Celebrate City Park Day with Jolon Clark and Park Hill Dave, May 30, 5-8 pm, City Park Pavilion

Jolon Clark, Executive Director of Denver Parks and Recreation, will welcome the public to City Park Day this year along with his newly adopted chum, Park Hill Dave. Dave is eager to make one of his first public appearances since finding a new home with Clark and his family after a year-long stint fending for himself at the Park Hill Golf Course (soon to be a park!). City Park Day’s Victorian theme seems right up Dave’s alley and under his supervision, Clark will scoop ice cream along with other Celebrity Scoopers like Terita Walker, East High School Principal, and this

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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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