Vista golfer keeps a positive attitude

13th holes but recovered with pars on the nal ve holes.

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Abby Aeschleman, a senior at Mountain Vista high school, has tucked a positive attitude into her golf bag so far this season.

Aeschleman fashioned a 3-under-par 69 to take medalist honors at the Continental League’s second tournament of the season on April 4 at South Suburban golf course

She was pleased with her playing, noting: “I made some good putts.”

She made four birdies on the front nine and was 5-under-par after 11 holes.

She bogeyed the 12th and

“I just try to stay postitive and not be negative,” Aeschleman explained. ‘I don’t know how to explain it but I always just try to think about the good stu . Like if there is water, I’ll ignore it and think it’s going to go on the green or in the hole. I like to be super con dent.

“I just try to think about the next shot and what I can do with that.You never know, you can make a great shot and turn a bad hole around.”

Mountain Vista coach Ray Bikulcius was not surprised by Aeschleman’s 69 at South Suburban.

“She created a plan for the course during our practice round and she was very committed to that plan,” he said. “Her course demeanor was excellent all day. As a coach I don’t know if she is under par or 10 over. I’m so proud of her commitment to make the team better and as captain it starts with her.” e start of the girls golf season can be tough because of the spring weather and the lack of time to be outside playing golf during the winter.

“I worked a lot over the winter indoors and did a lot of things with coach but it is so hard to get outside with the weather,” said Aeschleman. “It is de nitely a disadvantage to be playing in the spring instead of the fall (like high school boys).

“I just try to focus and try to keep it simple like hitting balls on the range and don’t try to overcomplicate it.”

Aeschleman was fourth last year at the state tournament and has high hopes for this season’s CHSAA state championships.

“My goal this year is to win state,” she aditted. “I’m excited for that. You have to treat state the same. A tournament is a tournament whether it be at state, so you have to kind of have the right mindset.

“I would say my putting is the biggest improvement in my game. I’ve always been pretty good tee to green but once I get on the green my putting has alwys let me down. is year I’ve worked really hard and try to make those putts.” utopia, which maintains an embarrassing track record of unsuccess.

Besides Aeschleman, sophomore Ashleigh Wilson of Rock Canyon had a 1-under-par 71 at the April 4 league tourney.Rock Canyon’s Ashley Chang red a 76 and Brooke Hudson of Chaparral carded a 79.

Rock Canyon took team honors in the league’s second meet wirh a 325 total to edge Mountain Vista (328) and Legend (350).

Excessive housing costs, like so many other challenges that Coloradans face, are created by government meddling. We repeatedly hear from the Democrats that “we must do everything possible to x this problem.” And I repeatedly respond that they do not possess the humility to “do everything possible.”

A study by the National Association of Homebuilders concludes that, “Regulations imposed by all levels of government account for 23.8% of the current average sales price of a new single-family home …” NAHB Chairman added that, “ is study illustrates how overregulation is exacerbating the nation’s housing a ordability crisis and that policymakers need to take bold steps to reduce or eliminate unnecessary regulations that will help builders increase the production of quality, a ordable housing.” e Colorado Legislature should “do everything possible” to address a ordable housing by weeding out costly regulations from the existing laws. en, watch the magic of free enterprise do what it has always done — respond to demand with attractive supply.

Adding to the cost of regulation is the $250% increase in lumber costs thanks to the Biden administration’s in ationary supply chain mess. is accounts for an additional $35,872 premium to the average house.

If the Democrats were honest with themselves, they would direct their attentions to reducing in ationary housing regulations. But their religious devotion to government micromanagement concludes as it always does; treatments for the symptoms while clinging to the causation.

Mark Baisley State senator for District 4, including rural Douglas County Woodland Park

Back assault-weapons ban Cavitation (noun): the formation of an empty space within a solid object or body. is is the mechanism by which the ammunition from an assault-style weapon penetrates another person’s body. If that person happens to be a child, like the 19 children slaughtered at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022; or one of the three 8- and 9-year-olds from the Covenant School in Tennessee on March 27; then the impact and penetration will essentially liquefy their organs. I challenge anyone reading this to nd a reason why any American citizen who is not in the military has a need to possess a weapon that can liquefy the organs of a child with the pull of a trigger. ere is absolutely no reason to have unfettered access to these weapons. When the Bill of Rights was rati ed in 1791, assault ri es had not yet been developed. I think we can easily assume that our Founding Fathers did not intend for the Second Amendment to be a free pass for untrained, average citizens to access rearms that are solely for the purpose of hunting and slaughtering other human beings, including children.

I’ll save you some time: we do not need access to these weapons.

Voting to pass HB23-1230 and ban assault weapons in Colorado will send a number of crucial messages to Coloradans. It will tell us that our elected o cials are dedicated to the safety of their citizens. It will also tell us that they hold a great respect for our Founding Fathers, our Constitution, and the Second Amendment — as its original intention was not, in fact, to give citizens the right to weapons of war. And nally, most importantly, it will send the message to those who have survived the abject terror of being targeted by an assault weapon — that they matter, and everything will be done to prevent it from happening again.

To my fellow Coloradans reading this: get on Twitter, get on social media, and start sending emails to your elected o cials. We deserve better. Let’s show our neighbors in Tennessee who are currently outraged with their lawmakers about inaction on this issue; that we know how to organize and hold lawmakers accountable to protect their constituents.

Gina M. Myers Castle Rock