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Death penalty facing repeal After Dems’ failed attempts in prior years, two key GOP votes may change outcome

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

and prolifically — each time he writes a poem that a customer requests. He’s been doing this for two years, and is out there at least twice each week pursuing this side gig. He also works one to three big events each month.

On his busiest day, Prince churned out about 50 poems in three or four hours, he said. It didn’t lead to burnout.

“Actually, it’s really exhilarating,” he said. “Afterwards, my brain was still spinning with ideas.”

After years of coming up short, advocates of repealing the death penalty may finally cross the finish line this year with newfound support from two Republican senators.

“From a philosophical perspective, I now don’t think the state should have power over life and death,” said state Sen. Jack Tate, a Centennial Republican who was undecided on the issue last year.

Tate and Colorado Springs state Sen. Owen Hill, a Republican who also has voiced support for a repeal this year, may be enough to give Democrats the edge. The state Legislature has recently seen repeated attempts to overturn the death penalty: It failed in 2013, 2017 and 2019, despite Democrats controlling both the state House and Senate last year.

Democrats haven’t been united on the issue. Two of the three people on

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Michael Prince writes poetry at the Colfax Avenue event in November. Prince said he writes poems on the spot for events and at the Santa Fe Arts District.

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Laying it on the lines Denver writer is poised and ready to create art on the spot

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Roses are red, violets are blue Wish I could write poems fast Just like you Give Michael Prince 10 minutes and a word prompt, and he’ll pump

out a poem custom-made just for you for the cost of $5 to $10.

If you’ve seen him in action at public events such as Denver’s Santa Fe Art Walk, Taste of Colfax, a small crafts fest and similar happenings, you’ve seen an artist in action.

“Pick a topic, get a poem,” Prince is fond of saying. “Just give me a prompt; it could be a phrase, a word.

It usually takes me three to five minutes to write, about 75 or less words.”

The topic? “It’s something they want a poem about, something that’s on their mind,” he said.

Prince’s creativity flows — quickly

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C-Lab aims to restructure higher ed using blockchain tech Nonprofit and government holding program launch meeting Jan. 30

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For those working in higher education, when it comes to inequity or student debt, there’s no shortage of possible solutions, said Taylor Kendal, chief strategy adviser at education nonprofit Learning Economy.

One example: A digital diploma that lists every course a student has taken and every certification they have earned. An employer who could look at that diploma, recognize a student’s qualifications and offer them an entry-level job, even if the student has only spent one year — or maybe even less — at a university.

The trick is figuring out which solution will work best and then rallying the manpower to make it happen, Kendal said. That’s where C-Lab comes in.

The new state initiative is a partnership between the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) and Learning Economy, which is funding the initiative.

Launching this January, the program seeks to address education concerns using new technologies, including blockchain technology.

TO LEARN MORE To learn more about the C-Lab, visit the C-Lab website at learningeconomy.io/clab An event for educators, employers, blockchain experts and others to learn about the initiative will be held at History Colorado, 1200 N. Broadway, at 10 a.m.

Jan. 30.

To register, visit learningeconomy.io/ rsvp/clab Blockchain is essentially a method through which data can be verified, stored and become “more transportable,” said Spencer Ellis, the director of educational innovation at CDHE. The CDHE brainstormed the Colorado Education Work Lab (C-Lab) to meet its strategic goal to increase educational equity, after having been part of the state’s former Council for the Advancement of Blockchain Technology Use, Ellis said.

“We’re really thankful for the governor’s support; he has this agenda for bold ideas, and our executive director (Angie Paccione) does as well,” he said. “It was inspiring for all of us to say, `let’s go out there and see if we can make these practical applications of blockchain.’”

The C-Lab also aims to address the skills gap between the skills that graduates have and the skills employers expect them to have, Kendal said.

According to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s

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2018 Skills Report, 33.5% of employers do not believe their job applicants have the occupational skills required for the position; 22.6% do not believe applicants have the interpersonal skills required.

To address this, C-Lab seeks to bring universities, employers, blockchain experts and the government together. The lab has invited stakeholders to a free event on Jan. 30 at History Colorado, 1200 N. Broadway.

Attendees will include faculty from institutions across the area such as Arapahoe Community College, Red Rocks Community College and the University of Colorado.

The all-day event will include panels and activities explaining what the C-Lab is and allowing groups to join the C-Lab network, Kendal said.

Groups in the network will download the app, which will allow them to weigh in as the lab selects its first endeavors. The digital diploma, which could be feasible through blockchain technology, is just one example of what the groups might ultimately decide on, Ellis said.

How students could benefit Courtney Dale, Arapahoe’s BAS Instructional Designer, said the college would like to use this record-keeping technology for students in the school’s bachelor’s programs, which are exclusively online, she said.

The students could earn digital proof, known as badges, for specialized skills they gain through the program. Potentially, they could post those badges on sites like LinkedIn. Adobe runs a similar program, awarding digital badges for Adobe certifications.

“It is a good way for a student to prove that they have a particular skill,” she said. “I’m excited to see a way we could move the badges offered only within our learning management system to something that the student can take with them into the workforce.”

She also believes the C-Lab will help the school expand its opportunities to use open educational resources (OER), such as free online texts.

Through a state grant promoting the use of OER, ACC students saved more than $85,000 in textbook costs last se-

mester, she said. By networking with other C-Lab members, she believes the impact could be even greater.

Rachel Newlon, an open education ambassador and English professor at ACC, said that the network could also allow colleges to form new connections with employers who could offer work or volunteer opportunities to students.

Additionally, the C-Lab could pave the way for real-world projects to be tackled by students in CU Boulder’s Technology, Cybersecurity and Policy program, said Garrett Schumacher, the program’s communications director.

Students and faculty could potentially conduct research projects on the development of C-Lab and help shape the program throughout its early stages, he said.

Those projects “could not only provide immediate learning and research opportunities, but change the future of higher education for the better,” he said.

Individuals can register for the January meeting at learningeconomy. io/rsvp/clab.

The timeline Currently, the C-Lab is in its research phase as it selects a potential solution to pilot, Kendal said. By the second half of 2020, the lab aims to have three universities and three employers piloting the selected solution; by the end of 2022, the goal is 100 universities and 100 employers.

The nonprofit has set a budget of $13.85 million for the next three years.

It’s a big goal: to potentially reorganize education so students are “not necessarily working to a fouryear degree, but accruing skills and knowledge,” Kendal said.

He added that the department and nonprofit have embraced the fact that they’re “dreaming big.”

And for many faculty members around the area, that’s exactly what has inspired them to get involved, Newlon said.

“We can work together to create something that benefits all institutions,” she said. C-Lab “is a blank canvas, and we all have tons of paint.”

CORRECTION Markie Arendelle, quoted in the article “Modern libraries are much more than books” in the Jan. 23 edition, uses they/them pronouns.

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Neighbors putting school in a ‘hard place’ Teller Elementary may have to lock gates to keep dogs off turf field

BY KAILYN LAMB KLAMB@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A Congress Park elementary school has been sending out a plea to neighbors to keep their dogs off a brand new turf field, something the school cannot afford to replace.

Sabrina Bates, principal at Teller Elementary School, said the field has only been open to students for about a month. The nails on dog’s paws dig holes into turf fields, and some owners have not been cleaning up after their pets, she said.

Another neighbor first alerted the school to the problem since the building is not staffed after school hours, she said.

On top of the damage that’s already been caused by the animals, Bates added that it is Denver Public Schools policy that dogs are not allowed on school grounds.

“To essentially just disrespect the space by not following the rules is just wrong,” she said. “I literally cannot afford (1) to replace it, (2) to repair it.”

In the past six years that Bates has been working at Teller, students and staff alike had been advocating for a

The staff at Teller Elementary School have posted signs around the new turf field because neighbors have been bringing dogs onto the field and not cleaning up after them. Principal Sabrina Bates said that if the problem does not improve they will lock the gates around the field.

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The former field had become dangerous, Bates said. Every time it would snow, it would melt and freeze over, essentially creating an ice rink where the kids were supposed to

spend their recess time.

“It’s such a small space, that when you have 530 children on it every day, real grass will never grow,” she said.

Bates started at the school as assistant principal and was promoted to

principal three years ago.

Through bond funds, Teller received $100,000 for building projects.

Bates said that money was immediately set aside in the hopes of raising additional funds for a new turf field.

After DPS administrators came to look at the field and its safety issues, the district offered to pay for the field in full.

Bates said it was lucky because the school would have likely needed to raise an additional $65,000 to pay its own way.

“We’ve wanted it for so long, that for us to finally get (the field), it’s been a blessing,” she said.

Turf installation began in mid-October and took five weeks.

Since neighbors have been using the field, Bates said the school has posted signs saying that no dogs are allowed and that the building is under surveillance. Bates also wrote a letter to the Congress Park Neighbors, which was distributed in a newsletter. Nothing has worked.

Bates said the next step will be to lock the gates in the fence around the playground. But she has reservations on going that far because she doesn’t want kids climbing the fence to get to the field after school hours.

“It makes me sad that we’re having to potentially have to take away our playground from our kids because people can’t follow the rules,” she said.

“It puts us in a hard place.”

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Denver could change approach to pit bulls Overall ban would be modified to allow dogs with special licenses

BY ESTEBAN L. HERNANDEZ DENVERITE.COM

The city on Jan. 22 inched closer to loosening its ban on pit bulls when a Denver City Council committee unanimously agreed to advance a bill allowing the dogs to be lawfully registered.

The council’s safety committee voted to forward the bill to the full body for a vote after a roughly 90-minute discussion. The bill, proposed by Councilman Chris Herndon, would allow pit bull owners to register their dogs with the city by obtaining a special license. If the bill becomes law, it would not repeal the pit bull ban, which has been in place since 1989 after a minister was mauled and a boy was killed.

Herndon has called the ban a middle ground for allowing the dogs.

“Pit bull” is a colloquial term used to describe a number of dogs.

Denver’s law defines pit bulls as an American pit bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, Staffordshire bull terrier, or “any dog displaying the majority of physical traits of any one or more” of these breeds.

Committee chairperson Councilman Paul Kashmann said the bill would essentially overturn the city’s ban. It would allow dogs to be registered with some restrictions and require the dogs to be registered annually. If the dog doesn’t have any violations after 36 months, they can have some of those restrictions removed and get a regular license like any other dog. A fee for the special license has not yet been set.

“This is a major change that I think deserves the consideration that it’s getting,” Kashmann said.

The meeting included 11 council members, an unusually high number for a committee meeting (only six of them are on the committee and voted on Jan. 22).

Councilmembers wanted to know whether the city would be able to enforce the registration requirement and wondered if residents would comply with the new law, given that most pet owners don’t follow current law requiring dogs to be registered. Denver Animal Protection director Alice Nightengale estimated that there are more than 100,000 dogs in the city. About 20% of them are licensed, she said.

She and her staff are having internal discussions about how they will approach enforcing this proposal if it passes.

“I think that’s another driving force in this,” said Councilwoman

Amanda Sandoval, a committee member. “We’re expecting people to follow the rules and I don’t think people follow the rules that are already established.”

Herndon’s goal is to provide information to the council about registered dogs after five years.

After that period, he said, officials can consider the findings and potentially make additional changes to the law.

The city government gets hundreds of calls every year about pit bulls.

Denver Animal Protection Lt. Josh Rolfe, whose agency would be responsible for enforcing the ban, said they’ve gotten 2,200 calls over a four-year period from people calling about suspected pit bulls. But these are not necessarily calls about dangerous situations.

“We’re knocking on doors for a pet that’s essentially not causing problems,” Rolfe said.

Nightengale said three zip codes — 80219 and 80204 (west Denver) and 80239 (Montbello) — make up half of all calls about pit bulls.

Rolfe added that about 70% of those calls are unfounded, meaning the dogs aren’t close to being an illegal breed. Of the 30% of calls that end up with a dog evaluation to determine whether it’s a pit bull, Rolfe said just 17% of those dogs are determined to be illegal.

Herndon said that passing the law would free up the agency’s resources because of fewer calls about pit bulls.

Kashman rebutted, suggesting those calls would be replaced by more people calling animal control to see if dogs that look like pit bulls are properly registered.

The bill has the backing of several veterinary and animal welfare organizations. Denver Dumb Friends League President and CEO Apryl Steele said the agency received 172 pit bulls from Denver residents in the last two years. She was among veterinary professionals who said breed-specific bans don’t work because a dog’s breed is not a good predictor of behavior.

“Councilman Herndon’s proposal is a reasonable approach to an emotional debate,” Steele said.

Public comment on Jan. 22 included eight people who spoke about the proposal, with all but one backing Herndon’s bill.

Aurora resident Sheila Mozer was the only person during the public comment who spoke against the bill.

She said she has family who lives in Denver. Several years ago, she said her son, a doctor, was “scarred” after he treated a child in Georgia who had been attacked by two pit bulls.

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Free Day at the Denver Art Museum: Saturday, Feb. 1 at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway. Enjoy our art collections and non-ticketed exhibitions without spending a dime!

Free general admission tickets are available on-site starting at 10 a.m. Some special exhibitions (such as Monet) may require additional ticket. Visit denverartmuseum.org for more information.

Free Day at Denver Zoo: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2 at the Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St. Thanks to the citizens who support the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District - SCFD, we’re proud to make the Zoo accessible to our guests for seven days each year free of charge. Visit denverzoo.org for more information.

Insiders Tour: The Hidden Language of Victorian Valentines: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4 at Molly Brown House Museum, 1340 N. Pennsylvania St. Victorians were known to have secret languages (be careful not to drop your fan!), and Valentines were no exception. Learn about the hidden language of love, as well as some of the more colorful language being used at the time while we take a look behind closed doors.

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Launch party for new Baby Café at Jewish Community Center: 10 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Feb. 5 at the Jewish Community Center, 350 S. Dahlia St. The Grand Opening is open to the public and will offer refreshments, music for the infants, and a raffle. The special event coincides with the week of Tu Bishvat. In the Jewish

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Opening night of the Denver Jewish Film Festival: 6 to 10 p.m.

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death row in Colorado — Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray — were sentenced to die in connection with the 2005 murder of the son of state Sen. Rhonda Fields, an Aurora Democrat.

Her son was a witness in another murder case involving Owens.

The experience places Fields firmly in opposition to repealing the death penalty, and last year, at least a few other Democrats hadn’t publicly committed to the repeal.

In the state House, Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son was killed in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, argues there are certain cases where capital punishment is warranted.

“There’s no question in my mind that the man that murdered my son and 11 others — 58 others shot, traumatized an entire community — there’s no question in my mind that he should be put to death,” said Sullivan, a Democrat from Centennial. The jury in theater shooter James Holmes’ case did not unanimously agree on the death penalty, so Holmes was not sentenced to death.

‘Irreversible mistakes’ Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler argues that the death penalty is a useful negotiation tool, pointing to the case of Chris Watts, a Frederick man who pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty after killing his wife and daughters in 2018.

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of Colorado calls the death penalty “an expensive, ineffective, and unjust government program that risks making irreversible mistakes by executing innocent people, delays justice for victims’ families, and wastes millions of dollars that could be better used on programs that actually save lives and increase public safety,” its website says. At least 166 people have been exonerated from death rows across the country, an ACLU Colorado fact sheet says.

The organization also argues that in Colorado, racial minorities are disproportionately likely to face the death penalty.

Sullivan, whose House district includes east and central Centennial, Foxfield, and nearby areas, said he may be willing to tackle some aspects of the death penalty, such as the uncertainty in whether it deters crime and that it is pursued more often in wealthier judicial districts.

“But in an instance that I was personally involved in and I see more people personally involved with, as I’ve said, I’m not going to be the one to tell those other families that they’re not going to be able to pursue the justice they want,” Sullivan said.

Along with Owens and Ray, the only other inmate on death row in Colorado is Nathan Dunlap, convicted of murdering four people in 1993 shooting at an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese.

All three are black men who attended Overland High School in Aurora at different times.

Fields, whose Senate district sits near Overland, said race is a coincidence in those cases.

‘It will essentially say once you do your first murder, the rest are free.’

George Brauchler, 18th Judicial district attorney, speaking of a consequence of repealing the death penalty “I think they just happened to be black,” Fields said. Dunlap “is black, but he killed (people) that should be alive today.”

“I don’t think it’s about color — I think it’s about murder,” Fields added.

Brauchler, whose judicial district includes Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties, said there recently have been Colorado death row inmates of other races and some death penalty sentences were overturned by a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision in a case called Ring v. Arizona, which affected how states apply the death penalty.

On the issue of whether the death penalty deters criminals, the National Research Council reviewed research and found no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime any more than long prison sentences, ACLU Colorado cites. The National Research Council is an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, a nonprofit that studies national and world issues.

The 2012 report “concludes that re-

search to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide rates is not useful in determining whether the death penalty increases, decreases, or has no effect on these rates,” the National Academy’s website says.

Research has found “you can’t draw conclusions one way or the other,” Brauchler said.

The district attorney argued that for inmates with life sentences for murder, taking away the death penalty would remove the potential for further punishment if they kill a prison guard or another inmate.

“It will essentially say once you do your first murder, the rest are free,” Brauchler said.

Rare application This year’s proposal, Senate Bill 20-100, would repeal the death penalty for offenses charged on or after July 1, 2020.

Gov. Jared Polis has said that if the Legislature repeals the death penalty, he’d consider commuting Colorado’s death row inmates’ sentences. A vote for the repeal bill is a vote for that outcome, Brauchler said.

The last time Colorado executed an inmate was in 1997, and the most recent time before that was in 1967.

Fields, Sullivan and Brauchler all prefer the question of repealing the death penalty to be answered by voters in a statewide ballot question.

Tate said he understands that preference but that he has a “traditional view of the role of the lawmaker.”

“I notice that we don’t send every tough decision at the Capitol to a vote of the people,” Tate said.

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In the war of words, the words are losing ead” not only means “first,” “foremost” and “front,” lead is a heavy metal, hence Led Zep-

pelin.

An old adage in journalism is “don’t bury the lead.”

Journalists are not QUIET supposed to begin a story with details DESPERATION of secondary importance.

However, I am uncertain what my lead is this week. Perhaps by the time I have finished I will know.

Of course, by then it will be too late.

If I had to take a Craig Marshall guess, I’d say my lead is the wonderful Smith conundrum of language, as per the following (nonsense).

I read the news today and while I was reading the news I was wearing a red sweater I bought in a store in Redding, California.

There was an article in the paper about a bicycle race that took place in Leadville. The woman who was in the lead most of the way fell back because, she said, “I couldn’t get the lead out.”

As I dwindle and fade, I am fascinated by things I wasn’t when I was younger and had other considerations on my mind, such as the birds, the bees, and how to osculate.

Now, as I swan song my way into the arms of oblivion, it’s often words that fascinate me, and it’s why I am saddened by the abuse of them as I have noted many times before.

Chiefly: the preternatural use of “like,” to qualify, clog and clutter almost everything that is said by almost everyone under the age of 40.

Why? Why? Why? What if journalists for this publication and for the major dailies were equally lax and leisurely when they reported, oh, let’s say an impeachment hearing?

“There were like all these men and women in this big room and they were

like arguing, you know, and this one guy Mitch-something he, uh, boy, was he upset about something.”

I may not know what my lead is, but I know exactly what I am doing.

I am defusing something of great importance with something of little importance. It’s what I do — it’s what we do — in order to survive.

Current national and international news is awful.

Closer to home, if there is an illness or a death in the family, it can be overwhelming and unmanageable.

So something is said about the shirt your husband wears to your son’s funeral.

That’s another one of my film references.

It comes from “Ordinary People,” a movie directed by Robert Redford that stars Mary Tyler Moore who gave the best performance of her career.

She is the controlling matriarch of a family in disrepair after the oldest son died.

She scolds her husband, portrayed

by Donald Sutherland, on the day of the funeral because of the color of the shirt he has chosen to wear.

I have isolated that scene numerous times. There’s a lot in it.

It also changed my opinion of Mary Tyler Moore. I didn’t think much of either of her situation comedies.

Redford knew there was more to her than exclaiming “Rob” and “Murray.”

Where was I? The English language.

Raymond Chandler, in response to a proofreader who corrected one of his split infinitives, replied, in part, “Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois, which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and when I split an infinitive, (expletive), I split it so it will remain split.”

Small favors in times of travail.

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The person champiMichael Norton oning the idea was convinced that the partnership would yield additional results and revenue.

The person who was against the partnership felt like effort would create problems, as they already had competing partners, projects, and priorities.

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As we revisited the abundancy versus scarcity mentality, I first shared with them the following statement, “There is money and opportunity everywhere.” A former colleague of mine who had decided to leave the position he was in to take an executive role with another company had written an email to all of us as he finished up and was about to leave the organization. It was motivating and encouraging with just the right sense and tonality appropriate for his departure.

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By the end of our strategy session, we all agreed that the partnership made sense and created a plan to manage the existing partnerships, priorities, and projects to maximize success while also creating a plan to optimize the new partnership. The abundance mentality had won the day.

Outside of business, how often do we choose the scarcity mentality, afraid of what could go wrong instead of planning for what will go right?

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If we never ask the questions we want to ask, the answer will always be no. If we leave every putt short, the ball will never go into the hole.

Regardless of our career, role, or interests, there is opportunity everywhere, and not only is opportunity everywhere, it is available to each and every one of us. It just becomes so much easier with an abundance mentality instead of a scarcity mentality.

How about you? Do you see the obstacles or the opportunities? Is your belief system a limiting belief system or an expansive belief system? As always, I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing.com, and when we can see the abundance of opportunities everywhere, it really will be a better than good week.

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First responders to drive awareness for Type 1 diabetes Denver area police, sheriff, fire and EMS agencies to compete in physical challenges STAFF REPORT

Denver area first responders will compete in a series of physical challenges, including a Ninja War-

rior course relay and climbing wall races, to help raise money for JDFR and Type 1 diabetes research.

The last two teams standing at the Urban Air Denver First Responder Charity Challenge on Feb. 8 will square off in a dodgeball finale at Urban Air Denver, an indoor amusement park.

More than 20,000 Coloradans live with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which insulinproducing beta cells in the pancreas are mistakenly destroyed by the

body’s immune system. Its causes are not fully known, and there is no cure. People with T1D are dependent on injected or pumped insulin to survive.

JDRF, the leading global organization funding T1D research with $13.9 million active research grants in Colorado, will be on site to provide education on type 1 diabetes.

The charity challenge will take place from 8-10 a.m. Feb. 8 at Urban Air Adventure Park, 9550 E. 40th Ave., Denver. The park will be open

to the public from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Those who would like to watch their local police, fire, sheriff and EMS agencies compete are welcome. Cost is a $5 donation to JDRF. To enjoy the park after 10 a.m., daily passes start at $15.99. Urban Air Denver will donate 10 percent of its proceeds that day to the local chapter of JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).

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One-woman show celebrates women’s suffrage PIT BULLS History at Play presentation recalls 1877 Colorado visit of Lucy Stone STAFF REPORT

In honor of the centennial of women’s suffrage in 2020, Lucy Stone will travel to Denver to tell the story of

when she, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony visited Denver in 1877 to campaign for women’s right to vote.

The History at Play presentation “I Now Pronounce You Lucy Stone” features Judith Kalaora as Lucy Stone, the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree, an abolitionist and a women’s rights activist.

Kalaora is the founder and artistic director at History

at Play, which presents onewoman living history performances chronicling the lives of legendary women who changed society.

“I Now Pronounce You Lucy Stone” will be presented at 4 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Secular Hub, 3100 Downing St., Denver. The show lasts about 60 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A session. Tickets and more information are available at www.secularhub. org.

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“I am here to appeal to you as the safety committee in the city of Denver to keep in mind your main (goal) is the safety of residents,” Mozer said.

Denver resident Quinn Pigot said what many others who supported the bill felt: The ban is outdated and ineffective. She said it does nothing for public safety and costs taxpayer money.

“I believe this law, as it stands, is doing a disservice to us residents,” Pigot said.

The bill will now be heard by the full Denver City Council for final consideration in February.

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Chris Coleman, 68, right, speaks during a meeting Jan. 23 of the Kiwanis Club of Belmar at Sunrise Sunset restaurant in Lakewood. Next to her is Jane Braithwaite, 69, past president of the club.

Community service groups push for younger recruits amid membership challenges

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hey help distribute eyeglasses to people in need in other countries. They make sure cancer patients get Valentine’s Day gifts. They light children’s faces up with much-needed school supplies. They’re the smiling faces at community concerts and other events.

And yet many people have no idea they exist.

“The name is not out there,” said Mike Shaw, a 63-year-old Lakewood resident who volunteers with the Kiwanis Club of Belmar, a local chapter of the international Kiwanis service organization. He didn’t know what Kiwanis was until around the time he joined, now 13 years ago.

Familiar names to older crowds — such as the Rotary and Lions, similarly minded service groups — have been struggling for decades as participation has declined. A bevy of news stories in recent years — and not-so-recent years — has pointed to that trend. As far back as 1992, a New York Times story sounded the alarm about membership decline for various possible reasons, such as Americans staying less rooted in one place or young people possibly feeling like the clubs were “out of synch with the times.”

“On balance, I think the Rotary has declined in membership and has not appealed to younger generation or women,” said Lynn Hoffman, professor of business management at Metropolitan State University of Denver and a Rotary member since 1994. “My particular club has been a little better about getting women and diversity and younger people in, but that’s not true generally.”

One president of a small Lions club in the Northglenn-Thornton area remembers the Lions being much more of a local fixture.

“I can remember as a kid we would have Lions picnics with all the families together,” said Zoe Reese, whose father was a founding member of her club in 1959. Reese felt the club was more connected to the community back then.

Clubs such as Reese’s have experienced shrinking numbers. That trend may be due in part to an aging membership base, something that Rotary clubs in general have experienced and are focusing on, said Gail Lehrmann, a Parker resident and president of the Rotary Club of Parker.

Many members have died or moved away, Reese said of her club. The overall trend is a loss in clubs in her north Denver metro area, she said, but some, such as in Arvada and Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood, are new or revitalized.

“Yes, it’s smaller, but we ain’t dead yet,” Reese said.

Theories abound on why, including the idea that young people may not identify with an older crowd. Then there’s the societal change that social media has brought about, allowing young people to find connection without the aid of community groups.

“I think (that’s) partially correct there,” Hoffman said. “I don’t think that’s the whole answer, but yes, they’re meeting their social needs totally differently than we are.”

Lehrmann chalked it up to society becoming “so fast and so computerized and go-go-go.”

“If I look at what I went through in high school, it doesn’t compare at all to what kids in middle school and high school do now,” said Lehrmann, 68, pointing out that parents in this era support kids’ sports teams and other activities. “Kids have so many more opportunities than I had when I grew up.”

Young people today also face added pressure to succeed economically, possibly pushing them to be busier than youth in past decades were. Many students at Metropolitan State are in their mid20s and don’t have time for community service while working and attending school, Hoffman said.

“I know they’re worried about doing as well as their parents. When you ask a class, you get half ” who think they’ll do as well, Hoffman said.

“Ten years ago, most people would say yes.”

One of Hoffman’s classes is small — only 10 students — but just two out of that 10 said they’ve heard of clubs such as the Rotary and Kiwanis.

“I think going to school is so stressful for people” that they don’t have time for service, said Eloy Moya, a 22-year-old in Hoffman’s class.

“I don’t think it’s the fact that we don’t want to help other people — I just don’t know what those clubs are.”

Moya worked at a nonprofit and noted there are other avenues by which to give back to the community. Many of Hoffman’s students said they’d consider joining a service club after graduation, though.

In this era, service clubs have made efforts to cater to younger people who are interested in volunteering but are too busy for weekly meetings.

The Rotary started online “e-clubs,” where people can get involved in projects and meet online instead of having meetings physical places, Hoffman said.

For years, branches of clubs for a younger crowd — such as the Rotary’s Interact Clubs for middle- and high- school students and Rotaract

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for ages 18 to 30 — have made a direct effort to get young people involved, Hoffman said.

And still, all over the metro area, groups as small as four and some large as dozens meet at local restaurants and offer free lunch or breakfast for members, planning their volunteer efforts and enjoying each other’s company.

Shaw’s Belmar Kiwanis club has gone door-todoor at local businesses and makes pitches for recruitment while volunteering at Lakewood events such as the city’s summer concert series.

The club hasn’t gotten many bites, but it isn’t giving up.

Dominick Breton, a 35-year-old Wheat Ridge resident who rose up the ranks to become lieutenant governor of a Jefferson County region of Kiwanis clubs, emphasized the importance of service clubs in communities.

“Kids need Kiwanis,” Breton said, echoing a slogan of the club. “We’re all about kids and giving back to the community. It gets you going at the start of your day.”

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Author shares some secrets about the Lakewood landmark

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t’s easy to get lost in awe by the cliff diving, waterfall, live performances and Mexican food that is all packaged inside Casa Bonita — and Don Whitcomb wants the world to know about the Lakewood restaurant.

“When you walk in, you’re flabbergasted. It’s that fantastic of a place,” said Whitcomb who managed Casa Bonita’s serving line from 1982 to 1984.

“It really is the kind of thing that you can go to many, many times. You’ll learn more and see more each time you go through.”

Whitcomb’s book “The Casa Bonita You Never Knew” details the history, architecture and more that makes the restaurant so iconic. He shared some facts and his secret Casa Bonita sopapilla recipe at the History Happy Hour event at Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park on Jan. 14.

Here are some highlights from Whitcomb’s discussion about Casa Bonita.

HOW TO BUY ”THE CASA BONITA YOU NEVER KNEW” “The Casa Bonita You Never Knew” book, authored

by Don Whitcomb, is $19.95 and can be purchased by emailing brotherbobsbooks@ gmail.com. It details the history, architecture and more that makes the Lakewood restaurant a landmark.

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Don Whitcomb, who managed Casa Bonita’s serving line from 1982 to 1984, shares facts about Casa Bonita at the History Happy Hour event at Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park on Jan. 14. Whitcomb wrote the book “The Casa Bonita You Never Knew.”

JOSEPH RIOS Casa Bonita almost didn’t exist Bill Waugh opened the Lakewood Casa Bonita location in 1974 — but it almost didn’t exist.

Waugh had borrowed a good amount of money from a bank to build the restaurant, but he went through it all before construction was done. He had leveraged two Casa Bonita locations in Oklahoma, Taco Buenos he owned and his home to build the Lakewood Casa Bonita, Whitcomb says.

The bank told Waugh he had to turn some profit for the unfinished

restaurant, or it would take what he had leveraged, leading to Waugh and his partners coming up with the idea to open the top half of the restaurant. The bottom of it remained unfinished.

After six months of business, Waugh had enough money to finish the downstairs portion of the restaurant and to pay the bank back.

“We’re kind of fortunate to have Casa Bonita today because of Bill and his guys coming up with that idea,” said Whitcomb.

Top secret DIY dish Casa Bonita’s menu options are as is, but if you keep your plate long enough for the restaurant’s sopapillas to come out, you can try Whitcomb’s favorite combo.

Rip off a corner of the sopapilla, and then you pour in cheese, taco meat and lettuce. Whitcomb describes the dish as a stuffed taco. He got the idea from one of his former bosses when he was working at the restaurant.

“He said if I ever see you making one, I’m going to fire you right on the spot,” Whitcomb said.

Faces in the rocks Next time you’re at Casa Bonita, be sure to look closely at the cliff inside the restaurant. You’ll find faces in the rocks.

“Once you see it, it’s very pronounced. (The faces) just follow you everywhere you go, it’s crazy,” said Whitcomb.

Artifacts from Mexican mines Inside Casa Bonita, you’ll find pieces of Mexico inside the restaurant’s gold and silver mines.

The mines contain artifacts from a Mexican mine, including ore carts, pillars and rails.

Hidden names in the cavern One of the secrets hidden inside Casa Bonita can be found when you walk through the restaurant’s cavern. If you look in the middle of the runoff in the cavern, you’ll find the names of every designer of the restaurant.

“There’s some fascinating things that people don’t know. I would love to interview everyone that ever worked (at Casa Bonita),” said Whitcomb.

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Wings Over the Rockies opens drones exhibit Exploration of remotely controlled pilotless aircraft to open Feb. 1 STAFF REPORT

With drone applications for home use, entertainment, homeland defense, and more, will people continue to make the critical decisions or will computers take over the controls? Find out in “Drones: Is the Sky the Limit?” the latest traveling exhibition coming to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum.

Over 75 years, drones have evolved from remote-controlled planes used for target practice into versatile and highly specialized aircraft.

As these aircraft fill the skies, they raise concerns about airspace, privacy, and ethics in modern warfare, according to a news release.

But these concerns are eclipsed by excitement for their potential: someday drones will explore Mars, serve as pilotless flying taxis, and deliver packages and groceries to our front doors.

Opening Saturday, Feb. 1, “Drones: Is The Sky The Limit?” features real drones, in-depth label paneling, and rich audio-visual content. In addition, it displays a drone racing video interactive, and provides a birds-eye view of the aeronautics, engineering, science, technologies and innovations of one of the most intriguing topics dominating our culture.

Developed by subject experts from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and produced by Imagine Exhibitions, “Drones: Is The Sky The Limit?” explores the modern

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phenomenon of drones, their uses throughout history, and the possibilities of the future role that drones will play in our society.

“With drones becoming such a big part of our culture, it’s essential to better understand their evolution and role in contemporary society,” Tom Zaller of Imagine Exhibitions said in the release.

“Drones: Is The Sky The Limit?” will be open daily to the public through Friday, May 8 at 7711 E. Academy Blvd., Denver. The exhibit is included in the price of museum admission. Learn more at WingsMuseum.org/Drones.

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49ers, Chiefs cash in on a pair of super gambles Quarterbacks play crucial roles for teams headed to Super Bowl

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A little more than two years ago, a pair of teams gambled on quarterbacks who had all kinds of potential but were far from a sure thing.

Both teams guessed right.

The Kansas City Chiefs will meet the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on Feb. 2 in Miami. It’s a title game featuring one franchise, the Niners, trying to win a record-tying sixth Lombardi Trophy against another, the Chiefs, making their first appearance in the big game in 50 years.

Their quarterbacks: Patrick Mahomes (KC) and Jimmy Garoppolo (SF).

Mahomes, whose gaudy college stats (his 5,052 passing yards led the country in 2016) were a byproduct of playing at pass-happy Texas Tech, was generally viewed as no better than the second-best quarterback in a 2017 draft that wasn’t considered strong on quarterbacks to begin with.

Chiefs coach Andy Reid disagreed.

He gave up a first-round pick in the

following year’s draft to move up to select Mahomes in 2017. Now, in his third season, Mahomes is a Super Bowl quarterback. He has 11 postseason touchdown passes and not a single interception. With its 35-24 win over Tennessee on Jan. 19 in the AFC title game, Kansas City became the first team in NFL history to go from trailing by double digits to winning by double digits in consecutive playoff games.

“Everybody liked this guy,” Reid said, in 2017, about the reaction from the Kansas City front office and scouting department after they’d spent time with Mahomes in advance of the draft. “Everybody fell in love with the kid and how he went about his business and how he played. That’s not something that happens every year.”

Garoppolo, a second-round pick by the Patriots in 2014, was considered the quarterback-in-waiting in New England, despite a limited resume as Tom Brady’s backup. But with the Patriots not ready to part ways with their franchise cornerstone, and with Garoppolo’s contract running out, the quarterback became expendable. San Francisco acquired him in the middle of the 2017 season for a second-round pick.

Garoppolo won his first five starts in San Francisco and, before the season was out, he had a five-year contract extension that, at the time,

included the highest average yearly salary in NFL history.

“When you find the right guy at that position, it’s really good for your franchise,” Niners GM John Lynch said, not long after the trade.

Though Garoppolo’s 102 passer rating this season was only 3.3 points less than Mahomes’, San Francisco doesn’t depend on its franchise QB the way Kansas City does.

Exhibit A: Garoppolo threw only eight passes and totaled only 77 yards in San Francisco’s 37-20 win over Green Bay in the NFC title game Jan. 19. He is helped by a bruising running game recently anchored by Raheem Mostert (220 yards and four TDs on Jan. 19). And the Niners have found a gamewrecking defensive end in rookie Nick Bosa. The second pick in the 2019 draft had a sack against Green Bay to go with the nine he recorded over the regular season to fuel a defense that gave up the fewest passing yards this season.

It all helped the 49ers return to the Super Bowl for the first time since Colin Kaepernick took them in 2013. The departure of coach Jim Harbaugh and Kaepernick’s kneeling saga ushered in a period of instability. It included a carousel of four head coaches in four years that finally settled when Kyle Shanahan — the son of two-time Denver Bron-

cos Super Bowl winning coach Mike Shanahan — got the job in 2017 and soon was joined by Garoppolo.

But when it comes to Super Bowl droughts — outside of the Jets and a handful of teams who have never been, nobody has waited longer to get to the title game than the Chiefs.

The team that lost to Green Bay in the very first Super Bowl returned three years after that, in 1970, to win its first NFL championship. The Chiefs had their ups and downs in the decades since.

The stat that stuck out the most was their 3-8 home playoff record since that victory over the Vikings in 1970 that marked the last game before the NFL and its old rival, the AFL, officially merged and began playing as a single league the next season.

Now, in a season filled with celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the NFL, the Chiefs are back, coached by Reid, whose 14 postseason wins compiled over 20 seasons do not include a “W” in the biggest game of all.

Could the quarterback he took a chance on — a nimble-footed, strong-armed, next-generation talent — be the one to finally put him over the top?

Garoppolo, to say nothing of San Francisco’s running game and its top-ranked pass defense, will have plenty to say about that on Feb. 2.

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The art of storytelling Denver artist uses comics to give snapshots of city life

BY KAILYN LAMB KLAMB@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Through a stretch of panels etched with thick black ink, Karl Christian Krumpholz is telling the stories of Denver as it grows and changes.

Each drawing is a moment in time — the good, the bad and the ugly — as Krumpholz navigates life on Colfax Avenue.

Most recently, his work was put on display on eight different banners stretched along the “wicked street.”

The banners were commissioned by the Colfax Ave Business Improvement District for the organization’s 30th anniversary.

Each banner features different businesses of Colfax, some still around and others lost to time. Since moving here in 2003, Krumpholz says he has seen a lot of change in the city, something he wants to document using his art.

“It’s sad, but at the same time it’s the nature of a city to change,” he said. “A lot of my work in comics … is kind of about that.”

One of those changes is how expensive the city has gotten. Krumpholz said it can be hard for an artist to make a living solely on their work.

Over the years, Krumpholz has built up a reputation and clientele in the city which allows him to do it.

But since costs have gone up in

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He does all this on a machine that earlier cultures called a “typewriter.”

“I’ve been writing since I was a

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Krumpholz likes his comics to tell people’s stories. His next project will be a series on homeless people he interviewed that were living in shelters.

Karl Christian Krumpholz is a comic strip artist who focuses on telling the stories of people living in the city. He does a weekly strip on the music scene for Westword, and writes comics on the “Characters of Colfax” and “30 Miles of Crazy” after the famed street.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF KARL CHRISTIAN KRUMPHOLZ Denver, it means he can’t do it alone.

Together, he and his wife are able to cover the costs. “If I was single, I wouldn’t be able to survive just on this,” he said, adding that many of his friends and neighbors have been pushed out of the Capitol Hill area.

Although these types of change in Denver have been a primary focus for his work, Krumpholz said that many of the same things apply to other cites. For his comics, Krumpholz looks at people living in cities of all kinds, and how that

impacts them.

“I’m collecting stories of people’s experiences in the city,” he said.

“These buildings have been here, these people have been here.”

Although his style of storytelling has evolved over time, Krumpholz said he has always been interested in comic-style art. He put out his first “zine” in the ‘90s.

Since moving to Denver, Krumpholz has been working on a weekly comic with Westword, documenting the music scene here in

Denver. His project “30 Miles of Crazy” — named after Colfax — led to a six-page booklet with the city telling the story of a homeless woman.

For that particular project, Krumpholz said he interviewed around 15 people living in homeless shelters in Denver. He added that he wants to be sure that his homeless subjects are treated just like everyone else. “I would like to hear what they had to say,” he said of their stories.

Although the Denver project only allowed him to write the story of one of the women he interviewed, Krumpholz said he is looking to expand on the work as a personal piece.

Since he is no longer working for the city, Krumpholz added that he’s not restricted by any rules.

“My next big project is to take the other 10 or so stories and do their narratives,” he said. “I can be utterly honest with the things they said.”

has released four books thus far. shop in the City Park neighborhood. kid. Back then, it was stories about PUBLIC NOTICE His eclectic interests include workHe’s the art director, but also pitches cartoons that I watched,” said NOTICE TO CREDITORS PUBLIC NOTICE ing with Dolly Parton’s Imagination in to prepare food.

Prince, 42. “I used their characEstate of Elizabeth Mungeer Geiss, program that As the owner of Cellar Door Books, Library, a literacy ters and wrote about them. Then I aka Elizabeth M. Geiss, NOTICE TO CREDITORS aka Elizabeth Geiss, Deceased Estate of Adelaide Anne Kirsten, a/k/a obtains free books for kids. he’s also considering collaborations evolved my own characters and stoPublic Notice Case Number: 2020 PR 030053 Adelaide A. Kirsten and Adelaide Kirsten, “They made me their poet laurewith artists for books, “whoDeceased would ries. Now, it’s usually short stories I NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons having claims against the aboveCase Number: 2020PR030016 ate,” Prince “I required donate 20% to doM.an illustration about whatever do today.”

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Roger D. Kempton, Jr. Personal Representative 2661 S. Ivy St. Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No.: 80306 First Publication: January 30, 2020 Last Publication: February 13, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Adelaide Anne Kirsten, a/k/a Adelaide A. Kirsten and Adelaide Kirsten, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030016 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before May 23, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Betty Jean Lamb, aka Betty J. Lamb, aka Betty S. Lamb, Deceased Case Number: 19PR0362

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Sandra Fellows Personal Representative P.O. Box 370332 Denver, Colorado 80237 Legal Notice No: 80274 First Publication: January 16, 2020 Last Publication: January 30, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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