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Beer brewed with wood at Olde Town brewery wins gold at Great American Beer Festival Beer wins top honor for second straight year

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BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Denver Beer Co. head brewer Jason Buehler and Olde Town Arvada brewery head brewer Levi Peterson sit with medals around their necks after the brewery won three medals at the Great American Beer Festival on Oct. 16.

PHOTO BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO

IF YOU GO Denver Beer Co.-Old Towne Arvada location 5768 Old Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada 303-433-2739 Denverbeerco.com/locations

Denver Beer Co.’s GABF 2020 winners Amburana Graham Cracker PorterSilver medal in wood and barrel-aged beer category Poblano Pils (Cerveceria Colorado brand)-Silver medal in chili beer category

Jeffco officials asked for more specific data from Jeffco Public Health about where and among whom COVID-19 is spreading in Jeffco during a meeting held to discuss how the county should address a continuing rise in new cases that could lead the state to impose new restrictions on county businesses.

The meeting was held on Oct. 19 after the county was notified by the Colorado Department of Public Health that the county had been moved from Safer at Home Level 2 to Safer at Home Level 3 on the state COVID-19 status dial, which would further limit how gyms, restaurants and other businesses can operate.

However, JCPH Executive Director Jody Erwin said the move is considered “informal” for now and the county should have about four weeks to reduce its case numbers enough to move back into Level 3 or at least negotiate on whether all Level 3 restrictions will be put into effect in Jeffco. However, JCPH now does have the ability to “formally” move Jeffco into Level 3 and impose all accompanying restrictions if it determines Jeffco’s case data warrants doing so, he noted.

“They are going to work with us and give us some flexibility and our hope is that as we get to the end of the four weeks as long as we are continuing to make progress they will continue to have some flexibility with us,” said Erwin.

A group of six northwest metro Denver cities and Jefferson County will begin discussing ways to manage airplane takeoff and landing noise in 2021.

It’s part of a Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport’s Community Noise Roundtable, expected to begin meeting in 2021. Ben Miller, senior planner for the airport, said the cities of Arvada, Broomfield, Louisville, Superior and Westminster have all been invited to name members to the roundtable.

Westminster City Councilors agreed Oct. 19 to name City Councilor Kathryn Skulley to the roundtable.

“I actually live in the flight line, so I sympathize with residents,” Skulley said.

“I’m hearing a lot of extra planes, most I’ve attributed to the fires. I know we have a lot of planes taking off and leaving all day long to help put out the fires and I’m grateful for that and the people that do that work. But certainly, in the last couple of years, we’ve seen an increase in noise. It will feel good to have someone from our city who can be a part of this roundtable and this conversation.”

A spokesman for CDPHE offered the following statement regarding how CDPHE was responding to Jeffco’s elevated case numbers.

“Counties have two weeks to get their metrics back to their assigned level,” said the spokesperson. “After that two week period, CDPHE can either have the county enhance mitigation tactics or move the county on the dial.”

Jeffco’s numbers continued to increase following the meeting. The county’s two week case total on Oct. 25 was 1,645 cases, the highest since the pandemic began.

Erwin said contact tracing data suggests the primary drivers of the increase in cases continue to be

Advisory only Councilors noted the group could only advise and suggest flight pattern changes and Miller said that is true.

The Federal Aviation Administration is the final authority on anything that happens at the airport involving flight paths or operations. But Miller said they make accommodations to airport neighbors.

“They have jurisdiction over the airspace and they are the owners of that responsibility,” Miller said. “They have however, made it clear that requested changes to airspace patterns or flight procedures can’t come from any one community or from an airport, un-vetted without a good public process. So the FAA sees a noise roundtable, with every surrounding community participating, as the only venue with which they would consider flight procedure changes to address concerns about noise.”

Miller said the airport encourages pilots to keep aircraft noise as low as possible, directing them to fly over road and open spaces when possible and reduce engine RPM when they can. The group would discuss other potential changes — including altering flight plans — and make

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County sees need for more data as COVID-19 cases continue to increase

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Roundtable targets airport noise Local cities invited to join Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport discussion group

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

While visiting a brewery in Brazil a few years ago, Jason Buehler sampled a beer brewed in amburana wood for the first time.

“I had never heard of it before,” said Buehler, who is the head brewer for Denver Beer Co. “And the beer was incredible.”

When Buehler asked if amburana was available in the US, the beer’s brewer responded that he didn’t know but offered to instead give Buehler some amburana wood bark to take back.

Buehler did so and, soon after arriving in Colorado, brought that wood to Denver Beer Co.’s brewery in Olde Town Arvada where he toasted it and added it to the fermenter he then used to make a new Imperial Porter beer called Amburana Dream.

“We could tell we had something special because it tasted great,” said Buehler. “It didn’t particularly sell that great probably because people didn’t know what amburana was but the flavor was awesome.”

While Amburana Dream is not currently available at Denver Beer Co. — it will likely find a more

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Republican rep uses transphobic language in robocall attacking Titone Democrats call attack

by Weld GOP ‘garbage’

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colorado’s statehouse Democrats have published an open letter slamming a robocall sent out to voters in House District 27 that includes transphobic attacks on Representative Brianna Titone, who is transgender.

In the call, a recording of which the Democrats’ House Majority Project sent to Colorado Community Media, Republican Representative Stephen Humphrey states that Titone is “a transsexual state representative who wants to

force a radical sexual agenda on every Coloradoan.”

Humphrey goes on to claim Titone supports policies allowing “biological men who identify as female” to use women’s bathrooms and “taxpayer funded sex change treatments for children even before puberty.” The ad does not provide evidence for those claims.

The robocall was paid for by the Colorado Family Values Victory Fund, an independent expenditure committee out of Greeley. The CFV Victory Fund had spent $4,625 on campaigns during the current two-year election cycle as of Oct. 19, according to Colorado’s TRACER campaign finance disclosure system.

The CFV Victory Fund describes its purpose on

TRACER as being to “fight for Orthodox Christian truth/family values concerning all facets of human sexuality, marriage, family life by means of public discourse, political issue advocacy and support and opposition of candidates and ballot measures.” Humphrey, who represents a district that includes a mostly rural portion of western Weld County, is listed as the group’s registered agent on Tracer.

The letter, which is signed by 40 Democrat representatives and 10 Democratic candidates, describes the robocall as “nothing more than transphobic garbage that propagates debunked and dangerous myths and creates more hatred and animosity toward those just trying to live their authentic lives.”

“We hope to see Republican legislators and candidates join our condemnation of these attacks,oppose anti-LGBTQ policies,and standup as LGBTQ allies,” it states. “We, the Colorado House Democrats, stand with Rep.Titone and every member of the LGBTQ community who feels threatened by this rhetoric and the potential violence it incites.”

Titone also offered the following comment to Colorado Community Media, via email: “The issue from our perspective isn’t disproving completely unsubstantiated and false myths about a community that is already under attack. There is plenty of evidence that the claims made in the voicemail are false, and regardless of any semantic discussions, they are irrel-

evant to this race.”

“My priorities in office are the priorities of my constituents, and I have proven time and time again that I will act on their behalf. We believe this race should be run on the issues. The proof of that can clearly be seen in the campaign we’ve run, and in my legislative record.”

The letter states that the only bill TItone has introduced relating to LGBTQ issues is a bill taking away “gay panic” as a defense against assaulting a gay or transgender person. That bill was passed 63-1 (with Humphrey voting for it) and signed by Jared Polis this year.

Humphrey has not responded to calls seeking comment from Colorado Community Media.

‘Count every vote’ vigil at Arvada City Hall Event to support valid election results Nov. 4 at 4 p.m.

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Arvadans for Progressive Action Holding “Count Every Vote” Vigil to

Protect Valid Results of the Election Arvadans for Progressive Action (APA), a local organization dedicated to promoting progressive values in Arvada, is holding a Count Every Vote Vigil the day after the election.

The APA states the purpose of this peaceful vigil is to demonstrate bipartisan public support for taking the time to count every mail-in ballot and honoring the valid results of the 2020

presidential election.

The Vigil will be 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, in front of Arvada City Hall. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Participants are asked to bring signs that support democracy and encourage counting every vote. APA asks that participants refrain from bringing partisan signs.

This action is part of a nationwide coalition called Protect the Results.

The coalition includes more than 100 bipartisan groups, including support from faith-based organizations. It was formed to protect the results of the election, and a peaceful resolution regardless of the outcome. Other public demonstrations are planned across Colorado and the nation. For more information, visit protecttheresults. com or contact APA at ArvadansforProgressiveAction@gmail.com.

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being driven by Jeffco schools continuing to offer in-person learning and other activities like sports.

“I know, it’s hard but I don’t see how if the data is pointing toward the schools, why we wouldn’t push them to move to remote learning vs. closing some of the businesses,” said Tighe.

Erwin said he agreed with the need for more data but said current state data suggests that schools are not a significant source of COVID-19 spread.

However, Erwin said JCPH would move to require schools to take all learning online if data did suggest such a move was warranted.

Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper suggested the county should look to use more of the CARES Act funds it received from the Federal government to further increase its contact tracing capacity in hopes of getting data about where and how COVID is spreading in Jeffco.

“That data is so relevant as we are talking with our community and building those communication strategies to really pinpoint where our challenges are and then how the messaging reflects that and then ask for the community’s help,” she said.

Those communication strategies were also a focus of the call as JCPH’s communications staff unveiled a new “Together we move forward” campaign that will aim to reach residents about the need to recommit to COVID-19

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small gatherings of family and friends in backyards and other locations as well as household spread that occurs when someone becomes infected with COVID-19 in the community and then spreads it to those in their household.

County attorney Kym Sorrells said that if COVID-19 is mostly spreading in Jeffco at private gatherings and not at businesses like restaurants and gyms, then it is important that the county have that data in order to potentially make the case that those businesses should remain open even as case counts are rising.

“If they’re not seeing spread in the gym or they’re not seeing spread in the restaurants or retail stores then let’s argue like hell to keep those things at the level they are,” said Sorrells. “Because if they’re not causing the spread, why are we going to harm people further by shutting them down.”

Casey Tighe also expressed concerns about the need for better data “I know the data is hard to get because contact tracing is not easy,” said Tighe. “But we’ve got to try as much as we can to get data to drive our decisions.” ` Tighe said it is particularly important for the county to get data about how much of the increase in cases is

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CORRECTION The story about the Arvada Water Tower in the Oct. 22 issue of the Arvada Press misidentified the author of the pamphlet “The Arvada Water Tower:

Celebrating 100 Years.” The authorship should be credited to the Arvada Historical Society, as several historical society volunteers contributed.

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COVID-19 cases rising in Jeffco schools

BY GLENN WALLACE GWALLACE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Last week was not a pretty one for Jeffco Public Schools in terms of COVID-19 exposure. In fact, it was a no good, very bad kind of a week — the worst in terms of case numbers that the state’s second largest school district has had since it began tracking school community COVID-19 numbers

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prevention strategies to keep the economy going and allow the county to move on from the virus.

- But while both the commissioners and the JCPH officials agreed it makes

on Aug. 31.

The district reports 31 new cases were identified on Monday, and 23 on Tuesday. In total, more than 100 new cases were identified in the district last week — the district’s worst week by far. Sunday, the district confirmed 17 additional cases.

As of Oct. 24, 94 of the district’s 155 schools have now reported at least one case involving a staff member or stu-

sense to focus on communications aimed at engaging residents, they said stronger steps could soon be needed.

“Something to just consider as we’re going forward is, if two weeks from now our cases are still going through the roof and it looks like we’re at risk of moving to Level 3, do

dent — thought he district says those counts include students that may have opted for remote-only learning and never stepped foot in those schools this school year.

According to the district dashboard, the worst-hit schools include Alameda International Jr./Sr. High School with 11 active cases, and Dakota Ridge High with 10 active cases.

“In general, we are continuing ahead

we implement more strict requirements as a county so that we can get those numbers down really fast and try to stay on Level 2, rather than moving into level 3 and having the state kind of take some more control over it,” said Jim Rada, JCPH’s director of environmental health science.

with the model we currently have in place and do not intent to move to allremote unless public health orders it,” said Jeffco Public School’s Executive Director of Media Relations Cameron Bell via email last week.

Bell said the district was considering phasing in limits or cancellations of athletic and extracurricular activities, but that no decisions had yet been made.

LEVEL 3 RESTRICTIONS According to CDPHE’s guidelines, Level 3 restrictions include (but are not limited to): • Shops limited to 25% capacity.

• Restaurants limited to 25% capacity or 50-per-room, whichever is less.

• Bars closed unless they serve food (restaurant limits apply).

• Offices limited to 25% of employee workforce.

• Gyms and fitness centers would be limited to virtual operations, or with groups of 10 or fewer, outdoors only.

• Outdoor events limited to 75 people max.

• Indoor events limited to 25 people.

• Houses of worship and life rites limited to 25% of the posted occupancy limit indoors, or 50 people per room, whichever is less.

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As Winter Approaches and Covid-19 Lingers, What’s the Jeffco Real Estate Outlook?

As I write this, the real estate market is a tale of two cities — or, more accurately, a tale of cities vs. suburbs. Because of the virus, Americans are “getting out of Dodge,” leaving the congestion of multi-story buildings and moving to the suburbs and the countryside.

The statistics tell the story. In a recent 30-day period, 46% of the sales in Jefferson County closed above their listing price after being on the MLS for a median of 5 days. It was quite the opposite in downtown Denver. There, during the same 30-day period, 87% of the listings (primarily condos in elevator buildings) sold below their listing prices with median time on the MLS of 24 days.

It’s the same story nationwide, and for good reason. People are fearful of catching Covid-19, and they know that being in close quarters can’t be good. In the suburbs they can take their dog for a walk without using an elevator and without having to come within 6 feet of another human being. (I’m describing my own life here — I walk my dog Chloe every morning on a one-mile circuit around my subdivision and never come in close contact with the neighbors I encounter. Because of that, I don’t even need to wear a mask on these walks.)

We keep hearing that the inventory of homes for sale is at record low (except

downtown), but that’s only true because homes are going under contract so quickly. The chart at right tells the story well. Using the most recent fullmonth MLS statistics for Jefferson County (September 2020), you can see that we actually had more new listings this September than in any of the five previous Septembers, yet the number of sold listings was nearly the same, so there was no way the number of active listings was going to increase and was, in fact, lower by far than the number of active listings in the five previous Septembers.

And the median time on the MLS of 5 days tells you why that’s true.

Moreover, the average ratio of sold price to listing price in Jeffco was 100%, as it had been every prior September except in 2019, and the price per finished square foot has continued to soar.

Clearly, the takeaway from this analysis is that if a homeowner is thinking of selling their home anytime soon, he or she would be smart to put their home on the market right now. Don’t think that just because winter is coming that buyers aren’t actively looking for homes. Last week in this column I promoted a 1973 ranch in Arvada that was “not particularly updated.” It didn’t even have a garage door opener for its one-car garage, and it had a clothes line instead of a dryer. Yet

Realtor Code of Ethics to Address Hate Speech

A couple weeks back, I had an article about how the National Association of Realtors is taking fair housing seriously.

This week I read in an email newsletter that NAR is proposing changes to its Code of Ethics and professional standards to crack down on racist and discriminatory speech and behavior.

If implemented, the changes would apply NAR’s Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice to all activities, not just those related to real estate, prohibiting hate speech against protected classes.

Protected classes under the Code of Ethics include race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Once these changes are adopted, the Code would prohibit all discrimination, not just willful discrimination, against protected classes and would recommend that ethics violations be considered un-

der membership qualification criteria.

Ethics violations could also be referred to governmental agencies for action.

Discrimination would be deemed “particularly egregious” when determining appropriate discipline, which could include termination of membership for up to three years.

Regarding the proposed changes, NAR said in a website FAQ, “During the social unrest throughout the nation in late spring and summer of 2020, NAR received an unprecedented number of complaints about Realtors posting discriminatory speech and conduct online, especially on social media. Local and state associations experienced a similar influx of these complaints. A local association of Realtors wrote to NAR President Vince Malta requesting that NAR consider the Code of Ethics’ applicability to this type of speech and conduct.”

that home attracted over 50 agent showings in 72 hours and 11 offers by Saturday evening, when it went under contract for $30,500 over its listing price.

A recent real estate industry article predicted a terrible winter for real estate agents because of low inventory, but there are just as many homes for sale as ever — maybe more. You just have to act quickly because they are selling right away.

Another recent listing of mine also

illustrates how hot the market is. The very first offer for my $530,000 tri-level listing in central Lakewood came in at $585,000, apparently from a buyer who had lost out in previous bidding wars and didn’t want that to happen again. The strategy worked, because no one submitted an offer when I revealed that we had one that was $55,000 over full price.

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For-Sale-By-Owner Can Hurt Sellers in a Hot Market When homes sell this easily (if priced right), you might think you don’t need to use a listing agent, but think again.

Take the scenario I described above. I listed a home for what it was worth based on comparable sales, but it attracted 50 showings and 11 offers and I played the offers against each other to get $30,500 above the listing price.

If the owner had tried to sell it herself, fewer buyers would know about the

home because it wouldn’t be on the MLS and countless other websites. And how could she have handled those 50 showings without our showing service, which is only available to licensed agents? And what about handling those 11 offers which come in using a software package used by virtually all agents, not available to sellers? It would be rather awkward, don’t you think, to conduct the bidding war and end up with the result I got?

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Warren Tech South construction underway New classes and offerings at new location

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A groundbreaking celebration for the new Warren Tech South campus took place Oct. 20 at a site on the Dakota Ridge High School property in Littleton. Masked attendees chatted and mixed, and the steady beep of heavy equipment filled the air, as speeches were given and ceremonial dirt was shoveled.

The new campus, estimated to cost $10 million, is part of Jeffco Public Schools’ Capital Improvement Program, and will be funded in part by the November 2018 voterapproved bond measure.

Eric Stout, Associate Principal of Warren Tech South, got the ball rolling with introductions and shout-outs to all of the people who made the day possible. The new campus will be the third for Warren Tech in Jefferson County, joining the Central campus in Lakewood and the North campus in Arvada. According to Stout, officials looked at several different sites before choosing this location.

“We knew we wanted something in the south area and by picking this particular site,

VIPs participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Warren Tech South campus in Littleton.

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not only is there easy access to Dakota Ridge and Chatfield High Schools, we also have the Columbine, Bear Creek and Green Mountain campuses just a short journey away,” he said.

Warren Tech looked at the programs they planned to offer at the new campus, and made sure they had outreach possibilities with industry partners in the area. Stout said the business partnerships in South Jeffco have been a huge untapped resource for a long time.

The South campus will offer programs in Aircraft Maintenance Technology, Audio Production, Aviation Technology, Hospitality & Event Man-

agement, Live Sound & Event Production, Physical Therapy, and Video Production. While the school is slated to open in the fall of 2021, the Aircraft Maintenance program won’t begin until Aug. 2022 to give them time to meet all FAA requirements.

There is high demand for many Warren Tech programs, resulting in some waitlists, so the new campus will be a welcome addition to the district.Cameron Bell, Jeffco’s executive director of media relations . She added that the addition of a third campus will allow Warren Tech to serve more students and their interests.

“It will also diversify the

Eric Stout, Associate Principal of Warren Tech South, speaks at the Oct. 20 groundbreaking ceremony in Littleton.

skills students bring to Colorado’s workforce and provide students with advanced exposure and access to their field of study in higher education,” Bell said.

Warren Tech Principal, Heather Keeton stressed that it wasn’t just the school, but also the county’s voters that felt very strongly about wanting to open a south campus.

She said the new location gives the school the ability to offer more programs district-wide, and that many of the programs they offer are directly driven by industry partners who have a unique insight into jobs that are in demand now, and those that should be in high demand

in the future. According to Keeton, the Airline Maintenance Program is something that industry partners were strong advocates for.

“They came and said these are the programs that you really should get students ready for, because there’s gonna be so many jobs for them,” Keeton said. “So the aircraft industry is just really supportive and it’s just been an incredible journey.”

The soon-to-be three of Warren Tech campuses offer courses that can either be a stepping-stone to college, or lead to a certification that allows students to move into the SEE TECH, P5

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Jeffco and JCEA approve changes to latest agreement Salary, sick-leave and a moratorium on layoffs and furlough days were all up for discussion

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On Oct. 2, the Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to approve a compensation agreement with the Jefferson County Education Association. The terms of the agreement had been agreed on by district negotiators and the JCEA on Sept. 21.

The compensation agreement gives educators a 3% salary payment that they will receive in two installments of 1.5% each. The money for the payments will come from one-time money in district reserves. Aside from compensation, this years agreement included the development of a sick-leave bank which can offer additional support to educators in times of health crisis, changes in

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workforce. Some students, according to Keeton, want to use the skills they learn at the Arvada and Lakewood Warren Tech locations to put themselves through college so they can avoid taking on the heavy debt that a traditional four-year degree can bring.

language around grievance, class sizes and teacher assignments, summer school pay rates, benefits coverage and student discipline. It also allows for salary movement for those who are eligible based on education.

In a press release, Interim Superintendent Kristopher Schuh said the District was pleased to have reached the agreement with the JCEA after many long negotiating sessions.

“Many of the items discussed this session — class size planning and collaboration, student behavior and teacher rights around discipline directly impact the success of teachers and ultimately students,” Schuh said.

“Our teams are very proud of the positive changes we made this year.”

Prior to the Board’s vote, the JCEA voted to ratify the agreement. A statement from JCEA President Brooke Williams said that while the agreement had achieved some concrete improvements, especially through language changes, Jeffco educators still made significant sacrifices this year.

“We cannot afford to not invest in Jeffco educators long term. It is bad for our students, our educators, our communities and our future,” WilAny junior or senior attending a Jeffco high school or district charter school can apply to one of the Warren Tech campuses. There is an online application process that allows students to make a first and second choice of the programs they are interested in, and roughly 50 students are accepted into each program per semester.

Those students split their time between Warren Tech and their home high school each school-day.

liams said.

She also said that members made the difficult decision to accept the deal which has long-term effects on their compensation while facing the most difficult working conditions they had ever seen. In her written statement, Williams pointed out that Jeffco currently ranks fifth in average educator salary among surrounding districts, and that as a state, Colorado ranks last in the nation for wage competitiveness (measuring what teachers are paid compared to what they could make in other industries with a similar level of education). She thinks that if nothing is done to make Jeffco more competitive, the district will continue to lose educators to surrounding

districts and other states. She also touched on the current crisis we’re all facing and the effect it is having on schools.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our students, educators and community profoundly. Some of those impacts are immediate and obvious while others continue to reveal themselves,” said Williams, in her written statement. She also made it clear that although educators want to be in schools with students, they are relying on the community to follow safe practices to achieve that vision.

The current Collective Bargaining Agreement between Jeffco Public Schools and the JCEA is effective through Aug. 31, 2021.

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Arvada arts grants — “I am so grateful” City of Arvada provides $250,000 in grants to artists economically impacted by COVID-19.

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As an artist specializing in caricatures, the bulk of Jason Sauer’s business has always come from corporate events, weddings and other gatherings. So it goes without saying that the last few months have been tough, he said.

“I had so many planned for spring, summer and fall,” Sauer said. “And most of them have all been canceled because of COVID-19.”

But while a new spike in cases continues to mean it will likely be even longer before Sauer is able to get back to regularly doing the caricatures he loves at events, the Arvadan said he is now feeling quite a bit better about his situation then he did before.

The reason? A grant Sauer recently received from the city of Arvada’s new artist relief fund, set up to disperse $250,000 in the CARES Act funds the city received to both Arvada-based arts and local nonprofits that support the arts. In total, the city awarded grants to 50 individual artists and two nonprofits.

Charise Canales, who serves as the city’s neighborhood engagement coordinator as well as a staff liaison to the Arvada Arts and Culture Com-

Fashion designer Julie Tierney stands next to a jacket she designed in her studio in Arvada. mission, said the effort to provide grants to local artists was spearheaded by that commission.

“We believe that artists of all kinds are key to the continued vibrancy of Arvada,” Canales said in a statement.

When fashion designer Julie Tierney heard about the grant, she wondered if she would qualify because

John Hickenlooper has led Colorado through crises before, and in the Senate, he will work to end COVID-19 and help us build back better than before.

fashion is not always considered art — even if it should be.

So it would be an understatement, she said, to say that she was surprised when she opened an email earlier this month informing her she had been awarded a grant of $4,220.

“I was thinking `is this a scam?’” said Tierney.

But it wasn’t and now Tierney is planning to spend the money on new materials and a new industrial sewing machine. She said she is currently trying to decide between buying a serger, which is used to make edges, hems and seams, or a zig zag sewing machine.

Sauer, meanwhile, said he is going to use his grant to turn his website into an e-commerce website that would allow him to sell art online, offer digital caricature art and begin offering commissions so he can begin doing more caricatures outside of events.

He feels beyond grateful to have received the grant, which he says is helping more feel optimistic about his future as a caricature artist because he can now expand into digital

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receptive audience whenever it returns thanks to the Great American Beer Festival, which just awarded the beer the gold medal in its Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer category for the second straight year.

Buehler said Amburana Dream coming out on top two years in a row was “pretty crazy,”—especially after the beer actually lost to another amburana beer when it was first entered at GABF three years ago.

But while Denver Beer Co., which also operates a brewery in Denver, has become no stranger to GABF recognition (with 14 awards, including two other awards at the festival this year for beers brewed at its Denver facilities), this year’s win had a different feel according to Buerhle said.

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ARTISTS AWARDED GRANTS Painters-17 Ceramics artists-5 Fashion design and apparel-2 Video and audio production-3 Jewlery-4 Sculpture-5 Photographer-4 Illustrator-2 Theater-12 Musician (audio production, instrumentalists and singers)-6 Author-3 Printmaking-2 Muralist-1 art while hoping that the future holds a large rush when “everybody wants a party again” after the pandemic has finally subsided.

“I don’t know of a lot of cities and areas around here that are doing anything like this,” he said. “So I am very proud to be an Arvada resident for the last 14 years now.”

While the awards have usually been handed out in a packed auditorium, this year’s ceremony was held online.

Buerhle actually didn’t find out about the win until he got service while camping in the mountains.

As of now, the small quantity of Amburana Dream’s gold medalwinning batch that remains is being saved for future competitions and the brewery’s staff. However, Buerhle said it will be brewed again in the very near future. It could also face stiffer competition at future competitions as Amburana wood is now available in the US, where it is becoming an increasingly popular option.

Buerhle, however, remains thankful for his first experience with amburana beer.

“After we won, it immediately made me think of the brewer in Brazil and so I reached out to him and told him we won and thanked him for helping me because I never would have discovered this amburana had he not made a great beer with it,” he said.

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Busy summer for Rocky Mountain air tankers Forest Service aircraft key in battling wildland blazes

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With an unprecedented number of wildland forest fires in Colorado and the bulk of the Western states this summer, the air tankers at Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport have been especially busy.

“They’ve been based here all summer, but it really took off in August,” Airport Senior Planner Ben Miller said. “They were fighting fires in Glennwood, the fire in Centennial and Jeffco, briefly.

But they’ve been treating the Cameron Peak fire and this week, they’ve been supporting the Calwood, the Lefthand, the Cameron Peak and the East Troublesome fires.”

The U.S. Forest Service maintains a small fleet of orange-and-white air tankers tasked with flying over the fires and dumping red-tinted slurry. The slurry, a mixture of a powdered fire retarding fertilizer mixed with water at the airport, is a key tool in fighting forest fires.

“The forest service contracts with a couple of different companies to provide the planes and do the drops,” Miller said. “They operate what the Forest Service considers the medium to large air tankers.”

The largest air tankers, such as DC 10 aircraft, fly out of Forest Service bases in

Smoke from the fires in Boulder County rise up over the mountains and an orange-and-white slurry tanker airplane Oct. 21 at the Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport.

PHOTOS BY SCOTT TAYLOR southern Colorado and Wyoming. The forest service keeps a variety of aircraft types at the Broomfield airport, ranging from helicopters to small single engine tankers up to heavy airtankers and lead planes that scout out the the fires.

“But around here, people consider the aircraft pretty big,” he said. “We have MD87s and BAe-146, former commercial aircraft.”

Both the BAe-146 — made by British Aerospace Systems — and the McDonnell Douglas MD-87s can carry up to 3,000 gallons of the retardent.

“They have flown 125 missions in a week, since Oct. 13,” Miller said.

The airtanker base was established at the Broom-

field airport in 1983, one of three permanent bases in Colorado, The two others are based in Grand Junction and Durango. A fourth permanent base is located in Rapid City, South Dakota and two refill bases are located at airports in Pueblo and Casper, Wyoming.

The base at RMMA includes retardant storage tanks, filling facilities, offices as well as quarters for the pilots.

Miller said the powdered fire retardent is stored at the airport dry and mixed with local water. The airport has the capacity to mix 190,000 gallons of the retardant at a time.

They generally try to take off towards the east, Miller said.

“If the wind is more than a

A U.S. Forest Service-contracted airtankers sits waiting on the taxiway at Broomfield’s Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport Oct. 22. couple of miles per hour, they will start routing so they are taking off into the wind,” he said. “That’s important for all aircraft, but particularly

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A small airplane takes off in front of the control tower at Rocky Mountain Municipal Airport Oct. 22.

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recommendations to the FAA. “What you don’t want to have happen is to have one community say they want more aircraft over another community,” he said. “They want a well-vetted opinion from all the surrounding communities before they consider it.”

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Landing patterns But Miller said the airport’s landing patterns are set by the airports runways, two that run from the northwest to the southeast and a shorter runway that runs from the northeast to the southwest. Weather, especially local wind, also determines which directions the planes use for takeoffs and landings.

“Aircraft take off and land into the wind, and our prevailing wind is from the west,” Miller said. “The mountains also have an impact and the other big factor is the airspace of Denver International Airport.

And all of that comes into form the national airspace.”

The airport has been in operation since 1960, and had its busiest year in 1977 with 248,351 operations, defined as an aircraft taking off or landing at the airport facilities. The airport has had its ups and downs with the local economy, going between 120,000 and

for a very heavily loaded air tanker. They are using a lot of our runway to take off, so they need all the help from the wind that they can get.”

195,000 operations per year since 1979.

Airport operations began recovering from a five year lag in 2014 and the airport has gotten busier each year since then, with 195,762 operations in 2019. It’s currently the fourth busiest airport in the state, with more than 400 aircraft based there and about 50 businesses using it as a base.

It’s listed as reliever for Denver International Airport, which means that smaller commercial crafts are directed to the Broomfield runways rather than DIA. “They do not want to be handling as much general aviation traffic amongst the commercial jets they have landing there,” Miller said. “We, Centennial and Front Range act as those airports. If someone is flying into Denver on a business jet or a small propeller aircraft, they typically choose one of our airports.”

The communities around the airport have grown much faster than it has, Miller said. Population in the surrounding cities — Arvada, Broomfield, Louisville, Superior and Westminster — say a 68 percent increase since 1970, from 79,197 to 338,806 in 2019.

“If you look at this area as a snapshot of time, we have grown about 35 percent in operations while the surrounding community has grown 68 percent,” Miller said. “We will do the best we can to help them address noise complaints. We certainly want to be friendly with the community.”

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An important task for our tired brains ALCHEMY

Andrea Doray

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voted, just now. I completed filled in the ovals for my choices, sealed and signed my ballot, and delivered it personally to an official collection box. BallotTrax will let me know when it’s been received and counted.

I suspect most of us make our decisions on major issues and candidates long before we fill in those little ovals, although there were options on my ballot that needed research (and, yes, I did look up every one of the judges).

And with everything else that’s going on

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Water tower credit Thank you for the delightful article about an important part of Arvada’s history, our beloved Water Tower. It was wellwritten and provided interesting insights into our community in days gone by.

While I was flattered by Mr. Albani-Burgio’s references to “NancyYoung’s book”, please note that this book is not mine. It is a small pamphlet that should be credited to the Arvada Historical Society, not me. I hope you will publish this correction.

Many volunteers with the Arvada Historical Society contributed to this publication, and my role in writing the text was just one part of a much larger effort.

As a Society volunteer, I frequently hear newer residents asking about the rich history of Arvada. Not only is Arvada the site of the first documented gold strike in Colorado (1850), but many of our earliest settlers arrived here during the 1859 Colorado Gold Rush. Our community was shaped by the decisions made by those early settlers, everything from the layout of today’s roads, to the schools, and so much more.

Perhaps the Arvada Press might consider periodic articles of historic interest from the Arvada Historical Society. The Society would welcome an invitation to share our history and encourage residents to learn more about their home town, Arvada.

As an Arvada old-timer, the article about the Water Tower is deeply appreciated.

I’m looking forward to more attention to Arvada’s rich history in future issues of your publication.

Nancy Young, Arvada Divided we Listen If we all got the same information, and it was presented factually, our country would be much more united. But currently many people (group 1) get a restricted version of news, and opinion from left leaning outlets, stripped and honed to foster an anti-Trump narrative. A smaller group 2 gets another version and perspective on the news and information from a conservative outlet.

Both groups generally accept what is presented as truth. No wonder the country is divided. People hear and believe two different realities. Group 1 can’t see how group 2 (the deplorables) can possibly think the way they do. Group 2 people see group 1 as being manipulated and kept uninformed to help Democrats, stoke hate and keep anti-Trump fervor going. Others hear both

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– the pandemic, the wildfires, the economy, and so on – sometimes it’s hard to focus on such decisions. This mental exhaustion I feel, and perhaps you do too, has been the subject of cognitive research. On Amir, an assistant professor at the University of California at San Diego, writes that “the brain is like a muscle: when it gets depleted, it becomes less effective.”

A growing body of research shows that when we focus on a specific decision – such as whether to have a cookie with lunch or go for

versions, some get neither, and many get their information from social media or word of mouth.

A snapshot estimate of primetime TV news listeners provides a glimpse on the size of the two groups. About 22 million people watch liberal leaning ABC, CBS, and NBC and 2.5 million follow blatantly hate Trump CNN and MSNBC. About 3 million people get news and opinion from much-maligned conservative leaning Fox. A 24.5 to 3 advantage. But I find that Fox actually is indeed “fair and balanced” and Fox covers all the news including that which the other media apparently does not. That approach must help truth and good news get out. Trump’s crowds and the nearly 50-50 split in polls show that.

Larry Von Thun, Lakewood It takes a village I’ve always believed in the saying that, “It takes a village to raise a child.” I experienced the beauty of a village as a child, and now I lean on it as a parent and educator. Predictably, COVID-19 has awakened an even deeper need to have a strong and dedicated village.

At Foster PreK-8, we had a unique, Covid inspired, need. As we excitedly prepared to welcome students back, we realized that we didn’t have some basic resources needed to make a safe learning space. Namely, we needed desks to keep students separated from one another and facing forward. It was a challenging moment to realize that we knew what we needed to prepare a welcoming, safe and productive space, but that we would need to find money and community support to make it a reality.

Luckily, we have an amazing village.

Thanks to the Arvada Elks for stepping up fiercely. They fundraised for desks, and spent countless evening and weekends searching for furniture. It was an oddly hard quota to fill as nearly everything was backordered. What we found was more expensive than the original fundraising number, but they still placed the order.

In a day when a lot of news is disheartening, stressful and hard to read, I wanted to take a moment to celebrate the wonderful village that stood by us in our time of need. So, Arvada Elks, thank you, from all of us at Foster PreK-8.

Nicole Head, Golden SEE LETTERS, P14

a walk – we are flexing our “executive function” muscle.

As Amir notes, it turns out that this executive function draws on a single resource of limited capacity in the brain. When this resource is consumed by one activity, our mental capacity for other activities is hindered.

The theory is that unrelated activities, like deciding between the cookie or the walk – or deciding to do both! – can disrupt our abiliSEE DORAY, P11

Couples counseling part II

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n a lovely snowy day…..

So the counselor turns to the couple in distress in HITTING front of him and asks, “if HOME you really believe you would make very similar decisions on 80% of the issues in front of you, then there are two possibilities.”

“Go on,” the Michael Alcorn husband says, tiredly.

“One, that your issue has nothing to do with the 20%, but, instead, has everything to do with power.”

“What do you mean,” the wife asks.

“Sometimes, in a relationship, it is useful to recognize that this is a partnership. As such, each partner should have a voice in making decisions. It’s not that every single issue needs a committee meeting; it’s more about being respectful of the validity of differing points of view.”

The couple looks at each other, seeming to consider for a second the veracity of what the counselor has suggested.

Then the husband turns and asks, “what is the other possibility?”

The counselor lets out a deep breath. “That you two disagree on foundational issues involved in the complexity of a marriage.”

Wife looks down at her shoes.

“That doesn’t sound like a good thing.”

The counselor shakes his head. “It’s not. It’s a guarantee of conflict, and a realistic chance that the marriage can’t last.”

“Those are the only possibili-

ties,” the husband asks quietly.

The counselor shrugs. “Essentially. It might, at some point, devolve into a hybrid where the couple battles simply for the power to be in charge of the decisions that the couple disagrees on. That’s when it gets really ugly.

“Let me ask you: is that what it feels like to you right now.”

And, here is me, answering for most of America: YES. I had a great conversation the other night with a man I’ve known for 25 years. And it was a great conversation, in spite of the fact that we are of different political persuasions.

He is an old-school organized labor type—a Truman Democrat. So, among his core beliefs is a minimum wage indexed to inflation that allows workers to earn a decent living and the rights of workers to organize and balance against management and ownership. But, at the same time, he believes in trade schools; believes that hard work should get rewarded and laziness should not; believes that you pay your dues and earn your way towards success; and believes that American workers should have a special status in America. He is also an entrepreneur who really just wants the government to impede his progress as little as possible. And, above all else, he firmly believes in the greatness of America and beauty of the American Dream.

I’m on board for 80% of that, at least. The rest is negotiable— a matter of “how”, not of “what”.

So, why can’t the Right and the Left in America get their collective act together and make common sense solutions that 80% of us agree with? It really shouldn’t be that hard. There

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y father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat when they got married.

Mom voted for Kennedy but soon after election, she changed her party to Republican, to get along with my father. They were both active in Jefferson WIT AND GRIT County politics, fundraising and giving coffees for candidates they liked, both Republican and Democrat.

As their daughter, when of age, I voted for various candidates. I still vote for Independent, DemoMary McFerren crat and Republican candidates depending on the election.

I was, and still am bipartisan. I don’t understand people who only vote for one party no matter what. Both parties have problems and strengths in their own ways.

As a bipartisan voter I am especially confused about the coming presidential election. My values, beliefs close to my heart, are represented by both parties.

I liked what President Trump said in his closing speech at the Republican Convention. He talked about

protecting the unborn child, especially the ones who are almost born but then aborted legally.

But I also liked things Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said in their talks during the Democratic National Convention.

They support Dreamers, or DACA for short, allowing children to gain citizenship who were born and raised in the United States by undocumented parents. President Trump is against this and supports deporting these children.

Here’s my struggle. How can a president who is for protecting unborn children, at the same time want to evict Mexican children raised in our country, children who know our country as their home from the time of their birth? And how could he orchestrate babies and children being separated from their parents at the border, many never to be reunited?

Why would he want to punish these innocent children?

And how can Democrats who care about children of undocumented parents, not care about the same children if they aren’t quite born yet?

Unfortunately, the abortion issue has become totally partisan. “Prochoice” is the Democrat’s baby. Many Republicans, such as President

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for making decisions. In fact, our decisions are more seriously affected when we are forced to make choices with a fatigued brain.

My guess is that you might have, like I do, a fatigued brain … from deciding whether it’s wise or even safe to get together with friends or visit a relative, for instance, or how to balance work from home and kids at home. Our tired minds make the other choices we face right now even more challenging. So it’s easy, if not comforting, to understand why we might feel paralyzed about ballot decisions.

But I urge you, encourage you, applaud you for doing what it takes to cast your vote thoughtfully, with consideration. Despite so many indications to the contrary, I’m convinced that we can come together to make important decisions for the good of all.

And I don’t just say this because my brain is fatigued. I believe in America, I believe in us.

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ties to make larger, more important decisions later.

For example, I remember when I was taking college entrance exams (lo, these many years ago). The amount of preparation, focus, and, yes, anxiety of choosing answers left me physically drained, not to mention the mental exertion involved. Researchers recognize that such strenuous cognitive tasks make it harder to focus later on, and I can attest to that.

New research suggests, also, that just the action of making choices, no matter how basic, can deplete the mental resources we need later for major decisions. Amir cites a study in which participants who made more choices while shopping in a mall were less likely to do well solving simple math problems afterward. Researchers found that “tired” minds resisted important decisions.

The real-world implications of this principle are significant: when we are fatigued, we have depleted resources

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Trump, are proud to say they are “prolife.”

Now for me, I love DACA and many things the Democrats stand for. But if I tell friends, who vote for Democratic candidates, if I tell them I can’t stomach partial birth abortion, if I say that they will jump on me.

They will throw me under the bus as a “right wing fanatic religious conservative.” Excuse me, but has anyone got a brain anymore to consider important issues of life in depth?

Labels, labels, and more labels. My father, who graduated from Yale with a degree in economics, told me “The purpose of college is to learn how to think and get along with people.”

To me the people who say, “Abor-

tion rights are sacred up to the time of birth,” to me these people do not choose to think or feel. The unborn baby is what is sacred.

As you may guess, for this presidential election I will struggle with my voting choice.

Some people say I should vote.

Vote, vote, vote, they say.

But what if neither candidate for president seems consistent enough to be my choice?

Mary McFerren grew up in Golden.

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Neal Robert Hammond

Neal Robert Hammond, 73, of Arvada, Colorado, passed away on October 10, 2020. Neal was born in Joliet, Illinois on August 21, 1947 to Euberto Hammond and Anna (Kaatz) Hammond.

He graduated from Joliet High School and continued on to serve in United States Marine Corps. Neal served in the Vietnam War and received a National Defense Service Medal, a Vietnam Service Medal, and a Purple Heart Medal. Neal was married to Susan Hammond on March 10, 2000; they were married for 20 years. Neal worked as an auto

mechanic until he retired 10 years ago. He enjoyed racing cars, collecting coins, going to the shooting range, and fishing.

Neal also enjoyed his cats and watching nature shows. He was also actively involved in the Camaro Club of the Rockies before selling his Camaro in 2018. Neal is survived by wife, Susan, daughters, Laura and Cera, as well as various nieces and nephews. If you wish to make a donation in Neal’s honor, please donate to the Semper Fi Fund, Wounded Warriors Project, or the Salvation Army.

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Making wheel change Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery is one of numerous nonprofit community bike shops in the Denver area that provide low- or no-cost bikes to underprivileged youths.

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Underprivileged youths earn bikes, skills, hope sters learn not just how to repair a bike, but also about the physics behind biking — levers, pulleys, force — and at the end get to keep their bike, a helmet and a set of tools. ernando Ibarra couldn’t figure out how to fix his The shop has lots of other programs, including threebike. month internships where local youth can learn customer So he took it to Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery, a nonservice skills in addition to repairs. The pandemic put profit community bike shop a block from his house the kibosh on many of the shop’s fundraising in west Denver. efforts, but thankfully a boom in sales of He couldn’t afford the repair price, but IF YOU GO refurbished bikes is keeping the shop the shop manager offered another opThe Denver area’s afloat. tion. Ibarra, then 15, could volunteer nonprofit community bike Now, Pasquini is working on a around the shop, work off the cost shops have a wide variety of programs mountain biking team for local of the parts he needed, and learn and services. Many are looking for volunkids. how to do the repair himself. teers and donations of bikes or money. And, of “Cycling is seen as an elitist “I came in every day after course, they have plenty of bikes for sale, and some sport,” he said. “Lots of kids school and kept at it, and before available free of charge to qualifying clients. on those teams are riding long I had a great bike,” Ibarra Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery: 3150 W. Jewell Ave., Denver. $10,000 bikes. We’re going to said.

TripsForKidsDenver.org or 720-454-9722 provide kids with bikes on Now 20, Ibarra works as Golden Optimists: 1200 Johnson Road, Golden. Goldthat level. We’re bringing it to a mechanic at Lucky Bikes, enOptimist.org the masses.” and said the shop brought far more to his life than just a Project reCYCLE: 3279 S. Santa Fe Drive, Suite C, Englewood. ProjectReCYCLE.org or 720-387-7904 ‘It kept me going’ couple wheels under his feet — For others, nonprofit commuhe calls his coworkers his “bike Bikes Together: 1060 Osage St., Denver. Bikesnity bike shops are an integral family.”

Together.org or 720-403-8757 part of the community, and a “The folks here got me into Second Chance Bicycle Shop: 4122 S. lifeline in tough times. mountain bike racing,” he said as Parker Road, Aurora. SecondChanceJulie Messa of Golden found herhe ran new brake lines on a BMX BikeSC.wixsite.com/colorado self out of work in mid-March as the bike. “I’ve raced in Leadville, Granby or 720-270-5731 pandemic forced the shutdown of the — beautiful places I wouldn’t have seen Golden Community Center’s senior prootherwise. I’m so grateful for this place.” gram. Facing an uncertain future, Messa wanted Lucky Bikes is one of several nonprofit bike to fall back on her favorite pastime of biking, but her bike shops in the Denver metro area, working to connect unwas in shambles. derprivileged youths with their own transportation, the “Since I was out of work, I didn’t want to spend a bunch skills to repair bikes themselves, and even start careers. of money on a new bike,” she said.

That’s where the Golden Optimists Bicycle Recycle Bringing bikes to the masses Program came in. For years, Messa had bought bikes for Bicycles can be transformative for young people, said her two children from the program, dropping off their old Jon Pasquini, the executive director of Lucky Bikes and ones as they outgrew them. its sister organization, Trips For Kids.

The bike she picked up at the beginning of the pandem“There’s a sense of adventure on a bike,” Pasquini said. ic “kept me going,” she said.

“As a kid, that freedom is amazing. There’s independence, Messa wasn’t alone, said Carol Cameron, the group’s there’s health and exercise, and it’s good for the environpresident. ment, too.”

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Thornton celebrates cultural art of Dia De Los Muertos

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o matter what the holiday is, a common way for cultures and families to mark the occasion is through the arts — music, film and interactive options like pumpkin carving, tree decorating and even drawing or painting COMING ATTRACTIONS pictures.

For the 5th annual Day of the Dead/ Dia de los Muertos cultural celebration, Thornton’s Arts & Culture Division is tapping into that creative impulse for a virtual event aimed at bringing people of Clarke Reader all ages together.

Running from Sunday, Nov. 1 through Tuesday, Nov. 3, this year’s celebration offers a virtual and outdoor option at the Thornton Community Center, 2211 Eppinger Blvd.

Thanks to a partnership with Alt Ethos Experiential Design Studio, participants can download an app, create artistic designs on their devices and interact with other people’s creations.

From 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. each evening, participants will be able to see their artwork projected on these outdoor screens from their homes via a live webcam feed, according to provided information, or they can also use their smart devices onsite and view these screen images by foot or car.

“This is quite the experiment, but we know that many people engage celebrations through the arts, and we want to maintain that engagement,” explained Alisa Zimmerman, Arts & Culture manager. “There’s a lot of very vibrant art that is created as part of this holiday, so we thought this would be a great way to celebrate in a contactless way.”

The city’s Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos event has been gaining in popularity over the last four years, Zimmerman said. The organizers offer celebrations including performers and a food and gift market for people to explore. But most importantly, it was an opportunity for members of Thornton’s vibrant Hispanic and Mexican community to get together, which is why it was important the city still find a way to have a good time.

“We’re hoping that this year’s option will attract a large age group and will remind them to come back when we can get together again next year,” she said. “We want people to have an awareness of the culture and engage in a way that is unique for the holiday. And we hope this will be a meaningful distraction from everything going on right now.”

Visit ArtsThornton.com to download the app link to participate with others on any night.

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A 2015 photo of Golden Optimists volunteers at work. From left, Suzy Stutzman chats with Janusz Kokot while Howard Bagdad and Scott Perrin, far right, work on a bike’s tires at the Golden Optimists’ former shop location at Heritage Square.

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“Bikes are the new toilet paper,” Cameron said. “Bikes and parts are in super high demand right now.”

The pandemic kept the shop from holding one of its key events this year: driving refurbished bikes down to the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region. The silver lining, she said, is that more elite cyclists donated a good number of high-end used bikes and parts in the spring and summer as they upgraded.

The program, among the older in the Denver area, operates on an all-

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Flick-or-Treat this Halloween in Lakewood While Halloween is the perfect time for horror films, there are some brilliant family-friendly seasonal films that are cherished by all ages at this time of year. Two of the best - “Hocus Pocus” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” - will be screened at 7 and 9:30 p.m. respectively at the Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park Amphitheatre, 801 S Yarrow St., as part of the Flick-or-Treat event.

Tickets must be purchased online in advance at https://lakewood.showare.com. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own face mask, blankets, lawn chair and picnic items if they want food or drink.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week - Lu’s Jukebox Lucinda Williams is one of the best living songwriters we have, spinning out southern gothic yarns that straddle the line between country and rock. Couple her impeccable literary writing with an unmistakable voice that imbues every song with a wry wit and world-weary wisdom, and it’s easy to see why she made it onto Rolling Stone’s list of the top 100 songwriters of all time.

Since Williams can’t tour, she’s announced a six-episode cover series called Lu’s Jukebox, which runs from Thursday, Oct. 29 through New Year’s Eve. Each episode will focus on a different theme - the first is a tribute to Tom Petty, and she’ll also

Fernando Ibarra works on a bike at Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery. Ibarra said working at the shop has given him skills, friendships and life experience.

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volunteer basis, selling refurbished bikes to cover the cost of tools and rent. They work with local social services agencies to donate bikes to locals experiencing homelessness.

“If someone just needs a bike but can’t afford one, we’ll donate one,” Cameron said. “We have no means testing. We get taken advantage of sometimes, but hey, we’re Optimists.”

Doing the work Connecting people with bikes can be a means to personal growth, said Jon Buck, the executive director of Project reCYCLE, a nonprofit community bike shop in Englewood.

The group, which is in the process of rebranding as HopeCycle, works

with local schools to donate bikes to underprivileged students who show improvements in “academics, attendance and attitude.”

“Research has shown that in material poverty, there are underdeveloped plans for the future,” Buck said. “We try to give kids a chance to believe in themselves and realize they can plan for the future and achieve it.”

Buck, a former pastor, said that while the group is non-religious, he personally finds a sense of spiritual fulfillment in his work.

“If I have to choose between talking

about what Jesus said but not doing the work, and doing the work but not talking about it, I’ll choose the latter,” he said.

Buck is involved in a wider range of local efforts to boost bicycling, including sitting on the City of Littleton’s transportation board, where he advocates for more and better bike lanes around town.

Buck said bikes are bringing light to dark times.

“This is tangible, simple, and it can change lives,” Buck said. “People need hope now more than ever.”

perform selections from Bob Dylan’s songbook, 60s country highlights and more.

Tracked live by Grammy awardwinning producer, Ray Kennedy, and captured in HD video by Neighborhoods Apart Productions, these shows shouldn’t be missed. Tickets to single shows or the entire series can be purchased at https://boxoffice. mandolin.com/pages/lucindawilliams-livestream-series.

Streaming style - ‘The Boys in the Band’ Mart Crowley’s “The Boys in the Band” was a cultural revolution when it debuted in 1968, putting the lives of gay men unapologetically front and center of the stage. The 50th anniversary revival of the play in 2018 took home the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. And now that Tony-winning cast can be seen in Netflix’s film version of the show.

The story centers on a group of friends who meet in an apartment in Manhattan for a birthday party.

The cast is made up of all openly gay men, including Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Jim Parsons, and the performances and feeling the entire cast bring to the screen is uniformly fantastic. Plus, don’t miss “The Boys in the Band: Something Personal,” a documentary about the making the film that doubles as a tribute to Crowley, who died on March 7 of this year.

Check out the film and documentary on Netflix.

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

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was a Pew Center poll I remember seeing in 2004 about immigration: 73% thought that illegal immigrants who were here just to earn a living should have a viable path towards citizenship; but, also, 71% believed that we

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Vote for small business An argument that “Vote No” commentators use is that the Gallagher Amendment has “saved” renters and homeowners $32 billion in property taxes since 1982. That assumes that renters who do not pay property taxes pay less for rent because the landlord pays low property taxes in Colorado.

That is not true; rental charges are governed by the market. Like with TABOR, that “saved” money has caused ever decreasing government services needed for schools, first responders, even jails.

Because of the Gallagher Amendment Colorado homeowners are paying only 1/4th the property tax rate we paid in 1982, nearly the lowest in the country. During the pandemic home prices have continued to rise while small business income has declined.

Colorado home prices are 36% higher than the national average, yet Colorado residential property taxes are only 45% of the national average.

Politicians, like the Vote No people know that homeowners as voters far outnumber business owners and they are appealing to selfish interests and not considering the economic wellbeing of the community.

Besides the small businesses that are suffering, taxed at the 29% commercial property assessment rate, are independent non-public schools, commercial and industrial personal property, short term medical rehabilitation facilities, hotels, and motels. Colorado is a very affluent state and can afford to provide necessary government services if residents will save the small businesses and vote to repeal the Gallagher Amendment.

Dick Sugg, Arvada Support global vaccine accessibility What’s the best way to extend the lifespan of this global pandemic? A vaccine that isn’t available to everyone, everywhere.

A safe, effective vaccine is a major

needed to have tougher borders and enforcement first. This should have been a no-brainer.

But then, D.C. is pretty much a nobrain zone. Of course no immigration plan got passed, because the 15% on either fringe of the issue made all the noise, made sure the public focused on what we disagreed about, and then both sides went out and raised wheelbarrows full of money to attack the

other side, to…

Seize enough power to make all of the decisions.

Name an issue, and I promise you, that’s how it plays out.

So, the question for all of us remains: are we spending all our time fighting over power? or do we really just believe different things?

Because, just like a marriage, a Republic is either a beautiful mess, or

it’s a charade. And I haven’t seen a lot of beauty lately.

key to defeating the coronavirus and reopening the global economy, but only if the most vulnerable, everywhere, have access to it. When a vaccine is available, it’s all but certain that there won’t be enough supply to protect everyone in the country, let alone the world. That’s why the US must help ensure that the most vulnerable people - from frontline workers to the immunocompromised - have priority access to the vaccine regardless of whether they live in Arvada or Nairobi.

And, Americans across the country agree. According to a new poll by The ONE Campaign, 83% of registered voters believe health care workers, the elderly and at-risk groups anywhere in the world should be the first to get a COVID-19 vaccine, before healthy people in the US. And over two-thirds of voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who has a global plan to defeat COVID-19 and work with other countries to develop and deploy a coronavirus vaccine.

Supporting a fair and globally accessible vaccine isn’t just smart policy, it’s also smart politics.

As I prepare to cast my vote, I’ll be paying close attention to whether candidates like Senator Cory Gardner and former Governor John Hickenlooper commit to funding proven global health programs like Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Global Fund, and CEPI, which are key to ending this global pandemic everywhere.

Shanna Solla, Arvada

sometimes even later than that. Their babies will die in utero or live very short, painful lives.

Or they may live longer painful lives.

These parents have to make the excruciating decision about whether to carry the baby to term anyway or end their pregnancy. This is not an easy decision.

It’s also not one that the government should be making. No one should be forced to carry a fetus to term, only to watch their baby suffocate slowly or die an otherwise painful death, knowing there is nothing our medical technology can do about it. If this unthinkable fate awaits my husband and I, I will do what I think is best for my unborn child. And the government should stay out of it.

Sara Kuntzler, Arvada

increased slaughter line speeds during the COVID-19 pandemic, which jeopardize animal welfare and limit the ability of workers to socially distance.

As of September, more than 42,000 slaughterhouse and meatpacking workers have tested positive for the virus, and over 200 works have died. Everyone, please call your federal legislators and ask them to pass the Safe Line Speeds in COVID-19 Act (H.R. 7521 / S. 4338) immediately.

Nicole Roberts, Lakewood

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Prop 115 is Decidedly Cruel I am 24 weeks pregnant right now and I just voted no on Proposition 115.

I have always been pro-choice, but I didn’t know much about why someone would have an abortion so late into pregnancy.

So I read up on it. I started reading stories from women who had actually had an abortion after 20 weeks and they brought me to tears. The most important thing to note, is that these are wanted pregnancies that parents have likely spent months, if not years, trying to conceive. Their fetuses have been diagnosed with rare, and often fatal diseases, which can’t be diagnosed before the 20 week ultrasound and

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This legislation would prohibit

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BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Michael Miller knows what it means to overdose. He’s survived three of them after being revived by Narcan all three times. But he’s also known others who weren’t so lucky.

“I have lost more friends then I have lost on two hands,” he said. “And a lot of them were very young when it happened.”

Back then, Miller and his friends didn’t have any way of getting products like Narcan and fentanyl test strips, which are used to test drugs for the presence of the opioid fentanyl, that is often put into other drugs.

But Miler thinks if they did, some of those he lost might still be alive.

Data shows that people are going to use drugs regardless of whether they have access to those tools or not, Miller said.

“So we have two options, we can either equip them with the tools they need to stay safe and ultimately enter recovery someday if they chose to,” said Miller. “Or, we can let them run the risk of passing away from a totally preventable death.”

In Jeffco, public health workers are increasingly opting to embrace the first option as they struggle to respond

Michael Miller, the opioids iniatives coordinator at JCPH and Pamela Gould, Jefferson County’s Communities That Care coordinator, distributed “Save A Life” kits at O’Keefe Park in Lakewood on Oct. 25.

PHOTO BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO to an enduring fentanyl crisis that killed nearly 100 people in Jeffco last year.

Central to those efforts are two community coalitions that are working together to address the challenges faced by residents with fentanyl and other opioids.

The first, the Jeffco Substance Use Partnership, consists of various groups and partnerships that are dedicated to “a community-driven response to the rise of overdose in Jeffco.

MORE INFO For more details about Jeffco Communies that Care, and learn warning signs and prevention tips for teen drug use, go to www.jeffco.us/2232/Communities-That-Care The second, Jeffco Communities That Care, is focused on using what it describes as a “structured, evidencebased community change process SEE FENTANYL, P23

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No. 4 Pomona kicks last-second field goal to defeat No. 6 Ralston Valley

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ARVADA — Pomona senior Joevannie Rosales made the biggest field goal in recent memory for the Panthers on Oct. 23 at the North Area Athletic Complex.

The soccer player turned kicker for Pomona — No. 4 in the CHSAANow. com Class 5A football rankings — booted a 40-yard field goal as time expired to give the Panthers a 17-14 victory over rival and No. 6 Ralston Valley.

“I had all the confidence in the world. He (Rosales) has the talent to do it,” Pomona coach Jay Madden said seconds after Rosales was mobbed by teams after hitting the game-winning field goal. “He has only been playing football for 20 days. He wouldn’t even be playing football if there was a soccer season.”

Rosales led Pomona’s boys soccer team with 14 goals last Fall as a junior.

With the COVID-19 pandemic moving boys soccer to the spring, Rosales decided to try his hand at kicking a football this season.

“He was kicking in PE class one day.

I told him he at least has to try it,” Madden said of Rosales. “Now he does this in the biggest rivalry game in Jeffco, maybe the whole state. That was awesome.”

The final kick had plenty of distance and drew off the right upright, just like Rosales had planned.

“It was scary,” Rosales said about first coming out to play football. “It took a little while to getting used to.

Now, I feel pretty good. I could get better.”

Pomona (3-0, 2-0 in 5A Jeffco) was just good enough to get past Ralston Valley (2-1, 1-1). The Panthers never trailed after taking a 7-0 lead at halftime on a 2-yard touchdown run by senior quarterback Jack Pospisil, but

Pomona senior Ben Cruz (24) rips off a 35-yard run during the second quarter to set up the Panthers’ first touchdown against rival Ralston Valley on Oct. 23 at the North Area Athletic Complex. Senior Joevannie Rosales kicked the game-winning 40-yard field goal as time expired to give the Panthers a 17-14 victory over rival Ralston Valley.

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the Mustangs finally ended a 10-quarter scoreless streak for Pomona’s defense.

Ralston Valley tied things up 7-7 after junior Luke Resendez intercepted Pospisil to give the Mustangs great field position on Pomona’s 27-yard line midway through the third quarter.

Junior quarterback Zach Friedman scored on a 2-yard run to tie things at 7-7.

“It’s alway a battle against RV,” Pomona junior running back/linebacker Chase Muller said. “We made some big plays in the second half. That is what really won us the game.”

Muller capped off a 10-play, 80-yard drive with a 4-yard touchdown run to close out the third quarter and put Pomona up 14-7.

Ralston Valley answered again with Friedman hitting senior Devin McNearny with a 53-yard pass to get the Mustangs into Pomona territory.

Friedman connected with senior Charlie Carlston on a 14-yard touchdown pass with 4:49 left in the fourth quarter to knock the game at 14-14.

It looked like the rivalry game would be headed into overtime, but Pomona’s offense converted on three separate third-downs to keep the eventual game-winning drive alive. Senior AJ Zamora had a big 12-yard run where he was able to get out of bounce to stop the clock and conserve a timeout.

Pospisil had a huge 12-yard completion to junior Isaiah Alvarez to get into field goal range.

“Our kids deserved to win this

Ralston Valley junior quarterback Zach Friedman (7) gets off a pass despite pressure from Pomona junior Deion Maes during the Class 5A Jeffco League game last Friday night at the North Area Athletic Complex. Friedman had a touchdown run and pass, but the Mustangs fell short with Pomona taking a 17-14 victory. game,” Madden said after the emotional victory.

Pomona ended a 2-game losing streak against Ralston Valley with the win. The Mustangs shut out the Panthers last year during Ralston Valley’s run to the 5A state semifinals.

Pomona is scheduled to be back at NAAC on Saturday, Oct. 31, to face another rival in Arvada West (1-2, 0-2).

The Wildcats lost a close one at Mullen on Friday night, 20-17.

Ralston Valley has Lakewood (0-3, 0-2) next up. The Mustangs host the Tigers at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, at NAAC. Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools.

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No. 1 Dakota Ridge football soars through the rain in win versus Standley Lake

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Dakota Ridge senior Charlie Offerdahl (44) attempts to break the tackle of Standley Lake sophomore Max Stout. Offerdahl had touchdown runs of 35 and 15 yards in the second quarter to extend the Eagles’ lead to 35-0 at halftime. Offerdahl has already scored eight touchdowns over three games this season.

LAKEWOOD — The newly tagged No. 1 football team in Class 4A didn’t have an issue with the new weight on its shoulders Oct. 22.

Dakota Ridge — top-ranked 4A team in the CHSAANow. com rankings this week after moving past defending state champion Pine Creek in the polls — stayed perfect on the season with a 42-0 victory over Standley Lake at Jeffco Stadium.

“When Pine Creek walks on the field they assume they are the best team on the field.

We’ve got to get to that point with this group,” Dakota Ridge coach Ron Woitalewicz said. “We should be the big dog on the field right now and they kind of embraced that this week. We know we are going to get everyone’s best shot with that (No. 1) target.”

Dakota Ridge (3-0, 2-0 in 4A Jeffco League) has now outscored its first three opponents 155-26.

“We have full belief in ourselves, full belief in our coaches,” Dakota Ridge senior Charlie Offerdahl said. “We know our capabilities. We have a lot going for ourselves this year. We are going to take it all the way.”

The Eagles actually fumbled on their opening drive, but was sharp offensively after the miscue. Dakota Ridge scored touchdowns on its next four drives to take a commanding 28-0 lead.

“It was definitely slick.

We had to have two hands every time,” Offerdahl said of weather conditions that included freezing rain. “I give the credit to our offensive line. Great job up front. Everything works around them.”

Dakota Ridge sophomore Noah Triplett opened up the scoring with a 62-yard touchdown run midway through the first quarter.

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Dakota Ridge senior Miles Reitan (53) tries to bring down Standley Lake quarterback Jake Worm during the first quarter Thursday, Oct 22, at Jeffco Stadium. The Eagles improved to 3-0 with a 42-0 victory over the Gators, giving Standley Lake its first loss of the season.

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can play. The more weapons we have the better.”

After a Standley Lake turnover, Dakota Ridge quarterback Ben Gultig hooked up with senior Colin Stuhr for a 29-yard touchdown.

“What I was really impressed with was how Ben (Gultig) threw the ball early on with the wet ball and it was cold and windy,” Woitalewicz said.

The Eagles capitalized on another Gator turnover to set up a third touchdown. Senior Steve Reyes rumbled in from 7 yards out on the first play from scrimmage in the second quarter and Offerdahl ran in a 2-point conversion to give Dakota Ridge a 21-0 lead in a driving rain with 11:55 left in the second quarter.

Offerdahl put Dakota Ridge up 28-0 minutes later on a 35-yard touchdown run. The senior capped off the scoring in the first half with a 15-yard touchdown, his seventh touchdown on the season.

“As long as we have 44 (Offerdahl) we are going to have a chance to be in the game,” Woitalewicz said. “That’s three straight games with a pick on defense for him. Every time he touches the ball

on offense something dynamic can happen. He is a pretty special player.”

The senior standout intercepted a pass from Standley Lake quarterback Jake Worm on the opening drive of the second half. Following a 34-yard pass from Gultig to senior Mason Galbreath that set the Eagles up in the red-zone, Offerdahl scored his third touchdown of the night on a 10-yard scamper into the end zone.

The eighth touchdown of the season for Offerdahl induced a running clock for the remainder of the game with Dakota Ridge’s 42-0 lead.

Standley Lake (2-1, 1-1) threatened to end the shutout bid in the final minutes, but a goal-line stand gave the Eagles their first shutout of the season.

Dakota Ridge is scheduled to be back in action next Friday night at Trailblazer Stadium in Lakewood. The Eagles face Wheat Ridge (0-3, 0-2) in another 4A Jeffco conference battle.

Standley Lake will try to get back in the win column when the Gators face Bear Creek (1-2, 1-1) on Oct. 30 at the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada.

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

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A lot of trips to Tennessee revolve around visiting Graceland or the Grand Ole Opry. But last week Golden’s Courtney Dauwalter went down to the Volunteer State with an entirely different kind of goal: to keep running one 4.1-mile lap an hour for as long as she possibly could.

That goal was fulfilled on Oct. 20 when, over two days after embarking on her first lap, Dauwalter completed her 68th loop to become the last runner standing at the 2020 Big’s Backyard Ultra race — and thus its American winner.

Held in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, this year’s Big’s Backyard Ultra matched 13 American runners who had to start a new lap at the beginning of each hour that would then be finished within that hour. Lap after lap, repeated until there was only one runner remaining, who is the winner.

Dauwalter completed her 68 laps in 56 hours, 52 minutes and 29 seconds to tie 2019 champion Jonah Steene for most laps completed in the event.

The 68 laps was one more lap than Dauwalter did in 2018, her only other time competing in the race when she finished second behind Steene.

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Ultra runner, Courtney Dauwalter, runs on Apex Trail in Golden on a 2018 training run. win this year, she said the highlight of an event like Big’s Backyard Ultra is seeing how far she can push herself to the limits as a runner.

“It’s technically a race but really when you are out there it just feels like you are helping each other go farther then any of you have gone before,” said Dauwalter. “And that’s pretty cool to be able to lift up the people around you and get the boost of energy from them as well and just keep lining up.”

That curiosity dates back to Dauwalter’s first road marathons, which she ran in after college and was “surprised to have survived.” But that surprise soon turned into a desire

to see what else she was capable of, which led her to compete in her first 50k, a 31-mile race.

While Dauwalter has hardly slowed down since, this year was a particularly eventful one for her as she also attempted to set a new record for completing the 567-mile Colorado Trail in August. Although Dauwalter was unable to complete that journey after ending up in the hospital with bronchitis, her time on the trail still made for a rewarding experience “It was really cool to just be out there and trying to move out there as best I could,” said Dauwalter. “A lot of times I would be up on a ridge or on saddle between two peaks and it was

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“First and foremost, we want to get the word out to folks that our department has found this deadly substance more and more in counterfeit pills and other illicit drugs, and people are dying when they use them,” said Sergeant Michelle Current, who works in the Lakewood Police Department and chairs a workgroup within the CTC. “It’s devastating, and we want to address this growing issue so that

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just breathtaking so while it didn’t end in Denver like I hoped it would I learned a lot from just having that multi-day experience and covering 309 miles and being at altitude that much.”

As for the Big’s Backyard Ultra, Dauwalter said the challenge is as much mental as anything.

“I didn’t try and prevent getting tired,” said Dauwalter. “It’s about staying calm and staying in the moment and not worrying about how many more days you might be out there running or what things are starting to hurt a little bit. Just problem solving and patience and then putting one foot in front of the other.”

more lives are not lost.”

But while getting the word out is important, the members of coalitions have come to increasingly think they must also do more to get the lifesaving resources Miller and his friends once lacked into the hands of those who are using drugs in fentanyl.

That’s why they launched a new series of events aimed at providing young adults, who seem to be resistant to accessing materials like Narcan in the county public health office where they are already available, with a more and accessible venue at which to access them and information about how to use them.

“The collaboration between our two coalitions determined that the best way to get the materials into the hands of young people is really

through other young people,” said Communities That Care Coordinator Pamela Gould.

On Oct. 23, Gould and Miller spent an hour in Lakewood’s O’Kane Park where they distributed Save-A-Life kits, which contain test strips, as well as Narcan.

The event was publicized on a JCPH Instagram paged aimed at young adults, although Gould said the ultimate hope is for those young adults (the event is targeted at those 18 and over) to get the word out through their own networks and then share the products they get with others who need them.

“As long as there is a need we will probably keep after it,” said Miller.

“And it doesn’t look like overdoses are slowing down, especially in the Lakewood area, so these resources are badly needed.”

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