June Newsletter 2025
There’s Only One Maria
Maria is quite a common name. However, in the world of Denver Concierge, there is truly only one.
You may have deduced that the lovely person pictured above is indeed Maria, and you would be correct.
25 years ago, our Maria started with Denver Concierge, cleaning houses. It didn’t take long for everyone around her to realize what a shining star she was. Not long after, she was promoted to Team Leader.
Following that, she was brought into the office to dispatch our teams, manage quality, and oversee the day-to-day operations of running a housecleaning company.
In 2006, when the company was acquired by our fearless leader, John Kitts, Maria was officially named General Manager.
She hasn’t looked back.
She commands the respect of all the wonderful folks who are in your homes, and she is the one behind the scenes, measuring quality, efficiency, and our overall processes. When Angela is communicating with you about arrival times, issues or anything related to your cleaning, it is coming straight from Maria.
In short, without Maria, Denver Concierge would not be who we are today. For that, we express our deep gratitude to her for her service, dedication, and style.
Please join us in congratulating our one and only Maria Herrera for 25 years at Denver Concierge!!!
We can only hope for 25 more.
Read on, loyal followers, for some great updates in this month’s newsletter. We lean on our friends at Entavida for a brain health update, we have information on Denver school closures, we cover the best farmer’s markets in Denver, and we illuminate a dangerous trend called “jugging”.
Wow, that’s a lot, and it’s still 100% free.
We kid, of course, and we hope that you love reading our monthly newsletter as much as we love writing it.
Happy start of summer to you all, happy 4th of July, and thank you for supporting our small business and the wonderful people who make it happen.


Brain Health and You
It sure seems like most of us focus on our health pretty closely. We watch what we eat, try to exercise, and get enough sleep.
Unfortunately, many of us don’t consider our brain health regularly.
If you are like us, you have encountered friends or family who have dealt with decline, and it is a very painful thing to go through for all involved.
We have some great friends over at Entavida/A Wiser Mind, and they spend their lives understanding brain health and what drives it.
Based in Denver, they are experts at understanding cognitive function.
They recently posted a video from Dr. David Ward, who breaks down six key contributors to Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline.
From their post, “âŻMemory loss isnât randomâitâs the result of specific, often preventable factors.”
“In this follow-up to ‘Causes of Alzheimerâs Disease,’ Dr. David Ward, DC, breaks down six key contributors to cognitive decline and Alzheimerâsâfactors that are real, measurable, and addressable through advanced testing and personalized care.”
“Youâll learn how chronic inflammation, nutrient and hormone imbalances, insulin resistance, environmental toxins, vascular issues, and past head injuries can work together to silently erode brain function over time.”
On a strongly gender-related note, women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and there is a video related to this phenomenon as well and it can be found here.
For a deeper dive into the causes of Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline across the board, visit our friends at Entavida here.

School Closure Update
We recently wrote about the Denver school closure plan and timeline.
Back in November of 2024, DPS announced multiple school closures and restructurings.
As a result, a new policy has been put into place regarding what is allowed going forward, which includes a 4-year pause on enrollment-based closures.
From the article on Denverite:
“No more Denver schools will be closed or consolidated for low enrollment until 2030 after the school board amended its policy Thursday to add a four-year closure pause.”
“But the pause isnât an all-out ban. The amendment allows a school closure proposal to be brought forward âif there is a substantial shift in student enrollment, funding levels, or an unexpected emergency as determined by either the Board or the Superintendent.â
“Superintendent Alex Marrero also recently enacted a policy that allows schools to be closed for a different reason: persistently low student test scores.”
“Denver Public Schools is predicting its enrollment will decline by 8%, or 6,005 students, by 2029, according to the districtâs annual Strategic Regional Analysis report released last week. The report says more enrollment-based school closures would likely be needed by 2030, particularly in the northwest, southwest, and central parts of the city.”
What a complex problem our public schools are facing.
The Denver Post also covered this topic (paywalled), and it can be found here.
We certainly hope that you and your families have not been negatively impacted by these closures, and we wanted to keep you apprised of the latest.
Stay tuned as we learn more, we promise to share it with you here!

Best Farmers’ Markets
We love a good farmers’ market.
There are few things better than a fresh coffee on a Saturday morning and visiting one of Denver’s great farmers’ markets.
In that spirit, we thought we would share with you a quick list of the best ones across the Front Range.
Courtesy of our friends at 5280 Magazine, read on for an impressive list that we wanted to share.
From Cherry Creek to City Park, Northfield, Stapleton, and beyond, Denver has an amazing variety of farmers’ markets to choose from.
We won’t tell you our favorite, but we will let you visit the list here.
We also liked Westword’s list of markets, and it can be found here.
We also wanted to share some specific links, so here are those:
Finally, visit Denver put together a nice list as well, and it can be found here.
We will see you there!

What is “Jugging”?
At first glance, it sounds like it could be interesting. Maybe a cross between juggling and something else?
Sadly, it is much more sinister.
It seems the latest robbery trend involves teams of people setting up unsuspecting ATM users.
“The crime is known as “jugging,” a type of robbery in which criminals surveil banks and ATMs, watching for victims who withdraw large sums of money. When those victims finish their transactions, the “juggers” will usually follow them to a secondary location, where they will rob the victims, often inside their vehicles.
“Jugging rhymes with mugging, it’s spread from Texas to South Carolina,” Fox News Senior Correspondent Steve Harrigan said on “America Reports” on Friday. “Some police there weren’t even sure what the word meant until the crime started happening in their own districts. Law enforcement warns that it could be over in a flash.”
Wow, another way for criminals to invade our lives.
Be safe and aware around ATM’s!!!!

Monthly Award Winners
Our monthly award winners for May were Patricia Rodriguez, Maria Zapata, Haydee Espinosza, Irene Betancourt, and Silvia Anguiano.
In the Team Leader ranks, it was Mayra Sotoa and Natalia Olivas.
We are so proud of our winners and of all the folks who are in and out of your homes each week.
We are also very appreciative to be a part of your lives and your homes. You provide the platform for our teams to perform, and for that, we are grateful.
Please join me in congratulating our best performers for the month of May.

Queen Bee Corner
by Angela
Denver Concierge prides itself on being client-driven. We believe that it is this approach that has earned us so many long-standing and loyal clients through the years.
Clients who share their good news and bad, daily happenings, and calamities. We are like a work family now.
I have been the point of contact since the beginning of the company, so I am basically the voice of the company, and the voice the clients know and interact with.
The voice that listens to instructions and concerns and grants a client’s request to alter instructions, switch days, cancel a clean, move a clean, move the time of a clean, or change a team. A very significant aspect of being client-driven is, of course, the ability to say yes.
But behind the scenes, making these changes actually happen is Maria, our General Manager. Among her multitudinous duties, she drives the schedule, from dispatch through the end of the workday.
I am the talk, but Maria is the walk.
On a daily, often hourly basis, Maria is making adjustments to the schedule to incorporate changes or cancellations, whether for the day in progress, the next day, or the next month.
Changes that often mean moving entire teams, rearranging the order of houses, and the locations where the teams need to be.
It is due to Maria’s creative solutions that I can so cavalierly say yes to clients. I am but the messenger.
It seems only yesterday, but Maria has just completed 25 years with Denver Concierge.
It is an impressive accomplishment that deserves more accolades than I have space for here, so I wish her..
Congratulations and Felicitaciones!
Bee