June 9, 2016
FAMILY TIME
VOLUME 96 | ISSUE 21 | 75¢
Longer work weeks make spending time with loved ones a challenge. PAGE 12
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Cosmetology class cuts summer short Students in Englewood program remain in school through June By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com While silence bathed the classrooms and halls at Colorado’s Finest High School of Choice, the hum of dryers and the click of scissors filled the air in the cosmetology academy area.
“The cosmetology course is a two-year program. We have 31 students in their first year of training and 24 in the second year of training,” said Kim Kersen, one of the course instructors. “The students attend class four hours a day during the school year and are here with us for eight hours a day during June.” Instructor Michelle Hickey said the Englewood school works with Arapahoe Community College, so students completing the course receive
60 hours of college credit. The training also prepares students to take and pass the state licensing examination. “We opened in 2014 and taught esthetics, which is skin care,” she said. “Sixteen students graduated from that course. All but two of those students earned their license and are still working in the industry.” The students each have a position that resembles a station at a hair salon. Most students School continues on Page 28
Parker resident Ashlyn Olsen uses a blow dryer as she practices styling hair on her manequin head at Colorado’s Finest Cosmetology Academy. Photo by Tom Munds
Marijuana issue keeps forums lively Three meetings held to gather opinions on recreational sales By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Colie Lemon, left, and Mollie Wood prepare to eat the free lunch provided by the Englewood Schools’ summer meal program. Staffers set up at four schools to offer the lunches. Each day the school kitchen staff prepares 290 lunches, which are distributed free to those 18 and younger. Photo by Tom Munds
Kids get free summer meals Program provides lunch for anyone 18 or younger
By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Monday through Friday, crews are set up at locations around Englewood, handing out free lunches to anyone 18 or younger. Englewood School Nutritional Services prepares the food and serves the lunches at Colorado’s Finest High
School of Choice, The Englewood Campus, Clayton Elementary School and Cherrelyn Elementary School. Volunteers staff a separate free lunch program just outside the doors of the Englewood Civic Center. This is the second year for the program at the civic center that is financed in part by the Cities Combating Hunger through Afterschool and Summer Meal Program, but this is the first year the school food service has operated a summer lunch program. “We prepare the food each day in
the kitchen facilities at The Englewood Campus,” said Beth Schwisow, Englewood Schools nutrition services director. “Our funding comes in the form of reimbursement of each lunch served through the United States Department of Agriculture’s summer food service program. It pays for the food and enables us to pay our staff.” Cheryl Hicks, kitchen manager, said the staff is now preparing 290 meals for lunch.
Advocates of both sides of the issue adamantly expressed their opinions at three forums held to gather opinions about whether or not the Englewood City Council should lift the ban on retail sales of recreational marijuana. There were a number of speakers who urged the council to keep the ban in place, while others urged the council to lift the ban and take advantage of a source of tax revenue waiting to be tapped. “The staff scheduled these forums at the request of the city council to hear Marijuana continues on Page 5
PRIMARY VOTE Ballots are being mailed to registered voters this week. Read Q&A responses from local candidates on PAGES 3, 4 and 7.
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