Art Branscombe: Helped Turn The Tide of Segregation
Park Hill Community leader Art Branscombe, co-founder of the Greater Park Hill Action Committee that would become the Greater Park Hill Community, Inc., passed away peacefully at his home on […]
Category Archives: 2012/03 March
Professional Women with a Passion for Dance
An instructor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, had an epiphany one day that – after 18 years of teaching Chemistry on the campus – she would rather be dancing. […]
Neighborhood Cannery Transforming Lives
By Greg Morton, FoodWorks Colorado Every Wednesday, FoodWorks, a nonprofit located in North Park Hill at 39th Avenue and Holly Street, produces the equivalent of 3,000 canned chili bean meals. […]
Cure d’Ars Congregant Su Charles Gets a Taste of Stardom
By Erin Vanderberg Su Charles (or SuCh, as she’s known on stage), a member of the Cure d’Ars community since 2010, just returned from a musical odyssey. She made it […]
Smiley Gives Park Hill Mom Something To Smile About
By Gretchen Mueller I am writing to share my experience of Smiley Middle School with those of you who are now faced with the daunting task of finding the perfect […]
![“[Heritage Camp] is this unbelievable grassroots effort that started right in our little Park Hill neighborhood, and is still run basically out of my house," said Pam Sweetser, Executive Director of Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families, Inc.](http://greaterparkhill.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/pam-sweetser.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1)
A Labor of Love
How Heritage Camps’ Pam Sweetser left her occupation and found her life’s work enriching the cultural lives of adoptive families By Erin Vanderberg In the summer of 1992, the Sweetser […]
Park Hill Moments: Black and White Basement Ball and Auction
On February 25, the Montview Community Preschool and Kindergarten at 1980 Dahlia Street hosted a Black and White Basement Ball and Auction to benefit their tuition assistance program. For more […]
Choose Your Denver: Service cuts or a more sustainable budget for the future?
By Councilperson Robin Kniech, At-Large Denver is a great city, but behind the scenes we’ve had to cut more than $440 million dollars over the past four years. Even when […]
Crime in the Community
16 residents and an equal number of officers and city officials attended a North Park Hill Violent Crime Community Meeting on February 15th at the GPHC to discuss a recent […]
DPS Greater Park Hill/Stapleton Community Committee
Denver Public Schools’ Office of Community Engagement kicked off a series of six community committee meetings on February 7 to provide input to the DPS board on issues relevant to […]
LEPC
The Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) meets quarterly to look at natural and manmade hazards within our communities, with the goal of informing the community on hazards through briefings and […]
Boys and Girls Club to Rise at Holly Square
At the site of a 2008 gang fire-bombing, the Anschutz Foundation just awarded a $5 million grant for construction of the Nancy P. Anschutz Boys & Girls Club, slated to […]
Pipeline Replacement Project
Xcel contractor Q3 will continue to replace natural gas pipeline around Park Hill through May. Locations include 35th Ave from Glencoe to Oneida Sts; Krameria St from 33rd to 30th […]
Brothers Redevelopment Paint-A-Thon
The housing nonprofit Brothers Redevelopment is taking applications from income-qualified senior and disabled homeowners in Park Hill who would like their homes painted this summer as part of the agency’s […]
