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September 16, 2021
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
EnglewoodHerald.net
VOLUME 101 | ISSUE 31
FISHING FUN AT CENTENNIAL PARK
Potential costs of Dougco health pullout worry Arapahoe Arapahoe warns neighbor of possible legal action over Tri-County exit BY ELLIOTT WENZLER AND ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Jaedyn Wright, 4, fishes with his mother, Eva Nevarrez. Story, more photos on Page 5.
owns with Lauri Hamill, his wife, to Englewood in 2019 after posters overran the basement and garage of their home near Littleton. “This is a neat little neighborhood down in here,” Lauri Hamill said, referring to the engineering firms, landscape design companies, auto repair shops and “cool, creative businesses” that make up the area around their studio and warehouse space at 3638 S. Jason St. Plus the proximity to Santa Fe and Hampden make deliveries and pickups a breeze, she said.
Arapahoe County’s threat of possible legal action over Douglas County’s plans to pull out of the publichealth agency serving both counties appears to hinge on whether the exit causes costly disruptions to existing health programs in Arapahoe County’s budget. Arapahoe County Attorney Ron Carl sent the warning to his Douglas County counterpart in a Sept. 3 letter. The letter came in the wake of Dougco’s moves to leave the TriCounty Health Department — which serves both counties as well as Adams County — and form its own health agency, largely over longstanding objections to Tri-County’s COVID-safety orders. Arapahoe is asking Douglas to “slow the pace so all the stakeholders — the three counties plus TriCounty — can make any necessary transitions more efficiently and effectively, and so we can properly assess the cost and process of what we need to do next,” said Luc Hatlestad, spokesperson for Arapahoe County. “The reason this partnership has lasted 55 years is because, in part, we were able to share costs, and obviously that would change if we went
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SEE TRI-COUNTY, P13
PHOTO BY RACHEL LORENZ/SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Love for public lands is at heart of business Englewood-based Travel Posters captures experience of journeys BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Blair Hamill was looking for a way to make a living as an artist — for something that would unite his love of this country’s public lands with his talent as a landscape painter and his experience as a graphic artist.
“What could I come up with that would become a more marketable form of my artwork? That could sustain us as a business?” Hamill said he asked himself. Travel Posters was the answer. Hamill creates images that capture “the American travel experience” for posters, coffee mugs and coasters. The outdoor scenes have strong lines, distinctive shapes and a graphic feel. He draws on his former career as graphic designer, his time as a fine art oil painter and on a love of the natural world that extends back to his childhood. Hamill moved the business he co-
INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 12 | LIFE: PAGE 14 | CALENDAR: PAGE 17 | SPORTS: PAGE21
PANDEMIC FASHIONS
Sustainability shapes style trends
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