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Barr Lake Appreciation Day
Barr Lake Appreciation Day is set to run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 9.
Morning activities include volunteer projects, such as shoreline cleanup and tree planting. Afternoon activities include free canoe instruction, face painting and a climbing wall.
Register at www.signupgenius. com/go/70a0a4faeaa2ca7fe3-lake4.
Summer lunch program
The Adams County 14 School District will provide free meals this summer through its Summer Food Service Program.
From July 11 through July 29, meals will be available four days a week at Central Elementary School (noon to 1 p.m.) and the Suncor Boys & Girls Club (noon to 12:30 p.,m.
Call 303-853-7929.
Teen police academy
The Brighton Police Department and the Adams County Sheriff’s Offi ce are co-sponsoring a teen academy for four days starting Tuesday, July 26, at the police department and the sheriff’s offi ce’s FlatRock Regional Training Center.
Participants have to be sophomores, juniors or seniors in high school, and they have to pass a modifi ed background check.
Call 303-288-1535 or 303-655-2300.
Music in the Park
Commerce City’s Music in the Park series returns in 2022.
Scheduled concerts include Quemando Salsa (Thursday, July 28, Turnberry Park, 10725 Wheeling St.), Chris Daniels and the Kings, Thursday, Aug. 4, at Alsup Elementary School Park, 4413 E. 68th Ave.) and Groove n Motion (Thursday, Aug. 11, Fronterra Park, 10020 Joplin St.).
Gummball 5K
The fi fth annual Gummball Rally will be Saturday, Oct. 1 at Adams County Regional Park, 9755 Henderson Road, Brighton. The 5K walk/ run is in honor of former Adams County sheriff’s deputy Heath Gumm, who died in the line of duty in 2018.
The cost is $30 for racers 13 and older and $10 for 12 and younger. Those 12 and younger get in free. Each includes a shirt/swag bag guaranteed with entrry by Sept. 14.
Packets will be available for pickup at 4201 E. 72nd Ave. from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30. Proceeds benefi t a nonprofi t that supports law enforcement and fi rst responders.
Questions? Email tracykilgore71@ gmail.com.
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Vaccination clinic
Adams County and the Tri-County Health Department are offering free vaccination clinics from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Anythink Commerce City, 7185 Monaco St.
Walk with a doc
Platte Valley Medical Center’s cardiac rehab team and Walk With A Doc will host monthly walks with Dr. Christopher Cannon, an interventional cardiologist at Brighton Heart and Vascular Institute.
This is a walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. After a few minutes to learn about a current health topic from the doctor, spend the rest of the hour enjoying a healthy walk and fun conversation. It’s a great way to get out, get active and enjoy all the benefi ts that come from walking.
Boards/commissions’ openings
Commerce City has openings for several of its boards and commissions, including the city’s cultural council, the housing authority and the Derby review board. Visit https://www.c3gov.com/Home/ Components/Form/Form/70316b054 22c448492c51da0f0e0fd86/ to sign up.
Legal self-help clinic
The Access to Justice Committee hosts a free, legal self-help clinic from 2 to 3:30 p.m. the fi rst Tuesday of every month.
The program is for those who don’t have legal representation and need help navigating through legal issues.
Volunteer attorneys are available to discuss such topics as family law, civil litigation, property and probate law. Call 303-405-3298 and ask for the Legal Self-Help Clinic at least 24 hours in advance.
Help for vets
Qualifi ed Listeners, a veteran and family resource hub serving northern Colorado and southern Wyoming, has a number of power chairs, power scooters and electric wheelchairs available.
To fi nd the closest facility to you visit www.va.gov/fi nd-locations.
Qualifi ed Listeners also need volunteers to drive veterans to and from appointments, run errands for veterans who cannot get out, handyman services, help administer veteran and family resource guide inventory in local libraries and veterans to be trained to become qualifi ed listeners. Call 720-600-0860.
COVID-19 testing
Here’s where you can receive a test for COVID-19:
Brighton Advanced Urgent Care, 2801 Purcell St. Call 303-659-9700 or visit https://advurgent.com/locations/brighton/
Brighton Salud, 1860 Egbert St. Testing is available on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Visit https:// www.saludclinic.org/covid-testing
Fort Lupton Salud, 1115 Second St. Testing is available on Tuesday and Thursday. Call 303-697-2583 or visit https://www.saludclinic.org/covidtesting online.
Volunteers needed
Qualifi ed Listeners needs volunteers to drive veterans to and from appointments, run errands for veterans who cannot get out, handyman services, help administer veteran and family resource guide inventory in local libraries and veterans to be trained to become qualifi ed listeners.
Visit qualifi edlisteners.org/volunteerapp and fi ll out the form or call 720-600-0860.
Mental health
Community Reach Center offers in-person intake assessments from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays at the Brighton Learning and Resource Campus, 1850 E. Egbert St. in Brighton. Call Community Reach Center at 303-8533500.
For walk-in intake, bring an ID and insurance information. For those who would prefer to complete the intake forms and schedule an appointment, the intake forms are available online at www.communityreachcenter.org. There will be a short screening for fl u-like symptoms before the entrance to the center to ensure safety and wellness for everyone.
Anyone feeling unsafe or suicidal should call Colorado Crisis Services at 1-844-493-8255, text 38255, or visit the Behavioral Health Urgent Care (BHUC) Center at 2551 W. 84th Ave., Westminster.
Warm Line up and running
Community Reach Center is offering a Warm Line (303-280-6602) for those who want to talk to mentalhealth professionals about anxiety, lack of sleep and strained relationships, among other topics. The professionals can facilitate referrals to other programs for assistance.
A press statement said the line is not for crisis intervention.
Those feeling unsafe or suicidal should call Colorado Crisis Services (1-844-493-8255) or text 38255 or visit the Behavioral Urgent Care Center, 2551 W. 84th Ave., Westminster.
Also, the center’s COVID-19 Heroes Program is set up to assist healthcare workers during the pandemic. Those who live or work in Adams County can receive up to six free counseling sessions. Use the Warm Line for support and free counseling.
Brighton’s community intake location is at 1850 E. Egbert St., on the second fl oor. It’s open from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays.
Food distribution
27J Schools have free grab-and-go meals for youngsters up to age 18. Drive-by or walk up between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Vikan Middle School, 879 Jessup St., Overland Trail Middle School, 455 N. 19th Ave., and at Thimmig Elementary School, 11453 Oswego St. Food for Hope is the sponsor.
St. Augustine food pantry, 129 S. Sixth Ave., offers food Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for Brighton residents who love between Quebec St. and Cavanaugh Road and between Weld County Road 4 1/2 and 96th Ave.
Chapel Hill Church, 10 Chapel Hill Drive, Brighton, hands out one box of food per family the second and fourth Wednesdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and alternating Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.
Calvary Chapel Brighton Food Pantry, 103 E. Bridge St., Brighton. Open from 4 to 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Mondays of the month.
Community Baptist Church Food Pantry, 15559 Weld County Road 2, Brighton. Open from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesdays.
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The city has established nine no-ride zones in the city along fi ve streets: Baseline Road, Bridge Street, Bromley Lane, Sable Boulevard and South 50th Avenue. The scooters will not operate on several sections of those streets.
Public Works Engineer Noe Martinez said the lack of trails, shared roads and potential confl icts with high-speed, heavy traffi c helped the city determine where the scooters would be allowed. They will also be banned along Highways 76 and 85, he said.
The city has also created two slow zones where the scooters will automatically drop their maximum speed from 15 miles per hour to 10. One area is the downtown area north of Bridge Street between North Main Street and North Cabbage Avenue. The second is Brighton Pavillions.
Martinez said the city can change areas or add new no-ride or slow zones based on complaints or other issues that arise.
Residents can report concerns about the scooters by emailing hello@bird.co or calling 866-205-2442. For questions, contact Martinez at namartinez@ brightonco.gov or 303-655-2259.
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Uno cial results put Willford on top for Democratic nomination to HD34 seat
BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Northglenn Mayor Pro-Tem Jenny Willford clinched the Democratic nomination for state representative in Colorado’s District 34.
“(I’m) really excited and humbled,” she said in an interview.
She beat out former Thornton City Councilor Sam Nizam by 864 votes, according to Adams County unofficial election results. She earned 3,027 votes to Nizam’s 2,163.
She will face Republican Kevin Allen in the November election.
Willford, a resident of Northglenn, was elected to Northglenn City Council in 2017. In 2019, the council agreed to make her the mayor pro tem.
Touching on her experience as a city councilor and walking door to door during the campaign, she thinks her constituents want a legislator who will listen to their concerns.
“I think that voters want to know that the person that’s representing them has their values, their lived experiences, their concerns, at the forefront of their mind as they’re doing the work to represent this area,” she said.
Some of those concerns she heard while campaigning were the cost of living, inflation, housing, climate, air quality, education and the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Those needs translate into Willford’s priorities and she listed her top ones: the rising cost of living, supporting teachers and students and improving her district’s air quality.
Her current term expires in November 2025. If she wins in November, she will resign her seat and the council will appoint a new person to fill the position. She noted the process is laid out in the city charter.
“It’s not a situation where we get to just decide that we’re going to call an election,” she said.
Willford is ready to get to work.
“I’m really proud of the campaign that my team ran and I’m really looking forward to continuing this work, hearing from the community and working with them to come up with solutions together,” she said.
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Claps leads Reigenborn in Adams County sheri ’s race
BY SCOTT TAYLOR
Former Adams County Sheriff’s Department Division Chief Gene Claps is on the path to unseat his former boss Sheriff Rick Reigenborn in the Democrat primary.
According to early returns released by the Adams County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Claps has received 13,512 votes to Reigenborn’s 11,333 in the tally released at 10:09 p.m. June 28. The results listed are unofficial.
The Democrat winner in the primary will face Republican Mike McIntosh, the former Adams County sheriff who Reigenborn ousted in 2018, part of the “blue wave” in Adams County that saw Democrats win all seats that were up for election.
McIntosh, the only Republican seeking the sheriff’s job on the 2022 ballot, claimed 20,176 votes to cinch his nomination.
The bulk of the Adams County races were place settings for November. Incumbent District 3 Commissioner Emma Pinter, a Democrat, claimed 22,216 votes, according to unofficial results, and will face Republican Sean Forest in November. Forest received 17,404 votes.
Incumbent Democrat Steve O’Dorisio earned 22,047 votes to secure his nomination. He’ll face Republican Joseph Domenico in November. Domenico picked up 17,397votes to secure his nomination.
In the race for county clerk, Democrat Josh Zygielbaum will face Karen Hoopes. Zygielbaum, with 22,396 votes in the Democrat primary, Hoopes had 17,421 in the Republican primary.
New County Treasurer Alex Villagran will face Republican Stan Martin in November. Villagran had 22,017 votes in the Democrat primary, and Martin had 17,437 in the Republican.
Assessor Ken Musso, who picked up 22,084 Democrat votes, will face Hieu Truong Nguyen in November. Nguyen had 16,966 Republican votes.
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a former chairman of the Colorado GOP who warned Republicans that embracing election conspiracy theorists would sentence their party to another election cycle of defeat.
Some GOP candidates who have questioned the 2020 results did win on Tuesday.
For instance, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Garfield County Republican who was part of the effort to challenge the 2020 presidential election results in Congress, easily beat her primary challenger, state Sen. Don Coram, in the 3rd Congressional District.
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Commerce City receives GOCO grant
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The Great Outdoors Colorado board awarded a $147,092 grant to Wildlands Restoration Volunteers for community-centered stewardship work in Commerce City.
A press statement said the grant is part of GOCO’s Stewardship Impact program, which supports collaborative stewardship work that demonstrates meaningful improvements to ecological and recreational amenities in Colorado.
Two organizations with ties to the Latino community are involved in this grant. One is Promotores Verdes, an initiative of Americas for Conservation + the Arts, which wants to advance cultures of recreation, conservation and public health within outdoor activities. The second is Cultivando, which focuses on the advancement of health equity and promotion of access to natural spaces to confront environmental inequalities in the area, the statement said.
The goal is to identify and organize projects around Commerce City, such as at the Rocky Mountain National Arsenal Wildlife Refuge and Barr Lake State Park in Brighton. Some of the projects could include tree planting in low-canopy areas, native and pollinator plantings, seed collection and removal of invasive species.
“This project was initiated because local residents saw a need and took action. We are excited to be part of a collaborative effort to build connections and address community stewardship needs. Making those connections is a key step in building a culture of stewardship,” said Rachel Brett, youth and inclusiveness director at Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, in a statement.
The Commerce City population is more than half-Black, indigenous and people of color, groups most impacted by industrial air pollution and air quality impacts from climate change, the statement said. The program would promote recreational and educational activities and make outdoor spaces more welcoming and accessible to diverse communities, according to the statement.
a tossup election deniers fared poorly.
Former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson, who beat Peters in the Republican primary for secretary of state, has forcefully rejected claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
“I believe that this was the safest and most secure election we’ve ever had in our country,” Anderson told The Colorado Sun on the day she announced her candidacy.
Denver construction company owner Joe O’Dea, who beat Hanks, has also rejected election conspiracies.
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