West Side Recorder Volume 7 No 9

              WEST SIDE RECORDER
Volume 7—Number 9
Monthly Newspaper of the West Side, Denver, Colorado
January, 1971
Citizens Continue Efforts
For Respectable Broadway
On the 14th of January
there was the second meeting of the Concerned Citizens South of Sixth Avenue.
The group of about 75 people heard and asked questions of Councilman Edward
Burke and Deputy District
Attorney Alan Dill.. A petition stating the objection of
the community to the 16 mm
Art 16 theater was started.
Mr. Dill said that beside a
possible legal use of the petition, it was effective encouragement to the DA's office
in a difficult legal fight a-
gainst the business of pornography (which was estimated
to make $5 million last year
in Denver alone). Copies of
the petition are being distributed throughout the  corn-
Back Row — Margarita Soto, Jose Maria Perea, and Josefina Perez. Middle Row — Mary
Quintana, Jennie Patterson, Mary Aguirre, Donna I^artinez, Dorothy Aguirre, Virginia Martinez,
Janice Trujilio, and Regina Scott. Front Row — Sortie of the children attending the day care center.
Good Child Care Now Available for West Siders
Trying to find someone
to take care of your children
who will give them understanding and love plus the
basics of good meals, snacks,
naps and guidance in learning was never easy—UNTIL
NOW. Metropolitan Denver
Child Care Association, (MDCCA), of the Denver Model
Cities Program, has started
a child care program for
West Side families who need
someone to take care of their
children while they work, go
to school or attend job training.
At St. Cajetan's
A child care center is at
Saint Cajetan's school, 802
Lawrence, to take care of
children trom 2Vfe years of
age to 6 years for up to ten
hours a day. The center is
open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Monday through Friday. If
the center is too far from
your home, MDCCA has
hired licensed babysitters to
care for children in their
homes. These licensed homes
are all over the West Side
and there is bound to be one
near you if your   children
need someone to take care of
them all day or before or
after school.
Many times it is better for
women to take care of the
children at the children's
home. If this is the case
every attempt will be made
to place someone in the
homes of the children.
Cost Is Little Or Nothing
As part of the model
Cities Program the West
Side child care center and
home programs are for families whose incomes are
somewhat low or who need
child care because of special
needs. In fact 90 percent of
the families are not paying
anything for child care either in the center or in the
homes. This program was
designed for families who
need child care but who cannot get it too easily for one
reason or another.
,Caring for and teaching in
the center and many of the
homes is done both in Spanish and English. People
working in the center are:
Margaret Soto, Director;
Janice  Trujillo and Regina
Scott, Teachers; Mary Aguirre, Teachers Assistant; Donna Martinez, Teachers Assis-
t a n t; Virginia Martinez,
Teachers Aide; Jennie Patterson, Teachers Aide; Mary
Quintana, Teachers Aide.
How To Get Child Care
All that is needed to get
child care is to call Jose
Perea or Josephine Perez at
893-3197 or 355-1618. They
will see you immediately and
bring the necessary forms
to you. If you think you
would like to get a job or go
to school since it's so easy
now to get a responsible
babysitter for little or no
cost, just call these numbers
893-3197 or 355-1618.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR
THIS ISSUE OF THE
WEST SIDE RECORDER
(BASIC COST $700)
American Lutheran
Churches  $200
Catholic Archdiocese   200
Colorado Printers ......    10
Engineering Drafting
School       10
Germaine Aragon
Family & Friends .... 10
First Bethany
Lutheran Church .... 10
First Mennonite
Church   10
Inner 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
Under $5.00—
William Wheeler
Alfonso Olguin
CRUSADE SCHOOL RECEIVES GIFT
BENEFIT DANCE FOR LADS
The West Side Coalition will
sponsor a Benefit Dance for the
Latin American Development
Society (LADS) on February 13,
1971. The dance will be held at
the Annunciation Gymnasium,
35th and Lafayette, from 9:00
p.m. to 1:00 a.m. The price of
,the tickets is $5.00 a couple
which Includes free beer, door
prizes, and dancing to the Ding-
A-Lings. Tickets can be purchased at any of the following
locatons: Operation SER, 1039
Inca; West Side Coalition, 910
Galapago; Avondale Gift Shop,
3234 West Colfax; or Mi-T-Mart,
2201 Oneida.
LADS is a Chicano self-help
group at Canon City which was
started by 35 charter members
to achieve such goals as further
ing communications, education,
and human relations for a better way of life; overcoming any
inferiority complexes in themselves, and in others of Mexican American nationality; developing potentialities lying
dormant within themselves; and
utilizing their skills to help
themselves and our people lead
more prosperous, useful, and
satisfying lives.
All proceeds from the dance
will go to LADS at Canon City
so they can continue to operate
their self-help projects. Let's
support a worthy cause by giving LADS moral and financial
support which they deserve.
Remember, February 13th, Annunciation Gym, 13th and La
fayette, 9:00 p.m.
munity, especially in churches. Individuals who believe
such theaters do not belong
in the community, are encouraged to sign.
Another attack on the 16
mm theaters can be mounted by citizens writing to
their state representative
and asking for a stronger
pornography law. Also discussed, but put off until the
next meeting was the possibility of picketing.
It was suggested by one
citizen that it is equally important for the community
to support the businesses that
are in the neighborhood. If
these businesses are strong
then the 16mm theaters will
be isolated and will not be
able to lead to community
decay.
The other subject discussed at the meeting was crime.
The problem of the senior
citizen cashing checks and
being robbed on the way
home is one of great concern. Mr. Doug Goebel of
the National City Bank volunteered to look into any assistance the banks can give
to solve this problem. More
on this and on crime will be
discussed at the next meeting. The date of the next
meeting will be February 16,
a Tuesday, at St. John's Lutheran Church at 3rd and
Acoma. The time will again
be 7 p.m. Speakers for that
meeting have not yet been
determined.
Gary Garrison, first grader at TLATELOCO School, receives
check from Tim Correa of UMAS.
TLATELOCO, the school run by and at the Crusade for Justice received a check for $3,200 from the Committee of Concerned
Chicanos. The CCC represents about 50 Chicano organizations in
Denver. They made $9,000 on the NOSOTROS program that they
sponsored in December. NOSOTROS is a Hollywood organization
of Chicano actors and actresses. Henry Darrow-Delgado, Carmen,
and Richard Montalban came from Hollywood for this program.
Other donations will be going to the UMAS students at the Denver
Center, University of Colorado, and other worthy and needy Chicano groups.
Mrs. Josephine Garcia, principal of TLATELOCO, the free
Crusade school, said that the money they received would go for
books, lunches, and band expenses.
Elmwood Group
Still Working On
New School Plans
For the past few months,
after the Board of Education
voted to accept the recommendations to build a new
Elmwood, the members of
the lay advisory committee
have been meeting in order
to see that we obtain a new
school. We are concerned
about the building, its function, and its looks. On January 20th, we met with staff
members of the administration and the architects. We
do not know how the building will look, but we want
a Spanish architecture.
We are indeed excited
about the new building(s) and
the Spanish style, but best
of all about its function as
a community school. We are
recommending to the school
administration an academic
program which will begin
with a pre-school age program for three and four year
old children and a kindergarten. Also, instead of hav
ing the traditional classroom
situation, we'll have educational centers where instead
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