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SEE TESTING
for the afternoon as traffic interfered with access to the facility, Spencer said.
“In partnership, we mapped a safe and suitable traffic flow to ensure those who seek testing have access while guaranteeing access to the emergency room for any Coloradan who may need emergency services,” Spencer said.
City of Lone Tree spokesman Austin Good deferred to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment when asked about traffic management on the site. The City of Lone Tree is helping to handle overflow onto RidgeGate Parkway and clear access for emergency vehicles coming and going from the hospital, he said.
Sky Ridge spokeswoman Linda Watson in a statement thanked the Lone Tree Police Department for helping manage traffic at the testing site, which sits on the south lot of Sky Ridge’s campus. She said signage will “ensure that our patients and EMS partners can easily access our Emergency Department.”
Daily totals provided by the Joint Information Center generally show a steady increase in the number of tests provided at the state’s two drive-through locations in Douglas County — the one at Sky Ridge and a second at the Douglas County Justice Center in Castle Rock — leading up to New Year’s Eve.
At Sky Ridge, the testing site logged 398 tests on Dec. 19. On Dec. 26, the site conducted 836 tests, 998 on Dec. 27, 1,117 on Dec. 28 and 1,042 on Dec. 29. The justice center’s numbers peaked on Dec. 29 at 734 tests, up from 107 on Dec. 19.
The drive-through locations at Sky Ridge and the Douglas County Justice Center do not require preregistration, although it is strongly encouraged.
Spencer said a third testing site at EchoPark Stadium in Parker completed 552 tests the week ending Dec. 15 and 1,550 in the week ending on Dec. 22. The EchoPark Stadium testing site requires pre-registration.
Testing is critical to slowing the spread of COVID-19 and the state is “encouraged to see so many people getting tested as a way to keep themselves, loved ones, and communities safe” from the virus, he said.
He urged anyone with symptoms to get tested, regardless of their vaccination status. Instructions are available on the state website for how to report at-home COVID-19 test results.
A representative of MAKO Medical, which operates the drivethrough locations at Sky Ridge and the justice center,said pre-registration makes a significant difference in wait times and traffic clogs at testing facilities.
“The longer it takes us to register the parties on site, the longer it’s going to take folks to get through the site,” MAKO representative Scott Ross said.
Ross said staff at the MAKO facilities have high spirits and are braced to handle whatever level of demand they face in coming days.
“We’re doing our best. We’re out there servicing the community every day, and it’s almost 25 degrees in the morning when we start,” Ross said.
HOUSES
someone’s home.”
The tiny homes are small residences complete with plumbing and electricity capability that will house people at a tiny-home village in Denver once they’re completed in April, according to a Cherry Creek School District news release.
“Tiny home villages provide a safe, dignified and alternative sheltering model for people coming from unsheltered homelessness in Denver,” Colorado Village Collaborative, the organization partnering with the school district on the project, said in a news release. “These villages bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing.”
In 2017, the City of Denver’s first legal community of tiny homes opened along 38th Street, giving a small number of people a lift in their struggle to exit homelessness. The Colorado Village Collaborative launched the community, called Beloved Community Village, which later moved to the city’s Globeville neighborhood.
The Colorado Village Collaborative later opened a tiny-home village for women and transgender women climbing out of homelessness.
To the organization’s knowledge, the women’s village was to be the second-ever legal tiny home village for people experiencing homelessness in the Denver metro area, according to Cole Chandler, executivedirector of the Colorado Village Collaborative. Named the Women’s Village at Clara Brown Commons, it sits near 37th Avenue and York Street, not far from the Five Points neighborhood.
The first Cherry Creek students’ project to build tiny homes occurred during the 2019-20 school year: The students at Innovation Campus built six units for the women’s village. Now, students are building five units.
The units will be finished at the end of the students’ spring semester and will be delivered to the Beloved Community Village’s new location in late April or early May, said Jennifer Forker, a spokesperson for the Colorado Village Collaborative.
The Beloved village will soon sit at 4201 N. Monroe St. when the village relocates from its current location at 4400 N. Pearl St. by April 30, according to the organization.
Since 2017, the organization’s tiny-home program has grown considerably from its 11-unit origin, according to the collaborative. In 2021, CVC’s two tiny-home villages served more than 45 people, 11 of whom have graduated from the villages into permanent housing this year, the organization says.
At the Cherry Creek Innovation Campus, high school students in the Cherry Creek School District come to learn skills in several trades — from construction management to cybersecurity.
This year’s build includes firstyear and second-year students in CCIC’s Infrastructure Engineering pathway, according to the Colorado Village Collaborative.
The organization has also worked with Denver to provide another kind of shelter. In July 2020, the Denver Mayor’s Office announced a partnership with the Colorado Village Collaborative to open “Safe Outdoor Spaces,” according to the organization’s website. The Safe Outdoor Spaces are “secure, staffed, resource- and service-rich environments” for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, the website says.
The first two Safe Outdoor Spaces had “successfully operated” in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood starting in December 2020, the website says.
An entity called EarthLinks opened the first Safe Outdoor Space site at First Baptist Church, and Colorado Village Collaborative opened the second site at Denver Community Church. Those were the first two locations in Denver, according to Forker.
Some of Colorado Village Collaborative’s funding comes from the City of Denver, Forker said. The organization also receives funding from “generous individuals, foundations and business donors,” Forker added.
The Cherry Creek Innovation Campus is located at 8000 S. Chambers Road near East Broncos Parkway. It sits in the Dove Valley area of unincorporated Arapahoe County, just outside central Centennial.
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NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO
that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 30th day of January, 2022 file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Engineer Daniel R. Roberts, P.E. Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104. such claimant's claim.
The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado,
By: Janet Herman, P.E., Director of Public Works Engineering.
Legal Notice No. 941177 First Publication: December 30, 2021 Second Publication: January 6, 2022 Account Number: 2734 by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Hudick Excavating Inc. for the
Happy Canyon Emergency Access Project, Douglas County Project Number CI 2021-036
in Douglas County; and that any person, copartnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Hudick Excavating Inc. for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 6th day of February, 2022 file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Engineer Neil Sarno, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104.
Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant's claim.
The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado,
By: Janet Herman, P.E., Director of Public Works.
Legal Notice No. 941203 First Publication: January 6, 2022 Second Publication: January 13, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 2734
