Two of our valley's biggest events kick off this week, so I hope you're ready to celebrate two things we love: mid-century ...

• Gov. John Hickenlooper said, “This is the best day of the year,” on the day that Miss Loveland Valentine Ellen Colpitts visited the Colorado Capitol, a tradition for each year’s Miss Valentine.

Not long before he was gunned down by the Chicago police in 1969, Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party and chair of its Illinois chapter, observed, “You can’t build no revolution ...