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County loses another Tri-County Health rep Former board member cites conflict of interest

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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For the third time this year, Douglas County has lost one of its representatives on the board of the Tri-County Health Department.

The early resignation of Zach Nannestad means Douglas County no longer has any of the Tri-County board members it had before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nannestad sent in his resignation Aug. 25, about a week after he abstained from board votes related to requiring the wearing of masks inside schools as a COVID safety measure.

Nannestad cited a conflict of interest regarding his employment with the Douglas County School District as his reason for resigning, according to his letter notifying the county and health department.

“I do not wish to leave this role,” he wrote in the letter, “However, I have recently found myself in a clear conflict of interest when asked to vote on matters specifically impacting my primary employer.”

The Douglas County School District lists Nannestad as the operations manager for environmental health.

SEE VALOR, P8

SEE TRI-COUNTY, P18

The Aug. 24 school board meeting was at full capacity. Security let more people in throughout the night as others left.

PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS

Mask debate dominates school board meeting Superintendent: ‘I hear and I understand and I can empathize’

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A line formed at the door. People waited for more than an hour to

get inside the meeting. There was not enough capacity for everyone congregating, so security let people in incrementally.

That was the scene Aug. 24 as the Douglas County School District’s board met amid a firestorm of controversy over the district’s COVIDsafety policies.

The board had not scheduled a vote or specific agenda item regarding the wearing of masks, but

the district’s recently announced mask-wearing requirement dominated the meeting.

Superintendent Corey Wise broached the policy and its backlash in his superintendent report at the session.

“I hear and I understand and I can empathize with multiple viewpoints,” he said.

SEE MASK DEBATE, P2

Students protest Valor Christian policies School defends decision as coaches say they were forced out for being gay

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MASK DEBATE FROM PAGE 1

Officers at the meeting radioed for people standing outside when their name was called for public comment and ushered one person to the hearing room for each person who left.

More than 100 people had signed up to speak.

Inside, those who got a seat stood up when they heard public comment they agreed with. They used jazz hands, spirit fingers, jumped and cheered. When they dissented, they also stood, and faced the back of the room.

Sometimes attendees, most of whom voiced vehement opposition to school mask-wearing requirements, laughed at the few remote speakers who favored masking.

Some in the crowd shook their heads and rolled their eyes.

Board President David Ray repeatedly asked for decorum during the evening’s three hours of public comment. He changed his stance on allowing attendees to stand, at first saying it was a good nonverbal way of expressing views but later questioning if it was emboldening outbursts. Those, he said, could intimidate people with different views from speaking.

Late in the evening, the meeting halted abruptly as audience members heckled Director Krista Holtzmann, who said she wanted to fact-check public comment regarding COVID-19.

Following Ray’s command, directors briskly walked out of the room,

Douglas County School Board President David Ray listens to public comment on Aug. PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS 24.

causing confusion. Several security officers worked to clear the upset crowd, which took a few minutes as people asked whether the meeting was over and if they’d be let back in.

Security reopened doors after a couple minutes and roughly 10 people filtered back into the meeting, which extended late into the night.

By the night’s end, Director Elizabeth Hanson announced she was resigning as board secretary, although not as a director. Comments sent to the board email about COVID-19 are often harsh, starkly polarized and flow in by the hundreds. For her mental and emotional health, she

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would not do it any longer, Hanson said.

Most condemn mask mandates The overwhelming majority of speakers during the Aug. 24 meeting urged the district to rescind its mask mandate for young students.

They asked board members to change the district’s policy stating that its schools are bound to follow state and local health agencies.

The Tri-County Health Department, whose jurisdiction includes Douglas County as well as Adams and Arapahoe counties, issued a mask mandate that went into effect Aug. 23 requiring masks indoors among students at schools and daycares, ages 2 through 11. Staff who work with those children were included in the order. That was the rule in effect at the time of the Aug. 24 school board meeting.

Then, on Aug. 30, Tri-County extended its mask order to include all individuals ages 2 in school settings age 2 and older.

At the Aug. 24 school board meeting, Wise said the district’s policy is to work with state and local health agency guidance in the management of common communicable diseases.

That requires the Douglas County district to follow the public health order, he said.

Wise said in the first few days of school a low percentage of students were voluntarily masking, but between 80% and 90% were as of Aug. 23 and 24.

Some parents accused the district of hiding behind public health officials. Mask mandates are an infringement on freedoms and the district has no place telling parents how to make personal health decisions, some speakers said.

District parent Hayley Benson said she was a triathlete and participant of the Pikes Peak Marathon. She said she knows firsthand the “highly detrimental effects of shortness of breath and operating at a lower oxygen level.” Daily mask mandates affect children’s breathing

ability, she said.

“How can we expect our children to learn effectively when they have lower than usual oxygen levels?” she said.

Speakers criticized what they described as double standards — that Denver Broncos games and concert arenas fill with unmasked people, while age groups at less risk for COVID-19 are forced to mask.

Some told board members to provide peer-reviewed and randomized studies that show a mask mandate for children will be effective at containing the virus’s spread. Many argued that masks don’t work or are harmful for young children.

One woman asked if a majority of parents wanted masking, as supporters of a mandate suggested, why so few students voluntarily masked before the mandate began.

Roughly a dozen people at the meeting supported some level of mask requirements, if not for all students than for some age groups.

They worried about what lessons children will learn if parents encourage students against following district policy.

Some disagreed with the district’s decision not to reprimand children and families who don’t wear a mask.

The district’s principals are instead working with families individually if a child that does not have a qualified exemption to the policy does not mask.

Heather Angell said she teaches her children that “we mask to show kindness to others.”

Statewide, a new poll of 516 Colorado parents of K-12 students, conducted Aug. 9-16 by political polling agency Magellan Strategies, found a sharp split on the issue of school mask mandates, with 50% opposed to requiring masks in schools and 48% in favor of mask rules, a spread within the poll’s margin of error.

Public health officials speak Tri-County Health Executive Director John Douglas spoke remotely to address the agency’s reasons for its health order and why public health officials are still pursuing strategies like mask mandates.

“None of us wanted to be here. We thought we were going to be getting independent by the 4th of July,” he said.

But not enough people are vaccinated and people under 12 years old still aren’t eligible, he said.

The delta variant of the coronavirus is twice as transmissible and some studies indicate it’s more severe, Douglas said. All of Colorado and all metro area counties are seeing case rates “go up dramatically.”

Douglas County saw COVID-19 case rates rise 57% in the past week and 84% in the past two weeks.

Case rates per 100,000 “are now the highest in 5- to 10-year-olds in any age groups.” The weekly rate is 350 cases per 100,000 for that age group, he said.

“It’s the highest case rate we’ve measured in 5- to 10-year-olds in SEE MASK DEBATE, P13

CORRECTION In a story in the Aug. 25 edition of this newspaper, with the headline “COVID cases rise; doctors frustrated with unvaccinated,” the name of Dr. Eric Lung was misspelled. Also, Children’s Hospital Colorado was misidentified.

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Douglas, Arapahoe, Adams counties see school virus outbreaks Health chief: ‘What we feared could happen is beginning to happen’

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

School settings in Douglas, Arapahoe and Adams counties saw 15 confirmed coronavirus outbreaks starting in August, according to the local public health agency that serves those counties.

“What we feared could happen is beginning to happen,” said John Douglas, executive director of TriCounty Health Department, during an Aug. 26 telephone town hall event.

In August, Tri-County Health Department issued an order Aug. 17 that required masks for all children ages 2 through 11 — and all the individuals working or interacting with those children — in all indoor school and childcare settings in the three counties. That order took effect Aug. 13. Then, on Aug. 30, it expanded that order to cover everyone age 2 and over.

Some school districts had implemented mask requirements before

Tri-County health chief acknowledges impatience over COVID

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

At the Aug. 26 telephone town hall event that heard callers’ questions about COVID-19, John Douglas, director of Tri-County Health, said: “Let me acknowledge that if you’re like me, you’re incredibly tired of having to continue dealing with the pandemic after now we’re getting close to 18 months.

“I hear this from folks in my community, I hear it from my staff, I hear it from my wife,” Douglas said. He added: “I think we’re all just deeply weary.”

The effects of the delta variant in the last two months have been a “head-snapping turnaround,” Douglas said.

But COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective against the delta variant in preventing severe illness — meaning those that lead to hospitalizations or death, Douglas

Tri-County’s orders were issued.

All of the listed outbreaks started in August.

Across the counties, officials have also seen 23 suspected outbreaks, said Becky O’Guin, spokesperson for Tri-County Health.

Of the total — confirmed and suspected — most are at K-12 settings, and one is from a childcare setting, O’Guin said.

Tri-County’s mask order met pushback from crowds at public meetings in August where local government bodies discussed mask policy. At press time, two of the counties in the health agency’s jurisdiction — Douglas and Adams — had already opted out of the order.

“While I am disappointed by that, I am pleased that many school districts, bolstered by our board of health” have acted to require masks, said Douglas, the health chief.

The policy is intended “to keep kids in class,” Douglas added. “If you get sick, you have to stay home.

If your class has an outbreak, it may need to be canceled.”

COVID-19 thus far has not made kids as sick as adults, but “we want to keep kids from transmitting SEE OUTBREAKS, P5

said. The vaccines are 75% effective at preventing all infections in general, he added.

Hospitalizations across the state are rising, but “that’s almost all in unvaccinated people,” Douglas said.

Mellissa Sager, a Tri-County Health official, said that even though mask wearing isn’t being urged for outdoor events — such as at Denver Broncos games in Denver — it’s still a good idea to wear one in a crowded setting.

“Even out in the stadium, activities like shouting very loudly” can potentially spread COVID-19, Sager said during the virtual town hall event.

Despite the challenges in current COVID-19 data, “I think we’ve got the tools available” to reverse the trends, Douglas said.

Vaccines are the most important tool, but masks, good ventilation, spending time outdoors in the warm weather and getting tested when feeling sick also remain crucial, Douglas said.

“We are going to be able to get our lives more and more normal,” Douglas said. “I think our challenge now is using the tools and staying as positive as we can.”

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Douglas County Schools updates medical cannabis policy

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Douglas County School District will now allow employees to administer medical cannabis to students who rely on it.

Gov. Jared Polis in May signed a law that required Colorado school districts to adopt policies providing for the safe storage of non-smokable medical cannabis in schools. Districts must allow staff to volunteer

and administer medical cannabis and must also shield employees from retaliation whether they do or do not volunteer.

The Douglas County School Board updated the district’s medical cannabis policy in accordance with that law on Aug. 10.

“With that we have a policy that has been significantly revised to align with state statute,” board President David Ray said.

Previously, the district allowed pri-

OUTBREAKS

WHERE SCHOOL OUTBREAKS OCCURRED The COVID-19 outbreaks in school settings as of Aug. 26, according to TriCounty Health, included: • Acres Green Elementary School in the Lone Tree area • Bear Canyon Elementary School in Highlands Ranch • Cherokee Trail Elementary School in Parker • Cimarron Middle School in Parker • Hinkley High School in Aurora • Mesa Middle School in Castle Rock • Newton Middle School in Centennial • Ralph Moody Elementary School in

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COVID to their parents,” especially among high-risk family members, Douglas said.

For public and private schools, and childcare settings, Colorado’s updated definition of a confirmed outbreak is as follows: “Five or more cases of COVID-19, of which at least one case has had a positive molecular amplification test or antigen test, among students/teachers/staff from separate households with onset within 14 days in a single classroom/activity or other close contact in the school setting (including transportation tofrom- school and affiliated events),” a state definitions sheet says.

The definitions sheet acknowledges the question of whether a case was exposed to COVID-19 elsewhere

mary caregivers to come to school and administer medical cannabis to students, but not staff. Students could not store their medical cannabis on school grounds either.

Under the new law, students must provide materials such as administration instructions from a recommending physician and a written treatment plan signed by the school principal.

DCSD’s General Counsel Mary Kay Klimesh said Superintendent

in the community rather than at the facility listed with an outbreak.

“It is possible that a person may have been exposed elsewhere (and we can rarely prove where any individual was exposed with a personto-person pathogen), but when a person worked/lived/spent time in

Littleton • Roxborough Intermediate School in the Roxborough Park area • Sierra Middle School in the Parker area • STEM School Highlands Ranch • Timberline Elementary School in Centennial • Turnberry Elementary School in Commerce City • Westgate Community School in Thornton The health agency also listed an outbreak at a facility called “ESC 1.” a facility with a known outbreak, we attribute their illness to the outbreak even if there is no definitive determination that the case acquired the illness at the facility,” the sheet says.

Asked whether the public should interpret outbreaks in schools as

Corey Wise would adopt an implementation policy, or a regulatory policy, following the board’s vote.

The implementation plan would be part of the superintendent’s policies that outlines how schools should set up plans for medical cannabis storage and administration.

“A form that will guide the administration through the appropriate decision-making process along with the parent/guardian in making those decisions,” she said. indicative of COVID-19 spread in the broader community or as more indicative of spread occurring within the schools themselves, O’Guin said it should be viewed as both.

“With high levels of community infection, like there is now, infection can get introduced into the school by students or staff — frequently. Full in-person classrooms, lots more physical interaction in classrooms (or) sports (or) extracurriculars can contribute to an infected student or staff then transmitting in (the) school setting,” O’Guin said.

“Given the length of time that students spend in school settings, often in close contact with others — many of whom are unvaccinated — schools remain a source of primary exposure concern. That’s why masking is important and why vaccination of 12-17 years old is important,” she added.

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County public health advisory committee has first meeting Group considering multiple options as it looks toward future

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A group of Douglas County residents selected to help the community decide what its future with public health will look like had their first meeting Aug. 25.

The 11-member Public Health Advisory Committee will have until early November to consider all the possible options for public health in the county and will then give an initial recommendation to the county commissioners.

“You have a tall order in front of you,” Commissioner Lora Thomas said to the committee at the start of the meeting.

Thomas added that the county has been considering forming its own health department for a few years.

“Part of our community is really excited about that opportunity and part of our community is really angry at us,” she said.

In July 2020, the Douglas County commissioners sent notice to the Tri-County Health Department that they would be leaving the department in the next year. A few months later, however, the com-

missioners announced they would work. HMA is conducting a Community Health Assessment and remain with the department until creating a Public Health Improveat least 2023 following an agreement Plan for the county, two ment that gave them more control things that must be completed for over public health orders. the county to form its own health Tri-County serves Adams, department. The county also Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

Following introductions from all hopes that these assessments will help in the decision-making prothe committee members, Deputy cess about the County Manfuture of public ager Barbara health.

Drake provided One step in an overview this process of the county will be a comstaff’s work munity survey on this topic intended to and discussed assess commuadministrative nity members’ decisions for perspectives, the committee. attitudes and Commitfeelings around tee members public health.

Kevin Bracken, That survey a Castle Rock Lora Thomas, opened Aug. 30 Town Council member, and Douglas County commissioner, on and was set to Luke Niforatos, forming own health department close on Sept. 7.

The survey was an executive as expected to be a national poavailable under litical organithe “spotlight” zation focused section of the county’s website at on marijuana policies, were www.douglas.co.us. selected as chair and vice chair, Several committee members respectively. expressed concerns about the Health Management Associates, survey during the meeting, ina consulting firm hired by the cluding worries that it wouldn’t county to aid in the process, also reach enough people or be truly gave a presentation during the representative of the whole commeeting in which they discussed munity. the steps and timeline of their

‘Part of our community is really excited about that opportunity and part of our community is really angry at us.’

Drake and HMA responded that they had several approaches to help the survey gain a wide reach and that it wouldn’t be the only measure of community viewpoints. They also plan to conduct several community input meetings in areas such as Highlands Ranch, Larkspur, Roxborough Park, Castle Rock and Parker.

The committee will consider several options for the future of public health in the county including county-run services and outsourced services from either Tri-County or private companies, Drake said. Drake also spoke about the county’s interest in joining a possible future health department with the county’s mental health initiative.

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While the committee is asked to provide an initial recommendation by early November, it will continue to meet and work on the topic after that, Drake said.

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1st, 6th grades have COVID outbreak at STEM Five confirmed cases require quarantine in new school year

BY THELMA GRIMES AND JESSICA GIBBS TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Two grades at STEM School Highlands Ranch were switched to remote learning on Aug. 20 after a COVID outbreak in the first week of classes.

At press time, Nicole Bostel, the charter school’s director of communications, said first-grade class were expected to return to in-person learning on Aug. 30.

Sixth-graders were to return Aug. 31.

Bostel said the decision to quarantine an entire grade level is determined in partnership with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Having five students with presumed/positive cases of COVID is the threshold to require quarantine, she said. Single cases will not result in a full grade quarantine this year.

“We are not handling quarantines the same way as we did last year, since we are back just about

100% in person,” Bostel said. “We notify grade levels when there is a positive case and let them know that their student may have been exposed. The parents are then asked to monitor for symptoms and to keep home if students are sick.”

According to what Bostel referred to as STEM’s “COVID Hub,” the school has updated notification practices this year in accordance with policy updates from the Douglas County School District.

According to the Hub, when the school is notified through a parent or family member that a student has tested positive for COVID-19, STEM sends a notification to parents in that class.

Elementary families receive a grade-level notification indicating that a student in a specific grade has tested positive.

Secondary families receive a grade-level notification, as well as information on the class schedule for the last day that the COVIDpositive student was at STEM. According to the information hub, in the 2021-22 school year STEM will not be conducting contact tracing and will not be requiring quarantining, other than the COVID-positive student/

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STEM officials ask that children exhibiting any symptoms of COVID, even mild ones, be kept home.

According to CDPHE guidelines, Colorado has moved from an individual case-based response strategy to a transmission mitigation strategy, where instead of quarantining students and staff after individual exposures, the risk of the whole school community, including the risk of interruptions to learning, is considered.

CDPHE is placing a priority on in-person learning in the new school year. To avoid disrupting in-person learning wherever possible, CDPHE is recommending reduced incidences of quarantine in schools and child care.

STEM follows policies set by the Douglas County School District, which can change as cases increase.

At this time, Bostel said STEM does not require neither students nor staff to be vaccinated. However, in accordance with district policies, there is a mask mandate for students and staff.

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On Aug. 24, about 50 students, alumni and parents participated in a protest/walkout organized by FROM PAGE 1 Valor Christian junior Lucy Sarkissian. of coaching, he quit after officials at Sarkissian notified students to the Christian school said he either walk out at 1:40 p.m. in support of had to denounce being gay or leave.

Inoke and against the school’s hirTonga said he could not meet the ing policies. terms the school required, opting to After the protest, Sarkissian said quit.

Valor Christian does not just disA second coach, Lauren Benner, spoke out on social media and criminate against teachers and staff through local news stations, saying over sexuality. They also discrimishe was pushed out of her job as nate against students who identify lacrosse coach after admitting she is as gay, lesbian or transgender, she a lesbian in 2020. said.

Nancy Columbia, the school Sarkissian said the treatment of communications and marketing Tonga should not be OK at a Chriscoordinator, said that when Tonga tian institution. was hired he signed an agreement “I always go back and forth on to follow school policies at the faith,” she said. “God teaches us to religious institution. The school did love and not behave like this. We are not answer a request for comment created by the love of God. This is regarding Benner’s claims. truly an un-Christlike thing to do.

The statement provided by To say he is a danger to students is Columbia said, “Valor Christian ridiculous.”

High School embraces, loves and As the topic of hiring practices respects all students, families, and based on sexuality remains a source other participants in our commuof controversy and debate in the would like to all theor wonderful who donated foodconsistently and funds for the nity,We regardless ofthank whether not people U.S., courts have ruled Food Exchange Resourcebeliefs.

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In the case, Our Columbia said while Jesus the school Guadalupe School vs. MorrisseyChrist of Latter-day Saints agreed to mutually part ways Berru, the majority of justices ruled with Tonga, they do have issues based on a similar Supreme Court with his account of the Aug. 19 decision brought in 2012 by Cathoevents where the school pastor and lic schools seeking an employment athletic director questioned him exemption.

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Study: 1st-time homelessness doubled in area over past year

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Every year, the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative conducts a “Point in Time Count” to determine how many people are experiencing homelessness in the Denver area.

This year’s report found a “drastic increase” in the number of people in the Denver metro area experiencing homelessness for the first time, a surge that surveyors attributed to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

You can read a snapshot of the report online at tinyurl.com/MetroDenverHomelessness. The full MDHI Point in Time report for 2021, which will include individualized data for Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, will be published this fall.

“In 2020 there were 1,273 people in shelters that were experiencing homelessness for the first time,” said Matt Meyer, MDHI’s executive director. “This year, that number doubled to 2,530 demonstrating the devastating effects of COVID-19 on the stability of our neighbors.”

This year’s survey was conducted on a single day in February. MDHI found that in the Denver metro area, 5,530 people were staying in shelters,

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Benjamin Dunning with the advocacy group Denver Homeless Out Loud (DHOL) told Rocky Mountain PBS that the true number of people experiencing homelessness is probably even higher.

Dunning explained that the pandemic made counting the number of unhoused people difficult, and that because the results of the Point in Time survey are self-reported, many unhoused people do not respond to the survey and are therefore not counted.

This year, MDHI did not include the number of unsheltered people in their study because of COVID-19. In 2020, there were 1,561 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the Denver metro area. Advocates believe that number has increased over the past year.

“The number of folks ... that are out on the street probably tripled,” Dunning estimated.

Nearly three-quarters of the people experiencing sheltered homelessness were staying in emergency shelters. MDHI said individual sheltered homelessness increased by 27 percent over the last year.

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Nearly 100 vaccinated at Castle Rock clinic Statewide effort to educate Latinos, increase vaccinations continues

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Nearly 100 people turned out for the special vaccine clinic at Dos Amigos restaurant in Castle Rock on Aug. 26. The clinic was part of the continued efforts of Julissa Soto, who is working to educate the Latino community and encourage more people to get the COVID-19 vaccination.

Calling it Vaccine Sundays, Soto’s strategy is to attend local churches to educate the community and recruit people to come to organized clinics. After making the rounds in Castle Rock, Soto said 96 people came to last week’s clinic.

“It is an honor to see how a diverse

community of Castle Rock responded effectively to our Equity Vaccine Clinic,” Soto said.

Soto, a bilingual health equity consultant, said she believes more education needs to be out there to encourage residents, especially Latinos, to get vaccinated.

Soto teaches infection control strategies during Mass, like reminding people to stay home if they feel ill or are starting to feel ill. She also posts fliers and reminders of healthful habits, including “cover your cough” and “stop the spread of COVID-19.” Soto disseminates information regarding vaccine sites in the community, and answers questions related to myths of COVID-19.

Soto, an immigrant herself, said it is important during the pandemic to reach marginalized communities and show up in a culturally relevant way.

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Recently, the City of Denver’s Department of Housing Stability released a five-year plan to address problems surrounding housing and homelessness in the city. One of HOST’s 14 main goals is to reduce unsheltered homelessness by half.

“While the 2021 (Point in Time Count) did not include a count of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, due to the circumstances related to the pandemic, job loss experienced during the public health emergency increased the

number of people living in unstable conditions and losing their homes,” the HOST plan reads.

The HOST plan also shows that there were more unsheltered homeless people in Denver last year — nearly 1,000 people in Denver County — since at least 2014.

“We know that unsheltered homelessness has become a more visible presence in Denver even as we are sheltering more people nightly than ever before,” the authors of the plan wrote.

You can read the full five-year plan online at tinyurl.com/Denver5YearPlan.

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Veteran finds healing and meaning through farming She’s the lavender farmer at Denver Botanic Gardens’ Chatfield Farms site

BY CLARISSA GUY ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

For Zephrine Hanson, farming is healing. She believes a garden reflects your mental and physical health.

“Maybe I’m not giving myself enough water. Maybe I’m not being patient with the seeds I’ve planted.

Maybe I need to spend some more time getting the weeds out of my garden,” she said.

Zephrine Hanson is the lavender farmer at Denver Botanic Gardens’ Chatfield Farms site, near the Jefferson County section of Littleton.

While Hanson was very interested in farming at a young age, it took her a few decades to find her way to it.

Hanson joined the Air Force after high school and became a photojournalist. When she left the Air Force after eight years, her passion for health, healing, and wellness — for herself and her family — became a priority.

Hanson, her husband, and three children moved to Colorado, and she began talking with other veterans about her passions. A fellow veteran shared information about the Chatfield Farms Veterans Program

that helps veterans develop valuable skills for a career in farming.

Hanson applied.

The program consists of what Hanson calls “university work” or “bookwork” as well as hands-on work with the plants. The time spent with plants was very healing for her, “even when it’s a bit noisy,” she said, laughing as a small plane hummed overhead.

During the program, the veterans worked with lavender, which Hanson already had a personal connection with: Her children had eczema when they were younger, and she frequently made them a natural body butter with the plant. While in the program, Hanson made it again as a gift — a gift of physical healing.

She asked her instructors what was going to happen to all the lavender, which is primarily used for display. “They said, ‘Go ahead, Zephrine, have at it,’” she recalled.

And so she became in charge of maintaining the lavandins — yes, lavandins. Lavandin is a naturally occurring hybrid of English lavender (the most well-known type) and Portuguese lavender.

While there are many differences between lavandin and lavenders, the most prominent are in size, oil production, and smell. Hanson explained that lavandin is generally taller, produces more oil (although considered lower quality), and smells more herbal, or “medicinal.”

Lavandins are also sterile.

Hanson also started her own farm

Zephrine Hanson is the lavender farmer at Denver Botanic Gardens’ Chatfield Farms PHOTO BY CLARISSA GUY/ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS site.

after finishing the veteran’s program in 2017. Hampden Farms in southeast Denver is a “backyard micro farm and also a farm business,” she explained. Its mission, as stated on its website, “is to accelerate food security and community wealth building ... through the investment in agricultural entrepreneurship, value-added crops and products.”

She quickly found how difficult it was to make a living as a farmer.

“And that’s unacceptable,” she declared. Through her farm, she hopes to be a source of community connection.

Working with organizations like Frontline Farming, East Denver Food Hub, and Mile-High Farmers, Hanson focuses on “how to grow a business while farming and make

it profitable. Farmers should have thriving wages. Ag workers should have thriving wages.”

In this work, she weaves in her lavender. She is currently looking at how profitable lavender can be while collaborating with the farming community.

Profitability can be challenged by various factors. “We lost plants this year, right? So that’s going to impact how much money you can make with lavender,” she explained.

Through her connection with the gardens, she provides locallysourced lavender to companies and organizations in the area. Hanson hopes to continue collaborating with organizations that are already doing this work.

“They already have products,” she said. “They already are working on hubs. They do workshops and classes. What they do need is financial support. They don’t need anybody to tell them how to do it.”

Hanson believes that this work — community wealth building — is also a form of healing.

“All these things are connected.

Like that’s what people don’t understand…Everything you do in farming connects you to healing.”

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Plus-size woman documents Kilimanjaro climb Film screening brings body positive movement to Elbert County

BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The body positive movement — which promotes acceptance of all bodies of any size, weight or appearance — is gaining momentum in Colorado as plus-size women and men build confidence and take on challenges.

The Aug. 5 screening of the awardwinning documentary “Kili Big” in the Spring Valley Ranch community of Elbert County, an event promoted on social media, offered a look at one Colorado woman’s experience hiking 19,341-foot Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and her journey to defy societal odds of what big bodies can achieve.

Kara Hardman of Littleton, a 30-year-old woman who identifies as plus-size and fat, climbed Kilimanjaro with 19 other plus-size, fatidentifying, or nonbinary people in 2019 with the organizations WHOA and Trek 2 Kili. The hikers call themselves the “Curvy Kili Crew,” a group of mostly strangers who came together from across the globe to conquer Kilimanjaro, considered to be the highest single free-standing mountain in the world.

Throughout the six-day trek, Hardman and the Curvy Kili Crew hiked more than 45 miles in roughly 40 hours, proving that people in larger bodies can achieve great feats.

At the film screening, Hardman emotionally shared her story with those in attendance, explaining in detail her journey up the mountain, including her triumphs, struggles, and the community she built along the way. The majority of those present were members of Denver’s bodypositive fat community, “Denver Fatties.”

Hardman sat among the small group, teary-eyed with tissues in hand as she relived her hike up Mount Kilimanjaro. She provided insider commentary along with the documentary, describing the scenery, her fellow plus-size hikers, and the exciting milestones she hit along the hike.

Each time she would see herself on screen, Hardman would gleefully shout out: “That’s me!”

Hardman explained different facets of her trip in a Q&A interview with Colorado Community Media.

What was your experience like as a plus-size person hiking one of the world’s tallest mountains?

“It felt powerful and like not a single person could mess with us because we had the power of 19 other fat people standing behind us.”

Did you have any struggles on your hike?

“I got a food/waterborne illness, so that was difficult to deal with.

It was also very hard mentally to breathe at elevation and continue walking hours on end.”

Kara Hardman experiencing joy at a waterfall at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro.

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Movie poster for the documentary film COURTESY OF KILI BIG FILM OFFICIAL “Kili Big.”

How would you describe the communitybuilding or bonding you did with others on the hike?

“There was not much time to get to know people before having to be completely vulnerable with them during this new physical and emotional experience. We bonded quickly and I especially bonded with my tent mate. She will be my friend forever because of what we went through together.”

What advice do you have for plus-size or fat-identifying people who are nervous to get outside and explore joyful movement?

“Find a current or new friend who is fat and go with them! Fat joy in nature is the best!”

Hardman said she has always been passionate about the outdoors, even prior to her experience hiking Mount Kilimanjaro. In 2018, she and co-founder Arwen Turner created a company called WNDR Outdoors that “strives to increase representation of larger-bodied folks outdoors by creating technical outdoor apparel in extended sizes and by providing size inclusive events.”

The “Kili Big” documentary recently won Best Jury Documentary at the Bentonville Film Festival, an annual diversity-focused event in Arkansas. The film will also be shown at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

To stream the film at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in October, visit chagrinfilmfest.org.

To learn more about the sponsoring organizations for Hardman’s hike, please visit whoatravel.com/ whoa-plus and trek2kili.com.

For more information on Hardman’s size-inclusive outdoor company, please visit wndroutdoors.com.

Kara Hardman, left, and Arwen Turner, founders of Colorado plus-size clothing and COURTESY OF KARA HARDMAN adventure company WNDR Outdoors.

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f the game itself isn’t changing, the rules often do. Sometimes, any change to the rules could make the game harder to play and challenging to follow. We see penalties assessed and wonder why.

Or we see very clear infractions, with no penalty called.

There are the games, and then there is gamesmanship, and the difference between the two will often determine the outcome. Some of us love games, many referring to ourselves as “Gamers.” And then there are those who prefer some other type of entertainment or activity, the “non-Gamers.”

There are some games where the rules have remained hard and fast since the game was invented. And then there are those other games being played where the rules change every so often. In the interest of creating a better experience, the rules change so that the game becomes faster, more exciting, or more challenging, all to generate greater interest. The rules of the game may also change as technology advances. When this happens the powers that be try and level the playing field by changing the rules.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Disappointed by deniers As a resident of Douglas County, I join my family and many friends in voicing our deep disappointment in the uncivil and unneighborly behaviors exhibited by a minority of COVID-denying people in our community.

Renewed COVID guidelines for masks and vaccinations in our schools are in place. Evidence shows these measures to be highly effective in reducing COVID transmission. For well over a year, COVID has ravaged our region, nation and the world. The COVID pandemic is far from its end.

With common-sense guidelines, local health districts and school boards are fulfilling their primary duties to provide safe and COVID-free environments. We are very appreciative of their concerted efforts on behalf of our children.

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Although many of us have learned to gamify our work and our activities so that we can stay interested, stretch ourselves, and perform at a higher level, not everyone looks at life as a game. And with everything that is Michael Norton happening in the world right now, it is easy to understand why.

There are very real, hard, and painful situations and events taking place right now. Whether we are a “gamer” or not, somehow, we are caught up in the game and the gamesmanship of others. Directly or indirectly, we find ourselves in the position of spectator, fan, player, coach, owner, or official.

If we choose to remain on the sidelines as a spectator or fan, we will root for our team. We may even criticize the players, management, and ownership for poor decisions and planning or terrible execution.

It’s super easy to second guess others when we stand in the shadows.

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blame. Eventually, a lack of ownership leads to failure.

The hardest role is that of being the official. This means we stay current with the game and the changes to any rules. We have the difficult task of letting others know when they have crossed the line.

We assess the penalties. And when we miss something as the official, everyone turns on us, the fans, players, coaches, and owners.

Are you watching or are you on the field and in the game? Are you leading others in a constructive manner to be a part of the solution? Have you taken ownership for what you can control? Are you helping to mediate and be a peacemaker, brave enough to call the penalties as you see them? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing.com and when we realize that we all do play some role in an ever-changing game, it really will be a better than good year.

We don’t vote and then complain about who won the election. We watch with heartache the events happening in our community or around the world, but don’t take any action to help. We have decided to be a spectator and life is not a spectator sport.

Being so moved that we find a way to get into the game means that we have decided to be a player.

We are no longer comfortable merely watching, we recognize that we have a heart for service and that we have the talents and resources to help.

Some of us are built for leadership and managing. We see opportunities where others see roadblocks. We can help guide our community, co-workers, or family and friends as we come together to create a game plan that will allow us to serve collectively for the greater good.

Being the owner means taking ownership. Ultimately the buck stops here. We own the problem and that means we own the solution. In this life we can either hold ourselves responsible and accountable as owners, or we can pass the

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Douglas County since the beginning of the pandemic. This is not like back to the bad days of last winter.

This is worse in terms of cases in our kids,” he said.

Viral load in a vaccinated person who contracts delta “is just as high” as in an unvaccinated person, Douglas said, calling that research finding “a huge shock.”

Although the virus is typically milder for young children, baseline severity is increasing with a more severe variant circulating, he said.

Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida are seeing pediatric intensive care units fill up, he said.

Children can get infected in schools, spread the virus more than previously thought and could expose vulnerable family members, Douglas said. The “north star” in their decision-making is keeping children in in-person learning, he said.

Douglas said schools need to watch case rates among students eand the general community going forward. They have to watch severity — hospitalization rates and hospital capacity — and if vaccination rates continue increasing.

“We would love for just strong encouragement and people doing the right thing to be enough, but we weren’t seeing it and we thought the stakes were high enough that when we got encouraged by the (federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and our local chapter of (American Academy of Pediatrics, or AAP) to take things seriously, we thought it was time to act,” Douglas said.

Dr. Larry Schwartz spoke on behalf of the AAP Colorado Chapter.

He works in pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric critical care.

“The delta variant is taking away the protection that children seemed to have had in the first year of this pandemic and children are showing up in the hospital,” he said. “Including here in Colorado and certainly around the country.”

Schwartz also addressed mask efficacy. “There is a lot of data” looking at how particles filter through masks, he said, both lab studies and population observations.

“It is clear” that masks of any

A woman holds a sign as part of protests urging Douglas County Schools to rescind a PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS mask mandate.

kind decrease the transmission of the droplets of aerosol particles that carry the virus, he said. People often quote two studies from Denmark in their arguments against masks, Schwartz said.

“It has to be remembered that one of those studies has no control group, the other had a very small population group,” he said. “When you’re looking at studies you have to look at how these things are created.

How they’re put together. They’re not all created the same.”

Many in the crowd rebuked Schwartz when he said there is some evidence to show masks reduce anxiety in children because they offer a sense of control. Multiple people during public comment said masks are contributing to the mental health crisis among young people.

“There is no evidence that masks contribute to any detriment of physical or emotional health in the children,” Schwartz said.

One woman disputed Schwartz’s comments and said masks contributed to her teenager’s suicidality.

Factors contributing to mental health concerns among children are a loss of routine, concern for theirs or their parents’ health and isolation from not being in school, Schwartz said.

The men’s remarks did little to sway a crowd, who called them biased doctors. Audience members

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said directors had cherry-picked public health officials who agreed with them. One man who said he had a background working at a children’s hospital called Schwartz unqualified because he was not an epidemiologist.

‘Go back to parental choice’ The meeting followed protests

that gathered hundreds early in the week. One took place on Aug. 23, the morning the mandate went into effect, and another shortly before the Aug. 24 board meeting.

Protester Richard Hern called masking one of the most pressing issues in schools, although it was not the only reason he joined the Aug. 24 rally. He worries about the loss of nonverbal communication and learning if children must mask, he said.

“I would like to go back to parental choice,” he said.

Holtzmann, the director whose comments led to the sudden break late in the meeting, finished her comments after directors returned to complete the meeting.

She pointed back to rising case rates in children and Schwartz’ comments that masks stifle children’s anxiety by providing control.

At the meeting’s close, she added that freedom to make personal choices stops when those decisions infringe on another person’s rights, comparing COVID public health measures to laws against drunk driving and peanut bans in schools.

“If wearing masks was only about protecting one’s own health, arguments about protecting freedom might hold more weight,” she said.

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Helen Lorraine Lewis Knedler June 7, 1927 - August 24, 2021

Helen died in Portland OR, where she lived with her daughter Ann. Son Jeremy, traveled to Portland from his home in New York City to spend nine months and into the last days of Helen’s life.

Helen was so many things to so many people. Wife, mother, daughter, aunt, teacher, mentor, and such a good, good friend.

Her life accomplishments were diverse and exciting; traveler the world ‘round with Marvin (Ned), her husband; music teacher and pianist for most of her life; chemist in St Louis and Boulder CO, after graduation from Baylor University; mountain hiker in Colorado and the Himalayas.

Care was one of her great strengths. Her immediate family, but also her mother for the last years of her

long life of 99+ years. Helen stepped up for everyone, always with encouragement, enthusiasm, and humor.

Helen and Ned were great world travelers, visiting China and Russia in the first days of tourism there.

Cities in Europe and Scandinavia were visited many times, but the favorite location for Helen was Nepal and the Himalayas.

One of the great enjoyments of Helen’s life was live music; Aspen Music Festival, Red Rocks amphitheater, the pipe organs in some of the worlds’ great cathedrals, symphony orchestras in Denver and Portland, and making music with her students at her home studio.

One of the things she enjoyed most during her last years was Saturday frozen yogurt. She’d finish a spoon-full, raise her face up, close her eyes and say, “I always say there are worse ways to spend a Saturday afternoon!” Amen mom!

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TURNING Book clubs offer venue for socializing, learning, growing

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

F

ive women gathered in the Evergreen Library community room recently to discuss why, in this case, they didn’t like the book of the month.

No one had much to say that was favorable about the book, “Tangerine: A Novel” by Christine Mangan, and they noted that was rare.

Usually, they have mixed reactions to the plot, character development, scene-setting, writing and more, and the diverse views make for better discussion.

The women are part of the Second Chance Book Group at Evergreen Library, one of the hundreds of book clubs in the metro area and throughout the country.

Libraries, bookstores and anyone who wants to organize a group can get into the book club spirit.

Whatever the reason, book clubs for all ages have become popular — both in-person and via video conferencing. Book lovers are thrilled that reading is fashionable, though they note that in-person book clubs are just restarting after being halted because of the pandemic.

“We used to have 12 to 14 people in a book group before the pandemic,” said Pam Bestall, who leads the Evergreen Library’s book groups. “Now I’m thrilled with six.”

Community, expanding horizons According to Cindy Jaye, programming manager for Jefferson County Public Library, book clubs create community and expand people’s reading horizons.

“Oftentimes, it’s a great way to get to know people in your neighborhood,” Jaye said, “and we all need community.”

Arra Katona, JCPL’s teen services coordinator, agreed. “(Book clubs) foster community for people with common interests,” she said. “They develop a way to deal with conflict because they have differing opinions (about the book). They learn to resolve those differences and how to keep connections with those who share or don’t share their perspective.”

Facilitators and librarians agree that book clubs can expand the types of books people will read.

“In book clubs, you get to read something you might not normally read,” Jaye said. “It’s a way to learn new things and provides

you with an excuse to read something out of your comfort zone. It’s good for you and fun, and it keeps brains active.”

Bestall says her book club members help choose the books they want to read throughout the year, mixing fiction, nonfiction, biography and sometimes young adult fiction.

Better world Reading books critically is so important, Jaye said, adding: “The more readers we have in the world, the better the world is.”

Kerri Morgan, the special events manager for Douglas County Libraries, oversees the Great Books program, a book club that can be found in many libraries nationwide. The program has adults reading the classics and discussing them — something they likely haven’t done since they were in school.

“There’s not really a format or outlet for adults to do that once you get out of an academic setting,” Morgan said. “Great Books is replicating an academic setting, but it’s less formal.”

Morgan explained that if she’s reading a book for pleasure, she reads quickly without retaining much. Reading for a book club is different.

“With book clubs, you’re reading for retention, you read slower and more closely,” she said. “(Book clubs) change how people interact with literature. It changes how you reflect on those pieces of literature because you’re being forced to read a little more deeply.”

Getting started Book clubs come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from highly academic to focusing on one genre or one author, and more. Most libraries offer at least one book club, plus there are book clubs organized by neighborhoods or by friends.

Morgan, for example, belongs to a book club in which members go for a run, and to slow the pace, they discuss a book along the way.

She also belongs to a Zoom book club and another that has been meeting for 10 years.

It’s a matter of deciding the kind of club you want to join and the types of books you want to read.

Area libraries provide book-club descriptions, and most meet monthly.

Patricia Gordon of Evergreen pages through the book club’s August selection, “TanPHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST gerine: A Novel.”

FIND A LIBRARY BOOK CLUB

Elbert County pplibraries.org 303-646-3416

Arapahoe County arapahoelibraries.org 303-542-7279

Englewood englewood.marmot.org 303-762-2560

Denver denverlibrary.org 720-865-1111

Jefferson County jeffcolibrary.org 303-235-5275

Douglas County dcl.org 303-791-7323

Littleton bemis.marmot.org 303-795-3961

For those wanting to start a book club, many libraries offer bookclub kits with copies of the book and discussion guides — a “super easy way to organize a book club,” Jaye said. Jefferson County Public Library, for example, has book-club kits for 325 books.

Jaye advised people wanting to start book clubs to make decisions on what kind of club they want to start, and then everything becomes easier. She also suggested selecting books that have something “discussion-worthy” about them.

Morgan suggested finding book club members with different life experiences because they bring more to the table during discussions.

“Choose folks who will be comfortable sharing feelings and ideas,” Morgan said. “Sometimes it takes time to build that level of comfort to build those deep discussions.”

Different perspectives At the Second Chance Book Club in Evergreen, Bestall, who has been facilitating book clubs

for four years, said she sees more women than men getting involved.

While most of the participants are older, everyone is welcome, noting that younger participants bring a different perspective.

As they were discussing “Tangerine,” they decided it was a quick read, though it might make a better movie. They said it was a mystery to them why the book was classified as a mystery.

They brought their own anecdotes to the discussion, relating personally to parts of the plot.

“What I like about the library book club,” said Joyce Jefson of Evergreen, “is you get so many different perspectives. I have changed my opinion after hearing other perspectives.”

Bestall said as a facilitator, she was not deterred by conflict.

“Sometimes you leave book club without agreeing with other people, but you understand their point of view,” she said.

Jefson added: “If you don’t read people who disagree with you, how do you understand other points of view?”

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Pow wow, cultural celebration returns

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he 32nd Annual Denver Art Museum Friendship Pow Wow and American Indian Cultural Celebration will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept.

12 at the Denver Indian Center, 4407 SONYA’S Morrison Road. A SAMPLER portion of the proceeds will support the Denver Indian Center. There will be Indian dance competitions and hands-on activities for the whole family. Food will be provided by Tocabe: An Ameri- Sonya Ellingboe can Indian Eatery.

Masks are required indoors and for all attendees at the Pow Wow. Information: 720-865-5000 or visit denverartmuseum.org.

Town Hall Arts Center “The Fantasticks” opens Sept. 17, running to Oct. 17, at Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., downtown Littleton. Tickets: townhallartscenter.org or 303-794-2787, Ext. 5.

Santa Fe Drive. In-person seating, then it will premiere virtually Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. See storiesonstage.org.

Littleton Garden Club New members are welcome as the Littleton Garden Club holds its first meeting of the year on Sept. 1 at the Education Service Center, 5776 S. Crocker St. (Use south entrance).

Program TBA. Business meeting first at 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Curious Theatre Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, begins its season Sept. 18 with “The Lifespan of a Fact” by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, directed by Christy Montour-Larson.

303-623-0524, curioustheatre.org.

Stories on Stage The SOS season will start for this series where actors read stories to an audience, with virtual programs and limited in-person seating at Nomad Theatre in Boulder. Through December. Also in December, the company will perform its annual “Making Merry” holiday show at the King Center in Denver, with limited inperson seating. On Jan. 16 at 2 p.m., the company will hold its annual collaboration with Buntport Theatre Company at Su Teatro in Denver, 721

Miners Alley Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden continues with “Before you Go” by local actor/director John Ashton, through Sept. 19. 303-935-3044, minersalley.com.

Crafters The Friends of the Littleton Library/Museum may have a few spaces left for the Annual FOLM Craft Fair on Oct. 2. Call or text Lisa Ohlgren, 303-522-0462. And prospective shoppers should mark that date on the calendar.

artists from across the country. Live Main Stage entertainment, food beverages. See castlerock.org/castlerock-artfest.

Tesoro Tesoro Cultural Center’s Annual 1840s Rendezvous and Spanish Colonial Art Market will be held at the Fort Restaurant in Morrison from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept 11 and 12. 303839-1671, tesoroculturalcenter.org.

Rare sports and classic cars Concours d’Elegance and Exotic Sports Car Show will return to the Arapahoe Community College West Lawn on Sept. 12. See coloradoconcours.org.

Arapahoe Community College Jantzen Gallery/ACC, at 2400 W. Alamo Ave., Littleton, has 4D Design: Time-Based Media Exhibition through Sept. 12. Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, Monday to Friday. Mask required. See arapahoe.edu.

Chili The Annual Big Chili Cookoff, Music and Arts Festival in Evergreen will be 1p a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 11.

Art, food, kids activities, annual Firefighter’s Challenge. See bigchili. org, 303-973-1209.

Art Fest The 32nd Annual Art Fest in Castle Rock will be held Sept. 11-12 at Festival Park. Juried show with

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.

Art on the Green returns for second year

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Curtis Center for the Arts is located in a historic school at 2349 E. Orchard Road in Greenwood Village and a focus point for south area arts.

Last year, director Chris Stevens started a new event: “Art on the Green,” which will repeat on Sept.

11 and 12 in Curtis Park, just west of the center, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

About 80 to 90 Colorado artists are expected to exhibit and sell their works from booths that will be spaced apart to ensure safe social distancing for visiting art lovers.

This juried art fair is a fine addition to the opportunities to enjoy, and perhaps purchase, art in our south area.

One can expect to find oil and watercolor paintings, drawings, prints, textiles and more and can plan to

spend a nice stretch of time onsite.

There will also be food trucks and local musicians at Curtis Park.

A bus will offer a ride to the Women of Steel Street Studio Tour: in-home studios, with work by Greenwood Village resident artists — and a return to the Art on the Green site.

In 2014, a group of artists located in Greenwood Village, learned they had four studios near each other and agreed to collaborate on same-day open houses — an event now combined with the Art on the Green. Buses will carry visitors to the site and back to open houses at six studios, with works by 10 artists.

The City of Greenwood Village Cultural Arts Program has partnered with those artists for an event that would celebrate their work, opening studios for a day, with golf carts shuttling guests on the dirt

roads. They will also be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

Included: Amy Mower, jewelry artist; Connie Dines, photographer; Jennifer Freeman, painter; Joellyn Duesberry, painter; and Tina Suszynski, sculptor.

Return to Art on the Green at Curtis Park, sip a cool beverage and look some more. This fair was first organized last year by Curtis Center manager/curator Chris Stevens and some area artists and has grown.

Curtis School, a red brick schoolhouse with a central bell tower, which houses the gallery, was built in 1914 as a school and meeting hall.

It was moved about 300 feet to its present location in 1987, when it was renovated for use as “a community art and history center” and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

The gallery celebrates artists from

across the state.

Starting Sept. 4, it will host a new exhibit by members of the Colorado Watercolor Society: “Exploration in Watermedia,” through Oct. 30, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 4. Karen Roehl a painter who is on the faculty of the Denver Art Students League, is named juror for this exhibit.

Curtis Arts and Humanities Center also offers a number of classes for adults and children by wellknown local artists such as Cliff Austin, Rick Brogan, Jen Starling and more. Check the website for dates, time, cost. (Or pick up a catalog of classes at Curtis.)

Following the watercolor exhibit is a show by members of the Of Chaos and Order Collective, which runs Nov. 6 to Dec. 23, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 6. See greenwoodvillage.com/1247/CurtisCenter-for-the-Arts.

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TRI-COUNTY FROM PAGE 1

Nannestad went on to write that the commissioners had “asked for my assurance” that he wouldn’t abstain from future votes because of this conflict and that he felt he couldn’t give that.

In an Aug. 30 work session, Douglas County’s commissioners appointed Kevin Bracken, a Castle Rock Town Council member, to temporarily fill Nannestad’s position. Bracken also serves as the chair of the county’s Public Health Advisory Committee, a group helping commissioners decide if they will withdraw from Tri-County and form their own health department.

Tri-County, which serves Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties, has a Board of Health made up of nine members, with three from each county. The board votes on various policies and public health orders.

‘Consider resigning’ During a work session earlier in the week, the Douglas County commissioners discussed Nannestad’s decision to abstain from Tri-County’s school mask votes, questioning if there was truly a conflict of interest for him.

“I’m not aware of any financial compensation or any of the conflicts that our legal staff advises us are conflicts of interest,” Commissioner Lora Thomas said.

“Sometimes we vote on things that

September 2, 2021 from voting,” according to a stateare hard, that are difficult. We ment from the county. live in a community, it affects our In response to request for an community, but we can’t abstain interview or statement, Nannesjust because we live in the neightad directed Colorado Community borhood.”

Media to a school district spokesCounty attorney Lance Ingalls person, who said the former said in the Aug. 23 work session health board member declined to that he also was not aware of comment. any obvious, statutory conflict of “As a proud veteran, in whatever interest for Nannestad and sugcapacity I am serving, it is of the gested reaching out to the board utmost importance to me that I member to learn more. The comact in a manner that ensures my missioners directed their staff to integrity never contact Nanneeds to be nestad about questioned by “where this those I serve,” goes forward said Nanneswith this tad’s resignaconversation,” tion letter. “In Thomas said in an appointment the meeting. such as this, “I think there needs there’s going to to be a level be future deciof trust that sions associI will act and ated with the vote with the school board best intentions that he will for my county, have to vote my board and on,” Commisthe entirety of sioner Abe Tri-County and Laydon said in I feel that this the meeting, level of trust “And so I think understanding Lora Thomas, has been called into question.” the basis for Douglas County commissioner On Aug. 17, the conflict and the Tri-County whether there Board of Health is one or not is considered important.” two possible mask mandates for In a staff conversation with schools. The first motion would Nannestad, it was discussed have mandated the indoor use of “that he consider resigning if he thought he would continue to have masks for students of all ages and their teachers. That motion failed conflicts which prevented him with four representatives voting in favor, four voting against and Nannestad abstaining.

The second motion required masks to be worn inside by students ages 2 to 11 and any staff that work with those ages. That motion was approved with six votes in favor, two votes against and Nannestad again abstaining. Both of the “no” votes on that motion were from Douglas County’s other representatives on the board.

Douglas County commissioners later voted to opt out of the Tri-County mask order, but the county school district is enforcing it anyway.

Nannestad had served as a health board member since 2015 and his term was set to end in 2024.

“TCHD is deeply appreciative of Zach’s service to our (Board of Health) over the past 6 years,” according to a statement from the health department. “He always approached his role with thoughtful-

‘Sometimes we vote on things that are hard, that are difficult. We live in a community, it affects our community, but we can’t abstain just because we live in the neighborhood.’

ness, integrity and an ever-present focus on how to enhance the health of residents of our counties. We don’t always have a BOH member with an environmental health lens and Zach’s insights as a leader in environmental public health at a local school district has been valuable to TCHD.”

Two other departures Earlier in the year, two other longtime Tri-County Board of Health members representing Douglas County left their positions.

Paulette Joswick, who had been on the board since 2007, resigned in January, two years before her term would have ended. Joswick said that health concerns, negative attention from the public and mounting stress from holding the position during the COVID-19 pandemic all contributed to her decision to leave.

Joswick also said she had been contacted by county staff -- acting on behalf of the county commissioners -- and had conversations that she viewed as encouragement to resign.

Joswick had been the only representative from Douglas County to vote to approve a mask mandate in July 2020. A member of the public had also submitted a letter to the county about Joswick, saying she overheard the board member being critical of the commissioners during a Castle Rock crochet class.

In April, the commissioners fired Marsha Jaroch, who had been a board of health representative for the county since 2015.

In their termination letter, commissioners cited an October 2020 letter to the editor in the Douglas County News-Press as the reason for her firing.

The letter to the editor was signed by Jaroch and Joswick and it urged the community to voice support for Douglas County remaining with Tri-County Health.

The commissioners had submitted a letter to Tri-County in July 2020 stating that the county would be separating from the health department in a year. Commissioners later walked back that decision and decided to remain with the agency until at least 2023 after negotiating a deal to hold more local control over public health orders.

The county is expected to consider how to fill Nannestad’s position within the next week.

“We greatly appreciate Mr. Nannestad’s service on the TriCounty Board of Health,” according to a county statement released through a spokesperson.

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Lone Tree resident’s book headed for space

BY MADDIE BROWNING SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Dow Phumiruk, Lone Tree resident and member of the Lone Tree Arts Commission, has illustrated 15 children’s books including “Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13.”

This book was recently chosen for Storytime From Space — a project of the Global Space Education Foun- Phumiruk dation that sends children’s books to the International Space Station.

Astronaut Megan McArthur will read the book from space, and a recording will be made available on the Storytime From Space website.

The book details the story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race. Her backup procedures and charts helped save the Apollo 13 crew after their mission to the moon was aborted.

“It was the space race at that time, so they’re like `Whoever wants to help us beat everyone else to the moon come sign up.’

And back then, because we didn’t have any real computers

like machine computers, they hired people to do the calculations,” said Phumiruk.

“And men actually thought that that was too boring and too tedious, so they gave it to the women to do. And there were probably about 200 Black women that worked for NASA at the time, which is amazing because we’ve never heard about any of them until recently.”

The original book was published in 2018. A second edition was published in the UK the following year for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

Among other awards, the book won The Cook Prize from the Center for Children’s Literature and the UK LA Literary Association Inaugural Information Book Award. Phumiruk also stated that around 100,000 copies have been sold in the U.S. and UK. Phumiruk wasn’t always a professional illustrator. She explained that she enjoyed art as a child, but becoming a stayat-home mom to her daughters from 2002 to 2006 was what led her to pursue art again.

“Being home with the kids, I really had an opportunity to really explore my artistic side, and I realized that that’s such a big part of me. There’s no way I could ever leave that part behind. In fact, it’s taken over,”

said Phumiruk.

Phumiruk started learning on her own and researching techniques. In 2011, She joined the Society for Children’s Book Writers.

“That’s where I really took off with my art, because I went to the conferences and got to know some other artists in the neighborhood and had a critique group going, and I got an agent maybe four years after joining that organization,” said Phumiruk.

Phumiruk previously worked as a pediatrician, taught part time at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine and worked on illustrations. She quickly realized that this was too overwhelming.

Phumiruk said, “I came to a crisis of, I can’t do it all. I can’t raise the children, be a doctor, teach medical school and all that, and I ended up choosing to just teach and do the art.”

She expected to return to pediatrics, but then was picked up by her agent and started working on paying projects.

Phumiruk’s newest book, “Hello, Tree” was written by Ana Crespo, who is also from Colorado. It follows a little girl who finds friendship in a tree during the Black Forest Fire near Colorado Springs that took place in 2013. “Hello, Tree” will be released on Sept. 14.

The cover of “Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13” by Helaine Becker; illustrations

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Family remembers a compasssionate man Judge denied bail for alleged gunman who claimed to be intoxicated

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Dustin Wakefield with his wife and baby.

Castle Rock resident, 21, killed while on vacation in Florida

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lora Wakefield said her son, Dustin Wakefield, taught her more in life than she ever taught him.

Family and friends remember 21-year-old Dustin as loving, compassionate and caring.

Dustin, of Castle Rock, was killed on Aug. 24, shot while defending his 1-year-old son from a man with a

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gun at a Miami Beach restaurant.

“He was the brightest light I have ever known even as a mom,” Lora said. “He made friends with all that he met and made all feel seen and heard. He mostly wanted his wife to know she is his queen and made her feel like the most beautiful woman in the room.”

Dustin only wanted the best for his family and would work hard for them, Lora added. “(Dustin) loved in the most purest way,” Lora said. “As a mom, I can honestly say he taught me more than I taught him. He was a kiss from heaven to me.”

Lora said she wants to carry on Dustin’s legacy to love and be car-

Tamarius Blair Davis Jr., 22, has been charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder following the death of Dustin Wakefield, a 21-year-old Castle Rock father.

Wakefield was on vacation with his family in Florida when Davis allegedly shot him around 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 24.

Police and family members say Wakefield died while protecting his 1-year-old son. According to the affidavit provided by the Miami Police Department, Davis, suspected of being high on mushrooms, went into the restaurant, La Cerveceria, and picked Wakefield at random.

Davis allegedly pointed the gun at Wakefield’s 1-year-old son. ing. Dustin would want others to truly love, she said.

“My heart was ripped out of me, but I will do as he did and be love, light and peace to this world,” Lora said. “He is a heart of gold and a bright light to everyone he met. He never said bad things.”

As Dustin’s friends and family try to make sense of his death, his uncle Michael Wakefield called him a hero. On social media, Michael said he is proud that Dustin did what most fathers would do in trying to protect his son.

In the days following Dustin’s

When Wakefield stood between his son and Davis, he was shot multiple times. Police said Wakefield was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Following the shooting, a video shows Davis dancing outside of the restaurant. He then ran into a nearby alley got down on the pavement, following police commands.

As police handcuffed Davis, he could be heard saying, “I did it. I did it.”

After being taken into custody, Miami police said, Davis waived his constitutional rights and confessed to shooting Wakefield and shooting at another bystander who was not injured.

“The defendant stated he was high on mushrooms, which made him feel empowered,” the police report said. “The defendant continued by saying he randomly chose two men to shoot at.”

On Aug. 25, during his initial court appearance, Davis asked Judge Mindy Glazer, of the Florida 11th Circuit Court, about bond.

Judge Glazer replied, “There is no bond. You shot and killed someone in cold blood.”

death, family and friends described a loving father who wad dedicated to his church, dedicated to his family, and loved making music.

Following the news of Dustin’s death, the Castle Rock community immediately stepped up to help the Wakefield family.

Michael created a GoFundMe account in Dustin’s honor. As the tragedy received national attention, the fund raised more than $200,000 in 24 hours.

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Legend High School running back Bryce Vaz had a good game with 235 all-purpose yards but was quick to point out that he couldn’t do it by himself.

Vaz, a 5-10, 180-pound senior, was one of the Titans’ offensive stars in a 42-0 romp over Parker rival Ponderosa High in the Aug. 27 season opener at EchoPark Automotive Stadium in Parker.

“I wouldn’t be able to do it unless the line of scrimmage is pushed, that’s the most important part,” said Vaz, whose speed and quickness was evident. “I’m really thanking my line and quarterback for getting me the ball out there.

“The team played amazing offensively and defensively. Our defense looked amazing, great on the run stop and we’ve improved on our pass defense from last year. We’re just looking real good all around.

For sure I’m looking forward to this season. We’ve got great players on this team.”

Legend, ranked fifth in the preseason CHSAANow.com Class 5A rankings, notched its third straight win over the Class 4A Mustangs, but the Titans’ previous two victories came by only seven and three points.

“We have a lot of room for improvement,” said Legend coach

Ponderosa’s Brant Jarvis (47) stops Legend’s Bryce Vaz during the Aug. 27 game at EchoPark Automotive Stadium.

Ponderosa’s quarterback Andrew Heidel (15) delivers a pass from the pocket with good protection from Aidan Moe (73), Alexander Taylor (50) and Franky McFadden (54).

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Monte Thelen. “We made a number of mistakes. We also made a number of plays that helped us win the game. We have a lot of respect for Ponderosa. It kind of went south on them a little bit. They’ll play much better throughout the year.”

Legend wound up with 465 yards of total offense with Vaz rushing for 187 yards and a TD. He also caught six passes for 48 yards.

Legend quarterback Colton Warner completed 18 of 26 passes for 247 yards and four touchdowns. He threw one interception.

Senior Jackson Brush also caught

six of Warner’s passes for 102 yards and three scores.

Legend helped themselves with big plays.

Brush had a 48-yard TD reception, Maddux Stahl had a 56-yard TD catch and Nate Smith returned one of four Titan interceptions 40 yards for a TD. Legend’s defense was solid. Mello Castro and Zach Runyon each had seven tackles. Runyon also had three sacks and blocked a Pondo field goal attempt. Smith, Alex Trujillo, Logan Braegger and Jason Anderson had the interceptions.

“Our defense played pretty well,” said Thelen.

“For the last three weeks of camp our defense has been taking it to our offense a little bit. Our offense felt great to go play against someone else.”

Pondo coach Jaron Cohen believes the Mustangs will improve despite playing two more Class 5A teams during the non-league schedule.

“They (Legend) played really well on both sides of the ball and they had some explosive plays on offense which always hurts you,” he said.

“They had kids make plays and we made a lot of mistakes. We’ll get better.

“We play a very hard non-league schedule. We do that on purpose and we play in the hardest league in 4A. We want to get better. We’ll get better and learn from this.”

Athletes battle for wins in fall sports High schoolers back in action as seasons get underway

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

All fall high school fall sports got into action with the start of the football season.

The following is a highlight roundup from scores and details reported of a few of the games/matches involving Douglas and Arapahoe County schools held between Aug. 23-28.

Football Cherry Creek 42, Doherty 0 — The two-time defending 5A state champions scored all its points in the first half in an Aug. 27 road victory. It was the 23rd consecutive win for the Bruins.

Littleton 48, Lincoln 0 — Junior Brycen Mhlanga averaged 17.3 yards per carry when he rushed for 190 yards and five touchdowns on 11 carries as the Lions snapped a 29-game losing streak with a win on Aug. 27.

It was the first victory for Littleton since a 27-12 triumph over Palmer on Oct. 12, 2017.

Valor Christian 24, Regis Jesuit 6 — Senior Gavin Sawchuk rushed for 154 yards and one TD in an Aug. 27 win.

Seniors Jordan Norwood and Cayden Hawkins each had eight tackles for the Eagles defense.

Castle View 27, Heritage 0 — The Sabercats won their first game in five meetings against the Eagles on Aug. 27.

Chaparral 35, Eaglecrest 21 — Senior Kylan Wilson had a big night in the Wolverines’ seasonopening win on Aug. 26. He had 317 total yards, 186 and four touchdowns passing and 131 yards rushing. He also had a 30-yard kickoff return and punted five times for an average of 45.4 yards per kick.

Mountain Vista 17, Poudre 0 — Freshman Carter Daniels had 101 yards and the Golden Eagles rushed for 287 yards in an Aug. 26 win.

Rock Canyon 35, Horizon 21 — Junior Aidan Duda rushed for 127 yards and two touchdowns plus he also intercepted a pass in an Aug. 26 victory.

Fruita Monument 42, Highlands Ranch 17 — The Falcons passed for 314 yards but had only minus one yard rushing in a road loss on Aug. 27.

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Boys golf Rock Canyon wins — Senior Zach Lipfield carded a 1-under-par 71 to help Rock Canyon win the third Continental League tournament on Aug. 23 at Lone Tree Golf Club. The Jaguars finished with a score of 308 to edge secondplace Highlands Ranch at 310.

Kadet Invitational — Arapahoe captured the team title with a score of 217 at the Kadet Invitational played Aug. 23 on the Blue course at Eisenhower Golf Club. Arapahoe’s Matthew Wilkinson had a 4-underpar 68 to take medalist honors.

Arapahoe on top — Wilkinson had

an 8-under-par 64 to pace Arapahoe to victory in the Centennial League’s third tournament of the season on Aug. 24 at Aurora Hills golf course.

The Warriors finished with a team score of 273, with Cherry Creek coming in second at 290. There were seven players that finished under par including Arapahoe’s Grant Juergens with a 66, Charlie Flaxbeard of Cherry Creek at 69 and Max Zadvorny of Arapahoe with a 71.

Softball Rock Canyon 1, Cherry Creek 0 — Junior Rachel Cook and senior Campbell Coddington combined to pitch a no-hitter in a win on Aug. 24.

Cook pitched 4.1 innings and Coddington, who had two hits and a run batted in, hurled 2.2 innings.

Legend 13, Legacy 10 — Senior Hannah Coates went 3-for-3 with two home runs and six RBI and junior teammate Emma Harrington also went 3-for-3 with two homers and four RBI in an Aug.23 game.

Castle View 4, Grandview 2 — Sophomore Bree Robles went 2-for-3, scored a run and had two RBI on Aug. 23 when the Sabercats scored SEE FALL SPORTS, P23

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three times in the bottom of the sixth to pull out the victory. Castle View was down 6-0 after two innings in an Aug. 25 contest against Wheat Ridge but rallied for a 10-6 victory as Robles had three hits and three RBI. Ponderosa 8, Discovery Canyon 6 — The Mustangs scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to break a 5-5 tie and collect a win on Aug. 24. Senior Mia Page had three RBI for Pondo while junior Lauren Stucky and sophomore Olivia Trombley each had two. Ponderosa stayed unbeaten with a 3-2 win over Fruita Monument on Aug. 28.

Mountain Vista 7, Ralston Valley 6 — Sophomore Lauren Falk did all for the Golden Eagles in a narrow

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And the longer COVID-denying people work against common-sense COVID measures, the longer the COVID pandemic will continue. Now, we’re seeing higher transmissibility and rates of delta variant, especially among those who confuse their civil obligations to the greater good with political persuasions.

Remaining unvaccinated, avoiding masks and social distancing, these outliers are spreading COVID to young people and creating platforms

AGING FROM PAGE 12

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nior Ella Rakowski had a goal and five assists for seven points and sophomore Bella Cote scored twice in an Aug. 24 victory. The Warriors lost 1-0 to defending state champion Regis Jesuit on Aug. 26.

on Aug. 24. She was 4-for-4 at the plate, scored twice and had two RBI in addition to pitching 6.2 innings and allowed two hits to earn the pitching win.

ThunderRidge 10, Arapahoe 9 — Sophie Waldron had three hits for the Grizzlies in a Aug. 26 win despite being outhit 11-8. Lakyn Wilkinson and Taylor Miller had three hits for the Warriors.

Highlands Ranch 4, Valor Christian 3 — Two runs were pushed across the plate in the sixth inning to pull out a victory on Aug. 25.

Senior Izzy Fierro had three hits, scored once, had an RBI and stole a base while senior Jaelyn Siedenwurn belted a two-run homer for the Falcons. Valor had five different players collect hits. The Falcons committed nine errors in a 13-12 loss to Dakota Ridge on Aug. 27 in a game in which Celie Page had three

of Highland Ranch’s 12 hits.

Field hockey Mountain Vista 6, Fossil Ridge 0 — Junior Addison Gilbertson had two goals to spark a victory in a game played Aug. 23.

Arapahoe 7, Fossil Ridge 0 — Se-

Cross country Lohman Invitational — Emily Lamontagne, a junior at Arapahoe, won the girls varsity race at the Steve Lohman Invitational, which was held Aug. 28 at Cherry Creek State Park. Lamontagne was timed in 17:50.80. Arapahoe won the girls team title.

Vista Nation Invitational — Ty Garrett of Valor Christian won the boys varsity two-mile run on Aug. 27 at the Vista Nation 2-Mile Invitational. He was timed in 10:08.00. Valor’s Brooke Wilson captured the girls varsity two-mile run with a time of 11:28.00.

for new variants.

At the same time, these COVIDdenying outliers are following the leads of inconsiderate politicians who have shirked their dutiful oaths and used anti-COVID rhetoric and behaviors to fundraise, and maintain their political plans to keep the community divided.

We want to thank all the faithful people in our community, those who have joined the active majority to reduce COVID transmission.

Without your diligence, many more people would be dead and disabled.

Lloyd Guthrie Roxborough Park

Adults should try to be adults With regards to the informational meeting DCSD conducted on Aug. 4 concerning the school mask policy: When a 15-year-old is quoted in the article with more sense than the screaming crowd of adults, it is a sign that Douglas County parents (at least those present at the meeting) have finally stepped off the ship into the abyss of “you have lost your mind.” Listen to the science of the CDC — protect your children! If you don’t want to protect your children — don’t!

But please behave at least as well as a 15-year-old and shut up and let the policies be stated. Unlike other metro

school districts you are being given a choice to protect your children, or to not protect them. It’s your choice!

The best thing about living in Douglas County is the beauty and space. The worst is that there is an extremely high percentage of people that only listen to unsubstantiated theories promulgated by extreme right wing factions.

Thank you Colorado Community Media for a well written summary of this meeting. It’s important those of us who don’t desire to observe this kind of behavior can stay home and still be aware of issues.

Robin Hurley Highlands Ranch

Soccer Cherry Creek 3, Rock Canyon 1 — Senior Macklin Riley scored twice to help the Bruins opened the season on Aug. 24 with a victory. Mason Mcgaffin tallied the Jaguars’ goal.

ThunderRidge 2, Palmer Ridge 1 — Senior Arnel Hodzic got the gamewinning goal in the second half of the Aug. 24 triumph. Ryan Vogler scored the first Grizzlies’ goal.

Pine Creek 2, Legend 1 — Gavin MacFarland put the Titans up 1-0 but the team ended up losing the Aug. 26 contest.

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This column is hosted by the Seniors’ Council of Douglas County. Please join us for our next virtual online presentation Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. Our presenter will be Dennis DelPizzo with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the annual Medicare update. For more information, please visit www.MyDougCoSeniorLife.com, email DCSeniorLife@ douglas.co.us or call 303-663-7681.

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also became involved. Matt Zien, secretary of the local organization, said, “When something like this happens, this is what the Dads of Castle Rock are built for. When this happened, we were notified and immediately came together to rally the troops.”

Zien said Wakefield is a hero who protected his child.

“He is a dad who did something extraordinary,” he said. “He did what we are all about as fathers.”

Because GoFundMe has restrictions and time limits on when funds can be accessed, the Dads of Castle

Rock created a Venmo account to allow family access immediately.

Within a day, the local community raised more than $40,000. Zien said the response from Castle Rock has been amazing.

“So many of us may not know Dustin, but he was a member of our community,” Zien said. “He is a dad with a young wife and was just starting to make a mark on this world.

We are humbled and proud to have people who are so compassionate and loving in Castle Rock.”

To donate to Dustin’s young family, visit the website at gofundme.com/f/ fundraiser-for-dustin-family.

To donate through the Dads of Castle Rock, go to Venmo: @DadsOfCastleRock (#Dustin).

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Lakewood Cultural Center announces 2021-22 season Jazz, funk, classical — even comedy. There’s something on tap for everyone STAFF REPORT

Season tickets are on sale now for the Lakewood Cultural Center’s new season.

The center is bringing what they describe as “an exciting mix of music and theater” to Lakewood beginning in September.

The new season picks up where the LCC Presents series left off, with performances that had to be postponed due to the pandemic.

LCC administrator Rita Sommers said she was overjoyed to welcome audiences back to the theater in September.

“The Lakewood Cultural Center is all about people — what we create and what we

experience together,” she said. “We are so grateful for the loyal support of our patrons over the past year and eager to see old friends and make new acquaintances.”

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The Small Glories 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 19 Wailin’ Jennys alum Cara Luft and JD Edwards create a roots powerhouse duo that delivers soaring, interwoven vocals with stomping clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica. This musical tour-de-force reflects life on the Canadian Prairie in songs of love, loss and environmental struggles.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2021-0018 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/1/2021 12:44:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: PETER G. FERRARO, JR. AND NANCY L. FERRARO Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR OWNIT MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE TERWIN MORTGAGE TRUST 2006-8, ASSET- BACKED SECURITIES, SERIES 2006-8 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 11/7/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 11/30/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005114484 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $58,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $54,939.44 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower’s failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 14, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 84-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9132 S Weatherstone Court, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 20, 2021, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 8/26/2021 Last Publication: 9/23/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 7/2/2021 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DAVID R DOUGHTY Colorado Registration #: 40042 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 21-025395 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2021-0018 First Publication: 8/26/2021 Last Publication: 9/23/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2021-0016 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/1/2021 12:42:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the

Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: KHASE, LLC, A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Original Beneficiary: BRELF II, LLC, a Washington limited liability company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BRMK Lending, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/28/2017 Recording Date of DOT: 3/30/2017 Reception No. of DOT: 2017021513 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $100,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $735,652.65 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: The covenants of said Deed of Trust have been violated for reasons including, but not limited to, the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: A parcel of land being a portion of Project Area 11, ROXBOROUGH DOWNS FILING NO. 2, located in the NE 1/4 of Section 10, Township 7 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., County of Douglas, State of Colorado, and being a portion of Roxborough Downs Filing No. 2 Project Area 11-A, Condominiums, being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Northeast corner of Section 10, Township 7 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. and considering the North line of said NE 1/4 to bear North 89°40'43" W, with all bearings therein contained relative thereto; thence N 89°40'43" W, along the North line of said NE 1/4, a distance of 839.25 feet; thence S 28°22'40" E, a distance of 811.35 feet to the Southwest corner of a parcel of land recorded as Phase 6 under Reception No. 2008051528 in the records of the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder and the point of beginning; thence continuing S 28°22'40" E, a distance of 512.80 feet; thence N 73°49'17" E, a distance of 150.00 feet; thence N 00°45'17" W, a distance of 149.70 feet; thence S 46°17'16" W, a distance of 24,00 feet; thence N 43°42'44" W, a distance of 374.16 feet; thence N 00°00'00" E, a distance of 70.00 feet; thence N 90°00'00" E, a distance of 60.00 feet; thence N 37°49'08" E, a distance of 106.70 feet to a point on the Southeast corner of a parcel of land recorded as Phase 2 under Reception No. 2004077795 in the records of the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder; thence S 86°18'00" W along the South line of said Phase 2, a distance of 74.26 feet to the Southeast corner of a parcel of land recorded as Phase 7 under Reception No. 2007024432 in the records of the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder; thence S 67°10'56" W along the South line of said Phase 7, a distance of 92.99 feet to a point on the East line of a parcel of land recorded as Phase 6 under Reception No. 2008051528 in the records of the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder; thence S 22°44'11" E along said East line, a distance of 68.88 feet to the Southeast corner of said Phase 6; thence S 66°39'21" W along the South line of Phase 6, a distance of 111.24 feet to the Southwest corner of said Phase 6 and the point of beginning, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE FOLLOWING SIX (6) LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS which are evidenced by the Partial Releases of Deed of Trust recorded with the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder on June 15, 2021 at Reception No.’s 2021074307 (Unit 6843); 2021074308 (Site 1); 2021074309 (Site 2); 2021074310 (Unit 6831); 2021074311 (Unit 6835) and on June 17, 2021 at Reception No. 2021075543 (Unit 6847), more particularly described as follows (respectively): Unit 6843, Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums, Phase 19, a Subdivision of Roxborough Downs Filing No. 2, Project Area 11-A, according to the Map recorded November 13, 2019 at Reception No. 2019077146, and subject to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums recorded March 2, 2015 at Reception No 2015017724, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Site 1, Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums, Phase 17, a Subdivision of Roxborough Downs Filing No. 2, Project Area 11-A, according to the Map recorded October 23, 2018 at Reception No. 2018064481, and subject to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums recorded March 2, 2015 at Reception No 2015017724, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Site 2, Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums, Phase 17, a Subdivision of Roxborough Downs Filing No. 2, Project Area 11-A, according to the Map recorded October 23, 2018 at Reception No. 2018064481, and subject to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums recorded March 2, 2015 at Reception No 2015017724, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Unit 6831, Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums, Phase 18, a Subdivision of Roxborough Downs Filing No. 2, Project Area 11-A,

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according to the Map recorded May 7, 2019 at Reception No. 2019024519, and subject to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums recorded March 2, 2015 at Reception No 2015017724, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Unit 6835, Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums, Phase 18, a Subdivision of Roxborough Downs Filing No. 2, Project Area 11-A, according to the Map recorded May 7, 2019 at Reception No. 2019024519, and subject to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums recorded March 2, 2015 at Reception No 2015017724, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Unit 6847, Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums, Phase 19, a Subdivision of Roxborough Downs Filing No. 2, Project Area 11-A, according to the Map recorded November 13, 2019 at Reception No. 2019077146, and subject to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Ramparts at Roxborough II Condominiums recorded March 23, 2015 at Reception No 2015017724, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Which has the address of: Vacant Land, Littleton, CO 80125 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 20, 2021, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 8/26/2021 Last Publication: 9/23/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 7/2/2021 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: PETER Q. MURPHY Colorado Registration #: 23328 1775 SHERMAN STREET, SUITE 1950, DENVER, COLORADO 80203 Phone #: (303) 866-0119 Fax #: Attorney File #: 11167.016 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2021-0016 First Publication: 8/26/2021 Last Publication: 9/23/2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS A public hearing will be held on Sept. 13, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. before the Douglas County Planning Commission in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO. The hearing is for the certification and adoption of the 2020 National Electrical Code, with amendments. For more information call Korby Lintz, Chief Building Official, Douglas County Building Division at 303-660-7497.

Legal Notice No. 939565 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: ROBERT F LEWEY AKA ROBERT FRANKLIN

LEWEY & DESTINY FALCON RENAISSANCE AKA DEBRA LYNN LEWEY AKA DEBBIE L LEWEY - OCCUPANT - VOYAGER PACIFIC OPPORTUNITY FUND II LLC - ROBERT DINSMORE - SHERI L THOMPSON - BRIARWOOD INVESTMENT GROUP INC A COLORADO CORPORATION - LAWRENCE E LIVINGSTON AS VICE PRESIDENT BRIARWOOD INVESTMENT GROUP INC A COLORADO CORPORATION - JON CLARKE REGISTERED AGENT BRIARWOOD INVESTMENT GROUP INC A COLORADO CORPORATION - DESTINY FALCON RENAISSANCE AKA DEBRA LYNN LEWEY AKA DEBBIE L LEWEY You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 12th day of November 2013 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to LINCOLN LTD the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: LOT 25 BLK 3 MERIBEL VILLAGE 1 229-774 0.503 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to LINCOLN LTD. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2012. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of ROBERT F LEWEY & DESTINY FALCON RENAISSANCE for said year 2012 That on the 13th day of January 2021 said LINCOLN LTD assigned said certificate of purchase to ROBERT DINSMORE. That said ROBERT DINSMORE on the 13th day of January 2021 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 9th day of December 2021 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 26th day of August 2021 /s/ David Gill Douglas County Treasurer Legal Notice No. 939587 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: HOLLY HUGHES % GAIL E SHIELDS ESQ LLOYD R WADE - RODNEY C LARSON - KW LANE LTD - BLACK BELT ENERGY LLC BRHISD COLORADO LLC -OCCUPANT - HOLLY HUGHES AKA HOLLY HUGHES LAPIN AKA HOLLY L HUGHES AKA HOLLY H LAPIN - GAIL E SHIELDS ESQ AKA GAIL ELDON SHIELDS - FIRST CAPITAL CORPORATION - FIRST CAPITAL CORPORATION C/O RICHARD D HEISERMAN CHAIRMAN You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 6th day of November 2014 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to DOUGLAS COUNTY the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: 1/6 MIN INT IN NE1/4NE1/4 7-7-67 N1/2NW1/4, PT S1/2NW1/4 & PT NE1/4 LYING WEST OF DANIELS PARK RD ROW 8-7-67 S1/2SW1/4 & PT SE1/4 LYING WEST OF DANIELS PARK RD ROW 5-7-67 TOTAL = 214.068 AM/L MIN INT = 35.678 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to DOUGLAS COUNTY. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2013. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of HOLLY HUGHES % GAIL E SHIELDS ESQ for said year 2013 That on the 8th day of July 2020 said DOUGLAS COUNTY assigned said certificate of purchase to KW LANE LTD. That said KW LANE LTD on the 22nd day of December 2020 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 2nd day of December 2021 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 19th day of August 2021 /s/ David Gill, Douglas County Treasurer Legal Notice No. 939550 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Second Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 2, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: KATHY J HEISLER AKA KATHY JEAN HEISLER - OCCUPANT - LINCOLN LTD - FIG CO19 LLC - TED L ARAGON - NEVA D KROUT & KATHY J HEISLER AKA KATHY JEAN HEISLER - NEVA D KROUT - ELECTRICAL FEDERAL CREDIT UNION - KATHY J HEISLER AS CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF NEVA D KROUT DECEASED AKA KATHY J HEISLER AS THE DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF NEVA D KROUT DECEASED - LARRY W KROUT AS CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF NEVA D KROUT DECEASED CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE WITHIN ESTATE KATHY J HEISLER & LARRY W KROUT - KATHY J HEISLER AKA KATHY JEAN HEISLER C/O MICHAEL JOHN HEISLER & CAROL JUNE OCHSNER - KATHY J HEISLER AKA KATHY JEAN HEISLER C/O LETHA L HEISLER - KATHY J HEISLER AKA KATHY JEAN HEISLER C/O BERENICE S CLARK You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 3rd day of November 2016 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to LINCOLN LTD the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: LOT 18 BLK 4 WESTCREEK LAKES 286-753 .68 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to LINCOLN LTD. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2015. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of KATHY J HEISLER for said year 2015 That said LINCOLN LTD on the 23rd day of February 2021 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 9th day of December 2021 unless the same has been redeemed.

Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 26th day of August 2021 /s/ David Gill County Treasurer of Douglas County Legal Notice No. 939586 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Children Services (Adoption/Guardian/Other) Public Notice DOUGLAS COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, STATE OF COLORADO 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, CO Douglas County, CO 80109 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO In the Interest of: HARPER HALULA, D.O.B.: 05/01/2018; ALEXIS HALULA, D.O.B.: 03/26/2015; MELODY MOREIKO, D.O.B.: 06/27/2008; Children, And concerning: DANIELLE HALULA, D.O.B.: 09/06/1991, Mother; NATHAN HALULA, D.O.B.: 11/27/1991, Father to Alexis and Harper; STEPHEN MOREIKO, D.O.B.: 05/14/1988, Father to Melody; Respondents, And JUDY AND ANDREW HALULA, Paternal Grandparents, MONICA JENSEN, Maternal Grandmother, Special Respondents.

Attorney for Department: John Thirkell, #13865 Lori Kennedy, #53479 4400 Castleton Ct. Castle Rock, CO 80109 (303) 814-5326 jthirkel@douglas.co.us lkennedy@douglas.co.us CASE NUMBER: 20JV205

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DEPENDENCY SUMMONS This Summons is initiated pursuant to Rule 2.2 of the Colorado Rules of Juvenile Procedure, Rule

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BY ALEXIS KIKOEN ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

It’s hundreds of years in the future. The world has burned, and humans are learning to live in this new reality.

It’s not a plot of the latest sci-fi movie; it’s something you can experience for yourself in Denver.

Over 25 local artists have come together to create Novo Ita, an immersive experience at Spectra Art Space, 1836 S. Broadway in Denver.

“I’m so excited, we’ve been working it for months, since December,” said Sadie Young, Spectra’s owner and founder, and the creative director of Novo Ita. “It’s a narrativedriven art experience. [The story] is a city in the very distant future that has developed out of what we call in the story ‘The Event.’”

“The Event” was inspired by real-

life climate change, and depicts a future where the world has burned down and been rebuilt.

Their inspiration is an art movement known as Solar Punk. It’s a stark contrast to the more popular genre of Steampunk, which imagines a more dystopian post-apocalyptic version of Earth.

In Novo Ita, Earth’s residents learned from their mistakes “and have learned to work with the Earth to create a thriving, sustainable society,” Young explained.

Along with the sustainability theme, it was important for Young to use as much recycled material as possible. She estimates that 90% of the material used in the entire exhibition is recycled or reclaimed.

Another feature of the experience is the use of augmented reality to tell the story. Visitors can use their phones to scan codes around the

A new immersive art experience called Novo Ita shows a possible future.

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exhibit. Animated characters will pop up and help tell the story.

Novo Ita is the biggest event for Spectra Art Space since COVID-19 shut it down in March 2020.

“COVID was crazy,” said Young, “There was a moment right at the beginning where I actually had a ‘for lease’ sign in front of the build-

ing. It was almost over.”

Spectra survived through help from Paycheck Protection Program loans, live streams, private events, and “our amazing community and the support that we had,” Young said.

She encouraged people to check out Novo Ita as a way to support local artists. “Every ticket helps that goal,” she said. “It’s an incredible story inside giant works of art.

It’s fun, it’s safe and it’s good for all ages.”

Novo Ita runs through September.

You can get tickets and find more information at spectraartspace. com/novoita.

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.

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Public Notices 4 of the Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure, and Section 19-3-503, C.R.S. 2020.

TO: STEPHEN MOREIKO, D.O.B.: 05/14/1988 TO THE RESPONDENT NAMED ABOVE: You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed which alleges that the above-named child is dependent or neglected as per the facts set forth in the Dependency and Neglect Petition, a copy of which may be obtained at the office of the Douglas County Attorney’s Office.

Return of Service, Adjudication for Respondent

Father Stephen Moreiko, and a Permanency Planning Hearing have been set for September 13, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. in Division 8, Douglas County District Court. All parties shall participate by phone by calling 720-437-6180, extension 75590#, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.

Your presence before this court is required to defend against the claims in this petition. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR, THE COURT WILL PROCEED IN YOUR ABSENCE, WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE, TO CONDUCT AN ADJUDICATORY HEARING AND MAY ENTER A JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT THEREBY ADJUDICATING YOUR CHILD AS A DEPENDENT OR

NEGLECTED CHILD. You have the right to request a trial by jury at the adjudicatory stage of this petition. You also have the right to legal representation at every stage of the proceedings by counsel of your own choosing, or if you are without sufficient financial means, appointment of counsel by the Court. Termination of your parent-child legal relationship to free your children for adoption is a possible remedy in this proceeding. If that remedy is pursued, you are entitled to a hearing before a Judge. You also have the right, if you are indigent, to have the Court appoint, at no expense to you, one expert witness of your own choosing at any hearing on

the termination of your parent-child relationship.

If you are a minor, you have the right to the appointment of a Guardian ad litem to represent your best interests.

County Department of Human Services through its counsel.

You have the right to have this matter heard by a district court judge rather than by the magistrate.

You may waive that right, and in doing so, you will be bound by the findings and recommendations of the magistrate, subject to review as provided by sec. 19-1-108(5.5), C.R.S. 2020, and subsequently, to the right of appeal as provided by Colorado Appellate Rule 3.4.

/s/ Lori Kennedy Lori Kennedy, #53479 Assistant Douglas County Attorney

This summons is being initiated by the Douglas

Dated: August 25, 2021

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