30 years ago – May 3, 1985
May 1st has come and gone and there is no trash compactor in Black Hawk and Gilpin County Commissioner Leslie Williams is “upset” about it. May 1st was the target date to have it open for business. Power has been brought to the site, but a concrete pad has not yet been poured and there must be one before a compactor can be brought in and placed. Clear Creek Disposal, Inc., which runs the county’s trash sites, will be pouring the pad, but Williams was quick to point out it is not the company’s fault it has not been done. The company could not do it until plans for the site were received. Williams said the county engineer had sent the plans, but had to send a second set since Clear Creek Disposal never received them. For now people will need to use the compactors in Colorado Sierra and Rollinsville.
Gilpin County Sheriff Rosetta Anderle, after investigating a suspicious incident in Dory Lakes Subdivision on April 13, requested the county road crew’s assistance in digging up an area. The incident was reported by a teenager in Dory Lakes who reported seeing two unknown men bury something on her parents’ property. The teenager told Anderle that the property did belong to her parents. After digging up approximately one and a half feet of earth, Anderle reported that a dog had been buried at the site. The sheriff observed a sore on the side of the dog which possibly was “cancer.” The teenager said “We don’t want it left on our property.” The dog was taken from the site and later cremated. An adjoining property owner in Dory Lakes later called the sheriff’s department and identified himself as Dennis Hopkins. He wanted to know where his dog was and what right the sheriff had to come onto his property and dig up the dog. Hopkins was allegedly screaming and hollering. Approximately a half hour later the father of the teenager called the sheriff’s office and alleged “that Dennis and Geraldine Hopkins were just in his house, pushing his kids around and yelling threats.” According to the report, he said he would shoot Dennis Hopkins if he came back.
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