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DENVER, COLORADO MAY 2008 100% of DSST Graduates Accepted to 4-Year Colleges

Denver School of Science and Technology’s head of school Bill Kurtz stands with the 79 that the class achieved their goal of 100% acceptance into four year colleges. Fifty percent students that comprise this year’s graduating seniors. The poster behind Kurtz illustrates of the class are the first generation in their family to attend college. our years ago the Denver School of Sci - dress code (collared shirts for all, no shorts, Stapleton Celebrates First Earth Hour ence and Technology (DSST) started as no open-toed shoes, no denim, no sneakers), Fa new DPS charter school in a tempo - and a commitment to stay after school every rary classroom with 131 kids who were se - time their homework wasn’t completed. Less lected by lottery – kids who were willing to flexibility in choosing their schedule, fewer try a new approach to high school. In an era electives and more core academic classes. when many kids have more freedom than ever, Every student takes college prep courses – these kids were willing to swap current flexi - and if they’re having trouble, they don’t bility and freedom for future opportunities. drop the class and take an easier one, they No open campus, no off blocks, a strict go to tutoring (continued on page 30)

Third Annual Feast on the FAX By Jake Flint chance to sample cuisines ake 14 or more ranging from Moroccan, East Colfax-area Mexican, Ethiopian, and Trestaurants; mix American. Participants in over 500 hungry will enjoy samples at all neighbors, add a de - of the featured restau - lightful June evening rants, and may walk, and you have…. the bike, or ride free shut - Diners at Blue Fin’s sushi bar eat by candle light during Earth Hour. Third Annual Feast on tle buses up and down The FAX . The FAX . By Heather Dock shire, Noodles, Blue Fin and Casey’s, all On June 10, 2008 The Feast on The tapleton joined in the first global cele - went dark for one hour to take a stand and from 5 – 9 PM, The FAX FAX was created by The bration of Earth Hour on Saturday, send a powerful national and global message Partnership will hold its FAX Partnership to pro - SMarch 29th. Restaurants in the 29th that it is possible to take action on global Third Annual Feast on The mote businesses on Colfax Avenue Town Center, including The Berk - warming. With (continued on page 18) FAX, giving attendees the while (continued on page 18)

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Kindergartners Abby Gage and Katie DeLeon learn how to plant flowers from Katie Dell, who organized the flower planting project at Westerly Creek school for Earth Day.

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MAY JULY May 2 - 4 Friday, July 4 The Park Hill Art Club Show, Park Hill United Fourth of July Parade Methodist Church [email protected] 29th Ave. 10 -11am Saturday, May 3 Friday, July 18 Spring Fling, Founders Green 3 - 7pm Relay for Life, Founders’ Green Sunday, May 11 Saturday, July 19 Mother’s Day. See events on pages 10-11 Stapleton Communitywide Garage Sale Saturday, May 17 MONTHLY EVENTS Stapleton Block Party Day 3pm [sununitedneighbors.org, click on outreach] Saturdays and Sundays Saturday, May 17 Free class at Core PowerYoga 4pm Five Points Jazz Festival 1 - 6pm (see p. 12) 7485 E. 29th Place, 303-377-7444 Wednesday, May 21 Every Sunday through Sept. “Health Staples – How to take care of Stapleton Farmers Market 8:30am - 12:30pm your skin and carpets” [www.coloradofreshmarkets.org Stapleton MCA Community Room 2823 Roslyn St. 6:30-8pm 303-403-6333 Every Sunday through Aug. 3 Free - Jazz in City Park 6 - 8pm Saturday, May 26 www.CityParkJazz.org Stapleton Pools Open for the Season DO WORK THAT MATTERS! 1st Monday Saturday, May 31 Casey’s Irish Pub and Bistro – 10% to charity Recycle It @ Stapleton 10am - 1pm E. 29th Ave Town Center (More info p. 25) Quebec Square Wal-Mart pkg lot (see p. 5) Denver Public Schools Need [email protected] 1st Tuesday Children’s Museum 1st Tuesdays Free 4-8pm Saturday, May 31 Sponsored by Target, 2121 Children’s Museum Dr. Sweet William Market 2008 Opening Day 303-433-7444 www.mychildsmuseum.org Drivers and 9am - 2pm, Founders’ Green Stapleton [email protected] Fridays Movies on the Green at Stapleton Approx. 8pm (see listings below) Paraprofessionals JUNE Fridays Southenders Events, 7 to 9 pm For the 2008-09 School Year Sunday, June 1 Friday May 2 - First Friday Art Event Free - Jazz in City Park 6 - 8pm Friday May 23 - Jazz singers 3osity - www.cityparkjazz.org Friday June 6 - First Friday Art Event Tuesday, June 10 (see www.southenders.com for updates) Feast on the Fax 5-9pm Saturdays Apply at www.dpsk12.org www.feastonthefax.com (see page 1) Concerts on the Green at Stapleton Or at 4937 Dallas Street, Denver, CO 80238 Approx. 6:30 - 8pm (see listings below) Sunday, June 15 or 2915 W. 7th Avenue, Denver, CO 80204 Farmers Market Opening Day 1st Saturday 8am - 4pm Monday - Friday Founders’ Green 8:30am - 12:30pm Bluff Lake Birders, Nature Center – 7-9am [www.coloradofreshmarkets.org] [BluffLakeNatureCenter.org] $1 3.84 for Drivers Saturday, June 21 Last Saturday Park Hill Garden Tour 10am - 4pm Sweet William Market (through Sept.) $8.97 for Paraprofessionals 2244 Grape Street [email protected] 9am - 2pm, Founders’ Green E. 29th Ave, Stapleton Social Security Card, Diploma, or GED [email protected] required. Driver must have valid Drivers License and be 21 years or older. (Calendar continued on page 23) 18 years or older for Paraprofessional. For more information contact us at Movies and Concerts at Founders’ Green 720-423-4631 Bring blankets and coolers for some great outdoor family fun. Sponsored by The Stapleton MCA and Forest City Stapleton. Great opportunities for Montbello, Movies (Approx. 8pm) Concerts 6:30 - 8pm Friday June 13th : Back to the Future Saturday June 7th : Funkiphino Green Valley, Stapleton and Friday June 27th : Hairspray (2007) Saturday June 21st : Hazel Miller Northeast Denver residents Friday July 11th: The Goonies Saturday July 26th: Legendary Nikators Friday August 8th : Curious George Saturday August 2nd : Something Underground Friday August 22nd : Horton Hears a Who Saturday August 16th : Opie Gone Bad

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May 2008 2 Stapleton Front Porch Stapleton Front Porch 3 May 2008 Denver Residents Given Priority for Jobs By Brian Weber Under First Source, Denver residents are no - tapleton has created more jobs overall, tified about new jobs five days before openings and more jobs for Denver residents than are announced to the public. The city’s Work - Sany other Denver project that benefits force Center is the primary resource and referral from public financing of infrastructure. agency in the process, notifying community More than 1,200 people have found jobs and other organizations about openings, accept - with Stapleton businesses and construction ing and screening applications for employers companies since 2001, according to a recent and providing interviewing and other assistance report by the city’s Stapleton Workforce Center to employers. to the Stapleton Citizens Advisory Board. The The Workforce Center and its First Source Workforce Center is part of the city’s Office of specialist, Ann White, have been praised by Economic Development and helps employers businesses and job seekers for its support and find workers and tracks the progress of em - flexibility in providing beneficial services. An ployment on the project. often repeated compliment is that the Work - Nearly 900 new hires were residents of force Center is successful because it runs a gov - Denver, and two-thirds of those individuals ernment agency as if it were not a government resided in close proximity to Stapleton (i.e. agency. Park Hill, Montbello, Montclair and Mayfair Most recently the Workforce Center helped neighborhoods). fill 120 positions at the new Red Lobster restau - Denver residents are given preference rant in the Northfield Shopping Center. through a Denver Urban Renewal Authority Other First Source projects include the new program called First Source. First Source is Denver justice center, redevelopment of the used on projects like Stapleton that are built in Gates Rubber site, the Dahlia shopping center part by tax increment financing (TIF) in which redevelopment, and the Lowenstein a portion of the increase in tax revenue gener - Theater/Tattered Cover project. ated by a new project flows back to that proj - Stapleton has also been a large contributor ect. DURA oversees the TIF financing process. to the economic health of the metro area. From

City Councilman Michael Hancock Fight Crime – Exercise Common Sense By Councilman Michael B. Hancock ing his brief stroll he identified numerous op - s spring and summer arrive with much portunities including an unattended , unlocked anticipation and energy it is time for home, opened garage doors, parked cars with Athe annual article on using common unlocked doors and windows down with valu - sense to avoid being a victim of ables in plain sight including crime. Our district police offi - an iPod, a lap top computer, a cers will tell you that most briefcase, and even a wallet . As crimes in our community are you can imagine the officer was preventable and citizens can stunned at how people allowed play a greater role in decreasing themselves to be so vulnerable their chances of being victim - to crime . ized. It takes increased aware - These true stories illustrate ness, a little common sense and how quickly we can become surrender of a false sense of se - victims of crime. Over the next curity. Michael Hancock few months let us all resolve to As the weather warms, make an impact of crime in our many of us will be out doors preparing our community by following a few simple steps: gardens and lawns, cleaning the garage, wash - Be aware . ing the car, monitoring our kids as they frolic Exercise caution. All it takes is a few sec - in the yard or simply speaking with our neigh - onds to become a victim. bors. Countless times City Council offices Exercise common sense. Sometimes the city-wide receive accounts of stories like these: best defense is an offense . A mother was in the back yard supervising Contact the District 5 Police station and her kids playing on the trampoline. The find how you can establish a Neighborhood weather was warm so she left windows opened Watch program on your block. throughout the house. After approximately 25 Finally, as I always say, the best deterrent to minutes she enters the house to discover that crime is getting to know your neighbors . someone had climbed through a window and If 90 percent of crime in our neighborhood burglarized the home undetected. is property crime, just think how safe we will –Or – be if we all took control and exercised some On a warm Saturday, a Denver Police Of - awareness. ficer walked through a community to count the Michael Hancock represents Stapleton and number of opportunities for easy crime. Dur - surrounding communities in NE Denver.

May 2008 4 Stapleton Front Porch Created at Stapleton “Recycle It” Event at Stapleton May 31st 2001-05 the redevelopment generated $5.7 billion in economic and fiscal impact to the he 3rd Annual Recycle It @ Stapleton Event! will be Usable moving boxes...bring your extras for someone metro area, according a study commissioned held Saturday, May 31st 2008 from 10am – 1pm at else to use, or pick some up if you need more! Spon - by the non profit Stapleton Development Tthe WalMart Parking Lot in Quebec Square. The event sored by The Kearns Team, RE/MAX City Horizons Corporation. The study examined construc - is free and open to the public. @ Stapleton. More information at www.BuildingSta - tion activity, the spending patterns of the pleton.com businesses located at Stapleton and their What to Bring: workers, and residents and visitors. At full Used computer equipment and peripherals, Tires, batteries (household or automotive) and used build out in the next 12-15 years Stapleton is Consumer and home electronics, cabling and motor oil. Sponsored by Wal-Mart at Quebec projected to generate $36.3 billion in eco - Electrical wiring or cords, cameras and more! Square. nomic impact. Sponsored by Techno + Rescue, LLC. More in - For more information on First Source or formation at www.technorescue.com the services of the Stapleton Workforce Cen - For questions about items not listed, including paint and house - ter contact Ann White, business development hold chemicals, please call Denver City Services (dial 311) to talk to representative, 3401 Quebec St. #7700, Den - Plastic Bags. Sponsored by King Soopers Denver Waste Management or Denver Recycles about proper dis - ver, 80207; 720-865-0068; posal procedures. For more information about the Recycle It event [email protected] please contact Angie Malpiede at Household papers and files for SECURE de - For more information on the economic [email protected]. struction and recycling. Service trucks will be development impact study: http://www. Sponsors: Abundantly Clear • American Family Insurance, Aaron provided by Shred-It. Sponsored by GSBA stapletondenver.com/More_News- Turner Agency • Chipotle • Forest City • Greater Stapleton Business Greater Stapleton Business Association. More Stapleton_Economic_Development_ Association • The Kearns Team • King Soopers • Shred-it • Stapleton information at www.stapletonbusiness.com Study.aspx Foundation • Stapleton Area TMA • Techno Rescue • Wal-Mart

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Stapleton Front Porch 5 May 2008 Community Gardening at Stapleton By Chris Adams Sweet William Market tapleton residents will have two opportunities “Green” Shopping Sfor community garden - he 2008 season for the Sweet ing this summer. Volunteers William Market starts on Satur - and staff of Denver Urban Tday, May 31st at 9am. Run by Gardens broke ground on Stapleton residents Kim Kouba and Lizzie Greenway Garden (23 rd and Kienast, the Sweet William Market offers Spruce) in mid-April, and a wide range of treasures, musical enter - work continues at a newly an - tainment, and food at Founder’s Green, nounced garden at the Urban along East 29th Ave., in Stapleton. Sweet Farm at Stapleton. The Green - William Market will be open from 9am til way Garden is full for the 2pm the last Saturday of each month 2008 season, but plenty of from May through September. spots are available at the With the world becoming more fo - Urban Farm—and gardeners cused on “going green” and protecting the there will get to enjoy the ani - environment, the Sweet William Market mals and other features the offers a “green” shopping experience. farm has to offer. Buying vintage is a great way to reuse and Community gardening is a repurpose – and in addition, customers natural fit for Stapleton, and will find bins for discarding their recycla - newly emerging research from ble items while at the Market. the University of Colorado Volunteers, with help from Denver Urban Gardens (DUG), remove sod in preparation for the Greenway Lauren Kitchens of Seven Petals De - School of Medicine proves its Community Garden located at 23rd and Spruce. Lisa Bult, a DUG intern, stacks rolls of sod in the foreground. sign uses old discarded windows as the value. Dr. Jill Litt, Assistant Professor in the De - • Higher perceptions of safety who use the strip of land between their back backdrop for her whimsical creations. partment of Preventive Medicine and Biostatis - • Beautification of open space fence and the alley to grow vegetables. Because Jaala Sheldon of Jaala Jewels repurposes tics, has been studying the impacts of gardens • Encouraging other activities, such as the alley is a public place, it is likely that many of vintage jewelry into amazing new high for years. She directs the “Gardens for Growing picnics and collecting surplus produce the same benefits that Litt observed in commu - fashion works of art. Sheldon’s display is Healthy Communities” project, whose goal is to for donation nity gardens can start to happen in our alleys too. made from vintage garden accessories and “explore the concepts of health and place, and • Place for mentoring This growing season promises great things for chandeliers. their interconnections as they relate to neighbor - • Community building Stapleton residents. Join us! Sweet William has also teamed up hoods, food systems, active community environ - • Civic involvement Chris Adams is the initiator of the Greenway with area non-profits to help them get the ments and the social organizations in The GGHC project is now recruiting Garden, and is also the president of the Board of word out at the market. Sweet William communities that support and sustain connec - older volunteers, aged 55 and better, to vol - Denver Urban gardens. If you are interested in offers philanthropies the option to sell tions among people.” unteer in a newly designed volunteer-based community gardening, please contact Denver food and beverages or other products or Her conclusion? There is evidence leading mentoring program entitled “Connecting Urban Gardens at 303-292-9900 or promote their fundraisers at no charge. to the conclusion that community gardening Generations through School-Based Gar - [email protected]. If you would like information on Such organizations have included Bluff supports health in multiple ways, including: dens”. For more information, please contact a plot at the Urban Farm, please contact Lake Nature Preserve, The Anchor Center • Better nutrition and physical activity Ruth Starr at [email protected]. [email protected] Franz at the Urban Farm for the Blind, The Four Mile Historic • Building and maintaining family and To learn more about the GGHC research at 303-307-9332 or [email protected] . House, and The American Cancer Soci - neighborhood connections project, contact Jill Litt at [email protected] Funds are still being raised for the Greenway ety’s Relay for Life. • Therapeutic and spiritual benefits or visit the project website at www.gghcdenver.org. Garden. If you would like to contribute please For more information visit She is also finding secondary benefits to A related phenomenon in Stapleton is the contact DUG. Many thanks to Stapleton United www.sweetwilliammarket.com. community gardens, including: growing number of alley gardeners—those Neighbors for its $1,000 contribution!

May 2008 6 Stapleton Front Porch Kids Race, Relays, Half-Marathon Colfax Marathon Offers Something for Everyone By Nancy Burkhart pring officially is un - derway, with buds on Sthe trees, flowers push - ing their way toward the sun, and runners serious about participating in the May 18 Post-News Colorado Colfax Marathon training for the one of the event’s races. Included in the Colfax Marathon are a full marathon (26.2 miles), half marathon (13.1 miles) and a 5-person team relay with in - dividual legs of 5K, 10K and 12K. The course starts and ends in Denver’s City Park. In addition there will be a kids race on Saturday, May 17th at 10:00 am. The Marathon Milers One-Mile Fun Run is for kids kinder - garten through 8th grade. It will be held in City Park, right outside the race Expo where runners pick up their Distance runners who belong to Runner’s Edge of the Rockies train together on group runs. registration materials. There will be food, bands, and The Children’s Mu - The Colorado Colfax Marathon attracts seum will have a crafts booth after the race. many runners because it is in their home “Stuffy” (a huge creature that helps exhibit state, according to Manthey. healthy eating) will make an appearance. “Many runners have a lot of pride about Stapleton resident David Manthey is the their home city,” he said. “It’s an awesome owner/trainer of Runner’s Edge of the Rockies, feeling to do a marathon in your hometown. a training program for distance runners. “You There’s no travel expense. The whole family don’t have to be going for a marathon,” said and friends can come out and watch. It’s re - David Manthey. “If you are just starting out, ally supportive. you can walk a half marathon or do a 10K “All the organizers are born and bred in race.” Colorado,” he explained. “They have the In the spring, Manthey trains about 250 city in mind. The money goes back into the people at different running/walking levels. cities. It’s a not-for-profit race put on by Au - The Stapleton resident says about 75 members rora, Denver and Lakewood.” of the Runner’s Edge of the Rockies will par - Manthey offers members of the Runner’s ticipate in the Colorado Colfax Marathon. Edge of the Rockies an opportunity to train “It’s definitely a challenging race,” Manthey year round with organized group training said. “The altitude is different than running runs and individual training programs. He races at sea level, and there is the uniqueness helps people get ready for races with personal of the street (Colfax Avenue).” counseling on how to deal with injuries, ill - This year’s race is being touted as “runner- nesses and body development. Members are friendly,” with no “steep hills” and with shade at various levels and abilities, including walk - along the course. Pace group leaders will be ers. One member has run marathons in all visible to help runners get into a groove. 50 states, while another has run more than The full marathon goes west along Colfax 80 marathons. Some even do ultra- Avenue to Simms Street in Lakewood. The marathons, which are more than 31 miles. half marathon goes east to the Anschutz Med - Packets for the Colorado Colfax ical Campus at Peoria Street. Marathon must be picked up in advance of While some runners are die-hards, this the race during the Post-News Colorado Col - marathon offers more opportunity for runners fax Marathon Health and Fitness Expo. Stop who do it for the fun of it, or to stay in shape. by on Friday, May 16, from noon to 7:00 The Colfax Marathon, unlike the Boston p.m. or on Saturday, May 17, from 9:00 a.m. Marathon, has no time qualifications for to 5:00 p.m., City Park, 2100 Steele St. entry. David Manthey, Runner’s Edge of the Rock - “Some gifted runners will target three ies, can be reached at 303-320-3343, or go to hours or less to finish a marathon,” Manthey www.RunnersEdgeoftheRockies.com. For Post- said. “On the flip side, we have members News Colorado Colfax Marathon information, whose goal is just to finish. I never like to put visit www.coloradocolfaxmarathon.org . emphasis on the time.”

Stapleton Front Porch 7 May 2008 Park Hill Senior Housing “With A Soul” these needs – the kind of place that will be Park Hill Assisted Living, 1901 Eudora hard to find when millions of baby boomers St., is for adults 62 years old and older. “We are searching for retirement housing. accept folks from any income, anyone in “We think it’s necessary to provide home- need of additional support in their lives,” like environments in all our facilities,” said Cameron said. “We have a very well-trained Deborah Cameron, Director of Community chef on staff. We do housekeeping, if they Relations for Senior Housing Options. The need help (we take care of) medication, firm has seven assisted living communities change linens and towels. We have a 24- and seven independent living communities hour staff in case someone needs help.” for seniors throughout the state. They in - People move in for permanent residence, clude the Barth Hotel for assisted living and or as respite care after surgery or for a tempo - the Olin Apartments for independent living. rary need. It also may be the next step after In Park Hill, Senior Housing Options of - independent living for seniors who need a bit fers the Park Hill Assisted Living Residence more support but want to maintain control with single and double rooms. “Their niche over their lives. The facility is close to muse - is creating and managing housing for low to ums and the zoo, and it blends into a lovely moderate income seniors,” Cameron said. residential area. The Park Hill facility has attracted some Seniors are encouraged to plan ahead and people with colorful backgrounds. George check out the facility when they are making McLeod once climbed Mount McKinley and future plans. “(However) a lot of times peo - explored the Antarctic. He moved to Col - ple call when they are in a crisis and they call orado to take advantage of the area’s various (to come in) immediately,” Cameron said. mountaineering schools. Now that he is ex - “It’s a less stressful transition if they can plan periencing the effects of Alzheimer’s, he lives ahead. Our staff can work with them to de - at the Park Hill Assisted Living Residence. termine the kind of care they need. Our staff Diane Rutter, 64, is another resident. is there to make the transition process as easy She moved to the Park Hill facility about a as possible.” year ago after having several back surgeries. Senior Housing Options will hold a sum - She had lived alone and had fallen. Her sis - mer fundraiser for theater buffs. The Barth ter, Ginny Sowler, lived about six blocks Hotel, featuring lovely, antique architecture, away from the Park Hill residence and took will be the site of 18 performances of Rutter for a tour. “HOTL Baltimore” on Thursday, Friday and “Ginny left me here and went home and Saturday from July 17 through August 23. got my clothes,” Rutter said. “It was almost The story is about a group of older lost souls like coming home. Every place has its own who inhabit a once-elegant hotel. The play personality, but Park Hill has a soul. I have was written by Lanford Wilson, and is di - Diane Rutter leads a " Stories of Encouragement" discussion group at the Senior just loved it ever since. rected by Terry Dodd. A “notable” Colorado Housing Options residence located in Park Hill. The home is a former convent. “I love the architecture. It used to be an resident will have a cameo appearance at each old convent. It’s just charming – the inside performance. Go to the website for tickets. By Nancy Burkhart need low- to medium-income-level housing and the outside both. They have a vegetable To volunteer for an event, or to get residence n January, the first Baby Boomer reached options that will address both quality of life garden here and flowers. I joined the garden information, call Deborah Cameron at 303- the age of 62. That was just the beginning and physical needs. Senior Housing Options, club. They let me build a combination rock 595-4464, ext. 14. For play tickets, go to Iof a wave of upcoming seniors who will located in Park Hill, is a facility that addresses garden and herb garden.” www.seniorhousingoptions.org .

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May 2008 8 Stapleton Front Porch New DSST Middle School Coming to Stapleton in August 2008

To start the middle school off, each in - on the other hand will have their own laptop coming sixth grader will have to attend which they can use for a multitude of pur - summer school for three weeks. This is to poses. prepare them for their new academic fo - When talking to the new head of the cuses. Each day there will be 2 hours of middle school, Rich Harrison, and current English, 1.5 hours of science and math, head of the high school, Bill Kurtz, both had and 1 hour of social studies. Tagging along the same thoughts that the best way to pre - with that, there will be two days a week pare students for a future is by reaching them that the students will attend physical edu - at an earlier age. The new middle school at cation, art, or technology classes. Unlike the Denver School of Science and Technol - the high school portion, students will not ogy will have a chance to demonstrate the be given a laptop they can take home for importance of that approach. educational purposes, but they will be Ashley Rogers is a junior at the Denver using computers on wheels, referred to as School of Science and Technology at Stapleton. “COWs.” The COW program will allow She is currently serving as an intern in the of - teachers to bring in laptops on carts when fices of Stapleton’s master developer, Forest City it benefits their curriculum. The teachers Stapleton, Inc.

DSST Head of Rich Harrison (middle), head of the new Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) Middle School Bill Kurtz School, joins John and Carrie Morgridge at the school’s groundbreaking ceremony. The Middle School speaks to invited building will be named after the Morgridges, who were major donors to the capital campaign. The guests at the new beam was autographed by Denver Mayor Hickenlooper and DPS Superintendent Michael Bennet. middle school groundbreaking. By Ashley Rogers high school has a morning meeting, the mid - Guests in the front row include he expansion of The Denver School dle school will as well. The middle school will Jeannie Ritter, the of Science and Technology (DSST) also be following the same core values of Re - Morgridge family, Tto include a middle school program spect, Responsibility, Integrity, Courage, Cu - City Council is now underway. Construction has begun riosity, and Doing Your Best as the high President Michael on a new building located on the eastern school does. The main purpose of the middle Hancock, Denver Mayor John Hick - portion of the DSST campus at Stapleton to school is to prepare students for the high enlooper, and house the DSST Middle School that will school portion of DSST, which in turn will DPS Superintend - serve grades 6 through 8 beginning with 130 prepare students for college. ent Michael sixth graders in the fall of this year in a tem - Like the high school, the middle school Bennet. porary location yet to be identified. Applica - will have a dress code as well. Students won’t tions for the middle school were due on have as much freedom though when it comes March 20 th with a lottery process that fol - to shirt choices. It will be mandatory that the lowed the week after. The lottery process middle school students wear DSST polo takes place in order to create a diverse stu - shirts, and then when they reach the high dent body. school they will be able to wear what ever As it is now, DSST is separated into two kind of collared shirt that they wish. As for Dining Guide separate academies. The DSST Prep Acad - building usage between the schools, the pro - Average entree: Meals served: emy consists of freshmen and sophomores, grams will be separated for the most part, but $ - less than $10 B-Breakfast Italian while the Senior Academy consists of juniors, will share the gymnasium and drop off $$ - $10 to $15 L-Lunch Anthony’s Pizza & Pasta and seniors. This new middle school portion points. To reduce traffic congestion, middle $$$ - over $15 D-Dinner 7472 East 29 th Ave (Stapleton) > of DSST can be thought of as the Middle school hours will start earlier and end later -Family friendly 303.398.2800 School academy. 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Stapleton Front Porch 9 May 2008 The Sweet Life Means Mother’s Day, May 11th from 1 - 3pm Manicures and Pedicures Family Art-Making Workshop By Nancy Burkhart All natural nail polishes and products tough day, either at the office or at will be used – and there will be no odor. home, may require a trip to the Sweet Pedicures will be $30, manicures $15, or ALife Nail Bar & Lounge for a relaxing both for $40. Mini “mani/pedis” will be pedicure or manicure and glass of wine. offered for ages 12 and under. Both men The Sweet Life Nail Bar & Lounge, lo - and women will find luxury in the nail cated in the ReMax Real Estate building at bar. 2373 Central Park Blvd., Suite 105, is owned The shop will offer all natural lotions, by Stapleton residents Diane Bilello and jewelry, essential oils and all-natural soaps. Anna Hughes. It is scheduled to open on Artisan jewelry, including some by nail May 10. bar partner Anna Hughes, will be avail - “We saw a gap in the market,” Bilello able. said. “They have quite pricey nail bars in The nail bar will carry trollbeads, a New York and San Francisco. Here they have unique line of jewelry that allows the cus - quite pricey spas. We’re not going to do that. tomer to personally design a bracelet We’re going to provide a unique service at a and/or necklace to their liking. “Detailed great price in a beautiful setting. ” design and originality is what sets troll - Bilello and Hughes, who are both business beads apart. Anna will help customers de - and life partners, have combined their talents sign them,” says Bilello. Customers will in the nail bar. Bilello has owned her own walk out with a finished piece of jewelry. small business for 20 years, and has “lots” of Bilello said trollbeads have been featured retail experience. Hughes owns a business in in Vogue and Glamour magazines and the “A Rainbow and the Olive Branch” by Maharat, age 10, Takhkemom School, Rebovol, Israel. The dove and animals all carry olive branches as a sign of peace. The painting is in the colors of the rainbow. which she designs jewelry. New York Times Magazine. Comfort is the mission of the nail bar. “The Sweet Life Nail Bar & Lounge is aureen Kushner, a world Additional events with Ms Kushner include: Hughes said she designed the space with all a place to go to have a good time,” says renowned art educator, will offer • Friday, May 9th, 3:30 - 5pm the senses in mind. She wants it to be an ex - Bilello. “There is the option of spending Ma student and family art work - Kids’ after school art workshop perience for sight, comfort and aroma. Pedi - more time, if you have flexibility. Or you shop at Bill Roberts School on Mother’s • Monday May 12th, 5:30 - 7pm cure chairs are “clean, modern lounge chairs” can get quick service, in-and-out, and save Day, May 11, from 1 - 3pm. Ms. Kushner Public reception for Ms. Kushner and the with individually plumbed pedicure bowls. time,” Hughes said. has worked in the middle east (including Children’s Art Show. Services can be further enjoyed with a pur - Starting May 10, the Sweet Life Nail in refugee camps) helping children living • Monday May 12th, 7pm chase from a selection of wines. Free wireless Bar & Lounge is open 11a.m.-8p.m. in war zones give voice to their thoughts Free public lecture and slideshow. computer access is available. Wednesday, 11a.m.-9:30 p.m. Thursday, and feelings through the creation of art. Programs are at Bill Roberts School and are Parents can relax with a manicure or pedi - 11a.m.-10:30p.m. Friday, 10a.m.-10:30 She lives in Israel for half the year and in free although donations will be accepted. The cure while watching their children, ages 5 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m.-6p.m. Sunday. New York City the other half. Much of events are being co-hosted by the Mizel Museum, and under, in the central play area. Parents It is closed Monday and Tuesday. her time is spent traveling the world shar - and much of the funding is being provided by the must request time in the play area when they For more information visit ing an exhibit of children’s artwork entitled Science and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). make their reservations. www.SweetLifeNailBar.com . “Peace Through Humor.” For more information, please call Thom Padick at 720-424-2695.

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May 2008 10 Stapleton Front Porch Mothers Just Need to Relax Mother’s Day Bike Ride By Elizabeth Yarnell bringing a breath past the lungs and into he has only the stomach for more efficient and effective one thing respiration. I have used deep breathing to “S on her combat everything from claustrophobia to mind…” went the an attack of hives, not to mention as a line from the song on time-out for myself during trying child- the speakers in my ex - rearing situations! ElizabethYarnell ercise class. “I don’t Yoga. Yoga is a great place to learn cor - know who he’s talking rect breathing techniques as well as to about,” commented the instructor, Kathy, a stretch and release tension in the muscles. mother of three and a business owner. “I Regular yoga practice can result in a more never have fewer than five things on MY peaceful mind along with a stronger body. mind!” Meditation . Meditation, or the practice Oh yes, I know what you mean! My of stilling the mind, can be done anywhere mind is racing morning ‘til night with lists at almost any time. It can slow the heart of things that need to get done, anxieties rate, release anxiety, and leave you about my kids health or school, new ideas to recharged for life. implement in my home or business, detailed Skilled Relaxation. This is a form of schedules for everyone in the family… Buy meditation advocated by Dr. Walt Stoll, milk. Swimming lessons tomorrow. The kids coauthor of Recapture Your Health . In com - are out of clean underwear, so better do the bination with a perfect whole foods diet laundry. Project due Friday. And on, and on. and regular exercise, skilled relaxation has I know I’m not alone. Many mothers feel been shown to help cure some chronic overworked and run down. But besides the medical conditions. issue of simply having too much to do, many Self-hypnosis. By using visualization of us simply don’t know how to relax. techniques along with relaxation exercises, Devin McCune, his wife Adrienne and son Seamus, 6, take a weekend bike ride along E. 29th Ave. No, I don’t mean the watching-tv-type of you can exert mind over body and hypnotize in Stapleton. Devin will lead a Mother’s Day family bike ride through Stapleton. relaxing, even if you’re not multi-tasking by your way to relaxation. It’s helpful to have an folding laundry, knitting, etc. while you take instructor or a book to show the way. By Devin McCune through Stapleton more enjoyable and practical. in American Idol. Nor do I mean the day-at- This Mother’s Day give yourself the gift acing Green MTB, a local mountain Beginning at 3:30 there will be a drawing for the-spa type of relaxing, though that’s always of a longer, more healthful, and more re - bike racing team, is organizing sev - participants at SouthEnders. nice, too, don’t get me wrong. I’m talking laxed life and commit yourself to learning Reral community based rides over the In honor of Mother’s Day, SouthEnders coffee about relaxing the body down to the cellul ar and practicing a deep relaxation skill that summer to promote the environmental and shop will offer a free ice cream to mothers who level in a way that will allow the adrenal you can use to calm the mind and the health benefits of bike riding. The first participate in this ride. glands and other organs to rest and replen - body. event is planned for Sunday May 11 from Devin McCune is the founder of Racing Green ish. Elizabeth Yarnell, CHNP, CNC, is a ho - 2-4 pm. The route will start and end at MTB, a local mountain bike racing team that is So what do I mean what I say “relax - listic health counselor whose best selling cook - SouthEnders coffee shop (2306 Central dedicated to promoting the environmental and ation”? Well, here are a few of the many av - book, Glorious One-Pot Meals, is available Park Blvd) and will take riders through Sta - health benefits of bicycling. They are sponsored enues available to find that deep, online at www.GloriousOnePotMeals.com pleton. The focus of this ride will be to help by SouthEnders and Pedal Pushers Cyclery. cellular-level relaxation that encompasses through May at a 10% discount for Front educate community members (especially For more information please visit mind and body. Porch readers. She writes about healthy kids) about basic rider safety and bike safety www.racinggreenmtb.com or contact Devin Deep breathing. This is a learned skill of recipes and living a natural lifestyle at her and to provide tips that make riding McCune at [email protected]. blog: www.EffortlessEating.com .

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Saturday, May 17 5th Annual 5 Points Jazz Festival Active Minds Seminars - Free Parking is available in several lots along Welton Street. RTD stops at East 25th Avenue and Welton Street. Gold A free shuttle service to all venues will be provided. Mon, May 5, 2008 from 7-8 pm Active Minds will trace the history of gold – from ancient KUVO Studio 2900 Welton St. Blackberries Lounge 710 East 26th Avenue civilizations to the 49’er strike at Sutter’s Mill. The pro - 11am On-air performance by Hugh Ragin Ensemble 12pm Dr. Tone & The Notes gram will touch on Colorado’s own gold rush as well as the Join the studio audience 2pm Wendy Fopeano Group role gold has played in the world, from plunderers through - out history to the “gold standard” for money. Location: KUVO Outdoor Stage Blair Caldwell African American Research Library 2900 Welton St. Stapleton Master Community Association, 2823 Roslyn St, 2401 Welton St. 11am Denver Municipal Jazz Band Denver, CO 80238 (behind King Soopers) 1pm Sammy Mayfield Blues Review 11am, 1pm, and 3pm RSVP: Stapleton Foundation: 303-468-3223. Sponsored by 2:45pm Tribute presentations for the 2008 5 Points Jazz Lectures on the history of jazz with Dr. Fred The Stapleton Foundation. Festival honorees who have made significant and Hess, musician and professor of Jazz Studies at lasting contributions to jazz in the Five Points Metropolitan State College of Denver. Also The Democratic Primary Race neighborhood and beyond: Sam Gill, Past Master visit local non-profit booths for community Tuesday, May 13, 2008 from 12:30-1:30 pm George Morrison and Freddy Rodriquez, Sr. information. The program will review the candidates and their campaign .3pm Buckner Funken Jazz Band Black American West Museum 3091 California St. strategies as well as the key issues that divide or unite them. 5pm Hot Tomatoes Swing Band 10am-5pm FREE day, with children’s activities. Looking beyond the sound bite rhetoric, the speaker will Blair Caldwell African American Research Library examine the subtle (and not so subtle) differences that are Stiles African American Heritage Center 2607 Glenarm Place 2401 Welton St. likely to determine who becomes the Democratic nominee. Activities for children. 1pm Dale Bruning Quintet Location: Tattered Cover, 2526 E Colfax 4pm Queen City Jazz Band Black Arts Festival Turkey Visit arts and crafts booths at various locations around Crossroads Theater 2550 Washington St. Monday, May 26, 2008 from 7-8 pm the Festival to see arts and crafts from local African Amer - 1pm Future Jazz Project Emerging from World War I as a shrunken version of the ican artists. 3pm Hugh Ragin Ensemble Ottoman Empire, Turkey plays a pivotal role in the world. A strong U.S. ally during the Cold War, Turkey is now the world’s largest Muslim democracy. Active Minds will ex - plore Turkey’s past and current challenges, including poten - tial European Union membership and struggles with its Denver School of The Arts - May Performances Kurdish minority. Location: Stapleton Master Community Association, 2823 Roslyn St, Denver, (on the east side of May 7 & 8 at 7pm May 14th at 7pm King Soopers at Quebec & 28th Ave) RSVP: Stapleton Video filmfest “Foreign Classics,” by the HS Vocal Music Department. Foundation: 303-468-3223. Sponsored by The Stapleton $10/adults, $6/students and seniors. May 8 & 9 at 7pm Foundation. “Mother Goose Suite” by Ravel, Collaborative Dance May 15th at 7pm and Orchestra performance. $10/adults, $7/students “Broadway Bound” by the Middle School Vocal Music Gold and seniors. DSA Dance Studio theatre. Department. Tuesday, May 27, 2008 from 11am -12 noon May 12th at 7pm $10/adults, $6/students and seniors. See previous description, on Monday, May 5th. High School Piano Recital DSA Concert Hall. Location: Temple Emanuel, 51 Grape, Denver, CO 80220. For tickets go to dsa.dpsk12.org/performances or call 720-424-1713 on Mon., Wed. or Fri. 7:30am - 3:30pm. RSVP: Jodi: 303-388-4013 x307 DSA is located at Montview and Quebec.

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Ticket prices start at $12. the legendary stories of the game, including the Merkle Incident, dents, seniors; call 303-839-1361 or visit www.vintagethe - the 1919 Chicago Black Sox, the Curse of the Bambino, and atre.com . others. Jackie Robinson and the role of the Negro Leagues will be discussed, as well as how the modern era has been affected by Through May 11 – Aurora Fox Arts Center the use of steroids. Bring your own favorite baseball story to Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” FREE - Health Staples at Stapleton: May 21 share with the group. Location: The Village at St. Catherine, A man makes the descent from power to madness while a 5565 S Yosemite St, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 RSVP: Bar - rebellion brews. 9900 E. Colfax Ave. Call 303-739-1970 or How to Take Care of bara: 303-339-8702 (Limited seating. Call for availability.) go to www.auroragov.org. Go to Departments, Library, Recreation Services, Fox Theatre. Your Skin and Carpets Kenya: Democracy at Risk May 2 - June 6 – Avenue Theater Join Dr. Deb Cook from Exempla to learn ho w to keep Tuesday, May 27, 2008 from 5:30-6:30 pm “Almost Denver: The Songs and Failures of Jim Aurora” your skin looking vibrant and healthy, as well as skin The disputed December Presidential election in Kenya sparked a An outrageously funny show chronicling the life of a forgot - cancer detection, screening, and treatment. Hear what wave of violence resulting in over 1,000 deaths and half a mil - ten folk singer through side-splitting parodies of a not-for - Corby Felsher from Stapleton Home Services has to say lion people displaced. 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Stapleton Front Porch 13 May 2008 9Health Fair Comes to Stapleton Public Art Installed at Stapleton’s Newest Pool

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by Kathy Epperson now, I work with both small businesses tapleton resident Ken Zachmann par - and large agencies for ad placements in layed his experience in the dot com all the cities,” Ken says. “I also block out Sworld to test market and launch his e- space during the month to offer gay- magazine for gay men in Denver and other focused non-profits a chance to reach cities. “I got the idea for HeSaidDenver the community and raise awareness to after I started reading all the current gay-fo - them or to an upcoming fundraiser or cused Denver publications and was a little event they may be planning at no cost to disappointed that they focused so heavily them.” on gay bars and nightclubs,” Ken says. “I Ken’s background in high tech and was looking for more. I wanted to find out his current day job doing online market - where the latest underground art exhibit ing have allowed him to think broadly was and what new stylish restaurants were about how best to service his target audi - opening. I also wanted to learn about any ence. “The site is going to make some gay-owned or gay-friendly boutiques I big jumps in 2008 with mobile features could support. This information was just allowing readers to get text updates on- not there.” the-fly every Friday to their PDAs or cell Ken drafted a business plan and phones for what stylish events or open - launched a very basic site in 2004, collect - ings are happening that weekend in ing email addresses for “a stylish e-magazine Denver,” Ken explains. “The other big for a more discerning gay Denver.” “I sent push is to launch video on the site to the link out to my friends and it spread like offer site visitors a chance to see an ac - wildfire,” he says. “Within just a few tual walk-through of new restaurants, months, I had over 1000 subscribers.” plus chef interviews, behind-the-scenes Each HeSaid site is segmented into four Stapleton resident Ken Zachmann created the website, HeSaid, that features such info as the latest looks at local performance art, and so categories: “Out on the Town” for new gay- underground art exhibits, stylish new restaurants, and gay-owned or gay friendly boutiques. forth.” owned or gay-friendly restaurants, lounges Originally from Fort Collins and a and bars; “Beaux Arts” for local culture, art Boston, Austin and Palm Springs. Ken plans name ‘HeSaid’ since it was natural fit for a graduate of CSU, Ken moved back to Den - exhibits, performances and more; “Retail his first international expansion this year gay male voice, and the prefix easily translated ver from California to be near family after Rejuvenation” for new or great retail with the launch of HeSaidLondon.com . launching other cities down the road. So, over the dot com bust. He shares his home with boutiques; and “Mix Masters” for any A-list “I went through a lot of names for the a few margaritas at Zengo, HeSaidDenver was partner Ben Schultz, a Ballet and Modern shows or DJs coming to town. business,” Ken says, “but since I had always born.” dancer, and also does freelance writing for Since 2004, Ken has expanded to eight been the guy about town, so to speak, my To ensure that site visitors and subscribers local print publications such as the Rocky other cities, including New York, Los Angeles, friends used to always say, ‘well, Ken said to can access each city’s content for free, Ken Mountain News, and 5280 and Colorado San Francisco , Seattle , Chicago , Miami , At - go check this restaurant out.’ The term has created a revenue model based on Homes & Lifestyles magazines. lanta and Dallas. New sites will soon be ‘KenSaid’ became sort of an inside joke with sponsorship placements either via banner ads For more information, visit launched for Ft. Lauderdale, Minneapolis , us all. One of my friends suggested the on the emails and on the website. “Right www.hesaiddenver.com.

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Stapleton Front Porch 15 May 2008 LOCAL BUS Amore Fiori Sets Up Shop at DIA The Berkshire Restaurant

Michelle Stefanon, owner (left), with Tommy Maez, Manager, and Rebecca Border, Customer Relations, at the new Amore Fiori Flowers and Gifts shop at Denver International Airport. Michelle Andy Ganick, owner of the Berkshire Restaurant, with his fiancee, Krissy Fasy, who helps competed for and won one of three spaces in an “incubator” program for small businesses at DIA. at the restaurant after her regular job. They will be getting married in August. enver International Airport (DIA) Mile Market.“This is a unique opportunity and the Denver Office of Economic for small businesses to experience what it’s ndy Ganick, owner of The Berk - self unhappy in the sales job he landed Development (OED) have opened like to operate in the airport,” said Denver shire restaurant in Stapleton’s E. after college at the University of Rochester, D th the new Terminal Marketplace at DIA. The Mayor John Hickenlooper. A29 Avenue Town Center, has a so he decided to move to San Francisco to three concession stands represent an innova - These spaces will act as incubators for special sandwich on his menu called “The live with friends. On his way to the west tive, economic development opportunity for small businesses so that they can grow into King” and quotes from Elvis Presley on the coast, however, he stopped in Vail to ski Colorado small business owners. one of the larger concession spaces in the fu - wall, but he says his only real connection and stayed for six years during which he Located on level five at DIA, the Termi - ture. All three businesses are Small Business with the late singer is “a love for bacon!” became involved in the restaurant business nal Marketplace features Amore Fiori Flow - Enterprises and received technical assistance While bacon is used in a variety of because “that was where the jobs were.” He ers & Gifts Shop, CofTea Shop and Vertical from the OED throughout the start-up ways throughout The Berkshire’s menu, moved to Philadelphia to explore different process. Each concessionaire Andy is also quick to add that he loves restaurant concepts and attended the Uni - competed for the available tofu, perhaps a startling contrast but also versity of Pennsylvania to study business, spaces. The airport intends to an indication of his philosophy that un - but his longing for the good life brought offer similar competitive op - usual food combinations can be tasty. One him back to Colorado. portunities in the future. item on the menu gaining in popularity is Now engaged to Krissy Fasy who places From a shopper’s perspec - the “Bacon Double Genius Burger” a doctors with hospitals when she is not tive, the new Terminal Mar - name inspired by a quote from Homer helping out in The Berkshire, Andy opens ketplace presents people Simpson. The Berkshire offers a comfort - the restaurant at 11:30 a.m., Mondays waiting to greet passengers a able and relaxed atmosphere with a staff through Saturdays, with Brunch served at convenient and new place to Andy describes as “welcoming and fun.” 10 a.m. on Sundays. In keeping with its get a snack or gift without Andy chuckles when he describes the relaxed atmosphere, the restaurant stays venturing too far away and tagline he developed for his restaurant as open until “the last person leaves the bar.” perhaps missing their arriving “Swine, Wine and a Good Time.” Call 303.321.4010 for more friends or family members. A native of Boston, Andy found him - information.

May 2008 16 Stapleton Front Porch SINESSES Moms and Kids Find New Meeting Place at Perk & Play together. They will have craft time and story time, and they will take home the crafts they make. “When kids have the right toys, they are captivated,” Zonca said. “It’s almost magical to watch them. It’s not jungle-gym crazy. You have to provide kids with stimulating things that keep them busy. “ “The point is to bring the community together,” Zonca ex - plained. “It’s really important with parenting that we keep parents networking. Not all of us have family here. (People) don’t have to have kids to come here. (They will) have time to relax, enjoy a nice treat and have a place where the kids really feel comfortable.” Zonca’s husband, Jonathan, is a family practice doctor. Since they moved to Denver in 1999, she has managed his of - fice. She also is a nurse practitioner who worked to gain knowledge of healthy food choices. She worked in food and beverage through high school and college, and put in a year at Starbucks in an effort to gain experience in the coffee industry. “It’s been a long road, but I finally have gotten to where it’s all come together,” Zonca said. The result is Perk & Play. Perk & Play is located on the back side of the three-story ReMax building at 2373 Central Park Boulevard, in Suite 103. It is open Monday through Friday from 6am to 7pm, Saturday 7am-7pm and Sunday 8am-5pm. Margo Zonca can be reached at Perk & Play, 303-399-1942. The Perk & Play website is www.pandpcoffee.com . Above: Margo Zonca (standing), owner of the Perk and Play, holds her son Luke, 13 months as she talks with Erin Johns, who brought her twins Emma (in her lap) and Reese, both 22 months, for an outing at Perk & Play. Right: Anderson Wichern, 2 1/2, plays with a toy firetruck at one of the play stations at Perk & Play. By Nancy Burkhart veloped a kid-special crepe with nutella, a creamy chocolate, here is a break in the day, an energy drain for you. hazelnut spread topped with strawberries and bananas. It is a But the kids are raring to go and eager for your atten - real hit, Zonca noted, saying that it causes her boys to run Ttion. That is when you go down the street to Margo out into the street to herd their friends into the house for Zonca’s Perk & Play. The kids will have craft and play ses - crepes. sions, and you will be treated to espresso or loose-leaf, or - “Perk & Play is a coffee, tea and crepe shop for the entire ganic teas while you watch your children’s activities from family,” Zonca said. “Our goal is for the kids to be engaged across the room. with positive activities, no batteries, no TVs. Parents will be Later, you and your children will partake of Perk & Play’s able to take a break. They can interact with the kids or meet variety of mouthwatering crepes. Adults might go for a crepe with a friend and relax.” with yogurt, fruit, granola and honey, while children will Perk & Play is not a daycare center. Parents will not be have to choose from such kid-tested and approved crepes as able to drop off their kids for craft and play sessions. Parents peanut butter and jelly, grilled cheese and pizza. must stay in the room and be responsible for their children. Zonca and her own three boys, ages 6, 3 and 1, have de - However, the children’s attention will be on projects they do NOW OPEN! FREE Coffee M-F, 6 - 8am in May

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Stapleton Front Porch 17 May 2008 Feast on the FAX (continued from page 1) providing residents of the surrounding neigh - tional Jewish Medical and Research Center. In borhoods and beyond an opportunity to be - addition businesses along The FAX are help - come acquainted (or re-acquainted) with the ing out, including the Firehouse Animal diverse restaurant base along East Colfax, now Health Center, Mayfair Liquors and Walker known as The FAX . Dilworth Insurance. The event is presented in cooperation with The FAX Partnership is committed to Greater Park Hill, Bellevue-Hale, Mayfair, revitalizing Colfax Avenue from Colorado Historic Montclair, East Montclair and Sta - Boulevard to Yosemite Street. The FAX Part - pleton neighborhood associations. The nership’s mission is to restore Denver’s historic Boards of these six neighborhood associations Main Street by establishing a vibrant, destina - will be selling tickets to The Feast on The tion district. It seeks to do so by implement - FAX and sharing in the proceeds from those ing long-term programs focused on economic ticket sales. So ticket sales not only help The and community development, crime preven - FAX Partnership, but also help advance the tion, small business improvement, corridor mission of these six great neighborhood asso - outreach and marketing. ciations. A portion of the proceeds from the Tickets purchased ahead from neighbor - event will also benefit a worthy non-profit hood associations cost $20. Tickets purchased group associated with The FAX . on the day of the event cost $25. For more Restaurants that have already signed up information or to buy tickets, visit this year include: Solera, Senor Rita’s Cantina, www.feastonthefax.com or call Jake Flint at The Cork House, Mataam Fez, Mario-n- 303-321-3212. Wong’s, Phonecian Kabob, Aguacalientes, Jake Flint is the Business Association and Senor Pepe’s, Habesha, Axum, The Elm, Special Projects Coordinator for The FAX Part - Spin’n Chicken, Africana, Bruno’s Saloon, nership and is on the Board of Mayfair Neigh - Mario ‘N Wongs and The Phonecian Kebab. bors, Inc, and the Community Member of the Sponsors include the Stapleton Founda - Collaborative School Committee at Palmer Ele - tion, Johnson & Wales University, and Na - mentary School in the Mayfair neighborhood.

(continued from page 1) Earth Hour Photo by Mark N. Kiryluk many of the restaurants’ lights off, diners ate by the light of candles which glimmered in the windows of the town center restaurants. Some Stapleton households also joined in the event and turned off all of their lights and unplugged electrical appliances. Earth Hour started last year in Sydney, Australia when more than 2.2 million people and 2,100 businesses turned off their lights for one hour to inspire people to take action on climate change. This massive collective effort – Casey’s Irish Pub and Bistro during Earth Hour. called Earth Hour –reduced Syd - ney’s energy consumption by 10.2% for one mation visit www.earthhour.org hour, which is the equivalent of taking 48,000 Heather Dock is an employee of Forest cars off the road for one year. For more infor - City Stapleton, Inc.

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by Mike and Karen Giles Mike Giles Family Karate

Family Time Its almost summer time again, the longer days will more than guarantee lots of qual - ity time with our family and friends. Or will it? If we are not careful, these precious summer time hours will slip away from us as we diligently work at our jobs, or our homes, making sure everything is perfect. In achieving this perfection, we may just lose sight of what’s really important: our family. Each day and moment our kids are growing into the adults we may not be able to imagine at this time, especially if they are still in diapers. But if you can close your eyes and imagine how tall and strong they will be as young adults/teenagers and how many decisions they will be faced with, you will realize how important it is to be a positive influence in their lives now. Establishing and maintaining a close relationship with every child is critical. If you are like us and have more than one child (4 to be exact) and a career or business, it may sound almost impossible.

What’s the key? Realize that each child is different and you will probably have to vary your nur - turing techniques a bit. The outgoing child and the shy child won’t respond the same, no matter how hard you try. Never play favorites – if you are going to spoil one child, spoil the other. Teach them all to be strong and that life will have its ups and downs. Spend individual time with each one of them, even if you have more than 4 awe - some children. Diversify their existence, so they are aware of all types of people from different walks of life. If they are fortunate enough to have an abundant life, find a way to teach them about the homeless and the poor and how they could help someone. Encourage their endeavors, even if it’s art and you were hoping they were going to follow in your footsteps and be a doctor or lawyer.

Summer time can be a great time to connect with everyone in your family, ex - plore, ask questions, play, teach or just hang out with them. Whatever you do keep your children engaged in a learning environment. Summer time is the perfect time to take a class with your child and explore new things. At our school our families love the mental and physical challenge of working and growing together in karate class. As we always say, “The Family that Kicks Together – really does stick to - gether.” Whatever you do, don’t lose sight of what is really important, your family, because in the end that is what it’s all about. Mike Giles Family Karate is located at 7506 E. 36th Ave. #480 – Quebec Square. For more information: mikegileskarate.com or (303) 377-(KICK)5425.

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Stapleton Front Porch 19 May 2008 The Happiest Commuters Around Mother’s Day Walk, City Park Support Breast Cancer Patients enver’s third Walk to Empower will be held in City Park on Mother’s Day, May D11. The walk starts at 9am, check in be - gins at 7am. The non-competitive three-mile walk is a fundraiser to provide services to breast cancer patients. This year’s goal is to raise $175,000. All funds benefit the Rocky Mountain Affiliate of Y- ME National Breast Cancer Organization pro - grams and services which are offered free of charge to anyone seeking information and support when facing breast cancer. The Rocky Mountain Affiliate of Y-ME Na - this invaluable time for ourselves each day. the most notable reasons why bicycling tional Breast Cancer Organization was founded in And of course there's the environmental feels so good. I don't know what it is 2003. It offers support groups for women touched karma points for riding to work – less air about bicyclists, but we like to acknowl - by breast cancer in the Denver Metro, Fort pollution. edge each other on the road. Most of the Collins, Boulder and Colorado Springs areas. Y- But beyond that, bicycling is appealing to time it's just a friendly tip of the helmet, a ME Rocky Mountain offers breast health aware - me for some fairly base bottom-line rea - nod, an implied "howdy" as we pass on ness workshops, Open Door educational sons. By riding a bike to work, our family the street. But sometimes, you get to programs and outreach. Their free services include manages to get by with (gasp) just one car. talking. Soon you're sharing short cut in - the only 24/7 breast cancer support hotline that is Cha-ching. There are estimates that the av - formation, or helping to diagnose mysteri - staffed by breast cancer survivors, support groups, erage cost to own a car is roughly $1000 ous clunky noises in the back set of gears. each month – including car payments, insur - The other day, a group of school kids wigs, and prostheses for women, men and their ance, gas, maintenance, etc. I don't have to were cycling towards me at an intersec - families and friends in Colorado who have been pay for parking downtown. And since I tion near Westerly Creek Elementary affected by breast cancer. Last year, more than manage to squeeze in what I call "exercise" school, and another bike commuter was 2,000 women and their families benefited from Y- on the way to and from work each day, I approaching from the right. As we passed ME Rocky Mountain Affiliates programs and By Evelyn Baker don't have to pay for a fancy schmancy carefully, the other bike commuter services. So what makes Denver bicycle commuters health club. All that starts to add up. laughed and said, "Wow, it's really getting In Colorado alone, 2,520 women each year are so darned happy? For starters, some of us The New Yorker ran a piece last year congested around here." I laughed too. expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer and feel like we've stumbled across a pretty describing some of the psychological effects Because we both recognized that this was of those, 530 women are not expected to survive. cool secret: riding to work in Denver's of long drive commutes. The claim was that a good kind of congestion to have. How usually bike-friendly weather may mean because people were spending so much often does the average car commuter Nationwide, it is estimated that nearly 185,000 that it takes an extra 10 or 15 minutes to more time secluded in their own private have that kind of reaction to increased people will be diagnosed with breast cancer. More get to work, but along the way we enjoy vehicle for longer and longer periods of traffic? than 2 million people have been diagnosed and some quality "me-time" out in the fresh air, time, they were losing touch with their Stapleton resident Evelyn Baker has been another 1 million are living with the disease who and we get a bit of exercise too. A great fellow humans. They were missing out on commuting on a bike to her job in downtown have not been diagnosed. way to start the day. Especially for us busy the opportunity to interact, on any number Denver since moving to the neighborhood two For more information about building a team working parents of young children, who of levels, with the people around them. years ago. She can be reached at or participating in the Mother’s Day events, visit may find it otherwise difficult to carve out And this leads to what is, to me, one of [email protected]. http://denverwalk.y-me.org or call 303-300-5158.

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20 May 2008 Stapleton Front Porch Sustainability at Stapleton New Leaf and New by Melissa Knott Leaf for Director of Sustainability for Forest City Stapleton, Inc. Kids

May’s topic: Whole Foods Eliminates Plastic Bags! Easy Guide he negative environmental in a landfill; since they take so long to to impact of plastic shopping break down, polymers of every single Outdoor bags is finally starting to out - plastic bag ever produced still exist on Watering. T Read the weigh the convenience of them as our planet! As they break down, plas - many cities and towns across the tic bags go through photodegrada - May issue country outlaw their use. Locally, tion, breaking down into small toxic at: Whole Foods Market phased out dis - particles that contaminate both soil stapletonden - posable plastic grocery bags at their and water and end up entering the ver.com/Sustainability-New-Leaf.aspx checkout stands by Earth Day (April food chain when animals accidentally 22nd) and is encouraging customers ingest them. In the U.S. alone, about to reuse bags—paper, plastic or fab - 100 billion plastic bags are thrown ric. For customers who forget to away each year. Plastic bags don’t al - bring a bag, Whole Foods now offers ways make it to the landfill, and are a 100% recycled (and recyclable) paper common source of litter. Estimates bags. All of the major grocery chains vary, but only about 1% of plastic in the Denver region are also selling bags are recycled worldwide and only May’s topic: inexpensive reusable bags with their 0.6 % in the United States. Whole Summer store logos on them. Foods estimates that eliminating the Sustainabil - So what are the issues with plastic use of plastic bags in its stores will ity Reading bags? Plastic bags are made from pe - keep 100 million disposable plastic List. Read troleum, a non-renewable resource. It bags off of the planet. the May issue at: takes roughly 430,000 gallons of Next time you go grocery ship - stapletondenver.com/Sustainability- crude oil to produce 100 million plas - ping, bring your own bags! Keep a New-Leaf-For-Kids.aspx tic bags. A single plastic bag can take stash of bags in your car so it’s easy to more than 1,000 years to break down remember to do this. Do You See LEED Everywhere? ore and more these days you see LEED men - approach to sustainability by recognizing The Stapleton Farmers Market is moving to Founders' Green! The first tioned in magazines, newspapers and on TV. performance in five key areas of human and day of the market will be Father's Day, June 15th, from 8:30 - 12:30. Mark your calendars! 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Stapleton Front Porch 21 May 2008 Instant Imprints Sue of Siam Quebec Square Business Where Budding Chefs on a Budget Like to Eat Aids Grieving Family By Monika Reitmeyer The two of us are quickly seated by a friendly server unee, co-owner and and left alone to peak through the menu. Options include operator of Sue of the usual: Pad Thai, red, green and yellow curries, Kao Pad Siam in Aurora, lives in (fried rice) and various stir-fried dishes. There are mild and S Thai-spicy options for both sensitive and spice-loving Broomfield, CO. She com - mutes with her husband six palates. Yet, at the bottom of the menu are Sue Specials days a week in order to pro - and these, my friend, are some of the best well-kept secrets. vide Aurora’s Thai commu - We start with traditional Tom Yum, a spicy-sour broth nity with fresh, authentic soup with mushrooms, chicken, fresh tomatoes, cilantro Thai specialties at reasonable and Kaffir lime. Hints of lemongrass and subtle chili spici - Monika Reitmeyer prices. And for those of you ness are modest, leaving the remaining ingredients bland who are simply fed up with sub-par, over priced Thai and unfulfilling. The Thai tea, however, is a treat. Sweet, chain eateries, Sue of Siam is sure to please even the creamy and earthy, this icy concoction would be a great pickiest gourmands. addition to a warm spring day. Though, the best part It’s Saturday night, 8 p.m. and I’m a little nervous about SoS is the open kitchen. From our table we could about snatching a seat during dining prime time. Sur - hear meat searing in scorching pans, knives chopping and prisingly, after walking into the restaurant we find its six Sue (the famed chef from Siam), chattering away. tables are, well, empty. Aside from the purr of the Our entrees arrived steaming-hot and are the reason kitchen, the restaurant is chillingly quiet. Black and why you should b-line it to SoS. The garlic duck (a Sue white photographs are set against soothing wasabi-green Special) is probably the best Thai dish I have ever eaten. walls; it’s décor minimal at best. Yet, I remember my With crunchy snow peas and carrots, crisp and tender good Thai friends once explaining that the best Thai duck meat and fresh tomatoes and broccoli lacquered in a restaurants aren’t known for having flashy surroundings, delectable garlic and chili sauce, the dish deserves only to which, oddly enough, are a tale-tell sign of poor authen - be eaten in its entirety. The drunken noodles are also Lyn Reinert, Instant Imprints co-owner, (right) and Jennifer Cordova, show a memorial poster designed by Jennifer for the mother of a ticity. amazing, mostly due to the heap of extra-wide noodles sautéed with fresh basil, eggs and bean sprouts in a sweet baby swept away by flood waters in the South Platte River last year. and savory sauce. Needless to say, we ne year ago, the Metropolitan area was saddened by left the restaurant utterly satisfied with the tragic death of two year old Jose Matthew Jau - a return trip in mind. Oregui, Jr. , who was swept away from his mother in The next time you are thinking of flash flooding of the pedestrian and bike trail along the Platte a healthy, family (and wallet) friendly River in Lower Downtown Denver. As the family grieved its restaurant, check out Sue of Siam, loss, it turned to Bob and Lyn Reinert, owners of Instant Im - where the only thing missing is a prints in Stapleton’s Quebec Square to create a special memorial dessert menu. for the little boy. A portion of the time and services necessary to Sue of Siam is located at 106 Del create the memorial were donated by the Reinert family. Mar Circle, Aurora, 80011, don’t Becoming involved in the Northeast Denver community is blink, you’ll surely pass it . Parking op - not unusual for Bob and Lyn Reinert. Bob Reinert is the cur - tions are plentiful. Hours: Tuesday- rent president of The Greater Stapleton Business Association, Saturday: 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday: 12 whose mission is to build cooperative efforts between businesses p.m.-8 p.m.; closed Monday. Phone: in the community as they work to create an environment for 720.949.1980. Most major credit successful, safe and convenient retail in the Stapleton area while cards are accepted. also working to benefit the community. Among the commu - Monika Reitmeyer is a student at nity events the Greater Stapleton Business Association has Johnson and Wales University. sponsored have been recycling fairs and food drives to benefit Sunee Haskell, owner of Sue of Siam, shows off one of their specialities to two services for needy individuals. loyal customers, Mike Ferraro and Som Hales. For more information about Instant Imprints call 303.780.7838. NEIGHBORHOOD AUTO REPAIR ASE Certified Mechanics for All Makes Including: Audi Volvo Volkswagen

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May 2008 22 Stapleton Front Porch ¡ Healthy Relationships CALENDAR CONTINUED Learn to Really Listen! From Page 2

By Elizabeth Basics of Empathic Listening Empathic listen - Taeubert ing consists of a few simple techniques: MONTHLY MEETINGS LCSW Look at the speaker. MONTHLY MEETINGS Offer encouragement by nodding or say - have seen Monthly 2nd Wednesday ing “uh-huh” or “I see” good peo - New Stapleton Resident Orientation (Odd numbered months) Iple grow Reflect back what you heard by saying [Call 303.388.0724 for date & location] SUN Transportation Committee 6:30pm apart because “what I heard you say is______” MCA Conference Rm, 2823 Roslyn St. of misunder - Ask the speaker if you got that right. If Every Tuesday [[email protected]] standings. you missed something ask the speaker to say Stapleton Rotary Club – Noon it again. Stapleton Radisson Plaza Hotel 3rd Thursday They thought 3333 Quebec St [[email protected]] Stapleton Citizens Advisory Board Mtg they were Once you have reflected the content accu - Elizabeth Taeubert Stapleton Development Corp (SDC) communicat - rately, state what makes sense about it to you. Every Tuesday 7350 East 29th Ave. – 7:30 – 9am ing, but You don’t have to agree. If you put yourself in AA Open Discussion Meeting – 7:30pm [SDC 303.393.7700] weren’t. The root of the verb “communi - their position what makes sense about what MCA Community Room, 2823 Roslyn Street [Joe Mc at 303.912.7075] 4th Thursday cate” means to share. How can we share they have communicated? Reflect on the feelings that the speaker is SUN Board Meeting – 6:30pm thoughts and feelings unless we can truly Every Wednesday MCA Community Room listen? How do we tell our partners we trying to convey . “I can imagine that you must Weekly Weeders, Bluff Lake Nature Center 2823 Roslyn Street love them? Not just by words, but by feel _____(angry/hurt/ upset/sad/afraid/alone 9am-12pm [303.945.6717] [[email protected]] LISTENING. But, here’s the catch. etc.) Is that how you feel?” If you didn’t name They need to FEEL heard! the correct feeling ask the speaker to tell you 3rd Tuesday 2nd Saturday what they feel and reflect that back. Stapleton Business Assoc. 8am NE Denver/Park Hill MS Self-Help Call for location [303.393.7700] & Support Group, Pauline Robinson Library Empathic Listening is a way of listening and This type of listening is powerful because 10:15-11:45am – 5575 E 33rd Avenue responding that improves understanding the speaker’s thoughts and feelings are re - 1st Wednesday [Paula Sussman 303.813.6691] and trust. It is an essential skill necessary flected and affirmed. When couples work “1st Wednesdays” Home-based businesses for all healthy relationships. According to with this process each person has a chance to [see StapletonLife.com – most mtgs11:30am - 1pm] Harville Hendrix, author of ‘Getting the be the speaker and to be fully heard. When Love You want: A guide for Couples’ instead you know that your partner fully hears and of listening empathically, many of us are understands you, there is a deeper feeling of busy preparing what we are going to say. connection. It is through this softening and Empathic listening calls for the listener to connection that couples are better able to find devote his/her full attention to the solutions to difficult problems. Sometimes it speaker, to genuinely care about what the doesn’t matter if disagreement remains. The other person is saying and to encourage purpose of empathic listening is to establish a the speaker to keep talking. more trusting connection. What all of us ulti - mately want is to be heard, understood and Learning to listen well can be challenging feel connected to the ones we love. You can Many of us have spent years focusing on have the love you want. Learn to listen! getting our own messages across rather than on fully understanding someone else. Elizabeth Taeubert LCSW is a psychothera - Empathic listening requires that the indi - pist at Natural Balance Wellness in Stapleton. She works with individuals and couples. She Sweet William Market opens May 31. It will be held on the last Saturday of each vidual do something with what he or she month through September at Founders’ Green in Stapleton. Hours are 9am - 2pm. hears. can be reached at 720-949-1194.

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Stapleton Front Porch 23 May 2008 CU Denver School of Medicine Launches Real Estate Corner Depression Center & Starts National Network Information of interest from local real estate professionals eorge Wiegers, a New York investment suffering from an illness that kills roughly 30,000 Amer - banker who retired to Colorado in the mid- icans a year and cripples millions of others. “The coun - The housing market. What’s to like? G1990s, has donated $3 million to establish try should have an infrastructure for depression, such as the University of Colorado Denver School of Medi - it has for cancer.” By Rhett Adams cine Depression Center that will be housed in the for - The University of Michigan launched the national opened the paper this morning to mer Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora. network’s first depression center in 2001, with the goal find two more articles about the The center becomes the second in what is designed of eventually linking with other such centers. That goal, Igloomy housing market. No sur - to be a 12-to-14-institution national network that the brainchild of Michigan Depression Center director prise here. Over the past months real will attack mental illness the way other medical cen - John Greden, MD, began to take shape soon after the estate news has been about foreclosures ters have cooperated to attack cancer and heart dis - Michigan center opened its new building in 2006. Rep - and downturns. Inventories are up. ease, according to officials from the University of resentatives from a number of institutions, including the Economic forecasters have seen better Colorado. UC Denver School of Medicine, came together at the and brighter days. Colorado First Lady Jeannie Ritter, a strong advo - Michigan facility in April 2007 to set in motion plans Rhett Adams Is there an upside on the horizon? cate for mental health care, accepted Wiegers’ gift on for a national network. Mr. Wiegers’ gift will allow Col - A silver lining in sight? Absolutely! If behalf of the state’s citizens. orado’s center to open by August 2008 in renovated of - you’re in the buyer’s seat today, you do not need to look hard “These kinds of projects show how far we’ve come fices in the old Fitzsimons Army Hospital, now called to find opportunities in today’s market. After all, there are in treating mental illness just the way we do physical Building 500 on the UC Denver Anschutz Medical loads of homes to look at. Interest rates are low and sellers are illness,” Mrs. Ritter said during recent ceremonies at Campus in Aurora. prone to negotiate prices and conditions. Clearly there are the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. “We must “The University of Colorado Denver is happy to pro - deals to be had out there. So, buyer, a lot of things are going continue to do everything we can to reduce the vide a home to this important endeavor,” said UC Den - your way. stigma surrounding mental illness and improve access ver Chancellor M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS. “For a It’s easy for buyers to sit on the sidelines and decide not to to mental health care.” number of years, our researchers have been working to decide for the time being. Yet this waiting and indecision “We have to blow away the stigma and bring men - solve complex mental health issues and we are pleased to comes with a price. From this supposed comfort zone we may, tal health out of the closet the way we did with cancer join our existing talents with George Wiegers’ vision.” in fact, isolate ourselves from the opportunities and the bar - 20 years ago,” said Mr. Wiegers, referring to the ex - For additional news and information, please visit the gains that at other times we might have explored or have been traordinary contribution he has made to help ease the UC Denver newsroom online at www.uchsc.edu/news/ excited about. As thoughtful and potential buyers, you might remind yourself of the value you still bring to the home-buy - ing process. Let’s say you have good credit and a good job. You Saturday mornings starting June 7 also like the area and you plan to stay put. You understand and are ready for the responsibilities of home ownership. 2008 Story Hour in City Park Public Hearing These factors remain crucial features of any sound investment eginning Saturday, June 7 at 10am, local community and should not be underestimated or undervalued in any mar - leaders will read and share stories with children, fam - on Denver Parks ket. The fundamentals are still key to any sucessful real estate ilies and neighbors of all ages. After the stories kids transaction. B So take a peek at how you are personally reacting to all can enjoy cookies and lemonade. Each week one lucky Alcohol Policy family can win a copy of one of the books read. this market news. This may well be a wise time to jump into Story Hour will last one hour and will take place outside public hearing on proposed changes to the al - the market. As a potential purchaser, you will discover there’s a the historic Graham-Bible House on the west side of City cohol policy for parks under the management lot of sun to see behind all the gloom. Park at the corner of 21st and York. Parking is available in of The City of Denver Department of Parks Recently I attended an Open House where beautiful model A homes had just come on display. What did I see? Great loca - the Park and along 21st Avenue. and Recreation will be held on May 8th as part of the The event is sponsored by City Park Alliance, Denver monthly Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meet - tions. Super floor plans. Maple cabinets. Granite slab counter - Parks & Rec and the Tattered Cover Bookstore. In 2007, ing. The advisory board meeting starts at 6pm in the tops. Designer paint colors. And guess what else? One left. All readers included Colorado First Lady Jeanne Ritter, City Rude Recreation Center at 2855 W. Holden Place. the rest were sold. What’s happening here that we’re not hear - Councilman Michael Hancock, School Board Member Email Fred Weiss of Denver Parks at ing about? Perhaps it’s some good news worth spreading. Jeanne Kaplan as well as other local leaders. For more infor - [email protected] for more information. Rhett Adams is a realtor with Metro Brokers—Dardano & mation visit www.cityparkalliance.org Associates in Stapleton’s E. 29th Avenue Town Center. She can be reached at [email protected] or (303) 478-2232.

May 2008 24 Stapleton Front Porch Stapleton MCA Community Updates on Summer Movie Series Titles Announced The Stapleton MCA Stapleton Development and Forest City Sta - By Tom Gleason pleton will sponsor ne of the hallmarks of the rede - vide monthly updates on the redevelop - five summer movies velopment process that began for ment process and respond to questions beginning June (2823 Roslyn St) in the 29th Ave. Town Center the former Stapleton Interna - from the CAB. To obtain more informa - 13 th . Movies will O be hosted on Friday through May 16th at the following days and tional Airport in the early 1990s has been tion about those meetings or the CAB times : the importance of inviting community committees on Communications, Housing evenings starting at Wednesdays from 2-4pm (thru May 16th ) input in decisions shaping the redevelop - Diversity, Parks, or Zoning and Planning, around 8pm at Keven A. Burnett, Friday from 1 -3 pm (thru May 16th ) ment of Stapleton. As the master devel - call (303) 393.7700 or email Judy Carter at Executive Director Founders’ Green. Evening sessions will be held at the MCA Of - oper selected to implement The Stapleton [email protected] . Residents are en - fice (2823 Roslyn St) on the following dates: Development Plan (known as ‘The Green There are other opportunities as well. couraged to bring blankets and coolers to May 5, 7, 13 & 15 from 5-7 pm. Book”) Forest City works closely with the Timely updates are available to the public enjoy some great outdoor family fun . Last chance sessions will be held at the Puddle Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) of the on-line at www.StapletonOnLine.com or Fri. June 13 th : Back to the Future Jumper Pool (2401 Xenia St) Stapleton Development Corporation and through Stapleton’s monthly newspaper, Fri. June 27 th : Hairspray (2007) May 19 th – May 22nd from Noon to 4pm. Stapleton United Neighbors to keep the The Front Porch, which has a distribution Fri. July 11 th : The Goonies NO pool ID’s will be issued during the Me - public apprised of redevelopment plans of more than 35,000 copies to all Stapleton Fri. August 8th : Curious George morial Day weekend due to staffing priorities. for Stapleton. residents and a number of neighborhoods Fri. August 22 nd : Horton Hears a Who Please contact Jenifer, MCA Office Manager There are numerous opportunities for throughout the area. Past editions of The The Stapleton Spring Fling will be held this at 303.388.0724 with any questions regarding citizens to receive updates on the redevel - Front Porch going back to its inception in Saturday May 3rd from 3 to 7 pm at Pool ID Sessions. opment process. The Citizens Advisory 2000 are available at www.StapletonDen - Founders Green. This annual Spring Festival Board meets monthly on the third Thurs - ver.com. Forest City also co-hosts public will host numerous family oriented activi - Who Needs Updated Pool ID’ s? All New Residents day of each month at 7:30 a.m. in the 3rd forums with the CAB and Stapleton United ties, food, crafts for the kids as well as live without a MCA Issued Pool ID must get a card floor conference room of the Stapleton Neighbors (SUN) to provide opportunities music on the Green for all ages by Conjunto for each person living in the residence. Children Development Corporation offices (7350 for citizens to receive updates and provide Colores. In addition the Stapleton TMA will between 12 months and 9 years must have an E. 29th Avenue). Senior officials from public comment. Watch the Front Porch be sponsoring a number of bicycle education updated photo taken for the computer system. Forest City attend those meetings to pro - for notices of those forums. activities for all ages. For a complete list of Youths turning 10 need to have a new card is - Spring Fling activities as well as all Stapleton sued. Resident over the age of 10 who used their Community events please log onto ID card during 2007, DO NOT need to update www.StapletonCommunity.com for the lat - their ID card . est information and updated schedules. Cast A Line Family Fishing Event Stapleton pools are now hiring for the 2008 sum - May is your Last Chance to Update or Get New mer season. Do you have a teenager at home in - nvironmental Learning for ister early at www.elkkids.org. Pool ID’s Issued Before Pools Open May Pool terested in earning extra money this summer? Kids (ELK) will hold the ELK is a community-based ID Sessions will be held at the MCA Office Lifeguards can earn up to $8,000 over the sum - Efifth annual Cast a Line non-profit organization that mer . Positions include lifeguards and swim in - Family Fishing Event on Saturday, provides an education in science structors . Call Wild Iris at 720-529-9911 or May 17, 2008. From 11am to 3 and natural resources, leadership Four Mile Summer Camps download an application at www.stapletoncom - pm, ELK friends will be fishing at and career development to low- Four Mile Historic Park camps: munity.com (Lifeguard certification classes avail - Lake Lehow, a remote pond in Wa - income, culturally diverse Pioneer Camp 9am - Noon, $90 able for those 15 & older beginning this month ) terton Canyon. Tickets are $15 for youth. ELK has a 98% high Weeks of June 23, July 14, July 28 an individual and $50 for a family of school graduation rate for youth Homesteading Camp 9am - Noon $90 four. This includes a fantastic Bar-B-Q in their year-round program. All proceeds Weeks of June 9, July 7, July 21 lunch, fishing lessons for beginners, and support youth leadership and science educa - How the West was Fun! 9am - 3pm $175 other science activities. Children will get tion. For more information and to register June 16, August 4 Casey’s Hosts to take home their new fishing rod! please go to www.elkkids.org , Email skings - Visit www.FourMileHistoricPark.org or This event sold out last year, so reg - [email protected] or call 303-291-7503. call 720-865-0814 “Give Back Mondays” asey’s Irish Pub and Bistro in Stapleton’s E. 29 th Avenue Town $2 CCenter is supporting non profits F 0 and charities in the community through irs its “Give Back Mondays” program, C t B O Fi l f General Manager Glen Eastwood said. rst e a f Customized Cleaning... p tim a s lea e n i se cu i c According to Mr. Eastwood, Casey’s E . W sto n xp it m g For Every Need, For Every Budget. ire h er s Co s o is one of six restaurants with common 7- up n 8- o ly Call today for a FREE estimate 303.393.1234 08 n. ownership in the Metro Denver area Over 8 Years in Business. 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Stapleton Front Porch 25 May 2008 Local Students Selected Aurora Golf Events “Girls on the Run” Gain for College Scholarships Caddies Needed! The response to our re - door prizes are included. Clinic features quests for volunteers for the 2008 U.S. instruction on putting, chipping, full Self-esteem & Confidence The Denver Public Schools (DPS) Re - Amateur Public Links Championship has swing and etiquette! If you don’t have irls on the Run, a nonprofit or - tired Employees Association Foundation been incredible! We are, however, still any daughters come with your girl ganization that teaches girls to selected 10 DPS seniors to receive a looking for caddies. If you think you have friends! Don’t have clubs? Not a prob - Gstretch themselves physically, total of $240,000 in college scholar - what it takes to be a caddie and are inter - lem, we will provide them if you need mentally, and socially, will participate in ships. Each will receive up to $24,000 – ested, call Caine Fitzgerald at Murphy them! Registration opens April 16th and the May 31st Rocky Mountain Health $6,000 each year for the next four years Creek for more information 303-361- space is limited so sign up today! For in - Plans 5K run in City Park. More than if they maintain a “B” average in college. 7300. Caddies will need to be available for formation please call Karin at 303-739- 250 members of the organization, ages Recipients from NE Denver Schools the entire week in case their player makes 7891 or go to 8 – 14 will run their first 5K as part of a were Jenni Adams, Denver School of it to the final round! Registration form. themselves. Girls on the Run combines Charles Fine and Kathryn Elizabeth golf or know someone who is? Maybe Junior Golf Camp Registration Opens April physical training for running events Post, East High School; Elza Picasso- your game just needs a tune up. Fitzsi - 21st Looking for something fun for your with warm-ups, team-building activities Hobin, Denver School of the Arts. The mons Golf Course is hosting a golf clinic kids to do this summer? How about and workouts that focus on life-skills foundation’s scholarship committee eval - geared for mature adults. The event is on summer golf camp? We offer summer such as how to get along within a uated students’ academic accomplish - Saturday, May 3rd, from 3-5:30pm. There camps for kids ages 6-17 at Centre Hills, group, how to assert oneself in a healthy ments and community service and will be instruction from our golf profes - Saddle Rock, Aurora Hills, and Meadow manner, and how to combat the nega - conducted rigorous personal interviews sionals on full swing, chipping, and put - Hills. For more information call the golf tive and unattainable images put forth with the applicants to select the final ting. Following the instruction we will shop directly or visit www.golfaurora.com, click “Girls on the Run has given our girls The cost is $30 per person. Space is lim - on Junior Programs and then click on the motivation to work harder in school ited so sign up today! For more informa - Camps. The cost is $40 per child. To and further prepare them for opportuni - Denver Hospice tion please call Karin at 303-739-7891 or register call 303-326-8650. (You will ties of reaching their goal of attending go to need the class number to register your college,” said Rich Barrett, principal, Seeks Volunteers Entry form. Golf Program for juniors ages 10-17. For ing in the program.Girls on the Run family members and caregivers of termi - FREE Demo Day at Murphy Creek Are you more information on Murphy Creek’s 5- was founded in 1996 by Molly Wilmer nally-ill patients — particularly those car - ready for new golf equipment or do you day program please call the golf shop di - Barker, MSW, a former competitive ing for family members in their homes. just want to test out the latest in golf tech - rectly at 303-361-7300. runner and Hawaii Ironman triathlete Volunteers provide respite care when fam - nology? Murphy Creek’s hosting a FREE City of Aurora Golf Division, Parks & who also taught and counseled troubled ily members need to leave the home for demo day on Saturday April 26th from Open Space Department, 15151 E. children and their families. For more in - two to four hours during the work week. 10am-2pm. Swing by (no pun intended!) Alameda Pkwy. 4th fl. 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May 2008 26 Stapleton Front Porch How You Invest May Depend on When You Were Born Dealing with Dogs’ Behavioral Issues By Natalie Robbins have built a cash cushion of about three to six By Robin Havekost spond to them. When re you a Baby months’ worth of living expenses. hen we talk to we’re responding to them, Boomer? Or a “Gen Contribute to your 401(k) - Start investing in people about we put them in charge. If AXer”? Your age helps your 401(k) or other employer-sponsored retire - Wtheir dogs, it’s they are in charge, then determine your tastes in ment plan as soon as you can. If you can’t afford very common for the there is little incentive for music, food and culture, and to put in the maximum, at least contribute enough owner to attribute his them to listen to us when your attitudes toward a vari - to earn the employer match, if one is offered. own human traits or we ask them to do some - ety of social and political is - If you’re a baby boomer: emotions to his dog. Peo - thing. This also can result Accelerate retirement savings - If you aren’t Natalie Robbins sues. And when you’re talking ple will describe behavior in a dog becoming upset if about your generation, you “maxing out” on your 401(k) and IRA, now is in terms which make Robin Havekost the human doesn’t re - also need to be aware that it can influence the definitely the time to start. If you haven’t saved sense to them and that spond to the dog’s request way you save and invest. much for retirement, you may need to weight they can relate to. However , thinking or demand. To understand the financial implications of your retirement plan more heavily toward about canine behavior in a human Stress can be displayed in various belonging to a particular age group, consider the growth-oriented investments, although you’ll context can lead to misunderstanding ways. Aggression and separation anxi - following generational characteristics: still need to feel comfortable with what you’re the real reasons for the misbehaviors. ety are just two of the many ways Many baby boomers: doing, given your individual risk tolerance. Dogs typically misbehave for the stress can present itself. We’ve also * Have postponed retirement saving well into Use home equity wisely - At this stage of your following reasons: They don’t know or seen dogs with ulcers, skin disorders, their 40s and 50s life, you may have built up considerable home understand what we want them to do, sleeping difficulties at night, and toi - * Use their home as their “bank’’ equity. If so, you might be tempted to take out or not do. They don’t believe that leting issues. Sometimes stress will * Have given their children’s college education a home equity loan to consolidate other debts, their owners are the ones who are in cause dogs to release adrenaline. This precedence over saving for retirement make home improvements or accomplish some charge and hence, have no reason to stops their thinking processes and While Gen Xers: other goal. Your home equity loan may be tax listen to them. Or they may be triggers their fight or flight survival * Have student loans to repay, along with heavy deductible, and you can probably find a com - stressed for one reason or another. instincts. The human reaction is credit card debt petitive interest rate - but you’ll still want to use Dogs often don’t understand what often to try to comfort a dog that is * Have little “cash cushion” to fall back on this debt wisely. Remember, you’re putting your we want because of their differences upset. This usually involves speaking * Haven’t focused on saving for retirement house up as collateral, so you don’t want to get in communication methods. People in soft comforting tones. However, Let’s take a look at some ways that Gen Xers in over your head. communicate mainly by using words because dogs don’t understand our and baby boomers can address these needs. Don’t bankrupt yourself to pay for college - If arranged in sentences. Dogs primarily words, “Don’t worry, it’s OK,” have If you’re a Gen Xer: you want to help your kids pay for school, try communicate by using body lan - the same meaning as, “That’s right Pay off those student loans - If you still owe money to avoid dipping into your retirement savings. guage. These differences in communi - good boy.” So the stress or anxiety is on your student loans, you’re not alone. Since 1997, Instead, consider contributing to a tax-advan - cation methods can be significant. It likely to increase. We’ve seen this nu - the median in undergraduate student loan debt has taged Section 529 Plan or a Coverdell Educa - can be like speaking Japanese to merous times in various situations. risen 74 percent, to $16,500, according to the 2002 tion Savings Account. Also, encourage your someone who only speaks Russian . When we work with people and National Student Loan Survey conducted by Nellie child to apply for grants and scholarships. And Both parties are likely to be confused. their dogs, we view the issues from Mae, a national student loan provider. By paying shop around for good, reasonably priced schools - Dogs are often much better at getting the dog’s perspective. People can off your student loans as quickly as possible, you’ll they’re still out there, if you look for them. us to understand what they want than make conscious decisions to change free up money for your short- and long-term sav - Make the right moves - at every stage we are at getting them to understand their behaviors; dogs will rarely mod - ings and investment goals. As you can see, you’ll need to make different what we want. ify their behaviors without the hu - Avoid the credit card trap - Keep one credit types of financial decisions over time. To make Owners often complain that their mans modifying theirs. card for emergencies, and pay off your balance your job easier, consult with a qualified finan - dogs rule the house or are spoiled . Robin Havekost is a Dog Behav - each month. Responsible credit card manage - cial professional who understand your individ - Dogs can be very adept at getting us ioral Therapist and Trainer at Bark ment is a great habit to learn early. ual needs and goals - and who can help you to understand what they want. They Busters. She can reached at 303-968- Build a cash cushion - Even if you aren’t earn - develop a strategy for each stage of your life. also will ask us to do things they want 5080 or at denevereastmetro@bark - ing much, strive to put away $50 or $100 a Natalie Robbins is an Investment Representa - us to, such as pet them or play with busters.com month in a money market account, until you tive for Edward Jones. She may be reached at them. This makes it easy for us to re - 303.320.7752 or at Natalie.Robbins@edward jones.com.

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Stapleton Front Porch 27 May 2008 From the Stapleton 80238 Point of View and Controller for Nordstrom’s Credit Divi - sion. I am responsible for all the accounting of the credit card portfolio that is held by Nordstrom on its retail and Visa branded credit cards. Nordstrom’s is a great company and I’m enjoying my new position. I have an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois in Economics and Accounting and an MBA from Webster University in St. Louis. I have lived in Denver for 7 ½ years. I To contact SUN, please come to the meeting or email [email protected] live with my partner, Matt and our dog and two cats. I also have a 12 year old son, Dion, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, FL. My hob - bies are traveling, working around the house S.U.N. Meetings are open to the public New Members Join the they all want to feel the sense of community and bridge. I’m looking forward to our vaca - The SUN Board will meet the 4th that Stapleton strives to offer. Whether we are tion this summer to the Baltic (one of the SUN Board retiring, newly married, downsizing, upgrad - Thursday of May from 6-9pm in the places I’ve never been). Our trip will include Here are the candidate statements from the 8 ing...we all want to feel that we are a part of a stop in Russia. Stapleton Community Room, recently elected members of the Stapleton this family that calls itself Stapleton. My 2823 Roslyn Street . United Neighbors board: neighbors are so much more than that, they are David Edinger my "family away from home". I want every I have lived in Stapleton since March 2003 Dennis Hanson resident of my community to feel this connec - and have been a Denver resident since 1998. I am a native of Denver and have been a resident Join Your Neighbors tion. This brings me to why I want to be on I'm interested in joining the SUN board to at Stapleton since May 2006. Even as we were the SUN board. One of my primary goals will assist wherever the need arises, particularly building our home here I was interested in neigh - for Block Party Day! be to support and continue to develop our in the areas of Outreach, Inter-neighbor - borhood issues and began attending SUN Trans - Stapleton’s Fourth Annual Block Party Day block captain network. I feel very passionate hood Cooperation, and Safety. Over the last portation Committee meetings. When the Chair will be on Saturday, May 17th starting at 3 about this endeavor because I believe that con - ten years, I've served as President of a 50- of that committee resigned recently I was ap - PM. This event is sponsored by SUN, but nected, informed people can make a real differ - person Internet and wholesale book business pointed to the SUN board and Chair of the SUN organized by each individual block. There - ence. The block captain network is so much in Northeast Denver near 53rd and Havana Transportation Committee where we deal with is - fore, you can tailor the party to meet the more than that. It is a starting point for some - called B-Logistics (www.blogistics.com) and sues including traffic and pedestrian/bicycling ac - specific needs of your block. It can be a thing great. Through this network of con - Books West (www.bookswest.com ). In Jan - cess and safety. I would like to continue working celebration to welcome spring and recon - cerned citizens of our community, we can uary 2008, I was appointed by Mayor Hick - on those issues as well as other neighborhood and nect with old friends, or a way to draw accomplish so many worthwhile goals. enlooper to assist the Department of Safety civic issues on behalf of Stapleton residents. people out and bring all the new neighbors Whether it is getting the opinions of our resi - in implementing business practices within on your block together. The goal of this Angela Williams dents for decisions that effect us all or estab - the Police, Fire, and Sheriff Departments. I event is to build community and traditions My name is Angela Williams; I am a Stapleton lishing neighborhood watches on our blocks, have an MBA from the University of Vir - - and continue to make our neighborhood resident and also a local private business owner we can work together and make our Stapleton ginia's Darden School and an economics de - a great place to live and raise families. (Allstate Insurance and Financial Services Firm) the community that we want it to be. gree from the University of Michigan. Even if you don’t have a designated at Northfield Stapleton. My family consists of Bryan Penny Damon Knop “block captain” it just takes one person to my son Brandon, and my 6 year old quarter Having been a resident of Stapleton for five My interest in SUN has several aspects to it. get the party started! If you'd like to find horse “Spyder” years now, I have no regrets making the move. As a resident of Stapleton for 2 years, I feel out who your block captain is, please email As a local resident and business owner I am I got involved in SUN at a meeting in a pocket like I have watched and learned a lot about [email protected] involved in my community. Starting with the park in late 2003 and have enjoyed my time in the community needs and wants, strengths with your name and address. Barack Obama Campaign Finance Team, 7B the organization. Serving on the SUN Board and weaknesses and how to accomplish the SUN will coordinate fire department Precinct Committee Person, and Delegate to for another two years will make me the longest changes needed. All while keeping in tact visits to a variety of parks throughout the County and State Assembly. I have contributed continuously serving SUN Board member, a the sense of group individuality that Staple - neighborhood, and make a map of likely to the community by organizing a cook out, distinction that I’m honored to hold. For the ton residents live here to obtain. Working fire truck stops available to block captains. fundraisers, and holiday party and town forums. last four years I have been the Treasurer of the for 4+ years selling the affordable housing in Please keep in mind that emergencies and As a board member of SUN Association I SUN Board. While this position isn’t as glam - Stapleton has granted me the opportunity to time may preclude the fire department would like to contribute my skills and talents to orous as some of the other positions, I enjoy educate homeowners both in and out of the from making an appearance at all parties. continue to make Stapleton a better place to live. the position and it is one of the necessary evils program about the diverse housing opportu - Just in case, you may want to keep the fire A community that reflects the values, and qual - with any organization. In addition to the SUN nities in Stapleton and hopefully have department visit “under wraps” for the lit - ity of life of its residence. As a SUN Board Board, I am also serving as one of the residents’ helped shake off pre-conceived notions tle ones and have it be a great surprise if Member I would like to serve on a committee representatives on the Stapleton Public Art about affordable housing. I feel my connec - they are able to come to your party. where needed. tions with Forest City, developers, city enti - For more information on Block Party Committee. I have served on two selection Amanda Baldwin committees for art projects in the community ties, and local businesses will be valuable to Day, including a “Block Party Toolkit,” the board. As a Realtor I also consider com - please visit the SUN website at www.sta - Acclimating myself to Stapleton, I realized and I’m very proud of the projects that have something very early on. The individuals that I been installed to date. munity amenities, infrastructure and events pletonunitedneighbors.org and click on very valuable to everyone’s experience and Outreach. encounter in my neighborhood are from all Professionally, I have recently changed posi - walks of life, but the one commonality is that tions and am the Vice President of Accounting home values, and would do all I could to en -

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and 16 chose to leave the program because the Stapleton Foundation have provided for they wanted a different high school experi - our students and school. ence (larger school, different courses, etc.) As our first class of seniors leave DSST What’s unusual about this school is that it this year, most people have focused on our has achieved the goal of 100% college accept - students’ academic accomplishments – being ance without hand picking its students – and 100% accepted to four-year colleges and in fact its charter mandates that the school being the highest performing high school in will have a minimum of 40% low income Denver. However, more importantly, I think students in each entering class. The current our seniors are special for a different reason – graduating class started out with 40% low in - who they have become as young men and come, 60% minority and 50% first genera - women. Let me dig a little deeper and give tion college students. you three qualities that make them special. The Front Porch asked Head of School Bill First, through our core values, our seniors Kurtz to reflect on the first four years of this have a deeper understanding of both the in - school that has become known nationally as a terconnectedness of the human condition model for academic success with a diverse stu - and the individual’s responsibility to the dent body. needs of others in a community setting. They have learned, sometimes the hard way, Bill Kurtz, DSST Head of School what it means to sacrifice their own needs for When I look back over the last four years, the greater good of the community. Nico Bill Kurtz, DSST head of school. (Photo The Denver School of Science Technology Lujan, a senior who will be attending Metro taken during an interview in the school’s has many things to be proud of as a result of State recently said this: “Our core values are first year, when the current seniors were what I live by now. I use the values to ask freshmen.) the hard work of our students, parents, board and particularly our faculty and staff. The questions and to answer questions without (continued from page 1) (provided by school has come a long way since opening at any bias or prejudice. They have helped me the school) and learn it. And if they the old Machbeuf high school building in understand how to respect others, be respon - don’t pass, they repeat the class or get Park Hill with our first 9th grade class. Get - sible for my work, and help someone in need held back to repeat that year. The bot - ting 100% of our first senior class into four- – they have helped me mature and grow into tom line is that if students “follow the year colleges has been a fitting culmination of adulthood.” program,” the school works with them our efforts. We could not have succeeded Second, because of the economic, ethnic until they reach the standards that will without the community support that we have and cultural diversity of our school, our sen - get them into college. Of the original received. Many individuals and organizations iors have learned the skills and have the ap - 131 students, 79 are graduating this have lent a hand with our internship pro - preciation of how to live and work in our 21 st month, 30 were held back (of those grams, senior projects, athletics, and many century diverse society. The closeness and di - seven chose to stay at DSST and are other aspects of our school. We are very grate - versity of our community has challenged Graduating DSST Seniors (clockwise from left) Brooke now juniors), 6 moved out of town, ful for the ongoing support Forest City and them to look beyond their own backgrounds to find commonalities with each other while it is cool to get into prestigious universities and appreciating differences. They have learned where we really share in each other’s accom - how to value people for who they are on the plishments. It is great to be able to go home inside, not the outside. Lyness Hill, a senior and tell my dad that Chris Torres got into who will be attending Colorado College said MIT and Sam Holden got into Pomona.” this about our diversity, “Being at DSST has These understandings are counter-cultural opened my eyes in so many different ways, to the messages most high school students get culturally and socially. Because of the experi - today: Our schools and culture tell students to ence here, I am so much more prepared to do “find themselves – discover who you are and well in college and to adapt to people who what your passion is – most of the time in the are different than me and appreciate those absence of a framework of values to guide this differences.” self discovery. Students in high performing And finally, they have learned that cele - high schools today are pressured to learn in brating the success of others – putting others ultra competitive environments. And because first – can be more meaningful than our cul - our schools today are so segregated by tracks, ture’s push towards individual success at all kids are implicitly led to believe that this kind costs. Sam Brasch, a Boettcher Scholar who of segregation is all right and that depending is choosing between attending Colorado Col - on your economic status or skin color, differ - lege and CU Boulder, said this about our cul - ent opportunities are available to you. ture: “There is a culture at this school where I believe our greatest accomplishment at

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you get to the end and you get all those A lot of the rules are pretty strict. You college letters and those scholarships it have to stay after school for an hour if really is worth it. you’re a minute late to class. But academically they taught me a lot. Javier Dalupan-San Andres Teachers want you to succeed and get on I’m an immigrant. I’ve never been to any to college and they want you to be good at other high school and this is my first Ameri - whatever job you want. When you think can school so I wouldn’t know how other calculus is too hard they come say, “Need schools supported you. I never really knew help? We’re willing to help.” what to expect, especially my freshman year, I think I’ll use some of the core values but as the years kept going by, and I got they taught me, like doing your best. I older it kept getting better. probably won’t use responsibility because I There are lots of times I hate the teach - have to have time to relax, then some work ers, but there are more times you’ve got to time, then some play time. love them. Every teacher is there to help you, and you might not get along with Eliot Parker everyone, but in the bigger picture they My favorite thing about DSST is probably want to support you anyway they can. the diversity at our school. Not only the I struggled so much. I’m not a genius (I ethnic and socioeconomic diversity, but doubt anyone is), but I learned it’s about also the diversity of thought is astounding. how hard working you are. Maturity helped At this school, it is not possible to close me realize how going to college is serious your mind off in all directions. You have to business and it’s all for the long term plan. keep your opinions open to revision and your mind open to reflection. Natalie Sauls I think this community would be ex - I’ve had my times where I just wanted tremely hard to replicate, especially with to quit… but it’s been worth it even though our founding class. We have fostered a it’s been hard. The teachers are ridiculously bond that goes deeper than any other good at supporting the students. They school I could attend. Through the 4 years always put in extra time helping me together, we have molded this school to be - understand. I’d say I liked the teachers come the way that it is, and have forged more than I liked their classes. friendships that span the typical divisions. DSST is a great school… there are The teachers have been extremely dedi - people that hate it, but also many people cated to our achievement, and willing to Brewer, Dylan Cockerille, Natalie Sauls, Eliot Parker and Javier Dalupan-San Andres spread their wings. that love it, like me! It gives you what you help the students in any way to attain a want in the long run. It has done an higher intellect. DSST is that our students are prepared to Brooke Brewer excellent job preparing me for college. The liberal arts focus is the main thing enter post-secondary life with a fundamen - Teachers really push you, I think sometimes, that helped me for college. From the tally different set of understandings. The last well, it may seem annoying. But I really like Dylan Cockerille humanities in 9th grade, 5½ years of line of our mission statement charges us them, they’ve made class fun, and I really My experiences at DSST were pretty nice. science and a full 4 years of math, my with: DSST will graduate responsible, engaged have a passion for some of the things that The community here is really good – a lot education was varied and extensive. citizens who are prepared to be leaders of the I’ve learned here and it makes me want go better than most schools. A lot of people Science has helped me to excel in other future. When I look at our senior class, I be - and do it in college. stick up for you and support you when you areas as well, through logical thinking, and lieve that we have developed leaders of the To me a balance between social life and need it. One of our old students came back to formulate some concepts I may not future – young people who are educated to academics would be where I’m able to have because they wanted more community than have had if I had gone to a school like lead, will lead with their heart, live our val - fun and not have my work suffer. But either the school they switched over to. DSA, East or George Washington. ues, include the excluded, and seek better one or the other does suffer. Like if I really communities around them. As I look back at focus on my work, I can’t hang out as much what we have tried to accomplish over the as I want to. 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