Volume 31 • Number 51 • November 14, 2013
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Littleton passes $80 million LPS bond issue
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Kappa dinner benefits Craig Rehab Hospital, Kappa charities
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Creek beats Overland 49-14 in playoff game
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Centennial re-elects Noon as mayor Newcomers take open seats in council races
By Peter Jones Centennial Mayor Cathy Noon won a landslide victory in her race against a much lesser known challenger on Nov. 5, ushering in her second term with a new group of civic activists also taking their places on the nine-member City Council. Noon, a popular incumbent who had received a wide range of endorsements from across the political spectrum, easily defeated her opponent, Monika Bromley, by a greater than 3-to-1 margin. Although Noon was widely expected to prevail against Bromley’s anti-establishment candidacy, Centennial’s second mayor says she took nothing for granted. “You campaign as hard as you can and you give it your best effort,” they mayor said. “That way, if it turns out differently at least I gave it my all. The voters may think of something different when that ballot is on their kitchen table.” Bromley, a sometime yoga instructor who has been active in her homeowners association, was a first-time candidate and the latest in a growing list of darkhorse hopefuls to unsuccessfully challenge incumbent Centennial mayors. Noon, who co-wrote the city
Centennial City Councilman Ron Weidmann congratulates Mayor Cathy Noon for her easy win to re-election on Nov. 5. Photo by Peter Jones charter and formerly led the Centennial Council of Neighborhoods, interprets that continuing trend as a vote of confidence in the leaders who helped create and
build the 12-year-old city. “For the most part, people think the community is doing well and they would like to continue that,” she said.
District 1 In the sometimes-fiery race for an open seat representing Centennial’s westernmost district, Continued on page 4
30,000 ballots dropped off late on Election Day Arapahoe County final results planned for Nov. 22 By Tom Barry Arapahoe County officials and others throughout the state thought they were prepared to quickly handle the mail ballots on Election Day, Nov. 5. Everything was in place, as the county had staffed up as usual and the equipment was raring to go. Approximately 40 percent of all Arapahoe County election ballots in this mail election came in on Election Day, with the majority coming in after noon that day up until 7 p.m., according to Arapahoe County. “We have a canvas board, this year we have the chairs of both political parties and myself that serve on the canvas board,” said Matt Crane, Arapahoe County’s clerk and recorder. “We will look through the results, the returns, go through a series, also preform a post-election audit to verify the accuracy of our counting devices…When the canvas board signs off, that’s when the results become official [Nov. 22]. “Right now, we will not do an automatic recount of the Littleton Public School board race, it’s not
Volunteers process ballots at the Arapahoe County Election Warehouse, Nov. 5. inside that half of a percentage point that triggers a recount,” said Crane. One of the candidates could request a recount at the candidate’s own expense.
“As of right now, we are not there,” Crane said. The county sent out 140,000 total ballots. Last week, 667 letters were mailed out to voters with some kind of voter discrep-
Photo by Tom Barry
ancy, missing signature or missing ID [must be shown the first time people vote after registering by mail or electronically], said Continued on page 4