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BY SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

Mailers, TV ads and other campaign missives were flying in Colorado as the June

lican candidates for U.S. Senate, Colorado governor and the 8th Congressional District — believing those

But the strategy has been criticized by some Democrats, who warn that it could backfire by raising the

profile of election deniers and potentially adding fuel to their movement.

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Fort Lupton council approves last of 4 marijuana licenses

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provide a space for the public and the students at the same time. It’s just amazing and wonderful.”

The library has been attached to the high school, so library officials decided a separate library was the best thing for both students and library patrons. It is being built at 370 S. Rolla Ave.

Fort Lupton City Council, acting as the city’s marijuana local licensing authority, unanimously approved retail and medical marijuana licenses for Centaurus Farms earlier this month.

The business is set to occupy land in the 9700 block of Weld County Road 16.

The concern from Mayor Zo Stieber-Hubbard was children’s possible exposure to the business. The other licensees agreed to fence their property.

Applicant John Paolella told the authority he would be willing to help screen the property.

Bobby Adams, who is a neighbor to the property, said he’d like to see privacy fencing. Adams also told the authority he had an

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Fort Lupton Public and School Library board members shovel dirt in celebration of a new library. Left, Thomas Samblanet, library direcPHOTO BY BELEN WARD tor, Teri Kopfman, Melia Inge, Sarah Frank, prior library director, and Gerri Holton.

City breaks ground on Fort Lupton’s new library Facility set to open in spring 2023

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A few shovels full of dirt and work on the new Fort Lupton Public and School Library is underway.

Library staff and board members, Weld RE-8 School District and City of Fort Lupton officials and the community gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony June 20 to celebrate the new library, which has been in the works for four years.

“We’re thrilled, and I honestly can’t believe this day has come,” said Thomas Samblanet, director of the library. “It’s so exciting to be able to

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Bowen Hyma passed away peacefully at home on June 2, 2022. Bowen was born in Delft, The Netherlands on November 12, 1939.

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Fort Lupton City Council, acting as the city’s marijuana Local licensing authority, unanimously approved retail and medical marijuana licenses for Centaurus Farms.

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issue with the drive-through portion of the business and “he doesn’t want it because it’s in his neighborhood,” according to staff notes.

Planning Director Todd Hodges told the authority this sort of business is a “use by right” in commercial and industrial zoned districts.

Zoning for the land is industrial, and Hodges said “at some point” the zoning “would transition.” The applicant also has to go through the city’s land-use process, Hodges told the authority.

Resident Dawn Massey wondered if the operation included growing. Stieber-Hubbard said the city doesn’t have a grow ordinance and that the license didn’t include that provision.

Committee appointees Council appointed members to the new ad hoc committee to help develop a design for expansion of the city’s recreation center.

Members are Amy Adkins, Judy Ceretto, Marlene Stieber, Claud

Hanes, Valerie Blackston, Monty Schuman and Julie Holm.

The guidelines said one candidate (Ceretto) could come from the Senior Advisory Committee, one could come from the Culture, Parks, Recreation and Museum Committee (Adkins) and two could come from mayoral appointments and council approval. So far, only Stieber has gone through that process.

Hanes and Blackston are serving council members, and Schuman and Holm, who work at the recreation center, are city liaisons.

In other business Council voted to continue three public hearings during its June 20 meeting. All three votes were unanimous.

The reasons for the delays were the same — a lack of a quorum on the city’s planning commission during earlier scheduled hearings.

One of the hearings concerned a special use permit for Champion Xpress Car Wash. The others were for rezoning and the final platting and development plans for the Flats at Lupton Village. The new date for all three hearings is July 5.

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A weekend of celebrations Plenty to do all weekend long to celebrate Independence Day STAFF REPORT

Independence Day celebrations can’t be kept to one city or even one day in Adams County, with events scheduled all weekend and at parks and venues across the northern Denver metro area.

Mark Boettcher of Thornton watches while teammate Wayne Franklin of Broomfield tries to land his beanbag in the hole at Riverdale Regional Park in 2022, part of the county’s FILE PHOTO cornhole tournament. The tournament returns to the park July 3 this year.

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Now working out of Nashville, Most has released two singles, “Ride Together, Die Together” and “Happy Birthday to Me” and a 2020 EP “Lighting.” She’s opened for national touring artists, including Natasha Bedingfield, Casey Donahew, Courtyard Hounds, Deana Carter, and Patrick Droney.

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The event also boasts food trucks and a beer garden — with proceeds from sales benefiting Fort Lupton’s Hope at Miracle House — as well as a shaved ice truck.

Community fireworks will be set off at dark from the Coyote Creek Golf Course.

Adams County Stars and Stripes Adams County’s annual Stars and Stripes event kicks off at 4 p.m.

July 3 at the Riverdale Regional Park, 9755 Henderson Road, Brighton.

The county’s popular Stars and Stripes 5K race for runners, walkers or riders returns after its debut last year. Both adult and youth sections are scheduled to take off at 7:30 a.m. and registration is $30 for adults, $20 for youth. Registration includes a T-shirt, multiple water stops and a post-race goodie bag.

All proceeds will benefit Warrior Now in its mission to help veterans across Adams County and the state of Colorado.

The daylong cornhole tournament. which benefits nonprofit A Precious Child, returns. Registration is $50 per two-person team.

Each team plays a minimum four games in round robin format, with the top 32 teams competing for cash prizes in a double elimination bracket.

The tournament will be played by official ACL rules found at IplayCornhole.com. Players should download and sign into the ScoreHolio app to register.

The county’s Stars and Stripes Celebration proper runs from 4-10 p.m. at Riverdale Regional Park with food and beer vendors serving at 4 p.m. and live entertainment with The Junebugs and special guest Caitlyn Ochsner, beginning at 6 p.m. The night will end with musical fireworks at 9:30 p.m.

Parking at Riverdale Regional Park is free for all the events.

For the safety and comfort of pets, animals should not be brought into the park and remember that most fireworks are illegal in Adams County. Call the Adams County Regional Park at 303-6378000 or visit the county website, www.adcogov.org, for more information.

County offices will be closed on July 4.

Music on the 4th in Brighton The City of Brighton’s annual Fourth of July festival will be returning to Carmichael Park at 650 E. Southern St. at 5 p.m. July 4. The evening will feature live entertainment, starting with DJ TidalWave, followed by a headliner performance at 7 p.m. by Sisters of Rock. Once the concert concludes, attendees have the opportunity to view one of the largest firework displays in the region.

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Will electricity supplies keep pace with the warming climate?

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his late-June coolish spell in Colorado is unusual. The trend is toward hot and hotter. Denver in June matched a record set just a GUEST few years ago for COLUMN the earliest time to hit 100 degrees.

Grand Junction last year set an all-time record of 107.

What if the heat rises to 116 degrees, such as baked Portland a year ago? Could Allen Best Xcel Energy deliver the electricity needed to chill the air?

It can in 2022, the company says, but it has less confidence for 2023 and 2024 after it shuts down a coal plant. Xcel frets about disruption to supply chains necessary to add renewable generation.

Tri-State Generation and Transmission, Colorado’s second-largest electrical supplier, also foresees supply-chain issues as it replaces coal-fired generation with renewables. It has extended the deadline for bids from developers of wind, solar, and storage projects by more than two months, to Sept. 16.

Colorado has hit a bump in its energy transition. The climate sends ever-louder signals that we must quit polluting the atmosphere with

greenhouse gases. After a sluggish response, Colorado has been hurrying to pivot. Now, inflation and other problems threaten to gum up the switch.

The glitch is significant enough that Eric Blank, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission chair, asked Xcel representatives at a June 17 meeting whether it might be wise to keep Comanche I, the aging coal plant in Pueblo, operating beyond its scheduled retirement at the end of 2022.

“It kills me to even ask this question,” said Blank, a former developer of wind and solar energy projects.

In northwestern New Mexico, the aging San Juan Generating Station has been allowed to puff several months past its planned retirement because of problems in getting a new solar farm online. Even so, the utility predicts rolling blackouts, as has happened in other states.

No blackouts have been predicted in Colorado. Xcel has a healthy reserve margin of 18%.

But even if Xcel wanted to keep Comanche 1 operating beyond 2022, it lacks the permits to do so, company representatives told PUC commissioners at a June 17 meeting devoted to “resource adequacy.”

In addition to the supply chain disruptions, Xcel failed to adequately foresee demand growth. Residential demand was expected to decline

as people returned to offices after the COVID shutdown. They have, but less than expected. Too, demand from Xcel’s wholesale customers - it provides power for Holy Cross Energy but also some other utilities - has grown more than projected.

“We can’t go into the summer of 2023 with less than 10% reserve margins,” said Blank. “We just can’t.”

Old technology, though, isn’t always a sure-fire answer. Coal plants routinely must shut down for maintenance.

Then there are the fiascos.

Problems have repeatedly idled Comanche 3, the state’s youngest and largest coal plant, during its 12 years. Cabin Creek, Xcel’s trusty pumped-storage hydro project at Georgetown, has also been down.

The electrical grid now being assembled will be more diverse, dispersed, and flexible. Many homes will have storage, the batteries of electric vehicles will be integrated into the grid, and demand will be shaved and then shaped to better correspond with supplies. Megan Gilman, a PUC commissioner from Edwards, pointed out that this strategy could be a key response to tightening margins between supplies and demands. Xcel has had a small-scale peak-shaving program but will soon submit plans for expanded demand management.

Meanwhile, it gets hotter and

hotter. Russ Schumacher, the state climatologist, says Colorado’s seven of the nine warmest years on record have occurred since 2012. We haven’t had a year cooler than the 20th century average since 1992.

Air conditioning has become the new normal for high-end real estate offerings even in Winter Park, elevation 9,000 feet. It’s not just the heat. There’s also the matter of smoke, as more intense wildfires grow larger and expand across the calendar, too. For weeks, sometimes months on end, opening the windows is no option.

Colorado’s record temperature of 115 degrees was set in 2019 near Lamar, in southeastern Colorado.

Nobody yet has made public modeling of the potential for that kind of heat in Front Range cities, where 90% of Coloradans live. Last year the deaths of 339 people were attributed to heat in the Phoenix area, where nighttime temperatures sometimes stay above 90.

Power outages in Texas during February 2022 were blamed — mostly without merit — on wind farms. Nobody in Colorado wants to see any plausible excuse to blame renewables. The best way to avoid that is to keep the air conditioners running.

Allen Best writes about these and other topics in greater depth at BigPivots.com.

We are not finished yet

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he five most sought-after words in amateur golf are, “That’s good, pick it up.” We say that to our playing partner when the putt that is left is considered short enough to call it “good.” Sometimes the length of the putt left to make comes into question, especially when someone is not playing so well that day and their friends show a little mercy on them. Luckily, I have been the one receiving that mercy lately.

There are times when the player actually needing to make the putt decides that they have had enough already and do one of two things: They either pick it up themselves or they take a casual approach and putt it toward the hole, indicating that he or she felt that it was good and the last attempt at the putt was close enough for the gimme.

There may be gimmes in amateur golf or even in the PGA during match play, but when it comes to life, most times we aren’t finished yet. We still have work to do, projects to finish, contributions to make, our family

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and friends to love.

No, we are still a long way from being finished yet. No matter where we started, the detours we have taken, the long roads we have journeyed, and even the many mistakes we have made, there is still time to get it right and finish what was once started by us, in

us, or for us.

There’s a great song by Brandon Heath called “Wait and See.” And in this song, he sings the lyrics, “He’s not finished with me yet,” as he refers to God’s plan and purpose for his life.

And if we listen to the song or even just find the lyrics, I encourage us to reflect on what those lyrics could mean in our own life. I remember speaking with my great aunt over the past few years as she was approaching 90, and she would say that she wished somedays that the Lord would just

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take her. And I would remind her that, “He’s not finished with you yet.”

My great aunt was living in an assisted living facility, and really didn’t have a lot of mobility left in her tired legs. As residents came and went, she became saddened by their departure.

It was during one of those calls where she just wanted to go to heaven and be with my great uncle. So, I said it to her again, “He’s not finished with you yet.”

During our call the following week, my great aunt’s tonality was one of optimism and happiness. A new resident had moved in, and she didn’t have any family left to visit her. My great aunt befriended her and even though struggled with her own mobility, she made it a point to spend time and listen to her new friend’s life story and journey. They went to the dining hall together, and each time I would call her, she would tell me more about her new friend and the life she led.

My great aunt and uncle lived with awesome faith and purpose. He served our country for 20 years in the Air

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Force and had been stationed around the world at different times. Most times she moved with him and supported him. She felt serving God and her husband was her greatest purpose. And now, nearing 90, she found a new purpose. It might seem like a small purpose compared to what is happening in the world, but at nearly 90 years of age, “He wasn’t finished with her yet.”

That’s where we come in. “That’s good, pick it up,” may work in golf, but we are not finished yet. And whether big or small, we all have something positive to contribute to this world, to our community, and to our family and friends. I would love to hear what you still have to do at mnorton@xinnix. com, and when we realize there is plenty more to do, 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.

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Park that will include live music, a bounce house, soccer darts, a rock-climbing wall, a mobile ropes course, an Alpine tubing slide, a mechanical bull, a trackless train, pedal carts and a toddler zone among the activies.

The Rapids are hosting a block party as part of the overall festival along the south side of the stadium. That will include a live DJ, drinks, food trucks and an LED wall that will stream the Rapids’ game live.

Tickets for the Colorado Rapids vs. Austin FC soccer match are still available. The game kicks off at 7 p.m. It will be followed by what is being billed as the largest public fireworks show in the state.

Fireworks begin around 9:30 p.m. following the game, and the parking lots will be open to non-ticket holders at 7 p.m. for the fireworks show.

Northglenn family picnic on July 4 Billed as Northglenn’s largest family picnic, the annual Independence Day celebration returns to E.B. Rains Jr Park, 11800 Community Drive, on July 4. Residents are invited to bring their picnic baskets, blankets, chairs and canopies and spend the day at the park. Residents can also reserve a pavilion for the day on a firstcome, first-served basis. Payment is due at time of registration. Call 303-450-8800 for more information about pavilions.

Festivities get underway at noon with the annual car show near the basketball court on the East side of the park. Car show registration begins at 10 a.m., and categories include new, classic, antique, vintage, hot rod and rat rod cars as well as motorcycles and trucks.

Details about arrival times and location will be sent with registration. Drivers should enter off of 117th and Washington and west to the park, where the street deadends.

Car show awards will be made at 2:30 p.m.

The beer garden and food vendors also open and begin serving at noon. In addition, pedal boats will be available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and there will be a bounce house for kids from noon to 8 p.m.

The main stage opens at 2:30 p.m. with a performance by Reveal and Company and Ron Ivory and One on One Motown Review at 4:30 p.m. That is scheduled to be followed by a military recognition by Northglenn American Legion Post #22 at 6:30 p.m. and final concert at 7 p.m. featuring Thumpin Band.

The annual duck derby race is split into two — a race featuring corporate-sponsored ducks at 3 p.m. followed by a public duck race at 4 p.m. The duck derby is hosted by the Northglenn Thornton Rotary Club.

Fireworks are scheduled to be launched between 9 and 10 p.m. depending on the weather. If the fireworks are not held July 4, they will held at 9:30 p.m. July 5.

A dropoff zone will be available to drop off people or large items in the west parking lot of EB Rains

Park. Parking is available behind City Hall, at the Recreation Center and in the Wagon Road RTD Lot at 120th and North Melody Drive.

Fees may be required at RTD. Handicapped parking is available in the west and east lots of EB Rains Park with placard as well as the south lot of City Hall.

Skydivers the prelude to Thornton fireworks Thornton’s Fourth of July Celebration culminates in parachutists dropping in to kick off the city’s fireworks show July 4.

Carpenter Park itself will be open all day but the festivities get underway at 4 p.m.

All festivities are centered in Carpenter Park Fields, 108 Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, beginning at 4 p.m. That’s when the community beer garden opens and food vendors begin serving.

The celebration takes a patriotic turn at 5:15 p.m. when the Thornton Community Band, bolstered by an Independence Day Festival Chorus, will perform. That leads into a performance by the Kory Brunson Band at 7:30 p.m.

The parachutist drop is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. followed immediately by city’s Red White and BOOM fireworks show.

Drivers are encouraged to park in the lots south of fields and west of 108th Avenue, in the Recreation Center lot and in the lots near 112th Avenue and Madison Street.

Westminster’s City Park celebration Westminster’s City Park celebration officially begins at 4 p.m. with the opening of the kids activity

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There is limited parking at the park complex, so the city recommends using shuttles to get to the event. Shuttles will run every 15 to 20 minutes from several places: Westminster Commons on 76th Avenue and Hooker Street; the MAC, 3295 W. 72nd Ave.; Westminster City Hall at 4800 W. 92nd Ave.; Water World at 90th Avenue and Pecos Street; Shaw Heights Elementary, 8780 Circle Drive.; Rocky Mountain Elementary, 99th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard; Front Range Community College west parking lot on 112th Avenue; and the West View Recreation Center, 10747 W, 108th Ave.

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FORT LUPTON POLICE BLOTTER

Here are the police reports for June 11 to June 16 to the Fort Lupton Police Department. Not every call made to the police is not listed on this report.

June 11 A Fort Lupton man, 30, reported his vehicle stolen in the 1000 block of Birch Avenue. The theft was under investigation.

Police issued a summons to an Evans man, 35, for causing a traffic accident by failing to obey a traffic light at U.S. Highway 85 & Weld County Road 14.5.

Police took a Fort Lupton man into custody in the 600 block of Park Avenue for domestic violence-related menacing, harassment and as-

sault changes. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

open container and obstructing a peace officer.

She was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

June 12 A Fort Lupton woman, 25, reported the theft of two registration cards from her vehicle in the 900 block of Denver Avenue. The case was under investigation.

June 15 A Firestone woman, 51, reported a theft of her enclosed trailer in the 2000 block of Historic Parkway. The theft was under investigation.

A Brighton man, 56, reported his catalytic converters stolen in the 600 block of Denver Avenue.

The thefts were under investigation.

June 13 Two Fort Lupton girls, 10 and 12, were issued a summons and released to their parents for violating curfew in the 1400 block of Second Street.

Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 21, in the 500 block of First Street for a protection order violation. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

An 18-year-old Greeley woman was arrested at U.S. Highway 85 & Weld County Road 18 for DUI, drugs, possession of marijuana by a minor,

June 16 Staff at the Hard Bean Coffee shop reported theft of a $100 bill. The employee received a fake $100 bill for purchases in the 100 block of Dale Place. The case was under investigation.

Police arrested an Erie woman at U.S. Highway 85 & Mile Marker 239 for DUI, drugs, open container and multiple traffic offenses. She was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

BRIEFS Aims Community College offers basic photography summer classes through continuing education.

Take a “Get to Know your Camera” class starting July 16th through July 23th from 12:00 to 2:45 p.m. every Saturday. Instructor Andrew Moline.

The cost is $89.

Fort Lupton Campus 260 College Avenue, room 111.

Contact the Aims Continuing Education at 970-667-4611 or visit the continuing education site for other types of classes at https:// aimsced.augusoft.net//index. cfm?fuseaction=1010 Free breakfast and lunch With school out for the summer, Weld Re-8 district will be serving free breakfast and lunch through July 29.

Kids and under 18 can receive a free meal at the Fort Lupton Middle School, 201 S. McKinley Ave., weekdays. Breakfast is available from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., and lunch is available from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information contact Mary Carmen, food services director, at 303-857-3200.

July 4 party is July 2 Fort Lupton’s Independence Day celebration is two days early this year. It starts at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 2, at the city’s recreation center, 203 S. Harrison Ave. The ingredients didn’t change.

There will be food, fireworks, the region’s only Ninja Warrior Course, a bounce house obstacle course, a bouncy boxing arena, a tractor people mover, face painting, food trucks, shaved ice-cream cones and a live concert. The fire department is in charge of the water slide The fireworks show at Coyote Creek Golf Course, courtesy of the Fort Lupton Fire Department, starts at dusk.

Vendor, volunteer and sponsorship opportunities are available. Call 720928-4071 for more information.

Movie in the park Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church is sponsoring a free, movie in the park at 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 8. It’s at Koshio Park, state Highway 52 and McKinley Avenue.

The movie is “I Can Only Imagine.” Free water, candy and popcorn will be available. Guests are asked to bring canned goods and monetary donations for the Fort Lupton Food Bank.

Call 303-857-6827.

Summer camp with Platte Valley Historical Society Platte Valley Historical Society will be offering historical camps at the one-room Independence School for students through the eighth grade.

The second of two sessions runs from July 11-13. Camps run each week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. till 3 p.m.

The program costs $60 per week, but tuition help is available.

Eligible students must have completed first through eighth grade.

The school house is at 2001 Historic Parkway, Fort Lupton.

Go to www,spvhs.org and click on Annual Events, Independence School for flyer and registration form or contact LaVon 720-273-3609 Movie night The Fort Lupton Recreation Center will be the scene for a pool party at 7 p.m. Friday, July 15.

There will be a DJ by the pool, followed by a movie night featuring “Finding Nemo” on the pool patio starting at dusk. It’s free. Kids under 6 cannot swim without an adult in the pool.

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-o-war.

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 303857-6694 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-Pen-PalProgram

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June 30, 2022

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New owners will continue the tradition of winemaking in Fort Lupton Renamed Salt & Acres, winery offers tasting room, concerts

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It was a dream for Justin and Danielle Caruso and Andre Esprenger to harvest their own grapes, grown from their own vines, and create a vintage of their wines, so they purchased Rivergarden Winery, the only winery in all of Weld County.

“We were excited about the opportunity,” Justin Caruso said. “Talking to the previous owners, Bob and Mary Stahl, on what they have established here, we are trying to expand on that to create that vision from where they were and where we want to go with it.”

The Carusos and business partner Esprenger purchased the winery from the Stahls in December 2021, renamed it Salt & Acres and took the next six months to renovate the winery and the property.

They celebrated the grand opening June 18 with their wine label, Ampersand, and a concert on the lawn with the property’s lake as a beautiful backdrop.

“Our original ideas and concepts were we wanted to have a space for events and also a space where we can build our own private residence for our family,” Justin said. “It was an opportunity to have a space on a property that is very unique.”

Bob and Mary Stahl established Salt & Acres in 2005 as an experiment to see if the grapes could survive the Fort Lupton winters.

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That said, it’s not easy. The three have learned how hard landscaping is on 45 acres and are educating themselves on harvesting grapes and winemaking from industry experts from California and Colorado.

“We were so impressed that Bob and Mary took excellent care of the property. It’s beautiful,” Danielle said.

Salt & Acres will host a Preserve the Moment summer concert series with concerts slated for July 23, Aug. 23 and Sept. 3.

In addition, the winery will have

a variety of food trucks on site and plans to continue increasing its food menus inside the tasting room with a wider variety of tapas and shareable dishes.

Colorado wines were always the goal Justin said the goal and vision are to develop on-premise Fort Lupton wines.

“We are trying to expand and showcase good wines from Colorado, which is similar to California regions,” he said. “So, over the next two years, we will develop our estate brand and variety that best fits this property and grow on that.”

“For us, salt has a deeper meaning. The name Salt & Acres came from our passion of taking care of people and wanting to be the salt of the earth,” Danielle said.

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June 30, 2022

RE-8 adopts budget for next 2022-23 school year

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The Weld RE-8 School District took two votes to adopt its 2022-23 budget during a regular meeting June 23.

Most of the $25 million budget goes to salaries and benefits, including pay raises for teachers, classified district employees and administrative staff. Salaries and benefits make up more than 82% of the budget.

The budget was short by an estimated $868,000, in part because of the rate of inflation that impacts such things as utilities, gas and the cost of materials. RE-8 Director of Finance and Business Services Jessica Holbrook said the district has

pending grant applications with the Colorado Department of Education that could “relieve our general fund of nearly $500,000.”

In a companion vote, the board agreed to dip into this fiscal year’s beginning fund balances to more than cover that deficit. The fund balance allows the district to balance its budget so long as the purpose and amounts are clear and the use doesn’t lead to an ongoing deficit.

Holbrook said taking more money than needed to cover deficits was normal.

During the board meeting, she told the board she’d rather not dip into reserve funds.

“I’d rather err on the side of having to use those beginning fund

balances,” she said. “Last year, there was a higher deficit when you adopted the budget in June (the deficit was $1.8 million then). That’s why this is a best-guess scenario.”

The board earmarked the largest share of the fund balance money — almost $570,000 from a pair of mill levy override funds — to tuition reimbursement, books and workbooks and purchased services.

Another $43,000 will be used for intramural and interscholastic activities in the district, and another $41,000 was applied to ongoing improvement needs in the district.

Almost $400,000 from the district’s beginning fund balance went to buildings and grounds needs. The board also approved $7,000 from the

trust and agency fund for scholarships.

The budget vote and the vote to use beginning fund balances were 6-1. Cody LeBlanc was the dissenter.

A year ago, the district had a deficit of $1.8 million, and LeBlanc voted against that budget, too.

“Unbalanced budgets are a detriment to our country, and our local school district needs to lead by example to our students and our taxpayers,” he said by text. “I will always vote against unbalanced budgets.”

Superintendent Alan Kaylor’s contract was up for renewal June 23, but the board tabled discussion until August. Kaylor has not received advice from attorneys.

Fort Lupton council approves computer replacement at wastewater plant

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Fort Lupton City Council approved $36,000 in computer upgrades for the city’s wastewater treatment plant during a business meeting June 20.

Wastewater plant operations manager Jon Mays said the city put the water plant’s computer into service in 2014.

“It’s no longer supported,” he told

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The new library, which is over 14,000 square feet, will offer a range of new services, collections, computers, quiet reading places and areas for children and teens.

“It will have a multipurpose room that could be split into two rooms, a makerspace, a quiet reading room and a computer lab with an outdoor children’s garden. And the additional normal libraries stack,” Samblanet said.

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council. “The software we installed has not been upgraded for years.

We’re asking to replace the computer and the software. We’re trying to get both ready for the changes that are coming.”

The city has to make substantial repairs to the wastewater plant because of an order from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

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Hill is less than $900 over budget.

and its design-build committee since the beginning with the delays over the last few years.,” library board member Teri Kopfmann said. “It’s time.”

The new building comes with a new budget, which, according to officials, has increased from $8.5 million to $9.6 million due to building costs and land costs. Construction of the new library will be funded from current tax revenue, which is part of the existing mill levy for construction, remodels and new installations. The tentative completion date is mid-April 2023.

The library has been saving part of its annual revenue to help pay

for the project. The library is not asking for additional taxes and is not requesting additional funds from the community, city or school district, according to library officials.

The old library in the high school will now only serve Weld RE-8 Fort Lupton High School students but it will still be operated by the Fort Lupton Public and School Library.

The school district will hire a teacher-librarian and is budgeted for one new staff member for the high school library.

“We are excited as well,” Weld RE-8 Superintendent Alan Kaylor said. “It’s been nice to have them in

One more money outlay Council also approved a half-million dollar work order with CH2M Hill Engineers for professional engineering services for design and permitting of the treatment plant’s expansion project.

“We’ve been experiencing peak flows the past two summers that bring us close to capacity,” said Public Works Director Roy Vestal.

The city’s utility fund has $500,000 available in capital expenditures for this project, according to staff notes.

Council’s vote was unanimous.

CH2M Hill provides the city’s engineering services, too.

Planning commission appointee Council also appointed Jimmy Dominguez to the city’s planning commission. He will be a regular member. His three-year term expires June 20, 2025.

our building, but I think our community is ready for an independent library — someplace where they can go.”

RE-8 School board President Susan Browne said she is excited as well, and city Planning and Economic Development Director Todd Hodges said it’s a great project and he’s ready to see it coming out of the ground.

“It’s a long time coming for us to have an upgrade — a new library for all the kids and all the new kids that are moving to Fort Lupton,” said City Councilor Valerie Blackston.

“It will be good for the younger generation.”

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Economists tell state lawmakers to expect slowdown Forecast doesn’t call for recession at this point

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Inflation and tightening monetary policy on the federal level are expected to cool Colorado’s economy in the coming months, according to quarterly economic and tax revenue forecasts by nonpartisan staff and the governor’s office presented to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee on June 21.

But both forecasts also predicted that Colorado will avoid a recession despite national chatter about the U.S. economy entering a major slump.

“We see about a 1 in 3 chance of there being a recession over the next 18 months based on what we’re looking at in the economy right now,” said Bryce Cook, chief economist in the governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting.

The big takeaway: State lawmakers are expected to have more money to fund government services in the coming years as revenue continues to exceed the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights cap on government growth and spending, which is calculated through population growth and inflation. When the TABOR cap is exceeded, Coloradans get tax breaks and, if the excess is large enough, which it is expected to be for the foreseeable future, refund checks.

“The U.S. and Colorado economies continue to grow, despite new and elevated risks to the economic recovery,” said David Hansen, senior economist with the nonpartisan Colorado Legislative Council.

Hansen said the unemployment rate is expected to average 3.5% in 2022 — which is what the rate was in May — and drop to an average of 3.2% in 2023.

Greg Sobetski, chief economist with the nonpartisan Colorado Legislative Council, acknowledged there are “a lot of recessionary risks” but said vacancies in

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the job market are one of the reasons he and his staff aren’t forecasting a recession right now. Business could cut a vacant position without necessarily impacting employment numbers, he said.

“There is some space, we believe, for monetary policy to tighten without causing an uptick in the unemployment rate,” he said, referencing the Federal Reserve’s decision to increase interest rates.

The Office of State Planning and Budgeting in Gov. Jared Polis’ office agrees.

“A deep or protracted recession is not currently expected,” OSPB wrote in its presentation to the JBC, which included a prediction that inflation will ease next year.

State Sen. Bob Rankin, a Carbondale Republican who sits on the JBC, thinks both forecasts he heard June 21 underestimate the probability of a recession.

“I don’t feel good about it,” he said. “We need to look at several different models for different levels

of recession because we have to know what they might be.”

Rep. Julie McCluskie, a Dillon Democrat and chair of the JBC, said she is cautiously optimistic.

“If I’ve learned anything through the pandemic and our recovery it’s that it is hard to predict what comes next,” she said. “So I do think we need to be prepared but I am hopeful that we are not going to see a recession. Fingers crossed.”

Polis said in a written statement June 21 that he is encouraged by the forecasts.

“Colorado’s economy continues to recover faster and stronger and ahead of other states, as new good-paying jobs are added every week and Colorado’s unemployment rate continues to plummet,” the Democrat said.

Colorado Legislative Council said the state’s economy also has fared better than expected in the final months of the 202122 fiscal year, which ends June 30. As a result, the

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nonpartisan office expects Colorado taxpayers will get TABOR refund checks of $750 per individual filer and $1,500 for joint filers starting in late August. (People who file their returns after June 30 will have to wait several months longer to receive their refund checks.)

Democrats, who earlier this year changed the TABOR refund mechanism in an election-year effort to speed up TABOR refunds and try to make them more equitable, initially said the checks would be $400 for individual filers and $800 for joint filers.

Why such a large increase? Economists say the state collected about $1 billion more in tax revenue in excess of the TABOR cap than was forecast during the last quarterly economic forecast in March.

Rankin also said June 21 that he is concerned that the TABOR cap and inflation are going to collide as lawmakers try to contend with the rising cost of government services. He’s a fan of TABOR, but says

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it wasn’t mean to operate in an environment where inflation is so high because the TABOR cap is calculated through inflationary rates in past years.

“The theory of TABOR is to let you continue to continue to fund the government that you currently have,” he said. “That’s the intent.”

Rankin wants to examine if there’s a way to use the current inflation rate to calculate the TABOR cap.

“The inflation rate that we use to raise the TABOR cap ought to match our current problem, not a year ago, two years ago,” he said.

The next economic forecast is scheduled for September.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalistowned 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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Front Range tourism finally sees post-COVID boost

BY OLIVIA PRENTZEL THE COLORADO SUN

The urban workhorse of Colorado’s tourism industry is finally recovering from COVID. Denver and its Front Range neighbors have endured long-haul symptoms from the pandemic, as convention and city tourism struggled to recover from shutdowns and the collapse of both leisure and business tourism.

While other more rural communities rebounded quickly — perhaps too quickly as crowds overwhelmed mountain towns enduring a labor shortage — Colorado’s urban tourism industry in Denver has not yet reached pre-pandemic levels of traffic.

But it is getting there. The latest study by the city of Denver shows the metro area’s visitor levels pacing right behind the record-setting performance of 2019 and regaining much of the loss the city experienced during the height of the pandemic.

Travelers made 31.7 million trips to the city last year, only slightly fewer the 31.9 million trips made pre-pandemic and and a 14.5% increase from 2020, according to the latest report by travel research firm Longwoods International, which has compiled annual tallies of Colorado tourism since the 1990s.

Travel spending brought in $6.6 billion for Denver in 2021 — a 26% jump from the year before, new data shows. Leisure travel carried Den-

ver’s rebound with 14.8 million trips, compared with 11.6 million in 2020.

“Thankfully, Denver is a very resilient economy and we have worked closely together to get ourselves out of this and on to recovery,” said Richard Scharf, president and CEO of Visit Denver. “So I think the worst part is behind us.”

More than 15 million day trips were made in 2021, with people traveling at least 50 miles from home to visit top attractions, including Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, Denver Art Museum, Denver Zoo, and the Colorado Rockies. The 16th Street Mall and Cherry Creek Mall were among the top shopping destinations.

But the recovery is uneven. After business travel to Colorado collapsed in 2020, dropping to 1.8 million trips from 2.4 million in 2019, the number of people traveling to Denver for work barely budged last year.

“We know that the business traveler and the convention business is going to be a slow ramp up. We’ve seen that and we know that’s going to be true for a little while,” Scharf said.

Since Outdoor Retailer, a twice-ayear trade show, decamped Denver for its former home of Salt Lake City, Scharf said Denver has been approached by “innovative outdoor shows” that “are trying to take advantage of the new frontier.” He declined to give more details.

The national outdoor trade show had a $45 million annual impact for Denver.

“We hate to have them leave, but we run a pretty good occupancy in the summers,” Scharf said. “We’ve got great demand.”

As Colorado began to welcome visitors back in 2020, the state’s tourism office revived marketing campaigns, using federal stimulus dollars, to buoy its tourism industry.

Marketing campaigns focused on city tourism and international visitors, both of which have been slow to rebound from the pandemic and shutdowns.

Mountain towns’ rebound from the pandemic tell a different story. As people sought wide open space amid the pandemic, managers in towns such as Crested Butte, Telluride and Breckenridge hastened their transition from destination marketing to management amid low staffing levels and affordable housing for its workers.

Colorado’s ski areas also saw record numbers of visitors in the 2021-22 ski season with more than 14 million visitors.

In Colorado Springs, visitor numbers have surpassed pre-pandemic levels. In 2021, the city attracted 23.7 million visitors, which was a nearly 12% increase from the previous year and more than a 5% jump from 2019, data from Visit Colorado Springs show.

Amy Long, chief innovation officer for Visit Colorado Springs, attributed the surge of visitors to the city’s many trails and open spaces, as well as the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center and the cog railway,

both which opened in June 2021.

The city targeted its marketing to Colorado residents, those living in surrounding states and Texas, Long said.

Will the rising prices at the gas pumps affect travel to Colorado in the future? Possibly, but for now, people are still hitting the roads, said Amir Eylon, president and CEO of Longwoods International.

“People are going. They’re just finding ways to reallocate their travel budget,” Eylon said.

According to AAA’s national travel forecast, 42 million people will likely road trip over the July 4 weekend — in what would be a record for car travelers over the holiday — amid historically high gas prices. Denver is among AAA’s top 10 travel destinations for the weekend.

“This next year is going to be a very good year for regional drive travel,” Eylon said.

International visitors are still slowly trickling into Denver, and it’s unclear when business travel will ramp back up again.

“So we still have a long road ahead of us for recovery,” Eylon said. “But clearly Denver’s accelerating nicely down there at this point.”

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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Vaccines for youngest Coloradans are here Regulators approve Pfizer, Moderna COVID shots for children younger than 5

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

As a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Dr. Sara Saporta-Keating knows well the toll the coronavirus has had on the country’s youngest residents.

The United States has recorded more than 2.5 million cases of COVID-19 in kids ages 4 and younger, according to data presented last week to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee. It is the leading cause of death by infectious disease among all people ages 19 and younger.

And it ranks in the top five of all causes of death for children 4 and under.

That’s what made the news that federal regulators have approved two COVID vaccines for kids 6 months to 5 years so exciting for her professionally.

But, as a parent to a 4-year-old kid? Saporta-Keating is overjoyed to be able to add another layer to her family’s pandemic protection.

Her son is signed up for his first COVID shot at a clinic on June 18.

“I’ve been waiting for this for a long time,” she said. “My husband and I are very excited.”

Now more than 27 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines are finally available for the last big age group not previously eligible.

The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration have both given the go-ahead for kids to receive vaccines made by either Pfizer or Moderna. The announcement leaves only babies under 6 months old ineligible for vaccination based on age.

But the news comes with a fair number of questions. The Colorado Sun spoke with Saporta-Keating, as well as Kaiser Permanente pediatrician Dr. Hector de Leon, to find some answers.

Give me the basics. What’s the news?

After lengthy clinical trials and data review, regulators at the CDC and FDA gave emergency approval to the COVID vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna. The federal officials made those decisions after consulting with independent advisory groups — the CDC’s advisory group includes a Colorado pediatrician, Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Matthew Daley.

Pfizer’s vaccine is for kids ages 6 months through 4 years old. Moderna’s is for kids ages 6 months through 5 years old. But there’s nothing new in the technology.

Both vaccines are just smallerdose versions of what have been given to adults.

Both vaccines use mRNA technology — meaning they inject little bits of messenger RNA into the body with instructions for the cells to build spike proteins that resemble those of the coronavirus.

That gives the body’s immune system something to practice against

to prepare for a real infection.

The spike proteins can’t infect you or replicate inside you; think of it like training a security guard to recognize a burglar by showing them a picture of the burglar’s tattoo. The messenger RNA is destroyed in the process, so it doesn’t linger in the body or alter your DNA. What is the difference between the two?

Mainly the size of the dose and the number of shots.

Pfizer opted to go for a smaller dose — 3 micrograms of mRNA, which is one-tenth of Pfizer’s adult dose.

Moderna went with a larger dose — 25 micrograms, or one-quarter of Moderna’s adult dose (which, at 100 micrograms, was larger than Pfizer’s adult dose).

The trade-off is that Pfizer’s vaccine is a three-dose series, spaced out over about 11 weeks.

Moderna’s is currently a two-dose series, with the shots spaced four weeks apart. Moderna, though, is testing a third shot for young kids, so it’s possible it may also become a three-dose series.

Do they work?

Both showed sufficient efficacy to be approved, but this answer depends a bit on your expectations.

After three doses, Pfizer showed 80.3% efficacy in preventing symptomatic illness, according to data reviewed by the CDC. Moderna showed 41.5% efficacy.

BUT regulators noted that they have more confidence in Moderna’s number than in Pfizer’s because Moderna’s clinical trial saw more COVID cases among the study participants. In other words, because more kids caught COVID in Moderna’s study (which was larger than Pfizer’s) there was more data to work with to estimate efficacy accurately. Pfizer’s number comes with a much bigger range of uncertainty.

This gets to an issue in trying to compare numbers between the two vaccines: The Pfizer and Moderna studies were conducted differently.

“It’s really challenging to compare the two,” Saporta-Keating said.

Both vaccines showed results that are in line with the vaccines’ efficacy against the omicron variant in adults. They also both produce an immune response in young kids comparable to what the adult vaccines do.

Lastly, de Leon said the main benefit is in preventing severe illness, hospitalization and death, which both vaccines appear to be good at.

“That’s what we’re trying to avoid and that’s what the vaccines are really going to help us do,” he said.

Does one have worse side effects?

The types of side effects reported are similar for the two vaccines, but comparisons are again complicated by the differences in the studies.

For the Pfizer vaccine, the most common side effect in kids ages 2 through 4 was fatigue, which about a quarter of the study participants

reported. About 5% of kids in this age range developed a fever. (These numbers are for after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, but they are similar for other doses.)

Measuring side effects in younger kids is harder because they can’t always tell you what they’re feeling. But parents of study participants aged 6 months to 2 years reported irritability as the No. 1 side effect, with nearly half experiencing it.

For the Moderna vaccine, fatigue and irritability were also the top side effects. But Moderna generally reported greater prevalence of side effects than Pfizer did.

For instance, it reported nearly a quarter of kids in its study ages 2 through 5 developed a fever after the second dose.

De Leon said that may be evidence that Moderna’s larger dose produces larger side effects. But he cautioned parents not to read too much into it, since the studies may define the criteria for side effects differently.

What are the most worrisome side effects?

One child was hospitalized during Pfizer’s clinical trials due to a fever and pain in an extremity that was possibly related to the vaccine. No kids were hospitalized in the Moderna trial, but one did have a fever-related seizure that was possibly connected to the vaccine.

There were no deaths among study participants, and there were no cases of myocarditis — the rare heart condition that has been seen in some older kids following COVID vaccination. There also weren’t any severe allergic reactions.

The studies weren’t necessarily large enough to pick up on all the potential rare side effects, but Saporta-Keating said she wouldn’t expect any hidden problems to be lurking for younger kids that haven’t already been seen in other age groups.

“We have really great now two years of information from the older age groups,” she said.

Does my child need a vaccine if they’ve already had COVID? Yes, say both doctors.

While previous infection does provide immunity, it’s not clear how long that immunity lasts in children, de Leon said. That makes getting vaccinated important to keep kids protected.

And while it is often thought that young kids don’t suffer from severe COVID, the omicron surge flipped that assumption. According to data presented to the CDC, kids in the 6 months to 5 years age range had higher rates of being admitted to the intensive care unit, being placed on oxygen and being placed on ventilators during omicron than did kids in age groups eligible for vaccination.

Vaccinating a kid who has already had COVID will provide even stronger protection, de Leon said. And he encouraged parents to begin planning for the return to school in fall, when COVID cases have typically surged. Kids need to get their first Pfizer shot now in

order to get their third and final dose by early September.

Which one should my child get?

Whichever one you can, SaportaKeating said.

“My thought process is the one that is available to you is the best one,” she said.

De Leon agreed but added that parents may prefer one over the other based on personal experience and needs. Families in need of a faster timeline or wanting to limit the number of shots will probably prefer Moderna. Families where an older child had strong side effects from a Moderna vaccination may lean toward Pfizer.

Both doctors encouraged parents to talk with their own pediatricians about any concerns, especially if their kids are potentially allergic to any of the components of either or both vaccines.

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Where can I get a vaccine?

The state is ramping up its distribution system. Colorado has been allocated 31,600 doses in the first two waves of deliveries, and 269 vaccine providers have already signed up to administer them.

Children’s Hospital Colorado is working with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on a series of mobile vaccine clinics. Sign up information is available on the hospital’s website. Kaiser Permanente will be making appointments available on its website. And CDPHE is also keeping a list of available clinics.

How much demand will there be?

Probably a lot, at first.

De Leon said his email inbox was flooded June 21 with parents seeking information about vaccination.

“This is the one group that’s been missing, so I think there’s a huge appetite to finally make it available,” he said. “This is the one group that’s been left out, and the reason was we had to get it right.”

But how long that demand will last is unclear. Nationally, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll in April showed that only about 1 in 5 parents plan to vaccinate their young child as soon as possible — a much lower percentage than when the question was posed regarding older kids. The number of parents who say they won’t vaccinate their young kids is about the same as with older kids, though.

That puts a plurality of parents in the wait-and-see camp. And it’s why doctors say it’s important for parents to talk with their child’s pediatrician to answer any questions they have.

“This is an exciting time for us,” Saporta-Keating said. “We have the opportunity to get this youngest age group vaccinated and protected against severe disease.”

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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In electric vehicle vs. gas car, who wins?

As Colorado gas nears $5, more drivers mull going green

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

Gas prices neared $5 a gallon in midJune, according to AAA Colorado, so it’s time for a detailed breakdown of what it would cost the average person to run an electric vehicle for a year compared to a traditional car at skyhigh fuel prices. With help from Matt Frommer, a transportation analyst and spreadsheet fanatic with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, the Colorado Auto Dealers Association, AAA and others, here’s a quick guide with five comparisons: EV fuel cost vs. gas Driving 11,000 to 12,000 miles a year in a compact EV, like the Nissan Leaf, costs about $470 in electricity when the car is charged primarily at home using a standard 120V wall outlet.

Frommer says 90% of his charging in the past year was at home; prices at public fast chargers run higher, but are obviously convenient and necessary on longer road trips or spontaneous jaunts.

Driving the same number of miles in a gasoline car with average 25.7 mpg fuel economy at $5 a gallon would cost $2,212, Frommer calculates.

His numbers are echoed in a Chevy dealer’s calculations for a Chevy Bolt EV, similar in cost and performance to a Nissan.

Cost per gallon equivalent All in with the EV, Frommer concludes, he paid the equivalent of $1.07 a gallon for EV “fuel,” an 80% discount from current gas prices.

And the first few years of EV ownership are usually repair or maintenance-free. No $80 oil changes required. The most expensive thing EV owners tend to do is rotate their tires, at $30 to $50.

Depending on what part of Colorado you are in and which utility brings you electricity, your gallon equivalent cost will vary. Kilowatt hour prices from place to place can vary into the double digits. Be mindful of the timeof-use pricing that Xcel is now using with more than 300,000 people who’ve had smart meters installed: Plugging in after 7 p.m. at night costs 10 cents per kilowatt hour, while doing so at the 4 p.m. weekday peak costs 27 cents a kilowatt hour. Real world example?

Frommer calculates he spends the equivalent of 78 cents a gallon if he’s not careful when he charges at home, but only 61 cents a gallon at home charging at Xcel’s lowest off-peak times. Public fast-charging stations like Electrify America can cost $3.61 per gallon equivalent.

Then again, gasoline prices can vary significantly around the state as well, so keep that in mind.

You can find comparable fuel economy for various EVs from the federal government here, factoring in the differing electrical consumption of motors in every model on the market.

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hanging in the balance,” said Dan Grossman, a lawyer, registered Democrat and a former state lawmaker. “I don’t think attempts by Democrats to gain political partisan advantage by bolstering the campaigns of these folks who have no respect for the values of democracy — it’s perilous.”

Various Democratic groups are airing ads and sending mailers that describe three candidates — state Rep. Ron Hanks in the U.S. Senate contest, Weld County Commissioner Lori Saine in the 8th Congressional District race and former Parker mayor Greg Lopez in the gubernatorial race — as “too conservative.”

All three are steadfast in their denial of the 2020 presidential election results.

Mario Nicolais, a campaign finance attorney who also writes opinion columns for The Colorado Sun, called the ads an example of “Reverse Psychology 101,” and argued they would push undecided Republicans to support those candidates.

There’s nothing new about political parties spending on advertising to affect the other side’s slate of candidates. But this year’s spending by Democrats comes earlier and is more extensive than in the past, Nicolais said.

“This is by far the most we’ve ever seen in Colorado,” Nicolais said.

One election-denier candidate who hasn’t been promoted in Democraticbacked ads is indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, the Republican building her campaign for secretary of state on a false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Promoting Peters appears to be a step too far for Democrats, Nicolais said.

Grossman and Nicolais said that even a remote risk of an election denier defeating a Democrat in the fall is unacceptable.

“As much as I disagree with traditional conservative Republicans, I think for the good of the country we need to make sure that they restore their own party,” Grossman said.

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Costs to purchase new EV vs. new gas car EVs are undoubtedly cheaper to operate the second they roll off the lot, but often cost up to $10,000 more to purchase than a comparable gasoline model, even after government incentives.

All new car purchases appear stunningly expensive to many buyers these days, but shopping for an EV can add to your sticker shock. The hot but hard-to-get Rivian trucks are back-ordered at $90,000 plus. Hummer just added $6,000 to its electric muscle model that was already $100,000, notes Colorado Automobile Dealers Association CEO Tim Jackson.

Chevy did just announce a price break on an overlooked, highly reliable EV hatchback called the Bolt, which lists at closer to $26,000. Nissan keeps the Leaf in about that price range, as well.

The EV market becomes more confusing because government tax credits are no longer available on all models. The federal tax credit,

June 30, 2022 Missives draw complaints at federal and state level Recently, U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over several mailers that contrast him with Hanks, his GOP primary opponent.

The mailers falsely claim the Colorado Republican Party has endorsed Hanks. The state party is prohibited from endorsing primary candidates by its bylaws.

“Contrary to what the mailers state: the Colorado GOP has not endorsed any candidates in the primary nor are we the ones sending these mailers to voters,” Republican Party Executive Director Joe Jackson said in a written statement.

O’Dea is suing the Iowa printing company behind the mailers for defamation.

The mailers, which don’t suggest people who receive them should vote for or against either candidate, contain no disclosure of who sent them.

But FEC regulations don’t require electioneering reports for mailers or digital ads.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which supports GOP U.S. Senate candidates, said Monday that it, too, plans to file an FEC complaint over the mailers.

Liberal nonprofit ProgressNow Colorado faces a campaign finance complaint with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office in connection with a mailer it sent contrasting Lopez with Democratic Gov. Jared Polis on abortion.

The complaint, filed by an Englewood woman, says the mailer doesn’t include the name of the registered agent for the group, Colorado Voter Guides, which was recently created

by ProgressNow Colorado. And the complaint alleges the group failed to report the cost of the mailer as an electioneering communication, as required by state law.

After the complaint was filed — and several days after the state’s 48-hour deadline — Colorado Voter Guides reported spending more than $116,000 on the mailer. The group has since reported spending another $233,000 on mailers for a total of $349,000.

The complaints aren’t limited to

Republicans and Democrats duking it out. There are intraparty controversies too.

The Public Trust Institute, a conservative nonprofit, filed a complaint against state-level super PAC Citizens for Election Integrity, which is supporting Peters, for failing to report campaign donations in its Monday filing and also failing to report independent spending within 48 hours as required by law. Citizens for Election Integrity filed reports Thursday, a few days after the deadline, showing it had spent more than $99,000.

The group is airing TV and digital ads and has produced a website opposing Republican Pam Anderson’s bid for secretary of state. While it hasn’t disclosed its donors, the people who registered Citizens for Election Integrity have worked for other election-denying Republican candidates in the past. And Peters tweeted the group’s TV ad approvingly soon after it came out.

In El Paso County’s 5th Congressional District, state Rep. Dave Williams is asking for a criminal investigation of TV ads from incumbent U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn’s campaign. Williams says the ads make false statements about him, which would be a violation of state law. But it’s unclear if that state law has ever been enforced.

Nicolais, an unaffiliated voter who ran unsuccessfully for state Senate in 2014, filed a complaint against mailers in his contest, which he said were nastier than anything he’s seen yet in 2022. Action on complaints won’t be speedy, he said.

“It’ll be well after the election,” Nicolias said.

which can be up to $7,500 for an EV, does not apply once a manufacturer sells 200,000 units, so Tesla and the Chevy Bolt are now out, with others approaching the cap. Also, you can only qualify for the full $7,500 if your federal income tax in a given year is that high — it’s not a “refundable” tax credit.

At the state level, the Colorado tax credit on EVs is now $2,500, dropping to $2,000 on Jan. 1.

New gasoline car prices are way up as well, if at a slightly lower inflation rate than EVs. The average total price in May was $47,148, up more than 13% from a year before, Kelley Blue Book said. That was the second highest monthly average on record, they added.

supply chain problems continue to plague car manufacturing and delivery, Jackson said, for all engine types.

CADA’s Toyota dealers talk about the difference between now, with gas at a shocking $5, and the months in 2008 when gas hit a then-shocking high over $4 a gallon. In 2008, the hybrid Toyota Prius was relatively new and popular, and when inflationweary consumers flocked to it, Toyota ramped up production to meet demand. Now, Jackson said, no one can really ramp up production or delivery on anything.

“We don’t have the same comparison, because we’re out of everything.

Our lots are empty,” he said.

Many models of gas-powered cars are also in short supply across Colorado, dealers say. The difference being that, with gas engines still powering 85 to 90% of all new car sales, there are more comparable choices to try if your favorite model is on backorder.

What cars are actually on the lot?

In other words, could you get one even if you wanted one?

You’ll likely have to wait. Here’s an example: Nissan dealers for the entire Rocky Mountain region sold fewer than 200 Nissan Leafs in the first quarter. Each of those dealers could have sold 200 on their own, if they could get them, said CADA’s Jackson.

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Other messages are also unidentified Last week, a group called TopLineVote.com sent a mailer to El Paso County voters endorsing county and statewide candidates, all of whom deny the results of the 2020 presidential election and oppose coronavirus prevention measures.

TopLineVote.com is not registered with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office as a political committee or as a business, nor is the website hosting it, getknown.net, nor is InterGalactic Advertising, the business advertised

Other details to know Environmental advocates want you to take heart that there are other alternatives, if $5 gas is really getting you down and a new EV is not in reach. They mention improved

on the main site.

The website says “This website was created by patriots. It is not approved by any candidate or candidate’s committee. WE DO NOT ACCEPT DONATIONS.” The Sun sent a message to the email address listed for the advertising firm (the address is a UPS Store in Colorado Springs) and were told the group didn’t spend more than $1,000 on the messaging. The person responding wouldn’t reveal their name. That spending would indicate the mailers went out to fewer than 1,000 people.

A group called El Paso County Republican Strategy Forum is running the same ad on Facebook, spending less than $100 thus far.

Several anonymous mailers went to unaffiliated and Republican voters in the 8th Congressional District contrasting Saine, one of four GOP primary candidates, with Democratic nominee state Rep. Yadira Caraveo.

Those mailers appear to come from a Democratic group based on union insignias and mailing permits. But they don’t endorse either candidate, thus haven’t been disclosed to the FEC. In the 7th Congressional District, Republican candidate Laurel Imer posted a video last week questioning primary opponent Erik Aadland’s relationship with a nonprofit and super PAC that are spending to support Aadland. All of super PAC For Colorado’s Future spending on mailers and texts supporting Aadland and opposing the third candidate in the contest, economist Tim Reichert, is going to Telephone Town Hall Meeting, a Golden company with the same address as the super PAC. For Colorado’s Future won’t report its donors until mid-July, after the primary is settled.

Telephone Townhall Meeting was the Aadland campaign’s top vendor between April 1 and June 8, earning $16,000 for printing, texting and meetings.

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bicycle lanes and dedicated paths in many Colorado cities. In the Denver metro area, RTD is planning how to carry out a proposed August bus fare holiday that would make all rides free, paid for with an infusion from the Colorado legislature.

Used car prices are “red hot” right now, Frommer notes, which is bad if you are buying, but great if you are selling. He suggests taking advantage of those high prices to sell off car transportation altogether, and replace it with a combination of telecommuting, biking, walking and transit. Denver is preparing to reopen applications for substantial ebike rebates, and the state is working out details of its own e-bike rebate plan.

“I think it’s going to be a really interesting year for transportation,” Frommer said.

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00°30’26” East, being monumented on the North end by a 2 ½” pipe with 3 ¼” aluminum cap, PLS 4846, and on the South end by a ¾” rebar with 2 ½” aluminum cap, PLS 37971, and with all bearings contained herein relative thereto; Beginning at the North ¼ corner of said Section 33; thence South 00°30’26” East, coincident with the West line of the North ½ of the Northeast ¼ of said section 33, a distance of 1303.10 feet to the Northwest corner of that parcel of land described in Quiet Title order recorded July 7, 2009 as Reception No. 7421046 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder for Weld County, Colorado; thence North 89°36’34” East, coincident with the North line of said parcel, a distance of 122.63 feet to the Northeast corner of said parcel; thence North 01°14’34” West, a distance of 1304.23 feet to the North line of the Northeast ¼ of said Section 33; thence South 89°04’29” West, coincident with said North line, a distance of 105.89 feet to the True Point of Beginning. County of Weld, State of Colorado.

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Place: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission The Chancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203 PETITIONS DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: July 5, 2022

Misc. Private Legals PUBLIC NOTICE Coors Energy Company (PO Box 4030, Golden, CO 80402) has filed an application for a Phase I bond release work completed at the Keenesburg Mine with the Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety (DRMS, permit C-1981-028, approved November 3, 1981). The Phase I bond release application requests release of bond and liability for successfully completing backfilling and grading in Areas 35 through 38 and 42 through 45 within the mine site. Backfilling and grading in these areas took place in 2019 – 2020 and has been shown to meet the approved post-mining topography for the site. Phase I bond release is sought for approximately 102 acres at the site. The current bond is a corporate surety of $1,201,563.00 prior to the proposed release and the amount requested for release is $574,531.00.

The areas proposed are located within Section 25, Township 3 North, Range 64 West of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Weld County, CO. Coors Energy Company is the surface owner of the property for which bond release in being requested. The permit area is located 7 miles north of Keenesburg, CO and is accessed by Weld County Road 59. A copy of the bond release application is available for public review at the Weld County Clerk and Recorder’s Office (1402 N 17th Ave, Greeley, CO 80631), the Keenesburg Town Hall, and at the DRMS (1313 Sherman St, Room 215, Denver, CO 80203). In accordance with Rule 3.03.2(3) any person with a valid legal interest which might be adversely affected by release of the bond, or any federal, state, or local governmental agency with jurisdiction over regulated activities at the mine shall have the right to file written objections to or comments upon the requested release and/or file a request for an informal conference with the DRMS within thirty (30) days of the last publication of this notice, or within thirty (30) days of the completed bond release inspection to be conducted by the DRMS whichever is later. All comments, objections, and requests must be submitted in writing to the DRMS at 1001 E 62nd Ave, Room 215, Denver, CO 80216.

Legal Notice No. FLP647 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 14, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press

Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above.

Please see Commission Rule 507 at https:// cogcc.state.co.us, under “Regulation,” then select “Rules.” Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above.

Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud.com/DNRCOGExternalAccess/Account/Login.aspx and select “Request Access to Site.” Please refer to our “eFiling Users Guidebook” at http://cogcc/documents/reg/Hearings/External_ Efiling_System_Handbook_December_2021_Final.pdf for more information. Under Commission Rule 508, if no petition is filed, the Application may be approved administratively without a formal hearing.

Any Affected Person who files a petition must be able to participate in a prehearing conference during the week of July 5, 2022, if a prehearing conference is requested by the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information, you may review the Application, which was sent to you with this Notice.

You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki at Cogcc.

Hearings_Unit@state.co.us, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO By: Mimi C. Larsen, Commission Secretary Dated: May 24, 2022

Public Notice BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBRARA FORMATION, WATTENBERG FIELD, WELD COUNTY, COLORADO CAUSE NO. 1

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H&A Mineral Holdings, LLC South Weld Holdings, LLC c/o Steven Louis-Prescott Morgan L. Simpson Hamre, Rodriguez, Ostrander, & Dingess, P.C. 3600 S. Yosemite Street, Suite 500 Denver, CO 80211 303-779-0200 sprescott@hrodlaw.com msimpson@hrodlaw.com Legal Notice No. FLP645 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: July 14, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press

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