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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: Louella Young
Abuse found at Mexican orphanage.
It has been a little over a year since I packed my bags, kissed my husband and baby goodbye and loaded a van headed on a seven day journey - to participate in something I hardly knew anything about. I was part of a group taking some Christmas cheer to an orphanage in Chihuahua, Mexico. I was drawn to the story of a home that existed because of one man's dream -a messag...
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Breast cancer group founder is a cancer survivor
Wendy Newman , founder of the Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers (BWRC) Fund, was 27 and uninsured when she was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. She was told she was too young for her lump to be breast cancer, but she pushed her way through the healthcare system because she knew it wasn't just a cyst. The BWRC Fund, a Colorado Tax Checkoff Charity, was cr...
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ECDS students return from volunteer trip in Africa
Evergreen Country Day School students Jessica Allen , grade 7, and Steven Allen grade 5, returned the last week of January from a seven week trip to Africa with their parents Ben and Kathleen , as well as their other siblings, Zoe and Mackie . The family's travels took them to the town of Arusha, Tanzania, where their father Ben helped set up a comp...
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