Q&A
Patty Hasty serves on Castle Rock’s 125th Anniversary Committee, which will mark the event with the dedication of a “living time capsule” at Town Hall, 7 p.m. Dec. 12. Hasty has lived in Castle Rock since 1962. She is a bookkeeper for an engineering company and a past president of the Castle Rock Fraternal Order of Eagles. The town’s official anniversary celebration was in August.
Q. How did you get involved with the 125th anniversary celebration?
A. Judy Crenshaw, the deputy county clerk who’s a very good friend of mine, asked me to. We were on the 100th Anniversary Committee together and had a wonderful time, so I said yes. I’m very active in the Eagles Club, and the Eagles Club was very active in the 100th. We sold T-shirts that said, “I’m a Piece of the Rock,” so we did that again for the 125th.
Q. Why a time capsule?
A. It’s a living time capsule, which isn’t just a box you look up somewhere and forget. It’s a coffee table that has all these pictures of the 125th celebration under glass, and it has drawers where you can put all the historic things. People can walk right into Town Hall anytime and look at it, and you see how it was that day. It’s a learning thing – kids can learn from it, grown-ups can look at it and remember how things were.
Q. What do you think this time capsule will say about Castle Rock in 2006?
A. What it says about Castle Rock is people still care about their town. We are still a small community. Even though we have grown so much, we’re still a very tight community. I think you can see that in the capsule: People were downtown, enjoying their community with their families and friends, all the smiles on people’s faces. They love their town and they love its history.
Q. What does valuing history say about a community?
A. I come from a family like that, where we talk about the old days and the people who came before. It just brings back memories for people. This is what our history is about, and what the town is about now. It’s kind of still that way, kind of small, kind of homey, and, hopefully, we won’t ever get too far from that.
Q. In doing this history project, has anything surprised you?
A. A lot of people didn’t know the town had a railroad history, and the reason this town is here is because of the railroad. I was happy how many people showed up for the 125th anniversary.
REGIONAL NOTES
AURORA
Senior Center classes on the move
Classes and programs at the Aurora Senior Center will relocate to temporary facilities for several months beginning Dec. 15, when the center closes for remodeling.
The center, at 30 Del Mar Circle, will reopen next spring.
For more information, call 303-739-7950 or log onto www.auroragov.org/recreation.
FRUITA
Parade, Santa, supper and song
Fruita will usher in Christmas with a Parade of Lights, a concert, a chili supper and a visit from Santa on Saturday.
Santa will be at the downtown Civic Center 2-5 p.m. and the Girl Scouts will sponsor a mitten tree, where donated mittens and gloves can be hung.
At 4:30 p.m. a cantata will be performed at the United Methodist Church, 405 E. Aspen. From 5-8 p.m. a chili supper will be served. The Parade of Lights through downtown will commence at 5:30 p.m.
For more information, call 970-858-3894.
