Your weekly field guide to Littleton, Ken Caryl, and the SW Denver foothills

If Holiday's Evening at the Littleton Museum is on your December list, general-admission tickets go on sale this morning at 9, on the museum's page or at the front desk. It's Sunday, December 13, 5 to 8 PM, at 6028 South Gallup Street. Adults are $15 and kids 2 to 16 are $7.

Every 90 days at Redline Athletics, the kids get tested. Vertical jump, 20-yard dash, pull-ups, a few others, and then it's back to training with a number to beat. Jonathan and Nissa Fuller are building the youth training center at Kipling and Chatfield for athletes 8 to 18, new to a sport or already good at it. Sessions start every hour, and the coaches split each one into smaller groups by age and experience. The work is speed and agility, strength and power, and the injury-prevention and recovery pieces. Their sign-up page says they're coming in December.

Fill out the short Learn More form at redlineathletics.com/location/littleton and they'll reach out about founding memberships.

Jeffco Public Schools' Ballot Issue 5A is behind by 5 votes. It's the mill levy override, $73 million for teacher and staff pay. The Colorado Secretary of State's results page has it at 150,892 yes and 150,897 no across the whole district. Last week I printed a 377-vote gap. That was Jefferson County alone, and this count includes the district's voters in Broomfield. The district's other measure, 5B, is behind by 7,563.

Jefferson County's results page says voters who needed to cure their ballots, and military and overseas voters, had until November 12, and that results will be updated once on November 13, by the end of the day. That's today, after this reaches you, and the unofficial results are on the ballot page.

Devra Ashby, the district's executive director of communications, wrote to me Monday. The November 4 letter I quoted last week went out, she said, when "the margin of 5A failing was much wider and seemingly overnight, the results shifted." She also wrote, "Jeffco respects and accepts the will of the voters. That is regardless of the official outcome."

If 5A fails in the end, Ashby wrote, there will still be a deficit of at least $13 million that district leadership has to account for as the 2027-28 budget is formed over the coming months. She called it "very likely" that 5A would go into an automatic recount after November 13, and said those results wouldn't be official until December 4.

The South County Bookmobile makes its final stop at the future Deer Creek Library on December 26, 11 AM to 3 PM. Beginning in January, Jefferson County Public Library says, the building and parking lot at 11100 Bradford Road will be closed to the public, and construction starts in early 2027. The returns bin outside comes out December 14. After December 26, holds for that stop go automatically to the holds locker at the Ridge Rec Center on South Ward Street. The locker doesn't take holds borrowed from other libraries (Prospector and Interlibrary Loan) or some oversized holds.

Story Time, Fiber Flair, Mahjong and Fiction Readers stay on Bradford Road through December, and the library hasn't posted where they move after that. The library says its Board of Trustees votes November 19 on the design renderings and the guaranteed maximum price, the ceiling on what construction can cost. Its Deer Creek manager told me last month that full service comes sometime in 2028.

Tonight, November 13, 5 to 7 PM: ROX Arts Gallery's Gratitude & Gathering art show and reception, 7301 South Santa Fe Drive, Suite 222, in Aspen Grove. It's free, and the gallery says its artists will have gift ideas out for early holiday shopping.

Tomorrow, November 14, 10 AM to 3 PM: Break Bread's Crafty for a Cause at the East Community Center, 5933 South Fairfield Street in the City of Littleton. Drop in and decorate the dishes and serving pieces the group uses at its free weekly community meals. The suggested donation is $45, and Break Bread says no one will be turned away. It's the group's first fundraiser, for its 9-year anniversary.

Thursday, November 19, 6 PM: David Ocelotl Garcia speaks at the Littleton Museum, which has an exhibit on his public art. Doors open at 5:30 and it's free.

Saturday, November 21, 10 AM to 5 PM: Ken-Caryl Ranch's Merry Market & Howliday Lights at the Ranch House on Continental Divide, a makers market that's free whether you're a resident or not. The Howliday Dog Parade is at 4:15 and the tree lighting is around 5.

Stone Cafe is coming to Waterstone Church, at 5890 South Alkire Street. Stepping Stone Support Center, just down the road from the church, serves adults with developmental disabilities. It's partnering with the church to open the cafe as an extension of its CO-OP program, a business owned and managed by its participants. The grand opening and ribbon cutting is Saturday, December 12, at 9:30 AM, at the church's south entrance.

The Berry Culture is a kiosk coming to Southwest Plaza, with strawberry cups and chocolate-dipped skewers on the menu. Its site says it opens this month and doesn't give a day.

Is there a storefront near you with paper in the windows and no sign up yet? Reply and tell me which one.

Meyer Ranch Park, in the Conifer area, is fully closed for forest health work, expected through spring 2027, Jefferson County Open Space says. No fire restrictions are in effect in unincorporated Jefferson County as of today, per the Sheriff's Office.

A 59-unit senior living cooperative is proposed on the Deer Creek Golf Club grounds, southwest of Shaffer Parkway and West Chatfield Avenue. A site development plan was filed with Jefferson County November 5. Village Cooperative's site says it's now taking reservations and posts no prices or move-in date. The zoning already allows up to 70 units of senior housing there, and the county's file says its planning director approves or denies the plan. The golf club's site says it's closed for renovation and looks forward to serving golfers in the spring.

Trash and recycling haulers in the City of Littleton will need a city license. City Council passed the ordinance 7 to 0 on November 3, and it applies inside city limits only, so not Ken Caryl. Applications for 2027 are due December 1 and enforcement starts January 1. Haulers that pick up curbside trash at houses and apartments also have to offer curbside recycling, and haulers already working in the city have until July 1, 2027.

Clement Park can no longer irrigate with reservoir water, because the water level has fallen below the intake for the pump system. That's from the Foothills Park & Recreation District's September minutes, which cite ongoing drought conditions.

Across metro Denver, the Denver Metro Association of Realtors counted 2,748 closings in October, the fewest for an October since 2010. Sellers gave a concession on 65% of the homes that sold, $12,557 on average. My read is that buyers have room to ask, and if you're selling, I'd expect them to.

Around here, a house on West Lake Drive listed June 20 at $550,000 and was cut to $525,000 and later $499,000. It sold November 6 for $490,000, $60,000 under its first price, 139 days after it was first listed.

Redfin shows 215 homes for sale in 80127, ten fewer than last week. Freddie Mac's 30-year rate was 7.11% on November 12.

The warmest day in the forecast is today, 64 and partly sunny, with a low of 38 tonight. Saturday is 55, with patchy fog and then a 27% chance of light rain, so if your weekend plans need it dry, I'd pick Sunday, 55 and sunny. Monday is 62 and sunny, and Tuesday is 62 and mostly sunny. The Weather Service has no alerts out.

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Saturday, November 21: Fresh Thanks grocery boxes from IFCS (Integrated Family Community Services), drive-thru only at Arapahoe Community College. Enter at South Santa Fe Drive and South Sumner Street. IFCS says distribution begins sometime between 11 and 11:30 AM, first come, first served for 500 households, one box each, with no registration needed.

Thursday, November 26, noon to 2 PM: Break Bread hosts a sit-down Thanksgiving meal at the East Community Center.

Take care, and have fun if you're decorating dishes with Break Bread tomorrow.

Joey

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