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Englewood 11-1-2013
Englewood
November 1, 2013
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Arapahoe County, Colorado • Volume 93, Issue 37
Meeting explores downtown proposal Parking, disruption main issues voiced to developer By Tom Munds
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Bunker, the Englewood Fire Department clown, and his talking fire dog attracted the attention of children at the Oct. 26 Englewood Halloween Carnival. Photos by Tom Munds
Creatures gather at carnival By Tom Munds
tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com A parade of costumed characters that included superheroes, witches and unusual critters wound its way to the front door of the Englewood Recreation Center to take part in the Oct. 26 Halloween carnival. The parade began as the sun was going down, casting long shadows that fit the eerie laughter from the two witches who greeted the visitors at the door of the annual event. “We try to come every year,” Marie Gomez said as she and her two children entered the gathering at the recreation center.
“It is such a nice event, it is inexpensive and the kids have a great time.” Several hundred people attended this year’s carnival. Most of the children and many of the adults were wearing costumes. Sam Hubbard, 10, was a Lego and Tami Silva, 7, was a fearsome-looking pirate. Joe Mondragon dressed as a farmer as he accompanied his children to the event. A long line of families waited for their children to go through the inflatable obstacle course and there was a line waiting to have photos taken. There were shorter lines at the carnival-like game where, win or not, the child received a treat.
Cowgirl Addison Jansen, 5, uses beads to complete her squeaky spider. The spider craft was part of the Oct. 26 Englewood Halloween Carnival.
Residents raised concerns about issues including parking and construction disruption during an Oct. 23 community meeting with a developer who could transform the area at South Broadway and Englewood Parkway. Medici Communities could overhaul the 1.8 acres in downtown Englewood, encompassing the vacant lot at the corner, as well as the land west of the alley along the 3400 block of South Acoma Street. Medici presented a concept to construct a mixed-use development with an 8,600-square-foot restaurant site on the corner of Broadway and Englewood Parkway. It would be part of the total of 23,500 square feet of first-floor commercial space to be included in the project. The upper floors of the buildings would contain 114 apartments. “We are dedicated to building a successful project that will make a good block even better,” Troy Gladwell of Medici said as spoke to about 60 people who attended the meeting in Englewood City Center community room. “I have walked the area and talked with many of the merchants, so I know there are concerns about sufficient parking and about Meeting continues on Page 9
50 young artists honored for work on calendar 13 pieces will be used for city’s 2014 edition By Tom Munds
tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com Proud parents had their children pose for photographs in front of their creations during the Oct. 23 event honoring the young artists who submitted the top 50 artworks for the 2014 Englewood calendar. Leigh Ann Hoffhines, city communications coordinator, oversees the annual student calendar art contest. She told the assembled artists and their relatives the calendar art contest is open to any student going to school in Englewood or who lives in Englewood. Hoffhines said this year’s contest drew more than 150 entries. A committee spent quite a few hours selecting the top 50 artworks. Thirteen of the top 50 artworks will be used in the 2014 calendar. However, smaller pictures of the other 37 works will also be included in the calendar.
Each of 13 selected artworks will be displayed as full pages in the calendar. The creators of those 13 works will be individually honored at the Dec. 2 Englewood City Council meeting. The free calendars will be available to the public at city facilities starting Dec. 3. At the Oct. 23 reception, Aushia Davis explained her work depicting a family of robots. “The teacher gave me the idea and I just decided to draw it this way,” the Englewood Middle School eighth-grader said. “I used different colors and shapes for each member of the robot family because I wanted each member to be unique. Also, I have each family member holding tools to help people in their daily lives.” She smiled and said no family is complete without pets, so she added a robot dog and a robot cat to the drawing. “I like to draw because it is fun,” Davis said. “One of my favorite things to draw is cats. I sometimes use my own cat as a model.” Nearby, Sophie Castro told her relatives about her drawing of a starry winter night.
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Sophie Castro, an All Souls second-grader, tells family about her artwork. Castro’s work was among the top 50 entries in this year’s student calendar art contest. Photo by Tom Munds Castro, a second-grader at All Souls Catholic School, said drawing is one of her favorite things. “I was surprised when I was told my artwork had been selected for the city calendar,” she said. “It is sort of a family tradition because my two sisters also had drawings selected for use in the calendar.” A well-done drawing of a dog’s head by Tess Bray on one of the pages of the 2014 calendar. Bray, a 10th-grader attending East High School, did the drawing, and this makes the eighth year in a row one of the Bray girls has had a drawing picked for the city’s
calendar. The Oct. 23 event was held on the second floor of the Englewood Civic Center. The works of art were mounted on the walls of the atrium and will be on display until Dec. 2. The ceremony was held in the community room. Englewood Mayor Randy Penn told the audience the event was all about recognizing the talent of the artists. As part of the ceremony, each of the 50 artists was called up individually to receive a gift bag of arts supplies, a certificate and congratulations as a slide of their creation was projected on the room’s wall.