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The Weld RE-8 School Board heard pleas from parents to keep the Fort

reclassification for the next two-year cycle, which will begin in 2024.

The school board brought up the idea of cutting the

a workshop session. The estimated cost savings was $39,000. The district has an extra $1.9 million for next year’s budget, but some of

that has to go to infrastructure needs and increases in teachers’ salaries, among other things.

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New coffee house helps employees with life skills Taza opens in Adams County government building

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Helping young adults learn life lessons so they can help themselves, their families and their communities is the mission at Taza Coffee House in the Adams County government building.

“Our mission is to work with young adults and provide a safe house for them to continue to grow and to overcome their problems, challenges, obstacles that they go through,” said Maria Borrego, executive director of Community Uplift Partnership, or CUP, which operates Taza. “We also provide a Transitional Energy officials at the Nevada oil and gas site using geothermal energy to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse healthy workplace for them.” emissions.

COURTESY OF TRANSITIONAL ENERGY CUP is a nonprofit coffee house that began seven years ago as an outreach program in Commerce City. Borrego, CUP and the Landing Place Church first established a mobile food bank pantry, worked with the Adams 14 Hope Center to assist families and provide thanksthe United States,” said CEO Salina giving outreaches.

Derichsweiler.

Then at the height of the recesAccording to the company, Transion in 2008 and 2009, a carpet sersitional Energy is the first to raise vice center owned by Shea Properprivate funding to provide 100% ties in Commerce City was sitting of the cost to produce geothermal The building was taken

BY BELEN WARD oil and gas fi eld site in Nevada on Every year before Thanksgiving, First United Methodist Church in Fort Lupton and the Fort Lupton Food and Clothingempty.

Bank provide community energy on the Nevada oil site. over by Oakwood Homes, remodBWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM May 19. members with food boxes. This will be the Joe Hubert, left China Garcia Sue Hubert withinto Change 4 Change, The Nevada oil field pilot is part of and eled and turned a coffee shop.

“It’sprogram’s exciting to10th see consecutive the success year. Above, another organization that helps with the food drive.

See more on Page 2. a larger project using Transitional “They put out a bid for a nonof this pilot project, as it opens up Transitional Energy officials rea world of untapped possibility for port successfully using geothermal geothermal energy development in energy to generate electricity at an SEE ENERGY, P5 SEE TAZA, P3

Oil and gas company is reducing greenhouse gases with geothermal energy Transitional Energy will work next with utility company serving Adams, Weld counties

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profit to operate the coffee shop and Keely Thompson, the previous founder of CUP, had always dreamed of building a coffee house working with young adults,” Borrego said. “It was her idea.”

CUP then shifted its mission to serving young adults, and in 2018, opened a second coffee house — the Reunion Coffee House.

CUP opened its third coffee house, Taza, on Feb. 1.

Taza is Spanish for cup, and the space is designed to feel like a home.

“We named this coffee house Taza because Adams County has the highest population for Latinos,” Borrego said.

Not only does Taza provide jobs for young adults, but it also teaches them life skills by providing a 12week paid training course.

The class focuses on selfawareness, introspection, leadership and character development, Borrego said.

“When you learn life skills or job skills, you build a relationship,” Borrego said. “It was the idea behind the nonprofit. We used the same mission with families such as women and children.”

When a young adult is

Taza coffee shop recently opened in the Adams County government building, and it is operated by Taza Executive Director Maria Borrego, Community Uplift Partnership employees Aletta Torrez and Jacqulyn Churches and Chris Churches, Taza coffee house director. PHOTO BY BELEN WARD

not healthy in their household, Borrego said the whole house struggles.

“If we help the young adult, we know we’re helping families,” Borrego said.

Chris Churches is the coffee house director and has been with CUP for four years. She sets up new coffee houses, runs the day-today operations and hires the employees.

She started with CUP first as a donor, then worked as a barista and SEE TAZA, P4

‘When you learn life skills or job skills, you build a relationship. It was the idea behind the nonprofit.

We used the same mission with families such as women and children.’

Maria Borrego, executive director of Community Uplift Partnership

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FORT LUPTON POLICE BLOTTER

Here are the police reports for May 14 to May 20 to the Fort Lupton Police Department. Not every call made to the police is not listed on this report.

May 14 Police issued a summons to a Loveland man, 37, for criminal mischief and assault in the 60th block of Grand Avenue.

An employee of Martin Marietta reported a vehicle trailer and tools stolen from a construction site in the 1200 block of Weld County Road 6. The case is under investigation.

Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 36, in the 100 block of Sixth Street for domestic violence menacing charges. He is being held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

May 15 A Denver man, 20, was taken into custody at Ninth Street and Rollie Avenue for DUI, protection order violation, driving while license is revoked and possession of marijuana by a minor.

He is being held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

May 16 A Commerce City 17-year old was issued a summons by police for animal abuse for running over a baby goose at the golf course.

May 17 Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 35, in the 300 block of Ponderosa Place on a warrant out of Weld County for failure to appear on harassment and assault on a child. He is being held at Weld County Jail.

May 18 Police arrested a Lochbuie man, 32, for a protection order violation at U.S. Highway 52 and Weld County Road 29.5. He is being held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

May 20 An Aurora man, 43, was issued a summon at Rollie Avenue and First Street for causing a traffic accident by failing to obey a traffic signal.

New Weld County public works director started at the ground level

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Curtis Hall started with the Weld County Public Works Road and Bridge Division in 1996 as a seasonal worker, and today, he is the county’s new public works director.

“I am grateful the board of commissioners has entrusted me with this position,” Hall said. “I know my experience and background will provide me with a good foundation to continue to lead this team of amazing employees who plan, design, build and maintain the county’s infrastructure.”

Hall replaced current director Jay McDonald as the department head after McDonald retired

last year.

While Hall was moving up the ladder, he continued with professional development courses and certificates. He also gained experience training employees in several divisions and was a supervisor and manager.

“Curtis has grown with the department and has experience in multiple divisions as a trainer, supervisor and manager,” said Commissioner Chair Scott James. “The board is confident Curtis will continue to lead the department in a professional manner that keeps up with the growing infrastructure needs of the county while also reflecting the fiscal responsibility desired by the board.”

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eventually moved up to shift lead and manager and now director.

Churches ran her own nonprofit

Curtis Hall has been named as Weld County’s new public works COURTESY OF WELD COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS director.

and a children’s theater company for 20 years.

“Management also takes a twohour training to have crucial conversations within the workplace, how to identify people skills and build teamwork,” Churches said.

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“We are trying to build lives,” Borrego said.

Aletta Torrez, 21, has been working with Taza since it opened.

“I heard about the program from Chris Churches,” Torrez said. “It’s been a great experience, and I love the classes. I’m learning how to do their social media. It’s amazing.

“It’s the best job I’ve ever worked at, and I used to dread going to work, and I look forward to being at work,” Torrez said.

Jacqulyn Churches has been with CUP for two years.

“I started as just a barista, and now, I do the marketing for all three-coffee houses, videos and signage,” Churches said. “I love working here.”

The Cup also operates the Anythink Coffee shop in the Thornton Anythink Library and is planning to open a fourth location in the Greyhound Park Development in 2023.

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Kaylor told the board it budgeted $321,000 for high-school sports programs and spent $305,000 as of May 26. Jessica Holbrook, the district’s director of finance and business services, presented a draft budget to the board May 26.

It included no plans to disband the football program.

“To cut the football program, or any other program, due to budget cuts is absurd,” Michelle Galicia told the school board. “We are supposed to be here for the students.

Now, let’s show them we are.”

She said cutting the football program will have a trickle-down effect on other sports programs, the school’s marching band and student council, as examples.

“You still have to pay to upkeep the stadium,” she said. “If the program is cut, you start losing current and future students. In turn, that means loss of funding.”

Kathy Rodriguez told the board it was time to start asking questions of the people making these decisions.

“In 2019, the superintendent was making 10% more than the average superintendent. The teachers’ salaries were 6% below other teachers in the state,” she told the board. “In 2021, the superintendent was making 15% more than average. Teachers were still making 6% (below average.)”

Galicia told the board a football program isn’t about wins and losses. She cited the examples of several students who have gone on to college with football scholarships. Galicia also suggested that the district start hiring people “who are vested in the town” and “who aren’t here to use it as a stepping stone.”

“We need an urgent plea to CHSAA to ask them to drop us to 1A so we can rebuild,” Galicia said. “The current two-year league placement has already been implemented. Right now, we don’t have an AD to fight for this (present athletic director Cora Lanter will move on to a similar job at Severance High School), so we need to do it.”

The school board has to adopt a budget by the end of next month.

“We want answers,” Rodriguez said. “We want decisions that place the interests of the students first.”

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An illustration on how the new technology works on existing and abandoned oil and gas wellbores to solve the climate crisis for a cleaner environment.

IMAGE COURTESY OF TRANSITIONAL ENERGY

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Energy technology with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies’ Office Wells of Opportunity grants.

- According to company officials, Transitional Energy’s plans for its next pilot program are in Colorado. They will work with major oil and gas companies and on the utility side with United Power, which serves Weld and Adams counties.

Transitional Energy is a majority women-owned geothermal energy and development company that converts oil and gas waste streams into renewable energy.

Derichsweiler and Ben Burke, chief technology officer, co-founded Transitional Energy.

Derichsweiler was the first Native American to graduate from Aurora Central High School and was valedictorian of the Colorado School of Mines’ chemical engineering and petroleum refining program and received an MBA finance from Pepperdine University. Her grandmother is of Alaskan descent.

In 2018, Derichsweiler, Burke and -their executive team, all with experience in the oil refinery business, talked about helping oil and gas companies reduce carbon emissions to get to net carbon zero.

Transitional Energy also developed the technology and innovative processes to generate renewable electricity at an oil site operated by Grant Canyon Oil and aGas. Its energy powered a section of Grant Canyon’s operations at its oil field and reduced total greenhouse gas emissions.

Transitional Energy also collaborates with ElectraTherm, an Atlanta-based global leader in engineering low-temperature waste heat recovery solutions.

“We are thrilled with the results of this pilot project and happy to see the success of our geothermal equipment,” said Matt Lish, managing director at ElectraTherm.

“We look forward to working with Transitional Energy to bring this technology to the oil and gas industry and further our shared goal of reducing carbon emissions and

‘We are thrilled with the results of this pilot project and happy to see the success of our geothermal equipment.’

Matt Lish, managing director at ElectraTherm increasing availability of baseload, renewable energy.”

Transitional Energy develops its geothermal energy in lower temperature zones because traditional geothermal development is barred in hotter climates in the Western United States, according to officials.

Using a lower capital avenue developed in lower temperature climates creates a hybrid energy source with operational and abandoned oil and gas wells. Its renewable energy opportunities are more cost-effective and plentiful than alternative conventional power generations.

According to officials, the United States has 1 million well bores with geothermal facilities. It is Transitional Energy’s goal to provide an affordable and sustainable energy surplus between fossil fuels and renewable energy.

“Just as the world is on a journey to a cleaner energy future, so are we,” Derichweiler said. “Transitional Energy’s initial goal with this pilot was to prove we could produce geothermal energy at an oil and gas site, and we’ve accomplished that. Next up is to optimize our operations for even greater results and scale them to provide an immediate solution that helps bridge the gap between fossil fuels and intermittent renewable energy.”

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n an instant, the world changed again. As he left a successful sales call in New York City, he saw an alert for “Breaking News” pop up on his cell phone. When he read the headline, it said that 19 children and two teachers had died in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. His heart became heavy, his legs buckled, and he felt sick to his stomach thinking of his own grandchildren. His customer and the products and services that he sold were no longer important at all.

As she sat at her desk as a chief financial officer poring over spreadsheets and financial data, she also kept one extra monitor with a news feed so she could watch the stock market as she was doing her work. She saw the headline come up on her monitor with the same message as she received on her phone, “Breaking News,” 19 children and two teachers had died in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. With three children of her own, the finances of the company became less of a priority as she raced home to be with her family.

In a prayer group on Facebook, the 1,000-plus members poured out their prayers for the families and the community who were impacted and for the world. They poured out their broken hearts for what happened that day as Michael Norton they prayed together.

They prayed for what is happening every day in our country when it comes to senseless and random acts of violence. For the past week, online prayer groups, small church groups, and Bible study groups have been trying to wrap their heads and hearts around such tragic events, while leaning into their faith and standing on the promises of God. Where do we go from here? What do we say when the words get caught in our throats and we cannot speak, or we just don’t know what to say? Sometimes there are no words. Sometimes the only thing we can do is to be pres-

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ent, available, empathetic, compassionate, and open to sharing how we feel as we try to understand and make sense of any of it. Yes, we are allowed to feel hurt and angry, but let’s not allow that hurt and anger to lead us down the wrong path. Instead, let it fuel our desire to pursue real change.

Where else can we go from here? For the past week we have seen politicians, entertainers, actors, professional athletes, and CEOs of large organizations share how they feel, also giving passionate pleas for the necessary change that needs to happen before we have yet another Sandy Hook, Parkland, Columbine, Robb Elementary (and so many other tragic events) take place. And where shouldn’t we go? We shouldn’t give in to the blame game, pointing fingers across the aisle.

We should never politicize any tragedy such as this. The victims and their families deserve better than that. The best way we can honor all the victims and families who have gone through this kind of senseless violence is to come together to find the solution instead of trying to

determine who is to blame. At the end of the day violent video games, violent movies and television shows, access to guns, the far left, the far right, and social media will all be blamed. But this, my friends, is not the answer.

Do I know what the answer is? No, I don’t. But I do know that human lives, at any age, young or old, are precious. And I know that I want to be a part of the solution in any way that I can. Knowing in some small way, we can all contribute, doing our part to live in the spirit of love.

Is your heart broken? Is your heart heavy? Mine is too as I write this column. I would love to hear your story of where we go from here at mnorton@xinnix.com, and when we can help fill the world with love, forgiveness, and compassion, it really will be a better than good life.

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.

How can a me-first terrorist be made into a hero?

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confounding aspect of the climate change challenge has been disagreements about the most basic of facts, namely human complicity. We had the same fact-based problem with the last presidential election. Then there’s what happened in Granby, the Colorado mountain town that continues to be at the center of alternative realities.

Granby lies between Winter Park, the ski area, and Grand Lake, the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. It has changed little since I lived there 40 years ago. It has tried to be a resort town, but the DNA is different.

It’s a commercial and services center.

The mayor when I lived there was Dick Thompson, who owned an excavating business and showed up at town board meetings in a blue work shirt wearing suspenders to hold up his jeans.

The sky was blue the morning of June 4, 2004, the day of the bulldozer attack. The Fraser River, nearing the peak spring runoff, rushed to join the Colorado River. At the newspaper office, Patrick Brower was mapping out the next week’s issue of the Sky-Hi News.

Brower, like many people in Granby, a town then of 1,500, wore several hats.

Walking down Agate Avenue, the main street, you were likely to encounter town trustees and sewer board members in different roles as store manag-

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Brower was the newspaper’s publisher but also its editor and a reporter. He attended many meetings of the town board. A relatively minor issue of several years before had been a land-use dispute on the town’s indusAllen Best trial fringe, where a concrete batch plant was permitted on property adjacent to a muffler shop.

That afternoon, Brower heard somebody had gone crazy in a bulldozer on the town’s edge. The Komatsu was like no bulldozer seen before, the driver encased in concrete save for two rifle barrels and clearly bent on destruction.

It first attacked the batch plant, then it rumbled up the road to attack Mountain Parks Electric, followed by the town hall and library.

People had been advised to stay indoors because the bulldozer operator — whoever it was —had shot at police and the batch-plant operator. Children had fled the library only a minute before the giant Komatsu crashed into the building.

At the newspaper office, Brower was trying to figure who the terrorist was. He was standing in the front of

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the office when the blade caved in the building’s two-story front. Bricks and concrete blocks fell like shattered glass.

He ran out the back, the bulldozer roaring at his heels. He didn’t trip. Had he done so, he says, he would have died.

The bulldozer also ripped into the home of the former mayor. His widow had been sleeping until shortly before.

Then came an attempt to create an explosion of propane tanks. Finally, the bulldozer overheated and got stuck in the Gambles store basement. The terrorist shot himself with a handgun. He was the owner of the muffler shop who thought he deserved special treatment.

All of his victims played into that grudge-based narrative.

The strange thing was that almost immediately others made him into a martyr, a hero, the underdog getting back at a government elite. That’s laughable on the surface. I stress that the mayor when I lived there dug trenches. Nobody was wealthy. If anybody had a Ph.D., they certainly did not announce it.

Admirers of this terrorist pointed out that he killed nobody. It was a matter of luck. Dozens could have easily died from gunfire, explosions, or — like the children in the library — crushed by bulldozer treads.

Several years ago Brower wrote a book about this. It’s called “Killdozer.”

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to many people. They want to believe in a little guy battling a big, bad government until he finally snapped.

Facts do matter, but so do broader truths that we agree upon, as David Brooks observed in a 2021 column. “It is a moral framework from which to see the world,” he explained.

Cooperation, not conflict, defines every successful community I have known. Violence achieved nothing for the terrorist in Granby, nor did it achieve anything on Jan. 6 in Washington D.C. Communities large and small are built on cooperation that dwarf narrow, short-term interests. Happily, American leaders have come together in bipartisan agreement in how to resist Russian aggression in the Ukraine.

Climate change poses a broader, more difficult and dangerous challenge. From my perspective in Colorado, sometimes I can be optimistic. I see bold policies, great courage and a willingness to sacrifice for the greater good.

Other days, I see narrow me-first grievances and entitlement hold sway.

I’m still mystified how people can look at the facts and reconfigure this petty terrorist into a hero.

Allen Best publishes Big Pivots, which focuses on climate change and the energy and water transitions in Colorado.

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Call 720-928-4071 for more information.

National Night Out Fort Lupton’s observance of National Night Out will be at 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Koshio Park, 131 McKinley Ave. It’s a chance to meet police officers in an informal setting. It’s also an opportunity to enjoy hot dogs and hamburgers hot from the grill. There will be bounce houses, games and a tug-owar.

Gummball 5K The fifth annual Gummball Rally will be Saturday, Oct. 1, at Adams County Regional Park, 9755 Henderson Road, Brighton. The 5K walk/run is in honor of former Adams County sheriff’s deputy Heath Gumm, who died in the line of duty in 2018.

The cost is $30 for racers 13 and

older and $10 for 12 and younger.

Those 12 and younger get in free.

Each includes a shirt/swag bag guaranteed with entry by Sept. 14.

Packets will be available for pickup at 4201 E. 72nd Ave. from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30. Proceeds benefit a nonprofit that supports law enforcement and first responders.

For more information, email tracykilgore71@gmail.com.

ONGOING Hours change at historical park The South Platte Valley Historical Park will be open for public visitation the first weekend of the month from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

Individual tours outside of the first weekend of the month are available by contacting the society at lancaster.lupton@spvhs.org or calling 303-857-9360 and leaving a message.

Splash pad The city of Fort Lupton is searching for comments about and sponsorships for a new splash pad.

Sponsor funds will be used for the splash park and amenities. Call 303-857-6694 Donation time The Fort Lupton Food & Clothing Bank is asking for donations of canned fruits and nuts, varieties of dry pasta and pasta dinners, peanut butter and canned meat such as tuna (including the pouches).

Other potential donations could include chicken, Vienna sausages, spam and salmon. The bank also needs personal items, such as toiletries and baby needs.

Drop off donations at the food and clothing bank’s back door, 421 Denver Ave., weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Call 303-857-1096.

Teen hangout Teens can stop by the Fort Lupton Pubic & School Library Wednesdays to play crafts, video games and hang out with friends after school.

Walk with a doc Platte Valley Medical Center’s cardiac rehab team and Walk With A Doc will host monthly walks with Dr. Christopher Cannon,

an interventional cardiologist at Brighton Heart and Vascular Institute.

This is a walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. After a few minutes to learn about a current health topic from the doctor, spend the rest of the hour enjoying a healthy walk and a fun conversation. It’s a great way to get out, get active and enjoy all the benefits that come from walking.

Blessings in a Bag Fort Lupton’s Backpack Program helps school children in need with a backpack of healthy food. It’s an all-volunteer program and is in need of volunteers. If interested in volunteering or donating, call 303718-4440. Mail donations to Blessings in a Bag, 306 Park Ave., Fort Lupton 80621.

Drop-in child care The Fort Lupton Recreation Center offers drop-in child care from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays or Tuesdays and Thursdays. Call 303-857-4200.

Committee openings Fort Lupton has openings for several of its citizen advisory committees. Visit https://www.fortluptonco.gov/966/I-Want-To-Apply-fora-Committee.

Boards/committees’ openings The city of Fort Lupton is looking for volunteers for its historic preservation board, the Fort Lupton Urban Renewal Authority, FLURA business representative (a five-year term), FLURA alternate member (term expires March 5, 2023) and library board trustee (term expires December 2024).

Call Alyssa Knutson at 720-4666128.

Fort Lupton senior lunches Senior lunches are available at noon Mondays at the Fort Lupton Recreation Center, 203 S. Harrison Ave. Sign up by noon the previous Thursday. Call 303-857-4200, ext.

6166.

Coffee group Fort Lupton’s weekly coffee group sessions are at 8 a.m.

Wednesdays. Call 303-857-4200.

Silver Sneakers Silver Sneaker Yoga is available Fridays from 9 to 9:45 a.m. and from 10 to 10:45 a.m. at the Fort Lupton recreation Center, 203 S. Harrison Ave. Water aerobics The city’s water aerobics class meets from 6 to 6:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at thke Fort Lupton Recreation Center, 203 S. Harrison Ave. Call 303-857-4200.

Pen pals Fort Lupton’s senior pen pal program through Twombly Elementary School is looking for participants. Learn more at: https://www. fortluptonco.gov/950/Senior-PenPal-Program Craft classes Monthly craft classes through

the Fort Lupton Recreation Center (203 S. Harrison Ave.) are available. Call 303-857-4200, ext. 6166 with questions.

Free short-term radon test kits Weld County residents can receive a free radon test kit (one per household, while supplies last).

Test kits can be requested online at www.drhomeair.com/weld, according to a statement.

Call the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment at (970) 400-2226 or visit: www.weldgov.com/go/radon.

Warm Line up and running Community Reach Center is offering a Warm Line (303-2806602) for those who want to talk to mental-health professionals about anxiety, lack of sleep and strained relationships, among other topics.

The professionals can facilitate referrals to other programs for assistance.

The line is not for crisis intervention. Those feeling unsafe or suicidal should call Colorado Crisis Services (1-844-493-8255) or text 38255 or visit the Behavioral Urgent Care Center, 2551 W. 84th Ave., Westminster.

Also, the center’s COVID-19 Heroes Program is set up to assist healthcare workers during the pandemic. Those who live or work in Adams County can receive up to six free counseling sessions. Use the Warm Line for support and free counseling.

Brighton’s community intake location is at 1850 E. Egbert St., on the second floor. It’s open from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays.

Here’s a list of locations where you can receive a test for COVID-19: Brighton Advanced Urgent Care, 2801 Purcell St. Call 303-659-9700 or visit https://advurgent.com/locations/brighton/ Brighton Salud, 1860 E. Egbert St. Testing is available on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Call 303-6972583 or visit https://www.saludclinic.org/covid-testing Fort Lupton Salud, 1115 Second St. Testing is available on Tuesday and Thursday. Call 303-697-2583 or visit https://www.saludclinic.org/ covid-testing Alcoholics Anonymous The Brighton chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 147 S. Second Place. Meeting times are 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, noon and 7:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 6 p.m. Thursdays and 9 p.m.

Fridays.

Call 303-659-9953 or visit www. brighton1aa.org.

Volunteers needed Qualified Listeners needs volunteers to drive veterans to and from appointments, run errands for veterans who cannot get out, handyman services, help administer veteran and family resource guide inventory in local libraries and veterans to be trained to become qualified listeners.

Visit qualifiedlisteners.org/volunteerapp and fill out the form or call 720-600-0860.

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Fort Lupton’s Moll opts for basketball in Florida

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

There aren’t many people who can say they are thankful for anything to do with the pandemic.

Fort Lupton’s Conner Moll can. t “The pandemic closed a lot of -gyms. I had to find parks and stuff to go to,” Moll said. “It messed up the recruiting process. A lot of colleges were like, ‘We love you.

We don’t have the money for it.’ It played a huge part. At the end of the day, everything happens for a reason.

“I’m grateful for COVID now,” he added. “It was a hard few years. It really helped me out.”

Moll signed a collegiate letter of intent May 26 to play basketball and study business entrepreneurship at Keiser University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

“Honestly, I had no idea about it until my mom found it,” Moll said. “I was sending emails out. I was trying to do anything to find a school. My mom was like, ‘Go to Duke University,’ things like that. I was like, ‘Let’s be realistic here.’”

Moll went to a Keiser-sponsored camp at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood.

“I was actually hoping to be signed by Colorado Christian so I can stay in state,” he said. “But I met the coach. You could tell he

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was watching for me. I thought this might be the place. He definitely did his work and tried to make it possible so I could go there. It showed me he wanted me. It wasn’t an athlete for him to sign.”

Moll and his mother took a campus visit.

“He took care of my mom and I very carefully,” Moll said. “We did a lot of stuff besides looking at the basketball side and the academic side. It sealed the deal when we went out there. I was looking at two others. It was basically no contest after I found this one.”

Outgoing athletic director Cora Lanter called Moll “a real student and an athlete.”

“I saw a positive person in the hall,” she said. “He never found his way to the office for anything.

That’s tough to do as a senior, to maintain that poise.”

FLHS boys basketball coach Jim Roedel called Moll “a leader who has the ability to do anything you want.”

“You have friends who care about you. You have a school here that will help you,” Roedel said. “For you to come here, in a town this size and accomplish what you did here? I am proud of you.”

Moll wants to start a clothing business this summer. The eventual goal is to own his own business with his own style of clothing.

Fort Lupton’s Conner Moll puts pen to paper May 26 and signs his letter of intent for PHOTO BY STEVE SMITH college basketball and business studies at Keiser University.

“I am not big on Colorado. I love it because it’s my home. And I love Fort Lupton, and it will always be home,” Moll said. “But I’ve wanted to move to a bigger city. I don’t like the weather here. It’s nice in the Sunshine State. I love the humidity, too. My parents hate it.

Right now, it’s looking like my new home.”

“You are a great athlete, and you have amazing parents,” said outgo-

ing FLHS Principal John Biner.

“Nobody sits where you are sitting by yourself. You are great in the hallways, and you are fantastic to watch playing basketball.”

“I haven’t been nervous or scared. I’ve done everything I can to prepare myself for this moment,” Moll said. “It feels like more of an accomplishment and a pat on my back to myself for all the hard work I’ve put in.”

Frederick’s Justice getting his work in ... and loving it Basketball standout will play the sport year round with eye on state title

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

FREDERICK -- It’s been just about two months since Frederick High School’s boys basketball team finished its first appearance in the Final Four since 1956.

But Luke Justice isn’t wasting time. The soon-to-be Frederick senior is playing on a traveling AAU team plus a high school club team this summer. He has some goals in mind — a player of the year honor, a state title next winter, to be the best teammate possible and a spot on a college roster in a year’s time.

His interest in basketball started at the age of 3, and it was his mother who pushed him in that direction.

“She had offers in college for basketball and soccer, but she was really big on basketball,” Justice said. “She wanted me to play, and she taught me everything. My dad wanted me to play, too, so I have to thank my mom and dad.”

Justice said basketball wasn’t his best sport at first.

“I was actually a better baseball player (he was a pitcher) than I was a basketball player,” Justice said. “I miss baseball. When I was 12 years old, I was in the state champion-

Year-round participation Like a lot of high school players in his sport and others, basketball is a year-round sport for Justice.

“I miss the fun activities,” Justice said. “I always enjoy watching football. I wanted to play it at one time. I miss out on the activities like summer time when everyone is in the pool or hanging out.

“I feel like it’s always worth it,” he said. “Basketball is my first love.”

play and AAU play.

“Around AAU time, that’s where I work with my coaches and a trainer,” Justice said. “I work on my skills, see what I can do with the ball, pick and roll. It’s more of a one-on-one type thing. When it goes to high school, it has to be a team effort. In AAU, you put five guys out there, and it’s skill basis. In high school, you can be upset by a team that gels.

“My AAU coach, Coach (Brandon) Brown (the new coach at Cherokee Trail High School), has done really well with me,” Justice added. “He’s given us the idea of treating this like a high school game. If you can play defense, you can win. Practices are more like one-on-one. It’s very competitive.”

Wanting to improve on a good season FHS was 21-5 this season and won the class 4A Longs Peak League title.

For his part, Justice averaged 13 points a game and sank a pair of key 3-pointers in a playoff win over Mead.

“Coach (Jeff) Conway has already told us that we were an unknown coming into this (recent) season — that no one expected us to be good (FHS hadn’t won a playoff game since 2012),” Justice said. “Because they know we were in the Final Four, every team is going to be giving us their best effort. We’ve got a bullseye on our back.”

There are some differences between high school play, club team

In closing Justice earned all-state honorable mention this year and a first-team, all-conference citation. He thinks the Warriors will be a solid team next season, even though they have to find replacements for Alex Sturn, the coach’s son, Jacoby Conway and Bryce Conover.

“When I go to a park and see kids play, it makes me happy,” Justice said. “Basketball is such an important sport. It gives people opportunities, maybe make a future out of it. It makes me want to play even more.”

There was a time when Justice didn’t want to continue, though.

“I came home from my first prac-

ship in Maryland before I moved out here. I threw my arm out in the middle of the game. We ended up going to a doctor, and he said if I continued pitching, I was going to tear a ligament. I would have had to get surgery, so I had to quit playing baseball.”

Luke Justice

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tice. I was making mistakes, turning the ball over. I came home, crying, and I told her I didn’t want to play any more,” he said. “My mom said, ‘There’s no reason to cry.’ She took me back outside after practice. We shot around for another hour and a half.

She told me to never give up.

“I always thank my mom for that.”

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Westminster council passes gun violence awareness proclamation Action comes a week after Buffalo shooting, day before Uvalde, Texas, shooting

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Westminster City Council designated June 3 as Prevention of Gun Death Awareness Day by proclamation May 23.

The vote comes a little over a week after 10 people were killed in Buffalo, New York, in a supermarket shooting.

The day after Westminister’s vote, a gunman shot and killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been at least 213 shootings with four or more people killed or injured so far this year.

“Americans support the Second

Amendment Right to bear arms, to protect life and property and to protect oneself and family,” the city’s proclamation stated. “There is recognition in the inherent responsibility required to own a gun.”

City Councilor Obi Ezeadi said the proclamation is not only a win for gun death awareness but also for City Council. He and City Councilor Bruce Baker negotiated the terms of the proclamation through eight different drafts and came to an agreement.

“This was a negotiation,” Ezeadi said. “This was a ‘let’s find common ground that addresses the issue from all sides.’ Not just my side, not just your side, but from all sides.”

Ezeadi said the proclamation reveals the council’s priorities.

Leslie O’Brien of the local Mom’s Demand Action group championed the proclamation. Mom’s Demand Action is a national movement fighting for public safety measures around gun violence.

“This is the first gun awareness day Westminster has ever voted on as a proclamation,” she said. “This is a huge step for the city.”

She said the group has sent the proclamation to municipalities around Colorado for approval each year for the past eight years. This is the first year Westminster approved it.

Northglenn has approved it in the past, and Thornton has never acknowledged it, according to O’Brien.

During the meeting, Ezeadi touched on his personal experience with guns. He talked about how he was robbed at gunpoint as a preteen in New Jersey.

“He pointed the bow of his gun (and) it touched the skin of my forehead,” he said. “The one thought I remember having in that moment was ‘please don’t kill me.’”

Ezeadi talked about a single mom he knew who murdered her daughter and then died by suicide.

“Westminster, we’ve gone through a

few of these as well,” he said.

O’Brien said the purpose of the proclamation is to raise awareness, and that’s why it was important for the council to pass it.

“It’s really to honor and acknowledge survivors and victims of gun violence in our country and as we’re healing from Buffalo, Texas,” she said. “We’re a nation that is broken, and we need to bring awareness to it.”

She said the state of Colorado has passed legislation regarding gun violence prevention, and to do more than just a proclamation, Westminster can educate children and adults around extreme risk protection orders.

She said these orders are similar to reg flag laws. If someone is at risk to themselves or others, a court order can be issued to physically remove guns from that person’s home, she said.

“In the wake of all of these horrific things, if we can do better, why aren’t we?” O’Brien asked.

‘We cannot become numb to it’: Colorado leaders react to elementary school shooting in Texas

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Nearly 1,000 miles away in Colorado, state leaders reacted to the tragedy with a common message: shootings of this type are hauntingly familiar, and action is needed to prevent similar massacres in the future.

“Another senseless tragedy and another painful reminder that we must act,” Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said in a series of tweets. “Prayers and thoughts mean well. They are indeed comforting. But action is better.

We as a society have to act.”

“This morning I visited Mancos Elementary School and saw the joy on the faces of students and teachers in their last week of school as they looked forward to new adventures this summer and next school year,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said. “Now fourteen students and a teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas had their joy ended forever from a cold blooded attack and their parents, friends and families won’t ever hold them in their arms again or be able to watch them grow.

Colorado’s hearts are heavy for our friends in Texas and join in showing love for the families and community affected.”

Polis released his statement before the full death toll was reported.

The Uvalde shooting happened just 10 days after a racist attack at a Buffalo grocery store that left 10 people dead. And this year alone, there have already been 27 school shootings, according to data from Education Week.

Renewed calls for gun control legislation arose following the tragedy in Uvalde.

“This horrific gun violence is

uniquely American. We cannot become numb to it,” tweeted Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado.

“We need to act and #EndGunViolence now.”

For his part, Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), who was serving as the Governor of Colorado during the Century 16 movie theater shooting in Aurora, said, “As a parent, I weep.

Our children deserve so much better than this nightmare. We need to protect our future from this senseless violence.”

Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado said, in part, “We cannot lose more children or loved ones. We must find a way to solve our country’s gun violence epidemic & save lives.”

Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a staunch supporter of gun ownership who once said she would bring a handgun to Congress, encouraged people to “turn to God for comfort and healing,” later adding from her campaign’s Twitter account that “You cannot legislate away evil.”

Craig Nasion, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, said, “This is America. There is no end in sight for the steady cadence of mass gun violence we seem unwilling to ever address. A reality my peers could not have imagined on our worst day in April 1999.”

President Biden delivered a televised address May 24 to talk about the Uvalde shooting.

“Why are we willing to live with this carnage?” the president asked.

“Why do we keep letting this happen? Where in God’s name is our backbone to have the courage to deal with it and stand up to the [gun] lobbies? It’s time to turn this pain into action.”

As Biden emphasized in his remarks, most Americans support legislation that would help curtail gun violence. But such bills have been nonstarters in Congress, largely due to the fact that they would require

Governor Jared Polis and other Colorado lawmakers made statements regarding the elementary school shooting in PHOTO BY LUKE ZARZECKI Texas.

Republican support in order to pass.

Less than a day after the shooting in Uvalde, several GOP lawmakers have already made it clear that they would not support gun control legislation.

Some are instead advocating for arming teachers, a policy that is unpopular on a national level.

After the shooting in Uvalde, NPR spoke with Ron Avi Astor, a mass shooting expert and professor at UCLA, who said he is unsure why gun laws have barely changed since the Sandy Hook shooting 10 years ago.

“Maybe it is money. Maybe it is the gun lobby. Maybe it’s become politicized and an ideological thing,” Astor said, “but [gun violence] should be treated as a public health measure.”

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online.

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2 young pastry chefs create out-of-this-world culinary experience

BY RYAN ERNSTES SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Space dinosaurs. Project 626.

Murder by the Campfire.

This is not a list of the internet’s latest conspiracy theories,

but rather the creations of Black Box Bakery, a spacethemed wholesale and online retail bakery located in the RiNo district of Denver. And the baked goods look just as outlandish as they sound. Scroll through the bakery’s Instagram feed, and you will find rainbow pastries, croissants that are apparently stranded on Mars, and alien-decorated cookies reading “You’re Out of this World” — all of which are as drool worthy as

they are bizarre.

And the Earthly masterminds behind these edible creations?

Twenty-seven-year-old Arielle Israel and 24-year-old Megan Read.

Israel stands at 5’3” but carries herself with a certain defiant confidence and clarity of vision.

Her reputation for croissants has earned her the nickname “The Laminator.”

She sometimes spends up to 12 hours a day on the laborious

work of folding butter sheets into dough, folding it, running it through the sheeter to flatten it and repeating.

Working with dough lets Israel be aggressive, whereas Read handles the more precise aspects of production. Read’s perfection of cakes and pastries gives her the moniker “Cake Queen.”

Her energetic, can-do attitude matches the bright auburn of SEE DOUGH, P13

From top: A space-themed, culinary creative force, Black Box Bakery features culinary delights that are “out of this world”.

Murder by the Campfire: double red croissant, toasted marshmallow, dark chocolate ganache, graham cracker.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF BLACK BOX BAKERY

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‘I can see this getting, not out of hand, but... out of hand.’

Megan Read

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her hair.

Together, Israel and Read’s days go something like this: 2:30 p.m. to 12 a.m., pastry and croissant production; 12 - 1 a.m., packing; 1 to 3 a.m., deliveries; 3 to 11 a.m., sleep; and 11 a.m., wake up and start thinking about creating all over again.

Business takes off Israel and Read’s creations come to life in the windowless basement of the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Denver, itself a story with intriguing origins. Just a few months after starting Black Box, Israel and Read received an email on behalf of the CEO of a large hotel conglomerate, asking them to meet in a specified location to “discuss certain opportunities.”

The exchange had all the veiled secrecy of an interaction with the mafia, Read said. But low and behold, the mystery executive was a huge fan of their croissants and wanted to help launch the business to even higher places. The exchange eventually helped Israel and Read land their current workspace in the unused banquet kitchen of the hotel.

Israel and Read’s kitchen now gives them enough space to work alongside four other employees, including Israel’s husband and partner in Black Box, Ty Webb. The team goes to work aerating butter, cutting dough into circles and bathing their pastries in egg washes, which gives the final product that delectable golden-brown hue. Sometimes the crew listens to podcasts to stay entertained.

Some of their favorites include “Serial,” “Stuff You Should Know” and “Behind the Bastards.”

On occasion, Israel might share her other hobby with Read — watching surgeries online. As it turns out, you can witness surgeons remove a blockage of the heart on Instagram and learn to spot the difference between a ruptured spleen and an intact one. Macabre? Maybe a little. But Israel thinks the interest stems from a desire to understand how things work.

In baking, for instance, Israel must understand how each ingredient will change her final product. It was in culinary school that she first realized “the egg has this function; the sugar does this,” and so forth.

Read does not share the same affinity for watching medical operations, but the two clearly

Arielle Israel, left, and Megan Read, right, share a passion for top-notch baked goods and are the masterminds behind out-of-this world Black Box Bakery.

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have a long history of knowing each other’s quirks.

Dynamic duo The pair go back to 2015, when they began their associate’s degrees at the Culinary Institute of America in New York. Israel was 20, having just completed her mandatory two years in the Israeli army, and Read was only 18. The two partnered up for a class and it immediately became clear they made a great team.

“She does all the things that I’m not good at or don’t like, and I’m the same for her,” Read said.

For the next few years, Israel and Read worked together in classes and at restaurants on the weekends. Their connection became almost telepathic, each knowing what the other would work on without having to communicate it.

After graduating from culinary school, Israel took a job as a pastry chef in Denver. Meanwhile, Read had just completed her manager’s training at a restaurant in New York. But Israel saw the opportunities on the horizon and knew, “I need my partner.” She sent a formal job offer over to Read, and within a month, the dynamic duo was reunited.

Soon after, Israel and Read decided it was time to branch out on their own. A colleague in the industry introduced them to the concept of wholesale production: making baked goods to be bought by other cafes and restaurants. It was just what Israel and Read needed — a way to get their foot in the door without the high startup costs of running their own storefront.

Thus, Black Box Bakery was born. Their specialty? Laminated pastries: anything made through rolling and folding layers of dough and butter. If it sounds decadent and delicious, that’s because it is.

Exploring the creative possibilities But Israel and Read had no desire to create “just another bakery.” Instead, they wanted to explore the unknown and embark on a journey of discovering what’s possible in the culinary sphere.

“It allows us to say, ‘you know, we’ve never seen a blue croissant before. We’re gonna do that,’” Israel said.

And indeed, the bakery abounds with creativity and variety. Croissant varieties include strawberry, almond, Oreo, pistachio and cruffin — a cross between a cinnamon roll and a croissant.

As for the bakery’s out-ofthis-world theme, Israel loves all things alien and conspiracy theory. She sees a metaphorical connection between her croissants and space, both whimsical, mysterious entities in her mind.

“People at home don’t know how croissants are made,” Israel said.

And that same principle could apply to much of space, too.

Once, after a long night of deliveries for the bakery, Read even had a firsthand experience with a UFO. In the dark, early hours of the morning, Read was driving home and spotted something in the sky that looked like a planet but was crazy bright.

She immediately called Israel to describe what she was seeing.

“All of a sudden it zoomed across the sky,” said Read emphatically, using her hands to mimic the quick trajectory of the unidentified object. She told Israel, “Bro, I think I just saw a UFO.” Paranormal or not, Israel and Read seem to draw inspiration from particular formative memories.

Like the first time Read tried a croissant in France. She entered a random bakery, stopped to pick up a croissant, and was walking to the subway when

she took her first bite. It literally stopped her in her tracks.

The sweet, grassy taste of the butter was like nothing she had ever tried before. Read wants this to be the visceral experience all people have when they taste Black Box’s goods.

Much of Israel’s inspiration is rooted in personal experiences too. Growing up, she would spend summers with her grandparents in France. Each day, Israel would stand in line for fresh baguettes and croissants — even if they still had leftover baked goods at home from the day before.

And at her childhood home in Israel, Friday nights were dedicated to food too. Israel would make challah bread, always met with constructive criticism driving her to be better.

“Too dense, could be better,” her family members would coach her.

Those memories stick with her. And now, Israel and Read long to produce baked goods that transport people to cherished memories of their own.

Storefront on the horizon Back in the kitchen, the clock has struck 2:30 p.m., which means production has begun.

Occasionally, Israel and Read chatter with the team as they work. Other times they seem overcome by a quiet, determined focus, despite performing the same repetitive tasks they do day in day out.

It is clear the two take great pride in their work.

“They have a standard and will have that standard met no matter what. And if it isn’t met it doesn’t go on the plate,” said Blake Ritenour, close friend and former employee.

That standard is producing results. Due to their success, Israel and Read look forward to opening their first storefront bakery in late summer or fall of this year. It’s a space in the Edgewater Public Market, a hip food hall in west-central Denver.

“It’s a dream,” Israel said.

“Everyone wants to see their products and get that feedback” from their customers.

Despite their impressive accomplishments at a young age, Israel and Read are not pumping the brakes anytime soon. They are already dreaming about owning a restaurant, a hospitality group, a desert bar and a diner. They excitedly blurt out ideas, feeding off one another’s infectious enthusiasm.

On reflection, “I can see this getting, not out of hand, but... out of hand,” Read said, laughing.

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June 2, 2022

State needs hundreds of thousands of EV chargers Here’s where facilities for electric vehicles are going in Colorado

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

Sitting in an electric vehicle with only 25 miles of range left in the battery, far from home in the cellphone waiting lot at Denver International Airport, a half hour of time to kill and a Dunkin’ donut shop beckoning with sustenance … what better place for a fast charger station, right?

Not yet, as frustrated EV drivers have discovered and struggled to fathom.

But there could be soon, responds the Colorado Energy Office, the agency charged with overseeing buildout of the hundreds of thousands of public and private charging stations needed to fuel the state’s goal of nearly 1 million EVs on the road within eight years.

There are slower chargers in the DIA parking garages. Fast charging stations built by private companies around DIA’s edges, like the neon-green glowing Electrify America juicer at East 57th Avenue and Tower Road. And yes, airport and state energy office officials say, the popular cellphone lot, gas station and food court next to DIA is a logical spot for a gleaming bank of rapid-charge stations that probably should have happened already.

Electrify America, with a simple consumer interface and plugs that can put 50 miles of range into a car within a few minutes, is “the recipient of an award from CEO to build stations at the cellphone lot, I’m guessing within the calendar year,” said Christian Williss, who directs transportation fuels and technology for the energy office.

Analysts say that kind of government-assisted growth is helping Colorado keep pace with EV sales that rank among the top states in the nation. Publicly financed chargers in high-traffic locations have been a success, they say, with the state’s interstate-focused network regularly adding completed stations.

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sands of small apartment complexes, work sites where cars are parked all day, and in rural towns with long distances between chargers.

EV chargers Walsenburg Colorado Springs EV Club Curtis Claar “We need to prioritize charging in multifamily housing, as well as workplace charging, given the importance of charging at these locations,” Williss said.

Drive Clean Colorado, a nonprofit promoting equitable clean energy transition, agrees that while most visible en route charging needs that address range anxiety are getting built, the true need is expansion of locations where everyday commuters will actually charge up: Overnight at home, and at the workplace.

“Keep in mind that most people drive less than 40 miles a day, and most cars are parked for hours at a time,” said Drive Clean Colorado Executive Director Bonnie Trowbridge. “So I’d love to see us focus more on EV charging wherever we see parked cars, whether that is in your own garage or driveway, the grocery store parking lot, or long-term parking at the airport.”

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up so far, and is even a bit ahead in the charging game, according to analyst Jesse Toprak with the EV subscription company Autonomy. (Autonomy’s subscription operates like a lease, but allows people to try EVs without a longterm commitment.)

EVs can be plugged in on 120volt home circuit, or Level 1, charging at about 3 to 5 miles of range an hour. Level 2 chargers can be bought for the home and are the most common in public spaces, and can charge anywhere from 12 to 80 miles an hour. Level 3 or DC chargers are being added at important highway stops and as neighborhood filling stations, at up to 20 miles of range per minute.

With about 54,000 EVs currently on the road in Colorado, there are 4,150 fast charging ports at Level 2 or 3, Toprak said.

That’s about 90 combined Level 2 and DC fast charging ports for every 1,000 vehicles, better than the U.S. Department of Energy recommendation of about 43 ports for every 1,000 EVs, Toprak said.

“However, we expect an exponential increase in the number of EVs in Colorado, particularly in Denver, in the coming months and years,” Toprak said. “Therefore, there is clearly a need for the charging infrastructure to keep up with this jump in demand.”

Colorado has made $20 million in charging station grants in eight years of the state-run Charge Ahead Colorado program, Williss said. About 1,700 stations have been completed around the state, with applications for state help open to private companies, nonprofits, community groups or towns, and

building owners.

For a Level 2 charging station, Colorado gathers federal, state and Volkswagen lawsuit settlement funds and can cover up to 80% of the cost, up to $9,000, Williss said. For the extra-fast DC chargers, the 80% grants can be $35,000 or $50,000, depending on speed.

The grants continue to be popular, with three or four applications for every grant slot. That’s why the addition of millions in federal stimulus funding for every state’s electrification efforts will be welcome, he said.

“We’re pleased with additional funding that is coming down the pike,” Williss said. “I think that will help to address some of that demand, although I suspect it will continue to be oversubscribed.”

State and federal officials are also counting on privately led efforts to further develop the charging network.

Electric truck and SUV maker Rivian, now delivering dozens of back-ordered vehicles to Colorado customers, is creating a Rivian Adventure Network of fast chargers. The first Colorado adventure station will open in Salida in June, with DC fast chargers proprietary to Rivian vehicles that can add up to 140 miles of range in 20 minutes, and open network Level 2 chargers for non-Rivian EVs. Rivian is already opening up public charging stations with its brand name at every state park.

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Hate crimes are on the rise Here’s what you can do to help prevent them

BY RACHEL ESTABROOK COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

In the time since a gunman killed 10 people inside a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, it’s becoming clear that the suspect left warning signs about his attack, which is being investigated as a hate crime due to his racist online writings. His actions and words raised red flags in school and in online communities, but no one intervened to help prevent the attack.

Colorado is a hotbed for research and developing strategies to help prevent bias-motivated crimes, and experts here have ideas about what people can do in their daily lives to help stop attacks like the one in Buffalo, or a similar one in an El Paso Walmart in 2019, which targeted Latinos. It’s not just mass murder making this prevention work urgent right now: The Anti-Defamation League has noted 204 instances of white supremacist propaganda and incidents in Colorado in 2021 and 2022.

Psychologist Rachel Nielsen spoke with Colorado Matters about strategies for prevention. She is working on a project to fight targeted violence, which will roll out training for K-12 schools and colleges and universities starting in July. The project is in partnership with two groups born out of the Columbine massacre — the Frank DeAngelis Center and Nicoletti-Flater Associates — and it’s funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

This is an edited transcript of our conversation.

How can we stop hateful ideologies from taking root?

The educational culture and the values of a school have a lot to do with mitigating these things early on in life, because freedom of speech goes so far in the U.S. A lot of hate speech falls under freedom of speech. So it comes down to our communities, our schools, and our faith organizations to draw the line about what we find culturally and socially acceptable way before it’s something criminal.

In mission statements and value statements of school, for example, is it written in school policy that it’s unacceptable and there are consequences for saying something racist to a peer? It really does come down to everyone taking up the charge and pushing for a positive, diverse, inclusive environment at schools.

How can an inclusive message be taught when prominent figures, including Congresswoman Lauren Boebert in Colorado, promote racist ideas like “replacement theory”?

I don’t think it’s ever too late, but these things do ebb and flow in our country. In recent years, we definitely have seen more racist attacks in the name of white supremacy or alt-right rhetoric. It is becoming mainstream.

That’s part of the problem for

As shootings and crimes rise in the U.S., Colorado Public Radio looks at how to prevent hate crimes in local communities.

young people, because their critical thinking is still developing. They’re not sure where to get correct information. When they hear disinformation or misinformation come from people in power, like politicians, a vulnerable young person might be more likely to believe that this is the case, and then that becomes fuel on the fire for someone who’s already angry, has a sense of personal grievance, and then latches onto a hate ideology.

Many people will espouse hate beliefs and not violently attack another individual. But when that voice becomes more of a mainstream opinion, then you can have people who are vulnerable to this pathway to violence who are more emboldened, because it is more familiar and common.

What should I look out for in terms of red flags before someone potentially becomes violent?

Usually, we notice that our loved ones are changing in some way.

What we found in bystander research is that friends and family have the greatest influence and the greatest opportunity to catch it early, well before it would come onto the radar of a professional, like a mental health counselor or an educator. So we encourage that when somebody starts – for the first time – saying things about violence or hate, or suggesting that that’s the answer to social or political issues, that we confront that by having a conversation and not shying away from it.

How should I have that conversation?

Social media can be one of the worst places to have a conversation about ideologies, because it easily becomes divisive. A face-to-face conversation would be best, since there can be some dialogue.

If someone says something that I have never heard them say before, like something racist, as uncomfortable as that would be, I would want to say, “I’ve never heard you talk like

that. Why are these things appealing to you? What’s changed with you?”

Actually express concern about them, that something is off and they’re becoming angry and blaming people, which is really a warning sign.

If, instead, you come with the opposite opinion, or try to use facts to dispute someone’s beliefs, sometimes it ends up having the effect of making you impossible to talk to. They think you’re the “other,” or shaming them, and they will pull away, and then maybe they won’t express these things to you, but they can continue to get more strident.

What if I’m worried about getting someone in trouble by calling the police?

There’s federal research that found that in any given attack, there are three people, usually friends and family, who had real information about what their loved one was going to do, but they probably didn’t know what to do with it.

The top reason that people don’t report the information is that they’re afraid to get their loved one in trouble and they don’t want to overreact, or for the loved one to get mad at them. This is especially true with teens and young people; they don’t want to get their friend in trouble, or they don’t want to get in trouble with them.

Luckily, in Colorado we have Safe2Tell. That works well for these kinds of concerns, about a kid

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who may have a gun on campus or has insinuated that they will hurt somebody. But the problem is, very much like what happened in Buffalo and even at the King Soopers in Boulder in 2021, once these kids graduate from high school, they don’t necessarily fall on anyone’s radar.

Are there times when intervention has really worked?

This is really where Colorado excels. Ever since the Columbine massacre in 1999, with the creation of things like Safe2Tell, along with collaboration between mental health and law enforcement for people in crisis, we are very quick at thwarting attacks when there’s evidence of a plan, a target, weapons – but those are all right on that edge of attack, and sometimes that’s just within days or hours of something happening.

We have thousands of calls that go through Safe2Tell in a given year, and you don’t hear about all of the suicides and guns on campus and attacks that were thwarted because it’s their private business.

Editor’s note: This was written and published shortly before a gunman opened fire on May 24 at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two adults.

This story is from Colorado Public Radio, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support CPR News, visit cpr.org.

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Modular homes factory could help state housing crisis

BY JASON BLEVINS THE COLORADO SUN

On a baked patch of clay next to a growing hospital, a group of investors plans to ease the Western Slope’s housing crisis with a $45 million automated factory that could turn out 100 ready-to-assemble apartment units a month.

“No one has ever built something like this in the U.S.” said Ted Steers, who is part of a Front Range investment group planning a European-inspired factory in Grand Junction. “This is a key part to solving the workforce housing crisis. We need to build housing faster, better and more inexpensively.”

This story first appeared in The Outsider, the premium outdoor newsletter by Jason Blevins.

The investors have acquired 177 acres in Grand Junction south of Community Hospital for a development they’re calling Centennial Park. The site is zoned for 2,000 units and the group has already sold lots to apartment builders planning 700 units. Soon, the group plans to break ground on a 237,000-square-foot facility developed by Mosaic Housing, a new modular housing company that proposes using computers and robots to build apartment buildings.

The plan mirrors Scandinavia’s modular home factory — the largest in Europe — that deploys robots to build 25,000 square

feet of housing every week. The Lindbäcks Bygg facility in Sweden can build apartment buildings that are 16 stories and can be assembled in a matter of days. A new ilke Homes factory in Great Britain is delivering 2,000 modular homes a year, each built in less than 12 weeks.

The first apartments planned for the Grand Junction site will be modular and built in factories in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

It costs about $8 a mile to ship about 1,000 square feet of modular housing, so shipping alone adds close to $2.5 million to the cost of the modular housing erected in Colorado but built at factories across the country.

There’s a growing embrace of modular housing in Colorado.

Buena Vista’s Fading West factory will soon start turning out two fully built, ready-to-assemble homes a day. Simple Homes in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood is pre-building structures with an indoor assembly line of home builders. The indieDwell modular affordable housing factory opened in Pueblo last year with a capacity to produce 160,000 square feet of housing a year.

And Colorado lawmakers want to bolster the state’s modular housing market with a $40 million loan program for manufacturers who can build homes to offset a statewide housing shortage.

The European model — with a $17 million robotic factory inside

a $29 million building — will differ from other modular factories that deploy trades workers inside warehouses to build homes just as they do outside. The computerized process will require machine operators — Steers estimates the factory would employ as many as 160 at full production — more than construction workers.

“The Grand Valley is the right place for this,” Steers said, speculating that modular buildings could be distributed across the Western Slope as well as Utah and Arizona. “Take the shipping costs away from ordering modular buildings in Pennsylvania or Houston and we can make a big dent in the region’s housing crisis. Building this in Grand Junction makes the most sense.”

Commercial real estate is red hot in Grand Junction right now.

Sales of commercial properties reached $250 million in 2021, a 50% spike from 2020.

Halliburton is developing a former industrial parcel on the Colorado River into a 44-acre warehouse and office campus.

Steamboat Springs’ opportunity zone investment firm Four Points Funding is building a 96-unit affordable apartment complex in the city’s Las Colonias Park.

Ohio-based national retail giant Washington Prime Group is redeveloping Grand Junction’s Mesa Mall next to the Centennial Park project. On the other side of the project, Community Hospital is

constructing a new 130,000-squarefoot cancer center.

The 177-acre site where Mosaic plans its housing factory has been vacant for decades as the original owners — who grazed sheep on the parcel — mulled development.

Diane Schwenke, the head of the Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce, said the housing factory project is well timed. A 2021 Grand Valley housing needs assessment showed the number of building permits for multifamily units peaked in 1981 and has not rebounded to previous highs set before the last recession in 2007.

That study showed Mesa County needing 3,572 more rental homes by 2030.

“And this is just today. As the community grows, we will need even more housing stock,” Schwenke said. “The housing need is immediate in our area and the fact that this project can manufacture multifamily units and products other than single family homes in a timely manner is not only appealing but necessary if we are to begin closing the housing gap.”

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.

Colorado climate conference warns of ‘small window’ to act

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

Some of the nation’s leading climate scientists May 23 sounded an alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change over the next decade, as a key index used to measure humans’ impact on the warming planet ticked higher.

“Unfortunately,” said Ko Barrett, a senior climate advisor to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration and a vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, “what we see is dire.”

Barrett was giving a keynote address to NOAA’s 50th Global Monitoring Annual Conference. The conference is hosted by NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory, which is based in Boulder, though the conference is virtual this year.

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ing — one presentation Monday, for instance, involved the possible use of instruments mounted in commercial airliners to measure atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other gases. The work of those scientists undergirds projections of how much the world will warm in coming decades as a result of human-caused greenhouse gas pollution.

Among the conference’s highlights is the unveiling of the latest entry in NOAA’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Index, which is a way to show how much extra heat humans’ greenhouse gas pollution traps, committing the planet to a hotter world. This year’s index rose to 1.49 — 49% higher than in 1990.

Put another way, the index shows that there is 49% more heat currently trapped by human-emitted greenhouse gases than there was in 1990, said Ariel Stein, the acting director of the Global Monitoring Laboratory. Last year, the index sat at 1.47 — 47% higher than in 1990.

The increase in the index is in line with increases over the past four years.

Carbon dioxide emissions are the biggest contributor to the increase in the index — 80% of the increase since 1990 is due to carbon dioxide.

Three gases — carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide — account for 90% of the increased heat trapped in the atmosphere due to human activity since the mid-1700s, Stein said.

“The scientific conclusion that humans are responsible for their increase is irrefutable,” Stein said.

Methane emissions, which can come from oil and gas production and from livestock agriculture but also from thawing permafrost in the Arctic, are also rising quickly. Stein said the 17 parts per billion increase in observed atmospheric methane levels last year was the largest annual increase on record.

To Barrett, the NOAA climate adviser, these numbers paint a stark picture: The world is on course to miss its goals for limiting temperature increase.

But, she said, it’s also important to focus on the reasons for optimism. Electric cars are gaining in popularity. Cities, through greener building practices and electrified transportation, are beginning to seize their opportunities to reduce emissions. Governments are taking serious steps to battle climate change.

“The next decade is a critical time to address the climate crisis,” Barrett said. “We have a small window to shift to a carbon-neutral economy and hold climate impacts in check.”

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.

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June 2, 2022

Is slamming Denver a winning message for GOP in 2022?

Colorado Republicans rip capital city as they eye November elections

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

“A toilet bowl.” “A city that no one wants to come to.” “There’s nobody out there that says Denver’s great anymore.”

Those were three takes on the Mile High City last month from three different Republican state representatives. The remarks were made during a news conference recapping the 2022 legislative session and they raised eyebrows given the upcoming election.

The Colorado GOP this year, after four years without a majority in either the Colorado House or Senate, is trying to win back some power in November. They will need the support of voters in Denver, a Democratic stronghold, and its surrounding counties, which make up the state’s population center, to do it.

Nineteen of Colorado’s 35 state Senate districts are in or touch Arapahoe, Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties. When it comes to state House districts, 35 of the 65 districts are either in or include one or more of those metro Denver counties.

In other words: the road to power in the legislature runs through Denver, which, according to several House Republicans, isn’t such a great place.

“They have basically let the downtown area become a toilet bowl,” said Rep. Matt Soper, a Delta Republican. “You feel safe in our part of Colorado.”

House Minority Leader Hugh McKean, R-Loveland, said Denver is a “city out of control,” referencing crime.

“I would challenge anybody that’s saying that Denver is not on a downward spiral,” said Rep. Colin Larson, a Ken Caryl Republican and one of the only GOP lawmakers in the Denver suburbs. “I would just have to say that doesn’t pass the smell test.”

Douglas County, a conservative stronghold, is really the only metro Denver county where Republicans have consistently won in recent election cycles.

The irony is that Republicans often complain when Democrats criticize rural Colorado. Take, for instance, the condemnation leveled at Marlon Reis, Gov. Jared Polis’ husband, in April after a 2021 Facebook comment he posted surfaced.

In the comment, reported on

by The Fence Post in a story about controversy surrounding a prairie dog relocation plan, Reis complained about rural Coloradans whining when state and federal money is sent their way.

“You’d best learn not to bite the hand that feeds you,” Reis wrote.

“Colorado is more than ranchers, and it’s time to adapt rather than

Lawmakers and lobbyists are seen at the Capitol on Jan. 12 in Denver at the start of PHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN Colorado’s General Assembly’s 2022 session.

complain.”

Kristi Burton Brown, chairwoman of the Colorado GOP, said Reis’ words were “pathetic” and “disgusting.”

Sen. Kerry Donovan, a Vail Democrat who represents rural parts of western Colorado, said Republicans are talking about Denver in the same vein that Democrats have talked about rural areas. Donovan said the GOP, which often complains about the urban-rural divide, should know better.

“It’s a very dangerous political strategy to create division to try to win elections,” she said.

But McKean said it’s not fair to compare Reis’ remarks to those from him and his caucus. He said he wasn’t castigating any group or person, and that what’s happened in Denver, in his opinion, is the result of Democratic policies. That’s where the politics behind criticizing Denver come in.

“What politics truly is, I think, and especially this year, is a study of contrasts,” he said.

“You take a look at what Denver was just a few years ago and the cycle that it’s gone through and in the midst of large policy changes.”

McKean spoke broadly about policies on crime and homelessness. Those are two issues the GOP is promising to tackle if they win in November, along with rising consumer costs.

McKean said the remarks about

Denver aren’t part of an election strategy, however. “I think it’s more just a commentary,” he said.

But not every Republican seems to think blasting Denver, whose home prices are soaring as people try to buy into a city with a limited housing supply, is such a good idea.

Sen. Paul Lundeen, a Monument Republican leading efforts to secure a GOP majority in the Senate, said Thursday night during a Colorado Sun event that he thinks Denver “could do better,”

but he’s not sure attacking the capital city is a winning strategy.

“It’s not as safe as it was when I first showed up at the legislature eight years ago,” he said.

“Do you build a campaign on that? No. You build a campaign on helping the people of Colorado.”

Even Cole Wist, a former Republican state representative who used to be in the same caucus as McKean, appeared to push back on Twitter.

“Like many metro areas, Denver has some things to work on,” he posted, “but it is definitely a great city.”

Sen. Chris Hansen, a Denver Democrat weighing a mayoral bid next year, rejected the criticism wholecloth. He thinks the remarks will hurt Republicans in November.

“Denver definitely has issues like every other city, but this is a wonderful city,” he said. “That is not going to be a winning strategy, I can say with clarity.”

Polis said he doesn’t think the attacks on Denver are ”good politics.”

“I don’t think it ever works to attack part of the state that you want to represent,” he said.

“Denver is the cultural capital of our state. You go to Rockies and Broncos and Nuggets games.

No area of the state is perfect, but we all value every part of the state. I love Grand Junction.

I love Colorado Springs. I love Denver. I love Boulder. They’re all great. I don’t think you hear very many — you certainly don’t hear me — attacking parts of the state that are conservative.”

Democrats hold a 20-15 majority in the Colorado Senate and a 41-24 majority 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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June 2, 2022

A European climate change delegation visits Colorado What did they say, and what did they hear?

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado and European Union climate and energy leaders are eager to exchange visitors on policy scouting trips to their equally desirable destinations. Never a shortage of volunteers.

If they were expecting breezy tours of sightseeing highlights and fact-free nights on the town, May 26 was a bracing wakeup call: This Colorado summit with the EU is jammed with dense explications of kilowatt hour clean energy prices, and hydroelectric-tohydrogen storage projects.

And both sides lapped it up.

The European Union’s previous focus on climate change policy has been sharpened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and western desires to get completely off Russian fossil fuel imports. Colorado is busy carrying out 57 pieces of landmark energy and climate change legislation passed over three years, and looking for new ideas on how to accelerate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

“Climate is no longer a niche policy, it’s all of the economy,” said Mercedes Garcia Perez, leader of the three-day Delegation of the EU (similar to an embassy) learning mission to Colorado.

After an exchange of ideas in

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downtown Denver on Tuesday, the delegation will also visit the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, internationally recognized atmospheric research labs and the University of Colorado in Boulder, and energy analysts at the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Here’s a roundup of what EU and Colorado are eager to tell each other: What the EU delegation is telling Colorado: • They are fascinated by the buyin from Colorado’s major electrical utilities to retire coal power plants and replace them with solar and wind power. They were impressed by Colorado’s apparent progress toward the goal of cutting 80% of electrical plant emissions by 2030, and wanted to know whether nuclear power or carbon capture and storage underground would be part of those plans.

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tion. Garcia Perez pointed to a new clean steel plant in northern Sweden that will use hydroelectric power to produce hydrogen, which in turn will be the fuel for the steel furnaces.

European car companies are already contracting for the steel, which will be used in part to build electric vehicles.

• To cut dependence on Russian oil and gas even faster, EU nations will be demanding more sacrifices by consumers and industry. That will include lower speed limits on roadways to save fuel, and restrictions or incentives to get a larger share of power used overnight when electricity is cheaper and more available.

What Colorado officials are telling the EU: • Colorado’s transition has benefited greatly from close cooperation with the six major electric utilities in the state that have been largely on board with demands for a rapid switch to cleaner energy. Colorado projects are

now hearing bids for 2 cents a kilowatt hour for wind, and less than 3 cents for solar with storage, Colorado Energy Office Executive Director Will Toor told the EU delegation, while operating existing fossil fuel plants costs utilities 4 to 4.5 cents a kilowatt hour.

• Colorado’s urgency for change has been focused by seeing the initial impacts of climate change: decadeslong megadrought in Western Colorado, more frequent and severe flooding from heavy rains or snowmelt and breathing problems from an increasing number of wildfires across Colorado and neighboring states.

• Transportation is the next big sector to target, Toor told the delegation. With so much success in electric utilities’ plans to make the transition, transportation has passed electric power as the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions for Colorado.

Colorado’s initially ambitious goal of getting 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030 now appears on track, Toor said, and the state must carry through plans to decarbonize the medium to heavy vehicles, such as school buses and delivery trucks.

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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Wildfire smoke and poor air quality are coming Here’s how scientists protect their homes

BY SAM BRASCH COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

Over the last few summers, Colorado residents have grown accustomed to hearing the same set of recommendations when wildfire smoke blankets their community: Avoid outdoor exercise. Head inside. Shut the windows.

But experts say those immediate actions only go so far.

Alex Huffman, an associate professor studying air contaminants at the University of Denver, notes smoke can invade a home through cracks and ventilation systems, so preventative measures are necessary to guard indoor air quality and protect people’s health.

“You can’t completely stop it, but there are things you can do to help the amount you breathe in,” Huffman said.

It’s now clear that in the West, and even in many further afield parts of the country, wildfire smoke will be a chronic side-effect of climate change and decades of poor forest management. As wildfires grow larger and more frequent, a CPR News analysis found Colorado residents now experience between two to four additional smoky weeks every year compared to a decade ago.

The trend worries public health experts because smoke contains tiny particles capable of burrowing themselves deep into the human body. Breathing that material can trigger shortness of breath, asthma attacks and heart attacks.

Long-term risks include weakened immune systems and premature births.

There are proven ways to limit exposure even as particulates sneak indoors. Here’s what Colorado scientists have done in their own homes — and what they’d recommend for yours.

Monitor indoor and outdoor air quality At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Huffman brought home a professional air monitor to assist with his work on germ-carrying droplets. When wildfire season kicked up, it gave him a surprising view into the effect of outdoor smoke plumes.

Even deep in his basement, the instrument showed unsafe levels of particles in the air.

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Huffman now recommends households explore far cheaper methods to monitor outdoor and indoor air quality. To help manage his asthma, he keeps a careful eye on the EPA’s fire and smoke map, which tracks nationwide smoke plumes and air quality readings.

To monitor indoor air quality, he purchased an egg-shaped monitor from PurpleAir, which now sits on a table inside the front door of his home in Centennial. It glows green, yellow or red depending on the severity of suspended particulates.

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alternative. Colorado air forecasters recommend assuming air quality is unsafe if you can’t clearly see something less than five miles away.

Smells can also serve as evidence of wildfire smoke, but shouldn’t always be trusted. Christine Wiedinmyer, an air quality scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, said smoke from far-off fires doesn’t carry an odor but can be dangerous nonetheless.

Buy or make a high-quality indoor air filter Huffman has a portable air purifier in his living room to help remove wildfire smoke. He demonstrated its efficiency by turning on a popcorn popper with a filthy heating element.

Smoke filled the room as his indoor air monitor turned an alarming red.

The purifier then pulled the smoke closer with a gentle hum, bringing particulates back to safe levels in about 30 seconds.

When shopping for an air purifier, Huffman said it should have HEPA filtration to remove particles. He recommends against anything with “plasma” or “ionization,” which doesn’t do much about wildfire smoke and can add other pollutants to the air.

If a $200 machine is out of the question, another option can be fashioned from a box fan taped to one or several furnace filters of a MERV13 grade or higher. The device, called a Corsi-Rosenthal Box, was born after a mechanical engineer tossed out the idea on Twitter.

Huffman installed a number of these contraptions around his house and donated others to his kids’ classrooms. Instructions are available online.

Seal openings and run your air conditioner Wiedinmyer recommends sealing doors and windows to prevent any wildfire smoke from making it into the home. If you have an air conditioner, replace the filter then set it to recirculate air to further cut indoor pollutants.

Not all homes have the luxury of air conditioning. Huffman has a swamp cooler, which he prefers for its energy efficiency. Because those systems rely on circulating cooled external air, they aren’t nearly as well equipped to handle poor outdoor air quality.

“It’s just pushing wildfire smoke into our house pretty efficiently, which is really unfortunate,” Huffman said.

He doesn’t see an easy way around the problem at the moment.

On smoky days, he said households that use swamp coolers or open windows will need to decide if welcoming the bad air is worth it.

Wear a high-quality mask When you have to head outside on a smoky day, Huffman recommends wearing a high-quality N95 mask to protect against particulates. Don’t bother with cloth masks, though; their mesh isn’t fine enough to stop the bits of wildfire smoke, he said.

This story is from Colorado Public Radio, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support CPR News, visit cpr.org.

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Reports of monkeypox, hepatitis not a cause for panic

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There is no need to panic or stress according to local medical experts who recently discussed the national news stories coming out about the spread of monkeypox and the mystery surrounding kids being diagnosed with hepatitis.

While there are several pediatric hepatitis cases already reported in Colorado, the first monkeypox case was confirmed by state health officials on May 26.

Dr. Jim Neid, an infectious disease specialist with the Medical Center of Aurora, said he had tried to avoid the continued news reports about monkeypox and the fear the reports are creating.

After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, talk of another virus spreading across the nation may have Americans concerned and rightfully so. However, recent medical issues making national headlines are not to the level of COVID, Neid said.

Monkeypox According to the Centers for

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Entrepreneurs at Eagle County Airport are using state charging station grants to fulfill goals of greening up the airfield, which services both private jets and public airline tourism flights. The Hertz rental business there now has more than 40 EVs in the fleet, Teslas and Polestars. Cooley Mesa Detailing, which cleans and turns around returned rentals, worked with the state to install Level 2 chargers for the EV fleet that can juice up at about 40 miles of range in an hour.

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Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, monkeypox is a viral disease that occurs mostly in central and western Africa. It is called monkeypox because it was first identified in laboratory monkeys in 1958. The first human case of monkeypox was confirmed in 1970.

Symptoms of monkeypox include: • Fever • Headache • Muscle aches • Backache • Swollen lymph nodes • Chills • Exhaustion Within one to three days, the CDC says, a patient might develop a rash, which often begins on the face and spreads to other parts of the body.

Monkeypox can take up to four weeks to fully clear up.

“We want to reassure Coloradans that the risk to the public is low, but we also want them to know of the symptoms so that we can catch other cases as soon as possible,” said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, state epidemiologist. “We are grateful for the collaborative efforts of the CDC, local public health agencies, and health care providers in learning

about, treating, and investigating this case.”

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State officials say they are trying to steer new rounds of charging station money toward the disproportionately impacted communities mentioned in both the federal infrastructure stimulus spending, and in the state transportation funding bill passed in 2021. Though the state energy office awaits final guidance on the federal money, at least “40% of the benefits” are meant for impacted communities, Williss said.

“We fully recognize that it’s vital that we make investments in locations where we provide access to all drivers, whether they’re in metro Denver, whether they’re in the rural parts of cities, whether they’re in disproportionately impacted communities,” Williss said. “We’re looking at how we can modify our programs to ensure

that those that may not know about them currently, or may not necessarily have the same level of match, can still participate.”

Autonomy’s Toprak said that while Colorado’s pace of building chargers appears adequate, everyone involved in the grid across the nation needs to do more to standardize plug-in instructions, payment methods and the software that communicates with credit card companies and the vehicles themselves. Quirky or unreliable stations and payment methods are “a significant headache” for consumers, he said.

That may require faster communication between government agencies as well.

Denver airport officials, who have put Level 2 chargers in public parking garages, agreed with state officials

Hepatitis Parents may be on high alert recently amid national reports of mystery hepatitis cases impacting kids. According to the CDC, as of May 26, the U.S. has confirmed that 180 pediatric cases of hepatitis are under investigation. Investigations into the cause of the mystery cases have been ongoing over the last seven months, the CDC reported.

According to the CDC, hepatitis means inflammation of the liver.

The liver is a vital organ that processes nutrients, filters blood, and fights infections. When the liver is inflamed or damaged, its function can be affected. In the U. S., the most common types of viral hepatitis are hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. Dr. Amy Feldman, the Children’s Hospital Colorado pediatric liver transplant medical director, said while the increased numbers may be alarming, especially as more news is coming out, it is important to stress that none of the pediatric cases have been serious

enough to require a liver transplant or worse.

Feldman said Colorado with a handful of cases in Colorado, the numbers may increase because the Colorado Department of Human Services has asked health agencies to go back over possible cases dating to October 2021 to help research what is happening.

Feldman said hepatitis in children is not that uncommon, noting that while there are several types, it boils down to being an inflammation of the liver.

Since January, the state’s health department has reported 10 total hepatitis cases.

“Hepatitis is confirmed through blood tests, Feldman said, noting there are symptoms parents can watch for if they think a child may have the condition. Those symptoms include: • Fever • Fatigue • Loss of appetite • Nausea • Vomiting • Abdominal pain • Dark urine • Light-colored stools that a grant for a fast charger at the cellphone lot was critical. But, airport officials said Tuesday, that plan is now on hold while the airport entertains proposals for redeveloping its entire western approach.

Work on fast chargers for the commercial vehicle holding lot, where taxis and Uber drivers wait, are still moving forward, airport spokeswoman Stephanie Figueroa said. “But the cellphone waiting area project is pending conversations.”

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