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By Lakewood Edge • October 22nd, 2010

LAKEWOOD –The Denver Reclamation Employees Association’s annual Vendor Fair will open for its fourth holiday sale Nov. 2.
The sale, which benefits local Bureau of Reclamation employee activities, offers everything from ice cream to crafts items and tools.
“ It’s an easy way to do your holiday shopping and find any number of individual and unique holiday [...]

DENVER – A new state website that provides Colorado’s Veterans with complete information resources is now online, offering members of the military, veterans and their families an easily accessible “clearinghouse” with information about programs and services available to them..
The website is the result of HB 09-1291, sponsored by Nikkel, R-Loveland, during the 2009 legislative session.
“There [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Adam Paul, Lakewood City  Council – Ward 4
RE:       Lakewood Edge publication – 9/27/1 Article titled: “OPED: Lax oversight of grant funds increases taxpayers’ costs”, submitted by Bill Marion
Dear Editor:
After reviewing the article in the September 27, 2010 edition of the Lakewood Edge publication, Lakewood City Council felt it was important to comment on [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Carrie Hank, American Family Insurance, Lakewood
LAKEWOOD – Bear Creek high school is one of more than 375 schools throughout American Family’s 19-state operating territory participating in the Teen Safe Driver Pledge, an online pledge by teen drivers, parents or other community members that establishes safe driving expectations.
By participating in the program, Bear Creek [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Bill Marion
Recipients of grant funding from state and county agencies are not subject to adequate controls to ensure that recipients comply with their own proposals and obligations.
For example, the city of Lakewood built a baseball field in Coyote Gulch Park where the proposed funding was to include a $200,000 grant from Greater Outdoors Colorado (GOCO); a [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Andrea LaRew, Director of Marketing, West Chamber of Commerce
LAKEWOOD – The West Chamber embarked on its first Chamber Exchange Trip on Sept. 23 when  Chamber members travel to Spearfish, S. D. for a three-day networking and brainstorming event with members of the Spearfish, Lead, Deadwood and Sturgis Chambers of Commerce.
The West Chamber participants [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Kodi Bryant; Public Health Information Specialist, JCPH
JEFFERSON COUNTY – Three Jefferson County food service establishments, the Arvada Villa Italian Restaurant, Jus Cookin’s in Lakewood, and Rocky Mountain Hog Roasters in Westminster are the most recent recipients of Jefferson County Public Health’s “Leader in Food Safety” Award.
While their menus and locations may be very different, they all share [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Residents of Jefferson County’s unincorporated Central Plains area can help shape the future of their neighborhoods by taking part in discussions with the county’s Planning and Zoning Division about land use recommendations in the Central Plains Community Plan.
The Planning & Zoning staff will conduct four October meetings – one of them in Lakewood for [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Chris Jones
The General Service Administration (GSA) has removed public information concerning the Denver Federal Center (DFC) Final Master Site Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement from its website. Instead of providing easy access to these documents via their website, GSA prefers to present a fifteen minute video of self-promotion telling tax payers exactly [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Lynn Setzer, Jeffco Public Schools

Jeffco Public Schools offer a variety of student performances that are open to the public, most of which are free*.  Dates and times are subject to change, contact the school or check the Web site for confirmation at www.jeffcopublicschools.org.
* call school for applicable ticket costs
JEFFCO SCHOOL FALL CONCERTS

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JEFFERSON COUNTY – The Sheriff’s Office annual Safety Fair returns Sept. 18 and 19 at the Summerset Festival at Clement Park in south Jeffco, offering tips on all aspects of family and financial safety.
“The Sheriff’s Office hosts this annual fair to engage our community in taking steps to stay safe and healthy,” according to Mark [...]

LAKEWOOD – Police Friday identified a motorcyclist killed in a Thursday afternoon crash as Guy Petersen of Lakewood.
Petersen, 50, died after his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck driven by an off-duty Lakewood policeman. The policeman, Robert Dethlefs, was not injured in the accident, said LPD spokesman Steve Davis.
Initial reports indicate Petersen was riding northbound [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Jaimes Brown, Libertarian Candidate for Colorado Governor
As a candidate qualified for the ballot, it’s frustrating and discouraging to learn about the first gubernatorial debate in a newspaper article after it has taken place. I’ve requested other debate invitations and one chamber of commerce told me I have to provide a poll that shows [...]

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 [...]