All the News About Denver’s Best Residential Community Since 1961 Volume 51, Issue No. 4
May 2012
A Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. Publication
Greater Park Hill Community BBQ Fundraiser May 27
By Heather Leitch GPHC Executive Director
The first annual Bones ‘N’ Beats Community BYO-BBQ event will take place Sunday, May 27th on the 2800 block of Fairfax from 2 to 6 p.m. Bring your grill and/or smoker and enter the cook-off, or picnic, tables and lawn chairs down to join in the fun. Food vendors will also be on hand for folks who don’t want to BYO – including Cake Crumbs, Phoenician Kabob, Eis Gelato, Allegra’s Pizza, Ace on the Fax (will be bringing out some grills) and Chase Bank (will also be cooking up some fare).
Event sponsors include: All Around Roofing, Adagio, Moss Pink, Spinelli’s, Fairfax Market, Black United Fund, Park Hill Vet, REenergize CO, Steve’s Snappin’ Dogs, Anastasia Williamson of Kentwood Real Estate, Grape Expectations, New Energy Power Electric and Barley Pups. The family-friendly day of activities includes music by Chris Daniels and the Kings, beer and wine, a bounce house, face painting and games for the kiddos. The panel of local celebrity judges will rate the best ribs, brisket, links and pie at the fee-based cook-off. Start a new Park Hill family tradition, get to know your neighbors and support local businesses. We will see you there!
Bones n Beats 1st Annual GPHC Community BYO-BBQ with Live Music
Sunday, May 27th from 2-6 p.m. Bring your BBQ grill and/or smoker, a picnic, tables and lawn chairs down to Fairfax and 28th for the 1st Annual GPHC Bones N Beats Festival! ACTIVITIES WILL INCLUDE: Live Music with Chris Daniels and the Kings BBQ Contest minimum entry fee $10, love the event, (Love it with a check!) Food Trucks including Cake Crumbs Beer Garden Bounce House, Face Painting, Kid Games
Park Hill Garden Walk in 1 Month By Angelia McLean Garden Walk Chair Need to adapt your yard for children or pets? Tired of that 45 degree ski-hill in your front yard? Trying to grow something in that shady tough spot? How about ideas for creating outdoor ‘rooms’? The Park Hill Garden Walk can help even a brown thumb feel inspired. This year’a green-thumb event is Saturday, June 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is not just the perennials, ponds and patios that make the Park Hill Garden Walk so special, but the passion of the gardeners themselves. These are people who are dedicated to both the art and science of gardening. They are not afraid to dig up, move around or conquer their gardens, which are always a work in progress. This year’s 2012 Park Hill Garden Walk participants demonstrate the rewards and satisfaction of
gardening and their desire to share it with visitors. Generous donations from our local businesses have made the 2012 Park Hill Garden Walk possible. A special thanks to our Blooming Garden level sponsors: The Garden Guy, Mayfair Liquors, Wehner Realty, Nick’s Garden Center, Cherry Creek Properties, Van Camp Quality Floors, VCA Park Hill Animal Hospital #844, Gardening by Tess/Scanlon Philipps Fund, Kentwood Realty Cherry Creek and Emily Roet Realty. Thank you also to our Garden Gate level sponsors: Dave Johnson Landscaping, Moss Pink, Swingles, The Hair People, Clean Cut, Inc., Spicy Thai II, Landscape Architect LLC., Park Hill Veterinary Medical Center, TCJ Management and Haven Outdoor Design. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 day-of and will go on sale June 1. Purchase tickets online at parkhillgardenwalk.blogspot.com.
Contact GPHC for more info:
303-388-0918
gelato & cafe
Solomon Temple
Garden Walk tickets will also be available in advance and day-of at the Park Hill Branch Library and Moss Pink (23rd/ Cherry). The households at 2827 Birch and 4523 E 18th Avenue will sell tickets on the day of the event.
WWII Stories Bring Together Neighbors Robert Lowe and Timothy Davis By Erin Vanderberg Editor
Robert Lowe was just 17 when he enlisted in the United States Military in 1942. A Detroit-native, he wanted to be part of the Marine Corps, but at the recruitment office he was told that his vision precluded him from that branch of the armed services, and that he should try the Navy upstairs. When he told the Navy recruiters that he wanted to be a medic, he was warned that if he was a pharmacy mate he’d be taken by the Marine Corps. That suited him just fine. Bob became a Corpsman in the legendary Raiders of 1st Marine Raiders Battalion, a precursor to the modern-day Navy Seals. He fought in the Battle of Guam during the summer of 1944 and the Battle of Okinawa, one of the bloodiest battles in WWII, starting in April 1945. As a Corpsman, he was not able to write home in great detail. “It just hurt me,” said Bob. “I could have talked a lot more about where we were.” Nevertheless, Bob’s letters home now fill two binders, colorfully describing his overseas experience as it unfolded. Bob was also one of the few soldiers to pick up a camera during the war. When Bob began fighting in the Battle of Okinawa, he arrived in a company of 244 men. “The night before I got hit, which was within two days of the conclusion of the battle, we started counting how many of us were left – there were only 28 of us out of the original bunch,” said Bob. “So we never talked with each other about ever getting home again because it was obvious with all the guys who got killed, all the fighting, shooting, bombing, the
likelihood that you’re going to last through the whole thing ing, ‘He’s just like you.’ It served me well, through the rest of my life,” said Bob. “There aren’t a hell of a lot of differences was very slight.” Bob vividly remembers his last day in Japan. While on between any of us.” Once stateside again, Bob patrol that day, he ran across a worked his way into a walking Japanese soldier who had walked a cast, and then walking pneumogreat distance with a groin injury. nia. While recouping from the He talks about giving that man a latter, he met his wife, Hope. cigarette and a fresh compress to They married soon after indicate to other allied troops that and had two children, Roger and this man posed no threat. When Carol. He took the GI Bill and he returned to camp, there were went home to Michigan, where four surrendered Japanese solhe earned a degree in Social Scidiers there, and he offered them ences from Michigan State. “It cigarettes. He remembers one of was a wonderful time,” said Bob them being so frightened that he of those days. The Lowe Family couldn’t even light a match. moved to Denver and Bob made “I think he thought he would his way into a career as a social be executed and this was his last worker, earned a Masters in Socigarette,” said Bob. cial Science from the University Later that day, Bob sustained of Denver in 1971, and eventua mortar attack in the battlefield. It ally retired from Jefferson County was the four Japanese POWs who Public Schools in 1987 at age 62. carried him out on a stretcher. “I Bob and Hope moved to Bellaire often wondered what became of Street nearly 20 years ago to be them,” said Bob. nearer to their daughter and her For Bob, the war was a lesson kids. in humanity. Timothy Davis moved to “I told you about the guys GPHN Photo/Erin Vanderberg who carried me back, the Japanese WWII veteran Robert Lowe (right) used to walk his Wheaton Terrier Birch Street just a few years later. a block on Birch Street where The Greatest Generation prisoners. I heard a voice that I around Foundation founder Timothy Davis lived. When Tim asked Bob if realized was my own that day say- he’d served in WWII, the answer led to an amazing discovery. See Lowe and Davis, Page 3