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Hello!! I’m from florida and will be staying at Englewood with my boyfriend for the summer and i was wondering where do you guys tan? are there any nice lakes nearby or a public pool just somewhere i can go tanning and then swimming after. Thanks in advance!! :D

We are thinking of taking on a house cleaner. Kinda worried about opening our home. But also it sounds like a nice way to take some of the stress off our plates.

Not really looking for anyone’s horror stories. More so, anyone with positive experiences and recommendations?

Feel free to DM me or share your thoughts!

Thanks!

Last night’s City Council meeting really caught my attention when member Tena Prange brought up the EDDA grant application by Sacred Grace church that’s caused some controversy.

She mentioned that people on social media were “really upset” about it and even though it isn’t council’s decision, they do have influence. She said she’s a proponent of the separation of church and state, but the 2017 SCOTUS decision means denying the application because it’s by a religious group could be discrimination.

Not great to hear because my main problem with it is that I don’t want my tax money going to a church, but there are more actionable arguments that the grant will do nothing to generate tax revenue or increase walkability of the area where the church is. She encouraged those who are upset to attend the EDDA board meeting on the 27th to express their opposition to the grant.

I was hoping the issue would be addressed by council, so I was pretty happy. I like to think Prange was referring to our little old sub when she mentioned social media, ha ha, and we made an impact by posting our objections.

Hey all,
just wondering where the best place to buy dirt for my garden is,
that is also reasonably priced.

I want to buy half a truck bed worth of soil, maybe a little less, I live near Englewood, CO.

Any recommendations would be e greatly appreciated!

Does anyone have any issues with very intermittent drops consistent with Quantum Fiber? I am right by Barde Park.

I work from home and play video games. My games drop out for 2-3 seconds at a time and sometimes zoom calls fizz out for just a second or two. Not long enough that the average person who is just browsing the internet or steaming Netflix would likely notice a difference. However for me it’s blatantly obvious because of what I do.

I’ve done enough testing on my computer to know it’s not my equipment and I’m losing signal from the neighborhood node or wherever I’m connected to. Small chance but has anyone dealt with or dealing with the same issue?

Hello! A new week is here, along with a new Question of the Week: What makes you proud to be an Engelwoodonian?

A house across the street was completely blocked for hours last night with heavy police presence, the cops had an armoured vehicle, giant guns, etc.

They surrounded his house, kept announcing for the suspect to come out (William Wilson ?), the whole block was taped off and they made blast noises or something to disorient him I guess.

This went on for HOURS to the point we just went to bed and figured there’d be something on the news by morning but there isn’t a peep! Which is crazy, because I feel like they always send out „shelter in place“ texts for stuff like this?

Tons of people were outside watching, so hoping someone might have an update!

EDIT — since we seem to have an answer in the comments and the little bitch babies over on r / Denver removed my cross post (told me to „quit speculating and refer to official news“ when the entire point of my post was there isn’t any… lol) feel free to link this thread if any of y‘all see questions over there! I believe this is still the only place I’ve seen actual information about what happened, and it’s good for people to know the situation was resolved

Apparently QuickTrip (EDIT: not confirmed) is in talks or is in the process of buying the Safeway property and plans to put in a Buc-ee’s style mega QT in its place 😑

Source: I got this from someone who works in the construction industry

Apologies for the unconfirmed information 🥺

I watched the study session last night and was overall very pleased with what I heard. Speaking only as a regular type citizen as far as I know (and so in reality probably some edge case from left field), here are my thoughts.

The suburbs were invented to house an automobile society. It's why every house used to have a garage and a driveway. Well over 95% of all transportation in Englewood occurs via private car. As such, well over 95% of the transportation system focus should be on making things more friendly and usable (and safe) for cars. I'm not able to get my groceries on a bike.

So enough with the bike lanes. I'm not sure exactly where it is but I was I was next to one of those things the other day. There could have been a platoon of kids and dogs trying to run in the street I wouldn't have found out about it. The bike lane thing looks like a sideways Venetian blind is growing out of the gutter. It creates so much visual clutter that any attempt to take advantage of one's natural human tendency to notice motion amongst stillness is plowed under by a construct that is not going to even slow my pickup down as I try not to hit a bicycle. It's like trying to drive through a puppet show while a bunch of those wavy car lot things are going at the same time. How any of this keeps Sally safe on her way to school is completely lost on me.

Instead, pave Broadway. I remember with great fondness that last we paved Broadway. It so smooth. That lasted about 20 minutes and then some genius decided we needed the anti-lead computer controlled water valves. These days, Broadway looks like the main runway at Ben Gurion Airport.

In addition, repave what i think they called the feeder streets. Logan, Oxford, Dartmouth,... Just that is enough. The side streets and alleys are fine.

We do not need or want a new Police Officer to enforce ticky tack traffic laws on Broadway. Total waste of time and money. First of all, during the times when it's not crowded, no one cares how fast you go. Within reason of course but the Police have always been for the outliers.

During crowded times, the peloton governs itself. Any attempt to inflict governmental improvement will have the usual result. So long story short if we need more police officers to do police work, that's fine. That would require budgetary explanation. Of which there is none for 6 over traffic tickets. So just no on this one.

This six over thing is a Hegelian Dialect. The only technology that can accurately detect six over is a Flock camera. Human Police Officers traditionally start caring around the 15 over mark because why bother with anything less when lots more will be by while I'm writing this ticket that will be pleaded down to defective taillight? So they want permission to nickel and dime us with AI. Just say no to drugs.

Data centers. I personally do not know what a data center is beyond an even larger thumb drive. I do not understand why we need them, what data they collect, who uses that data and for what, or what additional product they produce. I definitely cannot articulate how they will benefit me.

I do understand that they seem to need massive amounts of two substances that I and the other humans also need. Namely water and power. Most notably the former, but not to minimize the effects of the latter.

As such, I'm over it. I say we turn them off. Before the swarms of self guided anti personnel drones start coming out of them with permission to enforce some laws that apparently "we" must have asked for at some point. If we don't, we're going to rediscover where all those military age migrants went.

That is all. Remember, don't waste your vote on red and blue.

Looking for recs for a good insurance broker. Home, auto, motorcycle and umbrella

Thanks

Somehow it’s Monday again and time for our Question of the Week. This week, tell us: What three words would you use to describe Englewood? Remember to keep it clean or your comment could mysteriously disappear. 🫥

So I'm concerned because over the last few days I have seen multiple people just wandering into traffic. This seems to be a feature of the 285 x Broadway area primarily, but not exclusively. I'm not sure if this is cultural thing, a mental illness thing, a too high to make good decisions thing, or what? But the off shoot is these ass clowns suddenly appearing in a 35 mph zone, mid-block, and seemingly without much by way of self preservation instinct right as a mob of cars is going by. Just right there in the traffic flow trying to merge or something. I don't know. Any way. Maybe the paramedics already know all about this, but every I'm that way I'm paranoid that one of these guys is going to pick my truck to not see.