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District 4 school board member and Stapleton resident Dr. Nate Easley grew up in Montbello and graduated from Montbello High School. He has supported the district’s reform efforts to im - prove the far Northeast Denver schools. A group that does not support these reforms has filed a petition to recall Easley.

Board President Dr. Nate Easley if he voted in favor of the date wins the election, the board members who favor reform School reform at stake in recall effort proposed reforms. would lose the majority. By Jon Meredith Easley, who grew up in Montbello and graduated from Easley states he’s “appalled” that those who disagree with n a recent vote on restructuring far northeast Denver Montbello high school, voted in favor of the reforms and the him on the reform efforts would subject the district to the schools, the Denver Board of Education split 4-3 in favor recall petition was filed shortly thereafter. What that means is cost of a recall election when he has done nothing that war - Iof the reforms. Prior to the vote, opponents of the reforms that if the effort to gain signatures for a recall election is suc - rants removal from office—they simply disagree with him. reportedly stated they would initiate a recall petition against cessful and the not-yet-announced recall-supporters’ candi - John McBride, the spokesman for (continued on page 4) Dancing for a Cause Reader Input Needed to Help Shape Northeast Denver Mayor’s Forum The Front Porch is partnering with the League of Women Voters of Denver and Engaged Public to present a Mayoral Candidate Forum at the Central Park Recreation Center on April 14 at 6:30pm. Fifteen candidates have registered their intent to run for mayor. Their names and websites are listed on page 11. Due to time constraints, we believe the Forum will be more informa - tive if the number of speakers is limited based on our readers’ selections. Please review the candidate list on page 11, then go to www.FrontPorchStapleton.com and link to the survey to make your selections.

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The Damsels Contemporary Dance Company, organized by Park Hill resident Katrina Lairsmith, is a group of professional dancers and dance instructors who practice weekly for performances that raise funds for organizations that help women. (See page 10.) Printed with soy-based ink. Paper contains 40% postconsumer waste. Toby Keith’s Road to Infections from Neighborhood Summer New Museum Nowhere Hospitals Health Camp Opens 5 8 9 Summit 12 Guide 21 Exhibits 26 ¡ CALENDAR Nearby events that are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC or are nonprofit events. See pages 16 - 19 for more Denver-area events. Recurring events are on page 16.

MARCH Saturday, March 19 Free Women’s Self-Defense Class Saturday, March 5 at the Police Academy, 9am - 1pm Neighborhood Partners Environmental 2155 N. Akron Way 303.370.1517 Team Clean-up, 9am (RSVP recommended, see p.19) Stapleton Activities, Inc. Sand Creek Greenway Trailhead Please join us for our monthly potluck in the Sunday, March 20 [email protected] (see p. 18) newly remodeled Stapleton MCA Commu - Denver Botanic Gardens - SCFD Free Day Saturday, March 5 720-865-3500 www.botanicgardens.org nity Room*. If you are new to Stapleton, Denver Art Museum - SCFD Free Day this is a great way to meet other adults in the What Is Your Community DNA? 720-865-5000 www.denverartmuseum.org community. This month the potluck is prior So how did you do with your Denver Neigh - (American Indian exhibit story on p.27) APRIL to the Active Minds Seminar on Thursday, borhood Attitude (DNA) last month? How March 10, at 6pm. Please bring a dish to Sat. & Sun. March 5 & 6 Saturday, April 2 many doors did you open for someone? This Dance Performance, “State of the Union,” share with the group. The beverages, plates Neighborhood Partners Environmental month our community’s attention focuses on $15; Sat. at 8pm; Sun. at 5pm; Cleo Parker Team Clean-up, 9am and utensils will be provided by the MCA. Robinson Theater, 119 Park Avenue West; Sand Creek Greenway Trailhead cell phone etiquette. There are so many ele - www.thedamselsdancecompany.com. [email protected] ments that get people fired up when you bring Aquatics [email protected] up cell phones. We will just focus on one as - Check your mailbox for the new 2011 Saturday, April 2 pect this month. Aquatics Brochure! This fun brochure lists Sunday, March 6 Denver Art Museum - SCFD Free Day Denver School of Rock Benefit Concert 720-865-5000 www.denverartmuseum.org Have you ever had to listen to someone talk facility schedules, admissions, programs and for Brent’s Place; Twisted Olive, Northfield, on their phone while you are in line behind information regarding after-hour pool 4pm; Tickets $8; kids 5 and under are free Thursday, April 14 them getting your coffee? Public settings such rentals and birthday party pads. [email protected] (see p.19) Stapleton Activities, Inc. Potluck, 6–7pm as restaurants, public restrooms, waiting Active Minds Semina,r 7–8pm Swim Team Thursday, March 10 MCA Community Room* rooms, retail shops, buses, or anywhere a pri - Stapleton Stingrays: due to the high demand Stapleton Activities, Inc. Potluck, 6–7pm [email protected] vate conversation is not possible is a bad place each season, we will be accepting 60 additional Active Minds Seminar, 7–8pm for a cell phone conversation because it in - Saturday, April 23 swimmers in 2011. Because of the time/space MCA Community Room* volves everyone around the person on the [email protected] Annual Egg Scramble, 10am requirements for this kind of program, we The Green @ 29th Ave. Town Center phone. We want to challenge the community plan to assign swimmers to one of the two Friday, March 11 [email protected] to practice good cell phone etiquette; put the teams as registrations are accepted. Both Avi - Free Medical Screenings at Denver School ringer on vibrate or silent and let the call roll Saturday, April 23 ator and the new Jetstream pool will follow of Science and Technology, 1-6pm over to your voice mail when in a public setting. 2000 Valentia Street. SUN Earth Day Event, 1-5pm the same practice schedule, but will compete [email protected] or Central Park in Stapleton If you are already on a call, stay outside until separately during weekend competitions. DSST 303.320.5570 (see p. 19) [email protected] the call is finished. If it’s not possible and you must take the call, keep your voice low and tell New Aquatics Programs Tuesday, March 15 The Front Porch welcomes the caller you’ll get back to them. It doesn’t NEW! Preschool Stroke Readiness: this Aquatics Registration begins, 10am submissions of upcoming local matter how quietly you speak, if you are stand - intermediate level was added to Visit MCA website at accommodate the high demand of www.stapletoncommunity.com events (see format on p.17) and ing too close to others, they are forced to over - story ideas for future issues. hear your personal business. preschool-age children in Stapleton who are *MCA Community Room: Email [email protected] advanced enough to swim independently. 2823 Roslyn Street, Denver, CO 80238 It’s rude to take a cell phone call on a date or at any social meeting with others. It’s also Skills learned include rhythmic breathing, inconsiderate to take a call in the middle of a front/back crawl, sit/kneel dives and conversation. If the caller were present, he or changing directions. she would likely wait and politely interrupt at NEW! Drop-In Lap Swim for Residents: the appropriate time. Let the call go to voice Aviator, F15 and the new Jetstream pool will mail and return it later. have lap lanes available for resident use dur - It’s not easy to do, but let’s challenge our - ing weekday programming hours (6am- selves over the next month to engage in the 12pm), but require a Resident Lap Swim moment and your surroundings. See if it Monthly Pass to access the lanes available. makes a difference. As a community, let’s re - Monthly lap swim passes are priced at $20 spect others and keep our phone conversations for the month, and will be valid for 30 days out of public settings. from the date of purchase. Passes will be If you have an idea you would like to have available for purchase at the MCA office or featured, please send it to StapletonDNA@sta - any one of the four pools. pletoncommunity.com. This is meant to pro - New Resident Social vide a monthly topic and action for our If you are new to Stapleton, we would like to community, so feel free to let us hear from you! encourage you to attend our quarterly New Active Minds Seminar Resident Social on Wednesday, March 9 The Active Minds Seminar this month is on from 6:30–7:30pm in the Stapleton MCA Thursday, March 10, from 7–8pm in the Sta - Community Room*. This is a chance to pleton MCA Community Room*. The topic meet your neighbors and have any questions for March is “Somalia.” Join Active Minds as about the community answered. we examine Somalia’s troubled path and where This is also an opportunity for you to pick it may be leading. up your new pool pass at no charge. To help We are hosting a potluck prior to the semi - with the process for receiving your new card, nar. The potluck will begin at 6pm and every - please go to www.stapletoncommunity.com one is invited. See details about the and under “Member Tools,” click on the potluck in the Stapleton green bar “Set up New Account.” Submit the Activities, Inc. section. requested information and we will complete This program is free the process when you arrive on March 9. and open to If you have any questions or comments the public. about the information above, please feel free to contact events@stapletoncommunity.com or call the MCA office at 303.388.0724. *2823 Roslyn Street. Diane Deeter Director of Programming and Events

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March 2011 2 Stapleton Front Porch Stapleton Front Porch 3 March 2011 trating the re - union—and at the time he School Board Recall Election call effort. The was interviewed the union (continued from page 1) the recall effort, would bill DPS for all expenses associated NCCE was had not made a decision and other Easley opponents believe with the recall election. If enough petitions formed by cen - whether it would support Easley’s position as deputy director of the signatures are submitted to the City Clerk tral Denver the recall effort. McBride, Denver Scholarship Foundation is a di - and verified by the Clerk’s Office, a recall neighborhood while being the recall effort’s rect conflict of interest with being school vote could be held at the same time as the residents in an spokesperson, has said un - board president—which is the official mayoral election or the anticipated runoff. In effort to stop equivocally he will not be reason they wrote on the recall docu - that case, DPS would rent space on the city the closure of the replacement candidate. ments. They state that Denver Public ballot, which would be the most cost effec - Manual High Easley claims there is ab - Schools (DPS) Superintendent Tom tive method. If the petition process were not School in solutely no truth to the Boasberg sits on the board of the Denver completed in time to have the recall vote 2006. Manual, claims made by these groups Scholarship Foundation and therefore can dovetail with citywide elections, a separate at the time, pursuing a recall election. He influence whether Easley keeps his job. election process would be required—and had fallen well believes that the time and ef - Easley rebuts that charge, stating first that that would even be more expensive for DPS. behind other fort being spent on the recall Boasberg is a non-voting member and The two groups organizing the efforts to Denver high would be better spent help - second that the voting members of the get petitions for a recall election are Northeast schools by all ing the board understand the board only select the director— they have Community Congress for Education (NCCE) measures of ed - issues involved and working no control over Easley’s position as and Democrats for Excellent Neighborhood ucational suc - with them on the budget deputy director. Prior to running for the School Education (DeFENSE). These organi - cess. Then John McBride is the spokesperson for the recall cuts recently proposed by board seat Easley obtained a signed affi - zations are in the process of acquiring the Superintendent effort against Board President Dr. Nate Easley. Governor Hickenlooper. davit from the General Counsel for the 5,000+ signatures necessary to force the elec - Michael Ben - Easley says he is “appalled” Denver Public Schools stating that, in his tion. The required number of signatures from net, now Colorado’s US Senator, proposed that they are bringing the cost of a recall election opinion, there is no inherent conflict that registered voters who live in School Board Dis - closing Manual for a year to restructure its onto the school district, especially given that it’s would preclude him from serving on the trict 4 is stipulated in Colorado law as 40% of curriculum and re-open it to freshman only about a difference of opinion on policy, not school board while being employed by the number of votes cast in the election that the following year. That plan was approved by about any wrongdoing. the Denver Scholarship Foundation. put Easley on the Board. the board. McBride’s group fundamentally Easley asserts that under his leadership Mont - According to Denver Clerk and In the event that the recall signature effort opposed that plan, stating a good high school bello High School will never close. However, it is Recorder Stephanie O’Malley, a recall is successful, NCCE and DeFENSE will education should be available in all sections now a school where only six in 100 graduates are vote on Easley’s seat would cost Denver need to put a candidate on the ballot. Other of Denver. NCCE agreed that changes should prepared for college. He believes that by any Public Schools at least $100,000. The city candidates could also run if they garner the have been made, but implemented while measure, the education students have received is would administer the recall if enough requisite number of signatures to get on the Manual remained open. not satisfactory and change is a must. The re - valid signatures are gathered, then they ballot. The ballot would have a question to The recent decision by the DPS Board to structured program will have four separate and recall or not recall restructure Montbello High School has distinct schools within it. A high-tech academy Easley. If a vote is reignited those concerns and led to increased that will teach vocational applications to those cast in favor of re - scrutiny of Easley’s positions. McBride be - students that decide college is not for them, an call, then the voter lieves that Easley has broken many of his international school with proficiency of at least would be asked to campaign promises, pointing out that the two languages as a requirement, an early college choose a replace - NCCE actually supported Easley as a candi - prep program and, for the next three years, a ment board candi - date. Other allegations by those favoring re - continuation of Montbello’s current program for date. That candidate call are that Easley has failed to provide students already there. There will still be Mont - would replace Easley proper oversight of DPS funds and that he bello Warrior athletic teams, debate and arts pro - if he/she were to get has exposed taxpayers to liability since teach - grams in which students from any of the internal the majority of votes ers who have been dismissed have filed a class schools can participate. in the recall election. action law suit alleging age discrimination. Board member Mary Seawell and State Sena - At this time, no one McBride also says NCCE and DeFENSE be - tor Michael Johnston backed Easley when asked is actively pursuing lieve the board has “sandbagged” their budget to comment on the recall. Both were well aware that slot on the recall by inflating costs so it can later claim savings. of the concerns on both sides and both believe ballot. They say this cost inflation holds back money that DPS has much bigger issues to resolve and John McBride from classrooms. that the recall is a “distraction.” Both are greatly describes the history McBride says NCCE and DeFENSE are concerned about the cost to DPS and neither Denver Clerk and Recorder Stephanie O’Malley says a recall vote on of the groups orches - not endorsed or supported by the teachers’ feels the issues warrant that level of expenditure. Nate Easley’s school board seat would cost DPS at least $100,000.

March 2011 4 Stapleton Front Porch Toby Keith made an appearance at the official grand opening of his new bar and grill in Northfield on February 22. One of the most notable items on the menu is a fried bologna sandwich. Toby Keith Pays a Visit to His Northfield Bar & Grill By Jon Meredith restaurant at lunchtime on February 22 for orthfield is quickly becoming a hot an invited-guest grand opening. He said this spot for nightlife in Denver and the is the ninth Toby Keith’s I Love this Bar and Nopening of Toby Keith’s I Love this Grill to open around the country and the Bar and Grill is the granddaddy of them all. first in Colorado. He told the story that Twenty-two-thousand square feet of country when he went to Vegas for that restaurant music heaven with his signature guitar- opening they had somehow taken the fried Call us first shaped bar, plenty of room to dance, sixty- bologna sandwich off the menu. He insisted four big screens, southern food and, of that was what his fans wanted and to put it course, plenty of libations. There will be live right back on the menu. They did and it is a music five nights a week, Tuesday through top seller. The sandwich is a thick slice of Saturday starting at 9pm, which will include fried bologna with grilled onions and Mira - for all of your local acts as well as nationally-touring coun - cle Whip on garlic toast for $9.99. You’re not try stars. going to find that combination on too many Keith is a well-known country artist, actor menus in Colorado. and record producer. He has won numerous The menu has everything from New York real estate needs! American Music awards and Academy of strip steak for $21.99 to fried macaroni and Country Music Awards. Two of his most fa - cheese and pulled pork. Kids are welcome mous songs, “Beer for my Horses” and and there is plenty of room for them to run “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” are duets with around. The waitresses are dressed just like Willie Nelson. “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” Hooters’ girls except in black tee shirts, jean was the most-played country song of the shorts and cowboy boots. The décor is what ‘90’s. Throughout the Iran and Afghanistan you would expect, barn siding, some tin, lots wars Keith has done USO tours in support of neon beer signs and a mechanical bull. of the troops. He will perform July 31st at Overall nothing fancy, but it is truly a Cheyenne Frontier Days. honky-tonk atmosphere that screams, “Let’s Mr. Keith himself stopped in at the have a good old time tonight.” Terry Gist Jerry Boyd Mark Stevinson Call or text 303-520-1124 SELLERS: Find out what homes are selling for in your neighborhood. BUYERS: Browse active listings in the Denver area.

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5 Stapleton Front Porch March 2011 Park Hill Psychiatrist Pens I wanted to efforts that brought positive change in a Den - write my ver community. Psychological Thriller novel, it Dr. Altman sees No Simple Highway as a was time to journey. “I hope the discerning reader will read By Judith Schwartz Vietnam retire.” it as a metaphor for his/her life—the many lev - he year: 1972. The place: Five Points War. Their It did els of the way we live our lives, sometimes in Denver, a community health center. “war not work to aware, sometimes not.” TThe Vietnam War is winding down, its trauma” is revive the The Grateful Dead inspired the book’s title: veterans returning, “war trauma” disrupting now classi - “bad” novel There is a road, no simple highway, their lives. Black pride is potent a force. Into fied as post- he had Between the dawn and the dark of night, this world enters psychiatrist Aden Echo, the traumatic started 30 and if you go, no one may follow, protagonist in local author Michael Altman, stress disor - years prior. that path is for your steps alone. M.D.’s first novel, No Simple Highway . der (PTSD). Park Hill psychiatrist Michael Altman is pictured in Denver’s Five “I had ma - After noting he had a very satisfying psychi - Points neighborhood, which serves as the setting for parts of his Dr. Altman’s goal was to create a vivid, Denver first novel No Simple Highway. The book is a psychological thriller tured. Per - atric career, he beams when he speaks of the page-turning psychological thriller, and he, came next: based, in part, on experiences Altman had treating returning Viet haps the writing process, though it took five years to and others, believe he has succeeded. an appoint - Nam veterans who suffered “war trauma,” now called post-trau - greatest in - birth his book. He had no outline and there - There are parallels between Michael Alt - ment as assis - matic stress disorder (PTSD), at the Eastside Community Health fluence was fore no ending. Cliché perhaps, but he found man, the Jewish child and adolescent psychia - tant clinical Center in Five Points in the late 1970’s. 15 years of “In the middle it started writing itself; just let trist, and his character Aden Echo. They were professor at the medical school and child/ado - personal spiritual work I did in Boulder at a the characters live their lives.” The final ver - both sent as psychiatrists to a community dur - lescent consultant at the Eastside Community school that combined Western psychological sion had more about Vietnam than he had ing a time of great upheaval in America —vio - Health Center (the nation’s second, started in understanding with Eastern mystical under - imagined. “How could it not?” lence, poverty, drugs and strains between 1966), where he was deeply committed to standing. It opened me up to levels of exis - With huge changes in publishing, he de - whites and blacks. A main difference is that teaching and his community work. tence I had not been aware of that influenced cided to self-publish and not attempt getting Echo served in Vietnam and suffered unspeak - Altman and his wife of 48 years, Carol, an my psychological work and this book.” picked up by a publishing house. The book is able horrors that haunt him. adjunct professor of French/liberal studies at To write a psychological thriller, a genre available in hard copy, paperback and eBook. After medical school, Altman fulfilled his the University of Denver, and an author, are he loved, was important but it had to have Dr. Altman will read from his book on Air Force obligation and was not sent to Viet - long-time residents of Park Hill. Their two spiritual underpinnings. Thus, an important March 10 at 7pm at the Tattered Cover in nam but to Mississippi. From 1970–72 he daughters attended Manual High school when character is a Vietnamese gardener who be - LoDo. (See “Local Events” on page 16.) He served as the southeast regional child/adoles - it and East High comingled classes and during came Echo’s childhood spiritual teacher and can be reached at [email protected]. cent psychiatrist. He saw thousands of pa - the controversial years of busing. A daughter martial arts master. The main character’s past Judith Schwartz is a freelance copy tients, including military personnel and and grandchildren now live just a block away. will emerge through dream sequences. editor/owner of FinalEyes Copyediting and a families whose lives were deeply affected by the “After 40 years of practice, I realized that if There’s romance, a psychotic killer and the community volunteer.

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By Nancy Burkhart people are encouraged to relax before or after class with a cup argie Krest is trained in yoga, yoga dance and yoga of tea and a sampling of bakery items, but without cell phones nidra, but when she contemplated opening a stu - and computers. Mdio, she wanted to offer her clients a way to nourish Krest became focused on her yoga training and what the their soul through both movement and stillness. And so her body needs to be healthy after spending 18 years as an instruc - business, Dancing the Soul, offers ten different classes that her tor in the ecology and evolutional biology department of the customers can mix and match to suit their own lives. University of Colorado. She said she felt a “call to do some - “My main focus, my main vision, is to allow people to tap thing else” and then spent months at a center for yoga and into many different forms of both movement and stillness,” health—which helped her find her direction in guiding people Krest explained. “Through that we connect with our bodies to their own form of healthiness. and hearts. When we listen to the rhythms of our bodies and Belly “I would like my clients’ goal to be to try different forms of hearts, we live better.” Dancing movement and different forms of stillness and see what res - Dancing the Soul: A Center for Creative Movement and onates with them,” she said. “I would like the people coming Stillness has 15 teachers who lead classes in such modalities as in to experience both aspects of life. I think there’s a way of nia, zumba, belly dancing, cardio salsa, beginning power yoga will see that it can affect their lives.” tapping into our own rhythms. If we’re coming home and feel - and gentle yoga, mat Pilates, tai chi/qigong, meditation and Although Krest refers to Dancing the Soul as a center for ing tired, maybe it’s time to be quiet for a few minutes and put breath awareness. Students pay for the number of classes they movement and stillness, she says the classes can be classified our feet up the wall, listen to our bodies and let our bodies want and then choose to attend any combination of classes. as both dance and workout. reenergize. “I’m really encouraging students to try a variety of classes,” “You can come in for certain classes get a really good “It’s about living a balanced life and listening to ourselves,” Krest said. “As we honor our bodies we get in touch with what workout, and you can take a deep yoga class that will get you Krest added. “A lot of people coming in are 35 to 55 years old. we need to do to become healthier.” really relaxed and mellowed out,” she explained. They have done the pushing and the striving, and now they Krest describes nia as a body-mind-spirit fitness class that Although Dancing the Soul offers a variety of movement want to do what feels right for the heart.” uses dance music in a non-impact, cardiovascular workout. modalities, it is an intimate studio setting that offers a sense For information about classes at Dancing the Soul: A Cen - And she describes yoga nidra, which she teaches, as “purely a of calming, according to Krest. Besides classes, there is a bou - ter for Creative Movement and Stillness, go to www.danc - deep relaxation. I’ll take students through body scans, aware - tique that features local designers of chakra gem jewelry, ingthesoul.com or contact Margie Krest at 303.502.4586 or ness and visualizations. I think that it’s just as important to clothing, designer cards, MoonDance oils and scented salts [email protected]. The studio is located at 950 C our bodies as dance. I’m hoping that in the long run people and yoga mats and blocks. There also is a tea nook where Jersey Street.

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Stapleton Front Porch 7 March 2011 Race To Nowhere Explores Society’s Achievement Obsession By John Babiak found the documentary Race To Nowhere to be a sober - ing film. For many viewers it is a wake up call. For oth - Iers, it is a reflection of the here and now. The film attempts to transverse many topics in just eighty-five min - utes. It well documents the over-scheduled, competitive and stressed out lives of a cross-section our country’s school-aged children. Race to Nowhere seriously questions data-driven educational standards and policies, challenges one-size-fits- all teaching methods, decries curriculums that teach-to-the- test, and the misplaced priorities of many school systems. It Vicki Abeles, producer and co-director of Race to also exposes overbearing, success-oriented parents. The Nowhere, says her concerns about the pressure her three movie clearly shows how, more and more, our kids are being children were experiencing in school led her to try docu - robbed of their very own childhood and the opportunities mentary filmmaking to bring attention to this issue. childhood provides for children to gain early-life experi - Dr. Noah Makovsky of Stapleton Pediatrics (left), State Senator Michael John - ences, develop social graces and have some well-deserved a 13-year-old perfectionist who succumbed to the ston and Mary Seawell, at-large member of the Denver Board of Education, fun. Moreover, the documentary painfully portrays children pressures of her own adolescence, and subsequently watch the controversial film Race to Nowhere at William Roberts School last who become unhealthy, self-destructive, disengaged and took her own life after she brought home a poor month before participating in a Q & A session following the viewing. burned out by the time they graduate from high school—if math test. not sooner. And worst of all, I learned that many of our “I want to place the education of our youth on our na - tended by some 200 local residents, was sponsored by the graduates are not adequately prepared for higher education. tion’s agenda and broaden the current narrowed vision of Roberts’ PTA. The documentary was presented to the greater Well over half need to take remedial courses after they enter success in today’s world,” states Abeles on the film’s web site community at the request of Roberts’ faculty and staff who college. (www.RaceToNowhere.com). Abeles also puts to question watched the movie the month prior. A panel discussion fol - Each scene in the film captures an aspect of a silent epi - our fundamental value and belief systems. She calls for the lowed the screening. It included child psychologist, Dr. demic that is spreading throughout the US. Sleep depriva - mobilization of parents, teachers, school boards and govern - Matthew Brink, Colorado State Senator Michael Johnston, tion and suicide rates among adolescents are at all-time high ment policy makers to take on current assumptions about Kunsmiller School Principal Dr. Diana Howard, pediatrician levels. Depression, anxiety, eating disorders and prescription how to best prepare America’s young citizens to become ex - Dr. Noah Makovsky and Denver Public School Board mem - drug abuse afflict our children now more then ever. cited, problem-solving critical thinkers who, to the best of ber Mary Seawell. Senator Johnston, a former school princi - Race To Nowhere was created and funded by one-time their abilities, contribute to our society. pal, asked how parents could gain access to the day-in and Wall Street financial advisor and attorney, now turned film - Since its debut last fall, the film has had over 700 coast- day-out observations that teachers make on how their child maker-activist, Vicki Abeles, who makes her home in San to-coast showings in atypical venues including church halls, learns. He felt that such insight, in addition to test data, Francisco’s East Bay community of Lafayette. The mother of boutique movie theaters and school auditoriums. The grass - could be valuable to parents and help them appreciate their three was prompted to make the film after she saw her own roots campaign has created considerable dialogue and debate child’s development and learning style. Dr. Howard rein - children starting to collapse under their academic workload within our communities. The Bill Roberts School gymna - forced this notion and commented that teachers cannot just and extracurricular commitments. She dedicates her work to sium played host to the movie last month. The screening, at - say that a child is a “fine” student. (continued on page 14)

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If company. you or a family member is scheduled for surgery, After his hospitalization, O’Connell be well educated on all procedures ahead of time to Kerry O’Connell, Senior Project Manager for researched these infections and found keep yourself safer. Ask the surgeon in-depth ques - Mortensen Construction, suffered a serious them to be fairly prevalent. He knew tions about sterility and how many times they have infection following surgery. several people through work and friends performed the procedure. Inquire about the infec - MRSA infections can occur in any geographic lo - who had had similar experiences, in - tion rates for the operation at that hospital and cation and anywhere on a person’s body and can cluding some who live in Stapleton. He how that compares with other hospitals. affect anyone.” MRSA is now fairly common in Dr. Connie Price is the Director of Infection found that about one in two hundred hospital Some preventive measures can be taken at the community at large and not just in hospitals, Prevention and Control at Denver Health. patients acquire a nosocomial infection. In 2005, home, as well. Get diabetes under control as much so beware when a child comes home with a By Jon Meredith the most recent year for these statistics, 94,360 as possible. Try to stop smoking as far in advance as scrape or cut. The CDC website recommends the erry O’Connell was driving up to Vail in a developed a serious infection in United States possible. Keep your home clean and practice sound following treatment if you have a cut: hurry, his massively-swollen left arm hang - hospitals and 18,650 died during a hospital stay personal hygiene. Medical providers stress that • Keep your hands clean by washing thoroughly King outside his pick-up truck’s window. He involving serious infections. These statistics were sleep, exercise and sunshine are important compo - with soap and water or using an alcohol-based was trying to cool it down and relieve the pain, published in the Journal of the American Med - nents of keeping your immune system healthy. Try hand rub. which on a scale of 1 to 10, was up around 9. ical Association in 2007. O’Connell points out to avoid sugar, caffeine and alcohol prior to hospi - • Keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a O’Connell had dislocated his arm, falling from a that some Colorado hospitals do one thousand talizations. Once back home always wash your bandage until healed. ladder a few weeks before. Tears streamed down procedures a week, which means that, statisti - hands prior to touching the bandaged area. Inform • Avoid contact with other people’s wounds or this grown man’s face, a construction project man - cally, five of those patients will have serious in - your surgeon if there are any signs of infections on bandages. ager, as he drove by himself through the Eisen - fections. With proper management and your body both prior to surgery and afterwards. • Avoid sharing personal items such as towels or hower Tunnel and over Vail Pass to the hospital in oversight, O’Connell believes from his experi - Dr. Price says Colorado is making strides to re - razors. Vail where he had gone through surgery the previ - ence that hospitals can reduce these infections by duce infections. She is “impressed with the many If you or a family member does contract ous week. As soon as he stumbled into the hospital 70 to 90%. initiatives from state and local health departments, MRSA, see a doctor immediately and much more they stuck his arm with a needle and extracted sev - After doing his research, O’Connell lobbied from the Colorado Hospital Association, to right detailed sterilization procedures will have to be eral vials of pus. The relief from the pain was im - the legislature to require hospitals to provide the here at Denver Health.” She goes on to point out implemented in your home. mediate; however, O’Connell distinctly remembers public with statistics about these infections. After that, “In most cases, if a patient gets a healthcare- For Kerry O’Connell things could have the smell in the air was of death. two years of trying, the Governor signed a bill associated infection, it is bad for the institution turned out vastly different—to the point that he He was embarking on a medical journey that that required the formation of a state board to from a financial standpoint as insurers don’t typi - may have died had he not been so personally brought him close to the end of his life—but he re - oversee a process in which hospitals provide this cally reimburse for these infections. With public proactive about his infection. In subsequent oper - covered and found a calling in informing the pub - information. The information is available on the reporting, it also is bad from a public relations ations that were necessary to heal his arm, he re - lic of how serious and prevalent these Colorado Department of Health website and is standpoint. 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By John Babiak Ellen Kinney, a Healthcare Leaders Share therapist who works primarily Northwest Denver Childhood with children and Obesity Study Outcomes families, has found that her 7-year- Denver-based nonprofit old dog Sasha can organization devoted to help many clients Aneighborhood-based pub - be more calm and lic health research and programs, relaxed in the 2040 Partners for Health, held a therapy setting. Kinney and her day-long conference in the Polis dog are a certi - Auditorium at Johnson and Wales fied therapy team University on February 5th. through Profes - Nearly 200 hundred people at - sional Therapy tended the event. The keynote Dogs of Col - orado. speaker was Rear Admiral, Dr. Christopher Halliday, the Chief of Staff for the U.S. Surgeon General. The focus of summit was to share survey data from a 2008- Trained Therapy Animals Help Calm Patients 2009 childhood obesity study, conducted in cooperation with By Nancy Burkhart recognize if your animal has the skills, is friendly and pre- 256 families and their children ages Rear Admiral Dr. Christo - ometimes counseling sessions can be difficult, but dictable. If they stay calm, you know that they’ll react pher Halliday, Chief of Staff animal-assisted therapy often helps reduce the stress safely if someone pets them too harshly.” 10-14 who make their home in five for the US Surgeon General Denver-Aurora neighborhoods: Sta - Sand makes clients more open, according to psy - Kinney’s partner in therapy is Sasha, a 7-year-old dog pleton, East Montclair. Greater Park Hill and Northeast Park chotherapist Ellen Kinney. of unknown heritage who was abandoned and was rescued Hill and Northwest Aurora. “Animals can really facilitate the therapeutic process— with her puppies. Kinney and Sasha have been certified as Also described was rather compelling information from a they are a really calming presence in the sessions,” Kinney a therapy team through Professional Therapy Dogs of 2009-2010 University of Colorado-Denver and neighborhood said. “A lot of kids are more engaged in therapy with an Colorado. coalition study, Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart animal present. And for adults who are in counseling for “Sasha is a very social animal,” Kinney explained. “She (TNH2H), titled: “Society of the Youth.” This research effort anxiety or grief and loss, an animal can help them calm really loves attention. There are some clients that she’ll asked youth and adult residents in the same north Denver-Au - down and be relaxed in the therapy setting.” play with for a while and then go away to her bed. There rora neighborhoods what changes are needed to increase phys - Kinney, who is a Lowry resident, practices with other are some she will sit next to all session. If Sasha’s looking ical activity of their children. therapists at Animal Assisted Therapy Programs of Col - tired, I may not work her as hard. But she gets really ex- Ira Gorman, PT, MSPH, from Regis University, reviewed orado, 1540 Race St. The counselors all have animal as - cited when clients come. She’s really helpful in most ses- the obesity study outcomes. Children and a parent or sistants, including dogs, a cat and a horse, but animals sions.” guardian from the respective neighborhoods were surveyed at assisting in therapy are not limited to these types of ani - AATP tries to pair clients with the appropriate animal home and asked about the social and physical environmental mals. therapists. factors at the household and neighborhood level. They also “I know people that have used ferrets and guinea “When clients call, we make sure to get enough infor- participated in three simple strength and flexibility measure - pigs,” Kinney said. “You can be creative and think of mation to pick the right therapist and animal that would ment tests. Neighborhood by neighborhood, comparative data ways to have a lot of different therapy animals. be best suited to them,” Kinney said. “Most of our ani- that details participant concerns about safety and playing out - “The animals are trained, and using them depends on mals are rescue animals. Even the horse has a rescue his- doors, family household computer or TV rules and limits, the the animal’s temperament and personality. You have to tory. The horse has an addiction called cribbing. That’s physical performance levels and body (continued on page 20) when horses bite on wood and suck in air so that it gives them a high. 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Satafe.com www.botanicgardens.org [email protected] 3/14 Monday- One Day Decorating: Dis - 3/4 Friday- North Denver’s Tennyson Art 3/2 Wednesday- Lowry Seminar Series, Mili - 3/9 Wednesday- League of Women Voters of cover the Power of Visual Coordination. Walk. Tennyson St. and 44th Ave. tary Base to New Urban Community. 7–8:30 Denver Briefing on Charter Schools. What is a Using pieces you have, find out where to place pm. Colorado historians Tom Noel and Chuck charter school and answers to all your questions. furniture/accessories/artwork and why they need 3/4 Friday- Cherry Creek Arts District. Woodward walk through Lowry’s history with 5:45pm, Montview Blvd Presbyterian Church, 1980 to go where they do. 6:30–9pm. $46 or $34/CFU www.cherrycreeknorth.com slides and stories. See where your house is now Dahlia St. FREE/open to public. or 303.321.7571 members; $10 materials fee, pay in class. Col - 3/11 Friday- Aurora’s East End Second Fri - and learn what it may have been. Eisenhower 3/10 Book Signing and Reading. Dr. Michael Alt - orado Free Univ. , 303.399.0093 day Art Walk . Gallery openings, music, theater, Chapel, 293 Roslyn St, Lowry. [email protected] man, Denver psychiatrist and author, will speak 3/17 Thursday- Denver School of the Arts food and more. 5–8pm. Start at Fletcher 3/3 Thursday to 3/5 Saturday- Solid Gold, An about his debut novel, a psychological thriller, No Visual Arts Dept. presents its 3rd Quarter Plaza/MLK Library (E Colfax at Elmira) for map ’80s Retrospective. 2011 Pop Show/Silent Auc - Simple Highway. 7pm at Tattered Cover LoDo (16th Exhibition. Opening reception, 7–8 p.m. Original to all venues. tion. Showtime 7pm, Silent Auction 5:30pm on Fri. & Wynkoop). FREE; refreshments served. Questions: drawings, paintings, jewelry and sculpture in main 3/17 Thursday- Highlands Square Third and Sat. Tickets: $10/$12 students/seniors; Dr. Altman at 303.355.8346. hallways on NW corner, Montview and Quebec. Thursday - 5pm to close. 32nd and Lowell, $14/$18/adults at 720.424.1713 or 3/11 Friday- Bill Roberts School Auction, 3/18 Friday- Westerly Creek School Auc - North Denver. www.highlands-square.com www.dsa.dpsk12.org/performances. DSA box of - “The Sky’s The Limit.” Wings Over the Rockies tion “Pardi Gras.” Summit Conference & Event fice open MWF 7:30am–3:30pm. Denver School of Single Volunteers of Greater Denver. Visit Museum. Tickets: www.billrobertspta.com Center. Tickets: www.wceauction.com the Arts, 7111 Montview Blvd. www.svgd.org for volunteer opportunities for sin - 3/12 Saturday- Get the Job: How to Build an 3/18 Friday- Carmina Burana presented by gles: local projects, charitable social events and 3/4 Friday to 4/26 Tuesday- MOP - The Effective Job Search Strategy. Strategy goals Aurora Symphony, Colorado Chorale and working vacations abroad. Month of Photography. RedLine and Colorado and research tools to crack the hidden job market. 10 Choirs. Gateway HS Center for Performing photographic community present art photography Through 3/4 - Denver Restaurant Week 1–4pm. $51 or $39/CFU members. $5 materials fee, Arts, 1300 S Sable Blvd, Aurora. Tickets at over 80 collaborative public events in Denver 2011. 200 restaurants offer multicourse meals for pay in class. Colorado Free Univ. www.freeu.com, $17/adults; $14/ seniors 62 and older; $5/18 and and surrounding region; museums, galleries and mile-high price $52.80 for 2; tax/tip not included. 303.399.0093 under. Tickets: Aurora Symphony Orchestra at schools employ fine art photography to create ex - www.denverrestaurantweek.com 3/12 Saturday- 49th Annual St. Patrick’s Day 303.873.6622, www.aurorasymphony.org or Col - citing artistic and educational events. RedLine art orado Chorale at 303.929.3463 or www.col - Through 3/6 Sunday- Romeo and Juliet by Parade. 10am. Begin in LoDo and through down - space, 2350 Arapahoe St, will be nerve center with oradochorale.org. Colorado Ballet. coloradoballet.org exhibitions, lectures, workshops and more. Open - town. Through 4/2 - New Perspectives Art Exhibi - ing Night Saturday, March 11, 6–10pm, with per - tion. Showcasing 13 artists who explore new out - formance by Ballet Nouveau. Events free, some 1st Tuesday with fees or donation requested. 303.296.4448 2nd & 3rd Wednesday looks on familiar topics. Translations Gallery, 1743 Breast Cancer Support Group Lowry Peak Speakers Toast - Wazee St. 303.629.0713 3/6 Sunday- Denver School of Rock Benefit 5–6:30pm AF Williams Family master Club. Noon-1pm, Pin - RECURRING Medicine Clinic, Conf Rm. nacol Assurance: 7501 E. (west entrance) 3055 Roslyn Lowry Blvd, Denver 80203 EVENTS (at MLK) 720-848-9000 lowrypeak.freetoasthost.org 2nd Tuesday [email protected] Parks Advisory Group, 7:30am, 3rd Thursday 7350 E. 29th Av, 3rd fl. 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For kids who can sit selves on 4/16 when Denver residents get their free/low-cost trees and listen to short stories, participate in songs and simple craft. requested through Denver Digs Trees. Learn proper tree planting 10:30am. Craft limited to first 30 kids. methods; help others prepare for/make homes for their new street trees. RSVP: [email protected] or 303.722.6262. Location TBA. Thursdays and Fridays- Book Babies. For babies 6–23 KIDS AND FAMILIES months with parent/caregiver. Share books, songs, finger plays. Through 3/11- Louisville Winterskate. Outdoor ice skating with 4/1 Friday- Sphere Ensemble Inaugural Concert. New string 11:15am. chamber orchestra formed by 13 Denver young professional musicians Friday night carriage rides. Call for hours: 303.449.3137. 824 Front St, presents its premiere concert with works by Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Fridays- Tales for Twos . Storytime for 2-year-olds and care - Louisville. Mozart and Grieg. 7:30pm. $15 adult/$10 students. 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[email protected] 3/13 Sunday- Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make His - how-to clinics the first Saturday of month for kids ages 5–12. Each tory. 2pm . Celebrate Women’s History Month and the women, 4/7 Thursday to 4/10 Sunday- Just Between Friends of Denver child receives a Home Depot apron, wooden project and project pin. well-behaved and not, who made history in Colorado. Presented Kids’ Gear & Clothing Sale. Largest kids’ gear/clothing resale Metro area Home Depot stores. event; 80,000 items at 50–90% below retail. National Western Com - by Fairmount Heritage Foundation volunteers Joan & Garry 3/5 Saturday- Jewish Children’s Activities. First Sat. every plex, I-70 & Brighton Blvd. Thurs.–Fri. 10am–7pm. $1 admission; FREE O’Hara. month little ones dance, sing, hear a story, craft and play at monthly with Front Porch listing. Sat. 10am–4pm, Military Appreciation Day; 3/19 Saturday- Everything You Always Wanted to Know Shabbat experience, Me’at Shabbat. 9–10am. FREE. 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(continued from page 17) 3/12 Saturday and 3/26 Saturday- Lowe’s Build and IMAX- Hubble in 3D narrated by Leonardo DeCaprio . Under ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARSENAL Grow Kids Clinics. Bring the kids into any Lowe’s store to the Sea in 3D narrated by Jim Carrey. Tickets: $8/3–18; $10/adult build a FREE wooden project. Each kid receives free apron, gog - NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE gles, project-themed patch and certificate of merit upon project NORTHFIELD EVENTS Reservations required for these programs. 303.289.0930. To completion. 10am, 2nd and 4th Saturday of month. www.lowes - get to refuge, take I-70, exit north on Havana St, enter at Bass Pro Events –720.385.3600, www.BassPro.com buildandgrow.com 56th and Havana. Free unless noted. Refuge Hours: Tues - 3/2 – Wednesday – How to Use Fish Finders and What’s New! days to Sundays, 7am–5pm. Visitor Center Hours: Tuesdays Thursdays in March- Star K Kids . Puppets, stories, activities (every Wed. in March) to Sundays, 9am–4pm. and outdoor exploration for ages 5 and under. Morrison Nature 3/2 – Wednesday – The Basics of Shotgunning Center, 16002 E Smith Rd, Aurora. 303.739.2428 3/2 – Wednesday – Trout Fishing in the Rocky Mountains (every Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays- Wild Rides. 9:30– 11:30am. 2-hour guided viewing tour. Tiny Tots Love Music, Denver Brass. Special concert for Wed. in March) tiny tots and parents; introduce joy and magic of live music. Vari - 3/3 – Thursday – Fishing for Walleyes (every Thurs. in March) 3/1 Tuesday – Tuesday Tots: Hiding in Plain Sight. 10–11am. ous dates/locations. Tickets: 3/3 – Thursday – Learning to use GPS (every Thurs. in March) Animals play hide-and-seek using body colors and textures. Learn 3/4 – Friday – Hunting Wild Turkeys (every Fri. in March) how a fawn’s spots help it hide, why caterpillars are green, where Aurora Fox Theater- Registering for drama classes. Ages 4 and 3/5, 3/6 – Saturday, Sunday – Spring Fishing Classic best hiding spots are! Young naturalists 2–5 years old. up. Lisa Mumpton: 303.739.1573 or 3/8 – Tuesday – Get Hooked on Flytying for Beginners (also 3/15 Parent/guardian must accompany all children. Repeats 3/22 Through 4/16, Saturday- The Musical Adventures of Flat and 3/22) 3/3 Thursday – Zoom in on Birds. 9am–noon. Bring camera and Stanley. Tickets $8–10. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. 3/10 – Thursday – Hunters Education 2011 (Internet-based) zoom lens to focus on seasonal feathered friends and how to iden - , 720.898.7200 3/12, 3/13 – Saturday, Sunday – Spring Fishing Classic tify them. Art Students League of Denver- Registering programs for 3/19 – Saturday – Basic Handgun Safety 3/12 Saturday – Seasonal Photo Tour . 3–6pm. As seasons kids and teens. 303.778.6990 or www.ASLD.org 3/20 – Sunday – GPS and Map & Compass Clinic change, so does the Refuge’s landscape and wildlife. Capture won - Harkins Theatres 18– 720.374.3118, Small Hands Art Studio- Registering for spring classes. Lo - drous moments through your camera. Repeats 3/20, Sunday. cated in Stapleton! www.smallhandsart.com www.HarkinsTheatres.com 3/4 – Friday – The Adjustment Bureau, Rango 3/17 Thursday – Bison Anniversary Tour. 9–11am. Anniversary The Art Garage- Registering for workshops/classes ages 4 3/11 – Friday – Red Riding Hood, Mars Needs Moms 3D celebration! Four years ago, 16 American bison returned to the and up. 6100 E 23rd Ave, Park Hill. www.artgaragedenver.com 3/18 – Friday – Limitless, The Lincoln Lawyer Refuge and grown to a herd of nearly 50! Special bison tour fol - lowed with refreshments. MUSEUMS 3/25 – Friday – Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Roderick Rules, Sucker Punch 3/26 Saturday – Waterfowl ID. 8–10am. Explore waterfowl habi - Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Montview and Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theatre – Tickets: tats; learn to identify various species with help of a local birder. Colorado Blvd. www.dmns.org 303.307.1777 www.ImprovDenver.com Binoculars recommended. 3/17 Thursday- Science Lounge. Cocktails and entertain - 3/2, Wednesday – Denver Improv’s Great MC Contest ment every 3rd Thurs. of month. 6:30–9:30pm. $8/members; 3/3–2/7, Thursday–Sunday – Roy Wood Jr. SPORTS AND FITNESS $10/nonmembers 3/10–3/13, Thursday–Sunday – Ian Bagg 3/6 Sunday- That Dam Run ½ marathon, 5K and 1K family Planetarium- Journey to the Stars . Narrated by Whoopi 3/16, Wednesday – Denver Improv’s Great MC Contest fun run. Cherry Creek State Park, 10am. Goldberg, various times. Tickets: $6/ages 3–18; $8/adult 3/18–3/19, Friday–Saturday – Cedric the Entertainer 3/31–4/3, Thursday–Sunday – Bryan Callen 3/13 Sunday- Running of the Green Lucky 7K run/walk. Ben - efits Volunteers of America. Lodo,

THEATER Through 3/6- The Wedding Singer. Aurora Fox Theatre, 9900 Lenten & Special Events E Colfax, Aurora. 303.739.1970, www.aurorafoxartscenter.org Ash Wednesday Service –March 9, 6pm 3/11 Friday to 4/3 Sunday- K2. Aurora Fox Theatre, 9900 E Colfax Ave, Aurora. 303.739.1970 Palm Sunday Services –April 17, 9 & 11am Through 3/20- Equus. Vintage Theatre, 2119 E 17th Ave. Followed by a children’s Easter Egg Event 303.839.1361, www.vintagetheatre.com Open to the public, 12:30pm Through 3/26- Harvey. Presented by Spotlight Theatre Company at John Hand Theater, 7653 E 1st Pl, Lowry. 720.880.8727, Maundy Thursday Seder –April 21, 6pm Through 3/27- In Search of Eckstine, A Love Story. Shadow RSVP to [email protected] by April 15 Theatre, but check for performance site. 720.857.8000, www.shad - Good Friday Service –April 22, 7pm owtheatre.com 4/1 Friday to 5/1 Sunday- The Dixie Swim Club. Vintage The - Easter Sunday Services –April 24, 9 & 11am atre, 2119 E 17th Ave. 303.839.1361, www.vintagetheatre.com Through 4/2 Saturday- The B Team. Avenue Theater, 417 E

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March 2011 18 Stapleton Front Porch I know what you’re thinking! More Events (continued from p. 18) will meet at the trailhead of Sand Creek Greenway for a cleanup from 9am–12pm. Starbucks donates coffee to get the group started and all are welcome to join in the effort. Take Havana to Smith Rd. and go east on Smith Rd. ap - proximately one-half mile until it dead ends at the trailhead. Walkers can cut across Westerly Creek North and walk across the pedestrian bridge to the Sand Creek Greenway trailhead. The group’s activities will be expanded at times to pull weeds, plant trees and beaver-proof trees, as well as pick up trash. Team members determine which activities they will participate in. For more info, contact Lucia Correll at Lcor - [email protected].

March 6—Denver School of Rock Benefit Concert for Brent’s Place Come and rock it to the beats of the popular Denver School of Rock Band at 4pm on Sunday, March 6. This family con - cert will raise funds for very special kids and a place that is essential to their recovery from cancer. Brent’s Place is the only hospital-approved “Safe-Clean” housing facility for im - mune-compromised patients and their families that bridges the gap between hospital and home. Created by the family of Brent Eley, who were unable to be together during their son’s difficult cancer treatment, families can now stay together in 16 fully furnished apartments near the Anschutz Medical Campus and six apartments at 17th and Marion St. that are free from dander, dust, mold and other infectious agents. At-large City Councilman Doug Linkhart (left) and District lic art, on display just inside the entrance to the new recre - The Twisted Olive in Northfield Stapleton is hosting this 11 City Councilman Michael Hancock (right), both mayoral ation center, features ever-changing thought bubbles that ap - important but definitely fun event. Tickets are $8 and kids 5 candidates, flank current Denver Mayor Bill Vidal as they sit pear above the heads of those seated on the bench. “Thought on the interactive public art called “Thought Balloons” on and under are free. Contact Amy Anderson at berkander - Bubbles” was created and made by artists Marek Walczak and opening day at the Central Park Recreation Center. The pub - Wesley Heiss. [email protected]. Learn more about Brent’s Place at www.brentsplace.org and Denver School of Rock at www.schoolofrock.com.

March 11—Free Medical Screenings at DSST Students from the Anschutz Medical Campus, including SNPhA (Student National Pharmacy Association) and BRANCH (Bridging Research and Aurora Neighborhoods for Community Health), aided by students from the Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST), will provide free health screenings on Friday, March 11 from 1–6pm. The screenings include glucose and cholesterol (recommend 8- hour fast prior for most accurate results, if possible), blood pressure and osteoporosis. DSST student Humberto Escobedo is interested in health issues important to teens and their families and is organizing presentations to be given by DSST students. Health-related computer touch screen programs will be available for ele - mentary-school students who attend with their families. The event will take place at DSST located at 2000 Valentia Street. For more information contact Monica Evans at Mon - [email protected] or DSST at 303.320.5570.

March 19—Free Women’s Self-Defense Class at the Police Academy The Denver Police Department will hold a free women’s self defense class on Saturday, March 19 from 9am to 1pm. The class is for girls and women ages 12 and up (under 18 must have a parent present to sign a waiver for them; waivers can be picked up in advance). Topics include awareness, attitude and demeanor, under - standing predators and psychological aspects of violent en - counters plus physiology when confronted with fear-inducing situations. Also included will verbal skills, bal - Challenges with Reading, ance/movement, personal body weapons and defense against chokes and grabs. Participants should wear workout-type clothes and shoes (no slip-on shoes) and bring water. Those physically unable to do the hands-on portion are still wel - Attention, or Math? come to attend. The class will be held at the Denver Police Academy, 2155 N. Akron Way. Pre-registration is suggested as class size is limited. For more information call Cpl. Richard Stens - Pinpoint and Fix gaard at 303.370.1517. the underlying Cause jkjlawnsprinkler.com SAVE $50 on a $199 cognitive JKJ Lawn Sprinkler skills assessment. Offer expires 3/31/11 303-766-0775 Install/Repair/Service • Complete Landscape Design/Build Xeriscape/Drip Irrigation • Certified Irrigation Contractor 10% off New Customer Discount

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Stapleton Front Porch 19 March 2011 Local Artists Selected for Watercolor Show ing like the carousel in ‘ Spirit of Competition ’ doesn’t seem when I retire. In very big.” my paintings I “There’s a theatrical input that you can see in my strive for good paintings—something connected to my past. I frequently composition and do collages—combining images. I switched from water - interesting de - color to acrylic so now my images are more colorful.” tail.” Her work Priest goes on to say that Spirit of Competition is based on can be seen at a photo of the Loeffe Carousel in Spokane, Washington, a www. beautifully preserved turn-of-the-century carousel. Priest terriecooke. can be reached at [email protected]. fineartworld.com. Another Park Hill resident, Terrie Cooke, had her Stapleton painting, Staghorn Wandi, selected for the show. Cooke artist David says she only paints in watercolor and all her paintings are Gardner was born about plants and nature. Staghorn Wandi is a unique trop - in the northeast ical plant she found and photographed in Key West, FL. part of England Cooke was born and raised in northern Colorado and and still has a early in life developed a respect for the land and the charming British Agrisculpture III was beauty of nature. She majored in fine art with an empha - accent to show his painted by David sis in watercolor at the University of Northern Colorado, roots, though he Gardner of Stapleton. but then “life got in the way of painting.” Cooke took “a moved to the US few years off” (18 years to be exact) to raise kids and pur - in 1984 (and lived in Canada prior to Park Hill artist Nancy Priest shows her painting, Spirit of Com - sue a career that). “I look for design and shapes and use petition , that will be on display at the free and open to the as an ad - strong color to accentuate the design and public 2011 State Watermedia Show at Foothills Art Center ministrator shapes,” he says. He finds inspiration in everything from in Golden. The exhibition and sale run from March 18, 2011 in the old agricultural and farm equipment to mechanical items to April 17, 2011. Denver like scales, but also in Colorado landscapes, such as By Carol Roberts County ranches or old mining buildings in Park County. His hree local artists’ paintings, chosen from over 300 Court Sys - painting selected for the Watermedia Exhibition, called entries, were selected to be in the upcoming 2011 tem. She Agrisculpture III , is a bit of an old abandoned thrashing State Watermedia Exhibition. Nancy Priest and still main - machine he saw along the road. T tains that Carolyn Martyn, both of Park Hill, are the co-chairs of “I loved painting as a kid, but a decade or two went by the show. With nationally-acclaimed artist Soon Warren career but that I didn’t paint.” Those decades in his life were devoted to as juror of the show, “Being picked is an honor,” says at last has oral pathology. Gardner started out as a dentist, then became Priest. time for a specialist in diseases of the mouth. He has been a professor Priest has lived in Park Hill for 44 years and taught painting. of Oral Pathology at the University of Colorado Dental drama at George Washington High School for 33 years. “Painting School, where he also saw patients and “spent time at the mi - In Priest’s years working as a drama teacher at George is my pas - croscope.” Washington she produced 133 shows. Among her respon - sion, my He is a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor sibilities were teaching scenic design and costuming and stress re - Society—to gain that status an artist’s paintings must be supervising production of backdrops that were 18 feet by liever. It’s chosen for at least three of their shows. His work can be 40 feet. “In comparison,” she says, “a 26 by 30 inch paint - what I seen at Art and Framing at Stapleton in the 29th Ave. want to do Town Center and online at www.825art.com. The Colorado Watercolor Society’s 2011 State Water - Staghorn Wandi was media Exhibition will be held at Foothills Art Center, 809 Neighborhood Health Summit painted by 15th St., Golden, from March 19 to April 17. The open - (continued from p. 12) mass index for 10- results will now serve as a blueprint, in Terrie ing reception is March 18, 6:30 – 8:30pm. Admission is part, to make neighborhood-based physi - Cooke of $5 adults/$3 seniors/students and members free. SCFD to 14-year-old youth, and means by Park Hill. which children travel to/from school are cal activities safer, free of charge and fun free day is April 16 from 11am to 2pm. For more informa - described on the 2040 website for children. tion visit FoothillsArtCenter.org. (www.2040partnersforhealth.org) or can Dr. Halliday concluded the summit be directly obtained from Kyla Krause at with a 45-minute lecture in which he de - [email protected] or scribed efforts by the Surgeon General’s 303.468.3246 Office and the First Lady, Michele Obama Stephanie Phibbs from the University to promote exercise, proper nutrition edu - of Colorado reviewed the “Society of the cation and healthier eating. Today, over Youth” study. Children, particularly from 20 percent of Colorado’s 10- to 14-year- our underserved neighborhoods commu - old youth are obese. On the morning of nicated that they would be more active if: the conference, Halliday toured each of 1) neighborhood school playgrounds the five neighborhoods. He met with were opened for public use and play, 2) study participants and neighborhood im - parents or an adult joined the children as provement advocates. He commended a patrol person to counteract any intimi - their efforts to promote healthier lifestyles dating behavior from other youth, 3) for children and adults alike. “Health and there were more “free-day” programs in nutrition messages developed in a com - neighborhood recreation centers and 4) munity for that specific community are there were more interesting and challeng - best received and most likely to be suc - ing play structures in community play cessful in lowering our growing childhood grounds to engage children. These study obesity rates,” said Halliday.

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Weeklong and divided by age and abilities. the performing arts builds muscles brains and self Full and ½ day camps available starting mid-July. esteem. Classes include No Fear Shakespeare, Au - www.DanceInstituteDenver.com for complete dition Techniques, Broadway Bound and more. schedule and pricing. Creating skills and memories Contact Lisa Mumpton, Director of Educational that last a lifetime. 4601 Quebec St C8 & C9. 303- Theatre at 303.739.1973 or lmumpton@auror - 525-0011 agov.org for more info. visit www.auroragov.org and click on parks and rec, then leisure guide for a Dardano’s School of Gymnastics Adventure detailed listing of classes. for more info on the Au - Camp- Ages 3–5½ years, boys/girls. Two 4-week rora Fox visit www.aurorafoxartscenter.org sessions begin June 6 and July 11, Mon.–Thur. 2011 Summer Camp Guide 9:30am–12:30 pm. Flexible scheduling. Combines Aurora Recreation Summer Camps- Various gymnastics with enrichment activities, arts & crafts, locations. 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Denver Art morning class for 2- –4-year-olds, 8:30– 11:30am ity levels. Participants taught scorekeeping, etiquette, Commerce City Recreation Center Summer Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway. 720-865-5000, and a MWF afternoon class for 3- –6-year-olds, tournament preparation, logical thinking and strate - Camp- www.denverartmuseum.org. 12:30–3:30pm. Entire summer $800. Monthly Ages 5-15. (2 Commerce City locations) gic planning for all phases of game. 303.770.6696 or $300 or 2-week sessions for $150. Ask about our Separate camps for ages 5-10 and 11-15. May 31- Denver Language School Spanish and Man - www.ColoradoMasterChess.com limited all-day Tu/Thur option. Program includes Aug. 5; $120 per camper per week for residents, darin Immersion Camps- 8am-12pm with sev - our preschool curriculum, gym time, music, crafts, $145/week for nonresidents. Youth camp, ages 5-10, eral vendors in afternoon to provide parents with Summer Junior Golf Camps- The First Tee of held at Recreation Center, 6060 E Parkway Drive; centers and more. 303-377-8855 or www.baby - Denver provides instruction at 5 locations: City full day care. Open to the community for all incom - powerco.com features activities, games, crafts, exercise and field ing kindergarten to third-grade children. In Lowry Park, Wellshire, Willis Case, Kennedy and Aqua Golf. trips. Teen Scene camp, ages 11-15, offered at Rec All ability levels, ages 4 and up. www.thefirstteeof - at 451 Newport St. Camps (cont. on p.24) Bladium Sports Camp- Ages 5–12, May 30–Au - denver.com. gust 7. Full day/Full week $250; Half Day/Full Week $195. Day full of high-energy games and sports; Colorado Fusion Soccer Club Summer now includes healthy lunches from Revolution Camps- Day and evening soccer skills camps for Foods. 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Ultimate yond the Rainbow” Summer Youth Camp- J une goal of our programs is to provide each player tools (continued from p. 21) June 20 – July 15 from 8-12 1–August 12. 7 am–6pm. Cost starts at $145/week. to become a more complete player and have fun. and 1-5. Lunch care provided. Also $25 registration fee, 10% sibling discounts. Regis- Contact: Adrianne Almaraz, director, at www.myenrichment.com, select Denver Language tration includes variety of activities, free lunch, after- [email protected], 303-556-4874 or register at School. [email protected], noon snacks, 2 fun-filled field trips per week, www.MetroStateSoccerCamps.com . Held on 2011 Summer Camp Guide 303.872.0782. memorable camp T-shirt and wristband. Open regis- Auraria Campus soccer fields, downtown Denver tration held Friday, April 1, 5–8pm at admin building at across from Pepsi Center. camps. Additional programming added for middle-school Denver Montclair International School Sum - 18650 E. 45th Ave. To sign up: La Vetta Murray, 303- students. Odyssey will also offer its own extended learn - mer Camp - Lowry-206 Red Cross Way. Ages 3–12, 307-3243 or email [email protected]. Mike Giles Family Karate Summer Camp- ing programs of Summer Skill and Mind’s On/Hand’s On. June 13–Aug. 20. Week-long day camps in languages www.gvrmetrodistrict.com. (Ages 3-9) June 20–24 and July 11–15, $125/week. Ages 3–14 for different programs. June 13–August 5 from (French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese), sports, cul - Times: 9am – 12pm or 1–4pm. In Stapleton’s Quebec 9-12, 1-4, or 9-4. Early drop-off and late pickup available. tural exploration and creative arts. Register: Gymnastics Plus Summer Camps ( 6180 E War- Square. 303-377-5425, www.mikegileskarate.com or Info and registration: www.myenrichment.com , select www.dmischool.com or 303.340.3647 ren Ave), ages 3-10, June 20–August 5, offering 6 one- [email protected] Odyssey Summer Camps. Contact: molly@myenrich - week, half-day camps (8:30am to 1pm). Gymnastics, ment.com , 303.872.0782. 6550 E 21st Ave. Denver Museum of Nature & Science Camps- arts & crafts, different themes weekly, special camp Mizel Museum – Creative Journeys Camps - Numerous options ranging from week-long half-day shows with awards. 303-512-0799 or www.colorado- Creative Journeys Artist-in-Residence Camps are af - Open Air Academy Summer Camp- Six 2-week to week-long full-day camps, for ages 4 to grade 6. gymplus.com fordable 1-week sessions beginning May 23, held in camps May 30–August 19, focus on specific theme (Sum - Register online or forms on website to mail to mu - the museum’s new permanent exhibit, 4,000 Year mer Fun, Performing Arts, Botany, Visual Arts, Architec - seum or call 303-370-6000. www.dmns.org Go to JA Business Week- 1 0th– 12th graders, June 12–17; Road Trip: Gathering Sparks. Each week is a dynamic ture and Construction, and Animal Safari) that children Learn, Families & Children, Summer Camps. Ques - $250, scholarships available. Compete in an “Appren- journey with renowned teaching artists focusing on will experience through activities, field trips and work - tions: 303-370-8225 tice” style project for companies like Jamba Juice and visual arts, theatre, photography, music, movement, shops. $660 for each mini-camp (includes all field trip learn from business professionals from Denver metro Denver Zoo Summer Safari 2011: Zooper He - storytelling and more. 1400 S. Kearney St, one block and activity costs). Downtown Denver, 3507 Ringsby area. Stay in real college dorms, meet new friends S of Alameda Ave. [email protected] or Court. Contact: Stacey Shields, (303) 296-8300. roes - Will get kids out of classroom and into the from all over Colorado while building confidence, wild, as we explore our connections to nature. Un - 303-749-5018. Brochure in Summer Camp Central leadership skills and an entrepreneur- Primrose Summer Camp- Ages 4-12, June 1–August cover environmental challenges section at www.mizelmuseum.org. ial spirit. Applications and info: jabusi- 11. $50 registration fee; may choose 1–3 sessions at $25 that face animals today; take Monarch Montessori- Six fun and enriching two- nessweek.org or call Junior per session; 5-day programs $225/wk., 3days $170/wk. steps to make a difference in the week sessions where children explore and further Achievement at 303-628-7372. Loca- and 2 days $125/wk. Educational, full-day summer pro - world you share. Summer Safari tion: Johnson & Wales University - understand the world around them. Caterpillars and gram with degreed teachers, monthly sessions such as is a fun-filled educational experi - Denver Campus in Park Hill. Butterflies: May 31 - June 10, Our Solar System: June ence for animal lovers from Pre- 13 - June 24, North America: June 27 - July 8, Our Expedition Summer, Destination Science, and Dig! Stir! K through 8th grade. Hands-on Jewish Community Center Earth: July 11 - July 22, Dinosaurs July 25 - August 5, Chomp! Fees activities, zoo exploration, animal Camp- MACC Art Academy, Wolf Oceans: August 8 - August 17. For more info email include meals field trips and other expenses. Contact encounters and observations, Theatre Academy, Sports, Tennis and summercamp @monarchm.com or visit www.monar - Carrie Knox at 303.322.7200 or [email protected] crafts, games, stories, projects, swim camps as well as Camp Shalom chm.com. 1 mile east of Havana St. at 11200 E. 45th or visit www.primrosestapleton.com. 2501 Syracuse St. and more. www.denverzoo.org for ages 2-5. 350 S. Dahlia. Visit Av. Denver, CO 80239. under education and child & fam - www.jccdenver.org/camps for camp Quill Kids Creative Writing Camp - (various loca - ily programs info and other locations or call (303) Nature Rangers Environmental Education tions), ages 6-13, Monday-Thursday, 9am-12pm. East Den - 316-6307. Summer Day Camp- Six weeklong sessions at Dramatic Adventures Super 13,000-acre Rocky Mt. Arsenal National Hero Camp - Create your own KC Kids Summer Theme Camps, Wildlife Refuge. Rangers trek along miles secret identity, superhero mask Denver Public Schools 2011- A ges of trails and study ecosystems. Learn to and costume as you meet notori - 3-11, June 6-July 29, $175/week; field lake fish, spy on animals, identify birds ous villains who will challenge trips included. Held at Bromwell, San- and follow lifecycles of dragonflies, tad - you to face incredible obstacles. doval, Southmoor and Westerly poles and prairie dogs. Hands-on activi - Class will help you uncover prac - Creek Elem. Schools. 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However, I see gross infractions of Summer at Stanley- Child-centered program [email protected] website- recreation.du.edu offers full/half-day programs for campers enter - the 30 MPH speed limit daily, as cars traveling at high ing grades 1–9 and features programs in the arts, The Urban Farm- Farm experience with vari - rates of speed flash in front of my home on 17th. sports, science, technology, Hogwarts, theatre, ous workshops and classes. Embracing Horses Noise levels from increased speeds on the Parkway be - swimming and more! Cost per camper: $165/wk horsemanship education and lessons. 303-307- half-day and $270/wk full-day. Extended care 9332, www.theurbanfarm.org. 10200 Smith Rd. comes invasive to the 17th Avenue Parkway residents' available. At Stanley British Primary School, 350 homes and can affect home values overall--a topic to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Mu - Quebec St. www.summeratstanley.org for camp which all homeowners are very sensitive. brochure and registration. 303.360.0803. seum Summer Camp- Ages 8-12 years. Fun activities about aviation and our solar system, For those who do not wish to obey the law (Unfor - 2011 Summer Camp Guide Summer in the Parks- Ages 7-12, 6/6-7/29, building planes and rockets and using flight simu - tunately, there are always some!), be forewarned: work $450 plus field trip fees for 8-week program, M-F, lators. June 20-24 or July 11-15. $150 for half day ver: June 20-23; South Denver: July 18-21; 10am-3pm. Quality licensed child care providers (am or pm); $280 full day. Contact: Kevin, has begun with the Denver Police Department to in - West Denver: Aug 1-4. $85 for 4 half-day ses - offer comprehensive recreational programming [email protected]. sions. Sibling rates available. Recreational pro - crease patrols and radar van enforcement along the including arts & crafts, active games & sports, gram guides budding authors through Parkway. Moreover, additional and different aquatics, field trips & special events, all within a YMCA Summer to Discover- Day Camp, Ad - experience of creating imaginative prose and park setting. Registration for residents of City venture Camp, Sports Camp, Summer Fun Bunch, traffic/speed control devices will likely be requested and poetry. Iretta Bell: 303-618-9701, and County of Denver begins Monday, March 7. Counselor in Training, active camps and caring [email protected] or www.quillkids.com. stressed within the auspices of Denver Traffic Engineer - More info including park locations: call Commu - staff for children ages 5-15. Arts and crafts, sports, swimming, field trips and more. Register: ing, given support from other South Park Hill resi - School of the Poetic City- $275, ages 5-14. nity Recreation at 720-865-0840, www.denver - www.DenverYMCA.org or 720.524.2792. Art Camp June 6–10 or 13–17 (morning trips gov.org website, or email dents. to galleries; afternoon puppet-making). Anima - [email protected]. Young Americans Center for Financial Ed - For all readers who frequent 17th Avenue Parkway: tion Camp June 20–24 (making cartoons) at Stapleton Fellowship Church Stapleton ucation Camps- Grades 2 to 7, Jun. 13-Aug. 5, the next time you are tempted to exceed the speed The Odyssey School, 6550 E 21st Ave. Ques - Summer Day Camp at Hangar 61- July 26, $185, 3550 E. First Ave. Weeklong camps include tions: [email protected]; reg - limit, please respect this wonderful historic residential 27, 28. 9–11:30am. Ages 3 to 3rd grade. Young AmeriTowne, Girls Can, International ister at www.odysseydenver.org/ street and remember those who have homes along its www.StapletonChurch.com for details Towne, Jr. Money Matters, Running Your Own Biz, summer_expeditions or 303.872.0782. Be Your Own Boss. 303-321-2265 or www.ya - beautiful divided parkway. Teen Adventures- Ages 13-16, 6/9-7/29 on Sewall Child Development Center 2011 center.org. B. Patton, 17th Avenue Parkway homeowner Thursdays and Fridays. $82 program fee plus $5– Summer Camps- Ages 3-12 with and with - $30 per week field trip fees. Field-trip-based in - out special needs. Half-day weekly sessions tegrated recreation program targets 5/31-8/5; $125-$200/session. Art, Science, teens with and without disabilities, a Music and Wildwater camps. Kindergarten collaborative effort between Com - readiness camp. Register: karnbruster@sewall - munity Recreation and the Special child.org. Sewallchild.org. Needs Dept. Most field trips begin at Sewall Child Development Center 2011 1849 Emerson St with varied destina - Therapeutic Summer Camps- For chil - tions. Registration for residents of dren diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disor - City and County of Denver begins der: 8/1-8/5, ages 2-10; $350-$450/week. Monday, March 7. More info: call Sensory and motor camp for children with Community Recreation at 720-865- sensory OT and PT needs: 5/31-6/3, ages 4-8, 0840, go to www.denvergov.org web - $200/week. Contact: Tina Myrsiades, tmyrsi - site or email [email protected] or Sewallchild.org. [email protected]. South Suburban Camps- (various loca - Temple Emanuel Camp- 51 tions), ages 4–17 years, various dates between Grape St., 8am to 5:30pm, June 13 to June-August, $100-$295. For those looking for Aug. 5, ages 2–6. Art, crafts, science, specific camp (like technology iCamp, lacrosse open gym, water play, outside time, Denver Art Museum Camps and Classes

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Stapleton Front Porch 23 March 2011 (continued from p. 23) Stapleton Parks Update By Lucia Correll I look across Westerly Creek and see the mountains from Pike’s Peak to Long’s Peak. SUN Meetings are held on the 4th Monday of every month at 7:30pm I see bald eagles in Bluff Lake and Sand in the Stapleton Community Room, 2823 Roslyn Street. For information about SUN, Creek. I am lucky to live in this environ - ment. visit www.stapletonunitedneighbors.com. Developing these areas of natural beauty To contact SUN or confirm meeting time, email [email protected] doesn’t always seem as urgent as new schools or call 720-840-8492. or transit lines, but Stapleton’s green spaces are the reason many of us chose to live in Stapleton, and these parks and planned parks need our attention and our protection. Two SUN Board Announces 2011 Elections issues that are of current concern are the de - velopment of Westerly Creek North and the By Andrew Schurger extension of Martin Luther King Blvd. Are you new to the neighborhood? Have you Westerly Creek North and Sand Creek hoped that more voices from the community Stapleton United Neighbors Board Election FAQs Greenway Park: The Westerly Creek North would be represented in development deci - Park will be on the south side of Sand Creek sions? Want to help make Stapleton a better What is SUN, and what role does it play in the Authoring at least one article per year for at the confluence of Westerly Creek and place to live and work? Do you have talents the SUN Spot section of the Front Porch neighborhood? Sand Creek. We all look forward to this and skills that could be put to good use in The mission of SUN is to work for the bet - Attending and helping out with SUN- park, which will connect Central Park and planning future development in Stapleton? terment of the Stapleton neighborhood and sponsored community events and forums Westerly Creek trails to the Sand Creek Are you a current resident who has been look - the City and County of Denver by provid - Promoting the work of SUN and the Greenway, to the South Platte River Green - ing for an opportunity to get involved with ing: (i) a forum for residents living within the ethos of SUN’s mission in the community. way, and to the High Line Canal trail. This neighborhood issues? If your answer is “yes” boundaries of SUN to discuss and resolve is - park area needs an environmental survey and to any of these questions, please consider run - sues; (ii) a network of communication; (iii) a What is the time commitment involved? updates to the park design before it goes for - ning for a leadership position in the Stapleton means of acting on matters of importance to Monthly board meetings typically last an United Neighbors Board of Directors. the community as a whole. Check out the hour and a half to two hours. SUN, CAB The first Board of Directors of SUN was SUN website at www.stapletonunitedneigh - and SDC committee meetings are usually elected in the spring of 2004. During the past bors.com for more information. once a month and run about an hour to an seven years, much has been accomplished. hour and a half and INC meetings are the Since You’ve Asked... SUN supports community participation second Saturday of the month for three What are the obligations? Q. I’ve heard that 40 acres of “open space” through a block captain network of over 70 SUN board members are responsible for hours. Beyond that, keeping up with voice was sold to become part of the Interchange. community leaders. SUN now hosts regular helping bring the mission of SUN to life mail, email, other events and meetings can Will that be lost in the overall plan of Staple - forums with Forest City representatives and through work in the community by: add as little as a few minutes to as much as ton? officials from the City to help keep Stapleton Attending monthly meetings (currently several hours per week. As a general rule, A. Title to the approximate 40 acres of Sta - residents up to date on the state of our neigh - scheduled from 7:30pm on the fourth Mon - SUN will involve about 10–15 hours a pleton land required to complete the right- borhood. SUN also organizes the annual day of January through November) month of time commitment, and potentially of-way north and south of the existing I-70 Block Party Day and the Kickball Tourna - Serving on or chairing a SUN committee more depending on the calendar of events. corridor for the new Central Park Blvd. in - ment to help bring new neighbors together (Transportation, Education, Outreach, terchange was held by the City of Denver’s and build the bonds that are critical to strong Safety, Kickball, Fundraising and Sustainabil - What do I need to do to run for the board? Department of Aviation. That title was communities. Now it is time to make plans ity); serving as a SUN liaison on a Stapleton The application process entails submitting a transferred to the City of Denver’s General for another year of progress with the election Citizens’ Advisory Board (CAB) or Stapleton 200-word statement of interest and bio to Fund. It will continue to be counted as part of members of the SUN Board of Directors. Development Corporation (SDC) Commit - Andrew Schurger ([email protected]) by of the 1,116 acres of open space at Staple - Of the 15 seats on the SUN board, seven are tee, including Parks Advisory Group, Zoning April 1, and attending the SUN Forum and ton. up for election this year. As Stapleton is al - and Planning, Housing Diversity, Commu - Election on May 18. The statement of inter - ways growing, SUN is committed to includ - nity Communications and Design Review, or est and bio will be posted on SUN’s website ing on the board residents from all areas of serving as a SUN liaison to InterNeighbor - at www.StapletonUnitedNeighbors.com. Q. What is the plan for the Sand Creek Park our neighborhood. hood Cooperation (INC) and for completing the development of West - erly Creek so that there is a continuous trail from MLK to Sand Creek? Open Your Heart. A. 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Stapleton Front Porch 25 March 2011 Slave Ship to Pirate Ship

Captives were taken through heavy surf from the West African port at Ouidah (top left) to the newly-built slave ship Whydah (Anglicized name for Ouidah). After the slaves were delivered to the West Indies to work on sugar plantations, the ship was taken over by pirates, led by Sam Bellamy (right). The pirates, some of r whom were formerly slaves, reconfigured the tou deo ibit ship for piracy (directly above). One of the pi - a vi exh rates on the Whydah was young John ke te rch Ta pira tPo King (lower right) who chose to join the the ron of w.F .com pirates when the ship his family was on got ww ton At about the topic of slavery. plundered from more than at aple Denver Museum of Nature and Science captured. Visitors can walk through a St same time a fast, After the ship 50 ships when it went down replica of the Whydah and see some of the Real Pirates treasures recovered from the wreckage. armed, well-constructed dropped the captives, it in a storm 500 feet off shore new ship called the Whydah was took on a cargo of The Untold Story of the Whydah, from Cape Cod. By Carol Roberts being built in London to bring captives from sugar and tobacco and from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship The exhibit offers the eal Pirates weaves a story as com - the west coast of Africa to sugar plantations likely was carrying jew - Opens March 4, Timed tickets opportunity to walk pelling as any fiction! In the early in the Caribbean. National Geographic and elry, elephant tusks and Reservations suggested through a replica ship, R1700s Sam Bellamy was a young the exhibition companies brought in histori - other commodities $20/adults, $11/children;Members $7/$5 touch some of the loot, and sailor from a poor family in love with a ans to show the interrelationship between from Africa. In the see what life was like for the young woman whose parents wouldn’t allow piracy and the slave trade. Exhibit visitors early 1700s, the Caribbean was a trading cen - pirates on board the ship. You’ll also learn about her to marry him. So he went off to find learn about the small, hot, foul spaces the ter with numerous cargo ships passing Barry Clifford, who discovered the wreckage. sunken ships, but then turned to a more lu - slaves were forced into, where many died through, including firearms and liquor from As a child he heard stories of a pirate ship that crative job—piracy. A common trait among from disease, poor diet or hunger on the 8-12 Europe and gold and silver from Spanish had sunk near Cape Cod—and he grew up to pirates was that they had little to lose—many week journey. For the Denver exhibit, a local mines in Peru. discover the only pirate ship ever found in U.S. had been slaves. As part of a pirate crew they advisory panel of community leaders and ed - It was in this setting that Sam Bellamy be - waters. A section of the exhibit describes the got to share in the decision making as well as ucators was formed to give advice on how to came a successful pirate and captured the processes used to recover the artifacts, which are the loot. communicate with the public on the sensitive Whydah in 1717. The ship contained booty still being brought up from the ocean floor. WE’RE BUILDING A NEW WAY TO DIA rail line construction starts this year

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March 2011 26 Stapleton Front Porch Above left: Collar of porcupine quills Above left: One of many examples of beadwork Above right: Two of many American Indian rugs Above right: Bowl, A.D. 900, Unknown Mimbres artist

Multiple TV screens and interactive blocks prod Corn Blue Room , 1998, Jolene Rickard, Tuscarora – Rickard viewers to explore various answers to the question, created this multimedia installation to encourage a dialogue “What is American Indian Art?” about the contemporary lives of Indian people—specifically, Revisiting Indian Art her people, the Tuscarora, who live in upstate New York.

By Carol Roberts Above: Maternal Journey, 2010, Rhonda Holy Bear, Cheyenne River one more contributor to holding us in chains.” he Denver Art Museum (DAM) has one of the Sioux –“Maternal Journey celebrates the cycle of life… It is an hom - Blomberg went on to say that a year later Fritz nation’s most comprehensive collections of Amer - age to the strength and dignity of the Plains mother… The mother Scholder also entered his painting in the contest and it and the mare are guiding their young into the future.They are look - Tican Indian art, including 18,000 artworks that ing to the past for guidance as they move toward their destiny.” was rejected. He then demanded to be a judge the next span 2,000 years of art. The museum temporarily closed year—and he was. the collection, renovated and recently reopened it. The The “dolls” such as the photo shown of Maternal “new” American Indian art collection focuses on Native evolving cultures. And visitors can watch a video called Journey are done in intricate beadwork, quillwork, American objects as art, rather than artifacts, and focuses Meet the Artists. painted leather and other techniques. Rhonda Holy on individual artists and how their creations reflect their Curator Nancy Blomberg says they are posing the ques - Bear, a doll artist, described how she came to make the tion, “What is American Indian art? The stereotype is, it authentic pieces. “I was pretty poor when I grew up. has to be old, it has to be made of traditional materials There wasn’t a bead in my house. When I got older I (whatever those are), you have to learn from your grand - started doing research because we had lost so much of mother, and it’s no longer being made. We’re trying to ex - our culture going to boarding school. They were trying pand people’s notion of what constitutes American Indian to get us to transition into the main culture and forget art.” Teacher of Native Arts for the museum, Heather about our culture. So when I got older I lived in Nielsen, points out, “We are trying to involve people in the Chicago and went to the Field Museum. What unifies conversation, knowing that there really is no answer... and the dolls is that they there are many, many different perspectives. People can ask are very researched.” themselves these questions as they explore?” Live artist talks and Blomberg tells a story about Oscar Howe, a famous demonstrations along Sioux artist who worked in the 1950 and ‘60s. He created with interactive tech - his own style—a very cubist style. He entered the paintings nology, videos and in a contest for an exhibit of American Art and they were hands-on activities rejected because they weren’t considered “Indian enough.” help visitors under - He then wrote a protest letter that is shown along with his stand and appreciate The Mesa Verde Full Arch , 1999, Al Ouyawayma, Hopi – “I know that painting. “Are we to be treated like children and only the some of this clay may even contain the dust of my ancestors… so… the artistic process be - how respectful I must be.” Trained as an engineer, Al Ouyawayma is white man knows what’s best for him?,” he writes. “I’m not hind many of the well-schooled in the ceramic traditions of his Hopi ancestors yet going to stand for it. I only hope the art world will not be pieces. Land O Bucks, Land O Fakes, Land O possesses his own style. Lakes, 2006, David Bradley, Chippewa

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