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September 23, 2010 Serving the community of southwest Denver ~very Thursday since 1926
50~ • Vol. 89 • No. 39
What's Inside ·
Meet best-selling mystery author Margaret Coel
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Lincoln digs too muchground on Kennedy
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SafeHouse Denver benefits from Mullen food drive
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INDEX
OPINION .... ........ ...... .... 3 CLASSIFIEDS .... ..... ...... 10 · -HOROSCOPES .............. 10 WORSHIP DIRECTORY .. .. 16 •
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A playground isn't complete without the large slide, which fifth grader Janeigha Chavira twists down. Photo by Joshua Cole
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September 23, 2010 • DENVER HERALD-DISPATCH • PAGE 5
Bond allows 14 schools to receive outside learning ·area ·. Continued from Page 1
Cupcakes and cydes, spinners and slides, rock steps and rotating cages were only part ·of the entertainment for students at Doull Elementary School as the school, near West Yale ,Avenue and South Sheridan Boulevard, officially opened its" Learning
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Landscape on Sept. 16, a play- Landscapes due to the bond. ground and outside learning A ribbon cutting to open Bararea with purpose-driven·'equip- nuqt Elementary School's Learnment. ing Landscape was scheduled for
Doull is one of 14 sehools Sept. 23. across the district getting a new John F. Kennedy and Denver Learning Landscape after sum- .. West high schools are two of the mer construction due to the bond four high schools that got a new that voters passed in 2008. In all, running track and artificial grass 81 schools have gotten Learning playing field as part of the bond .
Fifth graders Celeste luna and lucia Gutierrez climb up the plastic rock formation to the main slider area .. Most ways to ascend are much different from regular stairs.
Preschooler Dehanna Vialpando pedals along the track in the early childhood playground.-The concrete path along the perimeter.has all of the letters in the alphabet printed.
Thirct grader Jailene Roldan-Sanchez swings across the rings, one of (l] few versions of mode(n monkey bars.
Troy Garner, Denver Public Schools special programs manGger affGctionatel¥ known as "Mr. T.", swings fourth grader luis Ponce around on an upper-body based modification
In July, Doull's learning landseape was nothing but dirt and some gray concrete. Bv the end of the summer, colorful pla>y~ areas welcomed students to school. ·
of the classic merry-go-round. Photos by Joshua Cole Courtesy photo by Troy ~arner/Denver Public Schools . .