West Side Recorder Volume 6 No 2

              WEST SIDE RECORDER
Volume 6—Number 2
Monthly Newspaper of the West Side, Denver, Colorado
June, 1969
Inner City Parish
Busy Busy Busy
The summer schedule at Inner City Parish, 910 Galapago
St., offers something special for
everyone from three years old
on up.
The summer programs, all
free, began last week (June 23).
The following activities are a-
vailable each week at the times
indicated:
For children and youth—
Play school for three-year-
olds, Tuesday through Friday
at 9:30 a.m. or at 1 p.m.
Arts and crafts for elementary-age children, Wednesday
at 1:30 p.m.
Tutoring for grades one
through three, Tuesday at 10
a.m.
Tutoring for grades four
through six, Monday, Thursday
and Friday at 11 a.m.
Recreation for elementary
ages, Monday and Wednesday
at 3 p.m., Saturday at 10 a.m.
Swimming    skills    program,
Tuesday and Thursday at 1 p.m.
Tumbling     and     gymnastics
class, Friday at 4:30 p.m.
Spanish class for junior and
senior high pupils, Monday and
Thursday at 11 a.m-
Hiking program for boys entering Junior high, Monday and
Friday.
Hiking program for girls entering junior high, Friday.
Teen Lounge open for pool
and ping pong each afternoon.
Small-group    camping    trips,
week-ends.
Individual tutoring and instruction in piano and guitar
are available for children on a
limited basis. Parents are asked
to call and enroll their children.
For adults—
Spanish classes, Monday and
Thursday at 11 a.m
English classes, Wednesday
and  Friday at 11 a.m.
Men's Night, Monday at 7:30
p.m.
Family Night for the entire
family, Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Community worship service
and Freedom School, Wednesday at 9:30 a.m.
Arts and crafts class, Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
Rummage Room open, Tuesday 9:30 a.m. and Wednesday
at 10:30 a.m.
Trip Day, Tuesday.
Anyone living on the West
Side is invited to take part in
any of these programs, without
charge. For further information
and for registration, West Siders should go to the Parish at
910 Galapago St., or caU Janet
Brett or Cathy Castaneda at
244-2636.
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS
FOR THIS ISSUE OF
THE WEST SIDE RECORDER
Catholic Archdiocese
of Denver $200
Colorado Printers _„ 10
First Avenue Presbyterian
Church        10
First Bethany Lutheran
Church ..10
First Mennonite
Church       10
10
10
Inner City Parish _—
Mrs. Theresa Jacinto
St. Elizabeth's
Catholic Church --
St. Joseph's
Catholic Church -
Wesley United
Methodist Church
West Side pictures:
Baker and KR Graphics,
Inc. .    ,_
And a special thank-you
to Adolph Coors Co.
10
10
10
Bill
Special Junk Pick-ups
For Three W. S. Sections
Special junk pickups for three sections of the West Side
have been arranged for the first three Mondays in July by
the West Side Improvement Association.
The City Sanitation Department will collect heavy junk of
all kinds—furniture, old appliances, large tree limbs, old wood
and metal, old plumbing fixtures
and any other kind of large or
bulky junk—from the alleys as
follow:
• Monday, July 7—Improvement Association District 1—
from Speer Boulevard to Mariposa Street between West Colfax and West 12th Avenues.
• Monday, July 14—Improvement Association District 11—
from Elati Street to Santa Fe
Drive between West Eighth and
West Fifth Avenues.
• Monday, July 21—Improvement Association District 7—
from Broadway to Elati Street
between West Fifth and West
Third Avenues.
No junk will be collected unless it is in the alley behind
the houses in these districts.
Neighbors should help other
people who cannot move things
alone from porches and yards
to the alley.
Special collections of junk in
other districts will be scheduled
in following weeks this summer.
Watch the West Side Recorder
for the dates and areas.
Free Concerts Set
In Lincoln Park
A free, public concert will be
offered at Lincoln Park each
Sunday night this summer unless there is bad weather.
The City Parks and Recreation Department is making the
arrangements.
The Neil Bridge Trio will present a contemporary jazz program in Lincoln Park this Sunday, June 29, at 6 p.m. The program for July 6 has not been
announced.
A folk singing concert will
be offered on July 27.
Your Help Needed
Lincoln Park Fiesta
Means Fun, Work
This year's fiesta at Lincoln Park—for all West Siders	
will be Friday and Saturday, August 8 and 9.
The two-day program will include music, dancing, carnival, food, a parade, a queen contest, and a coronation ball.
Everyone is invited.
Hundreds Oppose
Tavern Opening
At 988 Cherokee
Santa Fe To Show
Cheap Sex Films?
West Siders who do not want
sex films shown at the Santa
Fe Theatre should circulate and
sign petitions against them as
soon as possible.
The owner of the theater
building also owns the Victory
Theatre downtown which shows
cheap sex movies full time. Ttye
Victory will be torn down because it is in the Denver Urban
Renewal area, and the owner
has announced he wants to move
the sex fUms to the West Side.
Abel Gallegos, who manages
the Santa Fe Theatre, has been
showing Spanish-language films
on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. He admits children under
12 years of age free, charges
only a small fee for chUdren
over 12, and admits adults for
$1.
Mr. Gallegos has agreed to
West Side residents he will try
to show high-quality English-
language films on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings in addition to the Spanish-language
films on week-ends if he is not
forced to show the sex movies.
The owner of the Santa Fe
and Victory Theatres also owns
the Ogden Theatre on East Colfax Ave. Residents in that area
have resisted his attempts to
move the sex films to the Ogden.
12-18? Free Sports,
Two Meals at WHS
West Side young people between 12 and 18 can still enroll
in the free summer recreation
sports program at West High
School.
The weekday program with
free breakfasts and luncheons
daily is being sponsored by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association. Hours are from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
The program includes basketball, tennis, softball, gymnastics,
dancing, football, track, wrestling, weight-lifting and physical
conditioning.
Interested boys and girls
should go to West High School
at 9 a.m. Monday (June 30). A
free physical examination is
given to each participant. More
information is available by calling the school, 222-3543.
Owners of a tavern in the
urban renewal area downtown
are trying to move it to the
West Side—to 988 Cherokee St.
The tavern is "The Mixer Club"
at 1713 Curtis St.
West Side residents who object to having another 3.2 tavern in the area should attend
the hearing on the transfer before the Manager of Safety and
Excise in the City and County
Building, Room 104, at 9:30 a.
m. Thursday, July 10.
The first of this week nearly
500 signatures of persons a-
gainst the transfer had been
gathered on petitions being circulated by the businessmen in
the vicinity of 988 Cherokee St.
and by the West Side Improvement Association.
The name of the company
asking to transfer its 3.2 license
to the West Side is M.J.R., Inc.,
with Richard H. Lohrnan as president.
Elmwood School
Principal Named
The fifth new principal for
West Side schools was named
recently for Elmwood Elementary School. He is Victor Romero, who has been assistant
principal at Fairview Elementary School.
Other schools which will have
new principals next year are
West, Baker, Greenlee and St.
Joseph's.
Byron E. Graber is the new
administrator of the Metropolitan Youth Education Center for
drop-outs. He formerly was assistant principal at North High
School.
Many Summer Activities in Lincoln Park
Many activities are getting
going at Lincoln Park under the
direction of the City Parks and
Recreation Department. All are
free except for smaU charges
for some crafts materials or
sometimes for entrance fees.
Fern Davis of the Robert F.
Kennedy Recreation Center has
announced these things for West
Siders to do at Lincoln Park
this summer:
Each Monday there will be a
trip to some other part of Denver or even farther away for
boys and girls between 9 and
15. Transportation is being provided free by the Denver Tramway Co. Each pereon going
should take a sack lunch. This
Monday (June 30) the group
will go to the Boulder Reservoir for a day of swimming.
All those going will take suits
and towels and meet at 9:45
a.m. in Lincoln Park at the intersection of West 12th Ave. and
Mariposa Street (across from
Auraria Community Center).
FOB     SMALL     CHILDREN
there is a "Httle tots" crafts
and recreation program from 9
ajn. to noon, Monday through
Friday, and from 1 to 5 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday, in the
playground area of Lincoln
Park. Janet Stengel is in charge,
assisted by Beverly Meira and
Teresa Griego of the Neighborhood Youth Corps   (NYC).
There also is an arts and
crafts program for boys and
girls 7 through 13, from 1 to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday in
the park amphitheater and at
Auraria Community Center,
1212 Mariposa St. An artist,
Connie Caracasis, will be in
charge, with three NYC assistants—Ruth Garza, Evelyn Duran and Geraldine Gonzalez.
THE ALL-FREE SWIMMING
program at Lincoln Park includes open hours daily from
1 to 8 p.m. and lessons and competitive swimming from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Swimming lessons are given in three-week periods to persons who sign up in advance.
The next enrollment date for
swimming lessons will be Monday, July 7, and again on July
28. Competitive swimming is open to most interested perosns.
All male swimmers must
wear trunks or "cut-offs" that
have been hemmed up. The
rules of the pool must be followed for the safety of all
swimmers.
West Siders working at the
Lincoln Park pool this year include Christine Padilla, pool attendant; Carla Vialpando and
Danny Moya, trainees; and Rita
Herrera and Manuel Luan, NYC.
SISTER CHRISTINE MARIE
of St. Elizabeth's School will
give free tennis instruction at
the Lincoln Park courts from
d to 10 a.m. Monday through
Friday for all interested persons
of any age. Tennis equipment
will be provided, but each player must have his own tennis
shoes.
There will be volleyball each
aftertioon, Monday through Friday, from 2 to 5 p.m. and trampoline each afternoon from 1
to 4 p.m. Both will be in the
central part of the park, under
the direction of Joe Barros of
NYC.
Boys' softball will be from
8 a.m. to noon, Tuesday through
Friday. Manuel Basquez is in
charge, with John Medina, a
trainee, and Clemo Rodriguez
and Tony Garcia of NYC assisting.
Persons wishing more information on any of the Lincoln
Park activities may call Fern
Davis at 297-5418.
The name still will be the
Lincoln Park Fiesta, but it will
be different from last year's
fiesta in several ways. There
are more committees of West
Siders themselves for this year's
fiesta. The main purpose of this
year's event is to have a good
time, rather than to raise money.
And the money that is raised
will go into a general fund for
West Siders, or to the separate
organizations, instead of just to
Lincoln Park projects.
Leo Rodriguez, director of the
West Side Action Center, is general chairman of the fiesta.
Two Queens
There will be a junior queen,
between the ages of 12 and 15,
and a senior queen between 16
and 18. There will be prizes for
the queens, who will be crowned
at the Coronation Ball on Friday
night. Girls interested in compete
ing for the crowns may get application blanks at the West
Side Action Center, 1046 Santa
Fe Dr.
Any organization or agency
may enter a float in the parade,
which will be Saturday morning
of the fiesta. Parade information
and applications are available
from Betsy Kester at the Auraria Community Center, 534-7614,
or from the Rev. Harlan Beach
at Inner City Parish, 244-2636,
co-chairmen of the parade.
Chairmen Needed
Although chairmen have been
named for some of the committees, there are four more openings for chairmen and it is
hoped someone on the West Side
will volunteer for these openings. More helpers are needed
on all the committees. Interested
persons should get in touch
with Mr. Rodriguez or the chairmen just as soon as possible.
Everyone can help.
The following persons are
committee chairmen in addition
to Mrs. Kester and the Rev.
Mr. Beach:
The  Rev.   Gordon  Jorgensen
of    First    Bethany    Lutheran
Church,    finance,    assisted    by
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El Numero Cinco
Every Wednesday
A special bookmobile—"El
Numero Cinco"—will be in Lincoln Park, at the corner of West
llth Avenue and Navajo Street,
each Wednesday this summer
from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The Denver Public Library has
fixed up the special bookmobile
with books, movies, music,
games and a story teller. Everyone is invited to bring a guitar
or other musical instrument and
join in the fun. Many of the
books are in Spanish, and some
are in large print.
Special summer library cards
will be available at "El Numero
Cinco."
A regular bookmobile will
stop at Hirschfeld Towers, 333
West Ellsworth Ave., from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. each Wednesday.
This unit will have between
2,500 and 3,000 books, both fiction and non-fiction, for persons of all ages. Many will be
paperback and there will be
magazines.
The overdue charge for materials from bookmobiles is five
cents per week.