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October 22, 2020
ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO
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Northglenn-ThorntonSentinel.com
VOLUME 57 | ISSUE 11
Arapahoe, Adams get tougher health orders Public gatherings limited in attempt to blunt latest COVID-19 spike BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
did what they could to find it, but didn’t have any luck. “We made sure the word got out there,” Stricker said. “There wouldn’t be that much value in it for the bronze, and its value as a sculpture was pretty well known once to showed up somewhere. That’s why, my feeling is, I don’t think it was sold as a sculpture. I think it was melted down or it’s stuck in someone’s backyard now, unfortunately.” Instead, the city went back to artist Colette Pitcher to see what she could do. “She lives right up in Greeley, she’s still a prolific sculptor and I gave her a call and she said ‘Yeah, let’s do this,’” Stricker said. She began working on it a year
In what could be a preview of restrictions to come, Tri-County Health Department announced public health orders for Arapahoe and Adams counties that moves up the last call for alcohol and tightens limits on personal gatherings — and, for Adams, prohibits spectators at high school sporting events and at adult recreational and league sports. Since early September, Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties saw their first notably sustained increases in rates of new COVID-19 cases since July, according to Tri-County, the local health agency for those counties. The agency warned earlier in October that the three counties must slow the spread or face tighter restrictions. Tri-County issued its orders on Oct. 16 in an attempt to slow the spread in Adams and Arapahoe and keep those counties from moving to even more restrictions under the state’s safer-at-home order, which would mean reduced capacity for businesses, places of worship and gatherings. If virus spread in a county becomes dire enough, it could ultimately be placed under a stay-at-home order like the ones in effect last spring. Douglas County’s trend is more concerning than Tri-County would like, but it wasn’t alarming enough to
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It took the artist and the City of Northglenn more than a year to recreate the popular bronze sculpture “Bee My Honey” to it’s spot outside of Grant Park along Washington Street, but it’s back. The city still does not know what happened to the original sculpture. PHOTO BY SCOTT TAYLOR
A popular character, recast Northglenn replaces a favorite sculpture stolen more than a year ago BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
It took more than a year and some work by the artist, but a new version of Northglenn’s popular bronze sculpture “Bee My Honey” is back in its spot, at the Washington Street entrance to Grant Park. “I can tell you that even as recently as July, I’ve been getting emails and phone calls from residents wondering what was going on with the bear,” said Michael Stricker, Northglenn’s cultural programs supervi-
sor. “When this happened, more than a year ago, we did get a lot of buzz about it.” The sculpture was a part of the city’s annual Art on Parade program and was popular enough with residents that the city purchased it and made it a permanent part of the collection in 2012. It sat at the Washington Street entrance of the park until the Spring of 2019. Northglenn Police said witness last saw the original sculpture in its place along the walking path just east of Washington Street on April 26, 2019. It was noticed missing the following Monday, April 29. It featured two pieces, a 200 pound bronze bear cub and the 800 pound tree and beehive the bear is reaching towards. Stricker said the police checked with foundries across the state and
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