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Babi Yar Memorial marks 73rd annual Holocaust tragedy
The 2014 Babi Yar Memorial was commemorated on Sept. 28 at Denver’s Babi Yar Park marking the 73rd year of the atrocities of the Holocaust.
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Participants raise $2 million to battle breast cancer By Tom Barry Sept. 28 was not just any Sunday. It was a special day with more than 30,000 people that began well before 7 a.m. Women, men and children of all ages gathered at the Pepsi Center for the 23rd rendition of the 5K Race for the Cure organized by the Susan
G. Komen Colorado organization. Some very special women attend the event – some 2,500 breast cancer survivors gathered with their friends and families and walked down a special pink carpet with their loved ones. The entrance was lined by cheerleaders from high schools congratulating survivors on significant accomplishments. Some survivors had just a few months under their belt, while others had the honor of celebrating more
than 30 years of surviving breast cancer. For the 10th year, Village Inn assembled nearly 50 volunteers from local restaurants to make a special pancake breakfast for the survivors. “I traveled over 600 miles to support our community. The serving of breakfast is the right thing to do for our community,” said Paul Ives, the corporate operations director for Village Inn.
Survivors were presented a special bright pink commemorative T-shirt to note their proud accomplishment: “RACE FOR THE BREAKTHROUGHS.” Survivors were also presented a pink embroider hat with the Komen logo, along with a pink and white from eBags, a Greenwood Village corporation. Nearly everyone adorned some form of pink, ranging from brightly colored socks to wild pants, with
some wearing florescent pink wigs and every kind of hat imaginable. Many participants had signs affixed on their backs noting family or friends who had died or survived breast cancer. Komen Colorado raised more than $2 million to promote breast cancer awareness, prevention, screenings, treatment and support. Continued on page 7
TOP: Many participants wore anything imaginable in pink. ABOVE: Fifty students and several teachers from Englewood High School participated in the 5K event on Sept. 28. “We value doing service projects and we really think doing Race for the Cure is one of those great projects where we can really get the kids involved,” said Rachel Hankle, sponsor of the school’s honor society. Photos by Tom Barry
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The Denver Dumb Friends League 10th annual Wag ‘n Trail raised more than $140,000. You can still donate to www.ddfl.org/wnt. Courtesy photo
Community comes together to hike for homeless pets Still time to donate to Dumb Friends League 10th annual Wag `n Trail Animal lovers from across metro Denver hit the Glendale Farm Open Space trail on Sept. 20 for the Dumb Friends League’s 10th annual Wag `n Trail. More than 1,500 people and 750 dogs participated in the fundraiser, a 1.6-mile hike to raise money for the Dumb Friends League’s south location, the Buddy Center, in Castle Rock. The event brought in more than $140,000 which will help the Dumb Friends League provide shelter, comfort, veterinary care
and behavior training to more than 4,000 homeless pets at the Buddy Center this year while we work to reunite them with their owners or place them in new homes. Fundraising for Wag `n Trail continues through Oct. 20. In addition to the hike, participants had the opportunity to watch flyball demonstrations, enjoy food and music, meet adoptable dogs and shop for merchandise from local vendors. “We started this event 10 years ago to raise awareness for the Buddy Center,” said Bob Rohde, president and CEO of the Dumb Friends League. “Since then, more than 36,000 homeless pets at the shelter
have been given a second chance thanks to the generous support and compassion of our participants, donors, sponsors, vendors and volunteers.” As the only animal shelter serving Douglas County, the Buddy Center plays a vital role in reuniting owners with lost pets and finding loving homes for thousands of cats, dogs and small pets each year. The 2014 Wag `n Trail was sponsored by Hill’s Science Diet, HomeAgain, Frontline Plus and Heartgard Plus. For more information, or to make a donation through Oct. 20, visit www.ddfl.org/wnt or call 303-751-5772.
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USI Insurance Services celebrated its 20th Anniversary with 20 for 20: USI Gives Back, a nationwide event where each of the more than 140 USI offices across the United States invested their time, talent and treasure in local community service during 20 week days throughout the month of August. To mark the occasion, 75 volunteers from the USI Colorado partnered with the City and County of Denver’s Parks and Recreation division to Keep Denver Beautiful by cleaning trash and debris from three miles of trail along the Cherry Creek and South Platte Rivers that run through the heart of downtown.
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2014 Lexus LS460 AWD might be the world’s best touring car By Don Bain The 2014 Lexus LS460 AWD is the definitive touring car – great for long trips across the Great Plains or anywhere else – in the ultimate comfort and style of a Lexus flagship. On the other hand, if one wants a big bad sports sedan to emerge, a flip of the mode switch to Sports Plus will pull all the power from the mob of 360 horses milling around in the 4.8 liter, four cam, 32-valve V8 married to a eightspeed sequential transmission. Yeah, man! We have to love that in a car this gorgeous, graced with every blessed accouterment an automobile could possibly want. Nevertheless, this is hardly a car one buys to drive – it is an executive sedan bought to be chauffeured about in and all one needs to confirm this is a ride in the back seat. Here passengers have complete control of the climate and audio settings for the whole car, but also occupy seats that recline and offer multimode lumbar massage. You are familiar with dual climate controls, no? How about four separate climate control zones? How about heated and cooled seats front and back? In fact, parents who have spent most of their early lives ferrying their offspring to this event or that lesson, might buy one of these so their teenage son or daughter could drive them about as they learn to drive under the watchful eye of the parents. Besides, the young knuckleheads will be learning in one of the safest cars on the road, with a plethora of safety systems to balance the youthful driver’s lack of
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experience. Meanwhile, you will be in control of the stereo, your own climate, enjoying a massage to lessen the stress of a teen driver – plus there’s a cold box behind the center armrest to keep your spirits chilled – just in case a stiff jolt is required in response to the driving habits of the young or whoever is in the driver’s seat. In addition, studies have proven heated and cooled seats increase mileage because people tend to run heaters and air conditioning less when they are on. Then there are powered window shades, including a small triangular one to cover the batwing portion of the rear window. (That’s what the small, swing open window in front of the roll down one was called in pre-90’s vehicles. They were
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handy to have in the days before almost all cars started to come with air conditioning!) Back in the front seat, the 2014 Lexus 2014 LS460 AWD is a sheer joy to drive, comfortable and quiet when so set, but sporty and exhilarating in the Sport mode, too. It accelerates quickly and handles like a well-trained Quarter horse. We especially liked the 12-inch wide display screen, which could be split into two data fields, such as the map plus audio or climate info. The screen can also be set to display only one selected field as desired. Listening to the 19-speaker Mark Levinson surround sound system is like driving around in a concert hall – except no building ever looked this good on the highway.
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The 2014 Lexus LS460 AWD gets from 18 to 23-mpg in town and on the road, and is so quiet inside it’s very easy to hear yourself think – a rare thing in today’s fast paced world. It has a base price of $75,085 and with all the mentioned options and some we didn’t, it comes to $90,444 including destination charges. That may be a lot of money for a car, but this is a lot of car for the money – that’s the best way we can put it. Or perhaps, we could simply state – we wish we had a teenager who would drive us around in the back seat of the world’s best touring car – the 2014 Lexus LS460 AWD. You need to ride in one to believe it and make sure you’re in the back seat!
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By Robert Sweeney
Advice from my mother My mother taught me many life lessons and some of them have stayed with me all my life. First, she didn’t teach me to hate anyone, a virtue that I have followed most of my life. Secondly, she always said, “If you can’t say anything good about someone, don’t say anything at all.” This has been good advice, not always followed, but I have tried most of the time. Now in politics, it seems the thrust of both campaigns is to say the worst possible things about the other candidate on the proven premise that negative advertising works better than positive ads. I find these ads insulting by both parties, each are guilty of looking for personal and political flaws and then embellishing them with untruths, exaggerations and ancient history – anything to sway a mind and pick up another vote. In a long career of covering politics and politicians, I’ve never seen this media blitz worse, or more abused. We have the spe-
cial political action groups that hide behind special names that just spew out the venomous propaganda. Most of my life, living in various Colorado congressional districts, running for Congress or being elected to Congress or the U.S. Senate was a great honor. Political parties bestowed this privilege to the best leaders, outstanding party workers, and men and women who had excelled in government, industry or both. I’m thinking of Sen. Bill Armstrong, who is now president of Colorado Christian University, who has had such an honorable and successful career and is still serving the public as a great university leader. It was a coveted honor to be nominated, to run for office and to win or lose on one’s merits. Generally, one had to live in the district, city and county or state where seeking office. There is another old adage that you have to win at home, before going elsewhere. Your neighbors know you best and if you can’t get the close-in votes, it is doubtful that a candidate will go very far in the political world. You have to get the support of your hometown. However, we now live in a new world with social media including Facebook, blogs and Twitter; maybe the address doesn’t matter, but it really does! I think that Gov. Hickenlooper and challenger Bob Beauprez have been trying to keep their campaigns on target, but as the race gets tighter, the advertisements start to become nastier. I especially like the Hickenlooper
ad where he is hustling food in a restaurant and busy serving all the customers and taking a plate back from a patron who apparently didn’t like the meal. I get the feeling that Gov. Hickenlooper doesn’t care for politics very much anymore. Even the ad has him featured in the restaurant business where he evolved becoming the very successful mayor of Denver, a nonpartisan elected position. I think that he is really tired of politics, the bickering, the constant drumbeat of critics and the controversies over so many issues. All of this for the meager salary of $75,000, among the lowest in the nation. Hickenlooper may prefer to go back into business where he feels more comfortable and rewarded for his efforts. The race has really been his to win or lose. Regarding Beauprez, he really wants the job and is well qualified and chopping at the bit to become the next governor, and he may get his wish. Lastly, most cities would love to have a sitting congressman born and raised in the city. Aurora has such a person in native son Mike Coffman, a longtime resident of Aurora who has a distinguished career in local government. He is a fiscal conservative, war veteran, and really dedicated to attempting to solve the very serious federal government $17 trillion debt. He’s fighting to save the fiscal future for our grandchildren and us. He is really good at money matters and did a great job as state treasurer before going off to Congress. He was the man who
Mike Coffman for Congress REMARKS
By Mort Marks
Thank you once again Mike – thank you – thank you – thank you for your years of service not only to your own hometown of Aurora, but also to our state and to our country. Wow – I had to run the calendar all the way back to 1972 to find when you first started to serve us – it was 42 years ago when you first enlisted in the United States Army. I guess the Army wasn’t tough enough for you, so seven years later you transferred to the Marines where you climbed the ladder and became a Marine officer
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in 1983. In 1990, you saw active service in the Gulf War as a Marine combat infantry officer and then in 2005’s Iraq War your political experience helped for the “Independent Electoral commission of Iraq” which set up that country’s first free election. If military service weren’t enough, you found time from your own business in Aurora, to serve our state from 1989 to 1994 as an elected representative in Colorado’s House of Representatives and then in 1994 you were elected state Senator and served until 1998 when you were elected as Colorado’s state treasurer – reelected in 2002 until 2006 – when you were then elected Colorado’s secretary of state. In 2008, you were elected to Congress from the 6th Congressional District and re-elected in 2010 and 2012 because voters of both parties recognized that over the years you represented them well fighting for the following causes – economic growth, energy, agriculture, veterans, small business, transportation, national security, health care, education, and our Constitution’s Second
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Amendment – in fact, Mike is the ONE we can count on to oppose the Obama/Bloomberg gun control agenda. Mike, we all recognized how hard you fought in Congress for tax cuts that would lead to economic growth and job creations. And – when it came to energy, you were a leader in pushing for the development of American energy – oil, wind, solar, bio-fuels and hydropower – all of which are necessary to end our reliance on imported oil. Speaking of leadership – you, Congressman Mike Coffman, have shown real leadership in your handing of our country’s VA hospital problems. Late last year, you sponsored and introduced into the House of Congress H.R. 3593, the “VA Construction Assistance Act,” which would not only speed up the construction of Aurora’s VA development, but also the VA’s developments in New Orleans and Orlando. In addition, you made sure that your bill would also rein in the enormous cost over runs that have occurred in the construction of those VA hospitals.
saved the failing St. Vrain School District from bankruptcy. His opponent moved into Aurora last year from Denver with a distinguished career as a handpicked candidate to oppose Coffman in the newly redistricted seat, including more Remocrats in the northern part of Aurora. Andrew Romanoff should move back to Denver and replace Congresswoman Diana DeGette, who has served two decades since replacing Pat Schroeder in the mid-90s. He is the logical successor to Denver’s sitting congressional leader when she gives up the seat. These members of Congress build up seniority and receive key congressional committee appointments. This benefits the district and state where they hail from. Both DeGette and Coffman have major seniority within their respective party ranks. Romanoff’s time is when DeGette retires, not to replace Aurora’s Coffman and the only recent combat veteran serving in the entire Congress. Aurora shouldn’t hand over leadership to a Denverite when we have a hometown boy on the ticket, regardless of party affiliation. Romanoff needs to go home to Denver and wait for DeGette to give up her successful career and win that race. We might imagine that is what he might do should he fail in the race in Aurora. If he wins, Denver will have two congressional representatives and Aurora really none. Anyway, that’s how I see these races, my mother would be proud of me.
Congratulations must go to YOU because just a few weeks ago on Sept. 16, your bill passed in the House – it actually passed without one dissenting vote – it passed unanimously. Congressman Coffman, you have served us well – very well and have certainly earned our vote for re-election. P.S. Two new items have just come to my attention: First one: It was reported that Andrew Romanoff and Nancy Pelosi were planning on spending $2 million to lie about Mike’s position on abortion in the case of rape. Contrary to the Pelosi-Romanoff ad, Mike does not support a ban on abortion in the case of rape, incest and life of the mother. The Denver Post reported to have refused the ad because it is in their words “incorrect.” I would say it is a lie. Second item: The Hispanic Business Roundtable Institute just endorsed Mike Coffman for Congress. Mike Coffman certainly does deserve both their vote and our votes for his re-election to Congress.
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Days of Awe
Called the “Days of Awe”, the span of time in between the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the 2014 Babi Yar Memorial was commemorated on Sept. 28 at Denver’s Babi Yar Park, marking the 73rd anniversary of the atrocities of the Holocaust that occurred in Kiev, Ukraine, and USSR.
Babi Yar Memorial marks 73rd anniversary of Holocaust tragedies
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The Memorial entry of Denver’s Babi Yar Park
Peter Caamano of Littleton and Jeffry Whiteside of Cherry Hills Village listen to the recollection of the events of the Holocaust at Babi Yar.
Paula King came directly from the Race for the Cure in a “Double Mitzvah,” as she put it, of remembering those who’ve lost their lives to cancer and the Holocaust.
Jessica Milstein with Denver City Council Candidate for District 4 Halisi Vinson and Colorado State Rep. Paul Rosenthal
Candidate Kendra Black with Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher and former Colorado State Sen. Joyce Foster
Four generations of the Milstein Family listen to solemn music of recollection.
Olga Vayber with Yefim Vayber, who at age 4 escaped on the very last train out of Kiev before the train station was bombed.
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23rd Race for the Cure Continued from Page 1
Posters encouraging women to have mammograms for early detection were placed along the 5K Race.
Hundreds of helium-filled pink balloons float above the 23rd annual Race for the Cure on Sept. 28, forming the breast cancer awareness logo.
Members of the sponsoring 9NEWS morning team stand with some of the race participants after the Race for the Cure. Photos by Tom Barry
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· MAKE LESS TRASH · KEEP THE STREET CLEAN · · · HELP MAKE COMPOST · Participants in the 23rd annual Race for the Cure stopped along the way to take photos at the “Banner of Bras” signs promoted by Alice radio.
Compost Your Leaves at Free Drop Sites
More than 30,000 runners and walkers participated in the 2014 Race for the Cure that began and ended at the Pepsi Center on Sept. 28.
WEEKENDS: SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS NOV. 1 - 16, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Unlike plastic bags, paper bags can be composted along with the leaves, saving time and energy. Starting October 1, 2014, Denver residents can pick up a FREE 5-pack of leaf & yard paper bags at participating Denver Ace Hardware stores with a coupon.
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Walkers decked out in anything and everything pink participate in the Race for the Cure traipsing the 5K course in perfect weather along Colfax Avenue.
Cherry Creek Transfer Station 7301 E. Jewell Ave. (Quebec St. & Cherry Creek Dr. South)
We’ll compost Jack-O-Lanterns and pumpkins after Halloween too!
Visit DenverGov.org/LeafDrop for a list of participating Ace Hardware stores and to print your free paper bag coupon. (No purchase necessary, while supplies last, limit one free pack per household. Additional bags can be purchased for about $2.50 per 5-pack at any Ace Hardware Store.)
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‘JOHN DENVER Tribute for Wilderness’ With 1,000 John Fielder photographs and the John Adams Band
The 2013 debut of the JOHN DENVER Tribute at Ellie Caulkins Opera House was a huge success. John Fielder and the John Adams Band will return in 2014, this time at the Buell Theatre, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. This year’s performance celebrates the 50th anniversary of America’s Wilderness Act and features new Fielder wilderness photographs from Colorado and beyond. On a 30-foot screen above the stage of Denver’s 2,800-seat Buell Theatre, Fielder will project and choreograph 40 years of his nature
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ‘Over the River and Through the Woods’
Oct. 3 – 26, Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 6:30 p.m., Shaver-Ramsey Showroom, 2414 E. 3rd Ave., Denver. Nick is a nice, single, Italian-American boy from Jersey who dines with both sets of grandparents every Sunday. This Sunday he has to break the news that he has been offered his longawaited dream job…2,000 miles from Hoboken in Seattle. They go into full action to find a way to keep Nick at home, even to the extent of finding him true love. Tickets 303800-6578 or www.cherrycreektheatre.org
‘A Night in New Orleans’
Oct. 10, 8 p.m., Main Stage, Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Featuring the Columbus Jazz Orchestra with internationally renowned trumpeter Byron Stripling. Tickets: 720-509-1007 or www. lonetreeartscenter.org.
Harland Williams at Comedy Works South
Oct. 10 - 11, Comedy Works South at the Landmark, 5345 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village. Comedian and actor Harland Williams is known for his hilarious movie roles and outlandish stand-up and sketch comedy routines seen on Letterman, The Tonight Show, Conan, HBO, Comedy Central. Tickets at www.comedyworks.org.
‘First Night: Masquerade!
Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Special preHalloween performance by the Denver Brass.
photography to the words and music of the great John Denver. Since John Denver’s untimely death on Oct. 12, 1997, John Adams and his nine-member band have committed themselves to keeping John Denver’s music alive, much to the appreciation of John Denver’s family, friends and fans all over the world. Adams has performed the music of John Denver for 40 years. The 2014 performance will feature Fielder’s images of wilderness areas in the National Wilderness Preservation System from Colorado to Alaska. He has photographed all of Colorado’s 43 areas, including the Maroon-Bells-Snowmass and Mount Zirkel wildernesses. You will see breathtaking photographs under the full moon, and at sunset and sun-
rise of the Bridger and Popie Agie wildernesses in Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains. You will witness the Olympic coast of Washington state, the Sierra Nevada of California, Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, and the fiords of Alaska’s Inside Passage, all federally designated wilderness. Fielder chooses the perfect images to marry with 24 John Denver songs including Rocky Mountain High, Annie’s Song and Sunshine on My Shoulders. The John Adams Band only performs their tribute concerts the way John Denver did. Adams keeps the arrangements unchanged, which is possible through his dedicated group of musicians, whose goal it is to make every concert memorable
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Course, Douglas County. Hike or jog the cart paths and enjoy the beauty of the high plains ecosystem and spectacular views of the Front Range. Pre-registration required, 720-4883344.
Swallow Hill Music’s 35th Anniversary Celebration
Oct. 11, 6 p.m. Workshops, 7:30 p.m. Concert, The Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver. Featuring Josh Ritter with Brett Dennen and more. Tickets www. paramountdenver.com/box-office or 866461-6556.
‘Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures, Dvorák & Ravel’
Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Colorado Christian University Music Center, 9200 W. Ellsworth, Lakewood; October 18, 7:30 p.m. Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 East Alameda Ave, Denver. Explore one of Respighi’s greatest works, the trilogy of tone poems evoking the beauty of three iconic paintings by Sandro Botticelli, of Florence’s Uffizzi Gallery. 7 p.m., Insights pre-concert chat hosted by David Rutherford each evening. Free to ticket holders Tickets at augustanaarts.org or 303-388-4962.
CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS Colorado Civil Justice League Legislative Awards
Oct. 8, Doors open 11:30 a.m.; Luncheon noon, Four Seasons Hotel, Cottonwood Ballroom, 1111 14th St., Denver. Featured Speaker: The Honorable John W. Suthers, Colorado Attorney General. Honoring Outstanding State Legislators with the Common Sense in the Courtroom Award. Info@ccjl.org.
EVENTS Hike the Sanctuary Golf Course
Oct. 4, 9 a.m. – noon, Sanctuary Golf
Family Workshop: Pumpkin Carving for Día de los Muertos
Oct. 11, 2-4 p.m., Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver. Fee charged. Families carve pumpkins with Día de los Muertos stencils to honor loved ones who have passed. The workshop is led by Barry Brown, a master pumpkin carver who has been featured on David Letterman, The Tonight Show and Good Morning America. Each family receives one pumpkin, a pattern and a mini-kit of Barry’s favorite carving tools. Visit denverartmuseum.org.
Hudson Gardens FestiFall
Oct. 11, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Hudson Gardens, 6115 S Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Festivities include live owl presentations, story times, pumpkin patch and straw bale maze explorations, educational demonstrations, craft stations, music, food trucks. Pumpkins will also be for sale while supplies last. Admission is $3/person for ages two and older (children ages 1 and younger are free). Walk-up admission only, no preregistration. Info: Education Department at 303-797-8565 x306.
FUNDRAISERS Free to Breath Lung Cancer 5K Run/Walk
Oct. 5, 7:30 a.m., Washington Park, 701 S. Franklin St., Denver. Register at www. freetobreathe.org.
John Fielder and the John Adams Band return at the Buell Theatre, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m., for JOHN DENVER Tribute for Wilderness. Courtesy photo
and magical. Part of the profits from ticket sales return to organizations like the Wilderness Society, Sierra Club and Conservation Colorado in order that they can continue their work to
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Oct. 5, 7:30 a.m. registration, 10K run, 8:30 a.m., 5K Run/Walk, 9 a.m., Hudson Gardens, 6115 S Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Fundraiser for the Denver Street School Hope Campus. Register or sponsor a runner at www.thejusticerun.com.
Sweet Charity Brunch and Auction
Oct. 18. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Live Auction at 9:30 a.m., Calvary Baptist Church, 6500 E. Girard, Denver. Bake Sale, Silent Auction, Live Auction, Boutique, and a brunch catered by A Taste of the Season. Funds philanthropic projects that include: Autism Speaks, the Boys and Girls Club of Denver, FACES (Family Advocacy, Care, Education, Support) and the Family Crisis Center. Tickets: Barbara Vietti, 6245 W. Coal Mine Place, Littleton, CO 80128; bvietti@comcast.net or 303-979-7561.
‘The Great Pumpkin Haul’
Oct. 19, 9:30 a.m., Chatfield Botanic Gardens, 8500 Deer Canyon Road, Littleton. A two-mile jaunt through forests, open fields, over hay bales with participants carrying their very own personal pumpkins. Before the “Haul” participants will have a chance to go pick out a pumpkin from Chatfield’s pumpkin patch, where it is weighed and marked. Awards for the fastest hauler, to the hauler carrying the heaviest pumpkin, a costume contest and also a “double hauler baler” category for those brave enough to take on two pumpkins solo. After the Haul participants will enjoy hot apple cider, seasonal brews from local Colorado Microbreweries, music, and discounted tickets to the annual corn maze. The Great Pumpkin Haul benefits Camp Como, a charity that organizes outdoor adventures and camps to get kids outside and active! Info/ registration: www.thegreat pumpkinhaul.com.
Oct. 8, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., South Denver Heart Center, 1000 Southpark Drive, Littleton. Free Heart Health nutrition class (s) and cooking demonstration with Richard Collins, M.D. “The Cooking Cardiologist,” along with Susan Buckley, RD, CDE. For more information or to register call 303-744-1065, www.southdenver.com.
LECTURES ‘150th Anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre: The Descendants’ Voices’ Nov. 2, 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Jeff Campbell, historian at the National Park Service Sand Creek Massacre site, will give an introduction and overview of the Sand Creek Massacre and introduce Karen Little Coyote (Cheyenne) and Al Addison (Arapahoe) who will share the stories of their ancestors, the fate of their tribes and the impact of the massacre on tribal relations today. There will be a free afternoon session hosted at the Denver Public Library and an evening lecture at The Fort, accompanied by a prix fixe, three-course dinner. Tickets for the evening lecture may be purchased at www. tesoroculturalcenter.org.
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A Ranch in Wyoming and Utah: The Chapmans
By Anna Lee – Ames used to repair the hastily done Frohlich railroad bed in Echo Canyon afhere are many won- ter the meeting of the tracks in derful western stories 1869. No excavators were used in my family’s history. in building the Central Pacific, The dearest to my but a recently unearthed article heart has always been the story from 1900 tells of eight excaof my family’s ranch in Wyoming vators being brought to work and Utah. near Tie Siding, Wyo. One opTo understand why the Chap- erator spoke of running one on man brothers George Frederic, the Laramie Plains in 1868 and my great grandfather, and his 1869. younger brother James Edwin This may have been one menas well as their brothers Oliver tioned by contractor Hoxie when Everett and William Otis, found he said, “On heavy cuts two diftheir way to Evanston, Wyoming ferent models of excavators were Territory and on into Utah, one used with success, but the tools needs to know a little about their were primitive at best. Every father Oliver Smith Chapman. mile of the Union Pacific would O.S. Chapman of Canton, Mass., rely less on machines than on the was a close friend of the Ames sweat, stamina and muscle of the brothers of nearby North Easton, men who built it.” Mass. Oakes and Oliver Ames In 1870, one excavator was became involved in building the being used in the building of Union Pacific, and shortly there- the UP bridge over the Misafter Chapman became a mem- souri River at Council Bluffs ber of the UP Board of Directors. that was finished in 1872. In He also served as a surveyor on 1872 an Otis/Chapman excavathe line. tor was used in building a never Oliver Chapman became in- completed spur of the Colorado volved in the development of Central RR from Julesburg to the steam shovel, or excavator, Golden. It may have been the and the maker of steam shovels first in Colorado, and it was one and the maker of the sturdiest that could move of its own voliof regular hand shovels (Oliver tion, the product of one of ChapAmes) became fast friends. man’s last patents. Chapman’s first cousin WilConsidering Oliver Chapliam Smith Otis received a pat- man’s interest in western railent for the steam excavator in roads and railroading equipFebruary 1839. Otis died later ment, it is not surprising that his that year at only 26 years old. His widow Elizabeth Everett Otis worked with others who had an interest in the patent for the excavator to produce the early examples. A few years later, Oliver Smith Chapman, a widower by then, married Elizabeth. He gradually gained control of the patent and until 1874 was largely responsible for further development of the excavator. John Souther of Boston built many of the later models. He was The children of George F. and Eliza Chapman: the builder of the Elizabeth Louise (my grandmother), George O t i s / C h a p m a n Hobart, Clara “Ruth” and Edwin F. in their Courtesy photos excavator that was Evanston home, c.1892.
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1025 Summit, 1890, Sanborn maps
sons later headed westward too. After the death of his father, Oliver Smith Chapman, on Feb.8, 1877, George Frederic Chapman (b. Sept. 14, 1860 in Canton, Mass.) attended the Massachusetts Mechanical University of Technology (later the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He graduated in 1878 and then went to Omaha, accompanied by his cousin Spencer Otis, to be trained by the Union Pacific to work in the
railroad shops. In 1880 he was sent to the shops in Evanston. A picture taken as they were leaving Omaha is signed by George, “Brace Wyo.” On Oct. 10, 1882, George F. Chapman married Eliza Maria Capen, who was born in Canton, Mass. July 22, 1859. After their wedding, Eliza appears to have stayed in Canton for the birth of their daughter Clara “Ruth” Chapman in 1886. There is no record of whether she ever even
George F. Chapman and Spencer Otis on their way from Omaha to Evanston.
visited Wyoming until after Ruth’s birth. Meanwhile, George Chapman was working in the Union Pacific shops in Evanston. At the same time he was establishing a ranch in Rich County, Utah Territory. Because of the Union Pacific, he could have easily made visits to see Eliza in Massachusetts. In 1887, Eliza finally moved to Evanston after the birth of their daughter Ruth. On Oct.16, 1886, George purchased residential property in Evanston. He bought Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 in block #1 of Morse’s second addition and built Eliza a house on lots 2 & 3 at 1025 Summit. Over the next four years, George and Eliza had three more children, all born in Evanston: George Hobart Chapman (b. 1887), Elizabeth Louise Chapman, my grandmother (b. Nov. 23,1888), and Edwin F. Chapman (b. 1891). Elizabeth (Beth) Chapman wrote in her memoirs, “Now with 87 years behind me, I spend much of my time thinking of the past. I certainly had a variety. People say I couldn’t remember anything at the age of 2 when I stood on the piazza of our home in Evanston waiting for my brother and sister to return from the ranch to tell them that we had a baby brother.” George Chapman and his family were settling into Wyoming and the ranch in Utah.
Eliza Maria Capen, wedding portrait. The latest in French fashion, 1882.
© Anna Lee Ames Frohlich
Your Weekly Horoscope – By Gren Chatworth LIBRA (Sept 23 – Oct 22) Your good judgment will see you through this period very safely. Any clash of personalities with Scorpio or Leo would be just plain nonsense right now.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) If you do something constructive, and not indulge in a “wild time” you will gain this week. You could make the mistake of a lifetime if you’re not careful.
GEMINI (May 21 – June 20) Guard against temper tantrums and unruly behavior this week. Sometimes a chaotic workspace is not conductive to daily progress and steady growth. Get your work patter sorted out.
SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) This week you will be dealing with stubborn people who may realize you are a friend instead of the enemy. Show a little self-restraint but don’t overdo it.
PISCES (Feb 19 – March 20) An exciting and highly entertaining time is indicated in the general chart for Pisces. Others may turn to you for advice. Be sure to treat them with courtesy and respect. Have fun.
CANCER (June 21 – July 22) Try to avoid getting forced into premature decisions by maintaining an air of quiet assurance. In other words become more proficient in your work and more assurance in your domestic life.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) Channel your energies very carefully at this time. There are some splendid opportunities coming up that will challenge your ability to understand the pattern of “human behavior”.
ARIES (March 21 – April 19) Perhaps you should lower your expectations in solving your relationship riddles. Give others the freedom and breathing room you would relish for yourself. Take it easy!
LEO (July 23 – Aug 22) A disorganized home reflects a haphazard lifestyle. Be the master of efficiency in deciding what to keep and what to relinquish. Perhaps a good cleanup in the New Year will be a stepping-stone to new direction and purpose.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) many persons will be looking to you for “guidance “ during the next couple of weeks. Be gracious, considerate and thoughtful in all your dealings with others and you will gain much.
TAURUS (April 20 – May 20) Time to chart a new course to physical and financial well-being. If health problems persist – think of seeing an acupuncturist or masseuse for alternative remedies. The New Year will be kinder to you.
VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sept 22) Working harmoniously with others this week could be very beneficial to you. Sparring with your co-workers can leave you feeling in over your head in emotional waters. No one will gain under these circumstances.
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By Cathleen Norman olorado is famed for towering peaks, but the eastern one-third of our state is horizontal. Our Eastern Plains are often overlooked as a vast vacant space, but the region is an important part of the Colorado story and gaining a renewed appreciation for its agricultural abundance. Eastern Colorado is part of the High Plains, together with west Kansas, west Nebraska and west New Mexico stretching from the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles into lower Wyoming and South Dakota. And the High Plains form the western edge of the enormous Great Plains that extend from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River between Mexico and Canada. Eastern Colorado is defined by its two major rivers, the Arkansas and the South Platte, each contributing to agriculture enterprise. Viewed as vacant today, Colorado’s eastern plains were a busy place during the earliest settlement of this region. Two hundred years ago, the plains were the domain of the nomadic Cheyenne and Arapaho, who subsisted by hunting the enormous buffalo herds. Spanish explorers and conquerors, who had come north from present-day Mexico in the 1600s, had introduced the horse to these native peoples. Mounted on horseback, the plains tribes ranged further and more freely. Trappers, traders and explorers followed either the South Platte or the Arkansas River west, departing from St. Louis or Kansas City. In 1820, the Stephen H. Long exploration party followed the South Platte (Niinéniiniicíihéhe’ in Arapaho) upriver to where it emerges from the Waterton Canyon, then turned south along the Front Range to Pikes Peak. The explorer’s mapmaker labeled the empty arid region “The Great American Desert,” and Lt. Long proclaimed the area “uninhabitable for people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.” Fur trappers found the Rocky Mountain waterways thriving with beaver. Fur traders developed trading posts and forts on the Arkansas and the South Platte and their tributaries: adobe-brick structures used more for commerce than defense. Beginning in the 1820s, the Santa Fe Trail passed through southeastern Colorado bringing goods to the trading centers at Taos and Santa Fe. Discovery of gold in 1858, where the Cherry Creek and the South Platte merge, sparked a major rush across the plains. Thousands of wealth seekers crossed the 600- to 700-mile expanse “by hoof, foot or stage.” Most followed the South Platte River road west from Nebraska Territory. Wagon trains of prairie schooners also departed from Kansas City, Westport and Lawrence over the lesser-traveled Smoky Hill Trail (the mid-point nicknamed “Starvation Trail”) towards beckoning Pikes Peak. The fledgling villages of Auraria and Denver City (the latter described as a “huddle of log cabins, every other building a saloon”) sprang up near the Cherry Creek gold strike. Soon, the start of the Civil War reversed the influx from the East, but the Homestead Act of 1862 opened the door for cultivation of the plains region.
Sugar beets were a huge Colorado crop in the first decades of the 20th century, processed at plants like this one in Sugar City in southeast Colorado. Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, X-13729
The Indian War of 1864 temporarily stalled immigration and settlement in Colorado Territory. The tribes cut telegraph wires, attacked wagon trains and burned Julesburg to the ground. The Sand Creek Massacre in November 1864 contributed the end of the Indians’ presence on the Colorado plains. Tribes were forced onto reservations. The demise of the buffalo herds and construction of the trans-continental railroad helped complete American conquest of the region. Colorado’s Eastern Plains became a livestock corridor during the 1880s. Massive cattle drives followed the famed GoodnightLoving Trail, bringing beef-onthe-hoof from arid Texas north to Montana’s grassy pastures. Farming, barbed-wire fencing and several wicked winters put an end to the cattle drives and huge ranching enterprises. The plains became an opportunity rather than obstacle by the 1890s, as a “land rush” of homesteaders spread across eastern Colorado. Many families arrived in a train
boxcar loaded with all their belongings. These land seekers included many European immigrants, such as Scandavanians and the Germans from Russia, who dreamt of property ownership unachievable in their homeland. The settlers plowed and planted the plains and prairie, and they built dugouts, “soddies” and shanties to “prove up” their homestead claim. In 1909, the Enlarged Homestead Act spurred further settlement by doubling the size of homestead claims from 160 to 320 acres in arid western regions. Farming flourished on the High Plains during the 1910s thanks to a short spurt of wet summers. Agricultural demand spiked during World War I, but afterwards over-production shrank the profits for food crops, especially corn and grain. The Dust Bowl dealt an agonizing blow to farming and ranching on the High Plains. Homesteading and farming removed prairie grasses, exposing the topsoil to ferocious winds that created the Dust Bowl calamity.
During this era of agriculture, railroads played a critical role in settling eastern Colorado. By 1876 statehood, Colorado had several major lines connecting us to the East. The trans-continental railroad skirted Colorado but an extension of the Union Pacific connected Denver and Cheyenne. The Santa Fe railroad crossed the Kansarado border in 1873 and followed the Arkansas River west through the fertile river valley. The Missouri Pacific laid tracks across the plains east from St. Louis. In state, the Colorado & Southern Railway served the sugar beet industry in Longmont and Loveland and Fort Collins. Local spurs also cropped up for lumber, sugar beet processing and quarrying. Motorized transportation kept pace too. Farm-to-market roads built for wagons became paved for automobiles. A coast-to-coast highway completed in the 1920s brought motorists across the plains and into the Rocky Mountains. Some local roads were paved as WPA projects during the Great Depression. By
Agricultural still dominates the many eastern Colorado towns, such as Brush shown here with its trackside grain elevators. Photo by Cathleen Norman
the 1960s, several interstate highways spanned the Great Plains. Despite modest precipitation, eastern Colorado is a major agricultural area, relying upon the underlying High Plains aquifer as a principal water source. Cultivation proved challenging, achieved by dryland farming, irrigation and water pumped from the aquifer. Traditional crops included corn, hay, sugar beets, melons and broom straw. Much of eastern Colorado remains farmland today, with many small family-owned operations, some in the same family for generations. Major field crops include corn, wheat, millet, oats, soybeans, barley and sunflowers. Stock raising consists of beef, pork, poultry and dairy farming. Cities like Greeley and La Junta became agricultural hubs with feedlots, slaughter houses and meat packing plants as well as shipping capacity to urban centers elsewhere. A wonderful legacy of plains farming and ranching is agricultural architecture. Windmills, barns and stock corrals accentuate the barren landscape. Historic farmsteads, ranches, granges and one-room schoolhouses – often abandoned – stand out on the empty plains. Grain elevators cluster by the railroad tracks, holding harvested grain for bulk shipment to wholesalers, exporters and local flourmills, feed lots and breweries. Each town has its spindly-legged tower that stores water pumped from the aquifer for businesses and residents’ use. In today’s local-focused marketplace, regional agriculture is again important. Farmers markets thrive from May into October. Agri-tourism is a popular trend with locally cultivated pick-your-own pumpkin patches, vegetable gardens and orchards. In September, thousands of bicyclists ride the 176-mile loop through Fort Morgan, Brush, and Wiggins for the second annual Pedal the Plains event that culminates in Sugar Beet Days in Sterling.
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S. UNIVERSITY & COUNTY LINE
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HWY 6 & 50
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WESTMINSTER
FORT COLLINS
GILBERT, AZ
I-25 AND HWY. 14
4700 S Power Rd., Gilbert, AZ 85296 (202 (Santan Freeway) and S. Power Rd.)
S.W. LAKEWOOD
GLENWOOD SPRINGS
GLENDALE, AZ
(303) 933-3975
(970) 928-9422
94th & WADSWORTH
(303) 425-4359
5390 S. WADSWORTH BLVD.
(970) 221-1981 3200 S. GLEN AVE.
480-500-4121
5801 N. 99th Ave., Glendale, AZ 85305 (101 & Bethany Home Rd.)
602-422-8800
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