May 26, 2016
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VOLUME 71 | ISSU E 2 9 | 50 ¢
GetAways 2016
Special Section Inside A DA M S C OU N T Y & J EF F ER S ON C OU N T Y, C OLOR A D O
A publication of
WestminsterWindow.com
GRADUATION TIME
Police seek info about bank robbery
Westminster High School honor graduates patiently await the big walk May 21 at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield. Westminster High School awarded almost 400 diplomas during the ceremonies. For more pictures see PAGE 6.
Law enforcement trying to ID and locate two armed suspects caught on tape Staff report
Jodi’s Race team to honor parents doubly Westminster family to celebrate 60-year wedding anniversary, 10-year cancer milestone Staff report The children of Ruth and Jess Gaytan, of Westminster, have chosen the seventh annual Jodi’s Race for Awareness in Denver’s City Park as the setting for a celebration promising to provide twice the fun.
Using the annual race for awareness of ovarian cancer as a platform, Gaytan daughter Debbie Nesbitt is bringing parents, siblings, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren together as a Jodi’s Race team, and to celebrate two major milestones for the Gaytan family: The 60-year anniversary of Ruth and Jess, and Ruth’s 10-year anniversary as an ovarian cancer survivor. Nesbitt was inspired to form a team after learning of the Colorado Ovarian
Cancer Alliance and the annual Jodi’s Race from a patient at Aspen Family Care in Highlands Ranch, where Nesbitt is medical assistant. For Nesbitt, putting together a family team to participate in the Cancer Alliance fundraiser was the perfect way to celebrate her parents’ 60th wedding anniversary, which just so happens to fall on the same day as the race, June 11.
Westminster police have shared information and a video on their Facebook page of suspects being sought in connection with the armed robbery May 19 Vectra Bank in Westminster. According to the news release, Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Westminster police are seeking help identifying and locating a pair of bank robbers seen in a surveillance video from about 10 a.m. May 19 hopping over the counter of the Vectra Bank at 3300 W. 72nd St. in Westminster. The first suspect is described as a male, 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-8 inches tall, wearing dark clothing including a dark jacket, gray sweatshirt, gloves, athletic shoes with red details and a red bandana covering his face. The first suspect was carrying a multi-colored Adidas satchel. The second suspect is described as a male, 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10 inches tall, wearing dark clothing including Robbery continues on Page 24
TRACK AND FIELD
Race continues on Page 24
Run, reverend, run Preacher’s foot crusade to fight homelessness makes multiple metro-Denver stops By Jeremy Johnson jjohnson@coloradocommunitymedia.com For more than a dozen years, the Rev. David Warren of Open Door Ministries was telling a little white lie of sorts. “Ninteen years ago, when I was starting Open Door Ministries, I drove to 106 churches in six days to share the vision for this ministry. I called it `Walk the City,’ even though I was driving,” he said. “I got the idea from Mayor Wellington Webb, who had ‘walked the city’ during his campaign. I wore a suit and tennis shoes like he had done.” Reverend continues on Page 32
Rev. David Warren’s Open Door Ministries has for seven years hosted the Run for the Door 5K race benefiting the homeless population in the Denver metro region. Here, Warren stops to chat with North Metro Church staff in Thornton as part of a campaign this spring to run 100 miles to 100 churches to raise awareness of the annual race event at Cheesman Park. Courtesy photo
Top athletes tangle at high school state track meet. PAGE 20
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