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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings Oil and gas company is reducing greenhouse gases with geothermal energy
Transitional Energy will work next with utility company serving Adams, Weld counties
BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Transitional Energy offi cials report successfully using geothermal energy to generate electricity at an oil and gas fi eld site in Nevada on May 19.
“It’s exciting to see the success of this pilot project, as it opens up a world of untapped possibility for geothermal energy development in the United States,” said CEO Salina Derichsweiler.
According to the company, Transitional Energy is the fi rst to raise private funding to provide 100% of the cost to produce geothermal energy on the Nevada oil site.
The Nevada oil fi eld pilot is part of a larger project using Transitional Energy technology with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies’ Offi ce Wells of Opportunity grants.
According to company offi cials, Transitional Energy’s plans for its next pilot program are in Colorado. They will work with major oil and gas companies and on the utility side with United Power, which serves Weld and Adams counties.
Transitional Energy is a majority women-owned geothermal energy and development company that converts oil and gas waste streams
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New co ee house helps employees with life skills
Taza opens in Adams County government building
BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
By Ellis Arnold Colorado Community Media
As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders under Colorado’s system of coronavirusrelated restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings — a change that applies to the majority of the Denver metro area and many counties in other regions. e state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in e ect since September, is the set of di erent levels of restrictions that each
Helping young adults learn life lessons so they can help themselves, their families and their communities is the mission at Taza Coffee House in the Adams County government building.
“Our mission is to work with young adults and provide a safe house for them to continue to grow county is required to follow based on the A long line of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapid testing site at Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent weeks due to high demand. Adams County’s 14-day test positivity rate and to overcome their problems, challenges, obstacles that they go through,” said Maria Borrego, executive director of Community severity of a county’s local virus spread. e dial grew out of the state’s safer-athome order — the policy that came a er was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according to Tri-County Health Department. Uplift Partnership, or CUP, which the statewide stay-at-home order this Brighton and Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher than operates Taza. “We also provide a spring and allowed numerous types of 13 percent. Forty- ve people in Brighton and 29 in Commerce City have died from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit the spread of COVID-19, healthy workplace for them.” CUP is a nonprofi t coffee house that began seven years ago as an businesses to reopen. e state recently switched to color at least 15 counties moved to tighter restrictions that prohibits indoor and outreach program in Commerce identi ers — levels blue, yellow and personal gatherings. City. Borrego, CUP and the Landing Place Church fi rst established a moorange rather than numbered levels — to avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red bile food bank pantry, worked with the Adams 14 Hope Center to assist families and provide thanksgiving outreaches. Photo by Belen Ward meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level red — “severe risk” — is the second-
Then at the height of the recession in 2008 and 2009, a carpet service center owned by Shea Properties in Commerce City was sitting empty. The building was taken over
Taza co ee shop recently opened in the Adams County government building, and it is operated by Taza Executive Director Maria Borrego, Community Uplift Partnership employees Aletta Torrez and Jacqulyn Churches and Chris Churches, Taza co ee house
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Prairie View grad returns to college after Army stint
Ben Meraz to play football at Austin College in Texas
BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Four years of service in the U.S. Army did little to tamp down former Prairie View High School quarterback Ben Meraz’s interest in playing college football.
Meraz, who graduated from PVHS in 2016, chose Austin College, an NCAA Division III school in Sherman, Texas, for his next stop. He called it “the best of all possible worlds” for academics, athletics and being able to work for his father’s construction business.
“It was close to home, they recruited me super hard and built a
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