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and community outreach such as music therapy, enrichment and early childhood education.

“We have such a vibrant history of how we’ve evolved over the years, and our place in the history of the Denver music scene has created such a strong group of supporters,” Gonzales said. She added that even in the midst of the challenges during COVID-19, “we’re going to continue to engage with our community.”

With all the in-person programming on pause, Swallow Hill has been implementing new ways to engage, such as offering virtual

Denver now has a roadmap for how to expand electric vehicle ownership in the city, but it’s clear that reaching its destination means traveling a long, hard road.

To help Denver fight climate change, the city released its “Denver Electric Vehicle Action Plan” earlier this month. While it includes a lot of concrete to-dos like installing charging ports, incentivizing electric vehicle purchases and educating the public, pulling those things off will require money and partnerships that aren’t yet in place.

First things first: Electric vehicles are far from a panacea for fixing the transportation sector, the second-biggest contributor to greenhouse gases behind residential and commercial buildings, said Mike Salisbury, transportation energy lead for the Denver Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience.

Walking, biking and transit improvements must be “our first solution to a more sustainable transportation system,” Salisbury said. But electric vehicles — we’ll call them EVs from now on — are a piece of the puzzle.

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The Deborah Solo Trio, consisting of Swallow Hill instructor Deborah Collins, center; Kari Clifton on cello and Swallow Hill instructor Chadzilla Johnson on percussion; perform in Swallow Hill’s Tuft Theatre in October 2018.

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Swallow Hill goes virtual during shutdown Beloved music institution doing what it can until reopening

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Swallow Hill Music is a place that builds community.

“There’s such an energy about it,” said Cheri Gonzales, Swallow Hill’s development manager. “Not having that during this time has been challenging.”

On March 25, Swallow Hill Music

CEO Paul Lhevine announced a temporary closure of the music organization because of statewide and local social distancing measures in place to stop the spread of COVID-19.

“Our goal is to ensure when this crisis is over, Swallow Hill will once again be able to open our doors, bring our teachers back to work and invite our community to come together as the music community that means so much to so many,” Lhevine said in a statement.

Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., is a nonprofit music organization founded in 1979. It hosts a variety of programs, including a music school, live music concerts

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“I really think this (demand for mental-health services) is just the tip of the iceberg.”

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Mental health providers see demand grow amid pandemic ‘It is a global crisis that we are all dealing with’

Tucker, chief clinical officer for Community Reach Center. “Something that is so unique to COVID is that it really is, other than I suppose perhaps climate change, it is a global crisis that we are all dealing with.”

The pandemic hasn’t caused fear about physical health, job security, and economic stability alone, Tucker said. It also created barriers to common coping mechanisms. Ways someone might usually relieve stress — eating at a favorite restaurant, visiting a friend — are harder or impossible amid the pandemic.

Cynthia Grant, chief clinical officer for AllHealth Network, based in the Centennial area, said the organization has seen nearly 500 new clients since the state’s stay-at-home order began.

The pharmacy department’s volume is up more than 30%.

“Demand for services is high and it’s continuing to go up,” she said.

“Everything at the beginning was focused on medical and now we’re seeing a shift toward behavioral health.

I really think this is just the tip of the iceberg.”

Staff delivered more than 6,400 therapy services in the past month, and the no-show rate among clients is sitting around 8%, a couple percentage points lower than usual, she said.

“Everyone shows up,” she said. “It’s a very captive audience.”

Roughly 71% of services are being delivered by telephone and 23% by video conference. Certain services

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The coronavirus crisis has impacted mental health services across metro Denver in different ways.

One provider, AllHealth Network, with locations in Arapahoe and Douglas counties, has taken on hundreds of new clients amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s also seen an increase in pharmaceutical needs and expects that demand for treatment will continue rising.

Another, Community Reach Center in Westminster, reports a dip in the number of new clients it typically takes on, while also watching demand among its acute care services rise.

That’s left the center’s chief clinical officer afraid that community members are pushing off mental health treatment during the pandemic until they reach a crisis point.

Both organizations report seeing higher levels of loneliness, anxiety and depression within their communities. The COVID-19 pandemic is also unique, they said, in that it has affected people across the globe and across demographics.

“Historians and probably social scientists around the world are grappling with that right now,” said Abigail

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MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES If you or someone you know needs additional support for their mental health during the COVID-19 crisis, here are some resources in the Denver metro area.

AllHealth Network A mental health nonprofit with crisis services, a walk-in center, acute treatment, counseling and substance use services.

Locations in Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Parker, the Centennial area and more.

For information or to schedule an appointment, call 303-730-8858 or go to allhealthnetwork.org.

Cynthia Grant is chief clinical officer for AllHeallth Network.

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Similar programs are also available to in-person treatment at Community Reach Center.

Grant said she has heard anecdotally AllHealth is seeing “a lot of people who are” essential workers like restaurant staff, grocery store employees and people providing delivery services.

AllHealth typically serves 18,000 people a year and employs 200 clinical staff across 11 locations. It also has providers at south-metro schools and jails.

Community Reach Center serves numerous communities in the north metro, including Westminster, Thornton, Northglenn, Brighton, Broomfield and more.

The mental health center has largely transitioned to using Telehealth, a remote platform, during COVID. Early into the transition, the center saw clients spending roughly 20 minutes on sessions, Tucker said. Three to four weeks ago, that shifted, and clients began spending 30, 45 and up to 60 minutes in a session. That is more typical of sessions before the pandemic struck, Tucker said.

“We know that people are sort of settling back to their treatment goals,” she said, explain that’s brought relief amid other troubles. “One of the things that we do see emerging though that does concern us is the level of acuity.”

Acuity means people who are acutely psychotic, struggling with suicidal thoughts or experiencing symptoms in multiple areas of their life.

Along with higher acuity, the center has seen fewer new clients seek services amid the pandemic. On average, Tucker said, they sign up between 800 and 1,000 people in a month. That’s dropped to between 600 and 800 in April and March.

She worries those 200 people they would usually bring in as clients are not getting help until they are acutely ill.

Tuckers understands the hesitation to seek help. People are scared to leave their homes, afraid of taking a spot at the center from someone in more distress or combatting stigma and isolation, she said.

Community Reach Center A mental health community center also offering substance use disorder assistance.

The center is based in Westminster and has locations in Thornton, Northglenn, Broomfield, Brighton and Commerce City.

For more information go to communityreachcenter.org.

Colorado Crisis Services Colorado Crisis Services provides free, confidential and immediate support for people experiencing a mental health, substance use or emotional crisis 24/7, year-round. Call 1-844-493-TALK (8255) or text TALK to 38255 to speak with a professional.

Visit coloradocrisisservices.org for more information.

Tucker also fears some people are not aware they can continue receiving behavioral healthcare during community shutdowns, despite the center’s best outreach efforts.

“Access to treatment sort of changed overnight,” Tucker said. “We don’t want people to think that they cannot get mental health services.”

One of the center’s school based managers March Ryan said there are positive outcomes from the behavioral healthcare world’s experience with COVID. Community Reach Center operates the largest school-based services program in Colorado, according to its website. The program provides students with counseling and case management in school.

Using Telehealth has allowed the center to continue fostering relationships with clients while they cannot meet in person, Ryan said. Her team is also seeing higher engagement among parents of younger children while administering care remotely.

Ryan thinks people will continue using remote services after the pandemic, and that Telehealth might eliminate some barriers to treatment, allowing the center to reach families whose parents work long hours or struggle with childcare.

That’s a good thing as she braces for future demand and continued effects on the community’s mental health, she said.

“I’m anticipating that we’re going to have an increase when we do come back to school,” she said. “It’s tough, it’s hard for kids to be out of that structure and routine (of school) and coming back there may be anxiety.”

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Colorado’s ‘safer at home’ order: What’s allowed, what’s open?

New COVID-19 restrictions see many businesses re-opening

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BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Coloradans dodged the possibility of a second extension of the statewide stay-at-home order, but the new set of rules that went into effect April 27 may strike people as even more confusing.

The main difference is that staying home is now a guideline, not a requirement.

But it’s not an invitation to go back to “the way we lived our lives in January or February,” Gov. Jared Polis said at an April 22 news conference. He implored Coloradans to limit social interactions as much as possible, although seeing friends in person is allowed under the new order.

Colorado’s new safer-at-home order encourages people only to leave home for “necessary activities” that generally mirror what the stay-at-home order allowed: shopping for groceries, exercising outdoors, taking care of family members and other essentials.

Past that, the new order allows a long list of businesses and even hands-on college and trade classes to open, while still limiting Coloradans’ social gatherings. The order also urges wearing non-medical masks or face coverings when in public.

Certain parts of the state — including much of the Denver metro area other than Douglas County — may be under slightly different rules. Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver and Jefferson counties extended the stay-at-home order to May 8. Aside from any other local restrictions, though, they’ll be under the state’s new safer-at-home rules after that.

The new order is set to run through May 26, but it likely will see an extension, though possibly with some changes.

Here’s a look at what’s allowed and not allowed under the new rules.

Still ‘necessary’ Under the new order, Coloradans still are encouraged to stay home except for necessities — the same ones the stay-at-home order listed — such as shopping for groceries or seeking medical care. Caring for a family member or pet in another household, or for livestock at a location other than a person’s home, are other examples.

That includes taking care of other “vulnerable” people, which in this part of the order isn’t limited to older adults, or people with disabilities or serious health conditions.

Young people who have disabilities or other needs may need support, too, Mike Willis, director of the state Emergency Operations Center, has said.

Other essential actions include obtaining medication or medical supplies, collecting supplies needed to work from home, working in allowed

A woman wears a mask while she walks her dog along the Clear Creek trail in Golden.

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New guidelines Travel for recreation should be limited to a person’s own community, such as their county of residence, or traveling no more than about 10 miles.

The new order urges Coloradans to wear non-medical cloth face coverings over the nose and mouth when in public.

Back on April 17, Polis announced an executive order requiring workers in critical businesses to wear face coverings when in close proximity with others. That includes workers in grocery stores, banks, homeless shelters, nursing homes and other care facilities, and many more industries.

What’s still banned, still closed The new order allows socializing but limits all public and private gatherings to no more than 10 people, except for the purposes of necessary activities. Gatherings of members living in the same residence aren’t prohibited.

The following businesses that shuttered under a March public health order remain closed: • Restaurants, bars and clubs (delivery and take-out still available);

• Movie and performance theaters, opera houses, and concert and music halls; • Casinos, horse tracks and off-track betting facilities; • Gyms, except that indoor personal training or classes are allowed for up to four people unless participants live in the same household, and those from different households cannot share equipment.

A gradual reopening of restaurants by mid-May is the goal, Polis has said.

The state will work toward a gradual reopening of bars as well.

Retail, services, tech programs “Noncritical” retail stores that shuttered under the stay-at-home order could re-open as of May 1, including those that sell clothing, cellphones, appliances, vape and tobacco products, sporting equipment, crafts, fabrics and more.

Critical and noncritical retail must take safety measures, such as providing face coverings and gloves to all employees whenever possible, holding dedicated hours for at-risk customers, and offering hand sanitizer and wipes at entrances as much as possible.

As of April 27, noncritical retail could start curbside delivery.

Also as of May 1, personal services — which also closed under a March public health order — could re-open.

They include, but are not limited to, dog grooming, body art, hair and nail salons, and massage therapists.

The services only may be performed with 10 or fewer people in a location or up to 50% occupancy for the location, whichever is less — for example, five hairstylists serving five customers.

Employees and customers must wear cloth face coverings or medicalgrade masks at all times. Only services that can be performed without customers removing their masks are permitted.

Regarding education beyond high school, the order also allows programs

that cannot be conducted remotely, due to the equipment they require, to be held in person on a limited basis.

That includes technical and vocational programs.

Offices, real estate, health As of May 4, noncritical office businesses could re-open with up to 50% of their employees for in-person work.

They must take many precautions, including minimizing in-person meetings, maintaining 6-foot distancing and allowing working from home to the greatest extent possible.

Real estate home showings can resume with cleaning and disinfection between each showing, but open houses may not be held.

As with the stay-at-home order, critical businesses — which had already been allowed to operate — must still adopt work-from-home policies for operations that can be done remotely, and use other strategies, such as staggered schedules or redesigning workplaces, to create more distance between workers.

Nonemergency — or “elective” — health and dental services resumed April 27 based on an executive order by the governor. “Elective” means a surgery or procedure can be delayed for a minimum of three months without undue risk to health, according to the order.

Guidelines, protections for vulnerable For those at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19, the safer-athome order urges staying home except to seek medical care — just like the stay-at-home order did. “Vulnerable individuals” in the new order include adults 65 and older, people with serious underlying health conditions, and those deemed to be at high risk by a health care provider. Pregnant women also are considered vulnerable.

Those groups cannot be compelled to work for any business or government function during the pandemic emergency, the order says. People who are sick must stay home except to seek medical care and must not go to work.

Employers must provide work accommodations for vulnerable individuals, prioritizing working from home.

New safety practices Generally, businesses allowed to reopen must take many precautions to prevent spreading COVID-19.

Broadly, those include: • Maintaining 6-foot separation between employees; • Disinfecting all high touch areas (“high touch” is a term for things people touch often, such as rails or tables); • Avoiding gatherings (meetings, waiting rooms and so on) of more than 10 people; • Conducting daily temperature checks and monitoring symptoms in employees. A sample monitoring form is located at tinyurl.com/ybrbwmk5.

Additional requirements for specific industries are located in the appendices to the order at tinyurl.com/ ybl42bvg.

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e’re making a transition in editorial leadership for Colorado Community Media, publisher of your hometown newspapers.

After 13 years with these papers, longtime Managing Editor Chris Rotar is leaving to pursue other directions.

Our papers are outstanding journalistic products in great measure because of Chris’ leadership FROM THE and commitment to the mission of comPUBLISHER munity journalism. We greatly appreciate his outstanding work and dedication and wish him well as he tackles his next adventure.

We are excited to introduce Mark Harden, a veteran, awardwinning journalist in the Denver area, as the Jerry Healey new editor of all our publications — the 18 metro-area weeklies and the two Denver monthlies. (Mark said hello to readers in a column in last week’s issue.)

It has been an interesting process, conducting interviews for the position and introducing Mark to the newsroom and staff, during these COVID-19 times.

We have been working remotely since mid-March. Mark, who came on board in April, has had to meet everyone — and learn our production systems — all by videoconferences.

We are thrilled about the extensive print and digital experience and leader-

ship he brings to our newsroom and can’t wait until we’re able to work with him face-to-face.

Mark worked at the Denver Post from 1993-2007 in various positions, as city editor of a 35-reporter desk; online news, state/regional and national/foreign news editor; and music critic. He launched online breaking news coverage at the Post and expanded it at the Denver Business Journal, where he worked from 2007-2018 as reporter, new media editor and news director. He then spent a year and a half as managing editor of Colorado Politics, a weekly magazine and digital outlet of the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Before joining the Post, he was a reporter and editor at daily newspapers in San Francisco and the Seattle area, covering politics, science/environment, business/development and local government. He has been freelance reporting and editing since October. He has won many national and regional awards for his work over his career.

Mark and his wife have lived in Centennial for 22 years; his two children attended Cherry Creek schools. He is passionate about the importance of local news to a community and delivering the best journalistic products we can.

We are excited to work with Mark — and for you to get to know him— as he helps us move forward with the next chapter at Colorado Community Media.

Jerry Healey is the president and publisher of Colorado Community Media. He can be reached at jhealey@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Denver’s Five Points Jazz Festival has new venues: Internet, radio and TV Organizers are ‘bringing the festival into your home’

BY DAVID SACHS DENVERITE.COM

The virus may be taking inperson performances away from Denver, but it’s not killing the music.

The annual Five Points Jazz Festival will happen May 16 in the form of a two-hour event broadcast on a whole rack of stages: Rocky Mountain PBS (6 to 8 p.m.), KUVO 89.3 FM (8 to 10 p.m.), kuvo.org and ArtsandVenues. com/5PJF, as well as the Facebook channels for KUVO, Rocky Mountain PBS and Denver Arts & Venues.

“This is a citywide event that has grown in popularity and attendance, and it’s like a coming out party for music lovers of all ages,” said Carlos Lando, general manager of KUVO Jazz. “The best

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New light shed on 2009 Centennial murder Affidavit lays out case against alleged shooter

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

More than a decade after the body of a 23-year-old Centennial man was found early one morning in a suburban neighborhood, with a single bullet wound to the back, authorities have arrested a man they allege was the shooter.

And, unlike other suspects in the killing, whose cases were long kept out of public view, the case against the alleged shooter is proceeding publicly.

Those details provide a closer look at a murder that had been shrouded in mystery for years.

Andrew Graham, a University of Colorado graduate who was headed to grad school, was found shot dead at about 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, 2009, in the front yard of a home in the Willow Creek neighborhood of Centennial near East County Line Road and South Yosemite Street, an area that sees little violent crime.

A few hours earlier, just before midnight, video surveillance captured Graham riding an RTD light rail train and exiting at the station near Park Meadows mall in Lone Tree. Graham had been making living arrangements in Boulder that day and would often walk from the station to his parents’ house in nearby Willow Creek a couple miles away, his mother told Colorado Community Media at the time.

Statements to authorities from other suspects in the case going back to 2009 have pointed to Terrell O’Neil Jones as the shooter, according to a March 10 affidavit that an Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office investigator submitted to request a warrant for his arrest. Jones was arrested that day, KCNCCBS4 reported.

Jones has repeatedly Jones denied to investigators that he was involved in Graham’s death.

But four other suspects who admitted to being at the crime scene that night told investigators that Jones shot Graham, the affidavit said. They all described a plot to rob Graham, whom they saw as “a white male who might have money,” the affidavit says. Jones and three other suspects are African-American. One suspect, Joseph Martin, is listed as American Indian on the state Department of Corrections website.

Jones “pulled out a pistol and tried to rob the guy but the guy wouldn’t let him so Terrell Jones shot him,” investigators quoted one of the co-suspects as saying in the affidavit.

A 2016 Arapahoe County grand jury in the case of Graham’s death indicted Clarissa Jae Lockhart, Allen Deshawn Ford, Kendall Adam Austin and Martin. The four were arrested in January 2017 in connection with Graham’s death.

That came after a previous grand

Andrew Graham, a 23-year-old who was planning to start graduate school soon, was found dead after being shot in November 2009 in Centennial.

jury called in 2011 stated that it lacked enough evidence to recommend trial of any suspects in the case after about 18 months that saw testimony from 63 witnesses and more than 100 exhibits of evidence, including photos, transcripts and recordings.

Of those four suspects, three agreed to testify regarding Graham’s death and pleaded guilty to related charges, while the fourth had charges against him dismissed, according to the affidavit.

String of Denver crimes Ford, Lockhart and Austin had been linked to a string of race-motivated robberies and assaults in downtown Denver in 2009, according to the affidavit and court proceedings in the Graham case. Suspects in that rash of crimes told police they targeted white males because they assumed they had money and wouldn’t fight back or present a threat.

Lockhart and Austin pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in September 2009 incidents, and Ford pleaded guilty to a bias-motivated crime involving “bodily injury” and pleaded guilty to assault in August 2009 incidents, according to online court records.

Neil Silver, a defense attorney for one of the defendants, has said in court that prosecutors opted for charges in the Graham case under an organized-crime law for some of the defendants based on suspicion of involvement in black-youth gangs targeting white people.

Cases against the four suspects other than Jones were suppressed until recently, meaning no documents in the cases were available to the public.

For all four, the prosecution requested the case files be made public on March 12, and Judge Michael Spear ordered the files unsuppressed April 14.

Because Jones’ case was not brought by a grand jury, documents in his case weren’t suppressed. Grand juries are sometimes used to decide if authorities have enough evidence to charge a suspect.

Jones was charged with first-degree murder after deliberation and firstdegree felony murder, according to court records. He had a status conference hearing scheduled April 30, but it was rescheduled to June 10 amid delays due to COVID-19 precautions, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Jones’ arrest affidavit filled in blanks that had persisted for years in the account of what happened to Graham on Nov. 5, 2009. Here’s a look at the events, according to the March 10 affidavit.

Graham got a ride from his father to the light rail station near Dry Creek Road and Interstate 25 in the afternoon. According to his father, Graham planned to ride the train to downtown Denver and transfer to a bus to Boulder to meet with a former roommate to discuss living with him again.

After eating with his then-current roommates at a Boulder restaurant, Graham got dropped off at a nearby park-and-ride location to catch a bus to Denver.

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lance captured Graham riding the light rail and exiting at the station near Park Meadows mall in Lone Tree, near Centennial. Nearby parking lot surveillance footage shows him walking west through the lot and down County Line Road until he was out of sight on the recordings. He walked with a satchel that authorities later found. A police dog later tracked Graham’s path a short distance into the Willow Creek neighborhood nearby, north of County Line, the affidavit said.

Implicating Jones As for Jones’ alleged role, his four co-suspects spoke with Arapahoe sheriff ’s deputies, a Denver police detective and an 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office investigator, and in grand jury testimony, and had this to say, according to the March 10 affidavit: • Martin said in the 2016 grand jury proceedings that he went to the area of Park Meadows with Ford, Lockhart, Austin and Jones to rob someone since there were too many police on the 16th Street Mall.

• Martin told authorities in 2017 he was with Ford, Jones, Lockhart and Austin when they approached Graham to rob him. He said they saw he had a bag and thought he might have a laptop. Martin said that Jones shot Graham and then took the bag, according to the affidavit.

• Ford told authorities in 2015 that he, Lockhart, Jones and Martin were present during the homicide. Ford said they followed Graham, asked him for money, somebody hit him and then Jones shot him, the affidavit said.

• Lockhart told authorities that she was with Ford and Jones near Park Meadows mall and approached Graham, and Jones shot him, according to the affidavit. It said that in 2015, she said Ford called out to Graham, Graham began to run and they chased him, and Jones shot him.

• Austin testified in the 2011 grand jury that Ford told him that he, Lockhart and Jones were in Centennial and Jones pulled out a pistol and tried to rob Graham, but Graham wouldn’t let Jones, so Jones shot him, the affidavit said. Austin later said he ran into the others near Park Meadows mall after he took the light rail there with his cousin.

• Ford and Jones pulled the satchel

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from Graham, and it was later thrown out the window of the suspects’ car, Martin told authorities, as relayed in the affidavit.

Graham’s body was found about a block south of some of his belongings.

Credit cards and a cell phone were found in his satchel there, according to authorities. His money was still in his wallet when his body was discovered. His glasses lay a few steps away from him, and his hat lay a short distance away.

Physical evidence lacking Jones — who apparently first spoke to authorities in 2010 — has acknowledged to investigators that he knew the co-defendants but has denied involvement in Graham’s death on multiple occasions.

Jones said Ford was his best friend but that they had a falling out recently.

He also said Lockhart “doesn’t like him,” the affidavit says.

Jones has several criminal convictions resulting from guilty pleas since 2013, according to the affidavit. They include possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, distributing a drug, theft of between $750 and $2,000, possession of a defaced firearm and possession of a Schedule 1 controlled substance, a classification that includes hard drugs.

Despite the years it took to arrest Jones, the affidavit does not mention any physical evidence that points to any of the defendants.

In 2009, Graham’s satchel was submitted for testing, and DNA profiles were found on the handle, the flaps and the shoulder strap, all of which contain a mixture of DNA. Authorities said they also found a DNA mixture on the pocket of Graham’s jeans.

Authorities took swabs from the five defendants, and all were excluded as potential contributors to the DNA mixture found on Graham’s satchel as well as on his clothes. Numerous other suspects were investigated, and their potential involvement could not be corroborated.

Authorities completed numerous forensic tests on the evidence between 2009 and 2017, and there was no conclusive forensic testing that led to Jones or any other suspect.

Graham was killed by a single bullet wound to his back, and no bullet, bullet fragment or shell casing was located.

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Craft breweries fight for survival Many seeing furloughs, sharp sales declines

released the results of a survey it had conducted of its member breweries about the impact COVID-19 was having on them.

The survey found that member breweries reported an average drop in revenue of 65%, with 62% of respondents reporting they could not sustain their breweries for longer than three months if current social distancing restrictions remain in place. There are 8,150 active breweries in the country, according to the data, meaning that 5,053 breweries could be in danger of closing across the nation in the next three months. So far, no breweries are known to have closed in Colorado, according to the Colorado Brewers Guild.

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Since opening in Sheridan’s River Point development west of South Santa Fe Drive in 2016, Dead Hippie Brewing has seen “continuous growth” in its revenues. However even by those standards, owner Dean Edmundson said January and February had been two of the “most amazing” months of business in the brewery’s existence.

But then came March, the COVID-19 epidemic and, eventually, Gov. Jared Polis’ stay-at-home order. The result?

A 60% drop in revenue that is creating a “very challenging situation” for the brewery, where Edmundson said he has remained committed to keeping on his six-person staff.

Now, Edmundson is left to hope that the staff can begin serving customers again in the brewery’s taproom soon (for now only to-go sales are allowed) — and that those customers start coming back once they can do so.

“As long as we are opening back up around mid-May we should be OK,” Edmundson said. “If this goes to midJuly it’s a different story, but I think we will probably still survive.”

Dean Edmundson, the owner of Dead Hippie Brewing on Santa Fe Drive in Sheridan, holds up a bandana printed with the brewery’s logo that can be used as a face mask inside the taproom, which is empty aside from his dog.

PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO Thousands could close nationwide Edmundson’s read on the situation and its impact seems to be a common one among brewers, both along the

Front Range and around the country.

On April 7, the Brewers Association, a trade group of approximately 5,400 small and independent brewers,

Government help uncertain Chris Reigrut, the co-owner of Halfpenny Brewing Company in Centennial, said that his brewery’s sales have declined by 70% and that the overall fate of his brewery will depend not only on how long social distancing measures remain in place but also what kind of assistance he is able to get from the government.

“We had our applications in for almost two weeks and we did not get money from the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program,” Reigrut said. “We are hoping we get some from the second round passed this week but it’s looking tough.”

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This seems like dreams and weird extremes ickens memorably began “A Tale of Two Cities” with a perfect description of 2020, especially the first twelve

words.

It sums up, at least in my lifetime, the current world, where extraordinarily good people QUIET are doing extraordinarily good things, DESPERATION and where extraordinarily bad people are doing extraordinarily bad things.

It seems where there are challenges and tragedies and vulnerabilities, some of us crawl out from the Grimpen Mire, Craig Marshall look around, and seize the opportunity Smith to take advantage of the situation.

I am old enough to know it comes as no surprise.

Ask Sartre.

I am one of the lucky ones. Retired,

a safe home to live in, sufficient paper products, and an enviable roommate.

My roommate has no idea what is going on. That helps.

Not much has changed around here.

We just go on fewer car trips.

When was the last time you filled your car’s gas tank?

Half the news is heartwarming and the other half is inconceivable.

Conspiracy theorists blame a U.S. Army reservist and mother of two for starting the pandemic. The false claims about her are spreading like the virus itself.

Lewis Carroll said, “What I tell you three times is true.”

Is there anything worse than being wrongly accused?

I was blamed for things I didn’t do when I was a kid. My sister was an angel and could do no wrong. But if she did, she cruised, because little Craig was seen as an impish lad, more capable of spilling the milk.

Alfred Hitchcock understood the effect false accusations have on someone: therefore, his films often featured

someone trying to prove his or her innocence.

Best: “North by Northwest,” but also “The 39 Steps,” “The Wrong Man,” “Strangers on a Train,” and “Saboteur.”

I anticipate a 21st-century retelling of “The Grapes of Wrath.” Small business owners who have lost everything and have to find something else to do with their lives.

There will be documentaries and coffee-table books filled with haunting photographs.

And there will be humor. There already has been.

(Some of it, unfortunately, has been unintentional. Take your pick.)

The mystery, of course, is not knowing when it will be safe again to move around and commingle like always.

Some are ready to resume now.

Maybe you have noticed the protests and rallies.

A woman in my birth state held up a sign that conjoined the governor’s name with Adolf Hitler’s.

Hand-lettered words beyond compre-

hension provided the woman with her legacy. No apology accepted.

Television commercials are outdoing themselves with soothing words instead of self-promotions. Nice, isn’t it, not to have someone blasting deep dish car and truck discounts at you?

I look forward to the day when I can go back to doing what I do best: namely, find fault in irrelevancies such as the broken English the newest National Football League millionaires gargled and tweeted when they were drafted.

And Christmas music in November.

And sitting on an airplane next to someone who talks too much. Won’t it feel good to sit on an airplane again?

ESPN and others have been showing replays of football, basketball and baseball games. Stadiums are filled with people. It looks very normal. And it looks very strange.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident.

He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

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ots of conversations going on these days are about unlocking or unleashing our potential.

There are so many podcasts, webinars, columns, and blogs speaking to the need for us to focus on our mindset so that we can keep our heads and attitude in a good place right now. As a matter of fact, I am one WINNING of those voices and WORDS faces on those podcasts and webinars and authoring many of those columns and blogs, just like this one.

Kindness is a mindset or attitude, but it is also an emotion and an action.

How awesome would Michael Norton it be if we could unleash our human potential and also unleash our kindness at the same time? Powerful. During this time, we are seeing so many examples of kindness being lived out. After last week’s column where I shared the story of

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When we live with the attitude or mindset of kindness it means we are actively thinking about ways that we can show kindness, and our kindness radar is always on. When we live with kindness in our hearts, we get to experience firsthand the emotions that are stirred as acts of kindness play out in front of us. I don’t know about you, but it brings absolute joy to my heart when I see kindness in action. And when we live with the attitude of kindness and with the emotion of kindness it’s impossible not to demonstrate kindness in everything we do and in everything we say.

My brother-in-law Dylan is a perfect example of this. He and my sister-inlaw Caroline have this awesome dog, Ziggy. As Dylan was walking Ziggy the other day, there was a woman in their neighborhood walking her dog.

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Kindness costs us nothing, but it returns to us everything.

That old saying, “No good deed goes unpunished,” is absolutely a falsehood. Some may say that they attempted to do something nice for others or show kindness in some way only to be on the receiving end of anger or hurtful words. I do know how that feels, it feels like a gut punch, it is awful. However, when I look back at what I might have done with the attitude, emotion, and act of kindness to help someone else, I let that sink in

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“Do things for other people, not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.” - Harold S. Kushner So how about you? Are you seeing amazing acts of kindness in your home, neighborhood, and on your virtual meetings? Are you living with the attitude and emotion of kindness that puts your kindness muscles to work? I’ll bet you are, and I would love to hear your kindness story at mnorton@tramazing.com. And when we all learn how to unlock our human potential and at the same time unleash our kindness, it really will be a better than good week.

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programming, Gonzales said. For example, streaming concerts online, hosting jam sessions via Facebook Live and providing some programming via Zoom.

Still, Lhevine added that Swallow Hill’s closure has likely hit the organization’s music instructors the hardest — on top of being laid off from their teaching positions at Swallow Hill, many earn their living as gigging professional musicians. Social distancing measures in Colorado include a ban on any gathering of 10 or more people.

Additionally, Swallow Hill realizes the value the school’s music lessons bring to many of the students, Lhevine said.

The Fox family Devin Fox has been a rock music fan all his life. He evens owns an electric bass guitar that, for the past decade, he has been wanting to learn to play.

After seeing how beneficial Swallow Hill has been for his children, Devin Fox finally signed up for a lesson, only to have it canceled because of COVID-19.

“He’s on hold right now,” Stefanie Fox said of her husband’s bass classes, but added that for her children, “anything that brings a sense of normalcy and joy in the house during this time, I’m willing to do.”

Dylan Fox, 9, and his sister Madylan, 6, have been involved with Swallow Hill for the past year. Madylan was in a group singing class and Dylan has been studying piano.

Madylan is a bit too young

“Music is a way to bind people together,” he said. “And (especially) now, we’re all in our homes, looking into ways to bring joy during this difficult time.”

Though the teachers are handling their lesson offerings, schedules and fees independently, Swallow Hill has created a page on its website as a connector to Swallow Hill’s teachers so students can inquire about online/ virtual music lessons. The list, which continues to be updated, had nearly 40 teachers listed as of mid-April who are offering classes through a variety of platforms including Skype, Zoom and many others. Instruments range from banjo to violin, and piano to songwriting, just for a few examples.

Though Julia Hays, a fiddle and violin teacher at Swallow Hill, much prefers in-person instruction, she said the virtual and online setting is “OK

to take a music lesson virtually, Stefanie Fox said, but has been practicing her routine to the Jackson 5’s “ABC,” for which she’ll likely perform a private show for her family.

Dylan is continuing virtual private piano lessons with LaDamion Massey.

“I just like playing,” Dylan said. “It makes me excited to learn new songs, and it makes me calm playing music.”

Dylan misses going to school and his friends, so keeping music in his life during this time was important, Stefanie Fox said.

“It brings such a good vibe in the house when we hear him practicing in his room,” Stefanie Fox said. “So continuing the lessons virtually was a good fit for us, to keep our lives as normal as can be.”

Don Weinshenker Don Weinshenker never imagined he’d join a choir.

But now he’s involved with three — the Anschutz Campus Choir, and the choirs at the Washington Park United Methodist Church and Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church.

It was his teacher at Swallow Hill, Deborah Collins, who suggested he join a choir.

Swallow Hill is “rigorous enough that I learn, but (has) very supportive teachers who really want to make music fun,” Weinshenker said. “It quite literally has changed my life and allowed me to find opportunities to make music with others.”

Weinshenker has played the guitar off and on for about 40 years, but had always wanted to learn to sing. He became more serious about advancing his skill with the guitar — and started taking voice lessons — when he got involved

and it will get us through this.”

“We can see each other, thanks to modern technology,” Hays said, “and students can still feel like they’re moving forward with their learning.”

Hays has been teaching at Swallow Hill for more than 20 years, and it’s the people that make Swallow Hill so wonderful, Hays said. “I get to meet people whose paths I never would’ve crossed.”

Although she is currently involved with a few bands, in recent years, Hays has been doing more teaching than performing, she said.

“Which has worked out beautifully for me,” Hays said. “I may have a full day of lessons back-to-back, but no two are ever the same.”

She does not have a full class load as she did prior to the coronavirus pandemic, but is still providing weekly lessons to her students online.

The Chaviras Betty and Martin Chavira believe Swallow Hill is a special resource in the Denver community.

They especially enjoy attending Swallow Hill’s concerts, and specifically pointed to the monthly Top of The Hill concerts and annual Teacher Feature, both showcasing Swallow Hill faculty.

“The venues are small and intimate,” Betty Chavira said, “and you can see some outstanding musicians.”

The Chaviras are looking forward to be-

with Swallow Hill about 3 1/2 years ago.

His wife, Erika Walker, started taking classes at Swallow Hill about 1 1/2 years ago.

Today, the two are taking virtual, semi-private — meaning they do them together — voice lessons with Barry Brown. Though the virtual classes aren’t quite the same as inperson, they’re still a lot of fun and worthwhile, Weinshenker said.

Right alongside exercise and maintaining relationships, “music is so important in this time of staying at home,” Weinshenker said, “because it brings life and joy.”

The Zwerling family When Ian Zwerling was in the second grade, he received a little keyboard as Christmas gift.

Not long afterwards, his parents discovered Swallow Hill.

“And it grew from there,” said Marina Zwerling, Ian’s mom. “Swallow Hill has been invaluable. My kids have grown up there.”

Now 17, Ian Zwerling continues with his piano instruction, and last year, picked up learning the guitar.

His sister Julia Zwerling, 14, started taking piano lessons at Swallow Hill when she was 7, and began voice les-

“We set up our time together, just as we would if we were in the building,” Hays said.

Felix Ayodele said his online lessons are going amazingly well, adding that for now, “we have to embrace this method.”

“The joy of it is still there,” he said of teaching music. Virtual lessons “provide a different perspective of how (the student) learns and gives us a different lens of keeping that fire going in the students.”

Ayodele has been a professional musician in the Denver music scene for about 15 years, and started teaching at Swallow Hill about 11 months ago.

“The arts are mega important, and institutions like Swallow Hill help keep them alive,” Ayodele said. “The joy of learning is a never-ending classroom, whether its virtual or inperson.”

ing able to attend Swallow Hill’s concerts again, they said, which are not happening right now because of COVID-19.

But in the meantime, they are looking into virtual music lessons offered

by Swallow Hill instructors.

The Chaviras retired about 10 years ago and have been members of Swallow Hill for about 15.

Along with attending concerts, the two have participated in jam sessions and have taken a variety of classes at Swallow Hill. Between the two of them, they have studied music theory, electric bass, voice, guitar, ukulele and mandolin.

“I can’t think of a better hobby,” Martin Chavira said of learning to play music.

“It brings us so much fulfillment.”

Swallow Hill has so much to offer for all ages, Betty Chavira said. And Martin Chavira agreed.

“I almost wish we had more time so we could learn to play more instruments,” he said. “But there is only so much time.” sons about two years ago.

For piano, both have been learning from Stef Kull, who has been their instructor since they started at Swallow Hill.

“Swallow Hill’s teachers are amazing,” Marina Zwerling said.

“They’re willing to work around whatever their students need. But that’s been consistent since the beginning.”

Ian is a competitive swimmer and Julia has an interest in acting. With school now switching to remote learning until the end of the school year, it’s important for them — as teens, especially — to have music as an outlet, Marina Zwerling said.

“Even if it is for only an hour a week in a virtual setting,” she added.

The virtual lessons are a little more complicated, but they’re still valuable, Marina Zwerling said.

“If we have to do some shuffling, as far as managing online school and virtual music lessons, we will do so,” Marina Zwerling said. “We will hang in there with them (Swallow Hill) during these times.”

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The Colorado Emerald Society Pipe and Drum Band, which includes 75 first responders throughout Colorado, began playing bagpipes at sunset every night as part of an international movement.

Locally, it’s called Pipers for Sundown Solidarity.

Dave Carrigan, of South Metro Fire Rescue, plays his Great Highland Bagpipe every evening as the sun sets in solidarity with pipers around the globe in a movement to spread hope.

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lone in a field at the edge of the Cottonwood subdivision in Parker, firefighter Dave Carrigan stood tall and stiff has he played his bagpipes.

The sun started to set April 22 at about 7:46 p.m. As sunlight disappeared, Carrigan’s few regular fans gathered to hear him play. A handful of neighbors ventured to the slight overlook at the foot of Carrigan’s driveway. Some driving by on Parker Road across the field to the east pulled off, listening to the notes slice through the droning of passing cars.

Carrigan, a firefighter for South Metro Fire Rescue for 29 years, has marched out to the field bordering his house every evening since March 29, three days after the stay-at-home order began, to play traditional marches and songs until the sun sets.

“It’s to show solidarity not only for everybody who’s fighting the disease, but all our brothers and sisters, firefighters, police officers, paramedics. … They’re kind of taking a beating out there,” Carrigan said. “It’s to show we’re all in this together and we have each other’s back.”

Carrigan is one of many first responders regionwide playing bagpipes at dusk to inspire hope amid the stayat-home orders and COVID-19 crisis.

First responders throughout Colorado are participating in Pipers

Dave Carrigan has played his bagpipes at dusk every night since the start of the stayat-home orders in Colorado. “It’s to show we’re all in this together and we have each other’s back,” he said. for Sundown Solidarity, a movement organized by the Colorado Emerald Society Pipes and Drums Band, a bagpipe band made up of 75 firefighters and police officers throughout the state.

Thousands of pipers play songs from their respective homes at the same time each night as the sun sets in an ongoing effort to encourage strength and resolve in the community.

‘Next phases or normalcy’ Mike West, fire chief for Front

Range Fire Rescue, is the Pipe Major for the Colorado Emerald Society. He helped start the pipe band at South Metro Fire in 2002. He resigned from South Metro in June 2019. Front Range Fire covers Johnstown, Milliken, Larimer and Weld counties.

“Our guys and gals are working every day at their police stations and precincts and firehouses dealing with the pandemic face-to-face,” West said.

“It was a great way to wind down from the day spread a little hope to the neighbors and make sure they still know we’re still out there fighting the

good fight every day.”

Carrigan does not always deck himself out in his kilt and uniform. He said he plays because it brings a smile to his neighbor’s faces and connects people when they’re more isolated than ever.

Pipers in the group play every day and play whatever they want, except on Sundays, when the group collectively decides on a single song to play at the same time together.

The Colorado Emerald Society announced on its Facebook page April 24 that members would stop playing bagpipes nightly beginning May 3.

Pipers still play on Sundays “until the state moves to the next phases of normalcy,” the post reads.

“We can’t express our gratitude enough for your cheers, posts, shares and love. When we get through these social distancing steps and back to holding events, we’re looking forward to seeing you all at a big celebration,” the post reads.

West said the Colorado Emerald Society plans on holding a celebration to make up for losing the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

‘A droning feeling’ The movement, which started shortly after the stay-at-home order began, is steeped in tradition.

Soldiers began marching to the sound of bagpipes in Scotland in the 1400s. The instrument is used often as a morale booster for the military.

South Metro Fire Rescue and Castle Rock Fire and Rescue Department each have Pipe and Drum bands.

Carrigan has been playing pipes for about 11 years, around the time South Metro Rescue’s pipe and drum band started.

West, who has been playing bagpipes on and off for 30 years, noted the way the vibrations from the drones blaring from the player’s shoulder hits you.

“It runs through you,” West said.

“A lot of people, prior to this, the only time they hear bagpipes is at a funeral, so they associate that droning note with an emotional event. … To me, it’s that kind of droning feeling. It kind of gets down to your soul sometimes.”

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Keep your fingers crossed Colorado Renaissance Festival delayed and your eyes open

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e will assume, optimistically, that summer drama classes and performances for kids will happen, because registration has been ongoing. Some organizations are not on a regular track due to the current otherworldly, ongoing upset, so one will have to keep searching the internet … Also, classes in visual arts, crafts and more are scheduled as of this writing …

Plans underway We communicated with Town Hall Arts Center education director Robert Michael Sanders at the Littleton venue, and he says classes for “Kokonut Island,” “Shrek” and “Performing the Song” are “moving forward” and may still have some available space. Each involves classes and a performance.

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Check into Englewood Englewood Parks and Recreation offered a strong summer drama program and production in past years. I am not finding a listing yet, but assume this will again be offered when the world starts up again …

Wonderbound Dance Company Wonderbound Dance Company has been offering “Dance Along,” a series of dance classes, at wonderbound.com.

Writing class Local Theater Company offers a class for adults: “Writing for Stage and Screen” offered on Zoom, May 7, 14, 21, 28 — Thursdays at 6-7 p.m. $125. (Two scholarships available.) See localtheaterco.org.

Sonya Ellingboe Town Hall possibility Also re: Town Hall Arts Center — we are told that they still hope to present “Almost Heaven,” the John Denver musical program, if only … Stay tuned if you have tickets — or if not… “We are following state mandates and applying a powerful disinfectant, Perisept 62 …”

Happenings in Parker Parker Performing Arts, PACE Center, has

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a full schedule of classes and performances, geared to different age groups. See Parkerarts. org. Look also for visual arts offerings here …

Stay up to date Watch for more communications from your local park and recreation districts, as well as school districts as we head towards summer--the corona virus will dictate/limit what programs are possible. There will no doubt be a number of creative projects at home from backyard drama to basement murals to original books and prints. We’d be interested to learn about them!

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The Colorado Renaissance Festival — a popular summer attraction that draws throngs to south Douglas County — has been postponed for several weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic and will now start Aug. 1, organizers said.

The festival in Larkspur, midway between Denver and Colorado Springs west of Interstate 25, had been scheduled to open its 43rd anniversary season on June 13.

“Due to the current health concerns and taking into consideration the safety of our patrons and Renaissance community the Colorado Renaissance Festival will be postponing its 2020 opening day,” says a notice on the festival’s website.

“The new dates will be Saturday August 1st, 2020 for 8 weekends with a closing day of Sunday, September 20th, 2020. Dates will be posted publicly on both our website and announced through our social media outlets,” the notice says. “Please stay safe during these unsettling times and we look forward to seeing everyone soon!”

The festival, set in a faux-16th century Tudor village, celebrates Renaissance culture with a bawdy mix of shows and music, jousting matches, animals, costumed characters, games, food and drinks. It’s one of dozens of similarly themed events staged across the country each summer.

The festival typically draws about 200,000 attendees during its run, The Gazette of Colorado Springs reports.

The announcement comes as “stay at home” orders are being gradually relaxed across Douglas County and most other parts of Colorado, but people are still being urged to practice social distancing and to avoid crowds larger than 10 people to help contain the spread of COVID-19.

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With the epidemic looming, Denver Beer Co. founder Charlie Berger said he “had to make quick decisions in order to conserve cash to be able to reopen the doors at the end of this.”

So he made “drastic cuts” to the hours of the staff at his breweries in Denver’s LoHi neighborhood and on Wadsworth Boulevard in Olde Town Arvada.

But the brewery also got creative and launched new virtual events, including a beer pairing series and a virtual Friday afternoon happy hour with guests ranging from Colorado Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland to former governor and current Senate candidate John Hickenlooper.

“By doing some of these creative things we’ve driven some more interest and demand in our current beers, to the point where we have more hours for a staff and everybody who is wanting hours is getting them,” Berger said.

Despite that, overall sales are still way down from where they typically are and Berger said he is no longer sure about how fast the brewery will be able to proceed with a plan to build a third taproom on Downing Street in South Denver.

“I’m very nervous honestly that that is going to be a year to 18 months to get through this, and for those reasons I’m losing sleep,” Berger said. “We are not going to go out of business but we are going to be a super different thing based upon the way I’m reading the governor’s plans to open up but maintain social distancing and the health authority’s suggestions. It’s nobody’s fault, but it is going to take that long.”

Tickets help first responders Golden’s Holidaily Brewing Company, which furloughed employees at the start of the pandemic, has also seen sluggish sales. However, many of the customers that do come in are

buying tickets for the brewery’s Red For Med fundraiser, in which customers can buy $5 tickets which can then be exchanged for a free beer by first responders and those who have lost their jobs due to the pandemic.

“The response has been so great,” said owner Karen Hertz. “We actually need more people to come in and take some free beers.”

Still, Holidaily continues to take a big hit — particularly in distribution.

“Our beer is in Coors Field and Mile High and things like that, so with summer concerts and baseball u not happening, that hurts our distri- C bution real bad because that’s a lot o volume that we move through those e accounts,” Hertz said. i Tristan Schmid, the marketing f and events manager for the Colorado Brewers Guild, said many breweries h have also been able to take advantagei of Polis’ decision to allow beer to be s delivered during the crisis. However, r he said breweries will also need to h innovate and adapt in other ways to s n survive.

“We’d encourage them to be t nimble, be able to pivot to opportunities they’d shied away from or a s outright avoided before,” he said.

“But brewers are smart people, and t i they already know this.”

At Dead Hippie Brewing, Edmund- T son said he is now working to do just t that.

“One thing this is forcing us to do d I is move into distribution and canning our beer, which is something I s thought we were eight to 12 months n way from,” he said. “Once we open up we might only be able to have 25 percent of our occupancy so something like distributing cans becomes real important.”

Ultimately, however, it will be up to customers to determine whether Dead Hippie and other breweries survive.

“Support your brewery, because if you want them to be around and be able to go hang out there again, they are going to need it,” Edmundson said.

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Two weeks after Colorado teachers unions and faith leaders called on Comcast to reduce internet barriers to online schooling, the service provider extended the deadline by which lowincome families must sign up for a free internet program.

But union leaders said Comcast has not addressed another issue that is discouraging some families from signing up: asking for a Social Security number. If an applicant doesn’t have one, they can check a box that says, “I don’t have a Social Security number.”

Undocumented families are afraid to do that, educators said. Families are worried the information could be shared with federal immigration authorities, despite the company ensuring union leaders it would not be, said Tiffany Choi, president of the Denver teachers union.

Comcast provided a statement that does not address the issue directly.

In the last nine years, a company spokesperson said, Comcast has connected more than 300,000 low-income

Students at Noel Community Arts School in Denver work on laptops in May 2019.

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Coloradans to the internet through its Internet Essentials program.

“We’ve made continuous enhancements and expansions to eligibility during that time, and continue to do so as more individuals and families are dependent upon home internet access for school and work,” spokesperson Leslie Oliver said.

Comcast allows applicants without a Social Security number to submit more than two dozen other types of identification to sign up for Internet Essentials, which is available to fami-

lies eligible for programs such as free school lunch and Medicaid. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Comcast is offering two months of service for free.

It is usually $10 per month.

Originally, the free internet was available to families who signed up by mid-May. Comcast has extended the deadline to June 30, a step praised by Coloradans for the Common Good, the coalition of labor union and faith leaders that pushed for the change.

But the leaders would also like Comcast to reconfigure its application. In-

stead of asking applicants to disclose that they don’t have a Social Security number, leaders would like the company to provide a list of acceptable identification and allow applicants to choose one.

Martha Teklehaimanot teaches second grade to Denver students whose native language is Spanish. Although Denver Public Schools transitioned to remote learning on April 7, she said three of her students haven’t been participating because they don’t have the internet at home.

Two-thirds of the 54,000 school-age children who lack internet access in Colorado are Hispanic, according to a recent study by the Colorado State University Futures Center.

The families of two of Teklehaimanot’s students attempted to sign up for Internet Essentials but were scared off by the Social Security number question, she said. Though she’s able to connect with those students by phone and text message, Teklehaimanot said they are falling behind.

“This situation has created a huge dilemma for our students,” she said.

The coalition also called on other internet service providers — including CenturyLink, T-Mobile, and Cricket — to follow Comcast’s lead and set up free internet programs of their own.

This story is from Chalkbeat Colorado, a nonprofit education news source.

Used by permission. For more, visit co.chalkbeat.org.

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By 2025, Denver’s government wants to see electric vehicles make up 15 percent of all vehicles registered in the city, with that share doubling by 2030, the plan states. About 4,000 EVs were registered in the city at the end of last year. Denverites must register 96,000 more to meet the city’s 2025 goal, Salisbury said.

“I think it’s very aggressive,” said Salisbury, whose team worked with more than 30 government, nonprofit and corporate partners on the plan.

“I think you look at adoption curves and what we need to help meet our climate targets, we kind of need that hockey stick curve. We need to start going up the hockey stick every year.

Every year we only increase at a kind of reasonable rate, it makes it harder to meet that goal.”

At its current pace, Denver will see about 83,600 EVs, or 10% of all registered vehicles, in the city by 2030.

Asking people to buy electric cars without charging stations is like asking people to drive without roads.

Denver has a plan for that, but it relies heavily on cooperation from the private sector.

At 400, the city has quite a few public charging ports. Problem is, that number needs to rise to 4,000 by 2030, according to the EV blueprint, and funding priorities don’t include 3,600 Denver-owned stations.

The city can and does install them on public property around the city, but Salisbury said apartment buildings, office buildings and stores will be key partners in providing charging infrastructure. If they install a plug-in, business owners might keep customers shopping longer while their car charges, Salisbury said, and keep them coming back.

Sarah Garfinkle considered buying an electric vehicle but ultimately settled on a Suburu. The lack of urban charging stations helped send her down the road to a combustible engine.

“My apartment complex doesn’t have one, so I would need to go down Colorado (Boulevard) just to charge my vehicle,” she told Denverite.

Building partnerships with business owners a key next step in Denver’s

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“I think they can be a real economic benefit for an apartment owner,” he said. “With resident retention, it’s like an amenity that’s going to help people stay in your building and not have as much turnover. I think that they will see the value in.”

Privately owned stations typically cost drivers money while Denver’s publicly owned stations are still free, in order to incentivize drivers. The city wants to incentivize at-home charging stations, but while it has resources to develop retrofitting and permitting guides for residents and landlords, it has not prioritized financial incentives for their installation.

Denver’s plan recommends cash incentives to lure consumers away from combustible engines. Denver’s plan also says the city lacks the money or partnerships to provide them.

Colorado and Denver have a few things on their side, but they come with crucial caveats. For example, state lawmakers passed a law in 2016 that forces car dealers to more than double their EV sales by 2030 — from 2.6 percent to 6.2 percent of statewide sales. A statewide tax credit for EV buyers once worth $5,000 will be worth half that next year. Similar federal incentives have a cap and are becoming rarer every day.

The action plan recommends a

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tiered approach to rebates and incentives for electric vehicles “to provide greater support for low-income residents, with options to opt for alternate modes (e-bike or transit pass incentives).” But this item also comes with the tag of “resources and partners needed.”

A timeline shows incentives coming around in mid-2021.

“It’s just fantastic peace of mind,” said Nathan Huttner, a West Highland resident who is on his second EV. “Other than having your tires rotated, it just doesn’t need service. No other kind of routine maintenance is really required. So that’s super nice. I haven’t been to a dealer for service in several years.”

Between rebates, tax credits and the money saved on gas and repairs (EVs have a much simpler setup and require less maintenance, according to AAA), new cars with combustion engines can make less economic sense than new cars that run on electricity.

Denver’s action plan says EVs offer long-term cost benefits. A study from AAA says EVs can cost slightly more to own and operate than some traditional cars and less than others, depending on the make and model.

However, that study does not include government rebates or tax credits.

With incentives, Salisbury said a Nissan Leaf, for instance, can cost

$12,000 less than its sticker price.

“That gets it down to $20,000 and less for a new car, which is very affordable,” Salisbury said. “Fair or not, people think of electric vehicles and think of Teslas and those can be more expensive — the Model 3s are more affordable — but there are a lot of other great, more affordable options that are out there for people.”

Communicating cost savings and other benefits is a step Denver is ready to take right now. The city will market the idea to Denverites from diverse backgrounds, the plan states, including its own employees. The government will also brand its own fleet of EVs, which totals 116 right now and is on its way to 200.

For Denverites who want to weekend in the mountains, a Leaf or a Prius won’t always cut it.

Being in far-flung areas without four-wheel drive or charging stations are common anxieties among potential EV buyers. While Colorado has plans to expand its charging stations, those ideas aren’t the same as infrastructure and don’t calm the nerves of someone looking to buy now.

“If I were to go to the mountains or a rural area, something I frequently did when working in oil, I’d be out of luck if my vehicle ran out of power,” said Garfinkle, who forwent an EV for a Suburu. “In my opinion, in Denver EVs are great as a secondary vehicle but wildly impractical if it’s your only car unless you plan on staying in city confines all the time.”

“Range anxiety” dies down after people go electric, an AAA survey found. The lack of all-wheel-drive vehicles is another story. While those models exist, they aren’t exactly common in Colorado, Salisbury said.

He thinks the state’s mandate on car dealers will expand the availability of SUVs and other mountain-ready cars.

“That’s the trip that people in Denver make,” he said. “Having more models available is something I think we want to keep on trying to figure out how we can encourage manufacturers and the dealers to bring more models to Denver and Colorado.”

Just imagine, Salisbury said, a Suburu Outback… but with an electric motor!

This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affiliated with CPR news. Used by permission.

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