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Colorado’s hospitals keep going despite COVID surge The state’s relatively high vaccination rate is one reason for perseverance BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

Schools board. Marla Benavides, 48, said she is running for the school board because she is concerned about literacy rates. In 2019, the last school

Nearly 19 months in, these are some of the toughest days for Colorado hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. Even as the latest surge in coronavirus hospitalizations appears to have plateaued — what state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy recently called an “unstable equilibrium” — hospitals across Colorado have still been scrambling to add criticalcare beds and some have been postponing non-emergent surgeries in order to free up space. As of Sept. 23, Colorado had a scant 148 ICU beds available statewide and 28% of hospitals were expecting to experience a staff shortage within the next week. Hospital leaders speak of staff burnout, of trouble keeping employees when lucrative gigs as traveling nurses to COVID hotspots abound. Despite the renewed — and exhausting — strain on the system, things in Colorado are nowhere near as bad as they are in other parts of the country. Amid crushing waves of delta

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Why a home-school mom is running for school board She sees herself as ‘the last hope for education reform’ BY MELANIE ASMAR CHALKBEAT COLORADO

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schools her son and once worked as a bilingual paraprofessional in public schools is running for an at-large seat on the Denver Public

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Building company culture Denver-based entrepreneurs launch TheCultureBiz crates

TheCultureBiz crate comes complete with a variety of original activities that will help workplaces build culture through play, which increases workplace happiness and reduces stress among employees.

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Most people don’t think of a business meeting or company conference as being playtime in the workplace. But two Denver-based entrepreneurs, Katie Wall and Courtney Jacobson, realized that as little as 10 minutes of play can help build company culture. They believe that building culture through play is essential for increasing workplace happiness, reducing stress and retaining the best talent. “When you play, you have a shared experience and that’s really powerful,” Jacobson said. “It allows for people’s diverse sets of strengths to come out, which can lead to new and different types of collaboration between team members.” Jacobson and Wall are the co-

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founders of TheCultureBiz, which is an activity crate company. The activities included in the kits are “designed to engage employees, cultivate creativity, strengthen relationships and foster well-being,” states a news release. There are two types of kits available. The CultureCrate is designed to enhance company culture through short bursts of play — 10 to 15-minute activities — during team meetings. These can be purchased as a one-time crate — though there are enough activities for an entire quarter — or as a quarterly subscription. The RetreatCrate is designed

to connect people during a team retreat or conference and includes both quick and longer — 30- to 45-minute — activities. All the activities are original. A couple of examples are creating a special no-touch handshake, and sculpting a meal for your team out of clay. “The activities showed us that there are creative ways of finding our way through issues that occur in our work together,” said Jess Christensen with Mountain Youth, which is a nonprofit youth organization based in Edwards, “and that multiple good and ‘right’ answers are possible.”

TheCultureBiz also offers interactive corporate workshops to help companies with culture development and team building, for example. Jacobson and Wall first started discussing the idea for TheCultureBiz in summer 2019, and the two began piloting the in-person crates with various local businesses in February 2020. During the COVID-19 shutdowns, TheCultureBiz crates pivoted to virtual crates while people worked remotely. Jacobson and Wall are fully relaunching the in-person crates in September. As more people are returning to the office after spending months of working remotely, Jacobson and Wall believe now is a good time for teams rebuild their culture in person. “Building a company culture used to be a luxury, but now it’s a necessity,” Wall said. “Team building is such a valuable investment for your company, but also incredibly important for the well-being and happiness of your people.” For more about TheCultureBiz, visit www.TheCultureBiz.com.

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Birdcall, a Denver-founded fast casual chicken joint, recently opened a new location in southeast Denver. The eatery specializes in chicken, specifically, chicken sandwiches, though it also offers salads and sides. Birdcall first opened its doors in Five Points in 2016. Today, the restaurant has six locations in Colorado. One is in Boulder and one in Colorado Springs. Four are in Denver: Five Points, 800 E. 26th Ave.; Whole Foods at Union Station, 1701 Wewatta St.; Evans (University neighborhood), 1535 E. Evans Ave.; and its newest location at Cherry Hills Village, 4996 E. Hampden Ave.

Birdcall also two Arizona locations that will be opening soon. To learn more about Birdcall, visit www.eatbirdcall.com. Meanwhile, a new restaurant has opened in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood. Revival Denver Public House, 630 E. 17th Ave., specializes in American comfort food. The restaurant offers indoor and outdoor seating, and a happy hour menu features both food and beverages. Revival is currently open from 3 p.m. to midnight Tuesday through Saturday. It plans to offer latenight and brunch hours soon. Learn more at revival-denver. com.

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New curator Hyonjeong Kim Han is the Denver Art Museum’s new Joseph de Heer Curator of Asian Art, coming from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. She is a specialist in East Asian art history. She will highlight objects from the DAM’s collection, as well as bring in special exhibitions.

Call for clarinetist The Colorado Wind Ensemble is holding an open audition for one clarinetist. To be conducted by video, received no later than Nov. 1. Prepare a video no longer than five minutes, with lyrical and technical selections. Share by email, Dropbox or YouTube. The CWE rehearses on Tuesday evenings, 7-9:30 p.m. at the King Center, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver. Parking vouchers are provided. The CWE season is five regular concerts and one chamber concert. Musicians are paid honoraria at the end of the season. See coloradowindensemble.org/getinvolved/auditions.

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variant-driven coronavirus infections, hospitals statewide in Idaho are operating under “crisis standards of care” — essentially rationing care because COVID cases have so overwhelmed the available resources. Some hospitals in Alaska and Montana have done the same. The governor of Wyoming called in the National Guard to his state’s hospitals. “We are very, very full, and are concerned right now,” said Dan Weaver, the vice president for communications at UCHealth. “But we are not at the level of some of those hospitals in other states.” How has Colorado been able to avoid the hospital horror of other Western states? State health leaders point to two factors. First, Colorado’s vaccination rate makes a big difference. In the Mountain West, Colorado has the second-highest vaccination rate in the region, behind only New Mexico. Put another way, of all the landlocked U.S. states, Colorado’s fully vaccinated rate is third-best. As of Sept. 23, nearly 60% of people in Colorado are fully immunized against COVID-19. (This figure is for the entire population, including kids too young to be vaccinated.) In Wyoming, the rate is only about 41%. And there is a clear connection between vaccination status and hospitalization. On Sept. 23, 80%

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exceeded their capacity during the latest surge. “The reason our hospitals are doing better than hospitals in many other states is simply because our vaccination rates are so high in Colorado,” he said. The other factor working in Colorado’s favor is that it has a lot more hospital beds than neighboring states. Prior to the pandemic, Colorado hospitals had been on a building binge — sometimes building new hospitals in already well-served areas where critics said they weren’t needed. As of 2019, Colorado had more than 10,600 hospital beds in the state, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care think tank. Utah, for comparison, had only about 5,600 beds. Hospital leaders defended all the construction by saying that the state was growing and that the capacity would come in handy, even if hospital beds sat empty at first. “You can’t build a highway system for a Sunday morning,” Katherine Mulready, the Colorado Hospital Association’s chief strategy officer, said at a forum in January 2019, right before the pandemic struck and while hospital costs were under intense scrutiny at the state legislature. “You have to build it for rush hour.” On a per capita basis, Colorado’s hospital capacity isn’t all that impressive. Again using 2019 figures, the Kaiser Family Foundation calculated that Colorado had 1.85 hospital beds for every 1,000 people, among the lowest rates in the nation. But many Colorado hospitals, pre-pandemic, had also positioned themselves as regional health centers, often treating patients from far-flung areas of neighboring states as well as those from Colorado. This meant some hospitals placed an emphasis on flexibility, creating an accordion-like ability to expand rapidly when needed. “We are grateful for every hospital bed that we have and we are fortu-

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nate that we have systems that have built up for surge capacity, pre-COVID,” said Cara Welch, a Colorado Hospital Association spokeswoman. Out-of-state patients don’t appear to be contributing much to Colorado hospitals’ COVID burden Elsewhere in the U.S., case surges in one state have sometimes spilled over to create problems in another. The New York Times recently reported on how Idaho’s COVID explosion is having consequences for neighboring Washington state, where transfers of Idaho patients are rapidly filling hospitals. At best, it’s unclear how much this is happening in Colorado. On Sept. 22, Herlihy pointed to packed hospitals in Larimer and Weld counties and said it’s possible that cases from Wyoming are contributing to the crowding. (The state does not track residency status of hospitalized patients.) “That certainly could be part of what we’re seeing right now,” she said. But the major operators of hospitals in northern Colorado said they are not seeing many out-of-state patients. At UCHealth, which has three hospitals in Larimer and Weld counties, out-of-state patients appear to be adding very little to the capacity crunch. Weaver said only about 1% to 2% of the COVID patients hospitalized across the UCHealth system are from out-of-state. “The vast, vast majority of our patients are from Colorado,” he said. Banner Health, which operates several hospitals across Northern Colorado, said the same. “Our hospitals are extremely busy with very sick COVID and non-COVID patients,” Sara Quale, a Banner spokeswoman, wrote in an email. “We are running at or over normal capacity in our three (Northern Colorado) hospitals. This week we had fewer than five patients from other states out of about 220 patients hospitalized with us.” SEE HOSPITALS, P5

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Just because Colorado hospitals aren’t as strained as those elsewhere in the country, it doesn’t mean they aren’t suffering right now. Hospitals in the HealthOne system, such as Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center in Denver and The Medical Center of Aurora, have seen COVID-19 patient admissions triple over the past 30 days, a spokeswoman said. About a third of those admitted need to be treated in the intensive care unit, and about half of those in the ICU are on ventilators. But, the spokesman said, ICU capacity at HealthOne hospitals remains stable and the facilities have not had to convert additional spaces into makeshift intensive-care wards. Centura Health, which operates hospitals such as St. Anthony Hospital, is seeing its highest level of

ventilator use of the entire pandemic — though ventilators are used by more than just COVID patients. And just about every hospital says staffing is a much bigger challenge than having an adequate number of beds available to take in new patients. Centura has been “flexing” staffing across its various hospitals and clinics, to make sure it has workers where it needs them most. Other hospitals have been hiring temporary traveling nurses, who come at a high cost during the pandemic. “Staffing is definitely still the concern everywhere,” said Welch, the Colorado Hospital Association spokeswoman. “The beds are there; the staff are not.” This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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Redistricting panel sends congressional map forward Commission approves plan by 11-1 vote on deadline BY SANDRA FISH, THY VO, AND JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

The final proposed map of congressional districts in metro Denver counties, adopted Sept. 28 by Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission. The map is now before the Colorado Supreme Court for approval. MAP BY COLORADO INDEPENDENT CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING COMMISSION

The 12 members of Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission agreed on an overhaul of the state’s U.S. House districts Sept. 28 in a vote taken minutes before a self-imposed deadline. The map would create three safe seats for Democrats, three safe seats for Republicans and two seats that could go either way. Under the plan, the Adams County cities of Northglenn, Thornton, Commerce City and Brighton would be part of the brand-new 8th Congressional District, as would most of Westminster and the Weld County city of Fort Lupton. The plan would leave virtually all of Douglas and Elbert counties where they are now, in the 4th Congressional District. The populated western sections of Arapahoe County, including Littleton, Englewood and Centennial, would be in the 6th District along with adjacent areas of Jefferson County, like Ken Caryl and Columbine. Most of Jefferson County would be in the 7th Congressional District, while Clear Creek County would be assigned to the 2nd District. The proposal was approved by an 11-1 vote just before midnight after seven rounds of voting and hours of contentious debate. The map was sent to the Colorado Supreme Court, which could adopt the plan by Nov. 1 or send it back to the commission for revisions. Legal challenges are expected. The map being sent to the court is an amended version of a staff plan released earlier in September. It received votes from three Democrats, four Republicans and four unaffiliated commissioners on the 12-member panel. Democratic Commissioner Simon Tafoya, a Denver Democrat, was the lone vote against sending the proposal to the Supreme Court. Eight votes, including from two unaffiliated commissioners, were required for the map to be approved. “Despite the proverbial bumps in the road, … together we have changed the course of congressional redistricting in Colorado, and provide an example for the rest of the country,” said a tearful Commissioner Lori Schell, an unaffiliated voter from Durango. The map, should it be approved by the court, will be used in the 2022 congressional elections in Colorado, the outcomes of which could determine partisan control of the U.S. House. Democrats currently control four of Colorado’s seven congressional seats. The most competitive district under the new map would be the new, heavily Hispanic 8th District based in the north Denver metro area and stretching into Greeley. Democrats would have a 1.3 percentage point advantage in the district, based on the results of eight statewide races between 2016

and 2020. Colorado’s seven incumbent U.S. House members would still live in their respective districts under the proposal, though in some instances those districts would be vastly different. Meanwhile, some announced and potential 2022 congressional candidates in Colorado will find their homes drawn into the districts they were planning to run to represent, while others won’t. Here’s a look at the eight districts in the new map: The 1st District would continue to be Denver-centric and a safe Democratic district for Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette. The 2nd District would cover the northwest Colorado counties of Routt, Jackson, Larimer, Grand, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Jackson and Summit, and also include most of Boulder and Eagle counties. It would also include parts of Weld County and more than 1,800 people from Jefferson County. It would be a safe Democratic district for incumbent U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Lafayette Democrat. The 3rd District would include most of the Western Slope and southern Colorado, including Pueblo. U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Garfield County Republican who represents the district, would have a solid 9.3 percentage point advantage, per historic results. Democratic state Sen. Kerry Donovan of Vail, who is running to unseat Boebert, would live in the 2nd District. The 4th District would be compromised of Douglas County, including Castle Rock, as well as Loveland and other parts of Larimer County. The Eastern Plains, including Weld County and eastern Adams and Arapahoe counties, would also be in the district, which would remain a safe district for Republican Rep. Ken Buck, of Windsor. The 5th District would be centered in Colorado Springs, including military bases in El Paso County, and would remain a safe Republican seat for U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn. The 6th District would remain anchored in Aurora and include much of Arapahoe County, as well as parts of Adams, Jefferson and Douglas counties. It would remain a safe Democratic district for U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, of Centennial. The 7th District would be a reconfigured, competitive district including much of Jefferson County but also Lake, Park, Teller, Chaffee, Custer and Fremont counties in the central mountains. Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, of Arvada, currently represents the district. A potential Republican challenger, state Rep. Colin Larson, of Ken Caryl, would be just across the border in the 6th District, though members of Congress don’t have to live in the district they represent. The new 8th District would include the north Denver suburbs of Thornton, Commerce City, Brighton and Northglenn, as well as most of Westminster and all of Greeley. Democratic state Rep. Yadira Caraveo, of Thornton, has already announced her bid for the seat, but SEE MAP, P7

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2021 JAAMM Festival features in-person, virtual, hybrid events Series will continue through Dec. 21 STAFF REPORT

The 14th annual Neustadt Jewish Arts, Authors, Movies and Music (JAAMM) Festival, which began Oct. 6, continues through Dec. 21 with in-person, virtual and hybrid offerings. The JAAMM Festival is a program of Denver’s JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center. It is the organization’s flagship cultural arts program, and focuses on literary arts and Jewishinterest entertainment.

“The Mizel Arts and Culture staff continue to program the most diverse and exciting programs,” said Kathy Neustadt in the news release. Neustadt’s Piñon Trail Foundation is the title sponsor of the festival. “This year’s lineup is no exception and may be the best yet.” This year’s JAAMM Festival features nearly 20 events including stand-up comedians, workshops, music, movies, author lectures and more. A full festival lineup can be found online at jccdenver.org/ jaamm. “The goal of the JAAMM Festival is to bring diverse and unique cultural content to our community,” said Rich Cowden, general manager

of the JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center, in a news release. “Perhaps no festival in the state offers such a wide range of offerings as JAAMM, and we’re working hand-in-hand with the artists to guarantee superb experiences for both our existing and new audiences.” Ticket prices vary per event. Tickets can be purchased with a variety of options through a virtual and cashless box office. Tickets can be purchased by visiting jaamm. eventive.org/welcome, sending an email to boxoffice@jccdenver.org or calling the JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center Box Office at 303-3166360. Tickets can also be purchased in

person at ticket kiosks at the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center (JCC Denver), 350 S. Dahlia St. which is in the northwest corner of the Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood. Ticket kiosks will be inside the lobby of the JCC during the week, and in the lobby of the JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center, which is located on the JCC’s campus, one hour prior to events. The JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center has enacted a vaccination and mask policy for in-person events. To learn more, visit jccdenver.org/jaamm. Information on how to attend virtual and hybrid JAAMM events can also be found on that website.

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Nicholas Kieft, a senior, and Melissa Hermosillo-Nava, a freshman, have their photo taken with the robot that the East High School robotics club competed with in the Kendrick Castillo Memorial Tournament on Colorado’s Energy Day Festival on Sept. 25 at East High School.

programming; and manufacturing. The subteams make it so that each student can participate in the club, no matter their talents or skills, said Joel Noble, Angelbotics’ coach and engineering teacher. The team has art and business students, as well as those interested in STEM careers, Noble added. Colorado’s Energy Day Festival is an annual event and always takes place at East High School, 1600 City

Park Esplanade. It could not take place last year because of COVID-19. Noble said he is extremely proud of the students’ accomplishments, following a year and a half of uncertainty, including not knowing what would happen to teams such as the Angelbotics. “The kids have done some really amazing stuff,” Noble said. “They kept the team together. They made it happen.”

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Collaboration is key to your most valuable players

s part two of the series on “Retaining Top Talent,” and following up on last week’s column on connection, today we will visit the role that collaboration plays in keeping top talent. Some of the most productive meetings WINNING I have ever been a part of included WORDS collaboration. Whether it was just two of us or several people in the room, harnessing the power of collaboration always yielded the greatest results. Think of the world we live in for Michael Norton a moment. We are social beings communicating and sharing information through social media. Although there are those of us who prefer to work alone, the lone wolf mentality has slowly become a thing of the past. We now recognize and understand the value in collaborating with those around us, especially those who are a bit smarter and have additional insights to offer. One of the key challenges that has plagued organizations of all

sizes is that of operating in silos, where departments, and individuals work independently with minimal communication. This is a clear recipe for disaster and yet it is still happening today. The frustrating thing for most companies is that this doesn’t need to happen. Even in the age of the remote workforce, managing and motivating the remote worker, and communicating remotely, it has never been easier to collaborate. Shared information inspires shared thinking. And shared thinking is the foundation of productive collaboration. As one of my colleagues reminded me recently, we may not always agree, but if there is an understanding that there are no bad ideas, only better ones, we can increase our chances of coming up with new and better solutions or approaches to solving problems. Collaboration goes a long way to ending the blame game. Instead, we lock arms as we collectively determine the best path forward. Everyone today is looking for an advantage. No one wants to start a new job and feel like they have a huge learning curve, enduring weeks and months of feeling inadequate until they learn the products, processes,

and systems of their new company. Job seekers are looking for organizations and teammates who will help expedite their learning and accelerate their success. Think of it the same way that we see the Most Valuable Player awards given out in professional sports. Whoever receives that award will first recognize their teammates and their coaching staff and typically never take any of the credit themselves. They understand what NFL Hall of Famer Peyton Manning meant when he said, “The most valuable player is the player that makes the most players valuable.” Just imagine how awesome our companies, teams, and newly hired teammates could be if we all aspired to help one another to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization while helping to meet and exceed our personal aspirations. Recently we hosted a leadership focus group. It was a very strong group of business owners and top executives. It was a 90-minute discussion on the current thinking around leadership training and the gaps in leadership development for today’s leader and the future leaders of tomorrow. We also invited

some students to participate. One student was bold enough to share his thoughts and insights. And as I watched the people in the Zoom meeting, many were taking notes as this young man spoke. Sometimes it becomes so easy to think we have all the answers, and we don’t need anyone else’s input. It’s also easy to make the wrong assumption that others have all the answers and they do not need insights or input from us. We hope that they will figure it out, leaving them on an island. Our research tells us that the lack of collaboration and support is one of the reasons people leave their position, team, or employer. Does collaboration happen naturally in your business or on your team? Is there room for improvement when it comes to connecting and collaborating? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ tramazing.com, and when we can work together to create more valuable players, it really will be a better than good year. Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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year before the pandemic, just 43% of Denver third- through eighthgraders who took the state literacy test scored at or above grade level. Those percentages were lower for Black and Hispanic students, which Benavides cited as a concern. “I see literacy as the engine behind our 250 years of American greatness,” she said. “And I see my role as the last hope for education reform.” - In blog posts, Benavides blames the district’s focus on equity for a failure to improve teaching and student academic performance. Every year, students “get dumber and dumber,” she wrote in one post that blames teachers’ unions for a culture of mediocrity. Benavides describes herself as a passionate debater with a strong Christian faith. In addition to home-schooling her 10-year-old son, she sells books as an independent contractor through Usborne Books. Before her son was born, she was a substitute teacher in Denver Public Schools and a bilingual aide who worked with students learning English as a second language. She also attended law school and has worked as a paralegal. In all, 13 candidates are running for four open seats in the Nov. 2 election. The winners will help lead a district that is still navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and trying to make up for a year and a half of disrupted learning. The board will oversee a new superintendent, craft a new strategic plan, and grapple with several long-simmering issues, including declining enrollment and continued disagreement over the role of independent charter schools and semiautonomous innovation schools. Benavides lives in southeast Denver but is running for an atlarge seat to represent the entire city. The board seat representing southeast Denver is not up for election this year. Unless she sees the school district “support every parent’s world view and not push an agenda,” Benavides said she does not plan to enroll her son in a Denver public school. Benavides is trying to start a Denver chapter of a national group called Moms for Liberty, which describes itself as supporting parental rights and has opposed the teaching of critical race theory, an academic framework that examines how policies and the law perpetuate systemic racism. Asked about critical race theory, Benavides didn’t offer a strong opinion but said she has heard that some parents are concerned about it. “I would look more into that,” she said. But on her website, Benavides said she doesn’t believe in critical race theory and that she would never put her own child in an “equity worldview public school system.” Benavides said she is vaccinated but thinks it should be a personal choice. The city of Denver has mandated that all school staff be

Denver school board candidate Marla Benavides with her husband, Rolando, and their 10-year-old son.

vaccinated. She also said children shouldn’t have to wear masks. Denver schools require all students and staff to wear masks. Denver Public Schools is Colorado’s largest school district, serving about 90,000 students. A little more than half of students are Hispanic, 26% are white, and 14% are Black. Its school board has seven members — five regional and two districtwide. We asked Benavides about several key issues the district will face in the coming years. Declining enrollment and a growing number of small schools: Benavides said she’d start by asking parents what they want from their children’s schools. “I’ve already talked to a lot of them, and a lot of them are concerned with equity and the worldview [students are] getting that goes against many of the parents’ worldviews,” she said. Elementary schools should be teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, Benavides said. In reading, she said students should learn phonics — the sounds letters make — rather than learning to recognize “sight words” without being able to sound them out. Charter and innovation schools: Benavides supports charter and other non-traditional schools that she said give families more options of where to send their children. “Parents are the primary caretakers and educators of their children, and they should have the choice of picking the right school for their child,” she said. Police in schools: Benavides disagrees with the Denver board’s decision last summer to remove police officers from schools. She participated in a police Explorers program as a teenager in Florida and said she believes police play a

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A crowd sits at The Streets at SouthGlenn outdoor mall in Centennial in June during a free concert. City officials have announced the formation of the nonprofit Centennial Arts and Cultural Foundation with a mission “to celCOURTESY PHOTO ebrate, inspire, and connect art and culture in Centennial.”

The outdoor amphitheater at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. COURTESY OF ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Arts centers, other programs can bridge gaps BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A median sculpture stands along Tower Road near 104th Avenue by artist Mark Horst, installed in 2020. The sculpture is among the public art pieces the Commerce City Cultural Council has helped select. PHOTO COURTESY OF COMMERCE CITY

eemingly ever-rising levels of political polarization — particularly amid issues of the coronavirus pandemic — may be wearing on Coloradans, but one place where all of that can melt away is at an art performance on stage. That’s according to Marcus Turner, a staff member at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. With “the arts, by their very nature — especially the performing arts, where you’re sitting in a space and experiencing something, whether it’s music or theater — you are, in that moment, having a shared experience with the people around you,” Turner said. The arts can be a force for “bridging people and making connections for people who may not think the same,” Turner added. Local arts centers are a presence in cities and towns across the Denver metro area, from Evergreen to Aurora to Parker. They’re places where crowds can see a play, catch

Marcus Turner, the director of communications and audience services at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, left, and Emily Grace King, exhibition manager for the Arvada Center, stand Sept. 16 near a sculpture by Scottie Burgess titled “Ties Forward.”

a concert, or even — at some centers — hone their own art skills with a painting or dance class. But arts programs also play a deeper role in their communities. “There’s a lot more to this world than just our politics, and a lot of times, the way you get to people is through other ways: through music, through art, through dance,” said Abraham Ramirez, president of the Commerce City Cultural Council. Dialogue and connection For Ramirez, who was born and raised in Commerce City, demographic changes were the motivation to serve on his local arts and culture organization. Two of Commerce City’s large demographic groups were Japanese Americans and white residents after World War II until around the mid-1960s, according to Ramirez. Now, in what he calls “core Commerce City,” roughly between 88th and 56th avenues, there is a substantial Hispanic population. “Whereas when I was growing up, it was not,” said Ramirez, 68. As he observed the changing demographics, he thought getting involved in the arts scene would be a “great opportunity to show people all the different cultures we do have here,” Ramirez said.

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While the city’s Cultural Council — a nonprofit body — doesn’t operate an arts center, it works to coordinate “culturally diverse events” such as the annual Music in the Park summer concert series and Commerce City Eats Week, a weeklong celebration of local cuisine, according to the city’s website. The Cultural Council also administers public art in the city. At an event, a “Latin band played ranchero music — upbeat sound, boom-boom-boom bass kind of sound. I had a couple sitting there, they’re German, and they said, ‘We love this polka music they’re playing,’” Ramirez laughed. “To me, that’s what it’s all about.” Turner, the director of communications and audience services at the Arvada Center, said arts centers can provide opportunities for dialogue and connection. The Arvada Center has taken steps to foster dialogue in audiences through “talkbacks” with actors or through surveys. Talkbacks are akin to a question-andanswer session — after performances of some plays, the actors are made available to the audience, at least before the coronavirus pandemic, Turner said. SEE ARTS CENTERS, P13

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Lawrence Golan conducts the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra during the orchestra’s November 2019 performance of The Mozart Requiem at Central Presbyterian Church. The Denver Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2021-2022 concert season begins in October and COURTESY OF AMANDA TIPTON PHOTOGRAPHY concludes in late May.

Reimagining the classical music experience Denver Philharmonic Orchestra announces 20212022 season BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

When Kwami Barnett was 9 years old, a clarinet was donated to him. He grew up in a family that believed in the value of donated gifts, so he was expected to make use of it. “I ended up picking it up and loving it,” Barnett said. Today, more than 32 years later, Barnett still loves the instrument. “It’s been such a commodity in my life,” he said. Barnett is a full-time music teacher and principal clarinetist for the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, which recently announced its 2021-2022 season concert lineup. The season will open with a free community concert in Cheesman Park featuring a solo by Barnett performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. The season finale will be a celebration of Beethoven, to include a performance of Symphony No. 9 “Ode to Joy.” While these two concerts are certainly highlights of the season, Barnett believes people will enjoy the entire six-concert season. “All of our concerts are going to be special,” he said. “We’re excited to get back into bringing music to Denver, and Colorado.” Attending a Denver Philharmonic Orchestra concert is more than just the music — it’s the experience as well, said Valerie Clausen, a violinist who also serves as the orchestra’s executive director. The orchestra prides itself on reimagining the classical music experience, Clausen said. For the 2013-2014 season, the orchestra started its More than Music, which features pre-concert activi-

DENVER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA’S 2021-2022 CONCERT SEASON The Denver Philharmonic Orchestra’s home venue — the Central Presbyterian Church at 1660 Sherman St. in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood — is undergoing renovations, so the orchestra’s concerts may take place in different venues this season. Season passes are now available for purchase, and tickets to individual concerts will become available as venues are finalized. Venues will be announced on the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra’s website: denverphilharmonic.org. • Clash of the Titans, a free community concert in Cheesman Park 7-9 p.m. Oct. 8 at The Pavilion at Cheesman Park, 1900 E. 11th Ave., in Denver • “The Elixir of Love” in Concert, a special collaboration with Central City Opera 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 and 3 p.m. Nov. 6 • Holiday Cheer! concert 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17 and 3 p.m. Dec. 18 • World’s Fair: The Maestros of Tomorrow 7:30 p.m. March 5 • U.S. premiere of Sergiu Celibidache’s “The Pocket Garden” 7:30 p.m. April 9 • Beethoven Celebration, to include a performance of Symphony No. 9 “Ode to Joy” 7:30 p.m. May 25 and 26 ties that tie into the theme of the concert. For example, a concert by an Italian composer might feature a food truck serving traditional Italian food. The orchestra will commonly offer pre-concert lectures — at no extra cost — to inform audiences about the historical background and other interesting details about the piece or composer, and post-concert mingling with the musicians. “We try to make the environment SEE MUSIC, P19

Sculptures titled “Trailblazers” by artist Don Kennell, installed in 2018, stand outside the Bison Ridge Recreation Center. The sculptures are among the public art pieces the Commerce City Cultural Council has helped select. PHOTO COURTESY OF COMMERCE CITY

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A driver in communities Another reason arts programming is a staple in communities: The arts are an “economic engine” in the Denver metro area, which drives governments and individuals to invest in arts, Turner said. More economic prosperity and a higher rate of economic development tend to mark regions and communities that have arts presences, he added. “The other more fluffy, touchyfeely reason” why communities promote art is that “arts are good for the soul,” Turner said with a laugh. He said arts can “enrich a person’s life” in general. “The truth is: The world would continue to spin if the arts didn’t exist. (But) what kind of world would that be?” Turner said. People would miss out on “beauty, hope, sadness, joy and inspiration,” he added. The range of emotional connection to the arts “creates a tapestry in a community and in the world, frankly, that would be missed if gone but sometimes is not acknowledged as being there,” Turner said. An arts newcomer Despite the long list of founda-

tions and other entities related to the arts in the Denver suburbs, Centennial has stepped into the arts arena too, announcing the formation of the Centennial Arts and Cultural Foundation. It’s a nonprofit whose initial efforts are being led by Centennial Mayor Stephanie Piko and City Councilmembers Tammy Maurer and Kathy Turley, according to an August news release. Randy Pye, Centennial’s first mayor and a founder of the city, has long felt Centennial should be more involved in the arts. “We never approached the arts. We left that to other cities,” Pye said in a 2019 interview. “If you’re a citizen of Centennial, you don’t identify Centennial with any kind of arts. And that’s a major part of a city. I’ve always thought we should have a foundation here about arts.” The new foundation in Centennial says its mission is “to celebrate, inspire, and connect art and culture in Centennial.” “CACF is actively engaging and exploring opportunities for art placements in Centennial,” the news release said. “This includes community events, working with our arts community, and researching how best to commemorate the rich history of our city and our region.”

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“I’ve never had an audience like this,” laughs Koko Bayer, a Denver-based artist. Bayer is outside of Place Bridge Academy, a K-8 Denver Public School near Cook Park in southeast Denver. Her audience is a dozen or so elementary kids, watching her every move as she attaches a giant heart bearing the word “Hope” to a brick wall. Bayer specializes in wheat pasting, a technique that essentially glues prints to surfaces as a way of getting art into public spaces. Bayer gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, when she started Project Spread Hope. She has now pasted close to a thousand “Hope” hearts across Colorado. “Living in Denver, I see them all over, and once the pandemic set in, we were just trying to, as a family, go out into the outdoors more and just started seeing them around town,” Therese Swain said of Bayer’s Hope hearts. Swain teaches at Place Bridge Academy. “As a visual arts teacher I was really drawn to that simple message that we could all really lean into during this pandemic.

Bringing that inspiration back to my students was at the forefront of my mind.” Swain saw Rocky Mountain PBS’ first story on Bayer (available online at tinyurl.com/RMPBSProjectSpreadHope) and reached out via her website. Swain requested four hearts be installed at Place Bridge Academy, where students and staff speak over 50 different languages and come from at least 64 different countries. It was a perfect fit. Bayer recently put out a request via her Instagram asking schools, hospitals, shelters and food banks to reach out for free heart installations. “I kind of prioritized putting them in places where these people who are really doing the hardest work during this time could have the most benefit from them,” says Bayer. “Anything that I can do to cheer them up a little bit, I’m more than happy to.” Bayer arrived at Place Bridge Academy with four six-foot heart prints. Two were installed outside, and two in the cafeteria. Swain shared the experience with two of her elementary-aged classes. “I just think seeing it be hung makes it more tangible for them to see how the process really comes to life, and that they could do it as well,” says Swain. Swain was so inspired by Project Spread Hope, she had her classes SEE MURALS, P15

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create miniature hearts inspired by Bayer’s project. Each heart in the mural boasts a word like smile, joy, dream, love, and hope, to name a few. “Things that we want not only children to have, but society as a whole,” says Swain. As Bayer heads inside to begin her cafeteria installations, she pauses at the mural and takes it in. “That’s a great feeling when a work of art that you’ve created can actually have a positive effect,

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as amended by Surveyor’s Statement recorded October 28, 1983 in Book 3797 at Page 768 and November 5, 1984 in Book 3936 at Page 49, County of El Paso, State of Colorado APN: 7436222035 Also known as: 50 1st Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906 Dated this 27th day of August, 2021. s/Patrick Gillette . Patrick Gillette, No. 42848 REYNOLDS GILLETTE LLC Attorney for Plaintiff Saskia Sarah Aevum Legal Notice No. 81197 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: October 14, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice CITATION BY PUBLICATION TO: SARAH LAVATO, Sister of Roberto Reil, CECILIA GONZALEZ, Sister of Roberto Reil and MARY TRUJILLO, Sister of Roberto Reil GREETINGS: YOU (AND EACH OF YOU) ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the Probate Court of El Paso County, Texas, at the Courthouse thereof, by filing a written answer at or before 10:00 o’clock A.M. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from the date of the issuance of this citation, same being the 18th day of October, 2021 to Petition filed in said Court on the 1st day of September, 2021, in Cause No. 2021-CGD00190 on the docket of said court and styled Roberto Reil, An Incapacitated Person. A brief statement of the nature of this suit is as follows, to-wit: Application for Appointment of Permanent Guardian of the Person and Estate. If this citation is not served within ten days after the date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. The officer executing this writ shall promptly serve the same according to requirements of law, and the mandates hereof, and made due return as the law directs. WITNESS, DELIA BRIONES, Clerk, El Paso County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and seal of said Court at El Paso, Texas, on this 23rd day of September, 2021. DELIA BRIONES, EL PASO COUNTY CLERK, 500 EAST SAN ANTONIO, SUITE 105, EL PASO, TEXAS 79901. BY Larissa De La O, DEPUTY Legal Notice No. 81241 First Publication: October 7, 2021 Last Publication: October 7, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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A hearing on PETITION FOR ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY AND FORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE for Appointment of GREG LAWRENCE as Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF LYNN L. LAWRENCE, A/K/A LYNN LEE LAWRENCE.

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Date: November 1st, 2021 Time: 8:00 AM Courtroom or Division: Denver Probate Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80207 The hearing will take approximately 15 minutes. Legal Notice No. 81236 First Publication: September 30, 2021 Last Publication: October 14, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of REBECCA MONTOUR, deceased Case Number: 21PR030865 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 January 23, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. CHRIS GORDON, ATTORNEY Personal Representative 3650 S YOSEMITE STREET SUITE 214 DENVER, CO 80237

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Thomas R. Epps, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31331 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 February 7, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Karen J. Epps, Co-Personal Representative 1407 Plum Court, Unit D Mt. Prospect, Illinois 60056 David A. Epps, Co-Personal Representative 6836 Juniper Court Frederick, Colorado 80530

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of Denver, led gallery tours to talk about printmaking and this particular group of 18 prints, loaned by the Polly and Mark Addison Collection at the University of Colorado Art Museum in Boulder. Jacobs reminded visitors about the collaborative nature of printmaking: four people involved, including a master printer perhaps. Or more — on one Robert Rauschenberg work, there were as many as nine people involved, with six colors, aluminum and a lithograph stone. There is “excruciating detail,” Jacobs said. Regarding: How do you know when you are finished? Jacobs offered a Rauschenberg quote: “It’s not what we started out to do, but it’s a good piece.” Area art lovers had a chance to

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relaxed,” Clausen said, “and make sure nobody feels excluded from the classical music experience.” The orchestra offers its tickets at affordable price points, and will not turn anyone away. Those who do not have the means to pay for a ticket are welcome to reach out ahead of time and request a complimentary ticket, Clausen said. All of these experiences al-

“Sub-Total” by Robert Rauschenberg is on display at the Littleton Museum through COURTESY PHOTO Oct. 16.

get acquainted with Rauschenberg’s work at the Museum of Outdoor Arts gallery in Englewood in recent years. Louise Nevelson’s piece includes foil with a wrinkled surface, while Red Grooms’ whimsical “Ruckus Taxi” is a three-dimensional work, a casting with printed paper sur-

low the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra to break down the barriers between stage and audience, said Lawrence Golan, music director and conductor. “It is so gratifying to see the enjoyment the audience gets from our performances,” Golan said. Classical music can include about 300 years of music and thousands of pieces, ranging from well-known work such as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 to lesser known, but equally fantastic, work, Golan said. “And there’s new pieces

face. Not all prints are framed wall pieces! Fritz Scholder’s “Hopi Dancers” is a moody work from an edition of 75. His artworks are included in the Denver Art Museum’s collection and appear there frequently. As an indigenous artist, he brings some varied elements to his works. Viewers may be more accustomed to seeing smaller traditional prints, such as etchings, where the printmaker used a sharp tool to cut an image into a copper plate, which is then inked and run through a press. Early books were sometimes illustrated with etchings, engravings or woodcuts, but these techniques are not shown in this contemporary collection. Andy Warhol’s prints in the exhibition are made from photographic portraits — still another approach. His “Untitled” is an image of a transvestite, Jacobs noted. There are two works with similar content by Frank Stella — a “Black Stack” and another of the same

being written every day,” he added. The Denver Philharmonic Orchestra specializes in providing a cross-section of it all, Golan said. People who are familiar with classical music will still get to experience something new, and those who aren’t familiar with it will be pleasantly surprised at how exciting and entertaining classical music can be, Golan said. “Our passion is orchestral,” Golan said. “There are very few things more rewarding than sharing one’s passion with others.”

image in delicate multiple colors, which Jacobs said “blew him away.” Be sure to take an extra look — “It is said to have 41 colors — a very exacting process,” he added. Other artists with works included in this most interesting exhibit, displayed in the Littleton Museum’s fresh, light gallery, include major contemporary names: Richard Diebenkorn, Josef Albers, Louise Nevelson, Herbert Bayer, Ronald B. Kitaj, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Charlot, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine and Sam Francis. This is really a don’t-miss opportunity for area art lovers to experience something different with works by major artists. The exhibit run through Oct. 16 at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton, 303-795-3950, littletongov.org/city-services/citydepartments/museum. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.

The Denver Philharmonic Orchestra performs in November 2019. This year’s season concert lineup includes a free concert in Cheesman Park, a collaborative concert with the Central City Opera and a celebration of Beethoven, which has been COURTESY OF AMANDA TIPTON PHOTOGRAPHY postponed for two years.

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