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Clear Creek’s Parker Scott finishes third at Skimeister Proponents make case to rename Mount Evans Clear Creek officials to hear public comment March 8

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

restrictions cut the season short.

Skimeister was a title bestowed based on a skier’s performance throughout the season. When the shortened 2020-21 season didn’t allow for a clear winner, Colorado developed the Skimeister Championships at the tail-end of the season.

Inman said the state’s ski coaches voted to hold it again this year, and there’s a strong possibility it will continue indefinitely.

Only six Golddiggers — about half of the school’s ski team — competed

Proponents for the five official petitions to rename Mount Evans presented their respective cases before the Clear Creek County Board of Commissioners on March 1.

The five petitions are: Mount Cheyenne-Arapaho, Mount Blue Sky, Mount Rosalie, Mount Soule, and Mount Evans but redesignating the namesake as Anne Evans.

The mountain is named for Colorado’s second territorial governor, John Evans, who’s believed to have authorized the Sand Creek Massacre against the Cheyenne and Arapaho people. He was forced to resign in its aftermath.

The commissioners were scheduled to host a public comment session via Zoom at 6 p.m. March 8, and are still accepting written public comment on whether and which petition to support.

The commissioners then plan to make a recommendation to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names at their March 15 meeting.

Clear Creek can register its opinion as: • Opposed to changing the name; • Neutral; • Supportive of a name change;

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Clear Creek’s Parker Scott flies down the slalom course during the March 1 Skimeister Championships in Steamboat Springs.

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Golddiggers conclude ski season in Steamboat Springs

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Three Clear Creek skiers placed in the top 10 at the March 1 Skimeister Championships in Steamboat Springs.

Junior Parker Scott and senior Camden Fahnline placed third and

seventh, respectively, among the boys; and freshman Addyson Scott placed 10th among the girls.

“Both Parker and Camden were as good as I‘ve seen them all year,” coach Brian Inman said on March 2.

Both Parker and Addyson Scott qualified to compete in the junior nationals March 11-13 at Lake Tahoe, Inman explained. Only 12 boys and 12 girls from Colorado qualified to attend.

Inman explained that the Skimeister event is relatively new.

Colorado’s high school ski programs devised it last year, after COVID-19

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OBITUARIES MACLELLAN

Charles Roger “CR” MacLellan August 3, 1947 - February 25, 2022

MILLER

Claudia Marie (Shallcross) Miller September 20, 1947 - February 19, 2022

Claudia M Miller (nee Shallcross) passed away February 19, 2022 in Wheat Ridge, CO. She was 74.

Claudia was born September 20, 1947 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania to Leonard R. Shallcross Jr and Ruth E Carey (nee Horan). In March, 1952 her parents and she moved to Denver, Colorado. Claudia graduated from Evergreen High School in 1965. Claudia loved to travel and was an excellent cook. Claudia is survived by her son, Christopher (Crystal), grandchildren

Lucas and Caitlyn, daughter Heather (Curt), grandchildren Mackenzie and Logan; Sister Georgiann Sibal; various nieces and nephews around the state. Preceding her in death was her husband, Harold in 2007, her parents; Ruth in 1991 and Leonard in 1995, sister Phyllis in 2020. A Celebration of Life service is scheduled for Sunday March 27th at 2 pm at the Zion Lutheran church, 1921 Virginia St, Idaho Springs, CO

Charles Roger MacLellan (CR), 74, of Idaho Springs, Colorado, passed away peacefully on February 25, 2022 surrounded by loved ones, after a difficult battle with kidney disease. CR was born on August 3, 1947 to Charles Richard (Dick) and Norma R. MacLellan (nee Younger) in Baltimore, Maryland.

He spent much of his life in the Baltimore area working as a graphic designer, but his passion was painting; both in watercolors and oils. This passion brought him to Colorado where he lived happily during his later years chasing his dreams. In addition to painting, he was an avid fisherman, musician, storyteller and reader. He was known to many as a great friend. CR married his high school sweetheart Elizabeth (Betsy) MacLellan (nee Cree) in 1968 and they went on to have 3 children, Raun, Ian and Emily.

Although life took them on different paths,

they remained close friends. CR was predeceased by his parents, his sister Sarah and granddaughter Faith. He is survived by his children Raun Elizabeth MacLellan, Matthew Ian (Nichole MacLellan (nee Randle)), Emily Barnette (Jason); his grandchildren Jake Barnette, Lindsay Noelle McWilliams, Evan and Tanner Barnette, Cole and Abigail MacLellan. He is also survived by his sister Barbara MacLellan (Gene Ricks) and brothers H. Bradford and J. Andrew MacLellan; as well as his aunt, cousin and numerous nieces, nephews and many dear friends. Let’s not forget his cherished furry friend Señorita Swats. A celebration of life will be held in private. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to one of his favored organizations: Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA); Project Support Senior Center, Idaho Springs, CO.; or Trout Unlimited.

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Weather Observations for Georgetown, Colorado

IDAHO SPRINGS BRIEFS

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Week of 28 February and Month of February 2022 A local National Weather Service volunteer observer makes temperature and precipitation observations each day at about 8 a.m. at the Georgetown Weather Station. Wind observations are made at Georgetown Lake. “Max” “Min” temperatures are from digital displays of a “MMTS” (“Maximum/ Minimum Temperature System”); “Mean daily” temperature is the average of the max and min. “Total Precipitation” is inches of rainfall Weather Observations for Georgetown, plus melted snow.

“Snowfall” is inches of snow thatColorado accumulated during the preceding 24 hours. T = Trace of precipitation. NR = Not Reported. of 28 February and Month of February 2022 “Peak wind gust atWeek Georgetown Lake” is the velocity in miles per hour localtime Nationalof Weather Service volunteer observer makes temperature and precipitation observations each day at and Aabout the the maximum wind gust that occurred during the 8 a.m. at the Georgetown Weather Station. Wind observations are made at Georgetown Lake. “Max” “Min” temperatures arepreceding from digital displays ofdate a “MMTS” (“Maximum/MinimumHistoric Temperature System”); “Mean daily” on calendar day the of observation. data are based temperature is the average of the max and min. “Total Precipitation” is inches of rainfall plus melted snow.

“Snowfall” is inches of snow that accumulated during the preceding 24 hours.

T = Trace of precipitation.

NR = Not the period of record for which statistical data have been compiled (about Reported. “Peak wind gust at Georgetown Lake” is the velocity in miles per hour and the time of the maximum wind gust that occurred during the calendar day preceding the date of observation.

Historic data are based on the period of 53 years within the period 1893-2021). Any weather records noted are based record for which statistical data have been compiled (about 53 years within the period 1893-2021). Any weather noted are basedof on athe comparison of the observed valuewith with thethe historical data set. on arecords comparison observed value historical data set.

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Soft opening for VCMP trails this spring The city and the Colorado Mountain Bike Association will open the first 1.75-miles of trail at Virginia Canyon Mountain Park this spring.

The trails will be hiker-only for now, and officials said they wanted residents’ help walking the tread in, as COMBA executive director Gary Moore described it.

The city would then host an official opening in May or early June, Moore said at the Feb. 28 City Council work session.

Assistant City Administrator Jonathan Cain suggested and the City Council members agreed that the community should be involved in developing fun, Idaho Springscentric trail names.

During the soft opening, residents also will help test whether signage and parking is adequate.

The park will initially only have five parking spaces on Riverside Drive, so Idaho Springs is looking at public lots nearby that visitors could use, Cain detailed. For instance, while parking at CourtneyRyley-Cooper Park will be protected, Cain stated the visitor center could host some VCMP parking.

Moore added that once VCMP officially opens, COMBA will have an illustrated map showing the best places for people to park.

Mayor Chuck Harmon and other council members believed parking will be the biggest issue in opening VCMP. Harmon stressed having

A map shows the approximate location and configuration of the first 1.75 miles of trail at Virginia Canyon Mountain Park in Idaho Springs. The city is planning a soft opening for residents this spring.

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good maps to show people where parking is and isn’t allowed, saying he didn’t want Riverside Drive to look like Floyd Hill Open Space Park with 80-90 cars.

Moore clarified that, with the first trails being hike-only, VCMP likely won’t see that level of interest until the downhill bike-only trails are SEE SPRINGS BRIEFS, P10

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SKIMEISTER FROM PAGE 1

at the March 1 championships. They had to qualify by completing at least two races of classic, skate, giant slalom and slalom throughout the season.

Inman said he was very proud of the seniors Fahnline and Maya Berber-Corriero, whom he said exemplified the skimeister spirit.

Berber-Corriero suffered a broken boot in the first event of the day, and ended up borrowing a boot from someone training on the course.

While she ultimately placed last, Inman and other witnesses reported how she won over the spectators and race officials because of her determination.

“It was a good way for (the seniors) to finish the season and let the younger kids strive for something next season,” Inman continued.

Junior Skylah Inman said on March 2 she did better at this year’s event versus last year’s, describing how she’s really improved at Nordic events throughout the 2021-22 season.

Skylah described how she and her teammates were happy they qualified for the event, and did their best throughout all the races.

She and some of her ski teammates were making a quick transition from winter sports to spring sports, which started practice Feb. 28.

While she always enjoys ski season, Skylah said it’s a lot of work.

So, once it’s over, she’s ready for the spring sports season.

“I’m ready for track,” she said.

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Clear Creek’s Addyson Scott powers up a hill during the classic race which kicked off the March 1 Skimeister Championships in Steamboat Springs.

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Tommyknocker Brewery hosts first-of-its-kind comedy show Idaho Springs comic organizes fun night out for locals

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rick Bryan remembered seeing electronic signs on the highway telling people to not touch their face.

Now that the idea was in his head, Bryan described, he couldn’t help feeling like he suddenly needed to touch his face.

During his routine, the Denverbased comedian shared funny anecdotes about being an essential worker during the pandemic, the challenges of parenting teenagers and visiting sketchy restaurant drive-thrus.

Bryan was part of the March 4 lineup at Tommyknocker Brewery & Pub’s dinner and comedy show, a new event the brewery put together with Idaho Springs resident and comedian Susan Udero.

Udero, who performs under the name Miss Bubbles, has lived in Idaho Springs almost five years, but travels frequently to perform and produce comedy shows.

She recently felt a need to put together shows for the mountain community, and reached out to Tommyknocker Brewery. Even with two weeks’ notice, the show sold out, and about 45 people packed into the event room in the brew-

Denver-based comedian Rick Bryan performs at Tommyknocker Brewery’s March 4 Dinner and Comedy Show event.

PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

ery’s easternmost storefront.

Udero and Tommyknocker Brewery’s banquet coordinator Tami Mathena said plans for another dinner-and-a-comedy-show event on April 1 are in the works.

While the brewery is too busy to host events like this in the summertime, Mathena said they might be ideal during the slow seasons.

She floated out the idea of hosting a magician at some point, saying,

“We’re trying to expand (the use of) this room, and do more fun things for the locals.”

The March 4 show — which had a SEE COMEDY, P7

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POLICE BLOTTER

Crime Calls from Feb. 21-27

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Tuesday, Feb. 22 — Idaho Springs police took reports of a burglary along County Road 314. A government building had been broken into, and multiple safes had been stolen from the property. ISPD is working closely with the neighboring jurisdictions to recover the property, along with ascertaining possible

suspects.

Tuesday, Feb. 22 — Idaho Springs police responded to the 2400 block of Colorado Boulevard for reports of a truck crashing into a building. The suspect had fled by the time officers arrived, but an officer located the front license plate at the scene. ISPD was able to locate the suspect at his residence, where he was cited for careless driving, no proof of insurance, leaving the scene of an accident and failure to notify police.

Thursday, Feb. 24 — Idaho Springs police responded to a fire alarm in the 2500 block of Colorado Boulevard. Investigation found the alarm was triggered by a burning cigarette by someone smoking in the building’s sprinkler room. The suspect had fled the scene by the time officers arrived, but multiple items were recovered in the room, including a homemade loaded shotgun.

Friday, Feb. 25 — Empire police started investigating a possible court order violation. The resident

protected by the court order believes they’ve received social media messages from the restrained person. Empire police is acquiring search warrants, stressing that it will likely take some time to determine if a crime has been committed.

Saturday, Feb. 26 — Empire police issued a citation to a driver for reportedly speeding 54 mph in the 35-mph zone along West Park Avenue.

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MARCH 12 GEORGETOWN CULTURAL ARTS presents the Red Rock String Quartet both live-streamed and in person at 7 p.m. March 12 as part of the Devil Moon Series. The inperson event will be at the Georgetown Heritage Center, 809 Taos St. For more information and tickets, visit georgetowntrust.org/heritagecenter.

THROUGH APRIL 15 AARP is sponsoring a free tax program at the Evergreen Library on Tuesday afternoons and every other Saturday afternoon starting

ONGOING RESILIENCE1220 HAS STARTED a support group called College Age Community that meets from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. For information and the Zoom link, email lior@wisetreewellness.com. on Feb. 1. Call 303-235-5275 to make an appointment. Pick up the intake forms before your appointment. All taxpayers are welcome. Appointments are required this year, and all clients will need to wear a mask inside the library.

WELLNESS CLINIC is Monday through Friday for free blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol screenings at the Clear Creek Health and Wellness Center, 1969 Miner St., Idaho Springs. For more information and to make an appointment, call 303-670-7528.

MAY 18 THE CLEAR CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION has two $2,500 scholarships that will be awarded to two graduating seniors. Visit school counselor Alyson Loitz to get an application,

MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE & HOSPICE offers two monthly groups to provide emotional support services for caregivers helping ill, disabled or elderly loved ones. An in-person support group meets every third

Monday from 4-6 p.m. at 3081 Bergen Peak Road, Evergreen and a virtual support group meets every first Tuesday from 10 a.m.-noon via Zoom. Call 303-674-6400 to learn how to connect to the group virtual call.

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Susan Udero, an Idaho Springs resident who performs under the stage name Miss Bubbles, performs at Tommyknocker Brewery’s March 4 Dinner and Comedy Show event.

PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

March 18 • 7:30pm March 19 • 4:30pm Denver-based comedian Rick Bryan performs at Tommyknocker Brewery’s March 4 Dinner and Comedy Show event. It was the brewery’s first time hosting a comedy show.

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lineup of Miss Bubbles, Bryan and Denver-based comedian Ron Ferguson — certainly featured more adult content in terms of joke topics and language. There were a few moments in the night where risky jokes straddled the line between bold and off-putting. Several tables seemed to be enjoying themselves, perhaps a little too much, which drew a comedian’s attention and ire.

Between dinner and the show, Eric and Lisa Whiteman described how they saw the event advertised on social media and thought it looked like fun.

The Whitemans, who live in the

South Spring Gulch area but used to live in Denver, said they frequented comedy shows in the city before.

The two described comedy shows as a much-needed burst of levity and a break from the usual routine.

So, going to a comedy show close to home was convenient and something different to do, Eric and Lisa explained.

Similarly, Carol and Tom Newsom described how they moved from Evergreen to Miner Street a month ago. They bought tickets to the event, because they wanted a night out to eat dinner with friends and meet new people.

The Newsoms said they went to a similar event at the Center for the Arts Evergreen recently, adding they’d be open to attending more comedy shows in the mountain community.

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Pump prices…what’s up?

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y beloved little car and I are aging together. I still love it, and one reason is because it gets great mileage. Yesterday I paid $3.37 a gallon for gas. I looked it up, and a year ago the price was $2.25. That is a 49% difference. The price of crude oil then was $62.33 vs. $95.82 yesterday. That’s a 52% difference and the ratios are similar, so it should be clear why the price is so much higher.

The question, which I have been researching, is how did such a big change occur? What I learned is that the oil market is a supply and demand driven global market and that is what determines the price we pay for gas. It is complicated.

Supply and demand is affected by political decisions made all over the world. Transportation costs, weather, capital spending by oil producers and many other factors all affect the price. As it turns out, today’s gas prices are as much a function of financial decisions made on Wall Street as those made in Washington.

One story is that the previous administration had our country in

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an energy independent mode, but the Biden administration hates the oil industry and has caused us to again be dependent. If only things were so simple! My research, which includes a comprehensive study called Columnist “The Monthly Labor Review” by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and another by Forbes, should help explain how we got such a dramatic rise in gasoline prices.

In January of 2020, the COVID-related business slowdown in China caused a decrease of 3 million barrels per day, or 20% of that country’s overall oil consumption. The U.S. followed the decreases in demand as business here was affected as well. So, the two largest economies in the world both experienced dramatic decreases in demand for oil products. The Saudis, the second largest oil producer behind the U.S. convinced fellow OPEC members to make significant production cuts

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Russia didn’t reduce production, hoping to increase its market share.

By April, the Saudis raised their production levels. Obviously, they underestimated the serious effect of the pandemic. Because of the large mismatch between supply and demand and diminished storage space, the price tanked. By April 20th, crude petroleum traded at a negative price in the intraday futures market. (The price of storage was higher than the cost of oil.) As the pandemic has worn on, the oil producers have become much more successful in regulating production so that it stayed relatively constant with demand.

At the end of 2020, the oil price was at $39.68 per barrel and world oil production had decreased 23%.

Note that this decrease in production occurred quickly. The low oil prices made oil production nearly unprofitable, and the pandemic was making the probability of increased demand unlikely. Many oil companies were highly leveraged and over 100 declared bankruptcies, while other shuttered operations.

This was on top of the reduction in drilling and exploration after the

a t i o fi r great recession. Finding eager in- d vestors was difficult. The net result t of all these factors led to not only w production reductions, but also a S substantial reduction in the capac- a ity to produce oil products. t The 2021 rebound took supplis ers by surprise. Even OPEC has m struggled to raise output due to underinvestment. Of course, with P demand rising faster than supply, m w prices have risen dramatically.

The oil industry and those who t are seeking to transform the U.S. f p into a clean energy nation are s certainly at odds. This administration has passed policies that could negatively impact future oil u supplies. According to the Forbes w study, “thus far the price surge is I primarily a result of 3 million bar- P rels per day of oil production that p was lost in the spring of 2020 that t s hasn’t fully recovered.” a Whether we have oil independence depends how independence is defined, as we still import foreign oil. However, the move to not being dependent on foreign oil producers began in2010. Hydraulic fracking SEE ROHRER, P9

The biggest problem in Colorado politics

id it ever occur to you that the biggest problem in Colorado politics is that only one of our members of Congress is a national laughingstock? I hadn’t either, but State Representative Dave Williams, a Colorado Springs Republican who is challenging incumbent eightterm Congressman Doug Lamborn for the Republican nomination to represent Colorado’s Fifth Congressional District, seems to have come to that conclusion.

The title of a fundraising email he sent last month was “Lauren Boebert Republican for CD5?” In the text of the email, in bold underlined letters he said, “Our congressional district deserves another Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Madison Cawthorn representing us in the halls of Congress.”

There are a lot of things for people

of all political stripes to find offensive about how Lamborn has done his job over the last 16 years, but not behaving in a way that reflects on our state as badly as Boebert has shouldn’t be one of them.

Boebert may have Columnist hit a new all-time low last week when she heckled the President of the United States during the State of the Union address while he was saying that we should protect members of our military from carcinogenic dangers and then using the criticism she received for her boorish behavior for fund raising purposes.

Williams’ desire to be like Boebert is out of line, but it has impacted Lamborn’s reelection strategy. In-

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stead of pursuing another term by seeking support of rank-and-file Republicans through the caucus and assembly process, Lamborn has secured a place on the Republican primary ballot by submitting petitions to the Secretary of State.

Given the thoughts and beliefs of most people who live in Colorado’s Fifth Congressional District, their member of Congress should have a more conservative philosophy than I would suggest. But we deserve elected officials who understand and observe an appropriate level of decorum instead of behaving in ways that would get a seventh grader suspended from school.

While it’s often hard to understand which side deserves our support in labor disputes, baseball owners were wrong to lock out players and put the baseball season on hold. To lock out the players in December and then do nothing to

begin negotiations in a time frame that allowed any possibility to reach a new agreement in time for the new season showed a lack of good faith not only to players but to fans as well. Hopefully they’ll get something done before we conclude we don’t miss them.

And while I’m talking about sports, wouldn’t it be nice if Comcast got Avalanche and Nuggets’ games back on our TVs? The Avalanche are in the having a historically successful season and most Coloradans have no way to see it.

Greg Romberg had a long career in state and local government and in government relations.

He represented corporate, government and trade association clients before federal, state and local governments.

He lives in Evergreen with his wife, Laurie.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

CSP seeks help in reducing fatalities Over the last few months, I have asked the motoring public to join the Colorado State Patrol in driving down the number of fatalities on our state’s roadways. While I firmly believe this effort can only be realized through a majority of our drivers consciously participating through safe driving behavior, I also want to share how your Colorado State Patrol members are taking action.

Law enforcement agencies across the nation are experiencing the same strain on their workforce that most industries are facing, so the Patrol is working strategically to do more with less. We have leaned into what our agency’s crash investigation data is telling us, so we can focus our enforcement on the most predictable behaviors that cause serious crashes in Colorado.

In addition, we are advancing our use of data to pinpoint where and when crashes are most prevalent.

In late 2021, the Colorado State Patrol initiated surge operations in predictable, high crash areas and these efforts yielded the best possible result - no fatalities in those areas.

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The tobacco industry is succeeding in hooking another generation of Americans on their harmful products. Over the past 20 years tobacco control efforts have helped steadily reduce the rates of cigarette smoking among underage youth from 30% to just 4.3%. However, the technology of vaping and e-cigarettes and aggressive marketing focused on youth are recovering the market for tobacco companies.

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Flavor bans have been enacted in several Colorado municipalities but Denver recently failed to do so, in part because of concerns that nearby cities would offer these products; the statewide ban proposed in HB 22-1064 will resolve that concern.

It is a fundamental responsibility of government to protect vulnerable groups from harms and it is time to take the opportunity to control the youth vaping epidemic in Colorado. HB 22-1064 will ban the sale of flavored tobacco and synthetic nicotine products that hook underage youth. We support our legislature accepting this responsibility and taking action.

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For this spring and summer, though, officials agreed that there should be an adaptive management approach to VCMP parking.

“At least it’ll be hiking only at the beginning,” Harmon said. “That will give us time to figure out (parking).”

Scott Lancaster Bridge to be moved March 7 The Colorado Department of Transportation and its partners are scheduled to move the Scott Lancaster Bridge on March 7, weather permitting. The bridge will be moved a few hundred feet to the southeast, and will remain part of the Greenway Trail along County Road 314.

The Scott Lancaster Bridge near County Road 314 is scheduled to be moved this week, weather permitting. Its new spot will be a few hundred feet southeast of its original location. COURTESY OF CDOT

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• Supportive of a tribal-based petition but not taking sides; or • Supportive of a specific petition.

The USBGN has final say on whether and which petition to approve, although it’s also looking for input from the state naming advisory board and the U.S. Forest Service.

Mount Cheyenne-Arapaho During the March 1 meeting, Otto Braided Hair, Jr. of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe explained how Mount Cheyenne-Arapaho would honor the tribes that once called Colorado home and that were devastated by the Sand Creek Massacre.

Braided Hair, whose ancestors survived the Sand Creek Massacre, described the intergenerational trauma among the tribes. The massacre stopped all negotiations and destroyed his ancestors’ hopes of remaining in Colorado, he said, describing how Cheyenne and Arapaho reservations are in Oklahoma, Montana, and Wyoming.

The name Cheyenne-Arapaho is “clear and concise,” he said, and honors the people who were in Colorado before its statehood. With the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes now divided by designations of north and south, he said the petition would honor then as “one people, one nation.”

“Our ancestors… fought and died for each other,” Braided Hair said of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. “ … Those are the nations, those are the people that you would be honoring. It is long overdue.”

Mount Blue Sky Officials from the Oklahoma-based Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes described how Mount Blue Sky would honor both tribes.

The Arapaho were called the Blue Sky People, and the Cheyenne have a religious ceremony called Blue Sky that represents all life throughout the world and is a blessing, they described.

While the name honors both tribes, Governor Reggie Wassana said, for the greater population, Blue Sky could mean a lot of things. He connected it to a sense of clarity and purity, and the feeling of being in nature and seeing a blue sky overhead.

Fred Mosqueda of the Southern Arapaho said the current name brings despair and sorrow to his community, and that the mountain’s

There are five official petitions to rename Mount Evans, seen here in December 2020 from Fire Tower Trail along Highway 103. The petitions are: Mount Cheyenne-Arapaho, Mount Blue Sky, Mount Rosalie, Mount Soule, and Mount Evans but redesignating the PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN namesake as Anne Evans.

name should be something beautiful “that will make us feel good when we see (the mountain).”

Chester Whiteman of the Southern Cheyenne commented: “(The name Blue Sky) will continue to bless our people – past generations and future generations.”

Mount Rosalie Mount Rosalie was the name Albert Bierstadt, a landscape painter and the peak’s first known summiter, gave the mountain in honor of his future wife. It was the mountain’s unofficial name until 1895. The name Rosalie was given to a nearby peak after the mountain was renamed for Evans.

Proponent Jeri Neff acknowledged that while the local tribes must’ve had names for the peak, those names are unknown. So, the mountain’s first recorded name was Rosalie.

If the mountain was renamed Rosalie, Neff said it would be the only 14,000-foot peak in Colorado — called 14ers — named for a woman. It’s also the only 14er that’s ever had a female namesake.

Neff said that, if there was a name change, she wanted it the peak to revert to its first recorded name. She said having it renamed for Rosalie Bierstadt would be appropriate as the 14er named for Albert Bierstadt is close by.

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Sauter conducted an informal poll on 14ers.com, the results of which supported her proposal to keep the name but redesignate the namesake.

A mountain goat peeks around the corner of the restroom building at the Mount Evans summit in June 2021.

Federal officials will likely decide this year whether to approve any of the five petitions to rename Mount Evans.

Evans, but redesignating the peak’s namesake as philanthropist Anne Evans.

Anne Evans, the daughter of John Evans, is best known for her work for the Denver Art Museum, Central City Opera House, and Denver Public Library.

Anne Evans lived part of her life on the Evans Ranch and eventually summited the nearby Mount Evans, Sauter described. She also noted how Anne Evans strongly promoted Native American artwork and was the Denver Public Library Commission’s first female president. She died in 1941 and was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.

Sauter said she wasn’t sure what the Evans family thinks of her proposal, but noted how changing the

Mount Soule Proponent Karen Naiman described her proposal to rename the peak for U.S. Army Captain Silas Soule, who refused to participate in the Sand Creek Massacre.

Soule was born into an abolitionist family that helped found Lawrence, Kansas and was active in the Underground Railroad. Soule himself fought in the Union Army during the Civil War, and he later attended peace summits with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

After the Sand Creek Massacre, Soule testified against those who organized it. A few months afterward, Soule was killed on the streets of Denver while performing his duties as a marshal.

Naiman, a former journalist, said she researched the Sand Creek Massacre in the 1990s and eventually wrote a book on the Cheyenne Tribe.

She believed renaming Mount Evans for Soule would “help enlighten” Coloradans and visitors about the Sand Creek Massacre.

“I believe that Mount Soule is the most viable choice for renaming Mount Evans,” she said.

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Clear Creek lacrosse, soccer preparing for ‘very competitive schedules’ The two sports hosting evening home games April 29-30

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Golddigger fans should mark their calendars for April 29-30, as Clear Creek lacrosse and soccer, respectively, will host their first-ever evening home games.

The April 29 lacrosse game and the April 30 soccer game also will be the teams’ senior nights. Both programs will play under mobile lights, just as football team did for its Oct. 29 senior night.

“There’s never been a night soccer game (at Clear Creek) before,” soccer coach Dan Ebert said. “We’ve never had the capability.”

Lacrosse building competitive schedule While Clear Creek is still finalizing its lacrosse schedule, coach Jamey Kittelberger said the goal is to play smaller schools that the Golddiggers can compete with.

The larger schools typically have massive wins over Clear Creek, which leads to injuries and low morale, he said.

As of March 2, 16 players were signed up, although Kittelberger

Clear Creek senior Michael Hillman, left, practices shooting at the goalie with his teammate during lacrosse practice March 2.

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said he’s sharing some with other spring sports.

Still, 16 is more than usual. In previous years, the Golddiggers have

struggled to have enough substitutes on the sidelines. So, if everyone stays healthy, Clear Creek should have depth on the bench, Kittelberger said.

The roster includes three freshmen, including one who’s been playing lacrosse since fourth grade. The team also will have two goalies, which Kittelberger said is a first in his time as coach.

With hard work and a little bit of luck, Clear Creek could win five to

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it could add a few more before its March 17 home opener.

The team returns nine starters, as it only graduated a goalie and a midfielder last year. The downside, though, is that this year’s team has nine or 10 seniors, Ebert said.

Ideally, the team has a good balance between the four grade levels, he said.

But, four years ago, the soccer team welcomed a very large and athletic class of freshmen.

While that’s a boon for the 2022 season, Ebert wondered what it meant for the program’s future, especially because only three new players joined the team this year.

“It is what it is,” he continued.

Like lacrosse, Ebert said his team has a very competitive schedule, as Clear Creek will be playing a lot of 3A schools and former 3A schools that recently moved down to 2A. Dawson is always a challenging team to play, he continued, along with Front Range Christian, Vail Christian and Denver Christian.

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Clear Creek senior Loralei Murphy conducts a passing drill with her teammates during soccer practice March 2.

But, with Clear Creek returning its entire defensive line and its two strikers, the roster and depth chart are very well-balanced, he added. Plus, the Golddiggers have a lot of speed.

“Our passing and trapping needs work, but that’s typical,” he said. “ … I think this team will be very competitive.”

Clear Creek sophomore Rylie Young conducts a passing drill with her teammates during soccer practice March 2.

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‘You cannot research what you don’t know’: Navigating disability legal services How CCDC is helping people with disabilities in the legal realm

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Navigating the world with a family member with disabilities can be challenging on multiple fronts, and the Denver-based advocacy organization Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition has a program to help with legal services.

CCDC’s social enterprise legal program, Probate Power, was founded in 2015 and assists in special needs planning, conservatorships, guardianships and probate administration.

Services like these can help people with disabilities to navigate administration of an estate while maintaining state benefits.

Chris Brock, the first managing attorney for the program, is providing an essential service for people with disabilities that can be hard to find.

“We are a legal program run by two attorneys with disabilities, and our whole goal is to help individuals and families with disabilities plan for the future,” Brock said.

He explained solutions are not black and white in many probate situations.

“It’s really hard if you’re trying to provide for someone past your death — that you can’t just give them that money,” he said.

Linnette Chitla, whose family lives in Denver, met Brock at a special needs fair years ago. When her son with disabilities neared the age of 18, she realized she needed to give Probate Power a call.

“When my son turned 18, we went to him, (and) he helped us a lot,” Chitla said. “I do tend to do things by myself, but when I saw all the paperwork, I went to him. Everything was so smooth.”

Cost of legal services is one barrier that can exile some. Probate Power aims to provide affordable services to families and people with disabilities.

Tom and Linnette Chitla pose with their son, Luca.

“It wasn’t expensive either; it was doable,” Chitla said.

One of the hardest things for the Chitla family was lack of information and understanding when to pursue services. “[It was difficult] knowing in advance what to do ... debating a lot if we needed it, then I found out that you need to … because they treat your son as an adult and you can’t decide,” she said.

Chitla is referring to the guardianship her family needed to put in place when her son turned 18.

A guardianship must be appointed by the court for parents to be able to continue to make decisions for their child with disabilities after they become a legal adult at 18.

Brock worked with the family throughout the process and assuaged Chitla’s worries.

Understanding legal jargon and best practices can be overwhelming for families and those with disabilities, and as Chitla points out, sometimes that original lack of information can keep you from finding out more.

Luca (lower) and his younger brother Marco smile for a photo.

“You cannot research what you don’t know,” she said.

Brock understands this information gap exists, and that’s what he is trying to change with Probate Power.

“It’s not something that a ton of attorneys do,” he said.

Nearly one in four people in the U.S. have a disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Disabilities take many forms and can be visible and invisible.

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Except for hospital staff informing the Chitla family they would need to look into a guardianship in the future, information about raising a child with disabilities was difficult to find. Chitla said she wishes there was a central location to find information about disability services.

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The hot and dry conditions that have gripped the southwestern United States since 2000 account for the driest 22-year period on record stretching back 1,200 years, according to a study published Feb. 14 in the journal Nature Climate Change.

What’s more, this new research finds that although there would have been a drought anyway, climate change made it considerably worse.

Previous research indicated the current drought was the driest stretch since the 1500s. The new study, however, incorporated data from 2021, a particularly dry year, which led the current 22-year period to exceed the intense drought in the 1500s, researchers who studied tree ring data found.

The hotter and drier climate noted by researchers has fueled wildfires, caused problems for farmers and ranchers whose livelihood depends on water for irrigation, and resulted in lower flows on the Colorado River — as well as other rivers and streams — which provides drinking water to more than 36 million people.

“What’s super intriguing is the headline finding that this is the driest 22-year period since at least 800,” Brad Udall, a senior water and climate research scientist at Colorado rState University’s Colorado Water Institute, said. “That’s stunning.”

Udall was part of the peer-review team for the current study, which used a bank of tree ring data to reconstruct soil moisture conditions for June, July, and August during the past 1,200 years. The database, maintained by NOAA, contains information about both dead and live trees. There’s a good correlation, Udall said, between tree ring widths and soil moisture; wider rings indicate years that received more precipitation.

“This is one of the first papers

Blue Mesa Reservoir in Gunnison County shows the effect of a water draw down on October 29, 2021. The reservoir was lowered because water was being released downstream to increase the volume of water available to downstream users that rely on the PHOTO BY DEAN KRAKEL Colorado River. Blue Mesa is fed by the Gunnison River, one of the Colorado River’s largest tributaries.

that ties soil moisture to the impacts of this drought,” Udall said.

Although snowpack on April 1 was either at or slightly below 100 percent of average in each of the past two years, Udall said, the spring runoff was significantly lower than expected. “Increasingly, these really warm June, July, August periods have been draining soil moisture,” Udall said. “This explains how serious the current conditions are and why we’ve been getting such terrible runoff out of reasonably good snowpack.”

Spring runoff is critical to irrigated agriculture, domestic water supplies, and the recreation industry in Colorado and across the West.

Flows in the Colorado River basin, an area that includes the Colorado River and all the rivers and streams that feed into it, have been hard hit.

In 2000, the reservoir system in the basin was 95% full; as of fall 2021, the reservoirs were at 39% capacity, the lowest levels on record, according to the Department of Interior.

“It makes it a little easier to

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believe that we’ve got a real problem with soil moisture here,” Udall said. “And it’s likely we’re going to continue to see these crummy years of runoff even if we have OK snowpack.”

“The dramatic trend of hotter and drier conditions across the southwest means we have to work harder and faster on solutions that meet the moment,” said Bart Miller, healthy rivers program director at the nonprofit Western Resource Advocates.

“It’s urgent that we ramp up conservation and more flexible water management to protect our rivers and our communities.”

The new study estimated that climate change driven by human causes increased the severity of the drought conditions from 2000 to 2021 by 42%. In fact, without the impacts of climate change, according to the study, “2000-2021 would not even be classified as a single extended drought event.” The drought is also likely to continue, according to the study. When factoring in climate change, the current drought lasted

through a 30th year in 75% of the soil moisture simulations the researchers conducted.

Udall said drought might not be the right term anymore.

“We’ve been calling it a drought,” he said, “but a number of scientists have been saying this is something else.” Udall has pitched aridification as a new way to categorize the hot and dry conditions impacting the Colorado River basin and rest of the southwest.

“What it really means is the longterm warming and drying of the American West. Not every year is warmer and drier but the overall trend is in that direction,” Udall said. “My sense is that this drought is here to stay; it seems very clear to me we’re on that path.”

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Colorado to target I-70 express lane scofflaws House bill would let cameras track drivers using toll lanes illegally

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Nearly 50,000 motorists, or an average of 2,000 per month, broke the law in 2020 when they drove in the eastbound Interstate 70 express toll lane through Clear Creek County while it was closed and supposed to be serving as the emergency shoulder.

Colorado let those I-70 scofflaws off the hook and it has likely been giving thousands more drivers a similar pass since the 13-mile lane from Empire to Idaho Springs opened in 2015.

But the state is now trying to put its foot down as it opens a westbound express lane, which it fears will become filled with just as many lawbreakers. Drivers who illegally travel in the closed express lanes may face a $250 fine as soon as August under legislation being debated at the state Capitol.

The state legislature is quickly advancing House Bill 1074, a bipartisan measure that would let the Colorado Department of Transportation use the license plate cameras used to collect tolls when the I-70 mountain express lane is open to also ticket motorists driving in the lane when it is closed.

Fines range from $10 to $250, and would also be levied on drivers 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.

Andy Karsian, a legislative liaison for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said people using the express lanes when they are closed present a “major safety issue.” And there’s really no other way to enforce the lane closure than by using the license plate cameras. Offenders would be mailed a ticket just as they are when they are caught running a red-light camera in downtown Denver.

“Law enforcement can’t patrol and provide (a) presence on this stretch because that shoulder is too narrow,” he told lawmakers, referring to the express lane. “We need to have

Cars on Interstate 70 through Idaho Springs on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. A sign shows the eastbound express lane as closed.

PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL/ THE COLORADO SUN

this authority in order to make sure people understand the ramifications and the penalties associated with traveling in it (illegally).”

There are now express toll lanes across Colorado, but unlike the others, the one 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 westbound express lane opened for testing in July.)

The express lanes are narrower because CDOT opted to use the existing width of the roadway to create toll lanes instead of widening the highway, which would have been more costly and had more environmental impacts. But because the lanes are so narrow, Colorado had to make a deal with federal regulators limiting the numbers and hours each year they can be open The eastbound express lane can be open a maximum of 100 days a year for no more than 1,168 hours annual-

ly. 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.

“If you have a flat tire and you’re in that lane, you’re not expecting somebody to come up on you at 65 or 75 miles an hour,” said state Sen. Dennis Hisey, an El Paso County Republican who is a prime sponsor of the bill. “So it’s a safety concern that people are using it as a traffic lane when it’s not intended to be a traffic lane.”

Hisey and his coprime sponsor on the measure, state Rep. July Amabile, a Boulder Democrat, said that CDOT pushed for the legislation.

“There’s no mechanism to actu-

ally close the lane off,” Amabile said in explaining why the legislation is necessary.

Some Republicans voted against House Bill 1074 when it was heard this week in the Colorado House, citing their general opposition to the use of toll lanes in the state.

The measure passed the House by a 43-22 vote on Feb. 15. It now heads to the Senate and appears to be on a glidepath to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk.

Nonpartisan legislative fiscal analysts believe deploying the cameras to ticket drivers who use the mountain express lanes when they are closed will result in about $50,000 worth of fine revenue each year.

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TAX LIEN CERTIFICATE OF PURCHASE 2018-00805 Property Schedule Number R005858 – Parcel 183703404043 SAINT MARYSUBDIVISION Lot: 274 U2 LETS 457/386 COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK STATE OF COLORADO

City and County Public Notice NOTICE: THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PROJECT SUPPORT HAS NOMINATED DONNA KLINE FOR RE-ELECTION, AND ELECTION OF NICOLE BIERLEY TO FILL THE VACANT POSITION ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN 2022.

THE ELECTION WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF PROJECT SUPPORT ON MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2022 AT 11:30AM AT THE SENIOR CENTER. 1402 MINER STREET, IDAHO SPRINGS, COLORADO. /S/JANE THOMAS SECRETARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS PROJECT SUPPORT SENIOR CENTER Legal Notice No. CCC306 First Publication: March 10, 2022 Last Publication: March 17, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

And Whereas, Said County Treasurer issued a Tax Lien Sale Certificate of Purchase therefore to HARRY MOTT; And Whereas, That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2017; And Whereas, That said real estate was taxed in the names of DEGROFFT KRISTINA, MARK, BRAD & GARY for said year of 2017; And Whereas, That said HARRY MOTT on the 24 day of JANUARY, A.D. 2022, the present holder of said certificate, who has made request upon the Treasurer of Clear Creek County for a deed to said real estate; And Whereas, That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued to the said HARRY MOTT at 11:00 o’clock A.M., on the 28 day of JUNE, A.D. 2022, unless the same has been redeemed.

And Whereas, Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed.

Witness my hand this 22 day of February, A.D., 2022. /s/ Carol Lee [Seal] Carol Lee, Treasurer Clear Creek County

Public Notice L0303-TD 22-017 NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

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To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to DEGROFFT KRISTINA, MARK, BRAD & GARY And Whereas, You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 09 day of NOVEMBER, A.D. 2018, the then County Treasurer of Clear Creek County, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to HARRY MOTT the following described real estate in the County of Clear Creek, State of

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Colorado deactivates crisis standards for health care system The standards provided guidance and liability protection during periods of high stress

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado on Feb. 17 deactivated so-called crisis standards of care for the health care system, another sign of the improving pandemic and the state’s move toward handling COVID as a normal part of life.

Crisis standards of care provide guidance and liability protection to health care workers when they are dealing with situations where they don’t have enough resources to treat patients at the level they normally would. The state has a number of crisis standards plans, covering everything from hospice and behavioral health care to care at hospitals.

The two plans deactivated deal with how hospitals can operate when staffing levels are strained and how emergency medical services can operate when they are receiving a high demand for their services.

The plans, for instance, allowed hos-

pitals to operate with higher staffing ratios than they normally would, and allowed EMS services to focus on being available for emergency calls over time-consuming patient transfers.

The state has never activated the most well-known plan, which covers how hospitals choose which patients receive potentially life-saving treatment when there are not enough resources to go around. Colorado now has no crisis standards of care in effect.

“The decision to deactivate these standards is based on recent modeling and steadily declining cases and hospitalizations, suggesting the immediate strain COVID-19 places on Colorado should continue to decrease in the coming weeks,” Dr. Eric France, the chief medical officer at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said in a statement.

The deactivation comes amid increasing hope that the pandemic is relaxing its grip in the state. The average number of new infections being reported per day is the lowest it has been since August. So is the number of people in the hospital with confirmed cases of COVID. The average percentage of COVID tests coming back positive is approaching

the state’s goal of no more than 5%.

Hospitals remain very full, with about 90% of the state’s staffed intensive care and acute care beds currently in use. But hospitals say they are starting to feel a little less pressure, though more than a third of hospitals say they are expecting to face a staffing shortage in the coming week.

“We recognize that health care systems continue to face challenges due to chronic staffing issues across the economy, and we thank health care workers for their service protecting Coloradans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic,” France said in his statement.

In early February, the state’s Combined Hospital Transfer Center, which helps move patients around when space is tight, moved to its lowest level of activation. When Pitkin County’s mask mandate ends on Feb. 22, there will no longer be any county-wide mask orders in effect in the state.

State health officials projected “cautious optimism” about the spread of COVID in the state, noting infections and hospitalizations were decreasing and that an estimated 90% of state residents are now immune to the highly transmissible omicron variant. Most are also pro-

tected against severe disease, state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said.

Though the state continues to recommend that people wear masks indoors, lower disease rates suggest Colorado could soon return to a “more normal phase of living,” with residents able to make their own decisions about mask usage, COVID-19 Incident Commander Scott Bookman said.

“We’re moving to a spot of personal choice coming up, I think, into March,” he said. “For those who are all up to date on their vaccine in their household, I think we’re reaching a point where they are going to be able to go back to living their lives with a bit more normalcy. For those who have vulnerable people in their home, for people who work with vulnerable populations, we may still need to see more precaution.”

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO 405 Argentine St., Georgetown, CO 80444 Case Number: 2021CV30044 Div.: C Plaintiff(s): WEST FIRMS REAL ESTATE, LLC, a Georgia Limited Liability Company, v.

Defendant(s): DENNIS C. GENEVA and ERROL C. CURLEE; LELAND JAMES and GOLDIE JAMES; HEIRS OF SYBIL G. WASSON (deceased); MARATHON INVESTMENT CORPORATION, a Georgia Corporation; PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF THE COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK; BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CLEAR CREEK COUNTY; and all unknown persons who may claim any interest in the subject matter of this action.

Attorneys for Plaintiff: John D. Coaty, Atty. # 24513 Anita L. Marchant, Atty. #43987 Dylan Woods, Atty. #46731 Natalie R. Norcutt, Atty. #55095 Coaty Marchant Woods, P.C. 1202 Bergen Parkway, Suite 110 Evergreen, CO 80439 Phone: 303-674-0800 Fax: 303-674-8492 Email: jcoaty@cmw-evergreen.law;

amarchant@cmw-evergreen.law ; dwoods@cmw-evergreen.law ; nnorcutt@cmw-evergreen.law SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): Dennis C Geneva, Goldie James, Leland James, Heirs of Sybil G Wasson, Evelyn C. McClendon and Mildred A. Campbell, and All Unknown Persons Who Claim Any Interest In The Subject Matter of This Action.

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the amended complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this amended summons upon you. Service of this amended summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to the real property situated in Clear Creek County, Colorado, more particularly described in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein, County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado.

Dated: February 1, 2022 Dylan Woods, Attorney for Plaintiff Legal Description: The West Commonwealth Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 4624, as described in U.S. Patent dated June 19, 1890 and recorded October 19, 2021, in Book 1018, Page 584, Excepting therefrom any portion embraced in Survey Nos. 158 and 2931, as excepted in said Patent A tract of land located in Section 30, Township 3 South, Range 73 West of the 6th P.M. more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of Line 2-1 of said West Commonwealth Lode with Line 3-4 of the Fanny D. Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 15386A; thence Southwesterly along said Line 3-4 to the point of intersection with the Western most Section line of said Section 30; thence Northerly along said Section line to the point of intersection with Line 2-1 of the said West Commonwealth lode; thence Southeasterly along Line 2-1 of the said West Commonwealth Lode to the point of intersection with Line 3-2 of said Fanny D. Lode, the Point of Beginning, A tract of land located in Section 30, Township 3 South, Range 73 West of the 6th P.M., more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection with line 2-1 of said West Commonwealth Lode with line 1-3 of the Agnes Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 15386A; thence Southeasterly along Line 2-1 of said West Commonwealth Lode to the point of intersection with Line 5-6 of the Legal

Tender Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey 158; thence Northwesterly along Lone 5-6 of said legal Tender Lode to the point of intersection withe Line 1-4 of said Agnes Lode; thence Northwesterly along Line 1-4 of said Agnes Lode to a point of intersection with Line 2-1 of said West Commonwealth Lode, the Point of Beginning, A tract of land located in Section 30, Township 3 South, Range 73 West of the 6th P.M. more particularly described as follows: Beginning at Corner No. 1 of the Maud S. Reynolds Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mining Survey No. 15386A; thence Southeasterly along Line 1-2 of said Maud S. Reynolds Lode to the point of intersection with Line 3-4 of said Fanny D. Lode; thence Southwesterly along said Line 3-4 of said Fanny D. Lode to the point of intersection with Line 4-3 of said West Commonwealth Lode; thence Northwesterly along Line 4-3 of said West Commonwealth Lode to the point of intersection withe Line 1-2 of the Lady Jane Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 15386A; thence Northeasterly along Line 1-2 of said Lady Jane Lode to a point of intersection with Corner No. 1 of said Maud S. Reynolds Lode, the point of Beginning, A tract of land located in Section 30, Township 3 South, Range 73 West of the 6th P.M., more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point of intersection with Line 1-2 of said Fanny D. Lode with Line 1-2 of Maud S. Reynolds Lode; thence Southeasterly along Line 1-2 of said Maud S. Reynolds Lode to the point of intersection with Line 1-2 of the Sierra Nevada Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 15386A; thence Southwesterly along Line 1-2 of said Sierra Nevada Lode to the point of Intersection with Line 4-3 of said West Commonwealth Lode; thence Northwesterly along Line 4-3 of said West Commonwealth Lode to a point of intersection with Line 1-2 of said Maud S. Reynolds Lode, the Point of Beginning.

Combined by Agreement recorded March 14, 2001, in Book 610, Page 947, County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado.

Southeasterly along line 1-6 of said Bradford Lode to Corner No. 6 of said Bradford Lode, the Point of Beginning, Combined by Agreement recorded February 12, 2001, in Book 609, Page 138, County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado.

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Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF INTENT TO CREATE BINDING USE RESTRICTIONS ON Centennial Opportunity Fund, LLC at the Bighorn Crossing Townhome Parcels, Georgetown, Colorado.

Centennial Opportunity Fund, LLC, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) provide notice of their intention to impose binding environmental use restrictions (EURs) on the Bighorn Crossing Subdivision, Georgetown, Colorado. The EURs require the oversight and implementation of safety measures for excavating the sub-soil. Pursuant to § 25-15318.5, C.R.S., once the EURs have been finalized, they are binding on all current and future owners of the land and any persons possessing an interest in the land. CDPHE is accepting public comments on the draft EURs. Copies of the proposed EUR and a description of the affected property are available online at: https://cdphe.colorado.gov/ HMWMD-public-notices.

All comments must be submitted to Fonda.Apostolopoulos@state.co.us by April 4, 2022.

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The Ohio Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 502, as described in U.S. Patent dated September 23, 1876 and recorded July 6, 2021, in Book 1011, Page 509, And a tract of land located in Section 30, Township 3 South, Range 73 West of the 6th P.M., more particularly described as follows: Beginning at Corner No. 6 of the Bradford Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 15386A; thence Northerly along line 6-5 of said Bradford Lode to the point of intersection with line 1-2 of the R.A.D. Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 15386; thence Northeasterly along line 1-2 of said R.A.D. lode to the point of intersection with line 3-4 of the Ohio Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 502; thence Southwesterly along line 3-4 of said Ohio Lode to the point of intersection of line 5-6 of the Cora Lewis Lode Mining Claim, U.S. Mineral Survey No. 15386A; thence Northwesterly along line 5-6 of said Cora Lewis Lode to the point of intersection with line 1-2 of the said R.A.D. Lode; thence Northeasterly line 1-2 of said R.A.D. Lode to the point of intersection with line 2-1 of the said Bradford Lode; thence Southerly along line 2-1 of said Bradford Lode to Corner No. 1 of said Bradford Lode; thence

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dennis James McCaigue, Deceased Case Number 2022PR30001 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Clear Creek, County, Colorado or on or before July 5, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Melissa Dougherty Anderson, Esq. Attorney for the Personal Representative PO Box 225 Golden, CO 80401 Legal Notice No. CCC303 First Publication: March 3, 2022 Last Publication: March 17, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

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CLEAR CREEK COUNTY is accepting applications for the following jobs: • Child Protection Caseworker I/II/III: Hiring wage is $47,091.20 - $55,440 annually DOQ • Control Tech: Hiring wage is $20.14 - $22.15/hr DOQ • Deputy Sheriff - Patrol: Hiring wage is $33.94 - $34.96/hr DOQ • Detentions Deputy: Hiring wage is $29.23 - $30.11/hr DOQ • Dispatcher: Hiring wage is $24.62 - $25.35/hr DOQ • Equipment Operator II for Road and Bridge: CDL; Hiring wage is $21.00 - $23.10/hr DOQ • Kitchen Manager: Hiring wage is $22.40 - $24.64/hr DOQ • Mechanic - Entry Level: Hiring wage is $20.14 - $22.15/hr DOQ • Mechanic - Senior: Hiring wage is $23.10 - $25.41/hr DOQ • Nurse Confinement: Hiring wage is $77,200 - $84,920 annually DOQ • Public Information Officer: Hiring wage is $59,800 - $65,780 annually DOQ • Shop Foreman: Hiring wage is $27.31 - $30.04/hr DOQ • Trails Supervisor (Seasonal): Hiring wage is $25.24 - $27.76/hr DOQ Taking applications until positions are filled. See benefits, full job descriptions and applications at: https://www.clearcreekcounty.us Under “I Want to…” in the left-hand column of the drop down, click on “Jobs in Clear Creek County”. This will take you to the job posting site where you can complete an application.

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