A Look Inside Central Park Rec Center
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Distributed to the Stapleton, Park Hill, Lowry, Montclair, Mayfair, Hale and East Colfax neighborhoods DENVER, COLORADO JANUARY 2011 AA LLooookk IInnssiiddee CCeennttrraall PPaarrkk RReecc CCeenntteerr Central Park Recreation Center staff are shown in the natatorium (indoor pool area) as operations, sports, weight room; Matt Draper customer service, sports, social network; Kelly Kitts, workmen put the finishing touches on the building. Clockwise from front: Charlene Branch, supervisor; and Felicia Rodriguez, operations, kid watch, fitness. The lap pool (with basketball hoops) aquatics; Mary Carriero, customer service, sports, special events; Tony Hernandez, is visible in the background. Rec center to open Jan. 29th ceeded anything I had hoped for. It is a By Jon Meredith state-of-the-art facility that everyone in enver is about to have a brand- Denver can be proud of. To double- new $19 million regional recre - check my impressions, I took a few Dation center located at MLK Blvd. neighbors in and they came away with and Emporia St. in Stapleton. The 57,000- the same reaction. They all said they square-foot facility was financed through will give up their other health club the voter-approved Better Denver Bond memberships at the end of January. Program and the Park Creek Metropolitan The Grand Opening will be on Sat - District. urday, January 29, with a ribbon cut - My expectations of the facility were ting at 9am and tours and class high—however, the reality of the center ex - demonstrations (continued on page 22) A Parents’ Guide to Kids’ Sports By John Babiak plore and play different sports. Many s a teacher, youth sports coach and children benefit from organized sports father of three young sports enthu - activities, and research continues to Asiasts, people often ask me about prove that physically active children youth sports and recreation opportunities are healthier and perform better aca - for their children, so I was delighted to demically. As they grow, they are less compile that information for Front Porch likely to be overweight, to smoke and readers. to use illicit drugs because they tend to There are so many indoor and outdoor care more about their bodies and per - sports activities for children here in metro formance. Denver, it is difficult for me to recommend After you assess what your child’s just one. Children between the ages of 5 interest is and match it to a sport that and 12 should have the opportunity to ex - will both excite and challenge them, Young athletes, back row, left to right: Noah VanSickle (baseball), Abdikadir Muya (football), (continued on page 6) Taylor Garner (soccer), Maddie Wells (lacrosse). Front row: Ethan Epperson (basketball), Lexi Killinger (karate), Zaire Jackson (roller hockey). Printed with soy-based ink. Paper contains 40% postconsumer waste. MLK ‘s Visit to Stock Hit-and-run Promising Reasons Choice Time Montview Church 4 Show 5 Update 8&18 Cancer Research 10 to Read 11 for DPS 19 ¡ CALENDAR Nearby events that are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC or are nonprofit events. (See pages 12 - 14 for more events.) JANUARY JANUARY Month of January Monday, January 17 Laurie Gorham Blood Drive Denver Botanic Gardens - SCFD Free Day Children’s Hospital 720-777-5398 720-865-3500 http://www.botanicgardens.org Call for times (Story p. 8) Saturday, January 22 Saturday, January 1 The Center for African American Health SCFD 1st Saturdays Free –Denver Art Museum 9th Annual Health Fair www.denverartmuseum.org Renaissance Denver Hotel, 8:30am-3:30pm www.caahealth.org (See page 9) www.stapletoncommunity.com. For current Sunday, January 2 303-355-3423 x110 What is your Community DNA? assessment information on Stapleton MCA Gorham Sherlock Blood Drive, 10am - 2pm We are adding a new segment to our Accounts including status letters, please Sponsored by Stapleton United Neighbors Tuesday, January 25 monthly article. This is a little piece to contact MSI Inc. For Residential Accounts, Westerly Creek School Gymnasium (See p.8) SUN Community Forum on contact StaceyWills at 720.974.4163. For Call 303-363-2300 to schedule an appt. Transportation Issues, 7pm, location TBD check in with yourself and how you are Check StapletonUnitedNeighbors.com contributing, or affecting your Commercial & Builders Accounts, please Tuesday, Jan. 4 & Feb. 1 community. We are calling this the contact Jennifer Clair at 720.974.4119. Children's Museum, Target Tuesdays Thursday, January 27 Community Denver Neighborhood Pool ID Cards & Entry Fees. The usage 1st Tuesday nights free, 4 –8pm, cmdenver.org Stapleton Activities, Inc. Potluck, 6:30—8pm Attitude. For our first month the topic is fees for the Stapleton swimming pools will MCA Community Room* Wednesday, January 5 [email protected] snow. When you shovel your walk or alley, increase this year. If you have any questions, "Short"—Book reading and signing do you shovel to your property line and please email us at with local author Cortright McMeel stop or do you shovel your neighbor’s [email protected]. Tattered Cover Book Store, 7:30pm FEBRUARY walk or alley section as well? What if you Pool card renewals increase to $10/year. 2526 E. Colfax Ave. (see page 9) and your neighbor got together and New pool cards issued for $20/card. Saturday, January 8 & Saturday, February 5 shoveled? Imagine what a community we Non-Resident fees increase to $7/entry. Monday, January 24 SCFD 1st Saturdays Free –Denver Art Museum would create! Resident Guests increase to $5/entry. Denver Zoo - SCFD Free Days www.denverartmuseum.org We would like to have the community Unlimited Resident Guest and Temporary http://www.denverzoo.org 303-376-4800 send in suggestions for this piece. If you Resident Cards will remain $60 each. *MCA Community Room: have an idea you would like to have Community Room Rates. The rental rates Sunday, January 9 & 2823 Roslyn St., Denver, 80238 for the community room at 2823 Roslyn Monday, January 31 (See page 12 for recurring monthly featured, please send it to events and meetings) Street will be going up this year. The room SCFD Free Day –Denver Museum of Nature [email protected] and Science 303-322-7009 www.dmns.org m. This is meant to provide a monthly will feature a larger space and will also have t Porch topic and action for our community, so WiFi capability. The rates will be $20/hour Thursday, January 13 The Fron ming sions of upco feel free to let us hear from you! for residents and $45/hour for nonresidents. Active Minds Seminar, "Switzerland" 7 – 8pm es submis 3) welcom ormat on p.1 For more information, go to our website at MCA Community Room* ents (see f local ev future issues. Active Minds Seminar [email protected] ideas for om www.stapletoncommunity.com. and story [email protected] The Active Minds Seminar this month is tPorchStaple The Stapleton Community Room will Email Fron on Thursday, January 13, at 7pm. We are not be available for reservations in January. hosting the Active Minds Seminars in the After the completion of some renovations to Stapleton MCA Community Room at the space, we will reopen for rentals in 2823 Roslyn Street. The doors will open February. If you have any questions about at 6:30pm and the seminar will begin at this, please call our office at 303.388.0724. 7pm. This program is free and open to the public. Name the New Pool The January topic is Switzerland . One The MCA will open its fourth outdoor of the world’s richest countries, swimming pool in Filing 19 this summer. Switzerland is known for many things, We are looking to the community to help including banking, chocolate, watches, name this pool. If you have a name and more. The country is renowned for its suggestion for our fourth pool, please email neutrality, yet maintains an impressive [email protected] state of military preparedness. Join Active with your idea before January 14, 2011. The Minds as we journey to the Alps to We will take the suggestions and select understand the Swiss, their history, and five choices. If your suggestion is one of the BERKSHIRE the current challenges facing Switzerland. five, you will win a $10 gift certificate to For more information about Active one of our 29th Avenue Town Center Minds, go to merchants. If there are duplicate http://www.activemindsforlife.com/index. suggestions, we will use the first one we html. receive via email. We will post the five choices online at Come in and Try Our New 2011 MCA Rate Increase www.stapletoncommunity.com January 17 Assessments. The structure of the and the community can vote for their Community accommodates different favorite. The person who suggests the Stuffed Burgers! types of assessments to fund operations of winning choice will win a $50 gift the Community. The Association provides certificate to their favorite 29th Avenue certain services for the benefit of all Town Center merchant. Blue Cheese and Bacon members; therefore, all members share those expenses. Other services are Stapleton Activities, Inc. Three Cheese provided benefit only some of the The monthly potluck get-together will members and are paid for only by those resume January 27, after the break for the members who benefit from those services. holidays. Pulled Pork The “TOTAL ASSESSMENT” paid If you have any questions or comments monthly by any specific unit is a about the information above, please feel free combination of the assessment elements to contact [email protected] which apply to that unit. or call the MCA office at 303.388.0724. The assessment rates are increasing 7352 E. 29th Ave. p: 303 321.4010 beginning January 1, 2011.