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Members of the Fiesta Colorado Dance Company perform while the Talisman Trio mariachi band plays at Georgetown’s Library Park PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN Saturday.
Georgetown hosts Ballet Folklorico performance for National Hispanic Heritage Month BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
For Morrison’s Janette TrujilloLucero, Georgetown’s Library Park transformed into a Mexican zocalo, or plaza, Saturday afternoon.
It was a place of joining together, sharing and celebrating. The mariachi music reverberating throughout downtown, the sunlight shining on the dancers’ colorful traditional garb, and a receptive crowd cheering them on. On Saturday, the Georgetown Cultural Arts Program hosted a Ballet Folklorico performance featuring the Fiesta Colorado Dance Company and the Talisman Trio mariachi band. The event was in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct. 15. Along with those locals who came
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out especially for the performance, it also drew interest from dozens of passersby and caused some rubbernecking among motorists driving through downtown Georgetown from Guanella Pass. While that made the overall attendance hard to count, the event was incredibly well-received by both spectators and performers. “It feels like a real fiesta,” Trujillo-Lucero, the dance company’s founder and artistic director, said. The Talisman Trio started around SEE FIESTA, P10
The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board has recommended renaming Clear Creek County’s Squaw Mountain to Mestaa’ehehe Mountain. The board, which discussed the subject at its August and September meetings, voted unanimously Thursday to recommend the name change after receiving more than 100 emails supporting it and very few in opposition. According to the Mestaa’ hehe Coalition, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has 10 days to review the board’s decision before it is sent to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which has the final say.. The proposed name honors Owl Woman, a notable Cheyenne figure who helped maintain peaceful relations between local tribes and new settlers in the 1830s and 40s. She died in 1847 and was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 1985. The current name is considered to be a disgusting and derogetory gender-based slur by many, particlarily those of indigenous descent. Clear Creek officials have explained that the roads that share the mountain’s name wouldn’t automatically change if the USBGN approves the Mestaa’ hehe Mountain petition. Instead, the county will eventually have to decide whether and how to rename those roads, but there’s no formal proposal or process yet. Residents have wondered whether nearby peaks of Chief, Warrior and Papoose should be renamed as well, and County Commissioner Randy Wheelock said the topic has come up in discussions with tribal representatives, but it hasn’t been revisited since early June.
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