Lakewood Edge

SUBMITTED BY: Jamie Mager, American Cancer Society Relay for Life
Relay For Life invites you to come celebrate your birthday. The American Cancer Society is “The Official Sponsor of Birthdays” and we want to save lives and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays.  The Relay For Life Birthday Celebration invites the entire community [...]

Britt Cox is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2009 death of Bonni Bergen, whose body was found by firefighters after an explosion and fire at her home in northwest Lakewood.

National Civic League award based on three local projects: Colfax Urban Renewal project and its light rail components, ‘greening’ of local businesses and O’Connell Middle School-based Boys and Girls Club.

DA criticizes sentence, saying the crimes – involving 82 counts handed down by a Jeffco Grand Jury in November 2009 – should have resulted in a heftier sentence because Porter has a dozen previous convictions on similar charges.

Incumbent vows to “focus on smart budgeting” as well as transportation options and the quality of life in Lakewood. Murphy, who is in his fourth year as mayor, also was a two-term Ward 2 Councilman and member of the city’s Planning Commission.

Cody Charlton, 31, was living at his parents’ home in Lakewood, which also is a home day care center. It is unclear whether charges involve any children who attended the center. Investigators urge anyone with information about the case to contact them.

LAKEWOOD – A fourth grade student at Stein Elementary will be expelled and could face misdemeanor charges as a juvenile after he allegedly took a BB-gun to school and shot some of his classmates when his teacher’s attention was diverted.
Police were called to the school at 80 S. Teller St. about 10 a.m. Monday after [...]

LAKEWOOD – Police investigators are awaiting results of toxicology tests to determine whether an Evergreen woman who was fatally injured in an accident while trying to cross Kipling Street in mid-block caused her own death.
Jill Monica Sypert, 48, died at the scene after she was struck by a vehicle traveling in the southbound lanes of [...]

LAKEWOOD – Folks can use a pair of events to get rid of household clutter, including confidential paperwork and electronic items, in the next few weeks.
The GM Colorado Double Diamond Baseball Team is sponsoring a “Community Shred” fundraiser May 7 at Belmar Baptist Church. The team is raising money for a trip to Cooperstown, N.Y., [...]

CCU’s athletes, as with the entire student body, serve communities at home and abroad as part of their student lifestyle. Although they posted no wins at the regional tourney, they scored big with senior citizens.

JEFFERSON COUNTY  - The 18th Annual Courage honoring the strength of crime victims will be Saturday, April 16, at the Jefferson County Administration and Courts Building.
The walk is sponsored by victim advocates from the 1st Judicial District and coincides with National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The walk highlights the strength and courage mustered by crime victims [...]

City of Lakewood, Denver Urban Gardens and local volunteers create community garden area in western Lakewood. Aspiring gardeners can register on-line. The cost is $30 plus a $30 refundable deposit.

Jeffco family’s frogs-in-winter video takes first place in nationwide contest, topping more than 180 other 30-second videos submitted in Primrose Schools’ Family Danceoff contest. Their win means $30,000 for Children’s Hospital and $5,000 for the family.

LAKEWOOD – A woman found inside a West Colfax Avenue motel earlier this week has been identified as Danysha L. Turnbaugh, 31, according to a Lakewood Police Department spokesman.
Lakewood Police detectives working with the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office have identified Turnbaugh as the victim of a homicide that occurred at the Rocky Mountain Motel, 6001 [...]

Grand Jury indictment accuses suspect of “fraudulently” soliciting $1.7 million from friends, acquaintances and coworkers over a 20-month period, repaying less than 5 percent of it. He is due in court next week.

Team wins all-expense trip to New York to compete in International Public Policy Forum debates. The April competition carries a $10,000 grand prize for the team that emerges as the best from the original field of 340 entrants.

SUBMITTED BY: C. Jones
The U.S. General Service Administration (GSA) states they want to “increase conservation awareness, save natural resources, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
I challenge GSA to live up to their words by setting aside natural habitat on the Denver Federal Center as identified on their final master site plan. Conservation awareness is not possible without including natural habitat and [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Jonathan Watters, Assistant Director of University Communications, Colorado Christian  University
LAKEWOOD – Students from 14 community colleges and online programs across Colorado can now complete up to 75 percent of the coursework toward bachelor’s degrees at the lower community-college price through an agreement between Colorado Christian University and the Colorado Community College System.
The agreement signed [...]