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The O’Brien children piled into the family’s full-size van the morning of Oct. 26, each bundled in coats and scarves, cradling freshly baked biscuits in their mittens and breathing cloudy wisps into the frigid air.

Stacked behind the three rows of seats were crates of that week’s edition of the Columbine Courier, hundreds of papers enclosed in thin sheets of translucent blue plastic, waiting to be dropped on porches throughout Columbine Knolls.

South Jeffco residents grilled the county commissioners at an Oct. 20 citizen-input meeting over numerous hot-button issues, with a particular emphasis on library funding and efforts to create an independent library district.

Following the commissioners’ presentation about county topics, residents also expressed ire about the construction of the large pedestrian bridge at Wadsworth and Bowles, the county’s dissolution of its audit committee and RTD’s pending cuts to local bus routes.

Sid Broadbent’s ice skates went out from under him during a session at the old University of Denver ice rink in 1977, resulting in a broken bone and ultimately a hip replacement — a life-changing injury he blames entirely on a botched blade sharpening.

In that same year, Broadbent, who was then designing solar cells for Martin Marietta, began pouring decades of engineering expertise into an invention that would help prevent other skaters from suffering the same fate.

The RTD board of directors is poised to retain peak-hour bus service on the 401 route, after scores of South Jeffco residents who use the service to get to work complained when the route was put on a list for elimination.

The board is slated to approve on Tuesday evening more than $10 million in service cuts to begin Jan. 8, an amount down from an original proposal of about $13 million.