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Arvada officer’s actions questioned in 2018 Kansas case Police maintain officer did not act dishonestly

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

if that were the case, then there are already agreements in place between the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency and the state health department to basically stop all activities when anything like that occurs and to evaluate what the situation is.”

JPPHA launched the study in May 2019 to ensure the proposed route, specifically the portion of the route that runs adjacent to the site of the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapon Plant, was safe. Active from 1952 to 1989, the plant was shut down by the federal government after leaks, fires

A criminal case in Lawrence, Kansas involving a police officer who was later hired by the Arvada Police Department may have broader legal implications for past and future Arvada cases.

The details of that Feb. 4, 2018 arrest call into question the truthfulness of the two officers involved. This could complicate or even overturn other court rulings related to those officers, according to at least one legal expert and the Kansas case’s defense attorney.

That defense attorney, Kurt Kerns, wrote the Lawrence Police Department in 2019, notifying the department of the “malfeasance of these two officers.” According to his letter, the police reports and court testimony of the officers contradict video and audio recordings taken from the scene of the incident.

The letter sparked an internal affairs investigation of one of the officers, Brad Williams, and through that investigation, the LPD cleared Williams of any department policy violations. Williams remains with the department.

Meanwhile, the other officer — Brian Wonderly, who now works with the Arvada Police Department — was never part of an internal investigation regarding the incident, said Amy Rhoads, public affairs officer with the LPD. Wonderly left the Lawrence department in November 2018, prior to February 2019, when Kerns sent his letter.

The APD said in a statement to the Arvada Press that it does not believe APD officer Brian Wonderly acted dishonestly in the Kansas case and “we are incredibly pleased to have Officer Wonderly, and very lucky.”

Spokesperson Detective Dave Snelling with the APD said he “looked into” the case after the department received an anonymous phone call complaint about the Kansas incident. The APD’s review included

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A photo taken by Arvada firefighters on the scene of the Cameron Peak Fire near Fort Collins.

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Jeffco lends a hand to help against fires and hurricanes

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jefferson County may have so far been spared from the recent natural disasters wreaking havoc throughout Colorado and elsewhere in the country, but that hasn’t stopped the county from getting involved in the effort to respond to them.

With major wildfires erupting around the state, both the West Metro

Fire Protection District, which covers significant portions of Jefferson and Douglas County, and the Arvada Fire Protection District have sent personnel to join the firefighting efforts.

West Metro Fire Protection District Public Information Officer Rhonda Scholting said that as of Aug. 27 the agency had three firefighters deployed to the Cameron Peak Fire near Fort Collins.

“For the West Metro crew here,

they’re working the night shift and staying in a spike camp (a secondary camp further out from the main camp) in Poudre Canyon,” said Scholting. “They do not have much in the way of cell service.”

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CDPHE: Jefferson Parkway safe even in ‘worst-case scenario’ Review of Rocky Flats soil study is complete

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The long-awaited review of a soil study examining the safety of planned Jefferson Parkway construction was presented to the Arvada City Council on Aug. 24. With the review came a verdict from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) that the proposed project is safe.

Bill Ray, executive director of the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority (JPPHA) — the entity planning the Jefferson Parkway, a proposed toll road through northwest Arvada — presented the findings with Jennifer Opila, director of the Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division of the CDPHE. “We are confident that construction of the parkway is not going to produce a risk to a parkway construction worker or a resident that would need to be under regulatory control,” Opila said. “There is a very small possibility that there could be something out there that would be discovered during parkway construction and

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County launches testing site, response office as COVID-19 numbers improve Still too many coronavirus cases to move to new reopening phase

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jeffco Public Health’s Executive Director has announced two new steps the agency is taking to improve its long term COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.

The first is the creation of a new Office of Pandemic Response, which is being funded with Federal CARES Act dollars. JCPH Executive Director Mark B. Johnson said some of the staff members in the new office will be freshly-hired case investigators and contact tracers, allowing many JCPH employees who had been handling those roles to get back to their usual jobs.

The second step is the creation of a new testing site at the Mile Hi Church in Lakewood.

“This new site is designed to meet the needs of our Latinx community who have been unfortunately disporportionately impacted by the virus and it will offer bilingual registration and other supports,” said Johnson.

Those new activities come as Jefferson County’s COVID-19 outlook continues to brighten. During a telephone town hall held on Aug. 24, Johnson said the county’s rates of new COVID-19 cases, new COVID-19 hospitalizations and COVID-19 deaths are all continuing to decline.

“All of those are numbers that are going down and that is a good sign for what we are dealing with right now,” said Johnson.

Looking good In the two weeks prior to the town hall, there had been 317 new cases of COVID-19 in Jeffco, which put it well under the threshold of 580-or-fewer cases in a two-week period necessary to maintain the variance from state rules that allows for more people to occupy certain spaces and businesses then would otherwise be allowed under state rules.

However, that number still remained higher than the threshold of 290-or-fewer new cases in a two-week period. That is one of several benchmarks Jeffco must meet to apply to move into the “protect-our-neighbors” phase of Colorado’s reopening plan.

That phase would allow a further loosening of restrictions.

Jeffco is meeting other benchmarks, including keeping test positivity under five

percent.

But other Denver metro area counties will also likely need to be generally meeting those thresholds before Jeffco is able to advance to protectyour-neighbor due to the amount of linkage between residents of the counties, Johnson said.

“Once all or at least most of the counties in the Denver metro area are down in that protect our neighbor phase I believe we will be getting back once more to normal,” Johnson said.

During the town hall, JCPH COVID-19 Incident Commander Christine Billings also discussed the current status of the county’s case investigation and contact tracing efforts. She said contact tracers are generally reaching out to those who have tested positive within 24 hours of receiving their test and it generally takes another 24 hours for them to conduct contact tracing calls with anyone they have been in contact with.

Flu season a concern Margaret Huffman, a director at JCPH, also said JCPH is recommending residents get the flu vaccine as early as possible, preferably in September or October.

“This year it’s more important than ever because we

will be having competing illnesses that mimic each other in many ways circulating at the same time,” said Huffman.

When a resident asked whether it is possible that Jeffco could require everyone in the county to be vaccinated once a COVID-19 vaccine is developed, Johnson said he would not.

“I cannot speak to what the Federal or state government will do in the future but I will not be a part of a plan to force any immunization of COVID-19 on the public at large,” said Johnson.

Johnson also said criticism against JCPH for allegedly hiding the fact that vast majority of COVID-19 deaths are in people over 60 (more than 90% of Jeffco deaths). He said the breakdown of COVID-19 deaths by age has long been available on the county website.

“We are not trying to scare anybody we are trying to educate people and let them know what is going on so I don’t know what else we could do other then get that information out in our news releases and our website,” he said.

“I cannot take responsibility for what Fox News or MSNBC may be doing as far as

Jeffco COVID-19 cases

4,824 Total cases

237

Total deaths

27

Currently hospitalized

532

Ever hospitalized

4,295 Recovered cases

Numbers current as of Aug. 31 bringing fear into the communities but here in Jeffco doing our best get info out there so we can see it make decisions based on that”

RTD board appoints 1st woman as transit agency’s CEO

BY MICHAEL KARLIK COLORADO POLITICS

Debra A. Johnson, the current deputy CEO of Long Beach Transit in southern California, will be the next CEO and general manager of the Regional Transportation District.

On Aug. 25, RTD’s board of directors approved Johnson by a vote of 14-1, which prompted the negotiation of an employment agreement with her.

“I have been preparing to lead at this level for more than 25 years,” Johnson said during a video presentation to the public in August.

She wrote in her application to the board that she directs the operations

of the Long Beach agency, which serves 14 cities and 23 million customers. Johnson has a master’s degree in public administration and has also worked for transit systems in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles County.

“We made history tonight and I look forward to making a lot more positive history,” said Director Troy L. Whitmore, District K, referring to Johnson’s new status as the first woman, and also the first Black woman, to lead the eight-county, approximately 3,000-employee agency.

There were nearly 60 applicants to succeed interim general manager Paul J. Ballard, and an executive search

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committee narrowed the finalists to Johnson, Adelee Le Grand and Tina Quigley. The board deliberated on a separate call closed to the public before rejoining the meeting to take a vote.

Director Natalie Menten, representing parts of Lakewood and Golden in District M, was the sole vote against the hiring resolution, although not because she opposed Johnson. She said the three women before the board had similar qualities and experience.

Menten’s dissatisfaction stemmed from her desire to cut the salary for the position of general manager.

“My vote tonight is in opposition to what is going to be another bloated executive salary at RTD,” she said. “I will not stand quiet as the taxpayers will be on the hook for another big bill.”

Menten said that in the past, she attempted to cut $100,000 from the general manager’s roughly $295,000 salary.

She pointed out that the pay was far in excess of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s executive director and even the governor.

“So the question is, how did RTD get so far off track with excessive salaries, when at the end of the day less than 3% of the population uses RTD?” she asked.

In an online survey that gathered 685 responses, the public rated the three finalists similarly, with 37% saying Johnson was “very qualified” compared to 33% each for Le Grand and Quigley.

“Debra has the operating experience working with larger agencies in bigger cities, but applying a smart, efficient approach to ensuring sound operational processes,” wrote one

Debra A. Johnson will be the next CEO and general manager of RTD. COURTESY OF RTD anonymous respondent.

“Seems to have a lot of executive experience. Liked her presentation, spoke a lot about what she will do for the organization and how she would handle the COVID-19 pandemic,” wrote another.

“She seems solid, yet unspectacular,” noted someone who gave her a middling rating on the one-to-10 scale.

“If we want to maintain the status quo, this is the choice to make.”

Lance L. Longenbohn, the president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1001, said that the operators’ union is “very pleased with the Board of Directors’ selection of Debra Johnson. We agree that Debra was the best overall choice, and look forward to working together.”

This story is from Colorado Politics, a statewide political and public policy news journal. Used by permission. For more, visit coloradopolitics.com.

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Young men sentenced in chlorine bomb case April 2019 incident injured an Arvada police officer STAFF REPORT

On Aug. 27, three of four involved individuals were sentenced after being convicted in a case in which a homemade chlorine gas bomb was thrown at an Arvada police officer.

In April, 2019, the four individuals — Gavin Dawson, Maxwell McCann, Braiden Ulmer and Isaac Koch — set up a road barrier near 72nd Avenue and Beech Street, according to a release from the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.

McCann

Ulmer

The Arvada Police Department received a call about the barrier from a citizen and sent Officer T. Grahn to the scene, where he was joined by the individual who had called the department, according to the arrest affidavit.

Grahn found several traffic signs in a pile on the street and saran wrap creating a barricade across the road. As Grahn attempted to remove the signs from the road, an individual in a nearby field

Dawson Koch threw a plastic bottle at Grahn, which was later found to contain brake fluid and pool cleaner, the affidavit said.

The plastic bottle began to release white smoke and Grahn fainted minutes later.

Grahn was taken to a hospital and “diagnosed with sustaining a chlorine gas exposure,” the affidavit said.

The individuals involved set off seven additional incendiaries in the area, according to

the DA’s release.

The DA’s office said that Arvada Police Department officers spoke during the Aug. 27 sentencing hearing, pointing to the impacts of the incident including that a Code Red was issued for a one-mile radius in Arvada and that “the officer suffered severe pulmonary damage … and continues to suffer the effects of the chlorine gas.”

“These men set up an ambush for police. When the first Arvada officer arrived to clear away the road hazard, he was a fixed target for their toxic chemical bombs,” District Attorney Pete Weir said. “These young men purchased the chemicals and plastic bottles at Walmart, mixed the bombs and then set up their targets for ambush. The impact on the

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In December 2019, Koch pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Possess an Explosive/Incendiary Device. He was granted a two-year deferred judgment and sentence.

On May 18, Dawson, McCann and Ulmer pleaded guilty to Attempted Second Degree Assault of a Peace Officer — Toxic Caustic Device.

On Aug. 27, the three were sentenced to probation for two years with 60 days in the jail’s Alternative Sentencing Program, which includes jail work release and in-home detention.

An unnamed juvenile also participated in the group’s activities, and was tried in juvenile court.

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Foster kicks off first year as dual language option school Principal says dual language plans underway in spite of COVID-19 hurdles

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At Foster Dual Language PK-8 in Arvada, the new school year means more than navigating remote learning and COVID-19 procedures. 20202021 is the first academic year that the school will run as a dual language option school after receiving approval from the Board of Education last November.

Formerly a neighborhood school, Foster has had a dual language program since 2004, said principal Leigh Hiester. The program has served kindergarteners through sixth graders who would like to become bilingual and biliterate, assisting native English speakers in learning Spanish and native Spanish speakers in learning English.

Historically, and this year, about 50% of the program’s students have been native English speakers and 50%, native Spanish speakers.

“Starting our first year as a dual language option school and as a PK-8, this creates a new pathway for kids,” Hiester said. “I’m excited to see educationally what this year brings.”

Through the program, all students receive about 50% of their daily instruction in Spanish and 50% in English. For each subject, a teacher might teach that subject in English one day and Spanish the next; or,

Students at Foster Elementary practice their reading and speaking skills through the Dual Language program last year.

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the teacher might teach the subject in English for several weeks before switching to Spanish, depending on the grade level.

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The native English speakers have learned Spanish not only from class, but also through small interactions during the day, with staff speaking to them in Spanish during class activities or in the lunch line, she said.

“Life is happening in Spanish, it’s not just that you’re being taught Spanish,” she said. “Knowing what a challenge it was for me to learn Spanish in adulthood, I was hoping we could give that gift to our kids now.

All our kids are really thriving in the environment there.”

With the majority of Foster students opting into the dual language program, Hiester said that over the past several years, she and the community sought ways to make students’ experiences even more beneficial. Namely, Hiester wanted to find a way to extend the program into students’ middle school years — previously, Foster only went up to the sixth grade.

“We tried to continue the program in various ways through different middle schools and it really just was a struggle,” Hiester said. “So we decided to go for it and do something that no other school in the history of Jeffco has done, going from a neighborhood to an option.”

Last year, Foster added a seventhgrade class. This year, in line with its transition to an option school, it has added an eighth-grade class as well.

Karla Hernandez, a parent who has one current Foster student and two Foster graduates, highlighted the importance of this switch, saying that local middle schools often only offer early-level Spanish classes. This previously left seventh-graders who graduated from Foster without any options for a Spanish class in which they could grow, Hernandez said.

The family just recently moved about 25 minutes away from the school, but Hernandez said she still has plans to keep her third-grader in the school.

“Even though I’m a native Spanish speaker, I wouldn’t be able to teach all the grammar rules they learn from Foster,” she said. “And also, we feel

like family there. As a Spanish mom, I feel very comfortable with all of the other parents. The English speakers have always wanted to learn about the culture and vice versa.”

As it transitions into being a full dual language school, 2020-2021 will be the last year in which Foster holds courses for students that are taught exclusively in English. This year, Hiester estimated that about 30 students are learning in English only at Foster.

By 2021-2022, all students will be on a dual language track. Though Foster is now an option school, the plan is for students in the Foster neighborhood to have enrollment priority.

The coronavirus pandemic has certainly thrown new challenges into the execution of the dual language program, Hiester added. Being part of the program is a different experience in a remote environment, in which 100% of students will engage until Sept. 8, she said.

Even after Sept. 8, about 20% of Foster students will continue to learn remotely, Hiester estimated.

The number could rise back to 100% if a second wave of COVID-19 closes school buildings.

“We’ve had to problem-solve on how we address English needs while a family cannot support a student’s English needs at home, and the converse of that,” Hiester said. “We’re really pushing to make sure that families are getting used to our learning management system. My staff really rose to the occasion and I’m very proud of them.”

Hiester added that even with the new challenges the coronavirus has created, the school believes it can execute its dual language model as planned.

With the school’s big change underway, Hiester said she looks forward to seeing the effects of the leap the community has taken.

“In schools where it’s just dual language, you have the ability to elevate Spanish to a different level. For example, you can just do announcements in Spanish,” she said. “It helps with the focus of the school so we’re all working toward the same goals.”

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and other incidents caused plutonium to contaminate the site’s soil.

The site was cleaned up by the early 2000s. But numerous community members have spoken against the Jefferson Parkway’s proximity to Rocky Flats, believing the construction could stir up particles of plutonium that were left behind after the cleanup and put members of the public at a greater risk for developing cancer.

The JPPHAhas sought to ease these concerns with its study. The study tested about 250 samples from about 2.5 miles of land, Ray said.

Three months after the study got underway, the JPPHA reported to CDPHE that a soil sample had tested for 264 pCi/g (picocuries per gram) of plutonium. Based on a government-established safety measure, soil should contain no more than 50 pCi/g of the substance.

In the original testing of the soil sample, only a portion of the sample was tested, CDPHE’s Lindsay Masters told Colorado Community Media in a previous interview. Masters is the agency’s environmental protection specialist.

A second test on a different portion of the sample found less than 2 pCi/g of plutonium.

Even so, potential environmental concerns, in addition to other concerns, were enough to spark Broomfield city councilmembers to unanimously vote to withdraw from JPPHA in February. Broomfield has been one of three entities involved in JPPHA, alongside Arvada and Jefferson County.

Meanwhile, throughout the remainder of the study, no other samples were found to have plutonium levels above or close to the established safety levels of 50 pCi/g. In October, the CDPHE announced that a batch of 25 samples in the area all tested for less than 4 pCi/g.

Even so, when the CDPHE created its review of the report, it ran a “worstcase scenario,” Opila said. In other

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and rope rescue experts.

“They will be ready to respond if firefighters are injured and need to be rescued from steep, inaccessible terrain,” the post read.

Scholting said West Metro had also sent other personnel that had worked in non-frontline roles—two as communications technicians and two as medical unit leaders that had since returned home. West Metro had also had a crew at the Williams Creek Fire in Pueblo County.

Meanwhile, Arvada Fire Protection District Public Information Office Deanna Harrington said on Aug. 27 that her agency currently had five firefighters deployed to Colorado forest fires. That total included a team of three that were deployed with one of the agency’s brush trucks to the Grizzly Creek Fire near Glenwood Springs and two Battalion Chiefs at the Cameron Peak Fire.

The current Brush crew at the Grizzly Creek Fire was sent to relieve another crew that had been at the fire for 14 days, the longest a fire crew is allowed to remain at a forest fire.

Tanker Base Above and beyond the ground crews, Jeffco has also played another impor-

words, the CDPHE ran the numbers for a hypothetical scenario in which particles with that higher rate of 264 pCi/g were imagined to be scattered throughout the entire testing site.

Even in that scenario, construction workers would be exposed to a radiation dose measured at 11.52 milligrams per year. Opila said regulatory intervention begins only for areas where nearby individuals would face a minimum exposure level of 25 milligrams per year, more than two times the level construction workers would face in the so-called worst-case scenario.

Opila added that nearby residents, in that same scenario, would only face a dose of 2.6 milligrams per year.

Councilmembers had several questions, particularly about the depth of the soil sampling process. Ray said that while the vast majority of samples were taken within the top two inches of the soil, a handful, or about six to 10, were taken at “various depths.”

Opila said the CDPHE approved of this methodology because “the historic literature on the windblown contamination that exists within the refuge and the parkway transportation corridor shows that it is primarily in the first couple of inches in the soil.” Further, “even if there was higher concentrations at a lower depth, we believe our modeling actually takes that into consideration.”

The majority of councilmembers did not weigh in one way or the other about the study’s findings.

But councilmember David Jones, who is also the chairman of the JPPHA board, said he found that the findings reinforced other studies that have been conducted in the Rocky Flats area.

“For me, having grown up and here and seen Rocky Flats while it was in its active state and then through the shutdown, it’s good to know that the studies have been reinforced,” he said, “and we continue to see that there’s no great danger or harm as long as you stay out of that operable unit area,” or the central, off-limits portion of the Rocky Flats site.

JPPHA has been waiting to go fortant role in Colorado’s wildfire fight: providing the air base where dozens of planes have been prepped before departing to dump fire retardant on the fire.

On August 19, the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield posted on Facebook that tankers had flown more than 100 missions from the US Forest Service Jeffco Air Tanker Base during the prior week.

Although the airport has a Broomfield address, it is located on the northernmost edge of Jefferson County and has carried Jefferson County’s name since it was established in 1983. It is managed by the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland.

Ben Miller, the airport development coordinator for Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, said the tankers are contracted by fire agencies and come to the airport to be loaded up with fire retardant which they then drop on the fires.

“For us, we are just happy to provide a safe runway space and be able to host them as they do this important job,” Miller said.

Hurricane Response While some Jeffco firefighters were on the ground at those fires, others were preparing to travel to a tragedy much farther afield. On Aug. 26, West Metro Fire tweeted that 80 members of Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1)

The site of the initial soil sample that showed plutonium levels far above safety levels.

COURTESY OF GOOGLE MAPS ward with several items of business until the soil study findings could be reviewed by the CDPHE. Now, the next step for the parkway is to negotiate the terms of Broomfield’s withdrawal from the authority, Ray said in an email.

“Once that matter is resolved, the

county and Arvada will have to make a determination about how to proceed,” he said.

The city of Arvada’s communications manager, Ben Irwin, said negotiations between the three parties had not yet begun as of Aug. 27 but are expected to begin soon.

were getting on the road to Texas, to help with search and rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Lauren.

The task force, which is one of 28 FEMA Search and Rescue teams in the nation, is sponsored by West Metro, consists of members of fire agencies from across Colorado, including five Arvada firefighters. As the storm drew closer to the gulf coast, the team was instead ordered to Shreveport, Louisiana.

Harrington said that when it comes to determining how many resources to send to disaster areas, an agency must always remain mindful of its primary purpose.

“We’ve always got to balance our desire to help with our need to make sure we have resources for our community,” Harrington said. “That has to be our number one priority.”

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conversations with the LPD and Wonderly — but based on the Arvada Press’s correspondence with APD, it is unclear what other steps the department took to investigate.

After Snelling stated that the APD had reviewed the matter, he asked the Arvada Press to provide the APD with video evidence from the incident in question.

When asked if the APD, had previously attempted to view this video footage — which seems to contradict parts of Wonderly’s testimony — Snelling responded, “We have full confidence in our background investigation process and Officer Brian Wonderly is a great addition to our team. We will have no further comment.”

Snelling also stated that the APD performs rigorous background checks on new hires, including a written test, an extensive personal history questionnaire, interviews with an investigator and a polygraph test.

An interaction in Lawrence The 2018 story starts in a bar called the Jayhawk Café near the University of Kansas campus, where Wonderly, as an officer for the LPD, was making his usual rounds alongside Officer Williams.

Wonderly started escorting a young woman out of the bar, believing that she was drinking while underage. The young woman’s brother, Jameson O’Connor, saw this and asked Wonderly why the woman was being escorted from the

September 3, 2020S bar, O’Connor said in an interview.

According to him, Wonderly asked him to back up and O’Connor immediately turned to the side, before the two were close enough to make physical contact, allowing the officer to pass without incident.

O’Connor said that shortly after Wonderly had passed by him, he turned to follow Wonderly outside the bar. Within seconds, Officer Williams grabbed onto O’Connor to detain him and took him outside the bar, he said.

An audio recording was taken that night through the police department’s equipment and depicts a conversation between Wonderly and Williams, with Williams saying he is considering charging O’Connor with battery of a law enforcement officer.

In the recording, Wonderly responds by summarizing his interaction with O’Connor.

“I was like, `You need to back the (expletive) up’ because he was trying to get in between me and her and that’s when he said, `I’m not going to back the (expletive) up,’” Wonderly said. “I kept pushing him and that’s why I got drink spilled all over me. I’m trying to remember if he did grab, or — Yeah, he definitely like, puffed his chest out and kind of walked at me, but, yeah I don’t think he like, grabbed or pushed or anything.”

Later in the recording, the two agreed to give O’Connor a charge of interference with law enforcement.

Kansas Statute 21-5904 says that for an individual’s actions to rise to the level of interference, that person must be “knowingly obstructing, resisting or opposing any person authorized by law to serve process in the service or execution

or in the attempt to serve or execute any writ, warrant, process or order of a court, or in the discharge of any official duty.”

Depending on the circumstances of an interference case, somebody found guilty of this charge in Kansas can face several penalties including fines and jail time.

A judge would eventually acquit O’Connor of this charge.

Wonderly’s testimony and APD’s review On the stand in O’Connor’s trial, Wonderly described his encounter with O’Connor by stating that he pushed O’Connor out of his way with his left arm and “(O’Connor) kind of pushed his chest more against me.” At least two other times during the trial, Wonderly testified O’Connor pushed against him.

Wonderly also testified that “(Williams) had to physically grab onto Jameson (O’Connor) to get him out of my way,” which contradicts still photos taken from the video footage of that night.

O’Connor’s defense attorney obtained the video footage of the incident and submitted it to the Lawrence Municipal Court. During the trial, the defense presented stills from the footage instead of the video because of the video’s poor quality, O’Connor said.

Williams, who can be seen in the photos, was not close enough to make contact with O’Connor until Wonderly had already passed by.

After Wonderly made the above statements, O’Connor’s attorney asked, “What you did recall at the time (of the arrest) was that Jameson didn’t grab you or push you, he just didn’t want to back up, correct?”

Wonderly testified, “Correct.”

To Wonderly and the APD, his testimony in court did not constitute a lie or discrepancy, Snelling said.

The Arvada Press asked to speak with Wonderly. Instead, Snelling said he would speak with Wonderly regarding the Press’s questions and provide a statement on the officer’s behalf.

According to Snelling, Wonderly and the department believe Wonderly’s testimony was not a lie, because when Wonderly told Williams he had not been “pushed or grabbed or anything,” he meant he had not been battered, as opposed to meaning O’Connor had not pushed his chest against him. Snelling said this is clear from the context of the conversation — the context being that Williams and Wonderly were discussing whether to charge

O’Connor with battery.

“I wouldn’t say it’s a lie,” Snelling said. “He felt (interference) was the appropriate charge.”

To O’Connor, the discrepancies do constitute a lie.

“He’s outright fabricating,” O’Connor said. “Just looking at the pictures, I’m already turned to the side before I would be close enough to bump him with my chest. It just didn’t happen.”

Potential effects O’Connor’s case went to court in July 2019 but found its way back into the media after Wonderly’s partner, Williams, was involved in an August 2020 court case in Kansas against a man named Duc Tran. In that case, attorney Mark Schoenhofer has moved for the case to be dismissed, claiming that Williams, who arrested Tran, has been shown to be unreliable based on his past in the O’Connor case.

The motion was heard on Aug. 24 and is under advisement as the judge awaits documents, including the investigative file on Williams’s involvement in the 2018 case, Schoenhofer said on Aug. 27.

The O’Connor case’s potential effect on other cases now stems from court case Giglio v. United States. Giglio established a requirement for the prosecution to inform the defense of any evidence in an officer’s past that could call the officer’s integrity into question, such as past criminal convictions or specific instances of dishonesty.

That evidence can then be submitted to the court, where the officer can be cross-examined about his or her previous actions.

If Giglio disclosure information is not made available during a trial, the defense attorney may push for the decision made in their case to be overturned.

In other words, if an attorney on a recent case could show evidence that suggests an officer previously acted dishonestly, “They may say, `We could have cross-examined him about that and maybe the jury wouldn’t have believed him,’” said Ian Farrell, an associate professor at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. Given brief details about the O’Connor case, Farrell said it sounded possible that defense attorneys could point to Wonderly’s past to help their defendants’ cases.

“There is a reasonable chance the judge would agree with that,” he said, “and that the conviction is overturned and potentially, there could be a new trial.”

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Jeffco Family Leadership Training Institute graduates 13 in Wheat Ridge The free program is designed to develop residents into civic leaders

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

When the pandemic started in March, Wheat Ridge resident Holly Storm was in the middle of participating in the Jefferson County Family Leadership Training Institute (FLTI) — a program coordinated by Colorado State University Extension that gives adults and teens a free opportunity to develop into civic leaders.

The 20-week program requires participants to develop a community project that is meaningful to them, and the pandemic provided Storm a unique opportunity to make a difference. Storm focused her project on advocating for state legislature to pass bills to address childcare issues related to the pandemic. She researched and learned how to advocate for state bills like HB20-1053, a bill signed by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in July that provides flexibility to Early Childhood Councils, which work to support young children and their families by building local early childhood systems. The Colorado Children’s Campaign, a nonprofit nonpartisan advocacy organization, estimated before the bill was signed that the state was at risk of losing 55% of its prepandemic child care supply without public investment.

“It turned out, the most beneficial way we could use our energy and

voice was by working on (supporting) legislation that creates more (childcare) consistency,” said Storm. “I was really worried about kids in our community being left alone so their parents can go work. There are so many single parents or families with two working parents and a lot of times, they are both in fields where they are considered essential workers and they have to work outside the house, especially in low-income families. Paying for childcare is a struggle enough for all families in Colorado.”

Storm was one of 13 residents who graduated from the FLTI program at a ceremony on Aug. 15 in Discovery Park in Wheat Ridge. The program started in January, but participants were forced to finish it virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Among the projects participants created included a podcast about diversity and social justice and a listening program to stop teen suicide.

Participants got to Zoom with local political figures and did a virtual day at the Capitol with Attorney General Phil Weiser. The program taught them how to utilize information and resources, how to engage with regional, state and federal elected officials, public speaking skills and more. Before the pandemic, dinner and childcare services were provided to participants who met once a week for the program.

“I have learned that there are more things to being a leader than just telling people what to do. You have to have empathy and show kindness,” said Lilith Syko, a 2020 graduate from the program. “You have to be able to understand what to do and help

2020 graduates from the Jefferson County Family Leadership Training Institute pose for a photo at Discovery Park in Wheat Ridge on Aug. 15. The program aims to develop civic leaders.

COURTESY OF KIMBERLY MASSEY people even if they are not someone you like very much.”

Sriya Kasu, a 17-year-old senior at Cherry Creek High School and recent graduate of the FLTI program, spent her time in the program working on climate change issues. She is in the midst of creating a program where residents can gather and talk about

small solutions to addressing climate change in a household like recycling.

In 2019, at least 175 residents completed the program.

“I made connections with people who don’t live where I do,” said Kasu, an Englewood resident. “I learned a lot about leadership, qualities a leader has and how to speak publicly.”

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Arapahoe, Jeffco, Adams races key to control of state Senate Observers see a rough road ahead for minority Republicans

BY EVAN OCHSNER THE COLORADO SUN

Republicans in Colorado look unlikely to reclaim the state Senate majority they lost two years ago, observers from both sides of the aisle say, relegating the party to another two years in the background as Democrats control Colorado’s government.

The party is grappling with an election year that forces them to play defense and the unpopularity of President Donald Trump, who could harm down-ballot candidates. Less than three months to the election, GOP lawmakers and candidates say they remain optimistic about their odds, but most acknowledge they are just hoping to hold control of three key swing seats Democrats want to win.

“Flipping the Senate is going to be a pretty heavy lift,” said Republican strategist Ryan Lynch. “I think the hope out there is that we’re able to maintain the status quo going into redistricting.”

Republicans need to gain two seats in order to retake control of the upper chamber and disrupt the complete power Democrats have over lawmaking in Colorado. Along with a 19-16 majority in the Senate, Democrats hold a 41-24 advantage in the state House and Gov. Jared Polis isn’t up for reelection until 2022. At best this year,

Sen. Kevin Priola, R-Adams County, and Sen. Julie Gonzales, D-Denver, listen as the Senate Health and Human Service Committee hears debate on a bill that would change Colorado’s vaccine exemption rules on Feb. 19.

PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL/THE COLORADO SUN Republicans are looking to regain a couple of House seats they lost in 2018.

In 2018, Democrats seized power and have passed legislation to require employers to provide sick leave, set pollution reduction targets to address climate change, added new police accountability measures and toughened regulations on the oil and gas industry. The party’s lawmakers are pledging to take on other progressive priorities should they remain in control and prioritize increased funding for transportation, education and health care.

“A majority will continue (to) help ensure we will be able to deliver on the types of policies we’ve passed,” Senate President Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo,

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In addition to flipping two seats, Republicans need to win every seat they currently hold and stave off Democratic challengers in open seats.

It’s a big ask, and some Republicans believe that the party is more likely to have a net loss of one seat than it is to gain any. Democrats said they feel confident about holding the seats Republicans are targeting.

The electoral fortunes are a big reversal from the predictions from GOP leaders in the past two years.

Conservatives suggested that voters would see the downsides of one-party control and Democratic overreach and demand a return to split partisan power at the Capitol.

Republican Senate leader Chris Holbert declined an interview request, but in a statement, the lawmaker from Parker said voters in swing districts want bipartisan powerbrokers. “Putting Republicans back in control of the state Senate would provide balance, which is what those voters tell us that they want,” Holbert said.

GOP strategist Andy George, who ran the Republican state Senate campaign operation for more than a decade, said the party is facing an unfavorable map this year and is forced into a defensive stance. “Even is the best outcome they could hope for,” George said.

Jeffco seat seen as vulnerable Republicans’ best shot likely is in two suburban Denver districts.

The most vulnerable state Senate seat for Democrats is believed to be the 19th District, which sits in Jefferson County and includes part of Denver’s northwest suburbs around Standley Lake.

Rachel Zenzinger, an Arvada Democrat, won the seat from Republican incumbent Laura Woods in 2016. The district has more unaffiliated voters than it does members of any political party and continues to trend in that direction, according to an analysis from conservative-leaning Magellan Strategies.

Republicans hope Zenzinger’s support for progressive policies during her term will alienate those unaffiliated voters. Jesse Mallory, who was chief of staff for Republicans the last time they held the Senate, from 2015 to 2018, and is now a senior advisor for Americans For Prosperity Action, said he thinks Zenzinger may have voted for more liberal bills than her constituents would be comfortable with.

But Zenzinger says her record is bipartisan and her independent-minded voters will see through the criticism.

“They just don’t buy into those kinds of partisan attacks,” she said. To buttress her support, she also landed the endorsement of the pro-business, conservative-leaning Colorado Chamber of Commerce.

Though unaffiliateds now make up over 40% of her district, there are still slightly more Democrats than Republicans in it. Zenzinger also has a significant fundraising edge, having hauled in eight times more money than her Republican opponent Lynn Gerber, according to campaign finance records analyzed by The Colorado Sun. Campaign funds allow candidates to spend on materials like mailers and flyers and also serve as an indicator of how much support they have and how well their campaign is run.

Bridges faces challenge in Arapahoe In the eyes of many Republicans, their next-best chance for picking up a seat is District 26 in Arapahoe County, which is held by Greenwood Village Democrat Jeff Bridges.

Bridges, who previously served in the House, was appointed to the seat in 2019 after the resignation of his predecessor, Daniel Kagan.

November’s election will provide all voters in his district with their first chance to weigh in on that appointment. But many Republicans see their chances in that district as even less favorable than in the race to unseat Zenzinger.

Like Zenzinger, Bridges has a large fundraising edge, raising more than 10 times what Republican challenger Robert Roth has collected, according to campaign finance records.

Arapahoe County was long a politically moderate part of the state, but Democrats swept into power in that area in 2018, led by U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, who defeated five-term Republican incumbent Mike Coffman. Voters also pushed out other Republicans, including Sheriff David Walcher, County Clerk Matt Crane and state Rep. Cole Wist.

Democratic lawmakers and strategists believe they are likely to hold Bridges’ seat. Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, said he thinks Bridges has served his district well and hopes he will be rewarded for it. “He is a good, solid representative of that community,” Fenberg said.

Republicans, meanwhile, are most vulnerable in a formerly friendly seat.

Republicans are two seats away from a majority, but that’s only if the party is able to hold on to all of its other seats. In all, 18 seats are in play this cycle. And on paper the breakdown would appear to favor Republicans.

GOP incumbents occupy four seats up for grabs, Democrat incumbents hold seven, and seven others are open.

But two of the Republicans seeking reelection are facing tough challenges from Democrats and one of the open seats, formerly held by a Republican, is at risk of switching loyalties.

Open race in Centennial Republicans’ most difficult defense is likely Senate District 27, where Sen. Jack Tate, of Centennial, is stepping down. Vying to replace him is Republican Suzanne Staiert, who strategists from both sides say will have her work cut out for her to defeat Democrat Chris Kolker.

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Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts bring live music to Belmar The event benefited Eaton Senior Communities and the Kiwanis Club of Lakewood

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ast Friday, Belmar Plaza looked somewhat like a normal Friday night in August, thanks to Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts and Alameda Connects.

Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts, a country band, visited Belmar Plaza on Aug. 28 for a night packed with live music, beer and wine, friends and family and more. The event was hosted by Alameda Connects, a Lakewood nonprofit that promotes the Alameda area.

Ticket sales for the show benefited the Eaton Senior Communities retirement home in Lakewood. Beer and wine sales benefited the Kiwanis Club of Lakewood, a club that works to improve the lives of children in the community.

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nonprofit against former Gov. John Hickenlooper. She’s running in part on her role helping to create Colorado’s mail-in voting system during her time in the secretary of state’s office.

But Staiert said she isn’t getting much help from the Republican Party and instead is leaning on friends to help her win the Arapahoe County district. “I don’t have party activists,” she said.

She’s been outraised by Kolker, and even if she wins, Staiert said she thinks she will likely be legislating from the minority. “I think it’d be tough to take the majority,” she said.

“We’d need to pick up two more seats.”

Kolker sought a seat in the state House in 2018, but came up short in his bid to unseat Republican Rep. Susan Beckman. Kolker is a financial planner and former high school teacher.

More tough challenges for GOP Republicans also have potentially vulnerable incumbents in northwest Colorado’s District 8, held by Bob Rankin, and the eastern Adams County District 25 represented by Kevin Priola.

Each incumbent has outraised his Democratic challenger so far but will need to attract a significant portion of the unaffiliated vote to win.

Rankin will need over 40% of unaffiliated voters to pick for him, according to an analysis by Republican strategist Ben Engen. There’s some disagreement among strategists and legislators about how vulnerable Rankin is, but all political strategists who spoke with The Sun said his race was among the most competitive on

Ryan Chrys of the Ryan Chrys and the Rough Cuts band, performs at Belmar Plaza on Aug. 28.

the map.

Rankin, who moved from the House to fill the vacant GOP seat earlier this year, is running against Western Slope attorney Karl Hanlon, who lost in the 2018 Democratic primary for Colorado’s 3rd U.S. House district.

In state Senate District 25, which includes Thornton, Priola will need just under 60% of unaffiliateds to vote for him, according to Engen’s analysis.

His Democratic challenger is Paula Dickerson, a longtime teacher.

Priola is a moderate Republican who often serves as a bipartisan vote on more Democratic-led legislation. But Democrats say they’re still hoping to knock him out of office.

“When you’re playing for the majority, you’re playing for the majority, and every seat counts,” said Ian Silverii, executive director of the liberal group ProgressNow Colorado.

But in an election year that has been shaken by a racial reckoning, an economic disaster and a pandemic that has killed over 160,000 Americans, a lot could change in the months between now and Election Day. In interviews with The Sun, multiple senators emphasized the volatility of the race, and said they’re looking for a curveball that could shift the race in their favor.

Sen. Paul Lundeen, R-Monument, a member of the Senate Republican leadership team, said he’s an “eternal optimist” and his party will continue to fight for seats through Nov. 3.

“They say in politics 90 days is a lifetime,” Lundeen said.

Colorado Sun correspondent Sandra Fish contributed to this report.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Used by permission. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun. com.

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his is an emotional plea directed to anyone within the sound of my written voice who talks with their hands.

Please: Stop, quit, desist, cease. Enter rehab. Borrow a pair of handcuffs from me.

I know why it’s done and who is likely to do it: preachers, proselytizers and politicians.

Certain professions think it helps to sell products.

I’ve heard some nationalities are more inclined than others.

There’s a congresswoman we all know. Her vocal cords are attached to her arm muscles.

She looks like she’s signing for the deaf.

Maybe someone coached her.

“Wave your arms all over the place. They’ll

think you know what you’re talking about.”

I can’t watch. She hypnotizes me.

I’m told it shows that the speaker is engaging, vivacious, energetic, and passionate.

Save it for a bear.

They say you should “make yourself big” if confronted by a bear. That’s what waving your arms around does: it makes you big.

Big and annoying.

Hand talking is done all the time in television commercials, especially in furniture store ads.

From deep in the ottomans a blonde walks toward the camera gesturing all over the place.

Again, it’s to make you think there are

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Not so fast mask doubter The statistics for COVID-19 positive tests, hospitalizations, and deaths in Colorado are within the guidelines recommended by state and national guidelines. This indicates that wearing masks, social distancing, and washing hands/using hand sanitizer have had a positive influence in controlling the spread of coronavirus in Jeffco and Colorado.

The virus is not spreading on its own, or not because its summer as some people predicted. It’s staying under control because our public health departments and Governor Polis have made decisions that, some citizens don’t agree with, but have been impactful.

We need to celebrate our state government leaders and public health departments in making hard decisions to get this novel coronavirus positive positivity rate under 5%. Other than your anecdotal assumptions what proof do you have that masks don’t work? What expertise do you have to determine the efficacy of using masks?

We can win this battle if we resolve to discipline ourselves to wearing masks and using other safe practices.

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Casper is the Republican candidate, a man of faith and integrity, and a family man. A Gulf War veteran who supports President Trump, Casper says, “I will be fighting to empower the family, finances and future of the good citizens in CD7.”

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Casper says, “I will show the community what honest servant leadership looks like. We must, we can, and we will do better!

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deals to be made and the furniture can’t be beat.

It (hand talking) must work, because it’s been going on for a long time in marketing. I wish it would stay there.

But it has moved into daily life. I see it in stores. I see it on the streets. At a safe distance, of course.

We’re the only animal that does it.

Sure, there are the mating motions we’ve all seen on “Animal Planet,” but this is different.

At least, I assume it’s different.

How we express ourselves is important. It involves word choice, enunciation, compo-

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s if things weren’t hard enough for Colorado’s small businesses, news comes that the Trump administration plans to claw GUEST back a chunk COLUMN of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds that legitimate businesses have used as a lifeline to keep their employees on the payroll.

When ConBrett Wesner gress passed PPP, the legislation made it clear that these loans would ultimately be forgiven if businesses used them for approved purposes, mostly payroll. And, the law ensured — in writing — that any forgiven amounts would not be taxable, meaning that businesses could use all those funds to keep folks employed.

More than 13,300 Colorado businesses, including this newspaper, signed up in good faith, secure in the knowledge that if they used those funds as Congress intended, they would be forgiven and not taxed. This program helped support or create approximately 900,000 jobs in Colorado state, according to the Small Business Administration.

Well, Congress may have said one thing, but President Trump’s Treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, has other ideas. According to the Treasury Department, forgiven funds may not be taxable, but the payroll businesses paid with those funds can no

longer be considered a business expense.

Now, we don’t know Mr. Mnuchin personally, but our guess is that, as Treasury secretary, he probably knows something about math: Disallowing businesses from claiming that payroll as an expense is the same thing as taxing the forgiven loan.

Which means that Colorado’s small businesses are going to get hit with a huge surprise tax bill, but most won’t know it until — wait for it — after the November election! Surprise!

Now some members of the U.S. Senate weren’t amused by this little “Lucy with the football” tomfoolery. Sen. John Cornyn, RTexas, has led a fight in the Senate to tell the Treasury Department that they meant what they said: the forgiven loans should not be taxable, including through the back door. Other senators are worried about the “optics” of standing up for small businesses, if you can imagine.

Colorado’s own Sen. Cory Gardner was an early supporter of a bill Sen. Cornyn introduced (S. 3612) to fix the problem.

Treasury cannot be allowed to override Congress’ promise to our small business community.

Brett Wesner is founder of Wesner Publications Co., a newspaper publisher in Oklahoma and Texas, and treasurer of the National Newspaper Association, a not-forprofit trade association representing the owners, publishers and editors of America’s community newspapers. Colorado Community Media, publisher of this newspaper, is a member.

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Important choice I enjoyed seeing the letter about choosing a President.

This is a very important election and my hope is that everyone eligible to vote will vote.

We now have someone in the White House that I think lies, bullies,throws nasty hurtful names out to good respectful people, is racist, invites violence (and I could go on and on).

We need to vote a person that will be respectful of others, tough when necessary, bring our country and other countries back together, not be self serving and need to be told constantly that they love him and get a handle on this Covid 19 virus finally.

Be mindful when you vote that we don’t have four more years of a egocentric President.

Mary Hamilton Arvada Replying to Wesner on PPP So the PPP loan which is used for payroll is forgiven.

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sure, and body language.

Or it can look like the flailing of someone with a bag over their head.

Remember cops who directed traffic? Or maybe you have seen them in films? They were masters with their hand motions and whistles, weren’t they?

That’s where it belongs.

Forgiveness of a loan is ordinarily a taxable event but under the law the PPP transaction does not result in a tax bill. Now you want to deduct the payroll paid with the tax free money to get a second tax break? I don’t think that was ever the intent, nor do I think it is fair to the rest of us taxpayers. It seems to me either 1) the forgiveness is taxable and the payroll covered by the forgiven loan is tax deductible, or 2) the forgiveness is not taxable and the payroll covered by the forgiven loan is not tax deductible. You are trying to have it both ways.

You’ve heard of “semaphore”?

“A system of sending messages by holding the arms or two flags or poles in certain positions according to an alphabetic code.”

Right now it’s sending this message: “Stop, quit, desist, cease.”

Over in Hawaii, women wear grass skirts and tell stories with their hands and arms. Fine. Again, that’s different.

Their speechless stories are told by gestures and hips.

Signers for the deaf, semaphorers

Chuck Woodard, Arvada Split-second decision When police give a suspect an order to turn around, stop, or remove their hands from a hidden position and they fail to follow orders, there is a good reason why police shoot. I had the privilege of taking the Arvada Citizens Police Academy course. Some of us were given a chance to do the video gun drills. In all cases where we gave the order to show their hands, turn around, or other commands; and they were not followed;

(new word), and hula dancers, and that’s it. If you aren’t one of those, don’t raise your hand.

There’s help. There has to be.

Ask a friend: “Do I annoy you when I talk with my hands?”

If the answer is “No,” disregard everything I’ve said.

It’s possible you are unaware of what you are doing. The same goes for most of us who interject filler words, you know, when we express ourselves. The primary offender in 2020 is “like,” but “you know” is right

none of us were able to shoot fast enough to beat the criminal to the draw. Technically, we all got shot by the suspect, even if our gun was already drawn. A person can act faster than most can react.

When a suspect hides their hands, or turns their back and then fails to follow orders, the officer must shoot, or he/ she will probably be shot by the suspect. The only time I was successful in this drill, was when I shot the video criminal first, when he did not comply. This is just a fact.

William Hineser, Arvada

up there.

If I encounter a hand talker who uses filler words, I excuse myself and say I have to go home and check on the roast in the oven.

There is nothing more important today than ridding the planet of hand talkers. I think we can all agree on that.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident.

He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

OBITUARIES GREENWOOD

Randall Greenwood 5/19/1948 - 8/23/2020

Randall (Randy) Lynn Greenwood was born in Denver, Colorado on May 19, 1948. After a valiant 18-month battle with pancreatic cancer, Randy passed away on August 23, 2020. His loving wife, Luann, was by his side.

Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, a 1966 Graduate of North High School, Randy and his brother, Ray, bravely joined The Marines from September 29, 1966 - September 27, 1968. As a Marine in the Vietnam War, Randy received The National Defense Service Medal, The Vietnamese Campaign Medal, Presidential Unit Citation Medal, The Rifle Marksmanship Medal, The Republic of Vietnam Service Medal with two stars, The Good Conduct Medal and an Honorable Discharge.

Upon returning from the war, Randy married Karen Greenwood in December of 1968. They lived and raised their two sons, Brian and Brad Greenwood, in Arvada, Colorado. They divorced in March of 1997.

Randy’s many accomplishments include graduating from Regis College in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He also enjoyed a long and distinguished career (1972 - 2010) at Xcel Energy where he worked in Customer and Field Management, and Investment Delivery Operations.

In early 2000, Randy met Luann Levine at a Bingo fundraiser for the Arvada Soccer Association. Later, they married in November, 2007. Randy and Luann shared a passion for the youth soccer program in Arvada, Colorado.

Randy volunteered tirelessly as a founding member of the Arvada Soccer Association, later known as The Edge Soccer Club, beginning in the early 1980’s. He served the Arvada Soccer Association in many capacities including referee, coach, bingo manager, concessions coordinator, field maintenance, board member and Stenger Tournament Director, just to name a few.

Todd Gette, General Manager of The

Arvada Soccer Association, said, “Randy was passionate for our youth soccer program.

He laid the groundwork for The Arvada Soccer Association and spent countless volunteer hours developing The Stenger Soccer Complex, everything from the fields to the sprinkler systems. Randy was one of my biggest mentors. He was my friend and I will miss him greatly.”

John Robbins, a long-time friend of Randy’s, and fellow founder/ leader of The Arvada Soccer Association, said, “It’s hard to sum Randy up. He was the most ethical, honest and caring guy I’ve ever met. He was a hard worker and willing to help anyone. He was instrumental in bringing competitive soccer to Arvada. He volunteered countless hours and never took any pay. I’m going to miss him.”

Randy’s passion for youth soccer then took him to the Colorado state level where he served the Colorado Soccer Association as Director 2006 - 2008, Treasurer 2008 - 2012, Executive Committee 2008 - 2016, Presidents Cup Chair 2008 - 2016, and Vice President from 2012-2016. In 2013, Randy was inducted into the Colorado Youth Soccer Hall of Fame and received The Bob Selsvold Service Award in recognition of and in appreciation for his contributions to the legacy of youth soccer in Colorado. Randy was instrumental in developing and growing the Presidents Cup Tournament which allowed lower level teams to compete and have the opportunity to advance to regional and national championships. It was important to Randy to provide the same experience and opportunities to all levels of soccer players, not just the elite teams.

“Randy was so instrumental in the growth and development of the Colorado Soccer Association,” said Nate Shotts, CEO. “He gave countless hours away from his family in his passion to give every player across

the state an opportunity to play soccer. Personally, he was such a great mentor for me as I moved into the CEO position with the association. A true friend and we will miss him greatly.”

In 2014 Randy became Program Manager of the Western Region President’s Cup Tournament for US Youth Soccer and held that position until 2018.

Jeff Bethune and Mark Hamilton echoed the sentiments about Randy’s tireless volunteer work for youth soccer, not just in Arvada, but also as a leader for The Colorado Soccer Association and on a national level with US Youth Soccer by developing The Presidents Cup Youth Soccer Tournament.

They spoke of traveling together as soccer parents, coaches and board members. “We were like a band of brothers. We called ourselves, ‘The Brothers of the Cone of Silence’, (a private joke stemming from a Maxwell Smart episode). We just had a great time and Randy’s passion for supporting youth soccer led the way. Randy wanted all kids to have an opportunity to play soccer and to learn responsibility and accountability.” Randy was a close friend who will be greatly missed.

Any of us who have played or have enjoyed watching our children or grandchildren play youth soccer in Colorado, owe a debt of gratitude to Randy Greenwood and his family. Both of Randy’s sons, Brian and Brad, have been life long soccer players and now coaches and will carry on his legacy and passion for the game.

After his retirement, Randy enjoyed his grandchildren and traveling with the love of his life and partner of twenty years, Luann.

They traveled to beaches in Florida, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Jamaica, and Mexico.

Randy also loved going to Colorado Rockies games, anywhere or anytime! Randy’s hobbies included reading, he was an avid reader and devoured books, camping/fishing

and riding his Harley motorcycle in his younger days.

He also loved working with his hands whether it was building, remodeling, or working on his yard; of which he passed this passion on to his sons.

Randy always had a project going and his family will tell you when he built something he made sure he did it right and that it would stand the test of time, no matter how long it took. Randy earned the nickname “Mr. 99 bags of cement” because if the project called for 10 bags he would use 99 to ensure it would last! He took great pride in his yard, which was the envy of the neighborhood, creating a beautifully landscaped backyard where many barbecues and gatherings were held with friends and family. He really loved cooking on his Big Green Egg. A few quotes that Randy is known for are, “You can’t hope for a better past”, “Being ethical is doing the right thing when no one is looking”, and “When ships were wood and men were steel”.

Randy Greenwood, a life well lived, a man so loved, taken too soon.

Randy is preceded in death by his parents, Betty and William Greenwood, his stepfather, Howard Kelley, his first wife, Karen Greenwood, and his brother, Ray Greenwood.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Luann Levine, his brother, Jay Greenwood, his sons, Brian Greenwood (Erica), Brad Greenwood (Brook-Lyn), his daughter, Nicole Levine and his grandchildren, Preston, Leighton, Gavin, and Gradie Greenwood.

Services will be held for Randy on September 9, 2020 at 1:30 pm at Fort Logan National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, the family would like you to consider making a donation in Randy’s name to: The Arvada Soccer Association (Edge Soccer Club) PO Box 265, Arvada, Colorado 80001 or call 303 403-0902 x1000.

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Banding together to learn more about birds

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ne of the true mysteries of nature is the instinctive “movement” of birds and mammals of all sizes over the time and span of their life. Be it the massive herds of elk gathering in the high mountain timber line tundra of the Colorado mountains and starting their trek to the lower lush meadows or the delicate and small hummingbirds winging their way from Mexico across the Gulf of Mexico to their spring breeding grounds in the Western United States.

Migration is a marvel, truly an adventure of wildlife we know little about but study through worldwide research and banding programs. One of those banding stations is located near Brighton, off I-76 at Bromley Lane at Barr Lake State Park.

Kelsey Mazur, Program Volunteer Coordinator and the State Park staff works cooperatively with the professional staff of the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies each fall to band birds of various species. It has become a significant and popular family nature program that invites the public to observe, hear speakers and witness the process of migration bird banding. Visitors will observe professionals attach leg bands on birds and learn about the life span of various bird species that pass through Colorado.

Registration is required for all in-person and virtual visitors age 4 and above. Face masks and social distancing is required. A maximum limit of 6 individuals per visitor group is scheduled. Visitors are welcome

Tuesdays and Thursdays through Sundays and from Aug. 25 through Oct. 11. Each banding program is one hour in length and has a $5.00 fee. A State Park vehicle parking fee is required as well.

Registration can be accomplished online or by calling 303-659-4348 x10. Kelsey Mazur is Program Volunteer Coordinator and is available to answer banding program questions. The banding program provides scholarship financial assistance as well.

Additional information as well as registration is available at www.birdconservancy. org/event.

Outdoorsman and Westminster resident Ron Hellbusch can be reached at Ron-Hellbusch Comcast.net

Tiny happy people learn language

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e often hear that babies should come with a manual to help guide amazing early development.

The BBC’s new GUEST program called COLUMN Tiny Happy Esther Macalady People found at bbc.com is very close to a baby brain development manual for the family. It is full of simple games for you and your baby ages 3-6 months to bond and build language. Wait for your baby to have proper head control before trying some of the activities.

small stuffed animals, fuzzy balls and a soft small blanket. Your baby will love the surprise of what you pull out and name, especially if you build up excitement before you pull out each one.

Surprises Peek-a Boo is a silly game. However, babies learn that you are full of fun. You can also fill a pillowcase pillow with ordinary items like

Rhymes and Songs Speech and language therapists offer some advice. Sing the same songs and rhymes like the ABC song over and over again while rocking and

Small Stuffies Toys like teddies or other small stuffed animals with a face are great props you can talk about with your baby. Introduce discussion about features of the teddy. Baby’s senses are very strong. Introduce the feel of the bear. What actions can teddy do? Clap hands, kick, snuggle. What else?

going for walks. A few other classics are Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Wheels on the Bus, Old Mac Donald had a Farm, and Incy, Wincy Spider. Sing with a smile on your face and in your voice. Baby won’t care if you don’t sing like Adele.

You can use lots of actions when you speak and make sure your baby can see your face and lips. Gestures and voice intonation will keep your baby interested in you. Respond when your baby smiles and smile back. You will want them to come to talk to you for all sorts of reasons as they grow up. Let them know that talking to you is important even from the beginning.

Take turns talking. You talk and give them time so make noises back. Smile and look like you understand. Be excited that they are

responding and follow your baby’s lead. Explain about anything that catches their attention.

Taking Turns You can build excitement and the idea of taking turns while you play games like blowing bubbles, blowing raspberries, rolling a ball, or bouncing a balloon. Help them unwrap a little box. They love the sound of ripping paper or peering in a box. Say, Ready, steady and before you say, “Go!” wait a moment. They will start anticipating, by smiling, gesturing, giggling, or kicking their feet soon. They are learning that language is fun.

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

Golden man charged after pushing bar employee over John Roche charged with assault, trespassing

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A Golden man is facing charges after he got into an altercation with a bar employee who allegedly reminded him to put on a face mask.

The incident, partially captured on video, occurred at the Golden Moon Speakeasy at 1111 Miner’s Alley and began when John Roche, 62, asked an employee at the distillery if he could sit at a specific table. Golden Deputy Police Chief Joe Harvey said the employee told Roche he could sit at that table before telling him that he needed to wear a mask when he was not sitting at the table.

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kind of comment” about wearing of the mask. Roche said the employee then called him an expletive while the employee told police he said Roche was “acting like an expletive.”

At that point, Roche went back up to the employee and shoved him in the chest.

“He shoved him hard enough that he hit the door jam and then fell to the ground,” said Harvey.

The bar’s owner then asked Roche to leave and Roche threatened to “kick his expletive.”

Roche was charged with assault and trespass. Harvey said this is the first incident he is aware of in which a conversation about masks resulted in a physical confrontation in Golden.

“However, there have certainly been instances of people getting yelled at so I know there have been some issues,” Harvey said.

Harvey said the officers chose not to charge the man with failing to adhere to the mask statute because he had remained on the patio. However, he said the man likely could’ve been charged as Golden requires a mask be worn in any public setting where six feet of social distancing cannot be maintained.

So far, Harvey said Golden Police have only cited one person for failing to follow the city’s mask ordinance, although they have had over 4,000 contacts in which officers have reminded people they needed to wear a mask as part of an approach that has prioritized education over penalties. But Harvey said that approach will likely soon change.

“At some point we have done enough education and people need to know they have to wear a mask and we will issue citations if they don’t,” Harvey said.

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Residents enjoy socially distanced meals on the patio of Homegrown Tap & Dough on Olde Wadsworth Boulevard. The restaurant is one of many in Olde Town that has expanded its patio to accommodate more customers through Olde Town’s street closures, which will now last through early November. PHOTO BY CASEY VAN DIVIER

Two-month extension for Olde Town street closures Majority of businesses report closures are helping sales

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Two months after the June 12 street closures on certain blocks of Olde Town, the Business Improvement District (BID) announced that the closures would be extended through Nov. 3. Originally, the street closures were scheduled to last through Labor Day. The plan behind the closures has been to give businesses more space to expand their patios and storefronts out into the street and allow more walking room for pedestrians that are following social distancing guidelines.

“When the initial date (of Labor Day) was set, I think everyone was hopeful that by this time, things would be back to normal,” said Joe Hengstler, executive director of the BID. But with many regulations, including a statewide mask order, still in place, “we wanted to do everything we could to keep people down here.”

The street closures span Grandview Avenue from Olde Wadsworth Boulevard to Webster Street as well as sections of Olde Wadsworth from Grant Place to Grandview Avenue. The section on Olde Wadsworth between 57th Avenue and Grant Place will open back up on Oct. 14, as opposed to Nov. 3, related to ongoing construction of Ralston Road.

“Every time we announce something regarding the street closures or highlight something new we’ve added, we always get a ton of positive feedback from the community. We have people saying `I wouldn’t come

down to Olde Town if it wasn’t like this,’” Hengstler said. “Especially on the weekends, we can see the streets are activated.”

In July, through a survey conducted by the BID and its partners, 88% of businesses surveyed about the street closures reported either achieving their usual sales numbers or seeing an increase from those numbers since the closures began. The survey included Olde Town businesses both in and outside the closure areas.

Ian Walsh, the store lead at jewelry store Crystal Joys at 5655 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., within the closure area, reported the same experience, saying the store’s numbers aren’t down from summer 2019 to summer 2020.

“Since the road closures, almost everyone who comes here is buying something,” he said. “Outside, it seems like a lot of people are still down here. For me personally, I would love it if it stayed like this.”

Just outside the closure area at Smokin’ Fins, 7600 Grandview Ave., business also hasn’t taken a hit in recent months, even in the midst of a global pandemic. With the help of the BID, the restaurant has expanded its patio the way many restaurants within the closure area have, said Dave Reed, operations manager.

“We’re currently matching if not beating last year’s numbers, with a 50% capacity,” he said. “If it wasn’t for the patio, we’d probably be down 20 to 30%. It’s kept us afloat.”

Reed praised the idea of the street closures and their extension, saying the expanded patios, room to walkaround and music benefit the Olde Town area as a whole.

“Having everyone sitting outside, it helps bring the community together,” he said. “It brings a level of safety and brings more people into the area.”

Customers enjoy an afternoon meal on the expanded patio of Smokin’ Fins.

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Denver area in recent years.

Among the Denver-area muralists who have been leaving their mark on the city recently are Adrienne Norris, whose work often focuses on significant women from history. Norris returned to that subject for her two most recent murals, which she completed for Babe Walls, a mural

ne of the most famous things Ernest Hemingway ever wrote is only six words long: “For sale: Baby shoes.

Never worn.” Packed into those few words is a whole story of life and heartbreak, and that story-behinda-story is what entrants into the fourth annual Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America’s fourth annual COMING Six-Word MysATTRACTIONS tery Contest should aim for.

The contest opens on Sept. 15 and runs through midnight on Oct. 31. Entries can be submitted in one or all five of the following categories: Hard Clarke Reader Boiled or Noir, Cozy Mystery, Thriller Mystery, Police Procedural Mystery and/or a mystery with Romance or Lust. The contest is open to all adults 18 and over, and there are no residency requirements - entries come from all over the country and world.

“As a writer, I really appreciate the thought and cleverness that goes into each entry,” said ZJ Czupor, vice president of the chapter.

“Anyone, no matter what your skill level as a writer, can enter and have fun doing so. Furthermore, it’s a little bit of a mind-bending exercise, like doing a crossword puzzle.”

This year’s judges include Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Editor Linda Landrigan, New York Times best-selling author Anne Hillerman, award-winning author, lawyer and activist Manuel Ramos, BookBar owner Nicole Sullivan and literary agent Terrie Wolf, owner of AKA Literary Management.

We spoke to Cuzpor about the contest and the power of just six words.

Interview edited for content and clarity.

-Tell me about the six-word contest?

The contest was the brainchild of Dr. Jeffrey Lockwood, our Wyoming board representative. He presented the idea as a fun way to generate camaraderie and playfulness among our members and the public, and to increase awareness of the craft and pleasure of mystery writing. We figured how hard would it be to write a mystery in six words? Well, turns out it takes a little more thought than one would initially imagine. But the entries we’ve received over the last three years have been very creative and sometimes chilling, but many are laugh-out-loud hilarious.

-What are judges looking for?

The judges are looking for how well the entrant wrote a story in six words. In other words, did those six words paint a picture for us of a story with a beginning, middle

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From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter, street art thrives to document 2020

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hen Denver muralist Austin Zucchini-Fowler came up with the idea to create a mural depicting an angelwinged nurse in a fighter’s stance wearing boxing gloves last April, he did not imagine the extent to which the image would resonate in Denver — never mind around the world.

Back then, he was just looking for a way to pay tribute to the healthcare workers putting their lives on the line to fight the COVID-19 pandemic — including several in his own family — while he was stuck at home during the pandemic.

“I kind of got to dig down into art and had this concept to really encompass the community’s gratitude to health-care workers and also just show with the pandemic their fight and the challenges they are facing,” Zucchini-Fowler said.

Zucchini-Fowler’s image debuted on Easter weekend in Capitol Hill at Colfax Avenue and Williams Street on the east side of a building along the alley adjacent to the Taco Bell at that intersection.

But even many of those who haven’t been anywhere near Colfax since the start of the pandemic will likely recognize the image, which has been featured everywhere from CNN to The New York Times to a new commercial for USA Basketball. An Oregon farmer has even created a corn maze based on the mural.

“It doesn’t feel like my mural, it’s like the community’s mural,” Zucchini-Fowler said. “People were feeling so many different feelings and challenges during the pandemic and I think a mural can be the perfect way to express what the community as a whole is feeling.”

Austin Zucchini-Fowler’s iconic mural of a nurse with boxing gloves on along Colfax Avenue in Capitol Hill.

Social distancing, time outside fueling art In recent months, Zucchini-Fowler and other muralists have shown their art is uniquely positioned to both document and respond to the pain and promise of recent events, as COVID-19 and the protest movement that sprang up following George Floyd’s murder have given new fuel and urgency to the mural movement that has gained steam around the

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and end? The judges are also looking to determine if the six-words fit the conventions of the sub-genre of that entry; and finally, cleverness always earns a lot of points.

-What is your favorite thing about the contest?

As a board member of our chapter, I really like that we get noticed around the country and the world. People sometimes think that mystery writing comes from the coasts… but the Rocky Mountain region is a literary powerhouse in its own right—and the contest raises our profile.

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festival celebrating the work of women and non-binary artists held Aug. 13-16 in Westminster.

Both of Norris’ Babe Walls murals depict black women who were leaders in important social movements. One honors Storme DeLarverie, a leader in the early gay rights movement in New York, and the other depicts Ella Baker, a civil rights activist who spurned “charismatic leaders” in favor of encouraging blacks to advocate for themselves.

Norris was also one of two local artists tapped to spearhead the creation of a Black Lives Matter mural on Broadway in front of the state Capitol last June. That temporary street mural, which read “Black Lives Matter: Remember This Time” was painted with the help of more than 100 volunteers.

Norris said that while street artists have always been the documenters of history and culture, the pandemic lockdowns made the value of such art “more apparent than it has ever been even though we’ve always been here.”

“Because people are keeping distance socially and spending more time outside than they ever have been, it really makes sense to have art that is outside as opposed to in museums and stuff,” said Norris.

Murals coming to burbs While the Denver area’s recent street art explosion has largely been focused on city neighborhoods like River North and corridors like Broadway and Colfax where such art has long thrived, the inaugural Babe Walls festival also shows that it may also be making more inroads into a largely unpainted frontier: the suburbs.

During Babe Walls, artists painted 12 new murals on buildings around the intersection of Federal Boulevard and 71st Avenue (a map can be found at babewalls.com).

For the last four years, the West Colfax Mural Fest (now the West Colfax Arts Fest) has also led to the creation of many new murals on and around West Colfax in Lakewood.

Although that festival was canceled this year, organizers expect it to return in 2021.

New murals have also popped up in recent months on South Broadway in Englewood and along 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge (where the city currently has a mural program that provides funds for new art).

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Learn about false choices at FAC Golden’s Foothills Art Center has unveiled False Choice, a new exhibit in its East Gallery, that features the works of three artists - Ambivalently Yours, Michael Dixon, and Katherine Payge who explore issues of identity, race, and questioning our assumptions.

The exhibit runs at the center, 809 15th St., through Nov. 1, which is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Monday, noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, open to members only by appointment on Thursday and closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

Hard to imagine a better time to tackle these very topics, so visit www. foothillsartcenter.org for the pertinents.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week - Pearl Jam at Safeco Field So much has happened in 2020

that you’d be forgiven for missing some smaller, less-damaging rare occurrences - like a new Pearl Jam album. “Gigaton,” did make it into the world, but the Seattle greats were supposed to go on a tour that was scraped out of safety concerns.

Those who were hoping to see Pearl Jam are in luck, however, because the group is livestreaming a performance from their 2018 stop at their home city beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4 through Sept. 7.

The performance features a massive 33-song setlist, which includes an appearance from Brandi Carlile, covers, rarities and more. Visit www.nugs.tv for information and to stream the show.

Streaming style - ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ convention coverage If you missed the presidential con-

ventions from the last couple weeks and want to know what happened, but don’t want to slog through them, check out The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s coverage.

I’m certainly not going to pretend it’s the most objective coverage, but it’s easiest the funniest I’ve seen, and we could also use a little of that humor as we enter the final stretch of the election. Colbert speaks to people like Susan Rice, Trey Gowdy, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Chris Christie. Plus, his Avengers Endgame parody is all kinds of dumb and delightful.

The episodes are available ondemand and www.cbs.com.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.

this location because everywhere can benefit by having more art and color in their world,” Babe Walls artist Koko Bayer said of the festival.

“And we’ve gotten so much positive feedback already from the people in the neighborhood who like having something different and I think we need a lot more of it. It’s not just for RiNo and downtown Denver, it should be for everywhere.”

Here is a closer look at a few of the many murals to recently pop up around the Denver metro area.

It’s Gonna All Be Okay mural Located in the alleyway behind Denver Central Market (which is one of the most mural-filled in the city) at at 27th and Larimer, this mural depicts an angel-winged baker holding a peel beside the words “It’s gonna all be okay.” The mural, which was created by Austin ZucchiniFowler, is part of a project honoring the contributions of essential workers that grew out of the success of his angel-winged nurse mural on Colfax. A map of all of the project’s murals can be found at austinzart. com.

Interwoven mural at 14th and Colfax Although the Black Lives Matter street mural has come and gone, this colorful mural that was painted in front of the Denver City and County Building earlier this summer has a similarly epic scale. Artist Pat Milberry told 9News that the pinwheel and sundial at the center of the 28,680 square-foot mural is meant to “create an energy of positive rotation to transition us out of these uncertain times.”

Out in the burbs Chelsea Lewinski mural at Broadway and Oxford in Englewood This new mural on the side of the Goodwill store on Broadway illustrates a Black man finding peace by balancing his masculine and feminine sides.

Ashley Joon sketches out her flowers on wall of a Hooker Street building in Westminster Aug. 13. She’s one of 28 artists that came to Westminster to paint murals on buildings.

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In a regular year, Wheat Ridge’s RidgeFest takes place over the course of one night where residents gather for live music, a classic car show, chalk art, children activities and more.

The event, designed to celebrate Wheat Ridge’s culture and character, saw around 6,500 residents attend the celebration last year.

And while COVID-19 has forced other cities to cancel community gatherings, RidgeFest will proceed, but just like everything else this year, things will be different.

RidgeFest, organized by Localworks, a nonprofit organization working to advance Wheat Ridge as a vibrant and sustainable community, will return this year for the seventh year in a row in the area of 6595 W. 38th Ave. Rather than hosting a one-day celebration, RidgeFest will take place Sept. 11 through Sept.

13 in what the nonprofit is calling a deconstructed version of the event in order to control crowds and keep attendees six feet apart.

The event is free and will feature local bluegrass bands, a chalk art festival, children’s activities, a classic car show and more. Local restaurants like Apple Ridge Café, Colorado Plus, Firefly Saloon and other entities will offer special deals

year because of COVID-19, the com- s mission will be able to pay artists for r the first time in RidgeFest’s history. e In the past, artists participated in the event for free, Porter DeNileon a g said.

“I’m really proud of Wheat Ridge C 6 and Localworks and all the people that work there and the commission s for keeping some hope and beauty in the community by holding these t s events,” said Porter DeNileon. j Local businesses like Al’s Pine Garden, at 6815 W. 44th Ave. will also “ participate in the event by allowing g residents to create a succulent plant s at its greenhouse. Jennifer Dent, owner of Al’s Pine Garden, said resi- f dents will be able to social distance h in her greenhouse. She assisted resi- t A chalk artist creates a piece of art for a previous year’s Wheat Ridge RidgeFest. Dedents with their succulent plants at s spite the pandemic, this year’s RidgeFest will take place Sept. 11 through Sept. 13. The last year’s event and said residents S free event will feature live music, the chalk art festival, a classic car show and more. s walked away understanding why COURTESY OF ASHLEY HOLLAND P their plants kept dying.

Dent hopes RidgeFest will bring way,” said Ashley Holland, marketduring RidgeFest while Localworks awareness to Al’s Pine Garden and a ing and communications manager plans to also host the event on its for Localworks.

Facebook page for those who feel other local businesses and said some h c The chalk art festival is funded uncomfortable to attend an in-person people don’t know her store sells t through Wheat Ridge’s Cultural gathering. plants.

“We thought with this deconstruct- Commission — a group of residents “(RidgeFest is) a great community n l that works to promote cultural arts ed version we could do something program, and I’m glad they like to in the city. Gay Porter DeNileon, who get the local businesses, restaurants w that brings the community together t has been on the commission for nine — but do it safely. We thought we and bands together. I appreciate years, said that even though half of could share and celebrate Wheat them keeping it local, it’s awesome,” g the group’s budget was slashed this Ridge in this new and interesting said Dent. s t S h ✓EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST! t Walk-In Tubs

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BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ARVADA — Conifer’s young softball team showed its maturity on Aug. 24.

The Lobos jumped out to an early 5-0 lead on the road against a historic-rich Arvada West program. The Wildcats rallied, but Conifer held its ground to take a 6-4 victory.

“It means a lot. We’ve worked so hard this year to get everything together. We have such a strong team this year,” Conifer junior Cheyenne Prieto said.

“Winning against a 5A team gives us a lot of confidence. It’s something to be excited about.”

Prieto was solid in the circle for the Lobos (2-1 record). The hard-throwing righty retired the first nine A-West batters she faced, striking out seven.

She finished the game in style striking out A-West sophomore Peyton Raley to end the game.

“I couldn’t get it to work at all this game,” Prieto said of her change-up that she threw to catch Raley looking at strikethree. “That was the point that I needed it. It worked out perfectly and I was really, really happy with it. It was really exciting to throw one in the strike zone to get the final out.”

Prieto finished with a dozen strikeouts. The only A-West batter who really hurt Pietro was Savannah Clausen. The senior had a pair of triples, driving in two runs and scoring twice.

“It was nice to be a spark for the team,” Clausen said of her two triples. “I wish we would have taken the momentum a little further.”

Clausen led off the bottom of the sixth inning with her second triple and would eventually score on an RBI single by sophomore Kendall Mulvaney to cut the Lobos’ lead to 6-4.

However, Conifer closed the door in the bottom of the seventh.

“This one feels good,” Conifer coach Carrie Oletski said.

“People are going to take notice of this win.”

Oletski has a junior-loaded

squad with a sprinkle of freshmen and sophomores. The Lobos have just two seniors in Sunny Aikin and Amber Prescott.

Prescott had a key two-run single in the third inning to extend Conifer’s lead to 5-0.

“They decided as seniors they were going to be the leaders, not followers,” Oletski said of her two seniors Sunny Aiken and Amber Prescott. “They were not going to let what happened to them last year happen this year.”

The Lobos had a 16-win season in 2019, but finished second in the Colorado 7 League behind Riverdale Ridge and failed to advance to the 4A state tournament after losses to Elizabeth and Pueblo County in regionals.

Conifer returns to the 4A Jeffco League that features No. 3-ranked Wheat Ridge, along with 4A state runner-up Golden, perennial state qualifier D’Evelyn and rival Evergreen.

“We are expecting the extra challenge going back to 4A Jeffco,” Prieto said.

The Lobos begin conference play against Standley Lake on Sept. 8.

“We would love to come back in and take it,” Oletski said of returning to the 4A Jeffco League. “We took 3-of-4 (Colorado 7) league titles the last four years. It would be nice to comeback and win league.”

A-West (3-4) went 2-2 in the 5A/4A Showdown Tournament hosted by Broomfield and Erie on Aug. 28 and 29. The Wildcats took victories over Elizabeth and Brighton during the two-day tournament.

“We’ll come back tomorrow to practice and work our butts off,” Clausen said. “We are going to have to figure out what we are doing wrong. We have a short season and we can’t take too long to figure things out.”

The Wildcats begin their 5A Jeffco League schedule at Lakewood on Sept. 8.

Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more coverage go to CHSAANow.com/Jeffco.

Arvada West freshman Mackenzie Ferguson fires to the plate during the Wildcats’ game against Conifer on Aug. 24.

PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Chatfield freshmen impressive at D’Evelyn Dash Arvada West junior David Rhoades takes a peek over his shoulder as he nears the finish line during the D’Evelyn Dash on Aug. 28. Rhoades placed third in the boys race with a time of 16 minutes, 58.1 seconds. The Wildcats cruised to the team title with five runners placing in the top 8. PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/ JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

DENVER — The annual D’Evelyn Dash Cross Country Invite looks a lot different this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With new guidelines restricting the number of teams and runners allowed at cross country races, D’Evelyn split its cross country invite into two days — Aug. 29 and 29. The first day of the varsity-only event featured seven teams — Arvada West, Bear Creek, Chatfield, Columbine, D’Evelyn, Longmont and Lutheran.

Chatfield girls cruised to the team title led by a pair of impressive freshmen. Chatfield freshman Reese Tucker won the individual title with a time of

18 minutes, 28.4 seconds. Her mile pace with under six minutes. Teammate and fellow freshman Aspen Webb placed second with a time of 19:10.4.

Columbine junior Elizabeth Fender placed third and a pair of D’Evelyn seniors — Sonja Morin and Kati Livingood — rounded out the top-5.

On the boys side, Arvada West took the team title. A-West senior Logan Deison, junior David Rhoades and senior Gabe Schultz placed in the top-5 to pace the Wildcats. Longmont junior Connor McCormick won the boys individual title with a time of 16:26.

Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more coverage go to CHSAANow.com/ Jeffco.

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Poultry — sponsored by A&L Sheet Metal

Showmanship Jr., Zoe Driggers

Small market poultry, Christi Cochran

Swine — Sponsored by North 40 Show Pigs, Fox Run Farm and Wynee Tree

Large market poultry, Hannah Lane Bird of show, Sydney Stocker Showmanship Jr. Katie Warren Showmanship Int. Mason Rapp Showmanship Sr. Delaney Lim Rabbit — sponsored by Metal Building Outlet, A Rising Star Ranch and Fluffle Farm Rabbitry Market Rabbit, Lucy Heater Breeding Rabbit, Lucy Heater Showmanship Jr., Dalton Roller Showmanship Int. Boston Johnson

Showmanship Int., Brooke Roller Showmanship Sr., Evan Clarke

Market Swine, Sophia Ritchie Showmanship Jr., Elaina Wirth Showmanship Int., Meilani Wilcox Showmanship Sr., Sophia Ritchie Fiber — Metal Building Outlet Grand Champion, Maura Tuytschaevers Reserve Grand Champion, Boston Johnson Horse

Showmanship Sr. Aspen Tolman

Beginner English and Western, Laney Gould

Llama/Alpaca — Sponsored by A&L Sheet Metal

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Showmanship Jr., Sydney Stocker Showmanship Int. Brooke Roller Showmanship Sr. Dora White Sheep — Sponsored by Metal Building Outlet

Level 1 Intermediate, Skyy Schmidt Level 1 Senior, Persephone Argabrite Level 2 Intermediate, Lilian Stavig Level 2 Senior, Kayla Dailey Level 3 and 4, Taylar Kolstad

Market Sheep, Sarah Liepold

Gymkhana Junior, Zoe Driggers

Breeding Sheep, Sophia Ritchie

Gymkhana Intermediate, Skyy Schimidt

Showmanhsip Jr., Nicholas Leatherman Showmanship Int., Isabelle Taussig Showmanship Sr., Austin bamford Beef — sponsored by the Front Range Livestock council and A Rising Star Ranch Market Beef, Sophia Ritchie Breeding Beef, Sophia ritchie Showmanship Jr., Elaina Wirth Showmanship Int., Lilian Stavig Showmanship Sr., Sophia Ritchie Goat — Sponsored by Tres Rio, Kidder Investments, Metal Building Outlet and Evan clark

Gymkhana Senior, Kayla Dailey Beginner Showmanship, Frances Cabral Level 1 Junior Showmanship, Dalton Roller Level 1 Intermediate Showmanship, Skyy Schmidt Level 1 Senior Showmanship, Persephone Argabrite Level 2 Intermediate Showmanship, Lilian Stavig Level 2 Senior Showmanship, Marty Kacsh Level 3 and 4 All Ages Showmanship, Taylar Kolstad

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There’s a new M on campus Mines modifies tradition to welcome new students amidst pandemic STAFF REPORT

With COVID-19 preventing School of Mines incoming freshman from completing their traditional climb to the M that overlooks Golden, the school instead brought the M to them.

On Friday, Aug. 28, the school hosted during which students were invited to add the rock each Mines freshman is asked to bring to a campus to a new temporary rock M constructed on campus near the school’s intramural fields.

According to an article produced by the school, the class of 2024 was divided into cohorts of about 30 to 50 students. Each group was then assigned a time to gather to spray paint their hard hats (another Mines tradition) before embarking on a tour of campus with the 10-pound rocks they were asked to bring from home inhand.

That tour ended at the sight of the new M, where the new Orediggers painted their rocks with cups of whitewash and placed them in the temporary construction where they will stay until they can be relocated to the M on Mount Zion.

The new M, which is located between the intramural fields and Greek houses on the Mines campus. The traditional M on Mount Zion is visible behind it.

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A Colorado School of Mines freshman holds a rock she brought from home to add to the new temporary M that was constructed on campus on Aug. 21.

A Colorado School of Mines freshman pours whitewash on a rock he brought to add to the temporary M constructed on campus between the intramural fields and the Greek houses.

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