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Th At Gaag inPak Hill is packingm cativity int analay ivs nigh-bh.Lcat acssKany Stt fm anactual Aut Gaag, thAt Gaag at fistglanc appas t b agas statin  cnv-nint st. That’sbcaus fun BabMcK tk an l fill-ing statin an tunit int a spac f ntn, but tw businsss.Whn McK’s ntusing th small but flx-ibl spac, anthpublic at cmpany,Sufac Statgy, LLCmaks us f it.But mst ftn ithuss classms.With a tam f pfs-sinal tachs f vaying at skills, McKffs classs f anynintst, bginning atag th. Past an cu-nt classs havinclu camics, junkat, watcl, aw-ing, sculptu—anvn music an wit-ing.“I ally njy that alt f things happnthugh w f muth,” McK sai,fncing th waynw classs a ftnsuggst an iscussbf cming t fui-tin. Pat f h gal in

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Tower Ledger

By THe ToWer LedGer

Th Hicknlp amin-istatin has ppsicting $6.1 millin in f-al ai t hlp nighbhsaffct b abann anfcls hms. Thmn is intn t slwth sin f hm valusan nighbh qualitcat b th pimic f fclsus.In Jul, fllwing mnthsf wangling abut hw tstabiliz th hm makt,Cngss pass an thPsint sign int law thHusing an ecnmicrcv Act. A ptin f th law icts $3.92 billinin mgnc assistancgants (knwn as thNighbh StabilizatinPgam) t stat an lcalgvnmnts with th gat-st n f vlpmntf abann an fclshms an sintial pp-tis. Th U.S. dpatmntf Husing an Ubandvlpmnt (HUd) vl-p a funing fmula fistibutin bas n thfllwing citia: "th num-b an pcntag f hmfclsus; th numban pcntag f hmsfinanc b a subpimmtgag lat lan; thnumb an pcntag f hms in fault  lin-qunc."Accing t dnv'splan f spning th mn,"in aitin t Gn Vallranch, Mntbll anWstw, th cit will cn-si pptunitis t invstin Wst Clfax, Villa Pak,Banum, Ma L, anAthma Pak in suthwstdnv." Gn Vallranch, Wstw anMntbll hav th highstats f fclsu. Th cit will us th fal funs f

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By Bill Ritter, Jr.

Sm mmis nv fa. Th sta with u lng aft th sun has st, lng aftu suunings hav chang … lngaft th wl has bcm a iffnt plac.It sn’t matt hw lng ag th vnts f wa tk plac t ths wh liv thughth cnflict. F ths wh wnt t waan cam back, a pat f thm will fvmain in that plac wh ths mmis w ma.on Nvmb 11, Amica pas tibutt th millins f bav mn an wmn wh hav answ th call f ut. Sma still with us, ths a nt. rgalssf th ca  th as in which thsv, thi svic t th cunt shapan chang thi livs. Th lft thihms an thi lv ns. Man put thica an thi ucatin n hl. Thnu tmnus haships, w placin th mst inhspitabl placs an placthi livs in ham’s wa – all in th namf fm. Acss th span f tim, th w willing t stan up f th valus thatu ffaths, in tun, gav thi livs tstablish.Thi svic t cunt chang thilivs but it als chang u livs. Th f-m an th mcac w nj ta washa wn b ths succssiv gnatinsf slis wh fught against tann anfn u cunt. W w thm all abt, n that w ma nv full b abl tpa. What th hav n f us an fth Amicans that fllw in thi ft-stps svs u thanks an u gatitu.Hw  u aquatl thank smnf such a tmnus sacific? H is ng wa. W hav nal 450,000 vtansin Cla ta, sm f whm a stug-gling t fin a jb spit thi utstaningskills an xpinc. Th wa w can thankths vtans wh hav intupt thilivs an ftn suff phsical  mtinalinju in fns f u fm is t nsuthat whn th tun hm, th a wl-cm, spct -- an mpl.I hav sign a pclamatin pclaim-ing Nvmb t b “Hi a Vtan FistMnth” in Cla. I am ncuagingmpls statwi t hi as man vtansas pssibl, an nt nl uing this mnthin which u thughts tun t vtans, butas a lng-tm matt f plic.Whn laving milita svic, having a jb can mak all th iffnc f vtansan thi familis. S if u a an mpl,tak pat in “Hi a Vtan Mnth,” anhi a vtan this mnth, nxt mnth,  whnv u hav th pptunit. If uhav mpls wh a call t activut, mak su thi jbs a waiting fthm whn th tun. Lt that b uthanks f thi svic. empls wh hivtans will tll u that it is nt ml a wa f saing thanks, but s it as an invst-mnt. Vtans knw what it mans t wkha. Th laship, sns f tamwk anisciplin th bing t a jb is what vmpl ns.Th is als anth wa t thank avtan an it is a v simpl act. It sn’tinvlv spcial pgams  paas  pc-lamatins. Simpl ff thm u han anthank thm f thi svic. It is th bst wa f u t lt thm knw that u cg-niz what th hav n an that it has ntbn fgttn  takn f gant.

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Issue 11 • Volume 2 • Nov-Dec 2008

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subsiis f th acquisitin an habf hms in ths nighbhs.Sm citics hav chag th citis ssntiall wasting th fal l-las b puing scac funs intnighbhs t fa in clin tbnfit fm th llas. Insta, thpps putting funs int aas wh fclsus a just nwbcming a pblm, in hps f stmming th ti f cascaing hmlan faults. Fclsus in thhast hit dnv nighbhsappach 13%, an th llas avail-abl t dnv wul impact lss than1% f th fcls hms.A cp f th plan is n th tw-lg.cm wbsit.Public cmmnts gaing thaft plan will b accpt b th viamail, at CnsliatPlan@nv-gv.g, thugh Nvmb 30.Fllwing th public cmmnt pi-, a final plan will b submitt tth U.S. dpatmnt f Husing anUban dvlpmnt n dcmb 1.

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Tower Ledger Errata:In the October issue, astory on All ThingsRenewable erred inreporting on LightlyTreading. It shouldread that the founderof Lightly Treading isPaul Kriescher--notSean McVay.

Strengthening Neighborhoods Programcelebrates 11 years of building strongerneighborhoods

In octb, v 300 iniviuals camtgth at Buc ranlph Schl t cl-bat th accmplishmnts f ppl whhav hlp t buil thi cmmunitis fmth insi ut. Th gup inclu accun-tants, small businss wns, cts, tach-s, lawys, pants, tis, cmmunityganizs, yuth, an atists. Thi cmmncaus: a lv f th cmmunitis in whichthy liv an a si t impv lif f thinighbs.Th uniqu pgam that has cnvnan suppt this ivs gup f citiznsis Stngthning Nighbhs, a pgamf Th dnv Funatin. StngthningNighbhs’ gals inclu supptingpsitiv latinships amng sints; sup-pting sint las; hlping sintsganiz t cat chang; cnncting si-nts an sint-l gups acss nigh-bhs; an binging nw patns t th wk f cmmunity builing.In cnnctin with th scn f thsgals, th thm f this ya’s clbatin was “Laship at th Gassts.” PatickHvath, Manag f th StngthningNighbhs Pgam (SNP) sai, “It isu hn t clbat ths nighbhlas wh stp t th fnt in thi cmmu-nitis t listn, t buil cnsnsus, t awths int th wk f cmmunitychang, an t tak actin n thlag an small issus that makthi cmmunitis stng.”Cmmunity mmbs a ncu-ag t la within thi nighb-hs an a smtims invit tsv in laship capacitis n thSNP Cmmitt. This cmmitt, which is ma up f bth tustsf Th dnv Funatin Baan las fm SNP patn cm-munitis, vss StngthningNighbhs’ wk, sts thannual bugt, an vlps SNP’slng-tm visin an th statgicplan that th staff cais ut thlp sints stngthn thi cmmunitisfm within. Th cunt sint la-s n th Cmmitt inclu Maia Zubiaan Maia Gnzalz fm Cmmc City,Patick rigway fm th Sunnysi nigh-bh, an Cki Hansn fm oiginalAua.Th Nighbh Lashipdvlpmnt Pgam (NLdP), a nin-mnth tainingclass, is ffby SNP fbth nw anstablishnighbhlas. ov120 iniviu-als, many f whm wpsnt at thannual clba-tin, hav ga-uat fm thpgam sincits incptin in2002.Paticipantsf th pgamvlp anighbhpjct whil laning pactical lashipskills, such as cating a statgic plan, hw tplan an un a g mting, hw t managcnflict, hw t cuit a c gup f cm-mitt vlunts, hw t al with pwin thi cmmunity, an hw t ngag anvlp th nxt gnatin f las.Sinc 2005, a Spanish-languag vsinf NLdP has bn ff ach ya as wll.Ths tainings hav aliz a 50% incasin paticipants ach ya sinc incptin, with 32 gauats civing thi ctificatat this ya’s clbatin.

For more information about the Strengthening Neighborhoods Program or the Neighborhood Leadership Development Program, visit www.denverfoundation.org or call 303-300-1790. Angelle C. Fouther is the CommunicationsOfficer at The Denver Foundation.***

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