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Despite obstacles, Ft. Lupton’s Garcia is ready for next step

BY JUAN ARELLANO SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

For many high-school athletes, there are obstacles that can stand in the way of playing any sport at the next level — such as not getting enough exposure to college scouts and season-ending injuries or COVID-19.

Those were some of the obstacles Fort Lupton High School senior Reygan Garcia had to overcome this year. As a freshman, she scored 22 goals in 15 games but didn’t play the last two seasons due to COVID and her season-ending injury.

“It was really hard fi nding a college to play for after I tore my ACL. And with COVID, it was hard getting coaches to reach out to. This year was a blessing, I got to sign somewhere, I get to play soccer in college,” she said.

Garcia used that motivation from signing with Northeast Community College in Nebraska on the pitch her senior year, leading the Bluedevils with 16 goals and fi ve assists. The Bluedevils have a slight chance of making the playoffs. Despite the individual and team success, it hasn’t been easy to play at her best.

“Mentally, it was hard because I get scared to tear it again. But my friends on the team are really supportive, and they make me feel safe,” Garcia said.

Reygan knows that playing soccer at the collegiate level is going to be more demanding mentally and physically.

Right now, the current season is helping me get confi dence with my knee again. And over the summer, I’m going to do workouts to strengthen it again, because one muscle is bigger than the other still,” Garcia said. “I’m just going to keep pushing so that I can be where I need to be.”

To surpass the obstacles that Reygan has had to overcome, many people -- such as her teammates and coaches -- have been supportive along the way. But her most important motivators have been her parents.

“We would always have long talks about what’s happening and what I need to do. They’re always supportive in paying for my PT (physical training) and my brace and telling me when to take it easy or not. But they are always there for me. I just want to make them proud.,” Garcia said.

Frederick’s Kassidy Lear pulls up after fi nishing her heat in the girls 400-meter dash at the Longs Peak League track meet May 7 at Longmont High School. She fi nished 23rd in a time of 1:13.75. PHOTOS BY STEVE SMITH

FORT LUPTON POLICE BLOTTER

Here are the police reports for April 28 to April 15 to the Fort Lupton Police Department. Not every call made to the police is not listed on this report.

STAFF REPORT

April 24

Police issued a summons to a Greeley man, 20, for DUI, possession of alcohol by a minor and speeding at U.S. Highway 85 & Weld County Road 26.

A LaSalle man, 48, reported a theft of a gooseneck trailer at Weld County Road 31 & Ninth Street. The case was under investigation.

A Fort Lupton man, 57, reported suspicious vehicles at Weld County 31 & Ninth Street. It was determined by the police that the vehicles had been stolen out of Commerce City and Arvada.

April 25

Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 32, in the 2900 block of Ninth Street for a Weld County Sheriff’s Offi ce warrant for failure to appear for driving while license is revoked and failure to comply with conditions of probation. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

A Greeley man, 36, was arrested for obstructing a peace offi ce, resisting arrest and being drunk on U.S. Highway 85 & Weld County Road 18.5. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

April 26

Police issued a summons to a Fort Lupton man, 32, for speeding and driving without insurance at South Denver Avenue & Weld County Road 8.

A Fort Lupton man, 24, reported his video camera stolen at 304 Denver Avenue. The case is under investigation.

Police arrested a Fort Lupton woman, 34, in the 100 block of McKinley Avenue on a warrant for failure to appear on an animal that creates a danger charge. She was released on a personal recognizance bond.

A Denver man was issued a summons for driving while his license is under restraint causing an accident and for theft at State Highway 52 & Weld County Road 29.5.

April 27

Police arrested a Denver man,43, at U.S. Highway 85 & Weld County Road 18 for an Arapahoe County warrant for failure to appear on multiple traffi c offenses. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

April 28

A Hudson woman, 22, was issued a summon for causing a traffi c accident by failure to obey the traffi c control device at First and Rollie Avenue.

Police took a Fort Lupton man, 44, into custody at South Rollie Avenue & Weld County Road 12 for DUI, driving while license revoked and unlawful possession of a controlled substance. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

Police issued a summons to a Fort Lupton man, 46, for causing a careless driving traffi c accident at U.S. Highway 85 & Weld County Road 14.5.

Spring bunch

United Methodist Women’s annual Spring Bunch will be featuring the Weld County Rambles, prayer, and delicious food.

April 2nd at 10:00 a.m. and t he event is free. It’s at First United Methodist Church, 306 Park Avenue in Fort Lupton.

For more information contact Sharon Kay at 303-907-9592.

Krispy Kreme fundraiser

The Fort Lupton Optimist Club is selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts as its fundraiser for high-school senior scholarships and the Christmas Angel Tree project.

The sale window is open from Friday, April 1, through Friday, April 15, at 810 First St. Pickup date is from 7 to 11 a.m. Friday, April 29.

Call 970-301-0422.

Weld Re-8 art show

The Weld Re-8 School District art show comes to the Fort Lupton Public & School Library, 425 S. Denver Ave., starting Friday, April 1. All ages are welcome, and light refreshments will be available. It runs through April 18.

Easter egg hunt

The city’s annual Easter egg hunt is set for Saturday, April 9, at 9:30 a.m. at Community Park outside the Fort Lupton Recreation Center, 203 S. Harrison Ave.

Hunting areas will be broken off by age groups. All three groups will begin their hunts at 9:30 a.m. Ten gold prize eggs will be in each of the areas.

Visit https://www.fortluptonco. gov/857/Easter-Egg-Hunt.

FLHS after-prom

Fort Lupton High School’s booster club is trying to raise money for this year’s after-prom, which will be Saturday, April 16. It’s a free, safe event after the annual prom.

It’s open to ninth- through 12thgrade students. Organizers provide activities, food, auction and music.

Donations are welcome. Send them to FLHS Booster, P.O. Box 516, Fort Lupton 80621. Auction items are welcome. Call Michelle at 720-313-8389 or Mary Ellen at 720-353-1659.

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Craig “Big Country” Macari, of Woodland Park, batting or “striking” for the Colorado Springs/Denver & Rio Grande Railroad team, swings at a pitch during a Colorado Vintage Base Ball game, held as part of the South Platte Historical Society’s Heritage

Fair May 7 in Fort Lupton. PHOTOS BY STEFAN BRODSKY

Hurler Richard “Rube” Foster, of Aurora, pitches for the Denver Blue Stockings in a Colorado Vintage Base Ball game against Colorado Springs/Denver & Rio Grande Railroad May 7 at South Platte Historical Park in Fort Lupton.

Re-enactors of old-time baseball were on hand at the South Platte Valley Historical Park in Fort Lupton May 7, part of the historical society’s 16th annual Heritage Fair.

The Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association plays its games according to the rules of the day. That meant no gloves, fi elders could catch fl y balls on one hop to record an out and fair or foul balls depended on where the ball landed fi rst, not where it touched after it passed fi rst or third base.

Players used monikers instead of their real names. Batters were “strikers.” If they made an out, the arbiter (today’s umpire) announced, “The Striker is Dead.”

FROM PAGE 1 Money talks

“There’s not a single school district in the state of Colorado that pays their starting teachers at a cost-of-living wage,” said the Fremont district’s Krage.

Each superintendent agreed that teachers are not paid enough to retain them, and Adams District 12’s Gdowski says that’s a huge problem.

“I think money matters, and it matters a lot,” he said.

Competing with huge chains also comes into play. For internal support staff, he said the district increased pay from $12.5 per hour to $15 per hour in August, but that still might not be enough.

“I drive by each day and see McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Target, Chickfi l-A paying $16 an hour,” he said. “I sit here today and we have over 100 support staff positions that are unfi lled.”

Three causes

Aurora’s Munn said the educational workforce faces three issues that cause the shortage: over-regulation, disruption and resource depletion.

“What everybody in the business community knows is the more regulation you have, the fewer people you have in that workforce because it constrains the number of people who can be engaged,” Munn said.

For disruption, he pointed to the COVID-19 pandemic and the “rampant partisanship” around issues teachers face day today. He said infl ation and supply chain issues also affect schools, which has helped lead to resource depletion.

As well, Munn noted that there is a fundamental shift in the workforce. Employees are asking for more fl exibility and more control over their workplace.

“If you have a room full of fi veyear-olds, you need an adult in that room,” he said. “Saying ‘I want to remote in today’ is not an option.”

To attempt to cover for the unfi lled jobs, Munn’s district has administrative employees – including Munn himself – taking days in different positions. Jefferson County’s LeBlanc-Esparza echoed that sentiment.

“I know that I feel if I had a CDL license, I would have probably been driving the bus at some point in time this year,” she said.

Added stress

The vacant positions shed more responsibilities on the staff, which increases stress. Gdowski said he thinks educators have been pushed to the edge in the last couple of years regarding workload and expectations.

“There’s more and more that is expected on the federal level, the state level, the local level, from parents pushing on us, and then to add to it, this year has (had) really intense student behaviors and challenges,” Gdowski said.

Gdowski said elementary principals described at school board meetings that staff routinely evacuates kindergarten classrooms at least once a week due to students throwing chairs, books and other things around the classroom.

Krage said social media is impacting students and the social norm of how students are treating teachers.

“The new unfortunate social norm that comes with such a responsive social media climate is deteriorating (teachers),” she said. “Teachers have had enough, they really are not respected and spoken to (correctly) or even given the benefi t of the doubt of why they have put something in their classroom or why they had a wellintentioned conversation with a student before the parent is fl ying off the handle over social media.”

“People are hitting the wall,” Gdowski said.

Crystal ball

“I think you have to kind of look at that crystal ball on what education is going to look like if we don’t address some of the points that have been made this morning,” Krage said.

She explained if the districts can’t hire the vacant positions and address the workforce shortage, schools are headed to a permanent structure of remote teachers and Zoom lessons.

To stop that path, ballot initiatives, regulation and other factors driving people out of the work-

From left: Fremont RE-2 School Superintendent Brenda Krage, Aurora Public Schools Superintendent Rico Munn, Adams 12 Superintendent Chris Gdowski and Je Co Deputy Superintendent Kym LeBlanc-Esparza. PHOTO BY LUKE ZARZECKI

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RTD o cials hope bus and train program will form ridership habits

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

If you build it, will they really come?

Or, more specifically, if you make transit free for one month will Coloradans start riding it and then come back when they have to pay?

Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis hope the answer is “yes” as they prepare to spend $28 million on a program aimed at easing air pollution in Colorado, particularly during summer months when ozone levels are high.

Senate Bill 180 would allocate the money to let public transportation agencies, primarily the Regional Transportation District in the Denver area, offer free train and bus trips. RTD plans to use the money to offer free rides in August 2022 and 2023.

The idea, first unveiled by the governor late last year, is to get Coloradans to try out transit in the hopes that they will form a habit.

“We want to increase ridership because we want to increase the use of public transit because that helps our air quality,” said state Rep. Matt Gray, a Broomfield Democrat and prime sponsor of the measure.

But not everyone believes that the adage “if you build it they will come” applies in this case. RTD’s ridership is still recovering from the pandemic and the funding comes without data showing it’s a sure bet.

“Maybe if we would have come up with a bill that said each individual gets a free lunch or a Rockies ticket or a Broncos ticket maybe people would start to ride it more,” said Sen. Ray Scott, a Grand Junction Republican and frequent critic of transit initiatives. “But I think it’s such a false premise to believe just because we keep throwing more money at these issues that it’s going to solve the problem.”

An example in Utah — kind of

There’s not a lot of evidence to indicate that the idea behind Senate Bill 180 will work. Proponents of the measure often point to Salt Lake City, where the Utah Transit Authority in February raised money to offer free transit trips.

State Sen. Faith Winter, a Westminster Democrat and another prime sponsor of the measure, called the UTA initiative “highly successful,” but the data is difficult to parse because of how COVID-19 has affected ridership.

The UTA, which serves seven counties in the Salt Lake City area, raised about $2.5 million to offer the free trips and reported surging ridership in February over January on weekdays (up 16.2%), Saturdays (up 58.1%) and Sundays (up 32.5%).

The UTA conducted a survey and found that 22% of riders in February were new, 72% of whom said they were riding because the service was free. Those new riders said they would ride RTA more frequently if it were free. But the survey didn’t ask people if they were more likely to continue using transit if they had to pay.

Megan Waters, the community engagement manager at UTA, said the agency was pleased with the increased ridership, but she admitted it’s tough to truly gauge how offering free transit trips affected ridership given that passenger numbers still haven’t returned to prepandemic levels, including during free-fare February.

January was also when the omicron coronavirus variant was spreading across the country. By February, the variant’s spread had slowed.

“I think right now we are in a really rough time to compare, with the pandemic changing all the time,” she said.

Waters said that while UTA was interested in seeing how offering free fares in February would affect ridership, the goal of the initiative wasn’t necessarily to build longterm passenger habits, which is why the agency’s poll didn’t ask about riders returning when they had to pay. The main goal was to improve air quality during a particularly bad air season in the Salt Lake City area.

“I did not personally bet on this because of what we saw in Utah,” said state Rep. Jennifer Bacon, a Denver Democrat who is working on the bill. “But what I bet on is we know that for a certain period of time, it helps us to get more cars off the road. Let’s give it a shot — and that includes the upside of being able to maybe capture new riders.”

Setting up transit agencies for success

The original plan for Senate Bill 180 was to offer free fares on ozone alert days, of which there were 65 between May 31, 2021, and Aug. 31, 2021, the highest on record.

But the proponents of the measure decided that wouldn’t necessarily breed success. For instance, RTD, which would receive $11 million in each of the next two years to waive its fares, has been struggling to hire drivers and would want to be prepared for any increase in ridership caused by waiving fares.

Instead of offering free fares on ozone days, RTD and the bill’s sponsors settled on waiving fares for the whole month of August in 2022 and 2023.

Troy Whitmore, who sits on the RTD board of directors, told lawmakers that his agency is concerned about having enough drivers for a free-fare August and whether it can handle the corresponding security needs.

Winter said the important thing is that when people get on an RTD train or bus during free-fare August that they are inclined to come back.

“We want to make sure we’re setting up all the agencies for success,” Winter said. “And so when we’re asking RTD to provide free transit, that’s not just about farebox replacement, that’s about hiring and recruiting drivers. It’s about cleanliness and safety and security. We need this to be a success. We need the experience to be great.”

As for how RTD plans to encourage people to use the free transit, a spokeswoman for the agency said “it’s too early to talk about our plans for fare-free August.”

“RTD is preliminarily preparing internally how to implement fare-free transit if the bill passes,” spokeswoman Marta Sipeki said.

Proponents of the measure expect RTD to advertise the waived fares. The $22 million can also be used for that purpose.

In Salt Lake City, the UTA relied on earned media — i.e. stories in local news outlets — and partner organizations to get the word out about its free-fare February. The state’s transportation department posted about the initiative on its digital highway road signs. And, finally, UTA did purchase some billboards to advertise the program.

“I would not say we spent heavily,” said Waters, UTA’s community engagement manager.

Whitmore said RTD will “have a full-fledged PR campaign,” but the details of that campaign appear to still be in the works. He also said RTD isn’t sure how well free-fare August will work out.

“I don’t know that we have a good estimate,” Whitmore said.

What else is in the bill

RTD isn’t the only Colorado transit agency that would benefit from Senate Bill 180.

The legislation also sets aside $6 million to allocate $3 million in each of the next two years to other transit agencies — including the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority that serves people in the Aspen and Glenwood Springs area — so that they, too, could offer free fares in the summer. Agencies would have to apply for grants from the Colorado Energy Office.

“Every transit agency in the state is eligible and I would expect them all to apply,” said Sen. Nick Hinrischsen, a Pueblo Democrat and prime sponsor of the bill.

The measure also would allocate $30 million to the Colorado Department of Transportation to establish a pilot project to expand transit, including through additional bus trips on Interstate 70 and Interstate 25.

Senate Bill 180 is awaiting final approval in the House.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun. com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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force must be addressed, she said. Some of that could also start with more apprentice programs and the recruitment of teachers. “How do we go into our community? How do we recruit those moms that want a schedule that maybe matches their child? How close are they to a teaching license? Do we have parents in our buildings that we could train to get them into our pipeline?” she asked.

LeBlanc-Esparza suggested businesses give employees an opportunity to take a day and volunteer as substitute teachers.

Advice to businesses

The coalition offered ways businesses can help stem the teacher shortage, some included creating and supporting scholarships for teacher apprenticeships, funding teachers in an innovative business model based on retention outcomes and creating or contributing to a living wage fund to make child care more available and affordable for teachers.

“In the end, until we have more resources that allow us to spread workload amongst more people, I fear that we’re going to continue to have the same challenges,” Gdowski said.

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Republicans lag Democrats in statewide contests

BY SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, a multimillionaire, poured $5.2 million of his own money into his reelection campaign in the first four months of this year, signaling that he is willing to open his pockets to secure another four years leading Colorado.

Polis used that infusion to schedule $3.4 million worth of TV advertising for September and October.

The two Republicans running in the June 28 primary for a chance to unseat Polis are significantly lagging behind the incumbent, who spent more than $23 million to secure his first term in 2018, in fundraising.

In fact, all of the GOP candidates for statewide office are lagging behind their Democratic opponents when it comes to campaign cash.

Campaign finance reports filed with the Secretary of State’s Office on May 2 provide the first glimpse of how the June 28 primary election and the Nov. 8 general election are shaping up in terms of candidates’ financial warchests. They cover fundraising and spending from Jan. 1 through April 27.

Polis and three other Democratic incumbents are using their cash advantage already to line up TV ad time in the weeks before the general election. And super PACs are raising money to support Democrats in three of the four statewide contests.

Meanwhile, two leading GOP candidates — Heidi Ganahl, who is running for governor, and Pam Anderson, who is running for secretary of state — spent significant sums in the first four months of the year to collect petition signatures to make the primary ballot. Both face primary opponents who made the ballot at April’s raucous GOP assembly.

And Republican Tina Peters, the indicted Mesa County Clerk running for secretary of state, had yet to file her campaign finance report as of 9 a.m. May 3. The deadline was 10 p.m. May 2.

Here’s a deeper look at cash in Colorado’s statewide contests.

Two gubernatorial candidates selffund, one significantly more than the other

In the first four months of 2022, Polis brought his total personal campaign contributions to more than $5.9 million, while also raising about $402,000 from donors despite limiting his contributions to $100 a year from individuals.

His campaign had nearly $5 million in cash on April 27, though that doesn’t reflect his spending on TV ad reservations.

Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent and the only remaining statewide elected Republican, put another $150,000 of her own money into her campaign, bringing her total fourmonth fundraising haul to nearly $377,000. She’s raised $1 million since announcing her candidacy, with $400,000 coming from her own pocket.

Ganahl originally pledged to limit her campaign spending to $3.4 million, allowing her to collect double the $1,250 contribution limit for individual donations to gubernatorial candidates. She backed out of that pledge in late January, but not before she raised $165,000 in larger contributions from 135 donors.

The campaign paid Blitz Canvassing, a signature-gathering firm, more than $212,000 between January and March. The campaign had a little more than $200,000 in the bank heading into May.

Lopez’s fundraising lags far behind Ganahl’s. Lopez raised only $36,000 in the first four months of the year, bringing his election-cycle total to less than $106,000. And he had only $16,000 in cash at the end of April.

Then there’s Danielle Neuschwanger, who failed to make the Republican ballot at the assembly and instead is running for governor under the American Constitution Party banner. She raised nearly $73,000 in the first four months of the year and loaned her campaign another $33,000, bringing her total personal investment to nearly $69,000. She had $15,000 in cash on April 27.

As the candidates compete, the super PAC Strong Colorado for All, which supports Democrats, was sitting on $467,000 in cash at the end of April, some of it from the Democratic Governors Association. That money presumably will be used to support Polis in the fall.

Dems also lead among other statewide campaigns

Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold raised nearly $875,000 between January and April 27, which her campaign says is a record since at least 2000 for a candidate for secretary of state, attorney general or treasurer in a single filing period.

That brings her election-cycle total to $2.5 million. She had more than $301,000 in cash at the end of April after reserving nearly $1.8 million worth of ad time in the weeks leading up to the election.

Peters, Griswold’s most high-profile GOP opponent and perhaps the most polarizing candidate in Colorado’s 2022 election, failed to file a campaign finance report, triggering an automatic $50 fine for each day the report is late.

A grand jury indicted Peters earlier this year in a security breach of her county’s election system. And Griswold is asking a judge to remove Peters from overseeing this year’s election, as she did in 2021.

Anderson, a former Jefferson County clerk, raised about $51,000 in the first four months of the year, paying Blitz Canvassing $70,000 over that span for petition signatures. She had only about $6,000 in the bank on April 27.

Mike O’Donnell, a former nonprofit executive from the Eastern Plains who also made the GOP primary ballot in the secretary of state’s race via the state assembly, raised only about $3,100 in the first fundraising period of the year, while putting more than $53,000 of his own cash into his campaign. He had about $38,000 in cash on hand to end April.

Once her Republican opponent is set, Griswold likely will get help from Defend Democracy Fund, a super PAC created to support her that raised more than $508,000 in the first four months of the year.

Attorney General Phil Weiser raised $512,000 in the first four months of the year, bringing his election-cycle total to $3.2 million. He reserved more than $1 million in fall TV ad time, and still had $1.6 million in the bank to begin May.

Weiser will face Republican John Kellner, the district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, in November. Kellner raised $106,000 in the first few months of his campaign, and had about $84,000 in cash on April 27.

Weiser can expect help from the DAGA Colorado People’s Lawyer Project, a super PAC that raised $193,000 in the first four months of the year. DAGA stands for the Democratic Attorneys General Association. It’s unclear if Republicans have a similar independent spending committee to support Kellner, though in the past the Republican Attorneys General Association has supported GOP candidates in Colorado.

The state treasurer’s contest is more low-key in terms of fundraising than the other three statewide races, but the Democratic incumbent has a similar cash advantage.

Incumbent Democratic Treasurer Dave Young raised nearly $100,000, bringing his total raised during the election cycle to $387,000. After making a $169,000 TV ad reservation, Young had about $94,000 in cash to end April.

His GOP opponent, former state representative and lieutenant governor candidate Lang Sias, raised $51,000. He had about $59,000 in cash left at the end of last month.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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