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BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It has been a couple of generations since Tori McConnell’s native language of Yurok has been spoken fluently among family.

“It was not passed down because often, it was seen as a burden, not a benefit,” McConnell said.

One reason Indigenous languages were not passed down can be attributed to the Indian boarding school era. During this time — which began around the mid-1800s and lasted until 1978 with the passing of the Indian Child Welfare Act — Native American children were forced to go to an Indian boarding school to assimilate to American culture.

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Tori McConnell, center, holds her diploma on graduation day in May. McConnell, who graduated from the University of California-Davis with a Bachelor of Arts in Native American studies, is pictured with Michelle Villegas-Frazier, director of UC Davis’ Native American Retention Initiatives, on the left; and Ines Hernández-Ávila, professor of NaCOURTESY PHOTO tive American Studies at UC Davis.

Colorado health insurance prices set to jump next year Premium rates could increase 11% on average statewide

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

Health insurance prices for many Coloradans could rise by as much as 11% next year, the largest jump in

five years.

That’s the bad news in preliminary rate filings released July 12 by the Colorado Division of Insurance.

The filings are for plans sold in the small group and individual markets — the places where small companies and people who shop for insurance on their own purchase coverage.

But state regulators also see a silver lining. Prices for the new Colorado Option, the quasi-public health insurance program that promises

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better benefits at lower costs, will largely hit their goals, according to the preliminary filings.

In nearly every county, rates for the Colorado Option will be below the countywide average price in each of the three levels of coverage — gold, silver and bronze.

In addition, the Colorado Option does not appear to have sent insurers headed for the exits en masse.

PepsiCo has chosen Denver as the place where it will build what will be its largest U.S. plant.

Colorado beat out three other states to become the site of the mammoth facility, Pepsi said in a statement on July 13. The company acquired roughly 152 acres of land near Denver International Airport for the planned 1.2 million-square-foot manufacturing facility, which is set to open next year.

“We’re thrilled to call Denver, a city that shares so many of our values, home to PepsiCo’s most sustainable U.S. plant location,” said Johannes Evenblij, PepsiCo Beverages president of North America’s West Division, in the statement.

In March, Denver City Council approved $1 million in incentives for Pepsi’s project. As Pepsi builds the facility and adds new jobs, the city will pay the company cash in installments. The city expects to make the payments over a multi-year period until the site is completed.

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McConnell, 22, of Eureka, California, graduated from University of California-Davis with a Bachelor of Arts in Native American studies. She is an artist currently working on learning the craft of traditional weaving and a Káruk language apprentice under Master Speaker Julian Lang and she’s active with the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival organization.

McConnell’s goal is to speak her native language fluently, teach it to her family and pass it down to future generations.

Prior to attending college, McConnell felt a disconnect to her heritage, she said.

“Native American studies provided a life path of not being afraid to embrace what is most important to me,” McConnell said. “It helped me discover my passion for my heritage — and healing — through cultural revitalization, leadership and potential.”

McConnell was able to attend college thanks to a scholarship she was awarded from the American Indian College Fund. Headquartered in Denver, the AICF is a national nonprofit that serves Native American and Alaska Native students and helps them obtain a college education.

There is a “huge disparity” in college attainment among Native American and Alaska Native students, said Dina Horwedel, director of public education for AICF. The 2019 U.S. Census Bureau data reveals that only 15% of Native American and Alaska Native people age 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher. This is compared to 32.1% for the overall population.

There are many reasons for this, Horwedel said, including the inability to afford tuition in addition to living in remote areas.

“Our goal is to eliminate this disparity,” Horwedel said. “We’re committed to ensuring that students can financially attend (college) and ensuring their success because that benefits an entire community.”

To do this, along with the scholarships, the AICF offers numerous programs ranging from college tours for high schoolers, mentoring and career search assistance for college graduates.

On June 15, AICF hosted a culinary event on the University of Denver campus during which attendees had an opportunity to taste high-end Indigenous cuisine prepared by acclaimed Native chefs — with assistance from culinary students studying at Navajo Technical University, a public tribal land-grant university in Crownpoint, New Mexico.

“Many people have never heard of Indigenous cuisine,” Horwedel said.

But “Denver is a hot, emerging foodie scene, and people in Denver are interested in learning and experiencing Native cuisines.”

Along with the dining portion of the evening, the event’s purpose was to introduce people to the culture and traditions of the food, raise awareness of tribal colleges and the work the students are doing and highlight the work being done to revitalize Native American cultures and traditions.

Chef Andrea Murdoch of Denver, an Andean native who is the owner of Four Directions Cuisine, prepares a dish for attendees of the American Indian College Fund’s Indigenous culinary event on June 15. The dish was roasted tomatillo gazpacho with a charred corn pico.

Angelena Shepherd, a culinary student at Navajo Technical University, prepares tortillas that would accompany Chef Freddie Bitsoie’s squash and corn dish offered to attendees of the American Indian College Fund’s Indigenous culinary event on June 15.

“We’re making steps toward having Indigenous knowledge being valued just as much as Western knowledge,” McConnell said. “The world is being improved, thanks to Indigenous knowledge.”

But concerning education, McConnell said there is still a lot of trauma from the Indian boarding schools and a lot of work to be done concerning education for Indigenous people.

“Education today can better a person, rather than traumatize them like in the past,” McConnell said. “When we pursue an education, we’re making a choice to change the narrative.”

For McConnell, attending college taught her to realize the true history of “why things are the way they are,” but also provided the space for healing, and the opportunity to see things with a new perspective and learn who she is.

McConnell sees herself as a “vessel of ancestral and traditional revitalization and healing.”

“We can move forward into the future with hope and love,” she said.

To learn more about the American Indian College Fund, visit collegefund.org.

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But what does that mean for the number of Colorado Option plans that don’t meet the 5% goal?

Conway didn’t provide a number, saying the state is still evaluating it. In the future, insurers whose Colorado Option plans don’t meet the savings targets will be hauled in for a public rate hearing, after which regulators could potentially step in and start setting hospital prices to drive the cost of the plans down.

But Conway said that won’t happen for the 2023 rates. Those hearings still could take place next year, but they would only be focused on the prices for 2024 insurance plans.

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Instead, people in every county but one will see at least two choices for insurers on the state’s insurance exchange when open enrollment starts up in the fall.

In Jackson County, there will be only one choice, same as this year.

“I am a firm believer that good regulation actually incentivizes companies to play in the marketplace, and I think you’re going to see that with the Colorado Option,” Michael Conway, Colorado’s insurance commissioner, said.

Oscar Health — which last year covered about 3,800 people in the state, all along the Front Range — will not return to offer plans in Colorado in 2023. Its leaders cited unspecified regulatory challenges in announcing plans to pull out of Colorado, as well as Arkansas, in 2023. Both were small markets for the company, and its CEO said Oscar wants to focus on markets “where we can win.”

Here’s a few other things to know about the July 12 release: The price increases could have been a lot higher Colorado has what is known as a reinsurance program — a system where the state helps health insurance companies in the individual market pay their highest-cost claims. That allows the insurers to lower their prices for everyone.

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Conway’s team estimates that, without reinsurance, Colorado would be looking at premium price increases above 30%.

As it is, the 11.3% average increase for the individual market is the largest since 2018, when prices jumped 27%. The biggest increases will likely be seen on the Eastern Plains and Western Slope, where insurers are proposing an average increase for individual market premiums of 21% and 19.2%, respectively.

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In the small group market, premiums are expected to increase statewide by an average of 9.2%.

The fate of federal subsidies is still unknown Exactly what this means for how much health insurance will cost people next year is a stupefyingly complicated question.

Base premium rates vary based on the level of the plan, the county where you live, what age you are and whether you smoke.

To get to what you actually pay involves more number-crunching related to how much you earn and how much you are eligible for in federal subsidies.

And this year, there is another variable: whether Congress will continue the enhanced premium subsidies put in place during the pandemic. (The federal government offers subsidies to certain people shopping in the individual market, based on income, to help them pay their premiums. The American Rescue Plan supercharged these subsidies, expanding them to include more people.)

If Congress does not extend the enhanced subsidies, 13 million Americans could see what they pay for health insurance increase next year. In Colorado, about 25,000 more people are receiving a subsidy this year than in 2021, though how many of those will end up paying more if the subsidies are not extended can often come down to highly specific circumstances.

What happens to Colorado Option plans that didn’t hit the target?

The Colorado Option is a health insurance plan designed by state regulators but sold by private insurance companies in the individual and small group markets. It was built to be more generous for primary care and mental health benefits and more equitable, while also costing less.

To meet that last goal, state law sets a target: Colorado Option plans have to be priced 5%

Consumer advocates vow to fight for lower rates The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, an advocacy organization that is the state’s most vocal in pushing for lower health insurance prices, slammed the proposed rates Tuesday, suggesting that insurers and hospitals “may be using inflation as an excuse to drive up rates.”

“Even as reinsurance keeps premiums for Coloradans down, and as we see more companies offer plans in more counties, health insurance continues to be unaffordable for too many Coloradans,” Mannat Singh, CCHI’s executive director, said in a statement. “Premium rates must be reasonable and justified; the industry shouldn’t use the ongoing pandemic or inflation to hike company profits.”

In a statement, Amanda Massey, the executive director of the Colorado Association of Health Plans, an insurer trade group, said insurers had to juggle a number of competing interests to come up with next year’s prices.

“The preliminary 2023 rate filings reflect the hard work of the industry to increase the quality, affordability and access of health insurance for Colorado consumers while ensuring actuarially sound rates in a time of high inflation,” she said.

You can make your voice heard State regulators will take the next couple of months to review the proposed rates and decide whether to approve them or order changes. Final rates for 2023 should be released by the end of summer or early fall.

Until Aug. 1, the public is able to submit comments on the rates.

Go to the Division of Insurance’s website for more information on how to dig into the rate filings and submit a comment.

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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All Colorado Art Show returns to Curtis 39th annual exhibition will run through Aug. 27

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colors are softer and more subdued, perhaps, in this 39th year, and materials seem more varied as one enjoys Curtis Center for the Arts’ very solid All Colorado Art Show at Greenwood Village’s Curtis Center for the Arts, 2349 E. Orchard Road, just west of South University Boulevard.

The pleasant gallery in an old schoolhouse holds a collection of works, in two and three dimensions, by a number of this state’s talented corps of working artists. The show will run through Aug. 27 and is open six days a week (closed Sundays), so area art lovers will want to fit a visit onto the summer calendar. And perhaps find a new treasure for their home. Admission is free. Parking (free) is accessed from the drive just east of the gallery, which also serves the corner school.

Libby Garon, gallery director for Denver’s Walker Fine Art, was juror. She is active in the Denver arts community and focuses on making connections between artists and collectors, as well as having an ongoing involvement with Colorado’s arts organizations and galleries.

Garon awarded the first place / juror’s choice award to Denver artist

Sharon Brown’s charming portrait of an older couple, “The Joneses,” dressed up, smiling happily and holding hands, they stand in front of a hedge of pink roses on a sunny day.

One thinks perhaps they have just attended a service at their favorite church and cheerfully look forward to a family dinner nearby.

Brown states: “I grew up with a number of artists in my family so it was natural for me to draw and paint from an early age.” She works in oil and watercolor in her studio and runs her own gallery, The Pattern Shop, in RiNo. She and her husband were among the eight artists who founded the River North Art District.

Watercolors and oils are presented in conventional techniques and there are some surprises. Aurora artist Cara Brewer’s “Cranes” is a photograph on metal. “Building the Family” draws the visitor’s eye as does Boulder artist Nancy Eastman’s “Summer Prairie” on handmade paper, including stitching, Under a glass bell just inside the entrance is “Forest Moss” a mini-threedimensional landscape with tiny logs and tinier leaves.

The juror will speak at 2 p.m. on Aug. 13. It’s always interesting to hear how they evaluated entries to create an exhibit.

Note that Greenwood Village’s newer event, Art on the Green, will return to Curtis Park on Sept. 17, 18. (Contact Curtis Director Chris Stevens for information.)

Sharon Brown’s “The Joneses” is part of the Curtis Center for the Arts’ All Colorado Art COURTESY PHOTO Show in Greenwood Village.

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Behind the curtain at Buntport Theater Five involved with the theater’s success

BY DIANNE BLOMBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

“I have never taken theatre seriously,” said Hannah Duggan. “I just do it and enjoy it.”

Duggan, a 1994 graduate of South High School, is one of five co-owners of Buntport Theater located in Denver’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, which is known for its quirky productions and has been featured in The New York Times, the Huffington Post and more.

Her mom, Melody Duggan, a retired East High School theater teacher, said, “I think theatre is the most integrating art of all the arts. I taught that to my students at East and I think Hannah saw that in my work.”

Hannah Duggan, along with Brian Colonna, Samantha Schmitz, Erin Rollman and Erik Edborg, have been co-creating multi award-winning original plays at Buntport Theater since 2000.

Buntport, a nonprofit theater, presents wildly creative productions by the five owners working equally — no one is the star. It has endured and flourished over time, and recently celebrated its 50th original play. Behind the curtain, family and teachers influenced these dedicated creatives. Why has it endured? Mothers know best.

“The Buntport crew aren’t starstruck. They didn’t start this theater as

a jump-off to Hollywood or Broadway.

And they respect each other’s gifts,” Melody Duggan said. “They stick to their mission statement. Also, they have fun while doing it.”

The theater’s mission statement sits at the core of every production: “Buntport Theater Company believes that it is necessary to create new works. In order to ensure utmost accessibility, we stress affordability, variety, abundance and filtering creations through many minds. We believe that collaboration on every level of operation is a strong and vital model for arts organizations.”

All the members of the company have a story of influence to tell.

Besides her mom, Hannah Duggan remembers her South High drama teacher with gratitude.

“Randy Thomas taught us how to be creative with people of all kinds, shift with the energy of others, and taught us a sense of community in the theater,” Hannah Duggan said. “That set me up really well.”

Rollman’s dad, David Rollman, directed and performed in local productions. Her high school teacher, Rive Collins, from The Colorado Springs School inspired her.

“I started doing theater at a very young age,” she said. “I don’t remember not doing it.”

Edborg was inspired by his brother, David.

“He was always a wonderful mimic,” Edborg said. “When we were young, he would impersonate the Muppets and Inspector Clouseau. He showed me

Owners of Buntport Theater, from left, Samantha Schmitz, Brian Colonna, Hannah Duggan, Erik Edborg and Erin Rollman stand in front of a mural for a photo op near the theater, which is located in Denver’s Lincoln Park Neighborhood.

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how much fun it could be to perform.”

Dan Haliburton-Link directed plays at Foothills Academy in Wheat Ridge, Schmitz’s high school.

“He inspired me to continue with theater because he made it fun, challenging and a little wild at times. He was a hero,” she said.

For Colonna, it was “a teacher named Linda Case that made the whole thing inclusive, fun and exciting. I think of her as old school, a show person, a triple threat. Every once in a while, if the theater gods allow, I’m definitely a single threat.”

The first time Melody Duggan watched a Buntport production was

more than 22 years ago.

“I was blown away at how creative those kids were in their version of Beowulf,” she said.

Melody Duggan retired from East High School in 2015 after teaching drama for 23 years.

“Being a performer is in our bones, I guess,” she said.

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Denver officials estimate the project could bring $6 million in additional revenue to the city’s general fund over a five-year period and $11 million over a 10-year period.

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Mental health providers say they were “blindsided” again by Medicaid policies New rules about the supervision of counselors working toward their licenses could worsen

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado mental health counselors in private practice say they’ve been surprised once again with new rules that will make it harder to treat the state’s most vulnerable patients: those with Medicaid insurance.

The latest friction between behavioral health professionals and the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing centers on the supervision of post-graduate counselors working toward their state license.

The department — which approved the policy written by the regional agencies that handle payments to mental health clinics — says the new rules are necessary to ensure Medicaid patients are receiving quality care. But counselors in private practice say the rules could mean the loss of dozens of workers and potentially hundreds of mental health appointments.

They’re also frustrated because they said they didn’t know the new rules were coming.

The policy, which was announced at the beginning of this month, imposes stricter requirements on using interns still working toward their graduate degrees and therapists who have graduated but have yet

Colorado is divided into seven regions run by agencies that contract with the state Medicaid division. Behavioral health providers who want to take patients on Medicaid must enroll first at the state department and then with the regional agencies.

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to receive their license, a process that takes two to four years after graduation. Those pre-licensed counselors can see patients, but must have a licensed counselor sign off on their diagnoses and progress notes from each counseling session.

With the new rules, only counselors who have been licensed for at least two years can sign off on the work of pre-licensed counselors. The rules also stipulate that any counselor sanctioned by the state licensing division, at the Department of Regulatory Agencies, must wait for two years after their sanctions have expired before supervising pre-licensed counselors.

Counselors in private practice see both rules as an overreach, one that will mean fewer appointments for patients on the government

insurance program for the needy, Medicaid. About 30 of them attended a virtual meeting this week with the Medicaid division, which is housed in the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.

“We feel like that is going too far,” Andrew Rose, a psychotherapist and director of Boulder Emotional Wellness, said in an interview. “If DORA has decided you are safe to practice, that should be good enough.”

But Cristen Bates, the state’s interim Medicaid director, said the policy is geared toward expanding the workforce — by creating standardized rules so that counselors still seeking their license have a clear path to getting experience and becoming licensed counselors. The issue is that the regional agencies that serve as the middlemen

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between clinics and the state Medicaid department have had inconsistent rules as they’ve allowed pre-licensed counselors to practice under supervision. The new policy, which also applies to community mental health centers, was created by those agencies to apply to counselors statewide.

“We have to make sure that our members are getting high-quality care,” Bates said.

“We were glad to see some very clear rules about when this is and is not appropriate.”

Where the department erred, Bates said, was in not informing behavioral health care professionals about the policy changes or showing them a draft ahead of the implementation date.

“The rollout was where we kind of had some challenges,” she said.

The regional agencies are now considering possible changes to the policy and have said they will not deny claims or penalize clinics that are not following the new rules. After the outcry from providers, the regional agencies backtracked on the July 1 implementation date. One of them, Colorado Access, said in an email to The Sun that the policy change is not in effect and that “any changes to our current program will include additional input and advance notice.”

The discord is the latest in a long list of frustrations among mental health professionals who say they want to provide therapy for people on Medicaid but are fed up dealing with burdensome rules, redundant paperwork and even threats of having payments revoked. It comes as Colorado is facing unprec-

edented need for services, due in part to the isolation and stress of the coronavirus pandemic.

Rose said he typically signs off on 100 to 200 notes per week for his team of pre-licensed staff at Boulder Emotional Wellness. The clinic employs 38 pre-licensed counselors and plans to bump that number to 42 next month.

The rule changes will make this a challenge, since it’s already difficult to find licensed counselors willing to take on the liability of supervising pre-licensed therapists, he said.

Rose and others said they found out about the policy in a July 5 newsletter from one of the regional agencies that also laid out other policies that went into effect July 1.

“The larger concern here is really, who sets policy and who gets to have a say in that process?” he said. “It’s hard enough right now to keep providers. We just need some relief from this. We need to be included in decisions about who we can hire.”

The need for mental health counseling is so high right now that appointments with licensed counselors are “filled in a hot second,” said Dr. Lisa Griffiths, director of the Center for Valued Living in Aurora. Many clients rely on appointments with pre-licensed counselors under the supervision of licensed counselors.

One of Griffiths’ seven supervisors has a doctoral degree but has not yet had her license for two years, meaning she could no longer supervise other counselors under the new rules.

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Environmental group sues over state’s air quality Center for Biological Diversity argues Colorado can do more

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

The Environmental Protection Agency unlawfully approved a weak ozone-reduction plan from Colorado regulators, and should do far more to limit oil and gas drilling and other pollution in the Denver metro area, according to a new lawsuit filed July 12 by the Center for Biological Diversity.

The lawsuit demanding the EPA reject Colorado’s state implementation plan notes Denver and the counties in the north Front Range nonattainment area for ozone are violating EPA standards at a record pace in recent summers. (State air quality officials issued an ozone action alert again July 12 afternoon warning of potentially irritating amounts, in effect through July 13.)

The state’s plan is ineffective and has loopholes that allow for smaller sources of ozone-causing pollution,

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like individual drilling and fracking operations, to move forward even as ozone gets worse, the lawsuit said.

“We’re never going to solve our smog problem until the EPA cracks down on Colorado allowing unlimited air pollution from drilling and fracking,” said Robert Ukeiley, a senior attorney at the center. “If it takes a lawsuit to bring about that fix, that’s what we are going to do.”

Ground-level ozone, caused by a mixture of volatile organic compounds, wildfire smoke, vehicle pollution and increasingly hot and sunny summer days, causes asthma and other respiratory and heart problems in adults and children.

“Every additional day of delay in reducing smog puts more children and families at risk for potentially deadly diseases,” Ukeiley said, in a release accompanying the lawsuit filing.

The EPA said it will not comment on pending litigation. In a Federal Register notice included in the lawsuit, the EPA in May approved Colorado’s state implementation plan and said the Clean Air Act did not give the EPA powers that the Center for Biological Diversity asked it to exercise.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Associa-

tion slapped back at the suit Tuesday.

“As Colorado families struggle to pay to fuel their vehicles and afford their rising utility bills, this latest lawsuit from environmental activists shows just how extreme and out of touch they are with Coloradans. The majority of emissions within our region come from natural biogenic matter or they blow in from outside of Colorado,” trade association President Dan Haley said. “While Colorado’s oil and natural gas workers have cut our emissions in half, these environmental groups will continue to celebrate higher energy costs for Americans and push our energy dependence overseas.”

In 2021, 12 monitoring sites on the Front Range recorded a three-year average over the EPA’s most recent cap of 70 parts per billion for ozone, and five sites violated even the EPA’s previous looser standard of 75 ppb, according to annual reports by state and regional pollution officials last fall.

The lawsuit targets the EPA for failing to require Colorado to account for ozone contributions by minor sources of pollutants, or from temporary sources. Colorado officials are now working on revisions to the

implementation plan for more recent violations, after the EPA earlier this year declared “severe” ozone nonattainment in the north Front Range counties.

The designation was a downgrade from “serious” nonattainment in previous years, and will now require changes like switching to reformulated gasoline for metro area drivers.

Other changes will include a broader number of air pollution sources falling under state permitting requirements.

The state is also working on a separate set of clean air measures, including the 2022 legislature approving funding for a month-long free transit fare package to cut commuting this summer, replacing diesel school buses with electric models, and beefing up permitting and enforcement staff at the state air pollution division.

out their relationship after a series of issues, including rate cuts and processing problems that resulted in a regional agency trying to take back money from clinics that had already been paid for seeing Medicaid clients.

In the past few months, providers

and the department have collaborated on new policies for marriage therapists and treating patients with gender dysphoria. The latest policy changes, however, came out of nowhere, Griffiths said.

“The providers felt blindsided,” she said.

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Altitude-Comcast blackout will continue indefinitely Colorado viewers still won’t see local sports as attempted mediation fails

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Talks to end the three-year contract dispute between cable giant Comcast and local sports broadcaster Altitude TV failed July 12, meaning another season of Colorado sports could be unavailable to customers of the state’s largest cable provider.

A Comcast spokesperson confirmed a second round of mediation failed to yield an agreement between the two parties. They do not currently have another round of mediation scheduled.

“We are fans of the Avs, Nuggets and Rapids, and we share the Colorado hockey fans’ excitement around the Avs amazing Stanley Cup win. We’ve presented options for some time to Altitude for how we could carry the games without raising rates for all Comcast customers.

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Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Rapids. The three teams and the channel are all owned by Stan Kroenke.

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and subsequently killed a bill that would have forced the two parties to come to an agreement through state intervention.

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lineup. All Major League Soccer games will be exclusively streamed on Apple TV+ starting that year.

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RTD offering zero-fare August across train, bus system “Zero Fare for Better Air” focused on improving air quality during high ozone season

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RTD is offering zero fares across its transit system to im-

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The “Zero Fare for Better Air” initiative will also be a good way for locals to save money and gas, RTD board member Marjorie Sloan said at a July 12 Golden City Council meeting.

Sloan, who represents the Golden, Wheat Ridge and Lakewood areas on the RTD board, hoped locals will take advantage of the zero-fare month. She said it’ll be

ideal for commuting to and from work, going out with friends, traveling for date night and more; and several communities around Denver will be hosting events to promote it.

RTD’s long-term goal is to increase ridership and usage across its system, and hosting a zero-fare month is a great way to incentivize people to use RTD, she said.

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August is Colorado’s high ozone season, so stakeholders want to reduce ground level ozone by increasing use of public transit.

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t has been my honor to serve the City Council District 5 community over the last three years. Throughout my time, I’ve committed to bringing the voice of the people back to city government. As we embark on summer adventures, I want to take a moment to reflect on my accomplishments over the last year. The following provides a snapshot of completed and current projects and initiatives my GUEST office has been working on to respond COLUMN to the needs of our residents.

Gun buyback program Crime in Denver has risen over the past several years, and we have seen an uptick in senseless acts of gun violence both in our community and across the country. My office is dedicated to making Denver a safer place to live work. To support public safety Amanda Sawyer and improvements being implemented by the Denver Police Department, I created a gun buyback program in partnership with Colorado Springs-based nonprofit RAWtools, the City of Aurora and the Denver Broncos. The purpose of the program is to help reduce incidents of gun violence in our community by reducing the availability of weapons being stolen from cars and homes and used in other crimes. We are providing monthly opportunities for residents to anonymously exchange their unwanted firearms for gift cards. To date, more than 360 weapons have been turned in, melted down, and turned into garden tools. Details can be found online at denvergov.org/district5.

Expanding the Housing Affordability Project Affordable housing is one of our city’s great needs, and District 5 residents identified it as a top priority in 2021. On June 6, Denver City Council approved the Expanding Housing Affordability project, which requires new residential developments of 10 units or more to designate a percentage of the units as affordable. The program also raises linkage fees that support the city’s Affordable Housing Fund and incentivizes adaptive reuse to help stop the scrapes we see in our neighborhoods. This legislation will create many more deed-restricted affordable units in Denver, and directly addresses the need for more affordable housing in our city. More information on the project can be found on denvergov.org/affordabilityincentive.

Redistricting Denver City Council recently approved a new council map outlining the city’s 11 city council district boundaries. The new map achieved the desired outcomes of District 5 residents, incorporated feedback from neighborhoods across the entire city, and fulfilled all the charter and resolution requirements that direct the process. I believe the 2023 map does an excellent job of balancing the varying interests identified. Residents will vote for a councilmember in their new district in SEE SAWYER, P13

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The person on the receiving end would almost always reply with, “Good morning to you too.” And then would catch themselves saying, “But it’s not morning.” And Zig would reply with a question, “Well then why did you say good morning?” And the person would say, “Because you said good morning.”

That’s where the teaching would begin as Zig would remind the person that we get back what we put out, giving the person an aha moment. We know that when trying something like this, that it all comes down to the delivery. And Zig was so easygoing and good hearted that no one ever took offense to his mini lessons of life.

Another story he would share from the stage is this one. A woman and her 6-year-old son were at home one day. The family lived on a mountain range and overlooked a valley.

One day the young boy was getting into some mischief as young boys tend to do, and his mother disciplined him and withheld his afternoon snack until he would apologize. The boy ran out of the house slamming the door behind him yelling, “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.” And as he did a young boy’s voice echoed from the valley saying, “I hate you, I

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Terrified, the boy ran back into his house and into his mother’s arms crying. He told her that there was a boy in the valley yelling that he hates me. The mom knowing full well it was the echo encouraged her son to go back outside and shout, “I love you, I love you, I love you,” and see what happens. The Michael Norton boy did as instructed, and the voice was heard echoing in return, “I love you, I love you, I love you.”

We really do get back what we give out.

Even a smile. Keeping with my Zig Ziglar theme, Zig would always encourage people by saying, “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.”

We are at odds with one another in so many ways and places. And if we are in a state of fear, worry and doubt about what is happening locally or globally, we could all probably benefit by remembering that people will respond or react to what we do and what we say.

If we say good morning at 5:00 at night, they may respond by saying good morning back.

We must remember that what we are yelling from the mountaintop or by email, text, or social media, that we will also get back what we put out. So why not put out more loving

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Inflation is not always bad

f you were not an adult in the 1970s or even born yet, you might not have a clue what all this talk about inflation is. And even if you do remember clearly, this time is likely to be different. Remember our new favorite word from COVID is “unprecedented.”

Most of us know that inflation is when prices go higher, but that is not always a bad thing for the economy. We want economic growth; therefore, prices will rise, along with profits and interest rates. These are not negatives unless things get out of hand. If you rely on your one economics class on supply and demand, this concept is relatively simple. However, the causes play into the effects and that is where the uncertainty lies.

Today consumers are concerned they are dipping into their discretionary spending to pay for necessities such as food, housing, and

fuel. Investors are concerned their assets are not holding their true purchasing power if everything gets more expensive but investment cycles ebb and flow with the economy. Therefore, the denominator must be growth.

No one complains Patricia Kummer about high prices if they feel they are getting value for the money spent, or they have enough money to buy what they want without feeling a pinch. It’s when we don’t have the wage increases, or the stock market rising that we feel things cost too much.

If the economy is on a growth tear and corporate earnings are soaring, then our investments should be going up as well. When prices

increase without the underlying growth in your financial situation, then inflation feels personal. And it is …. personal.

We all have our own inflation rate.

It is made up of what we like to buy, how much we earn, and how we handle periods of economic decline in light of our needs and wants.

According to Jay Weinstein, CFA ¹ most people would say inflation goes up when the economy gets too strong, or the government prints too much money. Except that was not the case in the 1970s. Nor was the opposite true between 1983 and 2007 when we had consistent economic growth and still managed two recessions and falling interest rates for 25 years.

The period from 2008 until now included the Great Recession followed by painfully slow economic growth, the Fed’s easy money policy, and now stagflation, infla-

tion, market corrections, slowing economic growth and a potential recession.

Economists may deem the cause of rising rates to be the result of three main contributors: Pent-up demand from COVID; reduced supply of fuel and food due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and supply chain shortages due to China’s lockdown. None of these would have been caused by a normal economic cycle of recessionary traits such as high unemployment and negative economic growth.

Those things may come but they would not be the cause, they would actually be the effect. So yes, I guess this is a legitimate use of the word “unprecedented.”

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60 minutes in battle, kneeling in prayer, or talking to each other and smiling. Maybe they played in college or met while they were on the same team at some point. But once the battle is over, they come together in such a great way.

How about you? Are you greeting and treating people with kindness and respect? Are you sharing your smile with someone who doesn’t

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Looking ahead to the next year, our team will continue our work to serve the residents of District 5. Stay tuned for updates on the following projects and legislation: • Supporting small businesses in East Colfax by implementing security measures recommended by Denver Police Department through Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design assessments.

• Saving residents money by exempting diapers, including incontinence products, from Denver sales tax.

• Ensuring Denver voters have access to clear information on their ballots by updating Denver’s voting timelines, ballot titles and Bluebook requirements.

• Making owner-opposed historic designations fairer by aligning city council’s hearing requirements with the Historic Preservation Commission’s hearing policies.

• Implementing the East Area Plan recommendations to reduce carcentered uses and promote ground floor activation through a legislative rezoning.

As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our office if there’s anything we can do to support you.

Amanda Sawyer represents District 5 on Denver City Council. She can be

reached at DenverCouncil5@denvergov.org or 720-337-5555.

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Traffic safety improvements To address concerns around traffic safety, my office conducted three traffic studies in partnership with the engineering firm, Fehr & Peers, and DOTI. Taking community feedback into consideration, we prioritized traffic calming measures that will enhance walkability, create safer street crossings and fill sidewalk gaps to better connect transit stops and nearby schools. DOTI will install these improvements over the next several years. Some improvements include a stoplight at Alameda Avenue and South Newport Way, a rapid flashing beacon crossing at East Sixth Avenue Parkway and Clermont Street, road-narrowing pinch points at East 14th Avenue and Glencoe Street, sidewalks and bike lanes in several areas of the district, and parking improvements along

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Volunteers and researchers study one species’ response to a warming climate. The results might surprise you.

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n a nice July day, you might find Jennifer Zedalis up in the Alpine, with her 16-year-old daughter Sophie. Zedalis is lucky because she has a teenager who likes to wake up early — a necessity when you’re hiking above tree line in the Colorado summers prone to thunder and lightning.

But the two aren’t storm searching or taking photographs or even out for a hike. Instead, they’re volunteers on a mission, looking for pika on behalf of a community science initiative studying the small mammal species.

Zedalis and her daughter are volunteers with the Colorado Pika Project, an initiative founded in 2010 in response to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declining to list the American pika as an endangered species. The project is just one entity helping to research this tiny, temperaturesensitive Alpine mammal and trying to understand the species’ outlook in a rapidly changing climate.

For creature lovers, pikas may hold value on the basis of their “unrelentingly cute” looks alone. But on a more consequential note, researchers say pikas act as an indicator species and hold clues to the health of our alpine ecosystems and even the water resources we depend on.

The bad news? Pika are disappearing from parts of the western U.S. landscape. Temperature changes due to climate change likely play a major role but perhaps not in the way you might think.

Volunteering in the Alpine For those unfamiliar, American pikas are small, territorial, herbivorous mammals that most often live in the high Alpine on the rocky, mountainous steppes above tree line. The species finds its range throughout many western U.S. states as well as parts of Brit-

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ish Columbia and Alberta.

These tiny creatures are most closely related to rabbits and hares and are covered head to toe in the same rich, insulating fur. Unlike their cousins, they have small, rounded ears and weigh in around just 4.5 to 7.1 ounces — somewhere between one-quarter and less than half of a pound. If you’ve ever hiked to high elevation and heard a high-pitched squeak, it’s likely you encroached into the territory of one of these feisty mammals, ready to sound the alarm of an intruder.

Back when the Colorado Pika Project first began, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed there was insufficient evidence regarding how climate change would affect the species. So the Denver Zoo and the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Wild teamed up to start the project, which now sends some 150 volunteers out in the field each year to collect data about these miniscule mammals.

With the help of volunteers like the Zedalis duo, the Colorado Pika Project conducts surveys at nearly 100 locations each summer, primarily in Rocky Mountain National Park and the White River National Forest. A typical survey takes around an hour, during which volunteers use both auditory and visual clues to figure out whether pikas are inhabiting an area.

Zedalis, who has been volunteering with the project since 2019, recalls a particularly memorable surveying experience back in the summer of 2020. Outside of Eagle, she and her daughter hiked to two survey locations on

twin peaks referred to as New York High and New York Low, names referencing the elevation.

“It’s absolutely beautiful up there — Alpine scenery with fantastic views,” Zedalis said.

On New York High, the pair didn’t see much. But on New York Low, Zedalis estimates they saw 15 pikas.

Even when pikas aren’t spotted, surveyors can use clues to understand if pikas used to inhabit the area. And there’s one clue in particular that really sticks around: scat.

In extreme cases, “there is scat that has been found that’s over 100 years old,” said Alex Wells, co-director of the Colorado Pika Project. “But generally volunteers might find scat that is a decade or two old.”

Volunteers with the project tend to take part for one of two reasons.

“The entire group really does like hiking, and some people just enjoy being able to hike with a purpose,” Wells said. “Other folks are really explicitly concerned about climate change,” and working with us “is kind of a way to feel like you’re doing something.”

Why are the pikas disappearing?

Depending on the survey location, the Colorado Pika Project now holds between three to 10 years worth of data on pikas but project leaders aren’t yet ready to draw conclusions about the results of their findings. However, veteran scientific researchers outside of the project can lend insight into how pikas are faring in today’s climate. One such researcher is Dr. Chris Ray, a population biologist with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Ray has been researching pikas for over 30 years. One of her primary goals is to better understand the pika’s response to a changing climate. To do so, Ray spends several weeks each summer in the Alpine, trapping pikas, administering anesthesia and taking measurements before releasing the individuals back into their territories. She and her students used to capture around 48 pikas each summer, SEE FREEZING, P15

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Volunteers gather in the Alpine for a training for the Colorado Pika Project.

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but in recent years have averaged closer to 24 to 36. She has seen the pikas disappearing firsthand.

To theorize why, it’s important to have some base knowledge about the species. Foremost, pikas require a cool habitat. Because of their thick fur, they prefer to live in microclimates that maintain a temperature near freezing for most of the year.

They lack any kind of typical cooling mechanism, like panting or heat radiation through the ears, and can die if exposed to heat for even a couple of hours.

Those who know a little about pikas might be inclined to guess that as the climate warms, the temperatures are rising too high, killing off populations at lower elevations and shrinking their viable habitat to only the very tops of mountains. But Ray’s research indicates the truth is a little more complicated.

In fact, pikas don’t always live at high elevation. The American pika also can be found in the lava fields of New Mexico and at sea level in the Columbia River Gorge. Outside of Colorado, pikas also live in the mountains of the Great Basin, southern Utah and northeastern California. What all pika habitats have in common, however, is access to subsurface microclimates.

That is, pikas can live well below the surface, underneath piles

of broken rock or in subsurface lava tubes.

What’s significant about these habitats is they help pikas maintain viable temperataures year-round. Even in the summer, Ray says its likely pikas can get deep enough below the surface to reach temperatures near freezing. The rock piles act as a kind of chimney, letting hot air rise out the top and pooling cool air in the depths below. In colder climates, these same talus piles keep pikas warm in the winter. Where snow blankets the talus, it insulates the pikas from winter air temperatures that can fall far below freezing, and keeps the talus at a steady temperature near zero degrees.

But as with much of the environment, climate change may be throwing pika habitat for a loop.

In the Great Basin, California and Utah, snowpack is steadily declining, and some pikas may be losing their insulating snow blanket. Without sufficient snow, pikas can die of the cold.

So in these regions, Ray said it’s likely the cold winter temperatures explain pika disappearances a little better than the warm summer temperatures.

“The irony is that pikas may be freezing to death due to global warming,” she said.

However, in regions like Colorado, where the annual snowpack is remaining more stable — or in landscapes without cold winters — summer temperatures could explain more of the story. Here, Ray has witnessed a decline in juvenile recruitment,

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which means fewer juveniles are born each year, or fewer are surviving to adulthood. One theory is that as young pikas leave their mothers to find their own territory, they could be perishing in the heat as they are forced to travel through a hotter and hotter landscape.

Once pikas disappear from a region, it’s tough for them to come back. As non-migratory animals that may live their entire lives in the same 12-meter radius, they can’t simply cross a valley and repopulate a once inhabited mountain range.

“We’ve seen the loss of whole populations” in the Great Basin, Ray said. “Once they’re empty, we haven’t seen them be recolonized.”

Beyond the pika — why it matters Most ecologists would likely argue that studying pikas is important in its own right — that the balance of an entire ecosystem can be thrown off with the disappearance of just a single species. But even beyond this, pikas have important implications for the wider climate and society.

First and foremost, Ray and Wells advocate that pikas can act as an indicator species for the health of our western water resources. After all, we rely on the same winter snowpack as pikas for drinking, living, and recreating. In late summer, the same permafrost that lies under stacks of talus melts and replenishes our reservoirs.

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“Once we have no permafrost left, we won’t have any of that anymore,” Ray said. “It’s a catastrophe for us.”

In a similar vein, Wells calls pikas “a canary in the coal mines,” warning of present and future ecological damage, foreboding the effects that could have on our lifestyles, recreation and economy.

But he speculates that for some, pikas hold a more emotional significance too. Himself a Colorado native, Wells grew up hearing the squeak of the pikas in the mountains.

“For a lot of folks, pikas are really tied to the image of Colorado,” he said. “I think if pikas disappeared, that’s a little part of Colorado’s soul that is lost.”

With the environmental, economic and emotional significance of this species’ survival in mind, Wells turns toward next steps for the Colorado Pika Project. They hope to start working with the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service to turn the data they’re collecting into management action.

While he acknowledges that research is valuable, Wells now seems to be seeking a more tangible impact — one that is action oriented.

With a sense of duty and gravity, he said, “We’re really trying to figure out how to take action to help protect pikas, instead of just being the ones who get to watch them die.”

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Colorado tourism businesses rebound in 2021 Recovery is uneven between mountains, Front Range

Denver and along the Front Range was down about 19% in 2021 compared with the pre-pandemic levels of 2019. Spending in Western Slope mountain destinations was up 9% in 2021 compared with 2019.

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Other details from the 2021 surveys include: Workers in the state’s tourism industry earned $7.4 billion in 2021, up 12% from 2020 but down 2% from 2019.

• Travel industry employment increased by 14,800 jobs in 2021, with the state reporting 161,000 tourismdependent jobs. That’s up 10% from 2020 but down from 184,100 jobs in 2019.

• 36.3 million U.S. travelers spent a night in Colorado in 2021, up 18% from 2020 but down from 39 million domestic overnight trips in 2019.

About 81% of those 2021 overnight travelers were repeat visitors.

• 1.8 million business travelers spent the night in Colorado in 2021, down from 2 million in 2020 and 3.8 million in 2019.

• Taxes collected by the state, counties and municipalities on travel-related purchases reached $3.1 billion in 2021, up 40% from 2020 but down about 3% from 2019.

The Colorado tourism industry’s recovery from a steep decline in 2020 saw sporadic surges of traffic in high country villages. The 2021-22 ski season ranked as the busiest ever for both Colorado and the nation, with U.S. resorts hosting more

The Colorado tourism industry is bouncing back from the pandemic, but the recovery is not evenly distributed across the state.

Front Range urban destinations have yet to see traffic return to 2019 levels while Western Slope mountain communities are setting all-time records.

The Colorado Tourism Office’s survey of 2021 visitors by research groups Longwoods International and Dean Runyan Associates shows visitor spending reaching $21.9 billion, a 42% increase over 2020 but still below the record $24.2 billion tourists spent in 2019. (The U.S. travel industry reported a 48% increase to $268 billion in 2021 compared with the previous year.)

Colorado’s tourism businesses hosted 84.2 million trips in 2021, up 14% from 2020 but down from the high of 86.9 million trips in 2019.

Leisure travel led the rebound in 2021 while business trips, convention groups and international travel remained down.

Of the eight travel regions in Colorado, half have not recovered to 2019 levels. Spending by visitors in metro

than 61 million visits and the most skied state in the country, Colorado, reporting a record 14 million visits.

The record-setting traffic in the mountains has chafed locals as soaring real estate prices push them further from resort-anchored valleys, triggering a labor crisis. But the steady year-over-year increases from 2021 appear to be ebbing in 2022, with many resort communities reporting smaller crowds than last summer.

A sustained slackening of bookings and occupancy already is underway this summer in Colorado’s high country. Inntopia’s DestiMetrics, which compiles lodging details from 17 mountain destinations in seven Western states, last month reported a decline in summer reservations compared to both 2021 and 2019. That slower pace for bookings began earlier this year as pent-up travel demand from the pandemic started to wane.

“And though we’re still seeing room rates at all-time highs, the slackening demand is now longterm and increasing economic pressures are forcing consumers to retreat from high room rates,” Tom Foley with Inntopia said in a statement. “The result is that considerably fewer room nights have been booked for this summer compared to both last year and 2019, and it is unlikely that those higher rates alleviate the revenue decrease caused by lower occupancy.”

Tim Wolfe, the head of the Colo-

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rado Tourism Office, said his team is working to find “balance and harmony” with tourist-dependent economies and local concerns about growth and capacity.

He’s focused on reviving international traffic that has collapsed since 2020.

“The mountains may be saying we don’t need tourism anymore but that is kind of a yes-and-no type of thing because international travel has not rebounded yet and those folks spend five times the amount of other travelers,” Wolfe said. “That international component has not rebounded for the mountains and those travel patterns are better with full weeks instead of just full weekends that they’ve been getting.”

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NORTHFIELD FLATS LLC will submit an application to the Colorado Division of Housing (DOH) to request $3,225,000.

This funding will be used to develop 129 rental units at 4523 Xenia Street. The total cost of this development is estimated to be $37,722,429.

The request of funding is to benefit persons with low and moderate incomes by increasing the availability of affordable housing in Denver. It is not the intent to cause displacement from any existing housing; however, if persons are displaced from their existing residences reasonable housing alternatives shall be offered.

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Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Daniel R. Shields, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30782 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the co-Personal Representatives or to the Denver Probate Court, City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before November 14, 2022 or the claims may be forever barred.

Lucile M. Sparks, Co-Personal Representative PO Box 1794 Castle Rock, CO 80104

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of W. Y. Chen, a/k/a Wen Y. Chen, a/k/a Wayne Chen, a/k/a Wen Yuan Chen, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30845 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 11/21/2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Patricia Chen, Personal Representative c/o Josh Krieg 1999 Broadway, Suite 1400 Denver, CO 80120 Legal Notice No. 81743 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver-Herald Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ulla Majken Lugg, also known as Ulla Lugg, and Ulla M. Lugg, deceased Case Number: 2022PR30613 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 November 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sherrel Linda Hladik, Personal Representative Personal Representative 19621 W. 96th Place Arvada, Colorado 80007 Legal Notice No. 81732 First publication: July 14, 2022 Last publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of SANDRA MAE LAW, a/k/a SANDRA LAW Deceased Case Number: 22PR30921

Joseph D. Shields, Co-Personal Representative 7050 S. Oak Ct. Littleton, CO 80127

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 November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joan D. Wamsley, Co-Personal Representative 11692 W. Quincy Pl. Morrison, CO 80465

Leonard Law, Personal Representative c/o Patrick A. Schilken, P.C. 7936 E. Arapahoe Court #2800 Centennial, CO 80112

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Thomas C. Garcia, a/k/a Thomas Charles Garcia, and Thomas Garcia, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030873

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JAMES S. EDGE, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030549

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to: The Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado 1437 Bannock St., #230 Denver, CO 80202 on or before November 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

James F. Bernal, Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No. 81738 First Publication: July 14, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Earl Benjamin Romberger, Deceased Case Number 2022PR30787 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 January 20, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Paul H. Stevens, Esq. Attorney for Personal Representative 9101 Pearl Street, Ste. 218 Thornton, Colorado 80229 Phone: (303) 280-9649 email: paulhstevensesq@yahoo.com Legal Notice No. 81739 First Publication: July 14, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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 November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Martha Edge DeBacker, Personal Representative 3459 Mountainside Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80918 Legal Notice No. 81747 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Delwin Duane Hock, aka Delwin D. Hock, aka Delwin Hock, and Del Hock, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030874 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 November 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Douglas E. Hock, Personal Representative 467 Josephine Street Denver, Colorado 80206 Legal Notice No. 81735 First Publication: July 14, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ELIZABETH J. PAUKOVICH, aka BETTY JO PAUKOVICH, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 030636 All persons having claims against the above-

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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 November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jon Paukovich, Personal Representative 7336 Whitley Drive Colorado Springs, Co 80920 Legal Notice No. 81746 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of KIP LEE BATHRICK, a/k/a KIP L. BATHRICK, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30798 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to: The Denver Probate Court, City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Bryan Jay Bathrick, Personal Representative 8553 West Fairview Drive Littleton, CO 80128 bryanbathrick@msn.com Legal Notice No. 81742 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Cynthia Prosser, Personal Representative 3355 New Haven Circle Castle Rock, Colorado 80109

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MARIA BERTHA HERRERA, aka MARIA B. HERRERA, Deceased Case Number: 22PR30928 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 November 15, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gabriella Nelson, Personal Representative c/o 6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd #200 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 81734 First Publication: July 14, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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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 November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 81744 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Daniel Ray Farmer, a/k/a Daniel R. Farmer, a/k/a Daniel Farmer, a/k/a Dan Ray Farmer, a/k/a Dan R. Farmer, a/k/a Dan Farmer, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30935 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 November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brian Granger, Personal Representative c/o Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 81741 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Janice M. Sublett, aka Janice Marie Sublett, aka Janice Sublett, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30826 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 November 7, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas J. Sublett, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 81728 First Publication: July 7, 2022 Last Publication: July 21, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kennard B Ezell, deceased Case Number: 22PR352 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 November 21, 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 the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before November 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carolyn Moller Duncan, Atty. No. 33766 Attorney for Personal Representative Duncan Legal, PC 6436 S. Racine Circle, Suite 227 Centennial, Colorado 80111 Phone No: 303-394-2358 Legal Notice No. 81730 First Publication: July 14, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Norman L. Anderson, a/k/a Norman Lloyd Anderson, a/k/a Norman Anderson, a/k/a Norm Anderson, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30839

Balson Faix & McVey, LLP Julia G. McVey Attorney to the Personal Representative 12600 W. Colfax Avenue, Suite C-400 Lakewood, CO 80215

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LUPE C. VIALPANDO, a/k/a LUPE VIALPANDO, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30870

Legal Notice No. 81745 First publication: July 21, 2022 Last publication: August 04, 2022 Publisher: Denver-Herald Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William S. Moran, a/k/a William Joseph Stephen Moran, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30886

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 November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Sean F. Moran, Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 81751 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS* Estate of Beverley J. Collins, also known as Beverley Jeanne Collins, and as Beverley Collins, and as Beverly Collins, and as Beveriey Collins, Deceased Case No. 2022PR30819 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver County Probate Court on or before November 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Personal Representative: James K. Collins ℅ Flanders, Elsberg, Herber & Dunn, LLC 401 Main St., Ste. 1 Longmont, CO 80501 Legal Notice No. 81731 First Publication: July 14, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Grace E. Oletski, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR251

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Russell L. Wehner, Jr., aka Russ Wehner, Jr. and Russ L. Wehner, Jr., Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30876

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 November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before November 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

s/ Rebecca Wallace Beattie Attorney for Thomasita Irene Sanchez, Personal Representative 6390 Gardenia Street, Suite 150 Arvada, CO 80004 303-384-0046 rebecca@wallacebeattie.com

Margaret S. Wehner, Personal Representative 2045 Bellaire St.

Legal Notice No. 81740 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Last Publication: August 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sandra Lee Giseburt, aka Sandra L. Giseburt, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030875 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 11/14/2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Anderson, Personal Representative 711 S Public Rd. Lafayette, CO 80026 Legal Notice No. 81736 First Publication: July 14, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of AGNES MARIE BUSH, a/k/a AGNES M. BUSH, and AGNES BUSH, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30775 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 November 7, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Rena E. Todd, Personal Representative 2564 S. Raleigh Street Denver, Colorado 80219 Legal Notice No. 81726 First Publication: July 7, 2022 Last Publication: July 21, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JEFFREY PELAEZ TIBURCIO, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30926 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative (CAMERON TIBURCIO) or to DENVER PROBATE COURT (1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80202) on or before NOVEMBER 30, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. /s/_Kimberly Ruddell KIMBERLY RUDDELL, Esq. Attorney for Personal Representative 1801 California Street, Suite 2400 Denver, CO 80202 Legal Notice No. 81748 First Publication: July 21, 2022

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of George Sebastian Dukart, aka George S. Dukart, aka George Dukart, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30868 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 November 7, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Leslie J. Fiorini, Personal Representative 4938 Julian St. Denver, CO 80221 Legal Notice No. 81725 First Publication: July 7, 2022 Last Publication: July 21, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Steppe plants, from the wilds to your gardens

T

he steppe — a vast cold treeless plain. A seemingly endless horizon interrupted only by the faint jagged line of mountains in the distance. In summer, the grasses dance in the warm breeze. In the winter, the cold winds move snow horizontally across the plains.

These seemingly harsh environments evoke thoughts of distant nomads riding hard across the prairie. These are the steppes.

Steppe biomes occur mainly in four regions of the world: Patagonia, Central Asia, Southern Africa and much of North America.

They are typified by cold winters, hot summers and arid conditions punctuated by seasonal moisture.

These habitats are very important to people, in part because they are where much of our food comes from. At the same time, they are filled with flowers and beautiful resilient plant life.

In Colorado, we are in the heart of the North American steppe.

Often called the Great Plains, this is just a regional term for steppe.

Plants we use in our landscapes and gardens should largely be natives. However, there is room to expand your plant pallet, especially if you are using plants that are adapted to similar climates.

There can be a lot of information and questions about what plants you should use. Will the plants

survive? Will they try to take over?

These are all concerns many gardeners have when it comes to making plant choices. After all, they are living things and we are planting them to grow, live and thrive.

There are also lots of places to find plants — from the grocery store to the hardware store. So where does one start?

The Plant Select program is a partnership between Colorado State University, Denver Botanic Gardens and green industry partners — wholesale nurseries, garden centers and others — that market and sell plants that are adapted, and will thrive, in the Front Range of Colorado. Many of these plants are native to Colorado or are improved selections of natives. When we say improved, we mean larger flowers, better fall color, disease resistance and some traits that make the plant stand out from the normal populations of plants. Plant Select also recommends and introduces plants from similar regions around the world.

One group of these plants is the hardy ice-plants or Delosperma sp. Plant Select has many unique colors of these drought tolerant and showy plants. The best place to shop for these plants is at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Spring

TOURISM

ing the pandemic and the view that Colorado’s outdoor spaces were safe escapes — have worn on towns struggling through a labor shortage and housing crisis.

A new law passed by Colorado lawmakers this spring will give residents of 29 marketing districts — most on the Western Slope — the ability to redirect lodging tax dollars from tourism promotion toward affordable housing and recreational infrastructure.

The bipartisan House Bill 1117 — which Gov. Jared Polis signed into law in April — allows voters in 29 local marketing districts across the state to spend as much as 90% of lodging taxes collected for tourism promotion on affordable housing, child care for local workers and “enhancing visitors experiences” with investment in recreational amenities like trails and trailheads.

Already communities are preparing for a vote in November.

Champions of tourism are now defending their industry in communities that thrive on travelers.

Their arguments focus on the role of tourism officials in rural com-

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Administration to disperse to rebuild the state’s pandemic-ravaged tourism industry. About $2.8 million of that is headed toward marketing for international visitors and $2 million will be dispersed to local destination management and tourism groups in areas that have not yet rebounded from the pandemic.

Rebuilding international tourism to the state is among the office’s top priorities. In 2019, visitors from overseas spent $1.7 billion in Colorado, accounting for more than 8% of all visitor spending in the state. That spending dropped to $306 million in 2020 and $385 million in 2021 as COVID restrictions limited international traffic.

Tourism promoters are facing headwinds in Colorado’s busy mountain communities. Recordsetting crowds in the last two years — largely stemming from pent-up demand for travel dur-

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A steppe garden at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

PHOTO BY SCOTT DRESSEL-MARTIN / DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS

Plant Sale in mid-May and at local, independently owned and operated garden centers. To help find specific plants, the Plant Select website (plantselect.org) is a great resource to learn just about everything you need to know to be successful in steppe-style gardening. Plant Select even gives you lists of places you can see these plants in gardens around the

state. The list includes the Denver Botanic Gardens’ York Street and Chatfield Farms locations, which are great places to see these plants and get inspiration for your home landscape.

munities as managers more than marketers.

“The Colorado Tourism Office along with our partners … are the only voice out there for those highvalue travelers. If you cut that voice off, then we can’t communicate to try to get those high quality travelers that really align with our Colorado values,” Wolfe said.

The Colorado Tourism Office’s new “Shine A Little Brighter” and “Do Colorado Right” ad campaigns help educate visitors about leaving no trace and responsible travel in the state. A survey of the “Shine A Little Brighter” winter campaign by Strategic Marketing and Research Insights showed the 30-second online ads spurred 900,000 trips by visitors who spent $1.9 billion, the Colorado Tourism Office reports. That’s a return of $890 for every ad dollar spent, ranking the campaign among the top 10% tourism efforts in the country.

The Colorado Tourism Office also is working on new technology that will connect the state’s 10 welcome centers with up-to-date information for travelers about

reservations and closures. Say, for example, the National Park Service reservations for Rocky Mountain National Park or Glenwood Springs’ reservations for Hanging Lake are full, or CDOT has closed Glenwood Canyon during a rainstorm, those welcome centers could offer visitors alternative plans.

“Managing tourism is an important part of what we do,” Wolfe said. “If we can direct traffic to those high-need areas and find those high-value travelers that align with our values, that’s part of the harmony we are seeking and it helps us take care of the environment in a way,” Wolfe said. “We want to take care of our assets and leave them in a better place than we found them.”

Mike Bone is the associate director of horticulture and curator of steppe collections for the Denver Botanic Gardens

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.

Public Notices Children Services (Adoption/Guardian/Other) Public Notice NOTICE OF ADOPTION

ANTHONY MICHAEL ROGERS Shawn Schnider, whose current and previous place of residence and whereabouts are unknown and cannot with reasonable diligence be ascertained, will take notice that on September 20th, 2021, Nathan Alexis Zink, stepfather, filed his Petition for Adoption of Anthony Michael Rogers, Case 21JA133, in Denver Juvenile Court, Denver County, Colorado, praying that he be permitted by order of the court, to adopt, as his own child, the child Anthony Michael Rogers, a minor born at

Denver, Colorado, and that the name of the child be changed to Anthony Michael Zink.

"A final decree of adoption, if granted will relieve you of all parental rights and responsibilities, including the right to contact the minor, and except with respect to a spouse of the adoption petitioner and relatives of that spouse, terminate all legal relationships between the minor and you and the minor’s other relatives, so that the minor thereafter is a stranger to you and the minor’s former relatives for all purposes. If you wish to contest the

adoption, you must file an objection to the petition.

If you wish to contest the adoption, you must also appear at the hearing. " A final decree of adoption may be entered if you fail to file an objection to the adoption petition or appear at the hearing.

The Petition will be heard for determination by the Honorable Judge David Brett Woods of Denver Juvenile Court, 520 W. Colfax Ave., Room 125, Denver, CO, 80204 on July 8th, 2022, at 10am for approximately 60 minutes.

Legal Notice No. 81715 First Publication: June 30, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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