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The Evergreen Rodeo Parade is back — with horses, local groups and classic cars that have always made the festival a great time for young and old, locals and visitors. The longstanding Evergreen tradition on June 19 had something for everyone — including the candy tossed to children along the parade route on Main Street in downtown Evergreen. Before the parade started, Rocky the Leprechaun rode on an ATV, calling to the crowd, “Are you ready for a big parade?” to which everyone yelled “yes” with enthusiasm. The people sitting in the back of the Cactus Jack’s Saloon and Grill truck brought along a few water balloons to have fun with the crowd, and they were challenged by attendees who had some water balloons, too — all in good fun. A covered wagon, a truckload

Members of the Evergreen High School poms team hand out candy during the Evergreen Rodeo Parade on June 19.

of furniture, the Evergreen High School cheerleaders and poms, the Rotary Wildfire Ready truck, rodeo royalty and more made their way slowly along the parade route. This year, before the parade, there

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Dana Paul Crocker, also known to many as “Daytona Dana”, age 58, of Littleton, CO passed away unexpectedly, yet peacefully, on May 29, 2021. Born October 4, 1962 and a native to Colorado where he lived in Aurora, CO until age 23 then moved to Thousand Oaks, CA until 1999, before returning to the mile-high state. He is survived by his daughter, Shanda Tillman (fiancé Chris) of Rifle, CO; grandson, Ryatt Hunter; mother, Paula (Husband Leon) Meurer of Parker, CO; father Dave (Wife Kay) Crocker of Foxfield, CO; stepmother Jo Doornbos of Paradise Valley, AZ; brother Darren (Wife Lacy) Crocker of Brighton, CO; brother Vernon Doornbos of Parker, CO; sister Susie (Husband Louis) LoSasso of Aurora, CO; nephew Colton (fiancée Meghan) Crocker, niece Kayla Doornbos, nephew Joey LoSasso, and nieces Makenna Crocker and Gracie Crocker. Dana had countless friends that he met along his life’s journey. He always went out of his way to help

people and quickly befriended everyone he met. Pshhhh...he was the life of the party! Racing to the finish line a little earlier than anticipated, #78 - Daytona Dana - will no doubt race around heaven leaving rubber on the shiny white pearl roads as he takes the turns as fast as he can “around the outside”. The air may be a little thinner there, but that won’t stop him from tuning his carb and outrunning the best of the best. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Crocker Residence, 14121 Country Hills Drive, Brighton, CO on Sunday, July 18th, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Dana’s honor to his favorite non-profit, Sparkling Kindness that helps those in need and sheds light on any darkness with a motto of “We rise by lifting others” just as Dana has done all through his life. www.sparklingkindness.org Venmo: @sparkling-kindness

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Sheriff’s Calls Jane Ire CONIFER – Mary called JCSO to complain of harassment by her former employers. Mary said she’d been recently engaged as live-in nanny to the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Banks. The position was entirely agreeable and her duties pleasant for about 10 minutes, at which time the Banks informed Mary that she would also be expected to “clean their house and wash their clothes.” A principled nanny, Mary flatly refused to perform any function more properly the province of a housemaid, and tendered her indignant resignation forthwith. The professional parting proceeded without undue bitterness for about 10 minutes, at which point, Mary said, she started receiving harassing text messages from Mrs. Banks. After reviewing the nagging notes, deputies concluded that they did not contain those elements necessary to a charge of harassment. A persistent nanny, Mary told officers that she had chanced to witness Mr. Banks procure several guns from an itinerant weapons peddler, and it caused her great anxiety to think that those disreputable purchases might fall into the innocent hands of her erstwhile charge. The deputies assured Mary that it’s perfectly legal to

buy guns from a private party, and said they had no reason to believe the firearms were stored in a less-than-prudent manner. Becoming a frustrated nanny, Mary expressed disappointment at the officers’ lack of initiative and bid them a cross good-day. The officers’ retirement from the case lasted for about 10 minutes, which is when they were dispatched to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Banks on an anonymous child-endangerment report. According to the unnamed tipster, the Banks home contained numerous guns, prescription medication bottles and over-flowing ashtrays, all of them within easy reach of the Banks’ impressionable progeny. After satisfying themselves that the Banks boy appeared to be in no danger, and that Mr. Banks’ arsenal was properly documented and safely locked up inside a gun safe in the garage, deputies called the aggrieved governess and asked whether she’d recently had occasion to call the JCSO tip line. Mary assured them she certainly had not, saying instead that she had, by fortunate coincidence, just posted those precise charges on a popular nanny website, and it was her official position that some other upright and goodhearted hero must have read her

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the neighbor wrote. “I enjoy being hated by people I don’t like,” he wrote. “It’s danger time!” he wrote. Deputies reviewed the neighbor’s peevish posts and pronounced them “not illegal.” S.N.A.F.U. EVERGREEN – Responding to a residential alarm, the deputy arrived to find the front door standing ajar and nobody home. Detecting no signs of forced entry, the officer cautiously entered the vacant house and was confronted by what seemed to be contradictory evidence. On the one hand, several tempting pieces of expensive electronics were lying about, apparently unmolested, and a big wad of cash still sat in plain view in the master bathroom. On the other, dresser and cabinet drawers throughout the house were hanging open, their contents strewn about the floor in a chaotic mess. Not sure how to proceed, the deputy waited around out front until the homeowner showed up, and then asked her to confirm or deny that the house had been robbed. She said that although the front door standing open was unusual, the home’s distinctly rifled appearance was “normal.”

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Wild West meets street fair Bailey Day provides fun activities for all ages BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

What do food, booths, music, the Wild West and kids activities have in common? Bailey Day, of course. Hundreds walked along Main Street, perusing the booths, trying some of the array of food and drinks, and listening to music from two stages. There was a lot for all ages to see and do at the annual street festival. Indy & Olly’s, a nonprofit based in Evergreen, was one of more than 100 booths at Bailey Day, offering dog bandanas for sale. For every bandana sold, the nonprofit donates one to a dog rescue organization, hoping that the bandanas will improve adoption photos. According to Debbie Wright, the organization is named after two rescue dogs she had, and each bandana has two tiny hearts in it, one to commemorate each. The Park County Regulators, an Wild West reenactment team based in Bailey, are always a hit at Bailey Day. They performed skits, gunfight reenactments, weapons demonstrations and more — while wearing authentic mid-1880s garb. Their goal is to ensure a historically accurate experience. The actors walked through the crowds along Main Street to the delight of attendees. Diamond Lil, aka Jeannyne McMillen of Littleton, brought her horses to add to the Wild West ambience, noting that it was nice for the actors to be among the crowd doing what they love. Snake, aka Carl Solko of Bailey, was glad life was returning to normal, adding that the group found out last week that it also would perform at the Georgetown Loop Railroad in August. For Devlin Foster, 12, the archery range next to the Bailey Community Center was the best part. “There’s nothing better than this,” he said after taking a turn with a bow and arrow. His mom, Becca Miner, who was born and raised in Bailey, said Devlin has an archery kit at home, so their first stop at Bailey Day was the archery range. Another big hit with the kids was The Denver Balloon Guy, who created elaborate balloon sculptures for children — a horse, a wearable car and more. Children waited for balloon-master Jeremy Briggs to make the one-of-a-kind creations, each getting Briggs’ undivided at-

Nitro Cummings shoots his guns during one of the Park County Regulators’ skits at Bailey Day on June 19.

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Devlin Foster lines up his shot and pulls back on the bow during an archery event.

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Jeremy Briggs creates a balloon unicorn for 6-year-old Rue Calhoon during Bailey Day.

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Development briefs BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

‘Resort cabins’ proposed for Nob Hill The owners of eight acres on Nob Hill in El Rancho have proposed adding a residential component to the allowed uses to put either 28 residential units or 28 “resort cabins” there. About eight people were at the June 14 virtual community meeting to hear about the rezoning proposal that asks to combine the two properties at 945 and 950 Nob Hill Road into one planned development. Currently, each has its own planned development zoning that allows commercial and light industrial uses. Neighbors were concerned about the transient nature of resort cabins next to a stable single-family home neighborhood.

“Our concern as a community is if you go toward this resort-cabin model that it becomes a transient neighborhood with a lot of people in and out, driving around, walking around,” said neighbor Kim Teschke. “I think we were looking more for single-family homes or duplexes — a neighborhood as opposed to a transient renters-type situation.” In December, the owners held a community meeting at which they proposed multifamily housing on the acreage but changed plans after learning from the Evergreen Metro District that it might have difficulty providing water and sewer to the area. Jeanne Shaffer with Chadwick Land Entitlements, who represents the owners, said she believed the current proposal would be an either/or scenario — either resort cabins or residential units that

would likely be single-family homes or duplexes. That will be determined through the Jefferson County rezoning process, she said. The owners have not filed a formal rezoning application yet, and it typically takes several months before the proposal comes before the Jefferson County Planning Commission. At that time, the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing. The final decision is made by the Jeffco commissioners. This is not the only development proposal in the area that includes overnight accommodations. A 100room hotel has been proposed for property across from Walmart about a quarter mile away from the Nob Hill property. In response to questions, Shaffer said the proposed resort cabins would have one owner with a common check-in building, while lots

would be sold to individual owners if a residential area is developed. Planned development mod gets PC nod The Jeffco Planning Commission has recommended that the planned-development agreement for a property on Buffalo Park Road be modified to allow specialty retail as an accepted use. Kerstin and Marty Albe, who own the Evergreen Bike Shop on 0.41 acres at 28677 Buffalo Park Road, want to rent out the space in the second building on the property, and retail could be one of the uses, Kerstin Albe said. The recommendation still must go before the Jeffco commissioners for approval. No one spoke against the proposal at the Planning Commission meeting.

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Six-year-old Rue Calhoon of Pine watched as Briggs made a purple unicorn, saying she loved Bailey Day, especially the bouncy houses and the cool balloons. Cynde and Richard George watched Rue enjoying the ballooncreation session, noting that the three of them had been to previous Bailey Day celebrations. “We came from Chicago where all fairs were huge,” Richard George said. “We love small-town fairs.” A crowd gathers as the Park County Regulators put on their first skit of the day at Bailey PHOTOS BY SARA HERTWIG Day.

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People gathered in downtown Evergreen Saturday morning for the annual Evergreen Rodeo Parade.

Cowboy hats and boots of all colors lined downtown Evergreen for the Rodeo Parade.

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A water balloon fight broke out between the people on the Cactus Jack’s entry and parade watchers.

Kaia Packer, 10, and Havana Wygal hand out Hawaiian leis for Kiki’s Fresh Bowls before the start of the Evergreen Rodeo Parade.

Miss Evergreen Rodeo rides by during the parade. PHOTO BY SARA HERTWIG

People wave as the Evergreen Rodeo Parade makes its way down Main Street in downtown Evergreen.

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rant — and eventually they got used to putting the flamingo waddle in

their step as they moved along the parade route. Rachel Nicks from Seasonally Yours, Jim Sherwood with the Evergreen Clothing Co. and Annie Hunter from Baskin Robbins were the judges, tasked with deciding

the entrants with the most originality, the most crowd appeal and the best theme. They were anticipating watching the 70 entrants that passed by the main stage across from the Little Bear. Sherwood noted there was a ro-

bust turnout — the largest downtown Evergreen had seen in two years. “We’re back in the saddle again,” Nicks said.

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VOICES Another legislative session in the books

The 2021 session of the Colorado General Assembly adjourned June 8, completing a session in which majority Democrats utilized their significant majority by passing most elements of an ambitious agenda. Among those priorities were a transportation funding plan that will invest $5 billion over the next 10 years, tax policy changes that will eliminate or lessen tax exemptions for a large variety of businesses and industries, requirements for health insurance providers to offer products at lower rates, a series of gun control measures, police reform and criminal justice initiatives, data privacy, school finance and climate change. Bills to limit crimes for which suspects could be jailed and to make it easier for employees to sue their employers for sexual harassment or discrimination failed in the closing hours of the session. The session was unique in that it

featured a monthlong recess to address concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. There was also limited access to the State Capitol that changed the ways in which the public was able to participate in and Columnist influence legislative action. That recess provided lawmakers with extra time after the budget was adopted to focus on a large number of issues that typically would not be addressed in the closing days of a legislative session. Legislators made draconian cuts to the state’s budget in 2020 because of revenue estimates that the pandemic would decimate the state’s budget. The economy rebounded much more quickly than expected and higher state tax revenues, coupled

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with federal stimulus assistance, provided for large increases in state spending and significant increases to the state’s budget reserve. There were significant differences between the House and Senate as to how partisan differences played out. The Senate acted in a largely collegial fashion and found ways to work in which the state budget and significant police reform passed with large bipartisan majorities. Conversely, Republicans in the House utilized a much more obstructionist strategy, voting as a block against a wider variety of issues and exercising delaying tactics that slowed down the process but did little or nothing to effect final outcomes. And now the dance around how the public will view legislative actions begins in earnest. With eyes firmly on 2022 elections, Democrats will characterize legislative achievements as promises made and promises delivered while Republicans will portray it as an over-

reach that resulted in an extreme agenda out of touch with the beliefs of most Coloradans. It’s clear that the most progressive Democrats and most conservative Republicans will agree with their parties’ spin. It’s less clear how more moderate members of both parties and unaffiliated voters will view things. 2022 election results will be impacted additionally by how redistricting lines drawn by the newly established independent commission works out. Most current legislative districts are not particularly competitive. To the extent possible, a legal responsibility of the commission is to make districts competitive. It will be in those truly competitive districts that we’ll see how Coloradans view the legislature’s work. Greg Romberg is president of Romberg and Associates. He lives in Evergreen with his wife, Laurie.

Heartworm on the rise as rescue dogs come in from other states In 2019, an estimated 93,000 animals went into shelters in Oklahoma. Of those animals, over 23,000 dogs died. That’s about 65 animals per day. Along Oklahoma’s section of Route 66 lies a small building that houses cats and dogs that are looking for permanent homes. The Peaceful Animal Adoption Shelter in Vanita, Oklahoma, began sheltering and rehoming pets in 2015. By mid-2017, PAAS began rescuing animals from “kill” shelters around Oklahoma and transporting them to no-kill shelters around the country. In 2017, 130 Oklahoma dogs per month were transported to Colorado shelters like the Denver Dumb Friends League. While languishing in “kill shelters” in states like Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, these animals can be exposed to diseases like giardia and mange, which are fairly easy to detect and treat. A more insidious disease that can affect dogs and cats is heartworm, which is transmitted by infected

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mosquitoes. An animal arriving in Colorado could be infected with heartworm but not have symptoms. Some shelters perform heartworm tests, but for younger dogs, the tests are unreliable, according to CathChristy Greene leen Timmons with Evergreen Animal Protective League. “Any of our dogs over 6 months of age have been tested for heartworm prior to us bringing them in from out of state. If for some reason the test is missed, we get it done here.” Heartworm can be fatal if not treated before the animal develops a large “worm burden” of up to 250 worms. Caused by a parasitic worm, Dirofilaria imminitis, the worms are spread through the bite of a mosquito, which acts as the “intermediary host.” Worms live inside

the mosquito for a short transition period. Through the bite of the infected mosquito, the dog becomes the “definitive host” during which time the worms mature, mate and produce offspring. Heartworm is not spread animal to animal, and therefore, an adopted pet with heartworm cannot infect other pets. Damage occurs when the worms infest the pet’s heart and large blood vessels where they cause inflammation and interfere with blood flow. Larval worms deposited by a mosquito take approximately six months to mature. A dog may show minor health issues like coughing or vomiting, but unfortunately, she may be infected with heartworm for a year or longer before there are noticeable signs. Other mammals, like foxes and coyotes, may also be bitten with infected mosquitos. Wild animals cannot be given preventative medication and are free roaming, therefore raising the risk of spreading the parasite to ever-growing geographi-

cal areas. Climate change has given more of a foothold to mosquito and tickborne diseases in Colorado, including in the foothills. As heartworm among Colorado dogs increases by as much as 67.5% between 2013 and 2017, veterinarians recommend administering preventive heartworm drugs for dogs, cats and ferrets. A heartworm test must be administered before a dog can start on the medication. If a dose is missed, it might be necessary to retest the dog before resuming the drugs. Early detection and preventative drugs can save a pet’s life, so talk to your veterinarian if you are fostering or adopting an animal from another state. In fall 2020, PAAS transported Patty the stray Catahoula dog to the Denver Dumb Friends League. One of 93,000 dogs suffering in Oklahoma kill-shelters, Patty was welcomed with open arms into her new forever home just five days after her arrival in Denver.

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Kappy Kling of Hearthfire Books and Treats Wins Rotary’s 2021 ‘Ethics in Business’ Award The award comes with a $500 prize to donate to the charity of her choice Resilience1220. In 2009 the Rotary Club of Evergreen awarded its first annual ‘Ethics in Business Award’. Each year since, Rotary Club members nominate businesses and business professionals they believe comply with Rotary International’s Four-way Test, as follows: OF THE THINGS WE THINK, SAY OR DO: 1. Is it the truth? 2. Is it fair to all concerned? 3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships? HearthFire Supports Local Authors

4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned? Nominees can be both Rotary club members and non-club members. Kappy Kling purchased HearthFire in 2010 and has engineered a variety of changes over the years to meet our community requests. A key component to the store’s success is engagement at the local level - both personally and from the store itself. Hearthfire supports our mountain area schools in multiple ways, has hosted events for fantastic organizations such as Mountain Youth Musicals and Resilience1220. Hearthfire supports local authors, artists and book clubs, was a founding

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member of the Rocky Mountain Literary Festival, and generally supports local nonprofits based upon their unique requests. Personally, Kappy has also been involved in Leadership Evergreen, EHS Education Foundation, and will be welcoming an Exchange Student next year. She practices what she believes in, which is Shopping Local. Kappy’s motivation and inspiration for striving to do the right thing is first and foremost her daughter, Katie, the youth in our mountain town and the educators

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ENGLEWOOD — Sometimes a good old fashion tongue-lashing from the head coach isn’t a bad thing. Evergreen led its Class 4A boys lacrosse state semifinal 5-2 late in the first half against Eagle Valley on Saturday, June 19, at Englewood High School. However, Cougars’ coach Jay Egger was clearly not pleased with how his squad was playing. He let his team know about it when he called a timeout in the final minute before halftime. “That first half was probably the sloppiest lacrosse Evergreen has played in a long time. I’m not sure what it was,” Egger said. “After that (timeout) talk … this team showed its resiliency and character to respond. They responded. That third quarter we turned it on.” The No. 2-seed Cougars dominated the third quarter going on a 6-0 run and eventually cruise to a 14-5 victory over the No. 11 Eagle Valley. “We came out kind of slow. We weren’t ready for what was coming,” Evergreen senior Ben Crosbie said about the first half. “That rain and lightning delay kind of screwed us up and then our coach got into us. Then everyone started to wake up.” There was nearly a 90-minute lightning delay with 7:06 left in the second quarter and Evergreen holding a 3-1 lead. The Cougars (11-1 record) regrouped and got things going in the second half to win its eighth straight game and advance to the program’s first state title game. Evergreen faces top-seeded Cheyenne

Evergreen senior Jack Fairbanks (9) gets checked from behind by Eagle Valley junior Eric Hasley during the first quarter Saturday, June 19, at Englewood High School. Fairbanks had an outstanding third quarter, winning several faceoffs during the Cougars’ 6-0 PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS run after halftime on the way to Evergreen’s 14-5 victory in the Class 4A state semifinal game.

Mountain (11-1) at 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, back at Englewood High School for the state title. “The team in absolutely thrilled,”

Crosbie said moments after the Cougars punched their ticket to the program’s first appearance in a state championship game. “It’s going to

be great.” Cheyenne Mountain edged Erie SEE LACROSSE, P14

Shutouts lead Evergreen girls soccer in 4A state semifinals BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

EVERGREEN — Two first-half goals is all Evergreen needed offensively June 16 to advance to the Class 4A girls soccer state quarterfinals. The No. 2-seeded Cougars (12-0 record) got goals from senior Jocelin Zimmerer (18th minute) and junior Catherine Rapp (27th minute) on the way to a 2-0 shutout victory against No. 15 Northfield. “My teammate (Lily Maus) played me a great ball in the middle,” Zimmerer said. “I just made a touch forward and took the shot.” Zimmerer tucked her shot just under the crossbar to give the Cougars the early lead. Evergreen extended the lead to 2-0 less than 10 minutes later with a brilliant connection from senior Myla Stewart to one of the Cougars’ Rapp triplets — Catherine. Stewart lofted a centering pass from the right wing to Catherine Rapp, who headed the ball past Northfield senior goalie Veda Miles. “I actually watched the Italy game

during Euro 2020 today. The guys play like that,” Stewart said of sending the aerial pass to Catherine Rapp. “I know the (triplets) love header crosses. We are taught to play it on the ground, but this one had to go in the air. It was incredible.” Evergreen controlled the majority of play holding onto a 2-0 lead before halftime but couldn’t get a third goal. Unfortunately for the Cougars the most noticeable news of the scoreless second half was Evergreen junior goalie Aubrey Huerta receiving a red card for handling a ball outside the goal box in the 56th minute. “It’s a mandatory red card,” Evergreen coach Peter Jeans said of Huerta grabbing the ball outside the goal box. “It is what it is. The player learns a lesson on how to handle that a little differently, but the good news is we made adjustments and we were still carry the game.” Jeans actually turned to Evergreen’s leading scorer — Stewart SEE SOCCER, P11

Evergreen senior Jocelin Zimmerer, far left, jumps into the arms of sophomore Avrey Roberts after Zimmerer’s goal in the 18th minute of the first-round Class 4A girls soccer state playoff game Wednesday, June 16, at Evergreen High School. The Cougars are a perfect 12-0 on the season after playoff victories against Northfield and Steamboat Springs advanced Evergreen to the state semifinals scheduled for Wednesday, June 23, against The Classical Academy at Frederick High School. PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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Evergreen senior Jocelin Zimmerer (7) gets ready to fire a shot that led to the Cougars’ opening goal in the 18th minute Wednesday, June 16 at Evergreen High School. The Cougars defeated Northfield 2-0 to advance to the Class 4A state quarterfinals. The Cougars hosted Steamboat Springs on Saturday, June 19, and took a 3-0 victory to advance Evergreen to the state semifinals Wednesday, June 23, at Frederick High School. PHOTOS BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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— to finish the final 24 minutes in goal for the Cougars. It wasn’t a total surprise to Stewart, who said that she had practiced in goal earlier this year when Huerta was injured. “I was actually running over the to the referee to have her explain the call,” Stewart said after Huerta’s red card. “Peter (Jeans) looked at me and told me to put the gloves on. I’ll do whatever it takes to get the team where we need to be.” Stewart faced one legit scoring chance for Northfield, but the Nighthawks put a direct free kick over the net following the red card. “Everyone knew their first job was the clear the ball,” Zimmerer said of the team’s mindset after the red card. “We did that the entire time, and they didn’t get any chances on goal.” Evergreen continued to put pressure on Miles despite Stewart not able to lead the offensive charge up top for the Cougars. The Nighthawks (8-3) were able to keep the Cougars from scoring in the second half mainly due to a handful of great saves to Miles. “Hats off to (Northfield),” Jeans said. “They really made us have to play a full 80-minute game and I felt like our girls did that.” Evergreen faced the challenge in state quarterfinal match June 19 against No. 10 Steamboat Springs without Huerta in net. A one-game suspension comes with the red card. “It’s a huge challenge,” Jeans said before the quarterfinal. “We’ll have our work cutout for us. We are going to have to figure out a game-plan and shift some players around.” Stewart was back in net for against Steamboat Springs as the Cougars cruised to another shutout victory. Evergreen won 3-0 to advance to the 4A state semifinal

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against No. 3 The Classical Academy on Wednesday, June 23, at Frederick High School. “I’m confident we can keep the ball away from our defensive half,” Zimmerer said before the Cougars’ victory over Steamboat Springs. Evergreen has given up just four goals in 11 games this season. “We’ll be fine. Hopefully we’ll have Aubrey back for the semis.” Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage go to CHSAANow.com/Jeffco.

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Right on, Track! CCHS track and field wraps up regular season, prepares for state BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For some Clear Creek track and field athletes, the season isn’t over just yet. Several Golddiggers are planning to compete in the 2A State Track and Field meet beginning June 24 in Lakewood, although Coach Brian Inman said Saturday that he wouldn’t find out who was going until Monday. He said the girls sprint medley team, high-jumper Anika McKown and sprinter Kylie Lynch will likely go, and one of the boys relay teams might be attending as well. “When we can get kids going consistently to state like this, it’s good for the program,” Inman said. The Golddiggers competed in their final meet of the regular season Friday at West Grand’s Joe Shields Invitational. Inman estimated that the boys team placed seventh overall and the girls team placed ninth. Highlights from the meet included: • The girls medley relay team placing first; • McKown placing second in high jump and third in the 400-meter dash; • Skylah Inman placing fourth in 100-meter hurdles;

Clear Creek sprinters Evan Brandt, left, and Bode Baker line up at the starting line during Thursday’s track and field practice. Outdoor practice was cut short June 17 because of lightning in the area, so the Clear Creek track and field athletes worked in the weight room PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN instead.

• Sean Mauracher and Michael Hillman placing fourth in the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash, respectively; and • The boys 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams both placing second. Conditions in Kremmling Friday weren’t ideal, as a strong headwind prevented Clear Creek from improving on its times, Inman described. Still, the meet went well overall, as the Golddiggers got a preview of some competitors who will be at state this week. Overall, Clear Creek’s track and

field teams this season have been small but mighty. Inman said there’s usually about 20 athletes combined, but this year, the group started with 16 and was down to 12 by Friday’s meet. He attributed the decreased participation to the season’s late end date. Some seniors decided not to return after graduation and other athletes opted out because of other summer activities, he explained. Inman was still very proud of his athletes for how well they competed over the regular season, pointing

out that two broke school records this year. McKown set a school high jump record of 5-foot, 1-inch this season, breaking the previous 20-year record by a half-inch. Likewise, Lynch broke the school record in the 100-meter dash, which Inman said has stood for 34 years. The original was 12.89 seconds, and Lynch ran it in 12.82. She also broke the 200-meter record at 26.7 seconds. The previous 20-year record was SEE TRACK, P16

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9-8 in the other semifinal Saturday morning at Englewood High School. The Indians also doubled up on the Cougars in a non-league meeting back on May 24. Cheyenne Mountain took a 12-6 home victory over Evergreen. “We played them (Cheyenne Mountain) earlier in the year and we weren’t at our best,” Egger said. “We know their reputation, but we have nothing to lose. We are going to go out there and surprise them. In the bottom of my heart I know we can play with anyone in the state. We aren’t intimidated. We are excited. We deserve to be there.” It will be the third straight state title appearance for Cheyenne Mountain. The Indians won their first boys lacrosse championship in

Evergreen seniors Ben Crosbie (23) and Jared Stiller celebrate a fourth-quarter goal during the Class 4A boys lacrosse state semifinal game Saturday, June 19, at Englewood High School. The Cougars defeated Eagle Valley 14-5 to advance to the program’s first state championship game. Evergreen faced top-seed Cheyenne Mountain on June 22 at Englewood High School. PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

2018 with a 8-6 victory over Dawson. Cheyenne Mountain was in great shape for a repeat in 2019, but

Golden roared back for a dramatic overtime victory two years ago. There was no state champion in 2020 because of COVID-19 cancelling the entire spring season in Colorado. “Cheyenne has always been a competitor for us,” Crosbie said. “It’s one team that we want to absolutely dominate. They have been great the past four years, but I think it’s time for us to step up.” Crosbie stepped up with three goals against Eagle Valley. Seven different Cougars found the back of the net. Senior Jared Stiller, along with sophomores Sam Grimshaw and Nash Carroll had multiple goals in the semifinal victory. Evergreen’s defense was stellar in front of senior goalie Andrew Morris. “My 26 players are unbelievable. My four (assistant) coaches are unbelievable,” Egger said. “The dedication they have all committed to this season is something that love

them forever.” Senior Jack Fairbanks was key for Evergreen in the second half. Fairbanks won nearly every face-off to allow the Cougars to control possession and score 7 unanswered goals after halftime. “Eagle Valley was beating us on face-offs,” Egger said. “I looked Jack in the eyes and said, ‘We need you.’ He stepped up and responded.” Egger knows Evergreen must play at its top level Tuesday night at Englewood High School if the Cougars are to lift the state trophy for the first time. “This is the first time we’ve won a conference championship. First time making the state semifinals,” Egger said. “We are making history along this journey. This program is learning too.” Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage go to CHSAANow.com/Jeffco.

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gone before. He set personal records at most meets, but still said there was a lot of room to improve his times and live up to the legacy of the Clear Creek sprinters who came before him. Mauracher hoped to see a lot of Golddigger faithful at the state track meet this week. While she won’t be competing at state, outgoing junior Jillian Lupinacci said she had fun and learned a lot during her first season on the track and field team. Lupinacci described how she set very modest goals for herself as it was her first time throwing discus and shot-put. She appreciated how supportive her teammates and coaches when she joined halfway through the season. “We’re more like a family than a team,” she said.

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27.2. He also commended the boys relay team members of Mauracher, Evan Brandt, Bode Baker and Michael Hillman, saying, “They’ve had potential all season, but we just had some poor exchanges and disqualifications.” Mauracher, who does individual and relay sprint events, said he was proud of how much his fellow Golddiggers have improved this year. “They don’t complain,” he said. “They just go out and do things to help the team.” He was hoping to attend the state meet this week, saying he’s never

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Bound for the Olympics Evergreen rower Kendall Chase ready to live her dream BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It’s still pretty surreal for Evergreen’s Kendall Chase when she says the words, “I’m going to the Olympics.” The athlete, a 2012 Mullen High School graduate, is part of the U.S. women’s rowing team that will compete in Tokyo next month. She will be rowing on a four-woman team. How does a woman who grew up in a land-locked state end up on a rowing team? When she was 14, she took a learn-to-row class and fell in love, starting at a rowing club that practiced at Cherry Creek Reservoir. She continued her rowing career at the University of California, Berkeley, and has spent the last five years at the Princeton Training Center, training nearly every day to prepare for this moment. Her days start at 5:30 a.m. with Kendall Chase of Evergreen, second from left, with Grace Luzscac, Claire Collins and Maddie Wanamaker during a practice session. practice, a nap, more practice and possibly another practice — six days Chase will compete with her teammates at the Olympics next month in Tokyo. COURTESY OF US ROWING a week with on-your-own practice both physically and emotionally. It our Olympic experience will be a on Sundays. The team leaves for training in was so physically challenging that bit different than in the past, and Hawaii on July 7 before going to To“It’s not an exciting life that I she would take ice baths between kyo on July 14. Because of COVID-19 I’m totally fine of that,” Chase said. live,” she said. “I do not have a lot “This is our reality. I’m glad to get to the morning and afternoon sessions. restrictions, athletes only will go of time or energy to do the normal go and compete.” between the Olympic Village and 26-year-old things. Nothing we do Her hard work paid off when she the race course, and they will leave here is normal. We’re trying to was given the last seat in the fourTrials and tribulations Japan 48 hours after their competiachieve our dreams and chase gold woman boat. The Olympic team tryouts were tion ends. medals at the Olympics. That can’t the hardest three weeks of her life, “Our coaches have told us that be normal.” SEE CHASE, P19

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“It’s such a weird dynamic,” Chase said. “You’re so happy for yourself, but my heart breaks for my teammates who ended up on the wrong side of things. These are all your friends. I’ve been on the same team with these people for five years. We push each other beyond our limits every single day at practice.” Now she’s preparing to compete against the best in the world, happy that the games have not been canceled by the International Olympic Committee. While the U.S. women have been a rowing powerhouse for many years, it’s been difficult to size up the competition because COVID-19 shut down many meets. “We usually have a sense of how good teams are based off of races and World Cups,” she said. “Who knows what will happen? No one has seen these lineups before.” She noted that the boat she is com-

A dream come true Chase called her 12 years of competitive rowing a long and windy road with the ups, the downs and the injuries, which have made her develop a love/hate relationship for the sport. “I ask myself so many times: `Why couldn’t I have been better at golf?’ Rowing is an endurance sport. We train in grueling long sessions, but the race lasts about six minutes” to row the 2,000-meter racecourse. Yet, “when you get into a boat and it’s just gliding on the water and everyone is moving together, it feels effortless, and there’s no feeling like that. It’s the ultimate team sport. I have played every other sport there is, and there is no sport more team-y than rowing.” She called her teammates gritty with a will to fight to win. So far she has no plans for after the Olympics, though Chase hopes to take some time off to decide if she wants to return to the sport.

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Push to get Conifer a stand-alone library BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Some Conifer residents hope that when the Jefferson County Public Library refreshes its facilities master plan, the community’s chance to get a free-standing library will happen sooner than 2030. The Conifer Area Council, after getting results of its survey about the Conifer Library this spring, asked JCPL to move up the timeline. “The results of the survey indicate that community residents are requesting, would appreciate and benefit from the county accelerating the timeline to build or acquire a stand-alone Conifer library, including it in the 2025-2030 budget plan,” the CAC presentation to the JCPL executive team said. The presentation also asked the JCPL board to start saving money into the 2021-22 budget for a stand-alone Conifer library. The JCPL board did not make that change to its budget but decided to have its staff take a look at the master facilities plan instead. The JCPL facilities master plan currently says that in 2030-32, JCPL will “explore opportunities to relocate the Conifer library to a larger and/or more accessible space.” The 9,000-square-foot Conifer Library has been housed at Conifer High School since the school opened in 1996 and is shared with high school students and staff. In contrast, the Evergreen library, built in 1993, is expected to be upgraded soon, and the Columbine library recently went through a major renova-

tion. These are the two libraries closest to Conifer, and patrons drive there for more comprehensive services. Some also drive to the Bailey library in Park County. The CAC survey found that 93% of 552 respondents wanted a full-service library in a separate building, with the majority saying it could provide longer and more convenient hours, easier access than the steps leading to the high school, and better parking. Currently, the Conifer library is open to the public after school and on weekends. According to the CAC, the Conifer library has been a concern for the Conifer community for decades, motivating the CAC board of directors to conduct the survey. JCPL Executive Director Donna Walker explained that the current facilities master plan uses a countywide space-planning target of 0.5 to 0.6 square feet of branch library space per person living in the area. She said Conifer’s service area has about 10,000 residents, so by that formula, the library was large enough to accommodate the area. But the CAC survey showed that the library’s size wasn’t a concern for respondents. Evergreen’s full-service library has 27,000 square feet of public space for about 30,000 residents in its service area, Walker said. The revised plan, she said, will take into account other data points such as whether people served by smaller libraries like Conifer are getting their share of budget dollars.

In its presentation to the JCPL executive team, the CAC noted that the Conifer library budget was less than 1% of the total JCPL budget. CAC information JCPL will start looking at its facilities master plan this fall. The CAC presentation to the JCPL executive team laid out data about usage and concerns with the Conifer library location. Since the CAC got the survey results, Punky Kiefer, a CAC board member, has been digging into library data in Jeffco and around the state. She noted that Conifer is the only library in Jefferson County that doesn’t have its own building, and most have undergone extensive remodeling since their inception. According to Kiefer, six other public libraries in Colorado share a building with a school, and those libraries give priority to public patrons’ library hours rather than to the schools’ needs. Some designate hours for students or may have separate entrances that accommodate both groups simultaneously. “We found out that all of them prioritize public hours and students accommodate the public,” she said. In addition, Kiefer said, students who use the Conifer library are not included in JCPL’s total count of patron usage, thereby diminishing the statistics about how many use the facility. “Our argument is that if all the kids and teachers who are in there during the day have a library card and have to check out their books through

JCPL, they should be considered JCPL patrons,” she said. Library stance Walker said JCPL had looked at ways to make the Conifer library more accessible by putting in a dropbox in the roundabout in front of the school and adding lockers where people can pick up materials at the Mountain Resource Center. “We are always looking for ways to serve that community,” she said. “We added some hours when we expanded hours across the system.” She noted that in general, people who live in rural and mountain communities drive farther for services, and that included the library. Walker said — and some responses in the CAC survey agreed — that some people like having the partnership between the library and the school district, and that helped make the Conifer library a community center. Walker said that the JCPL staff and board listen to constituents’ opinions and concerns. “It’s a core value for us — we listen deeply — we understand what people are asking for and do our best while being good stewards of taxpayer dollars.” She said she hoped that JCPL would be able to condense the timeline for projects at its facilities as it refreshes its facilities master plan. If our (property tax) funding stays steady,” Walker said, “we can accelerate the facilities master plan and really create libraries for the future cross the entire county.”

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Tree sculpture moves to Mount Evans Hospice officials call the installation a tribute to volunteers BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice’s spirit of giving to the community has been preserved in a sculpture outside its building on Bergen Peak Drive. The “Spirit of Giving” tree sculpture by artist Ted Wilson is dedicated to the volunteers who donate their time to help others, according to Sculpture Evergreen’s President Tricia Rosenthal. “This is the right year to do that,” said Rosenthal of the sculpture that Sculpture Evergreen is purchasing for the Mount Evans offices. “The hospice has done tremendous work to comfort the people who didn’t have anybody who could come and see them (during the pandemic). This is our way of saying thank you for helping everybody through COVID-19.” Sculpture Evergreen is hoping to raise $45,000 to help pay for the sculpture, which joins another permanent sculpture called “Peace” on the hospice grounds. “Spirit of Giving” originally was named “Tree” and stood outside the Evergreen post office for two years. It honors both everyone who embodies the spirit of giving and the memory of Susan Stearns, a community volunteer who died in

WANT TO HELP? To help Sculpture Evergreen raise $45,000 to pay for the “Spirit of Giving,” visit sculptureevergreen.org/fundraisers. php. Donors contributing $5,000 or more will receive an 18-inch replica of the “Spirit of Giving” sculpture. Donors contributing $2,500 or more will be listed on the bronze plaque installed next to the sculpture. January. Stearns spent 25 years on the Mount Evans board of directors and worked part-time as a gift manager, and she also was involved with Blue Spruce Kiwanis, Team Evergreen, Evergreen Sustainability Alliance, Mountain Area Land Trust, Center for the Arts Evergreen and Bootstraps Inc. “The tree represents her and her philosophy of giving,” Keri Jaeger, Mount Evans’ executive director, explained. “She could talk the talk because she walked the walk. She was a special lady.” Jaeger said she was pleased to work with Sculpture Evergreen to add the piece to the Mount Evans property. “From our standpoint, it’s an honor to have the sculpture because if all began with Susan Stearns,” Jaeger said, who noted that Stearns had worked before her death to bring the sculpture to Mount Evans. “The sculpture is a reflection of the entire commu-

The “Spirit of Giving” sculpture now stands in front of Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice. Sculpture Evergreen is raising money to add the sculpture to its permanent PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST collection.

nity.” The sculpture will be surrounded by benches and a small garden to become a place for people to reflect, Jaeger said. “The tree represents qualities

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Wild summer for Jeffco readers Still plenty of time to join Library Summer Challenge BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Registration is still open for Wild Ideas, this year’s theme in the Jeffco Library Summer Challenge. Book lovers of all ages can participate. Simply log onto to www.jeffcolibrary.org and click on the Wild Ideas logo on the home page or call 303235.5275 to sign up. Summer offers kids a great chance to have fun and unwind from school. But there’s also the potential for the summer slide, a phenomenon where kids tend to forget some of what they learned the previous year. According to a Brookings Institute study by David M. Quinn and Morgan Polikoff, students lose more than one month of learning during summer break, with more acute losses for lower-income students. This year, there’s also potential for increased learning losses due to COVID-19 disruptions. In fact, attendance at Jeffco’s Summer of Early Learning (JSEL) literacy program has doubled this year. With that in focus, the Jeffco library thinks reading throughout the summer and completing activities is another way to keep kids’ minds sharp, so they are ready for the next school year. Schools also benefit when you participate in Wild Ideas.

MORE INFO For more info, or to register today, go to jeffcolibrary.org/summer-challenge/ When you register for the Library Summer Challenge, select the school you or your child will be attending. Then, as your kids log their reading and activities, the points will automatically count toward the school competition. “We want to be innovative, resilient, lifelong learners,” said Tobye Ertelt, a digital teaching librarian at Oberon Middle School, one of the winners in last year’s school contest. “The more you read, the more vocabulary you get, the more your brain strengthens. Exercising your brain over the summer is important to keep everything fresh, both for children and adults.” Ertelt and those at Oberon Middle plan to be school contest champions in 2021 and have already promoted the prizes among students. The $800 Oberon won last year went directly back to students with the purchase of student-selected books, including novels, graphic novels, e-books and nonfiction books, for the library to increase excitement about reading. “I am so very proud of our students. They are so dedicated, competitive and excited about the Library Summer Challenge. The school plans to use its win last year to motivate students,” Ertelt said. “We want to stay on top, so we’re going to use that as leverage.”

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Happenings We’d like to know about events or activities of interest to the community. Visit www.canyoncourier.com/ calendar/ and post your event online for free. Items will appear in print on a space-available basis. FRIDAY CAE in the Grove Center for the Arts Evergreen will host three concerts in the grove behind the building, 31880 Rocky Village Drive in Bergen Park. Hazel Miller and the Collective will perform June 25, the Wrecklunds will perform July 30 and Moors & McCumber will. Perform Aug. 25. Tickets are limited to 150 people per concert. Tickets are $25 for a single concert or $60 for all three. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit evergreenarts.org. Patios, Banter and Refreshments The Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce’s PBR — Patios, Banter and Refreshments — will be at 4:30 p.m. Friday, June 25, at Keys on the Green. For more information, visit evergreenchamber.org. SATURDAY Visit Evergreen’s public gardens Members of the Evergreen Garden Club will be available to answer questions at nine public gardens from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 26. Visit evergreengardenclub. org for a list of the gardens and a map or get a flier at each location

with the information. Cars and Coffee Cars and Coffee, a weekly summer outdoor car show, will be from 9 a.m.-noon on Saturdays through Sept. 18 at Olde’s Garage, 3639 Evergreen Parkway. Bring your classic car, super car, hot rod or motorcycle, or stop by to check out the vehicles and speak with owners. The event is free, but donations are accepted. For more information, contact David Taylor with Evergreen Auto Brokers for more information. SATURDAY-SUNDAY Evergreen Mountain Art Celebration The Evergreen Mountain Art Celebration will be from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. June 26-27 in the Evergreen North parking lot between the post office and Bank of the West. More than 60 artists will display their work. For more information, visit www. evergreenmountainartscelebration. com. SUNDAY Blessing of the Animals Church of the Hills will host a Blessing of the Animals service at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 27, at the church, 28628 Buffalo Park Road. Crate, cage or pen your animal, or use a leash, and please don’t bring snakes. Instead of a live pet, you may bring a picture or a stuffed animal. Participants will collect dog

and cat food donations for the Evergreen Animal Protective League. TUESDAY Farmers market • A farmers market will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays through Sept. 28 at Boone Mountain Sports, 2692 Evergreen Parkway. • A farmers market will be from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m. Tuesdays through Aug. 31 at Evergreen Country Day School, 1093 Swede Gulch Road. UPCOMING Evergreen chamber’s monthly mystery mixer The Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce’s monthly mystery mixer will be at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 30, at locations to be announced. For more information, visit evergreenchamber.org. Free legal clinic A free legal clinic for people with no attorney will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, July 1. By telephone, volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms, and explain the process and procedure for all areas of civil litigation. Pre-registration for individual 15-minute appointments is available by emailing evergreenvpc@gmail. com with your name and a phone number, so you can be added to the sign-up sheet. Patios, Banter and Refreshments

The Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce’s PBR — Patios, Banter and Refreshments — will be at 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 2, at El Rancho Brewing. For more information, visit evergreenchamber.org. Flower First Friday outdoor market The Flower First Friday outdoor market will be from 4-8 p.m. Friday, July 2, at Flower A Hair Studio in Adobe Creek, 26290 Highway 74 in Kittredge. There will be local artisans, food and music. Freedom Run The Freedom Run 5K to benefit Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice will begin at 8 a.m. on July 4 at Evergreen Middle School and end at Nick’s Pro Fitness. For more information and to register, visit freedomrunrace.org.

Evergreen Music Festival Evergreen Music Festival on July 4 will be 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Buchanan fields. Tickets are $25, and proceeds are donated to the Evergreen High School performing arts program. For more information, visit evergreenmusicfestival.org. Indian Hills July 4 parade The Indian Hills July 4 celebration on Parmalee Gulch Road near Fire Station 1 begins with a pancake breakfast from 7-11 a.m., a 5k fun run from 8-10:30 a.m. with the parade beginning at 11 a.m. For more information, visit ihfr.org. SEE HAPPENINGS, P25

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Milestones GOOD FOR YOU The Colorado Foothills Chapter of the National Charity League is celebrating the achievements of its senior class. NCL is a mother/ daughter organization that embraces leadership, philanthropy and culture. Over the last six years, these young women have volunteered more than 1,946 hours in the community, and during their senior years, they volunteered more than 750 hours to philanthropies. They are Ruiri Brown, Mackenzie Campbell, Morgan Cook, Greta Fleck, Kathryn Hays, Sallie Markey, Paige McCartney, Lexi Merrill, Madison Merrill, Sidney Parker, Annika Rose, Hannah Synchef and Avery Westgard.

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Conifer chamber membership meeting The Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce will meet both virtually and in-person from 7:30-9 a.m. Friday, July 9. The in-person meeting will be at the Woodlands, 8884 U.S. 285 in Morrison. Cost for members is $5 for the meeting only or $15 with a pre-ordered breakfast burrito, and cost for nonmembers is $10 for the meeting only and $20 with a pre-ordered breakfast burrito. Visit goconifer.com for more information and to register.

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Nature Center, library children’s story time Evergreen Nature Center and the Evergreen Library are joining together to offer story time for young children at the Evergreen Nature Center on July 14 and Aug. 11. In addition to stories about nature, there will be songs, games and crafts. Story time is free, but registration is required. Visit www. EvergreenAudubon.org/Events for more information and to register.

EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS Isabel Arnold of Evergreen was named to the spring 2021 dean’s list at LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. The dean’s list recognizes students who have achieved a GPA between 3.5 and 3.99 for the semester. Arnold is a mechanical engineering major. Three area students were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2021 semester at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Students on the dean’s list have a GPA of 3.5 or better. They are Macy Clem of Conifer, Riley Capps of Evergreen and Teagan McDonald of Morrison. Maia Clayton of Evergreen and Natalie Walsh of Golden were named to the dean’s list for the

spring 2021 semester at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Those named to the dean’s list have a 3.6 or better GPA. Jonathan Fossel of Evergreen was named to the dean’s list, achieving the dean’s highest honors, at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, for the spring 2021 semester. Eliza Tilson from Evergreen recently graduated from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Science degree. Kaitlyn Doyle of Evergreen was named to the provost’s honor roll for the spring 2021 semester at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. Students on the provost’s honor roll must have a GPA of

Evergreen Lake concert series The Evergreen Park & Recreation District’s summer concert series will be July 14, July 28 and Aug. 11 at Evergreen Lake. For more information, visit evergreenrecreation. com.

Nature Center needs volunteers Evergreen Nature Center is recruiting volunteers for the summer season to meet the public and share information about wildlife and ecology, contact Emma Vasicek, education and outreach director, at EOD@EvergreenAudubon.org. Training is provided, and hours are flexible. For more information, visit www.EvergreenAudubon.org

Next Gen Connects The Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce’s Next Gen Connects will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 15, on the patio at the Stone House. For more information, visit evergreenchamber.org. Elevation Celebration The Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce’s Elevation Celebration will be July 24-25 along Sutton Road in Aspen Park. Visit goconifer.com for more information. ONGOING Evergreen Nature Center opens The Evergreen Nature Center in the historic warming hut on Evergreen Lake is open Wednesdays through Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. this summer. For more information, visit www.EvergreenAudubon.org.

Hiwan Museum reopens for tours The Hiwan Museum is resuming tours of the historic log house, located at 28473 Meadow Drive in Evergreen. Tour guides will share the history of the house and its occupants, followed by an abbreviated walk-through of the log home. Masks and distancing are required, and tours will be offered on the hour and will be limited to four people per tour. Group tours will not be offered. The museum is open from noon-4 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and noon-4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Nesting boxes for sale Evergreen Audubon is selling nest boxes, also known as bird houses, made in Evergreen. Boxes come

3.75 or better. Sierra Natzke of Pine graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration during commencement ceremonies in May from the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. Katherine Hood of Evergreen was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2021 semester at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. Students on the dean’s list have a 3.0 or better GPA. Hood is a a student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Marissa Hoerman of Evergreen was named to the honors list for the spring 2021 semester at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. The top 25 percent of undergraduate students qualify for the honors list. with installation instructions, and if you have any problems or questions, you can contact a local expert through the Audubon website. For more information and to purchase, visit www.evergreenaudubon.org. Mountain Foothills Rotary meetings Mountain Foothills Rotary meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays both in person at Mount Vernon Canyon Club at 24933 Club House Circle, Genesee, andvia Zoom. Join the Zoom meeting at https://us02web. zoom.us/j/81389224272, meeting ID 813 8922 4272, phone 346-248-7799. College Age Community Resilience1220 has started a support group called College Age Community that meets from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. For information and the Zoom link, email lior@ wisetreewellness.com.

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Wood-fired pizza comes to Evergreen Evergreen has a new pizza place — though soon it will be much more than that. Campfire Evergreen in the former Da Kind Soups building on Meadow Drive serves food cooked with, as owner Jared Leonard puts it, live fire. Currently, the restaurant is serving pizzas on its outdoor patio that are ready in about 10 minutes. Soon, it will add barbecue and rotisserie chicken. This is the 10th restaurant for Leonard and his wife Amanda, who have lived in Evergreen for four years. “This is where I live, and I wanted to do something that was a passion project,” he said. “When I saw this building, I knew it was perfect to manage the size restaurant I do.” He envisions a children’s play area in the back and more as the restaurant continues to develop. He explained that cooking with live fire adds a character to the food that you don’t get with other cooking methods. The restaurant will use local vegetables when in season. Evergreen has given the new eatery a warm welcome, Leonard said. Campfire was named one of the “10 new Denver-area restaurants to start your summer wanderlust” by the Denver Post. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. See the menu and more details at www.campfireevergreen.com. It’s easy to compost with Purple Bucket If you think composting food scraps is smelly and messy, Purple Bucket Compost in Bailey has news for you: It’s neither of those. The family-run business that started in February is offering composting options for residents and businesses along the 285 Corridor. If you’re willing to drive to one of the two drop-off composting locations, anyone in the foothills is welcome to get involved. Corey and Amber McCool have a backyard farm at their home in Bailey where they compost, particularly to get rid of the straw in their barn. Corey got the idea to expand the com-

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posting into a business. “I get an idea and tend to run with it,” Corey said. “We had the support from our neighbors, and before we knew it, it had legs.” Amber said she was apprehensive about starting the business, thinking it would be smelly and messy, but she’s been pleasantly surprised. “Before we knew it, our whole family started doing it,” she said. “Now I’m into it. It’s been good.” Their children, Declan, 12, and Olivia, 9, are part of the business — washing buckets and stirring the compost piles. Purple Bucket offers two options: a delivery service or a self-service option at its locations at Kings Emporium in Conifer and at the Bailey Feed Store. The McCools plan to provide customers with some of the compost once it has “cooked,” as Corey put it. So far, the service has collected 2,200 pounds of compost that was kept out of a landfill, a main goal for the McCools. The list of acceptable items is narrow to keep critters out of the compost piles and to make the compost odorless, and the McCools provide lists of accepted and not accepted items. For example, meat, animal waste, dairy, fat, seeds and more are not allowed.

The buckets have airtight seals to ensure odors don’t get out. Why purple buckets? “Every other color we looked at had been used to represent something already,” Corey said. “Red for biohazard, orange for Home Depot, green for recycling, etc. Purple was readily available and didn’t represent anything, and it’s eye-catching sitting curbside. Then we named (the business) accordingly so no one would have to ask, `What’s that compost company with the purple buckets called?’” The Nature Link offers art, nature programs What do you do when you have degrees in both ceramics and biological sciences? You open The Nature Link, a combination of nature programs, art programs and nature/art programs for children and adults. Owner Dina Baker, who might be familiar to some because she had worked at the Evergreen Audubon Nature Center, has been t these types of programs, but now she has a location in Kings Valley that has a pottery studio, general art studio and a gallery. The space has been open officially for a week. “There’s a lot going on here,” she

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explained. “It’s a blending of my love of nature and art. I’m basically like a giant 5-year-old and doing all my favorite things.” She takes children and adults along with her on her artistic/nature journeys, offering camps, nature walks, open studio time for adults, art classes, adult-child programming and more. She is searching for more instructors, so she can offer more classes. The website, thenaturelink.com, lists the The Nature Link’s offerings. “I’m starting with the basics and then building the programming,” she said.

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Colorado Symphony plans in-person season September will be start of 49 live indoor concerts BY MAGGIE DONAHUE DENVERITE

Colorado Symphony has announced its 2021-22 season. Starting in September, the orchestra will perform 49 live indoor concerts featuring a lineup of renowned guest artists at Boettcher Concert Hall in downtown Denver. The season is the orchestra’s first regular programming since COVID-19 closures began in 2020. In the last year and a half, the orchestra has put on several virtual performances and played 18 live shows at Red Rocks. Members have also performed in small ensemble concerts at venues like the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Evenings Al Fresco, the Denver Performing Arts Complex Galleria and Denver Zoo. The season will open Sept. 1719 with a guest performance by Grammy-winning pianist Emanuel Ax, who will join the orchestra to perform pieces like Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto, Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. This year, the orchestra plans to highlight talented and diverse composers, guest performers, soloists and conductors, including music by women composers Clarise Assad, Gabriela Lena Frank, Joan Towers, Jessie Montgomery and Florence Price. “As we look ahead to the return of normal in-hall operations, we’re excited to build on the successes

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we’ve enjoyed over the past decade by coming out of this pandemic with renewed energy and purpose,” said Anthony Pierce, the orchestra’s chief artistic officer. “This season will be a true celebration for our musicians and patrons alike, providing live symphonic music and shared concert experiences that will be thrilling for people of all ages.” Guests can buy season subscriptions now, as well as “Flex Passes,” or

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Nov. 19-21: Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 with Natasha Paremski Dec. 3-5: Elgar Enigma Variations Jan. 7-9: Marin Alsop conducts This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affiliated with CPR News. Used by permission. For more, and to support Denverite, visit denverite.com.

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Casa Bonita opens for guided tours No food yet, but still surprisingly satisfying BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The fountain in front is dry, but the doors are open. Familiar sounds of mariachi music are piped through speakers in the ceiling, and strings of flicker lights illuminate the faux Mexican village facades. Free tours are being offered at Casa Bonita every hour from 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and until 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. There are t-shirts and trinkets available near the entrance, but the real draw is a chance to see a place so intertwined with Colorado lore in a way you’ve never seen it before— empty. There’s a strong smell — (cleaning fluid?) when I enter on this particular day. Perhaps it’s just the smell of a building that’s been closed to the public for more than a year. Workers, some in knee-high rubber boots, make their way to and fro. There are an impressive 16 people, mostly tourists, waiting to go on the 2 o’ clock Friday tour — five of which are surprisingly patient children who appear to be somewhere between 7 and 11-years old. A charming Sheriff, complete with hat, sidearm, badge and friendly smile leads the tour. She has a thorough knowledge of Casa Bonita history and trivia. The tower, for those who don’t know, is 85 feet tall. We’re warned before embarking on the tour that it will take at least 30 minutes but in reality it took closer to an hour. Even for those who’ve been to Casa Bonita several times, the enormity of the structure, 52,000 square feet, is hard to describe. To say there’s too much information given wouldn’t be fair, but details are covered in, well, great detail, including the process for ordering food (when the restaurant is open). By the way, the waterfall is 30 feet high, for those keeping score, al-

A view from the Casa Bonita tour.

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loose with a rip roaring ‘Yee Haw’ to prove it works. It works remarkably well. Faux rocks that make up large amounts of the place were made from chicken wire and concrete. The sheriff says they took a year to construct before being installed in the restaurant, which had been a Joslin’s retail store in a previous lifetime. The pool, 14 feet deep, is filled but not running on this day. In the past, divers are said to have made their jumps from 30 feet in the air, but the sheriff says a recent visit from safety inspectors put an end to that. They do, however, still dive from 25 feet above the pool — a respectable feat for a suburban strip-mall restaurant next door to a dentist’s office. At Black Bart’s hideout, the kids make a beeline for the legendary

glowing skull. The adults meander over to check out the puppet show. The sheriff happily obliges anyone who wants a photo. The theater, hidden away on the lower level, seats over 150 people and is said by the sheriff, to be haunted. Years ago, a server named Hector suffered a heart attack and met his demise in the room. “And ever since, his footsteps are known to be heard by other servers who work in the room on dimly-lit occasions,” she said. If you’re a football fan, you may be interested to know the Broncos held their 2011 draft in the theater. A Lakewood institution since 1974, the sheriff says they plan to reopen for dining and entertainment under new management, but with the same owners, in September.

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Fee increases will pay for highway projects Polis signs transportation bill that adds to costs of gasoline, rideshares

COMMISSIONER MARLIN ON THE BILL Among the visiting dignitaries at the June 17 transportation bill signing by Gov. Jared Polis, one was more at home than the others. Clear Creek County Commissioner George Marlin, standing on the banks of Clear Creek, underneath the aging I-70 overpass, said he found the choice of location for the signing to be quite apt.

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

FLOYD HILL — Shaded by an Interstate 70 bridge that has fueled steering-wheel-pounding rage for generations, Gov. Jared Polis on June 17 signed a transportation fee and spending bill that seeks to inject more than $5 billion into Colorado road and transit projects over the next 11 years. “Everybody knows we need to fix it,” Polis said of Colorado’s road and highway system before signing Senate Bill 260 under the curved I-70 bridge at the bottom of Floyd Hill, a structure over Clear Creek that chokes traffic and ruins the best-laid plans of skiers, snowboarders, hikers and bikers every weekend. “If it was easy it would have been done already.” Colorado lawmakers have been trying to solve the problem of the state’s limited transportation funding for years, proposing tax hikes and bonding and committing more existing money from the state budget to the problem. But the efforts to find money in the couch cushions to supplement a 22-cent gasoline tax that hasn’t increased since 1992 have either not been successful or not been sufficient to tackle the breadth of the issue.

“We’re standing at a great example of what happens when you neglect infrastructure,” Marlin said, pointing to wooden support struts used to shore up the old bridges.

Gov. Jared Polis announces Colorado’s new transportation law while standing in the shadow of Interstate 70 on June 17. PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL/THE COLORADO SUN

Senate Bill 260 was Democrats’ solution to the funding gridlock, allowing them to raise money without voter approval. Fees under the measure begin next year. They include: • 2 cents per gallon on gasoline and diesel fuel starting in July 2022 that increases 1 cent every year up to 8 cents • 27 cents on deliveries, including those from Amazon, FedEx and Grubhub • 30 cents on Uber and Lyft rides starting in 2022 that would increase based on the federal Consumer Price Index. The fee would be cut in half for people carpooling in a rideshare, or riding in an electric vehicle. In addition to the funding mechanisms in the measure, there are

also requirements that the Colorado Department of Transportation take greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals into account when planning future projects. State officials also must consider the impact of transportation work on communities where low-income people, minorities or housing-cost-burdened families make up 40% of the population under the new law. Finally, the bill emphasizes — and spends money on — an electric-vehicle future, as well as mass transit, including a potential Front Range passenger rail system. 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.

Marlin said Clear Creek is at the nexus of the issues around transportation infrastructure and climate change. “If you live in Clear Creek, you should get excited about a little less congestion, about less air pollution and getting more electric vehicles on the road to make highway noise a bit less,” he said while a steady stream of semi trucks rumbled overhead. Marlin said that after watching so many statewide transportation efforts fail in recent years, he saw the threat of areas like the Denver metro area breaking off to create a “Balkanization of funding solutions” that would likely leave smaller communities and counties without a say and without funding. “I’m grateful we found a solution that kept us at the table.”

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Collaboration in Jeffco Schools’ summer programs Community partners pitch in to make sure students can recover from the unusual year BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As the 2020-21 school year drew to a close, a number of community organizations were concerned that summer supports for students would need to be more robust than ever to give students who struggled through COVID-19 disruptions and remote learning a fair chance to stay on track. Angela Baber, executive director of the Jeffco Schools Foundation, worked with many of them. The excitement in her voice was palpable when she spoke about summer collaborations between community partners and the district. She said the Jeffco K-12 Students Learning and Support Collaborative, a group of 60-70 community partners, was invested in finding solutions around summer supports for Jeffco students. Annual programs like Jeffco’s Summer of Early Learning and high school credit recovery had been planned before, but the district was leaving other summer support programs up to individual schools, in hopes those schools could best assess students’ needs. “JSEL, at that point in time, three months ago, had the lowest enrollment it had ever seen. So, we really pulled together and started pushing to find out why,” Baber said. “And then district leadership and Dr. Susan Leach (Jeffco’s chief student success officer) came into that conversation. Within a span of a month, we went from JSEL being offered at seven physical locations and one online site to double the capacity of enrollment we’ve

ever seen in the history of JSEL and expansion geographically to double the physical sites.” Community partners like The Action Center were invited to pitch in across the six-week long programs at each of the physical JSEL sites, providing direct supports like fresh groceries, produce, King Soopers gift cards and low-income internet assistance to students. In addition, Baber said that although grade levels for JSEL itself which focuses on reading for K-3 students haven’t expanded, JSEL-relevant curriculum for grades 4 and 5 are being offered at JSEL locations and may be looked at as a pilot program for summer supports in future years. Academics are not the only area of concern following this year like no other. Social and emotional supports have also been top of mind for many. When asked for an interview with decision-makers about summer support programs, the district instead, agreed to provide written answers to direct questions.In their written response to questions about the availability of social/emotional supports, the district said: “Many of the programs offered for middle- and high- school level students have a social emotional/mental health component.” As for emotional supports during the district’s upcoming Jump Start programs, the response was: “School Social Emotional Liaisons are part of the planning teams for Jump Start, so intentional integration of social emotional learning skills will be part of the daily curriculum.” When asked about benchmarks or metrics community partners who received federal Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds would need to meet, the district’s response read: “Metrics for measuring effectiveness were developed by our research and assessment team.

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All programs (credit recovery, transition, intervention) will be measured using attendance data, a student pre/post survey, and a parent post survey. For the ninth12th grade credit recovery programs, we will also measure credits earned/recovered. And for the academic intervention programs, we will measure using Spring 2021 to Fall 2021 MAP data.” One of the recipients of ESSER funds from the district is Edgewater Collective. Executive Director Joel Newton said from the beginning, Edgewater Collective’s mission has been to bring people together to solve big issues in Edgewater. Newton said they’ve been working with schools in the Jefferson Jr/Sr High School area since 2013, so it came naturally to them to step in to help with summer supports. He said when COVID hit, the relationships they had built over the last several years had given them a great starting point to implement different supports for students and families. Last summer, his organization put on a “Lunch and Learn” program, pairing food support with a literacy program. That lead to an enrichment program during the school year called “Pathway Pods.” “Then, in December 2020, we began to think about the summer — the Jefferson Success Academy grew out of those conversations because we’d always wanted to do a summer program for incoming fourth through sixth graders — that was in addition to JSEL,” he said. “So, we started planning that in December to really focus on providing academic support for students, paired with enrichment, for a six-week program.” The Jefferson Success Academy program operates during the same days, times and dates as JSEL and offers students an hour each of literacy, math and enrichment, every day. It is being held at Edgewater Elementary.

Newton said a program called I-Ready allows them to assess student needs and fill in gaps where needed. Teachers from Jeffco and other districts, along with paraprofessionals from Edgewater area elementary schools, provide the academic instruction. Enrichment (art programming) is taught by a Denver group called Museo de las Americas. The program also provides physical education and STEM activities. Noah Atencio is vice president of community impact of the Community First Foundation. He said they too got involved with the district as a result of the pandemic. They also gave out more than $400,000 in grants to a number of organizations including Edgewater Collective. Atencio said as the end of the school year approached, it seemed to him that everyone was feeling tension over what was going to happen for students — not around the district’s plans, but a general tension of emerging from COVID with a sense of uncertainty as people started to receive vaccinations and things started opening up again. He credits Baber for inviting district leadership to meet with community partners, spurring the expansion of JSEL and fleshing out programs for older elementary students, allowing for more of a one-stop approach. Atencio said the summer response feels organized and acknowledged the hard work it’s taken to get to this point. He said if actions speak louder than words, new Superintendent Tracy Dorland’s level of engagement in a recent K-12 Collaborative meeting gives him a clear indication that she’s interested in working within the community. Jump Start programs are set to begin the week of Aug. 2. Jeffco’s 2021-22 school year will begin Aug. 17.

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Pitching in to keep Jeffco’s summer learners fed The Action Center, one of many community partner organizations getting it done for students. BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

“We have a Jefferson Countywide collaborative effort to feed kids and families that are participating in the Jeffco enhanced learning program this summer,” said Carolyn Alexander, Senior Director of Operations for The Action Center. “There are 15 sites doing enhanced sum-

mer learning and we have over 10 agencies that are participating and getting free groceries out to those 15 (school) sites.” Alexander, busy with the morning’s food distribution operation, talks about the program as she moves through the parking lot of the Lakewood church where food is being boxed and separated. The food will soon be picked up from this site and driven to participating schools. “Food Bank of the Rockies has a free food program that they’ve been enhancing over the last several months. So, non-perishable goods like soup, pasta, rice — things like that are coming from Food Bank of the Rockies as part of that program,”

she says. “And the school district added $25,000 and we’ve added up to $25,000 for buying some of the food. And another agency, Jeffco Eats, added some money into it (the program) as well.” In the boxes this day, aside from the non-perishables, recipients will find Colorado ground beef, frozen sausage, cooking oil and string cheese that had been purchased to add some protein variety to staples that are normally given out. Alexander said some weeks there will be eggs and milk as they try to enhance the typical non-perishable (rice, beans etc.) offerings. The boxes also contain fresh fruits and vegetables. “It’s not a huge amount of food per family,” she said. “But it’s a

well-rounded amount of food per family.” The $25,000 kicked in by the District is from federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds, intended to offset COVIDrelated deficiencies. Alexander said she thinks there are low-income folks and people in need in every Jeffco school, when asked about a stack of food boxes headed to South Jeffco’s Leawood Elementary. The difference between schools, she says, is the percentage of students on free and reduced lunch, noting that even schools that traditionally have smaller free and reduced populations have been affected over the past year.

Masterpiece Cakeshop loses transgender birthday case Owner says he will appeal judge’s ruling BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lakewood’s Masterpiece Cakeshop is back in the news — this time, for refusing to make a cake for transgender attorney Autumn Scardina. In the case, Denver District Court Judge A. Bruce Jones ruled last week that the cake shop violated Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) by refusing to bake a blue and pink birthday cake Scardina ordered to celebrate her transition from male to female. Scardina attempted to order the birthday cake the same day in 2017

that the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear Masterpiece Cakeshop’s owner Jack Phillips’ appeal in a different case in which he was sanctioned by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for refusing to make a wedding cake for same-sex couple Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins in 2012. In 2018, Phillips partially prevailed in that case when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed anti-religious bias when it sanctioned him for refusing to make the samesex wedding cake. The Scardina case was conducted virtually in March 2021. During the hearing, Scardina said Phillips had maintained that, as a Christian, he opposed making the same-sex wed-

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ding cake in 2012 because it involved a religious ceremony but would sell any other type of product. Scardina said she called Masterpiece Cakeshop to place her order for the transgender birthday cake as a way to call Phillips’ bluff. In his decision, Jones reasoned that baking and decorating the requested style of cake was not a form of compelled speech. Therefore, the cake shop, and the cake decorator do not have a valid First Amendment claim that outweighs CADA’s anti-discrimination provisions. He also stated the average person would perceive the message presented by the cake to be Scardina’s, not that of the cake decorator. “The anti-discrimination laws are intended to ensure that members of

our society who have historically been treated unfairly, who have been deprived of even the every-day right to access businesses to buy products, are no longer treated as ‘others,’” the judge wrote. “This case is about one such product — a pink and blue birthday cake — and not compelled speech.” Jones ordered Masterpiece Cakeshop to pay Scardina $500 — the largest fine the statute allows, for refusing to make her cake as requested. The newspaper contacted Phillips for comment. He declined but provided contact information for his attorney to make arrangements for an interview. At press time, an interview has not been scheduled.

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WORSHIP DIRECTORY ASCENT CHURCH 29823 Troutdale Scenic Drive in Evergreen Join us in person for Worship Services on Sundays at 10:00am Kids church for nursery to 3 year old offered Sunday Forge Student Ministry for Middle thru High School 5:30-7:00pm contactus@ascentchurch.co/www.AscentChurch.co Live streaming services at 10:00am at www.facebook.com/WeLoveEvergreen

CHURCH OF THE CROSS Please join us for Sunday Worship at https://facebook.com/EvergreenChurchoftheCross 8:30am Traditional Service 10:30am Contemporary Service Communion is served every Sunday at both services. All are welcome! Visit our website at www.l-c-c.org for info on church activities. 28253 Meadow Drive, Evergreen • 303-674-4130

BERGEN PARK CHURCH Saturday 5:30pm, Sunday 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:00am We are here to love God and to love people, and to serve those who make our communities better. A Gospel Centered Church 31919 Rocky Village Dr. 303-674-5484 info@bergenparkchurch.org / www.BergenParkChurch.org

CHURCH OF THE HILLS PRESBYTERIAN (USA) Worship 10:00 a.m. Reverend Susan P. Boucher Office Hours: Mon 9:00-5:00; Tu-Thur 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. Buffalo Park Road and Hwy 73 www.churchofthehills.com

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH SERVICES 28244 Harebell Lane Sunday Service & Sunday School 10am Wednesday Evening ZOOM Meeting 7:30pm Contact: clerk@christianscienceevergreen.com for ZOOM link Reading Room 4602 Pletner Lane, Unit 2E, Evergreen Open Tues - Thurs - Fri 10am-4pm, Wed 12-6 Sat 12-3pm

CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION EPISCOPAL In-Church Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m. All services are also on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86017266569 2nd Sunday of the month at 9:30 a.m. services will be in our Meadow --June through September-27640 Highway 74 - ¼ mile east of downtown Evergreen at the Historic Bell Tower www.transfigurationevergreen.org CONGREGATION BETH EVERGREEN (SYNAGOGUE) Reconstructionist Synagogue Rabbi Jamie Arnold www.BethEvergreen.org / (303) 670-4294 2981 Bergen Peak Drive (behind Life Care)

CONIFER CHURCH OF CHRIST PLATTE CANYON COMMUNITY CHURCH “Doing Bible Things in Bible Ways” Located at 4954 Co Rd 64 in Bailey, Office hours M-F 8am-2pm, New Location: Green Valley Center (Corner of Springs Road and Hwy. 285) 303-838-4409. Worship & Children’s Church at 10am, Small Group Studies Sun: 9:00a.m. Bible Study-10:00a.m. Worship; Wed: Bible Study 7:00p.m. for all ages at 9am, Nursery provided. Pastor Dr. Larry Kalb, Youth Pastor Jay Vonesh, Discipleship Pastor Terry Rogers. Other activities: Choir, Youth, Men’s/Women’s ministries, Bible Studies, VBS, MOPS, Cub/Boy Scouts. EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) 27772 Iris Drive, Evergreen - 303-674-3413 www.EvergreenChristianChurch.org - eccdoc01@gmail.com Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m., with communion every Sunday ROCKLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH We are an inclusive faith community and welcome you to join us “Connecting all generations to Jesus” in our new ministry journey. Please check our website, www.Rockland.church, for updated service times ¼ mile north of I-70 at exit 254 17 S Mt. Vernon Country Club Rd., Golden, CO 80401 EVERGREEN LUTHERAN CHURCH 303-526-0668 5980 Highway 73 + 303-674-4654 The Rev. Vera Guebert-Steward, Pastor Join us for Virtual Worship on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EvergreenLutheranChurch TIMBER RIDGE CHURCH Sunday Worship uploaded by 10am. Location: The Village at Aspen Park www.evergreenlutheran.org + All Are Welcome! 25587 Conifer Rd. Unit 5A201 (2nd floor - above the UPS Store) Sunday Worship 10:00 am www.timberridgechurchconifer.org • 303-834-3577 MOUNT HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH - LCMS 30571 Chestnut Drive ~ (303)670-1387 UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF EVERGREEN Sunday Worship 9:00am • Education for All 10:30am Rev. Deb Olenyik • 303.674.4810 • www.evergreenumc.org Rev. Carl Frank, Pastor www.mounthopelutheranlcms.org 3757 Ponderosa Dr. across Hwy 74 from Safeway in Evergreen Join us in person every Sunday at 8:30am and 10:30am for live worship Please join us online every Sunday at 9am at our website for a new worship experience. “Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds”

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originate? 10. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president received the Secret Service code name “General”? Answers 1. Boston 2. 1954 3. Gary Sinise 4. Fear of dancing 5. Cape Town

6. FAMOUS QUOTES: Who wrote this about fleeting summer, “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date”?

6. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

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8. Orange

8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the color papaya?

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7. Auditory nerve 9. North Carolina

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Public Notices call Bobi 303.659.2522 Legals City and County Jefferson County Press Listing Expenditures For 06/04/2021-06/10/2021 Bokf Na Dba Bok Financial Mortgage Recording/ Elections 10.00 Bretz Rv & Marine Motor Vehicle Overpayments 1,200.25 David Layle Robb Motor Vehicle Overpayments 318.30 David Roy Jackson Motor Vehicle Overpayments 8.20 Dylan Drury Motor Vehicle Overpayments 75.00 Elk Creek Sand & Gravel Llc Recording/Elections 40.00 James Meyer Recording/Elections 10.00 Kevin Dwayne Tillman Motor Vehicle Overpayments 94.21 Lf Wholesale Auto Sales Llc Motor Vehicle Overpayments 27.00 Lien Release Recording/Elections 10.00 Marty Marcely Motor Vehicle Overpayments 63.62 Olivia Tara Estrada Motor Vehicle Overpayments 68.06 Partner Colorado Credit Union Motor Vehicle Overpayments 30.77 Rebecca Romero Motor Vehicle Overpayments 84.17 Rockwall Ford Motor Vehicle Overpayments 1,593.70 Rosalena Angel Olivares Motor Vehicle Overpayments 68.06 Therese A Petersen Motor Vehicle Overpayments 24.95 William Loren Byers Jr Motor Vehicle Overpayments 719.28 Clerk & Recorder Custodial Fund Total 4,445.57 Alkamie Llc Consultant Services 1,025.00 Alpine Disposa Inc Trash Removal Services 370.00 Anderson County Sheriff Texas Legal Services 100.00 Aramark Correctional Services Llc Contract Services 19,179.06 Arrowhead Landscape Services Inc Lawn & Grounds Maintenance 796.01 At&T Mobility Telephone Services 1,234.48 At&T Mobility Wireless Service 89.33 At&T Mobility Maintenance Agreement 1,243.00 Baker, Keren Board Meetings Expense 15.00 Bob Barker Company Inc Hygiene Supplies 505.44 Brinks Inc Armored Car Services 650.39 Brinks Inc Procurement Card Clearing 1,951.17 Brittney Zena Rieveld Telephone Services 52.99 Client Payment Trial Expense 327.70 Colo State University Extension Contract Services 79,601.14 Colo State University Extension Vehicle Repair & Maintenance 30.00 Colo State University Extension Mileage 50.16 Colorado Bureau Of Investigation Records/Permit Disbursement-Cbi 25,119.00 Colorado Community Medi Public Notices 50.36 Commercial Flooring Services Inc Building Maintenance 61,239.15 Consolidated Mutual Water Company Water& Sanitation Services 228.00 Cps Distributors Lawn & Grounds Supplies 14,881.27 Cps Distributors Contract Services 2,475.00 Drug Techs Llc Medical Services 508.51 Employee Loan Solution Llc True Connect Loans 503.59 Ergonomic Innovations Llc Furniture & Equipment - Non Capital 371.00 Erin Margaret Smith Mileage 12.10 Evergreen Oil Company Professional & Technical Services (Other) 517.80 Express Services Inc Contract Services 939.60 Fitness Tech Inc Equipment Maintenance 200.00 Foothills Animal Shelter Due To Pet Data-Animal Licenses305.00 Front Range Legal Process Service Llc Litigation Support Services 125.00 Galls Llc Police Supplies 10,245.96 Gfl Environmental Trash Removal Services193.00 Grainger Police Supplies 80.00 Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corp Heat & Power 38,370.14 Ground Engineering Consultants Inc Building Maintenance 233.50 Guenter Hackl Revenue Refunds 765.25 Haselden Construction Llc Building Maintenance 54,613.97 Hc Peck & Associates Inc Deed Title Search Clearing 1,750.00 High View WateDist Water& Sanitation Services 558.27 Insight Public Sector Inc Maintenance Agreement 5,359.22 Insight Public Sector Inc Software Maintenance Agreement 32,814.42 Intermountain Safety Shoes Safety Supplies 125.00 Intervention Community Corrections Svc Contract Services 540.00 Intervention Inc Contract Services 3,640.00 Intervention Inc Miscellaneous Contract Services 25,630.00 Jaime Brower Psychological Services Medical

Services 600.00 Jeremy T Cohen Mileage 90.61 Job Store Inc, The Consultant Services 4,050.00 Job Store Inc, The Contract Services 2,405.16 Joy Dawn Hiraki Telephone Services 54.28 Kenny Davis Revenue Refunds 765.25 Kishinevsky, Tatyana Services & Charges (Other) 270.00 Kleen Tech Services Corp Miscellaneous Contract Services 5,741.18 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 389.02 Lynn Peavy Company Inc Police Supplies 775.05 Major, Alejandra Board Meetings Expense 15.00 Masters Touch Llc, The Postage 2,649.61 Metlife Home And Auto Insurance 4,058.77 Miklos, Mary Board Meetings Expense 15.00 Miller, Randi J Autopsy Services 1,560.00 Mythics Inc Maintenance Agreement 159.07 Namaste Solar Electric Inc Equipment Maintenance 750.00 Nicoletti Flater Assoc Services & Charges (Other) 775.00 Output Services Inc Postage 15,300.00 Premium Auto Glass Commercial Repairs 720.56 Pts Of America Llc Extradition Travel 23,407.00 Rental Services Inc Professional & Technical Services (Other) 378.00 Rocky Mountain Bottled Water Services & Charges (Other) 50.85 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Child Care 3,749.49 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 17,830.81 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Transportation 169.23 Scl Health Autopsy Services 1,097.30 Scl Health Medical Services 333.00 Shirley Septic Pumping Inc Water& Sanitation Services 345.00 Shred It Denver Miscellaneous Contract Services 30.00 Skelton, Mark Board Meetings Expense 15.00 Skelton, Michael Board Meetings Expense 15.00 Smiths Detection Inc Security Services 21,206.00 Source Office Products Office Supplies 2,782.53 Ssc Hospitality Revenue Refunds 512.50 Summit Pathology Laboratories Inc Autopsy Services 920.40 T Mobile Telephone Services 3,334.68 Tforce Postage 151.89 Tim Stein Revenue Refunds 76.88 United Power Inc Heat & Power 154.92 United Site Services Hygiene Supplies 692.05 United Site Services Of Colorado Inc Hygiene Supplies 1,226.55 Varidesk Llc Furniture & Equipment - Non Capital 49.50 Verizon Wireless Telephone Services 249.51 Vision Graphics Inc Printing Services 5,094.30 Waste Management Trash Removal Services 45.50 Waste Management Of Colo Inc Trash Removal Services 500.00 Western Paper Distributors Inc Janitorial Supplies 4,667.32 Western Paper Distributors Inc Office Supplies 143.18 Western Paper Distributors Inc Hygiene Supplies 1,731.08 Western Paper Distributors IncMedical Supplies/ Drugs 9,623.40 Westminster, City Of Services & Charges (Other) 23,039.00 Wiss Janney Elstner Associates Inc Building Maintenance 1,478.75 Wright Express Fsc Fuel 9.41 Wright Pest Control Inc Maintenance Agreement 720.00 Xcel Energy Heat & Power 31741.46 Zayo Group Llc Telephone Services 2,399.40 General Fund Total 590,729.43 Plum Laboratories Inc Computer Equipment 8,910.25 Professional Psychology Associates Pc Miscellaneous Contract Services 20,505.68 General Fund Grants Total 29,415.93 Aed Everywhere Inc Equipment Maintenance 1,649.00 Clerkin Sinclair & Mahfouz Llp Insurance Claims Paid 1,875.00 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 214.58 Verizon Wireless Telephone Services 171.34 Insurance Fund Total 3,909.92 Tristar Insurance Group Workers Compensation Self-Insured Claims 23,273.38 Worker’s Compensation Fund Total 23,273.38 Bfi Foothills Landfill Trash Removal Services 416.92 Bobcat Of The Rockies Equipment Maintenance 35.88 Brightview Landscape Services Miscellaneous Contract Services 19,681.35 Colorado Stonecrafts Building Maintenance 315.00 Columbia Sanitary Service Inc Miscellaneous Contract Services 1,167.00 Concrete Express Inc Trail Improvements 607,575.43 Consolidated Mutual Water Company Water& Sanitation Services 126.30 D & K Printing Inc Printing Services 3,420.00 Daniel Ferris Rubenstein Mileage 144.93 Golden, City Of Water& Sanitation Services

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345.83 Hardline Equipment Llc Machinery & Equipment 176,656.00 Helena Chemical Co Chemical Supplies 4,445.20 Hillary Melissa Merritt Mileage 64.40 Intermountain Rea Heat & Power 36.00 Joy A Lucisano Mileage 218.40 Kristina N Duff Mileage 222.82 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 23.64 Metlife Home And Auto Insurance 225.62 Mike Routh Piano Tuning Repair & Maintenance (Other) 165.00 Mountain View Waste Systems Llc Trash Removal Services 343.00 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Child Care 250.34 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 1,347.88 Xcel Energy Heat & Power 2,360.10 Open Space Fund Total819,587.04 Developmental Disabilities Rec Ctr Grants To Other Entities 860,496.50 Developmentally Disabled Fund Total 860,496.50 Conifer Town Center Llc Capital Expenditures Donated To Others 4,392.20 Evergreen/Conifer Traffic Impact Fund Total 4,392.20 Cintas First Aid & Safety Medical Services 253.26 Copeland Enterprise Inc Culvert Supplies 10,439.50 Donald Glenn Eberhart Right-Of-Ways & Easements 1,000.00 Eldorado Artesian Springs Inc Miscellaneous Contract Services 555.00 Integrity Traffic Llc Temporary Agencies 6,532.00 Intermountain Rea Traffic Related Power 18.00 Intermountain Rea Utilities (Other) 30.84 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 70.92 Metlife Home And Auto Insurance 113.82 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Child Care 208.34 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 1,346.55 Xcel Energy Traffic Related Power 4,218.79 Xcel Energy Repair & Maintenance (Other) 10,746.46 Zachary A Cardwell Jcso Uniforms (Goods/ Inventory) 80.00 Road & Bridge Fund Total 35,613.48 Altitude Electric Llc Hs-Services & Charges (Other) 160.00 Alysia C Jacobs Hs-Mileage 110.15 Amberly T Coalson Hs-Mileage 158.98 Answer Inc Hs-Miscellaneous Contract Services 5,004.00 Anyssa L Vela Hs-Mileage 52.02 Asharani Jill Behnke Hs-Mileage 212.41 Brittany Marlene Zabel Hs-Mileage 324.24 Client Payment Hs-Assistance Payments Other 12,347.99 Client Payment Hs-Assistance Payments County Paid 8,400.00 Client Payment Hs-Refund Assistance PaymentState 39,200.00 Client Payment Hs-Assistance Payments Rent 178,016.34 Community Safety 1St Inc Hs-Miscellaneous Contract Services 400.00 David J Podziewski Hs-Mileage 654.08 Elizabeth M Marquardt Hs-Mileage 142.24 Emily N Rounds Hs-Mileage 203.28 Employee Loan Solution Llc True Connect Loans 87.45 Evans, Katie Hs-Miscellaneous Contract Services 675.00 Express Services Inc Hs-Miscellaneous Contract Services 20,215.13 Gfl Environmental Hs-Utilities (Other) 28.08 Jeffco Vital Records Hs-Document Copy Supplies 106.00 Kirstin A Vogel Hs-Mileage 408.13 Language Line Services Inc Hs-Miscellaneous Contract Services 76.96 Language Nexus Inc Hs-Services & Charges (Other) 240.00 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 23.64 Lexisnexis Risk Solutions Hs-Professional & Technical Services (Other) 100.00 Lindsay Nicole Despain Hs-Mileage 118.10 Lori E Paluck Hs-Mileage 79.63 Maple Star Hs-Miscellaneous Contract Services 19,977.87 Marylou Juhl Hs-Mileage 81.20 Megan Marie Yates Hs-Mileage 141.85 Megan Mulligan Hs-Mileage 603.06 Metlife Home And Auto Insurance 642.52 Michigan Department Of Health Hs-Document Copy Supplies 34.00 Orkin Llc Hs-Assistance Payments Cyf 2,400.00 Peace Tree Llc Hs-Assistance Payments Cyf 100.00 Rocky Mountain Microfilm & Imaging Inc HsMiscellaneous Contract Services 664.91 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Child Care 2,171.45 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 7,467.83 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Transportation 10.50 Samantha Nichole Mckinnon Hs-Business Meals 23.22 Samantha Nichole Mckinnon Hs-County Travel 43.03 Shiloh House Hs-Miscellaneous Contract Services 16,920.00 Source Office Products Hs-Office Supplies 3,710.92 Tina L Ibbott Hs-Mileage 413.28 Us Postal Service Hs-Postage 300.00 Social Services Fund Total 323,249.49 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 15.76 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insur-

ance 609.58 Workforce Development Fund Total 625.34 At&T Mobility Hs-Telephone Services 530.98 Gfl Environmental Hs-Utilities (Other) 470.20 Rachel Elizabeth Meixner Hs-County Travel 115.00 Richard Peterson Hs-Services & Charges (Other) 7,500.00 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Child Care 263.16 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 619.58 Source Office Products Hs-Office Supplies 704.25 Wright Pest Control Inc Hs-Services & Charges (Other) 85.00 Head Start Fund Total 10,288.17 Express Services Inc Hs-Miscellaneous Contract Services 20,110.63 Larimer County Economic & Workforce HsContract Services 16,770.70 Lockheed Martin Hs-Job Skills Training 3,000.00 Workforce Development Fund Grants Total 39,881.33 A&E Tire Tires 23.64 Hill Petroleum Fuel 19,438.95 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 23.64 Phill Long Ford Of Denver Llc Vehicles 43,021.56 Quick Set Auto Glass Equipment Maintenance 3,240.00 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 204.67 Sill-Terhar Motors Inc Vehicles 240,372.00 Fleet Services Fund Total 306,324.46 A-1 Chipseal Company Building Maintenance 1,300.00 Amazon Capital Services Inc Janitorial Supplies 9.99 Amazon Capital Services Inc Computer Supplies/Software/Equipment 448.24 Amazon Capital Services Inc Office Supplies 57.26 Amazon Capital Services IncGeneral Supplies (Other) 131.21 Amazon Capital Services Inc Special Events Supplies 616.83 Amazon Capital Services Inc Food Supplies 45.91 Amazon Capital Services Inc Telephone Equipment 16.53 Ami Corporation General Supplies (Other) 990.00 Background Information Services Inc Recruitment Services 325.00 Baker & Taylor Company Inc Special Events Supplies 1,798.80 Baker & Taylor Company Inc Library Computer Service Materials 5,000.00 Baker & Taylor Company Inc Library Books & Materials-Digital 49,326.50 Baker & Taylor Company Inc Library Books & Materials-Vas 7,221.05 Baker & Taylor Company Inc Library Books & Materials-Print 49,460.30 Bancroft Clover W And S District Water& Sanitation Services 507.29 Cengage Learning Library Books & MaterialsDigital 643.30 Centurylink Telephone Services 1,039.92 Cintas First Aid & Safety General Supplies (Other) 103.80 Consolidated Mutual Water Company Water& Sanitation Services 123.30 Cynthia C Wilson Conferences/Trade Shows 75.00 Daniel P West Telephone Services 156.69 Demco Inc General Supplies (Other) 806.34 Demco Inc Library Books & Materials-Digital 9,980.00 Denver Water Water& Sanitation Services 155.42 Direct Technology Group Inc Computer Hardware & Software 3,023.00 Ds Waters Of America Inc General Supplies (Other) 30.74 Emerald Isle Landscaping Inc Lawn & Grounds Maintenance 788.00 Express Services Inc Temporary Agencies 4,112.24 Fedex Ground Inc Courier Charges 65.16 Findaway World Llc Library Books & MaterialsLpad 55,157.12 Haynes Mechanical Systems Hvac Services 3,019.18 Ingram Library Services Library Books & Materials-Vas 164.08 Ingram Library Services Library Books & Materials-Print 3,459.58 Intermountain Lock And Supply Building Supplies 34.80 Job Store Inc, The Temporary Agencies 956.23 John J Sandusky Iii Telephone Services 156.69 Karise N Doub Mileage 17.58 Kathleen M Simpson Mileage 208.32 Lake Ridge Ace Hardware Building Supplies 57.02 Lake Ridge Ace Hardware General Supplies (Other) 88.26 Lakewood, City Of Water& Sanitation Services 87.05 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 118.20 Lewis Paper International Inc Photocopy Supplies 697.26 Library Ideas Llc Library Books & MaterialsAudio Book 9,289.10 Lorito Books Library Books & Materials-Print 2,353.17 Lowes Building Supplies 49.48 Lowes Electrical Supplies 81.83 Lowes General Supplies (Other) 100.74 Mari Bay Mileage 74.59 Metlife Home And Auto Insurance 540.04 Midwest Tape Library Books & Materials-Vas 9,687.84 Midwest Tape Library Books & Materials-Dvd 10,628.17 Midwest Tape Library Books & Materials-Audio

Book 12,959.53 Nampa Public Library Library Books & Materials 17.00 Oclc Inc Library Computer Service Materials 2,133.38 Overdrive Inc Library Books & Materials-Digital 31,051.30 Plymouth Rocket Inc Library Computer Service Materials 600.00 Republic Services Inc Trash Removal Services 951.72 Rosen Publishing Group Inc Library Books & Materials-Digital 9,642.84 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Child Care 993.35 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 4,072.49 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Transportation 15.00 Sentinel Technologies Inc Professional & Technical Services (Other) 1,100.00 Source Office Products Office Supplies 193.70 Source Office Products Photocopy Supplies 864.87 Source Office Products General Supplies (Other) 70.94 Sprint Library Books & Materials-Digital 8,449.90 Stat Courier Service Inc Delivery Charges 25,633.10 Summit Bodyworks Vehicles 2,583.28 Uline Shipping Supply Specialists General Supplies (Other) 643.48 Uline Shipping Supply Specialists Special Events Supplies 58.88 Unique Management Services Inc Software Maintenance Agreement 370.00 Waxie Sanitary Supply Janitorial Supplies 739.31 Library Fund Total 338,528.22 Delta Dental Of Colo Delta Dental Insurance Claims 64,159.95 Employee Loan Solution Llc True Connect Loans 131.18 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 7.88 Metlife Home And Auto Insurance (3,155.08) Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 202.08 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Professional & Technical Services (Other) (6,252.00) United Healthcare Uhc Medical Claims 537,741.17 United States Treasury Federal Excise & Pcori Taxes 6,715.84 Benefit Plan Fund Total599,551.02 Aed Everywhere Inc Police Supplies 491.70 Ansi Asq National Accreditation Training & Education 2,530.00 Galls Llc Police Supplies 1,958.17 Independent Propane Company Resident Deputy 201.10 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 214.96 Life Technologies Corp Laboratory Supplies 46,643.10 Metlife Home And Auto Insurance 101.50 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Child Care 1,179.19 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 3,193.77 Patrol Fund Total 56,513.49 Jefferson County Sheriff Bank Charges 1,015.31 Inmate Welfare Fund Total 1,015.31 A Perfect Flush Revenue Refunds 523.00 Arlosoul Llc Professional & Technical Services (Other) 5,000.00 At&T Mobility Telephone Services 7,809.61 Casandra Good Mileage 13.00 Colo Dept Of Public Health & Environment Intergovernmental To State 387.00 Colorado Community Media Advertising & Publishing (Other) 325.04 Corporate Translation Services Professional & Technical Services (Other) 17.27 Covendis Professional & Technical Services (Other) 14,408.00 Employee Loan Solution Llc True Connect Loans 65.90 Labcorp Laboratory Services 104.80 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 15.76 Metlife Home And Auto Insurance 514.26 Rihel Education & Training Materials 14,250.00 Rihel Training & Education 4,750.00 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Child Care 2,280.05 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 2,332.51 Us Bank Computer Supplies/Software/Equipment 279.86 Us Bank Office Supplies 365.08 Us Bank General Supplies (Other) 12,580.31 Us Bank Training & Education 1,500.00 Public Health Fund Total 67,521.45 Advancing Dynamic Solutions Llc Consultant Services 500.00 Aging Dynamics Consultant Services 2,655.00 Casandra Good Mileage 5.82 Community Language Cooperative Professional Publications 110.00 Community Language Cooperative Professional & Technical Services (Other) 6,734.79 Conflict Center, The Consultant Services 1,100.00 Corporate Translation Services Professional & Technical Services (Other) 224.90 Five Points Geoplanning Llc Consultant Services 2,880.00 Gfl Environmental Utilities (Other) 140.00 Gilpin County Public Health Agency Revenue Refunds 6,269.25 Glaxosmithkline Llc Medical Supplies/Drugs 6,639.17 Iheartmedia Advertising & Publishing (Other)

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Public Notices 7,000.00 Insight Global Llc Consultant Services 4,518.75 Janelle L Worthington Mileage 494.48 Katharine Brenton Consultant Services 1,625.00 Labcorp Laboratory Services 1,887.25 Leslie Wang Mileage 118.72 Maren Jeanette Fuller Mileage 1,457.12 Nathan A Rodriguez Mileage 48.05 Rihel Training & Education 9,500.00 Snow, Douglas Professional & Technical Services (Other) 1,500.00 Us Bank Computer Supplies/Software/Equipment 463.87 Us Bank Electronic Supplies 38.90 Us Bank Office Supplies 3,477.18 Us Bank Medical Supplies/Drugs 2,279.96 Us Bank Food & Beverages 327.34 Us Bank Training & Education 850.00 Us Bank Conferences/Trade Shows 1,376.91 Public Health Fund Grants Total 64,222.46 Broomfield, City Of Water& Sanitation Services 976.37 Centurylink Telephone Services 60.61 Hill Petroleum Fuel 4,687.31 Legalshield Employee Legal Services 23.64 Rps Plan Administrators Inc Flex Medical Insurance 62.50 Surf Fore Llc Consultant Services

1,937.50 Us Customs & Border Protection Miscellaneous Contract Services 5,439.88 Xcel Energy Heat & Power 11,112.78 Airport Fund Total 24,300.59 Shred It Denver Consultant Services 8,341.72 Solid Waste Emergency Reserve Fund Total 8,341.72 Benevate Inc Hs-Computer Supplies/Software/ Equipment 13,230.00 Client Payment Hs-Assistance Payments Rent 2,660.00 Colorado Community Media Hs-Publishing 150.92 Land Title Guarantee Co Hs-Grants To Other Entities 71,168.43 Community Development Fund Grants Total 87,209.35 Grand Total 4,299,435.85 Legal Ad No.: CC444542 First Publication: June 23, 2021 Last Publication: June 23, 2021 Published In: Canyon Courier

NOTICE CLEAR CREEK COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION

The Clear Creek Board of County Commissioners

enclosed with the decision.

will be reviewing property values determined by the County Assessor. Beginning July 6 through August 5, 2021 the Commissioners will sit as the County Board of Equalization (CBOE) to hear appeals from taxpayers who are dissatisfied with their property valuation.

For further information contact Beth Luther, 303-679-2312. George Marlin, Chairman Board of County Commissioners

Legal Ad No.: CC444539 First Publication: June 16, 2021 Last Publication: June 23, 2021 Published In: Canyon Courier

Notice to Creditors

Get Involved!

In the first step of the appeals process, property owners filed objections to the valuations set by the Assessor with the Assessor=s Office. Only those who properly filed objections with the Assessor and were dissatisfied with the Assessor’s determination may petition the CBOE for a hearing. Hearings with the County Board of Equalization may be requested by submitting a written appeal to the Board of Equalization on the form provided by the County Assessor. To preserve your right to appeal, your appeal must be postmarked or delivered to the Board of Commissioners Office at the courthouse on or before close of business July 15, 2021 for real property. For personal property, the dates are July 10, 2021 and end at the close of business July 20, 2021. If you disagree with the County Board of Equalization’s decision, you may carry your appeal further to the State Board of Assessment Appeals (BAA), request a binding arbitration hearing, or file with the District Court. These appeals must be filed within thirty days of the date the CBOE decision is mailed to you as stated in the Certificate of Mailing

Legal Ad No.: CC444538 Legal Ad No.: CCC000117 First Publication: June 16, 2021 Last Publication: June 23, 2021 Published In: Canyon Courier and Clear Creek Courant

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Susan T. Hoffmann, Deceased Case Number 21PR182

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles LEGAL NOTICE

Under C.R.S. Law §38-21.5-103 Evergreen Self Storage will sell/dispose of tools, and misc. household items in Units 124 & 313 contracted to William Deneke, last known address, 5382 S Pine Rd., Evergreen, CO 80439 The sale/disposal will take place June 30, 2021, after 11:00 am. at Evergreen Self Storage, 30705 Bryant Drive, Evergreen, CO. For information call 303-674-9911

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before August 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. Charles D. Hoffmann 2821 Olympia Lane Evergreen, CO 80439 Personal Representative

Legal Ad No.: CC444531 First Publication: June 9, 2021 Last Publication: June 23, 2021 Published In: Canyon Courier

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

- Aldous Huxley

Every day, the government makes decisions that can affect your life. Whether they are decisions on zoning, taxes, new businesses or myriad other issues, governments play a big role in your life.

Governments have relied on newspapers like this one to publish public notices since the birth of the nation. Local newspapers remain the most trusted source of public notice information. This newspaper publishes the information you need to stay involved in your community.

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June 23, 2021

NOW HIRING CLEAR CREEK COUNTY

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Custodians (2 Positions)

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CAREER

OPPORTUNITIES

June 23, 2021

NOW HIRING Career Opportunities

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The Comfort Suites Hotel off of I-70 and Evergreen Pkwy is seeking a Maintenance person to perform a variety duties in our 85-room hotel. Duties include basic repairs and landscape upkeep in an exceptionally friendly, professional and efﬁcient manner. (4) days per week; 6-8-hour days required from 2:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. preferred, Wednesday through Saturday. Starting wage is $16 per hour, depending on level of experience. Please submit resume with letter of interest to: gm@goldenevergreenhotel.com. The Comfort Suites Hotel off of I-70 and Evergreen Pkwy is seeking Housekeepers for our 85-room hotel. Prior hotel housekeeping experience is a plus. Full-time and Part-time positions available. Starting wage is $15.00 per hour. Bi-lingual helpful. Please submit resume or apply in person. gm@goldenevergreenhotel.com.

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