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VOLUME 16 | ISSUE 34

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Jeffco moves up grades 6-12 in-person start date Target date of Feb 1, pushed up to give kids an extra week in classroom.

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jack Damschroeder, 5, collects his artwork after he finished painting on Saturday afternoon outside the offices of West Arvada Orthodontics.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL HICKS

Kids, adults alike join West Arvada Orthodontics for windy, but fun-filled afternoon of painting

BY MICHAEL HICKS MHICKS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

One painting shows the daytime, while the other is at night. Yet both of Kenley Rieter’s mountain landscape artwork is prominently displayed, along with one created by her mom, Amanda, on the counter at West Arvada Orthopedics.

From Saturday’s outdoor painting club to walking, hiking and bik-

ing clubs, even a science night in non-pandemic times, West Arvada Orthodontics, in particular Dr. Jennifer and Ronen Friedman, is all about community.

“We like to be involved and give back to the community, especially during COVID when everybody is having social isolation. That’s why we do this,” Jennifer Friedman said.

Ronen Friedman, the CEO for

West Arvada Orthopedics, said there were two purposes in mind when the company started hosting events, such as the painting club, a year and a half ago: to bring the community together and to provide a virtual outlet for people who couldn’t leave their home, be it because of a traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury or the like.

SEE PAINTING, P5

Idea pitched to allow e-bikes on city trails Most residents OK with the idea though some consider them to be unsafe

BY MICHAEL HICKS MHICKS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

E-bikes and e-scooters could be coming to Arvada’s public trails in the near future.

Arvada’s Public Works team presented a report to the City Council on Jan. 11, pitching the possibility of allowing Class I and II e-bikes and e-scooters on the city’s Park and Open Space trails. Class I and II devices would be limited to 20 miles

per hour and be pedal-assisted.

In addition to the size and speed of the devices, other conditions being considered would be widening the trails, erecting signage and radar speed checks and public education programs to promote e-bikes and e-scooters.

Currently, the state allows for Class I and II electric bikes on paved trails, while Jefferson County allows for Class I e-bikes on natural surface trails and both Class I and II on all paved park trails.

In surveys conducted late last summer by the Arvada Parks & Recreation Department, residents, for the most part, supported the use of e-bikes on paved trails. Of 303 people surveyed, 173 supported the

idea while 95 opposed it. Another 34 were neutral on the matter, according to Park and Urban Design manager Emily Sexton.

The opposite, however, was the case for e-scooters. Of those polled, 121 opposed them, while just 102 supported them. Another 63 people had a neutral opinion toward them.

In both cases, Sexton said that those in support felt that e-bikes and e-scooters were environmentally safe, good for transportation and exercise, while those who opposed them considered them unsafe, were too fast and that they belonged on the road.

Sexton added that more than SEE E-BIKES, P3

Interim Superintendent Kristopher Schuh has made the decision to return middle and high school students to the classroom in a Hybrid model beginning Jan. 25, 2021.

According to a press release from Jeffco Schools, Schuh’s decision was made in consultation with the Jefferson County Board of Education, public health, district leadership and school leadership. In a recent School Board meeting, parents who spoke out in the pubic comments section of the meeting were overwhelmingly in favor of starting the return to in-person school, ahead of the previous, tentative plan to consider in-person learning for grades 6-12 on Feb. 1.

The District said several factors influenced the decision to bring middle and high school students back earlier including current county-level COVID-19 case data, a strong desire of both students and families to return to in-person learning, a larger pool of guest teachers (substitutes) which can improve schools’ ability to sustain operations while responding to virus spread and quarantines and the improved availability of COVID-19 testing.

Elementary schools returned to 5-days per week in-person learning on Jan.19, as previously scheduled.

Logistics

The return to in-person learning brings with it an updated Food Service calendar.

For grades PK-5, in-person meal service will begin Jan. 19. Remote learners will be able to pick up meals on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Families can access meals for remote learners from their assigned home school and should contact their school for the pick-up schedule.

Families of students in grades 6-12 SEE SCHOOLS, P2

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Jeffco Girl Scout troops ready to adapt cookie sales to pandemic year Grocery store sales might not happen, but residents will still be able to get their cookies

HOW TO GET COOKIES Girl Scout cookies sales start Jan. 31.

Here are some of the ways they will be sold: Troops will be hosting drive-thru cookie booths. You can text COOKIES to 59618 to find booths in your area.

Some troops will be placing fliers on doors with information about how to order.

Some girl scouts will be creating their own websites to sell cookies. If you do not know a girl scout, visit /www. girlscoutsofcolorado.org/ starting Feb. 1 to purchase cookies from a local troop.

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Each year, Girl Scout troops place an initial order for cookie boxes to have on hand to start their annual selling frenzy. This time around, Golden’s troops took the unusual step of placing initial orders that only amount to 45% of last year’s total.

“There are fewer girls participating so you would expect it to be a little lower, but not quite that much lower,” said Marie Williams, who has daughters in Girl Scouts and serves as the service unit manager for Golden’s girl scout troops. “I think we’re nervous and they are being careful about not ordering too much.”

That nervousness is perhaps the most sensible reaction to trying to sell cookies amid the pandemic that has left troops still unsure of what grocery stores they will be able to set up their anticipated tables at — or whether they will even be able to at all.

Williams said on Jan. 14 that no decision had been made yet on whether those traditional sales will happen at stores in the Golden area

Emilyann Owens, left, and her dad T.O. Owens, right, have been selling girl scout cookCOURTESY OF EMILY OWENS ies together for 13 years.

as the state girl scout organization wants to wait until as close to the start of sales on Jan. 31 as possible to make that determination.

“Nobody’s told us no yet,” she said. “But we don’t know for sure what is going to happen.”

What is already known is that

local buyers will have several new options for how to purchase favorites like Samoas and Thin Mints as Girl Scouts of the United States of America has introduced several news ways to purchase and deliver cookies, including drivethru cookie booths and contactless porch cookie drop-offs, in an effort to adapt the cookie sales to COVID-19 conditions.

The latter is one of several adaptions that will allow door-to-door sales to proceed in a modified fashion. Instead of ringing doorbells, scouts will go door-to-door leaving door hangers or other flyers with info about how those wanting to buy cookies can contact them to do so. The scouts will then drop off the cookies on a later date.

For devoted sellers like Arvada’s Emilyann Owens, who has been selling cookies for 13 years and sold 3,000 boxes last year, the changes are as unwelcome as they are big.

“My whole thing is `for every three nos you are going to get one yes,” said Owens. “But that only

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can access remote meals at Alameda, Arvada, Arvada West, Bear Creek, Columbine, Green Mountain, Jefferson, Pomona and Ralston Valley High Schools, and at Summit Ridge, Wayne Carle and Creighton Middle Schools prior to in-person learning starting for the semester.

Once in-person learning resumes for grades 6-12, students can access remote meals from their assigned home school. The District recommends contacting your home school directly to inquire about their schedule.

Meals will be available to in-person/hybrid learners for days they are not attending school in person.

comes from a lot of people seeing you and interacting with a lot of people.”

Any loss of revenue could also have significant consequences for the scouts themselves given how important proceeds from cookie sales, which are split between individual troops and the state girl scout council, are to funding activities for scouts.

In Williams’ case, the two troops she oversees typically use their cookie proceeds to help pay for rock climbing and an overnight camp and an overnight camp at Snow Mountain Ranch near Granby, all activities that her scouts would like to resume when it is safe to do so.

She also said other troops in lower income communities depend on cookie sales to pay for more basic items like badges and uniforms.

While this year’s cookie campaign will be unlike any other history, Williams said she feels her scouts are ready to embrace the challenge, even if new safety precautions might mean new inconveniences.

“If we are able to have groups outside Kings Soopers, hopefully people are patient and understand it might take a little longer,” she said.

Leanna Clark, the CEO of Girl Scouts of Colorado, also sees reason for optimism.

“We’ve all been through a lot this past year and are longing for something that feels like normal,” said Leanna Clark, CEO of Girl Scouts of Colorado. “What’s more reliable and comforting than Girl Scout Cookies?”

Families with younger children, not yet registered in school, can receive meals at their closest Jeffco school site.

Staffing help

The District is also putting out a call to join #TeamJeffco. Opportunities to help at a school by working as a Guest Teacher, Bus Driver/ Bus Assistant, Custodian or Food Service worker are still available.

The District sees these paid opportunities as another way community members can help keep in-person learning running during the continued challenges presented

by COVID-19. Guest Teacher jobs do not require a bachelor’s degree for the 2020-2021 school year and pay a rate of $150 per full-day. Information about #TeamJeffco opportunities can be found at www.jeffcopublicschools.org/employment/jobs

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91 percent of those who opposed e-bikes and e-scooters stated that they had never had a personal experience with either device.

“The data that we’re receiving about the perception of people thinking that they’re not safe might not be warranted,” Sexton said.

She added that with such a perception that public education on e-bikes and escooters may be warranted if they were to push forward with the proposal.

City Councilmember John Marriott said that part of the problem is that the community has little knowledge of what an e-bike is. He said

that at a recent questionnaire set up by Jeffco Open Space at Crown Hill Park that multiple e-bikes rode past the survey taker and in “almost every case people had no idea” that they passed by.

“They had never seen them before. They didn’t know the difference,” Marriott said.

The perception that an e-bike equates to faster speeds, even though they can be controlled, is one that has to be addressed, Marriott said.

“Arvada would have benefits. There are a number of benefits from this,” said Marriott, who was in favor of allowing Class I and II e-bikes.

Fellow Councilmember Nancy Ford, who also

showed support for e-bikes and e-scooters on the trails, said that she wouldn’t want the city to spend excessive money to adopt the proposal unless it was beneficial in other ways as well, such as expanding the trails.

“I think it’s a courtesy issue. Many bicyclists can travel far faster than 20 mph if they’re a really good bicyclist. I don’t see it as an e-bike issue,” Ford said.

Ford did question, however, why those surveyed were less amenable toward e-scooters than e-bikes.

Adam Lind, Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for the city said that while e-bikes are particularly prominent among older residents using them e-scooters have more of a “reputation issue.”

A group of scooters sit along the edge of Downing Street in Denver.

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Like every real estate agent, I have encountered buyers who don’t want to buy in a neighborhood with an HOA. I have set up more than one MLS alert for buyers with “No HOA” as one of their search criteria.

There are many good reasons to avoid an HOA, just as there are reasons to want an HOA. Among the negatives, an HOA costs money, although those dues do cover some expenses you would otherwise have to pay for on your own, such as trash and recycling collection. In a patio home community, dues could cover grounds maintenance, snow removal up to your front door and garage, a community pool, fitness center, and even water and sewer, plus insurance on your structure.

Unless the community is self-managed, your dues also pay for the costs and profit of a professional management company.

The more common negatives we hear are with regards to personal liberty. You can’t make changes to your home exterior, including paint color or a new deck, without approval by the “architectural review committee.” You probably can’t park your RV on the street or on your lot except for short-term loading and unloading. And there’s always that one neighbor who is a self-appointed enforcer of the covenants and rules. I was turned in once because my lawn mowing person was passing through the adjoining common space to reach my backyard! (I escaped prosecution, and the matter was dropped.)

According to the Community Associations Institute (CAI), the number of HOAs in the United States has increased from just 10,000 in 1970 to more than 320,000 today. If you buy a home in a subdivision developed in the last 20 or 30 years, you most likely will be buying in a neighborhood with an HOA. So, what are the arguments in favor of an HOA?

A common refrain in support of HOAs is that they protect property values for their members. Without an HOA to enforce its rules, a neighbor could paint his home dayglo yellow or litter his yard, visible to you, with old furniture and cars on blocks.

He could allow the paint to peel and not replace his obviously hail damaged roof and let the exterior of his home go into disrepair.

These are just a few examples of how one homeowner can affect a neighborhood’s property values.

Imagine putting your beautifully updated home on the market if the above description applied to your neighbor’s house. People in non-HOA communities can tell “bad neighbor” stories to rival any HOA horror story.

Back in the 1970s it was common for subdivisions to be built with covenants that applied to every home in that subdivision, but no HOA was created to enforce those covenants. If a neighbor violated a covenant, one’s only recourse was to sue that neighbor in civil court — an unlikely scenario. Some non-HOA neighborhoods have created neighborhood associations with voluntary dues (for example, $30 per year), which cover the cost of community picnics, newsletters, etc. I listed a home in one such non-HOA association, Columbine Knolls South in south Jeffco, which is quite aggressive in enforcing a covenant that restricts the type of roof a homeowner can install.

Starting around the 1990s, subdivision developers created HOAs which they controlled until a certain percentage of homes were sold, at which point they would turn over control to a board elected by the residents. Unless it was a really small subdivision, this board would then hire a management company to handle the hiring vendors (such as trash haulers or grounds keepers) and enforcing cove-

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Done right, HOAs can be an efficient means of providing services, assigning payment responsibility and being responsive to members’ concerns. Such factors have driven the continued growth of association-governed communities, including HOAs, condominium associations, and other “common interest communities.”

HOAs can fund a diverse variety of services and amenities, from golf courses to equestrian facilities and fitness centers.

Few Americans could afford such benefits without the shared responsibility made possible by HOAs. According to CAI, “People who don’t want to contend with gutters and yard work can purchase homes in communities where these responsibilities are taken on by the associations. There are age-restricted communities, pet-free and pet-friendly communities, even communities with air strips.

Community associations give people options, alternatives, facilities and resources they could not otherwise enjoy.”

CAI states that more than 62 million Americans live in neighborhoods with an HOA and “take advantage of associationsponsored activities like holiday events, social clubs, athletic and fitness activities, pool parties and more. These activities help residents get to know their neighbors and forge new, supportive friendships.”

Because it’s not a popular assignment (and is unpaid), you can probably get elected to your HOA board and have a say in its governance. I did that myself but resigned after a couple years. You may be more suited to that experience.

I totally respect those who want to avoid HOAs for one reason or another.

Rita and I have experienced both ways of life and, while we don’t value one over the other, we appreciate why others may have a strong feeling for or against living in an HOA-governed neighborhood.

If you are not outright opposed to an HOA but do have concerns, just know that when you go under contract, the seller must provide financial and other documents as well as bylaws and minutes of recent HOA meetings, and you can terminate if you don’t like what you read.

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New Lakewood senior community begins vaccination effort The scene inside one of Jefferson County’s senior living facilities which received vaccines last week

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Inside the sparkling new main lobby of The Ridge Pinehurst, which looks decidedly more like a high-end resort than a senior living community, there’s a beehive of activity taking place. But it’s not the fully stocked bar or the indoor pool that has residents excited on this blue-sky January morning. It’s the first day of COVID-19 vaccinations for residents and staff, and the smiling eyes above dutifully worn masks are hard to miss.

Kristy Roberts, The Ridge’s Spa and Fitness Director, sits patiently while the health care worker administering her shot finishes the requisite paperwork, before turning his attention and syringe to her waiting arm. A brief grimace and the deed is done. She said it didn’t really hurt, and she was glad to have it over with.

In a sitting room nearby, residents who’ve just received their first dose of the vaccine eat homemade donuts and chat while they wait, making sure no one has an adverse reaction to the jab.

“I’m very glad to get it. I was

A Bipolar Ionization unit is used to clean the air at The Ridge Pinehurst in Lakewood.

Kristy Roberts, Spa and Fitness Director at The Ridge Pinehurst, gets her first dose of PHOTOS BY BOB WOOLEY the COVID-19 vaccine in Lakewood.

looking forward to it and it seemed to go smoothly,” said resident Pat O’Connell. “This is the first step to freedom.”

Resident Norie Aufdemberge shares O’Conell’s sentiments.

“I am thrilled — can hardly wait for the next one,” she said. “I just know that eventually, if enough of us do it, it will be better for the whole city. That’s what I’m looking forward to, so I can travel and see grandkids.”

She said it’s been a year and a half since she last saw them and

is hoping for a camping trip with them this summer.

Mandy Hampton, Chief Operating Officer at The Ridge Pinehurst, said the community partnered with CVS Pharmacy to arrange the event, and they were receiving the Pfizer vaccine.

“About 130 residents and staff got vaccinated today,” she said. “We were about 90 days from opening when COVID really hit the metro area and shutdowns started. It changed everything.”

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That was before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

“It’s a way for them to interact, to have that community feeling,” he said. “It’s important.”

If anyone needs any more evidence of their caring nature all one has to do is visit their office in the Candelas community. It is tailor-made catered to patients with autism or neurological issues.

From the changing colors of the ceiling lights for a calming atmosphere to plants, a massage chair and colored circular patterns on the floor, it’s all there to provide visual stimuli for the patients.

“We believe in educating the com-

munity as well,” Jennifer Friedman said. “It’s why we have a microscope in the kids’ area as opposed to an iPad. … Another goal of our office is to be relaxing. It’s designed to accommodate those with neurological disorders, autism and brain injuries.”

Their efforts hasn’t gone unnoticed.

“They are compassionate and kind. … They really have a great heart to help people of all walks of life,” said fellow doctor Jennina Townsend. “I really appreciate what they’ve done.”

Amanda Reiter, a realtor and Candelas resident, has been actively involved in the painting club. She’s hopeful to join in, when time allows, on the biking and/or hiking club as well.

Be it getting her daughter out and active or herself, she recognizes the effort the Friedman put in to connect

with their neighbors.

“For anybody who knows them, the first thing that they notice about them is that they care about their community,” Amanda Rieter said.

“Even before this building was opened, they were getting involved, finding ways to help the community.”

Members of upwards of five families — the maximum they were allowed due to COVID-19 restrictions — took part in Saturday’s painting club before windy weather conditions shortened the afternoon. Still, those who attended enjoyed the activity and the camaraderie.

“A lot of businesses say that they care about their community, that they’re part of the community. But just like the painting today, they’re able to come up with ways to have creative fun for members of the

WANT TO LEARN MORE? If you want to learn more about the clubs offered through West Arvada Orthodontics, visit them online at www. facebook.com/WArvadaOrtho or westarvadaorthodontics.com. You can also call the office at 720-800-9331. community to do at a time, let’s be honest, where we all need something fun and creative to do,” Amanda Rieter said.

Especially given the trials and tribulations that the last year has created.

“Before the COVID pandemic, I think this allowed us to take that for granted,” Ronen Friedman said. “I think now everybody understands the importance of being able to interact.”

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New era in Jeffco underway following official’s swearing-in New DA, commissioners take office

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A new era officially has officially dawned in Jefferson County with the swearing-in of the new Democratic district attorney and county commissioners, whose arrival has cemented the county’s leftward lurch.

However, the ceremony itself took a different form than is customary as Chief Judge Jeffrey Pilkington administered the oath of office to the county’s new elected officials via a videoconferencing platform on Jan.12. Surveyor Robert Hennessy, a Republican, was also sworn in for another term.

In comments she made to open the ceremony, Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper remarked on the privilege of serving that awaits the new officials and called the swearing-in ceremony “a great day.” Dahlkemper, a Democrat, will be the only commissioner who is not new to the board of county commissioners.

“This is an occasion where we see representative government in action as we swear in the elected officials who have been chosen by the voters of Jefferson County,” said Dahlkemper. “Countywide elections matter. They directly impact what happens here at home.”

District 2 Commissioner Andy Kerr akerr@jeffco.us

New Jefferson County Commissioner Andy Kerr is sworn in on Jan. 11.

Following her swearing-in, new District Attorney Alexis King talked about the “heavy badge” that she carried during her time as a deputy DA and how it reminded her of the “weight that we carry as we serve the people of Jeffco for the next four years.”

She also echoed her commitment to carry out many of the reforms she promised during her campaign.

“We will provide alternatives to prosecution and alternatives to incarceration,” King said. “We will also seek to earn trust through our conviction integrity unit that will reconsider wrongful convictions, work towards equity and collect data that we owe to the public that we serve.”

SCREENSHOTS

New commissioner Tracy KraftTharp, who will represent District 1 which is located in the northern portion of Jeffco and includes Arvada and the Jeffco portion of Westminster, talked about her parents and their drive to raise a strong leader woman who taught her the importance of working hard and making the world a better place.

“I’m so honored to be part of the team that will help move Jefferson County during these unprecedented times that are drawing on everything we have,” said Kraft-Tharp.

Andy Kerr will be the new commissioner representing District 2, which encompasses Golden, Wheat Ridge and northern Lakewood. He said that while the immediate fo-

Incumbent Jefferson County Assessor Robert Hennessy is sworn in for another term.

cus must remain on the COVID-19 pandemic, the county must be ready to address and lead on other looming issues, particularly the climate crisis after what he called a “wasted four years.”

“Our forests and neighborhoods are in peril and Jeffco needs to be a leader in finding solutions for sustainable living,” said Kerr.

Following his swearing-in, Hennessy said he “really didn’t have much of anything to say.”

“Not my first rodeo,” he added.

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LOCAL

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Animal adoption agencies seeing a doggone frenzy QUIET DESPERATION

Craig Marshall Smith

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ecause of the pandemic, which of the following is way up nationwide?

Average per-person daily intake of calories from sugar?

Trips to the liquor store?

Pet adoption?

I don’t have the facts in front of me about calories and alcohol, just the assumption that both are true.

There are facts, however, that show pet adoption in the past year was not only way up but highly competitive.

Adoption agencies all over the country are experiencing something unique: They’re running out of pets; some have seen double the requests for dogs since the pandemic came along.

This is good news, but it comes with some bad news and an advisory (from me).

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Thanks for the love letter

Thank you Andrea Doray, for your expression of love for our United States of America. This tribute brought tears to my eyes. Unfortunately, these tears are very close to the surface these days.

I especially appreciate your closing of trust, care, connection, and appreciation. America is not the government, not the media, nor is it the rhetoric from all sides. America is her people.

I pray we can once again be a united people who love our country.

Jennifer Enochs, Arvada Remember Wisconsin?

How many remember that a raucous mob was allowed to occupy and trash the Wisconsin State Capitol for several weeks in 2011 (vs hours in DC)?

How is it that previous disruptive protests, at home and abroad, (and even a bombing in a certain DC building) are so soon forgotten?

Should not justice demand quick determination as to the affiliations or motives of those who were arrested in DC re weapons charges, assaults on police, or the origin of the reported bomb?

And yet, how are the many seeking redress from their tone-deaf so-called public servants, and those photographed wandering through the doors of the US Capitol building, held to a different/draconian standard?

How much more government control over our rights to freely speak, assemble, travel, and protest, will ensue from events of the past week and year?

Are not the rapidly filling ‘no fly lists’ without due-process, for those deemed guilty of thought-crimes (or songs), the tip-of-the-iceberg?

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According to the Better Business Bureau, “The number of complaints about fraudulent and nonexistent breeders has never been higher.”

At times, humans are an industriously evil lot.

If there’s a market value in deception, mankind will find it.

Dogs, cats, birds, fish, and even ferrets are “going like hotcakes,” said one operator of an animal shelter in Maryland.

Why? I don’t have room to go through all of the reasons why Harry enhances my life and makes it worth waking up every morning and chewing (as Emo Phillips said) through the leather straps.

Today, 35.7 million Americans live alone.

When quarantined, that’s a lot of solitary souls trying to make the best of it — psy-

chologically.

I can’t think of anything better than spending the day with Harry. I’d take him over Audrey Hepburn. And that would have been true before “social distancing.”

On Jan. 6, like everyone else, I watched the horrific events unfold in Washington, D.C., glued to the screen and mesmerized, revolted, saddened and disgusted.

Harry?

Harry came to me with a leash in his mouth.

Three of my friends adopted cats last year, and they weren’t random acts: Each had owned cats in the past.

The advisory I mentioned is just this: Pets, especially dogs, require time, money, and commitment — and respect.

SEE SMITH, P9

Borrowing some inaugural inspiration

n compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the oath HITTING prescribed by the Constitution of HOME the United States to be taken by the President before he enters on the execution of this office.

Standing in this same place, 45 other men have addressed you; in many cases, the Michael Alcorn concerns of the day were external crises — matters of economic desperation or matters of war and peace.

Our crisis today is the reverse.

We have found ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the stars, but falling into raucous discord on earth.

We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them.

And, in a perverse joke of fate, nature has piled upon us a virus, which has stolen from us hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens, and heaped economic desperation onto our spiritual disease.

To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.

To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.

When we listen to “the better angels of our nature,” we find that

they celebrate the simple things, the basic things — such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.

The simple things are the ones most needed today if we are to surmount what divides us, and cement what unites us.

To lower our voices would be a simple thing.

In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another--until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

And yet, out of this time of great discord, we have cause for celebration. Our scientists, working with indefatigable zeal, have produced a vaccine that promises to not only heal this virus, but holds the hope of providing the blueprint to effectively battle future viruses.

But there is no vaccine for our spiritual virus. We must seek to inoculate against that virus by finding balance within.

In the process of reclaiming our spiritual balance, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom and justice by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must never allow our discontents to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights

of meeting physical force with soul force.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes “with healing in its wings”; with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this earth to choose their own destiny. With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

Thank you.

This is an amalgam of four different, crucial, speeches given in the past at times such as these — Lincoln’s first and second inaugurals, MLK’s “I Have a Dream,” and Nixon’s first inaugural — supplemented by some filler of my own.

If there is a way towards healing, I hope Joe Biden can summon similar wordplay as these men.

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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OBITUARIES

CITY COUNCIL BRIEFS

BY MICHAEL HICKS MHICKS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Partnership for Standley Lake Library Trailhead

A resolution authorizing support between the City of Arvada and the Local Trails Partnership Program was approved 7-0 by the City Council during its Jan. 11 meeting.

A trailhead west from Standley Lake Library leads to access of the Rocky Mountain Greenway Trail Project, City Manager Mark Deven said. The library-owned land would feature shelters, kiosks, trail maps and bike racks, while also being ADA accessible. None of that is currently available, Deven added.

The city and Jefferson County Public Library collaborated on a 2016 Great Outdoors Colorado grant application for the RMG trailhead. The grant application, however, was denied, but Jeffco’s trail partnership program opened the door to complete the project.

“This is really close to my heart,” said Mayor Marc Williams, who was appointed to the Jefferson County Library board in 1989. “My first act (on that board) was attending a groundbreaking at that library. It’s an incredible facility linked with an incredible trail system. I think this is a classic winwin.”

Fellow councilmember Nancy Ford agreed.

“I use that library quite often and the trails there as well,” Ford said.

Emergency ordinance to adopt floodplain map

Council unanimously approved an emergency ordinance to adopt the floodplain map dated last November as the official map of the City of Arvada prepared by FEMA. The ordinance, which was initially scheduled to be voted upon during the Jan. 4 City Council meeting which was canceled due to a clerical issue, would keep the city in compliance with FEMA. A delay in the ordinance until the Jan. 25 meeting would’ve potentially caused 13 structures in the city due for renewal between Jan. 15-25 to lose any grandfathered-in insurance rates.

Revisions from the ordinance since the City Council last approved it in 2019 include a pair of cases involving Timberline Farms at Van Bibber Creek and Big Dry Creek at Indiana Street.

What’s in a name

The City Council unanimously approved a revised version of a 2014 policy on naming and renaming public spaces in facilities.

Deven said that additional review of the initial 2014 drafting of the policy, which was brought forth by then-Council member Mark McGoff, discovered that it was never adopted by the City Council.

The policy was reviewed in 2019, Deven said, to fall in line consistently with the wishes of the community.

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SMITH FROM PAGE 8

Harry’s annual wellness exam is coming up. He’s on a prescription diet. His teeth have to be cleaned.

Dog ownership isn’t what it once was.

The American Pet Products Association estimated we spent $99 billion on pet industry expenditures in 2020.

Some of that might include stupid hats and costumes, but the majority went to food, training, and medical care.

Although Hexe, my boyhood dachshund, was loved, she was treated very differently than I treat Harry. Dogs were, well, dogs back then. Now they are important members of the family.

In the absence of a family, Harry is my son. His well-being is my wellbeing.

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Experts warn that “adoptions should not be spontaneous,” but there probably were a few of those.

Research beforehand helps. There are sites (adoptapet.com, for example) that will help you determine which (breed) dog is best for you.

As great as dachshunds are, they’re not for everyone. Some of you may remember Smitty. He was adopted, at the age of 5 from the great, no-kill MaxFund Shelter in Denver.

I was his third owner. It’s my understanding he may have nipped a child who was playing too aggressively with Smitty when he was a puppy.

Please: Do your homework.

Mark Twain said, “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.”

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

JOHNS-O’LEARY

Gwenyth Kate Johns-O’Leary 2/8/1979 - 11/23/2020

Gwenyth Kate Johns-O’Leary died on November 23, 2020 of COVID-19, surrounded by her family. She was 41 years old. She is survived by her mother Martha Johns of Arvada; sister Emily Johns-O’Leary (Andy McAliley) of Golden; many aunts and uncles in New Mexico, California, and Massachusetts; and more than 30 first cousins and their children.

Her father Charles J. O’Leary died on October 21, 2019.

Gwen was born in Zuni, NM, where her parents were working as a doctor and a counselor for the Indian Health Service.

The family later moved to San Diego, then to Arvada, where Gwen graduated from Arvada West High School in 1998. After completing Jeffco Transition Services, she moved to Colorado Springs, where she lived in a series of host homes that allowed her to live with independence as well as care and companionship. She lived most recently for eight years with Briggitte Behi, where she became like one of the family.

While in San Diego it became clear that Gwen was challenged by multiple physical and neurological disabilities. She was slow to crawl and walk. Her speech was difficult to understand. She had unusual repetitive behaviors that no one understood. It was several years before we recognized that she had Tourette Syndrome.

Gwen was courageous and cheerful. As

a young girl, she participated in Girl Scouts, Junior Theatre, and church activities. When in special education programs, she felt compassion for program participants who had more severe disabilities than she did, and she volunteered to push wheelchairs or feed those who needed help. In her daily life, she befriended strangers with kindness and good humor.

Gwen loved dogs, cooking shows, following celebrity news, watching musicals with her sister, making jewelry, and learning sign language. She was knowledgeable about current events and the British Royal Family and opinionated about sports teams and politics. She had a quick wit and was often hilariously funny.

Above all else, Gwen loved connecting with others, and she worked hard every day to make herself understood and to bring joy to those around her. She was Maid of Honor at her sister’s wedding and then quickly befriended her brotherin-law’s entire extended family. Gwen never forgot a birthday and was always the first to ask after anyone with a new baby or an illness. She frequently called or painstakingly typed texts to her many adoring relatives and friends, who now grieve the loss of her joyous spirit from our world.

A virtual celebration of Gwen’s life was held on Sunday, January 10, 2021 through Jefferson Unitarian Church.

BARTLETT

Richard “Dick” Bartlett 8/2/1926 - 11/19/2020

Richard Spafford Bartlett passed away in the comfort of his home surrounded by the warmth and love of his family. Known to family and friends as “Dick”, Richard was born on March 29th, 1935 in Denver, Colorado to Harold Dana and Mildred Grace Bartlett. He graduated from East Highschool in 1952. Shortly after, Dick served his country in the Korean War as a member of the Navy SeaBees until his honorable discharge in 1957. He earned a B.A in Construction Management and his MBA from the University of Denver, graduating in 1962.

After leaving DU, Dick worked as the Branch President of Capitol Federal Savings for 13 years before transitioning into a real estate career where he worked for Moore Realty, Poole & Co. and Bartlett Land Co for a combined 27 years in sales and real estate development. He lived an active lifestyle as an avid hunter and fisherman, and also played semi-pro football for the Colorado Colts from 19641968. He served his community as the

Mayor of Arvada and was an active member of Christ the King Parish, Crossroads Church of Denver, and Faith Bible Chapel of Arvada.

His passion for the outdoors was fulfilled through his work as the President of the Jefferson County Parks and Recreation board, as well as the state of Colorado board of Park and Recreation.

Dick is survived by his wife, Sally of 62 years, and his three children, Julie (Robert) Dechant, Karen (Marc) Banister and Richard (Dena) Bartlett. He was a grandfather to eight grandchildren: Alec, Lucas, Grace and Jacob Bartlett; Niki Riat and Ashleigh Mascaro; Marcus Banister and Elizabeth Brewer.

Dick’s life will be celebrated privately with family in Colorado. Those who wish to remember Dick in a special way are invited to offer a gift in his memory to the Navy Seal Foundation. Donations can be made at www.navysealfoundation.org.

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WORD ON THE HEAT

Green chile is region’s signature food, with no shortage of controversy

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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atch, Pueblo, Anaheim or an upstart from Greeley — Coloradans have differences of opinion on who grows green chiles best. But when it comes to the state’s love for the spicy fruit (yes, fruit), there’s not much debate to be found.

What you can find, almost everywhere, are green chile burgers, green chile burritos, green chiles in chocolate and wine. There’s green chile salsa, green chile sausages, chips with green chile and lime. But according to Eddie V., (last name withheld) originally from Pueblo, but calling Denver home for decades, for the true connoisseur, a bowl of green chile with a side of warm flour tortillas is all you’ll ever need.

New Mexico, let’s face it, is the 800-pound gorilla in the green chile game, with the tiny village of Hatch creating a smoky mys-

An employee working the Santiago’s take-out window smiles for the camera in BrighPHOTOS BY BOB WOOLEY ton.

tique from coast to coast. But Colorado has been making a respectable showing with the Mirasol, or Mosco chile, aka the Pueblo chile, grown in, you guessed it, Pueblo.

To say green chiles are popular in the city of Pueblo would be a notable understatement. Home to the Chile and Frijoles Festival, and perennial but friendly foe of the folks down in Hatch, the Southern Colorado city can claim serious chile cred. But about four hours north and a little bit east, Greeley is trying to get a piece of the action.

“My mother grew up on a farm, and wanted a produce stand when she was a child, and her dad said no. Then, when she got married, she still wanted one, and my father said no. When he died, she told my brother she wanted one, and he asked me what we should do, and I said: ‘Build her a produce stand!” said Tigges Farm’s Kathy Rickart.

SEE CHILE, P11

Tommyknockers Green Chile Lager in a Lakewood retailer.

The power of Wood.Works at the Arvada Center COMING ATTRACTIONS

Clarke Reader

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ood has proven to be one of the most reliable and dynamic materials humanity has made use of over the centuries. It has been employed to make everything from weapons and transportation to shelter and - as the Arvada Center highlights in its newest exhibits - art.

“In our research we found that the oldest wooden sculpture - the Shigir Idol - is about 11,000 years old, which is around when the human race was coming out the ice age,” said Collin Parson, director of galleries and curator. “Wood is a lot like paper - a creative development used to

record the stories of history.”

Wood.Works and Carley Warren: Three Pieces both run through April 25 at the Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd.

The galleries are open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. To allow for physical distancing and capacity monitoring, an advance free reservation is recommended.

Wood.Works is a follow up to 2017’s Paper.Works exhibit, and Parson said the center is already considering ways to continue to explore material-themed shows in future exhibits. It is housed in

the Main and Upper galleries and features 24 regional artists who use wood as their main medium.

“We have large installations, elegant sculptures and detailed wood reliefs,” Parsson added. “We’ve created a kind of forest in the galleries with artists exploring their fascination with wood.”

To compliment the Wood.Works exhibit is Carley Warren: Three Pieces in the smaller Theatre Gallery. According to provided information, Warren has been creating art with wood for about 50 years, SEE READER, P11

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CHILE FROM PAGE 10

Rickart comes from a Greeley family farm that goes back three generations. Pumpkins are the big cash crop at Tigges Farm, but if she has her way, Northern Colorado will, some day, compete with Pueblo for green chile glory — maybe even with Hatch.

Rickart, with a background in 4-H education, developed her love of the green chile while spending seven years living and working in Bernalillo County, New Mexico.

Her brother, Kenneth Tigges, was running the family farm at that point — growing chiles without much local demand, when a neighbor told him he needed to start roasting them onsite, which was a game-changer.

In 2008, Rickart’s mother passed away. At that time, Rickart, her sister, Gale, and her brother officially took over the farm. They planted 5,000 chile plants that year.

They’ve since quadrupled that number, and Rickart has sought out every bit of knowledge about green chiles she can find. Last year, even amid the COVID-19 pan-

demic, which she said gave them their share of difficulties, her farm sold out of chiles, Sahuaro by name, completely. The season is shorter up north than in the warmer climes of New Mexico, so don’t dawdle if you aim to try a Greeley chile in the fall.

“As soon as we get the hard freezes, it puts an end to the season,” Rickart said. “Mother Nature rules, from beginning to end.”

The fabled Santiago’s

Carmen Morales knows a few things about green chile, and green chiles. Morales founded Santiago’s. Her mother’s green chile recipe put the restaurant on the metro area’s culinary map 30 years ago. Now, with more than 28 locations, Santiago’s is virtually synonymous with breakfast burritos. But the green chile, she said, still reigns supreme. Morales’ parents were originally from New Mexico, where she said her mom learned to cook.

“My dad had to have green chile at every meal or he would refuse to eat,” she said. “To him, it wasn’t really a meal without it.”

So, her mom would make it from scratch every day. Morales said that scratch kitchen tradition

READER FROM PAGE 10

and in this exhibit she’s creating with a set of self-imposed rules: three consistent shapes can be used and each connection between the pieces must be made at a straight angle.

“Between the two exhibits people will get a broad understanding of the range of the material - one of most important to humans,” Parson said. “I hope people who come to the exhibit will see the limitless possibilities of using wood, and those more familiar with the material will have their eyes opened and curiosity sparked.”

For more information and to make reservations, visit https://arvadacenter.org/events/ woodworks.

Carne y Arena brings refugee stories to vivid life

It is one thing to experience a story on a screen or the page but being fully immersed in one provides a whole new perspective. That’s what Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible) — a virtual-reality installation from Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu - offers to visitors at Stanley Marketplace, 2501 N. Dallas St. in Aurora, through Saturday, Jan. 30.

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“One year we purchased 1.8 million pounds of green chiles,” Morales said, “and sold 1.36 million gallons of green chile.”

Santiago’s gets all of those green chiles from Salem, New Mexico, not the storied Hatch. Morales says the farm they buy from is the only one they’ve found capable of producing what her restaurants need.

Santiago’s celebrated the 30th anniversary of their flagship location in Brighton earlier this month.

On the topic of things that are wildly popular in this state, Tommyknocker has been brewing craft beer in Idaho Springs for 26 years.

Brewmaster Steve Indrehus has been there the entire time, creating beer with hints of chocolate, pumpkin and citrus, but a mainstay, and the No. 2 seller in the lineup, is their Green Chile Lager.

Other breweries make chile brews too, but Indrehus thinks drinkability is what sets Tommyknocker’s apart from the rest.

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As the lead figure in Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, Jeff Tweedy is responsible for some of the best alt-country/rock of the last more than 20 years. In the last decade or so, he’s taken to making solo albums, often getting quieter and more experimental than he would with the band.

His most recent album, 2020’s “Love is The King,” is perhaps his loveliest yet and is received a physical release on Jan. 15. To celebrate, Tweedy will be performing live from Constellation in Chicago with his local bandmates: Spencer and Sammy Tweedy, Liam Kazar, Sima Cunningham and James Elkington.

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“A lot of the others are really hot and in the novelty category,” he said.

“Ours has green chile flavor and warmth, but it’s drinkable.

We want people to drink one and want another, not get burned up by too much spice, too much alcohol — everything comes together to make a really nice balanced beer.”

Indrehus said it takes about 100 pounds of chiles — a blend of mild and hot Anaheims — to make every batch of lager.

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Beer’s not your bag? Green chile lovers who prefer a touch of the grape, rejoice.

Lescombes Vineyard has you covered. The New Mexico winery has been making Hatch Green Chile Wine since the late 1980s.

Sandra Pacheco, national sales director at Lescombes, said the wine isn’t spicy.

“It’s more in the bouquet,” she said. “You’re getting the heat from the aroma, like the essence of a roasted chile, in the nose of the wine.”

Several stores in the metro area stock Hatch Green Chile Wine, if you’re so inclined.

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To my mind, there are movie stars (both past and present) and then there’s Audrey Hepburn. There’s a reason her name has taken on a meaning unto itself - one that speaks of elegance, timeless beauty and an irrepressible warmth that infuses everything. The adoration so many have for Hepburn is all over the new documentary, “Audrey: More Than an Icon.”

The film traces Hepburn’s journey from war-torn Europe to the pinnacle of Hollywood, and then all over the world as an UNICEF ambassador. The documentary wisely spends as much time exploring her personality and guiding philosophies as it does on her fashion sense or ability to light up the screen. What emerges certainly isn’t the complete portrait of Hepburn - she was notoriously private about certain areas of her life - but it provides a window into a woman who was far more complex, indomitable and loving than most could imagine.

There will never be another like Audrey Hepburn — watch this film to on services like Vudu and Amazon to see why.

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With family missing in war, her ‘mind is the hardest place to be’ Refugee is consumed with worry about family caught in renewed civil war

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Millete Birhanemaskel, a refugee, longtime Denver resident and businesswoman, grappled with 2020 as many others have: She tried to protect her family, her employees, her tenants from COVID’s reach. She worried about the presidential election. And she managed to keep her coffee shop, the Whittier Cafe, from going under.

She knew already what it was to be separated from the people you love, whether that separation comes by virus or by war. And she knew, too, what it was to live with uncertainty and powerlessness because each is a refugee’s emotional wallpaper.

But the anxieties of 2020 for her became magnitudes greater on Nov. 3.

On that day, as Americans and much of the world awaited election results, civil war flared again in her family’s home country of Ethiopia and her grandmother and two aunts went missing in the shelling. In the days since, the isolation that has marked this year for so many has taken on a new meaning for her: Much of her family is still unreachable and her grief is invisible to most Americans who know nothing of Ethiopia and the trauma of its wars.

Millete Birhanemaskel, 39, of Denver, moved to the United States from Ethiopia in 1982 and owns the Whittier Cafe, a business that she said is focused on social justice. She still has family in Ethiopia and is concerned for their well-being and safety as a civil war has broken out in the Tigray region where her family lives.

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Birhanemaskel’s head is 8,000 miles away, at the refugee camp in Sudan where she was born after her parents fled bombing of their native Tigray in northern Ethiopia under a military dictatorship.

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extended family have been living back in Tigray since the dictator was toppled in the early 1990s. That is, until November when a feud between Ethiopia’s federal government and local Tigrayan leaders prompted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to bomb the region again, inciting a civil war that has killed civilians and forced more than 50,000 Tigrayans to flee.

Constantly trying to make contact

Since the disappearance of her grandmother and two aunts, Birhanemaskel, 39, has been calling the cell phones she bought them, which go straight to busy signals without even ringing. She has been checking her Twitter feed every few minutes.

She keeps seeing posts that refugees have little food or water as they walk west toward refugee camps in Sudan, some reportedly collapsing, even dying of exhaustion along the way. She keeps hearing that Ethiopian soldiers are raping Tigrayan women and shooting or beheading Tigrayan men, leaving their bodies in the road for fellow refugees to step over. She keeps imagining she is walking in their shoes.

“As long as they’re missing, I can’t sleep, can’t focus, can’t enjoy any-

thing because I keep having the most awful thoughts about what’s happening to them,” she says.

She is experiencing what clinicians call “vicarious trauma.”

But vicarious does not express how close it hits home, this civil war in a country where she has never officially lived, yet has defined so much of her life. It is the place, she says, that makes her “most full.” And yet the trauma her relatives are now enduring is a trauma they and her parents lived through four decades ago - and the third siege on the Tigrayan people in her grandmother’s lifetime.

That story explains why her grandma, whose home was bombed in the 1970s, hates loud noises. It explains why her parents met in a refugee camp and emigrated to the U.S. with a promise to themselves and their kids: “Never again.”

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As 2020 came to an end, Colorado unemployment claims began rising once again after months of steady declines following unprecedented increases in the spring and summer.

In Jefferson County, that meant even more residents were seeking out the services provided by the Jefferson County Business and Workforce Center, which provides resources to help facilitate connections between county workers and residents and has been dealing with extraordinary demand since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic just as it also had to rethink how it provides its services.

“When the center was open we were probably seeing 150 to 500 individuals a week depending on the time of the year,” said Michelle Foley, the program manager for the Business and Workforce Center.

“We went to that to having that many people coming in or calling us per day.”

But as the center works to help clients navigate this latest spike in unemployment, it will be doing so with the help of a new and improved website that Foley believes will help both businesses and residents more easily locate, make sense of and access its offerings.

Foley said the creation of the new website, which can be accessed at jeffco.us/4157, was spurred by the realization of the center’s staff that they would no longer be able to de-

THE WEBSITE The county business and workforce website and resources are available at www.jeffco.us/4157 pend on offering in-person services during the pandemic.

While the center had an existing website, Foley says many users found it difficult to use often ended up not learning about the center’s resources as a result.

“You really had to know what you were looking for in order to identify some of the services that we listed,” Foley said. “And so the way we’ve tried to identify this new website is to highlight the most common reasons people would come to us and then each of those has a tab containing those resources.”

In addition to creating the new website, Foley said the center has also adapted many of its services and offerings to the COVID-19 environment.

For example, the center now offers free online videos addressing job interviewing over Zoom as well as information for businesses about how to access PPE and other resources to keep their business operating as smoothly as possible despite everchanging range of new restrictions and rules.

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VACCINE FROM PAGE 4

conditioning and heat vents.

She said each unit produces hundreds of millions of ions that circulate in the air, seeking out harmful particles including COVID, smog, pollen and other things you’d rather not breathe, and magnetically attaches to them, rendering them harmless.

“I sit on a senior living think tank here in Denver, and we had a vendor approach us about it. It’s not new technology,” she said. “The technology’s been around for nearly 10 years, and they said, “you

really need to consider this for senior living because we just got the COVID third-party testing on it.” At that point, we scrambled to make sure it was legit science and it was actually going to work. So, we made them prove it to us, and then we went ahead and purchased it for all three buildings.”

There will be another vaccination day at the community in about three weeks when residents who participated in the first round will receive their booster shot of the vaccine. That will also be a chance for those who didn’t make the initial event to get their first dose. A third event will follow 21 days later to give the remaining second doses.

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are continuing to be devastated,” she says.

Vicarious does not describe the experience of having to stop thinking of herself as an Ethiopian American, but rather as a Tigrayan American virtually overnight Nov. 3. “There’s no way that my country could bomb my family like this,” she says.

Vicarious does not account for how on edge she feels, how irritated she is by the post-U.S.-election chatter on the talk radio her husband listens to every morning, how short-tempered she has become with their two youngest kids, ages 4 and 3, whose care her mother helps with.

“Thank God for that because I can’t be present with them and just forget about it, so I just sit in my car

The Ridge Pinehurst in Lakewood.

and scroll my phone for news about Ethiopia. This has consumed my entire life. Every minute. And I don’t know how to stop that.”

Birhanemaskel, who gave up her Ethiopian passport to become a U.S. citizen, would not be allowed into the country at this point. So she applied weeks ago for an emergency visa to tour the refugee camps in Sudan, partly so she can help tell Tigrayans’ stories on social media, but mainly to search for her grandma and aunties, or at least find out if they’re still alive. She will fly east when her visa arrives, which could be any day now, and daydreams about spotting them immediately in the camp where she was born.

Mother urges daughter to stay home

Her mother — who lived in that camp for several years and knows what she’s heading into — has begged her to stay here with her

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kids.

Birhanemaskel knows she is risking COVID exposure and a lack of medical care in Sudan, and a long quarantine when she returns. She also knows that posting refugees’ stories could put her at risk of getting blacklisted by Ahmed’s government and forbidden from seeing her family if the civil war ends and if they survive and if they return, once again, to Tigray.

Those possibilities, however unbearable, seem preferable to further neither-here-nor-thereness. From the comfort of her home in Denver, she says, she cannot pretend she isn’t caught in this war.

“When I weigh just sitting here against what if that happens or what if I get COVID, it doesn’t even compare. I just can’t stay here doing nothing much more.”

Her decision to make the trip became easier last week when, after

hundreds of attempts, her grandmother finally answered her cell phone.

“We talked for only a minute. She was terrified. The only thing she would say is `I’m in hiding, we’re rationing water, and where’s my daughter, you’ve got to find my daughter.’”

“Who could say no?” Birhanemaskel says. “I have to try because my mind is the hardest place to be.”

This story is part of a statewide reporting project from the Colorado News Collaborative called On Edge.

This project is supported in part by the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Reporting and a grant honoring the memory of the late Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal. Our intent is to foster conversation about mental health in a state where stigma runs high.

If you’re struggling, help is available on Colorado’s crisis hotline. Call 1-844-493-TALK(8255).

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals City and County PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing will be held virtually before the Arvada Planning Commission on February 16, 2021, at 6:15 p.m., when and where you may speak on the matter to consider a Conditional Use Permit for Morgan Ralston Creek, generally located at 9881 West 58th Avenue. Members of the public may join virtually via phone by emailing jsuk@ arvada.org for the phone number; the email must mention this meeting date. To submit a request for public comment, you must go to arvada.org/PlnCommission and complete the public comment form by 5 p.m. on 2/16/2021. Additional information can be obtained from https://www.arvadapermits.org/etrakit3/search/ project.aspx?activityno=DA2020-0129.

CITY OF ARVADA PLANNING COMMISSION /s/ Patricia Connell, Secretary Legal Notice No. 409913 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing will be held virtually before the Arvada Planning Commission on February 16, 2021, at 6:15 p.m., when and where you may speak on the matter to consider a Vacation of Right-of-Way for Habitat for Humanity, generally located at 5249 Carr Street. Members of the public may join virtually via phone by emailing jsuk@arvada.org

for the phone number; the email must mention this meeting date. To submit a request for public comment, you must go to arvada.org/PlnCommission and complete the public comment form by 5 p.m. on 2/16/2021. Additional information can be obtained from https://www.arvadapermits.org/etrakit3/search/ project.aspx?activityno=DA2020-0131.

CITY OF ARVADA PLANNING COMMISSION /s/ Patricia Connell, Secretary Legal Notice No. 409914 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing will be held virtually before the Arvada Planning Commission on February 16, 2021, at 6:15 p.m., when and where you may speak on the matter to consider the Rezoning and Annexation for the Lazy Susan Annexation, generally located at 16790 and 16770 W. 63rd Place. Members of the public may join virtually via phone by emailing jsuk@arvada.org for the phone number; the email must mention this meeting date. To submit a request for public comment, you must go to arvada.org/PlnCommission and complete the public comment form by 5 p.m. on 2/16/2021. Additional information can be obtained from https:// www.arvadapermits.org/etrakit3/search/project. aspx?activityno=DA2020-0103.

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Public Notice

Dated at Arvada, Colorado this 12th day of January, 2021.

NOTICE OF CONTRACTOR'S SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that on the 15th day of February, 2021, at Arvada, Colorado final settlement will be made by the Arvada with Concrete Express Inc., 2027 West Colfax Ave, Denver, Colorado, herein after called the "Contractor" for and on account of contract CSB-14-ST-18R, Project No. 14-ST-18 – Wadsworth Right Turn Lanes (68th Ave to 74th Ave).

Any person(s), co partnership, association or corporation having an unpaid claim against said project, for or on account of the furnishing of labor, material, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, may, at any time up to and including said time of final settlement, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

All such claims shall be filed with the Arvada Public Works Engineering Department either by email, or physical mail (USPS mail or courier) as identified below, and must be received on or before 4:30 p.m. on the final settlement date referenced above.

By E-Mail (preferred) engineeringpermits@arvada.org Physical Mail (USPS mail or courier) Chris Lisberg 8101 Ralston Road Arvada, Colorado, 80002 Failure on the part of the creditor to file such

Nancy Allen, Purchasing Director

Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that disbursements in final settlement will be issued by the Finance Director at 10:00 a.m., February 2, 2021 to Triple M Construction, LLC for work related to Project No. 2020 Concrete Replacement and performed under that contract dated for the City of Arvada.

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

CITY OF ARVADA /s/ Kristen Rush, City Clerk

Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

Notice is hereby given that disbursements in final settlement will be issued by the Finance Director at 10:00 a.m., February 2, 2021 to APC Construction Co., LLC for work related to Project No. 2020 Mill, Overlay and Reconstruct and performed under that contract dated for the City of Arvada.

Legal Notice No. 409911 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Dated this January 8, 2021

First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

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

Dated this January 8, 2021 CITY OF ARVADA /s/ Kristen Rush, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 409909 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

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