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Parade lights up the holidays

Brighton’s Cisneros a Mines rugby all-star College sophomore to join 2024 Pac West Collegiate Grizzlies in January

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The Barnbrats and Purple Circle 4-H clubs rode the completed Nightmare Before Christmas float. BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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For their fourth year fronting a float for Brighton’s annual Parade of Lights, two local 4-H clubs decided to join forces. The BarnBrats 4-H club and Adams County Purple Circle 4-H combined their efforts to build a Nightmare Before Christmasthemed float for the Dec. 9 parade. Christina Seeley, a leader with BarnBrats 4-H, said it’s their fourth year doing this parade. “Every year, it’s fun. We always try to open it up to some of the other clubs that maybe don’t have the people to do a float of their own, “ Seeley said. The parade of lights gleamed

with glittering floats that had been decorated by many businesses as they sparkled and cruised down Bridge Street. School bands marched, playing Christmas as crowds of families oohed, aahed at the sights and cheeried Merry Christmas. The 4-H kids float was preceded along the parade route by a goat dressed as Zero, Jack’s ghost dog from the movie. “We always welcome other people, even those from other 4-H clubs, to join us. I love the community. The kids love it waving, saying hello to the community as they go by, and it’s just a really great event.” Emma Cruickshank, 14, with Purple Circle 4-H helped with the lights alongside twin brother Daw-

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son Cruickshank “I like 4-H. I’m working a tractor project restoring a 1944 Farmall tractor, but I like it the way it is,” Cruickshank said. The 4-H club is very involved in learning agriculture, participating in making crafts, and entering competitions. The kids raise and sell meat goats, pigs, steers, and poultry. Kids also participate in horse competitions. They are crafty, making model aircraft, rockets, leather goods, sewing, cake decorating, heritage arts, restoration, and woodworking. They are active in shooting sports, archery, and muzzleloading.

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Brighton just might be a hub for local rugby phenoms. One rising star came up through the Brighton Youth Rugby Association to sharpen his football skills but quickly found a knack for rugby’s more rugged, scrappier version of the game. The now sophomore scrumhalf (keep reading to learn what that is) for the Colorado School of Mines’s club men’s rugby team recently was named to the National Collegiate Rugby Western Region All-Star Team. He’ll compete against the best players in the country for the 2024 Pac West Collegiate Grizzlies in Austin, Texas, Jan. 6-8. “I got introduced to it here in Brighton when my older brother Josh played rugby,” Cisneros said. “We played baseball all our lives and we were starting to kind of turn away from that. We were starting to look for other sports, and we saw rugby was available here. I watched him play and that’s how I discovered the scene here.” For the first few years Cisneros was involved, he said generally only football players played rugby (mainly just to get better at football). When his youth club in Brighton got disbanded for one reason or another, Cisneros pivoted to high school rugby clubs in Aurora so he could keep playing. But he still attended Brighton High School and was a letterman in football and track for the Bulldogs. Now at the School of Mines, Cisneros isn’t a scholarship player. Unlike football or basketball, rugby isn’t a varsity sport for the university. National Collegiate Rugby, or NCR, isn’t an NCAA-sanctioned sport, so the athletes aren’t separated by NCAA divisions. SEE ALL-STAR, P11

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Commerce City Code Enforcement is introducing the new Snow Guardians program to help residents be good neighbors by offering free snow removal services to residents who qualify. Snow Guardians assist residents who are not able to clear their sidewalks of snow and ice to comply with the municipal code due to age, disability, or some other condition. Commerce City’s municipal code makes property owners responsible for clearing public sidewalks adjacent to their property of snow and ice within 24 hours of the last snowfall. If shoveling snow is a hardship due to age or disability, contact Code Enforcement to apply to have the city clear your public sidewalks to keep you in compliance with the code and help keep our sidewalks safe! To qualify, you must be a resident

of Commerce City, have limited financial resources, and be unable to shovel the property’s sidewalk due to age, disability, and/or other conditions. Learn more about the program and apply at c3gov.com/ CodeEnforcement. Workforce & Business Center workshops

The Adams County Workforce & Business Center is hosting multiple workshops throughout November. Visit the center’s website, https:// adcogov.org/workforce-businesscenter, for a full class schedule, which includes contact information for each workshop. The center has locations in Aurora, in Westminter’sPete Mirelez Human Services Center, 11860 N. Pecos St and at 36 South 18th Ave. in Brighton. Adams County internships available

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The Adams County Human Services Department is partnering with local nonprofit Work Options to provide residents with a free culinary training program. Program participants train with professional chefs over a six-week course and earn certifications and up to $400 per month. Work Options also offers food truck internships. In addition to the training program, Work Options provides the

Human Services Center 11860 Pecos St., Westminster, with a full menu of breakfast and lunch options, including breakfast burritos, pastries, burgers, pizza, daily specials, and more in the Mountain View Café. The café is located on the third floor of HSC.Learn more about the program at workoptions.org. CCPD Introduces Online Crime Reporting Form

The Commerce City Police Department has a new online reporting tool allowing the public to report some non-emergency crimes and receive a police report immediately without speaking to a police officer. Community members can now conveniently report incidents that do not require immediate officer intervention, such as fraud, identity theft, lost property, theft/shoplifting (less than $2,000), and vandalism. The new form is online now in English and Spanish at c3gov.com/ ReportACrime. Residents should always call 911 for emergencies.

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A door-to-door business scamming residents on water BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The City of Brighton is cautioning residents to be aware of a scam business that is going door-to-door telling homeowners of potential contaminants in the City’s water system. According to the city, homeowners are offered an opportunity for a tester to come out and analyze their water quality, according to a news release. The City conducts a substantial number of tests on the water system, and all show the water supply is safe, the city said. According to officials, claims that the water is unsafe are not true .

“There is a lot on the list of the monitoring schedules, so the most transparent way to present this to the public would be to provide a link to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s database that contains all Drinking Water Monitoring Schedules,” said Scott Olsen, director of utilities. The state keeps a list of the testing schedules that more than 2,000 municipal water suppliers must perform regularly at https://cdphe. colorado.gov/dwschedules. That listing includes the testing schedules for Brighton. Those schedules are updated each Thursday. “This document lists all of the tests

that are performed and at what intervals,” Olsen said. Residents can also download the city’s drinking quality report, which is updated each year in June. A link to that report can be found on the Brighton Utilities page on the city website, https://www.brightonco. gov/294/Utilities. According to procedures, Olsen said any possible issues with the City’s water would be communicated immediately with the public through their alert system, website, social media, and other communication platforms. If you have any questions or concerns or a business comes to your

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D.R. Horton Inks Deal to Build Homes With OSB Made From Grass, not Lumber

My June 1 column featured a startup called Plantd in North Carolina which invented an alternative to standard OSB boards made from lumber with ones made from fast-growing grass. Their product was developed in cooperation with D.R. Horton, a major U.S. builder of new homes, who helped get the product approved and certified as a building material. Within a month after my article, Horton ordered 250,000 of the panels to use in building 1,000 production homes, and it was announced that Plantd’s first automated machine for producing the panels would be in production by year’s end and that the 1,000 homes would begin construction in 2024.

You can read that June 1 column online at www.JimSmithColumns.com. OSB is the sheathing that is used on the exterior walls of all “stickbuilt” homes, as well as on subfloors and as roof sheathing. Although I don’t know this as a fact, I suspect that the sheer weight and volume of OSB panels equals or exceeds that of the 2x4s, 2x6s and the joists and trusses to which it is attached. Using Plantd’s panels as a replacement for wood-based OSB has huge ramifications on the preservation of forests, the absorption of carbon dioxide and the fight against climate change. As you can read on their website, www.PlantdMaterials.com, “Through-

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Estate proposing a new “Disclosure of Information, Duties, And Authorization Regarding Title Insurance & Closing Settlement Services” for the benefit of sellers and buyers. As of now, the Colorado Real Estate Commission has not acted on that request. [A copy of the proposed disclosure is posted on Substack.com.] While waiting for the Division to review and approve this needed disclosure, there is a solution to this dilemma. When listing your home for sale, request your Broker to shop your title insurance and closing services by using CompareTitleCompanies. com, which provides a free one-stop shopping solution and takes less than five minutes. Also, ask your broker to request a Closing Protection Letter when they order your title insurance services. CompareTitleCompanies.com is a unique marketing tool for title companies and a free resource for consumers and brokers. Have a website questions? Email Garry at Contact@CompareTitleCompanies.com. For questions about the duties and information provided by your broker, you may contact the Division of Real Estate at dora_realestate_web-site@state.co.us.

Guest Column: Learn About Title Companies It’s easy to get information overload when selling your house, but what if you don’t get all the information you need from your real estate broker? Besides getting top dollar for your home, what about saving money and better protecting your real estate closing by shopping your title insurance & closing services? The Denver Metro Association of Realtors reports the median price of a single-family home sold in November was $625K. The costs for title insurance and closing services for a $625K home ranges from $1,247 up to $2,563, a difference of $1,316. Title companies are regulated by the Colorado Division of Insurance, which encourages consumers to shop their title insurance and closing services. Sellers shouldn’t assume that their listing agent has shopped and compared their recommended title company, as the Division of Real Estate that licenses and regulates real estate brokers doesn’t require brokers to do so. Typically, most brokers just recommend their favorite title company, regardless of the costs to you. While title insurance may be somewhat unfamiliar to sellers, it’s important to note the title policies and coverages are identical among all Colorado title companies, and that the title policy benefits the buyer and not the seller. More than likely, your listing agent did not mention this to you. Also, did your broker recommend getting a seller’s “Closing Protection Letter” (CPL) which provides additional protections for your money and the closing process? Again, the Division of Real Estate doesn’t require brokers to inform you of such information. Based on such information not being provided by brokers, a request was submitted by me, Garry Wolff of CompareTitleCompanies.com, to the Division of Real

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Like any seasoned listing agent, I have my preferred title companies based on years of experience working with them. I have found the escrow officers of some firms more attentive and better at handling issues that may arise, so I definitely recommend one for my seller to use. I admit that I should remind them it’s their decision and point them to Garry’s website, but a choice based on it would be based solely on price. Then we could talk. Where I think agents go wrong is when they have an in-house title company and they get spiffed for “capturing” a seller for that title company and probably don’t suggest their client shop other companies.

out history, civilizations have advanced at the speed of material innovation. Timber, steel, and concrete enabled remarkable progress, but today they are the problem, not the solution. Continuing to build with these materials accelerates climate change and promises to impede progress by threatening our future on this planet.” It is the mitigation of climate change that motivated the company’s founders to develop their unique product. At the top of their lengthy home page is this goal: “Carbon negative materials for every new home and building on earth.” Scroll down, and you find this statement: “We envision a world that stands in balance with nature—a world built from grass… A world where buildings no longer cause climate change but are central to the solution. Where they are stronger, more durable, and more affordable. And where their walls and structures lock away vast amounts of carbon dioxide pulled from the atmosphere.” You have probably heard of “carbon sequestration,” the removing of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it somewhere — typically underground. The oceans also sequester carbon, which has become a problem, endangering ocean life and disrupting the pH balance of ocean water. Plants are among the biggest sequesters of carbon dioxide because it’s their primary food. You’ve heard the Amazon rainforest described as “the earth’s lungs,” although it functions in the opposite manner, absorbing carbon monoxide and emitting oxygen. Trees sequester carbon until they are burned, and building materials made from lumber sustain that sequestration. But trees take a long time to grow, mak-

ing their absorption of carbon dioxide less efficient than the propriety grass developed by Plantd, which can reach 20 feet in height in a single growing season as shown in the photo at left. The company claims that 14,000 acres of grass plantations can produce as much material as 400,000 acres of managed timber lands. (Also, the grass is perennial, unlike trees, so it doesn’t need to be replanted after harvesting.) Another feature of the North Carolina company is that it operates out of a onetime tobacco factory and has hired tobacco farmers who had been put out of work when the tobacco factory closed to grow the grass for their factory. The company’s website claims that their product is stronger, lighter, more moisture resistant, carbon negative, and will cost the same as regular OSB. Plantd’s panels have just two ingredients: the perennial grass plus a small amount of resin (with the formaldehyde removed before it reaches Plantd’s factory). This creates a low-VOC product with fewer chemical additives compared to other products, according to Plantd. There’s a 3-minute video on the home page which shows the panels being installed on a D.R. Horton home under construction. I have the link to that video on the posting of this article at http://RealEstateToday.substack.com. I have written about many technological developments in home construction over the years, but this product has me more excited than all of them put together. I can’t wait to see the first homes in our metro area being built with this product.

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First responders hurt after two crashes in Commerce City BY STEVE SMITH SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Authorities continued to investigate two crashes that ultimately injured four first responders in Commerce City Dec. 7. The crashes happened on Interstate 76 at the East 104th Avenue interchange shortly after 9 p.m. A post to X, formerly Twitter, from Commerce City police said crews were on the scene investigating a crash when a Toyota Tacoma drove into the scene. The car hit the first responders .. two police officers from Commerce City and two members of the South Adams County Fire Department. A fire truck blocked the left two lanes for what the police termed “traffic control pur-

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poses,” which allowed traffic to pass on the right shoulder. “The Tacoma … drove on the left shoulder, around the fire truck and entered the roadway, colliding with the four first responders,” the post said. “The truck continued westbound and came to rest on the left shoulder.” The driver of the truck, whose name hasn’t been released, could face charges of driving under the influence. It’ll be up to the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office to make the formaldecision. According to the social media post, the two officers and one of the two firefighters sustained minor injuries. The other firefighter sustained what was termed “serious bodily injuries.” No names were available.

Adams County Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters from Adams County Rescue line the entrance of the 99th and Grant Walmart to thank people for donating to a holiday toy drive Dec. 9 in Thornton. Wal-Mart donated several new bicycles as part of the drive. The county will distribute the presents over the days that remain before SCOTT TAYLOR Christmas.

Thornton mayor accepts new job with United Power Jan Kulmann hired as senior vice president and chief operating officer BY JANE REUTER JREUTER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Brighton-based United Power recently hired Thornton mayor Jan Kulmann as the company’s senior vice president and chief operating officer. Her first day is Dec. 12. “I’m excited for the opportunity and the chance to return to an operations role, and I’m looking for-

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ward to working with the exceptional team at United Power,” Kulmann said in an email. She most recently served as Xcel Energy’s senior director of Standards & Compliance Program Development. She was responsible for design and engineering standards to help the utility transition to clean energy. Kulmann, elected last month to her second term as mayor, is also an engineer. She has nearly 25 years’ experience in the energy industry, including work in utilities and the oil and gas sector. She has directed the development of design and engineering standards and compliance

programs for natural gas pipeline and electric infrastructure, managed drilling, completion, and production facilities, and environmental, health, safety, and regulatory programs. “Now, more than at any time in the cooperative’s history, having the right people in place in our organization is critical, and Jan brings a rich combination of education and experience to this vital leadership position,” United Power President and CEO Mark Gabriel said. “She is the right leader for our operations transition as we step away from our current wholesale power contract.” Kulmann earned a Bachelor of Sci-

ence in electrical engineering, and a minor in music performance, from Louisiana State University. She later earned a Master of Business Administration from Colorado State University. United Power is a member-owned, not-for-profit electric cooperative that delivers electricity to homes, farms, and businesses on Colorado’s northern Front Range. The cooperative is one of the fastest-growing electric co-ops in the nation. Its territory extends 900 square miles, including Coal Creek and Golden Gate Canyon, along the I-25 corridor and Carbon Valley, to parts of Brighton, Hudson, and Keenesburg.

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Shirley Jean Magnuson, 73, of Fort Lupton, passed away December 9, 2023 at Platte Valley Medical Center surrounded by family. She was born on February 14, 1950 in Sterling, Colorado to George and Minnie (Abood) Korrey. She graduated from Iliff High School in 1968 and went on to Northeastern Junior College and University of Northern Colorado where she earned her degree in Education. In 1972, she married Gary Magnuson of Greeley, Colorado. Shirley lit up every room she was in. She carried a spirit of joy, love, and happiness that she shared with many of her friends and family. She had many talents including playing musical instruments, crafting, crocheting, and teaching. Shirley is survived by her three children,

Amy Magnuson, Ann Magnuson , and Cory (Billie) Magnuson; three grandchildren, Mia Bennett, Fiabela Magnuson and Ozzy Magnuson; a sister Janet (Mike) Couch, brother John Korrey, and brother-in-law Walt (Winnie) Magnuson, along with many cousins, nieces, nephews, great-nieces, greatnephews and close friends. Shirley was preceded in death by her husband, Gary and her parents. Shirley’s Celebration of Life was Monday, December 18, 2023 at 1:00 PM at Trinity Episcopal Church, 3800 W 20th Street, Greeley, Colorado. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to your favorite non-profit in her memory. Please visit www.stoddardsunset.com to share fond memories with Shirley’s family.

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Kats Auto Spa, from Keenesburg, decorated a 1932 Ford Vicky car in lights for their parade float. BELEN WARD

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“The whole purpose is to get to the county fair with that project and try to place, and if your place is high enough, they enter into the state fair,” said BarnBrats leader Jim Ruhoff. BarnBrats 4-H Sage Cole, 15, said he loves trap shooting. BarnBrats President Taylor Seeley, 16, said she likes to do everything from sewing and welding to livestock and shooting sports. BarnBrats Treasurer Logan Seeley, 13, has a favorite animal. “I love showing pigs,” he said. Club Historian Iker Goldsmith, 10, said his job is documenting the club’s members. “We remind everybody to bring at least five pictures from each 4-H member,” Goldsmith said. “Then we put them in a scrapbook with a story on what we did that year.” Norm’s roadster

Kat Auto Spa from Keenesburg opened three years ago with a mobile service that is a small pressure washer with an attached open trailer that also offers services in Brighton, Fort Lupton, and Lochbuie. Owner Amber Hedrick said they entered a 1932 Fort Vicky decorated in lights in the parade. The bright green vintage roadster bearing the number 8 belonged to a good friend of the family, Norm Kiefer, who recently passed away. “We wanted to honor his memory by using his car in our float. We knew how happy and honored he would be for everyone to see his beloved car. He was a big part of the Colorado Vintage Oval Racers,” Hedrick said. Hedrick herself is a heart transplant recipient, celebrating 9 years this month since her surgery. “I’m a wife and mom with four beautiful daughters, a handsome little boy, and grandma GiGi,” Hedrick said. “The float was such a success that we are receiving many thanks for coming, and we love the float. My husband Kenneth and I are so overjoyed with the support from the community.”

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Marking the fourth night of Hanukkah group hosts a Hanuk- frightened Jews around the Westminster’s Orchard kahThemenorah lighting in the country are currently. Orchard Town Square annu“But judging by how many Mall hosts chilly ally. This year’s celebration people are here tonight, featured Hanukkah songs, we’re not afraid,” Brackman celebration of the hot chocolate and latkes as said. “We’re very proud. We well as holiday-themed give- are here and we support one Festival of Lights aways. another even during espeBY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Celebrating a season of joy despite troubles around the world, Westminster’s Chabad of NW Denver lit the fourth light of the holiday menorah Dec. 10

Speaking to a group of about 50, Rabbi Benji Brackman of the Chabad of NW Denver said it is a difficult time to be Jewish, just months after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. Brackman noted that news stories are pointing out how

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Colorado man returns to Gaza, seeking family Ridgeway resident hoping for news about his mother BY ERIN MCINTYRE OURAY COUNTY PLAINDEALER

They said they would come visit when the house in Ridgway was finished. They had a new grandson they wanted to meet, too. Rahm Haggai kept working on the house, building on weekends when he had time off. Now, “I don’t think they’re coming,” he said, shaking his head. After eight weeks of chaos, little in-

formation and no certainty of what happened to his parents, Haggai doesn’t think they’re alive. The last communication anyone had from them was the morning of Oct. 7, when Judi Weinstein and Gadi Haggai were out for an early morning walk near their community, about a mile from the Gaza border. “We’re outside. Face down in a field,” Weinstein texted to her family. “We see tons of rockets.” It was around 6:50 a.m. They were only two kilometers from home, but they never made it back. They’re still missing. Bits of information have come to

the family over the past few weeks, since his parents disappeared on the day now called Black Shabbat. There’s a recording of a 911 call with Judi – in which she said her husband had been shot in the head and was unresponsive. In the same call, she reports that she’s hurt, too. There’s a poor-quality image from an Israeli Army intelligence recording. “I can tell it’s my dad, being thrown onto a Hamas truck like a dead deer, on the way to Gaza. But I didn’t see my mom there,” he said. Another surveillance recording showed his parents hiding from

Hamas in some trees, when two terrorists on motorcycles ride toward them, shooting. “I know my dad is dead for sure. He was shot in the head,” Haggai said. A kibbutz ambulance attempted to come help them but was also ambushed, he said. The family initially received information that the Israeli government thought their parents had been kidnapped, due to signals from their cellphones. But that doesn’t seem to be true now, given the new information they received, Haggai said. SEE FAMILY, P9

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His father had left his cellphone at home. That phone signal was later detected in Gaza, indicating looters took it. The lack of information has been frustrating. Haggai thinks about how it took nine hours for the government to show up, to help his parents and the other residents of the Israeli kibbutz who were attacked. He’s angry that the government didn’t take intelligence seriously, warning this attack was coming. He keeps building the house in Ridgway and waits. His community is small – around 400 people – and

he knows the victims identified from Kibbutz Nir Oz, the hostages, the people telling stories about their homes being ransacked and their families murdered. They’re his classmates, his friends, his community. Mostly, he’s tried to just keep going with life. Initially, he felt an urge to go back to Israel, but his siblings and friends there told him there wasn’t anything he could do. It was mass confusion. No one knew what was going on. He was better off waiting. For the first week, he jumped awake when his phone buzzed in the night. Now, he waits to look at the messages. They hoped to have more news when more than 100 hostages were released by Hamas during a week-

long pause in fighting. But as of last weekend, there was nothing. His parents, who he described as practical people, wouldn’t want their family to be paralyzed with mourning, he said. “Don’t even waste your time on a funeral for us,” he thinks they would tell them. Though, his father always wanted his body donated to the University of Tel Aviv for research. He was 72 when he went missing. “His joke was, he didn’t get into university unless he was dead,” Haggai said. Haggai and his family – including his partner, Sydney Mendel, and his sons Reef and Oak, left Sunday for Israel. He hopes to learn more about what happened while he’s there, and visit family.

On this two-week trip, Haggai will return to the kibbutz. He’ll go to the 800-square-foot, modest concrete home where he and his three siblings grew up, the place where his parents got up early and meditated and his 70-year-old mom wrote a haiku every day. Where they lived and dreamed of peace with Palestine. He thinks of the others from his community who have nothing now. Their cars have been burned, their homes destroyed. Farmers living in hotels in the city now, without work, displaced from their livelihoods. “What are they supposed to do?” he asked. This story via The Associated Press’ Storyshare, of which Colorado Community Media is a member.

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But there are three divisions in NCR: the highest (Division I), the secondhighest (Division II), and the small college division (where the School of Mines competes). It’s a club sport funded prominently by the late Rick Carlson, a legendary coach and figure with the School of Mines rugby program since its inception in 1967. Carlson’s family and estate support the team to this day, allowing the athletes to travel and have the right equipment, among other expenses. I sat down with Cisneros to discuss the local rugby scene, what it means to be a collegiate rugby all-star, and what other goals he has for himself

Colorado Community Media: Were you surprised when you were named a collegiate rugby all-star? What was your reaction to that?

Max Cisneros dashes between two defenders for the Colorado School of Mines. The Brighton native has been named to the National Collegiate Rugby Western Region All-Star Team and will compete against the nation’s best rugby players in Austin, KURT DEVOE Texas Jan. 6-8.

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thought, “That sounds interesting.” He got me in contact with [Ford]. He’s been telling me since I got there, he’s like “Mate,” because he’s Australian. He’s like, “Mate, you’re going to get that all-star selection” and this and that. I didn’t really take him seriously at first. But coming into my second season at Mines, I guess I maybe did expect some sort of recognition, if it wasn’t the all-star selection, specifically. But it was definitely unexpected when I got the email. CCM: What’s the goal at the all-star game in Austin this coming January?

Cisneros: I saw the email but I didn’t really take it seriously. But that’s when [Coach Ford] called me one morning and said I should go because this is how you become an All-American. The all-star selection is great and all, but what I’m really going for is the All-American selection. This tournament is where you get selected for that. Coach Anthony was an AllAmerican when he played in college. He came from Australia and played in Nebraska. And so, a big reason why I want to accomplish this is because of him. He really inspired me to shoot for that goal and encouraged me from the beginning, saying I could do it. CCM: It’s always a war against your opponents on the field, but do events like the all-star tournament allow you to pick the brains of other great players?

Cisneros:For sure. There are a lot of

times when on the field and in practice, I’m helping or teaching my teammates who are new to the game. A lot of the guys we get to join the rugby team have never played before. It’s a big learning curve. I think it’ll be really awesome to be in a position where I’m learning a lot. Not to say I don’t learn during the season, I think I’ve grown immensely during the course of this last season. But opportunities like this don’t come every day. So, I’m definitely looking forward to picking the brains of all the other players and coaches there. CCM: As a scrumhalf, can you please, in your own words, describe your position or role on the field?

Cisneros:Coach Anthony was a scrumhalf when he played, too. He describes the scrumhalf as, if you want to put it in football terms, the center mixed with the quarterback. So, the center snaps the ball to start the play and the quarterback is kind of the general on the field. So the responsibility of the scrumhalf is to be that general but also be the person who starts the next phase of play when there’s a tackle. Coach likes to say I mix in a little running back into it as well.

Cisneros:This seems like an ambitious goal, but my ultimate goal in my college career is to win the national championship for our team. We finished ranked 11th last season and finished a little lower this year. But I think we’ve got the guys to do it. We’ve got the coaches to do it. The thing that

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Colorado composer finds work on Christmas album Song arrangement had unknown life BY JEFF RICE JOURNAL-ADVOCATE

Singer-songwriter Kip Dubbs recently discovered that one of his compositions has been recorded on a Christmas album. By an artist he’d never heard of, nearly 40 years ago. The Sterling native has spent much of his adult life in Hollywood composing music for some of the nation’s greatest performers. Be-

fore Hollywood beckoned, however, Dubbs taught high school choir in Sidney, Nebraska, and it was there the strange tale of a Christmas song began. Dubbs had taken some of his students to the 1981 Nebraska All State Choral Festival in Doane, Nebraska. Guest conductor at the festival was Rodney Eichenberger, under whom Kipp had studied years before at the University of Southern California. Dubbs had just recently had a new song published, “A Night Out for Dobbin,” set to the tune of “Jingle Bells.” He decided to give his former mentor copies of the song, hoping they would be performed by Eichen-

berger’s students. “I had a package of 50 copies that I gave him,” Dubbs said. Dubbs never heard back from the professor and thought little about the encounter. Then, in August 2020, Dubbs’ son Jobe happened to send Kip a link to a website than listed much of Kip’s work and the artists he’d worked with. It was all quite familiar — except for a 10-cut LP with the usual Christmas carols and songs on it. And there, in the tenth slot, was Kip Dubbs’ song. But Dubbs didn’t recognize the choral group, The Faye Dumont Singers, or the record label, Move

Records. There’s a reason for that: The choral group and the record label are headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. And, it turns out, the album was released in 1983. Digging around a little more on the internet and in his own memory, Dubbs finally came up with a connection. It seems Faye Dumont herself was doing graduate work under Prof. Eichenberger at USC back in 1980, around the time Dubbs reconnected with Eichenberger at that Nebraska choral festival and handed over copies of his new song. This story via The Associated Press’ Storyshare, of which Colorado Community Media is a member.

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