50¢ • Vol. 92 • No. 34
August 15, 2013
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LOCAL
3 Annual Denver County Fair rd
– a little something for everyone –
AEG to book Fiddler’s Green next year
SEE PAGE 2
SPORTS
Serevi RugbyTown Sevens returns to Infinity Park Aug. 17-18 SEE PAGE 5
BUSINESS
Clermont Park Retirement Community celebrates grand reopening SEE PAGE 6
After the pies were judged, it was time for a pie-eating contest. Diana Lopez-Atencio and Kristen Palmer get ready to start with the threeminute time limit.
INDEX Opinion..................................3 CLASSIFIEDS...........................9 HOROSCOPES..........................9 LEGALS...........................10 - 11 WORSHIP DIRECTORY...........12
Photo by Stefan Krusze
More photos on page 4
Englewood’s logo receives tender loving care By Tom Barry Each day thousands of drivers traveling on Hampden/HWY 285 pass by the City of Englewood’s massive eye catching logo on the south side of Hampden approaching the Broadway Bridge. Recently, gardeners from Western Proscapes, an Englewoodbased company, were tending to the foliage in the greenbelt area on the southwest corner of the intersection. The flowers add a brilliant dash of color to the community at one of few remaining green belts in the metro area. Upon walking up to the logo one can see good-sized rocks that formed the logo. Over time and budget constraints these whitepainted rocks have seen better days, as they are in need of repainting. The area in which the colored rocks rest is in disrepair with the edges needing to be replaced. This of course, is not noticeable from a distance, especially when driving past on the state highway at a good clip of speed. “Up until the late ‘70s, the area where the logo is was planted as
Antonio Ortega, Roberto Camacho and J. Luis Aguilar with Western Proscapes tend to the flower bed adjacent the Englewood city logo on the northwest corner Hampden and Broadway.
Photo by Tom Barry
an annual flowerbed using different color combinations to make the logo and background,” said Jerry Barton, a parks supervisor with the city of Englewood. “In the ‘80s, we added irrigation to that area to water low growing dark green
Junipers around white quartz rock that was cemented into place. That is still there.” The Junipers began to die in the early ‘90s and were replanted but struggled with watering restrictions.
“In the late ‘90s the junipers were removed and we had the area asphalted over so as to accent the white rock,” said Barton. “The rocks have been have been painted a couple of times over the years.”