Thank you all for participating in the 2015 Stapletonion Bracket Challenge! It’s all over! Now, we need your prize choices. First place, Bryan D., makes first selection of the prizes below, then second place Maria F., then third place Karla R., and so on. Please contact us ASAP if you are in the top 15 of the pool, and your wish list of prizes. Thank you!
Thank you again to the great companies who donated to the prize pool!
2015 Stapletonion Bracket Challenge Prizes
- Stapleton All Sports: Free mutli-sport summer camp
- Mici: Two of the following: 16″ XL Specialty Pizza & Bottle of Italian Wine
- Happy Cakes: Build a Happy Cake, 8″ two-layer birthday cake (feeds 25)
- Chipotle: Two of the following: Dinner for four certificate
- Berkshire: Two $30 gift cards
- Stapleton Help Desk: Two hours of service ($250 value)
- Jim ‘N Nick’s: $50 Gift Card
- Kevin Carlson Golf: 1.5 hour golf workshop – $250 value – The winner can invite up to 5 friends.
- Camp Gladiator: One FREE 4 week Camp Gladiator boot camp (valued at $189) with buddy pass
- Smart Space: $200 Smart Space Gift Card
- Stapletonion: Stapletonion Shirts
In what will probably become the “holy shit, is that for real?” moment of 2015 for Stapletonians, 
A group of Stapleton men decided enough was enough when it came to producing offspring, so decided it was time to “get snipped” so to speak. “Most of us knew we were done for a while, but decided to make it official,” says Stapleton resident and father of three Keith Ott. “I was talking to a neighbor friend about it who said they were planning it, and we each knew a couple other guys in the hood who were going to get it done. So we thought, hey, they have baby showers. Let’s have our own little snipping shower. And what better time of year than the first weekend of 
Within the last week, most Stapleton residents who had a first-time kindergartner 
Over the past decade, King Soopers has taken a lot of heat from the Stapleton consumers. There have been the basic complaints over organic food choices, cramped aisle space, long confusing lines at the pump, and most recently, a 
Stapleton is now about 60% built out and has been around for over a decade now. Since the birth of the neighborhood, the community has been quickly adding elementary schools, junior highs, and now a high school. That alone should tell you how quickly folks in “the bubble” are aging. “When the community started, it was obviously a lot of young couples looking to start a family,” says SUN President Mike Victoria. “A lot of those couples that moved in were attractive and successful. So, the community has continued to grow in that fashion. Young, attractive couples moving to Stapleton looking to start families.”
The majority of people who move to Stapleton are coming here for the long haul or at least until their kids graduate from high school. But of course, there is some turnover, and that turnover on a block or neighborhood can be positive or negative. Sometimes the new guys on the block are an upgrade from the old neighbors and are cooler and more fun. Other times, cool neighbors move, and the new family who moves in is rude or even obnoxious. These are the most common things that happen when someone moves away and a new family moves in. But there is one more thing that can happen. The new neighbors can simply be too nice for the block. They can be cool and fun, but simply too good of people for their surrounding neighbors.