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In the wake of several incidents for the Denver Sheriff Department, former Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson will lead that office’s Internal Affairs Bureau.

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Littleton man fled Nazis on Kindertransport

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Annabel Bowlen, center, with the Bowlen family and Team uper Bowlen, complete the Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's, Sept 20.

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residents to reclaim the future for millions at the Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s on

Sept. 20 at Denver City Park.

Bowlen then cut the ribbon to start this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s in an effort to

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increase awareness and funds for care, support and research efforts for those impacted by Alzheimer’s.

Battle looms in Littleton over urban renewal

Opponents plan ballot question to require voter approval

By Peter Jones While Littleton officials tout urban renewal as a cost-effective way for the city to partner with property owners to erase blight and enhance economic development, some Littleton residents are not so sure. If Citizens for Rational Development gets its way, the question may soon be up to city voters.

In association with a loose collective called the Sunshine Boys, the group has been gathering petition signatures to hold a special election on the issue.

If [the ballot question] passes a citizen vote, it will kill urban renewal in the city. It will also kill a lot of economic development.

- Jim Taylor, chair of Littleton Invests for Tomorrow

If the proposed ballot question were to be approved next year, the city charter would be amended to require public approval before the city could condemn “blighted” areas or offer tax benefits to landholders seeking public improvements in those areas.

“What we’re saying is if they want to use that kind of

financing mechanism and redirect our tax dollars from the entities they were intended to go to, they need to ask the voters first,” said Carol Brzeczek, a leading proponent of the ballot initiative. “The $15,000 for a special election is nothing compared to what the school district has at risk over the next 25 years.”

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by City Council, property owners in any of Littleton’s designated urban-renewal areas are eligible for special funding to help pay for mandated infrastructure improvements, including for such things as pedestrian-related features, landscaping, drainage, parking lots and underground utilities.

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Robinson to lead internal affairs in wake of abuse charges

By Peter Jones Retired Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson is back in the saddle – at least for the time being.

In the wake of several embarrassing incidents for the Denver Sheriff Department, Robinson will lead that office’s beleaguered Internal Affairs Bureau for an interim period of up to 12 months.

Stephanie O’Malley, the city’s executive director of public safety made the announcement on Sept. 22.

The 43-year law enforcement veteran, who stepped down in January before the end of his third and final term in Arapahoe County, has been long known for his evenhandedness and dedication to community-oriented policing.

“We are excited to work with Sheriff Robinson and to benefit from his vast experience and proven track record as a motivational and results-oriented lead-

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Trujillo graduates basic combat training

Army Pvt. Stephanie Trujillo has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical

fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy,

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Sheriff Grayson Robinson

The announcement comes as the City and County of Denver continues to reel from reports of deputy misconduct that culminated in a $3.25 million settlement with a former jail inmate who had been choked by a deputy.

The sheriff’s department is also in the process of hiring seven on-call investigators to help Robinson with the internal-affairs backlog.

The office had been widely criticized for its slow response to abuse allegations, prompting Sheriff Gary Wilson to step down earlier this year.

Robinson comes to the department with a wealth of experience in law enforcement and public policy. Appointed by three governors, Robinson served on the Colorado Criminal and Juvenile Justice Commission for six years and on the Colorado Justice Assistance Board for a decade. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Kennedy School of Government’s State and Local Executives Program.

Robinson did not return a request for comment.

taxes collected above the pre-urban-renewal levels.

It amounts to a good deal all around, according to Jim Taylor, the former Littleton City Councilmember who chairs the Board of Directors for Littleton Invests for Tomorrow, the city’s urbanrenewal authority.

Taylor disputes Brzeczek’s argument that tax-increment financing hurts Littleton Public Schools, South Suburban Parks and Recreation or any other taxing entity that gets a piece of Littleton’s property-tax pie. That is because the increased taxes going to LIFT would never have been generated in the first place without the urban-renewal designation and the resulting improvements.

“If it wasn’t for the redevelopment being done, there would be no increase at all in value. They’re using that as part of their fear mongering,” Taylor said. “If [the ballot question] passes a citizen vote, it will kill urban renewal in the city. It will also kill a lot of economic development. All the surrounding communities have urban-renewal boards. Developers are going to go someplace else.”

That would be just fine with Brzeczek, who rejects the claim that government incentives are needed more than the free market. She points to the failings of the former Littleton Riverfront Authority, a city board created in 1980 to facilitate the somewhat ill-fated revitalization of a 25-acre parcel adjacent the South Platte River.

If they want to … redirect our tax dollars from the entities they were intended to go to, they need to ask the voters first.

- Carol Brzeczek, Citizens for Rational Development Two proposed areas

LIFT has recently proposed two new urban-renewal areas that have been OK’d by the Littleton Planning Board and will go to the City Council for final approval next month. The areas include much of a stretch of Santa Fe Drive between Prince Street and C-470 and an area near West Belleview Avenue and Federal Boulevard that includes the former Columbine Square shopping center.

As required by state law, both areas, according to LIFT, contain at least 4 of 11 factors within the legal definition of “blight.” Those factors can include dilapidated buildings, outdated or faulty infrastructure, a lack of curbs, gutters or sidewalks, flood-zone

designations and deteriorating parking lots.

With benefit of hindsight, Brzeczek is skeptical of LIFT’s insistence that those two areas are in any more need of tax-increment financing than some other projects that have been completed recently in Littleton without it.

“I’d like to see their crystal ball,” she said. “We’ve got Breckenridge Brewery going in and King Soopers is redeveloping their property. Aspen Grove has developed without urban renewal.”

Taylor stresses that the touted Breckenridge Brewery, which is slated to open next year along the South Platte River, received a tax incentive from the city. He also stresses that the 21st century LIFT has come a long way since the days of the Littleton Riverfront Authority.

“Things are very different now than they were in the 1980s. The laws have changed dramatically,” he said. “The Riverfront Authority had the ability to condemn a piece of property for economicdevelopment purposes. That’s prohibited by law now.”

Citizens for Rational Development must collect more than 3,000 signatures to initiate a special election, which would be conducted in February 2015.

That vote would come after City Council’s decision in October about the two proposed areas and an associated 25 years of available infrastructure financing.

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Go green by freezing fall’s bounty

By Margaret Malsam My mother and aunts spent many hours canning fresh summer fruits and vegetables over a stove in a hot Oklahoma kitchen.

Now it’s much easier to go green by freezing instead of canning Colorado’s bountiful fall harvest of vegetables and fruits. Freezing is quick and easy. It locks in that “just picked” taste while effectively retaining nutritional value and high quality. Moreover, it eliminates working in a hot kitchen.

In the days of our grandparents, most all fruits and vegetables were organically grown. Today, however, pesticide residues and other health concerns are a big motivating factor to spend the extra money for organic fruits and vegetables. Some fruits and vegetables have higher residues of pesticides than others. These pesticides may contain carcinogens, suspected hormone disruptors, neurotoxins, and developmental and reproductive toxins.

Every year, the Environmental Working Group releases its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of the worst offenders in the produce department of supermarkets by analyzing USDA tests of residue on 48 produce items. Generally, tree fruits, berries and leafy greens fall into this group every year. Fruits and vegetables with thick skins that are

sist of celery, peaches, spinach, bell peppers, imported nectarines, cucumbers, potatoes, cherry tomatoes, hot pepper, domesticallygrown summer squash, and leafy greens,

removed before eating (melons, avocado, corn, etc.) tend to have the lowest amounts of pesticide residue.

It’s not a surprise that apples, strawberries and grapes (foods often consumed with little or no washing) top the “Dirty Dozen” list. The rest of the offenders con-

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Some merchants in downtown Littleton say the Littleton Twilight Criterium, held last month, is not good for business.

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Putting on the brakes on the Littleton Criterium?

Downtown merchants say bike race hurts business

By Peter Jones Despite attracting approximately 3,000 spectators and generating about $10,000 in charity beer sales, the Littleton Twilight Criterium may need some air in the tires.

At the Sept. 3 meeting of Historic Downtown Littleton Merchants, Becky Motchan, the city’s marketing and events manager, described the second annual bicycle race, held in downtown Littleton on Saturday, Aug. 9, as a learning experience.

“During the day, it was slow.

We know that,” she told neighborhood business leaders. “We need to have more activities during the day to keep people downtown, and next year, if we do this … we may come up with new activities for people.”

Motchan’s use of the word “if” may be telling if some downtown merchants have anything to say about it. Although HDLM President Greg Reinke says he had tried to talk the city into organizing more entertainment around the race, some business leaders now question if even a better attended race could be considered a success.

“All the food and beverage service people did OK … but the retailers are the ones who are suffering,” said Reinke, owner of Reinke Bros. costume store. “I don’t know if there’s a happy medium. … As a body of people here, we have to listen to what all the merchants are saying and sometimes an event may not be a good event to have.”

Susan Burgstiner, of Main Street’s Marketing on Demand, said many of her neighbors suffered from the closed streets and limited parking on one of the busiest days for shopping in the neighborhood.

Burgstiner said she had recently surveyed local merchants by email, and though only 15 of the nearly 80 downtown businesses had responded thus far, she said the message already seemed clear.

“Out of the 15, 13 said you’re killing us. Their sales were down 40 to 75 percent,” Burgstiner told Motchan. “They do not see it as a benefit on a Saturday. … A lot of the comments were also that the [customers] that actually did come in and usually come in could care less about the race.”

The view was echoed by others,

Littleton businesswoman Susan Burgstiner, at this month’s meeting of Historic Downtown Littleton Merchants, was among several who argued that closed streets and parking problems during August’s Littleton Criterium hurt neighborhood retailers.

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including Erma Pacheco, owner of Main Street’s Colorado Center for Physical Therapy.

“Out of about 65 people that usually come in on a Saturday for us … probably 15 made it because either they couldn’t get through the traffic, they couldn’t find parking or they couldn’t walk that far,” she said. “…

Our profit margin is so narrow that it’s a killer.”

While Motchan said the city would consider offering shuttle service and golf carts to help facilitate customers visiting area merchants during future criteriums, she said taking the event off Saturday would cost the race an official sanction from U.S.A. Cycling, which does not allow Sunday races. According to Motchan, such placement on the national cycling calendar has significant benefits.

“With that comes big sponsors, people traveling in from out of town,” she said. “It would be an incentive for people to come down here, fly here, stay here, shop here, eat here, the whole bit. … We could do Sunday, but then we’d lose U.S.A. Cycling buy-in. We’ve met with them a couple times and this is what they do.”

The national policy-based answer seemed arbitrary to some and prompted anger from Tina Witham, owner of Main Street’s Lido wine store.

“Which is more important – U.S.A. Cycling or downtown merchants?” she asked. “… You bring

in a national audience from Broomfield, Arvada, Parker and Aurora and they’re not going to come back and buy tea or wine or physical therapy.”

As one concession, Motchan said the criterium would likely be moved out of Western Welcome Week next year to avoid placing the race too close to that event’s Saturday grand parade, which also drives traffic – for good or bad – to the downtown area. Increased advance notice could also be provided to merchants, she said.

Not all HDLM members were opposed to the criterium’s presence in the neighborhood. Al Oramas, owner of Pro Auto Care on nearby South Dahlia Street, said he supports the event, though his business is several blocks from Main Street.

“I bought property in Littleton because of the events. I really like what’s happening,” he said. “… I like the event. There’s got to be a fix to it.”

Burgstiner said if the city were unwilling to move the event – to a Sunday or off Main Street entirely – the options for such improvement would be limited.

“I’m not sure you can fix that,” she said, “… unless you come up with some type of share that compensates all these people that are losing hard dollars.”

Motchan said the next criterium is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, July 18, 2015, though she stressed the date could easily change.

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OPINION

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Flipping a coin is final solution KINDLING

By Robert Sweeney

It’s strange how fortunes can be impacted by the flip of a coin like the Broncos game, Sept. 21.

Had we won the toss, we would probably have won the game.

Life and luck can be strange companions.

Usually, the Broncos figure out

a way to win, and they did again against the Seahawks. The last minute drive should have been for a win, not a tie, but even then it would have gone down in history as one of the greatest comebacks in history for the Broncos and QB Manning.

We all need to remember that football is just entertainment and in the case of the Broncos, it is just really great fun and excitement.

It is hard to not be emotionally upset when we lose – but it is just a game, and winning and losing can be decided by the flip of a coin.

Take that a step further. What if we decided elections by just flipping a coin? It would definitely save a lot of time and money.

Hire or fire a worker, just flip

September REMARKS

By Mort Marks

“For everything, there’s a season and a time to every purpose under the heavens.”

And now it’s our time for a new “season” as those words from Ecclesiastes makes you think about September as its end brings with it the beautiful fall season.

In my mind, I can give each month a face – a personality. I see May, for example, as a wild young woman. Her wind teases us – one moment cold, the next with hints of warmth. May’s the month that flowers risk peeking out of their cocoons to face a sudden sneaky frost. Just like an unbridled, passionate young woman – May cannot be tamed.

But – September is my favorite month, because it’s like “life” itself, and the following words

from “September Song” tell us why.

“Oh – The days grown short when you reach September, When the autumn weather turns the leaves to flames, I haven’t got time for the waiting game.”

“I haven’t got time for the waiting game” – that says it all.

September – like life itself – is a month struggling to hold on to its youth – just as all of us at one time or another have tried to hold on to our youth.

September reflects “life” because as the days pass by, it has neither the stamina, nor the resilience of May. It has not the strength to drag the day’s warmth into the night – yielding instead to the cold.

Beautiful September cannot carry the mildness of one day to the next – instead it retreats, regroups and revisits us a few days later. And even though it grows older with each passing day – it still has much to offer.

September makes us realize the joy in being alive in Colorado.

A lot of it has to do with the colors, but that’s only a minor part of it. It’s also wrapped up in the smells, and sounds and the way the wind, hail, rain, and sun all merge together late in the afternoon and bring a special feeling against your face.

a coin.

Pass or fail a class, another coin flip.

There is something very honest about a coin flip. Called in the air, it can fall either way and the verdict is final, not open to debate and it resolves the issue very quickly.

It is rather interesting that this is the system worked out by the NFL to decide an OT playoff.

College is different; both teams have a chance to either score a touchdown or field goal. The team that scores the most points wins the contest.

I once used a coin flip to settle an argument between two cab drivers at 5 a.m. Heading home from a conference, I encountered two cars and cab drivers in the hotel driveway arguing about

who should take me to the airport at this early hour?

Driver No. 1 had been there for hours, but had to leave for a bathroom break. While he was gone, another cab arrived. He returned to his first position and was confronted by driver No. 2.

I came out heading to the airport to confront the two drivers, almost at blows, over who was on first base for the next fare, that being me.

I pulled out a quarter and said, “Let’s flip a coin and settle this right now.” They both agreed.

Driver No. 2 called “heads” and it came out “tails. “ He departed slightly disgruntled and driver No. 1, who had been there earlier, was the winner.

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Each day counts, October is knocking on the door. By months end it no longer knocks quietly, but demands to be let in.

There is something revitalizing when our frosty mornings turn into mild, pleasant sunny afternoons, and the evening horizons turn into a brilliant orange sunset.

Because of such Septembers, we are more than willing to suffer hot days of July and August.

For autumns in Colorado, I’m even willing to suffer the snows of February.

In many ways, September is a bookend of May, with its fluctuating temperatures and moods. But, for all its beauty and splendor, it’s weak. Often a gentle southerly breeze is bullied and overpowered by a cold snap from the northwest in as short a time as it takes a leaf to fall to the ground.

Oh – September still teases us with glimpses of summer, but how much longer can the sun be considered a friend? Already it’s beginning to shy away, tiring each evening.

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Unfortunately, there’s no promise of a June or July on the other side of September – only an October, November and December – January, February and on to March.

In spite of that shortcoming, Septembers are never forgotten when they are gone. We remember how the yellows, the reds, and the oranges mixed like perfect partners, hanging in the aspens while snatching our break away.

We remember the rustle of those same September leaves as we trampled across our lawns.

And, we’ll ponder over the smell of those glorious leaves that trigger something in us that makes us long for a place where it’s always September.

Yes – we’ll long for a place where the winds are incapable of teasing and are always gentle and kind – where our youth isn’t fleeting, but eternal, and – where September leaves never fall.

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Thousands gather to help in finding cure for Alzheimer’s Continued from Page 1

Annabel Bowlen with family and friends

In center with Denver Broncos Super Fans is Isabelle Chavez of Bright Life of West Denver.

ABOVE: “Latinos Walking Together For Alzheimer’s” RIGHT: Cathy Kowalski provides entertainment for walkers in the 25th annual Alzheimer’s Association Walk To End Alzheimer’s, Sept. 20.

FAR RIGHT: Stilt walker Alisha Beston of “Beston Show” walks in memory of a loss to Alzheimer’s.

Annabel Bowlen receives words of comfort and wisdom from President and CEO of Alzheimer’s Association Linda Mitchell.

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Miraval Resort in Puerto Vallarta

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By Wanda M. Padilla or those Colorado residents who wish to escape our chilly fall/ winter weather, there is no better choice than sunny Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

This small town wasn’t even on the map until after 1963 when Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor made it the site of their steamy love nest. This was during the filming of the classic Night of the Iguana, starring Burton and Eva Gardner.

After that highly publicized tryst, Hollywood took note of this then sleepy Mexican village and several other movies were filmed there, including one starring the renowned Anthony Quinn and more recently, Kevin Costner.

Following all that exposure, tourists from the United States began to flock to this village and several classy hotels were built. The most well known of that period was the El Camino Reale, which was built in 1970.

Now that Puerto Vallarta has become a popular getaway for both American and Canadian tourists, new developments have been built along the coastline just north of the original village. The area is called Nueva Vallarta, and it is replete with posh hotels, condominiums and time-share properties.

The one this reporter stayed at – courtesy of eTravel Unlimited in Centennial – was Marival Residences and World Spa. They also own Marival Resort, a close by hotel facility.

Marival Residences has three fine restaurants – Lemon Grass (specializing in seafood), D’Maggios (Italian), and the Sky Lounge Restaurant, which serves a variety of tapas that are Spanish style appetizers. The tapas we sampled included lamb chops, shrimp on a stick (corndog style) and sizzling scallops with bananas sauce. All of them were mouthwatering and the fish and chips we ate at Lemon Grass were tasty as well.

The service we received from waiters as bellboys was impeccable. Each worker at the Marival Residences was courteous and devoted to make sure we had ev-

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During our stay, we enjoyed the Marival’s “all-inclusive package,” which regularly costs $180 per person per day. This package includes not only superior accommodations, but also all meals and all drinks, including room service and transportation to and from the airport. The resort features two adult swimming pools, a children’s pool, plus a lazy river. There were three bars, with two inside the building and one at poolside.

There is also the World Spa that gives guests a complimentary facial, offers reasonably priced body massages, plus it features a full gym with state-of-the-art workout equipment.

Although the outside weather was hot and humid, our rooms were well air-conditioned so we could cool off as necessary. Our

one-bedroom suite included a living room/dining room area with a full kitchen at the entry side. There were two full bathrooms, one off the kitchen and the other in the bedroom. Plus there were two televisions—a 52” one in the living room and a 36” one in the bedroom. Both were complete with cable service and movies.

All in all, our stay was truly relaxing and enjoyable – a really nice change from our daily work lives. We found the Marival Residences and World Spa to truly be a first class place and we highly recommend our readers consider it for your vacation destination.

Editor’s Note: Sandie Preuss of E-Travel Unlimited handled all the arrangements. If you want to make a reservation at this resort, call Sandie at 303-792-9225.

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South Suburban’s Gould named Manager of the Year Submitted by South Suburban JoAnn Gould, South Suburban Park and Recreation’s director of recreation and community services, has been named 2014 Manager of the Year by the Special District Association of Colorado.

Gould has made significant contributions to the recreation district over the past 28 years, including her key involvement in the design and construction of the Buck Community Recreation

Center in Littleton and the Lone Tree Recreation Center, the Lone Tree Tennis Center, the Cook Creek Pools and the Goodson Recreation Center’s one-of-akind gymnastics facility.

In addition to her efforts in developing new facilities, Gould oversees a wide variety of programs. Her management style empowers her staff to experiment with innovative offerings, and that philosophy has resulted in the addition of Pickleball, the

nation’s fastest growing sport, which is now available at all South Suburban recreation centers.

Gould also championed the creation of a district-wide customer-service training program, which was introduced to all employees to improve both the internal and external customerservice experience. In addition, Gould recently developed a new youth citizens advisory committee. The Youth Commission

offers young people a unique opportunity to become involved in local government through volunteerism and learn about the park and recreation industry.

Gould was one of the first people in the country to earn the credential of certified parks and recreation executive as granted by the National Recreation and Park Association. She is an avid athlete and enjoys playing in Colorado’s great outdoors. She is a Littleton resident.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Free Days at Denver Cultural Attractions

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Children’s Museum of Denver: Oct. 7, 4 – 8 p.m., 2121 Children’s Museum Drive, Denver. 303-433-7444.

Denver Art Museum: Oct. 4, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Visit www. denverartmuseum.org.

Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Oct. 27, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver.

Four Mile Historic Park: Oct. 3, 715 S. Forest St., Denver. 720-865-0800

‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’

Through Oct. 26, Stage Theater, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Updated from the original 1960 version, musical tells the story of Margaret Tobin Brown, whose husband made a fortune in the Leadville mines. The Denver matron became famous after the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Visit www.denvercenter.org.

‘RACE: Are We So Different?’

Through Jan. 4, History Colorado Center, 1200 Sherman St., Denver. Exhibition explores the volatile topic of race in America and Addresses Race Relations. The classic image of the American nation — a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion and nationality are submerged in democracy — is being replaced by a prevailing attitude that celebrates difference and abandons assimilation. While this upsurge in ethnic awareness and diversity has had many healthy consequences, race remains an open wound in the United States today. The exhibit encourages Colorado museum visitors and community groups to explore the science, history and everyday impact of race. Visit www. historycoloradocenter.org.

Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., Mission Hills Church, 620 SouthPark Drive, Littleton. Music by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), whose haunting Violin Concerto begins the program with guest soloist Andrew Sords. Director and Conductor Devin Patrick Hughes will lead a preconcert talk on the program beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets at www.arapahoe-phil.org, 303781-1892 or at the door.

All Colorado Art Show

Sept. 27 – Oct. 31, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, 2349 E. Orchard Road, Greenwood Village. Opening Reception: Sept.

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Oct. 1 – 4, Comedy Named one of Rolling Stone’s “Five Comics to Watch,” Ryan Hamilton has a bright future. With appearances on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Conan and Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, Tickets at www.

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‘First Night: Masquerade!’

Oct. 11, 7:30pm, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, University of Denver, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Special pre-Halloween performance by the Denver Brass. Visit www. newmancenter.org or call 303-871-7720.

‘Mahan and the Emperor’

Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Features local pianist Katie Mahan, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Emperor. Also on the program: Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, Copland’s El Salon Mexico and John Williams’ popular selections from the movie E.T. Tickets are available online at www.littletonsymphony.org. Call 303-9336824.

Oct. 8, Doors open 11:30 a.m.; Luncheon noon, Four Seasons Hotel, Cottonwood Ballroom, 1111 14th St., Denver. Featured Speaker: The Honorable John W. Suthers, Colorado Attorney General. Honoring Outstanding State Legislators with the Common Sense in the Courtroom Award. Info@ ccjl.org.

EVENTS Handmade in Colorado Expo

Sept. 26 - 27, 16th Street Mall and in Skyline Park in Downtown Denver. Juried event showcasing some of Colorado’s best fine art and contemporary craft. The event will feature a vast array of independent designers producing original handcrafted goods from a wide array of media including metals, paper, glass, fibers, food, fabricated objects, clay, paint, wax, gems, and more. All work sold will be created from both emerging and experienced artisans from Colorado. Free live music. Visit www. handmadeincolorado.com.

Oct. 4, 9 a.m. – noon, Sanctuary Golf Course, Douglas County. Hike or jog the cart paths and enjoy the beauty of the high plains ecosystem and spectacular views of the Front Range. Pre-registration required, 720-488-3344.

Family Workshop: Pumpkin Carving for Día de los Muertos

Oct. 11, 2-4 p.m., Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver. Fee charged. Families carve pumpkins with Día de los Muertos stencils to honor loved ones who have passed.

The workshop is led by Barry Brown, a master pumpkin carver who has been featured on David Letterman, The Tonight Show and Good Morning America. Each family receives one pumpkin, a pattern and a mini-kit of Barry’s favorite carving tools. Visit denverartmuseum.org.

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Oct. 5, 7:30 a.m., Washington Park, 701 S. Franklin St., Denver. Register at www. freetobreathe.org.

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Sept. 27 - 28, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., The Fort Restaurant grounds, 19192 Colorado 8, Morrison. Features Spanish colonial art and jewelry and historical interpreters that enact colorful scenes of the west in the 1830s.

Sept 27, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m., Cherokee Ranch and Castle, 6113 N. Daniels Park Road, Sedalia. Join long-time teacher and guide John McKinney along game trails to a petrified forest, the highest point on the property and some of the most rugged terrain. Reservations at 303-688-4600.

Oct. 5, 7:30 a.m. registration, 10K run, 8:30 a.m., 5K Run/Walk, 9 a.m., Hudson Gardens, 6115 S Santa Fe Drive, Littleton.

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Oct. 16, 6-9 p.m., Posner Center for International Development, 1031 33rd St., Denver, in the historic Curtis Park district.

Southeast Asian cuisine prepared by a celebrity chef and traditional dancing by Denver’s Spirit of Cambodia Cultural Alliance will spice the

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Sweet Charity Brunch and Auction

Oct. 18. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Live Auction at 9:30 a.m., Calvary Baptist Church, 6500 E. Girard, Denver. Bake Sale, Silent Auction, Live Auction, Boutique with unique gift, decorative and clothing items handcrafted by area artisans and a brunch catered by A Taste of the Season. Funds philanthropic projects that include: Autism Speaks, the Boys and Girls Club of Denver, FACES (Family Advocacy, Care, Education, Support) and the Family Crisis Center. Tickets: Barbara Vietti, 6245 W. Coal Mine Place, Littleton, CO 80128; bvietti@ comcast.net or 303-979-7561.

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A train ride to survival Littleton man fled Nazis on Kindertransport

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By Peter Jones n January 1939, 7-year-old Peter Ney was put alone on a train from Germany for reasons few first-graders could have understood.

“My father had given me a silver pencil as a memory,” Ney recalled some 75 years later. “I kept thinking, why is he giving me this for a memory? He’s supposed to meet me in England, whatever that was.”

It did not help that the Naziguard porters were less than friendly to the confused children who were ordered to turn over any valuables they might be carrying. To make sure the message was clear, the guards snatched a few of the child-size suitcases and brazenly dumped their contents on the floor.

Ney slipped back into his seat as Nazi bullies walked the aisles.

“This silver pencil that my father had given me was in my coat pocket,” Ney recounted with a wry smile. “I guess it was the first political statement I made in my life. I reached in my pocket and got this silver pencil and slipped it in my underwear. I went to England with this pencil in my underwear.”

The fancy metallic tool would become even more of a keepsake than Ney’s father could have ever intended. To this day, the 82-yearold Littleton resident and retired judge keeps that pencil in the top drawer of his bedroom bureau.

Decades later, he related his story as a Kindertransport passenger in his book, Getting Here: From a Seat on a Train to a Seat on the Bench.

Ney is one of four local Kindertransport passengers to be honored this fall at Denver’s Mizel Arts and Culture Center in remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the British rescue program that saved nearly 10,000 mostly Jewish children from Germany and Eastern Europe in the months before World War II. The celebration is to be part of the Denver Jewish Community Center’s seventh annual Neustadt JAAMM Fest, which will include performances, Oct. 30 through Dec. 7, of Diane Samuels’s Kindertransport, a fictional-

Littleton resident Peter Ney still has the silver pencil his father gave him as a memento before he boarded a Kindertransport train from Germany in 1939. The Holocaust survivor is one of four Kindertransport passengers to be honored in November at the Denver Jewish Community Center.

Photo by Peter Jones

ized play based on the real experiences of children saved by the so-named program.

Among the other local survivors to be honored will be Henry Lowenstein, a longtime leader in the Denver theater community.

Kristallnacht

Peter was born Nov. 11, 1931, as an only child to Alfred and Gretl Ney, in Nuremberg, Germany, a city that would become a significant hotbed of Nazi activism and the birthplace of antiJewish laws while the boy was still a toddler.

Alfred, a nonreligious Jew,

owned a successful metals factory that supplied parts for Nuremberg’s large toy-manufacturing industry. The burgeoning Nazi influence was in stark contrast to not just Nuremberg’s toys, but the city’s beauty and rich history in the arts and as a onetime center of the German Renaissance.

A landmark castle in the center of Nuremberg dates to the late Middle Ages, surviving the Holy Roman Empire, the Protestant Reformation and the French occupation under Napoleon Bonaparte. By 1937, the majestic site had become a rallying locale for the likes Hitler Youth, as 6-year-old Ney unwittingly dis-

covered while walking through town one day with his parents.

“All of a sudden, I heard music and I ran to the curb and there were these teenagers in uniform and a lot of flags,” he said. “I was running to see the parade. My father grabbed me and pulled me back and said, ‘This is not for us.’ I’m screaming bloody murder. When we got home, that was probably the first time my parents explained to me that we were Jewish. They tried to explain all the political implications – and for a 6-year-old that didn’t mean anything.”

The first-grader got a rude awakening – literally – to those

“politics” two nights before his seventh birthday on the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, when he awoke to the sound of a commotion in the apartment building’s hallway.

“I thought it was a celebration of my birthday starting early,” Ney said. “All of a sudden, a light came on and my mother rushed into the room and picked me up.

As she carried me to the hallway, I saw all the bookcases were leaning across each other at these crazy angles.”

While Ney’s mother franticly carried her son out of the disheveled flat, the boy spotted his father talking to two men in uniform as he showed them the German Iron Cross he had been awarded for heroism during World War I. Meanwhile, mother and son sat motionless in the attic with some of their Jewish neighbors, wondering what would happen to the men who had not yet made their way up the stairs.

“We heard the crashing and breaking glass in the apartment house. I don’t know how long that lasted,” Ney said.

After minutes or hours, footsteps were heard.

As it turned out, it was some of the men, including Ney’s father, whose wartime valor had evidently spared him – at least, temporarily – from the disappearance suffered by a couple of the apartment’s male adults.

During what became famously known as Kristallnacht or the “night of broken glass,” more than 90 Jews were killed in coordinated attacks on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany and Austria. More than 30,000 people were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

Kristallnacht’s message was clear. Jews were to self-deport before it was too late.

“Getting out was easy. It was finding a place where you could go that was difficult,” Ney said of the quandary.

Two days later, as the family plotted its next move, the Neys celebrated Peter’s bittersweet seventh birthday.

Mystery train

Although Alfred Ney had been convinced that Germany was too sophisticated to tolerate a government of thugs for long, he was not about to throw his only child to the chance of political winds.

His answer came in the form of Kindertransport, which was Continued on page 10

Your Weekly Horoscope – By Gren Chatworth AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) If your business affairs are all in order, now is a good time to take a well-earned vacation. But if things are all ‘up in the air’ you had better look around you very carefully. There are some that you look upon as friends, who cannot be trusted.

GEMINI (May 21 – June 20) A feeling of being completely fed-up with things as they are should e curbed this week. Actually, things are not nearly as bad as they seem.

It’s the way you are looking at them that makes it all seem that way.

PISCES (Feb 19 – March 20) Some new enterprise could become pretty tangled up if you are not sure of the ground you are standing on. On the other hand, business matters can take a turn for the better if you will only stop to consider all the facts. Be wary of a quick-profit deal!!

CANCER (June 21 – July 22) Business matters, especially dealing with buying and selling are strongly highlighted at this time. However good this may seem on the surface, be very careful of small details. All is not as rosy as it may seem.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) You should have no trouble working with business partners at this time.

They are willing to listen to your viewpoint if you don’t try to force them on others.

ARIES (March 21 – April 19) An opportunity may present itself very shortly for you to achieve a complete new way of life. Think this over very carefully, as it will govern your life for a long time to come.

LEO (July 23 – Aug 22) It just might be that a change of occupation could be offered to you in the not too distant future. If you lay all your cards on the table, and look at all angles, it may not be such a good offer. Take heed.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) Any thought you may have at the present in the way of a romantic interlude had best be kept in the background at this time. You could cause a lot of heartache de to some foolish move.

TAURUS (April 20 – May 20) A great weight of responsibility should be lifted off your shoulders this week. You will begin to see that there is a silver lining to that cloud of gloom that seemed to hang over your life. People are working for you – not against you. Try smiling!

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sept 22) What appeared to be a loss will boomerang in your favor. You are about to be honored in some way or another. Accept all the glory coming your way – you deserve it.

LIBRA (Sept 23 – Oct 22) Get rid of superfluous material, and all unnecessary expenses. You must control your spending to have an inner happy feeling. It is possible!

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) It is quite possible that sometime this week, you will get a ‘new slant’ on an old problem that will enable you to save yourself much misspent energy. Pay careful attention to what you see and hear. It will pay off well!!

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Ney: ‘I would not speak a word of German, they (my parents) didn’t speak any English” Continued from Page 1 hastily established in the aftermath of Kristallnacht after British Jewish and Quaker leaders appealed in person to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In fast-track legislation, Parliament waived immigration requirements to temporarily admit unaccompanied Jewish children into the country.

Their parents would not be allowed – at least not for the time being.

“This was the Depression. They sure didn’t need a bunch of adult refugees competing for jobs in England,” Peter Ney said.

In January 1939, the Neys packed the car for Frankfurt, where young Peter was to catch the train with other Jewish children and teenagers. Ney was to meet “Uncle Steven” at Liverpool Station in London. His parents said they would be joining him “soon.” As it happened, Steven Weisman was not an uncle, but a relative of one of Alfred’s closest friends.

“Most of the kids had no idea where they were going to go,” Ney said. “I don’t think I said a word to anybody else.”

Lost in silence, he knew he had reached the border when the intimidating Nazis disembarked and were seen laughing and smoking outside.

“The teenagers knew what was going on and went wild screaming,” Ney said.

At the next stop, a heavenly parade of women in white uniforms offered the children a paradise of

“I would not speak a word of Getting out German when my parents got was easy. It was there, which made it rather difficult because they didn’t speak any finding a place English,” Ney said. “At that point, I wanted to be English and I didn’t where you could want anything to do with being German.” go that was American dreamers difficult.

- Peter Ney, Holocaust survivor hot chocolate and cookies.

Travel got more complicated at the Hook of Holland, where the children took a ferry ride across the channel to England. In the confusion of the moment, the baffled 7-year-old somehow missed his planned connection to London.

Two days later, Ney heard his name for the first time in days when Weisman and his chauffeur finally picked him up and took him to a Jewish-run boarding school.

As weeks turned to months, Ney learned English and became accustomed to the inexplicable ease of life outside of Germany. His relative comfort was interrupted when a case of whooping cough and scarlet fever sent him to the hospital.

It was there that Ney was reunited that summer with his parents, both of whom had narrowly escaped Germany with a month or two to spare before the start of World War II made emigration nearly impossible.

Because Alfred could not legally work in England, in 1940 the family took the proverbial boat to Ellis Island. Even then, the family’s fate was less than certain, as a potential survey of Alfred’s war injuries could have sent him back on the boat.

“We arrived on a Sunday and thank God civil servants don’t work on Sunday,” Ney said with laugh.

On the streets of New York City, the young boy was in awe of what seemed like a freewheeling meltingpot culture – especially when he saw black people for the first time walking through Central Park in pastel blue and pink.

“I thought I was in a show or something,” Ney recalled with a smile.

The penniless family eventually wound up in Philadelphia, where Alfred re-entered the metals industry – not as a business owner, but a foreman.

“They never complained. They

Peter Ney’s passport he used on his Kindertransport trip from Germany to England. Note the swastika stamp.

Photos courtesy of Peter Ney

lived in the lap of luxury in Germany, and here they were hardworking people,” Ney said.

The family lived in a tough neighborhood, where Ney says he was prone to quickly trade his British burr for a rougher-edged East Coast accent.

Years later, after a series of careers, including a stint in the space industry, Ney went to law school and wound up on the Court of Appeals in Colorado.

Alfred died in the 1970s well into his 80s. His wife, Gretl, moved to Colorado to be closer to her son and passed away a decade or so later.

The older Neys never voyaged

back to their native Germany, but in recent years their only son somewhat reluctantly returned to the old country, largely because of the urgings of his daughter and his desire to explore his family history.

“I thought I’d do something stupid when I got to the border,” Ney said, “but it was almost like nothing.”

The father of three and grandfather is not lost on the luck his family experienced in surviving the horrors of the Holocaust intact.

“What I keep telling my kids is as long as you’re healthy and lucky, everything else will work out,” he said. “I had more than my share of luck.”

Peter Ney, 6, standing next to his teacher, far right, at an all-Jewish school established in Nuremberg, Germany, after new laws prohibited Jewish children from attending other schools. The teacher, a former college professor, had taken the elementary school job when Nazis prevented Jews from holding teaching positions in universities.

Seven-year-old Peter Ney wrote several reassuring postcards to his parents during his trip from Germany to England. They read in part, “I traveled with the children who we were sitting with in the waiting room.

Everything is fine with me. Now we are going out on a ship. Greetings and kisses. Your Peter.”

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