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Timothy Johnson, who lives in Shakopee, Minnesota, regularly searched online for branches of his Paulson family tree. He never guessed he’d ﬁnd three whole books about them in Fort Lupton, of all places.“Iwas searching online, and an article came up. I think it was the Commerce City Sentinel Express. The article did not have pictures but the description matched the Paulson family tree, I immediately called the librarian, “Johnson said.

Updated COVID-19 boosters are being rolled out at pharmacies and clinics in Colorado. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ofﬁcials expect the updated boosters to become more widely available in the state.

Family genealogy in Fort Lupton ﬁnds its place back in Minnesota

Now, with omicron’s subvariants — BA.4 and BA.5 — expected to drive infections in the fall and winter, state ofﬁcials say they hope Coloradans will take advantage of the added protection these boosters offer.“It’s particularly important for people that have only had two or three doses of the vaccine,” said Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday, adding that “if you’re medically vulnerable, it’s particularly important. He spoke as he got his shot of the vaccine in front of a state vaccine bus at Ball Arena in downtown Denver.

The story starts when Cindy Lyons, a librarian with Fort Lupton Public School and Library, found three three-inch ring binders of the Paulson, Miller genealogy in the library storage room.

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The story ran in several Colorado Community Media papers and online in December. By August 2022, Johnson called Lyons to claim the genealogy books, and she sent all three along right away.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people who are eligible for these boosters get their shots. The news comes just ahead of the fall, when cases could surge.

Deaths, hospitalizations and positive cases have spiked every fall since the pandemic began in 2020, according to state health department data. And the omicron variant fueled a massive spike in cases earlier this year.

Lost books turn into found family traces

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Surprising ﬁnd

Johnson said all three albums are very valuable. He is from the Paulson side of the family; his grandmother was Paulson and Johnson is from his dad’s side. He thinks one of the relatives from California must have put the books together.

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detailed.Johnson said he was interested in genealogy and started his Paulson genealogy family tree project just when COVID began in 2020, just as something to do. But he’d never found a bounty of information like this“Whenbefore.Igot the books it knocked me off my chair seeing those old original photos, and I’ve seen some of them and some I had not seen before that are still surviving,” Johnson said.

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“I was searching the storage room for history about the Fort Lupton library and came across the three binders. I think someone was cleaning out a relative’s house and mixing the genealogy books with donated books,” Lyons said. “I needed help in ﬁnding the relatives of these precious books.”

“The Paulson family tree books were distributed within the Paulson family. So we have numerous books out there with our family,” Johnson said.

“I said, ‘I’m familiar with the Paulson family tree book, but the other two I’m not familiar with but you might as well send them to me. Maybe I can track down who should get those,’ “ Johnson said.

“This is just another very easy step that you can take to protect yourself,” he said. Polis noted that the pandemic has claimed about 13,600 Colorado lives and that COVID-19 “has a much lower hospitalization rate and an extremely low death rate, if you are fully vaccinated.”About 150 people had signed up Wednesday to get their vaccine shots at the Ball Arena site. “There’s still a lot of demand,” said the governor.

These binders documented the family’s lineages and generations of the Miller and Paulson family’s up to 1980. It included decades of family photos.

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It was a November 2021 story about how librarians at the Fort Lupton Public Library had some very speciﬁc genealogical books among a pile of donations. Librarians had found the books and hoped to ﬁnd the family whose past they

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Hubbard, who cast the only “no” vote, asked about noise mitigation during normal sleeping hours.“With all those semis coming in an out of there, it’s not pleas ant when they roar through while people are trying to sleep,” she said. “Can we make some accommoda tions to keep the noise down during sleeping“Mostly,hours?”theywill park up here because we don’t have room in

Denver,” Bruxvoort said. “We’re not planning a 24/7 operation.”

“I’m just sensitive to noise,” Hub bardResidentsaid. Stephanie Vest called the proposal “a parking lot.”

“Because trucks and RVs will be using the lot frequently, I don’t un derstand how it’s not a parking lot,” she said. “The screening proposed is not approved, per the municipal code. Corrugated fencing is not on theShelist.”and others had concerns about trafﬁc impacts.

“It’s hard to get onto (Weld County Road) 19 from (state High way) 52,” said Molly Wright. “It’s a dangerous corner.”

She wants to put a stop to bully ing in the Weld Re-8 School District,

“I am willing to help you any way I can,” said Re-8 chief operations

DesiRae DeHerrera has a goal for this school DeHerrerayear.graduated from Fort Lupton High School in 1998 and her parents are alums, as well. There are three generations of Fort Lup ton High School graduates on her mom’s side of the family, and her daughter (a class of 2022 grad) was the 24th member of DeHerrera’s family to graduate from FLHS.

“I’ve always been an advocate about saying staff needs to be held accountable, just like students,” she said. “Families have brought kids to me and sent me emails saying their children are being bullied and that the parents will home-school theirTweetkids.”questions to @DesiRaeDe Herre1.

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Fort Lupton RV storage facility gets site-plan approval

“I feel like the referral from CDOT is enough for us,” Hodges said. “It’s a use by right within a this zoned district.”

Fort Lupton City Council ap proved a site plan for a future RV, boat and limited heavy equipment storage facility Sept. 6. The vote wasThe6-1.site is near Weld County roads 13 and 19. Kelsey Bruxvoort, a land planner with AGPROfes sionals, said the facility could house more than 400 parking spaces, all on gravel, plus 12 spaces for commercial vehicles. At full build-out, Bruxvoort said there would be a 5,000-square-foot building.

“It’s hit me for a long time, but it really hit home last year,” she told the district’s board of education during a Sept. 8 workshop. “Stu dents shouldn’t worry about com ing to a place where they are going to be Thebullied.”mainpiece of the effort is through the sale of T-shirts. DeHerrera’s hoped-for price is $10 for short-sleeved shirts and $20 for long-sleeved ones.

“I live there,” said resident Steve Stratton. “I see the cars drive by. This will cause an accident.”

“There will be access 24 hours a day,” she told the council. “Our normal hours are from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. There will be security cameras allMayorover.”Zo

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“I just want to raise money,” De Herrera said. “It’s up to the district how it distributes the money. I just want to do my part to make it hap pen.”DeHerrera told the board that 80% of middle-school students are worried about being bullied in school.“When I dropped my daughter off at school for the ﬁrst time, she

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didn’t want to go in,” DeHerrera said. “She said she was afraid of beingDeHerrerabullied.”also told the school board accountability needs to be felt among students and staff.

“I’ve seen people try to get out of those RV places,” said firefighter Terry Stratton. “Half the people who buy them are used to driving smallerBruxvoortcars.”and city planning Di rector Todd Hodges cited a referral from the Colorado Department of Transportation which didn’t out line any serious traffic issues.

and she wants to do that by way of a fundraiser next month.

ofﬁcer Jim Roedel. “I can point you to printers and give you names of people who are willing to help. I’m not the smart guy who can put all that together.”

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Jump and Play will be open-year around so parents can bring their kids and have fun. They charge $12 per child and $7 for adults for a full day. They also sell socks since playing kiddos are not allowed to wear shoes in the facility.

New indoor playground opens in Fort Lupton

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result, present stafﬁng levels weren’t sufﬁcient to keep ahead of the pattern.“It will help with the growth we are seeing in the city,” Hodges told the council Sept. 6.

the person will take a large load of tasks off of the city engineer. It’s untenable to do a contract because of the questions the applicants ask.”

“We are planning some fall events with music, food and drinks on Sept. 24 and we will have a Halloween bash,” Sigala said.

resentative close to home,” she told councilors. “We’ve worked together on the economy. We developed a transportation plan along U.S. (Highway) 85. I will be the same as a congresswoman as I was when I was a county Kirkmeyercommissioner.”wasontheWeld County commission from 1993 to 2000 and again from 2009 to 2020.

As it grows, Jump and Play will continue to make changes, Sigala said. They plan to hold private birthday events and will schedule a whole day for those events due to capacity. They also plan to have yoga classes and watch the kids in the playrooms while moms get some time for themselves.

Council also approved the hiring of a new design review engineer for the city’s engineering department. The pay can’t exceed $37,254 for the rest of this year. The salary range for next year is between $64,000 and $73,000.

“I noticed for the younger ones, when they jump in the larger bounce houses, they always get trampled on by the older kids,” Baca said.That led Baca to settle an idea she’d had for some time: an indoor playground for babies and toddlers to play and interact with their moms. Talking with her sister-inlaw helped make it real

soft play equipment, Montessori equipment and a small jumper for the little kids.

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The third room is a private area for moms and nursing babies. The large rooms have puzzles, chalkboards, books, a slide, a climbing wall, a ball pit and a giant bounce house.Similarly, the rest of the facility is geared toward a smaller clientele. Bathrooms are equipped with

“I was looking to invest and wanted to bring something to this to

Sigala said before opening the indoor playground, they were delivering bounce houses for soft play parties. Now, however, they knew they’d need a permanent location.

changing tables and diaper genies.

“We need someone dedicated to all ﬁve of our planners,” said public works Director Roy Vestal. “We need a professional with experience, and

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Cassidy Sigala and her sister-law, Alayina Baca, were stay-at-home moms and noticed that indoor playgrounds and trampoline parks were not designed for little kids.

The Fort Lupton planning department will get a new face in the near future.Thecouncil unanimously approved a request to hire a full-time planner, perhaps as soon as next month. The salary will be between $17,200 and $20,000 for the balance of this year and between $50,000 and $57,000 in 2023.Planning Director Todd Hodges said his department is seeing an explosion in residential growth. As a

“Our other room, the kids call it The City, “ Sigala said The City is an imaginative playroom where the kids can pick a costume to play dress-up. It’s geared toward adult role-playing, with a miniature house featuring a full kitchen, washer and dryer, a doctor’s ofﬁce and a grocery store.

a rural community where there is not a lot of places for the little ones to go and play,” said owner Sigala

She, Democrat Yadira Caraveo, Libertarian Richard Ward and Independent Party candidates Steve Zorn and Tim Long are running for the 8th Congressional District seat in Congress.

They have three playrooms. One is a soft play room, geared towards infants up to two years old. It has

State Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer paid a visit to councilors to talk about her candidacy for the newly created 8th Congressional District. The new district takes in Fort Lupton, as well as Commerce City, Greeley, Berthoud, Lochbuie, Brighton, Thornton, Northglenn and Federal Heights, among other cities and areas.

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“We helped each other with ideas and little details, our bathrooms have step stools, so the kids can wash their hands, and have smaller toilet seats for potty training the smaller kids,” Baca said.

The pair’s new indoor playground, Jump and Play, opened August 22 at 1200 Dexter St. in Fort Lupton.

Brighton’s Image Summit returns to Riverdale Regional Park on Nov. 2 and 3, aiming to help local youth learn leadership skills and how to use their voices to affect change.

The two-day conference is for Colorado youth ages 10 - 19 who will gain leadership skills and inspiration to use their voices to impact their communities and government policy.Keynote speakers include author Kyle Scheele, a champion of crazy ideas. His work has been featured in publications like Fast Company, The Washington Post, Wired and more.

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Students and teachers at Fort Lupton’s Little Trappers preschool march in the city’s Trappers Day parade Sept. 10.

Marcus Schlegel of Frederick stands with his 1932 Chevy Coupe hot rod after the Fort Lupton Trappers Day parade Sept. 10.

An overhead view of the Fort Lupton Trappers Day parade and festival Sept. 10. Turn out at the annual festival was good despite wet and cooler weather.

“We are thrilled to bring youth together again for another year of this summit,” said Tawnya Russell, Manager of Youth Services.

Cooler Trapper Days still fun

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It will soon be open enrollment season — the time of year when you can review your employee benefits and make changes as needed. What areas should you focus on?

Look closely at open enrollment choices

One to consider is health insurance. If you’re still satisfied with your coverage, and it hasn’t changed since last year, you may want to keep the same plan. But some employers are now offering high-deductible plans, which may give you access to health savings accounts that can offer tax benefits.

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Next, look at life insurance. Is your employer’s group coverage sufficient for your needs? If not, you may need to consider a private policy. And the same is true for your employer’s disability insurance.

Members of the Fort Lupton High School Football team wave to the crowd during the city’s Trapper Days parade.

“We want the youth to walk away building their networks of young leaders.”Thesummit will feature keynote speakers, workshops, opportunities to interact with elected ofﬁcials from across the state.

This is the sixth year Brighton has sponsored the summit, which draws teens from across the state.

Try to get the most from your benefits package – it can be an important part of your overall financial strategy.

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Finally, consider your 401(k) or similar retirement plan. While you can typically make changes to your plan throughout the year, why not take this opportunity to see if you need to adjust your investments? You might also consider boosting your contributions.

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ake Mead’s receding waters have exposed sunken boats, dead bodies, and more. But the wisdom of a bet placed in 2005 by Las Vegas has also been revealed.

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Las Vegas bored a third tunnel, this one coming up from the bottom of the reservoir. The far-sightedness of that and other investments totaling $1.3 billion was revealed in April when reservoir levels dipped below what was needed for the highest intake pipe.

Depending upon the Colorado River, Las Vegas had wisely hedged its bet.

Drought combined with the aridiﬁcation produced by warming temperatures have upset the cart in the Colorado River Basin. Apples are rolling everywhere. The easy, visual way of telling that story is of the widening bathtub rings in the giant reservoirs of the Colorado River. Mead and Powell are respectively 73% and 74% empty.Butthe most important story will be

outdoor water use.

he summer season is coming to an end, with many of us looking forward to fall. It’s been a hot summer and it will be nice to get some cool air, turning of leaves, and just a change of pace. For some of us we get locked into the summer doldrums, especially in those severely hot days and nights. And yet for others, being outdoors and in the sunshine bring us energy.

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The Southern Nevada Water Authority draws 90% of its water for a population of 2.3 million from Lake Mead. It had two intake pipes, one higher and one lower in the reservoir.

Reservoir levels have dropped precipitously since 2002 when the Colorado River delivered just 3.8 million acre-feet of ﬂows. The 1922 compact among Colorado and the seven other basin states assumes more than 20 million in annual ﬂows.

less, for grass. Within that limit are other limits. No more Kentucky bluegrass. Other varieties use less water. Elected officials in Castle Rock, a city of 80,000 people that expects to fully fill out its britches at 142,000 people, in early September will review similar regulations.“Coloradoscape” is what Castle Rock calls its recommended landscapes. For homes, 500 square feet is tiny, smaller than some bedrooms. For new yards, it will be the max. Mark Marlowe, director of Castle Rock Water, says city leaders began meeting with stakeholders, including homebuilders, in November. The city does not use Colorado River water, but it has had a parallel problem, drafting unsustainably on groundwater.Denverhas a goal of a 30% reduction in “non-functional turf.” It will start with medians and non-residential areas. “Purely ornamental grass should be replaced with trees and plants that can cool, shade, pollinate, manage rainwater and survive extended dry periods,” explains Denver Water’s ToddMostHartman.surprising may be the actions by the water provider for Vail and Beaver Creek and associated areas. Even here, at the headwaters of the Colorado River, in a state that produces more than half of the river’s annual flows, the Eagle River Water and Sanitation District has been clamping down on

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In Aurora, Colorado’s third largest city with nearly 400,000 residents, the city council last week approved regulations sharply limiting turf grasses on golf courses and new homes. Residential lots will be limited to 45% or 500 square feet of the yard, whichever is

Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.

many organizations, the grind has been especially difﬁcult with labor shortages, resignations, quiet quitters who stay but do the bare minimum, supply chain issues, and just the chaos, confusion and stress happening all around us. And one way to make the most of the upcoming season is to energize and motivate ourselves and our teams in such a way where we all can win and feel good about what we are accomplishing together.

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in how demand gets cut in Colorado and the six other basin states. The onus is on California, Arizona, and Nevada. The lower basin years have slurped too generously from the river given the emerging climate haveupperColoradorealities.andotherbasinstateslivedwithin

In a recent conversation with the chief revenue ofﬁcer of a technology company, we kicked around the concepts and tactical approaches that their sales team was pursuing. And the idea was not to have the team grind it out, stressing themselves to the max, and getting frustrated. No, the idea was to make the push to ﬁnish the year strong as positive, fun, engaging and motivating as possible. Small daily rewards and recognition that cost the company little, but created a fun yet daily competitive environment that are driving greater results.Then, build upon that with weekly and monthly larger stretch goals and opportunities to win. Not a winnertakes-all approach, but making it so that if everyone exceeds their own personal goals by a certain percentage, everyone had the chance to win. For

One ﬁnal thing. Las Vegas, in addition to sinking the third tunnel into Mead, has also been wringing its towel through its own demand-side management programs. The Bellagio’s fountains will remain, but those bloated backyard swimming pools - goodbye to that illusion of plenty.

New products, services, or solutions will not be brought to market within three months — that is aligned with more long-term thinking. So, the best thing we can do is focus on what we can do in the short run that will have the greatest impact on our ﬁnish, while positioning us for success in the new year.

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Aesthetics still matter. Saving water should not mean having a front yard that looks like a gravel pit along the South Platte River. The draft revised Colorado Water Plan emphasizes the role of landscaping contractors in creating new useful and pleasing yards with minimal water use.

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their compact-apportioned means. But here, too, changes are underway, because the water just is not there. Farms and ranches, which still consume upward of 85% of water in Colorado, will have to be part of the story. So will the still-growing towns andChangescities. can be seen most prominently in those places on the edge, including Denver’s fast-growing suburbs of Aurora and Castle Rock. They’re redeﬁning acceptable landscapes in the semi-arid West. Sprawling lawns resembling those of the rain-soaked eastern states are on their way out.

ing for the things we can do that can have an immediate impact on how we finish the year. And more importantly, how we are all planning for 2023. This is the time to plan and prepare, with most budget decisions and commitments happening before Oct. 31. For some, that budget deadline date is the scariest part of Halloween.Tomakethe most of the upcoming season, the first thing we need to do is to make sure we have executed against all the planning we did for 2022. Did we do what we said we would do when we said we would do it? Next, we should evaluate where we are and what we can build upon tactically to finish the year as strong as possible. An increase in sales behaviors, creativity in marketing, leveraging existing relationships and referral sources, and maybe an amplification of the social media sources that drive our business.

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Take away three key messages from this, though. If all of Colorado’s towns and cities ceased use of Colorado River water, Mead and its upper-basin sibling, Powell, will not ﬁll up. The lower-basin states have a reckoning. Also to be remembered is that if this drought ends, there will still be a warmer and almost certainly drier climate. A 2017 study found that only 50% of the reduced precipitation can be attributed to drought. Even in a very good snow year in Steamboat Springs, for example, the Yampa River can still have meager ﬂows by August.

Hedging bets on water in Colorado and beyond

With September comes the end of the 3rd Quarter for the businesses who operate on calendar year, beginning in January and closing the books in December. Depending on the industry and the organization, many times it comes down to the 4th Quarter, just like a football game. Although in football there is a chance for overtime, in business, when the year ends, the year ends.

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She’ll be close to the outdoors, able to see the trees she loves. The smell of Nag Champa incense will ﬁll the air, and a Spotify playlist she’s created will be playing. Her friends and family will visit, writing down funny stories or memories to share.

“My ultimate goal is to help people have an empowered ending … to have a peaceful ending, whatever that looks like for them,” she said.

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Talking about death is hard, she said, but knowledge is power. When she works with clients, she aims to help them prepare for what’s to come and design an ending that best ﬁts with the rest of their life, rather than experiencing a “default panic mode” about

Becoming a death doula

Before entering the death doula profession, Johnston worked as a high school English teacher.

In 2015, she was looking for a different career outside of teaching, and a friend asked if she would be interested in serving as an assistant to a man who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a progressive nervous system disease.

Having a death doula helped get Smith to a point where she could talk about her death and share her wishes with others, Barr said. Johnston also helped Smith’s family and friends navigate the ﬁnal days, encouraging people to talk about what was happening and to share happy memories of Smith.Johnston also helped get a lawyer and a notary to visit Smith and Barr to complete Smith’s will, something Barr said they were panicked about beforehand.Earlyinthe morning on June 4, Smith passed away in Barr’s home. Upon her passing, Barr asked Johnston to check in with Smith’s parents, as she didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to do so. Johnston also came to Smith’s celebration of life, held at Hudson Gardens.

“And so I said, ‘I’m happy to do that. I have no medical experience whatsoever, but if he’s just looking for a companion, I can do that,’” Johnston said.While caring for the man, she heard about a book called “Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death.” Through reading, she learned “death doula” was the term for a person who serves as a compassionate companion to someone at the end of life.

The following year, Johnston estab-

She offers a variety of services including offering information about the dying process, addressing worries and issues, providing emotional support and planning and helping implement the atmosphere the client would like to have as they are dying.

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“Whatexplained.Iwashoping to get out of it was just somebody who had experience with death that could help us in a way that wasn’t just, ‘Get your affairs in order,’” Barr said. “Somebody that could just listen to her, talk to her in her own home.”

“There are a lot of different names for what I do,” Johnston said, explaining other names include end-of-life doula, death midwife, exit coach and death companion. “The simplest way I can say it is that I provide emotional, spiritual and informational support for people at the end of life, and for their loved ones around them.”

“Partdeath.ofthe problem of not being willing and able to talk about something scary, like death, is it just promotes more fear and anxiety. And I really wanted to dismantle that, if I could,” she said.

Barr describes death doulas as wonderful people who can guide others through the dying process, whether it be navigating the paperwork, the emotional part or the physical part. She said she’s considering hiring a death doula again to help her get her own affairs in order before this year is over.

Smith was told to go into hospice around February, afterward, Smith’s doctor said chemotherapy might actually be working, and Smith continued getting treatment. However, on May 24, Smith collapsed in a parking lot as she was headed to an appointment.Atthatpoint, Smith stopped getting chemotherapy and she began hospice, which was done at Barr’s home.

Originally, around February, Smith began working with a different death doula, but after that person had a family emergency, Smith was referred to

Assembling this plan, which Johnston calls vigil planning, is part of her job as a death doula, a versatile and evolving role.

“I think that it’s a great thing to help you on that part of the journey, to have a death doula,” Barr said. “I think that it can help with all of the feelings and fears and emotions.”

“And hospice, I kind of always thought they would just be there all the time, and that’s not how it works,” Barr said, explaining the nurse came over about three times and the chaplain and social worker each checked in once. “And so just having another support system was huge.”

if it was just talking and checking on us and trying to help facilitate things with visitors,” Barr said.

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lthough she’s healthy, Vanessa Johnston already has a plan for how she’d like to die.

“She started to feel better with some of the symptoms, and then in February, it just didn’t seem like it was responding anymore. And that’s when her doctor was like, you know, I think that you should go into hospice,” Barr said.Smith had a tense relationship with a lot of her family members, and her parents are elderly and didn’t really understand what was happening, Barr said. Smith relied on her friend network, including Barr.

As a death doula, Johnston typically works with people who are in hospice, and she’s usually contacted by the child of the person dying, she said.

“I tell my clients, I can’t take away the sorrow and the sadness, but maybe with more knowledge, we can focus less on fear and anxiety and more on love and meaning,” she continued.

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“And I thought, ‘Oh, that’s what I’ve been doing.’ So it kind of gave a name to the role that I had been kind of fulﬁlling intuitively anyway, and really helped me understand what that role was,” she Johnstonsaid.decided to pursue training with the International End of Life Doula Association, which she completed in the summer of 2017. She began volunteering in hospice and applied her new skills towards helping care for the man, who passed in October 2017.

technician and beloved friend who passed away on June 4.

“And I felt like I had really helped him and his wife just go through that last milestone in a way that honored his story. And I thought, ‘Well gosh, I really want to continue to do this if I can,’” she said.

Around this time, Barr was reading a ﬁctional book, “The Book of Two Ways,” and through reading, she learned about the concept of death doulas. Her curiosity piqued, and she began Googling death doulas in Colorado to potentially help Smith come to terms with what was happening, as Smith initially was hesitant to acknowledge or accept she was dying, Barr

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In the ﬁve years since starting her business, Denver EOL Doula, with EOL standing for “end of life,” she has had about 15 private clients and serves people all throughout the metro Denver area.

Rose Barr, a 45-year-old veterinarian at Tender Touch Animal Hospital, met Smith in 2010 through work, and the two became close friends and eventually like family to one “Sheanother.wasvery warm and welcoming. She valued having meaningful relationships with people,” Barr said, her voice ﬁlled with emotion. “She had this beautiful laugh, beautiful eyes.”Aveterinary technician of about 20 years, Smith was great at her job — especially when it came to dealing with naughty cats, Barr said.

Barr said it was valuable to have Johnston around, who had been through the process before and would often reassure everyone that they were doing a great job. She said Johnston offered emotional support to people, often explaining what was happening to visitors and helping remove some fear about the situation.

“She was the one that you could turn to every single time, and she’d be able to do what we needed to do,” BarrAboutcontinued.10years ago, Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer, Barr said. She got a mastectomy and understood that the surgery was curative for her at the time, and she was put on oral medications to try and control hormones.Smithfound out the cancer was back in about 2016, and around 2019, it had worsened and was in her spine. By November 2021, it started to change drastically and her doctor told her she needed to start injectable chemotherapy treatment.

One of her recent clients was Michelle Smith, a 52-year-old veterinary

Michelle Smith at Niagara Falls on her birthday, May 12, 2022. Going to Niagara Falls was on Smith’s bucket list, her friend Rose Barr said.

Although working as a death doula can take a lot of emotional capacity, it’s a job Keeran and Johnston feel called“Thisto.is me doing my heart’s work now, and it’s just super exciting,” KeeranDespitesaid.what others may think, Johnston embraces life because of her job, she said.

“You want to do all of your planning at a time where there can be stories that are told,” she said, explaining planning ahead of time allows for more consideration of options and for a person’s loved ones to understand the plan as well.

The death doula profession has also evolved over time, Johnston said, and as an emerging profession, discussions continue about how it may change in the future.

“We don’t know when we’re going to pass unless we’ve been given that kind of diagnosis. So for me, it was really powerful and … made me feel strong about it,” Wagoner said. “It’s just a very comforting feeling, and empowering yourself to be able to express what you really want, because to family members sometimes, you can’t express that.”

With this goal of educating and helping others, Keeran launched her business, Golden Heart Transition, this spring. She offers a range of services including grief support, doula services, end-of-life planning and coaching using the “best three months” model developed by the Conscious Dying Institute.

“If you try and do all of that at the deathbed, your brain isn’t functioning, nothing is functioning, nothing is in place, and you don’t have that opportunity,” she said.

“I’m very hesitant to get into any kind of a role in the medical care system,” she said, explaining she worries about over-regulation. “If I were to be, like, a Medicare beneﬁt, then I would have this obligation to follow these strict rules, which really hampers my ability to meet families where they are, to serve whatever their needs are.”Inher current role, Johnston has maximum independence and ﬂexibility, she said. However, being outside the medical care system can hinder people’s willingness to pay for the death doula services since it’s out-ofpocket, she said.

“I have a very signiﬁcant level of gratitude to her because she knows that I can be a different kind of challenge because I know too much,” Sargent said, explaining she looks at situations from every angle. “She keeps me on track.”

“Duringclients.that30-year period of time, clients would come to us because of dysfunctional family, or because they had no family, or where the court made a determination that a disinterested third party was needed to serve in the role of conservator,” she said.

“You have to put yourself in a mindset of, you have three months left to live. And then, in that three-month time, what practically do you want to accomplish?” Wagoner said. “And it was good to be able to do it without actually being in that situation.”

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A main focus for Keeran, she said, is targeting education efforts toward older generations, communicating the value of putting together an end-of-life plan and exploring topics of pain, caregiving and medical aid in dying. She also helps people learn about the variety of body disposition options available to people in Colorado, such as water cremation.

One afﬁliate member is Crispin Sargent, a certiﬁed grief yoga instructor who worked for 30 years as a geriatric care manager, offering services such as advance care planning and acting as power of attorney or conservator for some

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As educators about death and dying, both Johnston and Keeran expressed the importance of changing how people discuss death and dying, such as not associating it with giving up or as a “Wefailure.know

She has since begun a new company, Chun Hwa LLC, which focuses on offering yoga and grief counseling, she said. However, as an afﬁliate member of the nonproﬁt, she still offers services related to advance care planning and the “business of death,” as she calls it.

“We ﬁgured that our voices together would be louder than our voices separately, so that was the impetus for just, let’s get together and cultivate a community,” she said. “We want to provide a community not just for the providers who are doing this work, but for people who need these services.”

experience following her death.

Now, there are more than 35 afﬁliate members across Colorado, and the number is growing, she said.

it’s inevitable, so let’s work on our approach to this inevitable thing,” Johnston said. “A big part of what I do is to normalize this for people, which it seems strange to say that this thing that happens to 100% of us needs to be normalized, but it does because we don’t ever talk aboutThereit.”has been some progress, as Keeran said she remembers a time when death and grief were hardly ever talked about, especially in the 1970s.“Ihave a deep background in death. My childhood was full of death and loss,” Keeran said, explaining she was basically on her own at 19 years old. “Who I want to be now, is that person that I didn’t have, and my family didn’t have when I was growing up.”

lished her business, which she said was a complicated process. Part of the difﬁculty was convincing people that her services were valuable and something everyone would beneﬁt from.

“The tricky thing is, is that people have done what I do for millennia,” Johnston said, explaining she doesn’t want to create further barriers to entering the profession.

“It’s this tricky thing of establishing value while providing the service, but I really think that the future of death doulas remains outside the medical care system just because that independence and ﬂexibility, I think, is how we serve our clients the best,” Johnston said.

Earlier this year, she began working with her friend, Karen Keeran, who recently became a death doula. Together, they began discussing Sargent’s wishes, such as having a calm and quiet environment when she is close to passing.

Although Sargent had previously done the legal parts of planning and preparing for her death, she said she hadn’t thought about the actual time of death and the type of environment she would like.

Keeran agreed, saying she has seen how hospice nurses and aides are limited in how much time they can serve clients. She said she sees death doulas as offering specialty services, also noting that limiting death doulas to hospice care could reduce the number of people the doulas can serve.

Originally, Johnston said the idea was to only have a directory of doulas in the nonproﬁt, but then the members saw there was a need to also have a network of other providers, called afﬁliate members, such as people working in funeral homes, grief counselors, notaries and so on.

As part of the experience, Keeran gave Wagoner a map to write down what Wagoner’s wishes were so her family would know, helping alleviate some of the stress her family would

Karen Keeran, a death doula based in Golden, at her home o ce on Aug 24.

Vanessa Johnston, a death doula of ﬁve years, with her dog at her home in Highlands Ranch on Aug 25.

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She began connecting with other doulas in the Denver area, and in 2020, they decided to form the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative, a nonproﬁt membership organization. She explained it helped create a support network for the doulas and get the word out about their profession.

“When she introduced it to me, what she was doing, it was really interesting. I was kind of surprised, but yet, at the same time, I was like, wow, that’s a really unique business and a unique way to help people,” Wagoner said.While Keeran was completing her training last year, she needed people to practice her skills with, Wagoner said. Wagoner volunteered, and they did the “best three months” course.

Choosing to become a death doula was a spiritual type of decision for Keeran.In2020, a year before she retired from her career in business, Keeran was meditating and asked the universe what she should do next. She said she woke up the next morning and it was like a light switch had been turned on — she should become a death doula.

“It’s that community that says, nobody can do this work alone,” Sargent said about the nonproﬁt, explaining members of the collaborative can call on one another for assistance. “All of the members of that group have a specialty, have a passion.”

A network of support

One of her ﬁrst clients was her friend, Maxine Wagoner, an owner of a yoga studio in Golden that Keeran is a member of. Wagoner said she had never heard of a death doula until Keeran approached her.

The future of death doulas

“When somebody says, ‘That must be so depressing,’ I’m like, actually it’s the complete opposite,” Johnston said. “When you deal with death on a daily basis, it really makes you value life.”

Prioritizing education

Although she said she wants to legitimize the profession, she’s hesitant about the idea of establishing a national certiﬁcation board for death doulas, as there currently is not one.

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Death is a life experience, she said, and she knows from personal experience the value of planning and preparing for death before a person is close to it or is in crisis.

Crispin Sargent, an a liate member of the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative.

She had learned about death doulas a few years ago from a friend, she said. Following her retirement in 2021, she began her six-month training with the Conscious Dying Institute, as well as began training to become a certiﬁed nurse aide. In February 2022, she also completed training through the Conscious Dying Institute as a conscious dying educator.“Knowledge and information, I’m a big believer in, reduces fear,” she said. “I want to be able to bring that planning to the fore and have that in place before we reach (the) end of life.”

Currently, death doulas are outside of the medical care system, and Johnston said she thinks it should stay that way.

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“I started to make my living from music,” he said.

Musician and multiple-instrument performer Scott Je ers is scheduled to take the stage at noon Sept. 17, one of the featured acts at Northglenn’s Pirate Festival at E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park.

Jeffers’ music is an eclectic style, molded both by his upbringing and his travels abroad. Born and raised in Boulder, Jeffers was inﬂuenced by the music of his parent’s choosing. The sounds of Simon and Garfunkel, Gordon Lightfoot and other American folk music ﬁlled their house. His mom, originally from Lebanon, was also a belly dancer and danced to traditional Lebanese music.“Then my sister discovered rock,” Jeffers says with a laugh.

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“I was just exploring, performing, sitting down with musicians,” Jeffers said. “Traveling inﬂuenced the music, as well as the culture, the food, and the mannerism of people.”

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At Northglenn’s Pirate Festival, Jeffers will, naturally, be dressed as a Pirate.“Ikinda look like a Pirate day-today anyway,” he says.

The violin is Jeffers’ main instrument. He’s played it for 26 years.

A recent performance at the Estes Park Scotfest featured Scottish and Irish pieces, while the Pirate Festival will also showcase more Mediterranean and Arabic sounds. And Jeffers said he’ll try to look the part.

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Jeffers considers himself a musical“Thechameleon.genreof world music is vast, so I’m not one to sound the same every time,” Jeffers said.

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“It was a calling,”, he said. The songs shaped themselves as he worked on them. His band started as an acoustic band but evolved into a blend of both acoustic and hard rockJefferssounds.wanted to blend the varied sounds of music from around the world into his compositions, so he traveled extensively. He has visited Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Romania, Scotland, and Ireland.

“I want them to feel like they went on a journey through ancient lands,” he says. “You know that feeling you get when you see a movie? Like you were just there? Music is a memory of a place, so I want them to feel that. And I think they do because they tell me.”

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It’s the cornerstone of everything I do.”Hespends regular days in practice — going through scales and various techniques. Out of the 25 instruments in total that he plays, only ﬁve or six make appearances during live shows. While the violin remains the star of his show, Jeffers also enjoys playing the Arabic

He plans to utilize a double-octave pedal on his violin. This pedal allows him to play multiple notes simultaneously, which gives the single instrument the sound of a full orchestra. “You’re hearing the cello and a bass at the same time as the violin,” he says. “It’s very pirate-y! It’s a one-man, world-fusion, Viking metalJeffersorchestra!”andhisband desire to entertain all who attend their shows and their response and enjoyment remain paramount to him.

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From that point onward, he developed his own unique sound and formed his ﬁrst band.

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When Taylor was eight weeks pregnant, she went to her appointment at Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton and discovered the babies were twins.

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umbilical cords, they were simply connected to the same“Thoseplacenta.vessels and the umbilical cords branch out like the roots of the tree across the placenta for each baby. And on the surface of the placenta, which is universally connected vessels from one side of the placenta to the other, they share a circulation,” he said.

The baby could become very sick as blood ﬂow worsens, he said but it was a threat for both babies. For example, one baby could pass away, and the other baby could also be lost because of bleeding through the connections on the other side of the placenta from the smaller fetus that passed away.“Fortunately, the blood ﬂows improved we could carry Riley all the way to 35 weeks gestation,” Dr. Galan said.Riley and Jaci Rieder were born on Dec. 10, 2021, and placed in Children’s Hospital Colorado Newborn Intensive CareRileyUnit.was born growthrestricted, weighing three pounds and three ounces but was only in the hospital for three weeks. The bigger and healthier Jaci was in the hospital for the next three months.

Taylor and Bryan Rieder were expecting their ﬁrst baby but were thrilled to discover they were expecting their ﬁrst two — twins.

The Reiders drove back and forth every day, leaving the house at 6:30 a.m. with Riley to see Jaci at the

Both Riley and Jaci are growing, a little over nine months old and are doing great.“The girls being healthy is all I can really ask for — and obviously for them to get along,” Bryan said.

“The team at Children’s Colorado is incredible. Dr. Galan really cares about us and our girls. We are not just another number to him but rather, real people,” Taylor said. “We wouldn’t have our girls and deﬁnitely don’t know where we would be now with Jaci without the experts at Children’s Colorado. They are the reason we are family of four.”

Taylor and Brian Rieder with their identical twin girls. COURTESY OF THE RIEDERS

that meant that there was nothing unsuspected. Even though Bryan was a twin himself, they had no idea what Di/di meant. And further tests and ultrasound appointments didn’t change.Itwasn’t until the Reiders went in for a more powerful scan at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver to determine their babies’ genders at 20 weeks before they learned about the amniotic sac.

A discovery of twins

“It’s been awesome to be able to come home from work and be able to take care of the girls. I put a lot into perspective because I’m also an identical twin. So knowing what my parents had to go through, you know, now being able to experience that puts it into perspective for us,” Bryan said.

If the split is after eight days, you end up Monoamniotic monochorionic (Mo/mo) twins, in which both babies are in the same amniotic sac sharing the same placenta.

The Reiders sought many different doctors and had several specialty tests.

“You lose about 50% of Mo/mo babies because of cord entanglements. Or you end up with congenital defects and most are lost with

Buthome.shedid not get better.

Dr. Galan said identical twins result from a fertilized egg that splits. The timing of the split dictates what type of twins you end up carrying.Ifit splits within the ﬁrst three days, you will have Di/ di twins. If they split between three and eight days, you end up with Mo/di twins like Taylors.

Finally, their last straw was an exploratory surgery that found that Jaci had Infantile Hemangioma, a tumor in her small intestine — the cause of her bleeding the entire time.

It’s been a rough year, but the twins are ﬁne. Now, a little older than nine months, they’re thriving.

Tough battle for ‘family of four’

lor said. It’s how most twins grow, in their own amniotic sacs and placentas.

Dr. Galan said one twin would likely be growth restricted because they share the same placenta with abnormal umbilical blood ﬂow. It was a higher-risk pregnancy and would have to be closely monitored, he said.

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“The gal instantly looked kind of silent and the whole ultrasound was kind of uneasy for Bryan and I,” Taylor Reider said. “She told us, ‘These are not Di/di twins!’ I did not have much to say- I had a pit in my stomach and was lost for words.”

They were referred to Children’s Hospital Colorado and followed up with them the next day. That brought them to Dr. Henry Galan, a medicinematernal-fetalspecialistand fetal surgeon for about 27 years.

said.Taylor said they ﬁrst thought it was a milk protein allergy causing the bleeding. They switched her formula, the bleeding stopped and a month later, they brought Jaci

Jaci tumor should shrink and disappear in the next few years and she has appointments ﬁve times a month at Children’s Colorado to monitor the tumors.

“Then for two weeks, she really bad bloody diapers again and we went back to the hospital and did two more blood transfusions,” Taylor said.

It was no surprise for husband Bryan, an identical twin himself. But the news darkened a bit at 20 weeks when they discovered their twins shared more than most twins. Both were growing in the same placenta and sharing the same blood supply, a potentially dangerous condition called “Mo/di” for Monochorionic diamniotic pregnancy.“Mo/ditwins are very rare and only 1% of pregnancies carry Mo/di twins. They share a placenta and blood supply which can be fatally dangerous,” said Dr. Henry Galan, a fetal surgeon and maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

“During my ultrasound, they said you have Di/di twins, which means Dichorionic diamniotic twins,” Tay-

The journey for Jaci Taylor said Riley was a rock star drinking her bottles and kept growing.

“It was kind of funny, we had to get a car seat that was rated small enough, and when she hit the four-pound mark, she was in the car seat. The next morning, we left the hospital with Riley -it was surreal,” she said.

hospital until 4 p.m. Jaci had developed some unknown health problems and needed as many as eight blood transfusions during her stay.

miscarriage. The later the single fertilized egg splits, the more complicated and high risk it becomes,” Dr. GalanTaylorsaid.carried her twins for 35 weeks, with doctors monitoring them once a week because of several complications.“Thesplitwasn’t even on the placenta for each baby. So one baby got a smaller placental share compared to the other. It sets that baby up for complications, such as selective fetal growth restriction,” he said.

“We got a call in the middle of the night, it was pretty scary. They said she had bloody diapers and they needed to consent for a blood transfusion. We panicked and went to the hospital and got her transfusions,” Taylor

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Johnson said the Paulson family migrated to Moody County, South Dakota, right by Sioux Falls north of“Itthere.was very Scandinavian.

Norway

“I think the Paulson family had a big reunion every 10 or 15 years, and they would all bring their family albums, and they tried to update them. It’s all paper, it must have been a monumental chore to put this Johnsontogether.”saidthat genealogy books were really popular in the Midwest in the 70s and 80s. He has up to four generations of family that had similar books.

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Norwegian immigrants ended up in Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota. There are very few left or any, I’m not aware of any Paulson or any of my relatives that are left in Moody County. They spread out,” Johnson said.

Johnson is working on ﬁnding some other relatives and will continue working on the books, hoping to update them up to this century.

“To ﬁnd these books was a coincidence and it’s kind of impossible,” Johnson said.

“Alan was an admiral in the Navy and passed away in 1988 and Gordon, was a bird colonel in the Air Force and passed away in 1998. There’s an older brother Russell who died in 1979,” said Johnson.

In the genealogy book, their ancestors Martin and Kjersti Paulson migrated from Norway to Minnesota, and after they were married moved to South Dakota in 1876.

“The Miller, Paulson book probably has some real value. The blue

“I think there was a company that was selling them with basic instructions on how to do them,” JohnsonJohnsonsaid.said these books he received belonged to Helen Jean Paulson from Brighton. She passed away in 2008. He has not been able to track down anyone yet but thinks Helen’s daughter, who lived in Denver after Helen died, was getting everything out of her house and mistakenly included those albums with books.

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Johnson said his family has always been believers in education.

The Miller, Paulson book has numerous original pictures of Johnson’s grandmother from Norway.

book is Helen Jean Paulson’s photo album from the 1970s to the 1990s with descriptions of who was in the photos. She has photos of her horses, dogs and her two brothers Alan and Gordon Paulson,” JohnsonJohnsonsaid. said Gordon lived in Aurora for a while, so he thinks that is how Helen moved to Colorado from South Dakota.

The ﬁrst generation were farmers, and the next generations went to college and moved on, he said.

LIBRARY

“It’d be a pretty bad mistake. The Paulson family tree book, we have a few copies within the family and a family person would treasure the other two. That Miller, Paulson photo album, those are photos from the early 1900s,” Johnson said.

Librarian Cindy Lyons found the three Paulson Miller genealogy books and mailed them to a relative in Minnesota.

Where can I get an appointment to get the updated booster?

• And be at least two months out from the last dose you received.

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hospitalization and death.”

• Be at least 12 years old to get the updated Pﬁzer-BioNTech booster or 18 years or older for the updated Moderna booster

The booster shots millions of Coloradans received since last fall were not speciﬁcally formulated to protect against omicron, she added.

In order to get an updated booster you must:

Those offering the shots include many primary care ofﬁces, community health centers, pharmacies, and community vaccination sites.

“Much like viruses evolve over time, our vaccines really need to do the same thing to keep up with the strains that are circulating,” Herrero said. “We think these will be really effective at preventing the

Who is eligible for the updated booster?

Bernal brought his in-laws to get their shots. That included his mother-in-law, Anita Easton, who was in town from Oregon and needed no encouragement to get her booster.

The CDC said in a press release last week that it “expects to recommend updated COVID-19 boosters for other pediatric groups” in the

“I’m absolutely convinced, but I’m a biologist, so I know why it’s good for you and why you should do it,” sheWhat’ssaid. the difference between the original booster and the updated booster?Diana Herrero, deputy director of the Division of Disease Control and Public Health Response for

We will update this article as more updates become available.

boosters contain a spike protein that offers speciﬁc protection to the omicron strain that caused a huge wave in cases at the beginning of 2022.

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Josh Phillips, a resident of Highlands Ranch, came to the site for his shot, his ﬁfth, since he’d already had the original series, plus two previous boosters.

CDPHE’s website lists several links to view availability of the updated booster at providers around the state. You can ﬁnd those links by clicking here.

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BOOSTERS

They also offer protection against the omicron subvariants that are currently the dominant strains in Colorado and the U.S.

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What about kids younger than 12?

“I just thought it would be a good idea, you know, considering that we’re about to enter ﬂu season and all,” said Fred Bernal, a Denver resident who also got his omicron booster shot. He said he did catch the coronavirus last November, right before he got a booster. “It probably would’ve been a lot more serious had I not received my vaccine,” he said.

“It is just, you know, trying to protect myself and my family as much as possible,” he said, noting he was ﬂying to Pennsylvania soon. “I’m actually traveling next week. So I think it’s important, especially in a congested place, like the airport, to be as protected as possible. And the rest of my family will be doing this as well, as soon as we can.”

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Fort Lupton High School students, teachers and alums celebrated their 2022 homecoming with a parade and a football game Sept. 9, beating Weld Central.

Fort Lupton High School’s band makes its way down the parade route during the school’s homecoming parade Sept. 9.

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Members of Fort Lupton High School’s Folklorico ride down the homecoming parade route Sept. 9.

Bluedevils celebrate homecoming

Lenny Bachicha prepares a batch of hamburgers for the Fort Lupton High School Booster Club’s barbecue supper/ ra e ahead of the Bluedevils’ homecoming football game Sept. 9.

Mary Ellen LeBlanc helps Fort Lupton football player Jovonni Carleton sign in for the Fort Lupton High School Booster Club’s barbecue supper and ra e before the Bluedevils’ homecoming game Sept. 9.

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Will Alvarado (12) leads the Bluedevils into the end zone for a touchdown against the Rebels in the ﬁrst quarter of their Homecoming game on Sep. 9 at home. Fort Lupton defeated Weld Central 45-6.

Fort Lupton’s Kaidyn Taylor (30) rushes the ball againsts Weld Central’s Marcelo Rodriguez (21) during the ﬁrst quarter of their Homecoming game on Sep.9 in Fort Lupton. The Bluedevils outscored the Rebels 45-6.

The combination of a hurry-up offense and tough defense spelled a homecoming win for Fort Lupton High School Sept. 9.

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Tricia Hammond gets the ceremonial tiara after her selection as Fort Lupton High School homecoming queen Sept. 9 at halftime of the football game between the Bluedevils and Weld Central High School.

Anthony Blan-Mendenhall (3) takes in a 52-yard touchdown pass from Fort Lupton quarterback Will Alvarado late in the ﬁrst quarter of their Homecoming game against Weld Central. The Bluedevils outscored the Rebels 45-6.

No game stats were available for the Rebels. FLHS quarterback Will Alvarado completed 16 of 28 passes for 196 yards and a pair of touchdowns. One went to Zach Crowe for 12 yards, and one went to Anthony Blan-Mendenhall and covered 52 yards.

The Bluedevils beat Weld Central 45-6. The Bluedevils improved to 2-1, while Weld Central dropped to 0-3.“I saw growth and the ability to ﬁnish a game,” said FLHS coach George Ramirez. “We’ve had leads before where we took a step back and kind of ﬂuttered a little bit. They grew.

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the 171-pound ﬁnals and ﬁnished the season with a 35-1 record. He is one of 49 individual state titlewinners in Bluedevils’ history.

born.Survivors

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“My brother loved hard and was very loyal. His faith stayed strong all the way to the end. To say we’re mourning is an understatement. We are broken, distraught and coping.”“RIP big Joe Serna -- always been

high six receptions for 110 yards. “It was the whole team. We executed, just like we did in practice all week,” Blan-Mendenhall said.

Tom Galicia, Fort Lupton’s current wrestling coach, knew Serna.

also include his sisters, Vanessa and Marissa; his mother, Susan Serna (Vince Sanchez); sisters, Vanessa (Ray) Gonzales, Marissa Serna (Mark Gonzales); his nephew, Josiah; and his girlfriend, Rozalyn Schultz. His father and his grandparents, Joe Rios, Nellie Rios, Albert Serna and Josie Serna, preceded him in death.

“It’s new playbook. We’ve grown up with each other, so the chemistry is there,” he said. “We’re doing good. We just have to work with it. We’re tired of the old Fort Lupton. We want to change it.”

“He was a great wrestler for Fort Lupton (state champion) and Brighton (two-time runner-up) high schools,” Galicia said. “It was sad to hear what happened. He was doing something he loved -- wrestling -- when this tragedy happened.”

good to me. Bro as solid as they come,” said Anthony Martinez on Facebook.“Resteasy lil cousin,” said his cousin, Thelma Martinez Ramos, on Facebook. “My heart is broken. I can’t even bring myself to call and give my condolences. Life is so short.”Serna was born Oct. 16, 1983, in Westminster, to his parents, Benny and Susan Serna. Serna had many occupations, including landscaping, property management, coaching and working for Santiagos. He also was a dog owner, a dog breeder and a dog trainer.

“He will be sorely missed,” Galicia said. “Our condolences to all his family.”

– Former

“I don’t know yet what’s going to happen,” Blan-Mendenhall said. “We’re going to battle it out and see what happens.”

5:45 p.m. A Facebook post from the school said workedparamedicstorevive Ser-

Serna was Fort Lupton’s ﬁrst professional MMA ﬁghter, during which time he won three championship belts. He loved hikinig, weightlifting and walking his dogs. Serna became a father Jan. 29, 2011, when Kaden Benny Serna was

Joe Serna died at Prairie View High School Aug. 30.

Serna competed for Brighton High School in 2002 and graduated from there in 2003.

title in 2000. As a sophomore, he beat Valley’s Jeremy Wright 6-5 in

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Alvarado also added a rushing touchdown and gained 27 yards on six carries. Dimitri Alarcon gained a team-high 54 yards rushing and scored a touchdown. Kaidyn Taylor’s one carry was good for 28 yards.Danny Rodriguez caught four passes for 37 yards. Blan-Mendenhall, a junior, ﬁnished with a team-

“Our defense understood what we were doing. We just marched down with offense, so it was a team effort.”FLHS overhauled its coaching staff this season. Six of the eight members are graduates and football alumni of Fort Lupton High School.“Ihave to give credit to these coaches,” Ramirez said. “These

them.”It’snot a surprise to Blan-Mendenhall, either

Serna, former Fort Lupton state champion,wrestlingmourned

FLHS heads to rival Valley High School at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16.

state naworkedsaidpost5:45HighdiedchampionwrestlingJoeSernaatPrairieViewSchoolAug.30.Ithappenedaroundp.m.AFacebookfromtheschoolparamedicstoreviveSer-withoutsuccess.Sernawonhisstate

kids have been buying into our system, and it’s been fun to see. I’ve seen this since game 1. They are getting better week by week. It’s awesome.”Theprogress isn’t surprising to Ramirez.“When I got hired on, I knew these kids were very special. And it shows,” he said. “I’ve got a great group of kids, and these coaches are helping me out. They know what it takes to belong to this community. The kids are responding to the coaching, and hats off to

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“My brother died doing what he loved,” said Marissa Serna on Facebook. She was in the Prairie View wrestling room at the time.

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Prairie View High School said it made the post in case students or staff members wanted to seek mental health support. The district’s mental-health team was at the school Aug. 31 in case students or staff needed assistance.

Wrestling great dies at Prairie View

Softball

The Golden Eagles were seventh )after tie-breakers) in the team standings.Spencewas the team medalist at the league meet at Marianna Butte Sept. 6. He carded an 88. Soren Ammerman was next with his 97, and Sam Fisher ended his round with a 108.

No stats were available for either game.

Volleyball Lutheran downed Frederick 25-17, 25-12, 25-19 on the Golden

Riverdale Ridge beat Frederick 9-5 in Frederick Sept. 6. Ganessa Duran had two hits and drove in three runs. Neila Lucero added two hits and an RBI. Brynn Trujillo struck out eight4 in four innings of pitching.

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Fort Lupton is undefeated in Frontier League play after pulling out a 22-25,11-25, 25-17, 25-14, 15-12 win over Lake County Sept. 6 in Fort Lupton.

Soccer

The Golden Eagles were ninth in the team standings.

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Eagles’ floor Sept. 6. Katelin Sindelar and Delaney Frank led Frederick with six kills. Teagan Brandsma topped the Lions’ scoresheet with nine kills. Carys Norten was close behind with seven.

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Haley Howell, who struck out five Ravens’ batters, had four hits and drove in three runs for the Golden Eagles. Tatum Ross had two hits and drove in a run.

No stats were available for either team.

Scottsbluff High School beat Frederick 43-20 in Nebraska Sept. 9. No stats were available.

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Fort Lupton began Frontier League play Sept. 6 with a 17-0 win at Englewood High School. The Pirates’ Jaliyah Mora and Caitlin Walling had their team’s only base hits. No stats were available for the Bluedevils.

Fort Lupton opened up Frontier League play Sept. 7 with a 9-1 win at Bennett High School. Giancarlo Mendez scored five of the Bluedevils’ goals. Jonathan Gonzalez scored twice. Sergio Garcia and Axel Venzor also picked up goals.

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Fort Lupton lost two games at a tournament in Brush Sept. 9. Limon beat the Bluedevils 6-3 in the

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Frederick scored in the second half and nipped Greeley West 2-1 on the Golden Eagles’ pitch Sept. 6. It was Frederick’s first win of theNoseason.statswere available.

opener. Brush beat the Bluedevils 5-4 in the second game.

LONGMONT -- Here are Frederick’s results from the Re-1J District Meet at Sunset Golf course Sept. 7: Girls:

29. Jessica Ellinger, 24:49.6. 34. Gracie Wilts, 25:59.6. 44. Hailey Pollard, 27:53.9. 62. Mya Wilcox, 30:13.6. 65. Kassidy Lear, 30:56.5 Boys: 26. Nikolas Carrillo, 19:39.1. 45. Ricardo Moreno, 21:29.3. 46. William Hershey, 21:29.3. 52. Zachary Bailey, 22:02.5. 57. Darren Reynolds, 22:14.5.

No stats were available for eitherThegame.Bluedvils split a pair of tournament games Sept. 10. FLHS scored its runs in the first inning against Sterling and beat the Tigers 2-0. The host Beetdiggers beat Fort Lupton 6-1.

The Golden Eagles bounced back for an 8-2 win at Roosevelt Sept. 8. FHS scored six runs in the sixth inning to pick up the win.Tatum Ross had three hits and drove in four Golden Eagles’ runs. Izzy Horne, a freshman, added a base hit and two RBIs. Molly Vetter had two hits and got credit for the Roughriders’ only RBI.

Frederick’s Kyle Spence finished 11th (after tie-breakers) at the Longs Peak League meet at The Olde Course in Loveland Sept. 7. He carded an 84. Layne Smotzer had a 92, and Dylan Atencio finished with a 103.

Jose Dorado scored the goal for theFLHSTigers.rolled past Bruce Randolph School 10-0 in Denver Sept. 10. Santiago Gonzales had five of the Bluedevils’ goals. Mendez added two. Ronald Guerrero, Jonathan Gonzalez and Caleb Adam also scored for FLHS.

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Payton Faulhaber led the way for FLHS with 11 kills. Dani Aviles had seven, and janisa Shaffer added six. Aviles also served six aces. Jaycee Windorski led the Panthers with 16 kills. Mara Green added nine.

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Krische Construction, Inc. of Longmont, Colorado for all work done by said contractor in construction or work on the Morgan Hill Pool Amenity Project located in the County of Weld, State of Colorado.

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Any person, co-partnership, association of per sons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provi sions, provender, or other supplies used or con sumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to Silverstone Metropolitan District No. 1 at the above address on or before the date and time hereinabove shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified state ment of claim prior to such final settlement will release Silverstone Metropolitan District No. 1, its directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

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HirschfeldContractor:Backhoe&

First Publication: September 8, 2022

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of KAMDEN DEAN JONES, a/k/a KAMDEN D. JONES, a/k/a KAMDEN JONES, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30518

Pursuant to § 32-1-903 CRS, as amended, the District’s meetings may be conducted electroni cally, telephonically or by other virtual means. Ac cordingly, notice is hereby given to all interested persons that they shall appear at a public hear ing at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84079720509 at 1:00 PM on September 22, 2022 and show cause in writing why the petition should not be granted. The Board of Directors of the District, in its own discretion, may continue the hearing to a subsequent meeting.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Weld County, Colorado on or before January 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kyle Dean Jones Personal Representative 325 Baum Court Dacono, Colorado 80514

Legal Notice No. FLP691

First Publication: September 15, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Galen Marvin Jackson, deceased Case Number: 2022PR249

Justin Keenesburg,24495PersonalJacksonRepresentativeCountyRoad18Colorado80643

SWEETGRASS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO.

Legal Notice No.FLP683

R. Lee President of the Board

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SWEETGRASS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. By:Jon1 R. Lee President of the Board No. FLP688

R. Lee President of the Board

NOTICE is hereby given that Sweetgrass Metro politan District No. 1 of Weld County, Colorado, will make final payment at 2500 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 220, Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, Sep tember 26, 2022, at the hour of 12:00 p.m. to the following

President of the Board

Last Publication: September 15, 2022

The petition for the inclusion of property was submitted by Brighton Industrial North General Partnership, LLP, whose address is 1540 Main St., Ste. 218/303, Windsor. Colroado 80550. The property for which inclusion is sought is generally described as a parcel of land located at the south east corner of Weld County Road 10 and South Rollie Avenue in the City of Fort Lupton, Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of per sons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provi sions, provender, or other supplies used or con sumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to Sweetgrass Metropolitan District No. 1 at the above address on or before the date and time hereinabove shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Sweetgrass Metropolitan District No. 1, its directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

Any person, co-partnership, association of per sons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provi sions, provender, or other supplies used or con sumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to Sweetgrass Metropolitan District No. 1 at the

By:Jon1 R. Lee President of the Board

Hirschfeld Backhoe & Pipeline Inc. of Frederick, Colorado, Lawson Construction Company of Longmont, Colorado and Custom Environmental Design of Erie, Colorado for all work done by said contractors in construction or work on the Sweetgrass Filing 4 District Improvements Project located in the County of Weld, State of Colorado.

First September 8, 2022 September 15, 2022

Legal Notice No. FLP687

Any person, co-partnership, association of per sons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provi sions, provender, or other supplies used or con sumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to Morgan Hill Metropolitan District No. 3 at the above address on or before the date and time hereinabove shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified state ment of claim prior to such final settlement will release Morgan Hill Metropolitan District No. 3, its directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

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Last Publication: September 15, 2022

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Last Publication: September 15, 2022

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

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BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SWEETGRASS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO.

above address on or before the date and time hereinabove shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Sweetgrass Metropolitan District No. 1, its directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sweetgrass Metro politan District No. 1 of Weld County, Colorado, will make final payment at 2500 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 220, Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, Sep tember 26, 2022, at the hour of 12:00 p.m. to the following Contractors:

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Last Publication: September 15, 2022

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Weld County, Colorado on or before January 08, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Publisher: Fort Lupton Press

Public Notices

NOTICE is hereby given that Sweetgrass Metro politan District No. 1 of Weld County, Colorado, will make final payment at 2500 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 220, Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, Sep tember 26, 2022, at the hour of 12:00 p.m. to the following HirschfeldContractors:Backhoe&

Legal Notice No. FLP689

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Asphalt Specialties Company, Inc. of Henderson, Colorado and Lawson Construction Company of Longmont, Colorado for all work done by said contractors in construction or work on the Sweet grass York Street (aka “West County Road 11 Phase 2) Project located in the County of Weld, State of Colorado.

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Last Publication: September 15, 2022

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MORGAN HILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO.

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NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

Last publication: September 22, 2022

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SILVERSTONE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. R. Lee

First Publication: September 8, 2022

NOTICE is hereby given that Sweetgrass Metro politan District No. 1 of Weld County, Colorado, will make final payment at 2500 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 220, Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, Sep tember 26, 2022, at the hour of 12:00 p.m. to the following Contractors:

NOTICEPublicSettlementsNoticeOFFINALPAYMENT

303-566-4123

Any person, co-partnership, association of per sons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provi sions, provender, or other supplies used or con sumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to Sweetgrass Metropolitan District No. 1 at the above address on or before the date and time hereinabove shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Sweetgrass Metropolitan District No. 1, its directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF FORT LUPTON 08/17/22-09/06/22 Expenditures

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON INCLUSION OF PROPERTY INTO LUPTON VILLAGE COMMERCIAL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

First publication: September 08, 2022

Pipeline Inc. of Frederick, Colorado, and Asphalt Specialties Company, Inc. of Henderson, Colorado for all work done by said contractors in construction or work on the Filing 4 Sweetgrass Parkway Project located in the County of Weld, State of Colorado.

Legal Notice No. FLP692

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF LUPTON VILLAGE COMMERCIAL METRO POLITAN DISTRICT

A full and complete legal description of the property petitioned for inclusion is on file at the Law Office of Michael E. Davis, LLC, 1151 Eagle Drive, Suite 366, Loveland, CO 80537, and is available for public inspection during regular business hours 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

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NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

First Publication: September 8, 2022

Last Publication: September 29, 2022

08/19/2022 72149ADT SECURITY SYSTEM 08/19/2022138.95 72150AMERITAS LIFE INSURANCE CORP 6330.68 08/19/2022 72151CEM SALES & SERVICE INC 08/19/2022620.0072152CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 08/19/20221500.0072153 CLARE VARDAMAN 08/19/2022200.00 72154COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA 08/19/2022563.6072155COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 56.00 08/19/2022 72156EWING IRRIGATION PRODUCTS INC 807.50 08/19/2022 72157FORT LUPTON VETERINARY 08/19/2022740.0072158JOHN DEERE626.20 08/19/2022 72159MEANDERING WITH MARY 08/19/2022120.0072160MOUNTAIN WEST PRODUCTION GROUP 2875.00 08/19/2022 72161PETTY CASH-REC CTR 08/19/2022180.75 72162QUADIENT LEASING USA INC 08/19/2022433.5972163RAQUEL FERSZT290.00 08/19/2022 72164SANDRA NEB550.00 08/19/2022 72165STERICYCLE63.89 08/19/2022 72166SYDNEY LOSEY65.00 08/19/2022 72167T-MOBILE USA, INC. 08/19/202225.00 72168TODD HODGES DESIGN, LLC 08/19/20228178.7572169TOSHIBA FINANCIAL SERVICES 1771.75 08/19/2022 72170VALLEY FIRE EXTINGUISHER 851.00 08/19/2022 72171WELD COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY IT 278.24 08/19/2022 72172 WICKHAM TRACTOR CO 08/19/2022571.00 72173MERIDIAN ROOFING & EXTERIOR LLC 6513.20 08/30/2022 72174AAA AUTO PARTS INC 08/30/2022552.47 72175AFLAC 08/30/20222429.96 72176ANDREA GIRON65.00 08/30/2022 72177 ANTHONY THOMAS MIRE LEZ 08/30/2022250.0072178AXON ENTERPRISES INC 08/30/2022800.70 72179BG’S JAPANESE DESIGNS 08/30/202222.0072180BRANDING BY BRE 08/30/20222750.00 72181CEM SALES & SERVICE INC 08/30/20221770.0072182CITY OF FORT LUPTON 08/30/2022331.65 72183COLONIAL LIFE105.96 08/30/2022 72184COMCAST BUSINESS 08/30/20222154.91 72185COMCAST CABLE COMM, LLC 08/30/2022474.3072186DELL MARKETING LP 08/30/20221279.40 72187DHM DESIGN CORPORATION 08/30/2022875.0072188DIANA CHAPARRO65.00 08/30/2022 72189DISPLAYS2GO 08/30/20222150.73 72190ENGINEERED INSTALLATION SOLUTIONS, LLC 25000.00 08/30/2022 72191ERNEST GEOLFOS 08/30/202265.00 72192FASTENAL COMPANY 01COFTL 08/30/20229.5472193FUREVERDOG RESCUE AND BOARDING 120.00 08/30/2022 72194GRAMMY’S GOODIES LLC 08/30/2022152.00 72195HUMANA HEALTH PLAN INC 08/30/202281974.4572196IMPERIAL CUSTOM CONCRETE, LLC 47819.01 08/30/2022 72197INSTRUMENT & SUPPLY WEST,INC 171.93 08/30/2022 72198JAMIE RICHMEIER65.00 08/30/2022 72199JANE MILLER130.00 08/30/2022 72200JEREMY SALAZAR80.00 08/30/2022 72201JOEY RICHMIER450.00 08/30/2022 72202LOST CREEK GUIDE 08/30/2022480.00 72203MB AUTO SALES & SALVAGE 08/30/2022200.0072204MELISSA HUNT80.00 08/30/2022 72205MIRANDA HERNANDEZ 08/30/202280.00 72206NORTHERN WATER 08/30/2022132017.29 72207OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT INT 123747.00 08/30/2022 72208 O’REILLY AUTO PARTS 08/30/202262.59 72209 PINNACOL ASSURANCE 08/30/202218230.00 72210PLATTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION 750.00 08/30/2022 72211QUADIENT LEASING USA INC 380.46

City of Ft. Lupton

Last Publication: September 15, 2022

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SWEETGRASS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO.

Legal Notice No. FLP685

Bids and

By:Jon1

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there has been filed with the Board of Directors of Lupton Village Commercial Metropolitan District (the “District”), City of Fort Lupton, Weld County, a petition pray ing that certain property, which is described below, be included into the boundaries of the District. The owner of one hundred percent (100%) of the property identified in the petition has given its consent to the inclusion of the property into the District’s boundaries.

By:Jon1

By:LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL E. DAVIS, LLC Attorneys for the District

Notice to Creditors

PUBLIC NOTICE

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First Publication: September 15, 2022

Legal Notice No. FLP684

Any person, co-partnership, association of per sons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provi sions, provender, or other supplies used or con sumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to Sweetgrass Metropolitan District No. 1 at the above address on or before the date and time hereinabove shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Sweetgrass Metropolitan District No. 1, its directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

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Pipeline, Inc. of Frederick, Colorado for all work done by said contractor in construction or work on the Silverstone Filing 1 and Filing 2 Landscaping Project located in the County of Weld, State of Colorado.

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

By:Jon1

Legal Notice No. FLP686

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First Publication: September 8, 2022

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Pipeline Inc. of Frederick, Colorado for all work done by said contractor in construction or work on the Sweetgrass Como Sewer Line Extension Project located in the County of Weld, State of Colorado.

First Publication: September 8, 2022

NOTICE is hereby given that Morgan Hill Metro politan District No. 3 of Weld County, Colorado, will make final payment at 2500 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 220, Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, Sep tember 26, 2022, at the hour of 12:00 p.m. to the following Contractor:

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September 15, 202224 Fort Lupton Press Come shop for unique gifts and special items during the Colorado Community Media Holiday Craft Show and Mini-Market; With more than 200 exhibitors filling the Douglas County Fairgrounds, this is the best place to find that special, personal gift for friends and family. The show will feature handmade crafts in all areas from metal and leather, to flowers, baskets, ceramics, and so much more. In it’s third year - expanding into two buildings. In 2021, 3,000 customers attended Interested in selling your handmade crafts? Interested in hosting classes? Contact Event Producer Thelma Grimes at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com All applications must be approved to participate Admission is free to the public PRESENTS 2022 Holiday Craft Show& Mini-Market 10amSaturdayNov.26-6pm 10amSundayNov.27-2pm Douglas 500FairgroundsCountyFairgroundsDv.CastleRock,CO.

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