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February 22, 2018
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
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Special council election set for vacancy in District 1
Class puts focus on food Englewood technical education program has 60 enrollees BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The hum of microwaves and the sound of knives in action on a cutting board echoed off the walls of Englewood High School’s Family and Consumer Science kitchen Feb. 10 as students prepared and readied the food to cater a luncheon for coaches and workers at a regional wrestling tournament. “This is a good experience for our students,” said Sara Davis, program instructor. “We don’t usually cater events but the students were here today anyway preparing for the upcoming state competition, so we agreed to do it so the students could get a taste of preparing food for special events.” The students set up a buffet-style lunch of salad, baked potatoes with all the trimmings and brownies for dessert for representatives of the 12 schools at the tournament. “The food was very good,” Sam Morris of Steamboat Springs said. “I liked the choices and really enjoyed it. I didn’t know the meal was prepared by students and I hope they know they did a very good job.”
Seventh member not likely to be seated until June BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Englewood High School student Isaiah Martinez, a Culinary Arts Program student, chops bacon to be served in the luncheon program students prepared and served to the coaches and workers at the Feb. 10 wrestling tournament. Martinez is taking one year of the two year college-credit program taught in the program kitchen at Englewood High School. TOM MUNDS Davis said teams of students are preparing for the upcoming Prostart Colorado and National Restaurant Association statewide competitions on March 1-2. She said a team of students is preparing to compete in the culinary competition and a team is preparing to compete in the management competition. “In the culinary competition the team of four students work in a 10-foot by 10-f00t space, working
on two camp stoves to prepare an appetizer, main course and dessert in one hour,” she said. “The second team of up to four students will be competing in the management competition where they must come up with a complete marketing plan for a new restaurant, plus they are required to cook and present two dishes that will be presented to the panel of judges.”
In Englewood, the drawn-out road to District 1 on city council representation and choosing a new mayor will reach its destination in June, five months after the departure of former mayor and nowMunicipal Judge Joe Jefferson. Englewood City Council found itself between a rock and a hard place at a special meeting Feb. 12, where councilmembers had to authorize a special election for the District 1 council seat Jefferson stepped down from upon his appointment to the judgeship. The meeting was followed by a study session. “This whole thing is a big fat mess,” Councilmember Linda Olson said, noting that the council initially agreed to pass the decision to voters, rather than to make the appointment themselves,
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