All the News About Denver’s Best Residential Community Since 1960 • Volume 59, Issue No. 9 • September 2020
High Simmer
Denver’s Ongoing Homeless Emergency, The Park Hill Golf Course Land, Future Of Johnson & Wales, Pit Bulls And Climate Change Dominate The Debate In This Long, Hot Summer By Cara DeGette Editor, GPHN
Great Ball Of Fire:
August brought a string of days with relentless temperatures climbing the high 90s. With the heat came fire, and the smoke from multiple wildfires across Colorado left a thick haze in the air. The conditions also made for beautiful glowing red sunrises and sunsets. This image of the sun rising over Cherry Creek Reservoir was captured on Aug. 16 by Reid Neureiter.
The Denver City Council in late August rejected referring a question to voters in November over the future of the conservation easement protecting the Park Hill Golf Course land. The proposed ballot measure, promoted by Save Open Space Denver, would have required that any measure to remove cityowned conservation easements must be submitted to the voters. It was clearly designed to protect the easement on the 155acre golf course property. The council’s 9-3 vote, effectively keeping the question off the ballot, is the latest in a growing, heated debate over the future of the golf course, which has been closed for two years, in the northwest corner of Park Hill at 35th and Colorado Boulevard. In 1997, Denver taxpayers paid $2 million for a conservation easement to protect the land from being developed. Last year, Westside Investment Partners paid $24 million for the property with the protective easement – a fraction of the per-acre cost of recent comparable commercial transactions in the area. Earlier in August, the board of the Great-
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Tamba Mbawa Says Goodbye
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Popular Park Hill Gym Pinned by Pandemic By Bob Moses For the GPHN
PAGE 7 Tamba Mbawa, in front of his mural at the now-closed Up Gym on Colfax. Photo by Bob Moses
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that first free session, I signed on. That was five years, a heart attack, and 35 pounds ago. Did he change my life? Yes, you could say that. Fitness has always been Mbawa’s mission. When I learned the Up Gym was closing, I asked him what will he miss the most. “The people,” he replied, without hesitation. “I tried to hang on as long as I could, longer than I should have because I had become a part of their lives. We became friends. It’s been a pleasure to watch them grow and to see them change their lives. I’ll miss that the most.” When COVID-19 passes, I asked, will you open another gym? “No,” he replied. “The pandemic was scary for me. It was scary for my clients, as well. I should have closed three months earlier when I started to lose money. I dug into my savings. Then I dug into my kids’ savings. I’m not going to do that again. Who knows when the pandemic will end? Who knows if it will ever end? I need to go into a business where nobody can shut me down.” What’s next? I asked. “Real estate,” he said. “I’m studying for my license. I need to make some money.”
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Tamba Mbawa waved goodbye from his fitness studio at Dahlia and East Colfax in early August. The next day he painted over his portrait on the side of the building that housed the Up Gym for the past eight years. Growing up in Denver, Mbawa started lifting weights when he was 13. He attended South High School and played on the wrestling and football teams. He was named DPS All-City Wrestling Champion during his senior year in 2001. Today, married, he and his wife Takara have two lively children – a son, Malik, 12, and daughter Ziah, who is 8. When Mbawa opened Up Gym in Park Hill in 2012, a handful of his previous loyal clients followed him from his past tenure at Bally’s Total Fitness. The business grew slowly but steadily for the next eight years. Before the pandemic hit in early March, the gym had more than 90 regulars, many of who came several times a week for spirited group sessions. Others opted for individual appointments with Mbawa or one of his two trainers. By the end of June, business had had dropped by over 50 percent. No two sessions with Mbawa were the same. A typical “Tamba Time” could include stretching in every possible direction, exercising with or without weights, boxing, skipping rope, doing five to 10 exercises on a ball, and running around the gym – or the block. An hour or half-hour with Tamba was a hands-on experience. He instinctively knew your limits and would nudge you beyond them. Over the years, the business grew organically. Drawn by word-ofmouth, people stopped by to peek inside. Mbawa would invite them in – and to come back for a free session. That’s all it took. Over the years, when business dipped, Mbawa would use his free time to knock on doors in the surrounding neighborhood, invite folks to stop by and say hello. That’s how he found me. He knocked on my door. Not interested, I said. Well, stop by some time, he countered, leaving with a smile. Four months later, I did. Hooked after
er Park Hill Community, Inc. adopted a resolution, by a 12-4 vote, to support putting the question to a citywide vote. The board’s vote, conducted via Zoom, came after three and a half hours of at times emotional virtual presentations and discussion by people who support preserving the conservation easement, and those who support development. Kenneth Ho, the project lead for Westside, said the developer is committed to setting aside “at least” 60 acres for parkland on the property. The developer also envisions incorporating affordable housing, services and amenities “… we’re working hard to see if we can get a grocery store in this area,” Ho said. “Meeting the community needs are the driving force for what we at Westside want to do.” It is not clear how Westside would move ahead with development. Previously, a simple majority vote of the city council was all that was required to remove the conservation easement. However, a new state law requires a judge to make the final determination. In recent months, Westside’s advocacy of development has gained several support-
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ers, including Imam Abdur Rahim Ali, of the Northeast Denver Islamic Center and the recently-formed organization Smart Growth Initiative. Other groups and individuals, however, have pushed to preserve the property. Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, who brokered the conservation easement, has been a vocal supporter of preservation. The Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation Association of dozens of Registered Neighborhood Organizations in Denver has endorsed the push to keep the easement in place. In June, Denver’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB) voted unanimously to support the city buying the 155 acres for a regional park. “Our intention is to purchase and preserve [the golf course land] as open space, said Leslie Twarogowski, the District 8 PRAB appointee. “[Denver] absolutely [has] the money to do this.” Last fall, Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. contracted with the research firm NRC to conduct a statistical survey to gauge opinions about several top issues in Park Hill. Fully 77 percent of the respondents indicated they want the golf course land to remain entirely green space/park or golf course. Here is a link to the survey: tinyurl.com/GPHCNRC Save Open Space Denver hoped to collect enough signatures to place the issue on the ballot directly, but was stymied because of the pandemic. As of press time it is unclear how the group plans to move forward.
Homeless, Climate Change, Pit Bulls On the Ballot
Denver voters will be asked to repeal the city’s ban on pit bulls and to approve sales tax measures for programs for the homeless and to fight climate change. In August the city council referred the measures to voters for decision in the Nov. 3 election. The 0.25% tax for homeless programs – called the Homelessness Resolution Fund – would amount to 2.5 cents on every $10 worth of purchases. City officials estimate the fund would eventually raise $40 million a year for housing, shelters, programs and services for people experiencing homelessness. During the Aug. 24 city council meeting, Terese Howard, with Denver Homeless Out Loud, said she hoped that any money raised would be used primarily for housing – and that people who are actually experiencing homelessness would have a say in how the money would be used. A Metro Denver Point In Time Survey taken on Jan. 27-28 determined that 6,104 people were experiencing homelessness. That number was up six percent from last year, and has likely increased in the past several months due to the economy and the pandemic. In July, advocates for the homeless estimated that 1,350 people were living in tent communities in Denver. Earlier in the
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summer, Mayor Michael B. Hancock announced that temporary city-sanctioned camping sites would be established to address the situation. Though the city has continued to sweep homeless camps downtown, at the end of August no official campsites have been established. The sales tax proposal for climate change programs is also 0.25%. If both pass, the sales tax in Denver will increase to 8.81 percent. In August, several council members expressed concern that the mechanism proposed for both funds is a sales tax, which is considered regressive and one that hits low-income people hardest. Earlier this year City, Councilman Chris Herndon sponsored a measure to repeal the city’s pit bull ban. It passed, but was rejected in a rare veto by Mayor Hancock. The voters will now decide whether to reverse Hancock’s veto.
Johnson & Wales Campus On The Market
The commercial real estate giant CBRE has been hired to handle the sale of the Johnson and Wales University campus, which is scheduled to hit the market in September. The 25-acre campus is in the southeast section of Park Hill, at Montview and Quebec. In June, administrators announced that the Providence, R.I.-based university system plans to close the Denver campus at the end of the 2020-21 school year. According to a CBRE news release issued in August, Nina Farrell, the company’s higher education specialist, and Karlen Beitman, Mountain States regional manager of Public Institutions and Education Solutions, will head up the marketing efforts. CBRE stands for Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis. It is the largest commercial real estate services company in the world. The campus is the former home to Colorado Women’s College and the University of Denver law school. It includes 13 buildings, including Treat Hall, which is on the National Historic Registry. The buildings have undergone extensive renovations in recent years. Since the closure of the school was announced, several community leaders have expressed hope that if it’s not used for academic purposes, the property would be used in a way that reflects the values of the community, including affordable and senior housing, and other compatible uses. (See related op/ed on page 7.) The press release noted that, “CBRE will be soliciting buyers who will optimize the disposition strategies and realize the greatest value.” “[Johnson and Wales] has been committed to positively contributing to the community. Keeping that commitment in mind, JWU is looking to find a buyer who will implement the highest and best use of the property so both the University and the surrounding community will benefit,” said Beitman. The Greater Park Hill News is published by Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. (GPHC) on the 1st of each month. Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. makes no warranties and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained herein. The opinions expressed in articles are not necessarily the opinions of GPHC. GPHC does not necessarily endorse the companies, products or services advertised in The Greater Park Hill News unless specifically stated. GPHC reserves the right to run any advertisement. Circulation is 14,000 and is distributed in the Park Hill Area by neighborhood volunteers. The Greater Park Hill Community, Inc., is a volunteerbased registered neighborhood organization that: promotes the character and vibrancy of Park Hill; provides resources, information and advocacy; and preserves quality of life and the history of the neighborhood through community participation.
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An Election Primer
RAW POLITICS | Penfield W. Tate III
The Ties That Bind
Ready, Set, Vote. Here Are Some Tips For Nov. 3 By Cara DeGette
Going To Battle For the Right To Vote
Editor, GPHN
When our country was being formed for everything from medicine to banking in the middle of a war, rapid reliable comto basic communication. After the busimunications were essential. So essential, ness community weighed in on how vital that the colonies basically took the system the USPS is to commerce in general, the established for them by England and creHouse and Senate both convened hearings ated a mail and messenger system, relying to reverse Trump’s course. on horseback delivery, to provide that netThings went from bad to worse. Demowork. cratic attorneys general from at least 20 In 1775, the Continental Congress forstates, including Colorado’s Phil Weiser, malized this structure and appointresponded with a multi-pronged leed Benjamin Franklin as the first gal effort to roll back the DeJoy-led Postmaster General. The postal serchanges that have already disruptvice has been a vital component of ed mail delivery across the country. our nation and society ever since. It Worried about his own personal was what George Washington and credibility amid accusations that Benjamin Franklin saw as a way to Trump and his appointees were “bind the country together.” intentionally working to underAs far back as the Civil War, mine mail-in voting, DeJoy hired a Americans have had the ability Penfield W. public relations firm, and put out a to exercise their right to vote – by statement announcing that he was tate III mail. Recent polling shows that 91 terminating any more changes unpercent of Americans have a favortil after the election. However, even able opinion of the United States Postal Serafter the lashing administered in the Convice (USPS). Yet clearly, it is going to take gressional hearings, he refused to reverse another war to preserve not only the right the changes already made, including the to vote but to do so by mail. removal of high-volume letter sorters.
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In a desperate attempt to secure reelection, Donald Trump has upped his game to disenfranchise millions of Americans of their right to vote by declaring war on the USPS over mail-in voting. This from a man who votes, along with his own family, by mail. But clearly, and likely correctly, he believes letting others vote by mail will reduce his odds considerably. Unconstrained by history, Trump has launched attacks, claiming, as usual, without factual basis, that ballots will be lost, and there will be fraud. His paranoia was reflected when he moved to reduce the USPS budget by $25 billion. His Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy – who by the way has a $30 million stake in a company currently doing business with the USPS – carried out the plan by beginning to dismantle the mail sorting and delivery capability of the postal service, pulling hundreds of machines and equipment out of service. DeJoy started snatching up the big blue mailboxes we all grew up seeing on street corners. He went so far as to advise states that they should not rely on the USPS for timely delivery of ballots to voters or timely return of ballots.
Now for some truth. Colorado has a mail-in voting system that is the envy of the country. Effectively managed by Secretary of State Jena Griswold and established and expanded by her predecessors – Republican and Democrat alike – the percentages of eligible voters participating, particularly among younger voters, continues to climb, with literally no claims of voter fraud. Hawaii, Washington, and Utah all have all mail-in voting with not a hint of scandal or fraud. Vermont, California, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey have expanded mail-in voting systems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are now only eight states that will not let you get a mailin ballot. It is insane for Trump to want us to risk our lives and health in the middle of a pandemic to vote by standing in lines for hours on Election Day. The U.S. now leads the world in the number of COVID-19 cases and related deaths. What does it say about a president who feels that his best path to reelection is to reduce the number of Americans voting? He does not want to hear from the people; make sure he hears from you. Vote. Tell your family and friends in other states to vote, and vote early to avoid lines. If you want to preserve your right to vote, it is time to go to battle.
Attacks are unfounded Even Republicans like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Trump’s attacks were unfounded. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi summoned the House back in session during a convention recess to address the mess. Congress was deluged by complaints from seniors and veterans over delays in getting their mail-order drugs. Rural America, commonly viewed as Trump country, depends on the mail
Penfield W. Tate III is an attorney in Denver. He represented Park Hill in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1997 to 2000, and in the State Senate from 2001 to February 2003. A candidate for mayor of Denver in 2019, Tate’s column returned to these pages last December. He lives in Park Hill.
Most voters realize that in this critical presidential election year, Democrat Joe Biden is hoping to unseat Republican Donald Trump. Election Day is Nov. 3, but Colorado voters can start voting after they get their ballots in the mail – and this year they are being sent out as early as Oct. 9. In Colorado, another critical race could help determine whether Republicans keep control of the U.S. Senate: Former Gov. John Hickenlooper is challenging incumbent Sen. Cory Gardner in one of the most highly-watched Senate races in the country. Coloradans will also weigh in on a number of statewide ballot issues, including whether to repeal the Gallagher Amendment, an initiative to reintroduce grey wolves, a tax on tobacco and e-cigarettes for health and education programs, whether to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and an initiative that would prohibit abortion after 22 weeks. The ballot is still being finalized as of press time, but Denver voters will likely also weigh in on a number of issues, including several proposals to shift additional decision-making authority to the city council. Check out next month’s issue for news, updates and other information about critical races and hot-button issues on the ballot. In the meantime, take a few minutes
to make sure you are registered to vote. Ballots are mailed to every active voter in Colorado, so it is critical that your address is up-to-date. Update and verify your address at the Secretary of State’s webpage at sos.state. co.us. Click on the Elections & Voting link, and you will be able to register to vote, update your voter registration and make sure all your information is current. The elections page also provides a list of the candidates and issues on the ballot, and other voter resources. In Colorado, Blue Books are mailed to registered voters, and include information about all the ballot issues, including “pro” and “con” arguments for each proposal. You can’t miss the Blue Book when it arrives. It is blue. After you’ve cast your vote, check BallotTrace.org, where you can track your ballot like a package, from printing to acceptance for counting. Here are important dates to keep in mind: • Oct. 9 - Counties will begin mailing ballots for the Nov. 3 General Election. • Oct. 26 – This is the deadline to register to vote or update your registration and still receive a ballot in the mail. • Nov. 3 – In Colorado, you can register to vote and vote in person up to 7 p.m. on Election Day.
Have You Been Counted? There’s Still Time To Complete The Census: Here’s Why It Matters By Sue Kilgore For the GPHN
The U.S. Constitution requires an “actual enumeration” of all people, not just citizens, living in the United States every 10 years. That count has happened each decade since 1790. Here’s why it matters: The primary purpose for the census is to determine the number of congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state will receive. But census numbers are also used by federal and state governments to decide how and where government funding will be used for health care, schools, and other public services. Cities and private industry use census figures to plan hospital expansions, housing and other developments, and assess the need for new schools or businesses. In other words, an accurate count will help to shape the future of our city and state. It’s an enormous job. Data collection for the 2020 census began this year on Jan. 21, when census workers traveled by bush plane and snowmobile to Toksook Bay, Alaska, estimated population 66, before the spring thaw made travel to their villages impossible.
The rest of the country received their first census invitations by mail in March. Paper questionnaires were delivered directly to those without physical delivery locations (e.g., P.O. boxes). The Census Bureau also conducts special operations to count people with no fixed address or who live in dormitories, nursing homes, prisons, shelters, transient housing, and other group or nonstandard housing. Those who did not respond earlier may have received a visit from a census worker. This year, these operations have been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Households can still complete the census online or by phone. Here are some important things to remember: • By law, the Census Bureau cannot share answers with other government agencies, including welfare, immigration, other law enforcement, or the Internal Revenue Service. • The 2020 census does not contain a citizenship question. If you have not completed your census questionnaire, you can respond online at my2020census.gov, or by phone at 844468-2020 (Spanish) or 844-330-2020 (English).
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Think Scandal, School, Dairy, Spy House Sept. 13 Home Tour Moves Outside – And Online By Jennifer Mathes Park Hill Home Tour
The 42nd Annual Park Hill Home Tour & Street Fair is Sunday, Sept. 13. This year’s approach is a decided departure from that of the past. First, the tour will be a walking tour of roughly 30 houses – both contemporary and historic. The historic homes will have some local significance or fun fact – think scandal, murder, dairy, first home built, spy house, etc. The tours are of exteriors only – people won’t be walking through homes, but gawking from outside. Park Hill’s great Denver tradition began in 1978 to showcase the rich history and diverse architecture of the neighborhood. Over the years, the Home Tour has evolved into an important fundraiser for Greater Park Hill Community, Inc., attracting hundreds of people to tour the interiors of some of Park Hill’s most interesting, beautiful, unique and exclusive homes. Proceeds are used to help fund many programs that are offered by our Registered Neighborhood Organization, including its food programs, educational and sustainability programs, and even the newspaper you are reading right now. The day of the Home Tour is also when the Street Fair happens – and it’s usually a time for neighbors and vendors and musicians and performers to get together for a daylong block party and sustainability event.
Not surprisingly, the pandemic and need for public health and safety has changed the routine up this year. In addition to the walking tour, the daylong street fair will be a virtual event – meaning you’ll be able to go online and check out an online marketplace that showcases local artisans and highlights vendors who would otherwise have had booths set up. Home Tour tickets are $25, which gets you a map of all featured homes (which you can check out Sept. 13 or at your leisure). This year, organizers are raising additional funds for GPHC with a custom commemorative coloring book and commemorative calendar featuring past tour homes that were hand-drawn by Park Hill architect Marc Applebaum. The cost of the coloring book and calendar is $30; donations of $50 or more covers the tour, calendar and coloring book. For details and to purchase tickets, check the Home Tour and Street Fair website at parkhillhometour.org/2020-event. In addition, “like” the Home Tour’s Facebook page, at facebook.com/parkhillhometour for updates. Finally, The Sustainability Zone this year is moving to the GPHC office, at 2823 Fairfax Ave. Specifically, that day people can safely and responsibly drop off their old electronics for recycling. Check the website above for details. See you Sept. 13!
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While many popular mass sporting events have been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 11th Annual Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cycling Hill Climb took place as scheduled on Aug 8. when more than 200 riders of all categories, took on the challenge of riding 12.42 miles and 4,725 vertical feet to the 14,115 summit of Pikes Peak, America’s Mountain. Pikes Peak, west of Colorado Springs in the Pike National Forest, is named in honor of American explorer Zebulon Pike – who never actually summited the peak. Now, of course, you can cycle to the top, or drive, if you aren’t up for the ride. From the summit, the views of the mountains to the west and the north, and to the east of the plains and Colorado Springs far below, are spectacular. For more info: coloradosprings.gov/pikes-peakamericas-mountain.
View From America’s Mountain Earth In Crisis | Tracey MacDermott
Where There Is Smoke Hoping Cooler Heads Will Prevail In The Weeks Ahead It has been one long hot and dry summer. I’ve wondered if I ever remember it being this hot, for such a sustained period. On Aug. 16, Death Valley in California recorded a temperature of 130-degrees Fahrenheit. If verified by scientists it will be the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth. Two days later in the Mile High City, Denver International Airport recorded its first 100-degree day. As of this writing in midAugust, in Denver we’ve already reached the top five for 90 degree days in a given summer – a record that will likely move higher. With drought comes fire, and for weeks the smoke from so many active wildfires across the state – and now California – have created a thick haze blocking the mountain skyline and choking the city’s neighbor-
hoods and parks. The Colorado Department of Health and Environment issued an air quality advisory, warning those with respiratory problems to stay inside. Although the haze has produced a beautiful bright red sun, more than 135,000 acres have burned. People have been evacuated from their homes, possibly never to return. While Colorado and other states have been battling fires and drought and unbearable heat, President Donald Trump advanced his campaign promises to dismantle more environmental protections. Just a few days before Death Valley hit a global heat record, Trump announced that oil and gas companies will no longer be required to monitor methane leaks, a potent greenhouse gas that traps 90 times more heat in our atmosphere
Electronics Unplugged Drop Off The Dead Weight By Mark Kuhl
ways, so check out their websites to see which works best for you. 3. Denver will take large appliances Once again an electronics recycling for free with help from their partner drive is scheduled in conjunction with the EcoProjex. Go to denvergov.org to sign Park Hill Home Tour on Sunday Sept. 13 up. from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your elec4. Alkaline batteries can be dropped tronics to the GPHC office at 2823 S KUH off at Battery Giant, at 251 East 6th T’ Fairfax St. Check out parkhillAve. for 65 cents/pound. hometour.org for details on what 5. The Denver Household Hazardthey’ll accept for free and for a ous Waste program accepts fluosmall fee. If you miss this convenient op- O R E C Y C L rescent light bulbs, one TV, a complete computer system, car batteries portunity here are other options for and alkaline batteries. recycling old electronics: 6. Home Depot and Lowes collect fluo1. Go to Denvergov.org to obtain an Erescent bulbs and rechargeable battercycle coupon for deep discounts on ies used for power tools. recycling many electronics. You must bring them to BlueStar Recyclers at 953 Mark Kuhl is an environmental advocate Decatur St. who lives in Park Hill. A directory of his 2. Office Depot, Best Buy, Staples and past recycling columns is at greaterparkhTarget have electronics recycling proill.org/sustainability/recycling-directory/. grams. They’re managed in various L
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than carbon dioxide. ministration on this decision. Democratic Methane currently accounts for 23 pernominee Joe Biden opposes drilling in the cent of all greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Arctic. Since methane does not stay in the atmoOur world is clearly changing, and drastic sphere as long as carbon dioxide, we could measures are needed right now. Americans have had an opportunity to bring down should be asking, how quickly can we reatmospheric levels with simple duce and stop using fossil fuels? solutions, like monitoring leaks, We need our elected officials to do implementing immediate repairs, the same. Here in Denver we could and slow down climate change. use our bond money to convert all That option is now gone, for now. buses to electric before making And, in this summer of blisterother investments in the transit ing temperatures, the president system. We could take the heat off wasn’t done. Last month, his adour children and begin convertministration announced plans to ing all our schools to renewable open the Arctic National Wildlife electricity. Refuge for drilling – specifically There is much to do and little auctioning oil and gas leases on 1.6 time. At last month’s Democratic million acres. The Arctic Refuge is Convention, Bernie Sanders capTracey home to caribou, arctic foxes and MacDermott tured the moment perfectly, with endangered polar bears. In 1980 this observation: “Nero fiddled Congress created the Arctic refuge, while Rome burned. Trump golfs.” but left the coastal plain unprotected, citing The rest of us should hunker down and the potential to extract oil. Environmensee what we can fix, for generations to come. talists have long fought to protect the area Tracey MacDermott is chair of the board and its animal habitat. They also fear that of Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. She damage to the arctic ice, which has already was trained as a Climate Reality Leader in been melting, will release methane from the 2017, and is currently the Statewide Copermafrost. Chair of the Climate Reality Project for the Gina McCarthy, the president of Natural 100% Committed Campaign. Contact her at Resources Defense Council and former EPA chair@greaterparkhill.org. administrator, has promised to fight the ad-
September Community Events East Area Plan Meeting Sept. 10
The city planning department is holding a second “virtual open house” via Zoom to discuss its most recent draft of the East Area Plan, a controversial proposal that would increase density in four neighborhoods that intersect with East Colfax Avenue. The virtual open house is Thursday, Sept. 10 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. City planners say they have received more than 1,000 comments about the draft East Area Plan, which impacts residents and businesses in the South Park Hill, East Colfax, Montclair and Hale neighborhoods. The newest draft has not been published as of press time, but planners say the document will be available “soon,” and can be reviewed at DenverGov.org/eastplan. Instructions on how to join the Sept. 10 online event will be published on the city website closer to the meeting date. Participants will be provided an overview of updates to the draft plan, and given the opportunity to ask questions and submit comments. About 150 people dialed in to attend a virtual East Area Plan meeting in May.
Powwow Online Sept. 12
The 31st annual Friendship Powwow – one of the Denver Art Museum’s longest
running events – will be held virtually this year. It’s free and everyone is welcome to dial in. The Powwow is Saturday, Sept. 12, beginning at 11 a.m. and will be livestreamed on the museum’s Facebook page and YouTube account. The Powwow is held in collaboration with members of the local Native community and includes categories from tiny tot to teen’s fancy shawl, to women’s jingle, men’s grass and golden age.
City Park Golf Course Reopens
The newly configured City Park Golf Course and clubhouse reopens to the public this month. The course, just west of Park Hill across the street from the Denver Zoo, has been closed since 2017 for a complete redesign to incorporate a stormwater detention area. The new course offers an 18-hole Par 70 with returning 9’s, full-size driving range and a dedicated 4-hole course for the First Tee of Denver program, a nonprofit that teaches youth core values and life skills through the game of golf. The new clubhouse overlooks downtown and the mountains beyond, and includes a restaurant, a pro shop and various gathering spaces for community groups and private parties up to 200 people. Check out the website at cityofdenvergolf.com/city_park/ for more info and tee times.
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September 2020
How Long Can Teens Go?
Let Park Hill Lead
Pros and Cons Of The New Normal
The Johnson & Wales’ Campus Challenge: Be Creative! By Cyndi Kahn For the GPHN
The coronavirus pandemic and recent Black Lives Matter protests have laid bare systemic racism in Denver that make Barbara Berryman’s suggestions in the July issue about the reuse of Johnson & Wales campus especially compelling. Greater Park Hill Community board Chair Tracey MacDermott and board member Colette Carey articulated similar ideas last month. Given the uncertain future facing higher education in Colorado, however, their best ideas may be to use the campus for affordable family housing and related services. Check out Loretto Heights College in southwest Denver. That campus has seen a succession of universities. Now, Pancratia Hall, built in 1929 as a convent for the Sisters of Loretto and later converted into a girls’ dormitory, will open in 2022 with 72 units of low-income family housing. Greater Park Hill has an amazing history, not just about integration and quality schools. How many people know that the first black-owned shopping center in the country was the Dahlia Shopping Center? Now it is the Dahlia Wellness Center, supporting senior housing, teen mental health services, a child-care center only for 80207 residents, a gym, outdoor gardens, a remarkable hydroponic greenhouse and a teaching kitchen. All thanks to the Urban Land Conservancy and Dr. Lydia Prado, when she was head of family and children services Denver Mental Health Center. Dr. Prado is involved in the Loretto Heights project. Park Hill is among the oldest intentionally integrated neighborhood in the US. Can you imagine how proud Fred and Myrtle Thomas, who first raised the alarm of segregated schools would be, if we grab the Johnson & Wales challenge? Or Denver Post education editor Art Branscombe, and his activist wife Bea. They recruited my husband and me to buy our first and only home in Park Hill in 1965, while blockbusting tactics were used to scare white families into selling cheaply. Now Park Hill is facing serious gentrification. DPS, including some Park Hill schools, is more segregated than in 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled in Keyes v. School District 1, the first northern school desegregation case. Some families feel that singlefamily homes are under attack by upcoming proposals from Denver City Council. As one of the founders of Scholars Unlimited, started 25 years ago under the aegis of Hallett principal Dr. Paul Hamilton, may I offer a few suggestions: 1. Convene a meeting of interested groups. For starters, I’d include Greater Park Hill Community, Inc., Park Hill Neighbors For Equity In Education, Together Colorado, Scholars Unlimited, AfricanAmerican Health Center, religious organizations, and of course neighbors, to
dream up creative solutions. Don’t wait for the City to act. Do better. 2. Convert the campus into a community land trust. Like Turtle Park at 23rd & Dexter, affordable housing at Johnson & Wales needs to be forever. Not just for 30 years, only to revert to market rate. 3. Focus on diversity. Think inclusively. Both the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and the Denver Housing Authority subscribe to the three-part rule: 1/3 for very low income; 1/3 for workforce housing; 1/3 for market rate. That helps create community. 4. Involve Denver Public Schools. DPS should have skin in the game. Stable housing is an educational issue. Teachers can’t teach and kids don’t learn, if families are transient. Toxic stress is real and poverty contributes to the achievement gap. DPS could provide bond money for staff housing, like the Roaring Fork School District, with less than 6,000 students, did five or six years ago. They built over 60 units of staff housing, which are all full now. Imagine what DPS with 92,000 students could do. 5. Give priority to homeless families who attend Park Hill schools. What would each school do to support homeless families? Families should be able to keep that housing until their last child graduates from DPS. Then it transfers to another family. 6. Find a developer/architect to help create the campus you want. When we started the Children’s Museum almost 50 years ago, 20 architects applied for the paltry sum of $2,000. We picked the most kidfriendly firm. There are developers out there who care about family-friendly housing. Their expertise from the beginning will be invaluable. 7. Don’t stop with Johnson & Wales. Find other suitable locations for additional affordable homes, whether on school, city or private property. Gary Community Investments, now headed by former school principal and state Sen. Mike Johnston, might be interested.
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Berryman, MacDermott and Carey are right - Johnson & Wales is a fabulous opportunity. As Ibram Kendi argues in How to be an Anti-Racist - think big. Don’t just reform pieces of systemic racism, eliminate it! Park Hill can become again an innovated model for other communities in America. Think creatively and have fun! Cyndi Kahn and her husband Ed raised a family in Park Hill, where she was active in many philanthropic projects. She was a founder of the Denver’s Children’s Museum, a founder of Summer Scholars at Hallett School, and was the 1993 recipient of GPHC’s Babbs Award. She and Ed now live downtown. Berryman’s July opinion piece can be read at greaterparkhill.org.
By Anya Nitczynski For the GPHN
Where did summer go? No one seems to know. Regardless, school has started, whether we like it or not. But this will not be a normal year in any way, shape, or form. Normally, in late summer we would be going to get school supplies and packing up our backpacks to be prepared for the first day of school. But, as of this writing in mid-August, we barely know what school will look like. Personally, all I know is for our first quarter at Denver School of the Arts we will be doing all-online learning. There definitely are pros and cons to both online and in-person learning for your average student. On one hand, if school isn’t safe, school isn’t safe. One the other, how long can teens go without any sort of normal school experience? As I’ve mentioned in past columns, I have realized that I miss the little things. I miss talking to a table partner that you wouldn’t otherwise talk to. I miss the rush of waking up and being late to school. I miss talking when you aren’t supposed to and being called out by the teacher. However, safety is my top priority. One problem with online learning is communication. My school has provided little explanation of how it is going to work this year. When we went remote in March, all the teachers used different platforms and it didn’t work well. To be fair, they had to prepare a whole curriculum online very fast. One teacher would use Google Classroom, another would use Schoology, and another would use Edmodo. Hopefully this year it’s going to be better and more organized. There are some perks to doing online school though. You can wake up later and choose when you want to do what. It’s nice because there is no set time for classes. You
can also work in a way that best works for you. Personally, a couple of friends and I are working together to have a similar schedule and understanding of school as a whole. For me, it is way harder to do well in online learning rather than in-person because there are simply too many opportunities for procrastination and distractions. Hopefully working with fellow students will alleviate some of the pressure to always be completely focused. Today, we look at the bright side of online learning, and we will try our best tomorrow and the next day and the next day, because all we can do is push forward.
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Anya Nitczynski is an 8th grader at Denver School of the Arts. Her opinion pieces appear regularly in these pages.
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Page-Turning In Pandemic Times Local Authors Find New Inspiration By Cara DeGette GPHN Editor
In early August, longtime journalist and Park Hill-based author Jonathan Shikes posted a photo of himself with his first book, Denver Beer: A History of Mile High Brewing, masked and standing next to one of Park Hill’s many Little Free Libraries. Shikes, like many other Colorado authors have, in the ongoing pandemic amid canceled signings and closed bookstores, taken matters into their own hands. In recent months they have book-bombed frontyard book boxes with their new tomes. (See the accompanying Q&A with Shikes.) In early July, author Helen Thorpe announced her latest work, Finding Motherland: Essays about Family, Food, and Migration The author of the Colorado Book Award-winning Just Like Us, Soldier Girls and The Newcomers, completed her latest book from her Park Hill home office. “For a long time, I have wanted to collect a series of essays I have been writing about my family and immigration,” Thorpe wrote in a letter to friends and family. “During the recent quarantine, I found the time to do so. “In Finding Motherland, I depict life on the dairy farm in Ireland where my mother was raised, describe how immigrating to the United States reshaped my parents, and share my experience of motherhood. I also celebrate an undocumented mother at our shared public school who faces enormous economic and social challenges largely unknown to many other parents at the school, and describe the labor of men who produce the locally grown food that we all eat. Fi-
nally, I look back at the Irish who arrived here in the 1840s and 1850s, in the wake of the potato famine, penniless and starving, in much the same condition as many of the families who are immigrating today.” Since her book is only in e-form, Thorpe can’t exactly stuff Little Free Libraries. In her note, Thorpe also took the opportunity to remind readers to support independent bookstores – many of which are struggling (she weighs in on this topic on the next page). An excerpt from her first essay in Finding Motherland can be read as an online extra, at greaterparkhill.org/book/ milking/. Finally, the prolific Denver historian Phil Goodstein, who grew up in Park Hill, has published his second of a three-volume history of Denver Public Schools. “No issue has more marked Park Hill over the last half century than debates over its schools,” Goodstein told the Greater Park Hill News. “Time and again, residents have bewailed that the schools are not performing as well as they should. Parents have longingly looked to the schools as ideal places to help their children advance in the world. Changes, reforms, and reorganizations have been constant. So have hopes and disappointments. “All of this comes out in [my] new book, The Denver School Busing Wars. It primarily deals with the tumultuous era from 1969 to 1995 when Denver Public Schools (DPS) was under court order to bus children in the name of desegregation to assure equal educational opportunity.” Goodstein’s book is also available at local independent bookstores. For a direct order, call Capitol Hill Books, 303/837–0700.
Author and Park Hill resident Jonathan Shikes gets ready to stock a Little Free Library with his Denver Beer book. Photo by Ben Shikes
Six-Pack With Jonathan Shikes Beer Historian Sits Down For A Few Cold Ones Interview with GPHN Editor Cara DeGette Greater Park Hill News: Did you write Denver Beer: A History of Mile High Brewing from your Park Hill home office? Jonathan Shikes: I was an editor for Westword for 13 years (I also wrote about beer). When I left, I continued to freelance beer stories to Westword and other publications. This was my first book and it took two years to write from my home office in Park Hill (it was only supposed to take me six months!). It’s available online at Tattered Cover, BookBar, Barnes and Noble, etc. I also sell and ship inscribed copies to people who contact me on social media. GPHN: Describe an amusing anecdote involving beer and Denver and history from your book (bonus if it involves anything about Park Hill). JS: When I interviewed Park Hill’s John Hickenlooper, he was still governor. I tried to bring him a six-pack at the Capitol, but it caused a huge security kerfuffle! They eventually let me bring it in, but then the governor canceled on me. We eventually were able to meet up, but I don’t know if he ever got the beer.
Book covers of Phil Goodstein’s second volume of the history of Denver Public Schools, and Helen Thorpe’s Finding Motherland – the photo is the author as a young girl, with her mother.
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GPHN: What’s your favorite/most memorable brew at the following Park Hill breweries: Station 26: Juicy Banger IPA is the perfect mix of old and new hops. Long Table: Dunkel hits the right note between malty and dry. Fiction: Sour slushies are fun, unusual and refreshing.
GPHN: How is this book different than the other Colorado beer books that have hit the market in recent years? JS: Most local beer books are guides to the breweries themselves. Denver Beer is the first to delve not just into modern craftbeer history, but to take readers all the way back to Denver’s founding and tie all of that history together. GPHN: What beer do you recommend people drink at home, in the pandemic, when hanging out in a brewery is tough? JS: Every local brewery is selling just about everything they make in cans or crowlers-to-go, so you can really find just about any style you want and pick it up curbside or have it delivered. We are now entering Oktoberfest season, so traditional Marzen beers are a favorite in the fall. GPHN: Publishing your first book just as a pandemic hit must have been rough – book signings canceled, etc. What’s the plan for promoting/selling the book now? JS: All of my publicity events were canceled since the book came out on March 2. I am working on an online event with the DPL’s Sam Gary Branch (DPL has six copies to check out) and I hope to restart some promotional activity in the right situations, when it is safe. I’d like to drop off more books at Little Free Libraries in Congress Park, Montclair/ Mayfair, Central Park, Whittier and Capitol Hill.
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We phnee’d to talk | Erin Pier
Now, while wealthy children can continue to forge ahead in their education, children in poverty are experiencing the amplification of their basic needs. Post-COVID, the learning gap between these two demographics of children may be impossible to recover, if we fail to intervene.
A Tale Of Two Crises Living In A State Of Suspended Animation
Celebrating Independent Bookstores ‘These stores need our love right now’ By Helen Thorpe For the GPHN
Most of the writers I love to read have had viable writing careers thanks to local independently owned bookstores. These stores also create a wonderful sense of community for both authors and readers. I have found hours of inspiration inside local bookstores, and when I’ve published books these stores have supported my career, and have similarly boosted the careers of thousands of other authors who write literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. These stores need our love right now. The best way to support indie bookstores is to buy books directly from them through their brick and mortar stores or their web sites. You can also buy ebooks in ways that benefit local indies by setting up an account with Kobo after following a link from a bookstore, if the store uses that platform. Or you can subscribe to audiobook distributor Libro.fm and choose which indies to support with your audiobook purchases, if the store is a member of Libro’s partnership program. In the weeks and months to come, I hope we can all rally around local indies such as BookBar, the Bookies, the Hermitage Bookshop, the Park Hill Community Bookstore, Shop at Matter, Tattered Cover, and West Side Books by buying books at their physical locations or from their websites. Let’s be sure to support these stores now so they can stay in business and be bustling again once it’s safe for all of us to gather in larger numbers.
I was only 17 at the time, but I can reAs COVID-19 continues into its seventh call in vivid detail the morning of Sept. 11, month, the impact on our individual prog2001. ress through the hierarchy has been proAnyone who is old enough remembers found. For some, it has disrupted our rouexactly where they were and what they were tines and habits. For others, it has prevented doing the moment they learned of the tercelebrations of beautiful moments such as rorist attack that shook our nation’s core. hard-earned graduations and wedding celWe remember, because it stopped us in our ebrations. For older people and those with tracks. We remember, because the loss of underlying health conditions, the virus has life was so significant and sudden. We retriggered immense fear for safety needs, remember, because it is a timestamp quiring isolation from friends and in history … an event that created a family. Others watch their sense of world we remember as pre-9/11, and security threatened as restaurants a world post. and businesses shutter. UnemployThere is no debate that 9/11 was ment is at record high rates, and an American tragedy. A crisis that millions of Americans face immitriggered chaos, anguish, and longnent eviction, inciting the very real lasting consequences; but also an fear of homelessness. event that united us in grief, in comNo matter where you fall on this passion and in understanding. continuum of loss, it’s safe to say Erin Pier Nineteen years later, America is that this pandemic has forced alfacing a new crisis: COVID-19. A most all of us to re-prioritize our crisis that at the end of August has taken needs. But the truth is, those of us with over 183,000 U.S. lives – more than 57 financial security were already in a better times the number of lives claimed on that position to weather this crisis. Our loss is fateful Tuesday morning in 2001. A crisis real, upsetting, and worth grieving. But for that, similar to 9/11, will be remembered those who entered the pandemic on a lower for its extensive loss of life, far-reaching rerung of Maslow’s hierarchy, the fallout is percussions, and a division of history into far more acute. Divisions in wealth and before and after. class existed pre-COVID. Without interThe difference between these two crises vention, however, the post-COVID divide is the amount of time that exists between could widen beyond repair. these pre- and post-worlds. 9/11 unfolded The impact on education rapidly in a matter of hours, allowing for Americans to unite in trauma, grief, reAs socioeconomic inequities amplify covery and healing. For COVID-19, our during the pandemic, so do the inequities pre-pandemic world ended in March, but in education. Gaps that existed prior to COwhen will the post-pandemic world begin? VID-19 will increase as we move through For now, we live in a state of suspended this crisis, with potentially catastrophic animation. results. Because this is ongoing, we continue to Families whose physiological and safety live through the fear-provoking, stressneeds are met during the pandemic can foinducing, traumatic space that exists becus their priorities on educating their chiltween before and after. We haven’t begun dren, ensuring that they don’t “fall behind.” to grieve or recover or heal simply because Many private schools and districts with it isn’t over. ample funding are attempting to return to in-person learning this fall, ensuring small Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs class sizes and access to face masks and face In the 1940s, American psychologist shields for all staff and students. Abraham Maslow developed a theory reMeanwhile, larger metropolitan districts ferred to as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. like Denver Public Schools – with many This theory states that a person’s basic high-need students and fewer resources physiological, safety, social, and esteem – are having to tackle how to educate stuneeds must be met before self-actualizadents remotely. Among the challenges: ention (or the fulfillment of potential) can suring equitable access to computers and be reached. For example, if a child comes internet, while at the same time trying to to school hungry, they are going to be far meet many of the basic needs in Maslow’s more focused on hunger than on making hierarchy such as food, clothing, learning new friends or completing assignments. materials and mental health support. We must meet the most basic needs that Just as with wealth and class, these ineqaffect us before moving up the hierarchy. uities in education existed before COVID.
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What can we do? In the wake of Sept. 11, neighbors, friends, and fellow citizens came together to support one another. The collective trauma we experienced awakened our vulnerability. As we felt deep sorrow, we each vowed to make whatever sacrifices were necessary to prevent anything like that from happening again. This crisis is different. It isn’t violent, and it isn’t fast. In fact, it is incredibly slow moving, and at times, feels never-ending. But what if we were willing to make sacrifices for one another this time too? What if those of us who are operating in spaces of privilege, take a step back this year from business as usual? What if instead we came together, as a community, to address the very real needs of safety, security, housing, food, clothing and shelter for so many of our neighbors? What if we press pause on academic achievement, and instead focus on our collective need for friendship, intimacy, family, and sense of connection with each other? No matter where you fall on the hierarchy, I think we can agree this is something we all desperately need. Looking for a way to actively combat inequities facing our community? There are three things you can do: Donate to the One Park Hill Fund - donate. dmci.network - choose PHNEE-One Park Hill Fund in the dropdown. Donations will help create and sustain supported learning environments for those most in need in our neighborhood, as well as support activities and community building across all schools. Register to volunteer - volunteer.dmcimpact.org Denver Metro Community Impact and PHNEE will work to match volunteers with needs. Join us on Sept. 9, from 7-8 p.m. for EdEquity Corner, a monthly zoom conversation sponsored by PHNEE. Register at tinyurl.com/edequitysept2020. For more information or to get involved, email info@ phnee.org. Erin Pier is a mother of three, Stedman parent, and school psychologist at AUL Denver. She is an active member of the Park Hill Neighbors For Equity In Education, which works toward diversity, equity, and inclusion in all schools in the neighborhood. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page at facebook.com/phnee, or send an email to info@phnee.org.
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THIS MONTH AT THE LIBRARY
Happily Ever After
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Saluting Three Retiring Library Staffers By Tara Bannon Williamson and Becky Corning Park Hill and Pauline Robinson Librarians
Our beloved Elonda Walker is leaving after many years of library service. Her library career started with the Queens Borough Public Library in Queens, New York. She started working at Denver Public Library in 1994 with a position in the Western History and Genealogy Department. She also worked for the Friends Foundation and in the Schlessman Family Branch before moving to the Pauline Robinson Branch in 2012. She is loved by customers and coworkers alike, and we would like to send her off with this limerick. There once was a library lead clerk Who one day just tired of work! She’s retiring soon, And it’s making us swoon, Because working with her was such a perk. -- Elonda, you will be greatly missed! Becky Corning, librarian at Pauline Robinson Branch The Park Hill Branch Library congratulates two phenomenal humans on their retirement as well: Dawn Kirkwood and Stephanie Two Eagles. Kirkwood has touched the lives of many throughout the City of Denver through a decade of work at the Ross-Broadway branch library, Community Technology Center, and most recently, her five blessed years at the Park Hill Branch. We are especially grateful for her community walks that brought us all together and her laughter and assistance at the Park Hill Underground Comedy Club. The circulation desk won’t be the same without her bright smile. Stephanie Two Eagles came to us from the illustrious Colorado Film Commission, and began her library career at the Schlessman Family Branch. In 2014, we were honored when she joined the Park Hill Branch staff, the same branch that Stephanie has once brought her small child to several years before. Stephanie’s caring and dedicated work to Older Adult programming and the No Strings Attached Book Chat has made her a favorite at the branch and in the community.
September Events Sex Series The 7 Biggest Myths about Sex and Aging Saturday, Sept. 12, 3:30-5 p.m.
Our society believes limiting, sometimes- destructive myths about sex and aging and, unfortunately, many seniors have internalized these myths, too. Joan Price shatters those myths and shares the most common questions that Boomers, seniors, and elders ask her. She’ll answer questions in the candid, lively manner that led FastCompany.com to dub her “the woman leading the sexual revolution for seniors.” Presented by Price, author of four books about senior sex, including the award-winning Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex and Sex after Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved. Register online for the event link at denverlibrary.org/event/7-biggest-myths-aboutsex-and-aging
Retiring employee Elonda Walker has volunteered at many Booklovers’ Balls through the years. Walker is at left, with Becky Corning, at the ball in 2019. Photo courtesy of Becky Corning
online for the event link at denverlibrary. org/event/how-heck-do-i-date-age Invisible Seniors: Older-Age Sexuality as a Human Right Saturday, Sept. 26, 3:30-5 p.m.
The older we get, the more invisible we become as sexual beings. Researchers ask us the wrong questions – or don’t ask us at all! Our doctors dismiss us. Our society defines us by our wrinkles and chronology and assumes we’ve aged out of sexual pleasure. You’ll come away understanding the problems and acquiring strategies to be part of the solution. Register online for the event link at denverlibrary.org/event/ invisible-seniors-olderage-sexuality-human-right
Other Programs Reflective Life Writing Workshop Friday, Sept. 18, 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Denver Public Library has partnered with StoryCenter, a nonprofit that helps people find and tell stories from their lives, to create a supportive, online space where we can gather together as a community to share our personal struggles and joys and moments of resilience. StoryCenter facilitators will draw on their experience with trauma-informed methods to help participants tell and share their personal stories of life in these times. We will explore moments of daily experience that have challenged us
The mighty Milkweed Borer, climbing a blade of grass above, usually hangs out on milkweed plants, which are magnets for Monarch Butterflies. Milkweeds aren’t weeds at all, but lovely wildflowers with star-shaped flowers and pods filled with seeds that pop open in the fall. Local gardeners are starting to plant more milkweed, since they are both a food source for the threatened Monarchs, as well as where they lay their eggs. Photos by Mark Silverstein.
and/or lifted our spirits. Register at storycenter.org/dpl-storytelling-webinar. No Strings Attached Book Chat Saturday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Read whatever you want and attend whenever you can. Share a recent read, an old favorite or anything in between. We continue to meet virtually every month. Call 720-865-0250 to find out more.
We Have Laptops! Tuesday-Friday, noon-3 p.m.
Pauline Robinson Branch will have laptops set up outdoors for anyone to use, Tuesday through Friday, from noon to 3 p.m. Limited free printing is also available from these laptops. For more information, call the library at 720-865-0290.
How the Heck Do I Date at This Age? Saturday, Sept. 19, 3:30-5 p.m.
Dating after 50, 60, 70 and beyond can feel awkward and weird. How do you meet people? Do you need to use online dating? What are the mistakes most people make with their online profile and photos? How do you avoid the pitfalls, weirdos and creeps? Whether you’re widowed, divorced, polyamorous, or a longtime single, this entertaining presentation will be illuminating and practical – plus you’ll find out how others our age meet and mate. Useful tips and plenty of laughter guaranteed. Register Page 10
Stephanie Two Eagles, at left, with Dawn Kirkwood at the Park Hill Street Fair in September, 2017. Photo by Tara Bannon Williamson
Elonda Walker, with her daughters at the 2018 Booklovers’ Ball. Photo courtesy of Becky Corning
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Looking For Smaug Lone Eagle Peak May Be Colorado’s Best Hike By Reid Neureiter For the GPHN
With all due respect to the Maroon Bells near Aspen, Lone Eagle Peak is perhaps the most stunning of all Colorado’s peaks. Named in honor of the pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh (the original Lone Eagle), and standing only 11,946 feet on the west side of the Continental Divide in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, Lone Eagle is no Fourteener. But what the hike lacks in height, it makes up via its dramatic prominence. A sharp slab of white-grey granite topped with a sabre-like spire towering over Mirror Lake and the adjacent Crater Lake, the peak calls to mind J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lonely Mountain from The Hobbit: one almost expects Smaug, the fire-breathing dragon, to fly out from behind the crag. And the 15-mile round trip hike to reach Mirror and Crater Lakes at the base of Lone Eagle is a worthy prelude to the payoff view at the end. Beginning at the Monarch Lake Trailhead some 16 miles north and east of Granby, the trail first follows the shoreline of Monarch Lake, where moose often are seen early in the morning. The trail then ascends through green forests filled with
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ferns and moss along the appropriatelynamed Cascade Creek, with dozens of waterfalls and wooden bridge creek crossings along the route. Wildflowers fill meadows sitting below towering rock formations on the final approach to the alpine cirque of which Lone Eagle forms a part. The hike is not dangerous, climbing a modest 2,000 feet over its length at an average grade of five percent. But it is long and taxing for the unprepared. Some hikers choose to procure an overnight camping permit and turn the expedition into a two-day outing, rather than making it out and back in one day. Whether in one day or two, the hike to see Lone Eagle Peak should be on every Coloradan’s bucket list. ----Directions to Monarch Lake Trailhead: From Granby turn north onto U.S. Highway 34. Travel approximately six miles to County Road (CR) 6. Turn east onto CR 6 (Arapaho Bay Road/NFSR 125), and drive 10 miles to the parking area. Parking at the Monarch Lake requires a $5 US Forest Service permit, and forest rangers will ticket cars without permits. Follow the posted directions and signs to Crater Lake.
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GPHC Command Central
E. 52nd Ave
Lana Cordes, Executive Director
Colorado Blvd.
Home Tour, Annual Meeting On Tap
E. 48th Ave
Monaco St.
Ivy St.
Forest St.
Thank You For Your Donations!
Quebec St.
Niagara St.
Elm St. E. 29th Ave
E. 29th Ave
Magnolia St.
Ivy St.
Eudora St.
Colorado Blvd.
Montview
Syracuse
E. Colfax Ave
Kearney St.
E. 19th Ave
This map shows the 10 district boundaries of Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. Six at-large representatives also currently serve on the board of the Registered Neighborhood Organization.
Donors
Anytime Fitness Mayfair-Park Hill Avicenna Products Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church Dahlia Campus Farms and Gardens Gather & Spruce Messiah Community Church Montclair Community Garden Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church Paddington Station Preschool St. Thomas Episcopal Church The Spicy Radish The Urban Farm Karen Adkins and Brian Moore
Joy Ahlborg Christine Allen Vicki and Greg Anderson Penny AshleyLawrence Mike and Susan Barden Holly Bennett and John Lebsack Estelle and Charles Bennett Carolyn Benoit Karen Bergman Joanne Blair Sarah Booth Gwen Brewer John M. Brink Alex Brown Sharon Ann Burke Michael Bush Mike Bustin Inga Calvin
Renee Cousins King Tim Cozard and Mary Ellen McEldowney Nina Cruchon Charlie Curlee Lauren and Tony Currans Christine Davidson Amy DelPo Brenna Derritt De De Derry Harry Doby Erin Donovan David Driscoll Rob Dwyer Eila Erlingsdoter Michelle Ferguson Chaunce Fields Claudia and Harold Fields Anne Frank Marian Frank
Duane and Jean Gall David Gehlert and Heather Colliander Kathleen GilbertMacMillan and Stuart MacMillan Patricia Gilman Katie Goldman Josh and Carrie Goodman Lisa Haddox Elsie G Haley Mark Halston Simon and Elizabeth Hambidge Kathryn Harhai Pam and Duke Hartman Pam Healy Amy and Doug Heaton Dana Helch Martine Hiyland
With school back in session and the • Canned peas, carrots, mixed vegetables end of summer near, we are again settling • Cereal into new routines. We hope that as part of • Chili/stews/hearty soups your fall routine, you will remember your • Canned ravioli/pasta meals friendly neighborhood organiza• Canned fruit tion. • Peanut butter On Sunday, Sept. 13 we are holding a modified Park Hill • Canned tomatoes and tomato sauce Home Tour and Street Fair and • Pasta we hope you will participate (see • Canned chicken and tuna page 5 for further details). This is Our annual meeting will take our largest annual event, and our place virtually this year on Thursorganization greatly depends on day, Oct. 1, where we highlight our the funds raised through ticket Lana Cordes annual report of activities to memsales and sponsorships. So please, bers, present volunteer awards, and check it out! conduct board elections. For more inforWe are continuing to serve more than mation on attending or running for a board double our usual number of clients at our seat, visit https://greaterparkhill.org/joinemergency food pantry. Visit greaterus/annual-meeting/. parkhill.org/donate/ to see a complete list Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. is a of what we accept, as well as drop-off hours volunteer and donor-based organization. A and locations. Currently, we are in greatest big thank you to our donors and volunteers need of these items: this past month. We are so grateful!
Thanks to all of our blockworkers, who deliver the Greater Park Hill News throughout the neighborhood every month!
If you are interested in becoming a blockworker, contact newspaper manager Melissa Davis at newspaper@greaterparkhill.org Jody Hodges Adriane Horovitz Richard Hughes Ryan and Christine Hunter James Jacobs Paul Jasinowski Julie Ann Jensen Skeet Johnson Jane W Klever Frances Koehn Christopher and Susan Lane Debra Lentz Corey Levinson Tracey MacDermott and Heather Shockey Deborah MacNair & Sharon Wilkins Robbie and Roger Marks Carolyn Martin
Patty McCuaig Diana McHale Lisa McKenzie Ann McLaughlin Patricia Mead Dani Meyers Patti Miller Harriet Mullaney Buffy Naake Cheryl Olson Francesca Pinto Rose Potthoff Tom Pshak Ellen Reath and Craig Maginness Robin Ridley Jeffrey and Karen Roberts Sandrea Robnett Joan Root Ashley Schinske
Susie Seawell Elaine Selsberg Brian Sweeney Nicole Tesson and Michael Levinson Karen Thurlow Karen Ulrich Carolyn Valdez Robert W. Vance Mark and Catherine Welch Kevin Wiegand Pam Willet Lewis and Pamela Winston Polly A Wirtz Guy and Susan Wroble Terry and Constance Zaremba Debbie Zucker and Brian Field
Volunteers
Mike Bufton Maddie Carrier Greg Davis Jeanette Fedele Claudia Fields Jakob Fields Jamey Fields Sasha Fields Tas Frashure Lola Hunter Bernadette Kelly Debra Lovell Mia Peterson Dezmarie Roberts Deb Rosenbaum Mary Salsich Heather Shulman Shane Sutherland Nikki Wiederaenders
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Park Hill VET | Dr. Margot Vahrenwald, DVM, ASVJ
The Cost Of Care Pet Insurance Expands Your Pet Care Dollars
The title might seem self-explanatory, practices, and does not reflect a specific inyet according to the most recent article I dividual veterinary practice). could find about number of insured pets, Australian Shepherds are 25 percent to 35 from the New York Times on June 7, 2017, percent (adult vs. senior) more likely than only about 1 to 2 percent of the 90 millionother breeds to develop lameness, and 40 plus dogs and 94 million cats in the United percent more likely to fracture a tooth. A States have pet insurance. That’s less than torn cranial cruciate ligament in an active two million insured pets. dog may need surgical repair, which One of the most difficult parts of can average $2,000 to $5,000, while dealing with pets for veterinarians dental procedures with extractions and for owners is the cost of care. can range from $500 to $1,500 deVeterinary practices carry the cost pending on the degree of disease of running a business like any othand treatment of damaged teeth. er. We pay rent or mortgage, wages Bernese Mountain Dogs are 90 and their attendant expenses (taxes percent more likely to present for and more), purchase supplies that a mass of some kind that needs are consumed, medications to be Dr. Margot surgical removal and histopatholdispensed, buy and maintain costly ogy. More than 50 percent of those equipment, and so much more that Vahrenwald masses may be malignant cancer; has to be offset by what we charge the typical cost for anesthesia, mass for caring for pets. Pet owners, no matter removal, pain management and histopahow much they love their pets, must look thology is $900-$1,200 or more depending at finances and there may be a real limit on the size and location of mass. to what is feasible in the face of injury or French Bulldogs are 10 times as likely to illness, balanced against their very real exhave issues from Brachycephalic Airway penses for living. Syndrome and 5.5 times more likely to It puts us all between a rock and a hard have corneal ulcers. The cost range can be place. We have to make decisions based on huge for airway and breathing issues while the costs of care much more directly and evaluation and treatment for a simple corpersonally than in the human medical field, neal ulcer can be $150 to $250. as we sit with a pet owner and review what’s Labradoodles are 20 percent more likely going on with and what is needed for their to ingest foreign material that could lead to pet. The equivalent cost for similar care on intestinal obstruction and 30 percent more the human side for medical care is two to likely to have orthopedic issues from craten times more than what the most expennial cruciate ligament rupture. A surgery to sive veterinarian might charge in say, New remove an intestinal foreign body can start York City or San Francisco. at $2,000 and go much higher. Pet insurance is different than the thirdWhen a pet has insurance, the cost of party payer system of human medicine as those procedures can be reimbursed 70 it reimburses the owner rather than paying percent to 90 percent, depending on your the veterinarian. But that reimbursement policy and premium. Insurance is not peris significant, and expands your pet care fect and can have its moments of frustradollars. tion. But overall, it does help owners have Here are some illustrations about some improved options for care of their pet in specific breeds from Trupanion based on many situations because it reduces some of their claims database and possible care the financial stress. costs – and these are all breeds common Dr. Margot Vahrenwald is the owner of to Colorado. (Note that pricing is based Park Hill Veterinary Medical Center at on an average of fees from veterinary fee 2255 Oneida St. For more information, visit references and local private and corporate parkhillvet.com
GPHC, Inc: Who We Are, What We Do, Our Mission
The Mission and The Officers of Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. The Greater Park Hill Community, Inc., is a volunteer-based registered neighborhood organization that promotes the character and vibrancy of Park Hill, provides resources, information and advocacy, and preserves quality of life and the history of the neighborhood through community participation. The Greater Park Hill Community board is comprised of volunteer at-large representatives, as well as 10 district representatives. If you are interested in volunteering or serving on a committee, contact current GPHC Board Chair Tracey MacDermott at chair@greaterparkhill.org for details. The following are current board members, and their best contacts. Many representatives prefer to be contacted through the main office – at 303-388-0918 or info@ greaterparkhill.org. If you have an issue you’d like to discuss about the neighborhood, contact your board representative. For those board members who don’t have a phone or email contact in the list at right, leave a message at the main number and it will be forwarded to your elected representative by GPHC Executive Director Lana Cordes. The GPHC office is at 2823 Fairfax St. September 2020
• Board Chair Tracey MacDermott: chair@greaterparkhill.org • Secretary and Zoning/Property Use Chair Bernadette Kelly • Treasurer and District 3 Rep Heather Shockey • District 1 LaMone Noles • District 2 Ryan T. Hunter • District 4 Kevin Wiegand • District 5 Blair Taylor • District 6 Vacant • District 7 Jon Bowman • District 8 Nam Henderson • District 9 Stephanie Ceccato • District 10 Colette Carey • At-Large Jeanette Fedele • At-Large Justin Petaccio • At-Large Louis Plachowski: lplachowski@gmail.com • At-Large Sandy Robnett • At-Large Shane Sutherland • At-Large and Community Planning Chair Lisa Zoeller • Community Safety Chair Geneva Goldsby • Education Chair Lynn Kalinauskas • Public Information Chair Melissa Davis: newspaper@greaterparkhill.org • Youth Services Chair Rick Medrick
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Active Minds has transformed itself in the last few months from a live, in-person series of lectures to a web experience. Check out free lectures on topics ranging from music to history, current events to foreign affairs. A complete schedule of upcoming events is at activeminds.com
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Denver Police District 2
3921 Holly St., 2.Dist@denvergov.org, nonemergency number is 720-913-1000. For emergencies, dial 9-1-1.
Denver Public Schools
dpsk12.org Check the website for resources and updates. Call the helpline at 720-423-3054 for support in many languages.
Faith Community
greaterparkhill.org/faith Greater Park Hill’s faith community, home to over 30 places of worship in just four square miles, is as diverse and robust as the neighborhood itself. The GPHN maintains a list of Park Hill’s places of worship at the website above. Contact individual places of worship for information about their current state of operations.
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HAKALA FAMILY DENTISTRY Over a Decade of 5280 Top Dentist 2009 to 2020
2823 Fairfax St., greaterparkhill.org, 303388-0918 The GPHC neighborhood association community meetings are currently conducted virtually on the first Thursday of each month.
The next meetings are Sept. 3 and Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. Link to attend at greaterparkhill.org/join-us/community-meetings/. Check greaterparkhill.org for information and details to participate.
Libraries
denverlibrary.org See the “At the Library” feature in this month’s issue for updates and resources offered by the Park Hill and Pauline Robinson branch libraries.
Northeast Park Hill Coalition
The Northeast Park Hill Coalition hosts its monthly meeting the second Thursdays of the month. Check its Facebook page @ Northeast Park Hill Coalition for updates.
Park Hill Community Bookstore
Established in 1971. Denver’s oldest nonprofit bookstore. Used and new books. 6420 E. 23rd Avenue. 303-355-8508. Members and volunteers get discounts and book credits. The bookstore is open; check parkhillbookstore.org for current hours.
Park Hill Peloton
A recreational group of road cyclists that roll from Park Hill once or twice a week. Check the current status of their rides on the Park Hill Peloton Facebook page.
Sie Filmcenter
2510 E. Colfax, denverfilm.org, 303-5953456. Check the website for updates and information about its Virtual Cinema.
Walk2Connect
www.walk2connect.com Park Hill Sunrise Walking Trips and the Northeast Park Hill Bilingual Walk have been suspended until further notice.
Submit your neighborhood events and resources to editor@greaterparkhill.org • Deadlines are the 15th of the month, for the following month’s issue.
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GPHN Classifieds Auto Repair
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Park Hill owned auto repair business specializing in Subaru, Honda and Toyota makes. We will buy your car. We make it fast and easy to sell. Top prices paid. Call or text Meggitt Motors at 303601-7431.
PREMIER PAINT WORKS since 1993. Denver’s Residential Paint Specialists. Int/Ext Neat, conscientious craftsmanship by polite, respectful, honest & fully insured crew, impeccable references. Call or text John at 720-849-3921.
Concrete work and repair. Driveway, patios, and sidewalks. Small jobs welcome. 25 years experience. Free estimates. 303-429-0380
ONLINE PIANO LESSONS, experienced teacher with Master of Music degree. Contact Kari at 720-363-2951 or karimiles@yahoo.com
Licensed GC. Expert home repair/handy man/woodworker. Can fabricate missing/broken pieces for furniture, staircases, trim, molding, etc. 30 years Park Hill area. Peter 720-291-6089 text ok.
THE WALL REBUILDERS Interior plaster (and drywall) repair. We repair cracks, holes, crumbling walls, etc. Specializing in older homes, though we fix houses of every age. Dan and Laura Pino 303-698-1057
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Hauling
Cut Rate Hauling - A trash, clutter, and junk removal service. Estate clean up, eviction clean up, construction debris, etc. denvercutratejunk.com Call Ruben today 720-434-8042
Lawn Care
Aeration – Sod fertilizer – Power rake – Lawn mowing, Rototilling – Hauling – Stump removal – Weed control – Lawn mower repair – Shrubbery care – Small trees removed 720-327-9911
Masonry Services
Masonry Services- Brick, Stone, Concrete, restoration, tuck pointing, chimneys, retaining walls, city sidewalks. Licensed, bonded, and insured. www. thebrickandstoneguy.com References. Call Shawn 303-907-9223
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Roofing
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Sprinklers
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Tree Trimming
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Windows
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To advertise in the Classifieds contact Melissa Davis
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