West Side Recorder Volume 7 No 3

              WEST SIDE RECORDER
Volume 7—Number 3
Monthly Newspaper of the West Side, Denver, Colorado
July, 1970
COALITION PRESENTS
SLATE OF CANDIDATES
TO PUNNING BOARD
The West Side Coalition has been one of eight neighborhood groups involved in recent efforts to make the Denver Planning Board more concerned with neighborhood and
resident needs. The Denver Planning Board is responsible
fQr advising the City Council and the Mayor on planning and
zoning. Traditionally, the Board has consisted of a high
percentage of people representing real estate and downtown
interests.
The first action taken by the
eight groups was to prepare a
slate of eight candidates for the
Board. The West Side Coalition
contributed the name of Father
Joseph Torres. The eight names
were then submitted to Mayor
McNichols' office with a letter
which said, in part, that "the
Planning Board has seemed repeatedly to neglect the needs of
people and to look at the city
not in terms of human beings,
but rather in terms of so many
potential automobile movements
and so many potential real estate transactions."
The groups urged the Mayor
to fiU the three vacancies that
occurred this year from among
eight names on the slate. The
Mayor made only one of his appointments from the slate: Mrs.
Beverly Biffle of Park HUL He
also   appointed   Harold   Cook,
president of Cook Plumbing and
Heating Company, a real estate
and construction industry supplier; and Hudson Moore, Jr.,
president of W. S. Cheesman
Realty, one of the largest real
estate firms in Denver.
The eight groups are now
planning to work for changes
in the structure of the Planning
Board including its expansion
and the reform of some of its
procedures. The seven groups
that are presently involved, besides the West Side Coalition,
are the Capitol HU1 Congress;
the Citizens Community Planning Council; Greater Park HU1
Community, Inc.; Preserve Our
Way of Urban Residence; South
Athmar Improvement Association; South Jackson Street Improvement Asociation; and the
Washington Park Action Council.
Air Cushioned Liner Route
Opposed By Our Coalition
At its June 17 meeting the
Board of the West Side Coalition
voted to oppose a route proposed along Colfax Avenue for an
air cushion linear induction vehicle Which is being planned by
the Regional Transportation District.
The air cushion vehicle would
run on an elevated track above
the street. It is powered by electrical motors and follows a
guideway. A double guideway
providing for operation in two
directions is sixteen feet wide.
The project currently being
discussed would connect large
existing or future parking areas
such as that at Bear's Stadium
with the downtown. The primary
purpose would be to get downtown-bound commuters to park
their cars at the edge of the
downtown and then ride the vehicle in the rest of the way.
The Coalition objected to a
Colfax route for the vehicle on
the grounds that such a route
would provide no needed transportation service for the West
Side and that it would tend to
bring more business development into residential parts of
the neighborhood by tying the
West Side even more closely to
the downtown.
Abel and Mary Gallegos and family stand in front of the Santa Fe Theatre that they manage.   See
Profile, on page 4.
American Lutheran
Churches  $200
Catholic Archdiocese   200
Colorado Printers     10
Engineering Drafting
School      10
Germaine Aragon
Family    25
First Bethany
Lutheran Church ...  10
Firtt Mennonite
Church   10
Inner City Parish   10
St. Elizabeths
Catholic Church ....    10
St. John't Lutheran
Church     10
St. Joseph's
Catholic Church  10
Wesley United
Methodist Church  .. 10
West Side Coalition .... 10
The 1971 Budget Committee
These residents will serve on
the Budget Committee at Lincoln Park Home for 1971. This
is the first year this has been
done.
Office staff includes: William
H. Coker, manager, and Gwen
Evans, management aide.
Other members are Mrs.  Al
berta Crespin, 1467 Navajo
Street; Mr. Bobby Copper, 1316
W. Colfax; Mrs. Margaret Gallegos, 1466 Navajo Street; Mrs.
Lucia Gorman, 1427 Mariposa,
Apt. 252; Mrs. Willie Mae Stencil, 1361 Mariposa Street; Mrs.
Minnie Conict, 1361 Mariposa
Street, and Mr. Conrad Sanchez,
1429 Navajo Street.
Sf. Joseph's Joins Coalition
The West Side Coalition at its
July 15 meeting voted to admit St. Joseph's Parish Council
and to seat representatives sent
by the Parish Council. At its
meeting in June the Parish
Council had voted to accept an
invitation   to   membership    ex
tended earlier by the Coalition.
The Parish Council named Max
Sanchez, 536 Galapago Street,
and Father Franciscus, St. Joseph's Church, as its representatives to serve on the Board of
the Coalition.
The West Side Recorder is a
non-political paper in that it does
not take stands for or against
any candidate running for office.
We do run ads for any candidate that we can. We charge
$2.00 per col. inch and require
that all copy be paid for in advance. If you know of any candidate who is running in our
area and would like to advertise with us, have that person
call Tito Guedea at 266-1445.
3rd and 4th graders enjoy Vacation Church School at Wesley
United Methodist Church with teachers, Kevin Fraher and Janice
Arent of Bethany Lutheran Church.
Trailblasers, Sertoma, Crisco Trophy
and DAR Awards at Baker Jr. High
Ruben Leal of the West Side Coalition presents some of over 50
swim suits to West Side Youth. The suits were donated by the Coalition and member organizations such as the Inner City Parish.
Following  are  students  who
received awards  at  Baker this
spring.  TraUblazers  the  top  a-
ward given to a boy and girl
in each grade for good scholarship, attendance and conduct and
for participating in extra curri-
cular activities. Recipients of the
awards are as follows:
9th Grade—Gerald Gonzales
Nellie Fullwood
8th Grade—Arnett Barlett
Joan Garcia
7th Grade—Bruce Gomez
Cara Valdez
The DAR Award is given to
one boy and one girl in 9th Grade
only for citizenship, dependability, service, leadership, y.^trio-
tism, perserverance and i>:?p< ct:
Eustacio Martinez
Paula Martinez
The Sertoma Award is given
to one grade for achievement as
a group in attendance, getting
achievement awards, giving service to the school, and participating in school drives and activities.
The award for 1969-70 went to
the 7th Grade under the sponsorship of Miss Karen Fassler,
Mrs. Virginia Settle, and Mr.
Lee Taylor.
At the 9th Grade Awards Assembly at Baker Junior High
School Darlene Landin, daughter of Mrs. Rose Landin, received the Crisco Trophy in Home
Economics for 1970. This trophy
is given to one 9th Grade girl
who best displays outstanding
qualities of cooperation, enthus-
ism, creativity and helpfulness
in her classwork. She has most
successfully combined excellence
in home economics with a range
of accomplishments in other subjects and extra-curricular activities.