Friday, April 22 is Earth Day. Wikipedia notes that in September 1969, at a conference in Seattle, Former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator Gaylord Nelson announced there would be a nationwide demonstration advocating for the environment. It was held April 22, 1970.
Earth Day now marks that anniversary. A list of some Colorado Earth Day happenings:
SATURDAY [...]

Denver’s Preschool One Book, One Denver kicks off another year with Llamapalooza! This year’s book selection is Is Your Mama A Llama? by author and illustrator Deborah Guarino. From April 15-30, all Denver Preschoolers will be reading this title, a perennial favorite of parents and children alike.
To celebrate, The Denver Preschool Program [...]

Sunday. Discover the roots of the Renaissance at “Cities of Splendor: A Journey Through Renaissance Italy” at the Denver Art Museum. Opening Sunday, the exhibition features a variety of Renaissance artworks from all over Italy. See how the styles of different cities—like Milan, Venice and Siena—helped shape the aesthetics of the era. The exhibit also [...]

Did you know that April is National Organ Donation Awareness Month?  I know it’s probably not marked on your calendar because it’s not celebrated by drinking green beer or setting off illegal fireworks.  But I feel that it is my duty to bring it to your attention so that in the future, when you think [...]

Julissa Valdivia, 9, and Karen Vazquez, 16, share a smile at the weekly informal art-club meeting at Joshua Station, a homeless shelter. 

Fifty-one buses from Falcon District 49 in El Paso County drove north to the state Capitol today in an effort to send a message to state legislators about education cuts.

The first day of April, not a legal holiday, but who can resist the fun of a little tease or prank just one day out of the year? This silly tradition has been around for centuries, with the first recorded account in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, dating back to 1392. Some countries end the fun at the noon [...]

Saturday. Get outside and get moving at “Health For All Seasons,” a family field day and fitness fair at the Children’s Museum of Denver. Participate in all sorts of fun games and test your springtime strength: Run a three-legged race with a pal, measure your distance in the long jump and giving hula hooping a [...]

I had the opportunity to talk with medical economist, healthcare policy expert and former Denver resident J.D. Kleinke about his newly released novel Catching Babies. This book is sure to create some buzz as it confronts issues such as unnecessary c-sections, the uninsured, birth trauma, the flight to homebirth and the rampant rise in post [...]

ONGOING EVENTS
Winter nature program “Critter Scene Investigation,” a program for kids and adults, led by Volunteer Naturalists, will be on select snowy mornings when conditions are good for tracking animals at Devil’s Backbone Open Space, Horsetooth Mountain Open Space and Eagle’s Nest Open Space. Participants will receive e-mail notification the night before a program is [...]