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VOLUME 35 | ISSUE 9
Conflict grows between sheriff and former second-in-command Former undersheriff sues current sheriff BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A heated conflict between the Douglas County sheriff and his former second-in-command — who is now running as a candidate to replace him — appears to be headed to the courts after a lawsuit was filed against the current leader of the sheriff’s office.
Sheriff Tony Spurlock and former Undersheriff Holly Nicholson Kluth’s feud involves a mishmash of investigations and accusations including allegations of political scheming, domestic violence and illicit deletion of personnel files. The rivalry has come to a head now that Kluth has filed a lawsuit against Spurlock — who is termlimited — alleging he suppressed her First Amendment rights and violated employment law and internal policies when he demoted her in 2020 and fired her in 2021.
Politics at play It all began with the 2020 election for Douglas County commissioner. In September 2020, Spurlock, a Republican, publicly endorsed Lisa Neal Graves, a Democrat, who ran unsuccessfully against Republican George Teal. Internal sheriff’s office files show that in the days that followed, the county’s Republican Party developed a plan to publish endorsements from the sheriff’s office command staff for Republican candidates, according to documents obtained by Colorado Community Media through a public records
Time capsule honors history of Highlands Ranch Community leaders cap celebration of 40-year anniversary BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Leaving a legacy for the future, the Highlands Ranch Community Association, or HRCA, capped off a months-long project by burying a time capsule at the Eastridge Recreation Center on Jan. 31. The capsule, filled with items donated by community leaders, will be opened for new community leaders to see in the year 2056. The time capsule was an idea brought to light by Julianne Hennings of the HRCA. Hennings worked to pull together donations for the capsule, which was done in honor of Highlands Ranch celebrating the community’s 40-year anniversary in 2021. Through monthly presentations held last year, the Highlands Ranch Historical Society provided SEE CAPSULE, P5
request. After being asked to participate in this plan, Kluth submitted a statement to the county GOP supporting conservative candidates, according to a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office investigation into the situation. She also posted that statement to her Facebook. When Spurlock learned of the plan and confronted Kluth about it, she deleted the post and withdrew her comments to the GOP. Following the internal investigation, Spurlock informed Kluth that SEE SHERIFF, P6
School board members allege Wise threatened with termination Minority members also allege violation of open meeting laws BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Kristy Howell, of the Northwest Douglas County Chamber of Commerce & Economic Development Corporation, gets help from Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock in the PHOTO BY THELMA GRIMES burial of the time capsule.
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Three Douglas County School Board members are alleging the four new board directors gave the superintendent an ultimatum — resign or be fired — without formal board approval and without the full board’s knowledge. Directors David Ray, Susan Meek and Elizabeth Hanson made the allegations in a Jan. 31 publicly noticed meeting, also discussing their SEE MEETING, P8
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Doctors speculate on what flu season will look like Omicron hinders data-gathering process for influenza BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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With talk of COVID around the clock, winter is still a time for other illness and viruses, including influenza, which has reemerged this year after being nearly non-existent in 2020-2021. Doctors across the Front Range said hospitals and clinics started seeing the flu pop up in October and November. Flu season generally lasts through mid-April, leaving doctors along the Denver metro area to say they are not quite sure what to expect as flu season moves into full swing. At Children’s Hospital Colorado, Dr. Suchitra Rao, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, said they started treating young patients with the flu dating back to October. Rao said the number of cases doctors are seeing at various Children’s Hospital clinics in Douglas, Jefferson and Arapahoe counties are on par with what the levels used to be pre-pandemic. As of Jan. 27, Rao said Children’s Hospital has had 400 confirmed influenza cases, with 100 of them needing hospitalization. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while states like Texas and New Mexico have “very high” numbers of flu cases, Colorado is still in the “minimal” stage, meaning not many cases are currently being recorded. Rao said flu cases started dropping again when the omicron variant of COVID-19 sparked up. As cases of omicron increased, for some reason, flu cases again decreased, she said. When asked what would cause the change, Rao said doctors are looking at a variety of reasons. “The reasons why are not clear,” Rao said. “Could be people started wearing more masks with more restrictive policies in place. There are some other theories too.” Rao said one theory that cannot yet be confirmed is that omicron ran “viral interference” to influenza. “The theory is that one respiratory virus takes over and others go away,” she said. Dr. Eric Hill, a HealthOne emergency room physician at the Medical Center of Aurora, said the HealthOne network saw cases drop off as omicron came into view. However, Hill said some of that might be because hospitals are stressed and testing for COVID is a priority, which means labs were testing less for the influenza. “The need of resource to battle omicron skyrocketed, putting a massive drain on the testing labs,” he said. “Unless it was a must-have, the flu tests were not done. COVID really has drained the system.”
While symptoms of the flu are similar to COVID, the flu can cause high temperatures SHUTTERSTOCK and more body aches.
Dr. Ben Usatch, an emergency medicine physician and medical director for UCHealth Hospital Highlands Ranch, said he would argue without proof that omicron was just so much more contagious that it spread throughout the region much faster and with more force than influenza can. Like Children’s Hospital, Hill said that before omicron, adult flu cases were comparative to the days before the COVID pandemic. However, now, doctors are not sure what to expect for the remainder of the flu season, Hill said. “With the expectation that omicron cases are going to start to drop, whether that means influenza has a chance to grab hold again — we don’t know,” Hill said. Usatch said after a nonexistent flu season last year, it’s hard to even consider what to expect in the coming months. To truly protect the community, Usatch said, getting the flu vaccine and COVID vaccine should be a priority. “Getting these shots not only protects you, but it provides protection to your family and the community,” he said. “A virus is a virus. Some flus are more concerning than others because of the pneumonia factor. The flu season is still young and getting protected is important.” Rao and Hill said it is not too late to get the flu shot this season, adding that it is better late than never. Doctors say flu and COVID symptoms are similar. Anyone with symptoms, Rao said, should first be tested for COVID. After that, other diagnosis options can be explored. Hill said a big difference between COVID and the flu is the high fever. COVID presents with a lower-level fever, while the flu causes much higher temperatures, he said. While the flu can primarily be treated with fluid and over-thecounter medications, Usatch said anyone struggling to breathe should get to a doctor immediately.
After being non-existent last year, the flu season is back with cases present along the Front Range in December. SHUTTERSTOCK
SYMPTOMS OF THE FLU VS. COVID Flu symptoms Flu is different from a cold. Flu usually comes on suddenly. People who have flu often feel some or all of these symptoms: • Fever or feeling feverish/chills • Cough • Sore throat • Runny or stuffy nose • Muscle or body aches • Headaches • Fatigue (tiredness) • Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea, though this is more common in children than adults. COVID symptoms People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported — ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe symptoms. People with these symptoms may have COVID-19: • Fever or chills • Cough • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing • Fatigue • Muscle or body aches • Headache • New loss of taste or smell • Sore throat • Congestion or runny nose • Nausea or vomiting • Diarrhea
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DA John Kellner running to unseat state attorney general 18th District prosecutor is the first Republican candidate to enter the race
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BY DANIEL DUCASSI THE COLORADO SUN
John Kellner, the 18th Judicial District attorney, on Jan. 27 became the first Republican to declare their candidacy to challenge Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, in November. Kellner announced his bid in a Colorado Politics opinion piece focusing heavily on crime, an issue GOP candidates across the state are attacking Democrats over. “Right now Colorado faces its highest rate of violent crime in 25 years,” Kellner wrote. “To get out from this historic crime tsunami, we need bold leadership to turn the tide.” Colorado’s attorney general, who serves as the top attorney for the state, has limited jurisdiction in criminal cases. The attorney general’s office mostly investigates civil matters, like fraud. Kellner is still fairly new to his current job as top prosecutor for the most populous judicial district in the state, which comprises Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties. Kellner narrowly defeated Democrat Amy Padden in 2020. The prosecutor earned his law de-
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gree from the University of Colorado and then served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years. Kellner was a prosecutor in the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office before joining the 18th Judicial District in 2012 to lead the office’s Cold Case Unit. Weiser was elected to his first term in 2018, beating Kellner’s predecessor, former 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler, a Republican, by 7 percentage points. Weiser began the year with $2.3 million in his campaign account. That’s almost as much as the nearly $2.9 million he spent to beat Brauchler four years ago. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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Officials predict 80% omicron immunity by mid-February COVID numbers remain high but continue to drop BY JOHN DALEY CPR
Colorado is still seeing extraordinarily high levels of coronavirus transmission and hospitalizations. But those numbers appear to have peaked and are now falling. State pandemic modelers, citing new projections, say they expect the epidemic curve to keep dropping in the next few weeks. “It is encouraging to see this modeling report suggest we have moved beyond the peak of our omicron surge, and that we should continue to see declining COVID-19 transmission in Colorado in the coming weeks,” said Dr. Rachel Herlihy, state epidemiologist, in a health department press release. Still, the Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Group estimates a large number of the state’s population, one in 19 Coloradans, is currently infectious. But immunity to the omicron variant is “high and rising,” according to the state. Modeling estimates a notable 80 percent of the state’s population will be immune to omicron by mid-February. Infection numbers have hit unprecedented levels this month, but models project it will drop sharply
in the coming weeks, potentially back to low levels (below 1 percent) by the end of February. The health department said there’s still plenty of uncertainty around the estimate. And while infectious disease experts are seeing similar trends nationally, they are cautioning that the coronavirus has broken all the rules and a troubling new variant could pop up at any time. “If we fast forward to the end of late spring, early summer, so May, will there be a new variant? Probably,” said Dr. John Swartzberg, a clinical professor emeritus and expert in infectious diseases at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. “But we’re going to have a very different, from an immunity perspective, a very different population.” “Hopefully we’ll have more people vaccinated and boosted,” he added. Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped for the 8th straight last week to 1,526. But that number is still extremely high after the omicron wave arrived on the heels of the delta surge. Ninety-one percent of intensive care beds are in use, as of Jan. 24, and only 135 of a total of roughly 1,500 ICU beds are open. Staffing remains extraordinarily tight, with more than half of hospitals anticipating a staff shortage in the next week, and about a third of facilities anticipating an ICU
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bed shortage. The seven-day positivity rate fell again on Jan. 24, as it has been for the past two weeks, down to 22.82 percent. On January 11, that figure was nearing 30 percent, or six times the 5 percent threshold epidemiologists regard as worrisome. Cases also appear to be dropping sharply, though the true picture is hard to gauge. Many people are now taking COVID-19 tests at home, officials worry most people are not reporting their results to the state. Herlihy urged Coloradans to stay cautious and keep following public health guidance to help protect themselves and others. That includes getting vaccinated, getting a third dose as soon as it is time, wearing a mask in public, and
steering clear of large gatherings. “Together we can work to ensure case rates continue to decrease in Colorado,” she said. The projections are based on COVID-19 hospital census data through Jan. 23, and vaccination data through Jan. 14. The modeling group includes scientists at Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, plus experts from the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Denver, and Colorado State University. This story is from CPR News, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support Colorado Public Radio, visit cpr. org.
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residents with a history lesson of how modern-day Highlands Ranch became the community it is. When Mission Viejo Company started developing the area into a suburb in the 1980s, the area population was under 3,000. Today, Highlands Ranch has nearly 100,000 residents. Shea Homes bought Mission Viejo in 1997. The time capsule was the final touch to a year of celebrating. With plenty of community leaders attending the Jan. 31 burial of the capsule, several took time to remember the early days. Being in the area for 42 years, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock joked about the days of chasing antelope through the 22,000 acres that has grown into a master-planned community over the last four decades. “Back then, Douglas County was poor,” Spurlock said. “Shea Homes even bought (the sheriff’s department) cars. It was a county with a small population but a lot of land. We are incredibly blessed to have the forethought that went into to create this development.” Also attending the ceremony was Jeff Capas, former vice president of Shea Homes. In talking about how far Highlands Ranch has come, Capas said the word that comes to mind is “pride.”
When dry weather returns, the site of the buried time capsule will be marked with a PHOTOS BY THELMA GRIMES plaque.
Capas said a lot of work went into make “this beautiful place it is today.” Jaime Noebel, director of community relations for the HRCA, said the time capsule was a fun way to bring anniversary-year celebrations to a close. In talking about the contents of the capsule, Noebel said she is impressed with the creativity of the community leaders who participated, while noting some of the contents are about today’s world.
Besides a copy of the local newspaper, the Highlands Ranch Herald, from this year, the capsule contents also have masks and photos of people wearing COVID masks. Noebel said by the year 2056, those who unearth the capsule will be able to remember or talk about the years the pandemic took over the world. Hennings said the capsule also has historical photos to mark the progress as Highlands Ranch grew, newsletters, a sheriff’s of-
Julianne Hennings, of the Highlands Ranch Community Association, led coordination efforts to put together a time capsule that will be opened in the PHOTOS BY THELMA GRIMES year 2056.
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he found her to have been in violation of several sheriff’s office policies. He also accused her of using her position to influence other members of the command staff to submit statements. Kluth denies that. In November 2020, she was demoted because of the incident. Then, in May 2021, Spurlock fired Kluth, who said she was given no notice or explanation of why she was being let go. “He terminated me because I disagreed with him on my personal politics,” she told CCM. In an interview in November 2021, Spurlock said he fired Kluth because of “incredible poor ethics and bad behavior.” Kluth filed to run for Douglas County sheriff in February of 2021 and as of Jan. 31 has raised about $13,000 more than her leading opponent, former Castle Rock police commander John Anderson, according to the secretary of state’s campaign finance website TRACER. While the election is months away, the four candidates have already begun campaigning. So far, the others running are Anderson, Daren Weekly — the captain of investigations for DCSO — and Lora Thomas, a Douglas County commissioner. Kluth’s lawsuit against Spurlock was filed Dec. 21, 2021, and no court dates have been set.
Alleged file deletion Soon after she was fired, Kluth hired an attorney and requested her personnel file, according to DCSO documents. That’s when Spurlock initiated a criminal investigation into Kluth for allegedly ordering the deletion of part of her personnel file that showed she was the subject of a decadesold domestic violence incident report, according to records obtained by Colorado Community Media. Kluth claims that the investigation into the file deletion was retaliation for her pursuing a lawsuit against Spurlock related to her firing and demotion. “It’s absolutely not true that I ordered any files to be deleted,” Kluth said in an interview with CCM. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, which was the investigating agency in the criminal case against Kluth regarding the file deletion, recommended in October that charges be filed against her for official misconduct. But the 18th Judicial District declined to do so, citing an expiration of the statute of limitations and an unlikely chance for success at a trial. The deleted documents, which were recovered, date back to 1988 and include allegations from Kluth’s then-husband that she had argued with him at their home in Park County and then grabbed a
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Colt .45 pistol, according to Jeffco’s investigation file obtained through a public records request. “She pointed it at me, and stated ‘I will blow you away if you interfear (sic) with my job,’” her then-husband wrote, according to a copy of the 1988 report. In an interview with Colorado Community Media, Kluth denied all allegations from the investigation, stating she never ordered anyone to delete anything and that the Park County incident never actually happened. Spurlock, who told CCM he is endorsing Weekly as the next sheriff, said in November he learned about the deletion of the 1988 Park County case after Kluth was fired. Spurlock said he believes Kluth ordered the report to be deleted because she was trying to “cover up her past so she could be the sheriff of Douglas County.” Domestic violence report The Park County Sheriff’s Office report from May 1988 is listed as a “felony menacing” investigation and includes accounts from the responding deputy, Kluth’s then-husband and from another witness, whose name and relationship to the couple were redacted. Kluth later told CCM the other witness was her ex-husband’s mother. The Park County report was included in the Jeffco investigative file for the Kluth deletion case. Raymond McNamara, Kluth’s husband at the time, told the Park County Sheriff’s Office that during the argument about her job as a deputy with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, she said “`Don’t come any closer,’ `I will kill you and myself,’” according to the report. “I pushed her and deflected the gun, she pulled the trigger and it discharged into the floor next to my leg. She started crying,” McNamara wrote. Kluth, however, says this incident never happened and her ex-husband may have made this report because she had recently told him she was going to divorce him. A representative from the Park County Combined Court said the office doesn’t have any record of the 1988 case. That could mean the case was never filed as a felony or, if it was filed as a misdemeanor, the case would be too old to show up in records, the representative said. A spokesperson for the Park County Sheriff’s Office said the agency no longer has any record of this investigation and a fire and a flood had impacted their office and may have destroyed the file. However, in December 1988, the sheriff for that county sent a copy of the report to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, according to a letter included in Kluth’s file. Kluth says she was never contacted by Park County about the investigation. Court records show that Kluth filed for divorce from McNamara about a month after the incident report was written. “There’s absolutely no corroborating evidence of any kind.
No follow-up investigation was done,” said Felipe Bohnet-Gomez, Kluth’s lawyer. “It was a smear against Holly in 1988, and the idea that she would somehow order this destroyed for some political reason or something, it just doesn’t hold water.” ‘Didn’t want it to disappear’ When Kluth requested her personnel file after being fired, the internal affairs department of DCSO noticed that the 1988 report involving Kluth was no longer in the digital version of her file and began an investigation, which was eventually turned over to JCSO. When the investigators from Jeffco interviewed a hiring technician, who helped maintain the office’s personnel files, the employee said she had initially seen the 1988 domestic case involving Kluth when she scanned it into the office’s new digital system in 2016, according to the investigative file. The custodian, Kathleen Moreland, told investigators it had stood out to her at the time because “it’s kind of something that you don’t expect to find in somebody with that high up of a position,” according to a recording of her interview obtained through a public records request. The sheriff’s office maintains both digital and paper copies of personnel files, but when someone leaves the office, these versions are checked to ensure they mirror each other. Then, the paper copy is destroyed, Moreland told investigators. After Kluth was fired, Moreland was checking the former undersheriff’s paper and digital files to make sure they matched when she noticed the 1988 report was no longer there, she told investigators. The custodian then re-scanned the report to include it in the digital version and instead of destroying the paper copy — which was the normal protocol — she held onto it. “I just wanted to make sure that the truth was there, in case. I didn’t want it to disappear into the abyss,” Moreland said in the interview with Jeffco. “Knowing that she was going to be running for sheriff, I just wanted to make sure that the truth would be found out … information needs to be known if it can be.” Who deleted the file? When investigators reviewed the “audit trail” for Kluth’s file — which shows who has viewed, used or edited items in the digital system — they found that one of Kluth’s subordinates had deleted the attachment containing the 1988 report in April 2019, according to the investigative file. In a recorded call with Jeffco deputies, retired Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Robert McMahan said Kluth had ordered him to do this, according to the recording. “She was concerned about her hiring file,” he told investigators. McMahan added that Kluth never threatened him to do the SEE SHERIFF, P9
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concerns that the four other directors violated public meeting laws and board policies by agreeing in secret conversations to take formal action against the superintendent. Ray, Meek and Hanson were the only board directors who participated in the Jan. 31 gathering. Ray said at least 1,300 people viewed the meeting, which was held remotely. Ray said the three are “genuinely concerned that we’ve got a board that’s off the rails in terms of following not only the law” but multiple board policies. “Our superintendent should never be blindsided with us saying that you’re not performing well,” Ray said. The three directors alleged the decision to oust Superintendent Corey Wise was made in “backdoor meetings” among directors Mike Peterson, Christy Williams, Becky Myers and Kaylee Winegar, and that they were notified by Peterson and Williams after the two asked Wise to resign. In response to interview requests with Peterson, Williams and Wise, a district spokeswoman said the two directors had not attended the meeting and that Wise did not immediately have comment. In the course of the meeting, Ray, Meek and Hanson explained how they became aware of the
February 3, 2022 alleged decision to remove Wise. The three had received text messages on Jan. 27 asking to have brief conversations with Peterson and Williams the following day, they said. Hanson said she spoke to Peterson by phone on Jan. 28 at approximately 7:20 a.m. Peterson informed her that he and Williams met with Wise early that morning and asked for his resignation, she said. “I was entirely unprepared for that conversation,” Hanson said. Hanson said she abruptly ended the call with Peterson, which lasted approximately six minutes, and has not spoken with Peterson or Williams since. Meek said she spoke to Peterson for roughly 15 minutes around noon on Jan. 28. She said Peterson told her he had spoken with directors Myers, Williams and Winegar, who had agreed they wanted the district to go in a different direction. Meek said Peterson told her he and Williams gave Wise until Tuesday evening to decide if he would resign, and if not, the board was prepared to terminate him. “He indicated that it has nothing to do with a campaign promise,” Meek said. Meek said Peterson told her he and Williams met with the board’s outside legal counsel Will Trachman on Jan. 27 to discuss giving Wise notice, but that she had not received any memos or communications from Trachman about the conversations.
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Hanson said she sees Trachman’s failure to notify the entire board of the conversation as an ethical violation and breach of his engagement letter with the board. Ray said he spoke to Williams mid-morning on Jan. 28, and that she also told him she met with Peterson and Wise, “and that they had requested that he consider immediately resigning and that there were four directors that were prepared to move forward with replacing him if he chose not to resign.” “I asked first of all why she felt that she and (Peterson) had the authority to convey this directly to the superintendent, especially since it’s a violation of policy,”
Ray said. Ray said the superintendent can only receive direction through a vote of the board in a formally noticed meeting. Ray said he asked if any concerns about Wise’s performance had been provided to Wise in writing “and the answer was no.” Ray said the board is legally required to offer an employee the due process of being informed about any performance concerns and an opportunity to respond to or refute those claims. Ray said Williams indicated the four directors intended to let Ray, Meek and SEE MEETING, P9
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Hanson know about giving Wise notice but said the timing had not worked out. Meek said her biggest concern was that “board members have taken action they are not authorized to take.” Meek said she understands if the majority wants to vote a certain way but “it needs to be done in accordance with law.” “When decisions are made outside of board meetings, I mean that is prohibited,” she said.
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deleting but her “demeanor was threatening.” “I mean you just didn’t cross her,”
Hanson said going public with the matter was “a difficult decision.” “In this situation we need to balance the privacy of our superintendent and personnel matters along with fulfilling the oath that we each took as an elected official,” she said. Remaining silent about the manner in which Wise was given notice would make her complicit with open meeting law violations, she said. “Colorado open meeting law is more than just limiting the number of board members who are involved in a private conversation. It requires a governmental body
to discuss public business or take formal action in meetings that are open to the public,” she said. The three directors wrapped their meeting by talking about what they hope will happen next. Ray said the board needed to “walk back” the “unauthorized” ultimatum allegedly given to Wise. He also hoped the board would agree to hold a special meeting to further discuss Wise’s employment and management of the district. Wise should be given the opportunity to decide “am I the right leader for this board” and gain better understanding of the board’s expectations of him, Ray
said. He urged more formal discussions among the board about a superintendent performance evaluation rather than termination. Hanson said she was considering filing an ethics complaint against Trachman and notifying the board that his conversation with Peterson and Williams was a contractual violation. “No matter how divided our community is I sincerely hope that we can agree as a community that our superintendent, who has given 26 years of his life to our district, should receive a basic level of decency and process,” Hanson said.
he said in the interview. In an interview with Colorado Community Media, Kluth said she believes McMahan has “credibility issues” and he’s friends with the sheriff. “I would say that he lied because it’s not true,” Kluth said.
Kluth said she hadn’t been aware the Park County report was in her personnel file. When asked why McMahan would delete something from her file, Kluth said she didn’t know. Kluth declined to be interviewed in the Jeffco investigation, according to a letter from her attorney to the office.
“The allegations against Ms. Kluth are not just baseless — they are tainted with political retaliation, in violation of the First Amendment,” according to the letter. “They amount to an abuse of process for political ends, to which Ms. Kluth will not voluntarily subject herself.”
DENIAL TO CHARGE In a letter to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office dated Oct. 25, 2021, the 18th Judicial District outlined its reasons for not filing charges in the deletion case, including the statute of limitations and insufficient evidence. The letter, signed by Assistant District Attorney Tom Byrnes, further explained the insufficient evidence by stating that a witness in a leadership position other than Kluth knew about the conduct and didn’t
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Parent says video goal was to shut down vaccine clinic Videos created backlash that led superintendent to end school’s hosting BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A Littleton father admitted his goal was to get a COVID vaccination clinic shut down when he sent his son in to mislead health staff with a fake parental consent form to see if they would agree to give him a shot. The clinic was hosted by the Littleton Public Schools district. Gregg McGough, the father of 15-year-old Owen McGough, sent a video to a right-wing Twitter account, “Libs of Tik Tok.” The video shows the younger McGough, who in the video used a fake name, handing staff a fake parental consent form at a vaccine clinic at Heritage High School on Jan. 21. The video joins another that was filmed by homeschooled 16-yearold Alexander Tallentire, who lied about his age in order to request a
vaccine without parental consent. The video shows neither McGough nor Tallentire actually getting vaccinated, but their ability to use dishonesty to bypass standards preventing minors from getting vaccinated without proper consent caused backlash for the school district, whose superintendent said it will stop hosting COVID-19 vaccine clinics. “Schools are where education is supposed to be happening,” said the elder McGough. “Schools are not about public health environments, which is what they’ve become.” The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, or CDPHE, in a previous statement, said it believed the videos were designed to bring down vaccination efforts at schools, which they said were “an important way the state ensures access to COVID-19 vaccines in places that are convenient. “ The Jan. 21 clinic was run by Tri-County Health and staffed by Outside Tri-County Health Department’s administrative office in Greenwood Village. SEE BACKLASH, P22
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Dubious about San Luis water plan Former political personalities frequently take on new life using political skills and contacts to channel public money into personal ventures. Third parties may be left holding the bag of adverse, unintended consequences. The water proposal appears to be an overpriced, taxpayer-funded boondoggle that may drain critical aquifers in excess of a desirable recharge rate, not mentioned or disclosed. Water rights are private assets that may be bought and sold, but I have a question about the numbers. Our household is currently allocated 164,000 gallons of water annually for inside and outside usage. An acre-foot of water is 325,851 gallons. So, our annual water budget is about half an acre-foot. For this usage, we are currently charged $672.40, which equates to $1,335.99 per acre-foot.
The article states, “After the initial investment, the purchase price for the water rights would be fixed at $18,500 per annual acre-foot, according to the proposal.” This must have been a misprint and perhaps off by a factor of 10. Why would Douglas County purchase water at over 13 times what residential customers are being charged by a local water district? Renewable Water Resources (RWR) has a nice ring to it. We are barraged daily with all sorts of undertakings associated with the term “renewable” and misled to believe these sorts of things are at minimal financial cost and minimal physical damage to the environment and local communities. Frequently, this is just a smoke screen for not-so-pretty, real world realities. Douglass Croot Highlands Ranch
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words of anger and hate to words of love, gentleness, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness. Will these three little suggestions work? They will work if you apply them. How about you? Is it time to change your input so you can change your output? Are you searching for the bad or are you looking for the good? And is it time to change your vocabulary and focus on words of hope and encouragement? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing.com, and when we can turn away the wrath and anger for the good and kind, it really will be a better than good year.
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don’t go into the mine looking for the dirt, you go in looking for the gold.” If we want to find the bad, we can find it for sure. The question is do we want to? And if we do, why? I mean some people go around looking for the bad like there is some kind of prize or reward for finding the bad. None of us has all the answers, but I do know that I can pass along a few simple suggestions. First, turn off the sources where we are being fed the negative fuel that drives our anger. Second, focus on the good, the goodness, and the good people that are all around us. And lastly, change our vocabulary to avoid
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Pandemic, popular Netflix series stir interest, ire BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY DGRIGSBY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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hile waiting out the coronavirus, it appears the world got ‘board.’ Who knew all it would take to reignite global interest in chess was a raging pandemic and unsupervised access to the internet? No, seriously. As public health orders canceled concerts and closed theaters and restaurants, we looked inward— and online—for ways to occupy time and connect with others. We made masks. We howled at the moon. We binge-watched. And “The Queen’s Gambit” was one of our favorites. The Netflix miniseries, set in the 1950s and ‘60s, is a coming-of-age story of a fictional teenage chess prodigy based on the 1983 Walter Tevis novel of the same name. It follows the life of orphan Elizabeth Harmon and her substance abuse struggle as she rises through the ranks to become a world chess champion. It was a story we liked—a lot. Within the first three weeks of its October 2020 debut, the sevenepisode drama had toy stores scrambling to keep chess sets on the shelves and online buyers coming up with empty carts and backorders. Market research firm NPD Group reported unit sales of chess sets jumped 87% in the U.S., and chess book sales rose by an astronomical 603%. “The idea that a streaming television series can have an impact on product sales is not a new one, but we are finally able to view it through the data,” said NPD toy industry advisor Juli Lennett in a November 2020 statement. “The sales of chess books and chess sets, which had previously been flat or declining for years, turned sharply upward as the popular new series gained viewers.” Online gaming platforms also
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saw dramatic increases in memberships and active users. Chess.com Director of Technology at Saad Abdali said traffic to the online chess site tripled after the pandemic hit. He published a July 20, 2021 tech blog discussing how the site handled the dramatic user surge and said that in March 2020 alone, the number of daily active users rose from 280,000 to more than 1 million. The Queen’s Gambit accepted Tucked away in a south Denver hotel ballroom, the Denver Chess Club MLK Memorial Chess Tournament gets underway. The room’s atmosphere is ripe with heavy sighs and a constant hum from the ventilation system. The two-day, five-round Swiss tournament held Jan. 15-16 attracted more than 90 local players. While 23-year-old tournament director Andrew Starr admits he is ”a little on the young side for a tournament director,” he says the turnout for the in-person event was exceptional. Starr circles the room, observing the players—and spectators that gather to view the more exciting games. He admits a great deal of the director’s job is reminding folks of the tournament’s strict silence policy. ”It’s expected (that spectators are) to be silent at all times,” he said. “As a tournament director, that’s my big sticking point.” The CU grad student and Grandview High School alum said he’s pleased with the wildly popular Netflix series. “The top thing I liked about it is that better than any other pop culture piece, it accurately represents the chess world without making it inaccessible to general audiences,” Starr said. And that’s important. As Starr points out, there are many elements of chess culture that the public tends to get wrong. ”I think one of the biggest misconceptions about chess players is that they’re these bizarre, quiet recluses,” he said. “I think it’s because Bobby Fischer is the most famous American chess player, and that’s how he was.”
Lauded for his stunning 1972 World Championship win against Soviet defending champion Boris Spassky, Grand Master Robert James Fischer was also known for his eccentric and often exaggerated paranoid behavior. Fischer made numerous antiSemitic outbursts throughout his career, and in 1992 was indicted for ignoring an executive order from President George H.W. Bush. The order, which imposed restrictions on relations with Yugoslavia, made Fischer’s famous rematch with is Spassky illegal, based on its location in Belgrade. In front of the world press, Fischer spat on the presidential order and said, “This is my reply.” Colorado Chess Hall of Famer Richard “Buck” Buchanan has been a staple in the Colorado chess community for more than 40 years. He’s organized and directed countless chess tournaments and says everybody’s a little different when it comes to chess culture. ”Basically, chess players have varied personalities as would any other group that you want to meet,” Buchanan explained. “I don’t want to generalize about the culture because that’s one of the rich things about chess. It’s part of the human experience. It’s an art form. It’s a competition. It’s fun, and it’s got room in it for all kinds of creativity, discovery and excitement.” No longer just ‘old white guys’ In the U.S., the 1950s and ‘60s were periods of drastic contrast, so say many historians—the ‘50s being the post-World War II decade of prosperity and conformity. In comparison, the ‘60s brought about change and rebellion. The ongoing Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union played heavily into the miniseries storyline. It was a period when men dominated the chess scene, and only a handful of female players got the opportunity to compete professionally. “The show framed the main character as one young girl against a bunch of old Russian men,” said Starr. ”And that’s just how it was in SEE CHESS, P12
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Fischer’s day. But now, things are a little different.” Chess is no longer just about “old white guys,” he said, adding that the game and the players are more diverse, vibrant and respectful now. In his opinion, the game is also becoming much younger. And he might be right. Last year, Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi, a 10-year-old Nigerian refugee living in New York, became America’s newest chess master at the tender age of 10, according to the U.S. Chess Federation, making him the 28th youngest person to achieve the status. And at just 15, Cherry Creek High School students Neil Bhavikatti and Vedanth Sampath are among the highest-ranked players in Colorado. “No discussion of chess culture would be complete without talking about women in chess,” Starr said. “I think that both evolving social norms and the impetus of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ have propelled more girls into playing, which personally, I think is excellent, but there are some contentious issues regarding female chess players that may be worth talking about.” One of those is the concept of women-only tournaments. Starr supports the idea.
He says all-female tournaments may help break the ice and encourage more girls and women to give the game a try. Another point of contention, Starr says, is the concept of separate titles for men and women. “I know that as a man, I can’t speak for the opinions of all women, but I do join a sizable number of female chess players in saying that women’s titles are a little demeaning. Among other requirements, a grandmaster (GM) title requires a rating of 2500, whereas a woman grandmaster (WGM) only needs to obtain a rating of 2300. which, to me, carries the implication of women being weaker chess players,” he said. “While men have obviously had far more success in the chess world than women, I chalk this up to young boys being steered into chess and young girls being steered elsewhere.” It’s complicated, Starr said, but the trend is women are starting to see more mainstream success in chess. The Queen’s Gambit declined Born in the Soviet Union in 1941, Nona Gaprindashvili would become the first woman to be awarded the grandmaster title by the World Chess Federation. During her career and reign as Women’s World Chess Champion, which spanned 1962-1978, she successfully competed against some of the strongest male players in the
world. Many of them are Russian. Mentioned by name in “The Queen’s Gambit,” Gaprindashvili was not pleased with the series or how it portrayed her. In fact, she was pretty hot. In September 2021, she filed a $5 million lawsuit against Netflix, citing false light invasion of privacy and defamation per se. The 80-year-old, now living in Tbilisi, Georgia, is seeking a trial by jury. Her suit, filed in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, centers around allegations that “Netflix brazenly and deliberately lied about Gaprindashvili’s achievements for the cheap and cynical purpose of ‘heightening the drama’ by making it appear that its fictional hero had managed to do what no other woman, including Gaprindashvili, had done.” And that was face men at the highest levels of chess competition. The internet as a game-changer The game of chess dates back more than 1,500 years. Often referred to as the game of kings, chess sets have taken many forms, from rudimentary carvings to elegant and ornate masterpieces crafted from gold and silver. Now, chess, like most everything else, can be found online. For some players, the number of resources available makes online
chess attractive. But not to everyone. Vedanth Sampath, who participated in the Denver Chess Club’s recent in-person tournament, said he’s not a fan of online chess, primarily because of cheating or what some players call “computer doping.” Doping is essentially using a computer program or an application to obtain an unfair advantage during play. Not just limited to lower-rated players, grandmasters have also been snared. Some players have even mastered monetizing chess by live-streaming their games on platforms like Twitch. A February 2020 article by CNBC News reports 25-year old chess master Alexandra Botez “brings in over $100,000 a year as a professional chess streamer.” Neil Bhavikatti says popular streamers help bring new players to the board, and Twitch has positively affected the game. “The game going online brings in such an enormous amount of people to the game,” Starr said. ”It makes it a lot easier to get good very quickly.” So will chess over-the-board become a relic of bygone days? It’s hard to say. When asked what chess needs to stay relevant in the future, Buchanan said, “It just needs to be played— and it seems to be doing a pretty good job.”
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Art lovers will want to plan a trip to the handsome Arvada Center for the Arts at 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. — or possibly more than one trip — to visit the really strong “Art of the State” exhibit, which happens only every three years and attracts a wonderful variety of creative works that illustrate so many modes of expression. There are 149 works by 142 Colorado artists exhibited in two large galleries and the exhibit runs through March 27. Admission is free, but a reservation is required due to COVID limitations on how many visitors can be in the space at a given time. Visitors are led into the exhibit by Jodie Roth Cooper’s “Mountain Flower,” a pair of Corten steel forms 8 1/2 feet tall, placed inside the main entrance at the base of the stairs leading to theaters. They seem to greet one and invite further looking. The spacious main floor gallery is just to the left and Deborah Jang’s mixed me-
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Vienna exhibit The bright yellow tiled Kirkland Museum, 12th Avenue and Bannock Street in downtown Denver, has a new exhibit, “Josef Hoffman’s Vienna,” with decorative arts from the 1900s, when Vienna was a center for new design. Included with museum ticket. The museum will include recent acquisitions with works already owned from this important design period, which still influences production design today. Admission to 13 and older
dia assemblage sculpture, “We’re not in Kansas anymore,” stands tall to the left, past a mix of wallhung pieces and three-dimensional works — free-standing and on shelves and pedestals. It seems to beckon one in ... Materials range from predictable wood, clay, paint, canvas, paper, metal and more, to interesting combinations and surfaces. Sizes and textures vary greatly and then there’s the riot of color. Satisfies the senses! These pieces were selected by three jurors from 2,067 submissions by 734 artists from throughout the state — a mind-blowing prospect, one would think! Jurors were: Louise Martorano, executive director of Red Line Contemporary Art Center; Ellamaria Ray, artist/anthropologist, professor of African Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver; and Collin Parson, director of galleries and curator, Arvada Center. Each brought a wide range of experience and skill to the project and spent a great deal of time looking at online images of entries — created in multiple ways and with many materials, by established artists and some new to the competition. SEE STATE, P23
only. (Fragile pieces are displayed and furniture is arranged in room-type placement.) Tickets purchased will be good for the year. $10, $8. 303-832-8576, kirklandmuseum.org. Englewood show The 16th annual Englewood Art Exhibit will be held at the Malley Recreation Center, 3380 S. Lincoln St., from Feb. 2 to 18. A reception will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2. Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. MondayFriday; 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. 303-762-2660. Arvada Center “The Liar,” will be presented in Arvada Center’s Black Box
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Run by Creek seals win over Arapahoe 55-51 Bruins victory puts Warriors further into deficit for season BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Cherry Creek’s Trevon Chambers was having an off game shooting the basketball but that didn’t stop him from taking a big shot late in the Bruins’ Centennial League boys basketball game against Arapahoe on Jan.29. Chambers, a 6-foot-3 junior, hit a key three-point shot with 65 seconds left in the game as part of a 6-0 Creek run that secured a 55-51 win over the Warriors in a game played in the Cherry Creek gym. “We trust Trevon,” said Cherry Creek coach Kent Dertinger. “That was a good shot. I think he was one for seven behind the arc. When it comes down the stretch we’re confident with him shooting the basketball.” Chambers sparked a six-point Creek run that snapped a 49-all tie and gave the Bruins a 55-49 lead, which the Bruins held for the final 41 seconds of the game. Chambers added a free throw to his three-point basket and had four of the six Bruins points during the decisive run that decided the game. Junior Blake Purchase had the basket that broke the tie and ignited the Creek winning run. “I wasn’t hitting all game but I still had confidence,” said Chambers. “We needed that three to win the game so I took the shot. It was rough not hitting for a while but I
Cherry Creek’s Trevon Chambers, 11, attempts to drive past Arapahoe’s Charlie Eckhardt, 14, and Chase D’Agostino, 20, during the PHOTO BY JIM BENTON Centennial League basketball game on Jan. 29. Creek pulled out a 55-51 victory.
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Douglas County falls short to Rock Canyon 50-49 Tight game lives up to pre-game hype BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Rock Canyon, the fourth-rated basketball team in the CSHAANow. com Class 5A state poll, played sixthranked Douglas County in a Continental League Top Ten showdown on Jan. 26 in the Rock Canyon Jaguars’ gym. The game lived up to the advance billing as Gavin Hershberger sank the first of two free throws with 1.3 seconds remaining in the game to give Rock Canyon a 50-49 victory. “That’s what the Continental League is all about, games like that,” said Douglas County coach Clay Comstock. “It was a great high school environment and Rock Canyon is a heck of a team. It came down to the SEE CANYON, P17
Douglas County’s Jaeton Hackley, 2, attempts to drive through a bunch of Rock Canyon players during the Jan. 26 game which PHOTO BY JIM BENTON the Jaguars won, 50-49.
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little things. We came up a point short but we are looking forward to bouncing back.” Seven points was the largest lead for either team in the game and there were eight ties, including the final one at 49-49 with 2:17 still to play. After each team failed to cash in on free throws, Rock Canyon called timeout with the score tied and 20.2 seconds showing on the clock to work for a last shot. “The only thing we were trying to do was take care of the ball and get the ball to our better free throw shooters,” said Rock Canyon coach Kent Grams. “We know there is pressure on every shot because they (Douglas County) put so much pressure on the ball. It’s ridiculous the amount of ball pressure they do put on. They are really good at it.” Hershberger, a 5-foot-10 junior guard, drove towards to foul line and was fouled. “I question whether or not I should have called that timeout,” added Grams. “He (Hershberger) goes out and misses it but we needed to set up a defense because we knew they were going to come out with something different.” Hershberger missed the second free throw attempt and the Huskies called a timeout. With a second remaining, Douglas County threw a long pass down court but a desperation turnaround jumper was no
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here, so we feel like we can have a little bit of a run,” said Dertinger, whose team is now 7-8 overall and 5-3 in the league. “Arapahoe tied it up and we didn’t wilt, we stuck with it, and that didn’t work out for us before but we learned from it and we were able to handle that a little better.” Senior Kyle Sweeney, who fueled a third-quarter Arapahoe comeback with 11 points, finished with
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16 points in the game. Arapahoe saw its overall record fall to 7-10 and 3-5 in the league. “We did not have the defensive start we needed,” said Warriors’ coach Troy Pachner. “I appreciate the resiliency but that doesn’t adjust for the slow start. “That game could have gone either way but the truth is we didn’t put ourself in a first-quarter position to win the game. “Our team is definitely a challenge for other people. We’re going to need three or four more wins out of our remaining six to make the playoffs.”
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good. “We knew this game was going to be a grind,” said Grams. “They are a great team. They do a lot of things really well and they have two of the better guards in the state. They might be the best. They are hard to guard.” Hershberger, Chris Schlesinger and Braxton Jones combined to spark a 9-0 Jaguars’ run as Rock Canyon rallied from a 43-40 deficit to grab a 49-43 lead with 3:12 left in the game. Hershberger and Jones each had four points and Schlesinger one during the spurt. However, Douglas County forced turnovers and came back to tie with game at 49-all on a basket by AJ Jackson. “We battled,” said Comstock. “It was a fun matchup. Being a basketball fans, it was fun to watch. Rock Canyon made enough good plays down the stretch to win the game.” Hershberger finished with 16 points, Jones had 11 points and eight rebounds while Schlesinger, a 6-6 senior, scored six points and had five assists. Senior guard Ty Nettles led the Huskies with 13 points and four steals while junior Xander Baldessari chipped in 10 points. Jackson had eight rebounds and Jaeton Hackley had six assists and four steals. Rock Canyon, which had another tough game on Jan. 28 against topranked ThunderRidge, improved to 12-4 overall after the win over the Huskies. The Jaguars were 3-1 in the league. Douglas County slipped to 13-3 overall and 2-2 in the league.
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employees from Jogan Health, a contractor with CDPHE. Becky O’Guin, spokesperson for Tri-County Health, defended the vaccine staff and said the videos pose a threat to vaccine accessibility for those who want it. “Our judgment is that state protocols appear to have been followed in assessing appropriateness of offering vaccination,” she said in an email, adding the videos are “hurting those in our community who want and need easier access to the vaccine for themselves and their children and will now have to find another vaccine location.” The elder McGough said there are “plenty of places where people can get a vaccine” beside a school. While he would not weigh in with his own personal thoughts on the vaccine, he said he felt the vaccine is a political issue that had no place on school property. He added that he felt having clinics at schools would put pressure on students to be vaccinated. In a statement, Littleton
February 3, 2022 Schools Superintendent Brian Ewert said the district did not share information about the clinic directly with students but that since the clinic was held at Heritage, its students may have known about it. The district did send information about the clinic in a parent and community newsletter on Jan. 20 and posted information on the district website, Ewert said. Neither the younger McGough nor Tallentine is a Heritage student. In both videos, when McGough and Tallentire say they have changed their minds about getting a vaccine, the nurse is heard saying their feelings are “completely valid” and that it is “fine” for them to leave. Still, the elder McGough said he feels the videos prove that the district and health agencies have overstepped boundaries, even with the misleading information students gave to the clinic’s health staff. The fake note that McGough’s son Owen handed Jogan Health staff was from a city document relating to COVID-19 policies for Oklahoma City. McGough said the fact that the staff went forward with preparations to
vaccinate based on the faked document showed they were not following their own guidelines for who could get vaccinated and compared it to a minor being able to buy alcohol with a consent form. McGough said Colorado’s health department created a “loophole” when it issued guidelines preventing vaccine providers from asking for identfification in a bid to make the vaccine more accessible. While staff at the clinic had to take the other student’s word when he lied about his age, since they could not ask for proof, McGough said the ID waiver should not be in place. “(CDPHE) took away the ability for us to determine how old somebody is that opened up a giant loophole to put children in harm’s way,” McGough said. According to Karen Tallentire, the parent of Alexander Tallentire, a third person allegedly also tried to get approved for a vaccine at the clinic without parental consent but was denied after saying they were under the age of 18. In a Jan. 20 email, McGough had been told by Ewert that students had to be accompanied
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The Best of Show award went to wood artist Chris DeKnikker’s “Reunion,” an appealing assemblage of thin slices of various woods (cherry, holly, maple, peach, poplar, walnut), mounted on a light-colored panel, with connecting black painted lines/shapes. Deep stain highlights the age rings in the larger pieces of wood and many of the tiny ones. Which ones are which variety of wood? A viewer speculates about trees of
origin. What forms do they take? (One really wants to run a finger across them, but refrains!) Fine crafts are widely represented as well in “Art of the State.” The line between has pretty much disappeared these days, although I suppose there are still some naysayers who will object to combining paintings and sculptures and prints with works in clay and metal. Photography is also included — combined with calligraphy in Kyoko Ono and Judy Anderson’s “Pareidolia 1.” Meredith Nemirov’s “Rivers Feed The Trees #463” combines acrylic paint and
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gouache on a historic topographic map. Tom Mazzullo’s subtle “Twopart Invention No. 18” is drawn with silverpoint on prepared paper, while Elizabeth Morisette’s bright and busy “Viral” is created with sewn zippers-and appears ready to run off around the gallery. Print techniques are overlayered in Tony Ortega’s richlyhued print “La Troca Roja,” and Sangeeta Reddy exhibits “The Quiet Burn of Autumn,” a golden acrylic collage with paper, silk and repurposed rubber on canvas. Variety is endless and each work
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THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 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.
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First Publication: 1/13/2022 Last Publication: 2/10/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 11/19/2021 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ANNA JOHNSTON Colorado Registration #: 51978 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 00000009301185 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/
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In 2017, the DCMHI implemented the Community Response Team (CRT) programs. This co-responder model pairs a licensed clinician and a specially trained law enforcement officer to respond to active 911 calls with a primary behavioral health component. The team is supported by specialized response from local fire jurisdictions, who provide field medical clearance and allow patients needing direct placement to psychiatric services, to avoid the emergency department. The Douglas County Community Response Team is a partnership between Douglas County, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Castle Rock Police Department, Parker Police Department and Lone Tree Police Department and requires collaboration between the clinical vendor and these multiple jurisdictions. Additionally, a case management team supports the co-responder teams by working with individuals that need ongoing case management to connect to appropriate, community-based services. Through this RFP, Douglas County seeks a clinical provider to partner in the provision of clinical services for the Douglas County Mental Health Initiative’s (DCMHI) Community Response Teams. 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 Friday, March 4, 2022 by Douglas County Government, Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Three (3) paper copies and one (1) USB flash drive copy of your proposal response must be submitted in a sealed box, plainly marked “Request for Proposal (RFP) #006-22, Community Response Team Clinicians”. 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. Legal Notice No. 941411 First Publication: February 3, 2022 Last Publication: February 3, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press
Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to:
PETER M & ANN I SCHWAB - OCCUPANT - CAC PROPERTY LLC - LAWRENCE E LIVINGSTON - PETER M & ANN I SCHWAB C/O DANIEL SCHWAB I - PETER M & ANN I SCHWAB C/O JONATHAN F SCHWAB -PETER M & ANN I SCHWAB C/O MATTHEW B SCHWAB - PETER M & ANN I SCHWAB C/O CHRISTINE M SCHWAB You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 1st day of November 2018 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to CHRISTOPHER CROUSE the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: LOT 1 BLK 19 PERRY PARK 5 1.366 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to CHRISTOPHER CROUSE. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2017. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of PETER M & ANN I SCHWAB for said year 2017 That on the 10th day of August 2021 said CHRISTOPHER CROUSE assigned said certificate of purchase to CAC PROPERTY LLC. That said CAC PROPERTY LLC on the 10th day of August 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 12th day of May 2022 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 27th day of January 2022 /s/ David Gill Douglas County Treasurer Legal Notice No. 941284 First Publication: January 27, 2022 Last Publication: February 10, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press
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