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The Living Room Band performs Sept. 17 at Canyonfest to a large audience. Music, food, a beer garden, children’s games and vendor booths — plus the annual duck races — make the event fun for all ages.

Bergen Meadow Elementary School parents and staff have learned more about plans to close the school and move students in with its sister school, Bergen Valley, and they are generally in favor of theAboutplan.a dozen attended a meeting hosted by Jeffco Public Schools officials on Sept. 13 to hear more about the pending closure and the school district’s next steps. They learned that the plan is to expand Bergen Valley, so there is room for up to four classes of each grade level plus room for a preschool. They also learned that parents and staff members will have input into designing theOffiaddition.cialswill work on better access to Bergen Valley and better traffic patterns for parents dropping off and picking up students, especially since four bus routes aren’t operating this school year because of the bus driver shortage.

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The September festival is the largest fundraiser for the Kittredge Civic Association. Proceeds this year will help with making improvements to its community building.Russett Goulding, a longtime Canyonfest organizer, was in charge of the children’s games — the sponge toss, a ﬁshing-forprizes game and a game similar to a bean bag toss only children used plastic

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There was something for everyone at Kittredge’s annual Canyonfest on Sept.

A Kittredge fall festival for all ages

From17.the live music to the food and beer garden to the kids games and bounce house, plus the vendor booths — and don’t forget the annual duck races every half hour — smiles were on the faces of young and old alike.

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Michael was preceded in death by his father and mother. He leaves behind his sister, Patricia Kart of Henderson, Nevada.

Michael Kart was born August 15,1932 to Samuel Kart and Esther Matros in Chicago Illinois . He passed away on September 13. 2022 in Lakewood, Colorado.

Michael earned his bachelor’s degree at Lake Forest College, Illinois. After college, Michael worked in the textile industry for many years. In 1967, he became a reserve deputy sheri for the Los Angeles County Sherri ’s Department. In 1978, he became a full time o cer, working in many capacities but most notably on the Vice Unit in West Hollywood, California. Michael retired with the rank of

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Ruth Bridgeland Alford, 95, died on September 9, surrounded by her children. She married Jack Alford in 1951. ey lived in Illinois, Colorado, and New York, where she was a teacher. After Jack’s sudden death, Ruth retired and moved to Evergreen,

Funeral service on Sunday, September 18th at 11am at Feldman Mortuary Chapel (1673 York St, Denver CO 80206). Reception to follow at Simms Steakhouse: 11911 W 6th

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where she lived for 33 years and was active in many community organizations. She is survived by four children, ten grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. For a detailed obituary, please visit: returntonaturecolorado.com/ruth_alford/http://www.

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Michael had many friends that he made over the years not only in Evergreen, but throughout Je erson County.

In 2002, he decided to enjoy his retirement in Evergreen, Colorado. During his retirement he enjoyed horseback riding, y shing, target shooting and skiing. He also was a volunteer park ranger into his 80s.

For those that knew Michael he was described as fun, witty, smart, social, sarcastic, hilarious, genuine, and a unique individual. In his spare time, he was a professional B.S. artist… We all know what a special man he was to us and he will always be unforgettable

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Michael was a veteran of the Korean War, serving between 1951 to 1953. He served with distinction in Korea, earning the Korean Service Medal, 3 Bronze Service Stars, the United Nations Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal and the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation.

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Every year for 35 years, Canyonfest achieves its goal: whether you’re a Kittredge old-timer or a newcomer, everyone is welcome and greeted as Gouldingfamily.andKCA president Chris Kellogg said not only was Canyonfest huge this year, but they

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Jules Elders with Evergreen Art School teaches children to draw and color a picture of Bear Creek at Canyonfest.

vegetables. She also led the hulahooping and the sack races.

Twenty-six Evergreen artists had a lot of company at their homes Sept.That’s17-18.because they opened their home studios to the public for the annual Open Door Studios event. Art lovers could learn about processes and ask questions of the artists in an intimate setting.

She told a teen interested in art that he needed to work at becoming proﬁcient at drawing ﬁrst because that was the basis for many other artKiln-formedtechniques.glass is the perfect medium for Patti Gill, whose original career was in engineering. She said glass art was a fusion of her engineering and artistic skills.

Stephanie Foster began learning about pottery when she was 10, took time away from it, and returned in 2016 to take more classes and ﬁnd her calling. Creating earrings, pendants, bowls and dishes, she says it feels magical each time she creates a piece.Foster has some of her work at Shadow Mountain Gallery, and this is her second time taking part in Open Door Studios.

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The artists from El Rancho to Evergreen Meadows, Kittredge to

Glass artist Patti Gill stands behind some of the displays in her home studio during Open Door Studios.

Open Door Studios opens home workshops to the community

Pastel artist Sarah St. George explains how she starts a pastel painting.

Sarah St. George has been painting since 2014 after a career as a graphic designer. She explained that she uses ﬁne sandpaper and watercolor underpainting before applying pastels.

The creation of art

Pastel artist Sarah St. George discusses her art with a patron during Evergreen’s Open Door Studios on Sept. 17.

Her ﬁfth time in the home-studio tour, she enjoys telling others about her painting techniques. Most of her paintings are of nature in Colorado, and the smaller works are plein air while others are painted fromShephotographs.haswhatshe calls her “mari-

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nate wall” — paintings she is not quite satisfied with yet. Sometimes she says she just needs to think about them for a while and might make changes. Some paintings just flow, she says, and she finishes them in a couple of weeks, while others can take years.

“This tickles that part of my brain” that enjoys the science, she noted.

Kiln-formed glass is very technical, and Gill explained it took a long time to get the technical aspects ﬁgured out, so she could be more expressive.Whenpeople ask her how long it takes to create a piece, Gill says 15 years because that’s how long it’s taken to get where she is today.

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Snyder Mountain are enthused to tell others about how they work and why they do it. Since the event began in 2002, it has grown into a well-orchestrated tour with artists working in more than a dozen differentPastelmedia.artist

Ceramist Stephanie Foster shows some of her ceramics at Open Door Studios.

tion, said the process to design the addition would use the same process that, for example, Evergreen Middle School and Parmalee Elementary School used to plan their additions with a Design Advisory Committee creating a vision for what the addition will be. He expected construction to start in late summer 2023 and ready for school to start in August

has a capacity of 336 students.

Combined school, addition

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The Bergen Valley building, he noted, has the larger spaces such as the gymnasium and cafeteria that are more consistent with education speciﬁcations and the kind of facilities the district feels are needed for quality education for elementary

Bergen Meadow on Hiwan Drive was built in 1970. It was known as Bergen Elementary School, and it housed all elementary school grades. Bergen Meadow has 189 students this year, and before the pandemic, enrollment was 238 in the 2018-19 school year and 249 in the 2019-20 school year.

They were concerned that Evergreen would lose outdoor athletic ﬁelds in a town where outdoor sports space is limited. The teachers asked for storage space, and some parents wanted to ensure that the combined school building would be large enough to accommodate students in the future. They also thought the school would need more than one playground to accommodate different ages.

Meanwhile, an addition would be built onto Bergen Valley, which currently has third- through ﬁfth-graders, to accommodate preschool-ﬁfth grade beginning in fall 2024.

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In the combined school, class sizes would continue to be 18 to 24 students in kindergarten through third

Bergen Meadow and Bergen Valley — known together as The Bergens — share a principal; buses; a PTA; a digital teacher librarian; art, music and PE teachers; mental health professionals and more.

Bergen Valley, which is on Sugarbush Drive about 1.7 miles away, was constructed in 1997 on 17.3 acres to provide more space for the overcrowded Bergen Elementary. The building is 42,281 square feet and

Superintendent Michael Freeman said. “We want to capture the history (of Bergen Meadow) and move forward in a way that honors the great work done in this building. In addition, how can we create a more thriving experience? What could it look like to bring the Bergen communities under one roof?”

Parents and staff said they wanted the combined school to still have the small-school feel, though they were pleased that older students would have more opportunities to work with younger students. They agreed that one school would give the school a better identity in Evergreen since some people don’t realize the connection between Bergen Meadow and Bergen Valley.

Bergen Meadow, with students in preschool through second grade, is one of 16 elementary schools the district has recommended closing because of low enrollment. According to the school district, only 44% of the Bergen Meadow building is being used. The school board will vote on Nov. 10 on whether to close theTheschools.planis for Bergen Meadow to close after the 2023-24 school year.

grade and 22 to 30 students in fourth and ﬁfth grade, which are school districtPrincipalguidelines.Kristen Hyde said when combined in fall 2024, the school is projected to have about 500 students with a capacity for 640 students. Since the schools are consolidating, only a few positions would be eliminated to reduce redundancies.

Tim Reed, the district’s executive director for facilities and construc-

This is a rendering of what the addition to Center for the Arts Evergreen will look like.

Art for a Cause in Golden

show is performed by Eric and Leann Ritter and Sean Maslow.

The Ritters and Maslow each will read a scary story from Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman and H.P. Lovecraft, and the theater will be decorated for the holiday.

the state to host Art for a Cause Sept.The24-25.11artists will display and sell their paintings, jewelry, ﬁbers, pottery, wood carvings, fused glass and more from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. both days at First Presbyterian Church of Golden, with 10% of sales going to World Vision’s Ukrainian Refugee Fund focusing on children and their families.Theevent

CAE gets grant for gallery addition Center for the Arts Evergreen has taken a giant leap toward building an addition onto its gallery.

Miller said CAE ofﬁcials are grateful to be grouped with some amazing arts organizations around the state that are part of the grant.

Everscream Readings

Center for the Arts receives grant, upcoming events

“Yellow Iris” by artist Tricia Bass of Evergreen will be one of many pieces of art for sale at Art for a Cause to beneﬁt Ukrainian refugees.

Eric and Leann Ritter will perform in the Evergreen Players’ Readings.Everscream

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The church is at 17707 W. 16th Ave. in Golden.

Think of Everscream Readings as a Halloween version of the Players’ Seasons Readings. The 90-minute

CAE has been in the former Bergen Park Church since 2017, and it currently houses a gallery, classroom space and staff ofﬁces. An addition has always been part of the plan.

came together when “we just called people whose work we really like and explained what we were doing,” and they wanted to help, according to artist Michelene Berkey of Evergreen. The artists also wanted to have a variety of media for sale, noting that it’s never too early to start thinking of holiday gifts.Participating are Evergreen artists Tricia Bass, Beth Erlund, Stephanie Foster, Patti Gill and Michelene Berkey, plus Amy Evans from Breckenridge, Judy Madison from Golden, Mary Wickler from Lakewood, and Judi Mitchell and Nancy Wylie from Arvada.

“This means so much,” said Sara Miller, CAE’s senior director of exhibitions, education and outreach. “This will allow us to add to our programming. We have become such a community center, especially during the pandemic. We are so glad we could welcome people back in and have an opportunity to express themselves.”Thetwo-story addition will have a state-of-the-art ceramics studio, private artists’ studios, a common artists area, classroom space, community space for up to 200 people, staff ofﬁces and a studio for an artist-in-residence. In addition, an outdoor courtyard will allow space for concerts and activities, a sculpture garden and more.

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If you’re interested in hearing scary stories, then consider attending Everscream Readings performed by Evergreen Players.

It received a $750,000 grant from the Colorado Creative Industries Division of the Colorado Ofﬁce of Economic Development and International Trade. CAE will need to raise about $150,000 to meet its $2.3 million goal to put a 5,000-squarefoot addition on the back of the building at 31880 Rocky Village Drive in Bergen Park. Construction is expected to start in the spring.

CAE is one of six organizations in Colorado to receive a grant. This program tries to help creative districts, historic districts, main streets and neighborhood commercial centers across Colorado revitalize community spaces.

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Performances are at 7 p.m. Oct. 7 and 8. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased online at www.evergreenplayers.org or by calling 720-515-

This is the ﬁrst time the Players have tried a Halloween offering, Eric Ritter said, and performances will be in the Black Box Theatre, 27886 Meadow Drive, in the same shopping area as the EAPL and EChO thrift shops. The intimate theater seats about 30, and the show is for adults and children 12 and older.

MORRISON BRIEFS

The Board of Trustees on Sept. 6 approved continuing his contract and returning his salary to $2,367.57 per month retroactive to June.

When Morrison didn’t have its own police force, Thrower volunteered to cut his salary in half because there were fewer cases, and he asked that his salary be restored.

Thrower also is a judge in other municipalities including Louisville, Estes Park and Superior. He conducts court sessions in Morrison twice a month.

could determine how often the court would be meeting, and they wanted to see his contracts with other municipalities.Throwertold the board he would have provided the town with copies of his other contracts if they had asked him. Instead, town ofﬁcials contacted the municipalities, which in some cases necessitated ﬁling Colorado Open Records Act requests to get the contract.

“I was impressed with how you ran your courtroom and support

“… I pride myself on transparency.”

Thrower continues as municipal judge David Thrower will continue as the Morrison municipal judge through November 2024.

For example, the owners of a property at 915 Bear Creek Ave. want to annex half of the property into the town since half is within the town limits and half isn’t. Trustees decided on Sept. 6 to move forward with the required hearings for the annexation.Thetown’s borders in other areas also don’t make sense, and town ofﬁcials want to start ﬁxing them.

Starting with the November 2026 election, trustees and the mayor will beCurrently,paid. elected ofﬁcials are not paid, and after the election, the new

hiring you,” Gill said.

Pay for elected o cials starting in 2026

trustees will receive $500 a month and the mayor will receive $750 a month after the board unanimously approved the salaries on Sept. 6.

Trustees said they would work on creating a list of expectations for the board and mayor that would go along with the salaries.

In April, the trustees decided to continue the half salary until they

“I’m disappointed I wasn’t trusted to provide the information you wanted,” Thrower told the trustees.

Trustee Katie Gill said she asked to see his contracts with other municipalities because trustees, who have a ﬁduciary responsibility to taxpayers, didn’t know what salary was appropriate.

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Straightening town borders

The payments won’t start until 2026 because, at that time, any current elected ofﬁcials will have to be elected to a board seat. State statute doesn’t allow current elected ofﬁcials to vote to pay themselves or change their salaries.

New board member

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

John Leonard has been appointed to the Board of Trustees. He replaces Matt Schweich, who resigned from the board on Aug. 23.

Leonard will serve as a trustee until the next election, when he has the option to run for the seat.

Morrison wants to straighten out some of its borders that were drawn when it was incorporated in 1906.

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Using closed schools to provide a ordable workforce housing will beneﬁt Je erson County

Using these properties to make home ownership possible for school employees is an important goal with many beneﬁts to employees and the public at-large, but it contains issues to make sure it is done fairly and equitably. There must be deed restrictions on any for-sale properties related to who can purchase homes in the future and how much appreciation owners can recognize when they sell their homes.

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history the schools played in their communities. The land around the schools can be developed into single family homes and lower density multi-family units. There should be some market-based homes on the sites to create diversity and to generate funds to help with development costs.

prices because oftaxpayer subsidies, they shouldn’t receive a windfall by selling at market prices. Additionally, for the public investment to have the most public beneﬁt, new ownersshould also be school employees who beneﬁt from being able to access affordable workforce housing.

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Schools have not been able to ﬁll a variety of positions and one issue is that wages are insufﬁcient to allow employees to live in communities where they work. The schools are in predominantly residential neighborhoods, and the district should honor the character of those neighborhoods in redevelopment efforts.

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Future owners must be able to qualify under the same rules as original owners. A more complicated issue will be to establish the rules about how much proﬁt owners can achieve when they sell their homes. It is important that they can establish enough equity to invest in their next homes, but because they will have paid below market

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There are incredible opportunities to develop and offer a wide range of housing options and address important policy considerations. Housing on these sites should include a combination of rental and ownership. The schools themselves provide opportunities for development of multi-family structures that can reﬂect and celebrate the

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Using closed schools to provide affordable workforce housing will benefit Jefferson County. It will help us attract and retain employees now and in the future andwill help maintain the character of the neighborhoods where the schoolswere located. To accomplish these important goals, the school district should begin a collaborative process with employee organizations, housing advocates, local government officials, builders and developers as soon as final closure decisions are made.

f the Jefferson County Board of Education decides, as expected, to close 16 elementary schools throughout the county Nov. 10, one of the board’s most signiﬁcant challenges will be to decide what to do with them. Using the schools and school properties for affordable workforce housing could check off several important boxes.

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Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you felt the need to explain your position or that you had to apologize? And when you did, did you ever find yourself talking more than you really needed to talk? This happens all the time to many of us. We think the more we speak, the more we say, and the more we say, the more they hear. And when we keep speaking, sometimes we say even more things we didn’t really mean or using words that we really didn’t need to use. A less-is-more approach tends to restore normalcy faster than a flurry of babblingSometimeswords.there are situations that need to be talked through when disagreements or conflicts arise, or when we are faced with difficult conversations and situations. That is a healthy dialogue and not a monologue, so that is different. However, sometimes the

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Proverbs 10:19 reads, “When there are many words, sin is unavoidable, but the one who controls their lips is prudent.” Such a great less-is-more lesson right there.

Why do we use so many words when explaining or defending? Because we are trying to sell the other person or people around us on our side of the story. We believe that the more we say, the more persuasive we become. When in fact, it is the opposite. My experience tells me that the more we talk, the more opportunities we miss to gain consensus, to win over an audience, or apologize and reconcile fractured relationships.Howaboutyou, is it easier for you when someone speaks directly or shares information concisely? Have you ever been turned off by long-winded responses or apologies? Or have you ever found yourself as the one speaking more than listening? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail. com, and when we learn to take a less is more approach more often, it really will be a better than good life.

s the presenter gave his opening remarks and welcomed the audience, he shared with everyone the agenda for his talk, the most important elements where he hoped they would focus, the amount of time he was planning on speaking, and that he would try and get through his 115 slides as quickly as possible.

The salesperson that the sales manager was coaching asked her for some guidance on a proposal that was being prepared for a potential prospect. As the salesperson took her through the proposal that was ﬁlled with information about every possible product and service that the company offered, she stopped and asked, “Is the prospect really interested in everything that we sell?” The answer was “no,” they were very focused on two speciﬁc solutions. She asked the salesperson why he was including

everything else. The answer that came back seemed one of desperation, “My numbers are off, and I really want them to see more of our offerings in hopes that I can make the deal a bit bigger.”

less we speak, the clearer our points are made and the faster we come to a resolution and a best path forward.

With that, his audience cheered, he had their attention, and he was off to what would be a phenomenal talk. His less-ismore approach really won them over.

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No matter what kind of spaces connects with you, you’re bound to learn something and get a healthy dose of inspiration. For all the necessary information, visit denverarchitecture.org.

To kick off the company’s next act, celebrate all that has been achieved thus far and honor the current production of “Hair,” Miners Alley is throwing its “Let the Sunshine In” Gala fundraiser at the Colorado School of Mines Green Center (Freidhoff Hall), 924 16th St. in Golden, from 6 to 11 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30.

Walker Fine Art examines the natural world

Fortunately, there are organizations like Denver Architecture Foundation and its annual Doors Open Denver event, which provide the opportunity to not only peek into some exclusive spaces, but help to put our ﬁnger on why we like a piece of design so much.

For many of us, we don’t exactly know what makes a piece of architecture or interior design appealing. There’s just something about it we respond to.

The exhibit runs at the gallery through Saturday, Nov. 18. Find all the information at www.walkerﬁneart.com.

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

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“Environmental Reﬂections,” the latest exhibit at Walker Fine Art, 300 West 11th Ave., No. A, in Denver, gives six artists — Theresa Clowes, Elaine Coombs, George Kozman, Bryan Leister, Heather Patterson and Zelda Zinn — the opportunity to explore their understanding and appreciation of landscape, climate and habitat.

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I’m of the opinion that if you write a song as good as “These Days,” you should be able to basically coast for the rest of your life. The fact that Jackson Browne wrote that song when he was 16 and went on to have a decades-long career full of other stunning songs is straight up not fair - I mean, “For A Dancer?” “Running on Empty?” “The Pretender?” Just straight-up bulletproof.

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It takes only a casual news reader to see that there’s a reason so many people are worried about the state of the climate and environment. Mixed in with all the beauty the world offers are danger and fear about the future of the planet.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Jackson Browne at Red Rocks

“This year we are exploring the ways in which large institutions have inﬂuenced the architecture and design of Denver,” said Pauline Herrera, president and CEO of the foundation, in a provided statement. “Attendees will get insider access to some incredible spaces and be encouraged to ask big questions about some of our most signiﬁcant educational and cultural campuses.”Doors Open Denver returns from Monday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Oct. 26, and features both new in-person and virtual tours as well as archives featuring virtual tours from previous years.

Attendees will be treated to live entertainment from the cast of “Hair,” dancing, full buffet dinner and cocktail reception, and more. Get all the details at https://minersalley.com/.

If you’ve been paying any attention to the tremendous work Golden’s Miners Alley Playhouse has been doing over the last few years, then you know how innovative and welcoming a real community theater company can be. And that was just act one.

It’s a treat that one of rock’s greatest songwriters will be playing at Red Rocks, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in Morrison, at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25. Don’t miss the chance to see one of the best there is - get tickets at axs.com.

In addition to the in-person options, the curious can use eight new virtual free experiences to explore spaces in the metro area and Colorado Springs — including the Historic Elitch Theatre, Red Rocks and the United States Air Force Academy.

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The 2022 event features 24 in-person tours that highlight Denver’s cultural and education hubs, including the Denver Zoo (which is being showcased with tours for the ﬁrst time), the University of Denver, the Auraria Higher Education Center and the Denver Center of the Performing Arts complex.

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nual Y/OUR Denver photography competition, which is hosted by the architecture foundation and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. It is open to all photographers and participants are invited to submit their photos of architectural spaces in the metro area that capture their imagination. According to provided information, all forms of architectural imagery are welcome: black and white, color, exterior, interiors and detail images. 30 images will be selected from the submissions to be showcased on an online exhibit in December.

There was about 10 golfers who were in contention to win the title heading into the sixth and final Jeffco League tournament of the season at West Woods Golf Club. After all the scores were tallied and the two highest 9-holes scores taken out, Ralston Valley sophomore Dimarco Benallo won by the slimmest ofBenallomargins.finished the conference schedule with 357 strokes. Valor Christian junior Ethan Rainey — lowest round of the day at West Woods with a 7-under-par, 65 — finished just a stroke back with a 358. Columbine junior Matai Naqica finished third with a 359.

On the 4A side, it was a runaway race. Evergreen repeated as 4A Jeffco team champs. The Cougars defeated second-place Dakota Ridge by 118 strokes over the six tournaments.Evergreen

Valor captured the 5A state title in 2020. The Eagles were edged out by Ralston Valley by nine strokes for the 5A Jeffco team title over the six league tournaments. The Mustangs’ No. 4 golfer — junior Makian Maydew — played a big role Tuesday in allowing Ralston Valley to hang on to win the team title.

The 5A state tournament will be held at City Park Golf Course in Denver.Valorwill head to the Southern Regional held at South Suburban Golf Course on Thursday, Sept. 22.

ARVADA — The race for the Class 5A Jeffco League boys golf individual medalist title couldn’t have been much closer Sept. 13.

sophomore Tyler Long repeated as the 4A medalist champion. Long ﬁnished out his regular season in style with a 2-under-par 70. He is halfway to becoming a 4-time league medalist champion.

“We have a lot of talent on the team this year,” Maydew said. “I feel very conﬁdent about our chances at regionals and state.”

lihan — all ﬁnished in the top-12 of the individual standing this season to make ﬁrst team all-conference.

The rest of the 4A Jeffco ﬁrst team all-conference was Dakota Ridge senior Ty White, D’Evelyn junior Taj Kumar, Dakota Ridge senior Jack Libby, Green Mountain senior Jon Lord, Dakota Ridge senior Jack White and Littleton senior Dane Price.Allof the 4A Jeffco teams played in the 4A Region 2 tournament Monday, Sept. 19, at Country Club of Colorado in Colorado Springs.

Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Jeffco Public Schools. For more Jeffco coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

and team Je co League titles

“I think the main focus was on the team title,” Maydew said after ﬁnishing second with a great round of 68. “We all really came together this season. That was our one main goal this season was to bring home the team Maydewtitle.”had his own birdie run on his front-nine (Sleeping Indian). The junior birdied 5, 6, 7 and 8 to help him secure a 32 during his ﬁrst nine holes.“Itwas awesome for me to be able to contribute today,” Maydew said. “Putts were falling. It felt great.”

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As the No. 1 team out of Jeffco, the Mustangs are slated to head to the Western Slope to play in the 5A Western Regional at Adobe Creek National Golf Course in Fruita on Monday, Sept. 19.

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Ralston Valley’s boys golf team proudly shows o the Class 5A Je co League team title Sept. 13 at West Woods GC in Arvada. The Mustangs edged out Valor Christian for the team title.

The Cougars had a legit shot at contending for the 4A team title at state. All ﬁve of Evergreen’s golfers — Long, senior Duncan McIntosh, along with sophomores Luke Sabina, Lincoln Mackay and Liam Hou-

Members of Evergreen’s boys golf team repeated as Class 4A Je co League team champs. Sophomore Tyler Long, second from the right, also successfully defended his 4A Je co individual medalist title at the Je co League tournament ﬁnale Sept. 13 at West Woods GC in Arvada.

“After this we’ll get our minds set on regionals and state,” Rainey said. “I’m looking forward to it for sure.”

The top-6 individuals and ﬁrst team all-conference selections were rounded out by Ralston Valley senior Jordan McCaslin, Valor junior Maxwell Eide and Arvada West senior Yusuke Ogi.

Rainey.“Soputts fell and I got some good breaks,” Rainey said of his round that included four straight birdies in his ﬁrst ﬁve holes.

“It wasn’t in my mind. I was just trying to focus on every shot,” Rainey said of the individual and team titles up for grabs. “I didn’t want the moment to get to me. I deﬁntely wanted to shoot a good score for the team. It doesn’t look like we are going to get it done, but it was super fun out there.”

The round of 65 was the best score in a tournament this season for Rainey, but Valor just came up short on winning the team title, too, despite the exceptional round by

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“When my grandson was three, the thing he loved best was sitting in the gravel with a spade and a bucket,” he said. “Filling it up, emptying it, ﬁlling it up. He didn’t care about the grass.”

The front of Emily Brooks’ home in Westminster.

Her backyard takes in a lot of heat and sun, making it hard to keep the Kentucky bluegrass alive. Still, she wanted the grass aesthetic and plans to replace a portion with native grasses that don’t require much water and thrive in the sun. She added a patio as well.

She did what made sense — the majority of the change took place in her front yard since her dogs use the grass in her backyard. In the particularly sunny spots in the front, she replaced it with gravel since the grass didn’t grow well in the sun. She used gravel on the side of her house and made a utility space for trash bins.

A xeriscaped section of Emily Brooks’ front yard.

One of those cul-de-sac homeowners is Emily Brooks, who maintains an 11,598-square-foot yard.

Matthew Makley, a professor of history at Metropolitan State University of Denver, said the popular Kentucky bluegrass isn’t native to the United States at all.

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“There was water everywhere, but we don’t have that (in Colorado),” she said.So she yanked out the portions of both her lawns, replaced them with less water-intensive plants and created walkways with gravel.

While Brooks decided to pay for a landscape designer and hire a company to do the dirty work, she realizes not everyone has the ﬁnancial means. Or, they just want to do it themselves.

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“It was all grass,” she said. “My dad bought himself a riding lawn mower and his weekend project in the summer was taking care of that lawn. Everybody took care of their lawn, that was the culture. The pride of ownership was reﬂected in what your lawn looked like.”

water. In July 2020 their household used 35,000 gallons of water. In 2022, they used 22,000 gallons.

erhaps Americans took the title of Walt Whitman’s book of poems to his beloved country, “Leaves of Grass” too literally when they considered the American“WhateverDream.satisﬁes the soul is truth,” he wrote, and in the 1950s a growing satisfaction came from the American lawn.

Her neighbors took notice of the change and jumped in. Two homes in the cul-de-sac hired the same landscape designer and changed their yard to about 50% native species or xeriscape.A15-minute drive from the Brookses lives Christopher Stimpson with his wife. They replaced almost 75% of their outdoor space with less waterintensive options.

Until last year, those yards were two green Kentucky bluegrass lawns. In 2021, she and her husband embarked on a project to replace more than 50% of the lawn with rocks, gravel and native plant species.

That viewpoint is changing with her own home in Colorado. She and her husband bought their ﬁrst home in Hudson, Wisconsin with a brook running through their half-acre backyard. After moving to Colorado, water remains an important concern for her.

Drive around Westminster’s Hyland Greens neighborhood and you’ll see that: a typical residential area with single-family homes fronted by wellmanicured, lush, beautiful lawns.

The roots of grass

Most historians believe the lawn started in Europe, most likely in France and England. Castles would clear the land around their immediate

Zoom into one of the cul-de-sacs off Lowell Boulevard, however, and ﬁnd something different. It’s a microcosm of a larger paradigm shift starting to occur across the United States.

She isn’t ﬁnished with the project but already saw large reductions in

For Stimpson, who originally moved from London to New Jersey and then to Colorado, climate played a role in his decision. Not only was his grass not doing well due to the weather, but he felt a moral responsibility to switch it “It’sout. been true for many years that we’ve got a drying planet. The effects of water stress are going to be the chief impact of climate change on a state like Colorado, so anything we did to reduce our personal responsibility for that water stress was a positive move,” he said.

Saving water and investing in their home proved to be their driving force for the change. It wasn’t something they were used to. The two hail from the Midwest and Emily grew up in a Wisconsin home with a half-acre lot.

is a deck with a vine climbing up the side to provide shade for a table. Even farther is a gravel area where his grandson used to enjoy digging and playing with the gravel.

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Stimpson decided to get his hands dirty and do it himself. Most of his costs came from buying rocks and gravel.Inhis front, rocks and pebbles lie beneath a tree. Like Emily, the grass proved difﬁcult to maintain because of the beating sun. In the back, a small patch of grass in a shady spot provides room for his dog and chairs to enjoy outside without the need for sunscreen.Nexttoit

Emily Brooks showcases the front of her house where she xersicaped over 50% of her outdoor space.

Even though Brooks and Stimpson both began replacing their lawns, they don’t doubt the beneﬁts of lush grass. Brooks noted her dogs enjoy running in the grass and Stimpson enjoys sitting in his chairs that are on the grass. They’re good for recreation, too.

Robbins noted it’s important to consider whether alternatives to lawns are actually sustainable. He said arti ﬁcial turf is an interesting case. With turf’s growing popularity, questions remain: how much oil does it take to produce the plastic? How will turf affect water runoff? Will water coming off the turf be contaminated with plas tic and get into the drinking water?

ing around his neighborhood. Many of his neighbors already have or started to change what their outdoor spaces look like. Although, he still notes a divide within the community.

Seeing the odd crop not just as a sup port for livestock, there is a status to having a lawn — and the 17th-century American colonies were status-bound. Social classes were clearly articulated and“Americanobserved.colonists were desirous, they wanted to establish themselves as wealthy landholders and it was critical for them to do that in a new place. They were planting not just the grasses, but a new social order, a new economic order as well,” he said.

“People are unlearning what they learned and learning something very different, which is water is more im portant than that lawn,” Robbins said.

Judging alternatives

He did ﬁnd that there are many people who feel great satisfaction from mowing their lawn, and the smell of fresh-cut grass brings nostalgia.

Robbins noted that the money used for maintaining a lawn could be used to remodel a kitchen or a bathroom, which can increase the value of a home more so than a lawn.

In the 1500s and 1600s, lawns began to grow more popular within the wealthy classes of Europe for both recreation and enjoyment. Due to the time and labor required to main tain the lawn, it became a symbol of wealth.

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“Scott’s learned that you say, ‘Here’s a product that will solve all your prob lems. Go ask for it by name.’ It totally changed the industry because they need people to buy this stuff. There’s an economy behind it, it employs a lot of people and it has to keep going. That’s pretty depressing,” Robbins said.There are beneﬁts. Lawns provide space for kids to play in, they serve as an aesthetic and cool off the urban heatEvenisland.so,other options can provide those beneﬁts. Parks can socialize the cost of lawns, and native plants can provide another aesthetic while cool ing off urban areas.

Lawns are ingrained in American culture and imposed by convention.

lots with leftover space and social pres sure for green grass to maintain prop erty values is imposed by neighbors.

That’s what Paul Robbins, dean of the Nelson Institute for Environmen tal Studies at the University of Wiscon sin-Madison, found in his research for his book “Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds and Chemicals Make Us Who WeHisAre.”research showed lawns in America mostly began to boom in the 1950s, and rarely are lawns peoples’ ﬁrst choice. Homeowners associations enforce their upkeep, construction companies lay out single-family home

However, he learned that most felt ambivalent about lawns.Which led him to ask — why do they exist, then?

“The beneﬁts are marginal, whereas the costs are enormous,” he said.

Just as they were hundreds of years ago, lawns today are also seen as a status symbol. Beyond that, Robbins’ research showed respondents often said “What goes on outside the house tells you what goes on inside the house,” indicating they are also an in dicator of morals. That’s tied to social psychology. Many places in the world don’t maintain lawns, so it’s a learned behavior.“Lawncare companies who are trying to expand their markets have to really work hard when they go outside the United States to convince people that it’s worth putting the money and the time into having a lawn,” Robbins said. “If they’re going to expand the number of intensive lawn care users, they have to teach people to care about it.”However, lawn social psychology in the U.S. seems to be changing.

However, it depends on the location and the neighborhood.

Class, morals and values

“What will change the value of the house is if it doesn’t look nice. If it’s just dirt and it’s kind of scratchy and it’s got weeds and it’s not well kept, that will deter from the price of the home,” Moye said.

However, native species can support pollinator species and reduce the need for“Theyfertilizer.tend to not need a lot of fertil izer because they’re sort of adapted to our climate and soils,” said Mari John ston, a natural resource extension agent at Colorado State University.

Later during medieval times, Monks brought cuts of turf into their mon astery gardens and cultivated them because of the connection between the color green and rebirth.

Then the English began sailing to North America, landing in Jamestown in 1607. Their livestock could not toler ate the native grasses of the new land, and so Kentucky bluegrass began to take“Bluegrassroot. that we think of today with American lawns is actually in digenous to parts of North Africa and Europe,” Makley said.

He doesn’t know the answer to these questions, but they’re worth asking.

“There’scancer.noquestion that the health costs outweigh the health beneﬁts of having an intensively managed lawn,” Robbins said.

Kelly Moye, a realtor in Boulder and Broomﬁeld counties, has been selling homes since 1991 and she’s seen a shift away from lawns in buyers’ demands.

It’s tied to colonization and democ racy,“Oftentoo.we ﬁnd moving lockstep with colonization is the fundamental trans formation of the landscape, and then over generations, a reimagining of what has happened to ﬁt the conquest narrative,” Makley said.

He said replacing grass with native species can be a great alternative, though it may not serve all the func tions a homeowner may want it to serve. For example, walking barefoot on it can be difﬁcult and not maintain ing it properly can turn into a mess.

vicinity to allow for clear visibility in case of foreign advances.

“People who are intensive lawn man agers feel really crappy about it. They feel guilty, but they feel that they have to do it for their neighbors because of the homeowners association, or what ever else,” he said.

Lawns today

Despite what the future holds, the tide seems to be turning when it comes to lawns in the American West.

“I believe it goes back to the neigh borhood. Well-groomed landscaping in Cherry Creek will carry more value, I believe, than a well-groomed yard in Boulder,” said Tom Cech, the found ing director of One World One Water Center.InMoye’s experience, attitudes among people are trending more to wards sustainability. Moye said buyers want smaller spaces, smaller carbon footprints and less grassy lawns. Stimpson has seen that change walk

As well, they create miniature habitats in backyards for birds, insects and pollinators. Planting native spe cies helps native insects because they support each other and the entire ecosystem.“Byincluding native plant species in our gardens, we’re not only ensur ing that those species continue to play their key parts in the Colorado ecosys tem, but we’re providing much-needed resources to insects and to birds and other Colorado wildlife — food, shelter, materials for rearing their young,” said Ashley White, the Butterﬂy Pavil ion’s Community Habitats Manager.

“The divide I think is people with the big lawns feel that they worked hard to get this aesthetic addition to their lives and that this is important enough to them,” he said. “They don’t want to let it go and they think of xeriscaping as an inferior alternative.”

“What we replace lawns with is the next most important question,” he said. “I don’t think we got a good answer for that yet.”

That reimagination may be taking place today.

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Much has to do with the chemical industry that needs to dump agricul tural chemicals somewhere. In other countries around the world, those mar kets topped out and farmers remain efﬁcient in their use of nutrient inputs andScott’s,pesticides.aleading company in the lawn care industry, ﬁgured out push advertising. Robbins believes that’s a reason they’ve been successful.

Backing that up, he conducted a na tional survey that showed the people who use lawn chemicals are more likely to say those chemicals are bad for water quality, children and human health than those who don’t.

In fact, she said most people prefer a native species or xeriscape garden in the front of their house and grass in the back for dogs, kids and barbecues.

As well, his research also found chemicals used for lawns end up indoors. In one experiment, analytic chemists walked across chemically treated lawns with white boots and then walked indoors. They measured the amount of chemicals that ended up inside and how long they persisted. Turns out, the chemicals remain in house dust for a long time — chemicals that are known to cause mutations and can cause

In the 1990s and 2000s, she said a bright green, lush lawn was a real selling point for single-family homes. Now, people are more environmentally and cost-sensitive — they see lawns as requiring more money for mainte nance and using water where it isn’t needed.Thedecision to have a lawn or a xeriscaped garden doesn’t affect the home value either, she said, as long as it looks well kept.

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“We need to support them,” he said. “The church can be an answer — a way to help the youth of the community by being a support system.”Inaddition to hiking, he likes to snow-shoe. Plus he has joined Evergreen Chorale.

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If JCSO wants to continue the program after a year, costs would be factored into future department budgets, Patrol Division Chief Scott Pocsik described during a Sept. 13 brieﬁng with the county commissioners.Thecommissioners gave their approval for JCSO to move forward with the pilot program’s license agreement, which the Board of County Commissioners will need to approve in a future meeting.

Shadow Mountain Gallery show: Shadow Mountain Gallery’s “Meadows of Wildﬂowers” show will be displayed through Sept. 24 at the gallery in downtown Evergreen. The display will include striking colors and magniﬁcent landscapes. The gallery is open daily from 10 a.m.– 5 p.m.

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He also described how JCSO has been using license-plate-reading cameras in patrol vehicles for 20plus years without major concerns. The license plate must be entered into the national database for JCSO to receive any alerts, so expired license plates wouldn’t qualify.

Considering the massive increase in stolen vehicles in and around Jeffco, Pocsik said these cameras will be good tools for JCSO. He added that it can also be used to identify suspect vehicles based on a basic description — such as blue Honda Civic with a sticker on the driver’s side — and can be an investigative tool in that respect.

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Recycle Day: Rotary Club of Evergreen will host its annual Recycle Day in Memory of Mereth Meade from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 24 at Evergreen Country Day School, 1036 El Rancho Road. The focus is

The cameras take a picture of each license plate and then run it against those entered in a national database for stolen vehicles and the like. If there’s a match, JCSO is alerted“Basedimmediately.onthatalert, we’d be able to respond to that area in a more tactical way,” Pocsik told the commissioners. “ … The best case would be to stop that vehicle at our advantage. We want to avoid a pursuit.”

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This will be part of a free one-year pilot program with Flock Group Inc., which offers automatic license plate reader technology to law enforcement. These cameras would be installed throughout Jeffco, including in unincorporated South Jeffco, in the West Pleasant View and Applewood areas between Golden and Arvada, and the Genesee and Evergreen areas.

Tour de Decks: The Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce’s Tour de Decks will be from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at Campﬁre Evergreen. Visit evergreenchamber.org for more information.

Split & Steak: Conifer Community Church’s annual Split & Steak where volunteers split and load ﬁrewood for people in need, then eat steak after the work is done is from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 24 at the church, 9998 Havekost Road, Conifer. Steaks cost $10 for volunteers and $25 for others. For more information, visit conifercc.org.

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Pocsik described how several law enforcement agencies around the Denver metro area are using these cameras already or will be soon. Golden Police Department, for instance, has had great success with theirs over the last year or so, he explained.Homeowner associations, such as one on Lookout Mountain, have been installing them too.

housed on a government server only for 30 days and then automatically deleted. JCSO would own the data and might share information with other law enforcement agencies in speciﬁc cases, but would never share it with the private sector, he said.

“If we get a description of a vehicle used in the crime, we can put that information into the system, and it’ll cross (reference) against vehicles that have passed by our cameras,” he Commissionerscontinued.Lesley Dahlkemper and Andy Kerr wondered whether there were any privacy issues related to the cameras, or whether they could be used to identify vehicles with expired license plates or other minor infractions, as red-light cameras do.

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Morrison Ciderfest: Ciderfest will take place from 10 a.m. until dark Sept. 24 on the grounds of Bear Creek Care and Rehab in Morrison.

Evergreen chamber’s Breakfast and Beneﬁts: The Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce will offer Breakfast and Beneﬁts virtual meeting at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 22. For more information, visit evergreenchamber.org.

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Miller Farms Fall Festival: Resilience1220 will host an event at Miller Farms in Plattville at 10 a.m. Sept. 24. Tickets are available at the farm the day of the event. Tickets for those 14 and older are $25 and include ﬁve-pound bags of produce. Children 4 to 14 are $15 per person and include bags of produce. Children under 4 are free. For more information, visit r1220.org.

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“The Addams Family:” The Venue Theatre’s high school cast will perform “The Addams Family”

CCM writers, sta net 19 newspaper awards

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Dunn also took second place for Best News Story for her investigative work on a former political candidate being charged with felony identityDouglastheft.County reporter Elliott Wenzler also took home several awards, including ﬁrst place for Best Health/Enterprise Story for an interview with Dr. John Douglas, the head of Tri-County Health Department, after one year of the COVIDWenzlerpandemic.received two second-place honors for feature (H2O’Brien Pool) and news photography (Homeless issues in Douglas County); in addition, she and former reporter Jessica Gibbs were honored in the breaking news category for their coverage of the STEM school shootingGibbstrial.took second place for Best Education Story on school districts addressing racial equity issues.

“The Old Man and the Old Moon”: Evergreen Players presents

Ropes challenge: Resilience1220 is offering a ropes course challenge for its wilderness and adventure therapy group from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, at the city of Denver Genesee Ropes Course and Outdoor Center. Cost is $40. For more information and to register, visit r1220.org.

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Colorado Community Media reporters and staff received 19 awards in the Colorado Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest, which honored the state’s best journalism work for 2021.

Christy Steadman won second place for Best Health Enterprise story for her work on Denver Hospice.

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West metro reporter Olivia Jewell Love was excited to receive her first professional award, taking home second-place honors in the health category for an article on Evergreen-area RNs tackling nurse burnout through healing groups, resources.SouthMetro Editor Thelma Grimes took first and second place in the Best Sustained Coverage or Series In teh Class 6 division. She won first place a series on the Douglas County mental health program that has set standards at the state and national levels. She took second place for a series on delayed medical care due to COVID.

Pom for a day: Evergreen High School poms is hosting a clinic from 4-8 p.m. Sept. 30 for all sixth through eighth graders interested in being a pom for a day. Participants will learn dance skills and perform at halftime of the boys varsity soccer game later that day. Visit EHSPoms. Weebly.com to register and/or email ehspomsbooster@gmail. com with any questions. Cost is $35 and proceeds beneﬁt the 2022-23 EHS poms squad.

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Free legal clinic: A free legal clinic for people with no attorney will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6. By telephone or video, 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 calling 303-235-5275 or https://tinyurl.com/ykzs2ej7.visiting

won two ﬁrst-place honors for his indepth investigation on the Colorado Center for the Blind’s handling of sexual assault allegations.

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Haunted Glow Run: Evergreen Park & Recreation District will host a haunted glow run at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 starting at the Buchanan Park Recreation Center. Race check-in is at 6 p.m. Enjoy treats outside and watch Halloween movies. Individual registration is $30 or sign up a family of four for $60. Register at www. evergreenrecreation.com.

Designer Ben Wiebesiek won second place in the Lone Tree Voice for Best Page Design.

In advertising and design, the CCM team took home four separate awards, with designer Tina Meltzer winning ﬁrst- and second-place awards for print ad design in the Class 4 division. In the Class 6 division, designer Tom Fildey placed second for best print ad.

Senior reporter Ellis Arnold took home a second-place honor in the news writring category for his coverage of Xcel Energy’s concerns for health, property values in south metro

The 285 TechConnect Radio Club for ham radio enthusiasts interested in its technical aspects, will hold its monthly meeting from 10 a.m.noon Saturday, Oct. 1, at The Bridge Church at Bear Creek, 3101 S. Kipling St. in Lakewood. For more information, visit http://na0tc.org/.

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Candidate forum for 7th U.S. Congressional District candidates: The League of Women Voters of Chaffee and Jefferson

Leading the honorees named during a Sept. 17 ceremony at Coors Field was west metro reporter Rylee Dunn. Dunn, who primarily covers Arvada, received two ﬁrst-place honors. Dunn received the top prize in the Best Series or Sustained Coverage in the Class 4 division for the work on the Olde Town Arvada shooting and aftermath, and a ﬁrstplace award in the Best Business/ News Feature category for her work on Namiko’s 30-year history spanning two generations.

eaplevergreen@eapl.com (303) 674-6442 Evergreen Animal Protective League Tabitha is a 4-5 yo beautiful, long haired kitty. She loves to twirl in between your legs. Tabitha gets along with other cats. Tabitha is at our EAPL Cat Adoption Center hosted by Chow Down in Evergreen. She sticks to herself up on top of cabinets, so sometimes people don’t notice her. But she is the sweetest, most charming girl. Seek her out to give her some pets - she loves it. MEET TABITHA! WWW.EAPL.COM Celebrating41Years EAPL’s Annual Zombie 5K Sun. Oct 30th Buchanan Rec Center Ball Fields, Evergreen New start/ﬁnish location * New course * Join us! Sign up now! http://getmeregistered.com/EAPLZombieRun5k CONIFER RADIO WWW.CONIFERRADIO.COM Listen Live: Your morning show each day at 7 am and at 10 am: Coffee on Corridorthe Mountain Classic Rock and Local Folks Conifer Podcast presents: Ms. Carla Mink …introducing the Oral Histories program of the Conifer Historical Society and Wednesday,MuseumSeptember 28th at 5:00 pm On www.ConiferRadio.com Paul Vastola of Studio V Monday,workingsTheReidpresents:Schaeferevolutionandinner-oftheGrandPianoAugust26that7pm

The event features activities for all ages, including face painting, crafts, bouncy houses, hayrides, live music, a silent auction and hard cider tasting. More information about the event can be found at morrisonciderfest.org.

counties will present a virtual town hall forum featuring the U.S. Congressional candidates for District 7 from 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 28. Candidates Erik Aadland, Ross Klopf and Brittany Pettersen will speak. The webinar link and video can be accessed at videotions@lwvchaffeecounty.org.forTheorg_Forumswww.lwvchaffeecounty.orwww.lwvjeffco.org.publicmaysendquestionscandidatesinadvancetoques-Alinkwillbepostedafterward.

UPCOMING

Everscream Readings: Evergreen Players present Everscream Readings at 7 p.m. Oct. 7-8 at its Black Box Theatre, 27886 Meadow Drive, Unit B, in Evergreen. Audience members will be entertained by haunting folklore of wicked family traditions, plot twists and surprise endings that will chill you to the bone. The show is appropriate for audiences of ages 12 and up. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at www.evergreenplayers.org or by calling 720-515-1528.

at 7 p.m. Fridays, Oct. 14 and 28, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 and 29, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 16. For more information, visit thevenuetheatre. com.

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In another ﬁrst-place honor, former Jeffco Transcript reporter Bob Wooley won for his feature story on the aftermath in the decades since the 1999 Columbine High School shootings.Washington Park Proﬁle Editor

Tour de Decks: The Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce’s Tour de Decks will be from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, at Troutdale Tavern. Visit evergreenchamber.org for more information.

Farmers markets: Two farmers markets in Evergreen, both from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays: at Church of the Cross, 28253 Meadow Drive in Evergreen and at Boone Mountain Sports, 2962 Evergreen Parkway.

EVERGREEN – When she parked her car in the lot on the morning of Aug. 5, it had half a tank of gasoline. When she came back to get it on the afternoon of Aug. 6, she was running on empty and there was a neat hole in the gas tank. She didn’t know exactly when the tank had been drilled, or who drilled it, but she was pretty sure it was going to cost more than a thousand bucks to replace it. The case is up on blocks pending new information.

A drop of water CONIFER – Southbound on the afternoon of Aug. 26, Red Pickup had just passed the merge point on Richmond Hill when he spied Black Pickup approaching from behind on the right shoulder, apparently trying to get around him in the least safe way possible. Fortunately, or maybe not, Black Pickup failed to pass and was forced to stay in Red Pickup’s wake until they reached Kings Valley, when Black Pickup swerved into a turn lane long enough to pull even with Red Pickup and throw a water bottle at him. Red Pickup instantly exited to a convenient convenience store to assess the damage. Black Pickup instantly exited to the same location to demand that Red Pickup join him in a contest of ﬁsts. Instead, Red Pickup called JCSO, hoping that badges on the scene would cool Black Pickup’s jets. Black Pickup assured ofﬁcers that he didn’t throw the water bottle at Red Pickup because “it fell out of my hand” as he attempted to do so. A weak defense, but since Red Pickup didn’t want to press charges, it got Black Pickup off the hook and back on the road.

Hiwan Museum tours available: The Hiwan Museum is open for tours of the historic log house, 28473 Meadow Drive in Evergreen, from noon-4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon-4:30 p.m. on weekends. Tour guides will share the history of the house and its occupants. Reservations for house tours are encouraged at www.jeffco. us/1251/ and can be scheduled on the half hour. Outdoor self-guided tours are available at any time.

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“The Old Man and the Old Moon” Oct. 21-Nov. 13 at Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Shows will be at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for students, and are available by calling 720-515-1528 or online at www.evergreenplayers.org.

Support After Suicide Loss: Heartbeat and Resilience1220 offer Support After Suicide Loss from 5:30-7 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month for ages 14 and older. Join in-person or online. Suggest donation is $15. For location, email heather@resilience1220.org or call 720-480-6672.

groups to provide emotional support services for caregivers helping ill, disabled or elderly loved ones. An inperson support group meets every third Monday from 4-6 p.m. at 3081 Bergen Peak Road, Evergreen, and a virtual support group meets every ﬁrst Tuesday from 10 a.m.-noon via Zoom. Call 303-674-6400 to learn how to connect to the group virtual call. For more information visit org/services/emotional-support/.mtevans.

EVERGREEN – Dissatisﬁed with the kind and quality of her supper fare, on the afternoon of Aug. 23 she expressed her displeasure to the staff in the strongest possible terms. “You should be shot,” she told one worker. “You should be taken out and shot,” she remarked to another. In truth, neither admonished employee believed their detractor meant them physical harm, nor had the means to cause them any. Even so, they didn’t like being threatened and asked that deputies encourage her to less violent speech. In her own defense, the woman told depu-

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Sheriff’s Calls is intended as a humorous take on some of the incident call records of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Ofﬁce for the mountain communities. Names and identifying details have been changed. All individuals are innocent until proven guilty.

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BUFFALO CREEK – It was an all-out pine-tree-palooza, with a pair of disc jockeys spinning away the night of Aug. 19 with waves of highvolume hits, and crowds of campers dancing till dawn amid clouds of reefer smoke. It was also a major headache for everyone else at the campground, so when the deafening debauch ramped up again on the night of Aug. 20, a campground employee wandered over at about midnight and asked the DJs to dial it down, for mercy’s sake. Pitiless in pursuit of the perfect party, the DJs “turned it up” instead, which is when she called JCSO. Homing in on “very loud music” easily heard from “approximately a mile away,” deputies shouldered through the festive crush to the neon-lit DJ booth and pulled the plug. Quiet time at the campground is between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., ofﬁcers explained, and if they busted one more beat before breakfast they’d be hearing about if from a judge. The deejays agreed to desist until daybreak.

day morning at Conifer Community Church in Conifer. More information is available at cbsclass.org/ evergreengolden.

History Happy Hour: The Evergreen Mountain Area Historical Society will host a History Happy Hour from 4:30-6:30 p.m. the second Friday of each month at Hiwan Museum. Join us in a round table discussion on any and all aspects of history with topics driven by the attendees.

Caregiver support groups: Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice offers two monthly

munity center, the board member sat up in his chair when the morning of Aug. 21 rolled onto his screen. Clearly visible was an adult male wearing “one latex glove” repeatedly punching codes into the building’s secure lockbox while repeatedly referring back to his cell phone and repeatedly “looking angry” when the lockbox stayed locked. No events were booked at the center, he told deputies, so the man had no good reason for trying to get into it. Ofﬁcers scheduled extra patrols of the premises.

ESA EverGREEN Refill Station: EverGREEN Refill Station welcomes Micky Magnolo as the coordinator. The Refill Station is open Tuesdays from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and Wednesdays from 1 p.m.-4 p.m.

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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, and via Zoom. Join the Zoom meeting at 248-7799.meetingus02web.zoom.us/j/81389224272,https://ID81389224272,phone346-

ties that cottage cheese and a fruit plate do not a proper dinner make, and that staffers who would serve such blanderies to a hungry client “aren’t doing their job.” Deputies suggested that in future she couch her complaints in less lurid language.

Community Bible Study: Several community Bible study groups are available — women (in person and online), co-ed young adults, school age, preschool & babies. This year’s study covers six books of the Bible: Philemon 1,2,3, John, Jude and Revelation. In-person classes are Thursday morning at Rockland Community Church in Genesee, Tuesday night at Bergan Park Church in Evergreen and Wednes-

Parkinson’s disease support group: A Parkinson’s disease support group meets the ﬁrst Friday of the month from 1-3 p.m. at Evergreen Christian Church, 27772 Iris Drive, Evergreen. For more information, email esears@parkinsonrockies.org.

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“Some common themes we saw in some of the drownings this year was the use of alcohol and people swimming from shore, on inner tubes, or paddling,” said Colorado Parks and Wildlife boating safety and registrations program manager Grant Brown, in the release.

A young boy sits at the very front of the raft known as: riding the bull in the Colorado River during a white water rafting expedition through Glenwood Canyon.

Two bodies were found in Dillon Reservoir on Friday in about 15 feet of water after the men were apparently drinking, left their clothes on shore and went swimming at night.

Most people think they are good enough swimmers or don’t understand or take water or weather conditions seriously. Many of the drownings from this year involved people swimming near shore, and alcohol was a factor in many more.

Cold water shock can always play a part in high country water incidents, but rapidly falling temperatures and high winds can amplify

In the accident at James M. Robb –Colorado River State Park in Clifton, ofﬁcials said they were called to the

Colorado posts record number of drownings

Colorado has broken its annual record for deaths from water recreation, with 36 fatalities so far and weeks left to go in the water sports season, Colorado Parks and Wildlife ofﬁcials said on Sept. 13.

“While it is true that some people don’t know they need a life jacket on a kayak or stand-up paddleboard, many just do not take the risk seriously,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Joseph Livingston said, in an email. “Legally they are required to have one onboard a vessel. Children under 13 have to wear it at allWatertimes.”users who think they have done enough by bringing a life

jacket along aren’t realizing it can be impossible to get it on once they have fallen in the water, he added.

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Other safety tips from Colorado Parks and Wildlife include checking ice conditions carefully before ice ﬁshing, and remembering that waterfowl hunting with waders adds weight and creates other dangers in an accident.

scene because someone had fallen off their paddleboard into the lake and had not surfaced. According to reports, the victim was not wearing a life jacket, state ofﬁcials said.

The total of water recreation-related deaths hit 36 this year including 34 drownings, after recent accidents at Dillon Reservoir and James M. Robb-Colorado River State Park, state ofﬁcials said. Two of the water recreation-related fatalities were not drownings.Theprevious record year was 2020, when 34 people drowned in Colorado.Alargenumber of this year’s record deaths appear to be related to drinking alcohol, and to paddling or swimming from shore, state ofﬁcials said. They underlined that life jackets are required even on increasingly popular stand-up paddleboards, and urged people to take them along.

the“Asdangers.wemove into fall, please stay vigilant when recreating on the water,” Brown said. “Protect yourself from the dangers of cold water immersion and shock by wearing a life jacket and being aware of weather conditions, and water temperatures where you plan to recreate. Boat sober, enjoy the water, but always do so with a life jacket on — they save lives.”CPW said 22 water fatalities were recorded in 2021, and 24 in 2019.

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The biggest contributor to the committee was the delivery service Instacart at $2.8 million, bringing its total investment in the group to $3.3 million. Whole Foods gave Wine in Grocery Stores $1.3 million, while Target contributed $1.1 million, Albertsons Safeway gave $1.1 million and Kroger, which owns King Soopers, gave $1 million.

election.Coloradans for Liquor Fairness, which is supporting Proposition 124 to let liquor retailers open more locations, received $400,000 last month from Colorado Fine Wines & Spirits, a subsidiary of Total Wine & Spirits, the national chain that, along with its owners, is bankrolling theRightmeasure.now, liquor retailers are allowed to open only three stores in Colorado.Keeping Colorado Local, a group run by independent liquor stores ﬁghting the three ballot measures, has raised a pittance compared to its rivals. The committee raised a little less than $200,000 last month, starting September with about the same amount in its coffers.

The national Democratic nonproﬁt Sixteen Thirty Fund accounted for $500,000 of the haul. The Colorado Sun refers to the nonproﬁt as a darkmoney group because it is a political group that does not have to disclose its donors.

Millions pour into 2022 booze ballot measures

A handful of other committees backing initiatives on the November ballot this year had big fundraising hauls in August.

Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

• Healthy School Meals for All Colorado Students, which is backing Proposition FF, raised about $525,000 in August. The measure referred to the ballot by the legislature would reduce state income tax deductions for people with income over $300,000 and use the savings to provide free K-12 school meals for all students.

Grocery Stores raised most of the cash, at roughly $7.5 million. The group is backing Propositions 125 and 126. The measures would, respectively, let grocery stores sell wine and third-party services deliver alcohol.

The group had a whopping $8.35 million in the bank to begin September, giving it one of the largest campaign war chests of any group or candidate in Colorado heading into the home stretch before the Nov. 8

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Path to Zero, which is supporting Proposition 121, a measure that would reduce the state income tax rate to 4.4% from 4.55%, didn’t report any donations or spending for August.

Should wine be sold in grocery stores? Colorado voters will decide in November.

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• Coloradans for Affordable Housing Now, which is supporting Proposition 123 to divert 0.1% of taxable income from the general fund to the state affordable housing fund, raised $880,000 last month. The money came from nonproﬁts, including Fort Collins-based Bohemian Companies, the Arvada-based Community First Foundation and the Denver-based Caring for Colorado Foundation at $250,000 each. The measure, if approved by voters, is forecast to generate about $270 million in its ﬁrst year and reduce the amount of money available for Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refunds.

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ency, which is supporting Proposition GG, a measure referred to the ballot by the legislature, raised $600,000 last month. The measure would require detailed information about how income tax initiatives on the ballot would impact various income brackets to be more prominently displayed to voters.

The Community First Foundation and Hunger Free Colorado each contributed $250,000 to the committee, which began September with roughly $600,000 in its bank account.

Natural Medicine Colorado, which is backing Proposition 122, the measure that would decriminalize and regulate the use of “magic” mushrooms, raised just $15,000 in August and ended the month with about the same amount in the bank.

The committee raised and spent millions earlier this year, much of it from New Approach PAC, a Washington, D.C.-based political nonproﬁt, to collect enough signatures to make the ballot.

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They say whiskey is for drinking and water is for ﬁghting. But there will be plenty of battling over booze in this year’s election in Colorado.

A major inﬂux of money — about $8 million — poured last month into the committees backing ballot initiatives that would let grocery stores sell wine and allow third-party delivery services to transport alcohol, as well as an initiative that would open the door for liquor retailers to open as many locations as they’d like in Colorado.Winein

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Another top concern for Colorado voters, one that is directly tied to inﬂation and the economy, was homelessness. Homelessness was also a higher concern for Black and Latino voters than it was for white voters, the poll found.

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• 63% of small businesses in the U.S. have put hiring on hold compared to 44% in Colorado.

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shouldOtheraddress.pollquestions stemmed from recent events and news about civil rights, including teaching the history of racism and discrimination in the United States to K-12 students, as well as providing a safe environment for LGBTQ+ students atEighty-twoschool. percent of those polled say they agree with the following statement: We should teach the complete and accurate history of racial discrimination in the United States, even if it makes some people uncomfortable.ForBailey,he believes this “raises the question: is this bogeyman term related to K-12 education” causing true outrage from some Americans or “was it something more of a dog whistle?”

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“There is a ﬂavor of concern of the inﬂation and economy that is directly tied to civil rights,” said Isaiah Bailey, a research fellow with the AARC. He said it was encouraging that voters are understanding the connection of those ideas.

Colorado gasoline prices are nearly back down to where they were a year ago, but everything else is just not quite the same, is it?

44%

There are still more than 120,000 jobs listed on the state’s job board even as new weekly jobless claims are still slightly higher than they

upbeat, with 57% believing we’re in a recession. (We’re still not ofﬁcially in“Thatone). means Colorado-based businesses are even more pessimistic about the state of the nation’s economy than their peers coast to coast,” said Chuck Casto, Alignable’s Head ofHowever,Research.the impact of how much of a threat a possible recession will have on operations appears much more optimistic in Colorado than elsewhere.

COVID not top voter concern

To read a full overview of the poll, visit the website at https://bit. ly/3eHﬁtt.

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In the last two years, COVID-19 has dropped from a top concern for Colorado voters to low on the list. Now at the top of that list ahead of the November election are issues like affordable housing and civil rights issues.

Check out these survey results

Two-thirds surveyed say recession is here SEE HIRING, P23

The ACLU of Colorado commissioned a poll of 1,223 likely voters in Colorado last month through the African American Research Collaborative (AARC). Ninety-ﬁve percent of the poll’s respondents were already registered voters in the state.

As you can see in the table above, abortion rights were not as much of a concern for Colorado voters when compared to other issues. This could be due to the fact that abortion access is codiﬁed in Colorado. However, if anti-abortion politicians were to take control of the Colorado legislature, that law could be repealed.Climate change was also low on the list; only 11% of Coloradans listed climate change as one of the top three issues that elected ofﬁcials

A new hiring report from small business network Alignable found that 66% of 307 small businesses surveyed in Colorado believe they’re already in a recession. And 28% would, instead, call it a depression. The survey of more than 5,000 small businesses nationwide was more

To use a speciﬁc example, the poll asked if voters would be in support of ballot initiative #108, which would generate $270 million annually by diverting 0.1% of the taxable income from the General Fund to the State Affordable Housing Fund, according to a nonpartisan ﬁscal analysis. Across party lines, 77% of respondents said they would vote in favor of that initiative.

The poll found 80% of Coloradans consider housing affordability as either a major issue or a crisis. Also among top concerns were the economy and homelessness.

Also, reﬂected in the poll was the agency voters feel they have in the

The poll also paid close attention to trust and the importance of voting. The results show Coloradans do generally believe voting is essential to making change, but they also have concerns about whether elected ofﬁcials truly look out for them. At the same time, Colorado voters said they trust their local leaders more than federal lawmakers.

BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN

were in 2019. Consumer prices, i.e., inflation, were up 8.2% in July from a year ago in the Denver metro area. We were in between official government economic reports on Colorado last week, but other organizations shared their findings.

“I think the support the state has for the generic idea of a ballot initiative as a form of direct democracy is striking,” said Henry Fernandez, the CEO of AARC.

democratic process when it comes to ballot issues. On a scale from 1 to 10 — 10 meaning the issue is extremely persuasive in encouraging you to vote — the average answer was 7.48 for ballot issues.

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonproﬁt public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.

Top issues found as concerns for voters. Provided by African American Research Collaborative.

• 28% of Colorado businesses said they’ve fully recovered and are seeing higher monthly income today compared to before COVID. In the U.S., 23% of businesses felt the same.•Colorado is aligned with U.S. averages for laying off workers, with 10% of small businesses surveyed of small businesses stop hiring

Overturns 2020 ruling

“This is a historic moment for Colorado. To my knowledge this is the ﬁrst successful petition from an environmental or environmental justice group” to a state health agency, said Ean Tafoya, GreenLatinos Colorado state director. “Impacted communities are empowered, organized, and partnered with allies. We are committed to using every procedural tool and in every venue

“I am offended that a company that makes its proﬁt and markets its brand off the clean water of this state would work so hard to prevent

Those users joined with the environmental coalition to argue the urban streams were abused for decades by polluters and developers who paved and contaminated the waterfront. The waters are now recovering and can come back even further if afforded the right protections, and neighbors of the streams say they deserve that chance.

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“The Water Quality Control Commission’s decision highlights that no river is beyond repair. These protections recognize decades of work to restore water quality on the South Platte and Clear Creek from the impacts of industrial pollution,” said Josh Kuhn, Conservation Colorado water campaign manager. “This is an important step toward ensuring all of Colorado’s communities have equitable access to clean water.”Theinitial 2020 decision, and a commissioner’s statement at the time that higher protections were reserved for “pristine mountain waters,” infuriated a coalition of dozens of conservation groups and local governments, from Colorado GreenLatinos to Trout Unlimited to Denver City Council members. They wrote to Gov. Jared Polis last year arguing that the statewide commission was “prioritizing industrial proﬁts over the safety and well being of residents who have been historically disproportionately affected by pollution.”Whenthe commissioners late in 2021 agreed to set a hearing to revisit the decision, the commission staff told the advocacy groups it was the ﬁrst time in their knowledge of the commission’s history that petitioners had successfully forced such a reversal.

protections for that clean water,” Commission Chair April Long said, before the final unanimous vote to upgrade the stretches of stream to “reviewable”Commissionerwaters.Jennifer Bock cited “compelling” testimony in favor of stronger protections that came Monday during the first day of a two-day hearing, from metro residents who use the South Platte River and Clear Creek for fishing, boating

better than EPA water quality minimums. The state rules effectively raise the floor of quality as a stream improves, and says those waters can’t be “degraded” below the new floor.Decades of intense and expensive cleanup efforts on urban streams like the South Platte, including by Metro Wastewater, have improved water quality and given the river a chance at more fish, wildlife and recreation, the environmental advocates say. The state’s job is to keep pushing for even cleaner water, the environmental coalition who brought the petition said, not to clear the way for backsliding.

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

The Colorado Water Quality Control Commission unanimously reversed a controversial 2020 decision and added new pollution protections for the South Platte River and Clear Creek through metro Denver, citing a “compelling” campaign by environmental justice advocates who demanded the repeal.

available to us to achieve environmentalAnti-degradationjustice.” rules that will now apply to the stretches of the South Platte River and Clear Creek put those waters into the “reviewable” category. That rule says polluters seeking a new or renewed water quality permit must make a compelling argument that worsening the conditions of a stretch of river is an unavoidable part of an important economic development or civic improvement.Theymustoffer this proof even if the given stretch of water is already

The commissioners Tuesday also scolded Molson Coors and others who had spent the hearing arguing against the new protections for stretches of Clear Creek, which passes the Golden brewery, and the South Platte River north of the Denver boundary.

Colorado adds water quality protections for South Platte, Clear Creek

The vote on Sept. 13 adds new defenses for urban streams and culminates a two-year campaign by a broad coalition of conservation groups, racial and economic justice advocates and local, state and federal ofﬁcials to overturn the 2020 ruling. That year’s ruling had said existing polluters could discharge more waste into the urban streams without new state anti-degradation reviews.Nowthose permitted polluters, including Metro Water Recovery and Molson Coors, will have to prove any new actions won’t further damage the Denver-area streams, where aquatic life is already troubled by runoff, pollution discharge and high temperatures.Thehearings this week were the result of the commission previously agreeing to review arguments from its own staff and the outside coalition, including Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, that their 2020 decision had essentially written off urban streams as hopeless.

Environmental sampling specialist Patrick Maes samples water from the South Platte River at Metro Water Recovery on April 6, 2022, in Denver. Metro Water Recovery is the largest wastewater treatment facility in the western U.S. and treats up to 130 million gallons of water daily. PHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN /THE COLORADO SUN VIA REPORT FOR AMERICA

As other economists have chimed in in the past, some employers know how hard it was to hire people in the past two years. They’re not about to let them go now.

About half never stopped working during the disruptive year of 2020. And about half are still at the same job today. Overall, 85% have a job (some better, some worse) or are looking for one. The remaining 15% are retired or not looking.

planning to cut staff.

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A few others retired early but had to “unretire” as rising costs got in the“Theway.stock market downturn has eaten a big hole in my ‘backup’ so I will continue to work as long as I’m able,” said Sara Sharpe, who lives in Grand Junction.

He learned new skills and has been a self-employed tax accountant ever“Mysince.clients don’t care how old I am,” Mann said, “and I would die of boredom if I retired.”

“A lot of companies that were looking for (skilled labor), they’re not in a hurry to lay people off because there’s so much effort and cost to bring them back when the economy starts to rebound,” said Steven Byers, senior economist with Common Sense Institute, a conservative think tank in Greenwood Village. “Right now, I think there’s so many job openings nationwide and in Colorado that I don’t see (hiring) dropping off.”

Sharpe had sold her bed and breakfast in Ouray in late 2019 with every intention of retiring and living off Social Security and her part-time catering business.

Some still hiring, including space jobs

make that impossible,” said Mickey Mann, who was laid off in 2007 by IBM and found it impossible to get rehired in technology “because of rampant ageism.”

“I am 69 years old and plan to work until something happens to

“Fortunately, folks still call me for parties and I am still able to work,” she said.

Companies are also moving to and expanding in Colorado. In Colorado

No teenagers took the poll but several people between 65 and 74 years old and someone above 75 shared that they are working —- and they work to live.

Springs, The Aerospace Corporation, which is one of those nonprofits that operates a federally funded research and development facility, unveiled its new 90,000-square-foot Space Warﬁghting Center just south of the Colorado Springs airport.

Sharpe got a part-time job at a medical garment factory and as places reopened, she returned to her business, Secret Garden Catering, which serves the Western Slope.

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The new Space Warfighting Center at the Aerospace Corporation in Colorado Springs expects to add 250 more workers in the next few years. No actual space warfighting is expected at this location, just the virtual design and research of technology for the nonprofit company headquartered in California.

(Provided by The Aerospace Corporation)Don’t expect actual space wars to happen in the conﬁnes, but virtual design to develop “advanced space warﬁghting concepts,” according to the company, based in El Segundo, Calif.There are already about 250 employees in the Denver and Colorado Springs region, according to a spokesperson. The plan is to hire another 250 workers for technical jobs at the new location. There are 87 openings right now for gigs like a Cyber Systems Engineer, Information Security Engineer and Astrodynamics and Space Tactics Analyst.

No one needed a caterer when the pandemic hit.

The folks who took last week’s Labor Day poll dubbed “Who’s Working?” provided a glimpse into who’s still working, who isn’t and why. This is far from scientiﬁc but even a couple dozen responses shared the gamut of possibilities out there.

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SOURCE OFFICE PRODUCTS Office Supplies 308.86

JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF Office Supplies 66.00

DBA MHC KENWORTH Vehicle & Equipment Parts 1,013.47

MELISSA CHICK HS-Mileage 20.69

QUICK SET AUTO GLASS Equipment Maintenance 2,660.41 Services Fund Total 7,426.42

Inmate Welfare Fund Total 863.20

HAT PLUMBING HEATING & ELECTRIC Revenue

WESTERN PAPER DISTRIBUTORS INC Hygiene Supplies 307.20 WESTERN PAPER DISTRIBUTORS INC Medical Supplies/Drugs 2,596.00 XCEL ENERGY Heat & Power 57,214.28 General Fund Total 1,184,191.96 CORRECTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSOC MiscellaneousContractServices 15,904.79 CRESTONS WELDING llc ContractMiscellaneousServices 9,720.00 General Fund Grants Total 25,624.79 A SANCHEZ LANDSCAPING LLC Miscellaneous Contract Services 1,860.00 BOBCAT OF THE ROCKIES Equipment Rental 2,192.40 COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA Trail Improvements 37.24 COLUMBIA SANITARY SERVICE INC Miscellaneous Contract Services 1,376.00 CONSOLIDATED MUTUAL WATER COMPANY Water & Sanitation Services 23.40 CORE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE Heat & Power 307.98 EVERGREEN METRO DISTRICT Water& Sanitation Services 739.50 FASTSIGNS Sign Maintenance Supplies 76.60 INNOVATIVE CONTRACTING AND ENGINEERING LLC Trail Improvements 19,852.96 KEN CARYL RANCH WATER & SANIT DIST Water & Sanitation Services 86.39 KENT R TAYLOR Miscellaneous Contract Services 500.00 LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN WATER DISTRICT Water& Sanitation Services 3,663.16 MULLER ENGINEERING COMPANY INC Building Construction & Design12,334.25 SHAUN J HOWARD Meetings & Seminars 65.00 SMYRNA READY MIX CONCRETE LLC Building Maintenance 724.50 WESTERN STATES RECLAMATION INC Trail Improvements 4,909.08 XCEL ENERGY Heat & Power 3,281.73 Open Space Fund Total 52,030.19 CONCRETE EXPRESS INC Trail Improvements 117,134.71 Open Space Fund Grants Total 117,134.71 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Office Supplies 45.88 ARAMARK Janitorial Services 289.22 CINTAS FIRST AID & SAFETY Medical Services 83.55 COBITCO INCORPORATED Pavement Mgt Materials 6,556.32 COLUMBIA SANITARY SERVICE INC Janitorial Services 1,425.00 FASTENAL COMPANY Life Safety Supplies 1,969.69 GADES SALES CO INC Road & Street Improvements 17,016.00 GOLDEN, CITY OF Water & Sanitation Services 125.06 LABOR FINDERS Temporary Agencies 9,400.00 MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS INC Pavement Mgt Materials 213,373.13 MEADOWBROOK WATER DISTRICT Irrigation Water Services 139.33 REPUBLIC SERVICES INC Disposal of Construction Spoils 616.35 SMYRNA READY MIX CONCRETE LLC Concrete Supplies 1,265.25 TERRACARE ASSOCIATES LLC Lawn & Grounds Maintenance 68,912.29 UTILITY NOTIFICATION CENTER Professional Dues OF COLO & Memberships 2,392.00 VANCE BROTHERS INC Pavement Mgt Materials 4,391.00 WESTERN DISPOSAL INC Trash Removal Services 296.73 WILLOWBROOK WATER & SANITATION DIST Irrigation Water Services 620.01 XCEL ENERGY Traffic Related Power 14,108.91 XCEL ENERGY Irrigation Water Services 45.55 Road & Bridge Fund Total 343,071.27 A&A LANGUAGES LLC ContractHS-MiscellaneousServices 175.00 ALAN L BUDDEN HS-Mileage 291.25 ALISON L MANGOLD HS-Mileage 118.75 ALYSIA C JACOBS HS-Mileage 164.38 ALYSSA WERMERS LCSW PLLC ContractHS-MiscellaneousServices 140.00 AMANDA M MUNN HS-Mileage 545.00 Audrey Provine HS-Mileage 122.38 BAIRD, DIANE HS-Miscellaneous

Katie Scherr HS-Mileage 239.94

September 22, 202226 Canyon Courier Canyon Courier Legals September 22, 2022 * 1 www.ColoradoCommunityMedia.com/Notices Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 legals@coloradocommunitymedia.com PUBLIC NOTICES Jefferson County Expenditures Public Notice Jefferson County Press Listing Expenditures for 09/02/2022-09/08/2022 FOOTHILLS PARK & RECREATION DISTRICT Park Escrow-Foothills 300,110.99 FOOTHILLS PARK & RECREATION DISTRICT Park Escrow-Other 8,988.00 FOOTHILLS PARK & RECREATION DISTRICT Escrow Interest Refunds 3,912.39 Escrow Custodial Fund Total 313,011.38 Elise Octavia Shepard Motor Vehicle Overpayments 7.20 HOANG DAN LE Motor Vehicle Overpayments 458.20 LARRY H MILLER CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM BOUNTIFUL Motor Vehicle Overpayments 759.99 Leica Geosystems Inc Motor Vehicle Overpayments 30.00 Patrick E McLarney Motor Vehicle Overpayments 54.88 Phil Long Toyota Motor Vehicle Overpayments 193.86 The Vargas Pena Family Trust Motor Vehicle Overpayments 309.27 Tim Dahle Nissan Southtowne Motor Vehicle Overpayments 1,772.16 Clerk & Recorder Custodial Fund Total 3,585.56 A&A LANGUAGES LLC Consultant Services 165.00 ALAN ALBRANDT Board Meetings Expense 225.00 ALEXANDRA JULIA JENNINGS Training & Education 266.00 ALLIE GALVAN Training & Education 266.00 ALPINE DISPOSAL INC Trash Removal Services 393.77 ALTITUDE BUILDING AUTOMATION INC Maintenance Agreement 65.00 Amy Eulenstein Training & Education 266.00 ANDREW T LEMMER DBA ARCHITECTURAL SYNERGY LLC Board Meetings Expense 180.00 AQUA SERVE Building Maintenance 298.99 ARAMARKSERVICESCORRECTIONALLLC Recognition/Appreciation 293.10 ARAMARKSERVICESCORRECTIONALLLC Contract Services 25,682.44 ARROWHEAD LANDSCAPE SERVICES INC Lawn & Grounds Maintenance 7,586.00 AT&T MOBILITY Telephone Services 475.50 BCT COLORADO Police Supplies 21.00 Benjamin Tyrel Hepler Training & Education 266.00 BILLIE L BAIN Academic Degree Programs 2,000.00 BOB BARKER COMPANY INC Laundry Supplies 5,750.40 BRIAN C DOMINGUES Training & Education 266.00 BRIAN D BECKER Board Meetings Expense 180.00 CAITLIN ROHAN Training & Education 463.50 CALAHAN CONSTRUCTION SERVICES Building Construction & Design 243,665.50 CATALYZER INC Training & Education 6,000.00 CDW G Computer Hardware & Software 2,398.64 CENTURYLINK Telephone Services 6,326.81 CLEMENT, DAVID A Pass Through Intergovernmental 15,199.85 CLIENT PAYMENT Trial Expense 866.96 CO CERTIFIED ROOFING Revenue Refunds 113.00 CO GOVERNMENT FINANCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (CGFOA) Meetings & Seminars 40.00 COLLEEN RENEE LAMB Training & Education 266.00 COLO BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Records/PermitDisbursement-CBI 14,211.00 COLO SECRETARY OF STATE Education & Training Materials 80.00 COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA Public Notices 300.35 COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA Deed Advertising Clearing 65.00 COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES Programs 1,020.00 COMPUTER SITES INC Maintenance Agreement 769.32 CONSOLIDATED MUTUAL WATER COMPANY Water & Sanitation Services 855.30 DOROTHY MARTINEZ Board Meetings Expense 225.00 DP MEDIA NETWORK LLC Public Notices 391.60 EDWARD FORD Board Meetings Expense 120.00 ELDORADO ARTESIAN SPRINGS INC Office Supplies 71.00 EVERGREEN METRO DISTRICT Water& Sanitation Services 97.42 FIRST CALL OF COLO LLC Delivery Charges 9,886.65 FOOTHILLS ANIMAL SHELTER Due to Pet Data-Animal Licenses 660.00 GALLS LLC Police Supplies 10,362.51 GARVINS SEWER SERVICE INC Building Maintenance 408.00 GIMMAL LLC Consultant Services 92,800.00 GINA SBARBARO Training & Education 266.00 GOLDEN, CITY OF Telephone Services 6,084.52 GOLDEN, CITY OF Water& Sanitation Services 69,346.19 GRAHAM RESEARCH CONSULTANTS Training & Education 3,500.00 GRASMICK INC Furniture & Equipment - Non Capital 640.00 GREG ROMBERG Board Meetings Expense 220.00 GROUNDCONSULTANTSENGINEERINGINC Building Construction & Design 801.25 HC PECK & ASSOCIATES INC Deed Title Search Clearing 750.00 HILL PETROLEUM Fuel 22,055.36 HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEM Equipment Maintenance 10.95 IMEG CORP Building Maintenance 2,200.00 INTERVENTION INC Miscellaneous Contract Services 36,336.00 JACKI KELLEY County Travel 70.00 JAIME BROWER PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES Contract Services 250.00 JAIME BROWER PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES Medical Services 500.00 JAIME BROWER PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES Training & Education 800.00 JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF Office Supplies 6.00 JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF Recognition/Appreciation 18.00 JOANNA MEYER Board Meetings Expense 40.00 JOB STORE INC, THE Temporary Agencies 7,779.78 JOSEPH JEHN Board Meetings Expense 100.00 JOST, JAMIE Board Meetings Expense 180.00 K&H PRINTERS LITHOGRAPHERS INC Printing Services 59,500.00 Katia Allen de Oliveira Training & Education 266.00 KD SERVICE GROUP LLC Furniture & Equipment DBA PRIORITY ONE GROUP - Non Capital 3,143.33 KELLY SERVICES INC Contract Services 1,611.23 Kevin McReynolds Training & Education 209.00 KIPLAND KOLKMEIER Board Meetings Expense 220.00 KLEEN TECH SERVICES CORP Janitorial Services 109,934.27 KONE INC Building Maintenance 226.07 LANDSCAPEPROFESSIONALSMAINTENANCEINC Maintenance Agreement 375.00 LOGOTECH Computer Software/EquipmentSupplies/ 4,770.00 Maintenance Global Services Equipment Maintenance 1,308.33 Maylee Barraza Academic Degree Programs 997.27 MITCHELL A PURATY Academic Degree Programs 1,055.00 NEUROCRAFT CENTER LLC Contract Services 13,250.00 NICOLETTI FLATER ASSOC Medical Services 4,215.00 OUTPUT SERVICES INC Postal Fees 15,000.00 OWEN JONES Board Meetings Expense 150.00 PARKER BROWN Board Meetings Expense 225.00 PARKRIDGE PLAZA LLC Building Rent 6,172.00 PAUL WARBINGTON Board Meetings Expense 220.00 PITNEY BOWES INC Equipment Rental 3,773.37

HS-AssistancePaymentsOther 21,422.75

VERIZON 40.76

HOFFMANN RN MS CS, JANE HS-MiscellaneousContractServices 210.00

JESSICA L AHERN HS-Mileage 203.00

RAVEN PRINTING CENTERS INC Printing Services 83.21

LLC Lawn & Grounds

STERICYCLE 535.77

MAC COUNSELING AND CONSULTING HS-MiscellaneousContractServices 1,000.00

LOCKTON COMPANIES LLC Broker Fees 14,447.75

OPTUM BANK INC Miscellaneous Contract Services5,457.49

THOMAS 266.00

A&E TIRE Tires 3,752.54

RACHEL M MONDRAGON Academic Degree Programs

SOURCE OFFICE PRODUCTS Office Supplies 2,025.25 Patrol Fund Total 22,217.97

ContractHS-MiscellaneousServices 60.00

125.01 GEHRKE, HILDA County Travel 95.61 HALEY KLEIN Professional & Technical Services (Other) 500.00 INSIGHT GLOBAL LLC Professional & Technical Services (Other) 11,795.50 JAMES A RADA Food & Beverages 72.00 JAMES A RADA Mileage 150.00 JENNIFER MITCHELL Professional & Technical Services (Other) 500.00 KATELYN MISCIOSCIA Professional & Technical Services (Other) 500.00 KEVIN WELLS Professional & Technical Services (Other) 500.00 MARIE LARSON Professional & Technical Services (Other) 500.00 SARAH MCNAMEE Consultant Services 900.00 SHAWNA VANSICKLE Professional & Technical Services (Other) 1,500.00 SOPHIE B WEST Mileage 45.13 SUNGHYUN CHUNG Professional & Technical Services (Other) 500.00 T MOBILE Telephone Services 5,758.56 ULINE SHIPPING SUPPLY SPECIALISTS Furniture & Equipment - Non Capital 1,700.00 ULINE SHIPPING SUPPLY SPECIALISTS General Supplies (Other) 397.66 US BANK General Supplies (Other) 31,036.02 Public Health Fund Total 57,305.80 ALLISON M WILSON Food Supplies 42.87 ALLISON M WILSON Training & Education 20.89 COLO DEPT OF AGRICULTURE Professional & Technical Services (Other) 205.00 COMMUNITY LANGUAGE COOPERATIVE Professional & Technical Services (Other) 150.00 HEATHER A CORDOVA Mileage 26.28 INSIGHT GLOBAL LLC Professional & Technical Services (Other) 27,351.25 Jennifer Chleboun Mileage 90.63 Jordan Pollock Mileage 35.00 KELLY ANNE SCHOSSOW Mileage 37.50 Trenton Mitchell Mileage 34.38 Public Health Fund Grants Total 27,993.80 CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER Equipment (Other) 15,000.00 SURF FORE LLC Consultant Services 2,040.63 VAISALA INC Miscellaneous Contract Services 335.00 Airport Fund Total 17,375.63 LUMIN8TECHNOLOGIESTRANSPORTATIONLLC Road & Street Improvements 25,734.40 Evergreen Local Improvement District Total GRAND25,734.40TOTAL 2,819,956.09 Legal Notice No. CC959 First Publication: September 22, 2022 Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Canyon Courier

TRANSPERFECT

MANAGEMENT Trash Removal Services

Library Books

T 5,690.24

UNIQUE MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC Professional & Technical Services (Other) 1,000.00

Fleet

WIRELESS Telephone Services

SCOTT MAXWELL HS-Miscellaneous Contract Services 30.00

CLIENT PAYMENT HS-Refund Assistance Payment County 15.08

CLIENT PAYMENT

VTI 168,297.20

REIDY METAL SERVICES INC Maintenance Agreement

Sunnie Trunk HS-Mileage 107.50

SOURCE OFFICE PRODUCTS General Supplies (Other) 320.90

INTERNATIONALTRANSLATIONS Miscellaneous Contract Services 267.06

ENTERPRISES INC DBA 1 VISION Printing Services

MEAGAN N MILLIMAN JCSO (Goods/Inventory)Uniforms 96.87

LORI E PALUCK HS-Mileage 230.88

LLC

SOURCE OFFICE PRODUCTS Photocopy Supplies 1,550.22

ENERGY Heat & Power

MCDADE JACKSON Conferences/Trade Shows

TIMOTHY PAUL Board

WESTERN 4,437.48

Bryce Timberline HS-Mileage 246.63

MATTHEW R ENGEMOEN HS-Mileage 96.75

TINA L IBBOTT HS-County Travel 224.00

SIGNAGE SPECIALIST INC Graphic Supplies 146.55

CLIENT PAYMENT HS-Fingerprints Assistance 481.00

CLIENT PAYMENT

Library Fund Total 95,805.20

CITY SECURITY INC Security

JILL KATHLEEN HENDERSON HS-Mileage 222.88

PIVOT 21,023.14 Expense 100.00 4,100.16 5,886.80 (SaaS) 1,695.00 1,921.57 315.00 Services 297.54

SPENCER, Meetings Expense 40.00

HS-AssistancePaymentsRent 14,562.46

Valeria Almaraz Guzman HS-Office Supplies 54.50

THOMSON 3,044.11

Workforce Development Fund Total 106.50

Workforce Development Fund Grants Total 12,370.57

PAPER DISTRIBUTORS INC Office Supplies

AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Computer Software/EquipmentSupplies/ 524.19

MOBILE Investigation

BETTINA L MORROW HS-Mileage 25.50

CLIENT PAYMENT HS-Assistance Payments Other1,040.00

AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Furniture

SOURCE OFFICE PRODUCTS Special Events Supplies 163.55

XEROX

PUBLICATION PRINTERS CORP Promotional Services

PAPER DISTRIBUTORS INC Janitorial Supplies

MIDWEST TAPE & Materials-DVD 7,397.20

AUDRA R DEVAULT Program Supplies 62.24

BILLIE L BAIN HS-Mileage 224.44

TIPPING Refunds 45.00

WAXIE SANITARY SUPPLY Janitorial Supplies 760.12

DELTA DENTAL OF COLO Delta Dental Insurance Claims 63,117.20

& Equipment - Non Capital 199.98 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Office Supplies 285.03 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Graphic Supplies 52.05 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Safety Supplies 1,551.62 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Recognition/Appreciation 26.64 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC General Supplies (Other) 3,182.20 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Special Events Supplies 1,210.48 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Food Supplies 1,386.02 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Telephone Equipment 19.99 ARVADA, CITY OF Water& Sanitation Services 694.71 BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY INC Library Books & Materials-VAS 1,164.05 BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY INC Library Books & Materials-Print 5,838.71 BANCROFT CLOVER W AND S DISTRICT Water& Sanitation Services 1,198.97 BONITA Moul KIMMELL Mileage 285.01 BRADLEY A GREEN Telephone Services 470.07 BRADLEY A GREEN Mileage 118.63 CENTURYLINK Telephone Services 2,686.74 CINTAS FIRST AID & SAFETY General Supplies (Other) 46.24 CONSOLIDATED MUTUAL WATER COMPANY Water& Sanitation Services 3,724.00 CREATIVE FINANCIAL STAFFING LLC Temporary Agencies 526.75 CREATIVE TROPHY AND AWARD COMPANY Promotional Supplies 433.75 DANIELLE J ERICKSON Mileage 110.44 DS WATERS OF AMERICA INC General Supplies (Other) 31.74 ELIZABETH A GALL Mileage 61.25 EMERALD ISLE LANDSCAPING INC Lawn & Grounds Maintenance 12,677.00 FEDEX GROUND INC Courier Charges 93.18 FLUORESCENT MAINTENANCE COMPANY Electrical Maintenance 164.00 GOLDEN, CITY OF Water & Sanitation Services 862.39 GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS INC Consultant Services 15,937.50 INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR INC Computer Hardware & Software 4,295.00 JENNIFER A READING Mileage 137.50 JESSICA A PAULSEN Mileage 59.69 JOYCE C DEMING Mileage 188.13 KAREN E WALKER Mileage 79.44 KELLY SPICERS STORES Photocopy Supplies 391.84 LOWES Building Supplies 1,019.38 LOWES Electrical Supplies 50.32 LOWES General Supplies (Other) 169.05 M A MEYER CONSTRUCTION INC Building Maintenance 795.00 MICHELLE MCCONNELL Mileage 49.63 MIDWEST TAPE Library Books & Materials-VAS 1,114.73

SOLUTIONSBUSINESSSOUTHWEST Equipment Maintenance 346.39

WAXIE 10,416.50

HUMAN SERVICES NETWORK OF COLORADO HS-Training & Education 910.00

SUMMIT

SEPTIC PLUMBING INC Programs

PEAK ELEVATOR LLC Equipment Maintenance 360.00

GINA PIEROTTI HS-Mileage 116.25

US CORRECTIONS LLC Extradition Travel

SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER Water& Sanitation Services (153.43)

WASTE 4,411.52

WAKING LIFE COUNSELING LLC HS-MiscellaneousContractServices 200.00

UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

JAMIE M GREASER County Travel 407.00

Sara Galenbeck Mileage 94.95

COLORADO KENWORTH LLC

Legal Notice No. CC967

Public Notice

•Provide all insurance requirements in accordance with Clear Creek County Prstandardsovideapayment and performance bond in accordance with Colorado law.

Legal Notice No. CC954

DETAILED ALTERNATE SCOPE OF SERVICES:

Legal Notice No. CC958

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statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado, from any and all liability for such claim.

The purpose of this Request-for-Proposal is to obtain relevant information, credentials, qualifi cations, experience and a proposed Project Ap proach from interested Firms to inform the review committee for selection of a General Contracting Firm for the Project.

Legal Notice No. CC 953

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF: IDLEDALE WATER & SANITATION DISTRICT JEFFERSON, COLORADO

3.Bidders.Electronic copies of Bidding requirements and Bid packages are available free of charge from Mulhern MRE, 188 Inverness Dr W., Suite 140, Englewood, CO 80112; phone number (303) 649-9857. Hard copies will be made available at $200.00 per set.

First Publication: September 8, 2022

The

3. Alternate #3: Replace existing roof system of entire station (recommend roofing

Legal Notice No. CC960

The firm shall submit 1 electronic copy of their response to this Request-for-Proposal.

Public Notice

Any person may appear at the hearing and present evidence upon any matter to be considered by the Board of Trustees.

the MWSD staff at 303-838- 1800 or through the website mtwaterandsan.com .

CCEMS operates in the current facility with the first and second level office areas being vacant and shared interior 3-bay parking garage hosting am bulance, Sheriff, and eventually, Coroner vehicles.

BOWLES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT BLUE HERON AND SUNSET PARK PARKING LOT IMPROVEMENT PROJECT INVITATION TO REQUIREMENTSBID/BIDDING

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•Replace flooring in CCEMS occupied areas.

RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL CLEAR CREEK EMS REMODEL

Interested consultants must submit proposals by 5:00 p.m. on October 10, 2022. The posting of the full Strategic Plan RFP, project documents, questions & answers, as well as the proposal sub mission, will be conducted via bidnetdirect.com. The RFP also is posted on EPRD’s website

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP)

LEGAL NOTICE AND PUBLICATION OF BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RESOLUTION NO. CC22-185

FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

First Publication: September 22, 2022

PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of September, 2022, the vote upon roll call being as follows:

•Project management: Provide complete project management support inclusive of OAC meetings, coordination, project administration, scheduling, budgeting, design review and closeout.

Legal Notice No. CC949

Clear Creek EMS (“CCEMS”) seeks to remodel and update the portion of the building that CCEMS currently functions out of in an existing facility located at 3400 Stanley Road, Dumont.

• Replace all ceiling tile in CCEMS occupied Replaceareas. all windows in CCEMS occupied

For: Mayor Wolfe, Trustees Gill, Forey, Sutton, Way and Wirtz

Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Canyon Courier Public Notice

•Inspect,areas. diagnose, and replace-as-needed subfloor in all CCEMS occupied areas.

3.Failure on the part of a creditor to file such

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON INCLUSIONS OF PROPERTY INTO IDLEDALE WATER & SANITATION DISTRICT

contractors are onsite. Supervisor shall oversee all operations and ensure contractors are perform ing the work in a safe and professional fashion consistent with the plans and specifications.

or to schedule an inspection, call 303-679-2451. Clear Creek County reserves the right to deny any and all bids.

By: Christopher Wolfe, Mayor

Bids and

2. All such claims shall be filed with Heather Frizzle, Director of Finance Jefferson County Colorado, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden CO 80419-4560.

Clear Creek County is accepting sealed bids for: 2009 Chevy Tahoe, Fair/Good Condition - 224, 183 miles 2012 GMC Sierra 1500 Cargo Van, Fair/Good Condition - 208,089 miles 2013 Chevy Tahoe, Fair/Good Condition205,919 miles

Legal Notice No. CC956

• Include an Owner’s reserve and contingency amount to be controlled by Clear Creek County; each shall be 10% of the total GMP. Secure all permitting for the completion of the project

Shall Jefferson County taxes be increased by $600,000 annually in the first full fiscal year (2024) and by such amounts as are raised thereafter by imposing a sales tax between three and six percent (3-6%) on the sale of retail marijuana and marijuana products within the unincorporated areas of Jefferson County, which tax shall be in addition to all other sales taxes imposed, with the Board of County Commissioners having authority to increase or decrease the sales tax rate without further voter approval beginning in January 2024 so long as the rate of such sales tax does not exceed six percent (6%), with such tax revenues being used to fund public safety operations as determined by the Board of County Commissioners, and with the result ing tax revenue being allowed to be collected, retained, and spent beginning in 2024 and thereafter, notwithstanding the limitations of Article X, Section 20 of the Colorado Constitu tion or any other law?

County of Jefferson, State of Colorado Andy Kerr, Chairman Board of County Commissioners

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Petition for Annexation of territory hereinafter described has been presented to the Board of Trustees of the Town of Morrison, Colorado and found to be in apparent compliance with the applicable provi sions of law. The Board of Trustees has adopted a Resolution setting a public hearing to be held at 6:00 P.M. on October 18, 2022, at Morrison Town Hall, 110 Stone Street, Morrison, Colorado, to determine if the proposed annexation complies with the applicable requirements of law.

First Publication: September 22, 2022 Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Canyon Courier Public Notice

CCEMS seeks to retain a General Contracting Firm to provide all remodel work to update con struction for preexisting infrastructure, permitting and construction and/or construction oversight required for a remodel/update project.

First Publication: September 15, 2022

1. INVITATION TO BID. A. Invitation.

Last Publication: September 22, 2022

Mountain Water and Sanitation District has submitted the annual report for 2022 demonstrat ing proof of the value of the Radioactive Materials Management Financial Warranty. For further infor mation regarding the Assurance Warranty, contact

Last Publication: October 6, 2022

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there has been filed with the Board of Directors of Idledale Water & Sanitation District (the “District”), County of Jef ferson, a petition requesting that certain property, which is described below, be included into the boundaries of the District. One hundred percent (100%) of the owners of the properties identified in the petition have given their consent to the inclu sion of the property into the District’s boundaries. Accordingly, notice is hereby given to all interested persons that they shall appear at a public hearing at 6:00 P.M. on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, at the Idledale Community Church Building located at 21429 Highway 74, Idledale, CO, 80453, and show cause in writing why the petition should not be granted. The Board of Directors of the District, in their own discretion, may continue the hearing(s) to a subsequent meeting.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Clear Creek County requests the following services as part of the scope for the purpose of renovating Station 1A to a functional building.

2. Alternate #2: Installation and connection of ground mount or roof-mount PV solar system.

HAMON INFRASTRUCTURE, INC. 5670 Franklin St. Denver, CO. 80216

• Paint and upgrade all wall spaces in CCEMS occupied areas.

1. The project scope includes the removal and replacement of existing asphalt and curb and gut ter, restriping, as well as the upgrade of existing ADA ramps to comply with current ADA requirements, and coordina tion with the District staff, all as described in the Contract Documents (the “Project”). The Project location is at Sunset Park and Blue Heron Park in Jefferson County, Colorado.

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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT JEFFERSON COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

hereinafter called the “Contractor”, for and on ac count of the contract for the S. Alkire St. Roadway Improvements from S. Zang Ct. To W. Belleview Ave. project in Jefferson County, CO.

Pursuant to C.R.S. Section 38-26-107, notice is hereby given that on the 4th day of October 2022 final settlement will be made by the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado to:

REQUEST FOR SEALED BIDS CLEAR CREEK COUNTY

Submit sealed bids with your phone number, indi cating the specific vehicle on the outer envelope to Captain Matt Brown, Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office, P.O. Box 2000, 405 Argentine Street, Georgetown, CO 80444, Attn: Sealed Bids. Bids must be received in our office no later than 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 6, 2022, and all bids will be opened at that time. The winning bidder will be notified by the end of the business day on October 7, 2022. Cash only payment for the winning bid is required. For further information,

First Publication: September 15, 2022

OF THE TOWN OF MORRISON, COLORADO Ariana Neverdahl, Town Clerk

Evergreen Park & Recreation District (EPRD) is seeking professional services to develop a Stra tegic Plan for the District, located in Evergreen, Colorado. Proposals shall be based on the Scope of Work described in the RFP. The Plan will guide EPRD’s operations, programming and capital investments through recommendations and pro posed strategies that are consistent with EPRD’s mission and based upon thorough research and public outreach. The plan will incorporate a spe cific and prioritized implementation framework and produce a Strategic Action Plan for EPRD over the next 3-5 years. EPRD desires that the planning efforts will also support EPRD’s consideration of a potential bond & mil campaign in the near future.

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Publisher:LastFirstLegalemailandPleaseSolicitations.https://www.evergreenrecreation.com/329/Active-atvisitbidnetdirect.comforthecompleteRFPfurtherinformation.Forquestions,pleaseLizCohenatlcohen@eprd.co.NoticeNo.CC965Publication:September22,2022Publication:September22,2022CanyonCourier Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles Public Notice Kings Valley Storage 30404 Kings Valley Drive Conifer CO 80433 Michael Smallwood Unit 108 Last known address PO Box 1776 Fairplay CO 80440 Total Amount Due is $937 Contents to be sold or otherwise disposed of on or after September 25. Legal Notice No. CC952 First Publication: September 15, 2022 Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Canyon Courier Notice to Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Terry Rae Vogt, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30826 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 January 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred. Don D. AttorneyVogt,tothe Personal Representative 6076 Morrison,ColorowColorado 80465 Legal Notice No. CC948 First Publication: September 8, 2022 Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Canyon Courier ### Public Notices Read the Legal Notices. You’ll be up to date each week! And all from your own home! Balancing Government Actions.... ....With your right to know! Legal Legal Notices Notices Balancing Government Actions.... ....With your right to know!

Evergreen Park & Recreation District STRATEGIC PLAN

Remodel and Updates to CCEMS office and living quarters:

Metropolitan Districts

1. The Bowles Metropolitan District (the “District”) hereby invites and solicits sealed Bids for the construction of public im provements within as described in Section 1.B below, to be received by the Bowles District (the “District”) c/o Mulhern MRE – Project Manager, 188 Inverness Drive West, Suite 140, Englewood, Colorado 80112 until 1:00 p.m. on the 7th day, of October, 2022. Bids will not be publicly opened and read. The term “Bid” shall mean the follow ing documents: (1) Bid Form (Attachment 1), (2) Schedule of Values (Exhibit to Attachment 1), (3) Declaration of Non-Collusion affidavit (Attachment 2), and (4) Bid Bond (Attachment 3). No Bid will be considered complete unless all such documents are submitted on the date specified in this Section.

By: AJ Beckman, District Manager

Last Publication: September 29, 2022

Against: None Abstain: None

First Publication: September 22, 2022

Canyon Courier 27September 22, 2022 Canyon Courier Legals September 22, 2022 * 2

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 19, 2022, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado, adopted Resolution No. CC22-185, which placed a ballot measure on the November 8, 2022, election ballot to establish a new sales tax on the sale of retail marijuana and marijuana products within the unincorporated areas of Jefferson County. The full text of the ballot measure is set forth below:

The legal description of the property petitioned for inclusion is on file at the office of the District Man ager, AJ Beckman, Public Alliance, LLC, 13131 West Alameda Parkway, Suite 200, Lakewood, CO, 80228, and is available for public inspection during regular business hours 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.

2. The District is open to public traffic, which includes the general project area. No lane closures will be permitted during construction except for those described in the Contract (Attachment 4).

Last Publication: September 22, 2022

• Update and replace toilets, sinks, shower pans and fixtures for 4 bathrooms. Update lighting fixtures to LED in all CCEMS occupied areas.

•Replace and update all doors in CCEMS occupied areas.

1. Alternate #1: Paint exterior of entire building (Station 1A) siding, trim, windows, doors, etc.

Firms may not contact any team members, staff or employees of Clear Creek County or other par ties involved in this project. All communications regarding this project should be directed to: Bryon Monseu, Clear Creek County Emergency Medi cal Services Representative, at bryon.monseu@ clearcreekems.com .

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2. A pre-Bid meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. on the 10th day, of October, 2022 at the site of the project located at Blue Heron Park, 5491 West Bowles Avenue, Littleton, CO 80123. Attendance at the pre-Bid meeting is recommended for all

The name and address of the petitioner is: Jarmila S. Gorman, 2394 S. Grapevine Road, Golden, CO, 80401.

1. Any person, co-partnership, association or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the said project, for or on account of the furnish ing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or any of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

B. Project Description.

The deadline for submitting a Response is 4:00 p.m. local time on Monday, October 3, 2022.

• Onsite Supervision: Provide fulltime onsite supervision over the duration of the project while

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