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All you need is love — and 150 volunteers to sort 100,000 valentine cards
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (910+ words) Roses are red, violets are blue.Cards are sweet, and stamps are, too! For 80 years, the city of Loveland has been offering people the chance to give their Valentine's messages some TLC with its Valentine re-mailing program. What started as…...
Best Hatchimals for magical interactive play
2+ week, 4+ day ago (388+ words) Hatchimals are unique toys that are fun, entertaining and even teach responsibility. These are imaginative creatures that hatch from an egg and grow up to dance, talk and interact with you. Think of them like tiny robotic pets. Children around…...
Kids left without representation in Colorado immigration court after federal funding cuts
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (804+ words) When a Denver immigration judge asked a little boy no more than 5 years old if he had an attorney, the boy's brother, just a couple of years older, stepped forward and held his hand, volunteering for the task. That scene…...
Kids First Health Care helps all children at its clinics, regardless of insurance status
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (611+ words) Seven-year-old Courtney Lozano sat in her matching butterfly pants and shirt, swinging her legs and describing her symptoms. "Every time I cough hard, my throat hurts," she said. "I think I got sick because I was in school and I…...
Asking Eric: Decades later, bullies still have power
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (594+ words) Dear Eric: I'm 75 and I have a problem I've dealt with for a long time. It has to do with bullies. In school I had fists shaken in my face, I was laughed at because I was skinny, shy and…...
Denver Kids creates personal connections with students, spurring success in academics, jobs
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (440+ words) Tucked around a hallway inside a Montbello High School classroom, the knob turns and the door opens eyes to understanding and opportunities. The ability to meet with Brown once a month, while remaining tethered through texts and emails, provides Johnson…...
Denver school board’s weekend swearing-in ceremony draws scrutiny
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (357+ words) The Denver Public Schools Board of Education swore in three newly elected members and a reelected director Saturday, a move that drew criticism over its timing and initial plans to elect new officers to lead the governing body of Colorado's…...
Child Health Clinic provides care for 13,000 kids — and fresh vegetables
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (335+ words) Three years ago, Amber Banderas, 9, was hurting, underweight, and needing emergency care. She remembers riding in an ambulance and receiving shots. She was at the clinic recently for a flu shot " "as you keep reminding me," she told a nurse…...
Colorado Medicaid cuts to home caregiver program would put strain on families that ‘are already struggling’
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1653+ words) Susan Root often works 16-hour days as she makes sure the machines that feed her daughter and pump oxygen into her lungs are working. She also manages her daughter's seizures and handles all the necessities that Amy can't do for…...
Colorado youth mental health facility restrains kids excessively, disability rights group finds
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1003+ words) Staffers at a youth mental health treatment facility in southern Colorado were too quick to restrain kids " pinning bodies down, holding arms back " rather than de-escalate problems before patients put themselves or others in danger, a disability rights group found....