Kevin Beaty

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Chanrith and Chanbo Oum fled Cambodia in 1981, in the aftermath of the genocide brought by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. When they arrived in Colorado, they immediately knew they needed to build a place for their burgeoning refugee community to set down roots and grow together in this new country. They erected Buddhist temples along the Front Range through the next decades, nurturing tight bonds that helped them solidify their place here.

2 weeks ago | denverite.com | Kevin Beaty

Aurora’s Dayton Street Day Labor Center was unusually quiet for a few weeks this year, after federal raids drove away immigrants who came for help applying for work authorization and finding jobs. It was a worrying sight for Dayton Street’s staff — especially with Tax Day approaching. The organization had been preparing to launch free clinics to help their clients file returns. Even immigrants without work authorization are required to pay.

3 weeks ago | denverite.com | Kevin Beaty

Molly Brown is remembered today for surviving the Titanic’s run-in with an iceberg in 1912. But the keepers of her “unsinkable” legacy want to remind the world that her role in the aftermath of that disaster was so much more active. Brown, a wealthy socialite, realized the crew and impoverished immigrant passengers who made it off the doomed vessel would be left with ruined lives without help.

3 weeks ago | denverite.com | Kevin Beaty

A few weeks ago, an unusual question popped up on Reddit:“Did someone lose a Partridge in Wash Park?”Attached was a photo, sure enough, of a very round little bird with black-striped feathers, a bold black band across its ping-pong ball head, and a curved orange beak. A few Redditors correctly identified the bird as a chukar partridge. Lots of people cracked “pear tree” jokes. We decided to investigate. The bird is not native to Colorado, but they do live here.

3 weeks ago | denverite.com | Kevin Beaty

Denver news5 min. readAmy Stafford has been playing rugby at Glendale’s Infinity Park for years. But for years, her team was relegated to astroturf up the hill from the facility’s premiere field. Her old team, the Colorado Gray Wolves, were part of an amateur league; players had to pay dues to participate, and they couldn’t scrum on the lawn. All that has changed. On Saturday, Stafford returned to Glendale under the pink and black banner of the new Denver Onyx rugby club.