QUID HAS HEARD that there’s not much great about the Great Lawn at City Hall these days. Seems somebody got heavy handed with the fertilizer at the expanse of grass on the west side of Aurora’s Taj d’ Y’all. One snarky observer figured the brown clouding the green grassland is overflow bovine excretions from inside said edifice. Whatever the problem, city folk better get on it since the wretched Kid Screech event at Aurora’s arid Bicentennial park has been moved to the Great Lawn this year to better show off Aurora’s better side.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that the RTD — aka Reason To Drive —nabobs could take a cue or two from Aurora’s artistic community in raising money for its plodding FasTracks project. Ben Dicke has drawn on the power of online fundraising to drum up financial support for “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” a rock musical by Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers about the seventh president of the United States. Dicke has a week left to raise $10,000 through the Kickstarter website, a sum that will go toward bringing the show to the Aurora Fox’s studio theater. As of press time, Dicke has already raised more than half the funds. RTD officials this week decided against asking voters to increase sales taxes to pay more for what they were promised several years ago. RTD folks don’t know what they’re going to do to lay tracks anytime soon, and in true Colorado government style, do nothing is a good answer, again.
AND QUID HAS HEARD that there’s a shortage of credible causes in Adams County these days. Why else would the Adams County Youth Initiative, a group of do-gooders trying to keep kids in school and off the streets, start a campaign earlier this month to “take back the day” of April 20? That probably means nothing to you, dear reader, until Quid translates that into “stop the 4/20 machine.” Yes, uptight kids and their mentors in Adams County don’t like April 20 being the day to take the high road anywhere you can in Colorado. Quid wonders, however, if the longtime annual celebration of wacky weed must also surrender the day to those demanding we remember that April 20 is the birth date of Der Fuhrer and the anniversary of things like the Ludlow Massacre, the day Uranus passed Neptune in 1993 — marked once once every 171 years, the day in 1976 that George Harrison sang the “Lumberjack Song” with Monty Python, the day that Harriet Tubman started the Underground Railroad or any of the other dozens of memorable events that occurred on that day. Quid suggests a group screening of “Hair” and a brief meeting to find a higher cause worth worrying about.
And that’s all the news that fits.