The Urban Dweller: A Publication by Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods Inc.

              A PUBLICATION BY
CAPITOL HILL UNITED NEIGHBORHOODS
1290 WILLIAMS
DENVER, COLORADO 80218
PHONEi  388-2716
THE URBAN DWELLED June so
Aging and Downtown
Provide Focus
for General Meeting
CHUN's next general meeting,
on Thursday, June 26, will offer
a double feature.  The first part,
from 6t30  to 7i^5  P«m. will be a
community forum on aging. After
a refreshment break, the second
part will continue the discussion
begun at April's general meeting,
"Downtown Denver. Good Neighbor
or Nemesis?" The meeting will
be held at the Community Center
Annex, 1290 Williams.
At the April general meeting,
a wide range of issues concerning
downtown and its relation to
Capitol Hill were identified.
Those included traffic into downtown, the plight of low-income
residents, downtown encroachment
on our neighborhood and
attracting people to downtown.
June's meeting will pull those
concerns together into a draft
CHUN policy statement on downtown, to be voted on at a future
meeting.
The community forum on aging,
one of some 300 meetings throughout the state, is the first step
toward looking at the needs and
assets of older persons, in
preparation for the 1980
Governor's Conference on Aging
and the 3rd Decennial White House
Conference on Aging in 1981.
Leading the discussion will
be Capitol Hill's own champion of
elders and long-time CHUN member,
Ethlyn Christensen and Jan Moore-
Kirkland, coordinator of the
Governor's Conference and CHUN
Vice-President for Membership.
Capitol Hill has long had
the highest concentration of
over-65 residents inDenver. At
the June 26 meeting, we will see
how far the neighborhood's seniors
have come since the last thorough
study of their situation, done in
1967. Additionally, new
challenges for CHUN in this
important area may be identified.
If you cannot attend the
meeting but would like your
opinions to be included, call
Jan Moore-Kirkland (839-3671) for
a brief questionaire.
New Image Recommended
for CHUN  Communications
An ad hoc communications
committee met on June 5 at Joyce
and Bill Thome's home.  The group
reviewed our current communications situation and will make
several recommendations to the
CHUN board. As we have discontinued our prior arrangement
of having our newsletter published in Life on Capitol Hill, we
are challenged with the task of
publishing the newsletter ourselves with greatly increased
publication costs..
First, the group set forth
what it believes to be the purposes of a CHUN newsletter1
1) to reach members, particularly inactive ones
cont. p. 5