http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest story posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5Is Commerce City an "Unfair" place to live? A year ago I moved from Aurora after my house was broken into by 4 illegal aliens (they got 90 days probation) and then being intimidated in front of my house by 2 illegal aliens while they held a gun to my face. These people never did any ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Community-happenings/Story~344414.aspx8/7/2007 9:16:18 AMRon Girard A few months ago, citizens of Commerce City, particular the citizens at Reunion, helped fight a battle to keep a racing stadium out of the city. The Mayor and City Council said that it was best to keep this type of venue out of the city, and the issue was closed and the owner of the venue stated...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/General-News/Story~345230.aspx8/8/2007 2:54:32 PMRon Girard Still getting to know the new area I moved to in Commerce City, I decided to ride around the neighborhood. I found a quaint little shopping area called Brighton Pavilions. The area has a few restaurants and shops and a day spa and a nice movie theater, even a police substation across from this m...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/General-News/Story~346336.aspx8/10/2007 1:18:12 PMRon Girard Ever wonder how a Commerce City resident can get a fine for having weeds in their yard, but property owned by the city, can get away with having weeds? How is it that city property and medians of city streets can have weeds about 3 to 4 feet tall? The weeds in the medians are cracking the concr...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Government/Story~348093.aspx8/15/2007 11:05:23 AMRon Girard Since moving to Commerce City and getting use to the new area, the registration cam eup on my car and I had to find the closest DMV to re-register my car. The closest DMV office was in Brighton. I entered the office of DMV where I pulled number and took a seat. After spending 5 minutes there, I...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Government/Story~349228.aspx8/17/2007 11:34:22 AMRon Girard Many people these days, when they buy a new house, feel like they have to get a dog. Sometimes these people feel like a dog will give them security, that the dog is some type of status symbol, or maybe they think their children need to grow up with a pet in the house.. I the community that I li...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Society/Story~350403.aspx8/20/2007 11:38:51 AMRon Girard Since 9/11 gas prices have soared. The sky is the limit. However, for some of us who depend on our cars to get to work and do not live near public transportation, that gas prices have been gouging the American public. Just yesterday I paid 58 dollars to fill up my tank. Oil companies have see...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Activism/Story~350957.aspx8/21/2007 12:59:39 PMRon Girard No swimming pool in your community or the area pool is closed? I found this very cool way to cool off in the city of Golden for young and old. The area is called Clear Creek White Water Park. I sort of found this by accident last weekend. As I got to the Coors brewery late for the last tour o...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Travel/Share-Stories-and-Photos-of/Story~351458.aspx8/22/2007 2:52:22 PMRon Girard 2 years ago, my house in Aurora was broken into by 4 illegal aliens from the country of Mexico. The Aurora police dept were able to arrest these people and recovered the stolen property. When it came time for the court case to appear, these 4 people were not deported or even given jail time, the...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Activism/Story~353550.aspx8/27/2007 3:26:32 PMRon Girard I received a few emails the other day about an article I wrote on YourHub.Com concerning illegal immigration. The email stated that I was very wrong about illegal immigrants and that they help our country in everyway, and how could I not understand that. The email went on and on about how I am a...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Activism/Story~354432.aspx8/29/2007 9:34:55 AMRon Girard Some of the accidents that happen in our city are by no means "accidental". It is an extremely sad time whenever a child dies a senseless death A little 11 year old girl on her way to a Commerce City school was involved in an accident caused by a driver running a red light. The little girl has ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/General-News/Story~358902.aspx9/7/2007 11:57:22 AMRon Girard I was recently invited to see a concert at the Grizzly Rose. The Grizzly Rose is located off of interstate I-25 across from Furniture Row in Denver. In concert was Daryl Worley. Now, I'm not a big country fan, but I had heard his music on the radio and from the internet and thought that it was...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Entertainment/Dancing/Story~360011.aspx9/10/2007 1:32:45 PMRon Girard On September 17, 1787, the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting. Only one item of business occupied the agenda that day, to sign the Constitution of the United States of America. Since May 14, 1787 the 55 delegates had gathered almost daily in the State House (...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Government/Story~363552.aspx9/17/2007 11:18:43 AMRon Girard Nevhaeh Gallegos was stuffed into a plastic bag and thrown away. Denver Department of Human Services didn't do thier jobs correctly. How in the world could the agency let this happen to a 3 year old little girl? And now, Colorado law states that the Denver police can only hold the mother...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Crime/Story~370474.aspx10/1/2007 2:39:36 PMRon Girard I started the Commerce City Citizen Police Academy, a few weeks ago to get acquainted on how the police dept works and interacts with other city depts. I thought that I would hear a bit of politically correctness and blah blah blah, however I didn't know at the time, that this would be very exci...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Government/Story~371636.aspx10/3/2007 12:46:51 PMRon Girard My Commerce City Police "ride a-long" was last Friday, and let me tell you, that this was something that I will not soon forget. The ride a-long almost did not happen as the officer assigned to me was not available as the officer had a funeral to attend earlier that day, so the Police Department...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Government/Story~380932.aspx10/22/2007 10:17:03 AMRon Girard OK so the Rockies won the NLCS and are now playing in the World Series.. What the Rockies then did to the fans, is a downright "sham". I have been going to Rockies games at Coors field since the field first opened. I have supported the team even when they lost games and did not moan about them...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Sports/Story~382919.aspx10/25/2007 3:20:38 PMRon Girard The Christmas season is now upon us. Forget about Halloween and Thanksgiving, the big money is in Christmas. I walked into a store the 2nd week of October and thought I would see a bunch of stuff for Halloween and was I wrong. There was more stuff in the store for Christmas! Now, I'm not again...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Holidays/Christmas/Story~387883.aspx11/5/2007 3:22:57 PMRon Girard Black Friday is near. I can feel the frustration of standing in line to get at least a cool discount. Then it occurred to me to check on the internet first. I went to some of normal stores located in and near our city. First was Wal-Mart, I noticed on their internet ad, that some of the items s...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Holidays/Christmas/Story~395530.aspx11/22/2007 4:58:50 PMRon Girard December 5, 11 of our citizens/neighbors graduated from the Commerce City Citizen Police Academy. The event took place at the new Commerce City government center. Mayor Natale was there and congratulated the class of graduates. Graduates: Ken Agee, Camilla Bradford, Herman DeVries, Lori Fieldi...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Community-happenings/Story~401257.aspx12/6/2007 3:46:09 PMRon Girard I grew up in a family of 9, in a little town of Rhode Island. My fondest memories are of the holidays with my family. As a child, I just couldn't wait for the first snow! Our family house was on a hill, so when it snowed, it was time for sledding down that hill. We would sled down the hill a f...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Archive/Holidays/Christmas/Story~402920.aspx12/11/2007 1:06:15 PMRon Girard I showed up for the Democrat caucus at my local polling place. I verified in the morning where I was supposed to go and time with the state election office. Eagerly waiting for the caucus that night, I asked a few friends to come with me, as we need all the votes we can get. We showed up to th...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Opinion/Write-a-Column/Story~425177.aspx2/6/2008 9:42:47 AMRon Girard Last week I received a few checks in the mail that I had to deposit into my checking account and thought that I would stop by my local Chase bank and make the deposit. Last year I switched banks from Washington Mutual to Chase. The reason I changed was because every time I would go into one of ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/General-News/Story~431069.aspx2/19/2008 3:09:17 PMRon Girard A story was reported earlier this week about 2 teenagers who assaulted a Hispanic customer outside of a convenience store in Boulder. The papers and the television news reported that they had jumped the man because of his color and called him a racial slur. They yelled to him "Why are you stea...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/Opinion/Politics/Story~441340.aspx3/13/2008 11:56:02 AMRon Girard It never amazes me. I see on tv this week where a judge and his secretary and 2 jail employees release known killer Alfonso Ramirez (Mexican national) who killed CU student David Parrish (American citizen). This all happened in Mexico in a resort area that extreme numbers of Americans go for vac...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Crime/Story~449809.aspx4/1/2008 1:55:25 PMRon Girard Well, I sat shocked this morning after our Congress passed a bill to allow the bail out of Wall Street. Appears that there was more on the bill than most people realized. There were extra pork barell items such as NASCAR, Wooden Bow and Arrows and Hollywood to name a few. How could our elected of...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/Government/Story~529310.aspx10/3/2008 12:20:22 PMRon Girard I watched on the news last night that an organization is trying to get guns off the streets buy having people turn in their guns for $50. While this is good, I would like to mention who was the spokesperson for this group was. A "supposed" black community leader Alvertis Simmons . If you can...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/General-News/Story~548206.aspx11/14/2008 12:29:03 PMRon Girard Just recently if you haven't noticed, our US government gave the US auto makers millions of our US tax dollars. Every American should know this by now. But why? Why would the US government give this money to the automakers who make such inferior products? Now, many of you may not agree with me ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/General-News/Story~574747.aspx1/30/2009 3:29:00 PMRon Girard Just read in the news this morning that our state legislators killed a bill on Immigration Check. Well most of you might realize by now, that our country is in economic upheaval and it is just going to get worse. Colorado lawmakers must have been insane to kill this bill. How can our elected ...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/General-News/Story~578633.aspx2/10/2009 10:25:27 AMRon Girard Earlier this week, District Judge James Hiatt from Larimer County, found that a seizure of tax records was way overbroad and violated privacy rights of the people whose tax records were taken and ordered the Sheriff's department to destroy or return the evidence within seven days. This all...http://denver.yourhub.com/CommerceCity/Stories/News/General-News/Story~603956.aspx4/15/2009 2:23:58 PMRon Girard