September 22, 2016
SERVE AND PROTECT
VOLUME 15 | ISSUE 36
Chaplains provide support for those on the front lines of law enforcement. PAGE 12
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C-470 project gears up But group suing over expansion of highway asks to postpone work until lawsuit is settled By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Lorita Travaglia and Grisha Ninevich perform the Milonga at an afternoon performance of “A Taste of Argentine Tango” on Sept. 14, part of the Arts in the Afternoon series at Lone Tree Arts Center. Photo by Rick Gustafson
Arts in the Afternoon underway Argentine tango launches series for 2016-17 season
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By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media
• It’s Time to Swing! with After Midnight — Oct. 12
The Lone Tree Arts Center launched its 2016-17 season on Sept. 14 with a matinee performance of “A Taste of Argentine Tango,” part of the Arts in the Afternoon series offered each month by the arts center. Dancers from Parasol Arts, a nonprofit Denver-based artistic group, demonstrated various forms of the tango including folk dances and improvised tangos along with a narration of their histories.
• Arias and Ensembles with Opera Colorado’s Young Artists — Jan. 11
Arts continues on Page 11
Arts in the Afternoon
• Ivy Street Serenades featuring Betsy Schwarm — March 8
the First Ladies of Jazz featuring Mary Louise Lee — June 14
Cats with Steve Winter — Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m.; Sept 28 at 10 a.m.
Senior Matinees
• The Lens of Adventure with Bryan Smith — Nov. 16 at 10am
• “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play” — Dec. 14 • Muscle Shoals: I’ll Take You There — Feb. 8
• The Heavenly Harp, with musicians from the CSO and featuring Betsy Schwarm — May 24
• “Evita” — April 19
• An Afternoon with
• On the Trail of Big
Student/Senior National Geographic Live Matinees
• Spinosaurus: Lost Giant of the Cretaceous with Nizar Ibrahim - Jan. 18 at 10am • The Search for Life Beyond Earth with Kevin Hand — May 17 at 10 a.m.
More medical facilities, less wait time Increase in urgent care centers reflects a nationwide trend in field of medicine
While work on an expansion of C-470 between I-25 and Kipling Parkway is set to start early next month, a group of Highlands Ranch residents that has sued over the project wants construction to halt until the lawsuit is settled. The Highlands Ranch Neighborhood Coalition filed suit against the Colorado Department of Transportation in federal court in May, also naming CDOT Executive Director Shailen Bhat and Federal Highway Administration Colorado Division Administrator John Cater as defendants, alleging that flawed traffic noise data was used in the project’s approval process. The coalition alleges that CDOT and the FHWA violated the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 as well as federal noise regulations and filed a motion last month asking the court to postpone work until after the lawsuit is heard because any change to the traffic conditions along the corridor will make it impossible to collect proper noise data. Coalition President Carter Sales, who lives along the south side of C-470 in between University and Colorado boulevards, said he and his neighbors want sound walls between the freeway and their homes, something CDOT and FHWA determined was unnecessary. Sales says CDOT did not collect the required number of long-term noise samples during the public comment period last year. He said that he filed the suit after being rebuffed by the agency when he filed administrative complaints last year. C-470 continues on Page 11
DOUBLE OVERTIME
By Alex DeWind adewind@coloradocommunitymedia.com
OnPoint Urgent Care, on Ridgeline Boulevard north of Highlands Ranch Parkway, bustles with people at 9 a.m. on a recent Monday. The urgent care center is one of two in Highlands Ranch. A Centura Urgent Care is under construction less than half a mile east, near the Highlands Ranch Parkway and South Broadway intersection. Photo by Alex DeWind
At a central intersection in Highlands Ranch — where South University Boulevard and Highlands Ranch Parkway meet — sits a UCHealth Emergency Room. Less than half a mile north is a Concentra Urgent Care. Three miles to the west, near Town Center, is an OnPoint Urgent Care. And 3 1/2 miles east, in Lone Tree, is another OnPoint Urgent Care. Meagan Watson — whose 7-yearold son has had seven sets of staples or stitches in four years — likes the low cost and minimal wait time of an urgent care center. But she wonders why there are so many. “Maybe they figure there are a lot of little kids in the area — which is what I use it for,” she said. Urgent continues on Page 5
Highlands Ranch Falcons go well beyond the fourth quarter in game against Chaparral. PAGE 20