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ter, who had disabilities and cognitive delays. Chorey said the event gave parents a safe place to ask questions and speak of their own experiences. Chorey said the store has content planned for the monthly Village Parenting event until April next year. The store asks people to RSVP ahead of time because there’s only room for 40 adults for each event. The events are held after store hours, Chorey said, so they can move furniture around as needed in the building at 1545 S. Pearl St.
A city council committee wants Denver to maintain its investment in a loan fund that helps secure land and property for below-market-rate housing near train stations and along busy bus routes. The city helped start the Denver TOD Fund with a $2.5 million investment in 2010. The fund is currently set to expire at the end of this month. In a vote Dec. 11, the Safety, Housing, Education & Homelessness Committee forwarded to the full council a request from the housing department to extend Denver’s investment another 10 years. The full city council is expected to consider the proposal on Dec. 23. Borrowers that have included local housing authorities can tap into the TOD — transit-oriented development — fund if they agree to build or preserve housing within reach of households earning no more than 80% of the area median income, currently $74,250 a year for a family of four.
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Author Shelley Brouwer reads from her book “Because She Was” during a Village Parenting event at the Second Star to the Right bookstore on South Pearl Street. The bookstore began offering monthly events for parents to help give them a place to have conversations and build community. COURTESY OF BRITT HOPKINS
A village of knowledge South Pearl bookstore aims to bring parents together with monthly events BY KAILYN LAMB KLAMB@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
As a children’s bookstore, Second Star to the Right has programming for young minds down to a science, with themed storytime events and craft projects. More recently, the store branched out into adult-themed
talks, hoping to build a space where parents and caregivers can have conversations and build community. “Unless they have their own business to share (information), there’s not a lot of opportunities for people to share their knowledge,” said Alethea Chorey, the community liaison for Second Star. “We wanted to create a platform where adults could share knowledge that they have.” Second Star launched Village Parenting in October with an author talk by Shelley Brouwer, who wrote “Because She Was.” The book is about the life and death of Brouwer’s daugh-
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