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Lighting Up Colorado Blvd.
Hoops For Teens: Youth and Adult Sports Director Nick Tipton helped organize the
Youth Basketball Clinic sponsored by the City of Glendale and the Glendale YMCA
Strong Kids Campaign. Thirty-seven teens participated in the clinic which took place
at the Sports Center.
Top Denver PR Exec Predicts
Pulitzer Prize For The Chronicle
Former Denver Post writer and now a top public relations
consultant, Eric Anderson, has predicted a Pulitzer Prize for
the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle as highlighted in Penny
Parker’s column in The Denver Post on January 15. It was part
of his annual Top Ten PR Predictions For 2010. True he was being
a tad bit facetious declaring, “Pulitzer committee admits error,
retroactively gives Public Service award to Glendale Cherry Creek
Chronicle for two-part investigative series on cougar bars.”
Anderson was referring to the Chronicle’s two part series start-
ing in December of 2007 by reporter Laura Lieff titled “Cougar
Bars of the Cherry Creek Valley” and “Welcome to the Jungle,”
which followed two young rugby stars descent into the lairs of
local cougar bars. The articles presaged the national cougar phe-
Surprise Coming: The Wall Street Journal staff accepts the
2007 Pulitzer Prize. It is not clear whether they have been in-
formed that their Pulitzer Prize is being revoked and awarded
to the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle for its Cougar series,
according to Denver Public Relations guru Eric Anderson.
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full color, tri-color, grayscale and mono-
chrome and each one has a specific purpose
to help business owners draw customers’
attention.
The company explains that “the LED
sign is designed to encourage dynamic
messaging to the community about your
business’s product and services. The LED
sign also maximizes your business sign’s
attractiveness and effectiveness.” The site
also goes through the benefits of LED signs
which include bringing in new customers,
improving business image, increasing
awareness and sales instantly, getting im-
portant information out quickly and sav-
ing money.
nomenon in which older women go on the prowl for younger
men. Today there is a television show titled “Cougar Town” star-
ring Courtney Cox on ABC and even cruise ship tours for cougars
and their young male admirers.
Reporter Laura Lieff was thrilled declaring, “This is great! I
can’t wait to hold the Pulitzer Prize gold medal, but to tell the
truth I was kind of hoping for the Nobel Prize in Literature
which pays you over a million dollars which doesn’t hurt con-
sidering what reporters are paid.”
The Chronicle’s Publisher Chuck Bonniwell was also excited.
“It’s wonderful that this cougar series is belatedly being given
the honors it deserves, as I am sure that Eric’s prediction will
come to fruition probably around April 1.”
But he also expressed words of caution. “I am not sure who is
going to tell the Wall Street Journal that their 2007 Pulitzer gold
medal for its probe into backdated stock options for business exec-
utives which triggered investigations and the ouster of top offi-
cials has been retroactively revoked and awarded to the Chronicle
for our cougar investigative reports. Rupert Murdoch [the own-
er of the Wall Street Journal] can get real touchy at times especial-
ly when it concerns backdating of things including prizes.”
Not to worry noted the Chronicle’s Editor-in-Chief Ed Thomas,
who was once a Denver homicide detective. “I will pry the Pul-
itzer gold medal from Murdoch’s cold, dead hands if that’s
what it takes,” Thomas declared.
Ms. Lieff cautioned her Publisher and Editor-in-Chief that
the Chronicle had not officially been retroactively awarded the
prize just yet.
To view Anderson’s Top Ten PR Predictions for 2010, visit www.
glendalecherrycreek.com.
February 2010
“LED signs are some of the most eye-
catching signs out there,” said Signtronix
Marketing Director Tom Johnson. “People
look forward to seeing the signs because
they display new information and they
serve as communication with the commu-
nity and business owners’ customers.”
He continued, “It’s even more effective
when business owners use their signs to
display funny sayings or jokes because it
makes more of a personal connection.”
Popular Sign Breeds Business
Not all LED signs are unpopular with the
public. The sign in front of Belcaro Paint
and Decorating Center on Leetsdale Drive
which puts out humorous messages is a
favorite of many in the Cherry Creek Valley.
After being in the same location for 15
years, Belcaro Paint moved to their cur-
rent Leetsdale location in 2001. Once the
business relocated, owners Cindy and John
Harris decided they needed a way to attract
attention so people would know where
they had moved. Their solution was to buy
a huge LED sign that would become their
new landmark. It cost $133,000 and was
built from scratch.
“You lose business when you move so
we knew we would be in big trouble if we
didn’t have a sign that attracted attention,”
said Cindy.
Originally they had a graphic of an
American flag blowing and they got a cease
and desist order from the City of Denver
saying they weren’t allowed to have it.
“After we were told we couldn’t have the
American flag or put up cartoon characters
we came up with the idea of putting silly
quips on the sign in between the time and
temperature messages,” Cindy explained.
Some of the funny messages have includ-
ed “Big Tints,” “Get Thinner Here” and
“Happy Hue Year.”
Cindy said that the “silly quips” get a lot
of attention from people driving by. The
sign has gotten so much attention that a few
years ago there was a person who sat in
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City Seeks Input On
East Side Travel
February 24
The City and County of Denver is
holding a public meeting Wednesday,
February 24 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the
Denver School of the Arts (7111 Montview
Blvd.) to solicit public feedback on po-
tential solutions to mobility issues. The
plan will evaluate and make recommen-
dations for improvement to vehicular,
pedestrian, bicycle and transit move-
ment in the city’s East Side Travel Shed.
The shed includes the area between
Monaco Parkway and Yosemite Street,
between I-70 and Leetsdale Drive. To
get more information on the plan or to
be added to the project mailing list, visit
the project Web site at www.denver
gov.org/east side.