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Week of May 26, 2022
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
A publication of
EnglewoodHerald.net
VOLUME 102 | ISSUE 15
County launches eviction clinic to help low-income residents $1.5 million allotted to program BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Seniors listen to keynote speakers during the 2022 graduation ceremony.
PHOTOS BY ROBERT TANN
Englewood High School’s Class of 2022 celebrates 99 seniors honored with diploma BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Sheltering indoors from a late spring freeze, 99 Englewood High School seniors graduated May 21 during a ceremony inside the high school’s gym. Much of the program highlighted the resiliency of a class of students who weathered more than two years of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, which began during the later half of their sophomore year. “You have gone through something that know one else has gone through in the history of our SEE GRADUATION, P10
Englewood Schools Board of Education President Duane Tucker, right, presents a diploma to an Englewood High School senior.
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Arapahoe County has opened an in-person clinic to provide legal aid to residents facing eviction. Located on the third floor of the county building at 1690 W. Littleton Boulevard, the clinic will be open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays between 8 and 11 a.m. The program is a partnership with Colorado Legal Services, a statewide nonprofit providing civil legal services to low-income Coloradans. “There are a lot of people facing eviction right now as a result of the economic consequences of the pandemic and sometimes beyond that,” said Jon Asher, the nonprofit’s executive director, who added that he hopes the clinic will lead to “a significant increase in the number of Arapahoe County residents we can help.” Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Arapahoe County had one of the metro area’s highest eviction rates, according to a county press release. In 2021, Arapahoe saw the most evictions of any county in Colorado with over 9,000, according to Asher. Using money allocated from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), a $1.9 trillion federal COVID-aid law, county commissioners recently voted to approve $1.5 million to fund the clinic for three years. “We have been looking at this program for a while before we even had ARPA dollars because of the eviction SEE EVICTION, P8
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