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The 2023 Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo Royalty competition was held on Sept. 10 at Casey Jones Park. It was a blustery, rainy Saturday for the four girls who competed for rodeo queen and attendant.
The competition is extremely rigorous, encompassing a wide range of skills and abilities. The competition is divided into multiple categories for judging. Half of the points awarded to each contestant come from horsemanship. The remaining points are awarded for personal interviews, a history test, a speech competition, modeling and group impromptu questions.
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Even during the rain, Casey Jones Park was alive with excited energy on competition day as the girls, their parents, the judges and the royalty committee were engaged in the day’s events. Three outside judges were brought in to judge the competition to eliminate any bias toward one contestant or another. Scott Candeleria, Kelly Sweigart and Karen Carter were judges for theThisday.year, there were four enthusiastic girls trying out for either queen or attendant. The competitors included Kyra Doud of Parker, Isabelle Piche of Castle Pines, Madeline Williams of Elizabeth and Madison Montoya of Elizabeth.
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The competition began with the horsemanship tack up where judges went around the damp lot to score the contestants, observing how they interact with their horses, their grooming practice, and how they handle the overall tacking-up process. The girls shared information
For years, some Elizabeth locals have expressed their desires for a senior center, arguing that there are no facilities available for the aging population of Elbert County.
Recently Elizabeth officials have been working with the University of Colorado Denver to gauge the need for and interest in a senior center for the people of Elizabeth and surrounding parts of Elbert County. They have released a survey to gather Accordingdata.to the survey website, the primary users for this project would be Elizabeth residents over the age of 50. However, it has the potential to engage various age groups. Unlike a residential facility, this project would be used by a variety of community members.
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Attendant-in-Waiting Isabelle Piche gives her speech at the 2023 Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo Royalty competition on Sept. 10 at Casey Jones Park.
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So she went looking for a different method, and she found it in a massive dataset on the lives of twins born in Colorado or Minnesota.
A twin living in a legal state, on average, reports using marijuana more frequently than their co-twin living in a state where recreational marijuana use is illegal, according to the Zellersstudy.said the difference is about 20% — which amounts to consuming cannabis on five more days per every six months. Twins living in states where recreational cannabis use is illegal, on average, consumed on 13 days in the previous six months, while twins living in legal states consumed on 18 days. (Zellers said she and her coauthors weighted the data for age and other factors to standardize it, which is why the difference between those numbers isn’t exactly 20%.)
For one, these are self-reported statistics. So it’s possible that twins living in states where marijuana use is illegal were less likely to report their true levels of use.
The data are longitudinal, meaning they follow the same people over long periods of time. And twins make for intriguing research subjects because they are not only genetically similar but they also generally grow up in the same household, meaning they typically share the same socioeconomic background, education experience and other social factors.
Zellers said that is the subject of a follow-up study that she hopes will be published by the end of the year.
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did and happening to be legal in one state and not in the other,” Zellers said in a video interview from Finland, where she is conducting postdoctoral research on tobacco use.
So, the results?
Lastly,said.the study doesn’t explore potential consequences to the apparent increase in cannabis use. Did people suffer worse health problems? Did they cut back on their use of alcohol or other substances?
The study’s finding is in line with those from a large-scale state report released last year, which found that cannabis use has increased among adults in Colorado since legalization. (The trends around youth use are more muddled, but there is ultimately no conclusive evidence that legalization caused more kids to use cannabis.)Thenovel approach of the research, though, provides it with extra heft, another of the study’s authors said.
A study indicates that legalization is tied to increased marijuana use in Colorado.
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Using the data, Zellers looked at more than 3,400 adult twins born in Colorado and Minnesota and charted where they were living just prior to legalization. Some were still living in the state of their birth, some had moved; some pairs were living in the same state while other pairs had split and were living in separate states. The variability allowed her to effectively create a randomized controlled trial, something normally not possible when you’re talking about government policies.
“This is the first study to confirm that the association between legal cannabis and increased use holds within families in genetically identical individuals,” John Hewitt, a professor in CU’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, said in a statement. “This makes it much more likely that legalization does, in itself, result in increased use.”
The dataset also neatly straddled a dividing line — Colorado voters have legalized marijuana for recreational use, while Minnesota, which is otherwise similar to Colorado in a number of ways, has not.
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Beyond the headline result, there are still a lot of unanswered questions in the new study.
In the decade since Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 legalizing adult use of marijuana in state law, a slew of studies have tried to estimate the They’veimpact.looked broadly and more narrowly, and have concluded — depending on how you might read them — that legalization either did or did not lead to an increase in can-
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“This is about as conclusive as we can say that the policy does cause more use,” Zellers said.
Study sees more pot use after legalization
That helped solve two big problems other studies on legalization have run into. How can you be sure that aggregate changes in marijuana use are the result of individual people changing how they use marijuana and not population changes that occurred post-legalization? And how can you fairly compare the behaviors of two people when they might differ in so many ways?
“It’s pretty rare to have this amount of data on this many people going this far back.”
There’s also the issue of motivation — if this increase is legit, why did it “Wehappen?don’tknow why someone might have changed their use,” Zellers
But a new study, conducted by a former Ph.D. student in Colorado, takes perhaps the most novel approach yet and comes to the conclusion that legalization may, in fact, lead to people using marijuana more frequently.Thestudent, Stephanie Zellers, was studying neuroscience at the University of Colorado before she followed her adviser to finish up her doctorate at the University of Minnesota. She was interested in studying the effects of substance use on the brain, but a lot of studies on the brain work the same way: you have to crack open the craniums of lab animals. That didn’t sit well with Zellers.
The measure, if approved by voters, is forecast to generate about $270
The Community First Foundation and Hunger Free Colorado each contributed $250,000 to the committee, which began September with roughly $600,000 in its bank account.
• Coloradans for Affordable Housing Now, which is supporting Proposition 123 to divert 0.1% of taxable income from the general fund to the state affordable housing fund, raised $880,000 last month. The money came from nonprofits, including Fort Collins-based Bohemian Companies, the Arvada-based Community First Foundation and the Denver-based Caring for Colorado Foundation at $250,000 each.
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Big money backs plan for wine sales, delivery services
Natural Medicine Colorado, which is backing Proposition 122, the measure that would decriminalize and regulate the use of “magic” mushrooms, raised just $15,000 in August and ended the month with about the same amount in the bank.
Grocery Stores raised most of the cash, at roughly $7.5 million. The group is backing Propositions 125 and 126. The measures would, respectively, let grocery stores sell wine and third-party services deliver alcohol.
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election.Coloradans for Liquor Fairness, which is supporting Proposition 124 to let liquor retailers open more locations, received $400,000 last month from Colorado Fine Wines & Spirits, a subsidiary of Total Wine & Spirits, the national chain that, along with its owners, is bankrolling theRightmeasure.now, liquor retailers are allowed to open only three stores in Colorado.Keeping Colorado Local, a group run by independent liquor stores fighting the three ballot measures, has raised a pittance compared to its rivals. The committee raised a little less than $200,000 last month, starting September with about the same amount in its coffers.
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The biggest contributor to the committee was the delivery service Instacart at $2.8 million, bringing its total investment in the group to $3.3 million. Whole Foods gave Wine in Grocery Stores $1.3 million, while Target contributed $1.1 million, Albertsons Safeway gave $1.1 million and Kroger, which owns King Soopers, gave $1 million.
Millions pour into 2022 booze ballot measures
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Path to Zero, which is supporting Proposition 121, a measure that would reduce the state income tax rate to 4.4% from 4.55%, didn’t report any donations or spending for August.
The group had a whopping $8.35 million in the bank to begin September, giving it one of the largest campaign war chests of any group or candidate in Colorado heading into the home stretch before the Nov. 8
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The national Democratic nonprofit Sixteen Thirty Fund accounted for $500,000 of the haul. The Colorado Sun refers to the nonprofit as a darkmoney group because it is a political group that does not have to disclose its donors.
A major influx of money — about $8 million — poured last month into the committees backing ballot initiatives that would let grocery stores sell wine and allow third-party delivery services to transport alcohol, as well as an initiative that would open the door for liquor retailers to open as many locations as they’d like in Colorado.Winein
The committee raised and spent millions earlier this year, much of it from New Approach PAC, a Washington, D.C.-based political nonprofit, to collect enough signatures to make the ballot.
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• Coloradans for Ballot Transparency, which is supporting Proposition GG, a measure referred to the ballot by the legislature, raised $600,000 last month. The measure would require detailed information about how income tax initiatives on the ballot would impact various income brackets to be more prominently displayed to voters.
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• Healthy School Meals for All Colorado Students, which is backing Proposition FF, raised about $525,000 in August. The measure referred to the ballot by the legislature would reduce state income tax deductions for people with income over $300,000 and use the savings to provide free K-12 school meals for all students.
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Followed was the horsemanship competition. The contestants must ride a prescribed path, answer impromptu questions from the judges, ride with a flag and show off their queen’s wave. As each rider gave her queen’s wave and made her way around the stadium on horseback, the crowed of parents cheered.
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“They certainly did not miss a beat competing in the horsemanship with the cold and rain,” said Jill Stuebner, chair of the Elizabeth Stampede Royalty Committee. “Beautiful smiles and attitudes all around.”Following the horsemanship competition, each girl was ushered into a room of the Casey Jones Pavilion one-by-one as they were interviewed by the judges. Each was adorned with Western wear, exemplifying their love for the Western way of life. The girls then took a history test over knowledge of the Elizabeth Stampede and rodeo culture.
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After a rigorous day of competition, Doud was named the 2023 Elizabeth Stampede rodeo queen and Piche was named her attendant. This day begins the exciting journey for Doud and Piche as they serve as queen-in-waiting and attendant-in-waiting until the current Thomas sisters, Josie and Hannah, serve the remainder of their 2022 term. Doud and Piche will officially begin their reign on Jan. 1.
“In order to prepare for this competition, I exhibited at Douglas County’s rodeo royalty pageant in July to get some practice. I made note cards with everything from current PRCA events to Elizabeth Stampede knowledge to horse biosecurity,” said Doud. “I rode my horse whenever I had a free day to practice picking up the correct lead, backing up, and mounting and dismounting. I would also quiz my friends and family on the parts of the horse and the parts of the Western saddle.”
Kyra Doud, 2023 Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo queen-in-waiting, shows o her queen’s wave.
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“It was a success! All four ladies did a beautiful job competing. Wish we could have had all of them join our rodeo family,” said Stuebner. “Kyra and Isabelle are going to be outstanding ambassadors for our rodeo.”
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“I am looking forward to everything in 2023. I am especially looking forward to the National Western Stock Show, Cheyenne Frontier Days, and of course, the Elizabeth Stampede itself,” said Doud. “I can’t wait to represent the Elizabeth Stampede, the sport of rodeo, and the world of agriculture in 2023.”You can find more information on the Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo Royalty on their Facebook page at facebook.com/esrqueens.Formoreinformationon the Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo, visit elizabethstampede.com.
You can find the new Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo queen-in-waiting and attendant-in-waiting at the 365 Health Fair at the Elbert County Fairgrounds on Oct. 8 from 8 a.m. to noon. You can also find them at them at several fall festivals around Elizabeth and Kiowa as well as The Patch special events.
Josie and Hannah Thomas, the 2022 Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo queen and attendant, with two girls at the Royalty Clinic on Aug. 13. PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ELIZABETH STAMPEDE RODEO ROYALTY 2022
“Winning the attendant position was a very superior moment for me. It was the feeling of accomplishment that was extremely overwhelming. It was truly the moment I had realized that all the time, tears and hard work had finally paid off,” said Piche. “I don’t think people truly understand the work and what people have to give up to make it far in this sport or to even compete. For me the competition wasn’t about winning, it was about experiencing something new and getting out of my comfort zone and proving to myself that hard work really does pay off.”
“The girls are true ambassadors for the rodeo world,” said Steubner. “They travel over 1,000 miles promoting the Western way of life.”
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for the title of the 2023 queen,” said Doud. “I am super excited and feel honored to be chosen to represent the Elizabeth Stampede for this next year.”
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Prices likely won’t ever come back down to that level, said Moye, who has worked as a Realtor for three decades. But home prices in the metro area and statewide have shown some early signs that they may be breaking the pandemic-era trend of steep increases.
make the mistake of thinking we are headed right back to where we were in 2008, and that’s not true,” Moye said.
Still, Colorado isn’t seeing what some in the industry have termed a “housing recession,” Moye said — and it remains to be seen how the market will look on the other side of typical seasonal changes.
Home prices see short-term drop
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August was the fourth consecutive month of decreases in the median price for single-family homes in the metro area and statewide, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors’ most recent report. The median price was $620,000 in August in the metro area, down from $660,000 in April.
that region has about 6,000 houses on the market, she said in wouldsaid.sustainableingket,halt”Insteadmid-September.ofa“screechinginthehousingmar-Coloradoisexperienc-aslowdowntoamorepace,Moye“Ahousingrecessionmeanmoreinventory
A typical amount of supply for the Front Range — roughly from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs — is 24,000 houses on the market, according to Moye. But
Di erent world than in 2008 Colorado’s housing market is in a “totally different place” than it was during the Great Recession, when the market had too much housing inventory, or supply, and people had loans they couldn’t afford, Moye said.“A lot of times, people
And while the single-family home prices are still up compared to this time last year, the rate of year-overyear growth in prices has slowed for the last several months in the metro area
Kelly Moye bought her first house in the north Denver metro area for $120,000. That was in 1991.
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than demand from buyers, so your supply and demand would be out of whack — it would be out of balance. And prices would be going down, not like the 11% appreciation we’ve seen so far this year, going up” in the long term, Moye added.
andButstatewide.Colorado’s housing situation is still dire: This spring, the measure of housing affordability tracked by the association reached its lowest level since at least 2014 for both metro Denver and the state as a whole. While the market remains in an affordability crisis, the tracker has at least started to turn in the other direction.
The federal government’s move in recent months to raise interest rates — the cost of borrowing money — to combat inflation “almost changed our market overnight,” Moye said.
(A “seller’s market,” as opposed to a buyer’s market, means there is more demand than supply, so homes sell quickly and the seller has more power to set high prices.)
“In just a four-month period, we went from buyers … offering well over the seller’s asking price to having sellers offer them money to help pay down their interest rate payment,” Moye said.
In the long term, housing affordability in Colorado continues to be an issue of staggering proportions. Since the start of 2010 — when the median single-family home price in metro Denver was about $200,000 — the median price has roughly tripled. Statewide, it has tripled as well.“That’s significant — that’s not expected. It is certainly expected over 20 or 30 years for that to happen, but for us, we had so much significant (price) appreciation starting in 2013 through 2022,” Moye said, using a term for price increases.TheRealtor association’s report uses a “housing affordability index,” or a measure of how affordable a region’s housing is to its consumers. The index is based on interest rates, median home price and median income by county. The higher the score, the greater affordability is.
What did shake up the market lately was the interest rate hike taking many buyers out of the running.“Suddenly, they could afford (less) than they thought they could buy, and they ended up renting” or were pushed out of the market, Moye said.As demand changed, prices have been pulled back, too. From 2015 through 2019, homes in the Denver metro area were garnering about 100% of their listing price — or close to that, according to the Realtors’ report. In 2021, that number shot up to about 105%. Earlier this year, it reached above 106%.
“For buyers, there is a lot more inventory to choose from currently — however, that may not be the case for long,” Ecker said in the Sept. 13 newsThoughrelease.prices have dropped in the short term, a “true” price decline in the housing market would occur over an annual or multi-year time period, Cooper Thayer, a Douglas County-area Realtor, said in the release.Thecoronavirus pandemic shook up the housing market partly because, amid the spread of working from home, some people had flexibility in where they chose to live and drove up suburban home prices.Andas families stayed home, they began looking at housing in new ways. “It was their office, their home, their gym, their schools for the kids, and suddenly people needed way more space,” Matthew Leprino, a Realtor based in metro Denver, has told Colorado Community
In December 2017, the median home price was $378,000 for metro Denver and $363,000 for the state, taking into account single-family and the
“The cutoff for it to be affordable is that 100 number,” Leprino told CCM in mid-September. If the score is 100, that means essentially that “the average person could afford the average house,” Leprino said.
She added: “Sellers should be watching to see if more homes will be coming to the market. If not, we may see another strong seller’s market in January.”
Housing sees seasonal e ect
The last time Colorado’s market scored above 100 was late 2017, according to Leprino. The last time the Denver metro area hit 100 was October 2017, he said.
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Now, the percentage of the listing price received on home purchases has dipped below 100% for the first time since 2020, according to the report. For single-family homes, the rate was about 99% in August.
It’s unclear how long the shortterm downturn in prices will continue, particularly because the time of year — not just interest rates — are likely playing a role in pulling prices
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“Withdown.theschool year in full swing, we are experiencing a normal seasonal slowdown,” Barb Ecker, a Jefferson County-area Realtor, said in a news release from the Realtors’ association.
said in the news release. He added: “The truth is that we have simply returned to more of a 2019 type of pace that’s simply less head spinning.”
WhenMedia.looking at housing statistics, “it’s vital that we look at historic perspectives and shift our thinking to pre-pandemic, pre-multiple offers and yes, pre-extreme price increase madness,” Leprino
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A new hiring report from small business network Alignable found that 66% of 307 small businesses surveyed in Colorado believe they’re already in a recession. And 28% would, instead, call it a depression. The survey of more than 5,000 small businesses nationwide was more upbeat, with 57% believing we’re in a recession. (We’re still not officially in“Thatone).
No teenagers took the poll but several people between 65 and 74 years old and someone above 75 shared that they are working —- and they work to live.
“I am 69 years old and plan to work until something happens to make that impossible,” said Mickey Mann, who was laid off in 2007 by IBM and found it impossible to get rehired in technology “because of rampant ageism.”
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GrandSharpeJunction.hadsold her bed and breakfast in Ouray in late 2019 with every intention of retiring and living off Social Security and her part-time catering business.
The folks who took last week’s Labor Day poll dubbed “Who’s Working?” provided a glimpse into who’s still working, who isn’t and why. This is far from scientific but even a couple dozen responses shared the gamut of possibilities out there.
Small businesses are concerned about their future and America’s economy with 63% of small businesses surveyed by smallbusiness network Alignable saying they are putting hiring on hold. Colorado small businesses were more optimistic. Only 44% in Colorado felt the same.
About half never stopped working during the disruptive year of 2020. And about half are still at the same job today. Overall, 85% have a job (some better, some worse) or are looking for one. The remaining 15%
Two-thirds surveyed say recession is here
Colorado gasoline prices are nearly back down to where they were a year ago, but everything else is just not quite the same, is it?
A few others retired early but had to “unretire” as rising costs got in the“Theway.stock market downturn has eaten a big hole in my ‘backup’ so I will continue to work as long as I’m able,” said Sara Sharpe, who lives in
We were in between official government economic reports on Colorado last week, but other organizations shared their findings.
means Colorado-based businesses are even more pessimistic about the state of the nation’s economy than their peers coast to coast,” said Chuck Casto, Alignable’s Head ofHowever,Research.the impact of how much of a threat a possible recession will have on operations appears much more optimistic in Colorado than elsewhere.
“A lot of companies that were looking for (skilled labor), they’re not in a hurry to lay people off because there’s so much effort and cost to bring them back when the economy starts to rebound,” said Steven Byers, senior economist with Common Sense Institute, a conservative think tank in Greenwood Village. “Right now, I think there’s so many job openings nationwide and in Colorado that I don’t see (hiring) dropping off.”
• 28% of Colorado businesses said they’ve fully recovered and are seeing higher monthly income today compared to before COVID. In the U.S., 23% of businesses felt the same.•Colorado is aligned with U.S. averages for laying off workers, with 10% of small businesses surveyed planning to cut staff.
As other economists have chimed in in the past, some employers know how hard it was to hire people in the past two years. They’re not about to let them go now.
He learned new skills and has been a self-employed tax accountant ever“Mysince.clients don’t care how old I am,” Mann said, “and I would die of boredom if I retired.”
Sharpe got a part-time job at a medical garment factory and as places reopened, she returned to her business, Secret Garden Catering, which serves the Western Slope.
There are still more than 120,000 jobs listed on the state’s job board even as new weekly jobless claims are still slightly higher than they were in 2019. Consumer prices, i.e., inflation, were up 8.2% in July from a year ago in the Denver metro area.
Some still hiring, including space jobs
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No one needed a caterer when the pandemic hit.
44% of small businesses stop hiring
Companies are also moving to and expanding in Colorado. In Colorado Springs, The Aerospace Corporation, which is one of those nonprofits that operates a federally funded research and development facility,
“Fortunately, folks still call me for parties and I am still able to work,” she said.
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• 63% of small businesses in the U.S. have put hiring on hold compared to 44% in Colorado.
Eighty-two percent of those polled say they agree with the following statement: We should teach the complete and accurate history of racial discrimination in the United States, even if it makes some people uncomfortable.ForBailey, he believes this “raises the question: is this bogeyman term related to K-12 education” causing true outrage from some Americans or “was it something more of a dog whistle?”Thepoll also paid close attention to trust and the importance of voting. The results show Coloradans do generally believe voting is essential to making change, but they also have concerns about whether elected officials truly look out for them. At the same time, Colorado voters said they trust their local leaders more than federal lawmakers.
Across party lines, 77% of respondents said they would vote in favor of thatAnotherinitiative.topconcern for Colorado voters, one that is directly tied to inflation and the economy, was homelessness. Homelessness was also a higher concern for Black and Latino voters than it was for white voters, the poll found.
COVID not top voter concern
Top issues found as concerns for voters. Provided by African American Research Collaborative.
shouldOtheraddress.pollquestions stemmed from recent events and news about civil rights, including teaching the history of racism and discrimination in the United States to K-12 students, as well as providing a safe environment for LGBTQ+ students at school.
Housing a ordability, economy, homelessness rank high in poll
To use a specific example, the poll asked if voters would be in support of ballot initiative #108, which would generate $270 million annually by diverting 0.1% of the taxable income from the General Fund to the State Affordable Housing Fund, according to a nonpartisan fiscal analysis.
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Now at the top of that list ahead of the November election are issues like affordable housing and civil rights issues.TheACLU of Colorado commissioned a poll of 1,223 likely voters in Colorado last month through the African American Research Collaborative (AARC). Ninety-five percent of the poll’s respondents were already registered voters in the state.
The poll found 80% of Coloradans consider housing affordability as either a major issue or a crisis.
“I think the support the state has for the generic idea of a ballot initiative as a form of direct democracy is striking,” said Henry Fernandez, the CEO of AARC.
Also among top concerns were the economy and homelessness.
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Also, reflected in the poll was the agency voters feel they have in the democratic process when it comes to
ballot issues. On a scale from 1 to 10 — 10 meaning the issue is extremely persuasive in encouraging you to vote — the average answer was 7.48 for ballot issues.
As you can see in the table above, abortion rights were not as much of a concern for Colorado voters when compared to other issues. This could be due to the fact that abortion access is codified in Colorado. However, if anti-abortion politicians were to take control of the Colorado legislature, that law could be repealed.Climate change was also low on the list; only 11% of Coloradans listed climate change as one of the top three issues that elected officials
To read a full overview of the poll, visit the website at https://bit. ly/3eHfitt.
unveiled its new 90,000-squarefoot Space Warfighting Center just south of the Colorado Springs airport.
“There is a flavor of concern of the inflation and economy that is directly tied to civil rights,” said Isaiah Bailey, a research fellow with the AARC. He said it was encouraging that voters are understanding the connection of those ideas.
In the last two years, COVID-19 has dropped from a top concern for Colorado voters to low on the list.
The new Space Warfighting Center at the Aerospace Corporation in Colorado Springs expects to add 250 more workers in the next few years. No actual space warfighting is expected at this location, just the virtual design and research of technology for the nonprofit company headquartered in California. (Provided by The Aerospace Corporation)
Don’t expect actual space wars to happen in the confines, but virtual design to develop “advanced space warfighting concepts,” according to the company, based in El Segundo, Calif.
There are already about 250 employees in the Denver and Colorado Springs region, according to a spokesperson. The plan is to hire another 250 workers for technical jobs at the new location. There are 87 openings right now for gigs like a Cyber Systems Engineer, Information Security Engineer and Astrodynamics and Space Tactics Analyst.
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waters are now recovering and can come back even further if afforded the right protections, and neighbors of the streams say they deserve that chance.
Colorado adds water quality protections for South Platte, Clear Creek
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Decades of intense and expensive cleanup efforts on urban streams like the South Platte, including by Metro Wastewater, have improved water quality and given the river a chance at more fish, wildlife and recreation, the environmental advocates say. The state’s job is to keep pushing for even cleaner water, the environmental coalition who brought the petition said, not to clear the way for backsliding.Thecommissioners Tuesday also scolded Molson Coors and others who had spent the hearing arguing against the new protections for stretches of Clear Creek, which passes the Golden
mental justice group” to a state health agency, said Ean Tafoya, GreenLatinos Colorado state director. “Impacted communities are empowered, organized, and partnered with allies. We are committed to using every procedural tool and in every venue available to us to achieve environmental justice.”Anti-degradation rules that will now apply to the stretches of the South Platte River and Clear Creek put those waters into the “reviewable” category. That rule says polluters seeking a new or renewed water quality permit must make a compelling argument that worsening the conditions of a stretch of river is an unavoidable part of an important economic development or civic improvement.
The initial 2020 decision, and a commissioner’s statement at the time that higher protections were reserved for “pristine mountain waters,” infuriated a coalition of dozens of conservation groups and local governments, from Colorado GreenLatinos to Trout Un-
When the commissioners late in 2021 agreed to set a hearing to revisit the decision, the commission staff told the advocacy groups it was the first time in their knowledge of the commission’s history that petitioners had successfully forced such a reversal.
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“I am offended that a company that makes its profit and markets its brand off the clean water of this state would work so hard to prevent protections for that clean water,” Commission Chair April Long said, before the final unanimous vote to upgrade the stretches of stream to “reviewable” waters.Commissioner Jennifer Bock cited “compelling” testimony in favor of stronger protections that came Monday during the first day of a two-day hearing, from metro residents who use the South Platte River and Clear Creek for fishing, boating andThosecycling.users joined with the environmental coalition to argue the urban streams were abused for decades by polluters and developers who paved and contaminated the waterfront. The
Environmental sampling specialist Patrick Maes samples water from the South Platte River at Metro Water Recovery on April 6, 2022, in Denver. Metro Water Recovery is the largest wastewater treatment facility in the western U.S. and treats up to 130 million gallons of water daily.
brewery, and the South Platte River north of the Denver boundary.
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“The Water Quality Control Commission’s decision highlights that no river is beyond repair. These protections recognize decades of work to restore water quality on the South Platte and Clear Creek from the impacts of industrial pollution,” said Josh Kuhn, Conservation Colorado water campaign manager. “This is an important step toward ensuring all of Colorado’s communities have equitable access to clean water.”
They must offer this proof even if the given stretch of water is already better than EPA water quality minimums. The state rules effectively raise the floor of quality as a stream improves, and says those waters can’t be “degraded” below the new floor.
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s the presenter gave his opening remarks and welcomed the audience, he shared with everyone the agenda for his talk, the most important elements where he hoped they would focus, the amount of time he was planning on speaking, and that he would try and get through his 115 slides as quickly as possible.Asthegroans started to rumble loudly through the audience at the thought of a 115-slide death march through PowerPoint, the presenter allowed just enough time to capture their attention before saying, “Actually it sounds like this group is my kind of group, the good news is that I only have three slides, and we will have more dialogue today than presentation, sound better?”
My mom even drove from New Mexico to Denver one weekend because, in her words, I “did not sound right.”
Today, I credit my children for keeping from doing something irreversible because no matter how much I thought I was a failure in life – I knew these people relied on me.
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Many of my family, friends and coworkers know me as being outgoing, happy, friendly and a strong, driven person. However, that has not always been the case. You see, there were several dark years in my life that I have only started to admit to over the last year.
Olympic champion Missy Franklin was the featured speaker. In listening to Missy talk about her battle with mental health, all I kept thinking was, “I was there too.” I am betting there are a lot of people out there who can say the same thing.
The salesperson that the sales manager was coaching asked her for some guidance on a proposal that was being prepared for a potential prospect. As the salesperson took her through the proposal that was filled with information about every possible product and service that the company offered, she stopped and asked, “Is the pros-
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I started relying on my 2-year-old son to serve as my only source of human interaction during the day. At night, I went to bed and slept. Eventually, I put him in preschool early because I knew what I was doing was not healthy for him.That meant several hours a day of being alone with my dark thoughts. I believed I had not lived up to expectations, especially the ones that I had set for myself. I believed I was a failure in my career, at home and in life. I started believing the world would be fine without me.
Nearly eight years ago, we moved our family from Arizona to Denver. At the time of our move, I was at a high point in my career. With two adopted daughters and a new baby boy, I really was happy. But my husband’s career was going nowhere in Tucson. My young daughter was not getting the help she needed in the Arizona education system.
I remember the fear of the unknown but believed I had built a good career and reputation in Arizona and was optimistic it would be no problem to bring that talent to Colorado.However,
Soon, I started believing I really was not as good as I thought. I started down a dark road that led to some thinking that even today is hard to admit to.
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pect really interested in everything that we sell?” The answer was “no,” they were very focused on two specific solutions. She asked the salesperson why he was including everything else. The answer that came back seemed one of desperation, “My numbers are off, and I really want them to see more of our offerings in hopes that I can make the deal a bit bigger.”
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Over the years, doctors would throw medications at me. None of them worked. In fact, they usually made me worse. Eventually, I opted to just deal with the dark thoughts and pretend to the outside world.
My days started being filled with lying on the couch. I resented my husband for bringing me here. He was thriving and I was not going anywhere.
recently went to a benefit in Castle Pines hosted by the city and Mental Health Colorado. The event had a special theme/title – “Unmasked.” Throughout the night, people stood up and talked about their recovery from attempted suicide, their fight to beat depression and the shame society makes us feel when we are diagnosed with conditions such as bipolar disorder.
I had family members, especially my mom, telling me I did not sound like myself, asking if there was something wrong. I often replied, “I am fine.”
To all of you out there who struggle with what I call “dark thoughts” – you are not alone. Until we as a society truly make it OK to “unmask” and admit that mental health is not something to be ashamed – only then will we, as a society, be able to help make true changes and support those who are afraid to say they need help.
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Thankfully the sales manager took the time for some coaching, as the salesperson did win the business, because the proposal that was submitted was laser-focused on the specific needs of the customer and nothing else. They proposed only to the value that they could deliver and clearly quantified that value. Again, the less-ismore approach was the much better way to go.Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you felt the need to explain your position or that you had to apologize? And when you did, did you ever find yourself talking more than you really needed to talk? This happens all the time to many of us. We think the more we speak, the more we say, and the more we say, the more they hear. And when we keep speaking, sometimes we say even more things we didn’t really mean or using words that we really didn’t need to use. A less-is-more approach tends to restore normalcy faster than a flurry of babbling words.
With that, his audience cheered, he had their attention, and he was off to what would be a phenomenal talk. His less-ismore approach really won them over.
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more we say, the more persuasive we become. When in fact, it is the opposite. My experience tells me that the more we talk, the more opportunities we miss to gain consensus, to win over an audience, or apologize and reconcile fractured relationships. How about you, is it easier for you when someone speaks directly or shares information concisely? Have you ever been turned off by long-winded responses or apologies? Or have you ever found yourself as the one speaking more than listening? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we learn to take a less is more approach more often, it really will be a better than good life.
ect. Other funding for the potential space will come from grants and town savings. There is no plan to raise taxes on town residents.
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way.“Elbert County and the town have a growing senior population. There really isn’t a place for them out here,” said Michelle Oeser, Elizabeth clerk and administration services director. “It would be good to have a place with an active senior approach, more of their own place. We do want anyone in the county, regardless of age, to be able to use it though.”
“A senior center in Elizabeth would be great, especially if it serves greater Elbert County,” said Bruce Hicks, an Elizabethbased senior. “The kinds of things mentioned in the survey would be welcomed, I think. I hope the survey shows real interest. I have seen other senior centers and they did a terrific job of serving that segment
The Town of Elizabeth and community planners from CU Denver will be holding several community outreach meetings. These will be scheduled after receiving the results of the survey.
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Colorado’s minimum wage will jump to $13.65 per hour next year — an 8.68% increase — amid persistent inflation.Thenew hourly wage will take effect Jan. 1, according to the state’s department of labor and employment. The annual adjustment, based on the consumer price index in Denver, Aurora and Lakewood, is written into the state’s constitution. In Denver, the minimum wage will rise to $17.29 per hour next year, up fromBusinesses$15.87. and consumers are
The state’s minimum wage will increase by nearly 9% in 2023. However, inflation rates continue to cause families to struggle.
Highest inflation in 40 years causing widespread problems
Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.
Proverbsforward.10:19 reads, “When there are many words, sin is unavoidable, but the one who controls their lips is prudent.” Such a great less-is-more lesson right there.
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Why do we use so many words when explaining or defending? Because we are trying to sell the other person or people around us on our side of the story. We believe that the
Sometimes there are situations that need to be talked through when disagreements or conflicts arise, or when we are faced with difficult conversations and situations. That is a healthy dialogue and not a monologue, so that is different. However, sometimes the less we speak, the clearer our points are made and the faster we come to a resolution and a best path
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“It doesn’t offset the pain that workers were feeling this year because of prices being higher now,” ColeMoreover,said. the tight labor market
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Currently there is no designated location for the potential senior facility. Based on survey results and focused community meetings, the planning committee will determine how much space the facility should need. From there, a location will be set.“We’ve been working with CU as well as leaders from local authorities like the health department to make this work,” said Oeser. “It would be great for everyone.”
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struggling with the highest inflation in 40 years. The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates in an effort to slow price gains, but costs for many goods and services are still climbing. On Sept. 13, the U.S. Labor Department said the consumer price index rose 8.3% in August compared to last year, dashing hopes that the reading would show inflation receding. Food and housing costs were big contributors to the most recent gains.Pegging minimum wage to inflation is helpful for workers, but it doesn’t help families recoup the higher costs they’ve already absorbed, according to Paula Cole, a professor of economics at University of Denver.
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means that a lot of service jobs are already paying above the minimum wage, she said, and the annual increase won’t affect those wages. The increase will likely be felt most in rural areas where pay tends to be
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“Somebody that could just listen to her, talk to her in her own home.”
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Originally, around February, Smith began working with a different death doula, but after that person had a family emergency, Smith was referred to Johnston in April.
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ending … to have a peaceful ending, whatever that looks like for them,” she said.
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Although Smith was told to go into hospice around February, afterward, Smith’s doctor said chemotherapy might actually be working, and Smith continued getting treatment. However, on May 24, Smith collapsed in a parking lot as she was headed to anAtappointment.thatpoint,Smith stopped getting chemotherapy and she began hospice, which was done at Barr’s home.“And hospice, I kind of always thought they would just be there
Crispin Sargent, an a liate member of the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative.
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In the five years since starting her business, Denver EOL Doula, with EOL standing for “end of life,” she has had about 15 private clients and serves people all throughout the metro Denver area.
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A veterinary technician of about 20 years, Smith was great at her job — especially when it came to dealing with naughty cats, Barr said.
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Vanessa Johnston, a death doula of five years, with her dog at her home in Highlands Ranch on Aug 25.
out the cancer was back in about 2016, and around 2019, it had worsened and was in her spine. By November 2021, it started to change drastically and her doctor told her she needed to start injectable chemotherapy treatment.
One of her recent clients was Michelle Smith, a 52-year-old veterinary technician and beloved friend who passed away on June 4.
Rose Barr, a 45-year-old veterinarian at Tender Touch Animal Hospital, met Smith in 2010 through work, and the two became close friends and eventually like family to one another.“Shewas very warm and welcoming. She valued having meaningful relationships with people,” Barr said, her voice filled with emotion. “She had this beautiful laugh, beautiful eyes.”
Karen Keeran, a death doula based in Golden, at her home o ce on Aug 24.
“She started to feel better with some of the symptoms, and then in February, it just didn’t seem like it was responding anymore. And that’s when her doctor was like, you know, I think that you should go into hospice,” Barr said. Smith had a tense relationship with a lot of her family members, and her parents are elderly and didn’t really understand what was happening, Barr said. Smith relied on her friend network, including Barr.
A warm and welcome friend
“She was the one that you could turn to every single time, and she’d be able to do what we needed to do,” Barr
all the time, and that’s not how it works,” Barr said, explaining the nurse came over about three times and the chaplain and social worker each checked in once. “And so just having another support system was huge.”Barr said it was valuable to have Johnston around, who had been through the process before and would often reassure everyone that they were doing a great job. She said Johnston offered emotional support to people, often explaining what was happening to visitors and helping remove some fear about the situation.Having a death doula helped get Smith to a point where she could talk about her death and share her wishes with others, Barr said.
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“And so I said, ‘I’m happy to do that. I have no medical experience whatsoever, but if he’s just looking for a companion, I can do that,’” Johnston said.
In 2015, she was looking for a different career outside of teaching, and a friend asked if she would be interested in serving as an assistant to a man who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a progressive nervous system disease.
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“And I felt like I had really helped him and his wife just go through that last milestone in a way that honored his story. And I thought, ‘Well gosh, I really want to continue to do this if I can,’” she said.
“I feel like Vanessa gave us a lot more support than hospice was able
to, and even if it was just talking and checking on us and trying to help facilitate things with visitors,”
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While caring for the man, she heard about a book called “Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death.” Through reading, she learned “death doula” was the term for a person who serves as a compassionate companion to someone at the end of life.
Becoming a death doula
“And I thought, ‘Oh, that’s what I’ve been doing.’ So it kind of gave a name to the role that I had been
Johnston decided to pursue training with the International End of Life Doula Association, which she completed in the summer of 2017. She began volunteering in hospice and applied her new skills towards helping care for the man, who passed in October 2017.
BarrBarrsaid.describes
death doulas as wonderful people who can guide others through the dying process, whether it be navigating the paperwork, the emotional part or the physical part. She said she’s considering hiring a death doula again to help her get her own affairs in order before this year is over.
“I think that it’s a great thing to help you on that part of the journey, to have a death doula,” Barr said. “I think that it can help with all of the feelings and fears and emotions.”
Before entering the death doula profession, Johnston worked as a high school English teacher.
kind of fulfilling intuitively anyway, and really helped me understand what that role was,” she said.
Johnston also helped Smith’s family and friends navigate the final days, encouraging people to talk about what was happening and to share happy memories of Smith.
Johnston also helped get a lawyer and a notary to visit Smith and Barr to complete Smith’s will, something Barr said they were panicked about beforehand.Earlyinthe morning on June 4, Smith passed away in Barr’s home. Upon her passing, Barr asked Johnston to check in with Smith’s parents, as she didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to do so. Johnston also came to Smith’s celebration of life, held at Hudson Gardens.
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The following year, Johnston established her business, which she said was a complicated process.
Michelle Smith at Niagara Falls on her birthday, May 12, 2022. Going to Niagara Falls was on Smith’s bucket list, her friend Rose Barr said.
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Originally, Johnston said the idea was to only have a directory of doulas in the nonprofit, but then the members saw there was a need to also have a network of other providers, called affiliate members, such as people working in funeral homes, grief counselors, notaries and so on.
“You want to do all of your planning at a time where there can be stories that are told,” she said, explaining planning ahead of time allows for more consideration of options and for a person’s loved ones to understand the plan as well.
“During that 30-year period of time, clients would come to us because of dysfunctional family, or because they had no family, or where the court made a determination that a disinterested third party was needed to serve in the role of conservator,” she said.
Maxine Wagoner, left, and Karen Keeran, right, in August 2016. Wagoner said they have an organization called Earth Citizens, and they adopted a trail they were responsible for cleaning four times a year.
“If you try and do all of that at the deathbed, your brain isn’t functioning, nothing is functioning, nothing is in place, and you don’t have that opportunity,” she said.
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Now, there are more than 35 affiliate members across Colorado, and the number is growing, she said.
Although Sargent had previously done the legal parts of planning and preparing for her death, she said
A network of support
One affiliate member is Crispin Sargent, a certified grief yoga instructor who worked for 30 years as a geriatric care manager, offering services such as advance care planning and acting as power of attorney or conservator for some clients.
Part of the difficulty was convincing people that her services were valuable and something everyone would benefit from.
She began connecting with other doulas in the Denver area, and in 2020, they decided to form the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative, a nonprofit membership organization. She explained it helped create a support network for the doulas and get the word out about their profession.
“We figured that our voices together would be louder than our voices separately, so that was the impetus for just, let’s get together and cultivate a community,” she said. “We want to provide a community not just for the providers who are doing this work, but for people who need these services.”
She has since begun a new company, Chun Hwa LLC, which focuses on offering yoga and grief counseling, she said. However, as an affiliate member of the nonprofit, she still offers services related to advance care planning and the “business of death,” as she calls it.
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“It’s that community that says, nobody can do this work alone,” Sargent said about the nonprofit, explaining members of the collaborative can call on one another for assistance. “All of the members of that group have a specialty, have a passion.”Deathis a life experience, she said, and she knows from personal experience the value of planning and preparing for death before a person is close to it or is in crisis.
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Prioritizing education
Currently, death doulas are outside of the medical care system, and Johnston said she thinks it should stay that way.
Although she said she wants to legitimize the profession, she’s hesitant about the idea of establishing a national certification board for death doulas, as there currently is not
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With this goal of educating and helping others, Keeran launched her business, Golden Heart Transition, this spring. She offers a range of services including grief support, doula services, end-of-life planning and coaching using the “best three months” model developed by the Conscious Dying Institute.
One of her first clients was her friend, Maxine Wagoner, an owner of a yoga studio in Golden that Keeran is a member of. Wagoner said she had never heard of a death doula until Keeran approached her.
While Keeran was completing her training last year, she needed people to practice her skills with, Wagoner said. Wagoner volunteered, and they did the “best three months” course.
“I’m very hesitant to get into any kind of a role in the medical care system,” she said, explaining she
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“Knowledge and information, I’m a big believer in, reduces fear,” she said. “I want to be able to bring that planning to the fore and have that in place before we reach (the) end of life.”Amain focus for Keeran, she said, is targeting education efforts toward older generations, communicating the value of putting together an end-of-life plan and exploring topics of pain, caregiving and medical aid in dying. She also helps people learn about the variety of body disposition options available to people in Colorado, such as water cremation.
“When she introduced it to me, what she was doing, it was really interesting. I was kind of surprised, but yet, at the same time, I was like, wow, that’s a really unique business and a unique way to help people,” Wagoner said.
month time, what practically do you want to accomplish?” Wagoner said. “And it was good to be able to do it without actually being in that situation.”Aspartof the experience, Keeran gave Wagoner a map to write down what Wagoner’s wishes were so her family would know, helping alleviate some of the stress her family would experience following her death.
she hadn’t thought about the actual time of death and the type of environment she would like.
“I have a very significant level of gratitude to her because she knows that I can be a different kind of challenge because I know too much,” Sargent said, explaining she looks at situations from every angle. “She keeps me on track.”
“You have to put yourself in a mindset of, you have three months left to live. And then, in that three-
The future of death doulas
She had learned about death doulas a few years ago from a friend, she said. Following her retirement in 2021, she began her six-month training with the Conscious Dying Institute, as well as began training to become a certified nurse aide. In February 2022, she also completed training through the Conscious Dying Institute as a conscious dying educator.
As educators about death and dying, both Johnston and Keeran expressed the importance of changing how people discuss death and dying, such as not associating it with giving up or as a failure.
“We know it’s inevitable, so let’s work on our approach to this inevitable thing,” Johnston said. “A big part of what I do is to normalize this for people, which it seems strange to say that this thing that happens to 100% of us needs to be normalized, but it does because we don’t ever talk about it.”
“Theone.tricky thing is, is that people have done what I do for millennia,” Johnston said, explaining she doesn’t want to create further barriers to entering the profession.
Earlier this year, she began working with her friend, Karen Keeran, who recently became a death doula. Together, they began discussing Sargent’s wishes, such as having a calm and quiet environment when she is close to passing.
Choosing to become a death doula was a spiritual type of decision for Keeran.In2020, a year before she retired from her career in business, Keeran was meditating and asked the universe what she should do next. She said she woke up the next morning and it was like a light switch had been turned on — she should become a death doula.
The death doula profession has also evolved over time, Johnston said, and as an emerging profession, discussions continue about how it may change in the future.
There has been some progress, as Keeran said she remembers a time when death and grief were hardly ever talked about, especially in the 1970s.“Ihave a deep background in death. My childhood was full of death and loss,” Keeran said, explaining she was basically on her own at 19 years old. “Who I want to be now, is that person that I didn’t have, and my family didn’t have when I was growing up.”
Rose Barr, left, and Michelle Smith during a trip to Belize in 2019. COURTESY OF ROSE BARR
“We don’t know when we’re going to pass unless we’ve been given that kind of diagnosis. So for me, it was really powerful and … made me feel strong about it,” Wagoner said. “It’s just a very comforting feeling, and empowering yourself to be able to express what you really want, because to family members sometimes, you can’t express that.”
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“It’s this tricky thing of estab lishing value while providing the service, but I really think that the future of death doulas remains outside the medical care system just because that independence and flex ibility, I think, is how we serve our
worries about over-regulation. “If I were to be, like, a Medicare benefit, then I would have this obligation to follow these strict rules, which really hampers my ability to meet families where they are, to serve whatever their needs are.”
In her current role, Johnston has maximum independence and flexibility, she said. However, being outside the medical care system can hinder people’s willingness to pay for the death doula services since it’s out-of-pocket, she said.
Keeran agreed, saying she has seen how hospice nurses and aides are limited in how much time they can serve clients. She said she sees death doulas as offering specialty services, also noting that limiting death doulas to hospice care could reduce the number of people the doulas can Althoughserve.working as a death doula can take a lot of emotional capacity, it’s a job Keeran and John ston feel called to.
“When somebody says, ‘That must be so depressing,’ I’m like, actually it’s the complete opposite,” Johnston said. “When you deal with death on a daily basis, it really makes you value life.”
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DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEARING (Subject to change)
Overlying Acreage: 640 acres
Publisher: Elbert County News
Legal Notice No. 24886
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DEADLINE80203PETITIONSFORPETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: October 17, 2022 Any interested party who wishes to participate
TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1
Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applica tions, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of AUGUST 2022 for each County affected.
First Publication: September 22, 2022
The Petition requests that the name of Nancy Margaret Willard be changed to N. Margaret Willard Case No.: 22 C 51
Requested Change to the 93CW117 Decree: Applicant requests that 6 acre-feet annually of not-nontributary Dawson Aquifer groundwater be removed from the 93CW117 Decree, and be made available for the drilling of exempt wells, or any legally allowed exempt purpose, for use on the Subject Property. The volume will be allocated at 0.009375 acre-feet per acre across the Subject Property. No other provisions of the 93CW117 Decree will be changed. Applicant requests the Court approve the above decree amendment, find that Applicant has complied with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4) and water is legally available for withdrawal, find there will be no material injury to the owners of or persons entitled to use water un der any vested water right or decreed conditional water right, and grant such other and further relief as is appropriate. 3 pages.
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Elbert County, Colorado or on or before January 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Saturated Thickness: 57 Feet Average Annual Amount: 73 acre-feet
Last Publication: September 22, 2022
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
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Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Elbert County News Public Notice
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Elbert County, Coloradoon or before January 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommoda tions as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki at Cogcc. Hearings_Unit@state.co.us, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.
Township 6 South, Range 64 West, 6th P.M 8:All 9:All 10:W½
PERSONS: October 17, 2022
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Last Publication: September 29, 2022
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First Publication: September 22, 2022
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Personal Representative 3222 Crvstal Peak Drive Parker CO 80138
For more information, you may review the Ap plication, which was sent to you with this Notice. You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.
Publisher: Elbert County News
tion of a 190-ft (194-ft AGL overall) self-support telecommunications tower and an associated tower compound facility to be located south of a portion of CO. HWY RT. 86, east-southeast of the municipality town of Kiowa, within Elbert County, Colorado (Elbert County Parcel #8322300020). Commnet Wireless, LLC seeks comments from all interested persons on any po tential significant impact the proposed action could have on the quality of the human environment pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 1.1307, including potential impacts to historic or cultural resources that are listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Please submit any written comments within 30 days of this notice’s first publication regarding the potential effects that the proposed tower may have on Historic Properties that are listed or eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places to: Tower Engineering Professionals, Inc. (Attn: George Swearingen) 326 Tryon Road, Raleigh, NC 27603 Telephone: (919) 661-6351 Fax: (919) 661-6350
Parcel Location: Section 21
80203PETITIONS
Date: November 16, 2022
Section 15:All Section 22:N½ DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEARING (Subject to change) The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing only on the above referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location: Date:November 16, 2022 Time:9:00 a.m. Place: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation TheCommissionChancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801
Legal Notice No. 24885
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBRARA, FORMATION,
GMT Exploration Company LLC c/o Jamie L. Jost Kelsey H. Wasylenky Jost Energy Law, P.C. 3511 Ringsby Court, Unit 103 Denver, CO
Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Elbert County News
Legal Notice No. 24882
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Dated: September 1, 2022 GMT Exploration Company LLC c/o Jamie L. Jost Kelsey H. Wasylenky Jost Energy Law, P.C. 3511 Ringsby Court, Unit 103 Denver, CO
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THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE AP PLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST AP PEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVID ED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
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INFORMATION For more information, you may review the Ap plication, which was sent to you with this Notice. You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommoda tions as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki at Cogcc. Hearings_Unit@state.co.us, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made. OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION OFCOMMISSIONTHESTATE OF COLORADO By: Mimi Larsen,
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By: Mimi Larsen, Commission Secretary
BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS COMMISSIONCONSERVATION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO WILDCAT ELBERT COUNTY, 535 NO. 220800212 Exploration Company, LLC (Operator No. 10243) (“Applicant”) filed an Application with the Commission for an order to pool all oil and gas (“mineral”) interests in lands identified below. This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may own mineral interests that will be pooled if the Commission approves the Applica tion. Pooling is the consolidation and combining of mineral interests so that all mineral interest owners receive payment for their just and equitable share of produced oil and gas. For more information about the Commission’s pooling process, please see a brochure on the Commission’s website vqwq5pp5t1psF0fDil0M/viewhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/14QaK0JG6G35ghere: 65 6th P.M. 10:All Denver, CO
The tenant's name is Laken Stratton and the rental property was in Matheson, CO. Most of the items have little to no value, and are likely rubbish. Anything of value will be donated if not picked up, anything else will be thrown away.
October 17, 2022, conference requested the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition.
Legal Notice No. 24884
ingableAnyadministrativelypetitioninformation.tem_Users_Guidebook_20201109.pdfdocuments/reg/Hearings/External_Efiling_SysGuidanceAccesslAccess/Account/Login.aspxhttps://oitco.hylandcloud.com/DNRCOGExternaatandselect“RequesttoSite.”Pleaserefertoour“eFilingUsersBook”athttps://cogcc.state.co.us/formoreUnderCommissionRule508,ifnoisfiled,theApplicationmaybeapprovedwithoutaformalhearing.AffectedPersonwhofilesapetitionmustbetoparticipateinaprehearingconferencedurtheweekof
Legal Notice No. 24883
Time: 9:00 a.m.
2022CW3116 FREUND INVESTMENTS, LLC, 15460 E Batavia Dr, Aurora, CO 80011. James J. Petrock, Eric K. Trout, Hayes Poznanovic Korver LLC, 700 17th Street, Suite 1800, Denver, CO 80202. APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT OF A PRIOR DECREE IN ELBERT COUNTY. Subject Property: Approximately 640 acres generally located in all of Section 21, Township 6 South, Range 64 West of the 6th P.M., Elbert County, Colorado as shown on Exhibit A (“Subject Property”). Applicant is the sole owner of the of the Subject Property, therefore no notice to any mortgage or lien holders is required pursu ant to C.R.S. § 37-92-302(2). Decree for Which Amendment is Sought: Case No. 1993CW117, decreed in the name of the Applicant on Septem ber 29, 1997, associated with the Subject Property (“93CW117 Decree”). No objections were filed to the application in Case No. 1993CW117 and no wells have been drilled in Section 21 pursuant to the 93CW117 Decree. Applicant is the owner of all the not-nontributary Dawson Aquifer groundwater underlying the Subject Property. Jurisdiction: The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37-90137(6), 37-92-203(1), 37-92-302(2). Applicant owns the following amount of not-nontributary Dawson Aquifer groundwater underlying the Subject Property:
WATERDISTRICTNoticeCOURT,DIVISION1,COLORADOAUGUST2022WATERRESUMEPUBLICATION
First Publication: September 22, 2022
Danielle S.M. Andrews
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Publisher: Elbert County News
Public Notice
Jennifer Pokraka, Personal Representative 9317 Plymouth Avenue Littleton, Colorado 80128
First Publication: September 22, 2022
FirstLegalkwasylenky@jostenergylaw.comjjost@jostenergylaw.com720-446-562080216NoticeNo.24880Publication:September22, 2022
Publisher: Elbert County News
Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Com mission no later than the deadline provided above. Please see Commission Rule 507 at https:// cogcc.state.co.us, under “Regulation,” then select “Rules.” Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above.
First Publication: September 15, 2022
By: Sarah Parlor, Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Publisher: Elbert County News
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Public notice is given on August 1, 2022 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Elbert County Court.
FirstLegalkwasylenky@jostenergylaw.comjjost@jostenergylaw.com720-446-562080216NoticeNo.24881Publication:September22, 2022
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Susan C. McAndrew, aka Susan Charlotte DeceasedMcAndrew, Case Number: 2022PR30035
The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing only on the above referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location:
Last Publication: October 6, 2022
Last Publication: October 6, 2022
Estate of John Isador Pokraka, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30029
OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION OFCOMMISSIONTHESTATE OF COLORADO
Elbert County News 23September 22, 2022 Elbert County Legals September 22, 2022 * 1 www.ColoradoCommunityMedia.com/Notices Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 legals@coloradocommunitymedia.com PUBLIC NOTICES Legals Misc. Private Legals Public Notice BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBR ARA, FORMATION, WILDCAT FIELD, ELBERT COUNTY, COLORADO CAUSE NO. 535 DOCKET NO. 220800215 TYPE: POOLING NOTICE OF HEARING GMT Exploration Company, LLC (Operator No. 10243) (“Applicant”) filed an Application with the Commission for an order to pool all oil and gas (“mineral”) interests in lands identified below. This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may own mineral interests that will be pooled if the Commission approves the Applica tion. Pooling is the consolidation and combining of mineral interests so that all mineral interest owners receive payment for their just and equitable share of produced oil and gas. For more information about the Commission’s pooling process, please see a brochure on the Commission’s website vqwq5pp5t1psF0fDil0M/viewhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/14QaK0JG6G35ghere: APPLICATION LANDS
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YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified State ment of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of OCTOBER 31, 2022 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.
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formally must file a written petition with the Com mission no later than the deadline provided above. Please see Commission Rule 507 at https:// cogcc.state.co.us, under “Regulation,” then select “Rules.” Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above. Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online anyconferenceingableAnyadministrativelypetitioninformation.tem_Users_Guidebook_20201109.pdfdocuments/reg/Hearings/External_Efiling_SysGuidanceAccesslAccess/Account/Login.aspxhttps://oitco.hylandcloud.com/DNRCOGExternaatandselect“RequesttoSite.”Pleaserefertoour“eFilingUsersBook”athttps://cogcc.state.co.us/formoreUnderCommissionRule508,ifnoisfiled,theApplicationmaybeapprovedwithoutaformalhearing.AffectedPersonwhofilesapetitionmustbetoparticipateinaprehearingconferencedurtheweekofOctober17,2022,ifaprehearingisrequestedbytheApplicantorbypersonwhohasfiledapetition.
First Publication: September 22, 2022
APPLICATION LANDS Township 6 South, Range
Legal Notice No. 24876
Last Publication: September 29, 2022
CommnetTelecommunicationsPublicNotice:Wireless,LLC
Last Publication: September 22, 2022
Notice to Creditors
Place: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Dated: September 1, 2022
Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online
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