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Masks not perfect, but do help, says local health chief Tri-County’s Douglas, data shed light on misconceptions BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
His local public-health department has issued another maskwearing mandate for two metroDenver counties with nearly 1.2 million people. Even so, John Douglas doesn’t hesitate to admit that masks aren’t perfect in the fight against COVID-19. “But, like vaccines, they work better when more people use them,” Douglas, executive director of the Tri-County Health Department, told Colorado Community Media. “Because, like vaccines, they can both prevent the individual from getting infected or sick,” and also can prevent spread of the virus to others, Douglas said. Tri-County Health serves Adams and Arapahoe counties, and provides certain public-health services in Douglas County. Under a Nov. 22 Tri-County order, all people 2 and older in Adams
Most on campuses are fully vaccinated, officials say BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
right on the other side of County Line Road. In the days before the COVID-19 pandemic, that dividing line hardly mattered. But in the era of mask mandates, it can make all the difference. “We’re kind of in a unique position here, where people coming from Highlands Ranch might not even realize that they’ve crossed into a new county,” Millspaugh said. “So when mask mandates and
Students, faculty and staff at Arapahoe Community College will have to show proof of vaccination or begin to undergo weekly testing for COVID-19 by Jan. 3 in order to remain on the college’s campuses in Littleton, Castle Rock and Parker. The decision came amid a surge in COVID cases throughout the state. Colorado Community College System Chancellor Joe Garcia issued a letter to college leaders on Oct. 7 instructing they take further steps to ensure their schools’ populations are protected against the virus. “Employees and students who work on campus, attend in-person classes, access support services, or participate in other activities at our colleges or system office will have the choice to provide results from regular COVID-19 testing or, alternatively, provide evidence that they are fully vaccinated,” Garcia wrote in his letter. Arapahoe Community College, with campuses in Littleton, Parker and Castle Rock, is anticpating around 5,000 students to be on campus for inperson classes come January. Stephanie Fujii, ACC’s president, said the vaccination-or-testing protocol is necessary to avoid an outbreak, which could force the college’s campus to shut down.
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A sign read, “I don’t co-parent with the government” during an Aug. 30 protest against mask requirements at the Arapahoe County administration building in PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD Littleton.
and Arapahoe County must wear a face covering in all public indoor spaces. Authorities in Jefferson, Denver and Boulder counties have issued similar mandates. With rates of new coronavirus cases recently reaching levels not seen since December of last year — and daily deaths among those with COVID-19 recently hitting numbers
higher than they did during the first wave in spring 2020 — coronavirus hospitalizations in Colorado had for months been creeping up toward last December’s peak. And while numbers so far this month suggest hospitalizations SEE MASKS, P10
At mandate’s border, masks are a game of inches Mandate in effect in Arapahoe, not in Douglas BY KYLE COOKE AND BRIAN WILLIE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS
The one constant throughout the COVID-19 pandemic is that things are always changing. Few people know this better than Karli Millspaugh, owner of Curate: A Local Mercantile, at 8242
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S. University Blvd. in Centennial. Millspaugh’s shop provides a space for local artisans and vendors to sell their goods, and November and December has historically been a great time for business due to the holiday season. “This is the time when most retail businesses get in the black,” Millspaugh said. She spoke with Rocky Mountain PBS at Curate’s brick-and-mortar location in Arapahoe County. Just steps from her shop is Douglas County and Highlands Ranch,
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Masks are now required at indoor businesses in Arapahoe County, such as Curate in Centennial. But some shoppers coming from nearby Douglas County, which has no mask mandate, may not even realize they’ve crossed county lines. PHOTOS BY BRIAN WILLIE / ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS
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things like that change, it just keeps us on our toes.” Arapahoe County is currently one of several metro-area counties that has an active indoor mask mandate as a COVID-safety measure for public indoor spaces like Millspaugh’s business. On Nov. 22, the Tri-County Health Department announced the new mandate for Arapahoe and Adams counties. However, Douglas County’s new health department has authority over county-wide public health orders and COVID-19 services, and has not imposed a mask-wearing rule. “I have to acknowledge that people are on different sides of this,” Millspaugh said, speaking less about geographic boundaries and more about ideological ones. “And our mission … is really to be a happy place for everyone who enters. So I just want to make sure that no matter what side of this you’re on, you feel comfortable shopping here.” Mask wearing, along with vaccination and social distancing, has been identified by public health experts as a vital tool for stopping the spread of COVID-19, which as of Dec. 3 has killed more than 9,500 Coloradans. “Masks have proven to be effective in reducing the spread of this virus, especially when combined with other prevention efforts” said Dr. John Douglas, Tri-County Health’s executive director, in a news release. “With the holiday season upon us, this order is necessary to try to avoid hospital capacity being breached by a growing number of hospitalizations and running the risk of having to ration medical care.”
A sign on the door of Curate informs shoppers of the new mandate. “According to Arapahoe County, we are now under an indoor mask mandate,” the sign reads. “Thank you for your cooperation!” But a laminated piece of paper tacked to the entrance only has so much power. Some shoppers still do not wear face coverings at Millspaugh’s store, an issue many stores are facing. “I really don’t want to have to be the mask police,” Millspaugh said, adding that she especially does not want her employees to have to stop people at the door. “I don’t want them to make anyone feel like they can’t come into our store and shop,” she explained. “That definitely wasn’t in their job description.” Unfortunately, it has become a responsibility for many people who work in retail where there are COVID-19 restrictions in place. Last summer, NPR reported on retail workers around the country facing threats for enforcing public health orders. Millspaugh hopes it never comes to that at her store, and that shoppers understand the situation she and her workers are in. “I would just, you know, ask that shoppers — when they come in — they just understand they may be asked, ‘Do you happen to have a mask or would you like a mask?’ But understand that if your answer is ‘No thank you,’ we still want you to shop with us,” she said. “We still want you to have a great time and support all of these local vendors.” This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org. Curate in Arapahoe County, where mask wearing indoors is required, is a short distance away from Douglas County, with no mask rule.
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Young singers from Dry Creek Elementary School entertain the crowd at Centennial Center Park Dec. 4 during the daylong Centennial Holiday Artisan Market. PHOTO BY MARK HARDEN
Centennial service club helps Aurora families Food drive helps feed 225 families in need, Rotary Club says BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Rotary Club of Centennial held a food drive to help families of students at an elementary school in north Aurora, a service act done “in the spirit of the season of giving,” the club said in a news release. Families of the students at Crawford Elementary School speak 18 different languages and have numerous dietary needs, according to the release. The school sits near Colfax Avenue and Havana Street. The Rotary Club of Centennial is a community service organization. Rotary clubs focus on community service abroad and in local areas. Members of the club dropped off paper bags at the homes of Centennial residents with an attached list of foods needed by Crawford families, and, several days later, members picked up the bags filled with food, according to the news release. With help from teenage volunteers, Rotary Club members sorted and bagged the donated food for specific families before delivering them to Crawford Elementary, the release said.
Club members were able to fill and distribute the bags of food to 225 families, with the remaining 10 bags supplying the Crawford food pantry, according to the release. “The success of our food drive is really due to the generosity of Centennial families, who came through as they always do. We are constantly amazed at how much food they donate,” Matt McLaurin, a Centennial Rotary Club member who chaired the food drive, said in the release. The Centennial Rotary Club welcomes the public to attend one of the club’s breakfast meetings held from 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. every Tuesday at the Embassy Suites hotel in Centennial. That’s located at 10250 E. Costilla Ave., a short drive away from Arapahoe Road and Interstate 25. People don’t need to be personally invited or nominated to become a club member, according to the release. “We think you will find Rotary membership will enrich your life as it has ours,” the club said in the release. The club, which tends to consist of older members, also has run a “satellite club” of younger local residents, which has included members in their 20s or 30s, according to the club. For more information about the Rotary Club of Centennial, the public can visit bestrotary.com.
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‘I’m hoping it saves lives’ After piloting in Littleton, Planned Parenthood to roll out mental health screening statewide BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A mental health screening program that has been piloted at the Planned Parenthood Littleton Health Center this past year is set to be expanded to locations across Colorado after the health provider said it found success in identifying patients with depression. The organization partnered with Colorado Access, a nonprofit that contracts with the state government to provide health care plans through Medicaid, to screen thousands of patients for mental health concerns, something that can oftentimes be overlooked in patients seeking primary care. “There’s some stigma around mental health,” said Rob Bremer, vice president of network strategy for Colorado Access. “But if your provider is asking about it, it begins to normalize that conversation.” While it is not uncommon for healthcare providers to ask questions about a patient’s mental health, it’s less likely that providers will do so in a routine fashion, Bremer said. He likened the program, which he called a behavioral
The Planned Parenthood center in Littleton piloted a mental health screening practice that is set to be expanded to locations PHOTO BY ROBERT TANN across Colorado.
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WHAT IS A PHQ? A Patient Health Questionnaire is a standardized list of questions for patients seeking primary care to identify depression. Providers will ask the following two questions to all patients who walk through the door: Over the last two weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems? • Little interest or pleasure in doing things • Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless Depending on how they answer the PHQ, a more specific follow-up questionnaire, known as the PHQ-9, will be asked VID-19, according to an April 2020 survey from the Colorado School of Public Health. “The anxiety that we’re living with, a heightened level of stress and anxiety, we’ve seen the need and demand for behavioral health services just increase and increase,” Bremer said. Following the success in Littleton, the screening has been expanded to Planned Parenthood’s Aurora, Denver Central, Park Hill, Arvada, Fort Collins and Boulder health centers. It plans to bring the service to all 17 of its locations by the end of the year. Bremer said it brings hope for better mental health care across Colorado. “We’re going to be recognizing depression earlier and it’s going to be easier to treat,” he said. And the practice will reach Planned Parenthood patients outside of Colorado, said Mansanares, with plans to bring the service to locations in New Mexico and Nevada. For her, it’s about making mental health a priority. “I’m hoping it saves lives,” she said.
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Colorado’s fentanyl crisis is surging Only two school districts have ordered doses of the opioid antidote BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN
As the number of fentanyl overdoses began to climb, Colorado policymakers created a program to put the life-saving opioid antidote naloxone inside police departments, universities, workplaces and schools. But two years later, when annual deaths from fentanyl have surpassed 500 and fake painkillers laced with the synthetic opioid are killing an increasing number of high school and college students, just two school districts in the entire state have taken advantage of the program. Only Boulder Valley and Clear Creek school districts have ordered doses of naloxone — a nasal spray or an injection that can reverse an overdose if it’s given in time — from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment bulk purchasing fund. Health officials are concerned the slow start is because of stigma associated with drug use, and they fear school leaders are not seeking the opioid antidote because it might cause
parents or others to think certain schools or districts have a bigger drug problem than others. “We applaud the schools that have a naloxone program and want to make clear that schools that make naloxone available do not necessarily have higher statistics of overdose but rather are being proactive in preventing overdoses,” said Andrés Guerrero, manager of the overdose prevention unit at the state health department. “Prevention is key as we are seeing increases in overdose due to fentanyl in the Colorado drug supply.” While 176 out of Colorado’s 178 school districts have not asked for free naloxone, the bulk purchasing program has helped dozens of other entities, mainly law enforcement agencies and harm reduction centers where people go for clean needles and information about drug treatment. The fund paid about $337,000 for about 10,500 doses of naloxone in 2020, dispensing the doses to 90 entities statewide. This fall has been particularly busy, with orders totaling $547,322 since September. The fund has $1.24 million still available. The naloxone bulk purchasing fund, created by 2019 legislation and put in place in January SEE FENTANYL, P7
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2020, uses federal and state funding to buy naloxone at wholesale prices and distribute to first responders, campus police, harm reduction centers, workplaces, recreation centers and schools. The doses are free to school districts and other agencies that apply to the program. Boulder Valley was the most recent school district to apply, receiving enough this fall to place at least one dose of the nasal spray in all 64 school buildings and bus terminals by early next year. The district said nurses are receiving training on how to use the spray with a goal of having doses officially in place soon after the winter break. After a string of overdose deaths and nonfatal overdoses in the community last school year, Boulder Valley students were increasingly requesting naloxone and training in how to use it, school officials said. The district has been working since last May to get naloxone, and officials noted that not all potential opioid overdoses occur because of illegal drug use. Boulder Valley’s decision to place a dose in every school is a long time coming, said Kelly Luck, who for two years was an addiction counselor at Arapahoe Ridge High School in Boulder. Luck, who left the job last spring to return to work as a substance abuse counselor at a community treatment center, said two stu-
dents overdosed while she worked at the alternative high school that specializes in career and technical education. The first time it happened — on her first day on the job — there was no naloxone on hand after a student took “fake benzos,” the street term for knockoffs of the anti-anxiety medication, Xanax. But Luck was ready the second time. When another student was found unconscious at school, she pulled out her own dose of the nasal spray she had started carrying with her at work. Luck said she pushed for two years, making requests in her school and to the district, for Boulder Valley to purchase naloxone, sold under the brand name Narcan. “I was almost horrified to learn the first day that there was no Narcan in the building and it’s not standard protocol for anyone to carry it,” she said. “I am not the only person who has had this frustration.” Luck picked up several doses of Narcan on her own and passed them out to teachers and staff at school, she said. She wonders why every school in the state doesn’t have the opioid antidote at arm’s reach, just in case. The drug can restore breath to a person who has stopped breathing, keeping them alive until paramedics have a chance to arrive. School officials and parents who don’t think naloxone is needed on campus are naive, Luck said. “Kids are doing every drug imaginable in the bathroom at high
school,” she said. Clear Creek School District received naloxone for its two elementary school campuses and combined middle and high school campus last year, a credit to the community’s “very forward-thinking school board,” Superintendent Karen Quanbeck said. “The thinking is that it could be used for anyone who is in need, whether it’s a visiting family member or a member of the public or a kid,” she said. “It’s not specific to students.” The opioid antidote is kept in a locked box by the school nurse’s office, not far from EpiPens in case of anaphylaxis from bee stings and kits used to stop severe bleeding from a wound. So far, no one has had to use it, said Quanbeck, who has been superintendent for three years and said there has not been an overdose on school grounds. Office staff, health staff and other employees learned to use the nasal spray during virtual trainings last year and this year. Quanbeck said the district has not received any negative feedback
about the program “I hope we never have to use it, but it’s here if we do,” she said. “It’s thinking about all the things we can do proactively to ensure our community is safe.” Denver Public Schools does not yet have naloxone on its campuses but is making plans to do so, said district spokesman Will Jones. “We recognize that opioids are a problem in society at large,” he said via email. “In order to be proactive, we will have naloxone in our middle and high schools to help in case opioids find their way into our schools.” The district’s nursing team is still in the process of determining how to order the opioid antidote and has not yet applied to the state program. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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An Austrian Christmas in Lone Tree Schweiger Ranch hosts festival to mark holiday, honor heritage BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Darryl Jones helped restore Schweiger Ranch so it could become a community amePHOTOS BY JESSICA GIBBS nity and remains a Schweiger Ranch Foundation board member.
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It was an Austrian Christmas at Schweiger Ranch on Dec. 4 as the historic site hosted a festival that aimed to spotlight the property’s heritage and bring the community together. The fifth annual event boasted authentic Austrian and German food and music, complete with bratwursts and pretzels. People shopped vendors’ stands in between visits with Santa’s reindeer and Santa himself. About halfway through the day, 1,200 people had already filtered through the event. Schweiger Ranch Foundation board president Keith Simon said it was good to be back after the ranch hosted a drive-thru version of the festival in 2020 during the pandemic. The event has become well-attended by members of the local Austrian and German community, Simon said, who often sit front row during while a live band plays and sing to the songs. “People have really come to love this event,” he said. “I’m just so pleased we were able to do it. We try to expand it a little every year.” Fellow board member Darryl Jones
Food at the festival ranges from brats and pretzels to tables full of baked good.
worked for the site’s landowner before the ranch became a nonprofit. For roughly 10 years he helped in establishing its 501(c)(3), preserving the site’s 38 acres and supporting a restoration project of the property’s buildings. Jones said the goal was to transform the property into a community amenity. The foundation will probably try to keep expanding the Christmas festival in years to come, he said, as well as the site. “It’s so amazing to see that dream and that vision realized,” he said. “It really almost creates this emotional response because there’s a connection to how the project started.”
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may finally be coming back down, Colorado’s number of COVID-19 patients still sits high above what it was during most other parts of the pandemic. Colorado had 1,368 people hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 as of Dec. 3 this year, according to state data. Colorado had the 10thhighest COVID-19 hospital demand in the United States as of early November, according to a Nov. 3 report by the Colorado School of Public Health. But with the public hearing so many concerns about masks and mask effectiveness — and about vaccines — why wear a mask? Why get vaccinated when so many people already have been? Colorado Community Media spoke to Douglas and reviewed other sources of information below to address those questions. Like ‘sand through a chain-link fence’ At a contentious public comment session in front of Arapahoe County’s elected leaders after Tri-County Health issued its school mask order in August, a man offered an evocative picture of how he thought masks interact with the coronavirus. “If you took a fist of sand and threw it through a chain-link fence, imagine how much of it would go through,” the man said during the meeting, noting how small the virus is. A post on a popular social media page last year, focusing specifically on N95 masks, said: “COVID 19 virus particle size is 125 nanometers (0.125 microns); the range is 0.06 microns to .14 microns,” the post said, according to a USA Today factcheck report. “The N95 mask filters down to 0.3 microns. So, N95 masks block few, if any, virions (virus particles).” A micron is one one-thousandth of a millimeter — it’s also referred to as a micrometer. But there’s more to it than that. A COVID-19 virus particle exists on a tiny scale — around 0.1 microns in size — but it is always bonded to something larger, an expert told USA Today for the report. In other words, masks don’t have to stop bare virus particles alone. “There is never a naked virus floating in the air or released by people,” Linsey Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech who specializes in airborne transmission of viruses, told USA Today. The virus attaches to water droplets or aerosols — really small droplets — that are generated by breathing, talking, coughing and so on. These consist of water, mucus protein and other biological material and are all larger than 1 micron, USA Today reported. Those points were echoed in a research article published in the journal City and Environment Interactions and available online in May 2020, a piece that also suggested the use of masks indoors and improving ventilation to combat COVID-19. See that article at tinyurl.com/MaskArticleCity. Douglas, the local health chief, has said masks have been shown to
Children hold signs protesting Jeffco Schools’ mask mandate for students ages 3-11.
be “50-70% effective.” The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website says: “Multilayer cloth masks can both block up to 50-70% of … fine droplets and particles and limit the forward spread of those that are not captured.” Another speaker at that Arapahoe County commissioners’ meeting in August, from Centennial, said: “If you want to wear a mask, wear it. If you don’t, then don’t. If your guys’ mask works so well, why do I have to wear one? Why does my kid have to wear one?” The issue arose again at a Nov. 22 Arapahoe commissioners’ meeting, where Commissioner Nancy Sharpe said: “I do think there’s a level of personal responsibility ... They should wear them if they want to wear them and if they need to wear them.” Masks are primarily intended to reduce the emission of droplets toward others, an effect known as “source control,” as opposed to “wearer protection,” the CDC’s website says. But studies also demonstrate that cloth mask materials can also reduce wearers’ exposure to infectious droplets through filtration, including filtration of fine droplets and particles less than 10 microns. “The relationship between source control and wearer protection is likely complementary and possibly synergistic, so that individual benefit increases with increasing community mask use,” the website adds. See the long list of studies the CDC cites about mask effectiveness and related topics on the bottom of that page at tinyurl.com/MaskStudiesData. “By the way, we often forget that this is (spreading) because a very large chunk — maybe 60% of COVID cases — (come from) people who are asymptomatic or presymptomatic,” Douglas said, using terms for people who have COVID-19 without symptoms or whose symptoms have
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Parents protesting the Tri-County Health Department mask order for kids ages 2 to 11 pray outside the Adams County Government Center on Aug. 24 before a county PHOTO BY LIAM ADAMS board of commissioners public hearing.
yet to arise. For a look at other mask data, see our previous story at tinyurl.com/ MoreMaskData. Because masks aren’t a cure-all, physical distancing; meeting outdoors rather than indoors; avoiding large groups; and improving ventilation by opening windows or running heat, air conditioning, or an air purifier are all still important steps to take, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reiterated on Nov. 24 ahead of holiday celebrations. Masks in schools State health officials have presented data showing that requiring kids to wear masks while in school is associated with lower rates of COVID-19, The Colorado Sun reported in September, citing
comments from Rachel Herlihy, the Colorado state epidemiologist. The state public-health department looked at age-adjusted case rates for kids in 48 school districts, split into two groups by whether the districts are requiring masks in schools, the Sun reported. See that story at tinyurl.com/SunSchoolData. A recent CDC study looked at the impact of masking in schools on COVID-19 case rates among K-12 students across the United States. Counties without school mask requirements experienced larger increases in pediatric COVID-19 case rates after the start of school compared with counties that had school mask requirements, according to the Sept. 24 study. See that at SEE MASKS, P11
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tinyurl.com/CDCSchoolStudy. While Douglas acknowledged it’s difficult to say unequivocally that the masks made the difference, he’s confident that the data back up that conclusion. “What is notable in the data from CDPHE and even more so from the national study performed by CDC is that while rates were reasonably similar between districts that did and did not implement mandates going into the school year, they increased substantially more in the areas without mandates than in those that had them, which is highly consistent with a benefit of the mandate,” Douglas said. Mental health concerns Douglas previously responded to concerns among some parents that masks are making kids anxious or leading to other negative mental health outcomes. Mental health concerns among young people are likely due to family life and routines being disrupted amid the pandemic, along with isolation and uncertainty, according to Douglas. Speaking to Colorado Community Media, Douglas said younger kids “probably do lose a lot of emotional cues” such as smiles, frowns or teachers’ lips moving. “I don’t disagree at all that from a learning perspective, there may be an impact, but the counter to that is that masks have ended up being (what) allows kids to stay (safe) in the classroom anyway,” Douglas said. As opposed to school being remote, kids get more social interaction from being in a classroom, Douglas said. “You’ve got better education outcomes (and) probably better socialemotional outcomes” in that case, Douglas said. The text of Tri-County Health’s initial mid-August school mask order also addressed the topic of mental health. It reads: “Children’s Hospital Colorado clarified that mask wearing has not been linked to mental health problems in children or any other group and did not contribute to their declared ‘state of emergency’ for pediatric mental health.” Elizabeth Whitehead, a spokesperson for Children’s Hospital Colorado, confirmed the accuracy of that statement. For more outside information on masks and mental health, see the “mental health” section of our previous story at tinyurl.com/ MasksAndMentalHealth. Physical health concerns Another claim that came up during a Tri-County board of health meeting on Aug. 16: Masks problematically forcing a person to “rebreathe the carbon dioxide.” Wearing a mask does produce a “small increase” in breathing resistance caused by the mask material filtering particles and any moisture that is trapped in the mask material, according to a commentary in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. “One consistently documented
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Parents joined the protest on Sept. 1 alongside their children at Legend High PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS School.
Dr. John Douglas, executive director of Tri-County Health Department since PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER 2013, at his home.
negative impact of wearing a mask for a long period of time is an increase in the development of headaches in people with a history of headaches,” the September 2020 article says. See it at tinyurl.com/ MasksAndBreathing. “In otherwise healthy individuals, wearing masks, even for an extended period of time, does not produce any clinically relevant changes in circulating O2 or CO2 concentrations, and does not seem to impact tidal volume or respiratory rate,” the article says. Douglas pointed to real-world experience: health and hospital settings, where health care providers have been wearing masks for “decades if not longer.” “There have been virtually no detected impacts on acute health, long term health (or) job performance,” Douglas said. Why more vaccinations? The speaker at the Arapahoe County commissioners’ meeting in August from Centennial also asked: “If your vaccine works so well and you believe in it so much, why do I have to wear a mask? Why do I have
While children as a group have been shown to be at lower risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID-19, they can still spread the virus, according to Children’s Hospital Colorado. “Most kids over age 2 can — and should — wear face coverings to help keep themselves and their family and friends safe,” the hospital system’s website says. For parents who are struggling with getting a younger child to wear a mask, Children’s Hospital Colorado offers the following tips: • Comfort your child and help them feel safe: Ask them what about the mask they don’t like. Having a better understanding of what they don’t like can help you figure out how best to address the issue. • Start slowly: Begin by having your child practice wearing their face covering for short spurts of time during an activity they enjoy. For example, have your child wear a mask for 10 minutes while they play with their favorite toy. • Try different designs and styles: Cloth face coverings vary significantly, so you might have more success with a different type of mask based on style, material, fit, tie style, size and so on. • Some masks have adjustable elastic, which can help ensure a better fit for your child. If the
to get a vaccine?” Douglas, speaking to CCM, brought up the example of compelling people by law to wear seatbelts. “We’ve made the decision that somebody dying in a car accident is a bad enough societal impact that something pretty minor … seatbelt wearing, is something we endorse and use,” Douglas said. He added: “Most of the time, a law like that is purely designed to protect the person using the preventive measure.” He noted that the chances of the virus spreading — and the chances of more-dangerous variants developing — are reduced the more people get the vaccine. “We’re in this national, if not global, lifeboat together because we share a contagion that can spread globally really quickly, certainly quickly nationally,” Douglas said. Some people who are fully vaccinated will still get COVID-19, according to the CDC. An infection of a fully vaccinated person is referred to as a “vaccine breakthrough infection,” the CDC’s website says. Like other vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines are not 100% effective. That’s part of why stopping the virus’s spread on a societal level is important — and it’s partly why mask wearing is still being urged. Even when fully vaccinated people develop symptoms, they tend to be less severe symptoms than in unvaccinated people. This
mask secures around their ears, putting a thick lotion or Vaseline behind the ears can prevent the ears from getting irritated. Many kids don’t like the feeling of the elastic pulling on their ears, so it may help to find a style that ties behind their head. • Give your child some control back: Often, children refuse to cooperate because they feel like they don’t have a say and they want to demonstrate their independence from you. Giving them options, like the ability to choose their mask, can help increase their sense of control and their likelihood of cooperating. For kids who attend in-person school, day care or another inperson activity, Children’s Hospital Colorado recommends sending multiple face coverings with them in case any get dirty, lost or damaged. For example, you could send your child to school with two containers: one marked “clean” and the other marked “dirty.” A mask should be clean before each day of use. Parents should wash masks using laundry detergent and hot water. A regular dryer cycle is sufficient, the hospital system’s website says. “In a pinch, you can hand launder your face coverings. Make sure they’re fully dry before wearing,” the website adds. See other tips for parents and more about masks at tinyurl.com/ ChildrensHospitalColoradoTips.
means they are much less likely to be hospitalized or die than people who are not vaccinated, the CDC’s website says. Herd immunity Some may be wondering when enough people will be vaccinated for life to begin returning to some semblance of normal. At one point, it was thought that “herd immunity” — a term for when enough people become immune that the spread of a disease becomes unlikely — could happen when around 70% to 80% of people attain immunity to COVID-19. (See more on how that works in the sidebar in our previous story at tinyurl. com/HerdImmunityExplain.) But there is uncertainty regarding the true herd immunity threshold. What’s more, the delta coronavirus variant is more transmissible, a development that changes the percentage needed for herd immunity, according to an article from the American Medical Association. “Herd immunity is a helpful concept but often difficult to operationalize and hang your hat on,” Douglas said. “The estimate went up because delta is over twice as contagious as the original strain. Eighty to 90% of persons in the population being immune is the best estimate at this point, but it would go higher if an even more contagious variant emerged.”
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VOICES Looking for book ideas this season?
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f you are ever looking for a great conversation starter, try asking people what they may be reading. What people read can give us great insight to their hobbies, passions, and interests, and that helps lead into a fun and engaging WINNING discussion. This is also one of WORDS those questions I find myself answering as well. Depending on when that question comes my way will determine my answer as I have been following the same reading pattern for many years now. In addition to my Bible, blogs, columns, and ininformation, I read Michael Norton dustry somewhere between 40 and 50 books per year. And the reading cycle that I tend to follow is this: A faith-based book; business book; biography; history; and then a fiction book. For me this provides a glimpse into the areas that help me personally and professionally, while also helping me to be prepared for conversations with family members, friends, people I meet socially, and my clients. I find the different perspectives extremely helpful in understanding how others view the things that are happening in our world. At this time of year the question about what I am reading comes up a lot. Many of you send me emails asking for recommendations
throughout the year, and during the holiday season, as people are looking for gift ideas, the question comes up with greater frequency. So here is what I recommend this year as I follow the cadence mentioned above: Faith-based: “2 Chairs” by Bob Beaudine; “Grace” by Max Lucado; “Lead Like Jesus” by Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges; “Bethlehem” by Max Lucado; “Hope for Each Day” by Billy Graham. Business: “The Expansion Sale” by Erik Peterson and Tim Riesterer; “Business Secrets of the Bible” by Rabbi Daniel Lapin; “10 Leadership Virtues for Disruptive Times” by Tom Ziglar; “The New Psychology of Winning” by Denis Waitley; “Traction” by Gino Wickman Biographies: “Joy” by Joy Clausen Soto; “Boyd” by Robert Coram; “Where Men Win Glory” by Jon Krakauer; “Washington: A Life” by Ron Chernow; “Colin Powell: My American Journey” by Colin Powell History: “True Raiders” by Brad Ricca; “The Journey of Crazy Horse” by Joseph M. Marshall III; “In the Hurricane’s Eye” by Nathaniel Philbrick; “No Easy Day” by Mark Owen; “The Johnstown Flood” by David McCullough Fiction: “The Evening and the Morning” by Ken Follett; “Fast Ice” by Clive Cussler; “Win” by Harlan Coben; “Plum Island” by Nelson DeMille; “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coehlo Maybe you have a different cycle of reading that you follow. Perhaps someone you know
may be interested in one of the books I have mentioned here, so I hope this list is helpful in some way. Each of us has our favorite books and authors. Some of us enjoy our books that we can physically touch and hold, myself included. Others prefer their e-reader. And there are many who enjoy consuming their stories through audio books. Whatever our preferences are, whoever our favorite authors are, and however we choose to take a mental, emotional and spiritual journey by engaging with our favorite books, the important thing is that we make time to broaden our horizons by reading as much as we possibly can and from as many sources as we possibly can. How about you? Are you a fellow voracious reader? What are you reading these days? Is it time to mix it up a bit and start reading something new? Have you shared your reading list with others? I would love to hear all about what you are reading now, or even your favorite books from the past, at mnorton@ tramazing.com. And when we can expand our thinking through what others are writing and sharing, it really will be a better than good year. Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.
Time to create new rituals for the holidays
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he sun is shining, the grass is green. The orange and palm trees sway. Wait, what? With our recent weather here, you’d swear we were in California for the holidays. But we really are GUEST a mile high at the foot of the mountains, and I want to have COLUMN a Colorado Christmas that feels like, “Snow, snow, snow … it won’t be long till we’re all there with snow.” It already seems like we’re lighting our menorah too soon, but this weather is downright weird for the holiday season. Almost 30 years ago, I moved here from Southern CaliforLinda Newell nia (yes, I was one of those) to escape the constant sun and enjoy the change of seasons in the Rockies. Although I grew up with the pleasant predictability of temps in the 70s and sunshine, I yearned for the change of seasons, especially around the holidays. So, weather gods … where’s our snow, sleet, or even just some flurries?? How can we bustle down the street with our arms full of packages and our boots on under warm and dry skies? And who would have ever thought that we’d still be here with yet another COVID-19 vari-
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neither of us has been able to stump each other, but I’m still planning to.) • In our house this year, we have become aficionados of the British Baking Show holiday episodes and that has really stepped up my baking game! (Can’t wait to decorate those Christmas cookies with our new 7-year old in our family!) • Probably most important, is my continuing daily focus on gratitude. Every night, as I’m getting settled into bed, I reflect on my day and find at least three things for which I am grateful. (Be careful to do this before your melatonin gummies take effect.) You’re welcome to join me in any or none of these depending on your corny or sarcasm tastes. But whatever you choose to do, I hope you and your family stay safe, loving, and warm. And may we all enjoy the crazy Colorado weather and crazy COVID times no matter what comes our way. Former Colorado state senator, now with a master’s in Social Justice and Ethics from Iliff School of Theology, Linda Newell is a writer, instructor, facilitator, and conflict coach. Senlindanewell@gmail.com, www.lindanewell.org, www.senlindanewell.com, @sennewell on Twitter, Senator Linda Newell on Facebook.
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“I’m hoping that scenario doesn’t happen,” she said, adding that she is confident that her community will follow the new testing rules. As of mid-November, 68% of students and 88% of faculty and staff have shown proof of full vaccination, according to Fujii. “My hope is that more will go ahead,” she said. “I don’t want people to get sick.” For students who attend classes fully online, they will not have to participate in COVID testing or show that they have been fully vaccinated. However, if they intend to come to one of ACC’s campuses, they will need to show proof of a negative test three days before arriving. The testing protocol also has no effect on ACC’s maskwearing mandate, with students, faculty and staff required to wear masks when on campus regardless of vaccination status or testing, though students and employees can request an exemption from mask wearing for medical reasons. The college will still offer virtual classes and other academic services for those who do not want to undergo testing or vaccination. The new guidelines have led to some grumbling among students, faculty and staff, said Lisa Matye Edwards, vice president for student affairs, with some students even threatening to drop their classes in protest of the new protocol. “We recognize that there’s a variety of reasons that people may not choose to be vaccinated or cannot be vaccinated,” Matye Edwards said, adding that the testing option was given to avoid a vaccine mandate. Matye Edwards said that for those who violate the protocal by showing up on campus either unvaccinated or without proof of testing, they may face consequences ranging from a warning to suspension. But with the vast majority of the community fully vaccinated and already following mask requirements, college leaders believe the new guidelines will see a mostly smooth rollout. “ACC is a college that cares,” Fujii said. “I’m very confident that while folks may not like it they will be willing to comply because they care more about the community.” Students can go to tinyurl. com/studentvaccineform to upload their vaccination record. Faculty and staff can go to tinyurl.com/employeevaccinerecord to upload their vaccine record. Anyone who does not upload a vaccine record by Jan. 3 will have to test when the semester starts on Jan. 18.
Arapahoe Community College’s Littleton campus.
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CAN I GET A TEST OR VACCINE ON CAMPUS? Free COVID-19 testing is available on Arapahoe Community College’s Littleton campus every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to noon or until tests run out. Testing is available by walk-up appointments at Parking Lot C at the intersection of South Prince Street and Church Avenue northeast of the campus’ main building. Free vaccines are also available there from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Testing will be moved inside to room M1800 if the weather falls below 32 degrees. Vaccines will be moved to the same room if the weather falls below 40 degrees or it is raining or snowing. The campus is located at 5900 S. Santa Fe Dr., Littleton.
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LIFE Tom Newsom, one of the few Santa painters in the U.S., poses in a St. Nick suit for illustration research.
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Evergreen is home to a well-known Santa artist BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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or Tom Newsom, one of about six Santa painters across the United States, inspiration comes from the foothills of the Rockies. “Living in the mountains in Colorado is pretty inspiring,” Newsom said. For those who have ever completed a Santa puzzle, or seen ASPCA Christmas cards, Newsom’s art might seem familiar. Chances are, it’s his name on those illustrations. As well, he completed the artwork for the books Indian in the Cupboard, the Wizard of Oz, The Night Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and more. Some were for the original copies and some were reprints. A Texas native, he moved to Colorado in 1981 and resides in Evergreen with his wife, Carol. Since he was a boy, Newsom has always been drawn to creating artwork. In college, he started off as an engineering major with hopes to work in the space program, which heightened his interest during the 1960s. However, he quickly switched to his passion. In 1971, he graduated from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California as an illustration major. He gravitated away from astronomy to pursue painting, but the two spheres came together. Newsom was hired to watch a space shuttle launch at Cape Kennedy and create several pieces of art for the Manned Space Flight Art Collection. His career started off while he was in college, creating illustrations for cash. During the summers in between semesters, he drew portraits at an amusement park to afford tuition. Then, he graduated from art school and his salary ever since comes from his artwork. “There aren’t very many people who actually make a living at art. I mean, a lot of people go to art
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school and they wind up doing something else. But I’ve managed to make a career for a long, long time doing artwork,” he said. Although painting remains as his passion, he does not encourage others to join in. “I wouldn’t recommend it to anybody,” he said. “It’s a pretty tricky profession. I’ve worked exclusively on commissions, piece by piece. My total income is just dependent on artwork. And so it’s, you know, it’s a chancy thing to work on your own life.” That discouragement did not come off to his family, as artistry must run in Newsom blood. His wife, Carol, also creates illustrations. His two sons, Andy and Phillip, graduated from the ArtCenter College of Design. Andy, 46, is a graphic designer and Phillip, 42, paints landscapes and animals. Now, Newsom focuses on painting Santa through the Gouache medium. Gouache is water-based, opaque watercolor style of painting and allows for very fine de-
A piece of Tom Newsom’s artwork.
tails. Bright colors come out very bright and dark colors come out very dark, and he uses very small brushes to extract the utmost detail. Over the years, Newsom has created over 150 total Santa paintings. His process of painting starts out with a commission. A buyer will give him verbal directions, “Santa with puppies,” for example, and then he creates sketches. The sketches are sent back and after receiving confirmation, he
will begin his paintings. All paintings start out with research. Some pieces consist of merely a photograph of a model, but others need more digging. He explained how a commission hired him to paint St. Nick on a motorcycle, and he needed to visit a motorcycle museum. There, he took many photographs of a model next to a 1940s Harley because he knew the motorcycle community needed to see the exact details of their beloved steeds. For Newsom, hiring models in Evergreen, Colorado is no big deal. “They’re pretty easy to find up here in the mountains, old guys with white beards,” he said. After taking photos of the models, he then starts the process of painting. A typical painting usually takes between a week and ten days, if he works about six hours a day. Once the piece is finished, he sends a digital copy over to the buyer. For current projects, Newsom remains busy working with two self-publishing children’s books authors to create illustrations, a portrait of a political commentator and a cover of Texas Magazine.
Tom Newsom is one of six Santa painters in the U.S..
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Library is venue for handbell concert SONYA’S SAMPLER
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emis Library, 6014 S. Datura St. in Littleton, will host the Smithtonian Handbell Ensemble at 1 p.m. and again at 3 p.m. on Dec. 11. Free, but pre-registration is required. 303- 795-3961. In other library news: the Holiday Book Sale continues, hosted by the Friends of the Library/Museum, with bargains for all ages. And preregistration is required for create an Ugly Christmas Apron as a gift to give: 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 18. Free, register at 303-795-3961.
Author to appear via Zoom Author Taylor Jenkins Reid will appear on Zoom from 2 to 3:30 p.m. to talk about her new book: “Malibu Rising.” Register in advance and get information about using Zoom: 303-542-7279, arapahoelibraries.org. Colorado Ballet Colorado Ballet dancers are wearing 171 new costumes as they perform in this year’s “Nutcracker” performances. Cost? $1.5 million! (It’s been 33 years for the old ones!) The big order saved jobs for a number of
seamstresses. Designer was Holly Hynes. Nutcracker performances: through Dec. 31, but these tend to sell out, so pick a date and nail down tickets soon, if there’s a little dancer who wants to go. Tickets range from $40 to $175. All performances at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Masks required, here and at all theatrical performances, plus proof of vaccination. ... Upcoming: “Romeo and Juliet,” Feb. 4-13. See coloradoballet.org. SEE SAMPLER, P16
‘A Hudson Christmas’ has roots in past Gardens’ namesake couple had restaurant on Littleton site BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
As I enjoy the thousands of lights at Hudson Gardens this season, I recall a long-ago conversation with my good friend Evelyn Hudson. She told me she had been in the Littleton city planning office (a visit she made often to question city council decisions that affected local beautification) and she saw a drawing that projected a future for the lovely green Santa Fe Drive acreage she and her husband, Col. King C. Hudson, owned — where their nationally recognized restaurant, The Country Kitchen, was located, starting in 1939. It showed rows of apartment structures where the handsome log restaurant building stood on an expanse of green lawn, surrounded by specially-selected evergreen trees. Angry, she went home, called her lawyer and quickly set up a foundation that could preserve the 30 acres of lovely riverside land in Littleton as open space, so people could forever enjoy its beauty! At first, she, her nephew and a few local Hudson friends made up a board, which later expanded to include additional interested people. (I was fortunate to be involved from the start with plan-
IF YOU GO Hudson Gardens is located at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. “A Hudson Christmas” tickets are sold online only — none at the door. “Any day” tickets are sold out, but dated tickets ($15, adults; $12 ages 4-12) are available — check your calendar and then go to hudsongardens. org. ning, which included discussions about whether it should become a formal garden, following French design, with straight paths, squared beds and rows of plants, or a more casual English garden with curving paths, casual groups of plants and a bit of water.) Local landscape architect Doug Rockne was hired to help lay out a structure, and soon, skilled British plantsman Andrew Pierce was also recruited to begin selecting roses, trees, shrubs and flowering plants by the hundreds. The property is now open daily, year-round, for people to stroll, rest, picnic and enjoy nature, just away from the noise of busy Santa Fe Drive, with sound buffered by a wall of evergreen trees. Look for the sign across to the west from Arapahoe Community College. A story tells of a day soon after King and Evelyn Hudson moved to Littleton: She surveyed the property and decided it was lacking the dark, spiked accent of evergreen trees. The sometimes-brusque Colonel mildly said “yes, dear” and later
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ing), hundreds of large and small evergreens with colored lights, lighted bare-branched deciduous trees, and miles of pathways, both paved and not. Enjoy the numerous works of public art placed among the trees and shrubs, a bow to Evelyn Hudson’s longtime interest in art and her years of service on Littleton’s Fine Art Committee. (She was an original member.) While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.
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Vintage Theatre “Who’s Holiday” plays at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora through Dec. 31. ‘Tis a raunchy riff on Dr. Seuss, they say. Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. $25. Added performances beginning Dec. 14. Adults only. Also: “Twelve Dates of Christmas” through Dec. 26. 90 minutes, plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $20-$34. Also: children’s musical “Cinderella,” from the Rodgers and Hammerstein television extravaganza. Nominated
for nine Tony Awards. Plays through Jan. 9, 2022. Tickets: $20-$38. Go to vintagetheatre.org, 303-856-7830. Town Hall Arts Center “Fezziwig’s Ball” plays Dec. 18 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton. Participatory theater for kids. 303-794-2787, townhallartscenter.org. New Year’s Eve The Colorado Symphony has a long tradition of a New Year’s Eve Concert, “A Night in Vienna.” This year, Littleton Symphony Orchestra will join them. Reserve early to get tickets. Go to coloradosymphony.org.
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While authorities searched for a suspect on Dec, 4, they asked people in the area to shelter in place, and they warned the public to stay away from the area. That request was lifted about 12:30 p.m., TV station KCNC-CBS4 reported. That afternoon, Capt. Darren Weekly of the sheriff’s office said via a Twitter video that a suspect in the shooting “has been located deceased. We believe that the suspect died by his own hands.” He was later identified by the sheriff’s office as 55-year-old Art Valentine. No hometown was released. Authorties believe “the suspect and victim were known to each other,” Weekly said. He said authorities believe there is no ongoing danger to the community. At press time, the case was still being investigated.
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With shuttles running regularly, visitors filled the Highlands Ranch Mansion on Dec. 4 to take part in holiday celebrations. With Santa, entertainment from local schools, games and food, the mansion was full of holiday spirit during the annual event hosted by the Highlands Ranch Metro District. Visitors were also treated to tours of the mansion along with hayrides to see the cattle and land surrounding the historical area. Those attending the event were asked to park off site, with multiple buses shuttling groups up to the mansion throughout the daylong event.
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There’s plenty of time to get into the holiday spirit, whether it’s sipping on a warm festive drink, listening to seasonal classics or meeting Santa Clause. Here are four events happening around the Littleton area in the lead-up to Christmas. Christmas with the Colorado Choir Where: First Presbyterian Church of Littleton, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton When: Dec. 11 from 2 to 2:45 p.m. The Colorado Choir will host a special Saturday matinee concert, a shorter version of their full concert program that features traditional and contemporary holiday music. Holiday Brunch at the ViewHouse Where: ViewHouse Littleton, 2680 W. Main St., Littleton When: Dec. 11 at 11 a.m. The ViewHouse in downtown Littleton will be hosting a holiday brunch and ornament exchange. 2021 Holiday’s Evening Where: Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton When: Dec. 12 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Hosted by the Littleton Museum
and Friends of the Littleton Library and Museum, attendees will be transported back in time to the 1800s with this outdoor event on the grounds of the museum’s living history farm. The event will feature wagon rides, costumed actors who will teach about life in the 1800s, and warm drinks such as apple cider, all lit by luminaries along paths. Children can also make art and write letters to Santa who will visit via video call from inside the museum. Cost for children aged 12 to 16 is $3 for members and $4 for non-members. For adults it is $7 for members and $10 for non-members. Go to tinyurl.com/littletonmuseumholiday to purchase tickets. Breakfast with Santa Where: Peak Community & Wellness Center, 6612 S. Ward St., Littleton (south Jeffco near Simms and Coal Mine) When: Dec. 11 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Hosted by the Foothills Park and Recreation District and the Children’s Hospital Colorado, parents can bring their children to meet and take a photo with Santa while enjoying a catered breakfast and holiday music. Cost is $15 for child and $20 for adult. Children under 12 months are free. You must register at tinyurl. com/foothillsbreakfastwithsanta to attend.
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snowpack level, data show. A forecast storm could bring some relief to the high country early next week, but it will likely be too dry and warm for snow in Denver, Bianchi said. Colorado climatologists answered our questions about this season’s dry conditions and what to expect in the months to come. How long will this dry spell last? Denver likely will be snow-free for the next seven to 10 days, Bianchi said. Forecasts show next Tuesday could bring some precipitation, though it’s too early to say if it will be snow or rain. “But it does look like the mountains get some snow,” Bianchi said, “and that’s where it really does matter.” November tied for Denver’s 9th driest on record, with just 0.07 inch of precipitation, according to the National Weather Service office in Boulder. Denver also finished its warmest and driest combined summer and fall on record. Between June 1 to Nov. 30, less than 2 inches of precipitation was recorded, while an average amount in that period is about 9 inches, Bianchi said. Temperatures during the same time period averaged about 65.6 degrees — 3.5 degrees above average. “The last six months here have been wild — the fact that we have been so consistently warm and so consistently dry for that long of a
time spell, and not just in Denver, throughout eastern Colorado, it’s just been bone dry, we’ve been living basically in the desert for the last six months,” Bianchi said. “That, to me, is a classic sign that we are experiencing the effects of climate change.” Why no snow? There’s no one answer to explain the lack of snow, but a La Niña weather pattern and climate change are two factors impacting the state’s parched conditions, especially in the southwest, according to Greg Hanson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder. During a La Niña winter, most storms come out of the northwestern parts of the U.S. and western Canada before diving down across Colorado. This year, heavy rains brough flooding and mudslides to Washington state, but the storms petered out before reaching Colorado. “All of the moisture ends up staying in the Pacific Northwest,” Hanson said. “We don’t get a lot of moisture to produce the snow or the rain that we need to get ahead of the drought.” Colorado’s northern mountains could get decent snowpack in a La Niña pattern, he said, while the San Juan and Upper Rio Grande basins tend to be hit the hardest. Will we eventually have a snowy winter? Regarding the mountain’s snowpack: “it’s not necessarily all doom and gloom,” Bianchi said. “We’ve gotten off to slow starts before. We’re a little over half of where we should be in the season, but one big storm could flip that pretty quickly,” he said.
Last spring, which was also during a La Niña weather pattern, saw historic levels of rain and snow. And because spring is Colorado’s main season for snowfall, Hanson said, there’s no need to panic just yet. “So the conditions now — we should pay attention, definitely — but it really isn’t that alarming until we see how the springtime shapes up.”
year, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Monsoonal moisture over the summer brought some improvement to drought conditions along the Front Range and Eastern Plains, but it’s been mostly dry ever since. “Now, a lot of places along the Front Range and Eastern Plains have been among the hottest and driest summer and fall time periods that have ever been recorded,” Schumacher said. For now, the impacts are not anything to be extremely concerned about at this time of the year, he said, noting that water supplies along the Front Range aren’t in imminent danger.
Where is snowpack the lowest? Snowpack is the source of most of Colorado’s water supply, stored in reservoirs after snow melts into water. Right now, reservoirs in the southern and southwestern part of the state and down the Colorado River basin are at record or nearrecord lows. “We have the reservoirs there and Is this year a harbinger of more dry one of the reasons they’re there is to winters? have a savings account, so to speak, “What’s going to happen with the to have water to get through a dry winters, it’s still tough to say, but the year or maybe a couple of dry years,” effects of warming, they’re becoming said Russ Schumacher, the state’s more and more apparent with every climatologist. year that goes by,” Schumacher said. “But now they are so low, that that For Hanson, this season’s condiisn’t there. So if we do go through tions are a clear sign of climate another winter with another sub-par change. snowpack, the water concerns from “This is what climate change looks western Colorado through the South- like, with a more compressed winter west are going to get pretty serious season: snow starts later and ends by next year,” he said. sooner,” he said. “If people want to A “really big snow year” could know what we’re looking at in terms Foodhelp Trucks ease current conditions, butPumpkin Schum- Painting of climate change 50-100 years from Contest acher said he’s not feeling optimistic. now, this is it.” “What the seasonal outlooks are pointing toward with La Niña in This story is from The Colorado Sun, place, is that it’s not really likely that Halloween a journalist-owned news outlet based Fall and Activities we’re going to have a big snow year Demos in Denver and covering the state. For Product in the parts of the mountains that more, and to support The Colorado really need one.” Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The ColoAll of Colorado is facing some rado Sun is a partner in the Colorado level of drought, but conditions are News Conservancy, owner of Colorado slightly better than this week last Community Media.
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Cherry Creek players leap up to join their fans to celebrate their 21-0 victory over Valor Christian in the 5A State Final.
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Creek shuts out Valor for 3rd straight 5A crown
Coach Dave Logan wins 10th state title BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Cherry Creek High won its third consecutive Class 5A state football championship on Dec. 4 at Empower Field at Mile High, but this title was exceptional. Creek came into the game as the underdog in the minds of most people and was going against a Valor Christian team that was dominant, unbeaten and had its way against most of the Highlands Ranch school’s previous 13 opponents. But Creek used a 21-point first half performance and the Bruins’ defense contained Valor’s fast-paced, no-huddle offense in a 21-0 victory which marked the school’s 12th overall state football title. “We were really motivated,” said Creek junior linebacker Henry Lamar. “We had a lot of energy coming into this game. We felt like we were really underrated and everybody felt Valor was just going to run all over us but we felt we had one of the best defenses in the state and we proved it.” It was the 10th state championship for the Greenwood Village school’s 67-year-old head coach, Dave Logan. He’s won four at Creek, four at Mullen and one each at Chatfield and Arvada West. The Bruins and Eagles have now played in three of the past four state title
games. Valor won 24-14 in 2018 and Creek took the crown in 2020 with a 21-0 shutout in Pueblo. “It never gets old,” said Logan, a former Denver Bronco. “Valor is so wellschooled in what they do. They play at such a high tempo it is hard to simulate in practice. I’ve never been more proud of a team. “We lost 35 seniors from last year’s team,” he added. “The team out there today was underclass heavy. You have to earn what you get. We knew this was a great challenge. They have dominated people with that running game. I’m proud of our defense and then offensively we were able to hammer out, move the ball a little bit, stay on the field and not turn the ball over.” Creek, which managed 193 yards in offense, used three big plays to get the lead and the defense took care of the rest. The Bruins held the Eagles offense, which averaged 41 points a game in winning its first 13 games, to 278 total yards. Cherry Creek’s defense kept a wrap on prominent Eagles running back Gavin Sawchuck, who finished with 77 yards on 29 carries. Sawchuck finished the season with a school record 2,004 yards rushing which was helped by the 350 yards he gained in the previous two playoff games. Creek Quarterback Christian Hammond -- younger brother of Julian, who led the Bruins to titles in 2019 and 2020 -- completed 10 of 11 passes for 99 yards and
Cherry Creek defender Sam Pezdirtz, 26, breaks up a pass play to Valor Christian’s Jackson Reinheimer, 6, as Henry Lamar, 8, closes in.
two touchdowns. He found Maxwell Rodriquez for a 21-yard scoring pass to open the scoring and then avoided a Valor pass rush and hit Ismael Cisse for a 39-yard TD. That play swelled Creek’s lead to 21-0 with 2:41 left in the second quarter. In between, Lamar picked off a pass from Valor quarterback Colton Allen and returned it 18 yards for a touchdown. It was one of three interceptions three interceptions for the Creek defense. Tyler Tolbert and Blake Purchase had the other Creek interceptions. SEE FOOTBALL, P25
Valor Christian’s Gavin Sawchuck, 27, gets caught in the backfield by Cherry Creek defender Ez Rice, 32.
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“We’re really young and I’m proud of every team but certainly proud of the effort we gave against Valor,” said Logan, whose team was 12-2 this year. “We beat a really good team. I though we we were really efficient,” Hammond had plenty to say about the Bruins’ defense and he talked about his ability to elude a swarming pass rush and hit Cisse with a TD pass “The defense was huge,” said Hammond. “To get a pick six and multiple turnovers it gave us really good spots on the field. “My second TD pass was a designed screen and I was going to go to that, but the rush kind of got there, so I tried to make something happen,” he added about the TD pass to Cisse. “I started running out and tried to keep my eyes on the field and I looked and saw Ismael wide open. “It crazy how I feel,” he continued.”I can’t really explain it. It’s a really good feeling especially since no one believe we
could really do this.” Purchase, a junior and younger brother of last season’s do-it-all defender Myles, led the Bruins with 10 tackles while sophomore Angelo Petrides and Lamar each had eight. Valor’s defense was led by Jordan Norwood with 17 tackles and one sack. Donnie Yantis is now 20-2 in his two years as Valor’s head coach; both losses came to Cherry Creek. “It was a tough game and we couldn’t get much going on offense,” said Yantis. “The defense played well. Credit to coach Logan and his Cherry Creek program. They were the better team. The result is not what we wanted, but I’m proud of our team including our 29 seniors. It was a blessing to coach those young men.” Yantis added: “We’re really young and I’m proud of every team but certainly proud of the effort we gave today. We beat a really good team. This is a team that had not been beaten and lost only one game in the past two years. I though we we were really efficient. Their defense is magnificent and we (knew) this was not going to be a 41-38 game.”
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Auraria’s displaced people to get free tuition Promise made when neighborhood was razed is fulfilled BY DAVID GILBERT THE COLORADO SUN
Speakers give remarks on Nov. 4 at the Auraria Higher Education Campus in Denver. The University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver and Community College of Denver are expanding a free tuition program for descendants of Aurarians who were displaced from their neighborhood through the 1970s. PHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN
Abenicio Rael’s mother, Irene, was one of hundreds of people forced to leave their homes in Denver’s oldest neighborhood before it was razed to make way for the Auraria campus in the 1970s. That made him eligible for the Displaced Aurarian Scholarship, though he soon found the limits of its promise of free tuition at the campus’ three colleges for the children of former residents. Rael was able to apply the scholarship toward his bachelor’s degree at the University of Colorado Denver on the 170-acre campus north of Colfax Avenue and just east of the South Platte River. But when he applied again to use the scholarship toward a master’s degree, he faced an uphill battle. “I wrote so many emails to so many higher-ups, they finally agreed,” Rael
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by taking his concerns about the program to CU Regent Nolbert Chavez last year. Chavez took up the cause of expanding the scholarship, and found eager buy-in from officials at CU Denver, and the two other schools that share the campus, Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Community College of Denver. The expanded scholarships will become available starting in spring semester 2022 and will apply to all levels of education on the campus, from associate degrees to doctorates. It’s unclear how many people are eligible to receive the expanded benefit. “I am filled with mixed emotion today,” Chavez said. “Part of me can still see the hurt and pain of these good people who were forced to leave and had to endure unspeakable hardship.” Once part of the ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute peoples, Auraria was founded in the fall of 1858 by a party of goldseekers led by William Green Russell, preceding the founding of neighboring Denver City by a few weeks before the two merged in 1860, according to the Denver Public Library. As the decades passed, the neighborhood became home to a largely working-class and immigrant population. By the early 20th century, it was home to a burgeoning Latino population, with life revolving around St. Cajetan’s, built in 1926.
Following a devastating flood on the South Platte River in June 1965, Denver voters approved a bond measure in 1969 to demolish the neighborhood to make way for the campus in spite of community resistance organized by Father Peter Garcia of St. Cajetan’s. Relocations were complete by 1972, and the Auraria campus opened in 1976. More than 300 households were forcibly displaced to make way for the campus. Property owners were paid for their homes and residents were promised free education at the future campus, but once the campus opened in 1976, Chavez said, financial aid proved spotty and many former residents were turned away. “Students were subject to whatever policy was used at that point in time,” Chavez said. “Some were mistreated. Some were forced to jump through hoop after hoop in hopes they would give up.” Community activists strived for years to codify the scholarship. Santos Blan, who lived in Auraria until he was 16 and came back to teach accounting at CCD, remembered getting the brush-off when he and others approached the Colorado state legislature to solidify the scholarship in the early 1990s. “Today there are administrators and leaders who made this happen,” Blan said. “We didn’t have that 30 years ago.” Then-Colorado state Rep. Celina Benavidez introduced a bill in 1994 to create a financial aid fund to assist displaced Aurarians, but the bill died in committee. Shortly thereafter, the
Attendees listen as speakers give remarks on Nov. 4 at the Auraria Higher EducaPHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN tion Campus in Denver.
three colleges on the campus seeded their own funding for the former residents and their children. Since its inception, the scholarship has paid $3.4 million in financial aid to roughly 600 students at CU Denver; $1.4 million in aid for 305 students at MSU; and more than $627,000 to 136 students at CCD. Expanding and better codifying the scholarship is an important step toward fulfilling the mandates of all three colleges, all of which are federally designated Hispanic Serving Institutions, said Antonio Farias, CU Denver’s vice chancellor of diversity, equity and inclusion. “This scholarship is a way for us to confront our history,” Farias said. “It’s a way to build on the past without shame or anger.” Seeing the scholarship solidified is reflective of the times, Chavez told the crowd in front of St. Cajetan’s. “We are living in a time of seismic social change,” Chavez said. “We are helping transform colleges from
places of elitism to engines of social mobility.” Standing in front of St. Cajetan’s with her son to celebrate the scholarship’s expansion was an emotional moment for Rael’s mother, Irene. The Auraria neighborhood lives in her memory, she said. “I still smell the tortillas and the chiles roasting,” she said. “I hear the rosary coming from the church. Paco Sanchez on the radio. I remember dances, boys playing baseball in the street, staying outside with the other kids until after dark. I’m so proud of my son. With this scholarship, our people’s history lives on through him, and through my grandchildren.” This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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