QUID HAS HEARD that neighbors around the Village Green Pool recently celebrated that pool’s reopening three years after falling victim to the city’s budget axe. The event featured a live band, chalk art and a game of bocce near the pool that drew more than 400 people to the Aurora neighborhood. Pictures sent in by a reader of the Aurora Sentinel (there’s one!) also showed an open grill full of hot dogs sizzling away in the summer heat. Thank goodness for more money in the city coffers. Also, thank goodness there wasn’t any water in the pool. You’re supposed to wait a half hour before that kind of stuff, folks.
QUID HAS HEARD that the Arapahoe County Fair is looking for volunteers to help stamp hands, take tickets or run the crooked ring toss July 24-28. The annual fair is a chance to celebrate Western heritage and gorge on funnel cake, a rite of passage for anyone who doesn’t already know the beauty of mutton bustin’. Quid would like to submit the applications for Mayor Steve Hogan for the dunk tank, Councilwoman Molly Market for the trapeze show and Editor Dave Perry for bearded lady. All three would make a fine spectacle at the event.
QUID HAS HEARD thousands of Aurora seniors (high school, not Heather Gardens) will be walking across stages across the metro area this week to receive their diplomas to end an important chapter in their lives and also to realize what a colossal waste of money their parents just scripted to Jostens for invitations, announcements, graduation mugs, graduation-flavored coffee … etcetera. There are important words of advice those graduates will hear over the coming weeks, but perhaps none more important than this: There’s no future in journalism. For every one Anderson Cooper, there are 500 desk jockeys who have to write snide columns under pseudonyms.