Zoo Lights 2024 - Elevating Denver
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Take a tour of this years Zoo Lights. The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance celebrates the 34th annual Zoo Lights presented by Your Front Range Toyota Stores and welcomes families back to experience 80 acres of more than 3 million sparkling LED lights, immersive themed light installations, seasonal craft cocktails, warming stations, holiday treats, and much more. DZCA President and CEO Bert Vescolani shares the long history and commitment to wildlife preservation at home and around the world. Get your tickets before they sell out at DenverZoo.org. Happy holidays Denver.
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My kid didn't drink before coming to Denver and starting to work with you. A week or so ago I asked her to come shopping with me (I don't trust her alone at home anymore.) She didn't want to and replied "IDK maybe you'll take me to a rehab or something like that!"
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And what more, finally, is that as I get older, and learn more things, I begin to wonder if maybe I myself am on the autism spectrum. My youngest daughter is, and my other kids also sometimes exhibit different qualities of those that are said to be on the spectrum. It was because of your "certification" in autism awareness that made ME want to come to your place for work. I thought it would be great. Great for me and great for my youngest to have the ability to get out of the house sometimes and go for walks in a nice environment like there, or museums. Turn out there is not a nice environment at all.
Ok next to finally, lol. I can go all out sometimes! lol. I remember the last time I worked at front of house and a young man, an actor, was working there with me. I noticed when he started mocking me. He started mimicking my cadence and movements and he was looking right at me. He knew what he was doing but it seemed to me that he didn't know that I KNEW what he was doing, so to me he looked REALLY STUPID.
And I had a customer treat me with disrespect racially, as well. He read my ethnic last name off the tag I had hanging on my sweatshirt because you had not yet given me a name tag. He said my last name and then made remarks about "Grandma's cooking." My last name ends in SKI. It wasn't funny and he knew it. My grandfather served this country and the world in the most recent World War and did his part to stop naked aggression and suffering while other grandmas like me we being cooked in ovens not unlike the one you have there too.
She's my kid, and we were happy. We were a family when we first went there, now we're not. Now there's hope for me to ever recover financially. NONE. I'm so upset that this has happened that I can't stop crying and that's not good for working anywhere, frankly. Do you know what it's like to have someone you love turn into a stranger? To have a person that you used to trust be untrustable in such a short time? To be assaulted physically and verbally by someone you love and watch as they destroy your property? Do you know what it's like to have that person tell you how they would talk with all the employees there about you and how all the employees there were hating me and how all the employees there felt so sorry for her that I'm her mom? She used to look up to me and now I am nothing.
I wish to God that I had never taken her to the Zoo. I wish to God that I had never gone with her. It was the worst mistake other than moving to Denver that I have made in a long time. I lost my FAMILY and will never recover and it IS in part because of YOU. I'll never forgive you!
IF you had respected me when I was first fired, and begging for you to let her go so that my family could qualify for assistance programs, you had, then she would probably already have her GED and I KNOW that I would not have had to have put at least $1,000 on the credit cards for food. It was probably more than that. I put about 8k on the cards since I was let go, and most if not all of it was ESSENTIAL. MUCH of it would have been spared me if I had access to the programs which we would have qualified for if not for her income (she was and is a MINOR.) YOU WOULDN"T LISTEN. Now, I prepare to move myself into my broken car, vertigo and all, and hope that someday something good happens. However, after this last year in Denver, I have become sure that world is full of demons and nothing good ever happens here.
Now, my kid will have the nerve to tell me "IF I get drunk it's because I let it happen because I know how much I can drink before I get drunk." Let me repeat: I found bottles of alcohol in her closet and she said that an employee at your Zoo gave them to her.
You literally made it impossible for me to work enough hours at the jobs I was trying to get to keep up with what her income was costing me! I know, it's hard for you to understand poor people math, since you aren't on that end of the stick, but it sucks, and you drove my family into the dirt and continue to every time you let her walk in the gate. I was begging for your HELP! NOW MY FAMILY IS IN THE GUTTER! SHE"S NOT HER ANYMORE!
I would not be at all surprised, either, if I learned her paternal family which owes me a LOT OF MONEY was on your donor list.
I was trying to get my kid to COME HOME with me and you let that employee of yours MOUTH OFF TO ME AND SAY "Your not MY MOM! She's coming with ME!" And you did NOTHING to stop it! Nothing to make sure that your employees didn't treat a member of the (then) PUBLIC and the PARENT OF THE KID poorly! You stood and WATCHED as your employee mouthed off to me as I was trying to get my kid HOME! RIGHT AT FRONT OF HOUSE! My daughter looking at me and laughing at me and I'm trying so hard and you condoned her actions and upheld them by letting your employee treat me that way!
When we are gone, and she's alone in this miserable town, you won't care about her either. You never did.
Since that day your two employees which are her friends have routinely brought her back past curfew, often flipping me off from their vehicle. They have egged on arguments between my child and myself, sometimes resulting in my being slapped and giggles exchanged between the girls. I have had many of my paint brushes destroyed. I have had a tv destroyed. I have been hit and grabbed and pushed many times. I have been awakened at 4 am to go get my daughter from where she woke up in an alley after going to a party attended by zoo personel where she was given alcohol and abandoned in an alley turns out just blocks from where CJ lives. CJ had told me that Kiley gave her a ride home from the party but her story changed to "IDK how I got home from the party" once she found out my kid was in the hospital. Another adult employee (don't know her name) reportedly gave my daughter alcoholic beverages which I found in her closet while cleaning up. Your ZOO has ruined our life. I swear, between you, and Amazon and Pueblo Imports I'm kaput.
She was going to get a ged... and go to college, and I was going to start over... lift us up.... but all that happened was I got maxed out and bankrupted and she's not going to get her GED or go to college now and we barely speak. She assaulted me on my birthday.... gave gifts to others (that work at the Zoo) and treated her family horribly over the holiday... and it was our last one that we might ever spend together. I hate you with all I am.
I lost my daughter because of the Denver Zoo. If I see her at all anymore, it's stressed, and she isn't her. We're going homeless. I know the police won't put her in the car when we leave town, though I will make them try. She will insist on staying here with her good friends, from the Zoo. I hate you.
Y'all just drove a wedge and your failure to respect me not only as an employee, when I was one, and to believe things that were not true about me, when I was, and to drive a wedge between my family and me, like you did, and contribute to where we are now.... I will NEVER forgive you for.
You let CJ mouth off to me as I was at front of house, trying to get my child to come home, because you don't like me and it was "only me." If it had been another parent, I feel like you would have encouraged the kid to behave and for my kid to get in the car and go home. But, because it was just me, you let it happen, and since that day, I have had 0 effect at anything with her.