Arvada Press 111022

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Week of November 10, 2022

JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO

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INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 12 | LIFE: PAGE 14 | CALENDAR: PAGE 17 | SPORTS: PAGE 24

Arvada gets festive for Halloween

VOLUME 18 | ISSUE 21

Pain behind the name: renaming Mount Evans Why the name Mount Evans is hurtful to generations of Native Americans BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A long line of trick-or-treaters waits patiently for candy at the Klein-Sramek house.

Community comes together around weird, spectacular Halloween traditions BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For Amber Klein, Halloween decor started out small; a few decorations, a handful of inflatables. Now, Klein and husband Bob Sramek’s sprawling Halloween display has become a neighborhood tradition, bringing in folks old and young from near and far. Klein said she adds new pieces to the display every year, which has become a talking point in their neighborhood; near Harlan Street and 76th Avenue. She added that her neighbors have joined in on the festivities, making the streets around their house a hot spot for trick-ortreaters. “It’s funny because there’s always kids and adults who are like, ‘What did you add this year?’” Klein said. “Our neighbor across the street always had a few decorations up; he started it and we both started adding. In the past, it’s only been SEE FESTIVE, P2

A potato in a candy bowl.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF AMBER KLEIN

When members of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes look west from Denver to the distant peak of Mount Evans, they see a horrific reminder of the past. “Anytime you have to hear of or speak of an individual who wanted to decimate your family or your tribe, it’s really hard,” said Gov. Reggie Wassana of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. Since 1895, the mountain has been named for Colorado territorial Gov. John Evans. Settlers lobbied the legislature to honor his legacy, which it did through a measure that dubbed the more than 14,000-foothigh peak Mount Evans. But American Indian groups say Evans’ legacy is forever disgraced by his role in enabling the Sand Creek Massacre. They are among the strongest advocates in a process that could change the mountain’s name to Mount Blue Sky. On a cold November morning in 1864, U.S. Army Col. John Chivington and elements of the Colorado Infantry Regiment of Volunteers and Regiment of Colorado Cavalry Volunteers launched an attack on Arapaho and Cheyenne civilians where they camped about 180 miles southeast of Denver. Over the course of eight hours, the troops slaughtered some 230 people, many of them women, children and elderly. The following day, many soldiers wandered the area, committing atrocities on the dead, according to the National Park Service, which maintains a national historic site in the area where the events occurred. SEE RENAMING, P6


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