🌱 Patch AM: How Denver’s tiny three-bed hospice changes homeless residents’ final days

What's up Denver! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• How Denver’s tiny three-bed hospice changes homeless residents’ final days
• How a high-tech system landed a Denver-area plane with no pilot
• Why a Denver Michelin-starred chef is backing Colorado’s Dignity Act

Also on today's calendar: Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the windowsill say to the glass? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Monday: Partly sunny, with a high of 73 and low of 42 degrees.
• Tuesday: Times of sun and clouds, temps: high: 65, low: 43.
• Wednesday: Sunshine and some clouds, with a high of 71 and low of 47 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Refuge: How people experiencing homelessness spend their final days (9news.com) — A new 9NEWS documentary goes inside Denver’s Rocky Mountain Refuge, a tiny three-bed hospice tucked in a Denver Rescue Mission shelter that helps unhoused people spend their final days with dignity. Through residents’ stories and founder JP Hall’s mission, it explores how Denver and Colorado might fund more humane, lower-cost end-of-life care for people experiencing homelessness.
   

• Autonomous system successfully lands plane at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (kdvr.com) — An aircraft using Garmin’s Autoland system made an emergency autonomous landing Saturday at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield, serving the Denver area. The system took full control after a reported pilot incapacitation, safely guiding a King Air 200 from Aspen to the runway while communicating with air traffic control; officials have not yet released the pilot’s condition.
   

• How a dreamer and celebrity chef lends his voice to immigration reform (deseret.com) — Denver-based Michelin-starred chef and DACA recipient Byron Gomez is using his platform at Brutø in downtown Denver to advocate for the bipartisan Dignity Act, backed by Colorado Rep. Gabe Evans. The proposal would tighten border security while creating a structured, non-citizenship path to legal status for long-term, law-abiding immigrants like Gomez, with major implications for Colorado’s workforce and immigrant communities.
   

📸 Around Denver

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Denver

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Sunday December 21

• Candlelight: Coldplay & Imagine Dragons
  The Ritz-Carlton, Denver , 1881 Curtis Street , Denver
  8:30 pm

Monday December 22

• Winter Fun Alert: Unlimited Putt at Puttshack!
  Puttshack - Denver , 2813 Blake St , Denver
  11:00 am
• A Very Sinatra Christmas Special at The Rally Hotel in Denver
  The Rally Hotel at McGregor Square , 1600 20th St , Denver
  8:30 pm

Friday December 26

• Josh Blue
  Comedy Works , 1226 15th St , Denver
  6:00 pm
• Candlelight: Hip-Hop on Strings
  Trinity United Methodist Church , 1820 Broadway , Denver
  8:45 pm

Saturday December 27

• Candy Cane Course - Denver
  Westfield Village Park , 11550 Wolff St , Westminster
  9:00 am
• The Dinner Detective True Crime Murder Mystery Dinner Show - Denver, CO on Dec 27 , 2025
  Embassy Suites by Hilton Denver Downtown Convention Center , 1420 Stout St , Denver
  6:00 pm
• Candlelight: 80s Rock Anthems
  Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum , 7711 E Academy Blvd , Denver
  6:15 pm

📣 Denver Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday December 22

• No School-Winter Break
  Beach Court Denver, CO 80221
  8:00 am
• Toddler Time
  Wheat Ridge Library , 5475 West 32nd Avenue , Wheat Ridge
  10:15 am

Tuesday December 23

• Let's Dance
  Wheat Ridge Library , 5475 West 32nd Avenue , Wheat Ridge
  10:15 am

Friday December 26

• Cuentacuentos
  Edgewater Library , 5843 West 25th Avenue , Edgewater
  10:15 am

Have we missed something on our calendar? Add an event yourself! As always, before attending confirm event details to ensure accuracy.

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Whole Foods posted a job opening for Overnight Grocery Team Member (Stocker, Inventory, Receiving) - Full Time in Denver. Apply here.
• Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. posted a job opening for Deli Manager in Denver. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Denver here.

🗞 Nearby News

Commerce City

• Source: Defensive Midfielder Hamzat Ojediran to Sign with Colorado Rapids (burgundywave.com)

Aurora

• Colorado teen, 16, shot and killed overnight in Aurora (cbsnews.com)
• Aurora Smoky Hill HS grad Bowen Yang to depart SNL mid-season (sentinelcolorado.com)
• Daily Horoscope for December 21, 2025 (denverpost.com)

Ok Denver! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

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