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Idaho Springs approves communal dining areas for Miner Street Market Outdoor marketplace will run May through Halloween BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Fake mice and rats adorn the spread of treats at the Agony’s Asylum Tea Party April 28 at the John Tomay Memorial Library. The tea party celebrated the local fifth-grade class reading “The League of Beastly Dreadfuls,” and every aspect of the tea party was based PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN on items and scenes from the book.
Daring GCS students brave Victorian-era tea party at library Fifth-graders conclude semester-long book club BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Having recently perused the fantastical novel “The League of Beastly Dreadfuls,” the upstanding fifth-grade class of Georgetown Community School celebrated its accomplishment with a special tea party, hosted by the custodians of the nearby John Tomay Memorial
Library. Thither also went this reporter, one Lydia-Louise Rosalie Knuckletooth, to record the April 28 occasion for the annals of history. Like the novel “The League of Beastly Dreadfuls,” the aforementioned tea party was inspired by elements from our world’s Victorian age, along with hints of the magical and macabre. The students were invited to partake in a spread of prudeberry scones, bogcakes, Prim’s favorite SEE TEA PARTY, P5
Georgetown Community School’s fifthgraders celebrate reading the book “The League of Beastly Dreadfuls” at the Agony’s Asylum Tea Party April 28 at the John Tomay Memorial Library.
Idaho Springs’ Miner Street Market will look much like last year’s, as the City Council unanimously approved an ordinance allowing communal outdoor dining areas, called CODAs, at its April 25 meeting. The marketplace, which will close three blocks of Miner Street to all vehicle traffic, will host a variety of regular and special events throughout the summer and early fall. Music nights will return on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the cornhole league is moving to Friday nights this year, event organizers said. City Planner Jerad Chipman explained how state statutes allowing municipalities to have encroachment areas for outdoor dining and so forth will expire this month. If Idaho Springs wants to maintain its downtown summer programming, establishing CODAs are the best opSEE MARKETPLACE, P3
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