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At Warren Village, two moms find hope for building new lives as Americans

Meet the Mosquito Man

On a quest bite by bite to study West Nile

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

e Mosquito Man enters his lab with the energy of a kid bounding into a Chuck E. Cheese.

All his friends are inside. ere in one small screen-and-plexiglass enclosure is Sabethes cyaneus, a mosquito with an iridescent blue body and feathery paddles — what one researcher has called the “Hollywood showgirls of the mosquito world.” ey oat inside the box like dandelion seeds in the breeze.

But the mosquito that has his attention for the moment is Sabethes chloropterus, a colony of which he derived from mosquitoes he rst captured on an island in Panama as a graduate student. It has been a few days since this colony has eaten, he explains. ey must be hungry.

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It was a toddler’s bed that provided Kim Duby with the life’s path she is traveling today.

When her son outgrew the bed, she put it up for sale on Facebook. A family advocate at Warren Village responded, asking Duby if she would donate it instead to help a mother in need.

Duby wanted to help. So, she gave the bed away. Little did she know then how much of an impact that moment would have on her life.

Warren Village is a nonpro t residential community located at 13th Avenue and Gilpin Street

near Cheesman Park. It provides single parents in need with more than a roof for their families. It has a two-generation approach to end the cycle of poverty and empower families to reach self-su ciency.

Warren Village o ers a wide variety of resources that include transitional, private housing, parent services and advocacy, and early childhood education and childcare.

Duby, a new U.S. citizen, is among its residents. It was through giving away her son’s bed that Duby rst learned of Warren Village.

The U.S.A o ers opportunity

Duby, 24, immigrated to Colorado from Vietnam in October 2014 after

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she met and married her husband, Christopher, an American from Denver. eir son, Alexander, was born in Denver, but soon after, the family moved to Houston. In 2018, tragedy struck when Christopher died.

“After my husband passed away, I was lost,” Duby said. “I didn’t know what to do.”

Facing nancial hardship, she and Alexander, who is now 7, moved back to Colorado to stay with her mother-in-law.

Duby began looking into housing but found it una ordable. She also found that housing assistance was waitlisted for at least ve years. So,

e Mosquito Man — Metropolitan State University of Denver biology professor Bob Hancock — rolls up his sleeve and sticks his right arm through a shrouded hole into their plexiglass home. e mosquitoes latch onto his hand. One. Two. Five. Fifteen. Forty.

“Oh, this is a good feed,” he says, as the mosquitoes linger on his hand, growing sluggish the more of him they drink in.

For Hancock, who studies mosquitoes, bed bugs and other insects most people would rather not spend time around, this is just another Wednesday morning. And the blood sacri ce is just part of the job for a scientist whose CV

Rachel, whose last name is being withheld, and Kim Duby are residents of Denver’s Warren Village and new U.S. citizens.

contains research titles like “Analysis of a complex vertical copulatory-courtship display in the yellow fever vector Sabethes chloropterus.”

But sitting to Hancock’s right is something extraordinary that could lead to some of the most important research of his career. It is a large enclosure that Hancock hopes will one day hold a colony of a Colorado mosquito called Culex tarsalis. Tarsalis is notable for its zebra-striped belly and for what Hancock says are “among the most beautiful mosquito larvae I know.”

ey are also notable for another reason in Colorado: ey are the primary vector for West Nile virus. And Colorado has just endured two of its worst West Nile years on record.

In fact, the state has become one of the nation’s hot spots for West Nile virus, a disease that can attack the central nervous system and be fatal or cause permanent damage. Colorado recorded the highest-number of West Nile cases in the country in 2022, as well as the highest number of neuroinvasive cases, the most severe form of the disease, which causes swelling in the brain and spinal cord. In 2021, Colorado ranked second behind Arizona.

But, despite West Nile virus being the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the United States, shockingly little is known about the dynamics of its spread. It takes mosquitoes, sure. But migratory birds, water, agriculture, climate change, the timing of snowmelt runo , suburban development patterns, and human behavior all play a role, too.

“We have extensive understanding of

so much,” Hancock says, “and also extensive ignorance of so much.”

So that is where the Mosquito Man and other researchers in Colorado come in.

Tracking West Nile’s history in Colorado

As its name indicates, West Nile virus was discovered in Africa — the rst known case in a human occurred in Uganda in 1937. e virus is a avivirus, a single-strand strip of RNA that hails from the same family that gave the world Zika, dengue and yellow fever.

West Nile did not pop up in North America until 1999, when a handful of cases were found in New York. By 2002, it had made its way to Colorado. But 2003 was the year that West Nile really announced its presence in the state. ere were nearly 3,000 con rmed cases that year, including 622 neuroinvasive infections, 146 hospitalizations and 66 deaths.

No year has come close to that since — and part of that has to do with a slowly building layer of protection in the state.

“We had no immunity in 2003, which is why the numbers were so high that year,” said Jennifer House, the deputy state epidemiologist and the state public health veterinarian at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

But, several thousand infections later, House said Colorado isn’t anywhere close to the kind of population immunity levels that could signi cantly dampen West Nile transmission. And that makes the increase in the past two years all the more alarming. Colorado still has plenty of people who could potentially get very sick with the virus.

e state saw 92 neuroinvasive West Nile infections and 11 deaths in 2021 — at the time more than in any year since 2003. But 2022 topped that with 132

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neuroinvasive cases and 19 deaths. ose numbers suggest that this year’s West Nile outbreak was much, much larger. House said only about one in ve people who are infected with West Nile will show symptoms. Of those with symptoms, only a fraction will develop neuroinvasive disease or need to be hospitalized.

Historically, Colorado’s West Nile seasons — which run from about the beginning of June until the end of October — “sort of uctuate all over the place,” House said. But 2021 and 2022 had the most West Nile hospitalizations of any two-year period in the state’s history. And that makes nding out what causes bad West Nile years all the more urgent.

Unraveling the West Nile puzzle e rst thing to know about West Nile is that the virus would rather not infect us.

Humans are dead-end hosts to the virus. It can only be passed by mosquitoes, and the likelihood of a mosquito biting a West Nile-infected human and then spreading the virus on to where it can perpetuate is extremely low. e same is true for horses, the other main victim of West Nile virus in North America.

Instead, West Nile prefers birds, which is also what the Culex tarsalis mosquito, its primary vector in the state, most likes to feast on. (Birds typically survive West Nile infections, often with little problem.)  “West Nile makes its living by being transmitted between birds and mosquitoes,” said Greg Ebel, a professor of microbiology, immunology and pathology at Colorado State University and the director of the university’s Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases. “People and horses get sick and die when they just sort of haphazardly stumble into this thing that is happening in nature all the time.”

Nearly 1,000 mosquitoes, obtained from a light trap in Weld County in 2014, are kept in a case in Hancock’s lab. Researchers speculate that bird migration patterns, climate change, snowmelt runo , suburban development, irrigation, and other factors can in uence the range and virulence of West Nile.

So there’s the rst challenge: Because humans are tangential to the real West Nile transmission patterns, it’s tough to know what we don’t know. What factors amplify the transmission cycle? What factors diminish it? It’s possible there are massive West Nile clusters happening somewhere across the West that we have no idea about because there aren’t humans present to be infected.

Ebel, whose lab tracks West Nile across Larimer County, said the virus shows consistently mysterious patterns in the region. e rst place he detects West Nile in mosquito populations each spring is in the Fossil Creek area in the southeastern corner of Fort Collins. en it pops up in the northeastern corner. It isn’t until much later that it shows up on the western side of Fort Collins. He has no idea why.

“I think there are a lot of things going on,” he said.

Some of the environmental and human-caused factors that would, on the surface, seem to make for ideal West Nile breeding grounds may not be what they appear.

Take water, for instance. Conventional wisdom would hold that wetter years are buggier, which would lead to more West Nile. After all, mosquitoes lay their eggs in small pools of water. But Ebel said the connection doesn’t necessarily hold true.

For starters, Culex tarsalis are not the mosquitoes most likely to be biting

people in their backyards — though another mosquito that is more likely, Culex pipiens, can also carry West Nile.

“How many mosquitoes are out there isn’t that critical,” Ebel said.

Wetter years may also work against the transmission cycle because it gives water-thirsty birds and egg-laying mosquitoes a chance to spread out, Ebel said. Years with drier springs, which concentrate water in only a few places, bringing vector and host closer together, may be better for jump-starting the cycle.

Hancock, the MSU Denver professor, said too much water at the wrong time might kill a West Nile cycle before it can get going. An especially fast but full spring runo could create a “lethal ush” that washes away mosquito larvae in wetlands.

Lastly, severe drought can hold mosquito populations in check. But Hancock said even that’s not a guarantee for a mellow West Nile season. In Colorado, when Mother Nature doesn’t provide, humans will still nd ways to create precipitation.

“If we’re irrigating a lot, we’re creating other breeding sites,” he said. “So it’s really a delightfully complicated problem.”

Making a human connection

Of course, to have a bad West Nile year in terms of infections, you also need people near where these mosquito-andbird transmission cycles are happening — and that’s where all that irrigation comes in.

Look at the top counties for West Nile cases in Colorado and a pattern soon emerges. e highest number of cases this year occurred in Boulder and Montrose counties, followed closely by Weld. Last year, Larimer County — which is the state’s all-time leader in West Nile infections — topped the list, and Delta County frequently appears near the top, as well.

All of those counties have at least relatively sizeable populations and signi cant amounts of irrigated farmland. Add in Colorado’s status as a major thoroughfare along the Central Flyway for migratory birds and the equation starts to come into focus. People + Water + Birds + Culex mosquitoes = human West Nile infections.

“I don’t think there’s anything di erent in the base-level ecology of Colorado,” Ebel said in trying to explain why Colorado stands out among other states. “It’s the people around and what we are doing with the environment.”

When controlling the data for population size, Hancock said Delta County — home to acres of fruit orchards and sweet corn elds — has the highest rate of West Nile in the state. People in the county are 15 to 16 times more likely to get West Nile than someone living in Denver, he said.

But it’s not just proximity to agricultural operations that can drive up the chances of getting West Nile. How communities handle storm drainage can also have an impact.

Hancock said the favorite habitat of Culex tarsalis is a cattail marsh. e marshes can exist in naturally occurring wetlands. But they are also common near human-made reservoirs, along creekside bike paths, within golf courses and in stormwater containment basins adjacent to new construction.

“You can see human developments right next to massive cattail marshes,” Hancock said.

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she turned to Warren Village.

“Four months later, I had my own apartment,” Duby said. “It is a gift.”

Since moving to Warren Village, Duby completed two semesters at the Community College of Denver to improve her English. She then decided to continue her education, building on her undergraduate work in Vietnam. She is attending Western Governors University, a private online university, to earn an MBA in IT management. She expects to graduate this May.

Duby also became a U.S. citizen — something she had intended on doing ever since she arrived in the U.S.

In “the U.S.A, you’re free here,” Duby said.

One eligibility requirement to become a naturalized U.S. citizen is that a person must be a resident for at least ve years. e requirement is only three years if married to a U.S. citizen. When Duby was in Houston with her husband, she applied and was on her way to becoming a citizen, but her husband died before the three-year mark.

By the time she had re-settled in Colorado, Duby passed the ve-year mark. So, she re-applied and passed the test and other requirements of citizenship.

Her citizenship ceremony was in September. She registered to vote that day and cast a ballot in the November election.

‘Here, I feel safe’

Another immigrant at Warren Village is Rachel. She is 22 and, as a refugee originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, requested that her last name not be used in this article.

Her father died when she was 10 and, at age 13, her mother died, leaving Rachel in the care of a stepfather she describes as abusive. She ed the country and eventually, with the assistance of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, came to the U.S. in 2017.

“I was so excited to come to America,” Rachel said. “Here, I feel safe.”

Colorado was Rachel’s rst and only stop, settling with local foster families — who she is still close with. She earned her high school diploma and then got pregnant with Exoucia, now a toddler. Rachel’s case manager in the foster care system is also a volunteer with Warren Village and suggested Rachel apply for housing there. She did, and moved into Warren Village about a year ago.

She is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Metropolitan State University of Denver.

“I love school,” Rachel said. “If I wasn’t here at Warren Village, I wouldn’t be able to raise my child and go to school full time.”

Rachel got her U.S. citizenship in May. Like

Duby, Rachel was excited to vote for the rst time in November. But it was also di cult, she said, because she had to do a lot of research to get to know the candidates and issues.

“For me, getting to vote really mattered,” Rachel said. “It was not about the vote, but more about making an educated vote.”

Both Rachel and Duby are looking forward to their lives as U.S. citizens here in Colorado.

Both have big dreams. Duby hopes to some day sponsor some of her family members in Vietnam so they can join her here in the U.S.

Rachel is grateful for the caring familial setting she has established for herself and her daughter.

“Even though I don’t have family (blood relatives) here,” she said, “Warren Village is like a very huge family.”

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Community colleges double graduation rates

Schools find success by meeting student needs

BY JASON GONZALES CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Colorado’s community colleges more than doubled their graduation rates from 2015 to 2020 by focusing on student support in and out of the classroom, according to a study released Tuesday.

e Colorado Community College System’s graduation rates rose to 31% from 15% ve years earlier, according to the report by Complete College America that details four- and two-year college graduation rates at states, systems, and jurisdictions that are members of the organization. e nonpro t organization advocates for states and college systems to focus on improving graduation rates; the report cites the challenges schools face to graduate more students.

Graduation rates improved among students from all backgrounds, including Black and Hispanic students who graduate at lower rates than their peers.

Meanwhile, at four-year colleges, Colorado’s schools improved graduation rates to 35% during the same time period — up from 33%.

Complete College America leaders attribute increases at two-year colleges to the state changing how it o ers remedial education, a better focus on supporting students who face life challenges, and more academic advising.

“Colorado really went all in as much as possible,” said Charles Ansell, vice president for research, policy, and advocacy at Complete College of America

Joe Garcia, Colorado Community College System chancellor, said the shift began in the last decade because the state focused less on enrolling students and more on getting them to graduate.

Associate degrees earned at twoyear community colleges give students the necessary skills for jobs in internet technology, healthcare, or energy production. Some students also transfer to four-year colleges and continue their education.

e state reformed remedial education programs so students could do college-level coursework without paying extra for classes that don’t get them credit toward graduation. Instead, students now learn college algebra or English skills through tutoring or additional class time while they’re in a class that leads to credit.

Ansell said the practice is good for students because it ends up reinforcing lessons. And it doesn’t damage student morale by making them take a class that doesn’t earn them credit. at keeps students enrolled, Ansell said.

Remedial classes “end up being a real downer because you’re told you’re college material and then the rst thing that you’re told is you have to take the classes that you

just took in high school,” Ansell said.

e college system has also emphasized ensuring students have basic needs met. More community colleges have food pantries or step in when students face housing insecurity.

And the community college system has ramped up advising over the years so students can see a path toward a degree, Garcia said. e system has streamlined course catalogs, which Garcia said were overly confusing and caused students to take classes that didn’t connect to their eventual career goals.

e state has more work to do, Garcia said. In the last two years, community college leaders have expanded degree programs that allow community college students to easily enroll in four-year colleges. One example is a recent engineering partnership with the Colorado School of Mines.

Ansell said the state will also need to increase support for basic needs or other challenges students are facing by placing more funding into those programs, especially because the pandemic has changed whether students decide to go to college.

More students of color are choosing not to enroll in college, Garcia said. Since the pandemic, more students are choosing to work or don’t enroll because they worry about college costs. That’s contributed to a dip in community college enrollment that hasn’t recovered since the start of the pandemic. And fewer students are taking classes full time and instead opting to go to school part time, Garcia said.

The Complete College of America report shows students who don’t take classes full time have a tougher time graduating.

“What all of us in higher education are worried about right now is losing ground we fought so hard to gain over the last 10 years,” Garcia said.

This story is from Chalkbeat Colorado, a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools. Used by permission. For more, and to support Chalkbeat, visit co.chalkbeat.org.

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Denver mayor asks for help to accommodate hundreds of migrants

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Denver continues to ramp up services to help the hundreds of migrants who have made their way to the city. In recent weeks, more than 400 have sought out services at temporary shelters.

“We’re going to deploy every resource we have at our disposal to keep people healthy and safe because that’s what we’re called to do right now,” Hancock said in a recent press conference.

e mayor said Denver has spent at least $800,000 so far in e orts to aid the migrants. Cots, food, clothing and security at two city emergency shelters have driven costs up.

“It never ceases to amaze me, the generosity of this community, where people step up to help those who are in need,” Hancock said. “When residents started sending us messages, they weren’t asking why these

people were here and why aren’t we stopping them, they were asking, ‘How can we help?’”

About 600 migrants arrived in Denver since the start of December. The city has tracked the arrivals of some 900 migrants in recent months.

“This is as challenging of a circumstance that we have seen in our city,” Hancock said.

The city is working to place migrants with friends and families in the metro area and elsewhere in the United States, according to Mimi Scheuer, CEO of Denver Human Services.

The city is seeking donations of personal hygiene products and clothing for adults and children. A drop-off location for physical donations is located at Iglesia Ciudad de Dios, 5255 W. Warren Ave. in Denver’s Harvey Park neighborhood. Donations are accepted from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesdays and

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It finally happened

It took nearly three years, but I nally “o cially” came down with COVID. Like many, I had plenty of discussions with people saying I might have had it before we knew about COVID. I still suspect I did, but this time was certain.

EDITOR’S COLUMN

I started feeling “o ,” started having speci c symptoms and, given how much I, and our sta , had written about the topic – I didn’t feel like I need a test to con rm it. I just knew.

First, I have not tested for COVID before. My household has been extremely fortunate in not getting sick or needing a test. is was the rst time I did the athome tests that were sent to my house.

I have to admit, there were some ashbacks to home pregnancy tests waiting to see if the lines would appear. With the children — I wanted to line to appear. With this one — not so much.

Anyway, read through the directions, followed the steps and was expecting a 15-minute wait. Instead, it took less than two minutes for both lines to appear. I had COVID — although I already knew that.

I have a household of seven people, including my parents who are said to be the “vulnerable” population for this stu . My dad has also been recovering from a nasty bout with bronchitis. I did not want to add this to the recovery e orts.

en, we have the usually healthy three children and my husband.

Interestingly, when all was said and done – My 9-yearold, my teenage daughter and I ended up with COVID. e rest of the family was spared.

Now — for the lesson. We so badly want to pretend we’ve moved on from COVID. It became such a political thing that it brings up more anger and resentment that I had even expected myself to feel.

However, I got extremely sick. My daughter got very sick. My son just had a runny nose and felt tired.

Like others — I agree things went a little too far in some regards in how this nation handled dealing with a pandemic. I did not agree with a lot of things. Others I did agree with.

But when you’re lying in bed, struggling to breathe and feeling like you have been run over by a truck — you do understand what all these doctors are saying when they stress that it is important to be vigilant and not spread this thing.

In the end, I understand that it was a terrible cold and I recovered in a week — but those things people questions as fake are not fake. Yes — I had brain fog. No — I, while testing negative, have not fully recovered. I am still more tired than my daily tasks need me to be. I can be in the middle of doing a simple task like washing glasses in a sink and suddenly feel tired and need to lie down.

We are in the season of COVID spreading and u cases going up, and RSV in children is higher than doctors are comfortable with.

No matter what you think of any of these illnesses — I did exactly what was recommended. I stayed home. I kept my children at home. I stayed away from my parents and youngest son.

I may not have handled it perfectly, but for other students at my kids’ school, my coworkers and the world we live in — I did not want to spread it. Being vigilant is probably the best lesson we can follow from all the pandemic brought us.

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The spirit and reality of Santa Claus

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Last week I happened to catch an article about our Generation Z population regarding Santa Claus. e MerriamWebster Online Dictionary de nes Generation Z as “ e generation of people born in the late 1990s and early 2000s.” e message was based on interviews with a few people from that generation and their belief in Christmas, or primarily their belief or disbelief in Santa Claus.

e few people that were interviewed expressed their opinion that they would not raise their children to believe in some chubby Christmas elf called Santa Claus. ey were not willing to lie to their children about some mystery man who went to each home delivering presents, and they were certainly not going to sign the label on the gift “From: Santa Claus.” e questions that popped into my head were about how they may have been raised. Did they enjoy the mystery of Santa Claus? Were their gifts signed, “From: Santa Claus?” And if so, where, and how did they become disillusioned?

is isn’t the rst time someone, or a group, has tried to cancel Santa Claus. For some reason they just feel like sharing the mystery of Santa Claus is a lie that shouldn’t be perpetuated. So now I feel it’s time to

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help defend jolly old Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, Santa Claus against those who wish to see his name and the tradition disappear.

e origin of Santa Claus stems from a monk who was from what is now modernday Turkey known as Saint Nicholas in A.D. 280. Saint Nicholas was known as the saint who watched over children. It is also said that he gave away his wealth and helped the poor and sick. So indeed, there was a real Saint Nicholas. And over all these hundreds of years, the spirit of Saint Nicholas has continued to grow the tradition of giving, helping, and giving hope to one another. e season between anksgiving and Christmas is the greatest time for giving, during this time we see the spirit of abundance everywhere.

I have such great admiration for all those volunteers who represent the Salvation Army, ringing their bell as they help drive donations to an amazing organization. Do we want to cancel those volunteer Santa Clauses too? at would be an absolute shame. And a huge shout out to all of you who take your shifts being Santa and ringing in the Christmas spirit of giving, and doing it regardless of the weather, you are all awesome.

My guess is no one wants to intentionally lie to their children about a mysterious and magical Santa Claus. As I think back to how I

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Friendship: We’re killing it

On e of the great ironies of this interconnected age when we are wired as never before, when communication with another is merely an email, text, Zoom call, or app away, and when we have a plethora of groups to join and participate in and the time to be involved in them, more and more are finding themselves friendless or their friendships tentative and tenuous. It’s more than a philosophical or psychological condition. It’s a symptom of what ails American culture specifically and our high-tech, quick-paced culture writ large.

Statistically, being friendless or a minimalist when it comes to interpersonal relationships is more true for men than women, but both genders are finding themselves more and more without when it comes to close friends. In a May 2021 American Perspectives Surveypoll, 15% of men and 10% of women said they have no close friends. In 1990, at the nascent stage of the internet, that figure for men was about 3%; for women, 2%. That’s a five-fold increase for both. And only about 50% of the entire population said they have four or more close friends. A hard truth is that there is a strong correlation between the size of one’s circle of close friends (three or less) and their experiences of loneliness and depression.

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Perplexing to say the least. So, why is that happening especially in context of this age when the opportunity to connect with others is literally at the fingertips of most?

As the poll suggests, the tenability of friendships isn’t just a guy thing. A friend told me about a feature of many women’s friendships that I, being a guy without kids, had no clue about. She talked about “seasons of friendships” and how friends move in and out of their lives due to their roles as mothers. While their kids are growing, they form friendships with the mothers of their children’s friends via school, sports and other circumstances. But when the kids are grown and gone, oftentimes those friendships evaporate.

“I have lost many friends along the way only to realize that all we really had in common was that our children were the same age, at the same school or in the same sport,” she said.

Nevertheless, life goes only this time they find themselves navigating the friend scene not as young 20-somethings but as older women.

She spoke about how her career

tial. Unfortunately, the loss of good habitat isn’t the only threat pollinators face.

Pesticide use — in particular, a class of pesticides called neonics — is one of the main perpetrators of bee die-o s. Our pollinator district

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raised my own children, we emphasized Santa Claus, we had them meet Santa Claus and get their pictures taken, they wrote letters to Santa, and yes, we even left cookies and eggnog for jolly old Saint Nick. But we also spoke to the spirit of the season and what we could do for others. Maybe it was paying some utility bills for someone, donating money or time to the rescue mission, helping a neighbor who was in a di cult spot and couldn’t a ord gifts that year.

e real reason for the season is obviously the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. May we never forget this, no matter the numerous attempts that try and commercialize the season or the day. And going back to our original Saint Nicholas

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in A.D. 280, may we remember where the spirit of Santa Claus began, and may we do what we can to ensure that the spirit of Saint Nick lives on and in us all.

How about you and your family? Is it all about the gifts and only the gifts? Or does the spirit of Santa Claus help you to embrace the season and the day with abundance, giving, helping, and providing hope to our family, friends, and those who need a hand up? I would love to hear your Santa Claus story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can stop trying to cancel the spirit of Santa Claus, it really will be a better than good life.

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played a major role in developing her friendship circle.

“I think especially for women, the current roles you play impact the friendships you are able to sustain and nurture,” she said. “I have been in the same job for 32 years, so my co-workers are much more than friends. I recently added a low pay evening retail job where I have made new, young, poor friends who remind me of my former self.”

There is a fundamental difference between women and men when it comes to sharing personal stuff: Women talk; men get tight-lipped. Which points to a larger problem: Men have just as much need to talk about their stuff as women. But we rarely do. We’re taught from early toddlerhood that we need to put it away, toughen up, and for heaven’s sake, never, ever cry. Which gets at something both telling and ironic about the10-to-15%: The degree that attitude plays a role in why so many find themselves friendless, and they are often the ones most in need of close friends.

Certainly, other factors lie at the root of increased friendlessness. The pandemic, for example. But even though the pandemic seemed like an eon to get through, it was relatively shortlived. The increasing rate of those without friends has been a longterm trend, not a spike.

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We need to stop the consumer sale of bee-killing neonics pesticides

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A vogue idiomatic expression is “killing it.” It’s a juxtaposition of kill in that it doesn’t suggest violence but, instead, means doing something great. I’d like to say in that context that when it comes to friendships we’re killing it. But we’re not. Rather, we’re literally killing them. That is especially true for Gen Z’ers who are, according to the data, the loneliest among us. Twenty-eight percent of men 30 and under, for example, reported they have no close social connections. But that’s a separate topic that would entail discussion about helicopter parents and the wireless umbilical cord that aids and abets their keeping their children symbolically and sometimes literally nested in their roost.

Want to do something small but monumental to stem the deterioration and fragmentation of American society? Break out of your bubble—religious, political, or whatever—and befriend another. And then another. And then… You might not change the world overnight, but you just make another feel wanted and valued. And you just might find yourself with a new friend, even a close one that causes you to wonder how in the heck you got through life without them.

Jerry Fabyanic is the author of “Sisyphus Wins” and “Food for Thought: Essays on Mind and Spirit.” He lives in Georgetown.

statewide. Municipalities should also be able to go beyond state regulations around selling and using pesticides so their pollinator havens can remain just that.

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Hundreds of the nation’s most elite athletes in indoor rock climbing just had their version of the Super Bowl in Denver.

As the Olympic sport expands across the U.S. and Colorado, USA Climbing’s national championship last month was a sort of homecoming. e governing body in 2018 moved from its longtime home in Boulder to new headquarters in Salt Lake City.

“We de nitely wanted to have a presence back in Colorado. at’s where USA Climbing got its feet o the ground,” said Ben Lowe with USA Climbing.

Sold-out crowds at e Spot climbing gym in Denver and G1 Climbing in Broom eld cheered as climbers — a mix of past and potential Olympians — tested themselves in three disciplines: 50-foot sport-climbing routes, a speed competition and short, powerful boulder problems.

Athletes made it as far as they could on routes designed to test their strength, agility and coordination.

In the sport climbing nals, only one athlete, Sean Bailey, completed a route without falling. He reached the top to raucous applause after battling a series of angled, plastic blocks screwed into the wall. e route required him to lunge toward small plastic rock holds with the tips of his ngers, hook his heels to pull his body up and swing across the wall while hanging on by only a few ngers. e competition marked the end of the indoor-climbing season, but also provided an opportunity for new and returning climbers to begin scoring points to qualify for next year’s national team.

Once on the national team, athletes travel the world, competing in the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s World Cups.

ey also get the chance to try out for the team going to the

2024 Olympics in Paris.

A surge in popularity

Indoor climbing started as a way for climbers to train during the o season. Now, it’s blossomed into one of the fastest-growing Olympic sports. One that Coloradans are eating up.

In 2000, there were about 150 climbing gyms in the nation. Now, there are nearly 600, according to the Climbing Business Journal.

“It’s been a pretty massive surge in popularity, not just over the past two or three years though, it’s been seeing massive growth over the past 10 years,” said Lowe, the communications director for USA Climbing.

e indoor climbing industry is rmly anchored in Colorado with dozens of gyms across the state and a host of indoor equipment manufacturers thriving along the Front Range.

“De nitely explosive (growth) here in Colorado,” said Dan Howley, founder of e Spot gyms in Boulder and Denver.

e Spot has hosted several past national climbing competitions and was home to bouldering nationals at their Denver location this year.

While USA Climbing is working to grow the sport around its new Salt Lake City base, Colorado athletes and fans continue to be a big part of the sport.

“ ere’s always been a lot of really great athletes, especially young athletes, that have come out of Colorado. It’s got a long history in competitive rock climbing,” Lowe said. “Whenever somebody starts climbing the ranks and we

hear they’re from Colorado, that’s denitely no surprise.” at’s in part because of Boulder’s enduring ties to the sport.

“In the last 20 years, the Boulder area is sort of the Hollywood of rock climbing,” said Jason Haas, founder of G1 Climbing, “and if you’ve wanted to make a name for yourself in rock climbing you’ve had to live here.”

Two athletes from Colorado, Brooke Raboutou, 21, of Boulder, and Colin Du y, 18, of Broom eld, already qualied for the national team trials in March. Both participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but the next Olympic trials have not yet been scheduled.

Members and sta from both G1 and e Spot also competed in nationals, with at least one making nals.

While it may be a few years before USA Climbing comes back to Colorado for nationals, both gyms say they hope to continue hosting other regional and local competitions. e Spot hosts four bouldering

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rise to the mosquitoes infecting people with West Nile makes it even more complicated to predict how climate change might alter the dynamics.

Hancock is skeptical that it will. No matter how hot and dry it gets in Colorado, human intervention will likely preserve mosquito breeding grounds.

“We have made a relatively controllable mosquito factory,” he said. “So I predict climate change is going to a ect everything, but I predict it will impact Colorado less than other places for mosquito epidemiology.”

Instead, the bigger impacts from a warming climate appear to come down to the added time it creates for mosquitoes.

House, the state public health veterinarian, said it takes a hard freeze to kill o mosquito populations for the winter. But in years where that hard freeze is delayed, West Nile season can stretch on and on. As climate change makes fall the fastest-warming season in Colorado, that means West Nile season is poised to lengthen.

“We’re de nitely seeing a late season, and the longer the season goes, the more at risk people are,” House said.

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up the replication of the virus inside a mosquito. at means the hotter it is, the faster a mosquito is ready to spread the virus to something else — what’s called the “extrinsic incubation period.”

“ at’s really important because life is quite dangerous for mosquitoes,” Ebel, the CSU professor, said. “ ey get killed all the time, they get eaten. Even if it’s just one day, that’s a day when mortality isn’t hacking away at mosquitoes.”

All of these factors can make Colorado’s West Nile problem seem dizzying and unsolvable. But Ebel, Hancock and other researchers are optimistic. ey talk of producing mathematical models that predict West Nile spread. Doing so would allow o cials to better target prevention e orts, like spraying.

Ebel hopes to conduct more genetic sequencing of West Nile virus samples, to get a better sense of how it moves across the map.

But rst, they will need to answer some surprisingly elusive questions about the mosquito that’s to blame.

Building a home for Culex tarsalis e enclosures Hancock has built to hold his delicate Sabethes mosquitoes are small, scarcely bigger than a microwave.

For his prospective Culex tarsalis enclosure, he had to go bigger. e box is roughly the size of a large refrigerator,

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Nathaniel Coleman, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, was among the crowd along with Raboutou and Du y. Kyra Condie, another Olympian, at nationals won the bronze medal in lead climbing and was fth in bouldering.  “It’s like going to the World Series but

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and he might need to build it bigger still. This is because tarsalis likes to breed in airborne swarms. You need a lot of mosquitoes and a lot of space to make it work.

the local community doesn’t get to meet the star athletes in the NBA playo s or the Super Bowl,” Haas said. “ ey don’t get to shake hands with Peyton Manning and have a conversation with him. But in climbing we’re still at that level where you can.”

Kyra Condie completes the rst boulder during nationals at e Spot in Denver. Condie, 26, won the bronze medal in lead climbing and was fth in bouldering. (Elliott Wenzler/ e Colorado Sun)

While the sport began with a strong connection with outdoor climbing, most agree the two have started to diverge.

“A lot of the routes that are set for these pros are now incorporating gymnastic, parkour-type movements,” Howley said, “physical movement that you’re not going to nd you’re able to do safely outside.”

Indoor climbing also o ers a new, unique option for people interested in

Hancock knows of one lab colony in existence in California. But he’s hoping to establish a colony that behaves a little more like the mosquitoes in Colorado do — and that means collecting them in the wild.

“It’s so deep and rich,” he said. “Every group of mosquitoes has their own ways.”

At times, Hancock’s ways can seem

overall tness, Lowe said.

“ ere’s a lot of people out there who have a hard time going into a typical gym to run on the treadmill or lift weights for a few hours,” Lowe said. “ ey want something they can actually actively engage with and challenge themselves not only physically but also mentally.”

Howley calls himself a “hardcore evangelist” for the sport.

“Indoor climbing has made this sport accessible and visible and popular to a larger community that maybe otherwise wouldn’t have been exposed to it, and to me that’s nothing but good,” he said. “Climbing makes people better as humans, it does so much for you. … It’s really good for the individual, it’s good for your soul and it’s food for building communities that care about each other and support each other.”

Now, USA Climbing and gym owners are working to make the sport more ac-

a little unique, as well. Feeding his lab colonies — he also has a growing colony of bedbugs for a different research project —with his own blood is done mostly out of convenience, he said. Besides, after years of research on blood-sucking bugs, he no longer develops welts or reacts to their bites, though getting to that point involved quite a bit of itchiness and pain,

cessible to everyone.

Haas said it’s a pivotal time to make sure the sport grows and doesn’t turn into a fad that comes and goes. He said that growth lies in accessibility to the non-rock climber.

He hopes for a day when people understand climbing like they do basketball or football.

“I should be able to turn on the television and go: who’s winning?” he said. “We have this great opportunity to show the whole world this sport and they can share it whether they physically do it as well or just spectate.”

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