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Rainbows, roller disco and wedding vows

Council keeps tobacco issues local Municipal Court to hear minors’ tobacco violations

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Fort Lupton teens caught possessing cigarettes or buying them will face local court, councilors agreed June 6.

Councilors agreed to move violations by those younger than 18 years from the Weld County Courts to the city’s own municipal court. e vote came as a part of their consent agenda, where councilors vote on several items at once.

Adams County host second annual Pride celebration at Riverdale Regional Park

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As eight couples gathered below the stage, waiting to say their nuptial vows, o ciant Stella Diver said it was nearly enough to make a drag queen cry.

“ e only reason they chose me to do this is because my heart is made of ice,” Diver said at Adams County’s rst Marriagepalooza mass wedding

event. “But looking at everyone right now, I’m starting to get a little misty.”

But speaking to the crowd at Adams County’s Riverdale Regional Park gathered for Adams County’s second annual Pride celebration, the Denver-based drag performer said it was much more than just emotional. It was important.

“Even now, the love we share for each other is questioned and considered an act of rebellion,” Diver said. “Pride is our moment, our month, to show the world how proud we are of the love we have for each other. And it does not stop with this weekend. e step you are taking today to cement your love for each other allows Pride to live on

every day.”

And then Diver led the 16 people in their vows — moving forward into a great commitment of their love, promising to keep their partner’s heart safe and asking them to love their partners as much as they love themselves.

And with that, Diver declared them married.

It was an experiment this year, Adams County Clerk Josh Zygielbaum said. He plans to bring the event back next year, bigger and even better.

“It was not as large as I wanted it to be, but it’s our rst year doing it,”

Councilors rst discussed the matter at their May 16 meeting. At that meeting, Municipal Court Administrator Jeanelle Andersen said the city did not have a local ordinance pertaining to minors in possession of tobacco. Under those circumstances, people cited for possession of tobacco were prosecuted under state law which required them to be heard at Weld County District Court. Andersen told councilors that the move was meant to keep local violators from having to face county court and more serious consequences. Other cities with similar ordinances can issue summons requiring 24 hours of community services and educational classes and require destroying tobacco products and vape pens.

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Lindy Zuroski of the Fort Collins Circus Center twirls rings at Adams County’s Pride celebration June 10 at Riverdale Regional Park. Zurosky later donned an inflatable unicorn costume to entertain crowds with dancing and gymnastics.

PHOTO BY SCOTT TAYLOR

Community Development open house

Fort Lupton’s Community Development department will host an open house from 9-11 a.m. June 13 at their o ce, 200 Dexter St.

e open house features a tour this model concept space that is conveniently located on Highway 52.

With plenty of parking and a new customer service counter, the Community Development O ce o ers a variety of services including Planning, Economic Development and Building Permits.

Independence Day celebration July 1

e city will host it’s Independence Day celebration on Saturday July 1 featuring food, games, live music and fun. e event features a Pancake Breakfast, Resource Fair, Kids Zone, Tractor Rides, Slip-nSlide, Zip Line and much much more! Learn more online at https:// www.fortluptonco.gov/471/Independence-Day-Celebration

Signing up for Citywide yard sale

e city’s annual Citywide Yard Sale is on July 7 & 8.

If residents are interested in hosting a yard sale at your property and would like to be included on the City map for the event, they should submit their informationd by June 26 online at https://forms.gle/zx52bfmjXCks37NP9

Event maps will be available online at https://www.fortluptonco. gov/556/Citywide-Yard-Sale, in the Fort Lupton Press and shared on social media.

Farm to Market tickets on sale

Tickets for Farm to Table, a fundraising event for the Platte Valley Medical Foundation scheduled for Aug. 17 or on sale now.

e Foundation’s biennial fundraising campaign will bene t women’s health services to help women connect with the care they need throughout their adult years and to support area women who do not always prioritize their own health needs. e foundation hopes to raise $500,000 in the campaign cycle. ey conduct multiple fundraising e orts annually with Farm to Table as the largest event. Farm to Table will be at 6 p.m. Aug. 17 on the hospital campus. Platte Valley Medical Center’s Chef Mike Anderson uses produce donated by area farmers to create a gourmet meal for about 450 guests. e event garners so much support that it often sells out long before the date. is year, Muñoz reserved a block of tickets that are available to the public for $75 each. ey are available at https://ftt2023. cbo.io.

Sports camps open registrations

Registration for Skyhawks sum-

mer sports camps in Fort Lupton is open now. Register at skyhawks.fun/fortlupton.

e program is o ering camps for basketball, ag football, pickleball, soccer and volleyball for kids six years old through -12 and minicamp for kids four-to-six-years old that combines baseball, basketball and soccer.

Skyhawks provides a noncompetitive environment to teach sports to kids ages 4 to 14. Our goal is to give each child a positive introduction into sports and ensure they walk away with a smile on their face wanting to learn more. Since 1979, Skyhawks has taught over two million boys and girls life skills through sports.

State youth council needs members

e Colorado legislature’s nonpartisan Colorado Youth Advisory Council has openings for new members across the state for the 2023-25 term.

e Youth Advisory Council is a statewide organization dedicated to youth-led civic service learning. Youth members lead policy committees that analyze issues and policies that impact youth across Colorado. Policy work can include making recommendations about current policies or advocating for new ones. Council members conduct research, write problem/solution statements, meet with subject matter experts, build relationships with legislators, and seek feedback from their peers and communities.

e Colorado Legislature created the youth advisory council in 2008 to give Colorado’s youth ages 14-19 a voice in lawmaking. Youth council members work each summer to propose policy ideas to a committee of legislators. Each summer, students present policy proposals to legislators. During the last two years, several policies the youth council identi ed became law, including increased crisis services, higher education programs for

fostered youth, educational standards and e orts to prevent eating disorders.

Applications are due June 19. State organizers plan to host an informational session for applicants at 6 p.m. June 14. Find info at www. coyac.org/apply.

South Platte Historical Society is hosting summer at one-room school Children can have fun experiencing pioneer living at the South Platte Historical Society’s one room school house, 2001 Historic Parkway in Fort Lupton. e second session is under and session three begins June 19.

Go to www.spvhs and click Annual Events, Independent School for Flyer and Registration Form or contact LaVon lwatson@spvhs.org to call 720-273-3609

Donation time

e 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. e bank also needs personal items, such as toiletries and baby needs.

Drop o donations at the food and clothing bank’s back door, 421 Denver Ave., weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Call 303-8571096.

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. is 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 fun talk.

Natural healing store opens in Brighton

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For retired social worker Rhiannon Middleton, her new natural healing store is another way or helping people.

Middleton welcomed the Brighton Chamber of Commerce to help open her Verdant Healing Apothecary Holistic Health with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 6.

“We have welcomed the apothecary healing into our community, and we love that we have another new business. It’s extraordinary to keep adding businesses in Brighton

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O cers work well with local students and schools prior to issuing citations, she said May 16.

“Typically, by the time a student is written into court, the resource o cers and schools have taken prior steps to resolve the matter. As to how many warnings a student receives prior to court, I believe depends upon the student, the student’s behavior, the student’s attendance and

as small town as it is and adding these businesses so please come and enjoy them,” Rachel Munoz, City of Brighton Chamber of Commerce Board of Director Board Treasurer.

Middleton is a Colorado native born in Denver and raised in Longmont, and I now live in Hudson with her business in Brighton.

She has been a social worker for the past 12 years, working with people, and she loves helping people. After retirement, she was at the moment in her life where she wanted to continue to help people but with something a little di erent for the community.

the student’s grades,” Anderson said.

In other council business, the council voted unanimously to approve a proposal for Gerardo Concrete to build the Community Center South Parking lot, south of the city’s soccer elds, for the cost of $95,000. e rst $35,715 will be paid from the Parks Department Capital Projects account.

e rest, $59,434, will be paid out of the CPR community fund.

One part of that project, a nearby community park trail, came in $112,491 less than expected, according to City Recreation Manager Doug Cook.

“With additional parking for citi-

Middleton said the Earth and plants bring people back to the connection of their roots and where we come from, so she decided to open an herbal healing store.

“I purchase most of my herbs from various di erent places, including a couple of Colorado. I reached out to di erent farms so I can start having a lot more herbs. I want to do as much business in Colorado as possible,” Middleton said.

Middleton herbs help with medicinal healing; they are good for your body and good for the Earth with no chemicals. She’s not a doctor and can’t prescribe anything, but

zens that attend soccer elds, it will help for sporting events, during recreation expansion, and the community park construction,” Cook said. “Currently, people have to use other parking or street parking at businesses due to the lack of parking.”

Work is scheduled to begin by July 1.

Road issues settled

e council also agreed to a pair of road maintenance issues.

In one, councilors agreed to award a contract for the Harrison Avenue Fourth Street reconstruction project paving and pipe installation to

with her knowledge, she can suggest plant-based remedies based on research.

She is going to teach people about herbs with classes and have a mushroom expert come in and teach about mushrooms.

“My hope for the future is to build a community to teach people about herbs. I love it out here because it is a farming community. So, everybody is already aware of what the Earth can do in the land,” said Middleton.  For more information, call Verdant Healing Apothecary at 720-5694125. It’s located at 240 East Bridge St., Brighton, CO 80601.

Colorado Paving for $1.6 million. at project will be paid from the Street Sales Tax Fund and Storm Drainage Fund.

In the second, councilors agreed to share pavement costs for road work near Northern Colorado Constructor’s Bennett pit gravel mine operation since their heavy trucks impact the city’s roads. Public Works Director Roy Vestal said the agreement updated the original deal with Northern Colorado Constructors.

e company agrees to pay a share of pavement cost from the heavy truck hauling as determined by Fort Lupton Public Works.

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Brighton Adventist Academy is open to teach students and community members commuter programming from ages 10 to adults this summer.

“STEM education is an integral piece of 21st Century Learning Skills,” said Principal Jodie Aakko said in a written statement. “Our school has the resources to provide extra learning in technology during the summer months to our students and to the community, so we are elated to invite participants ages ten through adult to join this class.”

The school will offer a Python Coding Camp taught by Dr. Jide Williams, who holds a doctorate in Material Mechanical Engineering from the University of Denver. He also holds a master’s degree in Process Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.

Williams has received several distinct certifications, including a Six Sigma Black Belt in process improvement, Python programming, and machine learning certifications.

“This summer coding camp offers a deep understanding on how to apply logic in solving problems, because the student is exposed to problem-solving by using algorithms developed with Python codes,” said Williams.

needed to either continue to learn computer programming in college or to apply the acquired skillset in a completely different field of study.”

The coding camp focuses on computer programming skills. With content presentation and hands-on assignments, it’s designed to teach beginners basic Python programming of data types, variables, loops, control, and function.

Aakko said The class goals encompass a variety of expected outcomes. In this course, the student can think logically and problemsolve in any field.

“The student develop pseudocodes, translate pseudocodes to Python codes, automate trivial tasks, solve mathematical problems, perform simple data analysis, and develop innovative algorithms to solve simple-intermediate problems within the given schedule,” Aakko said.

“I want to learn Python because I can use it later in life. I want to learn coding to operate and program robots that I can build. This sounds like a great class to take this summer so I can have more experience in engineering,” said Ericsson Aakko, age 10 enrolled in Python Coding Camp.

For more information and to enroll, email secretary@baaconnect. org. The six-week course is held at Brighton Adventist Academy on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from June 6 to July 13, 9:00-11:00 a.m., with a fee of $100. Space is limited to 12.

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Summer program delves into Python language

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he said. “Next year I anticipate we’ll have more.”

e 2022 celebration featured a concert and exhibition by muralists

Babe Walls and garnered the county the “Non-Fair Facility Usage Award 2022” from the International Association of Fairs and Expos, which recognizes successful events outside of the annual county fairs. is year’s celebration featured a water slide, volleyball, a foam cannon and a drag show leading up to

the evening performance by pop star Bebe Rexha.

Denver LGBTQ pop-up organizers Rainbow Dome co-hosted the celebration, building an instant roller skating rink in the parking lot in front of the park’s Waymire Dome and presenting a ash mob there.

Zoe Campo, Adams County cultural arts manager said the county brought in the group to help give it a sense of exuberance.

“We think this event is all about fun and joy and that’s what they brought,” Campo said.

A midway along the edge of the parking lot featured tents with county o ces and vendors selling

art, rainbow-colored clothing and gear while a handful of food trucks and vendors fed attendees along the other side, closer to the Waymire Dome.

County Commissioner Emma Pinter said last year’s event was centered on the grassy area below the parking lot. is year, the main events tent, the foam cannon and games were still down there but the event itself grew to include much more of the Riverdale park.

“We just found that the tents worked much better on the pavement,” she said. “We’re still learning. It’s our second year, and we’re still working on it.”

Next level

But the key event this year was the Marriagepalooza, the mass wedding. Zygielbaum said that idea came from his department sta .

“We participated in Pride last year, but we wanted to take it to the next level,” Zygielbaum said. “Since we oversee the issuance of marriage licenses for Adams County we thought it could be a great event and we started planning it a couple of months ago.”

e clerk’s o ce issued rainbowcolored marriage licenses to the couples that took their vows at the

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Dem Senate leader, former GOP leader reflect on 2023 legislature

When the clock struck midnight, I was incredibly proud

Dominick Moreno and Mark Hillman o er contrasting views of tough session GUEST COLUMN

By State Sen. Dominick Moreno   e 2023 legislative session, like any, was lled with ups and downs.

But after a hectic, yet productive 120 days under the Golden Dome, I am struck by how much we accomplished this session.

Newly emboldened with unprecedented majorities, Democrats remained laser-focused on the issues that matter most to Colorado families. From housing to health care, we rolled up our sleeves and had tough conversations about the challenges facing our state.

It wasn’t always pretty, but when the clock struck midnight, I was incredibly proud of the work my colleagues and I put in to deliver real results for families across our state.

Our number one priority this session was addressing the housing crisis. Housing is far too expensive in Colorado, and it’s pricing folks out of their communities.

So we passed bills that will lower the cost of housing, and saved families and businesses billions of dollars on their property taxes to help keep more folks – especially those on xed incomes – in their homes.

We also worked to better support renters in Colorado through critical renter protections, including laws that reduce barriers to housing eligibility and save renters money on rental applications, and that protect lower-income Coloradans and folks who rely on safety net programs from being evicted.

Democrats also fought hard to save people money on their health care, including by lowering the cost of prescription drugs and improving access to critical behavioral care for our youth.

We protected consumers from getting trapped in an endless and confusing spiral of medical debt, and we expanded access to reproductive health care – including abortion and gender-a rming care.

Our package of reproductive health care bills, including my bill with Sen. Lisa Cutter to break down barriers to

abortion care and other critical services and make care more a ordable by closing gaps in insurance coverage, will allow Coloradans to access the full spectrum of reproductive health care services they depend on, while protecting the people who both seek and provide that care in our state. But perhaps the most impactful change we enacted this session is our work to put a stop to the endless cycle of gun violence that is plaguing Colorado.

Just weeks before session began, we lost ve lives in a shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. In the span of one month, students and teachers at Denver East High School were subject to gun violence not once, but twice. And that doesn’t include the everyday instances of gun violence that y under the radar but leave holes in our families and our communities that can never be healed.

We grieved alongside the LGBTQ+ community in the Springs, and the students and teachers as Denver East.  But, in the face of these tragedies, we did not throw our hands up and fail to act. Instead, we used our historic majorities to pass a critical suite of gun violence prevention bills that will raise the age to purchase a rearm to 21, remove overly broad protections for the gun industry, strengthen our “red ag” law, establish a three-day waiting period when purchasing a rearm, and crack down on unserialized, untraceable “ghost guns.” ese are common sense, life-saving measures that meet the moment we nd ourselves in, and that will create a safer Colorado for us all.

LINDA SHAPLEY Publisher lshapley@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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ere are far too many successes from this session to recount in a single column. But make no mistake: this session was a transformative one for the people of Colorado.

From lowering the cost of housing and health care to defending our democracy and addressing the climate crisis, Democrats got to work, and I am proud of the results we’ve delivered for our state.

I look forward to continuing our work next session, and to creating a healthier, safer, and stronger Colorado that works for us all.

Dominick Moreno is Democratic state Senate majority leader and represents parts of Adams and Arapahoe counties.

Disciplined leaders can avoid legislative chaos

By former state Sen. Mark Hillman

For the rst time I can recall, this year’s session of the Colorado General Assembly concluded with frenzy and confusion more typical of what we see in Washington, D.C., than what’s expected of our citizen legislature.

It’s not unusual for a few complicated bills to linger until the waning hours. However, this year’s 120-day session ended on Monday, May 8, with these ignominious developments:

• On Day 117, still 156 bills – onequarter of the 617 introduced since Jan. 9 – remained unresolved. With just two weeks to go, 335 bills were still in limbo.

• A bill a ecting all Colorado taxpayers was unveiled barely two-anda-half days before the session ended and heard in committee that same day, before it was available to the public. Committee hearings are intended to allow public comment, but only two people, a consultant who helped write the bill and a veteran lobbyist, testi ed in committee on Sunday.

• Yes, the House and Senate were in session on Sunday – the rst time the Senate conducted the public’s business on a Sunday since 1939. is is not a partisan critique to sug-

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gest that Democrats cannot conduct business in an orderly fashion. To the contrary, for four years (2005-2008), Democrats managed the calendar well enough to adjourn early. ose Democrats could certainly o er pointers to current leaders.

Several factors contributed to this year’s logjam.

Few in either party expected last November’s election to be a landslide for Democrats. Many Democrataligned interest groups scrambled to prepare more aggressive bills than would have been possible in a centrist-oriented legislature.

With large Democratic majorities, far-left progressives suddenly had a ghting chance to pass controversial bills, and traditional liberals had to decide whether to improve those bills or take heat for killing them. (During my rst session in 1999-2000, Republicans were in the same boat with conservatives often frustrated by moderates.)

Outnumbered more than 2-to-1 in the House, Republicans were left with only one card to play when facing sure-to-pass bills that in amed their constituents: delay. Democrats, in turn, took the rare step of limiting debate on at least 15 bills, allowing as little as one hour for discussion.

What could Democrats have done di erently?

Most obviously, adhere to legislative deadlines. Each senator and representative can introduce ve bills. ose ve bills were to be introduced by Jan. 25 in the Senate and Jan. 31 in the House.

Yet by the end of those two weeks, the Senate had introduced just 90 bills (2.5 per senator) and the House 171 (2.6 per representative). More bills (292, not counting those related to the budget) were introduced late than on schedule, which only happens with permission from leadership.

Lawmakers are procrastinators, and lobbyists relentlessly request “just one more bill.”

Leaders must enforce deadlines to maintain order and to reduce

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stress and fatigue among the legislature’s professional sta which is responsible for writing and updating bills as

Each bill drafter is responsible for multiple bills, so when a complicated bill must be completely rewritten overnight to facilitate legislative compromise, that drafter gets little sleep which can result in errors.

Each General Assembly meets for two sessions, so leaders should remind lawmakers not to waste time on bills that aren’t “ready for primetime” and to use the interim months to develop them for the following year.

Some have suggested constitutional changes, either reducing the legislative session to 90 days or allowing legislators to meet

tors have minimal real-world experience, so allowing them

who actually produce goods and services, would be a ter-

Trimming 30 days from the postponing the starting date by 30 days so they can spend that month re ning bills and be ready for business on Day

Coloradans deserve better than this year’s chaotic circus. at improvement is possible with disciplined leadership, regardless of which party is in charge.

Mark Hillman is a former Republican state Senate majority leader and state treasurer. He operates his family’s farm near Burlington.

ceremony. Zygielbaum said there was

“Hopefully next year, we’ll be able to since it was her grandparents’ anniversary.

“We had planned to rent Boetcher Mansion and we went online to nd out what we needed to do for a marriage license and we saw Marriagepalooza,” Heacock said. “We have a ton of friends that we support and some that are getting married this year. We tried to get them to come out today, but they couldn’t. But we wanted to support everybody else and be part of the

Pinter said the event is not meant to be politically provocative but simply to represent people that live in Adams County.

“I think it’s important to celebrate our whole community, and we do all sorts of celebrations throughout the year,” she said. “We just celebrated the opening of a new

Veterans Memorial on Memorial Day and we’re about to do our Stars and Stripes for Fourth of July. is is another in the calendar of events where we celebrate our community. And this is very important to let our LGBTQ community members know

Performers from Rainbow Dome skate down the path and into the skating rink they created to perform a flash mob dance Adams County’s Pride celebration June 10 at Riverdale Regional SCOTT TAYLOR

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Search-and-rescue dogs embody the mail carrier motto: “Neither snow, nor rain nor gloom of night” will keep these trusty canines from their appointed rounds — searching for people or items with single-minded purpose.

For the dogs and their trainers who are part of the Colorado branch of SARDUS — Search and Rescue Dogs of the United States — training is a weekly, if not daily, endeavor to prepare dogs to certify in an area of search and rescue or to keep the dog’s skills sharp after certi cation.

“ e training continues for life,” said Cathy Bryarly, a retired Boulder sheri ’s deputy who trains search-and-rescue dogs. “ is has to be part of your life. It goes way beyond a hobby,

or it’s not going to work. It’s a calling.”

SARDUS members agree that it’s a labor a love based in their strong resolve to help others. Not only do the dogs and their handlers train multiple times a week, enlisting family and friends to hide, so the dogs have someone to search for, but handlers also attend seminars on a variety of topics and work together by laying trails for others to follow.

Trainers are always learning, so they can improve their canines’ ability to help in emergency situations.

Search-and-rescue dogs and their handlers are not paid; in fact, handlers spend a lot on the dogs, the equipment, the training and more. e goal is to be certi ed to go on missions, the term for helping law enforcement nd people, bodies or objects needed in an investigation.

Call the people trainers or handlers, but

more importantly, they’re dog lovers who want to work as a team with their pets to help others.

The humility of training

e trainers say it simply: Training their canines is humbling.

“Our dogs don’t make the mistakes,” Anjie Julseth-Crosby of Morrison said. “We do. ere’s so much to remember. e training is about me trying to understand what (the dogs) are saying. e human fails, not the dog.”

In fact, Julseth-Crosby, who started training her bloodhounds two years ago, has compiled a 19-page document called “ ings I wish I knew two years ago.”

Training involves having a dog follow a scent for several miles, helping the dog return to the SEE DOGS, P9

scent trail if needed and rewarding the dog when it nds the person or item it is directed to follow.

Training can be messy as canines follow the scent wherever it takes them over all sorts of terrain in all kinds of weather.

food or toys. Once you gure that out, then trainers must convince the dog to do what they want the pup to do for the reward. It begins with what is called a puppy run-away, where you get the pup to run after a person, and when the pup nds the person, the pup gets a reward.

at transitions to following a scent to nd a person.

“It’s just a matter of making it harder and harder to the point where a dog is searching 120 acres for one person or that trailing dog is following a 24-hour-old scent through a subdivision,” Bryarly said.

No matter what or who the dog is nding, it must go to it, stay there, lay down and point its nose, so the handler knows the dog is saying that the item or person is there.

Dogs cannot certify to be search-and-rescue dogs until they are at least 18 months old, but it usually takes two years or more for the rst certi cation, Bryarly said.

“Search-and-rescue dogs that are out in the public have to be just perfect,” Bryarly said. “ ey have to stay focused and not get distracted by other dogs, animals or people.”

Getting involved

irty years ago, Julseth-Crosby made a pledge that she would own a bloodhound and train it to be a search-and-rescue dog. at’s because Ali Berelez, 6, who had been kidnapped and murdered in 1993, was found four days after her abduction by bloodhound Yogi.

Julseth, at that time a single parent with a 6-yearold, felt kinship with Ali’s family. However, as a full-time teacher, Julseth-Crosby decided to wait to train when she retired in 2021. True to her word, she began training her bloodhounds Bruno and Miley.

Niamh Coleman of Nederland was looking for something to do with her dogs, thinking it was a casual pastime. Now search-and-rescue dog training is closer to an obsession.

a multiple-day-a-week job.

Jayne Zmijewski, who taught outdoor skills to rangers most of her life, said search-and-rescue dogs were a natural progression. She’s had four search-and-rescue dogs in the last 30 years, most recently her chocolate Labrador Kodi.

Teresa Verplanck of Bailey is training Lilo, a border collie mix, for wilderness searches. She called the SARDUS group she trains with wonderful, and trainers and dogs have become a big family.

Jake Udel, who lives near Rustic, Colorado, is a volunteer firefighter and medic, and he trains his dog, Java the Mutt, a Czech shepherd, “for the love of dogs, helping people and the activity.”

Julseth-Crosby said the number of hours can be whatever trainers can put in, but at a minimum eight hours a week, and some weeks, she trains or prepares for training as much as 40 hours a week.

The right breed

While just about any breed of dog can become a search-and-rescue dog, bloodhounds, shepherds and retrievers are the typical dogs people think of, but other breeds — if they have the nose for the work — can be certi ed.

“It works better to start with a breed that is bred to do this,” Bryarly said. “In fact, there are some breeders who breed speci cally search-and-rescue dogs. But sometimes you nd a dog that is good at this, and it’s a breed you never would have guessed could do this work.”

e most important thing, Bryarly said, is the bond that the dog and handler have with each other.

“People have told me over the years that they are amazed at something their dog does,” she said. “People think they are the smart ones, but the dog is the smart one. We are just trying to keep up with them.”

Starting early

Training starts early — when pups are a few weeks old.

“Start with a dog who has a high drive,” Bryarly said. “A high-drive dog is always busy and always wanting something to do. If that energy is not channeled right away, the pup will tear your house apart.”

Most canines prefer one of two types of rewards:

TYPES OF SARDUS CERTIFICATIONS

Melanie Weaver of Lafayette knew her dog, Lego,

Udel figures he’s been on 75 to 100 missions since he certified his first dog in 2005.

SARDUS

SARDUS, one of several search-and-rescue dog organizations in the country, helps smaller organizations test and certify dogs. To get the trailing or air-scent certification, which is usually the first certification a dog earns, the canine must follow a 24-hour-old trail to find a person. SARDUS only works with law enforcement, so a person cannot request a search-andrescue dog.

Bryarly said about 30 dogs in Colorado are certified by SARDUS with most of them trailing dogs — the most of any organization in the country.

Membership in SARDUS is $25, and some people join who don’t own dogs, but they want to help in other ways such as creating tracking trails or hiding from dogs, Bryarly said.

Trainers must be physically fit since they follow their dogs through all sorts of terrain, plus they take classes such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s incident command courses, so they understand the structure of incidents and managing evidence.

For the SARDUS trainers, the work is definitely a passion.

a German shepherd, needed a job to have a ful lling life, and Weaver was looking for something practical. Little did she know that training Lego would be

• Trailing: Dogs who can find scents by putting their noses to the ground.

• Air scenting: Dogs who find scents by putting their noses into the air.

• Avalanche: Some dogs are good at smelling human scents through snow.

• Water: Some dogs are good at smelling human scents through water.

“If you think of it as work, you won’t do it for 20 years,” Udel explained. “You have to adopt the (search-and-rescue) lifestyle. It’s a life-anddeath commitment for some people — certainly the people we are looking for.”

• Disaster search: Dogs can smell through debris to find people.

• Human remains: Dogs can be certified to find human remains.

• Wilderness: A type of trailing in remote areas.

• Urban and suburban: Looking for missing children or older adults in cities.

Jayne Zmijewski and her chocolate Labrador Kodi take a break from training.

PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST

Anjie Julseth-Crosby with bloodhound Miley practice trailing at a park in Niwot.

PHOTO BY CATHY BRYARLY

Doug Cummings and German shepherd Rogan trail a scent.

PHOTO BY ANJIE JULSETH-CROSBY

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