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As COVID cases rise, local hospital ICUs fill up ‘Vast majority’ of hospitalized virus patients are unvaccinated

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children ages 2 through 11, including all students over age 2. The agency serves Douglas, Arapahoe and Adams counties.

Tri-County Health Executive Director John Douglas said COVID-19 is not making children severely ill in general. But he said the health agency wants to help control the virus’s spread to families and vulnerable people through children. The agency also wants children to be able to remain in classrooms as case rates are continuing to rise in the metro area, he said.

As COVID-19 cases continue to go up across the metro area due to the highly-transmissible delta variant, hospitals are admitting more patients to ICU beds, and UCHealth is postponing non-urgent medical procedures.

According to the Tri-County Health Department, as of Sept. 1, hospitals in Douglas County had reached 95% capacity for ICU beds.

Inpatient beds were exceeding 85%.

In neighboring Arapahoe County, ICU beds were at 83.4% capacity to start the month of September.

Adams County increased to 91.3% capacity.

As hospitals are dealing with the increase in cases, UCHealth made the call last week to postpone nonurgent surgeries as the system faces the highest number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients since January, when cases neared 500.

At the start of September, UCHealth reported more than 260 hospitalizations due to confirmed or suspected COVID patients.

UCHealth has 12 hospitals. In the Denver metro area, UCHealth has

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Hundreds of students and parents protested mask mandates in Douglas County Schools on Sept. 1.

PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS

Students walk out in anti-mask protest Hundreds urged personal choice as mandate went into effect

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The Sept. 1 walkout started when three students emerged from Legend High School in Parker and meandered toward a nearby park.

Two more followed shortly after, and for a moment the small group was the only sign of protest.

Then came dozens, and within

minutes, hundreds of students and parents had amassed across the street from the high school.

They held signs calling masks child abuse, public health officials liars, and demanded masks remain optional.

“I can’t do this again,” said one boy’s poster.

Multiple student walkouts took place at Douglas County high schools last week in protest of a masking mandate for students 2 and older in schools, which went into effect Sept. 1.

The Tri-County Health Department on Aug. 30 expanded a previous mask order that applied to

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agency until at least 2023.

It was a few days after the health board’s decision to end the opt-out policy that the Douglas County commissioners voted to begin forming their own department.

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‘Driving their own agenda’ In resigning from the Tri-County Board of Health Aug. 26, Nannestad cited a conflict of interest due to his job with the Douglas County School District, which is enforcing Tri-County’s mask mandate.

Bracken works as a consultant helping hospitals find cost-saving measures, according to a resume he submitted for the county advisory committee.

In his application to join the committee, he wrote about frequent COVID-19 update meetings in which he “argued with the Tri-County Health Department based on the skewed data sets in and isolated information that was provided during these meetings.”

“Ultimately, Tri-County Health Department was not interested in adjusting their information, they were only interested in driving their own agenda,” he wrote.

In one council meeting, he said he believed Douglas, the head of Tri-County, had “dropped the ball.”

Before joining the public health advisory committee, Bracken joined other Douglas County elected officials in scrutinizing the Douglas County School District and public health officials for COVID-19 precautions. He has been a staunch supporter of leaving the wearing of masks in schools up to personal choice.

In an email that Bracken sent to Douglas County commissioners and school district leaders, which he provided to Colorado Community Media, he claimed that children were at lower risk for the virus and were less likely to spread COVID. “Without sounding callous, it is time for folks to exercise their own personal responsibility,” he wrote.

Bracken said he sent the email before a more transmissible strain first identified in the U.K. began widely circulating.

Still, students should not be required to mask if they would also be required to quarantine when exposed to COVID-19 regardless of whether they wore face coverings, he told Colorado Community Media.

Bracken argued Tri-County Health was not standing behind its own data showing children were at less risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and pressed Dr. John Douglas, the Tri-County director, to push back against Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment COVID-safety requirements.

In the pandemic’s early months, Bracken criticized orders closing struggling businesses to in-person service. In May 2020, Bracken said he would patronize businesses that opened in defiance of shutdowns, so long as they practiced social distancing. In December he attended anti-shutdown rallies in

Douglas County commissioners have appointed a Castle Rock Town Council member and chair of the county’s public health advisory committee as an interim member of the Tri-County Health Department board.

Kevin Bracken, Castle Rock’s mayor pro tem, has been a vocal critic of Tri-County Health’s handling of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic. He frequently goes head-to-head with Tri-County Executive Director John Douglas in public meetings and has previously written the agency urging fewer COVID-19 precautions in schools, such as mask-wearing rules.

Bracken was named to step in for Zach Nannestad, whose resignation from the Tri-County Board of Health in late August marked the third time this year that Douglas County has lost one of its representatives on the board.

His appointment comes as Douglas County has been making moves to exit Tri-County and stand up its own public health agency amid opposition by the county’s elected leaders to some of Tri-County’s

Castle Rock Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Bracken.

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COVID-related mandates, most recently its ruling that people must wear a mask in school buildings.

Tri-County has provided public health services to Douglas County for 55 years and also served Arapahoe and Adams counties. Its nine-

member board is made up of three representatives from each of the three counties, appointed by their commissioners.

Bracken was recently selected as chair of Douglas County’s public health advisory committee, which was established to help commissioners explore the future of public health services in the county.

Douglas County commissioners voted Sept. 1 to begin the process of forming their own health department. At press time, county commissioners were slated to take a vote on quitting the agency Sept.

7.

Unless and until the county appoints a new board of health, it would will still be under the purview of Tri-County Health, according to a county spokesperson.

Bracken’s appoinment came hours before an Aug. 30 Tri-County board meeting regarding masks.

At that meeting, Tri-County’s board approved an indoor maskwearing requirement for all students and teachers in school and childcare settings.

Bracken and Dr. Linda Fielding, the only other Douglas County board of health representative present, both voted against the mask mandate, as did an Arapahoe County representative.

“This board is completely missing the mark on protecting the people that are vulnerable,” Bracken said in the meeting. “You are punishing the kids, the ones who can’t protect themselves, and I’m standing up for them right now.”

Also in that meeting, the board revoked a policy that allowed its three member counties to opt out of public health orders. That policy had been approved in November 2020 as part of a negotiation with the Douglas County commissioners, who had threatened to leave the health department. Following that agreement, the commissioners promised to stay with the

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Public health experts including Douglas have spoken at previous school board meetings, stressing there is no evidence that masks are harmful to children and that they are effective at containing COVID-19 spread, although those comments were usually rebuffed by antimasking crowds calling for personal choice.

District spokeswoman Paula Hans provided a statement when asked for comment on the protests. The district is balancing challenges from the ongoing pandemic and will follow Tri-County’s health order, she said, which requires masks for students and staff in preschool through 12th grade.

“Additionally, we will work with our families and staff members who cannot tolerate a mask due to medical or mental health reasons.

Our goal is to keep our students and staff in the classroom for in-person learning,” her statement said.

‘I don’t want to do it again’ At Legend, Linda Potter attended in support of her freshman son, Michael Davy. Wearing masks last school year affected his mental and physical health by causing headaches, she said. Potter has an obligation as a parent to help Michael speak up for personal freedoms, she said.

“They are very passionate speaking with their own voice and their own constitutional right,” she said

Several dozen students stood near the front doors of Douglas County High School in Castle Rock on Sept. 2, participating in a walkPHOTO BY THELMA GRIMES out to protest the district’s mask mandate. Other schools in the county had similar walkouts.

of the students.

Potter said she would support her son if he wanted to wear a mask, but Michael said that’s not his stance.

He does not believe masks are effective and said he noticed less social interaction between students after the mandate began that morning.

Michael did not comply, he said,

and observed what he estimated to be fewer than 50% of students masking at Legend the morning of Sept.

1. Staff did not reprimand him, but his impression was some teachers were upset by his choice, saying he got “dirty looks.”

He hopes the mandate is repealed and said the latest health order

angered him.

“Because we already went through this for one whole year and I don’t want to do it again,” he said.

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‘It just stinks’ Protests took place at multiple schools in Douglas County on Sept.

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Bryan McBride is an English teacher at Rock Canyon. In preparing the day before for expected student walkouts, McBride said he planned to support what he called students’ First Amendment right to protest but would remain in the classroom to also support students who wanted to work on that day’s lessons.

McBride estimated about 5% of people at Rock Canyon voluntarily masked before mandates went into effect this school year, echoing estimates that district Superintendent Corey Wise shared for the whole district at an Aug. 24 board meeting.

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Signs at the Legend High School student rally protesting masking mandates read “I can’t breathe,” “I can’t do this again,” and called for masking to remain a personal choice.

the district. We weren’t seeing many positive cases in the building, so we felt kind of insulated,” McBride said.

He supports masking now to prevent Colorado from losing intensivecare unit capacity, like several other states are, and said he’s trusting Tri-County Health’s guidance when it comes to mandates.

The start to the school year has been tense, McBride said, and he worries about further spread of the delta variant along with continued disputes over COVID-19.

“I think already we are starting to feel tired and normally I don’t think that that’s something we experience in the third week of class,” he said.

“It just stinks. I don’t know a better way to put it.”

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Arapahoe, Adams look at whether to exit Tri-County Health

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Following news that Douglas County could form its own health department soon, Arapahoe County confirmed that Arapahoe and Adams counties have also been contemplating splitting away from Tri-County Health Department in its current form.

By October, commissioners in both Arapahoe and Adams counties will be provided with findings from a transition team to inform a decision on a new structure for public health services, according to a statement from Arapahoe County.

Both Arapahoe and Adams County have been a part of TriCounty Health since the agency was founded in 1948.

Consultants are examining the scenarios of a two-county health agency or creating single-county health departments, said Luc Hatlestad, spokesperson for Arapahoe County.

“We set this up in the spring (or) summer,” Hatlestad said, adding that the study was initiated once it became clear that Douglas wasn’t going to stick with Tri-County Health.

Douglas County’s consideration of leaving the agency -- which at press time was to come up for action on Sept. 7 -- came amid a rift with Tri-County Health over the agency’s pandemic safety policies and its decision not to let counties opt them-

MORE ON THE MASK DEBATE ONLINE Since this newspaper went to press, Colorado Community Media reporters have been following fast-moving developments in the ongoing debate over school COVID-safety mask-wearing policies and the Tri-County Health Department. For the latest news, visit ColoradoCommunityMedia.com.

The Arapahoe County Administration Building on South Prince Street in Littleton.

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selves out of its mandates.

But Douglas County commissioners back in July 2020 announced they would eventually leave TriCounty Health, citing a wish for more local control over public health orders. That plan was put on hold under an agreement with Tri-County allowing counties to opt out of public-health orders. But the agency’s board voted on Aug. 30 to no longer allow opt-outs.

An Arapahoe County spokesperson emphasized that the county’s

consideration of leaving Tri-County Health isn’t because of disagreement with the health agency.

“We began looking at other public health agency options after Douglas announced its intentions to leave Tri-County last year,” Hatlestad said. “We did not initiate this because of any dissatisfaction with Tri-County — we’ve actually worked extremely well with them since the beginning of the pandemic.”

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agency would potentially create financial or budgetary problems for the other two counties, Hatlestad added.

Tri-County Health has been working with Adams and Arapahoe counties over the past several months to develop a transition plan, Hatlestad said earlier. Since the process began, Adams and Arapahoe started to include the possibility of singlecounty public health agencies in the process.

Meanwhile, Arapahoe County Attorney Ronald Carl, in a Sept.

3 letter to his Douglas County counterpart, Lance Ingalls, said Arapahoe County was considering possible legal action if Douglas County “chooses to proceed” with its withdrawal plans, citing the “suddenness of this planned action” and that state law requires a oneyear notification before a county can pull out of Tri-County. The letter was disclosed by Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas in a Sept. 5 email to constituents.

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Douglas County moves to split from Tri-County Health Action would end 55-year relationship with public-health agency

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County commissioners unanimously voted Sept. 1 to begin the process of forming the county’s own health department —- the latest chapter in the county’s long-running dispute with the Tri-County Health Department over COVIDsafety rules.

The preliminary vote came just a few days after Tri-County Health’s board voted to no longer allow counties to opt out of public health orders and enacted a mask mandate for all students and staff in school settings. Douglas County previously had opted out of Tri-County’s school-mask mandate.

“I believe that we have been double-crossed,” Commissioner Lora Thomas said during the work session.

The Sept. 1 commissioner vote directed county staffers to send a letter to Tri-County informing the health department of their pending departure.

Commissioners earlier issued a statement that they would create “a public health agency framework that will honor the needs of Douglas County citizens.”

At press time, commissioners were planning to vote again Sept. 7 on a full resolution regarding forming a county health department and leaving Tri-County Health. (Go online to ColoradoCommunityMedia. com for updated coverage.)

Arapahoe County Attorney Ronald Carl, in a Sept. 3 letter to his Douglas County counterpart, Lance

Ingalls, said Arapahoe County was considering possible legal action if Douglas County “chooses to proceed” with its withdrawal plans, citing the “suddenness of this planned action” and that state law requires a one-year notification before a county can pull out of Tri-County.

The letter was disclosed by Commissioner Thomas in a Sept. 5 email to constituents.

At press time, it was not clear what if any response Douglas County would make to the letter.

Douglas County’s proposed move would split the county from TriCounty Health, which has served the county for 55 years. Tri-County also serves Arapahoe and Adams counties.

The county would have 90 days to form its own board of health after commissioners approve the Tri-County pullout, and that board would then select an executive director for the county’s public health department, according to the county attorney.

Until a new county board is appointed, the county would still be under the purview of Tri-County, according to a county spokesperson.

Normally, counties are required to give the health department one year’s notice before they leave. But during the Douglas County commissioners’ Sept. 1 work session, Ingalls, the county attorney, said that he believes there is a strong legal argument for why that’s not needed this time.

Ingalls said that because Tri-County had recently voted to rescind the opt-out option — a negotiated agreement between the two entities — the county’s earlier notification of plans to withdraw from Tri-County over COVID-policy differences, in July 2020, was still intact.

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hospitals in Highlands Ranch, Aurora and Broomfield.

A statement provided by media relations manager Paula Freund said, “Highlands Ranch Hospital and other UCHealth hospitals are experiencing very high census rates and caring for near-record numbers of patients. We are closely monitoring the capacity of our hospitals.

“To ensure we have available beds and the capabilities to care for any patients who may have an urgent or emergent health care need, we have been proactively postponing a small number of non-urgent and non-emergent surgeries and procedures that would have led to an admission to one of our hospitals, including Highlands Ranch Hospital,” Freund said. “This is helping to open up beds as needed for patients with more urgent health care conditions.”

Centura Health has several hospitals in the region, including Castle Rock Adventist Hospital and Parker Adventist Hospital in Douglas County.

On Sept. 1, Kevin Massey, the organization’s communications field adviser, said, “Centura Health hospitals, like other hospital systems in Colorado and elsewhere, have seen an increase in COVID-19 patients over the summer as the delta variant has spread in our communities.

However, the number of patients with COVID-19 is still far lower than we saw in the winter. Although

Carol Knight, a clinical nurse coordinator for Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree, FILE PHOTO receives a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital on Dec. 16, 2020.

our hospitals are busy, all of our facilities have the capacity to care for everyone in our communities who need us.”

Like other health officials in the region, Massey said unvaccinated cases are causing more concern.

“The vast majority of our COVID-19 inpatients are unvaccinated.

We continue to encourage all in our communities to get vaccinated against COVID-19,” he said. “The vaccines are safe and effective and are the best way to avoid becoming

infected with COVID-19 and spreading it to others.”

In late August, Dr. Ben Usatch, emergency medicine physician and medical director of the UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital Emergency Department, said the Douglas County hospital is gaining more patients every day and the difference between an unvaccinated and vaccinated case is dramatic.

Usatch said unvaccinated patients are requiring more care, ventilators and are in more serious condition.

In cases where a vaccinated patient gets a breakthrough case of COVID, Usatch said, the symptoms are routinely mild and need little care.

Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree, operated by the HealthOne hospital system, has also seen an increase in COVID patients due to the delta variant.

In a Sept. 2 statement, Linda Watson, the hospital vice president of marketing and public affairs, said, “Like other hospitals, Sky Ridge Medical Center has seen a marked increase in COVID-19 patients in the past few weeks. This increase includes patients on our medical floor as well as those requiring ICU care. Our COVID-19 patient admissions have tripled in the past 30 days. About a third of COVID patients admitted currently require ICU care, and approximately half of those COVID-19 patients in the ICU require ventilation.”

Watson said Sky Ridge is there for the entire community and has the capacity to continue treating patients.

“On a regular basis, there is a frequent flow of patients admitted and discharged,” she said. “We continually monitor our census and assess resources and support to help meet the needs of our community including those non-COVID-19 patients who require our care.”

Like other medical professionals, Sky Ridge Chief Medical Officer Eric Lung said in late August that vaccinations are going to be the key to decreasing the severity of COVID cases and stopping the spreading pandemic.

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Can Colorado GOP’s base get past 2020 to win in 2022?

Unfounded claims of a stolen election test party’s game plan

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Kristi Burton Brown, chairwoman of the Colorado GOP, appeared at a gathering of Republicans in Jefferson County this summer where she talked about how the party can attract unaffiliated voters and finally win again in 2022.

Candidates need to look forward and talk about keeping taxes low and school choice, she said. “We have to become the party of ideas.”

But when Burton Brown opened the hotel-conference-room gathering up for questions, the crowd didn’t want to discuss her talking points.

They jerked the focus back to the past.

“The biggest issue for me is voter cheating and this whole national election, as we all know, was a set up,” a man said.

“Has there been any talk of a forensic audit anywhere in this state?” a woman asked next.

“If the Arizona audit shows the Dominion (Voting System) machines to be unreliable — and we use those machines — what’s our game plan?” another man wanted to know, referencing a Republican-led recount in the Phoenix area.

Rally attendees listen to speakers from the lawn of the Colorado state Capitol during a pro-Trump rally on Jan. 6, the same day as the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

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Supporters of then-President Donald Trump gathered on all four corners at University Boulevard and Highlands Ranch Parkway on Election Night, Nov. 3, 2020, waving flags PHOTO BY JOHN LEYBA/SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN and playing music.

As Colorado Republicans look to 2022 with hopes of bouncing back from two election cycles of defeat, their game plan for how to move forward is clashing with an attachment among the party’s base to unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. It’s not clear if the two pursuits can successfully coexist.

“The election-fraud claim does pose a special challenge, because the base is especially riled up about

it and swing voters are especially turned off by it,” said Daniel Cole, who leads the Republican campaign operations for state House and Senate Republicans.

The same debate is playing out in other states, including Arizona, where a Republican audit of 2020 ballots in Maricopa County is dragging on. Trump, who continues to question his loss last year, fell short in the state by more than 10,000 votes. A previous recount of Maricopa County’s ballots found no problems.

A push from some in the Colorado GOP to cancel the 2022 primaries to cut unaffiliated voters out of the process and allow party insiders to select the GOP nominees is an extension of the baseless voter fraud anxiety. Unaffiliated voters have been able to vote in partisan primaries in Colorado since the 2016 passage of Proposition 108.

For instance, state Rep. Ron Hanks, a Fremont County Republican who has been one of the loudest voices in Colorado when it comes to questioning the 2020 presidential election results, said opting out of the state-run primary is a step toward election integrity.

Randy Corporon, a Republican national committeeman and conservative talk radio host, has been advocating on his KNUS show for the primaries to be canceled for the same reason.

“The Republican Party can take … power away from Jena Griswold and the state by reclaiming their own primary,” he told listeners recently, referring to the Democratic secretary of state, who is Colorado’s top election official.

Priscilla Rahn, vice chair of the Colorado GOP, recently said she supports canceling the 2022 primary, calling into question Griswold’s ability to fairly oversee the contest.

“Ask yourself this: “Do you trust her to administer an honest election and not interfere against Republicans?” Rahn wrote in an Aug. 21 letter.

But Dick Wadhams, a former chair of the Colorado Republican Party, sees major peril for his party if it continues to beat the drum on

election fraud and opts out of next year’s primaries. “There is no way a Republican can win in 2022 for statewide office and, frankly, in a bunch of competitive districts around the state,” he said of the scenario.

Unaffiliated voters made up 43% of registered voters in Colorado at the end of July, compared to Republicans at 26% and Democrats at 29%.

“They keep talking about how these unaffiliated voters are going to defile our process because they are going to be nominating a bunch of moderates and liberals,” Wadhams said. “I read that kind of stuff, I listen to it, and I’m thinking: ‘Any Republican candidate for statewide office who doesn’t think about the unaffiliated voters during their primary isn’t serious.’”

Wadhams said it would be disastrous for Republicans if questioning the 2020 presidential election results becomes a litmus test for primary candidates.

Burton Brown, who hasn’t taken a public stance on the question of whether to cancel next year’s GOP primaries, appears to agree, urging Republicans to move on from last year.

“The more we talk about the past, the more we talk about what happened instead of what we are going to do in 2022, the more our candidates are put at a disadvantage,” she said at the Jefferson County Republican event, “because we are focusing on something we cannot control.”

Still, she said, questions about election integrity are posed “all around the state.”

The Colorado GOP is encouraging people who are concerned about the state’s voting processes to “get involved” and “get your eyes in the room” by becoming poll watchers and election judges. But she said there has been no proof of mass fraud in Colorado and that the only sure way for Republicans to lose in 2022 is for the party’s voters not to show up on Election Day because they think their vote won’t count.

Election security was not explicitly on the list when Burton Brown and other top Republicans earlier this month rolled out a 10-point “Commitment to Colorado” aimed at attracting unaffiliated voters and serving as the party’s 2022 platform.

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The elegant solution: thinking before speaking

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here is a time and place for pithy remarks, sarcasm, and even bad jokes. OK, well maybe there is never a good time for bad jokes, but pithy remarks and sarcasm, absolutely.

The world has been dealing us some very serious situations. There are many among us who deal with serious situations through humor.

Whether we are trying to mask our own fears or concerns, and/or we are trying to lighten a mood for others around us, the smart play is to read the room first. Many a poorly timed great joke or spontaneous one-liner has been met with incredulity and awkward silence.

Many of us have found ourselves apologizing once we realized the impact that our comment or joke had on those around us. Having been that person who carelessly and thoughtlessly made a bad choice of words, and did so more than once, I know firsthand what it feels like to wish I could immediately take back what I had said.

Now I am not referring to political correctness where some of us get easily offended by the slightest offhanded remark or jab. I will reserve

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that for another column. What I am referring to here is having situational awareness and sensitivity to what is going on around us at any given moment.

In our haste we may think that is inMichael Norton something credibly funny, or harmless when it first pops into our head, not pausing to try and appreciate how it will be received by others. Even when we have the very best of intentions, poor timing coupled with even worse content could end up as a complete misfire.

You may feel like this is common sense. Maybe it is, let’s also remember that common sense isn’t always common practice. Again, learning this the hard way, I have taught myself to apply the 30-second rule.

Instead of focusing on being quick with a joke or punch line, I hesitate to make sure that what I am about to say wouldn’t be insulting or hurtful to those around me.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Remember Afghanistan facts I am writing in response to the Aug. 26 article about veterans who served in Afghanistan. But first I want to thank them and all members of the military for their service and sacrifice.

I am not going to discuss if we should have been in Afghanistan, we should have left, or how the withdrawal was handled. I am writing in response to a couple of quotes in the article from one of the veterans.

He said he was “frustrated with the Biden administration and how it handled the withdrawal” and “this administration stubbornly stuck to their decision and to talking points and to political campaign processes more than the reality of the ground.”

I think people have forgotten it was the Trump administration that negotiated with the Taliban and signed a deal in Doha, Qatar in February 2020 agreeing the U.S. would leave Afghanistan no later than May 1, 2021. In return, the Taliban agreed to stop attacking U.S. service members. This is why no U.S. troops were attacked and killed for over a year.

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By the way, there is a difference between being offended and being insulted or hurt. If we were to worry about offending others each time we spoke, well we just might not speak at all anymore. We could all use a little adjustment to our offended meter, recognizing that all our differences and differences of opinion are what keep things fun and interesting. Just imagine if we all thought the same, looked the same, acted the same in every situation, how boring would that be?

Insulting or hurting others through our words is something completely different. It’s one thing if our poorly timed attempt at humor, lightening the mood, or trying to comfort someone else is done with the very best of intentions and falls flat. When that is the case, we can fix it by practicing the 30-second rule, pausing before we speak. However, when we know that what we are about to say could potentially be a mic drop moment for all the wrong reasons, that is when it becomes a problem.

Situational awareness coupled with proper etiquette is always seen as an elegant solution. I

think we still live in a country i that honors free speech. Although f our speech may be, it is incumt bent upon as humans that coexist c with one another to think before a we speak, especially in moments t where we have a knee-jerk reacA tion to shoot from the hip. And to increase our chances of providing r an elegant solution and speaking p the right words at the right time, s maybe we can build or rebuild our F t own go-to word bank filled with words such as kindness, gentleness, grace, compassion, comfort, love and forgiveness.

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Have you ever uttered words at the wrong moment that you wish you could take back? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing. com, and when we can remember to pause and think before we speak, it really will be a better than good year.

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A Colorado mom-and-pop business inches closer to red ink

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he new priorities of the United States Postal Service will be the end of our mom-and-pop business.

Last summer, packages that our business shipped via USPS began to go missing or took months to reach their destination. Over the last year, we have spent a massive amount of time and expense tracking down packages, sending out replacements, filing claims forms online or by phone, and communicating with frustrated customers.

Boxes being shipped internationally are even worse, as they sometimes disappear into limbo for up to half a year, assuming they turn up at all.

My parents own and operate a small business called Sopris Unlimited. Calling it a small business is a misnomer; it is literally a mom-and-pop operation. In 1982, my dad designed one of the first frame pack saddles for llamas and, three years later, he and my mom

launched the family business.

Our line of llama pack equipment is used by customers throughout the United States and across the world, from Norway to Australia, from Israel to ArgenAlexa Metrick tina. Although we started the business in Carbondale, we are now based in the little mountain town of La Veta.

We are not, nor have we ever been, a brick-and-mortar store; we started out with mail-order print catalogs, covers emblazoned with candid photos of my brother and me out on the trail with llamas. We now receive the majority of our orders through our website. But if you call our 800 number, my dad answers the phone, answers your questions, and takes down your

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order the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper.

As you might imagine, the customer base for llama pack saddles is not large, and we are one of only a half-dozen sources for this type of equipment. Eleven years ago, we expanded our line to include gear for all of the smaller pack animals (including alpacas, goats, sheep, reindeer, yaks, and donkeys), but that still puts our annual receipts at $41,450,000 less than that of the average firm in our mail-order industry as designated by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

And although the SBA doesn’t have a standard number of employees listed for the industry, I’d imagine we’re on the low end; over the decades, various members of one Old Order Amish family in Iowa have manufactured our product line by hand.

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This business has been a daily presence in my parents’ lives for nearly 40 years. So it seems just a bit ironic that, of all the volatile market forces that have threatened it over those decades, our demise might come about because of poor management of the government agency that has consistently been ranked as America’s favorite by Gallup.

The USPS is a vital service to rural America. Unlike our national postal service, private corporations such as United Parcel Service and FedEx are not federally mandated to deliver all mail to every address,

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election integrity issues and that it needs to push for policy reforms.

“It does no one any good to stay out of the fight or not engage,” said Williams, who favors canceling the 2022 primaries. “We need to be able to secure our elections but also prepare for 2022 with the fundamentals — find and recruit candidates, set them up. We can’t ignore one or the other.”

He thinks both can be addressed simultaneously — and he also thinks that unaffiliated voters care about election integrity.

Even if there are Republicans who want to move on, 2020 continues to dominate the spotlight.

Most recently, that’s because of Tina Peters, the GOP clerk and recorder in Mesa County who is under criminal investigation after election system passwords and a copy of a voting equipment hard drive were allegedly taken from her office and then leaked online.

Peters’ case has generated headlines in Colorado for weeks. She has cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election results, allying herself with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump supporter who has peddled conspiracy theories about last year’s contest.

Seth Masket, who leads the Center for American Politics at the University of Denver, suspects that election integrity questions will persist.

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The Biden administration pushed the final withdrawal date to August 31, 2021 and kept the rest of the deal.

Janis Sabel Highlands Ranch Drowning out democracy Democracy does not preserve freedom simply by one party claiming protection of it.

At an Aug. 19 special business meeting, Douglas County Commissioner Abe Laydon asked Commissioner Lora Thomas to withdraw a rule to not clap or cheer during public testimony. A key tool of democracy is open deliberation in

no matter how remote, nor to do so for the same price as a delivery to an address in an urban distribution hub.

The accessibility and affordability of the USPS is especially relevant to our business, as our employees and our customers are overwhelmingly rural.

The future of the United States Postal Service has been under threats of privatization before Louis DeJoy was appointed Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, but the last year with him at the helm might be what finally does our family business in.

Longer delivery times, higher prices, reduced hours, and closed stations are bad enough, but the number of packages we’ve had go

missing over the last year has been devastating to our bottom line.

DeJoy intends to make package delivery the main product of the USPS over the next 10 years, and yet it is that very service that has failed our business, over and over again, during the last year and a half. We are inching nearer and nearer to the red because of mistakes made by the USPS; mistakes that rarely, if ever happened before 2020.

When DeJoy’s new 10-year-plan, with its focus on cost-cutting at the expense of delivery performance, forces my parents to close down their business, I’m sure Wall Street won’t notice. No economic indicators will be affected and there won’t be a flood of unemployed workers looking for new jobs.

But anyone who ships their products directly to their customers, from artists to inventors to llama pack saddle manufacturers, are being adversely affected. It will be that much harder for those of us who exist in niches to make a living at them.

“If you make that (stolen election) argument, it’s pretty hard to pivot away from,” he said. “It’s kind of a difficult place that Republicans have painted themselves into.”

Ryan Winger, a pollster with Louisville-based Magellan Strategies, thinks the divided focus among Republicans is “symptomatic of a larger problem.”

“Many in the GOP fail to understand unaffiliated voters and consequently fail to grasp why they lose elections,” he said. “Sure, making election integrity a major focus will likely scare off unaffiliated voters who didn’t vote for Trump and who the GOP needs to win over, but in a world where there is no dispute about the 2020 result, unaffiliated voters still aren’t flocking to Republican candidates.”

Others, like state Rep. Colin Larson, a Ken Caryl Republican who is eyeing a 2022 congressional bid, doesn’t see election integrity as being the main focus of GOP voters.

He’s bullish on his party’s chances next year.

“It’s not something I’m inundated with,” he said about election security questions. “The vast majority of people in my district are talking to me about school issues right now.

And then after that it’s crime.”

Cole, the strategist leading election efforts for Colorado’s legislative Republicans, thinks that even if there is an election integrity focus among the GOP base “it poses a … familiar challenge.”

“How to appeal first to the base in the primary election and then to

swing voters in the general election?” he said. “This is an issue every cycle on both sides of the aisle. And there are always voices who think Republicans can’t hold the base and the middle together.

In 2016, Jeb Bush said: ‘You have to lose the primary to win the general.’

But it turned out he was wrong.”

The Colorado GOP’s central committee will decide whether to cancel the party’s 2022 primaries on

Sept. 18.

Colorado Sun staff writer Daniel Ducassi contributed to this report.

the pursuit of understanding (not always agreement) with the goal of compromise (not conversion).

It is inconsistent to argue that government is “whittling away our freedom” as one citizen claimed, when the very government leaders supporting this idea do not show a concern for the health or experience of all their citizens, and do not ensure all voices are heard and considered.

The great irony of this debate is that the masks are not silencing those who feel most threatened by the order to wear them. It is the quiet group in this county that believes all should be done to ensure health and life are preserved that suddenly has no voice.

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A firefighter’s mission to remember 9/11 comrades

Denver 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb pays tribute, raises funds

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n Saturday, Sept. 11, Americans will pay tribute to those lost in the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history as they reflect on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Like country star Alan Jackson’s song, “Where Were you When the World Stopped Turning,” many Americans to this day can remember exactly what they were doing when they heard the news that the World Trade Center had been hit by an airliner hijacked by terrorists.

Americans still remember the fear, anger and sadness.

In Castle Rock, local firefighter Oren Bersagel-Briese said he had the day off and his pager sounded.

He ignored it, and a few minutes later, his pager, home phone and cell phone began going off. All firefighters were called in to Castle Rock Fire to be on hand.

At the time, Bersagel-Briese said his father, who worked with the International Organization of Firefighters, was visiting. Doing what they could, Bersagel-Briese said all the firefighters came together to help his dad organize how to handle the tragedy on a national level.

Bersagel-Briese, a fourth-generation firefighter, said after 9/11, he always felt a sense of duty to pay tribute and support for the firefighters and police officers lost that day.

In 2004, his efforts started on a small level with a handful of firefighters from Denver and Castle Rock getting together to stay fit and talk while climbing stairs.

As the tradition continued each month, in 2005 one of the firefighters brought up the idea of climbing specifically on Sept. 11. That year, five firefighters climbed 110 flights of stairs, representing the 110-story

Memorials allow personal reflection, in-person ceremonies planned

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Whether attending a special remembrance ceremony, or taking a personal moment alone, there are several ways to pay respects on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

For example, Castle Rock Com-

Firefighters in 2015 climb 110 flights of stairs, commemorating the 110-story World Trade Center towers where firefighters climbed PHOTOS BY TIMOTHY TONGE stairs to save lives on Sept. 11, 2001.

World Trade Center towers, where firefighters climbed on 9/11 to save lives before the towers collapsed.

Besides a remembrance for lost comrades, Bersagel-Briese said, the annual event provides an opportunity to run a fitness exercise, raising the level of awareness for one of the highest firefighter priorities — physical fitness. More than half of the line-of-duty deaths among firefighters are heart-related incidents, he said.

Bersagel-Briese said in 2006, the group had 12 firefighters show up for what came to be known as the Denver 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.

That year, Bersagel-Briese said, the participants realized they were on to something that could become a bigger event.

In 2007, the Denver 9/11 Memorial Climb grew to 250 participants from all over the U.S. In 2008, the number or participants was capped

munity Relations Manager Melissa Hoelting said the Castle Rock Fire and Rescue Department has several options for residents to choose from.

To take part in personal reflection, Hoelting said residents can stop by two 9/11 memorials in town. The two memorials are located at Station 151, 300 Perry St., and the Public Safety Training Center, at 303 Malibu St. These are always open to the public, Hoelting said.

Thanks to the work of local firefighter Oren Bersagel-Briese, the memorial at the Public Safety

at 343, which Bersagel-Briese said represents the number of firefighters who died on 9/11.

Each year, every firefighter scaling the stairs at a high-rise building in downtown Denver is given a tag with the name and information of a fallen firefighter from 9/11.

“We encourage the firefighters to then call the family of the firefighter they are running for,” BersagelBriese said. “They call and let them know they have not been forgotten.”

Now, in its 16th year, the annual stair climb has gained national attention as departments all over the U.S. have started hosting similar events. In a normal year, BersagelBriese said, there are more than 16,000 firefighters paying tribute to lost comrades on 9/11.

Bersagel-Briese said the Denver 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb is only for firefighters. For the general

Training Center was officially put in place in 2021 after six years of work.

The steel-box column recovered from Ground Zero that is now on display weighs 350 pounds and took years to be built into a proper memorial. After the memorial was completed, Bersagel-Briese, a Castle Rock Fire and Rescue Department division chief at the training center, said, having a piece of Ground Zero in Castle Rock is an honor.

Bersagel-Briese said he chose the training center for the new memorial because it is a place

public to pay tribute, a public stair climb event is hosted at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre each year.

The Red Rocks Stair Climb, 911stairclimb.com, is limited to 1,200 participants this year.

From the start, Bersagel-Briese said, the annual climb has always been about paying respects to the fallen comrades of 9/11. It was not about money, he said.

However, as the event grew bigger and gained more national attention, the annual event started generating funds. Proceeds go to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, which provides funding to help firefighters who survived 9/11 but are now being diagnosed with cancer and other illnesses directly related to the attacks.

Over the years, Bersagel-Briese said, more than $7 million has been contributed to helping New York firefighters and their families.

where both firefighters and Castle Rock police officers come to train, noting that on 9/11 both police and firefighters ran to the World Trade Center together to save lives.

Hoelting said the public is also welcome to attend an in-person remembrance ceremony in conjunction with the Veterans Memorial Run. The ceremony will begin as soon as all of the runners have completed the run, which is slated to be between 2 and 3 p.m. This ceremony will be held at Station 152, 485 Crystal Valley Parkway.

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Watercolor group starts fall season at Curtis

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urtis Center for the Arts, at 2349 E. Orchard Road, Greenwood Village (just west of University Boulevard) is a beautifully SONYA’S restored red brick schoolhouseSAMPLER turned-gallery that every art lover should know.

Through Oct. 30, it hosts the Watercolor Society of Colorado’s “Exploration in Watermedia,” which promises to tell stories in many ways. Juror for this Sonya Ellingboe exhibit is Karen Roehl, who lives and works in Denver and teaches at Art Students League of Denver. Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 303-7971779, greenwoodvillage.com/1247/ Curtis-Center-for-the-Arts. Admission free.

Children’s theater Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington St., Golden, presents “Rumplestiltskin” at 11 a.m., and

1 p.m. on Sept. 11 and 18, with Damon Guerrasio as the grumpy, magical old guy. In person. 303935-3044, MinersAlley.com for tickets. Also: “Before You Go” for big people, written and directed by John Ashton, through Sept. 19 (see above for tickets). Masks and vaccinations required.

Reminder The 32nd Annual Denver Art Museum Friendship Pow Wow will be held 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 12 at the Denver Indian Center, 4407 Morrison Road, with an American Indian Cultural Celebration that celebrates diverse indigenous communities across Denver and the Front Range. Food by Tocabe, portion of proceeds support the Denver Indian Center. Dance competitions, artists, vendor booths.

720-865-5000 or denverartmuseum. org.

Genealogists New location, open meeting, new members welcome — the Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society will hold a meeting at the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church,

8545 E. Dry Creek Road, Centennial at 1 p.m. in person on Sept. 14: “Documenting Heirlooms and Family Memorabilia for the Family,” presented by Becky Clark — and also at 1 p.m. Sept. 21 on Zoom 19thcentury America: “Cultural Changes and Their Effects on Records,” presented by Sylvia Tracy-Douglas.

CGHS will be holding in-person meetings on the second Tuesday at the new location and via Zoom on the third Tuesdays. New members should go to ColumbineGenealogy@gmail.com to request Zoom listing at least 24 hours in advance.

ColumbineGenealogy.com.

Bemis Library “1000 Books before Kindergarten” is a new program offered for kids birth through beginning kindergartners through Bemis Library. Participants will receive a check-off log and a series of prizes as they progress through a 1000-book goal! Get a log at the Children’s Desk at Bemis and begin. (This writer, who advocates reading poetry to that bulge in the tummy, is delighted at this program!) 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton, 303-795-3961, littletongov.org/ city-services/city-departments/ bemis-library.

Littleton Museum “Print Renaissance; Mid-century Masters of American Printmaking” will be presented at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton, from Sept. 24 to Oct. 16 in the newly updated gallery.

See littletongov.org/museum for current hours. 303-795-3950. Admission free. And ... the Littleton Harvest Festival is planned for Oct. 9, where pumpkins and pumpkins will be available for sale — bring that little red wagon!

Curious Theatre Curious Theatre’s “The Lifespan of a Fact” runs Sept. 18 to Oct. 16 at Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, directed by Christy Montour-Larson as live theatre resumes. 303-623-0524, curioustheatre.org.

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled.

Check with organizers before you go.

‘4D Design’ on display at college gallery Sept. 12 is final day to see exhibition in Littleton

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Usually the Jantzen Gallery, in Arapahoe Community College’s Art and Design Center at the corner of Alamo and Prince in Littleton, is filled with student artwork.

Just through Sept. 12, it offers “4D Design: Time-Based Media Exhibition,” with works by area design professionals, who were invited by gallery curator/ACC Instructor Katie Caron.

4D works move, sparkle, make noise, have soundtracks — and immediately engage a visitor to look and listen as one walks through the gallery. This is an art exhibit aimed toward the future as the college expands its well-recognized

art curriculum.

“DD4D Design” is described: “This exhibition explores the artistic possibilities of time and movement in art and design. Invited artists from the Denver art scene will exhibit 4D design based work from analog and digital art forms, ranging from video, animation to kinetics, sculpture, performance and installation.”

Artists include: Drew Austin, Angela Faris Belt (ACC art faculty), Tom DeMoulin (ACC art faculty), Lares Feliciano, Tobias Fike, Annette Isham, Bryan Leister, John McEnroe, Kelly Monico, Colin Parson, Dave Seiler and Juanneen Young.

Exhibits include motion, sound, lights, film clips and more within each distinctive example. One must contantly ask oneself: “How did she/he do that???”

A viewer accustomed to galleries of traditional wall and pedestal art

must adjust the personal receptive equipment and expectations — or perhaps open them up more widely ...

Caron said the show is tied to a 4D class, which will be required in another year for design students.

The curriculum will allow students to transfer to Metropolitan State University after studying at Arapahoe Community College and continue on toward a degree and professional employment or advanced study. The curriculum is carefully designed for a smooth transition.

She said the college has been supportive and there is interest with students.

“4D is also performance,” Caron said. (She has a background in theatre, teaches installation art and will teach performance art in the future.)

The collection of works includes “Succumb,” by Drew Austin, cre-

ated with laser-cut mylar, aluminum, foil tape and more. “Signals” includes “domestic objects, mylar, RedGard, glass, hardware, enamel and natural materials.”

“We are super-lucky to have this space for teaching,” Caron said.

She added that students helped install the exhibit, which provided a learning experience of another sort — a skill many artists will need in the future.

Caron, who studied at the wellrecognized Cranbrook Academy in Detroit, teaches and is curator for this gallery, named for original art department director Herm Jantzen.

Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. See arapahoe.edu/events/4d-design-timebased-media-exhibition.

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Dick Lamm remembered for policy, passion and prescience Former 3-term Colo. governor honored at Denver service

BY DANIEL DUCASSI THE COLORADO SUN

The late former Gov. Dick Lamm was a man of vision and prescience, a complex character in the state’s political history who was never afraid to follow his convictions and take on controversial issues, his family and fellow Colorado politicians remembered Aug. 31.

Current Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Lamm praised Lamm’s life of service, not just to the state as both a lawmaker and governor, but also in the U.S. Army to his nation, as a lawyer to his clients and as a teacher to his students.

“Whether or not you agreed or disagreed with Dick, nobody can deny he lived a full life and one that was truly dedicated to serving others,” Polis said in opening remarks at a Denver memorial service that drew hundreds, including prominent Colorado politicians such as Democratic U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet.

Lamm, a Democrat, died July 29, less than a week short of what

Members of the public listen to remarks honoring former Colorado Governor Richard “Dick” Lamm on Aug. 31 at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver.

Dottie Lamm speaks in remembrance of her husband, former Colorado Governor Richard “Dick” Lamm, on Aug. 31 at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in PHOTOS BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN Denver.

would have been his 86th birthday.

Speakers praised Lamm for his passion for policy, particularly as an advocate for the environment and for opening the door to the liberalization of abortion laws.

Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, who served in Lamm’s cabinet, described his friend and former

colleague as a “member of the greatest generation of political leadership in Colorado,” contemporaries with Democratic former U.S. Sens.

Gary Hart and Tim Wirth, as well as Democratic U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder.

“Dick was truly Colorado,” Webb said. “Independent, tough, strong, complicated, unpredictable, kind-

hearted.”

Lamm was no stranger to controversy during his time in office, and afterward. Lamm was a state legislator in 1972 when he famously led a movement that spurred voters to reject funding for the 1976 Winter Olympics. That remains the only time a host city has rejected the Olympics after they were awarded.

He also generated controversy for remarks he made in 2006 that suggested Latinos and Blacks lacked the drive and ambition of Asians and Jews.

Speakers remembered Lamm for his ability to foresee problems like climate change and urban growth, with Polis calling him “prescient.”

Lamm was also described as a SEE LAMM, P18

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3 measures qualify for Colo.’s statewide ballot Voters will decide questions on taxes, legislative money control

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado voters will decide whether the legislature should have more control over how money from legal settlements and the federal government is spent after a third and final measure qualified to be on the statewide ballot in November.

The signatures turned in to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office by proponents of Initiative 19 were deemed sufficient Aug. 31.

To get their question on the Nov.

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man ahead of his time on hot-button topics. Speakers noted he was on the vanguard on environmental issues and pushed the country’s first law liberalizing abortion regulations, six years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on abortion rights in Roe v. Wade.

“Patients from across the country benefit from Dick Lamm’s belief in, and advocacy for, bodily autonomy and the right to make our own

2 ballot, backers needed the signatures of 124,632 registered voters, including a minimum of 2% of registered voters from each of Colorado’s 35 state Senate districts.

The two other questions on the statewide ballot in November are: -- Initiative 27, which would lower the property tax assessment rate for multi-family residential homes to 6.5% from 6.8% and to 26.4% for lodging properties from 29% -- Initiative 25, which would impose a new 3% sales tax on recreational marijuana starting Jan. 1 and increasing to 5% by Jan. 1, 2024, at which point it is projected to generate about $138 million a year.

That’s in addition to the existing 15% state sales tax on recreational marijuana. The money generated by the increased taxes would go toward

bolstering out-of-school learning.

Initiatives 19 and 27 are being pushed by Colorado Rising Action, a conservative fiscal group.

Initiative 25 has bipartisan support, though the marijuana industry and the state’s largest teachers

healthcare decisions,” said Vicki Cowart, CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.

Cowart said Lamm “took the position he believed was right no matter what.”

Lamm’s daughter, Heather Lamm, recounted her father’s love for reading and intellectual discussion, guessing that he “probably ascended to the pearly gates only to inquire of St. Peter what he had been reading over the summer.”

His wife, Dottie Lamm, told the story of their love for each other, starting from how they first met and their first date to the time they spent

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The couple shared a deep affection for Colorado, which Lamm governed for 12 years from 1975 to 1987.

“Our marriage was rooted in Colorado soil,” she said. “We fell in love with the state before we fell in love with each other.”

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The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media. concluded with a rendition of John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High.

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With a time limit of 2:45 to get through the “American Ninja Warrior” finals

obstacle course, Castle Rock’s Kaden Lebsack took it all in stride in the nationally televised show on Aug. 30.

After getting through the Stage One finals in Las Vegas, Lebsack is now headed to the next round in his quest for a possible $1 million grand prize.

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In zooming through the Stage One course, Lebsack finished in 2:13.95, clocking

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Proud mom Brandi Lebsack said it was exciting to see her son shooting through the course.

Lebsack is one of 18 teenagers allowed to compete on the show this year. In the past, teenagers were not allowed to compete on the main stage. Lebsack, 15, has proven that youth and inexperience are secondary to hard work. Lebsack is one

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Valor girls start volleyball season 2-0 Win over Castle View is Eagles’ second in a row

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It was only the second volleyball match of the season for both teams, but Valor Christian High School looked sharper than Castle View in a 3-0 victory on Aug. 31.

Valor gained momentum with point runs in each set and rolled to 25-21, 25-13 and 25-14 set victories over the Castle Rock school’s team in the match played at the Valor Christian gym in Highlands Ranch.

“I really appreciated the fact that everybody contributed and they contributed in a way that helped their teammates,” said Valor Christian coach Jayne McHugh.

Valor, ranked sixth in the CHSAANow.com Class 5A rankings on Aug. 30, improved to 2-0. The Eagles opened the season with a 3-2 win over No. 7 Legend of Parker and had a Sept. 2 match against third-ranked Cherry Creek of Greenwood Village.

Castle View, the Castle Rock school that launched the season with a win over Palmer of Colorado Springs, was ranked 10th in the Aug. 30 state rankings.

Junior Erin McNair paced the Valor attack with 11 kills and she finished with 21 digs. Stevie Vigil had 17 assists while Taylor Bowman and Grace Langer each had four blocks for the Eagles and Josie Hill SEE VALOR, P24

Paityn Champan led Castle View with 10 kills during a 3-0 loss to Valor Christian on Aug. 31.

Castle View’s Paityn Champan (3) and Addison Humphrey (4) celebrate after winning a PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON point in the Aug. 31 volleyball match against Valor Christian.

Valor Christian coach Jayne McHugh said her team’s blocking was vital in a 3-0 win over Castle View. Grace Langer, left, and Erin Mcnair, right, attempt to block a Castle View spike.

ThunderRidge shows grit in softball victory Grizzlies win 5-2 in Denver over crosstown rival Mountain Vista

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

ThunderRidge’s Kaitlin Oberle delivers a pitch during the Aug. 30 game against rival Mountain Vista. Oberle pitched seven innings and struck out nine batters to give her 23 strikeouts in 18 innings pitched so far this season. ThunderRidge won the game, 5-2.

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One question was answered in ThunderRidge High School’s 5-2 girls softball victory over Mountain Vista High in an Aug. 30 game played in downtown Denver at Metropolitan State University.

The teams from Highlands Ranch each entered the game with a 3-0 record, but Mountain Vista has a resume of general athletic success.

ThunderRidge has been a state contender in football and basketball but not so much in softball, where there had been just four winning records in the past 11 seasons.

So is this year’s team for real?

That’s the question the win over crosstown rival Mountain Vista helped answer.

“Every single game, these girls keep proving to themselves that they can be good,” said ThunderRidge coach Kevin McAllister.

“They battle, they fight, they never quit.

“This was a big game for them and for all of our alumni. They don’t get to beat Vista very often. They are our next-door neighbors and we love playing them but we like beating them more. This win definitely proves we have a bunch of girls that play gritty. They never quit.”

ThunderRidge was ranked eighth in the Aug. 30 CHSAANow.com Class 5A state rankings heading into the Continental League opener for both schools.

“This team is for real,” said senior pitcher Kaitlin Oberle. “We have a group of girls that we have never had before.”

Junior Avelyn Edwards agreed.

“This team is definitely for real,” she said. “We have got so much closer and winning just makes us all closer and we all support each other.”

Edwards cracked a two-run double in the bottom of the first inning to help the Grizzlies grab a 3-0 lead which they stretched to 5-0 after three innings.

“It was exciting to get a good start SEE SOFTBALL, P24

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was credited with three blocks.

“I would say overall that our blocking as a team was pretty good,” said McHugh. “This win will give us a little more confidence.”

Sophomore Paityn Champan led Castle View with 10 kills and a 58.8 kill percentage. Lexi Stege and Maren Cacciato each had five kills.

Rachel Greek had 12 digs for the Sabercats and Hannah Myhill’s 12 assists was tops for Castle View.

“We fought really hard,” said Castle View coach Ericka Smith.

“We have some things we are going to work on in practice like our passing and our defense. We have a little longer and we will be good.

“Paityn played really well. They

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and get us the lead in the beginning of the game and put it in their eyes like you should fear us,” said Edwards.

Senior Natalie Hughes had two of ThunderRidge’s eight hits and Oberle pitched all seven innings for the Grizzlies. She scattered six hits and struck out nine batters.

Valor Christian junior Erin McNair had 11 kills and 21 digs in a 3-0 win over Castle PHOTO BY JIM BENTON View on Aug. 31.

really focused on her with their serving and she really pulled it together. She made some great kills and we had some great blocks. That was really nice.”

Mountain Vista junior Sydney Butler went 3-for-3 and hit a solo home run in the seventh inning. She scored both of Vista’s runs.

“We weren’t quite ready to play from the get-go,” said Vista coach Bret Grammerstorf. “We made a few mistakes early that hurt us.

“It’s early season so you don’t want to overstate it but it’s always important to play well against a crosstown rival. You certainly would like to be 1-0 in league instead of 0-1.”

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TRI-COUNTY FROM PAGE 7

The county has already paid for services from Tri-County for the rest of the year and plans to continue receiving those services, just with a Douglas County-specific board of health in charge of governance, Commissioner Lora Thomas said during the Sept. 1 session.

Since the COVID-19 outbreak began early last year, Douglas County’s elected leaders have frequently expressed displeasure with Tri-County over its pandemic-safety policies, and have discussed setting up the county’s own agency.

In July 2020, Douglas County commissioners announced they would eventually leave Tri-County, citing a wish for more local control over public health orders.

But last November, the commissioners walked the decision back and agreed to stay with the health department until at least 2023. As part of that agreement, however, the commissioners were assured they would be able to opt out of any public health order.

After Tri-County enacted a mask mandate for students ages 2 to 11 and any staff that work with them last week, Douglas and Adams counties’ commissioners both voted to opt out of the

order. Arapahoe County commissioners were also planning to discuss a possible opt-out, but then the health board voted Aug. 30 to no longer allow opt outs.

That motion to end opt-outs was approved with a 5-3 vote, with the two present Douglas County board of health representatives and an Arapahoe County representative voting no. After rescinding the opt-out option, the health board approved a mask mandate for anyone over the age of 2 in schools and childcare settings.

Immediately following the decision from Tri-County, the Douglas County board of commissioners released a statement saying they planned to continue their work in identifying “a public health agency framework that will honor the needs of Douglas County citizens,” according to the statement emailed through a spokesperson.

After Tri-County Health’s Aug. 30 vote, Douglas County commissioners declared that “the Tri-County Health Department board’s decision to rescind the opt-out provision from their policy during their meeting this afternoon unilaterally reversed our negotiated Nov. 10, 2020 agreement” under which the county agreed to stay with the agency.

In a statement responding to the county’s stance, a Tri-County spokesperson said the agency would help in the transition to a new Douglas County health department.

COUNTY FROM PAGE 2

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Split commissioner vote A spokesperson said that the county commissioners chose Bracken as an interim member because they wanted to ensure they had three board of health representatives for the Aug. 30 meeting but wanted to fully consider the appointment later.

The Douglas County commissioners approved Bracken in a 2-1 vote, with Commissioner Lora Thomas voting against the motion.

“I really hoped we would put someone on that board who had a medical background, a health care background, a background in a service that Tri-County Health supplies to our citizens,” she said. “If we end up in a situation where the county needs to form its own board of health quickly, I want to be sure that we are really demonstrating to citizens that we are serious about having subject matter experts on that board of health.”

Commissioner George Teal defended the appointment, saying he felt Bracken was “an ideal choice” in part because of his work with hospital administrations.

“Of all the elected officials that we have seen following the Tri-County meetings ever since COVID became a crisis here in Colorado, he’s been the most active,” Teal said.

“He’s definitely been the most involved and outspoken, he’s asked a lot of the hard questions of Dr. Douglas and the other senior staff of Tri-County.”

Teal also said he believes Bracken could add “a healthy dose of professionalism” to the board and that he hopes to see the appointment made permanent.

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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 REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) #027-21 PRE-EMPLOYMENT PHYSICALS for the SHERIFF’S OFFICE The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests proposals from responsible, qualified firms who can successfully provide Pre-Employment Physicals.

The RFP documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. RFP documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

While the RFP documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic proposal responses.

RFP responses will be received until 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 by Douglas County Government, Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Eight (8) hard-copies and one (1) flash-drive copy of your proposal response must be submitted in a sealed box, plainly marked “Request for Proposal (RFP) #027-21, Pre-Employment Physicals”. Proposal responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated and any proposals so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said proposal and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful vendor.

Please direct any questions concerning this RFP to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

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

Legal Notice No. 939656 First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press 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

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

Bids and Settlements

Legal Notice No. 939586 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #028-21 ANTI-ICING/DEICING MATERIALS

Public Notice

The Department of Public Works Operations of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible and qualified vendors for the provision of the purchase of Anti-Icing/Deicing Materials, as specified.

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. IFB documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Bid responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 028-21, Anti-Icing/ Deicing Materials” and mailed or hand-carried to the address shown below prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 3:00pm, on Friday, October 1, 2021 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so.

Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-6607434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 939655 First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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.

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: 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

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

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Centennial Water rescinds drought watch Manager says supply is holding steady

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Centennial Water and Sanitation District Board of Directors has rescinded the drought watch designation that was put in place in April.

The board rescinded the designation during its regular meeting on Aug. 30. Centennial Water provides water and wastewater services to Highlands Ranch residents.

“As we begin September, we are about three-fourths of the way through the irrigation season and our water supply is holding steady and customers have done a great job this summer cutting back on their water use,” said John Kaufman, general manager for Centennial Water.

“At the board meeting, staff recommended we cancel the drought watch and the board unanimously approved the recommendation.”

According to the news release, temperatures from late April

Sam Calkins, director of operations for Centennial Water, explains that all water processing is under constant surveillance, making them ready for any kind of emergency.

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through mid-August averaged only slightly above average. Precipitation for the same period was slightly above average as well.

Water Rights Administrator Swithin Dick said that during the summer irrigation season, Centennial Water customers responded to the periodic rainfall and adjusted

their watering appropriately. As a result, water demand in April, May and July were below past averages and water reserves in storage reservoirs appear to be adequate to meet projected demands for the rest of the irrigation season, Swithin said.

As of Aug. 30, Centennial Water’s reservoir storage was 7,127 acre-

feet, or 41% of 17,200 acre-feet total capacity. Centennial Water’s median storage level for September over the past 10 years has been 7,775 AF, or 45% of capacity.

Water districts measure water levels through acre-feet, which is about 326,000 gallons, equaling the size of a football field one foot deep.

At the start of the current summer, water officials were concerned about water levels and usage. The dry, hot summer in 2020 did not help water supplies.

To prepare for the possibility of a repeat of the 2020 summer, in May the Centennial Water Board went beyond just the drought watch designation, adopting a fee structure dependent on drought conditions.

If drought conditions got worse, the board approved two new stages, Drought Stage 1, and Drought Stage 2, which would have meant higher fees for residents using more water.

The board never voted to use the established stages, remaining under a drought watch designation all summer.

For more information about water conservation and drought condition updates, visit centennialwater.org.

‘Hansel and Gretel’ — more than a year later Littleton Youth Ballet finally gets to hold two performances

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

April 2020 was the original date planned for Littleton Youth Ballet’s production of the classic fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel.” The theatre was rented, backdrops were ordered, costumes were ready and more than 80 young dancers had been rehearsing for months when COVID closed everything down.

The company quickly converted to Zoom and continued to hold classes and rehearsals. Performances were attempted in an outdoor theater, but it was cold and windy and they couldn’t use the backdrop and curtain.

Choreography is a challenge when one doesn’t have everyone in the same room!

They kept dancing and finally, things began to open up again — although masks are required for dancers and audience.

So, here we are a year-plus later — and the warm, dry, really lovely Newman Center at the University of Denver will allow for curtain, full sets, costumes and a beautiful real theater for the dancers at 7 p.m. on Sept. 11 and 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Sept. 12.

Enjoy Hansel and Gretel’s journey as they get lost in the woods, meet the wicked witch — and encounter dancing gumdrops, jolly gingerbread men and mischievous bakers, as they make their way back home again. This familiar tale is a perfect introduction to ballet for young people The Littleton Youth Ballet is composed of 86 young dancers ages 7 to 18, who are learning one of the longtime great performance skills as they work with fine music and strong instruction.

Co-director Allison Jaramillo grew up dancing in Littleton and

Littleton Youth Ballet will perform “Hansel and Gretel” on Sept. 11-12, but not outdoors — the shows will be in the welcoming setting of DU’s Newman Center. COURTESY PHOTO

returned to share her skills with her students at the Littleton Boulevard studio, which is happily open again.

Jaramillo says the kids are so happy to be dancing together again.

Many of her advanced students have won awards and been accepted into nationally recognized ballet schools across the nation.

Tickets cost $28 to $40 at the Newman Center box office, 303-871-7720, or see littletonyouthballet.org.

Masks required.

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

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Holiday Craft Show & Mini-Market

September 9, 2021

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Come shop for unique gifts and special items during the annual Colorado Community Media Holiday Craft Show and MiniMarket; With more than 100 exhibitors filling the Douglas County Fairgrounds, this is the best place to find that special, personal gift for friends and family. The show will feature handmade crafts in all areas from metal and leather, to flowers, baskets, ceramics, and so much more.

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Apply Today Contact Event Producer Thelma Grimes at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com All applications must be approved to participate