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VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 18

WHAT’S IN A SIGN?

Centennial’s effort to boost local businesses is back ‘Spark Centennial’ program helps businesses adapt to customers who want experiences

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Street signs in the Bow Mar South area of Littleton, pictured on March 14, bear different logos than other street signs in Littleton. Street signs around the metro area vary by location. See story on page 14.

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MY NAME IS … ANDREA DSILVA

Religious education teacher who grew up in Mumbai, India

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A life in Mumbai I’m 38 years old, and I have lived in Centennial for eight years now.

I am originally from India and grew up in the City of Mumbai until the age of 30. I have a love-and-hate relationship with Mumbai. It’s not an easy city to live in:

It’s big, busy, loud and hot.

At the same time, Mumbai is welcoming of everyone and everything. Cuisines, cultures, people and change — the city embraces it all.

I miss the street food and food trucks — it really is one of the best things to do in Mumbai if you’re a foodie like me!

Life changes One of the key reasons to come to the U.S. was family.

My spouse, Malcolm, was employed with Standard & Poor’s Rating Services and was offered a permanent position in Centennial. It was not an easy decision, but the

culture here is more welcoming than most countries.

Another reason that influenced my decision to move to Centennial: so I can build something of my own.

Two cultures The major challenge in transitioning to life in the U.S. was that of a culture shock. India and the U.S. are polar opposites when it comes to culture and tradition. Although there is an increase of Western influence in India, the core culture of India still dates back centuries. The way SEE ANDREA, P5

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The shift in American consumerism toward preferring experiences rather than products or things has weighed on Centennial city officials’ minds over the past few years, and the city is

pushing forward with another round of its program to help local businesses adapt.

It’s more than just an effort to lend a hand to local shops — local governments depend on sales-tax revenue, and when the economy changes, cities find themselves hoping businesses can keep up.

The Spark Centennial Experience Accelerator program provides mentorship and funding to “inspire business owners and entrepreneurs to reshape their business SEE SPARK, P10

Littleton-based nonprofit to host workshop featuring immigrant voices April 9 event to educate community on realities of immigration

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Littleton-based nonprofit Immigrant Path-

ways Colorado will host a workshop at Arapahoe Community College (ACC) April 9 during which attendees can hear first-hand stories of the immigration journey from those who have experienced it.

The event, called “Step into My Shoes: Conversation Circles about SEE WORKSHOP, P7

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Longstanding exhibit space faced pandemic upheaval, funding cuts

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Museum of Outdoor Arts will close its indoor gallery space in the Englewood Civic Center after more than 20 years of hosting exhibits, shows and classes.

The move comes after nearly two years of pandemic-related cuts to the museum’s hours and operations spurred by a drop in in-person attendance as well as a lack of funding from the City of Englewood.

“We are working with the city and just trying to reimagine what we can do with the resources that we have,” said Tim Vacca, director of programs for MOA, who said the museum’s presence will continue with outdoor installations. “We’re very much looking forward to having a presence on the outdoors and public spaces.”

Founded in 1981, MOA has occupied a gallery space and headquarters in the Englewood Civic Center since 2000.

The museum had been receiving $96,000 annually from the city to help with operational costs. But in April 2020, the city council voted to gradually reduce the funding, cutting it to $48,000 in 2020, $24,000 in 2021 and $0 in 2022.

Vacca said the closure was a result of MOA wanting to relocate to a new facility near the Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village, its original headquarters. He added that staff had for years been splitting their time between both locations and that the change will make it easier on them.

There are no immediate plans for an indoor gallery space, however.

“When asked if the loss of city funds had played into the decision to close in Englewood, Vacca said it was likely, but not the only reason.

“There’s so many different factors at play and that’s probably definitely one of the factors,” he said.

He also pointed to the construction of a new outdoor facility for the museum near the amphitheater that began last year and is set to be completed this spring. Some of the art on display in Englewood will be relocated there, Vacca said.

“We decided that we needed to be headquartered there at our primary asset,” he said.

Along with the city’s hundreds of thousands in funding over the years, MOA has spent over $9 million between 2000 and 2020 on programs, exhibits, classes and more at the Englewood gallery.

That funding too was disrupted, with the COVID-19 pandemic causing a drop in revenue from ticket sales for shows at Fiddler’s, which MOA owns.

“The pandemic has opened everybody’s eyes, especially arts

One of the outdoor sculptures near the Englewood light rail station, part of the MuCOURTESY OF A WAY OF LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY/HEATHER LONGWAY seum of Outdoor Arts collection.

organizations,” Vacca said, adding that MOA is looking to other revenue streams, such as new membership programs for its soon-tobe-finished outdoor exhibit.

Englewood Mayor Othoniel Sierra said the closure was an “unfortunate loss for the city.”

Sierra was one of five council members in 2020 who voted to defund the museum, a decision he said was made out of a need to prioritize funding elsewhere.

“I think it was hard to justify putting that dollar amount towards MOA,” he said, adding that the city still had infrastructure needs following major flooding in 2018.

When asked if the council had considered using money from its federal pandemic relief aid to renew support for the museum, as had been done in neighboring Littleton, Sierra said “it was never considered.”

Though it is leaving its dedicated Englewood space, MOA is still seeking to preserve dozens of outdoor sculptures throughout the city. With nearly 40 installations on display, Vacca said the organization is working with the city to determine which pieces will remain, and which will be moved to its new facility.

MOA spends about $50,000 annually to maintain these pieces, Vacca said, who added that the organization would hope to see some financial support from Englewood to go toward keeping the installations.

Sierra said he is confident the city will be able to maintain many

of the works, but said it was too early to know how much money the city could put up or which pieces would stay.

“We want to continue to have a lot of art within the city itself,” Sierra said.

Since 2000, the indoor gallery has been home to over 200 exhibits, installations, multi-media performances, hundreds of youth art classes, artists in residence, educational outreach with schools and community placemaking projects.

It saw tens of thousands of visitors in 2019 before COVID hit and was the subject of praise from hundreds of online reviews.

“They’ve probably been the most robust interior space we’ve had in Englewood,” said city resident Theresa Adams, who also chairs Englewood’s Cultural Arts Commission. “I think it will be a big loss.”

With the gallery gone, Adams said she hopes the city can dedicate a new, permanent space for the arts.

“Right now, I think Englewood is kind of in the throes of figuring out its future identity … and having artists contribute to that development is their opportunity for them to have their stamp on that,” she said.

For her, it’s an investment in the identity, and story, of a community.

“I think arts and culture is a way of memorializing history as it goes along in real time,” she said. “It creates this visual diary of the town.”

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Aurora gets closer to passing an urban camping ban Will there be enough shelter space for the displaced?

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

If a new camping ban passes in Aurora later this month, people living outdoors may be removed from the sidewalks and parks where they live, as soon as April 30.

Allowing them to continue to live on the streets is inhumane, said some members of the city council who voted in favor of an ordinance making it illegal to camp on public or private property without authorization.

The unauthorized-camping ordinance passed its second reading on a 6-5 vote March 14 and is likely to pass its final reading on March 28. The ordinance would take effect about 30 days later.

Councilors who supported the camping ban, which was proposed by Mayor Mike Coffman, said residents and local businesses have complained about sanitation and public safety issues related to encampments in the city.

But advocates for the almost 600 people who split time between outdoor tents and the 200 to 250 shelter beds available in Aurora called the proposed camping ban cruel and ineffective and said the ordinance would not solve homelessness. The city, they

Seen from across the South Platte near Englewood, a man dismantles a canopy during FILE PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT a homeless-camp sweep.

said, should instead focus on providing permanent housing options to create real solutions.

“I’m going to sound like a broken record, but I just want to reiterate that you’re going to still see people camping all over the place, because we’re not finding them housing,” Councilmember Juan Marcano said during the March 14 meeting. “This is going to institutionalize state violence, basically, against folks in our city who are experiencing homelessness, and we need to implement real solutions, such as permanent supportive housing.”

Coffman declined an interview before the March 14 meeting, but in an emailed response to written questions, he said people living in encampments should have an alternative shel-

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There are just under 600 people who are homeless in Aurora, according to data collected in January during the point-in-time survey, when city workers and volunteers count the number of people who are homeless on a given night each year. Many encampments in Aurora are concentrated along Chambers Road, East Iliff Avenue, East Mississippi Avenue and near Interstate 225 onramps and underpasses.

Aurora has one overnight shelter with 150 beds. A few Safe Outdoor Spaces sites, with tents and pallet shelters, are set up in the city and have 90 beds, but can accommodate up to 120 people, said Jessica Prosser, the city’s director of housing and community services.

“And typically, those are, for the most part, full,” she said.

If passed, the new camping ban would require city workers to give 72 hours notice before a camp is removed and it would call for shelter beds to be available before a camp is shut down.

However, there’s no promise that those shelter beds will become available.

If the ordinance passes, Prosser’s office will work on finding additional shelter beds. The city currently activates its day resource center, and uses hotel and motel vouchers to increase shelter beds during cold weather.

Coffman, who was under intense public scrutiny last year after he told a TV station that he had posed as a homeless person, lived in encampments for seven days and that he believed addiction treatment or job training should be required for people accessing shelter services, introduced the first version of his urban camping ban last summer, but it failed in August on a 5-5 vote. His newer proposal passed on first reading on Feb. 28 in a 6-5 vote after Coffman broke the now right-leaning council’s tie.

At that February meeting, Councilmember Crystal Murillo asked city staff to draft an amendment to address how important personal items, such as cell phones and identification cards, would be handled by the city when a camp is removed. That amendment passed at the March 14 meeting.

At the February meeting, the council passed an amendment offered by Murillo instructing the city manager to provide an annual report to the council on the effectiveness of the urban camping ban and an accounting of all

city staff’s time and resources used to enforce the ordinance.

Preserving personal items such as identification is crucial. But Vicky, a woman who has been homeless for more than a decade, said last week that she has been directed by Aurora workers to visit nearby food banks and food stamp offices after her camps were shut down in the past. When Vicky showed up to those human service organizations, she said there were long lines, and lots of paperwork requiring an identification card or a phone number to set up future appointments. Her identification card, phone and birth certificate were stolen, she said, and she has had trouble replacing them ever since.

“I just go and start it up somewhere else,” she said of her camps.

“You gotta have some place.”

Coffman, in an email, said he was confident there will be adequate shelter by the time the ordinance takes effect. “We only need enough for those who decide to take advantage of an alternative shelter option for the specific encampment being abated on any given day,” he wrote.

He did not provide an estimate of what it might cost to enforce the policy or house an additional 400 people, but wrote “it will cost less than the economic damage that these encampments currently do to our city.”

During the March 14 meeting, Coffman reiterated that people would not be arrested when a camp is removed, but said they could be cited for trespassing if they refuse to move on.

Many who oppose Aurora’s ban pointed to Denver’s unauthorized camping ordinance. They said homelessness in Denver has only grown worse since its ban was instituted in 2012. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened homelessness in the city.

Initiative 300, which would have repealed Denver’s camping ordinance, was rejected by voters in 2019, said Sabrina Allie, a spokesperson for the Department of Housing Stability.

Homelessness service providers have criticized the ordinance, saying it could increase arrests and convictions, which keep people from finding permanent housing. Camping bans are often instituted in many cities after homelessness becomes more visible, and as a result, many people who are homeless simply move on to a nearby municipality where a camping ban does not exist, said Cathy Alderman, chief communications and public policy officer for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

“We’re really disappointed to see this camping ban move forward.

We know that camping bans do not work. In fact, they oftentimes make it worse,” Alderman said of the Aurora rule. “Homelessness is going to continue, and people are just going to end up with criminal records and fines they can’t pay, which again, is just going to perpetuate that cycle for them and make it even harder for them to get into housing.”

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we interact, the way we do certain things, festivals, and even marriage settings are quite different. So when I see the same things here, I’m quite amazed how much we differ.

We have started enjoying and understanding why folks here do certain things a certain way and respect that too.

Living in the U.S. I love that I learn something new every day. Being a mother to our two boys, Jude (7 years) and Joel (3 years), is my most rewarding life experience. I love the welcoming and collaborative culture here with abundance of families and outdoor recreation in Centennial.

Also, it is interesting to experience a new culture, and I was fortunate to have the opportunity to mingle with folks from all over the world.

In the church I have been a catechist, a religious education teacher, since my days in Mumbai. I worked in several churches as a volunteer.

I continued to volunteer at St. Thomas More church in Centennial. I love being with little kids and aiding them to explore the beauty inside of them. Being with these kids brings me a lot of joy.

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My parents were very involved in churches in Mumbai, and they have been the biggest influence in church-related activities.

Around the world I started my career with Singapore Airlines in sales and marketing. When my second son was born, I decided to stay home with my kids. I now spend quite a bit of time running the kids to school and sports activities and volunteering in school and church.

While working with Singapore Airlines, I loved the opportunity it provided to travel across the world and meet new people and understand new cultures. I’ve traveled to over 10 countries, and my favorite memory is surfing at Gold Coast in Australia.

You might not know I know four different Indian languages. A long time ago, I used to be an athlete (in) competitive sprints. However, I have come to realize that after having kids, I really don’t have many consistent hobbies. I spend time getting involved in soccer, hockey, swimming, but I love it! One of our favorite family activities is Disney World.

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High Line Canal Conservancy announces new COO Veteran public planner Tracy Young to manage 71-mile waterway

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The High Line Canal Conservancy, a nonprofit working to protect and enhance the 71-mile waterway that runs through four metro counties, announced March 4 that it has named founding board member Tracy Young as its COO. Young has been with the conservancy since 2014, serving as its board secretary in 2020 and 2021. For the last 30 years, Young has worked as a landscaper and public planner for several urban areas and currently works as the planning, design and construction manager for Aurora Parks, Recreation and Open Space.

“I’m excited for a change, I’ve been in the public sector for over 30 years and I’ve absolutely loved every single minute of it,” Young said. “But this new position, working for the conservancy, is basically a dream job for me.”

Young said she has a long relationship with the High Line Canal, a 140-year-old human-made waterway that now serves as a popular recreation trail. She first began working on the canal with the City of Denver in 1990 and has since been involved in projects in Aurora.

Tracy Young, a 30-year veteran of landscaping and public planning, became COO for the High Line Canal Conservancy COURTESY OF TRACY YOUNG March 23.

“Tracy embodies everything anyone could ever ask for in a public servant and leader,” said Josh Tenneson, High Line Canal Conservancy board secretary, in a statement.

“She has always remained committed to making the community that she lives and works in a better place.”

As COO, Young will be tasked with helping implement the vision of the recently-formed High Line Canal Collaborative, a partnership of local governments, agencies and nonprofits working to provide $130 million in spending on the canal over the next 15 years.

Of that, about 20% to 30% will come from private donors, according to Suzanna Fry Jones, senior director of programs and partnerships for the conservancy. This will include individual donors, regional and national foundations and some corporate groups. About 40% to 50% of the funding will come from local and regional governments, with some possible federal funding.

The money will go towards a host of canal improvements and projects with an emphasis on accessibility and environmental stewardship.

The collaborative is eyeing new bridges, underpasses and mile markers as well as removing dead trees in the forests surrounding the canal and planting thousands of more drought-tolerant trees by 2030.

These initiatives will build on current projects already underway such as enhancements to stormwater mitigation to filter out pollutants, such as sediment, salt, phosphates and oil that may be collected by rain or snow when it touches the ground and drains into the canal.

Built with the “promise for a better future,” according to Young, the canal has historically served as an irrigation system for residences, governments and businesses. From the mouth of Waterton Canyon in southwest Douglas County, the waterway winds through Douglas, Arapahoe, Adams and Denver counties, making it one of the longest continuous urban trails in the U.S. But as climate change continues

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to make the state dryer, drought has been an ever-present problem for waterways like High Line.

“Water conservation is something that is on everyone’s mind in the West these days,” Young said. “We have been experiencing drought, more and more drought, and there are also pretty strong new development patterns happening in our region.”

With this, Denver Water, the canal’s owner, has signaled a need to wean current users off the waterway in favor of more sustainable irrigation services with a focus on transitioning High Line to a purely recreational canal.

Currently, there are about 35 entities in the metro area that still rely on the canal for irrigation, including schools, parks and residences, according to Tom Roode, chief operations and maintenance officer for Denver Water.

“We have this great resource … and the challenge for us is it’s no longer a good asset for us to deliver irrigation water, but we don’t want to just let it fail,” Roode said in a previous article.

Ultimately, Young said she sees her work, and the work of the collaborative, as a means of bringing more people together to enjoy the recreational space.

“I see the canal as the way to enhance the connection between people, people from different backgrounds, people from different communities,” Young said.

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Attendees will be seated at different tables in ACC’s Half Moon Room, located on the west side of the first floor of the college’s main building. Groups will hear a mix of perspectives from immigrants who are undocumented, who are seeking asylum, who are refugees and who struggle with their professional training not being accepeted for work in the U.S. Thornton said she hopes these conversations will help address misunderstandings of the arcane immigration system.

“People say ‘why don’t they come here legally?’ Well there are lines you have to get into, and there are some lines that are 20 years long,” Thornton said. “They are here, they are part of us and we need to find ways to understand and welcome them.”

The event will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and tickets will be on a first-come-first-serve basis, according to Thornton.

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Thornton has a long history of advocacy for immigrant communi-

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ties. Her nonprofit has awarded more than $100,000 in grants to immigrants throughout Colorado since it began giving money in 2010.

Thornton has also has been a strong advocate for the future of the Littleton Immigrant Resources Center, which offers low-cost civics and English lessons, test preparation and legal aid to documented immigrants but was set to be defunded by a previous city council.

Thornton called the move a “major mistake” and joined 12 former Littleton mayors and council members in sending a letter to the council praising the center and urging members to reconsider their vote.

Newer council members elected in November led a push for council to

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people and if we don’t reach out we risk being a divided ‘we versus they’ community,” she said. “Almost all of us are children of immigrants.”

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March 24, 2022

Taking food-insecurity fight to Congress Jessica Gould shares experience testifying on Capitol Hill and what comes next

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Littleton Public Schools was able to provide on average 400 meals to students each day during its summer food program. Over the past two years, that number has grown to about 3,000. The increase represents not just a rise in demand, but the effects of unprecedented federal money flowing into schools to help feed children.

But that support is set to end this summer after Congress dropped billions in COVID relief from its latest spending bill.

For LPS Director of Nutrition Services Jessica Gould, the results could be dire.

“The pandemic really opened everyone’s eyes to the fact that everyone in our schools has families and students that are hungry and do need that extra support,” she said. “Just knowing that we aren’t going to have the financial support is just super hard.”

It’s part of why Gould, who also serves as chair of the Public Policy & Legislative Committee for the School Nutrition Association or SNA, joined a team of advocates in Washington, D.C. recently to urge lawmakers to reconsider.

Gould, as part of her work sith SNA, has been lobbying on Capitol Hill for more food support in schools for years. When COVID-19 hit, many of the federal investments her and her colleagues had been asking for materialized.

Schools were seeing more reimbursements for the cost of their

Educational leaders and food security advocates stand outside Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper’s office. From left: Amy Faricy, Jeremy West, Shannon Solomon, Jessica FILE PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT Gould and Tara Gonzales.

meals, especially during the summer.

Meal waivers allowed any child, no matter their economic status, to eat without cost, essentially providing free meals to students at all public schools.

Those provisions were part of larger federal efforts to reduce rising food insecurity nationwide, joining a dramatic expansion of food stamp benefits and new subsidies for parents to afford food while their children were out of school, known as P-EBT.

All of it translated to a reduction in food insecurity and fewer hungry kids in the classroom. But when Congress suddenly dropped those school benefits in its $1.5 trillion omnibus bill recently, Gould and her colleagues, who were already in D.C., kicked their advocacy into high gear.

“We were very hopeful that the waivers were going to be extended,” Gould said. “It felt like we were kind of punched in the gut.”

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FOOD FROM PAGE 8

Gould and her colleagues scattered across the capital, meeting with Colorado’s representatives in the Senate and House to see if anything could be salvaged. She personally met with Sen. John Hickenlooper and Rep. Diana DeGette, who she said both voiced their support for the measures.

“It didn’t matter if they were Democrat or Republican, we had support in Colorado,” Gould said, though the final vote came down mainly on party lines, with most Republican lawmakers against including COVID aid in the funding bill.

“The fact that these waivers went down on party lines … that is frustrating because these are kids,” Gould said.

The effects will be tangible for districts like LPS. Public schools in Colorado have long faced chronic funding concerns, and less support from the federal government will mean scaling back much of LPS’ food outreach, Gould said.

With the benefits, the district saw a 22% boost in its reimbursement amounts for food from the federal government.

“Having the 22% more reimbursement has been critical for us because, as everyone knows, our gas prices are going up, our food prices are going up and we’ve increased what we’re paying our labor,” Gould said.

With that dropping to pre-pandemic amounts it’s “not going to be enough to cover where our costs are,” she

Littleton Public Schools nutrition services director Jessica Gould, left, and nutrition supervisor Sarah Kinney hold bags of food at a distribution site on Feb. 12, 2021.

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said, adding that she expects to lose about 11 cents for every breakfast served and 62 cents for every lunch.

LPS’ summer meal program, which sees buses deliver food to various schools and public spaces to feed children who are out of school, will likely go from delivering around 3,000 meals per day to about 400, Gould said.

“Hunger doesn’t know if kids are in school or not,” she said. “In the summer those kids who have relied on those meal programs are still in need of nutrition.”

And by once again having to make families apply for free and reduced meals, as opposed to making free meals universal, stigma around needing free food could arise.

“Kids shouldn’t have to have a stigma over if they have food or not, and unfortunately … sometimes

people have associated it negatively,” Gould said.

That week on Capitol Hill, Gould and other advocacy groups gave a powerful rebuke to Congress’ plans, with over 130,000 statements sent to lawmakers urging them to reconsider, according to Gould.

“It was incredibly powerful to see

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what advocacy in action really looked like,” she said.

But with the bill signed into law by President Biden on March 15, Gould said she and her advocacy group will have to look for other ways to secure support.

“I do believe that SNA has created a really great relationship with USDA, so I hope that we continue to have conversations about how to move forward,” she said.

Gould said families can also still apply for free and reduced meals through LPS this year, with the universal acceptance set to end June 30.

Ultimately, Gould hopes that by reminding lawmakers and federal agencies about the impact such programs have had, a renewed push for aid will emerge.

She was reminded of something an elementary school teacher at LPS told her recently, that one of her students had said because of free breakfasts, “this is the first time my stomach has felt full to start school” “Not everybody knows what food insecurity feels like,” Gould said.

“But for those who do it’s a very real and tangible thing.”

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March 24, 2022

SPARK FROM PAGE 1

value by building meaningful customer connections through forsale experiences,” the city said in a news release.

City officials kicked off the Spark Centennial program in 2019 to fund pop-up, or temporary, events. The program intended to bring the community together and call attention to shopping centers in the city, some of which have struggled with closed grocery stores and other shuttered retail shops.

“We heard from business owners that participated in Spark that they could use more support developing these unique ideas, which led us to explore the Experience Accelerator model,” Allison Wittern, city spokesperson, said this month.

The Spark Centennial Experience Accelerator program started in 2021, with five businesses completing the program. One of those was Bridget’s Botanicals, a local business that offers herbal and plant products focused on health and well-being.

Bridget Molloy, the business’s founder, used her Spark Centennial funding to develop a mobile cart that allowed her to bring products and educational classes to public events to reach new audiences.

“I really feel like it allows me to have an element of surprise and curiosity,” said Molloy, a 35-year-old west Centennial resident.

The change added an “exploratory element” for kids and adults alike to interact with the products, Molloy said.

It encouraged “connecting with plants through health and eventually using our products,” Molloy said. “So that’s kind of the newer philosophy that blossomed out of Spark.”

City backs gatherings The city has spent tens of thousands of dollars on the program so far, starting with public events.

In 2019, the city offered small grants to business owners who had ideas to bring more activity to public spaces in their shopping centers, Wittern said.

In total, about $16,000 in grants

A crowd stands in line at a previous event where Rolling Smoke BBQ dished out food.

The barbecue joint, located at East Dry Creek Road and South University Boulevard, COURTESY PHOTO held the first Spark Centennial event in 2019.

went to local businesses to fund four events: a crawfish boil and concert at Rolling Smoke BBQ, a video game tournament, a shopping center’s 10th anniversary celebration, and an “interactive video game where your movements are the controller,” Wittern said.

“The city’s funding leveraged an additional $30,000 in private funding, and these events helped attract nearly 42,000 people to Centennial’s shopping centers,” Wittern added.

Spark Centennial also supported some artsy public experiences. In a vacant storefront in west Centennial, an unusual sight popped up in December 2020: A flashy display with changing lights and a voice recording of instructions on repeat. It occupied the front of the former Petco building near University Boulevard and Dry Creek Road throughout the month.

The display was part of an interactive smartphone-based puzzle called “With My Gnomies” that sent participants on a hunt to visit or learn more about nearby businesses, such as Rolling Smoke BBQ, Cakeheads Bakery and Professionally Faded Barbershop.

Last fall, artists and entrepreneurs Frankie Toan and Therin Zimmerman presented a pop-up roller-skating event at Centennial Center Park that combined art, roller skating, park amenities and the community, according to Wittern.

“The event was sold out and helped Toan and Zimmerman further develop their concept for a

business concept called Rainbow Dome,” Wittern said.

The artists’ long-term goal is to open a permanent rink space “where art and skating coexist,” Rainbow Dome’s website says.

Adapting to pandemic In 2020, the city pivoted its resources to deploying federal CARES Act funding to local businesses in response to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, Wittern said. Amid the pandemic, Spark Centennial resumed late in 2020 and ultimately was rolled into the 2021 program.

In total, $70,300 went toward the 2020-2021 Spark Centennial program to deploy a year-long “incubator” program offering one-on-one technical assistance and mentorship for business owners, collaboration and networking opportunities among local businesses, program marketing and management, and funding support to enable businesses to “prototype their experiential concepts,” Wittern said.

Amid the spread of COVID, many businesses found it helpful to transition to smaller, more personalized experiences, according to Wittern.

In 2021, the five participating businesses in the program engaged more than 400 community members from eight metro Denver counties in “new experiences,” Wittern said.

The city has allocated $75,000 for this year’s Spark Centennial program, according to Wittern.

Making waves Part of the city’s hopes for Spark

Centennial near the beginning was to fuel more foot traffic at shopping centers and, possibly, for businesses to fill vacant spaces.

Centennial wanted to “capture the curiosity of visitors and (find out) what people would like to see there. And if that resulted in new businesses wanting to locate in Centennial, that would be fantastic,” Wittern said in 2019.

Those hopes don’t appear to have been realized so far, but the program has had other successes.

“I don’t know of any permanent locations that have opened up because of this program, but we did have one business report hiring three additional employees to offer unique experiences,” Wittern said this month.

Business owner Laura TarketJohnson of T is for Table — a shop that sells linens, fine pottery and other table accessories in west Centennial — shared that the Spark program inspired her to grow her business after a difficult year as a result of the pandemic, Wittern said.

As well, The Village Workspace — a coworking space in Centennial — plans to implement lessons learned from the program “to make the office a place you love to go to every day,” Wittern said.

Asked whether Spark Centennial appears to have brought more customers and more revenue to businesses in the shopping centers where Spark Centennial events have been held, Wittern said: “Despite the goals of the Spark Centennial program, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been exceptionally hard on local businesses and shopping centers.”

Three of the city’s 2021 Experience Accelerator participant businesses operate in locations in shopping centers and “commented positively about the inspiration they drew from the program to attract more customers and grow their business,” Wittern said.

She added: “Spark Centennial is still in its infancy — however, our outlook is optimistic given the early successes the program has achieved thus far and the strong interest in participating in the Experience Accelerator program from the business community this year.”

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March 24, 2022

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ecently, a Facebook memory reminded me that 11 years ago my husband and I officially adopted two daughters, becoming first-time parents.

On a side rant, while I hate Facebook for so many things and the hate the platform is responFROM THE sible for spreading in this world, I love the days when it reminds us of milestones, EDITOR happy days, and those important moments in our lives.

For me, this 11-year anniversary made me reflect. We adopted a 4-year-old and 16-year-old. The two are sisters and came into our home from a horrible family life with parents who did so much damage to these two girls and their older two sisters.

For me and my husband, we had these visions of fixing all the damage, repairing Thelma Grimes them and living this picture-perfect life. We had this idea that we could erase the guilt by just giving them the life they deserve.

The guilt came because we felt like we should have known what was happening in their home. We should have done something to protect them.

With therapy and work over the years, we have learned what so many adoptive and foster parents have learned the hard way. These kids are who they are. They have been damaged, and love, money and time cannot erase any of it. This is true even for young children.

Our older daughter has left home and is working to make her mark on the world. That 4-year-old from 11 years ago is now 16.

When child psychologists and specialists talk about the importance of those developmental years when a child is born through the age of 4 — they are not kidding. What my younger daughter learned in those first years of life was how lying was required to survive. She learned to hide feelings and just deal with what was happening in front of her eyes.

Through therapy over the years, I have come to understand my daughter’s issues but, being human, it is not always easy to handle.

Besides the usual obstacles and insecurities that comes with being a teenager, my daughter has an attachment disorder. This means my daughter has a hard time connecting and forming meaningful relationships. She does not have normal reactions in moments of tears and emotion. She does not even have the normal side of anger and rage that teenagers have.

It also means she tends to be rough on the people doing things for her well-being. In our house, I am often a target.

The therapist explained many years ago that because I am her biggest advocate, because I make decisions in her best interests — I am the one she will resent.

Believe me, there are days where that resentment can be hard to handle. The behavior and issues are hard to deal with.

When you cry and her attachment disorder does not allow her to have a normal reaction to her mother crying — it is hard.

On the plus side, where my daughter rejects love and support from her dad and me — she has been a great big sister.

Her therapist often said it may not make sense, but she does show love and has made great progress in loving her little brothers.

In the end, I just want to give a shout out of support to other adoptive and foster parents out there. The job may be hard. The job may be thankless. But in the end, it is a job we continue to do.

Thelma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media. She can be reached at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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All the good you can do

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ast weekend I had an opportunity to enjoy a couple of beers with Brian, a very good and close friend of mine.

On the day we had met, we were experiencing one of those WINNING crazy weather weekends where the temperature WORDS was in the mid 60s the day before, and then snowing the very next day. I was already there when Brian walked in, and as he walked in, we were talking about how crazy it was out there.

And although the Michael Norton weather was indeed a bit strange, we quickly realized we were talking about all the other crazy things that are going on in the world.

And that led us into a discussion around what we could do as individuals to help in any way that we could. What could we do as a family to help? And what can we do as a community if we really rallied all those who give of their time, resources, and talents?

A song by Jana Stanfield came to my mind, “All the Good I Can Do.” The lyric that I thought of reads, “I cannot do all the good that the world needs but the world needs all the good I can do.”

With our attention focused on the war in Ukraine and in other on war-torn countries elsewhere, many are wondering what they can do to help. Rising supplier costs lead to rising consumer prices and that means

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many people are making decisions about what they can afford and what they have to do without, and again, raising the question of what we can do to help.

As we look around there are plenty of opportunities where our generosity of time, resources and talents can be applied. So, what we mustn’t do, is to get so caught up in the things that we cannot do or control, and rather focus on all the things that we can do. And whether that is on a grand scale or the tiniest little thing that can make a difference, we must do what the song encourages, because the world does need all the good we can do.

There are food pantries with empty shelves. Local churches have a food pantry, or they support one, so that is a good place to start. Soup kitchens, food kitchens and meal centers are also a great place to donate food or volunteer to serve. Finding the closest homeless center or rescue mission is another excellent place to start as they can always use funding, or they can let us know what they need in the way of donations.

As the war rages on in Ukraine, there are many places that are taking donations in the form of clothing, blankets, health and hygiene products, and other goods that can possibly help those who have been displaced. And again, financial donations to the Red Cross or other charities that step in to help victims, refugees, and those left homeless by the war.

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To the women who never made the history books

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t’s Women’s History Month.

Originally, I was going to brag about all the famous women and their contributions in Colorado that have brought GUEST us a remarkable COLUMN women’s history.

For instance, did you know that we were the first state in the country to grant women suffrage by popular vote? Or about our plethora of Linda Newell famous women leaders in Colorado like Molly Brown, Madeleine Albright, Ellis Meredith, Justina Ford, Hattie McDaniel, Temple Grandin, Helen G. Bonfils, Pat Schroeder, Frances Cabrini, Chipeta, Emily Griffith, Helen Ring Robinson, and Elizabeth Iliff Warren. And that long list contains only a few! We’ve got

an incredible published history of remarkable leadership by women in our state.

But what about all those women over the hundreds of years who never made the history books or we may not even know? I think Women’s History Month is the perfect time to honor them. Some of those we may know or remember, and some we’ll never know their name.

They are also threads in the fabric of our state and our local communities. These are the women who may not have had a title, initials after their name, or even a warm place to call home. But they still have had a huge influence on how Colorado children were raised, how crops fed us, what laws govern the land, or which political candidates got into office.

Some of those women who need to be honored are the: • single mothers who fought against the odds just to get their

kids fed and schooled, • teachers who spent long hours for their students while tending to their own at night, • grocery store and post office workers who went to work to support all of us no matter the weather, • nurses, doctors, and chaplains who have served us so intimately, and the • volunteers and nonprofit crews who have selflessly nourished and sustained our communities.

These are our unsung heroes who don’t usually get awards, fancy titles, or stories in the press. But they are possibly the most important members of our society as they are the bedrock of our neighborhoods.

But we also need to remember and lift up all those women in history who, because of their gender, have experienced pain and suffering at the hands of others. For just being a woman, too many have been either ignored or targeted.

Too many have been harassed, assaulted, raped, beaten, and even murdered. And far too many of them have names or stories we will never know. They, too, have made contributions to our Colorado community and deserve our attention and appreciation as well.

In history and today, we’ve got a lot of women to be proud of in our Centennial State who have been very public leaders, unknown followers, and contributors in between. If you know one of them, thank them. If you are one of them, I hope you give yourself a big pat on the back and some self-care.

Happy Women’s History Month!

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Now is the time to rise to the occasion and step up to help out, and step in with our time, resources, and talents. Even forgetting the wars taking place and the pandemics, hunger, lack of shelter and clothing, poor health, joblessness, and sudden loss of life leaving family members without the means to live as they once did all create opportunities for us to do all the good that we can do.

Is there a closet that you can clean out to support a clothing drive? Is there a food pantry that you could

help stock once a month? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ xinnix.com, and when we can do all the good we can do, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful president of XINNIX, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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Sometimes when there are major events happening in our country or around the world, we can suffer from a sense of feeling numb or paralyzed, and we become so fixated on those bigger problems that we forget about the causes that are important to us and that need our help in any way that we can possibly provide.

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March 24, 2022

LIFE shots at the signs.

Street signs can clear up confusion about what jurisdiction someone is in, but they also can reveal deeper stories about a particular area.

Here’s a look at some of the eye-catching signs across metro Denver counties and what you might not know about the history behind some of them.

Street signs carry little-known history in metro Denver counties

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The sign for Shangri La Drive in Denver, pictured on March 10, sits off Leetsdale Drive near Colorado Boulevard.

PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD

If you’ve ever sat at a red light in rush-hour traffic in the Denver metro area, you may have wondered about the meaning behind the different logos and colors on nearby street signs.

In the City of Denver, the signs are simple enough — the logo of mountains and the sky sit above the name “Denver.” But some signs have a different logo even though they’re also in Denver.

In the southeast suburbs, drivers might think they’re in Aurora until the green signs on side streets start to look a bit different.

And in Adams County, the signs sometimes feature an American flag image to discourage people from firing gun-

Denver mansions In east Denver, there are many normalsounding street names: Elm Street. Birch Street.

Cedar Avenue.

And then, there’s Shangri La Drive.

A tiny, tucked-away road that almost forms a half loop off of Leetsdale Drive near Colorado Boulevard, Shangri La Drive was apparently named by Harry Huffman, a movie-theater and liquor-distribution magnate who had a mansion built on the hill.

The road was named to honor the impressive home, which was modeled after the Shangri-La lamasery — a monastery of lamas — featured in the popular 1930s movie “Lost Horizon.” That’s according to the book, “Denver Streets,” by local historian Phil Goodstein, as cited by Denver city staff.

And that’s not the only mansion in that area. More difficult to see from the street is the mansion known as “Cableland” on Shangri La Drive. It’s the former home of Bill Daniels, the wealthy cable-television businessman and philanthropist.

Before he died, Daniels donated Cableland to the City of Denver in 1998, partly to serve as the official Denver mayor’s residence. No mayor has ever chosen to live there, but the mansion is used for official city events and city meetings and is made available for other events, including fundraisers and other gatherings held by nonprofits and qualified charitable organizations.

Denver’s dual logos The use of Denver’s newer logo for certain street signs — the “D” logo with a building, the

sun and mountains within the D — doesn’t carry any particular meaning that’s different from the old logo, which is two red mountains outlined in white, with a blue sky and yellow sun, all above the word “Denver.”

Denver began using signs with the “D” in 2010, according to Vanessa Lacayo, a city spokesperson. The city still has some signs with the older logo on it.

“We try to be good stewards with city dollars, so we don’t replace things that don’t need to be replaced and try to honor the life cycle of the material and replace things as they fail,” Lacayo said.

Don’t mistake Adams County A large chunk of the map directly north of Denver — roughly north of 52nd Avenue — contains buildings that may have addresses that are listed as being in Denver even though they’re in unincorporated Adams County.

“Unincorporated” means an area is not within a city or town and is generally overseen by a county government.

The addresses are marked as “Denver” because the city listed with a property’s mailing address is based on zip codes that are used by post offices rather than being based on city boundaries, said Christa Bruning, Adams County spokesperson.

In those unincorporated areas north of Denver, you’ll see street signs with the A-shaped Adams County logo.

In some parts of Adams County, street signs bear images of the American flag to deter people from shooting signs with bullets.

“American flags are placed on signs in some areas as a mitigation measure where we have experienced issues with signs being shot,” the county said in a statement. “The flags have been successful as many residents seem disinclined to shoot signs displaying the American flag.”

A previous Adams County logo was established in 1985 and was the logo used on street signs until the current logo was designed and implemented in August 2009, according to the county.

A community with gates in Littleton If you drive far enough northwest in the City of Littleton, you’ll run into an area called Bow Mar South, near the small Town of Bow Mar. But Bow Mar South is a neighborhood, not a municipality, even though it has its own logo on street signs.

For example, the logo of a bird at Bell Flower Drive and Bowles Avenue denotes the area is within the Bow Mar South Homeowners Association, according to Tim Weaver, traffic analyst for Littleton.

“We used to put different items on signs when a neighborhood asked for them,” a statement from Littleton city staff said.

Decades ago, Littleton annexed land in Bow Mar South, meaning it brought it into the Littleton city boundaries.

Littleton annexed the area that is managed by the Bow Mar South homeowners’ association in 1973, according to Littleton city staff. A small part of the association area is outside of Littleton, including a few lots in the northwest part of the subdivision, Weaver said.

The area isn’t just another neighborhood.

It includes gates on Blue Sage Drive that close to block traffic.

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Construction of the traffic gates was partly funded by the City of Littleton, and the city and HOA operate the gates together, according to city staff.

Other gates that restrict or block traffic to or within neighborhoods in Littleton sit in Coventry and The Greens, according to city staff.

Some areas in Littleton have street signs that are white and include the City of Littleton logo.

Littleton first began installing the white street signs with the logo in 2015, according to staff.

The city decided to install the white street signs with the logo in an effort to help people tell which areas are in the city and which are not, Weaver said.

The new signs were also rolled out in an effort to “show our new branding,” Weaver said.

Similar to the case of Denver addresses popping up in Adams County, it can be confusing to tell what is and isn’t in Littleton because many properties’ mailing addresses in south Jefferson County are listed as being in “Littleton” even though Littleton is mostly contained within Arapahoe County.

Asked whether Jefferson County has considered putting its county logo on street signs in unincorporated areas to help clear up that confusion, the county said in a statement: “The county has the capability of putting logos on street name signs; however, there is a significant cost in terms of material and labor to this effort. Each of the cities within Jefferson County utilize logos on their street-name signs, helping a traveler to know when they are within a municipality within the county or within an unincorporated area within the county.”

Arapahoe County distinguishes land It can also be difficult to tell when you’re in Centennial and when you aren’t. Centennial’s boundaries twist and weave throughout much of the city to create a complex map.

Parts of east Centennial are sandwiched between parts of Aurora, and some portions of unincorporated Arapahoe County sit in that area too.

Some streets that sit outside of city boundaries have been getting marked with the county’s logo, generally in recent years, said Luc Hatlestad, county spokesperson.

“There may have been logos on signs here and there prior to 2012, but putting logos on street signs wasn’t county procedure until around 2012,” Hatlestad said.

‘Identity’ in Englewood Englewood updated its official city logo in recent years from the green circular symbol to the new symbol with leaves — a change that led to some street signs in the city having the new logo and some still having the old one.

“The current logo was adopted in late 2015 following input from

A crowd gathered at night at the mansion known as “Cableland” on Shangri La Drive in Denver. The building is the former home of COURTESY OF DANIEL BECK VIA CABLELAND WEBSITE Bill Daniels, the wealthy cable-television businessman and philanthropist.

the 2014 citizens survey and from citizen input received through the Englewood Forward process,” said Christopher Harguth, city spokesperson.

Englewood Forward is the city’s 2016 comprehensive plan. In general, a comprehensive plan can affect a city’s priorities for housing, parks and open space, and transportation.

“Results indicated many residents were looking for an updated community identity,” Harguth said.

Updating the city logo on overhead street signs, such as those on traffic signals, will be complete in 2022, and the updating of all the ground-mounted streets signs was completed in 2021, according to Harguth.

One of the notable areas with street signs that don’t bear a local government’s logo is the Arapahoe Acres neighborhood in Englewood, which has wooden street signs that are unique to that neighborhood.

A small exception in Centennial Drivers in the east Centennial area may notice another area that could add to confusion about boundaries — the Greenfield neighborhood along Smoky Hill Road.

The neighborhood has its own logo on street signs even within Centennial’s city boundaries.

The signs are connected to the local metro district, according to Anna Bunce, Centennial traffic engineer.

“The original street signs installed with the construction of this neighborhood (or) metro district, which included the kites (logo), predate the city’s incorporation. Our best guess is that the signage was installed around 1996 (to) 1998,” Bunce said.

Centennial was legally estab-

lished as a city, or “incorporated,” in 2001.

In general the city of Centennial started installing Centennial-logo street signs that are blue rather than green in 2013, according to Bunce.

When asked why the city made that change, Bunce said, “This predates existing (city) staff, but our best guess is related to more effective branding and differentiation for Centennial. With the nature of Centennial’s boundaries, this is an effective way to communicate and reinforce where someone may be in terms of jurisdiction.”

Douglas County adds logo Douglas County had no logo on street-name signs prior to an inhouse competition for a new Douglas County logo that occurred in the early to mid-1990s, according to Wendy Holmes, county spokesperson. The winning logo was the early “DC” and “ribbons” design seen in the county’s logo today.

“We place logos on most of the street-name signs in unincorporated streets and roads maintained

by Douglas County,” Holmes said.

“Logos on street-name signs are also useful as they indicate ownership of the roads for law enforcement personnel and road maintenance crews throughout the metro area and Douglas County.”

Different in Weld Weld County doesn’t typically put a logo on road-number signs in unincorporated Weld County, according to Jennifer Finch, spokesperson for the county.

“However, some of the signs — older signs — are a particular shape and will say ‘WCR’” and a number, Finch said. “There are county logos, specific to the project, found on some Highway 85 signs — also called the Centen-

A sign near traffic signals, pictured March 14, says “Blue Sage closed when flashing.” The Bow Mar South area includes gates that close in order to block PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD traffic.

nial Highway in Weld County — and there are signs with the Weld County Road 49 logo along that road as well to commemorate that special project.”

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A week of top-notch musical options

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don’t know how it happened, whether it’s just the result of musicians making up for about two years of missed touring, good karma returning or just how it crumbles, cookie-wise, but Denver and the surrounding areas are spoiled with a bevy of fantastic concert options. So many that I’m devoting my entire column to five of the best bets for an evening out.

Any live music fan will tell you that there’s nothing like a good homecoming show. The atmosphere is always a bit more electric when the audience recognizes the performers as their people.

It’s been six years since the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra (CJRO) played the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., but that time afield ends at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 26 with Back by Popular Demand: The CJRO Returns.

“We got our start at the Lone Tree Arts Center and were there for about two-and-a-half years,” said Art Bouton, the bandleader who founded the orchestra in 2012.

“In that time, we’ve turned from a one-person shop to an organization that has a payroll that can pay the best professional musicians to perform.”

The reintroduction show will feature classic big band numbers like “Take the `A’ Train,” “You Make Me Feel So Young,” “Moanin,” and “More Today Than Yesterday,” as well as some new arrangements featuring the work

of artistic and music director Drew Zaremba. Vocalist Marion Powers will be featured in the concert, which Bouton said will show how much the orchestra’s skill has grown.

“It means a tremendous amount Clarke Reader to come back to Lone Tree, especially because on the jazz side, we’re the professional equivalent of the Colorado Symphony,” he said. “If you’re a lover of classic big band or jazz of any time, you’ll really be pleased with this concert.”

Tickets can be purchased by calling 720-509-1000 or by visiting www.coloradojazz.org/concerts or call the LTAC box office at 720-5091000.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

John Mayer at the Ball Arena John Mayer is one of those artists we just take for granted these days, which he seems to enjoy.

He’s embraced all his influences and interests, channeling them into the simultaneously sincere and winking 2021 album, “Sob Rock.” But don’t let all that make you forget he’s also a scorchingly good guitarist, who weaves blues, folk and pop into his work.

After several years touring with Dead & Company (and some COVID-related delays), Mayer is

back hitting the road in support of his solo work and stops by the Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Circle in Denver, at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 27.

Get your tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.

Tyler, The Creator and Vince Staples at Ball Arena Over the last 15 years or so, Tyler the Creator and Vince Staples have been making some of the most adventurous, forwardlooking rap in the genre, and in 2021, both shared top-notch albums.

Tyler’s “Call Me If You Get Lost” is one of his best and most beautiful records yet and Staples’ selftitled latest effort showcases his lyrical power while using beats both skeletal and haunting.

People looking for an example of hip-hop mainstays who are still evolving and getting better as a result, shouldn’t miss Tyler, Staples, Kali Uchis and Teezo Touchdown at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29 at Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Circle in Denver.

For information and tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Nation of Language at the Bluebird Theater New York’s Nation of Language are one of the best modern purveyors of the kind of new wave music that made some of the best music of the 1980s. But there’s nothing derivative about

their music and the way they use synths is both propulsive and groovy.

On both of their two albums - including last year’s stellar “A Way Forward” - the group has produced collections of songs that are so good they both sound like greatest hits records. They’re stopping by the Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, which is the perfect venue for their tunes. Get tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.

Beach House at the Mission Ballroom I’m not sure when the exact point is that a band turns into a hall-of-fame band, but with nearly 10 albums in about 15 years, Baltimore’s Beach House work like they’re racing to build one of the best discographies in indie rock.

The duo - Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally - have consistently explored the fuzzy, reverb-drenched reaches of their sound and, in the process, created some startingly lovely music.

In February the band released “Once Twice Melody,” one of their most luminous albums yet.

You can catch them at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30 at the Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St. in Denver.

Secure tickets at www.axs.com.

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

Young dancers present ‘Cinderella’

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Rich and more, as well as original arrangements by CJRO composers and other artists. LTAC is at 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Tickets start at $38 and can be purchased at coloradojazz.org/concerts or by calling the box office at 720-5091000.

orty-four ballet students from Littleton schools performed in Littleton Youth Ballet’s performance of “Cinderella” at the Lone Tree SONYA’S Arts Center on March 19 and 20.

SAMPLER Included was ballerina Alana Linley, now freshman at Metropolitan State, who postponed her graduation from Littleton Youth Ballet so she could perform in “Cinderella.” Students are Sonya Ellingboe happily returned to weekly dance classes, including freshmen from Littleton, Heritage and Arapahoe High School.

Jazz orchestra The Lone Tree Arts Center will host an evening of big band jazz by the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra on March 26 at 7:30 p.m., which will return after several years of performances throughout the metro area. Fans can expect to hear standards such as “Take the A Train,” “You Make Me Feel So Young,” “Moanin,’” as well as some new arrangements. Jazz vocalist Marion Powers will be featured, as well as solo instrumentalists. The band was founded in 2012

by Art Bouton and has attracted fine musicians from throughout

Abstract artist’s workshop Heritage Fine Arts Guild presents Littleton abstract artist Krista Falkenstein, who has focused on abstract painting for over 40 years.

The workshop will be held at First Presbyterian Church of Littleton, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd., from 9 a.m. to noon on April 16. (Students are asked to arrive 15 minutes early for set-up.) There is parking on the north side of the church.

Cost is $30 for Heritage Fine Arts Guild members and $35 for nonmembers. Membership costs $40 per year and new members are welcomed. See heritage-guild.com/ membership for registration forms and list of materials.

Dancers portraying the fairy godmother and Cinderella performed with Littleton Youth COURTESY PHOTO Ballet in three recent shows at the Lone Tree Arts Center.

Colorado, with many, like Bouton, engaged in academic careers as well as being performers. There have been a number of well-known guest musicians who have been

featured with the band as well, as the band performed arrangements and pieces by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, Stan Kenton, Miles Davis, Buddy

Arvada Center The musical “Kinky Boots” will open at the Arvada Center’s Main Stage Theatre on March 25, playing until April 24. arvadacenter. org, 720-898-7200. Plays Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday matinees at 1 p.m., Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Also in Arvada Center’s Black Box SEE SAMPLER, P18

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Museum gallery closes as mission changes Museum of Outdoor Arts leaves Englewood space, says it is shifting focus

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The Museum of Outdoor Arts, which has operated an indoor exhibit and programming space in Englewood’s Civic Center since 2000, as well as an exhibit of outdoor sculptural artworks, has announced a renewed focus on its outdoor spaces and discontinued operation of the indoor space in Englewood.

In a news release from the city of Englewood, MOA stated that it “has submitted a proposal for the outdoor collection to remain on display in Englewood.”

There are about 40 artworks on public display within the downtown Englewood area, many near the light rail station and Civic Center — stated to be about half of the MOA’s outdoor collection.

The remainder of the collection is primarily located in Marjorie Park and around the Greenwood Plaza business area. The new MOA headquarters address is 6331 Fiddler’s Green Circle, close to MOA’s primary asset, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre.

Marjorie Park, which was recently renovated by MOA, reopened in 2021 and will be an outdoor museum and events venue, where more than 40 artworks are featured. It is named for the late Marjorie Madden, who co-founded the MOA in 1981 with her

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Repertory Theatre in repertory: “The Liar,” “Animal Farm,” and “Stick Fly” through May. Call for artists The Depot Art Gallery in downtown Littleton will host the annual “All Colorado” exhibit from July 19 to August 27, with entries to CaFE — callforentry.org. Size limited to no more than 30 inches in height and width. The call will close when 150 submissions have

Artwork seen on the Museum of Outdoor Arts’ Walking Tour on April 22 in Englewood.

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husband, commercial real estate developer John W. Madden Jr., and their daughter, Cynthia Madden Leitner, More than 150 pieces are included in the MOA collection, 85 of them installed outdoors.

The MOA has provided a number of indoor exhibits and programs, including its Design and Build, which provides opportunities for young artists to work with arts professionals and in keeping with the objective of “Making Art a Part of Everyday Life.”

Indoor exhibits have featured local

and national professional artists whose work is contemporary, as well as annual exhibits by Design and Build students in earlier years.

There have been more than 200 indoor art exhibits and installations, multimedia performances, as well as hundreds of youth art classes in the Englewood facility, as well as artst-inresidence arrangements.

It has also provided studio space and exhibit attention for prominent area arts professionals.

Funding for collaborative exhibits and programs came from Colorado

Creative Industries, National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Englewood and the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).

Englewood Mayor Othoniel Sierra is quoted as “excited at the possibility of a continued relationship with the MOA through the display of their publicly accessible artwork and art outreach support and community placemaking projects.”

We will watch for notice of mission-related changes as this unique organization enters a new phase in its remarkable existence.

been received or May 15 — whichever comes first. All artwork must be for sale and created by Colorado artists within the last three years. The Depot Art Gallery will retain 30% commission on sales.

Entries cannot have been accepted in previous All Colorado shows.

The entry fee is $35 for up to three images. Notice of invited and not-invited entries will be sent by email by June 17. Up to three images accepted. Juror is Doug Dawson.

Howard Barnes” through April 23 — a tale of an ordinary guy who is dropped into a musical. Music

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Music by Michael Kooman and lyrics by Christopher Dimond.

There is a related Cabaret Concert Series as well. Glad to hear that BDT is alive and well.

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Ron Miles, beloved fixture of Denver jazz scene, dead at 58

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Ron Miles, a jazz trumpeter and legend of the Denver music scene, passed away March 8. He was 58 years old.

Miles died from polycythemia vera, a rare blood disorder.

Following the news of his death, tributes to Miles, whose discography includes a dozen albums, flooded social media. Many people recalled taking his classes at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he taught for more than 30 years.

“Very sad news to hear about the passing of one of my former teachers and great and brilliant trumpeter Ron Miles,” wrote Kenneth Brown, a jazz musician based in Tennessee. “I learned a lot playing in his big band at metro state university. R.I.P. Ron Miles.”

City Cast Denver podcast host Bree Davies, another student of Miles’, described him as a “really cool guy, great teacher, incredible musician.”

Brooklyn-based musician and educator Eric Dalio said for him, Miles redefined what music could be. “He was so generous with his time and talent on so many occasions when I was starting out,” Dalio tweeted. “Always had a smile and incredible music to share.”

Miles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1963. When he was 11 years old, his family moved to Denver. It was around that time Miles started playing the trumpet. He went on to attend Denver’s East High School — where he played jazz with future movie star Don Cheadle — and studied music at the University of Denver.

According to the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, pianist Ron Jolly, who taught jazz improvisation at DU, encouraged Miles to pursue a full-time career in music. Jolly said Miles was “the most talented student” in his classes.

An educator himself, Miles relished the opportunity to work with the next generation of musicians, once saying “through

‘Very sad news to hear about the passing of one of my former teachers and great and brilliant trumpeter Ron Miles. I learned a lot playing in his big band at metro state university. R.I.P. Ron Miles.’

Kenneth Brown, Jass musician based in Tennesee

Beloved instructor and Denver jazz legend Ron Miles passed away March 8.

PHOTO BY ELLIOTT ROSS

teaching, I feel I just get to keep learning, which is really what I want to do every day [...] Each student is so different. I really want them to realize that in school — particularly in music — that it’s very important that they get outside of these walls, that they see if their art resonates in the community. It has to.”

Miles’ music certainly did. In 2017, he was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame alongside his fellow East High graduate and frequent collaborator Bill Frisell.

“Recognized as one of the finest melodists of his era with a gift for improvisation, Miles has lent his distinctive style to the work of a diverse list of musicians, including composer Mercer Ellington, fellow Coloradan and

saxophonist Fred Hess, saxophonist and arranger Redman, and legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker,” the Colorado Music Hall of Fame wrote after Miles’ induction.

Speaking at his induction ceremony, KUVO Jazz’s general manager Carlos Lando said Miles was the “kind of musician, after you get home, put your head on the pillow, you can still hear that crystal clear tone. So beautiful.”

Miles himself said his recognition from the hall of fame was mind-boggling. “Music has been something that allows me to, every day, have a sense of renewal,” Miles said at the time. “And a sense of dedication and a sense of something to strive for.”

Miles released albums in five different decades, beginning with

Distant for Safety in 1987. Writing about Miles’ final record, 2020’s Rainbow Sign, National Public Radio jazz critic Kevin Whitehead said the music was like “something heard in a dream.”

In 2020, Miles performed during the virtual Five Points Jazz Festival hosted by Rocky Mountain Public Media. You can watch his full performance below.

Thomas Burns, the president of Capri Records — for which Miles recorded two albums, Witness and Ron Miles Trio — told Rocky Mountain Public Media he was in a “state of shock” after learning of Miles’ death.

“Beyond the music and everything,” Burns said, “Ron was the kindest, sweetest human being I think I’ve ever known.”

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Tickets loom for mountain toll violators State to begin citing drivers who illegally use I-70 mountain express toll lanes

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Motorists who drive in the Interstate 70 mountain express toll lanes in Clear Creek County when they are closed and supposed to be serving as the emergency shoulder will face a $250 fine starting in August.

Gov. Jared Polis on March 15 signed House Bill 1074 into law letting the Colorado Department of Transportation use the license plate cameras used to collect tolls when the I-70 mountain express lanes are open to also ticket motorists driving in the lane when it is closed.

There are now express toll lanes across Colorado, but unlike the others, the ones on I-70 through Clear Creek County cannot be open all of the time.

That’s because the mountain express lanes are narrower than a traditional interstate lane.

The 13-mile lane from Empire to Idaho Springs opened in 2015 and a westbound express toll lane opened along the same stretch last year.

In 2020, nearly 50,000 motorists drove in the eastbound I-70

Cars on Interstate 70 through Idaho Springs on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. A sign shows the PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL / COLORADO SUN eastbound express lane as closed.

express toll lane when it was closed, according to state data.

The cameras will also be used to ticket drivers in the toll lanes towing trailers or who are behind the wheel of a tractor trailer. Both types of vehicles are prohibited from traveling in the narrow express lanes.

Offenders will be mailed a

ticket just as they are when they are caught running a red-light camera in downtown Denver.

Authorities have been unable to enforce the toll lanes’ closure because the lanes are too narrow to allow an officer to wait and catch scofflaws.

The express lanes are narrower because CDOT opted to use the

existing width of the roadway to create toll lanes instead of widening the interstate, which would have been more costly and had more environmental impacts.

Because the lanes are so narrow, Colorado had to make a deal with federal regulators limiting the amount of time they can be open each year. The eastbound express lane can be open a maximum of 100 days a year for no more than 1,168 hours annually. The westbound express lane can be open for no more than 125 days a year and no more than 965 hours annually.

CDOT opens the lanes during peak traffic periods, and the toll changes based on demand.

CDOT says the eastbound express lane has been a success at reducing drive times on the busy stretch, but people illegally traveling in it, officials say, poses a big risk of a serious crash.

House Bill 1074 was sponsored

by Democratic state Rep. Judy Amabile, of Boulder, and Republican state Sen. Dennis Hisey, of El Paso County.

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Colorado has recovered 98% of jobs lost in pandemic Unemployment rate drops to 4.1%

BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado’s economic recovery is going better than expected state labor officials said Monday, reporting that 98% of jobs lost when COVID struck have returned.

However, January’s 4.1% unemployment rate, the lowest since the pandemic began, is still higher than the 2.8% in February 2020, the month before the first COVID-19 cases in Colorado were confirmed.

“That was historically low. That was after the end of a very long economic expansion,” Ryan Gedney, senior labor economist at the state Department of Labor and Employment, said during a news conference on Monday. “As long as these trends hold … I could see the state reaching that 3% level in one or two years for sure.”

His confidence is based on how many Coloradans are now part of the state’s labor force, which is larger than ever with more people employed or looking for work. The state’s labor force participation rate was 68.5% in January, or one-tenth of a percentage point higher than in February 2020.

“Colorado’s labor force grew by over 17,000 in January. And since July of 2020 the state has added over 180,000 individuals to the labor force,” Gedney said. “On an annual basis, Colorado’s labor force participation rate increased from 67.4% in 2020 to 68.2% in 2021. That ranked as the fourth highest in the U.S. last year.”

By comparison, the U.S. rate last year was 61.7%.

While more people are part of the state’s labor force, Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows there are still around 132,000 Coloradans who are unemployed, compared with 86,000 who were unemployed in February 2020.

That only counts people who are working or actively looking for a job, said Steven Byers, a senior economist for Common Sense Institute, a Greenwood Village think tank focused on the state’s fiscal policies.

“Some people would say that understates or overstates the true unemployment rate depending on which way you go,” Byers said. “But when people take themselves out of the labor force and they’re no longer looking, that impacts those numbers.

But the way that unemployment is measured has been constant for a long time. They don’t change the methodology so it’s consistent over time for what it measures.”

The state’s unemployment rate fell from 4.2% in December, a rate that was revised downward from 4.8%, according to labor officials. Colorado’s January rate is also close to the U.S. unemployment rate of 4.0% in January.

The falling unemployment rate reflects more people returning to work, especially mothers who had

dropped out of the workforce early on, likely to deal with their children and remote schooling or lack of child care options during the pandemic.

Byers is among economists keeping an eye on rising inflation and its impact on small businesses and consumer spending habits.

“One other thing that we are kind of concerned about, though, is the house prices have just gotten exorbitant,” he said. “The question would be, is it just going to end up being a disadvantage to Colorado employers being able to lure people here and bring them in from out of state?

That’s an area that is of concern as well.”

But Colorado’s pandemic economy hasn’t fully recovered yet, said Kathy A. White, executive director of Colorado Fiscal Institute, an organization that also focuses on fiscal policy.

“Colorado has recovered all but 5,500 jobs lost during the pandemic, but it needs another 38,100 jobs in order to keep up with the 1.4% growth in population that the state has experienced in the 23 months since the recession began,” White said in an email.

“Also, the fastest job recovery happened in industries with high income earners and lagged in industries with lower pay. poor quality jobs,” she added. “Those industries tend to have a higher percentage of women and people of color, who again, entered the pandemic with higher rates of unemployment and lower earnings. In short, the recovery has been uneven, despite these broad indicators, and so policymakers should be targeting resources and aid to the people who need it the most.”

There’s also uneven recovery in certain parts of the state. Strong job growth in Grand Junction and Colorado Springs amounted to job recovery rates of 124% and 113%, respectively. But the Greeley region has recovered just 44% of the jobs lost in the early pandemic.

That’s due to Greeley’s high concentration of oil and gas, an industry that hasn’t recovered as fast as the leisure and hospitality industry or the professional and business services field, Gedney said. But Greeley’s a small part of the state. It lost roughly 11,700 jobs at the start of the pandemic and has regained 5,100.

The Denver area lost 199,600 and has recovered 196,100.

“The state’s recovery rate is going to trend pretty closely with Denver’s, as that (region) represents over half of the state’s employment,” Gedney said.

He added, “There’s still some room in the unemployment rate, but I think the unemployment rate is going to drop relatively quickly in 2022 as there’s still a huge demand for labor and for filling jobs.”

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Confronting overwhelming feelings instead of escaping them Grit Digital Health and Hopelab discovered how much high school students could benefit from the Nod app after they opened it up to anyone during the pandemic and ended up attracting many high schoolers, Demers said.

Colorado Education Initiative helped recruit schools to take part in a pilot project. Their students’ feedback helped shape the app’s development, said Marcus Bratton, the nonprofit’s director of implementation and partnership.

The organization will again check in with users at the end of the semester and consider whether to make any other tweaks.

As students continue exploring the app, the hope is that it will help them develop skills to manage their emotions before significant depression, substance abuse, truancy or other challenges interfere with their lives, Bratton said.

“I hope that it inspires human connection for our young people,” he said, particularly as teens often struggle to feel understood, recognize they’re not the only ones facing loneliness and hesitate to exert themselves for fear of being rejected.

Stansbury introduced the app to Mountain Range High School students toward the end of last month and said she’s found comfort in being able to equip students with a tool that offers them the same kind of guidance she or a school social worker would.

“I think you can see the increase in anxiety and depression and suicidal ideation that’s happening everywhere,” she said, “and sometimes it feels like you don’t have anything to recommend, and now it feels like we do have something they could actually use … that will teach them ideas and strategies of how to reach their personal and social goals while building their confidence and social connections.”

Senior Jarett Benedict has been using the app here and there to start his day with a focus on his mood, putting a name to his feelings and considering ways to improve them if necessary. For instance, when he said he’s between “stressed and unhappy,” the app will nudge him to think about “the small positives” that occur throughout the day or try to shift his perspective.

The app has helped Benedict, 18, develop more self-awareness and has improved his mental health and sense of confidence.

“I was stressing on my grades so much that it felt like that was really the only thing I could focus on all year long,” Benedict said.

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BY JORDAN AMES, CRAIG HOSPITAL SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Noble Haskell doesn’t shy away from a challenge.

The high-school junior from Centennial (his father, Eli, coached Brighton High School’s basketball and golf teams), finds joy in pushing through despite pain. As a track and cross country running standout, he often pushed himself to the physical limit in pursuit of his dream of receiving an (NCAA) Division One college scholarship.

“Halfway through a 5K, I often felt like giving up. It was tough, but knowing I would be able to do it made me feel good,” he says.

This never-give-up mindset has helped him face the biggest challenge of his life: rehabilitating from a spinal cord injury.

In the week between the end of track season and the beginning of cross country preseason, Noble and his friends took a road trip to Branson, Missouri. On their way back, they drove through a significant rainstorm. Near Russell, Kansas, they were struck from behind by another driver. Noble’s neck was broken at the C5 level, damaging his spinal cord.

Noble was flown to Wichita, where he had two emergency surgeries to fuse his vertebrae. His mom received a call and drove through the night to reach his bedside.

“The whole time I was driving, I felt that God kept saying, ‘Noble’s going to run again. He’s going to be OK,’” she says.

After a month in the ICU battling complications, Noble was flown from Wichita to Denver and transferred to Craig Hospital for rehabilitation.

On the first evening at Craig, his room filled with other teenage patients in the Teen Rehab at Craig (TRAC) program. “It was comforting to know that there were people my age who seemed to be having a good time. I knew I’d be able to relate to them.”

Noble was quickly plunged into an intense therapy program.

Respiratory therapists helped him wean off a ventilator. Noble especially enjoyed physical therapy, given his love of working out. He initially only had function above his level of injury but soon began to get feeling back in his triceps; then he was able to regain slight wrist function, then move a toe.

“As soon as we started to see those wins, things started to snowball in the right direction,” he says. “I know that not everyone gets this, and I don’t take it lightly. I’m extremely grateful.”

In addition to his physical recovery, Craig’s therapies helped him with his social and psychological recoveries.

Laura Magnuson and Cory Wendling, Craig’s teachers, helped him stay on track with school. Before his injury, Noble had been a motivated student, and he didn’t want to fall behind. Laura and Cory communicated with his high-school counselor (Haskell attends Smoky Hill

High School), teachers and district representatives and helped him work through school assignments.

Through the donor-funded SCI Scholars Fund, Noble received assistive technology tools, like a voiceto-text system, that allowed him to complete assignments and use a computer on his own.

Noble’s recreational therapist, Jess Klamut, helped him embrace new activities. According to Noble, he was initially a closed door and only wanted to engage in activities that would help him return to running.

“I believe you will run again, Jess said. “But in the meantime, let’s get you out having fun differently.’” With Jess, Noble rode an adaptive bike and played games to work on finger dexterity.

“She helped me see that as much as I wished I was running, this was how I had to get there,” he says. “You can’t eat an elephant in a day, and this would help me have fun while getting to where I want to be.”

Friendship heals During his time as an inpatient, Noble became very close to the other teens in the TRAC program. They took outings to Chatfield Reservoir, learned to navigate around a mall, went out for ice cream and saw a movie. They also spent significant time hanging out together around the hospital, playing adaptive video games and board games, and even engaging in a Nerf battle with staff members.

Being with people his age was healing for Noble.

“As a 16-year-old, you’re used to hanging out with other kids all the time. As soon as an accident happens, everyone helping you is instantly older than you and it is harder to relate on a personal level. It was nice to let down my guard and relax with the other kids.”

Noble’s mom, Krisi, and her husband also benefited from get-togethers with other parents whose kids were in the TRAC program.

“The other parents knew exactly what we were going through,” she says. “It instantly connects you and develops lifelong friendships.”

After a total of 151 days in the hospital, Noble came home. He was greeted by a parade of friends and family members with confetti and banners.

He returns to Craig five days a week for outpatient therapy, specifically working on balance and walking with the help of Craig’s specialized equipment, pool and treadmill. He can take a few steps on his own with a walker.

While the entire experience of his accident and injury has been challenging, Noble has leaned on his faith and believes that he is exactly where he is supposed to be.

“Throughout this journey, when tough times come, I sit down and pray for the strength to keep going,” he says. “I would love to be an inspiration for others, and if I can inspire even one person to try something they were scared to do or take a step in life, then this all would be worth it.”

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Boys swimming team tallies 592.5 points at Thornton aquatic center

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Cherry Creek senior Thomas Sutherland was second in the 200 freestyle and helped the Bruins win the Dick Rush Memorial Coaches Swim-Dive Invitational on March 19 at the VMAC in Thornton.

PHOTO BY JIM BENTON

Raiders winning 200 medley relay foursome. Teammate Gio Aguirre captured the 100 freestyle and was on the winning 400 freestyle relay team.

Arapahoe’s senior captain Luke Brill was the winner of the Hoyt Brawner award based on academics, citizenship and athletic achievement.

Cherry Creek is the defending state champion team, which makes the Bruins a target for other swimming teams.

“That is definitely a perspective for us this year and an attitude we try to share as a program,” said Loftis.

“Anything counts and we can’t be complacent.

“Our youth today shined. We have a lot of freshmen, sophomores and underclassmen and they’re brand new. And because of COVID, we’ve never experienced anything like this meet and they are stepping up which is good. This meet kicks off a good season of dual meets into a fun invitational season and then the championship season.”

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Cherry Creek boys swimming coach Chris Loftis was not happy with his team during the morning preliminaries of the Dick Rush Memorial Coaches Invitational meet on March 19 at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton.

His team changed the mind of their coach in the meet finals and Creek won the team title in the season’s first big boys meet with 592.5 points.

Regis Jesuit was second with 539 points. Arapahoe finished fifth with 194 points. Heritage was eighth, Highlands Ranch ninth, Ponderosa 11th and Douglas County 18th.

“We had an average performance in the prelims that we needed to address and we did,” Loftis explained.

“We challenged are guys and we had a great final session. We came together as a team and found some weaknesses that we can address.”

Senior Cade Martin paced the Bruins by winning the 100 backstroke in 51.76 and placing third in the 100 butterfly. He also swam a leg on the 200 medley relay team that was a runner-up.

Creek’s Thomas Sutherland, another senior, was second in the 200 freestyle and was on the 200 freestyle relay team that came in third.

Freshman Trevor Boodt added to the Bruins’ point total with a secondplace finish in the 100 breaststroke.

Other individual winners from south metro schools included Ponderosa’s Tanner Braunton, who racked up 571.10 points to win the diving by edging out Collier Dyer of Arapahoe.

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The years-long push to rename Mount Evans may be nearing its conclusion, as Clear Creek County commissioners have recommended a new name to submit for state and federal review.

Advocates have denounced the mountain’s current name as a reminder of the murder and displacement of Native American tribes in Colorado under territorial governor John Evans, who oversaw the Sand Creek Massacre.

In 2020, as Black Lives Matters protests helped fuel a renewed attention on racist symbols within the state, Gov. Jared Polis formed an advisory board that would review and recommend changes to geographic landmarks. Mount Evans was one of the names members of the board identified as having a problematic history.

The new name for the famous 14er would be Mount Blue Sky, if approved by higher authorities. The proposed name comes from the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

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Mount Evans, seen here from Fire Tower Trail along Highway 103 in December 2020, is PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN the subject of several renaming petitions.

and the Cheyenne, who have an annual ceremony of renewal of life called Blue Sky,” a group of Indigenous people said in their proposal.

Clear Creek County officials have been soliciting feedback from the community for the last several weeks and weighed several options before agreeing on Mount Blue Sky. “Blue Sky is a name that can contribute to the healing and be a unifying name for all of the stakeholders,” Commissioner George

Marlin said at a meeting March 16.

The name proposal has to survive several regulatory steps in order to be finalized. First, the Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board has to approve it and send it to Gov. Polis for consideration. If Polis approves, the United State Board of Geographic Names will then make a final decision. While these parties will keep the county’s recommendation in mind, it will also consider four other names for the mountain.

A mountain goat peeks around the corner of the restroom building at the Mount Evans summit in 2021 when the highway to the top opened for the season. A renaming proposal for the mountain is seeing support for calling it PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN “Mount Blue Sky.”

Several geographic landmarks have already been renamed since the state board was formed two years ago, and more continue to be reviewed. Earlier this year, the Department of the Interior proposed new names for 28 Colorado landmarks with an Indigenous slur in their names.

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Original Grantor(s) WILLIAM M DEWAR II AND MAUREEN A DEWAR Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR FINANCE AMERICA, LLC, DBA FINAM, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE UNDER THE INDENTURE RELATING TO IMPAC CMB TRUST SERIES 2005-6 Date of Deed of Trust May 09, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 17, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5070940 Original Principal Amount $246,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $261,381.51 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

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of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 2/24/2022 Last Publication: 3/24/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 12/21/2021 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Randall Chin #31149 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009345950 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice No. 0101-2021 First Publication: 2/24/2022 Last Publication: 3/24/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0006-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 11, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Judith A Stewart Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt The Bank of New York Mellon fka the Bank of New York, as Trustee for the certificateholders of the CWABS Inc., asset-backed certificates, series 2006-21 Date of Deed of Trust September 06, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 21, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6136125 Original Principal Amount $204,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $210,890.87 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

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ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 25, BLOCK 5, BEL-VUE HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7526 S Elati St, Littleton, CO 80120-4109.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/11/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/17/2022 Last Publication: 4/14/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/11/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-21-896807-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0006-2022 First Publication: 3/17/2022 Last Publication: 4/14/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE ELIBIGILITY OF CERTAIN PROPERTY FOR ANNEXATION COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE

DOVE VALLEY REGIONAL PARK/CHERRY CREEK INNOVATION CAMPUS ANNEXATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to C.R.S. § 31-12-108(2), that the City Council of the City of Centennial will hold a public hearing on Monday, the 18th day of April 2022 at 7:00 PM (or as soon thereafter as the meeting agenda permits) to consider whether the property generally known as the “Dove Valley Regional Park/ Cherry Creek Innovation Campus Annexation,” and more particularly described in Resolution No. 2022-R-11, dated March 7, 2022 (the “Substantial Compliance Resolution”), which property consists of a total of approximately 274.025 acres as more particularly described in a petition for annexation (the “Subject Property”), meets the applicable requirements of Section 30 of Article II of the Colorado Constitution and C.R.S § 31-12-104 and C.R.S § 31-12-105, and is eligible for annexation to the City of Centennial. Copies of the Petitions for Annexation concerning the Subject Property and the corresponding annexation map are on file at the City of Centennial City Clerk’s office, 13313 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, CO 80112.

All interested parties will be given an opportunity to be heard. The hearing will be held in the Centennial Civic Center, 13313 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, CO 80112 at the above time and date. Further information concerning this matter may be obtained by calling the City of Centennial Community Development Department at 303754-3403. A copy of the Substantial Compliance Resolution is published in full below.

A live broadcast of the meeting may be found at: https://www.centennialco.gov/Government/ Mayor-Council/City-Council-Meetings/AgendasMinutes IMPORTANT NOTICE: Though not anticipated, in the event the public hearing is required to held by a virtual meeting service such as Zoom, the date and time of the meeting shall remain the same as stated above but the City’s website shall provide immediate notice of the change in meeting format and provide a means of accessing the virtual meeting via the internet as soon as practicable. In addition, you may call the City of Centennial Community Development Department at 303-754-3308 to obtain the internet link to the meeting if held by virtual format. /s/ Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 530153-60153 First Publication: March 10, 2022 Second Notice: March 17, 2022 Third Notice: March 24, 2022 Fourth Notice: March 31, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado will conduct a public hearing on Monday, April 4, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. regarding ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O-05 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A QUITCLAIM DEED CONVEYING FEE INTEREST IN REAL PROPERTY ALONG EAST COUNTY LINE ROAD NEAR ITS INTERSECTION WITH SOUTH UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD. The public hearing will be held at the Centennial Civic Center, 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Council Chambers, Centennial, Colorado 80112. Copies of Ordinance No. 2022O-05 are available for inspection by the public on the City’s website: www.centennialco.gov. Interested parties may file written comments with the City Clerk, at: councilcomments@centennialco. gov or by mailing them to City Clerk, 13133 E.

Arapahoe Rd, Centennial, CO 80112 any time prior to April 4, 2022. Any written comments received will be provided to City Council prior to the Public Hearing and made part of the record. /s/Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 530202-60202 First Publication: March 24, 2022 Last Publication: March 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, March 21, 2022 the Centennial City Council passed on first reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O-05 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A QUITCLAIM DEED CONVEYING FEE INTEREST IN REAL PROPERTY ALONG EAST COUNTY LINE ROAD NEAR ITS INTERSECTION WITH SOUTH UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk.

The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com.

By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 530201-60201 First Publication: March 24, 2022 Last Publication: March 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, March 21, 2022, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O-04 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE ACCEPTANCE OR PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS OR APPROVALS OR LICENSES, INCLUDING ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS AND BUSINESS LICENSES FOR LIVE-WORK UNITS WITHIN THE BUSINESS PARK (BP) ZONE DISTRICT, THE GENERAL COMMERCIAL (CG) ZONE DISTRICT, OR AREAS WITHIN THE CENTENNIAL AIRPORT INFLUENCE AREA (AIA) AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. by a vote of 9 in favor and 0 against.

(First published March 10, 2022) By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC City Clerk Legal Notice No. 530200-60200 First Publication: March 24, 2022 Last Publication: March 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

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ALL THESE COMMUNITY GROUPS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON:

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