City Park Living Land & CPFAN Annual Meeting

Please join us on Tuesday, April 1 for the City Park Friends and Neighbor’s (CPFAN) Annual Meeting at 5:30 pm at the Carla Madison Recreation Center, 2401 E. Colfax Avenue. Parking is available behind the Center off of 16th Avenue and then turning south into the lot. The meeting will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room just off the lobby. After the short meeting where CPFAN members will vote on nominees for the 2025-26 CPFAN Board, there will be a presentation by Denver Parks and Recreation (DPR) staff and a member of the Native American community who are involved with

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Come see “Amache Rose,” a film by Billy Kanaly

Join us for this special viewing! Tuesday February 4 at 5:30 pm Carla Madison Recreation Center 2401 E. Colfax Avenue Free Parking behind the Center In 1942, the United States Government established the concentration camp Camp Amache in the high desert of southeastern Colorado near the town of Granada. Japanese American citizens were confined there because of the paranoia and fear generated by Japan’s aggression during  World War II. These citizens were incarcerated at the camp until 1945. Today, the action is seen as one of the great tragedies of misjudgment in U.S. history. Site of Camp Amache concentration camp

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Duck Lake is Quacking with Activity

Duck Lake is Quacking with Activity! Let’s start with the new mural on the west wall of the Denver Zoo’s storage complex that borders Duck Lake. This area was City Park land set aside for the Denver Zoo’s gasification project, a plan to use animal waste and human trash to generate clean energy to power the zoo. The project was abandoned in 2015 due to concerns about costs and environmental issues but mainly technical failures. The system didn’t work. Instead of reverting the area back to City Park natural uses for the public to enjoy, the Zoo retained the area for storage

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