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Elk Creek Fire

1 position for a one-year term

Chuck Newby 179*

Dominique Devaney 179*

John Mullan 8 2 positions for a three-year term

Greg Pixley 202

Joe Wienand 192

Melissa Baker 214

Inter-Canyon Fire

Natalie Arnett 122

Ann Imse 79

Jackie White 139

Ginny Riley 131

Evergreen Fire

Stacey Ballinger 864

Julie Ann Courim 929

Je deDisse 555

Kenny Erhardt 535

Mike Gregory 492

Wayne Hazeldine 252

John Putt 967

Evergreen Metro District

Steve Beck 29

John Ellis 87

Joseph Frisk 65*

Brian Stephens-Hotopp 65*

James Viellenave 85

Evergreen Park & Recreation District

Steve Beck 157

Al Buenning 380

Kristin Courington 489

Peter Eggers 1,023

Betsy Hays 1,161

Chris Lewis 314

Mary McGhee 508

Je Shappard 319 • Stars signify tie votes, and the districts will wait for any overseas absentee ballots and then for a recount by each Canvass Board. If there is still a tie, each district’s attorney will decide how to determine a winner.

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ing on the staff, especially with Vander Veen coming on board.

“I want to make sure there is shared vision, mutual understanding of where people are at and what their jobs are,” he said. “I really want to give (Vander Veen) the tools to make good decisions about staff.”

That goal, he said, is followed by goal No. 2: building consensus on the board and creating a strategy for the district to move forward.

“Things like a dog park and other capital improvements are going to have to wait until the time is right where we are all together and reach out to the community with a common vision and get their input,” Eggers said. “Right now, there’s other work to do.”

Hays’ priorities

Hays was the Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce president before her current position as director of resource development at Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice. “I really think the fi rst step is for all fi ve of us (on the board) to get together and get to know each other to fi gure out how we can best work together,” Hays said. “We need to go forward with consensus and with no individual special agendas.”

She emphasized the importance of the EPRD board working as a team, with the new board members getting to know Vander Veen since they were not part of the selection process.

“COVID was a challenge for all organizations, but it was really tough for EPRD,” Hays said. “Coming out of COVID, we need to fi nd out what the community wants by communicating with them, and telling them how they can be involved and what’s next.”

She noted that the rec district needed to accommodate the needs of all constituents, and to do that, board members need to reach out to learn what other groups think. For example, no one on the board has young families, so she wants to make sure she is plugged into that group, so they have a voice.

“Then we need to come up with a strategic plan to make sure we can get something done,” she said. “We need to decide what are the priorities with the funds we have. People deserve to know the order of things.”

McGhee’s plan

McGhee, who is a senior IT systems auditor, also coordinates the volleyball programs at Wulf Recreation Center, so she brings to the board a knowledge of what the rank-and-fi le EPRD workers do.

She wants the board to be more engaged with constituents, believing in “management by walking around,” noting that she wanted to spend time at both recreation centers to talk to patrons and employees to learn what they think. “You can get the pulse of an organization and the rec centers if you’re there talking to the people,” she explained. “I want to have an opendoor policy and be accessible.”

A large priority for McGhee is for EPRD to collaborate more with sister agencies such as Denver Mountain Parks, Jefferson County Open Space, Jeffco Public Schools and more the way it did in the past, noting that what she called EPRD’s recent culture of isolation needed to stop.

She agreed with the other new board members that a strategic vision for the district was a must while still having the day-to-day operational view of the district, and she hopes EPRD can fi nd a spot for another community garden.

She said her strength would be keeping the board informed and not letting things slip through the cracks.

The election judges at the Wulf Recreation Center — from left, Luke Wescott, Vanessa Drake and Cherie Paul — decided to liven things up on May 3 by dressing as, well, judges. They brought smiles to voters, who elected three new members of the Evergreen Park &

Recreation District board. COURTESY PHOTO

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Betsy Hays

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Mary McGhee

Rosalie pendant unveiled at Evergreen Gallery

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

An angel has arrived in Evergreen — the Evergreen Angel, that is.

A jewelry pendant staple for 28 years, the angel is usually released in September, but Beth Riser, owner of the Evergreen Gallery, decided to introduce Rosalie to the world at the end of April.

Rosalie is named after Rosalie Peak next to Mount Evans. Riser and her daughter Chloe designed this year’s angel, and Chapin Dimond in Longmont created the silver pendants.

Proceeds from angel sales go to Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice.

She said Rosalie has been well received by angel-collecting veterans and novices, noting that the pendants provide comfort, hope and faith.

Judy Strange, a faithful collector of the pendants, said her husband Malcolm bought her fi rst pendant in 1993, and she’s been collecting them ever since.

Riser explained at the unveiling on April 28 that Rosalie is designed in an art nouveau style, and she holds rosettes in front of her wings. Roses, she noted, are symbols of love, gratitude, giving, appreciation, caring and more, anecdotally appearing in stories about miracles and encounters with angels.

At the unveiling, Mount Evans chaplain Nancy Nelson reminded those attending about how angels touch people’s lives.

“If we are open, aware and receptive, they show up in many ways,” Nelson said. “There are miracles every single day.”

Beth Riser, owner of Evergreen Gallery and co-designer of this year’s Evergreen Angel pendant, explains this year’s design at the unveiling ceremony on April 28.

PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST