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VOLUME 118
Issue 51
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2021
Mills keeps seat Great Snow Plow contest winners make parade in mayor’s race Incumbent mayor claims 54% of vote Brighton voters had an early gift for Mayor Greg Mills Dec. 7, returning him to office in a runoff election. Mills collected 2,751 votes — 54% of the total votes cast — in the run-off to hold on to his seat as Brighton Mayor, compared to 2,340 votes for Laurie Lozano Maier. Mills will swear his oath of office for the next term at the council’s Jan. 4 meeting. The announcement came just prior to 10 p.m. during the City Council’s Dec. 7 meeting from City Gregory Mills Clerk Natalie Hoel while councilors were discussing Adams County’s replacement for Tri-County Health. Mills said he was temporarily speechless and promised to make a comment later in the meeting. Later in the meeting, Mills thanked voters for doing their civic duty and turning out to vote, before discussing his schedule for the rest of the year. “It’s going to be a good month,” Mill said. Mills and Maier were the top vote-getters in Brighton’s Nov. 2 ballot. Incumbent Mills wound up with just short of half the votes cast in the Nov. 2 ballot, with 3,599 votes out of the 7,618 cast, according to the state’s election site. Maier was next, with 2,682 votes – about 35% of the vote. Wayne Scott, the third candidate on the Nov. 2 ballot, had 1,337 votes. That’s about 17.6 percent of the total votes cast. In all, 7,618 Brighton voters cast a ballot in the November mayoral race. Hoel said runoff ballots were mailed to all registered Brighton voters, just shy of 24,000 ballots, and 5,091 were returned.
The nine winners of the City of Brighton Snow Plow naming contest. Following them were the nine snow plows each with its name on the large shovels. See more photos from the parade on page 13. PHOTO BY BELEN WARD
City marks new yearly tradition naming the snow plows BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Nine elementary students won the City of Brighton Snow Plow naming contest for the 2021-2022 snow season. “We had so many creative name suggestions that made it quite difficult to select the winners of this contest,” said Michael Woodruff, Director of Public Works. “However, we are excited that we’ve begun a
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fun, new tradition here at the city of naming our snowplows.” The winners of the naming contest were awarded city recognition at the Brighton City Council meeting on December 7th. Not to mention the nine winners were on a float for the 26th Annual Festival of Lights parade on Saturday, December 11th. The winning students: Darth Blader was named by Brek Hjelmen, fifth-grader at Achieve Institute at Pennock Elementary, and Richard Tryon, fifth-grader at Padilla Elementary. Blizzard of Oz was named by Madelyn Hendrickson, fifth-grader Reunion Elementary. Pablo Plowcasso was named by
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Harlan Montano, third-grader at Turnberry Elementary. Plowy Plowtupus was named by Lincoln Davis, fourth-grader at Pennock Elementary. Snow Busta - Wren Miles, fifthgrader at West Ridge Elementary. Blizzard Blaster was named by Venice Lozano, third-grader at Bromley East Charter School. Plowy McPlowFace was named by Dylan Brick, first-grader at Foundations Academy. Polar Express was named Harper Meyer, third-grader at Padilla Elementary. The MeowPlow was named by Zoey Struck, third-grader at Zion Lutheran School.
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