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Transitional Energy officials report successfully using geothermal energy to generate electricity at an oil and gas field site in Nevada on May 19. “It’s exciting to see the success of this pilot project, as it opens up a world of untapped possibility for geothermal energy development in the United States,” said CEO Salina Derichsweiler. According to the company, Tran-

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and reduced total greenhouse gas emissions. Transitional Energy also collaborates with ElectraTherm, an Atlanta-based global leader in engineering low-temperature waste heat recovery solutions. “We are thrilled with the results of this pilot project and happy to see the success of our geothermal equipment,” said Matt Lish, managing director at ElectraTherm. “We look forward to working with Transitional Energy to bring this technology to the oil and gas industry and further our shared goal of reducing carbon emissions and increasing availability of baseload, renewable energy.” Transitional Energy develops its geothermal energy in lower tem-

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supposed to be here for the students. Now, let’s show them we are.” She said cutting the football program will have a trickle-down effect on other sports programs, the school’s marching band and student council, as examples. “You still have to pay to upkeep

perature zones because traditional geothermal development is barred in hotter climates in the Western United States, according to officials. Using a lower capital avenue developed in lower temperature climates creates a hybrid energy source with operational and abandoned oil and gas wells. Its renewable energy opportunities are more cost-effective and plentiful than alternative conventional power generations. According to officials, the United States has 1 million well bores with geothermal facilities. It is Transitional Energy’s goal to provide an affordable and sustainable energy surplus between fossil fuels and renewable energy. “Just as the world is on a journey to a cleaner energy future, so are we,” Derichweiler said. “Transitional Energy’s initial goal with this pilot was to prove we could produce geothermal energy at an oil and gas site, and we’ve accomplished that. the stadium,” she said. “If the program is cut, you start losing current and future students. In turn, that means loss of funding.” Kathy Rodriguez told the board it was time to start asking questions of the people making these decisions. “In 2019, the superintendent was making 10% more than the average superintendent. The teachers’ salaries were 6% below other teachers in the state,” she told the board. “In 2021, the superintendent was mak-

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ing 15% more than average. Teachers were still making 6% (below average.)” Galicia told the board a football program isn’t about wins and losses. She cited the examples of several students who have gone on to college with football scholarships. Galicia also suggested that the district start hiring people “who are vested in the town” and “who aren’t here to use it as a stepping stone.” “We need an urgent plea to

CHSAA to ask them to drop us to 1A so we can rebuild,” Galicia said. “The current two-year league placement has already been implemented. Right now, we don’t have an AD to fight for this (present athletic director Cora Lanter will move on to a similar job at Severance High School), so we need to do it.” The school board has to adopt a budget by the end of next month. “We want answers,” Rodriguez said. “We want decisions that place the interests of the students first.”

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Riverdale Ravens Class of 2022 spreads its wings

Riverdale Ridge High School valedictorian Salina Le talked about waking up in the morning with struggles with internet access during the pandemic while learning remotely during her graduation speech. She praised teachers for their education and PHOTO BY BELEN WARD emotional support and also thanked her parents in Vietnamese. BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On a windy, cold day, 350 seniors at Riverdale Ridge High School Ravens

celebrated their graduation. The stadium was packed with families and friends May 23 as they watched members of the Class of 2022 receive their diplomas.

The Class of 2022 at Riverdale Ridge High School toss their caps in the air at the conPHOTOS BY BELEN WARD clusion of graduation ceremonies May 23.

Brighton High’s Class of 2022 gets sendoff to the real world

Brighton High School senior Giana Rocha delivers the benediction at commencement exercises May 25 at 1stBank Center in Broomfield. BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

BROOMFIELD — Some 400 Brighton High School students received their diplomas at commencement exercises May 25 at 1stBank Center in Broomfield. There was some advice as the graduates begin the next phase of their lives, too, including “be proud

of your scars” from class valedictorian Mariah Niday, and from class speaker and BHS English teacher Ted Halbert, who told the grads, “We educate ourselves to be good humans. You understand the social contract, that how we treat each other matters.” More than 80 members of the Class of 2022 achieved grade point averages of at least 3.8.

Up go the mortarboards, a sure sign that Brighton High School’s class of 2022 is about to enter the real world after commencement exercises at the 1stBank Center in PHOTOS BY STEVE SMITH Broomfield May 25.

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New coffee house helps employees with life skills Taza opens in Adams County government building BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Helping young adults learn life lessons so they can help themselves, their families and their communities is the mission at Taza Coffee House in the Adams County government building. “Our mission is to work with young adults and provide a safe house for them to continue to grow and to overcome their problems, challenges, obstacles that they go through,” said Maria Borrego, executive director of Community Uplift Partnership, or CUP, which operates Taza. “We also provide a healthy workplace for them.” CUP is a nonprofit coffee house that began seven years ago as an outreach program in Commerce City. Borrego, CUP and the Landing Place Church first established a mobile food bank pantry, worked with the Adams 14 Hope Center to assist families and provide thanksgiving outreaches. Then at the height of the recession in 2008 and 2009, a carpet service center owned by Shea Properties in Commerce City was sitting empty. The building was taken over by Oakwood Homes, remodeled and turned into a coffee shop. “They put out a bid for a nonprofit to operate the coffee shop and Keely Thompson, the previous founder of CUP, had always dreamed of building a coffee house working with young adults,” Borrego said. “It was her idea.” CUP then shifted its mission to serving young adults, and in 2018, opened a second coffee house — the Reunion Coffee House. CUP opened its third coffee house, Taza, on Feb. 1. Taza is Spanish for cup, and the space is designed to feel like a home. “We named this coffee house Taza because Adams County has the highest population for Latinos,” Borrego said. Not only does Taza provide jobs for young adults, but it also teaches them life skills by providing a 12week paid training course. The class focuses on self-awareness, introspection, leadership and character development, Borrego said. “When you learn life skills or job skills, you build a relationship,” Borrego said. “It was the idea behind the nonprofit. We used the same mission with families such as women and children.” When a young adult is not healthy in their household, Borrego said the whole house struggles. “If we help the young adult, we know we’re helping families,” Borrego said. Chris Churches is the coffee house director and has been with CUP for four years. She sets up new coffee houses, runs the day-to-day operations and hires the employees.

Taza coffee shop recently opened in the Adams County government building, and it is operated by Taza Executive Director Maria Borrego, Community Uplift Partnership employees Aletta Torrez and Jacqulyn Churches and Chris Churches, Taza coffee house PHOTO BY BELEN WARD director.

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also how to have a crucial conversation and handle relationships with friends, family, parents, roomates and partners. “We are trying to build lives,” Borrego said. Aletta Torrez, 21, has been working with Taza since it opened. “I heard about the program from Chris Churches,” Torrez said. “It’s been a great experience, and I love the classes. I’m learning how to do their social media. It’s amazing. “It’s the best job I’ve ever worked

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Prairie View grad returns to college after Army stint Ben Meraz to play football at Austin College in Texas BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Four years of service in the U.S. Army did little to tamp down former Prairie View High School quarterback Ben Meraz’s interest in playing college football. Meraz, who graduated from PVHS in 2016, chose Austin College, an NCAA Division III school in Sherman, Texas, for his next stop. He called it “the best of all possible worlds” for academics, athletics and being able to work for his father’s construction business. “It was close to home, they recruited me super hard and built a good rela-

Former Prairie View quarterback Ben COURTESY PHOTO Meraz.

tionship with me,” Meraz said. “And then academically, I felt like I could take advantage of a lot of good opportunities that wouldn’t be available elsewhere.” He will be able to play football, too., as he did at Mesa State University before entering the Army. The Kangaroos won one game in nine tries a season ago. Six to seven schools showed an interest. Meraz wants to study business finance, then pursue a master’s degree in construction management. The ongoing pandemic didn’t play a part in his recruiting process. But joining the NCAA’s transfer portal, which allows students to place their names in an online data base to indicate a desire to change schools, did. “I’d say things were different just because I obviously don’t have any recent film of me playing football,” he

said. “So, I’d send them videos of me doing workouts and drills to pair with my high-school stuff. “Things were different as well because I talked to way more schools this time than when I did in high school,” Meraz explained. “I definitely had to ask a lot more questions about stuff like about living in the town, going to school there, types of questions I didn’t think about in high school.” Meraz still has four years of eligibility. “I’m pretty excited and nervous. It’s been a long time since I last played,” Meraz said.“But after a couple practices, I feel like I’ll be like a normal player again. “I hope people can use situations like mine in that you can always chase a dream of yours,” he added. “Just because it doesn’t work out the first time doesn’t mean it’ll never work out.”

Fort Lupton’s Moll opts for basketball in Florida BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

There aren’t many people who can say they are thankful for anything to do with the pandemic. Fort Lupton’s Conner Moll can. “The pandemic closed a lot of gyms. I had to find parks and stuff to go to,” Moll said. “It messed up the recruiting process. A lot of colleges were like, ‘We love you. We don’t have the money for it.’ It played a huge part. At the end of the day, everything happens for a reason. “I’m grateful for COVID now,” he added. “It was a hard few years. It really helped me out.” Moll signed a collegiate letter of intent May 26 to play basketball and study business entrepreneurship at Keiser University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “Honestly, I had no idea about it until my mom found it,” Moll said. “I was sending emails out. I was trying to do anything to find a school. My mom was like, ‘Go to Duke University,’ things like that. I was like, ‘Let’s be realistic here.’” Moll went to a Keiser-sponsored camp at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood. “I was actually hoping to be signed

by Colorado Christian so I can stay in state,” he said. “But I met the coach. You could tell he was watching for me. I thought this might be the place. He definitely did his work and tried to make it possible so I could go there. It showed me he wanted me. It wasn’t an athlete for him to sign.” Moll and his mother took a campus visit. “He took care of my mom and I very carefully,” Moll said. “We did a lot of stuff besides looking at the basketball side and the academic side. It sealed the deal when we went out there. I was looking at two others. It was basically no contest after I found this one.” Outgoing athletic director Cora Lanter called Moll “a real student and an athlete.” “I saw a positive person in the hall,” she said. “He never found his way to the office for anything. That’s tough to do as a senior, to maintain that poise.” FLHS boys basketball coach Jim Roedel called Moll “a leader who has the ability to do anything you want.” “You have friends who care about you. You have a school here that will help you,” Roedel said. “For you to come here, in a town this size and accomplish what you did here? I am proud of you.”

Fort Lupton’s Conner Moll puts pen to paper May 26 and signs his letter of intent for PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH college basketball and business studies at Keiser University.

Moll wants to start a clothing business this summer. The eventual goal is to own his own business with his own style of clothing. “I am not big on Colorado. I love it because it’s my home. And I love Fort Lupton, and it will always be home,” Moll said. “But I’ve wanted to move to a bigger city. I don’t like the weather here. It’s nice in the Sunshine State. I love the humidity, too. My parents hate it. Right now, it’s looking like my new home.”

“You are a great athlete, and you have amazing parents,” said outgoing FLHS Principal John Biner. “Nobody sits where you are sitting by yourself. You are great in the hallways, and you are fantastic to watch playing basketball.” “I haven’t been nervous or scared. I’ve done everything I can to prepare myself for this moment,” Moll said. “It feels like more of an accomplishment and a pat on my back to myself for all the hard work I’ve put in.”

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Fort Lupton Police Blotter Here are the police reports for May 14 to May 20 to the Fort Lupton Police Department. Not every call made to the police is not listed on this report. May 14 Police issued a summons to a Loveland man, 37, for criminal mischief and assault in the 60th block of Grand Avenue. An employee of Martin Marietta reported a vehicle trailer and tools stolen from a construction site in the 1200 block of Weld County Road 6.

The case is under investigation. Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 36, in the 100 block of Sixth Street for domestic violence menacing charges. He is being held on bond at the Weld County Jail. May 15 A Denver man, 20, was taken into custody at Ninth Street and Rollie Avenue for DUI, protection order violation, driving while license is revoked and possession of marijuana by a minor. He is being held on bond

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May 16 A Commerce City 17-year old was issued a summons by police for animal abuse for running over a baby goose at the golf course.

May 18 Police arrested a Lochbuie man, 32, for a protection order violation at U.S. Highway 52 and Weld County Road 29.5. He is being held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

May 17 Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 35, in the 300 block of Ponderosa Place on a warrant out of Weld County for failure to appear on harassment and assault on a child. He is being held at

May 20 An Aurora man, 43, was issued a summon at Rollie Avenue and First Street for causing a traffic accident by failing to obey a traffic signal.

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