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Siblings Dayton Richards and Lexi Dillard adjust their lines on May 6 during Georgetown Community School’s annual fishing trip to Georgetown Lake. Dayton is a seventh grader at Clear Creek Middle School and joined third grader Lexi for the elementary school’s trip.
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Students enjoy annual fishing trip at Georgetown Lake BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Field trips at Georgetown Community School are the reel deal. On May 6, about 40 third through sixth graders enjoyed some fun in the sun at Georgetown Lake during the school’s annual fishing trip. The annual trip started more than eight years ago as one of the last things the students do together before the school year ends, teach-
ers said. “It’s a mix of kids who fish a lot, and others who this is the only day of the year they do it,” fourth grade teacher Lily Gibbs said. Whether they’re more expert anglers or just learning, everyone seemed to have fun trying it out. A few students caught fish throughout the late morning and early afternoon, while others said they’ve never caught any before on the trip but still had fun just the same. Of the third graders, who were going on the trip for the first time, Lyrique Brydon caught her fourth fish ever. While she’s fished at Georgetown Lake before, she’s only
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Fifth grader Zoe Fulton catches a fish on May 6 during Georgetown Community School’s annual fishing trip to GeorgePHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN town Lake.
If temperatures are getting warmer, it must mean construction season is here. And that’s exactly what is about to happen as the Colorado Department of Transportation prepares to repave 6.4 miles of Interstate 70 from the Chief Hosa exit west to Floyd Hill. Paving will be done primarily at night starting on the east end, and before that work starts in mid-June, crews are replacing guard rails along that section of highway. “This is the most heavily traveled part of the corridor,” said CDOT Executive Director Shoshana Lew at a media conference on May 6. She noted that about 61,000 vehicles travel the area each day, with 13,000 of them at night. “Motorists will see better driving conditions along this corridor, but it will take construction to make that happen,” Lew said. CDOT’s Mike Kellerman explained that crews will use what he called the “mill and fill” method to SEE PAVING, P3
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Jonathan Jay Anthony “Jonny” Sanford May 9, 1982 - March 31, 2022
On March 31st, 2022, a sunny Thursday morning, Jonny lost his battle with heart failure. He died peacefully, without pain, surrounded by his family at Saint Anthony’s Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado. On May 9th, 1982, Jonny was the first baby born at Saint Anthony’s Hospital in Westminster, Colorado. It was Mother’s Day. Four years later in 1986, mom and dad moved the family to the mountains of Georgetown, Colorado. There Jonny lived an adventure filled life spent hiking, camping, skiing, mountain biking and fishing.
His focus in life has always been his son, Jyah. To say the least Jonny was an amazing father, taken far too soon. We as a family are at a loss for words when we think of the many wonderful memories and joys we have shared together. We know his journey here is over and we take comfort knowing that he is with the angels. Jonny is survived by parents Sam and Tammy Sanford; his son Jyah & dog Mr. Sox; brothers Matthew and Christopher and their wives Cody and Cassidy; nephews Shawn and Sam, of Georgetown, CO. Celebration of Life-Saturday, May 14, 2022, 12 noon to 5:oo pm Dinger Park, Silver Plume, CO
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Weather Observations for Georgetown, Colorado Week of May 2, 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” and “Min” temperatures are from digital displays of a “MMTS” Weather Observations forSystem”); Georgetown, Colorado (“Maximum/Minimum Temperature “Mean daily” temperature is the calculated average of the max and min. “Total Precipitation” is inches of rainfall plus meltedWeek snow. of “Snowfall” May 2, 2022 is inches of snow that accumulated during the preceding 24 hours. T = Trace of precipitation. NR = Not Reported. “Peak wind gust at Georgetown Lake” is the velocity A local National Weather Service volunteer observer makes temperature and precipitation observations each day at about 8 a.m. in miles per hour time ofarethe that occurred at the Georgetown Weatherand Station.the Wind observations made maximum at Georgetown Lake.wind “Max” andgust “Min” temperatures are from during day preceding the System”); date of observation. Historic digital the displayscalendar of a “MMTS” (“Maximum/Minimum Temperature “Mean daily” temperature is the calculated average the maxbased and min. “Total Precipitation” is inches rainfall plus melted snow. “Snowfall” is inches of snow that accumulated dataofare on the period ofof record for which statistical data have during the preceding 24 hours. T = Trace of precipitation. NR = Not Reported. “Peak wind gust at Georgetown Lake” is the beenvelocity compiled (about 53 years within the period 1893-2021). Any in miles per hour and the time of the maximum wind gust that occurred during the calendar day preceding theweather date of records noted based onperiod a comparison of the observed with the observation. Historicare data are based on the of record for which statistical data have been compiledvalue (about 53 years within the period 1893-2021). Any weather records noted are based on a comparison of the observed value with the historical data set. historical data set. Day and date of observation (2022)
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move quickly through the repaving. “We work to figure out how to get the work done while getting people to the mountains,” he said. Lew noted that while CDOT hopes to start the $700 million I-70 reconfiguration project at Floyd Hill next year, the highway still needs to be repaved now. As part of the large project, this fall, CDOT will begin the ancillary projects such as building wildlife crossings at Genesee and Empire along with roundabouts
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Peak wind gust at Georgetown Lake Velocity Time (mph) (24 hr) During the previous calendar day 16 1310 12 1425 13 1645 10 1240 13 0550 17 0240 12 1020 The wind data is from the nearby 6th Street in Georgetown until the Lake station is running again. *New precip. record. Previous record was 0.32 in 1915.
along U.S. 40 at Homestead Road and County Road 65 at the top of Floyd Hill. As part of this summer’s I-70 construction, CDOT will install variable speed-limit signs and truck downhill-warning systems on the eastbound side of the highway. According to Lew, the signs will keep traffic moving but have it slow when conditions warrant it. In addition, tolls are expected to begin this summer for the westbound Mountain Express Lane. CDOT officials reminded drivers to pay attention while driving, especially in work zones, to keep everyone especially the crews safe.
As other students and staff fish, fifth grader Oliver Ikesakes, top left, has fourth grade teacher Lily Jacobs, top left-center, put a new lure on his fishing pole during Georgetown Community School’s annual fishing trip to Georgetown Lake on May 6.
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ever caught fish at a trout farm until May 6. One of the best parts of the school fishing trip, she said, was having most of the school there, not just one grade. It gave students a chance to interact with their friends in other grade levels. Lyrique said she also liked having the opportunity to help her friends learn how to fish. Fourth grader Steven Valcana said last year’s fishing trip was the only time he remembers fishing. However, luck was with him, as he caught his first fish ever on May 6. “It’s amazing,” he said of fishing. “You should try this. If you have a kid, bring them.” Steven described how fishing allows someone to see an animal in the wild not seen otherwise, and he appreciated that. Fifth grader Zoe Fulton also caught a fish, which was the first
she’s ever caught on the school’s annual fishing trip. Zoe fishes sometimes with her family. While she’s been to Georgetown Lake before outside of school, her favorite spot is Wellington Lake. Fishing at Georgetown Lake for the GCS trip is a different experience, she said, as she likes catching fish and hanging with her friends. CJ Lewis, a sixth grader, wasn’t having as much luck as his schoolmates. While he’s never caught a fish in the three or four school trips he’s been on, he did recall how he caught a fishing pole at the lake last year. Despite his poor luck on the school trips, CJ said he loves fishing. His favorite spot is Urad Lake, where he once caught four fish in the span of two hours. CJ said he’d rather going fishing for a field trip than most anything else. “I like being by the water in nice weather,” he said. “ … It’s a nice, relaxing time. I get to hang out with friends, and learn new ways to fish.”
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CLEAR CREEK NEWS BRIEFS Mount Evans scheduled to reopen May 27 The Mount Evans Scenic Byway and recreation area are scheduled to reopen to vehicle traffic on May 27, weather permitting. Those wishing to park at the summit, the lake, or Mount Goliath between 8 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. will need reservations. These can be made up to 30 days in advance at recreation. gov. Reservations are not required for cyclists or hikers. On the website, visitors can select a day, time frame and one or multiple sites in the Mount Evans area. Customers will also be charged a $2 reservation fee. Anyone with annual and lifetime passes must still make reservations and will only pay the $2 reservation fee. Those trying to visit without a reservation will need to return to a place where they can get a cell phone signal to secure a timed entry
2022, we hope visitors are growing accustomed to advanced planning,” Armstrong said in a May 2 press release. “Before heading out on any adventure, visitors should check the forests’ Know Before You Go page for all the latest updates and alerts.” For more information, visit our www.fs.usda.gov/arp.
An SUV traverses the Mount Evans Scenic Byway in June 2021 after the highway reopened to vehicle traffic for the first time since September 2019. FILE PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN
ticket, if available. According to USFS spokesperson K. Reid Armstrong, last year’s timed entry program was extremely successful at reducing crowding, wait times and environmental impacts at Mount Evans. “As the program continues in
County to buy a fourth RoundAbout bus Clear Creek County is purchasing a fourth RoundAbout bus, which should arrive by late May or early June. The bus, which is smaller than the county’s current ones but has the same number of seats, costs $100,000, staff confirmed. The county will use $50,000 from its transit budget and $50,000 from its American Rescue Plan Act funds to buy it. At the May 3 county commissioners meeting, Operations Director Beth Luther said the bus was one of
The county is purchasing a fourth RoundAbout bus, which is scheduled to arrive in late May or early June. COURTESY GRAPHIC
the last of its kind available in the state. Two of the current RoundAbout buses are past the 150,000-mile maintenance standard, and Luther said Clear Creek’s been waiting a year-and-a-half for a grant-funded replacement, which won’t be ready until this winter. The RoundAbout system has about 1,100 monthly riders, Luther SEE BRIEFS, P5
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City hosting clean-up day, VCMP soft opening May 21 Idaho Springs’ annual clean-up day will be extra-special this year, as residents will get a chance to visit Virginia Canyon Mountain Park. The city plans to do a residentsonly soft opening for the new park, starting May 21, with an official opening expected later this summer. The upper part of the trail will still be under construction, but city staff said there’s plenty to see. Having both the VCMP soft opening and the clean-up day simultaneously will allow residents to check out the new trail and potentially pick up trash in the park, city staff said. There will be some dedicated VCMP parking near the Argo, and the city is looking at other spots along Colorado Boulevard that can be used by park visitors. “This whole trail was designed to be an amenity for residents first,” Assistant City Administrator Jona-
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described, and it had to cancel routes a few times last year because a bus broke down. The new bus has 10,000 miles, and a four-bus rotation will allow
Idaho Springs will have a residents-only soft opening for Virginia Canyon Mountain Park on May 21, the same day as the COURTESY GRAPHIC city’s annual clean-up day.
Clear Creek to rotate them across its routes strategically “and not run any one bus into the ground,” she later clarified. While the commissioners ultimately approved the purchase, Commissioner Sean Wood hoped it wouldn’t set a precedent. “We said we were going to be careful and thoughtful with our
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than Cain said. For the clean-up day, there will be dumpsters in the parking lot at Courtney-Ryley-Cooper Park. Volunteers will have an opportunity to pick up breakfast burritos and coffee before picking up trash along the rivers, roads, and other public areas. Residents can also bring larger items to throw away in the dumpsters, with some restrictions. Mattresses and computers, for instance, aren’t allowed. Idaho Springs’ last clean-up day was in May 2020, and about 60 people participated. While the annual event is usually in the spring, there has been some community demand to do another one in the fall. City officials are discussing whether it’s feasible to expand the event to more than once-a-year. “Trash is an issue here,” City Council Member Lisa Manifold said. “We could have like a whole week. Mattress Day. Make Your Mulch Day. Slash Day. … How can we reorganize it?”
Greenway project will close Riverside Drive May 13 The Colorado Department of Transportation and its contractors will be closing Riverside Drive on May 13 to work on the Clear Creek Greenway path. The closure was initially planned for May 3, but was rescheduled because of poor weather conditions. Crews will close Riverside Drive from MP 1 to MP 1.37, which is just west of Gilson Street to East Cul-desac, to mobilize trucks and heavy machinery between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. that day. Loads as wide as 12 or 14 feet are expected. Parking along Riverside Drive and on the cul-de-sac at the skateboard park won’t be permitted on May 13 because of safety concerns. The new 10-foot-wide concrete pathway will include building two pedestrian bridges just east of Riverside Drive, a retaining wall, and improvements around the trail area. Work on this section of the Greenway started last fall and is expected to be completed by September.
ARPA dollars, and now we’re having someone push their way to the front of the line,” Wood said. “ … I don’t want to reduce services elsewhere in the county to fund this.” Commissioners Randy Wheelock and George Marlin understood that, while there could be a tradeoff, this was “an obvious need and an obvious opportunity,” as Wheelock
described it. Marlin also pointed out that the bus was already on the list for ARPA funding. Wood, who ultimately voted to approve the purchase, stated that the commissioners’ lack of strategic planning had caused this “awkward dynamic.”
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May 12, 2022
An Addams Family affair
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
They’re creepy and they’re kooky. Mysterious and spooky. They’re all together ooky. The Clear Creek per-form-ers. The Clear Creek Middle School/ High School Visual & Performing Arts departments performed “The Addams Family” for their spring musical May 6-7. About 40-50 students were involved in the production, whether acting, playing instruments in the pit band or doing technical work behind the scenes. Deborah Sandblom, the school’s drama director, said she and her colleagues chose “The Addams Family” based on what would be the best fit for the school, its actors, its musicians and so on. “The Addams Family” is a popular pick among high schools across the region, she said, in part because it lends itself to elaborate and eye-catching sets. Overall, it has a very “haunted house” feel, she described. For those familiar with other “Addams Family” stories but unfamiliar with the musical, Sandblom said the characters are the same, but the story is completely different. The musical features a grown-up SEE MUSICAL, P7
Sophomore Reese Dunbar, playing Wednesday Addams, sings “Pulled” during a May 4 dress rehearsal of Clear Creek High School’s PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN spring musical “The Addams Family.”
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Kaitlyn Ginter and Autumn Lucy, playing the ancestors, dance to “When You’re an Addams” during a May 4 dress rehearsal of Clear Creek High School’s spring musical “The Addams Family.”
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Reese Dunbar, playing Wednesday Addams, sings “Pulled” during a May 4 dress rehearsal of Clear Creek High School’s spring musical “The Addams Family.”
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Gavin Sandblom and Maya Sproul, playing Lucas and Alice Beineke, respectively, enter the scene while singing “One Normal Night” during a May 4 dress rehearsal of Clear Creek High School’s spring musical “The Addams Family.”
Surrounded by the Addams family ancestors, Jillian Lupinacci and Jordan Rogers play Morticia and Gomez, respectively, during a May 4 dress rehearsal of Clear Creek High PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN School’s spring musical “The Addams Family.”
Jordan Rogers and Jillian Lupinacci, playing Gomez and Morticia Addams, respectively, dance to “When You’re an Addams” during a May 4 dress rehearsal of Clear Creek High School’s spring musical “The Addams Family.”
Students and staff in the pit orchestra play “One Normal Night” during a May 4 dress rehearsal of Clear Creek High School’s spring musical “The Addams Family.”
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Wednesday who has fallen into a “Romeo and Juliet” situation and wants to marry into a normal family, she explained. “(The story) is chaotic in the way that keeps you glued to your seat,” junior Jordan Rogers said. Rogers, who’s playing dad Gomez Addams, said he’d never seen any “Addams Family” before the musical. He was glad to have this
outlet to experience the characters, saying, “It’s quite strange, but it’s really fun to be part of the family.” Rogers and his fellow castmates have been working on the musical since January and that preparing for musicals is quite different from preparing for plays. Musicals are more energetic, he said, requiring singing and choreography. Junior Mason Loesch, who’s playing saxophone and clarinet in the pit band, said it was also his first time playing in a musical. He and the other musicians have been practicing the music since late February The
or early March, he said, adding that the pieces are pretty difficult. Loesch, who’s used to playing in jazz and concert band performances, said this was a very different experience. In band concerts, the musicians are the stars of the show; but, in a musical, they’re only accompanying the actors, he described. Sophomore Reese Dunbar, who’s playing daughter Wednesday Addams, performed in last spring’s “Rock of Ages” musical. She felt like there were more students helping with this year’s, as she’s met a
lot of new people. Dunbar had seen the recent “Addams Family” animated movie before joining the cast, and really loved the story and the weird family. Bringing that weird and iconic family to life was a big undertaking for the CCHS students and staff members involved, and Sandblom said they couldn’t have done it without everyone in the school and community working together. “We’re a bit of a kooky community, just like the Addams family,” she said.
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Graciousness is more than good manners. It is more than courtesy. It is the etiquette of the soul. True graciousness has such a divine quality we feel it is something that comes through us and not from us.” — Fred Smith Can you think of a time when you made a mistake, large or small, and where the error could have led to a bigger problem or conflict, yet the person on the receiving end of your mistake gave you grace? Sometimes when we think we have failed someone or something the most or feel like we don’t deserve to receive grace or to be forgiven, we are forgetting the inherent goodness and graciousness found in most people. As the quote above points out, grace is not something that comes from us, it is something that comes through us and is demonstrated by our actions. Saying the words “I forgive you,” or “Don’t worry, it’s OK,” are a good start, but will be taken as insincere if the actions, body language, and tonality don’t support
what is being said. Have you ever withheld offering grace or forgiveness? When we withhold giving grace to someone, we are actually doing more harm to ourselves than to the person who offended us or who Michael Norton made a mistake that had an impact on our lives. Yet, when we are at fault, we hope that the person we wronged in some way will offer us grace and forgive us. Giving grace is so freeing as it takes a heavy burden of anger or resentment off our shoulders, and we can get back to living our best life as the best version of ourselves. And when we can get comfortable with giving grace, we will be much more comfortable receiving grace, even when we feel like we deserve it the least. In this context, I am refer-
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ring to giving and receiving grace as in forgiveness. When we think of the other definitions of grace such as simple elegance or refinement of movement, or courteous goodwill, and then couple those with offering someone grace, it emphasizes or punctuates our sincerity. There are always more elegant ways and solutions to solve problems, correct mistakes and overcome conflict or adversity. Learning how to live, work and love with graciousness is a tremendously amazing way to do just that. When we can learn to apply elegant solutions during times of interpersonal conflict, it will have the greatest impact on all our relationships. “Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.” - Max Lucado We all know the feeling of finding it within ourselves to offer grace in the moment we first find out that we have been wronged. We struggle because we want to be so mad and we want to enjoy stewing in our anger
for a while, it is our right to be mad, upset, hurt and angry. That is why I love this quote by Max Lucado and lean into the meaning. This quote has more than once been the words I cling to and repeat when something happens or the error made had a negative impact on myself, my family or my friends. I listen for the voice of grace in my head and in my heart. How does grace show up for you? Is it with a lot of effort or is it with refined movement and elegance? Is there someone you need to offer a little grace to? Is there something you have done where you are expecting or hoping to receive a little grace yourself? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@xinnix.com, and when we listen for the voice of grace, it really will be a better than good year. Michael Norton is the grateful president of XINNIX, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.
State balks on K-12 school funding Colorado lawmakers say maybe next year BY ERICA MELTZER CHALKBEAT
Colorado lawmakers this year came closer to fully funding the state’s schools than at any time since the Great Recession. But rattled by rising inflation and the threat of a ballot measure that would slash anticipated growth in property tax revenue legislators stopped short of constitutionally mandated K-12 spending. Democrats say they’re proud of the $36.4 billion budget signed by Gov. Jared Polis recently. The budget dedicates more than $5 billion in state money to base K-12 spending, a 7.5% increase over this year. Average per-student funding will go up 6% to $9,560. Lawmakers are also putting $80 million more into special education, getting closer to funding a formula established back in 2006. But despite a reserve in the state education fund that tops $800 million, lawmakers still held back $321 million through a recurring mecha-
nism known as the budget stabilization factor. Democrats, who control both chambers, said there’s too much uncertainty on the horizon. Higher state spending is only sustainable, they said, if local property taxes rise enough to take over some of the burden in future years. A few months ago that seemed almost guaranteed, thanks to rising property values and recent tax policy changes. But a combination of dramatic inflation and potential property tax limits would sharply increase the state’s school funding obligations, which lawmakers could struggle to meet in 2023. The only thing worse than not giving schools enough money, Democratic lawmakers believe, would be giving them more money one year only to roll it back the following year. “That is not predictable,” said state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, an Arvada Democrat and Joint Budget Committee member. “That does not help our districts.” This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Colorado. More at chalkbeat.org.
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CURRENTS We’d like to know about events or activities of interest to the community. Visit www.clearcreekcourant. com/calendar/ and post your event online for free. Email dbrobst@ coloradocommunitymedia.com to get items in the print version of the paper. Items will appear in print on a space-available basis. MAY 18 THERE WILL BE AN INPERSON MEETING of EMERGE — East Mount Evans Resource, Growth and the Environment — at 6:30 p.m. May 18 at King-Murphy Elementary School for residents who live in East Clear Creek County. The agenda will include county officials’ reports, wildfire prevention efforts with Evergreen Fire/Rescue and other items of interest. Members will receive a newsletter from the EMERGE board in May. There will be a membership sign up at the meeting.
MAY 21 THE UNITED CENTER’S 2022 SEASON OF MUSIC in Idaho Springs has started. A limited number of VIP six-ticket packages and individual tickets are on sale. All concerts are at 7 p.m. except Women in the Round on Sept. 11, which is at 3 p.m. Tickets are
available at www.unitedcenterinc. com. May 21: The Bonnie and Taylor Sims Band; June 11: Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore; July 23: Chain Station; Sept. 11: Women in the Round: Regina Sayles, Liz Barnez & Rebecca Folsom; Oct. 15: FY5. ONGOING OMEGA (OPEN MINDS ENCOURAGING GENERAL ACCEPTANCE) social group meets the second Saturday each month for LGBTQIA+ youth and allies aged 12 to 20 years. Fun, friends, snacks, games in a welcoming environment. This program is a collaboration between The Clear Creek County Library District and Resilience 1220.
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. 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. 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 inperson 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. For more information visit mtevans.org/services/ emotional-support/. THE PROJECT SUPPORT SENIOR CENTER offers Sit ‘n’ Stretch at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday at the center, 1402 Miner St., Idaho Springs. COVID-19 TESTING is available from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Mondays in the dirt lot by Mount Buzz near the corner of Argentine and 11th Street in Georgetown, and from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Clear Creek Health and Wellness Center, 1969 Miner St., Idaho Springs. Appointments are recommended by visiting covidcheckcolorado.org/find-oursites.
office. The van leaves at 12:30 p.m. from 1402 Miner St., Idaho Springs. WALK-IN VACCINE CLINICS for adults and children 5-17 plus flu and other vaccines are available from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays at the Clear Creek Health and Wellness Center, 1969 Miner St., Idaho Springs. No appointments required for the vaccines. THE PROJECT SUPPORT SENIOR CENTER offers free bingo from 12:30-2 p.m. the first and third Tuesday and a monthly birthday celebration at noon the second Tuesday of the month. YOUNG PEOPLE 12 TO 20 can get free counseling through an Evergreen-based organization called Resilience1220. Comprised of licensed therapists, Resilience1220 serves individuals and groups in the foothills including Clear Creek County. They also facilitate school and community groups to build life skills in wellness and resilience among youth. For more information or to schedule a counseling session, visit www.Resilience1220.org, email Resilience1220@gmail.com or call 720-282-1164.
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SPORTS A weird end to a winning season
After making history, Clear Creek soccer prepares for playoffs BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Clear Creek girls soccer team’s final game of the 2022 regular season was a loss and a win simultaneously. On May 3, the Golddiggers lost 0-9 at Dawson, dropping to 4-1 in league play and second in 2A Mile High West standings. Then, before the team’s last regular-season home game on May 5, Vail Christian decided to cancel its appearance at Clear Creek and schedule another school instead. So, on paper, the Golddiggers’ final game against the Saints is registered as a win by forfeit. Despite the weird note the season ended on, the Golddiggers were thrilled to end with an 11-4 record, which is the best in the program’s history, according to coach Dan Ebert. The team’s seven seniors have had an unusual high school soccer career. They didn’t have a sophomore season, and their junior season was shortened.
Ebert said most seniors would’ve played 60-65 games by now in their careers, but the senior Golddiggers have played about half that. Senior Breyda Spinner said she’s played even fewer, as she missed about half her freshman season because of injury. So, she and fellow seniors Loralei Murphy and Maxine Inman were incredibly thankful to play a full-length 2022 season. Despite the two years of setbacks, the three players described how the seniors’ bond has become the backbone of the 2022 team. “We’re able to anticipate each other,” Murphy said. Add to that a lot of talented younger players, such as sophomores Trinity Cade, Shea Ryan, Rylie Young and Zoey Zebroski, and it’s a recipe for history, the seniors said. The Golddiggers are preparing to play Flatirons Academy in a firstround playoff game on May 13. The seniors were confident that Clear Creek will advance at least one game in the 2A state tournament. “We want to go as far as we can,” Inman said. Murphy added: “If we play at 110% and everyone’s healthy, I think we could go to the finals.” Inman described how the season has felt long, partly because of how many minutes she’s played. Between the short roster and
Loralei Murphy runs past fellow senior Maxine Inman to attempt a shot on goal during PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN practice on May 4.
injuries, Ebert said he’s had three substitutes at most this year. Several Golddiggers have played more than 900 and 1,000 minutes so far in 2022. Senior Aiden Kocol, for instance, has played 1,030 minutes. “Playing all those minutes is hard on you,” Inman said, adding that battling injuries has been a challenge for the team all year. Still, the seniors were proud of everyone’s contributions, saying the 11-4 record was a team effort. Inman also described how her senior year has been a fun time, despite its craziness with injuries, minutes played, and games won and lost. For Spinner, it’s been a “sentimental season,” playing with teammates she’s had for six years. Now, the playoffs will be the seniors’ last chance to play together before going their separate ways after graduation. “We’re making history,” Spinner said. “ ... I’m glad to it with the
Senior forward Breyda Spinner attempts a shot on goal during practice on May 4.
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Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains: ‘You couldn’t create a more terrifying scenario’ Region’s leading abortion provider gearing up for influx of patients following Roe v. Wade leak BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Vicki Cowart saw this coming. The chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has been working to get her organization ready for what she calls “our terrible forecast” — the leaked Supreme Court decision indicating that Roe v Wade will be overturned. PPRM, the region’s largest abortion provider, with locations in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, finds itself at the center of a nationwide fight for reproductive rights. As neighboring states “go dark” on abortions, Colorado has become a place of refuge for those seeking an abortion, signing into law protections for the reproductive health care that safeguards a person’s right to an abortion. For PPRM, that means a huge influx in out-of-state patients. Health centers have already experienced an uptick in patients since the Texas abortion ban that was signed into law in September 2021, and now must prepare for that situation to extend to other bordering states. “Twenty-six million patients are
RESOURCES National Abortion Federation Hotline: 1-800-772-9100 Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has locations across Colorado, including health centers in Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins, Greeley, Littleton and other municipalities. Visit www.plannedparenthood.org/ health-center/co for a full list of its instate locations. going to live in a state that does not have abortion,” Cowart said in a September 2021 interview with Colorado Community Media. “That’s our terrible forecast after the Supreme Court does what we expect it to do.” A day after the court’s decision was leaked, a PPRM health center assistant who wished to remain anonymous said their health center is preparing for an increase in patients. The provider saw 92,000 patients in the last year, according to PPRM’s 2021 annual report. “We’re really prepping for a massive amount of out-of-staters now,” the HCA said. “(We’ve) already had a massive increase since September with Texas, and now, we’re preparing for almost all our neighboring states to join Texas.” The Supreme Court released a statement May 3 verifying the validity of the leaked decision, which is still subject to change. PPRM’s patient navigators have been working to help patients coordinate travel and lodging, some-
The outside of a PPRM health center in Colorado.
times helping with the cost associated with those hurdles, Cowart said. “We’re talking as though ‘Oh, it’s just easy, you just fly over to new Mexico or drive to Colorado,’” Cowart said. “If you’re an affluent person, if you have your United Miles, if you know how to get on the website and get yourself a plane ticket, this is horrible, but it’s not
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Lessons learned from Marshall Fire Fire chiefs and experts hold summit on fire forecasting
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Fire chiefs from Boulder, Louisville and other affected areas met with officials May 4 for a National Weather Service Fire Forecasting discussion. U.S. Representatives Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Joe Neguse (CO-02), representatives from the National Weather Service, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and members of the House Science Committee were part of the discussion. On Dec. 30, 2021, the Marshall fire started just before 10:30 a.m. as a grass fire in Boulder County. In the following 24 hours, it became the most destructive fire in the state’s history, in terms of structures lost. Damages from the fire are estimated to exceed half a billion dollars. An exact cause of the fire has so far not been determined. ‘Everyone’s learned from this’ Louisville Fire Chief John Willson said he had a couple of meetings and was out and about that morning. He noticed it was windy, and knew there was a grass fire around eight miles away, but figured U.S. 36 wouldprovide protection — and it was in grass after all — tall grass of course, dry grass, yes — but just
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grass. It had been the wrong way to think about it, he said. “It turned very quickly. It hit Superior around 12:30. It hit Louisville around 12:45. I think the resources were thin. I think the predictions were good — it’s just that we didn’t get them — I didn’t get them in time,” he said. It was just one of the things that made it difficult for incident commanders and firefighters on the ground to even try to fight such a fire. But the way things unfolded, it might not have made much of a difference because it all happened so fast. “In a normal structure fire we
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have 20 firefighters that are attacking this fire. That day, I had 500 homes on fire. I don’t have enough firefighters in the Denver Metro Area to try to protect — or to try to stop this,” Willson said. So, it was the wind finally dying down around 6:30 or 7 p.m. that allowed his firefighters to really attack the blaze. Willson said he’d never dreamt of high winds blowing up to 70 miles per hour (with gusts, of up to 100 mph) for eight straight hours engulfing tall, dry grass in any training exercise.And that in his decades fighting fires he’d never experienced a situation like Dec. 30, 2021. Everyone from scientists, to firefighters and the general public learned from the experience, he said. “I think we’re all learning and we’re lucky that only two people perished that day,” Willson said. Perlmutter stressed the need to deal with climate change in addressing the threat of wildfires in the west. “This roundtable is part of an ongoing conversation our state and country has to have about our changing climate and what it means for how we build our homes, our communities and the steps we need to take today to prevent catastrophic loss of life and property in the future,” he said. “The Marshall Fire
t i was a tragic wake up call to the year-i round fire season and the changing nature of wildfires in our state and t m across the arid western U.S. My colleagues on the House Science m Committee are no stranger to the t damage of wildfires in their own home states, and we must take these m lessons back to Congress to improve b s federal policy, continue to fight climate change and better prevent and mitigate against similar events d p going forward.” Director of Colorado Division Fire t Prevention and Control Mike Morgan is in charge of getting resources to fire chiefs and other emergency personnel when large fires escalate. Morgan said there are 64 counties in Colorado — a lot of them are along the Front Range — and that Boulder County is one of the counties he considers most prepared to be able to deal with a catastrophic event. He said the day of the Marshall fire, he could see the smoke plume from his Lakewood office, where his phone had started blowing up with calls. Over the course of the event, Morgan was able to bring 57 engines from 47 agencies around the state, to help. Still, damage from the fire was devastating. The high winds had made utilizing aircraft to fight the fire, impossible. SEE WILDFIRE, P13
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poor person, for someone with kids that need to be cared for,” Cowart continued. This leaves many abortion seekers in a predicament squarely at the intersection of race, class and gender inequality, according to Cowart. Patients must now travel hundreds — sometimes thousands of miles — to get health care, an inconvenient task for those who are affluent, and a nearly impossible one for those who aren’t, according to Cowart. Because of this, the Supreme Court’s decision will disproportionally effect BIPOC abortion seekers and those who have limited incomes, Cowart said. Donations to PPRM and Planned Parenthood have helped mitigate the cost associated with both traveling and getting an abortion, according to Cowart. The anonymous HCA said navigators have been gearing up to help more patients. “We’re prepping mostly — just making sure our patient navigation team is up to speed on how many more patients they’re gonna have to book flights and hotels for,” the HCA said. One way PPRM is preparing to deal with the expected influx of patients is a heightened focus on telehealth. Seeing patients virtu-
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“This was a grass fire that turned into an urban conflagration,” Morgan said. The Chinook winds firefighters faced that day are likely not anomalies, he said. They could happen again in future fires. Advances in technology created through a partnership with the Sierra Nevada Corporation, enabling early detection and intelligence, helped firefighters combat the Marshall fire using heat sensors and giving them the ability to see through the smoke. In addition to weather conditions and technology, more tangible aspects of response like mitigation and figuring out better evacuation routes were discussed during the session. Questions to the experts followed
ally allows for more flexibility with scheduling and logistics and helps reduce the strain on PPRM’s staff. Cowart said ramping up telehealth has been one of PPRM’s focuses as it’s been preparing for the Supreme Court’s decision and added that any patient who opts for telehealth will still be able to speak with a provider about their abortion. “We’ve been seeing this coming; we’ve been getting ready for it,” Cowart said. “The most important thing that we’ve been doing is moving as many of our services to telehealth as possible, and that includes medication abortion. “So we have a service where an individual can call in and speak to a doctor over the phone or over a website connection and go through the proper explanations and procedures and the doctor can then send, prescribe and send the medication abortion to the patient overnight to their home or their designated location,” Cowart continued. Nevertheless, abortions coordinated over telehealth have their limitations. Abortion medications cannot be sent out-of-state — a patient still needs to cross the Colorado or New Mexico border to get access to the medication. Additionally, the abortion cannot be carried out in a state where abortion is illegal, so patients must take the medication in a legal state. Cowart said patients can choose if they would like to be seen in person or virtually, and that some patients’
medical history necessitates that their abortion be administered in person. She added that non-abortion patients may also be seen via telehealth for visits concerning STI testing, birth control, gender-affirming care and other services PPRM provides. While PPRM is working to accommodate the looming influx of patients, its healthcare providers are feeling the strain of working in a challenging field during the COVID pandemic and simultaneously managing a higher patient volume. Ashley Lipasek, a traveling health center assistant with PPRM who works at all of PPRM’s locations, said that although she and her coworkers have experienced heightened stress, the ability to preserve a patient’s right to abortion makes it worth it. “I think increasing the patient number has definitely taken a toll on the health-care workers,” Lipasek said. “But at the same time, I think anyone who joined Planned Parenthood does it not for the money — we don’t make a lot of money, it’s a nonprofit, but because we stand by the mission and we know it matters. “Even if our patient numbers are going up from seeing 30 patients a day to 45, it is a really big increase, and it does create a really exhausting toll on us, but, you know, every time I work with a patient, even if it’s the end of the day and I’m exhausted and I’ve seen 10 extra pa-
tients that day, to me it will always be worth it,” Lipasek said. Lipasek said being able to provide abortion services at a reduced cost adds to the gratification of her work. “Providing the services is really what matters. If we’re able to provide the services at little-to-no cost it makes the job worth it to me… There’s something to be said about the feeling of gratification when I can say ‘don’t worry about the cost of today’s procedure. It’s usually $560, but we’ll just cover the cost, it’s fine,’” Lipasek said. Cowart said PPRM has been building collaborative networks nationwide that will provide an infrastructure for abortion seekers in “dark” states to coordinate their care. “We’ve been building networks and collaborating across states, collaborating amongst all the providers — the independents, the Planned Parenthoods, everybody... The National Abortion Federation has a hotline, we’ve hired patient navigators,” Cowart said. “These patient navigators know where all the funders are, and they know where the bus stations are and so we’re trying to get the word out there via web, via stories like yours, that if nothing else, call the Abortion Federation Hotline, and we can figure out where you are and help you figure out where to get to — and most importantly, help fund it.”
— the most asked (in various ways) was how do communities take lessons learned from the Marshall Fire and apply them to achieve a better result in future events. Mayor Ashley Stolzmann, Louisville, gave an impassioned plea for fixing the root of the problem. She said communities need congress to take climate action or events like the Marshall Fire are going to continue to happen at a rate that’s totally unacceptable. “And what happens then, is the cost is very great and the federal government comes to help pick up the cost but there’s such a huge unmet need,” she said. “So, taking climate action is what we need.” Stolzmann said victims of the fire also need financial support because the insurance system is not structured in a way that protects homeowners and consumers. Which at the end of the day, she said, causes the federal government to pay even
more. “The more things we can do to collectively as a nation, the better
off we’ll be,” she said. “Because this is a problem in scale that will take global action (to fix).”
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May 12, 2022
Nonprofit gives $1.5M cash to formerly incarcerated Coloradans A first-of-its-kind cash assistance program gives people a second chance BY MARGARET FLEMING THE COLORADO SUN
Heather Fitzsimmons was working on getting her life back together and staying clean while on probation in Aurora when she noticed what seemed to be an extra deposit in the account where she gets paid. Fitzsimmons called to alert her employers at the Center for Employment Opportunities in Denver, part of a national organization providing immediate employment for formerly incarcerated people. They explained the nonprofit’s new pilot program — a first-of-its-kind cash assistance initiative giving $24 million to more than 10,000 former inmates across the country. “It helped me get in a better mental spot to where I feel like it’s actually possible to stay off the street and to maintain a job,” Fitzsimmons said. “It gave me the boost that I needed to get out.” Fitzsimmons used the cash to pay part of a deposit on an apartment and get a car to drive to her job. Before that, she was homeless for six years and without a car for eight years. Now she works to help other people who are homeless and addicted to drugs or alcohol. The cash assistance program delivered $1.5 million to 623 former inmates in and around Denver. More than 10,000 people in 28 cities received up to $2,750 nationwide. All funding from the program has already been distributed with the goal of helping formerly incarcer-
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“With a program like this, it gives people some of that stability where they’re not stressed and they’re not anxious and they’re able to stabilize themselves,” said Khalil Halim, executive director at Second Chance. “And they’re not looking at committing crimes to stabilize themselves.” PHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN VIA REPORT FOR AMERICA
summer with events to increase the number of fair chance employers, support them with training and connect them with employees. The program is meant to complement broader policy changes in the justice system, said Pam Lachman, the organization’s senior director. “But just from what we’ve seen from the interim evaluation and from the stories we’ve heard, it had a huge kind of stabilizing impact on people.” Lachman said organization lead-
ers noticed the financial crisis for their employees as the pandemic hit, because participants in the program are paid daily. Being unable to work as many hours in-person made it more difficult to get on firm ground after jail or prison. Carmen Ortega is another stimulus recipient who is now a full-time staffer running the work crew for the nonprofit’s location in Colorado Springs. She was homeless for four straight years and faced 32 years in prison before making a drastic change. “Those four times that I came out of jail, I came out to nothing,” Ortega said. “I came out with nothing at all. Not even underwear, to be honest.” After jail, Ortega didn’t have money for food, clothing or housing. She said getting involved with the organization and receiving funds was a new beginning. Last week was her third anniversary of being clean. The stimulus money can provide a safety plan by getting people off the street and into a hotel room for the night, Ortega said. She said many people who are homeless in Colorado Springs come out of jail or prison with no money and have trouble securing necessities to rebuild their lives, from medication to a driver’s license. “It will be a tremendous blessing,” Ortega said. “Because they will have something in hand, something to work with.” 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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Federal government to hold back water in drought-stricken Lake Powell BY MICHAEL ELIZABETH SAKAS COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced on May 3 emergency plans to protect Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border by holding back water releases to downstream states. The reservoir has plummeted to its lowest level on record amid more than 20 years of record-breaking drought in the Colorado River Basin. This is the first time the agency has moved to delay a release of water from Lake Powell that normally goes to Arizona, California and Nevada. Instead, the federal agency plans to keep more than 480,000 acrefeet of water in the reservoir to prop up supplies to protect hydropower production. Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, is fed by a Colorado River storage system that supplies water and hydroelectric power to millions of people across the West. Climate change is contributing to a steep and rapid decline in the available supply of water. Water levels in the lake have dropped close to “dead pool,” the lowest point at which Glen Canyon Dam can generate hydropower. The Bureau of Reclamation is invoking its authority to change how the dam and the reservoir will operate this year to help ensure the dam’s turbines keep spinning. In a separate action announced last month, upper-basin states
worked with the Bureau of Reclamation on a plan to send another 500,000 acre-feet to Lake Powell from Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Utah-Wyoming border under their drought response agreement for the year. A similar action was taken last year when water from Flaming Gorge and Blue Mesa Reservoir in Colorado was sent to Powell because of drought and dropping reservoir levels. There are no plans to release additional water from Blue Mesa to Lake Powell this year. The combined nearly 1 million acre-feet added to Lake Powell will help protect the reservoir and its infrastructure over the next 12-months. Tanya Trujillo, Interior Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, said the action gives the agency more time to figure out how to operate Glen Canyon Dam at lower water levels. Trujillo said the move to hold water in Lake Powell was an “extraordinary action.” “We have never taken this step before in the Colorado River Basin, but the conditions we see today and the potential risks we see on the horizon demand that we take prompt action,” she said at a May 2 press conference. Trujillo said the 30 Native American tribes in the basin were consulted, as were the states and partners in Mexico that also rely on the Colorado River. Trujillo said the agency received “consensus support” for these actions to protect Powell. The federal government’s move to
As drought conditions worsen, the federal government is taking unprecedented steps SHUTTERSTOCK to save Lake Powell.
store more water in Lake Powell is a temporary solution. Trujillo said Colorado River water users need to “immediately engage” in developing additional conservation measures, including water recycling, innovative water storage ideas and repairing aging, inefficient pipes and
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other water infrastructure. “We all have to find ways to maximize efficiency and use less water,” she said. This story is from Colorado Public Radio, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support CPR News, visit cpr.org.
by Julianne Seifert
by Daphne du Maurier, 1951
I am fascinated by the idea of an unresolved mystery. We are used to reading mystery novels where the culprits are hunted down, with their actions confessed and proven and every clue explained. However, we know that these books are escapist literature; in real life, matters of intrigue and suspicion are rarely resolved so smoothly. Questions remain, doubts linger, and it’s usually impossible to ever learn the whole truth. Daphne du Maurier was an author who specialized in this more realistic approach. She created complex characters with unclear motives, then left them in isolated and dramatic settings and let the tension build toward the breaking point. In My Cousin Rachel, she wove a particularly tangled web, in which it is never made entirely clear whether a crime has been committed, or if anyone is as guilty as they appear. In place of these definite answers or an objective assessment of rights and wrongs, du Maurier offered food for thought: the situation and the clues are laid out, but readers are invited to draw their own conclusions. The atmosphere of distrust slowly forms around the unconventional relationship between Rachel and her late husband’s cousin, Philip. At times, it follows the pattern of a Gothic romance, with all the dark passion and angst that genre is known for; at others, it becomes something more sinister, as Rachel’s behavior grows more inconsistent and unpredictable and Philip responds with irrational anger and jealousy. The style of the book shifts as well, encompassing both the rich descriptions and themes of old-fashioned classics and a more modern directness of observation and dialogue. This helps to emphasize how unreliable Philip’s narration is, adding another layer of suspense and an additional set of questions to every turn of the plot.
With no truly sympathetic protagonist to offer, the book instead encourages a reader’s investment through its unsettling slow burn. Eerie impressions and stray memories interrupt seemingly mundane scenes, accentuated further by the attention paid to small details of weather and mood. Whether or not the characters themselves appeal to you, you’re likely to find yourself wondering who among them is most trustworthy and what new revelation or suspicion will arise next. Everyone develops their own unique theories of what really happened, making this a great book to discuss with friends or revisit in later years. It may not leave you with the kind of closure you’re used to, but for that very reason, it just might stay with you longer than a book with no loose ends ever could.
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Jared Polis injects another $5.2 million into his campaign Republicans lag Democrats in statewide contests BY SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, a multimillionaire, poured $5.2 million of his own money into his reelection campaign in the first four months of this year, signaling that he is willing to open his pockets to secure another four years leading Colorado. Polis used that infusion to schedule $3.4 million worth of TV advertising for September and October. The two Republicans running in the June 28 primary for a chance to unseat Polis are significantly lagging behind the incumbent, who spent more than $23 million to secure his first term in 2018, in fundraising. In fact, all of the GOP candidates for statewide office are lagging behind their Democratic opponents when it comes to campaign cash. Campaign finance reports filed with the Secretary of State’s Office on May 2 provide the first glimpse of how the June 28 primary election and the Nov. 8 general election are shaping up in terms of candidates’ financial warchests. They cover fundraising and spending from Jan. 1 through April 27. Polis and three other Democratic incumbents are using their cash advantage already to line up TV ad time in the weeks before the general election. And super PACs are raising money to support Democrats in three of the four statewide contests. Meanwhile, two leading GOP candidates — Heidi Ganahl, who is running for governor, and Pam Anderson, who is running for secretary of state — spent significant sums in the first four months of the year to collect petition signatures to make the primary ballot. Both face primary opponents who made the ballot at April’s raucous GOP assembly. And Republican Tina Peters, the indicted Mesa County Clerk running for secretary of state, had yet to file her campaign finance report as of 9 a.m. May 3. The deadline was 10 p.m. May 2. Here’s a deeper look at cash in Colorado’s statewide contests.
Gov. Jared Polis addresses the crowd at a meet-and-greet in Arvada.
Two gubernatorial candidates self-fund, one significantly more than the other In the first four months of 2022, Polis brought his total personal campaign contributions to more than $5.9 million, while also raising about $402,000 from donors despite limiting his contributions to $100 a year from individuals. His campaign had nearly $5 million in cash on April 27, though that doesn’t reflect his spending on TV ad reservations. Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent and the only remaining statewide elected Republican, put another $150,000 of her own money into her campaign, bringing her total four-month fundraising haul to nearly $377,000. She’s raised $1 million since announcing her candidacy, with $400,000 coming from her own pocket. Ganahl originally pledged to limit
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her campaign spending to $3.4 million, allowing her to collect double the $1,250 contribution limit for individual donations to gubernatorial candidates. She backed out of that pledge in late January, but not before she raised $165,000 in larger contributions from 135 donors. The campaign paid Blitz Canvassing, a signature-gathering firm, more than $212,000 between January and March. The campaign had a little more than $200,000 in the bank heading into May. Lopez’s fundraising lags far behind Ganahl’s. Lopez raised only $36,000 in the first four months of the year, bringing his election-cycle total to less than $106,000. And he had only $16,000 in cash at the end of April. Then there’s Danielle Neuschwanger, who failed to make the Republican ballot at the assembly and instead is running
for governor under the American Constitution Party banner. She raised nearly $73,000 in the first four months of the year and loaned her campaign another $33,000, bringing her total personal investment to nearly $69,000. She had $15,000 in cash on April 27. As the candidates compete, the super PAC Strong Colorado for All, which supports Democrats, was sitting on $467,000 in cash at the end of April, some of it from the Democratic Governors Association. That money presumably will be used to support Polis in the fall.
Dems also lead among other statewide campaigns Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold raised nearly $875,000 between January and April 27, which her campaign says is a record
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Public Notices call 303-566-4123 Legals City and County Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Mother Lode Brewing LLC, dba Tommyknocker Brewery & Pub located at 1401 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/28/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC362 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022 to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Beau Jo’s Pizza LTD, dba Beau Jo’s Pizza located at 1517 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/27/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC354 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Public Hearing May 24th, 2021 at 6:30 PM Empire Town Hall 30 E. Park Ave Empire, CO 80438 Second Reading and Public Hearing of Ordinance 265: An Ordinance of the Town of Empire, Colorado Adopting by Reference the 2015 International Code Series to Include the Building, Residential, Plumbing, Mechanical and Fuel Gas Codes for the Town of Empire with Certain Amendments to the Above Referenced Codes. Legal Notice No. CCC350 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Goodfellow Antiques LLC, dba The Bee’s Knees located at 1430 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/29/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC361 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Idaho Springs Hospitality LLC, dba MTN Prime at 1600 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/29/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk
Legal Notice No. CC353 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Hard Luck Colorado Division LLC, dba Pick Axe Pizza located at 1640 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/28/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC359 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for DuBien Family Ventures LTD, dba Main Street Restaurant located at 1518 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/27/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC358 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for El Azteca Mexican Restaurant, dba Azteca Mexican Restaurant located at 1628 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/28/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC357 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice L0505-TD 22-044 NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED 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 EVILSIZOR GARY W TRUSTEE 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 DAVID L. BARNES the following described real estate in the County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado, to wit: TAX LIEN SALE CERTIFICATE OF PURCHASE #2018-00946 Property Schedule R005564 Parcel 183703406035 SAINT MARYS SUBDIVISION Lot: 685 U5 318/450 444/757 County of Clear Creek State of Colorado And Whereas, Said County Treasurer issued a Tax Lien Sale Certificate of Purchase therefore to DAVID L. BARNES; 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 EVILSIZOR GARY W TRUSTEE for said year of 2017;
And Whereas, That said DAVID L. BARNES on the 26 day of APRIL, 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 DAVID L. BARNES at 11:00 o’clock A.M., on the 13TH day of September, 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 26 day of April, A.D., 2022. /s/ Carol Lee [Seal] Carol Lee, Treasurer Clear Creek County Legal Notice No. CCC347 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 19, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant, Public Notice Pd Bills April 2022 Fund: 01 General 1903 Solutions, LLC Services $3,848.50 AAAC Wildlife Removal Services $425.00 Aaron Crawley Services $160.00 Active911, Inc Supplies $338.00 Airgas USA, LLC Supplies $539.17 Alpinaire Healthcare Inc Supplies $270.00 Amazon Supplies $2,222.52 American Family Life Fees $2,677.08 Angel Armor Capital $1,654.46 Animal Care Equipment & Servic Supplies $441.61 AT&T Mobility Services $4,331.67 Auto-chlor System Of Denver In Supplies $183.00 Axiom Group Services $51,662.00 Axon Enterprise, Inc. Supplies $158.46 Bandit Industries, Inc. Services $246.85 Berten R Weaver Services $1,000.00 Bob Barker Company Supplies $174.77 Bound Tree Medical LLC Supplies $3,177.13 Brenda Corbett Supplies $488.43 Castle Tire Disposal & Recycling, LLC Services $1,632.82 CCC Clerks Office Services $23.12 Central Clear Creek Sanitation Services $1,663.47 Centura Health Supplies $7,406.71 Century Link Services $7,669.49 Cheryl Ebert Services $90.00 Chicago Creek Sanitation Distr Services $126.94 Christopher’s Dodgeworld Services $5,298.20 Cintas Fire Protection Services $216.96 City Of Black Hawk Services $2,155.56 City Of Golden Services $3,080.92 Clean It Supplies $647.15 Clear Creek Economic Dev. Corp. Services $1,833.33 Clear Creek Metropolitan Recre Supplies $1,300.00 Clear Creek Radio Inc Services $150.00 Clear Creek Supply Co Supplies $1,493.21 CML Security Services $6,600.00 Colorado Mountain Housing Coalition, Inc. Services $200.00 Columbine Paper & Maintenance Supplies $457.12 Comcast Cable Services $761.51 Complete Mailing Solutions Services $903.00 CORE Electric Cooperative Services $416.00 Correctional Health Partners Services $10,447.74 County Sheriffs Of Colorado In Services $85.00 Creative Content Tiger’s Jungle Services $3,119.00 Curtis Blue Line Supplies $2,817.57 Cynthia C. Neely LLC Services $840.00 Cynthia J Mosch Services $2,180.83 David L. Christiansen, Psy.D Services $900.00 David Mosch Services $3,483.04 DDRC Services $915.90 Delta Dental Plan Of Colorado Fees $1,077.06 Denver Athletic Supplies $390.00 DiNatale Water Consultants Services $1,400.00 E-470 Public Highway Authority Services $26.92 East Slope Excavating Services $5,380.00 Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc. Services $35.00 Employers Council Inc Services $230.00 Evercom Systems Inc Supplies $5,681.53 Evergreen National Bank 04/08 Fica $37,446.27 Evergreen National Bank 04/08 Retire $20,998.55 Evergreen National Bank 04/22 Fica $37,553.81 Evergreen National Bank 04/22 Retire $21,415.72 Farmer Bros Co Supplies $673.61 Ferrellgas Services $1,786.62 First Veterinary Supplies $668.97 Front Range Occupational Medicine, LLC Services $85.00 Galls, An Aramark Company Supplies $3,212.00 George Douvas DDS Services $319.00 Georgetown Town Of Services $11,395.43 Goliath Tech, LLC Supplies $15,666.50 Government Leasing and Finance, Inc Leases $19,632.77 Grainger Inc Supplies $553.32 Henderson Operations Services $1,542.16 Historic District Public Lands Deposits $200.00 Home Depot Credit Services Supplies $475.92 IHS Pharmacy Supplies $1,481.93 IMA, Inc, Services $3,168.28 Intoximeters, Inc Supplies $162.00 Ireland Stapelton Pryor & Poscoe, PC Services $5,340.00 iWebVisit.com Services $1,750.00 Jefferson County Public Trustee Services $200.00 John Elway Chevrolet Capital $77,028.00 Keystone Policy Center Services $3,000.00 Kovaly Technologies, Inc. Services $1,397.50
Kronos Incorporated Services $246.40 Laerdal Medical Corporation Supplies $5,449.46 Language Line Services $687.86 Leader’s Edge Consulting Services $1,400.00 Legal Shield Fees $673.55 Leslie Jordan, Inc Services $13,537.65 LexisNexis / Accurint Supplies $86.50 Linxup Supplies $153.93 Lisa Scibelli Services $1,400.00 Marathon Engineering Corp Services $5,539.00 McKesson Medical-Surgical Govt Solutions LLC Supplies $214.14 Milo’s Speed Shop Services $1,625.11 MO Financial, LLC Services $26,750.00 Motorola Inc Supplies $38,543.25 Mountain Lock & Key Services $140.00 Multicard Services $3,570.00 Office Depot Supplies $1,523.30 Peak Performance Copier & Supp Services $852.36 PRI Management Group Services $418.00 Quest Diagnostics Incorporated Services $1,327.62 Region 8 Enviro, LLC Services $1,821.93 Robert Tiedemann Supplies $44.79 Rocky Mountain Microfilm & Ima Services $1,255.00 Rocky Mountain Water Supplies $823.45 Sabre Tweedy Services $52.25 Shamrock Foods Co Supplies $26,902.26 Southpaw Electric Corp Services $946.85 Square Peg Catering Supplies $190.00 Staples Business Advantage Supplies $148.24 State of Colorado Supplies $742.06 Steve Coffin Strategies, LLC Services $15,781.25 StopStick, Ltd Supplies $1,501.00 Stryker Sales Corporation Supplies $1,262.00 Susan Kiefer Services $2,180.83 Symbol Arts Services $135.00 tcag Supplies $526.40 The Compliance Alliance Inc Services $60.00 Timberline Disposal Llc Services $287.38 Town Office Supply Supplies $230.85 Tri State Oil Reclaimers Inc Services $130.00 Trilogy Medwaste West Region Services $86.00 Turnkey Corrections Supplies $849.45 U S Bank Services $2,419.48 U S Postal Svc. (Neopost Postage-on-call) Fees $6,000.00 Visa Services $6,565.33 Vision Service Plan Fees $1,770.92 Visionary Communications, Inc Services $180.00 Vranesh & Raisch Services $2,097.00 Wage Works Services $146.30 Walmart Community Supplies $298.30 WellAble, Inc Fees $264.00 Western Paper Distributors Supplies $994.94 WEX Bank Supplies $472.53 Xcel Energy Services $12,805.15 Zep Sales & Service Supplies $98.95 Total for Fund 01: $618,495.13
Concrete Express, Inc. Capital $352,286.02 Muller Engineering Company Capital $932.25 Total for Fund 19: $353,218.27
Fund: 02 Road And Bridge A & E Tire Inc Supplies $144.00 Albert Frei & Sons Inc Supplies $232.05 Amazon Supplies $608.59 AT&T Mobility Services $43.89 Bank of America, National Assoc Capital $9,901.91 Blackwell Oil Company Inc Supplies $26,371.60 Brown Tools LLC Services $1,355.00 Cintas Services $3,242.33 Colorado Barricade Co. Supplies $2,424.00 Colorado Brake Services $312.64 Colorado Community Media Services $130.08 Colorado Natural Gas Inc Services $687.12 Columbia Sanitary Service Inc Services $176.00 CORE Electric Cooperative Services $848.23 Downieville Fuel Stop Supplies $24.99 Front Range Community College Services $50.00 Griswold Construction & Overhead Door Services $4,150.00 Hill Petroleum Supplies $7,735.65 Honnen Equipment Services $853.13 Independent Propane Company Services $2,389.17 J J Keller & Associates Inc Services $680.00 John Deere Financial Supplies $153.10 Kubat Equipment & Service Services $2,246.08 Larry H Miller Ford Lakewood Services $70.26 Lawson Products Inc Supplies $870.22 Midwest Truck Parts Services $2,324.44 Mountain Auto Parts, Inc Supplies $269.59 Pavement Repair Supplies $2,844.00 Peak Materials Supplies $12,859.62 Rylind Manufacturing, Inc Services $139.52 Sno-white Linen/uniform Services $689.31 Southpaw Electric Corp Services $6,213.85 Staples Business Advantage Supplies $390.29 Triple C Communications Inc Supplies $139.20 Verizon Wireless Services $309.24 Vortex Colorado, Inc. Services $435.00 Waste Management of Denver Services $483.08 Xcel Energy Services $2,401.29 Total for Fund 02: $95,198.47
Fund: 25 Debt Svc BSC Signs Capital $1,371.87 EV Studio LLC Capital $5,593.50 Frontier Mechanical Capital $12,409.85 MidWestOne Bank Leases $64,109.58 Xcel Energy Services $2,183.25 Total for Fund 25: $85,668.05
Fund: 04 Emergency Telephone Axiom Group Services $14,600.00 Century Link Services $3,704.55 Power Systems West Services $767.00 Total for Fund 04: $19,071.55 Fund: 08 Open Space Columbia Sanitary Services $1,188.00 HydroLogik LLC Services $408.00 Ireland Stapelton Pryor & Poscoe, PC Services $1,089.00 Xcel Energy Services $106.61 Total for Fund 08: $2,791.61 Fund: 11 Lodging Tax Clear Creek County Tourism Board Services $98,683.68 Total for Fund 11: $98,683.68 Fund: 19 Capital Projects
Fund: 20 Social Services Amazon Supplies $2,424.07 AT&T Mobility Services $778.93 Bridget McElligott Supplies $125.57 Clear Creek School District Services $1,000.00 Colorado Tents and Events Services $926.96 Colorado Welfare Fraud Council Services $290.00 HCCC Services $552.00 Jamie Walker Services $40.89 Jane Hoffmann R.N., M.S., C.S. Services $325.00 Julie Kula Services $1,200.00 Kayli Walsh Supplies $415.48 Kramer Family LLC Services $2,294.00 Maple Star Colorado Services $230.00 Office Depot Supplies $54.13 Peak Performance Copier & Supp Services $11.81 Pheastly LTD Services $1,896.00 Rocky Mountain Water Supplies $22.79 Stephanie Meeks Services $383.18 Truth to Purpose, LLC Services $784.72 Two Brothers Deli Supplies $175.12 Visa Services $176.68 Total for Fund 20: $14,107.33 Fund: 21 Public Health Andrea Grohmann Services $30.42 Benjamin Shay Services $889.45 Brandie Hunter-Grinbank Supplies $1,060.00 Bridget Egan Supplies $204.00 Chloe Alspaugh Supplies $940.00 Clear Creek Metropolitan Recre Services $600.00 Clear Creek School District Services $68.70 CLIA Laboratory Program Services $180.00 Colorado Community Media Services $825.03 Colorado Dept. Of Public Healt License/Permits $160.00 Hannah Jensen Supplies $340.02 James Houston Supplies $768.98 Jessica North Supplies $375.00 Jett Baker Supplies $136.00 Kimberly Knox Supplies $162.50 Laura Robertson Supplies $1,825.91 Maxine Inman Supplies $96.00 McKesson Medical-Sergical Supplies $356.70 Office Depot Supplies $197.24 Peak Performance Copier & Supp Services $44.08 Rebecca Bernal Supplies $22.90 Rocky Mountain Water Supplies $22.80 Safeway Inc - Albertsons Supplies $46.25 Tommy Knocker Brewery Supplies $187.03 Visa Services $2,619.58 Walmart Community Supplies $396.25 Xcel Energy Services $255.30 Total for Fund 21: $12,810.14
Grand Total $1,300,044.23 Legal Notice No. CCC367 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority
Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Vintage Moose II, dba Vintage Moose located at 123 16th Avenue, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/28/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC364 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority
Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Clear Creek Cidery LLC, dba Clear Creek Cidery Taverns & Taps located at 1438, 1440, 1446 Miner Street and 215 15th Avenue, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/29/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC356 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022
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since at least 2000 for a candidate for secretary of state, attorney general or treasurer in a single filing period. That brings her election-cycle total to $2.5 million. She had more than $301,000 in cash at the end of April after reserving nearly $1.8 million worth of ad time in the weeks leading up to the election. Peters, Griswold’s most highprofile GOP opponent and perhaps the most polarizing candidate in Colorado’s 2022 election, failed to file a campaign finance report, triggering an automatic $50 fine for each day the report is late. A grand jury indicted Peters earlier this year in a security breach of her county’s election system. And Griswold is asking a judge to remove Peters from overseeing this
year’s election, as she did in 2021. Anderson, a former Jefferson County clerk, raised about $51,000 in the first four months of the year, paying Blitz Canvassing $70,000 over that span for petition signatures. She had only about $6,000 in the bank on April 27. Mike O’Donnell, a former nonprofit executive from the Eastern Plains who also made the GOP primary ballot in the secretary of state’s race via the state assembly, raised only about $3,100 in the first fundraising period of the year, while putting more than $53,000 of his own cash into his campaign. He had about $38,000 in cash on hand to end April. Once her Republican opponent is set, Griswold likely will get help from Defend Democracy Fund, a super PAC created to support her that raised more than $508,000 in the first four months of the year. Attorney General Phil Weiser raised $512,000 in the first four
more low-key in terms of fundraising than the other three statewide races, but the Democratic incumbent has a similar cash advantage. Incumbent Democratic Treasurer Dave Young raised nearly $100,000, bringing his total raised during the election cycle to $387,000. After making a $169,000 TV ad reservation, Young had about $94,000 in cash to end April. His GOP opponent, former state representative and lieutenant governor candidate Lang Sias, raised $51,000. He had about $59,000 in cash left at the end of last month. 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.
Public Notices Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice CITY OF IDAHO SPRINGS Clear Creek County, Colorado Ordinance No. 3, Series 2022 AN ORDINANCE GRANTING A CONDITIONAL USE TO PERMIT A RIVER RAFTING USE ON PROPERTY KNOWN AS 1743 MINER STREET, IDAHO SPRINGS, COLORADO, WITH CONDITIONS WHEREAS, the City Council and Planning Commission have authority pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado and the Idaho Springs Zoning Ordinance to grant Conditional Uses within zone districts for property within the City; and WHEREAS, Dan Costello (the “Applicant”) applied to the City for a Conditional Use to permit a river rafting operation upon property known as 1743 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, Colorado (“the Property”), further described in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference (the “Property”); and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission reviewed all facts and circumstances relevant to the aforementioned application (the “Application”) and the Property on April 20, 2022 and May 4, 2022, and forwarded its recommendation to the City Council; and WHEREAS, the Application was scheduled for public hearing before the City Council on May 9, 2022, and due notice thereof was given by publication, mailing and posting of the Property, all as required by the laws of the State of Colorado and the Zoning Ordinance of the City; and WHEREAS, the public hearing was conducted on May 9, 2022, at which time interested parties were afforded an opportunity to be heard; and WHEREAS, as of the date of said public hearing, no written protests to the proposed Conditional Use had been received; and
WHEREAS, after reviewing all of the relevant evidence and testimony, the City Council has determined that the proposed Conditional Use conforms to the relevant requirements of the Idaho Springs Municipal Code (“ISMC”), is generally in conformity with the City’s comprehensive plan, rand will not impact adjacent properties in a manrner that is significantly different than the impacts tcaused by uses that are permitted by right in the Historic Downtown (HD) Zone District only upon the imposition of certain conditions, as further set forth herein.
yNOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Idaho Springs, Colonrado, as follows: Section 1.The above and foregoing Recitals are incorporated herein by reference and are adopted as findings and determinations of the City Council. Section 2. The Property known as 1743 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, Colorado, is allowed a Conditional Use for the operation of a river rafting business (“River Outfitter” as defined by Article II, Chapter 11 of the ISMC), with the following conditions and limitations:
1. No rafts, boats, inflatables, patrons, or employees of any rafting operation shall be allowed to enter or exit Clear Creek at this location. 2. No housing, camping or overnight residential ruse related to the rafting operation of any type rmay occur on the property; this restriction does not apply to the existing residential unit located on the lower level of the existing building on the property. 3. All loading and unloading activities (rafts, vans,
patrons etc.) associated with the rafting operation shall occur completely within the property and not upon Miner Street, the adjacent property and its parking lot or any other adjacent area, and there shall be no backing of any vehicle (van, patron or otherwise) onto Miner Street 4. All storage shall be within the existing building or within the fenced in area. Trailers are not permitted to be stored anywhere on the site. 5. No buses or towed trailers may access or use the site, for any length of time. 6. A Lease (or valid renewal) for all off-site storage of the vehicles and trailers associated with the business must be verified annually at the Compliance Review conducted by the Planning Commission. 7. Prior to the occupancy and use of the Property under this Conditional Use Permit, the parking lot must be restriped per an updated site plan that complies with the ISMC. 8. Prior to the commencement of operations under this Permit in 2023 and each subsequent calendar year, the Applicant shall appear before the Idaho Springs Planning Commission for a Compliance Review to review the operation’s compliance with all relevant requirements the prior year/rafting season and plans for the current year/rafting season. The Compliance Review is not a formal public hearing, but an informal review and discussion. The City may not take any official zoning action, such as revocation of this Conditional Use approval, without complying with all procedural, notice and hearing requirements applicable thereto under Chapter 21, ISMC. Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the City’s authority to initiate a revocation proceeding under ISMC Ch. 21 at any other time of the year as the circumstances merit. Nothing herein constitutes approval of any use of any type not specified by this Ordinance. Any such alternative use would require its own distinct Conditional Use approval, if so required by the Code. Section 3. Upon the effectiveness of this Ordinance, the City Clerk is directed to record a copy of this Ordinance, together with the Application approved hereby, with the Clear Creek County Clerk and Recorder, and the City Planner is directed to reference the Conditional Use approved hereby on the City of Idaho Springs Zoning Map. Section 4. Any and all Ordinances or parts thereof in conflict or inconsistent herewith are, to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency, hereby repealed; provided, however, that the repeal of any such Ordinance or part thereof shall not revive any other section or part of any Ordinance heretofore repealed or superseded. Section 5. Should any one or more sections or provisions of this Ordinance be judicially determined invalid or unenforceable, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining provisions of this Ordinance, the intention being that the various provisions are severable. INTRODUCED, READ AND ORDERED PUBLISHED, after public hearing, at the Regular Meeting of May 9, 2022, and second reading scheduled for May 23rd, at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Idaho Springs, Colorado. ___________________ Chuck Harmon, Mayor ATTESTED AND CERTIFIED: ___________________ Diane Breece, City Clerk PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED, after publication, at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Idaho Springs, Colorado, held on the 23rd of May, 2022. ________________ Chuck Harmon, Mayor
ATTESTED AND CERTIFIED: __________________________ Diane Breece, City Clerk EXHIBIT A Legal description of property commonly known as 1743 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, Colorado Subdivision: Idaho Springs PT Becker PL # 229 & PT BLK 20 & P ABD RR ROW & IMP -458/786 594/375 IMP SURV # 247362 784/744 Legal Notice No. CCC369 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for DBC Trading Post No. 2 LLC, dba The Buffalo Bar & Restaurant located at 1609 & 1617 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/27/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC355 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Slaymaker Cellars PBC, dba Slaymaker Cellars located at 1535 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/27/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications. /s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. CCC354 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant Public Notice Notice of Public Hearing Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on May 31, 2022, to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Valdez Bros, LLC, dba Two Brothers Deli located at 1424 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 04/29/2022. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to
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Legal Notice No. CCC363 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO 405 Argentine St., Georgetown, CO 80444 Case Number: 2022CV30003 Div.: C Plaintiff(s): JULIA CAROLINE PURRINGTON, an individual v. Defendant(s): ROGER N. ARMSTRONG; LYNDZI J. FIORINO; DIAMOND THREE LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company; ANDREA C. THOMPSON; ERICA M. THOMPSON; BRIAN STIBB; OLD MONARCH LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company; ERIC L. SMITH; MARY-PAGE SMITH; MARK SHEPARD; DAWN SHEPARD; KARL SHEPARD; LAUREN SHEPARD; JOHN DIAMOND; JESSIE DIAMOND; 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): Lyndzi J. Fiorino; Diamond Three LLC; Brian Stibb; Old Monarch LLC; John Diamond; Jessie Diamond; 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: April 29, 2022 Anita Marchant, Attorney for Plaintiff
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE WEST ONE HALF OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 72 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK, STATE OF COLORADO, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE PARCEL OF LAND CONVEYED BY THE DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 223 AT PAGE 507; THENCE NORTH 89˚43’01” EAST, A DISTANCE OF 39.09 FEET; THENCE NORTH 00’17’42” EAST, A DISTANCE OF 167.9 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89’28’52” WEST, A DISTANCE OF 28.61 FEET, MORE OR LESS TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE PARCEL OF LAND CONVEYED BY THE DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 223 AT PAGE 507; THENCE SOUTH 03’52’03” WEST, ALONG THE EAST LINE OF THE PARCEL OF LAND CONVEYED BY THE DEED RECORDED IN BOOK 223 AT PAGE 507, A DISTANCE OF 168.22 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; SAID DESCRIBED TRACT CONTAINING .13 ACRES, MORE OR LESS. Legal Notice No. CCC352 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: June 9, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rene Raquel Romero , Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30009
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Clear Creek, County, Colorado on or before September 16, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Rael E. Romero, Personal Representative c/o Keith Moskowitz, Attorney at Law 1440 28th Street, Suite 4 Boulder, CO 80303 Legal Notice No. CCC368 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Christopher Robin Bernal, Deceased Case Number 2022PR030000
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Clear Creek County, Colorado on or before October 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Mary Eileen Bernal Personal Representative P.O. Box 793 Georgetown, CO 80444 Legal Notice No.CCC365 First publication: May 12, 2022 Last publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Clear Creek Courant
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Handyman Going Out Of Business Sale Dumont, Colorado 80436 Loads of hand tools, power tools and stationary tools for concrete work, framing, plumbing, electrical, drywall, cabinetry, finish work and automotive repair. Concrete: Portable electric two bag cement mixer, Bosch demo hammer, wheel barrow, vibrator, manual jitterbug, long- handle float and trowel, builder’s level and tripod, and assorted hand finishing tools. Carpentry: 10” Rockwell table saw, 12” cut-off saw, 6” Rockwell jointer, stand-up drill press and assorted hand and power tools needed for construction. 2 Craftsman rolling tool boxes, rolling 4 foot scaffold, 6 and 10 foot aluminum step ladders, finish gun, roofing coil gun and fasteners and bits and spare blades for most power tools. Plumbing: “Hole- Hawg ½” angle-drill, acetylene torch, hand tools and an assortment of fittings for the installation of plastic drain lines and copper tubing. Electrical: Voltmeter, tool belt with tools, two boxes of white “Décor” single-pole and 3-way switches and assorted disposables for wiring. Drywall: T-square, hock, mud boxes and various trowels and hand tools. Tile: 10” Felker “Tile Master” wet saw and stand. Automotive: 1 ton electric hoist, 1 ton rolling engine hoist, engine stand, stationary 8” grinder, acetylene torch and cart, Lincoln HD175 mig welder, ½” “Snap-on” impact wrench, sand blasting pot, various pneumatic die grinders, paint guns and stud gun, torque wrench and several sets of wrenches and hand tools. I also have a metal standing foreman’s desk, a Mayline drafting table with light and drafting machine (craft table?) and an 18 foot dove-tail trailer to take your treasures home.
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