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WEEK OF JUNE 29, 2023
VOLUME 96 | ISSUE 32
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‘Women in Trades’
The potentially everlasting life of a bottle on a Colorado journey BY JAMIE SUDLER H20 RADIO
called A Celebration of Women in Trades. It was a sellout with 256 attendees, and proved that more women are entering the fields that men have historically dominated. “It was incredible,” said Robin Chalecki, president of the Emily Griffith Foundation. “We have not done a fundraiser lunch for a couple of years, since COVID. I wanted to host an event that really highlighted our students in the best way.”
Bottles of beer from local breweries pack the cold cases of liquor stores across Denver. But what happens to the glass bottles after customers enjoy their liquid contents? The city of Denver is encouraging residents to put them in purple recycling bins at no cost— underscoring that suggestion by starting a new program to charge for solid waste—i.e. trash—destined for landfills. Beer bottles, along with yogurt containers, cardboard, cans, and other recyclable items, go into one bin, called single stream, which is picked up by a large white truck and taken to a massive sorting facility in southeast Denver. Once there, as Vanessa Lacayo, spokesperson the city’s Department of Transportation and Instructure explains, trucks are weighed and then empty their loads in barns that correspond with the contents including stalls for garbage, recycling, and compost.
SEE TRADE, P5
SEE EVERLASTING, P2
Students participate in a Welding class at Emily Griffith Technical College’s Branch Campus in Denver.
Emily Griffith Technical College celebrates women entering fields traditionally held by men BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
A woman’s place is in the kitchen – fixing the pipes, of course. Or maybe doing plumbing repairs in the bathroom, or perhaps, fixing a client’s HVAC unit. Emily Griffith Technical College in
downtown Denver has been educating people for more than 100 years. Recently, it created a special focus to attract female students to study careers in the trades. These female students were in the spotlight on May 9, when the Emily Griffith Foundation hosted an inaugural event at ReelWorks Denver
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