June 30, 2016 VOLUME 96 | ISSUE 24 | 75¢
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Pot-smoking business may be closed Council asks attorney to pursue license revocation
By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Englewood City Council told Dugan Comer, acting city attorney, to move ahead with the process that would require the iBake Englewood marijuana consumption club to close. The action came at the council’s June 20 study session and is the latest discussion of the business at 3995 S. Broadway.
An executive session is planned for the council to receive legal advice on closing the business. In the regular council meeting that followed the study session, Marty Fuchs, one of the owners of iBake Englewood, defended his business, claiming that it operates legally. About two dozen people spoke in favor of keeping the business open. Of those speakers, only Fuchs and his son had Englewood addresses. Later in the meeting, the council passed an ordinance on second and final reading banning new marijuana consumption clubs. The iBake operation was
not affected by the ordinance, since it was in business before the ordinance was passed. In the June 20 study session, Comer told the council that iBake’s April 2015 business license application listed the facility as a retail store selling tobacco, T-shirts and other merchandise. He said there was no mention of the fact that a portion of the building would be set aside as a marijuana consumption area. “The Colorado Clean Air Act prohibits public smoking and there are no exemptions to that rule in Amendment 64. I believe we can revoke their license and
shut them down,” the acting city attorney said. “But we can expect there will be a court challenge to our action.” In his memo to the council on the issue, Comer said that despite iBake’s claim that it is a members-only club, its advertisements in social and print media indicate that it is open to the public. Council members agreed Comer should move ahead with the process to close the business. When iBake co-owner Fuchs signed up to speak the council during the regular Business continues on Page 28
State agency gives charter school the green light TriCity Academy organizers plan to open next year in Englewood By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Kristin Hopkins works out at Tour de Fit at F.I.T. Park Meadows on June 18. The event helped raise money for Hopkins to buy a set of prosthetic legs that will allow her to be more active. Photo by Kyle Harding
Survivor moves past the pain Gym hosts fundraising event for Highlands Ranch woman By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com On May 4, 2014, Kristin Hopkins had planned to be challenging herself at a Spartan Sprint obstacle course race. Instead, she was taking a helicopter ride to St. Anthony Hospital after spending six days trapped in her Chevy Malibu, 80 feet off the side of Highway 285 near Fairplay. Just over two years later, the 46-year-old Highlands Ranch mother of four completed her goal. It took her nearly five hours to run, climb and
crawl her way through the steep, rocky course that wound its way through five miles of the range area at Fort Carson that made up the course for the Spartan Military Sprint on May 15. But she made it. And she made it running on two prosthetic legs. Hopkins had both lower legs amputated following her crash in April 2014. The crash and loss of her legs was a bump in the road for Hopkins as she worked to get in shape. She had registered for the race as way to kick-start her efforts. “I was out of shape, I was fat, I just kind of needed motivation,” she said. In the spring of 2013, Hopkins had begun working out, but going to traditional gyms was intimidating.
“You go to the gym and you’re overweight, you’re embarrassed, you cry before you go in the gym,” she said. Hopkins got her prosthetic legs in June 2014. The gym that she worked out at donated personal training sessions, and she began lifting weights. She accompanied a friend to a Crossfit gym. “I drank the Kool-Aid,” she said, referring to a common half-joking accusation that Crossfit is a cult. The gym closed, and Hopkins began working out at F.I.T. Park Meadows Crossfit in Lone Tree, finding that gym owner and trainer Nathan Lemon’s bootcamp-style workouts suited her. Survivor continues on Page 5
TriCity Academy’s application received unanimous approval by the Colorado Charter School Institute on June 16, which puts wheels in motion for facility to open in Englewood in August 2017. The academy tried unsuccessfully over the last three years to receive a charter from Englewood despite a state board of education ruling in favor of TriCity’s efforts. The result was an agreement for the academy to apply for a charter through the Colorado Charter School Institute, which is the state’s only non-school district organization authorized to approve a charter school application “We received charter application approval with conditions,” said Alan School continues on Page 5
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