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INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 10 | LIFE: PAGE 14 | CALENDAR: PAGE 16 | SPORTS: PAGE 17

VOLUME 16 | ISSUE 29

Jeffco sees slowing of growth of COVID-19 cases County hospitals at about 90% capacity

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

of the Jeffco School Board of Education.

Rush served on the board previously, when he was voted in to fill a seat vacated in 2008 by Vince Chowdhury. Chowdhury was asked to step down after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge.

The other board members

After steadily increasing for most of the past two months, Jeffco’s two-week COVID19 case counts began trending down some at the start of December and have since remained lower than the peak they reached in November.

The two-week new case numbers peaked at 6,124 on Nov. 21, which was up from around 2,567 on Nov. 1. The numbers then began trending downward, reaching 5,372 on Dec. 10.

“We could attribute that (dip) to the changes that were made and how we’re moved on the state COVID-19 dial to Level Red and some of the mitigation strategies that were put into place before we were moved into Level Red,” said Jody Erwin, the deputy director of Jefferson County Public Health, in an update provided to the Jeffco commissioners on Dec. 7.

However, Erwin said county public health officials were at that point still assuming that the numbers would soon show a “big uptick” as COVID-19 cases that were contracted at Thanksgiving gatherings.He also said similar increases are expected following Christmas and New Year’s.

“It will be interesting to see what happens over the next week to 10 days and where that goes but we are all anticipating big increases in cases and hospitalizations,” said Erwin.

But the numbers did not seem to indicate such a trend was occurring as of Dec. 10, two weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday, a trend which was consistent with other counties in the Denver metro area, State epidemeologist Rachel Herlihy to told the Denver Post that the state was not seeing a trend asscoiated with Thanksgiving, although it was still possible for such a trend to show up later.

As of Dec. 10, there were also 241 people with COVID-19 hospitalized in Jeffco, more than at any other time in the pandemic. Still, Jeffco’s hospitals had not yet reached capacity, he said.

“We are not full at this point, which is a surprise honestly,” said Erwin. “We are pushing about 90% of capacity in our Jeffco

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Luke Martin was one of nearly a dozen Fitzmorris Elementary School students who are in the school’s Autism Spectrum Disorder program to show off the school’s Pumper Car. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HICKS

Pumping up the speed

Pumper Car provides an outlet and an incentive for ASD students

BY MICHAEL HICKS MHICKS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Dalton Minor enjoys riding the Pumper Car, and “fast,” as he will tell you. The Fitzmorris Elementary School student is quite adept at showing how it works, pushing his hands out as if he is pulling on the levers.

Now, he and his classmates can ride it as often as they like after the school purchased its own recently.

The Pumper Car, which is designed to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder with their mobility, sensory functions and gross motor skills, can also be used as an effective motivational tool in and out of the classroom.

“The kids love it,” said Adapted physical education teacher Katie Thompson. “It’s a great way for them to get physical activity and motor

breaks, to work their upper body strength, lower body strength, coordination, balance, and do a lot of therapy skills, particularly for nonverbal students.”

It also provides an avenue for students to release some excess energy, especially during the colder months when physical activities outdoors are limited.

“They’re in control of it.

They have complete control of where it goes and how fast it goes,” she said.

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Jeffco school board appoints Rick Rush to vacant seat STAFF REPORT

Rick Rush was appointed to fill the open seat on the Jeffco Board of Education by active board members ina meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 8. He was sworn in by Judge Jeffrey Pilkington during a special session the next day.

Rush will replace boardmember Ron Mitchell, who

announced he was stepping down from the board for health reasons, in November.

He will hold the seat for the remainder of Mitchell’s Rush term, ending in 2021. In addition to his position as Director of District 5, Rush will serve as 2nd Vice President

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BOARD FROM PAGE 1

cited Rush’s previous experience on the board as one of the deciding factors in his selection, as the district enters budget discussions, and faces numerous Covid-19 related challenges.

When asked in his interview if he will run to retain the seat in the

upcoming Nov. 2021 Board election, Rush said he wasn’t decided.

“This may not be the answer you want. I am not ready to commit at this time that I’m going to run for the seat for the coming November,” he said. “I want to take time — I’d want to be able to make that decision when the time is right.

He said he would want to make sure he was feeling like he was making a valuable contribution to the District and the students

before he’d be able to decide to run in 2021.

The members of the Jeffco Board of Education held interviews eight candidates to fill the open District 5 seat.

The winning Rush was selected from a candidate pool that included Marie Watkins, Sean McGraw, Rebecca Woulfe, Tim James, Kathy Miks, Nic Rosales and Susan Lopez.

In a statement following his appointment, Rush shared the fol-

lowing: “I have always been a strong believer in the value of community-driven public education. It is through well-run school districts that we have a quality workforce, supporting neighborhoods where people want to live and raise families. And now with the pandemic, public school boards need to lead in the development of student and staff resiliency and community building and healing.”

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hospitals for both ICU and regular beds, which is getting up there but not at the point yet where we are having to look at moving to surge sites or anything like that.”

Erwin said staffing, which recently has been cited as a greater concern than bed capacity as an increasing number of hospital workers come down with COVID-19, also “appears to be OK.” During the update, Commissioner Libby Szabo repeatedly expressed concern that Jeffco residents are becoming frustrated and “losing hope” as they do everything they are told to do in regards to decreasing the spread only to see cases continue to rise.

But Erwin responded that case trends suggest that people aren’t adhering enough to health guidelines to slow the spread enough to make lifting restrictions an option and brought up the example of friends of several friends of his who tested

A graph showing the trend in two-week new COVID-19 case counts from the start of the pandemic in March through Dec. 10.

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positive for COVID-19 after spending Thanksgiving together.

“We’ve seen that a lot where when

people are out in public, they are doing the right thing but then they are going home and having these gatherings and sitting around a table eating with people,” said Erwin.

Erwin also said he understood that adhering to social distancing guidelines is “hard, frustrating and difficult” but that the county will need to find the right balance between the need for people to participate in work, school and other essential activities and that of keeping the virus at manageable levels.

However, if hospitalizations start

to decrease enough to decrease the pressure on hospitals even if overall case numbers remain high, that would likely be reason to reduce restrictions, he said.

“That’s a big piece of it for me is keeping our healthcare workers safe and not overwhelmed,” said Erwin.

“As soon as we start seeing our hospitals saying `we are doing fine. This is business as usual’ then regardless of what the cases look like at that point if the severity is not terrible that is going to put us in a different place.”

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Summer is likely timetable for most to get vaccine Colorado to start with workers in health care, residents of nursing homes

BY JESSE PAUL AND JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

The general public in Colorado likely won’t have access to a coronavirus vaccine until the summer of 2021, state officials said, though inoculations for health-care workers and nursing home residents could start as early as this week.

A distribution plan unveiled Dec. 9 by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment prioritizes health-care workers, namely those who interact with COVID-19 patients, and nursing home residents and staff for the first doses of

vaccine in what’s being referred to as “Phase 1A.” Since coronavirus reached Colorado early this year, nearly 1,400 residents of nursing homes and senior care centers have died from COVID-19. More than 5,700 nursing home staff have caught the disease and as many as 10 have been killed by it.

In “Phase 1B,” which is expected to continue through the winter, first responders — like firefighters and police officers — and people who work in home health, hospice care and dental settings will be prioritized to receive vaccines.

A vaccine developed by Pfizer, which requires two doses, could be approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration this week. Another vaccine being manufactured by Moderna, which also requires two doses, could be

available as soon as a week after the Pfizer vaccine gets the OK from federal regulators.

“We know that in the early weeks and months of vaccine distribution, supplies will be limited. This have been a historic effort to create this vaccine in a record period of time,” said Scott Bookman, Colorado’s coronavirus incident commander.

“And while we’re going to get there, it’s going to take many months to get this out to the general public.”

Colorado officials have been racing to prepare for the arrival of the vaccine, running tests and developing protocols to ensure the state doesn’t waste any doses. CDPHE and Gov. Jared Polis’ office are also working to ensure the vaccine is stored securely and can’t be stolen or tampered with.

“The vaccine is really a gateway to the end of the pandemic,” Polis

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Staying actively, socially involved APEX offers seniors avenue to stay active even as COVID-19 pandemic protocols limit in-person participation

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For Joe Saracino and his wife, Merilee — both in their early 70s — it’s imperative they exercise, be it walking a couple of miles a day or playing pickleball. But that all changed in March with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Then we shut down for a while,” he said. “We were devastated without doing something every day. So, it’s very important to us.”

Thankfully, that’s where Apex Park and Recreation District has come to the rescue in these trying times. Apex is offering classes at the multigenerational Secrest Recreation Center for those feeling isolated this holiday season, including parking lot bingo, hikes and walks while still providing the traditional indoor fitness workouts and a wellness pool. It is also partnering with the Jefferson Center for Mental Health to combat social and mental needs.

“The social part is big. We have

FOR MORE INFO More about the facilites and classes available through the Apex recreation district is available at apexprd.org/ friends who come together though we don’t get together as much as we did, but we still get to see them,” Saracino said. “The mental part is quite important. … It’s important to keep the mind active.”

In non-Covid times, said Katie Groke, Director of Communications and Marketing at Apex, Secrest serves more as a teen activity center.

But these days, the center has been repurposed to spread out its fitness offerings while complying with health department limitations. Nowadays, most of the daytime classes are catered to active adults.

“It’s really important for us to offer classes for active adults that support their social, emotional and physical well-being,” she said.

When the Community Recreation Center off Wadsworth Boulevard shuttered earlier this year due to COVID-19, most of the senior activities moved to Secrest - less than a mile away - as well as recreation manager Nancy Wellnitz.

Even so, there’s been a decline in participation as classes moved online and in-person attendance was limited, Wellnitz said. Still, senior classes are vital both physically and socially.

“We’ve always said that activity

Pool instructor Barbara LaRowe works with active seniors in a socially-distance enviPHOTO BY MICHAEL HICKS ronment at the Secrest Recreation Center.

is important but more important than the activity is the socialness of all the classes and meeting others,” Wellnitz said “When they’re socially connected, when they go through hard times then they can help each other through. Even though physical activity is great, social is as important if not more important.”

Yoga instructor Margaret Agnew concurred. The National SilverSneakers Instructor of the Year in

2018 said that seniors who are stuck in the house are sitting too much, causing muscle diseases and frail bones.

“I just want them to be active and to do something to keep their muscles as strong as possible,” said the 71-year-old instructor, who has been teaching fitness classes for 37 years.

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Margaret Agnew, right, the 2018 National SilverSneakers Instructor of the Year, works with a class of 10 active seniors in hopes of keeping them fit both physically and mentally.

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mentally they just need to keep their minds active. Exercise has proven to delay dementia and just make you feel better. Depression has been real with quarantine and the lack of being able to socialize with family and friends. Exercise moves the elevator and just makes them feel better.

That to me is everything.”

Groke called it imperative to get the word out to seniors who were regularly attending classes at the Community Recreation Center but have seen those numbers wane in the months since the pandemic hit.

“We’re trying to offer something for everyone. We’re offering inperson classes with capacity limits.

We’re offering classes at home that people can do over their computers if they don’t feel comfortable going out. We’re offering phone registration and phone conversations if they don’t feel comfortable getting on a computer. We’re offering outside opportunities for both fitness classes and fun events even in the colder weather so if people don’t feel comfortable going inside but want to get out of their house,” Groke said.

“So we’re trying to offer something for everyone in their comfort level.”

Nancy Bretches, 77, said returning to in-person classes is like being back in the “real world.” Physically, she said, she needed the classes. It was also important to her emotional needs as well.

“It makes me feel more human,” Bretches said.

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The holidays are here and in a year like no other, some things remain a constant. Risk of home fires (excluding wildfire) goes up.

According to data compiled by the National Fire Protection Association, the number one cause of home fires every year is cooking, which caused an average of 172,900 reported home structure fires per year (49% of all reported home fires in the US) from 20142018. These fires resulted in an average of 550 civilian deaths per year. Christmas Day and Christmas Eve trail only Thanksgiving with the highest number of home fires caused by cooking each year.

To prevent cooking fires, experts advise cooking with caution, avoiding cooking when you’ve consumed alcohol or are tired. Stay in the kitchen while frying, boiling, grilling or broiling. And checking on food, baking or roasting in an oven, frequently. It’s also important to keep things like oven mitts, wooden utensils, food packaging and towels away from the stovetop.

To extinguish a small grease fire, smother the flames by sliding a lid over the pan and turn off the burner. For an oven fire, they recommend turning off the heat and leaving the oven door closed.

Erin Bravo, Community Education Specialist at West Metro Fire Rescue says the department relies on statistics the NFPA provides when discussing seasonal risks.

Aside from kitchen fires, the NFPA reports that on average, during the same 2014-2018 timeframe, U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 930 home fires each year caused by decorations and Christmas trees. Decorations accounting for nearly 83% of those fires.

FIRE SAFETY TIPS Blow out lit candles when you leave the room or go to bed.

Turn off all light strings and decorations when leaving or going to bed.

Do not overload or “chain” extension cords.

Immediately stop using any decoration or extension cord when splits in the safety coating.

Keep children and pets away from lit candles.

Keep matches and lighters up high in a locked cabinet.

Ensure live trees have ample water, and throw them away before they get too dry.

The resulting destruction was significant with an estimated four deaths, 44 injuries and $21 million in property damage each year.

When decorating, the NFPA advises people to choose flame resistant or retardant decorations, keeping lit candles away from decorations or other flammable items and being sure to replace worn or broken strings of lights.

Using clips instead of nails to hang lights to prevent damage to cords is also a good tip.

Candles make up a risk category of their own, with an estimated 21 home candle fires reported each day, across the country, between 2014-2018. Some 60% of candle fires started when a candle was too close to something flammable like furniture, mattresses, curtains or decorations. According to the NFPA, candle fires peak in December, with January coming in second for highest monthly totals. Christmas Day has the highest number of candle fires, with almost three times the daily average and the risk of candles SEE FIRE SAFETY, P23

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Andrea Meldrum, who handles marketing for Medved Autoplex, said that the dealership, which prides itself on giving back to the community, was more than happy to help provide the $400 Pumper Car for the school.

Fitzmorris has had an Autism Spectrum Disorder program for the last five years, Principal Johnny Horton said. Even though most students are working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, ASD students, which make up about 20 percent of the school’s enrollment, are attending in-person.

“It’s a big part of our population, a big part of our school community,” Horton explained. “Kids with Autism have many special needs.”

Before Fitzmorris Elementary purchased its own car, it had to share one with other schools in the district, getting it on loan for a week or two at a time. Now that won’t be necessary.

“It really helps us give those opportunities to our students and supports the staff because they know they have this here,” Horton said. “It can also be used as an incentive because the students like it so much now that we have one at the school all the time.”

In all, Jeffco has eight Pumper Cars in the district, according to Thompson. Four were purchased through Medicaid, while others have been purchased individually by schools in the district, including Lakewood High School, Leadwood and West Jeff elementary schools.

Katy Stolzenfeld, who’s a K-2 Adapted teacher at Fitzmorris, said that there is no set time for when her students will take a turn riding the Pumper Car. It could be used as an incentive to complete their work or something readily available when students need a break.

“Some of it just kind of depends on what they need. It can be more sensory relief,” said Stolzenfeld, who added that the break may be just what is needed to return a student to the classroom setting ready to focus on the next activity.

Fitzmorris Elementary School student Dalton Minor takes a spin around the school’s gymnasium on the Pumper Car.

Johnny Hughes, a Fitzmorris Elementary School student, takes his turn riding the Pumper Car during a press conference at the school on Dec. 7.

“It depends on the kids and what they need at that moment.”

Whatever the need, one thing is for certain - one can work up a sweat riding the Pumper Car. “It’s a good workout,” said student Noah DaBelle, as, like Dalton, he explained how the car moves.

And, to be on the safe side, Noah offered a bit of advice on handling the vehicle.

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Music won’t stay silent, for better or worse QUIET DESPERATION

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hat’s science got to do with it?

What’s science but a secondhand emotion?

Music, eventually, finds its way into almost everything, including a pandemic. The same is true for all of the arts.

Visual artists, filmmakers, writers, and others have been reacting to COVID-19 ever since it began to hit America and, in many ways, limit Americans.

Musicians have responded to dire conditions, authority, wars, prejudice, and innumerable hardships forever.

Some of us may have been initiated

by Woody Guthrie’s politically charged anthems. He also wrote “This Land is Your Land.”

The decade of the 1960s was a ripe period

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR For the record

This continued assault on our democracy in attempting to overturn the election to assuage Trump’s ego is beyond pathetic and crosses into dangerous territory. None of this could take place without the supine and cowardly majority of the Republican Party who refuse to defend the Constitution while caving into Trump’s attack on our democracy. Time for this to stop!

Trump lost by a lot with only himself to blame. Every President faces a crisis and Trump, a man without an ounce of empathy and 20,000+ lies to his credit, was obviously unable to conduct a competent strategy to combat a virus taking lives equivalent to a 9/11 a day! By just endorsing mask wearing, he could’ve shown leadership and understanding of the problem. In turn, tens of thousands of our citizens’ lives might’ve been saved. This insane mask/anti-mask nonsense currently raging in our country could’ve been avoided.Instead he recommended ingesting bleach to combat the virus.

It is clear Trump’s ego, not the Constitution, is paramount as he continues to undermine our democracy. This “election fraud” propaganda campaign is just his next con, fleecing supporters to fund the fight. A billionaire could fund this himself it were important to him.

In reality, this is his next “business venture.”

Trump is now 1 and 51 in these tragically frivolous lawsuits. If the Broncos team had a quarterback with this abysmal record, the fans would demand a new quarterback. It is long past time to change stop this game and this quarterback.

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for musicians, many of whom were tagged as “protest singers,” especially Bob Dylan, but also Peter, Paul, and Mary, Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Nina Simone, even Marvin Gaye.

A British band at the time, Them, was uninvolved, and recorded hits such as “Gloria,” “Baby, Please Don’t Go,” and “Here Comes the Night.”

The lead singer, who was born in 1945, went solo and still performs.

I was half-surprised to read about a song he’s written and recorded titled “No More Lockdown,” and anti-lockdown tune.

“No more celebrities / No more celebrities telling us / Telling us what we’re supposed to feel / No more lockdown.”

He takes a bigger swing at “experts.”

“No more Imperial College Scientists making up crooked facts.”

It’s not smooth and pretty, is it?

Neither was Dylan’s “Masters of War,” a song I have outgrown; not one I’m likely to listen to on a Sunday in 2020.

As an artist, I have always avoided current events, choosing instead to find solace in painting and drawing rather than a forum.

The news right now is a bombardment.

Listening to music is one of the ways I (try to) overcome the frustrations and anxieties. I don’t invite “protest” music into that as I did during, for example, the Vietnam War. SEE SMITH, P11

Wondering about how so many things came to be

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ometimes I think strange thoughts.

I know — big shock to regular readers. Both of you.

HITTING But, do you ever wonder HOME about how some things came to be? Like, for instance: who was the first person who ate a kiwi fruit? Have you seen those little things? I like them, I like them a lot when Michael Alcorn they’re ripe. But if somebody hadn’t told me that kiwi was delicious, and I just happened onto a kiwi … tree (?) in the primordial forest, I don’t think my first thought would have been “hey, let’s take a big bite of this odd, hairy little alien egg-looking thing, just to see if it’s edible.”

For that matter, how desperate were the first people who ate potatoes? You know, somebody pulls up a plant, and there’s this dirty, bulbous rock hanging from it (I think—I’ve never actually seen a raw potato). So all the village elders gather around and stare at it for a while. Maybe, they stare at it long enough that it starts to sprout legs and arms and stuff.

And *that’s* when somebody says, “you know, if we slice that real thin and fry it up, we could have a seriously tasty snack.”

Of course, leave it to the Russians to figure out how to turn that into alcohol. Gotta admit,

somebody showed some foresight when they did whatever it took to turn that little rock into food.

As a trumpet player, I’ve always pondered the beginnings of the brass family of musical instruments. I can understand the flute, because you can hear the musical sounds when the wind blows across reedy grasses and through small cracks in doors. But who was the genius who thought to themselves, “if I buzz my lips together to make that obnoxious sound that my friends punch me for, and do that into a tube of some kind, I’ll bet I can make a really loud . . . er, obnoxious sound.” Come to think of it, does explain a lot about the attitude of most brass players.

And, speaking of the arts, I’d love to go back in time to the day that some sadistic dance teacher said to their class of young girls, “this would all look so much better if you would all just jam your toes into tiny little wooden boxes, and then do the entire dance standing on those boxes,” and punch them in the throat. I love the ballet, and marvel at the athleticism and artistry involved, but, as a father of a dancer, and as the one-time carpool operator for the dance company, and as somebody who watches aging dancers hobble around with no ankle or knee cartilage, I gotta think there should have been an intervention somewhere along the way.

Wait a second. That all probably started in Russia. Which explains vodka…

Along these lines, in retro-

spect, it probably would have been better for all involved if Mark Zuckerberg had lost his court cases more spectacularly, and Facebook had been killed in its cradle. Social media, which began innocently enough (much like Skynet) and had its virtues, has descended into a cesspool of angst- and anger-driven pathos which has no equal in human history. From the creepy (my wife and I are having a discussion about the Zoo Lights, and, next thing I know, an ad for Zoo Lights is the third thing in my Facebook feed) to the Orwellian (Twitter blocking all references to Hunter Biden’s investigation … until Hunter Biden confirms the investigation) to the evil (the extraordinary links between the rise of social media and the rise of mental illness in youth, not to mention the ease with which predators use social media to target kids), the current evolution of social media renders it almost must-block for any parent with teenage children.

Do yourselves a favor, parents (especially in “remote schooling” times): watch “The Social Dilemma.” You’ll never look at your kids’ cell phones the same way.

Michael Alcorn is a teacher and writer who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. His new novel, “Charon’s Blade,” is available at Amazon.com, on Kindle, or through MichaelJAlcorn.com.” His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado Community Media.

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FROM PAGE 10

A second chance

In a time of anti-police emotions and activity, I was glad to see two members from law enforcement chosen and recognized for outstanding performance and dedication. I’ve been a longtime contributor for the NLEOMF, National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, and recent developments have made me think hard about my decision. I’ve had, and have friends in law enforcement and would not like to abandon them in their total commitment. I keep thinking of Rodney King in the 1996 riots, “Can’t we get along?” After so many years, he’s still asking that same question.

A US postage stamp was designed and issued with his picture and name.

It should be time for a renewal of that very worthy honor.

Martin Gross, Wheat Ridge

Message to the GOP

To the GOP leadership, Republicans in public office and to those fellow Americans who say that Mr. Trump has won re-election...

You have crossed the Rubicon.

SMITH FROM PAGE 10

Music and movies are my antidote. After a day saturated with “Breaking News” I want comedy, romantic comedy, drama, but I don’t want violence, revenge, meanness or cruelty. There’s plenty of that in the paper.

After he left Them, Van Morrison recorded “Brown Eyed Girl,” which you can hear at least once a week on the radio.

“Skipping and a jumping / In the misty morning fog with you” is a long old way away from “No more celebrities.”

Often it’s the other way around.

Artists protest when we’re young, then soften (or resign) as we get older.

Of course, many go down fighting whatever it is.

Pete Seeger was still being Pete Seeger until the day he died (2014 at the age of 94).

I probably won’t add “No More

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First, you enable to the outgoing president’s reckless failure to do more against the virus and the havoc it wreaks. Worse yet, some Republicans are deliberately spreading the biohazard. This is mass murder.

Now as to the election.

Unsurprisingly, the man in the White House is “rejecting” the results, as if they are his to reject. For this dude, it is all about heads, I win, Lockdown” to my playlists. However, I understand Morrison’s desire to produce such a song.

I’ll let you in on a secret: These columns give me an opportunity to achieve the very same thing, albeit without the edge or the angle.

Morrison is adhering to the unwritten “Artist’s Responsibility.”

Choosing to will cost him some of his audience.

A best friend and I have been exchanging daily messages, each swathed in humor, wordplay, and nonsense.

Another friend and I dwell on the pandemic and politicians.

Which do you think I look forward to the most?

One day, Mark and I exchanged, explained, and debated our favorite humorists. It was hotly contested, meaningless, without importance or merit.

And wonderful.

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

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You Republicans, however, are taking the trumpster’s sore loserdom to a superior level. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo jokes (not!) about transitioning to “a second Trump term.” Mitch “Rumpelstielzchen” McConnell snickers about the president’s “right” to dis democracy.

This is treason to the nation.

Dear GOP, I am a voter. I am a citizen. I am a democracy defender. Just try and install your favorite Mitchpicked, Barr-approved, Miller-

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But no need to be combative.

There are many countries more suitable to your authoritarian tastes. North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Russia come to mind.

If you decide to stay and continue your assault on the country, first do your history research. Crossing the Rubicon did not turn out well for Cesar.

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Making do for the holidays Traditions change as celebrants face season unlike any other

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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rom her family’s locally famous light display to their traditional Christmas party — which usually includes around 75 people and even a hired Santa — Jennifer Shelton loves to go big on Christmas.

But this year, COVID-19 has led the Arvada resident to rethink her approach to the cherished holiday. The lights at her home 19275 W. 84th Place are already as bright as ever but there will be no party this December.

Instead, Shelton and her family are focused on enjoying some new, more pandemic-friendly festivities. So far, their agenda has included multiple movie nights and plenty of baking and crafting, with the family making plans to learn how to make their own Advent wreath for their Christmas table.

She’s also planning on having her mother-in-law over for a day of baking with her daughter, who has never had time to learn the mother-in-law’s recipes.

“I’m just trying to keep the spirit alive even though we can’t do some of the stuff that we used to do,” Shelton said.

But while Shelton and her family are trying to make the most of this unusual holiday season, she said it’s still hard to not be able to enjoy more social activities like parties with friends and gift exchanges. That feels particularly true at the end of a difficult year that saw Shelton’s daughter spend 10 days in the hospital and her grandmother die of COVID-19.

Still, there also positives to a slower-paced holiday season, including more opportunities to spend more time with family and pause to be thankful for all she does have.

“Normally, I’m still shopping, but this year I already did all of my shopping online so I am able to spend time with my family and enjoy the season a little bit more by sitting

Aleya Jean and her partner created this cardboard tree.

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“That’s been a tradition for a few years, but now that we have so many Amazon boxes it was really easy,” Jean said. “And we didn’t have to go out and interact with people to purchase a real Christmas tree.”

A harder holiday for some

Passersby have made of tradition of hanging ornaments on a tree along the Ralston Creek Trail in Arvada.

down and watching movies and things like that,” she said. “I usually wouldn’t be able to do that because I would be running around like a crazy person.”

A cardboard tree

Given the risk posed by COVID-19, Aleya Jean and her partner will be staying home in Golden this Christmas. However, they plan on choosing another day in the future to “designate as Christmas” and will use it to go see family when it is safe to travel again.

In the meantime, however, Jean plans to enjoy the cardboard tree she constructed with her husband.

For Katie Bartlett, this Christmas will mean will mean putting on a brave face for her kids. That’s because COVID-19 has impacted her family’s income tremendously and left them behind on rent and utilities. Still, they did some decorating inside and are planning to do the tree next.

“It is hard because as a parent you feel like a failure,” Bartlett said.

“Don’t get me wrong, we have plenty to be thankful for such as our health.

But it is still hard.”

Casey Romero, meanwhile, doesn’t know where she will be spending Christmas this year.

She and her family were hoping to drive out to South Carolina to bring her son, who is serving on a military base, home to Littleton for his first Christmas since moving away.

But the pandemic had other ideas and her son recently received word that he would not be allowed to travel more than 1,200 miles from his base as a result of increasing COVID-19

cases around the country.

“Now we are hoping to get approved to drive out there and see him maybe in a VRBO (vacation rental) with maybe socially distancing,” said Romero. “But right now we don’t really know if that will get approved, we are just hoping.”

If that doesn’t get approved, Romero said they will plan to lie low and find a way to “celebrate from afar.”

That will be a bummer, particularly since Romero has not been able to hug her son since he left for boot camp in May. Still, “it’s not great but there are worse things, and you have to take your wins where you have them,” she said.

“I do think people need to remember that our military personnel are very lonely right now,” Romero added. “We feel we have rights to do everything and see everybody but at the end of the day there are a lot of them who don’t get to see family. We have to be grateful for what we have.”

Communities changing course

Few Front Range cities are as synonymous with Christmas as Golden.

There, December weekends typically mean big crowds of shoppers during the day that become even bigger in SEE HOLIDAYS, P15

Pop Culture Con canceled for 2021, still connects with community COMING ATTRACTIONS

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ans of superheroes, science fiction, elven kingdoms and anime are going to have to wait longer than they were hoping to meet some of their favorite creators and other fans in person — after cancelling this year’s Denver Pop Culture Con, Pop Culture Classroom has made the decision to cancel the event for 2021 as well.

“Considering the financial impacts on our organization from cancelling the 2020 event and uncertainty about public gatherings in 2021, we didn’t see a realistic option,” explained Adam Kullberg, interim executive director of Pop Culture

Classroom. “We want to do right by our creators, vendors and the community, because they’ve all been so supportive of us.”

While this news is disappointing, it doesn’t mean the organization will be quiet until the next con — Pop Culture Classroom has been working hard during the pandemic to provide pop-culture based learning and entertainment options for fans of all ages.

Over the summer the nonprofit launched PopStream, a YouTube channel featuring comics conversations, workshops, discussions on films and more. It has also hosted

digital bootcamps on subjects like Dungeons and Dragons, and PopRun, a virtual 5k. Most importantly, it has continued to work with children and students all over the state. It even provides a food pantry at its Valverde neighborhood headquarters in Denver.

“We’re shifting our efforts to focus on our core educational mission, which includes community education, professional development and creative community connections,” Kullberg said. “We’re continuing our efforts to work with schools, SEE READER, P15

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HOLIDAYS FROM PAGE 14

the evening as people cram downtown to catch a glimpse of Santa Claus when the Olde Golden Christmas parades make their way through downtown.

This year, however, the city’s holiday planners are instead orienting the festivities around resident’s homes, while nodding to another canceled favorite, the Candlelight Walk. During that event, residents would gather to go caroling down Golden’s main street, Washington Avenue, with a candle in hand.

“This year we are handing out these battery-operated commemorative candles and we are asking everyone to place one in their window and light it every night at 7 to show that unity that we have in the community, and that even though we can’t come together we are all still together,” said Nola Krajewski, the executive director of the Golden Chamber of Commerce.

The cancellation of Golden’s parade also means that local kids did get the chance to march in it with Santa.

But they were still able to

be sworn in as official “Golden Christmas elves” during the annual Golden Elf Academy. Organizer Stacy Fowler said she was happy to turn the event virtual this year.

“I think that there is so much that kids aren’t even able to do and such a shortage — you can’t even see Santa right now in a lot of places,” she said. “This is some way for them to be involved with Santa in a virtual way at least for an hour.”

Other communities are also planning their own shows of holiday togetherness amidst the separation required by the pandemic.

In Westminster, Arvada, Centennial and other communities, residents have been circulating a Facebook post asking “everyone to step out on their doorsteps to spread Christmas sprit and help Santa fly his sleigh” at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. “After this awful year, it would be an amazing memory for the kids and the communities,” the post reads. “End 2020 with a bit of magic, hope and togetherness.”

Cheryl Truax-Williams is among those planning to participate.

“This is how traditions start,” she said.

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But while COVID-19 is creating new traditions, it’s also providing fuel for existing ones to grow as they take on new meaning at a time when so many are spending the holidays apart.

Three years ago, Chris Hohenstein began adding his

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libraries, community centers and we’re getting lots of interest from folks like teachers and librarians.”

Like so many nonprofits and arts organizations, revenue losses have been severe, leading to layoffs in addition to programming changes the cancellation of both cons eliminated 90 percent of Pop Culture Classroom’s funding for its nonprofit work. As such, Kullberg said donations are needed to keep Pop Culture Classroom and its efforts ”going. The organization is also searching for educational partnerships with schools and groups that have similar goals.

“Our virtual programming has been really successful, and we’re eager to harness that energy and provide new opportunities along our channels,” he said. “We want to show how pop culture can be a way to bridge gaps and help teach things like critical thinking. We’re going to continue to tell our story, just not in the ways people might be familiar with.”

To stay up to date on the nonprofits’ work and activities, visit www.

Through Dec. 23, Colorado shoppers can get an injection of holiday cheer at the Cherry Creek Holiday Market, produced by Fetch.

The outdoor market will be hosted on Fillmore Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues) and features shopping from a variety of local creators and designers selling a wide range of goods.

The holiday atmosphere makes the market particularly special - shoppers can expect European chalet-style décor, plenty of lights, live music from local bands and carolers, and warm drinks to keep them warm.

The market is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Entry to the event is free, but reservations are encouraged. For more information, visit www.CherryCreekHolidayMarket.com.

own ornament to a growing collection that he noticed on a couple of trees along the Ralston Creek Trail near his home. This year there seem to be more ornaments than ever on the trees, which are located along the trail a couple turns west of Eldridge Street.

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And now Pecknold will be performing a “A Very Lonely Solstice Livestream,” to welcome winter at 6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 21. The solo acoustic show will be broadcast from St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, New York, and will feature the Resistance Revival Chorus. For tickets, visit https://noonchorus.com/ robin-pecknold/.

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mind than a livestreamed performance of a string quartet led by the Colorado Symphony’s Phillip Stevens, including the concert commentary of host Betsy Schwarm.

The Classical Holiday show will be broadcast by the Lone Tree Arts Center and will include selections from Messiah and The Nutcracker, a spirited sleigh ride, a dash of Beethoven à la Christmas, and some Hanukkah music as well, according to provided information.

There will also be instrumental versions of familiar carols, and audiences are encouraged to sing along at home.

The show will be livestreamed at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 20. Visit www.lonetreeartscenter.org for tickets.

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

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Jay Madden steps down as head football coach at Pomona

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

ARVADA — After nearly two decades leading Pomona High School’s football program, Jay Madden officially stepped down as head coach.

“Number one is I’m tired. I’ve been doing this a long time and the stuff that goes along with being a head coach wears you out,” Madden said in a phone interview Tuesday morning. “I love coaching. I love kids. I love football. I’ll probably never quit coaching.”

Madden will remain as a teacher at Pomona. He has a few more years before retiring from teaching and wants to focus on being a father.

“It was time to not be the boss anymore,” Madden said. “It’s time to be a dad. I’ve got a son who will be a sophomore in high school next school year. I can be his dad for three years, recharge my batteries and hopefully go back and do this all over again.”

What Madden — 1986 Pomona graduate — has done as a high school football coach in Colorado since his first head coaching job at Alameda in 1995 is impressive.

He spent five seasons at Dakota Ridge (1996-2000) and two years at Mullen (2001 and 2002) before heading back to his alma mater for an 18-year stint.

At Pomona, he guided the Panthers to the Class 5A state quarterfinals each year except for once since 2008. As one of the smallest 5A football schools in the state, the Panthers advanced to the state semifinals six times and played in four state championship games (2009, 2015, 2016 and 2017), including winning the 5A title in 2017 over Eaglecrest.

“Honestly, I had no idea,” Mad-

Jay Madden racked up a 218-86 record during his 26 years as a head football coach at Alameda, Dakota Ridge, Mullen and Pomona.

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den said of his goals when he took over the Pomona football program in 2003. “At the time I was just glad to be back in Jefferson County. I had been told when I took the job that it was never going to be the same as the glory days. We were going to prove them wrong and I believe we did that.”

There are numerous on-field memories that Madden will never forget. The state championship victory at Mile High Stadium, a 2011 victory over Mullen and even this season defeating rival Ralston Valley with a lastsecond field goal.

“Eighteen years is one spot is a long time. It was a good run, that’s for sure,” Madden said.

“We did it the right way. We grew where we were planted and made this a great place.”

Walking away from a program that Madden spent 18 years

building into a perennial powerhouse was difficult.

“There is never an easy time to step down because you always have another great group of kids that you love,” Madden said.

“Number one is I’m going to miss the players. The before practice time. The weight room time. The times where the kids are just being kids. And I’m going to miss my assistant coaches.”

Pomona athletic director Mike Santarelli has the task of finding Madden’s replacement.

That won’t be an easy to replace Madden who racked up a 218-86 record as head coach over 26 seasons.

“Jay is probably the best Xs and Os coach I’ve ever seen,” Santarelli said. “He is always one step ahead of everybody. He does an outstanding job of getting his players ready for games.”

Santarelli added that Madden’s ability to adjust from year-toyear when it comes to highlighting the strengths of his players is unmatched.

“We just have to start looking,” Santarelli said. “We are changing. Demographics and interests aren’t the same. COVID hasn’t helped us either. We’ve got to get someone who is willing to put the time and effort in.”

Madden said there wasn’t an extra pressure taking over his alma mater back in 2003, but there was extra pride building up Pomona were he had been around since when his father became the freshman football coach in 1980.

“We’ve had some great kids.

Great coaches and a great community,” Madden said.

Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools

David Schuessler is a paper-and-pencil guy. There’s a good chance that the Clear Creek athletic director will have a handy Jostens calendar book on him to note when and where the Golddiggers will be playing on any given day.

That calendar has seen its fair share of revisions in recent months. So much so that Schuessler’s gone to utilizing a Google calendar because of how easy it is to edit. That’s the nature of the beast in 2020 after the Colorado High School Activities Association delayed the start of Season B last week.

CHSAA, following discussions with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, pushed back the start of practice for boys and girls basketball, wrestling, skiing, girls swimming, ice hockey and spirit competitions until Jan. 25 with games and events starting a week later.

CDPHE expressed concerns with CHSAA commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green about starting Season B as planned in the first week of January because of increasing COVID-19 cases throughout the state.

“At this time, we do not have enough information about what disease incidence and hospitalization capacity will look like in January, and therefore are unable to make a determination regarding indoor high school athletics in Season B,” said Jill Hunsaker Rye, Executive Director of the CDPHE, in a letter sent to CHSAA, which also noted that no variances would be granted at the present time. “Season B high school sports would operate based on the restrictions in the level of the dial in the county in which the school resides. For counties in Level Red, this means no indoor group sports are authorized.”

Rye said that current estimations show that “1 in 40 Coloradans are currently infectious.” And with the holiday season in full swing, there are concerns that more cases will arise. Furthermore, CDPHE’s concern goes beyond athletic competitions but also focuses on the academic aspect.

“Our top goal for the new year is to support a return to in-person learning,” Rye continued. “Season B sports are conducted mainly indoors during the colder months, which reduces the ability to assure social distancing. This in turn may further promote disease transmission at a time when we need to ensure that students and teachers are protected and that in-person learning is the highest priority.”

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PROPOSED CHAA CALENDAR The following is a breakdown of the remaining proposed CHSAA calendar for the 2020-21 school year. Each regular season will be seven weeks in length.

Notes: Season C football will be nine weeks in length with a six-plus- one regular season and three weeks of playoffs, culminating with the state finals on May 15.

SEASON B When: Jan. 25 (practice) through March 20 (state championships) Sports: Boys and girls basketball, skiing, boys and girls wrestling, girls swimming, ice hockey and spirit (state championships March 25-27).

SEASON D When: May 3 (practice) through June 26 (state championships) Sports: Baseball, boys and girls lacrosse, track & field, boys swimming, boys volleyball, girls soccer, girls golf and girls tennis.

Notes: Girls golf will be 10 weeks in length, same as boys golf, with practice starting April 19 and the season running through June 22. … Girls tennis will run seven weeks, starting with practice on April 26 and running through June 12.

SEASON C When: March 15 (practice) through May 8 (state championships) Sports: Boys soccer, field hockey, girls volleyball, gymnastics, unified bowling and football.

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state in preparation for a Jan. 4 start date for Season B, BlanfordGreen said. This was before all Denver metro area counties, as well as surrounding counties like Clear Creek and Elbert were moved to Level Red. Blanford-Green on Dec. 11 noted that all parties involved are cognizant of the importance of athletics and activities for students.

“I think that it’s important that everybody knows that I haven’t encountered one state official who doesn’t want athletics and activities to resume,” Blanford-Green said. “If there’s disappointment it’s around the reality that we can’t do everything that we want to do when we want to do it.”

Blanford-Green noted that if not for cooperation from CDPHE and Gov. Polis’ COVID response team, the Season A prep football season, because of an uptick in COVID-19 cases, wouldn’t have reached a conclusion. Without an extension of the variance in all likelihood the football season would’ve been shut down a month earlier, she said.

The return of in-person learning at schools in the coming weeks provides a positive step for the return of athletics and activities, according to Blanford-Green.

“The more that we see schools returning to learn gives hope that

Pomona’s then-sophomore Daniel Cardenas celebrates after winning his Class 5A 138-pound title back in PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS February.

athletics and activities complement the classroom and following them in returning jointly or shortly behind that. It gives an incredible amount of hope,” Blanford-Green said.

“That’s the bright light.”

CHSAA, CDPHE and Gov. Jared Polis’ COVID response team are planning to meet in approximately a month to discuss variances for Season B. Variances won’t be considered prior to that time, according to the CHSAA.

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VACCINE FROM PAGE 3

Availability is crucial

Health officials cautioned that all of their timelines for vaccine distribution could change based on availability.

“We know that early doses will be limited,” Bookman said, “but they will expand.”

Bookman said the vaccine will be provided for free for anyone who wants it.

The new plan differs in significant ways from the initial version that the state submitted to the federal government in October.

People who live in nursing homes have been moved up in priority.

Health-care workers who are not directly treating patients with COVID-19 have been moved down slightly.

But the biggest change is that the state has removed people who live in congregate housing situations — namely prisoners — from the priority list entirely.

People in those living situations — such as college students living in dorms, seasonal workers at ski areas living in shared housing, people

FIRE SAFETY FROM PAGE 6

catching home decorations on fire jumps from 4% during the period from January through November to 12% in December.

The NFPA says other causes like

experiencing homelessness living in shelters, and people who are incarcerated — had been at a now-deleted “Phase 2A” of the initial plan.

Public health experts had urged making them a priority because they are at high risk of catching and transmitting the virus, creating large outbreaks that can spread across entire communities.

As of last week, 14 of the state’s 15 largest COVID-19 outbreaks had been in correctional facilities or on college campuses. At least 14 Colorado prisoner deaths have been tied to COVID-19.

But, in his announcement on Dec. 9, Polis made clear that the main consideration for the new priority list was whether someone is at increased risk of death from COVID-19.

“If we want to save lives, we need to prioritize based on who is the most vulnerable from this virus,” Polis said. “… The moral path for society to take is to protect those who are far more likely to lose their lives to the virus.”

Bookman echoed that sentiment.

“It does not matter where you live, it matters what you’re susceptibility to this illness is,” Bookman said.

The new plan still prioritizes

fireworks contribute to holiday fire risks as well. Fireworks used in the five day stretch between Dec. 30 - Jan. 3 account for 10% of all yearly fireworks fires, with the most occurring on New Year’s Day. Not all seasonal fires are related to the holidays. Chilly weather and increased use of space heat-

people who are “workers serving people that live in high-density settings.” Those individuals are placed in Phase 2 of the vaccine rollout, meaning, for instance, that people who work in homeless shelters will likely be eligible for vaccination before many people experiencing homelessness are.

Groups crafted different plans

Public health and medical experts worked for months on creating the state’s initial vaccination priority plan. An advisory committee of medical experts — the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee — drafted one plan. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had its own teams also working on roll-out plans, and the two were ultimately merged to create the plan the state sent to the federal government earlier this year.

That initial plan largely followed the advice of a committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which also singled out people living in congregate housing as being worthy of priority. Two Colorado experts — Dr. Ned Calonge, the president and CEO of The Colorado Trust, and Dr. Jonathan Samet, the dean of the

ers, furnaces, fireplaces and wood stoves contribute to the numbers.

NFPA data show half of annual home heating fires are reported in the months of December, January and February. They recommend keeping anything flammable at least three-feet away from heating equipment, never using your oven to heat your home and making

Colorado School of Public Health who is leading Colorado’s pandemic modeling efforts — reviewed and provided feedback for the National Academies report before it was released.

The governor also promised Dec. 9 that vaccination information about Coloradans will not be shared with the federal government. That’s despite the fact that The New York Times reported Dec. 9 that the Trump administration is requiring states to submit the personal information of people who get the COVID-19 vaccine so that it can better track who is inoculated and any adverse reactions.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo balked at the idea, warning that the information could be used to deport people living in the U.S. illegally.

Polis asked Coloradans to be extra vigilant in protecting themselves and others against coronavirus in the next few months.

“It’s a marathon,” he said. “We’re getting there.”

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.

sure heating equipment is professionally installed and up to code.

They also advise having chimneys cleaned and inspected every year, and making sure to turn off portable heaters when leaving a room or going to bed.

Lastly, NFPA advises you test smoke alarms in your home at least once a month.

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Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 38-26-107, Colorado Revised Statutes, that on August 21, 2019 a final settlement will be made by the Arapahoe County School District No. 1 (Englewood Schools) on account of a contract between the Contractor and the District for the following project: School: Englewood High School (TEC) Item Description: Contractor Construction: Taylor Kohrs Any person, co-partnership, entity, association, or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the Contractor for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed

by such Contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of such work, may, at any time up to and including the time of such final settlement on said date, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with Englewood Schools (Attention: Mary Cooper) at 4101 S Bannock St, Englewood, CO 80110. Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the District from any and all liability for such claimant’s claim.

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