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Greenwood Village Police seek help in locating Ava Reinhard

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Kempe Center Foundation honors 3, remembers Imhoffs

The Greenwood Village Police Department is seeking information regarding a report of a runaway, 15-year-old Ava Reinhard, last seen April 23

The gala, Embrace Kids…Embrace Colorado, was an emotionally evocative fundraiser, full of dedicated board members, guests and honorees.

Volume 32 • Number 23 • May 1, 2014

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CDOT to replace I-25 bridge over Arapahoe Road CDOT will be reconstructing the I-25 bridge over Arapahoe Road. Construction is anticipated to begin in early 2016 and be completed in 2017.

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A great horned owl nest sits in an old cottonwood tree along the High Line Canal. The nesting owls have recently been a source of great fascination to neighbors, as well as to walkers, bicyclists and joggers along the trail. Photo courtesy of Susan Propper

Tyler Brown

Democrat makes run for sheriff Brown challenges appointed incumbent Walcher

By Peter Jones If Tyler Brown were elected the next Arapahoe County sheriff, he would be making history on several fronts. Not only would he be the first Democrat to serve as county sheriff in decades, at 31 he would be among the youngest. He would also be the first sheriff in recent history to not rise from the upper ranks of the department. “Over the last 40 years, Arapahoe County has kind of implanted who was going to run for office, and then Continued on page 7

PEEK-A-BOO Remembering the fall of Saigon Experience still vivid for Greenwood Village mayor

By Jan Wondra The sky seemed filled with helicopters landing and taking off, some even rising with people clinging to the landing frame. In the haze of the tropical climate, even crisplystarched military shirts clung to the body. The mood in the city was fearful, tensely holding its breath. The day, April 29, 1973, just happened to be one day before the fall of Saigon – one day before the final U.S. military pullout from Vietnam’s capital city after 10 years and two months of conflict. Forty-one years later this week, the images remain vivid for Greenwood Village

Mayor Ron Force’s 13th Rakowsky. Division. “It was The staff was surreal,” he returning said. “Here from an we were witinspection nessing this trip to a base because our in Thailand plane had when its broken down. contract Pan We couldn’t Am plane leave until had gear they fixed problems it. From the and made an rooftop Carae m e rg e n c y velle restau- Then Capt. Ron Rakowsky, now landing in rant, we could mayor of Greenwood Village Saigon, not see bombs the best landing on the outskirts of the place to be on that day. city ... helicopters landing and By then, most of the Army taking off from the walled Unit- had been pulled out. The North ed States Embassy compound.” Vietnamese were pouring Rakowsky was a young into the South. The Viet Cong lawyer and an Air Force captain armies were near the city and on the assistant staff to the judge actively preparing to enter. advocate attached to the Air “As evacuations continued,

the rest of American staff in the city were told to change into civilian clothing to make themselves less of a target,” Rakowsky said. “But we were in transit, our luggage was embargoed on the plane and we had nothing we could change into. We were some of the few U.S. military uniforms visible in Saigon and we had no place to go while we waited.” The staff wound up in the Caravelle restaurant in the old French district of the city, a popular spot for U.S. military and the press corp. It had a rooftop restaurant with a panoramic view of Saigon. “Talk about a dichotomy!” Rakowsky said. “Here we were eating chateaubriand and Bordeaux on this rooftop and we could see the rockets and Continued on page 5


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