She s now trying to provide another alternative. In conjunction with ten-year-old Sydney Gilpin, another neighbor, who opted to attend school remotely so that she could walk her own dog to the park in the mornings, she s launched a change.org petition calling for dogs to be allowed off-leash in Denver parks between the hours of 9 p.m. and 9 a.m.
The model for the plan is New York City, which has allowed what its park department refers to as courtesy hours in designated areas of parks since May 2007. Over the past twenty years, the department says, this policy has kept parks and neighborhoods safer, allowed owners to exercise and socialize their dogs, and reduced the number of dog bites.
A three-day drive-through vaccination program for the Latino community was one of the many events held this weekend. The said program was held in hopes to close the class gap in vaccine distribution in Southwest Denver.
The event started on Friday outside Saint Cajetan Catholic Church and was set to be done on Sunday. A large part of the church s congregation is Latino, according to a CBS Local report. We started thinking about, what are some places we can actually utilize in the communities that need it the most where we can set up a site? State Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez was quoted on a report.
The changes regarding those facilities inspired the two no votes. My concerns with the residential-care side will be too numerous to support, Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer said before voting against the proposal. Councilman Kevin Flynn also opposed the measure.
Council finally voted on the proposal after a meeting that pushed past 1 a.m. and featured testimony from over 100 members of the public. Two-thirds of those expressed support for the measure, while the others had concerns about various provisions in it.
One resident worried that more communal-living situations like the 24/7 frat house next door to her home might pop up: There were four people on the lease, who had ten people living there and fifteen cars, and they turned their garage into a strip club that opened up after the bars closed. I heard that every single night, and no one would help me. No one.
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