Total Vegan, a fast-casual Indian restaurant with food that’s 100% free of animal products, is the rst of its kind in the area. Possibly rst in the nation, according to restaurateur Basanta Lamsal.
A Douglas County group called Just Say No to Extremism gathered in downtown Castle Rock in
remembrance of the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the nation’s Capitol.
Standing outside of the Douglas County Wilcox Building, around 15 people waved American ags
and carried various signs, including ones that read “Stop Absurd Election Conspiracies” and “Stop Extremism DougCo.” For about an
Douglas County Sheri Tony Spurlock’s 42-year stint in law enforcement started with a conversation about his career aspirations with his manager at a grocery store. at manager was married to a cop who was put in contact with Spurlock. e rest is history.
Spurlock dreamed of being in law enforcement since he was 10 years old. After speaking with his manager’s husband, he began working at the Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce where he started as a deputy. He later moved into investigations and in 2015, he took over as Douglas County’s 33rd sheri .
Spurlock has gone on to serve the o ce for eight years, terming out in 2022. As Spurlock comes to the end of his nal term, he re ects on a full career. Not all moments are happy, as he explained.
During his time as sheri , many tragedies have taken place, including school shootings, o cers losing their lives and the unexpected complications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Tragedy fell upon us here in Douglas County and one thing led to another and I started to see di erent ways that the sheri can in uence public safety and the sheri can keep people alive and the sheri can be a part of making a long term di erence,” he said.
One of the most di cult parts of being a sheri for Spurlock is having employees intentionally disrupt the sheri ’s o ce. He said the other difcult part is when an o cer has been severely injured and killed.
“I never thought I’d have to do it… sit next to the wife of an o cer that was just killed and grab her hand and hold her and say, ’I have no idea where the hell we are going with this, but we are going together,’” said Spurlock.
As sheri , Spurlock has focused on mental health, the mental wellness of the community and employees, leading him to become a strong advocate
Residents demanding changes at Centennial Airport expressed frustration and confusion, mainly with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), during the airport’s Jan. 4 community noise roundtable meeting.
Nearly 20 people spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting, expressing similar concerns as residents did during the December meeting about increased air tra c, noise and lead pollution from aircraft fuel.
“We knew when we purchased our home that there was an airport nearby, and that didn’t bother us,” said Nathan Winger, who moved to the Sundance Hills neighborhood in Greenwood Village about a year ago.
“I remember standing in the backyard during the inspection of our home and commenting to our Realtor that it’s pretty quiet here,” he said. “It wasn’t until a couple of months ago that I really began to notice the additional noise and the additional ights.”
Some residents have formed a group, “Quiet Skies Over Arapahoe County,” to advocate for changes to be made to address safety and noise concerns. e group has a website, bit.ly/quietskies, that includes links to YouTube videos of aircraft ying over homes.
During her public comment, Audra Dubler, a leader of the resident group, said the FAA’s silence has been “deafening.”
Members of the Centennial Airport Community Noise Roundtable, which aims to work with the airport to reduce and mitigate the impact of aircraft noise, highlighted the need for FAA involvement during their December meeting.
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow and U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper signed a letter in December encouraging the FAA to attend the monthly meetings in person.
However, the two FAA representatives present at the January meeting attended virtually.
Leslie Lardie, senior advisor to the FAA’s regional administrator of the northwest mountain region, said she is based in Washington state and will not be able to come out due to travel restrictions.
Michael Valencia, general manager of the FAA Denver District, said he was unable to attend in person because he was working in Florida at the time.
He said he will attend in person at the next noise roundtable meeting, which is scheduled for Feb. 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the airport, 7565 S. Peoria St.
During the January meeting, a few people said ight patterns had changed due to two planes colliding in midair over the Cherry Creek State Park area in May 2021, leading to more aircraft tra c above neighborhoods. ey asked if this change can be undone.
Valencia disagreed that there has been a pattern change.
“ ere has been no literal change of a tra c pattern at Centennial,” Valencia said. “I’m in charge of all air tra c control for this Denver district, and I never, ever, made any decision or direction to change (the) tra c pattern for Centennial after the midair collision.”
However, Valencia said the FAA did change “an operating procedure” to help prevent collisions, saying the administration essentially adjusted how it separates planes that are on the parallel runways.
In a Dec. 16 letter, Grady Stone, the regional administrator of the FAA’s northwest mountain region, said that following the midair collision, air tra c controllers “were directed to use more active control when managing pattern tra c with arriving aircraft.”
Centennial Airport Executive Director and CEO Mike Fronapfel previously told Colorado Community Media that after the collision, the FAA Control Tower changed how it manages the pattern of tra c, now sequencing the aircraft as they come in on parallel runways. is change was to enhance safety, but it also resulted in “more aircraft ying out over the neighborhoods.”
Chris ompson, the public information o cer and manager of communications at Centennial Airport, con rmed in a Dec. 20 email that one of the changes the FAA made was extending the ight pattern for
Runway 17R/35L.
“ e general consensus is that the midair collision was the deciding factor to extending the ight pattern for the touch-and-go runway,” ompson wrote. “ is results in more of a staggered operation on the runways (i.e. plane lands on 17R and then next plane is on 17L) instead of concurrent landings.”
Regarding the discussion on whether the ight patterns changed, Fronapfel said in an email on Jan. 5 that he thinks it’s a matter of semantics.
“When the FAA directed the controllers to ‘use more active control when managing pattern tra c with arriving aircraft’ it e ectively results in more instances where the tra c pattern will be extended,” Fronapfel said in the email.
Fronapfel said, from the FAA’s perspective, the tra c pattern “is always subject to expanding or contracting based on several factors” such as the number of planes in the pattern, spacing of the aircraft and sequencing of pattern tra c with arriving aircraft to the parallel runway.
He expects to learn more during the Feb. 1 meeting, “when we hopefully get their response to our questions and they present information on how they are ‘more actively managing/controlling the tra c pattern,’” Fronapfel wrote.
In Stone’s Dec. 16 letter, he said that if the FAA is asked to attend a meeting to provide technical information and responses to questions, then the administration requests “that a maximum of three questions be submitted in writing no less than 30 days in advance of the meeting.”
Fronapfel sent a letter Dec. 31 to Stone, Lardie and Valencia with three questions the airport would like to have answered either before or during the Feb. 1 meeting.
He noted the questions were compiled through participation of airport leadership and sta , the noise roundtable, the City of Greenwood Village and community members. e rst question states residents north of Arapahoe Road are “severely impacted by the increase in aircraft over their homes due to the extended tra c pattern implemented after the midair collision.”
It asks if the FAA considered the environmental impact on residents as a result of the change, and if the administration met its National Environmental Policy Act obligations “before changing how the tra c pattern is managed at Centennial Airport.”
e second question explained that Stone’s letter said tra c patterns cannot be con ned based on noise abatement. It asks what criteria can be used by the FAA or Centennial Airport now to con ne the pattern area or limit how many aircraft are in the tra c pattern at once.
e nal question explains safety concerns have been expressed by the community and by ight schools “that are being directed to extend the tra c pattern over the residential areas.”
“Because of the new procedure, the pattern is extended so frequently that their students aren’t getting su cient training on ying a nonextended pattern,” the letter states. “ is becomes a safety concern if the student is expected to y a normal pattern at other airports and they are unable to stay ahead of the aircraft while transitioning to and from their landing or departure.”
It also notes another safety concern, which is that pilots have limited options in an emergency for safely landing their aircraft when they y over dense residential areas, which may mean “that now it’s more likely a midair collision could occur over a neighborhood.”
“In our opinion having an extended pattern doesn’t enhance the safety of the operations when there has been one midair accident in over 16.2 million operations at Centennial Airport. Were these factors considered by the FAA prior to the change and if not can they be considered?” the letter states.
During the meeting, Lardie said the FAA is currently working on a response to the questions.
During the public comment portion of the meeting, one resident asked the FAA for clari cation about its request that a maximum of three questions be submitted, wondering who the questions should come from and if the community is permitted to ask three questions as well.
“I’m not sure where that came from,” Lardie said. “We do answer all the questions that come through. ere’s, as far as I know, there’s never been a limit.”
Fronapfel explained what people were referencing was Stone’s letter that said to only submit three questions at a time.
In response, Lardie said she now understood the reference and that it takes time to answer questions, as the FAA does a thorough analysis before responding.
“So that’s why we limit those large questions to three, because they do take time,” she said.
She said the questions should come from the noise roundtable, since “how we communicate to the community is through this roundtable.”
e response created some confu-
sion and concern for a few members of the roundtable.
Brad Pierce, the chair of the roundtable, asked if they would have to wait until February to submit questions, since Fronapfel already submitted questions Dec. 31, meaning people may have to wait until March for answers if the response time is 30 days.
“ e red tape, to be honest, is just going to take forever to get the response to all the questions that everybody has,” Pierce said.
Lardie said Pierce can collect and send to her all the questions the noise roundtable and community has, removing the limitation of three questions. However, she said the FAA cannot guarantee that all questions will be answered within 30 days.
Pierce said a process was needed to send questions to Lardie, to which resident Audra Dubler volunteered to collect community questions to send to Pierce.
Lardie asked that Fronapfel review the questions Pierce receives rst, to determine if any questions can be answered by the airport, before the questions are then sent to the FAA.
“I am very bothered that the FAA is saying that they will only take questions from this roundtable,” said Centennial City Councilmember Candace Moon, a member of the noise roundtable. “You should not limit the acceptance of questions only from a roundtable of people who are listening to constituents.” ]
A few residents expressed frustration that the FAA representatives were not in person at the meeting to have a dialogue with them.
Moon said when she rst joined the roundtable, there was an FAA representative who attended every monthly meeting.
“And that has slowly dropped o to no representation,” she said.
Valencia said he received his rst invitation to the roundtable meeting last month, which he attended virtually.
“I not only empathize but sympathize with noise, and want to hear more about it and see what this great organization of the FAA can do to support this city and the airport authority … and the processes that are available to mitigate these issues,” Valencia said.
He said there are more than 30,000 private airports with public access to them throughout the United States.
“For us, as the agency, to address every single noise issue at over 30,000 airports is just unreasonable. We just can’t do it. But we can take certain airports that are unique, like Centennial, and hopefully partner and continue to work together,” he said. “You have my commitment to do that. I look forward to seeing you all on Feb. 1.”
Moon said she looks forward to the meeting. She thinks the FAA’s physical presence will do a lot to assure residents that the FAA is working on their behalf.
“I know that everybody wants a solution quick. is is not anything that’s going to happen quickly. It has to be done very thoroughly,” Moon said. “But it’s not like it’s gonna be put on the back burner and nothing happens, because we understand the urgency that you have in getting this resolved.”
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e Colorado espians have chosen Rock Canyon High School senior Anna Benevento as their newest Musical eatre Scholarship recipient.
“ eater has always been something I’ve loved,” said Benevento. “It meant so much to me to win this scholarship. It’s an accolade and experience I’m honored to carry with me now.”
Each year at esCon, the espians’ convention, one high school senior wins the $2,000 scholarship. is past December was the convention’s 58th year.
Benevento submitted pre-screen materials, but also performed at esCon’s closing ceremonies.
“Pre-screens are a series of videos that applicants for musical theater Bachelor of Fine Arts programs send into colleges for consideration into the program,” said Benevento.
Benevento’s pre-screen included a cut of “Gotta Get Out from Ordinary Days” and a monologue from “I Used to Write On Walls” by Bekah Brunstetter.
During the three-day event, aspiring actors, singers, dancers, directors and theater techies from across the state compete in individual and group events. Individual events include songs and monologues while team events include single acts and improv groups.
“ is year, all of our individual and group events earned one of the two highest scores you can receive at the conference, which is really exciting,” she said.
Students attending esCon compete with their schools and have the opportunity to work with professionals. Workshops covered a wide variety such as acting on stage versus on lm, stage combat, makeup and even swing dancing.
Benevento has been a part of the theater program at Rock Canyon since she was a freshman. She started
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out on the tech crew for “ e Hunchback of Notre Dame” and has later played Matilda in the school’s adaptation of “Matilda.”
is year, Benevento will play another leading role – Judy Bernly, a timid woman who learns to work in the corporate world, in their upcoming show, “9 to 5: e Musical.”
“Another thing I really felt like I wanted to be a part of was an outside of school cabaret called ‘ e Future is Bright’ ’which is such a great cause and such a cool show,” she said.
“ e Future is Bright” is a student-
run cabaret that is directed, produced, choreographed and performed by students across Denver.
e cabaret donates proceeds to e Denver Actors Fund, which helps members in the theater community who are in medical need.
Looking to continue theater, Benevento has applied to multiple musical theater programs in and out of state for college.
“I love the escape it provides. I love exploring di erent perspectives and even aspects of myself,” said Benevento.
A man charged with the murder of his sister and her boyfriend will face a trial by jury in June. Casey Devol appeared in virtual proceedings on Jan. 5 to set dates for upcoming appearances. e 30-year-old man is charged with two counts of rst degree
murder. He is accused of killing his sister, Jessica Mitchell, 32, and her boyfriend, Bryan Todd Gray, 34, on their property on Russellville Road near Franktown, in unincorporated Douglas County.
e victims su ered multiple gunshot wounds and were found dead in their garage on Feb. 8 last year.
Video obtained from surveillance equipment showed a man on the property entering a garage where the victims were found. e man
his election conspiracies.
Guthrie said his group formed as a way to push back against local extremists and those pushing misinformation.
was seen carrying hand guns and a long gun.
Authorities identi ed Devol as a suspect and later arrested him in Salina, Kansas. He was extradited back to the county, a case that has shocked the community. Several Franktown residents said they knew the victims and Devol for years.
Public Defender Ara Ohanian is representing Devol, who entered a not guilty plea during a hearing in September.
8:30 a.m. on June 12 in a courtroom in the state’s 18th Judicial District in Castle Rock. Judge Patricia Herron has set aside three weeks for proceedings.
Before the trial, Devol is expected in court for other matters related to the case. A motions hearing is set for 9 a.m. on March 22. A pre-trial readiness conference is slated for 9
And at 9 a.m. on June 1, attorneys
Organizer Lloyd Guthrie said he planned the event to ensure the Jan. 6 insurrection isn’t overlooked or misrepresented.
“Anytime an organized group tries to bring down the government, we can’t let that be forgotten,” Guthrie said.
At least 16 Coloradans have been charged by the US Department of Justice for crimes relating to the Jan. 6 insurrection. Locally, Douglas County is home to one of Colorado’s most infamous election deniers and founder of the group FEC United, Joe Oltmann, who is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for alleged defamation relating to
“We want Douglas County to be a re ection of the good people that live here, to be a welcoming place, and that means welcoming for everyone,” Guthrie said. “We want to make sure that the community is able to have an open dialogue about a lot of things and not an ideological battle over a few things.”
He plans for Just Say No to Extremism to build more of a presence this year by supporting equity in the community and standing with people who may feel intimidated by extremism.
“ ere’s safety in numbers,” Guthrie said.
Eric Brody, who ran as the Democratic candidate for Colorado House District 39 and lost to Rep. Brandi Bradley, gave a short
speech to honor the 12 people who received Presidential Citizens Medals from President Joe Biden for their work protecting the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and for overseeing the 2020 election process.
“People who are both decent and sensible recognize today’s honorees as the heroes that they are,” he said. “We stand up for them against the
extremists in our community who wage relentless campaigns of lies, intimidation, and hate.”
Biden awarded the medals to Ocers Harry Dunn, Caroline Edwards, Michael Fanone, Aquilino Gonell, Eugene Goodman, Daniel Hodges and Brian Sicknick, as well as election workers Jocelyn Benson, Rusty Bowers, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss and Al Schmidt.
e Highlands Ranch eatery opened Dec. 16 in a building that also houses a Noodles & Company and a Panda Express. While it’s not unusual for Indian restaurants to o er a few vegan dishes, Lamsal, co-owner of Total Vegan, told Colorado Community Media that he’s not aware of any other Indian restaurants that are all vegan,
“I really think it’s a good concept,” Lamsal said. And one he thinks will resonate with Coloradans’ penchant for healthy living and abiding respect
e menu at Total Vegan Indian Restaurant features a dozen specialties like nariyel kofta, or vegetable croquettes in a cashew coconut sauce, and daal tadka, a lentil stew. Customers can also create their own entrees by choosing one of six sauces and one of three levels of heat to go over a base of tofu or veggies such as mushrooms, potatoes, cauli ower or eggplant. Lamsal suggests rst-timers try the tikka masala, a creamy tomato and onion sauce, over mixed vegetables or tofu.
For appetizers, the samosas, fried turnovers stu ed with potatoes and green peas, are a favorite, Lamsal said. But there’s also fritters, dumplings and a thin, crispy bread called papadam to get a meal started. By replacing traditional cow’s milk with cashew nut milk, Total Vegan even o ers common dairy-rich Indian treats like rice pudding and chai tea.
“I never ever thought chai tea can still taste the same with cashew nut milk … but if I don’t tell you, you wouldn’t know,” Lamsal said.
Total Vegan Indian Restaurant is at 9563 S. University Blvd., suite A, in Highlands Ranch. It’s closed on Tuesdays but open from 11:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m.
Total Vegan also has a small selection of juice, beer and wine, including a few brews from India.
Lamsal has been in the Indian restaurant business for 25 years and is full or part owner of 10 establishments. But Total Vegan is the result of “looking at things di erently” in the industry he knows so well, Lamsal said. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the cost of chicken, lamb and dairy products has skyrocketed. But by o ering a completely vegan menu, Lamsal can serve Indian dishes at a reasonable price and not go broke himself.
Like ingredients, labor costs have also risen. But cutting animal products from the menu simpli es kitchen work and reduces the number of employees needed in the back of the house, Lamsal said. He also made the business a little less labor-intensive by choosing to go with a counter service model instead of a full-service dining experience. With those adjustments, Lamsal said he’s able to run the small, 1,700-square-foot, window-lined eatery with half the workers it takes to sta his other restaurants.
By serving vegan Indian cuisine while keeping the company’s food and labor expenses low, Lamsal is fairly con dent his new concept will be successful. If it is, he’d like to expand and bring the idea to other communities throughout the U.S. someday.
“We’re very positive, and we’re very hopeful,” Lamsal said.
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Gov. Jared Polis’ administration wants to spend $2 million to change Colorado’s state government website and email domain extensions to .gov from state.co.us in a proposal billed as a way to mitigate cybersecurity risks and make it easier for state o cials to participate in federal brie ngs.
Until recently, all email addresses for state employees used the state. co.us domain name extension. e transition to .gov has already begun, but the Governor’s O ce of Information Technology is asking state lawmakers to let it spend $2 million to complete the switch.
Brandi Simmons, a spokeswoman for the o ce, declined to comment on the proposal since it’s still being considered by the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee. “We don’t have anything to share at this time,” she said.
But in a proposal sent to the JBC this month, the Governor’s O ce of Information Technology said the state.co.us domain extension poses a “serious security risk,” particularly when it comes to “phishing,” which is when bad actors try to use a deceptive email address to trick people into disclosing sensitive information or clicking on a dan-
“.us domains are subject to phishing attempts,” the budget proposal said. “Anyone can register a .us domain through many of the publicly available domain registrar. For instance, someone could register ‘co. state.us’ or ‘state.col.us’ or ‘states. co.us.’ then email our users from these fake domains.”
Colorado o cials have also had di culty participating in security brie ngs with federal agencies and the White House because of the state.co.us domain extension, according to the proposal. at’s because a .gov email address is required to register for the brie ngs.
Exceptions have to be made for Colorado o cials when they want to join the federal security brie ngs, which the governor’s o ce called “a barrier to entry.”
e proposal said Colorado is one of only seven states that still use a .us domain extension. Other states have transitioned to .gov domain extensions, which can’t be created or modi ed without government authentication and validation.
“I just kind of thought an extension was an extension,” said Sen.
Rachel Zenzinger, an Arvada Democrat and chair of the JBC.
Scott ompson, a nonpartisan JBC sta er, said “going to .gov does give us that extra layer” of security protections.
Some state websites, including Colorado’s main landing page and the legislature’s website, already use the .gov domain extension.
And some state employees’ email addresses now carry the .gov extension, too.
Jarrett Freedman, a spokesman for the Colorado House Democratic caucus, said his email switched over to the .gov domain extension Dec. 1. But Colorado’s move to .gov isn’t complete.
e Colorado Secretary of State’s O ce website, for instance, is sos. state.co.us, though it’s in the process of transitioning fully to coloradosos.gov. And Simmons declined an interview request from e Colorado Sun from a state.co.us email address.
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for the Emergency Risk Protection Order, otherwise known as the Red Flag Law.
Passed in 2019, the Red Flag law allows law enforcement or family members to request the temporary seizure of rearms from people who could pose a threat to themselves or to others.
“Contrary to what anyone else says, you can quote me on this, the Sheri is right,” Spurlock said.
According to Spurlock, enforcing the law has never harmed anyone’s constitutional right in Colorado. “I know people that we took guns away from are alive today,” he said. “ ey are there with their wives, their daughters, and they’re productive members of society and if we hadn’t done that, the chances of them taking their own lives and taking someone else’s was so astronomically high - and we can show that.”
Beyond tragedy, Spurlock is also an advocate for working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. He serves on the state board of directors for Colorado’s Special Olympics and is state director for the Law Enforcement Torch Run.
As he re ected on a four-decade career, Spurlock’s desk is lined with pictures of people who inspire him. As he looks at a picture of a young special olympian, he is reminded of the medals he has put around the necks of incredible athletes.
Spurlock re ected on the many opportunities he has been given, including when he was among 50 cops from around the country and 25 international cops for three months of intensi ed training at the FBI’s Academy for commanders and executives not long after 9/11.
Spurlock said he continues to instill what he learned from those three months with the men and women of the Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce.
“You go down in the brie ngs and you see these young men and women, you look in their eyes and I’m like - ‘It’s my job to tell them that it’s all worth it and to go out there and everything you do 100% is all worth it at the end of the day,’” said Spurlock.
Since his rst term in 2015, Spur-
lock has worked with a variety of people and with di erent counties to create partnerships and services for the community, including developing the cold case review team made up of volunteer citizens.
A doctor, two attorneys, a business man and woman and detectives have come together to clear four cold cases. According to Sprulock, individuals are now in prison and in custody because of this team of dedicated individuals. e team was able to solve a Jane Doe case, the Roger Dean case, the Helene Pruszynski case and are currently working on a 1995 case.
In a partnership with the Aurora Police Department, Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce and a district attorney from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s O ce, Spurlock helped create the Uni ed Metropolitan Forensics Crime Lab.
Separate from the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, the Uni ed Metropolitan Forensics Crime Lab opened in 2018 to serve the people of these counties with quicker results.
“So sadly, when a woman is sexually assaulted in Douglas County and we don’t know who the bad guy is, we can take the evidence right from the crime scene, take it to our lab and not wait 18 months and nd out who it is,” said Spurlock. “We get to be a part of helping her recover
in her life and nd justice for what was done to her but we also get to prevent future crimes because we catch this guy.”
Spurlock also put together the rst Financial Task force made up of a Douglas County sergeant, detectives from Douglas County Sheri ’s Ofce, Castle Rock Police Department and Lone Tree Police Department and a special agent from the U.S. Secret Service.
For over two years, the task force discovered that $5 million was shoplifted from Douglas and Arapahoe counties by an organized group. e investigation ended with eight indictments, the shut down of the organization in Aurora and recovered millions of dollars worth of product.
Spurlock is also the vice chair of the Peace O cer Standards and Training board. e Highlands Ranch Law Enforcement Training Foundation partners with the Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce to train groups of cadets. Spurlock felt the two counties were large enough law enforcement agencies that they could have their own training academy.
“We have 844 square miles of Douglas County, 220-something square miles of that is Pike National Forest. You train a cop di erent up there than you do on 16th Street Mall,” said Spurlock. e academy now gets cadets from
Littleton, Castle Rock, Parker, Lone Tree, Sheridan, Englewood, Greenwood Village and Submit County.
As Spurlock nears the end of his nal term, he wants the sheri ’s o ce to know that the job changes everyday. As the county continues to grow, he hopes that the o ce can have more patience, be more understanding, more forgiving and work collectively to reduce crime and increase community involvement. Looking forward to vacationing with his wife and seeing his children and grandchildren, Spurlock is going to miss the people and the community the most.
In his parting words of advice to new sheri -elect Darren Weekly and commanders, Spurlock said he told them to,”listen when an opportunity presents itself.” Also, he said he told them to remember two things - e rst being to be able to recognize opportunity. e second, he said is to “have the courage to take the risk to see if you can take that opportunity.”
Weekly will be sworn in as the new sheri in January.
“He’s a sheri that looked for opportunities to think outside the box and establish non-traditional partnerships and have the courage to look at di erent ways of doing law enforcement,” said Weekly.
About two weeks ago I was thinking about writing a column about organized sports and our youth. en, I watched the NFL game between the Bu alo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals and decided it was a good idea with a little more power to it.
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Sometimes sports gets a bad rap. No, not everyone is made to be an athlete. But no matter where my sons end up going in their futures, I do not doubt for a second the skills, abilities and interactions will help shape whatever they do.
Before getting to my son’s own experiences, I want to start with what happened in Cincinnati when Buffalo’s defensive back Damar Hamlin su ered a freak accident while tackling receiver Tee Higgins. I am a major football fan so I rarely miss a game. Not surprisingly, I was watching the game live. I watched Hamlin pop up right after the tackle and then fall to the ground.
Thelma GrimesBased on player reactions and tears I knew it was far more than the concussion our minds usually go to. What came after the life-saving measures on the eld were why I still believe in humanity and organized sports.
You had two teams know they could not go on and play a game because a player’s life was more important. You had a nation, love or hate football, rooting for this man to survive. You had well wishes, strong support and a toy drive receive millions in donations in Hamlin’s name.
When you play sports, you get another family. ey become part of your everyday lives and you play for and support each other.
My 9-year-old started playing his rst year of competitive hockey this year. He loves the sport and shows a lot of passion for learning the game and getting better.
When he rst started, his team, in the 10-and-under Arapahoe Warriors league, was hard to watch. ey are learning the sport and we were losing a lot. We as parents were in the stands every game being supportive but worried when we were losing by six or more goals.
Fast forward a few months and this team is now winning regularly. ey are supporting each other, pushing each other and I see the improvement in my son’s play and that of others on the team. He is proud of what they are doing every week.
Having him also be proud of himself is nice to see. He is making friends, he is learning from a wonderful coaching sta , and he is gaining principles and skills that will carry him beyond hockey in the future.
As much of a bad rap as sports teams can get — I can never replace the friendships my son is earning. I can’t beat the support and friendships I am making with the parents in the stands. I know all of them care about my son and cheer him on in each game.
With sports, too, comes emotion. Hamlin is a great example. On Jan. 8, every team in the NFL wore shirts in support of Hamlin. ey showed vulnerability in talking about the rare incident that caused him to go into cardiac arrest suddenly.
Love, support and growth are what we all want to have in our lives. For Hamlin, NFL athletes and my son as he takes this journey forward — I do love the often overlooked positives of joining a sports program.
elma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media.
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plans are solid and our attitude is good and positive, maybe we could take one last look at our plans and give ourselves a check-up from the neck up to try and identify any blind spots we may have missed.
No matter where you are in the world, this week o ers us all the opportunity to enter the new year with a new plan and a new attitude. Even if we believe we have the right plan and a great attitude, there could be room for a little improvement raising the bar for ourselves and those around us. What if we could make the slightest incremental improvements to our existing plans and our outlook? I think you would agree that we would experience even greater results. ese past couple of months have kept us busy with clients and internally with business planning, writing sales plans, prospecting plans, training plans, new onboarding plans, and working with clients and friends on creating and building vision boards that help provide visual reminders of our goals and what we expect the new year to bring. And if we forget or fail to plan, this old quote often attributed to Benjamin Franklin still holds true all these years later, “By failing to plan, you are preparing to fail.”
Now some of us might be thinking that our plans are just ne, and our attitude is exactly where it needs to be. Whenever I hear this, I am reminded of something my great uncle Harry would always say, “ ere is nothing so good it couldn’t be better, and nothing so bad that it couldn’t get worse.” So, even if we believe our
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When it comes to planning, I am a big advocate of using a planning tool. I am a little biased to the Ziglar Performance Planner as it is an annual planner that helps me not only manage my days and meetings, but it also helps me to plan out my goals for the year and track those goals each and every day. It also contains some of Zig’s most famous motivational quotes, and when I read those each day, it de nitely inspires me, and ensures my attitude is in the right place as I glance at those words of wisdom throughout my day. If you aren’t using one, I would highly recommend that you nd one that works for you and your schedule.
How do we develop and maintain a positive attitude in a world that can sometimes feel so negative? at is a question I receive from many of you throughout the year. And here at the beginning of the year is the perfect time to take control of our own attitude regardless of what the world throws our way. Setting our foundation upon an attitude that starts with gratitude. It’s really di cult to slip into a negative head space when we are grateful for everything we have and everyone in our circle of friends and family.
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Anyone looking for a free COVID-19 test in Colorado will have a few less options starting on Jan. 15. e Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment says it plans to shutter its 20 remaining community testing sites on that date due to a shift in demand among residents to at-home tests. e drive-thru and walk-in sites at parks and schools – once overwhelmed at the height of the pandemic – have been operating at less than 6 percent capacity since November. e move comes in the middle of peak respiratory illness season. But o cials involved in the announcement stressed that COVID tests would remain widely available through other means.
“Coloradans have transitioned away from relying on large community testing sites and toward testing at home,” said Scott Bookman, the state’s COVID-19 incident commander, in a news release. “With this transition, the state is focusing e orts on the testing distribution methods Coloradans currently use most and providing testing resources to those who need them most.”
e closures will a ect testing clinics in Denver, Boulder, Grand Junction,
Colorado Springs and other large cities across the state.
e list includes the following: Alamosa - Adams State University, Conour Hall
• Aurora - Aurora Center for Active Adults - Del Mar
• Castle Rock - Justice Center
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• Westminster - Westminster - Front Range Community College
Coloradans can search on CDPHE’s website, covid19.colorado.gov/testing, to nd a distribution site for free at-home tests near them. CDPHE’s free school testing program will stay in place through the end of this school year at least. Many pharmacies and private doctor’s o ces have large supplies of tests available for free. You can also still order free tests through a federal program online.
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At a recent Douglas County School District board meeting, Superintendent Kane was scolded by a public speaker for accepting an award for “defeating that imaginary dragon,” referring to critical race theory, or CRT. I welcome the opportunity to provide evidence that this divisive and illiberal ideology was indeed at our schools’ doorstep, and applaud those parents who recognized the harm associated with this ideology and voiced their concerns.
CRT prioritizes group identity over the individual, which was a focus of a professional development session that took place in April 2021. e facilitators of this session suggested that we should “ensure the best outcomes for everyone … with a special focus on people of color.” Suggesting that individuals who share a similar skin color require special treatment is insulting, derogatory and unfair. Parents watched a recording of the session and subsequently demanded that leadership terminate the relationship with the consultant and issue
an apology. We’re still waiting on the latter.
CRT also promotes social justice activism, which is concerned with how power and domination operate and suggests that individuals are victims of structural discrimination and therefore have no agency or dignity. is is a central focus of the No Place for Hate (NPFH) program. Why should our students be encouraged to internalize hopelessness, lack of individual identity, and the impossibility of friendship across lines of di erence while they’re su ering epidemic levels of anxiety, depression and suicide? Once they were informed of the details of the NPFH program, parents shared their concerns with school leaders and the NPFH program is in three schools now, down from 35 in early 2021.
Another example of this ideology being in our schools comes via the privilege walks that took place one year ago. is activity inculcates the idea that certain immutable characteristics such as skin color
isn’t just about gratitude alone, we also must be careful of what we allow to enter our minds. Again, here at the beginning of the year it is a fantastic time to create a reading calendar for the year of the good books that we want to read, books that inspires us and that keep us grounded. It’s a great time to nd the podcasts that are lled with powerful and positive information that can motivate and challenge us to grow in mind, body, and spirit. How about you? Is the new year the right time to reevaluate your plans?
Are you failing to plan? Or are you all over this and have a brilliant plan and a wonderful attitude? Either way, I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can take the time to create a plan that will help us to achieve all that we hope to achieve in the new year, and support that plan with a positive attitude, it really will be a better than good life.
Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.
For the past 20 years, talk of addressing mental health issues within the health care industry circled around without much emphasis. at’s beginning to change, and it’s starting with the ne arts.
At the Colorado Resiliency Arts Lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, a team of doctors, therapists and literary scholars are doing just that: exploring how the ne arts can help nurses, doctors, surgeons and other healthcare workers heal from trauma.
e team found that creative arts therapy not only decreases anxiety, feelings of burnout and depression, but also helps keep medical workers in their eld.
e study, published in the American Journal of Medicine in 2022 found that anxiety, depression, total PTSD and emotional exhaustion measurement scores decreased by 27.8%, 35.5%, 25.8% and 11.6%, respectively.
Katherine Reed, an art therapist for the program, said that 12% saw a reduction in the desire to leave the profession.
“It’s amazing in how basic it really is, and yet it’s creating these incredible results,” Reed said.
Dr. Marc Moss, a doctor who is part of the CORAL team, said the program received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2019 to prove the value of the ne arts, after the National Endowment for the Arts requested proposals to show Congress that art was worth the money spent.
“It’s easy to say, ‘Wow, it’s great having a symphony’ or ‘It’s great having parks and etc.,’ but what’s the value of that?’” Moss said. “ ey wanted to have more scienti c evidence.”
From the results of the study, CORAL did just
that. e program o ers group art therapy cohorts to healthcare workers to help them process their day-to-day lives.
It’s a 12-week program with weekly 90-minute sessions with between eight to 15 participants. Each session is guided by a creative arts therapist.
CORAL o ers art, music, dance and writing therapy with hopes to add drama therapy in the near future.
Reed explained that art intrinsically creates community, helps the healing process and connects people. ose characteristics are key to helping people overcome their trauma.
She said a reason burnout remains prevalent is due to the way humans isolate themselves and avoid conversations and expressions about what happened. In the group sessions, participants can show each other they aren’t alone and validate each others’ experiences.
Historically, she said, art was the basis of expression and commu-
nication. Egyptian Hieroglyphics morphed into language.
Over the course of her 20-year career as an art therapist, Reed said she has a front-row seat to the limitations of language on expression, especially in children. Children — and adults — may lack the words or rhetoric to describe their experiences or their feelings, and music, painting, drama and other forms of art can act as a backdoor to expressing those feelings.
“(Children) can show you with sound and music what it feels like in their brain to remember the impact,” Reed said. “It’s a way of communicating that bypasses language. When we talk, we’re constantly ltering our words.”
It deepens the healing and clients don’t need to know how to draw, play an instrument or act out. It’s about interpreting your own symbols, song lyrics and paint color choices to nd meaning.
Witnessing trauma like death, injury, illness and medical ethical dilemmas are all themes that come up in the workshops. In medical school, classes don’t necessarily exist to teach students
how to deal with it.
“You get into real-life medicine and suddenly (there are) personalities, narratives, stories and family members you’re not necessarily equipped to manage. You know how to transplant that heart, but do you know how to manage the mother’s panic or the father’s anger?” Reed said.
Another root cause can be the American healthcare system in general. Reed said doctors may need to see 20 patients in one day, which limits the time to actually talk with them since then they need to document those appointments.
at leads to longer hours and less time with loved ones, making it harder to nd a work-life balance.
A lack of emotional learning for healthcare workers also hints at a broader issue at hand in general. Many parallels exist between healthcare workers and students, who may not know how to express or manage their own feelings, Reed said.
rough art therapy and CORAL, healthcare workers can learn to manage those feelings. Not only for their own well-being, but also to be more successful in their day-
to-day job.
A lack of those tools can lead to higher rates of turnover, and Moss said it makes the program all the more valuable.
“Turnover is expensive,” Moss said. at piques interest in hospital administrators. Less burnout and turnover of employees is coste ective. Moss said the COVID-19 pandemic ampli ed the need for mental health resources for hospitals and administrators are looking for ways to do that.
So much so that the Children’s Hospital agreed to start a program outside of the grant. Once the grant from the National Endowment for the Arts nishes its 10year period, not only does Moss think more programs will exist in Colorado, but also all across the country.
He sees a larger multicenter study occurring at multiple different hospitals in di erent cities to expand the evidence on the e ciency.
“If a pill had the results that CORAL has, every single person would be taking it because it’s affordable and it works,” Reed said.
Works on display in gallery that began as railroad depot
BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Eighteen artists have joined the longtime Littleton Fine Arts Guild in the past year and the organization features their works in a new exhibit, through March 5. e LFAG operates the historic Depot Art Gallery at 2069 W. Powers Ave. in downtown Littleton
and two receptions are planned to feature their works.
e rst reception will be Jan. 13 from 4 to 7 p.m. and the second will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 10. e public is invited to both.
For newcomers who are not familiar with the gallery, it is fashioned from the historic red Santa Fe Railway depot that once served Littleton passengers who commuted into Denver, as well as longer distance passengers who came from all directions to visit Littleton, or pass through en route to Wyoming and New Mexico or to nd east-west train connections.
And then, there were the daily ship-
ments of milk cans and other freight. (Our area south of Denver was lled with dairy farms and other agricultural projects.) Note the milk can at the gallery entrance!
e new members work in a variety of techniques — oil, watercolor, ink, three-dimensional pieces and more.
“White Torch” a watercolor by Kristal Hoeh, shows a portrait of the beautiful owering cactus we nd to the south and west of Littleton. e sharp spines clearly say “just look!”
John Kitner’s “Guanella Pass,” created with acrylic paint on a horizontal panel, carries the eye across a green mountain meadow and up the pass
that will carry travelers into historic Georgetown on the other side. (My favorite spot in Colorado is at the top of Guanella Pass!)
Perhaps a stop in Georgetown — or Littleton — for breakfast will bring some bright red strawberries like those on Teresa Maone’s painting.
Pat Hartman’s soft watercolor, “While On My Way,” shows a scene we might nd in a number of Colorado locations: a sunny corner of a weathered log fence that leads into a grove of aspen trees. Nice spot for a picnic.
Admission to the gallery is free. You can also view this exhibit at depotartgallery.org.
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Highlands Ranch — Wow.
After what was an all-out slugfest between backto-back state champion underRidge and upsetminded Cherry Creek on the hardwood the night of Jan. 6, that’s all that could be said.
underRidge wunderkind Andrew Crawford was fouled on a 3-point shot as the clock hit triple zeroes in regulation and coolly buried all three free throws to force overtime. But Cherry Creek somehow, someway managed to overcome the massive momentum swing and prevail 83-81 on the road in a nonleague thriller.
“I’m proud of how valiantly they fought,” 27th-year underRidge coach Joe Ortiz said of his Grizzlies, who graduated nine players from last year’s state title-winning team and don’t feature a single senior on this year’s squad. “It was a back-and-forth game.” Ortiz’s young troops found themselves down 82-78 with time ticking away in overtime, but Kael Carney’s trey with 14 seconds left gave the Grizzlies a chance.
underRidge fouled Trevon Chambers on the Bruins’ ensuing possession, putting the Cherry Creek senior on the free-throw line for two shots with 7 seconds to go. Chambers’ rst attempt was true, but his second spit out of the cylinder. e Grizzlies snagged the rebound and raced down the court, but Carney’s 3-point attempt at the buzzer was just o the mark.
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Creek survives to take 2-point hoops win over gritty Grizzlies
didn’t,” Crawford, a junior, said of how the nal minutes of overtime unfolded. “It was a winnable game, though.”
If not for Crawford’s heroics and mental sturdiness in the closing moments of regulation, the game would have never seen overtime.
After Chambers connected on the back end of a pair of free throws to give Cherry Creek a 66-63 lead with 4 seconds left, Ortiz called a full timeout to set up one nal play for the Grizzlies.
Ryan Doyle inbounded the ball to Crawford, who ran the length of the oor and loosed a running 3-point attempt from the right wing at the buzzer that missed.
But Crawford was fouled on the play.
And so, with only zeroes showing on the clock and the junior standing alone at the free-throw line with thousands of eyeballs on him, the situation was this: Miss a single free throw and the game’s over, or make all three to force overtime.
One by one, Crawford poured in all three shots — nothing but nylon.
“Every time I get to the line, I say, `In the park.’ I work out in the park all the time. I’ve shot thousands of free throws there. at’s where my mind goes when I’m shooting free throws. It was really nothing. It was a big moment in the game, but I wasn’t nervous at all,” said Crawford, whose 31-point masterpiece included underRidge’s last nine points in regulation to keep his team close. Apparently, Ortiz wasn’t nervous for his young marksman, either. “He was 10-for-11 from the freethrow line in the state championship
game last year. You see how he takes his time and he’s totally locked in. I was fully con dent he would make all three,” Ortiz said of Crawford, who’s already sitting on college o ers from Colorado, Colorado State, Denver and Rice, among others.
underRidge (8-4) led by three on two separate occasions in overtime, but the Bruins (5-6) never went away.
Crawford’s and-one play right out of the gates spotted the Grizzlies a 69-66 lead, but Chambers quickly responded with a pair of free throws. Two Crawford free throws moments later gave underRidge a 71-68 lead, but Cherry Creek’s Blake Purchase — the 6-foot-3, 240-pound senior who’s committed to play linebacker for Oregon’s football team — answered with two buckets of his own from the charity stripe.
A Robbie Bailey-to-Franck Belibi steal and score triggered a 10-2 run for the Bruins, forcing underRidge to operate from behind once again.
Although they were down by several buckets with little more than a minute to play, the Grizzlies never conceded.
“We were down by 12 in the state championship game last year to start the game. We keep ghting back.
at’s not about this team. at’s about this program. It’s who we are,” said Ortiz, who has guided the Grizzlies to 12 Final Four appearances, eight state championship games and four state titles in his time at underRidge.
In regulation, the Grizzlies and Bruins traded blows the whole way — the contest featured nine ties and 13 lead changes.
Charlie Spann nished with 18 points for under Ridge. Ulysses Brown and Tommy Wight each scored nine points, Carney had eight and Christian Simenthal added ve.
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and sexual orientation determine a person’s status, whether privileged or victim, and produces feelings of shame and guilt. How can kids be emotionally healthy if they’re expected to view their classmates as oppressors or victims? DCSD leadership immediately stopped these exercises, as they put the district at risk of receiving complaints of civil rights violations.
Our parent community con rms that the distractions of social justice activism and group identity politics have lessened in DCSD, thanks to the change in leadership, and we’re much closer to attaining a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity than we were one year ago.
Laureen Boll Highlands RanchOn 12/15/22 Colorado Community Media published an article: “FEC United attends school district meeting,” with the scary subhead “Security provided.” e clear intent of this piece was to alarm Douglas
County residents because “two members of a private armed organization were among the audience” at a meeting of the school district’s Equity Advisory Committee (EAC). is article is an example of how the media turns a “news” story into an in ammatory opinion piece to advance a leftist agenda.
Even the headline is wrong: two members of the United American Defense Force (UADF) attended the meeting, not the FEC (Faith, Education and Commerce) United group, though the two organizations are allied. It was an open meeting that the district encourages citizens to attend, yet the reporter quotes EAC member Cathy Lees claiming an FEC Facebook post encouraging people to attend was “an intimidation tactic that successfully silenced under-represented voices.” How ridiculous. Of course, there’s no way Lees would know that. Maybe the reporter should have asked Lees just who was silenced?
And why didn’t the newspaper focus on what actually happened at the meeting rather than repeatedly calling the ADF “an armed” group, implying the two UADF attendees were armed and dangerous. Maybe they intended to shoot up the equity meeting? Not until
the fth paragraph do we discover they weren’t armed. Never mind, the leftist meme pushed by the DOJ that ordinary citizens are domestic terrorists has been served, as has their anti-gun hysteria.
Never is it mentioned that UADF founder John “Tig” Tiegen is an honorable hero of the 2012 Benghazi attack who defended the U.S. Embassy in Libya against the Islamic terrorist onslaught that killed the ambassador and another. He’s no terrorist thug, he’s a military and security consultant. e article even hints his UADF group’s Denver propolice rally had something to do with a Navy veteran being killed by an unlicensed security guard hired by 9News.
To further vilify FEC United’s patriots, they are accused of being
“deemed anti-government by the Southern Poverty Law Center.” But I searched and couldn’t nd FEC United in the SPLC’s 733 (!) “hate groups” or “extremist les.” So. Anyhow, the SPLC is notorious for using its nonpro t multi-millions to le harassment lawsuits against pro-family and free speech groups like Liberty Counsel, the Alliance for Defending Freedom, ACT for America and many others. SPLC calling FEC United anti-government would be an honor.
Readers are increasingly distrustful of these neighborhood newspapers because of political bias in articles like this. I recommend impartiality as a new journalistic norm.
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Recording Date of DOT: 10/19/2007
Legal Description.
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, March 8, 2023, 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: 1/12/2023
The
Last Publication: 2/9/2023
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, February 22, 2023, 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: 12/29/2022
Last Publication: 1/26/2023
