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VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 29 • JUNE 7, 2018
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The 2018 edition of the Denver Chalk Art Festival June 2 and 3, hosted over 200 talented artists, with vast and varying talents and skills. The weekend’s chalk artists ranged from students, professional artists and designers, to those who, in their day jobs, are engineers, lawyers and other professions generally not associated with the artistic realm. The streets of Larimer Square came alive with creative, original ideas and artists that took renowned classics and interpreted those works with chalk in ways that channeled the original masters. See more photos on page 17.
An interpretative twist on Michaelangelo’s The Creation of Adam with Tad Moskal and Erin Abromeit in their The Creation of Spot with the creative touch using comic and animation dog characters. Photo by Stefan Krusze
Centennial Airport celebrates 50 years with Capt. Sully Sullenberger A highly distinguished group of 600 government, business, and community leaders gathered at the Marriott DTC May 24 for an inspired ad-
dress from Capt. Sully Sullenberger, the hero of U.S. Airways flight 1549 Jan. 15, 2009. Most people know the story, which Sully recounted. He told the crowd that, “One hundred seconds
after taking off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport,” with a full complement of 150 passengers and five crew, as they were traveling “316 feet per second, a flock of Canadian geese filled the windshield” and were
sucked into the jet’s engines. He soon realized that “The thrust loss was sudden, complete, and symmetrical. Both engines stopped making any sound whatsoever.” At an altitude of 3,000 feet, the airplane had no power.
Unable to turn back to LaGuardia or reach any other nearby airport, Sullenberger, who had 20,000 hours of flight experience gained over 40 Continued on page 20