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WEEK OF MAY 11, 2023
VOLUME 157 | ISSUE 21
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The world’s their oyster
Suspect arrested in connection with RV homicide near Golden BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
doesn’t account for the secondgraders, though, who each picked a country to research. Multicultural Night has become the school’s most popular event, drawing more than 300 attendees this year. ESL teacher Sari Warburton-Pitt described how the event used to be formatted differently, and most participants were ESL students and families. She added how the school wanted
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a homicide discovered last month in the Woolly Mammoth Park-n-Ride near Golden. Donald Leroy Harris, 50, is facing a first-degree murder charge. The victim, Matthew Hire, 57, from Denver, was found dead of a gunshot wound in his RV. A Jefferson County Sheriff ’s deputy was doing a routine patrol of the lot, which is along U.S. 40 near the Interstate 70 Morrison exit, at around 3:45 p.m. on April 14. The deputy saw Hire’s RV door swinging open, went to check it and found his body inside. At that time, the Sheriff ’s Office said it appeared to be a targeted attack, so investigators didn’t believe there was a threat to the public. According to Karlyn Tilley with the Jeffco Sheriff ’s Office, investigators found documents belonging to Harris inside the victim’s RV. Harris was also the last person seen with Hire. The Sheriff ’s Office believes the murder took place between March 25-26. Subsequently, on March 26,
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Folklorico dancers from Edgewater Elementary School perform for Welchester Elementary School’s Multicultural Night on April 27. PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN
Welchester Elementary School students host annual Multicultural Night BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Dancing from Mexico. Food from Lebanon. Stories from Russia. Flower necklaces from Micronesia. For Welchester Elementary School students and their families, the
world was at their fingertips during the school’s annual Multicultural Night on April 27. The entire school participated, as the older grades hosted exhibits in their classrooms and the younger students completed class projects beforehand. Additionally, the school hosted a buffet-style dinner with Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Lebanese foods; folklorico dancers; a youth mariachi band and other games and crafts. Overall, organizers said, at least 10 cultures were represented. That
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