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Tisdale named to DRCOG executive role

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The annual gala fills funding gaps and honors a woman who’s already accomplished hurdles facing her to become a productive community icon.

Volume 32 • Number 16 • March 13, 2014

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Internet connections, dating set scene for March film

Excelsior Youth Center honors Michelle Sie Whitten

Cherry Hills Village Mayor Doug Tisdale has been unanimously elected to serve as treasurer of the Denver Regional Council of Governments.

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Sex, Love and Missed Connections hits the big screen at The Landmark Theater, March 19, at 7 p.m., in traditional Film Festival Flix style.

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Locally shot ‘Bee People’

minds its beeswax Buzz-worthy documentary to play Women+Film Festival

By Peter Jones When amateur beekeeper Susan Halstedt first got the idea of bringing a beehive onto her large property in unincorporated Arapahoe County, she had no idea that her hive of newly adopted anthophilous insects already had neighbors. “She was already a beekeeper and didn’t even know it,” filmmaker David Knappe said. “Bees had converted the inside of her barn into this monstrous-sized hive. The walls were dripping with about 50 pounds of honey, maybe more.” What’s a woman to do? Grab the swatter? Google “bee problems?” Enter Greg McMahon, the buzz of Denver, the industry’s bee’s knees, and Colorado’s end-all, bee-all authority on honey-producing yellowish flying insects. McMahan is the bee whisperer of sorts, but he calls himself the “Bee Guru.” Flanked by his team armed with retrofitted shop vacuums, McMahan oversaw the removal about 40,000 bees – and more

‘Bee People’ Saturday, March 22 Sie Film Center

2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver Women+Film Voices Film Festival. For tickets and a full schedule, visit www.denverfilm.org or for information, call 303-595-3456.

A team member transfers a beehive population.

Photo courtesy of Bee People

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CDOT launches ‘Drive High, Get a DUI’ Arapahoe sheriff expects need for drug-recognition training

By Peter Jones Although legalized marijuana has been among the most highly charged issues to hit Colorado in recent years, public safety has been one rare area of agreement among advocacy groups, law enforcement and other interested parties. The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office

has joined the Marijuana Industry Group and other police and community organizations in supporting “Drive High, Get a DUI,” a new campaign by the Colorado Department of Transportation. The program is designed to educate and warn the public on the dangers – both medical and legal – of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of marijuana. “We all cooperate and work very effectively Continued on page 4

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