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  • Young Receives Elks ‘Citizen of the Year’ award

        Brent Pick, exalted ruler of Brighton Elks Lodge 1586, presented Linda Young with the Citizen Of The Year award for 2011-2012 lodge year at the Greater Brighton Chamber of Commerce Nonprofit Council meeting March 21.
        Young has served Brighton and the surrounding communities for many years in a volunteer capacity.  She is executive director of Brighton Shares The Harvest, which began in 2009. Its mission is to put more fresh produce on tables of families that rely on food pantries for supplemental food assistance.

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  • Students support Open Arms Pregnancy Center

        BRIGHTON – In November, Open Arms Pregnancy Center received a phone call from Heather Blaire, a teacher at Brighton Adventist Academy. Blaire said that the students and faculty were interested in making the pregnancy center their Christmas project. Blaire asked if the center could use new and used items for their clients.
        The response was overwhelmingly, “Yes.”

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  • Early Rotary Club honors Brighton mayor

    Brighton Mayor Dick McLean received the Person of the Year award from the Brighton Early Rotary Clubduring the club’s Brighton Ethics in Business Awards Luncheon at the Armory.

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  • Local father fights cancer with a strong heart

    Kate Clark-Martin
    MetroWest Intern
        BRIGHTON – Cancer has struck a well-known community member – not once, but twice.
        David Lucero is 48 years old and is battling colon cancer. He was in remission from 2007 until the beginning of this year.
        “I was shocked beyond belief, that this horrible thing had came back again. I broke down crying, in the parking lot of the hospital,” Lucero’s son, Jeromy, said.

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  • Corbett to be honored for work with Help for Homes program

        DENVER – Brighton Senior Center Director Sue Corbett will be among the honorees when nonprofit organization, Brothers Redevelopment, hosts its 40th anniversary gala next month.
        Corbett will be honored during “Opening Doors: Celebrating 40 years of Housing with Brothers Redevelopment,” set for 5:30 to 9 p.m., Oct. 6, at the Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 E. 58th Place.

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  • Ye Olde Auto Club hosts annual car show

        Brighton’s Ye Olde Auto Club, which just celebrated its 35th year, has some pretty humble roots.
        “Just a bunch of old guys with Model As and Model Ts,” says club member Terry Zadra with a laugh.
        And while there aren’t quite as many Model As and Model Ts in the club as there used to be – one club member boasts a 2007 Mustang – the goal of the club remains the same as it always has: to gather together and celebrate all things classic automobile.

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  • Young cancer survivor to hold fourth annual carnival Saturday

        Six-year-old Ellie Rolfs is doing her part to help kids who are suffering from cancer … just like she did.
        Her fourth annual carnival is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 pm. at Reunion Park in Commerce City. All proceeds from the event will go to the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at the Children’s Hospital.
        Admission to the carnival is $5 and it will feature games, bouncy houses, face painting, hourly drawings, relay races, a silent auction and food. Meal tickets are $5.  

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  • Donate books to benefit Kidz Quiltz

        Kidz Quiltz volunteer Deann Anderson said helping the area nonprofit is as simple as getting rid of a few unwanted books from your bookshelf.  
        The organization in Fort Lupton is having a book sale July 15 and 16, and the Brighton Standard Blade is collecting books through July 1 for the sale.
        “We’re encouraging people just to give up two or three books to help,” Anderson said. 

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  • 'Nunsense' - Foundations music teacher takes on role of streetwise nun for PVP production

        “I’ve been working on my Brooklyn accent for this role,” Jen Chengery says with a masterful perfection of the accent.  
        Chengery, music teacher at Foundations Charter Academy in Brighton, will take on the role of the Converse-wearing nun, PE teacher Sister Robert Anne, in the Platte Valley Players’ production of “Nunsense” starting Friday at the Armory at Brighton Cultural Center.

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