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Denver is Festival City in the sum-mer.With arts events like the City Park Festival of the Arts (Sunday July20), cultural favorites like the Greek Festival (June 20) and giant neighbor-hood events like the Highlands StreetFestival, there’s something for every-one.So the competition is fierce for theCherry Creek Arts Festival, whichreturns July 4-6 to Cherry Creek North,which has likely seen declining atten-dence in recent years.The Cherry Creek Arts Festival isone of the nation’s most competitive juried art events, inviting only 232 art-ists from the 2,400+ applicants. The 13media categories represented include:ceramics, digital art, drawing, fiber,glass, graphics and printmaking, jewel-ry, metal works, mixed media, painting,photography, sculpture and wood.Sweltering heat and difficult crowdsand parking have made many area resi-dents say enough is enough in the past,and they’re staying away this year. Butmany others are excited by the pros-pects of unique art married to a slice of the community on display.Another Arts Festival favorite is vis-iting Milwaukee Avenue and experi-ence Artivity Avenue, a full city-block of interactive themed activities for theentire family to enjoy.At Creation Station, children canengage in many interactive art proj-ects with involvement from the DenverBotanic Gardens, Children’s Museumof Denver, the Denver Hospice and theColorado Parent Magazine.Anything can happen throughout
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Cherry Creek Arts Fest part ofsummer celebrations
by the Cherry Creek News
New approaches for savinglives mark Hanfling’s activism
the day at the Cherry Creek ShoppingCenter Family Stage, sponsored by TheChildren’s Hospital, as the live enter-tainment – including musical perfor-mances, dance troupes, puppet showsand magic shows – provides an endlessvariety of entertainment and amuse-ment for all ages.
Denver Water is urging water con-servation measures again this sum-mer, and prohibiting lawn watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. and water-ing more than three days a week.Across Denver, xeriscaped landscapesare common, and drought resistantplants and lawns numerous.But are the conservation effortsof those in Denver simply subsidiz-ing the water consumption of DenverWater’s suburban customers, wherelawns are much larger, and water usemore profligate? Over half of DenverWater’s liquid product goes to irrigatelawns and landscaping.At the end of May, Denver Water’sreservoir system stood at 88% full,versus 98% full a year ago. Dailyaverage water consumption is downroughly 20% over use prior to thedrought which began in 1993 andstretched through 2001. Conservationhas taken hold.With water usage down, DenverWater has repeatedly increased itswater charges, in order to sustain thefixed operating costs of complicatedand aging water system.But while Denverites conserve,Denver Water provides new taps tosuburbanites, without mandatingconsumption limits or conservationmeasures. And a hidden cost, theprice of the energy to move water tofarther flung destinations, increases.But Denver Water’s 2007 ResourceStatement, an executive-level sum-mary of issues facing future watersupplies, doesn’t even address thisconundrum.Denver Water serves 1.12 millionpeople, including 158,346 customerhouseholds in Denver, and an addi-tional 148,500 outside the City andCounty. Those customers are sup-ported by ten reservoirs, the largest being Dillon, which captures WesternSlope water for Denver’s use.Much of Denver Water’s planning
Despite contradictions, DenverWater urges conservations
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The term social entrepreneur is bandied aboutthese daysto mean theapplication of afree-wheeling business start-up approach tosolve problemsin the publicsphere, espe-cially througha new genera-tion of a start-
ups. In prac
-tical terms, itis recognizinga social prob-lem and usingentrepreneur-ial principles to organize, create, andmanage a venture to make socialchange. Josh Hanfling, who is now seekingelection to the statehouse in HouseDistrict 6, is not only a successfulstart-up businessman, but a pioneerin Denver’s non-profit circles, havingcoupled board service with paradigm breaking work in public safety.“Josh took the bull by the hornsin creating Friends of the Denver FireDepartment,” says a Fire Departmentinsider. “Without Josh, there would
see HANFLING on page 5Former Denver Fire Chief Larry Trujillo, Josh Hanfling andDenver DA Mitch Morrissey— Cherry Creek News File
City Park Festival of the Arts The City Park Neighborhood
will hold an all-day arts and entertainment festival on July 20th, 2008from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Ferril Lake in City Park.Featuring some of Denver’s most dynamicentertainment - from Rock and Roll to Salsa, from HipHop to Swing, the City Park Festival of the Arts offersan unforgettable range of entertainment for all ages!With local dancers, poetry slams, martial arts, and aChildren’s Interactive Area.With artwork from over 100 local artists whereDenver’s most talented and respected Fine Artists will bedisplaying right next to first time exhibitors and earnestcraftspeople. Come and see an incredible display oflocal talent at prices you will never find in galleriesor shops! All from local talent, nothing imported ormanufactured. Twenty non-profits and community-focusedorganizations are participating.Bar-B-Que from M&Ds and free samples fromKiva’s Restaurant.Come and join us for the best festival ever!Headlining Artists Include:Laura Reed and Deep PocketJohnny Romero and Cuervo NationRailroad St. Jazz WestDon & Gracie BattSarah’s Dream Group
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Why is gas $4 a gallon and headinghigher?Three reasons: First, basic supply anddemand. Global oil supply (current pro-duction available for consumption) has been stagnant since roughly 2004. Demand,
especially that of China and India, contin
-ues to grow. U.S. consumption, in fact isdown this year, roughly by 500,000 barrelsa day. Supply is flat, and demand grows,so fundamentally, the price will climb everhigher. Those fundamentals of supplyand demand are probably responsible for between $80-$100 of the current, roughly$135, a barrel oil.Second, is the massive commod-ity inflation stalking the world’s markets,including grains, metals and timber. Thecause of the inflation is simple. The mar-kets are denominated in dollars, and thecontracts sold for these goods are pricedin dollars. The Federal Reserve is pursuinga monetary policy in which interest ratesare slashed and money is created at anastonishing rate to ease the credit crunchplaguing our financial sector. Both poli-cies, flooding the world with dollars, andpricing them very cheaply (interest ratesare the “price” of money), are making thedollar worth much, much less. Your weak-ened dollar buys half as much gasoline asit did a year ago.Third, is the impact of “speculators”and investors on the commodity futuresmarkets. The stock market is basically flatfor a ten year period. Bonds look risky inthe shadow of a credit catastrophe borneof the collapse of the sub-prime mortgagemarket. Real estate? Foreclosures are justthe beginning of a bad market. So investors,which include pension funds, hedge funds,foreign nations and individual investorshave sought returns-- they want to makemoney. Oil and commodities have beenattractive (you could have doubled yourmoney over the past two years) so there areplenty of buyers for a finite supply, pricesrise and fall with a dizzying effect.Thus, there is a triple whammy causingyou to wince when you buy gas.But most of the media won’t tell this
story. Instead we are treated to fairy tales
about the Saudi’s juicing oil production,claims from the government (the TreasurySecretary that has been oh-so-late to thegame in the credit crisis) that “speculators”have nothing to do with oil prices skyrock-eting, and zero discussion of interests ratesand monetary policy. We get politicians blaming big oil companies, who play arole, but aren’t really the core cause. Weget other politicians calling for off-shoreand wild area drilling, factors that won’timpact fuel prices for at least a decade inthe future.Why isn’t the media more credulous inits reporting on gas prices and the energycrisis? Didn’t the blindered and blinkered
perspectives running up to the Iraq war
create lasting lessons?
In part, because there are few, if any,
honest brokers in the world of energy,synthesizing a meaningful view of theissue is very difficult. Oil companies spendmillions on public relations and advertis-ing, and most hard data passes throughtheir hands or those of their paid consul-tants. Politicians are far more interestedin scoring points than telling challeng-ing truths. And even the financial mediaappears out of its depth in reporting onthe collision between macroeconomics andgeology(with the exception of Bloomberg).But mostly, we have lived in a world withabundant, cheap energy so long, that ourold comfortable perspectives and myths
are hard to part with. Instead, we must
craft new narratives for a coming age of scarcity and uncertainty.What’s worse, the speculative bubblein oil will surely deflate at some point, andthe dollar, particularly with a new presi-dent, will eventually strengthen. But whenoil and gas come down at some point in thefuture, don’t be fooled. The age of cheapenergy is behind us.
—Guerin Lee Green, The Cherry Creek News
June 20, 2008Page 2
On May 28, 2008, members of the Denver PoliceDepartment began an investigation into a home inva-sion occurring in the 1000 block of Locust Street.This investigation found that an unknown black malesubject forced his way into the home of a 57 year oldfemale at approximately 12:30 P.M. The victim wasalone at the time. While at this location, the suspecttook a number of items from the victim’s home andthen fled the scene. The victim was not injured.On June 16, 2008, a black male suspect accosted a62 year-old female at her home in the 700 block of S.Harrison Street at the approximate time of 1:30 P.M.The suspect forced his way into the victim’s home andwhile there took a number of items from the homeincluding the victim’s tan 2007 Nissan Murano, withColorado license 523-PKG. The victim received minorinjuries during the incident.The victims in both incidents describe the suspectas a dark skinned black male, in his mid to late 20’s,6’0”, and 200 lbs. The second victim last saw the sus-pect wearing a baseball cap, white t-shirt, dark pants,and tennis shoes.
Investigators have discovered similar character
-istics in both cases. Anyone with information aboutthese cases is asked to contact the Denver PoliceDepartment at 720-913-2000 or anonymously throughCrime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP (7867).Also concerning Southeast Denver residents arefour kidnappings and robberies that have occurredover the past 10 weeks.“We’re concerned someone is going to resist,that somebody could be hurt,” said Denver PoliceSpokesman Sonny Jackson. The armed men approachedthe victims getting out of or near their vehicles.The suspects demand the victim get back in the carand drive to an ATM machine. That’s when the victimsare forced to make withdraws from their accounts.None of the victims have been harmed in these inci-dents.
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against gay men andlesbians: it's the law
by Linda Lidov
In May of last year, Governor Bill
Ritter signed a law that many peoplein Colorado may still be unaware of.The Employment NondiscriminationAct, or ENDA, increases Colorado’semployment nondiscrimination pro-tections to include sexual orientationand gender expression – an importantstep toward ending discrimination inthe workplace.The law took effect on August 3, but Colorado companies that may be unfamiliar with the law have yetto modify their nondiscriminationpolicies. The Gay & Lesbian Fund forColorado is issuing a “call to action”reminding all organizations to updatetheir policies to reflect sexual orienta-tion and gender expression in time forthe one-year anniversary of ENDA.ENDA makes it unlawful to con-sider sexual orientation, gender iden-tity, or gender expression when mak-ing employment-related decisions,or to make any inquiry about anapplicant’s sexual orientation or gen-der expression. This new law definessexual orientation as a person’s orien-tation toward heterosexuality, homo-sexuality, bisexuality, or transgenderstatus.To date, 20 states and the Districtof Columbia have policies prohibiting both sexual orientation and genderidentity discrimination in employ-ment, and 13 of those include trans-gender protections.Many of the most respected andinfluential corporations in the UnitedStates have made similar commit-ments to protect their employeesfrom discrimination in the workplaceand to ensure equal opportunities forlesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgen-der (LGBT) employees, vendors, andpartners. Companies ranging fromXerox Corp. and Bank of America toErnst & Young and Eastman Kodak Co. have nondiscrimination policiesthat include gender identity, includegay/lesbian businesses in supplier-diversity tracking, and active pro-grams to support and recruit LGBTemployees, and more.ENDA officially establishes thosesame standards for equality and non-discrimination in Colorado, makingthis a landmark law in the state’shistory. The law is applicable to allemployers, employment agencies,labor organizations, on-the-job train-ing, and vocational training programsand schools.Companies that comply withENDA are not only taking an impor-tant step toward ensuring a discrim-ination-free workplace, but protect-ing their organization from potentiallitigation.“Until this legislation was passed,it was lawful in Colorado to fire some-one simply because of their being gay,”said Mary Lou Makepeace, executivedirector of the Gay & Lesbian Fund.“Complying with the law is simple,and is an important step every orga-nization can take toward advancingequality and ending discrimination
in our state. I urge organizations to
achieve compliance before the one-year anniversary,” Makepeace added.To help expand understanding of the law, the Gay & Lesbian Fundis providing Colorado companieswith resources that offer step-by-stepguidance for compliance. The firstkey step is for companies to add theterm “sexual orientation” into theirnondiscrimination policies so that allemployees are aware of the organiza-tion’s adherence to the law.There are additional measuresorganizations can take to protectthemselves and their employees.“All organizations, whether theyare nonprofit or private, need to rec-ognize discrimination as a potentialliability. They need to have policiesand procedures in place, as well asstaff training, to avoid any allegationsof discrimination,” says Pat Steadman,vice president of Mendez, Steadman& Associates, a political consultingfirm. Steadman was the primary lob- byist who worked for 11 years to getENDA passed into Colorado legisla-tion.
The Gay & Lesbian Fund is mak-ing information available about ENDA, gender expression, and tips for achievinga discrimination-free workplace at www. gayandlesbianfund.org/enda and www. gayandlesbianfund.org/advancingequal-ity. More about ENDA can be found atwww.dora.state.co.us/civil-rights/index.htm or www.aclu.org/enda/.***
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