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s we roll into springtime, two for-rent residential projects are nearing completion, and an upscale forsale residential development approaches groundbreaking.

Lakehouse, South of Sloans Lake Rising soon from the fenced, vacant lot at 4202 W. 17th Ave. will be an “ideal urban oasis of private penthouses, condominiums and rowhomes,” a 12-story, 206-unit residential development called Lakehouse. Located on the “south shore of Sloan’s Lake,” the project is designed by architects RNL Design and Munoz + Albin, who term it a “consciously constructed blend of natural and modern with open designs that reflect water and wood, Continued on page 2

NOT QUITE SPRING YET. A recent warm and dry spell brought pedestrians, joggers, dogs and bicyclists to enjoy an outing around Sloans Lake. PHOTO BY SCOTT WESLEY

Bad Asstronauts to Open 40 West Arts District’s 2017 Art Walks n By

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bloom of giant jellyfish is expected to swarm the 40 West Arts District on Friday evening, March 3. Fake news it’s not. It’s the kick off of the District’s 2017 Art Walk events, featuring a performance-art group called The Bad Asstronauts, according to Liz Black, 40 West Arts District’s Executive Director. “We’re trying not just to create gallery exhibitions, but want folks to walk away with an experience,” said Black. “Maybe saying to themselves ‘that was a little different’.” The district-wide First Friday Art Walk celebration and opening reception for 40W's fifth annual Colfax Avenue exhibit, “Art of the Streets” takes place March 3, 5 to 8 p.m., at the 1560 Teller St. gallery. Multiple galleries, creative businesses & 40 West Studios will be open, showcasing artwork featuring elements of iconic Colfax Avenue that “inspire, intrigue, and even shock.” Free beer and wine, and “light bites” will be available at the free, family-friendly event. It’s the second year of District Art Walks, last year staged on the first Fridays of March, June and October. “We’re a community-based arts movement,” Black said. For a long time the 40 West Gallery – owned and operated by the District – was the only real gallery in the area. “We were starting to amass a number of galleries and creative businesses, and last year we decided we were ready to host an art walk, rather than just ‘First Friday’ openings.” Currently there are approximately 130 creative businesses in the district – not only galleries but also architecture firms, coffee shops and working studio spaces – and 140 artist members.

Although the District officially lies between Depew and Ammons streets, Blacks she considers the entire Lakewood West Colfax corridor to be a component of its mission and vision of artistic revitalization. “The core center of 40 West Arts District is 40 West Arts Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, and the five or so galleries and studios in this half-mile radius.” Last June, guests were invited to throw darts at paint-filled balloons attached

to 10-foot-tall, paper-draped sheets of plywood, creating colorful large artwork, said Black. Last October, 40 West Studios adopted a Dia de Muertos theme, with decorations, artists attired in long traditional dress with faces painted as skulls, and live music. Participating studios choose how to present the District mission. “It’s an opportunity to make their space more expansive… for people not to just to look at artwork on walls, but to experience.”

“This year we hope to go even bigger with bigger and experiential, interactive art,” said Black. “We want people to play with it, touch and dance around.” Inviting the Bad Asstronauts will do just that. “They’re jellyfish…live, large-scale jellyfish, walking around in a swarm,” is how Black described the performance artists. “We’ll be asking people, see if you can find Continued on page 4

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Edgewater Library Looking Forward to the Big Time n By

Nancy Hahn

dgewater Public Library is a busy little library, with the emphasis on both busy and little. The neighborhood streets leading to the 25th Avenue businesses have wide sidewalks, big trees, people on roller blades, and neighbors chatting while walking their dogs. There is a small-town feel and Edgewater Library is, also, very small. If you visit early in the day on a weekday, you are may see a mom with small children and a few adults. Space is very tight, but no one minds. Conversations start easily. People chat about books, but there are no easy gathering spaces. If you are there when schools end for the day, though, be prepared for a crowd. Edgewater becomes a busy, busy library. Four teenage girls sit at a tiny table with just enough room for the four tablets they are using. A group of middle-school boys stand between the bookshelves looking at magazines and talking about cars. Moms with school-age children are looking at picture books and easy-readers on the end row of bookshelves. EDGEWATER LIBRARY PATRONS AND STAFF look Edgewater Library is participating in the 1000 Books before

forward to having enough room for a childrens area. PHOTO: NANCY HAHN

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EDGEWATER LIBRARY is located at 5843 W. 25th Ave day, except Sunday. Patrons were pleased, also, when the library added tablets with hot spots. Edgewater had been the only branch without computers; There simply was no room for desktop computers. Then the city of Edgewater decided to build a community center. On Harlan Street between 17th Avenue and 18th Avenue, Edgewater will build the center with the city hall, the city court, the police station, a recreation center with a gym, and space for the Edgewater Library. The space will be huge, compared to the present tiny library. Without funds from the mill levy, it would be next-to-impossible to furnish the new space and fill it with books. Funds from the mill levy will furnish the new library with tables and shelves and other furniture. The shelves will be filled with a brand new collection of books. There will be space for new computers. Amy Beebe can’t wait to have a children’s area with children’s furniture that doesn’t have to be moved after Story Time. Edgewater Library is located at 5843 W. 25th Ave. For more information, call 303-235-5275 or visit jeffcolibrary.org.

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and we struggle to find the root cause and remedies for our ills. We struggle within ourselves, at the dinner table, in our e are all immigrants. Some of us are community, and beyond that hope lives indigenous and arrived thousands today and tomorrow. We all want a better of years ago. Some of us left our homeland life for ourselves, our families, and our to escape religious, ethnic or cultural communities across this great nation. We persecution. Some of us fled to escape can all agree to that, but to which path shall political or economic persecution. Some of we take? It shall be up to every single one of us arrived in chains and had no choice at all. us to decide, and wherever we may choose That is the story of us, America. to go, we shall find a struggle. History will lay bare the We shall struggle against the rich hypocrisy of our founding. It was and powerful. We shall struggle an Anglo-Saxon experiment, against the opportunists, the and all others were considered demagogues, the self-righteous, second-class citizens, or less. and all factions that spread hate We cannot wash away the stain and division. They shall claim this of slavery. We cannot deny country for themselves and tell westward expansion wiped out you which path to take. History thousands of native tribes. We portends such revelations. cannot pretend women had the Yet it is within the hypocrisy right to vote. We can no longer of our founding that I find hope. afford to dismiss the realities Kris Teegardin America is an ideal, and its values that many immigrants face cannot be owned by one group or another. when they arrive upon our shores. History America’s ideals are for all of humanity, and cannot lie, unless we ourselves choose to the history of our struggles to uphold and forget. advance those very ideals is self-evident. The The history of our nation is a story of ideal that our country was founded upon struggle and hope. Hope rests within us and Enlightened principles, and that Reason be our humanity. Struggle persists to make our guide. The ideal that Natural Rights and sure hope still lives. Every single one of us Liberty is for all, not the few. The ideal that has a story to share, and each voice carries we are self-governed, as our laws are crafted the weight of an entire country. We should and passed by our fellow citizens we choose listen to each other’s hopes and dreams. We to represent us. The ideals that those laws should learn from each other’s struggles. are just and fair for all. We are America, and We should know that blood, sweat and that is worth the struggle. tears have advanced this nation’s values and Contact Edgewater Mayor Kris Teegarideals. din at 720-568-0461 or kteegardin@edge Our country has been more divided waterco.com. in recent memory than we care to admit, n By

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o kick off the Edgewater Community Festival, we are organizing an Edgewater Talent Show for Friday night, May 12, at Jefferson Junior and Senior High School. This talent show will be open to all ages and performances in three categories: Variety, Voice and Music. Stay tuned to details on how you can enter this talent show! We are looking for some community

members who love music and would like to be involved in planning the talent show. The commitment for the planning team will just be a couple of hours to start and then you will have the option of helping with the actual event at a later date. If you would like to help plan this fun community event, contact Joel Newton at joel@edgewatercollective.org or 303-6580779. For more on the Edgewater Community Festival, visit edgewatercollective. org.

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his past spring as the graduates of Jefferson Junior and Senior High School paraded through the feeder elementary schools, they represented a major improvement in the educational outcomes of their school. In data just released from the Colorado Department of Education, Jefferson Junior and Senior High School’s graduation rate for the Class of 2016 jumped to 80 percent. This beats the state average of 78.9 percent. Jefferson’s graduation rate also surpasses that of Wheat Ridge High School down the street (77.5 percent). The 2016 graduation rate is a large increase from the 2015 graduation rate of 64.4 percent. Congratulations graduates, teachers,

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his month the Neighborhood Gazette interviewed Todd and Melissa Nieber of design studio MTN Creative. How did you get involved in this business? After graduating college with a degree in Mass Communication and Design, Todd began freelancing when friends and family members needed designs for their businesses. While working at different agencies, he always had a side project or two in the mix – which gave him the freedom to work with different clients in all types of industries – constantly keeping things fresh and inspirational. Todd has always been passionate about art, design and being creative in all aspects of life. Melissa has been working in the counseling and special education field for the past 10 years; growing up with entrepreneurial parents, she has always had the drive to start her own business. She started her first venture last summer, Morning Routine, featuring handmade nutritious breakfast and snack choices – check out her online store or visit her booth at the Edgewater Market & Music this summer! Melissa and Todd have always talked about starting their own design studio, and finally the timing worked out to take the leap. They are so thankful of the support from their community, family, friends and

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t was a beautiful fall day in 2004, Denver Public Schools was on fall break. Coach David Diaz had driven down to Castle Rock to have lunch with a former college teammate. He looked forward to reminiscing with his buddy over a Santiago’s smothered burrito. Little did he know he was about to have a life-changing experience. David had been contemplating a career change for nearly a year. His days were long, typically out his door at 7 a.m. and returning at 7 p.m. He had taught everything from Pre-Algebra to Calculus; he was the head baseball coach at North High School and held many leadership roles within his tenure. He was married in the spring, and his wife was four months pregnant. Coach Diaz had a lot on his mind. When he walked into his buddy’s personal training studio, a notion hit him like a bolt of lighting. This will be your next career move. He devoured his lunch while quizzing his friend about the personal training business. He went home and had a conversation with his wife, Aomi. She, as any great

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id you know that there is a ghost town right behind Casa Bonita known as Spivak? Ever wondered why the shopping center, now known as Lamar Station Plaza, was formerly known as JCRS? Behind the grounds and buildings of Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (RMCAD) lies a story of the Jewish community and their deep desire to care for those who were struggling against tuberculosis. The Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society (JCRS) was founded in 1904 as a sanatorium to treat patients with tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was the top killer of Americans at the turn of 20th century and doctors believed that the fresh air and sunshine of Colorado could help fight the disease. Even Doc Holliday of Tombstone fame sought the sun of Colorado in hopes it would cure his tuberculosis. Dr. Charles Spivak and Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, both Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, were the early leaders of

the society in Lakewood. JCRS was located north of Colfax Avenue from Pierce Street to Kendall Street. The campus grew to 148 acres and included 34 buildings with its own post office, synagogue and dairy farm. Throughout its 50-year history, JCRS provided free tuberculosis treatment for over 10,000 people With the growth of antibiotics, tuberculosis ceased to be a widespread health crisis and so in 1954 the Jewish Consumptive Relief Society changed its focus to cancer research and became known as the American Medical Center. In 1957, the property from Pierce Street to Kendall Street that sat on the north side of Colfax was sold to become the JCRS Shopping Center where Casa Bonita would open in 1974. In 2002, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design purchased the JCRS campus north of the shopping center. Finally, in 2014, Broad Street Realty purchased most of the JRCS Shopping Center and renamed it Lamar Station Plaza, reflecting the name of the RTD’s West Rail Line stop at Lamar Street.

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n March 24, Congressman Ed Perlmutter is hosting a Vietnam War 50th Commemoration Ceremony to honor all United States Vietnam-era Veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces between Nov. 1, 1955 and May 15, 1975, regardless of location. All Vietnam-era Veterans in Colorado are eligible to receive the Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pin and participate in the ceremony. Lapel pins can be awarded posthumously. This event will coincide with Vietnam Veterans Day, which is celebrated annually on March 29. An application, available on Perlmutter’s website, needs to be completed by March 1 to be considered for participation in the event. The 2008 National Defense Authorization Act authorized a program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War to honor Veterans of the Vietnam War and to highlight the service of the Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. In 2007, the 110th Congress incorporated language in H.R. 4986 authorizing the Secretary of Defense to conduct a program commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration began with the Presidential inaugural event at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day, May 28, 2012, and concludes on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2025, by Presidential Proclamation. For the purposes of this Commemoration, Nov. 1, 1955, to May 15, 1975, is the time period recognized to honor the service and sacrifice of those who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. Nov. 1, 1955, was selected to coincide with the official designation of Military Assistance Advisory Group-Vietnam (MAAG-V). May 15, 1975, marks the end of the battle precipitated by the seizure of the S.S. Mayaguez. U.S. involvement in Vietnam started slowly with an initial deployment of advisors in the early 1950s, grew incrementally through the early 1960s, and expanded with the deployment of full combat units in July 1965. The last U.S. personnel were evacuated from Vietnam in April 1975. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that today there are 7 million living Vietnam veterans and 9 million families of those who served in this time frame. The Commemoration does not distinguish between veterans who served in-country, in-theater, or who were stationed elsewhere during the Vietnam War period. For more information and an application form, visit perlmutter.house.gov or call 303-274-7944.

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After-Hours Hide-nSeek and More at Corky Gonzalez Library Free, fun programs for kids and teens, as well as seniors and immigrants, are available every week at the Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez Branch Library, located at 1498 N. Irving St., Denver. Teens, when the lights go out and everyone leaves the library what will do you? Stay inside and play hide and seek with us! On March 3, from 6-8 p.m., staff will close the building, turn off the lights, turn on some music and play hide and seek. To make the game more difficult, we will hand out glow sticks, bracelets, and things that make noise when you move! If you know a variation of hide and seek, come teach us. Pizza and cookies provided. Meet right before closing and in the upstairs Collaborative Area for this teens-only program. Anime Club is a monthly teen book club event to watch and discuss anime and manga. This month’s picks are “Hikaru No Go” and “Dragonball Z” are the picks for Feb. 22, 4 to 5:30 p.m. Hang out in the Collaborative Area and eat some pocky! Kids can test their sculpting skills by making clay bugs, Feb. 19, and use paint chips and watercolors to turn a plain piece of paper into an amazing cityscape, March 12, in the monthly Sunday Arts and Crafts program for kids, 3 to 4 p.m., in the Nathaniel J. Contreras Arts & Crafts Area.

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Adults and come play music, relax, and socialize at Music for the Brain, a health and wellness program offered every Wednesday, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Lena Archulete Meeting Room. No musical experience necessary. Open to all seniors and their caretakers, the program is dementia-friendly. The Plaza: Art program invites immigrants to discover art as a means to create, relax, and reflect on their unique journey, with fresh materials and projects each week. Open to adults, teens and kids, the arts and crafts program is offered every Tuesday, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., in the Nathaniel J. Contreras Arts & Crafts Area. All Ages Storytime provides stories, songs, rhymes and fun for children of all ages and their parents or caregivers, every Wednesday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Judy Montero Storytime Circle. Play and social time immediately follow the program. For more information, call 720-8652370 or visit www.denverlibrary.org.

Learn What’s Up on Colfax at WCCA Meeting, March 15 Want the scoop on what’s new on Colfax? Find out at the West Colfax Community Association’s next monthly meeting, Wednesday, March 15, from 7:30 to 9 a.m., at the Edge Theater, 1560 Teller St., in Lakewood. It’s open to the public, and free coffee and breakfast items are provided. WCCA Serves the community by providing reliable community information and a forum for dialogue; provides a unified voice for community advocacy; supports partner organizations who also aim to revitalize the West Colfax corridor. WCCA meetings are held on the third Wednesday of every month, and provide news and updates from the city, local businesses, and other local organizations about happenings in the corridor and other

topics of community interest. Arrive by 7:15 a.m. For more information, call 303-2753430, email info@westcolfax.org, or visit www.WestColfax.org.

‘Little Paris Bookshop’ and Teen Time at Edgewater Library Edgewater Library, located at 5843 W. 25th Ave., offers entertaining activities for everyone from babies through teens. Teens are invited to be creative, find a new hobby, or just have some fun with people their own age in Teen Time, Thursday, March 2, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Teen Time is designed to be a varied experience. No registration is required and all supplies are provided. Book some time on Saturday, March 11, to discuss Nina George’s “Little Paris Bookshop” with the book group, 1 to 2 p.m. Suitable for adults. Make history together in Crafty History, Tuesday, March 14, from 4 to 5 p.m. Kids ages six and up learn about a special event in history and then create a related craft. It’s crafty and fun! All ages are welcome to come play and build with LEGOs in LEGO Play and Build, every Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Weekly children’s activities include Baby Time, Mondays, 11 to 11:30 a.m.; PreSchool Time, Tuesdays, 11 to 11:30 a.m.; Toddler Time, Thursdays, 11 to 11:30 a.m. All events are free. For more information, call 303-2355275 or visit jeffcolibrary.org.

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