An edition of the Littleton Independent
WEEK OF APRIL 11, 2024
VOLUME 23 | ISSUE 19
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DEPUTIES PEN BOOK ABOUT THERAPY DOGS P2
ENGLEWOOD’S MOVEMENT 5280 SHARES PLANS P8 Over 50 people gathered on the evening of March 31 to honor their friend, Garth Donato, in a candlelight vigil near the site of his death. Earlier in the day, about 100 people showed up at another memorial event for him. PHOTO BY NINA JOSS
Garth Donato, unhoused friend, remembered BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Whenever Garth Donato ate at Subway, he would order the All-American Club. When the sandwich came out — stacked high with turkey and ham —
Donato would pull out his own bottle of ketchup, dunk the sandwich in and enjoy. His regular sub was only one of many ways in which Donato became a fixture around the Arapahoe Village shopping center. A man of routine, his
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friends always knew where to find him — drinking a hot chocolate in his window seat at Starbucks, watching television at the Garlic Knot Pizza & Pasta or greeting visitors at the King Soopers. SEE DONATO, P10
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