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Good day Wheat Ridge! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How will Wheat Ridge’s new ‘future’ intersections change your daily drive?
  • Why a Wheat Ridge arrest led to a federal wrongful-death lawsuit
  • Will later firefighter shifts change emergency response in Wheat Ridge?

Also on today's calendar: International Youth Ballet's The Nutcracker and 6 more events.

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Today's riddle: What did one tuna say to the other after getting caught stealing files from work? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

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  • Thursday: Partly sunny and warm, with a high of 65 and low of 32 degrees.
  • Friday: Sun and areas of high clouds, temps: high: 59, low: 41.
  • Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high of 61 and low of 34 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• ‘Intersection of the future': Continuous flow intersections open in Wheat Ridge (kdvr.com) — New continuous flow intersections are now open along Wadsworth in Wheat Ridge, funded in part by a voter-approved sales tax and designed to ease congestion and cut serious crashes. With more than 45,000 cars using the corridor daily, the project also adds sidewalks, bike lanes, and upgraded underground utilities to modernize some intersections that hadn’t been improved since the 1950s.
   

• Family of woman who died in Jefferson County Detention Facility files lawsuit (cpr.org) — Wheat Ridge police originally arrested 27-year-old Ashley Raisbeck, whose family is now suing over her 2023 death while jailed at the Jefferson County Detention Facility. The federal lawsuit alleges jail medical staff ignored her allergy and gave excessive doses of an antibiotic, while investigators and the sheriff’s office maintain her death was from natural causes linked to an intestinal condition.
   

• West Metro Fire Rescue changes schedule to give firefighters more sleep (9news.com) — West Metro Fire Rescue, which serves Wheat Ridge, is pushing firefighter shift start times from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. starting in January to improve sleep, alertness, and safety. The change follows a detailed sleep study on 166 firefighters and will be reevaluated with new data after the new schedule takes effect.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Thursday December 11
  • Closed for Private Event
    Jefferson County, CO Calendar
    8:00 am
  • GED Tutoring & Test Prep
    Community Table , 8555 W 57th Ave , Arvada
    9:00 am
  • Library for All: Interactive Program for Teens and Adults with Disabilities
    Edgewater Library , 5843 West 25th Avenue , Edgewater
    12:00 pm
  • Cybersecurity Awareness
    Standley Lake Library , 8485 Kipling Street , Arvada
    1:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Arrest Made Following Early-Morning Burglary at Atomic Games
    At 4:20 a.m. on December 8, deputies responded to Atomic Games on Youngfield Street after the business owner received a camera alert showing two… (Nextdoor )
  • Deputies recently stopped a shoplifter who seemed to be working overtime… at being at least 16 different people.
    Inside her bag were multiple stolen IDs, credit cards, Social Security cards, and more - along with a bag of hypodermic needles, drugs, paraphernalia… (Nextdoor )
  • American Baptist Homes of the Midwest posted a job opening for Housekeeper in Wheat Ridge. Apply here.
  • McDonald's posted a job opening for Crew Member Position $17.00-$19.75/hour in Wheat Ridge. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Wheat Ridge here.

🗞 Nearby News

Lakewood

  • Nicole Harrison will give you the shirt on your back (denvergazette.com)
  • Colorado neighbors push for increased oversight of potential land development near Ralston Creek in Arvada (cbsnews.com)
  • Colorado Gives Day is Tuesday, more than $500,000,000 raised since 2010 (koaa.com)

Golden

  • Formerly homeless man details success story six years after gruesome attack (kdvr.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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