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By Lakewood Edge • August 25th, 2010

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Investigators hope tips from the public will help them find a man suspected of molesting a child in the locker room at the Ridge Recreation Center last weekend.
Jeffco Sheriff’s deputies were summoned to the center at 6613 S. Ward St. in Littleton about 5 p.m. Saturday after the victim told his [...]

DENVER- Wal-Mart is pulling 380,000 pounds of Tyson Foods deli meat that may be contaminated with a bacteria that can cause food poisoning, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
The meat from Zemco Industries in Buffalo, NY, was included in “Marketside Grab and Go” pre-made sandwiches that were distributed nationwide to Wal-Mart stores, including [...]

LAKEWOOD – FasTracks work will close all lanes along a four-block stretch of Sheridan Boulevard for the entire weekend, Regional Transportation District construction officials announced.
And another stretch of the West Corridor light rail line also will handout a few headaches to drivers Monday night into Tuesday morning.
That work will close all lanes of westbound 6th [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – An investigation into a woman’s body found in a detention pond near Chatfield Reservoir earlier this week found no indication of foul play, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
“The preliminary investigation of the body recovered from the Jeffco pond at S. Carr St. and Ute Ave. has resulted in no suspicions of foul [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A pair of new identity-theft scams by con artists claiming to represent government offices have surfaced in Jeffco, prompting an alert from the Sheriff’s Office.
In one scam, a caller contacted a local automobile repair business and claimed to be an investigator for the Sheriff’s Office. The man told an employee of the [...]

LAKEWOOD – Regional Transportation District construction officials have canceled a planned Thursday night closure of the West 6th Avenue/Indiana Street area and will reschedule the work, the agency announced Wednesday afternoon.
The announcement gave no reason for the change in plans other than citing “unforeseen circumstances” in the FasTracks West Corridor light rail construction schedule.
“Prior notification [...]

Two salmonella-linked food recalls, one of them “likely linked” to an outbreak of the disease among customers at a popular Jeffco restaurant, were announced by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment this week.
In a recall that health officials believe is linked to the Fort Restaurant in Morrison, Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A Edgewater man was sentenced Thursday to 192 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Edgewater girl in June 2009 after his third trial on the charges. One previous trial ended in a mistrial and another ended when the jury could not agree on a verdict.
But a third jury [...]

LAKEWOOD – Construction work on the FasTracks West Corridor light rail line will force a number of traffic closures in the coming week, Regional Transportation District officials said Friday.
The traffic detours started late Friday, when crews began work to move the off ramp from West 6th Avenue to traffic exiting eastbound to West Colfax Avenue [...]

LAKEWOOD – Thunderbolt Orators, one of six Toastmaster clubs in the city, will cater to the younger set on “Bring a Kid to Toastmaster Day” Aug. 5 during their meeting at the Kinder Morgan Building, 370 Van Gordon St.
One of more than 10,000 Toastmaster clubs in the world, the Thunderbolt Orator Chapter is the winner [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Jessica Metzler, Campaign Manager
JEFFERSON COUNTY – County Commissioner Kathy Hartman announced Thursday that she has received more than 30 endorsements from Jefferson County officials from both major political parties. Hartman is running for re-election as Jefferson County Commissioner.
“I am both humbled and proud of the number of endorsements we have received during my [...]

Open Space at DFC Belongs to Taxpayers

 SUBMITTED BY: C. Jones
Tax-paying citizens are the rightful owners of the 62-acre open space located on the southeast corner of the Denver Federal Center (DFC). The United States General Services Administration (GSA) and The City of Lakewood do not own the land. GSA and The City of Lakewood need [...]

 By Ryan Parker
A baby sitter could face charges after a 3-year-old girl was died after climbing into a hot tub at an apartment complex last week.
The baby sitter was watching three other children while their mother was away when the incident occurred at 3:22 p.m., Friday at the Telluride West Apartments, 322 Wright St.
The incident [...]

 SUBMITTED BY: Cathy Kentner
The Lakewood City Council is currently taking public comment on two proposed charter changes that would affect referendum and initiative petitions. One of these changes would require referenda and initiative elections to coincide with either a regular municipal election or a county special election, thus eliminating stand-alone special elections.
Stand-alone elections are the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]