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July 21, 2016

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Annual Carnation Festival to bloom Wheat Ridge hoping for record 30,000 participants Staff report The City of Wheat Ridge expects to draw record crowds to this year’s Carnation Festival, thanks to the addition of an art and crafts fair and an upgraded fireworks show. The annual festival will run Aug. 12-14 at Wheat Ridge’s Anderson Park. This year’s festival will also include a student art show, a country music jam and the Zoppe Italian Family Circus, which returns this year with an entirely new show. Festival continues on Page 7

Jefferson County Public Schools plumber Joe Centeno changes some of the water lines leading to a sink in Peck Elementary on July 15. The Arvada-area school was found to have 10 water fixtures that tested high for lead. The school is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and Centeno said some of the fixtures he had changed out looked to be at least a couple decades old. “The way they had it piped back in the day was proper,” but times change, Centeno said. Photo by Glenn Wallace

Lead abatement begins Work to improve water begins, as three more schools test high

JEFFCO SCHOOLS LEAD SCARE

By Glenn Wallace gwallace@coloradocommunitymedia.com A recent sunrise saw Joe Centeno, a maintenance plumber with Jefferson County schools, already busy at work at Arvada’s Peck Elementary, changing out water cutoffs, connector lines and fixtures in hopes of improving the water quality. The district’s effort to test water outlets at all 158 schools for high lead levels found 10 elevated level sites at the 50-year-old school — a sink in the teach-

ers’ lounge, three sinks in the kitchen and six classroom sinks, some of which had bubbler drinking attachments. “This is the guinea pig,” Centeno said. “We’ll see if this works.” His best guess as a plumber was that the repairs should fix the problem, based on the scattered lead readings, as opposed to schoolwide contamination that would have required more extensive and expensive replumbing. Since a Jeffco schools building in Arvada used as a Head Start preschool reported high lead readings in April, the school district has set out to test all Lead continues on Page 6

Golden girl makes soccer squad for Rio Lindsey Horan to play midfielder on U.S. women’s Olympic team By Jim Benton jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com Tim Schulz saw the passion that Lindsey Horan showed while she was playing for the Colorado Rush soccer club. That passion is part of the reason that Horan, a 22-year-old graduate Horan of Golden High School, earned a spot on the 18-player United States’ women’s Olympic soccer team. Horan continues on Page 21

August 11 - 14 2016 Jeffco Fairgrounds

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