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City Council Mayor Robert P. Muckle 303.981.0697 bobm@louisvilleco.gov • Ward I Jay Keany 303.665.4818 jayk@louisvilleco.gov Chris Leh 303.668.3916 leh@louisvilleco.gov • Ward II Susan Loo 303.665.4945 susanl@louisvilleco.gov Jeff Lipton 303.665.9776 lipton@louisvilleco.gov • Ward III Hank Dalton 303.926.9930 hankd@louisvilleco.gov Ashley Stolzmann 303.570.9614 ashleys@louisvilleco.gov City Manager Malcolm Fleming 303.335.4532 malcolmf@louisvilleco.gov City Council Meetings are held the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 7:00 PM at City Hall, 749 Main Street. To find out in which Ward you live, please call 303.335.4536. www.LouisvilleCO.gov Summer 2015 Community Update This summer, Louisville residents and surrounding communities can once again enjoy swinging their clubs at Coal Creek Golf Course. The City invites you to help us celebrate the Grand Re-Opening of Coal Creek on Saturday, June 27, 10 AM to 4 PM The day will be full of fun activities for the whole family, golfers and non-golfers alike. There will be a Hole-in-One competi- tion, Longest Drive contest, and course tours. On Sunday, June 28, golfers have their first chance to play a round on the redesigned course as part of a fundraising event. Starting Monday, June 29, Coal Creek Golf Course will be open for regular play. Besides reopening for golf, Coal Creek will return as host of the Fourth of July fireworks this year. The course closed following damage from the September 2013 flood. Since then, City staff and Landscapes Unlimited (LU) have worked tirelessly to rebuild. The course has witnessed significant renovation. Landscape crews have rebuilt 14 greens; constructed fairways and tee boxes, as well as sand bunkers; relined ponds; installed new irrigation; reseeded and sodded the course; repaired the parking lot; History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou I recently read The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Without giving away too much of the story (it is really good, I recommend it) the author poses the question of whether it is better to remember or better to forget the wrongs of the past. Can forgetting these wrongs create lasting peace? Will remembering these wrongs create a cycle of violence and revenge or must wrongs be remembered and faced to bring lasting peace and justice? This fall Louisville will remember an unfortunate event in our past. In October 1915 Marshall Victor Helburg was shot and killed when he stopped a street vendor to check his license. He is still the only Louisville law enforcement officer to be killed in the line of duty. A committee including members of the family, members of the Police Department, and other members of the community has been working for several years to recognize Marshall Helburg’s sacrifice. The efforts of the committee will come to fruition in the form of the “Louisville Law Enforcement Memorial at Helburg Park” to be built on land on the northeast side of the Police Department. The City will provide the land and some of the funding, but much of the project will be built with private donations. A ground breaking ceremony occurred in May. The plan is to dedicate the Memorial on the 100th anniversary of the Marshall’s death on October 28, 2015. We are very fortunate, in my view, to have an excellent Police Department in Louis- A Message from the Mayor Continued on page 2 Coal Creek Golf Course Reopening June 27 Continued on page 3