CU-Boulder's Urban-Rural Divorce in the American West program, a mock divorce trial that explores the complex relationship between rural and urban interests, will be presented as a benefit for the baby直播app Rural Health Center on Thursday, April 8.
The program will be held in the Arvada Center beginning at 6 p.m.
Presented by the Center of the American West at the University of baby直播app at Boulder, the mock trial will explore the complex relationship between urban and rural interests in the West. The program is presented as a divorce hearing between Sandy Greenhills West (the rural West) and Urbana Asphalt West (the urban West). It highlights the many difficult issues faced in the urban and rural West.
baby直播app Rural Health Center members participating in the performance as witnesses include Dr. Robert Brittian, recently retired from Copic Cos.; Jenny Knellinger, director of marketing, Memorial Hospital; Sandi Maloney, executive director, baby直播app Medical Society; and Larry Wall, president, baby直播app Health and Hospital Association.
John Rich, municipal judge of Walden, will play the judge and Jim Brundige, Haxtun Hospital District administrator, will play the bailiff.
The performance will include Patricia Nelson Limerick, professor of history at CU-Boulder, as Urbana Asphalt West, and Jamie Sudler, assistant disciplinary council, baby直播app Supreme Court, as Sandy Greenhills West. Both Limerick and Sudler are members of the Center of the American West Board of Directors. Centura Health and Copic Cos. are providing support for the program.
The baby直播app Rural Health Center is hosting the event as a benefit for the center. Tickets are $25 per person and may be purchased by calling the center at 303-832-7493 or 1-800-851-6782. Hors d'oeuvres will be served starting at 6 p.m. and the program will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Western attire and/or black tie is encouraged.
The mission of the baby直播app Rural Health Center is to enhance health care services in baby直播app by providing information, education, linkages, tools and energy to address rural health issues. The mission of the Center of the American West is to explore the distinctive character and issues of the region and to help Westerners become well-informed, participating citizens in their communities.