All the News About Denver’s Best Residential Community Since 1960 • Volume 59, Issue No. 10 • October 2020
Critical Moment Get Registered And Ready For The Most Bizarre – And Most Important – Election Of Our Lifetimes news analysis By Penfield W. Tate III For the GPHN
The time has come to decide. And the time has come to vote. I know it sounds cliché, but this probably is the most important election of our lifetimes. And the most bizarre. The stakes could not be higher. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for election. No one seriously expects Democrats to lose their 232 to 198 majority control of the
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Dahlia Zimmerman-Voll, 11, joined hundreds of people who gathered in City Park on Sept. 18. The impromptu vigil occurred hours after news broke of the death of Supreme Court Justice and feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Zimmerman-Voll described Ginsburg, the second woman appointed to the nation’s highest court, as her idol. Photo by Rebecca Zimmerman
• Oct. 9: Ballots mailed • Oct. 26: Deadline to register to vote or update your registration and receive a ballot in the mail. • Nov. 3: Election Day. In Colorado, you can register and vote in person up to 7 p.m. • Check out ColoradoVotes.gov to register to vote, change your address, sign up to track your ballot, and more. • See page 5 for more
From Phantom Music To Unexplained Foot-Stomping, Park Hill Filled With Stories Of Paranormal Activity By Rebecca Zimmerman For the GPHN
Inside This Issue News Briefs: City Faces $190M In New Budget Cuts; Updates On East Area Plan, Group Living Rules
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Spooked dogs and shattered mirrors
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Elizabeth Hall lives in a particularly spiritually active 1949 ranch on Niagara Street. Over the last decade, she says her ghostly cohabitants have moved large, potted plants late at night, shattered mirrors, played phantom music, and spooked dogs, children, and house sitters. Once, she was on the landline phone with a friend telling them about the paranormal occurrences. “My friend told me that I should politely ask the ghost to leave,” Hall says, “so I said, ‘You want me to politely ask the ghost to…’ and the call disconnected!” Hall and her friend tried to call each other back several times but were stopped by a disconnect and dial tone. Hall doesn’t know if her house has a haunted history but plans to do some research. In a recent Facebook post, she said she doesn’t much mind her spectral roommates, “Although I do still get freaked out every once in a while.”
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Upcoming GPHC Meetings Community meetings are currently conducted virtually on the first Thursday of each month. The next meetings are Oct. 1 and Nov. 5 at 6:30 p.m.
Visit from the Evans sisters Spooky phenomena has also transpired at the graceful, 115-year-old Park Hill home of Kelli Theis. She recalls “benign paranormal activity” from the time she
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As the shadows of autumn grow longer and a chill permeates the smoky air, as always our neighborhood collectively awaits the Halloween season with much anticipation. Over the years, we’ve cultivated a citywide reputation for celebrating like no one else. We hand out full-size candy bars, put up unparalleled outdoor decorative displays featuring dry ice and animatronic monsters, and attract carloads of eager trick-or-treaters from across the metro area. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we will Halloween observe All Hallows’ Eve in 2020, but it has not damp2020 ened Park Hill’s love of the macabre. And just as they have for decades, our own neighborhood ghosts and legends will be here to send a chill down our spines.
The pandemic has made this the most challenging of campaign seasons. Most importantly and understandably, people have been preoccupied with preserving the health of themselves and their families and hopefully maintaining steady employment. As a byproduct, almost no inperson events have been held. If you have been invited to a candi-
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and her family moved in, and Theis says the haunting ramped up considerably when her family made renovation plans. When they began restoration of the third floor, mysterious stomping and door slamming became frequent occurrences. When the remodel was completed, the noises promptly stopped. “We are honored to live in a house built in 1905 and we always
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Beware The Witching Hour
U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, this margin could grow. The big play this election cycle is for the U.S. Senate and the presidency. In the Senate the alignment is currently 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two Independents, who typically caucus with the Democrats. In total, 35 seats are up for election – 23 held by Republicans and 12 held by Democrats. The math is clear, if Democrats can pick up four seats, they will have a majority in the Senate to go with their majority in the House. Ground zero for this battle is in Colorado, Maine, North Carolina, and Arizona, where Democrats hope to pick up seats – and in Michigan and Alabama, where they need to maintain incumbents.
Photo by Cara DeGette
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