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Dancing no more? Plans to re-open Fillmore to thru traffic have
momentum
Fillmore Plaza compromise?
A ”compromise” has been CCNNA leadership worked with
struck over the fate of Cherry Creek the Cherry Creek North Business
North’s Fillmore Plaza. Improvement District (BID) to fur-
Property owners having been ther refine the design.
pushing to convert the pedestrian New in this design, from previ-
plaza into a “hybrid” street, which ous proposals:
would carry cars at least part of • Parking has been removed
the time. The storefronts facing the from the entire north end of the
plaza have been without tenants plaza to allow a more pedestrian
for some time now. feel.  There will be 5 spaces on each
An e-mail vote in the Cherry side of the south end of the plaza
Creek North Neighborhood on the near First Avenue.
issue of Fillmore Plaza resulted in a • The center of the plaza and all
narrow approval, by a small margin, of the area north of the center will
of a much improved plaza-street be curbless, creating a very open
hybrid design from the one pre- feel when the area is closed.  There
sented in July.  With the support of will be retractable bollards for clos-
the leadership of the Cherry Creek see FILLMORE on page 9
East Neighborhood, the Country
Club Neighborhood and CHUN,
New Medical weight loss approach
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sedentary than we would like, and
the food we eat often complicates
the struggle to keep our metabolism
revving.
New to the Cherry Creek and
Central Denver is a doctor-super-
vised program, FDA approved
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Dr. Alison Mibauer says, “Medical
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Group brings Wall Street Money to
school races
by Guerin Lee Green
An out-of-state group which
came to town last year promising to
impact Denver’s school board elec-
tions has become one of the state’s
most prodigious fundraisers of out-
of-state money.
Stand for Children, a group
based in Oregon, according to its
legal documents, has brought in
more Wall Street cash
than any other edu-
cation group. It’s big
money vehicle is a so-
called 527 group, a type
of political group that
allows unlimited sums
of campaign money to be raised,
skirting traditional limits of political
fundraising. The vast majority of its
money has come from New York,
Chicago and Washington, and critics
say that Denver’s school board poli-
tics, hith-
“Grassroots” erto
matter of
group brings in
just local
more than c o n -
$100,000 in out of cern, has
state contributions, b e c o m e
mostly from a play-
finance interests to g r o u n d
influence local for the
nation’s
races
rich and
power-
ful.
In just one filing period, Stand
netted contributions of $29,995
from corporate takeover artist
While some high protein
diets, often high in saturated fats
can tax he liver and kidneys, the
Ideal Protein Weight loss method
provides just the right amount of the
highest quality protein needed to
protect muscle mass. The principle
behind the protocol is to target fat
loss.   By restricting the amount of
sugars and fats in the diet, the body
will be forced to turn to its other
energy sources, fat and muscle for
energy.  We do not want to lose our
lean muscle
because muscle burns calories.
On average, women lose weight at a
rate of 3 to 4 pounds per week, and
med lose 4 to 7 pounds per week,”
says Milbauer.
There are 4 phases to the program.
Everyone will be in phase one until
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Jonathon Grey of the Wall Street’s
Blackstone private equity firm, and
another $49,995 from Bruce Rauner,
a Chicago private equity firm CEO.
Other donors range from Palo Alto
to Washington, only a single sizable
donation came from Colorado. Over
72% of Stand’s donors come from
out of state.
Reviewing Stand for Children’s
material, there are
repeated claims that
the group is a grass-
roots-based parent
group, but no men-
tion of the giant dona-
tions that are likely
having a powerful influence on the
groups direction, which includes
support for some Republicans run-
ning for the Statehouse in Denver,
backing for charter schools and leg-
islation described by many as anti-
teacher.
One veteran political fundraiser
a
said, “It strains credulity to think
you solicit a $50,000 donation, and
then say to powerful donor, thanks,
but we let a group of parents in
Denver decide how and where your
money is spent. Donors that big
demand a clear rationale for their
giving. And it is generally not about
grassroots concerns.”
Inside the
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Dispatch
•Getting Fit, part
10 page 3
•Bennet’s Self-Inflicted
Wounds page 2
•Halloween Safety page 7
• Denver’s Cable Buidling
page 9
• Surviving Rwanda
page 10
• Lowry’s Hangar 2
finally sold page 12
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Opinion and Comment
Bennet’s self-inflicted
wounds
By the lights of meta-pollster Nate
Silver (you can read his election fore-
casts in the New York Times online),
Michael Bennet will lose the November
election.
Silver’s analysis has Ken Buck with
about an 66% probability of winning
the race at press time. There will be
much hand-wringing in the aftermath
of Bennet’s defeat. But, in large mea-
sure, it will have been a self-inflected
wound.  anemic economic growth and nega-
Twenty-two months ago, we wrote
“Bennet, by stark contrast, has little in
the way of connection with traditional
Colorado. Never elected by Colorado
voters to a lesser post, he is the first
electoral novice to be a Colorado
Senator in more than a generation. It’s
difficult to see Bennet’s natural affinity
for Gunnison ranchers, or Yuma sugar
beet farmers, or even union pipe fitters
Education in Peril
Three measures on the ballot this
November could portend real peril
for public education in Colorado.
In my view, Amendments 60, 61
and 101 could mean that property
taxes, a principal funding source for
schools, would be slashed, school
districts prevented from long term
borrowing and denied any por-
tion of vehicle ownership taxes and
income taxes reduced as well, giving
the state little funding with which to
back fill the loss in property tax. This
insult added to the already grievous
fiscal injuries inflicted upon pub-
lic education since the early 1970s,
would mean outrageously large
classes, thousand of teachers gone
and school buildings, now already in
disrepair, crumbling.
Amendment 60 supporters con-
tend that this amendment is nec-
essary to provide taxpayers with
yet another check on government
spending, as if the Taxpayer Bill of
Rights (TABOR) doesn’t provide that
check. Supporters make the claim
that property taxes are now too high
and reduction of property taxes will
allow businesses to flourish. TABOR
requires a vote on all tax increases.
So, why is Amendment 60 neces-
sary? Opponents contend, correctly
in my view, that voter approved tax
increases that provided vital fund-
ing would be overturned and that
New Technology — Jay Marvin
ed. note: Jay Marvin, long a fixture
in Denver talk radio makes a return to
our pages. Marvin is recovering from
a life-threatening illness, and we are
proud to once again have his distinc-
tive voice grace our pages.
Radio and television is like a free-
way off-ramp sign: barren and mun-
dane and time worn. One of the many
bright spots for those of us who need
news, information, and music, unlike
radio and television technology pro-
vides us more of a choice with content
like podcasting and internet streaming.
With podcasting, you can hear and
see what you want, when you want it,
from any provider in the world, on any
subject you can think of.
According to the site New Media
Update, podcasting listeners are
in Adams County.”  growth. Some may argue that out-
In the end, the Washington-centric
Bennet never adopted a Colorado mes-
sage, or drove home a connection with
voters, particularly the suburban folks
who are decisive in statewide elec-
tions.
Moreover, Bennet contributed to a
dangerously toxic environment nation-
ally with his own votes and stances.
Persistent high unemployment and
tive average real wage growth will kill
even more strongly rooted candidates.
Part of a small group of Democrats,
Bennet forcefully advocated for an eco-
nomic stimulus package of less than
800 billion dollars. Yet the output gap
(the delta between what the economy
could produce and what it would pro-
duce) at the time argued for a stimulus
of around 1.1 to 1.2 trillion dollars, half
local control of education would be
impeded by an unnecessary consti-
tutional amendment.
Amendment 61 would constitu-
tionally prevent the state and limit
local governments from incurring
any debt without voter approval.
Thirty year bonds, for example,
used to fund capital infrastructure of
schools, roads, hospitals, etc., would
be forbidden. Thirty year loans are
used to purchase homes. Without
such, the average consumer couldn’t
afford to purchase a home. That
logic applies to local and state gov-
ernments. Without the ability to
borrow long term (thirty years), local
and state government could not ade-
quately fund schools. Public educa-
tion is already underfunded.
Proposition 101 would reduce
vehicle ownership taxes to $2 for
new vehicles and $1 for used vehi-
cles, reduce the state income tax
from 4.63 percent to 3.5 percent over
a period of time. Colorado already
has one of the lowest income tax
rates among the fifty states. Further,
it would redefine vehicle fees as
taxes and even freeze 911 fees at
2009 levels, among other restrictions.
School funding would be severely
restricted, jobs lost and state car reg-
istration fees reverted to 1919 levels
when most state roads were still
unpaved.
expected to double in the next two
years. Why not?
Take Talk Radio for instance.
It’s the format I’m most familiar with,
and had been part of since the late 80‘s.
A couple of weeks ago, I turned on the
radio in the car and hopped between
Denver’s three main talk stations.
I heard the sour product of
angry, white men yelling and com-
plaining: the government has gone
wild with schemes designed to empty
bank accounts, force people to live with
queers, let gays get married, every-
thing is Obama and Nancy Pelosi’s
fault. Mike Rosen flips off a hateful
comment about flying jet planes load-
ed with Iranians into a mosque. The
comment then passed off as a joke or
social satire. Nothing had changed in
again larger than what Bennet advo-
cated for in the Senate. The result is
that the stimulus was not large enough,
particularly to offset the spending cuts
in state and local government, and
the economy has never regained its
footing, killing investment and wage
come could not have been foreseen. In
fact, it was, and numerous observers,
including many who predicted the
economic crash, argued for a larger
stimulus with a much more direct
fiscal punch (and maybe payroll tax
relief). I personally handed  Bennet a
scatter plot graph at a meeting early in
2009 clearly delineating the historical
relationship between the output gap
and unemployment, which strongly
indicated the need for a larger stimu-
lus. Alas, the graph, and the commen-
tary of a large number of economists,
was insufficient to move Bennet.
Later that year, Bennet would
vote against “cramdown” legislation
that would have allowed bankruptcy
judges to write down mortgages, as
they can all other types of private
debt. There are many arguments about
the moral hazards created by “cram-
down,” but the practical effect is clear
as day in hindsight. Rather than focus-
ing on the negative impacts of the
financial crisis in a narrow window
of time, and making banks, already
bailed out, propped up and subsi-
dized by free money from the Fed, the
housing crisis has painfully lingered
on. Each foreclosure has created more
negative equity for other homeown-
ers, crippling the collective balance
sheets of millions of consumers. That
has slowed consumer spending, forced
hundreds of thousands out of their
homes, and devastated neighborhoods
with abandoned properties. Again,
Bennet had voted with Wall Street
and against Main Street Colorado. As
Wall Street filled his campaign coffers,
the Colorado housing industry, one of
the mainstays of our economy and the
Forums have been conducted
throughout the state on these amend-
ments. To the best of my knowledge,
no sponsor of these amendments has
appeared to argue on their behalf. If
they can’t be bothered to stand up
and argue for their proposals, voters
should treat these amendments with
the same disrespect shown to voter
concerns.
Together, the “ugly three”, as
appropriately named, would, in my
the year since I had listened last. Sad.
On the Left, everyone is a fascist and a
capitalist pig; again sad.
Music? Can you live without
it? I can’t.
Now, you have a IPhone and
IPod Touch they feature a collection of
various apps leading to downloaded
content.
Instead of listening to a lead-weight
block of commercials, you can down-
load podcasts from public radio sta-
tions like WNYC in New York City, and
KCRW in Santa Monica. I even caught
a great interview with writer-comedian
Eric Bogosian from WFUV in New York
City plus, there’s a full plate of political
shows right, left and middle conducted
in a civil, fact-filled manner. Music
and songwriters both cutting edge and
mind-jarring, album cuts and 45s.
You will also find podcasting on Pop
Culture books, my long-held favorite.
Then there’s Pandora, where you
build a radio station playing only the
music you want. Radio stations such
as KCRW Santa Monica, KXCI, Tucson,
Arizona, WWOZ, New Orleans and
other stations offering podcasts of
October 2010
one most resistant to outsourcing, has
limped along, contributing to unem-
ployment and forcing budget cuts at
the state and local level, which in turn
has further slowed the economy.
Lastly, and most obscurely, Bennet
supported the so-called Coburn
amendment, which prohibited the
Federal Communications Commission
from even talking about the “Fairness
Doctrine,” a hoary old regulatory
device that required those who use
the public airwaves to provide “equal
time,” a quaint notion that both sides
of an issue should be given an air-
ing. The Coburn amendment, named
after the fairly right-wing senator from
Oklahoma, immediately chilled the
debate over the need or even the desir-
ability of having fairness on the pub-
lic airwaves. As a result, media has
become even more polarizing, and the
national debate has drifted farther from
fact-based moorings, and the amount
of vitriol attacking Obama— on issues
as spurious as his birthplace and his
religious loyalty— have poisoned the
climate to the point that candidates
like Bennet have a nearly impossible
task translating reasonable policy posi-
tions into arguments relevant to aver-
age voters. Had Bennet championed
opposition to the Coburn amendment,
the result certainly would not have
been a utopian vision of media balance
and informed debate. But, inevitably,
the message sent would not have been
one embracing the purely nonsensical
status quo epitomized by the teary-
eyed Glenn Beck.
The lesson is as clear as the poll
numbers. Tacking right, then left,
while moderating purely for the sake
of moderation and abandoning sound
policy ultimately makes for poor poli-
tics. Bennet, indeed, had the potential
to shake up Washington. In the end,
we are left with an object lesson that
may not be broadly learned.
—Guerin Lee Green
Publisher and Editor
view, return schools to a 1919 level
of funding. Already cash strapped
public schools and colleges could
not afford to provide a 20th century
education to the state’s children let
alone a 21st century one. Colorado
voters should reject all three of these
mean-spirited amendments and,
instead, recommit to providing a
fully funded quality education for all
its students.
—Ed Augden
music and news.
For me, it’s Americana music and
there’s a stack of stations podcasting
and streaming it, filled with artists like
my friend and great singer-songwriter,
Tom Russell at Denver’s Soiled Dove
the 30th of this month.
Radio and television is dead to me.
It lacks content and variety and it’s
been going down as every year passes.
These days, since I got sick, I have
to face the fact I may never be able to
go back to the thing I loved so much—
radio. However, with help, I plan to try
to put on an internet radio station, with
podcasts, on the arts of all kinds, with
very little politics. Right now, it’s in
the planing stages and I have people to
help me so despite my on-going pain, I
can make it happen.
The best part: I’m not going to do
it for money, but only to create bore-
busting content. Not for you, which
would be great, but for me.
— Jay Marvin
Catch Jay on-line at http://exilein.
wordpress.com
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Getting fit in 2010: Goals, and

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river-cut gorges of the Colorado pla-
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days.
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Cortez is the largest community near
Mesa Verde National Park and offers
the most services for visitors. The
town is nestled between the majestic
La Plata Mountains, Sleeping Ute
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Lodging in the area can vary from
the most primitive camping in the
Canyons of the Ancients, a national
monument that is still largely unex-
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Arguing with your partner about
how to discipline the kids
Written by Elaine Avrus and Angela
Sasseville, LPC, NCC
Lately, it seems like Mom and Dad’s
parenting differences have really created
some turmoil in the relationship. Mom
is more relaxed and has a hard time
disciplining her kids and Dad still
plays “the tough guy” role. Ultimately,
he’s always responsible for all of
the disciplinary action in the home.
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relationship.
“I just don’t understand why you
have to be so hard on them all the
time.” Mom continues, “You’re always
criticizing them and finding something
wrong. You can never just let things go
and take it easy for a change. So what
if Jimmy got in trouble at school. That
doesn’t mean he has to be scolded for
an hour by you! I know how that feels
and it sucks.”
Dad responds, “Well, maybe if you
weren’t such a pushover with the kids,
I wouldn’t have to be so hard on them.
Who’s going to make sure that they
know how to behave? I’m only trying
to help them. You think everything I
say is criticism. I just want to make
sure that this household runs smoothly.
What’s wrong with that?”
The difference in their parenting
styles is creating marital discord. Both
partners find it hard to trust their
spouse to handle things appropriately
when issues arise with the kids. What
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she worries that she’s come across as a
“dictator” to her children if she enforces
boundaries. She feels panicky when
she sees glimpses of her own stern
father in her husband. She constantly
is worried that no matter how much
she tries, she’s not living up to her
husband’s expectations of her, which is
why she’s sensitive to feeling criticized
by him. She feels it’s her job to make
sure that their family isn’t so strict that
the kids’ emotional needs
get ignored.
Dad’s upbringing was
very different. His father
was not around and his
mother spent large amounts
of time “out on the town.”
Sometimes she never came
home at all. So he learned
very quickly how to care
of himself, to push his
emotions aside and to be
“tough.” After all, how
else would he have gotten
by? It drives him nuts
when Mom goes so easy
on the kids. He feels it’s
his responsibility to raise his children
to be “strong” by firmly enforcing rules
and providing his children with the
structure that he never had as a child.
Both parents have valid points.
Their children will thrive when their
emotional needs are met and when they
have consistent boundaries. They need
their parents to provide nurturing and
limits, not one or the other. What Mom
and Dad are lacking is a mutually agreed
upon way of addressing discipline that
will allow them to implement caring
and structure simultaneously.
Psychologist John Gottman, PhD
outlines a 5 step parenting approach
that combines empathy with healthy
limits in his book Raising an Emotionally
Intelligent Child. Utilizing self-help
books like these, participating in
parenting classes or consulting with
a family therapist can help parents to
better understand and improve their
parenting interactions. With a little bit
of effort, couples can find ways to raise
their children in a balanced manner
that works for both of them and that
still has their children’s best interests
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entral Denver
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the ECC will host a variety of Page 7
events and offer a number of ways in which the comm unity
Keep your little ghosts and JCC
and help childcare
ackno turns
wledge this 75We
milestone.
goblins safe and healthy are
onlooking for the names and contact information of
can get involvedcontinued from page one

Halloween alumni, past teachers and past directors. Please email

by Mary Hilko, RN, Rocky Mountain portion out two to three treats andenver.org with this information or request to be
ecc75@jccd
place into smaller bags to be con-
Poison and Drug Center
“Trick or Treat!” These famous invol
sumed at another time. ved in our celebration!
Remember,
words are echoed throughout neigh- candy is a treat and not a part of a
hildhood
borhoods one night each year. Denver well balanced diet.
arly C C
Health Medical Center and the Rocky Make a gingerbread house or

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decorate cookies with leftover candy.

JCC
Mountain Poison and Drug Center want

ter
to remind all trick-or-treaters to be safe
and food smart this Halloween. Here
are some tips for parents.
Candy pieces make excellent decora-
tions. This can be a fun project for
the entire family.
Putting Colorado Back to
Years
A safe alternative to door-to-door
trick-or-treating is to plan a neighbor-
hood party or to take children to a com-
Parents should avoid taking the
extra candy to work. This can be
tempting but remember, your co-
Work
Growing Our Future
munity trick-or-treating event. workers probably don’t need the
Dry ice for parties can be used in extra calories.
punch bowls, but not in individual
glasses. Wrap the dry ice in cheesecloth
Parents should carefully check all
treats before allowing your children www.ChrisRomer.org
before placing into the bowl. to eat them. Only eat candy from
When original, unopened and undamaged
g o i n g wrappers. When in doubt, throw Paid for by Romer for Senate
d o o r - it out! If you suspect that your
t o - d o o r, child has been exposed to a poison,
b r i n g call the Poison Hotline at 1-800-222-
your own 1222.
candy to
snack on
before
you get
home,
so your
children
won’t eat unchecked treats.
Costumes should be flame-retar-
dant, warm and not too long or baggy.
Reflective tape on clothing and bags
make little goblins and ghosts more
visible to drivers. Masks should fit
properly and have large eyeholes. Even
better, choose non-toxic face paint or
make-up. Home food colorings are not
recommended because they can tint Advertise in the Cherry Creek News from
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Small children should go out before just $89/month
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Be careful not to break or bite glow
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Keep your distance from Jack-o’-
Lanterns containing burning candles.
Trick-or-treat only in familiar, well-
lit areas, and only visit homes you
know.
Stop at street corners – look left,
right and left again before crossing
Don’t cross the street between
parked cars.
Walk; don’t run.
Stay away from dogs and other ani-
mals.
While this fun holiday brings sweet
treats for children of all ages, it also is
important to remember good nutrition
before eating the bucket full of candy.
Obesity is a growing epidemic in our
country for both children and adults. It
is the consumption of “empty calories”
that greatly contribute to this epidemic.
Empty calories are found in sugary
foods and drinks. One small candy bar,
or a few hard candies or chews a day, is
about 100 calories. Here are a few quick
tips to help control the consumption of
treats on Halloween:
Eat a healthy meal before venturing
out. A well-balanced meal consisting of
lean proteins, whole grains, fruits and
vegetables will fill up tummies and pre-
vent overindulging on sweets.
Keep the pillowcases and grocery
sacks at home! Use a smaller container
when collecting goodies and once it is
full call it quits.
Halloween candy should be con-
sumed in moderation. Help children
Page 8 Cherry Creek News & Central Denver Dispatch October 2010

Budget woes can be offset

by community Doug Linkhart
By Doug Linkhart, City recently I was surprised at the similar
Councilman At-Large conclusions from these individuals.
“It’s about neighbors being neigh- George (we’ll call him), the for-
bors. When you get people together merly homeless person, found help
and help each other miracles happen. at Denver Cares, the detox facility
It’s like magic.” run by Denver Health, in the form
“I don’t think the government can of an alcohol treatment program for
fix all our problems. Let’s put some veterans. That’s where he found out
ownership back on you—and the that people cared. Once he decided
community.” to turn his life around, he says, it
These two statements are from two was the people at Denver Cares and
his neighbors who helped keep him
succeed.
The child welfare supervisor feels
that, as government, “we take away
Nov 6 PROVERB TRIO the inherent responsibility which is
Improvisational-based performance featuring the parents’, which is to raise their
Dafnis Prieto, Kokayi and Jason Lindner kids.” He feels that, with enough
community supports, a lot of kids
Nov 12 & 13 RON MILES GROUP who are taken from their homes could
Denver's premiere trumpeter joins forces remain and that kids placed in fos-
with Rene Marie, Doug Wamble, ter care or relatives’ homes could be
Rudy Royston and more... more successful.
As the City of Denver looks for
Nov 18 & 19 JONATHAN KREISBERG TRIO ways to cope with annual budget
with GARY VERSACE shortfalls, we need to look at ways
"Kreisberg's sweetly self-effacing virtuosity... of using community to help achieve
alternates and sometimes fuses jangly our goals. This is true not only for the
dissonance and sensuous lyricism." very different people, yet are remark- social supports described above, but
– San Diego Tribune ably similar in their message. The first also for issues like graffiti removal,
statement is from a man who was code violations and helping people
homeless for 20 years and recently got stay in their community as they age.
Nov 20 PETER SOMMER
back on his feet after years of alcohol- So, thanks, neighborhood folks!
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On February 5, 1885, the Denver
Electric and Cable Company was
incorporated and the Denver
City Railway Company, which
still was using horses and mules,
changed its name to the Denver
Railway Association. These
two companies merged into the
Denver Tramway Company on
May 4, 1886.
Two years after the Denver
Tramway Company was formed,
the horsecars were replaced by
cable cars. By 1890, Denver had
a very complete and extensive
cable car system, but attention
was then being turned to elec-
tric operation of streetcars. The
Denver Tramway Company built
five lines that opened between
late 1888 and late 1889. the com-
pany started to convert them to
electric in 1893.
Fillmore compromise?
continued from page 1
ing the plaza to traffic and for
delineating the auto/pedestrian
areas when it is open.  construction design and to start
The following elements of the
design remain:
• Special pavement treatment
from building face to building face,
sidewalk and street.
• Lush planters with trees on
the south end of the Plaza to block
noise from First Avenue
• A central event space with a
removable high shade structure
• Narrow traffic lanes that allow
but don’t encourage traffic
Programming for the space is
part of a giveback to the commu-
nity to preserve the use of Fillmore
Plaza. Set aside will $600,000 of
event infrastructure for sound,
lighting, and other mechanical to
support at least 35 days of closures
and events – including Sundays
from May to September, four neigh-
borhood/community days or eve-
nings, and five 3rd party requests.
Cherry Creek North will provide a
50% increase in the BID’s budget
for events in 2011.
Fran Schroeder
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The Cable
Building
The Denver City Cable Railway
Building on Lawrence Street
in Denver, Colorado opened in
1889. Originally built to house
power and maintenance facilities
for Denver’s cable car system,
it now houses a restaurant and
office space.
It was added to the National
Register of Historic Places in
1979.
The last trolley cars for this sys-
tem were built in the Tramway’s
own shops in 1922. A few trolley
cars from the system have been
preserved. One passenger car
from the Tramway fleet has been
preserved and is on display at the
Colorado Railroad Museum in
The next step will be for the
Cherry Creek North BID to turn
the conceptual design into actual
through the city review process.  We do not accept press releases or calendar materials
As with all projects, the City will
review the safety features, the utili-
ties, drainage and so on.  All the
necessary agreements about main-
tenance, liability, limited parking,
and events and closures will be
legally formalized in an Inter-
Governmental Agreement between
the BID and the City.  While Council
will have to approve the IGA, it
was important to be sure that there
was substantial agreement from
the neighborhoods about moving
forward before investing all the
time, effort, and money on final
drawings and the review process.
Public process takes time and a
lot of effort, as all the participants
would undoubtedly attest.  And
while successful compromise is
often difficult to achieve, my hope
and anticipation is that the end
result will please all of us despite
our varying points of view. 
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Supported approach
to weight loss
continued from page 1
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bining. The program consists of high
biological value proteins, contain-
ing eight essential amino acids.  The
Ideal Protein foods are tasty— 35
different products including shakes,
juices, bars, soups and many others.
The client will use the products to
build complete meals, adding veg-
etables and salads. There is always a
dinner that consists of your choice of
protein(fish, chicken, steak etc.) and
vegetables.
“We have weekly weigh-ins where
there is one on one support and
counseling,” says Milbauer,
trained nutrition at Colorado State.
All of the staff at Cynergy Center
has been trained by the developers
of Ideal Protein. We are available
any time, either by phone or email
to answer any questions or concerns.
Our patients have lost over 1300
pounds in 8 months on the plan”
says Milbauer.
A large reason why a lot of diets
fail is the way people lose weight.
Most people not only lose fat, they
also lose lean muscle. Lean muscle
helps us to maintain our weight.
When that same person goes off
the diet and gains the weight back,
they will typically replace their lean
Golden. Another one, Trolley Car muscle lost from the first diet with
# 54, is within the former Denver fat. This is what we call “yo-yo diet-
City Cable Railway’s powerhouse ing”. This is why people slowly over
at 18th and Lawrence St., now the time increase their weight, even with
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the structure that once housed “fat” loss.
Denver’s power plant and cable
car system.
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Page 10 Cherry Creek News & Central Denver Dispatch
From the terrors of Rwanda to the
trials of immigration & doctoral quest
by Don Bain
Visiting Assistant Professor
Hadidja Nyiransekuye’s book details
a remarkable, accomplished life
Hadidja Nyiransekuye was born
in Rwanda into a fairly typical Hutu
and Muslim family. She would be
stricken with polio at the age of two,
which was to have a dramatic effect
on her future.
She had to have a brace on one leg
to walk and could not perform the
tasks expected of a young girl in her
country. The upside was she would
get a better education since her father
expected she might need to make
her own way – a cripple was not a
good bet to marry well in Rwandan
society.
Life was very much about gender
and to the Western reader her tale
seems to revolve around the politics
of family, marriage, gender and inher-
itance – plus unfortunately race.
The relationship between the
Hutus and Tutsis in one way mir-
rors a conflict that developed in the
Western U.S. between cattlemen and
sodbusters.
The Tutsi were tall cattle herding
people who are thought to have come
from the headwaters of the Nile. The
Hutu lived in the lowlands and raised
crops.
Over the years, the two groups
intermarried and mingled to a great
degree and a better description of
their interaction would be as an upper
and lower class rivalry.
Nevertheless, the Belgians, who
took control of the country during
World War I, issued race identity
cards naming everyone in the country
either Hutu or Tutsi, except for a mar-
ginal group of Twa, descended from
the indigenous pygmies of the area.
From that point forward relations
between the two groups slowly dete-
riorated to set the stage for the geno-
cide in 1994, in which an estimated
800,000 Tutsi were slaughtered.
This was the nightmare Hadidja
awakened to as a wife and mother of
four. It is difficult to understand how
someone could deal with this level of
terror. Was her husband, a Tutsi, still
alive? Her four children made a small
family by Rwandan standards but
were they too many to hide? Would
her whole family be taken by the
madness that engulfed them and took
so many of her friends?
“I am Munyarwanda,” she wrote
in her book, “a woman, a mother and
a witness to my people’s self-made
tragedy. I saw my people descend
into hell in the hundred days of the
genocide, but I also witnessed their
reaching out and rising to heaven.”
She survived and so did her fam-
ily, but the horrors she experienced
still visit her in nightmares after 16
years.
“The conclusion is clear.” she
wrote, “I still cannot imagine how the
October 2010
Selling a home in today’s
market takes more than
very people you hoped would protect just putting a
you would be the same ones to kill
you. It happened many times during sign in the ground.
that dark period in the history of my
country.”
Her book is titled The Lances
Were Looking Down. The ordeal in
Rwanda, however, is just the begin-
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A few years after the war, she was
lucky enough to interest a loose-knit
charitable group of women here in
Denver, known as The Marias, in
sponsoring her continued education
in the U.S.
Here she would find a whole new
set of challenges including a culture
completely alien to her – where peo-
ple seemed to think she should know
all the unwritten rules and mores of
white American culture.
Cities, busses, cars, apartments,
university bureaucracy and a host
of unfamiliar gadgets and customs
seemed to assail her at every turn.
Add to that the worry over her chil-
dren – still in Rwanda.
“I think my greatest challenge has
been to let go of the past,” she said,
“and just immerse myself into the
new life. I think I’m resistant. It’s not
It takes a sophisticated marketing
the life I was born to.” effort with a reach and a grasp of
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received political asylum, brought all where buyers are at.
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Nyiransekuye has done us a favor
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“The only way to avoid genocide
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October 2010 Cherry Creek News & Central Denver Dispatch
Fines, ethics plague recall
proponent Jose Silva
A Denver man seeking to transform
Denver’s School Board politics has a
checkered ethical past that makes him
an unlikely crusader.
Jose Silva, a past candidate for School
Board and the Statehouse, currently
owes nearly $30,000 in fines for violat-
ing state campaign finance laws, failing
to make required reports for some four-
teen months. Yet despite those ethical
travails, he is seeking to recall Andrea
Merida, the school board member that
represents Southwest Denver.
Silva’s current problems are not
unusual for the man who sought public
office unsuccessfully before. In 2007,
Silva ran for school board, and accord-
ing to a range of sources, raised money
before suddenly dropping out of the
race. Silva filed no campaign finance
documents in that race. At least one
donor reportedly asked for a return of
a contribution, but Silva is said to have
demurred, explaining that his mother
had been diagnosed with cancer.
Silva has claimed that his issues with
Merida arise from Merida’s status as a
paid consultant to the Senate campaign
of Andrew Romanoff, a fact which Silva
claims Merida concealed, despite the
fact the campaign disclosures required
by law in fact detailed Merida’s compen-
sated status.
But campaign finance is not the alpha
and omega of Silva’s issues. On the cam-
paign trail and as recently as last week
on-line, Silva claimed to have raised $20
million to send 60,000 kids to college
with a group called College Summit.
Yet College Summit says that account is
untrue. Silva did work in some capacity
for the group, but according to a teacher
that had Silva speak in her classroom, his
work there was not without controversy.
“Jose was invited by College Summit in
either the fall of 2004 or 2005 to come
in and speak to my class of seniors
about his “inspiring” life story (or so the
College Summit staff said).”
“He did come. He told my class of
seniors (there were probably around 20
of them) that he had been a student in
the Center for International Studies in
the 90s and that he had graduated from
West.  He also told them that he  had
gone  on  to college at the University of
Denver and said that he graduated from
DU.   He also said something about
working with former President Clinton
on some project or other.  I grew slightly
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suspicious when he claimed he had to
step into the hall to take a call from for-
mer President Clinton or his staff (I don’t
remember the exact detail, I just remem-
ber it rang false to me at the time).”
“After he left, I asked several teach-
ers who taught at West in the 90s about
Jose (I did not begin teaching there
until 2000).  They all told me that he
had not graduated from CIS, that they
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even attended, let alone graduated from
DU (West has a partnership with DU
called VIP, so teachers knew students
from West and other DPS schools who
had gone to DU).  Everyone at West
regarded Jose as a sad case of a person
who often  misrepresented and over-
stated his achievements.”
“I called College Summit and asked
that they not ask Jose back again as a
speaker.  At that time, I shared with
them what I had learned from my col-
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Cherry Creek News & Central Denver Dispatch

Hangar 2 finally sold $18,500 Parks repair lasts six

After years of controversy, Hangar 2
at Lowry has finally been sold.
loved to start families after the war.
The historic 110,000 SF Hangar
weeks
by Guerin Lee Green
The redevelopment or potential 2 building along East Academy
demolition of Hangar 2 had been a Boulevard has been purchased by At the cost of $18,500, the north other governments.
flash point with neighborhood activists Hangar 2 Partners LLC from Wings four tennis courts at Berkeley Park The problem is not unique to
and preservationists. Many had argued Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum were resurfaced at the very end of Berkeley. After the work was com-
that keeping Hangar 2 intact was keep- for $3 million or $27/SF. Part of the May with an acrylic overlay. Just pleted in May, courts at Sloan’s Lake
ing the trust of the public dating from former Lowry Air Force Base, the 1930s weeks later, cracks
the original conversion of the Air Force property is to be resurrected as a solar- appeared in the
base into a redevelopment. The hangar powered mixed-use development. resurfacing. Now, as
represents a significant part of Denver’s Phase I will open in the spring of 2011 fall begins, over two
history, and the role the base played in and will include a 500 unit self-storage, hundred linear feet
the city’s economic and social fabric. a 4,600 SF dog day care facility, with of cracks line the
Much of the city’s post-war growth and retail and office space. Phase II will courts. And Denver’s
vibrancy has been attributed to World be twelve restaurants to be named the Parks and Recreation
War II veterans, who had trained at Lowry Dining District. department finds the
Lowry, returning to the city that they problem acceptable,
part of “normal wear
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Do you have St. John, Prada, Gucci, Chanel, Armani, the work was accept-
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buy them! You don’t have to wait for payment
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from consignment stores, we pay up front.
antone PMS 2766 are will not seek to have
We buy gently worn designer clothing a local the contractor redo or
and accessories and resell them on repair the work. (north side) were resurfaced. There,
the internet. Since 1999, with Denver But two civil engineers and a a similar pattern of cracks are rap-
thousands of customers. We wine seller. tennis court consultant contacted by idly emerging.
will come to you or you the Cherry Creek News say that Since the city budgets for repair
We have very low the nearly immediate cracking that work in the parks in extremely
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to our Stapleton pricing due to our thin, many observ-
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holding up as antici-
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