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Transcript Golden

October 3, 2013

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Jefferson County, Colorado • Volume 147, Issue 44

Election: Jeffco School board candidates trade views. See Page 22

Talks about corrections site begin once more

A TIP OF THE HATS

Commissioners start over as they meet with city councils By Amy Woodward

awoodward@ourcoloradonews.com

Art lovers and supporters alike turned out for the “Top Hats & Chapeaus Soiree” event at the Foothills Art Center on Sept. 28. Attendee’s helped to raise funds for the matching grant gift challenge set at $36,000. The event’s theme called for participants to wear their best hats, while Beto Mojardin, designer and owner of Beto’s Hair Studio in Denver, put together antique style ball gowns worn by models who helped create the ambiance of the event. Photo by Amy Woodward

County commissioners will be on an educational tour to municipalities in the county to present information on community corrections, its functions, and why the county is interested in relocating the proposed correctional facility that fell flat this past July. The proposed site along Wide Acres road angered nearby residents, and efforts to place a corrections facility there were abandoned. “We still have an interest in moving it,” County Commissioner Casey Tighe said. On Sept. 16, county commissioners made a presentation to Lakewood city council, and will present to Golden city council members on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. The meetings are not about location approvals Commissioner Tighe said. “The purpose of this is to provide an informational presentation to city council on what corrections is,” he said. “We have not identified a location.” Talks continues on Page 27

Condos home to sculptured wildlife Dying trees turned to art, two more carvings added to property By Amy Woodward

awoodward@ourcoloradonews.com The Golden Ridge Condos off Heritage Road and Highway 6 has had the reputation of being a rundown complex. Built in 1974, the condos became worn-out along with the surrounding property. But when Don Marion took over as property manager in 2004, he saw to it that units were upgraded, and the landscape was made over. Along the way, trees needed to be removed, so Marion came up with a novel idea to keep the trees while still landscaping the property. He contacted local tree carver and sculpture Lueb Popoff about carving an old tree outside the club house. Marion then used the city’s neighborhood grant program which matched him $2,500 to help fund the tree carving. Now, a family of foxes carved from a POSTAL ADDRESS

The second carving is 11 feet high with a Golden eagle and her chicks positioned at the top of the cottonwood tree. Photo by Amy Woodward once dying tree stands outside the club house. Around April of this year, Marion went back to Popoff after he discovered two cottonwoods that were dying.

After a month of stripping, carving, priming and waiting out rainstorms; Popoff completed his tree carvings which stand 10 feet and 11 feet tall, positioned south of heritage road, just to the right on Golden Ridge Road. The final artwork is in two pieces, with one tree holding a mother Golden eagle and her chicks, and the other tree showing two climbing black bear cubs, with one cub showing an interest in the Golden eagles. “Part of it was doing an interactive thing rather than two separate carvings that did not have a relation to each other,” Lueb Popoff said about the project. “This is a way to honor the tree and kind of breathe new life into it.” Drivers on Golden Ridge Road will be able to view the finished pieces, which add to the area’s growing development, Marion said. The climbing bears fit in perfectly with the new climbing facility that is being built near the condos, and the eagles which are native to the area also fit well for the Eagle Ridge subdivision located across the street. “It adds something for the entire neighborhood,” said Marion. “Lueb is just really

an amazing artist.” Popoff’s care and attention to detail is what make his carvings remarkable. He places taxidermy eyes on the animals so they look almost life-like, and adds texture to the carved pieces with the use of feathers and talons. The aspen nest for the baby eagle chicks was handmade; carved and cut from laminated bass wood, and then epoxied in. Like most things, the carvings will not last forever. Eventually, the tree will decay from the inside out and will die, but the carvings will be around for the next 10 to 15 years, Popoff said. “When someone walks up our walk and sees this, they can tell the people who live here take pride in where they live,” Marion said. “They take care of where they live and that rubs off on the people who live here to take pride and take care of what they have.” For more information on Lueb Popoff and his carvings visit www.hollowlogonline.com. More information on Golden’s neighborhood grant program can be found at: www.cityofgolden.net under the “live” tab.

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