VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 51 • NOVEMBER 15, 2018
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Marching to remember honor, celebrate & give thanks to those who served
Members form VFW Post Number 1 and the Boy Scouts of America carrying the largest U.S. flag in the parade.
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his year’s Veterans Day celebrations honoring military past and present U.S. military service members coincided with the anniversary of “The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day in the Eleventh Month of 1918, the day guns fell silent ending WW I. The Great War, the war that was to end all wars, unfortunately did not succeed, for today in remembering Veterans Day or Remembrance Day, Veterans from WW II, Korea,
Vietnam, Desert Storm in Iraq and Afghanistan and other global wars and conflicts more and more veterans are being remembered and honored for their service and sacrifices. On a brighter note Saturday’s Denver, Colorado’s Veterans Day Parade, reportedly third largest in the nation, brought together former political adversaries and combat veterans After Veteran’s were honored before the Cherry Creek/Castle who took the time to stand View football game Nov. 8, team captains from CCHS and side-by-side to celebrate and oo m r oo or honor their comrades in arms. Ron Rakowsky, an Air Force veteran, represented all of the See more photos on page 10. Photos by Stefan Krusze
honored guests during the coin toss.
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Arapahoe County shocker—blue wave hits incumbents hard GOP: Black and blue, election results in Dem landslide across Arapahoe County As the election returns rolled in Tuesday night Nov.
6, Arapahoe County Republican Chair Rich Sokol told The Villager he’d be moving on. “It’s been an honor and a privilege to serve and I’m looking forward to the next chapter of my life.” When election season began, all five top county officials were Republicans. They
appeared to have such strong support that no one even ran against two of them—Treasurer Sue Sandstrom and Coroner Kelly Lear. Many did not take the opponents of the other incumbents very seriously. All three Democratic challengers had run previously and lost, two for the exact
same position four short years ago. Republicans were mostly blindsided when universally-lauded 36-year law enforcement veteran Arapahoe County Sheriff Dave Walcher fell to Tyler Brown, who has been a police officer for nine years, three years in the 520-person town of Mountain
View outside Denver. Assessor Marc Scott, a licensed real estate appraiser, fell to perennial candidate P K Kaiser. Heads shook in disbelief. When the morning after the election arrived, votes were still being counted in Continued on page 3