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Barrentine recall petition sufficient to launch election Englewood City Council will get proposal for balloting on July 16 BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
ence in our community,” said Englewood City Councilmember Amy Martinez, standing in front of the expansive mural that depicts a bird and swaths of vibrant colors. Catherine Pistone, the Boulderbased artist who produced the piece, said the 1,080-square-foot mural — the first she’s ever painted — wasn’t daunting. “I just felt like this was my mission,” said Pistone, who worked on the mural for a month up until July 3. She hopes that “people see this and it brightens their day and they pass that on to somebody else.”
A petition to recall District 3 Englewood City Councilmember Laurett Barrentine has been deemed “valid and sufficient” by the city clerk’s office, meaning enough signatures have been validated to move forward with a recall election. Barrentine said she’s not surprised the petition garnered the few hundred necessary signatures out of all the district’s registered voters, adding that the recall effort is a chance to discuss issues in the city. “It’s an amazing opportunity,” she said. I “think Barrentine people are realizing this is more about silencing me.” The petition was filed July 3, the clerk’s office said. The group of petitioners included former Mayors Jim Woodward and Randy Penn and two other residents of District 3. Clearing the threshold by about 60 required signatures, the petition garnered 424 verified names, according to the city clerk.
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Catherine Pistone, painter of the mural on the north wall of HOPE food pantry and HOPE’s Attic thrift store, stands in front of her work July 7 at the celebration ceremony for the mural. Pistone, a Boulder-based artist, produced her first-ever mural for that building. ELLIS ARNOLD
New mural at food pantry highlights ‘HOPE’ South Broadway beautification effort culminates in ribbon-cutting BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Bart Sayyah shared a favorite quote with the audience of nearly 100 in the sweltering heat outside Englewood’s most visible food pantry — the HOPE facility. “Hope is a good thing — maybe the best of things — and no good thing ever dies.” The line from the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” may have
been lofty, but the focus on hope is tangible at the food pantry and thrift store on South Broadway in Englewood. Community members from the city and beyond gathered at HOPE on July 7 to celebrate a new mural on the building’s broad north side — visible for blocks on the Broadway strip. There’s “a whole army of people” at HOPE that helps those in need, said Sayyah, executive director of the nonprofit. He sang the praises of his team and the volunteers that keep the operation running, and several prominent names in Englewood spoke on stage at the event. “Art makes so much of a differ-
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