In journalism, '30' means the end. But after thirty years, it's not easy to let somebody go.
Sandy Widener, a co-founder ofand our original managing editor, went on to great things — but the greatest might have been the very extended family she created with John Parr, a civic leader; together, they influenced every corner of Denver and beyond. In December 2007, Sandy, John and their daughter Chase were killed in a car accident while driving through Wyoming to visit Sandy's parents; their second daughter, Katy Parr, survived.
John Parr was a major reason that Colorado was so very interesting, but we didn't know it at the time.with little money and less sense. For the first issue — most of whose copies never made it out of our garage because we hadn't quite finished setting up a circulation system — we reported on TV weathermen and the energy boom and, still packing them in on Colorado Boulevard.
And then the comet found her orbit. John Parr had made a name for himself as the smart-growth strategist who'd stopped the Olympics from coming to Colorado, then helped Dick Lamm get elected governor of Colorado. By the late '70s, he was heading Lamm's Front Range Project, looking at the future of the metropolitan area. Sandy went to interview him.office, tittering and hugging herself, her eyes crinkling into stars.
"It's not the end of everything, but whatever happens next does not take the form of these goofy little bodies and personalities we're stuck with now. I don't think we'll come back to Earth; there are too many other interesting places to be. Why would you think that the best thing would be to come back here and be on Earth again? It's kind of like saying, I'm afraid to go up the block, afraid to leave the neighborhood.
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