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West 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge is seeing retail space
filling up since the New Year with a number of new businesses opening in the
area. The retail outlet located at 9045 West 44th Avenue is now
officially at capacity with two new businesses und...
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Fans of classic American composers can enjoy a magical matinee
of memorable music when the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra performs “Three
American Giants” Sunday, Feb. 19, at 3:00 p.m., at the Colorado School of
Mine’s Green Center. The address of ...
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The Jeffco League of Women Voters will look at plans for
affordable housing near the new RTD Light Rail West Corridor and planned Gold
Line.
The League will also check out what the City of Lakewood and
other Jeffco entities are doing to energize the n...
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Seniors who love to ski or snowshoe, but are less than
enthusiastic about motoring up to the mountains, can take advantage of a Wheat
Ridge Parks & Recreation program that whisks them to popular sites for a
day of winter sports.
Each outing...
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BY CYNDY BEAL
Whether you like plans for Wheat Ridge’s Main Street depends
on whether you like diets – Road Diets, to be exact.
Studies, committees, plans and meetings for the future of
38th Avenue has proceeded in fits and starts for over a dec...
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BY J. PATRICK O'LEARY
Renewal Wheat Ridge, the governing board for the City of
Wheat Ridge’s Urban Renewal Authority, has been busy on the development of the
vacant lot behind the First Bank Building at the corner of Wadsworth Blvd. and
44th Ave., p...
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Skiing or Shoeing? Leave the Driving to Parks and Recreation
Seniors who love to ski or snowshoe, but are less than
enthusiastic about motoring up to the mountains, can take advantage of a Wheat
Ridge Parks & Recreation program that whisks them t...
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BY J. PATRICK O'LEARY
You may not have noticed, but early construction has started
on the Gold Line, the 11.2-mile electric commuter rail line between Denver
Union Station and Ward Road in Wheat Ridge, part of the Regional Transportation
Distr...
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BY DIANNA PRUDEN, MT (ASCP) SBB
Blood Bank and QA Manager,Exempla Lutheran Medical Center
On September 7, Dianna Cillessen arrived at Exempla Lutheran
Medical Center anticipating the birth of her second child. After carrying her
baby for 39 weeks, s...
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BY SUE SCHAFER
State Representative, House District 24
Hello, Citizens of Wheat Ridge and Edgewater. I write you
about exciting things happening in the Colorado Legislature and how honored I
am to serve as your State Representative!
You can always...
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As the chairperson for the Parks &
Recreation committee and the citizens group that planned the dog park, I
would like to tell you about this group made of multi-generation citizens
including some founding members of the City of Wheat Ridge an...
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BY ROSE FLOREZ
January is a tough month for us, because we are getting a lot
of do-it-yourself fireplace installers trying to save money. It’s tough because we’ve had to tell
them they can’t do what they want to do.
Or we will no...
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BY JONATHAN LEE & TIM BERLAND
“The best thing you can do is the right thing;
the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing;
the worst
thing you can do is nothing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Greetings and happy New Year from the Neighborhood Ga...
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By Tamara Eslich
When most of us think of brain growth, we think of the two
sides of the brain growing in unison, when in fact it does not grow in a
balanced way.
In the womb and during the first few years of life, brain growth
is focused almo...
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BY TOM YANG
PART III: A Taste Of The Real Estate Business
After I earned by bachelor of science degree in Mining
Engineering, I received a number of job offers, as did all my fellow graduates.
I took a job with Conoco Oil Company at its new copper pro...
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BY ZACHARY URBAN
I have a
confession to make. This is something my wife would rather me not share. I told
her it’s not right that I should keep this secret any longer. I told her it is
important for my neighbors to know about this secret.
My big...
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BY JENNIFER STRICKLAND
Director of Community Relations
The beginning of the year is a great time for all of us to reflect on the past twelve months. However, most importantly, it is a good chance to look to the future. Starting off the year on the right...
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CITY AT SUNSET-- This style of lamp post and the neon clocks on 38th Avenue and Depew Street, are reminders of the city’s previous attempts to beautify “Main Street”. Wheat Ridge is going forward with the “Road Diet” plan – restriping and n...