Building grapplers

building process,” he explained. “ e high school has made huge strides, and hopefully kids from (Mountain Grapplers) will lter up to the high school team.” e team has won about half of its meets this year, which is a good sign, especially considering the team doesn’t have grapplers wrestling at all 14 weight classes. e team took several wrestlers to regionals Feb. 10-11 in Eaton, Colorado, and Adamson hopes some grapplers will qualify for state.

“In a couple years, I think everything will have a whole varsity team and JV as well,” he said, noting that anyone, boys and girls, can participate in wrestling.

King of the Mountain meet e match was the last one of the season at home for the Lobos, as well as senior night.

At Conifer’s dual meet against Evergreen on Feb. 2, Evergreen won what is called the King of the Mountain meet 45-36.

“We were kind of playing the underdog (with a) forfeit in ve weights, so it was going to be a tough path for us anyway,” Adamson said.

Senior Jacob Reynolds, who spent two years with the program, admitted he felt the pressure of the night, and he won his match.

“No matter what, I didn’t care if I broke an arm, or if I bled or sweat, I was going to win this match no matter what,” Reynolds said.

Senior Jack Fetzer, who is ranked seventh in 3A in the 144-pound weight class, will be making a run for the podium at state this year. He won his match in 60 seconds.

“It felt awesome,” Fetzer said. “ ere’s no other feeling.”

An individual sport

Adamson said wrestling was a unique sport because of the mental and physical challenges, calling it the purest individual sport. “ ere is no equipment, no balls, no bats, no rims,” he explained. “You don’t have coaches calling plays. at strips the sport down to its barest form, so it’s all about individual responsibility. In a lot of other sports, you can hide behind your teammates or blame the coach for a bad call or game. In this sport, you own the whole thing.”

Three’s a crowd e way the Publican saw it, Seamus was the villain of the story, although it’s his professional policy to expel all parties to a potential perturbation. Seamus said it was the o cer’s duty to arrest somebody. e deputy said Seamus was at the top of his list. Seamus decided not to let a little scrap among friends ruin an otherwise pleasant evening.

CONIFER – Seamus was mad as hops. He’d been enjoying a quiet pint in the local pub when John appeared at his elbow with a mug in his st and a scowl on his mug. A poet at heart, and a lover of peace, Seamus sidled over a few stools to avoid trading insults with John. Himself a practiced sidler, John followed, determined to speak his angry piece. “Get away from me,” Seamus demanded. “I should punch you,” John responded. About that time John’s friend Buddy showed up to cool John’s jets, and the Publican showed up to give all three the bum’s rush. Reassembled in the parking lot, John and Buddy “both punched me once and left,” Seamus told a JCSO deputy. With John and Buddy long gone, the deputy looked to the Publican for corroboration. In fact, the barkeep began, Seamus was the one who sat down next to John and Buddy, and he’d immediately started directing extremely o ensive stage whispers at Buddy, prompting John to come to his friend’s defense.

Banishing act

PINE JUNCTION – Awakening to nd himself alone in bed at 1 a.m., he went in search of his lady love. He found her sleeping alone on the living room couch, six sheets to the wind. Craving her company in the master suite, he gently shook her awake and invited her thither. Except Lady Love liked the couch, and she didn’t like being roused from drunken repose. Lady Love kicked him to the curb – quite literally – and it was from the curb that he called JCSO. Deputies explained to Lady Love that she couldn’t evict her boyfriend without a whole lot of due process. Feeling misunderstood, Lady Love tried to summarily evict the deputies, who assured her that it doesn’t work that way. Lady Love decided to stop talking to the deputies, her boyfriend decided to let her sleep it o on the couch and the deputies decided that was as good a resolution as they were liable to get.

The moving finger writes...

EVERGREEN – Most people don’t call the cops when somebody writes a snotty little message on the back of their unwashed car. Pamela Pickup isn’t most people, however, and the snotty little message scrawled on her dusty tailgate hit a little too close to home. “Stop smoking inside,” urged the anonymous author. Oh, Pamela had plenty of suspects. “My neighbors actively dislike me,” she explained to deputies, “as much as I dislike them.” Since the road-dirt diktat hurt her feelings more than her paint job, she merely asked o cers to document the crude communique in case more impertinent prose appears.

Pitched purse perplexes

EVERGREEN – On the morning of Jan. 17, a good Samaritan showed up at JCSO’s mountain substation with a purse she found on the ground at the intersection of Kipling and Quincy in Lakewood. Early prospects of repatriating the purse with its rightful owner seemed promising. Inside it, next to a pink and yellow “Elf Bar vape machine,” deputies found a valid U.S. passport. Unfortunately, the passport’s owner didn’t seem to register on o cial databases either in Colorado or Alabama, the owner’s listed place of birth. Inquiring further, o cers learned that the purse came to Samaritan’s attention when it was thrown from the window of a moving vehicle, make and model unknown. JCSO will hang onto the mysterious jetsam in case somebody comes looking for it.

Postbox pill-aged EVERGREEN – Accustomed to receiving his medications by mail, he was surprised when they didn’t show up on Jan. 14 as expected. When postal authorities assured him the meds had been duly delivered, he was disgusted to nd himself a victim of mailbox theft. When a stranger called out of the blue on Jan. 17 to inform him she’d found his necessary nostrums scattered about the parking lot at her place of business, he wasn’t particularly relieved. Since the medicines may have been “tampered with,” his HMO agreed to replace the prescriptions. Since suspect information may yet surface, JCSO is leaving the case ajar.

Changer danger

EL RANCHO – When Beryl Bigbox nished her shift and couldn’t nd her phone, she gured it for stolen. “It’s usually in my back pocket,” Beryl told deputies on the afternoon of Jan. 10. Riled and resourceful, she’d tracked the missing device to a North Evergreen address, and had instantly recognized the construction crew thereat as one she’d seen in the store earlier. Under Beryl’s persistent grilling, one of the workers eventually produced her phone, explaining that he’d “found it” and “was going to return it.” at might have been the end of the story if she hadn’t subsequently discovered that the phone had been “messed with” and several “settings and items” had been “changed.” While Beryl merely wanted JCSO to document the incident, she told deputies she’ll expect more concrete action from the worker’s superiors.

Thelma and Louise

EVERGREEN – e two women who strolled into the Stagecoach Boulevard out tter on the evening of Jan. 12 weren’t exactly discreet. One wore camou age from toe to topknot, the other a bright red hoodie and a white du e bag slung from her shoulder. ey ambled the aisles for the better part of an hour, at times asking employees about “gun holsters” and “Carhartt pants.” Turns out what they were really looking for was a Milwaukee battery and charger, which Hoodie boldly stu ed

SEE SHERIFF’S CALLS, P14 into her du el and “ran out of the store.” An employee ran after her, nding her seated in an F-150 wearing an exaggerated expression of innocence. “I didn’t take anything,” she purred, just as Camo showed up at the truck. “Did my friend steal something?” asked Camo, seemingly aghast. When another employee arrived to even the odds, Camo leapt into the passenger side and the pair roared away. e case was placed on hold pending an o cial review of the store’s surveillance tapes.

What lies beneath EVERGREEN – Every remodel has its share of unforeseen complications, but the bathroom upgrade on Little Cub Creek came to a screeching halt on the afternoon of Jan. 8 when a workman hoisted up the old bathtub to nd a cache of mouldering bones. e grisly remains appeared to be of human scale, and they’d been deliberately and cleanly cut into easily concealable lengths. Deputies called to the scene sent photos of the grisly trove to the Coroner’s o ce, where they were quickly declared animal bones “cut up to be dog treats.” Deputies buried the case.

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THURSDAY

Evergreen chamber speed networking event: e Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce will host a speed networking event from 7:30-9 a.m. Feb. 16 at Troutdale Tavern. For more information, visit evergreenchamber.org.

Upcoming

Navigating the Unhoused Crisis: e League of Women Voters of Je erson County and Je erson Unitarian Church Community Action Network will co-sponsor a virtual panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 6-7:30 p.m. to explore what can be done in Je erson County to ease the plight of the unhoused. e public is invited to join via Zoom. ere is no charge to attend, but registration is required at https://bit.ly/3DRkhkW. For more information, visit LWVJeffco.org.

attorneys will answer questions, help ll 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 visiting https://tinyurl.com/ ykzs2ej7.

p.m. Shows are at Evergreen Players Black Box eatre, 27886 Meadow Drive, Unit B, Evergreen. Tickets are $30 and may be purchased online at www.evergreenplayers.org or by calling 720-515-1528.

Evergreen Audubon Explore More: Registration is now open for Evergreen Audubon’s Explore More after-school programs starting the last week of March at Marshdale and Wilmot elementary schools and Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen. ese programs are for kids who love being outdoors and learning about nature and science. For more information and to register, visit www.EvergreenAudubon. org and click on Events.

teen book club that meets from 4-6 p.m. the fourth Monday at the Resilience1220 o ce next to the Buchanan Park Recreation Center. e group’s rst book is “Hell Followed With Us.” For more information and to register, visit R1220.org.

Hiwan Museum winter hours: Hiwan Museum has shortened winter hours for tours, open ursday and Friday from noon to 4 p.m. and weekends from noon to 4:30 p.m. Private tours of large groups may be accommodated when the museum is closed by calling Erica Duvic at Hiwan Museum at 720-4977653.

“Spirit of Love” show: Shadow Mountain Gallery in downtown Evergreen will have its “Spirit of Love” Valentine’s show and sale through March 4. All items are made by local artists e gallery, which is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, is next to Beau Jo’s Pizza.

Young Writers’ Conference: e Young Writers’ Conference will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. ursday, March 30, at Marshdale Elementary School. Register by Feb. 28. For registration and event questions, email kirstin. pulio @je co.k12.co.us.

Evergreen chamber monthly breakfast: e Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce will host its monthly breakfast from 7:30-9 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, at Troutdale Tavern. For more information and to register, visit evergreenchamber.org.

Free legal clinic: A free legal clinic for people with no attorney will be from 2 to 5 p.m. ursday, March 2. By telephone or video, volunteer

Snowshoe hikes: Explore the beauty of Colorado’s winter wonderland on a guided snowshoe hike in Georgetown. Kimberly Knox of Georgetown Outdoor Discovery and Evergreen Audubon’s Emma Vasicek will lead hikes on March 4 and April 1. For more information and to register, visit www.evergreenaudubon. org/events/snowshoe-hike-withgeorgetown-outdoor-discoveryjanuary-2023

Evergreen chamber mixer: e Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce will host a mixer from 5-7 p.m. ursday, March 9, at Restoration 1 of West Denver in Wheat Ridge. In conjunction the showroom will have an open house, where the community can meet designers and tour the showroom.

“Chapter Two:” Evergreen Players will perform “Chapter Two” by Neil Simon March 10-26. Friday and Saturday are at 7 p.m. and Sunday matinee performances are at 2

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Foothills Home, Garden & Lifestyle Show: Foothills Home, Garden & Lifestyle Show will be April 1-2 at Evergreen High School. e show, sponsored by Evergreen and Conifer Rotary, will be from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. ere is no entry fee, though bringing two nonperishable food items for Evergreen Christian Outreach is encouraged. Net proceeds are distributed as grants for charitable causes through the Evergreen and Conifer Rotary Foundations. For more information, visit foothillshomeshow.com.

ONGOING

Mountain Area Democrats: Mountain Area Democrats meet the fourth Saturday of each month at 9 a.m. through April at United Methodist Church of Evergreen, 3757 Ponderosa Drive, Evergreen. For more information, email MountainAreaDems@gmail. com.

LGBTQ+ teen book club: Resilience1220 is o ering a LGBTQ+

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

ESA EverGREEN Re ll Station: EverGREEN Re ll Station (re ll your laundry detergent, lotions, soaps and more. We have many sustainable products available). e Re ll Station is open Tuesdays from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and Wednesdays from 1-4 p.m. It is located upstairs in the Habitat Restore in Bergen Park, 1232 Bergen Parkway.

Support After Suicide Loss: Heartbeat and Resilience1220 o er Support After Suicide Loss from 5:30-7 p.m. the fourth ursday of the month for ages 14 and older. Join in-person or online. Suggest donation is $15. For location, visit R1220. org.

History Happy Hour: e 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