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103 years of life celebrated for Helen Dutrow Arvada woman will be remembered by many close relatives and friends A new freshman poses for a photo outside Elm Hall after moving in on Aug. 20.
Mines makes masked move-in Students return to Golden campus for unprecedented year BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
There was a point when Colorado School of Mines freshman Matthew Micha wasn’t sure if he should come
to campus this year. But as he walked around with a new friend on the morning of Aug. 14 with new friend Oliver Noyes after moving to campus earlier in the week, he said he was happy to be starting his freshman year there. “I sort of considered taking a gap year when all the schools started closing,” Micha said. “But I was really excited about coming to Mines, even if it is digital honestly.” Still, Micha admitted to being a
little nervous about coming to college in the time of COVID-19, even as he said he is ultimately optimistic all will be OK. That optimism seemed to be shared by many of the freshman who ventured to campus despite the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and the impact it might have on college campuses. “I have hopes,” said Noyes, who is SEE MINES, P8
Grandview Station going forward after all Second version of the project approved by council in 5-1 vote BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
In the past year, the Grandview Station condo and retail development project has been up for discussion at Arvada City Council multiple times. Council first voted the project down in December 2019; voted to rehear the project in January; voted to cancel the rehearing and allow the developer to submit a new application in
June; and now has voted to approve the revised project on Aug. 17. The council approval comes a year after community and economic development director Ryan Stachelski issued a certificate of compliance for the first version of the project, in August 2019. But a number of delays, such as business owner Lori Drienka appealing the project’s first approval, have held construction off for the past 12 months. Drienka owns the business next door to the properties in question — 7315 and 7317 Grandview Ave. and 7318 W. 57th Ave. — and has fought the project, saying that because the property is of a larger scale than nearby buildings and will replace
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20th century houses, it will detract from the area’s historic feel. Drienka started petitions against the project that have gained more than 2,000 signatures to date. In regards to the now 12-month delay for the project, such a long waiting period is not the norm for developments in Arvada, said Stachelski. He pointed to several unusual circumstances that contributed to the delay. These include the city’s adoption of a new Land Development Code in May 2020 and a ruling on a separate court case for another development in the area, which sparked the city to rethink the decision to SEE STATION, P6
At age 103, Helen Dutrow was just as strong-willed as she was as a young woman, friends and family members recall. Her age never put a pause on her passions. She continued to garden and rake leaves in the backyard of her Arvada home until age 98. She continued to religiously wish friends and family members a happy birthday, with dozens of birthdays memorized even into her later years. And she continued to throw her well-loved holiday parties to which everyone she knew was welcome to attend — including a festive get-together for Christmas 2019. It was the last Christmas that Dutrow celebrated before she passed away on July 22, 2020, having made more than a century’s worth of memories. “There wasn’t anything she didn’t believe she could do. It was very inspiring,” said friend Judi Haley. “She was a force.” SEE DUTROW, P8
Dutrow pictured with her daughter, Barbara Michael, in 2018. COURTESY OF DEBRA D’AMICO
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outdoors because my passion is for the outdoors. I love to climb mountains and climbed my first one in 1977. That unearthed something in my soul, and it ignited a passion that I had never experienced before. I recently climbed Mt. Princeton in Nathrop and last October I climbed Island Peak, which stands at 20,300 feet in Nepal. I did that one with a former student who is 30 years
younger than me. Next year, I’m hoping to climb the Matterhorn, a mountain that is part of the Alps. It’s a classic, fun climb, and I’m not getting any younger. I’ve done enough 14ers by myself. I can do solo things, and I can do climbs with other people. If people don’t want to do it or can’t do it, it doesn’t stop me. Reaching your summit After I came back from Nepal, I started to write my book “Achieving Your Potential: 15 Empowering Steps to Reach Each Summit.” I use the metaphor of mountain summits as potential. Those mountain summits can be a desire, a calling goal, something you’re working toward and other things in your life. I outline the 15 steps in how to
get there. The 15 steps are the 15 chapters of the book. The first chapter starts from the beginning and focuses on how you identify your summit. There are people who want to identify their summit, but they just haven’t uncovered or unearthed it yet. I outline how to identify your summit and what you’re looking for. Then, the book looks at your purpose, your vision and moves on to how you plan, prepare and move toward where you want to be until you get your summit. Business adventure coach I’ve climbed a lot of mountains over my lifetime. I continue to do that because I get so much inspiration and growth. It’s a benefit to how I run my business and how I communicate to others.
I identify myself as a business adventure coach. My clients involve business owners, educators and adventure enthusiasts, and I work with them to reach their full potential and desired goals. I’m not seeking people who necessarily climb mountains and do crazy outdoor adventures. Instead, I’m looking for people who have that spirit of adventure, who want to take risks, who want to step out into the unknown and who don’t mind getting out of their comfort zone. As a coach, those are the people who I shine best with. That’s what I mean by an adventure coach. If you have a suggestion for someone to interview for My Name Is… contact Joseph Rios at jrios@coloradocommunitymedia.com
County contact tracers in fight against COVID-19 ‘It’s a partnership for the good’ BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
It’s easy to imagine a contact tracing call, in which a public health worker calls to either discuss the contacts someone who is positive for COVID-19 has had or notify a person that they may have been in contact with someone who has the disease, as stressful for all involved. But Debby Bower, who works as a contact tracer and case investigator for Jeffco Public Health, doesn’t see it that way. ”With all of us collectively pulling together, it is a marvelous communal process of trying to be protective and supportive of keeping people as healthy as possible and limiting the spread of COVID-19 as much as possible,” said Bower, who makes dozens of such calls each day. That process begins when someone who lives in Jefferson County tests positive for COVID-19 and the results are passed on to a case investigator and contact tracer like Bower who calls the positive person to discuss both their experience with the illness and who else they have recently been in contact with. Leah Greenberg was called by Bower in late July after Greenberg was one of several to test positive after being exposed to one another on a girl’s trip to
South Carolina. The conversation lasted about half an hour with Greenberg starting out by telling Bower the story of her time in South Carolina and Bower then asking her additional questions about whether she had been in contact with other people (she hadn’t as she and her friends took pains to avoid any other people once one learned she had been explosed to someone who had tested positive). ”It was a great interaction with her mostly because she was recognizably so appreciative of us doing what we could do to stop the spread where there are other people out there who are so blatantly selfish about it,” said Greenberg. Bower said she enjoys those calls in part because they provide an opportunity to connect those who have COVID-19 with additional help and resources. ”There is a real beauty in this personto-person connection and inquiring genuinely about ‘How are you? What’s your experience? Are there any ways we can help you with resources or are their rigors that having COVID-19 has brought to the fore that we can help with?” Bower said. Based on information provided during that initial call, contact tracers then reach out to those who may have been exposed to warn them of their possible exposure. Although Greenberg said Jeffco’s contact tracers are now reaching the vast majority of people they try to call, she
said people can sometimes be concerned about speaking with case investigators and contact tracers. She therefore hopes to push the message that contact tracing conversations not something to be feared but rather easy and comfortable. Those concerns can be particularly prevalent among racial minorities, who often are leery of contact tracers because of what JCPH Executive Director Mark B. Johnson calls ”the past lost trust of public health and the medical system with people of color.” Johnson recently told the county commissioners JCPH is making efforts to hire more minorities to work as contact tracers and conduct outreach with organizations focused on serving the minority community. ”We are trying to gain that trust so that in contact tracing we truly are getting the kind of information we need,” Johnson said. Despite those challenges, Bower said she has been impressed by the general willingness of the community to participate in the process and believe its effectivness is being beared in recent case number decreases. ”It really is this massive partnership and community endeavor all for the good,” she said. ”And so we are so grateful and appreciative of people’s willingness to engage and be part of that and the willingness, energy, time and commitment to our larger community they are showing.”
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Telephone town hall about COVID-19 and county budget STAFF REPORT
The Jefferson County Commissioners are hosting a telephone town hall to discuss issues related to the county budget on Monday, August, 31, at 6 p.m. According to a press release, the commissioners will discuss such issues as the distribution of CARES Act funds to cities, businesses and nonprofits and provide updates on how the COVID-19 crisis is effective the Jeffco economy and county budget. Residents will be able to ask questions during the call. They can also submit questions During this over the phone meeting, the commissioners will discuss important issues in Jefferson County regarding our budget. Things like the CARES Act funds that are being distributed to our cities,
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businesses, nonprofits and more during these very challenging times. We will also provide information on the COVID-19 crisis and other factors that are affecting our budget and the Jefferson County economy. Most importantly, the commissioners want to hear from you. You can just listen in or you can ask the commissioners and county staff questions on the topics discussed. Participants can also submit a question before the meeting using the online form available at www.jeffco.us/ CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=519. How to Participate Residents can participate by calling 855-695-3486. They can also pre-registered to be called during the meeting by calling 855-695-3846. A random selection of 50,000 Jeffco phone numbers will also be called at the start of the meeting.
In honor of the centennial of the 19th Amendment’s ratification, Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder George Stern and Mary Lonergan, a past president of the League of Women Voters of Jefferson County said a few words in commemoration, in front of the county building in Golden on Aug. 18. COURTESY OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER’S DEPARTMENT
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When It’s Time to Replace Your Gas Forced-Air Furnace, Consider the Alternatives As I write this, I have just completed shooting videos of the 15 homes on this year’s Metro Denver Green Homes Tour. The tour, currently in its 20th year, takes place on the first Saturday in October. Normally, you would register for $10 and get a book describing the homes on the tour, along with a map. Then it’s up to you to create a selfguided tour of the homes which interest you. You’d have to complete the tour by 4pm that day Because of the pandemic, this year’s tour will be totally virtual, which is actually better because you’ll get a link to view detailed video tours of every home on the tour and not miss any of them due to time constraints. We won’t release the URL for the tour until October, but you will be able to take your time to view them all — and the virtual tour is free! I’ll publish that URL in my October 1st column. Meanwhile, let me share one particular lesson that I learned from shooting all 15 videos: that gas forced air furnaces, no matter how efficient, are as obsolete as the gas powered automobile. (That’s worth a column of its own, which, by the way, I have written more than once and will no doubt write again!) One thing you learn really quickly in the sustainability arena is that America is far behind other countries when it comes to energy-efficient technology. That’s probably because our fossil fuel costs have always been lower than in Europe
and Asia, specifically Germany and Japan, where we find the greatest innovation and product development. With our higher standard of living and higher personal incomes (and lower taxes), Americans have long been able to waste money and energy with abandon. The result has been to leave it to those other countries to create more energy efficient and less expensive products. Since home heating and transportation are the most energyintensive aspects of modern life, that’s where we have seen the greatest innovation abroad. We in America continue to play catch-up or, worse, hang on to old technology. Our continued use of gas forced air furnaces is an example of us hanging on to old technology. For a long time, I thought that higher efficiency forced air furnaces was the direction we should go to reduce our carbon footprint. However, after shooting the videos of super-efficient, net zero energy, and even energy positive/carbon negative homes, it’s clear to me that it is time to abandon altogether that method of heating our homes. When Rita and I purchased our current home in 2012 and installed the maximum solar photovoltaic system allowed by Xcel Energy (10 kW), we looked into how we might heat our home using the free energy we were creating from the sun. That’s when we learned about and purchased the Carrier Hybrid Heat system, which uses
Readers have asked me how I manage to come up with new topics to write about each week, so I thought I’d share my sources of ideas and information. My primary source of topics is from working with buyers and sellers and hearing their questions about the market, contracts, and other topics. I frequently take a moment and enter a topic idea on my iPhone’s Sunday calendar. When I sit down to write my column on Sunday, I look there. Also, of course, I get email newsletters from our Realtor association and the National Association of Realtors (NAR). I also subscribe to Inman News Service, which has a daily newsletter. Lenders, inspectors and other industry partners also have their own newsletters which often spark a topic idea for me. It’s also important to stay informed on national issues and politics. I subscribe to email newsletters from the New York
Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Magazine, and The New Yorker. My radio diet is strictly Colorado Public Radio (90.1 FM), which has a great local news staff. Listening to music seems a waste of time with all that’s going on nowadays. I even listen to Morning Edition on the CPR app while walking my dog Chloe every morning! For TV, I watch the evening news on both CBS and NBC. I watch CBS This Morning 6 days a week, and my Sunday morning viewing includes CBS Sunday Morning, CNN’s “Reliable Sources” and “Fareed Zakaria GPS” and Fox New Sunday with Chris Wallace. I record Meet the Press and Face the Nation to see if there’s a guest I want to see interviewed. CNN has some really great Special Reports which I always record and frequently watch. All our TV watching (including reality shows, which Rita and I enjoy) are recorded so we don’t waste any time on commercials.
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an air source heat pump paired with a gas furnace to heat our home in the winter and cool it in the summer. It looks just like a gas forced air furnace, but the gas flame only comes on when the outside air is below freezing. Although Carrier still sells its hybrid system, heat pump technology has advanced enough that gas back-up is no longer needed in our region. However, since our hybrid furnace uses natural gas so seldom, we don’t expect to replace it anytime soon. When your gas forced air furnace needs replacing (they typically last only 15 to 20 years), don’t make the mistake of replacing it with a newer and better gas forced air furnace. Instead, look into the many alternative ways of heating your home, which you’ll learn about when those 15 video tours are released in October. If you don’t want to wait, Google “heat pumps” and investigate the options. Heat pump systems can use your existing ductwork (as in our home), or they can be ductless (like in Golden Real Estate’s office). My Jan. 4, 2018, column described the transition to the ductless system at our office. Read it online at www.JimSmithColumns.com. Solar thermal, using both flat panels and evacuated tubes, is another technology, typically augmented by electric and heat pump units, which can provide heating as well as domestic hot water. A few of the homes on this year’s tour have solar thermal systems. Geothermal heating, present in other homes on the tour, takes advantage of the earth’s temperature as little as 10 feet below the surface. In our latitude that subsurface temperature is about 55°F year-round. It is extracted by running a liquid-filled pipe 300 feet or so into the earth and using a heat pump to heat that 55-degree liquid to, say, 100 degrees for radiant floor or forced air heating, or using it at 55 degrees for cooling in the summer. That takes less energy than an air source heat pump which is taking much colder air from outside and extracting heat
from it in the winter, and then cooling your house in the summer. The thing to remember about heat pumps is that they don’t create heat (such as from burning fossil fuels), they move heat from one place to another. Your refrigerator is a heat pump, moving heat from inside the refrigerator into the room. The difference between a traditional A/C system and a heat pump system is that a heat pump moves heat in two directions, not just one. There is so much more to learn about efficient heating and cooling of your home. Your first step, providing the highest return on investment, is improved insulation. A blower-door test, conducted by an energy efficiency professional, identifies where the leaks are in your home, so they can be sealed. A heat recovery ventilator (HRV) can then help you bring in fresh air without losing your home’s heat. (A heat exchanger within an HRV transfers the heat in the outgoing air to the incoming air.) Thermal mass can play a big role in reducing the energy needed to heat a home. You will see thermal mass applications in many of this year’s videos. Concrete, brick, water and even dirt can function as a thermal mass to accumulate heat from the sun and then release it slowly after dark. (There is an example of a “climate battery” using dirt on this year’s tour.) With the proper roof overhang on south-facing windows, your thermal mass is shaded from the sun during summer months but is exposed to the sun in the winter, when the sun is lower in the sky. The best way to heat and cool your home may be different than the best way to heat and cool someone else’s home, and it’s hard to do justice to this subject in a single article. In the posting of this column at www.GoldenREblog.com, I’ll provide the names and contact info for vendors I know and trust who can provide a free consultation and estimate specific to your situation. I don’t get a referral fee from them, so you can trust that they are contractors that you can trust, too.
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Jeffco hybrid learning still has some teachers asking questions Hybrid learning begins across the district on Sept. 8 BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
When Jeffco Public Schools introduced remote learning in March 2020 as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, many schools relied on an asynchronous model — students completing online learning individually as opposed to together in real time. But secondary students learning remotely in Jeffco this school year will be expected to engage in a synchronous learning model four days per week. And as teachers prepare to execute that model, they’re faced with new questions, many of which cannot be answered until the school year has already begun. The Jeffco school year was scheduled to begin the week of Aug. 24, with all students engaging in remote learning only during the first two weeks of class. Starting Sept. 8, elementary students will have the option to continue in a 100% remote environment or back to schools for 100% in-person learning. Secondary students have
Lakewood High sophomore Morgan Fritzler completes classwork from her Arvada home back in March. The 2020-2021 school year in Jeffco Public Schools will be done at least partially through remote learning as well. CASEY VAN DIVIER the options of a 100% remote environment or a hybrid environment. In the hybrid model, students are grouped into an A group and B group. Each group attends in-person only two days a week and engages remotely the other three days, including on Fridays, when all students learn remotely. Synchronous learning in action With synchronous learning required for remote learners Monday through Thursday, secondary teachers will be responsible for supervising both in-person and remote learners four days a week.
According to Jeffco’s Restart Plan website, this means remote learners must “have work completed before the live session; will attend class at the beginning of each period; (and) will work independently or in learning groups following the start of each class.” So what exactly will the hybrid model look like when executed? In many ways, it depends on which teacher you ask. Melissa Roach, a math teacher at Bear Creek High School, says she and her colleagues have been told
they must teach a lesson to both in-person and remote students for part of the class period, then allow students to work on assignments for the other portion of class. She plans to teach and livestream lessons via Zoom before having students break into inperson small groups or Zoom small groups. She will check in on each group in-person or remotely throughout the class period. Sam Long, a former science teacher at Standley Lake High School who accepted a position in another district Aug. 14, said he and his Standley Lake colleagues had been told by school administrators they would need to spend the entire class period teaching. Long says he was instructed not to ask in-person students to complete any activity that could not be done by students watching at home, which said would limit Standley Lake teachers to lectures only and almost no activities. Dale Munholland of Pomona High School said he and his coworkers have plans to either record and post lessons online, or livestream them, with each teacher still figuring out the constraints of the hybrid schedule and how they can make those constraints work. When asked for comment on the hybrid policy, a district spokesperson directed Colo-
rado Community Media to the district’s restart information website. The website states that “on remote learning days, students will engage in a blend of synchronous learning and independent work.” “The way that I understand it, it’s not entirely clear to anybody,” Munholland said. “A lot of it is just going to be trial and error and figuring out how this works best. None of my colleagues have a good handle on that yet.” Part of the reason for some teachers’ confusion has been district and school-specific communications that seems potentially at odds with one another, Roach said. “We’ve been getting conflicting information about how long we have to teach and what portion has to be live,” she said. “We’re receiving new information every day.” Though she has a plan for teaching in place, she said she cannot make a prediction about whether the plan will be effective until she sees it play out. She added that an even bigger stressor for her and her colleagues has been preparing to teach live to online students. “Teachers are saying, ‘I didn’t sleep at all last night.’ SEE HYBRID, P5
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Jeffco schools face numerous technical issues on first day of remote learning District systems down, Zoom down Monday morning STAFF REPORT
A number of technical difficulties came as an unexpected addition to the first day of school for Jeffco students, Aug. 24. The Monday was a remote learning day for all students, who will engage remotely for the first two weeks of the school year, up until Labor Day. After that, students have been given the option to continue remote learning or engage in some
extent of in-person learning, depending on their grade level. As students logged on for the first time this academic year Monday morning, many were met with several different challenges. Platforms Zoom and Schoology, used by Jeffco schools, experienced nationwide technical issues the morning of Aug. 24 that affected Jeffco students, district spokeswoman Cameron Bell said in a statement for local media. Zoom released an Aug. 24 statement saying that users in many parts of the world had reported being unable to start or join meetings, or unable to visit the website
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It’s what most teachers are anxious about,” she said. “The training we had (this summer) was more to do with pedagogy than it was with how to actually teach online. I think there could be additional training.” Long agreed, saying he and some of his former Standley Lake colleagues feel they did not receive adequate training for the task at hand. Teachers’ takes on district decisions In addition to concerns about safety during the pandemic because of a return to in-person schooling, Long said
at all. Around 10:45 a.m., the company posted on Twitter, saying that the issues had been fixed. A second difficulty reported to the district by Jeffco parents was “issues with logging into Jeffco systems and viewing our website,” Bell said. “Due to wanting to allow the most flexibility for our families to choose their learning environment preference, many schools were still adjusting class rosters late into last week and even this morning,” Bell’s statement continued. “This caused some log jams in the systems that our registration and rostering program feeds and some families were not able
the choices made around the hybrid schedule were enough to convince him to resign from his position at Standley Lake Aug. 14 and apply for a position in another district. “I’m not the only teacher that’s left. We knew it would be hybrid but we didn’t know we would be expected to teach multiple audiences at once,” he said. “The task we’re presented with has been pretty demoralizing for my colleagues. Neither group of students is going to get the attention they need.” For many schools, a significant portion of students have elected to learn remotely every day of the week. Roach said school leaders told her that about a quarter of students at Bear Creek are learning online only.
to log in for lessons at designated class times.” Bell’s statement also reported a third issue experienced by a handful of Jeffco families on Aug. 24. “We had a couple of virtual class/parent meetings interrupted by ‘bad actors’ who displayed various types of inappropriate material during these live sessions,” Bell’s statement said. “Some teachers and school staff, in their excitement to welcome students back and to ensure the learning began, implemented workarounds that unfortunately involved systems and protocols that were not in line with our official guidance and best practices
At Standley Lake, Long said he was told about a fifth of students will be 100% remote. According to the data the district had received as of Aug. 10, districtwide, about a quarter of students had opted to learn 100% remotely. Long and Roach said they have been told these students will often not have their own sections of a class, but will instead tune in over video chat alongside the students in the hybrid schedule. “(100%) remote learners are never going to have time where the attention is just devoted to them and this is something I don’t think has been communicated to the parents,” Long said. With the first day of hybrid learning just weeks away, each teacher
feels differently about the circumstances surrounding the hybrid schedule. Munholland said that, given the circumstances — he feels that because of the uncertainty of the pandemic, the district had no choice but to commit to a hybrid schedule fairly late into the summer — “This is as good as it could be,” he said. “In any hybrid model and for those in all remote learning, I don’t think you’ll get as deep instruction. But it’s a very, very difficult balancing act — it’s like putting together a puzzle and none of the pieces fit,” he said. “Being with the kids is one of the big highlights of my day, but I also want to do the right thing by the kids and keep them safe.”
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Some Stern advice from Jefferson County County Clerk and Recorder talking mail-in ballot system nationally BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
County clerk and recorders aren’t usually in the business of chasing headlines. But in the past few months Jeffco Clerk and Recorder George Stern has been a subject of stories in not only local newspapers but also USA Today and CNN. The reason? Stern’s interest in promoting public confidence in Colorado’s seven-year-old vote-by-mail system, which he calls the best voting system of the country, at a time when mail-in voting has become a frequent target of President Trump. “I do think it’s important for me and certainly the Secretary of State and clerks from both parties to make sure we are being clear about how good our Colorado election system is,” said Stern. While educating people about Colorado’s voting system is always important, Stern said it has felt more important than ever this year as mail-in voting has faced attacks from the president and others, creating more public uncertainty about the process. “Presidential years always seem to have the rhetoric heat up and we are in the thick of that right now,”
A ballot reading machine in the basement of the Jeffco Elections Office. The machine, which is used to read and tally votes, is not connected to the internet. PHOTO BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO said Stern. “And then COVID-19 has added on top of that with many states moving to new voting systems and their being uncertainties about it. Stern said his office has tried to provide information and transparency about the county’s voting process SEE ELECTION, P18
The proposed site of the Grandview Station building. The retail and condo development would sit next to the Eli Ashby Healing Arts Center on Grandview Avenue. COURTESY OF GOOGLE MAPS
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hold a rehearing for Grandview Station because it could lead to a similar court case. Despite the fact that theoretically, a future development could face a similar wait time, “the path this project took was unique and not something we believe is going to happen again in the future,” Stachelski said. In December, when the project was originally voted down, Mayor Marc Williams and councilmembers Bob Fifer and Lauren Simpson voted no on the project. Councilmember Nancy Ford recused herself from the vote, having previously signed Drienka’s petition at a time when she did not know the issue would go before council. All others voted yes, killing the project with a 3-3 vote. Since then, the applicant, Grandview Station LLC, has revised the project in an effort to more closely meet the Olde Town design guidelines, the developer’s attorney said. For instance, the façade on the back of the building, facing 57th Avenue, has been updated to better better attract foot traffic; a pedestrian entrance has been added on that side of the building; a proposed service entrance has been relocated off a public street; and the perimeter of the third floor has been moved inward.
The project was approved on a 5-1 vote, with only Simpson voting no and with Ford recused once again. Mayor Pro Tem Dot Miller and councilmember John Marriott, the only two councilmembers who spoke directly to the motion, both said they believed the latest version of the project fits Olde Town’s design guidelines. “I agree that on a technical level, this project meets applicable design review guidelines and qualifies for a waiver where appropriate,” Miller said. “I believe this project appropriately maintains the historic character of Olde Town … while at the same time remaining consistent with the city’s goals of economic revitalization, increased investment and increased density in the area.” The project may be done with review at the city level, but there is one more decision Drienka believes could affect the project’s future. She has appealed to the Jefferson County District Court regarding a variance decision made by the Board of Adjustment to allow for the building to rise three stories in height, she said. That appeal is pending. “I’m just disappointed with the decision (by council),” Drienka said. “I was really hoping for more respect for historic preservation.” After council’s vote, Stachelski said the developer must submit finalized documents to the city. The city will then issue a permit to the developer, after which construction can begin.
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also starting his first year of Mines. “I think if everybody does their part it will be a good year.” But as students arrived to campus over the course of four days (a longer than normal move-in period aimed at ensuring social distancing and other practices could be maintained during the ever-hectic movein process), the spectre of COVID-19 loomed large. Everyone involved in move-in was required to wear masks and maximum of three people were allowed in each room at one time. Signs on campus also provided reminders that every student was obligated to get a COVID-19 test after their arrival. Around campus, many students also could be seen congregating under tents that will provide shaded space for socialization. Among those students were two freshman who said they had gone to the same high school did not know the other were even coming to Mines until they saw each other in a Zoom chat that had been set up to help residents hall residents get to know each other in this unusual year. The start of the new year also meant returning to campus after an unexpectedly long time away for Mines junior Adam Church. “It’s so great to be back,” said Church. “Mines has such a great community and I really missed it.” But while Church said he felt comfortable coming to campus and had
Small groups of students congregate outside. faith in the precautions Mines had put in place to provide a safe environment, he worries about the impact COVID-19 will have on student life, particularly for the freshman. “So many people who come to Mines tend to be introverted anyway and I think this situation is going to make it a lot for people to form a community.” But Noyes and Michael said they are looking forward to exactly that. “I’m looking most forward to meeting people,” said Micha. Noyes agreed before adding “and also the knowledge.”
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Born in Arnold, Neb., on June 6, 1917, Dutrow later moved to Arvada where she lived for decades with her husband, Jim. In her 103 years, she lived through numerous hardships, including two pandemics, the Great Depression and multiple successful battles with cancer. “Toward the end, she had such pain but she did not complain about it. It was pretty incredible,” said daughter Barbara Michael. Dutrow is remembered as both a woman who had the sharpest of minds throughout her 103 years, and a woman with many passions — including cooking. Friends fondly recalling favorite recipes of hers such as Mexican dishes and the bread she baked from scratch. With Jim, Dutrow shared additional activities, including a passion for hot air balloon rides, which Helen enjoyed through her 90’s; and the business they shared with partner Bob Williams, Realty Services, Inc., located on Ralston Road. “Real estate was (Jim’s) passion so that became her passion,” daughter Debra D’Amico said. “She was in it 100%.” Dutrow was heavily involved in the community, particularly as a way to support her children, D’Amico, Michael and Todd Bradley, who preceded his mother in death. Among Dutrow’s community involvements as a parent were volunteering with the Girl Scouts, the Cub Scouts and the Parent Teacher Association. The family also regularly participated in the Arvada Harvest Festival and Parade. Being an involved parent was a major aspect of Dutrow’s life, Michael and D’Amico said, as was being an involved grandparent. Dutrow shared
half-dozen models for safely staging this event, new requirements received from Jefferson County late last week made it possible to hold the M Climb during fall kick off this year,” a statement from the school said. A statement posted on the Mines website said the “school is looking for other opportunities to have you experience the view from the M, get your hard-hats painted and have your rocks become part of Mines lore.”
her love of hot air ballooning with her grandson, Troy Bradley, who has gone on to become a famous figure in the hot air ballooning world — one of the highlights of Dutrow’s life. Just as Dutrow supported her family, she supported the many friends she stayed in touch with for decades. “She was the matriarch for not only her family but she was the matriarch for all of her friends,” said friend Marion Bolton. “She was always interested in everybody and what everybody was doing. She sure listened.” Her daughters remember Dutrow as a dedicated mother, as well as an astute businesswoman whose expertise came from attending opportunity school and taking a secretarial job at Stearns Roger. The experiences gave her the confidence that helped her, Jim and Williams build their real estate business from the ground up. Both daughters added that Dutrow was perhaps even more invested in her daughters’ careers than she was her own, applauding each step they took toward their own career goals. It didn’t go unnoticed, Michael said, recalling a card she once sent to thank her mother which read, “Behind every successful woman is her mother.” “She passed on the feeling that I could do anything,” Michael said. “There were no limitations.” Every quality Dutrow had, her friends found endearing, calling her a stoic and stubborn woman who also was kind to a fault and had a sparkle in her eye — earning herself a nickname, “Twinkle,” from Haley. It was exactly that combination that made so many of the people she crossed paths with friends of hers, for life. “There’s nothing she wouldn’t do for us and she never expected anything in return,” family member Gary Harris said. “What stood out was how strong her heart was even up to the very end.”
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Craig Marshall Smith
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he title of the assignment was intentionally dumb: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation,” a holdover from the grade school writing projects many of us were assigned. It was the first assignment in the fall semester of the advanced drawing class I taught for years as a university professor and it was always a success. It was a perfect introduction to the top drawing students in the school. Or an immediate indicator that a student had reached a level they were incapable of maintaining for 16 weeks. I’ve reminisced about that project this summer and wondered what a wall of drawings might look like, were I still teaching.
Masks and ventilators? Street protests? Empty stadiums? Cabin fever in quarantine? Believe or not, the project was very challenging. Every day, we do a hundred or more things that might become a memory. Any memory can become an image in the hands of someone who is creative. Sifting through ideas is what all artists do. “Artists” includes inventors, lyricists, architects, and anyone else who has to make choices for a living. If you were asked to sift through your 2020 summer and represent it with a drawing on a single piece of paper, what would it look like? Generally, the drawings I looked at were scenes from a vacation, something like that.
Rarely were they dark. One young woman had the temerity to depict her breakup with a married man. After I retired I was asked now and then to sub or make an appearance as a guest artist. And once I was asked if I would be interested in teaching an online drawing course. It sounded like madness and I said so. The intimacy of instruction in an art room is absolute, I thought: no exceptions. Now look. Almost everything we once considered normal is now something else, and that includes schools and schooling. SEE SMITH, P18
Crummy contradictions create current consternation
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dreamers in the dark I have recently had the opportunity to participate in the Friend’s Committee on National Legislation’s Washington Summer Institute to begin my new position in the organization’s Advocacy Corps program. I will be working on legislation around immigration reform. Through this experience, I have learned about how unreliable the status of DACA has been. Through the coronavirus pandemic, I have felt discomfort due to a lack of knowledge about my future. And I imagine this uncertainty is only a fraction of what the estimated 3 million immigrant youth in the United States have been facing for much longer than these last few months. Therefore, I am calling on our Congress members: Senator Michael Bennet, Senator Cory Gardner,
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and Representative Ed Perlmutter to continue to support immigrant youth through urging the Senate to pass the Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6). This act will create a pathway to legal citizenship and has overwhelming support from 140 of the nation’s top businesses and 1200 faith leaders. I am asking members of Congress to prioritize creating stable futures for undocumented immigrant youth and to erase some uncertainty during this global pandemic. Elliotte Enochs, Edgewater Choosing a president Our upcoming presidential election has made me think about what I want to see in the President of SEE LETTERS, P13
nce upon a time, I wrote a piece about my dad in which I argued that great minds, like my father’s, were capable of maintaining seemingly contradictory beliefs. For instance, he was a classically trained opera singer who was passionate about sports, especially the Denver Broncos. Well … welcome HITTING to the age of great minds. If we’re lucky. HOME Otherwise it’s just the Age of Stupid Contradictions. Some examples: the political party of the young, the disaffected, women and the marginalized just nominated an old, white guy with a strange history towards Michael Alcorn women who’s been in Washington for almost five decades; on the other side, the party of morality, the status quo, and small government has just re-nominated … Donald Trump, an old white guy with a strange history towards women, and all kind of other types of people. Annoyingly, the Colorado Rockies have, on paper, one of the most potent offensive lineups in the league, with legitimate home run power from six different positions on the field. And yet, they are a pathetic offensive ballclub, that seems to be unable to do small things to produce runs when they need them. Thus, their recent Aug-bust. That’s not as fluid as “June Swoon,” but, well, what can you do? Same story. Closer to home is this contradiction: the Logic of Large Numbers versus the terror of The One. In the state of Colorado, according to Worldometers. com, we have had less than one percent of our population diagnosed with
COVID-19; of those diagnosed, just slightly over three percent have died (which, of course, does not take into account side effects and lingering health problems); and, of those who have died, something approaching zero percent have been school-aged children. Those are the hard and fast, FACT, numbers of this thing. But the large numbers make it daunting. Three percent of one percent (0.0003) of 5.7 million people is almost 2,000 deaths. That’s a big number. It doesn’t matter that the logic dictates an infinitesimal chance of dying from COVID in Colorado — 2,000 people already have! And, as tiny a chance there is of a schoolkid dying from it (or transmitting it), nobody, and I mean NOBODY, wants to be the school that has the One, the first school kid to die of COVID. And, in particular, nobody wants to be the lawyer for the school district that has the first one. That’s why schools are taking the difficult, sometimes uncertain, and always teeming with contradictions, path back to opening schools. We know that having kids in school, with their peers, receiving in-person instruction is the best thing for both their academic and their emotional development. But, rushing into that without trying to account for the contradictions is a fool’s errand; for that matter, the whole thing may be a fool’s errand. But it’s one that we have to attempt; and, judging from what I’ve seen, it’s one that Jefferson County Schools are determined to do the right way. Luckily, or perhaps just strategically, Jeffco is not the first one to cross this particular bridge. At least Douglas County and Lewis-Palmer schools are going to have students in-person first,
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0August 27, 2020 JUNE
Viola “Vi” June
July 20, 1932 - August 15, 2020
Viola Helen June, 88 years old, died in Thornton, CO while in the care of family on August 15th, 2020. She resided at San Marino Assisted Living, Westminster, CO. Born in Sauk Centre, MN on July 20, 1932. Vi is a graduate of Sauk Centre High School, Sauk Centre, MN 1950 and attended St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 1951. Vi is survived by sisters, Stella Carroll, Lois Johnson and Lillian Kettler; 4 daughters, Karen Pilgrim (Mark), Nancy White (Bill), Mary June (Bryan Belisle), and Katey Crowley (Jim); son, Dan June (Susie); 10 grandchildren, Ann, Daniel, David, Emily, Kinga (Brian), Ryan (Jess), Evan (Heather), Dane (Adrian), and Jessica; 6 great grandchildren, Allyson, Kayla, Caleb, Micah, Zofia, and Juliusz. Preceded in death by parents, Bill and Lucy Beste; brothers, Ray, Wilfred, and Clarence; sister, Evelyn; son, Davey June; and Granddaughter, Erin Crowley.
Vi’s earthly journey began in the small rural farming town of Sauk Centre, MN with parents, 3 brothers and 4 sisters. The order of the day was hard work and fun; there were plenty of chores to go around and plenty of jokes to be played on one another. She recalled her brothers ditching her once in the middle of a corn field and having to find her way back home; they thought it was funny but she didn’t. She was deathly afraid of the family’s Dairy Bull “King” that her father had on the farm. One night King got loose in a terrible storm. As she was staring out the window into the darkness, lightning lit up the sky and who was on the other side of the window looking at her “King”. When she was 14, - she decided to take the brand new Buick family car for a spin by herself. Her father noticed the car down below a pasture he was plowing and asked her about the inci, dent that evening; because she was so careful with the car and did not deny driving it her father decided she should receive her driver’s license and help drive the kids to school. Not long after Vi attended St. Cloud State University as a Freshman, she decided to follow her sister Evelyn to Denver, CO where they both worked at Gates Rubber Co. When at an outdoor concert at Cheesman Park with Evelyn, she met a young man who was at the time stationed at Lowry AFB Bob June; they were married in Denver on July 16, 1954. They celebrated 60 years of marriage prior to Bob’s passing in 2014.
Beginning their family in December 1954, Vi jokingly would say she was constantly pregnant giving birth to six children in 8 years and she would kid with her doctor to let her stay in the hospital for some additional rest. Daughter Karen recalled her mother wanting to help plan her wedding; Karen yielded the reception responsibility to her but wanted to pick her dress out herself. After becoming discouraged with not being able to find a dress to her liking her Mom piped up and said she had found , the perfect dress and had it set aside at a store for her. Karen not being too happy about the arrangements begrudgingly went to look at the dress and found it to be perfect “exactly what I was looking for”. Karen said “sometimes Mother does know best”. Daughter Nancy recalled as a young girl her Mom rushing her to the emergency room due to a puncture wound to her leg. When they got out of the car Mom tried to pick her up and all of the contents of her purse spilled out all over the pavement; they both laughed out loud as they picked all of the items up and headed for ER. Son Dan remembers his mother also wanting to help in his wedding plans and it was decided that she could take care of putting together the music. To everybody’s surprise but his mothers, a three piece Polka band showed up; the liveliest tune played that evening was “Proud Mary”! She loved on her Children / Grandchildren / Great Grandchildren and attended events all throughout their growing up years.
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Vi’s political leanings began as a young mother in a Westminster neighborhood where she attended a Westminster City Council meeting and pleaded to have a light installed at a crosswalk due to the many near misses with young children. Well as the story goes, her persistence paid off and the light was eventually installed. She was first elected to the WCC in 1965 after having been discouraged to “Stay home and raise your five children” she simply proceeded to outwork her opponents and walk the campaign trail longer than others. When the results were tallied she had compiled more votes than any other male candidate and thus began her political career. Mary recalls licking stamps, stuffing envelopes and knocking on a lot of doors for Mom’s elections. She also recalls her and the other kids being taken out of school at times to go to each of the polling places and then off to Adams County to watch the election results come in. Vi was on the city council from 1965 -1981; she was elected Mayor in 1975 and held that position until 1981. Vi went on to also serve as the CO State Representative for House District #35 from 1990-1998; she loved serving her State and made many close friends on both sides of the aisle. Daughter, Katey, said it well “she was known for her ability to get things done, being a great listener, acting with fairness and with a high degree of integrity”. Vi also had a longtime journalism career. This began in 1963 working as a part time reporter for the Adams County Dispatch. In years 1982-88’ she was the publisher for the Sentinel newspapers in Westminster, Northglenn Commerce City, the Broomfield Enterprise, Brighton Blade and Ft. Lupton Press. Vi would often tell a story of an event that occurred early in her journalism career. Her editor at the time was hungry for a good story for the next publication and was impatient with his staff about it, which included Vi. The next paper was due to print on April 1st so Vi and two other staff members thought they would simply concoct a big story since it was going to be an April Fool’s Day publication. So they printed a story called “The Spruce Goose Lands on Standley Lake”. Well everyone knows this is impossible right? The Howard Hughes designed all wooden plane barely got airborne on its maiden flight and never flew again. Well here is where the problem began for the paper. The phone began to ring with people saying Yep, I saw it land along with a Colonel from Buckley AFB saying he saw it take off. Needless to say the paper was in a pickle and had to divulge that this story was simply an April Fools story and that the Spruce Goose never had landed at Standley Lake; Vi had a lot of laughs about that one. Vi’s interests and hobbies were reading, sewing, playing the slots at Central City, playing the card game Minnesota 500, having lively debates about politics/current events, and tanning. Yes, all of her children said tanning was at the top of what Mom wanted to do, “We could always find her on the South side of the house in her bikini with her sun tan oil, towel and on her chaise lounge”. After losing her husband Bob of 60 years, Vi moved to San Marino in Westminster. She was contacted shortly thereafter by John Horan of Horan & McConaty about promoting family planning and to all of the family’s surprise Grandma began to show up on billboards in and around the Denver metro area; her rock star status just continued on! She lived her last years at San Marino in Westminster after leaving her longtime home where she proudly raised her children. Daughter Katey said “when Mom moved to San Marino I was able to relax and visit more with her”. “We both liked to listen to country music while at Mom’s apartment and as time wore on Merle Haggard’s song Okie from Muskogee was our personal favorite; we’d both get up and dance”.
Organizational Involvement
• 1952-54’ Gates Rubber Co.
• Board of Directors: Adams County Mental Health
• 1963-65’ Adams County Dispatch
• Board of Directors: First National Bank of Westminster
• 1965-81’ Westminster City Council / Mayor 1975-81’
• Metro North Chamber of Commerce
• 1982-88’ Publisher for Sentinel Newspapers (wrote over 2000 columns for Sentinel newspapers under Agony and Ecstasy, Reckonings and Amen “So Shall it Be”)
• Urban Drainage and Flood Control
• 1990-98’ CO State House of Representatives House District #35 An Open Visitation in Vi’s honor will be held at Horan & McConaty Family Chapel, 7577 W. 80th Ave., Arvada, CO 80003 on Thursday, August 27, 2020 from 6-9p and Friday, August 28, 2020 from 8:3010:30a. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Vi’s name to the Little Sisters of the Poor, 3629 W. 29th Ave., Denver, CO 80211; Westminster Legacy Foundation, 4800 W. 92nd Ave., Westminster, CO 80031; or the charity of your choice.
• Metro Sewer District • Downtown Westminster Redevelopment Committee • Wheatridge Rotary: First Woman Member • Charter Member and past officer for the Westminster Progressive Homeowners Assn. • North Suburban Board of Realtors • Adams County Jail: Steering Committee • Task Force for proposal of new Adams County Courthouse Please share your memories of Vi and condolences with her family by visiting www.Horancares.com.
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Remembering Vi June, Westminster mayor Leading political voice made a difference to city and the state BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Vi June, Westminster’s first woman mayor, long-time political voice and newspaper columnist, died Saturday Aug. 15 surrounded by family. She was 88 years old. Viola “Vi” Helen Beste was born in Saulk Centre, Minn. in July 1932. She married Bob June in 1954 and together they had six children. Vi and Bob’s oldest daughter, Karen Pilgrim of Englewood, said her mother was a force. “She had a huge personality,” Pilgrim said. “She wasn’t a huge person, but she had a huge personality. I think anyone who knew her can relate to that.” In a 2011 Westminster Window column, she recounted her history with the city. “We came to this small town of about 8,000 in 1957 because it had a housing development we could afford a home in,” she wrote. “I decided I could make a difference...” He career in journalism began in 1963, working part-time as a reporter for the weekly Adams County Dispatch. She later worked as publisher for several community papers around the northern metro Denver area, including the Window, the Northlgenn-Thornton Sentinel, the Arvada Sentinel, Brighton Blade as well as community papers in Broomfield, Commerce City and Aurora. She began her political career in 1965, winning a seat on the Westminster City Council. In the 2011 column, June said it was the growing pains around the burgeoning city that convinced her to run -- especially concerns about the city’s water supply. “I decided I could make a difference on the council and after convincing my husband Bob that I could serve and not neglect our family of five children, 7 years old and younger, I ran and was elected, winning over the mayor, Jerry Oshea, and a few other council members,” she wrote in 2011. She went on to serve the city as an elected official for the next 16 years,
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The Westminster Legacy Foundation recognized Vi June for her lifetime of outstanding work in the community their Community Award breakfast back in 2018. PHOTO BY SCOTT TAYLOR first as a City Councilor and then as Mayor from 1975 to 1981. Early on, she was instrumental in negotiating Westminster’s involvement in Standley Lake, securing a consistent water supply for Westminster residents. She want on to lead the city as it grew beyond its historic boundaries. “And that, dear readers, is why Westminster could grow into the 25-square-mile city it has become,” she wrote in 2011. Bill Christopher, Westminster city manager from 1978 through 2001, said it was a pleasure to work with June as mayor. “Vi was the strongest and most savvy mayor who I had the pleasure of working with,” Christopher said. “She always had the interest of the people as her focus and was willing to stand up to champion their interest. She was a dear friend and mentor to me. Her passing leaves a huge emptiness for us in Westminster.” She was later elected to serve as a representative for House District 35 in the State Legislature for eight years, from 1991 through 1998, serving as the minority whip to House Democrats in 1994. Mikkel Kelly, public relations and
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grant specialist for Community Reach Center was managing editor for the Westminster Window and other Sentinel papers with June. “I started working with Vi in about 1996,” Kelly wrote in an email. “I covered her mostly as a state Rep and then she became one of our columnists.” He recalled her as a fair and outspoken person. “Vi never hesitated to call a spade a spade is the first thing that comes to mind when I think about Vi,” he wrote. “And if her opinion was questioned, she was always ready to back it up by sharing her reasoning.” Kelly lived near June at the time and recalled her dropping her handwritten columns in is mailbox and baking pies with the apples his family grew in their yard. She taught him his current view about public service: Do it, when you have time. “Sometimes there isn’t time for public service, when a person works a lot, or attends college/classes/ trainings or cares for others who need a lot of care,” Kelly wrote. “No pressure on those folks, but when there is time, it’s an important thing to think about doing. The benefits to the world around us are powerful and go all directions in ways a person cannot predict.” Stories to tell She stayed involved in writing, penning columns by hand for the Westminster Window and Northglenn Thornton Sentinel on a regular basis, offering views on local issues, poetry, state trivia and glimpses into her personal life. She was honored in 2010 as one of the 100 History Makers in Westminster. In the book that was published about the city’s first 100 years, she estimated that she had written more than 2,000 columns “...on topics ranging from family matters to education to local politics.” “I have lots of stories to tell and being part of the 100 History Makers who contributed in some substantial way makes me feel very honored,” she wrote in 2011. “Believe me, my 55
years spent as a citizen and participant in the city’s growth has made for a deep and abiding interest in keeping Westminster a good place to raise a family. Trust me, I know Westminster. I love it and hope you do too.” She was honored again in May 2018, winning the Westminster Legacy Foundation’s first lifetime achievement honor, the Nancy Heil Award. “The powers that be said I don’t need to talk, but how could I dare not talk?” June said at the foundation’s inaugural award breakfast. “I just want to say thank you to all of you. I am deeply honored and humbled and I hope to continue serving Westminster in my retirement.” Her March 19, 2015 column discussed losing her spouse Bob a year earlier. “I never realized what a terrible change occurs when the death of a spouse changes one’s whole world,” she wrote. “But life does go on and one day you wake up, the sun comes up and the sorrow seems more bearable. And that awful heavy feeling doesn’t permeate as much.” She is preceded in death by her husband, Bob, a son, Davey and grandaughter Erin Crowley. She is survived by five children; Karen Pilgrim of Englewood, Nancy White of Morrison, Mary June of Thornton, Dan June of Golden and Kate Crowley of Arvada; ten grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She had moved to the San Marino Retirement Community in 2015 and continued to write columns for the Window until March 2016. Daughter Karen Pilgrim said she had moved out of San Marino prior to her death so she could be with her family. “We needed to be closer to her for more time, and she needed to be closer to us for more time. It was important, for all of us,” Pilgrim said.
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Perlmutter talks mail as cutbacks to post office are suspended Congressman Ed Perlmutter spoke to the media outside the Felix Sparks Post Office
shortly after Perlmutter’s remarks, were happening at a time when millions of Americans are expected to vote by mail for the upcoming November presidential election because of the pandemic. Some have accused him of trying to delay mail-in voting ahead of the election — allegations which he called “outrageous,” the New York Times reported. “There has been no changes to any policies with regard to election mail,” DeJoy said at an Aug. 21 Senate committee hearing. DeJoy is a major donor to President Donald Trump, the New York Times report-
ed, and was appointed to his position in May. “The Postal Service is fully capable and committed to delivering the nation’s election mail fully and on time,” he added. Having first won the seat in 2006, Perlmutter is up for relelction this year, facing Casper Stockham (GOP), Ken Biles (Lib.), David Olszta (Unity and Anthony Malgieri (Ind.) Perlmutter said in a statement that regardless of DeJoy suspending changes to the US Postal Service, he would still vote in favor of the Delivering for America Act — a bill
passed in the House of Representatives on Aug. 22 that stops US Postal Service cutbacks until after the presidential election. “(If) you slow down the mail, which is a pillar of our democracy — the post office is a part of our constitution. You are hurting this country in a terrible way to just try to protect an election,” Perlmutter told Colorado Community Media. “It hurts people who get their medical supplies and medicines through the mail, it hurts people who get their social security checks through the mail, it hurts businesses that do their work through the mail, and it has this other effect on potentially hurting this next election.” Trump has recently made unproven claims that mail-in voting is unsafe. He accused Democrats of trying to steal the election as the party pushes for mail-in voting. “This is going to be the greatest scam in history. This will be the most fraudulent election in history,” Trump told Fox News on Aug. 20. “It’s a terrible thing. They are trying to steal the election.” During the recent state primary, Colorado voters set a record for the largest turnout in a primary in state history with nearly 1.6 million ballots cast. More than 99% of votes were cast on mail-in ballots. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a statement that despite misleading attacks and disinformation, Colorado’s election shows that mail ballots are key to accessible voting during the pandemic. Perlmutter echoed her statement. “The system is working. It doesn’t need to be hampered like the president wants it to be,” he said. “Colorado is the gold standard for voting by mail. We’ve seen the numbers of people take advantage of that grow every year because it’s so easy for people to have their voice heard.”
Find the underlying causes of problems where possible; Identify and evaluate appropriate responses and their consequences; and Take measured and decisive action with confidence. Finally, I want a president who is compassionate. Someone who has the ability to feel for others and will want to help them. A true public servant of the people of the USA. For me, these are the fundamental characteristics of a person to represent me in our country and around the world. What do you look for in a president? Kathy Brande, South Jeffco
hordes of Coloradans are walking around like zombies in Wuhan, China. It’s time to stop pretending it’s okay to sit eating in a restaurant without a mask, but it is not okay to exercise on a treadmill at the local gym without a mask. Both activities allow physical distance between people. It’s time to stop letting the Jeffco teachers union pretend they are somehow more at risk than healthcare workers, grocery store staff and hairdressers. Daycare centers and children’s programs already have
children in close proximity — without masks — and are doing just fine! And most importantly, it’s time to stop pretending it’s okay to have hundreds of people show up at a “peaceful” protest but it’s not okay to have hundreds of people in a church! In the book of Hebrews, God commands His people not to stop meeting together, as is the habit of some, but continue meeting and encouraging each other all the more! Time to end the mask-querade! Mark Salley, Arvada
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During World War II, Felix Sparks was part of Operation Dragoon, which liberated southern France, and the Battle of the Bulge — the German’s last major offensive in the war that was unsuccessful and depleted German armored forces. After the war, Sparks moved to Colorado where he was elected district attorney in Delta, Colorado. He was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court and spent time in the Colorado Army National Guard. And he lived in Lakewood — the city where there is a postal office named after him at 10799 W. Alameda Ave. “He would be rolling over in his grave today if he knew of the efforts the administration is going to try to slow down the mail to sabotage this next election,” said Congressman Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 7th Congressional District which includes Golden, Arvada, Lakewood and Westminster. Perlmutter visited the Felix Sparks Post Office on Aug. 18 to make remarks to the media about changes that were being made at the time to the US Postal Service. Changes to the postal service like limiting post office hours, cutting overtime for postal service employees and removing mail sorting machines were causing delays in mail delivery, the New York Times reported. The changes, which Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he would suspend until after the election
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the United States. I’d like to have a president in office who thinks exactly like I do, one who has never told a lie or had a scandal, and who is always upfront with the country. I think I’m pretty safe in saying that this won’t ever happen. So, rather than trying to find the “perfect” individual, I look for three character traits that I believe a good president should have; poise, rationality, and compassion. Poise is manners, dignity, and grace. Our president’s carriage and dignity personifies all of us both at home and abroad, and I want to be represented in a favorable manner. I want a president who behaves rationally when confronted with dire situations. I look for four actions when a crisis arises: Gather the facts about what happened;
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and, maybe, that will give us the chance to learn and to be smarter. Now we just have to wait and see if we have Great Minds or if we’re just fumbling through Stupid Contradic-
Congressman Ed Perlmutter poses for a photo outside the Felix Sparks Post Office in Lakewood on Aug. 18. Perlmutter delivered remarks to the media about the US Postal Service as cutbacks to the service were suspended until after the presidential election. PHOTO BY JOSEPH RIOS
Cover story Folks, it’s time to end the masquerade — or shall we say the maskquerade! — the false pretense that these paper masks and bandanas offer complete protection and keep us from harm. The national media has ginned up fear to such extraordinary levels that tions. Anybody wanna take any bets? Michael Alcorn is a teacher and writer who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. His new novel, “Charon’s Blade,” is available at Amazon. com, on Kindle, or through MichaelJAlcorn.com.” His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado Community Media.
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Dance teachers learn to think on their feet Students at the Parker Dance Academy take part in an outdoor lesson in a parking lot near the studio. Dancers and teachers are adjusting to virtual and socially distanced learning, creating unique obstacles and opportunities. COURTESY PHOTOS
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nstructors at the Parker Dance Academy are getting better at using their words. Studio director Lexie Steinhauser has danced and taught dance for years. But even she struggled when it came to teaching through a computer screen. “Usually, as you’re teaching the technique of dance, you go around and touch their shoulders, tell them to go back, tell them to fix their foot,” said Steinhauser. “We’ve gotten really into imagery with our students, and with movement, how you utilize different body parts.” Without the ability to get up close with their students to adjust an elbow here or a plie there, dance teachers are adapting their methods to reach students beyond the studio. “As dancers, especially dance teachers who have worked all over the world, you have to learn how to adapt to a situation no matter what,” Steinhauser said. “It’s part of the gig. If someone goes the wrong way, makes a wrong step, gets too close to another dancer, the music stops, the audience throws something at you — you have to adapt to that situation and make it seem like nothing has gone wrong.” Dance instructors throughout Denver are finding new ways to reach their students and picking up new tricks themselves along the way. Allison Jaramillo, co-director of the Littleton Ballet Academy, said SEE DANCE, P15
Parker Dance Academy ballet students take a lesson outside the studio on portable barres, socially distanced and with face masks.
hile a pandemic isn’t the optimal time for the Denver Museum of Miniature Dolls & Toys to reveal their new home, that isn’t stopping them from celebrating their reopening after two years. “We have as many doll houses on display in one gallery as we did in our entire previCOMING ous location,” ATTRACTIONS said Marjorie Smelt, treasurer of the board of directors. “This new location allows us to reach a whole lot more people. It also gives us the ability to have classroom space, Clarke Reader so we can have people in to learn new skills.” The museum is now located at 830 Kipling St. in Lakewood and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets cost just $5, but due to COVID-19 restrictions advance online tickets are required, as are face masks. There is a limit on the number of people in the gallery at any one time. The museum dates back to 1981, and for the bulk of its existence was housed at the Pearce-McAllister Cottage in the City Park West neighborhood. When it became clear that it was outgrowing the cottage the search began for a new home. That was five years ago, and in June 2019 the museum secured its Lakewood location and began phase one of a three-phase renovation process. “All the walls in our new place are completely removable, so we’re able to open it up into one large gallery and move our displays around,” Smelt said. “We have a capital campaign going to help renovate the other areas of the building, including a workshop space where we can have teachers lead classes.” Staff is thrilled to reopen and share their collection of about 20,000 objects including international dolls, Madame Alexander dolls, board games, toys, doll houses and wall boxes, Smelt said. “Miniatures go all the way back to Egypt and dolls have been around as long as there’s been children,” she said. “We try to show how history has affected toys, and how toys have affected history. Toys always reflect the era they were made in, and we can use them to teach about history.” While the history of many of the pieces is fascinating, that doesn’t mean the craft of toy and miniature making is all relegated to the past, or just for children. SEE READER, P15
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“People think this is just a Victorian craft or for kids, but we’re very much an all ages museum,” Smelt said. “Visitors can see things from as far back as the 1700s to new items that have been built in recent years. It can be very modern.” For tickets and information, visit www.dmmdt.org. Musical legends return to Lakewood Scratch your live outdoor music itch with Lakewood’s Legends concert series, held at the outdoor amphitheater at Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park, 801 S. Yarrow St. The remaining performers for the
series include Chris Daniels & The Kings on Sept. 3, Dotsero on Sept. 10, Timothy P. and Friends on Sept. 17 and Funkiphino on Sept. 24. The gates open at 5:30 p.m. and show begins at 6: 30 p.m. Among the special requirements to make the event possible is seating will be in “Household Squares,” each of which seats up to four people from the same household. Visit Lakewood.org/ Legends for details, including health and safety protocols. Clarke’s Concert of the Week - The Avett Brothers from Charlotte Motor Speedway The Avett Brothers’ annual summer run at Red Rocks is one of those summer rituals I really miss during the no-concert streak that is 2020. But the North Carolina group have a new album coming on Aug. 28, so they’re
doing what they can to give fans the chance to see them live. The show is in celebration of “The Third Gleam,” so prepare to hear some new tunes sprinkled in with your favorites. The Avett Brothers will perform live on the backstretch of the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29 to some socially-distanced cars, and will be broadcasting the performance live on www.nugs.tv. Streaming style - ‘Host’ Shouts to British director Rob Savage for providing one of the best and most fun horror films of the year while in quarantine. “Host” - completed in just about 12 weeks in the midst of the global shut down - taps into the fears and anxieties so many have and channels them into something
supernatural. The film focuses on a group of friends all stuck at home during quarantine and they decide to have a virtual séance (if you’ve ever seen more than two horror films, you know that nothing good will come from this decision). Nobody takes the thing seriously - that is until stuff starts going horribly awry. There’s plenty of “Paranormal Activity,” here, but the filmmakers’ ingenuity and a few genuine scares make it more than a worthy effort. Turn off all your lights, head to www.shudder.com and treat yourself to some spinetingling fun. Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.
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the instructors found some new tools while learning to teach virtually. The angle with which the students position their web cameras can sometimes help instructors visualize a student’s form. The shy students in class have been noticeably more engaged. Less-advanced dancers don’t feel left behind in a big group and end up discouraged. “They knew they weren’t the best in the class, but all of a sudden they were the best in their house,” Jaramillo said. They say dance like no one’s watching, Jaramillo said. “For some of them, it was actually true.” The pre-ballet students, from ages 3 to 6, have been the most difficult to engage. Students are sometimes left without a parent watching at home and become distracted. Instructors have to be more expressive and praise the students as much as possible. Lisa Leafgreen, director of education at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, said the instructors have to give twice the effort to get half the output from the students. “It’s just not an ideal format for a performing art,” Leafgreen said. “But we adjusted. They pivoted their teaching style like we all did to put more into their teaching. It’s not that they didn’t before, but it takes more excitement and exuberance.” Jaramillo said the Littleton Ballet Academy may not be back to full inperson teaching for several months. The academy is operating under a “hybrid” model, letting students choose to stay home or find spots in a class. The school won’t be holding any performances until at least spring, hoping to perform “The Nutcracker” as soon as they can. “The ones that started coming every day because they had nothing else to do realized they started improving, which helped them keep up,” Jaramillo said. High school students lost their proms, graduations and most of their spring semester. Lisa Leafgreen, director of education at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, said the center set out to make sure its art programs were one of the few things that didn’t close or cancel. ““As writers need to write, dancers need to dance,” Leafgreen said. “It is such an important time to stay connected.” The Arvada Center is offering in-person classes for its all its usual dance courses. Capacity is limited to
Students at the Parker Dance Academy do plie squats led by Studio Director Lexie Steinhaus. Some students say their strength has improved over the months because they have been forced to relearn some of the basics from home. PHOTO BY NICK PUCKETT about half as many students with social distancing maintained. Lessons are available online as well. Leafgreen said the shift to a virtual teaching format has given the center more opportunities to reach a wider range of people as well. Leafgreen said the center has had people take virtual lessons from across the country. One person tuned in from Guatemala. “As a director of education, that was something that wasn’t on my trajectory of what I thought our program would be doing, but we shifted, we pivoted, we’re nimble and it opens different possibilities,” Leafgreen said. Dance instructors are just beginning to venture into this world of virtual teaching, Leafgreen said. “I wake up each day thinking, ‘OK, is this going to happen? Is that going to happen?’” Leafgreen said. “How do we stay relevant here? How do we continue to keep kids engaged? It’s rethinking everything we do.” Without any competitions to work toward, no thunderous applause to look forward to and no “The Nutcracker” over the holidays, instructors are also finding new ways to motivate their students. Steinhauser says she tries to remember what makes dance impor-
Students at the Parker Dance Academy are back in the studio, and some say in better shape than when they left. Being away and struggling with learning how to improve from home, some say they’ve gone back to basics, and are better for it. tant to the kids. “A lot of these kids, the reason they dance is for the friends and community and the relationships you
only get with someone in an artistic way,” Steinhauser said. “We’ve been continuing to think outside the box to move together.”
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Eagles, owls, snakes and other animals visit Lakewood Nature’s Educators brought its animals to educate Lakewood residents BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Eagles, snakes, owls and other creatures invaded Lakewood’s 40 West ArtLine as Nature’s Educators and their animals visited the city. Nature’s Educators, a nonprofit educational wildlife organization based in Sedalia, Colorado, visited Mountair Park at 5620 W. 14th Ave on Aug. 22 to educate the public about some of its animals. Staff members of Nature’s Educators brought out its animals in different rotations and talked to the public about characteristics of the animals like their behavior, habitats and other features. Among the animals who visited the park included a golden eagle, an eastern screech owl, a gila monster lizard, snakes and more. Nature’s Educators was recently featured at Lakewood’s virtual Earth Day celebration. The 40 West ArtLine is a four-mile walking and biking experience that goes through neighborhoods along West Colfax Avenue and the W Line light rail in the 40 West Arts Creative District.
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Kalia Sanchez, education specialist for Nature’s Educators, shows off a snake. Nature’s Educators was featured in Lakewood’s Earth Day celebration earlier this year.
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An artist and a survivor is remembered Daisy Coleman took her own life on Aug. 4 BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
There’s a chance you’ve seen or heard of Lakewood resident Daisy Coleman if you have access to Netflix. Coleman, 23, is known for telling her story as a sexual assault survivor in the Netflix documentary “Audrie & Daisy.” In the film, Coleman details her allegations of being sexually assaulted by then 17-year-old Matthew Barnett at a Maryville, Missouri party in 2012 when she was 14. Coleman was bullied after the incident and was forced to move out of Maryville. Barnett told police that he had sex with the inebriated Coleman, and was charged with felony sexual assault, but the case was eventually dropped. Barnett would eventually plead guilty to a lesser charge of child endangerment after renewed public interest in the case forced it back open. Coleman’s family said that the plea deal for lesser charges was due to local political connections in his family, BBC reported. Coleman went on to help found SafeBae (Before Anyone
Daisy Coleman, far left. Coleman helped cofound SafeBae, an organization that works to end sexual assault in middle schools and high schools. The tattoo shop she worked at described her as a kindhearted individual who cared deeply about her art. COURTESY OF SAFEBAE Else) in 2015, a nonprofit that works to prevent sexual assault in schools. But on Aug. 4, Coleman was found dead, after taking her own life. And even though she’s been a face of sexual assault and has advocated to prevent cases in schools, the tattoo shop she worked at for the past eight months doesn’t want the public to forget the artist that she was. “That was the main thing,” said Jillian Chavez, owner of Phoenix Tattoo Company at 3680 Morrison Roadin Denver where Coleman worked at before her death. “I know a lot of people talk about SafeBae and how she was on Netflix — but I think a lot of it was like yeah, that was a bad time for
her, and she was an advocate for that — but her art is being overlooked. That was her main passion.” Nemo Jones, a tattoo artist at Phoenix Tattoo Company, said Coleman was talented at creating anime artwork and was good with colors. He said whenever she came into the tattoo shop, she was always joking. He described her as kindhearted and creative. “That was one of our family members. All we have is good memories of her,” said Jones. “When I heard she passed, it broke my soul. The last thing I remember is that we tried to figure out an anime design she could (tattoo) on me, because I wanted her work. We never got to finish it. It really hurts, but we’re taking it day
by day.” Chavez said people from different states have been calling the shop and messaging it, offering their condolences. She added that a girl who had never met Coleman traveled from Albuquerque to leave flowers at Coleman’s booth where she did tattoos at because of the impact she had on her. Coleman’s booth remains untouched while Phoenix Tattoo Company created a mural honoring her that hangs in the shop. Outside of tattooing, Coleman enjoyed making music. Chavez described her music genre as “punk rock hip hop.” “She was really bubbly, outgoing and really strong willed. When she came to work, it was more of a genuine time,” said Chavez. SafeBae has reached at least 5.5 million people through its sexual assault prevention materials, according to its 2019 annual report. In 2019, the nonprofit carried out a consent summit in Maine where more than 500 students gathered to learn about preventing sexual assault. “I think the thing that was unusual about Daisy was that she was so beautiful on the outside, so people were drawn to her in that sense, and adding a pile of tattoos on that drew attention to her from her exterior. But what I think
ABOUT SAFEBAE SafeBae (Before Anyone Else) was cofounded by Daisy Coleman in 2015. The organization is teenled and focuses on educating students in middle school and high school about dating violence, sexual assault, affirmative consent, survivor self-care, Title IX rights, healthy relationships and more. The organization estimates that it has reached at least 5.5 million people and has presented at over 100 schools, conferences and events. Its goals are to raise awareness about sexual assault in schools, provide students and sexual assault survivors about their rights and resources for healing, promote consent education and more. Learn more at safebae.org
HOW TO GET HELP If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or use the online Lifeline Chat, both available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. brought it to the next level was her inside and her beliefs, looking at the world, helping to prevent what happened to her to other people (and) her art,” said Shael Norris, executive director of SafeBae.
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not only by doing frequent media interviews but also by posting videos about the county voting system and conducting tours of the county’s election building (this year those tours are being conducted virtually with the public able to ask questions online). He thinks it’s helping, although he said there is still a “a lot of work to do to make people feel even more comfortable.” So what does Stern actually want the public to know about Jefferson County’s election system? That it improves both election accessibility and security, for one. Stern said Colorado’s turnout has gone up over the course of the last seven years and Colorado is consistently in the top few states for turnout in the country. “That’s because of how convenient it is,” said Stern. “Everyone gets a ballot three weeks ahead of time, they’ve got a number of ways to turn those ballots into us and take their time with it and research the issues.” Colorado’s system is also more secure, he said. The ballots are paper and stored for two years, which allows for “a 100% paper trail with anyone being able to inspect ballots,” Stern said. Ballots must also be signed and every signature is verified against the signature the signa-
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What if school buildings disappeared and all students were educated at home? Or not? Truancy would be easy as pie. Ferris Bueller could take off for months at a time. I know someone who teaches at Overland High School. My best friend is a dean at the University of North Texas. That’s as close as I am to what the school year might actually mean. I hope to be around long enough to find out what the 2020 educational data that was collected and analyzed determined. That’s something the National Center for Education Statistics will do. Is it possible our children will be better educated at home or in environments outside of a typical classroom? It seems very unlikely, doesn’t it? Further, the absence of socialization
ture the voter wrote when they got their driver’s license (voters will be notified if there is an issue with their signature and have a chance to correct it). The process is also conducted out in the open, Stern said, with election judges from both parties present and members of the public also able to come observe. And if all that doesn’t convince you, perhaps the numbers will. “The Heritage Foundation, which is a self-proclaimed conservative organization, has found nine instances of fraud in Colorado since we started doing this seven years and in that time $16 million people have voted,” said Stern. “So we are at less than one in a million instances of fraud which show the system is working and working quite well.” One aspect of the process Stern cannot control is the post office — and that’s one that happens to be getting a lot of attention right now which is why Stern recommends voters use drop boxes rather than mailing their ballot (and mail their ballot at least eight days ahead of Election Day if they must do so). “Trusting the voting system is critically important to make sure that people are participating in it and believing the results of it,” said Stern. “And so anytime someone has questions or doubts about our system we like to make sure we’re correcting the record, putting out facts and representing the great system that we have.”
might have a huge impact on, well, learning how to socialize, get along and coexist. Have you ever wanted to flip a switch and see the future? Where’s Rod Serling? My friend in Texas does not foresee higher education ever being the same again. What else? Anyone who experienced depression before the pandemic isn’t likely to be singing show tunes right now. Every day I ask myself, “What can I do?” Realistically, this is about it. Along with journalists all over the country, I am trying my best to continue to provide crucial information to our readers. Have you heard about that new corduroy pillow? It’s making headlines. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.
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ARVADA — Pomona softball couldn’t have asked for a better start to its 2020 season. The Panthers opened with a complete-game 15-0 victory Friday, Aug. 21, with the offensive and defensive both doing its share against Northglenn. Pomona junior pitcher Maggie Geise was nearly perfect. Geise struck out nine batters in three innings pitched. The only baserunner that reached for the Norse was sophomore Nayelli Mora on a throwing error in the second inning. “I just like to stay in my zone, throw and play my game,” said Geise after striking out the side in all three innings. Pomona’s bats did their part cranking out 16 hits in three innings. Senior Kendall Hufford did her fair share of damage. Hufford had a single and double, driving in four runs during the Panthers’ 10-run first inning. “I thought it was really fun,” Hufford said of the Panthers’ first inning where they sent 14 batters to the plate. “I’m excited because I didn’t think we would play this well. I’m super excited about how the season is going to go.” Hufford singled in the second inning and the Panthers plated a pair of runs on the hit after an error by Northglenn. Pomona senior J’Lyssa Martinez ended the game in the bottom of the third inning with her third hit of the game with an RBI single that induced the 15-run rule after three innings. “You’ve got to put the ball in play and run hard,” Pomona coach Jim Biddle said of Pomona’s offense. “You have to put pressure on the opposing team. If we can continue to do that then we should be OK.” Biddle is also confident in Geise. She had a 7-4 record with a 3.44 ERA last season.
Pomona senior J’Lysaa Martinez, left, successfully steals third base before Northglenn junior Anissa Galarza can put down the tag during the Panthers’ 15-0 season opening victory Aug. 21 at Pomona High School. PHOTOS BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS “Good experience and a good solid mental focus. Nothing rattles her,” Biddle said of Geise. “She moves the ball around, changes speeds and keeps batters off-balanced. We are expecting a lot out of her this year.” Pomona plays five non-league games in the span of nine days to start preparing for the always tough Class 5A Jeffco League. Columbine is the defending 5A Jeffco League and 5A state champion, but without ace pitcher Ko-
rbe Otis this season the door is open a little bit more for someone to step up to win the conference. “It’s a tough league. One of the toughest in 5A,” Hufford said of 5A Jeffco. “We have a pretty good shot from what I saw today, but it will be tough. We will work hard toward it. There are big opportunities for us.” 5A Jeffco teams Columbine, Chatfield and Ralston Valley all made the CHSAANow.com preseason Top-10.
Lakewood, Arvada West, Valor Christian and Pomona also received votes. “There are no easy games in our league,” Biddle said. “Any team can win this league. That is how it’s always been and this year is no exception.” Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more coverage go to CHSAANow. com/Jeffco.
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