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September 28, 2017
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Patches feature pumpkins, mazes, frights STAFF REPORT
It’s fall in Colorado, and that means pumpkins, corn mazes, hayrides and zombies. The Colorado Department of Agriculture has compiled a list of the events planned. Go to www.colorado.gov and search “pumpkin patch” for the complete list. Here are some of the area attractions:
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Maize in the City When: open every day from Sept. 29 through Oct. 31; hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; last maze ticket sold at 5 p.m. Where: 10451 McKay Road, Thornton Contact: www.maizeinthecity. com Find your way through the 20acre Crazed Corn Field Maze by answering personalized questions or picking from one of several categories in the smart phone trivia game. Highlights for younger visitors are the mini maze, a petting zoo, hay and pony rides, jumping castles, air slid, obstacle course and playground. Visitors also may choose from hundreds of shapes and sizes of pumpkins, with 11 varieties to choose from. Create your own fall scene with hay bales and corn stalks. Pumpkin Harvest Festival When: open Saturday, Oct. 7 and Sunday, Oct. 8; hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver Contact: info@fourmilepark. org; www.fourmilepark.org Old-time fall festival where guests can build a scarecrow, play pioneer games, take a horsedrawn wagon ride, enjoy historic demonstrations and take a tour of the Four Mile House Museum.
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Lakota Gardner, 2, of Thornton, picks out the perfect pumpkin from the Maize in the City pumpkin patch in 2016. Face painting is among the many activities offered at the corn maze again this year on Sept. 29. FILE PHOTO Learn how families lived and prepared for the season during the late 1800s. Beer garden and local food vendors will be onsite. Guests also will get to
select pumpkins from the patch. Admission is free; charges apply for refreshments, pumpkins and some activities.
When she was 2 years old, Claudia Hurtado and her sister were taken across the border with people she didn’t know. Separately, her parents crossed from Mexico to Texas, and there, met the people with their children, before coming to Denver to give them “a better future,” said Hurtado, who’s now able to work and and live without fear of deportation because of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program. DACA started under President Barack Obama in 2012 when the federal government decided to change how it enforces immigration law. When she was 13, Hurtado heard that her father was deported after taking a bus to visit his father’s grave in Mexico. After he crossed the border to El Paso, Texas, immigration officers there detained him. “I remember my mom hiding it from us because we were young,” said Hurtado, now 16 and a Denver Public Schools student. She heard the news first from her sister. For thousands of students in Colorado, eyeing the thin line between legal status and undocumented life is a daily occurrence — children brought to the United States by undocumented parents live with the possibility their family may be torn apart at any time.
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