West Side Recorder Volume 7 No 1

              WEST SIDE RECORDER
Volume 7—Number 1
Monthly Newspaper of the West Side, Denver, Colorado
May, 1970
Summer Program Issue
We hope that you will keep this issue for a reference
issue for the summer programs that are taking place on
the West Side. We have tried to get all of the programs
that we could. I am sure that we still have a lot of boys and
girls that will be left out this summer.
The more that the city hears from parents the need
for programs the more they are going to have to listen and
the more we will get. The summer program at Daly Park
is due to the hard work of Fern Davis, and the support of
the parents south of Sixth Ave.
Be sure to remember that the Boys' Club at 8th and
Inca, West High, Scouting programs, and maybe some other
West Side agencies will be having summer programs as well
as those listed in the paper.
Action Ministry's Summer Program
Four churches, First Bethany
Lutheran, St. Joseph Catholic,
Wesley Methodist, and First
Mennonite, are cooperating in a
summer program for children
from kindergarten through 6th
grade. The program will involve
Day Camping, Crafts, Swimming/Recreation and Vacation
Church School and will be staffed by Vista workers, NYC persons, and church staff. This inter-church program is a cooperative attempt to respond to the
needs of the children in the community   for the   summer.
The Vacation Church School
will use common church material for all the classes. For the
Day Camping,  Crafts,  and  Re
creation the leadership will be
provided by the NYC personnel.
The summer program will begin June 15 and end on August
7. The eight week period will be
broken up into four 2 week periods with the same children participating in all of the programs
at the same church. Each day
will begin at 9:00 a.m. and end
at 11:30 a.m. with the exception
of the Day Ca/mping which will
last unitl approximately 2:00 p.
m. We are expecting approximately 50 to 75 children at each
church.
If you are interested in enrolling your child, please contact either Jim Hall 222-3337 or
Don Schierling 892-1038.
(See chart on page 4)
The West Side community can be proud of Santa Fe Theater.
SIGN UP FOR THIS
SUMMER IN LINCOLN
PARK BASEBALL —
BOYS 8-15
TENNIS LESSONS FREE
— BOYS AND GIRLS 9-
15.
(Racquets and balls provided)
PHONE RFK CENTER —
297-5918.
West Side girls eagerly await the opening of Lincoln Pool.   The girls are (left to right) Debbie and Margaret Ann Larkin of 1378 W. 11th and Jerilyn Cardona  of 841 Elati St.
The Lincoln Park Pool is
finally finished. It should open about the time school is
out. Not only do we have the
large Lincoln Park pool
ready to go for the summer,
but we have a wading pool
beside it ready to go.
West Side Coalition
Gives Trees To Community
On Friday, May 15th members of the West Side Coalition
distributed 500 flowering Crab-
apple trees to Westside residents free of charge. This was
part of the Coalition's efforts
to help improve the Westside.
The orders for the trees were
received by the staff of the First
Mennonite Church and the parking lot was the distribution
point.  Waldo  Benavidez,   chair
man of the West Side Coalition,
and Don Scherling, of the Mennonite Church, were in charge
of the distribution and were assisted in picking up the trees
at the nursery by Alfredo Herrera, of 361 Elati St., and Waldo's son, Tommy.
The trees were donated by
Midland Savings and Loan Association.
Baker Students
Receive Awards
Awards day at Baker Junior
High School is scheduled for
June 3 in the auditorium. The
seventh and eighth graders will
be given awards for citizenship,
scholarship, attendance, and
achievement.
The Trailblazer Award, an
award special to Baker, will be
given to one boy and one girl
in each   group.
On June 5 the 9th graders
will receive their awards followed by a party in the lunchroom. In addition to the above
the DAR awards will be presented.
GALLEGOS RUNS THEATER
Abel Gallegos, manager of
the Santa Fe-Victory theater has
announced that the theater will
again be called the Santa Fe.
Other changes were announced
in a form of an ad in last
month's Recorder. Some of them
include: children with parents
are admitted free, Mexican food
is sold at the refreshment stand
and the latest Mexican movies
directly from Mexico are being
shown.
Mr. Yeager has given Mr. Gallegos full control of the theater.
His only obligation to Mr. Yeager is to pay the rent on the
building. In this way Mr. Yeager has cooperated with the
community    in    providing    the
same   type   movies   that   were
shown before.
Another new feature is the
showing of 4 movies instead of
3 for choice sake. Later Mr.
Gallegos plans on having different movies shown continuously
on Sundays from 11:30 a.m. til
closing.
This agreement has been
worked out between Mr. Gallegos and Mr. Gilbert Martinez
who is in charge of distributing
Mexican film for Azteca Films,
Inc.
Mr. Gallegos has said that the
theater is for the benefit of the
community, and that he is willing to use it as such.
West Side Action Center
Moves To New Building
The West Side Action Center
will soon move from its present location at 1042 Santa Fe
Drive to 1312 Santa Fe Drive.
The new location is in a new
building and will provide ample
space for offices and better
services for West Siders.
Among other services that
the Action Center offers are the
Colorado Civil Rights Commission specialist — Alex Vigil,
Employment service — John
Wilson, Certification of food
stamps — Venice Robinson, and
Rita Lucero, and the West Denver Federal Credit Union —
Emilio Islas.
Helen Lucero is the acting director. Miss Lucero recently
worked with the United Latin
American Businessmen's Assn.
(ULABA) at the Business Opportunity Show in Currigan Exhibition Hall. They were working to increase awareness for
minorities about business and
how to begin, develop, and run
a business. Concerned West
Siders can contact her at 534-
5141.
Food Center
Gets Donation
The Mexican-American Rights
organization has donated $60.00
to the food supplemental program that is run at 601 Galapago St. The money was presented by Mr. Jose Baca, president of the organization, and is
appreciated very much. It will
be used to help buy gas for the
truck to pick up food at the
center warehouse and bring it
to the West Side distribution
center.
Food is given out on Tuesday
and Thursday afternoons to
people with notes from the
health centers. More community help is needed to get the
food out. One hour a week of
your time would help a great
deal.
BENAVIDEZ
CORRECTION
In last month's issue of the
RECORDER we announced that
Betty Benavidez of 1110 Mariposa St., was running for the
state house of representatives.
However, due to a printing error, we left out the fact that
she is running in district 7. The
boundaries of this district are
Federal to Sherman, and Colfax
to 6th   Ave.
We didn't realize that in releasing the story we would be
costing Betty's husband, Waldo,
his job. It is suggested that
West Siders read the copy of
the Letter from Mr. Hugh
Burns, Democratic Councilman
of Denver, to Mr. Lynch concerning this matter. The letter
is on page two.