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BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Evergreen Christian Outreach celebrated an adventure on March 4. e nonpro t that o ers a food bank, resale shop and a wide range of services to people in need cel-

Morrison trustees deny application for water-bottling operation

Board frustrated it didn’t get details in a timely manner

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It may be a while longer before Je Bradley bottles water in downtown Morrison.

Bradley has been working for two years to get the necessary permits from the Morrison trustees to open a bottling business in the basement of the building that houses Morrison Joe co ee shop. However, town ofcials have needed to continue the public hearing four times since early 2021, frustrated they haven’t gotten the information they need to make a decision.

e board on March 7 voted 4-1 to deny the special-use permit ap-

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Dale Flanders, executive director of Evergreen Christian Outreach, raises a glass to salute the late Jan Stadler for her work to help secure EChO’s current location. EChO hosted a reception to dedicate the building in Stadler’s honor.

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Evergreen Christian Outreach hosted a party to dedicate its building on Meadow Drive to the late Jan Stadler. Stadler’s husband, Craig, drills screws into place as Dale Flanders, left, EChO’s executive director, and Ray Dowdle, EChO’s past board president, hold the plaque.

The Evergreen nonprofit also honored the late Jan Stadler for helping with the project

ebrated the culmination of the work it took to move its programs into one location. at celebration included lauding the late Jan Stadler, who was instrumental in helping the organization procure the space on Meadow Drive. Stadler died in 2021.

EChO purchased the building in October 2020 and immediately moved the food bank. Other services moved since then, including the resale shop, which opened in the new location last fall.

“We are celebrating the journey of getting into the building,” said Dale Flanders, EChO’s executive director since January 2021. “Jan was on the board and the catalyst for us getting the space. She made the magic hap-

pen.”

EChO had its food bank and some o ces at Church of the Trans guration and the resale shop and more o ces in Evergreen North.

“ is space is an answer to decades of prayers,” Flanders told those gathered for the dedication. He thanked former board members who have served the organization since its inception 35 years ago for their work, noting, “We built this organization on your shoulders.”

Virginia Hartmere, EChO’s current board president, said in 2018, EChO put an item in its strategic plan to have a space of its own, and by 2020, the organization’s o cials were negotiating for the space.

“Jan engaged contractors, friends and family to make this happen,” she said. “Jan set the dominos in place. It was her vision, determination and enthusiasm that turned this place

into our home. We are celebrating the impact Jan had on EChO and the community.”

Ray Dowdle, past EChO board president, said in May 2020 as the pandemic was in full swing, it was apparent that the food bank would not continue to operate if it stayed where it was because it was in tight quarters, and social distancing wasn’t an option. Sta brought food outside for clients during nice weather, but that wouldn’t continue as the weather got colder.

Flanders added that had EChO not moved when it did, it would not have been able to accommodate the 40% increase in clients over the past year, and he anticipates continued growth in clients.

“ is building is a perfect example of what an organization like EChO can do,” Dowdle said.

Flanders called the building a

launching point for what comes next for the organization.

“A building is just a building,” he added. “It’s the people that make it work. Everything aligned perfectly to make something amazing happen.”

EChO has a new logo of a drop of water making ripples.

“Jan made a huge ripple in the lives of others,” he noted.

Jan’s husband Craig said he helped with the EChO move, picking up 120 bags of concrete from various businesses down the hill and hauling them into the building.

“ ere weren’t many people around when I was doing this,” he said, laughing, and added that helping EChO was a labor of love.

As part of the ceremony, he screwed the plaque honoring Jan into the wall, kissing the plaque that has a likeness of his wife on it, as he nished.

e plaque says: “Jan Stadler, 1957-2021: is building is dedicated to the memory of Jan Stadler, beloved and revered EChO board member, without whose vision, resourcefulness and initiative this home for EChO would not exist.”

EChO history

EChO started in 1987 after an economic downturn in Colorado fueled in part by an oil bust. Gordon Wyant and Jim Benson, who owned a construction supply business together, were looking for a way to be of service to the community. ey learned of an elderly woman in Morrison who needed help with home repairs and with putting food on her table.

As they provided aid, they realized Evergreen probably had others in the same situation, so they went to Church of the Trans guration for space to start a food bank. ey turned a closet into their food pantry and had two refrigerators for perishable food. ere were also a few shelves for clothes.

ose who became involved in the edgling nonpro t knew that families in need were going from church to church for help, and EChO was available to provide a one-stop shop for needy families. Founding churches included Church of the Trans guration, Evergreen Fellowship and Evergreen Lutheran Church.

In 2000, EChO opened its Resale Shop, and about 10 years ago, the Job Center opened.

EChO’s building on Meadow Drive was known as e Place, and before that, it was a grocery store, a carpet store, a place for nonpro ts and more.

Ray Dowdle, EChO’s past board president, speaks at the gathering.

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The plaque hangs inside the entryway to EChO.

meet increased demand

BY LILY MOTT

No two days are the same for Dale Flanders.

As executive director of Evergreen Christian Outreach, Flanders led the nonpro t through most of the pandemic. But the job is even more challenging now as the organization faces a steep increase in demand for its food bank and other services.

Requests for help soared more than 70% in January compared to a year earlier. For all of 2022, EChO served 41% more people than in 2021.

“By the time 2021 rolled around, we were seeing more people than we’ve ever seen,” Flanders said. “And 2022, they went up even higher because now, not only do we have the remnants of COVID, we have a really horrible in ationary issue.”

e increasing need for nonpro t services is not unique to EChO and the Evergreen community. According to recent research by the Federal Reserve Bank, many nonpro t organizations have expanded their services in response to higher levels of household nancial stress and food insecurity.

As one of the largest human services organizations in the foothills, EChO runs a food pantry, team of social workers, education or job center, overnight shelter and resale shop. Flanders oversees the whole operation.

Other nonpro t agencies are also seeing the increased community needs.

Metro Caring, one of Colorado’s leading frontline, anti-hunger organizations, welcomed an average of 580 households a week to its food pantry before the pandemic. During the rst week of March, Metro Caring served more than 800 households.

Metro Caring schedules shopping appointments, so households have enough time and plenty of space in the food bank.

“ ose are booked up. We don’t have empty appointments every week,” said Brandon McKinley, Metro Caring communications and marketing specialist.

e story is the same for Food Bank of the Rockies, which operates food banks across Colorado and Wyoming. Brittany Pyle, Food Bank

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of the Rockies executive assistant, attributes the increases in need to in ation and supply-chain issues hitting the economy at the same time.

“In ation hit a 40-year high, and we’re paying 27% more for beef than in 2021. Vegetable oil is up 54%, and freight and refrigerated vehicles have increased their costs about 60% per month,” Pyle said.

Pyle says the nonpro t is spending $1 million more per month to purchase food that it used to receive in donations or commodities before the pandemic.

Both McKinley and Pyle expect the need for food-bank services to continue to increase once federal pandemic relief programs end.

e Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program increased people’s bene ts during the pandemic, but those ended at the beginning of March.

Within the next year, other emergency funding from the pandemic is expected to end, including increased bene ts for Medicare and Medicaid.

“As we know, it’s already a problem to choose between health care and paying your bills and paying for where you live,” Pyle said. “So, we anticipate we will continue to see larger amounts of people as the year goes through.”

Flanders is determined to continue meeting people’s needs in Evergreen and the surrounding communities, despite the strain on EChO’s resources.

e agency’s food resource manager warned Flanders that the annual budget was spent by October last year. His advice: “Keep spending what you need to spend because the need isn’t going away.”

He attributes the continued success of the organization to donors and the hundreds of volunteers.

“We’re not going to operate with a scarcity mindset,” Flanders said.

“We believe in the generosity of our community.”

Laura Hayes, a volunteer with Evergreen Christian Outreach, stocks shelves in the food pantry. PHOTOS BY DEB HURLEY BROBST

Co ee, art, flowers and ice cream at new shops in Evergreen, Conifer

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Co ee, tea and more at The Farmhouse e owner of e Farmhouse in Bergen Park says it’s a co ee and tea house with a gift shop mixed in.

Owner Lana Sanders o ers beverages and prepackaged baked goods from an Evergreen bakery, plus gluten-free and dairy-free options. She sells baked goods from other places because she didn’t want to do the baking herself.

“ ere’s less cooking and more lifting up my friends,” she said calling the space “like having people in my living room. It’s really cool.”

Sanders started out at a farmers market outside Taspen’s in Conifer, where she loved to hang out with the artisans and craftspeople selling their wares.

“I started thinking there was something to do with this,” Sanders said. “I decided on Jan. 1 that we’re going to make 2023 di erent.”

Everything for sale in the shop is created by women-owned businesses, and she’s starting a small market on Saturdays. For now, it’s inside, but she hopes to have it along the sidewalk when the weather is nicer.

e Farmhouse opened Feb. 21, and Sanders has started classes including how to make sourdough bread on March 18. She already had a storyteller perform and an acrylic painting class.

e Farmhouse is on Castle Court across from Evergreen Fire Station 2. It is open from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Visit the website at thefarmhouse3.godaddysites. com.

Owl Cat Shoppe opens in downtown Evergreen

e Evergreen Gallery has branched out with a second location in downtown Evergreen that has dif-

ferent items and a di erent feel.

Gallery owner Beth Riser has opened the Owl Cat Shoppe — for the wise and curious — in the Aframe next to Wild ower Café with a mix of items from local and international artists, puzzles, do-it-yourself kits and more.

Riser said she was looking for studio space and wound up with another retail space included. e rst oor is the shop while the second oor is the studio where Riser and her employees are learning to create fused-glass art.

e Evergreen Gallery on the west

end of downtown Evergreen has experienced, award-winning artists, while the Owl Cat Shoppe has emerging artists, she explained.

e Owl Cat Shoppe has a di erent feel, she said, and it is open from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday through ursday, and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday. As the weather gets better, the shop will open at 10 a.m.

Owl’s Nest in Conifer has flowers, plants and more Local artist Simone Tipton has expanded her horizons by adding oral design to her repertoire.

Tipton is the owner of the Owl’s Nest in Conifer, specializing in owers, plants, arts and gifts. She took over the shop, which had been called Southern Lilies, in July. Creating bouquets came easy for the artist, who also spent two months with the former owner to learn the ropes. It was just a matter of guring out her own owerarrangement style.

Tipton has always loved plants, plus she’s a painter and woodburning artist, creating ornaments,

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Lana Sanders owns a new co ee and tea house in Bergen Park.

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magnets and wall decor. She’s just added two vendors: one who creates macrame and the other who does custom jewelry.

Tipton has enjoyed making connections with clients and brightening people’s day with owers and plants.

“It’s been a learning experience but a lot of fun,” she added.

e shop in Green Valley Ranch near Snowpack Taproom is open from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Mondays, 9 a.m.5 p.m. Tuesday through ursday, and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Little Man ice cream at new shop

Evergreen has a new ice cream shop.

Colorado Creamery is on Meadow Drive behind Camp re Evergreen, and for those who have lived in Evergreen a long time, it’s where the Rib Crib used to be. In fact, owner Rachel Ball found a business card from the Rib Crib when she was cleaning the space, and she’s planning to have the card framed.

Ball, who has worked 10 years in the food service industry, wanted to bring high-quality ice cream to Evergreen and match it with a place with a fun vibe for people to spend time. She is o ering Little Man ice cream, milkshakes, malts, sundaes and more.

Ball is reliving her younger years through opening the ice cream shop, saying she remembers going

out to dinner with family and then going for ice cream. She also has fond memories of dates with her now husband Jesse with stops for ice cream, and now he helps her with what she calls her “ice cream dream.”

Ball plans to have several avors regularly and rotate in other avors monthly.

“Adults have wonderful memories of being a kid and going to an ice cream shop,” Ball said. “I want to make memories for kids of Evergreen. I love serving people and bringing joy to them.”

e shop is open from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. daily and closed on Wednesday. Ball plans to have expanded hours this summer.

Beth Riser, owner of the Evergreen Gallery, has opened a second shop, the Owl Cat Shoppe, in downtown Evergreen.

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Rachel Ball, owner of Colorado Creamery, wants to create memories through ice cream at her shop.

Evergreen’s iconic Yellow House may get restaurant, community space

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e owners of the Yellow House in Evergreen want to breathe new life into the building.

Locals Mark Footer and Jerry Anderson bought the 6,500-square-foot building on Highway 73 in November and want to expand the zoning on the 1.33-acre property. ey envision putting in a co ee shop or restaurant, having meeting and community-use space, an education center, special community functions, retails sales and a gazebo.

ey hosted a community meeting on March 7, the rst step before ling a formal application with Jefferson County Planning & Zoning to expand the zoning for the property. Rezoning applications eventually go before the Je co Planning Commission for a recommendation and then to the county commissioners for a decision.

Neighbors who attended the meeting were concerned about whether there was enough parking at the location, especially if a restaurant was located there, increased tra c on Highway 73 and Camel Heights Road, and the deer herd that regularly migrates through the area.

“We acquired (the Yellow House) in large part to keep it as an asset for the community,” Footer said. “Our aim is to keep it as is and do minor changes to the planned development (zoning). … We want to keep the beautiful building as it is.”

He said their plan for the building will enhance its ability to serve the community and provide a growth opportunity for businesses in the area.

e iconic building was the Seniors’ Resource Center from 1986 until 2020. Mountain Community Pathways, which provided care for those with developmental disabilities, bought the property in July 2021 and sold it in 2022.

e building has eight o ces, a large day room, commercial kitchen, meeting rooms, oversized garages and more. Footer said at the meeting that Mountain Learning Center, which provides academic support to homeschooled children and tutoring services, is using part of the building.

Wildlife, parking and tra c

Neighbors brought up the deer migrating through the area, the impact of a restaurant in the area and increased tra c on Highway 73.

A neighbor living on Camel Heights Road said she sees a herd of deer walking along Cub Creek and into the Yellow House parking lot.

“I’m wondering how they are going to be impacted and interrupted and what your parking lot and the cars are going to do to the deer,” she said.

Footer noted that the Denver Mountain Parks greenbelt that goes behind the Yellow House will not change, so the deer will have a place to go.

Footer said he and Anderson like the idea of a restaurant or co ee shop in the building because they want to keep the tutoring center, and

the restaurant would give parents a place to go while their children are getting help. He added that four restaurant operators have said the Yellow House would be a good breakfast/lunch spot, though he was open to a restaurant o ering dinner, too.

Nearby residents were concerned that tra c on Highway 73 would increase with a restaurant, and Je erson County is not planning to make improvements to Highway 73 south of Bu alo Park Road. e county will start construction on improvements to Highway 73 from Bu alo Park Road north to Plettner Lane later this year.

In response to concerns, Footer said they planned to keep Highway 73 as the access point to the property, not Camel Heights Road.

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GOOD FOR YOU

Congratulations to the 37 Conifer High School DECA students who competed in state Feb. 25-28.  e following 10 students quali ed in the top 5% of Colorado DECA students and have earned a competitive spot in the International Competition in April in Orlando, Florida: State Champion: Principles of Finance, Rylie Sanvido, the rst ninth grader from Conifer to win this title.

State Champion: Chapter of Excellence, Alyssa Bollwark, Kellyn Dougherty and Sierra Nordwald ird: Sports & Entertainment, Alex Miller.

Fourth: Future Marketing Educator Event, Autumn Jones

Fifth: Future Marketing Educator Event, Janae Wachendorf

Sixth: Sports & Entertainment Team, Stella Barnes.

Sixth: Sports & Entertainment Team, McKenzie Dolph.

Seventh, Restaurant and Food Service Management, Sydney Ransel Conifer DECA quali ed six students for written event nals and nine students in role-play nals at the state conference this year. Making it into the nals puts these students in the top 7% of DECA competitors in Colorado. All of the Conifer DECA students were in the running for nals, many just missing the nals round by one or two points.

Role Play & Written Event Finalists: Integrated Marketing Campaign Event, Kayla Fuller; Sports & Entertainment, Kayla Fuller; Human

Resources, Brooke Roller; Travel & Tourism Team, Kellyn Dougherty; Travel & Tourism Team, JT Dalton

Congratulations to these top performers: Top Test Score: Sports & Entertainment, Alex Miller; Restaurant and Food Service Management, Sydney Ransel; Marketing Communications, Jackson Davidson; Top Role Play/ Performance

Score: Chapter of Excellence: Alyssa Bollwark, Kellyn Dougherty, Sierra Nordwald; Sports & Entertainment Team, Stella Barnes and McKenzie Dolph; Principles of Finance, Rylie Sanvido twice; Sports & Entertain-

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EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Zachary Cothran, of Evergreen, was named to the University of Mississippi’s fall 2022 Chancellor’s Honor Roll, which is for students who earn a GPA of 3.75 or higher.

Margaret Cadilli, of Morrison, graduated from Fort Lewis College on Dec. 16, 2022. Cadilli graduated summa cum laude with degrees in business administration and economics.

Nils Aberg, of Evergreen, was

named to Fort Lewis College’s dean’s list for the Fall 2022 semester. Aberg’s major is psychology. To be eligible for dean’s list, a student must have a 3.6 or higher GPA. McCue Behrhorst, of Evergreen, has been named to the dean’s list at Hamilton College for the 2022 fall semester. To be named to the dean’s list, a student must have 3.5 or better GPA. Behrhorst, a senior majoring in neuroscience, graduated from Colorado Academy.

The Conifer High School DECA team.

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Being a life-long learner, a ritual I love opening my day with is reading the MerriamWebster email with the day’s word. Sometimes it is one with which I am familiar, but often it is a word whose de nition I have forgotten or am unacquainted with. Merriam-Webster is not my only source for expanding my vocabulary. I learn new words while reading books, essays and even op-ed columns.

I was introduced to one in an article about the escalation of teen loneliness and its correlation to the smartphone: phubbing. It is a portmanteau, a word formed by combining elements of two di erent words, like smog or brunch. In this case, the words combined are phone and snubbing.

Phubbing is the act of ignoring others by focusing your gaze on your smartphone. While adults are becoming more practiced in the art, teens have perfected it, much to their social and psychological development detriment. It has a precursor that evolved with the invention of the elevator. e uncomfortable quiet we experience on a ride between oors is understandable given the con ned space. But it tells us something about our nature: We have an innate need and even compulsion to communicate with others, and when we enter a complex in which the normal rules of chitchat are not applicable, we become uncomfortable. Ignoring people in close quarters feels unnatural. e saving grace for elevator passengers is that uncom-

Phubbing: A social disease

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fortable silence generally ends relatively quickly.

Phubbing moves the concept of elevator discomfort to a stratospheric level. It is in a league of its own and has disturbing implications for the loneliness pandemic, which can lead to antisocial behavior among the young and the old alike. Because among our survival needs, human companionship and communication is as vital as food, clothing and shelter.

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the teen years, young people transition from childhood dependency to adulthood self-reliance. is time is so critical that since the days when we roamed the African savanna and hunkered in caves, cultures have developed rituals to help move the young through their coming-of-age years. ey have done so to help their soon-to-be men and women become e ective members of the community. Unfortunately, over the past few millennia, such rituals have pretty much become the domain of religions (e.g., con rmation in Catholicism and Bar and Bat Mitzvah in Judaism) and educational institutions with their proms and graduation ceremonies.

underway. Phubbing short-circuits that process, which means the mental health of the individual is compromised. And that impacts their ability to function e ectively in their personal lives.

Phubbing, when practiced by tweens and teens, has major implications for their future professional and civic roles. And that in turn has immense rami cations for our entire society. Growing societal ssures are threatening our democratic processes. If they continue to widen, we will be in danger of becoming socially and thus politically dysfunctional. And if that happens, we can kiss o the American experiment.

In his play “ e Devil’s Disciple,” the playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote, “ e worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indi erent to them: at’s the essence of inhumanity.” Note Shaw’s use of negative expression with the words indi erence and inhumanity and how they correlate. Flip the words to positive expression: acknowledging others is humane. So when you’re strolling down the street or through a store with your phone plugged into your ear and you are chatting away, you are evincing a callous indi erence to everyone around you.

Feeling you’re being treated indi erently can exacerbate feelings of loneliness and lead to worse: depression, suicide and antisocial behavior.

Phubbing sows the seeds of antisocial behavior at an early age. During

I’m not sure, however, if phubbing completely captures what is happening. Snubbing is an intentional act of disrespect. Showing deliberate disdain for another might be happening in certain phubbing cases, but the reason many—especially teens and young adults—bury theirnoses in their phones is insecurity and poor social skills. When that is the case, it would be better to consider phubbing a symptom rather than a disease.

A key purpose of providing positive coming-of-age experiences for pre-adults is to foster healthy interpersonal relationship development. It is essential to their wellbeing. One of the ironies of teaching tweens and teens is that while the incessant chatter could drive a teacher batty, it is an indicator of healthy growth, assuming the chatter is appropriate and task oriented when the lesson is

We have survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, the Cold War, social upheavals and many other crises. And we are confronted with other existential crises, the per dious threat to our democracyand climate change being at the forefront. But I wonder if phubbing might be the most insidious and potentially destructive crisis of all, one that no miracle vaccine or social program would be able to halt. e reason is a successful democracy is totally dependent on a healthy, respectful exchange of ideas among an informed,fact-based citizenry. And phubbing helps sabotage that. For as George Bernard Shaw points out, hate is bad enough, but callous indi erence to others is quite another.

Jerry Fabyanic is the author of “Sisyphus Wins” and “Food for ought: Essays on Mind and Spirit.” He lives in Georgetown.

Chronicle of an abandoned oil and gas well — one of millions

Even from a distance it’s clear that an oil and gas well called “State Senate #2” in New Mexico has seen better days.

e pumpjack sits idle, tumbleweeds surround the once-moving parts and the earth smells of crude saturating the soil.

According to state records, this well last produced oil in 2007, and even then it was at a rate of about 25 to 50 barrels per year. ough the state inexplicably lists the well’s status as “active,” it’s not. And the listed owner is a company that no longer exists in any solvent form.

In other words, State Senate #2 meets the criteria for an “orphaned” oil and gas well. It’s just one of more than a million such wells nationwide, which are a growing environmental threat resulting from decades

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of policy failure by state and federal regulators.

“Orphaned” is an inaccurate term.

e parent companies that originally drilled and pro ted from these wells mostly didn’t die—they ed. Once the wells stopped making money, they were sold to smaller, less solvent companies that then vanished into a haze of bankruptcy. e unplugged wells were left to ooze methane and other nasty stu with no one around to clean it up.

It’s abandonment, plain and simple.

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e State Senate #2, for example, was originally drilled by Standard Oil Co. of Texas — yes, that Standard Oil — back in 1960, but the hole was dry, so workers plugged it and moved on. Two decades later, Raymond E. Sitta, Jr., took over the lease and applied for a permit to reopen the well. When oil came bubbling out, he named it State Senate #2.

After Sitta died in 2008, his estate sold the well to BIYA Operators, a local mom and pop company, which sold it in 2014 to Colorado-based Diversi ed Resources.

ree years later, Diversi ed led for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and abandoned its interest in all the mineral leases in the Horseshoe Gallup eld.

at’s how State Senate #2, along with some four-dozen other wells and a leaky pipeline network, be-

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came wards of the state.

It’s a common story. e Horseshoe Gallup eld is rife with such stories. Another group of wells down the road changed hands several times before being acquired by Chuza Oil, owned by the Dallas producer of a reality television show called Cheaters. Now Chuza is bankrupt, and its wells and assorted other detritus are a methane-oozing mess.

e pattern repeats across New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. Wyoming has at least 1,500 “orphaned” wells.

In theory, the companies took care of the cleanup tab as a condition of their drilling permit. In reality, the required bond amounts don’t

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Invisible friend

CONIFER – It didn’t look particularly good for Minnie. Deputies found her at about 1:30 a.m. on Feb. 5 sitting shotgun in a blue sedan accompanied only by a thick cloud of alcohol fumes, the vehicle parked in a ditch on Barkley Drive with the engine running. Having had about 10 minutes to consider her situation, Minnie said she and a “Facebook date” named “Eric” had been drinking in a local saloon, and it was actually Eric who’d been driving her home drunk, driving o the road drunk and running away like a coward drunk. After weighing all available evidence, deputies drove Minnie home to sober up and marked the blue sedan for county pick up.

Jerk ethic CONIFER – e temporary laborer quickly distinguished himself by immediately and constantly complaining to his supervisor that “I’m doing all the work” and his fellow temps “aren’t doing anything.” He further cemented his working reputation by showing up late on the night of Feb. 7, and then set himself up for Employee of the Week by making “smart-ass comments” when confronted about it. But what really put Laborer on the fast track out the door was making free with items at the job site that weren’t his to use, prompting Boss to pull his ticket and escort him o the premises. In a nal act of supreme professionalism, Laborer grabbed a couple of 6-inch “lag bolts” and promised to “cut” the supervisor if he kept “following me.” Boss stopped following him, Laborer found his way out of the building without assistance, and Boss asked JCSO deputies to inform Laborer that his erstwhile colleagues would have to somehow make do without his cheerful presence and inspiring example. O cers told Laborer that his actions had, in fact, been “criminal in nature,” and that if he returned to the job site he’d surely be charged for them. Laborer told deputies that they could count on him.

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get close to covering the costs. e Bureau of Land Management, for example, requires an operator to put up just $10,000 per individual well. Bigger operators can take out a single, $150,000 blanket bond that covers all of their wells — whether it’s ve or 500 — on public lands nationwide.

Yet the average cost to plug and reclaim a single oil and gas well, according to a 2021study, is a whopping $76,000, with costs for deeper wells shooting up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. at would add up to a $3.8 million cleanup bill for Chuza Oil’s 50 wells in the Horseshoe Gallup eld.

Court records show the company’s reclamation bonds with the Navajo Nation and federal government add up to less than $130,000, or about $2,500 per well. at means federal taxpayers — you and me — are on the hook for the remaining $3.7 million and change. And that’s just for

Burn notice

EL RANCHO – Lights a-blaze and sirens a-blare, deputies raced to Hotel Way on the evening of Feb. 11 following panicked 911 reports of a major re at the RV storage lot. ey arrived to nd Moe, Curly and Shemp standing in the parking lot with giddy grins on their faces and, possibly, singed eyebrows. As it happens, Moe recently purchased “a ame thrower online” and had been demonstrating his perilous new plaything for the entertainment of his envious entourage. Moe assured the o cers he’d directed the infernal plume “up the hill” and had damaged no artifacts of Man. Since using a ame thrower in a storage facility parking lot is not prohibited by law, deputies doused the case.

Tough customer EVERGREEN – It should have been a nice little piece of business for the Bergen Park eatery. e woman who sat down at the bar on the evening of Feb. 5 opened a tab and worked it hard. While her custom was appreciated, her constant “complaining” and nasty “berating” of the sta was not, and the manager eventually asked her to settle up and scoot. She might have even done that if her credit card hadn’t been repeatedly declined, setting up a protracted confrontation and a call to JCSO. e manager told deputies he just wanted her gone, and after giving the o cers an angry taste of what the sta had endured she got into her car (after rst trying to get into a similar car parked next to her own), and left the restaurant holding her $238.00 bag. Needless to say, the disagreeable diner is now persona non grata.

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

OBITUARIES

MIDDLESWORTH Diane G. (Garber) Middlesworth

April 10, 1940 - February 6, 2023

On Monday, February 6, 2023, Diane Middlesworth, beloved wife and mother of four, passed away suddenly from complications from Hemorrhagic Stroke. She was 82.

Diane was born April 10, 1940 in Peru, IN to Frank and Betty Garber. She received her nursing degree from Parkview School of Nursing in Ft. Wayne, IN, and she practiced nursing in various hospitals until becoming a pharmaceutical representative for Bristol-Myers Squibb. After that, she worked as a nurse recruiter for St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO. During retirement she served as a mentor to high school students striving to achieve scholarships for college.

Diane had a passion for watercolor painting and gardening. She also taught piano for

several years and loved playing classical music and popular Broadway tunes. She had a one-of-a kind personality and she made friends easily wherever she went. She was loved by so many for her radiant smile, kindness, her infectious laugh and quick wit.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Judy; brother, Johnny; and daughter, Joanna. She is survived by Her husband of 33 years, Ned Middlesworth; her three children, Mary Burgess (Dan), Neil Middlesworth (Pascale), Deborah Ourisman; ve grandchildren, Je ery, Abby, Madison, Liza and Rafael

To Honor her wishes a graveside service will be held in Converse, IN and her beloved Colorado sometime this summer.

Stella Gaburo

February 19, 1927 - March 8, 2023

Stella Gaburo was born February 19th, 1927 in Hillsborough, New Jersey to Michael & Katherine Pontus. Her parents -- rst generation Belarusian immigrants -- instilled in Stella, her sister and three brothers a strong work ethic and devotion to family. Stella grew up loving sports and was an accomplished and erce competitor in ping pong, basketball, bowling, swimming, softball and -- according to her grandchildren -- chasing deer. After her schooling, Stella began working at the manufacturing company Johns Manville. While working at JM, Stella met Edward Blaise Gaburo, and they married on January 29th, 1955. Stella & Ed started their family

of four children -- Debra, Dara, Dann & Dwayne -- in New Jersey, moving to Evergreen, Colorado in 1972.

Stella & Ed spent their golden years together enjoying grandchildren, shing, attending Red Rocks Baptist Church, cross-country travel, playing gospel hymns on the piano, knitting, and attending countless Denver Broncos games.

Stella will be remembered as a dedicated and loving mother to 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren and a friend to many.

Stella, preceded in death by her husband Ed in 2013, passed away peacefully at home with family by her side on March 8th, 2023.

one company’s wells in one location.  Equally maddening is that the regulators must have seen the warning signs but didn’t — or couldn’t — act to make the responsible parties take responsibility while they were still somewhat solvent.

e 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorized $4.7 billion in federal funds for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells. On the one hand, it’s necessary to end this massive threat to the climate, the environment and public health.

But the truth is that it’s also a corporate bailout.  e antiquated federal royalty rate of 12.5% must be jacked up considerably — 25%, anyone? — to bring it in line with what states charge. A portion of the royalty should also go into a reclamation fund so that corporate owners pay to clean up the messes they leave.

Jonathan ompson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonpro t dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He is the editor of the Land Desk and a longtime Western journalist.

GABURO

Mountain Area Science and Engineering Fair brings out the best in young scientists

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e foothills have a bunch of novice scientists in their midst.

Judges who spent hours on March 10 looking at science fair projects said they were impressed with the scienti c method students used in their projects entered in the Mountain Area Science and Engineering Fair.

Nearly 100 projects from six elementary schools were displayed in the Marshdale Elementary School gymnasium March 10-11 for judging and viewing by students, families and the community.

e foothills schools are the only schools in Je erson County who have a second level for a science fair thanks to Ginger Dickinson, the mountain event’s organizer.  is year, Marshdale, e Bergens, Wilmot, Parmalee, West Je Elementary and Evergreen Country Day School participated.

Students won their school science fairs before competing in the mountain area fair.

e task is to devise a question and use the scienti c method to answer it. e young scientists create a hypothesis, research the question, cre-

Christy Herron, a nurse who moved to Evergreen on March 1, volunteered to judge to begin getting to know the community. She fills out a judging score sheet about a project on which nail polish dries the fastest.

PHOTOS BY DEB HURLEY BROBST

Elizabeth Braddock answered the call on social media to judge the science fair projects.

SCIENCE

ate an experiment to test the hypothesis and explain their results and conclusions. ey also are judged on how well their presentations are presented and their creativity. And creative they were. Students created projects in a host of science and engineering areas from botany, zoology and structures to chemistry,

health and physics. ey learned about how climate change a ects plants, which herbs grow fastest, how high a baking soda rocket ies as more vinegar is added, what would happen if a jacket was made out of blubber, what happens to a person’s blood-oxygen level as the altitude increases, which nail polish dries the fastest and more. ere were projects for everyone to learn from, and the judges saw that, too.

Christy Herron, a nurse who

moved to Evergreen from Indiana on March 1, said judging the projects brought back memories of other science fairs she participated in, and she loved helping out in her new community.

“I love learning,” she said as she moved from project to project, reading the documentation and looking at the graphs explaining the ndings.

Frank Turina, who retired from the National Park Service, said the projects were interesting.

“ ey really gave the research, design, data and conclusions some thought,” he said. “For elementary school level projects, they are very impressive.”

Elizabeth Braddock said she was looking for students not just to follow the scienti c process but to use some creativity in their topic choice and information presentation.

“Honestly,” Braddock said, “I enjoy all of the projects.”

Frank Turina of Evergreen, who retired from the National Park Service, spent the evening judging science fair projects.

Area Science and Engineering Fair on March 10 at Marshdale Elementary School.

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Frank Turina of Evergreen, who retired from the National Park Service, said he was impressed with the entries in the Mountain Area Science and Engineering Fair.

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Af ter more than 20 years of collecting pinball machines, Dan Nikolich’s basement had run out of space to store them all. So Nikolich opened the Colorado Pinball Pub in Littleton to share his collection.

“Pinball is a unique thing because it doesn’t matter what your background or walk of life is, pinball will draw you in,” he said. “It’s a great equalizer because it only takes one ball.”

While the concept of offering drinks and games at one location is nothing new, the Denver area is host to a number of unique takes on the Dave and Buster’s business model.

Colorado Pinball Pub is one of the newer additions to the barcade scene, having opened in 2020. The pub offers 22 pinball machines, plus a few classic arcade games like PacMan and Centipede, for unlimited play for $15 per hour.

Nikolich’s love for games started young, when he was growing up in Las Vegas and working for the MGM Arcade, so he was happy to see the recent rise in pinball’s popularity.

“Pinball is having a great resurgence right now. The last few years it’s been really hot,” he said. “We have parents who will bring their kids who have never played pinball and, at night, we get a lot of adults and date nights, stuff like that. All people seem to like pinball.”

Like the pub’s patrons, the pinball machines available range in age and theme, with Nikolich’s oldest machine being from 1981. The walls of the pub also pay homage to the history of the game, including its prohibition from 1940s to the 1970s, with pictures and news clippings.

In addition to pinball, the pub features over 150 kinds of whiskey, craft cocktails and Colorado brewed beer.

Nikolich said the goal is to have something for everyone and to make it approachable, whether that’s pinball or whiskey.

“We want you to come and learn about it and not be intimidated to ask if you don’t know something, we want to teach you, so that you can enjoy something new,” he said.

On the opposite side of the metro area, another

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one-of-a-kind barcade is Akihabara, which, while located in Westminster, transports visitors to the Tokyo gaming district that gives the business its name.

Owner Brandon Osha said he was blown away when he had the chance to visit Akihabara and take in its blocks of multi-story arcades.

“The first time I went to Akihabara I knew I wanted to bring that here because it’s amazing,” Osha said.

He did just that by opening Akihabara in 2016.

Similar to Nikolich, Osha grew up with a love of gaming and worked at a local arcade and GameStop. Instead of pinball though, Osha’s games of choice came in arcade cabinets, which he began collecting at age 16.

Currently, Akihabara offers 52 arcade cabinets with around 65 games, but Osha has plans to expand his location with 25 new games and additional space, which he said will be complete this summer.

Osha said the game selection, which includes fighting games, rhythm games and nostalgic classics, definitely sets Akihabara apart.

“You never see this many (arcade cabinets) in one place,” he said. “We have such a different variety of games that you won’t find anywhere else in Colorado.”

One of the stranger and more

rare games Akihabara offers is a Japanese table flipping game called Cho Chabudai, but more well-known games include Third Strike, Monkeyball, Typing of the Dead and Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon. All of the games are $1 or less to play.

Osha said a lot of people come in seeking a specific game that’s hard to find anywhere else, but he encourages visitors to try whatever piques their interest, even if they can’t necessarily read the Japanese instructions.

“I think it’s a lot of games that people have never seen, but they might find something that they like,” he said. “Plus, it’s usually only three buttons and a joystick,

so they’re not too hard to learn.”

Akihabara’s focus on Japanese culture carries over into the bar offerings, which include Japanese beers and cocktails made with Japanese liquor, as well as a variety of packaged snacks and ramen options.

Overall, Osha said he tries to

provide a space that’s both niche and for everyone, describing the Akihabara crowd as a welcoming hodgepodge.

“If you’re looking to find a friend, you’ll find one around here somewhere,” he said.

Colorado Pinball Pub owner Dan Nikolich poses with the oldest pinball machine in the pub, from 1981, on Feb. 23. On top of more than 20 pinball games, the Littleton pub also o ers a vast selection of whiskey.

Patrons play pinball at the Colorado Pinball Pub on Feb. 23. The Medieval Madness pinball machine is one of the pub’s most popular.

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FRIDAY

Evergreen chamber March Madness Mixer: e Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce will host its March Madness Mixer from 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, March 17, at e Wild Game. For more information, visit evergreenchamber.com.

sored by Go Paint! is in full swing. Decorate your ceramic egg by March 19. Cost is $15, with a portion of the proceeds going to Resilience1220. Age groups are up to 8 years old, 9-13 and 14 and older. Voting will take place March 22-31, and winners will be noti ed April 1. First place receives $25, second place $20, third place $15.

Evergreen Chamber Orchestra

spring concert: Evergreen Chamber Orchestra’s spring concert will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 19, at Evergreen Lutheran Church, 5980 Highway 73. Steinway artist Stephanie Cheng will perform Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. For more information and tickets, visit evergreenchamberorch. org.

UPCOMING

show will run through March 26. Shadow Mountain Gallery is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. in downtown Evergreen between Java Groove and Beau Jo’s.

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.

is encouraged. Net proceeds are distributed as grants for charitable causes through the Evergreen and Conifer Rotary Foundations. For more information, visit foothillshomeshow.com.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

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

SUNDAY

Art of the Egg: e 15th annual Art of the Egg decorating contest spon-

Shadow Mountain Legacy: e Conifer Historical Society is sponsoring a program called e Shadow Mountain Legacy at 2 p.m. March 26 at the Little White Schoolhouse, 26951 Barkley Road in Conifer. Tickets are $10-$12 and may be purchased at ConiferHistoricalSociety. org/tickets.

e Kids Are Back art show: Shadow Mountain Gallery will again display artwork by local elementary school children. “ e Kids Are Back!” e display is in recognition of National Youth Art Month and includes artwork from six schools: Wilmot, Marshdale, King-Murphy, e Bergens and Parmalee. e

Snowshoe hike: 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 the hike on April 1. For more information and to register, visit www.evergreenaudubon. org/events/snowshoe-hike-withgeorgetown-outdoor-discoveryjanuary-2023.

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

DriveSafe scholarship: DriveSafe is o ering a scholarship for students who are graduating from high school, or attending college or trade school. To apply, students must ll out an application form and write an essay or create a video answering the question: “How has learning to drive helped you in ways you didn’t expect?” Entries must be submitted by April 2, and winners will be announced on May 1.

Evergreen chamber breakfast: e Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce’s monthly mem-

Summer Camps & Programs 2023

COUNTY AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Arapahoe County Libraries

Locations: Multiple locations in Arapahoe County

Website: arapahoelibraries.org

Details: Each year, Arapahoe libraries hosts a variety of reading events and gatherings to help fill the summer hours.

Arvada summer camps program

Location: 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada

Website: www.arvadacenter.org/ education/summer-camps

Details: This summer, the Arvada center is offering a variety of half day camps and full-day camps — including prescheduled Awesome Art Packs. Awesome Art Packs are combinations of our most popular summer camps that provide full day activities for students. These camp packages are a creative and convenient way to give your child a multi-disciplinary arts experience this summer.

City of Golden

Locations: See website

Website: www.bit.ly/3Sm6Y1X

Details: Summer camp registration opens Feb. 28 for residents and March 2 for nonresidents. Golden addresses are not all within city limits; some are actually part of unincorporated Jefferson County. Check if your Golden address is within city limits at addresslookup.jeffco.us.

City of Northglenn summer programs

Locations: See website

Website: www.northglenn.org/ rec_and_events/childrens_programs.php

Details: Participants will enjoy their time at the Northglenn Recreation Center swimming two times a week, playing games/ activities in the beautiful gym, going on fi eld trips, having in-house experiences, riding pedal boats at Webster Lake, playing daily at E.B Rains Jr. Memorial Park, plus much more.

City of Thornton – 2023 summer camps

Locations: Varies by camp

Website: www.thorntonco.gov/recreation/ Pages/registration-information.aspx

Details: The annual summer program is already underway with registration for residents beginning on Feb. 1. Nonresidents joined on Feb. 2. From physical activities and sports camps to arts and more — the annual program will continue to register participants.

Clear Creek County Library District

Locations: Multiple locations

Website: www.cccld.org/ programs-and-events

Details: Watch the calendar for summer events and programs being hosted by the Clear Creek County Library District.

Clear Creek Recreation Center

Locations: 98 12th Ave., Idaho Springs

Website: www.clearcreekrecreation.com/ summer-camp-1.html

Details: The Clear Creek rec center offers a

variety of camp options this summer. With all of the camp options, parents are able to pick day by day. Children are not required to attend the full week of camp.

Commerce City Parks & Recreation

Locations: Eagle Pointe Recreation Center, 6060 E. Parkway Drive, Commerce City

Website: www.recreation.c3gov.com/ classes-programs/camps

Details: Youth Camp Venture is a traditional camp for children ages 6 to 10 and offers arts and crafts, STEM, active play, swimming and field trips. Camp takes place primarily outside at Eagle Pointe Rec Center. Adventure Trek is an outdoor adventure program that provides a new experience every day. Those ages 11 to 15 travel offsite for hiking, survival skills training, water activities and nature-based programming.

Douglas County Libraries

Locations: See website

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Website: www.dcl.org/camp-dcl

Details: Choose from weeklong half-day camps at six DCL locations or full-day camps at select locations from June 5 through Aug. 4. Camps are facilitated by subject matter experts and supported by trained staff and volunteers. Camp themes include science, robotics, creative arts, LEGOs, cooking and baking, with each camp geared to a specific age range.

Englewood – 2023 KidConnections

Summer Camp

Locations: See website

Website: www.bit.ly/3YRWCcC

Details: The program is a fully licensed day care by the State of Colorado, Department of Human Services for children 5 years old (and completed kindergarten) through 14 years old. There is a registration fee of $10 per child.

Evergreen Park & Recreation District

Locations: Variety of locations

Website: www.evergreenrecreation. com/201/Camps

Details: The annual programs provide options for kids starting at 3 years old.

Foothills Parks & Recreation District

Location: 6612 S. Ward St., Littleton

Website: www.ifoothills.org/ school-care-camps/#camps

Details: Details will be posted online for the 2023 summer program in March.

Highlands Ranch Community Association

Locations: Recreation centers throughout the community

Website: www.hrcaonline.org/ classes-camps-activities/camps

Details: Every year, the Highlands Ranch Community Association works to provide something for everyone in its summer camp program. For children into sports, there are plenty of athletic camps available. For those looking to improve in art, arts and education programs are plentiful.

Jefferson County Library

Locations: Events in Lakewood, Arvada, Golden, Evergreen, Edgewater, Wheat Ridge and more

Website: www.jeffcolibrary.org

Details: With summer coming, the Jefferson County Library system is already holding information sessions and planning events, such as the Cosmic Conversations: Telescope Highlights of the Midnight Sky in June.

Town of Castle Rock Summer Camp

Program

Locations: Vary based on camp

Website: www.crgov.com/3270/ Summer-Camps

Details: From sports camps to jedi training and science and arts — the Town of Castle Rock prevents a full slate of summer camp programs in 2023. Visit the town’s website to learn more about ages, prices and details.

Town of Parker/Parker Fieldhouse

Location: 18700 Plaza Drive, Parker Website:  www.parkerrec.com/2029/ Summer-Day-Camp

Details: Ages 5 to 13 can join this camp for themed games, activities, crafts and a ton of fun at the Parker Fieldhouse. Campers will be separated into age groups 5 to 6 years, 7 to 9 years, and 10 to 13 years. Expect swimming days and field trips too.

Wheat Ridge Parks & Recreation

Location: 4355 Field St., Wheat Ridge Website: www.rootedinfun.com/191

/Sun-Camp

Details: Wheat Ridge Sun Camp is a state-licensed day camp for children ages 6 to 13; offered during Jefferson County Public Schools’ spring, summer and winter breaks.

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

The Giggling Life Care Farm

Location: 14583 Cherry St., Thornton Website: www.thegigglinglife.com/ summer-farm-fun

Details: If your kids love animals you need to check out The Giggling Life Care Farm in Thornton for summer activities. The Giggling Life Care Farm is special for a lot of reasons, but the most important one is Kristi — the owner. She has a BS in psychology and a master’s in education, has studied life coaching for the last eight years, and is certified in Equine Assisted Coaching and Pet Therapy.

Highlands Ranch — Camp Backcountry

Location:  6005 Ron King Trail, Littleton Website: www.hrcaonline.org/ classes-camps-activities/camps/ camp-backcountry

Details: Nestled into 8,200 acres of wildlife conservation property just south of C-470 on Santa Fe Drive, Camp Backcountry is the spot for a build-a-fort, hikejust-to-explore, and don’t-forget-yourbinoculars kind of summer for your kids. The Backcountry believes that children learn, grow, and thrive best when outdoors and immersed in nature. Our week-long, full-day outdoor camps support the needs of children by using a whole-child, experiential learning approach. From minicamps to leaders-in-training programs, the camps are for ages 5-17.

Great Outdoors Summer Camp

Location: Miller Activity Complex

1375 W. Plum Creek Pkwy, Castle Rock Website: www.crgov.com/3270/ Summer-Camps

Details: This regional park includes the Miller Activity Complex (MAC), Millhouse, Amphitheater, Challenge Hill, ziplines, Adventure Tower, Sky Trek, and adventure playground area as well as over ten miles of hiking and biking trails.  For ages 10-15.

Chatfield Stables Horse Camps Location: 11500 N. Roxborough Park Road, Littleton Website: www.chatfieldstables.com/ horse-camps.html

Details: Chatfield Stables is the longestrunning horse camp in the area. Every child has their own horse for the entire week. Kids get to lead, feed, water and work with their horses every day. Campers learn horse care, including grooming and bridling. They water and feed their horses, learn to groom them, and take care of

them at the end of the day. We ride daily, whether in the arena or on the trail.

Community Sailing of Colorado

Locations: 4800 S. Dayton St., Greenwood Village

Website: www.communitysailing.org

Details: Community Sailing of Colorado provides premier sailing programs (summer camps, adult classes, adaptive sailing, and community partnership events) at Cherry Creek and Boulder reservoirs. The weeklong summer camps range from beginner through advanced sailing for youth ages 5-17. It’s a perfect fit for any adventurous spirit who loves the outdoors.

YMCA SUMMER PROGRAMS

At the YMCA of Metro Denver, our youth development philosophy is grounded in 150 years of lifting up kids and helping them reach their full potential. It’s a philosophy centered on two critical factors: creating a unique sense of belonging and always incorporating the pure fun and joy of childhood.

Camps include adventure camps, sports programs, art that focuses on ceramics, painting, drawing, digital media and more. To find camps in local communities, visit the website at www.bit.ly/3Kg6GYM.

Summer camp programs are available in the following Denver metro cities:

• Arvada

• Aurora

• Broomfield

• Centennial

• Commerce City

• Denver

• Golden

• Lakewood

• Littleton

• Thornton

• Wheat Ridge

MAD SCIENTISTS

Kookalooz Space Playground: STEM

Summer Camp

Locations:

6805 W. 88th Ave., Westminster

Website: www.kookalooz.com/ westminster-co/summer-camps

Details: 5 different camps from the basics of space to engineering. Each camp is one week long. For ages 5-10.

Colorado Adventure Point

Location: 10455 W. 6th Ave., Suite 150, Lakewood

Website: www.coloradoadventurepoint.org

Details: CAP’s STEM Camp isn’t your typical science camp. Our campers get to experiment with chemistry, physics and engineering through a variety of materials, experiments and challenges to meet their curiosities and skill level in our challenge by choice model. In addition to building engineering models and friendships, the campers get to enjoy our climbing wall, archery range and more — and learn the science behind these fun activities. Camps are available for ages 6-12.

Butterfly Pavilion

Location: 6252 W. 104th Ave., Westminster

Website: www.butterflies.org

Details: Starting June 5 and running through Aug. 11, the Butterfly Pavilion hosts all the creepy crawlies and your children at camp. There are five themes, which repeat once and include spider

SPORTS CAMPS

Whether it’s baseball or volleyball, tennis or swimming, lacrosse or basketball, we offer seasonal sports camps & clinics throughout the Denver area.

FIND A CAMP NEAR

Camp Ozobot is a one-of-a-kind coding summer camp that incorporates STEM principles using our award-winning robot. Taught by credentialed educators, students will engage in critical thinking and problem solving to enhance their skill set and learn real-world applications. Woven throughout each day’s agenda are opportunities to collaborate and play with peers, express creativity and further computer science knowledge, all in a top notch campus.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Team-based learning, hands-on activities and exciting challenges

• Exposure to coding concepts from experienced educators

• Low educator-to-student ratio

• Standards-aligned curriculum

2023 CAMP INFORMATION: JULY 10-13 JULY 17-20

AGE GROUP: 9-13

GENDER: Coed

FULL DAY: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

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Mad Science

Locations: Multiple locations in the Denver metro area, including the Littleton area, Denver and Broomfield

Website: www.colorado.madscience.org

Details: These camps are designed for ages 6 to 12, though sessions such as Red-Hot Robots and Advanced Robotics camps are more appropriate for ages 8 to 12. Instructors are mostly college students pursuing degrees in education or science and teachers off for the summer. Themes include chemistry, space science, forensics, engineering and more. Each camp is weeklong, though times can vary.

Air & Space Camp

Location: Wings Over the Rockies

7711 E. Academy Blvd., Denver

Website: www.wingsmuseum.org/ education/camp

Details: Ready for an aerospace adventure?

At Wings Over the Rockies that’s exactly what kids ages 8 to 14 can expect in these week-long camps. The fun starts June 5 and goes on until Aug. 11, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

EMERGING ARTISTS

Center for the Arts: Summer in Color

Location: 31880 Rocky Village Dr., Evergreen

Website: www.evergreenarts.org/ summercamp

Details: Camps explore various media, from clay sculpting and wheel throwing, to pop art and mural painting, to the art of different cultures and the art of the masters. Several of our camps also incorporate outdoor components, including hikes, yoga, and opportunities for photography and eco-art projects. Let kids explore their creative side with imaginative and inspiring camps at CAE this summer. For ages 5-17.

Denver Art Museum

Location: 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver

Website: www.denverartmuseum.org/en/ summer-camps

Details: The camps at the Denver Art Museum get broken into three age groups: 5 to 6, 7 to 8, and 9 to 11. Overall, the themes remain the same — there are camps about art in nature, how to draw, learning about color and sculpture. Each camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and includes plenty of time in the museum to garner inspiration.

Craftsman & Apprentice

Location: 1335 E 22nd Ave., Denver

Website: www.craftsmanandapprentice.com/ pages/summer-2023

Details: Ages 5 to 11 can spend the summer creating worlds out of cardboard, paint, hot glue, ribbons, corks, buttons and more at this Denver kids’ crafting studio. Themes include toys, crafty critters, fiber arts and more.

ON THE STAGE

The Apollo Center Summer Camps

Location: 2655 Industrial Lane, Broomfield

Website: www.theapollocenter.com/ summercamps

Details: The Apollo Center offers a variety of skill-based camps for kids and adults alike. Aerial Performance Camps for kids ages 5-17 years focus on learning aerial technique and choreography throughout the week which will culminate with a camp performance based on the camp theme.

Front Range Theatre Company Triple Threat Summer Camp

Locations: 15035 Performing Arts School, Parker

Website: www.frontrangetheatre.org/ triple-threat-summer-camp.html

Details: Working with professional instructors with years of experience, your child will learn the three major elements of any stage performer: Voice, Dance and Acting. The camps are designed to challenge performers in the entire range of life in the theatre, including a live performance in a mainstage venue!

Audience of One Youth Theatre Camp

Location: Highlands Ranch

Website: www.AO1Theater.org

Details: Whether a student is looking to try out theater for the first time, polish skills or have fun with friends, the AO1 has one-totwo-week camps can work in the summer schedule. AO1’s summer programming includes kids’ productions for ages 5-12, workshops for ages 8-18, and a two-week intensive program for teenagers.

The Arvada Center

Location: 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Arvada

Website: www.arvadacenter.org

Details: If your kid is 5 to 12 and loves a bit of drama and/or art, the Arvada Center has a slew of full- and half-day camps available. The best and most economic way to sign up for camp is to do it in three- or four-week blocks, and the venue offers combinations of visual art, musical theater, drama and music.

Kent Denver Performing Arts Camps

Location: 4000 E. Quincy Ave., Englewood

Website: www.KentDenver.org

Details: Summer at Kent Denver School offers all children ages 4–18 the opportunity to experience innovative, creative, handson learning in the arts, athletics, our Tiny Farm Day Camp, academics, innovation and technology.

St. Lukes Performing Arts Camps

Location:  8817 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch

Website: www.StLukesPAA.org

Details: From preschool age to high school students there are a large variety of summer camp shows planned in Highlands Ranch and Castle Rock areas. Registration is now open.

Castle Rock Dance Academy

Locations: 140 S. Wilcox St. Suite A, Castle Rock

Website: www.castlerockdanceacademy. com

self-discipline are taught, and students learn skills they can carry with them through life. The program offers weekly dance classes in five-week sessions for ages 3–18.

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Details: At Castle Rock Dance Academy (CRDA), best friends are made, etiquette and

Bowlero

Locations: Multiple locations in Cherry Creek, Littleton and Lone Tree

Website: www.bowlero.com

Details: Fun for all skill levels, Bowlero’s modern spin on bowling is the perfect way to spend quality time with the kids. Celebrate every strike, spare and yes, even gutter balls, with the most famous lanes in the game and a delicious menu of classic American eats.

Golden Goal Sports Complex

Location: 2650 Alkire St., Golden Website: www.goldengoalsc.com/ summer-soccer-camps

Details: Golden Goal offers spring break camps and summer camps for all ages from under 5 to high school.

Camp Urbie at Urban Air Adventure Park

Location: 15400 E. Briarwood Circle, Aurora

Website: www.bit.ly/3IuCQOO

Details: Let ‘em Fly for a whole week of play, in-park activities, snacks and more. Camp Urbie’s Adventure Camp is the best way to beat the summer heat and play in the best indoor playground in town. The weeklong camp is open to kids 7 years and up.

Gold Medal Athletic Camp

Location: Castle Rock Recreation Center

Website: www.crgov.com/2628/Camps

Details: Athletes will participate in small- and large-group instruction, drills and games or scrimmages. We welcome beginner athletes to learn how to use proper mechanics and fundamentals of the sport and intermediate or advanced athletes who want to continue to grow their motor skills and skill in the sport. For ages 7-12.

Tigar Gymnastics Camps

Location: 4860 Van Gordon St. Unit B, Wheat Ridge

Website: www.tigargymnastics.com

Details: A variety of programs at a variety of ages is available at the gymnastics center, including ninja classes and programs for older ages.

RMF Soccer Camp

Location: Aurora Sports Park 19300 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora

Website: www.rmfsoccercampsusa.com/ soccer-camp-denver

Details: From July 17 to July 21, this prorun soccer camp will come to Colorado. It’s run by experienced Spanish UEFA coaches, and goes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Kids from 6 to 16 can sign up.

Aerial Cirque Over Denver

Location: 4605 Quebec St., Denver.

Website: www.aerialcirqueoverdenver.com

Details: If your child is thinking of joining the circus, or just wants to bend, twist and soar through the air, this is the camp for them. Dates run from May 29 through August 14, and include morning and afternoon camps (9:30 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 3 p.m.) for ages 6 to 16.

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Maestro Music Institute

Location: 6478 Ward Road, Arvada

Website: www.maestromusicinstitute. com/2023-instrumental-summer-camp

Details: Instrumental Summer Camp is back this year covering a myriad of ensemble opportunities. We will be offering Rock Band, Orchestra, Choir/Theater, Piano ensemble and composition. Summer campers will have the opportunity to learn new instruments in addition to honing their skills on their primary instrument. Students will work in large and small ensemble groups and perform a variety of music at the end of the week.

Kidzrock Rock Band Camp

Location: 2842 S. Broadway, Englewood

Website: www.musicallifedenver.com/ summercamp

Cost: $319

Details: Rock Band Summer Camp teaches children ages 4 to 7 how to play in a rock band. Campers learn to play drums, electric guitar, keyboard and sing. On the final day, campers perform a short (adorable) concert for parents and family. In addition to rock band time, students get to make music-related arts and crafts, create a fantasy band identity, and play outdoor games at the park next to the school. No prior musical experience is required. No investment in gear is required.

OVERNIGHT CAMPS

Avid 4 Adventure

Locations: Various spots

Website: www.avid4.com/ summer-camps

Details: For two weeks kids get to bask in nature, away from their parent, at either Camp Windy Peak near Bailey, or Camp Blue Sky near Evergreen. The kids sleep in cabins and build their skill sets in nature and with outdoor sport activities.

Cheley Colorado Camps

Location: Cheley Colorado Camps 3960 Fish Creek Road, Estes Park. Website: www.cheley.com

Details: If your kid is 9 to 17, send them off to a 27-day overnight camp in Estes Park. Full term is June 13 to August 6, or chose a half term from June 13 to July 9, or July 11 to Aug. 6. Activities include horseback riding, water sports, art and plenty of outdoor adventure.

Camp Granite Lake

Locations: 11902 Camp Eden Road, Golden

Website: www.campgranitelake.com

Details: Located in the mountains about an hour from Denver, the camp covers 135 acres including a private lake. It’s a co-ed camp for grades second to ninth. Choose from two sessions, either June 19 through July 8, or July 10 through July 29. There are also minicamp options for grades 1st through 4th, covering the week of July 31 or Aug. 7.

Board defers vote to rename Mount Evans

Unexpected twist in process

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

In an unexpected twist on March 9, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names deferred a vote that would have changed the name of Mount Evans.

Many had expected the federal board to approve a new name, Mount Blue Sky, proposed by many Native American tribal leaders and representatives, Gov. Jared Polis, a Colorado renaming board and other community members.

But March 9 before the federal board’s meeting, Jennifer Runyon, executive acting secretary for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, said the federal board had “received a request from a tribal government for government-to-government consultation,” and that a decision had been made to defer a nal vote. e U.S. board did not initially say which tribe asked for the request.

At the start of the meeting ursday, the federal board noti ed attendees that no decision would be made and there would not be any discussion about the pending proposals for Mount Evans.

If the federal geographic renaming board had voted, the organization’s decision would have marked the end of a lengthy process to give the prominent 14er, visible from Denver, a much less controversial label.

“As you know, the proposals that have been submitted to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the name of Mount Evans have been added to the docket for

a vote at today’s meeting. However, the BGN (Board on Geographic Names) and the Department of Interior have received a request from a tribal government for federal government-to-government consultation and in accordance with the

Department of Interior department manual 512 DM 5.5.A.6, titled ‘Intergovernmental Relations: Procedures for Consultation with Indian Tribes,’ the decision is made to defer today’s vote on the Mount Evans name change,” said Susan Lyon, vice chair

of the board.

“ e manual states, ‘A tribe may request that the department initiate consultation when the tribe believes that a bureau or o ce is consider-

A pika gathers food on Aug. 18, 2022 atop Mount Evans. COURTESY OF ANN ZIMMERMAN

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ing a departmental action with tribal implications,” Lyon said. “So, no decision will be made on Mount Evans today and we won’t be discussing any of the pending proposals.”

Clear Creek County o cials and Native American tribe representatives said ursday that they wanted to wait to comment until they had more information about the request to defer a vote.

However, during the Colorado board’s meetings last fall to hear proposals on renaming Mount Evans, Northern Arapaho tribe members had advocated for Mount Blue Sky and Northern Cheyenne tribe members supported the name Mount Cheyenne Arapaho. Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board members had asked proponents of the name Mount Blue Sky if they had plans to meet with those who advocated for Mount Cheyenne Arapaho to negotiate an agreeable name.

“If we have two names, both with support from di erent Indian nations, is there any room for the two groups to discuss this further or do you want us to decide?” state Rep. Adrienne Benavidez, a renaming committee board member, asked during that November meeting.

A member of a coalition that gathered input from tribal representa-

tives said the group tried many times to engage members of the Northern Cheyenne tribe in discussion, but were unsuccessful.

“I think the time is long past due for the acknowledgement that that is not an appropriate name,” Clear Creek County Commission Chairman Randy Wheelock said. He coled, from November 2020 to March 2022, educational, public comment and deliberation meetings before Clear Creek County o cials recommended the new Mount Blue Sky name to the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory board. He said he had no comment about the deferral, until he and other local o cials had more information.

“Generally speaking, my attitude was — and the board’s attitude was — that we were giving the biggest credence to the two indigenous proposals, and when they didn’t combine (and agree) on one proposal, we looked at the level of support that each of them had and there was much, much greater support that we saw from both the Indigenous community and the non-Indigenous community for Mount Blue Sky, and so that was the reason we went ahead and made that choice,” Wheelock said before the vote was deferred.

For some Native American Coloradans, renaming the peak has been a decadeslong process. And for state o cials and other community members, who engaged in research to support four other name change

proposals for the Clear Creek County landmark, the process has taken more than a year to complete.

e renaming process, so far, has aimed to strip former Gov. John Evans’ name from the 14,265-foot landmark. Evans, who served as territorial governor from 1862 to 1865, was forced to resign for his role in the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, a deadly attack on Native Americans that led to the deaths of more than 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, mostly women, children and older adults.

e Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board in November voted unanimously to change the name to Mount Blue Sky, a move supported by Clear Creek County o cials, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, and many Native American tribe leaders and members who contributed to the renaming process.

Anne Hayden, John Evans’ greatgreat-granddaughter, noting that she did not represent all members of her family, testi ed at a public meeting about renaming the peak and said she favored changing its name.

Gov. Polis earlier this month wrote in a letter to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names that each of the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado deserves “a name be tting their majesty.”

While many Coloradans have grown up knowing the name Mount Evans, Polis wrote, it’s clear that people want a new name that unites the community and does not divide it.

In the letter, Polis cited research by scholars at the University of Denver and Northwestern University, both of which Evans helped found, saying their work showed “Evans’ culpability for the Sand Creek Massacre, without question.”

During the formal process to consider renaming the peak, Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board members received more than 200 written and verbal statements from Native American tribe leaders, local government o cials, community members and loved ones of those who perished in or survived the Sand Creek Massacre, Chris Arend, a spokesman for the state naming board wrote in an email to e Colorado Sun on Wednesday.

“Considering there were six proposals and hours of public testimony, it was clear that there was a strong shared desire to rename Mount Evans,” he wrote in the email. “Ultimately, Mount Blue Sky struck the appropriate cord to garner support of Clear Creek County, the (Colorado Renaming Advisory Board) and Governor Polis.”

is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

ber breakfast will be 7:30-9 a.m. Wednesday, April 5, 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, April 6. By telephone or video, volunteer 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.

Je co Foothills Town Hall: A Je co Foothills Town Hall focusing on reducing wild re risk will from 9-10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 8, at the Evergreen Fire/Rescue Administration Building, 1802 Bergen Parkway. Area experts will discuss what can be done to prepare for wild re. e event is free.

Evergreen chamber mixer: e Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce’s monthly mixer will be from 5-7 p.m. April 13 at Flow eory CoWorks & Best Custom Homes, 3540 Evergreen Parkway. For more information and to register, visit evergreenchamber.org.

Conifer chamber awards banquet: e Conifer Area Chamber of Commerce will host its awards banquet from 5-8 p.m. ursday, April 20, at Beaver Ranch. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit goconifer.com.

Sips for Scholarships: Bootstraps Inc. will host Sips for Scholarships from 6:30-9 p.m. ursday, April 20, at Twin Forks Tavern, 19423 N. Turkey Creek Road. Tickets are $75 and available at bootstrapsinc.org.

Rockies Springtime art show: Shadow Mountain Gallery will display artists’ renditions of springtime in a wide range of media through April 29. One-of-a-kind artwork will be priced for every budget. Shadow Mountain Gallery is open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. in downtown Evergreen between Java Groove and Beau Jo’s.

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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+ 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.

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 Museum. Join us in a round table discussion on any and all aspects of history with topics driven by the attendees.

Sensitive Collection: Resilience1220 o ers a monthly workshop for highly sensitive people to help them live healthy and empowered lives from 3:30-4:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month

via Zoom. Visit R1220.org for more information.

Caregiver support groups: Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice o ers two monthly groups to provide emotional support services for caregivers helping ill, disabled or elderly loved ones. An in-person support group meets every third Monday from 4-6 p.m. at 3081 Bergen Peak Road, Evergreen, and a virtual support group meets every rst 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 mtevans.org/ services/emotional-support/.

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

Mountain Foothills Rotary meetings: Mountain Foothills Rotary meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays both in person at Mount Vernon Canyon Club at 24933 Club House Circle, Genesee, and via Zoom. Join the Zoom meeting at https://us02web. zoom.us/j/81389224272, meeting ID 813 8922 4272, phone 346-248-7799.

Beyond the Rainbow: Resilience1220 o ers Beyond the Rainbow, which is two support groups that meet from 7-8:30 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month. One is a safe group for those 12-20 and the other is group for parents and caregivers wanting support for raising an LGBTQ child. To RSVP, contact Lior Alon at lior@wisetreewellness.com.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visits Arvada to speak on climate crisis

Rep. Brittany Pettersen and professional rock climber

Sasha DiGiulian discussed Colorado’s climate issues with the VP

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Arvada with Rep. Brittany Pettersen on climate action, highlighting the Biden-Harris Administration’s e orts to combat climate change through a “clean-energy economy.”

e March 6 discussion at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities touched heavily on water policy, as well as wild res, droughts and equity issues stemming from climate change in Colorado and the rest of the country, highlighting the Bipartisan Infrastructure law.

Lead pipes and their e ects on lower-income people who cannot a ord to replace the pipes themselves, bringing medical issues that can arise in pregnant women, children and the elderly was one example she gave,

“And so the signi cance of what we are doing with the infrastructure law around lead pipes, is we’re saying, ‘ is is a public health matter, it a ects all of us,’” Harris said. “And so we are saying therefore it is in the public interest to use public resourc-

es to address it.”

Executive Director Olga Gonzalez of Cultivando, a health equity advocate group in Adams County focusing on the latino community, spoke beforehand and described the Suncor plant in Commerce City as a large source of pollution in the Denver area.

She pushed for more regulation so “children won’t be sacri ced for the sake of cheaper gasoline,” referencing Suncor’s $9 million settlement for repeated air quality standards violations.

Colorado itself, as of 2022, is seventh in the nation for energy production according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, being fth for crude oil production just below Louisiana. Renewables accounted for 35% of that in 2021, with wind power contributing 80% of all renewables, according to the EIA.

Gov. Jared Polis touted his administration’s 2019 plan for Colorado to be 100% renewable energy by 2040 before Harris spoke. Part of that plan focuses on growing the state’s eet of electric vehicles and infrastructure, with one piece of legislation in 2019 that authorized public utilities to provide charging stations. As of January 2022, Colorado had more than 3,500 public electric vehicle charging ports — eighth in the country, according to the EIA.

Professional rock climber and Boulder native Sasha DiGiulian also sat in on the discussion, pointing toward her experience climbing around the country and seeing climate e ects rst-hand. She spoke

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on a recent trip for a woman’s rstattempt climb, where she witnessed sporadic weather, and then came home to Boulder and was evacuated for a wild re.

Pettersen said the most urgent threat to Colorado’s way of life is the climate crisis.

She has consistently supported climate action legislation in the Colorado House and Senate, most recently in 2021 when Colorado passed over 30 bills on various aspects of energy e ciency, renewables and advances in transportation electri cation.

Part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s e orts against climate change has been a “Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool,” giving real-time data on extreme weather events, as well as giving historic and future climate impact data

to residents.

Two areas in Arvada were highlighted in this tool, one of which was in the 94th percentile for “fatalities and injuries resulting from natural hazards each year.” Almost half of Lakewood is highlighted, in bulk due to una ordability, but also “economic loss to building value resulting from natural hazards each year.”

Harris nished by telling how she has spoken to U.S. astronauts in the past, asking whether it changes their perspective about Earth.

“Almost to a one, they say how beautiful it is when you look at Earth from space, and how delicate it is, how fragile,” she said. “We all know some of the most precious things are fragile, and that’s why we pay special attention to take care of them. And so let’s continue to do that.”

Vice President Kamala Harris sat with Rep. Brittany Pettersen and professional rock climber Sasha DiGiulian to discuss Colorado’s climate issues. PHOTO BY ANDREW FRAIELI

Je co School Resource O cers may soon have mandated training

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It takes 600 hours of training to be licensed by the State of Colorado as a nail technician — the person who does mani-pedis and applies toenail polish. As of 2022, it takes 556 hours and a background check to become a police o cer. Becoming a School Resource O cer — a sworn law enforcement o cer, usually armed and with arrest powers while working in a school — takes none.

at’s because under current state law, training for SROs is “encouraged” to be completed before being assigned to a school or within six months after. A bill being proposed by Senator Chris Kolker, a Democrat representing Arapahoe and Je erson counties, would change that suggestion to a mandate, and not just once, but annual training.

In the Colorado General Assembly, Senate Bill 23-070 was introduced on Jan. 27 and has already been amended by the Senate Committee on Education.

“ e initial concern with this was how to get a good o cer, and how do we keep a good o cer, and how do we keep them trained,” Kolker said. e original bill focused on mandating the training on National

Association of School Resource O cers, or NASRO, best practices before o cers started their assignments which current state law only encourages. is included the caveat of mandating beforehand, “or as soon as reasonably possible,” as NASRO only has one training this year in March, according to Kolker.

Je co has almost 50 SROs across the District, according to Executive Director of School Safety Je Pierson. Each, according to him, is NASRO trained.

NASRO’s basic training consists of ve, eight-hour days. According to NASRO’s course summary, it trains o cers on its concept of acting not just as a law enforcement o cer, but as a public safety educator, and informal counselor or mentor. It also teaches ethics lessons for operating inside a school, school-related laws and handling behavioral issues.

Pierson believes this mentoring aspect is crucial to building a rapport with the students, allowing o cers to answer “sometimes tough questions.”

“We get a lot of kids whose parents or families or whatever go into the system and sometimes they just have some really tough questions and they want to seek somebody out and get some answers,” he said. “A lot of time SROs serve in that purpose.”

NASRO’s “best practices” also include recommending SROs be armed, be knowledgeable in constitutional and state law and that

partnering agencies create a contract with school districts laying out expectations and goals.

roughout the District, these contracts are almost all the same, set up with seven police departments across Je co including Golden, Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, Arvada and the Sheri ’s O ce. Most notably, o cers are employed by their respective police departments, not the school, have complete control over their schedule within the school and have full discretion over whether to make an arrest or not in the school.

According to state law, the o cer

has to inform the principal of an arrest within 24 hours.

NASRO has state-speci c branches, with Colorado’s being the Colorado Association of School Resource O cers, or CASRO. President of CASRO and Sgt. at the Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce Mark Mithuen said SROs are essential for safety in schools.

“I can tell you there are SROs covering everything from medical calls to before it gets to the situation where there’s an incident, in

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School resource o cer training, which is currently “encouraged,” could become mandated if a Colorado state bill passes. COURTESY OF AP

A state bill could mandate training currently only “encouraged”

terms of they’re able to evacuate kids if needed, if there’s a re,” he explained. “If there are situations where there’s a carbon monoxide leak somewhere in the school, they can make sure the students are safe and are being evacuated.”

He continued that SROs are necessary to prevent and discover “people bringing weapons and these drugs laced with fentanyl into schools, to protect kids from dying and overdosing.”

e issue of there being only one training this year contributed to the bill being amended to focus on “continuous training.”

“Continuous training keeps it fresh, and more responsive to changing needs,” Kolker said. “With that initial class, yeah everyone needs their training, and then you’re done. Five years later you only had that one training, how are you staying up to date?”

With that change in focus, the amendment removed the wording from generally mandating training to requiring an annual training meeting with SROs and school ocials to discuss how best to respond to Safe2Tell reports, and training resources to better SROs’ “support of students and school sta .”

Safe2Tell is a youth-focused state program meant to allow students, parents, school sta and community members to anonymously report safety concerns to law enforcement, with SROs being a major part of that.  Kolker hopes annual and consistent training will also help o cers be more knowledgeable about responding to these reports. He explained that a parent had told him their kids were afraid to call Safe2Tell from fear of “an o cer showing up at their door in the middle of the night.”

He highlighted that o cers responding to those reports don’t know how urgent it is, “so they are going to show up at 11:30, and they’re going to show up in a squad car, and they’re going to show up with all their gear on. And that can be a little intimidating.”

In January this year, the latest Safe2Tell monthly report, the top category of reports to Safe2Tell was suicide threats.

In terms of mandating the training, both Pierson and Mithuen agree that more training is always helpful, but do not agree with it being mandated. ey also both don’t agree on it being required before starting an assignment, though the caveat in the current bill does resolve that.

e concern is of safety if a lack of training prevents an o cer from lling an SRO gap at a school.

“I think it is important they get

the training up front, but I think we all understand in the District — as the only District that has had three school shootings — if there’s an ocer to ll a void where we don’t have an SRO, and they don’t have the training yet, we’d be glad to onboard them prior to getting that training as opposed to not having an SRO onboard,” Pierson said.

Mithuen believes more that a wise choice of o cer for an SRO — works well with children, interested in the job — is just as important, and training is more supplementary.

e main issue brought up is that required annual training would be di cult for more rural police forces who would have to travel more often, an issue Kolker acknowledged and said is being worked on.

Without the caveat excusing an o cer from being trained for the SRO position beforehand, Pierson believes it would “tie not just law enforcement hands, but tie ours up as well.”

“I think SROs can have a negative image depending on the experience in that particular district, so I think that is always the eyebrow raise when you bring up the initial SRO….,” Kolker said in response to whether there has been push back against the bill. “Again, the goal is to provide the right training and the right resources so that we have more positive experiences.”

Some advocacy groups in Denver,

such as Movimiento Poder, believe that training is not the issue, but the presence of police in schools themselves.

Movimiento Poder points to Colorado Department of Education data showing that Black students are disproportionately referred to law enforcement at school in Denver compared to their population and to the number of white students referred to police.

“You never know if someone’s there, what it is or what is not going to happen. It’s proven that SROs are essential for safety in the schools,” Mithuen said when asked about opponents to SROs in schools, pointing again to weapons, drugs, and evacuations, along with more violent situations such as school shooters, as examples of safety SROs help with.

Various studies from the University of Maryland, Brown University, University of Connecticut and more have shown little support for SROs preventing school shootings, and often arrests increase signi cantly, replacing school disciplinary action, again, leaning toward minority students.

“We can either do nothing, and there’s still going to be the negative, or we can try and make them better,” Kolker said. “And I think any kind of training we can receive, the ultimate goal is to make ourselves better.”

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All are Welcome Sundays at 10am

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BERGEN PARK CHURCH

Bergen Park Church is a group of regular people who strive to improve ourselves and our community by studying the Bible and sharing our lives with each other.

On Sunday mornings you can expect contemporary live music, Children’s Ministry that seeks to love and care for your kids, teaching from the Bible, and a community of real people who are imperfect, but seek to honor God in their lives. We hope to welcome you soon to either our 9:30AM or 11:00AM Sunday service. Search Bergen Park Church on YouTube for Livestream service at 9:30am 31919 Rocky Village Dr. 303-674-5484 info@bergenparkchurch.org / www.BergenParkChurch.org

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH SERVICES

28244 Harebell Lane

Sunday Service & Sunday School 10am

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Contact: clerk@christianscienceevergreen.com for ZOOM link

Reading Room 4602 Pletner Lane, Unit 2E, Evergreen

OPEN TUE-SAT 12PM - 3PM

CHURCH OF THE CROSS

Please join us for Sunday worship at 28253 Meadow Drive, Evergreen or visit www.churchotc.com

8:30am Traditional Service

10:30am Contemporary Service

Communion is served every Sunday at both services. All are welcome! Visit our website at www.churchotc.com for info on church activities.

28253 Meadow Drive, Evergreen • 303-674-4130 • o ce@churchotc.com

CHURCH OF THE HILLS PRESBYTERIAN (USA)

Serving the mountain community from the heart of Evergreen Worship 10:00 a.m.

Reverend Richard Aylor

O ce Hours: Tu-Thur 9:00 - 4:00; Fri 9:00 - noon

Bu alo Park Road and Hwy 73 www.churchofthehills.com

CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION EPISCOPAL

In-Church: Sunday Communion Quiet Service 8:00 am & with Music 10:15 am 10:15 am only Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86017266569

In-Meadow: 2nd Sunday of the month at 9:30 a.m.

--June through September—

27640 Highway 74 – ¼ mile east of downtown Evergreen at the Historic Bell Tower www.transfigurationevergreen.org

CONGREGATION BETH EVERGREEN (SYNAGOGUE)

Reconstructionist Synagogue

Rabbi Jamie Arnold

www.BethEvergreen.org / (303) 670-4294

2981 Bergen Peak Drive (behind Life Care)

CONIFER CHURCH OF CHRIST

“Doing Bible Things in Bible Ways”

11825 U.S. Hwy. 285, Conifer, CO 80433

Sun: 9:00a.m. Bible Study-10:00a.m. Worship; Wed: Bible Study 7:00p.m.

EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST)

27772 Iris Drive, Evergreen - 303-674-3413

www.EvergreenChristianChurch.org - eccdoc01@gmail.com

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m., with communion every Sunday

We are an inclusive faith community and welcome you to join us in our new ministry journey.

DEER PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Pastor Joyce Snapp, Sunday Worship 10 AM

Located one mile west of Pine Junction just o Rt. 285 966 Rim Rock Road, Bailey (303) 838-6759

All are welcome to our open/inclusive congregation!

EVERGREEN LUTHERAN CHURCH

5980 Highway 73 + 303-674-4654

Rev. Terry Schjang

Join us for Virtual Worship on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EvergreenLutheranChurch Sunday Worship uploaded by 10am.

www.evergreenlutheran.org + All Are Welcome!

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY CHURCH – EPC

1036 El Rancho Rd, Evergreen – (303) 526-9287 www.lomcc.org – o ce@lomcc.org

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m., with communion every Sunday “Real Church In An UnReal World”

A community empowered by the Holy Spirit which seeks authentic relationships with God and others to share the good news of Jesus with Evergreen, the Front Range and the world. Come as you are, all are welcome!

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“Baptizing the Mountains in Jesus Name”

Sundays 11:00 am & Wednesdays 7:00 pm

Location: Aspen Park Community Center 26215 Sutton Road, Conifer, CO 80433

(Additional parking at the Park & Ride next to Big O Tires) 720-770-0380 Call, Text, or Just Drop In www.mountainrevival.org

PLATTE CANYON COMMUNITY CHURCH

Located: 4954 County Road 64 in Bailey. O ce hours MWF 8am-1pm 303-838-4409, Worship & Children’s Church at 10am

Small group studies for all ages at 9am

Transitional Pastor: Mark Chadwick Youth Pastor: Jay Vonesh

Other activities: Youth groups, Men’s/Women’s ministries, Bible studies, VBS, MOPS, Cub/Boy Scouts.

ROCKLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH

“Connecting all generations to Jesus”

Please check our website, www.Rockland.church, for updated service times ¼ mile north of I-70 at exit 254 17 S Mt. Vernon Country Club Rd., Golden, CO 80401 303-526-0668

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF EVERGREEN

Rev. Sarah Clark • 303.674.4810 • www.evergreenumc.org 3757 Ponderosa Dr. across Hwy 74 from Safeway in Evergreen

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plication because it was de cient in providing important information, noting that Bradley can apply again. Trustee Adam Way voted to approve the application, Trustee Sean Forey was absent from the meeting, and Trustee John Leonard abstained.

Bradley apologized for not seeing the email from town o cials that the deadline to submit documents for the March 7 hearing was on Feb. 15. Bradley led the documents nine days late, and Carrie McCool, the town planner, said town o cials didn’t have enough time to review them.

“I turned (documents) in on Feb. 24, thinking that I wouldn’t even be here tonight but maybe in April,” Bradley said. “All I’m asking the board to do this evening is to have Ms. McCool look at my latest submittal. I think I’m pretty close, but I won’t know until Ms. McCool looks at it.”

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Public Notices

Legals City and County

LEGAL NOTICE

According to the Liquor Laws of Colorado 2Win-

sLLC Has requested the licensing officials of Jefferson County to grant a Tavern Liquor License at 4895 Ward Rd, Wheat Ridge, CO. 80033.

Date of application: February 10, 2023. Public hearing on the application will be held by the Liquor Licensing Authority Board on APRIL 06, 2023 at the hour of 9:00 A.M. Hybrid at 100 Jefferson County Parkway Hearing Room one and through a WebEx virtual meeting platform, the event information for attendees:

Citizens may receive a call back by providing a phone number when joining the event online; or calling into the public hearing by dialing 1-408418-9388 and entering meeting Access Code 2493 132 0202.

Event address for Attendees is: https://jeffco.webex.com/jeffco/onstage/g.php?

MTID=e336c844b0894af9bce445280472c64b6

Event Password: wJ6Q8F4hHas

Additional details for accessing the public hearing will be posted at the following, https://www. jeffco.us/events. Please note that citizens who would like to comment during the liquor hearing must be in person or access the hearing through the WebEx computer platform and use the chat feature to let the host know you would like to make a public comment.

The name(s) and address(es) of the Officers:

NAME ADDRESS

Tarah Olmstead 8533 W 67th Ave Arvada, CO 80004

Jessica Sponenberg 8886 W 77th Cr, Arvada, CO 80005

By Order of Liquor Licensing Authority of the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

Legal Notice No. CC 1173

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023

Publisher: Canyon Courier

Metropolitan Districts

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION and CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF RESULTS

§1-13.5-513(6), 32-1-104, 1-11-103(3) C.R.S.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Idledale

Water and Sanitation District, Jefferson County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 2, 2023 is hereby canceled pursuant to section 1-13.5-513(6) C.R.S.

The following candidates are declared elected for the following terms of office:

Peter Weber: Next Regular Election, May 2025

Andy Colwell: Second Regular Election, May 2027

/s/AJ Beckman (Designated Election Official)

Contact Person for the District: AJ Beckman

Telephone Number of the District: 720-2136621

Address of the District: 405 Urban Street, #310, Lakewood, Co 80228 District Email: aj@publicalliancellc.com

Legal Notice No. CC1172

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023

Publisher: Canyon Courier Public Notice

NOTICE OF REGULAR SPECIAL DISTRICT MAIL BALLOT ELECTION FOR THE FOOTHILLS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT C.R.S. 1-13.5-1105(2)(d), C.R.S. 1-13.5-502

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the electors of the Foothills Fire Protection District of Jefferson County, State of Colorado:

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that a regular election for the Foothills Fire Protection District shall be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. The election is being conducted as a Mail Ballot Election. Mail Ballots are required to be mailed to eligible electors between 22 and 15 days prior to the election (between April 10, 2023 and April 17, 2023).

At said election, the electors of the District shall vote to elect three (3) Directors, each to serve for a term of four (4) years, and two (2) Directors each to serve for a term of two (2) years on the Board of Directors of the Foothills Fire Protection District:

The names of persons nominated as Director for a Four (4) Year Term:

David R. Stajcar

Seth Miller

Dan Hartman

Steven A. Beck

Stephanie Graf

The names of persons nominated as Director for a Two (2) Year Term:

Lee S. Chaisson

Stephanie Troyer

Norman Kirsch

The mailing address for the return of mail ballots, the drop-off location address and the hours during which the office will be open is as follows:

Foothills Fire Protection District

Dana Retterer, Designated Election Official c/o Coaty Marchant Woods, P.C. 1202 Bergen Parkway, Suite 110 Evergreen, Colorado 80439

The office is open Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., beginning at least 22 days prior to Election Day (April 10, 2023), and from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Election Day (May 2, 2023).

If you are an eligible elector and do not receive a ballot, or have spoiled your ballot, you may request a ballot or replacement by contacting the Designated Election Official.

Foothills Fire Protection District /s/ Dana Retterer Dana Retterer, Designated Election Official (303) 674-0800 or dretterer@cmw-evergreen.law

Legal Notice No. CC1170

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023

Publisher: Canyon Courier

additional information that it hadn’t received.

e town wanted information on how and how often brine from the water-bottling operation would be collected for disposal, how many trucks would be involved in the operation and how large they would be.

Bradley, whose family has lived in the foothills for more than a century, owns the Café Prague and Morrison Joe building on Bear Creek Avenue in Morrison. When he was remodeling the building 20 years ago, he found an old well in the basement.

He approached the state to get permission to drill a replacement well, and he gures that was in 2002. Next, he went to state water court to get the stipulations to allow him to bottle the well water. at was in 2012. He went to the Morrison trustees to seek a special-use permit in January 2021.

tion that the town had spent many hours on the application, asking for

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Kittredge Sanitation and Water District, Jefferson County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 2, 2023 is hereby canceled pursuant to section 1-13.5-513(6) C.R.S.

The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

Robert “Bob” Kellogg, Jr.: 4 Year Term until May, 2027

Janet Reichart: 4 Year Term until May, 2027

Kyle Brytowski: 2 Year Term until May, 2025

/s/ Dana Retterer Dana Retterer, Designated Election Official Kittredge Sanitation and Water District

Contact Person for the District:

Nickie Holder, Administrator

Telephone Number of the District: (720) 496-9343 Kittredge Civic Association Community Ctr, Dave Hahn Bldg.

Address of the District: 26499 Mowbray Ct | P.O. Box 7 Kittredge, Colorado 80457 District website: www.kittredgeswd.org District Email: nmholderbiz@gmail.com

Legal Notice No. CC1171

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023

Publisher: Canyon Courier Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION and CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF RESULTS

§1-13.5-513(6), 32-1-104, 1-11-103(3) C.R.S

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Jefferson Conservation District, Jefferson County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixtythird day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 2nd, 2023 is hereby canceled pursuant to section 1-13.5-513(6) C.R.S.

The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

Karen Berry: 2023-2027 until May, 2027

Don Moore: 2023-2027 until May, 2027

Christina Burri: 2023-2027 until May, 2027 (Signature of the Designated Election Official)

Mitchell Yergert (DEO’s Printed Name)

Contact Person for the District: Mitchell Yergert Telephone Number of the District: 720-661-1738 Address of the District: 10799 W. Alameda Ave. #261205, Lakewood, CO 80226 District Email: jcd@jeffersoncd.com

He hopes the historical photos he wants to put on the labels will help entice people who come through town to buy his water rather than 16-ounce bottles from national chains.

§1-13.5-513(6), 32-1-104, 1-11-103(3) C.R.S.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Eagle View

Metropolitan District, Jefferson County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 2, 2023 is hereby canceled pursuant to section 1-13.5-513(6) C.R.S.

The following candidates are declared elected for the following terms of office:

Suzen RodgersSecond Regular Election, May 2027

Gregory J. McCabe, Jr. Second Regular Election, May 2027

/s/Peggy Ripko

(Designated Election Official)

Contact Person for the District: David Solin

Telephone Number of the District: 303-987-0835

Address of the District: 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, CO 80228

District Facsimile Number: 303-987-2032

District Email: dsolin@sdmsi.com

Legal Notice No. CC1168

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023

Publisher: Canyon Courier Bids and Settlements

Public Notice

INVITATION TO BID BROOK FOREST WATER

DISTRICT WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT TIMBER TRAIL AND BROOK FOREST ROAD

PROJECT NO. 22-01

BROOK FOREST WATER DISTRICT

The project is located at Brook Forest Water District approximately 5 miles Southwest of Evergreen, Colorado.

In general, this project consists of abandoning in place approximately 2057 feet of existing 4-inch ductile iron water line and appurtenances, replacing it with new 6-inch ductile iron water line, bends, and valves, reconnecting limited services, testing, and disinfection. Connection will be made to existing ductile iron water lines at each end of the new 6-inch ductile iron water line. This project will consist of three phases; Timber Trail, Brook Forest Road and Brook Forest Drive. Timber Trail includes 967 feet of replacement, Brook Forest Road with 850 and Brook Forest Drive includes 240 feet of replacement.

BIDDER shall demonstrate his qualifications by submitting evidence to the OWNER such as financial data, previous experience, authority to conduct business in the jurisdiction where the project is located, and other requirements as may be specified in the Contract Documents or requested after bids are received.

As its best interests may appear, the OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any formalities or informalities in the BID(s).

The BIDDER is required to purchase or register to receive a copy of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS.

Drawings, specifications, and other Bidding Documents may also be obtained online at www. questcdn.com. If you do not have a free membership, you may sign up for one to gain access to documents. The 2023 Brook Forest Waterline Replacement is available online for a cost of $20 via QuestCDN.

Hard copy BID sets are available between 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. Monday through Friday at the office of the ENGINEER, EVstudio, 4602 Plettner Lane, 4D, Evergreen, CO 80439 starting on March 15th , 2023 until April 6th 2023 for a cost of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per set (not refundable) to be paid in cash or by company check at the time of receipt. Email or call hard copy request 1 day prior to pick-up by emailing or calling Mr. Welch. Sealed BID(s) for the above-referenced PROJECT shall be in an opaque envelope upon which shall be plainly marked “BID ON BROOK FOREST WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT” and the name of the bidder. Bids will be received at the office of the ENGINEER, EVstudio, 4602 Plettner Lane, 4D, Evergreen, CO 80439 and publicly opened and read aloud at 3:30 P.M. on Thursday, April 6th , 2023. Any BID(s) received after the abovespecified time and date will not be considered. Fax and e-mail BID(s) will not be accepted. BID(s) shall be accompanied by a cashiers check, bidder’s bod, or certified check payable to Brook Forest Water District for not less than five percent of the amount of such bid including add-alternates with certified copy of the power of attorney.

An optional pre-bid meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 29th at the office of the Engineer.

For additional information contact: Brian Welch, P.E. at EVstudio 303-670-7242 x50 Brian.welch@evstudio.com

Legal Notice No. CC1169

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 23, 2023

Publisher: Canyon Courier Public Notice

Evergreen Park & Recreation District (EPRD) invites qualified companies ("Respondents") to submit their proposals for the new copier lease project to include the removal of all existing copier machines and then the installation and training for the new copiers at the Buchanan Park Recreation Center, Wulf Recreation Center, Evergreen Lake House and the Administrative Office.

A copy of the full RFP can be found on EPRD's website, wwwevergreenrecreation.com. An electronic or hard copy form of the complete proposal shall be provided to EPRD by Monday, April 24 no later than 10am. Submittals may be sent via mail, hand delivery, or email to EPRD: Attn: Bob Schmitz, 1521 Bergen Parkway, Evergreen, CO 80439, bschmitz@eprd.co.

Legal Notice No. CC1167

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 23, 2023

Publisher: Canyon Courier

Name Changes

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 3, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Jefferson County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Elijah Vicente Muniz be changed to Elijah Vicente Atencio Case No.: 23C273

/s/ Mary Ramsey Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. CC1166

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023

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Morrison trustees have denied an application for a water-bottling operation in the basement of Morrison Joe.

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