WEEK OF OCTOBER 24, 2024
VOLUME 20 | ISSUE 17
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Revamped ‘Festi-Mill of Scarecrows’ goes off without a hitch
Arvada City Council approves lease agreement for new Community Table building Nonprofit hoping to move into new digs by May 2025 BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Dorie Reader chooses a scarecrow for adoption at the Festi-Mill of Scarecrows on Oct. 12.
PHOTOS COURTESY KAREN MILLER
contest, scarecrow Entering its 28th year, costume contest and scarecrow adopScarecrow storytime, the Arvada Festival of tions. along with other children’s activities, were also added Scarecrows embraced to this year’s event, which brought more youngsters usual to the flour mill, change with aplomb than event organizer Karen Miller BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A little shift in tradition didn’t keep folks away from this year’s Arvada Festival of Scarecrows, as the event moved to the Arvada Flour Mill for the first time and debuted with a new name: the “Festi-Mill of Scarecrows” (festival at the mill). This year’s festivities took place on Oct. 12 and featured event mainstays like the kids’
said. “It was great to bring back this popular event and expose the mill to a younger crowd,” Miller said. “We love to see all the kids in costume for the kids’ parade.” This year’s scarecrow contest featured 10 entrants. The winning scarecrow is called “Revenge of the Invasive Weeds” and features a menagerie of ferns growing from the scarecrow’s shirt sleeves. About 20 scarecrows were
VOICES: 10 | LIFE: 12 | CALENDAR: 15 | SPORTS: 18
Months after the City of Arvada finalized the purchase of a building located at 4600 W. 60th Ave., Arvada’s City Council approved a lease agreement that will allow local nonprofit food bank Community Table to use the building as its headquarters for $100 a month. Council approved the lease agreement at the Oct. 7 meeting by a 5-1 vote. Councilmember John Marriott was the lone dissenting vote. The City of Arvada has planned on relocating Community Table from its current home at 8555 W. 57th Ave. since setting its sights on the 60th Avenue building last year. A representative from Community Table said the nonprofit hopes to move into the new facility by May 2025. The City of Arvada purchased the building for $3 million. Community Table CEO Sandy Martin said she felt the nonprofit was deserving of the favorable lease terms, as the organization has operated in Arvada since 1982 and frequently takes strides to be a good neighbor — Community Table has “adopted” 60th Avenue from Tennyson to Wolff Streets in an effort to continue that trend at the new digs. “We, I think, provide a valuable service to this community,” Martin said. “We raise a substantial amount of money to run this organization without government assistance, and the supportive members of our community have been the ones who have been the largest supporters, financially, of this organization. “Not having to pay a larger leasing fee allows us to take the funds that we obtain to run the organization to purchase the food and supplies that we need to give to the family members and community members to survive,” Martin continued. SEE AGREEMENT, P4
The winning entrant in this year’s Scarecrow Contest; Revenge of the Invasive Weeds.
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