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Jeffco optimistic stay-at-home order will not extend past May 8 County public health department working on operating guidelines during the pandemic

A sign at the Buffalo Rose in Golden advertises the availability of curbside delivery.

Jefferson County Public Health’s extension of the stay-at-home order allowed other retail businesses the option of also offering merchandise to customers curbside. PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With the statewide stay-at-home order that had been in place for the past month set to expire on April 26, Jefferson County Public Health joined agencies in Denver, Adams, Arapahoe and Broomfield counties in keeping their counties under stay-at-home order through May 8.

Christine Billings, the COVID-19 Incident Commander for JCPH, said JCPH made that decision in order to get more time to develop guidance for how various kinds of businesses can most safely reopen and operate in the current COVID-19 climate.

“The county is doing a good job of flattening the curve but we needed a little more time to get good guidance out to these facilities,” Billings said.

JCPH is one of many county and state agencies working to put together such guidance for businesses ranging from restaurants to dog groomers to summer camps. Those resources are being posted online at www.jeffco.

us/4018/Info-for-Public-Health-Partners-Business.

According to Billings, the availability of such guidance for restaurants offering curbside pick-up of food and the fact that county restaurants had been serving customers curbside successfully was the main reason why the county decided to begin permitting retail stores to begin offering curbside service under the amended stay-athome order.

But while Jefferson County Public Health felt the county did not have the guidance in place for the county to reopen on April 26, Billings said she does think Jefferson County will be in a position to begin to adopt the state’s safer-at-home guidelines, which allow a larger subset of businesses to

reopen, once the extension of the stayat-home order expires on May 8.

“As we approach May 8, I see definitely more alignment with the state order but a lot of this resides too on the public listening to and following even what the state is saying with the masking and the social distancing,” Billings said. “A lot of that resides on individual choices and we need people to make that choice or we will see more cases.”

However, Billings also said JCPH will continue to be “as coordinated as possible” with other metro Denver health departments and counties, which is important because of the interconnectedness of those counties and their populations.

“I think you will see nuances

(among metro area counties) but I think we all recognize that we can’t operate in bubbles,” Billings said.

Also working with JCPH to help prepare businesses for reopening are the West Metro Chamber of Commerce and the chambers of commerce in various Jeffco cities.

Business support for health department Pam Bales, the CEO of the West Metro Chamber of Commerce, said that the chamber feels doing so is one of the most important things it can do right now in order to ensure businesses are able to reopen successfully and the economy ultimately recovers from the closures as quickly as possible. But that communication role has also meant sometimes helping businesses understand why orders are in place.

“So, what we’re trying to do is take the public health data translate it into everyday language that people understand and say this is why public health feels like we need to do this in our county,” Bales said.

“Because as business chambers, we don’t want to see a rebound and go back to having everything close. We want to be safe about how we do this and I think the vast majority of our businesses want to do the right thing and protect our employees, protect their customers and protect their businesses.”

What $60 milllion in budget cuts could mean for Jeffco students District employees talk effects, solutions to budget crisis

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Less than four months from next school year, Jeffco has begun brainstorming ways learning might change to protect staff and students from a second wave of the coronavirus. While exact changes are still up in the air, Superintendent Jason Glass said in an

April 23 Facebook Live video that the district is looking at a blend of remote and in-person learning next semester.

Necessary safety measures like this are bound to require more staff, teachers believe, only adding to widespread uncertainty in a time when the district has not only announced that the creation of new positions is unlikely, but pay cuts or layoffs could be necessary to balance next year’s budget.

“Trying to increase a class size just doesn’t make sense for social distancing or their mental health,” said Jon Cefkin, first-grade teacher at Lukas Elementary in Westminster. “It doesn’t mesh with cutting budgets.”

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The same is true of support professionals, said Lara Center, president of support professionals’ union JESPA. Depending on what social distancing and cleaning measures are put in place, the district may need to hire more support staff including bus drivers and custodians, she said.

“We’re going to need more support staff, not less,” Center said. “And our bones are picked clean; almost all of the ESP (education support professionals) groups are running negative.

There’s nowhere else to cut.”

Cuts on the horizon Jeffco has been finding itself in a grimmer and grimmer budget reality.

In early April, the financial team expected the district would need to make just about $2 million in cuts. As of the April 29 school board study session, chief financial officer Kathleen Askelson said based on reports from the state, the financial team is planning to build a budget factoring in over $60 million in cuts, which the board will discuss for the first time on May 7.

The budget must be adopted by the end of June and for now, the board plans to hold a meeting to adopt the budget June 4. The $60 million number is highly subject to change before then, as the state won’t finalize its budget until the end of May. For now, the district is asking the community to weigh in on upcoming cuts, with options including pay cuts, layoffs, district and school programming cuts, furlough days, school clo-

sures and using a possible $20 million from the district’s reserves.

For Ernest Garibay, a math teacher at Standley Lake High School, one worry is that many of these options “will mostly affect our highest impacted students first” including minority, low-income, special education and English language learning students, he said.

In the case of layoffs, “the first thing that jumps to my mind is larger class sizes. It’s going to be much harder to get students individualized attention,” Garibay said. Further, “case loads for counselors, ESL specialists and special ed (teachers) are really high.

They’re already trying to keep their head above water.”

He believes cuts that reduce the number of elective opportunities would also have a noticeable negative impact.

“There are definitely students who only come because they can go to music, they can go to art class, they can go to drama,” he said.

For teachers like Garibay and Jefferson Jr/Sr High teacher Rhiannon Wenning, the idea of pay cuts is also a concern.

“We’re still suffering from the 2008 recession; I was here during that and I’m still hurting,” Wenning said. “I can barely make it now as a 20-year veteran teacher with two master’s degrees, so I can imagine how are probationary teachers are doing.”

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Jefferson County receives millions for COVID needs from feds $646,000 goes to nonprofits helping with housing, food and other basic needs

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On April 27, Jefferson County was granted $101.7 million in federal relief funds to cover expenses related to the Coronavirus. Jefferson County applied for the funds that are available from

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Possible priorities With the district’s deadline to approve the budget getting closer, teachers’ union JCEA and JESPA have been working closely together to to discuss with the district what they would like to see in the weeks ahead.

While the groups aim to stay realistic about how much the district can do, they also plan to ask that “cuts are kept as far away from our classrooms as possible,” said Brooke Williams, recently elected JCEA president who will officially begin serving this sum-

Community Development Funds In addition to the $101.7 million, Jefferson County will also receive $646,000

in CARES Act funding to assist with the needs of low- and moderate-income citizens in the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic.

The money will go to Jeffco’s Community Development Division, which will disperse it to non-profit agencies in Jefferson County that help residents with immediate needs related to COVID-19’s economic fallout.

“Right now, we are seeing a lot of our nonprofits sort of being overwhelmed with the need for rent assistance, food, and those type of things,” said Emily Sander, Jeffco’s Community Development Manager.

Sander said that while the county

typically holds a request for proposals when it receives Federal community development funds, it will not be doing so in this case.

“In order to get the funds out there as quickly as possible we’ll likely work with our existing nonprofits that we are contracting with right now,” said Sander.

The county is currently going through a required public notification process that must be concluded before the county receives the funds, Sander said. However, she said she hopes the county will have the money and be in a position to begin distributing it to nonprofits “in the next several weeks.”

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The groups are also pushing for more extensive surveying of the community on budget values and additional meetings between the district and stakeholders.

“I’d like to see a budget presentation with all of the employee associations to go through (the budget) line by line and then look back at that survey,” Williams said.

As of April 29, the district had planned several methods to gather input, including an upcoming community survey, teacher advisory committee and student town hall.

Meanwhile, when it comes to the associations’ specific priorities, Center said that while union members need

more information before outlining what they’d like to see, one idea could be to get rid of the least necessary positions while transitioning those employees into other unfilled positions, saving money and preventing job loss.

Cefkin added that for many JCEA members, many options may be painful but more preferable than a districtwide pay cut.

“Things are still on the table, but I thiink paycuts are a more difficult thing to sell that maybe a furlough day,” he said.

Another option might be to absorb some of the cuts through central administration pay cuts, Wenning proposed. At the April 29 study session,

Glass said the pay for those positions account for around $7.5 million in total.

Even larger-scale solutions are also on teachers’ minds, with Wenning and Garibay encouraging residents to help get Initiative 271 on the 2020 ballot.

The initiative would lower taxes for an estimated 95% of taxpayers but raise taxes for residents with the highest income, generating new money for education.

In the meantime, with cuts inevitable next year, “teachers will rise to the occasion to do everything they can to support our students going forward,” Garibay said. “We know what our kids’ needs are, and we are always that frontline for students.”

the federal government as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).

The CARES Act made $2.2 trillion available to state and local governments, small businesses, and hospitals, in addition to providing stimulus payments and unemployment benefits to individuals. The Board of County Commissioners was scheduled to make a decision on how those funds will be distributed within the county on May 4.

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Candelas couple making masks on restored 1910 sewing machine Masks have been donated to organizations around world

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Arvada residents Darin and Giselle Williams started brainstorming how they could contribute to the community. Having moved over and over again while Darin was in the Air Force, from which he retired in 2013, the 2019 move to Arvada’s Candelas neighborhood felt like the couple’s first chance to anchor itself in a community, Darin said.

And the task felt all the more important when the pandemic arrived, stalling the growth of Giselle’s two businesses, Hair by Giselle and Giselle’s Knits, and leaving her with plenty of time to find a way to help others get through the crisis.

Making masks came to mind — “We realized there was going to be a shortage,” Darin said. “But we didn’t think we had a sewing machine.”

That’s when Darin began investigating whether they could make use of a 1910 sewing machine in the couples’ guest bedroom.

“We had always used it just as a decorative piece,” Darin said, but after doing research and gathering the parts together to restore the machine for use, the machine that had been in Giselle’s family for four generations became operational once again.

“When I was a kid, my grandmother taught me how to sew,” Darin said. “I

showed Giselle how to thread the machine and she took it from there.”

Giselle began making masks and, through posts on social networking site Nextdoor and other social media, requests began coming in. A neighbor asked Giselle to make masks to be donated to the North Suburban Medical Center, with other local health care providers making requests soon after. The couple has since created dozens of masks for friends’ businesses, churches and organizations throughout the world, including in Texas, Maryland, New York, Tokyo and Bangkok.

Now, Giselle spends four to five hours a day on the operation, posting about the operation on social media, shipping out orders and sewing on the century-old machine.

“It dawned on us that this machine could have been used in the (1918) Spanish Flu epidemic,” Darin said. “It’s encouraging to be a part of the fabric of America and see people willing to jump in and help.”

Giselle added that she hasn’t put a price on the masks; some have been donated while in other cases, she has accepted contributions to cover costs.

The masks come in three sizes for adults and children and come with interchangeable air filters and nose wires.

“Knowing I can send some of these masks out and help, it’s very gratifying,” Giselle said. “And it’s giving us an opportunity to get to know our community which otherwise, we have not been able to do. We’re meeting new neighbors, we’re all texting and making new contacts. It’s been a very positive experience.”

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County jail inmate with COVID-19-related symptoms dies Man was isolated in a medical unit for drug withdrawal

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

An inmate in the Jefferson County Jail who had self-reported experiencing COVID-19 symptoms has died after being found unresponsive in his cell.

According to a press release from the Jefferson County Sheriff ’s

Office, deputies found 50-year-old inmate Paul George Abeyta unresponsive in his cell during a routine check at 5:15 a.m. Friday morning. Lifesaving procedures were undertaken and continued until just after 6 a.m., when Abeyta was pronounced dead the release said.

The sheriff ’s office reports Abeyta was housed alone in a medical unit of the jail because of drug withdrawal protocol and reported COVID-19-related symptoms.

Abeyta was arrested by Lakewood police on April 27. During the booking process, he indicated he had been a daily heroin user for the past

five years. He also reported he was suffering from symptoms of fever, cough, and shortness of breath that had begun earlier that day.

Abeyta did not have a fever upon arrival nor during any subsequent temperature check, but he was isolated from other inmates due to his reported symptoms. According to the Sheriff ’s Office, Abeyta was routinely checked on by deputies in accordance with withdrawal protocol.

Abeyta was arrested on more than 10 felony or misdemeanor charges, including a failure to appear for possession of a controlled

substance charge associated with a $100,000 bond amount.

The release states that the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office will determine the cause of Abeyta’s death.

The seventh floor of the jail, which had been closed due to budget cutbacks, has been used as an isolation wing for inmates with symptoms or possible exposure to COVID-19.

As of April 16, antibody testing of jail staff found at least a dozen who tested positive, which indicate they either actively had the virus or have had it in the recent past.

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Sellers who had been holding back during most of April put their homes on the market during the calendar week ending Saturday, May 2nd.

And showings of listings also surged.

Altogether, 1,648 homes within 25 miles of the State Capitol were listed on Denver’s MLS between Sunday, April 26th and Saturday, May 2nd. That’s close to the 1,885 number entered on the MLS during the same 7-day period in 2019, and more than double the 819 homes listed two weeks earlier. (During the week of April 19th to 25th, only 993 homes were entered on the MLS.) Of those 1,648 listings, 29 were withdrawn from the MLS by week’s end for unknown reasons, and 10 were entered as “sold” without ever being active. That still left 1,609 new active listings, 402 of which were already under contract by Monday noon. That’s way above the 281 homes that went under contract by the end of the same 7-day period a year ago.

Not included in the 1,648 number are 176 listings that were entered on the MLS as “coming soon,” a status that didn’t exist until this year. One of those is my $550,000 listing at 2950 Jay St. in Wheat Ridge, featured in last week’s column. It goes “active” this week. (See www.WheatRidgeHome.info.)

So, while we can hardly say life is “back to normal,” the real estate business

is certainly showing renewed signs of life. Frankly, I’m surprised at the surge.

Like most agents, I have many buyers who have given me their search criteria, and the MLS automatically sends them alerts of homes matching those criteria as they are entered on the MLS. In my case, I have nearly a hundred such email alerts in effect. Since Gov. Polis replaced “stay-at-home” with “safer-at-home,” which allows inperson showings to resume, I have seen a spike in the number of buyers clicking on the links for listings sent to them. My listing featured below saw five showings set on May 1st and 2nd alone. With this week’s price reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised if it goes under contract quickly.

At press time mid-day Monday, 108 additional listings have been entered as “active” after Saturday, May 2nd.

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As a listing agent, it is my responsibility to sanitize a home between showings, which I do by using Clorox wipes on all hard surfaces that visitors might touch,

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I leave most doors, including closet doors, open or ajar, so that touching them is also minimized. If the home is not vacant, sellers can perform these sanitizing functions themselves.

Buyers and their clients are asked to wear face masks and gloves and to wear booties, which they’re asked to take with them when they leave. By following these guidelines, agents and their clients can feel safer than, say, at a supermarket.

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We’re all looking for silver linings, so here’s one you probably haven’t thought of.

In Colorado, property taxes are based on what your home might have sold for on June 30th of every even numbered year. County assessors are required by the state constitution to estimate what your home could have sold for on that date based on what comparable homes sold for during the 24 months leading up to that date. Using computer programs, their software “ages” each sale to come up with a value as of June 30, 2020.

Thus, if a home comparable to yours sold for, say, $500,000 on December 31,

2019, the computer figures out how home prices in your area, on average, changed from Dec. 31st to June 30th in order to come up with an “aged” value to use in valuing your home on that date.

Therefore, if, as some experts suggest, home prices drop in May and June of this year, that $500,000 comp may have a valuation for assessment purposes of less than that on June 30, 2020.

In conclusion, if we have a dip in home values by the end of June, but the values recover in 2021 and 2022, as the same experts suggest, your property tax bill may be lower for the next two years as the result of that temporary dip.

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Arvada Center uncertain about long-term impacts of coronavirus Even with PPP loan, some cuts could be inevitable, CEO says

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Through her time volunteering at the Arvada Center, resident Mary Jo Giddings has noticed that the nonprofit’s volunteers tend to stick around for a while — much like she has, volunteerering with the center since its opening in 1976.

“My husband and I actually paid a babysitter so we could usher,” Giddings said. A volunteer on multiple councils at the Arvada Center, the organization has been a part of life for her throughout the vast majority of her 50-year residence in Arvada.

But as is the case with organizations of many sizes across the nation, after the height of the spring COVID-19 pandemic, the future of the Arvada Center and its programming remains slightly uncertain.

The center has canceled all of its events and closed its doors throughout the pandemic and is “seriously looking at canceling the June concerts as well,” said CEO and president Philip Sneed. He and his team have yet to evaluate whether concerts and events will go forward in July.

So far, the center has lost about $1

million in revenue because of the coronavirus. For the year, it operates on an almost $12 million budget, Sneed said.

That said, some saving graces have kept the center from making big reductions in the short-term. One has been a Paycheck Protection Program or PPP loan through the federal CARES Act. The center was approved for low-interest loan funding of about $1 million during the first round of distribution and received the funding the week of April 20.

“We were fortunate we were able to get them before they ran out,” Sneed said of the funds. “If it has to be repaid, it doesn’t help the bottom line, but it does help cash flow. (However) we’re optimistic that it can be forgiven or at least a portion of it can be.”

Looking ahead, he added that the biggest financial concerns are longterm. The center pays for some of its programming by filling its 1,600-, 525- and 225-person venues, and it’s unclear when such large gatherings will be able to resume.

“Will we have to seat patrons six feet apart? In most cases, that’s not enough to pay for the programming,” he said. “We would lose money by reopening.”

Other options that would ideally make patrons comfortable enough to attend in large numbers would be asking patrons to wear masks and checking temperatures at the door.

Even so, Sneed said the center is preparing to continue to lose some revenue from a drop in attendance at whatever 2020 shows can go forward, and will need to make some cuts this year.

The center’s volunteers believe that large programming cuts - or anything more substantial, such as a full closure — “would be devastating,” in the words of Sara Fuentess*(checking spelling). The Arvada resident volunteers with several of the center’s efforts including its Arts Day event for students.

“I can’t tell you the number of people who just walk into the center off the street. It’s so important to have arts and culture for the whole community,” she said, and without the center, “we’d lose all that community participation.”

Giddings agreed.

“From a practical point of view, the community would lose some income,” she said. “From an emotional point of view, we need the arts, no matter how good things are or how bad things are.”

Volunteers like Giddings and Patti Wagner, the center’s costume coordinator, pointed to the Arvada Center’s value in terms of the many people it brings in from surrounding cities, many of which do not have similar venues.

“The Arvada Center is a hidden gem in the suburbs that really benefits those people who may not want

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She added that the nonprofit is known for bringing arts out into the community, such as through dance performances that travel to senior living facilities and other organizations.

Additionally, the center provides reduced-price arts programming for students from multiple Title I schools, or schools that qualify for federal funding for low-income students, said Wagner’s daughter, Kate, who teaches Arvada Center dance classes.

Financially, the Arvada Center and Arvada Events, which holds many gatherings at the center each year, have an impact not only on those two organizations but on the city as a whole, said city manager Mark Deven.

“We’ve hosted somewhere around 50,000 people a year who might happen to buy a meal or do some shopping in Olde Town or something along those lines,” he said. “There’s a favorable economic impact.”

The city in turn supports the center, not only paying bills associated with the building itself but also contributing about $1.7 million a year to its budget. Down the line, the city would be open to exploring how it could provide extra financial help if the center finds itself in need, SEE CENTER, P7

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Local family’s fundraiser fighting two effects of COVID-19 Family of five has raised more than $8,000 for locals facing food, job insecurity

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

An Arvada couple and their fifth-, eighth- and eleventh-grade daughters have already raised thousands after starting a fundraiser for local families April 22.

The Fitzgerald family has created a GoFundMe to raise $20,000 to provide families with restaurant-quality meals from Arvada restaurant Lot One, 13730 W. 85th Dr., every Monday night.

The plan is to include a different main dish and vegetable side or salad each week, with some of the greens to come from the greenhouse on Lot One’s rooftop, said Josh Timon, one of the restaurant’s owners.

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Meanwhile, as those at the center await news on what’s next, they’re

As of May 4, the fundraiser had received about $8,750, enough to provide about 200 meals weekly for four weeks, Mark Fitzgerald said.

The effort aims to distribute about 200 meals each Monday for 10 weeks, with the first donation of 235 meals sent out May 4.

“My wife and I really saw there was such an impact with unemployment and food insecurity, and there was also a component just as a family of that hopeless feeling,” Mark said. “In times of need, you can sit and feel the pain or you can figure out how you can make a difference. We asked, `what can we do?’”

Each family member has taken on their own role, said Mark’s daughter Reagan, an eighth-grader at Excel Academy. Her younger sister and mom have been making flyers, her older

sister has figured out how to get the food to the families that need them, and she and her dad have focused on the fundraising effort.

“It’s a bonding experience,” Reagan said. “We’ve learned how to work together in ways we didn’t know how to before.”

By partnering with local schools in the Jefferson County school district as well as local churches, the Fitzgeralds have organized for families in need to receive the meals. Families can also reach out for help by contacting dinnerforallarvada@gmail.com.

Meanwhile, individuals can donate to the campaign by visiting the Dinner for All Arvada page on GoFundMe. “When you see the names of people you don’t know (donating), that’s really impactful,” Mark said. “To know people are willing to give in a time of uncertainty says a lot about Arvada and the people who live here.”

In addition to assisting families, the Fitzgeralds hope their efforts will help Lot One by creating an extra shift for employees to work to prepare the

meals.

Prior to the fundraiser, because the effects of COVID-19 have temporarily reduced the store’s hours, employees were not working Mondays, Timon said.

“This partnership is very important for a number of different reasons,” he said. “I’m able to bring back more staff members and give them more hours. I’m able to give them another day of work. And second, this is helping to feed local Jeffco families.”

While acknowledging their goal of raising $20,000 will require plenty of work, the family is hopeful they’ll be able to achieve the goal with the help of Arvada residents, businesses and organizations.

And in the meantime, the hard work has brought about an important life experience for Reagan and her sisters that not everyone experiences as a child or teenager, she said.

“I feel like if I continue to go down this path, I can continue to do more,” she said. “It required some work, but I feel like it’s definitely worth it.”

working to continue providing as much virtual programming as possible, such as through online classes, Wagner and Sneed said.

Those who believe strongly in the center’s mission have been providing financial support, Sneed added.

About 50% of those who purchased

tickets for events that couldn’t occur have either donated the tickets or accepted a gift certificate for a later event, as opposed to asking for a refund.

Residents can also support the center by making a donation or by purchasing season tickets for next

season, Sneed said. As of April, the plan is to open the center’s fall theater season as announced.

“We’re following things closely,” Sneed said, “and we’re going to do everything required and more to make our spaces safe so everyone feels safe coming.”

HOW TO HELP Learn more or donate to the effort at www.gofundme.com/f/dinner-for-allarvada

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Jeffco Hispanics hit harder by COVID-19

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

During the week of April 20, 48-year-old Arvada resident Shannon Bonilla began to exhibit symptoms of COVID-19: shortness of breath when she talked, a cough and nonstop congestion.

She didn’t think anything of her symptoms until her children expressed their concerns about her health, prompting her to call her doctor. On the morning of April 25, Bonilla was tested for the virus. The next day, her doctor called to confirm that she has tested positive.

“God, I started to cry,” said Bonilla. “I COUNTY CASES take care of my mom who is 70. My threeFor more on the year-old nephew was latest number of here. My daughter cases, locations, lives with me, and her and deaths due boyfriend was here. to COVID-19, go My cousin was here. to www.jeffco.

Everyone was pretty us/4007/COVIDmuch exposed, and 19-Case-Summary right now, there is a ton of fear. I feel really guilty.”

“I’m stuck in my room, and I just have a lonely feeling. You start to think about what could happen if it were to get worse,” she added. “You’re only going to be alone, and I see things about people dying alone.

People think this is fake, but it’s not. It’s really scary.”

Bonilla is one of 257 Hispanics in JefSEE COVID, P23

COVID-19 cases by ethnicity in Jefferson County. Numbers show a disparity between the percentage of population and percentage of cases among Jefferson County Hispanics.

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Our constraints open new possibilities ALCHEMY

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re you familiar with Oulipo? I wasn’t, until I joined an online Oulipo poetry class. Oulipo, in French, (pronounced oo-LEE-poe) stands for Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, which roughly translates into workshop of potential literature.

Founded in 1960 by French mathematician Francois de Lionnais and writer Raymond Queneau, Oulipo investigates the possibilities of verse written under a system of structural constraints. Think using only one vowel throughout an entire poem, one that might start like: “We see here, be there / where we feel well.” Okay, no prize winner,

but you get the idea.

Or perhaps you revise a poem you’ve already written, starting with the last line first and moving through to the first line … you would be surprised – I was – by what happens. Or you could revise (or write) a poem by putting all the lines in alphabetical order.

This month, I am completing my book-length poetry manuscript for final draft reading.

Some of the foundational poems are more than 40 years old, and some others are newly minted last month. After the first critique in January, I identified places where I needed new, or seriously revised, material. So I decided to go

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A good haul Changing to an organized waste system will provide lower prices, more services and better protections for Arvada residents. Such a system is not a monopoly — various licensed waste haulers can still serve Arvada’s multifamily housing (apartments), commercial businesses, and those individuals who choose to “opt out”.

Meanwhile the city, not the company, will have the leverage to control pricing. Prices are fixed for the first two years of the contract, and then may only increase with proof that operational costs are going up, and must be linked to a national index. If the city is not satisfied, it can negotiate a lower price or terminate the contract and put it out for another bid.

With the competitive bidding process, Arvada can negotiate lower prices for residents, put in price protections and guarantee service standards. Under our current system, individuals have very little power.

Right now, if waste haulers disappearing without notice, it leaves residents stranded. Then other haulers can jack up prices and the city can do nothing. We can change that with organized waste hauling.

There is a reason that 70% of our country’s population is served by organized trash/recycling systems.

Since 2007, eleven Front Range communities have switched to an organized waste system and today they have some of the lowest trash rates.

None of these communities have experienced runaway price increases and many have rebid contracts over time to ensure competitive rates and services.

An organized waste system is the best deal for Arvada.

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What is a State of Emergency? I have searched the Colorado State Constitution and cannot find any criteria or guidelines. Seems it is at the discretion of the Governor. What, you may ask was the exact “State of Emergency” to prompt Governor Polis to declare one in Colorado on 3/10/20?Fifteen cases of COVID. Reflect on that a few moments.

Some will say, Governor Polis did it solely to tap into emergency funds. However, declaring a State of Emergency also gives him the power to: order the isolation or quarantine of people or property; suspend state laws; commandeer private property; suspend or limit the sale of alcohol, firearms and explosives; and call out the state’s military, to name a few.

Within15 days of declaring the emergency, Governor Polis shut down schools, closed ski resorts, banned restaurants and bars from inservice dining, ordered Coloradans to stay-at-home and shuttered (government determined) “non-essential” businesses for at least a month.

All of these “orders” are mandatory laws.If violated, a person can be fined $1,000, in addition to 1 year in jail. To date, Colorado has seen at least two arrests: Three unrelated men gathering in an apartment and a man playing in a park with his daughter.

The Governor has stripped us of our basic human rights for a virus that causes life threatening symptoms in 5% of those infected. This is a very dangerous precedent. That should scare the heck out of Coloradans, not COVID. Deb Eigenbrod, Littleton SEE LETTERS, P17

Oulipo, to apply the movement’s mathematical procedures, constraints, to my writing.

So far, these attempts have opened that potential, opened up the possibilities. Additionally, when I do lift my head from my manuscript, I realize that, in fact, we are actually living in a world of constraints … constraints that open new possibilities, new potential.

I’ve written in this space about videoconferencing for work, and Zooming or Facetiming with sorely missed friends and loved ones.

Outside, neighbors are meeting neighbors – SEE DORAY, P11

Suggestions on how we get back to normal gracefully

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ou want to know how desperate Americans are for “normal?” Some 55 million of us watched the NFL draft last weekend, including me. Watching an HITTING event that had no HOME sport—no ball, no referee, no whistle, no scoreboard. There was drama, to be sure, and, thanks to the brilliant production staff at ESPN, ABC, and the NFL network, there were plenty of highlights of actual sporting events.

Michael Alcorn But there was not an actual sporting event. In fact, more people watched this non-sporting event than watched the 2019 NBA Championships, the Stanley Cup Finals, and the World Series. Combined.

Man, I get it. The desire for things to start to be normal is overwhelming. I want to go out for a drink on Friday night, come home to watch the Rockies lose, go to church on Sunday and make music with my students on Monday morning. I want to watch my son make a brilliant pass to a teammate for a critical soccer goal, and get together with my friends for band practice on Thursday night.

We’ll get there. We will. But, two things first: One, if “normal” means dinners on the fly again with nobody sitting in the same room, count me out. I don’t

want that. If “normal” is bumper to bumper traffic on Ward Road as all of Arvada is trying to get to nowhere important in Lakewood by three minutes ago, then count me out. If normal is kids feeling isolated and alone and unimportant — while in the midst of 2,000 of their peers — then count me out. Or taking nurses for granted, or ignoring the elderly in our population, or deifying athletes and entertainers … count me out.

We, as a society, have done a really good job, so far, of recognizing the hidden blessings in this whole pandemic “season.” We have taken the time and made the effort to emphasize what is important in the community and try to latch on to it and share it. I know we’re all getting a little antsy, but we just have to keep holding on to what matters, and we’ll be fine.

And then, we need to remember what matters and what got us through this time, and celebrate it.

Hold on to it. Carry it forward. Make the community even stronger when we get to the other side.

What can we do to make that happen? Some stray thoughts… High schools should have rolling graduations next Friday, where possible, where graduates do a car parade through their neighborhoods so their incredible achievement can be celebrated. Clancy’s Irish Pub and Malone’s Grill should re-designate July 17 as “St. Patrick’s Day, 2020,”

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Veterans Writing Workshops now offered online Veterans, family members and caregivers get support while writing STAFF REPORT

Veterans Writing Workshops offer a safe place for veterans, their adult family members and caregivers to write and talk about their experiences. To help connect veterans with each other and continue providing these workshops, Colorado Humanities is offering three types of online writing workshops in May. The Writing for Publication and Lunch & Learn workshops provide participants the opportunity to create, share and receive feedback on their writing. Expressive writing provides support for a deeply private journaling process proven to reduce stress.

All are led by veterans who are professional writers, and all are free,

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• Expressive Writing with Cindy Skaggs is from 3-4:30 p.m. Sundays.

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To register for Expressive Writing or Lunch and Learn, offered via the online platform Discord, email Cindy Skaggs at cindy@cskaggs.com • Writing for Publication or to share, with Jorge Arroyo and Juan Morales, is at 1 p.m. Thursdays.

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or renewing acquaintances – with driveway happy hours, lawn chairs suitably distanced. Yard work has become welcome relief, housecleaning a family pastime.

Out my office window – I am lucky enough to work remotely – I watch moms and dads and kids, together … in the middle of the day. Someone is chipping golf balls, and there’s a household playing rollerblade hockey on the basketball court. Couples stroll by; skateboards, scooters, and bicycles abound.

And dogs. I am the only person in my neighborhood, in all the neighborhoods in all the world, that does not have a dog. At least one dog. I’m almost ashamed to show up for socialbut-distant happy hour without a little black plastic bag or two.

Without our current constraints, I wonder whether so many of us would stop our days and gather to swap stay-

at-home and safer-at-home stories. I wonder if our neighborhood would be so peaceful at night. I wonder if family game night would give way to the endless obligations of lessons and athletics and bowling leagues.

These obligations – which are our choices, really – will be there for us again, although what they’ll actually look like then is anyone’s guess.

But, again, I wonder … can current constraints open up the potential for more of this together time? Would stay-at-home become wanna-be-athome? Will we still gather on Fridays for driveway happy hour?

For myself, I wonder if the Oulipo constraints will open up the potential for my manuscript … and I wonder if there’s time opening up for raising a puppy or adopting a rescue.

Oh, the possibilities!

Andrea Doray is a writer who especially likes the Oulipo constraint that requires each successive line to contradict the one before it. Want to try? Contact Andrea at a.doray@ andreadoray.com.

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so they can be filled with corned beef and green beer and sociallydistant songs on their biggest day of business of the year. El Tequileno’s and Los Portrancas and Moose Hill Cantina should celebrate “Cinco de Agosto, 2020” to make up their lost festival.

And we should all go there for those celebrations.

But, two, keep your cool, people.

Gotta find ways to be smart, to be flexible, to roll with the punches, because we’re not out of this yet.

Gathering en masse at the Capitol with weapons (Michigan) won’t get us out of this. And even when we are out of this, it’s still not going to be “normal.” The budget cuts are com-

ing. That means the Arvada Center, the Lakewood Cultural Center, Bear Creek State Park, and the schools are all going to operate “not normal.” It’s even possible that the schools won’t open at all in the fall for in-person instruction. And the roads aren’t getting fixed, either, because the money to fix roads comes from taxes on filling up your car, and that’s not happening much lately. “Normal” is going to be a distinctly relative quality.

But it will happen. It will. Let’s make sure that we get there in a way that we can all be proud of.

Michael Alcorn is a teacher and writer who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. His new novel, “Charon’s Blade,” is available at Amazon.com, on Kindle, or through MichaelJAlcorn.com.” His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado Community Media.

March 27, 1939 - April 28, 2020

Carol Campbell passed away peacefully on April 28, 2020. She is preceded in death by Harry Campbell, her husband of 56 years, her parents John and Amy, and her brother Tom. She is survived by her three sons Scott (Gema) of MN; Todd (Angela) and Shawn (Kimi) of Colorado; five grandchildren; her sister Marsha (Dale) of CO and many nieces and nephews.

Carol grew up in New Jersey. She received a Teaching Certificate and taught elementary school for six years.

In 1961 she married Harry Campbell in NJ. After a few years, they moved to Colorado where they raised their three VIDRIK

sons. During their time in Colorado, they established life-long friendships with many of their neighbors and the parents they met through their children’s sports.

In addition to teaching elementary school, Carol worked at a nursing home, at an Airport and in Retail before retiring.

Carol and Harry enjoyed three months in Florida annually where they always had a great time and established many new friendships.

Carol truly was that person that made you feel special whenever you talked to her. She could talk to anyone and everyone and was usually one of the last ones to leave a gathering because she had just met another new friend.

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Mary Adelaide “M’Laide” Vidrik passed away on March 14, 2020, just shy of her 90th birthday, after a long battle of Alzheimer’s and then a Stroke. She passed peacefully during the night. She was born in Leadville, Colorado on April 21, 1930. M’Laide attended Leadville Schools, Loretto Heights College, The University of Colorado at Boulder (B.A.) and The University of Utah (Teaching Certificate). M’laide was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority, PEO, National Council of Teachers of English, YMCA and the Westwood’s Ladies Golf Club. She was a retired School Teacher.

She is survived by John, her husband of 67 years and two daughters Kristine and Kim. She was preceded in death by her two sons Steve and Dave. M’Laide was an avid hiker, fisherwoman, reader, golfer and loved to travel. Services were held in March with the immediate family. M’Laide was cremated and wished her ashes to be spread in her loving hills of Leadville, Colorado. As an expression of sympathy donations may be contributed to The Alzheimer’s Association.

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Hell of a pandemic — COVID-19 affects School of Mines School has not yet made a decision about when students will return to campus

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

t o c t t C p m a p A runner runs on an otherwise empty Colorado School of Mines campus. school, which has also announced its first session of summer classes will take place online, has not yet made a decision about when students will return to campus.

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On Tuesday, March 9, he was sitting in class, where a professor told students classes would likely continue as usual through Spring Break, before Mines might have to make alternative arrangements for classes due to COVID-19. But the very next night, Slayback was eating dinner when he received an email that all classes would be moving online.

The next day brought even more news as Slayback was notified all students who could leave campus should do so. Finally, that Friday, the school informed its students that the suggestion to leave campus, had turned into an order.

“It was all very fast,” said Slayback.

“That Monday we were questioning if Mines would actually shut down and by Friday it had.”

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the President’s Office at Mines, has also been serving as the leader of the school’s COVID-19 emergency response.

He said that while COVID-19 is affecting everything from the school’s finances to its athletic teams, one of the major impacts the school is currently monitoring is the one it could have on next year’s enrollment.

So far, commitments for the 2020 freshman class had been on track to be where the school wanted them to be, which was down slightly from 2019’s larger-than-expected freshman class. However, the deadline to notify the school of a commitment to enroll is not until May 1, and the school has extended that deadline in the wake of the virus.

“We know that a lot of families even if they made a deposit, their decision may hinge upon what happens in the fall (with COVID-19),” said Han. “And so regardless of what plans are being made now, we know that there could be an impact on enrollment depending on what happens with the COVID-19 situation.”

Han said the school is trying not to make the decision about whether students will return to campus in the fall “until we have to.” However, staff are already evaluating the best way to proceed based on a variety of possible situations and has developed 10 contingency plans for the fall based on them.

Those plans range from holding classes as normal, which he said is “probably unrealistic,” to looking at ways to lessen the density of classes, such as offering additional classes on weekends or dividing the semester into blocks with students spending time in classrooms during one block and hands-on lab activities in another.

“We’re trying to get really as creative as possible about how we could teach students on campus,” he said. “But obviously we also have to be prepared for remote learning to continue in the fall and so we’ll be spending a lot of time this summer trying to improve what we do with remote learning.”

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But the move to online learning has c also saved the school money in reduced a operating costs and other expenses and a so far the school has been able to cut enough expenses to balance its budget. T However, the situation will ultimately t m depend on what happens with next t year’s enrollment and the school is making plans for potential impacts, as well as the potential cuts to the school’s m state funding that become likely when- j b ever the state falls on hard times.

While the total effect of COVID-19 on p Mines won’t become evident until at least the fall and probably well beyond b that, the situation is already having a o major impact on students who are miss-s ing out on not only time on campus, but d also opportunities for internships and p even employment.

That’s been the case in the school’s t W Petroleum Engineering department as some students have seen internship c offers rescinded though others are still proceeding, offer with the intern- e o ship to now be conducted virtually.

Some seniors have also seen job offers i rescinded as the oil industry has taken w a tumble, although Department Head f Jennifer L. Miskimins said there has m been less of that than she might have p expected given the situation.

But despite the challenging times the fi oil industry is experiencing, Miskimins e said she remains optimistic about her m p student’s futures and is encouraging a them to be the same.

“Our industry is a cyclical industry b and I try to make sure our students that w it’s a great career but there’s going to be some ups and downs,” she said. “But n the other thing is Mines is a phenom- R enally good school with a good reputa- p tion and so while it might take a little s longer to get a job in the industry right 3 now you will get one if you want to.”

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Mines students using 3-D printers to make protective medical gear One student has produced more than 200 face masks

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Just days after returning home to Loveland from Colorado School of Mines last month, Paul Slayback came across an article in his hometown newspaper about an organization that was attempting to enlist Coloradoans to use 3-D printers to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical professionals who are battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I saw that and I said `well, I have a 3-D printer and I am able to help out so I might as well do what I can,’” Slayback said.

The Mines freshman said he initially had some trouble getting going after issues with his 3-D printer forced him to replace some parts.

However, he is now up and running and said he has printed about 35 plastic headbands that will be used in medical shields in the last week.

Those headbands will go to Make4Covid, the organization Slayback read about that is distributing the PPE equipment to frontline healthcare workers and first responders around the state.

Slayback said it takes his printer about two hours to make each mask.

To do so, the printer pushes the plastic filament through a small piece of metal called the extruder to make the plastic mask.

“Basically just layer by layer it makes the design from top of bottom just running over the same points back and forth pushing out more plastic,” Slayback said.

While Slayback is producing headbands, Mines senior Chance Reeves of Westminster has been using the seven 3-D printers he owns to produce masks and ear savers.

Reeves said he originally began printing the masks for SCL Health, the operator of Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge and several other medical facilities in the metro area.

However, after SCL Health indicated it had stocked a sufficient amount of PPE, Slayback also began producing masks for the hospital his mom works at in Lander, Wyoming, and family and friends who work in the medical field.

Reeves said he originally was printing Montana masks, a 3-D filtration mask that is intended to extend the supply of N-95 medical masks. However, he has switched to producing BolivAir masks, which are similar to the Montana mask but considered more comfortable to wear for long periods.

Using his printer to help fill the need for PPE was a natural step for Reeves, who said he has been 3-D printing for the past 10 years and said he works at Mines maintaining 3-D printers during the school year.

“Being that my mom is a nurse

Colorado School of Mines freshman Paul Slayback holds up a plastic headband he just printed on his 3-D printer.

A box of masks produced by Mines senior Chance Reeves.

MAKE4COVID Visit make4covid.co to learn about how to contribute 3-D printed PPE, make a financial donation to the effort or see the latest numbers of PPE donated. and my dad is in at risk category, too, I just wanted to try and protect people,” Reeves said.

Reeves said that he is currently able to produce about 35 masks a day and has produced more than 200 total. He originally used his own filament but is now using filament donated by others.

Reeves said that while he is glad to be donating his time and resources to the cause of donating masks, he hopes that manufacturers are able to soon develop the ability to mass produce PPE using a mold as that is much faster, more efficient and environmentally friendly than 3-D printing items needed in such a large quantity.

Reeves said he is also part of an effort that is gearing up at Mines to produce face shields and earsavers for Make4Covid using the 3-D printers the school has on campus.

While both Reeves and Slayback plan to continue their efforts for as long as PPE is needed, Slayback said he is amazed by all Make4Covid and other efforts have been able to pull off.

“One of the updates on the Make4Covid website said they’ve already delivered 18,000 pieces of PPE around Colorado,” Slayback said.

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lone in a field at the edge of the Cottonwood subdivision in Parker, firefighter Dave Carrigan stood tall and stiff has he played his bagpipes.

The sun started to set April 22 at about 7:46 p.m. As sunlight disappeared, Carrigan’s few regular fans gathered to hear him play. A handful of neighbors ventured to the slight overlook at the foot of Carrigan’s driveway. Some driving by on Parker Road across the field to the east pulled off, listening to the notes slice through the droning of passing cars.

Carrigan, a firefighter for South Metro Fire Rescue for 29 years, has SEE BAGPIPERS, P13

Dave Carrigan has played his bagpipes at dusk every night since the start of the stayat-home orders in Colorado. “It’s to show we’re all in this together and we have each other’s back,” he said.

hrough the month of May, Golden’s Miners Alley Playhouse has embraced the ondemand approach to connect with audiences and its community during the COVID-19 shutdown.

The company launched its new On-Demand Performances series with last summer’s children’s theatre production of “The Frog Prince,” with a video courtesy of Ray Bailey TV. The plan is currently to leave the video available until COMING 30.

ATTRACTIONS May “Our mojo at Miners Alley is completely based on people gathering and having a great experience together as a community,” said Len Matheo, executive/artistic director at the theater.

Clarke Reader “This really left us in a bind. We wanted to start creating content and we had this archived recording of the show to use.”

The performance can be accessed by registering on the Miners’ website at https://minersalley.com/ shows/on-demand-performances/.

Once finished registering, viewers will be presented with a link and a password to view the video on Vimeo.

“One of the big challenges we faced was the publishers because it’s really difficult to get the rights to broadcast work online,” Matheo said. “Fortunately, our own Rory Pierce wrote the script, so we were able to make this available.”

The show is free to view, but people are encouraged to donate to keep the theater and its art alive. Miners is working to pay its staff as much as possible and to pay for health insurance, so financial donations and spreading the word about its work are extremely important. Matheo said that as this is Miners’ first foray into this kind of online experience, he’s hoping that it will show publishers that their work can be securely distributed to audiences.

“There are new online resources that show local theaters how to do plays online and deal with things like licenses and public domain,” he added. “We’re working on a lot of different things, but we’re in a holding pattern until we get some kind of guidance on what it looks like for people to gather.”

Looking to the future, Matheo said not only this season’s lineup been affected with cancellations and postSEE READER, P13

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ponements, but it also has the team rethinking their 2021 season.

“We’re looking at smaller plays, which require less licensing,” he said. “Unlike art centers or galleries that can put their work easily online, what we do is based on interaction. What we’re really doing is testing to see how it works if its an audience that is not live.”

For more information on the production and ways to support the theater, visit www. minersalley.com.

Jake Auten, firefighter/paramedic, and Lt. Jay Allen of the Castle Rock Fire Department play their bagpipes with the Rock monument in the backdrop.

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marched out to the field bordering his house every evening since March 29, three days after the stay-at-home order began, to play traditional marches and songs until the sun sets.

“It’s to show solidarity not only for everybody who’s fighting the disease, but all our brothers and sisters, firefighters, police officers, paramedics. … They’re kind of taking a beating out there,” Carrigan said. “It’s to show we’re all in this together and we have each other’s back.”

Carrigan is one of many first responders regionwide playing bagpipes at dusk to inspire hope amid the stay-at-home orders and COVID-19 crisis.

First responders throughout Colorado are participating in Pipers for Sundown Solidarity, a movement organized by the Colorado Emerald Society Pipes and Drums Band, a bagpipe band made up of 75 firefighters and police officers throughout the state.

Thousands of pipers play songs from their respective homes at the same time each night as the sun sets in an ongoing effort to encourage strength and resolve in the community.

‘Next phases or normalcy’ Mike West, fire chief for Front Range Fire Rescue, is the Pipe Major for the Colorado Emerald Society. He helped start the pipe band at South Metro Fire in 2002. He resigned from South Metro in June 2019. Front Range Fire covers Johnstown, Milliken, Larimer and Weld counties.

“Our guys and gals are working every day at their police stations and precincts and firehouses dealing with the pandemic face-to-face,” West said. “It was a great way to wind down from the day spread a little hope to the neighbors and make sure they still know we’re still out there fighting the good fight every day.”

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Carrigan does not always deck himself out in his kilt and uniform.

He said he plays because it brings a smile to his neighbor’s faces and connects people when they’re more isolated than ever.

Pipers in the group play every day and play whatever they want, except on Sundays, when the group collectively decides on a single song to play at the same time together.

The Colorado Emerald Society announced on its Facebook page April 24 that members would stop playing bagpipes nightly beginning May 3.

Pipers still play on Sundays “until the state moves to the next phases of normalcy,” the post reads.

“We can’t express our gratitude enough for your cheers, posts, shares and love. When we get through these social distancing steps and back to holding events, we’re looking forward to seeing you all at a big celebration,” the post reads.

West said the Colorado Emerald Society plans on holding a celebration to make up for losing the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

‘A droning feeling’ The movement, which started shortly after the stay-at-home order began, is steeped in tradition.

Soldiers began marching to the sound of bagpipes in Scotland in the 1400s. The instrument is used often as a morale booster for the military.

South Metro Fire Rescue and Castle Rock Fire and Rescue Department each have Pipe and Drum bands.

Carrigan has been playing pipes for about 11 years, around the time South Metro Rescue’s pipe and drum band started.

West, who has been playing bagpipes on and off for 30 years, noted the way the vibrations from the drones blaring from the player’s shoulder hits you.

“It runs through you,” West said.

“A lot of people, prior to this, the only time they hear bagpipes is at a funeral, so they associate that droning note with an emotional event. … To me, it’s that kind of droning feeling. It kind of gets down to your soul sometimes.”

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The park is currently open for walk-in and drive-in access, and while it’s a popular place for water activities during the hot summer months, those activities are currently prohibited. As someone who lives within a short walk of the park, I can recommend keeping an eye out for raptors (it’s a very popular place for bald eagles), coyotes and foxes, and numerous waterfowl.

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Bennington, the 320 Festival is aimed at changing the way people discuss and relate to mental health issues. The event was scheduled to take place in L.A., but with all the closures, organizers decided to take it online.

Held from Friday, May 8 through Sunday, May 10, the event brings together performances from pop artists like Echosmith, Lindsey Stirling and Social House, with educational sessions on topics like cultural perspectives on mental health, mental health in the workplace and much more.

We could all use a little inspiration while we wait for some good news, and this event is sure to provide it. Free participation is available on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, and the KNEKT.TV Network on Roku and Apple TV. Streaming style - ‘Detroiters’ There’s a particular feeling that comes with loving a show that was canceled too soon.

A mix of bitterness as the untimely end of the story, warm familiarity when you revisit it, and gratitude that it existed in the first place. Such is the case with one of the most underrated comedies of the last several years — Comedy Central’s “Detroiters.”

Staring Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson (who for my money might be among the top five funniest people in Hollywood) as two young creatives in a struggling ad agency in Detroit.

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Mile Hi Church/Action Center team up The Action Center received at least four pallets of food donations

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At a time when it was trying to restock its grocery shelves, the Action Center received at least four pallets of food donations.

The donations came from community members as the human-services organization partnered with Mile Hi Church in Lakewood to host drive-thru food drives on April 28 and April 30.

The food drives occurred at Mile Hi Church.

Tawney Eisenbraun, marketing and communications coordinator for the Action Center, said the food will last the organization several weeks.

If you need food, you can contact the Action Center at 720-215-4850.

Peter Rockwood, a volunteer for the Action Center, loads food up into a van. The Action Center partnered with Mile Hi Church to host food drives on April 28 and April 30.

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Those who wish to pick up free groceries from the Action Center can call 720215-4850.

Amy Shaw, donor relations officer for the Action Center, packs up food. The Action Center says since mid-March it has been serving double the amount of households it typically does.

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to the U.S.C.G. Thank you, Bravo Zulu, Semper Paratus, and God Bless – U.S. Coast Guard!

Terry Hodson, Golden

Drug smuggling surge During the war with Vietnam, the U.S. Coast Guard was very successful at denying enemy forces a maritime route for getting soldiers, ammunition etc. to communist forces in South Vietnam.

Today’s US Coast Guard is fighting a different kind of smuggler.

Recently, the USCG reported a deployment that, with the aid of the US Navy and other agencies, interdicted ten tons of cocaine in two months! This quantity of cocaine stopped, dwarfs most US law enforcement drug interdictions (No disrespect intended).

Recently, the USCG reported a deployment that interdicted a staggering 9 tons of cocaine that will never arrive on America’s streets.

On 11 July 2019, after a dramatic at sea boarding, the USCGC Munro reported having interdicted 19.5 tons of cocaine, and close to a 1,000 pounds of marijuana!

The list of these huge interdictions could go on for pages…

Yet… Former U.S, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul F. Zukunft reported, though the Coasties have “80 percent awareness” of all illegal operations, “we can only act on about 20 percent of that because of the resource constraints we have. We’re giving 60 percent of what we know, literally, a free pass…”

Let’s pray, the push to increase military spending, includes expansions

What to call it?

What to call the current pandemic is another flashpoint in the tiresome political correctness battles. The “China Virus,” the “Wuhan Virus,” the “Covid-19 Virus,” the “Novel Coronavirus?” Seems the hullabaloo boils down to what’s politically correct and what’s not. But what’s “political correctness?”

Really, all “political correctness” means is that you don’t insult people because of who or what they are — because of their race, color, religion, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, disability, and the like. Who decides what’s insulting?

Society, by and large. Society, however, doesn’t always speak with one voice, thus the recent cacophony on your letters pages about what to call the virus.

A couple of writers say it’s wrong to call the virus the China or Wuhan virus because that leaves innocent Chinese targets for anger and frustration. Others find this remonstration insulting and get rather hysterical, charging that political correctness is a form of corruption, even criminality, and infringes on their First Amendment rights. Look, political correctness is just good manners. If you want to insult people, you can. Neither the government nor media can stop you.

But others don’t have to listen to it and are free to criticize you for it. If you’re intimidated by the criticism, that’s your problem. Free speech goes both ways. Frankly, I don’t really care what

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Peter F Munger, Arvada

and are a disservice to the public.

Catherine Griffith, Arvada

Keep the claims clear Call it Wuhan virus, CoVid-19, or, the scientific designation SARS-CoV-2; as long as everyone is on the same page as to what one is referring to, not worth spending energy on it.

I find issues, however, with Michael Alcorn’s statement, “In reality, the overall death rate in America is slightly down so far this year from last year...”

Mr. Alcorn fails to identify: 1. What is the source of this claim? Is this government data, mined data, self-reported? 2. How was it determined? Is this total deaths, deaths per million, deaths per month, attributed deaths? 3. What time period are we talking about?

Calendar year comparison? Running 12 month comparison? Extrapolated quarter or month?

The statistical data I’ve seen makes this claim look like wishful thinking. In New York City alone, there has been 6 timethe normal number of deaths in the past 6 weeks according to the New York Times. The 2019 annualized “Crude Death Rate” is reported as 8.8/100000 persons. to date, the same rate for 2020 FOR COVID-19 death ALONE is 19.25.

I call on the editorial staff to apply the standards you set for Letters to the Editor guidance, specifically your third statement:”Include a source for any information that is not common knowledge. We will not publish information that cannot easily be verified.”

Vague claims do not validity make

Oh, here’s your death panels Statements and actions by politicians and their advisers of late have caused me to reflect on 2010, when the Obama administration passed the Affordable Care Act, which led certain critics to claim, often hysterically, that the legislation would lead to government controlled “death panels” ready to pull the plug on Nana and Poppa. In recent days our president issued an executive order mandating meat processing plants stay open. The CDC issued vague and voluntary disease control guidelines to those plants. OSHA will refuse to enforce violations of health and safety guidelines in those plants. Workers could be denied state unemployment benefits if they are afraid to return to the virtual petri dishes that are now their workplaces. And finally, business leaders and Republicans are calling for forgiveness of legal liability for those who can’t or won’t protect employees and customers from the spread of the virus. In light of these developments I wish that I could ask the critics of the ACA in 2010 exactly what they meant by “government run death panels dispensing mortality.” If hideous creations like that ever do become official policy it seems that there is now a blueprint to follow thanks to the Trump Administration and its failure to take responsibility to protect Americans from the spread of COVID-19 or to execute a plan to mitigate the effects of the disease.

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ferson County who has had COVID-19.

Hispanics make up only 15.5% of the county’s population — but according to data from Jeffco Public Health, the ethnic group accounts for 21.2% of the 1,394 “closed cases” of COVID-19 in Jeffco as of May 4.

Closed cases mean that either a Jeffco Public Health case investigator has been able to contact the resident who had the virus and interview them, multiple attempts were made without contact, or cases were identified through long-term care outbreaks which do not require direct follow-up, according to Ashley Sever, a spokesperson for Jeffco Public Health.

Closed cases were used for this story rather than all cases as the health department is still investigating, or cases where ethnicity was not listed. There have been 1,518 total cases of COVID-19 in Jefferson County as of May 4.

There are no other discrepancies among ethnic groups in Jefferson County.

State data also paints an image of disparity between the percentage of population and percentage of cases.

Hispanics account for 28.1% of COVID-19 cases in Colorado. But 2018 U.S. Census Bureau data says Hispanics make up 21.7% of Colorado’s population.

Dr. Ramon Del Castillo, who served as chair of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Chicana/o Studies Department for 12 years, pointed to preexisting conditions that have

historically affected some Hispanic communities like high blood pressure and diabetes as reasons for why the ethnic group is seeing a high number of COVID-19 cases.

Data from Jeffco Public Health shows that between 20 to 30% of Hispanics in the county have high blood pressure while 7% of Hispanics age 18 years and older in the county suffer from diabetes — the highest of any ethnic group in Jefferson County.

Early findings suggest that elderly residents who suffer from high blood pressure have a greater risk of getting the virus, according to the American Heart Association. Residents who have high blood pressure, regardless of age, could experience severe complications from COVID-19, the American Heart Association says.

Residents who have diabetes are not more likely to get COVID-19 than the general population, according to the American Diabetes Association — but those who do have diabetes have a higher chance of experiencing serious complications from the virus.

“Preexisting conditions have been part of our history here in society.

What the pandemic did was highlight what we have been infected with,” said Castillo. “There are a lot of things happening right now with the virus that are specific and more impactful to people of colored communities, and in particular, Latinos.”

Castillo pointed to food deserts as another reason for high COVID-19 cases in Hispanics while Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said at an April 13 news conference that diet could be relevant to the disparity between the percentage of population and percentage of virus

cases in minorities.

Food deserts are areas where access to affordable and nutritious food is limited because of a lack of grocery stores in a suitable traveling distance.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that in all but very dense urban areas, the higher the percentage of minority population, the more likely the area is to be a food desert.

“That predisposes you to any virus that is present — the idea of your body not being able to absorb nutrients and all the things that are healthy to consider a good diet. In food deserts, there are a lot of places that people are not accustomed to eating fresh food and things that they ought to be eating,” said Castillo. “They eat what is there.

That’s a function of poverty, and poverty leads to all these other issues.”

“Poor people in general have poor diets because they haven’t had opportunities to reach the American Dream, and therefore, that translates to racism and economics all coming together.

They have a higher rate of the virus because of these destructive forces,” he added.

Providing a helping hand Patty Grado said she knows several people who have serious health conditions and don’t get help because they have been rejected due to financial reasons or because they are undocumented immigrants.

“People who don’t have documents and have serious health cases are afraid to expose their case, because they don’t know what consequences that exposure will have on their private lives or health. They live in a constant state of stress because they don’t have a way to get resources or help for those

severe illnesses,” she said.

Grado works as a navigator for Adelante Jeffco, a network of community members and organizations that includes Jeffco Public Health. The organization works to identify opportunities and strategies to make services for Latinos and Hispanics more effective and culturally relevant. Adelante Jeffco also plays a role in connecting Latino and Hispanic families to health services — particularly for those who don’t speak English.

Since April 9, Adelante Jeffco has received more than 400 calls from residents who are looking to be connected to organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Paulina Erices, co-coordinator for the organization.

“People are calling us because they trust us, and that is a huge factor in being successful,” she said.

Erices said there is more to serving Latino and Hispanic communities than just providing language interpreters.

She said it is important for those who are providing services to understand the cultural aspects of the people they are serving.

Erices said that many Latinos may not have an informed way to make a decision on health. She noted that many people in the Latino community work full time, are paid hourly and are not getting benefits like health care.

“In terms of systems, there is a lot of oppression against people who may work low income jobs. The system itself has so many inequities,” said Erices. “There are historic gaps, even with information. The pandemic is really just elevating or helping to find the impact of (inequity).”

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at the meeting of the Arvada City Council to be held on MONDAY, June 15, 2020, at 6:15 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada CO, City Council will hold a public hearing on the following proposed ordinance and thereafter will consider it for final passage and adoption.

For the full text version in electronic form go to www.arvada.org/legalnotices, click on Current Legal Notices, then click on the title of the ordinance you wish to view. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office. Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions.

CB20-011 An Ordinance Repealing and Reenacting Chapter 90, Solid Waste, of the Arvada City Code Legal Notice No.: 407272 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 7, 2020 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript

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The following ordinances were adopted by the City Council of the City of Arvada on second reading following the public hearing held on May 4, 2020:

The following variances from the Land Development Code (LDC) have been requested:

The following variances from the Land Development Code (LDC) have been requested:

VAR2020-0001, Patricia Herrick, 11765 W. 53rd Place, to construct an eight-foot-tall, solid fence along the East (side) property line when Section 6.5.8(A) of the LDC restricts fence height to six feet and requires all fences over 48 inches in height and adjacent to open space be at least 50 percent open for the portion above 48 inches.

VAR2020-0002, James Cillessen, 11766 W. 53rd Place, to construct an eight-foot-tall, solid fence along the East (side) property line when Section 6.5.8(A) of the LDC restricts fence height to six feet and requires all fences over 48 inches in height and adjacent to open space be at least 50 percent open for the portion above 48 inches.

Hearing thereon will be held before the Board of Adjustment on May 26, 2020, at 6:15 p.m., virtually. Members of the public may watch the meeting on Comcast channels 8 and 880 or on the live stream at arvada.org/live-stream Additional information can be obtained from the Community Development Department or written comments may be filed therewith no later than 8 days prior to the hearing.

Hearing thereon will be held before the Board of Adjustment on May 26, 2020, at 6:15 p.m., virtually. Members of the public may watch the meeting on Comcast channels 8 and 880 or on the live stream at arvada.org/live-stream.

Additional information can be obtained from the Community Development Department or written comments may be filed therewith no later than 8 days prior to the hearing.

CITY OF ARVADA BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT /s/ Russ Rizzo, Secretary

CITY OF ARVADA BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT /s/ Russ Rizzo, Secretary

Legal Notice No.: 407274 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 7, 2020 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript

Legal Notice No.: 407275 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 7, 2020 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript

Ordinance # 4725 An Ordinance Amending Sections 78-292, 78-295, 78-298, and 78-299, of Article V, Rights-of-Way, of Chapter 78, Public Improvements, of the Arvada City Code.

Ordinance # 4727 An Ordinance Authorizing an Intergovernmental Agreement Between the City of Arvada and the City of Black Hawk for the Use of Augmentation Stations.

Legal Notice No.: 407273 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 7, 2020 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at the meeting of the Arvada City Council to be held on MONDAY, May 18, 2020, at 6:15 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada CO, City Council will hold a public hearing on the following proposed ordinances and thereafter will consider them for final passage and adoption. For the full text version in electronic form go to www.arvada.org/legalnotices, click on Current Legal Notices, then click on the title of the ordinance you wish to view. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office. Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions.

CB20-012 An Ordinance Repealing the Arvada Land Development Code (2008) (Part III of the Code of the City of Arvada, Colorado (“City Code”)), Adopting a New Arvada Land Development Code (2020) as Part III of the City Code, Adopting the City of Arvada Zoning Map Excluding West of Alkire Street and North of West 80th Avenue, Dated June 1, 2020, Adopting a Rezoning Comparative Table, Adopting Penalty Provisions for Violations of the 2020 Land Development Code, and Amending Certain Sections of Part II of the City Code Affected by the Adoption of the 2020 Land Development Code.

CB20-013 An Ordinance Repealing and Reenacting Section 74-31, Land-Use Fees, of Article II, Community Development Department Service Fees, of Chapter 74, Planning and Development, of the Arvada City Code.

Legal Notice No.: 407285 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 7, 2020 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript

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