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June 23, 2016

VOLUME 52 | ISSU E 4 5 | 50 ¢

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Thornton woman’s killer gets life term

BRING THE BRASS

No parole for man who beat disabled woman to death Staff report

Thornton Community Band kicks off “Twist and Shout” Summer Concert Series. Read more about the event on PAGE 24. Photo by Stefan Brodsky

Sculpting a vision of culture

Murder continues on Page 16

New sculpture garden ‘defines’ Northglenn as artistic hub

Curtain call: Artifact is a reminder of the past

By Jeremy Johnson jjohnson@coloradocommunitymedia.com Banking on the success of Northglenn’s Art on Parade program, a city arts foundation last week dedicated a new sculpture garden as a focal point of culture and beautification — and business — for the north metro region. The City of Northglenn and the Northglenn Arts and Humanities Foundation dedicated on June 10, amid much fanfare, the Eleanor M. Wyatt Centennial Park Sculpture Garden, located at Kennedy and Melody Drive behind the Northglenn Marketplace. The sculpture garden is dedicated to the presentation of public art, said Michael Stricker, director of the Northglenn Arts and Humanities Foundation and cultural programs and senior center supervisor at the Northglenn Recreation Center. “Public art helps define who we are as a city, to beautify and create interest in our public spaces, create conversation and connectedness,” he said. The impetus for the sculpture garden — named after Northglenn Garden Club founder Eleanor M. Wyatt, who also donated the land for the exhibit — came from Northglenn’s Art on Parade program.

A 31-year-old Thornton-area man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the beating death of a disabled woman found dead in an Adams County motel last June. At the conclusion of Cozad the eight-day trial, Emiliano Damacio Urioste was convicted June 16 of the first-degree murder of Abigail Cozad, prompting the mandatory life sentence from Adams County Judge Craig Welling, who added an additional six years in prison for fourthUrioste degree felony robbery. “We are very sorry for the tragic loss of this young woman, who was brutally murdered by the defendant

Current Northglenn Mayor Joyce Downing, left, socializes with former Mayor Odell Barry, center, and Northglenn Garden Club founder Eleanor M. Wyatt at a dedication of the city’s new sculpture garden, named after Wyatt, who donated the land for the permanent exhibit. Photo courtesy of the City of Northglenn “The sculpture garden is the direct result of the success of that program,” said Stricker, noting that the one-year sculpture-on-loan program at E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park brought public art, paid for by the foundation, to Northglenn. The garden has four sculptures in the garden, but space for as many as 20. The four sculptures were selected by an Art on Parade program call for entries that

goes out at the end of each year. After receiving submissions from all over the country, winners are chosen by a foundation committee made up of residents, park visitors, foundation members, artists and students. “The piece receiving the most votes is then earmarked for purchase by the foundation and, once purchased and

Westminster Grange drapery proudly hung after restoration By Jeremy Johnson jjohnson@coloradocommunitymedia.com A stage curtain at the historic Westminster Grange that for generations advertised area businesses will preserve the memories of those establishments, even after most have been long gone. The curtain that hangs above the stage of the more than 105-year-old Westminster Grange building, situated along the city’s Historic District and former Main Street, now West 73rd Avenue, is

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