Lakewood Edge

Submitted By: Melissa Morris
 State Park Officials: Are You Listening?
Off-leash users are not opposed to change at Chatfield State Park’s off-leash dog area, but we are opposed to change that does not benefit all users equally creating a win-win for all parties.
Sport Dog Trainers need and deserve a great state of the art facility for both [...]

Man who admitted guilt in 15-year old cold case draws a 14-year prison term. The conviction is Jimmy Gerald Ruybal’s fifth felony conviction.

Bill Inman graduated from Colorado Christian University last month, marking a milestone in his recovery from a 1981 traffic accident that left him injured, but determined to earn his degree.

SUBMITTED BY: Karen Wachtel, Director of Communications, Rocky Mountain College of Art+Design
LAKEWOOD – A little over a year ago, Katie Caron was celebrating her graduation – a hard-earned Master of Arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She was helping move partitions used in exhibitions when one of the half-ton walls fell on [...]

LAKEWOOD – City and company officials this week broke ground for a new Chick-fil-A restaurant, one that will bring an expected 65 jobs to south Lakewood and one that will replace a trademark but vacant Black Eye Pea restaurant building.
“I’m excited to get to work with this community,” said John Barker, who will operate the [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Karen Wachtel,  Director of Communications, Rocky Mountain College of Art+Design
LAKEWOOD – A lot of adjectives have been used to describe Jimmy Joe Roche’s art: “hyper,” “spiritual,” “crazy,” “haunt­ing,” “hilarious.” But one word you’ll never see tied to Roche is “mundane.”
Born in Florida and now based in Baltimore, he represents a new generation of talent [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Clear Creek is off-limits to most users after rapidly rising water from a quickly melting snow pack forced the Sheriff’s Office to limit activities until further notice.
The Sheriff’s Office ban targets all single-chamber inflated devices such as belly boats, inner tubes and inflatable rafts without separate air chambers. Kayaks, white-water canoes and [...]

LAKEWOOD – Construction of the Indiana Street light rail bridge will close West 6th Avenue beneath the bridge overnight Friday and Saturday.
A construction crew will set the final steel girders in place at the bridge site, forcing closure of the highway at Indiana from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. both nights. Motorists will be detoured [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A telephone scam that uses fake calls warning victims their ATM card is to be canceled because of fraudulent activity has resurfaced, according to an alert issued by District Attorney Scott Storey.
“This is a scam and its hitting our area hard,” Storey said.
Several potential victims contacted the DA’s ofice in the past [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Mark Smiley, Director, Public Relations & Marketing, Seniors’ Resource Center
JEFFERSON COUNTY – County Commissioners Kathy Hartman, Faye Griffin, and Kevin McCasky presented Seniors’ Resource Center (SRC) with a proclamation declaring May as Older Americans Month on Tuesday, May 25.
Adult Protective Services and the Jefferson County Council on Aging (JCCoA) joined SRC at the [...]

SUBMITTED BY:  Jennifer Kostka, Jefferson County Citizen Involvement Coordinator
JEFFERSON COUNTY – Homeowner association members will have the opportunity to learn about legislation affecting HOAs, legal issues for covenant enforcement, architectural standards for renewable energy and more at a roundtable event at 5:30 p.m., June 10, at Peak Community & Wellness Center, 6612 South Ward Street [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Deb Frazier, Colorado State Parks
LITTLETON – Come join the fun at Chatfield State Park for Slocum Cabin Days on June 18-20.  Events include furs and historic trade goods, storytelling, cannon drill and firing, frontier-style cast-iron cooking, a Saturday night council fire and flag retirement ceremony, old-fashioned crafts such as beading and lace making, [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Mark Techmeyer, Public Information Officer, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
JEFFERSON COUNTY – In an effort to reach out to seniors in the community who may be more at-risk for becoming victims of crime, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office will host its fifth annual senior safety luncheon on Tuesday, June 22,  from 11 a.m. to 2 [...]

Jefferson County – The Sheriff’s Office is accepting applications for its 2010 Youth Academy. The academy, which is free, is designed a to provide a sample of the operations of local law enforcement.for people between the ages of 14 and 20, and offers them .
The academy offers “a fun-filled, week long academy with class topics [...]

The agreement, which must be ratified by rank-and-file teachers, would grant pay increases by tenure and educational credits in first year, but not second year. There would be no CoL increase.

SUBMITTED BY: Dana Slone, AARP
Jefferson County’s AARP Chapter will celebrate its 48th
birthday May 13 at the Clements Community Center, 1580 Yarrow Street in Lakewood.
Why is 48 significant?
Chapter President is LaDean Gerstner said, “At 48 years old, we’re the oldest
AARP chapter in Colorado, and the third oldest in the United States. The chapter
is older than the [...]

SUBMITTED BY:  Jeffco School District Communications Office
Jeffco Public Schools offers a variety of summer school programs to help students with special academic needs and promote student enrichment. The district’s Summer School Office is sponsoring core programs in math, language arts, science and [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Being neighborly proved costly for four senior citizens, including a Lakewood resident, who have
 lost jewelry and cash after allowing a pair of strangers claiming to be neighbors needing help stole cash and jewelry from the victims.
The Jeffco Sheriff’s Office issued an alert Friday, warning area residents about the Hispanic couple that has [...]