50¢ • Vol. 92 • No. 37
September 5, 2013
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NEWS
Community Ministry 5k Run/ Walk Sept. 14 PAGE 2
history
Great photographers capture spirit of early Colorado PAGE 5
school
DCIS at Fairmont celebrates ribbon cutting with international flare PAGEs 6-7
INDEX Opinion..................................3 WORSHIP DIRECTORY.............8 CLASSIFIEDS...........................9 HOROSCOPES..........................9 LEGALS...........................10 - 11
Sheridan celebrates Haraldsen as parade’s rand
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Submitted by City of Sheridan 2013 is the year that “Sheridan Celebrates Military Heroes,” and there has been just such a veteran participating in the parade for more than 20 years. Ken Haraldsen has driven the little locomotive in the Sheridan Celebrates parade representing the Englewood Lions. But he represents far more than that. He is a true military hero whose service to this country spans more than 40 years. Enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1942, his dream of being a pilot was dashed when he could not pass the color-blindness test. He became a mechanic instead and later a warden at an overseas prisonerof-war camp along the Rhine River. He joined the reserves after his release from active duty in 1946. When the Air Force was formed in 1947, he became part of that organization. During his tenure in the Air Force, he was cross-trained as a medic and assisted thousands of Vietnam veterans returning to Fitzsimmons in the late 1960s. Later, he moved to the Air Force Academy working in the emergency room and making ambulance trips. His formal theological college instruction at Central Bible College in Springfield, Mo, gave him the compassion and courage that was required for his long-term military service. Haraldsen proudly states, “I’ve saved six lives.” He retired from the Air Force in December 1982. Locally, Haraldsen was employed at the Englewood Post Office for 27 years and is a 25-year member of the Englewood Lions Club. After spending a couple of summers as an engineer for the kiddie train in Belleview Park, Haraldsen thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have a train in the parade?” So he made it happen. In 1990, he partnered with the Englewood High School shop class and constructed the little locomotive that appears each year in the Sheridan Celebrates parade. Haraldsen’s story will soon be elevated to “star status,” as he was recently interviewed for a History Channel special on World War II veterans. Don’t miss your chance to meet this amazing man at this year’s Sheridan Celebrates parade and festival held on Saturday, Sept. 28. The Sheridan Celebrates Committee welcomes Haraldsen as Grand Marshal and invites all active and veteran military men and women to participate in the 2013 parade.
Air Force veteran Ken Haraldsen will be grand marshal of the 2013 Sheridan Celebrates parade on Sept. 28. Photo courtesy of City of Sheridan
The annual Sheridan Celebrates parade route will run from the intersection of Lowell Boulevard and Nassau Court to Sheridan High School. Graphic courtesy of City of Sheridan
If you would like to participate by walking in the parade, send your name, email address, phone number and dates of military service to jray@joimail.com. If you need some sort of accommodation to take part in the parade, indicate this as well. If you have suggestions or ideas, post them on the Sheridan Celebrates Facebook page or call 303438-3321.
Englewood to fight ruling on sex offenders ACLU says residency law violates state Constitution By Peter Jones Convicted sex offenders may not want to house hunt in Englewood yet. The city has announced it will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that Englewood’s strict limits on where offenders can live pre-empts the state Constitution. “Because the state does not provide any protection for cities, we were basically forced to do that on our own,” Deputy City Manager Michael Flaherty said. “If the state had a law in place as 21 other states do, we would not have had to do this.” The controversial city ordinance makes it a crime for sex offenders to live within 2,000 feet of any school, park, or
playground, and within 1,000 reintegration of sex offenders feet of any licensed daycare during and after their prison senfacility, recreation center or tences. swimming pool. “Few sex Such individuals offenders also cannot live are incaron any property cerated for adjacent to a life,” Jackson bus stop, walksaid. “Most to-school route will at some or recreational point return trail. to the comTwo weeks munity, and ago, U.S. Disthere must trict Judge R. be a place for Brooke Jackson them to live.” ruled that the On Aug. ordinance has 26, the left sex offend- - Englewood Deputy City E n g l e w o o d ers with virtu- Manger Michael Flaherty City Counally no place to cil decided live in the city it would and is in violation of the state’s appeal the decision largely on interest in the uniform treatment, the grounds that there is no spemanagement, rehabilitation and cific state law prohibiting the
If the state had a law in place as 21 other states do, we would not have had to do this.
ordinance. “There is no mention anywhere that says anything about where a sex offender – including the most egregious offender – may or may not live,” Flaherty said. That fact is quickly conceded by Mark Silverstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of a convicted sex offender who was issued a summons from the city after he unknowingly purchased a home in a restricted area of Englewood. According to the ACLU attorney, the issue is the state Constitution’s limits on the powers of home-rule cities when there is a compelling statewide interest. “If an issue is clearly about a Continued on page 2