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The Wiggins and Gillman families have had intersecting lives in the Columbine community.

In the 2006 high school baseball championship, Nick Wiggins’ two-run single tied the game for Columbine High School. C.J. Gillman helped win it in extra innings on a squeeze play in the bottom of the ninth.

Now Nick and C.J. each have a younger sibling who has recently spent significant time in the hospital.

And both families are grateful for the support they have received from the community.

Foothills Park and Recreation District staff presented a draft of potential capital repair projects at the board’s last meeting outlining potential costs and schedules of work that could be done with a mill-levy increase.

The repairs are based on a prioritized list of work the district seeks to begin, and is calculated based on the scenario of a successful 3-mill increase in the May 2008 election.

Anyone who has met Ted Mink knows hes not one to mess with. But now that he's neutered and de-clawed, a loving home may be more likely to take him in.

Ted Mink the cat — who happens to share a name with Ted Mink the Jeffco sheriff — recently was found by Jeffco animal control and now lives at Max Fund, a shelter in Denver.

David Walsh, events coordinator for Max Fund, said the idea to name the young cat after the sheriff came to him when he was driving the feline from animal control to the shelter.

Jane Barnes and Dave Thomas have apparently been elected to the Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education, and voters Tuesday also voided an obsolete measure tying additional taxes to student performance.

The outcome of two education board seats and the fate of Jeffco's “performance promise” were decided in some of the only countywide ballot issues on this year's ballot.