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ARTS

Wildlife Art Sale and Wine Tasting, June 6

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Sample more than 200 bottles of wine from around the world and enjoy savory delicacies from local restaurants at The Wildlife Experience.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Cherokee Castle & Ranch announces 20 concerts

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After much anticipation, Cherokee Castle & Ranch has announced 20 performances as part of its “Concerts at the Castle” series this summer.

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LOCAL

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Locals enjoy Valverde Bazaar and Urban Market

The 2014 Valverde Bazaar and Urban Market at Eron Johnson Antiques in Denver, which was named Best Flea Market in 2013.

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Vol. 93 No. 23

Denver’s Sullivan wins 2014 Colfax Marathon

21-year-old DeLaurell of Colorado Springs wins women’s division

First Place Finisher of the 2014 Colfax Marathon, 37-year-old Denver engineer Pat Sullivan with a time of 2:40:47. Holding the tape is Nancy Walters of Davita, which was a major Corporate Charity and Challenge Sponsor of the Colfax Marathon. Photo by Stefan Krusze

RTD works toward equity as it expands district’s services By Angie RiveraMalpiede, RTD Director District C As a member of the Regional Transportation District Board of Directors, I take all of my commitments seriously, but none as much as chairing RTD’s Civil Rights Committee. The committee oversees RTD’s compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race, skin color or national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. RTD works hard to comply with these rules not only because it receives federal funding, but because being responsive is good business for a large, urban transit agency with customers, contractors and employees who hail from all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Our transit agency has pioneered policies and procedures aimed at

accessibility so seriaccommodating the ously we are hiring needs of a broad an ADA manager to spectrum of riders, oversee our initiaincluding those with tives. physical disabilities, Meanwhile, and we’re proud of our small business our work. Recently, enterprise and disRTD partnered with advantaged business the Colorado Crossenterprise programs Disability Coalition to ensure that Angie Rivera-Malpiede provide opportunities to small busiwheelchair securement and priority-seating areas nesses — including those run by on all fixed-route buses are used as women and people from ethnic intended for passengers who rely groups that have been at a historic on wheelchairs, walkers and other disadvantage in the United States — mobility aids. to bid for work on our construction, Such priority seating, along with maintenance and service projects. ramps and other accessibility feaRTD’s pioneering Workforce Initures that we build into our system, tiative Now program, which is only a is part of our mission to provide safe, few years old, already has become a reliable and meaningful service to national model for providing worker all of our customers while comply- training and employment opportuing with Americans with Disabilities nities in transit, transportation and Act guidelines. In fact, RTD takes construction.

All of these are important initiatives to RTD, but so is the funding that comes along with fulfilling mandates that accompany many of the much-needed federal grants and loans that are helping us build a first-rate transit system for our eightcountry district. For example, the $480 million renovation of Denver Union Station was a collaborative effort that leveraged more than $300 million in federal loans and grants to create a multimodal transit hub and entertainment venue in Denver’s historic Lower Downtown neighborhood. The revamped historic train station is reopening in stages, starting with the May 9 ribbon-cutting ceremony that inaugurated RTD’s new Union Station underground bus concourse. Union Station bus service started officially on Sunday, May 11,

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