Provided by: Michelle Franey
Fifth Grade Predators 2009 Jeffco Football Conference Champs
Fifth Grade Predators 2009 Jeffco Football Conference Champs In perhaps the toughest face-off of their 2009 football season, the Fifth Grade MAMFA Predators D-III team declared victory over the Arvada Thunder in a gut-wrenching conference championship game in Englewood on Saturday with a final score of 27-7. "The Carnation Bowl game was perfect with our defens...
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Provided by: Simon Moya-Smith
Free lunch, nutrition for kids through end of July
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Approximately 4,500 meals are provided weekly to kids across Jefferson County through a United States Department of Agriculture food and nutrition services campaign titled the Summer Food Service Program, according to Holly Camp, administrator for food service operations for Jefferson County. The federally funded, summer season program provides children up to the ag...
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Provided by: Flor Blake
Feeding the hungry
The Denver Foundation gives nearly $300,000 in grants to food providers. The Denver Foundation announced today that it made 81 grants to food pantries, transitional housing programs, and other organizations that provide food relief to those most in need in Metro Denver. The grants, in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $7,000, total $287,750. Generous foundations, indiv...
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Provided by: Lakewood Symphony
Lakewood Symphony sister cities music scholars
Music scholars Emily Jeffcott, pianist from Lakewood's Sister City Chester, England, and Jefferson County resident, Laura Johnson, violinist, perform individual concertos with the Lakewood Symphony Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 7:30 pm at the Lakewood Cultural Center. Emily will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 , and Laura will p...
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Provided by: Free Horizon Montessori
Preschool & Elementary Students Connect Math & Social Responsibility to Help Feed Local Families
Golden, Colorado - Children at Free Horizon Montessori, a Jeffco Public Charter School, recently learned how small steps taken by many people in a common direction can make a big impact. In an effort to connect mathematical studies of money to real-world learning, teachers encouraged each student in their class to earn spare change by completing extra chores at home. T...
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