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Mines rings in 150th anniversary at Homecoming
City councilors want Jeffco as a strong partner for emergency coordination, infrastructure projects BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
About 4,800 students, faculty, staff, alumni and other supporters attended the party, which included an unveiling ceremony for two special items commemorating Mines’ sesquicentennial year.
On Nov. 5, Jefferson County voters will decide how the county’s public safety services and infrastructure will look in the coming years. Jeffco’s Ballot Measure 1A asks the voters to allow Jeffco to retain all its current property tax revenues. The measure doesn’t increase taxes or the mill levy rate. Instead, it allows the county to keep the 24 cents per dollar it already collects for designated projects and eliminates the revenue cap set by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. If passed, the county would keep more than $30 million that currently must be refunded to taxpayers under state law, Jeffco officials have explained.
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Colorado School of Mines students and alumni sing the school fight song during the Sept. 27 Sesquicentennial Bell unveiling ceremony in front of Guggenheim Hall. Thousands of Orediggers attended the event to commemorate the university’s Homecoming PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN Weekend and 150th anniversary. BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
If a 50th anniversary is called the golden anniversary, one could say the 150-year-old Colorado School of Mines is golden three times over. Mines kept its yearlong sesqui-
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centennial celebrations rolling Sept. 26-28 during its annual Homecoming Weekend. In addition to the usual 5K race, football game and other festivities, the university hosted a special Blaster’s Bash party Sept. 27 with dozens of food trucks, games, activities and giveaways.
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