It was a rainy, blustery weekend at the 2023 Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo. Despite the overwhelming deluge throughout the course of the three-day gathering, each rodeo event still took place with packed
e 2023 ElizaBash street festival on June 3 was supposed to last from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., but an overwhelming deluge changed those plans.
By 11 a.m., vendors at the Saturday event began to break down their booths along Elizabeth’s South Main Street as the downpour moved in.
ElizaBash is hosted by the Elizabeth Area Chamber of Commerce and has been held since 2009. e festival has grown in the past three years to attract over 100 vendors selling home-crafted products, displaying information about their businesses, selling food or beverages, or open as a storefront business along historic Main Street in Elizabeth.
“I didn’t get to see many of the vendors because it was raining and they were packing up early. I enjoyed going into e Nest and looking at all the di erent stu they had for sale,” said Beverly Baker, Parker resident. “I was disappointed that I didn’t get to spend more time there because it was raining. I hope next year the weather is better and I get to visit more vendors. I’m new to the area and I’d like to shop local.” ere were several new vendors present at this year’s ElizaBash event. Amanda Love is the owner of a new Elbert County business, Geraldene’s A Western Boutique. Love recently started her business
stands. e Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo prides itself on holding its rodeo rain or shine.
“ is weekend was another one for the history books. e rst-ever sold-out concert, which was amazing, and then heavy rain during every single performance,” said Traci McClain, Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo president. “ e most amazing part was that it never slowed down anyone — our volunteers all showed up with a smile and just got right to work in very di cult conditions. Our spectators showed up in force, toting whatever they could to keep themselves warm. ey brought umbrellas, rain ponchos, and in some cases, trash bags to stay dry.”
e payout for the Elizabeth Stampede was $70,726. e weekend’s All-Around Cowboy was Seth Cooper Peterson from Minot, North Dakota. He earned $1,673 in tie-down roping and steer wrestling. e largest individual payout went to 21-year-old bull rider JaCauy Hale from Ganado, Arizona, who took home $3,861. He scored 87 points on Summit Pro Rodeo’s No. 911 bull.
“Everyone was energetic, and our cowboys and cowgirls didn’t disappoint. ey gave it their all in the middle of the mud and the muck and it made for an amazing event and some great photos,” said McClain. “We are so thankful for our Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo family and for a community that loves and supports the sport of rodeo.”
For more information on the Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo, visit elizabethstampede.com.
For Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo results and corresponding payouts, visit prorodeo.com/ result/2023/elizabeth-stampede-rodeo/13094.
due to her love for women’s Western clothing and jewelry. Love does not have a storefront for her shop, only a website. She hoped for ElizaBash to be her big inperson launch.
“My hope of an amazing launch day dissipated quickly as the rain fell in sheets along Main Street. Over the past few years, I recall that there has been rain on and off during The Elizabeth Stampede and even ElizaBash but nothing to this extent,” Love wrote in an email correspondence from June 5. “There were mini rivers flowing behind my booth! In true Elizabeth nature however, vendors helped other vendors moving items in from getting wet, assisting when a tent caved in due to so much rain and supporting each other and laughing through the bust of ElizaBash.”
Along with disappointed shoppers like Beverly Baker, Love hopes to participate in future events like ElizaBash.
“I love making women feel condent and beautiful,” said Love. “I would love to have the Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce do a re-do day for the ElizaBash to give all of those vendors another day to make money for their businesses and recoup their losses to help support these local small businesses.”
In collaboration with e Nest & Twigs, Love is hosting a “Mainstreet Market” on July 16 in downtown Elizabeth. ey hope to have up to 20 vendors at the event. For interested vendors, contact
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To check out Love’s online shop, visit geraldenesawesternboutique.com.
“While this year was a record for vendor participation, like many outdoor events, it ended early due to torrential rainfall,” said Mary Martin, president and CEO of the Elizabeth Area of Chamber of Commerce. “For 2024 and beyond, we hope to expand the event even more to include live entertainment, demonstrations, and a carnival.”
e Elizabeth Area Chamber of Commerce will hold other events this year, including the 11th Annual Elizabeth Chamber Golf Tournament & Fundraiser on Aug. 11 and Pints in the Park Arts & Crafts fair on Sep. 23. For more information on Elizabeth Area Chamber of Commerce events, visit elizabethchamber.org/ events.
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National Republicans say Colorado’s highly competitive 8th Congressional District is one of their top 2024 targets. But rst the GOP has to nd a candidate to run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo of ornton.
No Republican has led to run against Caraveo next year in the district that spans Denver’s northeast suburbs along U.S. 85 into Greeley. She beat Republican state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer by less than a percentage point, or roughly 1,600 votes, in 2022.
It’s still early, but each day Caraveo doesn’t have a challenger is another day she can build her fundraising advantage. Candidates must le to run before they can start raising money.
Caraveo’s campaign began April with about $300,000 in the bank.
e 8th District is expected to be the GOP’s best shot at ipping a seat of consequence in Colorado next year, and the outcome of the contest could help decide which party controls the U.S. House.
A number of Republican politicians are weighing whether to toss their hat into the ring, including Kirkmeyer.
“I’m still considering it,” Kirkmeyer told e Colorado Sun last week. “I haven’t said that I’m going to and I haven’t ruled it out at this point.”
She plans to make a decision by July 4. If she makes another congressional bid, she’ll have to forgo running for reelection to another four-year term in the state Senate, where she is a member of the powerful Joint Budget Committee. Repub-
Colorado Republicans are looking for a candidate to challenge U.S. Representative Yadira Caraveo, the representative from District 8, Colorado’s newest House district. FILE PHOTO
licans, however, are in a 23-12 minority in the chamber, and they aren’t expected to take control of the Senate after the 2024 election.
e GOP’s next real shot at taking power in the Colorado Senate will be in the 2026 election.
State Rep. Gabe Evans, of Fort Lupton, is also mulling an 8th District bid.
“I haven’t said ‘yes.’ I haven’t said ‘no,’” he said. “I can de nitively tell you I have no concrete plans right now. Everybody and their brother has been reaching out to me.”
Another Republican considering a bid for the seat is Weld County Commissioner Scott James.
“I have received numerous inquiries from folks and have been asked to run,” he said. “I’m honored by the encouragement and am taking the time to discuss this with my colleagues and my family.”
Weld County Commissioner Steve Moreno and former state Rep. Dan Woog, of Erie, are taking a look, too.
“ ere are multiple seats I’m keeping my eye on,” said Woog, who narrowly lost reelection to the state House last year, “but I haven’t taken
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steps toward any at this point in time.”
Moreno said an 8th District bid is on the table.
“I’ve had some encouragement,” he said. “I’ve had some conversations.”
Politico suggested last month that Joe O’Dea, the Denver construction company owner who made an unsuccessful 2022 U.S. Senate bid, is considering whether to make a run in the 8th District.
e Sun con rmed he is interested, but hasn’t taken any steps toward launching a campaign.
One big hold up: O’Dea lives in the Cherry Hills Village/Greenwood Village area, far from the 8th District’s boundaries. While congressional candidates don’t have to live in the district they are running to represent, O’Dea would almost certainly be painted as a carpetbagger by opponents if he launched a bid to unseat Caraveo. at fact reduces the likelihood he would jump into the race.
O’Dea’s federal campaign account — which remains active — had about $50,000 in it at the start of April. He gave millions to his campaign. O’Dea lost to Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet last year by 15 percentage points.
e GOP primary in the 8th District will be held on June 25, 2024.
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Automated speed-enforcement cameras could become far more common across Colorado under a bill signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis this month.
e legislation was supported by transportation safety advocates and Democratic lawmakers who argued more speed and red light enforcement cameras would lead to lower speeds and safer roads. Tra c deaths across the state hit a 40-year high in 2022 of 745 fatalities.
e bill allows local governments to use such cameras in more places, including busy — and deadly — arterial roads like Federal Boulevard in the Denver area. It also lifts a limit that required police o cers to station speed cameras while they were in use. Denver o cials have said they support the bill.
“We need help,” city tra c engineer Emily Gloeckner said in May. “We don’t have the resources to be out there with a huge level of enforcement.”
e cameras are unpopular with some motorists. But research suggests they are indeed useful tools in improving road safety.
“Speeding vehicles are one of the most common concerns we hear in the cycling community, and it is a major factor contributing to crashes and fatalities on Colorado’s roads,” Bicycle Colorado Executive Direc-
tor Peter Piccolo wrote in an email. “We are pleased that the Governor prioritized road safety and signed this bill.”
e sponsors said they crafted the bill to “thread the needle” of safety needs and civil liberties. For example: First-time, minor o enders of speed limits would only be issued a warning. e bill caps speeding nes at $40, though that can double for violations near schools. Signal violations would be limited to $75.
e bill also prevents a given government from “immobilizing” a vehicle if its owner doesn’t pay nes, and citations would not lead to points against a driver’s license.
Some Republicans worried the increased use of cameras would create a “surveillance state” and said local governments might use them to generate revenue.
“ ere’s a perverse incentive to do these,” state Rep. Ken DeGraaf, RColorado Springs, said during a oor debate in May.
e Senate sponsor, however, told CPR News in March that the low ne amounts were chosen to ght the perception that the cameras were merely money makers.
“ is isn’t about revenue, this is about safety,” said state Sen. Faith Winter, D-Westminster.
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During a recent trip to Chicago, I got a heavy dose of reality vs. perception. Part of that is due to media coverage which, in my opinion, is part of why trust in the industry I love and value is at an all-time low.
Before taking the trip with my husband and son, my brother, who lives in Texas, asked if I packed my bulletproof vest.
He was referring to the constant media reports about the shootings and crime in Chicago. Given some media reports — he thought you get o a plane and take cover.
I must admit, I didn’t know what to expect in getting the rental car and hitting the streets to head downtown where my son had some big dream of touching the famous massive bean sculpture. For context, it was from a YouTube video he had watched.
We got downtown and found the huge silver bean and my son touched it. We walked around, crossed streets, and did some shopping. e parks were lovely. e area where kids were playing in a fountain and splash pad were full and vibrant.
You see — the reality is Chicago is nothing like I had imagined from ongoing media reports over the last few years. In fact, I was sad in seeing a vibrant downtown Chicago and comparing it to Denver.
On a recent brewery hopping trip with my brother — Denver’s downtown did not instill any con dence. In our day of walking all over the area, from Coors Field to a few miles away — I saw a lot of problems.
For one, here in Denver, I saw people using drugs on the wide-open sidewalk. To say I was completely unnerved to see that needle and spoon is an understatement.
As kids played in the water and ran around the park in Chicago, I thought about how there is no way I will, at this point, take my children to downtown Denver. A favorite pastime for my family used to be heading down to the 16th Street Mall and exploring the stores and walking and enjoying a nice day.
Today — with boarded-up buildings and an unsafe atmosphere — I will not take my children to my own city’s downtown.
We sit back and hear media reports and judge other cities, but really, the reality is our own backyard needs attention. Downtown Denver and the region need true solutions to our homeless, crime and drug issues.
I feel like everything I write about these days leads right back to this — If our state does not start addressing growing problems in car thefts, drugs, homelessness, and cost of living — families are going to keep leaving.
I know the reality is Chicago probably has a “bad side of town” that I didn’t get to see. However, over three days of traveling to various ice-skating rinks and touring the city — I changed my tune about the Windy City and became a lot more concerned with my own.
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It was right before the pandemic of 2020 was announced. My wife and I had the opportunity to participate in a certi cation program put on by the Zig Ziglar Corporation. It is a program called Ziglar Legacy Certi cation, or ZLC for those who have gone through it and graduated. Although I was the previous president of the company, and knew the content in depth, I wanted to share this experience with my wife and carry the o cial designation as a Ziglar Legacy Certi ed trainer and coach.
e group that we joined was a ectionately known as ZLC23, as we were the 23rd group to complete the certi cation. On the very rst day we met our classmates, each came up with their own story, their business story, their
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personal story, and then there was their life story. We met Jessica, Shelly, Marvin, Sundiata, JillMarie, Brent, David, Amy, Jerrod, and a few others. But there was one woman who stood out amongst the rest, Jill. Jill’s smile, enthusiasm, and passion for wanting to complete the program and to begin helping others was contagious. Her energy and intentionality for being a di erence maker in the lives of others was abundantly clear. Her purpose and mission for attending were evident in how she participated in the learning through role playing, table exercise, and group discussions. I remember sitting next to her for two of those group discussions and table exercises. And I remember walking away from both feeling the impact of her presence and contributions to the conversations.
One of these exercises required us to share at our table what we liked, appreciated, or
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After the initial shock of seeing an animal struck on the road, an elk entangled in a net (or basketball goal, hammock, or holiday lights), your mind might race to the question, “What should I do?”
Here is your answer and it’s all wrapped up in 4 characters: *277.
Why that number?
Colorado State Patrol (CSP) operates a nonemergency phone line, *CSP (which is *277). While human-related emergency calls should always be sent to 911, the CSP non-emergency number can be used for wildlife emergencies.
What are wildlife emergencies?
Animals that are injured and need immediate assistance are appropriate issues for a *277 call. Humanwildlife con icts, such as an animal attack or car crash, should be sent to 911.
When nearby and not involved in another call, CSP troopers or CPW o cers may respond to *277 calls about herds of elk that are moving
slowly across Highway 74 and are blocking tra c for long periods of time. In this case, the trooper or ofcer will calm tra c but are not allowed to interfere with the animals’ progress across the road for safety reasons.
What happens when I call *277?
Just like a 911 dispatcher, the *277 dispatcher will ask pertinent questions and will contact the appropriate agency to respond to the wildlife emergency. e dispatcher knows the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) o cers, CSP trooper, Je co Sheri ’s deputy or Evergreen Fire/ Rescue responders on duty.
Why not call Colorado Parks and Wildlife, county animal control or a wildlife rehabilitator directly?
While those are all options, calling *277 will allow a dispatcher to make the determination of which organization is appropriate to respond to that wildlife emergency, and *277 is always available.
What about nights and weekends?
Dialing *277 is an excellent option because the caller does not have to be concerned with knowing an agency’s o ce hours. People may have di culty thinking clearly when facing an emergency involving a su ering animal, and dialing *277 is
simple and fast.
When is *277 not the right choice?
Do not call *277 when:
You see dead animals or roadkill (the state or county road crews will likely remove them, but you may also contact them to report the carcass) unless the carcass is a human safety issue, such as blocking tra c. You have wildlife questions of a non-emergency nature (call CPW or another wildlife-based agency or nonpro t during o ce hours)
Other important details concerning animals in the road:
Wildlife carcasses discovered on personal property are the responsibility of the property owner. Options are calling a carcass removal company or in some cases, the animal may be harvested for which a permit
from CPW is required.
CPW asks that residents experiencing bear encounters contact the appropriate CPW o ce to report the incident. Sta will share important information with the callers, such as how to bearproof the home and how to haze the animal, with the goal of preventing bears and other wildlife from feeling comfortable near homes. Bears that associate food with humans may become increasingly aggressive. Regretfully, when a bear breaks into a home, he is then considered a danger to human beings and may be put down by CPW o cers.
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loved about someone else we had gotten to know during the week. We had to write it down privately on a note, and then read it out loud before handing it to the person at our table that we were writing about. I will share with you that the person reading the note and receiving the compliments was usually in tears, happy tears. As it was Jill’s turn to be the center of attention, we all eagerly wrote our messages of love, a ection, and appreciation. And as we all read our note, the consistency was unreal; Jill was light, love, passionate, determined, a role model of success, bright, beautiful, and someone who exuded the desire to help others.
Why am I sharing this story? Sadly, Jill passed away suddenly last month. Her beautiful smile to never grace this earth again, but that will bless the halls of heaven for eternity. ose of us who knew her well, knew all sides of Jill as we had three plus years to share calls, Zoom calls, webinars, texts, and emails. Some of us got to see her and be with her since we graduated ZLC23. And there wasn’t any one of us who didn’t appreciate her e orts to worry more about us and how we were doing than how she was personally doing herself.
As the news hit our ZLC23 class, we reached out to one another for
comfort and understanding; it’s one of the things that happen when you become Ziglar certi ed and connect with your classmates, you graduate as di erence makers in the personal, professional, and spiritual lives of everyone you have the opportunity to meet. And Jill epitomized that mission and purpose, she changed us all. Even when she was going through life’s challenges herself, she was the rst one to respond to a prayer request, jump into a conversation, or ask a meaningful question during a podcast or webinar.
Jill was a di erence maker. I write this column as a tribute to Jill, a true ZLC’er class of ‘23. I write this to remind us that we all have something to give to others regardless of how short or long our lives here on earth are. We can smile, be kind, show our passion, know our purpose, and simply care about the person sitting across from us in the moment, because that is who Jill was, a living example to us all.
Is there someone who you need to tell how awesome they are before they are gone? Did this tribute connect with you? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail. com, and when we can remember those who left their ngerprints of love and light on our lives, it really will be a better than good life.
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Be Studio is an all-inclusive space for people young and old to feel the music and express themselves. For dancers who want to break out of the traditional dance studio format, the international company based in Denver could be a dream come
Striving to bring the magic of global movement to people in Colorado, Caitlin BroznaSmith founded the dance studio that brings a piece of global culture along with self-expression and con dence with each class.
“It was so important to include people from where these cultures are sourced,” said Brozna-Smith. “I found people from Polynesia to teach Polynesian dance… teachers from Iran. We really have this beautiful, electric group of dancers from all over the
Among a multitude of dance styles, students can learn the soft style of Hula ‘Auana, Tahitian dance, Bollywood, Belly Dancing, adult ballet and Ginga Vibe, which draws on styles from the African Diaspora including Funk, Afro-Caribe, Dance Hall, Soca, Lambada and Samba. e studio also o ers Taiji Fit, a halfhour mind and low-impact body workout that combines traditional T’ai Chi with mindfulness and modern Western tness. Inspired by the Bollywood style of dance, BollyX Fitness is a 50-minute cardio workout and GROOV3 Hip Hop Dance Fitness.
Within the Bella Diva studio, both the
teaching sta and students are multinational. e dance teachers come from ve di erent countries and teach a range of students from 29 di erent countries.
To bring as much authentic culture into Denver, many teachers have gone abroad to study di erent styles of dance.
“ e people (teachers) who are not native from the cultures that we’re teaching travel and learn from the source because it’s really important that we do cultural appreciation and cultural exchange,” Brozna-Smith said.
Samba
Samba, the high energy and fast footwork style is not just a dance form, it is a lifestyle. ose who teach Samba at Bella Diva make sure they are staying true to the culture and teach the students the history of where the dance originated.
teach countries. styles (teachers) the from source appreciation exchange,” Brozna-Smith abso-
“I am very careful when I am teaching my students because I am not Brazilian, it is not my culture, but it is something that I am absolutely fascinated with and love,” said instructor Chelsi Vecchiavelli. “I spend a lot of time outside of class researching, asking experts, listening to podcasts, consulting my mentors who are Brazilian and who are my teachers.”
Born out of the slave trade when it was down in Brazil, Samba was a means of hope and joy and is a dance of resistance and raises up against oppression.
Samba schools have often been located in a favela, which is the poor neighborhoods within Rio De Janeiro. Vecchiavelli said there is
a big connection between the people and the culture, which is something she wanted to bring back to her classes in the U.S.
Since spending time in Brazil earlier this year, Vecchiavelli has implemented a sense of community within her classes.
e class starts with a warm-up, which can di er each week, but tends to be drill focused. Students start to move their bodies by working on hip movements, endurance and strengthening the ankles.
After warming up, the class begins to stretch out every part of their body to help prevent injuries. e class then moves to work on technique, whether it is adding the ourishes of the arms during Samba no pé or gaining speed and endurance for the style.
In Brozna-Smith’s Samba class, her students warm up to the upbeat rhythm of the drums.
Just as Brozna-Smith has her students perform for one another during the class, Vecchiavelli has integrated improvisation at the end of her class. e students gather in a circle and with an energetic song playing, they dance with each other.
e end of class time is not about technique or who has the best footwork, it’s about connecting with one another as that is what the culture is about. Western dancers are often trained to perform, but this style of dance is about looking each other in the eyes, singing and embracing the joy that comes along with Samba.
“We need to recognize that we’re dancing it from a place of privilege,” said Vecchiavelli. “We’re not able to connect to it in the same way that people in Brazil can, and so I try to make sure that we at least know the context of it.”
For an hour each week, men take part in a high-intensity, choreographybased workout. Led by Kyle Kastner, the group’s heart rate increases and sweat pours down as Kastner focuses on moving fast.
Having been the only consistent man who danced at Bella Diva for eight years, Kastner felt the need to bring more men into the fold, as male representation in dance in America is not as strong as in other cultures.
Kastner believes the American culture is dismissive and even undermining of male dancers.
“I actually think that it is incredibly masculine to dance, and when you look at other cultures around the world, dance is ingrained,” Kastner said. “It’s not gendered. ere may be gender norms within it, but gender is not important.”
With the goal of creating a space for men to feel free to use their bodies in a creative way, Kastner created Bella Bro World Dance. ere are about eight individuals who are regulars to the class. Kasnter gains inspiration for his class
from Bollywood and Brazilian Samba no pé. It is not just the energy that those styles of dance bring but embracing the masculinity of the Indian culture and bridging the gap between di erent stylings that is being shown in Samba no pé.
Bella Bro World Dance recently worked on a piece inspired by a lm based on a true story. e character they are portraying was a great warrior and fought in battles. Although it appears that the dancers are not doing much, their moves are incredibly complex and take a lot of strength to complete. roughout the class, the students started to learn how to move their bodies in new and challenging ways and discover things about themselves, Kastner said. e class also helps rede ne what masculinity is and shift the focus from a toxic idea of masculinity to a much more embracing, accepting idea of what it could be.
In his class, he helps the students learn how to use their inherent male privilege as a superpower for good.
“ at’s something I’ve de nitely been working with the men on is understanding that just because we are men, we have privilege that others don’t,” said Kasnter. “And then especially if we are white men with privilege that others don’t (have), to use that in a bene cial positive way for society and community as a whole.”
instructor of the Iranian Persian style of dance in Colorado, Delsie KhademGhaeini is honored to represent her community and to be a vessel for cultural outreach by sharing Iranian culture through dance.
In Iranian culture, there are a couple of di erent stylizations of dance as there are di erent minority groups and languages, all of the groups have their own folk dancing and style of dancing. e style Khadem-Ghaeini teaches is not a regional style of dance in Iran, it is shared across all of those cultures.
Iranian culture is deeply rooted in poetry, therefore, a lot of the music has poetry in it.
Khadem-Ghaeini said the style she teaches is more of a staged kind of style of dancing, a style that is closely related to what is seen in current pop styles of dance. She focuses on the quality of the movements. e movements are more structured and re ned compared to some of the more theatrical styles of dancing.
“Depending on what region they’re from, there might be dance movements that are associated to the kind of farming that they might have done or in the southern region, along the Persian Gulf, there may be dance movements that are related to shing,” Khadem-Ghaeini said.
Her classes focus on connecting with the music by using the uidity of the arms, hands and wrists, which can be very emotive. One form of movement that di erentiates the Iranian style of dance from other styles that also use
arms and hands is the use and curving of the spine. e combination of the arm, hand and spinal curves is subtle to the eye.
According to Khadem-Ghaeini, the aesthetics of Iranian culture has a lot of curves and a lot of geometry. Many of the shapes in the body that dancers create are very curved, even mirroring the way Persian calligraphy curves and moves are showing up in dance.
Another important piece of Iranian Persian dancing is learning the history of Iranian culture and sending messages and making statements. With the current revolutions taking place in Iran, Khadem-Ghaeini and her students performed at the University of Denver, choosing songs that relate to the woman-led revolutions.
“When I’m dancing, it’s a much deeper connection to music,” said Khadem-Ghaeini. “It’s not just about trying to hit my body a certain way that that music hits… but the poetry and the music that has like thousands of years of history, that is part of Iranian culture, to me, every time I do a performance is deeply involved for me.”
Being a student at Bella Diva World Dance
Having studied dance since she was a little girl, Elizabeth Buckius has trained in di erent kinds of studios with strict teachers in traditional ballet. She said that Bella Diva is the most welcoming, supportive and caring studio.
Students at the Denver-based studio are of all ages, all orientations and all shapes and sizes. e people bring an electric energy into the studio and by embracing the cultural aspect of the di erent styles of dance, everyone — from sta to students to the costume designer — has created a strong community within the walls of the studio, according to Buckius and sta at the studio.
“What makes us unique is also what makes us stronger,” said Brozna-Smith. “We’re able to really learn empathy by putting ourselves in somebody else’s shoes or position and life.”
Along with the positive and supportive energy in each classroom, there is a lot of curiosity as well. e studio focuses on learning about different cultures and becoming a global citizen. Buckius said it’s a great way to learn about other parts of the world.
Bella Diva also focuses on being body positive and being a healthy place for dancers. And with such multicultural sta and students at the studio, the studio has become a strong and vibrant community in Denver and internationally.
“We really want to be rooted in the actual traditions that we’re studying,” said Buckius. “So even though we’re here in Colorado, we want to make sure we’re connecting with the actual traditions at the world dance studio.”
Bella Diva World Dance Studio is located at 4309 E. Mississippi Ave. Glendale, CO 80246. For more information, visit belladivadance.com.
Colorado cities and counties will soon be prohibited from imposing population and residential growth limits under a bill signed by Gov. Jared Polis this month.
House Bill 1255 will also repeal existing growth caps enacted in Lakewood, Boulder and Golden when it takes e ect in August.
“We know we have more work to do to make sure that all our communities are part of the solution, but what this bill does is it says no community can be part of the problem any longer,” Polis said before signing the bill.
e bill was introduced as a companion measure to Senate Bill 213, which would have rewritten land-use rules across the state and was the governor’s signature e ort at the Capitol this year to encourage more a ordable housing. But Senate Bill 213 failed on the nal day of the 2023 legislative session, leaving House Bill 1255 as one of the only major housing bills approved by the General Assembly and signed into law this year.
Rep. William Lindstedt, D-Broomeld, one of the prime sponsors of House Bill 1255, said while the measure was aimed at assisting the various elements of Senate Bill 213,
it still will have an impact.
“It really does point the nger at the worst kind of action that you can see from a local government to limit housing,” he said.
House Bill 1255 aims to address the availability of housing by stripping local governments’ ability to limit how much new housing can be added to their communities.
“Anti-growth laws enacted by local governments severely undermine the ability to construct the additional housing units Coloradans need,” the legislative declaration in the bill said.
e bill will require that local governments at least have a hearing for new developments before deciding whether to reject them, Lindstedt
said.
“ e impact is big with (the) cities being preempted, but the larger impact is that other communities can’t get on that policy and make the problem worse,” he said.
Local governments across the state were strongly opposed to both House Bill 1155 and Senate Bill 213, calling them an overreach by the state and complaining that they would prevent communities from deciding how to address their unique needs.
House Bill 1255, however, didn’t receive nearly as much attention — or blowback — as its counterpart.
“ at one got overshadowed by the clearly more sweeping Senate Bill 213,” said Kevin Bommer, executive director of the Colorado Municipal League.
Still, the Colorado Municipal League, which represents cities and towns across the state, viewed House Bill 1255 as a similar attack on local control.
Elected o cials in Pitkin, San Miguel, Routt, Summit and Huerfano counties signed a joint letter opposing the bill in May. Mayors and council members in Aspen and Fountain signed on as well.
“ is bill responds to the policies of four Colorado municipalities, but strips away critical tools utilized by local governments across the state to actually achieve a ordable housing, reduce sprawl and incentivize the prudent planning of water, natural resources and infrastructure development,” the letter said.
e letter argued the bill could harm the state’s water supply, rural lands and agricultural areas, and that it failed to encourage any new a ordable housing.
e bill o ers temporary exemptions for local governments that need to develop their infrastructure, including water services, to accom-
modate growth. Also excluded from the ban are areas with inclusionary housing ordinances, which require a certain amount of a ordable housing to be built each year, and local governments that have recently experienced a natural disaster and have been inundated with new construction requests, such as the town of Superior, which was hard hit by the 2021 Marshall re.
Golden’s growth cap, which limits residential development to 1% each year, was approved by voters in 1995. is year, the cap permitted only 88 new units.
Lakewood’s cap, which was approved by voters in 2019, has the same 1% restriction per year. In 2022, about 700 units were permitted.
Boulder has the same cap, which allows about 400 new units each year. It was originally enacted in the city in 1975 with a 2% limit then was reduced further to 1% in 1995. e bill’s other sponsors are Rep. Ruby Dickson, D-Greenwood Village and Sen. Julie Gonzales, DDenver.
June 7 was the deadline for Polis to sign or veto any bills passed by the legislature during its 2023 lawmaking term, which ended May 8. House Bill 1255 was the nal measure to receive a bill signing ceremony, which Polis said was intentional because he thinks the measure is so important.
Any bills the governor doesn’t veto or sign will automatically become law at midnight.
is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.
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BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Great beer with a great concept is what took Christopher Belila from a Fiction Beer Company customer to an employee and, nally, a proprietor.
“It’s something unique,” the majority owner of Parker’s newest brewery and taphouse told Colorado Community Media. “Fiction Beer: books, beer, book clubs, book sales.”
Hours after receiving its liquor license on May 23, Fiction Beer Company Parker debuted in the former home of Welcome Home Brewery near the intersection of Hess Road and South Parker Road. It was “absolutely thrilling” to see his bar in action and customers occupying its padded vegan leather seats, enjoying themselves, Belila said. He sold 251 pours that rst evening.
e 2,600-square-foot space in the Country Meadows Square shopping center is Fiction Beer Company’s second location. e rst, owned by Ryan and Christa Kilpa trick, opened in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood in 2014.
Both places pay homage not just to the craft of making beer but to the literary world as well. Each taproom has a bar adorned with the spines of real books, a lending library and a list of beers inspired by literary works.
In addition to bar seating, a long community table and plenty of two tops, the Parker spot has a few reading nooks, complete with cozy chairs, and a living-room-like setup behind the brewery’s double-sided replace.
Fiction Beer Company Parker is at 19523 Hess Road in Parker. It’s open seven days a week — from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 2 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Sunday.
“I like to call us a brewery lounge. … We wanted it to have a very comfortable feeling where people just want to spend time drinking great beer,” Belila said of the interior’s clean lines and sleek nishes that he designed
BY ERIC GALATAS PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE
Colorado ranks third nationally when it comes to caring for its most vulnerable adults, according to a new UnitedHealthcare report.
e strong showing can largely be attributed to the state’s lower than average poverty rate for people aged 65 and older, and the choices people make every day.
Dr. Michael Stockman, market chief medical o cer for UnitedHealthcare, said Colorado seniors ranked rst in the U.S. for being physically active.
“And being physically active leads to lower risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and premature death,” Stockman outlined. “ e prevalence of obesity and chronic medical conditions for Colorado seniors is also some of the lowest in the nation.”
e biggest challenges facing Colorado seniors between 2019 and 2021 include the high cost of housing, a lack of investment in community sup-
port services, and a shortage of home health care workers.
e success is not shared evenly across the state. Older Coloradans living in southeastern counties experienced the greatest rates of social isolation, based on risk factors including poverty, marriage status and di culties involved with living independently.
Dr. Rhonda Randall, chief medical o cer of Employer and Individual for United Healthcare, said there has been an alarming increase in drug deaths across the U.S., mostly due to opioid overdoses. Colorado saw a 70% rise between 2019 and 2021.
“So that same troubling trend that we’re seeing across other populations in the United States is a ecting seniors too,” Randall explained. “A lot of people don’t think that seniors may be as a ected by substance use disorders and opioid use disorders, but they are.”
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BY CODY JONES SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
It was not that long ago when the only way to get down a mountain was on a pair of skis. Skiers used to dominate snowsports with no other competition and could have a ski day without having to worry about another “strange form” of getting down the slopes.
However, in the late ’80s, slopes started seeing rapid change with the rise of the snowboard. Turf wars ensued at ski areas across the country. e snowboard craze eventually leveled out at the end of the 20th century, and it is now common to see skis and snowboards in almost equal numbers on a chairlift. Nearly 40 years after snowboards emerged onto the snowsports scene, a new method of cruising down the mountain has arrived, and a Breckenridge-based company — Aloud Snowskates — is trying to make snowskates the next biggest trend on the mountain.
Much as snowboards were rst met with confusion and opposition from skiers, snowskates currently have both skiers and snowboarders not quite knowing what to think of a skateboard-type deck — with no bindings — fastened to the top of a ski.
Former professional skateboarder and Summit resident Eddie Sixberry was inspired to start Aloud Snowskates after riding several other companies’ snowskates. Sixberry, 60, enjoyed the concept of hauling down a piece of wood while only being attached by a leash fastened around his waist, but did not enjoy the feel of the snowskates currently on the market.
“I started snowskating around 2009, like all the time,” Sixberry said.
“ ere weren’t many available and there were only a handful of people doing it. I was a ski and ride instructor (at Breckenridge Ski Resort) and I was allowed to ride my skate in uniform. I didn’t like how the other skates performed. I started modifying stu .”
One of the biggest problems Sixberry ran into while riding other versions of snowskates is that the wooden top deck of the board would snap when he tried to land tricks o of terrain park jumps or natural side hits.
“I was breaking the tails on the jumps,” Sixberry said. “At the skatepark it is cool to break a board. You can walk to your car and leave, but if you break a board at the terrain park you have about a mile walk down. It sucked.”
As a result, Sixberry started designing a snowskate that was durable, strong, fun to ride on and could handle any terrain on the mountain. Sixberry designed a more durable board by changing the trucks of the board and partnering with Denver-based Folsom Custom Skis to provide a smooth-gliding ski for the subdeck.
Sixberry then assembled a crew consisting of his two sons — Andrew and Matt — along with other Summit County residents who all helped him o cially launch in 2019.
Each member of the “fun-having” and hardworking crew has their own role, with Eddie Sixberry being the main mastermind and fearless leader of the company, Andrew Sixberry being in charge of screen printing merchandise and overseeing online sales, Matt Sixberry designing the trucks of the snowskate, Rich Fisher of Rocky Mountain Tattoo Emporium designing the art
of merchandise and skates, and both PJ Parkinson and Jim James (Eddie Sixberry’s roommate) serving as the media, sales and events organizers. With each member of the team helping to make Aloud Snowskates the next big name in the snowsport market, the team now has six di erent snowskates for sale to the public.
Each board o ers riders a di erent experience, with some boards being geared towards fast and owy groomers while others are ideal for terrain park riding or moguls. Another aspect that makes Aloud Snowskates unique to skis and snowboards is that they are easily interchangeable to any rider with no prior tting or customization needed before barreling down the mountain.
One of the biggest obstacles Aloud is currently trying to navigate is making the public comfortable with seeing snowskates on the mountain.
“A lot of people haven’t even heard of snowskating until they see us,” Parkinson said. “ ey think we are on a snowboard because we are ying past them and going the same speed as skis and snowboards.”
Once introduced to what a snowskate even is, the Aloud crew is often then met with a fury of questions ranging from how does one ride and stay on one to how could you not injure yourself.
From the perspective of Sixberry and Parkinson — who both used to snowboard — snowskating does not di er much from its cousin, snowboarding. Snowskate users may not be fastened to the board via bindings or clips, but the grip tape on the top side of the board helps to keep riders attached to the board while the design of Aloud Snowskates’ skis allows them to carve almost identically to how one would on a snowboard.
“A lot of people who are used to snowboarding can just jump right on and start making turns,” Parkinson said. “Eddie is the rst person to make a snowskate that is that much like a snowboard.”
“When I got with Mike at Folsom, my main goal was to make these ride like a snowboard,” Sixberry said. “I wanted these to excel technologically so that it is allowed on mountains. So that it is recognized.”
Although falls can still happen on
a snowskate, not being clipped in allows riders to slide out on their back or run o the board instead of crashing their knees into the snow and ice like on a snowboard.
Sixberry said once people can get over the initial fears associated with a snowskate, they often nd joy with experiencing their favorite mountain all over again.
“It makes it really exciting when you are on the blues and greens again learning,” Sixberry said. “It is reissuing the challenge.”
Over the past few years, Aloud Snowskates has started to make its presence known in Summit County, with products being seen on and o the mountain and sold at snowboard shops like Breckenridge’s Underground Snowboards.
Sixberry and Aloud have also branched out to Breckenridge Ski Area, hosting clinics for ski school instructors to learn how to safely ride a snowskate.
“We have done three clinics so far with the Breckenridge Ski School,” Sixberry said. “ at kind of started because every time we rode past the ski school the whole class is looking. Now they can tell their students that I have ridden them and they are pretty cool. All we are trying to do is put the pieces of the circle together and make a bigger circle.”
Ultimately, Sixberry’s dream is to make snowskates the next common mode of transportation down the mountain, with Aloud being the go-to brand. Snowskates are currently allowed at several ski resorts in and near Summit County, but are not allowed at every ski resort in the country. Sixberry hopes to change that in the next few years.
“We are reliving it, ” Sixberry said, comparing their work with snowskates to the historic e orts to legitimize snowboarding on the slopes.
“And it is really exciting to me. We are just a bunch of homies trying to pull it o .”
Aloud Snowskates has plans of growing its reach at the beginning of the 2023-24 winter season by hosting more clinics, team parties and other events.
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with part-owner and General Manager Mallory Gillette.
Fiction Beer Company focuses on lagers, IPAs and a rotating selection of both classic styles and experimental beers, according to its website.
e six-barrel system in Parker will be used for additional capacity and as a laboratory for experimenting with new recipes, Belila said.
Belila became a regular at Fiction in Denver not long after it opened and then a part-time employee, working behind the bar, in 2017. Last fall, he registered his company, e Beer Bodega LLC, with the state, and by December he was contemplating the purchase of Welcome Home Brewery’s assets. In January, he left the corporate training world where
Randall added nutrition is very important as we age, and the report’s data showed seniors saw signi cant improvements in food security during the pandemic. More people who were eligible signed up for SNAP bene ts, the program formerly known as food stamps, and other
he had worked for two decades. Bringing Fiction beer to Parker has been his full-time vocation ever since.
“ e ultimate goal for e Beer Bodega is to help take great breweries and help them expand to the suburbs,” Belila said.
Fiction in Parker has several events planned to draw in customers not already familiar with their beer. Its grand opening weekend begins June 1 with a ribbon-cutting and features a variety of live music over the next three days. On June 10, it’s hosting a book fair for adults in conjunction with local bookstore Books Are Awesome. Belila and Gillette are also working on a beer and shoe shine event for Father’s Day. Trivia and poker and other game nights may be coming as well.
“We’ve got all sorts of other fun stu that we’re working on that is designed to support Parker,” Belila said.
services designed to deliver food to homes.
“Food insecurity decreased 6%,” Randall reported, noting fewer seniors are worried about getting access to nutritious food, more seniors got home-delivered meals, and more seniors got assistance with meals.
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It’s a four-year-old mystery at the state Capitol.
Why does a bill that would deploy high-tech cameras to scan for potentially deadly wild res fail year-after-year despite universal praise from lawmakers from both sides of the aisle?
Equipped with arti cial intelligence and heat sensors, the cameras are steadily replacing an older warning system used in wild re areas that relied on humans scanning the horizon from watch towers.
State Sen. Joann Ginal, D-Fort Collins, said the new technology can give re ghters a key advantage.
“It can detect just a wisp of smoke, and it’s that type of situation in remote areas that could save forests and homes and properties and lives,” she said at the bill’s rst hearing this year.
Colorado lawmakers have tried and failed three times in the last four years to pass a bill to purchase the cameras. ey’ve also struggled to explain why such a bill has not passed.
Democrats blamed Republican libuster attempts of other bills at the very end of last year’s session for its death,
but that didn’t explain why Democrats didn’t schedule it for a key vote after it passed its rst test unanimously two months earlier.
is year’s revived version of the camera bill unanimously passed the Senate in April. But just like last year, the bill never got scheduled for that key vote in the House appropriations committee.
Republican Rep. Mike Lynch sponsored the bill and said he wasn’t told why it was being killed before a public vote.
“If there’s backroom stu that went on with it, I wasn’t privy to it,” he said last week.
KUNC discovered there was some “backroom stu ” that Lynch and the public weren’t aware of at the time. And it might help explain what happened.
In late March, Democrats who control the legislature privately ranked the legislation in a secret ballot process they call quadratic voting.
Democrats in the Senate, which passed the bill unanimously, ranked the bill as their no. 2 priority on a list of 25 bills requiring one time payments. On that same list, the House ranked the bill 15th of 25.
e results are anonymous though, so it isn’t clear which House members didn’t vote to prioritize the camera bill, and
why.
Lynch said Republicans don’t participate in the survey and aren’t given the results. Only Democrats received links to this year’s survey.
e results of the survey weren’t released to the public until almost a month after it was taken in response to an open records request .
Lynch says if he had known earlier that the cameras ranked at the bottom half of the House Democrats list of priorities, he would have fought harder to pass it.
“I think that that’s a pretty scary way of legislating,” he said of the anonymous bill ranking process. “You know, when you start putting something into a calculation, you now have taken some of the human aspects…or the subjectivity out of there.”
Sen. Chris Hansen, D-Denver, introduced the secret bill ranking survey to the Capitol in 2019 as a way to help Democrats decide how to spend a limited budget. He told KUNC last year that bills that rank higher tend to get scheduled for votes earlier in the session.
“And the earlier something gets moved, the better chance it has of success,” he said. “If it gets held up or delayed, there’s always more risk.”
Some lawmakers have
downplayed the in uence of the secret survey, saying it doesn’t determine what legislation lives or dies.
A KUNC analysis of the outcome of the bills included in the secret survey shows a pattern.
Bills with higher price tags that ranked at the bottom of the survey typically had funding removed, were voted down or left to die without a public vote more often than the bills that ranked at the top of the survey.
Rep. Lynch says the Democrats’ survey process raises questions and could help explain why his push to buy wild re cameras suddenly died this year without a public vote.
“Especially a bill that (passed) unanimous out of the Senate,” he said. “ at kind of raises an eyebrow going, ‘wait a minute, where was the pushback on this?’”
Lawmakers did pass several other wild re-related bills this year, including a new militarygrade re ghting helicopter and investments in ameresistant building materials.
Rep. Junie Joseph, D-Boulder, co-sponsored the failed camera bill with Lynch.
She said it was unique because it was one of the only policies focused on prevent-
ing res from getting out of control.
“We know, for instance, the Marshall Fire actually spread pretty quickly,” she said. “Imagine if we had more of (the cameras)...Could we have gotten gotten to it quick, much (more) quickly.”
Joseph says she’s committed to sponsoring the wild re camera bill again next year.
“I’m disappointed that community members do not have that extra tool or, you know, in their toolbox to help them when it comes to mitigating a wild re,” she said last week. e wild re detection camera program would have cost $2 million, while the new reghting helicopter lawmakers ordered will cost $26 million. Some wild- re prone places aren’t waiting for the legislature to pay for the cameras. O cials in San Miguel County in southwestern Colorado announced they are installing four of them this year to scan for res.
e state forester’s o ce estimated in 2019 that 2.9 million Coloradans, or more than half the state’s population, lived in areas that are prone to wild re.
is KUNC story via e Associated Press’ Storyshare, of which Colorado Community Media is a member.
Public Notice
DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-1 LEGAL NOTICE OF PROPOSED SCHOOL BUDGET
Notice is hereby given that, at a properly noticed public meeting on May 23, 2023, a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Education of Douglas County School District RE-1, Douglas and Elbert Counties, Colorado, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2023, and has been filed in the principal administrative offices of the School District, 620 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, 80104, and online at the Douglas County School District website at www.dcsdk12.org, where it is available for public inspection.
Formal adoption of the proposed budget will be considered at the regular meeting of the Board of Education, at the Wilcox Administration Building, Castle Rock, Colorado on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Any person paying school taxes in said district may either at such June 20, 2023 meeting, or at any
Dated: May 23, 2023
Ronnae Brockman Board of Education Assistant Secretary Legal Notice No. 25005 First Publication: June
Last Publication: June 15, 2023 Publisher: Elbert County News
TRUST, c/o Patty McDonald, 954 White Leaf Circle, Castle Rock, CO 80108. James J. Petrock, Eric K. Trout, Hayes Poznanovic Korver LLC, 700 17th Street, Suite 1800, Denver, CO 80202.
APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER
RIGHTS FROM NONTRIBUTARY SOURCES IN THE LOWER DAWSON, DENVER, ARAPAHOE AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS AND NOT-NONTRIBUTARY SOURCES IN THE UPPER DAWSON AQUIFER IN ELBERT COUNTY.
Subject Property: 40 acres generally located in the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 23, Township 10 South, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M., also known as 1506 County Road 86, Elbert, CO, 80106, as shown on Exhibit A (“Subject Property”). Applicant is the sole owner of the Subject Property and has provided notice to all mortgage and lien holders as required under C.R.S. § 37-92-302(2)
acre-feet)
Upper Dawson (NNT)* 19.70
Lower Dawson (NT) 13.01 Denver (NT) 16.86
Arapahoe (NT) 19.94
Laramie-Fox Hills (NT)11.98
* The total estimated amount of Upper Dawson Aquifer groundwater is 21.70 acre-feet per year.
other and further relief as is appropriate. 3 pages.
THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
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Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MAY 2023 for each County affected.
2023CW3048 MCDONALD REVOCABLE
(b). Well Permits: There are currently two wells on the Subject Property operating under Well Permit Nos. 82790 and 82828. These wells will continue to operate under their existing permits. Additional well permits will be applied for prior to construction of additional wells. Source of Water Rights: The Upper Dawson Aquifer is not-nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.7), and the Lower Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers are nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.5). Estimated Amounts: Applicant estimates that the following annual amounts may be available for withdrawal based on a 100-year withdrawal period:
2 acre-feet are withheld from this adjudication for use by Well Permit Nos. 82790 and 82828 (1 acre-foot per year for each well). Proposed Use: Use, reuse, and subsequent use for domestic, including in-house use, commercial, irrigation, livestock watering, industrial, fire protection, and augmentation and replacement purposes, including storage, both on and off the Subject Property. Jurisdiction: The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37-90-137(6), 37-92-203(1), 37-92-302(2). Remarks: Applicant claims the right to withdraw more than the average annual amounts estimated in Paragraph 5 above pursuant to Rule 8A of the Statewide Rules, 2 C.C.R. 402-7. Applicant requests the right to revise the estimates upward or downward, based on better or revised data, without the necessity of amending this application or republishing the same. Applicant requests the Court approve the above underground water rights, 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 under any vested water right or decreed conditional water right, and grant such
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 Statement 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 JULY 2023 (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.
Legal Notice No. 25008
First Publication: June 15, 2023 Last Publication: June 15, 2023
