West Side Recorder Volume 7 No 8

              WEST SIDE RECORDER
Volume 7—Number 8
Monthly Newspaper of the West Side, Denver, Colorado
December, 1970
Merry Christmas to All
And
A
Happy
New Year,
Too
Children at the Neighborhood House, 1265 Mariposa, enjoy a Christmas Party complete
with Santa Claus.
Residents Work for Good
Businesses on Broadway
About 80 concerned people met on November 30 to
discuss the situation on
Broadway. From this group
a committee was elected to
work on strategy to combat
the general deterioration on
Broadway. Another meeting
of the community south of
Sixth Avenue has been set
tentatively for January 19,
7:30 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Third and
Acoma.
Plans are being made to
have Councilman Burke at
the meeting and a represen
tative of FACE (Federally
Assisted Conservation Endeavor). The main purpose
of the meetings will be to
get a petition circulating
concerning the Art 16 theater. The theater has a court
date coming up in regards to
its operation. Tfte jUstrict
attorney's office has indicated that a petition signed by
neighborhood residents may
be influential in how the case
is decided. Watch for further announcements concerning this meeting and plan
to attend.
Greyhound Bus Lines Purchase Car
Agency Building on Colfax Avenue
Maestes Elected New President
Of West Side Improvement Assoc.
The West Side Improvement
Association at its regular
monthly meeting elected new
officers for a one year term.
The officers elected were Henry
Maestas, 769 Elati, President;
Waldo Benavidez, 1110 Mariposa Street, Vice-President;
Anna Flores, 1319 Navajo, Secretary; and Wilma Dabrowski,
1115 Inca, Treasurer.
Concern was expressed by
the Directors with three critical problems. The increasing
heavy truck useage of West
Side streets not designated for
truck usage was pointed out
as a problem which needs immediate action because of the
high density of children on the
West Side. Another traffic problem which the West Side residents are complaining about is
parking in the area betweeen
Colfax, Mariposa, Speer and
11th Avenue. The Association
directors have received numerous complaints about student
parking all day in front of private homes, leaving no space
for the West Side residents to
park in front of their own
homes. The third issue is the
general problem of substandard housing, abandoned houses,
dirty yards, and alleys and
junk cars. The Association voted to take a survey of West
Side hazards and contact the
proper agencies urging immediate action.
Concerned Parents of West High7
New Group Now Being Formed
A group called "Concerned
Parents of West High", Is now
being established. Recommendations of the Educational
Task Force under the Metropolitan Denver Urban Coalition
are to form Concerned Parents Committees in school areas
whose aims are 'to reduce the
number of personal grievances
incurred by students and parents which are either misunderstandings, products of inequitable treatment, or rules which
produce  unfair  treatment".
A meeting was held October
15th at the Youth Center of the
First Mennonite Church, 430
West 9th Avenue with parents,
teachers and students to try to
identify the major problems at
West High.
Interested persons who wish
to participate, please call Reverend John Ventura, Chairman
or Mrs. Abie R. Duarte, Co-
chairman at the Auraria Community  Center,  534-7614.
Greyhound Bus Lines has
purchased the Bob Reed
Ford building on Colfax between Lipan and Mariposa.
Greyhound plans to open a
new terminal at this location
by mid-1971 and to then
close_its_dawntown terminal
at Glenarm and 17th Street.
Announcement of the
move raised fears on the
West Side that the neighborhood would be deluged with
bus traffic and with taxis and
private automobiles en route
to pick up bus passengers.
Coalition Will
Support Sign
Code Proposal
The West Side Coalition
voted at its November 18
Board meeting to support the
proposed sign code prepared
by the Denver Planning Office. The sign code would
eliminate all general advertising billboards in Denver
and would restrict signs to
those advertising goods or
services to be purchased on
the same property as the
sign.
The proposed code would
limit signs to 25 feet in
height. Projecting signs as
well as flashing and animated signs would be prohibited. The surface area of signs
would be limited in different
zones with the smallest signs
permitted in residential
areas.
Signs that did not conform
to the code would be phased
out over a five year period
to permit owners to recover
the sign's value. If the sign
code passes City Council
streets such as Broadway
and Santa Fe would, over
the next few years, lose
much of their cluttered appearance.
Because of traffic problems the Greyhound and
Trailways bus terminals have
long been recognized as undesirable at their present
downtown locations. Several
attempts to persuade the two
companies to move into a
joint terminal in an area
where they would not cause
traffic congestion or damage
a residential neighborhood
has failed. Instead Greyhound has decided to move
its operation nex to the Lincoln Homes on the West
Side.
SUPPORT BOYCOTT
UFWOC (United Farm
Workers Of California boy-
cotters in Denver need your
support to win a contract
with Bud Antle, largest nonunion lettuce grower in California. They need your help
to free Cesar Chavez from
jail. For information on
ways to support the boycott
call or visit UFWOC headquarters at 3138 Humboldt
St.,  534-8351.
Holiday Schedule
At Auraria Center
Is Announced
Auraria Community Center will be open from 1-5 p.m.
during the Christmas Holidays. A sliding party in the
mountains for youngsters 6-
12 is scheduled for Monday,
December 30, also from 10-
3. Those interested should
pick up a permission slip at
the enter.
The next Family Night
will be held Friday evening,
January 15. Watch for announcements of the activity.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR
THIS ISSUE OF THE
WEST SIDE RECORDER
(BASIC COST $700)
American Lutheran
Churches  ?200
Catholic Archdiocese   200 j
Colorado Printers      10 !
Engineering  Drafting
School       10
Germaine Aragon
Family & Friends ....   10
First Bethany
Lutheran Church .... 10
| First* MenRon&s
Cbisrcb   10
Inster City-Parish   10
St. Elizabeth's
Catholic Church ....     10
St. John's Lutheran
Church      10
St. Joseph's
Catholic Church  10
Wesley United
Methodist Church  .. 10
West Side Coalition .... 10
WEST SIDER
ELECTED TO
BOARD OF
FAIR HOUSING
Mrs. Josephine Perez of
1154 Kalamath was elected
to the Board of Governors of
the Metro Denver Fair Housing Center at the Center's
annual meeting December 3.
Mrs. Perez was selected as a
representative of the West
Side Action Council. Also
elected to fill representaive
seats wore Robert Bean of
the East Side Action Council
and Arthur P. Ryan of the
Inter-Faith Task Force.
Earlier, st us regular November meeting the s-oard
made appointments to fill
vacancies in fou ...',:■■■'-.irsd
terms for representative
seats. Appointed were: Dar-
ryl Gray, Denver Native Americans United; Floyd Marks,
Adco Improvement Association; George Garcia, Crusade
for Justice; and Abelardo
Delgado, Colorado Migrant
Council.