A community can be best defined by the people who live and work there. Every day men and women serve important roles as police officers, business owners, city officials and parents. Teachers, retail workers, firefighters and students are just a few others who contribute to where we live. To get an accurate reflection of a community, it is necessary to get the story behind the faces. YourHub.com’s editorial staff has set out to tell these important stories and honor the men and women who make this a great community to live in.
Check out our other Faces projects:
•Arvada & Wheat Ridge (link)
•Lakewood (link)
•South Metro (link)
Look for Faces of Denver in the Rocky Mountain News on Saturday, April 26, or enjoy now by reading about your neighbors, testing your trivial knowledge about central and north Denver with a crossword puzzle or mapping the places we and YourHub.com reader-writers visited.
Get to know the Faces of Denver
Profiled by YourHub.com staff:
Bert/51-year-old Denver Zoo hippo (link)
Andy Bierman/high-rise window washer (link)
Mike Bone/Denver Botanic Gardens chief horticulturalist and propagator (link)
Gordon Boswell/Gordon's on Sixth owner and hair stylist (link)
Russ Chainhalt/West High School teacher and coach (link)
Rick Garcia/Denver city councilman (link)
Tony Garrido/Benny's Restaurante y Cantina general manager (link)
Andy Guerrero/Flobots vocalist and guitarist (link)
D. Marie Long/Denver Center for the Performing Arts assistant stage manager (link)
Christopher Medved/WaterCourse Foods kitchen manager (link)
Sudan Muhammad/Blackberries Ice Cream and Coffee Lounge owner (link)
Russ Nipper/RTD MallRide operator (link)
Georgia Romero/Brown Palace housekeeper (link)
Ron Safe/Great Western Furniture Manufacturing upholstery expert (link)
Mel Tyler/Metropolitan State College of Denver student (link)
Tom Walter/Denver Newspaper Agency press foreman (link)
Elizabeth Williams/Highland's Garden Café special events manager (link)
Profiled by a YourHub.com reader:
Larry Collier/Life insurance salesman and peanut vendor (link)
Test your Denver knowledge
View, print crossword puzzle (link)
View, print crossword puzzle answers (link)
Map Faces of Denver |