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Crime rose in 2021, police say

How Littleton’s Bemis Library became a resource for the unhoused

Some offenses at a six-year high

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Police for the City of Englewood are reporting that crime was higher in 2021 than 2020, with the number of some crimes being committed at a six-year high.

The data falls largely in line with statewide trends that showed crime was up in 2021 compared with years prior, though the reasons remain varied.

The data was presented during an Englewood City Council meeting March 28 during which police department heads asked council for additional funding to hire more staff that they said was desperately needed.

“Getting fully staffed is a primary goal,” said Englewood Police Chief Sam Watson. “We can show that adding more police officers ... adds to visibility, it adds to safety, it adds to rapid response, it adds to crime reduction, and those are all that we’re trying to accomplish.”

Overall, the number of crimes

Nixing of sleeping ban, emphasis on training create safe space

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say about an alleged $50 million fee Tri-County Health and the counties may owe to another government body if counties continue to pull out.

At issue is a payment that the health agency may eventually owe to the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association, or PERA, which provides retirement and other benefits to employees of government agencies and public entities in Colorado.

When Mark Raburn goes to Bemis Library in Littleton, he likes to read history books.

“I’ve studied war stories since I was like 6-years-old, that’s how I learned to read,” Raburn said.

Raburn, 56, has been homeless ever since he was evicted from his apartment near the University of Denver during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. With no job and short on cash, Raburn relies on places like Bemis to stay warm, brush his teeth and take his mind off the world.

“The library staff is better at Bemis, they actually let you sleep,” said Raburn, who drifts between Littleton and Englewood. “Englewood will run you out if your eyes even just close.”

For Raburn and others experiencing homelessness in the region, Littleton’s library has become a refuge and a resource, though it has faced some unease from the community for doing so.

“There started to be some pushback from other parts of the community about not wanting to see people experiencing homelessness when they themselves came to use the

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GRAPHICS BY ROBERT TANN / MADE WITH DATAWRAPPER

committed within the city in 2021 was 4,499, up from 3,743 in 2020, according to the department. Of that, police separated the crimes into three main categories.

Property crimes, which make up the vast majority of crimes and include arson, burglary, property damage and thefts, totaled 3,618,

up from 3,033.

Crimes against a person, which include murder, kidnapping, sex crimes, intimidation and assault, were at 684, up from 480 in 2020.

And crimes against society, which include drug offenses, SEE CRIME, P10

Lawsuit looms over cost of Tri-County Health breakup Court case for $50 million highlights Douglas County agreement

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Out of all the political controversy the coronavirus has caused in Colorado, the pullout of Douglas County from the Tri-County Health Department — and the domino effect it had on Adams and Arapahoe counties — may be the action that

ends up having the biggest consequences on some metro Denver governments.

The costs of Arapahoe and Adams counties pulling away from Tri-County Health could be in the millions. And the situation could get a whole lot more expensive — possibly for all three counties — depending on what a court has to

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South Platte River cleanup South Platte Renew (SPR) — the sewage treatment plant in Englewood co-owned by Littleton — is hosting the annual River Clean-Up event between April 11 and April 23. Building off the success of last year’s virtual event, this year will be a hybrid of do-it-yourself throughout the two weeks, leading up to the clean-up of Centennial Park on Saturday, April 23, from 9 a.m. to noon.

This year’s goal is to collect 250 bags of trash and recycling throughout the event. SPR asks volunteers to share photos of their clean-up efforts and the total number of bags collected with Erin Bartlett at ebartlett@englewoodco. gov.

SPR will share Clean-Up progress online, and participants that register will be entered to win prizes.

Learn more at https://southplatterenewco.gov/community-event/ annual-earth-day-river-clean-up/.

Gift card scam alert The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents to be aware when purchasing gift cards in the area.

According to the department, gift cards with fake barcodes were found at a King Soopers in Centennial. A woman purchased a $500 Visa gift card only to find there were no funds on it.

Here’s how it works: Scammers are printing out their own barcodes and placing them over the actual gift card barcode at local retailers. When the card is activated, the money is added to the scammer’s card instead of the card being purchased.

What can you do to protect yourself?

• Examine the back of the gift card before you buy it and check for signs of tampering, like barcode stickers.

• Make sure the gift card’s barcode number, visible through the window on the back of the gift card’s packaging, matches the number on the packaging itself • Pick a gift card from the middle or back of the rack since they are less likely to have been tampered with.

Raising scholarship funds • This fall Broken Tee Golf Course is hosting a golf marathon in partnership with Folds of Honor. Funds raised will go to support scholarships for children and spouses whose service member has either fallen or has a combined service-connected disability rating through the VA. • Scholarship applications are now open for students wishing to apply. Apply today: https://foldsofhonor.org/scholarships/.

Eggstremely Springy Event On Saturday, April 9, at 10 a.m. the city of Engelwood will host the Eggstremely Spring Event at Belleview Park. The public is invited to come for an egg hunt at 10 a.m. and stay after to enjoy local vendors, crafts, games, food trucks, and more.

Neighborhood grant project Continuing Englewood’s vision of building strong and inclusive neighborhoods, the Neighborhood Resources Program invites neighborhood groups to submit grant proposals for the 2022 Neighborhood Improvement Grant. Neighborhood groups can apply for up to $3,000 for their neighborhood project. The most successful projects will bring neighbors together, celebrate your neighborhood’s unique character, engage skills and knowledge from neighbors and improve quality of life for your neighbors. It will also: • Establish central neighborhood gathering places that connect and help neighbors in happy times and in times of emergency SEE BRIEFS, P3

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Distribution issues wipe out Denver’s supply of overdose-reversing drugs

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

In mid-February, the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment (DDPHE) announced that Denver residents could order fentanyl testing strips and the opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone directly from the city, free of charge.

More than one month later, DDPHE has received nearly 4,500 requests for naloxone — often referred to as Narcan, a name-brand version of the drug — and fentanyl testing strips. Distribution issues, coupled with high demand, have resulted in just a few people receiving their orders.

In an email to Rocky Mountain PBS, DDPHE officials said the department does not have any naloxone in house.

“We have placed an order for more than 4,000 kits from the distributor, but they have not been shipped which tells us they likely do not have them in stock,” said Courtney Meihls, a marketing and communications specialist with DDPHE. Meihls said the free naloxone distribution program started in September 2021 but was more publicized in mid-February of this year, including by DDPHE. From September to mid-February, DDPHE received just 380 orders for naloxone. The department was able to fill those orders, but has become overwhelmed by the number of requests since mid-February.

“So the increase, while amazing because of the number of people who want to help their neighbors, is quite dramatic and depleted our supply in-house,” Meihls said. She could not provide an estimated date for when the city’s order would be filled.

The limited supply is a continuation of a problem that Rocky Mountain PBS reported on in November: individuals and organizations are struggling to

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obtain drugs like naloxone while the state’s opioid overdose crisis worsens.

From 2000 to 2020, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CPDHE) recorded 15,999 overdoses deaths in the state. Nearly one in five of those deaths occurred in Denver.

Drug overdose deaths in Colorado, per year, from 2000 to 2020.

(Credit: CDPHE) The crisis has only gotten worse: CDPHE recorded 1,757 total drug overdose deaths among Colorado residents in 2021, a record high.

Two-thirds of those deaths involved opioids.

In Denver, the surge in opioid deaths has been driven by fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller that is “similar to morphine but about 100 times more potent,” according to the Drug Enforcement Agency.

In 2021, 49.8% of drug-related deaths in Denver involved fentanyl. In 2019, for comparison, that figure was 24.9%.

Demand for the overdose-reversing drugs in Denver rose after five people died of suspected fentanyl overdoses in a Commerce City apartment last month.

Colorado has seen one of the sharpest rises in fentanyl-related deaths in the country in recent years. In the last two years, fentanyl-related deaths have increased five-fold in Colorado, according to a recent report by the nonprofit advocacy group Families Against Fentanyl. Between 2015 and 2021, fentanyl deaths increased more than 1,000% in Colorado, the report found.

“We are in the worst overdose crisis we’ve ever seen in the United States, Colorado, and in Denver,” said Lisa Raville, executive director of Denver’s Harm Reduction Action Center, in an interview with Rocky Mountain PBS last year. “There is a lot of grief happening among people who use drugs among service

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We want to hear from you Arapahoe County is examining how best to serve the public health needs of residents and businesses. To make that happen, the County is seeking resident input that will help us prioritize the services offered by the public health department. Look for weekly surveys— available each Friday—and provide your input.

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due • Week of May 9 – Grant recipients notified • May 30 – Grant project begin • December 2 – final grant report due Upcoming community workshop on April 14 On April 14, the Englewood Unified Development Code project team will conduct a community workshop to gather ideas from members of the Englewood community about how the future development of the city should be shaped through development regulations. For information, visit the website at https://youtu. be/5xhZtpUnkUc.

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6 quick highlights from state’s $36 billion spending plan Proposal is largest ever

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Colorado lawmakers in the coming weeks are set to approve a $36.4 billion budget, including $16 billion that state lawmakers control directly.

The state has more money to work with this year because of a strong economy with healthy tax revenues and a massive influx of federal COVID relief. But spending that money has raised questions about what the state prioritizes and how it should prepare for the post-pandemic period.

“After two incredibly painful and challenging years, the arrival of a global pandemic and the crisis that ensued … we are bringing Colorado back strong,” said state Rep. Julie McCluskie, the Democrat who chairs the Joint Budget Committee.

It’s the largest budget ever, marking a full recovery for the state’s finances from the pandemic.

The budget dedicates substantial new funds to air-quality programs, schools, and construction projects.

It also includes a 3 percent raise for state employees, a 2 percent raise for contracted nursing home employees, and temporary discounts on fees for residents and businesses.

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Republican Minority Leader Hugh McKean said that Democrats had failed to stay “laser-focused” on saving people money, as Gov. Jared Polis has promised to do.

“It’s a lot more like a laser light show, with lasers going everywhere,” he said.

Here are six issues lawmakers are dealing with.

Responding to air pollution The federal government has placed large swaths of Colorado on notice about atmospheric pollution. In response, budget writers proposed a $43.4 million “air quality transformation” package.

About $18 million will pay for new air quality monitoring equipment and a rebate program to subsidize electric lawn equipment.

Another $26 million will go toward the state’s program to track and regulate emissions from oil and gas facilities and other sources.

The funding will pay for dozens of new state employees for the air quality program.

With the new air quality package, the state health department will see one of the largest proportional budget increases of any department. But, for now, that $43 million will be paid for by one-time federal funding — leaving the state to figure out a replacement source in about two years.

Separately, lawmakers are debating a climate bill, but Democrats have backed off a plan to ban gas-

‘We are having issues obviously collecting these fees from offenders, but also offenders are leaving (corrections) in debt.’

Rep. Leslie Herod, Democratic member of the Joint Budget Committee

powered lawn equipment in parts of the state.

More money for law enforcement, relief for parolees This budget begins a multi-year expansion of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

With this budget, the CBI could get $7 million and 47 new full-time employees. Over the next three years, that could grow to more than 100 new employees. In total, the bureau could see its budget total and its staff grow by nearly a third, to about 300.

The budget also includes about $5 million in new money for security at the Capitol, including a new X-ray machine and overtime pay for security.

Meanwhile, the budget offers some relief for people serving time in the community corrections system, including those on parole or probation. These people currently pay “subsistence payments” of $17 a day if they are in a residential

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facility. The state would instead pay $16.5 million to make up the difference for the facilities.

“We are having issues obviously collecting these fees from offenders, but also offenders are leaving (corrections) in debt,” said state Rep. Leslie Herod, a Democratic member of the Joint Budget Committee.

Democrats also have proposed a $113 million public safety plan with federal money.

But one law-enforcement priority may not get more funding: The state attorney general’s office had asked for an investigator for its patterns and practices unit, which looks into bad behavior by police departments and others.

The Joint Budget Committee didn’t see any evidence that the office had made full use of its last funding increase, Herod said.

“There was no guarantee that this would actually expand patterns and practices investigations,” Herod said.

State Rep. Adrienne Benavidez, a Democrat, pushed back, pointing out that “significant requests have been made from the public” for investigations like the one into the Aurora Police Department.

New money for education The state’s K-12 education spending would see significant growth of about 7.6 percent.

The additional funding reduces the “budget stabilization factor” — basically, the amount by which the state is falling short of its school funding obligations under the state constitution — from a shortfall of about $500 million to about $321 million.

Budget writers originally talked about eliminating the “BS” factor altogether over a couple years, but inflation now makes that look unrealistic.

The state also could spend $93 million of new money on special education — an increase of more than 40 percent per student.

For the first time, the state budget includes money for the new Department of Early Childhood Education, which will support the eventual launch of universal preschool.

Higher education also would see a boost of about 11 percent from the general fund. That comes with an assumption that tuition will increase by no more than 2 percent at most institutions for in-state students. Incoming first-year students at CU Boulder might see a 4.3 percent increase, but then have their tuition held flat.

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“I won’t say we’re doing great yet, but we’re making progress,” Herod said.

Budget writers also are expecting hundreds of millions of dollars in higher costs for health services.

The federal government has been paying a higher-than-usual amount for Medicaid patients, which the state will have to replace when it expires. The budget also anticipates that more people will use behavioral health and substance use treatment services.

New projects and renovations The budget includes nearly $500 million for construction and renovations, including: • $47 million for outdoor recreation and related areas, including Sweetwater Lake, the newest state park • $44 million to rebuild the Robinson Theater at Colorado Mesa University • $38 million for Colorado State University’s Clark building renovation and expansion • $27 million to renovate the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Hellems Arts and Sciences build-

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providers, because people we know, love, and serve are dying of preventable overdoses and it doesn’t have to be so.”

ing and outdoor theater • $23 million for the Community of College of Denver’s Boulder Creek Building renovation and expansion on the Auraria campus.

The pandemic hangover State lawmakers are bracing for the economic after-effects of the pandemic.

One of the biggest single items is a plan to spend $600 million to replenish the state’s unemployment program.

That money will pay off about half of what the state owes the federal government after the state had to pay out enormous unemployment benefits. Without it, businesses would face steeper costs to pay the debt instead. The money would come from state spending, but could ultimately be backfilled by federal stimulus dollars.

The state also is bracing for the end of more federal pandemic support programs.

Changes in Medicaid eligibility have allowed hundreds of thousands more people to remain on the federal health program. But that is set to expire in the near future, which could drive Colorado enrollment in parts of the program Meihls told Rocky Mountain PBS that while DDPHE’s naloxone supply is backordered, there are other options. For immediate assistance, she recommended people visit Denver’s “Wellness Winnie,” an RV that provides Narcan/ naloxone, as well as syringe or needle disposal, behavioral health

down from 1.6 million last year to 1.4 million next year.

Inflation also has affected the budget. For example, the state is preparing to spend $5 million more on printing and related services, an increase of more than 15 percent.

What about TABOR? The state’s budget has surpassed its pre-pandemic totals, with the general fund growing by about 15 percent compared to the 2019-’20 budget. With that growth in sales taxes, property taxes and more, the state is running up against the limits set by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.

In the upcoming budget year, Colorado is expected to owe about $1.6 billion in refunds to taxpayers in the upcoming budget year.

There’s been talk that Democrats could find ways to reduce those refunds, but there’s been little action on that.

“Maybe that conversation comes in this next year,” said McKean, the Republican minority leader.

“We’ll be laser focused on that, making sure the people of the state get their money back.”

Sen. Bob Gardner, a Republican, warned that the budget didn’t do screenings, clothes and more.

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enough to prepare for a potential economic downturn, including by relying in some cases on one-time funding.

“You have to believe there’s a cliff out there,” he said.

The budget keeps a reserve of about $2 billion, or about 15 percent of the general fund — the largest reserve in decades, according to the Colorado Fiscal Institute.

The budget was heard on the House floor on March 30 and will soon go to the Senate. Democrats in the House rejected several dozen amendments from members of both parties, such as a $14 million request for an emergency response helicopter to operate on the Western Slope.

As of the end of the day, they had passed only one change to the budget — a $2.3 million request

by McKean and Democratic Rep. Shannon Bird to raise salaries for state troopers. They would get a 6 percent raise, while state employees generally are getting a 3 percent raise.

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New law bans openly carrying firearms near voting locations No Republican legislators supported bill meant to prevent intimidation

BY BENTE BIRKELAND COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law on March 30 that bans anyone in Colorado from openly carrying a firearm within 100 feet of a voting location, unless their property falls within that buffer.

The Vote Without Fear Act was a priority election bill for Democrats in charge of the state legislature. Supporters say the law is needed to prevent the harassment of voters and poll workers, arguing that the current intimidation law can be difficult to enforce.

It passed with no support from Republicans, who argued it infringed on Second Amendment rights.

Supporters say the bill will help prevent voter intimidation Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder Joan Lopez attended the bill signing ceremony at the state capitol and recalled an incident that occurred on the eve of the 2020 presidential election. Two men came to the county’s administrative office in Littleton.

“Came in with cameras, filming voters, open carrying, and just try-

ing to intimidate voters. And then they moved to the front of the building where every voter had to pass them to get to the voting center,” she said.

Lopez said people complained and the election judges were really “shook up.”

“Even though the police were called and our attorneys were involved, there was nothing we could do at that point because they weren’t violating any laws. Now it’s going to be law and they won’t be able to do this ever again,” Lopez said.

Democratic state Rep. Jennifer Bacon is one of the main sponsors of House Bill 1086. She said voter intimidation has a long legacy in the U.S, especially against communities of color. She said it’s part of her own family’s history when they lived in Jackson Mississippi.

“I want to thank the NAACP. We have been fighting for this for a century in this country to be able to vote without fear,” she said.

Opponents argued that since Colorado is an open-carry state (with a few exceptions), the bill infringes on Second Amendment rights, and could make people who openly carry a firearm feel less secure.

The new law is among several election security measures Democrats are putting forward this session.

House Bill 1273 would make it a misdemeanor to threaten or intimi-

Linda Renford works at the curbside ballot dropoff outside Arapahoe County ElecPHOTO BY HART VAN DENBURG/CPR tions Division in Littleton on Election Day, Nov. 2, 2021.

date state and local election workers for doing their jobs. It’s still awaiting its first committee hearing. It also would make it illegal to publish the personal information of election workers — a practice known as doxing — and allow those workers and their immediate family members to remove their private information from open records requests. And it would increase the penalties for threats and intimidation.

Senate Bill 153 is in response to the security breach in Mesa County.

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It would add new security requirements for counties, requiring constant video surveillance of election equipment, stricter rules about who can access equipment and increase penalties for potential security breaches in an effort to try to prevent insider security threats.

The bill cleared the Senate with Democratic support and one Republican yes vote.

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LIBRARY FROM PAGE 1

library,” said Bemis librarian Claire Mattoon. “And as staff, we had to continually emphasize that everyone has a right to be here.”

Mattoon has worked at Bemis since 2013 and, at the beginning of her third year on the job, began noticing more and more people who appeared to be homeless coming into the library.

With that, Mattoon said, tensions increased.

There was no clear policy for staff to go off when it came to ensuring access for homeless patrons, Mattoon said, and usually it became a case-bycase issue.

“But then our leadership had some changes and there was a recognition that we needed more tools,” she said.

“But some of the many challenges we had were actually not with folks experiencing homelessness but with people in Littleton who didn’t want to see the problem.”

The library’s shift in culture began in 2018 when the staff reviewed and updated several of its policies.

The most notable policy change was removing the ban on sleeping in the library, which staff said they found to be discriminatory towards those who are unhoused.

“We weren’t waking up the 90-yearold gentleman who had nodded off over his newspaper, or the 3-year-old child who fell asleep on the floor of the children’s room,” Mattoon said.

“It was only there if we saw somebody who appeared to be of a certain economic status, and a lot of times it was something that other patrons came to us to report.”

Raburn said he usually doesn’t sleep in Bemis, because he feels it can be a bad look. But he knows others who do.

“If you’re homeless, you’re sleeping all the time,” he said.

Along with removing the sleeping ban, staff also began undergoing mandatory training on how to better communicate with homeless patrons as well as de-escalation tactics to avoid conflict.

The library’s staff subscribe to the Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness, a series of online and in-person trainings from Ryan Dowd, the former director for Illinois’s second-largest homeless shelter.

For Library Director Nancy Trimm, the changes have made a huge difference.

“I think staff was struggling before

Bemis Library in Littleton has become a safe space and resource for those who are PHOTOS BY ROBERT TANN homeless in the area.

we had the tools,” Trimm said.

The reasons for why those who are unhoused come to the library vary.

It’s not always just for a warm place to rest, sometimes it’s to find information on overnight shelters and food banks, which the library publishes and distributes an extensive list of.

Sometimes, it’s to use a computer or a phone to access government benefits.

“Ultimately, we provide resources and information and try to connect people to that,” Trimm said.

Before 2018, Trimm said library staff would hear complaints about people who were homeless in the library about once a week. Most rarely rose above an annoyance, though sometimes library guests would ask staff to remove a person, Trimm said.

On occasion, police had to be called to the scene if a conflict escalated to the point where staff safety was being threatened, but that was less common, Trimm said.

Since the policy changes, community resistance to seeing an unhoused person inside the library has lessened, according to Trimm. Staff are getting less complaints from patrons and more understanding about the needs of the unhoused.

“As a community, Littleton is talking about the problems of homelessness,” Trimm said, adding that conversation is needed to spark change.

“If you don’t talk about an issue, there’s going to be a lot of fear.”

And Homelessness in the metro region continues to worsen.

A 2021 study by the Metro Denver Homelessness Initiative found the number of unhoused people in the Denver metro area climbed by 15%

between 2018 and 2020.

From July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, more than 32,000 people were designated as homeless in the metro region, according to another study by the initiative.

While homelessness was on the rise before COVID, the pandemic made clear how easy it could be for someone to find themselves struggling, Mattoon said, exacerbating issues of job loss, lagging wages and unaffordable housing.

“A lot of people that did not think they would ever be on the cliff edge economically ... suddenly realized how precarious life can be for anyone,” Mattoon said.

How long that empathy will last, Mattoon doesn’t know. But Trimm said the library will do all it can to continue to serve as a safe place and a resource.

“We’re going to be involved whether people want us to or not,” Trimm said.

Still, library staff aren’t social workers, and even with the training, Trimm said employees can feel the exhaustion of helping.

“Sometimes we do feel some compassion fatigue or burnout,” Trimm said.

It’s why she’s excited to see the progress that city staff has made as they try to introduce solutions to homelessness outlined in a 2019 action plan. Littleton has joined with the cities of Englewood and Sheridan to implement a laundry list of new actions, such as creating a homelessness navigation center and hiring a coordinator to oversee the efforts.

For Raburn, he’ll continue to visit

Nancy Trimm, library director, sits at her desk last month. Trimm said since 2018, the library has updated its policies to be more supportive of those who are unhoused such as removing a sleeping ban and bolstering staff training to help with deescalation.

Librarian Claire Matoon said in the years that the library has taken a new approach to homeless guests, community tension around homelessness has also lessened.

Bemis as long as it remains open, or until he can find a way out of his situation. Raburn said he is usually at the library three or four times a week, staying each time for several hours.

The earlier months of the pandemic were especially hard for Raburn, who had fewer places to go when libraries like Bemis shut down. When it reopened in-between waves of COVID, Raburn would think “woo-hoo, let’s go to the library!”

While he said the perception of homelessness in Littleton has improved, issues still remain. Whether he’s in the library, sitting in a cafe or walking in a park, what Raburn wants from those he’s around is kindness.

“I just think everybody should get along,” he said.

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April 7, 2022 Dawn McGonagle, left, and David Sprunt stand on burned grass where a fire sparked just feet from their homes on the night of March 24.

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‘I was terrified’: Neighbors recall fire just feet from their homes at Jackass Hill Park Fireworks incidents have plagued area, residents seek solutions

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

First, there came a loud “BANG,” then Dawn McGonagle saw the flames just feet from her home.

“I looked out the door, and then I grabbed the phone,” McGonagle said.

With firefighters on their way, several neighbors ran outside to fight the fire with a hose, an extinguisher and their feet, stomping and dousing the flames as fast as they could.

The grass fire at Jackass Hill Park in Littleton on March 24 burned for just minutes, with the flames igniting around 9:40 p.m. and out by about 10 p.m. according to South Metro Fire Rescue spokesperson Eric Hurst.

But for some neighbors that night, the situation could have easily spiraled into disaster.

“I was terrified, absolutely terrified,” McGonagle said, with the nearby flames evoking scenes from the devastating Marshall Fire in Boulder County that burned more than 1,000 homes in late December.

“You start thinking ‘what do I need to take?’” McGonagle said.

“That went through my mind, because you never know.”

Littleton police, who were also on scene during the incident, believe the fire was caused by a bottle rocket firework, but found no suspects, according to spokesperson Sheera Poelman. Under Colorado law, any fireworks that leave the ground, such as bottle rockets, are illegal.

“As always, we respond when we can to our best ability, and if there’s any criminality we try to investigate it,” Poelman said, who urged residents to continue to report future issues. “If you see anything, say something.”

Residents said the March 24 incident was far from the first time they’ve dealt with fireworks.

“I was watching TV and I heard the firework go off, one big explosion. And I remember thinking there goes another one,” said David Sprunt, who lives just a few houses

down from McGonagle on Sunset Drive.

Sprunt said fireworks have been a frequent problem at the park for roughly the past five years, though it’s been “more often than it used to.”

Residents began raising the issue in the summer of 2019 when they notified South Suburban Parks and Recreation, which owns and manages the park.

Littleton City Councilmember At-Large Pam Grove, who sits on the South Suburban Parks and Recreation Subcommittee, said she has been aware of the issue for more than a year and on March 8, 2021, sat in on a neighborhood meeting to discuss possible remedies.

Along with fireworks, residents have complained of trash, smoking and general disruptive behavior from park-goers, especially late at night. It’s led some to ask for a reduction in park hours, more signage about rules and possible patrols.

“It’s a tricky problem, because you want people to be able to use the park responsibly,” Sprunt said.

Grove said she has “a lot of empathy for those residents who live by the park” and that “some people come, often late at night, and destroy the park.”

“I personally would like to make a plea to the people that use this park to be respectful to other park users,” Grove said, adding that she hopes South Suburban will take action on some short-term solutions.

In an email statement, South Suburban said it will “meet with the representatives from the neighborhood in the next few weeks to share solutions and receive feedback.”

“This is in addition to the longterm site specific plan South Suburban is creating for Jackass Hill Park,” the statement continued.

“SSPRD has hired Architerra Group to lead the process that begins Friday, April 1. The process will include at least two public input meetings and a mailed survey. The plan aims to be completed in fall 2022.”McGonagle said she respects the process but hopes she and other residents can see solutions soon.

“It’s been slower than we had hoped for,” McGonagle said. “But I am thankful that they are meeting with us and are considering options to help us. I think we’re making progress.”

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CRIME FROM PAGE 1

weapon offenses, prostitution and animal cruelty, were at 197 in 2021, down from 263 in 2020.

Property crimes and crimes against people were at a six-year high, according to the department’s data, and were greatly higher than some other neighboring municipalities, including Highlands Ranch and Littleton.

Data also shows that 47% of arrests were Englewood residents while 32% were non-residents and 21% were unknown, which includes people who are homeless or who have unrecognizable addresses.

Safety is a major concern among Englewood residents according to a 2020 survey.

Of 236 people surveyed, just over half, 56%, said they had an overall feeling of safety in the city. Of 232 people surveyed, 86% said safety was essential or very important for the city to focus on in the next two years.

Though overall crime was up in the city, Englewood police reported fewer calls for service last year, receiving 55,368 while in 2020 the department received 58,944.

Police department heads asked for more funding from council and requested an additional $1.2 million in this year’s budget.

The department’s budget has been increasing for the past few years, according to budget reports.

In 2020, the department was allocated $21,303,657. In 2021, funding was increased to $22,794,645 and this year it was increased again to $23,375,696.

Those budget numbers also include the fire marshal office, code enforcement, emergency management and the city’s contract with Denver Fire.

The additional $1.2 million requested would go towards hiring six new police officers as well as two new desk officers and a new dispatch supervisor. Council has not approved the money and may vote on the measure at a later, unknown date.

Police department heads said their force is currently understaffed, needing 78 active officers

April 7, 2022 to be considered at-full staffing.

Currently, four officers are in training, and one is enrolled in a police academy, according to investigator Scot Allen.

Watson said the result is a department that’s stretched thin.

“Because we’re short, the demands that we have for police officers, the safety ingredient, it’s really difficult,” Watson said.

“People are getting overtime shoved on them ... if an officer wants to take the night off to have dinner with his wife, they can’t because it would take us below minimum staffing.”

Reasons for crime rise vary There are many compounding factors for why crimes are on the rise, according to Stacey Hervey, associate professor of criminal justice and criminology for Metropolitan State University.

The COVID-19 pandemic had led to increased isolation, exacerbated mental health issues and caused spikes in drug and alcohol use, all of which can be a reason for committing crime.

And police departments, for various reasons, are “not being as proactive as they have in the past,” said Hervey, who also worked for the Boulder Police Department as a victim advocate for two years.

Since 2020, when civil rights protests over the murder of George Floyd sparked calls for police reform, some departments have shrunk, even as their budgets have gotten bigger.

“We are seeing a reduction in the people who want to go into this profession, especially people of color, which is really needed to change policing,” Hervey said.

“It’s made police hesitant to be proactive in policing … and it led to the retirement in a large population of police officers.”

Englewood police blamed recent state laws that have reduced certain drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, as well as raised the threshold for charging property crimes as felonies, for reasons why crime has increased.

“It’s frustrating for the community when we show up and all we can do is basically write a summons and kick them down the road,” said Englewood Police Division Chief Tracy Young.

Hervey said the softening of some charges has emboldened more crime. But having more police presence, and more money, won’t necessarily translate to a reduction in crime, she said.

“Having more boots on the ground is never going to just reduce crime because crime is so multifaceted,” she said.

Looking to alternate forms of policing Officers need to adapt to new ways to better address the growing mental health and drug crises that are sweeping Colorado, Hervey said.

“We’re seeing a huge increase in the needs for mental health, but it’s just very hard to find good mental health in this country,” Hervey said.

This will come from spending money wisely, as opposed to just spending more of it.

Englewood police, during the March 28 council meeting, said that while they want to bolster their presence on the street they will continue to focus on alternate forms of policing, such as continuing their co-responder program which sees licensed clinicians join officers when responding to mental health-related incidents.

“These professional mental health workers have been huge in our success,” Young said. “Without them, it would require one, potentially two officers taken off of the street to deal with the mental health issues.”

Police are also hoping to launch a new program next month in partnership with Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners to divert certain mental health calls that are nonviolent to social workers.

And by July 1, police hope to launch a mobile response unit to help take people to mental health care facilities and treatment centers. That program will be fully sponsored and funded by AllHealth Network, a nonprofit mental health service located in Littleton.

Hervey said she is supportive of these methods and urged departments to find more ways to partner with social workers and schools as a way to prevent crime.

“How do we make the police do their jobs better and deal with the changing populations and problems that are occurring in society?” Hervey said. “We have a lot of resources in our communities, sometimes we do not use them ef-

fectively.”

A new era for policing In the fallout of the George Floyd protests in 2020, Colorado lawmakers passed sweeping police reform laws meant to increase accountability.

The laws, Senate Bills 20-217 and 21-1250, which passed in June 2020 and June 2021 respectfully, “changed the face of law enforcement,” said Watson, the police chief.

Watson said the laws, which mandate body cameras and removed qualified immunity, which typically shields officers from being sued, have burdened his department with excessive paperwork and led to a “chilling effect” on officers’ motivations to react to certain calls.

Hervey said some of these laws have created new challenges for police departments, but that it’s not always a bad thing.

“The reality is some of those violent events did change policing, sometimes for the better,” she said.

To show that officers are working on changing police culture, Hervey said departments must understand the “historical trauma” policing has had on people of color and realize instances of implicit bias.

Some of the new accountability measures issued by the state are the right approach, Hervey said, such as body cameras.

“Some departments have complained about them, but some officers have found them very beneficial for officers showing their side of the story,” she said.

But other measures, like the removal of qualified immunity, could also cause more officers to be less proactive when responding to a situation for fear of legal action against them, Hervey said.

“I think we do need to be a little careful, because we are going to get some good officers who leave the field,” she said. “I would much prefer a lot more time being spent on screening officers and training officers.”

Ultimately, one of the most effective ways to improve policing will be to hire officers that come from, and look like, their community.

“The change has to come from within, and if you’re starting to recruit from people who’ve grown up in those communities, I think it can do a lot of good,” Hervey said.

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Members of PERA include public school teachers, many university and college employees, judges, state troopers, and other types of public employees.

If Tri-County Health is “allowed to withdraw from PERA without paying the withdrawal liability, all PERA members and employers will be negatively impacted,” a complaint in a lawsuit filed by the retirement association said.

PERA filed the complaint in the lawsuit on Feb. 1 against Tri-County Health and Adams, Arapahoe, and Douglas counties.

Adams and Arapahoe are still members of Tri-County Health, but Douglas County has already formally exited Tri-County and formed its own health department.

Douglas County’s leaders have long clashed with Tri-County Health during the coronavirus pandemic, announcing plans in July 2020 to begin the process of withdrawing from the health agency after its decision to require mask wearing in public.

Some of Adams County’s leaders had felt frustration with Tri-County’s policymaking, too, but Adams’ message wasn’t against mask orders.

Arapahoe has appeared reluctant to cut ties with the health agency, with officials in that county maintaining they had no choice but to move toward going solo after Douglas withdrew and after Adams announced it would also pull out.

Although Douglas County formally broke away from Tri-County — opt-

April 7, 2022 ing to form its own board of health in charge of matters such as countywide public health orders — the county decided to continue to receive health services from Tri-County through 2022, approving an agreement on Sept. 28.

The other two counties are set to withdraw from Tri-County Health by the end of 2022, although the health agency appears not to regard that as a certainty, according to a document the health agency filed in the legal case.

“TCHD has not ceased operations and the finality of the county withdrawals remains in question,” Tri-County Health wrote, arguing the events that would trigger the health agency’s and the counties’ obligations to pay PERA’s withdrawal payment have not occurred.

PERA is a substitute for Social Security for most of its public employees, according to PERA’s website. Benefits are pre-funded, which means while a member is working, he or she is required to contribute a fixed percentage of their salary to the retirement trust funds. Employers also contribute a percentage of pay to the trust fund, the website says.

Under legislation enacted in 2018, parts of the PERA program — such as the employer contribution rates and member contribution rates — are adjusted automatically in certain circumstances, according to PERA’s complaint in the lawsuit.

That’s a situation Tri-County’s exit could trigger, PERA argued.

“Because of this automatic adjustment provision that now exists in the PERA statute, all employers and members in all divisions will poten-

tially face increased contributions and reduced retirement benefits to pay for the funding shortfall caused

by TCHD’s illegal withdrawal,” the retirement association’s complaint said.

Douglas agreement spotlighted Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties argued in a March 14 court filing that they aren’t responsible for covering any money Tri-County Health may owe.

But PERA’s complaint points to an agreement Douglas County made that could call that argument into question.

According to the complaint, the following events led up to Douglas County’s agreement: • In January 2021, Tri-County Health inquired with PERA concerning the effect of Douglas County’s planned withdrawal from Tri-County Health and the potential dissolution of the health agency.

• Some time later, PERA informed Tri-County that the “cost of the reserves requirement” would be determined by PERA’s actuary. An actuary is a person who analyzes statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums.

• On Sept. 2, a Tri-County official contacted PERA asking who they could “engage ASAP to determine an estimate of the [cost] reserves requirement if Tri-County Health Department ceases to exist.” The Tri-County official stressed the actuarial report was needed as soon as possible because it was a factor for the counties’ commissioners to determine “if they will stay with TCHD or start their public health department.”

• PERA then arranged for its actuary, The Segal Company, to prepare an actuarial report estimating the Tri-County disaffiliation costs.

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The case was filed in Adams County District Court.

Murky path forward Asked whether Tri-County Health would have to cut some funding to public health services that the health agency would otherwise be providing in 2022 if a court decides Tri-County owes PERA the $50 million, TriCounty declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.

The health agency also declined to comment on whether it has enough in savings to spare for the payment or whether Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties would be obligated to pay some portion of the $50 million from their own budgets.

For context, the total spending in Tri-County’s 2021 budget was roughly $55 million, according to the health agency’s budget document.

The health agency has argued in the legal case that there is uncertainty regarding counties’ decisions to pull out of Tri-County.

“On July 10, 2020, Douglas County gave written notice of its intent to withdraw from TCHD ... The (PERA) complaint omits the fact that Douglas County rescinded that notice on November 10, 2020, and stated that it would remain with TCHD through at least December 31, 2022,” the health agency wrote in a March 11 court filing. “On September 1, 2021, Douglas County stated an intent to rely on its rescinded July 10, 2020, notice of withdrawal, but that TCHD could continue to provide public health services in the future.”

The health agency continued: “The complaint also omits the fact that Arapahoe County filed a lawsuit challenging Douglas County’s withdrawal from TCHD due to Douglas County’s (alleged) failure to comply with the statutory requirement for one-year’s written notice.”

Tri-County calls into question whether the withdrawals from TriCounty by both Adams and Douglas counties are legally effective.

On Oct. 26, the Adams County Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution providing that Adams County would withdraw from TriCounty effective Dec. 31, 2022, TriCounty’s court filing cited.

“The resolution further provides that ‘staff shall give statutory notice of the withdrawal to the Tri-County Health Department …’” the health agency wrote. “The complaint does not allege, nor could it, that the statutory notice [one-year’s notice] was provided by Adams County to TCHD, because such notice has not in fact been given.”

The counties’ court filing appeared to touch on that topic, saying: “While each of the county defendants have given notice of their statutory oneyear notice of intent to leave TCHD, the withdrawal of all of the county defendants has not occurred yet and TCHD currently remains operational and an affiliate member of PERA.” Tri-County’s filing notes that Arapahoe County pointed to the possibility of Tri-County continuing to exist in a different form.

“On December 20, 2021, Arapahoe County gave TCHD a one-year notice of withdrawal, which notice also provides that ‘Arapahoe County is planning to work with TCHD and the other counties to explore the option of continuing TCHD as a public health service provider, but as a different form of legal entity, after December 31, 2022,’” the filing said.

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April 7, 2022

Family beef company has Littleton presence Store in Coors Building is an extension of La Vaca Cattle Co.

IF YOU GO La Vaca Cattle Co.’s retail store is located at 2489 W. Main St. in Historic Downtown Littleton. It’s open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Behind the small shop selling tomahawk steaks and tri-tip roasts in Littleton’s historic Coors Building is a large family business.

The 800-square-foot retail space is an extension of La Vaca Cattle Co. It’s a way to share what they do with the community, Dan May said. “(The store) does give us the one-on-one with people and seeing what they want, as far as beef is concerned,” said May, principal of the 35-year-old, Colorado-based company.

Most of the beef in the shop comes from the business’s Elizabeth and Kiowa ranches. The grass-fed cattle are given corn with molasses and ground hay their last 150 to 200 days to get the marbling that prime grade beef is known for, May said. They’re then handpicked and butchered for the store.

Only 5% to 7% of beef raised in the U.S. meet the requirements for a prime rating, but everything sold at the corner of West Main and South Nevada streets makes the cut.

The quality of the meat is similar to what’s served at restaurants like Shanahan’s, Del Frisco’s, Eddie V’s and Ruth’s Chris Steak House, May

said. Retail customers can have “a white tablecloth experience” in their own homes.

“You have something that has enough marbling in it to give you the type of experience that you get at a five-star steakhouse,” May said.

The store also has an online presence where the beef runs from $7.99 to $55.99 per pound, depending on the cut. Orders can be picked up in person or shipped.

While the shop opened in 2013, La Vaca Cattle Co. has been in operation since 1987. It’s owned by May and his brothers, three of whom still live near the eastern Colorado town of Stratton, where the farm boys grew up. While the primary business is farming, ranching and cattle feeding, the Mays run 15 companies including ranches in Colorado, Nevada and Nebraska and a brokerage that trades agricultural commodities such as canola oil and wheat.

Dan May, his wife, their two sons and son-in-law Scott Cure work in the trading operation, which is also located in the Coors Building. It takes up about five times as much space as the store and employs 11 people.

In addition to trading, Cure has

La Vaca Cattle Co. has offices and a retail store in Littleton’s historic Coors Building on PHOTO BY LA VACA CATTLE CO. West Main Street.

also been overseeing the retail shop.

But those duties will soon be handed off to longtime family friend and recent employee Jerry Lundwall, May said.

The retail location is a good way “to show off the product — all the hard work that’s done behind the scenes,” Lundwall said.

Although the shop makes up less than 2% of what La Vaca does, May said they’re not really looking to expand it.

“We just want to do good business,” May said. “Have something that is … a good experience for Littleton. Give people that experience of what real good beef is.”

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ince the start of the pandemic, there appears to be a lot more emphasis on doing something about the mental health crisis in this country.

The problem is the help is coming at a pretty late date.

In talking to a clinician at the UCHealth hospital in Highlands Ranch, she was adamant FROM THE that this crisis did not grow from the pandemic. Instead, she compared the EDITOR situation to a pot, filled to the rim, and once the COVID-19 crisis hit the world, the pot boiled over out of control.

If we could point at something good coming from that pot boiling over — it is that we as a society can no longer just ignore or place small Band-Aids on a catastrophic problem. The state, cities, counties and hospitals and doctors are now turning their focus to the crisis Thelma Grimes and doing a lot more to address it.

Recently, through a Kaiser Permanente grant, Englewood Public Schools put $300,000 towards addressing mental health needs for students. This is a great start here. It is great that Kaiser made the project possible.

In Douglas County they are ahead of the curve. Good thinking many years ago has led to a great program there aimed at helping adults and children struggling with mental health. They continue to focus on getting people help rather than throwing them in jail cells. They focus on going directly into homes and showing that someone cares through the Community Response Teams.

The county initiative is also inside the schools, making sure students who need help are getting it.

At the college level, a recent discussion with a school official said young adults are taking on more today than ever before. They are trying to pass full class loads while working 40 hours a week just to be able to pay rent and get by.

As this official said, all of these students are one flat tire away from having full-blown meltdowns. To some, a flat tire should be seen as no big deal, but to the student juggling everything and barely holding it together, the flat tire is the last straw.

The pandemic has shown that while we often say our young children are resilient and will be fine — evidence shows the opposite. We should be applauding what Children’s Hospital Colorado had the foresight to do in 2021.

That foresight was essentially speaking out.

CHC said hospital beds are not being filled with physically sick children. Instead, they are being filled with children and teens causing self-harm.

CHC called out the state government for not doing enough to address the issue. That has led to more discussions, more effort to help our children.

The problem, however, is the pot is boiling over and the concern now is did we wait too long to really start taking the crisis seriously? Can we stabilize an out-of-control situation?

I know there are a lot of local programs and community leaders who are taking on the crisis head on. As citizens, hopefully we too can jump in and help where we can.

Giving and receiving grace WINNING WORDS

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As an observer to this event, I was beyond curious. I approached him and offered the roll of paper towels that I had in my truck. The man smiled at me, accepted the paper towels, and began cleaning himself off. I shared with him that

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I admired his response to what happened, even sharing that I might not have been so forgiving. Again, he smiled, and he said, “Mister, I have done so many bad things and have wronged so many people, it is only right that I forgave them.” He continued, and said, “I have been given grace and forgiven so many times, I now know that I have to give grace and forgive others too.”

He was speaking my language.

I asked him where he was headed, and he shared that he was catching the bus to downtown Denver. I let him know that I was on my way to Denver and offered him a ride. He gratefully accepted and we began our journey. As we drove, I learned that he was going downtown to interview for a job. And he was laughing because now he was going

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An unsolved math problem on the Colorado River

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pring runoff last year in the Colorado River Basin was a bust, with snowpack of almost 90% of average reduced to a 30% BIG PIVOTS inflow at Lake Powell.

Nobody yet predicts another bust this year. While we wait, water managers talk about “the math problem.”

The gap between water flows and Allen Best demands in the Colorado River is enormous and likely to widen. The dysfunctional equation begins with 20 million acre-feet, the average annual flows assumed by the Colorado River Compact that was crafted 100 years ago by delegates from the seven basin states.

This cheerful assumption was based on early 20th century flows.

It was made with almost willful disregard of evidence available even then of the river’s lesser flows during the prior half-century. The delegates who met at a lodge near Santa Fe in 1922 were determined to yoke all irrigable acres into agricultural production.

In this math problem, another key number is 12.3 million acre-feet.

That’s been the river’s average flow in the 21st century. Some of this reduced flow seems to be entirely natural, what we call drought, if exceptional in duration.

Something else has been going on.

Temperatures have risen 3 degrees Celsius altogether since 1970. By some estimates, half or more of the reduced flows can be attributed to this global warming effect. This

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to show up soaking wet.

As I asked him what kind of job he was looking for and the company that he was interviewing with, it turned out that I had many connections within the company and knew the woman who he was meeting for the interview. I didn’t tell him that. And as I dropped him off, I sent a text message to the woman, my friend, and let her know how he handled the day and his approach to giving and receiving grace. I advised her that even if his resume or experience didn’t qualify him as a great candidate, his character certainly would. He got the job.

Look, we all fall short, we all fail from time to time. There are things we wish we could have done better, there are words we wish we could take back, and there are certainly moments in time where our actions were inappropriate as we either overreacted or underreacted under times of stress. And when we think about our own misgivings and the errors of our ways, I am sure that we can also remember the people who gave us grace, and who demonstrated love and forgiveness, no matter how big or

warming explains the grand larceny in the Colorado River, decent snowpacks reduced to a shrug in the Utah desert because of evaporation but also because plants need more water. Too, baked soil sops up water.

We can’t flip the switch on global warming and it’s almost certain to worsen, the temperature rise doubling or tripling, as Colorado State University’s Brad Udall warns.

He describes what is occurring as aridification. Unlike drought, it’s not temporary.

Dismal forecasts This brings us to another number for this Colorado River Basin math problem: 11 million acre-feet.

That’s the number cited last week at a University of Utah conference about future flows of the Colorado River.

“The best climate scientists in the world say we will be lucky to have 11 million acre-feet,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the agency serving Las Vegas.

To recap this math problem, the Colorado River Compact assumed 20 million-acre feet, the reality has been 12.3 in the last two decades, and we’ll end up with 11 millionacre feet—or conceivably less.

“Every new use will have to be mitigated by someone, somewhere, using less water,” Entsminger added.

That’s not entirely right either.

We all will have to use less water.

Keep in mind that not one drop of the Colorado River gets to the Sea of Cortez.

Cinching of the water belt has been underway from Mexico to

small our mistake may have been.

Perhaps, as we look upon our family, friends, community, and workplace, there are circumstances where we have a chance to offer such forgiveness and grace. Each time we receive grace from others should be seen as a deposit in our own bank account of love, forgiveness and grace. We just need to be reminded that we must make withdrawals from time to time and give that same grace to others.

There is enough division and conflict going on in our world today, we don’t need to add any more or pile on. Instead, we should look at the events, the statements, and the actions that were obviously a mistake or that could have been handled better, as an opportunity to love and forgive.

Unconditional love and forgiveness sound idealistic, yet we know when we live with and apply this philosophy that the outcome is decisively better. I would love to hear your story of grace at mnorton@xinnix.com. And when we can learn to give and receive grace, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful president of XINNIX, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

Colorado. It’s not happening as rapidly as needed, though. Consider the rapidly emerging walls of Glen Canyon and the dam that creates Lake Powell. Despite emergency releases from upstream reservoirs in Colorado and Utah last summer to bolster Powell, the water levels last week dipped below 3,525 feet.

That elevation is arbitrary but a loud warning that a further decline of 35 feet leaves Glen Canyon unable to generate electricity. Recent modeling by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a 25% risk. If — or perhaps when — that happens, municipalities and cooperative members who get power from Glen Canyon will still get electricity from elsewhere, but it will cost more. That includes Holy Cross Electric.

Long term, this worsening situation of subpar runoff in the Colorado River matters to well more than 90% of Colorado’s population.

The Colorado River and its tributaries deliver half of Front Range water. Even the easterly flowing rivers in Colorado that pass through more distant, less citified places, Sterling and La Junta, carry water augmented by diversions from the

Colorado River.

Much remains to be worked out.

Within Colorado, agriculture uses 80% to 90% of all water. Farmers and ranchers who own the more senior water rights, not subject to compact limitations, have served emphatic notice that their water will not be the answer to the math problem.

Another problem is the compact clause that puts the upper basin states—Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming—on the hook for diminished flows. It says they “will not cause” the flows at Lee Ferry, just below Glen Canyon, to be depleted below 75 million acrefeet of water over a rolling 10-year average. The upper basin states cannot do this alone. The risk must be shared.

This sounds gloomy. That said, the seven basin states, Mexico, and the sovereign tribes who collectively own about 20% the basin’s water have yet to throw rocks at each other. They are talking. They just haven’t solved this math problem.

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day was a good trip,” said Ed Bathke, a member of the Ghost Town Club since 1961. “So, there were a lot of little towns that were about 10 miles apart.

“Today, you can go much greater distances in an auto pretty quickly, so therefore a lot of these little towns that were really supply points, business centers for their surrounding community, are now essentially ghost towns because people don’t need a supply point that close,” Bathke said.

“What would happen to Georgetown if I-70 wasn’t there, or had not gone through? Or before that, (Route) 40?”

Knightchild wonders.

Towns that can’t reinvent themselves run the risk of falling by the wayside entirely.

Cotopaxi was a community established along the Arkansas river by primarily Russian-Jewish settlers in the 1880s. When the colony failed, most of its residents scattered to other parts of the country, leaving little of the original settlement in place, according to Bathke.

Uravan was a uranium mining town in Montrose County that went bust in

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There’s nothing abandoned in Colorado,” proclaims Melanie Roth from a set of wooden steps outside a cabin in St. Elmo — a ghost town in Chaffee County.

Roth’s assertion is a bold one considering the setting — a dead-silent main street consisting of 150-year-old buildings that haven’t been inhabited since the 1950s gives way to the towering foothills of Mount Princeton and the Collegiate Peaks.

Here, over a hundred miles from the bustling cityscape of metro Denver, it’s easy to feel isolated — yet not entirely alone.

St. Elmo is perhaps the most well preserved of Colorado’s many ghost towns — remnants of a bygone era when mining, agriculture and railroad routes largely governed where people lived.

While many of these settlements have been decimated by years of weathering — and in some cases, vandalism — a small group of dedicated historians have worked to preserve them as markers of Colorado’s history.

“Two things make Colorado ghost towns different than any other state,” said Lee Dahl, a member of the Ghost Town Club of Colorado. “First of all, the setting; a lot of them are up in the mountains, that kind of makes them a little remote, off the beaten path, not a lot of people knew about it for a long time.

“The other thing is that a lot of those ghost towns had a huge infrastructure where you’d have a mine shaft, and a milling building, some rather large structures that were built rather stoutly for the industry. That made them interesting, also made them sturdy, so they’d withstand time,” Dahl continued.

At a 1958 meeting of Colorado historians in Golden, a man named John Farr stood up after a presentation on ghost towns and said, ‘We ought to start a club.’ The Ghost Town Club of Colorado was formed shortly thereafter and remains active in educating and preserving Colorado’s towns of yesteryear.

Ethan Knightchilde, a documentary filmmaker and member of the Ghost Town Club, said that many of Colorado’s ghost towns followed a similar trajectory; a discovery was made, followed by a boom, then a bust — then, the town went “ghost.”

“When a town no longer had a

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reason to exist, it ceased to exist, in short. And so, a lot of the mining towns were built around a single commodity, whatever ore was in the ground. It’s a limited resource; when it ran out, the people left,” Knightchilde said.

Joan Fields, a member of the Ghost Town Club since 1979, explained the difference between the two main types of ghost towns commonly found in Colorado.

“It depends on where the ghost towns are. Because there are ghost towns out on the Eastern Plains, and a lot of those were based upon agriculture. The mountain towns, of course, if the minerals ran out or it wasn’t a particularly prosperous mine, oftentimes the towns would disappear,” Fields said.

In the roughshod days of the American West, settlers moved like locusts across the country, building up towns around a single commodity with little regard for maintaining anything for the next generation, according to Knightchilde. Most of the settlers were men looking for work in mines or on farms, which begat a largely nomadic population, according to Fields.

“A lot of communities didn’t have families. A lot of women didn’t move out west until they knew things were going to be settled, or there weren’t children involved. So, you’d pack your frying pan and your mule, you’d pack

your things, and you’d just go,” Fields said.

Sometimes, according to Knightchilde, the difficulty of moving an entire household’s worth of possessions down a treacherous mountain pass made the task insurmountable, and settlers would simply move to the next town and start over.

Sometimes, the towns would become something else entirely.

“They’d become what we call ‘ghosts of their former selves,’” Dahl said.

Ghosts you see, ghosts you don’t “Technically, towns like Georgetown and Silverton are ghosts,” Knightchilde said. “You’d never want to say that to a resident — they will take offense. But they are shadows of their former selves in terms of size, and their continued existence is because they no longer make a living off of what started them.”

In a way, Knightchilde has a point — Georgetown today largely subsists as a tourist destination, far from its roots as a silver mining camp. When faced with the prospect of going ghost or reinventing themselves, towns of their ilk have been forced to find new ways to get by.

Other historic settlements haven’t been as lucky as the roadside mountain towns.

“In the old days, you’re traveling by horse and wagon, to travel 10 miles a

The St. Elmo General Store, which still operates during the summer months.

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A store and post office in St. Elmo that doubled as the home of Annabelle and Tony Stark, the town’s last original PHOTO BY RYLEE DUNN residents.

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the 1980s as the United States began sourcing uranium elsewhere. Due to radioactive contamination, the town’s buildings were burned, and everything else was thrown in a pit and buried there, according to Fields and Dahl.

Nevertheless, the town’s history isn’t entirely forgotten.

“The people of that area have an annual reunion — they still get together, the people who worked there, especially the descendants of those people,” Bathke said.

Some places don’t receive the same treatment. Dakan, a short-lived mining camp in Douglas County, is largely invisible to the naked eye.

“If you go out there today and look, you’ll see a pasture. There is no sign of it whatsoever,” said Larry Schlupp, president of the Larkspur Historical Society. “There were numerous mines out there at one time — it was a gold town. “ Despite the many challenges surrounding the task, efforts to preserve ghost towns have gained steam in recent years.

Dearfield, a historically Black settlement in Weld County, was in danger of seeing its few remaining buildings disintegrate before Colorado’s Most Endangered Places — an initiative of Colorado Preservation, Inc. — stepped in and listed the site on its “priority saves” list in an effort to raise funds and organize preservation efforts.

In doing so, one of the state’s earliest markers of Black independence will live on for future generations to learn from and experience. “(Dearfield) was a colony founded by pioneering Black settlers who understood that having some independence and owning land and maybe farming and building a town was a greater way to achieve independence — freedom — in society,” said Kim Grant, director of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places.

“They actually prospered there for 20 years, and then the Dust Bowl came, and climatic factors intervened that nobody really foresaw and it just ruined the farm economy for nearly everybody.

And the town just died away,” Grant continued.

While the town largely died off with its founder, Oliver Toussaint Jackson, in 1948, a few buildings — including a gas station, a diner and Jackson’s homestead — remain in rough shape.

Now, with the help of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places, the buildings will be restored as tangible historical artifacts.

A modern-day ghost Unique even among the colorful history of Colorado ghost towns is Gilman, a modern-day ghost that couldn’t survive its own reinvention.

Early settlers arrived in Gilman around 1879, as overcrowding in Leadville forced miners to try their luck elsewhere. The town was formally settled in 1886 amid the Colorado silver boom.

Gilman was initially named “Clinton” after John Clinton, a judge and speculator from nearby Red Cliff, but was later renamed in honor of Henry Gilman, a foreman of the Iron Mask Mine.

Like many towns on Battle Mountain, life in Gilman revolved around mining. By 1890, the town had a growing population and a newspaper, the Gilman Enterprise. Then, the silver

Main Street in St. Elmo, a well-preserved ghost town in Chaffee County.

crash hit.

“With the silver crash of 1893, a lot of the town was abandoned,” said Matthew Mickelson, the local history librarian for Eagle County. “It went from a population of well over 1,000 down to 400 at that point. Soon after that was when they started mining for zinc.”

Faced with similar prospects of other boomtowns of the era — reinvention or abandonment — Gilman chose the latter and became a profitable zinc mining outfit that was purchased by the New Jersey Zinc Company in 1912 with designs of turning the settlement into a company town.

“It was considered a model company town — a good one,” said Kathy Heicher, president of the Eagle County Historical Society and local history author.

Heicher added that during this time, Gilman had a hospital, a store and even a bowling alley. New Jersey Zinc had a reputation for taking care of their workers, and wages and accommodations in Gilman were good throughout much of the 20th century.

The population of Gilman hovered between 300-500 residents, with booms occurring around both world wars as demand for zinc increased. By the 1980s, however, natural resources in the mines were becoming depleted, and the town was growing less profitable.

On April 11, 1985, residents of Gilman received a letter from the Battle Mountain Corporation — the name of the company that owned and operated the town at the time — stating that they would need to vacate the premises by June 30.

The terms of the departure notice were severe.

“We would like to offer rent-free living until your departure from the premises. In addition, we would like to offer Joe Trujillo’s assistance with packing your belongings, if necessary,” stated the letter from Battle Mountain Corporation.

In an instant, Gilman — a mountain town that had prospered for almost a century — was gone. However, its story as a ghost town was just beginning.

When the Battle Mountain Corporation abandoned the town, the property was completely abandoned, and the water pumps were shut off. Battle Mountain — which Heicher describes as a catacomb of mines — soon felt the impact of Gilman’s abandonment.

“They shut off the electricity that had been pumping the wastewater out of the mines, and the mines started

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filling up with water and it got decades of toxic waste in there,” Heicher said.

“The water started flowing out into the Eagle River. The Eagle River was flowing orange. You wouldn’t, in the 1980s, eat a fish that you caught in the Eagle River.”

In 1986, the mine was declared an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site and work began on quelling the contamination from the runoff. Cleanup work on the site was declared completed in 2001, but spikes in pollutants occur to this day, making the decontamination process ongoing.

The pollution at the site has put a damper on plans to revive the area.

Various proposals to make Gilman into a ski resort or additional housing for Vail workers have stalled because of the contamination.

The town was annexed into nearby Minturn in 2008 with the hopes of bringing a ski resort plan to fruition, but the developer backed out shortly thereafter in 2009.

Today, Crave Real Estate Ventures owns the townsite, which has become victimized by vandalism in recent years. Trespassers on the property are frequently cited.

Nevertheless, remnants of Gilman’s heyday can still be found at the site.

“They left in such a hurry, the people who have snuck into town say they went into the doctor’s office and there were X-rays lying around. One woman, whose dad had worked at the mine, was able to find his old paystub in the mine offices. That’s why people are really intrigued by it,” Heicher said.

Heicher added that the “boom or bust” nature of Gilman’s history is representative of larger trends in Colorado history.

“It was once a thriving, kind of utopian community, and people liked living there. Colorado is a boom and bust place. Whether it’s oil or whatever, it’s like a classic example of boom and bust,” Heicher said.

‘Take only photos, leave only footprints’ According to Knightchilde, the biggest threat to ghost towns isn’t time, or weather, or even pollutants — it’s people.

“A century and a half of weathering can bring a building down, but people have had a disastrous effect on what remains of these towns,” Knightchilde said.

Knightchilde and his Ghost Town Club compatriots rattle off examples of this problem — Lamartine was robbed

of its wood, the Lee Mansion in Capitol City was dismantled for its bricks, Carson has nary a plank of wood without someone’s initials echoed into it, Caribou’s buildings have been tagged heavily with graffiti.

Human interference is not a new phenomenon — as Colorado’s even best-preserved ghost town can attest.

By 1957, St. Elmo’s population had dwindled to just two residents — siblings Tony and Annabelle Stark. Urban legends detailing the Starks’ descent into madness became fodder for campfire circles, but their true fate was far more insidious.

“They weren’t (mentally incompetent) at all — they weren’t,” Roth said on the cabin steps. “They might have been up here by themselves and they had a neighbor telling everybody they were loony tunes, and so they were declared mentally incompetent and removed.

“Before the ambulance reached Nathrop, all of their valuable possessions were stolen by the person who promoted their insanity and commitment,” Roth continued.

The town eventually was bequeathed to Marie Skogsberg, a family friend of the Starks, who passed down the legacy of preserving St. Elmo to her granddaughter — and Annabelle Stark’s goddaughter — Melanie Roth.

Roth’s efforts have preserved St. Elmo as a snapshot of Colorado’s history, replete with sturdy buildings, historical exhibits and a general store that operates in the summertime. Organizations like the Ghost Town Club and Colorado’s Most Endangered Places have worked to preserve similar sites throughout the state.

“We formed a preservation committee; we raise funds throughout the year and then at the end of each year we will present grants to deserving historical organizations in the state,” Bathke said of the Ghost Town Club. “Typically, they have to be 501(c)(3), so we avoid giving to an individual and we avoid any tax problems.”

Knightchilde said that preservation efforts have galvanized recently, spurred in part by damage incurred by urban development in the late 20th century.

“Preservation efforts have strengthened over the years. It’s not just ghost towns. During America’s love affair with urban renewal during the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, we lost a lot. And that probably was galvanizing for preservation movements of all kinds,” Kightchilde said.

“You have beautiful historic theatres that were bulldozed for parking lots.

And you have people that love those types of buildings that can only see so much of that before they band together to do something about it,” Kightchilde continued.

Members of the Ghost Town Club said that part of their mission is to educate people on the history of ghost towns, which they hope will in turn instill respect among visitors for the historic sites they go to. Fields said that one of the taglines of the Ghost Town Club is “Take only photos, leave only footprints.”

“One of our challenges is getting the word out. We get so many people that come into our mountain towns on their ATVs and all they want to do is run up and down the road as fast as they can,” Fields said.

Knightchilde said that traffic at ghost towns has been on the rise.

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What could be more beautiful than an excursion to the San Luis Valley to see thousands of big, graceful sandhill cranes, as they make a rest stop en route from their winter home to the northwestern U.S. and Canada, where they nest.

The sky was blue and endless, the surrounding mountains were capped with a skiff of fresh snow, fields were greening and the sun was shining. That valley is a protective spot for cranes and those who love to watch them.

They winter in the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, near Albuquerque, New Mexico and start arriving in the San Luis Valley in February to feast on barley in the fields at the valley’s Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge and nearby San Luis Lakes State Wildlife Area. It’s located 15 miles west of the Great Sand Dunes National Park, so one can spend a splendid few days with nature at its finest.

It’s a beautiful drive from our south area on Highway 285, which goes through Bailey, Fairplay, Buena Vista ... (We like to make a

Sandhill cranes fill the sky at Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado’s San COURTESY PHOTO BY KATE MIYAMOTO / U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE Luis Valley.

brunch/lunch stop at one of the latter two.) Turn west in Monte Vista to the refuge.

Overnight stays are available at the Movie Manor Motel in Monte Vista (kids love the two big screens they can watch from the window).

Or, we had a pleasant B&B this trip.

The Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge has lakes, fields, a wetland area and a number of large parking places set aside at the edges of the refuge, so that families can get out of the cars with binoculars and cameras to watch and wonder at these large, long-legged birds with a six-foot wingspan.

Cranes mate for life, but in the spring, they repeat a courtship ritual that includes dancing and bowing — and communicating with a

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sound I’ll never forget ... some pairs will have last year’s chick, now a teenager, with them in the field as it learns how to be a grownup ...

Hope to see flocks in the air mornings and evenings as well as watching them in the fields.

They spend the night in the wetlands, which is closed Feb. 15 to July 15 for nesting season.

Our information says there are 250 species of birds found in the Great Sand Dunes Park and Preserve, which is right next to this refuge, so pack in a bird identification book or two along with those binocs.

We spent about four hours en route, including a brunch stop, and it’s scenic all the way from Red Rocks Park to the valley.

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“The signs are there that they are increasingly being visited. If you are that interested, you will do some research, the way I did, the way everyone I’ve spoken to who has a love for these places did. And in doing so, you’ll gain respect for them. My hope is that once you’ve done that, you’re jazzed to go see the place in person, you know something about its history, and you have a respect for it. You’re not going to run roughshod over it,” Knightchilde said.

United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Community art show and newly commissioned work by composer Thomas Keesecker. 303-794-6379, littletonumc.church.

Littleton Garden Club Littleton Garden Club welcomes new members to its monthly meetings at 6 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month at Littleton Educational Services Center, 5776 S. Crocker St., Littleton.

Nixon’s Coffee art exhibit Littleton Fine Arts Guild members Dorothy Jaltuch and Carol Broer will exhibit work at Nixon’s Coffee House in Englewood, 871 Englewood Parkway, through July 1.

The allure of ghost towns varies from person to person. Some are drawn to the sites because they represent a beacon of a bygone era.

Some, like Knightchilde, feel an intrinsic pull to their history.

“There is that haunting feeling that the building is looking back at you. It’s almost like it’s beckoning you to know its history. People came under unbelievable odds to get to this place and they brought their hopes, their dreams, their fears. They lived and died in these places. There’s this weight of history surrounding you,” Knightchilde said.

“It’s part of our history. Many of us like to preserve our history,” Bathke added. “They say, ‘If you

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ignore your history, you’re only going to repeat the mistakes that were made in the past.’ There’s always that longing to go back to our roots, and that’s all part of it.”

Members of the Ghost Town Club understandably bristled at the mention of vandalism.

“Vandalism makes my blood boil because that just shows someone that’s completely lacking in any kind of sensitivity,” Kngihtchilde said.

“You need tangible things to remind you of where you’ve been, who you’ve been, as a society,” Kngihtchilde continued.

For Coloradans of nearly all backgrounds, ghost towns are exactly that.

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Take a healing trip to ‘Blue Ridge’

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elationships forged under high stress situations are some of the strongest people can create. There’s a reason soldiers who serve in combat bond so deeply. Abby Rosebrock’s “Blue Ridge,” is set in another location where people are going through some of the toughest things imaginable and bond over it - a halfway house.

“Everybody knows someone with addiction problems or has gone through it themselves,” said Len Matheo, director and Miners Alley Playhouse executive and artistic director. “This show is cuttingly funny, laugh-out-loud funny, and also jaw-droppingly dramatic and serious. It’s about big issues.”

The regional premiere of “Blue Ridge” runs at Miners Alley, 1224 Washington Ave. in Golden, from Friday, April 15 through Sunday, June 5. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

The show focuses on Alison (Jessica Robblee), a progressive high school teacher with a rage problem.

After she gets back at her boss, she is sentenced to six months at a church-sponsored halfway house.

But she doesn’t appear to be very focused on her own recovery.

“I love this character. She’s a really interesting person, honest and well written,” Robblee said. “It’s a privilege to be in the room with characters like this. The setting feels like a place where people can be really brutally honest, and it’s

still filled to the brim with solidarity and a real volatility.”

Not only does the show tackle the challenges of addiction, but the stereotypes and misconceptions that accompany life in the religious South. People make plenty of assumptions based on where a person was raised and what they believe in, and Matheo and the cast wanted to ensure audiences are treated to a more nuanced picture of human beings.

“A real complex script takes audiences on a journey from beginning to end,” he said. “I want everyone to have an experience in the theater where you’re living and observing some other person’s life and you have a cathartic moment. Theater can be a catalyst for that.”

The human connection is really the driving point of “Blue Ridge,” which Robblee said highlights just how powerful relationships can be in shaping a person’s life.

“What if there was someone in your life you could be more honest with?” she said. “I hope it inspires people to be a little more fearless to have real conversations instead of just scratching the surface. You can get somewhere new by having conversations like that.”

Get tickets at https://minersalley. com/.

Fly to the Arvada Center’s last Black Box show The final entry in the Arvada Center’s 2022 Black Box Repertory Season is Lydia R. Diamond’s “Stick

Fly,” which runs at the center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., through Thursday, May 19.

Directed by Jada Suzanne Dixon, the cast includes Lavour Addison, Ryan George, Abner Genece, Constance Swain, Clarke Reader Kristina Fountaine, and Noelia Antweiler, and uses family drama and comedy elements that people are so familiar with. According to provided information, the film focuses on “an upper-class Black family… that effortlessly blends conversations of the interconnectedness of race and class with everyday dialogue that reflects the values of any American family.”

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Featuring the work of six artists

— Angela Beloian, Gavin Benjamin, Kevin Hoth, Sammy Lee, Don Quade and Meagen Svendsen — in a range of mediums, including sculpture, photography, oil and mixed media, the show allows for exploration of the themes of home, heart and solace.

Find more information about the show at www.walkerfineart.com/ wild-narratives-online-viewingroom.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Chelsea Cutler at the Boulder and Ogden Theatre You can’t go wrong with the opportunity to see an up-and-coming performer that has all the potential to be a really special talent.

With that in mind, you shouldn’t miss Westport, Connecticut’s Chelsea Cutler as she makes two stops in the Denver area — one at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 9 at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St. in Boulder and the other at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 10, at the Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver.

Cutler made her debut in 2017 with the single “Your Shirt,” which has earned about 50 million streams on Spotify. Her most recent album, “When I Close My Eyes,” is a fantastically replayable pop album.

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Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.

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Miners Alley Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, offers a regional premiere of “Blue Ridge”

by Abby Rosebrock, directed by Len Matheo, from April 15 to June 5. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 p.m; Sunday, 2:30 p.m. 303-935-3044, minersalley.com.

Cherry Creek Theatre “Ann,” the story of legendary

Texas Gov. Ann Richards, will be presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company at Jewish Community Center, 350 Dahlia St., Denver, April 22 to May 15. Tickets: $2/$38/$26.

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Colorado Symphony The Colorado Symphony announces the return of “Beethoven and Brews” on April 20 at the Breckenridge Brewery’s Farm House, 2990 Brewery Lane, Littleton. Starting at 5 p.m., with games available prior to the concert at 6:30. coloradosymphony.org or 303-623-7876. Tickets: $40, VIP $65.

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Business corner: Retired naval pilot opens smoothie shop in Parker

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Angie Baker, a mother of five and a retired naval physiologist and pilot, is ready to take her experience maximizing the health of other pilots to a new stage by opening a smoothie shop in Parker.

Baker, a Highlands Ranch resident, chose Parker as the first Colorado location for Robeks because of its growth and beautiful location, she said.

“I’m excited to bring something healthy to the market,” she said.

“I know Parker is one of the areas that’s still developing so I’m excited to get in at the time we did.”

Baker is the franchisee for the new Robeks smoothie shop at the corner of Parker Road and Hess Road. The business, which opened March 7, offers smoothies, juices, bowls and toasts. The store will also have a grand opening on April 23 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Baker, who moved to the area in 2014, has always been interested in owning her own business.

“I always got along really well with my subordinates in the military,” she said. “They always respected me and I had a good rapport with them and I just liked that leadership role.”

With many highschool-age kids working for her, Robeks enjoys

influencing the next generation and helping develop the young workers.

In 2019, she reached out to the owners of Robeks, a Los Angelesbased chain with most locations in California. Baker had become familiar with the company while stationed in San Diego , she said.

The following year, she began looking for locations for the first of five new stores in the Denver area.

Plans to open in fall of 2021 were thwarted by COVID-19-related delays so instead, she set her sights on a springtime opening.

“It’s been very rewarding so far,” she said.

Baker spent 20 years in the Navy with about half that time spent as a pilot and half as an aerospace physiologist. As a pilot, Baker’s main mission was submarine hunting and protecting assets like aircraft carriers. When she became an aerospace physiologist, she focused on how to help protect pilots through their nutrition and health.

Now, Baker uses some of those same skills she learned in the military to run her business. Eventually, Baker plans to open four more Robeks locations in the Denver area, she said.

While the store has all the people it needs right now, it may begin hiring again in the late spring.

Angie Baker is the owner of the new Robeks juice and smoothie shop in Parker.

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How thirsty is Douglas County?

Water providers work to transition to renewable sources

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On an average day, 25 people move to Douglas County. Each one needs to drink, shower, water their lawn and wash their dishes.

The full impact of that growth is difficult to see, but it’s easy to understand: more people need more water.

And in a county where thousands of homes rely on a limited supply of underground aquifers, water providers are constantly working to shift to more sustainable resources before they run out.

Some aquifers buried under Douglas County have lost two to six feet in depth of water. Local water providers have noticed their supply wells aren’t producing like they once did.

“It’s like sucking water out of the bathtub with a straw,” said Rick McLoud, water resources manager for Centennial Water & Sanitation.

“There’s only so much water in the bathtub and the sooner you suck it out with a straw, the sooner it will be gone.”

Centennial Water, which provides water to about 100,000 customers in Highlands Ranch and Mirabel metro districts, is one of the county’s providers that has noticed declines in well production.

That’s because the water they’re pulling to the surface is depleting.

And it’s not replenishing itself.

Growth is expected to continue in the county, with nearly 60,000 more people projected to move to the area by 2030, according to the state’s demography office. That means the community’s thirst is only going to increase.

To meet those demands, water providers are looking at a mix of conservation efforts, wastewater projects and new infrastructure for renewable resources of water. The county government is also looking at how to bring in more water and is considering spending a portion of their $68 million in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act on the issue.

A map from the State Engineer’s Office shows the 445 existing municipal wells in Douglas County.

‘Over-reliance on groundwater’ As Douglas County’s development has surged since the 1990s, many of the largest communities such as Parker and Castle Rock have relied on groundwater to fill residents’ bathtubs and sinks, said State Engineer Kevin Rein.

In Colorado, the Office of the State Engineer administers water rights, manages wells and their permits and monitors water use, among other water-related duties.

Groundwater from aquifers makes up about 65% of the water used by Parker Water and Sanitation, which is the provider for Parker and parts of Lone Tree and Castle Pines, and

by Castle Rock Water. Centennial Water uses about 20% groundwater.

Those ratios can change depending on drought conditions.

According to the state engineer’s office, Douglas County has about 440 municipal wells, which are used to drill into the aquifers.

“Douglas County is unique in that its overreliance on groundwater in some ways has spoiled it in the sense that we’re not as subject to the hydrologic cycle as other areas

are,” said Brock Smethills, president of Sterling Ranch Development Company and a board member of Dominion Water and Sanitation.s That’s because areas relying on renewable surface water and snow melt will feel the impacts of a drought year more acutely.

A simulation produced by the United States Geological Survey shows that from 1880 to 2003, about half of the water removed from the Denver basin aquifers came from the South Denver Metro Region, said Suzanne Paschke, the Associate Director for Hydrologic Studies for the Colorado Water Science Center in the USGS. “That is where most of the storage depletion is occurring in the basin, according to our simulations,” Paschke said.

Aquifer is depleting Since 1996, the state engineer’s office has been advising those using wells in the Denver basin to be aware that the aquifers contain a finite amount of water, Rein said.

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anyone using this resource should recognize that it’s non-renewable and it may not even last for the 100 years it’s allocated on,” Rein said.

In 2003, news reports said the aquifer was in such decline that some areas of the county could run dry of groundwater in 10 to 20 years.

Studies completed by the United States Geologic Survey in 2011 and 2019 showed that aquifer declines were continuing but stopped short of giving predictions on the amount of time until they’re empty.

“We can pull out less now than we used to when we first started,” said McLoud with Centennial Water.

“We’re feeling its finiteness.”

Mark Marlowe, the Castle Rock water director, said many of their wells have seen declines in water levels, though he added it’s difficult to determine how widespread that withdrawal is within the basin.

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periods when surface water is not available.”

That’s because as the water level in the aquifer decreases, more wells must be drilled to maintain the same amount of production, causing increases in costs.

Castle Rock is currently working with Colorado State University to study their deep groundwater, Marlowe said.

“There’s still a lot to know and learn about the Denver basin groundwater in terms of how long it will be sustainable as a resource,” he said.

Ron Redd, the district manager of Parker Water and Sanitation, said from their well monitoring, they’ve also seen declines in multiple aquifers.

“On average we can see a two-tosix-foot decline,” he said.

Douglas County sits on a layer of several aquifers, including the Arapahoe, Denver, Dawson and the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers. Most major water providers use the water in the Arapahoe and Denver aquifers, which reaches depths of 1,700 and 600 feet beneath the ground, respectively.

“While the aquifers are thicker there, I think there’s so much use that it’s heavily impacted,” Pashcke said.

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lines for development in unincorporated areas, only the western part of the county is not allowed to rely on their groundwater for development, said Steve Koster, assistant director of planning services for the county.

Those communities must provide either a renewable water source or use groundwater from the eastern part of the county.

Koster said the county is not actively looking at requiring or incentivizing developers to instead look for renewable resources of water.

Projects to address All the major water providers in the county have said they are confident in their plans to address growth and water demands.

Parker Water and Sanitation is working on a project that will partner with a water conservancy district in Sterling, a town in eastern Colorado, to capture unused water during high runoff years from the South Platte River there and store it to pipe back to the town. The project won’t impact existing water rights and won’t allow buy-and-dry of nearby agriculture, Redd said.

In order to meet Parker’s projected water demands, the project will need to be complete by 2040, Redd said.

That project would get Parker Water to 75% renewable water and would provide water for more than 300,000 people in Douglas County, including in Parker, Castle Rock and portions of Castle Pines and Lone Tree, according to a project proposal. Castle Rock Water is a partner on that project.

Over the next 20 to 30 years, Castle Rock plans to invest about $500 million on renewable water projects including new pipelines, additional storage and water rights. Marlowe said the reason they spread out those projects over time is to keep rates for their customers down.

By 2050, Castle Rock plans to move to 75% renewable and by 2065 have a 100% renewable system for wet or average years.

Dominion Water and Sanitation, which serves about 1,200 homes in Sterling Ranch, plans to be 90% renewable by 2040. Sterling Ranch is slated to add about 11,000 more homes to their community in that same time period at a rate of 450 homes per year. Dominion also plans to include about 700 other existing homes from smaller communities to their service area soon.

Right now, Dominion is 100% renewable but is set to drill wells in the Cherokee Ranch area to blend some groundwater into their system, making it more droughtresistant, Cole said.

They are also planning to build a river intake on the South Platte River and a wastewater treatment facility, which will provide at least 1,600-acre-feet of water per year to Sterling Ranch.

An acre foot is the equivalent of a one-foot-deep pool about the size of a football field. Most homes in Douglas County use less than half an acre foot per year of water.

In the next few years, Dominion Water will also begin the state’s first pilot program for rainwater harvesting.

Paschke said she doesn’t want her work for USGS to be interpreted to mean the only solution is to completely get rid of groundwater.

Instead, she said, she advocates for a combination of approaches, including water reuse and conservation.

“It’s a balance of maybe there’s more reliance in drought years when there’s less surface water, relying more on groundwater,” she said.

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Development is growing While communities like Highlands Ranch are essentially built out, areas like Lone Tree, Castle Pines, Sterling Ranch and Castle Rock have hundreds if not thousands of homes scheduled to be developed in the coming years.

“Water is a linchpin of development around the Denver Metro Area,” Brock Smethills said.

The state engineer’s office is required by statute to allow developers to continue using the Denver basin groundwater.

“Our State Engineer’s office personnel, we’re really bound to allow this water’s use, according to the law,” Rein said. “And they should be mindful of our advice that we’ve given them about the non-renewable nature of the resource and again be aware that they may need alternate supplies in the long term or the short term.”

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Water wasted Conservation and education of the public are also big parts of all the water providers’ plans to continue providing water to the community.

“We consider water conservation to be a water supply,” Marlowe said.

“Especially given how much water is still wasted on outdoor irrigation.”

Castle Rock plans to incorporate programs in the coming years that encourage more efficient utilities and lawns that don’t require heavy irrigation. At the statewide level, a bill being considered by the legislature this session would pay residents up to $2 per square foot to rip out their irrigated turf and replace it with less thirsty alternatives.

Sterling Ranch has focused on a program they call “demand management” that allows residents to have a live look at their water usage and bills.

“It gives the residents the information to manage their water,” said Harold Smethills, an owner of Sterling Ranch and board member of Dominion Water.

Their community also has banned the use of bluegrass, a type of turf that demands lots of water.

Instead they offer a variety of drought-resistant plants for landscaping.

Water providers are also working to educate their customers about the realities of the water supply.

“It’s important to us to educate and help customers understand what the water supply situation is, especially constant education so we don’t just have to go out and educate when we have a drought,” said Stephanie Stanley, the director of finance and administration for Centennial Water.

Multiple entities, including Dominion, Parker Water and Castle Rock Water have already built or are planning to invest in wastewater treatment plants to reuse their existing supplies as much as possible.

Even with all the plans set, water managers say the job isn’t complete.

“There’s a lot of work to do, we’re

Rueter-Hess Reservoir, which was completed in 2012, is owned and operated by Parker Water and Sanitation. It has a capacity of PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER 75,000 acre-feet.

not done,” Marlowe said. “We live in a state that is an arid state and we need to continue to work on this for sure.”

McLoud, with Centennial, said he sees one main goal for water providers in the county.

“The work is to obtain surface water,” McLoud said. “People are doing various things to do that and they all have the pressure of the groundwater usage pushing them to be successful.”

Lisa Darling, the executive director for the South Metro Water Supply Authority, said she’s confident in the plans the Douglas County water providers have produced but that issues such as climate change continue to demand attention.

County funds As the commissioners consider how to approach the issue, $68 million in federal funds has the potential to aid in addressing the water demands of a growing community.

One proposal for the money, which the commissioners have dedicated six 2-hour meetings to discussing, would pump about 22,000 acre feet per year to Douglas County from the San Luis Valley. Renewable Water Resources, the private company proposing

the project, says that’s enough for 70,000 houses.

The project has been met with ire from many in the valley, though, as multiple water conservation districts and elected officials there have said they don’t have enough to spare and it would damage their agriculture-based economy. Opponents from across the political spectrum have come out against it including Rep. Lauren Boebert, Gov. Jared Polis, Rep. Cleave Simpson and Attorney General Phil Weiser. Both state senators, John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennett, have also opposed the project.

So far, all the major water providers in Douglas County have said they are not interested in using the water from the proposal. Darling says that’s in part because many providers have already heavily invested in other projects.

“It would be difficult to foresee a provider saying ‘oh well I’ve got so much invested in that but heck, I won’t do that anymore I’m going to go swing over to this other project,’” she said.

If commissioners decide to invest the initial fee of $10 million, the project would then have to go through the water court process before it could begin. While it’s pos-

sible ARPA funds couldn’t be used directly on the project, RWR has suggested the county use the federal dollars to backfill their general county budget.

Commissioners have also heard presentations from Parker Water, who asked them to consider using about $20 million of the federal funds to fund their South Platte River project, and Dominion, who asked for help funding their regional wastewater plant in partnership with Castle Rock Water and the Plum Creek Reclamation Authority.

With new projects, costs are also a factor. Water providers often work to spread out infrastructure needs to keep their customers’ costs down. That’s one concern Darling has with the county considering funding multiple major water projects.

“I don’t think it’s practicable to expect to have a number of these huge projects and play on that same customer base,” she said. “That’s a huge economic impact.”

Still, as water becomes harder to find, Darling says costs are likely to go up regardless.

“It would be hard to believe that in future, anything that is becoming scarcer would become less expensive,” she said.

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Sleep expert calls permanent daylight saving time a dumb idea Extra-dark winter mornings could mess with circadian rhythms

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

On the darkest morning of winter, the sun rises across Colorado — depending on where you are — sometime between about 7:05 a.m. and 7:40 a.m.

You roll out of bed, get dressed, make coffee or eat some breakfast.

If you are like the average person in Denver, the sun is probably rising along with you as you do these things.

Now imagine that your morning routine stays the same, but the sun stays in bed an hour later. You would head off to work in the dark.

School for many children would begin in the dark.

This is the situation Colorado would be facing during the darkest days of winter if the nation switched to permanent daylightsaving time, and it’s why University of Colorado sleep science professor Kenneth Wright thinks the idea is so horrible.

“Every morning, sunlight helps us to reset ourselves,” said Wright, who teaches integrative physiology and the head of the university’s Sleep and Chronobiology Lab. “And that way we are in sync with the 24-hour light-dark cycle of

Earth.”

Standard time — what Wright believes the country should be on full-time — roughly tracks the sun in each time zone, with the sun at its highest point in the sky around noon. Colorado and most other states observe standard time during the winter months. Daylight time, meanwhile, pushes the clock ahead an hour during the spring, summer and fall, meaning people will see later sunsets — something advocates for changing to permanent daylight time tout as a benefit that will allow people to be more active after work or school.

The idea of switching Colorado to permanent daylight-saving time is an old one, with efforts in the state legislature stretching back more than a decade. On Monday, a Colorado state House committee gave approval to the latest effort — a bill that would make daylight time permanent in Colorado but only if either the federal government authorizes it or if four other states in the Mountain time zone do the same.

But the idea of going to daylight saving time full-time really gained new momentum earlier this month when the U.S. Senate passed a measure to make daylight saving time permanent across the country.

Wright said there is no debate about the idea among sleep experts globally. At the same time the Senate voted to make daylight saving permanent, Wright was in Rome, attending World Sleep 2022, an an-

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“No question, we need to stop the change, going back and forth,” Wright said.

Changing to permanent daylight-saving time will compound the problems by interrupting our bodies’ natural circadian rhythms, Wright said.

As he explains it, light in the morning is different to our bodies than light at night. The morning light signals to our circadian clocks that it’s time to get moving.

The ebbing of evening light tells our clocks it’s time to slow down.

So, stealing light from the morning to give to the evening, especially in winter, pushes that clock rhythm back.

This would likely lead to later bedtimes in the winter, especially when coupled with the impact of artificial light at night on sleep.

(A CU study published earlier this year found that even minor exposure to light in the hour prior to bedtime can disrupt the sleep of preschoolers.)

This might not be such a big deal if our schedules were fungible, and we could just plan to wake up later in the morning. But they’re not. School start times are fixed, as are most people’s work start times. Both could be changed, of course, but it would require a big cultural movement to do so.

That means, when alarm clocks start going off during those dark morning hours, our circadian

rhythms would likely rather we still be fast asleep. The resulting sleep deprivation could lead to greater risk for a litany of health problems, from weight gain, heart attacks and cancer to poor mental health and substance abuse.

“This change,” Wright said of a move to permanent daylight-saving time, “is likely going to make these types of problems worse.”

Be glad we’re not Idaho Colorado, though, wouldn’t get the worst of it if the nation moved to full-time daylight time.

That’s because the state sits on the eastern side of the Mountain time zone.

The latest the sun will rise in Denver this year is 7:32 a.m., which will happen in early November right before the clocks fall back to standard time. Things stay darker a little longer as you go farther west and north. But, even in Grand Junction, the latest the sun will rise this year is 7:45 a.m.

If daylight saving time were made permanent, those latestsunrise times would change to 8:19 a.m. and 8:31 a.m., respectively, and they would fall right around the first of the year. Wright said switching to daylight time yearround would mean about two months out of the year when the sun wouldn’t rise before 8 a.m. in the state. (It wouldn’t change the latest sunset times because those occur in summer when the state is already on daylight time, but it would push the earliest sunset times back an hour — to about 5:36 p.m. at the earliest in Denver, occurring in early December.)

This year, with both standard and daylight time in place, Denver will see 107 days without a sunrise before 7 a.m. If daylight saving

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were made permanent, that number would rise to 166 days without a sunrise before 7 a.m.

The number of days with late sunset times in Denver — those after 7 p.m. — would remain virtually unchanged under permanent daylight time, rising to 198 this year instead of the 193 we will see under the status quo. There would be a greater increase in the number of days with sunset times after 6 p.m. — 291 under permanent daylight time, instead of 238 with the status quo. This is nothing, though, compared to what people in Boise, Idaho, on the western edge of the Mountain time zone, would experience. There, residents would endure roughly two months out of the year without a sunrise before 9 a.m.

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“It’s not that we won’t be impacted, we certainly will be impacted,” he said. “And others further west they will be impacted more by this. That doesn’t mean that because we’re less impacted is the right thing to do.”

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Vista beats Arapahoe with big fifth innning Defending state champions remain undefeated

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Arapahoe starting pitcher Easton Marks allowed four hits in four inning and had seven strikes. He also hit a solo home run but the Warriors suffered a 12-1 loss to Mountain Vista on a chilly March 30 afterPHOTOS BY JIM BENTON noon.

Arapahoe’s Louis Levy dives back into first base and Mountain Vista’s Tyler Mejia awaits the throw in a pickoff attempt in the March 30 game. Mountain Vista won 12-1.

Mountain Vista’s baseball team warmed up in the fifth inning of a chilly March 30 contsest against Arapahoe on the Warriors’ diamond.

Vista, ranked second in the March 28 CHSAANow. com Class 5A state rankings and the defending state champions, scored nine runs in the fifth inning in a 12-1 route over Arapahoe.

Mountain Vista remains undefeated at 7-0.

In the big inning, the Golden Eagles had four hits, coupled with three walks, a wild pitch and a Warriors’ error.

“Our bats came alive and we capitalized on a few mistakes,” said Golden Eagles Coach Ron Quintana. “It’s still early and we have a lot to work on and we still have some first-year varsity guys.

It’s a good group of guys and they play hard for each other.”

Mountain Vista collected eight hits in the five-inning affair and junior Zeke Borel went 3-for-4, scored twice, had three runs batted in and stole a base.

“I just wanted to come out and help my team,” said Borel. “They had a starter who threw hard and I just wanted to help my team out as much as possible.”

Senior Tyler Mejia, the Golden Eagles’ leading hitter, went 2-for-3, with three runs and had an RBI. Senior Anthoney Urbani was Vista’s starting pitcher and was on the mound all five innings. He gave up three hits, one run and fanned 10 batters.

“We are really starting to get it going and we starting to get it together,” said Borel. “We are starting to feel each other. I saw that feeling in thelast couple innings in our dugout, once we get rolling, we get going.

“It takes energy. We have to make sure we’re playing like it’s the state championship in every game.”

With the loss, Arapahoe fell to 1-3 for the season.

Easton Marks was the ringleader for the Warriors.

The senior went 2-for-2 and clubbed a solo home run to lead off the second inning.

Marks was also the starting Arapahoe pitcher and in four innings of work, he allowed four hits, three runs and struck out seven batters.

“Easton is a great player who commanded the zone well and is an offensive threat,” said Arapahoe coach James Dollaghan.

Mountain Vista batter Tyler Mejia watchs a pitch go wide as Arapahoe catcher Ayden Montemayor reaches for the ball. Vista scored nine runs in the fifth inning and defeated the Warriors, 12-1, in a March 30 game. Mejia had two hits and scored three times in the game.

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Jaguars squeak by Ponderosa Manning scores gamewinning goal

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Rock Canyon girls soccer coach Mat Henbest was pleased despite the close score.

The Jaguars, ranked second in the March 28 CHSAANow.com state 5A soccer poll, beat Ponderosa, 2-1, in a March 31 Continental League game at Halftime Help Stadium.

“In the end it would have been fantastic to score four or five goals but facing a little bit of adversity is also a good challenge,” said Henbest. “Every game you are working different parts of the mental game. I’m pleased with the win but the close games are good. Hopefully that kind of experience willbe good for us down the road.”

Sophomore Grace Rossner scored for Rock Canyon 15 minutes into the contest but Ponderosa’s Fallon Anderson scored on a 48-yard shot to tie the game five minutes later.

Senior Josie Manning got the gamewinning goal for Rock Canyon with 15:53 left in the first half.

“I was really happy with the way we played,” said Henbest. “The other team stayed really compact and tried to make it difficult for us to break it down. We still have some great opportunities but their keeper played well.

Henbest said Rock Canyon had some players that were in newer positions.

Ava Todd, who was played mid, did a nice job, Henbest said, adding that the entire back line was especially good.

Abby Schecter came out of the back line and the girls that scored certainly came through, Henbest saied.

Henbest said Josie just came off the bench and, “stepped up right away.”

The win improved Rock Canyon’s record to 3-0.

“We hope we can be there near the end,” said Henbest. “This is a good group and a good team. We hope to have good luck continue to go our way and be in the conversation at the end.”

Ponderosa dropped to 1-3 for the season but coach Jim Engels is encouraged.

“We played really well against Rock Canyon,” he said. “I have six seniors, one junior, six sophomores, and eight freshman on varsity. I am really proud of my team. The fact my team competes with these much bigger 5A Continental League teams is pretty impressive. Our game plan was to defend and win 1-0 on a set piece. It almost worked.”

Rock Canyon’s Ava Todd (9) tries to get around Ponderosa’s Julia Francis (4) during the March 31 game.

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Grace Rossner (7) of Rock Canyon launches a shot towards the Ponderosa goal during the March 31 game. Rossner scored the first goal of the game in Rock Canyon’s 2-1 victory.

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Near the end of last semester, Jorge Cabral’s budget was on the brink. He carefully watched how he spent each dollar, limiting his purchases to essentials like shampoo and toilet paper and cutting corners with meals by buying rice and beans to last through each week.

On top of getting no pay for his full-time student teaching job at Brighton’s Vikan Middle School, Cabral had had to shell out $90 to take an exam that would secure his teacher license early last year.

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Cabral, who graduated in December from the University of Northern Colorado, found himself “budgeting to the max” to make ends meet

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Special Education Teacher for a significant needs program located at the Strasburg Elementary School. Current Colorado Special Education Teacher license required.

BA salary range $34,650-$40,950 & MA salary range $39,900$46,200, based on experience.

May be eligible for Sign On Bonus!

Excellent benefits. Collaborative work environment with lots of free continuing education opportunities available. May be eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness.

Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or tracyg@ecboces. org. Please complete a Certified application located at the bottom of the “Jobs” page on ecboces.org or email tracyg@ecboces.org. Equal Opportunity Employer.

Registered Occupational Therapist Full-Time and part-time Registered Occupational Therapist. OTR must have, or be eligible for appropriate Colorado licensure. Provide Pre-12 intervention, assessment, direct & indirect services just east of Denver on I-70, Bennett, Strasburg Byers & Kiowa areas. Support from an experienced COTA is available.

Full Time Salary range for OTD: $49,350-$60,550. Part-Time Salary prorated based on the number of days employed. Excellent benefits.

Access to a company vehicle or mileage reimbursement. May be eligible for a loan forgiveness program and signing bonus. To apply for this position, please complete the Certified Application for Employment available on the East Central BOCES website www. ecboces.org under “Jobs”. EOE Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or email tracyg@ ecboces.org

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Speech-Language Pathologist or SLPA Positions Full-Time & Part-Time Open to School Internships. Able to provide supervision for CFY hours. Join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team of professionals for the 2022-23 school year. Administer assessments, provide direct, indirect & consultation services for students PreK-12th grades.

Competitive salaries: SLP - $44,100-$56,000 & SLPA- $36,050- $44,450, both commensurate upon experience.

May be eligible for a Sign On Bonus! May also be eligible for loan forgiveness. Excellent benefits, including full health benefits & mileage reimbursement. Flexible schedule. Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101. To apply for this position, please complete the Certified Application for Employment available on the East Central BOCES website www.ecboces.org under “Jobs”. EOE

Software Developer SDH Systems LLC has openings for the position Software Developer with Master’s degree in Computer Science,Engineering Any,Technology, Management Information Systems/Security or related to design, develop, implement, maintain and test business functions and web applications using a variety of languages, tools, methodologies and technologies. Develop, create and modify general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. Analyze user needs and develop software solutions.

Design software or customize software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency.

Work location is Englewood, CO with required travel to client locations throughout the USA.Please mail resumes to 14 Inverness Dr E, Suite H-220, Englewood, CO 80112 (OR) e-mail : hr@sdhsystems.com

WANTED Oil Field Labor Roustabouts NEEDED! General oil field labor, including repairing, maintaining, and transporting equipment and parts as needed. FT + benefits. $19+/hr to start. Previous experience a plus, will train. Apply at 10137 WCR 19, Fort Lupton, 80621 or call 303-833-5670 Contact info: Christina Ling cling@kpk.com K.P. Kauffman Company, Inc

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Arcis Golf

Now hiring seasonal golf maintenance positions, looking for full/part time employees at The Pinery Country Club and The Club at Pradera. Pay 14-16$ per hour, golf perks, lunches provided 3 days a week, free uniform. To apply go to arcisgolf.com and choose the careers page and enter in 80134 for the zip code and apply for greenskeeper/ landscaper position in golf maintenance. You may also email eday@thepinerycc.com or jstumpff@theclubatpradera.com call (970)219-9294 Eric or (916)548-5303 Jeremiah for more information.

Project Analysts Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, currently has openings in our Highlands Ranch, CO location for: Project Analysts (REF45494A) Lead and direct large complex end-to-end IT initiatives.

Work across the solution stack and technology domains (compute, storage, database, network, middleware, etc.) and collaborate with engineers, architects, and product leads to deliver new and innovative payment solutions to the masses. Sr. Cybersecurity Engineers (Job# REF45839G): Take a lead role in the continued innovation of Visas Cyber Security strategy & drive Visas competitive advantage in payments by facilitating a best in class security infrastructure using Open source solutions.

Develop innovative solutions to protect the Visa brand, networks, assets & products by implementing state-the-art detection, prevention, & response capabilities.

To apply, please reference Job#s above when mailing resume to: LJ, Visa Inc., MS: M1-12 SW, 900 Metro Center Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404.

EOE LEGITIMATE WORK AT HOME No Sales, no Investment, No Risk, Free training, Free website. Contact Susan at 303-646-4171 or fill out form at www.wisechoice4u.com Sr. SW Engineers Visa U.S.A. Inc., a Visa Inc. company, currently has openings in our Highlands Ranch, CO location for: Sr. SW Engineers (REF45848R) Analyze business requirements and architect a solution that is robust and scalable along with providing technical documentation of solution.

Design, develop, enhance, and build Visa’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) platform. Some travel may be required, less than 10 % of the time, to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States. Business Optimization Analysts (REF44172M) Create and present analytic deliverables to external Visa clients, colleagues in the Global Business Optimization team, and other internal stakeholders with varying degrees of analytics and technical expertise. Communicate understanding of root problems, define analytics objectives, and formalize data requirements for various types of analyses. To apply, please reference Job#s above when mailing resume to: LJ, Visa, Inc., MS: M1-12 SW, 900 Metro Center Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404. EOE Various Positions Available Distribution and Production Labor, Delivery Drivers, and General Management wanted. Must enjoy working outdoors with plants. $15$20, depending on experience.

Contact info: Arbor Valley Nursery, 18539 County Road 4, Brighton, CO 80603, 303-654-1682.

Help Wanted Eng 4, SW Dev & Eng Comcast Cable Comm, LLC, Englewood, CO. Prov tech lead w/i team resp for Usage Mgt apps that allow operators to monitor/mng usage behavior; Reqs: Bach in CS, Eng or rel; 5 yrs exp dev Java-based apps in Agile Scrum environ; use SQL & PL/SQL; prfrm usage mediatn & rating functns use TBMS or Xelerate; & prfrm Linux Shell script; 3 yrs incl dply app on AWS or Cloud Foundry pltfrm; use Spring Boot to bld cloud-native microsvcs; & use Git, Maven, GoCD or Concourse.

Salary: $131,685 to $150,000/yr.

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Special Education Paraprofessionals Full & Part-Time Special Education Paraprofessionals needed for our West Area Center-based Learning Program located in Strasburg.

Competitive pay and benefits including individual health insurance . $13-$17 per hour depending on experience. May be eligible for Sign On Bonus! To apply for this position, please complete the Classified Application for Employment available for download on the ecboces.org website under “Jobs” or contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101.

Please fax completed application to 719-771-4001 or email it to tracyg@ ecboces.org Equal Opportunity Employer

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Rolex, Breitling, Omega, Patek Philippe, Heuer, Day-tona, GMT, Submariner and Speedmaster. Call 833-603-3236 Scrap Metal, Batteries, Appliances, Wiring, Scrap Plumbing/Heating, Cars/Parts, Clean out Garages/Yards, Rake, Yard work done w/chainsaw, Certified Auto Mechanical / Body Work & paint available Also can do inside or outside cleaning 303-647-2475 / 720-323-2173

Wanted to Buy Wants to purchase minerals and other oil and gas interests. Send details to P.O. Box 13557 Denver, Co. 80201

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Prepare for power outages today with a GENERAC home standby generator $0 Down + Low Monthly Pmt Request a free Quote. Call before the next power outage: 1-844-334-8353

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Inogen One G4 is capable of full 24/7 oxygen delivery. Only 2.8 pounds.

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The Generac PWRcell solar plus battery storage system. Save money, reduce reliance on grid, prepare for outages & power your home. Full installation services. $0 down financing option. Request free no obligation quote. 1-855-270-3785

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BATH & SHOWER UPDATES in as little as ONE DAY! Affordable prices - No payments for 18 months!

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0006-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 11, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Judith A Stewart Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt The Bank of New York Mellon fka the Bank of New York, as Trustee for the certificateholders of the CWABS Inc., asset-backed certificates, series 2006-21 Date of Deed of Trust September 06, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 21, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6136125 Original Principal Amount $204,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $210,890.87 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 25, BLOCK 5, BEL-VUE HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7526 S Elati St, Littleton, CO 80120-4109.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/11/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/17/2022 Last Publication: 4/14/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

First Publication: 3/17/2022 Last Publication: 4/14/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0020-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) SUNIL STEPHEN AND KRISHNA PRIYADARSHINI SUNIL Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING LLC Date of Deed of Trust July 30, 2012 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 09, 2012 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D2087946 Original Principal Amount $326,335.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $270,831.73 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 10, BLOCK 1, WILLOW CREEK FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7855 SOUTH TRENTON ST, CENTENNIAL, CO 80112-3318.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/01/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 4/7/2022 Last Publication: 5/5/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 02/01/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

DATE: 01/11/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

Anna Johnston #51978 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Randall Chin #31149

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009390543

Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-21-896807-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0020-2022 First Publication: 4/7/2022 Last Publication: 5/5/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 4th day of April 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 16 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WOODWARD A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL SUBGRANTEE AGREEMENT FOR 2021-2022 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) FUNDS BETWEEN THE ARAPAHOE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD. Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301366 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 4th day of April 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 18 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ANDERSON A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 5-3A-9 AND 5-3B-8 OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE CREATING A CITY FESTIVAL PERMIT AND ESTABLISHING FEES FOR THE PERMIT. Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301368 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

County, Housing and Community Development Services staff will complete a business meeting (formally a public hearing) with the Board of County Commissioners (BoCC), regarding the County’s Annual Action Plan to utilize Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME) fund to address community needs.

The BoCC business meeting will be held in person, or electronically, on April 26th, 2022 at 9:30 am, or shortly thereafter. If you would like to join remotely to provide public comment, you can call: 1-855-436-3656 and press *3 to be entered into the meeting.

If you need special accommodations or translation services to participate in this public meeting or to submit comments, or if you would like to request related documents for the Annual Action Plan, in a language other than English, please contact Jeremy Fink (jfink@arapahoegov.com) or 303-738-8062 or TDD 303-738-8033. Please contact at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting to ensure we can accommodate your request.

Legal Notice No. Arap 1052 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

On the 4th day of April 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 16 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE 3600 SOUTH GALAPAGO STREET PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD), LOCATED AT 3600 SOUTH GALAPAGO STREET IN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO. (Council Bill No. 17) Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301367 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF SHERIDAN

Public Notice

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 28th day of March, 2022, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance:

PROPOSAL: Applicant and owner Tony Treash proposes reconfiguring the existing Floodplain and Open Space zoning to align with the Senac Creek 100 year floodplain as currently mapped on the 9.2-acre parcel located at 27301 E. Quincy Ave.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN REZONING CERTAIN PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4095 S. FEDERAL BOULEVARD TO THE PUD ZONE DISTRICT AND APPROVING THE ASSOCIATED PUD OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN AS AMENDED

BY THE FOLLOWING: “THE APPLICANT WILL ADDRESS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ADA REQUIREMENTS AND TO THE SATISFACTION OF CITY STAFF, PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AND SAFETY ON THE SITE."

More information about this proposal is available at the offices of the Arapahoe County Public Works and Development Department, Planning Division, 6924 S Lima St., Centennial CO 80112 (please call ahead to schedule an appointment), by calling 720-874-6650, or by emailing planning@ arapahoegov.com during regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday).

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Legal Notice No. Arap 1053 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice

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City and County

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO PUBLIC NOTICE & OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notice NO. 0006-2022

Public Notice

NOTICE IS HERBEY GIVEN that Arapahoe

The application and additional information are available in the County Attorney’s Office, County Administration Building, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, Colorado 80120-1136. Due to Covid-19 Restrictions, our office is closed to the public without an appointment. Please direct all inquiries by telephone to the Arapahoe County Liquor Licensing Authority at 303-795-4539. Petitions or Remonstrances may be filed at the County Attorney’s Office on or before the date of the hearing.

BY ORDER OF THE ARAPAHOE LIQUOR AUTHORITY Tiffeni Contiguglia, Clerk

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s D s w $ Public Notice w CITY OF ENGLEWOOD T NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING s Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing before t the Englewood City Council will be held on April 18, 2022 at the hour of 6:00 p.m. i

Legal Notice No. Arap 1051 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

o a Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing by calling 303.762.2430 w or by emailing CityClerk@englewoodco.gov 24 s hours prior to the public hearing for directions on providing public comment virtually or in person.

By Order of the Englewood City Council Stephanie Carlile, City Clerk

ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CASE NO CZ20-004, AMERICAN PAINTBALL COLISEUM / CONVENTIONAL REZONING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 26, 2022, at 9:30 A.M., or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Arapahoe County Board of County Commission permits, a public hearing will be held; at which, all interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the above-described CZ20-004, American Paintball Coliseum / Conventional Rezoning. The public hearing will be held at 5334 S Prince St., East Hearing Room, Littleton CO 80120, with the option to participate remotely. The agenda will typically be posted by the Friday afternoon preceding the hearing and can be viewed on our website at https://arapahoe.legistar.com/Calendar. You can also listen to, or speak at, the meeting by calling 1-855-436-3656. To join the speaking queue, press *3 on the telephone keypad.

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The issue to be heard before the City Council is the consideration of Organized Garbage & Recycling Collection for residential properties.

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Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.

Legal Notice No. 301362 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ARAPAHOE COUNTY COLORADO HOTEL & RESTAURANT NEW LIQUOR LICENSE In accordance with Colorado Revised Statutes, Garcia’s Brothers, Inc. d/b/a Los 3 Garcias has requested the Arapahoe County Liquor Authority to grant a new Hotel & Restaurant Liquor License at 486 US Highway 36, Byers, CO 80103. A public hearing will be held through remote participation at the County Administration Building, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, CO 80120-1136, via telephone. Members of the public may participate telephonically by calling (719) 569-5048, and when prompted enter Phone Conference ID: 751 394 055#, on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at 2:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Liquor Authority permits.

OFFICERS: RAFAEL GARCIA FRANCO, DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT, 2611 S. HALIFA CT., AURORA, CO 80013; ALFONSO GARCIA FRANCO, DIRECTOR/ SECRETARY, 1741 S. ENSENADA ST., AURORA, CO 80017.

Legal Notice No. 301363 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED BUDGET AMENDMENTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Board of County Commissioners permits, in the East Hearing Room of the County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County will meet to consider the following proposed budget resolutions (NOTE: Due to the ongoing COVID19 emergency the hearing may be conducted through remote access – please check the April 12, 2022 public meeting agenda at https://arapahoe.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx for specific information on how to attend and participate. The agenda will typically be posted by the Friday afternoon preceding the hearing): RESOLUTION: WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the 2022 Annual Budget pursuant to Statute; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners will consider the following budget amendments to the 2022 Annual Budget; and WHEREAS, this matter has been published pursuant to Section 29-1-109, C.R.S., as required by law.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County to amend the adopted 2022 Annual Budget as follows: a. Transfer $300,000 from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund, Administrative Services Department, and increase the authorized staffing level of the same by 3 full-time equivalent positions for technical assistance with the creation of a health department. b. Transfer $480,000 from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund and appropriate $90,000 and authorize one full-time equivalent position in the Finance Department, $190,000 and authorize two full-time equivalent positions in the Human Resources Department, and appropriate $200,000 and authorize two full-time equivalent positions in the Information Technology Department to provide internal capacity to assist with the formation of a health department.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Budget Officer shall file a certified copy of this Resolution with the Division of Local Government and with the affected spending agencies.

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career in education simply because they can’t afford the cost of living while continuing to pay tuition and student teach for free.

“I think we probably lost a lot of good teachers over the years because of that,” said McLachlan, who taught English at Durango High School for 20 years.

For first-generation college students as well as students of color and students from low-income families, the expenses associated with teacher training are often out of reach, said Jingzi Huang, director of the School of Teacher Education and associate dean for the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at UNC. Under the legislative proposal, sponsored by Democrats and Sen. Don Coram, a Montrose Republican, student teachers committed to 16 weeks in a classroom could receive $11,000 while those spending 32 weeks at a school could earn $22,000.

The legislation is intended to help students who need financial assistance, and eligibility will be tied to income thresholds, McLachlan said.

“These students don’t have a lot of money anyway, and now we’re asking them to go for all these weeks without working at all,” McLachlan said. “They can’t survive.”

Student teachers can hold outside jobs, but many often can’t find the time as they have to be in class during weekdays and tackle their own coursework, and some also have families to look after, said Liz Qualman, director of teacher education at Colorado Mountain College.

“It is too challenging to expect a student teacher to have a second job to support themselves while engag-

ing in coursework and student teaching,” Qualman said.

She believes student teachers are shortchanged by “an archaic system,” particularly as many other fields offer paid internships. And while the teacher workforce has historically consisted of predominantly white, middle class women who graduated from college and were expected to student teach without compensation, that makeup is shifting.

“The landscape of who we’re trying to recruit into the workforce is changing, and if we want a diverse workforce, we can’t have that same expectation,” Qualman said. “If we want more teachers in the field, we have to be able to support them through to completion and licensure.”

Cabral, who student taught at Greeley West High School and now teaches world cultures at Vikan Middle School in Brighton, felt lucky with a scholarship from UNC to help with living expenses last semester.

He scraped by, determined to reach the finish line and earn his licensure so that he could have a classroom of his own.

“If it came to the point where I had to take out extra student loans, I would do it because it’s really something that I love,” Cabral said.

He stuck with teaching in hopes of inspiring students with backgrounds similar to his own. The Latino educator said that during his time as a student teacher, Latino boys who spoke only Spanish would ask him about his experience preparing to be a teacher. He filled them in on the process of applying to college — something he plans to keep passing onto students.

Jorge Cabral, who teaches sixth through eighth grade social studies at Vikan Middle School in Brighton, started teaching full time in January

2022. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America) “There’s always the option of getting a higher education,” said Cabral, who doesn’t recall having any Latino teachers in Colorado and Wyoming, where he lived in elementary and high school.

Many students of color in Colorado have similar stories, rarely encountering a teacher who looks like them throughout most of their K-12 classes. Yet the state has inched forward with diversity among educators and is “more diverse now than it has ever been,” particularly as it’s drawn more Hispanic professionals into teaching, said Colleen O’Neil, associate commissioner of the Educator Talent Unit at the Colorado Department of Education.

During the 2015-16 school year, about 13.5% of the state’s teachers identified as Hispanic, O’Neil said, while last year, that percentage swelled to about 18.4%.

“That’s not enough, but we want to celebrate the fact that we have been able to open some more doors,” O’Neil said, adding, “we still have schools where kids aren’t seeing teachers who represent them.”

CDE conducted a minority teacher report in 2014 and followed up with a listening tour in 2017 and repeatedly heard from educators of color that they didn’t have positive school experiences and may not have “seen that person in the room that was like them, to be a mentor or to springboard off of,” O’Neil said.

That has become a “cyclical barrier,” she said, adding that when students can’t see themselves in their teachers, they may be less likely to pursue careers as teachers. Teachers of color also indicated that once they entered university programs, their peers didn’t resemble them either.

Along with paying student teachers, the legislation seeks to help

teachers in training cover the cost of licensure exams that can add up to hundreds of dollars. For example, someone pursuing a license to teach elementary school would be required to pay more than $300 for required exams, said Huang, of UNC. When students fail their exams during their first attempt, they must retake them — and pay all over again. Teachers who struggle to pass the licensure exams sometimes become discouraged and give up altogether, Huang noted, adding that generally students of color have a lower passing rate on licensure exams.

She also favors expanding the ways that educators can become licensed beyond the exams some teacher candidates must currently take — another goal of House Bill 1220. That could mean that students in the teacher pipeline could present a portfolio of their work for evaluation rather than having to take a licensure test.

Bill sponsors sent the legislation back to the House Education Committee on March 29 after it was up for discussion in Appropriations.

The measure is benefiting from one-time funds under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, McLachlan said, and sponsors plan to make amendments focused on how to best use the money to benefit educators.

“We’re trying to give everyone an equal opportunity to become a teacher,” McLachlan said, “without lessening the quality of the teachers themselves.”

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Public Notices CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 4th day of April 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 21 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER NUNNENKAMP A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO, AND THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, WHEREBY THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD WILL PROVIDE THE CITY OF SHERIDAN WITH VEHICLE MAINTENANCE. Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301364 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Co-Personal Representative Mark William Porter, Co-Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No. 301356 First Publication: March 31, 2022 Last Publication: April 14, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate Arnold E. Woodward, aka Arnold Edgar Woodward, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30184 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Delbert Woodward and Lester Woodward Co-Personal Representatives C/O Gubbels Law Office, P.C. 402 N. Wilcox Street, Suite 100 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No. 301344 First Publication: March 24, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Trey D. Horton, Personal Representative 1660 S Albion St #518 Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No. 301361 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 21, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald 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 Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 24, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 31, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. /s/ Lance E. McKinley Personal Representative 6498 S. Acoma Street Littleton, Colorado 80120 Legal Notice No. 301359 First Publication: March 31, 2022 Last Publication: April 14, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of FREDERICK B. HOOD, JR., also known as Frederick B. Hood, aka Fred Brown Hood, and Fred Hood, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30219

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County, District Court, Colorado on or before August 8, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda Kay Pasternak Personal Representative 7068 E. Hinsdale Ave. Centennial, CO 80112

Kevin Hood, Personal Representative 7174 W. Pacific Avenue Lakewood, CO 80227

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Linda June Moon, aka Linda J. Moon, aka Linda Moon, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30325

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Hilda Eleanora Brockmann, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30085

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court, Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jon Michael Brilliant, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31345

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Maria Agatha Petermann, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR526

Notice to Creditors NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marilyn Faye Porter, a/k/a Marilyn F. Porter, and Marilyn Porter, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30324

First Publication: March 24, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Legal Notice No. 301341

Corinne L. Ablin, Personal Representative 6816 Northstar Circle Castle Rock, CO 80108

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County, District Court, Colorado on or before August 8, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Renee R. Brilliant Personal Representative 5792 South Hanover Way Greenwood Village, CO. 80111 Legal Notice No. 301360 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 21, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Legal Notice No. 301346 First Publication: March 24, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DOROTHY E. BARTLETT, also known as DOROTHY BARTLETT, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30114 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, County, on or before July 24, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Eddye Davis, Co-Personal Representative 15956 E. Iliff Place Aurora, CO 80013 Kelly D. Walley-Hipps, Co-Personal Repreentative 7861 S. Kit Carson Drive Centennial, CO 80122

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on February 22, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Magenta Lyn Peters be changed to Kai Earl Peters.

Case No.: 21CV308 By: Division 21 Clerk Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 301342 First publication: March 24, 2022 Last publication: April 07, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

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