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  • No guts, no glory

    EVERGREEN — Nathan Rice’s Fourth of July began with a thud and a little bit of blood.

    Rice was tripped up at the start line of the Freedom Run 5k and came away with a few cuts and scrapes on his hands and legs.

    The Lafayette resident didn’t stay down long. He quickly dusted himself off, then caught up with the lead pack and made his winning move with a half-mile to go, claiming the Freedom Run title with a time of 15 minutes, 39 seconds.

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  • Mustangs outscore Cougars

    There were times when the Evergreen Cougars scored at will July 1 against the Ralston Valley Mustangs.

    There were times when the Mustangs did the same. And they did it more.

    The Cougars tried to keep pace as the Mustangs lit the proverbial barn and started running. Despite clawing back from an early hole, the Cougars were dropped 18-9 in five innings ahead of the final week of regular-season summer baseball.

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  • Woman enters guilty plea in dog attack

    Evergreen dog owner Carol Peterson pleaded guilty to a class 2 misdemeanor June 29 for an incident in which her Labrador mix attacked a Hiwan Hills woman on May 18. Peterson paid $151 in fines and court fees. A restitution hearing is set for Sept. 14.

    The Hiwan Hills woman who was attacked was bitten five times on the backs of both legs while walking down the street near a home on 2957 Hiwan Drive.

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  • Park district closes door on ‘real estate matter’

    For the second month in a row, the Evergreen Park and Recreation District board concluded a regular meeting by closing the doors to the public for a discussion about an unidentified “real estate matter.”

    The board of directors added the executive session to the agenda of the June 23 regular meeting at the last minute and did not reveal any details at the time. The Colorado Open Meetings Law has strict rules about closing meetings to the public, but boards can do so in the case of real estate and personnel matters.

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  • Teens use henna for their body of work

    Creativity combined with henna dye for about 30 area teens, who learned the art of henna body painting last week.

    The youths attended a seminar July 1 at the Evergreen Library with henna artist Kandra Churchwell. Churchwell, who works professionally as a graphic artist, has learned to work with henna dye and spent an hour in the packed room helping girls and boys master the ancient art.

    In her 15-minute introductory lecture, Churchwell explained that henna body art is something that she and her family do for fun.

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  • Longtime hospice director Walthers stepping down

    Louisa Walthers, who has served as executive director of Mount Evans Hospice and Home Health Care for the past 24 years, has announced plans to step down at the end of August.

    Walthers, 54, joined the agency as its second director 24 years ago, only five years after it was founded. At that time, Mount Evans had a $300,000 annual budget and served three counties out of a two-room office in the Evergreen North shopping center.

    Walthers will be leaving an agency with its own building, serving four mountain counties and operating on a $3 million budget.

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  • Fireworks at the Little Bear: Couple marry a year later after chance meeting sparked romance

    On Independence Day 2008, Crystal Lovell and Peter Harnden met for the first time while occupying neighboring bar stools at the Little Bear.

    One year later, on July 4, 2009, they both gave up their independence — taking wedding vows at the very same spot.

    The local pair exchanged their vows in front of customers, friends and relatives in a nontraditional wedding with a “black sheep” theme.

    The bride wore tidy blue jeans, a black T-shirt and a turquoise necklace, with earrings to match.

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  • Fresh and friendly: Two farmers markets bring adventurous offerings to Evergreen each week

    Both farmers markets in Evergreen offer a bountiful harvest of small pleasures: shopping outdoors, chatting with vendors, loading up on fresh asparagus, and discovering your neighbor got downsized and is now making ecologically correct detergent or toddler pants for a living.

    The Evergreen Farmer’s Market operates downtown on Mondays, and the Evergreen Farmers’ Market in the Bergen Village shopping center, which was originally founded in the parking lot of the El Rancho Walmart in 2000, is open on Tuesdays.

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  • Mountain movie magic: Evergreen residents line up behind local indie producer

    It’s a story as old as romance: Stinging from a recent breakup, an ordinarily passive woman lets a more gonzo friend drag her to a local honky-tonk for a little re-immersion therapy. The beer runs cold, emotions run hot, the band is smokin’, and when she spies her one-time lover burning it up on the dance floor with his new flame, things heat up fast.

    Just another Saturday night in downtown Evergreen?

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  • 'Goalie in the wheelchair' not defined by his limitations

    In Denver area ice hockey circles, he was known simply as “the goalie in the wheelchair.”

    Kyle Stubbs and his chair stopped pucks for a lot of teams over the years: the Warthogs, the Grinders, Berserk, Spitfire, and Chimney Full of Squirrels, to name a few. And he frustrated the shooters of other teams too numerous to list.

    On a recent Saturday, many of us who played with and against Kyle gathered at the Promenade in Westminster to say goodbye and to remember a man who refused to accept the limits that life imposed.

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