This month: 1) A Community Ownership Model on East Colfax; 2) DPS Students Overcome Hate to Bring Change to Their School; 3) A New Coffee Shop Opens Inside Northwest Aurora Brewery; 4) Colorful Mural Enlivens Neighborhood Business; 5) Arsenal Manager Receives High Honor; and Openings and Closings.
A 10-acre stretch of three medians that used to be covered in high-maintenance, high-water-usage bluegrass is now a site for native plants and pollinators. But the City of Denver has received complaints from nearby residents who think the area has been neglected and taken over by weeds.
Julie Johnson started drawing seasonal chalk greetings in front of her house on Beeler St. during the pandemic: an Easter message with colored eggs, a New Year’s greeting, a heart for Valentines Day. “It was my effort to bring a little cheer to members of the community,” she recalls.
Sofia Macias has known she wanted to work in the film industry since she was very young. “I’ve loved horror films since I was 8 years old,” she says. A senior at the Denver School of the Arts, she recently found out that her 6-minute film Resonance was accepted into the All-American High School Film Festival in New York City.
The Colorado Press Association held its annual awards ceremony on Aug. 24, and Front Porch won a total of 10 awards listed below in the order received. We would like to thank our staff, readers, and advertisers who make this local paper possible.
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This month I will concentrate on promoting three upcoming community screenings. We hope to see you at one or more of these shows!
Most owls are nocturnal, carnivorous, and nest in trees or man-made boxes. But there is an owl named the burrowing owl that is active during the day, nests in burrows dug by prairie dogs or ground squirrels, and eats principally insects but also hunts small rodents.
This month, the East Colfax Community Collective (EC3), a local organization that works to prevent evictions, purchased a 23-unit apartment building at 1371 Xenia St. in Denver as part of an effort to create housing stability in the area and stop displacement of residents.
Off I-70 in a sprawling business complex, changes are underway. In a spot where a drywall and tire business once operated, pickleball is moving in. The Mile Hi Pickleball Club, a 35,000-square-foot indoor business, is opening Oct. 18 at 3700 Havana St. Suite 305.
Two days before Denver Public Schools started classes in August, about 50 volunteers gathered in the gym at the Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center to fill 250 backpacks for low-income students and 250 boxes of supplies for teachers. It was the kickoff event for Denver First Lady Courtney Johnston’s volunteer program called Give5 Mile High.
New Fully Electrified School in Far Northeast Denver; Back to Class Bash; Northfield Students Win Grant for Solar-Powered Charging Stations; and New Denver School of the Arts Campus Opens
