The Good Thing to Do

Last night I attended the Independence Day celebration hosted by CoCPN at the Coyote Ridge Park. This was a really nice event, and sponsoring it was a Good Thing to Do. Special thanks to our attorney Linda, our city services providers at CH2MHill-OMI, the Castle Pines North Chamber of Commerce, Darwin and Chris, the Castle Pines Connection newspaper and website, as well as all the other local businesses and candidates for office who supported this community event. Our Mayor Jeff Huff did a good job of representing the community in the remarks he made. Our state respresentative Carole Murray also made good comments about why Independence Day is an important day to reflect upon what makes our country so very special. Sheriff Dave Weaver also participated in this community family event which featured a pervasive feeling of good will. The fire chief attended, and brought her big red truck - a perrenial favorite with the kids! Our City Clerk attended with her family, as I did with mine. The ladies chorus sang a number of patriotic songs in multiple part harmonies. The hamburgers were good. The weather was absolutely perfect, and the guitar player particularly enjoyed playing "Here Comes the Sun" at sunset. I believe the kids enjoyed the stage show that involved three hogs performing tricks. Apparently this hog act has been on The Late Show with David Letterman Show (Stupid Pet Tricks?). The MC thanks the Metro District for making it possible for this show to be staged for the kids a the Independence Day Celebration. For a couple hours our community leaders put aside differences and pulled together. It felt good to see our community behave like a bunch of neighbors gathering together. It was the Good Thing to Do. If you missed it, I think Tim will have a bunch of good pictures on The Connection website here in a few days.