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“It was kinda sad that I didn’t get the job. But I’m young, and probably I need to stay in school a little bit longer.” Eli Navant, 9, who applied to fill the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s chief curator position. As a consolation, he was an honorary chief curator on Friday.
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Inside the big-bone room at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Eli Navant, 9, and Joe Sertich, curator of vertebrate paleontology, talk fossils Friday. When the museum launched a search for a chief curator, Eli submitted a résumé for the job. Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post
One-day gig to dig By Claire Martin The Denver Post
Most 9-year-olds might think of a job as a one-off — helping clean the garage or wash the car — or as a weekly chore, accompanied by appropriate compensation in the high single digits. Not Eli Navant, who attends third grade at Kyffin Elementary School. When he learned last November that the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was looking for a new chief curator to replace Kirk Johnson, who decamped to the National Museum of Natural History, Eli decided to apply for the position. As a longtime member and regular museum visitor,
Eli knew his way around both its cavernous rooms and odd nooks. As an aspiring paleontologist with some experience at finding fossils and bones, he thought he could handle supervising digs, especially with the help of Joe Sertich and Ian Miller, two paleontology curators he particularly admires. He even had an ace reference in his pocket: paleontologist Robert Bakker, whose theories helped reshape how scientists interpret dinosaur biology. True, Eli knew Bakker only through a Boulder museum event, where Bakker supervised an in-house mini-dig, but still.
decatur, texas» Detectives investigating a parolee who led them on a wild chase and shootout recovered Hornady 9mm bullet casings — the same brand and caliber as those used by the gunman who killed Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements. Texas Ranger Anthony Bradford described the casings in an application to search Evan Ebel’s 1991 Cadillac DeVille. In addition, the suspect in the Sunday slaying of pizza-delivery driver Nathan Leon was “reportedly driving a black 1991 passenger vehicle,” Bradford noted in the application, obtained Friday by The Denver Post. “During the investigation at the crime scene in Wise County, (Bradford) noted a Domino’s Pizza carrier in the open trunk of the suspected vehicle and either a Domino’s Pizza shirt or jacket in close proximity to the pizza carrier,” the application read. Ebel fired a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun at Texas deputies, striking the windshield of one of their vehicles and the front bumper of another, the application said. Ebel quickly became the focus of investigations into the killings of Clements and Leon. He died shortly after the gun battle with Texas authorities Thursday. He was shot once in the forehead by deputies and was pronounced dead Thursday at 5:21 p.m., according to the Tarrant County coroner. Ebel, 28, had an extensive criminal record and was a member of the whitesupremacist prison gang known as the 211 Crew. PROBE » 13A
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