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VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 11

County clerks reassure voters while watching for cyber attacks Officials push back against fraud claims, stay alert

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

While local counties’ clerks and recorders say they are still taking steps to unravel false claims of widespread election fraud two years after the 2020 presidential election

and ahead of the June primaries, they are also on the lookout for potential cyberattacks after warnings from President Joe Biden that such attacks are increasingly likely.

“It’s definitely nerve-wracking, but something that we are starting to get used to,” Adams County Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum said.

“It’s the world we live in now, and we do everything we can to protect the system and to protect ourselves and our workers and our voters.”

The cybersecurity threat level is similar to past elections, or the worst-case scenarios election offices have prepared for, metro area clerks said.

“There is no question right now, every agency is indicating that the risk of Russian initiated cyber security threats has increased,” Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder George Stern said.

But Stern said “long before we had internal threats to our elections,”

cybersecurity and the security of election from foreign interference “has been top of mind,” Stern said.

Regular probes from countries including Russia, Iran, North Korea and others are directed toward state and local election offices, looking for vulnerability in the system.

Clerks said their offices partner with homeland security, the FBI, and state and local departments to SEE WATCHING, P10

Teal, Laydon ask for investigation into allegations

C-470 Trail gets bridge crossing at Acres Green Drive in Lone Tree

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas has been removed from her position as leader of the board for the second time almost exactly one year after it happened initially.

In an April 26 work session, Commissioner Abe Laydon introduced the subject during general updates, saying Thomas had written a letter requesting private information about supporters of a water project being considered by the county.

“We were very clear as a board that we did not want to put people’s lives or livelihoods at risk, yet you chose to issue this letter,” Laydon said.

Plans to construct a missing pedestrian and bicycle bridge along the C-470 Trail over the Acres Green Drive intersection to address safety and traffic concerns is moving forward.

Lone Tree City Council approved resolutions regarding funding for the project and an intergovernmental agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation for bridge maintenance at its regular meeting April 19.

With the approvals, a construction contract will go to bid in May or June. Currently the trail is an at-grade crossing with

Douglas County commissioners again remove Lora Thomas as chair

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For the second time in a year, Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas has been FILE PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS removed from her role as chair by her fellow commissioners.

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Man from Ukraine starts aid fund in Colorado

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When Russia started bombing his homeland, Taras Overchuk knew he had to do something — he just didn’t know what yet.

“For me it was hard to sit and do nothing,” said Overchuk, who moved from Zhytomyr, Ukraine to the United States about 12 years ago. “So when it all started, I couldn’t find a place for myself. I, like, stopped sleeping … could not concentrate or focus on anything.”

At his home in Highlands Ranch, Overchuk checked the news every hour. In addition to

feeling anguish for his country, Overchuk was worried for the safety of his family and friends still in Ukraine.

“I tried to connect with my friends and see what we can do, like maybe bring some supplies … and start something, but at that time I couldn’t find anything that would calm me down,” Overchuk explained. “I can not sit here and I need to support my people and see it from inside, as well.”

Within the span of two days, Overchuk decided to go back to Ukraine to help support his friends and family still there and find out ways to assist Ukraine’s army. On March 4, just a week after missiles first struck Kyiv, Overchuk flew to Poland where he bought a car to drive across the border into Ukraine.

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traveled to Ukraine to support friends, family and the military.

“So the plan was to buy a car in Poland, drive in, spend some time, donate the car, and return,” he said.

“Visit my relatives, see what is [needed] the most, meet the military guys, meet the volunteers, make some connection[s] so when I return, we could be more efficient.”

After purchasing a car, Overchuk loaded up some medical equipment, such as first-aid kids and other supplies he purchased in Poland and headed for Lviv, his first stop. When he arrived at the Poland/Ukraine border, there were crowds swarming in both directions. Overchuk waited for four hours in line to get to the border and another three hours at the actual border.

“I actually was in the line somewhere around 11 a.m. in the morning, and then crossed the border and actually entered Ukraine somewhere around 2 a.m. at night,” he said.

Overchuk also went through multiple military checkpoints on his way to Lviv and Kyiv, which were complicated to go through, he said. When approaching a checkpoint, “you need to switch off the [head]lights,” Overchuk said. “You need to switch on the lights in[side] your car so they see you from inside your car.

And this is the way you approach otherwise they may actually consider you to be a threat.”

The line of people trying to leave Ukraine, Overchuk said, went on for miles.

“My impression was like thousands of people… trying to get outside of Ukraine. And it was like children, women mostly,” he recalled. “Seeing this flow of people is actually like… I couldn’t hold my tears actually. It was heartbreaking.”

For Overchuk, experiencing his country like this was distressing. “At that moment,” he said, “it was a mix of, like, fear and anger and frustration as well… that this is all happening.”

During his solo journey, Overchuk met volunteers in Lviv who told him what supplies they needed. He also met a military commander, he said, who Overchuk ended up donating his car to before departing Ukraine two weeks later.

He also connected with at least a dozen friends and family members like his

cousins and brother, who currently resides in Vinnytsia, a city in central Ukraine. Driving through the country took even longer because many of the main roads were blocked off because of Russian forces, according to Overchuk.

The drive from Lviv to Kyiv, he said, was the scariest part of his journey.

“There might be an air strike. Sometimes the siren is going on and people are trying to hide,” he said.

“Just to work out your fear to actually drive close to the frontline and while you’re driving, you’re getting closer and closer so you kind of feel this fear.”

The only way for Overchuk to cope with this fear was to help the war efforts.

Upon returning to Colorado, Overchuk and several other of his Ukrainian friends founded the Ukraine Aid Fund, a nonprofit organization that sends crucial supplies to civilians in Ukraine and its troops.

Donors can choose three different ways to contribute to the cause from clothes to tactical supplies like body armor. So far, the organization has donated three cars and bulletproof vests.

“It’s one of the things we can do here in America… is to get the message out that Ukraine requires help,” he said. “Who[ever] can donate, needs to donate.

Who[ever] can influence the government, needs to influence the government to provide more support.”

There’s a humanitarian crisis going on right now, Overchuk said. And in order to stop it, the war must be stopped.

“And I don’t see any diplomatic decision right now,” he said. “Putin is not going to stop, unless he is stopped.”

Overchuk, who moved to the United States for a better life for himself and his family, understands what could happen to his country if Putin wins the war.

“You probably can see what is going on in Russia right now. The country, from my perspective, is going to the bottom of what society could be, where there is no freedom at all … no speech,” Overchuk said.

“His goal is to eliminate Ukraine as a country …

And nothing less than that is actually going to satisfy him.”

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

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Douglas County School Board director discusses complaints filed against him Complaint regarding psychotherapist license was dismissed, director says

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County School Board Director David Ray says a complaint filed against him with the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies regarding his past use of certain mental health professional titles was dismissed and that there was not any disciplinary action taken against him.

A former district parent, Denise Dirks, filed two complaints in February after realizing Ray’s email signature contained the title “LPCC,” which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate, and that his biography on the district website referred to him as a psychotherapist.

Dirks said she looked up Ray’s registrations, which is publicly available information on the state’s DORA website and saw his LPCC license expired in December 2020 while his psychotherapist license expired in 2017.

“As a former certified financial planner, I was pretty irritated,” she said, adding she has not used anything from a tote bag to business cards bearing the financial planner title since her certification lapsed.

David Ray of the Douglas County School District Board of Directors.

Dirks said she grew frustrated with Ray while watching him refer to himself as a mental health professional in public meetings and call for the board to undergo restorative mitigation sessions to resolve disputes among directors.

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Dirks said she spoke to an employee of DORA to understand if Ray’s ongoing use of the credentials was significant and was advised to make a complaint. She also wrote to the school board about her concerns. Board secretary Director Becky Myers acknowledged the board received Dirks’ emails, Dirks said. Ray did not respond, she said.

“Which is disappointing. He could have explained it. ‘Sorry guys, I just screwed up and didn’t update my biography,’” Dirks said.

Dirks said she gave public comment about the issue at the board’s March meetings because no directors responded to her questions about the issue. There, she called on Ray to resign.

“He’s my representative and he’s misrepresenting himself and he can’t respond to me, so yeah, I think he needs to resign,” she said. “At the very minimum I think he needs to explain it and apologize.”

Ray told Colorado Community Media he did not publicly address the complaint, seeing it as “a smear tactic” during a tense period for the district in which multiple directors were under fire.

He did not realize both his signature and biography were outdated, he said.

A letter from the Division of

PHOTO BY THELMA GRIMES

Professions and Occupations within DORA dated April 22 and provided to Colorado Community Media by Ray says the complaint regarding his psychotherapist license was dismissed.

“After thorough review and discussion, it was determined that there were insufficient grounds to warrant the commencement of formal disciplinary proceedings as required by the provisions of Colorado law,” the letter states.

The decision cannot be appealed, the letter says. Ray said he has reactivated his registration as a psychotherapist with the state since Dirks raised her complaint, although he has not been a practicing psychotherapist for roughly six years and does not intend to practice in the near future.

Ray said the board did not take any action regarding the matter, and that “not one director questioned me about it.” Board President Mike Peterson declined to comment on the complaint. DORA notified Ray about the complaint, but he said there are not any violations against his registration.

“DORA really didn’t give me any kind of direction or did not give me any kind of indication that there was a concern,” he said.

“They just conveyed her concern to me, and I updated my biography and that was the end of it.”

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Douglas County Schools plans to stock Narcan in buildings School board responds to community calls for district to prevent fentanyl overdoses

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Douglas County School District plans to stock Narcan in every school, including charter schools, by next school year in response to the fentanyl-fueled rise of opiate overdoses.

The Douglas County School Board unanimously voted to update district policy at its April 26 meeting to allow schools to store naloxone, or Narcan, a common opiate antagonist that can reverse opioid overdoses and prevent death.

DCSD’s Director of Student Support Services Kelli Smith said district staff support the policy change because schools are hubs in the community, and there is a chance for unintended overdoses on district property.

“We know that that is something that’s happening within our communities in increase right now, especially with fentanyl,” Smith said.

In 2019, nearly 16% of students 15 or younger reported using a nonprescription medication at least once in their lifetimes, according to the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.

More than 12% of 16- to 17-year-old students reported doing the same, and about 23% of people 18 and older had.

Smith said the district would assess data from the most recent Healthy Kids Survey when it becomes available in late April.

The state’s Naloxone Bulk Purchase Fund allows organizations such as public health agencies or school districts to obtain opiate antagonists such as naloxone or Narcan, sometimes at no cost.

Now that the board has updated its policy and approved placing Narcan in schools, the district’s nursing coordinator will submit a standing order for the antagonist medication with the state.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment must approve the district’s eligibility, and once it does, DCSD expects to provide Narcan to all pre-K-12 schools by August.

The Narcan supplies will be stored in schools’ EpiPen lockers, DCSD’s Nursing Coordinator Celia Flanigan said. All staff will receive training from school nurses for how to spot an overdose and administer the medication, Flanagan said.

This will occur in the first quarter of the 2022-23 school year.

Board President Mike Peterson said the policy change was in response to calls from district parents for DCSD to address the rise in opioid overdoses hitting many communities.

“This was a very bipartisan is-

School districts are starting to keep a stock of Narcan on hand.

sue,” he said. “We had a lot of parents write in about the concerns, very politely, and asked if we could do something.”

Director Susan Meek asked Peterson to refrain from using the term “bipartisan” and instead use “nonpartisan,” while also thanking staff for its work on the issue.

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trict policy so DCSD could pursue the Naloxone Bulk Purchase Fund grant.

Director Elizabeth Hanson said students learn about the issue in health classes, but the district could also pursue educating parents as well. Superintendent Erin Kane agreed and said the county is hosting a May 3 event about the risk of fentanyl.

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School board parts ways with legal defense team Sunshine lawsuit moves forward

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Douglas County School Board has parted ways with its original legal defense firm in a lawsuit alleging some directors broke open meetings laws, also as the board weighs an appeal of a judge’s order that determined some directors broke both the spirit and reason for the law.

The board’s motion to dismiss the case, filed by its former law firm, has also been denied, and the case will move forward.

Douglas County resident Robert Marshall filed suit against the board Feb. 4 alleging the four majority directors Mike Peterson, Becky Myers, Christy Williams and Kaylee Winegar broke Colorado’s Sunshine Laws by holding a chain of private, one-on-one meetings to plan the removal of former Superintendent Corey Wise.

Peterson and Williams eventually met with Wise in a private meeting at a Parker coffee shop to ask that he step down. If he did not, a board majority was prepared to terminate him, they told Wise during the Jan. 28 meeting.

Minority directors David Ray, Susan Meek and Elizabeth Hanson held a special public meeting Jan. 31 and alleged the ultimatum made to Wise broke Sunshine Laws because

The Douglas County School Board is facing a lawsuit alleging that four members violated the state’s transparency laws.

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they saw it as formal action taken outside a public meeting. The three did not know about the meeting between Peterson, Williams and Wise until after it took place.

The board initially retained the Denver-based firm Hall and Evans to defend it against Marshall’s lawsuit.

The board brought on a second firm, Greenwood Village-based Gessler Blue LLC, in March after the judge granted Marshall’s request for a preliminary injunction barring any further serial meetings.

On April 26, the board was scheduled to consider a resolution that

would appoint one of the two firms as lead counsel but concerns about high legal costs led them to select a single firm moving forward.

“To even avoid coordination charges where we have to have attorneys confer with each other,” Peterson said.

The board voted to retain Gessler Blue as its sole representation, with attorney Geoffrey Blue as the board’s primary point of contact at the firm. A spokeswoman said there are no fees associated with the board ending its retention of Hall and Evans, which was effective immediately.

During board discussion, Hanson said she worried working with two firms would become costly to the district.

Hanson has been open about her frustrations with the board’s first firm, which she said did not communicate well with her or the board as a whole. But the firm had boosted its communication with her in the past month, she said, leaving her conflicted about cutting them loose.

After the board held an executive session regarding the lawsuit, Hanson said she was grateful attorney Geoff Blue of Gessler Blue LLC attended the meeting and met with directors personally.

“I found Mr. Blue to be very rational, very practical, very up to speed on the issues, and I feel very comfortable with this being in his hands,” she said.

The lawsuit has posed conundrums for a board with starkly different views on the issue. Minority directors made the first public allegations that the majority violated open meetings law, prompting Marshall’s lawsuit.

His suit named the four majority directors individually, but also the board as an entity, comprising all seven directors.

The minority have remained critics of using daisy-chain or serial meetings and urged against appealing the judge’s preliminary injunction. Minority directors have said the order merely instructs the board to follow open meetings law and does not affect any governing bodies aside from DCSD’s school board.

Majority directors have maintained they did nothing wrong and followed Colorado law to the letter.

Although the judge’s order cites precedent in other states prohibiting daisy chain and serial meetings, there does not appear to be case law in Colorado on the issue.

Peterson has said at previous meetings he believes the preliminary injunction needs to be clarified or appealed, and he worries the case could be precedent setting.

Blue filed a motion April 25 asking the judge to either clarify his preliminary injunction or withdraw it entirely.

Blue’s motion contends the judge misapplied the law by issuing a preliminary injunction but also that his order was overly broad and too vague for directors to reasonably follow. Blue argued the order prohibits any one-on-one meetings about district business among board directors.

He asked for more clarity about when a meeting crosses the threshold into a serial meeting that the judge would consider a violation of Colorado open meetings law.

An alternative order proposed by Blue would state the board is prohibited “from conducting a series of one-on-one meetings in which they reach and communicate an agreement about an issue on which the board of education will vote and take formal action at a properly noticed public meeting.”

Part of the board’s April 26 discussion centered around the motion filed by Blue and that some directors did not know about it until after it was filed.

Peterson clarified that the motion was approved by a resolution the board passed at a previous meeting.

He spoke to Blue about making sure the motion was filed by a court deadline but did not receive word when it was filed.

Williams said she also did not know the motion was filed until April 26 and said she agreed with minority directors that she would like more communication between attorneys and the full board.

In an order issued April 29, District Judge Jeffrey Holmes denied a motion filed early in the case to dismiss Marshall’s lawsuit. Holmes wrote that the board’s reasons for seeking dismissal were unclear and the court had jurisdiction to decide the lawsuit.

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May 5, 2022

It’s happening: Trader Joe’s in Parker opens this week Ribbon cutting will take place before doors open

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The highly anticipated Trader Joe’s grocery store in Parker has officially set its opening date as May 6, according to a news release from the organization.

The store, located in north Parker at 18374 Cottonwood Drive near Costco, will open its doors at 8 a.m. following a ribbon cutting.

The 9,600-square-foot store, which is the eighth in Colorado, will feature artwork showing mountain views and historic Parker buildings.

Trader Joe’s is a national chain based out of Los Angeles that offers unique foods and beverages such as cookie butter and olive oil popcorn. The store also has staples such as milk, bread and fruit.

Earlier announcements from the

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Acres Green Drive.

“When (CDOT) reconstructed C-470, the section west of (Interstate 25), they grade-separated several of the trail crossings throughout the area, but for some reason, the intersection at Acres Green wasn’t included,” Lone

organization said the store’s hours will be from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily with closures on major holidays. The store will employ 80 people.

The store has kept details on the opening date sparse as construction has progressed, with vague responses to questions about specifics from Colorado Community Media.

Company leaders initially said the store could open in February at the earliest but when asked for updates, declined to do so.

“Today we announced our Parker store will be opening soon,” said public relations manager Nakia Rodhe in a March 30 email.

The long-awaited store will sell non-refrigerated beer but not any of its trademark affordable wine — sometimes called “Two-Buck Chuck” — because of its proximity to a liquor store. Its beer inventory will focus on Colorado and local beer selections, and some will rotate seasonally.

The store is still accepting applications at traderjoes.com/careers.

Tree Director of Public Works and Mobility Justin Schmitz said.

Due to visibility and safety concerns for trail users and drivers, changing the at-grade crossing is a priority for the city, Schmitz said.

“There’s been a lot of concern over the years about the ability to see oncoming traffic,” he said. “A lot of people are excited about this project going in.”

Douglas County is also in the

The building that will house the new Trader Joe’s grocery store in Parker is located near the town’s Costco Wholesale at 18374 Cottonwood Drive.

process of building a similar pedestrian and bicycle bridge on the C-470 trail at the Yosemite intersection, which is expected to be finished in November.

Having spent $375,000 last year on design, the construction budget is $4 million. Lone Tree and Douglas County will each contribute $1 million, and CDOT will provide the rest.

Schmitz said construction should start in the fall and will

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take about a year.

Following completion of the bridge, CDOT will be responsible for maintaining it, though the city will still maintain the spur trails and streetscapes and handle grafitti removal.

Additionally, Lone Tree is spending roughly $900,000 to install a traffic signal at the intersection of Acres Green Drive and Parkway Drive in conjunction with the bridge project.

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May 5, 2022

Man gets life in prison for 2020 fatal shooting in Centennial Samuel Birch was convicted of killing Mauricio Omar Perez

is; you’ll find out eventually.”

Birch thought deputies were going to connect him to the Centennial robbery and shooting, argued Lisa Gramer, one of the prosecuting attorneys.

One of Birch’s gloves tested positive for gunshot residue, Gramer said during trial.

The trial, in part, centered around the statements of Birch’s ex-girlfriend, who came forth and identified Birch as the shooter in the weeks after the incident.

Birch is in his early 30s and, at the time of the shooting, was living in an apartment with his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Olson, in west Centennial.

Olson, 28, testified at the trial that she was lying in bed when Birch told her about the robbery and that he showed her the cash.

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A man convicted of fatally shooting a convenience-store clerk after the clerk complied with his demands for cigarettes and money during a Centennial robbery was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

During the 2020 incident, the clerk placed the items in a bag and handed it to the man, who said “thank you” right before shooting the clerk in the abdomen.

An Arapahoe County jury decided the shooter was Samuel Birch, finding him guilty on March 10 of several charges related to the murder and another robbery committed the same day at another convenience store.

The suspect’s statements to the clerk were recorded on surveillance footage.

Birch was accused of the shooting and robbery at the Circle K convenience store at Quebec Street and County Line Road, just north of Highlands Ranch, on the night of Nov. 26, 2020.

In a four-day trial in March, the

Samuel Birch was found guilty on March 10 of first-degree murder, first-degree felony SHUTTERSTOCK murder, tampering with evidence and two counts of aggravated robbery.

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The clerk, Mauricio Omar Perez, 24, died of the gunshot wound.

Birch was sentenced amid an emotional crowd on April 22 in the courtroom, where about a dozen of Perez’s loved ones gathered.

Words of Birch, ex-girlfriend played role in trial Because the suspect’s face was covered on the security-camera footage, much of the trial focused on whether jurors could be sure Birch was the man in the videos.

The prosecution pointed to DNA from yellow gloves found in Birch’s Ford Fiesta car that matched Birch’s DNA, arguing the gloves appear to be the same ones the suspect wore while committing robbery.

The prosecution attorneys also argued that Birch spoke as though he knew he were guilty of a serious crime on separate footage from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

Birch was arrested for a separate incident on Dec. 7, 2020, after Douglas County sheriff’s deputies pursued him in a hitand-run crash, according to court testimony. In body-worn camera footage from the Douglas County scene, Birch repeatedly asks deputies for a cigarette.

“Would you light one of those for me, though? I’m about to go to jail for a very long time,” Birch says to a deputy, adding, “I’m about to be in there for years, bro.”

When Douglas County sheriff’s personnel ask what his name is, according to the prosecution, Birch says: “You know (what) it

Drug motivation for robberies alleged Birch was also accused of robbing another gas station on the same day as the other robbery, at Arapahoe Road near Havana Street in central Centennial at about 4:30 p.m.

The suspect in that robbery entered the Conoco gas station and pointed a handgun at the clerk, according to information previously released by the Arapahoe sheriff’s office. The clerk gave the suspect the cash drawer, and then the suspect fired a single round into the ceiling. (That clerk was not injured.)

The prosecution also argued that Birch’s “desperate” need for drugs fueled the robberies.

Text messages from Birch show that he was looking for some type of pills, the prosecution argued.

“And we know that in the Conoco robbery, he’s much more agitated,” Gramer said during the trial.

At 5:07 p.m. that day, Birch says he has money and wants to buy the substance via a text message, the prosecution said. Shortly after, in response, he’s told to “come over,” Gramer said during the trial.

“And then the robbery at the Circle K takes place at (around 6:30),” Gramer said. “And you can see he’s much more relaxed in this robbery.”

Birch also later sent Olson a text that said, “I spent that money from last night on drugs,” according to a text message shown in court during the trial.

A key piece of evidence was a sweatshirt covered in paint, which prosecutors argued was the same sweatshirt that surveillance footage caught the shooter wearing that read, “No pain, no Jane.”

Olson said during the trial that Birch asked her to paint over the sweatshirt and that it bore that phrase.

Previously, Birch has pleaded guilty to burglary of a building in 2013, to assault in 2013 and to criminal mischief in 2015, according to online court records.

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monitor cyberthreats.

“If something viable looks as if it’s surfacing, we are notified about it and we can respond,” Zygielbaum said. “We employ the most modern protection from a technology standpoint that there is out there.”

Staff go through cybersecurity training “every single election” regardless of how many times they have received it, Stern said. That helps staff recognize what attacks might look like. All equipment requires two-factor verification, and there is a paper trail for each ballot.

“That can prove accurate results, and a successful election,” Stern said.

Douglas County Clerk and Recorder Merlin Klotz declined to speak for this story. Klotz is one of several public officials who sued the secretary of state because of a software update the state conducted on county election equipment. The suit seeks to see if the update deleted any data, a claim the secretary of state’s office refuted in a motion to dismiss the suit.

Boosting transparency The Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson County clerks said while they are working to mend relationships with voters who doubt election security, they emphatically believe those individuals are a small minority of the electorate.

“We still receive plenty of emails from people who believe the Big Lie,” Zygielbaum said.

Clerks said they receive form letters, copied-and-pasted arguments from people who appear to be local residents but also people outside their county borders.

“Just perpetuating the false narratives that the elections were fraudulent,” Zygielbaum said.

The letters come in waves. A spate of several in one day, followed by a lull.

“It’s important for our staff, for election judges, and for voters,” Stern said, “to understand that we are discussing conspiracy theories here and that the vast, vast majority of people in Colorado understand our elections are secure.”

Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder Joan Lopez emphasized the election system is not connected to the internet, and that she believes

voters trust their local elections system.

“We have gone above and beyond to make sure that they are informed,” Lopez said.

Lopez estimated that people who doubt election security account for about 1% of Colorado’s population.

That doesn’t mean offices have eased efforts to boost faith in U.S. elections.

County clerks’ offices have expanded or created additional designated webpages to educate people about the life of a ballot and how local elections function. As “forensic audit” became a buzzword last year, Lopez said, the office tried to assuage people’s concerns by encouraging them to see the see the process firsthand.

“I’m telling you, once somebody goes through a tour, they really go ‘Wow, I can’t believe all you guys do,’” Lopez said.

When Stern encounters people who doubt election security, he says “I invite them in.”

“What I find is that they are convinced that something is wrong because they heard it from someone who said something about a report that had some data from somewhere,” Stern said.

During elections, the office offers “a tour of every single aspect of it while it’s happening,” Stern said.

“I personally lead them. We invite anyone in who wants to see the process up close,” Stern said.

Zygielbaum stresses that election equipment watching is conducted by bipartisan teams. Audits are performed during elections to ensure accuracy. They also host tours for anyone who wants one.

“We stick to the facts, and hopefully the truth will prevail,” Zygielbaum said.

Physical safety Domestic threats toward election staff’s safety, stoked by conspiracies about a stolen election, have simmered down, clerks said, and numerous election related bills were introduced during the 2022 Colorado legislative session.

“We have heard from cowardly people sitting behind their computer screens over the course of the last year who are threating election workers — Colorado residents with families and kids — because of something they heard about election integrity and have no proof of,” Stern said. “It’s sick. It’s oftentimes illegal and we are always reporting

County clerks are on the lookout for potential cyberattacks after warnings from President Joe Biden that such attacks are increasingly likely.

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it to law enforcement agencies, but it just needs to stop.”

Stern said his staff is as politically diverse as the bipartisan election judging teams who work during an election.

“They are Republicans, they are Democrats, they are unaffiliated members, and they are getting threats in equal numbers,” he said.

“It is hard on morale. It is hard for us to get good applicants to want to be in this space.”

Stern said he could not confidently say if turnover in his office is attributable to threats, but that the majority of his office is committed to the job despite sometimes facing an intimidating climate.

“The more they hear from cowards, the more they want to stick with this work so that we aren’t letting the cowards win,” he said.

“We hear the noise,” Stern said, adding he staunchly believes threatening people are a fringe minority in the state and are not representative of Colorado voters.

“Someone threatening your life resonates a lot more loudly than the five people who told you you’re doing a good job,” he said.

Lopez watched with relief as the Vote Without Fear Act was passed by the state legislature. In the November 2020 election, two men came to the ballot box at county offices, filming voters who came to drop off their ballot. One of them openly carried a firearm.

“He was very hostile any time somebody approached him and said what are you doing,” Lopez said of her staff’s attempts to speak with

the men.

“Every voter that came in had to pass this gentleman,” she said.

With no laws prohibiting his conduct, staff’s hands were tied, Lopez said.

House Bill 22-1086, signed into law on March 30, now prevents someone from openly carrying a firearm within any polling location or within 100 feet of a ballot drop box while an election is underway.

The Adams County Clerk and Recorder’s Office is undergoing construction to heighten security.

Until now people seeking services from elections staff had to go inside the election office. Now the county is installing window desks similar to what people might see at the DMV, Zygielbaum said.

Closer to Election Day, Zygielbaum will wear a bulletproof vest. His election staff also underwent active shooter training.

“That was a direct response to 2020,” he said.

Zygielbaum said he expects active shooter training to become an annual practice in collaboration with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.

He called the process eye-opening for his office. Most his employees have been in elections for most their career.

“This is something that is new to all of us. We used to be able to go to work and run elections under the assumption that we would all go home at the end of the day. And that’s changed,” he said. “Something that is supposed to be the foundation for our American institution is under attack.”

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Laydon and fellow Commissioner George Teal both voted to immediately remove Thomas from the chair position and begin an investigation into their allegations. Laydon became chair, and Teal became vice chair.

Laydon asserted that Thomas had directed a lawyer working for the county to record and take notes on who met with Laydon during a meeting in the San Luis Valley regarding the Renewable Water Resources proposal.

RWR has asked the county for $10 million to begin working on a plan to transport about 22,000 acre-feet of water per year from southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley to Douglas County. Many in the valley and around the region have spoken out against the plan, including U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, Rep. Cleave Simpson, Gov. Jared Polis and U.S. Sens.

John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet.

While Thomas is against the water plan and Commissioner George Teal is in support, Laydon has not yet announced

how he will vote. He said he attended a meeting in the valley to privately hear from supporters of the plan. Laydon and Teal have voiced concern that these supporters don’t feel they can speak publicly because of fear of retribution.

“We made it very clear that we wanted to ensure the privacy of those individuals,” Laydon said.

Thomas defended her request for the information, saying she hasn’t released anything confidential in the past.

“For me to know who you talked to as a board member is absolutely appropriate,” she said.

Laydon said everything that happened would be included in a memo that he planned to make public when complete.

Laydon also suggested that Thomas had caused the recent “high level resignation” of a first responder in the county by distributing an anonymous letter received by the county that detailed concerns about employees of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

“In my mind again you are trying to dox our employees, use information for your own political benefit,” Laydon said.

“These are major concerns that I have.”

When asked directly if she distributed the anonymous letter at a county assembly, Thomas responded that the letter is a public document.

She then said she was “not on trial” and wouldn’t answer.

Laydon then responded, “I answered your question,” to which Thomas said, “No you didn’t.”

The county’s board chair serves as the public representative and leader of the board, according to the county’s policy for commissioners.

They preside over meetings and decide agendas. Normally, the chair and vice chair are selected on a rotating basis based on district, according to the policy.

The board issued a statement later in the day repeating the allegations from the earlier meeting.

“Regrettably this is only the most recent example of Lora Thomas’ conduct whereby she has attempted to bully, harass, and intimidate those with whom she disagrees,” according to the statement posted on the county website.

Thomas responsed in an emailed newsletter, saying that the other two commissioners had violated their earlier agreement by removing her

as chair. She also disputed their allegations, calling them unsubstatiated and false and claiming that the move was a political stunt to support her opponents in the race for DougCo sheriff.

“Laydon and Teal still believe that they can bully me into silence with summary and arbitrary political stunts--by using the tyranny of the majority without any substantive proof or fair process to permit adequate response,” she wrote.

Teal and Laydon also removed Thomas from the chair role one year earlier, during an April 19, 2021, work session.

That conflict arose after The New York Times requested an interview with a commissioner and Thomas was not chosen to do so.

Thomas reacted to that decision by accusing Laydon and Teal of silencing her voice and emailing members of the business community for support.

The pair then accused Thomas of lying and abuse of power and planned to publicly censure her during a meeting. They ultimately decided not to do so and instead voted to share the chair position between Laydon and Thomas, alternating monthly.

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n 2021, I tuned into a mental health summit where Dr. Robert Werthwein, the former director of the Colorado Office of Behavioral Health, talked about the good things Douglas County is doing on the issue. One of the reasons, he said, is because the county invested the time and money to not only create a plan but to recruit other agencies and orgaFROM THE nizations to get on board.

EDITOR He stressed that in doing this, Douglas County’s mental health program works because everyone is rowing in the same direction. That means police, government, nonprofits and many others. He stressed that to fix the state’s mental health crisis, a lot of groups and people are going to have to start rowing in the same direction.

Using his example, I can’t help but Thelma Grimes think this thought process applies to many other issues we are facing in the Denver metro area, the state and the nation. Coming to mind right now is the ongoing topics around homelessness.

While some cities and groups are doing great work and holding great discussion, I wouldn’t say there is enough rowing in the same direction to make a difference.

In Arapahoe County the work of many deserves some credit. The cities of Sheridan, Littleton and Englewood are doing some good things. They have created the tricity partnership that is aimed at addressing homelessness. Centennial is also joining in on the conversations.

In Douglas County, U.S. Rep. Jason Crow is working to create some facilities aimed at helping the homeless population.

Additionally, I was impressed with Littleton’s Bemis Library in taking a stance that accepting the homeless is a lot more beneficial to the community than just rejecting this population of people who still deserve help.

What Arapahoe County is doing is important because they are starting to at least get the boat going the same direction. Now, it’s all about getting the rowers on the same page.

What they are doing means they are not going with the “not in my back yard” mentality. As a note, I hate the NIMBY attitude. Bottom line, the homeless issue is in all of our backyards and trying to ignore it or hope another city has to deal with it does nothing to fix the problem.

The entire Denver metro area has to start looking at this problem and looking at true answers. Passing camping bans sporadically is not going to suddenly stop the problem. In fact, I doubt it really can be enforced.

With the housing crisis hitting our state, with the continued lasting effects of the pandemic and with inflation soaring, homelessness is prevalent. The problem is front and center.

Communities, just like with mental health, have to start addressing the problem together. They have to start rowing in the same direction.

We have to start rowing in the same direction to create true change and get rid of the NIMBY mentality too many community leaders are taking.

Thelma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media.

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any years ago, there was a video out, I believe it was produced by Hungry Man Dinners. And the title was the NFL’s Hungriest Men. One of the featured athletes was my favorite player that I had the opportunity and blessing to watch play the game, Walter Payton. Although I was a Minnesota Vikings fan and he was a Chicago Bear, meaning we were rivals, he was just too good and a very special man and player.

Walter could run around a defender, juking his way down the field. Walter could also run through and over a defender regardless of size, he was fast, strong, and elusive. His nickname was “Sweetness.” So well deserved as it was truly sweet to watch him play. He was also a very caring man, but that was not how he earned the nickname sweetness.

The story is that during a college football practice he eluded a would-be tackler and yelled back at him, “Sweetness is your weakness.”

In the video I am referring to, they captured a part of Walter’s workout routine, running hills. If any of you reading this remember your high school or college playing days, you remember we ran hills and we ran bleachers. The agony was dreaded, but the payoff worth every step up the hill or stairs. Here is Walter Payton, recognized as the greatest or one of the greatest to ever play the game. How did he get there? He climbed hills.

Right now, we are all climbing hills and we either recognize it and climb no matter how tired we are, or we give up, letting the hill win. If we give in, just

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When I have been there myself, I lean into this quote by Fred Smith, “The fruit we grow in the valleys of despair is the food we will eat on the mountaintop.”

In the past two columns I shared how changing our thoughts and/or our actions will change the outcome of anything we are endeavoring to do. And sometimes, no matter how positive we keep our thoughts, or the effort or actions we apply, there are times when we need to tap into those extra reserves of positivity and effort to reach the outcome we desire most, so we climb the hill.

Whatever our hill is, our faith, our family, our friends, our fitness or health, or our finances, we must keep climbing. We can climb harder to grow deeper in faith.

We can climb with more commitment to our family and friends. We can climb farther when it comes to our fitness and health. And when it comes to our finances we can climb with greater

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Urge action on mental health May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As a volunteer and advocate with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, this month I am asking everyone to join us and demand #MoreForMentalHealth.

I currently work as a Colorado Certified Peer and Family Specialist at Colorado Crisis Services/Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners. We are going to be answering calls from 988 on top of our regular calls. It is important to me to have higher funding for Mental Health services to keep psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, and hot lines/ warm lines as available and very important options for those struggling with mental health.

As a Peer Specialist, I have my own lived experiences in mental health including hospitalizations, suicide attempts, therapy, IOP/PHP programs, and psychiatric medication needs. I truly believe there is not enough funding for these needs leading to more people struggling with mental health to complete suicide.

I am doing more by calling on my legislators at the federal and state levels to support legislation that will fund the implementation of 988 and the suicide and mental health crisis system across our nation, particularly for those in underserved communities.

Currently, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available at 1-800-273-8255 and de-escalates the crises of tens of thousands of callers each day. On July 16, those in distress and those that support them will be able to reach the Lifeline through a simple 3-digit number: 988. By making the Lifeline more accessible through this shorter number, calls, texts, and chats to the Lifeline’s network of crisis call centers are expected to increase.

It is vital that the federal government work with states to ensure callers in distress will have: 1) someone to call, 2) someone to come help, and 3) somewhere safe to go. We must act now to secure funding to equip call centers and community crisis response services throughout the country with the staff and

resources to respond to everyone in crisis.

Join me this month in urging our federal and state public officials to do #MoreForMentalHealth. You can start by visiting moreformentalhealth.org.

Together, we can help #StopSuicide.

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in savings and spending; create a savings plan, set a budget, stick to that budget, and maybe read one of Dave Ramsey’s books starting with “Total Money Makeover.”

What’s your hill? I know that whatever it is, you have the climb within you. As always, I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ xinnix.com. And when we remember that we can climb our way to achieving our goals and dreams, it really will be a better than good year.

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discretion in our savings and spending.

Climbing the hills and going deeper in faith; get back into regularly attending church, participate in a Bible study or devotional group. Climbing with more commitment to our family and friends; make it a point to check in more often and be intentional about spending time together. Climbing the hill to achieve greater health and fitness; walk, get to the gym, make better eating, drinking, and sleeping decisions. Climbing the hill financially with greater discretion

Honor our teachers There is a special teacher retiring this month. For 23 years she has faithfully showed up to teach grade school art and then high school ceramics. This included seven years at Roxborough Elementary School and 16 years at ThunderRidge High School in Highlands Ranch.

She experienced many things.

Some horrific, some sublime.

Through it all, she has fulfilled her contract with adults and students with remarkable strength and conviction.

Some highlights for me include daily sharing by her of how she made a difference in the lives of her students. You see, observing a child “getting it” for the first time is shown all over their faces that light up and their eyes open wide in recognition.

She delighted in her seminar with which she mentored students throughout their four-year high school career. This culminates in her personally handing each seminar student their diplomas during their graduation ceremony. Mission accomplished.

She planned her retirement to coincide with just such a graduation of the most recent four-year seminar. 2022 is that year.

Her retirement has been long planned. Her retirement is well deserved. Evidence of the impact she has had on students involves seeing them in tears upon learning of her retirement. Don’t go, they say. Her reply is “it is simply time.”

God bless her for a career of outstanding teaching in the midst of two periods of school district political upheaval and an unexpected global pandemic.

The latter necessitated pivoting to online teaching of ceramics by creating an entirely new curriculum matching the remote teaching reality. It is important

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to note that traditional pottery with real clay is simply impossible to do online.

This special teacher is my beloved wife Cathy. She is special to me and evidently special to dozens of students that seek her out as they grow into adults.

Please join me in honoring all teachers for they see a hopeful future in the eyes of the young.

Steve Ormiston Highlands Ranch Kluth is focused on safety I was reading and comparing the websites for the current Douglas County sheriff’s candidates and the message of one candidate really stood out Holly Kluth’s. Her vision for the sheriff’s department is straightforward. Holly Kluth is laser focused on public safety for both citizens and our youth, the wellbeing and preparedness of the sheriff’s deputies and staff, true fiscal responsibility (not just “cutting budgets”), and protection of all our rights as citizens.

Kluth’s credentials are truly admirable: she has served the sheriff’s office for over 30 years

and has been instrumental in making Douglas County the great (and safe) place to live, work and play we all enjoy today.

No other candidate can say that.

I encourage people to review Holly’s impressive background and leadership vision for themselves on her web page.

In following this race for Douglas County sheriff, I have spoken with or heard other candidates speak. Holly Kluth does not have that politician “vibe” that others do. She is focused on the needs of our county and has the direct experience in policing, community involvement, and agency collaboration to keep Douglas County the safe and thriving community we know.

The real decision for this sheriff’s race will be made on June 28, primary Election Day. Please do not wait for the November general election, we need to ensure this outstanding candidate wins the primary election. I will entrust Douglas County to Holly Kluth’s proven servant leadership with my vote on June 28.

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A timeline of Colorado Parks & Wildlife history

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While Colorado is now iconic for its natural beauty and wild-

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LIFE life, about 150 years ago, the state’s ecological resources had a rather bleak outlook.

Overhunting was devastating local deer, elk, pronghorn, bison, bear and bird populations; and water pollution was hurting the state’s fish and other species.

Wanting to preserve Colora-

do’s natural resources, the state government passed wildlife protection laws and later founded a department of game and fish.

The agency now named Colorado Parks & Wildlife celebrated its 125th anniversary on April 16.

Since their founding, the state’s parks and wildlife divi-

sions have opened 42 state parks and hundreds of other wildlife areas, and helped save several iconic species native to Colorado. While CPW has plenty of ongoing projects and long-term goals, its 125 years of environmental conservation and wildlife protection is a history worth celebrating.

1897

Colorado Governor Alva Adams signs House Bill 129, thereby creating the Department of Forestry, Game and Fish. The agency is charged with propagating and distributing game fish, promoting timber culture and passing and enforcing game and fish laws. The total annual budget is $10,500. The forestry portion is eventually dropped to become the Department of Game and Fish.

1903

Colorado issued its first hunting and outfitting licenses: $25 nonresident general license; $1/day bird license ($2 first day); and $1 resident license.

1913

With the deer population dropping quickly, the state passes legislation to protect buck deer until 1918.

1916

Colorado imports 50 elk from Wyoming, which were released in Idaho Springs and Pueblo County’s Greenhorn Mountains, to reestablish the state’s dwindling herds. In the early 1900s, only 40,000 elk remained in North America, mostly because of unregulated market hunting. After decades of conservation efforts, Colorado is now home to approximately 280,000, which is the largest population in the world.

A black-phase Abert’s squirrel sits in a tree in Evergreen in March 2022.

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1940

During this decade, the wildlife agency conducts the first bighorn sheep transplants between Georgetown and Silver Plume. As of 2022, the Georgetown herd is the third-largest in the state. The agency later completes more than 100 bighorn sheep transplants, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. After decades of conservation efforts, Colorado has an estimated population of 7,000 bighorn sheep.

1949

The first Colorado State Parks feasibility study suggests establishing Roxborough as one of the first state parks. However, Roxborough wasn’t established as a state park until 1975.

1959

The governor signs a 25-year lease with the Army Corps of Engineers for the Cherry Creek Recreation Area. The new state park welcomes its first official visitor on June 17, and 168,700 people visited it in its first year.

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Two bighorn sheep rams nuzzle while trekking through Waterton Canyon in COURTESY OF KARI DOUGLASS April 2018.

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1960

The state purchases 200 acres in Gilpin County, which later becomes the nucleus for Golden Gate Canyon State Park.

1961

The Colorado General Assembly passes legislation designating the bighorn sheep as the state animal.

1963

The Colorado State Parks and Recreation Department merges with the Game and Fish Department to form the Colorado Game, Fish and Parks Department.

1965

Bears are declared a game animal in Colorado.

1970

Legislature passes mandatory hunter education and blaze orange requirements for big-game hunters.

1972

Senate Bill 42 separates the Game, Fish and Parks Department into the Division of Wildlife and the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation within the Department of Natural Resources.

1972

Colorado legally defines wildlife as “wild vertebrates, mollusks and crustaceans.” Nearly 800 species came under the classification of wildlife.

1975

Chatfield State Park is established.

1977

After the state acquired a recreational lease for Barr Lake two years earlier, the new state park opens to the public.

1978

Biologists and wildlife officers transplant 24 moose from Utah and Wyoming to Colorado’s North Park region near Walden. Over the next three decades, the state releases more than 200 additional moose from Wyoming and Utah across the state. Today, Colorado is home to more than 2,400 moose and boasts one of the fastest-growing moose populations in the lower 48 states.

1978

After Eldorado Canyon’s owner threatened to sell the area for a rock quarry, public outcry prompts the state to buy the canyon and create Eldorado Canyon State Park.

1980

The Colorado Division of Wildlife director encourages hunters to clean up their own sport and, in the 1980-81 budget request, asks for funding to start a new program called Operation Game Thief to help crack down on poaching.

1982 The Colorado General Assembly approves a new lottery program with certain proceeds to benefit state and local park systems.

1990

Barr Lake State Park keeps with a national tradition of sponsoring a New Year’s morning First Hike around the park. Hearty hikers took part in the guided walk along the lakeside despite the cold temperatures and falling snow.

FILE PHOTO BY JOHN CARR

A $5 Colorado waterfowl stamp is required to hunt.

1992

Colorado voters approve the passage of Amendment 8, the Great Outdoors Colorado Amendment. This directs all state lottery proceeds to parks, open space and wildlife.

1994

The greenback cutthroat trout is named Colorado’s state fish.

2011

Colorado State Parks merges with the Colorado Division of Wildlife to form Colorado Parks & Wildlife. The Parks and Wildlife Commission is also established.

A researcher releases a bald eagle with GPS tracking as part of Colorado Parks & Wildlife’s new study on eagle COURTESY PHOTO populations along Colorado’s Front Range.

2013

Staunton State Park opens to the public.

The park, which is in Park and Jefferson counties, was built from a parcel first donated in 1986 by Frances Hornbrook Staunton. Subsequent parcels were acquired in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

CPW purchased the final parcel in 2006 to reach the current park’s 3,828-acre land base.

2021

Colorado Parks & Wildlife begins a fouryear study of the Front Range’s bald eagle population. The agency has record of more than 90 breeding pairs between Denver and Wyoming. This is an immense population growth since the late 1970s, when there were only three nests in Colorado.

2021

Colorado Parks & Wildlife acquires and establishes the Pals Family State Wildlife area between Empire and Georgetown. After the property owners proposed turning the area into a quarry, local partners partnered with CPW to preserve the land and protect the local bighorn sheep.

Sky Miller, 3, of Broomfield, checks her line during Northglenn’s 29th annual Fishing Derby at E.B. Rains Jr. Park in FILE PHOTO June 2017.

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lein-air painter Cheryl St. John was juror for the next exhibit at Stanton Gallery in Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., downtown Littleton. It will be called “Celebrations” and will run May 17 through July 10.

There will be a reception on June 3 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and during productions.

(Will restate how great original art is for a gift as we approach graduation and wedding season!)

Englewood Arts Presents Concert May 7 at 2 p.m. in Hampden Hall, 1000 Englewood Parkway.

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat; Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in Bflat. Yi-Zhzao and Dimitri Pogorelov, violins; Sofia Basile, viola; Chloe Hong, cello; Hsiao-Ling Lin, piano.

Tickets, englewoodarts.org.

Noir The authors of the new book “Denver Noir,” will speak for the Arapahoe Libraries’ “Night of Noir” on May 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Embassy Suites, 10250 E. Costilla Ave., Centennial. Editor Cynthia Swanson will interview contributors Peter Heller, Maiew Acevedo and Erika T. Wurth. There will be time for audience questions and author book signing. Other contributing authors, who will be available to sign books: D.L. Cordero, Francelia Belton, Manuel Ramos, Twanna LaTrice Hill and David Heska Wanbli Weiden, who lives in our south area.

Reserve a seat: 303-LIBRARY or visit arapahoelibraries.org.

Call for Artists Colorado Mosaic Artists and Foothills Art Center in Golden will host a national show, “Mosaics 2022: As Seen through New Eyes” from July 30 through Oct. 2 at Foothills. Entries will be through CaFE — callforentry.org — and must be received

by June 1. Yulia Hanansen, internationally known mosaicist and printmaker, will co-judge entries with Foothills Curator Eriq Hochulu.

Arapahoe Community College The Colorado Gallery of the Arts,

in the Annex at Arapahoe Community College Littleton, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, will host a student showcase and portfolio review for students in Multimedia, Graphic Design and Commercial Photography through May Gallery hours: 9 Sonya Ellingboe 30. a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Thursday. In other ACC news, a release party and readings will celebrate the release of the 57th volume of Progenitor, a student-produced annual literary and art publication. Writers’ work was recorded by Charles Haarhue’s Music Audio Technology students and they will be featured on a website that professor John Hall’s Multimedia and Graphic Design students created: new this year.

Hall’s students created “Postcard Anthology” last semester and it was so successful that it is repeated with photos from Brad Bartholomew’s Commercial Photography students; stories from Creative Writing and Composition students, assembled by Hall’s Multimedia and Graphic Design students into “Postcard Anthology.” Introduced at a May 3 reading.

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Littleton Symphony The Littleton Symphony Orchestra will present concerts at 7:30 p.m. on May 18 and 20 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5895 S. Datura St, Littleton. Guest conductor is Katherine Sailer and the program includes: Claude Debussy, “Petite Suite”; Erik Satie, “Gymnopedies 1 and 3”; Camille Saint-Saens, “Piano Concerto No. 21”; Igor Stravinski: “Infernal Dance, Berceuse and Final from the Firebird Suite 1919.”

Pianist David Korevaar will perform the concerto. The orchestra’s news release says masks and proof of vaccination will be required.

Tickets: $25, adults; $22, seniors; $5, 22 and under. Must be purchased in advance — none will be sold at the door. littletonsymphony.org; info@ littletonsymphony.org or leave message at 303-933-6824.

“Spring Yucca,” a photograph by Jeanne Gormley, will be in the “Celebrations” exhibit COURTESY PHOTO at Town Hall Arts Center from May 17 to July 10.

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The answer to that question used to be obvious. These days? Not so much. Modern shows can have just as high production value as blockbusters, entice the same A-list talent as Oscar-bait dramas and be just as sophisticated as any auteur-driven production.

All this makes it easy to see why there’s a lot to celebrate in the eighth season of SeriesFest, which returns to in-person events from May 5 through May 11 at the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver.

“It’s really, really exciting to be back and have the industry converging in Denver,” said Randi Kleiner, co-founder and CEO of SeriesFest. “This will be our sixth in-person festival and we’ve grown exponentially every year to a more global audience.”

SeriesFest is a non-profit organization dedicated to championing artists at the forefront of episodic storytelling.

SeriesFest’s Season 8 features special events, screenings and panels that bring the best of current television shows as well as the opportunity to get an advanced look at the vanguard of the new generation.

“We have a nice mix of things to watch on screen and other

events that provide audiences the chance to see how these works get made,” said Claire Taylor, director of programming.

“We’ve seen the industry do a lot of shifting and we’re seeing a Clarke Reader demand for social change and a level playing field.”

Some of the highlights from this year’s event include: Changing the Narrative: Focus on Indigenous Representation in Television on May 6 Jennifer Loren (director of the Cherokee Nation Film Office & Original Content.), Stacey Rice (casting director), and Sierra Teller Ornelas (cocreator/showrunner of “Rutherford Falls”) discuss modern Native American representation.

Centerpiece Benefit Red Rocks Event on May 8 One of the highlights of the festival every year, this Red Rocks concert will feature comedian and late-night host Amber Ruffin and a performance

by Lake Street Dive.

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Brawner, Betsy Leighton, W.A.W. Parker and Rosanne Welch, this live reading features cast members Denzel Whitaker, Tara Westwood and more.

And while these marquee events are exciting, it’s important to remember SeriesFest is a great opportunity to experience up-and-coming talent in events like the Independent Pilot Competition and Collegiate Spotlight.

“The success of shows like `Squid Game’ are opening up people’s mindset and we’re seeing an interesting in content from all over the world,” Kleiner said. “Many of the pilots we’re receiving are much more international and we’ve created a program that reflects that depth of talent.”

No matter what audiences check out, the aim is they come away thrilled and moved by what they saw and what the future holds for the medium.

“I hope people live inspired and excited and have learned something about themselves and the industry, whether they work in it or not,” Taylor said.

“We’re all excited for the way this storytelling medium is continuing to grow.”

For a full schedule and ticketing options, visit www.seriesfest.com.

See Rita Moreno in-person In partnership with the Newman Center, Denver Film and Women+Film, Rita Moreno will be in the Denver area for two events.

She’ll be participating in a conversation and Q&A with Aisha Ahmad-Post, the executive director of the Newman Center, 2344 E. Iliff Ave, at 7:30 p.m. on May 12. And she’ll be at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, at 11:45 a.m. on May 13 to receive the Barbara Bridges Inspiration Award. Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member

of the Little Rock Nine, will also be on hand to receive the Impact Award.

Visit https://newmancenter. evenue.net and https://womenplusfilmfestival.eventive.org/ for tickets.

Derby Day comes to Union Station Derby Day at is back at Denver Union Station, 1701 Wynkoop St., on May 7.

The free event will be held on the Terminal Bar’s patio and feature live music by the Royal Street Ramblers and drink specials including Mint Juleps and Frosé, according to provided information.

Naturally, there will be a live screening of the race inside the Great Hall on big-screen projects. Other restaurants at the station will be doing food specials.

Get the details at https:// unionstationindenver.com/ event/derby-at-union-station/.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Orville Peck at Mission Ballroom If you knew nothing about South African masked musician Orville Peck, you might think the music he makes is Bjork-esque experimental or even some kind of metal. But the man has one of the best pure country voices the genre has heard in ages. He’s just recently released his longawaited sophomore album, “Bronco,” and it’s a humdinger.

In support of the album, Peck has wrassled up Teddy & The Rough Riders and will be visiting Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St. in Denver, at 8 p.m. on May 8. This will be a great show to get you in the spirit for summer weather ahead. Get tickets at www.missionballroom.com.

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Gardening season grows on you Plant lovers welcome May as Western weather warms

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Many readers have flats of plants started or seeds planted in your yards by now, but others may still be in planning mode. Since I’ve joined the ranks of apartment dwellers, I’m limited to a bunch of big pots on my balcony (finally, it’s May and one can plant!).

But, throughout the year, I am so interested in gardens at my children’s homes and those of former neighbors — and in what’s available and suggested for our Western gardens — will try to pass on a few thoughts ...

First good idea is from the latest Sunset magazine, in a story about a DIY raised bed, which has directions and a picture of a watering hole for bees that I really loved. They suggest a glazed rectangular plant saucer (or one could use a brownie baking pan) filled with a layer of marbles, river rock or glass pebbles and water plus a sprinkle of mineral or sea salt, which will serve as an attractant. Rinse and replace water every few days to avoid mosquito larvae. In our arid country, bees will really appreciate a drink and if this is in your garden, they’ll tend to those pollination jobs at the same time!

A visit to Hudson Gardens this week meant a happy hour or so among flowering shrubs and lots of big trees, filled with birds of all sorts. (It’s open daily and admission is free at 6115 Santa Fe Drive in Littleton.)

I picked up a free copy of Colorado Gardener, which had suggestions from Fort Collins nurseryman Scott Skogerboe on trees to plant in the Front Range, including the hardy Arizona cypress, the Caddo maple from Oklahoma and the

hardy chokecherry, “Sucker Punch,” which doesn’t sucker and supports wildlife, he said.

He is also enthusiastic about a Gambel oak from New Mexico called “Gila Monster,” as well as the hackberry and a number of others.

Aim to attract pollinators of all sorts with flowering plants chosen to bloom through the summer as well as vegetables, herbs and small fruits. Longterm planning will include trees as well.

Yes, some caterpillars may appear here, but they attract birds to your garden too.

Baby birds eat an astonishing number of caterpillars brought to the nest by parents and the parents eat even more of them!

A natural garden, designed with native plants plus some decorative flowering plants from the local nursery, will attract an assortment of pollinators, including many you may not have noticed before if gardening is a new adventure.

In addition to the expected honeybees and butterflies, there are tiny little native bees that live underground and a variety of moths as well as the beautiful painted lady butterflies a bit later in the season.

Just standing or sitting in one spot for a stretch to see how many different visitors a newly opened rose will attract is entertaining to some of us!

And/or, a morning walk, coffee in hand, among garden plants to see what’s sprouted, which new flowers may have opened (or faded and need pinching off) will mean a happy start for the day.

Depend on your local nursery to supply healthy plants, even though they may cost a bit more than at the grocery store. Get acquainted with Plant Select varieties, if you can locate them. They are developed in Colorado at CSU Fort Collins and Denver Botanic Gardens, are especially hardy in our high, dry climate and are really worth seeking out. See plantselect.org.

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Attempt to stop water speculation is circling the drain Colorado lawmakers don’t have appetite for hurting farmers’ ability to sell

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

A move to dry up water speculation once and for all in Colorado ended at the legislature despite intense supply pressures from drought and water developers, as lawmakers said they’re loath to hurt farmers’ ability to sell their most valuable asset.

The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee tabled the anti-speculation bill after first accepting an amendment to turn it into a between-sessions study of the problem. Technically, the measure could be revived, but the bill’s sponsors say the issue is over for this year.

As the headwaters of the most important rivers in the West, serving tens of millions of people Colorado “is the prime target” for water speculators, said sponsor Sen. Don Coram, R-Montrose.

“There is a real danger of those billion-dollar funds coming in and taking possession of that water,” Coram told the committee last week.

Lawmakers and water conservation district representatives who work with farmers countered that water courts already prevent outright speculation, and that making sale of water rights harder would be a blow to the biggest property right that state farmers and ranchers possess. The biggest issue for farmers right now, they said, is competing with wealthy cities for a limited water supply.

“We don’t see speculation,” said Joe Frank, director of the Lower South Platte Water Conservancy District in northeastern Colorado.

“Instead we see pressure from municipal providers buying up agricultural supply for future dryups.”

Colorado already has anti-speculation laws that require people to put their water rights to “beneficial use,” such as irrigating a farm, delivering tap water for a city, or releasing more water into rivers for recreation.

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for a new use of a water right to show they have a customer for the new beneficial use. But there’s not a clear agreement on when legal brokering looks more like a speculative transaction.

State water experts say unanswered questions include how long a water buyer has to use the right before selling it to another party without the deal being considered an illegal flip. There is also no clear consequence if a buyer later changes the use of the water that they expressed when acquiring the water right.

The bill backed by Coram and Sen. Kerry Donovan, a Vail Democrat, aimed to target situations where a water right is purchased specifically with the intent to make a profit in a later sale or transaction.

Coram claimed in backing the bill last week that it’s already happening. He pointed to Water Asset Management, an out-of-state investor that has bought up shares in the Grand Valley Water Users Association. The New York investor currently leases the water rights back to local farmers, has said it is involved in agriculture for the long

term, and has worked on water conservation improvements. But Coram said there’s little to stop the investor from getting paid by downstream states to let the water flow down the Colorado River instead of watering in-state crops.

Those wanting to curb speculation also bring up the San Luis Valley, where private investors from the Front Range want to use well water rights they’ve bought up to pipe over to Douglas County or other fastgrowing suburban buyers.

“Somehow, somewhere, we need to put the guardrails on to protect the water for the people of Colorado,” Coram said. He noted he has worked on anti-speculation legislation unsuccessfully since 2019, and that at the current pace, the legislature won’t do anything until “after the water has already left the state.”

Donovan said increasing drought and growth pressures threaten Colorado with a compact call in coming years, meaning state or federal authorities will cut off local

uses of Colorado River water to satisfy agreements with Lower Basin states like California, Nevada and Arizona. When Colorado needs to find water in a compact call, Donovan said, the state should not “find ourselves negotiating in a time of crisis with someone who just wants the highest price.”

Coloradans are understandably nervous, she added, about curtailing the assets of farmers, and she understands that “water always takes a long time to figure out.” But she was disappointed, she said, that even the amendment for further legislative study couldn’t move forward.

“I was hopeful that by having a bill we’d force conversation,” she said.

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Colorado Democrats aim to quickly pass property tax relief Push aimed at heading off ballot measure from business group, conservatives

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

The debate over how to tackle rising property taxes is poised to dominate the final days of Colorado’s 2022 legislative session, as Gov. Jared Polis, Democratic lawmakers and Colorado Concern, a deep-pocketed business organization, hastily negotiate a plan to provide relief that’s sufficient but that doesn’t also deny local governments billions in future funding.

With just two weeks left in the lawmaking term, the high-stakes conversations, which have been happening behind the scenes for months, are getting more intense.

Polis and Democrats are trying to quickly introduce and pass property tax reduction legislation to head off a 2022 ballot measure from Colorado Concern, a nonprofit that represents the interests of the state’s top business executives, that would permanently cap property tax increases.

While everyone generally agrees that something needs to

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be done to reduce Coloradans’ property tax tabs, there is a wide chasm when it comes to how and how much. As of Tuesday, the policy details of the deal were still very much in flux.

The legislation could come in many different forms, including a property valuation rate reduction. Lawmakers have also set aside $200 million for property

tax relief, but it’s unclear how they would spend it.

It appears any deal would only be temporary, lasting as few as two years, as both sides work toward finding a long-term solution.

“There are a lot of cooks in the kitchen,” said Senate President Steve Fenberg. “We just need to get (the bill) right before we

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Fifty-two percent of those polled said they would vote for the measure, while 28% said they would vote against it and 20% said they were completely undecided or had no lean whatsoever. Initiative 75 would need the support of 55% of voters to pass since it would amend the constitution.

Colorado Concern has proposed other, similar ballot measures that wouldn’t require a constitutional change and thus could pass with a simple majority. But the general rule of thumb for ballot measures in Colorado is that they only pass when they poll well above what’s needed for passage.

“I don’t think they have nearly as strong a hand as they are publicly saying they are,” Wasserman said.

The poll also indicated there is far more support for progressive property tax relief ballot measure ideas being pushed by Wasserman, including one that would enact an extra tax or fee on homes worth more than $2 million. But Wasserman doesn’t appear to have the financial backing needed to collect the roughly 125,000 signatures required to get his ideas on the ballot.

“That’s the elephant in the room,” he said, “isn’t it?”

Looming over the frenzy is Initiative 110, a proposed ballot measure filed by conservative fiscal policy activist Michael Fields that would cap property tax increasesat 2% annually.

Fields said he is not part of the

‘There are a lot of cooks in the kitchen.

We just need to get (the bill) right before we introduce it.’

Steve Fenberg, Senate president

negotiations with the governor’s office and Colorado Concern.

“We’re waiting to see what the deal is,” he said.

Lawmakers were slated to be briefed by the governor’s office Tuesday on the latest negotiations with Colorado Concern.

Senate Majority Leader Dominick Moreno, D-Commerce City, said it’s unlikely a bill will be introduced until early next week.

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end-of-session debate around property taxes — which fund schools — at the Colorado Capitol. In 2021, lawmakers passed an 11th-hour billtemporarily slashing property tax valuation rates and recategorizing properties for taxation purposes in order to blunt the effect of an ultimately unsuccessful ballot measure pushed by conservatives that would have resulted in a much larger property tax cut.

Those involved in the discussions this year have said they are essentially negotiating under threat: if they don’t pass a property tax relief bill, Colorado Concern could move forward with a measure siphoning as much as $1.3 billion in expected tax revenue from local coffers in its first year.

“It’s kind of an unfortunate way of having conversations about what the proper policy is for moving forward,” said House Speaker Alec Garnett, D-Denver.

“It’s not a great way of governing. It’s not the best way of doing business.”

Garnett says he doesn’t see a permanent fix on the horizon, which means it’s possible — if not likely — that the annual property tax debate continues as property values rise and property taxes continue to follow suit.

Colorado Concern, however, sees its proposal — which would

cap property valuation increases at roughly 3% for taxation purposes — as that permanent solution.

“The measure provides critical relief for taxpayers while balancing the needs of local communities who depend on tax revenue to fund essential services,” Mike Kopp, a former state lawmaker who leads Colorado Concern, said in a written statement earlier this year when the proposal was unveiled.

Polis’ office said in a statement Tuesday night that “the governor will continue to partner with the state legislature and local leaders to save Coloradans money.”

Progressives, meanwhile, led by the liberal-leaning Bell Policy Center, are pleading with Democrats this year not to give up too much in their efforts to keep Colorado Concern from moving forward with a ballot measure. They fear a major property tax reduction would spell disaster for school and local government funding.

“Let’s not let Colorado Concern dictate the terms of how we solve this,” said Scott Wasserman, who leads Bell.

Colorado Concern has filed a host of similar proposed ballot measures as it works to determine which to advance. But a poll commissioned by the Bell Policy Center indicated that one of Colorado Concern’s main proposals, Initiative 75, which would cap property value increases at 3% for taxation purposes, lacks enough support to pass in November.

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Mountain Vista junior Lauren Hayes hits a forehand return on April 27 in a match against Chaparral freshman Remy Nguyen. Hayes won the Continental League’s No. 1 singles title with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over Nguyen.

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Maybe it was her improved mental attitude or possibly the popcorn but Mountain Vista’s Lauren Hayes stormed back to win the Continental League tennis tournament’s No. 1 singles title on April 27.

Hayes won her 10th straight match this season with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over fast-serving Chaparral freshman Remy Nguyen in the league’s title match.

“I started off a little rusty

but I learned how to get her serve back and my mental game got a lot better in the second set,” said Hayes.

Nguyen was ahead 4-3 in the first set when rain delayed the match for a hour. The Wolverine went on to win the first set after the delay and held a 3-0 lead in the second when Hayes rallied.

“I went into the school during the break, chilled and ate some popcorn,” said Hayes.

The Vista junior who talked with her dad during court changes broke Nguyen’s serve six times the rest of the match and won four straight games to take the second set. She held service

in the 10th game of the third to capture the match.

“I said if I was going to lose, lose the way you want to lose, fighting hard and not just giving up,” she said. “I bent my knees a lot to return her serve and I started placing first serves a lot better than I did in the first set.

“I have a problem getting down on myself so I talk to my dad and he pumps me up and helps my mindset.”

Hayes’ younger sister, freshman Marian, won the No. 2 league singles title with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Heritage’s Charlotte Buckner.

Mountain Vista captured the team title with 49 points, with Heritage

coming in second with 40 points.

Lauren Hayes feels she will be ready for post-season matches after she lost in the first round of last year’s state tournament.

“I’ve improved over last year,” she said. “I have got more offensive and not relying on my defensive shots.”

Regional state qualifying tournaments must be completed by May 7. Two players or doubles teams from each regional event will advance to the state tournament.

The 5A state tournament is set for May 12-14 at the Gates Tennis Center in Denver.

Defending state champion

Cherry Creek will host the Region 1 regional tournament on May 4-5. Castle View will be in the tournament.

Legend will be in the Region 4 tourney on May 4-5 at North Lake Tennis Park. Mountain Vista will host the Region 5 regional on May 4.

Valor Christian and Chaparral will play in the Region 6 tournament hosted

by Valor Christian and Highlands Ranch on May 4.

Rock Canyon and Douglas County will compete in the Region 7 meet on May 4-5 at the Apex Tennis Center. On May 4 Heritage will host the Region 8 tourney at the Ken Caryl Ranch House.

Pondo tops Legend in miserable day on diamond Cold wind chills teams as Mustangs take 9-5 victory

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Dylan Carey donned the robe that the Ponderosa Mustangs’ baseball team gives to the most valuable player of the game.

Carey was wearing the robe after the Mustangs’ 9-5 win over Legend on April 29 at the Titans’ diamond.

It was a miserable day for baseball with the temperature around 53 degrees and a cold wind gusting to around 30 miles per hour blowing from left field toright field.

“It wasn’t bad at all,” joked Pondo coach Bob Maloney. “If we had lost, I would have said it was awful. It was very hard for our outfielders

and it was tough to play with these conditions.”

Carey echoed the thoughts of his coach.

“It was pretty cold and windy,” he said. “My lips are destroyed from the wind. I keep on licking them but there are super dry. That’s baseball in Colorado.”

Carey, a senior shortstop who is committed to play at Nebraska, had a good day despite the conditions.

He had a sacrifice fly, a double and triple and wound up with five runs batted in. He also made a diving catch to prevent a hit in the sixth inning and closed out the game on the mound in the seventh, allowing a hit but striking out two batters.

Tyler Smith also had two hits, a triple and solo home run, for Pondo and starting pitcher Gabe Jacobs SEE LEGEND, P25

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May 5, 2022 Ponderosa starting pitcher Gabe Jacobs allowed one hit and one run in four innings of work April 29.

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allowed one hit and one run in four innings of work.

Cam Cartwright had two hits for Legend.

“I was just trying to help the team as much as possible,” said Carey.

“The first at-bat I was pulling the ball (to the left) and I had to hit the ball to the right side.

“We’re finally starting to hit a groove. We started out a little slow but we’ve finally hit our groove and figured out a few things and I’m proud of the guys.”

Ponderosa, the defending Class 4A state champions, improved to 11-6 overall and 3-3 in the Continental League against 5A schools.

Legend slipped to 3-3 in the league and 10-6 overall.

Pondo was ranked fourth in theClass 4A CHSAANow.com poll and Legend was ninth in the 5A rank-

ings “We’re not the same team as last year but as far as where we can be, we have aspirations to win again,” said Maloney. “Our guys are competing. Two of our best hitters have been out the past week and we find ways to win. Our pitching as been excellent. Gabe Jacobs and Tyler Smith have been unbelievable for us.

The whole has been a team concept.

Everybody contributes. We haven’t hit our peak yet, I don’t think. but we’re going in the right direction.”

Maloney emphasized that playing in the Continental League helps when it comes to 4A playoff time.

“I’ve been here eight years,” he added. “We might go 3-7 in league but playing those 10 league games and this isn’t a disservice to other 4A schools but when we get into the 4A playoffs we’re not going to see a team that is better than we see in the Continental League.

“We might get beat up at times but we’ll take that because it makes us better.”

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May 5, 2022

Lawmakers to address root causes of homelessness Final month of session to start

BY ALISON BERG ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Colorado leaders have introduced a series of bills in the state legislature to house unsheltered residents and help them transition from living on the streets to holding stable jobs and receiving mental health care.

“As we work to alleviate the economic impacts of the pandemic, addressing homelessness is about more than just creating more housing,” Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat, said in an April 18 news conference. “It’s meeting folks where they’re at and it’s connecting folks to the services they need and to the care and housing that they need.”

Each bill addresses a different facet of the issue, but aims to tackle some of the main causes of homelessness: lack of affordable housing, mental health issues, poverty and systemic barriers.

“It’s clear that the pandemic and social instability have taken a toll in our communities, and the number of people experiencing homelessness has risen as a result,” said Rep. Iman Jodeh, an Arapahoe County Democrat. “We won’t fully address this crisis unless we address the root cause of homelessness.”

Jodeh is sponsoring a bill that would direct $50 million of federal pandemic assistance funds to Denver and its surrounding counties that would allow for a collaboration between countries to build a homelessness resources campus.

While the details are still being worked out and construction of the campus could be years away, Jodeh said bill supporters envision a series of buildings providing mental health and substance abuse support, medical and dental care, transitional and permanent housing, job skills and emergency shelter.

Jodeh said the Denver area lacks

Gov. Jared Polis addresses the crowd at the Feb. 16 meet-and-greet in Arvada.

transitional and supportive housing, which is often the first step into getting unsheltered residents into permanent housing. Because of this, Jodeh wanted to ensure legislation prioritized such housing for the state’s largest counties.

Another bill — sponsored by Gonzales — would pour $105 million to a number of options for homelessness support, including transitional and permanent housing for those who need it.

The bills come at a time when Denver-area housing prices are reaching all-time highs. Gonzales said she lives in affordable housing, which has given her access to serve as a state senator and lead a successful life.

“It’s the only reason I’m able to stand before you as a state senator today, because access to afford-

able and safe and secure housing changed my life,” Gonzales said.

“This pandemic hit our communities hard, particularly working class Coloradans and communities of color.”

While unsheltered residents have always struggled in Colorado, Jodeh said Denver’s homeless shelters saw a 99% increase in need due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and those who were unhoused prior to the pandemic saw a 90% increase in drug overdose rates.

“The bills we’re working on this session will look at every angle of this crisis,” Jodeh said.

Governor Jared Polis said while the state is happily supporting the issue, he believes municipal leaders should be at the frontlines of the fight, as the issue is specific in different cities and municipalities have

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more power to legislate their unique needs than the state does.

“Homelessness is an issue that primarily lives at the municipal level, and because of the statewide importance, the state is taking an unprecedented step,” Polis said.

“State government does not have the authority or jurisdiction to implement local ordinances. We can be a supporter and an investor in local efforts, but at the end of the day, it will take a force of local efforts to meet this issue on the ground.”

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Lone Tree NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0022 To Whom It May Concern: On 2/24/2022 8:11:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Steve C. Quintana Original Beneficiary: Rick Valkama

and Holly Valkama Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Rick Valkama and Holly Valkama Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/10/2020 Recording Date of DOT: 11/23/2020 Reception No. of DOT: 2020114658 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $73,667.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $73,667.00 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under the Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

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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, June 15, 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.

First Publication: 4/21/2022 Last Publication: 5/19/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 2/24/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

JILL M. JACOBS Colorado Registration #: 26175 730 17TH STREET, SUITE 200, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 298-1800 Fax #: Attorney File #: QUINTANA *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0022 First Publication: 4/21/2022 Last Publication: 5/19/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

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May 5, 2022

For teens, nothing serves up an addiction like flavored tobacco.

Tobacco companies sell kid-friendly flavors, from Cherry Dynamite to Donut to Menthol. Over 2 million kids use e-cigarettes, and 85% use flavors. More than 1 in 4 Colorado high school students are hooked.

We’re asking legislators to end the sale of flavored tobacco that the industry has used to addict our kids.

Let’s put our kids’ health over Big Tobacco’s profits.

PROTECT OUR KIDS. END THE SALE OF ALL FLAVORED TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

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