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The Main Street Players, Littleton’s longest-running community theater group, and the Ovation Players are looking for a bit of support in exchange for dinner and a show July 12.

The troupes will be hosting a fund-raising gala July 12 at Columbine Country Club. Tickets cost $45 and include dinner and a scene from “Eleemosynary” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” The groups will also perform 11 numbers from other musicals staged during the 25-year history of the Main Street Players.

Jeffco school board member and state House candidate Vince Chowdhury pleaded guilty July 8 to a third-degree assault charge stemming from accusations that he slapped and choked his 16-year-old daughter.

A harassment charge and a charge for violating a protective order were dismissed during the proceeding in Jefferson County Court. Chowdhury, 48, was given a supervised, one-year deferred sentence and ordered to complete anger management and parenting classes. If he completes the classes and stays out of trouble, the case will be dismissed in one year.

A suspect has been arrested in the case in which a South Jeffco man was terrorized and robbed at his home on June 30. At least one suspect remains at large.

SWAT teams from the Aurora and Lakewood police departments executed search warrants at two homes and found evidence from the crime in the Aurora home of Garry Martin. Evidence was also found in a Lakewood home, but no suspects were arrested there.

After some confusion about whether the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield would submit its amphitheater modification plans to a county approval process, a hearing date has been set, and the public will have the chance to weigh in.

The plan will be aired before the county planning commission at 3:15 p.m. July 23 at the Jefferson County Courts and Administration Building in Golden.