-866-867-2488.

MARCH 9

EDUCATIONAL FORUM Families with intellectually curious students are invited to the 2014 educational forum from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 9 at Kent Denver School, 4000 E. Quincy Ave., Englewood. The free event is intended for families with children in grades 4-9. Go to http://www.scholarsearchassoc.com/index.php/denver-2014.

MARCH 10-11 April 29

MENTAL HEALTH � rst aid The South Metro Health Alliance and Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network are o� ering an 8-hour interactive mental health � rst aid training classes, from 1-5 p.m. March 10-11 in Littleton, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 29 in Englewood. Seating is limited and registration is required at http://southmetrohealthalliance.org/meetings. Contact Traci Jones, SMHA communications specialist, at 303-793-9615 or [email protected].

MARCH 12

BLOOD DRIVE Western Union Community Blood Drive, 8-9:40 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 12 inside Bon� ls’ mobile bus at 12500 E. Belford Ave., Englewood. For information or to schedule an appointment contact the Bon� ls’ Appointment Center at 303-363-2300 or visit www.bon� ls.org.

MARCH 17

HEALTH PANEL The South Metro Health Alliance presents “Demystifying The Health Care Maze” panel from 10 a.m. to noon March 17 at the Tri-County Health Department, 6162 S. Willow Drive, Greenwood Village. This is a free community event with a panel discussion focused on how we can help our vulner-able population get the health care they need. Light snacks and refreshments will be available. Registration is free and attendees can sign up at www.smhaco.org, or by calling Traci Jones on 303-793-9615 or emailing [email protected].

MARCH 19-22

THEATER PRODUCTION “In The Heights,” which tells the story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, is presented March 19-22 at Thomas Je� erson High School, Denver. Tickets are available at www.tjjournal.com. Show is recommended for ages 12 and older.

MARCH 27

BLOOD DRIVE Pulte Mortage Community Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. March 27 inside Bon� ls’ mobile bus at 7390 S. Iola., Englewood. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bon� ls’ Appointment Center at 303-363-2300 or visit www.bon� ls.org.

MARCH 28

BLOOD DRIVE Craig Hospital Community Blood Drive, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m. March 28 in Classroom’s 1 and 2 at 3425 S. Clarkson St., Englewood. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact Bon� ls Appointment Center at 303-363-2300 or visit www.bon� ls.org.

MARCH 28

GERMANY AS THE European Union struggles with a variety of complex issues, many of them � nancial, Germany has emerged as a critical player in the development of economic policy for the region. German elections served as a referendum on how the German government, under the leadership of Angela Merkel, has performed in the eyes of Germans. Join

Active Minds from 10-11 a.m. March 28 as we explore the role of Germany in the world as well as how the process of German reuni� cation has evolved, especially given Merkel’s roots in the government of the former Communist East Germany. Program is free and takes place at the Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lin-coln St., Englewood. RSVP by calling 303-762-2660. If parking in the lot, get pass from inside center.

THROUGH APRIL

GOLF ASSOCIATION Englewood Women’s 18 Hole Golf Association has openings for the 2014 season. The league plays Tuesday mornings from April through September at Broken Tee Englewood Golf Course. The league is a member of CWGA and members maintain a GHIN Handicap; however, a GHIN handicap is not required to join. The annual fee for new members is $95. For additional information, call 303-829-7577.

APRIL 3 to May 1

ROCKETRY CLASS Students in grades 3-8 are invited to learn about rockets from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursdays, from April 3 to May 1 at Arma Dei Academy, 345 E. Wildcat Reserve Parkway, Highlands Ranch. Instructor Greg Vigil is an experienced engi-neer and rocketeer. We will begin by building a pocket rocket and will end with a solid fuel rocket launch during the last class. Cost is $40 includes T-shirt and age appropriate rocket. To register, call 303-346-4523 or email [email protected].

APRIL 9, April 10

WRITING CONTEST Creative Communication is accepting submissions for its essay contest, with divisions for grades 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12, through Feb. 18; and its poetry contest, with divisions for grades K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12, through April 10. Top 10 winners will be named in each division. Essays must be between 100 and 250 words on any non-� ction topic. Poetry must be 21 lines or less in English. Entries can made online at www.poeticpower.com or mail entries, labeled Poetry Contest or Essay Contest, to 159 N. Main, Smith� eld UT 84335. Include author’s name, address, city, state and ZIP, current grade, school name, school address and teacher’s name. Home school students are welcome to enter. Selected entries of merit will be invited to be published in an anthology. An art contest for grades K-12 also is coming up. To enter, take a photo of your original artwork and enter it at www.celebratingart.com; deadline is April 9. Full contest information is available online, or call 435-713-4411.

APRIL 24

B-CYCLE FUNDRAISER Arapahoe County B-Cycle plans its inaugural fundraising event “For the Love of Bicycling” from 5:30-10 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at The Wellshire Inn, 3333 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver. Cost is $100 per person, and all proceeds will o� set administrative and operational costs for the year. The event will feature dinner, with the main course provided by Top Chef Season 5 winner and founder of BlackBelly Catering, Chef Josea Rosenberg. For tickets and information, visit www.arapahoecountyb-cycle.org/fundraising-events.html. Sponsor inquired can be directed to Joel Phillips at 720-203-9370 or [email protected].

RECURRING/THROUGH MAY

NONPROFIT VENDORS Applications for nonpro� t partici-pants are being accepted for the 43th annual CHUN Capitol Hill People’s Fair. Nonpro� t groups seeking to exhibit their services and recruit volunteers will pay a fraction of the booth fee that other vendors pay to participate in the festival. Applications are available at www.peoplesfair.com. Contact the CHUN o� ce at 303-830-1651. The People’s Fair is June 7-8.

ONGOINGCOMMUNITY EDUCATION Registration is now open for winter 2014 Community Education courses at Arapahoe Com-munity College. ACC o� ers fun, non-credit and creative courses at its Littleton and Parker campuses, the ACC Art and Design Center, Hudson Gardens and Event Center and Highlands Ranch High School. A wide selection of recreational and educational online Community Education courses is available. Check out http://www.arapahoe.edu/community-education or call 303-797-5722.

MILESTONESEducation

William Ammons, of Englewood, was listed on the fall 2013 honor roll at South-ern Methodist University in Dallas. Am-mons is a sophomore at Southern Method-ist University.

Andrew Palmquist, of Englewood, was named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at Deni-son University. Palmquist is a member of the Denison class of 2014.

Spencer Fronk, of Englewood, was named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at Deni-son University. Fronk is a member of the Denison class of 2014.

Robert William Buckley, of Englewood, was named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at

Miami University.Elycia Kazemian, of Englewood, was

inducted into the student chapter of the Jesuit Honor Society Alpha Sigma Nu at its annual ceremony Feb. 22. Kazemian is a student in the Creighton University College of Arts and Sciences.

Brett Rojec and Samantha Sloane, of Englewood, received the fall 2013 dean’s award for academic excellence at Colgate University. Both are graduates of Cherry Creek High School.

Berenice Arroyo-Arellano, of Engle-wood, was named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at Cottey College. Berenice is the daughter of Rosario Arellano and Samuel Arroyo, of Englewood.

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“Norgren is an extremely well-kept secret, and we need to change that.” That was the introduction to international fluid valve giant Norgren by Vice President and General Manager Brian Crowe at a recent Littleton Business Coalition (LBC)meeting. “We are a great place to work... From a recruiting perspective we are trying to raise the profile of Norgren - who we are and what we do,” he continued.

The Littleton Business Coalition, a working group of the South Metro Denver Chamber, meets monthly to collaborate and create remarkable relationships within the Littleton business community. “The Littleton Business Coalition is working to create a diverse 21st century business environment in a unique 19th century community,” according to LBC Chair and Chamber Board member, Norman Stucker of PADT Colorado.

The group’s February meeting took place at Norgren’s world headquarters in Littleton last week. The almost featureless blonde brick buildings hidden away from the city’s main thoroughfares by apartment buildings, car lots and an antique mall houses an impressive multi-national company. Founded in 1925 by Carl Norgren working out of his Denver home, the company now boasts 6,000 employees world-wide offering sales and service in 75 countries and producing $1.3 Billion in sales in 2012.

Littleton Mayor Phil Cernanec introduced Crowe and related the fact that Littleton’s founder Richard Little was “...an engineer who became a farmer and city founder,” while Carl Norgren was a “...farmer who became an engineer and company founder.”

Crowe went on to explain the

company’s history from Carl Norgren inventing an air lubrication system drawing on a cocktail napkin in 1927 to moving the company to Littleton in 1960 and the ensuing acquisition by IMI, a British company in 1972. Subsequent growth has been accomplished both organically and through acquisition of related companies both in the United States and abroad.

The company’s products basically manage the control of fluids, whether that be air, water or petroleum-based liquids through 3 base platforms: Indoor climate, severe services, and fluid power. Indoor climate control is accomplished via water-based heating and cooling systems in large commercial and residential buildings. Severe services refers to Norgren control systems in use for power generation, oil & gas, and petrochemical applications. Fluid power is the company’s base on which it was founded with systems and applications in many industries including food & beverage, commercial vehicles, rail, life sciences, energy, and industrial automation.

“We do what we call ‘Engineering Advantage’ - we solve problems and then we build and sell those solutions to the individuals. We develop high performance products, we give exceptional local service, we do innovation both on the technical level as well as how we interact with our customers. It is an intimacy we develop with our clients to understand their needs and develop solutions to their problems,” stated Crowe.

Crowe concluded with an overview of the company’s passion for community involvement. Norgren is a major supporter for East Elementary School’s backpack program as well as the school’s internal food bank for area families.

The LBC then heard from Littleton Public Schools (LPS) Superintendant Scott Murphy. The school leader thanked the Littleton community for coming together during and after the Arapahoe High School shooting. “A huge thank you... I have never seen a community close ranks around itself and say ‘We will take care of ourselves.’”

Murphy went on to give an update on the district’s plans for the $80 Million

bond election which was passed last November. “Since 1905 the citizens of Littleton have approved every bond election asked for by the school district. The community agrees with me that there is nothing more important than the education of our children.”

LPS Chief Operations Officer Diane Doney, and Director of Operations and Maintenance Terry Davis gave a brief overview of the physical plant renovations which will be taking place over the next few years. Most improvements will be internal mechanical and building updates “...in order to create a better learning environment while trying not to affect the current learning environment,” according to Davis.

In closing, Chamber COO and Director of Economic Development Jeff Holwell asked the business leaders to get involved in the South Metro Denver Economic Development Group’s Business Retention and Expansion initiative. Through making direct, in-person contact with local primary employers, the group’s goal is “...to ensure the wealth creating companies in Littleton are communicated with, thanked, and appropriately engaged as important businesses within the city,” according to Holwell.

For more information on the Littleton Business Coalition or other Chamber groups, visit our web site at www.bestchamber.com or call 303-795-0142 x112.

(l to r)Norman Stucker of PADT and Chair of the Littleton Business Coalition (LBC), Littleton Mayor Phil Cernanec, Littleton Public School Superintendent Scott Murphy, Jason Dunkel of Littleton Adventist Hospital, and Norgren VP and General Manager Brian Crowe exchange greetings before the LBC Meeting.

Littleton Business Coalition learns of Littleton’s best kept secret

Vice President and General Manager Brian Crowe speaks to the Littleton Business Coalition about the company and its long legacy in the Littleton community.

Former Marine earns Purple HeartHighlands Ranch High security worker injured in Iraq in 2004By Hannah [email protected]

It’s been almost a decade since an im-provised explosive device knocked Brandon Davis unconscious in Fallujah, imparting a brain injury that would eventually lead to a medical discharge.

A little more than nine years later, the Highlands Ranch High School security staffer was finally awarded a Purple Heart that he has been seeking for years.

“I had to jump through a few hoops to get this,” Davis said. The lance corporal said he worked with his former colonel with the Wounded Warrior Regiment to apply for the award. “It means a lot.”

The Purple Heart is awarded to military members who are injured or killed while serving. It is the oldest military decoration awarded by the U.S. military.

Davis, 30, said he grew up dreaming of enlisting with the Marines, like his father. He joined when he was 19 in 2003, bypass-ing an opportunity to go to school.

“I gave up wrestling scholarships to en-list,” Davis said. “After 9/11, I knew I was go-ing to join. It just didn’t seem like there was

another option for me.” The former Marine was deployed to Iraq

from June 24, 2004 to Feb. 17, 2005. On Oct. 17, 2004, Davis was driving a Hummer near

a military base in Fallujah when the IED launched by insurgents hit the back of the vehicle.

The resulting blast damaged the left side

of his head and he sustained a traumatic brain injury.

After a few minutes of being uncon-scious, Davis’ platoon mates shook him awake before they tended to others who were wounded, including some who lost limbs, he said.

There were 180 people wounded in the blast, according to Davis.

Davis finished out his deployment, al-though he was medically separated, and was eventually honorably discharged for medical reasons in 2006. Eventually, he ended up working security at Highlands Ranch High School.

Like many military members after de-ployment, Davis, who specialized in motor transport and also trained as a scout sniper, found that his training did not translate to the civilian world.

“The qualifications don’t transfer, and if they do, I haven’t met anyone who has (benefitted from it),” Davis said, adding that other military acquaintances have not had much luck finding jobs with police or fire departments.

In the months that followed the explo-sion, Davis said he dealt with memory loss and ringing in his ears on top of shoulder and back injuries. Despite that, he said he would enlist again given the chance.

“Other than that, it hasn’t really affected me,” Davis said. “I don’t regret any of it.”

Brandon Davis, who works security at Highlands Ranch High School, earned a Purple Heart after being wounded by an IED in Iraq in 2004. Photo by Hannah Garcia

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