GIVE 'EM A BADGE

Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper are among those being honored by the Boy Scouts for contributions to the Hispanic community. Of the 57,000 Scout members in the Denver area, 17 percent are Hispanic.

Also honored at the "Scouting . . . Vale la Pena" (meaning Scouting is worth the effort) award luncheon will be Christine Arguello, of the University of Colorado; Lola Salazar, of the Salazar Family Foundation; and the Mi Casa Resource Center for Women. They were chosen for helping develop and implement Hispanic youth opportunities.

The event raises money for the Scoutreach program that helps reach out to youths about the opportunities in Scouting and to help youths cover expenses in Scouting.

HE SAID IT

"I'm hoping this sends a message to police departments around Colorado that the constitution is the highest law of the state and voters put it in there for a reason."

Robert Corry Jr. on the court-mandated return of marijuana to a Fort Collins couple NEWS 5

GOING EVEN HIGHER THAN COLORADO

Astronaut Scott Parazynski performed a history-making repair last month while floating outside the International Space Station.

He considers Evergreen one of his two hometowns (the other being Palo Alto, Calif.).

That's no automatic choice for the widely traveled astronaut and physician: He was born in Little Rock, Ark.; attended junior high and high school in Senegal, Lebanon, Iran and Greece; got his college education in Palo Alto; served his medical internship in Boston; and had spent 22 months in an emergency- medicine residency program in Denver when he was chosen for the Astronaut Corps.

Source: NASA