DID YOU KNOW
he ALIE Foundation
Bloodhounds were recently used in the search for Aaroné Thompson, a 6-year-old Aurora girl. Maggie, one of the bloodhounds used in the search, was donated by the ALIE Foundation, a nonprofit organization incorporated in 1993 by Richard and Letizia Berrelez in memory of their granddaughter, Alie Berrelez.
Alie disappeared May 18, 1993, while playing outside her Englewood apartment. After a massive search, her body was found four days later more than a dozen miles away in Deer Creek Canyon. An Aurora police bloodhound named Yogi led authorities there after tracking the girl’s scent from the apartment complex.
Shortly after Alie’s abduction, Richard and Letizia founded the nonprofit ALIE Foundation. ALIE stands for Abduction, Lost, Innocent, Enough. The foundation works to educate children, parents and the public about child safety. It also raises funds to provide bloodhounds to police and sheriff’s departments around the country to help find missing children and assist in homicide cases.
For more information on the foundation visit www.alie.org/about.html.
Sources: Richard Berrelez, The ALIE Foundation (www.alie.org/index.html); The Denver Post
REGIONAL NOTES
LARIMER COUNTY
Review panel volunteers sought
Larimer County is seeking volunteers to serve on its Citizen Review Panel.
The panel reviews and makes recommendations concerning grievances of alleged inappropriate conduct by county Department of Human Services personnel, in the performance of their duties under the Children’s Code.
Residents at least 18 years of age are invited to apply. Applicants should have personal or professional knowledge and experience with children and may not be employees or agents of the state or county departments of human services.
The deadline to apply is Friday. For more information, call the county commission office at 970-498-7010.
GOLDEN
Historic church celebrates repairs
An 1860s-style celebration of preservation work on Calvary Episcopal Church will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, demonstration of 19th-century construction tools, food and tours.
The church, at 1320 Arapahoe St., is the only surviving 1860s Gothic Revival church on the Front Range. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
