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WHAT’S INSIDE
A 60-year sentence: Englewood man gets prison time for child pornography. See Page 4
Coming together nicely: Exhibit shows the art of the collage. See Page 14
Ashley Berry, right, tells her brother Joseph about the cow she drew that was selected to be used in Englewood’s 2015 city calendar. Berry, a first-grader at Clayton Elementary School, was among the 13 art works selected for the calendar from about 150 entries in this year’s student calendar art contest. Photos by Tom Munds
Young calendar artists honored
Pirates poised for action: The Englewood High girls basketball team is ready to tip off the season. Page 20
City council members salute 13 students By Tom Munds
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A large crowd of families, friends, teachers and administrators applauded as the city council took time during its Nov. 17 meeting to honor the 13 students whose art was selected for this year’s city calendar. “Each year, Englewood holds a contest and select entries to be used in the calendar. The contest is open to any kindergartner through 12th-grader who lives or goes to school in Englewood,” Mayor Randy Penn told the audience. “I believe we had about 150 entries this year, and the judges faced the tough job of selecting 13 works for the calendar.”
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Usually the wide borders of the pages of Englewood’s city calendar are cut off and discarded, but this year the borders were turned into book marks. Five different drawings of owls by elementary school artists were used on the bookmarks.
South Platte revitalization plan discussed Proposed improvements along river are explained By Tom Munds
tmunds@colorado communitymedia.com Displays and artist concepts lined the walls at the Nov. 12 South Platte River Run open house, held in the clubhouse at the Broken Tee at Englewood Golf Course. River Run is a proposal for revitalizing a stretch of the South Platte River near Oxford Avenue and Broken Tee. The revitalization would include creation of unique recreation amenities along the banks of the river near the Oxford Avenue Bridge. “The open house tonight was held to let people know about the proposed river improvements,” said Jerrell Black, parks and recreation director. “We invited representatives of all the businesses adjacent to the river along the area
Business owner Gary Corns, left, and others look over the drawings and maps detailing the South Platte River Run project, which involves creating amenities like a trail head and making river improvements. The work is planned along the stretch of the South Platte River from Union Avenue to north of Oxford Avenue. Photo by Tom Munds so they will see the river improvements that are planned.” He said the proposal is made possible by a partnership of the cities of Englewood, Littleton and
Sheridan, the Army Corp of Engineers, South Suburban Parks and Recreation District and the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District.
John Kent’s family owns Oxford Recycling, located on Oxford Avenue adjacent to the west bank of the river. He said he attended the session because he wanted to see what improvements were planned along the river near his business. “I think these are great plans,” he said. “I particularly like the plan to add an additional bike path on the east side of the river. I walk and ride a bike on the bike path on the west side of the river, and it gets quite busy.” Kent said the family-owned business allowed developers to use some of the company property to build the Mary Carter Greenway Bike Path, which runs along the west bank of the river from Chatfield Reservoir to downtown Denver. “The land south of Oxford sloped to the river and we didn’t Plan continues on Page 22