his grandmother’s ofrenda. It was a traditional ofrenda permanently in the home — his grandmother kept it on her bedroom dresser. e ofrenda was covered with pictures of his mother who he lost at a young age, Garibay’s ofrenda has photos
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BY SHANNON MULLANE THE COLORADO SUN
Floods, swollen rivers, road closures — Colorado’s spring runo season is in full swing and much of the snow in the state’s mountains hasn’t melted yet.
Colorado saw higher-than-average snowfall build up on the Western Slope this year, a boon for irrigators and other water users who rely on the Colorado River Basin which spans Colorado, tribal lands, six Western states and parts of Mexico. But the snowmelt, with the help of recent weather, is leading to high runo and its adverse impacts are popping up around the state like a game of whack-a-mole.
Beyond monitoring for mudslides and rockfalls loosened by rain and high runo , the Colorado Department of Transportation is also watching bridges and roads for possible closures.
“I’m seeing higher ows in almost every single drainage that we have over here (in western Colorado) than what we’ve seen probably in at least four or ve years, if not longer,”
Much more snow is still waiting in the high country
said Julie Constan, a CDOT regional director. “We had such a heavy snowpack across the entire western portion of the state, so that’s causing all of the creeks to de nitely be running higher than what we’re used to seeing.”
On the Front Range and Eastern Plains, 10 days of rain in May helped with the state’s continuing recovery from drought over the past year. e amount of the state experiencing drought conditions has dropped from 93% a year ago to just 11% today.
But the rain has also combined with snowmelt to cause ooding around Colorado. In northeastern and southwestern Colorado, communities in the White-Yampa River Basin and along the Dolores River have built sandbag barriers to slow encroaching ooding. On May 11 in Denver, Cherry Creek leapt to its highest ow rate since 1980 after intense rain supplemented by reservoir releases, according to media reports.
For anyone traveling, camping or oating the river over Memorial Day weekend, checking road and weather conditions will be key for a safe outing.
Statewide, 42 people died in waterrelated accidents in 2022, according to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife. As of May 18, two people died in
con rmed water-related incidents this year. e state recommends that boaters wear life jackets regardless of age or experience level.
Campsites could also be temporarily closed. Dinosaur National Monument closed its Pot Creek campsites this month due to the possible failure of an old, earthen dam on private land. e dam is structurally sound, but the area has received so much snow this year that, as of mid-May, runo in ows increased the reservoir’s elevation to within a few inches of the dam’s crest, Park Ranger Dan Johnson said.
“ e state o ce was concerned that, should that dam fail in the middle of the night when people are
camping there, it could create a hazardous situation,” Johnson said, adding that the campsites could reopen in time for Memorial Day weekend campers.
e high spring runo is also impacting road conditions across the state. In southeastern Colorado, the Arkansas River ooded U.S. 50 near La Junta.
A debris ow at the Hanging Lake exit on Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon blocked access to the trailhead for two weeks before it reopened last week. e Forest Service announced the trail is closed again until at least June 2 because of heavy runo on the trail.
“ e amount of water coming down the trail in many spots is really impressive,” Leanne Veldhuis, EagleHoly Cross district ranger, said in a news release. “ ere is currently no good way around the water, so we have closed the trail until the runo lessens or our trail crew can mitigate it.”
CDOT is also working to repair a gaping sinkhole that appeared on Colorado 133 near Paonia. Rushing spring runo overwhelmed a culvert under the highway and caused enough erosion to collapse a section of the road that is roughly 20 to 30 feet wide — and certainly large enough to t a sedan, she said. A temporary bridge should be installed by early- to mid-June, and permanent repairs should begin this fall.
In the Upper Colorado River Basin, which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, the amount of water peaked in early April at about 150% to 170% of the historical norm. ese states are situated upstream of Lake Powell on the UtahArizona border, one of the basin’s largest water storage reservoirs. e reservoir’s dam, Glen Canyon Dam, sends water down to Lower Basin states — Arizona, California and Nevada — which also had an exceptionally wet year, said Cody Moser, senior hydrologist at the forecast center. However in the Upper Basin above Lake Powell, most of the snowpack is still sitting at 150% to 170% of the norm, Moser said, according to SNOTEL data.
“Across the northern part of the Upper Colorado River Basin, there’s been alternating periods of sunny, warm weather that generates the snow melt and the higher ows,” he said. “And then we’ve seen those periods alternating with cooler, cloudier weather that’s brought some additional moisture in both rain and snow. It’s helped the snowmelt rate decrease, so it’s been kind of up and down in April and May.”
Southwestern Colorado has seen more continuous warm, sunny weather and thus more snowmelt than other parts of Colorado, like the northwestern region, he said.
Colorado also received higherthan-normal snowpack across elevations lower than 9,500 feet, where snow typically melts more quickly. at thick layer is also frequently downstream of reservoirs which means, depending on the location, the water is going straight into streams and rivers. at has led to an extended period of high ows, especially in the WhiteYampa River Basin in northwestern Colorado and the Dolores River Basin, Moser said. And when rain falls onto snow, as it has in isolated patches across the state, the liquid water speeds up melting even further.
“We’ve entered into a period of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoons and evenings,” he said. “We’ve had some enhanced melt due to rain-on-snow with some of these storms.”
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“Lots of monitoring going on, but so far, the only real major failure we’ve had has been on 133,” Constan said. “It’s a good thing that there’s only been one major failure and everything else pulled together OK.”
is winter, Colorado saw storm after storm add snow to the growing snowpack in the mountains.
By early April, that buildup peaked.
e amount of liquid water in the snow, called the snow-water equivalent, across the Western Slope was 130% to 140% of the median between 1991 and 2020, according to the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center. e estimate is based on SNOTEL data collected using a network of highelevation instruments that measure snowpack. On the Front Range, the snow-water equivalent lagged below its median this winter.
SNOTEL sites are generally located above 9,000 feet so lower elevation runo isn’t re ected in basinwide snow-water equivalent percentages. ese sites target between 9,000 and 11,500 feet where most of the snowpack typically accumulates. at’s why the snow-water equivalent percentages from SNOTEL data have not changed by much, he said.
“ ere’s still a lot of high-elevation snow up there,” Moser said.
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“Celebrating Indigenous art is very important to me and my work because it’s a way to reclaim and honor something that was lost and taken from me,” Garibay said. “I grew up in a very culturally rich environment, but for the most part, most of the aspects of that culture are things that are a result of Spanish colonization.”
Spanish isn’t the language his ancestors spoke, and Catholicism isn’t the religion they practiced, Garibay said.
“ e architecture people typically associate with Mexico is that of European design, likely constructed out of my ancestors’ demolished buildings,” Garibay said. “Celebrating Indigenous art is one of the few ways that I have left to reclaim this missing piece of my culture.”
is June, the McNichols Civic Center Building will be host to an elaborate ofrenda created by Garibay and his creative partner, Adrianna Baez. “We are using EVA foam, cardboard, real moss, plastic owers, several di erent lights, paint, a few di erent textiles and PVC piping to construct our ofrenda,” said Baez. “ e design work took about a week, and we are hoping to construct it in about two weeks. We have already begun constructing some of the components so that assembly will be easier, and we will have a larger crew to help with construction at the McNichols Civic Center Building.”
e ofrenda will be on display June 9-15 and honor the lives of artists and creators who were lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Garibay and Baez’s ofrenda is in uenced by Mayan architecture and is topped with a skull inspired by Cizin,
the Mayan god of death and earthquakes. In conjunction with Garibay and Baez’s ofrenda, the public is invited to bring photos of people they have recently lost and place them on a community altar.
e ofrenda is a part of Denver’s Indigenous comic and art festival called áyA Con, which takes place June 9-11. It is a celebration of indigene-
ity, hosted by and highlighting North American Indigenous creators. is all-inclusive familyfriendly festival features comic creators, bead artists, musicians, digital illustrators, drag ashion performance, designers, Indigenous dancers and more. áyA Con is a collaborative festival with events taking place at several locations in Denver. e ofrenda, art and select performances will take place at the McNichols Civic Center Building. Panels, art making and community booths with interactive activities will take place at the Denver Art Museum. e Levitt Pavilion will also be hosting Rez Metal night, a free concert with a lineup of ve Indigenous heavy metal bands.
“Come to áyA Con to build connections, celebrate the di erences in all cultures and bond over fandoms,” said Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand, one of the organizers for the áyA Con event. “ ere is something for everyone. Our show is very eclectic. We have a wide range of artistic practices, music and stories, all centered around Garibay and Baez’s áyA Con Ofrenda is also something not-to-miss, Garibay said, adding it’s important to honor the lives of artists and creators because of their artistic struggle.
“ is is something that all true artists can relate to. It’s what connects us. ey will never have a chance to nish the projects they were in the process of bringing to life,” said Garibay. “My hope is that when people see the altar, they will discover some of these amazing artists and look into their body of work. is will allow the artists and their work to continue inspiring the living and lling their lives with beauty.”
To learn more about the áyA Con Ofrenda at the McNichols Civic Center Building, visit mcnicholsbuilding. com/exhibitions. For more information and a full schedule of áyA Con events, visit ayacondenver.art.
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Colorado public health experts have unveiled a rst-of-its-kind interactive research database containing hundreds of studies on the impacts of high-potency cannabis products — looking at the e ects on everything from mental health to cancer to pregnancy.
at is one of the most signi cant things to come out of a two-year research review by the Colorado School of Public Health.
e review was ordered up by the legislature in 2021 in response to the increasing number of high-concentration THC products dominating the state’s legal cannabis market. With the rise of those products came concerns over how they may be impacting health, especially among young people. (THC is, of course, the most famous psychoactive chemical in cannabis.)
Researchers termed the report a “scoping review” and described the research database as an “evidence map.”
“With funding from the state of Colorado, a valuable, public re-
source has been developed for public health and scienti c purposes,” Dr. Jonathan Samet, the school’s dean, said in a statement. “ e scoping review and evidence map are unique; it is the rst and most complete systematic assessment of the entire body of literature related to high-concentration cannabis.”
But what do those studies say? Eh, that’s a little less clear.
“Limited evidence” for most e ects e School of Public Health
researchers found limited to no evidence in published studies for most commonly claimed e ects.
Are adolescents and young adults especially vulnerable to adverse physical and mental health outcomes from using high-potency cannabis? ere’s a limited amount of evidence that they are.
Do high-potency cannabis products help with pain? ere’s a limited amount of evidence that they do.
What about sleep? ere’s a limited amount of evidence that the products can both help and hurt sleep.
e review found moderate evidence — meaning slightly more robust but still not conclusive evidence — of only two impacts.
“ ere was a moderate amount of evidence that high-concentration THC can have adverse e ects on those with pre-existing conditions such as psychosis,” Greg Tung, an associate professor of health systems, management and policy at the School of Public Health, said in a statement. “But there are also studies that show bene cial outcomes from the use of high-concentration cannabis on other mental health conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression.”
“It’s not an easy scientific question.”
In an interview, Samet said he wasn’t exactly surprised that the review didn’t come up with more conclusive answers.
One of the problems was the studies they had to work with. e research team at the Colorado School of Public Health screened roughly 66,000 studies and found 452 that were relevant to their questions about high-potency THC.
But what the team really wanted to examine was the e ects of the kind of high-THC products sold today in the cannabis marketplace. e studies looking at the e ects of THC spanned some ve decades, meaning the products in those studies varied greatly and were often quite
di erent from what is sold today.
Another problem: Studies funded by the National Institutes of Health were constrained to using cannabis from the government’s o cial research pot farm at the University of Mississippi. Cannabis from that facility is notoriously low quality.
“We learned there was a vast number of studies, potentially,” Samet said. “But that in fact there were not that many that directly addressed the policy questions we were interested in.”
It’s also not particularly easy to study e ects when there are so many other elements that can go into the equation besides potency.
For instance, Samet said the method of consumption could have an impact, as could the amount consumed and the tolerance of the consumer.
Samet, who is both a pulmonary physician and an epidemiologist, compared the task of studying potent marijuana to another research topic he knows well, tobacco smoking. Before the proliferation of tobacco vaping, studying smoking was pretty easy. ere were only a handful of di erent consumption methods and a cigarette generally provided a tidy, standardized dose. By contrast, trying to study cannabis today introduces a dizzying number of variables.
“It’s not an easy scienti c question,” Samet said. “It’s not easy to generate the data you would like.”
To Samet, getting better answers to questions about the health impacts of high-potency THC will require more uniform studies.
In other words, researchers across the country and the globe need to come up with consistent standards to use and consistent ways of measuring data. Having those standards in place would allow studies to be better compared and synthesized.
But, in the meantime, he says the Colorado School of Public Health review should come with a caution. While it may be tempting to look at the limited evidence on e ects and conclude it means high-potency THC isn’t harmful, Samet said it’s better for consumers to err on the safe side. After all, as the old scientific saying goes, absence of evidence is not absence of harm.
“We’ve certainly highlighted the complexities,” Samet said. “I wish we had found more de nitive evidence.”
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On a typical Wednesday morning at Edge Ice Arena, skates cut into a sparkling, freshly cleaned sheet of ice. Patrick Donnelly is standing on the bench spitting blood because his wisdom teeth were pulled the day prior. But he wouldn’t miss supporting his friends and teammates at a practice. Not for pulled teeth. Not for the mid-March snowstorm. And certainly not for his heart condition. Hockey players have a toughness to them, but Donnelly and the rest of his crew of amateurs, all part of the Dawg Nation Hockey Foundation, aren’t afraid to share what’s in their hearts with the world.
Donnelly is here for hockey as much as he is for the community the players have built around it.
Dawg Nation started with a pass of a hat among friends more than a decade ago. Since then, the men’s league hockey team has evolved into an organization that has given away more than $4 million to those who
need it most.
It all began in 2009 when the Dawgs were just 15 friends who loved playing hockey together. en, in the span of just nine days that February, three of them were diagnosed with cancer.
“Each time I would pass my hat around the room and we would go
see Danny or Dave or Andy in the hospital,” Dawg Nation founder and CEO Marty Richardson said. “It wasn’t that we gave them 250 bucks, but it was the fact that they have buddies that had their back.”
All three won their battles.
About a year later, Jack Kelly, a fourth member of the Dawgs, would come down with an autoimmune disease. In six months, Kelly was gone. Richardson spoke at his funeral, and it was the rst time he had lost a close friend.
“I told his three daughters, ‘I want to do something in your dad’s honor,’” Richardson added. “‘I don’t know what it is, but I want to do something.’”
Eight months later, in 2011, Dawg Nation Hockey Foundation was born. Nobody was sure, including Richardson, what it would grow to be.
“We started Dawg Nation, and what it was designed for was [that] we can’t be the only team in the whole area that needs help or has players that need help,” Richardson said. “So we put on a [hockey] tournament to help a couple of guys, and then we put on a golf tournament, and we put on a comedy night, and all of these di erent things in that rst year.”
After that, it just kept growing and growing.
Along the way, Donnelly found Dawg Nation. Or, rather, Dawg Nation found him. About 10 years ago, Donnelly was diagnosed with congestive heart failure.
He was forced to quit his job and moved back into his parents basement because of his heart. But he found a new calling: becoming an operations manager at Dawg Nation.
He fought his heart condition with medicine at rst, but as time went on, it worsened and his heart was too far gone for the medicine to
help. Doctors installed a pump in his left ventricle to keep him alive by circulating blood to his body.
He was also put on a heart transplant list, but was okay with the pump because it worked.
“I was implanted with this LVAD and all of a sudden I had a new lease on life. So I decided to get back in shape,” Donnelly said. “One day I got a wild hair to put on my skates and go get on the ice. It was just so obvious that that’s what I should be doing to stay in shape.”
Donnelly would keep getting on the ice while also learning his limits of how hard he could push his body. He decided as long as he has warm blood in his body, he’ll spend his time on the cold ice he loves.
As Richardson said, Donnelly, who relied on the team for support as he rst hit the ice, now thrives on helping others.
“He all of a sudden was in a position not to accept, but to give,” Richardson said.
Or, as Donnelly said, “I use what’s left of my heart to help people.”
Recently, Dawg Nation made their way up to Minnesota. A family was in need of help, and the Dawgs responded. ey were there for Ethan Glynn, a three-sport athlete in hockey, baseball and football. Some would call Glynn a superstar bound for the pros. But just 11 plays into his freshman high school football season, his life changed on a routine tackle. In one moment, Glynn became a paraplegic.
A pond hockey tournament was organized, and Glynn and his family had $81,000 to help navigate the bills, thanks not only to Dawg Nation, but the wider community that supports their mission.
Sarah Karr, who lives in Parker, Colorado is another Dawg Nation member uplifted by the community.
Karr was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer that spread to her liver and given a year to live.
“Luckily, I’m giving it one heck of a run for its money,” Karr said.
Karr is one of the regulars that hits the ice in Littleton, despite what life is throwing at her.
“It just gives me this high for like the rest of the week,” Karr said. “It’s like I have a whole team behind me supporting me.”
At the rink, Karr is never without a smile. She resonates with friendliness and loves to talk with everyone who is skating, usually causing her to be one of the last players to leave the arena as everyone is clearing out.
Recently, Karr went to a Colorado Avalanche game with Dawg Nation. Team legend and now President of Hockey Operations Joe Sakic spent an entire period in a suite talking with Karr and everyone else, listening to all the stories about how hockey can heal.
When times get tough, Littleton’s Dawg Nation has a goal to heal
Richardson re ects on what the organization has grown into. It is constantly planning, giving, helping families and communities, he said.
“We didn’t envision that we would be tied into [helping] handicapped children and adults and veterans and blind hockey players,” Richardson said. “No one, including myself, could have seen this, and last year alone we were able to hand out checks around $900,000 in one year.”
And, thanks to people like Donnelly, di erences are being made on the ice.
e early-morning ice time Dawg Nation gets can be a bit daunting, but one person drives the rest to be there: Van Stone.
Stone su ered a traumatic brain injury in 2018. He now faces a slew of struggles, whether it is speech, motor skills, or navigating everyday life. He was told by doctors that he would never be able to play hockey again, but he wasn’t ready to give up. Stone, with the help of the Dawgs, proved those doctors wrong.
“ is is one of the only places he can go where he is just one of the guys,” Donnelly said.
While dealing with his own struggles, Donnelly will still go out of his way to help others. It’s bigger than
one person, he explained.
“What we created was a place where you can go when you know you want to help,” Richardson said.
And Dawg Nation isn’t nished either. ere is a bigger goal still on the horizon: a $64 million arena with three sheets of ice that anyone — disabled or not — can access. It would be one of the only facilities like it in the country. is is still years in the making, but the group is determined to see it through.
A place where Dawg Nation can call home. Where players can go to escape the hard times and enjoy the game that brings them all together. Somewhere where people like Richardson and Donnelly can go to positively a ect the lives of hundreds who need to be uplifted.
As of February, Donnelly was moved up to number one on the heart transplants list.
For a month and a half, all he could do was wait with the Dawg Nation family behind him. In April, he got the call he was waiting for. e next morning he was in the hospital. Donnelly got his heart.
“I can’t wait to slide him the puck and watch that one-timer hit the back of the net for the rst time with his new heart,” Richardson said with a smile.
For more information about Dawg Nation and how you can help, visit https://www.dawgnation.org/ .
In Incheon, South Korea, ying orbs whistle, buzz and clash in the air in an e ort to glide through hoops for points. If you’ve ever seen Harry Potter, it’s a lot like a remotecontrolled, electric version of Quidditch.
e increasingly popular sport is drone soccer. Students representing Westminster High School traveled for an international battle of aerospace skill in the FIDA World Drone Soccer Championships, which hosted more than a dozen international teams between May 17-20.
Four students from WHS paired up with four Sky-Blazers from Cherry Creek —who nished second nationally in 2023. ey make up the U.S. National Team. e hybrid team ofColoradans nished thirdin Incheon in what is essentially the World Cup of drone soccer.
Recently, the team hosted South Korean players for a friendly competition at the Colorado Convention Center. But when the championships kicked o in South Korea, the
friendliness faded and things got real.
“As you’re preparing for the
matches, it’s kind of friendly because everyone is trying to help each other out, especially if you don’t have the
right supplies at the right time,” said Helen Tran, a WHS junior and keeper for the U.S. National Team. “But once you’re on that oor, and about to face them, it’s really competitive and it’s like ‘We’re on opposite sides right now. You’re my enemy.’”
Drone soccer is the only educational robotics competition that is also an internationally sanctioned team sport by the World Air Sports Federation.
Here’s how it works: two teams of ve players compete against one another at the same time. Each team has a keeper, a striker, and three defenders. e idea is to protect your own goal and y the striker into the other team’s hoop to score.
But students don’t just y the drones. ey must build, repair, and maintain them. ere are three three-minute sets, two out of three seals a victory. Between sets, there is a three-to- ve-minute period for modifying and repairing any potential damage.
“ ey’re kind of like a Formula 1 team working really well together,” Kyle Sanders, vice president of development for U.S. Drone Soccer, said. “It’s really the communication and teamwork that you see in professional aviation, working on airplanes
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As Title 42 expired this month, news outlets had images of people waiting to cross the Mexico border into the U.S. Some estimated tens of thousands are now coming across the border in what our president said could become a time of chaos.
Chaos at the border is not new.
However, border chaos seeping into other states has become more common in the last year as governors from border states have started sending busloads of migrants to cities like Denver and New York.
I am not debating the issue of busing the migrants, but I do want to add to the border discussion. I lived in Southern Arizona. I grew up there. I started my journalism career there. Dealing with issues from our border was common and the realities are tough to swallow.
Now, our own state is starting to get a look at what border towns deal with. Reports were common last week in saying resources were running low, but the in ux of immigrants was continually increasing. What do we do?
For decades, many judged the border towns as being closed-minded and not open to letting immigrants come into our free country. It’s becoming a little tougher to judge those states when our own state is now dealing with the crisis on a rsthand basis.
e border crisis is massive and expanding. e border crisis is decades in the making and our lawmakers have continually passed the buck and ignored it.
In Arizona, the highway patrol regularly struggles with issues caused by the border. Coyotes, or people who lie and cheat immigrants to get them into the U.S., are known to pack trailers full of people in the 110-degree Arizona heat. It was not uncommon for me to cover a story about innocent lives being lost because they were abandoned
or left in the hot truck too long.
On another occasion, I covered a car accident where a 4-year-old was shoved into a small car with 10 other immigrants. e 4-year-old was pronounced dead in front of me that day with her mother crying over her. at day still sticks with me.
How awful are the circumstances for these people that are putting themselves in dangerous, unsafe situations for life in America? ey are bad. Economics, gang wars in Central America. ese human beings have true reasons for wanting a better life.
I looked in the faces of Central American teens being forced to leave home to avoid dying or being recruited to gangs. ey were sent by their parents who hoped they would nd peace in America and be safer than in their home countries.
On another day, I was among journalists challenged to take a two-mile trek that immigrants were taking to get into Arizona. I did it in the middle of summer across the hot desert. I certainly never question providing water to them after that.
No one can doubt the human side of the border crisis. ese are human beings seeking a better life. Here, they are being used as political pawns.
However, the burden is being put on our states and the federal government has chosen to ignore it and blame Republicans.
No fence is going to slow down this crisis. Believe me, I’ve walked along the fence in Nogales and watched immigrants use a ladder, jump over and wave with a smile.
To address this — we need leaders who have compassion but understand reality. We need compromise and empathy. We need to talk to other countries and develop solutions instead of clickbait banter for the daily news cycle.
Unfortunately, this crisis is decades in the making and I doubt will be xed in this or the next decade given the state of our current leadership.
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Li stening to the conversation around a business dinner table, I found myself trying to stay away from the conversation as it began to center around what was wrong with society and basically the world in general. If you are a regular reader of this column, you know that I try and remove myself as quickly as possible from anything I perceive as negativity, and this conversation was devolving quickly in that direction.
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After placing my phone on the table, I looked around the table and one by one, I made eye contact with everyone before saying, “A return to grace.” I will share that whenever I give that response the first reaction is usually confusion, followed by cynicism, and then possibly a little mocking, questioning my sincerity. Standing my ground, I made it a point to once again making eye contact with everyone before restating my position, “Yes, you all heard me correctly, a return to grace.”
Remaining silent once again, I waited for someone to ask me what it means to return to grace. And it never fails, someone will always ask me to elaborate on that statement.
Returning to grace means that we give everyone the same grace that we would expect when we screw up. I haven’t met the person, the company, the politician, or anyone else who hasn’t screwed up roy-
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In recent years, domestic violence incidents and deaths have risen in Colorado, and abusers continue to find new ways to maintain power and control over their partners. At the same time, Denver’s housing costs have continued to rise while wage growth remains stagnant, resulting in a volatile housing market.
This has sparked important conversations about barriers faced by survivors of domestic violence when they try to leave an abusive relationship. Finding safe, affordable housing is among the biggest of these barriers. Since 2018, SafeHouse Denver has offered an Extended Stay Program, which provides survivors with rent-free, fully furnished apartments in a safe environment. The program offers independent living and gives survivors extra time to find long-term housing and other necessary resources for stability.
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ally. And I include myself among the elite when it comes to making mistakes, I am pretty sure I am close to the top, if not at the top, when it comes to screwing up. Are society and the world at large teetering on the precipice of total chaos and anarchy? OK, maybe that is a little dramatic, but then again maybe not. Are there people whose actions and words are driving us crazy? Absolutely. Do we sit stunned as we read or watch the news, wondering,
munity, I was drawn to SafeHouse’s mission, so I’ve been volunteering with them ever since.
SafeHouse holds an annual food tasting fundraiser, called Sampling for Hope, to support the Extended Stay Program and raise awareness. As a member of the planning committee since 2019, I’m looking forward to this year’s event. It takes place on June 8 at Mile High Station, 2027 W. Colfax Ave. in Denver. Please join us for delicious food, a silent auction and a missionbased program — all to support survivors, who deserve to know that they can feel safe from harm and know that they’re valuable to the world. Tickets can be purchased at https:// p2p.onecause.com/samplingforhope2023. We hope to see you there!
Misty Schlabaugh DenverKelly Brough is all in for Denver
As many Denver residents know, the runoff election for Denver mayor is just days away.
“What idiot thought that was a good idea?” Or maybe we just let the anger and resentment fester inside of us until it reaches a boiling point or creates an ulcer. And then we share our outrage with anyone who will listen. And even if there is no one to listen, we go on a rant on social media, posting our anger and frustration, continuing to carrying the weight of what’s wrong with the world on our shoulders.
A return to grace means that instead of playing the blame game, we play the love and forgiveness game. I know, I know, I have heard it before that this is not a realistic approach in dealing with
This is a pivotal time for the Mile High City. Nearly every neighborhood meeting or community conversation shines a light on the big issues of the day. Homelessness continues to rise. Affordable housing remains out of reach for so many. And neighborhood safety remains a top concern. As with any municipality, there are more localized concerns as well, ranging from economic development in the Central Business District to pedestrian safety in Central Park.
So, in the context of this mayoral election, job preparedness and a track record of getting important work done are two qualities I seek in Denver’s next mayor. Without question, Kelly Brough brings these and other essential characteristics to the table. She’s held several roles within the city, most recently as the chief of staff for then-mayor John Hickenlooper. Brough has led large organizations, like the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, during economic recessions and other challenging times.
the nonsense and idiotic decisions being made and the ridiculous actions of those who we do not agree with. And everyone is entitled to their own opinions. My opinion and position are that I would rather live under the spirit of love and forgiveness as opposed to harboring anger, resentment, and frustration relative to the things that I have absolutely no control over. And if you still disagree with me, or think I am a bit too naïve, then maybe this can be your first attempt at offering me some grace.
Will society ever be perfect? No. Will people ever be without fault? No. Will the world ever get back
We need measured, steady leadership at the City and County Building — especially in times of crisis. Brough is a creative, solutions-oriented thinker, and I know that if elected mayor, she will swiftly assemble the team she needs to get important work done and on day one. Brough is all in for Denver, and is ready to take on this role. That is why a wide range of community leaders and organizations support her candidacy. I encourage you to do the same.
It is our time to weigh in on Denver’s next chapter. Ballots have been mailed, and voter centers across the city opened on May 30. All ballots must be returned by 7pm on June 6. This is arguably the most consequential municipal election in 40 years, and it’s not a time to sit on the sidelines. Join me in supporting Kelly Brough for Denver mayor.
Travis LeikerCentral Park resident, senior higher education director, neigh borhood leader, and community advocate
to what the majority of us would call normal? Maybe, maybe not. But wouldn’t it be a better place if we all figured how to offer love and forgiveness instead of spite and hostility? As always, I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can truly make that leap towards a return to grace, it really will be a better than good life.
Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.
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Spring is in full swing, bringing many folks around Colorado out of the doldrums of winter with the promise of outdoor recreation.
For folks who aren’t fans of “traditional sports” — think baseball, basketball, football, soccer — there are plenty of unique, exciting alternatives throughout the Centennial State. From roller skating to parkour, there is no shortage of variety in Colorado’s recreation options.
Roller skating, roller hockey and roller derby
Roller sports are alive and well in Colorado. Folks have quite a few options for activities revolving around wheeled feet; from roller skating to roller hockey to roller derby, there is no shortage of options.
Roller skating lovers have a plethora of skate
parks in the metro area and can get all of their gear — and some lessons — from the newlyopened Denver Skates Shop in Arvada. e store provides ttings and skating lessons for folks ranging from novices to experienced park skaters.
Brina Wyss, a sales associate and coach at Denver Skates Shop, said that roller sports experienced a surge in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic that’s since died down, but has nonetheless roughly doubled the community’s size.
“I think there was a big surge in interest in wheels and skating during the pandemic, but it was a trend” Wyss said. “I people had a lot of spare time and were looking for something active to do. e community has de nitely grown at least twice as much during the pandemic.”
Wyss participates in roller derby, which is played at the professional and recreational level
‘A lot of people do (skating) for joy and exercise. I do it as a way to escape, and it’s also a great way of community meeting.’
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in Colorado. Wyss said the competitive nature and team atmosphere of roller derby came to be a replacement for volleyball, which she played competitively growing up.
“A lot of people do (skating) for joy and exercise,” Wyss said. “I do it as a way to escape, and it’s also a great way of community meeting.”
Denver Roller Derby operates a large number of recreational and traveling teams and has opportunities for new players.
Folks looking for a non-contact alternative to ice hockey might nd roller hockey appealing — Skate City operates rinks in Arvada, Westminster and Littleton that o er roller skating and hockey, while Rocky Mountain Roller Hockey operates youth and adult leagues out of the Foothills Fieldhouse in Lakewood, and the Parker Fieldhouse also hosts youth and adult roller hockey.
Ultimate frisbee/ disc golf
Frisbee sports have come into favor in Colorado recently — a semiprofessional ultimate frisbee team kicked o their inaugural season in Golden this month — with two main ways to play.
Ultimate frisbee resembles American football in that teams
must complete passes in an end zone to score points. As the name suggests, disc golf resembles “traditional” golf, but is played with a disk instead of a ball.
e Denver Summer Ultimate League is the oldest ultimate frisbee competition in the state, and just nished registration for its 2023 season.
Disc golf fans may nd more frequent playing options. In Arvada, the Johnny Roberts Disc Golf
Course and Birds Nest Disc Golf Course both operate at city parks.
Colorado Christian University operates a disc golf course in Lakewood, and Foothills Parks and Recreation operates the Fehringer Ranch Disc Golf Course in Morrison. For those looking for a more secluded experience, the Wondervu Disc Golf Course in Golden is considered to be one of the most scenic — and challenging — courses around.
According to gym owner Lorin Ball, the de nition of parkour is simple: “Using environment to get from point A to point B in the most e cient way possible.”
Ball is the owner of Flow Vault, a parkour and ninja warrior — yes, American Ninja Warrior — training gym in ornton. Flow Vault opened in 2008 and o ers classes to people ages 5 and up. His gym has even graduated some ninja warriors to the popular NBC show.
“It’s a full curriculum, similar to that of gymnastics, where you have di erent levels of progressions,” Ball said. “We’re training people to be more intentional with their movement and apply that to other sports or physical activities that they do.”
Other parkour gyms in the area include APEX Denver, Path Movement in Littleton and Ninja Intensity in Parker.
Finally, Colorado has no shortage of arial adventure options. Ropes courses and adventure parks are plentiful in the Centennial State and are often and family-friendly way to recreate uniquely.
e Colorado Adventure Center is based in Idaho Springs, e EDGE Ziplines and Adventures is in Castle Rock, and the Treehouse Adventure Park is based in Bailey.
Even at 12 years old, Siram Yalavarthy sees the unbreakable thread between history and the current moment, something he’s long loved learning about in social studies classes going back to the founding of the United States.
“Learning that the past actually happened” is what Sriram said fascinates him the most. “It’s not just a story we tell every single day, and it a ects us today still.”
e seventh-grader from Drake Middle School in Arvada was crowned the winner of the rst of its kind state civics bee in May at St. Cajetan Catholic Church in Denver, where he competed against 14 other Colorado middle schoolers. Similar to a spelling bee, the Colorado National Civics Bee put students in front of an audience to quiz them on all kinds of facts related to how government is structured and the rules that dictate how it works.
Using electronic tablets they got to keep, the students who battled against one another tackled two rounds of questions that pressed them on some of the ner details of
civics: What is the name of the document that allows a visitor to the U.S. to stay for a speci c period of time?
(A visa.) Which amendments all deal with some aspect of the presidency?
(Twelve, 22 and 25.) With the Monroe Doctrine, the United States did what? (Warned European nations not to interfere with a airs in the Western Hemisphere.)
e students stand out from many of their peers and even adults across the country, who largely struggle to understand government systems and remember critical components of democracy in an era when deepening political divisions have sparked battles over history curriculum and how it is taught.
e de cits in students’ grasp of civics became more apparent when the results of last spring’s National Assessment of Educational Progress — which includes state and national tests that gauge student achievement in subjects including reading, math and civics — revealed fewer students reaching pro ciency in civics. Civics scores decreased an average of 2 points, with nearly 80% of eighth graders ranking below pro ciency on last year’s exams, the results of which were released this year. Meanwhile, students are also
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or preparing for operations.” e sport is just now gaining traction outside of South Korea, Sanders said, where it’s been popular since 2015. But slowly, other countries are coming along.
e U.S. National Team is only in its rst competitive year on the international stage, and WHS has been growing its program for three years.
“ e goal is to build aerospace programs and career pathways using this fun sport as an introduction program,” Sanders said.
Lottie Wilson, the career and technical education advisor at WHS, called it the gami cation of aerospace education.“ ey’re building them. ey’re programming them. ey’re engineering them. ey’re doing it all,” Wilson said. “It’s de nitely getting kids hooked into aerospace education through gami cation.”
It’s been a surreal experience for the students, who can polish their skills and meet new people in a fun, brand new environment that’s loved drone soccer for years.
“I hope I get to keep doing this. It’s really fun,” said senior Luis Lechuga, who is attending Metropolitan State University in the fall to study mechanical engineering. “I’m interested in doing aerospace engineering [also]. I never expected to go to South Korea, I just wanted to get involved in ying drones.” Lechuga and the other seniors in Incheon opted to miss their own graduation to make the trip. Being able to share this experience with like-minded students from all over the world has opened new ways of thinking about aviation and aerospace science, Tran said, and they’ve picked up some tricks from the Korean players along the way.
“I’m able to learn how to communicate, especially with a language barrier. We’re still able to communicate and share ideas with each other, and basically improve together,” Tran said. “It’s a really good and bene cial way to network. I’ve been able to befriend them through this shared passion, and so it’s just really cool.”
Since the program’s inception at WHS, interest has been through the roof, Robbie Ferguson said. Ferguson is the aerospace teacher and drone soccer coach at WHS.
“My students ask to come to practice. ey ask for extra practices all the time,” Ferguson said. “ ey really enjoy being a part of the team and everything that comes with it.” Much of the program is graduating this year, Ferguson said, but fortunately the middle school interest is already signi cant, and continues to grow. Orchard Park Academy in Westminster is in its rst year of its drone soccer program.
e Pumas didn’t waste any time. Orchard Park nished rst among middle school programs in nationals this past season, and nished fourth overall, beating even the WHS team. Recently, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis visited Orchard Park for a visit and lesson in aerospace acrobatics.
e future of drone soccer is bright, particularly along the Front Range. Experienced middle school students will be ready to step in and contribute right away at the high school level. e natural interest in the sport sparks a furious work ethic, and the results show it.
“I’m super proud of them. ey work really hard. ey work really well together, so that’s amazing. ey’ve just come a long way in the last couple weeks,” Ferguson said. “ e interest level is just huge. Once you get them in, they’re hooked.”
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Lisa B. Smith, Personal Representative 2730 Tahoe Drive Livermore, CA 94550
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a/k/a Lawrence Brogan, a/k/a Larry Brogan, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30525
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Brady McFarland & Lord, LLC
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Estate of Bonnie D. Bryant, Deceased Case Number: 23PR30675
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Karen K. Bryant, Personal Representative c/o 6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd #200 Greenwood Village, CO 80111
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Christine M. Wiley
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Susan L. Euser, Personal Representative 14621 W. 62th Ave. Arvada, CO 80004
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Brandon Groome, Personal Representative c/o Poskus & Klein, P.C. 303 East 17th Avenue, Suite 900 Denver, Colorado 80203
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Estate of Gerardo Barnett, also known as Jerry Barnett, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30350
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Leslie Rosanne Capin Personal Representative 11400 E. Peakview Avenue, #1304 Centennial, CO 80111
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Andrew Z. Lepore, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 54417
Mark C. Pirozzi, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 53680 2305 East Arapahoe Rd., Suite 223
Centennial, Colorado 80122
Phone Number: (303) 578-2745
E-mail: dan@themckenziefirm.com
E-mail: andrew@themckenziefirm.com
E-mail: mark@themckenziefirm.com
Case Number: 2023PR030594
tative for (brief description of relief requested) seeking the appointment of the decedent’s spouse, Victor Jarmone Ramshur, as Personal Representative and beneficiary entitled to 100% of decedent’s estate.
will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:
Date: July 3rd, 2023 Time: 8:30 AM
Division: 3
Address: 1437 Bannock Street, #230 Denver, CO 80202
The hearing will take approximately 30 minutes
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Estate of Douglas Grant Willits, a/k/a Douglas G. Willits, and Douglas Willits, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030553
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before 9/25/2023 or the claims may be forever barred.
By: /s/ Irdina A Irawati Willits
Irdina A Irawati Willits
Personal Representative 6325 W Mansfield Ave #209, Denver, CO 80235
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Estate of Frances Marilyn Reno, a/k/a Frances M. Reno, a/k/a Frances Reno, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030548
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before October 1, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Deborah Renee Looney, Personal Representative 5713 East Irish Place Centennial, CO 80112
Legal Notice No. 82253
First Publication: June 1, 2023
Last Publication: June 15, 2023
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ALICE MAY HAMBELTON, A/K/A, ALICE M. HAMBELTON, A/K/A, ALICE HAMBELTON, Deceased Case Number : 2023PR30369
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Robert G. Hambelton, Personal Representative c/o Donald F. Slavin, P.C., 4704 Harlan St., Ste. 685 Denver, CO, 80212-7493
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First Publication: May 18, 2023
Last Publication: June 1, 2023
Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CHARLES DWIGHT SAXTON, a/k/a CHARLES D. SAXTON, a/k/a CHARLES SAXTON, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30504
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
broadly failing in history, with 40% of eighth graders performing at the lowest level in U.S. history on 2022 exams, compared with 34% in 2018, Chalkbeat reported.
“ e time for action is now,” said Hilary Crow, vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, which launched the National Civics Bee last year with pilot programs in ve states. “We are at a crisis point, and this is the perfect time and opportunity to engage leaders, business leaders, legislators, educators and communities all across the country to elevate civics as a priority. e strength of our democracy, of free enterprise and the future of our country depends on us.”
e chamber foundation has partnered with the Daniels Fund, a Denver-based charitable foundation, to roll out civics bees across the country with the goal of creating competitions in all 50 states that culminate in a national competition, which Crow said will debut next year in Washington, D.C. is year’s round of bees started in more than 50 communities in nine states, with competitions at the local level hosted by chambers of commerce, each sending the top three nalists to a state bee hosted by each state’s chamber.
Colorado students in the Denver metro area, Arvada, Buena Vista, Craig and Pueblo put their civics knowledge to the test last month in local contests. ree winners from each community advanced to the nal bee, hosted by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, which wants to strengthen students’ understanding of how government functions and help them see that they will set the foundation and tone for the next decades of democracy.
“If they believe that our democracy is in trouble, and if they don’t understand how government works, then they can’t change the process, they can’t in uence the process,” said Loren Furman, president and CEO of the Colorado Chamber of Commerce.
Bee organizers at the state and national level say the task of polishing students’ grasp of civics falls on far more than educators.
“Our schools have so many responsibilities right now that this is a way to come alongside
our schools and say, ‘In our communities we have a responsibility too,’” Daniels Fund CEO Hanna Skandera said. “And we can join with our education, our schools, having families and communities and chambers help be a part of the solution.”
e rst-ever decline in civics pro ciency on last year’s NAEP exams led communities and educators alike to worry and intervene.
And while Barbara Taylor, who teaches Advanced Placement U.S. History, honors government and honors geography at Pomona High School in Arvada, is disheartened by student performance in civics, but she also sees students actively pursuing an understanding of government systems every day in her classes.
Low NAEP scores aren’t “a very accurate reection of the interest that real kids have in their country,” said Taylor, who has been teaching for 23 years and also serves as treasurer for Colorado Council for the Social Studies.
“ ey really want to understand what’s happening to them, what we see in the community,” she added.
Rather than educating students about civics and history just through textbooks, Taylor builds students’ knowledge by connecting their learning to the real world. at includes putting students through a legal simulation with help from University of Colorado law students, who challenge them to look at evidence and craft arguments based on school-related issues, including the question of which bathrooms should be available to kids who identify as transgender.
at also includes pushing students to trace a certain topic throughout its arc of history, whether fashion, food, hairstyles or issues involving the LGBTQ+ community.
She has also seen a resurgence in interest among high schoolers studying civics that she attributes to the deep-seated division roiling communities and in aming politics at every level.
“ e divide we have in this country is in part because people don’t know how to have a civil conversation, and they’re easily intimidated by people who seem to have information and seem to know things,” Taylor said. “And because we don’t know how to talk, we stop talking. And so the consequences are dire.”
All the clatter of outside political fury was absent during the civics bee, when students were asked how history has shaped democracy,
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before seven nalists presented ideas to solve community issues, drawing from essays they had written. Judges peppered them with questions about their proposed solutions, which addressed the lack of affordable housing in Colorado, the rising cost of eggs and the ways educators could discreetly help students affected by mental health issues, among other topics.
Sriram, champion of the statewide bee, who took home a $1,000 prize, spoke of the need for civility among politicians and across the country during his presentation. His grandparents used to see the United States as a place where everyone would greet strangers and be nice to each other, he said after the competition. Now, that sense of kindness is largely fading.
“It’s still there but not as much,” Sriram said.
Runner-up Joseph Drexler, a seventh grader at Darren Patterson Christian Academy in Buena Vista, raised concerns about Chaffee County housing becoming out of reach for local residents, noting that 64% of people in the county spend more than half of their income on housing.
“We sometimes look for housing, and it’s crazy how expensive all the houses are, and I thought, whoa, these should be less,” Joseph, 13, said after the bee.
He and Sriram were jittery with nervous excitement after spending hours looking over a study packet and rehearsing their speeches.
Joseph, who won $500, said he will use the knowledge he gained from the bee to help him one day vote, prepare for a possible career in government and educate others about civics.
“You just have to know things about the government before you can make really good choices about the government,” he said.
That knowledge is key when looking both backward and forward, Sriram added.
It’s critical to study civics, he said, “so you know how our country was founded and not make the same mistakes they made in the past and make better decisions in the future.”
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