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Near the finale of a Sept. 20 play, Peter, right, captures the wolf as the bird looks on. The play was performed by dancers from the Ballet Arts Theater. Photos by Tom Munds

‘Peter and the Wolf’ entertains Ballet Arts Theater stages production in Englewood

By Tom Munds

tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com Performers donned brightly colored costumes, and music filled the air as about 800 adults and children watched members of Ballet Arts Theater perform the musical play “Peter and the Wolf.”

The free event was performed Sept. 20 at the CityCenter Englewood Amphitheater, with classes from Englewood public and parochial schools in attendance.

Joey Wishnia was the director and narrator, and played the role of the grandfather in the performance.

“We have done the play before but this is the first time we have done it outside,” Wishnia said before the performance began. “We have great weather for the play today. Also, it is great to see all the schoolchildren here. I think it is good we are outside because I think the students are more relaxed when they are outside like this.”

Children were gathering early and, to help keep them entertained, choreographer Paul Fiorino selected a half-dozen students from the audience to do an impromptu performance before the play began.

There were seven members of the cast, representing the bird, duck, wolf, hunters, Peter and grandfather. Each performer wore a costume depicting his or her specific role. Also as part of the play, each character is represented musically by one instrument. When each character was introduced at the Englewood performance, each performer carried his or her instrument along and did a short dance around the stage.

During the performance, the characters danced to the music as Wishnia narrated the story of how the wolf goes after the bird, catches the duck and then Peter caught the wolf, recovered the duck and everyone

Englewood elementary school students sit on the grass at the CityCenter Englewood Amphitheater so they can watch the performance of the musical play “Peter and the Wolf.” went away happy.

This is the second year the Theater in the Park performance has come to Englewood’s amphitheater. The event was sponsored in part by Betty’s Toys. Betty’s Toys sponsored the event for years in Denver but, while the store is no longer open, the owners — Sam and Betty Emmanuel — continue to be sponsors for the event that now is being performed in Englewood.

The grassy area in the center of the amphitheater was occupied by students. Parents like Marissa Callahan either sat on the steps circling the amphitheater.

Callahan home-schools her daughters, Dawn, 8, and Brittany, 6, and brought them to the performance.

“A friend told me about today’s event so I brought the girls to see it because I felt it would be a good experience for them,” the Englewood resident said. “You can see by

Englewood police arrested Forsythia Owen, 30, who is suspected in the death of 42-year-old Denzel Rainey.

About 1:15 a.m. Sept. 22, officers investigating a report of a man down in the 3600 block of the alley between Sherman and Grant streets found Rainey on the ground.

The police report stated Rainey appeared to have been assaulted.

He was taken to Swedish Medical Center for treatment, but later died from Owen injuries he apparently received during the assault.

Englewood detectives launched the investigation and, on Sept. 24, it was announced that officers had arrested Owen as a suspect in the case. The woman, who is believed to have attended Colorado’s Finest Alternative High School, was taken to the Arapahoe County jail and could faces a charge of murder in the first degree.

Police say because the case is still under investigation, they are not releasing any additional information.

Fire-review fees explored Permit, plan chores take great deal of time

By Tom Munds

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Velvet Grosch, with sons Nathen, 1, and Branden, 8, watch the performance of “Peter and the Wolf.” About 800 people attended the free show.

Englewood City Council is considering a proposal to impose fees for plan reviews for fire operational and construction permits.

Fire Chief Andy Marsh and Fire Marshal Laura Herblan presented the proposal to city council at the Sept. 9 study session. It was the first time the proposal had been presented to the council and was an information-only session.

Councilmembers talked about the proposal and gave consensus approval for the fire department to continue to develop it. The final proposal will be presented to the council as a resolution, but the issue has not been placed on the agenda for an upcoming council meeting.

During the Sept. 9 discussion, Chief Marsh said there have been fees associated with review of some of the plans and permits.

“But we are proposing continuing those fees plus establishing new permits and fees,” he said. “We are permitted to institute the fees in the city-adopted 2012 International Fire Code, which has Fees continues on Page 9

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Two schools add mobile classrooms Bishop, Charles Hay gain space for higher enrollments

By Tom Munds

tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com Two Englewood elementary schools, Bishop and Charles Hay, increased in size during the summer with the addition of a mobile classroom unit on each campus.

“We have had steady enrollment increases at Bishop and Charles Hay, so there was no room for further increases this year,” said Brian Ewert, school superintendent.

“To alleviate the crowded situation at those schools, the district decided to purchase a mobile classroom unit for each of them.”

Each unit is 70 feet long and 24 feet wide.

The mobile unit is heated and air-conditioned and contains two classrooms. The unit at Bishop also includes a small conference room and some storage space. The unit at Charles Hay has a larger conference room and no storage space.

All the connections are provided to supply each classroom with technology such as computers and smart boards.

“The district evaluated the best way to meet the need for more space for students at Bishop and Charles Hay,” the superintendent said. “One option was to build a wing on each school. However, the decision was it was less expensive and a better solution to bring in a mobile classroom unit to each

A mobile classroom is in place and in use at Charles Hay World School. The district placed mobile classrooms at Hay and at Bishop elementary schools this year. Photo by Tom Munds school.”

A mobile classroom unit costs about $100,000.

Each school already had a concrete pad available for the unit, but there were additional costs hooking up utilities as well as the fire and burglar alarm systems.

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Ewert said the school principals decided how to best use the mobile classroom units.

Linda Lewis, Bishop principal, elected to use the unit for two sixth-grade classes.

“The mobile classroom unit is amazing,” the principal said. “The students are excited to be in those classrooms and we are excited to have the amazing addition to our campus.”

She said just about every available space inside the school was used to accommodate students, which included converting a closet into an office for teachers and having sixth-graders attend class in the library.

“While we still don’t have much spare space, the mobile unit makes our school a little less crowded,” Lewis said.

Charles Hay World School Principal Craig Ferguson said the mobile classroom

unit provided the additional space needed to handle enrollment that is now is nearly 400 students.

“Our enrollment has been growing steadily for the past few years and we were just running out of space,” the principal said. “Last year, for example, our Spanish teacher had to work out of a mobile cart in the hall and we moved our music program around to any space available.”

Ferguson opted to move his Spanish classes and his music classes into the mobile classroom units.

“It has been great to have those classes in a permanent location,” he said. “Also, the mobile unit has meeting space, and that is an area where teachers can meet together or with parents that wasn’t available to them before..

League to hold candidate forum Englewood candidates will gather at Civic Center Oct. 2

By Tom Munds

tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com The League of Women Voters of Arapahoe County’s annual forum for contenders for Englewood municipal offices will be held at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 2 in the community room on the second floor of the Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway.

The city council candidates invited are unopposed District 4 incumbent Rick Gillit; the two candi-

dates for the District 2 position, incumbent Linda Olson and challenger Rita Russell; as well as the two candidates for the at-large position, Scott Gorsky and Steven Yates. Vincent Atencio, the unopposed candidate for Englewood municipal judge, has also been invited to the forum.

Marlu Bagnall, one of the forum organizers, said the forum will follow the traditional format: A member of the Arapahoe County League of Women Voters will be the moderator, and another member will be the timer.

The session opens with each candidate being allowed up to two minutes to introduce themselves to the audience. Then, candidates

will be asked questions submitted by members of the audience. The moderator will read the questions and each candidate will be give one minute to answer.

The session will wrap up with each candidate given two minutes for closing comments.

The November ballot also contains two municipal ballot issues: a nonbinding question concerning whether or not to allow recreational marijuana facilities to locate in Englewood and a citizen-initiated ballot issue concerning designation of property as parks. No discussion of the ballot issues is planned as part of the forum, but audience members can ask questions about them.

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Art show benefits cancer patients Food, silent auction help raise thousands of dollars

By Tom Munds

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Organizers combined food, the artwork created for Breasts of Colorado and a silent auction to raise money to benefit those undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

The Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce put on the Sept. 19 event as part of the project to turn Englewood pink to raise awareness of breast cancer.

Rosemarie Cabral came up with the idea for the Breasts of Colorado. She spearheaded the effort as a fundraiser for Sense of Security, a nonprofit organization that helps breast cancer patients in treatment with basic living expenses such as rent or mortgages, utilities and other household expenses.

Colleen Mello, chamber president, said Sept. 23 that the event raised more than $9,000, with more money still to come in from casting models and from those who took part in the silent auction.

“It was a nice event,” Mello said. “We had a lot of people join us for the activities and we raised some money for Sense of Security. We are already talking about how we can make the event better next year.

The Sept. 19 event was held at the Cuttn’ It Loose Salon at Englewood Parkway and Inca Street, where the plaster breast castings, decorated by local artists, are on display through midOctober.

The Breasts of Colorado project began in July when 20 volunteers had plaster casts made of their breasts. Then the castings were turned over to area artists who volunteered to use their imagination to transform the white plaster castings into artworks.

Artist Julie Scott won an award for her creation using Becky Joi Lahm’s casting.

“My first thought about the project, the first word that came to my mind was protector,” Scott said. “I thought about something with armor, then because it is the year of the snake, I starting thinking about a creation of snake scales. That is because the snake’s scales move and expand as needed. That idea turned out to be on target because Becky skated in roller derby under the name Green Venom.” sub- The artist said she found a product that is plasf the tic that melts in hot water. She used the plastic to rator make all the scales separate so they would move and as molded to the sculpture and fit where needed. give The artworks were judged and Vinton Ervin won third place. p up “I started doing airbrushing about 20 years ago given and I started painting about 13 years ago,” he said. osing “This year, I volunteered to do the artwork on a casting and I actually did two. I did one for a Vietallot nam veteran and another with a fly fishing theme nici- for my wife.” non- Lorie Dreiling was one of the volunteers for the cern- plaster castings. allow “I volunteered because I have several friends uana who are impacted or have been impacted by ngle- breast cancer and I thought this was a way to itiat- honor them,” she said. “The finished artwork was ning awesome. The artist chose to make half the castty as ing like the storm of emotions and feelings an f the individual going through the breast cancer treatd as ment experiences. The other half of the cast is a t au- rainbow and dancing to express the joy of being ask cured of the disease. It is a wonderful artwork.”

Artist Vinton Ervin talks about the artwork he did for the Breasts of Colorado project. The casting was his wife’s and the artist did the theme because both he and his wife like to fly fish. Photos by Tom Munds

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Most seats at the outdoor tables were occupied as a good crowd turned out for the Sept. 19 Breasts of Colorado art show and fundraiser. The event raised more than $9,000 for Sense of Security.

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A Rocky Mountain Honor Flight volunteer, left, talks to Englewood resident Norma Weir about the flight’s trips during the Sept. 21 veterans fair. More than 30 information booths were set up at the fair. Photos by Tom Munds

Veterans fair offers help, hope Several hundred visit event at Hudson Gardens

By Tom Munds

tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com Several hundred men and women visited Hudson Gardens Sept. 21 to check out the booths at this year’s veterans fair, promoted by radio station KEZW. Booths offered a wide range of information, ranging from informing those who served in the military of their veterans’ benefits to booths staffed by representatives of companies offering legal, medical and educational services.

Near the entrance, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences had a booth. Students and staff members from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus offered free blood tests and bone density tests.

Todd Redman, an Army veteran who served in Iraq, said he decided to visit the fair after hearing about it on the radio “I’ve been having some stress issues, my blood pressure has been up, but today it is normal and that is good news,” he said.

“I am glad I came today. There is so much information available here today. I sort of knew about veterans’ benefits, but today I

really learned a lot that will help me in the future.”

He said he also talked to representatives of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars about their organizations.

“I’m not much of a joiner but I might make an exception this time,” the Arapahoe County resident said.

A short distance away, representatives of the Rocky Mountain Honor Flight had a booth. Littleton resident Harvey Stockton, a World War II Army veteran, talked to the group about possibly being included in one of the flight’s upcoming trips taking World War II veterans to Washington, D.C. Englewood resident Norma Weir was among those attending the fair seeking information.

“We have a friend who served in Afghanistan and was wounded,” she said. “He doesn’t want help, but I learned so much today that may help him. I also learned more about the policies at Fort Logan. It was time well spent and I am really glad I came.”

Army veteran Ed Winters, who served in Korea, also attended the fair.

“This was a good turnout and there was a lot of information available here today,” he said. “I got some information today that helped me. For example, I thought Fort Logan was full, but I found out they have added more land.”

The event was winding down about

Marine veteran Dean Stegman holds still as Katie Derington adjusts the cuff to take his blood pressure during the Sept.

21 veterans fair at Hudson Gardens. Volunteers from the CU school of pharmacy did free tests during the fair. noon, and Kerry Attridge, who works in registration at the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, said she felt her booth was able to provide a lot of information to veterans.

“We had about 40 veterans who took applications for service at the hospital,” she said. “I don’t think any of those individuals knew about the fact they were entitled to treatment at our facility.”

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Improvement fund forecast bleak Requests likely to outstrip revenues by millions

By Tom Munds

tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com Projections forecast the money available in 2014 for Englewood’s projects like replacing roofs and upgrading buildings will fall well short of the requests for funding.

Mike Flaherty, deputy city manager, briefed the city council on the 2014 public improvement fund budget during the Sept.

16 study session.

“The budget for the 2014 public improvement fund is estimate at about $2.8 million, with the majority of that money going to continuing maintenance of city streets, buildings and technology systems,” Flaherty said. “However, we currently have requests for PIF projects that would cost more than $5 million.”

He said projects recommended for funding included payments for equipment obtained through lease-purchase agreements, regular maintenance of streets, bridges and traffic signals, for building maintenance and a new web-based sales tax collection system, and purchase of safety equipment for the fire department.

Flaherty said there are additional requests for projects that would cost more than $2 million. Some of those projects include replacing the deck on the Dartmouth Avenue bridge over the South Platte River and upgrade of police locker room and car-

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peting replacement at the Englewood Civic Center.

“We will evaluate and establish priorities for the unfunded projects,” he said. “The projects would be done in the order of priority if funding becomes available.”

Dollars for the public improvement fund come from three sources: building use tax, vehicle use tax and the city portion of state road and bridge funds.

Frank Gryglewicz, finance director, said the largest single source of revenue for the public improvement fund is the building use tax.

“The building use tax is paid on construction materials,” he said. “The formula used to establish the tax is to determine 50 percent of the construction material costs and multiply that by 3.5 percent.”

Increased development brings increases in the building use tax. In 2012, the city received about $800,000, and this year, the building use tax is expected to be about $1.8 million. The forecast for 2014 is about $1.5 million.

The other two sources of income are essentially consistent, with the city receiving about $1.3 million a year from vehicle use tax and about $200,000 a year from the state road and bridge fund, Gryglewicz said.

The public improvement fund issue was raised again at the Sept. 23 city council study session.

“I am concerned the public improvement fund requests includes about $3 million in projects not scheduled to be done in 2014,” Councilmember Rick Gillit said. “I would like the city to explore the possibility

Englewood officials continue to evaluate the best use of money allocated for the 2014 Public Improvement Fund. The funding is expected to be $2.8 million and funding for requests are for more than $5 million. One of the requests is for carpeting replacement at the Englewood Civic Center. File photo of extending the life of bonds to provide additional money for the PIF.” City officials and councilmembers talked about the issue. While there currently isn’t an issue of bonds that could have life

extended to provide money for the public improvement plans, the agreement was to continue to discuss the issue and explore the possibility of designating other sources of revenues available for the PIF.

POLICE REPORT Suspect fights with police

Investigation of possible curfew violations turned into a more serious situation when one of the two suspects reportedly fought with officers.

The officers stopped an 18-year-old and a 19-year-old man about 1:15 a.m. Sept. 20 in the 3700 block of South Fox Street.

According to the police report, the situation got more serious when an officer noticed small baggies of white powder on the bumper of the patrol car where the 19-year-old had been sitting. When the officer asked about the baggies, the 19-yearold reportedly tried to run.

An officer tackled the suspect and the 19-year-old kicked the officer in the thigh.

The suspect reportedly slipped his right hand out of the handcuff and tried to

building in the 200 block of West Union Avenue. When police tried to contact the 59-year-old suspect, the man refused to cooperate and barricaded himself in his apartment.

The SWAT team mobilized and began negotiations. Eventually, the man was taken into custody without incident.

No one was injured during the incident and the investigation is continuing.

run again. When officers got him on the ground, he began fighting with officers.

Officers used a Taser and the suspect was taken into custody.

The man was treated for injuries sustained during the fight and was taken to the Arapahoe County jail. He could face charges of second-degree assault on a police officer, possession of a controlled substance, violation of a protection order, attempted escape and resisting arrest.

Man surrenders to SWAT

Removal turns violent

The Englewood Special Weapons and Tactics Team mobilized about 10 a.m. Sept.

21 after a man barricaded himself in his apartment when officers came to investigate a felony menacing report.

The officers went to an apartment

When Englewood police went to remove a man not wanted in a residence in the 3200 block of South Sherman Street, the man reportedly struggle with police.

A resident called police about 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 18 reporting a disturbance and asking officers to remove a man from a home.

According to the report, the victim said her son didn’t live with her, had recently gotten out of prison, was not taking his medications and wasn’t making sense when she tried to talk to him.

The woman reportedly told officers she was concerned for her safety and asked to remove her son from the house. Englewood police sought to place the man on a medical hold but the suspect tried to pull away and, during the struggle, grabbed the officer by the right ear. The struggle continued and the suspect reportedly spit on the officers. The fight continued and the son spit at the sergeant and the officer.

Other officers arrived and the man was arrested. He was taken to the Arapahoe County jail and could face charges of assaulting a peace officer.

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Littleton’s final retail-pot vote is postponed Confusion on ordinance means process starts over

By Jennifer Smith

jsmith@ourcoloradonews.com Littleton City Council took another turn on the path that might or might not lead to retail sales of marijuana in the city, but on process this time rather than policy.

“I’m concerned about the process,” said Councilor Jerry Valdes.

“We’ve been getting a little sloppy on some important issues.”

On Sept. 17, council heard what was originally billed as the second reading of an ordinance that would ban retail sales, which would have included a public hearing. But by meeting time, staff had changed it back to first reading, starting the process over.

This is the latest turn in what’s been a twisting road for this ordinance. During a study session Aug. 27, a slim majority of council — Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Stahlman and Councilors Peggy Cole, Jim Taylor and Valdes — indicated support for allowing the four existing medical-marijuana dispensaries to add a retail component if they wanted to.

Staff drafted an ordinance to that effect, which council heard on first reading Sept. 4 about 2:30 a.m., after the seven-hour meeting that saw the fall of the Broadstone apartment proposal. But Mayor Debbie Brinkman introduced a last-minute amendment to switch the language from allowing retail sales to banning them.

Stahlman reversed course that night, saying he wasn’t aware Littleton would be the only southmetro city to allow retail marijuana, even though that had come up during the study session.

“Frankly, that’s causing me to reconsider the whole thing,” he said.

Cole, Taylor and Valdes pressed to start the process over since the ordinance was substantially changed.

“Let’s have a public hearing,” said Taylor. “If you don’t like what the public says, then you can vote

your conscience at that time.”

City Attorney Ken Fellman said that wasn’t necessary, since the portion of affected city code wasn’t changing.

“We may have the authority, but it’s just not the proper thing to do,” said Valdes.

At some point, staff came around to that way of thinking.

“Because council voted to revise the ordinance but did not set the date for a public hearing, staff has determined that Ordinance No. 18 was effectively rejected by council,” reads City Manager Michael Penny’s memo to council.

“As such, staff is now presenting to council an ordinance on first reading.”

The new ordinance passed 4-3, with Cole, Taylor and Valdes against. It’s set for a public hearing and final vote on Oct. 1. If the vote stands, it also extends the current moratorium on marijuana clubs for another year.

“State legislation prohibits on-site consumption in licensed retail marijuana establishments, but the statutes enacted this year and the emergency rules adopted by the Department of Revenue are insufficient to effectively prohibit marijuana clubs,” reads Penny’s memo.

A separate ordinance introduced Sept. 17 would bring city code into compliance with Amendment 64, the state’s constitutional amendment that decriminalizes the possession of an ounce or less of marijuana for recreational use by adults. In describing the changes, Littleton Police Chief Doug Stephens noted a situation they create that still needs to be resolved.

When officers arrest somebody who is legally in possession of pot on unrelated charges, they have to confiscate the marijuana because it can’t enter the jail.

They can’t give it back to the person upon release, because that’s considered drug trafficking under federal law, said Stephens.

However, there have been cases where departments have been successfully sued for not returning it.

“I hope you have a lot of training for your officers so they’ll be able to figure this mess out,” said Councilor Bruce Beckman, a retired LPD commander.

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Littleton City Council is prepared to offer King Soopers $500,000 in incentives to remodel its store at Broadway and Littleton Boulevard.

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Littleton King Soopers in line for overhaul City OKs incentives; final call will be made by corporate

By Jennifer Smith

jsmith@ourcoloradonews.com Littleton City Council is prepared to give King Soopers $500,000 in incentives to turn the store at Littleton Boulevard and Broadway into the twin of its newly remodeled Englewood location.

“I do believe this could be the beginning of that gateway I keep talking about,” said Councilor Jerry Valdes, who represents that area of the city.

City Manager Michael Penny explained that King Soopers’ corporate representatives considered expanding into the old Walgreens space or even relocating entirely as other cities try to woo them away. But their preferred option is to completely scrape the entire building and build a new one that will result in a store that’s about 22,000 square feet bigger.

“This is an economically distressed area,” noted Penny. “For the most part, we are not seeing dollars reinvested in this area. …

It is our hope that this is the first domino to fall.”

On Sept. 17, council unanimously approved a resolution to waive $500,000 in building per-

mits and use taxes for the project, which is expected to start in January and take about a year if King Soopers officials approve it. That means a loss of sales-tax revenue for the city that year, which Penny said averages about $250,000 a year for any grocery store.

The city will split any taxes the store generates above and beyond its average until the $500,000 is paid back or for six years, whichever comes first. The deal is the same one Englewood gave the store at Federal Boulevard and Belleview Avenue.

“If they do nothing, we’re not losing anything in this proposal,” said Penny.

Three citizens spoke against the incentives, including council candidate John Watson.

“I don’t want to be like Englewood,” he said. “I don’t know how we got to be in the business of picking winners and losers, and why we’re doing that without any input from the citizens, I have no idea.”

He added that it would be tough to collect sales taxes in a city that doesn’t tax groceries. But it’s only food that isn’t taxed, and Councilor Phil Cernanec noted that the new Englewood store carries a wider variety of taxable items like cookware and beauty products.

Councilor Jim Taylor said he’s

noticed a marked increase in customers at the new Englewood store, where he shops.

“It attracts more people, and you get a wider range of customers, so I think this is probably a good deal,” he said.

The deal seeks to guarantee that King Soopers won’t follow the path of several Safeway stores and Albertson’s out of the city, as it includes a 34-year lease with options to renew every five years for 99 years.

“It’s not unheard of to have a grocery store vacate a premises,” said Councilor Stahlman, in response to citizen comments that King Soopers would likely remodel even without incentives.

The proposed $20 million project includes several infrastructure improvements, including a new parking lot, better access and lighting. It will also allow the store to add 10 percent more employees. It does not include the two outlying buildings, but Penny said owner Regency Centers plans facade improvements.

This is the second time the city has used its recently approved incentive program. The first was a $300,000 package for Breckenridge Brewery. That caused some consternation among councilors after Penny told them about it just five days before they were set to approve the site plan.

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September 27, 2013

‘Fix the Debt’ campaign gaining steam South Metro Chamber taking lead in grassroots movement

By George Lurie

glurie@ourcoloradonews.com Labeling it a top priority, the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce continues to lead the charge locally to promote the “Fix the Debt” campaign.

“I believe this is the most important issue facing the United States right now,” says Rick Whipple, a Littleton CPA and chairman-elect of the chamber.

Together with chamber president and CEO John Brackney, Whipple has taken a leading role in urging a bipartisan, grassroots effort to resolve what he describes as “the nation’s ongoing debt crisis.”

“The full faith and credit of the United States is at risk, likewise our form of government and way of life,” says Whipple.

“I find it outrageous that the strongest economy on the earth cannot solve this crisis. This is key to our long-term growth and funding our social programs, infrastructure, education, military, foreign policy — you name it. The longer we wait for debt reform, the more likely our future will be determined by our creditors.”

Whipple has been actively involved in the Colorado chapter of the Fix the Debt campaign since late 2012, and says the ef-

fort remains one of the chamber’s “highest priorities.”

In July, Whipple traveled to Washington with Brackney to lobby members of Colorado’s congressional delegation on the importance of addressing the debt crisis.

In mid-September, Whipple went to the nation’s capital again, this time with a contingent of high-powered business leaders, including Dave Cote, the chairman and CEO of Honeywell.

“Our mission was to show a united front of small business owners and large business,” Whipple says. “Dave Cote talked about how the growth of Honeywell has been constrained by the government’s failures to pass a budget.”

“Large companies like Honeywell are accumulating cash because they see the government debt as a risk to their own stability,” Whipple explains.

“These companies have to protect against the next bubble or recession, so they are not taking the risks that they would normally take to expand their businesses. And when these big companies sit on their cash, it constrains the entire economy,” stifling job creation, reinvestment, the growth of small business and the collection of additional taxes.

When meeting with politicians in Washington, Whipple said most “took a partyline position. It was evident there is a deep cultural divide between our legislators.”

He said the group found stronger support when they met with representatives from the White House.

Whipple believes voters “must support candidates who are willing to deal with big issues.

Whipple The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence put their lives and families at risk. Our congressional leaders must show the same courage,” he says.

Chamber CEO Brackney continues to be one of the most visible and vocal leaders of the Fix the Debt movement in Colorado.

“Decisions in Washington affect businesses outside the beltway,” Brackney wrote in a recent opinion piece published in the Denver Post. “Congress and the president must act now … to create greater market certainty” and “put our country back on a track of fiscal sanity.”

Across the state, support for the campaign appears to be growing.

Former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm has recently started to speak out on the debt issue and Congressman Mike Coffman and Sen. Michael Bennet also have expressed their support of the movement. And many candidates running for local offices have trumpeted their support for the Fix the Debt campaign.

“Forty large corporations have donated generously, a million dollars each, to the Fix the Debt campaign,” which now has chapters in all 50 states, says Whipple.

So far, more than 350,000 people across the country have signed the campaign’s “Petition to Fix the Debt.”

Whipple says Congress should “stop looking at these little stopgap measures to fund the government” — referred to in Washington as continuing resolutions.

“It’s management by crisis and we have to get away from that,” says Whipple. “We are lurching from one crisis to another.”

Tax and entitlement reform, Whipple believes, “needs to come from both sides of the aisle. There are so many obstructionists in our government. We need to stop voting these people in.”

For his part, Brackney plans to spend every Monday for the next few months visiting communities all around the state to talk to commissioners, mayors and other local leaders.

Whipple will be meeting with Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter this week.

“We’re also doing lots of social media stuff,” he says. “We’re just going to continue beating the bushes and help people learn about the issues.”

“If our deficit keeps going in the direction it is going,” Whipple says, “it will have dire consequences for our entire way of life.”

Flood recovery efforts continue across state Governor announces more funding; highways reopen Staff report As crews continued the cleanup and repair process in the wake of massive flooding across Colorado’s Front Range, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed an executive order for an additional $20 million for recovery efforts.

The order, which Hickenlooper signed Sept. 20, brought to $26 million in state funds available for flood response, a press release by the governor’s of-

fice stated.

The deadly and destructive flooding affected 17 counties, including parts of Arapahoe.

Hickenlooper’s order also called for suspending provisions of any state statues that would impede recovery efforts.

“As a result of the recent flooding, Colorado’s transportation infrastructure has been significantly compromised, limiting the ability of the citizens of Colorado to access their homes, businesses and farms and

negatively impacting our ability to provide necessary goods and services to the hardest hit counties,” Hickenlooper wrote in the order.

“The severity of the damage to the transportation infrastructure, taken together with the brevity of time before winter weather conditions set in, requires extraordinary measures to assist in the reconstruction and repair of Colorado’s transportation infrastructure.

“The flooding has also damaged businesses and hindered their ability to provide their communities with essential goods and services including food and

other daily necessities. Extraordinary measures are necessary to reopen food service businesses promptly in a manner that does not compromise food safety but also recognizes that the rules and regulations in normal times might be unduly burdensome under the circumstances.”

Late last week, the Colorado Department of Transportation reopened eight highways that had been ravaged by the mid-September flooding.

That left 15 Front Range highways closed as of Sept.

21.

Meanwhile, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it has

SCHool Calendar School District 303-761-7050 • Oct. 1 The Englewood School Board will meet at 7 p.m. at the former Maddox School, 700 W. Mansfield Ave. • Oct. 4 Students at all district schools are not in class. Teachers are attending staff development sessions.

• Oct. 7 Students in all district schools are not in class. It is a teacher work day.

Bishop Elementary School 3100 S. Elati St., 303-761-1496

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the smiles on their faces how much they are enjoying the play. But I want this to be educational, so we’ll pick up some lunch and talk about the play when we get home.”

• Oct. 1 The all-school photo will be taken at 9 a.m. on the playground Clayton Elementary School 4600 S. Fox St., 303-781-7831 • Oct. 1 It is the first day of class for fifth- and sixth-grade band students.

Fifth-graders will take a field trip to the Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant for World Water Day activities.

• Oct. 3 Agencies will assist Clayton’s walk-to-school day.

Teri, Marissa’s 8-year-old daughter, was all smiles as she talked about the play.

“I really, really liked all of it,” she said. “The music was fun and I liked the bright-colored costumes. I really liked the dancers. I want to learn how to dance like that.”

Nearby, Velvet Grosch held her 2-year-old son Nathen and hugged her 8-year-old son Branden.

“Branden came down to see the play with his class and we came to see it too,” the Englewood woman said.

“The play was pretty interesting and all the kids seemed to really enjoy it. I liked it too.”

Her son Branden said he liked everything, such as the music, costumes and dancing, but really didn’t have a favorite.

“I just liked it all,” he said.

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activated a program in which it will pay for flood evacuees to stay in a hotel or motel.

The Transitional Sheltering Assistance Program will be in effect until Oct. 6, FEMA said in a Sept. 22 news release.

While the need for transitional housing remained,

the number of people using shelters was on the decline.

Of the 20 shelters opened or supported by the Red Cross in the days following the flooding, 11 remained open on Sept. 20.

The Red Cross reported it had provided more than 2,700 overnight stays for evacuated residents.

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OPINIONS / YOURS AND OURS

Create a life where you deserve to win Have you ever found yourself feeling like it’s your turn for a break or a win?

But then in our very next breath we talk ourselves out of it because lucky breaks and wins are for other people not us, right?

Maybe we even hear our own voice whispering in our ear that we don’t deserve it.

And whether we think we deserve something or believe that we don’t deserve it, in either case we are right.

You see, it’s not just about what we think or believe that brings us good fortune, it’s our actions that actually generate the positive outcomes we dream about and pursue.

Thinking and believing with a positive attitude helps for sure, but at the end of the day it is truly our behaviors that make the difference. Kind of like that old saying, “It’s funny, the harder I work … the luckier I get.”

So conversely when things don’t quite go our way, we should be able to look back at all the events surrounding our disap-

pointment and focus in on what we could have done differently, particularly around our actions and behaviors.

Is there such a thing as pure luck?

Absolutely, just ask anyone who bought a “Quick Pick” lottery ticket and won. I mean they didn’t even choose their own numbers, they simply let the computer generate their entry and celebrated watching as their numbers came in. Pure luck.

But even in the case of the lucky lottery winner, the action taken was the deciding

factor. The person had to choose to stop at the store and purchase the ticket. So did they deserve to win? I don’t know the answer to that, but what I do know is that if we want the opportunity to win at anything in life or get that lucky break, we have to be “in it to win it.”

Being “in it” means that we are giving ourselves the best possible chance for success through our proactive initiative and effort. Good and worthy activities that push us toward the achievement of our goals and dreams. We do the very things necessary that allow us to look ourselves in the mirror and say, “I deserve it.”

For some people they find it easier to point to other “lucky” or “successful” individuals and rationalize why that person deserves a break or a win, but they just can’t or won’t allow themselves to see it in their own lives. Well, if you are someone who falls into this category, the good news is that you can “behave” your way out of

that negative feeling and into a positive “I deserve it” attitude. Just think about what it is that you want or feel you deserve and do the most productive thing possible right now even if it is the smallest step.

Love, a career, an education, success, happiness, a vacation, or anything your heart desires are all within reach. You want it, you deserve it, so go for it.

So how about you, are you waiting for the machine to pick your lucky numbers and control your destiny or are you someone that will take action today and be the one in control of your own future? I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@ gmail.com, and when we all realize we deserve an opportunity to win, it will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton, a resident of Highlands Ranch, is the former president of the Zig Ziglar organization and CEO and founder of www.candogo.com

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Do you want to go to Mars?

A Dutch organization, Mars One, has announced plans to establish a human settlement on Mars by 2023 and has received thousands of applications, even though it might be a one-way trip. Colorado Community Media asked visitors to the Outlets at Castle Rock if they would be interested in going.

If it’s fall, that must be Russell Russell is here twice a year. He is here in the spring and he is here in the fall.

It’s just like when we have to change our clocks.

He turns on my sprinkler system in the spring, and he turns it off in the fall.

Russell has been doing this for 15 straight years. Sometimes he has been here during the year to solve a problem I am having with my sprinklers.

I could do what he does by myself, but I prefer to see him. He is reliable, very professional, and a hoot.

He always has a joke in his pocket.

Most of the time the jokes are corny or raunchy, or I can see the punch line coming up Quebec.

I have never seen his boss, Randy, in 15 years. I only hear his phone messages that let me know when Russell is going to be here.

Russell’s appearances are meaningful.

He shows up when the snows are gone, and when my trees are starting to wake up. Then he shows up when I have put away the mower for another year, and when I have added another year to my pending obituary.

That’s a little grim. I’ll say instead that Russell in the fall signals a life change, a visit with time and aging, and all he does is turn off the valves.

Russell is usually wet, somewhere. He goes from house to house and works with water. I have sometimes wondered if he is wet all of the time, even on his days off.

I’m a retired schoolteacher. I used to have virtual Russells all of the time. They were scheduled appointments, reviews, committee assignments, things like that.

I planned ahead. I was the area coordinator, so I could schedule my own classes.

I knew five years out what I would be teaching.

My course outlines were set, so all I had to do was change the dates on the handouts.

It was like college football. You can find out today whom your alma mater will be playing five years from now. We play Cal every year. And Stanford.

I went to Berkeley one year to watch us play the Bears. My friend Mike and I were late because we drank victory beers at his house. There was no parking. Well, there

was parking but it was on front lawns for a dowry.

We had a bright idea and became frat brothers. We pulled into a fraternity house driveway, and a young man parked the car, for free. We went inside and added to the beers, and tried to sound like we were fraternal.

Anyway, five years from now, we have to play the Bears again.

Time flies. Right now I have two birthdays a year. That’s what it seems like. I was just in my 30s an hour ago and I could hit to the opposite field with the best of them.

Now it takes a bowl of black coffee to get me moving.

I just read about Todd Helton. He is retiring, and I want to thank him. I have followed his career ever since he was a quarterback at Tennessee.

“Entering his junior year in 1994, Helton was the backup to Jerry Colquitt and ahead of Peyton Manning,” a Wikipedia entry says. “After Colquitt tore knee ligaments in the season opener at UCLA, Helton took over as the starter. Three weeks later against Mississippi State, he suffered a knee injury and was replaced by Manning.”

Where was I? Oh, Russell. Time and tide. One day I wanted to add a sprinkler head to an area in the backyard that was balding.

Russell broke a “Y” branch off of a tree, and witched. He doused for the underground irrigation tube, and found it. After he found it, he told a bad joke, and left until autumn, when he returned and shut it all away.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast. net

“Probably. It’s something different. I’m a futuristic thinker … (But if it were a one-way trip) “it would depend on if they have a beach or a lake and if I could convince my family to go.”

— Chase McCall, Castle Rock

“No. I’m a picky eater. I don’t think I could eat astronaut food. And I like to be outdoors.”

— Brittany Dunn, Centennial

“Yes. ... The Earth is getting overpopulated.

It’s getting too polluted.

I totally know my friends would go with me. They totally agree.”

— Lauren M., Parker

“No. ... We’re outdoors people. I don’t know how you could be ‘outdoorsy’ there. I like all four seasons. And it’s a really big risk.”

— Brian Bergeman, Aurora

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Former LPD officer remembers dark day

By Jennifer Smith

jsmith@ourcoloradonews.com Greg Bohlen was directing traffic on April 20, 1999, when he got the news that changed the world.

“Shots fired at Columbine High School.”

Back then, he was Cpl. Bohlen of the Littleton Police Department. Today, he’s Chief Bohlen at the Colorado School of Mines.

But so much else has changed.

“I’d be silly to say it didn’t change me,” he said. “I don’t think it had a negative impact upon me. It changed me as a tactical officer, as far as what we do. My lesson learned, I think, is that we did a lot of good things. I wish we could have done a lot more. But I was proud that we took care of each other. I don’t talk about it a lot, but it doesn’t bother me to talk about it. … I don’t want to be that guy where people go, `Oh, that’s the guy that doesn’t talk about Columbine,’ but I also don’t want to be `that Columbine guy.’

I’ve never wanted to be that guy, but internally, I’m proud of it.”

At a burly 6-foot-2, Bohlen is more grizzly bear than teddy bear. He gets a gleam in his eye when he Tasers his police-academy students at Arapahoe Community College (with their permission, of course), and laughs at them all the way through pepperspray day. But his eyes light up when he talks about his kids and his wife, Pam, and they soften as he recalls holding the body of Columbine student Rachel Scott, dead on arrival.

`Bedlam’ at scene

The day of the Columbine shootings started inauspiciously, when a truck took out a pole at Santa Fe Drive and Prince Street. Bohlen was directing traffic at the scene with fellow officers when the calls started coming in. It took them just a few minutes to get to the school.

“But it was already just bedlam,” recalls Bohlen. “A lot of people were standing around waiting to be told what to do, and I was putting my SWAT gear on. But every agency was doing what they were supposed to do. For me, the biggest piece of the communication problem was people not talking to each other.”

Because Littleton SWAT officers carry all their gear all the time, Bohlen was able to suit up right away.

“Then I look up and see Littleton Fire Rescue coming really slowly down Pierce Street, and the back doors are open,” he said. “I see paramedics I know, and they’re walking next to the vehicle. They were all solemn. I look in the back of the rescue unit, and there’s these two boys basically stacked on top of each other. Just from the looks on the paramedics’ faces, not so much what they said, I could tell they’d been through quite an ordeal in that short period of time.

That’s when I knew this wasn’t just kids screwing around. It really brought to light the seriousness of what was going on.”

He and fellow SWAT Officer Chet Neal

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the fire marshal reviewing more plans and permits and monitoring additional operations.”

The fire operation permits would be for projects such as sprinkler systems and fire alarms, Marsh said.

He added that the new fire permits would be coordinated with the building division so developers and builders still make only one stop at the building division to obtain the necessary permits or to arrange the plan reviews.

The fee schedule was proposed as a result of the assessment conducted by Herblan of existing fire prevention operations.

“I worked in special fire protection districts where there was a fee schedule for plan and permit reviews,” Herblan told the council. “The fees are proposed for commercial construction or remodeling projects. No fees are proposed for residential projects.”

Marsh said in the six months Herblan has been on the job as fire marshal, she found she was spending most of her time

Greg Bohlen was a member of Littleton Police Department SWAT on the day of the Columbine tragedy, and he was one of the first officers on the scene. Photo by Jennifer Smith were assigned to a lead team, along with officers from Denver and Jefferson County, to recover three students lying near the southwest corner of the school. Recall the image of the SWAT team on the lime-green fire truck: Bohlen was the one in full gear with the longer rifle.

Unspoken agreement

“Chet and I spoke and said, `We’ve got to stay together, buddy.’ The plan was to go to the south parking lot. I didn’t know any of the other guys, but some of it was kind of unspoken. We were going to go down there and get those kids.”

But on the way, they were diverted to a different location. Neal and some of the others on the ad-hoc team saw an open door and slipped inside the building — contrary to popular reports that no officers entered until it was too late, notes Bohlen.

“So suddenly, we’re a smaller team,” he said. “We see a kid banging on the window, and we tell him to come out the door.

I couldn’t even tell you what he looked like now. But we got him out.”

When they reached the downed students, Bohlen covered other officers as they ran to get Richard Castaldo.

dealing with permit and plan reviews, so there was little time for other fire prevention duties.

“A survey of metropolitan area fire districts and departments showed that almost all of them had fees for fire service plan and permit reviews,” he said. We used the fees charged by the Littleton fire district as the basis for the fees we propose.”

Marsh said with the fire marshal currently spending most of her time on permit and plan reviews, plus the dramatic increase in construction and planned development projects, the demand for permit and plan reviews would only increase. Marsh said the department has been able to keep up with permit and plan reviews only by having one of the fire lieutenants work overtime on his day off. He said the fee proposal would raise about $100,000 and it would be much more efficient to use the money raised by the fees to hire an assistant fire marshal.

Marsh said the existing assistant fire marshal job description is outdated. So, one of the first orders of business will be to review the job descriptions and make changes necessary to spell out the skills an assistant fire marshal will be required to do.

The proposal is to make the new fire plan and permit fee system effective Jan. 1. However, Marsh said a lot of work will have to be done in order to meet that effective date.

“I go to look at the kid, and he’s been riddled with bullets,” recalls Bohlen. “It’s hard to accept that people are shooting each other in a school. We tell them we’ve got one victim out, but he’s immobile. They sent a deputy car. I tried to pick him up by myself, but I couldn’t. Another guy helped, and we got him to the car.”

Castaldo survived.

Next they brought Scott to him. Bohlen knew she was dead, and laid her on the ground.

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truck, he looked up to find the rest of the officers gone.

“I had to leave Rachel and Daniel Rohrbough,” he said, obviously pained.

Mutual support

He made his way back to the tactical command post in front of the school.

“They wanted me to stay and debrief, but I asked my sergeant, `Where’s our guys?’ He said, `They’re in there.’ And I said, `Then that’s where I’m going.” And he didn’t argue with me.

“Being back with my team really gave me a sense of comfort. We just fed off each other. We were just doing what we do. We wanted to find those kids and stop

September 27, 2013 them. We knew about Dave Sanders, we just couldn’t find him for a number of reasons, like communication and misinformation. I found a baseball in the hallway, and I picked it up. It reminded me these were just kids. I kept it in my SWAT bag until I left SWAT.” They made their way through the school, clearing areas and “bucket brigading” kids to safety. They smashed in doors with fire extinguishers and tried to follow the trail of ammunition shells to the killers.

“Every room took on its own personality,” he remembers — in some, terrified kids were hiding in closets or the doors were barricaded with desks; in a few, police were welcomed with cheers.

“I saw inside the library, but I didn’t go in,” he said.

“They had us stand down.

We were fatigued, but we didn’t realize it. The retreat from the school was pretty slow for us. We dragged our feet because we thought there was more for us to do. I wanted to do more, we wanted to do more. We just stood there and kind of looked at each other. We were making sure we were OK. They eventually had to come get us and get us out of there.”

Worries about family

The rest of the day was spent debriefing, meeting with a mental-health professional, communing with colleagues and, finally, home.

“I did worry about my family,” he said. “It’s difficult on Pam. But I’m so very, very lucky. We met when we were 15. She didn’t like what I did, but she accepted it. I

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was thinking, `My wife is going to see this on TV, and she is going to freak out.’

She knew I would be there, because she knows that is what I do. I would be there doing my job. … When I got home, there was my uniform shirt sitting there on the couch, all balled up. My wife had been cuddled up with it all day.”

After it was all over, thenChief Gary Maas awarded every LPD employee who worked that day a certificate of recognition. When Maas abruptly retired in 2006 after a rather scathing independent study suggested a change in leadership might be in order, Bruce Beckman, then a police commander and now a city councilor, took the helm.

He awarded Bohlen and Neal each a Medal of Valor.

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porters to find them.

“But (Cmdr.) Bill Black always said the best SWAT team is the team that goes and does its job unseen and unheard,” he recalls. “So we didn’t do interviews. They tried, they tried like crazy. … I still had to drive home that way. The media moved in and dug up the street, they had to put power in. I still had to drive by it and see it, but we never talked to them. They’d get our pager numbers, and they’d say, `This is so and so and I need to interview you.’ And we’d say no. And they’d say, `You don’t understand. I’m so and so.’ And I said, `I don’t care.’”

Telling Littleton’s story

It didn’t stop the media from talking about them, though.

“It was frustrating to hear on talk radio, `It’s their job to get killed, not the students,’” he said. “There’s no constitutional requirement to die in the line of duty.

We serve and protect, but if we don’t take care of each other, we can’t take care of you.”

Bohlen has spoken to the Law Enforcement Network and other agencies about that day.

“I think we have something to say, and we can talk to SWAT, and we can tell Littleton’s story,” he said.

Some Littletonites bristle at the idea that the city

is so identified with a tragedy that happened just outside its borders. But Bohlen points out that every day, first responders who were there still work here, still carry those memories, still live by the lessons learned in Columbine’s hallways where Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves.

“You could argue it wasn’t in Littleton, but you weren’t going to win that fight,” he said. “Eventually it came down to that it’s the Littleton community. … Our kids, there are things that they’re never going to know. You and I know what it’s like to live without cell phones and school shootings. The world’s changed.

Columbine wasn’t the first time, but it had never been of that magnitude before, with bombs and napalm and propane tanks. And that two people could form a relationship and conspire for that long — it’s stunning.”

One lesson Bohlen hopes the entire community learned is: “See something, say something.”

“Don’t say, `I thought it was just a prank. I thought they were making a video.’

Well, who wouldn’t think that?” he said.

“It’s really impossible to overreact now. People say, `We don’t want to bother you.’ Well, this is what we do.”

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The Denver Press Club bestowed its highest honor upon Garrett Ray, the Littleton Independent’s former owner and editor, during an evening ceremony on Sept.

20.

The club, the oldest of its kind in the United States, inducted Ray into its Hall of Fame, where he joins the likes of Gene Amole, Fred Brown, Ed Stein, Paula Woodard, Dick Kreck, Jean Otto, Bertha Lynn and Starr Yelland, to name just a few.

“More than ever, we need our community newspapers, with people like Garrett who are dedicated to their craft and to giving back to their communities,” Eric Brown, Gov. John Hickenlooper’s spokesman and a former student of Ray’s at Colorado State University, said upon introducing Ray to the audience. “He cares about people, he cares about his family, he cares about his friends and, most of all, he cares about doing it right.”

Upon accepting the honor, Ray credited his mother, an editor, for the ink running through his blood. He recalled literally cranking out a neighborhood newsletter at the age of 11, on a hand-crank mimeograph machine.

“Over the next half-century, I grudgingly adapted to each new technology,” he said, even to what he calls the “unimaginable new world of digital technology.”

Ray pursued two careers in journalism, both of which the press club calls remarkable. After leaving the Independent, he went on to teach countless young, aspiring journalists like Brown at CSU subjects such as media ethics, reporting, editing and management. “ T h e world needs real journalists still, men and women with courage and brains and truth,” he told his felRay low members of the Fourth Estate.

Today, he says, he’s launching his third career from his home at Wind Crest, a senior-living community in Highlands Ranch.

He’s helping his neighbors learn to write their own life stories.

“There are so many rich tales of courage, talent and wisdom,” he said.

Although Ray is an iconic figure in Littleton, he missed what is perhaps the city’s most iconic story. In 1965, he was in Washington, D.C., on a fellowship.

“My wife called and said, `Turn on the TV. Littleton is washing down the river,’ he recalls. “That was the big story I never got to cover, because I was writing press releases for the senator.”

Other 2013 inductees include Michael Balfe Howard, Joseph S. Sinisi, Pocky Marranzino Sr. and poet Eugene Field.

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Nosh, network with the ‘Divas’

High Country Newfoundland Club secretary Meg Morrison, of Lafayette, sends her dog, Bojie, off the back of a boat with a reel and line Sept. 15 at Chatfield State Park. Bojie, who is in the top class of Water Rescue Dog Excellent, swam 100 yards to shore with the line so the boat could be reeled in by a person waiting there. Photos by Ryan Boldrey

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espite heavy rains, 30 Newfoundlands and their humans — destined to get wet anyway — found the conditions perfect to undergo a series of water tests at Chatfield State Park near Littleton.

Hosted by the High Country Newfoundland Club, a regional chapter of the Newfoundland Club of America, the Sept.

13-15 event allowed dogs from as far away as California and Texas the opportunity to chase after a variety of NCA titles by demonstrating proper water rescue technique in a variety of situations.

“Newfoundlands were bred to be water rescue dogs,” said HCNC secretary Meg Morrison, of Lafayette. “It’s instinc-

tual for them. Over in Europe, they are used in the Coast Guard. The U.S. is yet to include us in the Coast Guard, but maybe someday.”

Morrison has three Newfoundland dogs, including Bojie — who is training at the top level of Water Rescue Dog Excellent — 3-year-old Rigsby, and Smooch, a 15-week old puppy. Morrison, the test chair for the recent series of water tests, said dogs at all levels of expertise showed up to compete for titles, or NCA certification.

To earn their titles, dogs do everything from leaping off boats to fetch paddles or rescue their handlers, to carrying life rings to a person in distress, to towing boats to shore.

“It’s really amazing what they are capable of doing,” said Melissa Sharp, who drove 6½ hours from Rio Rancho, N.M. with her dog Koda to undergo testing.

“We’re here because we want the titles, but it’s really about having fun with our dogs.”

Sharp and Koda have been working with a trainer in New Mexico for four years, and she said there have been times where she has seen training pay off for other’s dogs, including once when highpowered winds kept a crew from rowing into shore and a friend’s Newfoundland was able to tow them in safely.

“Most of us do it because it is mainly just a demonstration of the dog’s natural abilities,” said Littleton resident Mark O’Connor, whose 7-year-old Newfoundland Panda has junior and senior rescue titles. “She kind of knows they are faking it (in testing), but if it were real she would know what to do. Instinct would just take over.”

The High Country club, whose members come from Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah, hosts two water tests a year at Chatfield, attracting dogs from all over. The next closest tests, geographically, occur in Dallas and Kansas.

For more information on the HCNC, please visit www.highcountrynewfs.com.

I’m all about supporting women’s groups, and this Douglas County Divas networking organization sounds like a hoot.

Plus, I love everything “Diva,” from “Double Divas” to “Drop Dead Diva.”

The Douglas County Divas normally meet the third Tuesday of every month, giving women a chance to network and increase business contacts.

But on Oct. 15, the group will be holding a special co-ed event from 6-8 p.m. at The Fowl Line at 774 Maleta Lane in Castle Rock. Attendees are asked to bring “plenty of business cards.”

For more information, contact Pam Anderson at 303-596-8075 or pamsgonegreen@gmail.com or Theresa Buckley at 720-280-2910 or theresa.girlsgonegreen@ gmail.com.

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In theaters now

Denver bigwig and deep-pocket giver Larry Mizel is proud to announce that “Jewtopia,” a movie written by daughter Courtney Mizel, is out in theaters.

If you are thinking about a date night with your significant other, this is the one to see, so I’m told.

Courtney sent this email missive about her project: Dear Friends, “As many of you know, I have spent the past couple of years working on `Jewtopia.’ First the play at the Greenway Court Theater, and then, the movie! I am very excited to announce that the movie will be out (today) in theaters around the country as well as on VOD on most cable carriers as well as on iTunes, XBox and a number of other online platforms.

“Needless to say I am very excited about this release and I would greatly appreciate your support!”

The film’s cast includes Ivan Sergei, Joel David Moore, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Rita Wilson and Jon Lovitz.

To see the trailer go to: www.youtube. com/watch?v=7a0zZSVeW-k.

“Jewtopia” opened on Sept. 20 at the AMC Cherry Creek 8 in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center.

Blast from the past

Colorado Neurological Institute’s 25th anniversary will celebrate the 1940s at Wings Over the Rockies featuring music, dancing, vintage dress and decor and dining from 6-10 p.m. on Oct. 12.

The event’s emcee is 9News meteorologist and traffic tracker Amelia Earhart.

Tickets are $250 each. “Early career” tickets are $175. To purchase your tickets, go to www.blacktie-colorado.com/rsvp and enter event code: CNI1012 (All one word, not case sensitive). Sponsorship and donation opportunities are also available.

For details, contact Nancy Miller at 303806-7415, 303-806-7415 or email nmiller@ thecni.org.

The Sink sticks out

Boulder’s The Sink restaurant (1164 13th St.), perhaps best known for a visit from President Barack Obama during one of his Colorado whistlestops, has been named No. 3 on The 25 Best College Campus Bars list, according to Complex City Guide.

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‘Full Monty’ brings out big laughs Engaging musical has enduring popularity

IF YOU GO “The Full Monty” plays through Nov. 9 at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Performances: Wednesdays through Sundays. Tickets start at $37 for performance and dinner, 303-449-6000 or bouldersdinnertheatre.com.

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sellingboe@ourcoloradonews. com When a popular 1997 British movie, “The Full Monty,” about a bunch of out-of-work guys, was picked up as musical material by Americans David Yazbek (lyrics and music) and Terrence McNally (book), the site was changed to scrappy Buffalo, N.Y., where a large number of industrial jobs had also gone by the wayside.

The engaging musical opened on Broadway in 2000 and has been popular since, with its message of “yes we can.”

It opened at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre on Sept. 6 and continues through Nov. 9, with that venue’s usual strong casting and production values.

Although it’s rated “R” for very brief nudity and some coarse language, it really is quite a funny, mild show with a lot of heart and altogether suitable for teens, I think.

The versatile Seth Caikowski plays the lead as Jerry, an unemployed, divorced steelworker who fears he will lose custody of his beloved son, Nathan, if he doesn’t

Jerry and his five friends: Ethan (Burke Walton), Harold (Scott Beyette), Jerry (Seth Caikowski), Dave (Joel Adam Chavez), Malcolm (Brett Ambler) and Horse (Robert Johnson) star in “The Full Monty” at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. Courtesy photo catch up on child support payments.

As he wanders the streets, he sees a bunch of women headed

to a touring male stripper show — very enthusiastically — and an idea takes shape: Could he and his friends pull off such a show

and pick up some badly needed cash?

He convinces a disparate bunch of buddies: Dave (Joel

Adam Chavez), Ethan (Burke Walton), Malcolm (Brett Ambler) and Horse (Robert Johnson) to give it a try. They then convince former boss, also unemployed, Harold (Scott Beyette), who knows how to dance, to join them and coach the clumsy crew.

Much of this really comical show focuses on development of their act, which will culminate in the Full Monty — taking it all off.

Can they, will they really do it?

Another facet is the warm relationships each has with a wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, child, delivered in lovely duets.

Individual characters are sensitively developed by experienced actors.

The clever set, which opens as an industrial site, but converts to home interiors, works smoothly for scene changes — and lighting and sound are always done well at BDT. With 32 years under its belt, it continues to offer a predictably pleasing theater experience. One could comment that they have their act together.

‘Giselle’ tells romantic tale through dance Colorado Ballet joins forces with orchestra

IF YOU GO “Giselle” will be performed by the Colorado Ballet from Oct. 4 to 13 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, 5, 11, 12; 2 p.m. Oct. 5, 6, 12, 13; 6:30 p.m. Oct. 10.

Tickets range from $25 to $155: 303-837-8888, ext. 2, or coloradoballet.org.

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Gill Boggs, Colorado Ballet’s artistic director, says “Giselle’ is his favorite ballet: “It is the epitome of a classical ballet, demonstrating love, betrayal, death and forgiveness.”

“Giselle,” with choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot and music by Adolphe Adam, will be performed by the Colorado Ballet, with live orchestra, from Oct. 4 to 13 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex.

A count in disguise falls in love with Giselle, a beautiful, but fragile, peasant girl.

She discovers who the count really is and that he’s engaged to another woman and dies of a broken heart.

She becomes a Wili, a vengeful spirit who has suffered unrequited love when alive and is destined to roam the earth, trapping men and dancing them to death.

Only Giselle can save the count when he enters the Wili’s influence ...

Other Colorado Ballet news: Veteran dancer and teacher Valerie Madonia was hired as academy director, while Anne O’Connor moved from that position to director of education and community partnerships.

The partnerships will include connections with the Santa Fe Arts District, where the company will move when its new headquarters at 11th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive are renovated.

The South and Central Academies, where young dancers are trained, have been combined, due to the additional space available.

Colorado Ballet’s 2013-2014 season continues with: • Nov. 30-Dec. 28 — “The Nutcracker” • Feb. 14-23 — “Cinderella” • Mar. 28-30 — “Director’s Choice” innovative works

Colorado Ballet artists perform in the ballet “Giselle” at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Courtesy photo by Terry Shapiro

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“Vigil” by Morris Parych will play Oct. 4 to 27 at Cherry Creek Theatre, Shaver Ramsey Showroom, 2414 E. Third Ave., Denver.

The director is Billie McBride; Patty Mintz Figel and Larry Hecht play an elderly aunt and her middle-aged curmudgeon nephew.

Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 6:30 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: cherrycreektheatre.org, 303800-6578.

Puppets with attitude

“Avenue Q” by Douglas Carter Beane, Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, Jeff Whitty, presented by Ignite Theatre company with the original Vintage Theatre cast, plays Oct. 4 to Nov. 3 at the Aurora Fox, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora.

Bernie Cardell directs again. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and Monday, Oct. 7; 2:30 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets:$28/$24/$20. 720-362-2697, lucentperformingarts.org/avenueq.php

Washington Irving tale

“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Christopher Cook’s adaption of the Washington Irving classic tale, will haunt the Aurora Fox Theatre, 9900 E. Colfax Ave. from Oct. 4 to Nov. 3.

Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: 303-7391970, aurorafox.org.

Play by Christie

“Witness for the Prosecution” by Dame Agatha Christie plays Oct. 12 to Nov. 9 at the John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Presented by Spotlight Theatre Company and directed by Linda Suttle, of Littleton.

Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: $20/$18, thisisspotlight.com or 720-880-8727.

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The Englewood Arts Presents concerts are performed at Hampden Hall, second floor of the Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Tickets for the Chamber Music series cost $15/$12/free under 18. They are available at englewoodarts.org or a half-hour prior to concert time.

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sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Families are invited to a new venue to celebrate the annual German Day in Colorado on Oct. 5 and 6: Centennial Center Park, located at 13050 E. Peakview Ave. in Centennial. Gemuetlichkeit, a good feeling of belonging and coziness, is guaranteed — with food, drink and music.

With a bit of a different slant than the numerous Oktoberfests celebrated in America, this German-American day honors contributions German-speaking immigrants for their contributions to our country and communities.

A weekend of family-friendly events is planned, including live bands, folk-dance performances from all the Germanicspeaking regions of Europe, food and beer.

At the Grand Opening at 1 p.m. Oct. 5, Young Voices of Colorado singers will present anthems after the Gateway High School Color Guard posts the colors.

In the Culture Garden setting, one will

If you go German Day will be celebrated 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. October 5 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 6 at Centennial Center Park, 13050 E. Peakview Ave., Centennial. Entry fee of $5 includes the first beverage. Children under 12, free. For information: GermanDayinColorado.org. 303-380-1843.

find an education center, genealogy booth, an exhibit of traditional attire, art demonstrations, craft displays and performances of music unique to German-speaking countries, including Peppi Gruenwald with his zither. Also look for an accordion, Kuhschellen, Mundharmonika and the Denver Kickers, Schuhplatters!

There will also be activities and traditional children’s games.

Organizer Cara Meier, a retired LPS teacher, shared a 1987 quote from President Reagan that she likes: “Few people have blended so completely into the multicultural tapestry of American society and yet have made such singular economic, political, social, scientific and cultural contributions to the growth and success of these United States as have Americans of German extraction.”

“Chamber Music of the Masters,” the 2013-14 classical music series presented

by Englewood Arts Presents, will open at 2 p.m. Oct. 5 with a benefit for the Up Close and Musical ensemble, UCAM, a local nonprofit that offers concerts to area elementary-school children who might not otherwise have an opportunity to experience professional concerts.

Eric Bertoluzzi is founder and conductor and musicians are primarily from the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, where cellist Bertoluzzi was a member for 40 years until his retirement this year. He also heads Englewood Arts Presents.

The concert season will showcase Colorado Symphony members and other professional area musicians in a smaller ensemble chamber music repertoire in Hampden Hall, in the Englewood Civic Center.

The opening concert will honor Penny and Joe Shoemaker. They founded the Hel-

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The Oct. 5 program will include Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” (chamber version) and George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” performed by the Shoemakers’ talented son, pianist Jeff Shoemaker.

Future concerts are planned on Oct. 19, Nov. 23, Jan 18, Feb. 15, March 15, April 26 and May 17, including four with the Ainomae Ensemble.

Also offered on Friday nights: Starlight Rhythms, featuring pops, rock, blues and jazz: Oct. 18 (That Damn Sasquatch); Nov. 15; Dec. 20; Feb. 14; March 14; May 16.

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Lone Tree Symphony reaches out to kids Season opener will feature ‘Doctor Noize’

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Many youngsters in the area have met Doctor Noize, aka Cory Cullinan of Lone Tree, and kids will love to see his show, “Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony” at 2 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Lone Tree Arts Center.

The Lone Tree Symphony has a history of introducing children to instruments at intermission and, under conductor Jacinda Bouton, the orchestra takes it a step further to start its new season.

Doctor Noize is a nationally known singer and multi-instrumentalist who loves pop/rock music but has a degree in classical music from Stanford.

His musical play about Phineas McBoof teaches kids about the color and fun in orchestral sounds and forms — as well as about the composers.

He said, “Beethoven, Berlioz, Stravinsky — these guys were crazy revolutionaries! I knew if I could get kids curious, they would be hooked. And they are!

They realize that the music is rebel-

If you go The Lone Tree Symphony will perform at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree, at 2 p.m. Oct. 5.

Tickets: $12/$6, plus a handling fee of $3, are available at the box office, 720-509-1000, lonetreeartscenter.org.

lious, deep, magnificent beyond conventional imagination. After the premiere of `Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony,’ a teacher told me that kids walked in not caring about classical music and walked out thinking that anyone who thinks kids can’t handle classical music is uncool.”

The orchestra, in its 14th season, announces a full season of concerts: • Dec. 6 and 7: A holiday concert will include the Castle Rock Chorale and the Smithtonian Handbell Choir.

• Feb. 28, 2014: Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony and “Rainbow Body,” a modern work by Christopher Theofanidis.

• May 9: Concert will feature Grofe’s “Grand Canyon Suite” and pianist Dana Landry performing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”

The orchestra will offer a free show to invited school groups on Oct. 4.

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RedLine show is oh, so ironic “The Ironic Object, an Exhibition Examining the Changing Landscape of Contemporary Art” will be held in RedLine’s Project Space Oct. 4-27. RedLine gallery is at 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver. There will be a public reception from 7 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 4. Curator Frances DeVuono said, “I wanted to narrow the exhibit to focus largely on sculptural objects and was particularly looking for artists whose use of materials veered into cultural critique.” There are 10 participating artists from Colorado, California, Illinois and Washington. Gabriel Brown, who has performed as a “Garbologist,” will collaborate with RedLine artists during the reception. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Garden wisdom Panayoti Keladis from Denver Botanic Gardens will be the speaker at the Oct. 4 Littleton Garden Club meeting at 6:30 p.m. The club meets on the first Wednesday of the month from September to May in the cafeteria at the Littleton Public Schools Administration Building at 5776 S. Crocker.

(Enter from Ida Street.) Guests and new members are welcome.

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“Come for the best burger in Boulder and stay for the Beatnik wall art. True to the green culture of Colorado, the Sink is run by 100 percent wind power and only serves Angus and grass-fed beef. If you aren’t down with the Sink Burger, they offer a full and varied menu that includes brisket, the Cowboy Reuben, and tilapia. If you’re tall, watch out for the low ceilings, but otherwise, there is absolutely nothing to complain about at The Sink.”

Read more at www.complex.com/ city-guide/2013/04/the-25-best-collegecampus-bars/the-sink.

Around Arvada

The amazing “Around the World in 80 Days” is coming to Arvada Center on Oct. 1-27.

This incredible show based on the Jules Verne book is brought to Arvada by the famed Creede Repertory Theatre group.

The play features just five actors who play 39 different characters as the story traverses all seven continents.

Previews are Sept. 27-29 and tickets are available at www.arvadacenter.com.

free. Order online: seatyourself.biz/lhsperformingarts

Ragtime Society show

Grange in the Meadows, 3692 Meadows Blvd., Castle Rock, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Oct. 5. More than 500 artisans from six countries use funds generated from the sale of their handmade goods to feed and educate their children. This event will be the second annual “Shop Once, Give Twice” auction/fundraiser, organized by Lisa Stucky. Please RSVP to mavunomarket@ gmail.com. For information, see mavunomarket.org.

Earnest endeavor

Littleton High School’s theater department will present Oscar Wilde’s comedy of mistaken identities, “The Importance of Being Earnest” (Steam Punk Rendition), on Oct. 3 (7 p.m.); Oct. 4 (7 p.m.) and Oct. 5 (6 p.m.) in the LHS Mane Stage Theatre, 199 E. Littleton Blvd. kryssi martin is the director. Tickets: $10 adults/$7 students/seniors

Pianist Frank French will perform a concert of ragtime, jazz, blues and Latin music for the Ragtime Society of Colorado at 3 p.m. Oct. 6 at the Forte Academy of Music, 8030 S. Holly St., Centennial (south of Dry Creek Road, north of County Line Road) — a new venue. Tickets: $20/$15 members.

Send checks to society president Colleen Vander Hoek, 8360 S. Zephyr St., Littleton, CO 80128. 303-979-4353.

Genealogists meet The Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society meets at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial: • Oct. 8, 1 p.m. — Carol Swenson will tell about her favorite genealogical sites, most of them free. She blogs as “Carol: the Family Detective.” • Oct.15, 9 a.m. — Megan Smoleyak: “Reverse Genealogy: Finding the Living.” 1 p.m. — “What the Library of Congress has for Genealogists” by Peggy Cummings.

Banned Books Week Play Banned Books Bingo at Bemis Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton, during Banned Books Week, Sept. 29 to Oct. 5.

“Devil Horns Crystal Brass Knuckles (mosh safely)”

by Debra Baxter is included in ”The Ironic Object, an Exhibition Examining the Changing Landscape of Contemporary Art” at RedLine. Courtesy photo Match book titles in the library with those on a Bingo card. Win Amazon gift certificates worth from $5 to $50. Pick up a card at the reference desk. 303-795-3961.

The seen

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who was the second person to walk on the moon, was spotted having dinner on Monday and lunch on Tuesday at Panzano, the charming Italian eatery inside The Hotel Monaco.

According to my spy, however, Aldrin wasn’t wearing a space suit.

Also spotted around town: Fox 31 meteorologist Nick Carter eating lunch with a friend at south Denver restaurant Piccolo’s, a former frequent and favorite haunt of the On The Town family when we stayed at Marriott’s TownePlace Suites for four months five years ago while waiting for our Capitol Hill condo to be completed.

A personal note

Please give the Colorado flood victims a helping hand and give to the Red Cross. Go to www.redcross.org to help.

Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area. Parker also writes for Blacktie-Colorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at www.pennyparker.blacktie-colorado.com. She can be reached at penny@blacktie-llc.com or at 303-619-5209.

Lauren Bahlman as Emma Joseph and Jim Hunt as Morty discuss a possible foundation contribution in the play “After the Revolution” at Curious Theatre. Courtesy photo

Family secrets surface at Curious “After the Revolution’ focuses on dynamics

By Sonya Ellingboe

WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK? Want to know what clubs, art exhibits, meetings and cultural events are happening in your area and the areas around you? Visit our website at www.ourcoloradonews.com/ calendar.

The Denver Concert Band under the direction of Jacinda Bouton Presents its first concert of the 2013-14 season

“EARTH, WIND AND FIRE”!

This exciting program will cover all the “elements” musically, and will include Robert W. Smith’s Songs of Earth, Water, Fire and Sky, Handel’s Water Music, Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst, Stephen Melillo’s Stormworks and many more musical pieces to stir the senses!

Saturday • October 12 • 7:30 pm Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree, CO 80124 To reserve by Phone: 720-509-1000 or Online: lonetreeartscenter.org

$13 Adults/$8 for 16 and under

(Includes LTAC handling charge) or order Season Tickets online Parking is free in the LTAC parking lot.

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Strains of “Teach Your Children” play in the background as lights go up on a striking two-story set with old brick apartment walls, hundreds of books and a stairstep bookcase connecting the levels.

Curious Theatre opened its 16th season with “After the Revolution” by up-andcoming young American playwright Amy Herzog, a play about generations of a New York Marxist family and a secret that comes to light.

Ben Joseph (Gordon McConnell) is talking about the school where he teaches history and social justice, criticizing the principal. His audience is his brother Leo (Mark Collins), on sabbatical working on a book.

Enter their assertive mother Vera (Anne Oberbroeckling), who is opinionated, hard of hearing and a wonderfully colorful character.

There is talk of the departed Joe Joseph, famous Marxist, father and husband and of his granddaughter Emma, who has started a foundation in his name for social causes.

It seems a new book is coming out from Yale Press that accuses Joe of spying for the Russians, a story Emma doesn’t know. How should they tell her? How will it affect her life and her foundation?

Emma Joseph (Lauren Bahlman) and her boyfriend Miguel (Matthew Block) talk about the foundation where he also works and a campaign to help a black man in

IF YOU GO “After the Revolution” plays through Oct. 5 at Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Performances: 8 p.m.

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $18-$44. 303-623-0524, curioustheatre.org.

prison, accused of shooting a cop. She also meets with a wealthy donor, Morty (Jim Hunt).

When Emma arrives at her parents’ home, her father tells her that her grandfather is named as an ideological Communist who gave secrets to Russia in the new book and that the family won’t contest it because it is true. She is shattered and angry and the story takes off from there, focusing on individual characters’ reactions and responses — and a compelling look at family dynamics as they process a significant period in recent history.

Also in the strong cast: Dee Covington as Ben’s compassionate wife and Jessica Roblee as Emma’s sister Jess, who is afflicted by addiction problems.

The well-written script takes us through a few days in May and June 1999, with a troubled family of intellectuals, who are swamped by emotional stress, triggered because the family patriarch was blacklisted years earlier.

The acting is uniformly strong, thoughtfully directed by Chip Walton. Bahlman and Oberbroeckling particularly stand out.

Background music is carefully chosen and lighting enhances the fine set. All in all, a very satisfying evening of theater as we meet a new writer.

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September 27, 2013

Police look-alike Mike Massie, Historic Littleton Inc. founder, delivers correctly completed ballots for a prize drawing at the Scavenger Hunt. Courtesy photo

Rebecca and Bill Kast donned period dress and went dancing Sept. 21 at Bega Park, where winners were announced at the conclusion of the Historic Littleton Inc. Scavenger Hunt. Photo by Jennifer Smith

Charlie Carroll, president of Historic Littleton Inc., impersonates Richard Little as he draws a winning ballot at the Sept. 21 Scavenger Hunt in downtown Littleton. Courtesy photo

Scavenger hunt brings out detectives Vintage photos, building details provide clues

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com “I saw all you guys in costumes and came to see what was going on,” said a man at Bega Park as he turned in his entry ballot for the Sept. 21 Historic Littleton Scavenger Hunt.

He was one of about 250 contestants who traipsed through Littleton’s historic downtown seeking clues in vintage photographs and details on old buildings.

Enlarged photographs from the Littleton Museum archives were placed at 15 businesses, chosen by lottery. Questions on the ballots were to be matched with a specific detail in each photo — for example: “Where can I buy a paint brush?”; “Sidewalk sale on the boardwalk”; “Littleton’s first gumball machine”; “Where are the lanterns?” Six photos of architectural details on buildings

also required identification. (Included was an old Littleton Independent sign.)

The Rootin’ Tootin’s Dixieland Band played as final ballots were returned and volunteers from Historic Littleton Inc., the event’s organizer, checked answers. There were 78 correct ballots returned by detectives of all ages.

At 3:30 p.m., Mike Massey, the organization’s founder, strode in with whistle blasting, delivering a suitcase filled with ballots to Sherlock Holmes (Town Hall Arts Center’s Seth Maisel). Historic Littleton

Inc. president Charlie Carroll, aka Richard Little, drew winning names for merchant gifts and cash: Ryan Winterhalter of Littleton won $500; Pamela Holtz of Castle Rock won $300; and Ron Wagner of Littleton won $150. (Sponsors donated prize money and cash for expenses.)

Vice President Liz Eaton, event organizer, recognized the official mascot, terrier Willis in Sherlock attire, who gave mini magnifiying glasses to all kids 5-10 who entered the contest.

And the band played on …

Douglas County Public Notices L1

February 7, 2013

Public Notice SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF THURSTON FAMILY AND JUVENILE COURT

Public Notice

Dependency of: LEXSIS WALLACE D.O.B.: 01/07/96 No: 13-7-00417-3 Notice and Summons by Publication (Dependency) (SMPB)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice To Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of David E. Capra, a/k/a David Capra, a/k/a David Eugene Capra, Deceased Case Number 13PR30279 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before January 27, 2014, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mark R. Lewis, P.C. Attorney for Personal Representative 9725 E. Hampden Avenue, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80231 Tele: (303) 745-5200 Gloria Ann Capra Personal Representative 3990 S. Holly Way Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113 Legal Notice No.: 4425 First Publication: September 27, 2013 Last Publication: October 11, 2013 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joyce M. Bender, a/k/a Joyce Margaret Bender, a/k/a Joyce Bender, a/k/a Joyce Halstrum, a/k/a Joyce M. Halstrum, a/k/a Joyce Margaret Halstrum, Deceased Case Number 2013PR30290 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before January 27, 2014, or the claims may be forever

Estate of Joyce M. Bender, a/k/a Joyce Margaret Bender, a/k/a Joyce Bender, a/k/a Joyce Halstrum, a/k/a Joyce M. Halstrum, a/k/a Joyce Margaret Halstrum, Deceased Case Number 2013PR30290

To: Misty Wallace, Mother Keith Wallace, Legal Father

Notice To Creditors

Notice To NOTICE Creditors PUBLIC

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before January 27, 2014, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Helen Pustmueller, Deceased Case Number: 2013 PR 30295

Gary W. Bender Personal Representative 9801 E. Pinewood Ave. Englewood, CO 80111

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before January 27, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No.: 4428 First Publication: September 27, 2013 Last Publication: October 11, 2013 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Marjorie M. Gerhardt Personal Representative 153 Wilson Drive Lancaster, PA 17603

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dan Robert DeBoer, aka Dan DeBoer, Deceased Case Number: 2013 PR 30294 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before January 20, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Marie L. Copher Personal Representative c/o Scobie & Morlang 1660 S. Albion Street, Suite 918 Denver, Colorado 80222 Legal Notice No: 4415 First Publication: September 20, 2013 Last Publication: October 4, 2013 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Legal Notice No: 4432 First Publication: September 27, 2013 Last Publication: October 11, 2013 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF THURSTON FAMILY AND JUVENILE COURT Dependency of: LEXSIS WALLACE D.O.B.: 01/07/96 No: 13-7-00417-3 Notice and Summons by Publication (Dependency) (SMPB) To: Misty Wallace, Mother Keith Wallace, Legal Father

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Helen Pustmueller, Deceased Case Number: 2013 PR 30295

A Dependency Petition was filed on August 14, 2013; A Fact Finding hearing will be held on this matter on: November 8, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. at Thurston County Family and Juvenile Court, 2801 32nd Avenue SW, Tumwater, Washington 98501.

You should be present at this hearing.

All persons having claims against the

The hearing will determine if your child is

PUBLIC NOTICE

A Dependency Petition was filed on August 14, 2013; A Fact Finding hearing will be held on this matter on: November 8, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. at Thurston County Family and Juvenile Court, 2801 32nd Avenue SW, Tumwater, Washington 98501.

You should be present at this hearing.

Misc. Private Legals

Government Legals CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

The hearing will determine if your child is dependent as defined in RCW 13.34.050(5). This begins a judicial process which could result in permanent loss of your parental rights. If you do not appear at the hearing, the court may enter a dependency order in your absence.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission will be held on October 8, 2013 at the hour of 7:00 p.m. in the Englewood City Council Chambers, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, CO 80110.

The regular meeting of the Board of Adjustment and Appeals is scheduled for October 9, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado.

To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Dependency Petition, call DSHS at 360-725-6700 or 1-888-8223541. To view information about your rights, including right to a lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/DPY.aspx.

Dated: August 17, 2013

By Betty Gould, Thurston County Clerk Legal Notice No.: 15516 First Publication: September 26, 2013 Last Publication: October 10, 2013 Publisher: Littleton Independent

“Trust Us!” Without public notices, the government wouldn’t have to say anything else.

Public notices are a community’s window into the government. From zoning regulations to local budgets, governments have used local newspapers to inform citizens of its actions as an essential part of your right to know. You know where to look, when to look and what to look for to be involved as a citizen. Local newspapers provide you with the information you need to get involved.

Notices are meant to be noticed.

Read your public notices and get involved!

Public Notice

Case #2013-04: The issue to be heard before the Commission is proposed amendments to Title 16: Unified Development Code of the Englewood Municipal Code related to Home Occupations.

A copy of the proposed amendments may be reviewed in the Community Development Department.

Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing at the previously cited location, date, and time.

By Order of the City Planning and Zoning Commission Nancy G. Fenton Recording Secretary Legal Notice No.: 4427 Published: September 27, 201327, 2013 First Publication: September Last Publication: September 27, 2013 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Government Legals Public Notice

Case # 2013-008. APPLICANT: Tom Parson. The applicant is requesting variances to reduce the required 200 feet of lot width to 161 feet; and to reduce the required 24,000 square feet of lot area to 21,315 square feet for a museum use.

These are variances to Table 16-6-1.1 of the Englewood Municipal Code.

PREMISES: 3098 South Galapago Street Copies of the applications are on file in the Community Development Department and may be reviewed upon request. Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing at the previously cited location, date, and time.

By Order of the City Board of Adjustment and Appeals /s/ Nancy G. Fenton Nancy G. Fenton Recording Secretary Legal Notice No.: 4426 PUBLISHED: September 27, 2013 First Publication: September 27, 2013 Last Publication: September 27, 2013 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

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Nursing assistant school a big success Centennial facility training hundreds of health-care providers

By By George Lurie

glurie@ourcoloradonews.com You’re never too old to start a new business. Just ask Bernadette Billinger, who took the entrepreneurial leap at age 63.

When Billinger, a nurse and former health care administrator, and her partner Lindsay Mulder started the South Denver School of Nursing Arts in Centennial in 2009, they did not expect that in less than four years, their school would be known as one of the best nursing assistant training facilities in the south metro area.

Since opening less than four years ago, more than 500 students have graduated from the school.

Billinger, who has both an MBA and MSHA (master of science and health administration), serves as the school’s program coordinator, while the much younger Mulder, who is in her mid-30s and currently working on her own master’s degree, serves as the school’s primary instructor.

Both Billinger and Mulder worked as RNs and Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) instructors at other training facilities before starting the school.

“There was nothing like this in the southeast metro area and Lindsay and I

Castle Rock

Bernadette Billinger, co-owner of South Denver School of Nursing Arts, demonstrates the proper technique for cleaning a patient’s dentures. Photo by George Lurie saw an opportunity,” says Billinger. “I was teaching at the time and wanted to be more in control of my life. As I got older, coming in and punching a time clock just didn’t suit me anymore. But this does.”

Located in a suite on the third floor of an office building on Arapahoe Road just west of Interstate 25, class sizes at the school are

Highlands Ranch

Littleton

1200 South Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.3047 www.fumccr.org

Services:

Saturday 5:30pm Sunday 8am, 9:30am, 11am Sunday School 9:15am Little Blessings Day Care www.littleblessingspdo.com

Lone Tree

Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.

Open and Welcoming

Sunday Worship 8:00 am Chapel Service 9:00 & 10:30 am

Sunday School 9:00 & 10:30 am

Sunday Worship 10:30 4825 North Crowfoot Valley Rd. Castle Rock • canyonscc.org 303-663-5751 “Loving God - Making A Difference”

A place for you

Englewood

 Victory Fellowship  Bible Study on The Harbinger At 4200 South Acoma, Englewood 

303-912-5939

 Franktown

  

Trinity Lutheran Church & School

Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 a.m.

Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

 303-841-4660 www.tlcas.org 

Weaving Truth and Relevance into Relationships and Life

worship Time 10:30AM sundays

303-794-2683 Preschool: 303-794-0510

9:00am Spiritual Formation Classes for all Ages 90 east orchard road littleton, co

9203 S. University Blvd.

Highlands Ranch, 80126

303 798 6387

Abiding Word Lutheran Church 8391 S. Burnley Ct., Highlands Ranch

(Next to RTD lot @470 & University)

www.gracepointcc.us

First Presbyterian Church of Littleton

Worship Services Sundays at 9:00am

Sunday Worship - 10:00am Bible Study immediately following Wednesday Bible Study - 7:30pm Currently meeting at: 9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 200 Lone Tree 80124 303-688-9506 www.LoneTreeCoC.com

pastor@awlc.org www.awlc.org

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

1609 W. Littleton Blvd.

(303) 798-1389 • www.fpcl.org

LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA

SErviCES:

Saturday 5:30pm

Sunday 8:00 & 10:30am

Education Hour: Sunday 9:15am Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 www.joylutheran-parker.org

Parker evangelical Presbyterian church Connect – Grow – Serve

Sunday Worship

8:45 am & 10:30 am 9030 Miller road Parker, Co 80138 303-841-2125 www.pepc.org

Where people are excited about God’s Word.

Sunday Worship: 10:45AM & 6PM Bible Study: 9:30AM Children, Young People & Adults 4391 E Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado 80134 Church Office – (303) 841-3836

www.parkerbiblechurch.org Sunday

Parker

Joy

Parker

303-791-3315

6pm Wednesday nights starting September 11th-October 16th



Welcome Home!

school and find out if they pass the same day,” Billinger explains.

Once licensed, Billinger says, CNAs provide personal care (bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting) to patients in settings that include hospitals, long-term care facilities, hospices and private homes.

The complete cost of the CNA course at South Denver School of Nursing Arts, including exam and licensing fees, is $1,500.

The tuition, Billinger says, “is all-inclusive. I hate to be nickel-and-dimed, so Lindsay and I decided to bundle everything into one price.”

In addition to passing the state exam, Billinger says would-be CNAs must also pass a background check and drug screen in order to be licensed to work in a clinical setting.

The highly marketable occupation, Billinger adds, can serve as a prerequisite for acceptance into associate or bachelor degree nursing programs and also fulfills the direct patient-care hours required for admittance into other medical programs, such as radiology or medical school.

The pay scale for nursing aides ranges from $12-$15 an hour, and Billinger says in recent years graduates have had no problems finding jobs because of “constantly growing” demand in this health-care field.

The next sessions of both daytime and night classes start the first week of October.

For more information about the program or to enroll, call 303-945-4203 or go to www.southdenverschoolofnursingarts. com.

Parker

Church of Christ

www.st-andrew-umc.com

An Evangelical Presbyterian Church

limited to 10 students per session. “There’s no standing around or waiting to practice skills,” says Billinger. “Our instructors are always right there beside the students.”

Courses last approximately five weeks, after which students take a two-part, written and skills-demonstration state exam.

“They take the test right here at the

Lone Tree

First United Methodist Church

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September 27, 2013

Parker

Community Church of Religious Science Sunday services held in the historic Ruth Memorial Chapel at the Parker Mainstreet Center

Hilltop United Church Of Christ 10926 E. Democrat Rd. Parker, CO 10am Worship Service www.hilltopucc.org 303-841-2808

Pastor David Fisher Fellowship & Worship: 9:00 am Sunday School: 10:45 am 5755 Valley Hi Drive Parker, CO 303-941-0668

www.SpiritofHopeLCMC.org

...19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker 80138

GRACE PRESBYTERIAN

Acts 2:38

Alongside One Another On Life’s Journey

www.gracecolorado.com

You are invited to worship with us:

Sundays at 10:00 am

Grace is on the NE Corner of Santa Fe Dr. & Highlands Ranch Pkwy.

(Across from Murdochs)

303-798-8485

60 W Littleton Blvd, Unit 101 Littleton CO 80120 303 523 7332

Sunday School

(for children and adults)

9:00 am

New Thought...Ancient Wisdom Sunday Service

& Children’s Church 10:00 a.m.

Visit our website for details of classes & upcoming events.

303.805.9890

www.P a r k er C C R S.org P.O. Box 2945—Parker CO 80134-2945

Morning Worship Service 10:30 am Evening Worship Service 6:30 pm Breakfast 8:15 am Prayer 6:00 pm

Bible Study

Prayer 5:45 pm Dinner 6:15 pm Additional Meeting Times: Friday 6:30 pm Prayer Saturday 10:30 am—12:00 noon Open Church (Fellowship/Canvassing)

7:00 pm

To advertise your place of worship in this section, call 303-566-4091 or email kearhart@ourcoloradonews.com.

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September 27, 2013

s There’s more to Reinke than Halloween

Grandparents were pro- family’s first downtown eedthatLittleton merchants ities,

same

se atBy Jennifer Smith s, in-jsmith@ourcoloradonews.com 500. ll-in- Greg Reinke, president of the Historic d, soDowntown Littleton Merchants, has been hingcalled lots of things.

HooDLuM. Littleton’s man in black. Vixam,sionary. The hanging chad of Littleton (he alsoonce lost a city council race by 26 votes). reenEccentric. The guy with the ponytail. Gennicalerous. The Halloween guy. Creative. Code enforcement’s favorite target. Rabble roustion,er. A giant pain in the you-know-what. And uisiteseveral other things we can’t print. helor But lately, he says, people have been ulfillscomparing him to Houstoun Waring, the d forformer Littleton Independent publisher ams,who was known for his visibility and engagement in the community. It’s said Warngesing enjoyed sweeping the sidewalk in front ys inof his Main Street office, gathering news prob-tips and tidbits from the familiar faces passantlying by.

Like Reinke, Waring surely would have eld. andshunned email and texting in favor of a ober. phone call or, better yet, a face-to-face. pro- On Sept. 19, Reinke sat at a sidewalk or gocafe near Reinke Bros., the downtown Halgarts.loween store he owns with his brother. An older couple walked by, laughed, and asked if there are two of him.

“You’re everywhere!” said the man.

“I don’t know if the comparison to Houstoun Waring is true,” said Reinke. “He was very distinguished. But you know what?

He’s the one who made Littleton come alive. When he passed away, it left a huge hole down here. Did I take it up after him?

Not intentionally. But my goal is that when I’m gone from here, there will be successors to take it up, and not a void.

“We’ve put in the infrastructure so that downtown will never be held hostage again.

We have stages, tables, chairs, a turkey fryer. That turkey fryer cost $6,000. We didn’t have any of that before. When I leave, they can still reproduce everything we’re doing.

All they have to do is find the volunteers.

And sometimes that’s the hard part, to organize and get people motivated.”

Reinke, a third-generation Colorado native, attributes much of what he’s accomplished to a childhood filled with adventure. He was born in Englewood, where his parents, Donald and Charlotte, first met in high school. They moved to Littleton in 1952, where they raised sons Don, Mark, Greg and Chris.

Roots in Littleton

Reinke is not the first downtown merchant in his family. His grandparents owned Reinke’s Laundry on Alamo Avenue from 1951 to 1974, and that’s where he often went after school. His father, a retired Marine, worked three jobs, one of them at Mason Auto Parts downtown. His mother managed the Spinning Wheel dry cleaners on Littleton Boulevard.

“I think we were the first latchkey kids,” he said. “But you didn’t worry back then.

We weren’t destitute or anything, but we were a frugal family. I wore paisley shirts and striped pants from the bargain room at Montgomery Wards. I never had a pair of jeans until I was 16, and I bought them myself. (Today, he’s rarely seen in anything but.) But I went to school with all those Bow Mar kids.

“I was a little spitfire. I didn’t get in many fights, but when I did, they paid the price.

There was this bully at Goddard. We were in the locker room, and I yawned. He spit in my mouth. I was so mad. He says, `Choose ya,’ and I said, `You’re on.’ So I show up by the flagpole after school, and there’s a ton of people out there waiting to see this fight.

So I say, `We’re going to fight. But my bus is going to be here, and when it is, I’m going to be on it.’ And he says, `You won’t be able to walk.’

“So I’m in the middle of taking off my coat, and he cold-cocked me in the face as hard as he could. I beat the living tar out of him, and I was just a little guy. And the crowd parted, and I said, `There’s my bus.’

And from that day on, nobody ever picked on me again.”

Reinke attended Centennial Elementary, Goddard Middle School and Littleton

Greg Reinke’s influence on Littleton goes far beyond owning a costume shop. File photo High School, Class of 1978. Summers were spent swimming and fishing in local ponds and the South Platte River, racing go-karts around Centennial Drive-In after hours, building haunted houses in the basement (and, ever the entrepreneur, charging admission), hosting carnivals and concerts in the back yard, hunting rats with BB guns in the then-empty Old Mill building, riding bikes and occasionally catching their clubhouse on fire.

Animal lover

A lot of Reinke’s youth seems to involve creatures — snakes, orphaned ducklings, even random geese.

“We found these two baby geese in the spring, and they lived with the ducks in the pond in the back yard,” he said. “In the fall, we were having a family picnic in the yard, and the geese had grown up. All of a sudden this flock of geese flies over. They heard the calls, looked up, ran across the yard and took off. And they were just gone. That was one of the coolest memories of all the animals.”

The pond was quite similar to the one they use for the Turkey Leg and Wine Hoedown today, says Reinke.

“A lot of my business is based on what I did as a kid,” he said. “We were just kids playing with what they had. Our generation is the last generation that got to play freely.

Most people don’t know about treehouses or tubing down the Platte without worrying about somebody abducting you or molesting you. Not that it didn’t happen then.

“Now they all play with the video games or cell phones. I remember at dinnertime, you didn’t call anybody’s house unless you wanted to get chewed out by their dad. …

When my son was young, I was teaching him how to rappel in a valley, and an officer came by and told us it was illegal to climb on the rocks. I was going to build my son a treehouse, and I got a cease-and-desist order. I bought him some fireworks, and I got a ticket. Forget about BB guns and go-karts.

Finally I gave my son a dozen eggs and told him not to get caught. Everything I did as a kid, you can’t do now.”

Reinke jumped into entrepreneurship pretty much right out of high school, and one of his first big jobs was building the haunted house at Colorado State University. That’s where he met Carin Conard, his wife of six years and the mother of his two

children, Brittany, 27, and Tyler, 23. Brittany started law school this year, and Tyler graduated with a degree in biochemical engineering.

“I should have a really nice nursing home when I get old,” he jokes. “But seriously, they are the kindest, smartest, most polite young people I know.”

In the news

A gung-ho self-promoter, Reinke often finds himself in the news. His favorite time was after his daughter was born.

“The Independent was taking photos at my haunted house, and I’m standing there in full monster costume. I’m holding my baby daughter, and she’s sucking away on a little binkie,” he remembers. “It was hilarious. Another time, I made this costume of a salt vampire from Star Trek. We did a photo op at Larry’s Barbershop on Main Street.

The barber was cutting my monster’s hair, and I’m sitting in the monster.”

Reinke is nothing if not creative and persistent.

“All my life, I was told no. No, you can’t make money with a haunted house. No, you can’t get insurance for a haunted house. No, you can’t buy that building for a haunted house. No, no, no, no. That’s why I don’t listen to no,” he said.

“If you have a reasonable explanation for no, I’ll buy into it. When people tell me no, I say you’re out of your mind. Chris and I started a cottage industry, and now Halloween is a month long. Chris and I were on the vanguard of that, and now the whole world feels part of what we did. … Chris and I started with nothing and have gone way further than we ever should have, but we’ve never gone as far as we wanted to. And by the way, Chris is my best friend.”

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Wind Crest opens new building Continuing care facility welcomes first residents

By Ryan Boldrey

rboldrey@ourcoloradonews.com Wind Crest Retirement Community rolled out the red carpet for the first nine residents of its brand-new continuing care neighborhood this past week.

The four-story Mill Vista Lodge, set for its grand opening Oct. 10, features 144 spacious suites and apartments, with one secure floor dedicated to memory care, two floors for residents in need of assisted living and a ground floor that is dedicated to short-term rehabilitation, long-term care and nursing services.

Fred Krey, 95, and Hazel Vicenec, 93, became two of the first to call the lodge home, moving into their new assisted living apartments on Sept. 16.

“My bed and bathroom, according to my bed, are on the wrong side of the room, but I’ll get that straightened out,” said Krey, who has lived at Wind Crest for six years.

“It’s going to be pretty nice once I get used to it. I’ve just got to get situated.

“They have a lot of nice places you can come sit when you have company.”

Krey, who moved to Wind Crest from Kansas to be closer to his son, two granddaughters and four great-grandchildren, expects a lot of visits from family. Vicenec, meanwhile, hopes the friends she made in her old building at Wind Crest make good on their promises to come visit regularly.

“They say `we’ll come visit,’ but I’ve got to see that first,” Vicenec said. “I’m excited about meeting new people too. People always say, `Hazel, you make friends everywhere you go,’ and I do.”

About Mill Vista Lodge

“When it comes to architectural design,

every space and paint color has a purpose,” said Micah Peterson, continuing care director at Mill Vista. “There was so much forethought put into how residents can use each space to best suit their needs.”

The new facility has eight common areas, two on each floor, that feature a large, comfortable living room space, a kitchen and a dining area. And while there are set meal times, the residents have the flexible option to get meals served to them throughout the day, and also have the ability to use the kitchens themselves 24/7.

Other common areas include outdoor garden spaces, enclosed porches on the upper floors, and the lodge also boasts a small movie theater, a physical therapy gym, multiple salons and a massage room. On the memory floor, there is an art studio with panoramic city views, memory stations throughout, and hallways are color-coded.

“We have simpler apartment rooms on this level with more comfortable common areas to encourage socialization,” Peterson said.

“Socialization is key for people with memory issues. It helps to keep them energized and keep their minds sharp.”

In addition to encouraging socialization among seniors, Peterson said Wind Crest also empowers staff to spend time sitting with residents and sharing meals with them, making for a much more familial environment.

“We’re all about proactively taking care of people,” he said, adding that the opening of the Mill Vista Lodge allows residents who are developing a need for a higher level of care to stay on the 85-acre campus and not have to look for a new facility to live in.

The lodge, which will welcome its residents in slowly, so that staff doesn’t get overwhelmed and can provide optimal care through the transition phase, has also had a significant economic impact on the community, bringing 100 new jobs.

Hazel Vicenec is all smiles and cheers as she gets wheeled into her new home by Wind Crest director of nursing Elizabeth Song on Sept. 16. Vicenec was one of the first five residents to move from the Aspen House into the retirement community’s brand new Mill Vista Lodge. Courtesy photo About 60 of those positions will be medical-related, Peterson said, with the rest be-

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Englewood’s Nick Bersagel (8) prepares to stiff-arm a would-be Sheridan tackler. Bersagel rushed for 173 yards and scored a touchdown as the Piratres won, 46-0. Photos by Tom Munds

pirates flatten rival Sheridan Despite scoreless first quarter, Englewood gets 46-0 win

By Tom Munds

tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com After a scoreless first quarter, Englewood got its offense rolling Sept. 20 as the Pirates bested rival Sheridan, 46-0.

“Getting a win over a rival is always good,” Pirates coach Jay Graves said. “We played pretty well, but we have a lot of young kids in the lineup and we still had a number of those frustrating young-kid mistakes we have to keep working to correct.”

The Pirates are 3-1 on the season and they had the weekend to savor the victory before launching preparations to go on the road Sept. 27 to face Pueblo County.

The Hornets come into the Sept. 27 game against Englewood with a 1-3 non-league record and will be looking for a win. Last year, the Pirates were at home against Pueblo County after soundly beating Sheridan only to have the Hornets roll to a 54-8 win.

“We have to focus on correcting mistakes and getting better starting with Pueblo County. We know what happened when we came off a big win against Sheridan and played them last year,” Graves told his players after the Sheridan game. “We need to play well in Pueblo because the next week we start league play.”

In the game against Sheridan, Englewood got on the scoreboard midway through the second quarter on a fiveyard pass play and built on the lead as they went on to win, 46-0.

The Pirates got solid play from the offensive line as eight players carried the ball and the team gained 308 yards on the ground. Nick Bersagel was the leading rusher with 21 carries for 137 yards and a touchdown. Englewood added 53 yards passing to the offensive total as they rolled to the win.

Five different players scored touchdowns for Englewood. Chris Gutierrez scored two of the touchdowns as he caught passes in the end zone from quarterback Isiah Mestas.

Defensively, the Pirates didn’t give up a first down to the Rams. Fifteen players each had a hand in making the team total of 53 tackles.

Pedro Gutierrez had six solo hits and two assists and teammate Justin Wade had an equal number of solo Football continues on Page 26

Englewood’s Pedro Gutierrez (1) closes in on the ball carrier during the Sept. 20 game against Sheridan. Gutierrez made eight tackles and rushed for a touchdown.

Englewood sophomore Ethan Vasquez (14) prepares to throw a halfback pass in the Sept.

20 game against Sheridan. The pass was incomplete but Englewood went on to win.

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Warriors win defensive battle Arapahoe edges Mountain Vista, 7-6

By Jim Benton

jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com If saves could be awarded in football like baseball, Arapahoe quarterback Gabe Peterson deserves one.

Arapahoe edged Mountain Vista, 7-6, on Sept. 19 at Shea Stadium in Highlands Ranch in the final non-league game for both schools. With the Warriors nursing the lead and trying to run out the clock with 2:20 remaining in the game, Peterson rolled to his right, avoided a Mountain Vista tackler, bounced off two other defenders and wound up gaining 8 yards.

He picked up a first down instead of a possible 5-yard loss.

That play virtually sealed the victory for an Arapahoe team that was playing its second game in four days.

“I guess it was a pretty big play,” said Peterson. “I was just trying to get the first down and trying to get the win. When that guy came right at me I thought I was either going to have to truck him or juke him. I

decided to juke him. I made the right decision.”

Mountain Vista did get the ball back deep in their own territory with 20 seconds remaining but an incomplete pass and a sack saddled the Golden Eagles with their second loss in four games.

“That was the best play of the night for us on offense,” Arapahoe coach Mike Campbell said of Peterson’s third down scramble. “He won the game on that play. That play put the game away. I didn’t like everything our quarterback did with the ball throwing it but I did like what he did with his feet.”

The victory, coming after a 41-40 overtime loss to Fort Collins Sept. 16 in a game that was postponed from Sept. 13 because of heavy rains, boosted Arapahoe’s record to 3-1.

“Everyone on this team is beat up,” confessed Peterson. “We were still feeling the Fort Collins loss but we came back and won.”

Arapahoe opens Super 6 league play Sept. 26 against Columbine and a normal week of rest and preparation was welcomed.

“We played two onepoint games in four days,” pointed out Campbell. “I

don’t think anybody else will be able to say that this year.

“I’m not sure we should have played that game on Monday (against Fort Collins) especially how it looks like it will go nowhere, a noplay is better than a loss.

Maybe we should have not played it and had all our players out here and done better against Mountain Vista. But we didn’t get that memo until noon on Monday (Sept. 16).”

Arapahoe scored on its first possession of the game, driving 50 yards in six plays to take a 7-0 lead with 8:19 to play in the first quarter.

Peterson, who passed for 79 yards and ran for 47 in the game, connected with Ethan Brunhofer on three straight passes, the last one for 21 yards and a touchdown.

Mountain Vista came back on the next possession and drove 80 yards in nine plays with Nick Schmalz scoring on a 3-yard run.

However, the Golden Eagles missed the extra point kick and trailed by a point with 4:33 left to be played in the first quarter.

There was no more scoring in the game, although Mountain Vista had three chances to score in the first

half.

Vista linebacker Tyler Spond returned an intercepted pass 79 yards to the Arapahoe 6-yard line but the Golden Eagles failed to score on a fourth and goal from the 2-yard line on the first play of the second quarter.

Mountain Vista took possession at the Arapahoe 44- and 34-yard lines later in the second period but couldn’t take advantage of ideal field position.

“We had lots of chances,” acknowledged Golden Eagles coach Rick Cash.

“Lost opportunities are what stand out. It is part of competition, it’s part of games. There are situations where you take chances and if they work out then it’s great. If they don’t work out, then you end up looking at a situation where we go a whole game after scoring two touchdowns in the first quarter and nobody else scores.”

After the first quarter, the game turned into a defensive slugfest. Defensive lineman TJ Scherping had nine tackle to pace a Vista defense that held Arapahoe to 233 yards total offense.

Mountain Vista had only 144 yards total offense.

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Arapahoe running back Jose Cancanon gets wrapped up by Mountain Vista LB Tyler Spond (59). Photo by Paul DiSalvo

Continental League play Sept. 26 against Douglas County and Cash hopes to have a two of his three injured captains in the lineup.

Running back Tanner Smith is lost for the season

with a knee injury. Wide receiver Rocco Palumbo missed the second half of the Arapahoe game with an ankle injury and Spond banged up his shoulder late in the game.

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The sound of hundreds of feet pounding the ground will fill the air around Englewood High School on Oct. 5 when the Pirates host the annual Windjammer Invitational Cross Country Meet at Englewood High School.

The Windjammer is a traditional tune-up meet for many schools as the cross country season enters the home stretch. This year, 25 schools have signed up to have teams running in the event.

Englewood has hosted the Windjammer Invitational Cross Country Meet for more than 20 years. The course has always been the same, but that will change this year as the course had to be altered because of construction on the high school campus.

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tackles and assists.

In addition, Wade had a sack.

Both Gutierrez and Wade saw duties as running backs and scored touchdowns.

Steven Travan had four solo tackles and three assists while Tyler Harris and Ethan Vasquez each caused a fumble and Mestas recovered a fumble.

Lineman Matt Hiibischman had a good night blocking on offense and disrupting the Sheridan attack, plus he recovered a fumble.

“It was a fun night out there tonight because things went well on

The first race of the meet, girls junior varsity, starts at 8:45 a.m., and the boys junior varsity race will start at 9:15 a.m.

The boys varsity race is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. and the girls varsity race is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

Spectators can line the course and there is no charge for admission.

This will be the final Windjammer Invitational for Englewood senior Mitch McDonald.

“This season is going pretty well, but I felt I was running better last year than I have been running this year,” he said. “I think the fact school started so late threw me off and I just haven’t caught up.”

He said he always looks forward to the Windjammer.

“I like the Windjammer because it is our only home meet,” he said. “It is the only time during the season when we have a lot of people out cheering for us.”

The senior said his personal best time is 18:43, and he would like to

drop his time below 18 minutes.

“I am focused and working hard,” he said. “I am seeing my performance improving, but I’m not sure right now that I’ll be able to get my time below 18 minutes. But I will keep trying my best to reach that goal.”

Englewood only has two girls on this year’s cross country team, Natalie Pena and Shawna Eldridge.

Eldridge said things are going better for her this year because she is at practice every day and working harder to improve her performance.

“Running is sort of fun for me,” she said. “I think running cross country shows I have the ability to run a 3.1mile race, and I have the drive to push myself to try to better my time every race I run.”

She said her personal best time is 24:08 and her initial goal was to get her time below 23 minutes.

“I am training every day and pushing myself to try to reach that goal,” she said. “I may not reach my goal but I will improve my times.”

offense and on defense for us,” the senior said after the game.

“Winning made it fun and beating a cross-town rival made it even more fun.”

He said he was able to do well against the Sheridan player across from him on both offense and defense.

“I like defense the best, maybe because I am pretty good at it,” he said.

“On defense, I just always try to stay low and go hard to the guy with the ball. I think it helps a lot that I am stronger this year. It has been a fun season so far and I hope it keeps going.”

Teammate Justin Wade also had a good night on both sides of the ball.

Defensively, he had eight tackles that included a sack.

On offense, he carried the ball 10

times for 59 yards and a touchdown.

“This was a great night for me. As a senior, it was the last time to play Sheridan so I had to give it my best whether I was making a block, running the ball or going after the quarterback,” he said.

“On offense, the blocking was great and I focused on running hard so I could break through tackles. It was so much fun. It may be the best game I have played so far, as we shut out Sheridan on their home field on their homecoming night.”

He said he hopes he and his teammates can build on the success they have had so far this season.

“My goal is to help our team win games so we can win league, go to state and make my senior season the best of my high school career,” he said.

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CLUBS IN YOUR COMMUNITY Editor’s notE: To add or update your club listing, email calendar@ourcoloradonews.com, attn: Englewood Herald.

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AmericAn AssociAtion of University Women, Littleton-englewood Branch invites baccalaureates to participate in activities that further the goals of equity for women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change. Meetings usually are Mondays each month, September through May, at Koelbel Library, Orchard Road and Holly Street, Centennial. Social time is followed by business meeting and informative program on subjects ranging from public policy issues to poetry. Call Linda Shell at 303-796-7702.

Denver investor club meets the first Thursday

each month at 7:30 p.m. at the IHOP on Clinton Street in Englewood. Call Gail Segreto at 303-810-9015 or e-mail gailsegreto@ starband.net. This is a nonprofit educational club.

engLeWooD chApter of the Junior

chamber of commerce (Jaycees) needs men and women between the ages of 21 and 40 to help re-establish the chapter. Jaycees work to help chapter members grow professionally and to help serve the community through hands-on projects. To become involved, call 303-914-0180 or visit www. coloradojaycees.org.

Letip internAtionAL, local chapter, is a professional referral organization that meets at Maggiano’s at the Denver Tech Center, 7401 S. Clinton St., in Englewood. A Highlands Ranch chapter meets at LePeep’s, 7156 E. County Line sta LB Road. Call 303-789-7898 or visit www.letip.com.

Federal employees), Chapter 1089 was merged into Chapter 81. The membership meetings are from noon to 1:30 p.m. the third Friday of every month, with an optional lunch at 11 a.m., at the American Legion Post 1, at the Southeast corner of I-25 and Yale Ave (5400 E Yale). All current and retired federal employees are invited to attend. For information call, Hank at 303-779-4268 or Darlene at 303-771-2024.

recreation

cherry creek Anglers meets at 7 p.m. every second Thursday in the Lodge Meeting Room at Gander Mountain Sports, 14000 E. Jewell Ave. Call Dennis at 303-841-3612. kiLoWAtt eights is for people interested in square

dancing. Dances are the first, third and fifth Friday each month at Malley Senior Center in Englewood. Call Ron at 303-759ard,”4862. ance moUntAineers sqUAre Dance club now meets the first, third and fifth Saturdays of the month at the elow Valley View Church of God, 4390 S. Lowell Blvd., Englewood, g my to square dance. Dances start at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and watch. This is a healthy activity for all. Call 303s on 798-4472. atalie poetry night honors the great Edgar Allan Poe by bet-reading poetry at The Attic Bookstore, 200 W. Hampden Ave., is atnear Hampden and Bannock in Englewood. Take originals or an arderold favorite to read to others. Readings will be limited to five minutes. Sign up begins at 7 p.m. Readings begin at 7:30 p.m. ” sheAll styles of poetry are welcome. Call 303-777-5352. untry 3.1pushservices everyhomecoming inc. offers caregivers of low-income seniors who are frail, disabled or unable to live alone without

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ArApAhoe sertomA club meets on Thursdays at the Englewood Elks Club, 3690 S. Jason, Englewood. Contact Ken Kelley at 303-789-9393 or kenkelley@allstate.com.

DAUghters oF the American revolution, columbine chapter meets at 1 p.m. every second Saturday at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Unita St., Englewood.

Call Michelle Brown at 303-979-7550.

DAUghters oF the British empire is a national organization with a philanthropic purpose. For almost a century, DBE has been a common bond for women of British heritage living in the United States. DBE is open to women who are citizens or residents of the U.S. who are of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry or who are married to men of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry. There are six chapters in Colorado, including chapters in Littleton, Englewood, Centennial, Evergreen and Boulder County. Call Chris at 303-683-6154 or Olive at 303-347-1311, or visit www.dbecolorado.org and use the contact form available. sertomA cLUB of Dtc meets on Thursdays at Mangia Bevi Restaurant, Englewood. Contact David Oppenheim at 303-850-7888 or captdso@aol.com. emBroiDerers gUiLD of America

colorado chapter meets at Bethany Lutheran Church at Hampden Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Englewood the fourth Tuesday each month from 9:30 a.m. to noon, excluding December and July. Meetings include needlework projects, needle art education, lectures and workshops of all levels.

Guests are invited. Call Marnie Ritter at 303-791-9334.

the engLeWooD Lions club meets at 7 a.m. every Thursday at the Grill at Broken Tee Golf Course, 2101 West Oxford Avenue. Previously the Lions Club met every Wednesday at noon. The change in time is being made to better accommodate working men and women in the Englewood area who are interested in serving the community. Please join the Lions for breakfast and a weekly program and learn more about Lions Club International and the activities of the Englewood Lions Club. the rotAry club of englewood meets each Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Wellshire Inn, 3333 S. Colorado Blvd, Denver. For information, contact Josh Staller at 303-7216845, or visit rotaryclubofenglewood.org.

FrienDships Are golden, a Precious Moments collectors club, meets the fourth Thursday each month at Castlewood Library in Englewood. Dinner provided by club members at 6 p.m., meeting from 7-9 p.m. Give back to the community by doing local charity work. Talk and share stories about Precious Moments. Call Leota Stoutenger, club president, at 303-791-9283.

services. Call Marina at 720-272-2846.

toAstmAsters - meridian midday. Experienced professionals and beginning speakers alike can benefit from our practical, face-to-face learning program. Whether you’re speaking to the board of directors, your customers, your co-workers or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better.

We meet every Thursday from 11:35 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. at the American Family Insurance Building, 9510 South Meridian Blvd. in Englewood. For more information, contact our current VP of Membership, Brent Hilvitz at 303-668-5789. We hope you will visit us and check out Meridian Midday Toastmasters. www. meridianmidday.com

BreAst cAncer support group meets Tuesdays 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Swedish Medical Center, 501 E. Hampden Ave., Englewood, second floor Conference Center, Spruce B. Patients, survivors and caregivers are welcome to attend. Meetings are free and open to the public. RSVP to Kelly Topf, oncology patient care coordinator, at 303-319-8638.

neWcomers At grace chapel in Englewood welcomes women who are new to the Denver area. Learn about the group’s ongoing Bible study, make new friends, and be encouraged about God’s faithfulness and what happens after the boxes are unpacked. Call Carolyn Chandler at 303-660-4042 for information on welcome teas, Bible study, field trips and get acquainted luncheons. rotAry cLUB of Denver tech center meets from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays at the Glenmoor Country Club in Englewood. Call Larry McLaughline at 303-741-1403.

WiDoWeD men and women of America, Come join us and make new friends and share in a variety of activities. Our monthly meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Rox Bar and Grill, 12684 W. Indore Place, in Jefferson County. For more information call Mel at 303-9738688or Nan at 728-981-1841. soUth sUBUrBAn Women’s connection, affiliated with Stonecroft Ministries, meets from 9-11 a.m. the second Wednesday of every other month beginning in January at Maggiano’s, 7401 S. Clinton St. The brunch includes a feature and an inspirational speaker. For details, reservations and complimentary nursery, call Rachel Lee at 303-866-1444 or e-mail rllee58@gmail.com.

WhAtchA reADin’ meets at 7 p.m. monthly at The Attic Bookstore, 200 W. Hampden Ave., near Hampden and Bannock in Englewood. If having a prescribed reading list isn’t appealing, but gushing about an amazing or horrible read is, this is the right book club. Discuss books and get recommendations from other avid readers. Call 303-777-5352.

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ADULt chiLDren of elderly parents, a Denver-area group of caregivers and relatives of elderly looking for support and resources, meets twice monthly at Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lincoln Street, Englewood. Meetings often include speakers from medical, counseling and housing

sEPt. 28, oct. 19, nov. 9 lunch sEriEs. ActiveRx presents a free Lunch & Learn series to help seniors understand strength and living independently.

The one-hour series is intended to educate mature adults on how they can recover years of lost strength and function.

Free lunch and beverages served. Lunch programs are from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Sept. 28, Oct. 19 and Nov. 9 at ActiveRx Active Aging Center, 300 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 100, Englewood.

Mature adults, adult children of mature adults, caregivers and healthcare professionals are invited. Call 303-781-2181 for reservations. oct. 5 charity ridE. The fourth annual Jam the Damz Colorado Charity Ride is Oct. 5. The ride, which offers 10K, 50K, 70K and 100K courses, benefits three area organizations that provide sports and recreation opportunities for individuals with disabilities and physical challenges (Craig Hospital, U.S. Handcycling

LUng cAncer support group meets from 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays at Swedish Medical Center, 501 E. Hampden Ave., in the second-floor Conference Center, Spruce B, in Englewood.

Patients, survivors and caregivers are welcome. Meetings are free and open to the public. To reserve a spot call Kelly Topf, oncology patient care coordinator, at 303-319-8638. meriDiAn pArkinson’s support group is a unique group. The group is open for Parkinson’s patients and their care-givers. The group will divide into patients in one group and care-givers in another at the April meeting, so that people will be able to get into particular issues and problems and share the successes and failures we experience in dealing with Parkinson’s disease.Attend meetings at 10 a.m. the third Tuesday of each month in the Sky Room of the Meridian building, 3455 S. Corona, Englewood. For more information, contact Gail Greenwood, facilitator, at 303 805 3590 nAmi sUpport group for family members and friends of persons with mental illness meets from 7-8:30 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of the month January through October and the second Wednesday of the month November and December at Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network, 155 Inverness Dr. West, second floor, Englewood. nAmi inFormAtion programs for consumers, family members and friends meet from 7-8:30 p.m. the second Wednesday January through May and September and October at Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network, 155 Inverness Dr. West, second floor, Englewood. overeAters AnonymoUs meets from 10-11 a.m. and from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays in the Sedalia Room at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 2100 Meadows Parkway, Castle Rock. peripherAL neUropAthy support group The Denver Branch meets from 3:30-5 p.m. the first and third Thursdays of every month at Christ Church United Methodist, 690 Colorado Blvd., Denver; parking and entrance in the back. For information about the Denver Branch meetings, call Dorothy Miller at 303-814-2112 or email dorthy_miller@ hotmail.com.

kiWAnis cLUB of englewood believes it has an obligation to be involved in community projects. Members meet Wednesdays 7 a.m. at The Neighborhood Grille 1500 W. Littleton Blvd. Everyone is welcome to join and have breakfast

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EmanciPation Proclamation. Join Active Minds from 10-11 a.m. Sept. 27 for a look at what the Emancipation Proclamation did and did not do. The Emancipation Proclamation took effect 150 years ago and changed the course of the United States while it was embroiled in the Civil War. In it, President Abraham Lincoln exercised his constitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces, to proclaim all slaves in Confederate territory to be forever free. We will examine its impact, both immediate and longer term, from the perspective of slaves, slave owners, Northerners, Southerners, and the country as a whole. This event is sponsored by Bayada Home Health Care and takes place at Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lincoln St., Englewood. Program is free. RSVP at 303-762-2660.

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hepAtitis c support group. The group meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 1000 Englewood Parkway from 7-8:30 p.m. Contact is Deidrea at 303-504-1853.

grAce chApeL mothers of preschoolers meets second and fourth Wednesdays from 9-11:30 a.m. at Grace Chapel, I-25 and County Line Road, Englewood. Call Karleen Wagner at 303-799-4900 or visit www.gracechapel.org.

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September 27, 2013

Success is found in smiles over croquet Game brings generations together, boosts dementia patients

By Ryan Boldrey

rboldrey@ourcoloradonews. com James Creasey figures he has helped initiate 400,000 smiles since he started Jiminy Wicket five years ago. This year he wants to accomplish 2½ times that.

The organization, which brings together generations over the game of croquet to positively impact those suffering from different forms of dementia, was founded after Creasey experienced a breakthrough with his own father over a game six years ago.

“I had no idea what I was going to do with my father in the silence and the confusion that he was experiencing,” Creasey said. “It terrified me.”

While vacationing in his native England with his father and mother, Creasey, who had never played croquet with his father growing up, discovered there was a course at the resort where they were staying and thought a game might be a good idea.What an idea it turned out to be.

“I took him up there after breakfast on the first day,” Creasey

said. “As he hit the ball, he smiled, and I thought, `Whoa, this is all right.’”

Creasey played with his father every day for two weeks and commissioned his brother to buy him a croquet set once vacation was over and Creasey returned to Denver.

“I started getting emails and phone calls from my nephews and my nieces saying, `This is incredible, we don’t have to just sit in the silence with papa anymore.’

“After that I started this program with the Alzheimer’s Association here in Colorado to see if I could put a smile on a few more faces. I thought if I could make a half-dozen more people smile, I’d die a happy man.”

Creasey wasn’t satisfied with a half-dozen people, though, and now has his sights on achieving a million smiles between two generations over croquet — this year alone.

On Sept. 20, one day before World Alzheimer’s Day — and the four-year anniversary of his father’s death — Creasey was at the Rockefeller Center in New York City launching the “Through Hoops to Hope” program to pair Alzheimer’s patients with high school students in 100 schools from coast to coast. Forty of those schools, including Kent Denver and Regis Jesuit, are located in Colorado.

None of this would have hap-

From left, Vi residents Roy and Fay Whitney are helping to fund a group founded by James Creasey, right. The organization, Jiminy Wicket, uses croquet to bridge generational gaps and put smiles on the faces of those with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Photo by Ryan Boldrey pened, however, without Roy and Fay Whitney.

When Creasey ran out of funding to take his program any further, the couple, who live parttime at Vi at Highlands Ranch, stepped forward and provided him with enough funding to keep his program going and take it to the next level.

“It’s nice to share with people who are further down the line than you are,” said Roy. “At our age it’s easy to say, `I don’t know

what the next 10 years are going to bring.”

Fay, who has spent 50 years as a nurse and is the professor emeritus of the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing at the University of Wyoming, is in for another reason.

“I’ve been working with the elderly for a long time, and now I am one,” she said. “One of the things I have noted in taking care of people with Alzheimer’s or dementia is that they are isolated, not just by themselves, but by everyone.”

The program helps eliminate that isolation, by providing social engagement, physical exercise and cognitive stimulation for the seniors.

It also brings smiles to all involved, and that, Creasey says, is how, “when there is no language, no words, no ability to string a sentence together,” one can tell it is working.

For background and information about Jiminy Wicket, go to www.jiminywicket.org

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