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Save your appetite for apple dumplings Elbert Women’s Club makes treats for Christmas Bazaar

BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Yearly for the past few decades, Elbert Women’s Club members have crammed into the tiny kitchen of the Russell Gates Mercantile Building in Elbert to make more than 1,000 apple dumplings in preparation for the Elbert Christmas Bazaar.

The Elbert Women’s Club has been active since 1925, with the Christmas Bazaar being held for 55 years. With this being the first year for the bazaar since the start of COVID-19, the ladies of the Elbert Women’s Club hope that this year’s event will be bigger than ever.

“Last year we didn’t have the bazaar, so we took pre-orders,” said Irene Brown, club president.

“We made roughly 600 dumplings SEE DUMPLINGS, P14

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with assisting in disaster rescue and to work closely with the county governments to make sure the collective voice of the horse community was heard. With this in mind, the Douglas-Elbert County Horse Council was formed.”

The general purpose of the organization is fourfold: • To provide an association of persons having a common interest in the promotions and improvement of the horse industry in Douglas and Elbert counties • To provide disaster- and

Candidates Craig Blackham and Heather Booth and incumbent Cary Karcher won the four-way race to fill three school board seats in Elbert County’s Elizabeth School District C-1.

The top three vote-getters out of four candidates won a four-year term on the five-member board.

In unofficial results updated late on election night, Nov. 2, Blackham was the leader in the four-way field with 28.1% of the total vote, followed by Booth with 27.3% and Karcher with 26.7% out of 13,494 votes counted up to that point.

David Eddy was trailing the other three candidates with 17.9% of the vote in unofficial returns. Eddy was one of several applicants to fill a board vacancy left by the resignation of John Guttenberg in August, but was not chosen. The board instead picked Rhonda Olsen on Oct. 11.

Blackham, Booth and Karcher, who ran as a slate, were backed by the Elbert County Republican Party.

In a candidacy announcement over the summer, Thomas Peterson, the county GOP chair, called the three candidates “all proven conservatives” and community leaders well-suited for a “student orientated” school board that has “a strong tradition of fiscal responsibility, transparency, and academic achievement.”

Blackham is a former Elizabeth

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Margie Ashura is responsible for making over 30 batches of dough from a nearly PHOTO BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON 100-year-old recipe.

Horsemen’s Rendezvous held in Franktown Organization has roots in Hayman Fire

BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The Douglas-Elbert Horse Council held its annual meeting on Nov. 1, bringing together horse enthusiasts and government officials to discuss various issues impacting horsemen’s rights.

The event — “Horsemen’s Rendezvous: Protecting Equestrians’ Rights!” — was held at the Frank-

Blackham, Booth, Karcher win Elizabeth school board race

town Fire Department and was led by council co-creator Fred Wehrli.

“I helped start the Horse Council 20 years ago. It mainly came out of the Hayman Fire in 2002 when we had to evacuate hundreds of horses,” said Wehrli. “We provided volunteers to care for over 500 horses and were able to use the Douglas County Fairgrounds to house them.”

According to the Douglas-Elbert Horse Council’s website, “In the aftermath of the fire, it became evident that an organization of the various horse clubs and horse owners was needed to continue

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Support program for moms looks to expand Strong Mama Gala set for Dec. 3 in Centennial

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A local program aimed at helping moms who are struggling with mental health is raising funds to expand services through partnerships with local hospitals.

In 2016, Nikki Brooker was working as a substitute teacher at Bear Canyon Elementary Schoo in Highlands Ranch. When a mother from the school shot herself and her two children, it rocked the community and Brooker, being a Type A personality, could not stand by and do nothing.

Brooker founded the nonprofit You Are Not Alone Mom 2 Mom (YANAM2M) and never looked back, developing a community service where mothers can get help before they do something that cannot be reversed.

Brooker, of Highlands Ranch, started hosting weekly meetings and assigning sponsor moms to anyone asking for help.

Joan Mahoney, currently of Elizabeth, said YANAM2M helped save her from what she described as a “very dark time in my life.”

Mahoney explained that she and her family had been living in Littleton when her husband lost his

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job, forcing them to move in with her in-laws. Add in an unexpected

third pregnancy, and Mahoney said life got overwhelming.

“I started having suicidal thoughts,” Mahoney said. “I was convinced my family would be better off without me. I was evening starting to plan it. I started reaching out and reaching out. YANA was the one that reached back.”

Brooker assigned Mahoney to a sponsor mom, Carol, who came from a similar situation. Mahoney said before long she learned she had that group of supportive moms, was not alone and what she was feeling is relatable.

Mahoney said while she was meeting with Carol, Brooker would personally watch her children.

“I didn’t have to worry and look over my shoulder to make sure they were OK,” Mahoney said. “(Brooker) orchestrated all of it just to get me out. Carol would call and check on me knowing I was not going to call them.”

YANAM2M started small and has continued to grow steadily over the last five years.

Now, Brooker said it is time for the program to take a step into anothefr level. Aiming to mimic the La Leche organization’s model, Brooker said she is working with local hospitals to reach moms while they are still in the hospital after delivering a baby.

La Leche works with mothers to breastfeed their infants. Consultants for the program go into hospital rooms to provide support and coaching to help interested moms start the breastfeeding process as smoothly as possible.

Not only has the La Leche program made a difference in the lives of many mothers, Brooker

said they are her model because it all started in a basement in 1956 with two mothers.

Brooker said mental health is just as important to new moms as breastfeeding, and she would like to make connections with them as soon as possible.

According to the American Psychology Association, in the U.S. one in seven women suffer from postpartum depression, meaning 800,000 new mothers are impacted each year.

While a mother who just delivered a baby may not know if they need mental health guidance, Brooker said making the connection early to let them know YANAM2M is always there is important for future reference.

Brooker said moms will continue to get follow-up calls after three months, six months, nine months and at the 12-month mark.

Moms who want continued assistance will get it. Those who don’t will have their wishes respected, Brooker said.

Postpartum depression does not have a timer, Brooker said. It may not start as soon as the baby is born, she said. It does not just go away at the one-month or one-year mark, she said. Women can be impacted by postpartum depression for years, she continued.

Mahoney said postpartum and prepartum depression is real, and if a mom is dealing with financial and family stress, things can only get worse. Programs like YANAM2M are a valuable resource, she said.

For the new program to see success, Brooker said up-front costs have to be met. Brooker said the organization relies on grant funds, but a lot of programs only want to provide financial support to organizations helping low-income families.

YANAM2M is for all mothers, Brooker said, no matter which income class they may fall.

Brooker said in the metro area, several of the mothers who have committed suicide are considered middle-class.

“Depression does not know income or standing in the community,” Brooker said. “Depression can impact any mother at any time.

They all need our help. Programs like this are tough to explain and understand. Mental health is not always explained through simple scientific reasoning.”

To raise the funds to get the new program operating in Highlands Ranch and, eventually, at other hospitals along the Front Range, Brooker will be hosting the Strong Mama Gala fundraiser on Dec. 3.

With a goal to raise $100,000, Brooker said the special event will be held at the Village Workspace, 7173 S. Havana St. #600, Centennial, with free food and drinks. With a hefty goal, Brooker said she estimates it will cost $70,000 in the first year to get the new program going.

The Strong Mama Gala will begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit the website at yanam2m.org.

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Many Colo. voters have soured on Democrats, poll shows Survey offers ‘warning sign’ for Dems a year ahead of 2022 vote

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado voters have a less favorable view of Gov. Jared Polis, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and President Joe Biden compared to four months ago, according to a new poll released exactly a year out from the 2022 election.

But while Democrats’ favorability numbers may have decreased, and Biden’s job approval took a hit, Polis’ approval numbers have stayed steady.

Andrew Baumann, a pollster at the Democratic firm Global Strategy Group, which conducted the survey, said the results are “certainly a warning sign” for Democrats, namely when it comes to Biden’s decreases, which could affect the midterms.

The Rocky Mountaineer poll of 800 Colorado registered voters was conducted Oct.19-24 by Global Strategy Group, in partnership with ProgressNow Colorado, a liberal political advocacy nonprofit. The survey was weighted to match Colorado’s voter registration split and had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

Global Strategy Group is a reputable pollster with a B/C rating from FiveThirtyEight, the political data-

tracking website.

Forty-nine percent of voters said they had a favorable view of Polis, compared with 41% who said they have an unfavorable view of the governor. That’s down from June, when the last edition of the Rocky Mountaineer had Polis’ favorability at 56%, with 35% viewing him unfavorably.

Forty percent of voters said they view Bennet favorably in the new poll, while 27% said they view him unfavorably. That’s down from June when 46% of voters said they viewed him favorably and 38% said they viewed him unfavorably.

Biden’s numbers took the biggest hit. Just 45% of voters said they view him favorably while 50% said they view him unfavorably. In June, 55% of voters viewed Biden favorably, compared with 42% who viewed him unfavorably.

When it comes to job approval, 47% of voters said they approve of the job Biden is doing while 50% said they disapprove. Another 3% said they didn’t know. The numbers are down from June, when 56% of voters said they approve of the job Biden is doing as president, while 40% said they disapprove and 4% said they didn’t know.

For Polis, 57% approve of the job he is doing while 37% disapprove.

Six percent said they didn’t know.

The numbers are consistent with the June poll, when 58% of voters said they approve of the job Polis is doing as governor and 36% said they disapprove.

“There’s no doubt that the presi-

President Joe Biden greets Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock after PHOTO BY HUGH CAREY/THE COLORADO SUN landing in Denver on Sept. 14.

dential job approval matters in midterms,” Baumann said. “It’s down here. It’s down across the country. It’s not ideal.”

Democrats still hold advantage Baumann thinks inflationary concerns and congressional Democrats’ infighting over two major spending bills are contributing to the declining favorability numbers. “It hasn’t been our finest hour,” he said.

While Baumann said elements of the poll are concerning, he doesn’t think the numbers reflect a changing political situation in Colorado, which

has favored Democrats in the last two election cycles.

“Nothing in these data show that the fundamental political calculus in Colorado has changed,” Baumann said.

Voters, for instance, still said they would back or lean toward backing a generic Democratic legislative candidate over a generic Republican candidate by a 7 percentage point margin if the election were held today.

And 52% of voters said they would vote for or lean toward voting for SEE DEMOCRATS, P16

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Animal attraction at Denver Museum of Nature & Science Slow movers are the stars of traveling exhibition

BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Ask most people what it takes to survive and thrive in nature and speed will be among the top elements any creature should have.

And that is largely correct.

But as is often the case in the natural world, there are all kinds of exceptions to the rule — fascinating ones.

The kinds of animals that thrive despite — or because — of their slowness take center stage at the traveling exhibition, “Survival of the Slowest,” which is stopping at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd. in Denver, through Jan. 9.

“This is a great opportunity to showcase the animals that aren’t the strongest, fastest and biggest,” said Dr. Frank-Thorsten Krell, senior entomology and exhibit curator.

“It’s not always necessary to be the fastest and strongest and that’s a message a lot of people — especially kids — really like.”

Produced by Little Ray’s Exhibitions and the Foundation for Animal Rescue and Education (FARE), the exhibit also breaks another norm at the museum — it features living animals, instead of their remains.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

“Before we accepted the exhibit, we did a lot of checking to ensure the welfare of the animals is a priority for the organizers. It’s important for us that the animals are well cared for and live in habitats they enjoy,” Krell said. “What I didn’t expect is how close you’re able to see these animals.”

The star of the show is certainly the sloth, but it’s not the only one -- visitors will also get a look at a hedgehog, iguana and more. Among the many things visitors can learn

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about the sloth is that they have the lowest relative muscle mass of any mammal (25%, compared to 40% in humans and 58% in lions) and that they only climb down from trees is for mating and defecation.

While all the animals visitors will meet don’t do a lot of moving, the reasons and strategies behind their slowness vary.

According to provided information, some are cold-blooded, others warm-blooded. Some are adapted to need food less frequently than oth-

ers, while others find unique ways to hide from their adversaries.

“Since these animals don’t move very quickly, we encourage people to come back several times, because that will allow you to see them doing different things,” Krell said. “People can come connect with the animals by seeing them so close. It’s a good message that there are different strategies in life to be successful.”

Entry into the exhibit is included with a general admission ticket. Get all the details at www.dmns.org.

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The Colorado Wind Ensemble will appear in a free concert Nov. 13 with the Eaglecrest COURTESY OF COLORADO WIND ENSEMBLE High School Wind Ensemble.

Funds available to veterans Emergency assistance is available for veterans struggling with housing (mortgage/rent), transportation, employment, healthcare or other emergency needs. To apply for the veteran assistance funds visit douglasveterans.org or call 303-663-6200.

Douglas County needs you Are you looking for a volunteer opportunity in your community? Share your talent and expertise on one of our many Citizen Advisory Boards, Committees or Commissions. Apply online by Dec. 1 at douglas.co.us and search for Board and Commissions.

Questions about snow removal in unincorporated Douglas County?

Do you ever wonder how county roads are prioritized for snow removal? Questions about citizen snow removal responsibilites? Answers to these questions and more can be found by visiting www.douglas.co.us and search for Snow and Ice Removal.

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Voting open for Art Encounters outdoor sculptures Visit the 23 sculptures showcased throughout the County, and nominate your favorite for a People’s Choice Award by Jan. 31, 2022. For art locations, voting online and more visit artencounters.douglas.co.us

County Offices Closed Nov. 25 & 26 Douglas County offices will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 25 and Friday, Nov. 26 in observance of Thanksgiving.

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he Colorado Wind Ensemble performs a free concert with the Eaglecrest High School Wind Ensemble at the high school, 5100 S. Picadilly St., CentenSONYA’S nial, at 7:30 p.m. on SAMPLER Nov. 13. David Kish directs music by Saint-Saens, Reed, Daughtry, Piazzola, local composer Alan Stein and more. Masks to be worn at all times.

Art market Arapahoe Community College students will gain scholarship help when readers buy a ticket ($12) to the online Affordable Arts Festival Holiday Market website. All prices are $100 or less, as with the summer market. See AffordableArtsFestival. com.

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MOA The Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, has announced that “Genterra Mons,” an entry by Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana won its annual “Design and Build” contest. See moaonline.org for images.

Call for artists The 56th annual “Eye of the Camera” call for artists is open on Cafe, callforentry.org. Deadline is midnight, Nov. 16. Juror is Rupert Jenkins. Theme: “Space to Wonder.”

Exhibit dates: Jan. 21 to March 12, 2022 at the Littleton Museum.

K Contemporary Gallery “Zonz Rosa” by Angel Ricardo Ricardo Rios and “I Know Not Where”

by Shawn Huckins will be featured at K Contemporary Gallery, 1412 Wazee St., Denver from Nov. 20 to Jan. 8.

Cuban-born Rios will hang his first show at K Contemporary, including more than a dozen largescale paintings with bilingual titles, dealing with the “red zone” at the center of Mexican colonies with bars, sex, options.

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‘Cabaret de Profundis’ at Buntport Hannah Duggan and Nathan Hall will perform a musical production, “Cabaret de Profundis” or “How to Sing While Ugly Crying,” through Nov. 13 at Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Limited, distanced seats. Masks required and any attendee over 12 must be vaccinated.

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Lone Tree Arts Center The Lone Tree Arts Center at 10075 Commons St. presents “Blockbuster Broadway” on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. Featuring Davina and the Vagabonds and the Hot Club of Cowtown, a jazz trio. “The Finest Hour” at 8 p.m. on Nov. 12 is a celebration of music of the end of World War II, when Western swing, blues and pop-energized dance halls and radio waves prevailed. Davina Sowers is compared to Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin ... Tickets $38-$48, 720-509-1000, see lonetreeartscenter.org for season programs.

Lone Tree Symphony The Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra performs “Together at Christmas” at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 4 and 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 5, including “Fantasia on Greensleeves,” “The Forest of Wild Thyme Overture” and “First Noel,” in addition to other holiday music. Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St, 720-509-1000, lonetreeartscenter.org.

Colorado Book Awards Submissions are being accepted for awards to editors, illustrators, fiction, non-fiction, photography, poetry, and more. See Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book website for entry form. Information: coloradohumanities.org.

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.

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Colo. voters reject giving lawmakers more spending oversight ‘It was always going to be an uphill battle,’ said measure’s architect

BY THY VO THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado voters rejected a conservative-backed ballot measure seeking to give state lawmakers more oversight over how to spend money from the federal government and lawsuit settlements.

With more than 1.3 million ballots counted as of late Nov. 3, Amendment 78 was failing with 43.7% voting in favor of the measure and 56.4% against it. The proposed constitutional amendment needed approval from 55% of voters to pass.

Voters in the conservative strongholds of Mesa and Douglas counties were rejecting the measure. Amendment 78 was only barely above water in El Paso County, Colorado’s most populous conservative county.

“I think on 78 it was always going to be an uphill battle,” said Michael Fields, the architect and main proponent of the measure. He also leads the conservative fiscal nonprofit Colorado Rising Action.

“These were confusing, tricky questions,” Scott Wasserman, an Amendment 78 opponent who leads the liberal-leaning Bell Policy Center, said of the three statewide measures on the 2021 ballot.

The Colorado General Assembly has an appropriation process to decide how state tax revenue is spent each year, but certain non-state sources like federal grant money, private donations and other “custodial funds” from outside the state government aren’t subject to that process.

For example, the $1.7 billion in federal relief dollars that Colorado received last year from the CARES Act wasn’t subject to the legislative appropriation process. It was spent

by Gov. Jared Polis’ office through an executive order, angering Republicans who complained they were left out of the decision making.

“We’re excited Colorado voters saw through this measure,” said Kathy White, deputy director of the Colorado Fiscal Institute. “They recognized last year, with COVID relief dollars that came into this state, the importance of getting that to their communities quickly and efficiently.”

Proponents of Amendment 78 said it would have provided greater transparency and accountability in state spending by requiring lawmakers to determine how the state spends custodial money, which could affect federal emergency relief and grant dollars, money from legal settlements, funding for transportation projects that are currently allocated by an independent commission and private gifts and donations, like those collected by public colleges and universities.

“I just want more oversight over where the money is going and what it’s doing,” said Dom Galluccio, a 32-year-old unaffiliated voter from Denver who cast his ballot at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building on Tuesday afternoon.

The ballot measure would have created an appropriation process where members of the public can provide input. It also would have placed all custodial funds into a centralized account, with interest from that account flowing into the state’s general fund.

Opponents called it a political ploy to stymie a Democratic administration and said it would create unnecessary work for lawmakers, who already review custodial spending broadly.

“It sounded like more red tape,” said Denver resident Sam Heiden, a 26-year-old Democrat, after voting in person Tuesday.

Some voters said they voted against the measure because they didn’t understand it.

“I tried reading about it, but I still didn’t understand it enough,” Douglas Evans, an unaffiliated voter from Littleton, said after casting his ballot.

The Committee for Spending Transparency raised and spent nearly $1.3 million. Most of that cash went to collect signatures to get the measure on the ballot. All of the money came from the dark-money nonprofit Unite for Colorado, which doesn’t disclose its donors.

Colorado Sun staff writer Erica Breunlin and correspondent Sandra Fish contributed to this report.

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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Colo. measure to raise pot tax for education fails Proposition 119 split high-profile Democrats

BY DANIEL DUCASSI THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado voters rejected a proposal to increase taxes on recreational marijuana to pay for out-of-school support services for students like tutoring and therapy.

Supporters of Proposition 119 admitted defeat at about 8:30 p.m. election night, Nov. 2.

With nearly 1.4 million ballots counted as of late Nov. 3, the measure was failing with 54.4% rejecting the initiative and 46% in support, about a 120,000-vote deficit.

The mood at the Maven Hotel in downtown Denver, where about 50 supporters for Proposition 119 held the official Yes on 119 watch party, was hopeful around 7 p.m. on election night as attendees sipped drinks and nibbled on hors d’oeuvres while watching early results trickle in. But the mood began to fade after 8 p.m. as the measure looked increasingly unlikely to succeed. Few supporters remained by 8:30 p.m.

Judy Solano, a Democratic former state representative and retired school teacher who helped lead the opposition, said she was “thrilled that the voters were smart enough to realize that creating a huge new bureaucracy to take care of one issue in education… would have been

Marijuana at a Denver grow facility.

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a very expensive and unnecessary thing to do.”

She thinks voters “saw through” supporters’ arguments and decided “we have to properly fund our schools before we do anything else.”

Members of Colorado’s cannabis industry were also celebrating.

“Despite being significantly outspent by proponents, Colorado voters still soundly rejected using cannabis as a piggy bank for outof-state special interest projects,” said Peter Marcus, spokesman for Boulder-based cannabis company Terrapin Care Station, which worked with opponents of the measure on its defeat. “We can’t balance the state budget and education on the backs of cannabis consumers; we need long-term solutions that address structural deficiencies.”

Supporters of the measure were disappointed.

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“The significant gap in achievement between students from wealthy families and their low-income peers has been an unfortunate educational outcome in Colorado for years — and tonight’s results mean it will likely continue to get worse before it gets better,” Curtis Hubbard, a spokesman for the Yes on Prop. 119 committee, said in a statement. “Access to affordable, quality after-school education services is not a possibility for many families living in Colorado — and we will work with anyone who has a better idea on how to tackle the problem.”

Josh Penry, a Republican former state senator and consultant to the Yes on Prop. 119 campaign, attributed the loss to opposition on both sides of the aisle, with Democrats and Republicans both finding elements of the measure to dislike.

“Base Democrats rallied against the school choice elements, base Republicans objected to the tax increase, and in an electorate dominated by voters over the age 60, there just weren’t enough parents and voters in the middle to get us to 50% plus 1,” Penry said.

Supporters of Proposition 119 had said the program would give kids from lower income families a chance to access tutoring and enrichment programs, helping those kids catch up academically to more privileged peers and start to regain ground they lost during the pandemic.

The measure enjoyed bipartisan support, including from highprofile Colorado Democrats like Gov. Jared Polis, former Gov. Bill Ritter, former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall and state Sen. Rhonda Fields. Republican former Gov. Bill Owens was a supporter, as was GOP state Sen. Bob Gardner, of Colorado Springs.

“The hours our children spend after school are a critical time, and Proposition 119 will allow more kids to benefit from after-school learning activities — from tutoring to music and art,” Polis said in a statement.

But the measure also faced bipartisan opposition. State Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat, and Senate Minority Leader Chris Holbert, a Douglas County Republican, co-wrote an opinion piece in The Gazette opposing the measure.

Also against the measure was Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat who said the measure “diverts new marijuana tax revenue from appropriate uses, shifts limited state funds from our public K-12 schools and it lacks robust oversight and accountability.”

Some public education advocates saw it as a slippery slope to a voucher system and a threat to public education in the state. Any new tax revenue for education, they argued, should go into the existing system rather than a whole new program.

Opponents in the cannabis industry said the increased sales tax would have punished those least able to pay and could push consumers back into the black market.

Sam Heiden, a Denver resident who was voting in his first Denver election on Tuesday, voted no

on Proposition 119, questioning why dollars from increased taxes wouldn’t go to benefit the state’s public schools instead of out-ofschool learning opportunities.

“Why is it not just going directly to schools instead of out-of-school activities that may or may not benefit certain groups of students?” the 26-year-old Democrat asked after voting at the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building in downtown Denver.

Tom Lucas, a 70-year-old Denver Democrat, thought the marijuana industry was unfairly targeted.

“If it’s that important, then the tax burden should be spread across a wider tax base than just marijuana. If we’re gonna kill the goose, we’re gonna wind up having a black market again,” he said.

Lucas said he understands the need to help children succeed academically, “but if kids are not achieving in school, it seems to me the money should go to schools and not to after school programs.”

The program would have largely been paid for by raising recreational marijuana taxes by 5 percentage points, to 20% from 15%, phased in over three years. Non-partisan legislative staff estimated the new taxes would have raised more than $87 million next fiscal year, and the new revenue would have been exempt from state constitutional spending limits.

Gary Community Investment Company donated more than $2.2 million to support the measure, with nearly $780,000 of that coming since Oct. 20.

The issue committee raised $2.6 million and spent $2.4 million through Oct. 27, which doesn’t include another $250,000 Gary Community Investment Company donated on Oct. 28. Ready Colorado, a conservative education reform nonprofit, donated $525,000 to the issue committee.

The opposition to 119 was not as well financed.

The Cannabis Community for Fairness and Safety, an issue committee that opposed the ballot measure, received $25,000 each from the Marijuana Industry Association and The Green Solution. The committee spent nearly $31,000 on a website, advertising and flyers.

No on Prop 119 reported spending only $7,500, all of it on a website, which came via an in-kind contribution from Coloradans Against School Vouchers. The national Working Families Organization donated more than $5,100 in texting services last week to Coloradans Against School Vouchers’ fight against 119.

Colorado Sun staff writers Erica Breunlin and Tatiana Flowers contributed to this report. Colorado Sun correspondent Sandra Fish also contributed.

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Developmentally disabled students are in schools, but so is segregation

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here is a sentiment that I believe we can all agree on: Children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities should be included in all aspects of society. It’s simple.

It’s direct. And, frankly, it’s hard to argue with.

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It also applies to education. And, now that a new school year is underway, education is on my mind.

The U.S. has a long and conflicted history with its approach to segregated vs. inclusive education for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

For most of our history, children with these disabilities have been completely excluded from the public education system and placed in spe-

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GOP ruined community event You have got to wonder what is happening to our friendly, little, small town when an event as inclusive, family friendly and welcoming as the town’s Halloween walk becomes an event that we had to leave because it wasn’t appropriate for children.

Where it used to be a town event, it is now a main street event. Where it used to be about community, now it’s identified as a Republican event. Children were exposed to vulgar T-shirts about our current president right next to the Republican school board booth.

I quickly took my reading 7-year-old away. I don’t want her exposed to this ignorance.

It’s sad as adults they felt the need to make a community event a political statement.

If you need to spew your hate to kids, forget about getting my vote. Shame on the Republican Party of Elizabeth.

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unchanged for more than three decades. Segregation of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the classroom remains a major issue in our country, and in Colorado. Most children with these disabilities in our state are taught in segregated classrooms.

We must continue the fight that started back in the 1960s and ‘70s and move beyond what are essentially merely modest accommodations to true and holistic inclusion and complete integration.

UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children gives us this description of true inclusive education: An education system that includes all students, and welcomes and supports them to learn, whoever they are and whatever their abilities or requirements. This means making sure that teaching and the curriculum, school buildings, classrooms, play areas, transport and toilets are appropriate for all children at all levels. Inclusive education means all children learn together in the same schools. No one should be excluded.

Perhaps that is a tall order, but it was one we must fulfill.

I have a 17-year-old son with Down syndrome who is now being taught in many mainstream classrooms in

cial education programs or entirely separate schools.

It wasn’t until 1975 — not even 50 years ago — that the Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed. The act opened schoolhouse doors and mandated free and appropriate public education for children with disabilities, and the provision of special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs and prepare them for further education, employment, and independent living.

But it wasn’t enough.

Then, in 1990, the act was modified and became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The new act went further than its predecessor, with the goal being “to provide children with disabilities the same opportunity for education as those students who do not have a disability” and required that public schools create an Individualized Education Program “for each student who is found to be eligible under both the federal and state eligibility/disability standards.”

Better. But still it wasn’t, and isn’t, enough.

The fact is that the specifics of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act have remained essentially

a highly regarded public school. He has benefited greatly from the kind teachers, the supportive staff, and the educational provisions afforded him through his IEP. His schools, in turn, benefitted from him, from his presence and his unique contributions.

Here are the facts: • With lesson modifications, kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities benefit greatly from being in an integrated and inclusive classroom.

• They can learn and thrive in mainstream classrooms.

• They can contribute to their mainstream peers when integrated into the classroom.

And that is the point. Every child has contributions to make — in the classroom and out. Why would we want to deny ourselves of those contributions — whether they come from a child without these disabilities or someone with them?

From a practical standpoint, inclusion and integration in our schools means we must invest in training our teachers so they can understand and adapt to different learning styles, and it means we SEE LEWIS, P11

Time to press the energy button

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e are all familiar with the image of the “Easy Button,” as we have seen it in commercials, in stores, and in advertisements. Many people WINNING use is as a funny WORDS response to a text or on social media as a GIF or meme.

It’s a fantastically simple yet powerful marketing play, and the benefit clearly articulated. It’s easy, and we all want easy.

Lately many of the Michael Norton messages I receive are around energy, or more accurately stated, a lack of energy. People are tired, even exhausted, and I get that. The reasons that many of you provided for feeling a bit lethargic were very similar. Everything from stress, worry, doing work that is not motivating, overworked, feeling unappreciated, and just everything going on in the world. Robin M. asked me this, “Like the `Easy Button’ isn’t there some kind of an `Energy But-

ton’ that I can just press?”

Before responding I did what anyone of us might do when looking for an answer, I Googled it. And like many of the emails that I received, I found the same lists of ideas to become rejuvenated such as mid-day workouts, stepping away from the current task, hydrating, breathing, and other good ideas.

And here is what I would add: Step one is to know what energizes us and what sucks the life out of us.

It’s not the same for everyone. We are all motivated and inspired by different things. And we all have different activities that we find draining. The guidance here in step one is avoidance. If the news is dragging you down, turn it off and stop checking it on your phone 24/7. Some might say they need to stay aware of all that is happening. Trust me on this one, turn it off, unplug, and if something so big happens in the world that you need to know about, someone will tell you, I promise.

Step two is to try and identify the loss of energy as quickly as possible.

Think of it this way, like the battery

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on our cell phone or laptop. It seems like are battery remains full for a long time, but once it starts running down, it runs down quickly. And the lower the battery gets, the faster it runs out.

It seems like the gas tank in our car is the same way, doesn’t it? That needle points to full for a long time, but once it starts moving, it’s a fast trip from Full to Empty.

The trick is to stay ahead of the depletion. Identify the early symptoms and take preventive measures before our personal batteries die or n our fuel tanks become dry. a Step one, knowing what sucks d the energy from us and avoid those m things. Step two is to make a quick di- t agnosis and stay ahead of the energy t loss. This is kind of like taking pain a medication after surgery or over the s counter headache medicine when we first feel the symptoms coming on, m getting ahead of it, and staying ahead a of it is so much easier.

Step three is having whatever it is that reenergizes us readily available.

Coffee, water, mid-day workouts

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Parker brewery celebrates 3 years in operation

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When Sharon and Aaron Murphy started the Welcome Home Brewery in Parker, they wanted to try something different from other craft brew spots.

Instead of metal accents and sleek, identical furnishings, the brewery features mismatched chairs, old doors used as tables and vintage windows hanging from the ceiling.

The space, located off Hess Road just south of Salisbury Equestrian Park, also includes an old piano and a fireplace to give it the feeling of a living room.

“They’re all things you would find in someone’s home,” Aaron said.

The hope was that the brewery would make customers feel like they’re sitting in their home, enjoying a beer with friends.

Now, the brewery is celebrating its three-year anniversary, which is even sweeter this year because it means they survived the pandemic restrictions of 2020, Sharon said.

“The first year of business is never easy and when you hit something like that in your second year, it’s kind of a kick to the gut,” she said about the pandemic. “When you really get to celebrate the third year it’s like okay, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel now” The Aurora couple opened the Parker brewery, the only one of its kind, on Oct. 20, 2018.

“We started as a pipe dream a lot of years ago,” Aaron said. “I was a home brewer.”

Eventually the couple decided to move forward with opening a brewery and found a location in Parker right next to Rocky Mountain Pizzeria. Now, the brewery allows drinkers to bring over pizza and food from the restaurant next door. They also offer charcuterie, soft pretzels and other

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The brew house always has 16 beers, one root beer and multiple seltzer flavors on tap. Six of those beers, including a cream ale, juicy IPA and golden ale, are constants on the menu. The rest are rotating brews, including a Mexican lager in the summer and an icing-rimmed gingerbread beer in the winter.

Blue-friendly brews Aaron, who is also a sergeant with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, says he welcomes other law enforcement and first responders to their location.

Inside the brewery, Aaron and Sharon have put up flags and artwork showing their support of these groups. They also have a program where customers can pay for an extra beer, which will go to a first responder or law enforcement officer when they come in next.

“Law enforcement and their families can come and feel comfortable,” Aaron said.

The couple also seeks to attract families to stop by their brewery.

Many of the customers at Welcome Home Brewery are regulars, Sharon said.

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all individuals to this fundamental right to education.

In the end, we must remember that inclusion should be our goal.

need to respond to diversity with a zero-rejection policy, which, as defined by Inclusion International, means “schools cannot deny access to students based on disability and there are clear consequences or accountabilities in place if they do so.”

To be sure, integration is a commitment. But we must stand strong and protect the legal mandate of

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don’t do it for me. However, my Bible does. I have a Bible app on my phone and a physical Bible with me most of the time. I also love a funny joke or powerful inspiring quote like this one by Zig Ziglar, “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.

That’s why we recommend it daily.”

If your reenergizer is a walk, a talk with a good friend, a picture of your family, or just some quiet time, then make sure you know how to

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“We’ve gotten to know a lot of our regulars and they’ve become our friends,” she said. “I think that’s indicative of the Parker community.”

During the pandemic, those regulars continued supporting the brewery and have stayed consistent after restrictions were lifted, Sharon said. The brew house never had to lay anyone off because of programs like the federal Paycheck Protection Program, Aaron said.

When indoor dining was limited, the couple added an outdoor patio, which has remained ever since. Eventually, they were able to apply for the county’s 5-Star program, which

allowed businesses with extended COVID-19 protection measures to open their doors to more customers.

“Celebrating three years felt like another milestone, especially through the pandemic with so many small businesses not being able to make it,” Aaron said.

For their Oct. 23 anniversary event, the brewery hosted a party featuring ax throwing and a live band.

“Thank you for making us a part of your families and your lives,” Aaron said. “We look forward to seeing all our familiar faces and we hope to stay for a long time and get to know a lot more.”

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IT FLY Isaac Smith, of Highlands Ranch, draws his bow while target-shooting at Quick Draw Archery’s indoor range on Oct. 15.

Littleton-area resident Adrian Evangelista practices target-shooting archery on Oct. 15 at Bear Creek Archery near Englewood.

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Castle Rock’s Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, draws his bow while target-shooting at Quick Draw’s indoor range on Oct. 15. Treloar started practicing archery about three years ago and has competed in tournaments across the country.

Archers find their own aims, outlets on indoor ranges

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rchery is more than how Katniss Everdeen won the i Hunger Games. c It’s whatever the archer wants it to be — a friendly competi- a tion; a therapeutic outlet for one’s i b frustration; a challenging, physical exercise; a mental game; a way e e to hunt; a way to make friends; a discipline; a skill; a sport; and much d more. c Littleton-area resident Adrian Evangelista said shooting every day l at Bear Creek Archery, in unincorporated Arapahoe County near a Englewood, is a way to get out of the b b house. a “(Archery) teaches you how to c manage your frustration … and learn from your mistakes,” he said. o d “ … Life could be boring without sports.”

As the weather turns colder and s the days get shorter, many archers v t have moved indoors for targetshooting and tournament season, a which runs until March.

V Archery in general has become more mainstream in recent years, p and its popularity has grown during the pandemic because it’s a “COVID s friendly” activity, Bear Creek Ar- t H chery owner Dave Marsh said. d Kevin Lewis, who owns Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, a said the sport usually sees an uptick in interest after the Summer Olympics. But, Hollywood is also responsible for archery’s increasing popularity, especially among girls.

After 2012’s “The Hunger Games” movie came out, Lewis said everybody wanted to be like Katniss. He also wondered whether Disney’s upcoming “Hawkeye” TV show will likewise generate interest in the sport.

Evangelista, who started archery in 2013, recommended people give it a shot at least once, saying, “If you like it, you like it.”

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Littleton’s Nathan Hartford, 14, takes aim while targetshooting at Quick Draw Archery’s indoor range on Oct. 15. Nathan and his dad, Ben Hartford, started practicing archery a few months ago.

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Setting their sights on indoor competitions This time of year, Lewis said indoor ranges see a mix of people doing it for fun, children learning the sport, and archers practicing for tournaments.

For a serious archer, he said, indoor and outdoor archery are two completely different games. There are more options outdoors, including hunting and 3D target courses; but indoor has its own world of events and specialists too, Lewis explained.

Conifer-area resident Dave Cenedella said he and his wife plan to compete in the Thursday night league at Bear Creek Archery.

Cenedella, who’s been practicing archery for six years, said he enjoys bow-hunting and shooting in his backyard range. Like rifle-shooting, archery requires self-reliance, he continued, but it doesn’t impact one’s hearing like rifle-shooting does.

“It’s super-challenging,” Cenedella said of archery. “There are so many variables, and you have to do everything the same way every time.”

Right now, Colorado’s best archers are preparing for this February’s Vegas Shoot, the annual indoor “Super Bowl of archery” in Las Vegas.

Castle Rock’s Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery, said the tournament world is a lot of fun.

He’s competed in indoor and outdoor competitions, winning several across Colorado.

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Treloar also enjoys the ritualistic side of archery. The state has a huge archery community, with lots of shops and organizations, so there’s something going on every night, he said.

Fellow staff shooter Rick Typher, who lives in Highlands Ranch, appreciates how archery is therapeutic and a mental game, stating, “It’s a battle against yourself.”

Un-bow-lievable fun Whether archers only recently started shooting or have been practicing it for years, local indoor ranges have something for everyone, including private lessons and classes for all experience levels.

Many rent out recurve bows, which are generally easier to draw but harder to hold, local professional archer Steve Marsh explained.

Meanwhile, compound bows are individualized and end up being harder to draw but easier to hold, he said.

“You can’t expect to master (archery) overnight,” he said.

Marsh, who works at Bear Creek Archery and shoots for the Mat-

thews Archery team, described how he started archery at age 8 but didn’t become proficient until he was 20.

Littleton’s Ben Hartford and his son Nathan, 14, started archery earlier this fall. Ben used to do it at camp, and revisited it when his cousin gifted him a bow. Since then, he and Nathan have been practicing how to sight their targets.

“It’s a skill,” Hartford continued.

“The more you do it, the better you get.”

Isaac Smith, a college student from Highlands Ranch, started five or six years ago and described it a fun hobby that he revisits whenever he can. He enjoys both indoor and outdoor archery, and likes setting up makeshift ranges whenever he goes camping.

“It can be relaxing if you don’t stress about it,” he said.

Madison Myles, who lives in the Parker area and started archery when she was 10, also has an outdoor range at home and tries to shoot at least once a week.

“I like the joy of it — the adrenaline rush,” she said. “It’s fun. Just try it out.”

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last year. We sold less than usual, but it was nice not having extra apples left over.”

The club has a goal of selling 1,100 apple dumplings this year. Each dumpling is sold for $5 with all proceeds going toward upkeep of the Russell Gates Mercantile Building. Brown estimates that the club makes roughly $1.50 profit for each apple dumpling sold. The apple dumplings are so beloved by the community that they usually sell out by 2 p.m. on the day of the bazaar.

It takes an extraordinary amount of ingredients to make so many apple dumplings. This year, the club purchased 100 boxes of apples, 12 pounds of butter, 100 pounds of bread flour, and over 1,000 pounds of brown sugar to make both the dumplings and the caramel topping.

Margie Ashura, longtime member of the Elbert Women’s Club, is responsible for combining hundreds of pounds of ingredients in a large, commercial mixer to create the sugary pastry dough for the dumplings.

“We typically make about 30 to 35 batches of dumplings each year,” said Ashura. “It really depends on how thick people are rolling them out.”

From preparing the dough to when they pop out of the oven, the process of making over 1,000 apple dumplings takes the ladies of the Elbert Women’s Club four full days to complete. Early batches are frozen while those made in the final day are not. Regardless, each dumpling is served hot and gooey with a cup of handmade caramel sauce.

In addition to apple dumplings, a few pies are made each year to be sold at the bazaar.

The pies are typically sold for $18.

“Normally when we have a bad apple, we’ll cut out the bad spots and then use them to make apple pies,” said Brown. “The pies have gotten so popular that we usually make at least 10.”

The famous apple dumplings will be sold during the Elbert Christmas Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 13. They can be purchased for $5 at both the Russell Gates Mercantile Building and the cafeteria at the Elbert School building.

For more information about the Elbert Women’s Club and the upcoming Elbert Christmas Bazar, visit facebook.com/ TownofElbert.

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School District teacher and coach who recently retired after a 29-year career. He is a precinct committee person for the Elbert County Republicans.

Booth, a resident of Elizabeth for nearly 20 years, is the mother of two children who graduated from Elizabeth High School and two children still attending school in the district. The candidacy announcement said she “believes in school choice and wants to support our teachers. She wants to keep critical race theory out of our schools and make sure that our schools stay open.”

Karcher, elected to a second term, is a 29-year district resident with two daughters who graduated from the district and a granddaughter in kindergarten at a district school. “Having in-person learning and programs such as Homegrown Talent Initiative (HTI) helps our kids achieve success across the board,” Karcher said in the candidacy announcement.

The Elizabeth School District, which encompasses much of the west part of Elbert County, is by far the largest of several districts in the county, with 2,200 students.

Meanwhile, in the town of Elizabeth, Ballot Question 2A was passing by a 17 percentage point margin in unofficial returns late Nov. 2.

The measure changes the date of future municipal elections from

the first Tuesday in April in evennumbered years to the Tuesday after the first Monday of November to coincide with the statewide election day. The measure also extends the terms of town trustees that would have expired in April 2022 to November 2022 to coincide with the new election day.

Elsewhere in Elbert County, in the Kiowa School District, Donald Gabehart was leading in the threeway race for a two-year school board term in early returns. In the three-way race for a four-year term, with the top two vote getters to be elected, Danielle Ullom and Beverly Durant were leading but the race remained close.

In the Douglas County School District, which includes a portion of northwest Elbert County, Republican-backed candidates Becky Myers, Mike Peterson, Christy Williams and Kaylee Winegar were elected to four school board seats. Those candidates won overwhelming support among voters in the Elbert County portion of the district.

In Douglas County school board District B, Peterson led Watkins by 56.3% to 43.7% in unofficial returns from all parts of the district.

In District D, Myers prevailed with 54.3% over Martinez with 41.5% and Justin V. Mathew with 4.2%.

In District E, Williams had 54.6% to incumbent Leung’s 45.4% in unofficial results. And in District G, Winegar led with 55.0% over incumbent Holtzmann with 45%.

For results of other races across the region and statewide, visit ColoradoCommunityMedia.com.

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Polis compared with the 35% who said they would vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl, who is currently a University of Colorado regent.

The poll also asked voters if they would vote for or lean toward voting for Bennet in an election against Republican challengers Eli Bremer, a former Olympian who lives in Colorado Springs, and state Rep. Ron Hanks of Fremont County. Bennet was favored by at least 13 percentage points in both hypothetical matchups.

Voters also said they trust Democrats more than Republicans when it comes to reducing air pollution and addressing climate change, raising wages for Colorado workers, improving public education and bringing down the cost of health care.

When it comes to protecting public safety, handling the economic recovery after the pandemic and addressing Colorado’s rising cost of living, voters said they trust Democrats and the GOP equally.

Thirty-eight percent of voters said they have a favorable view of former President Donald Trump, compared with 58% who have an unfavorable view of him. When asked about U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, 25% said they have a favorable view of the Garfield County Republican while 38% said they have an unfavorable view of her.

When asked if they agree or disagree that Biden legitimately won the 2020 presidential election, 67% of voters said they agree while 29% said they disagree. Four percent said they don’t know or refused to answer.

Among Republicans, just 38% said they agree that Biden legitimately won last year’s presidential election, while 57% said they disagree.

“Yes there’s been a little bit of a slip,” said Sara Loflin, who leads ProgressNow Colorado. But she said the poll clearly indicates Republicans “numbers are still in the toilet.”

Voters support mask wearing, vaccination The poll also asked coronavirusrelated questions, revealing mixed news for Democrats.

In June, 65% of registered voters

said they approved of how Polis was handling the pandemic, while 30% said they disapproved and 5% said they didn’t know or refused to answer.

When asked this month, 58% said they approved of how Polis is handling COVID-19, while 35% said they disapprove and 6% said they didn’t know or refused to answer.

While Democratic voters remain supportive of how Polis has handled the pandemic, the October poll shows a decline in support among unaffiliated voters. Fifty-five percent of unaffiliated voters said they approved of the governor’s handling of COVID in the new poll, compared to 63% in June.

Biden also saw a steep decline in his COVID-related job approval among Colorado voters. Back in June, 63% said they approved of how he was handling the pandemic. That dropped to 50% in October.

A brighter spot for Democrats in the recent poll is that 54% of voters think Polis and Democrats “got it about right” when it comes to their handling of the pandemic. Twentyseven percent said Democrats overreacted while 12% said they didn’t take it seriously enough.

Republicans in Colorado got much lower marks on the question. Just 31% said the GOP got it about right, while 44% said they didn’t take it seriously enough.

The poll also asked about requiring health care workers and state employees to be vaccinated, requiring teachers and students to wear masks at schools, and requiring airline passengers to show proof of vaccination before flights. More supported than opposed all three.

Sixty-two percent of voters said they are pro-mask while 30% said they are anti-mask. When asked about getting vaccinated against COVID, 74% said they are pro-vaccine while 20% said they are anti-vaccine.

“The data shows Coloradans are really on one side of the debate about vaccines and masks,” Baumann said.

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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emergency-related horse rescue management and related education • To educate and report to the horse community related issues regarding land use, taxes and legislation at the county level • To support trail, safety, and open space development and to educate the horse community on the issues The annual Horsemen’s Rendezvous event consisted of field experts who spoke on various topics related to the organization’s outlined purpose: Bill Scebbi, executive director of the Colorado Horse Council and the Colorado Horse Development Authority, discussed legislative issues concerning horse owners.

Anne Walton, emergency management project coordinator with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, provided a Douglas County Animal Response Team report.

Shane Pynes, director of Elbert County Emergency Management, outlined his goal for creating Elbert County’s general horse-related emergency response plan.

Cheryl Matthews, director of Douglas County Open Space & Natural Resources, and Amy Knapp, senior park ranger, provided an update on Douglas County Open Space.

Dan Dertz and Steve Shoultz, Douglas County Parks and public outreach, discussed park trails and trailheads of Douglas County and the surrounding areas.

The Brand Inspection Division of the Colorado Department of Agriculture provided and explanation of branding rules and regulations.

Stacy Whitton, veterinarian with Elizabeth-based Iron Horse Equine Medical & Surgical Services, gave a

Co-founder Fred Wehrli talks with a Douglas-Elbert Horse Council member about renewing her group membership.

presentation on what people should know about protecting their horses through vaccination.

Given the organization’s roots with the 2002 Hayman Fire, emergency management experts Shane Pynes of Elbert County and Anne Walton of Douglas County were a highlight of the event.

Walton stressed the counties’ goal of active mass care for animals in regard to emergency management as well as their partnership with the Dumb Friends League.

“We want to make sure that when we activate mass care for humans that we also activate mass care for animals,” said Walton. “There were thousands of animals evacuated in the 2020 fires, but thankfully we

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didn’t have a very aggressive fire season in Elbert and Douglas counties.”

Pynes has been working in Elbert County for two years and is currently working with the community to develop an effective emergency management strategy for horse owners of Elbert County.

“I want to take this opportunity to invite horse owners of Elbert County to reach out to me,” said Pynes. “Let’s connect about what we can do to help evacuate and relocate horses in the event of an emergency.”

Currently, in addition to relocating animals to the Elbert County and Douglas County fairgrounds, the counties also work with the

Dumb Friends League Harmony Equine Center located in Franktown. In the event of an emergency, the Dumb Friends League has a large animal shelter to house relocated horses and other large animals. According to Walton, the shelter has even housed elephants.

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