The SCFD board Monday approved 2007 funding grants for cultural organizations.
The distributions were as follows:
Voters in the seven-county metro area created the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District in 1988 to collect taxes to support scientific and cultural organizations.
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LAKEWOOD
Turns out, 4 kids did not touch rabid bat
The scramble to find four children who may have been exposed to a rabid bat has ended happily.
Jefferson County public-health officials made up fliers Monday after a group of five children threw rocks at a bat and struck it Thursday and one of the children touched the animal.
While that child – a 9-year-old boy visiting from Pennsylvannia – has begun treatment, health officials wanted to talk with the parents of the other four children.
The fliers were posted in the Willow Lakeshore apartment complex near South Kipling Parkway and West Jewell Avenue where the children encountered the bat.
“Within five minutes, we found the parents of the four kids,” said Nancy Braden, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Department of Health and Environment.
The four children are between the ages of 3 and 9. Braden said the four didn’t touch the bat.
Online: Learn what to do if you’re bitten by a bat, and find tips for preventing the spread of rabies.
FORT COLLINS
CSU gets $3.7 million in grants to study TB
Colorado State University received $3.7 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Tuesday, to help scientists develop new treatments for tuberculosis, a sometimes deadly lung disease.
Two grants – one for $2.6 million and another for $1.1 million – will help CSU faculty streamline drug-testing methods, and study the basic biology of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis has been considered a global health emergency by the World Health Organization since 1993.
Increasingly, the bacteria that cause TB have developed resistance to antibiotics used to treat the disease, and physicians haven’t had a new drug to fight TB in several decades, CSU said Tuesday.
The $2.6 million grant will be co-directed by Dean Crick, an associate professor and microbiologist in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
That money will be spent to study how tuberculosis bacteria grow and develop in the laboratory, compared with inside a human or animal host.
DENVER
Officer arrested over conflict with wife
A Denver police sergeant has been arrested for investigation of assault and menacing after a confrontation with his wife in Arapahoe County, officials said.
John Witkowski, 43, allegedly struck his wife in the face with a gun at about 7 p.m. Sunday, said Bruce Williamson, spokesman for the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office.
He said Witkowski also is accused of pointing the gun at his brother-in-law.
John White, Denver police spokesman, said the department is awaiting formal charges before taking any disciplinary action.
Witkowski is set to be advised of charges today in Arapahoe County District Court, said Kathleen Walsh, spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office.
