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Week of July 21, 2022

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DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO

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VOLUME 120 | ISSUE 37

Cranelli’s establishes family dinner feel

Lone Tree restaurant is labor of love for couple BY MADDIE BROWNING SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Not many business owners carry bags of homemade garlic knots to local businesses, treat their workers and customers like family, and spread love and positivity from table to table — besides Lasinda and Jimmy Crane, owners of Cranelli’s on Park Meadows Drive. Their story began 27 years ago on a blind date set up by their best friends. Since then, they have worked in the restaurant industry both together and apart to pave the way for Cranelli’s. Twenty years ago, their friends asked them to help open an Italian restaurant named after Jimmy called Jimmy C’s Pizza and Pasta in Lakewood. Lasinda and Jimmy developed the menu, later influencing Cranelli’s half and full portion choices. They also hosted a “marinara party” at the restaurant where they tasted nine of Jimmy’s different SEE CRANELLI’S, P4

Eventual aim is to supply up to 400 acre-feet of water per year BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lasinda and Jimmy Crane opened Cranelli’s on December 26, 2013 and have since PHOTO BY MADDIE BROWNING expanded their seating and added a new bar.

Views differ on whether high schools should stop naming valedictorians Cherry Creek has opted to end longtime tradition BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Soon after the Cherry Creek School District in Arapahoe County announced it would stop designating valedictorians in its high schools,

Sterling Ranch starts commercial rainwater harvesting

ed a story in national and internathe criticism started pouring in. “The pursuit of excellence has suf- tional news outlet Newsweek, with other media coverage mentioning it fered another blow,” wrote George Brauchler, a former Arapahoe Coun- too. The practice of honoring valety district attorney, in a column for dictorians is one the district’s high The Denver Post. “The crusade against meritocracy, school principals had discussed “for many years,” the principals wrote in and for mediocrity, in our schools Dream a letter to parents. reached a new level,” the Denver Dreams... “The practices of class rank and Gazette news outlet’s editorial board Big wrote. Cherry Creek’s decision even landSEE TRADITION, P3

INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 12 | LIFE: PAGE 14 | CALENDAR: PAGE 17

As Colorado’s drought drags on, one Douglas County community is hoping to pave the way for a new commercial water source: rain. Sterling Ranch, a master-planned community in the northwest region of the county, is ready to test the idea out after more than a decade of working with the legislature and gathering data. If it works, it could change the way the entire state thinks about rainwater harvesting. “I really think it could be something that municipalities look at in the future,” said Andrea Cole, general manager for Sterling Ranch’s water provider Dominion Water and Sanitation. “It’s getting drier so we have to figure out how to be better and more efficient with our water use.” Historically, most areas of the state have outlawed the collection of rainwater, requiring that every drop make it to downstream users. Now, Dominion Water is looking to prove they can gather the precipitation without harming others’ water rights. “When you go in and develop an area, since you change the landscape, you’re increasing runoff,” Cole said.

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