West Side Recorder Volume 6 No 11

              WEST SIDE RECORDER
Volume 6—Number 11
One-Ways
Still Threaten
West Side residents have
continued to oppose the city's
plan for a bridge over Cherry
Creek at 12th Avenue and
for a one-way system along
11th and 12th Avenues.
On March 4 opponents of
the one-way system presented their case to the Denver
Planning Board.
Waldo Benavidez, speaking for the West Side Coalition, pointed out that "Cars
using the one-ways on the
West Side are not West Side
cars, yet they raise the pollution level and make the
neighborhood noisier and
less safe for children."
Benavidez said that 11th
and 12th one-ways would
pour traffic into the area of
Greenlee School.
"The system would be," he
concluded, "no more than
corridors built through our
community for suburbanites
to get to and from the downtown area."
The Denver Planning
Board has announced that it
will make a recommendation
concerning the one-ways on
March 17. This will be the
first time the Board has ever
made a recommendation on
traffic circulation plans.
After the Board makes its
recommendation it will be up
to the mayor to stop the oneway system and up to the
City Council to rebudget the
money now allotted for a
12th Avenue bridge.
The subject of the bridge
and one-ways will probably
be considered at a City Council meeting late in March or
early in April.
West Side residents who
wish to sign petitions opposing the one-ways may obtain
them at Auraria Community
Center; the Food Supplement
Distribution Center, 6th and
Monthly Newspaper of the West Side, Denver, Colorado
March, 1970
West Side Directors
Resign in March
THE WEST SIDE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION has begun
a campaign to clear the neighborhood of all junk cars, such as the
two pictured above. For more photos and information on how to
get rid of these safety hazards, see pages 2 and 4 of this issue.
Coalition Elects Officers
At their regular meeting
on February 17, the West
Side Coalition elected new
officers and adopted by-laws.
Waldo Benavidez was
elected chairman and Richard Castro was selected as
vice-chairman. Jim Hall was
picked as secretary and Bal
Chavez is the new treasurer.
The by-laws which were
adopted define the composition of the Board of Directors so as to insure that a
majority of the directors will
be residents of the community.
1970 summer recreation
jobs have been announced
by the Department of Parks
and Recreation. There are
openings at Lincoln Park for
a pool manager, lifeguards,
and pool attendants. Anyone
who is interested may call
297-2151 for more information and job qualifications.
Galapago; West Side Coalition, 1110 Mariposa; St. Joseph's; and Inner City Parish,
9th and Galapago. Another
thing to do is to call your
Councilman, Ed Burke. His
number is 722-2626.
A Neighborhood Planning
Committee made up entirely
of community people is also
provided for in the Coalition's new by-laws.
The directors of two West
Side organizations have resigned from their positions
during the month of March.
Leo Rodriguez, director of
the West Side Action Center,
1042 Santa Fe Drive, will
leave his job effective March
29. Gilbert Martinez left his
position as director of Centro
Cultural, 935 11th Ave., on
March 14.
Rodriguez announced his
decision to resign at the
March 9 meeting of the West
Side Action Council. He said
that one of his reasons for
resigning was to accept a
position as a management
analyst with Denver Opportunity's Department of Program Planning and Evaluation. This post is an advance^
ment for him.
Rodriguez also stated that
he was resigning "to afford
the West Side Action Council,
Inc., the opportunity to employ a Center Director who
will provide the necessary
direction under the proposed
delegate agency status".
Miss Helen Lucero, community developer at the center, will be performing the
duties of director until a new
one is assigned.
Martinez is leaving his job
at Centro Cultural for personal reasons after serving
as its director for over a
year. He has made no definite plans for future employment, but says that he would
just like to "relax a little"
after putting in many long
hours during the last year.
Bal Chavez ivill become
acting director of Centro
until a new director is hired.
DOLORES HUERTA of Delano, California, emphasizes a point during her speech given at a
February 28 banquet in her honor. She spoke to a capacity crowd of nearly 700 people who gathered
to hear the latest news from the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) about the
grape boycott. Dolores Huerta is vice-president of UFWOC. The banquet which was held at the
Labor Center, 360 Acoma St, was sponsored by the West Side Coalition. A dance followed the
dinner and speeches.   Music was provided by Los Rebeldes.
WEST SIDE ACTION COUNCIL
SUPPORTS GRAPE BOYCOTT
RUBEN LEAL (left), chairman of the West Side Improvement
Association's award committee, presents the group's first business
improvement award to John and Ray Zick, owners of Zick's Market, 1301 Santa Fe Drive. The Zicks have recently remodeled a
lot of the store and have rebuilt the front The awards wUl be
given monthly by WSIA to West Side businesses and property owners who are trying to improve or keep up their properly.
Tomas Archuleta, president of the West Side Action
Council, recently released the
following news from the
action council:
• The West Side Action
Council supports the grape
boycott organized by the
United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee (UFWOC)
and will join with UFWOC in
picketing against Safeway
stores on March 21.
• The West Side Action
Council sent a letter through
Rep. Ben Klein to the State
House of Representatives opposing the Auraria Higher
Education complex bill.
Archuleta also explained the
procedure for selecting a new
action center director to replace
Leo Rodriguez, who is resigning.
The position announcement is
"in-house" through March 19.
This means that anyone currently  in  the  Denver  Opportunity
(DO) organization may apply
for the job before it is opened
to the public.
The job announcement wiU be
published "out-of-house" until
the end of March if there is no
one "in-house" qualified for the
position.
Anyone interested in knowing the requirements for the job
may can the action center at
534-5141 for details or stop by
the center for a copy of the job
description.