At the invitation of Reinke Brothers, I was a guest at the Historic Littleton, Inc. “Preservation Celebration” event May 18, held at the spectacular “Shift Workspaces” building on Main St. Not sure of the location, I circled around the business district past the Elks Lodge and spotted a large crowd, all women. Ha – that’s …
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Editor’s Note: Here is a reprint of a column commemorating Memorial Day, by Mort Marks, our former, long-running opinion columnist. Mort passed away in 2019, and he was a proud veteran of WWII and combat survivor of the Battle of the Bulge in the frigid winter of 1944. Even before the Civil War ended, many …
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“They’re just really good kids.” That view was shared with me last week by a colleague, as we talked about the school year on the last day for seniors at Cherry Creek. I was having a nostalgic moment because, well, last Wednesday, my daughter turned eighteen, and she attended her last day of high school …
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A lesson from the past — make ice cream “And the rains came, and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and the floods began, and the world was submerged in water and great eruptions occurred and the giant T-Rex’s perished, and the earth was a massive lake of water. God created male and …
New Zealand closed its borders due to COVID beginning in February 2020, finally reopening to visitors over two years later, in August 2022. As an island country, border security is far easier than in the US for example. I had the opportunity to visit recently, for both work and fun, 3 days of each. For …
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I know it’s the beginning of summer when the fruit trees all blossom in the same week. It must be God that sends all the trees a message to shower the nation with the beautiful blossoms that promise another day. *** I also note that it is the beginning of summer when a bug splashes …
Mother’s Day is May14, a day to honor the females who populate the earth on which we live. Without mothers the world would end and humanity as we know it would cease. But, for now, Mother’s Day is a very important event to honor our mothers, living, or deceased. My mother June was an exceptional …
We went to Boston for a date with abstract expressionist Cy Twombly, and we almost came home with early modernist Marc Chagall. It all started when art critic Sebastian Smee profiled “Cy Twombly: Making Past Present,” an exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He grabbed my attention when he wrote, “I’ve been waiting …
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A recent report by 9News reintroduced Denver to a rare disease, “Doctors investigate case of tuberculosis at George Washington High School.” This case “involves someone who is part of the GWHS community” but can’t say if it is a student or staff member. TB is slowly disappearing in America. In 1953 there were 84,304 reported …
I haven’t been to Columbine County Club since the club had extensive remodeling. Saturday the club played host to the annual spring luncheon of the Friends of Nursing in their new banquet addition that is open for business and doing an excellent job. The Villager has been a supporter and admirer of Friends of Nursing …
