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Cade Clinique: A center, not just a salon
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New York playwright finds home in Greenwood Village
The list of services at Cade Clinique is impressive; more than simply a spa, it’s a skin care center, which also includes a hair salon.
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Art & Ale Brew Festival set for Aug. 15
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The Art & Ale Brew Festival will be held on Aug. 15, 6 – 10 p.m., at the Wildlife Experience Museum. The event is in its 11th year.
The climate must agree with the New York writer, as her play, The Matthew Portraits, is being presented in the Big Apple this week.
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Veteran fire chief to retire TheVillagerNewspaper
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By Peter Jones utting out fires – literally or figuratively – was not part of Dan Qualman’s life plan when the freshman engineering student volunteered for the college fire department. “It was kind of a campus club. I thought that would be fun and exciting – more fun than studying,” he said with a laugh. Flash forward four decades: Qualman, 63, is preparing to step down as the longtime chief of a consolidated organization called South Metro Fire Rescue Authority. Although the career fireman would finish his engineering degree and for a time take a job in avionics, Qualman has not looked back since first donning the badge. “I realized it gave me more meaning to affect the lives of others directly than it did to be an engineer and make money for the company,” he said. After 36 years in professional
firefighting – nearly 30 as chief – Qualman’s retirement is finally official, after the merger of the South Metro and Parker fire authorities delayed his exit for several years. Although Qualman, the 2012 Fire Chief of the Year, will not clear his desk completely until January 2015, he will begin in October to help transition Assistant Chief Bob Baker into the job. “We got into the consolidation and I told the board I would stay five years – it’s been six years and things are going well here,” Qualman said. “I have no concerns about the ability of our folks to move forward without me.” After moving from Arizona in 1983, Qualman served as assistant chief and fire marshal for the Parker Fire Protection District until 1986, when he was tapped as the operation’s fire chief. When South Metro and Parker began their ongoing merger in 2008, he was appointed fire chief for the new larger regional authority. The combined operation – whose mill levies will not be united until 2016 – now covers more than 175 square miles in Douglas and Arapahoe counties, including Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, Greenwood Village and the
Dan Qualman Denver Tech Center. Qualman’s greatest source of pride has been his department’s safety record. “I am very fortunate I have not
had a fatality on my watch,” he said. “That was one of my hopes and goals. We are better protected than we have ever been.” The chief gives much of the
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credit to advances in technology, most notably to a thermal imaging camera that provides fire crews more usable information sooner when making the often split-second decisions on the scene of a fire. “Now we are capable of seeing through the smoke, determining where hotspots are in the walls,” he said. “It’s a safety feature, but it also prevents us from having to do more damage if the wall is just hot and there’s no fire in the wall.” That is not to say everything has gotten safer in recent years. Synthetic floor joists used in new constructions can cause floors to collapse, creating a more dangerous situation for both firefighters and fleeing occupants, Qualman said. In his retirement, Qualman and his wife plan to travel. For at least a while, the outgoing chief expects to continue a consulting relationship with South Metro – a role that can generally wait through the night, weekend and holidays. “It gets in your blood and you don’t want to pull out altogether,” Qualman said. “But I would like to have a little more control of my time. As fire chief, you’re pretty much on call 24/7 365. It will be nice not to have that constant responsibility.”
Milliken gives treasurer race another go Election marks third matchup with Sandstrom
By Peter Jones From the look of things, only two people in Arapahoe County are interested in the job of county treasurer – and 2014 will be the tiebreaker between them. “It’s a very clear choice for the county voters. They’ve seen what
I can do and they’ve seen what she can do,” said former Treasurer Doug Milliken, who has been named the Democratic nominee for the position three times. Since 2006, just two names have appeared on the ballot for the job of managing the county’s finances – Milliken’s and Republican Sue Sandstrom’s – and for the last two election cycles, the
duo has taken turns at winning the purple county. This year marks a 2-out-of-3 matchup for the veteran nominees. “It’s not something you grow up wishing you were, but when the time comes – yeah, this is what I’m good at,” said Milliken, when asked about the dearth of other candidates. Continued page 5
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