I started believing in miracles again the night a Lutheran Hospital ICU nurse from Wheat Ridge pulled over along Route 6 in Clear Creek Canyon. It was dark, and she had spotted what looked like a body lying in the middle of the road. No pulse. No breathing. Half his face gone. The man had
Where final moments are meaningful One common misconception about hospice care is that it is centered around death and dying. The staff at Intermountain Health Hospice at the Collier Center, located on the Wheat Ridge Lutheran Legacy Campus, push back on that idea. They focus on patient goals. “We are working on the quality, not
A partnership between the City of Wheat Ridge and an Indigenous food project has dissolved after two growing seasons, with both parties sharing conflicting accounts of what went wrong at Happiness Community Gardens. Narissa Ribera, founder of Ch’il Indigenous Foods and a member of the Navajo Nation, says the City of Wheat Ridge failed to
After years of watching streets collapse and emergency repairs drain city funds, Wheat Ridge City Council has taken the first step toward creating a stormwater utility that would charge property owners monthly fees to maintain and upgrade the city’s drainage infrastructure. During an October 13 city council meeting, council members voted to begin implementing a
