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Child dead, three injured in suspected road rage shooting

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Westminster Police have arrested and charged a 23-year-old Colorado Springs man in the shooting of a man, a mother and her two sons outside of an 80th Avenue dentist office June 14.

One of the woman’s sons, a 13-yearold, died.

Jeremy Webster, 23, of Colorado Springs, was book into Adams County Sheriff ’s Detention Facility on charges of first-degree murder with deliberation, first-degree murder with extreme indifference, first-degree assault and criminal intent to commit a class-one felony.

He was booked into Adams County Jail at 1:39 a.m. June 15 and was advised of his rights at a hearing in district court in Adams County at June 18.

Webster is due back in court 8:30 a.m. June 21 to hear the formal charges against him.

According to the arrest affidavit, the incident between Webster and his victims began on Sheridan Boulevard near Turnpike Drive. The two were involved in some sort of road rage incident and Webster allegedly followed the woman to 5150 80th Ave., the Cedarwood Square Office Complex.

The building is home to medical and dental offices, insurance agencies and other offices.

There, the two got into an argument. Webster pulled out a handgun

FOR MORE INFO For more about road rage across the metro area, turn to PAGE 15. and shot the woman several times, before shooting two of her sons, an 8-year-old and a 13-year old, the affidavit says. A 12-year-old son was able to run away when the shooting began.

According to witnesses, Webster appeared to return to his vehicle, then stopped, walked back to the wounded 13-year-old lying on the ground and shot him again.

He then made eye contact with a man sitting in a truck nearby, the affidavit said. Webster began walking toward the truck, firing his handgun, Webster before the man was able to reverse his truck and escape the parking lot.

According to the affidavit, Webster than got into his black Toyota Corolla and drove away, leaving behind several witnesses — one of whom took a photograph of his car and his license plate.

Police were called to the scene at 3:05 p.m. and they closed the busy 80th Avenue just as rush hour was beginning road while they searched for the suspect. Two lanes of Sheridan Boulevard, one northbound, one southbound, were also closed during

Police have arrested 23-year-old Jeremy Webster, of Colorado Springs, on suspicion of shooting two adults and two boys, killing one of the boys, June 14 in the parking lot of an 80th Avenue dentist. Police said they believe road rage motivated the incident.

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the investigation and reopened later in the night.

According to Westminster Police Investigator Cheri Spottke, the man who was shot is expected to survive his injuries. The mother and surviving son both sustained serious injuries and were in critical condition, according to police.

“We are working in a business complex here and there are a lot of witnesses to talk to and get information,” Spottke said the night of the shooting.

“Officers are working to figure out what transpired leading up to this shooting.”

According to Westminster Police,

the family of the mother and the two boys, have declined to be interviewed by the media or release photographs and asked the media and the public to “Please respect our family’s privacy in these troubling times.”

Police across the Denver area were on alert, looking for Webster and his vehicle. He was spotted driving south on Interstate 25 and he was pulled over and taken into custody in Castle Rock just after 6 p.m.

According to the affidavit, Webster admitted to shooting the woman and her children using a Glock 19 handgun, which he had hidden in the trunk of his car.

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A-West principal announces departure Dr. Robert Bishop will move to a district leadership position

BY CAITLIN DANBORN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

A-West principal Dr. Robert Bishop speaks at an assembly kicking off the 2017-18 school year, his last as principal.

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Arvada West principal Dr. Robert Bishop announced his departure from his school on June 8.

Bishop, who has been the principal at A-West since the summer of 2006, will be mov-

ing onto a leadership position as the Executive Director for Administrator Learning for Jeffco Schools, according to a letter sent to A-West parents.

During his 12 years as principal, Bishop oversaw the transition to a new building that opened in 2008 and became the north wing of the school.

He oversaw around 4,800 graduates and introduced numerous new traditions such as the spring Advancement Assembly, which offers an opportunity for graduating seniors to say goodbye to their high school

teachers and celebrates the end of the year for underclassmen.

“I wish the entire Arvada West Community the best in the new era of leadership. I will miss the fun times, the milestones, the rites, rituals, and traditions, and most of all I will miss the students, parents, and staff that have made A-West a great place for this principal to come to every day for the past 12 years,” said Bishop in his letter.

Bishop’s replacement will be overseen by Jeffco Public Schools achievement director Scott Allensworth.

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I Love to Write About Real Estate, But This Week It’s Personal

By JIM SMITH, Citizen I’m writing this week’s column, as usual, on Sunday night, but this Sunday night I’m writing it from the woods near Kalispell, Montana, where Rita and I are visiting her sister Lynn and her husband Jeff. Coincidentally, Kalispell is also where my late mother was born in 1912, while her father (after whom I get my middle name) was one of the engineers for Glacier National Park’s “Going to the Sun” highway. His diary of that project is the only original diary which the park’s curator possesses. She kindly copied it for me many years ago, and we all enjoyed reading from it.

So, I’m on vacation, and although I have this wonderful weekly deadline, real estate is not top of mind for me this week. So why not take a vacation from that topic and tell you what’s really top of mind for me these days?

By the way, we’ll be back in Golden about the time you are reading this column.

This week I’m paying for this ad space personally. The opinions I express herein are not those of the brokerage I own and manage.

None of my associates were consulted about its content and they may or may not agree with what I say below. This one’s on me.

What’s really on my mind as Rita and I take this 10-day road trip to Boise, Seattle and now Kalispell, listening to the national news and conversing with friends and relatives, is the sad state of our democracy.

I am also writing this on Father’s Day, so I’m thinking about my late father, Abbott P. Smith II, an old-school proper New Englander to whom integrity was everything. I can still him saving, “Just because other people steal apples doesn’t make it right for you to steal apples.” The values I cherish I got from Dad. Dad would be appalled that we have a president who, under the tutelage of his onetime lawyer, Roy Cohn, practices the principle that if you tell a lie long enough people will think it’s true. Also, that you should never admit you’re wrong. (Google the two names together to learn about Cohn’s influence.)

Rita and I left on our vacation about the time that President Trump “negotiated” with his “new friend” Kim Jung Un and insulted our country’s strongest ally and trading partner, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

It is abundantly clear to me that Donald Trump is a narcissist, whose only interest is self-aggrandizement and self promotion, even when it violates the emoluments provision of our Constitution. My Republican father would be turning over in his grave if he knew not only what this man is doing and saying as our leader but, more significantly, how the elected members of the “Grand Old Party” — most of whom at one time proclaimed “Never Trump!” (Google that phrase for the very long list) — have fallen in line with him because they think that’s how they can maintain what’s most important to them — their re-election.

How much further down this road is America going to go? The President, who says that military exercises with South Korea are “costing a fortune,” got his wish for a military parade that will cost millions of taxpayer dollars that would be better spent on almost anything else. He was inspired by a parade in France, but such parades are really the trademark of Russia, China, North Korea and other dictatorships. What’s next?

Rotary’s “4-Way Test”

I’m a Rotarian. Every Tuesday we begin our breakfast meeting with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the 4-Way Test. Can you imagine this president beginning each cabinet meeting with this declaration of “the things we think, say or do”? First, Is It the Truth? Second, Is It Fair to All Concerned? Third, Will It Build Goodwill and Better Friendships? Fourth, Will It Be Beneficial to All Concerned?

Try applying that test to such Trump policies as separating immigrant children from their parents, while falsely claiming the Democrats made him do it; Or how about denying climate change and removing all use of that phrase from EPA documents on the subject?

What about imposing tariffs on our closest trading partners, while claiming falsely that trade wars are “good” and “easy to win”?

Well-intended policies often need to be reversed, but Trump can’t admit he’s wrong, so he allows bad policies to stay in place when they shouldn’t just to avoid admitting mistakes.

As offended as Rita and I have been by so many of this president’s words and deeds, we are also saddened by the lack of an articulate opposition by both Democrats and oncemoderate or never-Trump Republicans.

Also, as a professional journalist, I am saddened by the attacks on the mainstream media as the “enemy of the people,” a Stalinist

term, and the use of the phrase “fake news” to dismiss honest journalistic coverage. The collusion of Fox News in this process is disappointing to anyone who knows and appreciates real journalism.

So what can be done about this situation?

I have two “modest proposals” that I’d like to advance.

A Couple Modest Proposals for Saving America It’s easy to criticize President Trump and where he is taking us, but where are the proposals to remedy this situation? Here are mine.

The first is for the Democratic Party to create what the British Parliament has long had and which I learned about in the 7th and 8th grades — a “Shadow Cabinet.”

Wikipedia has the following description of this component of British government: “The Shadow Cabinet is a feature of the Westminster system of government. It consists of a senior group of opposition spokespeople who, under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition, form an alternative cabinet to that of the government, and whose members shadow or mirror the positions of each individual member of the Cabinet. It is the Shadow Cabinet's responsibility to scrutinize the policies and actions of the government, as well to offer an alternative program.

“In most countries, a member of the shadow cabinet is referred to as a Shadow Minister. In Canada, however, the term Opposition Critic is more common. In the United Kingdom's House of Lords and in New Zealand, the term "spokesperson" is used instead of "shadow".

“Members of a shadow cabinet are often but not always appointed to a Cabinet post if and when their party forms a government.”

[In the above excerpt from Wikipedia, I kept the blue underlined type to show you that there are links which you might want to click if you search “shadow cabinet” on Wikipedia.]

Imagine if the Democratic Party designated political leaders to serve as Shadow Secretaries for each Cabinet department. (They could recite the 4-Way Test when they meet as a group!) The Shadow EPA administrator could become an expert on the behind-the-

scenes activities and pronouncements of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. The Shadow Secretary of Housing and Urban Development could monitor and hold press conferences about the actions and pronouncements of Secretary Ben Carson, and the Shadow Attorney General could do the same regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

And so forth for Cabinet member. Their press conferences would merit coverage, including

by Fox News, and provide substantive information which is currently only being provided by reporters who are readily dismissed by the president as “fake news.”

My second “modest proposal” is that at least one prominent opponent of the president announce his or her candidacy for President now instead of next year — as President Trump did in the first week of his presidency. Doing so not only provides a mechanism for fundraising (which is working well for Trump), but it also makes it possible to have full-fledged rallies which would be covered by all the media, providing yet another avenue for turning the mainstream media into reporters covering critiques of the Trump administration instead of providing the analysis themselves, which has made them vulnerable to attacks for partisanship.

Lastly, I want to reiterate that these are my personal remarks and not those of my real estate brokerage or its broker associates. I’m not worried that speaking out on this subject will hurt my brokerage or me financially, but if it does, I am willing to pay that price, and I will understand if an agent wants to disassociate him or herself from what I have written and leave our brokerage.

Our democracy, our country, our future as a nation are too important for me to remain silent any longer about the travesty of this president and his assault on the free press and all three of those elements.

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The refuge with a radioactive past

The opening of the Rocky Flats refuge may be close, but the debate over the land’s safety lingers

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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he U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service believes that wildlife refuges ensure that future generations will always have an outdoor place to enjoy nature.

But some people won’t set foot on Rocky Flats once it opens as a wildlife refuge, much less allow their children or grandchildren to go there.

“It’s a shame,” said Stephanie Carroll, president and founder of Rocky Flats Worker Advocacy, “because it’s a beautiful site. But it’s a superfund site.

You don’t build homes on a superfund site. And you don’t recreate on a superfund site.”

Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge is a 5,000-acre area of open land bordered by Broomfield, Boulder and Jefferson counties managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Although there is no set date, it previously was anticipated to open for public recreation late this summer.

However, seven Colorado school districts have banned field trips to Rocky Flats in the past year — Boulder Valley

Expected to boast about 5,000 acres and about 20 miles of trails, Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge will feature an abundance of wildlife and plant viewing.

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School District being the first one to do so last year and Denver Public Schools being the most recent, adopting its resolution on April 26. The others are Jefferson County Public Schools, Westminster Public Schools, Adams 12 Five

Star, Adams 14 and St. Vrain Valley School District.

With its picturesque views and immense opportunities for viewing wildlife and diverse plants, Rocky Flats was recognized as a special place more than

20 years ago, said Michael D’Agostino, a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s MountainPrairie Region.

Rocky Flats will be an urban refuge, he said.

“A local place where people can reconnect with nature,” D’Agostino said.

“It will be a really unique experience for people and an exciting place for outdoor enthusiasts.”

Formerly the location of the nation’s primary producer of plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons during the Cold War, the opening follows a $7 billion cleanup effort that, despite a 2007 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certification that the clean-up Dr. Johnson complied with all appropriate laws and regulations, some say still wasn’t enough.

“Public health and safety may be at risk from inadequate analysis of whether to open Rocky Flats for hiking, biking and horseback riding,” said Randall Weiner, the attorney representing the citizens groups that filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “What they want are additional environmental reviews that look at the alternatives to, and impacts of, opening Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge to the public when there is un-remediated plutonium on-site.

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Jefferson County Public Health does not have an official stance on the opening of the refuge, however Dr. Mark Johnson, the executive director of Jefferson County Public Health, has a personal opinion he recently shared in a letter to the court in the lawsuit.

“I believe there was/is contamination on Rocky Flats and that some of it has escaped from Rocky Flats into the surrounding neighborhoods, but how much there is/was and what the health consequences of it are/were are not clear to me,” Johnson wrote to the court. “I honestly do not know how dangerous it is to live in its shadow. I believe we have the data to tell us the truth, but I do not believe all of it has been analyzed by truly independent sources.”

The lawsuit is currently in the process of preparing for trial. The refuge will remain closed until it is settled.

Confident in the cleanup The Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for the long-term surveillance and maintenance of about 1,300 acres where the core operations and productions of the former plant took place. The wildlife refuge forms a donutshape around this area, which was formerly the plant’s buffer zone.

By law, the EPA has to conduct an environmental review, including soil and water sampling, of the land every five years to ensure its safety.

This is standard practice for any superfund site, D’Agostino said. The last one at Rocky Flats took place in 2017.

“We’re confident in the cleanup and remediation,” D’Agostino said, noting the Fish and Wildlife Service will continue to work closely with the EPA and the Colorado Department of Health and Environment (CDPHE). “We continue to be confident in

— total acreage that makes up the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.

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— migratory and resident wildlife species that inhabit Rocky Flats.

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— plant species that can be found at Rocky

— miles of trail anticipated to be built in Rocky Flats.

— refuges that are part of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2007 and is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Department of Energy continues to manage the vast majority of the former core production area where nuclear weapons were made during the Cold War. PHOTO COURTESY OF RYAN MOEHRING/USFWS their conclusions and recommendations. They are the public health experts.”

According to the CDPHE’s website, plutonium contamination was one of the primary concerns at Rocky Flats, but “following remediation, residual plutonium concentrations in surface soil were below levels of regulatory concern.”

Millirem (mrem) is a way to express radiation exposure.

In a document dated May 2016 produced by the EPA, CDPHE and DOE, one test that was done to gauge radiation at Rocky Flats was calculating the risks for a child and an adult who hypothetically visited the refuge 100 days a year for 2 1/2 hours per day.

“The dose estimate for plutonium for the wildlife

refuge visitor child is .2 mrem per year, which is a very small fraction of the average annual dose to (the) U.S. public from all sources,” the document states.

It notes the average annual dose from all sources, including medical such as x-rays and natural such as drinking water, is 620 mrem per year.

Messy history Still, Carroll believes opening Rocky Flats is too risky, noting the winds and soil can contain a variety of contaminants.

“What’s dangerous about that site is that it wasn’t properly characterized,” Carroll said. “There were a lot more radionuclides than just plutonium on that site.”

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She believes the information the public receives is “watered down,” she said, adding, “they don’t get the whole truth.”

Carroll has been involved with advocacy for people who formerly worked with nuclear material since 2001 when she learned the ins-and-outs of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program through her grandfather, who worked at Rocky Flats.

She specializes in beryllium and working with those who may have contracted chronic beryllium disease, also called berylliosis, which is a systemic disease that primarily affects the lungs and is caused by exposure to beryllium, from former employment at Rocky Flats.

Joyce Bolton of Denver is

one of the people Carroll has worked with.

“I can’t prove it, but I think it’s still out there,” Bolton said of the possible contaminants at Rocky Flats. “I don’t think they could ever get rid of it.”

Bolton, 78, worked at Rocky Flats from January 1968 until she retired in August 1992.

She added she wasn’t sure if people knew the dangers of working at Rocky Flats at the time.

“Back in those days, people wanted jobs,” Bolton said.

“And that was a good job — stable, and it paid very well.”

The majority of Bolton’s time was spent in the human resources department, which required her to go all over the plant — but she didn’t know the specifics of what was being made at the plant.

“No clerical person needed to know what they were manufacturing out there,” Bolton said. “We took all the safety measures, but I still got sick.”

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Arvada’s Gary Giambrocco remembered known for hard work and a warm heart

BY GLENN WALLACE GWALLACE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Hey Babe.

That is how Gary Giambrocco, 70, of Arvada would greet customers and family members alike as the head of Giambrocco Food Service, providing food supplies to folks from Ft. Collins down to Colorado Springs. The business was started by his father in 1933, and he bought it in 1984.

Now, the business passes on to a new generation.

Gary Giambrocco died of cancer on June 11.

Giambrocco The disease was swift according to daughter Bernadette Soehner, who said he was diagnosed only in February. “(The doctors) said ‘do what you love while you have time’ so he went right back to work and talked to many of his longterm customers that he had relationships with,” Soehner said.

Son-in-law Stanley Soehner said Giambrocco was a real father to him, and truly lived the quote “if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”

“And he always worked, sometimes 16 hours a day, and he never took a day

off,” Stanley Soehner said.

Bernadette Soehner laughs when asked about what her father did for fun, and answers “other businesses.”

She said he was particularly fond of his Arvada car washes.

“That was his fun, after 16 of work, he’d go work at the car washes.”

Born in Denver on May 11, 1948 to Joseph and Genevieve (Niccoli), Gary Giambrocco was the second of three children. A graduate of North High School in 1966, he went on to receive an associate’s degree from Northeastern Junior College, and attended the University of Northern Colorado before joining the family business in 1968.

Four years later he married his high school sweetheart Connie Boosinger, and the two moved to Arvada. They had two daughters, both of whom still live in the city. The family kept growning, and now includes nine grandkids.

“At least five are always there (at the company headquarters in Denver) and two are actually employed there,” Bernadette Soehner said.

A personal touch “He was the nicest guy in the business, period,” according to Joe DeMott at Pietra’s Pizzeria in Wheat Ridge, who has done business with Giambrocco for 32 years. “He called everyone ‘babe’ and meant it.”

The relationship is generational, going back to when DeMott and Giambrocco’s fathers did business as well.

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“He’d call me every day,” said DeMott. “If I forgot to call him back during the day, he’d call me back at 2:30-3 a.m. I think he worked 27 hours a day.”

“You would never have known how much he was selling because he made you feel like his only customer,” DeMott said. “It’s really amazing the impact he had. Right now it’s talk of the town. Everybody’s missing him.”

Bernadette and Stanley Soehners say that to their father, those longterm business relationships meant everything.

“One thing my dad was really good

with, was he’d carry a lot of these restaurants when they weren’t making it,” said Bernadette Soehners, referring to lines of credit and easy repayment plans.

“A lot of people are still in business because of him.”

Giambrocco is survived by his wife, two daughters and his sisters Sharon Ebina and Kare Giambrocco.

The family says they will carry on the business, just the way Gary Giambrocco did for so many years, though Stanley Soehner estimates eight different people have had to pick up the slack since his departure. He says the family is doing its best to fill those shoes, but some things cannot be replaced.

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Jefferson County Schools’ Summer Food Service Program kicked off the summer with an event at Emory Elementary School in Lakewood featuring the program’s mobile bus as well as vendors including Jeffco Eats and Hunger Free Colorado, all promoting access to free, healthy food over the summer for Jeffco students.

Students who rely on free and reduced lunch during the school year lose about 42 percent of their meals over the summer, according to Barbara Moore, executive director of Jeffco Eats.

“Hunger does not end in the summer,” said Beth Wallace, executive director of Jeffco Food and Nutrition Services.

The Summer Food Service Program offers meals to families from all walks of life with its mobile bus. The bus includes a refrigerator, hot box, a sink, and tables. Meals are prepared at Jeffco’s central kitchen site in Lakewood and distributed at the Arvada Public Library and the Seacrest Pool, said Executive Chef Amanda Martin.

“The best part is still getting to see kids during the summer months when schools are closed. It’s really nice to still know that we’re getting to the communities and to the kids who need food,” said Martin, who also works during the school year as executive chef.

The mobile units were out of operation due to decreased participation for several years, but when the Colorado Health Department Coalition approached Director of Operations for

Beth Wallace, executive director of Jeffco Food and Nutrition Services, speaks in front of the mobile cafe at the Summer Food Service Program kickoff event.

WHERE TO FIND IT The Mobile Cafe buses are at Arvada Public Library Monday through Friday from 11-11:30 a.m. and Seacrest Pool Monday through Friday from 12:15-1:00 p.m. and offer free food to children 18 and under.

Food and Nutrition Services Jeremy West about re-opening the buses this summer, West quickly agreed and began working to find distribution locations that would yield higher participation.

West said the program wants “to take the food to where kids are. Kids are at the library, doing programs.

They are at pools everyday.”

“We know that there are families who are struggling for food access.

Come eat with us.”

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1991 to 2007 — cleanup of a Superfund site Decommissioning of the Rocky Flats plant happened in 1992 and a few years later, a decade-long, $7-billion cleanup effort began.

In 2001, the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge Act passes. It designated the buffer area — the land circling the former core production area — to become a wildlife refuge following a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certification that the clean-up complied with all appropriate laws and regulations.

The EPA determined no further cleanup was necessary in the buffer area in 2006 and certified the cleanup in June 2007. That same year, the buffer area and nearby off-site lands are deleted from the national superfund list.

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2007 to present day — becoming a wildlife refuge The Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge was established in 2007. Its approximate 5,000 acres is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Department of Energy continues to manage the vast majority of the former core production area, about 1,300 acres.

Staff hopes to open Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge in late summer 2018.

Some work that still needs to be done is building visitor facilities — trail finalization and installation of interpretive/informative panels along trails, for example — and some may not be built for another few years, such as a visitor’s center.

Information provided from the following websites: Rocky Flats Stewardship Council, www.rockyflatssc.org; and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Rocky Flats, www.fws. gov/refuge/rocky_flats.

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Natural appeal Arvada City Councilor Mark McGoff is an avid hiker and plans on hiking Rocky Flats once it opens.

It will be a “new area to explore on foot,” he said. “One more local place to add to my inventory of places to hike.”

He is especially excited that Rocky Flats will serve as an extension of the Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail.

The Greenway Trail is a trail network that currently connects Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City and Two Ponds National Wildlife Refuge in Arvada to the Great Western Open Space in Broomfield and is proposed to extend to Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park.

Well-established Boulder county open space trails to the north of the refuge would also potentially tie into the new trails.

McGoff, 78, has been involved with the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council for about seven years. The council consists of elected officials from 10 municipal governments that neighbor Rocky Flats, three community organizations and one individual.

It formed in February 2006 to provide ongoing local government and community oversight of Rocky Flats while providing a public forum for sharing information concerning Rocky Flats.

McGoff mentioned he wouldn’t advocate one way or the other — he

1951 to 1990 — atomic operations The federal government acquired the Rocky Flats site in 1951 and operations began in 1952. It was one of 13 nuclear weapons plants in the U.S. during the Cold War but served as the primary manufacturer of trigger mechanisms, produced from various radioactive and hazardous materials including beryllium and plutonium.

Public mistrust and protests of the plant’s operations largely began in 1969 after a fire broke out. Independent analyses of soil samples collected near the plant raised public awareness of contaminant releases. By the late-1970s, protests at Rocky Flats became large-scale — a turnout of 5,000 in April 1978, 9,000 in April 1979 and 15,000 in October 1983.

On June 6, 1989, the FBI raided Rocky Flats to investigate allegations of environmental violations. The raid prompted shutdown of manufacturing the plutonium triggers and other classified work.

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It’s hard for the general public to understand the work that went on there, said Michelle Dobrovolny, 53, of Denver who worked at Rocky Flats as an engineering specialist and safeguards and security specialist.

“It was a national security facility.

We made bombs,” Dobrovolny said.

“We were always taught secrecy, secrecy, secrecy. It was bred into us.”

Dobrovolny worked at Rocky Flats for a total of 18 years, beginning in 1985 when she was 21. She said she was constantly sick while working there — strep throat, pneumonia, sinus infections — and had to take a medical leave in 2001. She has since been diagnosed with chronic beryllium disease.

Dobrovolny believes cleanup efforts at Rocky Flats were not sufficient, pointing out that she thinks “they cut corners” and shut down the cleanup about five or six years early.

According to the CDPHE’s website, cleanup of the site was a 10-year process. It included decontaminating and demolishing more than 800 structures and buildings at the plant — five of those were major plutonium facilities and two were major uranium facilities.

But Dobrovolny questions how Building 771 — a facility “notoriously known as one of the most dangerous buildings in the world because of the plutonium” — could possibly be dismantled, she said.

“They will tell you that they did,” Dobrovolny said, “but it is my opinion that they didn’t.”

1800s to 1950 — native lands Occupation of the Rocky Flats site dates back to the 1800s when Native Americans would inhabit the area intermittently.

It was homesteaded by the Scott family in 1868, and they used the land to raise cattle. In the 1940s, the Lindsay family built a house and a barn on the land.

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Free Horizon Montessori receives new status State board approves shift from charter to option school

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Next school year, the halls of an empty school building that once hosted Pleasant View Elementary will again be bustling with students.

The Colorado Department of Education unanimously approved Free Horizon Montessori shifting from a charter school to a district option school with innovation status on June 14.

This follows an approval from the Jeffco Board of Education on May 3, also a unanimous vote.

“It’s going to be great creating new

pathways to serve students,” said Tim Matlick, the Jeffco school district’s achievement director for charter schools. “At the end of the day, it’s about providing them with great options.”

Jeffco Public Schools has a number of option schools but this will be its first innovation school. The innovation status will allow Free Horizon to continue operating as a Montessori school.

“We are so excited to be able to embark on this partnership with Jeffco in order to bring more Montessori options to children,” said Free Horizon Montessori Principal Kresta Vuolo.

The agreement includes having Free Horizon move into the Pleasant View building, 15920 W. 10th Ave. in Golden.

Anticipated move-in date is Aug. 1.

Jeffco Public Schools will acquire Free Horizon’s building at 581 Conference Place in Golden, which Free

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“From the district side, Jeffco would like to add more school choices like Montessori to the district-managed school portfolio,” said Diana Wilson, the chief communications officer for Jeffco Public Schools, while “keeping as many neighborhood schools open as possible.”

Although a beloved and well-supported school by its community, Pleasant View Elementary closed at the end of the 2016-17 school year. The Jeffco Board of Education cited low enrollment and aging building conditions among reasons for the closure.

Many of the students who went to Pleasant View now attend other Jeffco Public Schools. The majority of students are at Shelton Elementary, 420 Crawford St., and Welchester Elementary, 13000 W. 10th Ave.; and a good number attend Kyffin Elementary, 205 S. Flora Way. All three of those schools are in Golden. About 20 students went on to nearby Bell Middle School. Most of the rest are spread out in small numbers among 30 other Jeffco schools.

“We understand the Pleasant View community is still grieving,” Vuolo said. “We hope to work overtime at building relationships that are grounded in community.”

Free Horizon will remain a 100 percent choice enrollment, so families who were displaced by Pleasant View closing can remain at the school they transitioned to last year.

However Free Horizon Montessori will be giving special enrollment priority to families in the Pleasant View area. Current students will still have first priority, Vuolo said, followed by children of full-time staff. The next

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Free Horizon, which first opened as a charter school in 2002, will become the first Jefferson County Schools option school with innovation status.

For one thing, this means the school’s teachers will be able to continue following the Montessori method of instruction, and their Montessori-based teaching credentials will still be honored.

As a district school, Free Horizon will also have some of the support of a traditional district school, such as funding, facility maintenance, on-site food service and human resources staff. Teachers and other faculty members will become district employees. Transportation, by means of school busses, is not included at this point.

The Pleasant View building will also allow the school to expand its early childhood program. is siblings of current students, and families in the Pleasant View articulation area will follow the sibling category.

During the 2017-18 school year that just ended Free Horizon had 425 students enrolled. Vuolo expects that number to increase by at least 25 more students for the 2018-19 school year.

“This arrangement offered both sides benefits,” Wilson said. “And if not exactly what each had in mind — Free Horizon Montessori gave up some independence (and) the district has less oversight than is typical — it’s close enough to make it worth the effort. And in the end is what both parties want, a great school option for Jeffco kids.”

Wheat Ridge student dead following attempted carjacking STAFF REPORT

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A teenager who allegedly attempted to carjack someone south of Pine, Colorado, but was shot and killed, has been identified as Alexander James Burger, a 17-year-old Wheat Ridge High School student.

As first reported by the Canyon Courier, the Park County Coroner’s Office confirmed Burger’s identity but has not released an official cause of death, pending a full autopsy and toxicology report.

Burger died at the scene of the crime June 3, on County Road 70 near Wellington Lake, which is south of Pine, Colorado.

Park County Sheriff ’s Office released a statement about the carjacking, saying the carjacking

victim fladded down an employee of a nearby ranch, who confronted Burger. Burger was shot, and the ranch empoloyee suffered several stab wounds. The employee was transported by Flight for Life to a nearby hospital. Burger was taken into custody, but died shortly thereafter.

The incident remains under investigation by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

Burger had just completed his junior year of school at Wheat Ridge, and was active in several sports.

According to Burger’s obituary, “he had a bright smile that would light up a room, loved to laugh and loved a good dessert. He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him.”

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Bat found in Lakewood tests positive for rabies The rabies virus, which is transmitted from infected animals through contact with their saliva or through bites, is nearly always fatal to animals and can be fatal to humans if left untreated.

Jefferson County Public Health encourages residents to take several precautions to prevent exposure and minimize harm from this deadly virus: Vaccinate all domestic pets and livestock against rabies and ensure vaccines are kept up-to-date. Now that rabies has been found in both skunks and bats in the county, a domestic animal encounter with any wild animal will be treated like an exposure to a rabid animal. Domestic animals without up-to-date rabies vaccinations will be classified as high risk and be required to undergo a 120day quarantine.

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A bat found near Morrison Road and Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood tested positive for rabies on June 13.

This is the first bat to test positive for rabies in Jefferson County this year; however, 14 skunks in Jeffco have tested positive for the disease this year. So far in 2018, Colorado has seen more rabies-positive animals than in all of 2017, and peak rabies season is far from over, said a news release from Jefferson County Public Health.

The bat had no known human exposure, the release said, and the one dog that was exposed is up-to-date on its rabies vaccine. The dog’s owner will be advised to get a rabies booster shot for the dog, and the dog will be placed 45-day home observation.

Avoid contact with any wild animals, especially those that act unusually. A healthy wild animal will generally avoid human contact. Do not feed wild animals, since this reduces their natural fear of humans.

Teach children to stay away from all wild animals, stray domestic pets or dead animals, and to tell an adult if they are scratched or bitten. Please remind children of all ages that a sick, dying or dead animal may carry diseases that humans can contract — trying to help an animal can cause more harm than good.

Do not allow pets to roam free, since this can increase the chance they could be exposed without your knowledge. Do not leave pet food or livestock feed outside or feed your outdoor pet more than they can finish, as this will encourage a wildlife presence.

If your pet comes into contact with a wild animal, wear gloves while cleaning them to minimize your risk of exposure to the virus.

If a person has been bitten or scratched by a wild mammal, they should wash the area thoroughly with soap and water, seek immediate medical attention and notify their local animal control agency.

Prompt medical treatment is key to preventing rabies after a possible exposure.

To report a suspicious or dead animal or an animal bite, please contact your local animal control agency, or Jefferson County Animal Control at 303-271-5070.

For information about rabies, contact the Animal Borne Disease Program, part of the Environmental Health Services Division, at 303-2326301, or visit www.jeffco.us/2365.

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If you try to be cool, you’re getting colder

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henever I am facing something I am unable to resolve on my own, I ask, “What would Lincoln do?”

Abraham Lincoln is my guidepost, my lighthouse, my lodestar.

“The Springfield Redbird” is what I call him.

This time, I had a question about ball caps.

Would Lincoln wear a ball cap backwards?

From beyond the grave, and in a deep, authoritative voice, Abe said, “No, sir, I would not.”

He continued: “Only two people wear ball caps backwards, Mr. Smith, and only one of them should.”

“I’m listening.”

“Ball players and cool cats.

And I am neither.”

“What’s a `cool cat’?”

He said, “Someone who is trying to look cool. It’s been my experience that someone QUIET tries to DESPERATION who look cool, well, isn’t.”

While I was at it I asked him about sunglasses that are propped on the top of someone’s head, instead of someone’s Craig Marshall nose.

Smith He chuckled.

“We didn’t have sunglasses back then, but if we did, that’s wrong too.”

I said, “It gets worse. There’s a guy on television who wears his sunglasses, indoors, on the back of his head.”

“I’ve heard about him.

Schmuck.”

“Thanks again, Mr. Lincoln.”

Being cool and trying to be cool are two different things.

Whatever I have to say on this may be of no moment or consequence, because I am about as cool as an antimacassar.

However, that is not going to stop me.

Some people always were and will be cool, and some people grow into it.

Cary Grant always was and always will be.

I don’t think about Einstein the way I think about Grant, but is there anyone truly as cool as Einstein?

Aging improves perception.

Or it should.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A sour second Saturday I am voicing my dissatisfaction regarding the latest 2nd Saturday, the first of the summer, on June 9th. I’m not sure who organized this event, “or apparently didn’t”, but in my opinion it was an epic fail. In speaking to 4 different restaurants and bars, they too were unhappy with the turn out.

Having a street fest with a band or bands should run until 10:00 pm like they always have in the past. We have attended many of these since they started and have never seen any problems with

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crowds being unruly or overly intoxicated. The bars and restaurants could have had a more profitable day and the public could of had a more enjoyable evening had it been planned and organized better. Hopefully the other Saturdays will be better planned with a more reasonable time frame.

Larry Noyes, Arvada

Cultural emptiness feeds into recent tragedies

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hird week of June: Four shot in the parking lot of a dentist office in Westminster following a traffic altercation.

Second week of June: two celebrity suicides.

Third week of May: mass shooting at Santa Fe H.S. in Texas.

Fourth week of April: local teenager commits suicide (a line, by the way, which could be written just about every week of the year).

Second week of February: mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman-Douglas H.S. in Florida.

Fourth week of January: celebHITTING rity suicide.

This is a brief recap of the year HOME that has been 2018, if you simply eliminate all news related to President Trump. Sort of a “This Week from Hell” recap.

That, my friends, is not a healthy list. Or, to be more precise, is not a list that indicates a healthy society.

And I even left off the daily list of non-school mass shootings, which has entries nearly every day of the year.

Michael Alcorn If you did not see Kirsten Powers’ column in the USA Today this past weekend, you should look it up. It is insightful. While she is careful to differentiate actual chemical imbalances and the difficulties of sudden shifts in fortune, Powers concludes her column with this: “…most Americans are depressed, anxious or suicidal because something is wrong with our culture, not because something is wrong with them.”

I’ve actually been saying this for some time, though mostly in the context of the mass shootings. I had never considered, until I read that column, that mass shootings and suicide are flip sides of the same coin.

That empty, desperate feeling, for some, manifests itself as violence towards others; for others, it manifests as violence towards themselves.

But, the reality of the emptiness is true for both.

Powers alludes to Jim Carrey in her column. Most people know Carrey as the manic comedic actor with the elastic face. What most people don’t know is that Carrey has admitted to having been suicidal in the past. By way of explanation, Carrey has said the following: I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.

I think we’ve been sold a bill of goods, and we bought it hook, line and sinker. I don’t know when it began, but it’s probably not that important — this “bill” has had bipartisan support in Washington, D.C., and has been peddled by presidents of both parties.

It has had the support of Hollywood, Broadway, and

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Headline goof, but goats appreciated Sorry, but I think you goofed on the headline for the above referenced story. The referenced goats are being used to preclude the use of “Herbicides” not “Pesticides”. Pesticides are chemicals used to eliminate the bugs and insects that destroy plant, fungal and animal life. Whereas, Herbicides are substances or preparations that are used to kill plants, typically weeds.

Several years ago, my wife and I bought a house on a 1.5 acre property in a Seattle, Washington suburb.

Except for a small patch of landscaped area immediately around the house, the rest had been overtaken by wild blackberry bushes. Unless you’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest you have no idea what an obnoxious and pernicious weed these plants are. They are extremely difficult to eradicate even with the use of herbicides, have

vicious thorns that will pierce even leather gloves and will easily overtake a property in a few short years.

I could have spent months hacking, chopping and digging up the blackberries. But instead, I bought two goats (“Bella” and “Ninny) and they ate them for me. It took a little while, but after they devoured the blackberries on my property, I had several neighbors that came and borrowed them from me to do the same on theirs.

Eventually, we ended up selling them to a woman who had a whole herd.

Goats are a great substitute for herbicides, but not so much for eradicating pests...

William Low, Arvada Sandstrom for assessor As the old saying goes; “if it Ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, applies quite well to the current Republican run-off and election for Jefferson County Assessor. I strongly support Ron Sandstrom for a second term for just that reason.

Please to not fall prey to politics, let’s keep the candidate who is truly on our side.

William F Hineser, Arvada This is not ‘family values’ It’s unclear exactly how many children have been separated from their parents at the border since this administration has decided to take those actions. Regardless, the practice of separating a child from their parent simply because the parents are seeking safety for their family is absolutely inhumane. We lose moral authority and national security when the world sees America targeting children. And imagine the cost of caring for these children while separated from their parents; we have better uses for our taxpayer dollars. I thank Senator Bennet for supporting the Keep Families Together Act, and ask Senator Gardner to sign on as well.

Mindy Mohr, Arvada

Sandstrom support Can a County Tax Assessor lower business and residential property taxes, or ease the financial damages done to rural communities now happening as a result of the so-called Gallagher Amendment? No! Can he give you a fair shake, in a courteous and timely manner? Yes! Isn’t the Jeffco Assessor’s office a leaner, more friendly, and an efficient operation than it was four years ago?

Aren’t individual assessment case problems there being handled in record time?

Isn’t the County saving money now that it does not have to pay anywhere as much interest on cases which previously languished in limbo?

Why should’t we reelect Ron Sandstrom who has had years, if not decades of experience in our county; first fighting for the individual taxpayer, and now in office for all of us?

I’m voting for Ron Sandstrom.

Shouldn’t you?

Russell W Haas, Golden

OBITUARIES VINER

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James Arthur Viner

August 29, 1933 - June 9, 2018

Robert George Townsend Jr. August 5, 1940- May 30, 2018

James Arthur Viner of Arvada, CO, 84, passed away at home surrounded by his family.

He was born August 29, 1933, in Oakland, CA, to Arthur Raymond Viner and Blanche Ida (Bolter) Viner. After serving in the Navy, during the Korean War, he was a hospital administrator in San Jose, CA. His true calling was being the harbormaster at Logan Creek Shoals in Glenbrook, NV, where he made his home.

He is preceded in death with his parents Arthur and Blanche Viner. He leaves to remember his life his daughPANDIL

ter Lori (Bruce) Ingle, sons Eric James Viner, Jay Aaron (Jayne) Viner and Jesse Austin (Larissa) Viner, and sister Dorothy (Jack Hinton) Viner. He is also survived by grandchildren Careen Ingle, Sam Ingle, Joseph Viner, Aaron Viner, Wesley Viner, Charlotte Viner and Olena Viner.

Celebration of his life will be held for family and friends at Arlington Towers, in the River Room, Reno, Nevada, on Friday, June 22, 2018 at 5 p.m. Ashes will be placed at his favorite places, Lake Tahoe Nevada and Columbine Lake Colorado.

Melvin Pandil

Jan. 1, 1930 - May 31, 2018

Melvin Pandil, 88, Arvada, died May 31 in Mesa, Ariz.

Born Jan. 1, 1930, in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

A celebration of life was held at Arvada

Presbyterian Church followed a graveside service at the Arvada Cemetery. www.sonoranskiesmortuaryaz.com for full obituary & memories.

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Robert G. Townsend, Jr. age 77, passed away unexpectedly on May 30, 2018 at Lutheran Hospital In Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Robert, called Bob, was born in Miami, Florida, August 5th 1940 to Robert George Townsend Sr. and Margaret Grimes. At the age of 5 he moved to Colorado Springs.. In childhood he became interested in music and took up his lifelong passion, playing the violin. Robert attended Palmer High School, and met his first wife to be, Judith Werschky in 1955.

After graduating High School in 1957, Robert attended Wichita State University and graduated in 1961, with a double major in violin and flute, later earning a master’s degree in Music Education. Robert and Judith married in ’61 and settled back in Colorado. He taught instrumental music in Jefferson County Schools from 1961 until retirement in 1994.

For the majority of his teaching career he was Assistant Band Director and Orchestra Director at Arvada High School. His first wife’s illness forced

him to give up the additional responsibilities of high school in 1981, and transfer to elementary schools to complete his career.

Passion for music led to varied outside activities, including strolling in the Brown Palace Hotel’s San Marco Room the 1970-80’s, later conducting the Broomfield Community Orchestra, recently playing with the Jefferson Symphony, and playing for countless parties, weddings and New Years.

He was preceded in Death by his father in 1969, his first wife Judith, in 1984, after a long illness, and his mother Margaret in 2002. He is survived by his 2nd wife, Carol Thompson Ziegler Townsend, his 2 Sons Vaughn ( & Andy [Partner]) and Troy (& Monica [Wife], Step-Daughter Isabel Sanden and Step-Son Samuel Ziegler (& Laura [Wife]) and 10 Grandchildren.

A Musical Memorial Service was held June 20, 2018 at the Jefferson Unitarian Church attended by family, friends, former students, and colleagues.

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Guessing games are great way to help young kids learn

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hildren love guessing games.

A favorite activity to do with young children is called “What’s in the Box?” It’s something that parents and grandparents can do anytime, anywhere to get young children’s brains working.

You will need a special box to use only for this activity, an item to put in the box, and art supplies to help decorate.

Short Prep Time Before you ever play the game decorate the box together. It should be a box with a lid that fits tightly like an oatmeal box.

It can be larger also.

Cover the box with paper and let your child color with markers or crayons or cover the box with stickers.

If the box is small enough you can take it in the car with you.

To start the game, secretly put something in the box and put the cover on tightly.

Your child can shake the box, turn the box, and smell the box, but the box must stay shut.

Then begin giving hints.

You can tell the color, the size, the use, and other clues, but only give one clue at time.

Your child can have as many chances as you want to guess what’s inside.

For example, if you say it’s red, it’s round, and you throw it, the guess will probably LIFELONG be a ball.

After LEARNING your Esther Macalady child guesses what is in the box, another object goes inside.

Maybe this time your child will pick out the object and have you guess.

As children get a little older the game can change.

When you put the item in the box your child can ask you the questions. It is much harder for young children to think of questions but older children love to figure it out in twenty questions.

Building Routine Children of all ages love routine and this kind of activity is a great one to have as something that is always done at the same

time.

It might be played in the car with older children to help or while eating breakfast.

Think of a routine situation in your life where this game would be fun to play Activities like this get young children thinking and help develop vocabulary skills.

Developing routines for young children can also help build feelings of security.

Think of other guessing games you can play with your children that will help to build brainpower like searching for items and using the words “warm” and “cold” for hints.

Look in the toy box and give hints of characteristics or play 5 questions instead of 20.

“I Spy with my Little Eye” is fun while waiting in line. Trade places with children being the leader.

Esther Macalady is a retired schoolteacher who lives in Golden. For more see grandparentsteachtoo. blogspot.com and wnmufm.org/Learning Through the Seasons.

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When I was in high school, quarterbacks and cheerleaders were cool. Maybe now, kids who accomplish things out of the spotlight are appreciated more than they were when I was in school.

If he were a newcomer in 2018, would anyone listen to Bob Dylan?

Maybe not.

His lyrics would be wasted. Unless a producer came in and made his songs dance, dance, danceable.

“Bobby, let’s change costumes every 20 minutes. Try this: Grab the front of your pants, and, oh, pretend to walk backwards.”

Was Stephen Hawking cool? You bet.

Is Wolf Blitzer cool? Probably not. But his name is. I wish “Wolf Blitzer” were my name.

Some names are cooler than others. Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach.

Someone got cute with the name and gave most of it to John Cleese’s character in “A Fish Called Wanda.”

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middle America. It is the most popular political cultural idea of the last three centuries. Heck, there’s even a famous “Christian” pastor of a mega-church in Texas who peddles the idea that simply believing in God enough will bring this bill into being.

What is this bill? This bill says that more is more is better. That you can replace the difficult, hard-earned things of significance in your life with relatively easy-to-purchase *things* of significance (if you’re willing to work 60 hours a week to earn them). That everything is disposable and replaceable and instant, from your coffee to your job to your employees to your friends to your spouse to your gratification. And if you don’t like something, change it out; if that doesn’t work, then sue; and eventually, you will be happy.

Except that you’re not. And when you realize that you aren’t living the

Many of the stars you know by one name — Judy Garland — weren’t born that way. Studios provided cooler names.

Frances Ethel Gumm sang “Over the Rainbow.”

Cool gets rearranged about every 10 years. I was there in the 1960s and the 1970s, and they were not cool.

You can have them.

Fashion was rag-tagged, tie-dyed, shoulder-padded, big-collared, and bellbottomed.

I still see some of that at the airport and wonder if there is an ABBA concert on the drift.

I have used the word “cool” here very reluctantly. I never use the word otherwise, unless it’s in reference to the weather. I had no choice.

There is no suitable synonym.

“Cool” is ubiquitous and unavoidable.

It has become a one-word statement, as if it says it all.

Note: It doesn’t.

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

life you were promised by the bill, then you reach that empty, desperate place that has one in six adult Americans on some sort of antidepressant medication according to a report in JAMA in 2016.

There are things of significance, even some things of eternal significance, that have been left behind in this culture. And most of them are personal, are matters of touch and connection and relationship, and none of them are in your phone.

They are in the world. They are in the eyes and smiles of your children, and your friends, and your elderly neighbors, and the veteran who lives down the street, and they can be found and rediscovered around backyard barbecues and bonfires and sunsets.

Go. Find them. Save yourself.

Michael Alcorn is a teacher and writer who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. His novels are available at MichaelJAlcorn.com. His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado Community Media.

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Road-rage shooting points to worsening situation Traffic volume is among factors setting stage for aggressive driving

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After a man opened fire in a Westminster parking lot killing a child and injuring three others on June 14, the issue of aggressive driving in the metro area has resurfaced in a slew of growing traffic-related problems.

The shooting was an extreme end to the fairly common and broad issue of aggressive driving, which leads to road rage. A 2016 study by AAA reported nearly 80 percent of drivers admitted to some form of aggressive driving.

The Colorado State Patrol receives calls on aggressive driving behavior, which can range from speeding to tailgating to drunk driving, through its *CSP (*277) calling service. The system started in 1998 as a way for drivers to report on real-time aggressive driving behavior.

The *CSP system received 87,268 reports on aggressive drivers in 2017, up 4 percent from 2016 and 34 percent from 2014.

That rise can be attributed to a number of factors, traffic volume being one of them. Rob Madden, public information officer for the state patrol, said people calling into the CSP hotline combined with a number of forwarded reports from outside law enforcement agencies have also contributed to the increase.

The growing population and number of out-of-staters in the Denver metro area has had a noticeable effect on traffic volume, according to safe driving expert Ben Baron. And with more drivers, he said, comes more aggressive driving.

“Everything that has happened in the last 10 years has contributed to the likelihood of more incidences,” said Baron, owner and founder of Drive Safe Colorado, the state’s largest driving school. “More traffic certainly leads to going more slowly, which doesn’t necessarily have an impact one way or another, but if you’re in

a hurry and can’t get where you’re going, that’s going to increase your stress and that’s going to contribute to your driving.”

Though the number the number of cars on the road does contribute to higher numbers of aggressive driving, Baron said it may not necessarily be the primary factor.

Baron said aggressive driving can often be attributed to new and old Colorado residents misunderstanding the cultural norms and different driving laws. A 2014 study from AutoVantage, a roadside assistance service, reported that drivers from certain cities are significantly less courteous than others, which often leads to road rage.

“You tend to think of certain communities as being naturally aggressive and others as being polite,” Baron said. “You still do have cultural norms at play, but if not everyone is agreeing to the same sets of rules, that can lead to great tension.”

Aggressive driving turns into road rage when another driver becomes involved and is unwilling to back down. Baron said drivers can mitigate road-rage incident by separating themselves from aggressive drivers.

But that doesn’t always work. Some road-ragers will follow other drivers, sometimes to their house, or threaten them with a weapon.

Parker police said in several cases drivers have menaced another driver with a gun, but the shooting, which occurred near the intersection of Parker Road and Crown Crest Boulevard during rush hour, was rare. Never before have Parker police received a report of a shooting related to road rage.

The victim, who has not been identified and was released from a local hospital with a minor injury, has declined any interview requests.

To avoid a potentially harmful situations, Madden and Baron agree the best thing to do is to not get out of the car and drive to a very public place, like a police station.

“We’d like to see people using the phone versus taking action into their own hands,” Madden said. “Any time you try to do something yourself on the road, it becomes a very antagonistic situation.”

HOW TO DEAL WITH ROAD RAGE DMV.org defines road rage, and offers tips on how to deal with it and prevent it: What is road rage?

Road rage is anything that comes from an aggressive driver’s uncontrolled anger at another driver. It can be as simple as a hand gesture or as severe as a person hitting another car or running another car off the road, engaging in a confrontation, inciting a fight or using any sort of weapon to cause harm.

Aggressive driving can be defined as a series of illegal driving maneuvers, stemming from the person’s emotional distress. This includes tailgating, cutting off another driver, not using turn signals, speeding, honking, flashing headlights or brake checking. Any of these can escalate into road rage.

To prevent road rage Find ways to calm yourself down, whether that be with soothing music, changing your mentality, separating yourself from other drivers or avoiding eye contact or gestures to other drivers.

“Another way to think about it is, you have to encounter that person for a brief period of time. That person has to continue being that person for the rest of their lives,” safe

driving expert Ben Baron said.

Defusing road rage Waiving or mouthing “I’m sorry” can help ease an aggressive driver’s anger. The main thing to do, according to Rob Madden, public information officer for the Colorado State Patrol, and Baron, is to move as far away as possible from this driver.

“Slow down, take the next turn and separate yourself,” Madden said.

The most dangerous road-rage incidents happen when neither person is willing to back down. That’s when accidents happen and people get hurt, Baron said.

DMV.org says to take deep breaths and remember you have full control over your own actions and thoughts.

Consequences There’s no overall statute against road rage, but a driver can be charged with a criminal offense for actions connected to road rage, according to DMV.org. A driver could face legal fees or even jail for certain offenses.

Also, physical damage to drivers’ cars and to themselves, even death, can result from road rage.

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Tours, festivals, exhibits highlight growing medium for public art

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ocal artist Chuck Parsons knows well how the metro area’s street art scene has grown and changed over the last more than 30 years, and well he should. He has been a part of it many times.

“I’ve been very interested in establishing and growing the mural scene in the area since the ‘80s,” Parsons remembers. “There was a group of us interested in that kind of public art because it’s so accessible and adds color and richness to the landscape.”

In recent years the metro area’s murals scene has been booming, especially with all the new arts districts springing up over the city.

Places like Lakewood’s 40 West Arts SEE MURALS, P18

Bobby MaGee Lopez works on his mural for the third annual Lakewood MuralFest in August of last year. His objective for the mural was to blend his own vision with the goals of 40 West Arts district.

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ome of the most atmospheric stories ever told fall into the Gothic genre. Tales overflowing with darkness and character explorations that thrive on the eerie and supernatural.

These stories had their heyday in the 19th century, but their influence continues to be felt in a variety of mediums. That includes Jacqueline Goldfinger’s “The Arsonists.”

Directed by Stephen Weitz of Boulder Ensemble Theater Company, “The Arsonists” has been selected as the second show in LakeCOMING wood-based Benchmark ATTRACTIONS Theatre Company’s inaugural season. The show runs from Friday, June 22, through July 21.

Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 6 p.m. Sundays at 1560 Teller St. “This show is a blend of Southern Gothic with Greek tragedy,” Weitz Clarke Reader explained. “But in many ways, it is a very honest and recognizable story about families and leaving our parents’ shadow.”

Set in a Florida swamp, the show tells a story of a father and daughter who are united by the act of arson. But, as the show is inspired by the Greek masterwork “Electra,” the story delves into human relationships and grief.

The cast features Michael Morgan and newcomer Rebakah Goldberg.

Like all true Gothic stories, there’s a touch of the inexplicable to “The Arsonists,” but far from taking away from the struggles of the characters, it aims to heighten them.

“The focus on the idea and meaning of family is a staple of theatrical drama,” Weitz said. “So many of us have relationships with our parents that have unexplored depths. That’s what the show allows the characters to explore.”

Visit www.benchmarktheatre.com to purchase tickets.

Colorado Book Award winners announced Those in search of a summer read for the mountains, the beach, or wherever you get away to in these sunny months, have a new list to select from with the announcement of the 2018 Colorado Book Awards winners.

The winners are: • Anthology: “Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays,” edited by Stephanie G’Schwind • Children’s Literature: “Can an Aardvark Bark?” by Melissa Stewart, illustrated

by Steve Jenkins • Creative Nonfiction: “The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom” by Helen Thorpe • General Fiction: “Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel” by Matthew Sullivan • General Nonfiction: “Megafire: The SEE READER, P18

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Comic Con takes Denver out of this world STORY AND PHOTOS BY CLARKE READER

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Downtown Denver is almost always a busy place, but it’s only during the weekend of Denver Comic Con that one will see Superman, a storm trooper and Harry Potter crossing the busy 16th Street Mall.

More than 100,000 guests made s the trip to the Colorado Convention Center for the annual event on June 15, 16 and 17 to celebrate all things nerdy – everything from films, television shows, video games, fantasy and science fiction and, of course, comic sbooks.

- “I’ve always wanted to come and see what the con is like,” said Jeff Libby, booth expert with MiHi Photo Booth, which ran an interactive, slow motion film booth at the event. “What . better way is there to be here than with some really fun stuff ?”

The proceeds benefit Pop Culture

Classroom, a Denver nonprofit focused on education and literacy.

More than 200 celebrity guests, like Doctor Who’s David Tennant, stopped by the con to join artists and authors in more than 600 hours of panels and programming. There was also a Kid’s Lab, where children and teens explore pop culture through projects and talks from industry luminaries.

The con featured cosplaying and shopping for all ages and levels of interest. A newbie to the world of comic culture and a veteran collector were both spoiled for choice for ways to spend their time.

“This is my kid’s first time to the con, and I’m showing them all the fun there’s to be had while their mom is at a cosplaying class,” said Englewood resident Justin Baca, who was dressed as Gandalf with his two children, Marcus and Eric, dressed as hobbits. The costumes were made by the children’s mother. “I love the community here, and all the things going on we get to gather to celebrate.”

From left, JayJay, Paisley and Craig Dechant, of Brighton, attended Denver Comic Con as members of the Belcher family from “Bob’s Burgers.”

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Englewood resident Justin Baca as Gandalf, with his two children, Marcus and Eric, as hobbits at this year’s Denver Comic Con.

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and Denver’s Santa Fe and RiNo arts districts actively encourage the medium, but enormous works can also be found on buildings on downtown Denver’s buildings.

“I enjoy doing these kinds of works because they’re free to the viewer,” said muralist Patrick Kane McGregor, whose dog has become a staple of murals around Denver.

He’s contributed dozens of works around the metro area. “It’s a way to share beauty with people every day.”

One person who has paid special attention to this beauty popping up all over town is Cori Anderson, who founded Rebel Tours, which takes travelers on a guided trip to see some of the city’s best street art. Tourists can pick one of three options — Santa Fe, RiNo, or downtown Denver, and she’ll not only point out some of the best works but get into the story behind them.

“People take these works for granted and often don’t think about the fact that an artist or group of artists created them,” Anderson said. “People like these tours, not because they can see the art, but because they get the stories and have their questions answered.”

As a lifelong lover of wandering the streets in whatever city she found herself in, Anderson has dedicated herself to sharing her

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“I’ve always loved street art as a kind of creative expression that exists despite limitations,” Anderson said. “I think the spirit behind it is so rebellious and so kind.”

There are also street art festivals in the region, which allow people to see murals being created in real time. RiNo hosts CRUSH, which invites artists to come and create works on the block. And Lakewood’s West Colfax MuralFest has become the annual highlight of its 40 West Arts district’s creative year.

“We’ll be giving visitors mural tours around the city so they can see

all that has been created,” said Kevin Yoshida, a board member of 40 West.

“Murals allow you to think about your city as a creative campus.”

Murals have become such an exciting form that the Arvada Center’s summer exhibit is bringing the works indoors for its “In Sight on Site” exhibit. Participating artists were given blank panels hung in the Center’s three galleries and given free rein to create a mural.

“I enjoy working outside, but it’s an interesting challenge working on something indoors,” said Thomas Scharfenberg, a muralist who is joining Parsons, McGregor and about 18 other artists in the exhibit.

“I think of the pieces as food, and each one is a different flavor for the viewer.”

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“People might only see it for a few seconds every day, but that repeated quality helps the work stick in your mind,” Parsons said. “In a way, seeing street art is like going to a music festival where every stage is playing something different. There’s all kinds of shows to see.”

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A dino-mite saurian celebration

The attendees at Dinosaur Ridge’s Guinness World Record attempt on June 16. While the about 41 attendees didn’t hit the minimum 250 mark set by Guinness, organizers are already looking at trying again next year.

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aturday, June 16, saw perhaps the largest gathering of dinosaurs at Golden’s Dinosaur Ridge since the Cretaceous Period in an effort to set the Guinness World Record for “The Most People Dressed in Dinosaur Costumes.”

While the 41 people of all ages who showed up to the attempt

dressed as Tyrannosaurus Rex and other popular prehistoric animals didn’t quite make the 250-participant minimum required by Guinness, there was still plenty of fun had by all.

“This is the largest gathering of dinosaurs at Morrison, Denver and Dinosaur Ridge,” said Sara Miller, development and marketing director of the Friends of Dinosaur Ridge. “This is a great community building event regardless of how

A pair of attendees at Dinosaur Ridge’s Guinness World Record attempt on June 16 take a selfie.

many people attend this year. And we’re going to try again next year.”

Originally organized as a way to celebrate the release of “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” participants had to pass very specific guidelines to be counted in the Guinness attempt. As Miller explained, the costume has to cover its wearer from head to toe and be a recognizable dinosaur from the Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous periods.

In addition to the dinosaur costumes, the event also featured a family-friendly carnival, beer garden and food trucks. But it was a love of dinosaurs that were the main draw for most attendees.

“I have a passion for dinosaurs and have always wanted to work at a place with enthusiasm for these animals,” said 14-year-old Littleton resident Nicholas Campbell. “Why not come here today and have a little fun?”

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Some of the dinosaur costumes attendees wore to Dinosaur Ridge’s Guinness World Record attempt on June 16.

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Creative Coloradans get their due in book awards Two ceremonies honor authors, editors, illustrators, photographers

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Writers of mystery, history, poetry, fine arts accounts, fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as works intended for tots and teens, abound in our supportive-of-the-arts Colorado. And we read that nationwide, bookstores, publishers and libraries are growing and busy — wonderful news to this former bookseller!

In Colorado, awards to writers were recently announced by two important organizations: Colorado SEE AWARDS, P21

A gathering of Colorado Book Award Finalists at the Tattered Cover, Colfax, just before the Colorado Book Award Ceremony at the Sie Film Center.

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AWARDS FROM PAGE 20

Authors’ League, founded in 1931 with the melding of a men’s group and a women’s group, and Colorado Humanities/Center for the Book, celebrating the 14th year of collaboration in supporting the humanities in Colorado, both of which hold annual competitions for writers.

(Information on eligibility can be found on the websites for future reference — coloradoauthors.org and coloradohumanities.org.) Both organizations sponsored a number of public readings at area bookstores prior to the award ceremonies: look for them next year at the Tattered Cover and Book Bar shops, as well as at literary festivals in the metro area.

On May 4, at a membership dinner/ ceremony at the Arvada Center, the Colorado Authors’ League recognized

the late Littleton children’s author Caroline Stutson for her delightful picture book, “Blue Corn Soup.” The gentle tale has generated so much attention among children’s literature aficionados that it resulted in the decision to provide a copy to each first-grader living in New Mexico.

It is a lovely legacy for an especially sweet local woman who spun stories at libraries for hundreds of little ones.

Another south area winner is “Wealth

by Virtue” by Chad Gordon of Centennial (General Nonfiction).

Other CAL awards include: Poetry, single poem, “Like a Seam” by Constance E. Boyle, Arvada; Poetry Collection, “A Death at Tollgate Creek” by Art Eiser, Denver; Featured Articles, “Keeper’s Return” by Art Eiser, Dinosaur; Essays, “12 Truths About My Life With Bell’s Palsy” by Pam Moore, Boulder; Children, “Blue Corn Soup”

by Caroline Stutson, Littleton; Young Adult, “The Last Panther” by Todd Mitchell, Fort Collins; Children’s/ Young Adult Nonfiction, “When Jackie Saved Grand Central,” by

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Natasha Wing, Fort Collins; Creative Nonfiction, “Heading Home Field Notes” by Peter Anderson, Crestone; Mainstream Fiction, “Trafficked” by Peg Brantley, Aurora; Genre Fiction, “Dead Stop” by Barbara Nickless, Colorado Springs; and Screenplay, “Parrish” by Jalynn Venis of Lakewood.

The 2018 Colorado Book Awards were presented on June 2 at the Sie Film Center, attended by about 120 literary types. Winners read briefly from their works and authors, editors, illustrators and photographers were honored in 14 categories. Colorado Humanities and the Center for the Book are headquartered in Greenwood Village. Fourteen winners were recognized: Anthology, “Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays,” edited by Stephanie G’Schwind; Children’s Literature, “Can an Aardvark Bark?” by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Steve Jenkins; Creative Nonfiction, “The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship and Hope in an American Classroom” by Helen Thorpe; General Fiction, “Megafire:

The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame” by Michael Kodas; History, “Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture” by Chip Colwell (of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science); Juvenile Literature, “The Last Panther” by Todd Mitchell; Literary Fiction, “The Blue Hour” by Laura Pritchett; Mystery, “Dead Stop”

by Barbara Nickless; Pictorial, “Once Upon a Time … The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film” by Mary Dailey-Desmarais (Montreal Museum of Fine Art) and Thomas Brent Smith (Denver Art Museum — the catalog from the wonderful exhibit at the DAM); Poetry: “Trophic Cascade” by Camille T. Dungy; Science Fiction/ Fantasy, “A Borrowed Hell” by L.D. Colter; *Thriller, “Trafficked: A Mex Anderson Novel” by Peg Brantley; and Young Adult Fiction, “When Dimple Met Rishi” by Sandhya Menon.

Look for these at your local library or bookstore and enjoy summertime reading — perhaps with a tall, cool glass of lemonade!

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Need: Donations of canned and bagged cat food and litter Contact: 303-239-9680 Colorado Refugee English as a Second Language Program: Teaches English to recently arrived refugees, who have fled war or persecution in their home country. In Colorado, refugees are from Afghanistan, Burma, Bhutan, Somalia, Iraq, Eritrea and D.R. Congo, among others.

Need: Volunteers to teach English. Tutoring takes place in the student’s home.

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Common Earth Community Garden: Garden project for entire community of Arvada.

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Need: Volunteers needed for front of house, back of house, concessions and committees (audience building, grants, sponsorships, events) Contact: Leigh Ann Kudloff at 303-9865073 or lkudloff@comcast.net; www. theedgetheater.com English As a Second Language: Provides English and civics tutoring to non-English speakers at Arvada United Methodist Church.

Need: Adult tutor volunteers; no prior teaching experience required. Tutors do not need to know a second language.

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Front Range BEST: Hosts free robotics competitions for middle and high school students.

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Foothills Art Center: Golden’s premier art facility.

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New, Vintage Navajo Weavings: Friday, July 13 to Sunday, July 15 at Spirits in the Wind Gallery, 1211 Washington Ave., Golden.

Info: www.spiritsinthewindgallery.com.

Meet Silversmith/Goldsmith Ray Van Cleve: Friday, Aug. 10 to Sunday, Aug. 12 at Spirits in the Wind Gallery, 1211 Washington Ave., Golden. Info: www. spiritsinthewindgallery.com.

Oil Artist Jordyn Payne Show: Friday, Aug. 17 to Sunday, Aug. 19 at Spirits in the Wind Gallery, 1211 Washington Ave., Golden.

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Hand-blown Glass Pumpkins: Friday, Sept. 21 to Sunday, Sept.

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Wildlife Artist Sonia Reid Show: Friday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Sept. 30 at Spirits in the Wind Gallery, 1211 Washington Ave., Golden. Info: www. spiritsinthewindgallery.com.

Sand in the City: Saturday, June 23, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday June 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., come enjoy the best beach party Arvada’s ever seen. Giant sand sculptures, a giant sandbox for the kids, live music and a world-record attempt at the world’s biggest hula dance are among the attractions at Ralston

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Evergreen Music Festival: 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 4 at Buchanan Park, 32003 Ellingwood Trail, Evergreen.

Festival includes 14 groups, including FACE Vocal Band and soul band The Burroughs. Go to http://go.evvnt.com/2119840?pid=4951 Pretty Lights Shows: 7 p.m. Aug. 10-11 at Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison. All ages. Go to http://prettylightsmusic.com The Automezzi Exotic Italian

Park. The event is $5 for adults, kids 12 and under are free. A portion of proceeds will benefit eight local nonprofit organizations. More information at Sandinthecityarvada.org.

Four Seasons Outdoor Market: June 23, enjoy the Four Seasons Outdoor Market, 7430 West 38th Avenue, open every Saturday, 9am to 2pm through Oct. 20. Stroll around the market and find fresh veggies, baked goods, live music, kids activities, free free coffee and popcorn and much more.

District Merchants: on stage through June 24 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; and 2 p.m. Sundays. Aaron Posner takes The Merchant of Venice from its Shakespearean setting to post-Civil War Washington, D.C., with hints at life in America today.

Contact 303-935-3044 or www.minersalley.com.

The Secret Garden: Performance Now show runs to July 1 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway. Tony Award-winning musical is a tale of forgiveness and renewal. Get tickets at https:// lakewood.showare.com/

Firecracker 5K: 8 a.m. Saturday, June 30 at Clement Park, Littleton. Free hot dogs, apple pie and frozen yogurt at the finish line. Kick off the holiday weekend while supporting Bonfils Blood Center. Prizes, refreshments and free stuff in the partner village; face painting and balloons for the kids. Go to RunningGuru.com and search “Firecracker 5K” to sign up.

Heartfelt: New Painting by Colleen Tully: on display through June 24 at Valkarie Gallery, 445 S. Saulsbury St., Lakewood.

Go to www.valkariefineart.com.

Open All Breed Horse Shows: June 10, July 8, Aug. 19 and Sept. 9. At Indiana Equestrian Center, 7500 Indiana St., Arvada. Registration at 7:30 a.m.; classes at 8:30 a.m. Call or text 720-935-2026 or 720-560-3646 or email coloradostockhorse@yahoo.com. Go to www. coloradostockhorse.com for entry forms and information.

to Sunday, Aug. 26 at T.E.V. Edelweiss Club, 17832 Highway 8, Morrison. Info: www.tevedelweiss.org.

this week’s TOP FIVE Cool Runnings at the Ridge at 38: The June 22 Friday Night Live event at the Ridge at 38, 7171 W. 38th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, is the family movie Cool Runnings. Spend a summer evening outside with family and friends. Bring a picnic and enjoy a movie in the park, live music and activities for kids, all for free. Live music starts at 7 p.m .and the movie starts at dusk.

Car Show: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 22 at Jeffco Fairgrounds, 15200 W. 6th Ave., Golden. Nearly 150 vehicles featuring marques such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, and Vespa will be on display. There will also be an Italian bicycle display, children’s activities, a gourmet Brunch Italiano. Visit www. automezzicolorado.com Sand in the City Beach Party: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. June 23 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 24 at Ralston Park, 64th and Simms, Arvada. Sand sculptures, buried treasures, games, crafts and more. Go to www.sandinthecityarvada.org.

`HMS Pinafore:’ 7:30 p.m. on July 13 and 14, 2 p.m. on July 15 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Alison Parkway. Enjoy sparkling music and witty comic dialogue in this classic operetta, presented fully staged and costumed, with live orchestra.

Open All Breed Horse Shows: July 8, Aug. 19 and Sept. 9. At Indiana Equestrian Center, 7500 Indiana St., Arvada.

Registration at 7:30 a.m.; classes at 8:30 a.m. Call or text 720935-2026 or 720-560-3646 or email coloradostockhorse@yahoo.com. Go to www.coloradostockhorse.com for entry forms and information.

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Sharks-From Tooth to Tail: MVNC Campfire Series:6:30 p.m., Friday, July 20 at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Dive into shark biology, touch shark jaws, teeth and skin, play a few fishy games, and then spend some time roasting marshmallows!

Your Lawn Care Rx: 11 a.m. Saturday, July 21 at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Ask your questions and get your lawn Rx as you discover how to water and care for a green, summer lawn.

Heritage Day: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 11, Baugh House 44th and Robb Street, Wheat

Ridge. Info: 303-421-9111 or www.wheatridgehistoricalsociety.org.

Oktoberfest: Friday, Aug. 24

Apple Cider Day: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, Historic Park, 4610 Robb St., Wheat Ridge. Info: 303-421-9111 or www.wheatridgehistoricalsociety.org. Bring your own apples and containers to hold cider.

Holiday Celebration: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, Baugh House, 44th and Robb Street, Wheat Ridge. White elephant gift exchange, tours and music.

Info: 303-421-9111 or www. wheatridgehistoricalsociety.org.

HEALTH

Summer Fest and Child Safety Fair: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 16 at Healing Waters Ministries, 6475 W. 29th Ave., Wheat Ridge. Activities include a bike safety rodeo, a look at the Flight for Life helicopter, face painting, caricatures and more.

Food Pantry: open from 9-11 a.m.

Wednesdays at New Apostolic Church, 5290 Vance St., Arvada, rear entrance (across the street from Beau Jo’s restaurant). Contact Gertrude at 303-902-6794.

WRITING/READING

Nuts and Bolts Summer Writing Book Camp: 8 a.m. to noon July 23-27 at Lakewood High School.

Participation limited to incoming ninth grade English honors students who will attend any high school in 2018. Contact TigerBoots4749@gmail.com for details and registration by June 8.

EDUCATION

Free Legal Clinic: Get Help With Visitation Plans: 1-2:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Jefferson County Department of Human Services, 3500 Illinois St., Suite 1300, Golden.

Volunteer attorneys meet via computer link to answer questions, help fill out forms and provide assistance in establishing a visitation plan. Call 303-271-4329.

Dates in 2018 are June 19, July 17, Aug. 21, Sept. 18, Oct. 16, Nov. 20 and Dec. 18.

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PrideFest 2018 leaves its mark on Denver T he 43rd annual PrideFest kicked on in Denver on June 16.

Events were held in the city throughout the week. The event is hosted by the GLBT Community Center of Colorado. The Center is a nonprofit working to empower the LGBT community. Organizer estimated that 350,000 people attended Pride events over the weekend. The Office of Councilman Jolon Clark and the Baker Broadway Merchants Association also held a ribbon cutting for the new rainbow crosswalk at Broadway and West Irvington Place.

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Lexi Allen holds Maia Allen while watching the Pride Parade from Colfax Avenue on June 17.

Many people watched the Pride Parade on June 17 from their balconies lining Colfax Avenue. The parade goes from Cheesman Park to Civic Center Park.

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Parker The Regency Estates Community will have a garage sale Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Regency is located on Newlin Gulch between Main Street and Hess Ave. Signs will be posted at the community entrances and individual streets to indicate sales locations.

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Regency will have a community Garage Sale Friday 6/22 and Saturday 6/23 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Regency is on Newlin Gulch between Main Street and Hess. Signs will be posted at community entrances and maps will be available.

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Friday August 10 - Saturday August 11 Sunday August 12 Lions Pancake Breakfast Come and enjoy!!

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Bicycles

8 ft wooden step ladder, excellent condition. $35.00 24 ft aluminum extension, clean, good condition. $75.00 Please call--720-982-4691 80 fishing lures and tackle $2-3 each.

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Wicker chair, ottoman & cushion $49. ex rebounder $20. New Schlage max security entry door handset and deadbolt $49. 303 688-9171

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Dining Set Oak Table with Southwest chairs seats 10 $600 Large lighted entertainment center $250 Lazy Boy full size sofa bed $150 303-814-2419

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Misc. Notices

Comfy, like new, lady size recliner in light beige velour fabric. Less than 2 years old. Bought for $500. Will sell for $120. Call 303-979-9534

Westminster 8980 Ithaca Way Friday and Saturday June 22nd & 23rd 8am-4pm Furniture, Dining Room Tables, Entertainment Center, End Tables, Lamps, Desks, Chests, Beds, Pool Table, Tool Chest, Hand and Power Tools, Garden Tools and More Cash Only

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Max Ryan of Golden performs a trick in the freestyle kayak competition on June 13 at the Clear Creek Whitewater Park in Golden.

The competition was the first of this year’s Colorado Whitewater’s Golden Community Rodeo Series.

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A dozen participants — and about twice that many spectators — turned out for the first event of the 17th annual Golden Community Rodeo Series. Put on by Colorado Whitewater, the competitions take place on three consecutive Wednesday evenings at Clear Creek Whitewater Park in Golden. The first event on June 13 was a freestyle kayak competition. June 20 will also be a freestyle kayak competition and June 27 will be a downriver race for all river sport devices.

Each competition welcomes competitors of all skill levels, with the exception of pros. It is free for anybody to watch or compete in the Golden Community Rodeo Series, but all competitors must be a current Colorado Whitewater member for insurance purposes.

Registration can be done in advance online or onsite beginning at 5 p.m. on the day of the competition.

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Brett Jacobs of Denver participates in the first day of competitions on June 13 for the 17th annual Golden Community Rodeo Series, which took place at Clear Creek Whitewater Park in Golden.

Tim Kunin of Denver participates in the first day of competitions for the 17th annual Golden Community Rodeo Series, which took place at Clear Creek Whitewater Park in Golden.

Daniel Allis of Commerce City competes in the Golden Community Rodeo Series’ freestyle kayak competition, surfing a rapid at the Clear Creek Whitewater Park.

honda Blanford-Green, the former Aurora Central and University of Nebraska track standout, took over as the Colorado High School Athletic Association’s ninth commissioner last July.

In her first year, Blanford-Green reached one of her goals of having the CHSAA commissioner become more visible so athletes, coaches, fans, parents and school administrators can OVERTIME recognize her.

And, as she said, she has put a face to a name.

Blanford-Green was seen at meetings and gatherings of cooperate sponsors, legislators and educational Jim Benton institutions. At the recent CHSAA baseball tournament, Blanford-Green stopped to talk and visit with fans in the crowd.

She worked for the CHSAA for 16 years, including time as an associate commissioner. She was the executive director of the Nebraska Schools Activities Association for three years and spent two years as an assistant executive director of the Louisiana High School Association before taking over at the CHSAA. When she took over last July she emphasized that she was not a change agent, but a few of the proposals that the CHSAA Executive Council approved last April drew a smile on Blanford-Green’s face.

A change that Blanford-Green mentioned that was needed was one that allows Colorado athletes to represent their schools in national events.

Colorado teams and individuals are now allowed to represent their schools out of season in national competitions if they get the permission of the school principal and CHSAA office. Before, these teams and individuals took part nationally as members of a club.

Blanford-Green made it to all but one of the state championships and the one she missed was because of a conflict with another CHSAA state event.

So this is a good spot to review the state titles won by local teams during the 2017-18 season.

Mountain Vista won the 5A boys baseball title to go along with boys and girls cross country crowns captured last fall.

Valor Christian won its third consecutive 4A state baseball title and Eagles girls won the 4A state track championship.

After taking home piggyback runner-up 5A football trophies, Pomona won the top prize last fall and the Panthers girls won the gymnastics title.

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MILESTONES Arvada Lindsey Andrighetti, of Arvada, graduated summa cum laude in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education.

Rebekah Armstrong, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Sarah Bevington, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s list at Baylor University.

Keara Buchanan, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s honor roll at Montana State University.

Laya Buchanan, of Arvada, graduated summa cum laude in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in geography.

Kyle Buckley, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences.

Kaylyn Bulander, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University

of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.

Kara Clark, of Arvada, graduated magna cum laude in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in musical theater.

Dustin Conley, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a master’s degree in sports coaching.

Madison Fortunato, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s list at Hastings College.

Adam Gibson, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

Madison Harrod, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in recreation, tourism and hospitality.

Abbie Bray Hayes, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s honor roll at Fort Hays State. Hayes is a sophomore majoring in tourism and

hospitality management.

Elise Hill, of Arvada, graduated summa cum laude in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education.

Christopher Hodges, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies.

Rane Hornecker, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

Sydney Kinard, of Arvada, graduated summa cum laude in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

Fiona Lewis, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s honor roll at Montana State University.

Keith Lopez, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s honor roll at Montana State University.

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Natalie Stepaniak, of Arvada, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in music.

Bryan Suchey, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s honor roll at Montana State University.

Samantha S. Tucker, of Arvada, graduated cum laude in June from Oregon State University with bachelor’s degrees in business information systems and accountancy.

Ashley Van Sickle, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s honor roll at Montana State University.

Sarah Vangi, of Arvada, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s honor roll at Montana State University.

Meagan Wengrove, of Arvada, graduated summa cum laude in May from the University of New Hampshire with a Ph.D. in ocean engineering.

Wheat Ridge Madison Butler, of Wheat Ridge, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education.

Tanner Campbell, of Wheat Ridge, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s list at Hastings College.

Katherine Corchary, of Wheat Ridge, was named to the spring 2018 dean’s list at Hastings College.

Skye E. Kreisler, of Wheat Ridge, graduated magna cum laude in June from Oregon State University with a bachelor’s degree in natural resources.

Dana Omi, of Wheat Ridge, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a master’s degree in special education.

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Mckenzie Zeman, of Wheat Ridge, graduated in May from the University of Northern Colorado with a master’s degree in biomedical science.

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The Conley sisters, M’kaela, 9; Alyza, 7; and Elliana, 3; will sometimes play pirates in the backyard of their Fort Collins home. Their dog Nyqo will play the role of the guardian of the ship — the one who keeps the sharks away.

Nyqo, an 8-year-old Australian shepherd, came to the Conley family as a companion dog through the Stink Bug Project for Alyza, who is a brain cancer survivor.

The Stink Bug Project is a program of Rocky Mountain Children’s Health The Stink Bug Project started nine Foundation. It matches obedient years ago by founder Allison Winn, companion dogs to families with a 18, of Denver who has survived brain child diagnosed with a serious medicancer. when she was 9, she got her cal condition. A group of Stink Bug dog Coco, a poodle that’s now 10, from dog recipients gathered June 7 for a the Prison-Trained K-9 Companion “PAWS To Celebrate” at the KONG Program.

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There were two other families at The event commemorated Stink Bug the prison picking out dogs that day, Project founder Allison Winn’s high Winn said. The other children were school graduation and the 100th dog playing with the dogs, but because she adopted through the program. was sick, Winn sat off to the side, just watching, she said.

“We have seen how isolated and “Coco was the only one to notice lonely the children can get when that I wasn’t playing with the other they’re sick,” said Lee Shaughnessy, kids and dogs,” Winn said. “She the director of programs for Rocky came over and sat on my lap, and Mountain Children’s Health FoundaPublic Notice that’s how we knew we wanted her.” tion. “A dog provides unconditional NOTICE OF FINAL used SETTLEMENT Winn the term stink bug for comfort and love.”

Notice is hereby given that disbursements in final settlement will be issued by the Finance Director at 10:00 a.m., July 3, 2018 to WL Contractors for work related to Project No. 16TC-01 – 2016 Traffic Signal Reconstruction and performed under that contract dated January 20, 2017 for the City of Arvada.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that furnished labor, material, drayage, sustenance, provisions or other supplies used or consumed by said contractor or his sub-contractors in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done by said WL Contractors and its claim has not been paid, may at any time on or prior to the hour of the date above stated, file with the Finance Director of the City of Arvada at City Hall, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

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The Prison-Trained K-9 Companion Program is at seven facilities across Colorado and has saved about 43,000 dogs since 2009 when the Stink Bug program began, said Darlene McInnes, the instructor for the program.

The dogs come from shelters, rescues, puppy mills and private surrender, she added.

But it’s also a benefit for the inmates, McInnes said. The dogs give them something to love and care for, she said.

“There are women in those prisons who, without having a dog to be with and train, wouldn’t be alive today,” McInnes said. her cancer and chemo, she said, and The Stink Bug program is a win Coco became her best friend — she all around — for the families and was always there to comfort Winn children, the dogs and the trainers, after chemo treatments and radiasaid Kelly Hansen of Denver whose tion. daughter Mora, 10, has expressive Because of this, “I wanted to help speech disorders, known as childhood other kids get dogs,” Winn said. apraxia.

So, she and her sister Emily, 16, sold The Hansen family’s companion lemonade and homemade dog biscuits to raise enough money to help another dog, Rafael C., affectionately called Rafa, has helped Mora become more child with an illness get a dog, and the social, both with her peers and adults, project kept growing. including people familiar to her and “No matter how young you are, strangers, Hansen said. never be afraid to change the world,” “The trained dogs help with conWinn said, a recent high school gradufidence for the children’s emotional ate who will be going off to study well-being and physical comfort,” theater arts this fall at the University Hansen said. “And that extends to the of Northern Colorado because its Publicof Notice rest of the family.” dog-friendly campus.

The following ordinances were adopted by the

Public Notices City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF ANNEXATION PETITION ACCEPTANCE

The following resolution can be viewed in its entirety in electronic form by going to www.arvada.org/legalnotices and clicking on Current Legal Notices. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office.

Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions.

Resolution 18-052: A Resolution Accepting an Annexation Petition Concerning White Annexation No. 2, 7519 Simms Street, Finding Said Petition Substantially Compliant with C.R.S. 31-12107(1), and Setting a Public Hearing for July 16, 2018, 6:30 P.M. at Arvada City Hall for City Council to Determine Whether the Area Meets the Requirements of C.R.S. 31-12-104 and 105, and is Considered Eligible for Annexation Legal Notice No.: 402576 First Publication: June 7, 2018 Last Publication: June 28, 2018 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript and the Arvada Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that disbursements in final settlement will be issued by the Finance Director at 10:00 a.m., July 3, 2018 to WL Contractors for work related to Project No. 16TC-01 – 2016 Traffic Signal Reconstruction and performed under that contract dated January 20, 2017 for the City of Arvada.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that furnished labor, material, drayage, sustenance, provisions or other supplies used or consumed by said contractor or his sub-contractors in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done by said WL Contractors and its claim has not been paid, may at any time on or prior to the hour of the date above stated, file with the Finance Director of the City of Arvada at City Hall, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

Dated this June 4, 2018 CITY OF ARVADA /s/ Kristen R. Rush, City Clerk Legal Notice No.: 402627 First Publication: June 14, 2018 Last Publication: June 21, 2018 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript

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Legal Notice No.: 402627 First Publication: June 14, 2018 Last Publication: June 21, 2018 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript and the Arvada Press Public Notice NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Date: June 13th 2018 RE: Apex Park and Recreation District East Parking lot Lighting Introduction/Invitation. The Apex Park and Recreation District, a quasi-municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Colorado, intends to add parking lot lighting to the East parking lot at the Apex Simms Street Center (11706 W 82nd Ave., Arvada, CO 80005) within the district boundaries in Unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado.

Interested contractors are invited to submit a Proposal no later than July 12st, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. MDT. Late submittals or submittals delivered to the wrong location will not be accepted. For consideration, responders must (i) obtain Proposal form from Bidsystem.com and (ii) submit three (3) copies of such form to Justin Howe at the Apex Simms Street Center (11706 W 82nd Ave., Arvada, CO 80005) The Proposals will be evaluated, and the District expects to award a contract to the proposer who submits the proposal which, in the District’s estimation, represents the best qualifications and value to the District.

The District reserves the right to act in its best interest and may terminate, modify or suspend the process, reject any or all submittals, modify the terms and conditions of this selection process and/or waive informalities of any submission.

Legal Notice No.: 402675 First Publication: June 21, 2018 Last Publication: June 21, 2018 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript and the Arvada Press

M’kaela Conley, 9, and her sisters Elliana, 3, and Alyza, 7, gather around Nyqo, their family companion dog who they adopted through the Stink Bug Project. CHRISTY STEADMAN

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City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at the meeting of the Arvada City Council to be held on MONDAY, July 2, 2018, at 6:30 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.

CB 18-027: An Ordinance Repealing and Reenacting Sec. 62-39, Criminal Mischief, of Article II, Miscellaneous Offenses, of Chapter 62, Offenses, of the Arvada City Code Legal Notice No.: 402676 First Publication: June 21, 2018 Last Publication: June 21, 2018 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript and the Arvada Press Public Notice The following ordinances were adopted by the City Council of the City of Arvada on second reading following the public hearing held on June 18, 2018: Ordinance 4643: An Ordinance Amending Section 26-33 (Definitions) and Section 26-38 (Powers) of Chapter 26, Civil Emergency, Emergency, or Local Disaster Ordinance 4644: An Ordinance Authorizing an Intergovernmental Agreement Among the City of Arvada, the City of Aurora, the Town of Bennett, the City of Brighton, the City of Commerce City, the City of Federal Heights, the Town of Lochbuie, the City of Northglenn, the City of Thornton, the City of Westminster and Adams County for an Adams County Collaborative Transportation Planning Agreement to Establish the Adams County Council of Governments (ADCOG) Subregional Forum Process Legal Notice No.: 402677 First Publication: June 21, 2018 Last Publication: June 21, 2018 Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript and the Arvada Press

City Council of the City of Arvada on second reading following the public hearing held on June 18, 2018: Ordinance 4643: An Ordinance Amending Section 26-33 (Definitions) and Section 26-38 (Powers) of Chapter 26, Civil Emergency, Emergency, or Local Disaster Ordinance 4644: An Ordinance Authorizing an Public Notice Intergovernmental Agreement Among the City of Arvada, the City of Aurora, the Town of Bennett, NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING the City of Brighton, the City of Commerce City, ON SERVICE PLAN the City of Federal Heights, the Town of LochIN RE THE ORGANIZATION OF RALSTON To advertise yourRIDGE publicMETROPOLITAN notices call 303-566-4100 buie, the City of Northglenn, the City of DISTRICT, CITY OF Thornton, the City of Westminster and Adams ARVADA, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE County for an Adams County Collaborative OF COLORADO Transportation Planning Agreement to Establish NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to the Adams County Council of Governments Section 91-13 of the Arvada municipal code (the (ADCOG) Subregional Forum Process “City Code”), a Service Plan (the “Service Plan”) for the proposed Ralston Ridge Metropolitan Legal Notice No.: 402677 District (the “District”) has been filed with the First Publication: June 21, 2018 City of Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado. The Last Publication: June 21, 2018 Service Plan is on file and open for inspection in Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 8101 Raland the Arvada Press ston Road, Arvada, Colorado 80002.

A public hearing on the Service Plan will be held by the City Council of the City of Arvada (the Public Notice “City Council”) on July 16, 2018, at 6:30 p.m., at City Hall, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada, Colorado NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT 80002, or as soon thereafter as the City Council Notice is hereby given that disbursements in may hear such matter (the “Public Hearing”). final settlement will be issued by the Arvada FinThe purpose of the hearing is to consider the ance Director at 10:00 a.m., July 10, 2018 to Service Plan and to form a basis for adopting a Diamond Contracting Corporation for work reresolution approving, conditionally approving, or lated to Project No. 17-WA-01 – 2017 Water disapproving the Service Plan.

Main Replacement and performed under that A general description of the land contained withcontract dated June 5, 2017 for the City of in the boundaries of the proposed District is as Arvada. follows: Approximately 12.09 acres of residenAny person, co-partnership, association of tial land generally located on the southeast persons, company or corporation that furnished corner of West 72nd Avenue and Indiana Street labor, material, drayage, sustenance, provisions in the City of Arvada, Jefferson County, State of or other supplies used or consumed by said Colorado. contractor or his sub-contractors in or about the The District is a metropolitan district. performance of the work contracted to be done The maximum mill levy for the District for debt by said Diamond Contracting Corporation and shall be forty (40) mills subject to certain adjustits claim has not been paid, may at any time on ment and release provisions as contemplated or prior to the hour of the date above stated, file and described in the Service Plan. The maximwith the Finance Director of the City of Arvada at um period of time which such levy shall be colCity Hall, a verified statement of the amount due lected is forty (40) years after the initial imposiand unpaid on account of such claim. tion of such levy.

Dated this June 12, 2018 Pursuant to § 32-1-203(3.5), C.R.S. and SecCITY OF ARVADA tion 91-15(e) of the City Code, any person own/s/Kristen Rush, City Clerk ing property in the proposed District may request that such property be excluded from the Legal Notice No.: 402679 District by submitting such request to the City First Publication: June 21, 2018 Clerk no later than ten days prior to the Public Last Publication: June 21, 2018 Hearing.

Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript All protests and objections must be submitted in and the Arvada Press writing to the City Council at or prior to the Public Hearing or any continuance or postponePublic Notice ment thereof in order to be considered. All protests and objections to the District not NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING presented in this manner shall be deemed to be ON SERVICE PLAN waived.

IN RE THE ORGANIZATION OF RALSTON

BY ORDER OF THE CITY OF ARVADA RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, CITY OF CITY COUNCIL ARVADA, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO Legal Notice No.: 402678 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to First Publication: June 21, 2018 Section 91-13 of the Arvada municipal code (the Last Publication: June 21, 2018 “City Code”), a Service Plan (the “Service Plan”) Publisher: Wheat Ridge Transcript for the proposed Ralston Ridge Metropolitan and the Arvada Press District (the “District”) has been filed with the City of Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado. The Service Plan is on file and open for inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada, Colorado 80002.

A public hearing on the Service Plan will be held by the City Council of the City of Arvada (the

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