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The incomparable Hazel Miller, in her own words

resident of Arvada was inducted into the state’s Music Hall of Fame on June 10, capping an exceptional career that has taken Miller around the world and earned her a place in the hearts of thousands.

Lawmakers’ pay influences debates and votes on bills

BY JESSE PAUL AND ELLIOTT WENZLER THE COLORADO SUN

e 100 state lawmakers in Colorado earn about $42,000 a year for their work at the Capitol, placing them in the middle of the pack compared to their counterparts across the U.S. when it comes to how much they’re paid to draft, debate and vote on bills.

at in uences who runs to be a state representative or senator, which in turn determines which legislation passes or fails.

A Colorado Sun analysis of state lawmaker salaries compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures places Colorado 19th on the salary list. Colorado legislators earn more than counterparts in any bordering state except Oklahoma.

State senators whose terms began before January earn a salary of $41,449. Senators whose terms began in January, as well as all House members, make $43,977.

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Since she was in third grade, Hazel Miller — and more than likely, those around her — knew that she would be a singer. e legendary Colorado vocalist and

Miller, the fth of seven children, was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her mother and father were guarded-yet-exceptional singers in their own rights.

When Miller was in third grade, a priest at her school named Samuel Viani asked her to join the eighth graders for a Christmas song — a prospect

that, to Miller’s knowledge, had never been done. Even at an early age, Miller’s talent was undeniable.

“After that, I knew,” Miller said. “When you’re the fth of seven children, you’re Joanne’s sister, you’re Carol’s sister, you’re Eddie’s sister — all of a sudden, everyone knew my name. I told my mother I was going to be a singer. She said ‘OK, as long as you go to school.’” at she did. ings were lean in the Miller household, but the

e salaries are set at 25% of a county judge’s salary, which through 2026 is $175,908. Salaries for state lawmakers, as well as state-level statewide elected o cials, are recalculated every four years based on changes to judicial o cers’ salaries.

Colorado lawmakers who live within 50 miles of the Capitol — a large portion, if not the majority, of the legislature — are also eligible to receive a per diem of $45 for each of the 120 days the General Assembly is in session each year, which adds up to $5,400. ose who live more than 50 miles from the Capitol are entitled to about $237 per legislative day, which totals $28,440.

Hazel Miller photographed at a recent performance.

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Looking back on the Hall of Fame career of Colorado’s high priestess of singing

at’s in addition to mileage.

For reference, the median household income in Colorado is $80,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. e median gross annual rent in Colorado is $17,244.

State Sen. James Coleman, a Denver Democrat, said it’s di cult to nd a place to live in Colorado on a $42,000 salary. “Absolutely I think it picks and chooses who can participate,” he said.

Oklahoma lawmakers make $47,500, while lawmakers in Nebraska earn $12,000. Lawmakers in Utah earn $285 per legislative day and lawmakers in Kansas earn $88.66 per legislative day of service, in addition to about $7,000 to defray interim costs. In Wyoming, lawmakers earn $150 per day they work. (Lawmakers in all of those states are entitled to per diem, though in Utah the bene t can only be claimed by lawmakers who live more than 100 miles from Salt Lake City, the state capital.)

In New Mexico, lawmakers are paid no salary.

New York lawmakers make $142,000, the most of any state lawmakers in the U.S., though their outside income will be capped at $35,000 starting in 2025. California lawmakers are second, at $122,694, with higher amounts for legislative leadership. Pennsylvania is third at

New Mexico lawmakers make the least — $0 — of any state lawmaker in the U.S. Close behind is New Hampshire, where the state’s 424 lawmakers are paid a $100 salary — a rate set more than 130 years ago — and get no per diem, meaning that technically they receive even less compensation than lawmakers in New Mexico, who get a per diem of roughly $200.

U.S. senators and representatives,

year. Congressional leaders earn even more.

e variations in state lawmaker pay across the U.S. are in uenced by many factors, including politics and cost of living di erences from state to state.

ey are also determined by whether a state’s legislature operates year-round — like in California, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania — or is part time, like in Colorado, where each lawmaking term is limited to 120 days.

Colorado’s General Assembly was intentionally formed as a “citizen” legislature, where representatives and senators aren’t full-time politicians. Lawmakers are expected to have jobs outside of the Capitol, though many say serving in the General Assembly is truly a full-time job.

Critics of Colorado lawmakers’ pay say it limits who can serve at the Capitol to wealthier people, who are often retired, white and without school-age kids.

“ e arrangement that we have de nitely takes some people out of the running,” said former state Sen. Mike Foote, a Boulder County Democrat who opted not to run for reelection after nding it di cult to balance his Capitol duties with a demanding work schedule as a private attorney raising a family.

However, Foote said lawmakers know the nancial consequences of serving at the Capitol when they run for a legislative seat. And he points out many Coloradans work full time and make $40,000 a year.

Sen. Faith Winter, D-Westminster, has advocated for the legislature to increase its salary. Outside of her job as a legislator, Winter works for VoteRunLead, a nonpro t that trains women to run for o ce, recruiting political candidates.

“ e rst or second question that gets asked is ‘How do I have a family and do this? How can I a ord to do this?’” she said. “When we want BIPOC folks to run and we want

women to run and we want young people to run and LGBTQ folks, then we have to make sure that we’re making it possible for them.”

BIPOC means Black, Indigenous

Coleman, who is Black, was the youngest member of the legislature when he was rst elected to the House in 2016. At the time, he had two 6-year-old kids. Coleman said his age, lack of intergenerational wealth and young family made it very di cult to serve as a state law-

“It was virtually impossible for me to run and a ord to serve,” he said, noting that candidates for o ce

While some employers may be OK with someone taking o for 120 days to work in the legislature, Coleman said, they are few and far between. Besides, he said, being a state representative or state senator really requires year-round attention for those who want to be successful and adequately represent their com-

But others argue the limited salary actually serves to ensure Colorado has a citizen legislature.

“I think Colorado is about where it needs to be,” Rep. Rod Bockenfeld, a Watkins Republican, said of state lawmakers’ salary level.

Bockenfeld, who sits on the Joint Budget Committee, said he knows the legislature’s low salary could stop some people from being able to run for o ce. He personally experienced that hurdle.

Before he could a ord to run for the legislature, he served as an Arapahoe County commissioner for 12 years and earned a much higher salary. ( e current salary for a commissioner in Arapahoe County is $131,701.)

Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen, a Monument Republican, worries that raising lawmakers’ pay would prompt the legislature to become a full-time, year-round job. He opposes that shift because of how it would expand government in uence.

“It simply creates a silo that is populated in various levels, various strata of political operators, who have nothing but politics as the experience of their life,” he said. “ at’s contrary to what representation of the people is supposed to be about. e salary, is it out of alignment with what professionals make? Of course. I make substantially less than my skills demand in the marketplace. But I choose as an act of service to do the work as an active service, not because I want it to be a profession or a career.”

Colorado’s next legislative session begins in January.

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HAZEL MILLER

tight-knit bond of the family largely made up for that. Miller said that her mom raised seven children on $150 a week salary.

Miller said she wasn’t particularly aware of social class before she transitioned from a parochial Catholic school to a public school. ere, she faced bullying but was undeterred.

“I didn’t know I was broke until I got to public school, and these girls… they let me know in no uncertain terms that I’m from the project,” she said.

Early career

After high school, at age 21, Miller enrolled at the University of Louisville and sang in bars on weekends. Newly divorced and with a newborn baby boy in tow, she biked with her son to school, singing all the while.

“I used to wrap a towel around the crossbar — it was a boy’s bike — and we’d ride to school, the college was about four miles up the road,” Miller said. “And we’d sing all the way there and sing all the way home. My son, to this day, says, ‘I didn’t know we were broke. We were having so much fun!’”

Shortly thereafter, following the birth of her second son, Miller changed her focus to music, with the support of her family.

“I went to work at the best nightclub in Louisville, Joe’s Bomb Room,”

Miller said. “I started making real money — $400 a week — and I worked from ursday to Sunday. And my mother treated me like I was Aretha Franklin. She said, ‘Go do this, we’ll watch the kids.’ I have never known a time where my family didn’t support me.”

Miller built a strong following in Kentucky but was beginning to outgrow her hometown.

In 1982, she recorded the Louisville anthem “Louisville, Look What We Can Do,” which brought her further local acclaim. Earlier this year, she was invited back to her hometown in January to perform the song at Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg’s inauguration. Still, Miller’s sights began to drift elsewhere.

Dana Marsh, Miller’s longtime keyboardist, moved to Colorado in

1982 and stayed in touch will Miller, with the latter ying Marsh back to Louisville for shows periodically.

“I kept telling her about Colorado,” Marsh said. “I said, ‘ ere’s no one out here like you. I think you would really like Colorado, and they would love you.’”

In 1984, Miller packed up a UHaul with her belongings, her two sons, a friend’s son she was taking care of and a friend who was running from her husband. At this point, Miller’s oldest was 12 years old and her youngest was 6.

“I made the four of them a promise; ‘No one will ever live in our house,’” Miller said. “No one will ever come between us.’ And that was that. And I’ve been happily single for 43 years.”

From Kentucky to Colorado

Miller’s sights were set on the bright lights of Los Angeles, but her van had other plans.

Just inside Colorado’s borders, her UHaul broke down. Miller took the speedbump as a sign and has lived in the Centennial State ever since.

“To be honest with you, if I’d gotten to L.A., I’d probably have had to go home,” Miller said. “But God put me in Colorado. And I have had nothing but success.”

Without many local connections besides Marsh, Miller struggled to gain a foothold in the Denver scene at rst. en, she began sitting in at the fabled El Chapultepec every Saturday night, and her fortunes began to change.

“People like (fellow Colorado Music Hall of Famer Chris Daniels) took me under his wing,” Miller said. “ ere were other guys who worked at the Pec, they would tell me about who was looking for a singer. It was a lot of sitting in for no money, it was a lot of hanging out, trying to let people know who I was.”

Luckily for Miller, her generational voice left a lasting impression. El Chapultepec’s owner hired Miller to sing with the house band every Sunday night, for $40. After a few years of dues-paying, Miller had formed her own band in 1988, and, in her words, “was rollin’ and never looked back.”

‘Beloved by the people of Colorado’

One of Miller’s rst bands, called Rich Relations, earned a reputation in the local scene and was hired to do a Department of Defense tour in the Far East. Miller’s backing band at the time was entirely white, leading to their — perhaps infamous — name change.

“We walked out on stage one night in Korea, this little bitty base in South Korea,” Miller said. “And I said, ‘Hi we are Hazel Miller —’ and these Black soldiers yelled, ‘And the Caucasians!’”

As Miller tells it, the base broke out in raucous laughter, prompting her to change the name of her band, in earnest, to Hazel Miller and the Caucasians. Perhaps in accordance with changing social norms, or perhaps simply because her point had been

proven, name tive

“rollin’,’” audience 1990s. fortuitous rado’s Todd

Cabe’s Boulder Big thought knew invited ‘Wearing soon Miller’s management said, fans “’Her tinued sending demo ers.” recording tracks. leased “Stratagem,”

Hazel Miller (left) and Ronnie Shellist (back middle) join Moses Walker for a few songs at the Oriental. PHOTO BY MICHAEL MCGRATH

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proven, Miller changed her band’s name to Hazel Miller and e Collective in the 2000s.

While Miller was, as she puts it, “rollin’,’” she had yet to gain a larger audience outside of Colorado by the 1990s. at would change after a fortuitous meeting with one of Colorado’s top bands of the era; Big Head Todd and e Monsters.

“We had rst seen Hazel at JJ McCabe’s when we were students at Boulder in the ’80s,” Todd Park Mohr, Big Head Todd’s frontman, said. “We thought she was a soul diva and she knew about music we did not.  We invited her to sing on a track called ‘Wearing Only Flowers’ in 1995, but soon after she joined us a lot. “ Mohr might have been enticed by Miller’s music, but e Monster’s management wasn’t sold.

“ eir manager, Chuck Morris, said, ‘You can’t have her there, your fans won’t understand,’” Miller said. “’Her voice is too ethnic.’”

Nevertheless, the rock out t continued their pursuit of the vocalist, sending a cab to her home with a demo CD of “Wearing Only Flowers.” Two days later, she was in the recording studio laying down vocal tracks.

“Wearing Only Flowers” was released on e Monster’s 1994 album “Stratagem,” and Miller accompanied

the band on stage at their album release show. Soon after, Miller and Big Head Todd hit the road together.

“In 1996, my son graduated from high school at Mullen, and I went out on tour (with Big Head Todd and the Monsters) for a month,” Miller said.

“ ey said, ‘Just come and see if you like it.’ I went back home, got (my son) into college, and went back out with them the next fall.”

At rst, Miller just sang backups on the one song but felt like her salary outweighed her contributions to the band. Little by little, Mohr began to incorporate Miller into more songs.

“Todd started saying ‘Can you do this part? Can you sing on this?’” Miller said. “And they did a second CD with me on it and I was singing on two songs. Little by little, I wormed my way in. It was like being on the bus with three of your little brothers. ey treated me like I was Aretha Franklin.”

When she was on the road, Miller would go shopping at TJ Maxx or Ross and send clothes home to her family in Kentucky. During a stop in her home state, the Miller family came to a show and provided the band with four fried chickens, mac and cheese, cornbread, greens and desert.

“ ese guys (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) thought they died and went to heaven,” Miller said. “Todd goes, ‘Are y’all taking this food with you when you go?’ (Miller’s sister) Carol goes, ‘No, it’s for the bus.’ ey love my family. My family shows up,

they cook.” e rst time Miller and e Monsters played Red Rocks; Carol came to see her sister play. e Miller family was aware of Hazel’s success in Colorado but couldn’t quite conceptualize the heights to which she had risen.

“ e rst time I played Red Rocks with Todd, Carol, my sister came out,” Miller said. “She had no idea how many people were there. We came through the back. We walk up, and I say, ‘Turn around.’ She saw all those people out there, she said ‘Oh my god!’ (When I started singing) I looked over and Carol was crying. She’s like, ‘I’ve never seen anything like that in my life.’”

Mohr said his favorite performances with Miller have been their stops at Red Rocks over the years.

“My favorite memories of Hazel personally are her performances with us at Red Rocks,” Mohr raid. “I say that plural because it usually goes down the same way.   ere is usually some over-the-top garments involved.  She just goes for it in every way and people lose their minds hearing and watching her energy and sincerity.”

Fittingly, Miller and Big Head Todd and e Monsters were inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame together on June 10 — at their sold-out Red Rocks show.

Karen Radman, the Colorado Music Hall of Fame’s executive director, said that Miller is being honored for her solo work and collaborations with

e Monsters, and added that she has been crucial to spreading Colorado music across the globe.

“(Miller) really is seen as one of our key female artists,” Radman said. “We just decided to put them together, for what they’ve done collaboratively but what they’ve done individually as well.

“When we looked towards her as an artist to honor and celebrate with Hall of Famer status, it was the work that she’s done here and the impact that she’s made in Colorado music, but also to bring that Colorado music and bring that Colorado artistry to other places in the world,” Radman continued.

Miller toured with e Monsters until the birth of her granddaughter in 2001, when she decided to spend more time with her family. Nevertheless, the pair’s collaboration has continued throughout the years.

“We have had the pleasure of her company on many tours, shows and trips since but still maintain our separate identities,” Mohr said. “We have a close relationship beyond music and have been through a lot together over the years.”

Since retiring from touring, Miller has become one of Colorado’s most celebrated — and proli c acts. She plays frequently in far- ung localities from Denver to Buena Vista to Parker and beyond, always retaining the same energy and charisma which has de ned her career.

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Suncor pollutes into nearby neighborhoods more often than similar facilities

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

e Colorado regional o ce of the EPA vowed tougher enforcement action against Suncor in Commerce City, issuing a report showing the re nery releases air pollutants into nearby neighborhoods more often than many similar facilities around the U.S.

Suncor logged more excess releases of sulfur dioxide-laden tail gas than any of 11 comparable re neries from 2016 to 2020, according to the Region 8 EPA study. Sulfur in tail gas is meant to be recovered to cycle back into the re ning process to avoid potentially toxic emissions.

Suncor’s Commerce City re nery also had the second-highest number of excess hydrogen sul de releases, or acid gas, among the same group of re neries, according to the EPA analysis, which was conducted with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment using federal recovery act funds.

In another tracked category, hydrocarbon aring, Suncor was in the middle of incidents recorded from the 12 total re neries, the EPA said.  e analysis by a third-party engineer said Suncor’s Commerce City facility may be producing more air quality incidents because of faulty electrical equipment, lack of preventative maintenance, and not testing

or inspecting other control systems adequately.

“We will use this information and other targeting tools to focus our e orts for future inspections and enforcement,” said Region 8 EPA Administrator KC Becker, a former Democratic Speaker of the House at the Colorado legislature.

e state health department, which reached a large settlement with Suncor over past emissions incidents and failures, also said the

new study would result in steppedup enforcement for the facility under increasing pressure from neighbors and local elected o cials.

“We anticipate the ndings will result in direct actions for Suncor to make improvements,” said Trisha Oeth, the CDPHE’s director of environmental health and protection.

Suncor did not respond to messages seeking comment this week.

Clean air advocates said state and federal o cials have plenty of information, and now must toughen their responses to Suncor’s ongoing air pollution incidents and applications for permit renewals.

“We have known Suncor has been a bad actor for years,” said Ean Tafoya, Colorado director of GreenLatinos. “It’s time to plan the just transition, including the retirement and remediation of Suncor. Our leaders have had the data. Now they have more. Will they act?”

e EPA has said it will change policies and permitting to pursue environmental justice for the neighbors of frequent polluters. Commerce City and north Denver neighborhoods surrounding Suncor have lower income, larger minority populations and higher rates of asthma and other health problems related to pollution than other Denver communities.

Suncor is the only petroleum re nery in Colorado, producing gasoline for cars and aviation fuel for Denver International Airport. e re nery released potentially dangerous sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sul de into the surrounding neighborhood in late April, the second incident that month, and state health o cials warned the emissions could exceed permitted levels throughout that day.

In March 2020, Suncor agreed to pay $9 million to settle air quality violations at Commerce City dating to 2017, including one in 2019 that blanketed adjacent neighborhoods in an ashy substance. It was the largest penalty Colorado Department of

Public Health and Environment had ever levied from a single facility to resolve air pollution violations. Water quality advocates also monitor leaks of PFAS “forever chemicals” and benzene into waters around Suncor.

Discharges of toxic “forever chemical” PFAS into Sand Creek and the South Platte River by Suncor’s Commerce City re nery spiked to thousands of times the EPA’s revised drinking water guidelines for three months starting in November, according to lings with state regulators.

e elevated discharges came as state clean water o cials are struggling to complete revisions to Suncor’s water out ow pollution permits that were rst opened to public comments more than 18 months ago. Colorado o cials noted then that they had included PFAS limits for the rst time in a draft of the revised permit. PFAS is an abbreviation for per uoroalkyl and poly uoroalkyl substances, a group of potentially harmful chemicals used as waterproo ng in thousands of goods from stain resistant carpet to rain gear to re ghting foam.

e state health department’s water quality divisions have acted quickly recently to address potential pollution in runo from Suncor’s operations, Tafoya said. e air pollution division should use the study and other information to increase enforcement as well, he said. Various health divisions at the state should consider Suncor’s cumulative violations across all agencies.

“At the end of the day, we need CDPHE to take the lead,” Tafoya said.

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Suncor Energy’s Commerce City plant. The local EPA o ce has promised tougher enforcement of the company’s operation. FILE PHOTO

Financial-aid push doesn’t happen

Colorado advocates plan for future action

BY JASON GONZALES CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Colorado made no legislative progress toward getting students more support to complete the federal nancial aid application despite a recommendation last year that the state do so.

A Colorado report last year called for the state to make filling out the Federal Application for Federal Student Aid, or the FAFSA, a high school graduation requirement by 2025, with a goal to get 80% of students completing the form by 2026. Filling out the form increases the likelihood that students will attend college, studies show.

Despite the inaction this session, advocates of a Colorado requirement for high school students to complete the federal nancial aid application before graduation expect to make a push for future changes after taking a wait-and-see approach this year.

Many advocates believe requiring students to ll out the FAFSA would be an e ective strategy for Colorado to increase the number of students who go to college after high school.

Studies have shown that Louisiana, the rst to enact a FAFSA graduation requirement, increased college-going among students. E orts in other states are still new.

In Colorado, legislators have hesitated to place one more burden on high school educators.

Advocate Sarah Staron said lawmakers, along with school o cials, discussed how a graduation requirement might work but didn’t introduce legislation.

So advocates of mandating FAFSA completion focused on addressing the concerns they heard.

“I felt like we needed to step back,” said Staron, policy coordinator for Young Invincibles, which works toward giving students a voice in policy debates.

Less than 50% of Colorado high school graduates go to college. Advocates have said increasing Colorado’s ranking near the bottom of FAFSA completion would open up more opportunities for students. e form unlocks nancial aid and scholarships for college.

e National College Attainment Network has recognized Colorado for seeking more transparency around which school districts help students complete the form. Advocates also have applauded the state for setting the 80% completion goal.

e state has reported that every

year Colorado students leave about $30 million in federal nancial aid unclaimed.

Colorado has sought to boost FAFSA completion in other ways.

Last year, the state created grants for districts to increase FAFSA completion, but only a handful of districts applied, Staron said. Despite o ering more nancial literacy for students, training for teachers, and nancial aid planning for students, the state’s FAFSA completion rate remained at about 45%.

e state’s teacher union said there are reasons to be cautious about a push to mandate FAFSA completion.

e Colorado Education Association said it wants to discuss issues such as whetherthe requirement would burden teachers and students, raise privacy issues, and favor four-year colleges over other options, union President Amie BacaOehlert said.

In the upcoming FAFSA cycle, the federal government will launch an application that’s intended to be easier for students to fill out. The new form, however, will be released in December instead of the previous schedule of October, narrowing the window to complete the form.

Financial aid experts expect the form will have unintended conse-

quences, especially for students whose families own farms or small businesses, but eventually will lead to a better student experience and outcome.

“With the streamlined FAFSA form, our hope is that completion rates go up because it’s easier for students and families to navigate the process. But I certainly think Colorado needs to do more,” said Jen Walmer, whose organization Democrats for Education Reform contributed to the report.

Amelia Federico, a Young Invincibles policy fellow who attends Metropolitan State University of Denver, said the FAFSA process is overly confusing and students often have little support to ll out the support despite there being some resources at schools.

Federico said a FAFSA completion requirement for high schoolers would ensure that educators focus on giving students the support they need to ll out the complicated form. e state would also need to support schools to ensure every student gets what they need, they said. Too many of their peers don’t know about their nancial options, Federico said.

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Rock Canyon student wins national science contest

Develops pill for gluten intolerance

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Walking into the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas for the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, Aditi Avinash was overcome with nerves, but when she left, she took home an award and scholarship.

“I was absolutely shocked,” said Avinash, a Rock Canyon High School senior. “It was completely unexpected and I was over the moon.”  e annual competition is the largest science competition for high school students across the globe. It has also been a program of the Society for Science for over 70 years.

In mid-May for three days, more than 1,500 students from more than 60 countries competed in various categories, ranging from animal sciences to behavioral and social sciences to environmental sciences. Nineteen students represented Colorado.

ere are di erent levels that students must go through in order to have the chance to compete at the International Science and Engineering Fair. First student’s must compete at the regional level, where they can qualify to the state level.

Avinash was one of four students representing the Denver Metro Regional Science and Engineering Fair and quali ed at the regional and state level.

Avinash took rst in the Transitional Medical Science category and was awarded a special award worth $52,000 in tuition From Arizona State University during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair.

Her project was a Model Validation and Preclinical Testing of Digestive Enzymes for Gluten Breakdown: A Move to Cure Gluten Intolerance and Celiac Disease.

While learning about enzymes and the lactate pill in a biology class during her freshman year, Avinash became curious as to why there wasn’t an option like the lactose pill for people who are gluten intolerant.

An idea sparked.

“Essentially what my project is trying to do is nd a solution for celiac gluten intolerance,” said Avinash.  Avinash realized in her everyday life, there are family members and friends who have gluten intolerance or celiac disease. Although there are some solutions such as gluten free diets and gluten free sections at the grocery store or restaurants, Avinash says those are avoiding the problem.  “ ey’re just telling people to not eat the food,” said Avinash. “I wanted to create some kind of solution that tackles the problem more head on rather than just avoiding it.”

Building on her project each year, Avinash rst competed during her freshman year, however, it was during the pandemic, so the competition was held online.

Not able to conduct any research at her school or in a lab, Avinash focused on doing a literature review and conducted a preliminary test using a testing lab that she got online and shipped to her house.

Sophomore year, Avinash conducted the majority of testing at school with some supervised testing in a lab.

She presented this research at the International Science and Engineering Fair.

Once junior year came around, Avinash conducted research at a professional lab at the Anschutz Medical Campus where she had the opportunity to use equipment like a mass spectrometer.

Avinash conducted four main types of testing. One of which being an antibody test called ELISA Assay test.

“ at tests the prevalence of certain subjects,” said Avinash. “In 2020, COVID tests, those were all ELISA tests because they were testing how much COVID you had. In this case, I was testing how much gluten I had.”

Avinash also conducted a Western blot test, which visualized how much gluten was present and used the mass spectrometry as a way to separate complex proteins.

e last test Avinash conducted was the Cytokine Assay to measure the amount of cytokine production. Cytokine is a wide group of signaling proteins and acts as humoral regulators that modulate functions

Aditi Avinash at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Dallas, Texas. COURTESY OF ADITI AVINASH

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of individual cells.

“How celiac disease occurs [is] by cells recognizing an amino acid sequence and causing an immune response,” said Avinash. “Cytokine Assay is measuring immune response.”

Between the biotechnology program at Rock Canyon and working with mentors at the lab, Avinash learned how to write and document in a legal lab notebook, pipette, do gel electrophoresis and run analyzers.

According to Avinash, the lactate pill has speci c enzymes that are able to break down milk and sugar. rough Avinash’s lengthy research, she found three enzymes that work e ectively in di erent environments that break down gluten proteins.

“My hope is that these enzymes can be used to make some kind of pill for gluten intolerance and for celiac disease,” said Avinash.

As COVID restrictions were lifted, the competition was fully back this year and Avinash had nearly 80 people competing in her category, transitional medicine.

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While standing at her booth, waiting for judges to come by, Avinash got to know the people next to her.

“I got to learn so much about di erent aspects of the eld we’re studying, but the interesting thing about the medical eld and, I guess, science in general is even though a lot of projects are clumped under a broad sphere, each project in that broad sphere is so di erent,” said Avinash.

Looking forward, Avinash wants to continue her research during her senior year of high school. And although she is not certain where she wants to attend college, Avinash is thankful for the Arizona State University scholarship.

Inspired by her love of research and medicine, Avinash aspires to become a MD-PhD as she believes some of the best doctors are those who have both the clinical aspect and compassion as well as the research knowledge about conditions and treatments.

“I think the reason I love the eld of medicine and the eld of research is it’s a eld that is constantly evolving and changing,” said Avinash. “And as someone who just loves learning, I just love the eld of medicine, so I just want to be completely involved in it to every extent possible.”

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Je Conaway to Race Across America to raise money to fight human tra cking

Week-long transcontinental race starts June 17

BY JOHN RENFROW JRENFROW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Je Conaway said he knows the aches and burns in his muscles after biking hundreds of miles pale in comparison to the su ering of those that fall victim to human tra cking. at is what will keep him going state after state in his rst transcontinental race.

“It’s that cause that really keeps us going,” Conaway said. “And knowing that it’s not about us, it’s about the bigger picture. We kind of live by a motto that ‘our fuel is their freedom,’ and it really keeps us motivated.”

Conaway, 43, is part of an eightperson team that will cycle more than 3,000 miles in six days in a nonstop race against six other teams from Oceanside, California to An-

napolis, Maryland.

e lengthy ride will begin on June 17.

e team’s sponsor is ZOE International, a nonpro t founded in 2002 that works to ght human tra cking by raising awareness and collecting donations, as they compete in the 2023 Race Across America.

It is Conaway’s rst year participating, though he was an unused alternate cyclist for ZOE in 2021.

During the race, the team works in four-man shifts over 12 hours. Conaway will make the trek between noon and midnight each day.

He said he will go all out for 15 minutes for up to six miles for his part, then sit and ride for about 45 minutes in a vehicle while teammates take their turns.

Conaway is the only Coloradan on a team of Pennsylvanians, though he lived in Lititz, Pennsylvania — which is the home of ZOE International’s east coast location — until about a year ago.

Conaway currently lives with his family in Littleton and is the vice president of operations at Encompass Services in Denver.

Conaway has been what he would call an “avid cyclist” for about four years.

It started during the pandemic as an escape with friends, and quickly developed into a growing passion.

Now, he is trained to take on his rst coast-to-coast race, and he knows it will not be a leisurely ride.

Since the start of 2023, training has involved up to six-mile weekly bike rides in the mountains, running a half marathon (although he said he prefers wheels), weightlifting, and switching to a plant-based diet.

“Truth be told, with the training I’ve done, I de nitely feel like I’m in the best shape of my life,” he said. “But I assure you I can’t wait to dig into a steak as soon as we’re done with this race.”

ZOE International’s team nished third in the 2019 Race Across

America, raising more than $175,000 to ght human tra cking.

ZOE won in 2021, receiving more than $380,000.

is year, the team’s goal is $750,000.

ere are only two returners from the 2021 team. e other six are all new to the race.

Conaway said he is con dent they can win it again.

“We’re going to win,” he said. “I give 100 percent con dence we’re going to win. at’s the only motto we go by. Our stance is our cause is the greatest. And that’s not to say that no one else has a great cause that they’re ghting for, but we really want to persevere to bring awareness to child tra cking as a whole. But we’ve been training hard, and we always like our odds.”

For more information about ZOE International, the 2023 Race Across America, and how you can support the cause and its riders, visit GoZOE. org.

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The ZOE RAAM Race Team 2023, from left to right: John Glick, Tom Jordan, Kevin Quinter, Merv Beiler, Nate Eakin, Craig Whiteford, Matt Lapp. Not pictured: Je Conaway. To learn more about the team, go to ZOERAAM.com.

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Je Conaway lives in Littleton with his family, and is participating in the 2023 Race Across America bicycle race for human tra cking awareness with nonprofit ZOE International.

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Appreciating our dads

If I did not already appreciate my dad, and other dads, last week was a good lesson in not taking them for granted.

In what could be labeled as a terrible rotten no good very bad day — my dad was put in the hospital with an infection that is now in his bloodstream. en, later in the day, I learned that a man I grew up around and worked with as a young journalist committed suicide, leaving behind two children and several grandchildren.

While the two of them have completely di erent circumstances – both of them matter to a lot of people, including me.

In both instances — they are good guys who got me thinking about the burdens the dads, especially the old-timers, tend to carry.

Starting with my dad — he’s Mr. Rough and Tough on the outside, but inside — he is a big softie. He spends mornings giving our dogs treats. Believe me, they line up waiting. My kids call him the Sugar King because he’s always got some kind of candy or cake ready for distribution to the grandchildren.

On June 9, I went from planning to write my regular tribute to my dad, with whom I have always had a close relationship, to re ecting on how important he truly is to me, my family and, of course, let’s not forget my dogs.

He does not want to be in the hospital — we have no idea when he will be released. We know it’s serious. We know he’s heavily medicated.

He had pains for several days but did not want to be a burden and, following suit with his generation, didn’t want to get treated or help. We, of course, made him go in.

His spirits are good and as we sit anxiously waiting to know if treatments are taking hold each

day — I pray that on Father’s Day, he will spend it in his recliner at home with me.

For my friend — he won’t be here this year to be appreciated by his children. Instead, he is gone. He was a police o cer with whom I worked with many times. He stepped in and helped on several occasions when my oldest brother did not always make the best decisions in his teenage years.

For my other brother, he gave a bit more insight into why he may have decided to commit suicide. My brother, who used to be a highway patrolman, told a story where he came to a scene to provide backup and there was our friend beaten within an inch of his life. My brother got him help.

After that, his storied career as a police o cer was over, he retired and spent many years dealing with PTSD, trying to overcome depression. A battle too often lost in our society today.

You see, we are so quick to villainize o cers today without knowing what they see and go through daily. My brother, also a father, does not have PTSD from his days serving in the U.S. Air Force. Instead, his demons all come from his days of serving in law enforcement.

ey see the worst of our society, from domestic violence to crimes, fatal car crashes and more. Until recently, they have been taught to tuck feelings away, and hide what they are going through.

After all, most of the dads and grandfathers in our society are taught that they must have some rough, tough exterior to lead their families, work and earn.

For me, this Father’s Day, I say we should all push for them to get help. In my dad’s case, realize it’s not a bother to take you for treatment. For others, it’s not something to be ashamed of to say, “Today, I need help.”

To all fathers — remember we know you are human. Be willing to accept that yourselves.

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From success to significance to legacy

He worked hard for his whole career, climbed the ladder as he was taught to do, and nally landed in the role that he wanted most, the position he was born to have, he became the CEO of the company. Having experienced plenty of successes along the way, nothing compared to the surge of pride that Brian felt ll his head and heart the day the public announcement was made, Brian CEO. Having nally reached what he believed was the pinnacle of his career, Brian found himself wondering, “What’s next?” As a 52-year-old CEO, he began to think about the impact he could have on the company he was now leading, the e ect he could have on the people who were now in his care. I remember our conversation as we made our way around the golf course. With each passing hole, we dug deeper into his thoughts, and nally Brian asked me what I thought. e real question he was trying to

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answer was whether or not he saw this as a huge opportunity to have a signi cant impact on the business and the people or was he already planning for what happens next. At 52, the wheels in his head were spinning fast, so much more to do and so much opportunity in front of him. CEO today, chairman of the board tomorrow. Who knows what the world holds for Brian?

I asked Brian if I could share something I heard Zig Ziglar share with so many of us. Of course, he said yes. Zig, and now his son Tom, speak about the fact that we move through our careers and life in cycles. We rst have to be before we can do, and do before we can have. And once we become who we want to become, do all the things we want to do, and have all that we desire to have, we can then give more of who we are, what we do, and what we have. At that point we move from being successful to becoming signicant, and then to leaving the legacy we want to leave.

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Hopeful signs in the economic malaise

FINANCIAL STRATEGIES

It is di cult to see a way out of the current economic malaise. e markets are up, then they are down. ere will be a new debt ceiling but at what cost? We have been hearing about a recession for over a year but now some economists are backpedaling. What is going on and how do investors navigate these clouds? Oh, and the weather is not helping the mood much either.

We are dealing with one of the rainiest spring seasons on record, one of the highest federal de cits in history and the longest anticipated recession ever. No wonder no one wants to start a new job, buy a house, or invest in virtually anything.

But there are some green shoots. e stock market seems immune to most of the bad news based on the ve tech stocks leading the returns. If you look under the hood, many average stock prices are down in value so far this year despite the broad markets buoyed by a few stocks that were hit hard

last year, namely Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet. ese ve stocks are the largest market-cap names in the S&P 500 representing 24.7% of the overall weight of that index.¹

Despite the mixed signals investors are experiencing, it may be helpful to hear some positive facts to lighten the heavy political and economic news lately.²

• In ation has calmed down in 2023.

• Corporate earnings were better than expected in the rst quarter.

• We continue to see strong employment levels.

• Retirees are bene ting from the previous government payments and the higher interest rates on bond portfolios.

• Capital spending is holding up given the infrastructure spending bills passed to keep our technology sector competitive, restore our infrastructure and incent re-onshoring of companies’ supply chains.

• Consumer spending has increased, especially on travel and entertainment.

• e economy is experiencing pockets of weakness this cycle, unlike the boom-and-bust periods

Bringing experienced Coloradans back to campus to explore what’s next

Mo st people think of college as a place to go at the beginning of your career. e University of Colorado Denver is reimagining higher education as a place for people at the end of their primary working years as well.

A new CU Denver program called Change Makers brings experienced professionals who are approaching, or already in, retirement back to college for a semester to explore possibilities, retool and renew their purpose. Midlife is lled with transitions, not all of them easy. e good news is that at this stage of life, people’s experience, skills and wisdom have never been greater — or more needed in the world.

New options for a new life stage

Longer lifespans due to health advances in the last century have led sociologists to de ne a whole new life stage — an average of an extra 30 years after the family-raising, profession-building years. Yet careers are often still expected to end when people are in their 60s, with ripple e ects on those in their 50s.

Choices at this stage have traditionally been full-time work or full-time leisure. But many people are now looking at retirement di erently than previous generations did; they want something in between.

Some need to continue earning a salary. Others are interested in staying engaged, and in giving back to their communities. is represents a huge untapped resource for our community.

Here is where higher education is beginning to step in. e CU Denver Change Makers program, in particular, helps older adults explore possibilities for using their wisdom in a new, ful lling context.

Inaugural program concludes

Changing careers can be tumultuous, especially for those at midlife and beyond. It helps not to go it alone. at’s what the rst Change Makers

participants found. For one semester beginning in January, they learned and collaborated with others to explore their next chapters.

With professional backgrounds ranging from engineering and law to journalism and teaching, these 17 Change Makers fellows had honed a range of skills and talents. ey came to the program ready for a change — to use that hardearned expertise in new ways, for new jobs or meaningful volunteering. And they left with new perspectives, friends and ideas for envisioning and plotting their next step.

On campus, again e group met twice a week, in-person and virtually. Drawing on readings, group discussions and guest-speaker presentations, they looked at what’s worked and hasn’t in their lives, what’s made the encore years meaningful for others, and the pathways, obstacles and opportunities they face in designing a meaningful next chapter. One fellow told us that part of the power of the program is the collective connections that participants o er each other.

Fellows engaged with guest speakers on topics ranging from personal storytelling to combatting ageism to the power of intergenerational connection. ose who also audited academic classes — from modernist art to human-centered design — were inspired by interesting professors and the diversity of thought that comes from learning with a mixed-age group.

ey told us the program helped spark ideas and new ways of thinking about their next chapter. And they’re already planning to continue meeting monthly to keep the conversation going.

e program is now accepting applications for the fall semester that begins in August.

Providing participants with the time, space and support to think about what they want next is something universities have traditionally done for people at the start of their careers. Why not later in life as well?

of years past when every industry group seemed to su ocate at the same time. For example, residential housing is soft but multifamily housing is on re, so overall construction employment continues to rise.

• Productivity is troughing following an unusually high labor force quit rate. Once workers stay on the job for a while, they will become more productive quickly. Dramatic improvements in technology, like AI, will also drive productivity gains. ese positive indicators could be keeping us from falling into recession, however the debate is still open for a hard versus soft landing.

Investors should use this time to update their nancial plans and build a portfolio strategy for the opportunity to take advantage of more green shoots.

1. Ned Davis Research as of May 31, 2023.

2. William Greiner, CFP, Mariner Wealth Advisors chief economist. Je Krumpelman, CFA, Mariner Wealth Advisors chief investment strategist.

Patricia Kummer is managing director for Mariner Wealth Advisors.

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he was processing. As we walked back to the cart, I reminded him that I was only the messenger of that message, but I wished I was the one who thought of the concept. He laughed and then said that it was the best insight and reality check he had heard in a long time. He shared that it made him stop thinking about how high he could climb, and instead start thinking about how high he could help others climb.

Last week my column was a tribute to a friend and colleague Jill. In the past 15 years of writing this column I had never received the number of emails, texts, and comments on any previous column. And all of the messages had common themes, “I wish I would have known her,” “She must have been something really special,” “I hope people remember me that way,” or “What a legacy she left behind.”

And now I share Brian’s story above because regardless of our role in life, we all don’t have to be a CEO, we can move from being to doing to having to giving and to leaving a legacy. And it starts with a very simple concept that David H. Sandler, the founder of Sandler Training, introduced us to, the idea of focusing on our attitude, our behaviors, and our techniques, in other words building the whole person, to set us on the path to one day moving from success to signi cance and signi cance to legacy. Is it always about what’s next and how high you can climb? Or is it about how you can help others climb higher faster, and helping them on their own journey of being, doing, giving, and leaving their legacy?

I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can remember to strive for success so we can move to signi cance and then leave the legacy we would be proud of, 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.

Michelle Marks is the chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver. Learn more about the Change Makers program at ucdenver.edu/change-makers.

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Search-and-rescue dogs embody the mail carrier motto: “Neither snow, nor rain nor gloom of night” will keep these trusty canines from their appointed rounds — searching for people or items with single-minded purpose.

For the dogs and their trainers who are part of the Colorado branch of SARDUS — Search and Rescue Dogs of the United States — training is a weekly, if not daily, endeavor to prepare dogs to certify in an area of search and rescue or to keep the dog’s skills sharp after certi cation.

“ e training continues for life,” said Cathy Bryarly, a retired Boulder sheri ’s deputy who trains search-and-rescue dogs. “ is has to be part of your life. It goes way beyond a hobby,

or it’s not going to work. It’s a calling.”

SARDUS members agree that it’s a labor a love based in their strong resolve to help others. Not only do the dogs and their handlers train multiple times a week, enlisting family and friends to hide, so the dogs have someone to search for, but handlers also attend seminars on a variety of topics and work together by laying trails for others to follow.

Trainers are always learning, so they can improve their canines’ ability to help in emergency situations.

Search-and-rescue dogs and their handlers are not paid; in fact, handlers spend a lot on the dogs, the equipment, the training and more. e goal is to be certi ed to go on missions, the term for helping law enforcement nd people, bodies or objects needed in an investigation.

Call the people trainers or handlers, but

more importantly, they’re dog lovers who want to work as a team with their pets to help others.

The humility of training

e trainers say it simply: Training their canines is humbling.

“Our dogs don’t make the mistakes,” Anjie Julseth-Crosby of Morrison said. “We do. ere’s so much to remember. e training is about me trying to understand what (the dogs) are saying. e human fails, not the dog.”

In fact, Julseth-Crosby, who started training her bloodhounds two years ago, has compiled a 19-page document called “ ings I wish I knew two years ago.”

Training involves having a dog follow a scent for several miles, helping the dog return to the SEE DOGS, P15

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scent trail if needed and rewarding the dog when it nds the person or item it is directed to follow.

Training can be messy as canines follow the scent wherever it takes them over all sorts of terrain in all kinds of weather.

food or toys. Once you gure that out, then trainers must convince the dog to do what they want the pup to do for the reward. It begins with what is called a puppy run-away, where you get the pup to run after a person, and when the pup nds the person, the pup gets a reward.

at transitions to following a scent to nd a person.

“It’s just a matter of making it harder and harder to the point where a dog is searching 120 acres for one person or that trailing dog is following a 24-hour-old scent through a subdivision,” Bryarly said.

No matter what or who the dog is nding, it must go to it, stay there, lay down and point its nose, so the handler knows the dog is saying that the item or person is there.

Dogs cannot certify to be search-and-rescue dogs until they are at least 18 months old, but it usually takes two years or more for the rst certi cation, Bryarly said.

“Search-and-rescue dogs that are out in the public have to be just perfect,” Bryarly said. “ ey have to stay focused and not get distracted by other dogs, animals or people.”

Getting involved

irty years ago, Julseth-Crosby made a pledge that she would own a bloodhound and train it to be a search-and-rescue dog. at’s because Ali Berelez, 6, who had been kidnapped and murdered in 1993, was found four days after her abduction by bloodhound Yogi.

Julseth, at that time a single parent with a 6-yearold, felt kinship with Ali’s family. However, as a full-time teacher, Julseth-Crosby decided to wait to train when she retired in 2021. True to her word, she began training her bloodhounds Bruno and Miley.

Niamh Coleman of Nederland was looking for something to do with her dogs, thinking it was a casual pastime. Now search-and-rescue dog training is closer to an obsession.

a multiple-day-a-week job.

Jayne Zmijewski, who taught outdoor skills to rangers most of her life, said search-and-rescue dogs were a natural progression. She’s had four search-and-rescue dogs in the last 30 years, most recently her chocolate Labrador Kodi.

Teresa Verplanck of Bailey is training Lilo, a border collie mix, for wilderness searches. She called the SARDUS group she trains with wonderful, and trainers and dogs have become a big family.

Jake Udel, who lives near Rustic, Colorado, is a volunteer firefighter and medic, and he trains his dog, Java the Mutt, a Czech shepherd, “for the love of dogs, helping people and the activity.”

Julseth-Crosby said the number of hours can be whatever trainers can put in, but at a minimum eight hours a week, and some weeks, she trains or prepares for training as much as 40 hours a week.

The right breed

While just about any breed of dog can become a search-and-rescue dog, bloodhounds, shepherds and retrievers are the typical dogs people think of, but other breeds — if they have the nose for the work — can be certi ed.

“It works better to start with a breed that is bred to do this,” Bryarly said. “In fact, there are some breeders who breed speci cally search-and-rescue dogs. But sometimes you nd a dog that is good at this, and it’s a breed you never would have guessed could do this work.”

e most important thing, Bryarly said, is the bond that the dog and handler have with each other.

“People have told me over the years that they are amazed at something their dog does,” she said. “People think they are the smart ones, but the dog is the smart one. We are just trying to keep up with them.”

Starting early

Training starts early — when pups are a few weeks old.

“Start with a dog who has a high drive,” Bryarly said. “A high-drive dog is always busy and always wanting something to do. If that energy is not channeled right away, the pup will tear your house apart.”

Most canines prefer one of two types of rewards:

TYPES OF SARDUS CERTIFICATIONS

Melanie Weaver of Lafayette knew her dog, Lego,

Udel figures he’s been on 75 to 100 missions since he certified his first dog in 2005.

SARDUS

SARDUS, one of several search-and-rescue dog organizations in the country, helps smaller organizations test and certify dogs. To get the trailing or air-scent certification, which is usually the first certification a dog earns, the canine must follow a 24-hour-old trail to find a person. SARDUS only works with law enforcement, so a person cannot request a search-andrescue dog.

Bryarly said about 30 dogs in Colorado are certified by SARDUS with most of them trailing dogs — the most of any organization in the country.

Membership in SARDUS is $25, and some people join who don’t own dogs, but they want to help in other ways such as creating tracking trails or hiding from dogs, Bryarly said.

Trainers must be physically fit since they follow their dogs through all sorts of terrain, plus they take classes such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s incident command courses, so they understand the structure of incidents and managing evidence.

For the SARDUS trainers, the work is definitely a passion.

a German shepherd, needed a job to have a ful lling life, and Weaver was looking for something practical. Little did she know that training Lego would be

• Trailing: Dogs who can find scents by putting their noses to the ground.

• Air scenting: Dogs who find scents by putting their noses into the air.

• Avalanche: Some dogs are good at smelling human scents through snow.

• Water: Some dogs are good at smelling human scents through water.

“If you think of it as work, you won’t do it for 20 years,” Udel explained. “You have to adopt the (search-and-rescue) lifestyle. It’s a life-anddeath commitment for some people — certainly the people we are looking for.”

• Disaster search: Dogs can smell through debris to find people.

• Human remains: Dogs can be certified to find human remains.

• Wilderness: A type of trailing in remote areas.

in cities.

• Urban and suburban: Looking for missing children or older adults

Jayne Zmijewski and her chocolate Labrador Kodi take a break from training.

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Anjie Julseth-Crosby with bloodhound Miley practice trailing at a park in Niwot.

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Doug Cummings and German shepherd Rogan trail a scent.

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Hard winter for wild herds now limits hunting

State slashed licenses, but towns that rely on hunters hurting

BY TRACY ROSS THE COLORADO SUN

When the storms bearing more snow than people had seen in years came to northwestern Colorado last winter, they were full of promise.

Of creeks and rivers bursting at their seams. Of reservoirs nally full again. Of ground so saturated, res like the ones that had burned the previous summers might not be able to take hold.

But the slow-moving fronts that dropped snow in four-foot increments brought no help for the deer, elk, moose and pronghorn that forage near the towns of Maybell, Meeker, Rangely, Dinosaur and Craig. For them, the precipitation that fell, the winds that blew and the temperatures that hovered below zero for weeks on end meant death in numbers not seen in decades.

Rachael Gonzales, the northwest region public information o cer for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, wrote as much in a post on the agency’s website dated March 28:

“It has been a tough winter for wildlife. … Since the start of the season the National Weather Service’s Maybell weather station has recorded over 80 inches of snow for the area. Prolonged snow combined with strong gusty winds have made an already hard time of year for wildlife even more di cult. Food has been extremely di cult for big game to nd as much of it is covered by deep, hard-packed snow. is has forced thousands of animals to migrate farther west than they typically

do, burning much-needed fat and calories they likely won’t replenish.”

She then relayed a story of a bull elk she saw while on a ride-along with District Wildlife Manager Jeffrey Goncalves in the region:

“…we noticed a mature bull elk that was unable to get up after several attempts. After watching and evaluating the elk for several minutes, the decision was made to euthanize the bull so it would no longer su er from starvation.”

And she said that in addition to mortality from malnutrition, wildlife o cials had seen an increase in animals injured or killed from vehicle collisions.

With normal migration routes di cult for wildlife to navigate, they had resorted to using roadways as they searched for food. Sometimes that food was located on a narrow shoulder along a windy section of road, Gonzales wrote. On Jan. 14, a semi traveling eastbound from Utah on U.S. 40 hit 35 pronghorn on the road, and on Jan. 19, another driver hit a group of 18 near Craig. Over the course of the winter, district wildlife managers in the northwest region responded to four incidents involving vehicle collisions with groups of 10 or more of the animals.

On April 5, the Rio Blanco Herald Times, a newspaper serving the northwest region, quoted nowretired CPW wildlife manager Bill deVergie as saying deer fawn survival was in the 30% range and heading toward 20%; elk calf survival was 35% to 40% of normal; and only 10% of pronghorn fawns, the hardest hit, were surviving.

CPW said it was one of the worst winters for wildlife it had ever seen, despite massive e orts to help the animals. Area managers had dropped tons of hay for them to eat, and local ranchers had left barn

doors open, welcoming them in. But in the end a catastrophic number of Colorado’s healthiest ungulate herds died.

As bad as the winter of 2023 was for wildlife in the corner of Colorado bounded by Wyoming and Utah, however, it could also be bad for thousands of people who live in the same region and rely on the biggame hunting seasons that start in mid August and run through November.

Emails from CPW started going out to hunters who put in for the draw the rst week of June. Once hunters know they’ve scored a tag, many start planning their trips. But Cody Nelson, who owns Moosehead Lodge in Rangely, 13 miles east of the Utah border, in the White River Valley, said she can “already see a dramatic decrease in bookings from previous years.”

“To be honest, there was a little bit of worry even before the reductions were announced,” she said. “I totally understand why CPW is doing what they’re doing, but I don’t know what it’ll mean for the area as a whole.”

State wildlife o cials stand by a decision to cut hunting licenses, saying it’s the only way to bring back decimated herds to healthy numbers. COURTESY OF R. GONZALES / COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE

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Even over-the-counter tags, which are set by the Colorado state legislature and available in August to any hunter for a certain price after the limited draw is over, were a ected. While CPW didn’t reduce the number, it did shorten two seasons in which hunters could use over-thecounter tags for elk in the severe-winter zone — downsizing one season to ve days from nine and another to ve days from seven.

Rooms at Nelson’s lodge range from $85 to $105 per night and she says she books up during hunting season. With nine lodge rooms and seven cabins booked seven days a week at an average of $95 per night, Nelson could lose more than $100,000 between the start of the deer, elk, and pronghorn hunting seasons, in midAugust, and the end, in December.

Hunters also need to eat, buy lastminute supplies and maybe treat themselves to a few shots of whiskey after their hunts, so that’s more money they spend and more tax revenue for the town of 2,200.

Dylan LeBleu, a dispatcher for the Rangely Police Department, says that while Rangely isn’t a “hunting town,” he’s part of a community of hunters who rely on game meat to ll their freezers. “We have a market here, but not anything big, and it’s a little

expensive,” he says, “and the nearest Walmart is an hour away.”

A pound of “all natural” 97% lean ground beef at Walmart currently costs around $7. is multiplied by the estimated 160 pounds of meat a hunter can typically harvest from an average-size 500-pound elk equates to $1,120. Add the cost of gas to drive 100 miles round trip to the Walmart in Vernal, Utah, and back, and subtract the $63 cost of an over-thecounter license to hunt for an elk, and no matter how you look at it, it’s more a ordable for a local to hunt than it is to buy their meat from a grocery store.

Debbie Fitch and her family own several businesses associated with their Fitch Ranch in Parshall, so they likely won’t be as impacted as some due to the size and diversity of their enterprise. “But a lot of people’s livelihoods in this part of the country rely on hunting revenue and I think it’s going to be a tough year for a lot of them,” she said.

“For restaurants, out tters, processors, taxidermists. ey’ll be impacted in multiple ways. And then there’s just … the wildlife out here. It’s so sad,” she added. “It was hard to look at. We had one elk that just laid down in our yard next to our hay bales and that was it. You’ve never seen so many dead animals on the side of the road, either.”

en there are the out tters who guide hunters who’ve either won a tag in the lottery, purchased one

in person, or paid a landowner equipped with a specialized CPW “landowner preference program” voucher to hunt the landowner’s property.

Tyler Emrick, who owns and operates CJ Out tters outside of Craig with his wife, Michelle, o ers fully and semiguided deer, elk, moose, bear and mountain lion hunts for prices ranging from $3,500 to $10,000 per person. Like Fitch, he says the economic impacts he’ll endure this season will be limited compared with others because he has diversi ed his hunts geographically and now has permits to guide in Wyoming as well as Colorado.

But the Colorado towns of Craig, Meeker, Rangely, Maybell and “maybe, especially Dinosaur,” near the Utah border, “will be hurt because each of these places depend on the hunter harvest for their economy,” Emrick said. He knows an out tter participating in CPW’s landowner program who “normally gets 12 to 14 licenses, and this year he’s getting three to ve. It’s those small guys that depend on that $15,000 to $30,000 to pay for hay that are going to be hit hard. I do believe Meeker County will feel it hardest because even though it’s a rich county because of oil, there’s still all those restaurants. And a new brewery that just moved in. And I don’t know how many public hunters will come.”

Public lands hunters often purchase over-the-counter tags if they

came up empty-handed in the lottery. But Emrick wonders if OTC hunters will avoid traveling to units in the severe-winter zone given the new shorter seasons.

“I don’t know if anyone will come out for ve days or hit some other places out of state that weren’t hit like we were,” he says.

e Colorado Wildlife Council says hunting is a $843 million industry in Colorado. And, combined with shing, hunters contribute $3.25 billion and 25,000 jobs to the state economy.  ose potentially 32,000 hunters who could have purchased the eliminated tags? eir absence and the revenue associated with it could impact CPW’s annual budget by as much as $8 million, the agency says.  CPW employs a “user pays” model of funding in which hunting and shing licenses, federal excise taxes on hunting and shing equipment and license applications contribute millions of dollars to the agency’s budget.

“But statistics do show that nonresident hunters are gone from home for eight to nine days on average including travel time and that they hunt ve days,” Emrick said. “So with those numbers, it could either be really good or really, really bad. Easier to say hindsight is 20/20, we don’t know yet. I hope everyone can make it through, but I’m sure some out tters could go under this year.”

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No matter what happens to the humans, the CPW commission stands by its reductions, saying they are the only way to bring the decimated herds back to healthy numbers.

But at its May 3 meeting to discuss license reductions, Emrick and a handful of other hunters, ranchers and out tters said they wished the agency would do more.

In a letter to the commission beforehand, the Colorado Wildlife Conservation Project, consisting of 11 members representing tens of thousands of hunters, anglers, conservationists and outdoor enthusiasts, said it was willing to take “further reductions to limited licenses and/or temporary suspensions or caps on over-the-counter licenses” to address the problem, while recognizing “fewer hunting opportunities would mean fewer trips and lost revenue for the state and rural communities on multiple fronts.”

Others who spoke during the public comment period asked the commission to add a mandatory hunter harvest survey to get a clearer picture of what’s happening with various species in the severe-winter zone, adding that a penalty that revokes hunters’ privileges to apply for a license the next year if the hunter doesn’t complete the survey would round out the deal.

Emrick asked CPW to make “an im-

mediate emergency declaration and end cow hunting in (units a ected by the severe winter) along with the whole northwest, or o er a minimum of 10 tags.” He also asked the commission to limit either-sex elk hunting in certain months because “when a hunter harvests a cow they could be killing three elk with one bullet.”

But as managers had pointed out earlier in the meeting, the average success rate among elk hunters is just 20%, which means with a limit of 10 licenses there’s a good possibility only two elk in one of the severe-winter zone units would be killed.

CPW manages its herds for the health of the population as well as for hunters. is means it keeps hunters in mind when making “sex ratio” decisions — how many antlerless deer to make available for hunting and how many antlered deer, for instance. And the agency expects the lowered number of licenses to help herd health start improving immediately. So maybe the decision to stick with the reductions rather than make further cuts will take some of the sting out of the deadliest winter for wildlife CPW can remember, at least for humans.

is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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At Winter Park Jazz one year, Miller sang with one of her heroes; Dianne Reeves. Miller said she considers Reeves to be the best jazz singer of their generation.

When Milller received word that she had been inducted into the Hall of Fame, she called her brother, who’s rst reaction was to make sure Reeves was already in.

“‘When I told my brother, he said, ‘Is Dianne (Reeves) in?’” Miller said. “I said, ‘Hell yeah!’ He said, ‘Cool.’”

When asked about Miller, Reeves raved about her now-fellow Hall of Famer, describing Miller as “our precious treasure.”

“Hazel Miller is a consummate artist beloved by the people of Colorado,” Reeves said. “Over the years she has consistently brought joy, healing and celebration to us all. Hazel has always been and still remains to be a genuinely loving and caring human being. She is our precious treasure.”

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In recent years, Miller has helped a number of young Colorado artists get their start, including 20 Hands High, Julia Kirkwood and Blankslate

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Miller said she wanted to be the role model for others that she never had. As a young singer, Miller was sitting in with an older band, when the band purposely played the song in the wrong key to mess with her. She stormed out, grabbed her coat and walked home. Miller was 17 at the time.

“I don’t want anyone to ever tell me that they had to go through that,” Miller said.

In her mentorship, Miller channels another one of her inspirations; Bonnie Raitt.

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Legal Notice No. 82267

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Susan Sutherland, aka Susan Rose Sutherland, aka Susan Rose Friscia, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR30641

All persons having claims against the abovenamed 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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Donald Sutherland

Personal Representative 3703 Tulip Tree Road Marietta, GA 30066

Legal Notice No. 82283

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Mary Lou Kidder, a/k/a Mary Louise Kidder, a/k/a Mary Rodman Kidder, a/k/a Mary Rodman Davis, f/k/a Mary Lou Davis, f/k/a Mary Louise Davis, f/k/a Mary Louise Rodman, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30631

All persons having claims against the abovenamed 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 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mark R. Davis, Personal Representative 860 Tabor Street, Suite 200 Lakewood, Colorado 80401

Legal Notice No. 82270

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

needs to be on stage,’” Wooten recalled. “She’s a sel ess shining light who has been enough to mentor me, as I had zero experience with a band, playing out live, booking … She loves to see others succeed... everyone in every music scene and genre could learn from her.”

Miller said that she especially hopes to mentor young female musicians, who she believes are often undervalued in the music community.

“We get the short end of the stick,” she said. “... ey play, they sing, they write. I didn’t know how to do any of that. Nobody ever said, ‘You can write your own song.’ Nobody ever said, ‘You can start your own band.’ I started my band because I was tired of getting ripped o .”

‘If I die on stage, I’ll die happy’

While she doesn’t have any regrets from her career, one area that brings Miller sadness is that she — one of Colorado’s foremost Black artist — has never played for a predominantly Black crowd.

“I love my audiences because they don’t see me as being Black, they just see me as the band they came out to see,” Miller said. “ e only thing that disappoints me — I have never had a Black audience. I can usually count Black people on one hand at my shows.

“And I can go see a Black band,

and they’ll have all these people there, and they’ll know me — but they don’t come to my shows,” Miller continued. “I don’t know why. But I had to let go. Because the people that come to see me want to be there, and we have a ball. I don’t worry about it anymore, but it does hurt. It’ll never stop hurting.” Miller recently turned 70 but has no plans to slow down.

“I don’t know how to give it up. In all honesty, if I die on stage, I’ll die happy,” Miller said. “Everyone I love and respect were still working when they died. From Ella Fitzgerald to Aretha Franklin. ey were all working when they passed away. And you can’t beat that.”

All in all, Miller’s career has taken her around the globe, bringing the fth of seven children from Louisville, Kentucky to stages massive and modest. e most important accomplishment from her career, she says, is that she was able to give her children and grandchildren opportunities that she was never a orded.

“My job allowed me to give my boys things that I never had,” Miller said. “I have been to places that I dreamed of, and I got to see them because I was there singing. I woke up one morning and looked out the bathroom window at Mount Fuji. It was unbelievable — there was snow on it!”

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Estate of BARTLETT DEANE WRITER, a/k/a Bartlett D. Writer, a/k/a Bartlett Writer, a/k/a Bart Deane Writer, a/k/a Bart D. Writer, a/k/a Bart Writer, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30583

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to Counsel for Christine Writer, Personal Representative, Melissa Dalla Hammond, Dalla Hammond, P.C. 15016 Elizabeth St. Thornton, CO 80602

Or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before October 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 82289

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Matthew Richard Hire, a/k/a Matthew R. Hire, a/k/a Matthew Hire, a/k/a Matt Hire, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30622

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to: Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado 1437 Bannock Street, #230 Denver, CO 80202 on or before October 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gregory Hire, Personal Representative

c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC

4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246

Legal Notice No. 82271

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Lucille L. McGee, AKA Lucille Linda McGee, AKA Lu McGee, AKA Lucy McGee, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30600

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Richard H. Sugg, Jr. Attorney to the Personal Representative 6500 S. Quebec Street, Suite 300 Centennial, CO 80111 Ph: 303-770-0025

Legal Notice No. 82264

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

PROBATE COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO

1437 Bannock Street Denver, CO 80202

In the Matter of the Estate of: HARVEY GOLDEN, Deceased

Attorney for Patricia Marshall, Applicant Nicholas Klimas, Esq., #48658 Gendelman Klimas, Ltd. 517 E. 16th Avenue Denver, CO 80203

720-213-0687

Nick@GendelmanKlimas.com

Case Number: 2023PR030518 Division: 3

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S.

To: All Interested Persons and Attorney General

Last Known Address, if any:

A hearing on Petition for Formal Probate of Will and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

Date: July 13, 2023 Time: 8:30 am

Courtroom or Division: 3

Address: 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80202

The hearing will take approximately thirty minutes.

Legal Notice No. 82266

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Margaret Ellen Rice, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30475

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 23, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Larry D. Harvey Attorney to the Personal Representative 5800 S. Nevada St. Littleton, CO 80120

Legal Notice No. 82286

First Publication: June 22, 2023 Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Raeann B. Lampert, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30641

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mark L. Lampert, Personal Representative 420 South Forest Street Denver CO 80246

Legal Notice No. 82280

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Children Services

(Adoption/Guardian/Other)

Publish Notice IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF MERCER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA JUVENILE DIVISION IN RE: MARLEY MATTHEWS 3 DP 2022

LEGAL NOTICE TO: BENACIO MATTHEWS, JR.Putative father

On July 28, 2020, a child was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania to Susan Gardner. On January 26th, 2022, said child was adjudicated a dependent child and placed in the care custody and control of Mercer County Children and Youth Services. Please be aware that there is a Permanency Review Hearing scheduled in the interest of this child on August 4, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. in Courtroom #4 of the Mercer County Courthouse, Mercer, Pennsylvania. Please contact Mercer County Children and Youth Services if you are the natural father or know the identity or whereabouts of the unknown father.

Mercer County Children and Youth Services 8425 Sharon-Mercer Road Mercer, PA 16137 (724) 662-2703

You have a right to be represented at the hearing by a lawyer. An attorney has been appointed by the Court to represent you. Your attorney's contact information is as follows:

John Alfredo, Esquire P.O. Box 246, Sharpsville, PA 16150 724-962-2980

Legal Notice No. 82290

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch ###