🌱 Action Center Provides 4,500 Backpacks + Farm Box At Natural Grocer

Morning, everybody. Brad K. Evans here with your fresh copy of the Lakewood Daily. Keep reading to find out all the most important things happening in town, including updates on:

• Jeffco Action Center and the Lakewood community partners to provide thousands of backpacks to students in need.
• Farm Box rethinks urban farming inside of a shipping container.
• Arvada police officer was killed when responding to child custody dispute.

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Here are the top stories today in Lakewood:

1. Thousands of backpacks with school supplies delivered to Jeffco students. The Action Center collected items during the month of September, for a back-to-school drive that has provided 4,500 backpacks for Jefferson County Public School students in need. (Arvada Press)
2. Farm Box has a hydroponic food container at the Natural Grocers store in Lakewood. The company turns shipping containers into vertical hydroponic farms and use only a small amount of water. (KSAT)
3. Arvada police officer was killed when responding to a child custody dispute. Sonny Almanza is accused in the murder of an Arvada police officer that was responding to a family disturbance last week, and says he wasn't trying to kill Arvada Police Officer, Dillon Vakoff. (CO Sun)
4. Denver's Mutiny Cafe raises enough money from fans to reopen. A bad story breaks good. After having their book store and cafe seized by the City of Denver for non-payment of taxes, the Mutiny Information Cafe has raised enough money from a GoFundMe campaign to pay off the tax debt and clear the way to open their doors again. (Gazette)

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Today in Lakewood:

• Optimizing team cohesion: Workshop in a box. (9 a.m.)
• Learning to use Google Docs: Lakewood Library. (2 p.m.)
• Intercambio: Spanish conversation table. (6:30 p.m.)
• Tyler Childers: Red Rocks. (7 p.m.)

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From my notebook:

• Lakewood Police Department searching for a new chief. The Lakewood Police Department is recruiting its next Chief of Police. Qualities sought include proven leader that can join the award-winning agency and promote high expectations while fostering pride and quality policing in the community. (LPD)
• City of Lakewood Economic Development News: For the Week of Sept. 26. (Lakewood)

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That's it for today. I'll see you back in your inbox tomorrow morning with another update!

— Brad K. Evans

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