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03_28_05-Shirley Barnes was an administrator for Continental Care in the mid-seventies when it became home to about 600 Vietnamese orphans, around the time of the fall of Saigon <cq>. The building is now Denver North Care Center <cq> and is located at 2201 Downing Street <cq>. The plaque shown above commemmorates Opeartion Babylift <cq>. April marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Babylift and the fall of Saigon. ABOVE: These are pictures of pictures of orphans that landed in Denver from Vietnam to start a new life here. PHOTO BY HELEN H. RICHARDSON (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

03_28_05-Shirley Barnes was an administrator for Continental Care in the mid-seventies when it became home to about 600 Vietnamese orphans, around the time of the fall of Saigon <cq>. The building is now Denver North Care Center <cq> and is located at 2201 Downing Street <cq>. The plaque shown above commemmorates Opeartion Babylift <cq>. April marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Babylift and the fall of Saigon. ABOVE: These are pictures of pictures of orphans that landed in Denver from Vietnam to start a new life here. PHOTO BY HELEN H. RICHARDSON  (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)