WEEK OF MAY 25, 2023
VOLUME 51 | ISSUE 51
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Clear Creek teachers ask for professional salaries BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Clear Creek. The top win goes to Friends of Charlie’s Place — the animal shelter for Clear Creek and Gilpin counties — and the Clear Creek Metropolitan
Clear Creek teachers are imploring the school board to provide them with a living wage, so they can afford to continue doing what they love and live in the area where they teach. At the May 16 board meeting, representatives from the Clear Creek County Education Association, which is the teachers union, said if the school board really believed in attracting and retaining the best educators, then it needed to provide the necessary compensation to teachers and staff. “The current wages don’t match statewide moves nor do they attract or honor educators’ long-standing positions in the district,” Rachel Richardson, a third-grade teacher at King-Murphy Elementary School, told the board. The board is expected to approve the compensation package that district officials and the CCCEA agree to at its meeting at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 15, at Clear Creek High School.
SEE CANINE 5K, P4
SEE SCHOOLS, P3
People and their dogs take off on the 11th annual Canine on the Creek 5K on May 20. Proceeds benefit Friends of Charlie’s Place and PHOTO BY SARA HERTWIG the Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation District’s youth programs.
Gone to the dogs Canine on the Creek event a barking success BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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The 2023 Canine on the Creek was a win-win-win. Families participated in a 5K or 1-mile walk together along Clear Creek on a beautiful May morning in Dumont. Dogs happily joined their owners for the run or walk along
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