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Scam Risk In the first half of 2020, Coloradans reported $15.5 million in losses to consumer scams—up from $11.3 million in all of 2015. As our lives become more digitized, scammers are finding new ways to steal our money.

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The Insidious Voice Of Depression With anxiety and depression on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, people who’ve never experienced mental health issues are enduring some of the emotions one 5280 editor feels almost every day of his life.

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Jeffery Bolling, ring designer and owner of Jeffery B Jewelers in Cherry Creek, weighs in on today’s hottest proposal trends in preparation for engagement season.

Denver’s park rangers reconcile conflicting roles while fighting the opioid and homelessness crises.

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This month’s election is being hyped as the biggest, most consequential ever. But what ballot decision has actually shaped Colorado more than any other?

A restaurant critic solves a local Neapolitan-style mystery: takeout, kit, or homemade?

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Fastidious hand-washing is an essential part of staving off the novel coronavirus—but it’s not doing much for your skin. That’s why we rounded up the best Coloradomade lotions and balms to soothe your specific epidermis woe.

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Twelve years ago, curators at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science realized it held stolen artifacts. What it took to get them home highlights the complex nature of decolonizing museums.

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DIALOGUE Fraud Alert

As if 2020 weren’t already the worst year in recent memory, we’ve got one more thing to add to the running list: Consumer scams are up. We’ve seen the best of people in the form of medical professionals and frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we’ve also seen the worst of humanity as con artists have come out en masse to prey on us during this uniquely difficult time. Which is not to say that these shysters weren’t around before 2020—they were, and they’ve been steadily ramping up their schemes as more of our lives are conducted on the internet. The unfortunate truth is that if you’re online, getting scammed in one way or another is a question of when, not if. The best way to avoid being ripped off is to know the techniques they use to try to separate you from your money. That’s why 5280 deputy editor Lindsey B. King—who was nearly the victim of an elaborate attempted scam herself—set out to write “Scam Risk” (page 66). “These fraudsters are expert criminals,” King says. “They know how to exploit your fear to extract sensitive information. They also know victims are often too embarrassed to report their experiences—and that’s how they continue to operate.” In just the first half of this year, citizens of Colorado reported $15.5 million in losses from consumer scams, many of which used the pandemic to their advantage. In fact, the state rejected tens of thousands of fraudulent claims for unemployment assistance that would have totaled $750 million to $1 billion. Reading King’s feature is a good start toward protecting yourself. Then, as Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says, the next step is “constant vigilance.”

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“Colorado Wildfire Smoke Has Been Unprecedented Lately.

Get Used to It.” September 16, 2020

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ing to this 5280.com story, that hazy horizon might become the new normal. “This is just

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sad,” @nerdinrunshoes wrote. “We need widescale change...a decade ago.” Despite the fact that record wildfires are raging within its borders, Colorado isn’t the only state that will suffer ramifications from the smoke, says Mara Owens:

“No part of the country is immune from climatechange-driven wildfires.

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“What You’ve Read Is True: Snow Could Blow Into Denver

by Tuesday” September 4, 2020

One climate pattern every Denverite can get excited about is the season’s first snow, which descended on the Mile High City in September (as this 5280.com story predicted).

“CAN’T WAIT!!!!!” @susan bspankony exclaimed.

“It’s been waaaaaay too hot!”

“Sad to watch Cameron Peak and Mullen fires sweep through such beautiful areas that my kids and I enjoyed so much.”

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“A Legacy Of Neglect” October 2020

As society figures out how to redress monuments honoring controversial historical figures, this story about a teacher in Granada fighting to preserve a WWII-era Japanese internment camp inspired intense debate. “I thought we were supposed to tear down monuments to the past,” Stephan Ar wrote.

Others posited that the issue was more complex than that. “Statues celebrating bad people, yes,” Jacob Harkins responded. “Historical sites teaching us of our failures, no. Very big difference between the two.”

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The creator of Black in Denver on how the series found new purpose following the Black Lives Matter protests.

Five years ago, Narkita Gold left a successful public relations position in Nashville, Tennessee, for an opportunity to redefine herself in Denver.

Unable to find a job initially and living far from family, Gold began to examine her identity: “I started to ask myself big questions like, Who am I? What’s my purpose here?

What does it mean to be me?

I wondered if other people like me were asking similar things. So I started asking them.” The resulting photography series, Black in Denver, pairs colorful portraits with interviews about individuality and purpose in the hope of dispelling the racist narrative of Black people existing

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as a monolith. Before exhibiting her work at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities this month (November 19 to December 27), Gold, 32, spoke with 5280 about her artistic process, the uniqueness of Denver’s Black community, and how this summer’s protests impacted the project.

Excerpts from Narkita Gold’s Black in Denver.*

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“To be me in Denver is to constantly be reminded of how different I am and to celebrate that...Denver is interesting because it took me being in a space of total whiteness to find my voice and gain the courage to genuinely flaunt my unapologetic Blackness.”

5280: How did you get into photography?

Narkita Gold: I didn’t study photography. My dad gave me my first camera when I was six or seven.

I’ve always had a camera in my hand. Whenever big milestones came around, I always asked for a camera or an album from an artist like the Backstreet Boys— those were the two things I was interested in.

What has surprised you about the answers you’ve received from your subjects?

People have a lot of self-awareness. Also, because the [Black] community here is so small, there is a unique opportunity to define yourself. I talk to a lot of people who moved here and thought they knew themselves but are really discovering who they are now. The people who are from here have told me that growing up here meant they didn’t have to fit into this limited scope of what Blackness is.

How did this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests impact the project?

I had considered stopping. I thought I had done

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BRANDEN owner of Originate Clothing what I needed to do. Then Ahmaud Arbery happened. Then Breonna Above: Black in Taylor. Then George Floyd. I didn’t Denver creator change the work, but different quesNarkita Gold tions came to the forefront. I was upset. I was hurt. I am so over my people being killed. I realize my questions are possibly antidotes to some of the hostility that Black people face—I’m hoping that my questions will reveal to people who have negative assumptions and opinions about Black people that they’re wrong.

In the wake of those protests, your work has been shown at a number of area galleries and was even projected on the Daniels & Fisher Tower downtown throughout July and August.

What has it been like to gain more prominence during this time?

The awareness and the attention that this project has received have given me a little bit of anxiety. I’m a shy person. But I understand the importance of this work, and I really want to see change. If I can contribute to some type of change, even if it’s small, I’m here to do that.

“To me, being Black in Denver means always being aware that I stand out and using it to my advantage. I feel that as long as you’re prepared and motivated, you can achieve anything.”

ANTONIA preschool teacher “For me, being Black in Denver means cultivating inner strength, self-love, and a clear purpose. It means sharing your authentic self with the community around you and the community you create for yourself.” *Blackindenver.com did not disclose subjects’ last names.

From left: Courtesy of Kori Hazel; Courtesy of Narkita Gold (3)

When I pulled up your Instagram page, I was immediately struck by the number of background colors you use for the portraits. Why employ so much variation?

I use a variety of colors to emphasize how varied my subjects’—which include city leaders, business owners, and artists—belief systems and ways of being are.

Media has put Black people all in the same box. We sometimes even put ourselves in a box. As far as who gets what color, I often think about skin tone when picking backgrounds. I want there to be a high contrast. But usually I assign people a color before I actually shoot.

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WEDDINGS Relationship Goals

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, quarantine prepares it for commitment. That’s what customers have been telling Jeffery Bolling, ring designer and owner of Jeffery B Jewelers in Cherry Creek. And with the holidays already a popular time for proposals, we put Bolling on the spot by popping either-or trend questions (his answers in bold) in preparation for engagement season. —ANGELA UFHEIL vs.

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A ring with smaller diamonds framing the big one

An engagement ring with a solitary diamond setting 2

Asking the parents of your beloved for their blessing

Making an unauthorized proposal 3

A colored stone, like a sapphire or ruby

Diamond 4

Design an engagement ring with your SO

Design an engagement ring by yourself 5

Brilliant cut

Emerald cut 6

Proposing when you’re alone

Proposing in front of family 7

Putting the ring in Champagne during the proposal

Not doing that 8

Destination wedding

Hometown wedding 9

Gold band

Platinum band 10

Outdoor wedding

Indoor wedding

JEFFERY BOLLING SAYS ‘I DO’ TO HIS FAVORITE PROPOSAL TRADITIONS 1. “You can have a beautiful window and leave it as is,” Bolling says. “But if you did put a trim on it and add curtains, it makes it a little more finished.”

2. “What can I say; I’m old and like the tradition,” he says. 3. Diamonds are impervious to perfumes, acids, and other forms of wear. Other stones, not so much: “There’s no way a sapphire is going to look as good as a diamond in 20 years,” Bolling says. 4. Bolling always tells customers to purchase a simple ring then come back after the “OMG, yes!” to design another ring together. “That way, they can get exactly what they want,” he says. 5. The vintage-

inspired, eight-sided emerald is popular now, but the brilliant cut is “designed to allow the maximum amount of light to shine through,” he says. Translation: It’s the most sparkly option. 6. The actual proposal should be just the two of you, but celebrate with family afterward. “You need all the support you can get,” Bolling says. 7. “Cherish the ring!” he says. “Don’t put it in booze!” 8. “If you make people travel, only the people who really want to be there will show up,” he says. 9. “Platinum dulls over time,” Bolling says, “so you need to go get it polished semiregularly.” 10. “If it’s in Colorado, definitely outdoors,” he says.

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“All I could do was perform rescue breaths and wait for the paramedics to arrive,” Hill says. “It was agonizing.”

In the years since Hill joined, DPR has improved rangers’ training so they feel more prepared to confront America’s opioid epidemic. “Someone may decline services a thousand times over,” says Joshua Glover, park ranger supervisor for DPR’s downtown district, an area that includes Civic Center, Sunken Gardens, and Lincoln parks. “Because the rangers have a good relationship with the people who hang out in the park, we hope eventually they might get through.” Now, many nonprofit leaders fear that trust may crumble under the strain of Denver’s homeless sweeps, as the city increasingly recruits rangers to help clear encampments. “We definitely wish [rangers] weren’t involved with sweeps at all,” says Lisa Raville, executive director of the nonprofit Harm Reduction Action Center, which works to lower the negative impacts of drug abuse.

Although the Denver Department of Public Health & Environment (DDPHE) doesn’t specifically track drug use in public parks, its records show that in 2019, eight percent of the city’s 213 overdose deaths occurred outdoors. Those experiencing homelessness are especially likely to use in parks, Raville says, adding, “Rangers would come to me thirsting for knowledge about how to help.” DPR has responded by equipping rangers with naloxone, a drug better known as Narcan, which counteracts overdoses; providing secure needle and syringe disposal containers; and teaching rangers in the downtown district how to direct people struggling with substance abuse to service providers.

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The resulting bonds with people struggling with homelessness and addiction have made rangers helpful resources during encampment cleanups in 2020, a year that’s brought fierce debate around performing sweeps during a pandemic.

(The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises against them if safe, alternative housing isn’t available; the city of Denver and DDPHE say camps pose a public health risk due to high rates of hepatitis A and bacterial infections.) In addition to handing out notices of removal of abandoned property, rangers also have had to intervene alongside police when people resist moving or when protesters interrupt the sweeps.

“Imagine that you’d begun to think of a certain ranger as a good guy, someone who might be able to help you,” says Terese Howard, an organizer with nonprofit Denver Homeless Out Loud. “And then you see him throwing someone’s stuff out during a sweep.”

At first, Hill shared Howard’s concern. So far, though, he believes that fear has been unfounded.

“I think people in the tent camps appreciate seeing a familiar face helping them through the process,” Hill says. And while dispersing camps isn’t what drew Hill to become a ranger in the first place, it’s another unexpected addition to an unpredictable job—just like treating overdose victims.

“Being a city park ranger isn’t all campfire stories and roasting marshmallows,” he says. “We’re putting our best foot forward.” —AU

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Every four years, politicians tell us that this November’s election is the biggest, most consequential ever—this month’s push to the polls being no different. But what ballot decision has actually shaped the state more than any other? Even experts have a difficult time agreeing on an answer. —SHANE MONAGHAN YES NO

“Cory Gardner’s upset win over Mark Udall served as a test case for disinformation campaigns and extreme technological microtargeting. Cambridge Analytica—a data firm that harvested millions of Facebook users’ data without consent, which it then used to deliver misleading ads to specific people—was likely involved with efforts to boost Republican turnout in Colorado that year. Those tactics were expanded upon during President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016, and both elections seeded the groundwork for potentially decades of extremism in Colorado’s GOP. Currently, there are several extreme—even conspiracist—candidates poised to win elections this November.”

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“Jared Polis was elected to the board of education by a mere 90 votes out of 1.6 million. He self-funded his $1.2 million campaign, swamping incumbent Ben Alexander, who spent just $10,000. Polis then dropped about $7.3 million—nearly four times as much as his opponent Joan Fitz-Gerald—to win the Democratic primary for the 2nd Congressional District in 2008.

A decade later, Polis spent an unimaginable $24 million to $30 million to become governor. Along with the likely tens of millions that Polis, Tim Gill, Pat Stryker, and Rutt Bridges [Democratic donors nicknamed ‘the Gang of Four’] spent beginning in 2004, they proved that, at least politically, Colorado may not be cheap, but it can be bought.”

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On Pizza Alone A restaurant critic solves a local Neapolitan-style mystery: takeout, kit, or homemade? B Y S C O T T M O W B R AY

When COVID-19 arrived this past spring I, like many others, went into a defensive cooking crouch.

All the extra time I had on my hands meant producing massive amounts of comfort food for the freezer, and my flour purchases skyrocketed. I fattened myself and my loved ones on various baked and griddled doughs, batters, and hand-cut pastas. Also, scads of pizza. With convenience and time-saving no longer a priority, I moved from my usual reliance on Whole Foods’ pizza dough balls to from-scratch versions, proofing each iteration anywhere from four to 48 hours.

The problem with making pizza at home, though, is that most ovens max out at 550 degrees or so and cannot produce the Neapolitan-style puff-and-char crust that is the highest achievement of the art. The texture of the best pies in this style is elusive: chewy, moist, and substantial about the periphery while thin at the center, the whole slice foldable rather than cracker-crisp and, of course, never soggy.

Using a friend’s Italian pizza oven made it clear that no amount of fiddling with rack placement or 15-pound pizza steels in my humble GE convection oven would ever match the exquisite results of wood-fueled fire in an igloo of brick. The problem lies in the physics of heat transfer. At 700 degrees or even hotter, a professional pizza oven cooks toppings and crust in a couple of minutes, while the cooler home oven dries out the crust before the toppings are ready.

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I made do while restaurants were shut down, but when they reopened, I headed to chef-owner Kelly Whitaker’s Basta in Boulder for a fix of real puff and char. Whitaker’s clam pie ($20) is a sublime example of Neapolitan crust combined with American-ish toppings. His light touch with the rich clam and cream combo yields a virtuoso riff on an old clam pie style famous in New Haven, Connecticut, and remains, as it was pre-coronavirus, a perfect example of pizza oven thermodynamics.

With many of the best pizza places in Denver now offering takeout, though,

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I wondered if that might be the way to finesse this sort of quality at home?

(Delivery was out because I wanted to maximize the probability of getting the hottest pizza at my chosen dinner time, and I didn’t want to spend money on delivery services that cut into the makers’ revenues.) After organizing a threerestaurant test, I happily concluded that the answer is mostly yes, while stipulating that nothing equals pizza consumed directly from a superhot oven. And there are tricks to the pickup approach for attaining ultimate satisfaction.

Members of my takeout team fetched two pizzas each from Cart-Driver’s 11-month-old Highland location and nearby Bar Dough as well as a pair from Marco’s Coal-Fired near Coors Field.

Another principle of takeout optimization: Simpler pizzas with fewer toppings tend to highlight the pleasures of a Neapolitan-style crust instead of overwhelm it.

Austerity, rather than profligacy, wins.

Cart-Driver offers a parbaked approach, in which you briefly finish cooking the pizza at 450 degrees before serving. The other two restaurants boxed their pies ready to eat. We had every pizza back at our Highland apartment destination within 15 minutes of pickup.

Six pizzas and a bottle of Costco Kirkland Champagne later—at $20, it’s the best value in real Champagne anywhere—I discovered that a wee bit of reheating is a good idea with Neapolitan-style takeout pizza, even if it’s been fully cooked at the restaurant. A minute or two at 450 or 500 degrees does the trick; you can put the pizza directly onto your oven rack. The exception to this approach is any pie garnished with fresh ingredients that would be wrecked by a heat blast, such as the Toscana ($19)

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from Marco’s, which had a generous draping of very tender prosciutto.

Another principle of takeout optimization: Simpler pizzas with fewer toppings tend to highlight the pleasures of a Neapolitan-style crust instead of overwhelm it. Austerity, rather than profligacy, wins.

Bar Dough’s Pepe ($15) is a good example of what holds up well, with its hot and fruity Fresno and Jimmy Nardello chiles, a few strands of red onion, and a thin layer of pungent Taleggio on a chewy, beautifully blistered crust. There were no fresh tomatoes or thick sauce to weigh down the crust. Paradoxically, Bar Dough’s Margherita ($15), though good and archetypally simple, did not travel as well. The Margherita is the classic pizza of Naples, but its toppings—acidic tomato sauce, milky fresh mozzarella, basil—have a vanishingly short box life and are prone to sogginess.

Marco’s Coal-Fired delivered a fine crust, and its odd-sounding pistachio pizza ($19) is among the simplest on its menu: Italian sausage, fresh mozzarella, olive oil, and a creamy pistachio pesto much subtler than its basil counterpart.

If the gray, cubed chunks of sausage made this a less-than-pretty pie, that didn’t really matter; it was savory and rich and traveled well. The abovementioned Toscana with the thin slices of prosciutto—plus fresh mozzarella, Parmesan, arugula, and grape tomatoes, no red sauce—was also a treat, even without reheating.

Both of Cart-Driver’s pizzas impressed my small team of judges, in part because the parbake approach yielded piping-hot pies that had already been charred in the restaurant’s ovens, and in part because the concise quantities of intensely flavorful toppings didn’t overwhelm Cart-Driver’s thin crust. My favorite was the mushroom version ($18), in which mushroom conserva delivered deep, earthy notes that balanced a thin application of creamy garlic Parmesan sauce. Its clam pie ($20) was also very good, though more about the virtues of salty, funky pancetta and sweet roasted garlic than of the too-scant clams.

I didn’t stop there. A couple of nights later, we picked up pizza kits ($12 to $15) from Blue Pan Pizza in Congress Park and Joy Hill on South Broadway.

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tomato sauce, mozzarella, and pepperoni (if you choose pepperoni), assembled and baked at home. Joy Hill also offers a parcooked crust, rather like a half-cooked naan, that you can finish at home with its simple toppings. Both kit pizzas were acceptable and a good idea if you want to practice pie-making with supple restaurant dough, but they return you to the original home-oven dilemma: 150 degrees short of the char and blister that these restaurants achieve in their own ovens. I would have preferred Blue Pan and Joy Hill takeout.

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I have found home-pizza bliss in a Serious Eats recipe for pan-baked Sicilian pizza with pepperoni and spicy tomato sauce, a formula perfected by one of the country’s great recipe technicians, MIT graduate J. Kenji López-Alt. It’s an interpretation of a thick-crusted pan pie found at Prince Street Pizza in New York City, featuring an airy crust that is basically fried in olive oil until crunchy on the bottom and thick enough to remain moist while the toppings cook.

López-Alt’s recipe starts with a simple dough that takes 10 minutes to make in a food processor. You leave it to proof for three hours on the baking sheet you’ll cook it on, sitting on a quarter-cup slick of good olive oil. The dough relaxes as it proofs so you can easily stretch it to the edges of the pan; then you add delistyle mozzarella, tomato sauce (I like using a good no-sugar jarred sauce with a bit of sautÊed minced garlic and dried chile flakes thrown in), hand-sliced pepperoni, and a shower of grated Pecorino Romano. (Spinnelli’s Market in Denver is a good source for the ingredients.) Ten minutes or so at 550 degrees produces a field of cupped pepperoni slices and deeply browned Find our Dining Guide, crust edges. It’s very, an extensive very good—so much so list of area that although it’s suprestaurants, on page 90 posed to serve as many and online at as eight people, in our 5280.com/ restaurants. house it rarely does. m

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Twelve years ago, curators at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science realized it held stolen artifacts. What it took to get them home highlights the complex nature of decolonizing museums.

IT’S DIFFICULT TO OVERSTATE how much the American public trusts museums.

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n the coast of eastern Kenya live nine tribes collectively known as the Mijikenda. For generations, the Mijikenda have farmed their homesteads, where they live with up to 60 extended family members.

According to Mijikenda belief, the spirits of the dead linger there, too, commemorated by statues erected around the homestead. These figures are held in high regard: The Mijikenda have been known to pour sips of wine on the ground in front of the statues so that the deceased may indulge.

Wooden carvings called vigango sit on the boundaries of some of these homesteads. Vigango (singular: kigango) are some of the most powerful Mijikenda statues. They are made of termite-resistant hardwood and stand between four and nine feet tall. Each kigango is the physical embodiment of a deceased member of the Gohu, a secret society of men chosen from seven of the Mijikenda tribes. The Gohu member’s family must hire an artist to craft Three vigango carvings found the kigango and pay for a cereat the DMNS mony and celebration when the carving is complete. Some spend years saving. According to custom, failure to honor their relative will result in bad fortune. Crops will shrivel. Cows will die.

Further adversity may ensue if anyone removes a kigango from its post. Even if a family relocates its homestead, vigango must be left behind to be worn down naturally by the elements. So, in 2008, when Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) staff learned the significance of the 30 vigango in its collection, it realized something had gone very wrong.

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Respondents to a 2018 survey conducted by analytics firm Reach Advisors had more confidence in museums than in any other institution on its list, including local newspapers, the U.S. government, and academic researchers. The histories of these esteemed halls, however, are complicated and troublesome. “Many museums were founded through the colonial endeavor,” says Brandie MacDonald, director of decolonizing initiatives at the Museum of Us in San Diego. As European nations colonized Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, she says, they looted the artifacts of the peoples who called those lands home. In Europe, the spoils were sold to galleries, private collectors, and museums.

Eventually, this art made its way overseas.

Along with stolen items from North and South America, “exotic” artifacts became part of the United States’ most prized collections, including in Colorado. For years, a largely white pool of curators thought of themselves as the keepers of culture. As Indigenous communities advocated for the return of their heritages, that mindset began to shift, even if demographics didn’t: A 2018 survey from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation found that in 136 U.S. art

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Homecoming museums, 80 percent The vigango are of leadership, curaunpacked in Kenya. tors, conservators, and educators were white.

Despite a continued lack of diversity in staffing, Colorado museums have improved their collection ethics. Now that increased awareness about unjust power structures is forcing America to re-examine its fraught history, Centennial State museums are trying to meet the moment.

Plenty of Indigenous art arrived ethically

at Colorado’s museums. That doesn’t hold true for the vigango. Thieves frequently take them from Mijikenda homesteads and pawn them off to souvenir shops, which sell them again, often to the same man: Ernie Wolfe III, a Los Angeles art dealer.

In 2006, the New York Times reported that Hollywood elites purchased vigango from the Ernie Wolfe Gallery. “Then they would donate them to unsuspecting museums,” says Stephen Nash, director of anthropology at the DMNS. “They get a tax deduction, we get a cool collection of undeniably beautiful stuff, and everybody wins, right? Except for the people whose ancestors just got stolen.”

Wolfe denies knowingly purchasing stolen goods, according to news reports, though his gallery’s website still advertises vigango, claiming they’d been abandoned.

Experts condemn this practice, but when Nash and former fellow curator Chip Colwell learned how important vigango were to the Mijikenda, they focused not on assigning blame but instead on repatriation, the act of returning an item to its country of origin.

Repatriation is just one element of decolonizing museums—that is, actively

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working to undo the harms caused by colonialism—but it’s often the most highprofile. For a long time, curators, fearing their collections would be drained, resisted calls for repatriation. In 1980, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) became the first museum in the nation to voluntarily return carvings known as Ahayu:da, or war gods, which had been stolen from Zuni Pueblo shrines—but, as Colwell’s book Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits details, the decision came after resistance from the staff (newspapers wrote about the Zuni’s demands, sparking public outcry in support of the tribe). The DMNS, for its part, put the skeleton of a Pueblo woman it had on display back into storage in 1970 to avoid bad press but didn’t immediately return the remains.

A federal law passed in 1990 mandated change. Known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the legislation requires all federally funded institutions in the United States to send American Indian tribes lists of the items and human remains held in their collections. If a tribe can prove that remains belong to its ancestors or that an item is sacred, is used in a modern-day cer-

Returning Ritual emony, or is an object Stephen Nash and of cultural patrimony Mijikenda elders (communally owned), the law mandates that museums give it back.

Negotiations, at first, were painful. Vincent Randall, an enrolled member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, worked as a Western Apache interpreter during consultations, including a contentious meeting in the early 2000s with the DAM about seven cultural items, including three masks.

“It was very offensive to the elders to be told that we needed more ‘documentation,’ ” Randall says. “Our oral traditions weren’t given the same weight.” (The

DAM ultimately returned the items, and a spokesperson for the museum gave late curator Nancy Blomberg credit for developing the museum’s repatriation processes.)

NAGPRA is also infrequently enforced, with only a few institutions out of hundreds receiving fines for noncompliance.

Over time, the dialogue between Colorado museums and tribes improved, and progress has been made. The DMNS no longer holds Native American human remains; along with the DAM, History Colorado, and the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, it has returned multiple items under NAGPRA. Curators from these institutions also now include Indigenous voices in their exhibits, inviting tribal members to help develop displays and illustrate the ways their cultures have transformed in the 21st century.

But while NAGPRA, which only applies to American Indians, lays out clear rules for returning objects, no such widely agreed-upon structure exists for repatriating art and artifacts outside the United States. Ensuring the vigango made it back to Kenya was an entirely different logistical and diplomatic challenge.

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CU LT U R E PURITY KIURA WAS EXCITED when Nash approached her at a professional training in 2018. As the director of antiquities, sites and monuments at the National Museums of Kenya, she was used to institutions outside of Africa resisting her requests for repatriation. “There is no international law that says you have to take these things back,” she says.

“It’s all goodwill and negotiations.”

The DMNS had been struggling with such negotiations for years by the time

Nash and Kiura met. The museum had struck a deal with Kenyan authorities and even held a farewell ceremony for the vigango in 2014. Then the process hit a snag: The Kenyan Revenue Authority demanded a $40,000 import tariff from the DMNS. The vigango sat in storage at DIA for three years as Nash sought a less-expensive solution; they were eventually brought back to the DMNS. “It was embarrassing to all of us,” Nash says.

Kiura says situations like this aren’t uncommon. Indigenous peoples long to see objects returned, but many countries’ governments request inordinate fees from museums, hindering the process. The timing of Kiura’s meeting with Nash was serendipitous, though. After he explained the predicament, Kiura returned home to Nairobi, where a recent law said museum artifacts should not be taxed. Finally, the carvings went home.

The DMNS’ efforts to repatriate the vigango, Kiura says, is what she wants to see from other museums, which have garnered funding and boosted their reputations, in part, through stolen art. Leaders of Denver’s museum scene say things are changing: People from artworks’ cultures of origin frequently enhance curators’ understandings of the collections they hold.

History Colorado worked closely with the state’s Ute tribes on its recent Written On The Land exhibit, and since 2019, the DAM has collaborated with an Indigenous Community Advisory Council, which consults on exhibits connected to Native American art. DAM director Christoph Heinrich says his team pairs art with observations from various perspectives to avoid positioning curators as the ultimate authorities on collections.

Yet even in Colorado’s most established museums, more work is needed. The North American Indian Cultures Hall at the DMNS hasn’t changed much since 1978; its dioramas depict tribal nations frozen in time, rather than as living, breathing cultures. The DAM has pieces in its collection that require further provenance research.

And both are trying to add more people of color to their majority white staffs.

These changes will be arduous, expensive, and will take time. But museum leaders say they’re necessary—and for Nash, who visited Kenya in October 2019 to meet Mijikenda members and celebrate the vigango’s return, they’re life-altering. “We’d worked on this issue for 12 years. I needed closure,” he says.

A Museums of Kenya employee guided Nash through Mijikenda homesteads, introducing him to elders, dignitaries, and a man whose own vigango—seven of them— had been stolen.

“He wasn’t angry,” Nash says. “He wasn’t really sad, even. He was just melancholy.

How do you go through life knowing that seven of your ancestors had been taken from their final resting place? That’s something nobody should have to go through.” m Angela Ufheil is a 5280 assistant editor. Email her at letters@5280.com.

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Colorado is home to thousands of acres of the world’s most epic terrain—and to cutting-edge inventors, ski bums, and pro athletes who are making some of the best gadgets, gizmos, toys, and tools to help you explore it. Here, a guide to assembling the ultimate Centennial State stash.

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Today it’s easy to find supplies for traversing the backcountry, but decades ago, we weren’t so lucky.

Thankfully, these inventors used their wits and wilderness experiences to create goods that help recreationists not just survive but also truly enjoy the great outdoors.

SMARTWOOL Before founding this apparel manufacturer in Steamboat Springs in 1994, Peter and Patty Duke were ski instructors in Vermont who hated how wet their cotton socks got.

Instead of accepting their cold-toed fate, the duo embarked on a mission to find a material that wouldn’t get soggy. After numerous tests, they discovered merino wool, an insulating, moisture-wicking fiber that comes from its namesake breed of sheep. Turns out, it’s not just good for the feet: The company, which was acquired in 2005 by Timberland (now part of Denver-based VF Corporation) for $82 million, also uses it in apparel like sweaters, dresses, and even underwear.

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The Latest: Women’s merino 250 drape-neck hoodie in masala heather, $140; merino 250 base layer colorblock bottom in canyon rose heather, $110, smartwool.com NITE IZE Rick Case was an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1989 when he invented Nite Ize’s first product: a headband with a flashlight holder, ideal for late night (or early morning) backcountry bathroom breaks. Following that success, he made dozens of flashlight accessories, and in 2000, the Boulder-based outfitter started expanding its lineup with items like a double-sided carabiner and, most recently, river-ready airtight pouches fitted with the company’s

BIG AGNES Most campers accept that their nighttime setups won’t yield the same quality zzz’s as their pillowtop mattresses at home. Nineteen years ago, though, Bill Gamber rejected that notion, dreaming up a sleeping pad that slid into a sleeve on the bottom of a sleeping bag, allowing for a comfier slumber.

Better yet: Combining the two meant the bottom of the sleeping bag needed less insulation, resulting in a lighter load. These days, Big Agnes—which gets its

name from a mountain near the company’s Steamboat Springs base—makes tents, camp furniture, and other accessories just as nimble as Gamber’s first creation.

The OG: Sleeping bag with sleeve for sleeping pad The Latest: Tiger Wall UL1 tent, $350, bigagnes.com KELTY Hiking pounds of equipment into a remote campsite might not be as easy as a walk in the park, but it’s a lot more bearable thanks to Asher “Dick” Kelty, who, in the 1950s, invented the aluminum-frame pack.

Around the same time, he came up with another first—the waistbelt, which takes much of the load off wearers’ shoulders. Kelty’s eponymous brand started in California but moved to Boulder in the mid’90s and has continued to roll out lightweight backpacks, tents, camp furniture, and cooking supplies.

The OG: Aluminum-frame backpacks; waistbelts The Latest: Cosmic synthetic 0 sleeping bag with synthetic insulation for lightweight warmth, starting at $120, kelty.com

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proprietary waterproof zippers.

The OG: Headband with flashlight holder The Latest: RunOff waterproof medium travel pouch with Tru-Zip technology, $30, niteize.com

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Three go-to outfitters.

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SHOPPERS Yes, we know you know about REI. But we’d be remiss not to mention its showpiece, flagship Denver location—and its thousands of products, from tent stakes to snow pants to kayaks. Pro tip: Become a lifetime member of the Seattleborn co-op for just $20 and receive 10 percent of your purchases back each year (in the form of REI credit or cash) plus an invite to the annual garage sale. rei.com

For: PENNY PINCHERS

Since 2000, LoHi’s Wilderness Exchange has prevented explorers on a budget from going broke. Whether they’re after biking accessories or skis, shoppers will often get 50 percent or more off used and new products’ original prices, thanks to the staff ’s ability to buy close-out items and factory seconds.

When you’re done with your gear, sell it back to Wilderness’ consignment program and get credit toward future purchases. wildernessx.com

For: LOCAVORES

Locally owned Feral in Berkeley not only has a huge selection of new apparel, accessories, and camping and climbing gear (from top brands such as Mountain Hardwear, Black Diamond, and NEMO), but it also sells a vast array of used items like tents, sleeping bags, and hiking boots. feralmountainco.com

FOR STARTERS

It doesn’t take long to accumulate enough gear to overflow a closet (or garage), but figuring out where to begin can be intimidating—and expensive. John Weir, the floor manager at Golden’s Bentgate Mountaineering, says beginners should think about building their collections in terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: Start with things that keep you stable and secure, and then work up to more indulgent wants.

SELF-ACTUALIZATION

No amount of money (or gear) can equal the satisfaction of bagging a fourteener or sending your first 5.9 climbing route.

ESTEEM

Once you’ve satiated your more pressing needs, splurge on items that just make you feel cool, like a coveted Micro Grid hoodie (known by cult followers as a “Melly”) from Leadville’s Melanzana.

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For dayhikes, any old backpack will do, Weir says. When you’re ready to spring for something specialized, though, Cortez’s Osprey packs are favorites (i.e., you’ll fit right in on the Colorado Trail).

Fancy dishware is also not necessary. Instead, invest in an all-in-one stove, since even in the wilderness, hot fare—add boiling water to Boulder’s Backpacker’s Pantry’s freeze-dried meals or First Ascent Coffee Roasters’ instant joe made in Crested Butte—brings people together.

SAFETY

Having protection from the elements (a tent and sleeping bag and pad) and animals­ (bear spray) is important, but Weir says it’s also critical to be able to move quickly and comfortably if you need to. Hardy, lightweight footwear such as TX Guide approach shoes from La Sportiva (with U.S. headquarters in Boulder) are great for hiking, climbing approaches, or hoofing it back to your car.

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Even if you’re only embarking on a twomile loop, you’ll want water—preferably in a sturdy bottle like one of Boulder-based EcoVessel’s insulated steel canteens— and edible provisions (try energy chews from Boulder’s Skratch Labs and Fourpoints’ Denver-made, plant-based bars).

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POINT6 Calling Card: Pure merino wool layering pieces Peter and Patty Duke’s roles in Smartwool’s story (see page 58) may have ended in 2003, when they sold the merino fabricator to private investors, but their journey with the textile had just begun. After aiding in the widespread popularization of the wool apparel, the couple noticed many of the new companies pushing merino merch were using a blend cut with materials like bamboo or tinsel. That was enough for the purists to get back in the game, and in 2008 Point6— named for the human body’s optimal temperature—was born.

Employing environmentally friendly processes like plasma treatment, which uses electricity instead of chlorine-based chemicals to prevent wool from curling, the Dukes started selling top-quality socks and base layers from their Steamboat Springs outpost. For the past three years, they’ve been working on a seamless liner glove, which they released in October–just in time for ski season.

What’s New: Seamless base glove in charcoal, $39, point6.com

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Though these companies are each only about a decade old, they’ve quickly established themselves as gear gods in the making.

VOORMI Calling Card: Glue-free waterproof textiles In 2010, Timm Smith, a former product developer for Gore-Tex; Dan English, an ex-Microsoft techie; and his son, Dustin English, an Alaska mountain guide, walked into a bar—er, Denali National Park & Preserve. The trio quickly realized their cold-weather apparel was flimsy—and not even very warm—and they couldn’t seem to find any high-quality 60

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alternatives. “Walking around Outdoor Retailer [the industry’s major trade show] at that time, it was a lot of sameness,” Smith says. They decided to start their own textile innovation company, Voormi, and spent the next three years perfecting their first product, the High-E Hoodie, a merino wool quarter-zip made with a proprietary technology that yields a stretchy, water-repelling fabric. Intent on not outsourcing their labor to Asia, the trio established

a manufacturing facility in Pagosa Springs. As Voormi gained traction, winning awards from Skiing Magazine (now Ski Magazine) and Men’s Journal, the three didn’t stop innovating. In 2015, they debuted a technology that yields waterproof fabrics without using glue—which was the industry standard for more than three decades—resulting in a more breathable, less “crunchy” product. When the coronavirus descended on the United States, they pivoted to making neck gaiters that double as masks—just another example of their ability to adapt and evolve.

What’s New: Men’s Access NXT pullover with thermal wool technology and water-repellent finish in harvest, $199, voormi.com

TOPO DESIGNS Calling Card: Retro-inspired multipurpose bags Before founding Topo Designs, Jedd Rose and Mark Hansen were tech workers with no experience making clothing or backpacks. They did, however, have a love of the outdoors and nostalgia for packs like the ones they wore growing up, which sported simple, functional designs. So, in 2008, Rose bought a sewing machine and began working in his Fort Collins basement on what would become Topo’s first product: the Klettersack, a sleek multiuse bag. The brand’s recognizable aesthetic soon became ubiquitous in offices and on trails alike, and in 2013, Topo opened a flagship store in RiNo. Though the founders strive to keep their designs familiar, they’re not afraid to try new things: This past September, they launched a collaboration with Japanese companies Nanga and Natal Design.

What’s New: Topo Designs x Nanga x Natal Design Rover shoulder pack, $189, topodesigns.com

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SHOW BUSINESS

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Every summer since 1982, Outdoor Retailer has given gear makers a chance to market their wares. Every summer except this one, that is.

Long before anyone knew about Big Agnes or its sleeping bags, founder Bill Gamber and former PR manager (now co-owner) Len Zanni went to Outdoor Retailer (OR) to sell magazine editors, product buyers, and gear junkies on their sleeping bag/sleeping pad combo. They only had two prototypes, but the trip to Salt Lake City, where OR was held before it moved to Denver in 2018, was successful: They got a lot of buzz and within the next few years were winning awards. Unfortunately, brands didn’t have the same opportunity this past summer. On April 2, COVID-19 spurred the cancelation of OR’s Summer Market. The show ultimately transitioned to an online platform, where attendees virtually visited brands’ booths and listened to talks. Still, industry members are feeling the absence of face-toface networking, not to mention demos of products—like Big Agnes’—that make an impression on guests. “OR’s Summer Market is the confluence of everything that is everything outdoors,” Zanni says.

“Photographers, manufacturers, product developers. It was a big loss to not have it happen.” Although January’s winter show is also going virtual, organizers hope to return to normalcy soon. Says Marisa Nicholson, OR’s senior vice president and show director: “There’s tremendous value to the outdoor and snowsports industries in being able to come together in person in Denver.”

GIFTABLE GEAR

Four Centennial State–made presents to put under the tree this holiday season.

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Give the athlete in your family Polar Bottle’s Breakaway insulated bottle, new this year from the Longmont outfitter. The redesign yielded a lighter container, meaning it’s easier to carry on long runs or bike rides. Plus, the canteen features insulation technology that will keep your agua cool for hours.

Polar Bottle, Breakaway insulated bottle in ridge blue, $14, polar bottle.com

For the tree hugger at the top of your nice list, splurge on a pair of sunnies from Boulderbased Zeal Optics’ brand-new See Grass collection. The shades are composed of natural grasses such as hemp, flax, rice, and straw and post-consumer recycled plastic bottles.

Zeal Optics, See Grass Aspen sunglasses in pine, $169, zealoptics.com

While you might think of Crocs as those clunky yet comfy shoes you only wear in the garden, high-profile celebs like Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande have been spotted sporting the Longmont shoemaker’s wares. Get your styleconscious kid a pair of classic lined clogs from Crocs’ fall 2020 line and they’ll feel like campground royalty.

Crocs, kids classic lined clogs in pink lemonade, $35, crocs.com

Stuff stockings with Honey Stinger’s releasedin-October Cracker Bars. The Steamboat Springs company, which was founded in 2001 by the owner of Big Agnes, layers mixtures of its signature honey and nut butters between multigrain crackers then coats it all in milk or dark chocolate for a protein punch perfect for devouring on the ski lift.

Honey Stinger, peanut butter milk chocolate Cracker Bar, $30 for a 12-pack, honeystinger.com

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While many outdoor sports have high barriers to entry (navigational experience, avalanche safety training, overcoming your fear of heights), camping is a pastime that requires a little less insider knowledge. What it does necessitate is some key pieces of gear. We found nine locally made items to make your campsite functional and fun—s’mores and dazzling starry nights not included.

Photo illustration by Sean Parsons. Source images: Getty Images (background); Courtesy of Kelty (chair); Courtesy of Otterbox (cooler); Courtesy of Fenix (lantern); Courtesy of Sea to Summit (sleeping bag); Courtesy of Mountainsmith (trekking poles); Courtesy of Heather Pallack (hammock); Courtesy of Scarpa (shoe); Courtesy of Sierra Designs (tent); Courtesy of Osprey (backpack)

Warm up by the flames (PSA: always check for local fire regulations and restrictions!) with your outdoor buddy in Kelty’s mesh low loveseat, which includes insulated beverage holders. $110, kelty.com Lighten up your entire campsite with this rechargeable lantern from Littleton’s Fenix Lighting. The hangable illuminator has three brightness levels and a scope of 360 degrees. $60, fenixlighting.com Nab the Ascent down sleeping bag from Sea to Summit, whose North American headquarters are in Boulder. Its duck down is sure to keep you warm even on the most frigid night. Starting at $349, seatosummitusa.com Cortez-based Osprey’s backpacks are wildly popular among gear aficionados, and who are we to disagree? Pack your supplies in its updated-this-year Aether Plus 60/Ariel Plus 60—the mens and womens versions, respectively, include new foam back panels for comfort and breathability—that you can buy online and get custom-fitted at retailers like Jax Outdoor Gear Farm & Ranch. $340, osprey.com Do après-adventure right in Boulder’s Trek Light Gear’s

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double hammock, which is 10 by 6.5 feet wide. (Remember to look into the rules at your campsite before attaching anything to trees.)

And may we suggest adding a can of Upslope Brewing Company’s aptly named Rocky Mountain Kölsch? $70, treklightgear.com If you’re planning on hiking your days away, purchase a pair of Andesite trekking poles from Mountainsmith, which are the Golden maker’s most lightweight pair to date. $100, mountainsmith.com This new-for-2020 update to Broomfield-based Sierra Designs’ Meteor Lite tent is extremely lightweight at just over four pounds and features a fly you can roll back for stargazing.

Starting at $370, sierradesigns.com Otterbox doesn’t just make nearly indestructible phone cases; the Fort Collins manufacturer also crafts good-looking, sturdy coolers like the Venture 65, which will keep your ice, well, ice for up to 16 days. $350, otterbox.com Fresh Rush Mid GTX kicks from Boulder’s SCARPA will help you tackle any kind of terrain, thanks to new shock-absorbing soles with improved traction. $179, scarpa.com

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SPECIAL INTERESTS

As you inevitably get sucked into more niche outdoor pursuits, turn to these Colorado brands.

CYCLING: In Cherry Creek, Alchemy Bicycles makes an array of high-end bikes; Pearl Izumi produces quality cycling apparel in Louisville for pros and novices alike. alchemybicycles.com, pearlizumi.com FLY-FISHING: Try Denver’s Fishpond for vests, nets, gear bags, and more; Ross Reels makes award-winning reels in Montrose. fishpondusa.com, rossreels.com MOUNTAIN BIKING: Guerrilla Gravity in Jefferson Park sells made-in-America carbon 64

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fiber bikes; Reeb Cycles in Longmont offers an assortment of bikes (and was started by Oskar Blues founder Dale Katechis). ridegg.com, reebcycles.com PACKRAFTING: Find Denverborn Kokopelli’s rafts at Confluence Kayaks in Jefferson Park; Alpacka’s boats are made to order in Mancos. kokopellipackraft.com, alpackaraft.com ROCK CLIMBING: Lafayette’s Great Trango Holdings has all the ropes, carabiners, harnesses, and helmets you require; Italy-born

CAMP—whose North American headquarters are in Golden—is renowned for its ultralight climbing (and ski mountaineering) gear. trango.com, camp-usa.com SKIING: Head to Golden for Icelantic Skis’ handcrafted, extremely durable backcountry, freeride, and all-mountain skis; Overland’s Meier Skis are created from Centennial State wood; and Boulder-born Spyder has been selling world-class ski jackets, pants, and bibs since 1978. icelanticskis. com, meierskis.com, spyder.com SNOWBOARDING: Never Summer’s boards are all handmade in Denver; Minturn’s Weston offers a slew of ready-toshred boards and accessories; and Venture Snowboards are handcrafted by fellow boarders

in Silverton. neversummer.com, westonbackcountry.com, venturesnowboards.com SNOWSHOEING: Crescent Moon Snowshoes in Boulder purveys foam and aluminum pairs for your next winter wonderland walk. crescentmoonsnowshoes.com STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDING: Check out Steamboat Springs’ Hala Gear for SUP boards built for a variety of speeds, from white-water surfing to yoga. halagear.com TRAIL RUNNING: Pound packed dirt in colorful kicks from Boulder’s Newton Running Company; Broomfield’s Xero Shoes are meant to mimic the feeling of running barefoot. newton running.com, xeroshoes.com

HIGHER GEAR

SHORT SUPPLY

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COVID-19 left local gear shops’ shelves bare—and that was a good thing.

In the early weeks of the pandemic, gear stores braced for catastrophe. With people out of work and stuck at home, they feared sales would plummet.

It didn’t take long, though, for Coloradans to realize that socialdistancing-friendly trails, rivers, and campsites were open, leading them to Front Range shops to gear up. All at the same time.

Exacerbating shortages even further, many manufacturers closed down production facilities due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus. “It was like a whiplash,” says Rick Case, founder of Nite Ize. “Retailers were closing their stores, people were staying home, and the demand for product initially stopped.” Then, he explains, people started going outdoors, leading to boosted sales.

Meanwhile, larger retailers such as REI struggled to keep up. “Our business is booming because REI has been out of stock for a lot of [camping essentials],” says Shelley Dunbar, co-owner of Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering. She points out that while REI must restock more than 150 stores, Neptune can be more nimble, going directly to local vendors and scoring out-of-stock product. In the end, many local gear makers and outfitters say they were unaffected, or affected positively, by the pandemic. “We did double-digit numbers over last year, even with the shorter season because of shutdowns,” says Russ Rowell, senior vice president and general manager of Kelty. “It didn’t impact our business.” —Victoria Carodine

THE TRANSPLANTS

It’s not just weekend warriors from Texas and California that find our state a desirable place to be: These international outfitters traveled across the globe to set up their North American headquarters right here in Colorado.

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FJÄLLRÄVEN

Origin: England Founded: 1981 Came to Colorado: 2008 Backstory: Broke and stuck in Buenos Aires, British climber Rab Carrington learned to craft sleeping bags to earn money. After he stitched his way home, he started this company, which makes insulative sleeping bags and apparel.

Origin: Sweden Founded: 1960 Came to Colorado: 2012 Backstory: Founder Åke Nordin made Fjällräven’s first bag in his basement.

Now, you can buy the Instagrammable, sustainably made packs in a rainbow of colors.

LA SPORTIVA Origin: Italy Founded: 1928 Came to Colorado: 1990 Backstory: About 92 years ago, La Sportiva was a small operation that produced leather boots and clogs for residents of Italy’s Fassa and Fiemme valleys. Though the company has expanded globally—and into new sectors like ski mountaineering—it’s still owned and managed by founder Narciso Delladio’s ancestors.

Origin: Sweden Founded: 1936 Came to Colorado: 2004 Backstory: The Magnusson family began crafting gloves for the lumberjacks in their small town, but when a ski slope opened nearby, they pivoted to making mitts for snowsports. Today, they sell gloves tailored to pastimes from golfing to cycling to, of course, schussing.

SCARPA

Origin: Italy Founded: 1938 Came to Colorado: 2005 Backstory: This family-owned outfitter started in the foothills of Italy’s Dolomites as a footwear provider for local farmers.

Fast-forward almost a century, and the shoe brand has become a favorite of top mountaineers, runners, and climbers, including Boulderite Madaleine Sorkin.

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SEA TO SUMMIT

Origin: Australia Founded: 1990 Came to Colorado: 2005 Backstory: A climber in Perth, Roland Tyson started sewing his own gear after not finding any he liked in Australia. His designs attracted the likes of mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape—who commissioned Tyson to make duds for a Mt. Everest ascent—and the co-founders’ Sea to Summit products have continued to draw acolytes on multiple continents. m

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In the first half of 2020, Coloradans reported $15.5 million in losses to consumer scams—up from $11.3 million in all of 2015.

As our lives become more digitized, scammers are finding new ways to steal our money. So how can you protect yourself?

We explain.

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IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE

THE SWINDLER’S TOOLBOX

I remember his voice. Formal, clipped, rote. He sounded exactly how I imagine a police officer delivering bad news might sound.

As he spoke, I could feel the hot flush of anxiety in my earlobes.

every now and again paperwork goes missing and responsible citizens must pay the price, literally.

He told me he was sure we could get it all cleared up, but that I’d have to pay the $1,000 fine first— and then the city and county of Denver would reimburse me. If I didn’t, I’d be arrested.

As the officer began detailing the process I’d need to follow— including the fact that I’d need to stay on the phone with him while I completed the necessary transactions—I sent a note to my colleague on Slack and told him what was going on. I explained that the officer said I’d need to go to the bank, get $1,000 in cash, and then go to a grocery store to 68

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convert the cash into gift cards, which was the only form of payment accepted at the courthouse.

My co-worker, who’d come down to my desk, cocked his head and then wrote me a note that read: Is this a hoax?

I’m glad he did, because although I followed the officer’s instructions, going as far as pulling cash out of the bank, I’d become wary. Wary enough to hang up on the “lieutenant” while I asked a manager at King Soopers if he’d ever had anyone buy gift cards to use at the courthouse. When the store manager said almost everything involving unsolicited telephone calls and gift cards is a scam, I called the actual police. The woman I spoke with at DPD told me I was lucky because I’d very nearly gotten caught up in what she called the “jury duty scam.”

As I walked back to my office, I listened to three increasingly threatening voicemails the scammer had left. I felt fortunate but also incredibly gullible. At 39 years old, I felt I should’ve known better. After a while, however, the self-doubt turned to anger; then anger swelled into vengefulness.

This two-years-in-themaking package is the response to my brush with being scammed.

Interviews with fraud experts and Centennial State victims of fraud all confirmed that public awareness is the single most effective method for combating consumer scams. As it turns out, what you don’t know can hurt you. Let the following pages be your guide to the easiest ways to safeguard what’s yours—and just maybe give the middle finger emoji to fraudsters everywhere.

Although the particulars of each ruse may differ, the basic instruments of deception have remained relatively constant in recent years.

We explain fraudsters’ favored implements of scammery.

SPOOFING Flimflam artists use sneaky tricks to disguise email addresses, sender names, or URLs—often by changing just one word or letter or number—to make it look like you’re interacting with a trusted source.

Scammers can even spoof phone numbers, faking the name and number that shows up on your caller ID to make the call look local or like it’s coming from a government agency or even the hospital.

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Ma’am, he said, a bench warrant has been issued for your arrest. It seems you failed to appear for jury duty last month.

The thing was, I had shown up for jury duty on August 28, 2018, just a few weeks earlier. I’d sat in Denver’s Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse for four hours before being thanked for my service and released, and I told the Denver Police Department (DPD) officer as much. He sighed the sigh of an overworked, frustrated public servant and told me that sometimes things like this happen; that

These are the randomized, automated calls you get about your car’s warranty expiring or winning that all-expenses-paid Caribbean cruise or being in trouble with the IRS. Not so long ago, the Federal Trade Commission created the National Do Not Call Registry, and we all thought our cells would stop ringing incessantly. Unfortunately, the Do Not Call Registry only stopped unwanted yet legal sales calls from law-abiding companies. As such, most of the calls you get where a computerized voice asks you to press 1 to, say, enter your social security number, are scams designed to glean personal information that can be used to make purchases with your credit card number or to access your bank accounts.

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S C A MR I S K SKIMMING You’ve run out of cash and the dive bar doesn’t take plastic. The bartender says there’s an ATM near the bathrooms. You’re annoyed by the $3 surcharge in the moment, but completely apoplectic when you realize three days later that someone has emptied your checking account. In all likelihood, someone had placed a skimming device on the ATM that was able to capture data and/or record cardholders’ PINs. Skimming devices can be installed on ATMs, point-of-sale terminals at retail locations, and fuel pumps at gas stations.

RANSOMWARE The bad guys know we need our computers and all the data stored on them. And that’s exactly why they find ways to distribute ransomware, a type of malicious software that stops you from accessing your files and systems until you pay a ransom for their return. This can be devastating for businesses, but it’s no fun for individuals either. It’s easy to accidentally download ransomware from an email attachment, by clicking on an ad or a link, or by visiting an unsafe website. Generally, you’ll have no idea your computer is infected until your data becomes inaccessible or you begin receiving messages for ransom payments.

36 Percentage of Colorado fraud reports categorized as identity theft, making crimes like stolen credit cards, government benefits scams, and fraudulent loans the most commonly perpetrated cons

PHISHING, VISHING, SMISHING Cybercriminals often blast out tens of thousands of emails devised to lure you in by mimicking the operations of a legitimate business or institution. You might get an email, for example, that says you’ve been approved for a home equity line of credit. Only the email isn’t actually from your bank, even though it may look like it is (see “spoofing”).

Once you click on the link in the email, they are potentially able to snooker you into downloading malware to steal sensitive information. Vishing, or voice phishing, is the practice of sending an email—which looks like it’s from, say, your credit card company—that says there has been suspicious activity on your account and instructs you to call an 800 number, where scammers are waiting to extract your personal information. Ditto for smishing scams, which use SMS or text messages.

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SPEAR PHISHING Typically, phishing campaigns don’t go after specific individuals. Spear phishing, however, is a targeted attack.

Using the info we all post online, fraudsters can personalize an assault in a way that makes it more likely you’d engage. You might post on Facebook that you finally bought your dream car and attach a picture of a Corvette.

A scammer could see that post, pull your email address from your profile, and send an email that appears to be sent from Chevrolet, which “needs some basic billing information to process your new car’s warranty.”

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CONSTANT VIGILANCE Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has long been interested in protecting consumers, but as the digital age dawned, he began focusing on an emerging set of challenging issues. We spoke to the Centennial State’s top legal officer about our state laws, vulnerable populations, and why a Harry Potter character’s defense against the dark arts works with scams too.

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named Mad-Eye Moody. He preaches constant vigilance. I want people to think of Mad-Eye Moody every day. When you open an email—constant vigilance.

When you answer the phone—constant vigilance. When you click on an advertisement—constant vigilance. In the AG’s office we can work after the fact to help consumers who’ve been scammed, but it’s not always easy to right the wrong.

You have to be proactive. You have to defend yourself with constant vigilance.

That all makes sense, but I’m guessing you’ve done a few things since taking the AG job in 2019 to help us out?

I hope so. I looked at our consumer protection law when I took office; it was like 48th in the country. Since then, I’ve been able to fix the law in several ways. Our penalties were very low; we raised them. We changed language that allowed scammers to defend themselves by saying they didn’t know the products they were selling were defective. So, yes, we’ve been active on the legislative front to create oversight. We also send cease-and-desist letters to companies running frauds and, if necessary, get law enforcement involved. Some scams are so noxious that they can rise to the level of being criminal [versus civil].

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5280: We know consumer protection falls under the purview of the Office of the Attorney General in Colorado, but is it fair to say that during the pandemic, scammers have you’re particularly enthusiastic been preying on all of our vulnerabilities. about subverting fraud?

Scammers use fear and panic to their Phil Weiser: Long ago, I worked in advantage in selling things like ineffecthe U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust tive COVID-19 antibody tests.

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KNOW THYSELF

This ancient Greek aphorism suggests there is a benefit in life to understanding both your strengths and weaknesses. Self-awareness comes in handy for shielding yourself from shysters, too. Just as a sidewalk purse-snatcher might see an octogenarian as an easy mark, online or telephone grifters might zero in on vulnerabilities you never realized you had. Keeping in mind that you’ve done absolutely nothing wrong, it’s still a good idea to identify your potential weak spots and turn them into a radar for would-be thieves.

YOUR VULNERABILITY MIGHT BE

LONELINESS

BECAUSE YOU’RE

Single; recently divorced; elderly with no family

Stuck at home during a pandemic and looking for secondhand furniture or surgical masks or even a new puppy

Someone who has given to charities in the past

Likely to do whatever it would take to help your grandkids, no questions asked

MAKING YOU SUSCEPTIBLE TO

Romance scams, in which a fraudster manufactures an in-depth online identity to gain someone’s fondness and trust and then uses the romantic fantasy to manipulate the victim into sending money or divulging bank account information.

Nondelivery-of-merchandise schemes, in which the “seller” takes advance payment via PayPal, personal check, Venmo, or bank transfer and then never provides the paid-for items.

Charity fraud, in which fake nonprofits will use your goodwill to their advantage by asking for donations to help those who’ve been displaced by whatever the most recent natural disaster might be.

Grandparent scams, in which a con artist uses social media or other methods to find out the name and age of one of your grandkids— who likely lives in another state—and calls you posing as the police or a bail bondsman explaining that Melissa has been arrested for drunk driving and needs you to wire bail money.

THE EXPERT SAYS

“The scammer starts by meeting someone on a legit dating site and then often moves to another form of communication. They develop the relationship over weeks and months.

Invariably, the scammer says he or she wants to meet in person but can’t afford it because of unforeseen medical bills or a lost job. The victim, believing he or she is in love, sends the money.”

“In these pet scams, you’ll go to a website that looks like a legitimate breeder.

There are pictures of adorable puppies. It’ll say ‘Adopt Jax! He’s so excited to meet you!’ They’ll ask you to first send money to purchase the pet; then they’ll get you again when they ask you to wire money for them to ship the pet through private transport. When you go to the airport to pick Jax up, there is no Jax.”

“There are things called ‘lead lists’ that fraudsters buy and sell. When you donate money to legitimate charities, your name can end up on a list that scammers can use to reach out to people who they know have donated before. My advice: Never give to anyone who solicits you until you have done your due diligence.”

“My biggest heartbreaker are those grandparent scams.

They paid $8,000 to get their grandchild out of trouble. Then they find out it was a scam, and they’re so, so upset. Sometimes they’re so emotional, they end up having to go to the hospital.”

—Scott Schons, supervisory special agent, FBI

AN ONLINE SHOPPING HABIT

GENEROSITY

BEING A GRANDPARENT

—Craig Alexander, detective, major crimes fraud unit, Denver Police Department

—Martha Paluch, chief of economic crimes section, U.S. Attorney’s Office

—Ezra Coopersmith, investigations coordinator, Better Business Bureau

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THE BEST DEFENSE IS A GOOD OFFENSE Use these 16 proactive strategies—from simple rules and recommendations to valuable mental notes to easy-to-spot red flags—to thwart thieves and counter cyber crooks.

RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Ask your phone company about its spam filter technology. The 2019 TRACED Act requires voice service providers to develop authentication technology.

Most of the larger companies already offer some measures of protection, but it can’t hurt to ask what’s available to you.

2. Freeze your credit. Sometimes called a security freeze, this free tool allows you to restrict access to your credit report, which makes it difficult for scammers to steal your identity and open new accounts in your name. Doing this does not affect your credit score, but you may need to temporarily unfreeze it if you need to open a new account. You’ll need to contact Equifax, Experian, and Transunion—the three credit bureaus—to freeze your credit.

3. Don’t post your entire life online.

We know you reeeeally want to. Trust us: We know the rush of getting “likes.” Before you overshare, though, keep in mind that cyber swindlers can use that information—recent purchases, names of kids and grandkids, images that show your address, your birthday—against you.

4. Look at your bank accounts and credit card purchases every day. “We have firewalls and top-notch encryption and biometrics,” says Lavonne Heaviland, president of centralized operations for FirstBank, “but our customers are really in the best position to catch something that looks wrong. Just like you lock your doors at your house and wear a seat belt for protection every day, you should look at your accounts frequently.”

5. Sign up for activity alerts with your bank and credit card companies.

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MENTAL NOTES 6. Tricksters can get tricky with card readers. Stand-alone ATMs located in bars (or even outside of banks) or fuel pumps that are situated out of the line of sight of the business proprietor are more likely to have a skimming device. If anything looks added on (like maybe a plastic piece has been inserted inside the typical card reader) or doesn’t look original to the machine, don’t use it.

7. Take care with person-to-person payment apps. Before you use Venmo or Zelle or any other digital payment solution, assess whether the person you’re sending cash to is actually a friend, family member, or truly trusted source. In many cases, these companies’ terms of service say that if you give someone who’s not a trusted source access to your account and they use it to defraud you, you may be responsible for the transactions made, even if you didn’t give your permission.

8. Take a deep breath and slow down. If you receive a phone call from the IRS saying you owe back taxes or an email that appears to be from your bank about fraudulent activity, just slow your roll. “Don’t ever act in the moment,” says Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.

“Scammers use pressure. They want you to make a snap decision. Legitimate dealings don’t work like that; they don’t disappear overnight. Just tell whoever you’re talking with to give you the information and you’ll get back to them. Then check into it a little.”

RED FLAGS 9. Be wary of anyone asking you to pay with gift cards. Scammers use this ploy because they can instruct you to read off the gift card number over the phone, at which point the fraudster can drain the card’s value. “The gift card is the sign,” says Martha Paluch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “If someone asks you to put money on a gift card, it is a scam.”

10. If something sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. “Getting a $10,000 check from the Canadian Lottery in your mailbox seems great,” says Bellco Credit Union’s John Rivera, “until you realize you didn’t actually play the Canadian Lottery. If you cash that fake check and spend it and it ultimately doesn’t clear, you’ll be liable for that money.”

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should set up a VPN—which encrypts data—instead of using their internet service providers’ servers if they need to look at, say, their credit card purchases while they’re at a coffeeshop or the airport. “Furthermore, users should not log into any accounts— even email and social media—over public Wi-Fi because login credentials can be captured and exploited,” says the FBI’s Scott Schons.

14. Check your credit. The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires the credit bureaus to provide you with a free copy of your credit report every 12 months. Even if you put a freeze on your credit, you should still check to make sure that no one has been able to open a fraudulent account—making purchases that aren’t paid for, hurting your credit—in your name.

RULES 11. Don’t answer the phone unless you know the person calling you. This is why God created voicemail, people. Use it.

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12. Do not send sensitive information via email or text, even to a trusted source. If you need to provide your social security number (to your dad) or credit card number (to a trusted vendor), call it in.

13. Always use virtual private networks, or VPNs, when you’re out and about. Consumers should not use unsecured public wireless networks to conduct any sensitive personal matters, especially financial transactions. They

15. If you don’t recognize the sender of an email or text, do not open it. (Also watch for misspellings in the sender’s email address: amazan. com instead of amazon.com.) And definitely do not click on any links or download any attachments to your computer. “There are lots of scams involving commonly used services and big, national brands,” says Lawrence Pacheco, director of communications for the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. “We see AppleCare scams, UPS scams, Netflix scams. Criminals are often phishing around for saved password information.”

16. Be smart about login information. Select strong, unique passwords that don’t use common number combinations or personal information, like your date of birth or address. Even more important, don’t use the same password for multiple logins. If you use skibum12345 for your credit cards, your bank accounts, and your investment accounts, a scammer who figured out your password for one login can now infiltrate all of your accounts. If you can’t remember seven different login combinations (and who can?), try a password manager app like Dashlane, LastPass, or Bitwarden.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE Colorado Springs resident Doreen Hahn spends a lot of her free time doing online jigsaw puzzles. The 70-year-old also does some online shopping, most recently for a new mattress she seemed pretty jazzed about.

“I’m on the computer a lot,” Hahn says. “But I’m no expert.” That’s exactly the kind of person a tech support scammer was hoping to reach when he called Hahn in July and told her he worked for a tech support company that monitors computers for brands like Hewlett-Packard. He informed Hahn that her machine was sending out error messages and needed new virus protection software. “It alarmed me, of course. He told me it would be $1,000 to start,” she says, “but then he gave me the senior discount for $500.” The fake IT guy then instructed Hahn to write a check, hold it up to her computer’s camera for him to snap a picture, and then he’d install the software.

“He was a smooth talker,” Hahn says. “Still, I didn’t get any sleep that night; I just knew something hadn’t been right.” Fortunately, Hahn’s gut feeling led her to make a first-thing-the-nextmorning call to her bank, which immediately shut down all of her accounts. Several days later, Hahn began getting angry voicemails from the scammer, who’d been declined by the bank. “He actually threatened to send someone to my house,” she says, “but the calls stopped after a while. I’m sure he moved on to someone else.”

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IN HOT PURSUIT

Colorado native Sage Wise was relieved to move back to the Centennial State in December

Reporting scams is the only way to help law enforcement investigate these crimes—and potentially save others from being victimized.

2019. She had left an unhappy relationship and brought her kids home with a vision for a new life. The 26-year-old got a job as a teachers’ assistant and an apartment in Aurora. Less than 10 weeks later, though, the coronavirus began its insidious creep across the country—and the single mother of two lost her job when the daycare center closed. Having not worked in 2019, Wise couldn’t file for unemployment. “I was on the verge of losing my apartment,” she says. “I didn’t want to let my kids down. I was looking for jobs every day, getting emails from potential employers.” Then a job offer popped into her inbox that seemed ideal: a work-fromhome position as a local hub inspector for Heies Ecoquest. Promised $3,000 for the month, Wise received packages of electronics, inspected them for damage, and then reshipped them. “It all seemed legitimate,” she says. Wise concedes it was a weird job, but she says she was so desperate she didn’t care—even though she did wonder if the goods she was mailing might be stolen. So long as she could pay rent with her paycheck, she was content.

Only, the paycheck never came. “My boss had me email the payroll department,” Wise says. “I gave them my social security number, birth date, everything. And then…nothing.” The website disappeared, the phones were disconnected; Heies Ecoquest didn’t exist. Wise called the police and the Better Business Bureau—both of which said these so-called work-fromhome employment scams, often based on the reshipping of (likely hot) items, had been on the rise during the pandemic—but there was nothing they could do. “I felt so fooled,” she says. “I was also so disgusted that people could do this to families during this difficult time.”

Although it’s a frustrating reality that many scammers ultimately get away with their cons, being able to learn about and track consumer fraud is the best way to fight it—for everyday citizens as well as law enforcement. “We know people often feel too embarrassed to report being a victim of a scam,” says the FBI’s Scott Schons, “but people need to understand they didn’t do anything wrong. These crime organizations are very sophisticated.” If you’ve experienced consumer fraud (whether you lost money or not), you can and should report it to one or more of the organizations or government agencies below. And whether or not you’ve ever encountered a scam, you need to know what’s out there so you can spot it when it does inevitably happen; luckily, these groups can help you with that too.

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In 2015, the BBB launched its Scam Tracker program, which now receives thousands of reports each year. The program is national (and operates in Canada and Mexico as well); however, reports are processed locally first, allowing the BBB to analyze what scams are happening where.

Launched in 2014 by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, Stop Fraud Colorado is the AG’s platform for educating consumers about scams. Not only does the website describe dozens of common hustles happening in Colorado, but it also offers a way to report fraud and the opportunity to sign up for its consumer alerts.

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aarp.org on issues affecting the elderly, one of which is fraud. AARP launched ElderWatch in the early 2000s; the program hosts consumer fraud seminars, has a fraud help line, offers alerts sent via email or text, provides a Scam-Tracking Map, and has an easy-to-use form for reporting fraud.

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The Internet Crime Complaint Center is the FBI’s reporting mechanism for internet-facilitated misdeeds. The information is included in a database, where it can be used to enhance investigations. Click on Consumer Alerts for trends the FBI is seeing in the expanding world of flimflammery.

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HIDING IN CYBERSPACE Listening to Martha Paluch talk about her job will destroy any anxiety-suppressing denial you might’ve been allowing yourself about the shadowy recesses of the internet and the threats that lurk therein. As chief of the economic crimes section for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado, Paluch discusses “money mules,” “tracking international IP addresses,” and the “dark web” like other people talk about the weekly budget report. However, the tenor of her voice changes from nonchalant to something approaching glee when the name Leonard Luton comes up. “We got lucky with that case,” she says, “because the fraudsters were here in Colorado.”

Although Paluch couldn’t discuss details because Luton had yet to be sentenced at press time, a release from her office in February revealed that Paluch helped prosecute and

for a case like this one—which could have straddled state and international lines—to come together as successfully as it did.

“We get calls every week asking us if we can take fraud cases,” Paluch says. “We get them from the IRS, Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, the Veterans Affairs department.

Unfortunately, we can’t take them all.” That’s due in part to resources, of course, but it’s also because fraud cases are challenging to investigate and, in some cases, even harder to prosecute. Huge percentages of the scams perpetrated against Americans originate from overseas, which means having to get foreign governments involved. “The FBI has overseas agents who try to identify scammers,” says the FBI’s Scott Schons. “We try to charge them, but being able to extradite someone depends on the country. Not all countries will extradite for fraud.”

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Craig Alexander, who works in the major crimes fraud unit of the DPD, “but the majority of our suspects are convict the then 43-year-old Jamainot here. It’s difficult to find internet can national for stealing more than criminals. It’s hard to get assistance $700,000 from an elderly Colorado from other cities and states. Crimiwoman using a lottery scam for nals know to cross jurisdictions. We which she was told she had to pay have very few successes.” hefty upfront fees to receive her $2.8 All of which makes the Luton million winnings. The case was invescase an even bigger win. Yet Paluch tigated jointly by the FBI, the Estes stresses that consumers are the Park Police Department, and the ones who have to be diligent. “The Larimer County District Attorney’s U.S. Attorney’s Office is really Office. “The outcome of this case is committed to protecting the pubindicative of the success lic,” she says, “but we that can be attained can’t do it alone.” She when agencies comsays we all need to bine resources to tackle protect our data, be cyber-related matters wary of unsolicited such as the greedcontact, and think driven lottery scam Mr. twice before investIncrease in use of mobile Luton fabricated,” said ing with an unknown banking apps in the first FBI Special Agent in entity. “These scamhalf of 2020, likely attributCharge Dean Philmers are so darn able to the pandemic. The lips. What the release good,” Paluch says.

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THE INSIDIOUS VOICE OF DEPRESSION With anxiety and depression on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, people who’ve never experienced mental health issues are enduring some of the emotions I feel almost every day of my life. Maybe that’s why I can finally tell my story.

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The darkness comes at night, or in the morning, or sometimes the late afternoon, in that liminal time between daytime and nighttime. It doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t care that I have work to finish or that I should wash the dishes stacked in the sink or that I need to check in on how my two boys’ distance-learning schoolwork is going. It doesn’t care that, after seven months of mostly staying at home, I have already been examining the uglier recesses of my psyche.

It comes fast and hard, and it’s nearly impossible to explain to someone who hasn’t experienced the weight of anxiety and depression. But I will try. If you imagine the excitement, anticipation, and joy of a forthcoming event—seeing a loved one, going to a concert, attending an awards ceremony, a day of skiing or snowboarding in powder—and then you invert that feeling, you will have some idea of what the experience is like, for me at least. Rather than butterflies in your stomach and a hit of dopamine or endorphins, it feels like a shroud has been dropped over your senses. Sometimes there’s a triggering event: a small conflict at home, a particularly challenging day at work, an unsettling segment on the evening news.

Sometimes there’s not. Sometimes when I wake up, it’s just there. When it’s really bad, the colors in my field of vision dim.

I frequently notice this desaturation of the world when I’m driving to work, when we used to do that kind of thing. To get to my office in LoDo, I drive up Speer Boulevard from my neighborhood south of downtown, and it’s as though everything outside the windshield is dulled—the green trees that line Cherry Creek, the blue Colorado sky, the contrasting white clouds. They all run together in muted shades, as if a child blended the colors of his paints a little too carelessly. Nothing seems to cut through the gray. A favorite song, a funny podcast, a friend checking in to ask if I’m OK—none of it helps.

My mood disorder is such that I sometimes think of it as a predator waiting to attack. It is not always seen or felt, but it is always there lurking. I know when it comes for me it will hurt, and there is no remedy for the pain.

So I wait. I wait for it to pass. And once it does, I wait until it comes along again.

I WAS NOT AN EASY CHILD. Or at least that’s the story I’ve told myself. My parents loved me unconditionally and always supported me, but I was a little surprised that when I reached out to them recently, my mom said I wasn’t a terribly challenging kid; she said I was a good student, sociable, and a rule-follower. Even so, I always thought I was moodier than most. Stubborn, too. As I reflect on my childhood, these traits were likely early signs of the mental health issues I’d come to face later—and 78

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maybe was already experiencing as an elementary and middle school student. I don’t recall feeling particularly unhappy when I was that age. At least, I don’t remember feeling sad without a reason that would make anyone feel sad, like the death of a grandparent or a beloved pet.

But anxiousness was part of who I was, even before “anxiety” became a buzzword. I would become uneasy when my elementary school report card arrived, even though I always got A’s and B’s. I’d hyperventilate before class presentations. As a young teenager, I would freak out if my shirt was too wrinkly.

At the time, those meltdowns may have been easy to brush off as personality quirks. I was the firstborn in my family; maybe that was part of it. Or perhaps I was just a little bit neurotic. There was nothing to worry about— except there actually was. Anxiety can be a precursor to depression; it can also coexist with depression. When I was a junior in high school, a student I’d known and been friendly with since the sixth grade died by suicide. Later that year, in the throes of standardized college entrance testing and after a bad breakup with a girlfriend, I found myself standing in the kitchen late one night staring at the knives that sat on our counter. I had gotten out of bed and somehow arrived at that place. In retrospect, what scared me the most wasn’t the idea of going through with the act of hurting myself; what scared me was there didn’t seem to be any agency at all. It was almost as if I wasn’t myself, that I couldn’t control what I was doing or what would happen next.

In that trancelike state, I remembered the boy who’d died and the shock and sorrow I’d felt upon learning about his death and how it’d happened. Instead of feeling drawn to the knives, I felt repelled by them. I walked back to my room, got in bed, and eventually fell asleep.

I didn’t tell anyone about my late-night brush with selfharm, but I didn’t have to. Within days, my parents asked me if I was OK. They knew, and their question gave me permission to be honest. And so, not long after that, at the age of 17, I had my first experience with psychotherapy. That was almost three decades ago.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T experienced clinical depression before, 2020 and its laundry list of awfulness seem almost flawlessly designed to make someone feel depressed and anxious. Psychological trauma is considered a leading cause of depression, and this year has delivered its share of collective traumas, from COVID-19 to widespread social unrest to wildfires burning throughout the western United States to hurricanes hammering American coastlines. I’ve been reminded of this repeatedly since mid-March, when normally upbeat friends say, “Eh, OK,” when I ask how they’re doing or when other friends who haven’t been diagnosed with depression say that, in fact, they feel depressed. A May Washington Post article citing Census Bureau data indicated that onethird of all Americans are experiencing symptoms of

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depression or anxiety. In August, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that found searches for terms related to acute anxiety between midMarch and mid-May were the highest they’d ever been, compared with 16 years of Google search data. A United Nations policy memo suggested, this past spring, that “a long-term upsurge in the number and severity of mental health problems is likely” as a result of the pandemic, and a September Wired article reported that experts fear the difficulties surrounding COVID-19 “will add up to a ‘second pandemic’ of mental illness.”

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, then, that the results of a survey released by the Colorado Health Foundation in September found that a majority—53 percent—of respondents in the Centennial State have felt “increased mental health strain,” such as anxiety, stress, and loneliness, during the pandemic. It also probably shouldn’t come as a shock that many of us have turned to a particular and widely accepted coping mechanism: alcohol. Not long after Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced that liquor stores would close to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, lines formed outside the shops so people could stock up on one of society’s greatest numbing agents. They wanted to replenish their fridges and bars with a substance that is wonderfully effective at alleviating anxiety and pushing away, if only temporarily, the pain of depression.

I didn’t need to get in line. My bar cart was stocked, and my basement beer fridge was full. They usually are.

For years, along with my daily dose of 50 milligrams of Zoloft, I’ve used alcohol as an anxiolytic, as a way to ease my discomfort with certain social situations and to dull the stress that comes with everyday living. It seems as though many Denverites became more reliant on the anxiety-mitigating properties of booze during the pandemic—anecdotally, at least, given the run on liquor stores in March and from conversations with friends.

Indeed, a survey by alcohol.org found that 38 percent of Coloradans admitted to drinking while working from home during the pandemic.

My relationship with booze was already fraught— something I’ve discussed with three different therapists over the years—and the stay-at-home orders only served to exacerbate a long-simmering problem. Freed from the responsibility of having to drive my boys to school at 7 a.m. most mornings, I rationalized that there was no issue with having a few extra drinks on a weeknight.

If I felt a little fuzzy in the morning, I’d flip open my laptop by 9:30 and no one would even know. Besides, I told myself, if there were ever an acceptable reason to cut myself some slack, it was a global pandemic.

Turns out I gave myself a little too much latitude. I’d drink because I was depressed about the pandemic and the tragedies resulting from it and because I was anxious about work and any number of other things. The following morning, I’d have a headache and have to face

the shame of having lost control with alcohol, yet again.

By early afternoon, my mind would clear and the regret would subside, but that simply made head space for the depression and anxiety that can manifest when one tries to make it through even the best days. It also left room for the voice, the voice that tells me the reason my company is struggling is because I suck at my job; that the reason I’ve put on 10 pounds is because I’m lazy and drink too much; that the reason my kids are bored is because I’m a crappy dad. After listening to the voice berate me for

a few hours, 5 o’clock would once again bring relief. I’d crack a beer or mix a margarita. Lather, rinse, repeat.

For people suffering through the despondency spurred by the pandemic or social unrest or the election or natural disasters, the pain is real. If it’s anything like my first encounter with depression, it’s also probably wildly confusing and terribly frightening. For those who are familiar with melancholia, though, 2020 has delivered a unique blow. In a May 2020 article in the Atlantic, Andrew Solomon, author of National Book Award– winning The Noonday Demon: An CONTINUED ON PAGE 96 NOVEMBER 2020

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More than ever before, people are reaching out to pets for comfort, love, and companionship during these uncertain and difficult times.

But far too many pets are still dying needlessly in our country’s shelters every day. Your help is urgently needed to save the lives of these innocent animals. Since 2003, Animal Rescue of the Rockies has rescued well over 10,000 dogs and cats at risk of euthanasia. ARR pulls homeless pets from overcrowded and underserved shelters, places them in foster homes, and adopts them to loving forever homes. Your gift goes directly towards veterinary care, food, and supplies for homeless pets in need, which enables ARR to save even more at-risk pets.

So far this year, over 1,500 rescued dogs and cats have found forever homes through ARR’s foster and adoption programs. Last year, 1,875 lucky pets were adopted! Often, pets arrive from shelters with illnesses and injuries that have been left untreated. Your gift ensures that they receive all the treatment they require, including surgery and medications. Each pet is spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped prior to adoption.

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Freedom, joy, exhilaration, socialization, health and wellness all describe the benefits of participation in outdoor sports. These benefits become even more important when living with a physical disability or after experiencing a life-altering injury. Since 1999, Adaptive Adventures has provided progressive outdoor sports opportunities to improve quality of life for children, adults and veterans with physical disabilities, and their families. By providing transformative life experiences, individuals become independent in cycling, climbing, kayaking, paddleboarding, skiing, dragon boat racing, waterskiing, rafting and scuba diving. Adaptive Adventures believes that all individuals with physical disabilities should have access to participation in outdoor sports regardless of their location, equipment needs or economic status. Adaptive Adventures is a local Colorado non-profit with a national reach providing a unique mobile program utilizing over 15 equipment filled trailers to travel the country to provide services in underserved areas. Programs are provided free of charge to individuals and their families. Additionally, Adaptive Adventure partners to provide training, clinics and equipment for rehab hospitals, VA medical centers, park and rec districts, schools and other nonprofit organizations. When you give to Adaptive Adventures, you are providing an individual with a physical disability the opportunity to feel the wind on their face again, connect with their family through recreation and to find an inclusive community of individuals with similar life experiences. Most importantly, you are helping them to experience FREEDOM through Mobility.

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Bethany Christian Services

Right now, all over Colorado, children in the foster care system desperately need a home and a family. At Bethany, we believe every child deserves to be safe, loved, and connected. We work in more than 30 states and more than a dozen countries worldwide. In Colorado, our core services include foster care and foster care adoption.

For foster families opening their hearts and homes to children, we seek to provide ongoing support—every heartwarming and heartbreaking step of the way. We also support the foster parents and help children stay connected.

Foster care is meant to be temporary—and our ultimate goal is reuniting a child with their biological family. But when that isn’t possible, we do everything possible to unite children with a stable, nurturing family.

Colorado Gives Day is an opportunity to support the organizations that are making our communities better and stronger. Bethany is one of those organizations.

With your generous gift, you will help us recruit, train, and support loving families for children in need. Your support will provide vulnerable children with the safety and connection they deserve.

Together, we can change the world through family. Donate today at Bethany.org/Give or contact a Bethany office to learn more.

Canine Partners of the Rockies

COVID-19 affects everyone. Technology doesn’t replace the need for connection – to give and receive love. People with disabilities face significant barriers and are often isolated from friends, family, and everyday life. This pandemic compounds the dilemma. Canine Partners of the Rockies (CaPR) has been raising, training, and providing service dogs for people with disabilities in Colorado since 2002. The dogs learn valuable skills that help people regain independence, in addition to building life-long bonds with their partners, leading to more fulfilling lives.

Brian’s life is an example of how valuable the bond is between Canine Partner’s clients and their dogs. As a Marine, Brian served two tours in Iraq. Shortly after his return to the U.S., he suffered a paralyzing spinal cord injury. Within the first two weeks at Craig Rehabilitation Hospital, he reached out to CaPR for a service dog. Over the last six years, Brian and Haylee built a remarkably close relationship. Haylee enabled him to return to school, get his degree and live again with hope. Although our dogs are carefully screened for health and temperament, – life happens. At the end of 2019, Haylee died suddenly in Brian’s arms from an aneurism. Left with a huge hole in his heart, Brian was once again isolated with limited ability to function.

CaPR and generous donors worked together to prepare Yampa II, a newly trained mobility service dog, to start life with Brian in October.

Canine Partners of the Rockies commits over $60,000 (costs and volunteer hours) to each service dog we place. From raising precious puppies, through training and retirement, Canine Partners supports our teams throughout their lives together.

CaPR receives no state or federal funding and relies on the generosity of individuals to connect more skilled service dogs with people who need their support, like Brian.

Colorado Children’s Campaign

Every child deserves every chance to grow up happy and healthy in Colorado. The Colorado Children’s Campaign utilizes the latest data and research to identify challenges and remove barriers to health, education and economic security so all children and families can thrive.

We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization focused on data-driven policy change at the state, federal and local levels.

Our statewide network of leaders in child well-being and a growing field of advocates consistently speak up for kids at critical moments. Children do not belong to a political party, and we believe that children’s issues are an “everyone” priority regardless of political leanings. Every child deserves quality health care, education and family economic security.

We know there is a web of complicated issues impacting children across our state which is why we approach policy change by keeping people, communities and children at the center of our efforts. This work has never been more urgent as many Colorado families face job loss, homelessness and difficulties accessing childcare and education due to the global pandemic. Over the course of the pandemic, we have worked alongside community leaders and partners on issues from food insecurity fueled by school closures, to evictions for those under and unemployed struggling to make ends meet, to child care access for essential workers.

We are the voice for the over 1.2 million children living in Colorado. Will you join us in becoming a hero for kids? Consider making a monthly gift and joining our Colorado Children’s Campaign Heroes: Everyday people lifting up every child. All monthly gifts donated before the end of 2020 will be matched up to $5000.

Become one of our Heroes at www.coloradokids.org/donate.

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Denver Rescue Mission

Denver Rescue Mission has been serving people experiencing homelessness and poverty in our community since 1892. The people we serve are among the most vulnerable men, women and children in our community. At multiple locations throughout Denver and Northern Colorado, we help restore the lives of people experiencing homelessness and addiction through emergency services, rehabilitation, transitional programs, and community outreach.

We’ve been able to continue our life-changing work in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to the tireless efforts of our staff, volunteers and generous supporters like you.

Volunteers are the lifeblood of Denver Rescue Mission. We need volunteers now more than ever before to help keep our programs and services running. There are various ways for volunteers to get involved at the Mission including serving meals, preparing meals, mentoring adults or children, sorting donated items and more.

Donations are also vital to continue our emergency services and long-term programs.

When you give to the Mission, you are providing for the immediate needs of people experiencing homelessness through warm meals, safe shelter and basic necessities like showers, restrooms and clothing. Additionally, you are offering lifechanging opportunities for men, women and families who need a second chance. The long-term programs at the Mission guide people on a path out of homelessness toward permanent housing and a productive, selfsufficient lifestyle.

Dumb Friends League

Since 1910, the Dumb Friends League has been a steadfast voice to animals in need, speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves. A national leader in animal welfare, the League cares for more than 20,000 homeless pets and horses each year. As a private, non-profit organization, the League depends on our compassionate community’s support to continue our work. Your donation helps provide gentle care and new beginnings to thousands of animals.

The League works to support both the pets and people in our community through a range of programs and services. Programs like pet adoption, lost and found services, humane education, low-cost veterinary care, spay and neuter and so much more.

Over the years, we have been able to significantly reduce the number of homeless pets, find homes for more pets, and support an overall better quality of life for animals in the community. Throughout our history, the benevolent Denver metro community and beyond has helped sustain the organization so we can fulfill our mission. We are eternally grateful for the community’s trust in the Dumb Friends League and its support of the animals we serve.

When you donate to the League, you are changing the lives of pets and people in Colorado and beyond. Learn more about programs and services at the League and make your gift at ddfl.org.

Energy Outreach Colorado Energy Outreach Colorado (EOC) is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to helping vulnerable households afford their home energy costs. EOC is the only statewide nonprofit that raises funds to assist thousands of Coloradans by paying energy bills, repairing or replacing furnaces, and helping to lower utility costs through energy efficiency and weatherization programs.

Across the state, there are seniors, veterans, and families struggling to afford their energy bills, and due to this years’ pandemic, many more households are unexpectedly experiencing financial challenges and energy insecurity. This rise in energy poverty in our communities is a challenge we are working with our partners and lawmakers across the state to solve. It is EOC’s mission to ensure that all Coloradans can afford their home energy needs; so we have doubled our efforts to support those in need.

Charity Navigator ranks EOC as one of the nation’s Top 10 highly-rated charitable organizations with the most consecutive 4 star ratings – EOC has received 19. This is the highest possible rating offered by Charity Navigator and verifies that EOC exceeds industry standards and outperforms most charities in this area of work. 95% of every donation given to EOC goes to programs and services. We leverage these funds to secure additional resources making every dollar raised go farther.

We believe that everyone deserves to live in a safe and healthy home. Your support enables us to Support, Stabilize and Sustain more households if an unexpected setback occurs.

At Denver Rescue Mission, we fight hunger to give strength. Fight fear to give courage. And fight despair to give hope. Will you join our fight?

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Give today to keep vulnerable Coloradans warm and safe.

Mission Statement: Denver Rescue Mission is changing lives in the name of Christ by meeting people at their physical and spiritual points of need with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.

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At Freedom Service Dogs (FSD), we unleash the potential of dogs by transforming them into custom-trained, life-changing assistance dogs for people in need. FSD serves veterans and active-duty military with PTSD, children and teens with autism, and individuals with physical disabilities such as traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries, muscular dystrophy, and multiple sclerosis. Your support helps provide these highly skilled service dogs to our clients free of charge, along with lifetime support that includes ongoing training and successor dogs when a service dog retires.

With a Freedom Service Dog by their side, our clients experience greater independence, happiness, and hope, as well as the ability to participate more fully in life. U.S. Army veteran Charles is one such client. After serving overseas for nearly seven years, Charles returned home to Colorado with PTSD and traumatic brain injury.

Placed on frequent suicide watch by the VA, heavily medicated for depression, and isolating from his family and the world, Charles turned to FSD for help. He was matched with a service dog named Rubix and graduated from FSD in 2017.

Today, Rubix assists Charles by creating space around him in public places, interrupting anxious or depressed moments with a nudge of his nose, and running through their house before Charles enters to assure him that everything is OK. Says Charles, “A service dog will take you out of your comfort zone, especially if you’ve been traumatized and don’t want to go out in the world anymore. But you can focus on your dog and not on the drama that’s causing the depression and anxiety. If you have their back, they’re gonna have your back. They’ll help you regain your life.”

By supporting Freedom Service Dogs this holiday season, you can help us continue to provide life-changing service dogs to the 90plus clients on our waiting list—even during these challenging times. Thank you for your generosity and compassion.

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Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver builds and preserves affordable homeownership. The organization partners with hardworking, local families who need a hand up (not a hand out) to build or improve a place they can call home.

Safe, stable and affordable housing has never been more important. The families Habitat partners with know this better than anyone… from holding down full-time jobs and helping children with remote learning, to trying to put healthy meals on the table, they work hard to keep everything afloat. Throughout the pandemic, they have had to endure living conditions that make it hard to remain healthy and safe — conditions like overcrowding, unsafe neighborhoods, and rent payments that consume too much of their monthly budgets.

Habitat’s partner families have not lost hope as they keep their sights set on the future. They are working hard to help build their own homes alongside volunteers, and purchase them with an affordable mortgage.

Habitat knows that owning a stable home has a transformational effect on families’ lives that impacts education, health and financial stability.

Research shows that children who grow up in a Habitat Denver home have a 95% high school graduation rate! That’s 25 percentage points higher than Denver’s average.

“I can honestly say that because Habitat provided stability - it helped me secure a future,” shares Naiely, who moved into her Habitat home as a teenager. “In the first year of living in our new home, my GPA went from a 1.6 to a 3.7.”

Every donation makes a difference this holiday season. Thank you for helping Habitat for Humanity build safety, stability, and brighter futures.

3245 Eliot Street, Denver, CO 80211 (303) 534-2929 | habitatmetrodenver.org

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Seniors’ Resource Center Eliminating food insecurity for older adults

After COVID-19 struck, access to healthy and nutritious meals became more limited for older adults. Experts say that 1 in 10 people in Colorado are “food insecure” - meaning they lack consistent access to a reliable food source.

This pandemic increased that disparity for individuals 65 and older, those most at-risk of the virus who are told to “shelter-at-home” for their own safety. For many, that means limiting or eliminating shopping trips. Early on we heard from an individual who hadn’t eaten in 2 days for fear of leaving their home.

Rapid response We quickly responded by delivering 10 days of fresh frozen meals prepared by our day center chef. The need grew and we developed a program to help during this uncertain time to support our community’s elders weekly food and supplies needs. Since March, we have delivered nearly 20,000 meals along with hygiene and household supplies.

A community united Through community support, we serve seniors— helping them to both stay safe and thrive in their homes. Your financial support enables our tireless staff to make critical connections via phone and technology with our clients and their caregivers for regular wellness check-ins and social connection to maintain their health and mental wellness. Through your generosity we can provide low- to no-cost in-home services (hygiene, meal preparation and homemaking, caregiver respite) and delivery of freshly prepared food and supplies directly to their doors.

Keep the good going Until this crisis has fully passed for at-risk seniors, we remain committed to safely meeting basic needs to more of those we serve, but need your help to do so. Every donation will help and will be put to immediate use. To donate, visit www.SRCAging.org and select DONATE NOW or text GIVE5280 to phone number 44-321.

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Volunteers of America Colorado

Volunteers of America Colorado is a nonprofit, faith-based organization dedicated to helping those in need transform their lives. Through more than 50 distinct human service programs, Volunteers of America Colorado changes the lives of more than 140,000 vulnerable Coloradans each year. VOA services include housing and emergency shelters, hunger and nutrition services and many other community support programs. Since 1896, we have created programs to address the unmet needs within our communities and provide for the physically, socially, and spiritually hungry.

This year has been difficult for everyone, but the pandemic has disproportionately impacted seniors and families on the brink of poverty.

With the support of our community, Volunteers of America Colorado has continued to feed and shelter those in need. Since the pandemic began, we have increased our Meals on Wheels deliveries to 2,500 meals a day to home bound seniors, we have served pantry boxes to over 1,817 families at our Early Childhood Education Center as services pivoted in March to a food distribution center, and sheltered 843 individuals at our Family Motel. But we are not finished, and we need your help as we close out 2020!

This holiday season, in light of COVID-19, VOA Colorado encourages your generosity by making a gift at www.voacolorado.org/donate.

We also need $25 gift cards from Safeway, King Soopers, Walmart, Target, and Amazon to be used in place of toys for children as we give out holiday dinner baskets this December. These gift cards can also be mailed to VOA Colorado, Attn: Bradley Gulley, 2660 Larimer St., Denver, CO 80205. To learn more about our programs and how you can help, please visit www.voacolorado. org. Follow our Facebook and Instagram pages @ VOAColorado to receive updates on what we are doing in the community and how you can get involved.

2660 Larimer Street Denver, CO 80205 (303) 297-0408 voacolorado.org

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We Don’t Waste

We Don’t Waste believes nutritious food should feed people, not fill landfills. 40% of food produced in the US ends up in the landfill, and with increasing numbers of Coloradans experiencing hunger and food insecurity, it’s this organization’s mission to stop hunger by stopping waste!

We Don’t Waste reduces hunger and waste by rescuing food from venues, caterers, distributors, and restaurants, then delivering it free of charge to more than 90 hunger-fighting agencies in the Denver Metro area. We Don’t Waste also provides fresh food directly to individuals and families at eight monthly Mobile Food Markets, which are located in food deserts (areas with limited or no access to healthy food). Since 2009, We Don’t Waste has saved and distributed over 34 million pounds of food—protecting the environment and feeding people.

Because We Don’t Waste never charges food donors or food recipients for food, the organization is reliant on support from the community to fund its vital work. And with 1 in 3 Coloradans currently experiencing food insecurity, your support is more important than ever! By donating, volunteering, and helping to spread the word, YOU can help We Don’t Waste reduce hunger and food waste in our community!

We Don’t Waste at a glance: - Over 34 million pounds of food saved and distributed to our community.

- With 1 in 3 Coloradans experiencing food insecurity currently, your support is more important than ever before.

Warren Village

Since 1974, Warren Village’s Two-Generation (2Gen) approach has been providing opportunities and comprehensive resources to empower low-income, single-parent families to change their life trajectory. This holistic approach includes three program components: Safe & Affordable Housing With safe, consistent, and affordable housing, families can break the cycle of poverty and achieve self-sufficiency. Warren Village offers two to three years of transitional housing in 92 apartments accommodating single-parent families with up to six children. In addition, we offer a one-year transitional communal living program for 11 single mothers and their children through our First Step program, in partnership with the City of Denver.

Parent Services & Advocacy Warren Village provides each resident with a Family Advocate who helps parents set goals and find additional resources, including: post-secondary education assistance, career exploration, financial literacy classes, holistic wellness supports, and comprehensive longterm housing plans.

Early Education & Child Care Children who experience poverty and homelessness are at an increased risk for social, emotional, and cognitive problems. Warren Village’s on-site Learning Center provides early childhood education, child care, mental health supports, and two-thirds of the daily nutritional requirements for children between the ages of 6 weeks to 10 years.

Your donation is an investment in the lives of low-income, single-parent families that is helping them make the journey from poverty to self-sufficiency.

SAVING FOOD • PROTECTING THE PLANET • FEEDING PEOPLE

5971 Broadway, Denver, CO 80216 (720) 443-6113 | wedontwaste.org

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The Action Center

The Action Center has been serving those experiencing hardship or homelessness for over 52 years. Although COVID-19 has increased demand for Action Center’s services, the human services organization has been able to consistently provide free groceries, clothing, rent and utility assistance to neighbors in need and helps connect these neighbors to resources that can help stabilize their lives. The Action Center believes in Community. Compassion.

Connection.

8755 W. 14th Ave. Lakewood, CO 80215 (303) 237-7704 theactioncenter.org

Big City Mountaineers

Big City Mountaineers breaks down barriers to outdoor access for students from disinvested communities. By providing free, fully-outfitted, and professionally-led backcountry trips in Colorado and around the country, BCM provides students with the opportunity to connect with nature and reconnect with their strengths, adaptability, and resilience. Now more than ever, we feel the power of nature - as a space for movement, introspection, and healing.

710 10th Street, Suite 120 Golden, CO 80401 (303) 271-9200 bigcitymountaineers.org

Africa Development

Promise

Our mission is to drive the collective action of rural, entrepreneurial women to advance sustainable business and economic selfsufficiency in East African communities. With your support, ADP provides much-needed tools, training, and technical assistance to women-led agricultural cooperatives to help them develop into profitable agribusinesses. As a result, 30% of cooperative members have now started their own thriving micro-enterprises that provide additional financial stability for their families.

1031 33rd Street, #174 Denver, CO 80205 (720) 432-0734 africadevelopmentpromise.org

Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking

This year, the world stopped—but human trafficking didn’t. Since 2005, LCHT has worked to end this crime in our state. This year, your generosity will help advance a growing movement through anti-trafficking training, community-based research, a statewide hotline to support survivors, and the development of future human rights leaders. Together, we can end human trafficking.

1031 33rd Street, Suite 237 Denver, CO 80205 (303) 295-0451 combathumantrafficking.org

Chelsea Hutchison Street’s Hope Foundation Chelsea Hutchison Foundation provides tangible assistance to those affected by epilepsy and educates the public about SUDEP. Funds raised provide grants for seizure-response service dogs and life-saving monitors to help protect against SUDEP. We are dedicated to providing opportunities that allow individuals greater independence, increased confidence and community understanding. CHF sends families to Epilepsy Awareness Expo and Day at Disneyland each year.

PO Box 630048 Littleton, CO 80163 (303) 250-7739 chelseahutchisonfoundation.org

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Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that exploits 24.9 million people around the world. Vulnerable people face exploitation in many forms. We support them on their journeys to freedom. Since 2008, Street’s Hope has provided services to over 600 people experiencing exploitation and human trafficking in Denver. Help us ensure all people know their worth and can choose the direction of their lives with freedom and dignity.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: It’s happening here, and you can help.

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The Nature Conservancy

As this year has shown, we need nature now more than ever. By supporting The Nature Conservancy, you’re supporting a future where nature and people thrive. We have worked onthe-ground to protect Colorado for more than 50 years. From mountain peaks to desert canyons, from rushing rivers to wide-open grasslands, the Colorado we depend on depends on us.

Join us as we pursue effective solutions to the environment’s most pressing challenges.

2424 Spruce Street Boulder, CO 80302 (303) 444-2950 nature.org/colorado

MY LIFE The Wild Animal IS IN YOUR HANDS Sanctuary WildAnimalSanctuary.org

Located 30 miles northeast of Denver, The Wild Animal Sanctuary is the largest and oldest carnivore sanctuary in the world. We have traveled the world for over 40 years rescuing captive exotic and endangered large carnivores that have been abused, abandoned, exploited or illegally kept. We currently care for over 600 Lions, Tigers, Bears, and other rescued Animals.

Each Animal is provided with exceptional care, and a forever home within large natural habitats.

Starting Hearts

Starting Hearts Saves Precious Lives. We are a Colorado nonprofit dedicated to saving precious lives from sudden cardiac arrest, our nation’s greatest killer. We do so through widespread free education, placement of public access defibrillators, and citizen engagement to provide early care. Our save rate in the communities we serve is 25%, more than 2.5 times the national average.

We are coming to Denver to train thousands of citizens and place hundreds of public access defibrillators, made possible by our generous donors. We would be so very grateful for your support.

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Boulder / American This charming restaurant explores the roots of American heritage through food. Pair a cider with the Colorado lamb shank.

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Boulder / International Tenants of this food collective on the Pearl Street Mall include Boychik, Pig and Tiger, Method Coffee Roasters, New Yorkese, Rye Society, Rooted Craft Kitchen, and Quiero Arepas. Also try the LoHi location. 1401 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-343-7757. Lunch, Dinner, Brunch

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Cherry Creek / Italian Dedication to authenticity translates to the food and extensive wine menu at this elegant eatery, which is focused on the cuisines of northern Italy’s Tuscany and Piedmont regions.

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RiNo / Italian Two things you can count on at Alex Figura and Spencer White’s fast-casual Italian eatery: perfect pasta and warm hospitality.

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Three years ago, brothers Jeremy and Darren Song opened Turtle Boat, a tiny, sustainably minded poke shop on South Broadway that feels far more Colorado than Hawaii. That’s because the Songs use primarily local produce and responsibly caught and harvested fish—from red trout to salmon to Arctic char—resulting in flavorful poke bowls that are made with care.

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In Rock Springs & Green River, social distancing activities abound from the Red Desert to Flaming Gorge Country.

We’re committed to keeping our wide-open spaces safe for all.

Remember to stay clean, stay safe and stay informed while adventuring responsibly in Sweetwater County.

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RiNo / Southern Chef Kyle Foster serves sophisticated dishes inspired by the flavors and techniques of the South, such as barbecued snails and pork and oyster sausage. Don’t miss the exemplary biscuits. Reservations accepted. 3258 Larimer St., 303-295-8977. Dinner, Brunch

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RiNo / Mediterranean Acclaimed chef Alon Shaya brings his modern Israeli fare to Denver.

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Westwood / Mexican Enjoy plates of mole and enchiladas verdes, as well as a menu of almost 30 different juices and smoothies in a space decorated with the art of Frida Kahlo. Reservations accepted. 3735 Morrison Rd., 303-936-0758. Lunch, Dinner

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City Park West / Chinese Enjoy a modern take on Chinese cuisine executed by chef Christopher Lin, an alum of Momofuku in New York City. Try the braised pork rice.

Reservations accepted. 3421 E. Colfax Ave., 720-729-8887. Dinner

Downtown / Barbecue Diners flock to this subterranean smokehouse for classic ‘cue. Try the falling-off-the-bone rib combo. Reservations accepted. 1422 Larimer St., 720-524-8050.

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Downtown / American Award-winning chef Alex Seidel offers upscale, contemporary farmto-table fare, including seasonal pasta dishes and family-style shared plates for the table.

Reservations accepted for dinner. Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop St., Ste. 155, 720-460-3733.

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IMAGES: Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Monkeys (detail), 1943, Oil on canvas. The Vergel Foundation and MondoMostre in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL). © 2020 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Gerardo Suter; Diego Rivera, Calla Lilly Vendor (detail), 1943. Oil on Masonite; 59.1 x 47.2 in. (150 x 120 cm). The Vergel Foundation and MondoMostre in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL). © 2020 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Gerardo Suter.

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection is organized by the Vergel Foundation and MondoMostre in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL). The Denver Art Museum exhibition is generously supported by John and Sandra Fox, the Birnbaum Social Discourse Project, and Craig Ponzio.

Additional funding is provided by Lisë Gander and Andy Main, Lauren and Geoff Smart, Xcel Energy, the Kristin and Charles Lohmiller Exhibitions Fund, the Fine Arts Foundation, the donors to the Annual Fund Leadership Campaign, and the residents who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). Promotional support is provided by 5280 Magazine and CBS4.

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RiNo / Japanese Chef Kenta Kamo and Sushi Den’s Toshi Kizaki team up to bring temaki (hand rolls) and aburi (flame-seared) nigiri to the Source.

The Source Hotel & Market Hall, 3330 Brighton Blvd., 225-405-0811. Dinner NEW

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Atlas of Depression, is quoted addressing what some of us who have mood disorders have been experiencing this year. “[People already diagnosed with a major depressive disorder] develop what some clinicians call ‘double depression,’ in which the underlying disorder coexists with a new layer of fear and sorrow.”

Depression is bad. Double depression is really awful. This is what it has looked like for me: Over the past half year, I’ve been pushed into profound misery for roughly 48 to 72 hours at least once a week. I don’t smile. I don’t laugh. I have difficulty feeling love. I contemplate different ways of hurting myself. I want to sleep so I don’t have to think about anything anymore. Sometimes I’ll work the better part of the day and then crawl into bed at 4:30 in the afternoon and sleep for two hours. Then, of course, I can’t fall asleep at night. My mood darkens. My mind whirs. The voice returns.

ONE OF THE MOST sobering things I’ve learned during my time in therapy is that I will be dealing with this disease—or rather, the combined diseases of anxiety and depression—for the rest of my life. It’s not like the appendicitis I had in my early 30s, or like a sinus infection that will go away with a round of antibiotics. It’s not even like COVID-19. It’s more akin to a bad back or diabetes or high blood pressure.

For me, it’s something to be managed and addressed consistently. It is not something to be trifled with.

Conventional wisdom might suggest that as you age and mellow and your kids become more independent and you have more professional success and earn more money, your tendency for feeling down or anxious might subside. That’s not how things have gone for me. It was also not the case for William Styron, whose book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness has been my lodestar since I discovered it last year. Styron had a nearly catastrophic deep depression at the age of 60, when he was already an accomplished novelist. At 46, I’ve never experienced a lasting major depression like the one he faced, but some of the particulars of his disease mirror my own.

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“[A]fter I had returned to health and was I never felt hopeless. The voice that so often able to reflect on the past in the light of tells me that I’m not good enough, that my ordeal,” Styron writes, “I began to see I’m a failure, that I don’t fit in, that I creclearly how depression had clung close to ate, rather than solve, problems, that I am the outer edges of my life for many years.” a fucking idiot never appeared. This disease I once did an exercise with my therapist doesn’t lend itself to easy answers, but I have called a trauma timeline. Everybody expewondered if each occasion involved a comriences trauma differently—no matter how ponent of “good” stress that allowed me to minor or major it might seem be proactive and productive. to others—and the trauma Therapists, medical protimeline is designed to idenfessionals, and myriad studies GETTING HELP If you are—or a tify how and when the client explain that some varieties of loved one is— experiences it. In doing this stress are deleterious; however, experiencing an assignment, I learned depresit is well known too that a ceracute mental health sion, or something approaching tain amount of stress can lead crisis, Colorado depression, had been near to to adaptation. Maybe that’s as Crisis Services has a me, as it was for Styron, for good an explanation as any? hotline where trained years. I believe it was there Maybe I never felt despondent professionals can when, after each semester in because, whether it was true talk you through an college ended, I would fall into or not, I felt like I could do emergency. Call a funk. I believe it was there something—even the smallest 1-844-493-8255 or text TALK to 38255. when my girlfriend—now my thing—to help someone I was wife—and I split up for a few close to and loved deeply? months after we’d both finOn the other hand, a global ished graduate school in our late 20s and pandemic, a national reckoning on systemic I thought my life was over. I believe it was racism, raging wildfires resulting, in part, there when, in my 30s, I discovered what from the effects of climate change—each Styron calls the “daily mood bath” of alcoof these issues feels overwhelming, scary, hol and embarked on my ongoing struggle impossible to fix. Each thing on its own with that drug. is so all-encompassing, so massive, and so These kinds of things are not at all disorienting it’s difficult to find even the rare—for anyone. They are not disastrous smallest way to engage in a meaningful, traumas or life-destroying events, and for helpful, substantive way. I haven’t known people without mood disorders, they would what to do. It doesn’t seem like anyone be treated as such. For someone who strugreally knows what to do. It’s all totally, gles with depression and anxiety, however, completely paralyzing. they take on an outsize importance, both in “DEPRESSION IS THE FLAW in love.” This is the real time and in that person’s history. opening line in Solomon’s The Noonday I have actually lived a very fortunate Demon and is perhaps the most succinct, life, but I have experienced events that one accurate description of the disease I’ve ever might consider classic depression-inducers, read. “To be creatures who love, we must be things that could send almost anyone into creatures who can despair at what we lose, a period of sustained melancholy. Strangely, and depression is the mechanism of that these things did not do that for me. My dad despair.” What we have all lost over the past has beaten cancer—twice—and survived a nine months is immeasurable. What we random drive-by shooting. My mom has have each lost is singular, difficult, and real. long endured painful osteoarthritic issues We are all struggling. We are all suffering. for which she’s had numerous surgeries.

Depression has afflicted human beings My eldest son was born via an emergency for millennia, and yet, for so long it was C-section after my wife suffered a potenonly discussed in whispers and only existed tially catastrophic placental abruption in the shadows. Recently, though, things during labor. Perhaps most significantly, have begun to change. In the past couple of though, my younger brother was diagnosed years, people have started talking about it with a rare and potentially deadly form of more openly, actively working to lessen the leukemia when he was 26. The brutal treatstigma around mental health issues. Celebment protocol that ultimately saved his life rities, including Bruce Springsteen, Lady lasted the better part of two years.

Gaga, Jon Hamm, Kristen Bell, and, just To this day, I’m not sure why those this past summer, Dak Prescott, have told ordeals didn’t drive me into abject sadness. vulnerable, cathartic, and very public stories I didn’t feel the shroud of depression lower about their battles with the demons of the itself over my senses. I never felt worthless.

mind. One of the most compelling pieces of storytelling about mental health I’ve read recently is by NBA alum Ben Gordon, who published “Where Is My Mind” this past February in the Players’ Tribune. “Part of the problem was that I didn’t even know that what I was experiencing had a name,” Gordon, who was subsequently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, writes. “I didn’t know I was having episodes. Something would trigger me—usually I’d be reading about religion or spirituality [or] conspiracy theories—and then I’d get stuck. I would have this kind of childlike curiosity about the unexplainable.

The metaphysical. The spiritual. The mystical. And then I’d be on a loop.”

I started writing this piece in May, for myself, with no intention of publishing it. I was in a bad spot mentally, and as so many professional and amateur writers know, writing can be therapeutic. Writing is also an act of discovery, and I have discovered much over the past few months as I’ve wrestled with my mood disorder and with the words on the page. Maybe my greatest revelation has been waking up to the fact that I do want to live, that my thoughts of hurting myself are fleeting, that I have the ability to quiet the voice when it arrives—sometimes through talk therapy; sometimes, yes, with the help of alcohol; and sometimes through the simple passage of time. I’ve learned I want to get up each morning, no matter how difficult the coming day might be, no matter how much my mind tells me it would be easier to just stay in bed.

I have also discovered that, although the idea of telling my story makes me nervous, there is a relief in making my history with depression known. Many of my closest friends don’t know about the extent of my illness, and there is, in the jargon of therapy, a sense of control and peace that comes from publicly “naming” my mental health issues. Of course, there is also the hope that, just as I have taken solace in reading about others whose struggles are comparable to mine, this confession will make someone feel less isolated—now, during what is arguably one of the most tumultuous, uncertain, and depression-inducing times in history, or later, when the pain of depression might come for no reason at all. Beyond that, what I know for sure is that I have much more to endure. In the meantime, I will continue to push forward, even as I wait for the darkness to come again. m

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Whether it is managing your assets with a wealth manager, navigating the ever-changing tax landscape, sorting out your estate and succession planning or picking the right life insurance, finding the right team can be a daunting task. In fact, many consumers have a hard time figuring out where to even begin.

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FIVE STAR WEALTH MANAGER CRITERIA DETERMINATION OF AWARD WINNERS

Award candidates who satisfied 10 objective eligibility and evaluation criteria were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers.

Eligibility Criteria – Required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative. 2. Actively employed as a credentialed professional in the financial services industry for a minimum of five years. 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review. 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal firm standards. 5.

Accepting new clients. Evaluation Criteria – Considered: 6. One-year client retention rate. 7. Five-year client retention rate.

8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered. 9. Number of client households served. 10. Education and professional designations. 2,172 award candidates in the Denver area were considered for the Five Star Wealth Manager award. 213 (approximately 10% of the award candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers.

RESEARCH DISCLOSURES In order to consider a broad population of high-quality wealth managers and investment professionals, award candidates are identified by one of three sources: firm nomination, peer nomination or prequalification based on industry standing. Self-nominations are not accepted. Denver-area award candidates were identified using internal and external research data. Candidates do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final lists of Five Star Wealth Managers or Five Star Investment Professionals.

• The Five Star award is not indicative of a professional’s future performance.

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• Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager, Five Star Investment Professional or any professional is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected professionals will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future.

• Five Star Professional is not an advisory firm and the content of this article should not be considered financial advice. For more information on the Five Star Wealth Manager or Five Star Investment Professional award programs, research and selection criteria, go to fivestarprofessional.com/research.

FIVE STAR INVESTMENT PROFESSIONAL CRITERIA

DETERMINATION OF AWARD WINNERS The investment professional award goes to estate planning attorneys, insurance agents and select others in the financial industry. Eligibility Criteria – Required: 1. Credentialed with appropriate state or industry licensures.

2. Actively employed as a credentialed professional in the financial services industry for a minimum of five years.

3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review. 4. Accepting new clients. Evaluation Criteria – Considered: 5.

One-year client retention rate. 6. Five-year client retention rate. 7. Number of client households served. 8. Recent personal production and performance (industry specific criteria). 9. Education and professional designations/industry and board certifications. 10. Pro Bono and community service work. This year, we honored 10 Denver-area investment professionals with the Five Star Investment Professional award.

All award winners are listed in this publication.

Wealth Managers Business Planning

Jody Kim Hinsey ∙ First Allied Advisory Services

Kris Eric Tower ∙ American Portfolios Advisors

Lauretta C. Moell ∙ Benjamin F. Edwards & Co.

Robert L. Holland Jr. ∙ Kestra Advisory Services

Ann Vanderslice ∙ Retirement Planning Strategies Page 8

Daniel A. Noven ∙ Noven Financial Group/SRS Capital Advisors Inc

Taylor Yionoulis ∙ Nolen Western Company Page 4

Brian J. Perkins ∙ CDP Financial Group

Jeremy Russell Clark ∙ Lucet Advisors

Guy Wesley Holman ∙ TCI Wealth Advisors Page 11

Financial Planning

Jeffrey A. Hutcheson ∙ Aspen Wealth Management

Mark Dale Arlen ∙ Lincoln Financial Advisors

Bradley R. Jenkins ∙ Jenkins Wealth Page 10

Robert H. Bastiaans ∙ Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC Page 11

Jonathan Russell Kelley ∙ Hinds Financial Group

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Patricia Kummer ∙ Mariner Wealth Advisors Page 7

Bruce G. Allen ∙ Bruce G. Allen Investments, LLC Page 3

Leann Canty ∙ Canty’s Financial Strategies Page 11

Russell G. Kyncl ∙ Strategic Exit, LLC

John Lee Arnold ∙ Wells Fargo Advisors

William Howard Shriver ∙ Shriver Investments

Willis Ashby ∙ Integra Financial Page 9

Jeffrey Michael Thompson ∙ LPL Financial

Andrew Richard Clyne ∙ Securities America Advisors

Tad M. Lyle ∙ Planning Resources Page 10 Lori Jane Miller ∙ LPL Financial

Donna M. Boender ∙ Wells Fargo Advisors

Jay A. Murray ∙ Solutions For Tuition

Barbara Ellen Buell ∙ Wells Fargo Advisors

Elizabeth A. Thorpe ∙ Wells Fargo Advisors Page 9

Patrick Nolen ∙ Nolen Western Company Page 4

M Katharine Collins ∙ LPL Financial Page 11

Gregory A. Wambolt ∙ Wambolt & Associates Page 8

Benita Creacy ∙ Western Wealth Management

Elizabeth O’Donnell ∙ O’Donnell Wealth Management Page 9

T.H. Williams ∙ Wells Fargo Advisors Page 5

Roger Deveney Dael ∙ Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC

Michael Gene Zahler ∙ Wells Fargo Advisors Page 6

Karl Fredrick Frank ∙ A & I Financial Services

Investment Professionals

Karine R. Beard ∙ Clarus Wealth At Plum Creek

Michael Andrew Cohen ∙ Lincoln Financial Advisors Mary A. DeBaets ∙ LPL Financial Frank Djonbalaj ∙ Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC Jeffrey J. Donahue ∙ LPL Financial

Alie Margaret Olsen ∙ Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC

Robert Schuler Eberhardt ∙ A & I Financial Services

Adam Robinson ∙ SevenWealth

Derek Eichenwald ∙ Triumph Capital Management Page 10

Teresa R. Sanders ∙ Aspen Wealth Management

Gustin D. Fox-Smith ∙ Fox-Smith Wealth Management Page 7

Jessica J. Tai ∙ Wells Fargo Advisors Page 11

Kimberly Ann Gieseler ∙ Valorem Financial

Julia J. Smith ∙ LPL Financial Sam Rey Tenney ∙ Fidelis Wealth Advisors

Diane Powell Zing ∙ Trilogy Financial

George Aaron Gumbiner ∙ Marathon Investment Management Shelley Elizabeth Hertel ∙ Western Wealth Management Jeffrey Thomas Huff ∙ Redpoint Capital Management

David Jon Pocs ∙ LPL Financial Keri I. Pugh ∙ LPL Financial Shelley Ann Schlossberg ∙ LPL Financial Nadia Shokohi ∙ LPL Financial

Certified Public Accountant Brian Chase ∙ JDS Professional Group Gregory Zick ∙ Zick Business Advisors

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Bruce G. Allen Investments, LLC 370 17th Street, Suite 3580 • Denver, CO 80202 Office: 303-592-5535 • Fax: 303-592-5534 bruce@bgaillc.com • www.brucegalleninvestments.com

I created Bruce G. Allen Investments, LLC to help our clients build, manage, protect and transition their wealth. We take a comprehensive approach to wealth management by touching on the four cornerstones of investments, credit and liability management, risk management and estate and trust matters. We do all of this so we can help our clients create a sense of wellbeing, prosperity and peace of mind.

Advisory services offered through Bruce G. Allen Investments, LLC., a Registered Investment Advisor. Securities offered through M. S. Howells & Co., member FINRA/SIPC. M. S. Howells & Co. and Bruce G. Allen Investments, LLC are not affiliated.

Availability of services is subject to applicable licensing requirements.

The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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Fiduciary Investment Account Services Founded in 1973, Nolen Western Co. has always had the goal to help people accumulate wealth while simultaneously controlling risk. Our staff consists of experienced professionals with a hands-on approach to financial guidance. As your financial professionals, we will do everything in our power to keep you focused on where you want to go, advise you on how to get there and continually remind you of the importance of maintaining a disciplined approach to realizing your dreams.

Our firm provides comprehensive financial planning and investment management, retirement accumulation, distribution strategies and employee benefits.

9085 E Mineral Circle, Suite 215 • Centennial, CO 80112 Phone: 303-779-1311 • taylory@nolenwestern.com www.nolenwestern.com

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, Certified finanCial Planner™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S. which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements. Securities and Advisory Services offered through Geneos Wealth Management, Inc. member FINRA/SIPC. Wealth Manager Award Winner

The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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T.H. Williams MSF, MBA, CFP®, Managing Director – Investments

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YEAR WINNER Left to right: Vicki Hansen, Senior Registered Client Associate; Ashlee Foreman, Senior Client Associate; 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 winner T.H. Williams, MSF, MBA, CFP®, Managing Director – Investments; Mick Pepper, First Vice President – Investments; Susie Kaufman, Senior Registered Client Associate; Meghan McGuire, CFP®, MS, RICP®, Associate Vice President – Investments

Investing in What Matters … You Your team matters: The professionals at Virtuent Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors have more than 90 years of collective experience in wealth management. Our team takes a holistic approach to planning. We are fully invested in our clients’ success and will be with you every step of the way. Put our experience, imagination and energy to work for you. Philosophy matters: Our relationship-driven, disciplined approach to wealth management helps ensure our clients stay focused on their long-term objectives. Planning matters: Life is full of changes, both positive and negative. World events inspire euphoria and despair. Markets bounce up and down. In the midst of unpredictability, an investment plan can provide foundation and clarity.

Process matters: We begin with open, direct communication and strive to deliver value throughout lifelong relationships with our clients. Relationships matter: Investing often evokes emotion. Having a plan and an advisor to coach you can help you stay focused on your long-term objectives. Services matter: Put our team to work. We have the experience and knowledge to help you with any financial goal.

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The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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Zahler Hanzlik DeLucas Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors

Left to right: 2012 – 2020 winner Michael Zahler, RICP®, Senior Vice President – Investments; Caroline Hanzlik, CFP®, Financial Advisor; Derek Krebsbach, Registered Client Associate; 2012 – 2020 winner Patty DeLucas, CFP®, Associate Vice President – Investments; Cynthia Zahler, Client Associate

Independent • Objective • Unbiased Your financial health and well-being is important to us. As your lifelong advocate, we’ll help you navigate a clear path through critical financial decisions to a better and more secure future. With over 75 years of combined industry experience, we’ll help you succeed by providing comprehensive, timely and well-informed advice. We’ll listen carefully to you, help you define your own unique investment philosophy and provide a customized investment plan — one that balances your risk tolerance with desired reward.

Our team focuses on retirement income planning and multigenerational wealth management. We work closely with families to guide them through the complex process of wealth transfers, gifts and inheritances. We believe in a long-term approach to investing, transparency and keeping costs low.

5613 DTC Parkway, Suite 1000 • Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-488-2423 • Toll-free: 800-999-7900 zahlerhanzlikdelucaswmg@wellsfargoadvisors.com www.zahlerhanzlikdelucaswmg.com

Investment and Insurance Products: NOT FDIC-Insured NO Bank Guarantee MAY Lose Value Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, Member SIPC, a registered broker-dealer and non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company. © 2020. Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC (WFCS, LLC). All rights reserved. [CAR 0820-02591].

Wealth Manager Award Winner

The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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WEALTH MANAGERS

Gustin D. Fox-Smith AIF®, ChFC®, President, Chief Financial Advisor and Regional Director

Locally Managed — Personally Accountable ∙ Tactical asset management specialists focused on our clients’ personal goals ∙ All accounts managed in-house to help minimize fees ∙ Delivers a truly unique client experience designed to remove stress from your financial dealings The trend of advisors acting as only financial planners and counselors lends to the Fox-Smith Wealth Management firm, standing out as one of few firms of scale to continue to do their own research and make all investment decisions for their clientele. They do this while still providing all the advice they need from the beginning to the end of their lives. Fox-Smith Wealth Management has been tasked with the responsibility of managing over $250 million of client assets. Gus views the trust placed in him and his firm as a sacred and personal commitment to his clients. Being given this level of trust is a true honor that he and his staff never take lightly.

8471 Turnpike Drive, Suite 115 Westminster, CO 80031 Phone: 303-650-2727 • gus@fswealth.biz www.fswealth.biz 2014, 2016, 2019, and 2020 winner Gustin D. Fox-Smith, AIF®, ChFC®, President, Chief Financial Advisor and Regional Director

Securities and advisory services offered through Cetera Advisor Networks LLC (doing business in CA as CFGAN Insurance Agency LLC), Member FINRA/SIPC, a broker/ dealer and a Registered Investment Advisor. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity. Listing in this publication and/or award is not a guarantee of future investment success. Nor is it an endorsement of the advisor by any client.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

Mariner Wealth Advisors 360° Advice Designed to Last Photo 6.2” wide by 4.5” high at 300 dpi. Maximum of 6 people.

∙ Committed to being here for everything life brings your way ∙ Goal: to help you identify what’s important, so you can reach your goals.

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YEAR WINNER Left to right: Paula Degener, CFP®; David Martin, CFP®; Nine-year winner Patricia Kummer, CFP®; Eric Haberkorn, CFP®; Elisabeth Burk; Brett Lapierre, CFA

8871 Ridgeline Boulevard, Suite 100 • Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 Phone: 303-470-1209 • patricia.kummer@marinerwealthadvisors.com marinerwealthadvisors.com

Our team of experienced advisors are committed to putting your interests first. We’ll listen to what matters most to you, then partner with our inhouse teams and you to create a wealth management plan for today and beyond that is flexible enough to change along with you.

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®, Certified finanCial Planner™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S. which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements. Mariner Wealth Advisors (“MWA”) is an SEC registered investment adviser with its principal place of business in the State of Kansas. Registration of an investment adviser does not imply a certain level of skill or training. For additional information about MWA, including fees and services, please contact MWA or refer to the Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website (www.adviserinfo.sec.gov). Please read the disclosure statement carefully before you invest or send money. Securities offered through MSEC, LLC Member FINRA & SIPC.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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WEALTH MANAGERS

Ann Vanderslice Federal Benefits Specialist, President, Owner

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Believes your federal benefits should be: ∙ Understandable ∙ Relatable ∙ Usable

7 YEAR

WINNER Left to right: Jason Johnson; Seven-year winner Ann Vanderslice; Ashley Robinson

Federal benefits are often described as complex and confusing. In addition to a complicated set of rules for calculating retirement benefits, the federal employee has to consider how Social Security and the Thrift Savings Plan fit into their retirement puzzle.

Let us help you navigate the federal benefits system to create a straightforward plan that’s based on your specific situation. Whether you’re newly hired, in the middle of your career or approaching retirement, the Federal Benefits Made Simple® process is designed for you!

1 Denver Federal Center, Building 45 • Denver, CO 80225 • Phone: 303-922-4304 ann@annvanderslice.com • www.annvanderslice.com

Securities offered through Cabot Lodge Securities LLC, New York, NY 10005, Member FINRA/SIPC/MSRB. Retirement Planning Strategies is not controlled by, or a subsidiary of, Cabot Lodge Securities LLC or CL Wealth Management LLC. Lic. 5057784.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

Gregory A. Wambolt Founder, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC®

Embracing Your Financial Future, Together ∙ Financial planning redefined with a family office experience ∙ A fiduciary — so that every decision and recommendation is in your best interest

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YEAR WINNER Left to right: Andrew Jenkins, Managing Director of Planning and Investments; Seven-year winner Greg Wambolt, Founder and Senior Wealth Management Advisor; Cindy Alvarez, Senior Wealth Management Advisor

13976 W Bowles Avenue, Suite 200 • Littleton, CO 80127 • Phone: 720-962-6700 greg.wambolt@wamboltwealth.com • wamboltwealth.com

The Wambolt Wealth Management approach is centered around designing custom financial plans along with proactive tax and estate planning and leveraging our tools that consistently enhance client planning outcomes and investment performances.

We focus on families, small businesses and individuals with simple to complex fiscal dynamics, where we can modify our level of service. We accumulate and preserve wealth by coordinating tax, legal and financial services. When we partner together our clients truly win.

Wambolt & Associates, LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where our firm is properly licensed or exempt from licensure. All investing involves risk and possible loss of principal capital.

No advice may be rendered by our firm unless a client service agreement is in place.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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WEALTH MANAGERS

Integra Financial Willis Ashby 2012 – 2020 Five Star Wealth Manager ∙ Operating independently with no broker-dealer ∙ Investment fiduciary putting your interests first ∙ Managing client assets for over 30 years

We provide high-value, personalized investment planning services tailored to you throughout your financial life.

As investment fiduciaries with no broker-dealer, our primary responsibility is to you. Our guiding principles are transparency, integrity and accountability. We believe the true measure of our success is client satisfaction and retention.

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5105 DTC Parkway, Suite 316 • Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Office: 303-220-5525 • willis@integrafinancial.ws www.integrafinancial.ws

YEAR WINNER Left to right: Nine-year winner Willis Ashby, President, CFP®; Nick Weisert

Integra Financial, Inc. is a registered advisory firm registered with the Colorado Division of Securities.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

Elizabeth O’Donnell

Elizabeth A. Thorpe

Financial Advisor, MBA, CFP®

Senior Vice President – Investment Officer

501 S Cherry Street, Floor 11 Denver, CO 80246 Phone: 303-331-6434 elizabetho@voyafa.com www.odonnellwealth.com

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Integrity • Excellence • Commitment

YEAR WINNER

∙ Personally tailored financial planning ∙ Integrated wealth management ∙ Income solutions and risk management Elizabeth has an impressive reputation for objective, intelligent and highly personalized service. Her integrity and experience enable her to deliver effective plans that reflect her clients’ values, personal objectives and long-term goals. Her breadth of knowledge makes her a trusted advisor able to inform, motivate and advise clients so they are well positioned for both financial success and financial confidence.

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YEAR WINNER

143 Union Boulevard, Suite 1050 Lakewood, CO 80228 Office: 303-763-8300 betsy.thorpe@wellsfargoadvisors.com home.wellsfargoadvisors.com/betsy.thorpe 2014 – 2020 Five Star Wealth Manager

∙ Helps clients embrace their goals and define their objectives Elizabeth identifies obstacles and manages any risks that inhibit her clients’ wealth accumulation. She offers a wide range of services, including assisting clients with individual investments and retirement plans.

“With access to a broad array of company resources, I can help you make informed investment decisions based on your specific needs. Contact me if you’d like me to help you develop strategies for pursuing your financial goals.” — Elizabeth A. Thorpe

Investment adviser representative and registered representative of, and securities and investment advisory services offered through Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. (member SIPC). O’Donnell Wealth Management is not a subsidiary of nor controlled by Voya Financial Advisors. CN1322646_1221.

Investment and Insurance Products: NOT FDIC-Insured NO Bank Guarantee MAY Lose Value Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, Member SIPC, a registered broker-dealer and non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company. [CAR-0920-00631].

Wealth Manager Award Winner

Wealth Manager Award Winner

The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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WEALTH MANAGERS Bradley R. Jenkins

Derek Eichenwald

CFP®, CEO and Chief Investment Officer

CEO, Senior Investment Executive

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YEAR WINNER

8310 S Valley Highway, Suite 205 Englewood, CO 80112 Office: 720-457-6844 Brad@JenkinsWealth.com www.JenkinsWealth.com Excellence • Integrity • Innovation

∙ Founder and creator of Market Guard™ At Jenkins Wealth™, we believe an educated investor is an empowered investor. Because of this, we have made it our mission to help clients gain a complete understanding of their personal financial situation. One of the ways we accomplish this is by building trust through transparency. Jenkins Wealth™ has been built upon a biblical foundation.

We believe that God instructs all of us to be good stewards of our money, and we have faithfully committed ourselves to helping others achieve the success that He has planned for their financial lives.

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YEAR WINNER

Triumph Capital Management 1610 Wynkoop Street, Suite 550 Denver, CO 80202 Office: 720-399-5551 • Cell: 720-495-1317 dereke@triumphcapitalmanagement.com www.triumphcapitalmanagement.com Manage Your Finances Like Never Before

Above all, Derek and Triumph Capital Management’s commitment is to help you work toward achieving your financial goals, so you can have a worry-free retirement. With their impeccable client service focused on asset preservation, as well as their numerous investment products and strategies, Triumph Capital Management can help protect your lifestyle for a lifetime.

Jenkins Wealth advisory services provided through Market Guard. Market Guard is a Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). CRD # 153241.

Advisory services offered through Triumph Capital Management, a registered investment advisor SEC# 282814.

Insurance Services offered through Triumph Capital, LLC #619821. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. The inclusion of a Wealth Manager in the Top Ranked Investment Manager, Financial Planners and Five Star awards or other publications that awards are published in is partly based on client responses to surveys and additional criteria utilized by the awarding organization, which are not necessarily representations of the experience of all clients.

The awards and rankings are not indicative of the Wealth Manager’s future performance or success. Winners appearing on this page do not pay a fee to be considered or to win the Five Star award. Professional with a digital profile has paid a promotional fee.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

Wealth Manager Award Winner

Tad M. Lyle Managing Partner

4600 S Syracuse Street, Suite 1000 Denver, CO 80237 Phone: 303-649-2162 tad@tadlyle.com www.planningresourcesco.com

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YEAR WINNER

Living in the Present and Planning for the Future

With 30-plus years of experience, Tad has built Planning Resources on the principles of integrity, excellence and teamwork. At Planning Resources, our passion is to ensure that our clients experience a new level of confidence about their financial futures. Our goal and commitment is to provide insight, education and direction so that our clients can make informed decisions about their financial plan. We are committed to providing financial and emotional support for business owners and individuals by helping them plan for one of the most important financial events of their lives — retirement.

Insurance products issued by Principal National Life Insurance Co. (except in NY), Principal Life Insurance Co., and the companies available through the Preferred Product Network, Inc. Securities and advisory products offered through Principal Securities, Inc., (800) 247-1737, Member SIPC. Principal National, Principal Life, the Preferred Product Network and Principal Securities are members of the Principal Financial Group®, Des Moines, IA 50392. Tad Lyle, Principal National and Principal Life Financial Representative, Principal Securities Registered Representative and Financial Advisor and Planning Resources is not an affiliate of any company of the Principal Financial Group.

A wealth manager can help with retirement planning, legal planning, estate planning, banking services, philanthropic planning and risk management.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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WEALTH MANAGERS Robert H. Bastiaans

Jessica J. Tai

CFP®, APMA®, MSFS, CLU®, ChFC®, Private Wealth Advisor

Financial Advisor

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YEAR WINNER

7979 E Tufts Avenue, Suite 825 Denver, CO 80237 Office: 303-689-7424 Toll-free: 800-991-0993 robert.h.bastiaans@ampf.com bobbastiaans.com

3200 S Cherry Creek Drive, Suite 100 Cherry Creek, CO 80209 Phone: 303-248-0844 jessica.tai@wellsfargoadvisors.com fa.wellsfargoadvisors.com/arnold-financialgroup/index.htm

Understanding Your Goals and Dreams

Trusted Advice, Exceptional Service

∙ Planning for the certainty of uncertainty ∙ Developing strategies tailored to your needs ∙ 2012 – 2020 Five Star Wealth Manager award winner For 43 years, I have been helping clients develop financial planning strategies that address multigenerational planning as well as day-to-day needs. My talented team and I strive to enhance our clients’ abilities to make financial and investment decisions.

R.H. Bastiaans and Associates, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC Investors should conduct their own evaluation of a financial professional as working with a financial advisor is not a guarantee of future financial success. Investment advisory products and services are made available through Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC, a registered investment adviser. Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC. Member FINRA and SIPC.

∙ Dedicated to helping clients achieve their goals ∙ Focused on building confidence through education and planning ∙ Passionate about helping clients make sense of the markets ∙ Uses an integrated and disciplined approach Jessica is a financial advisor with the Arnold Financial Group of Wells Fargo Advisors. She is passionate about helping clients uncover their needs in order to achieve their financial goals so they can spend more time doing the things that they love. She is dedicated to assisting clients in planning effectively, making informed decisions and developing fully integrated, cohesive strategies to meet their priorities throughout each of life’s major stages: accumulation, distribution and legacy.

Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, Member SIPC. [CAR-0920-01473].

Wealth Manager Award Winner

Wealth Manager Award Winner

M Katharine Collins

Guy Wesley Holman

LPL Branch Manager, LPL Registered Principal

2229 S Joliet Way Aurora, CO 80014 Direct: 303-306-6639 katie.collins@lpl.com katiecollinswealthmanager.com

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YEAR WINNER

∙ 2012 – 2020 Five Star Wealth Manager

A successful financial partnership requires a trustworthy adviser.

With 36 years of experience, I offer guidance in building, managing and maintaining your investment portfolios. I’m here to help with your goals!

Securities and advisory services offered through LPL Financial, a registered investment advisor. Member FINRA/SIPC. Wealth Manager Award Winner

CFP®, Advisor, Shareholder

1228 15th Street, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303-296-2196 guy.holman@tciwealth.com www.tciwealth.com

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YEAR WINNER

∙ Details matter in life

Guy Holman has been helping clients think differently about investing for over 30 years. He specializes in working with clients on complex tax and financial planning issues, including incentive stock options, qualified stock options and deferred compensation plans.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

Leann Canty

CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™

5720 Zephyr Street Arvada, CO 80002 Phone: 303-424-8757 info@askthetaxexpert.com www.cantysfinancial.com

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YEAR WINNER

∙ Building wealth and long-term relationships

I am uniquely qualified to help you build wealth with my 30-plus years of tax expertise and nearly 20 years of financial planning experience.

By combining both areas of expertise, I build individualized strategies to meet your and your family’s unique financial needs.

After all, building wealth is about what you get to keep.

Securities offered through Avantax Investment ServicesSM, Member FINRA, SIPC. Investment advisory services offered through Avantax Advisory ServicesSM. Insurance services offered through Avantax affiliated insurance agencySM.

Wealth managers not only offer advice, but they also guide you through the process of managing your money and investing it for you.

Wealth Manager Award Winner

The Five Star Wealth Manager award, administered by Crescendo Business Services, LLC (dba Five Star Professional), is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria – required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a registered investment adviser or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by Five Star Professional, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through Five Star Professional’s consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client’s experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria – considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. Award does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. Once awarded, wealth managers may purchase additional profile ad space or promotional products. The Five Star award is not indicative of the wealth manager’s future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their client’s assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by Five Star Professional or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by Five Star Professional in the future. For more information on the Five Star award and the research/selection methodology, go to fivestarprofessional.com. 2,172 Denver-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 213 (10% of candidates) were named 2020 Five Star Wealth Managers. 2019: 2,146 considered, 262 winners; 2018: 2,255 considered, 267 winners; 2017: 1,716 considered, 287 winners; 2016: 1,552 considered, 515 winners; 2015: 3,008 considered, 517 winners; 2014: 4,385 considered, 528 winners; 2013: 2,083 considered, 607 winners; 2012: 1,965 considered, 611 winners.

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GREENWOOD VILLAGE | $3,998,000 Stunning 6br/10ba home with soaring ceilings, multiple outdoor decks with tranquil views, a breath-taking great room, cozy hearth room & chef’s kitchen with huge Carrara marble island. Outdoors backs to nature preserve, has sparkling pool/spa, fire-pit and 4 gathering areas on almost an acre! Gorgeous main-floor master and study French Oak flooring, walk-out basement with bar, theatre, & much more!

Jill Summers 303.332.5557 jill.summers-monds@coloradohomes.com

EVERGREEN | $1,450,000 Truly Stunning 4 bedroom, 5 bath, custom Mt. Contemporary on 5 private and pristine acres with unobstructed Mt. Evans Views! The walk-out lower level is huge! Room for rec, media, work out and more. Enjoy the covered patio with brick accent fire pit. Plus the 3-car garage that makes for a great shop. BONUS! The “Post-Card Perfect” detached garage that is 1,132 square feet. Super insulated and room to spare.

Kevin Freadhoff 303.803.6949 kevin.freadhoff@coloradohomes.com The property information herein is derived from various sources that may include, but not be limited to, county records and the Multiple Listing Service, and it may include approximations. Although the information is believed to be accurate, it is not warranted and you should not rely upon it without personal verification. Real estate agents affiliated with Residential Brokerage and Coldwell Banker Devonshire are independent contractor sales associates, not employees. ©2020 Coldwell Banker

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ARVADA | $1,250,000 Custom built 5 bedroom, 7 bath home sides to green space offering a gourmet kitchen with cherry cabinets, granite, ss appliances, butlers pantry & dining room. Main floor master suite with fireplace, 5-piece bath & walk-in dual closets. Professionally finished basement. Home lives like a ranch with bonus second story bedroom with private full bath and flex space.

Garvin Laverick 720.245.9956 GarvinLaverick@gmail.com | LaverickRealEstate.com

DENVER | $1,250,000 Stunning Falkenberg-designed 5br/2.2ba 2-story home in the sweet spot of Old Crestmoor w/a finished basement, tranquil master suite w/balcony vistas, & various updates throughout an open floor plan. This is an ideal home for entertaining & relaxing. There is a new custom iron fence in the backyard, newer interior paint, carpeting, and a newer class 4 impact-resistant roof.

Colleen Teitelbaum 303.668.8186 TeitelbaumColleen@gmail.com Residential Brokerage and Coldwell Banker Devonshire. All Rights Reserved. Coldwell Banker and the Coldwell Banker logos are trademarks of Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. The Coldwell Banker® System is comprised of company owned offices which are owned by a subsidiary of Realogy Brokerage Group LLC and franchised offices which are independently owned and operated. The Coldwell Banker System fully supports the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act.

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DENVER | $1,079,000 5br/5ba home. Kitchen w/quartz counters & SS appliances. 2nd floor has a master bedroom w/walk-in closet & 5-piece master bath, 2 additional bedrooms, hall bath & laundry room. Complete w/basement, backyard, patio & 3-car detached garage. This house is centrally located with easy access to DTC, Downtown & Cherry Creek. This house is move-in ready, bring your pickiest buyers!

Chriss Bond 720.771.7369 Chriss.Bond@coloradohomes.com

CENTENNIAL | $735,000 Enjoy this 5br/4ba home w/lush gardens and stately trees from the sunny upstairs deck, w/mountain views in the winter months, or from the cool and serene covered patio downstairs, generous spaces w/plenty of south-facing sunshine, en-suite master bedroom faces the lovely yard and golf course, new deck upstairs, well-lit walk-out basement w/large recreational area & a wet bar in a great community.

Jill Summers 303.332.5557 jill.summers-monds@coloradohomes.com

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DENVER | $1,550,000 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath home with open floor plan. Kitchen with Cararra marble counters and SS appliances. Master suite with walk-in custom California closets and a sitting area. Complete with finished basement.

FORT COLLINS | $985,000 4br/5ba home w/over 3150 sq.ft. offers vaulted ceilings. Kitchen w/island, Wolf gas range & sub-zero fridge. 2 master en-suites, w/one on main level. 2nd floor master bedroom w/a full master bath.

Complete w/a finished basement & back deck.

P.J. Farrell 303.884.5368 pj.farrell@coloradohomes.com | PJFarrell.com

Jimmy Stewart 970.290.3755 Jimmy@TheKeyGroupRe.com

DENVER | $950,000 2br/2ba loft. Professional grade kitchen with Viking dual oven, gas cooktop, built-in refrigerator & large custom island. Primary suite w/ 5-piece bath, freestanding soaker tub & walk-in closet. Private balcony with incredible park & mountain views.

BROOMFIELD | $825,000 4br/5ba home w/an open floor plan and a home office. Kitchen w/granite countertops and high end appliances. Master suite w/a walk-in closet and 5-piece bath w/a fireplace. Complete w/a finished basement, an immaculate yard and a back patio.

Scott Beville 303.905.6872 scott.beville@coloradohomes.com

Carol Powers 303.859.1278 carol.powers@coloradohomes.com | CarolPowers.com

EVERGREEN | $799,000 Buffalo Park Estates 4br/3ba home offers a great room w/vaulted ceilings, open beams & oak floors, kitchen w/double oven, Viking stove & slab granite, office, master suite w/balcony & finished walkout.

Heated green house & garage w/hydraulic lift.

BROOMFIELD | $749,900 4br/2.5ba home. Kitchen w/newer SS appliances & informal dining.

Great room w/tall ceilings and fireplace. Upstairs has a master suite w/5-piece bath. Downstairs w/a living room, formal dining, a bath & office. Complete w/a full basement.

Terry Robinson 303.898.3658 Info@Early-Group.com | Early-Group.com

Gary Strohm 303.775.9331 gary.strohm@coloradohomes.com | GaryStrohm.Realtor

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DENVER | $725,000 3br/3ba, 2,450 sq.ft. home w/exposed brick, wooden banisters and floors. Living room w/a fireplace. Entertain guests at the gorgeous kitchen island, the deck in the private, fenced backyard. Master suite w/a renovated bath. Complete w/a 2-car garage.

LAKEWOOD | $719,800 Green Gables Reserve Community Ranch with beautiful plank wood floors. Finished basement and expansive chef’s kitchen. This home is truly a pleasure to view and even more of a treasure to enjoy living in.

Amanda Snitker 303.204.8240 amanda@amandasnitker.com | AmandaSnitker.com

Donna Jarock 303.718.6285 thanksdonna@gmail.com | HomesAndCondosColorado.com

MONUMENT | Price Upon Request 7 bedroom, 4 bath home with wrap-around front porch. Family room with gas fireplace. Master bedroom with 5-piece bath and walk-in closet. Complete with walk out basement, deck, patio and 4-car garage spaces.

DENVER | $670,000 Sun-filled 3br/2ba w/finished basement! Updated but retains 1929 historical charm! Featuring historic crown molding, built-in bookcases, wood burning fireplace, updated kitchen w/custom cabinetry, quartz counters & ss appliances & covered patio.

Chris Vawter 719.685.6350 chris.vawter@coloradohomes.com

Tori Campbell 970.209.7745 Tori.Campbellre@gmail.com | ToriCampbell.cbintouch.com

BUFFALO CREEK | $670,000 Equestrian friendly 3br/3ba home features an open floor plan w/vaulted living room ceiling, large newer kitchen, office & mudroom w/washer/dryer & lower level w/family room. Radiant in-floor heat on both levels, pellet stove & 3 decks w/pergola.

DENVER | $665,000 4br/3ba with open floorplan, lots of natural light and SMART home features like managing your lighting, air conditioning, security system and speakers. Lovely open kitchen w/quartz countertops. Close to great restaurants, bars and entertainment.

Walter Huber 720.300.8071 walter.huber@coloradohomes.com

Colleen Teitelbaum 303.668.8186 TeitelbaumColleen@gmail.com

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DENVER | $635,000 3br/2ba Tudor home nestled on a large lot in Mayfair neighborhood with remodeled kitchen that features granite counters and stainless steel appliances, French doors in the dining room, fenced backyard with a plum tree and Japanese lilac tree.

CENTENNIAL | $630,000 6 bedroom, 4 bath home with 4,473 finished sqft., has a dramatic vaulted entry way, a family room, a dining room, a study and main floor bedroom. Complete with a finished basement and backyard retreat.

Donna Jarock 303.718.6285 thanksdonna@gmail.com | HomesAndCondosColorado.com

Jennifer Hughes 303.669.9099 Jennifer.Hughes@coloradohomes.com | JenniferHughes.cbintouch.com

LAKEWOOD | Price Upon Request 2br/1ba home on an over 2-acre lot. Home w/a master suite with a walk-in closet and the possibility for dual master suites. Covered deck which overlooks the property. Remaining acreage w/a fenced horse pen, outdoor riding arena and gated pasture.

DENVER | $615,000 2br/2ba condo w/an open floor plan. There is a roomy master suite and a 2nd bedroom both w/a walk-in closet and luxurious 2nd bath.

Laundry room is on the same level as the bedrooms. Complete w/a home office separated from the main part of the home.

Michelle Lopez 303.619.6287 Michelle.Lopez@ColoradoHomes.com

Gail Wheeler 303.726.7202 Gail@GailWheeler.com | GailWheeler.com

GOLDEN | $614,900 3br/3ba home w/2,639 sqft. Living room w/gas fireplace. Kitchen w/SS appliances & granite counter tops. 2 main floor master bedrooms w/walk-in closets & remodeled baths. Complete w/a lower floor, another bedroom w/remodeled bath & 2-car garage.

PARKER | $600,000 Beautiful 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath 2-story featuring formal dining, large great room open to an updated ktchen, a main floorstudy, partially finished basement and large backyard with built-in BBQ.

Tiffany W Lockwood 720.684.7273 tiffany.lockwood@coloradohomes.com

The Rowley Group 720.530.6749 heather@therowleygroup.com | TheRowleyGroup.com

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LITTLETON | $596,000 Modern 2 bedroom, 4 bath townhome w/hardwood floors, floating staircases, private balconies, open floor plan, kitchen with quartz counters, living room with fireplace & balcony access & roof top patio.

DENVER | $589,000 Historic 1br/1ba loft with an open & spacious floor plan. Natural light, private balcony, exposed brick, soaring ceilings & hardwood floors.

Kitchen w/custom cabinets, bar area, granite counters & Viking gas range. Master w/bath & custom closet.

Jon Campbell 303.396.2049 jon.campbell@coloradohomes.com

Nita Kolarsick 303.250.8280 Nita@NitaHome.com | NitaHome.com

MORRISON | $580,000 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home in the "The Lookout" at Friendly. Kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. Complete with backyard providing a garden area and a patio with covered gazebo.

LITTLETON | $569,000 3br/2.5ba home w/great room & open floor plan. Main floor master suite w/5-piece bath, & walk-in closet. 2 large bedrooms upstairs with Jack & Jill bath & loft area. Complete w/an unfinished basement & private backyard. Prime location!

Norma Adair 720.291.3300 norma.adair@coloradohomes.com

Garth Criswell 303.669.0252 Garth.Criswell@DevonshireHomes.com

EVERGREEN | $565,000 Charming 3br/3ba ranch style cottage across from Aldefer/Three Sisters Park. Featuring guest apartment w/full kitchen in the lower walk-out level, deck w/mtn views, solar panel array, propane generator, newer ss appliances & new flooring & carpeting.

CONIFER | Price Upon Request 3br/3ba Mtn. home on 2 acres w/views & private wooded land. Acacia HW floors, spa-like baths, SS appliances, fireplace & quartz counters. Garage w/extra wide drive includes cupboards & loads of workspace.

Josette Montgomery 303.901.8027 josette.montgomery@coloradohomes.com | JosetteMontgomery.cbintouch.com

Susan Sharnas 303.475.3096 Tyler Westcott 303.619.4817

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MONUMENT | $550,000 4br/3ba ranch-style home in Monument with mountain views features open floorplan, vaulted ceilings and wood flooring. Features quartz and tile in the bathrooms, coffered ceilings and two fireplaces.

Finished basement has 9-foot ceilings & theater.

STRASBURG | $549,900 Awesome 3 bedroom, 3 ba ranch with 2,250+ sqft., family room with fireplace, kitchen with 42” Alder cabinets, includes SS appliances & slab granite island, unfinished basement, 3 acres, A/C & 3-car garage.

Rob Thompson 719.337.7254 rob.thompson@coloradohomes.com | RobThompsonHomes.com

David DeElena 720.275.2091 David.Deelena@coloradohomes.com

LAKEWOOD | $540,000 2br/2ba ranch home in Green Mountain. Complete w/2-car garage, beautiful backyard, large trex deck w/mountain views, unfinished full walk-out basement, new windows, roof, furnace & AC.

ENGLEWOOD | $540,000 Dazzling Remodel w/close Proximity to Olde Englewood. Open floor concept, new hardwood floors & new baths. Windows/doors on a newly sodded and fenced large lot. Every detail considered!

Anastasia Bates 720.360.7050 anastasia.bates@coloradohomes.com | www.AnastasiaSellsDenver.com

Barb Riley 303.548.0753 barbrealty@gmail.com | BarbRileySellsDenver.com

DENVER | $525,000 2br/2ba condo in the heart of Cherry Creek. Kitchen opens to the living area & has granite counter-tops, newly painted cupboards & stainless steel appliances. Master suite w/large bathroom & walk-in closet. Complete w/a 750 sqft. patio.

AURORA | $520,000 Immaculate 4br/3ba boasts a kitchen w/slab granite counters, maple cabinets, ss appliances, desk area & breakfast nook, living & dining rooms, family room w/fireplace & vaulted ceilings. Master offers a sitting area & 5-piece bath. 21181ELehighPl.com

Brandi Miller 720.442.1681 Brandi.Miller@coloradohomes.com | BrandiMillerProperties.com

Medra Volpi 303.378.1144 Medra@MedraVolpi.com | MedraVolpiRealEstate.com

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ENGLEWOOD | $509,000 5br/3ba complete remodel! Kitchen w/SS appliances & granite.

Master w/en-suite bath & closet organizer. Basement w/2 bedrooms, a gorgeous bath & laundry. Pretty landscaping, a covered porch & heated 2-car garage. Close to all!

GREENWOOD VILLAGE | $507,500 Beautiful 3br/2.5ba townhome w/open layout & hardwood floors.

Kitchen w/stainless steel appliances & granite counter tops. Master bedroom features a 5-piece en suite, walk-in closet & bonus area.

Desirable location in Cherry Creek School District.

Jill Summers 303.332.5557 jill.summers-monds@coloradohomes.com

Taña Trujillo 720.441.3389 tana.trujillo@coloradohomes.com

CONIFER | $500,000 2br/2ba updated cottage in the woods on acreage in the heart of Conifer! Complete w/newer Anderson windows, window coverings, wood stove & 2 decks~both very private. Close to Open Space Parks/RTD/Shopping.

DENVER | $495,000 2 bedroom, 1 bath Bungalow in the West Highland neighborhood!

Nice size yard, main floor bedrooms and partially finished basement!

The garage in the back with a garage door on both sides is a plus!

Susan Sharnas 303.475.3096 Tyler Westcott 303.619.4817

Lynda Chrisp 720.249.9889 lynda.chrisp@coloradohomes.com | ColoradoHomeDreams.com

LAFAYETTE | Price Upon Request 3br/3.5ba home w/high ceilings and an office/mudroom area.

Front porch w/mountain views. Upstairs has 2 master bedrooms.

Professionally finished basement has a 3rd bedroom w/an en suite.

Complete w/a backyard providing beautiful scenery and privacy.

EVERGREEN | $475,000 2br/2ba mountain log cabin w/mountain views including Mt. Evans offers new wood floors, a new master bathroom suite, new paint, a new driveway & new fencing. There is a stone fireplace & features modern day updates. SOLD in 4 days.

Stacy Carter 303.465.4681 stacy.carter@coloradohomes.com | StacyEaganCarter.com

Josette Montgomery 303.901.8027 josette.montgomery@coloradohomes.com | JosetteMontgomery.cbintouch.com

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BOULDER | $469,000 1br/1ba w/an open floor plan. Kitchen w/a walk-in pantry. There is a laundry room, a bathroom w/a jetted walk-in tub and a courtyard entrance. Complete w/a heated garage w/a designated space and an adjoining storage room, a patio and a back entrance.

GREELEY | Price Upon Request Stylish ranch with open and inviting floor plan. Boasts stunning modern kitchen with granite counters/island, cozy family room with fireplace, 1st floor mudroom/laundry and spacious grounds!

Rich Gundersen 720.934.5712 richard.gundersen@coloradohomes.com

Jason Kingery 970.310.9660 jason@jasonkingery.com

BAILEY | $450,000 Open floor plan w/floor to ceiling windows. Over $50k in newer upgrades 3br/2ba including outside paint, fence, tile floors, air furnace, hot water heater, updated baths & more. Onyx light fixtures, vaulted ceilings, wrap around deck, 1-car garage.

DENVER | $445,000 Condo in Lohi w/a huge master bedroom & WIC. The home is complete with laundry, a closet that is big enough to be a guest room, a kitchen with SS appliances & center island. Living room is large w/wall to wall windows with access to patio.

Linda Pinkul 303.956.4068 Linda.Pinkul@ColoradoHomes.com

Gail Wheeler 303.726.7202 gail.wheeler@coloradohomes.com

AURORA | $420,000 3br/3ba in Saddle Rock Ridge w/an open floor plan. Family room w/vaulted ceilings. Living room w/fireplace. Enjoy mountain views from the hot tub. Complete w/fenced backyard & patio w/a covered pergola. Close to parks, restaurants and shopping.

THORNTON | $415,000 Beautifully updated 4br/3ba home on a corner lot & features a finished basement, engineered laminate flooring, kitchen w/ss GE appliances, quartz counters & tiled backsplash, heated bath floors, LED light fixtures & backyard w/fire pit & outdoor TV.

Vicki Zeeb 303.549.6203 vicki.zeeb@outlook.com | VickiZeebRealEstate.com

Erna Cavcic 720.936.1408 erna.cavcic@coloradohomes.com | ErnaSellsHomes.com

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DENVER | $405,000 This 4br/4ba & 3-car garage home. Open floor plan with vaulted ceilings makes for an inviting space to entertain. The upstairs hosts 4br and 2ba. The basement is fully finished & has a non-conforming room. Backyard has a covered patio and shed.

CASTLE ROCK | Price Upon Request 3br/2ba home backs to open space w/Castle Rock Trails offers hardwood plank floors. Kitchen w/SS appliances & granite countertops. Master bedroom w/walk-in closet & master bath.

Complete w/a backyard, 2-car garage & storage shed.

Ashley Warren 720.938.1129 ashleywarrenre@gmail.com | AshleyWarren.cbintouch.com

Rae Marie Heard 720.234.7918 raemarie.heard@coloradohomes.com | RaeMarie.cbintouch.com

DENVER | $378,500 3br/2.5ba home offers a living room and a dining area. Kitchen w/a center island, a new electric range & SS appliances. Master bedroom w/2 large closets & a 3-piece bath. Complete w/an unfinished basement & a fully fenced backyard.

SHAWNEE | $375,000 Welcome home to this lovely mountain contemporary raised ranch offering 3br, 3 full ba w/gorgeous mountain views throughout large windows, a deck, a large open floor plan & 2-car attached garage.

This home is a must-see & move-in ready. Call today.

"Great" Dane Matthew 303.827.9866 dane.matthew@coloradohomes.com | DaneMatthewRealty.com

Lisa Keener 720.272.8593 lisa.keener@coloradohomes.com | LisaKeener.com

CONIFER | $375,000 4br/2ba home on .47 acre lot w/an open floor plan & living area w/cozy pellet stove insert. Kitchen w/knotty pine cabinets and plenty of counter space. Complete w/a deck & yard. On a county-maintained street overlooking a picturesque Aspen Grove.

LAKEWOOD | $375,000 2br/1ba ranch home in Lakewood w/hardwood flooring. Kitchen w/a stainless steel refrigerator and a double oven/gas range. There is a third room and a main floor laundry. Complete w/a basement, a detached 1-car garage and a large fenced backyard.

Stephanie Freadhoff 303.589.3777 StephanieSellsHomes@outlook.com | ColoradoHomeForYou.com

Donna Jarock 303.718.6285 thanksdonna@gmail.com | HomesAndCondosColorado.com

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AURORA | $370,000 4br/3ba home. Kitchen w/granite countertops, an island, stainless steel appliances and eat-in area. Upstairs w/master bedroom and en suite bath, 2 additional bedrooms and full bath. Complete w/unfinished basement, a redone deck and oversized garage.

WESTMINSTER | $369,000 3 bedroom, 2 bath beautiful home on large lot with updated kitchen, fenced backyard with garden and matured trees, elevated deck and storage shed. Easy access to trails, shopping, restaurants, major highways and more.

Stephanie Ryan 303.725.8901 stephanie.ryan@coloradohomes.com | StephanieRyanRealEstate.com

John McComas 303.668.5542 john.mccomas@coloradohomes.com

LITTLETON | $365,000 Charming 2br/2ba townhome in Southpark. Sunny east facing end unit w/kitchen w/quartz counters, new cabinets & new SS appliances included, study, updated bath, loft, 2nd bedroom upstairs, 2-car attached garage & mudroom/laundry area.

WESTMINSTER | $315,000 Perfect 2br/1ba home w/beautiful hardwood floors, an updated kitchen including slab granite counters & ss appliances. Located on a huge lot w/extended driveway. Great location near highway 36, I-25 & I-70 & close to light rail & bus lines.

Colleen Teitelbaum 303.668.8186 TeitelbaumColleen@gmail.com

Lynda Chrisp 720.249.9889 lynda.chrisp@coloradohomes.com

WESTMINSTER | $314,900 3br/1ba home on a quiet street in Westminster w/hardwood floors, a basement and a beautiful backyard. Less than a half mile from Countryside and Westview Recreation Centers. Three miles from Standley Lake with boating, hiking, fishing and camping.

GREELEY | $300,000 4br/2ba ranch style home w/updated kitchen and bathrooms.

Basement has a separate entrance to the outside around back. Home includes coved ceilings, a large patio and a private yard. Complete w/an oversized garage and a fully fenced yard.

Jon Vander Pol 303.748.4176 jon.vanderpol@coloradohomes.com

Jason Kingery 970.310.9660 jason@jasonkingery.com

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LAKEWOOD | $295,000 2br/1.5ba townhome w/laminate floors & a wood burning fireplace.

Kitchen w/newer SSl appliances & ample counter/cabinet space.

Master bedroom w/dual closet & a skylight. Complete w/1-car attached garage & private deck.

PARKER | $280,000 2 bedroom, 2 bath Condo In Desirable Highlands at Stonegate. Living Room with a fireplace. Kitchen with an island. Master suite with walk-in closet and private bath. Complete with a fabulous patio.

Stephanie Freadhoff 303.589.3777 StephanieSellsHomes@outlook.com | ColoradoHomeForYou.com

Terra DeLockroy 303.681.1518 terra.delockroy@coloradohomes.com | TerraDelockroy.cbintouch.com

AURORA | $275,000 Fabulous townhome, WOW location! Move in quickly & enjoy new carpet, new paint, new wood look luxury vinyl flooring, new SS appliances & more! Generously sized rooms include 2br/3ba, loft & attached garage.

ARVADA | Price Upon Request 2br condo has everything you could want including vaulted ceilings, a private balcony and loft space with endless possibilities. Lovingly updates feature new flooring/paint and bath fixtures. This home is complete with a newer water heater and roof.

Kathleen Surges 303.981.6170 Michael Surges 303.981.7872

Kris Hansen 303.956.6068 kris.hansen@coloradohomes.com | www.krishansenrealestate.com

DENVER | $270,000 2br/2ba condo w/low maintenance stained concrete rich mahogany floors. Kitchen w/upgraded cabinets, breakfast nook & SS appliances. Mbr w/private bath.

Clubroom, outdoor pool & picnic/grilling area.

PARKER | $265,000 Quaint, stress free 2br/2ba townhome-style condo w/updates throughout. Wood burning fireplace, dining area and HGTV-worthy kitchen. Two bedrooms upstairs w/vaulted ceilings and updated bath.

Complete w/an unfinished basement and an outdoor space.

Kathy Casey 303.359.0579 Carissa Casey 303.902.7823

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LOUISVILLE | $785,000

ENGLEWOOD | $539,000

CASTLE ROCK | Price Upon Request

5br/3.5ba home w/hardwood floors throughout. Kitchen w/granite countertops & some newer appliances. Master suite w/5-piece master bath. Complete w/finished downstairs & 3-car garage.

5br/3ba home on 1/3 acre. Living area w/bay window. Kitchen w/pantry, 2 ovens & SS appliances. Complete w/sunroom, basement, attached 1-car garage, 2-car garage & outdoor oasis.

4br/3ba features mtn. views, hardwood floors, office, family room w/fireplace, laundry room, kitchen w/SS appliances & nook & master suite w/sitting room, 5-pc bath & walk-in closet.

The Rowley Group 303.841.5263

Jamie Bradley 720.560.5430

Jennifer Hebert 303.929.9044

HIGHLANDS RANCH | $499,950

BOULDER | $485,000

AURORA | $475,000

Light, bright 3 bedroom, 3 bath home w/open floor plan. Spacious kitchen with eating area. Family room w/vaulted ceiling and gas fireplace. Unfinished basement ready for your touch.

Top floor 3 bedroom, 2 bath condo in Spanish Towers with enclosed patio, close to CU, indoor pool, workout area, club room and plenty of parking.

Beautiful & spacious 3br/3ba w/dramatic turret styled entry, vaulted ceilings, eat-in kitchen, huge family room, upstairs master bedroom w/adjacent owner's retreat & backyard w/deck.

Debbie Joseph 303.842.8331

Tom Fowler 303.956.2575

Jennifer Oldham 720.234.3863

COMMERCE CITY | $465,000

LONGMONT | $460,000

BROOMFIELD | $450,000

5br/4ba home offers a spacious floor plan. There is a formal living and dining room, a separate family room and an open kitchen.

Basement w/2 bedrooms and a bath. Complete w/a new roof.

Spacious 4br/4ba home w/living & dining room, kitchen w/granite counters & included appliances & lower level bonus room plus a basement. 2-car garage, Trex deck & master suite balcony.

Sprawling 4br/3ba ranch style home w/full walkout basement, living room w/hardwood floors & fireplace, kitchen w/breakfast nook, master w/walk-in closet & 5pc bath & newly updated deck.

Sarah Yang 720.384.5646

Christy Hepp 303.910.5393

Lori Fontyn 303.359.9937 Jennifer Braa 303.913.8953

HIGHLANDS RANCH | $450,000

LONGMONT | $429,900

CASTLE ROCK | $425,000

4br/2.5ba home w/hardwood floors, a formal living room, a kitchen that opens to the family room w/a gas log fireplace, stamped concrete patio, privacy fence and an unfinished basement.

Gorgeous 3br/2ba offers wide plank flooring, family rm w/fireplace, kitchen w/SS appliances, gas stove, breakfast bar, master w/walk-in closet & new en suite bath & 2-car garage.

3br/3ba home is within walking distance to trails, parks and schools. The home has an open kitchen, large living room, master suite and a backyard adjacent to open space.

The Rowley Group 303.717.5613

Nita Kolarsick 303.250.8280

Brad Pickels 720.839.1673

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COLORADO SPRINGS | $420,000

COMMERCE CITY | $415,000

LITTLETON | $415,000

Beautiful 3br/3ba custom home w/an open layout, gourmet kitchen, hardwood floors, unfinished walkout basement, 2-car garage, deck w/mountain views & tons of smart home features.

Beautiful 3br/3ba home with refinished hardwood floors, kitchen w/included ss appliances & granite counters, family room w/fireplace, loft, master suite w/updated bath & private deck.

4br/2ba ranch home in Powderhorn Subdivision. Kitchen w/stainless steel appliances, gas stove and granite countertops.

Complete with a finished basement, a flat backyard with a deck.

Kylie Rupert (303) 842.8205

Christy Hepp 303.910.5393

Jennifer Hughes 303.669.9099

LITTLETON | Price Upon Request

WESTMINSTER | $400,000

AURORA | $400,000

3br/2.5ba townhome w/2-car garage, great room w/fireplace.

Stylish black cabinets make the kitchen pop, accentuated by SS appliances. Plush carpet, washer/dryer included, central air.

3br/3ba home w/an open floor plan and hardwood floors. Updated kitchen with island seating. master has a one-half bath and private access to the patio. Complete w/finished basement.

3 bedroom, 3 bath lovely tri-level home with fabulous upgrades.

Updated kitchen and landscaped yard.

LaDawn Sperling 303.710.5817

Cybyske Home Team 303.635.1100

Barb Riley 303.548.0753

DENVER | Price Upon Request

LOCHBUIE | $390,000

DENVER | $385,000

1br/1ba condo in sustainability Park w/Juliet balcony, sleek Euro/Dwell magazine inspired finishes and secured underground parking. Complete w/a gated, landscaped park for all owners.

4br/4ba home w/new wood-look vinyl flooring. Sunny, open floor plan. Master bedroom has walk-in closet and private bath.

Finished basement, patio/gazebo, energy efficient w/solar.

Fully furnished 1br/1ba penthouse studio w/tall ceilings, hardwood floors, plantation shutters, views & private balcony. Heated garage, 1 deeded parking space & secured storage locker.

Ernie Sica 720.469.6999

Cathy Schuster 303.478.6364

John Jobin 303.506.5072

LONGMONT | $380,000

HIGHLANDS RANCH | $375,000

EVERGREEN | $375,000

Beautifully remodeled 3br home w/new roof & windows, kitchen w/granite countertops, SS appliances, newly refinished, 2-tiered deck w/views & lower level w/living area & fireplace.

This recently updated home features new interior paint, laminate and tile floors, an updated kitchen with quartz countertops, and a master suite appointed with vaulted ceilings.

1br/1ba home on over 2.5 acres at the top of the mountain, lots of level ground, stream and pond. Home has a large livingroom and a wood stove. Complete w/a rustic style shop/bunkhouse.

Maura Fischer 303.570.3404

Jamie Cash 720.253.6907

Erich Menzel 970.402.8457

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DENVER | $372,000

PARKER | $365,000

DENVER | $359,900

Gorgeous 2br/2ba condo near Cheesman Park. Open & spacious w/large windows, outdoor balcony, kitchen w/plenty of cabinet space & master w/amazing closet & full en-suite bath.

Spectacular 3br/2.5ba backing to open space, formal LR, updated kitchen & baths, spacious great room w/fireplace, a/c & huge backyard with deck, garden area, shed and privacy fence.

3br/1ba 1950’s ranch w/open floorplan, refinished hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances, flagstone patio and private backyard with sprinkler system and mature landscaping.

Michael Williams 303.667.7176

The Rowley Group 303.717.5613

Nita Kolarsick 303.250.8280

FORT COLLINS | $350,000

PARKER | Price Upon Request

FORT COLLINS | $342,500

Beautiful 3br/2ba condo boasts an open floorplan w/vaulted ceilings, fireplace, spacious kitchen w/newer appliances, master w/5-pc bath & walk-in closet, deck w/sunshade & 2-car garage.

Charming 3br/1ba ranch w/open floor plan, kitchen w/SS appliances, 2-car garage, sprinkler system, new windows, AC, washer/dryer, carpet & gutters, fresh paint inside & out & No HOA!

3br/2.5ba unit in a 55+ Casa Grande community. Open floor plan w/main floor master bedroom & laundry. Upstairs w/2 bedrooms and loft. Complete w/2-car garage and a front deck.

Lyndsey Stulp 970.231.8241

Rae Marie Heard 720.234.7918

Tracy Sanders 970.692.6222

ENGLEWOOD | $340,000

ENGLEWOOD | $339,900

WELLINGTON | $335,000

Beautiful open floor plan townhome with lots of light and a wood burning brick fireplace. Vaulted ceilings fill this home with skylights and two master suites come with large closets.

3br/2ba townhome. Kitchen w/SS appliances, pantry and an eating area. Master bedroom w/en suite bath and a walk-in closet.

Complete w/a one-car garage and a deck backing to open space.

3br/2ba home w/open floor plan. Kitchen w/a bay window & an island. Master suite w/walk-in closet & master bath. Complete w/unfinished basement & backs to farmland. 2-car garage.

Christi Brown 303.909.0919

Nita Kolarsick 303.250.8280

Michelle A. Nelson 303.748.5247

DENVER | $325,000

COLORADO SPRINGS | $320,000

BERTHOUD | $315,000

Beautiful, renovated 2br/2ba condo featuring an open floor plan, laminate floors, living room w/fireplace & balcony, kitchen w/quartz counters & upgraded appliances & master w/balcony.

4br/3ba features a kitchen w/wood floor, family room w/fireplace, 2-car garage and large backyard. Updated garage door, roof, water heater, furnace & windows.

This 2.5-acre property abuts to private open space and offers views of Indian Peaks and Lonetree Reservoir. Closely located to the new TPC Golf Course. HOA provides non-potable water.

Brianna Elder 303.915.3296

Jennifer Montoya, MBA 719.232.3397

Amy Tallent 303.434.5321 Brie Fowler 303.882.8672

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AURORA | $315,000

GREELEY | $308,000

BOULDER | $295,000

Welcome to The Landing at Cherry Creek. The open floor plan boasts two master suites! Features a family room with fireplace, chef’s kitchen, two retreat-like master suites and more!

4br/2ba home w/a new reinforced steel front door, new garage door, new roof and new siding. Finished basement w/a fireplace, a bedroom and laundry. Complete w/a fully fenced backyard.

Garden level 2br/2ba condo in Aspen Grove w/mature trees, clubhouse, outdoor pool & hot tub. Very affordable condo in nice condition w/assigned parking space in front. Close shopping.

Rae Marie Heard 720.234.7918

Tracy Sanders 970.692.6222

Tom Fowler 303.956.2575

WESTMINSTER | $289,000

LAKEWOOD | $270,000

DENVER | $249,900

Sunny, clean and well-maintained 2br/2ba townhome-style condo with main floor bedroom, new carpet, paint and lighting, large vaulted living area w/fireplace and newer deck.

2br/2ba townhome w/a fireplace, energy efficient double pane windows and a master bath w/tile floor/backsplash. Complete w/shared backyard and community pool outside the private patio.

Bright, adorable and updated 1br/1ba w/open floorplan featuring an updated kitchen w/SS appliances & granite countertops, separate dining area & a spacious living space.

Cathy Schuster 303.478.6364

Derrek Patrick 720.987.5271

Suzy Whittemore 303.908.9948

GREELEY | Price Upon Request

COLORADO SPRINGS | Price Upon Request

COLORADO SPRINGS | $225,000

2br/2ba West Fork Village condo w/open floor plan, family rm w/vaulted ceilings & fireplace, eating space, kitchen, master w/walk-in closet & bath, patio, 1-car garage & guest parking.

Charming 3br/1ba ranch w/open floorplan, hardwood floors, new carpet/interior paint & kitchen w/tile counters & newer appliances.

Still to come: new roof/siding repairs/electric panel.

Stunning lot with million dollar views. Perfect place to build a dream home. Amazing mountain and city views!

Maria Kinzie 720.588.3310

Janet Porter 719.439.8308

Rob Thompson 719.337.7254

LAKEWOOD | $205,000

AURORA | Price Upon Request

DENVER | $144,000

1br/1ba end unit w/an open floor plan, new windows and new flooring throughout. Kitchen w/maple cabinets and some newer appliances. Complete w/a covered patio and a detached carport.

1br/1ba townhome. Living room w/a fireplace. Kitchen w/granite counters and appliances. Upstairs master suite w/a walk-in closet and office nook. Complete w/a balcony and 1-car garage.

1br penthouse. Kitchen includes all appliances. Master bedroom w/walk-in closet. Full bath w/large vanity. Common areas include sauna, exercise room, indoor pool.

Cybyske Home Team 303.635.1100

Jamie Bradley 720.560.5430

Dawn & Dennis Martin 303.877.0244

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BACKSTORY Local mascots make a living doing overthe-top, wacky things. When those attempts at absurdity go awry, well, let’s just say things can get weird. —SHANE MONAGHAN

THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT

MISSING THE MARK

DINOSAUR RUMBLE

A HAIRY SITUATION

No Colorado mascot has generated more crazy headlines than Rocky of the Denver Nuggets.

(He once showed up at a GOP political fundraiser without team permission.) But arguably his strangest moment occurred during the 2013 home opener when his limp body was lowered from the rafters during pregame introductions. Many fans in attendance feared the worst as the mountain lion dangled motionless. Fortunately, he had just passed out while getting into the harness, and after regaining consciousness, he walked off the floor under his own power.

During the eighth inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1994, Colorado Rockies mascot Dinger made an unannounced visit to the AM-850 KOA broadcast booth—during which he tripped and fell into announcer Jeff Kingery. Kingery responded by ripping off his headphones and pummeling the purple dinosaur.

Even though Kingery was the aggressor, Dinger showed contrition first: The Barney lookalike delivered flowers to the broadcaster a few days later with a note that read, “Dear Jeff– Thanks for breaking my fall.”

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Over the years, mascots have found all sorts of creative ways to injure themselves. Few mishaps, however, have garnered more attention than the University of Colorado Boulder’s Chip the Buffalo accidentally shooting himself with a T-shirt gun in the Rocky Mountain oysters in 2018. Video of the incident, which also showed Chip giving a thumbs-up to a cheering crowd as he was carted off the field, logged millions of views on social media and garnered clicks for nearly every possible news outlet, from Sports Illustrated to Fox News.

When the Colorado Avalanche first moved to Denver in 1995, a giant yeti named Howler served as the team’s mascot. The gray-haired monster was retired, though, after a Chicago Blackhawks fan claimed he injured her during a scuffle at a March 1999 game. The person wearing the suit was cited with disturbing the peace, and the Avs were so traumatized by the experience the franchise waited a decade before introducing a new mascot: the much more docile Bernie the St. Bernard.

Photo illustration by Sean Parsons. Source images: David Zalubowski/AP Photo (Howler); Doug Pensinger/Getty Images (Chip, Rocky, Dinger); Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images (T-shirt cannon); Getty Images (boxing gloves, bouquets, rope with carabiner, Avalanche jersey); Sarah Boyum (T-shirt)

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