Provided by: Simon Moya-Smith

Restaurant licensing costs go up by a third Local restaurant owners and other retail food vendors will pay 60 percent more for their annual licensing fees as of July 1, according to a June 26 Jefferson County press release. Dr. Jim Dale, director of environmental health services at Jefferson County, said that the increase in fees will help cover the county's pu...
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Provided by: Jeanine Spellman

On Earth Day, Olinger Crown Hill Mortuary, Cemetery & Arboretum and Wheat Ridge Parks & Recreation partnered to help more than 80 second-grade and kindergarten students at Wilmore-Davis Elementary School become hands-on gardeners. As the children gloved up and grabbed their spades for planting, they seeded a community garden and much more. Three years ago, te...
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Provided by: Seniors' Resource Center

Seniors' Resource Center has launched the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history. Over 100 people were in attendance at the Lakewood Country Club for an unveiling of Seniors' Resource Center's plans for a new facility. In anticipation of a growing senior population, SRC announced its capital campaign to renovate its current headquarters in the 83-year-old f...
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Provided by: Karen Groves

Colorado Rockies skills challenge to be June 24 in Wheat Ridge According to Wheat Ridge Rec Center marketing coordinator Connie Nelson, kids between the ages of 6 and 13 will have a chance to take part in this year's Colorado Rockies Baseball Skills Challenge scheduled for 9 a.m. June 24 at Panorama Park, 5600 W. 35th Ave., Wheat Ridge. The event is free and ear...
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Provided by: Seniors' Resource Center

Jefferson County Community Development Director Jacqui Pickett and Jefferson County Commissioner Kevin McCasky presented Seniors' Resource Center with the distinguished Leadership Award at the 2009 Community Development Achievement Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 16. The Leadership Award is the highest esteemed award granted by the County Commissioners, hon...
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