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By Lakewood Edge • July 9th, 2010

Home-schooled athlete from Oklahoma turns to Colorado Christian University’s mix of compassionate education after injury causes larger schools to back away from recruiting her.

By Ryan Parker
Compiled from Lakewood Police Department reports
 Precise words
4:30 p.m., June 30, 2010, 6700 block of West Colfax Avenue:
Police saw a woman believed to be a prostitute get into a man’s car. When police stopped the car and asked the man what he was doing, he said he picked up the woman because she was [...]

Fireworks finale and food, beverages, and a midway for the younger set highlight Lakewood on Parade’s annual celebration of the community and it’s Independence Day Weekend observance.

By RYAN PARKER
Reports compiled by the Lakewood Police Department.
 Stocked up
9:42 p.m., June 23, 2010, area of West Colfax Avenue and Jay Street.
Police were doing undercover investigation for possible prostitution on Colfax when they saw a woman they thought may be working. An undercover officer offered the woman money in exchange for relations, which she agreed [...]

Neighborhood spokeswoman says the community will continue the battle against a nebulous plan for the commercial and retail redevelopment of the site at the intersection of West Alameda Avenue and Kipling street.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A woman indicted by a Jeffco Grand Jury earlier this year is in custody in Chicago pending extraction to Colorado, the District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.
Andrea Harris-Frazier, 54, was indicted on 43 counts of theft, forgery and attempted theft. The indictment named 28 people investigators believe were victimized by Harris-Frazier between November [...]

Wheat Ridge man, on probation for selling liquor to a minor later involved in a 2007 fatal car crash, admits he sold beer to a teen-ager during a Lakewood Police operation.

SUBMITTED BY: Brandon Edelman. Coordinator, Public Relations & Marketing, Seniors’ Resource Center 
WHEAT RIDGE – Seniors’ Resource Center (SRC) is excited to announce that it will conduct a groundbreaking ceremony on a brand-new, state-of-the-art Adult Day & Respite Services facility at 11 a.m. Monday, July 12 at the agency’s Wheat Ridge location, 3227 Chase St..
Congressman Ed [...]

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 [...]

Debate centers around higher cost of special elections and the City Clerk’s heavy workload vs. a more speedy path for citizens taking the ‘direct democracy’ route to appealing City Council actions. Voters would make the final decision on the proposal.

Man accused of selling alohol to teen in Lakewood Police sting admits violating probation terms in a previous case that had a lethal outcome for a local youngster.

Concerned citizens collect nearly 3,000 signatures in three weeks in effort to send controversial rezoning to a city-wide vote. City Clerk will determine whether petitions stand.

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 [...]

On-street RV parking would be limited to 48 hours – to load and unload before and after trips – if Council approves the draft porposal in July. Also in the plan is a proposed two-week permit for visitors in parked RVs and removal of an existing total ban on parking RVs that are longer than 25 feet.