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WORDS Continued from page 16 BEAR WISE

entitlements and Howdy, folks – Beary Bear here. Your local bear
platting for the wise expert because.... well, I’m a bear.
master plan for
THE CANYONS Hot dog it’s almost summer! Just
on the east side of thinking about the season makes me
I-25 across from drool for brats and burgers grilling un-
Castle Pines Val-
ley and now plans the land development commencement for attended on your barbeque grill.

2018 and housing start for 2019. The third major development Living in your neighborhood is a new
is LEGACY VILLAGE, the 177-unit senior living complex at adventure every day. Not only do I
Castle Pines Parkway and Monarch Boulevard which is under get to feast on what nature abundant-
way with a year-end completion target. ly provides for us local black bears
throughout the season, but we also get
DENVER – A little outside of the I-25south corridor, but the to sample new and sometimes exotic
new gigantic, 1,000,000 square
foot AMAZON FULLFILL- foods accidently provided by you fine
MENT CENTER is nearing folks. Remember, feeding us intentionally is against the laws of
Colorado and nature.
completion on the east side of
Denver in the Prologis 70 indus- A local resident reported the recent theft of her bag of special
trial park located at the northwest diet cat food that was left by the delivery person outside the
corner of I-70 and I-470. With garage door during her absence. In my defense, I left the re-
another 452,000 square foot “sor- mains of the five-pound bag with the top chewed off under a
tation center” in Aurora’s Ma- tree about 50 feet from the delivery spot. I had only consumed
jestic Commercenter, the com- about a third of the contents when my belly began to make this
bined 1 1⁄2 million square feet strange purring noise, and I had a weird urge to play with a ball
of space will be able to provide of string. I don’t even like string. The purring noise reminded
one-day, and in some cases, me of the time I swallowed a cell phone I found abandoned on a
two-hour delivery of items (in- picnic table. I kept hearing a buzzing noise followed by a voice
cluding Sundays) from its on- telling me I owed money to the IRS and needed to pay up. For-
site stock of over 20 million
items. Why go out when you can do it on your computer and tunately, it stopped when the battery died. Everything always
comes out fine in the end – so to speak.
never leave the house? Can’t wait to see an Amazon drone
drop off a package in Larkspur. The building will be completed
this summer and will employ 1,000 and should enhancew the
already quick delivery service they have been providing to our
area. And if that is not enough, they are also in the permit stage
to add a 19,000 square foot distribution center in Boulder at a
cost of $1 million.

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Walt Korinke
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I have also recently discovered little white wooden boxes scat-
tered throughout the neighborhoods. On select mornings, these
wooden goodie treasure troves are packed with plastic contain-
ers full of milk, pounds of butter and one of my all times fa-
vorites – chicken eggs by the dozen. Everything is so thinly
wrapped and easily accessible -THANK YOU. This is way bet-
ter than garbage day! Of course being the bear I am, when I
come across such a calorie generous donation, I eat the entire
contents in one sitting. I may be lots of things, but ungrateful is
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