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Week of May 19, 2022
JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO
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VOLUME 38 | ISSUE 43
Legislation a ‘gutted’ win for mobile home park residents BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY DGRIGSBY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
As the Colorado State Legislative session came to a close this year, two bills to protect and assist mobile home park residents made
their way to the finish line. Co-sponsored by State Rep. Andrew Boesencker, D-Fort Collins, SB22-160 establishes the Mobile Home Park Resident Empowerment Loan Program. It creates a $35 million revolving loan and grant
program to provide financing to mobile home owners seeking to organize and purchase their mobile home parks. That bill is on its way to the desk of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis. But when HB22-1287 passed
earlier this year, mobile home park residents thought they garnered an important win. The bill, also co-sponsored by Boesencker, would protect park residents from unchecked lot rent increases,
some as high as 50%. In addition, it also gave them more time to organize and purchase their community in the event a park owner opts to sell. SEE LEGISLATURE, P5
2 life sentences handed down for Belmar Park murders Victims fatally stabbed were strangers to the killer STAFF REPORT
Festival lovers are ready to dig in to the metro area’s newest event.
to have 20-plus food vendors each week along with a few other craft vendors, live music and a bar,” he said. “It’s just a chance for the local community to be outside and try different foods.” Lewis said he thinks the event presents a great opportunity for local, mom-and-pop food businesses to find a wider audience and showcase their wares to the growing
Vicente Enrique Orozco, 22, was sentenced May 6 by the 1st Judicial District Court to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of 61-year-old Stevan Sandvick and 19-year-old Ivan Rodriguez Rivera in Belmar Park in 2019. On March 10, a Jefferson County jury found Orozco guilty of two counts of murder in the first degree, one count of felony murder and two counts of aggravated robbery. The families of SandOrozco vick and Rodriguez Rivera addressed the court and expressed the significant pain and loss each family suffered as a result of the murders. Rodriguez Rivera was described as a “beautiful kid” with a bright future ahead of him, and Sandvick was described
SEE FESTIVAL, P4
SEE SENTENCING, P3
PHOTOS COURTESY OF GUM POP PRESENTS
Street Food Social is coming to Lakewood Team behind other community events puts foodies front and center BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Gum Pop Presents, the event company that’s brought Denver Bazaar, The Big Wonderful and
People + Produce to multiple locations around the state, is throwing its considerable weight behind a new series of events called Street Food Social. Gum Pop Founder Brad Lewis said with the evolution of the food scene in Denver, the time was right to launch a food focused project. “It’s a weekly event — Friday nights at Belmar shopping center and Saturday — all day at Sloan’s Lake on Raleigh Street. The plan is
INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 14 | LIFE: PAGE 16 | CALENDAR: PAGE 19 | SPORTS: PAGE 22
THE LURE OF FLY FISHING
South Platte a great spot for anglers P12