50 People To Take Up Temporary Residence At Park Hill United Methodist Church Parking Lot By Cara DeGette GPHN Editor The announcement that 50 unhoused people will temporarily move into tents on a church parking lot in the middle of a Park Hill neighborhood surrounded by million- dollar homes, landed with a thud. Many neighbors […]
Land Conservancy Makes A Move Johnson & Wales Campus Plans Include Expansion of Denver School of the Arts The Denver-based Urban Land Conservancy is moving forward with plans to purchase the 25-acre Johnson and Wales campus at Montview and Quebec. The conservancy, whose mission is “preserving, developing, stewarding, and managing permanently affordable housing and shared […]
Park Hill Bookstore Celebrates A Half-Century Making Its Mark. A New Generation Ensures The Tradition Continues. By Jack Farrar For the GPHN The Park Hill Community Bookstore has reached the ripe old age of 50 — a golden achievement, given the precarious state of independent bookstores and the multitude of electronic media devices competing with […]
Spotting a White Ibis during the summer months in Colorado is a real treat. The males are over two feet long with 28-inch wingspans, and weigh just two pounds. With their long red legs and long red bills, these wading birds winter in the shallow wetlands and swamps and estuaries in Florida and the Gulf […]
Never In My Lifetime I was shocked by the announcement in April by Park Hill United Methodist Church that they were going to host a sanctioned homeless camp on their property. Actually, not shocked by their plans, because that is what that church has always done — compassionate things. What was shocking was the reaction […]
Former Colorado Chief Justice Was A Trailblazer By Emily Korson For the GPHN Late last month, our family and our community lost a magnanimous woman: Former Colorado Chief Justice Mary J. Mullarkey. When my husband, Andrew Korson, walked his mother Mary into my life 22 years ago, she was leaning on a cane. It was […]
Kind, Hardworking, Friend To All By Ruth Baker For the GPHN Michael (Mikey as he liked to be called) Adair was born at Denver General. He lived his entire life in Park Hill. He was a very good, kind, honorable, sociable, hardworking man. He always made conversation with people, and mostly made them laugh. He […]
The first of the 2021 All Saints Drumming Celebrations was held Saturday, April 17 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Drummers gathered on the front lawn of Park Hill United Methodist Church to honor and celebrate the lives of friends lost during the pandemic. So many died who did not have COVID-19, and their passing was lost in this difficult […]
Colorado’s Legislature Heads Down The Home Stretch With Front Range Passenger Rail, Immigration Reform, Gun Control By Penfield W. Tate III For the GPHN As the 2021 legislative session winds down, things will move fast and furious. Committee and floor sessions will become more tense, anxious and a little more exciting. At the time of […]
There Is Beauty In Finding The Perfect Fit There is no “I” in Bookstore, and “We” here refers to the members, volunteers, board, Park Hill community and sometimes Me, the manager, of the Park Hill Community Bookstore from 2002 to 2012. A bookstore is a matchmaker, bringing together people and information, facts, fantasy and enlightenment. […]