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New leader takes reins at Kiowa Schools Travis Hargreaves steps into superintendent role after resignation of Silvia McNeely BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
The Kiowa Schools fight song with phrase “Go Indians” is on a large banner in the gym.
and residents of the town of Kiowa had reactions including disappointment, anger and fear when Colorado Senate Bill 21-116 was signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis in June 2021. The law imposed a broad ban on Native mascots, with the prospect of $25,000 monthly fines for schools that did not comply by June 1 of this year. In the first few months after Polis signed SB21-116, the then-superintendent of Elbert County School District C-2 (Kiowa Schools), Silvia McNeely, released several statements indicating that Kiowa Schools would work to comply with the new bill.
Travis Hargreaves, who had been serving as principal of Kiowa Schools since summer 2021, is taking over the role of district superintendent after the resignation of Silvia McNeely, who served as superintendent for 10 months. Hargreaves was appointed as interim superintendent in a 5-0 vote at the Kiowa Hargreaves School Board’s May 10 meeting, where the board also voted to accept McNeely’s April 30 resignation. The motion to accept McNeely’s resignation passed 4-1, with Board Member Stephanie Buker opposed. McNeely Hargreaves will assume the role of superintendent this month. Per regulations, the board on May 10 opened the superintendent position for 14 days, though members already had Hargreaves in mind as the desired candidate.
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Keeping Indians mascot was struggle Kiowa School District now puts priority on curriculum, Native programs BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
When the Kiowa School District succeeded in keeping its Indians mascot last month, it marked the end of the district’s lengthy effort to be exempted from a state law that generally bans Native American mascots, with Kiowa being the only Colorado district that has been removed from a non-compli-
ance list while keeping its mascot. Only two other schools in Colorado — Arapahoe High School with its Warriors mascot and Strasburg High School with its Indians mascot — are approved to retain Native American mascots, and both Arapahoe and Strasburg were never included in the mascotban law and were never on the noncompliance list. People involved in the ultimately successful effort to keep the Kiowa Indians mascot shared their accounts of the process with the Elbert County News. Initial plans to comply Like some other locations around Colorado that had Native mascots, the Kiowa School District
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“We’re pretty late in the game for (hiring) a superintendent,” said School Board President Donnie Gabehart. “I think Mr. Hargreaves is the obvious choice in my opinion.” At the meeting, Hargreaves said he understood there would be a learning curve given the time constraints, but that he is confident in his abilities. “I feel we can do this. We’re already in May and we’re now doing salaries and the budget. We clearly have some catch-up to do here,” said Hargreaves. “We have nine months of work to do in two weeks. I feel confident that whatever we don’t have done, we can get done before we get to fall.” Board members asked how they could help Hargreaves. He indicated that he’d like their support and needs them to listen to and support the staff as best they can. “I think just listening. That’s going to be the big one. We need to keep our staff first,” Hargreaves
‘We have nine months of work to do in two weeks. I feel confident that whatever we don’t have done, we can get done before we get to fall.’ Travis Hargreaves, incoming Kiowa Schools superintendent
said. “That’s how I’m going to need to be supported. That’s my specialty, the teaching and the kids.” Once he become superintendent, Hargreaves hopes to hire Mark Bender, current athletic director at Denver Academy, as athletic director/ assistant principal and to make Vaden Holmes, the current Kiowa Schools counselor, the new principal. “I’m excited and honored and nervous,
but that’s a good thing,” Hargreaves told the board. “There will be mistakes made, but I feel like I’ve got the trust of you guys.” McNeely had been superintendent since July 1, 2021, and served during a tumultuous time. Just three days before she took her position, Gov. Jared Polis signed Colorado’s law generally banning Native American mascots, and on July 21, McNeely released a statement explaining
a tentative plan if the district needed to comply with the law by removing Kiowa Schools’ Indians mascot. In December, in an interview with the Elbert County News about replacing the aging Kiowa Schools sign that faces Highway 86, McNeely noted that the plan would include a departure from the Indians mascot. The school board changed its approach to the mascot issue that same month, when three
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new members joined the board determined to fight to keep the mascot. In the process of the district’s dealings with the ruling body — the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs — McNeely did not take part in a March 10 meeting where the CCIA meeting considered a letter from the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma endorsing Kiowa Schools’ continued use of the Indians mascot, and by April the drive to keep the mascot was in the hands of the school board, which succeeded on May 19. Also during spring of this year, McNeely’s presentation of a proposed 2022-2023 budget did not occur until April 19, leading the school district to scramble to meet publication and adoption deadlines for the budget, which must be adopted by the end of June. The district has now contracted with an outside vendor to get the budget across the finish line on time. The Elbert County News attempted to contact McNeely by text, phone and Facebook Messenger, but had not received a reply by press time.
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A Kiowa Schools yearbook shows different images of the Indians mascot from over the years, including the image at top left that has been used since the mid-1980s, following the change from an inaccurate full-feather headdress that was not part of Kiowa Tribe PHOTO COURTESY OF DANIELLE ULLOM tradition.
Kiowa High School’s sign has Native imagery.
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“The District Leadership Team will be working with Accountability Committee in developing a plan of action over the possible changes. We will be reaching out to all stakeholders (students, parents, community members, and staff) for possible ideas for a new mascot and motto,” said McNeely in a July 21, 2021 news release. “With that being said we are asking everyone to participate and become a positive contributor to this new transition.” In early December, Kiowa Schools began to raise money for a new district sign along Highway 86. Though the old sign was due for replacement due to significant wear, plans called for the new sign to be free of any Native American imagery, in compliance with SB21-116. In an email to the Elbert County News from McNeely on Dec. 16, she indicated that there was a plan in place to cosmetically cover up Native American images and wording until it was determined which mascot best expressed the traditions and culture of the Kiowa community. She also mentioned that the Elbert County School District C-2 Board would begin to discuss how to proceed with the transition on Jan. 10, 2022. Change in tone Later in December, however, there was a drastic shift from a mentality of compliance to a mentality of battling to the bitter end to keep the Indians as the Kiowa Schools mascot. The Kiowa School Board saw three new members take office — Beverly Durant, Donnie Gabehart and Danielle Ullom — all of whom were passionate about keeping the Kiowa Indians mascot. Ullom, a longtime resident of Kiowa, made it her
mission to work with the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma in hopes of obtaining their approval to keep the mascot, which was key to gaining an exemption from the mascot-ban law. Two hours prior to the Jan. 25 school board meeting where a vote on starting the removal of Indians imagery was to take place, Ullom received word from the Kiowa Tribe stating that the district’s imagery did not depict Native Americans in a negative manner and that the Kiowa Tribe would support the district in the battle to keep the Indians mascot. Following this news, the school board looked into the SB21-116 in depth, determining what information they needed to obtain from the Kiowa Tribe. The board worked with the Kiowa Tribe’s attorney and its elders to meet the law’s requirements. In 2005, the Kiowa Tribe had issued a letter granting Kiowa Schools permission to use the Indians name and imagery, but the letter was no longer available. The Kiowa Tribe sent a new letter approving the mascot on Feb. 16, which was considered at the March 10 meeting of the agency Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, the entity empowered to approve or deny any request to keep a Native mascot. After the March 10 meeting, with Kiowa Schools remaining on the non-compliance list, CCIA Executive Director Kathryn Redhorse said the school district needed a more formal agreement with Kiowa Tribe. A March 27 memorandum of understanding was signed by both the Kiowa Tribe and the Kiowa School Board, and after presenting plans for curriculum changes to include Native American history, Kiowa Schools succeeded in its request to keep its Indians mascot at a May 19 CCIA meeting. Colorado Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera and all but one of the CCIA commissioners
voted in favor of Kiowa’s request. Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Chairman Manuel Heart abstained.
Challenges along route A The Colorado Commission r of Indian Affairs has faced s criticism for its perceived lack of organization regard- h ing SB21-116. A day before w the May 19 meeting where t Kiowa’s mascot request was h c approved, The Colorado Sun reported that there is A currently no agency empow- t g ered to collect the $25,000 monthly fines from noncompliant school districts. K a Democratic state Rep. Barbara McLachlan of Du- D rango, one of the bill’s spon- “ sors, told The Colorado Sun, w H “I think we were kind of hoping we wouldn’t collect b any money — that it would w t be a big enough threat to just change the mascot or s cover it up.” Ullom, the Kiowa School “ Board member at the fore- s front of the mascot battle, b said in a May 31 email with s the Elbert County News that o the school board had several e challenges when working A h with the CCIA. “There was really no guid- t S ance or feedback,” Ullom l wrote. “They would hold special meetings where you o m could ask questions, but they wouldn’t give you an i answer. “We had no idea K on their fourth quarter meeting if they were going N to take us off the noncompliance list or not, we had no indication either way. I submitted documents multiple times to make sure the commission received them. Requirements should have been clear at the very beginning. They must also stay within the law and not overreach.” New curriculum As part of their now-successful effort, Kiowa Schools and the school board are committed to creating stronger connections with the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and integrating Native SEE MASCOT, P5
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American history as required curriculum for elementary and high school students. Third-grade teacher Karen Carnahan developed the curriculum that will be implemented in the elementary school. Sarah Malerich, the high school social studies teacher, created a new curriculum for Native American history that will begin this fall as a required course for graduation. “Both Sarah and Karen are Kiowa alumni who are passionate about remaining the Indians,” said Danielle Ullom in a May 31 email. “Karen also attended the meetings with me via Zoom at the school. Had I not had her to count on and bounce ideas off, I don’t think we would’ve been successful in keeping the mascot.” Carnahan elaborated on her vision for the elementary curriculum. “I have the opportunity to lay a surface foundation that can then be built upon at the middle and high school level,” she wrote. “For many of my students, this is their first exposure to the true story of Native Americans, beyond what they may have seen on TV or in a movie. As a third generation graduate of Kiowa Schools and fifth generation of a local ranching family, the history of our country is so important to me and the Kiowa Indians are an integral part of that history.” For the advanced curriculum, Kiowa High School will require a Native American history course in
its curriculum. Students can take the course in either fall or spring. It will consist of a survey of Native American history from preEuropean contact to the present, highlighting the processes by which Europeans and Euro-Americans dispossessed the various Native American nations and tribes of their land and identities. According to the course syllabus, “The dynamics of contact, conquest, interrelationship, accommodation, assimilation, and resistance will be examined from Native and non-Native perspectives (though far greater weight is given to the former). How Indians have preserved their identities and cultures is also central to the course, as well as major contributions of Native Americans in American history; Native American history is American history. A particular focus will be given to the study of the Native American Tribes of Colorado.” In addition to new curriculum, the Kiowa School District plans to implement cultural programs and hold regular events with visiting members of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma to further students’ Native American education. According to Ullom, after the May 19 CCIA meeting, the school board reached out to CCIA board member Lucille Echohawk, who is part of the Pawnee Nation, another Central Plains Tribe. “We have invited them to our district,” said Ullom. “We hope to have a lasting relationship with them as well.” Growing sense of pride After prevailing in the struggle to keep the Indians mascot, many
in the Kiowa community have felt a renewed sense of school and community pride. Kiowa is a small town with a close-knit group of people, most of whom went to Kiowa Schools for the entirety of their education. Kiowa Schools have had the Indians mascot for 101 years and its imagery appears throughout the town. At businesses, the local library and outside of people’s homes, depictions of the Kiowa Indians mascot are on display. “I think Kiowa Schools and the community have an abundance of Indian pride,” said Ullom. “We have been the Indians for 101 years and are still Indian Strong!” Kiowa native and Town of Kiowa Board of Trustees Member Trevor Smith offered his thoughts on the mascot outcome in a phone interview from May 31. “We were always Kiowa Indians. That’s a part of our identity,” said Smith. “For those of us who are alumni, who have children in the school, it’s a renewed spark of pride. It made us take notice of things and learn not to take them for granted.” Smith also shared that his 6-year-
The Kiowa Schools feature Native American imagery in keeping with the district’s Indians mascot. PHOTO BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON
old son Hilton had been upset about the possibility of losing the mascot. “My son came home to me one day and said, `I learned today that I might not be an Indian anymore,’” said Smith. “He was really upset. Going through that year was tough because of all the uncertainty. It was a relief when we got to keep the mascot.” The Elbert County News attempted to reach Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma Chairman Matthew Komalty for comment, but due to a recent spike in COVID-19 among the tribe, administrators are out of the office.
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Elizabeth Schools employees to get pay boost All district staff members will see raises as positions become hard to fill STAFF REPORT
The Elizabeth School Board last month boosted pay for all district employees based on a confluence of factors, an announcement from the Elizabeth School District states. According to a news release, licensed educators’ annual salaries for the 20222023 school year are set to rise by an average of 6.97%, including increases for experience. The base pay for teachers under the new schedule will be $37,502, up from $30,000 in 2018. Classified staff — which includes bus drivers, maintenance employees, custodial staff and office managers — will receive an average 7.83% increase. Paraprofessionals’ pay was increased an average of 10% as those positions are “incredibly hard to fill,” according to Superintendent Douglas Bissonette. Extraduty pay for coaches was
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raised 12%, and administrators received a 5% increase. At the May 23 school board meeting, Bissonette said the district is seeing an unusually low number of candidates applying for positions to teach next school year — a concern for school districts statewide. He noted that the board’s 5-0 approval of pay schedules in the May 9 meeting helps with
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in Elizabeth schools, which brings in additional funding based on the number of students being served. • The state legislature’s approval of increased per pupil funding in the School Finance Act. • A significant decrease in the Budget Stabilization Factor, which results in increased funding for school districts.
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Teacher evaluations to change Standardized test scores will have smaller role BY ERICA MELTZE CHALKBEAT
Teacher evaluation is getting an update in Colorado, more than a decade after the state last overhauled its system. Starting with the 2023-24 school year, students’ standardized test scores will play a smaller role in teachers’ ratings, rubrics will be more specialized to reflect different jobs, and teachers with consistently high scores will face less scrutiny. If it works as supporters hope, the system will focus more on helping teachers grow and improve. That contrasts with the current system, which many educators perceive as punitive, and which hasn’t improved student achievement much — at least as measured by test scores. With the updated evaluation
system in Senate Bill 70, signed last week, Colorado joins a growing list of states moving away from practices the Obama administration hoped would improve schools. The previous law, known as Senate Bill 191, called for teachers’ job performance to be measured half by student academic growth and half by classroom observation of professional practices such as showing a strong understanding of the content and delivering effective instruction. Districts could use various academic data to show student growth, but at least 1% of every teacher’s evaluation had to be linked to standardized test scores. Often it was much higher than that. Teachers particularly resented the use of collective measures, in which an art teacher might be rated based on how students at her school or in her district did on reading and math tests. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Colorado. More at chalkbeat.org.
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Some Congress candidates don’t live in districts At least three hopefuls in Colorado primaries reside in other places BY SANDRA FISH AND JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN
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rado about two years ago. “I understand that some politicians have been planning to run for Congress since grade school and base every decision from where they buy a house, to what football team they root for on how it will help their ambitions, but that’s not me,” Allcorn said in a statement. It’s not a political death sentence to live outside a district you’re running to represent. U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, D-Centennial, lived in Denver, in the 1st Congressional District, when he successfully launched his bid to represent the 6th Congressional District based in Aurora. Former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez, a Republican, lived in Boulder County, in the 2nd Congressional District, when he launched his bid to represent the 7th District. Party affiliation is new for some Some candidates may be new to their districts; others are new to their political party. Here are a few who recently became Democrats or Republicans: • Erik Aadland, an Army veteran, was an unaffiliated voter until registering as a Republican in March 2021, a few months before he joined Colorado’s U.S. Senate race. He later switched to the 7th Congressional District contest. • Rebecca Keltie, a Navy veteran running in the 5th District, belonged to the Unity Party before becoming a Republican on the last day of 2020. • Heaton switched his registration to Republican from Libertarian in December and then announced his congressional candidacy in February. He was a Republican until switching to the Libertarian party in 2008. • Adam Frisch, a former Aspen City Council member running in the 3rd District, registered as a Democrat in December after being an unaffiliated voter. He jumped into the race in February.
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ver the last few months I had the pleasure of working with some graduating seniors at Castle View High School. In working with interns, I have never believed in the concept that they will learn by watching me work. Instead, I pushed forth an idea I had but never brought to fruition as a journalist. That idea being how much pressure is put on high FROM THE school and college students today. EDITOR The answer is a lot. I worked with these young ladies to produce the “Need to Succeed” series. They wrote personal essays about their own battles and I am going to use this space this week for me. They are classified as Generation Z. I am Generation X with Millennials sitting between us. That group of Millennials between us is a huge Thelma Grimes change. When I was in high school, my parents were adamant that I would get a diploma. They did not necessarily push the need to go to college. In fact, they were supportive but not overly excited. My high school days were stressful in that I wanted to get good grades, be active in my school and work for the local newspaper to write sports. I can’t say I was overwhelmed. I had a blast in high school. To this day, I still treasure my time at my small-town high school. I formed lifelong friendships with teachers, my friends and the community. Fast forward to the present, with me being a parent of a teenager and two young boys while doing this project on the stress placed on kids to succeed today. What I learned is that I do need to change. Interviewing therapists and experts in child behavior, I realized I rarely show my children that I make mistakes and have failed in life. In put strict guidelines on behavior and grades. I even want them to be successful at everything they try. In the end, what I learned in doing this project with these interns is that my children need to be happy and well adjusted. They need to gravitate towards their passions and if it is not necessarily what I had in mind for them — that is OK. I do not want to have my children crying in dark corners, hosting a slew of anxiety that they cannot get rid of. Do I want them to go to college? Well, society says I have to be that parent. After all, how can my children be successful adults if they do not go to college? Well, the bottom line is if they join the military — I will support it. If they choose to try out a trade school — I will support it. If they go to community college — I will clap and say “so did I.” I have to thank Dr. Ron-Li Liaw of Children’s Hospital Colorado for the frank way in which she explained how parents and society are hurting our children’s mental health. Her exact quote that got my attention was, “Childhood is a gift, and we are spoiling it with expectations.” Over the last few months, because of her and the students I worked with, I have started changing some of my parenting styles. While I still have standards, I truly work now to make sure my children enjoy their childhood. Thelma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media
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nterest rates going up, inflation on the rise, and empty shelves where baby formula used to sit. Wars raging in Ukraine and other parts of the world. A resurgence of COVID, although WINNING mostly mild symptoms, is still making its rounds, with WORDS some becoming severely ill. Gasoline prices out of control. Employees hard to find. Midterm elections, a leaked opinion about a possible overturning of Roe v. Wade, battles over school curriculums, make this is the perfect time to choose fear Michael Norton and scarcity over hope and abundance. Or does it? You see, it’s not only asking if the glass is half full or half empty, but also more like asking if the ocean is half full or half empty. Any one of the events mentioned above is enough to push us over the edge. Imagine trying to understand and cope with all of them at the same time, while also dealing with all of life’s other challenges and difficult seasons of life, sickness, divorce, losing a loved one, loss of a job, and other things that happen to us that are mostly out of our control. If ever we were going to buy into fear and scarcity, the time is now. Or is it? I was told a long time ago that hope and fear are the same thing, either word is a belief that something will happen in the future. Some will choose to pick fear, stressing and
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worrying about that bad thing that is coming next. Others will choose hope, believing that whatever is headed our way will be a good thing, maybe even a great thing. Those who i choose fear will think with a scarcity mindset, t but those of us with hope will still see the op- t portunity for abundance. And when I speak of a abundance I am not speaking of money, profitsr or things. No, I am speaking of an abundance s of faith, hope and love. I am speaking about an abundance of people being kind, good, gentle s t and compassionate. u When we live with the fear and scarcity t mindset it is easy to let go of the goodness and kindness, and the other traits mentioned f w above that we can still find in abundance if a we look for them. And when we live with in fear and scarcity it starts us down a slope that l leads to selfishness, resentment, anger, isolation, envy and dread. The reality is that there are some very serious and frightening things happening in our world. If you are like me and have children and grandchildren, you may be thinking about this through the lens of a parent or grandparent with your thoughts centered on their future, and what happens if we can’t solve some of these things now or in the relatively near future. For every situation, conflict, or problem mentioned above, there are thought leaders working on resolutions. We may not appreciate what they are doing, or who is leading the charge, or which side of the aisle they may be on, but I firmly believe there are enough good people with great
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Widening your world: low vision resources LIVING AND AGING WELL
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hanges in vision are more common as we age, and many people feel like their world gets smaller. This shrinking feeling can be joined by anxiety, frustration, worry and even embarrassment. Instead of leaning on family and friends, many pull away and withdraw — which adds to the sensation of a shrinking world. This can lead to loneliness, isolation, even a loss of agency. But, vision loss is not the end. It’s a transition. With support and training the world can grow again — even if the underlying cause of the vision issue cannot be reversed. The idea of “treatment” might sound so formal — maybe even disconnected and clinical. But support can offer chances to connect with another human who is living the same experiences. It can offer chances to talk to an expert who can help offer ways to keep doing the things that make life exciting. Support can come from a service that reconnects people with the world around them, with a licensed professional, or with a group that gets together to talk about common concerns and frustrations. Knowing you are not alone can be the key to moving forward. There are many organizations offering help:
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intentions trying to do their very best to restore things to order so that solutions and agreements can be made and that there will be a better tomorrow for everyone, regardless of which side we are on. How can we move from fear and scarcity to hope and abundance? I think that will be different for all of us. I can only share what I believe to be true and where my family and friends draw their encouragement when it comes to living with hope and abundance. We use words of love, hope, and encouragement with
Audio Information Network of Colorado (aincolorado.org) AINC offers on-demand podcasts and broadcasts for the blind. That is, AINC offers a 24/7 streaming service that can be listened to, plus shows that can be listened to on demand. Content includes local newspapers, podcasts about life with vision loss, Reader’s Digest, and many, many others. AINC services empower individuals to be self-sufficient, connected to community, and continuously learning. Content also includes podcasts that amplify the voices of people with print barriers. Ensight Skills Center (ensightskills.org) Ensight Skills Center and Curtis Strong Center are low vision specialists providing accredited, professional low-vision services to enhance the lives of people struggling with vision loss. They provide what is needed to live independently with low vision. Ensight offers: • Assessment of remaining vision • Occupational therapy and skills training • Education and support • Orientation and mobility instruction
one another. We text or call each day with a message of love. We go to church, we read our Bible, and we pray. Zig Ziglar used to say this, “Each day I read the newspaper and my Bible, this way I know what both sides are up to.” Which is it for you, fear and scarcity or hope and abundance? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ xinnix.com, and when we can go out in the spirit of hope and abundance, it really will be a better than good year. Michael Norton is the grateful president of XINNIX, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.
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Dennis Richard Gesin
August 21, 1947 - October 11, 2020
Dennis Richard Gesin, 73, of Elizabeth, Colorado, passed away from a heart attack on October 11, 2020 in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dennis, son of Jack Gesin and Zelma Denison Gesin, was born in Pennsylvania on August 21, 1947. He grew up with his siblings Trudi and Michael in Tennessee, Texas, Germany, and California. He loved playing baseball and was proud of his time as the shortstop on a traveling Little League team in Germany as a teenager. Dennis graduated from the University of California - Berkeley in 1969. Afterward, he moved to Elizabeth, Colorado to help his parents expand a small grocery store. He met Maureen Mulligan at the nextdoor diner where she was a waitress. They married in 1972. He finished his MBA at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona and they moved to San Jose, California where he went to work for Metropolitan Life as an insurance salesman. In 1980, he moved his growing family back to Elizabeth where he would live for the next 30 years. With the support of his family and many beloved employees, he built Gesin’s Market into a community resource that provided food, jobs, and community space for the growing town of Elizabeth. The grocery store provided many town services including a laundromat and a gas station. He added Smokey Jack’s BBQ restaurant to diversify the business when chain grocery stores moved
into town. His happiest years were working together with the staff and the community to support local events such as the Stampede, Folk Festival, many youth sports teams, and the (sometimes wild) contests held at the grocery store. He retired from business in 2008 and took care of his parents in their later years. In 2011, he purchased an RV and a truck and decided to travel while working at campgrounds. He spent the next decade living on the road and visiting friends and family. Through this, he explored Texas, Arizona, Yellowstone National Park (where he was paid to chase bears in a golf cart), and then settled in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dennis Gesin is preceded in death by his parents Jack and Zelma Gesin. He is survived by his ex-wife Maureen Mulligan and sons Jay (Erica) and Derek (Brittany), grandchildren Will, Finn, Cole, and Alayna; brother Michael (Mary), sister Trudi, nephew Brian (Kashia), nieces Sherry and Katie, grandnephew Kai and grandnieces Zelle and Anna. The family will hold a Celebration of Life on Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 between the hours of 4 and 7pm at the Elizabeth Brewing Company in Elizabeth, CO. In lieu of flowers, people are encouraged to make a donation to the Elizabeth Parks and Recreation department or another Elbert County charity.
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Freshly baked trays of chocolate Ducasse cakes await customers at Poulette Bakeshop in Parker.
Boxes of extra large macarons can be preordered on Poulette Bakeshop’s website. PHOTOS COURTESY OF POULETTE BAKESHOP
Carolyn Nugent and Alen Ramos stand in front of Quince, one of several Michelinstarred restaurants that the couple worked at before moving to Colorado.
Bakery is sweet addition to Parker Poulette Bakeshop owners bring international touch to Colorado customers BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
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The shop, which opened seven months ago in south Parker, only has two ovens, one mixer, a walk-in cooler and a machine for folding and rolling dough. Poulette Bakeshop’s early success arises not from the bells and whistles in its kitchen but from the hard work and worldclass experience of its owners. “The training that we’ve had makes us able to do more with less,” Nugent said. She and her husband learned to make confections and bread from “best chefs in the world.” The pair worked at half a dozen three-star-Michelin restaurants from San Francisco to Bray, England and Roses, Spain. Then, after being furloughed from their jobs in Chicago at the start of the pandemic, they moved with their young son to Colorado and eventually settled in Parker.
“It’s funny how life leads you on these different paths and you never quite expect to be where you are,” Nugent said. “But it’s been amazing here in Parker.” Although Poulette Bakshop is humming with activity 15 hours a day, six days a week, the shop is just open to the public Wednesdays through Saturdays in the morning. “It’s basically a European-style boulangerie patisserie,” Nugent said. “First come first serve.” Poulette closes at noon or earlier if they sell out. And everything — from the pastry cream in their Black Forest choux puffs to the jam in the pistachio-berry macarons — is made in-house. Seeing a less-than-full display case as midday approaches can be frustrating for guests, but leftover items go to waste and that’s not good for a small business, Nugent said. She encourages people that want something specific to come early. In addition, folks that like to
plan ahead can preorder a limited selection of desserts and pastry packs through the store’s website, although these, too, often sell out. When Poulette first opened, 100% of its sales were from preorders but the bakery quickly began to carry more and more items for in-store selection, Nugent said. Now walkup purchases make up about 80% of their sales. The bakers note what sells well and then increase production in response. In that way, the community has told Poulette what items to make and how much, Nugent said. Being a positive part of the community is actually one of the ways Nugent’s defines business success. After years honing their craft around the globe, the chef said she, Ramos and their son are looking to put down roots and build “a solid and happy life.” While it’s only been several months, Nugent’s pleased to be greeting customers by name and
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learning about their families’ culinary preferences and milestone moments. “We enjoy being able to know our clientele,” Nugent said, “you know, just like it would be in an old European village.”
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Families come in many shapes, sizes Highlands Ranch author bases story in part on her own experience BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
“Any Other Family” by Highlands Ranch author Eleanor Brown will be pubCOURTESY PHOTO lished this summer.
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A letter from Highlands Ranch author Eleanor Brown is enclosed in the review copy of her latest novel, “Any Other Family.” The book will be on sale in early July and is partly based on her own experience. It will be a good one to tuck in a suitcase if travel is scheduled “Four years ago, my OB/GYN called late at night. `I had a patient in for her annual exam,’ she said, `but it turns out she’s six months pregnant. She’s making a plan for adoption, and you were the first people I thought of. Do you want a baby?’” They did indeed, went for subsequent prenatal appointments and were present when he was born. It was an open adoption, where the birth family and the adoptive family stay in touch. Brown realized how little people know about open adoption and that led her to do what she knows how to do: write a book about it-- including a really unusual family formed by three couples and a single mother who adopted siblings born to a particular couple who would be together for a while, then drift apart — placing four resulting children for adoption over the course of the book. The families stay in touch with the birth mother and she visits
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with them at times. (Extensive sociological analysis about why these birth parents behave as they do is left for another book.) In Brown’s story, these adoptive parents hope to keep the children connected as they grow up, planning frequent contacts between them, which of course means frequent contact among the parental characters — and expected difficult interactions at times. The three couples and the single mom bring a variety of personalities into the story and as the children begin to walk, talk and attend school, likenesses and differences among them appear. This book spells out a different way to manage adoptions than the traditional situations where there is no contact nor information for a child as he grows and begins to wonder. Brown is skilled at creating characters and expressing a wide range of reactions and feelings as her story progresses. And every so often there is a shaded page describing an unnamed character with a particular experience or idea who resembles one of these parents. Not a device I’d seen before, but it works in this book to fill out why and how the parental characters interact and respond to the kids and to each other, backtracking into the formative years of the principals to varying degrees. The children in question range from a baby to an almost-teen and Brown doesn’t moralize about the birth parents, but just tells a compelling tale SEE AUTHOR, P15
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• Mike O’Donnell, who is running to win the GOP nomination for secretary of state, switched from Republican to unaffiliated in 2019 and then back to Republican in November. Mail ballots in wide use Colorado’s vote-by-mail system is criticized by some Republican candidates this year, including Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is running for secretary of state, and state Rep. Ron Hanks, who is running for U.S. Senate. Hanks voted using mail bal-
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lots (i.e., not in person) in general and primary elections from 2014 through 2020. Voting information for Peters is confidential, which voters may request if they fear for their safety because of domestic violence, stalking or other reasons. The Peters campaign did not return emails asking her to release the records. In fact, the only candidates who voted in person recently were Heaton and Laurel Imer, one of three Republican candidates in the 7th Congressional District. Heaton and Imer both voted in person in 2020. But Imer, who has cast doubt on the results of the 2020 presidential election, voted using mail ballots from 2008 through 2018.
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Voting information for state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, who is running in the 8th District, is also confidential. But Kirkmeyer asked the Secretary of State’s Office to make her voting history available to The Sun. It shows she’s voted consistently since 1988. Most candidates running this year have regularly voted in recent primary and general elections in Colorado. Here are a few exceptions: • Allcorn and Keltie only voted in Colorado’ 2020 general election in 2020 • Walker voted in the 2018 general election and the 2020 presidential primary election, but not the 2018 primary election and or the 2020 general election • Michael Colombe, a Colorado
Springs Democrat running against Torres in the 5th Congressional District, voted in the 2016 general election and then didn’t vote again until November 2021 • Aadland voted in general elections from 2016 through 2020, but didn’t vote in any primary contests in those election years Residents can register to vote in the June 28 primary election at govotecolorado.com. 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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Plan calls for houses, condos, apartments BY ANDREW KENNEY COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO
Colorado is putting $150 million into a new housing program that is expected to support the creation of thousands of new houses, apartments and condos. Under a bill signed by the governor, the money will be loaned out at lowinterest rates to local governments, nonprofits and developers. They’ll combine it with other sources of money to build housing at a manageable price point for people working in the area. They’ll then repay the debt into the “revolving” fund, allowing it to be loaned out once again. “This is a key issue going forward: Colorado’s a great place to live, but we need to reduce housing costs,” Polis said in an interview. “A combination of property tax relief, new tax credits, transformational investments in housing that are then leveraged with private sector investments will substantially increase the inventory and supply of houses in Colorado and help reduce prices.” State analysts expect the program could support 16,000 new units over a decade, said Democratic state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, a sponsor. And it represents just a smaller part of nearly $650 million in housing spending authorized by the legislature this year, plus changes that could bring in more money in the future. Polis signed the bill at
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part because the state’s budget is flush from rising tax revenue and Colorado has received billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief. But the new spending can’t close the vast gap in Colorado’s housing needs, estimated at 325,000 new homes over the next few years. Some housing advocates want lawmakers to go beyond simply funding new programs to make big policy changes; they’d like to see the state loosen local development restrictions to encourage more building. State lawmakers have been hesitant to override local leaders, who have historically set the rules for development. But they have tiptoed into the ques-
the edge of a vacant lot in Arvada. The parcel, not far from busy 80th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard, is the future site of an affordable housing project. The project is a collaboration of the city of Arvada and the nonprofit BeyondHome. House Minority Leader Hugh McKean, a Republican, said he supported the bill because it opens the door for more private development of housing. “If you can incentivize private capital, then you get what you want and you benefit a company to come and invest in our state. That’s the best possible solution,” he said. The new money comes from the state’s general fund. It’s possible in large
tion of land use by offering financial incentives for cities that embrace denser construction. Gov. Polis also signaled his support for a failed proposal that would have banned cities from enacting growth limits. Asked at the bill signing if he was interested in exerting more influence over local zoning codes, perhaps by using incentives, Polis responded with a single word: “Yes.” More housing and homelessness legislation Other significant housing bills passed in 2022 include: • HB22-1304 to provide $178 million in grants to governments and nonprofits to help build affordable
housing and infrastructure. Local governments that use “sustainable land use best practices,” including by encouraging density, will get dibs on some of the money. • HB22-1366 to provide $105 million in grants for local governments and nonprofits to provide services and housing for people experiencing homelessness. • HB22-1378 to provide $50 million of federal funds for the creation of a regional campus for homelessness services in the Denver metro. It may eventually include emergency shelter, housing, medical and other care and more. • SB22-211 to provide SEE HOUSING, P17
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$45 million to repurpose the Ridge View Campus in Watkins, a former residential facility for troubled youth shut down by the state, to provide temporary housing and other homelessness services. • HB22-1282 to provide $40 million in grants and loans for businesses that develop “new types of innovative housing,” including prefabricated housing factories. • SB22-160 to provide $35 million in loans and grants to help mobile-home owners purchase the parks where they live. • SB22-146 to provide $25 million to expand the state’s existing program to support construction of middle-income housing. • SB22-231 to provide $5.6 million for supportive housing services for people with mental or behavioral health issues. • SB22-232 to create a $1 million pilot program for a new authority to help build middle-income housing. The legislature also approved changes to tax credits to help housing projects, an approach that
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• Single Day Unlimited Rides $35 SAVE MONEY, while supplies last. Discounted online purchases only through 12 noon on June 9th. • Single-Day Unlimited Rides $40 Purchase price at the Festival. • MEGA 3-Day Unlimited Rides $70 BEST VALUE, while supplies last. Only available online through 12 noon on June 9th. • All rides 3-6 tickets, if purchased individually at the Festival. • Amazing Rides! Giant Ferris Wheel, Freakout, Himalaya, Fireball, Sizzler, Orbiter, Cliff Hanger, Kamikaze, Pharaoh’s Fury, Starship, Super Shot, Tornado, Wacky Worm, Yo-Yo, Jungle Twist, and Vertigo. • Rides For Kids! Airplanes, Beach Party, Bumble Bees, Bumper Cars, Giant Carousel, Charlie Chopper, Dragon Wagon, Elephants, Going Bananas, Jeeps, Mardi Gras, Mini Boat/Pirates, Mini Drop Tower, Monster Truck, Motorcycles, Pirates’ Island, Super Slides, Tea Time, Tractors, Wet Boats, and VW bugs.