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May 19, 2016 VOLUME 15 | ISSUE 18
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Council’s newest member in focus Brunnick brings community passion to her new role By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media
ers in 2004 as part of RTD’s FasTracks Program. When completed, the rails will connect service from Lone Tree to Denver International Airport and as far north as Boulder. Construction is expected to be completed in 2019, and according to RTD, the total estimated cost is $207 million, or about $90 million per mile. Construction was to begin May 16. “I believe that our light rail system here is going to be the core of a future that we are all going to benefit from,” Lone Tree Mayor Jim Gunning said. Gunning praised the project, saying that it was at the center of future transportation in the region.
The Lone Tree City Council has a new look this week after it swore in two new members along with a new mayor at its May 17 meeting. One of the new representatives is District 2 member Cathie Brunnick who replaced Kim Monson, who did not stand for reelection. Brunnick holds a computer science degree from the University of Pacific in Brunnick Stockton, California and a master’s degree in adult learning from the University of ColoradoDenver. Originally, she came to Colorado to take a job with JD Edwards. “My entire career has been in technology,” she said. “I started out with a degree in computer science and worked for JD Edwards for more than 10 years and made my way into becoming a technology executive, really, in the sales side of the business.” Her career continued to develop in software sales and she became senior vice president of sales at Vignette where she met her husband. In 2008, they decided to leave Vignette to start their own company, Patheos.com. “Consider it the ESPN of religion and spirituality. What we wanted to do was a nonbiased approach to news and commentary in the world of religion and spirituality,” she said. “As you know, that’s very rare. Most people are professing something or looking to help people understand one particular view.” As Patheos grew, the company partnered with theologians from Harvard and Yale to develop content that has been picked up by several major universities across America that are using it to teach world religion courses. “From that, we grew into doing commentary and news around each of those. We have 15 channels dedicated to each of the major world traditions.” The website is one of the top 200 sites in America serving 10 million unique visitors every month. “And that’s what I do in my day job,” she said. Brunnick does not have a background in politics, but does have a history of community service and was a founding
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Medicolegal death investigator C.J. Lay weighs a heart while assisting on an autopsy. Photo by Shanna Fortier
‘Citizens can count on us’ Douglas County morgue works to become nationally accredited By Shanna Fortier sfortier@colorado communitymedia.com For Douglas County Coroner Jill Romann, national accreditation of
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her office is about accountability and transparency to taxpayers who depend on her staff to explain why people have died. “It means citizens can count on us,” Romann said. “We are very invested that when something does go to litigation we are ready, or when telling a woman her husband’s cause of death, we can explain it extensively.”
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Lone Tree light rail extension launched $207 million project is scheduled to be completed in 2019 By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@colorado communitymedia.com
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Romann’s office is on its way to that national distinction. Of Colorado’s nine board-certified fellows with the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators — the highest certification possible — two are in the Douglas County coroner’s office. Jill Romann is one,
The Regional Transportation District, Douglas County and the City of Lone Tree broke ground on the new Southeast Light Rail extension May 10 in Lone Tree. The light rail extension from Lincoln Station to the end of-the-line station at RidgeGate Parkway and Havana Street was approved by Colorado vot-
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