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Outside the mansion, visitors will fi nd a treasure trove of costumes and decor. Sarah Russett, who stumbled upon the store, chooses a mask for her Halloween costume. PHOTOS BY ROBERT TANN
A voodoo doctor hides in the shadows inside the haunted mansion.
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A witch peers into her crystal ball inside Reinke Brothers’ haunted mansion.
IF YOU GO
The haunted mansion is open 6 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 6 p.m. to midnight Friday, 3 p.m. to midnight Saturday and 3 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Its last day of operation is Oct. 31.
Tickets are $20 on Sunday through Thursday, $25 Friday and Saturday and $35 for a VIP ticket to skip the line any day. The haunted mansion also o ers a non-scary lights-on tour for $10. located just north of Main Street in downtown Littleton, has for years been home to a haunted mansion that attracts visitors of all ages.
After a shutdown last year due to COVID-19 restrictions, the store’s haunted mansion has returned in full force to offer those who dare a scare. But Reinke promises it remains a familycentered attraction.
“We don’t do any blood or guts, we don’t have any chain saws, no scenes where it’s really gory,” Reinke said. “My house is more like Disney, a lot of special effects, a lot of illusions.”
The mansion, which sprawls roughly 10,000 square feet and is made up of 35 individual rooms, boasts over 1,000 moving parts and sends frightened souls through various worlds including a sinister swamp and a disorienting tunnel engulfed by fl oating specters.
As visitors enter, they’ll encounter a host of ghoulish props. A voodoo doctor waiting in the shadows. A wrinkled witch gazing into her crystal ball. Undead, life-size skeletal horses pulling a dark carriage from the underworld.
The attraction is imbued with the brothers’ childhood love for makeshift haunted houses, which fi rst began in their childhood basement in 1968.
At the ages of 9 and 10, the brothers constructed a house of horrors made from whatever they could get their hands on: A plaster skull from their older brother, their father’s footlocker for a coffi n, blankets for the walls.
“We caught a shopping cart fi shing and cleaned it all up because I wanted to mechanize it,” Reinke said. “I thought it would be cool if we could roll people through and have control of them (so) we put them in the basket and had a strobe light in the front.”
The brothers charged one penny for their guests.
“I think we made maybe 30 cents one year,” Reinke laughed.
But soon their haunted house graduated from the basement and began popping up in schools and local church events as the brothers built their Halloween empire.
In 1984, the brothers set up their fi rst purely commercial haunted house off Mineral and Broadway. In 2004, they bought their current store, located off South Prince Street, where their haunted mansion is housed.
And the brothers haven’t lost their knack for resourcefulness.
Weaving his way through the haunted mansion, Reinke points out a cut-up hose acting as a sewage drain and the lids of plastic storage containers painted to look like rusted doors.
A small team of artists and technicians begins every March on the mansion, which usually changes about half its rooms each year. In late September, it opens to guests.
Outside the mansion, the brothers’ store is a treasure trove of
costumes and decor.
With more than 50,000 items, Reinke said he has diversifi ed his pool of inventory, from buying out party stores that are going bankrupt to sourcing handmade masks and decorations from locals.
“The reason why I don’t buy in one specifi c place is then I look like everyone else, I’ll look like a Walmart or a Target, and I don’t want to do that,” he said.
The novelty and breadth of Reinke Brothers is what draws customers from all over.
“It’s the Halloween store we were hoping to fi nd,” said Sarah Russett, who stumbled upon Reinke Bros last week after coming to Littleton to watch a marching band.
Milo Salisbury, a Littleton native who now lives in Aurora, said she made the trip back to her home city for the store.
“It’s an adventure whenever you come in here,” she said.
For Reinke, it’s the screams, and the smiles, that have kept him in the business for so long.
His haunted mansion seeks to not just brew up a good scare but to tap the imagination of minds as young as his when he and his brother built their fi rst haunted house.
Reinke said he will do lights-on tours with children to show them how his haunted mansion comes to life.
“(People go) why would you do that and I say, ‘Why wouldn’t I?’” Reinke said. “Maybe they’ll make a great haunted house someday.”
An undead horse-drawn carriage pulls its way through the haunted mansion.
PHOTOS BY ROBERT TANN
A sinister clown swings from the roof of Reinke Brothers. A cursed reaper sings his favorites for a live audience inside the store.
BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN
Gov. Jared Polis issued his most urgent plea in months Oct. 21, asking Coloradans to get vaccinated against coronavirus in order to break a continued surge in hospitalizations that left the state with only 120 available intensive care beds.
Looking into the camera that was live streaming his news conference, Polis spoke directly to unvaccinated Coloradans, saying: “We want you here. We want you to be healthy. Please get vaccinated.”
As of Oct. 21, more than 1,100 people were hospitalized in Colorado with confi rmed cases of COVID-19, the highest number since last December. What is different this time, though, is the state has largely reopened, meaning hospitals are also fi lling up with victims of car accidents and other day-to-day events.
During normal times, the state’s intensive care units would operate at about 68% full, said Scott Bookman, the state health department’s COVID-19 incident commander. Now, though, Colorado’s hospital ICUs are operating at around 90% of capacity, running the risk that they could be overwhelmed if the surge of coronavirus cases continues.
Bookman said hospitals are postponing necessary but non-emergent surgeries — preserving capacity but delaying valuable medical care to patients who need it. Polis said the state is ready to implement crisis standards of care plans if needed, a move that would authorize hospitals to prioritize who receives treatment when their capacity is overrun.
“We are nearing the capacity of our hospitals,” Polis said.
Bookman echoed that concern, saying, “The trajectory of hospitalizations continues to go up, making me even more concerned about what this is going to do to the capacity of our hospitals to be able to take care of patients.”
About 79% of those currently hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated, according to data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. And those who are hospitalized and unvaccinated also skew younger. The average age of an unvaccinated person who is hospitalized in Colorado right now is 57, compared with an average age of 73 for the vaccinated.
In addition to urging unvaccinated people to get the shot, Polis also said older Coloradans should receive a booster shot. He cited newly released data from vaccine maker Pfi zer showing that a booster shot of its vaccine was more than 95% effective at preventing symptomatic cases of COVID-19.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 20 approved booster shots for people who received the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, to go along with a previous approval of boosters for Pfi zer recipients. At press time, an expert panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still needed to give its OK.
Pfi zer booster shots have been authorized for all people ages 65 or older, along with people who have high-risk medical conditions or who work in high-risk settings. The Moderna approval is expected to follow similar guidelines.
Boosters for Johnson & Johnson are expected to be available for all people who received the vaccine. People with weakened immune systems are already eligible for a booster shot regardless of which vaccine they received.
The rising levels of concern in Colorado stand in contrast to what is happening in the nation at large. Across the United States, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are falling.
During the previous several months, while the virus’ delta variant tore through health care systems around the country, Colorado had managed to have some of the lowest hospitalization and case rates in the country. Now, Colorado has the 10th-highest infection rate and 20th-highest hospitalization rate among all states, according to The New York Times’ case tracker.
Since the beginning of October, about 20 people a day in Colorado have died with COVID-19. As recently as this summer, that number was around four or fi ve people a day. More than 8,000 people in Colorado have now died due to the coronavirus.
The Oct. 21 news conference was notable for the language Polis used in hoping to prevent more deaths. Repeatedly, he urged unvaccinated people to show care for themselves by getting the shot. Slightly less than 30% of Coloradans who are old enough to get vaccinated are not fully immunized.
“Never in my wildest imagination did I think there would be Coloradans that didn’t want to protect themselves,” Polis said, recalling the day the fi rst vaccine doses arrived in the state.
He later added: “Show that you love yourself. Show that you support your friends and family that want you to be here for many years to come. Get protected. Get vaccinated. Get boosted.”
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October 28, 2021 Lone Tree racer is success on track
Harry Voigt fi nished 2nd at national championship
BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
When Harry Voigt wanted to explain in his college application essay which life experiences helped reshape how he defi nes himself — from a little boy with dyslexia thinking “I was stupid” to a fearless natural on the racetrack — Voigt took his readers out of the stands and behind the wheel with him.
“My eyes are focusing on the checkered fl ag, and it feels like I am approaching in a jet. Engine roaring loud and the smell of burning rubber as I tear around the last corner. I see all the different colored shirts of the fans and hands waving with cameras,” he wrote.
The fans get louder. He feels the wind funnel up his helmet, “cooling my sweaty head.” His hands ache, and he “can barely hold the wheel much longer.”
“I see the fl ag getting bigger and bigger, and then in the blink of an eye, it is gone. The engine grows quiet, the speed drops, and my excitement takes off,” he wrote.
Heat rises from the track and fans hush as he transitions into a cool-down lap. His hands “feel as if someone was beating on them with a hammer,” and his “nose is fi lled with the strong smell of gasoline.”
“I think to myself, wow, I just won my fi rst professional race at Circuit of Americas in Austin, Texas,” he wrote.
Taking titles
That’s far from his only title. In September, the 20-year-old from Lone Tree took home second place at the National Auto Sport Association’s 2021 Spec Miata National Championships held at Daytona International Speedway. He placed fi rst in the Teen Mazda Challenge.
“It was so thrilling,” said Voigt’s mother, Pamela. “Continual goosebumps.”
Racing at Daytona was a bucket list opportunity. The famous track is known for its long straightaways where drafting is crucial, Voigt said. For that reason, having a drafting partner is ideal. One car trailing another closely can increase the drivers’ speed by several miles per hour.
“It’s just physics,” Voigt said.
In a series of practice sessions and qualifying events for the national championships, Voigt placed well, staying among the top 10. But he had trouble fi nding another driver to team up with, which left him to fend for himself come race time.
As the championship event got underway, Voigt hung just outside the top eight drivers, he said.
“I was having to drive the absolute hell out of the car to keep up with them,” he said.
The championships epitomized how strategy and fate both come into play during a race, Voigt said. A crash took two cars out and Voigt closed the gap on the fi fth. He focused on staying consistent and not making mistakes in his driving, he said. Then another car was hit by debris and had to pull off.
“This stuff just sucks, I don’t want to see that,” Voigt said.
Despite rising in the ranks, Voigt was still without a partner, trying to keep pace with leading drivers. Then another driver, Matt Cresci, slowed just enough for Voigt to catch up.Finally, he had found his partner.
“We took off and we charged all the way to second or third in a lap or two,” he said.
A three-car breakaway ensued. As the whirlwind race came to a close, Voigt and Cresci chased lead driver Preston Pardus. Pardus ultimately took fi rst. Voigt trailed by less than a second, and secured runner-up.
After races, crews disassemble winning cars, pulling out the engine looking for any signs a competitor cheated. The intent is for each car to be equally matched so that the “race comes down to the driver,” Voigt said.
During his inspection, techs discovered Voigt’s transmission had been on the brink of blowing but managed to hold up — another piece of luck that went in Voigt’s favor.
“I shouldn’t have been able to fi nish the race,” he said.
Getting started
The now 20-year-old who poured his love of racing onto the page speaks with just as much passion for the sport in conversation.
“I’ve learned so much about myself in racing,” he said.
He was 17 at the time of his fi rst
Harry Voigt stands in his Lone Tree home where he practices virtually before a race.
PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS
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BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
For so many communities, arts centers are hubs of connection and creativity — places where people can go for entertainment and education. Which made the COVID-19 pandemic especially damaging, since so many arts centers were shut down to keep performers, staff and audiences safe.
That’s the story with the University of Denver’s Robert and Judi Newman Center, 2344 E. Iliff Ave. in Denver, which went quiet for the bulk of the pandemic. But the center is returning to life, and by launching its 2021-22 season, is signaling it’s ready to be a hub for the community again.
“The great thing about the Newman Center and places like it is the cultural infusion of ideas from elsewhere and the sharing of ideas,” said Aisha Ahmad-Post, executive director of the center. “This is a community home for so many different groups.”
The returning season will feature performances from a range of artists, including the
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The University of Denver’s Robert and Judi Newman Center went quiet for the bulk of the pandemic, but is now returning to its place in
the community and will be hosting events again. PHOTO BY WAYNE ARMSTRONG/NEWMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
NEWMAN CENTER’S 2021-22 SEASON
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• Kronos Quartet — 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12 • Dance Theatre of Harlem — 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14-15 • Joey Alexander — 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 • Nat Geo Live: Spinosaurus, Lost Giant of the Cretaceous with Nizar Ibrahim — 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9 • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis — 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19 and 2 p.m. Feb. 20 • Nat Geo Live: When Women Ruled the World with Kara Cooney — 2 p.m. March 6
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professional win, but his love for the sport was sparked years earlier, when his father took him to a go-kart track around age 10. As he wrote in his essay, school had been diffi cult for him with not only a dyslexia diagnosis but ADHD as well.
Racing was different. Speed didn’t scare him, and he quickly picked up the art of racing.
“Being an inch off the ground, not even exaggerating, going 90 in a go-kart,” he said. “You feel the G-forces.”
He went to local tracks on weekends for fun, eventually catching the attention of an employee who told his dad he saw raw talent in the young speedster. The man suggested investing in a kart.
At age 12, his parents did just that. Voigt had been working hard in school, they said, and as a reward they surprised him with his own set of wheels.
Voigt began competing throughout Colorado around age 14, often alongside adults, and almost immediately won competitions. His room in the basement of his family home boasts shelves brimming with trophies and walls lined with memorabilia.
The room is also where he gets in much of his practice time, using a software program hooked up to a mock race car rig. Realtrack time is expensive. So is the entire sport.
Travel. Vehicle maintenance. Race entry fees. Voigt doesn’t get paid to race, but thanks to sponsors he doesn’t pay to race, either. Practicing from home helps him stay competitive without some of the fi nancial burden, he said.
At home, he climbs through the narrow gap between the seat and steering wheel and sits there for hours before a competition, racing on the screen and getting virtual coaching from a mentor who emails him notes.
“The seat, the pedal and the wheel are pretty much right off a race car,” he said.
A lifelong passion
Racing teaches his son valuable life lessons, like handling pressure and being put on the spot, Voigt’s father, Brian, said. Thinking back to the September national championships, Brian said he and Pamela “always knew Harry was capable of that level of competition.”
“How many times did you hear
the sport was sparked years earlier, when his father took him to a go-kart track around age 10. diffi cult for him with not only a dyslexia diagnosis but ADHD as well. picked up the art of racing. a go-kart,” he said. “You feel the G-forces.” the attention of an employee who told his dad he saw raw talent in the young speedster. The man suggested investing in a kart. in school, they said, and as a reward they surprised him with his me say, ‘You’re as fast as these guys,’” Brian said to Voigt. “I’m not sure Harry always believed it.”
Voigt would love to race as a career, but he’s also staying focused on earning his degree. He’s now studying business at Lynn University in Florida.Whatever the future holds, “racing will always be a part of my life,” he said.
“It just seems like a part of me,” he said.
Harry Voigt competes in the NASA 2021 National Championships in September.
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Today, we have seen Littleton grow into a thriving city. The word is out about how great our community is. With growth comes challenges. Since being elected 4 years ago we have dealt with those challenges head-on. Most notable I was heavily involved in Envision Littleton 2040 and the new Unified Land Use Code.
We have made tremendous progress, but there is a lot of work to do. In this election you will have a choice between an unknown candidate or Patrick Driscoll. My voting record stands on its own, and every decision I made is supported by Littleton Staff.
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Top talent talks about the importance of culture
Here we are wrapping up the series, “The 5 C’s of Retaining Top Talent.” Now it’s time to link connection, collaboration, change and consistency to culture. And cul- WINNING ture, according to WORDS some top performers across several industries, was the difference maker in their decision to stay in their current role, or to leave and explore fi nding success elsewhere. Michael Norton
Mariann is considered one of the brightest in her organization. She is a thought leader and someone who loves coaching, mentoring and developing excellence in her team. Every year she receives a glowing performance evaluation and an increase in her salary. When she emailed me after the fi rst column of this series, she shared that she was regretfully leaving her job and team that she loved. Her reason was that after watching the culture of the organization deteriorate, and with empty promises to change, she ultimately resigned.
Her email was reflective of many I have received over the past few weeks. Organizations who are losing people are losing them largely because of the perceived negative, caustic, toxic, and confrontational environment they find themselves now working in.
Dave, a top performing salesperson is consistently in the top fi ve amongst the salespeople in his company. He emailed me to say he was glad that culture was on the list. He reported that he had left a numbers driven, operations driven culture that never supported the sales team. As a matter of fact, he called them the sales prevention department. He left because he heard about the positive, high-energy, sales culture at his current company. He sought them out even though they weren’t looking for any new salespeople at the time. He says that “Luckily, and thankfully they saw me as a fi t and offered me a job. The culture here rocks.”
We are living in very complex times, and it seems that no matter what we do as business owners, or executives leading a company, the diverse make-up of opinions, likes, dislikes, preferences, and attitudes of our team members makes it almost impossible to please everyone. Right now, if you happen to be at a place where the culture of the organization is eroding and people are leaving, there is still hope. There is still time to start making changes or leading differently.
Although we are living and working with complexities, we can take what Albert Einstein said and focus on simplicity. Albert Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Sometimes we tend to complicate the uncomplicated or over-engineer a solution.
When it comes to changing culture or creating and maintaining a positive culture where people want to come to work, we can make huge advancements by focusing on the basics, some of the simplest things that our people expect from leadership, and that can go such a long way to building a thriving culture. We covered some of these over the past four weeks; connection; collaboration; change; and consistency.
Employee engagement is a very clear indicator of the health of our business. And a pretty obvious indicator of whether or not we have a positive and thriving culture. When we look around are we seeing team members who are simply checking the box, or are they engaged and contributing at their very best? Are we being transparent with what is going on, how the company is performing, and taking an active interest in each team member? Are we working under a people-focused culture based on honesty, integrity, and opportunity? If not, people will do one of two things. Show up and check the box, or they will leave. And with those two options, having them leave is almost always better.
How is your business doing when it comes to culture? Is it so bad that you are in duck and cover mode? Is it so good that you hope to attract more top talent to join you? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing. com and when we create a culture where people want to work and thrive, it really will be a better than good year.
Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Root out supremacism
As a 70-year-old white, straight male, I understand the views expressed by the letter writer (Oct. 7 “Warning about woke ideology”) who falsely equates what he calls “woke teaching” with an incorrect defi nition of racism.
I once held similar, uninformed views. This is not surprising. Mainstream education traditionally presents a onedimensional view of the United States, cherry-picking some facts about our history and culture and ignoring others that don’t “fi t” the dominant view which is rooted in an unexamined white supremacist culture (imported from “Christian” Europe) justifying slavery and stealing by force the land from indigenous people.
Today, I see it as a blessing — and a sign of progress for our nation — that many educators are teaching our children a fuller set of facts about how our nation came to be and who we
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What do you do when you think of confl ict?
Ever watch that episode of “The Offi ce” where Michael decides to teach his staff about confl ict resolution? As a human resources professional and confl ict coach watching that, I was both gasping and guffawing at the same time. Of all the people to attempt it, there’s the manager modeling just how NOT to attempt to resolve confl ict. At one point, he basically compares confl ict to a “shiatsu massage, where they dig into your body, very hard. And it is very painful. And apparently, some people throw up. But the next day, they feel great.”
Most of us hate that poke-in-theeye feeling when addressing confl ict. Even though I teach confl ict transformation for a living, I still get nervous with my own confl icts, as we all do. As my mentor says, that’s why they call it being a “practitioner.” It continues to take practice for all of us. So, what is it that makes us go crazy when we get into confl ict? Or for some, even when we get near it.
For some of us, it may actually be a physical reaction to protect us from harm. That’s a whole course of protection techniques just in itself. For others, it might be the fear of losing the argument or appearing to be incorrect, wrong, or “found out.”
But for the majority of us, we become hesitant to dig into our confl ict because either we don’t have the tools to resolve it or we’re afraid of hurting (or losing) our relationships around it. But shouldn’t we be able to do both? Confl ict management is about solving problems AND building relationships. What good is problem resolution if we can’t maintain the relationship?
When I was in the state Senate, I was often at odds with one of my colleagues across the aisle. Many times, he and I were diametrically opposed philosophically. However, over time, there were many GUEST occasions when we would come COLUMN together and collaborate on legislation successfully. Throughout the years, we became friends and assured each other that no matter our policy differences (and sometimes heated debates on the fl oor), we would always respect one another and sustain our friendship. We remain friends to this day. As we recognize October as Linda Newell Confl ict Resolution Month in Colorado, I entreat you to perhaps imagine that the confl icts in your life could be approached as just solving a problem and building a relationship. Is there a way to do both? Admittedly, some confl icts may need a stiff drink of coffee, a suite of calming techniques, or
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