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  • Scary superstore gears up for Halloween

    In 1968, two boys fishing at a Littleton watering hole snagged an old shopping cart. To their pre-teen imaginations, it looked like part of an amusement-park ride.

    The cart soon became the foundation of a basement-based haunted house that the boys created out of a plaster skull they got from their older brother, a footlocker for a coffin, bedding hanging from the rafters, string, and other props found around the house.

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  • Food, drink and … movies?

    The Alamo Draft House is building an 800-seat theater facility in the Aspen Grove shopping center that the company hopes will change the way you see movies. For those who may be yawning at the notion of yet another movie theater in the area, read on.

    The company, which opened in 1997 in Austin, Texas, bills itself as something more than the average cineplex.

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  • Natural Grocers eyes new location in South Jeffco

    Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage plans to open a 15,000-square-foot "full-service organic grocery" at South Kipling Parkway and West Coal Mine Avenue, north of the Chase Bank on Kipling. The site had previously been considered for a multi-story assisted-living center.

    The proposed store will replace an existing outlet in the shopping center on the northeast corner of South Simms Street and West Ken Caryl Avenue.

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  • Fitness fanatics take part in Pumpkin Boot Camp

    By Alison Mahnken

    For the Courier

    If you heard goblins and ghouls a-groanin’ on Saturday, perhaps you attended the Pumpkin Boot Camp Festival at Arapahoe Community College.

    Now in its sixth year, the event, presented by Camp MissFits and the ACC Foundation, is a fund-raiser for ACC’s fitness center.

    Priscilla Friedlander, the boot camp director who’s also connected with Camp MissFits, said the event is key for maintaining the fitness center.

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  • Jake’s can slake two thirsts

    By Alison Mahnken / For the Courier

    It began as a joke between a mother and daughter.

    Vanessa Menke, the daughter, and her mom, Jayne Barth, are the proud operators of Jake’s Brew Bar and Cafe in downtown Littleton.

    Just around the corner stands their first baby, Kate’s Wine Bar, at 5671 S. Nevada St.

    “Kate’s has been open for four years, and we were joking one day that it’d be great to have two spots, Kate’s on one side, Jake’s on the other,” Menke says.

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  • Senior center owner seeks second building on adjacent lot

    The owners of the Gardens at Columbine, an assisted-living center, have purchased an adjacent lot and want to demolish the existing home and build a senior care facility for about 22 residents.

    The Gardens’ main building at the southwest corner of Platte Canyon Road and West Ken Caryl Avenue is in Arapahoe County, while the proposed building would be in Jefferson County.

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  • Farmers market offers eclectic fare

    The weekly farmers market brings a splash of life and color each Wednesday to the parking lot at the Aspen Grove Lifestyle Center.

    The annual event kicked off summer 2012 on June 13, with some 35 vendors plying an eclectic collection of loosely defined local goods, including coffee beans, bread, Alaskan salmon, rock art, dog leashes and fabric bags. Stands offered Colorado-grown fresh cherries, apricots and other produce. The farmers market, which continues through October, is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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  • Food vendors face new regulations at farmers markets

    The upscale food-court atmosphere that prevails at so many farmers markets has prompted Jeffco health authorities to impose stricter regulations on food vendors selling items typically offered at restaurants.

    Some small-business operators are complaining, and some are choosing to take their offerings elsewhere.

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  • Whole Foods coming to former Circuit City location

    Whole Foods Market has applied to the Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Division to open a retail store in the former Circuit City building at 5155 S. Wadsworth Blvd.

    The owner of the building is listed as DCL Wadsworth, and the applicant is Jushua MacTaggart, according to the Jeffco planning and zoning website.

    The building has 33,000 square feet and is zoned commercial.

    Attempts to reach a person in management at the Whole Foods Rocky Mountain Regional Support Center in Boulder were unsuccessful.

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  • Apartments proposed for Ken Caryl Business Center

     About 25 people turned out at the Ken Caryl Ranch House on May 8 to view the latest proposal for development on 14 acres at Shaffer Parkway and West Ken Caryl Avenue, south of the Homewood Suites in the Ken Caryl Business Center.

    The land is currently zoned commercial/office/retail plus multifamily for a combination of retail, restaurant, office and residential development, on 10 acres east of Shaffer Parkway and 4 acres west of it.

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