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Several of the speakers advocated for Douglas County, the Town of Parker and Wind Crest Senior Living Community to each remain whole in their districts rather than be divided as they are under the preliminary maps.
“I would ask that you keep (Douglas County) whole as much as possible and keep it in the metro area,” said Congressman Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, the fi rst to speak during the meeting.
It was the commissions’ 29th public meeting and they had seven more meetings to go during their tour.
During their comments, each of the three Douglas County commissioners spoke about separate district maps.
Commissioner George Teal focused on the state Senate map, arguing that Castle Rock and Parker have shared interests and should be in the same district. He suggested redrawing District 15 — which includes Castle Rock, Castle Pines and parts of Parker under the preliminary map — and giving it a “distinct Parker, Castle Rock alignment.”
Commissioner Lora Thomas spoke about the state House districts, specifi cally Districts 33 and 22, which divide both Highlands Ranch and the Wind Crest community. Thomas echoed earlier comments from representatives of Wind Crest, who said they would like to see their community kept whole, preferably within District 22.
“We have the same water provider, the same road district, the same community association, we have the same metro district,” Thomas said. “Highlands Ranch would like to be kept as whole as possible.”
Commissioner Abe Laydon spoke about congressional redistricting, focusing on the Town of Parker’s desire to remain whole within proposed District 7.
“When maps were originally drawn, Douglas County was included with Weld and others and rural communities based on oil and gas interests,” Laydon said. “We actually have no signifi cant oil and gas interests in Douglas County so we’re really in a position to be more focused as a community of interest representing 360,000 citizens.”
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Parker Mayor Jeff Toborg, another speaker at the meeting, provided proposed changes to the map that would keep the town together.
“Literally you are splitting up our business community all the way down through and out to I-25 for us,” Toborg said. “Parker belongs as a whole community, Parker belongs to Douglas County. That’s who we have our relationships with in terms of government.”
In June, the Parker Town Council agreed to send a formal request to the commission asking not to be split between two districts and instead be entirely included in the 7th District.
“To cut my town in half, to give half to one district and half to another is completely nonsensical,” Toborg said. “I fully expect the commission to live up to the constitutional responsibilities to keep me as a whole town.”
A recording of the meeting is available by visiting redistricting. colorado.gov then selecting “meetings” followed by “meeting archive.”
Douglas County Commissioner George Teal speaks to the independent redistricting commissions during an Aug. 18 public input
meeting in Highlands Ranch. PHOTOS BY ELLIOTT WENZLER
OBITUARIES
PHILLIPS
Margaret “Peg” Phillips
05/06/1928 - 08/16/2021
Beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother, nanny, aunt and friend passed away at the age of 93. A resident of Colorado for 60 years, she was born in East Orange, NJ and married Val Phillips in 1948. Peg spent much of her life as a military wife and mother, and with Val they became world travelers as he was stationed in Africa, Canada and throughout the U.S. She created a caring and joy lled home for her husband and 8 children. She instilled in her family, faith and love. She was involved with the Altar and Rosary Society and Red Cross. She was preceded in death by her parents, Monica and James Sebold, brother Jim, husband Val, sons, Rick and Bruce and son-in-law, Paul Gosnell. She is survived by her brothers Bob and Jerry (Marilyn) and sister-in-law Shirley; sons Brian Phillips, Chris (Cathy) Phillips; daughters, Valerie Gosnell, Leslie Phillips, Denise (Chet) Elder and Jenni (Scott) Peavy, daughters-in-law Meg (Rick) and Monica (Bruce), 15 grandchildren, and 6 greatgrandchildren.
A memorial mass will be held at St Mark Catholic Church, Highlands Ranch 08-27-21 at 10:00am.
Contributions can be made to Porter Hospice or Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
CHAPMAN
Payne Thomas Chapman
January 20, 1968 - May 22, 2021
Payne was born in Denver, Colorado on January 20, 1968 and passed away on May 22, 2021 in St Petersburg, Florida. He worked at the Pinery Country Club and also was an electrician working in Kiowa, Colorado. He was better known as Tom or Teebone. He is truly missed by his family and friends. Survivors are his mother, Mary Ann Chapman formerly of Parker and brother, Je Chapman of Sacramento, CA. A Memorial Service was held on line at Faith Presbyterian Church, Sacramento CA website now on YouTube. Internment will be at the gravesite next to his father’s(Roger ibault) grave and will be held on Sept. 17 at 11 A M at Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Golden, CO. ere will be a gathering after the service for family and friends at the Olive Garden Restaurant , 14175 W. Colfax Ave, Lakewood CO in Denver West Village.
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LIFE SAVING COLORADO’SMUSICHISTORY
A music writer’s online resource captures pop music’s roots
BY KEVIN SIMPSON THE COLORADO SUN
The cardboard storage boxes form a chronological grid, left to right, on an entire basement wall — stacked fi ve tall and 10 across, starting with the 1970s on the top left.
They contain artifacts spanning generations of musical acts: press kits, publicity photos, notes and writings that chronicle an era and chart a collision course with history.
In the last several years they’ve become G. Brown’s creative lodestar. The 67-year-old longtime fi xture in Colorado’s music media — he has chronicled the scene both in print and on the radio since his high school days — has channeled his professional life toward preserving and cataloging the state’s pop-music legacy.
“My gift — the luck — was that I was writing for a major daily newspaper, when that READ (AND HEAR) meant something,” says Brown, whose work appeared for 26 years in the pages of The MORE ONLINE Denver Post from 1977 to 2003. It was a period when a few major record labels ruled pop music, and a vinyl album release — and the attendant buzz over cover art and liner notes — fueled much-anticipated tours and fed a music writer’s hunger for the big interview. “It’s really hard to think of just how many generations don’t even know about the hard goods, just that idea of someone’s records To read a longer version of this story, including highlights from G. Brown’s career, and to listen to a top 50 playlist of Colorado songs, visit tinyurl. com/GBrownStory. coming out and caring about the liner notes and all that,” Brown says. “But that was my life. And I got to see everything.”
Brown’s late-career passion project pours the contents of all those basement boxes, and all that he saw and heard, into a digital platform that didn’t even exist when many of the artists performed at the height of their talents.
In his two-year-old nonprofi t, the Colorado Music Experience, he’s building what he envisions as a highly inclusive online historical archive at colomusic.org.
The site features profi les, podcasts, videos and photos of artists whose connection to the state ranged from memorable performances to visits to deep-rooted institutions like the legendary Caribou Ranch in west Boulder County, where many performers sought high-altitude inspiration and round-the-clock access to a recording studio.
Profi les feature stars like Earth, Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey, a
Colorado Music Experience founding director and author G. Brown poses for a portrait June 10.
PHOTO BY ANDY COLWELL/SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN
Colorado Music Experience founding director and author G. Brown arranges an archive of musician photographs and biographical material in his o ce on June 10.
PHOTO BY ANDY COLWELL/SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN
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Littleton artist Sue Blosten’s “Goldilocks Tiptoes” and her “Reggie Reznour Minibarbot” appears with 67 other artworks created from found objects and trashed materials in an exhibit at The CollectiveCommunity Art Center in Lafayette. She said “Goldilocks” was inspired by a documentary about a ballet class for young girls in South Africa. “Lost & Found: Art with Found Objects” runs through Oct. 3, 2021. Information: www. lafayetteco.gov/1713/The-Collective.
Colorado Ballet
Colorado Ballet has season and single tickets on sale for 2021/2022 performances, with prices ranging from $40 to $175: coloradoballet.org or 303-837-8888, ext. 2. Programs: “Giselle” Oct. 8-17; “The Nutcracker” Nov. 27-Dec. 24; “Romeo and Juliet” Feb. 4-13; “Wizard of Oz” March 1120; “Ballet Masterworks” April 15-24.
Looking forward
A reminder from the Friends of the Littleton Library/Museum: The Annual Craft Fair is scheduled Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There are still a few spaces open for crafters and there will be lots of space on Oct. 2 for shoppers at the fair in Ketring Park! Information at the Littleton Museum, 303-795-3950. More later on this!
Curious Theatre Company
“The Lifespan of a Fact” opens the season for Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver,
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Denver East High alum and one of the many who recorded at Caribou. Videos celebrate acts like countryrock group Poco, whose musical family tree fl ourished far and wide. There’s even an extended nod to early 20th-century artists like Elizabeth Spencer, Colorado icon Glenn Miller and others.
More than two dozen (and counting) podcasts feature superstars like Graham Nash sitting down in a local studio. Overall, the podcasts trace the arc of Brown’s experience writing about not only classic pop performers, but also newer Colorado-centered artists like The Fray and the Lumineers.
The exploration of Brown’s personal archives also gave birth to another, more conventional historical project. He’s already three volumes into an ambitious 21-book series called “On Record,” which eventually will tell the year-by-year story of pop music in America from 1978 to 1998.
Each book features roughly 350 pages of bite-sized historical perspective gleaned from his archival interviews and photos. Though not a Colorado-centric undertaking, proceeds from the books’ sales go back to the nonprofi t Colorado Music Experience.
“I’ve got a passion for this stuff,” Brown says. “I did not start it out of spite, or to compete with anyone. But no one’s doing this work, OK? So it’s on me and that’s what I should be doing.”
The gig that catapulted him to prominence and allowed him to accrue decades of pop music history ended abruptly in 2003, when he resigned from the Post in the wake of the discovery that one of his concert previews contained sentences lifted from another article. That triggered an investigation of his previous year’s work that found 12 more passages from other publications.
Brown maintains his mistakes were unintentional but that he should have been more careful in his writing. He calls the episode “the worst time of my professional life.”
“I read voraciously, everything I could, to be well-informed,” he says. “It bit me in the ass and I got sloppy. I’ll defi nitely cop to that. But I don’t think that the people who disparaged my work get to defi ne my legacy. I worked too hard for that to happen.”
Brown immediately moved to a radio job at KCUV, a Denver-area progressive rock station where he helped build a small but loyal following. But ownership pulled the plug fi ve years later, citing low ratings and the faltering economy.
Brown shifted his focus to helping launch the Colorado Music Hall of Fame — he served seven years as a founding director — and also drew on his vast inventory of music history to tackle multiple book projects.
All paths ultimately led him toward the Colorado Music Experience.
Initially, Brown imagined the wide-ranging historical reach of the Colorado Music Experience not as a website, but as a bricks-and-mortar, physical space where patrons could eat and drink while immersed in Colorado music artifacts. He imagined a partnership with a brewery or dispensary or even a coffee shop. “But bottom line, I didn’t want to get into the bar and restaurant business.”
Then a friend asked Brown if he knew how to podcast. For someone who had extensive experience in radio, worked as a tuxedoed ring announcer for pro wrestling in the late 1980s and once hosted a Saturday morning cartoon show as “Uncle G,” podcasts weren’t a big leap.
“So, instead of the bricks and mortar,” he says, “we focused on building that archive of people in Colorado music history who have a story to tell. And it was very liberating to be inclusive instead of exclusive — which is what a Hall of Fame entails. That’s all political — who goes in, who goes out. I want to do things on merit.”
In addition to the site’s catalog of podcasts, there’s a robust selection of videos. Brown earlier had worked on what were essentially minidocumentaries that served as tribute videos for Hall of Fame inductions. He expanded on that model to add visuals to dozens of other artist profi les.
“I spent the last two and a half years just building it up to where I think it’s a pretty compelling, and entertaining, repository for Colorado music history,” Brown says.
“The Colorado Music Experience is one of those passion projects,” says Jon Rizzi, editor of Colorado Avid Golfer and a collaborator with Brown. “And it’s kind of a cliché, but G.’s enthusiasm is totally contagious. Not only is he a very good student of the genres that he covers but he’s also just a fan. He loves music. And you have to love something to really be a connoisseur.”
In this 1978 photo, G. Brown, then a young, up-and-coming music writer for The Denver Post, poses with singing star
Dolly Parton. COURTESY OF G. BROWN
This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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Lone Tree Symphony members play before season gets underway
BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The great room at the Vita Littleton apartment community was filled with the mellow sound of six cellists on a recent Sunday afternoon as an ensemble from the Lone Tree Symphony performed for residents. Erin Christensen, Lisa Fugit, Andrea Meyers, Cynthia Norman, Barb Risner and Cherie Swisher played a varied program for an enthusiastic audience.
The program began with “Journey,” by Littleton composer and teacher Susan Day, who has been a violinist with the Arapahoe Philharmonic for 25 years.
Swisher says that small ensembles from the orchestra perform for various private gatherings to benefit the orchestra as a whole. (Vita residents contributed over $350.)
She added that the six cellists collectively have 121 years collectively of playing in an orchestra together and three of them are retired music educators (as are many other orchestra members.)
Following Day’s work, the program offered a variety of classical works, Irish folk music, Bizet’s “Habanera,” a polka arrangement, Offenbach’s “Can Can” and more — a light, pleasing assortment that allowed various ensemble members to shine.
The Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra is directed by a Jacinda Bouton, a Lone Tree resident, who has been principal conductor and music director of the orchestra since it premiered in 2000. The LTSO performs a season of programs at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St.
Like so many area musicians, members are thrilled to be rehearsing and performing together again. (While auditions are sometimes scheduled during the season, depending on need, usually they take place in May and August.) And, the orchestra maintains a list of substitutes, so instrumentalists are encouraged to contact if they are newly arrived on the scene ... see the website at lonetreesymphony.org.
Bouton is also musical director of the Denver Concert Band and was formerly director of instrumental music at Denver’s George Washington High School. She is active as a conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Bouton served as director of the Breckenridge Music Institute’s Summer Music Camp and director of the Denver Junior Police Band, which has appeared in Littleton’s Western Welcome Week Parade in years past.
The Lone Tree Symphony has announced its new season, (tickets are on sale) which begins Oct. 1 with Dvorak’s New World Symphony, which references our nation at a time when the composer was director of New York City’s National Conservatory of Music of America. The program will include Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture, selections from “South Pacific” and more, the LTSO website says.
Next in line will be “Together at Christmas” on Dec. 4 and 5, which will feature Vaughn Williams’ “Fantasia on Greensleeves” and a jolly visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus.
The orchestra starts 2022 on March 4, featuring Colorado Symphony’s Principal Violist Basil Vendryes in a viola concerto, plus Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dance,” Tchaikovsky’s “Marche Slave” and selections from “Fiddler on the Roof.”
In May, LTSO will celebrate Beethoven with a performance of “Symphony No. 3, Eroica,” Brahms’ “Tragic Overture, Op. 81 in D Minor,” Bartok’s “Hungarian Sketches” and Bernstein’s “Magnificent Seven”
Tickets are on sale online, lonetreeartscenter.org or at the box office, 720-509-1000.
This orchestra rehearses at the Lone Tree Hub on Thursday evenings and performs at the Lone Tree Arts Center.
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Sept. 18 to Oct. 16. An eccentric author meets up with a neuroticallyprecise fact-checker, as a demanding editor sees a deadline looming. Tickets: curioustheatre.org, 303-623-0524.
Littleton Town Hall
“The Fantasticks,” directed by Billie McBride, runs Sept. 17-Oct. 17 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. in Downtown Littleton. Tickets: 303-794-ARTS, townhallartscenter. org.
Gardeners
The Littleton Garden Club welcomes new members as it holds its first meeting of the season on Sept. 1 at the Littleton Public Schools Educational Service Center, 5776 S. Crocker St., from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. (followed by a social time).
Miners Alley
“Before You Go” by local actor/director John Ashton (who directs this production), plays through Sept. 19 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington St. in Golden. Next: “The Crucible” in October and “A Christmas Carol” in December. 303-935-3044, minersalley.com.
Stories On Stage
Stories On Stage will perform September through November at Nomad Theatre in Boulder and then offer the season virtually for ticketholders. Visit storiesonstage. org or call 303-494-0523.
Kirkland Museum
Kirkland Museum, 1201 Bannock St., Denver, will reopen with an exhibit called “Truth, Beauty and Power: Christopher Dresser and the Aesthetic Movement” which opens Aug. 27. Hours: 11 a.m., to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Presented by Deputy Curator Christopher Herron. Look for a newly-exhibited painting by Vance Kirkland: “Four Suns in Space.” The museum was closed Feb. 15 due to water damage and has just reopened. KirklandMuseum.org.
A ordable Art
Reminder: The Affordable Art Festival at the west lawn of Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, is Sunday, Aug. 29. Everything $199 or less. Tickets: $12, benefit the ACC Foundation.
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.
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