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Skating around Denver

The Table celebrates a decade

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money to let public transportation agencies, primarily the Regional Transportation District in the Denver area, offer free train and bus trips. RTD plans to use the money to offer free rides in August 2022 and 2023.

The idea, first unveiled by the governor late last year, is to get Coloradans to try out transit in the hopes

In April, The Table Urban Farm celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and its restaurant, The Table Public House, celebrated its one-year anniversary.

The Table Urban Farm, or more commonly known as simply The Table, was founded in 2012 by husband-and-wife team Craig Broek and Jeanine Kopaska Broek who currently co-direct the organization. It is a nonprofit that grows organic produce in the south Denver area to distribute in the community through local partners or The Table’s Veggie Bike, which has been in operation for about seven years. The Table partners with private homeowners who allow The Table to grow vegetables on their property. This year, The Table has 16 garden plots primarily located in the Platt Park and University Hills neighborhoods.

The Table Public House, located at 2190 S. Platte River Dr., opened on April 2, 2021. It specializes in coffee and features Colorado craft beer on tap. It also offers small plates and is expanding its menu through a growing food program.

The venue hosts local musicians who perform live and other small events such as seed giveaways and bike diagnostics.

The Table Public House is also looking to launch a training program this summer or fall that will be led by former Metropolitan State University professor Jeff Koch.

The program will provide an opportunity for people who need a little

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The Denver Urban Skate Troop gather for a group photo‚ a tradition for every Wednesday night skate. This photo was taken at City PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN Park in Denver.

Inline skating group offers group skates every Wednesday

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Luis Osorio has been inline skating for about 30 years.

He got interested in the sport

when he was in his 20s living in New York, and through the years, he has built a community of skate friends who reside around the world.

When Osorio — now a resident of Commerce City — moved to Denver, he went into the Death and Glory Skate Shop to purchase a new pair of inline skates. While there, he inquired about local skate groups, and employees at the shop recommended he look into the Denver Urban Skate Troop.

And ever since then, “I’ve been skating with them every week,” Osorio said.

DUST forms The Denver Urban Skate Troop was founded by Sunnyside resident Rachel Norkin in June 2018. It started out as an informal gathering of about 12-15 people who got together to skate every Wednesday evening, SEE DUST, P4

State to spend $28 million to fund free summer trips RTD officials hope bus and train program will form ridership habits

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

If you build it, will they really come?

Or, more specifically, if you make transit free for one month will Coloradans start riding it and then come back when they have to pay?

Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis hope the answer is “yes” as they prepare to spend $28 million on a program aimed at easing air pollution in Colorado, particularly during summer months when ozone levels are high.

Senate Bill 180 would allocate the

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that they will form a habit.

“We want to increase ridership because we want to increase the use of public transit because that helps our air quality,” said state Rep. Matt Gray, a Broomfield Democrat and prime sponsor of the measure.

But not everyone believes that the adage “if you build it they will come” applies in this case.

RTD’s ridership is still recovering from the pandemic and the funding comes without data showing it’s a sure bet.

“Maybe if we would have come up with a bill that said each individual gets a free lunch or a Rockies ticket or a Broncos ticket maybe people would start to ride it more,” said Sen. Ray Scott, a Grand Junction Republican and frequent critic of transit initiatives. “But I think it’s such a false premise to believe just because we keep throwing more money at these issues that it’s going to solve the problem.”

An example in Utah — kind of There’s not a lot of evidence to indicate that the idea behind Senate Bill 180 will work. Proponents of the measure often point to Salt Lake City, where the Utah Transit Authority in February raised money to offer free transit trips.

State Sen. Faith Winter, a Westminster Democrat and another prime sponsor of the measure, called the UTA initiative “highly successful,” but the data is difficult to parse because of how COVID-19 has affected ridership.

The UTA, which serves seven counties in the Salt Lake City area, raised about $2.5 million to offer the free trips and reported surging ridership in February over January on weekdays (up 16.2%), Saturdays (up 58.1%) and Sundays (up 32.5%).

The UTA conducted a survey and found that 22% of riders

in February were new, 72% of whom said they were riding because the service was free.

Those new riders said they would ride RTA more frequently if it were free. But the survey didn’t ask people if they were more likely to continue using transit if they had to pay.

Megan Waters, the community engagement manager at UTA, said the agency was pleased with the increased ridership, but she admitted it’s tough to truly gauge how offering free transit trips affected ridership given that passenger numbers still haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels, including during free-fare February.

January was also when the omicron coronavirus variant was spreading across the country. By February, the variant’s spread had slowed.

“I think right now we are in a really rough time to compare, with the pandemic changing all the time,” she said.

Waters said that while UTA was interested in seeing how offering free fares in February would affect ridership, the goal of the initiative wasn’t necessarily to build long-term passenger habits, which is why the agency’s poll didn’t ask about riders returning when they had to pay.

The main goal was to improve air quality during a particularly bad air season in the Salt Lake City area.

“I did not personally bet on this because of what we saw in Utah,” said state Rep. Jennifer Bacon, a Denver Democrat who is working on the bill. “But what I bet on is we know that for a certain period of time, it helps us to get more cars off the road.

Let’s give it a shot — and that includes the upside of being able to maybe capture new riders.”

Setting up transit agencies for success The original plan for Senate Bill 180 was to offer free fares on ozone alert days, of which there were 65 between May 31, 2021,

and Aug. 31, 2021, the highest on record.

But the proponents of the measure decided that wouldn’t necessarily breed success. For instance, RTD, which would receive $11 million in each of the next two years to waive its fares, has been struggling to hire drivers and would want to be prepared for any increase in ridership caused by waiving fares.

Instead of offering free fares on ozone days, RTD and the bill’s sponsors settled on waiving fares for the whole month of August in 2022 and 2023.

Troy Whitmore, who sits on the RTD board of directors, told lawmakers that his agency is concerned about having enough drivers for a free-fare August and whether it can handle the corresponding security needs.

Winter said the important thing is that when people get on an RTD train or bus during free-fare August that they are inclined to come back.

“We want to make sure we’re setting up all the agencies for success,” Winter said. “And so when we’re asking RTD to provide free transit, that’s not just about farebox replacement, that’s about hiring and recruiting drivers. It’s about cleanliness and safety and security.

We need this to be a success. We need the experience to be great.”

As for how RTD plans to encourage people to use the free transit, a spokeswoman for the agency said “it’s too early to talk about our plans for fare-free August.”

“RTD is preliminarily preparing internally how to implement fare-free transit if the bill passes,” spokeswoman Marta Sipeki said.

Proponents of the measure expect RTD to advertise the waived fares. The $22 million can also be used for that purpose.

In Salt Lake City, the UTA relied on earned media — i.e. stories in local news outlets — and partner organizations to get the word out about its free-fare Feb-

ruary. The state’s transportation department posted about the initiative on its digital highway road signs. And, finally, UTA did purchase some billboards to advertise the program.

“I would not say we spent heavily,” said Waters, UTA’s community engagement manager.

Whitmore said RTD will “have a full-fledged PR campaign,” but the details of that campaign appear to still be in the works.

He also said RTD isn’t sure how well free-fare August will work out.

“I don’t know that we have a good estimate,” Whitmore said.

What else is in the bill RTD isn’t the only Colorado transit agency that would benefit from Senate Bill 180.

The legislation also sets aside $6 million to allocate $3 million in each of the next two years to other transit agencies — including the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority that serves people in the Aspen and Glenwood Springs area — so that they, too, could offer free fares in the summer. Agencies would have to apply for grants from the Colorado Energy Office.

“Every transit agency in the state is eligible and I would expect them all to apply,” said Sen. Nick Hinrischsen, a Pueblo Democrat and prime sponsor of the bill.

The measure also would allocate $30 million to the Colorado Department of Transportation to establish a pilot project to expand transit, including through additional bus trips on Interstate 70 and Interstate 25.

Senate Bill 180 is awaiting final approval in the House.

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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Bayaud Enterprises launches mobile laundry-shower trailer STAFF REPORT

Bayaud Enterprises has launched a new dual mobile laundry-shower trailer that will help support adults and children experiencing homelessness in metro Denver.

The unveiling took place on April 28.

“This new dual mobile laundryshower trailer will allow Bayaud to support more than 3,000 individuals annually experiencing homeless throughout the Denver metro area with critical services,” said Tammy Bellofatto, executive director of Bayaud Enterprises, in a news release. “In addition, we will continue growing our work as an innovator in the community for social enterprises and supported employment.”

The new mobile laundry-shower trailer is thanks to contributions from businesses and donors totaling more than $175,000.

Bayaud Enterprises is a Denverbased nonprofit that was founded in 1969. It exists to remove the “barriers to self-sufficiency for adults with

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disabilities, experiencing homelessness and other challenges to employment,” states a news release. Its

offices are located at 333 W. Bayaud Ave. in Denver’s Baker neighborhood, but the organization serves the

entire metro area.

To learn more about Bayaud Enterprises, visit bayaudenterprises.org.

record, experiencing homelessness or need some life coaching as they recover from substance abuse, Broek said. The hands-on training will provide experience in both culinary and the front of the house operations.

It’s all about people and providing a place where people can gather and experience community, Broek said.

“Community is good for mental health and physical wellbeing,” Broek said. “So much more life

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at least in the U.S.,” said Billy Arlew, a LoDo resident who rollerblades about four times a week, including skating with DUST. “The numbers of casual (inline) skaters diminished, and the only style that survived was trick (skating) at the skate parks.”

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Norkin said. Being one of its kind for inline skating in Denver — other major U.S. cities have robust skate groups — DUST quickly gained popularity through 2019, attracting people from across the Front Range who would come to Denver to skate.

Norkin, 42, a customer success manager for a Denver-based tech company, has been inline skating since she was a kid. She would mostly go to local skate parks — such as to execute tricks — but eventually noticed more and more people using inline skating as a form of fitness.

“Once you get comfortable with wheels on your feet,” Norkin said, “you can do just about anything and go just about anywhere.”

Like other group activities, DUST went on hiatus during the COVID-19 shutdowns in 2020. But skating in general did not experience a descent during that time, Norkin said. She added that is probably because skating is a relatively low-cost and low-impact form of exercise that can be done outdoors.

DUST restarted again in May 2021, and today, between 40-60 people attend each week — with the biggest turnout being last summer at Sloan’s Lake when about 100 people attended the skate.

DUST’s Wednesday skates are familyfriendly and no pre-registration or membership is required to join a skate.

All ages are welcome and there are opportunities for all skill levels and all

Rachel Norkin of Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood formed the Denver Urban Skate Troop in June 2018, welcoming anyone who wants to have wheels on their feet.

wheel types — meaning, if they prefer, people can ride a skateboard, scooter or four-wheel, also known as quad, roller skates.

The weekly skates, or routes as DUST refers to them, take place across the metro-area with most of them taking place in Denver proper — Washington Park, City Park, RiNo, to name a few. However, DUST also will also offer routes outside of the metro area on some weekends, such as at Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs, for example.

Because no registration is required, DUST announces its routes through social media. Each announcement will inform people of the route destination — which will be different each week —

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Rob Even of Arvada has been inline skating for more than 20 years and enjoys the friendships he has made from skating with others at the Denver Urban Skate Troop’s Wednesday night skates.

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and what skill level the route is. Skill levels of the routes are defined like ski slope runs: green is beginner/easy, blue is medium and black is advanced.

DUST offers skates year-round. During the Colorado seasons that come with inclement weather, routes are announced on a weekly basis. During the summer months, routes are announced monthly. Attendees meet at the route destination at 6:30 p.m., and the group departs for the skate at 7 p.m.

Friends on blades Rob Even of Arvada has been inline skating for more than 20 years, adding that he grew up during what he calls “the Golden Age of Rollerblading.”

Even, an engineer by trade, has been skating with DUST since its formation in 2018. While the sport is what drew him to skating with DUST, what he particularly enjoys is meeting new people.

DUST attendees run the gamut, Even said. There are some fellow engineers in the group, but there’s also teachers, musicians, chefs and many others, Even said.

“When you share an experience with other people, you inherently have something in common,” Even said.

“Anybody who wants to have wheels on their feet are welcome. (DUST) very much establishes itself as a friend community.”

History of inline skating According to rollerblade.com, “legend has it that the first inline skates date back to the 1700s when a Dutchman attempted to simulate ice skating by nailing wooden spools to strips of wood attached to his shoes.”

Roller skates came about in 1860s and by the 1930s, they “found a permanent place in society,” states rollerblade. com. Roller skates, which are still popular today, dominated skate culture through the 1970s.

“In 1980, two hockey-playing Minnesota brothers discovered an inline skate while rummaging through a sporting goods store and decided that this design would make an ideal offseason hockey-training tool,” states rollerblade.com.

These brothers developed the first trademarked Rollerblade skates.

Through the 1980s, the Rollerblade gained popularity, and by 1995, sports on Rollerblades were added to the X Games. However, inline skating sports were removed from the X Games one decade later in 2005.

“When it fell out of the limelight, people started not doing it anymore,

An improvement of the fun from the past While the desire to get exercise outdoors during the pandemic can be attributed to some of the comeback of inline skating, Arlew believes the sport started to get people’s attention again about five years prior.

Between roughly 2015 to 2018, tech developments to inline skates began to progress more rapidly than they had ever before. This new tech includes everything from better boots, such as the liner and shell to make them more comfortable; to wheel sizes and even the number of wheels on an inline skate.

“For the longest time,” Arlew said, “all you could get was the fitness skate or the trick skate.”

Calling it the “big wheel movement,” this is about the time that the tri-skate — three-wheel inline skate — came about, Arlew said. A bigger wheel, he added, can roll over more types of surfaces better, and can provide more speed.

“Skates are just better now. They’re more fun (and) they’re easier to skate on,” said Jesse Heilmann, owner of Death and Glory Skate Shop, 935 W. 11th Ave., in Denver’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. “People say, `(rollerblading) was super fun back in the day. Why did I quit that?’ So (the skates of today) are an improvement of the fun that people used to have in the past.”

When the pandemic hit, people started seeing this new tech on social media — and some of the videos went viral.

“Millions of people saw a rollerblading video,” Arlew said, “something they hadn’t seen for 20-some years.”

Arlew, 35, participated in roller hockey and rollerblading all through high school. In college, he got into mountain biking and BMX biking. He moved to Colorado in 2016 and discovered all the skate parks around and started skateboarding. Eventually, he wanted to get into something new and rediscovered the fun he used to have on inline skates.

“There is an element of nostalgia, but what really comes out is you’re reminded of the freedom you get when skating,” Arlew said. He added that on skates, you’re not strapped in like on a snowboard or propped up like on a bike. “We had that feeling when we were kids, whether we knew it or not.”

Everyone’s welcome DUST remains true to its beginnings — it is still an informal gathering and everyone is welcome, Norkin said.

She is looking forward to “being amazed at how many people will show up” and possibly adding more skates to the calendar.

“We love meeting new people,” Norkin said. “I (especially) enjoy watching people come together to skate, and then they establish friendships.”

WANT TO JOIN? Denver Urban Skate Troop is active on Facebook: Denver Urban Skate Troop – DUST and Instagram: denverurbanskate. Questions can also be emailed to DenverUrbanSkateTroop@gmail.com.

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Juneteenth is officially a state holiday in Colorado

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

It is official: Juneteenth is a state holiday in Colorado.

Governor Jared Polis signed a bill Monday, May 2, that makes Juneteenth Colorado’s eleventh state holiday. The bill signing took place at Cleo Parker Robinson dance studio in Denver.

Members of the Black Democratic Legislative Caucus of Colorado joined Polis at the bill signing, as did Juneteenth Music Festival organizer Norman Harris III and Colorado WINS president Skip Miller.

“This day means so much to me,” Harris said.

Norman Harris III, organizer of Denver’s Juneteenth Music Festival.

Miller also spoke at the bill signing event, as did the bill’s three primary sponsors: Democrats Sen. Janet Buckner (Aurora), Sen. James Coleman (Denver) and Rep. Leslie Herod (Denver).

“Colorado, and Denver, has one of the largest Juneteenth [celebrations] in the nation, and it’s time that it’s recognized,” Herod told Rocky Mountain PBS in the moments leading up to the bill’s passage Monday. “I’m really excited to say that the workers of Colorado WINS fought for this in their first ever ... collective bargaining agreement with the governor, and here we are today. This means that

places all across the country will know the power of Juneteenth, right here in Denver.”

Colorado WINS is the union representing thousands of state workers.

The Colorado House passed the bill Monday, April 11. The legislation had broad bipartisan support; the vote in the House was 61-2. The only “no” votes were Republicans Rod Pelton (District 65) and Rod Bockenfeld (District 56). The Colorado Senate approved the bill Monday, March 21 with a 32-1 vote. Republican Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg (District 1) was the sole vote against the bill.

Herod told Rocky Mountain PBS that the bipartisan support of the bill “just acknowledges how far we’ve come.”

Democratic State Sen. James Coleman speaks at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance studio, Monday, May 2.

Members of the Black Democratic Legislative Caucus of Colorado first touted the bill Wednesday, March 2, on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol with Polis.

“This is a critical part of our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and movement to increase equality in state agencies,” said Colorado WINS president Skip Miller, who spoke at the March 2 event event.

“Making Juneteenth a state holiday means Colorado not only recognizes that Black people are

free, but that all people are free,” Sen. Coleman said at the Capitol.

Juneteenth — a portmanteau of the words June and nineteenth, the date on which the holiday takes place — is a celebration that started with the freed slaves of Galveston, Texas more than 150 years ago. Though the Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in the South in 1863, the proclamation was not enforced in many places in the South, including Texas, until after the Civil War ended in 1865. Until then, many enslaved people were unaware of what happened in the Civil War or the fact that they should have been freed.

On June 19, 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston.

Granger brought with him General Order No. 3 which read, in part, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

The following year, the now-free people of Texas began celebrating Juneteenth. For a long time, the holiday was predominantly recognized in Texas, but eventually spread across the nation as Black Texans moved outside the state.

In June of 2021, following a nationwide racial justice movement sparked by the murder of George Floyd a year prior, President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legisla-

tion making Juneteenth a national holiday, the first new holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983.

Earlier in 2021, Denver started officially recognizing Juneteenth after City Council unanimously approved a proposal to make the Saturday closest to June 19 a commemorative holiday.

“Denver has a proud, longstanding tradition of celebrating Juneteenth in the community,” District 8 Councilman Christopher Herndon said after the resolution passed last year. “This is an opportunity to shine a light on Black history and officially recognize and celebrate our freedom, heritage, and achievement.”

Juneteenth is now the eleventh Colorado state holiday, joining: • New Year’s Day • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day • President’s Day • Memorial Day • Independence Day • Labor Day • Frances Xavier Cabrini Day • Veterans Day • Thanksgiving • Christmas This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs. org.

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Nonprofit gives $1.5M cash to formerly incarcerated Coloradans A first-of-its-kind cash assistance program gives people a second chance

BY MARGARET FLEMING THE COLORADO SUN

Heather Fitzsimmons was working on getting her life back together and staying clean while on probation in Aurora when she noticed what seemed to be an extra deposit in the account where she gets paid.

Fitzsimmons called to alert her employers at the Center for Employment Opportunities in Denver, part of a national organization providing immediate employment for formerly incarcerated people. They explained the nonprofit’s new pilot program — a first-of-its-kind cash assistance initiative giving $24 million to more than 10,000 former inmates across the country.

“It helped me get in a better mental spot to where I feel like it’s actually possible to stay off the street and to maintain a job,” Fitzsimmons said. “It gave me the boost that I needed to get out.”

Fitzsimmons used the cash to pay part of a deposit on an apartment and get a car to drive to her job. Before that, she was homeless for six years and without a car for eight years. Now she works to help other people who are homeless and addicted to drugs or alcohol.

“With a program like this, it gives people some of that stability where they’re not stressed and they’re not anxious and they’re able to stabilize themselves,” said Khalil Halim, executive director at Second Chance. “And they’re not looking at committing PHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN VIA REPORT FOR AMERICA crimes to stabilize themselves.”

The cash assistance program delivered $1.5 million to 623 former inmates in and around Denver. More than 10,000 people in 28 cities received up to $2,750 nationwide. All funding from the program has already been distributed with the goal of helping formerly incarcerated people transition back to their communities.

The national stimulus program is privately funded by philanthropic interests including the Justice and Mobility Fund, Agnes Gund Foundation, Art For Justice Fund, George Kaiser Family Foundation and Robin Hood.

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portunities partners with the Second Chance Center reentry service in Aurora, where 246 people received cash through the stimulus funding, according to Khalil Halim, the executive director. The assistance will help ease socioeconomic pressures that contribute to crime, he said.

“With a program like this, it gives people some of that stability where they’re not stressed and they’re not anxious and they’re able to stabilize themselves,” Halim said. “And they’re not looking at committing crimes to stabilize themselves.”

“With a program like this, it gives people some of that stability where they’re not stressed and they’re not anxious and they’re able to stabilize themselves,” said Khalil Halim, executive director at Second Chance. “And they’re not looking at committing crimes to stabilize themselves.” (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America) People who received cash through the program have used the extra funds to pay for program fees at halfway houses, clothing, food, shelter and transportation. Some of Halim’s clients used the stimulus to start their own businesses.

Colorado lawmakers made efforts to support formerly incarcerated people this fall, starting a new reentry initiative to encourage hiring those recently

released. The network will formally launch this summer with events to increase the number of fair chance employers, support them with training and connect them with employees.

The program is meant to complement broader policy changes in the justice system, said Pam Lachman, the organization’s senior director.

“But just from what we’ve seen from the interim evaluation and from the stories we’ve heard, it had a huge kind of stabilizing impact on people.”

Lachman said organization leaders noticed the financial crisis for their employees as the pandemic hit, because participants in the program are paid daily. Being unable to work as many hours in-person made it more difficult to get on firm ground after jail or prison.

Carmen Ortega is another stimulus recipient who is now a full-time staffer running the work crew for the nonprofit’s location in Colorado Springs.

She was homeless for four straight years and faced 32 years in prison before making a drastic change.

“Those four times that I came out of jail, I came out to nothing,” Ortega said. “I came out with nothing at all.

Not even underwear, to be honest.”

After jail, Ortega didn’t have money for food, clothing or housing. She said getting involved with the organization and receiving funds was a new beginning. Last week was her third anniversary of being clean.

The stimulus money can provide a safety plan by getting people off the street and into a hotel room for the night, Ortega said. She said many people who are homeless in Colorado Springs come out of jail or prison with no money and have trouble securing necessities to rebuild their lives, from medication to a driver’s license.

“It will be a tremendous blessing,” Ortega said. “Because they will have something in hand, something to work with.”

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Miss Colorado competition to stay in Parker The event is a feeder for Miss America

BY ELLLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After three years of holding its event in Parker, the Miss Colorado competition plans to make the town a permanent home for Memorial Day weekends.

The organization, which is a feeder for the Miss America competition, held their event at Parker’s PACE Center in 2019 and 2021 and is set to do so again this year.

The Parker Chamber of Commerce initiated the agreement after hearing interest in the idea from the organization.

“It’s just an easy economic development win because it brings attention to Parker that week every year,” said T.J. Sullivan, president and CEO of the chamber.

While there is only a contract in progress for this year’s event, the organization’s “intention is to keep it in Parker,” said Mette Castor, coexecutive director of Miss Colorado.

PACE Center rates for rentals show the contract will bring in about $11,000 in revenue for the center. The event center can seat up to 500 people per day of the event.

“Hopefully it’s financially beneficial to the town and businesses,” Castor said.

The contest also incorporates the Miss Colorado’s Outstanding Teen competition during the same weekend. The teen competition is for girls ages 13 to 17 and the Miss Colorado event is for 18- to 26-year-olds.

Both competitions include private interviews with the panel of judges, a talent portion, on stage questions and evening wear. The adult contest also includes a 60-second presentation on a social impact initiative.

“It’s not just a beauty pageant,” Castor said. “Or just a bunch of

‘We want it to be more of a partnership and feeling of community.’

Mette Castor, co-executive director of Miss Colorado

pretty girls. That’s really not what it is.”

This year’s winner of the Miss Colorado competition will receive a $10,000 cash scholarship. The winner of the teen contest will receive $2,500 in cash and several options for scholarships, such as a full ride to the University of Alabama. The organi-

zation hopes in future years to offer scholarships to local universities.

“These are really smart women who have identified this as a path to reach their goals,” Castor said.

As part of the deal, the Miss Colorado Scholarship Organization has joined the Parker chamber as a member. The chamber will be the “Local Host Sponsor” for the event.

Miss Colorado became interested in continuing their relationship with the PACE Center and the town after having a positive experience there during past events.

“They were so accommodating and patient and so great to work with,” Castor said of the PACE Center. “It felt more like they were going to be partners in making our show successful, not just there to do a job.”

The organization also hopes to create a relationship between residents of Parker and the competition.

“For us we want it to be more of a partnership and feeling of community,” she said.

17th annual Lit Fest returns with in-person and virtual events STAFF REPORT

The 17th annual Lit Fest takes place June 10-19 this year, offering both virtual and in-person events.

Lit Fest is an annual event put on Lighthouse Writers Workshop that celebrates the literary arts.

Lighthouse Writers Workshop is a nonprofit literary center located at 1515 Race St. in Denver’s City Park neighborhood. Lighthouse’s mission is to support and elevate the literary arts through various outreach and youth programs, along with a wide variety of in-house writing workshops.

This year’s Lit Fest will offer weeklong and weekend workshops for advanced writers of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid forms and dramatic writing; additional weekend workshops for writers of various levels and genres; one-time seminars on particular topics; readings; sa-

lons; and parties. Seminars will be presented by a world-class roster of 16 visiting authors as well as Lighthouse faculty. Additional festival events include daily business panels featuring agents, writers, screenwriters and authors; nightly readings and conversations with professional writers; and a pop-up bookstore.

Registration can be done by purchasing a pass — available at different price points — or for individual workshops.

Lighthouse Writers Workshop was founded in 1997, so it is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a gala event called Illumination: A Literary Soiree. This event takes place at 6 p.m. June 16 at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

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Celebrating the life and legacy of Beethoven Denver Philharmonic Orchestra performs May 25-26 STAFF REPORT

In honor of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra is hosting its Beethoven Celebration on May 25 and 26 as its season finale.

The concert on each night will begin at 7:30 p.m. — doors open at 6:15 p.m. — and will take place on the Antonia Brico Stage at Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman St. in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood.

The Beethoven Celebration was originally planned to take place in May 2020 — which would’ve been the actual year of Beethoven’s 250th birthday — but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Later this summer, the performance will be staged alongside the chorus of Denver Philharmonic Orchestra’s transatlantic sister orchestra, the Bavarian Philharmonic, in Munich, Germany.

Both nights in Denver will feature the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra with the orchestra’s music director, Lawrence Golan, as conductor. Special guest artists

The Denver Philharmonic Orchestra is hosting its Beethoven Celebration on May 25 and 26 on the Antonia Brico Stage at Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman St. in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood.

include the Voices West chorus, six vocal soloists, pianist Andrew Cooperstock and the Denver Young Artists Orchestra.

Tickets cost $27 for adults, $19

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Sincerely, Traveling Tommy Dear Traveling Tommy, Wow, that sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime. We commend anyone that has the gumption to put something like this together!

There are a few things you should know when it comes to traveling and your Estate Planning. Always remember, your location of domicile will determine where your Estate is administered. A few things that prove your domicile are your Driver’s License, Tax Filing, Permanent place of residence, and place of involvement.

That being said, if something were to happen to you while traveling (locally, nationally, or internationally), the laws where you reside will be the laws that control your Estate Plan and Estate Administration. (Ex. You are domiciled and plan in the State of Colorado, travel to Thailand, and pass away in Thailand. The laws of Colorado will control your Estate Administration.)

The first thing you will want to do is review your Estate Planning documents. This includes your Will, Trust (if you have one), Powers of Attorney (Financial and Medical), and your Living Will/Medical Directives. You will want to ensure that your plan still works for you.

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for seniors and $12 for students.

Children age 12 and younger are free. Wine and beer will be available for purchase at the concert.

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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.

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Mozart’s homeopathic cure for a painful ailment

BY KARLA WALKER COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

A strong cup of coffee may be the cure you need in the morning to wake up and begin working, but in Mozart’s time it was thought to also cure stomach ailments.

Hot chocolate, besides being delicious, was thought to make your blood vessels stronger.

“Remember, this is a time before there was medicine,” says Colorado pianist Katie Mahan. “So there were a lot of homeopathic treatments and it was believed that chocolate was really good to make strong blood vessels.”

Mahan says that Mozart liked both coffee and hot chocolate, but his favorite drink was warm almond milk.

“In those days there wasn’t central heating and so the apartments were quite cold. And with this cold apartments many people developed hemorrhoids.” Mahan says the common treatment was warm almond milk.

Mozart’s favorite place to have warm almond milk, and shoot a game of billiards, was Café Staiger, now known as Café Tomaselli. Katie takes us to Café Tomaselli where you can order “Mozart’s Mandelmilch” in this latest edition of Mozart Snapshots.

Katie Mahan is a Denver native

A festive hot chocolate made at the hot cocoa bar is ready to be enjoyed.

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and now lives in Salzburg. Each week she takes on a new journey of walking in Mozart’s footsteps to where he lived, worked, socialized and more.

See more Mozart Snapshots episodes, and check back each week for a new episode.

This story is from Colorado Public Radio, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support CPR News, visit cpr.org.

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Listening for the voice of grace

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o many of you enjoyed the quote I used last week, I thought I would begin this one with another of his quotes, “Graciousness is more than good manners. It is more than courtesy.

It is the etiquette of the soul. True graciousness has such a divine quality we feel it is something that comes through us and not from us.” — Fred Smith Can you think of a time when you made a mistake, large or small, and where the error could have led to a bigger probWINNING lem or conflict, yet the person on the receiving end of your mistake gave you grace? Sometimes when WORDS we think we have failed someone or something the most or feel like we don’t deserve to receive grace or to be forgiven, we are forgetting the inherent goodness and graciousness found in most people.

As the quote above points out, grace is not something that comes from us, it is something that comes through us and is demonstrated by our actions. Saying the words “I forgive you,” or “Don’t worry, it’s OK,” are a good start, but will be taken Michael Norton as insincere if the actions, body language, and tonality don’t support what is being said.

Have you ever withheld offering grace or forgiveness? When we withhold giving grace to someone, we are actually doing more harm to ourselves than to the person who offended us or who made a mistake that had an impact on our lives. Yet, when we are at fault, we hope that the person we wronged in some way will offer us grace and forgive us. Giving grace is so freeing as it takes a heavy burden of anger or resentment off our shoulders, and we can get back to living our best life as the best version of ourselves.

And when we can get comfortable with giving grace, we will be much more comfortable receiving grace, even when we feel like we deserve it the least. In this context, I am referring to giving and receiving grace as in forgiveness. When we think of the other definitions of grace such as simple elegance or refinement of movement, or courteous goodwill, and then couple those with offering someone grace, it emphasizes or punctuates our sincerity.

There are always more elegant ways and solutions to solve problems, correct mistakes and overcome conflict or adversity. Learning how to live, work and love with graciousness is a tremendously amazing way to do just that. When we can learn to apply elegant solutions during times of interpersonal conflict, it will have the greatest impact on all our relationships.

“Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.” - Max Lucado We all know the feeling of finding it within ourselves to offer grace in the moment we first find out that we have been wronged.

We struggle because we want to be so mad and we want to enjoy stewing in our anger for a while, it is our right to be mad, upset, hurt and angry. That is why I love this quote by Max Lucado and lean into the meaning. This quote has more than once been the words I cling to and repeat when something happens or the error made had a negative impact on myself, my family or my friends. I listen for the voice of grace in my head and in my heart.

How does grace show up for you? Is it with a lot of effort or is it with refined movement and elegance? Is there someone you need to offer a little grace to? Is there something you have done where you are expecting or hoping to receive a little grace yourself? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@xinnix.com, and when we listen for the voice of grace, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful president of XINNIX, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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Our community corrections facilities were disrupted when Denver City Council voted in 2019 to close GEO and Core Civic run facilities. Since then, the result has been a significant loss in bed capacity and, in turn, has exacerbated wait periods for inmates approved by our local Community Corrections Board. Currently, there is a waitlist of about 150 approved inmates who will have to wait six-to-eight months before getting the opportunity to enter a community corrections facility. This causes significant delays for deserving inmates to have access to a supportive and structured environment where they can seek employment, develop coping skills and situate themselves for life outside the justice system. Inmates have a better chance of avoiding a return to prison through these supports offered.

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‘Good Day Sunshine’ wraps up season

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ood Day Sunshine,” a loving remembrance about the Beatles, presented on May 1 at Su Teatro in Denver, brought a happy conclusion to the 2021-22 season for the Stories on Stage organization, which brings SONYA’S in professional SAMPLER actors to read short works of literature to an audience of theatre lovers.

Based in Boulder, the group started in June 2000 with a performance at the Sonya Ellingboe Acoma Theatre in Denver and has, at times, fine-tuned with programs on a particular topic, plus adding a bilingual theatre program for elementary school students, “Cuentame un Cuentito/Tell Me a Story.” It also offers Lo-Dough pricing — name your own ticket price for those who need it.

They announced the 2022-2023 season for subscribers and may have a local author to present in addition. Single tickets cost $25 and audience members are invited to become a benefactor and sponsor a particular actor for the season at $750 or a specific story for $500 if possible. (Contact Abbe Stutsman for information, abbe@ storiesonstage.org, 303-579-1616.)

In “Good Day Sunshine,” GerRee Hinshaw, Sam Gregory, Allison Watrous and musical director Matt Bassano (keyboards) performed separately and together,

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impact on approved inmates. These individuals will have to wait even longer in our jails and state prisons if bed capacity isn’t replaced. They may in fact reach their mandatory release date before a bed is ever available.

Denver did buy a building from one of these companies. Using a hybrid model, the city now manages the property and a new operator is running the programming.

This model is more costly to the city and only offsets the losses by 60 beds. Without enough community corrections beds, it is harder for individuals re-entering their community from prison or jail to be successful. They need the support and structure offered through these programs to avoid a return to the correction system.

People in community corrections re-offend less than 2% of the time while residing in a facility. For those that complete the program successfully, approximately twothirds will not recidivate in the first two years post-completion. Having enough capacity in community corrections improves public safety and, most importantly, the lives of the program participants.

Why is this important to you? It

“Good Day Sunshine,” a remembrance of the Beatles, was presented May 1 by Stories on Stage at Denver’s Su Teatro.

with stories/talks about the songs and composers, individual vocalizations and, on a couple of occasions, invitations to sing along ...

Hinshaw started with “Yesterday” by Ann Hood and “She Loves You”... Sam Gregory followed with “Dear Prudence” by David Duchovny and Allison Watrous performed “Octopus’s Garden,” followed by an enthusiastic group (audience included) rendition of the favorite “Yellow Submarine.”

Sound hokey? It was fun and after a second set, the happy audi-

benefits all of us when returning inmates have access to successful, supportive programs. The cost of incarceration decreases and is less of a burden on taxpayers. Participants obtain employment while in these programs, and their income can help offset some of the costs of housing, treatment, child support and restitution. They also develop job skills, learn coping techniques, maintain sobriety and/or learn other necessary skills to give them the opportunity to thrive upon completion of these programs.

While under the supervision of committed professionals, clients have expectations to meet and follow rules. The termination of the GEO and Core Civic contracts has essentially denied individuals the opportunity to make a more successful transition. As a member of the Crime Prevention and Control Commission (CPCC), I am committed to successful programs that work with our justice-involved individuals. I look forward to seeing future contracts brought to Denver City Council for approval that would increase bed capacity because this is a move in the right direction.

Deborah “Debbie” Ortega is an at-large member of Denver City Council. She can be reached at ortegaatlarge@denvergov.org or 720-3377713.

ence wandered into the sunshine again, comparing notes ... on favorite songs or when and where they might have seen the actual Fab Four ...

Stories on Stage will begin again in the fall and season tickets are on sale now. Performances will again be at Su Teatro, 727 Santa Fe Drive, on Sunday afternoons

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and several will be presented also at Nomad Theatre in Boulder. The popular annual holiday performance will again be at the King Center on the Auraria Campus.

The new season starts with “Banned Books in Boston!” and concludes with “The Wedding Singer’s Lament,” hit songs of the 1980s and 1990s ...

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Denver Welcomes a Breakthrough Procedure in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer It is a new day in Denver for men with prostate cancer as Director of the Advanced Prostate Cancer Clinic for Colorado Urology, Dr. Damian Sorce, teams with Charlotte-based HIFU Prostate Services to introduce HIFU – High Intensity Focused Ultrasound – to Denver and surrounding communities. FDA approved, HIFU has been called a game changer in prostate cancer treatment, replacing the standard procedures that require surgical removal of the entire gland with a targeted therapy that treats the specific tumor location.

As the country’s fastest-growing treatment option for prostate cancer, HIFU is a minimally invasive outpatient option that results in considerably less side effects such as erectile dysfunction and incontinence than are seen with other prostate cancer treatments, while achieving the same efficacy rates as traditional, more invasive prostate treatment options. HIFU eradicates prostate cancer through the precision focusing of sound waves to a targeted spot, creating an interaction between the sound waves and the cancerous tissue resulting in extreme heat that destroys cancer cells inside the prostate while leaving the gland intact and sparing most of its healthy tissue. The result is a treatment that both eliminates the disease and preserves quality of life.

A long-time staple of the Denver medical community, Dr. Sorce became a practicing urologist in 2008 after completing his urology surgery residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Specializing in minimally invasive surgeries for several urologic cancers, Dr. Sorce immediately recognized the HIFU technology as a game changer in prostate cancer treatment.

“HIFU is easily tailored to the individual patient and his disease, meaning if the cancer is localized to a small area of the prostate, we can perform a focal treatment – and if it is more widespread, we can do the entire gland. This flexibility is vastly different from radiation or surgery where it is all or nothing,” says Dr. Sorce.

HIFU is a one-time treatment lasting 1-3 hours and allows men to return to their normal lifestyle in a matter of days.

Importantly, HIFU has emerged as a primary treatment for prostate cancer as well as a treatment for salvage therapy,

correcting previous failed procedures.

Following on its successful launch in Europe, HIFU made its US debut in October 2015 when the FDA cleared the procedure. Since then, prostate surgeons and urologists nationwide have made HIFU the central procedure in their practice, bringing to their prostate cancer patients an effective outpatient treatment that does not harm the patient’s lifestyle.

“As men are being diagnosed earlier and looking for less radical treatment options, HIFU offers a less invasive treatment option for those diagnosed with prostate cancer, and a choice that can put their lives back on track,” adds Dr. Sorce.

Numerous studies published on HIFU report impressive disease-free rates and negative biopsy rates among men with low to moderate disease levels – and a recent HIFU study shows overall metastasis-free survival five years following the procedure is 97 percent putting HIFU technology’s effectiveness on par with any of the traditional procedures.

HIFU can also be used to ablate small specific areas of prostate tissue (called focal therapy) rather than treating the whole gland. A 2021 propensity score-matched study published in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases compared oncological outcomes of focal HIFU to radical prostatectomy (RP) and found similar outcomes in patients with non-metastatic low-intermediate prostate cancer over 8 years.

Because every patient is different and there are many important factors to be taken into consideration to determine if a patient is a good candidate for HIFU treatment, a consultation with Dr. Sorce should be scheduled to determine if patients qualify for the procedure. For more information, call 877-884-4438. or visit www.coloradouro.com.

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A timeline of Colorado Parks & Wildlife history

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While Colorado is now iconic for its natural beauty and wild-

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LIFE life, about 150 years ago, the state’s ecological resources had a rather bleak outlook.

Overhunting was devastating local deer, elk, pronghorn, bison, bear and bird populations; and water pollution was hurting the state’s fish and other species.

Wanting to preserve Colora-

do’s natural resources, the state government passed wildlife protection laws and later founded a department of game and fish.

The agency now named Colorado Parks & Wildlife celebrated its 125th anniversary on April 16.

Since their founding, the state’s parks and wildlife divi-

sions have opened 42 state parks and hundreds of other wildlife areas, and helped save several iconic species native to Colorado. While CPW has plenty of ongoing projects and long-term goals, its 125 years of environmental conservation and wildlife protection is a history worth celebrating:

1897

Colorado Governor Alva Adams signs House Bill 129, thereby creating the Department of Forestry, Game and Fish. The agency is charged with propagating and distributing game fish, promoting timber culture and passing and enforcing game and fish laws. The total annual budget is $10,500. The forestry portion is eventually dropped to become the Department of Game and Fish.

1903

Colorado issued its first hunting and outfitting licenses: $25 nonresident general license; $1/day bird license ($2 first day); and $1 resident license.

1913

With the deer population dropping quickly, the state passes legislation to protect buck deer until 1918.

1916

Colorado imports 50 elk from Wyoming, which were released in Idaho Springs and Pueblo County’s Greenhorn Mountains, to reestablish the state’s dwindling herds. In the early 1900s, only 40,000 elk remained in North America, mostly because of unregulated market hunting. After decades of conservation efforts, Colorado is now home to approximately 280,000, which is the largest population in the world.

A black-phase Abert’s squirrel sits in a tree in Evergreen in March 2022.

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During this decade, the wildlife agency conducts the first bighorn sheep transplants between Georgetown and Silver Plume. As of 2022, the Georgetown herd is the third-largest in the state. The agency later completes more than 100 bighorn sheep transplants, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. After decades of conservation efforts, Colorado has an estimated population of 7,000 bighorn sheep.

1949

The first Colorado State Parks feasibility study suggests establishing Roxborough as one of the first state parks. However, Roxborough wasn’t established as a state park until 1975.

1959

The governor signs a 25-year lease with the Army Corps of Engineers for the Cherry Creek Recreation Area. The new state park welcomes its first official visitor on June 17, and 168,700 people visited it in its first year.

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1960

The state purchases 200 acres in Gilpin County, which later becomes the nucleus for Golden Gate Canyon State Park.

1961

The Colorado General Assembly passes legislation designating the bighorn sheep as the state animal.

1963

The Colorado State Parks and Recreation Department merges with the Game and Fish Department to form the Colorado Game, Fish and Parks Department.

1965

Bears are declared a game animal in Colorado.

1970

Legislature passes mandatory hunter education and blaze orange requirements for big-game hunters.

1972

Senate Bill 42 separates the Game, Fish and Parks Department into the Division of Wildlife and the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation within the Department of Natural Resources.

1972

Colorado legally defines wildlife as “wild vertebrates, mollusks and crustaceans.” Nearly 800 species came under the classification of wildlife.

1975

Chatfield State Park is established.

1977

After the state acquired a recreational lease for Barr Lake two years earlier, the new state park opens to the public.

1978

Biologists and wildlife officers transplant 24 moose from Utah and Wyoming to Colorado’s North Park region near Walden. Over the next three decades, the state releases more than 200 additional moose from Wyoming and Utah across the state. Today, Colorado is home to more than 2,400 moose and boasts one of the fastest-growing moose populations in the lower 48 states.

1978

After Eldorado Canyon’s owner threatened to sell the area for a rock quarry, public outcry prompts the state to buy the canyon and create Eldorado Canyon State Park.

1980

The Colorado Division of Wildlife director encourages hunters to clean up their own sport and, in the 1980-81 budget request, asks for funding to start a new program called Operation Game Thief to help crack down on poaching.

1982 The Colorado General Assembly approves a new lottery program with certain proceeds to benefit state and local park systems.

1990

Barr Lake State Park keeps with a national tradition of sponsoring a New Year’s morning First Hike around the park. Hearty hikers took part in the guided walk along the lakeside despite the cold temperatures and falling snow.

FILE PHOTO BY JOHN CARR

A $5 Colorado waterfowl stamp is required to hunt.

1992

Colorado voters approve the passage of Amendment 8, the Great Outdoors Colorado Amendment. This directs all state lottery proceeds to parks, open space and wildlife.

1994

The greenback cutthroat trout is named Colorado’s state fish.

2011

Colorado State Parks merges with the Colorado Division of Wildlife to form Colorado Parks & Wildlife. The Parks and Wildlife Commission is also established.

A researcher releases a bald eagle with GPS tracking as part of Colorado Parks & Wildlife’s new study on eagle COURTESY PHOTO populations along Colorado’s Front Range.

2013

Staunton State Park opens to the public. The park, which is in Park and Jefferson counties, was built from a parcel first donated in 1986

by Frances Hornbrook Staunton.

Subsequent parcels were acquired in the late 1990s and early 2000s. CPW purchased the final parcel in 2006 to reach the current park’s 3,828-acre land base.

2021

Colorado Parks & Wildlife begins a four-year study of the Front Range’s bald eagle population. The agency has record of more than 90 breeding pairs between Denver and Wyoming. This is an immense population growth since the late 1970s, when there were only three nests in Colorado.

2021

Colorado Parks & Wildlife acquires and establishes the Pals Family State Wildlife area between Empire and Georgetown. After the property owners proposed turning the area into a quarry, local partners partnered with CPW to preserve the land and protect the local bighorn sheep.

Sky Miller, 3, of Broomfield, checks her line during Northglenn’s 29th annual Fishing Derby at E.B. Rains Jr. Park in FILE PHOTO June 2017.

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Jared Polis injects another $5.2 million into his campaign Republicans lag Democrats in statewide contests

candidates — Heidi Ganahl, who is running for governor, and Pam Anderson, who is running for secretary of state — spent significant sums in the first four months of the year to collect petition signatures to make the primary ballot. Both face primary opponents who made the ballot at April’s raucous GOP assembly.

And Republican Tina Peters, the indicted Mesa County Clerk running for secretary of state, had yet to file her campaign finance report as of 9 a.m. May 3.

The deadline was 10 p.m. May 2.

Here’s a deeper look at cash in Colorado’s statewide contests.

BY SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, a multimillionaire, poured $5.2 million of his own money into his reelection campaign in the first four months of this year, signaling that he is willing to open his pockets to secure another four years leading Colorado.

Polis used that infusion to schedule $3.4 million worth of TV advertising for September and October.

The two Republicans running in the June 28 primary for a chance to unseat Polis are significantly lagging behind the incumbent, who spent more than $23 million to secure his first term in 2018, in fundraising.

In fact, all of the GOP candidates for statewide office are lagging behind their Democratic opponents when it comes to campaign cash.

Campaign finance reports filed with the Secretary of State’s Office on May 2 provide the first glimpse of how the June 28 primary election and the Nov. 8 general election are shaping up in terms of candidates’ financial

Gov. Jared Polis addresses the crowd at a meet-and-greet in Arvada.

warchests. They cover fundraising and spending from Jan. 1 through April 27.

Polis and three other Democratic incumbents are using their cash advantage already to line up

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TV ad time in the weeks before the general election. And super PACs are raising money to support Democrats in three of the four statewide contests.

Meanwhile, two leading GOP

Two gubernatorial candidates selffund, one significantly more than the other In the first four months of 2022, Polis brought his total personal campaign contributions to more than $5.9 million, while also raising about $402,000 from donors despite limiting his contributions to $100 a year from individuals.

His campaign had nearly $5 million in cash on April 27, though that doesn’t reflect his spending on TV ad reservations.

Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent and the only remaining statewide elected Republican, put another $150,000 of her own SEE POLIS, P19

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Veterans participate in a Comeback Yoga class.

As a way to honor veterans this Memorial Day, the nonprofit Comeback Yoga would like the community to consider making a donation to its organization.

Comeback Yoga is a Denverbased nonprofit that provides free, trauma-informed yoga to veterans, active-duty military and their support networks. “Comeback Yoga’s classes are taught by specially trained instructors who are versed in military culture, PTS, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Military Sexual Trauma (MST), trauma-informed yoga, accessible yoga and many other military specific topics,” states a news release.

Comeback Yoga’s classes are free and available to all members of the military community. Classes are also accessible to everyone regardless of age or physical ability. The

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organization offers more than 40 classes each week at military bases and offices in Colorado, Utah and Hawaii. Online virtual classes are also offered so that military personnel and vets anywhere can take a free class.

According to the news release, the need for Comeback Yoga’s services skyrocketed during the pandemic but funding has dramatically decreased. Comeback Yoga accepts donations year-round, but the Memorial Day ask is so that the organization can meet the demands for more in-person classes this summer.

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Memorial Day falls on May 30 this year.

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All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 5th, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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 August 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Manuel J. Vigil, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30358 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court, Denver, Colorado on or before August 15, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Verla E. Vallier, Personal Representative c/o Patrick Schilken, P.C. 7936 E. Arapahoe Court, No. 2800 Centennial, Colorado 80130 Legal Notice No. 81600 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 19, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Evelyn G. Mullen-Messer, aka Evelyn Gertrude Mullen-Messer, aka Evelyn Mullen-Messer, aka Evelyn G. Mullen, aka Evelyn Gertrude Mullen, aka Evelyn Mullen, aka Evelyn G. Messer, aka Evelyn Gertrude Messer, aka Evelyn Messer, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30508

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Alvis Edward Deeds, Jr. AKA: Alvis E. Deeds, Jr., AKA: A. Edward Deeds, Jr., AKA: A.E. Deeds, Jr., AKA: Ed Deeds, Jr. , Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30516 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 6, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Teresa Hood: Personal Representative 7183 E. Warren Dr. Denver, CO 80224

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 August 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marilyn D. Wytulka, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln St., #1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 81594 First Publication: April 28, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sidney John Arkley, a/k/a Sidney J. Arkley, and Sidney Arkley, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30553 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 September 12, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

William T. Arkley, Personal Representative c/o Poskus, Caton & Klein, P.C. 303 East 17th Avenue, Suite 900 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 81614 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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 September 05, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Leon A. Scheel, Personal Representative c/o Tirey Law Firm LLC, 12021 Pennsylvania Street, Ste 103 Thornton, Colorado 80241 Legal Notice No. 81604 First publication: May 05, 2022 Last publication: May 19, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of BRIAN STEPHEN PRIMACK, a/k/a BRIAN S. PRIMACK, a/k/a BRIAN PRIMACK, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30498 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 September 12, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Scott J. Primack, Personal Representative 5855 South Franklin Court Greenwood Village, CO 80121 Legal Notice No. 81618 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Patricia Vickers Porter-Mullin, a/k/a Patricia V. Porter-Mullin, a/k/a Patricia Porter-Mullin, a/k/a Patsy V. Porter-Mullin, a/k/a Patricia V. Porter, a/k/a Patricia V. Mullin, a/k/a Patricia Vickers Porter, a/k/a Patricia Vickers Fehrman, a/k/a Patricia V. Fehrman, a/k/a Patricia Fehrman, a/k/a Patricia Porter Fehrman, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31700 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 12, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jerome V. Porter Personal Representative

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Patrick R. Thiessen (40185) FRIE, ARNDT, DANBORN & THIESSEN P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd, Ste. 201 Arvada, CO 80003 Phone Number: 303-420-1234 Attorney for Jerome V. Porter Personal Representative

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Stacie Ann Jackson, AKA Stacie A Jackson, AKA Stacie Jackson, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30449 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 5, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kimberly Raemdonck, Attorney for the Personal Representative, Alexandra Jackson

Legal Notice No. 81615 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dennis Paul Berg, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30535

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money into her campaign, bringing her total four-month fundraising haul to nearly $377,000. She’s raised $1 million since announcing her candidacy, with $400,000 coming from her own pocket.

Ganahl originally pledged to limit her campaign spending to $3.4 million, allowing her to collect double the $1,250 contribution limit for individual donations to gubernatorial candidates. She backed out of that pledge in late January, but not before she raised $165,000 in larger contributions from 135 donors.

The campaign paid Blitz Canvassing, a signature-gathering firm, more than $212,000 between January and March. The campaign had a little more than $200,000 in the bank heading into May. Lopez’s fundraising lags far behind Ganahl’s. Lopez raised only $36,000 in the first four months of the year, bringing his election-cycle total to less than $106,000. And he had only $16,000 in cash at the end of April.

Then there’s Danielle Neuschwanger, who failed to make the Republican ballot at the assembly and instead is running for governor under the American Constitution Party banner. She raised nearly

$73,000 in the first four months of the year and loaned her campaign another $33,000, bringing her total personal investment to nearly $69,000. She had $15,000 in cash on April 27.

As the candidates compete, the super PAC Strong Colorado for All, which supports Democrats, was sitting on $467,000 in cash at the end of April, some of it from the Democratic Governors Association. That money presumably will be used to support Polis in the fall.

Dems also lead among other statewide campaigns Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold raised nearly $875,000 between January and April 27, which her campaign says is a record since at least 2000 for a candidate for secretary of state, attorney general or treasurer in a single filing period.

That brings her election-cycle total to $2.5 million. She had more than $301,000 in cash at the end of April after reserving nearly $1.8 million worth of ad time in the weeks leading up to the election.

Peters, Griswold’s most highprofile GOP opponent and perhaps the most polarizing candidate in Colorado’s 2022 election, failed to file a campaign finance report, triggering an automatic $50 fine for each day the report is late.

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$84,000 in cash on April 27.

Weiser can expect help from the DAGA Colorado People’s Lawyer Project, a super PAC that raised $193,000 in the first four months of the year. DAGA stands for the Democratic Attorneys General Association.

It’s unclear if Republicans have a similar independent spending committee to support Kellner, though in the past the Republican Attorneys General Association has supported GOP candidates in Colorado.

The state treasurer’s contest is more low-key in terms of fundraising than the other three statewide races, but the Democratic incumbent has a similar cash advantage.

Incumbent Democratic Treasurer Dave Young raised nearly $100,000, bringing his total raised during the election cycle to $387,000. After making a $169,000 TV ad reservation, Young had about $94,000 in cash to end April.

His GOP opponent, former state representative and lieutenant governor candidate Lang Sias, raised $51,000. He had about $59,000 in cash left at the end of last month.

system. And Griswold is asking a judge to remove Peters from overseeing this year’s election, as she did in 2021.

Anderson, a former Jefferson County clerk, raised about $51,000 in the first four months of the year, paying Blitz Canvassing $70,000 over that span for petition signatures. She had only about $6,000 in the bank on April 27.

Mike O’Donnell, a former nonprofit executive from the Eastern Plains who also made the GOP primary ballot in the secretary of state’s race via the state assembly, raised only about $3,100 in the first fundraising period of the year, while putting more than $53,000 of his own cash into his campaign.

He had about $38,000 in cash on hand to end April.

Once her Republican opponent is set, Griswold likely will get help from Defend Democracy Fund, a super PAC created to support her that raised more than $508,000 in the first four months of the year.

Attorney General Phil Weiser raised $512,000 in the first four months of the year, bringing his election-cycle total to $3.2 million. He reserved more than $1 million in fall TV ad time, and still had $1.6 million in the bank to begin May. Weiser will face Republican John Kellner, the district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, in November. Kellner raised $106,000 in the first few months of his campaign, and had about

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Public Notices 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 September 12, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Amber J. Berg, Personal Representative 392 Jamaica Street Aurora, CO 80010 Legal Notice No. 81622 First publication: May 12, 2022 Last publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of: Monica Diehl, aka Monica M. Diehl, aka Monica Martha Diehl, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30538 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Probate Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before September 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

By: /s/ Thomas M. Diehl Personal Representative Thomas M. Diehl 2681 Ponderosa Dr., Lodi, CA 95242

Legal Notice No. 81596 First Publication: April 28, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Willis Vincent Carpenter, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30616 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 September 12, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marian E. Lyons, Personal Representative PO Box 371343 Denver, CO 80327 Legal Notice No. 81621 First publication: May 12, 2022 Last publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John W. Boerstler, Deceased Case Number 22-PR-30265 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 September 12, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Wells Fargo Bank By: Clare Ceplecha, Sr. VP/Sr. Estate Advisory Specialist 1700 Lincoln Street, 11th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 81617 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bridget Dianne Black, a/k/a Bridget D. Black, a/k/a Bridget Black, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030555 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 September 6, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

James J. Black, Personal Representative 5520 W. 97th Avenue Westminster CO 80020 Legal Notice No. 81612 First Publication: May 5, 2022

Regarding the Petition of Katie Ann McGuire for the Adoption of a Child: Penelope Jean McGuire (DOB:08-20-2017), birth Mother: Kelly Lyn McGuire and birth Father: Michael Bobbitt.

Last Publication: May 19, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Russell Peter Beaulieu, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR600 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 September 12, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kurtis Wayne Beaulieu Personal Representative 1150 Old Enterprise Rd. Lake Helen, FL 32744

To: Kelly Lyn McGuire You are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner filed a Petition seeking Adoption of the child named above in Denver County Court, Case No. 21JA172.

You are notified this matter is set for a Termination of Parent-Child Relationship hearing on July 27 2022 at 9:00 a.m. at the Denver County Court, Courtroom 2H located at 520 West Colfax, Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80204.

WebEx Link: https://judicial.webex.com/webappng/sites/ judicial/dashboard/pmr/courtroom2h You are notified that if you fail to appear for said hearing, the Court may terminate your parent-child relationship with the minor child and Petitioner may adopt the minor child.

Legal Notice No. 81619 First publication: May 12, 2022 Last publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 81602 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: June 2, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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